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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 1h

"... The NSW Police leadership has been intensely hostile to pro-Palestinian protests. The only serious incidents of violence at such protests have been perpetrated by the police themselves, rendering their concern for the safety of demonstrators spurious.

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 3h

It says
"Legal experts predict Comey will be acquitted – the evidence is weak and the political interference is blatant."

Won't the pending Trump dictatorship just rewrite the law?

Isn't the purpose of the dictatorship a counter-revolution to overthrow the Constitution in fact but not name?

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 3h

What are Hasan Piker's politics?

FYI:

... Piker has a following of over 3 million people on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. His denunciations of imperialism and capitalism have made him one of the most viewed political commentators among socialist minded youth.

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Hasan Piker detained and interrogated at Chicago airport by Trump’s border agents

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker was detained for several hours in Chicago and interrogated on his political beliefs.

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diamaffei @diamaffei.bsky.social · 6h

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... LULA CONVERSA COM TRUMP EM MEIO À ESCALADA DOS EUA CONTRA A VENEZUELA A reaproximação entre os governos Lula e Trump é um componente central dos preparativos de guerra dos EUA contra a Venezuela.

Lula talks to Trump amid US escalation against Venezuela

The rapprochement between the Lula and Trump administrations is a central component of US war preparations against Venezuela.

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 4h

Trump doubles down on threats to arrest Illinois Democrats Pritzker, Johnson during fascist “antifa” roundtable

WSWS
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Trump doubles down on threats to arrest Illinois Democrats Pritzker, Johnson during fascist “antifa” roundtable

World Socialist Web Site

PHOTO President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable meeting on antifa in the State Dining Room at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Washington, as Attorney General Pam Bondi

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 5h

DICTATORSHIP IS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES ... unless workers, students and youth organize themselves on the lessons of history.

START HERE:

Operation Dictatorship: Trump is poised to invoke the Insurrection Act

Socialist Equality Party (US)
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Operation Dictatorship: Trump is poised to invoke the Insurrection Act

On Wednesday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is actively preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which provides the military the authority to conduct law enforcement operations with...

www.wsws.org

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 5h

MUST WATCH.

It is not just that Trump says he will invoke the Insurrection Act to stop "Governors that are holding us up, Courts that are holding us up"

... but the NewsMax host asks

"The Insurrection Act? Is this a way to kind of get AROUND this opposition?"

i.e. the pretext is fraudulent.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Trump’s openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act with zero insurrection in sight. He’s inventing chaos in Portland and Chicago, and even saying he’d use it if courts or local officials are ‘holding us up’.

Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.

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diamaffei @diamaffei.bsky.social · 6h

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... 46.000 TRABALHADORES DA KAISER FARÃO GREVE EM 14 DE OUTUBRO: CRIAR COMITÊS DE BASE PARA TRANSFORMAR A GREVE EM UMA BATALHA PELA SAÚDE PÚBLICA E PELA DEMOCRACIA Boletim Informativo para Profissionais de Saúde, aos quase 46.000 trabalhadores da Kaiser Permanente.

46,000 Kaiser workers set to walk out October 14: Build rank-and-file committees to transform strike into battle for public health and democracy

The following is an open letter from the WSWS Healthcare Worker Newsletter to the nearly 46,000 Kaiser Permanente workers.

www.wsws.org

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 15h

MUST READ

The Myth of “Ordinary Germans”: A Review of Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners

David North

The following lecture was given at Michigan State University in East Lansing, on April 11, 1997.

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The Myth of “Ordinary Germans”: A Review of Daniel Goldhagen’s <em>Hitler’s Willing Executioners</em>

For all that has been said and written about the Holocaust, it remains a strangely obscure event. The one basic question raised by the Holocaust, “Why did it happen?” is precisely that to which it is ...

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 15h

In the November 1932 Reichstag elections the Nazi (NSDAP) vote fell by 2 million from the July 1932 election (37% to 32%)

The combined vote for the social democrats (SPD) and communists (KPD) rose from 36% to 37%

The NSDAP was in crisis. Hitler was suicidal. Many said the fascist threat had passed

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is the front man. The real demons are in the back room giving him instructions on how to sell the dictatorship they are planning.

The DANGER cannot be underestimated. But workers, students and youth need to understand why this is happening so they can act.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Operation Dictatorship: Trump is poised to invoke the Insurrection Act

On Wednesday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is actively preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which provides the military the authority to conduct law enforcement operations with...

www.wsws.org

johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 18h

DICTATORSHIP IS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES ... UNLESS ...

.... To halt this descent into dictatorship, the working class must intervene as an independent political and organizational force.
...
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READ, SHARE, BOOST, COMMENT

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 1d

Does politics operating according to the laws of conscience or the laws of material interests DISGUISED as “conscience”?

What should workers, students and youth do about it?

johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 1d

Silence of the Democrats aids Trump dictatorship

- World Socialist Web Site
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 2d

I looked at your website nonzerosum.games

What is the game theory analysis of dictatorship and fascism?

If a propertied class can keep its wealth by deceit, force, violence and terror, why would it ever cooperate except on a game rigged against others who thus need to break the game to "win"?

NON-ZERO-SUM GAMES

~ a world-help site ~

nonzerosum.games

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 2d

at 13:19 Chlöe Swarbrick says "... if we are to arrest this growing wealth inequality ... it's really important for people to understand that poverty doesn't come from nowhere. ..."

Who is "we"? She admits there are "vested" interests who oppose a wealth tax.

Neither can say "capitalist class".

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Not just in the UK.

But why?

And what should we do about it?

johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 2d

Yes.

They would never call it a "Controlled Thought Zone"

IMHO it should say

AT THE TOP
"Orwellian Zone Ahead*"

AT THE BOTTOM
* - We made you read about it at school. It wasn't a dystopian fantasy. It was our guidebook!

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 2d

A socialist perspective against genocide, world war and fascism

International Youth and Students for Social Equality (GERMANY)
7 October 2025
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 4d

"... Starmer, the former human rights lawyer turned right-wing law and order zealot, is mounting his own offensive against anti-genocide protests and the left. ..."
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Almost 500 anti-genocide activists arrested as Starmer government moves to ban protests outright

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 5d

Amid deepening drone war with Ukraine, Kremlin imposes severe internet and cellphone shutdowns

- World Socialist Web Site
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 5d

Latest articles

Saturday 4 October 2025
- World Socialist Web Site
www.wsws.org/en/archive/r...

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Scale of Australian military exports to Israel exposed
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Latest articles

Saturday 4 October 2025
- World Socialist Web Site

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Scale of Australian military exports to Israel exposed

The Declassified Australia report is an unanswerable exposure of the Australian Labor government’s active involvement in Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians.

johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 6d

Israeli documentary filmmakers support boycott of Israeli film industry over genocide

- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Israeli documentary filmmakers support boycott of Israeli film industry over genocide

- World Socialist Web Site

... Over 50 Israeli documentary filmmakers issued an open letter September 15 supporting an appeal by thousands in the international cinema world for a boycott of official Israeli film institutions because of the role of the Zionist government in committing a genocide in Gaza.

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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 8d

Perspective:
Trump declares war on American cities and the “enemy within”

Socialist Equality Party (US)
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Perspective: Trump declares war on American cities and the “enemy within”

Socialist Equality Party (US)

Speaking before hundreds of generals and admirals assembled at a Marine Corps base outside Washington D.C., President Donald Trump and “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth laid out a plan for establishing a presidential dictatorship in America. He told the military brass that they would play a central role in subduing his political opponents within the United States and that any officer who was unwilling to do so should immediately resign.
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johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social @johnwilsonwsws.bsky.social · 8d

Listen to AOC say Trump has an "authoritarian style of governance".

Just "style"?

She says "Donald Trump is insulting the servicemen of this country by putting them on these silly tasks [of occupying U.S. cities]".

Just "silly"?

Will there be another election?

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Trump’s fascist conspiracy and how to fight it: A socialist strategy

Socialist Equality Party (US)

PHOTO of Donald Trump

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