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Kennedy Orwa, a member of @UAW4121 union at the University of Washington, was just deported with his son by Trump's ICE. This egregious attack demands an urgent fightback. @UAW, @SEIU, @wfsec28, @MLKLabor should organize a campus-wide STRIKE. We also need a STUDENT WALKOUT.

Join Workers Strike Back this Sunday, April 12th at 12PM PT / 3PM ET, for our national monthly meeting (workersstrikeback.org/events) to discuss what it will take to build a mass antiwar movement!  Trump has careened from threatening the annihilation of a ‘Whole Civilization” in Iran to announcing a tenuous two-week ceasefire. Meanwhile, Israel is still bombing Lebanon with U.S.-funded weapons and political support from the Democrats and Republicans and the American billionaire class. Trump’s brutal war — funded by BIPARTISAN votes for the near 1 trillion dollar war budget in December 2025 — has unleashed death and destruction in the Middle East. One of the Democrats who voted to approve all that war money for Trump is Congressman Adam Smith, who has also voted to send tens of billions of dollars to Israel for the genocide in Gaza.  An estimated nine million people marched at the March 28th No Kings protest, with opposition to the war on Iran as one of the primary factors fueling the protest. A majority has also been opposed to U.S. funding of the Israeli military. Yet, even with the mass of American working and young people ready to fight, a mass antiwar movement is conspicuously absent. The leadership of the labor movement, especially, and of liberal organizations has refused to build any organized, ongoing opposition to the war. The principal reason for this is that these leaders are overwhelmingly tied to the Democratic Party, which is responsible for the wars along with the Republican Party, and who have historically had an equally warmongering approach toward Iran. Workers Strike Back is one of the few organizations that has been clear that a mass antiwar movement can only be built on an independent basis, with a leadership that is prepared to fight back against both pro-war parties of U.S. capitalism. This is urgent both to stop the horrors in the Middle East, and to prevent more wars, including against the working people in nations like Cuba and Venezuela. RSVP for our monthly meeting of Workers Strike Back to get organized and fight back against both parties of imperialist war. If you’re near Peoria, IL or Rochester, MN, join the discussion in-person. (workersstrikeback.org/events)

Statement of solidarity with Ehsan Ali & the Awami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan from Kshama Sawant, former Seattle City Council member and independent revolutionary socialist candidate for the US Congress (@cmkshama) ✊✊✊ #ReleaseEhsanAli #FreeEhsanAli #HandsOfftheAAC

Join Kshama Sawant @cmkshama and @wrkrsstrikeback for the Tax the Rich Town Hall — BUILD MILLIONS OF AFFORDABLE HOMES! Livestream link: youtube.com/live/Wsc4AFMaT…

TAX THE RICH — Build Millions of Affordable Homes! Join my Congressional campaign this Saturday! Saturday, April 4th, at 2pm PT Ethiopian Community Center in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle. Or via livestream kshamasawant.org/events/310/ Working people in Seattle and across the nation have faced an acute housing affordability crisis for years. We need to tax the rich to fund millions of publicly-owned affordable homes built by union labor. We need national rent control without corporate loopholes. During my decade as the lone socialist on the Seattle City Council, I used my position to lead movements that won an unprecedented series of renters’ rights, such as a $10/month cap on late rent fees, six months’ notice of rent increases, economic evictions assistance, and a ban on winter evictions. By mobilizing tens of thousands of people, my office won the historic Amazon Tax, which funds hundreds of millions of dollars annually in affordable housing, paid for by taxing big business. Corporate landlords, real estate companies, and the Democratic Party joined forces to viciously oppose all of these movements. My office and the movements we built defeated them. If we want to end the housing crisis for working people, we will need leadership willing to take the class-struggle approach I did on a national level: to defeat the rich and both parties of big business. Join us this Saturday, April 4th. Get involved and support this campaign! RSVP today to attend in person if you're in the Seattle area or over livestream if you're one of our many supporters from around the nation.

Come to our town hall this Saturday @ 2pm at the Ethiopian Community in Seattle! kshamasawant.org/events/310/

Thank you to everyone who joined my campaign's contingent at the No Kings protest in Seattle! Join my campaign this Saturday, April 4th @ 2pm PT in Seattle, on the livestream, or at a watch party for our April Town Hall. I'll be speaking about the fight to tax the rich to build millions of affordable homes! RSVP at kshamasawant.org/events/310/ We talked to thousands of working people at No Kings about the fight to fund healthcare, not war, and tax the rich. We continued to collect signatures to get our independent revolutionary socialist campaign on the ballot, and we raised over $1,800! We talked to people about my record as the lone socialist on the Seattle City council for ten years, fighting the Democratic Party and winning major victories for working people like the nation's highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax. We compared this to the genocidal, warmongering, anti-worker record of my opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, who has held office for nearly 30 years. Smith has sent tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Israel for the genocide in Gaza. He voted for the Iraq War. He voted to create ICE and has repeatedly voted to fund and expand ICE. He voted to cut $150 billion from Medicaid and Medicare. The response to us from people at the protest was clear excitement for our track record of fighting and winning for working people, and our bold working-class demands: 💥SHUT DOWN ICE! STOP THE DEPORTATIONS! SHUT DOWN THE DETENTION CENTERS! 💥END ALL MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL! END THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA! END THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE! 💥FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL — TAX THE RICH! 💥NATIONAL RENT CONTROL! BUILD MILLIONS OF AFFORDABLE, PUBLICLY-OWNED HOMES! Winning any of these demands will require a direct challenge to both parties of big business, genocide, and war, the Democrats and the Republicans. Working people need fighting leadership to call for mass protests, coordinated civil disobedience, and strike action, centered around clear demands and a strategy to win them. Join my campaign to fight to elect the first ever revolutionary socialist to Congress so we can turn politics upside down nationally like we did for a decade in Seattle using my City Council office!

TOMORROW, SUNDAY 3/29, 2PM PT / 5PM ET. Tech Workers National Zoom Meeting for our revolutionary socialist Congressional campaign! Join tech workers from around the nation! RSVVP: kshamasawant.org/events/274/ Capitalism is a zero sum game: everything workers win, we have to wrench from the bosses, and they will likewise fight tooth and nail to snatch it back. That's why we need to take a bold, class struggle strategy to winning victories, rather than the failed, business unionist approach that hopes the bosses will "negotiate in good faith." I used the class struggle strategy throughout my decade as the lone socialist on the Seattle City Council. I used my office to organize working people to win the nation's highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax, and landmark renters' rights. Tech workers were part of winning these victories! Working people desperately need this kind of leadership on a national level. My campaign for Congress is demanding an end to war and genocide in the Middle East, shutting down ICE, and taxing the rich to fund free healthcare and affordable housing. Winning any of that will mean taking on both the Republican and Democratic parties. Tech workers need to be part of building this campaign. Let's flip the script on American politics by electing the first-ever revolutionary socialist to the U.S. Congress. Join us this Sunday over Zoom, wherever you are nationally, to get involved!

THIS FRIDAY, 3/27 AT 7 PM IN SEATTLE'S GEORGETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD. Join us at the Jules Maes Saloon for a fundraiser concert supporting my revolutionary socialist campaign for Congress! Featuring Dead Quiet, Chima The Stubborn, and comedy group Unexpected Productions! The track record of victories working people and I won through my Seattle City Council office is unparalleled. We won the nation's highest minimum wage, defeated Jeff Bezos and won the Amazon Tax, and beat corporate landlords to win landmark renters' rights. We desperately need to take that movement-building approach to Congress! My campaign is fighting to win free healthcare and affordable housing for all by taxing the rich; to end the genocide, the wars, and all military aid to Israel; and to shut down ICE and the detention centers. As Neil says, we can only win any of this by building the strongest possible campaign to send the first-ever revolutionary socialist to Congress. Working people like Neil from across Washington state and the nation are doorknocking, postering, phonebanking, hosting Zoom and in-person house party fundraisers, and donating to this campaign. They realize what a gamechanger it would be for working-class politics. But we urgently need your help! Join us tomorrow night, Friday 3/27, at 7 PM, to listen to some great live music, enjoy some comedy, and support this historic campaign.

A DSA member made unacceptable comments in reference to the killing of Leon Trotsky by Stalin, which are also an attack against Sawant. We stand in solidarity with Sawant, and join her call to have DSA leadership disavow the comment.

I urge Seattle DSA members to attend the Saturday convention and vote in support of our campaign for Congress. Our campaign is fighting to end all U.S. military aid to Israel, to shut down ICE, and to win free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich. This is a historic opportunity to elect the first-ever revolutionary socialist to the U.S. Congress, and to build on the record of unparalleled victories we have won through class struggle in Seattle, like the nation's highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax, and landmark renters' rights. Unfortunately, this horrific post I'm quoting could not go without a response. This DSA member is referring to the murder of Leon Trotsky by one of Stalin's agents. Trotsky and Lenin were two of the indispensable leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the most progressive event in modern human history. It's a sad commentary on the current state of the left that 45 people have clicked like on the post by this DSA member. I urge DSA leadership to disavow it. Regarding this person's accusation, it is my responsibility as a socialist to raise criticisms of self-identified socialists like AOC and Mamdani when they betray working people. I don't apologize for that. Nor do I apologize for pointing out that the Democratic Party is a dead end for our movements. @SeattleDSA @DemSocialists

TODAY @ 1:30pmPST – 5pmPST! Join us for live coverage of the California United for Single-Payer (CUSP) DAY of ACTION Speakers: Kshama Sawant, Dr. Butch Ware, Dr. Melina Abdullah youtube.com/live/Nk6FZ6vqJ…

NO show tonight, but stay tuned for some live coverage of the California United for Single Payer (CUSP) DAY of ACTION tomorrow! Link coming later tonight! @leilacleigh @PatTheSocialist

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, please consider attending one of firebrand socialist Kshama Sawant's upcoming rallies in the Bay Area. Sawant was a Seattle City Council member for ten years achieving significant gains for social justice ion the City, often against entrenched centrist Democratic Party council members. She has built the Workers Strike Back movement which has expanded onto the national stage. Workers Strike Back allied with the Green Party in 2024 during Jill Stein's Presidential campaign. Now, Kshama Sawant is running for Congress as an independent against the incumbent Adam Smith who is probably the most hawkish and warmongering Democrat in Congress. I believe Sawant has a good chance of defeating Smith in November. More info here: kshamasawant.org/events/342/

We're protesting outside a massive war profiteer convention here in Seattle downtown. Washington's Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson said he's "proud to welcome" over 700 war companies. NO WAR ON IRAN NOT ONE DOLLAR MORE FOR IMPERIALIST WAR x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Get involved in our independent revolutionary socialist campaign for the U.S. Congress! We're fighting for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich and to end funding for imperialist wars! Join our Spring Volunteer Day on Sunday, March 22nd, at 11:00 am at the Othello Playground. RSVP now! kshamasawant.org/events/311/ Our campaign has raised over $450,000 from working-class donors through phonebanking, tabling, doorknocking, postering, and house party fundraisers across the nation. Our median donation is $25, while my opponent, warmongering Democrat Adam Smith, has a median donation of $1,000! Smith is bankrolled by the war industry and the pro-genocide Zionist lobby. We need an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties, both of which are anti-worker parties serving the billionaires. Electing the first-ever revolutionary socialist to the U.S. Congress will be a breakthrough victory to help build a new party for the working class.

If you are a member of Seattle DSA, please come out to the Convention this Saturday to vote on a resolution to support our independent revolutionary socialist campaign for Congress against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. Below is the resolution that will be discussed at the Convention. I encourage all Seattle DSA members to come out and vote in favor of it! docs.google.com/document/d/1Yt… Our campaign has already raised more than twice as much money as any previous left challenger to Adam Smith, with over four months until the primary election. We have a real shot to throw Adam Smith out and send the FIRST-EVER revolutionary socialist to the U.S. Congress. I genuinely think that it is in the interests of the working class for DSA members and all socialists to be a part of this effort. Trying to build working-class power within the genocidal capitalist Democratic Party is a dead end. We have seen too many failures and betrayals from DSA elected officials like AOC and Mamdani taking this approach. We have an opportunity to chart a different course, one based on the proven fighting track record of my socialist Seattle City Council office. We won unparalleled victories, like the nation's highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax, by using my office to build fighting independent movements of working people to defeat the rich and the Democratic Party that serves them. I will do the same if I am elected to Congress. I will use my platform to build nationwide movements to end all military aid to Israel and shut down ICE, and fight for national rent control and free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich. This would be a gamechanger for organizing working-class power in the belly of the capitalist beast. Join our campaign at kshamasawant.org.

Join Workers Strike Back in Seattle tomorrow, Wednesday 3/18, for our monthly meeting at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, or over livestream, @ 6:00pm PT: workersstrikeback.org/events/2026-ma… Trump’s war on Iran, funded by both Democrats and Republicans, is threatening to spiral into a broader regional conflict, with horrifying consequences for millions of working people. Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson of Washington State has endorsed a Summit for over 700+ war industry companies taking place tomorrow at the Seattle Convention Center. These are the same companies who are profiting from Trump's war on Iran. This war on Iran, and all imperialist wars, are bipartisan at the local, state, and federal levels. We need independent working-class action to fight both parties of war, including strike action to shut down the profits of the war industry. Workers Strike Back co-founder @cmkshama is running against Adam Smith, the #1 recipient of weapons manufacturer money in the House among Democrats. Smith is the 4th highest recipient of money from Palantir, having already taken over $100 k. We need to fight to elect Kshama to Congress, so she has a national platform to help organize mass civil disobedience and strike action to shut down the imperialist profit machine. Join Workers Strike Back at the protests tomorrow @ 12pm at the Seattle Convention Center, and then at our monthly meeting @ 6:00pm at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church.

Trump's war on Iran, funded by both Democrats and Republicans, is threatening to spiral into a broader regional conflict, with horrifying consequences for millions of working people: workersstrikeback.org/events/2026-ma… Thousands have been killed, tens of thousands have been injured, and over four million people have been forcibly displaced across the region, including Iran and Lebanon. The global economy has been thrown into crisis with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, with working and poor people internationally being forced to bear the cost of massive price increases. A majority of the Democrats in the House and Senate voted alongside the Republican Party last December for more than $900 billion for war funding. This accounted for the overwhelming bulk of the trillion dollars of military spending approved last year, making it the largest military spending approved in U.S. history, and effectively a blank check for Trump to carry out this war on Iran. Democrats and Republicans have also together carried out vicious sanctions against Iran for decades, which have eviscerated the standards of living for working and poor people in Iran. The only way to bring an end to this horror is by using working-class power to present a real threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, both parties of capitalism, genocide, and war, and to the billionaires and multimillionaires they represent. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the labor leadership has tied itself to the Democratic Party and has offered no leadership whatsoever in fighting to stop this war. We need political leaders to help organize mass civil disobedience and strike action to shut down the imperialist profit machine. We need leaders like Workers Strike Back founder, Kshama Sawant, who is running as an independent revolutionary socialist for Congress against warmongering Democrat Adam Smith. Join Workers Strike Back this Sunday at 12pm PT / 3pm ET for our national meeting and discussion on how we can get organized to build toward such a movement and fight to elect Kshama to Congress! RSVP today to join over Zoom or find a watch party near you.

Targets for the U.S. war on Iran are being identified by Palantir’s Maven system. My opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, is the FOURTH-HIGHEST recipient of campaign money from Palantir, having already taken over $100K. Adam Smith also voted to give Trump over $900B for this war.