Tim Shorrock
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@TimothyS
Writer on Korea, Japan, US Empire, Bob Dylan. Grieving father of Roxanne, whose fierce spirit I will always carry. Follow me at https://t.co/Az8EQuf7Q5.
Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818 in the city of Trier in the Prussian Province of the Lower Rhine into a middle class Jewish family recently converted to Protestantism. The eventual father of scientific socialism would study philosophy at the University of Berlin. #OTD #Germany
@Alexand3rTheMeh @jacobin @sunraysunray And that is exactly why @sunraysunray has cowardly blocked me on X and secretly banned me (@thenation's longest serving writer since 1983) from The Nation. @jacobin is destroying the anti-imperialist left from the inside.
Socialist Pete Seeger, widely acknowledged to be one of America’s greatest folk singers, was born on this day in 1919.
A North Korean women's football club will travel to South Korea this month, marking the first visit by a northern sports delegation in nearly 8 years, at a time of near-total estrangement between the two Koreas. My latest for the Guardian: theguardian.com/football/2026/…
Pete Seeger (1919) – Folksinger, songwriter, “beautiful singing voice, warm, clear and ringing,” “gifted musician.” Member of the Communist Party from 1936 until the late 1940s, Seeger was blacklisted in the 1950s and indicted in 1957. Identified with protest songs for 75 years.
Starling rescue today at Dulles Airport.
May Day started in the United States to commemorate the deaths of striking workers in 1886.
