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Andre Damon
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Writer and editor for the World Socialist Web Site. We fight to end war & inequality by ending capitalism. wsws.org
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 1d
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Amazon, UPS, Paramount Global slash tens of thousands of jobs as economic and social crisis in US deepens
Mass layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Paramount Global, and in the auto industry reveal the corporate offensive to cut jobs and weaponize AI against the working class.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 1d
On Tuesday, Amazon, UPS and Paramount Global announced plans to eliminate at least 50,000 jobs, part of a continuing wave of mass layoffs that has already wiped out nearly a million positions this year.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 1d
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<em>The Voice of Hind Rajab</em>, film on the murder of 6-year-old girl in Gaza, finally receives distribution in US
The film had until recently been the target of pro-Zionist political censorship in the US and in Hollywood’s upper echelons in particular.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 1d
The Voice of Hind Rajab, a docudrama written and directed by Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, has finally obtained a distributor in the US.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 1d
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Gangster Trump unleashes Murder Inc. against Latin America
Monday marked the deadliest day yet in the barbaric campaign of extrajudicial assassinations carried out by the US military in Latin American waters.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 1d
The assassinations—carried out in flagrant violation of US and international law—were trumpeted on social media along with videos of what amount to extrajudicial executions.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 2d
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Why the poor die 9 years earlier than the rich: An interview with Dr. Marc Cohen
Dr. Cohen is co-director of LeadingAge LTSS Center at University of Massachusetts Boston and has long studied the crisis of longevity in the US.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 2d
After more than a century of steady progress, life expectancy has stagnated since 2010, with mortality now rising among the working class, while the most affluent enjoy the continued increases progress offers.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 2d
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At election rally, DSA candidate Mamdani embraces right-wing Democratic Party establishment
By joining hands with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who refuses to raise taxes on the wealthy, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani demonstrated the fraudulence of his avowed “socialism.”
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 2d
New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), held a campaign rally on Sunday that underscored his unity with the right-wing party establishment.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 2d
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A working class fighter for socialism: Joe Parnarauskis, 1954–2025
Parnarauskis is best known to readers of the WSWS for his 2006 campaign for Illinois state senate.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 2d
Joe Parnarauskis, a fighter for socialism, passed away on October 23 in Duluth, Minnesota, after a long struggle with an aggressive form of dementia.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 5d
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Following “No Kings” protests, organizers call on participants to subordinate themselves to the Democratic Party
In the first mass call following Saturday’s protest, which drew an estimated 7 million people, speakers called on participants to support their local Democratic Party politicians.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 5d
Under conditions where Trump is running roughshod over the Constitution and arrogating to himself absolute power to imprison his political opponents and assassinate alleged “narco terrorists,” speakers on the call proposed no concrete action to remove Trump from office.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 5d
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Target, GM, Ford announce more layoffs, as total US job cuts for 2025 approaches 1 million
The total announced layoffs in 2025 is the fifth highest in the last 36 years, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 5d
US retailer Target announced 1,800 cuts to corporate jobs on Friday, the latest attack in the ongoing war on jobs in the United States and internationally.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 5d
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Europe’s defence roadmap 2030 lays the groundwork for dictatorship and global war
Amid the escalating US-NATO war with Russia, the European Council’s adoption of the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 marks a decisive turn toward a fully militarized Europe, laying the groundwork for…
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 5d
This is a blueprint for a European war economy—a coordinated mobilisation of industry, finance and technology for mass armament.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 15d
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Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16 workers
A locked door blocked desperate garment workers from reaching the roof and fresh air, and most died from inhaling toxic fumes from the fire.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 15d
On Tuesday, at least 16 workers died in a garment factory fire in the Mirpur neighborhood of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and it is expected the death toll will increase.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 15d
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Leaders of Republican youth movement praise Hitler, joke about Holocaust in internal discussion
Following the exposure of the Telegram messages between Young Republican operatives, filled with admiration for Hitler and racial slurs, Vice President JD Vance has repeatedly defended the fascists…
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 15d
On October 14, Politico published a report exposing a months-long fascist Telegram chat among Young Republican leaders from New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 15d
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“Peace” through genocide: Trump proclaims “historic dawn” for Middle East on the bones of the Palestinians
The only way to realise the democratic and social rights of the long-suffering masses of the Middle East and establish a genuine basis for peaceful coexistence is through the fight for the…
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 15d
US President Donald Trump’s so-called “peace agreement” for Gaza creates an imperialist protectorate that tramples on the rights of the Palestinians and strengthens American control over the energy-rich Middle East.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 15d
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Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the Democratic Party
Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the…
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