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What Is Behind Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela? - Dame Magazine The polycrisis that is the Trump administration can be difficult to fully keep track of: As Steve Bannon once said, the goal is to “flood the zone with shit” and paralyze us from being able to respond...

Anyway, read my thoughts here

There's also some history at play here: there's a tradition of acting like the regional hegemon in Lat Am, we tolerated drone strikes elsewhere on innocent people so doing it closer to home might not feel that egregious, and maybe a little lingering fear of seeming anti-drug war.

Hey y'all! We're doing our launch for our twelfth issue in less than a week (12/9).

With @redprof.bsky.social and Clara Mattei. Moderated by Izzy Plowright. Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting with us.

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Ep 286 - Not In Our Name, Not With Our Work Workers have been pummeled by an overload of customers on Black Friday, so there's a lot to catch up on as we enter the final month of 2025. We start with headlines covering Amazon, Highlander Charter School, Brown University, the University of Maryland, Columbia University, the UFW, National Park Workers, Campbell's, Uber and Lyft, and Leonardo S.p.A. Our main stories start by checking in on the nationwide Starbucks strike, that has now grown to 85 cities across the US. Workers have taken serious fire for standing up for truth and justice in many fields, we take a round up to see how workers are facing attacks on anti-genocide speech and for standing up to ICE. Finally, as neo-liberalism turns life for workers in the West into a waking nightmare, more and more are standing up, so we take a tour around major strikes launched or announced this week in Belgium, Portugal, India, Australia, and of course, Italy. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod at instagram.com/workstoppage, @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter, John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee

Ep 286 - Not In Our Name, Not With Our Work

Workers have been pummeled by an overload of customers on Black Friday, so there's a lot to catch up on as we enter the final month of 2025. We start with headlines covering Amazon, Highlander Charter School, Brown University, the University of Maryland

#OtD 5 Dec 2019 French public sector workers began striking against pension cuts, successfully suspending the plans in January. 69% of citizens supported the strikes as massive protests shut down the Eiffel Tower and public services. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

#OtD 5 Dec 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott began, four days after arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to vacate her seat in the "coloured" section of a segregated bus to a white passenger. The successful campaign helped spur the civil rights movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1050...

Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.

Throughout his presidency, Trump was often misperceived as being an opponent of the War on Terror. He owed that reputation to his vocal derision of "stupid" Mideast wars. Yet in office he escalated the war dramati-cally, intensifying aerial bombing campaigns across multiple war zones, particularly in Somalia, where the war had never been fought as intensely as under Trump. One study, in December 2020, found that Trump's accel- xii

Have any of the comments on Trump’s disgusting racist tirade about Somali Americans mentioned that he accelerated the bombing of Somalia in his first presidency?

From Ackerman’s Reign of Terror:

4 December 1975: Getafe general strike Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History

4 December 1975: Getafe general strike

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at

I'm writing a new book for @haymarketbooks.org, and I'm writing it fast, so help is most welcome.

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ICE OUT w/ Members of LATU (12/04/25) Beatrice and Tracy speak with Zoie and Kevin of the LA Tenants Union about their work organizing community defense against raids by ICE and Border Patrol, how they came to set up the first Centro de D

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social speak with organizers in LA about their work defending the community against ICE and Border Patrol and lessons for others wanting to take on the same work as ICE raids expand across the US

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#OtD 1 Dec 1955 Rosa Parks, a Black civil rights activist, refused her bus driver's order that she give up her seat to a white passenger, triggering a widespread bus boycott and boosting the civil rights movement. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8058...

#OtD 1 Dec 1991 Anti-Fascist Action successfully stopped the neo-Nazi British National Party from holding a march in Glasgow. Fascists were confronted in the streets while BNP leadership were trapped inside a bar and forced to escape via the sewers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8059...

#OtD 30 Nov 1999 the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted by big protests as people blockaded streets to prevent it taking place. Police attacked violently, and rioting broke out downtown hitting headlines and sparking a global anti-capitalist movt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...

While we’re on the topic:

Letters I found in Yale archives said Skull and Bones members took Native American remains from a grave in Oklahoma in 1918.

www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

#OtD 30 Nov 1961 President John F. Kennedy authorised Operation Mongoose, a CIA operation aimed at overthrowing Castro's government in Cuba. Multiple terrorist attacks against railways, food storage and more were then carried out in the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1032...

No, You Are Not on Indigenous Land No, you are not on Indigenous land, argues Noah Smith. Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.

Noah Smith's assertions here lie in the assumption that Indigenous nations are not truly nations, but rather, 'racial groups'. This is neither true nor demonstrates a complete understanding of Indigenous nationhood.

www.thefp.com/p/no-you-are...

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"Resistant Communiqués: Indigenous Geographies and A More Just Future with Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles" Resistant Communiqués Podcast, S1, E6

As we end Native American Heritage month in the “U.S”, we are pleased to share, "Resistant Communiqués: Indigenous Geographies and A More Just Future with Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social". It comes at a particularly critical time for Indigenous communities globally.
🎧 Listen: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning/"Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. More on Indigenous resistance: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 27 Nov 1868 a detachment of US troops under the command of General Custer ignored orders to kill only warriors and massacred 103 sleeping Cheyenne in the so-called "Battle of the Washita" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9950...

Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social examines what it means to be living through the 3rd Red Scare; how the scale, combined with digital surveillance, makes for a politically perilous time. The assaults on the left highlight how at-risk everybody is in this political climate.
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025eabdelhadi

The U.S.-proposed "peace plan" doesn't offer agency or safety to Palestinians. Settler violence in the West Bank is growing, and Gaza is a no-man's land. Listen to Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social discuss the tactics that must be accelerated to fight for a free Palestine.

🎧: bit.ly/rc2025eabdelhadi

On the new Resistant Communiqúes Podcast, Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social discusses how the Palestinian genocide galvanized action, shifting U.S. public opinion. Yet, a deep divide remains between what the U.S. populace believes & what the government does.

🎧 bit.ly/rc2025eabdelhadi

#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...

Dick Cheney was one of the architects of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the faces of a deadly war that should never have been waged, that killed millions and destabilized the region. If there was justice in the world, he would have been tried at The Hague for war crimes.

#OtD 4 Nov 1913 the East London Federation of Suffragettes who were fighting for women’s rights and working class emancipation, had its first paramilitary assembly and gun drill in Victoria Park, London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...

#OtD 4 Nov 1947 ex-general in Mussolini's Nazi-backed army, Ferruccio Gatti, was assassinated in his home. Post-WWII, Gatti led a fascist paramilitary group. He was killed by the Volante Rossa, ex-partisans who continued to fight fascism after the war workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

Today is Halloween. On All Hallows' Eve in 1590, Scottish authorities claimed 200 witches tried to prevent King James from reaching his bride in Denmark. Dozens were arrested & tortured, and 1000s killed in an era of sexist witch-hunts. Learn more here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wit...

#OtD 31 Oct 1926 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni was lynched by fascists, after they accused him of trying to shoot fascist dictator Mussolini during a parade in Bologna celebrating the March on Rome. Repression increased, and some of his relatives jailed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1039...