20% of staff at the University of Essex, including 40% of its Maths, Stats and Actuarial Science School are being laid off. Please, sign this petition to stop it and share widely.
It’s a Strike! 🎳
San Francisco Teachers go on strike for the first time since 1979! They are demanding better pay, healthcare, and to maintain services in schools like disability support for students.The whole city is out to support SFUSD and vibrating with organizing spirit!
What does it mean when a society pays it’s Cops $100,000+ salaries and teachers can’t afford to live where they teach?
Neon lighted Bowling alley with a sign in between the lanes saying “Teachers should afford to live where they teach.” With money flying away and a thought bubble “why do cops get paid more than teachers. Asking for a friend.”
Israeli attacks kill at least six #Palestinians across #Gaza. Red Crescent evacuates patients from Gaza under Israeli restrictions. #Israel detains at least 30 Palestinians, including children, in West#Bank raids. Indonesia prepares possible troop deployment to Gaza. #US military kills two in 38th vessel strike. The US military boards a #Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after a long pursuit. Former police chief says #Trump knew of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse in 2006. Lawmakers who viewed unredacted #Epstein files say DOJ blacked out the names of men who are “likely incriminated.” The White House pushes Republicans to restrict mail-in voting. #NYC nurses reach a deal to end their #strike at 2 major hospital systems.
Today, in honor of Black History Month, we celebrate the life of Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927), a West Indian-American writer, speaker, educator, political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by union leader A. Philip Randolph as the father of Harlem radicalism and by John G. Jackson as "The Black Socrates." Harrison’s activism encouraged the development of class consciousness among workers, black pride, secular humanism, social progressivism, and free thought. He denounced the Bible as a slave master's book, and said that black Christians needed their heads examined. He refused to exalt a "lily white God " and "Jim Crow Jesus," and criticized Churches for pushing racism, superstition, ignorance and poverty. Religious extremists were known to riot at his lectures. At one of his events, he attacked and chased off an extremist who had attacked him with a crowbar.
In the early 1910s, Harrison became a full-time organizer with the Socialist Party of America. He lectured widely against capitalism, founded the Colored Socialist Club, and campaigned for Eugene V. Debs’s 1912 bid for president of the U.S. However, his politics moved further to the left than the mainstream of the Socialist Party, and he withdrew in 1914. He was also a big supporter of the IWW, speaking at the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike, and supporting the IWW’s advocacy of direct action and sabotage. In 1914, he began working with the anarchist-influenced Modern School movement (started by the martyred educator Francisco Ferrer). During World War I, he founded the Liberty League and the “Voice: A Newspaper for the New Negro,” as radical alternatives to the NAACP. The Liberty League advocated internationalism, class and race consciousness, full racial equality, federal anti-lynching legislation, enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, labor organizing, support for socialist and anti-imperialist causes, and armed self-defense.
Hubert Harrison, pictured here in 1913, in a suit and fedora. By Unidentified Photographer - American Labor Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80055166
A black background with a red "Closed" sign, like a lot of businesses are displaying right now in solidarity with the nationwide general strike and the protest against ICE. The sign reads "Sorry, We're Closed" in white letters in that mix of script and all-caps sans-serif that I like so much. In the lower left are the words "Fire ICE", scrawled in neon-pink graffiti lettering. In the top right is the Minnesota flag, a design that features a light blue field with a darker blue obtuse angular figure on the hoist. There's one small modification, though: in place of the white star is the Rebel Alliance logo from Star Wars. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
*Final shepherd community displaced from southern Jordan Valley. Another newborn dies of exposure to the cold in Gaza. Gaza’s health ministry calls for the opening of #Rafah crossing with over 20,000 #Palestinians in need of #medical evacuation. #Netanyahu says he will not allow #Gaza reconstruction. The #UN gives updates on Gaza and the #WestBank. Border Patrol's #GregoryBovino to leave Minnesota as leadership shifts to “Border Czar” #TomHoman. House Democrats move to investigate #US Secretary #KristiNoem amid #immigration crackdown. FBI probes Signal chats tracking immigration agents. Kaiser #nurses launch an “indefinite” #strike action in California and Hawaii.
"Unions in Minnesota and across the country have spent the days after an immigration officer murdered Alex Pretti discussing how to escalate, including toward a national general strike"
Today in Labor History January 26, 1886: In Decazeville, France, miners attacked the home of the mine engineer, Watrin, after he slashed their wages by 10%. He died when they threw him from his window. Paul Lafargue, Cuban-French revolutionary and son-in-law of Karl Marx, who wrote about the strike in June of 1886, considered the strike to be one of the seminal moments for French socialists over the past 15 years.
Black and white portrait of Paul Lafargue, with moustache, seated and looking to his looking to his right, with his hand resting on his chin. By German Fehrenbach - Originally: RGASPI. F.389. Op.1. D.99. L.15.Online: КАРЛ МАРКС: К 200-летию со дня рождения Архивные документы и музейные коллекции из фондов РГАСПИ | Возникновение рабочих партий, в том числе социал-демократических (only image), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1650920
"Some 80 different groups, according to Todd Dahlstrom, the director of organizing and growth at the Minnesota AFL-CIO, “have come together under the banner of the Democracy Defense Table.”"
Hundreds of businesses and faith organizations in Minnesota have closed their doors today, thousands of workers went on strike and many residents have refused to shop, dine or attend school in order to protest against ICE's actions toward immigrants in the state. Yahoo News explains more.
Almost 15,000 nurses who work for three separate hospital systems have been on strike since 12 January, holding out for increased staffing, better safety in hospitals, and improved #healthcare benefits. The #NewYork State #Nurses Association (NYSNA) has pointed to the giant pay packages that hospital CEOs have received, at a time when #nurses say there are too few of them to adequately care for patients.
The #strike has pulled support from #ZohranMamdani, the #NewYorkCity mayor, and Bernie Sanders, the democratic #socialist Vermont senator, both of whom joined striking nurses outside a Mount Sinai #hospital on Tuesday.
I have an idea that I think could change the world, and I'm looking for people who are passionate about ethical politics and governance, and direct activism, to help me flesh it out.
It involves secure software development, certification and attestation, proof of presence, consensus, and trust-based distribution of rewards.
My goal is to enable communities and causes to organize compensation for those who want to participate in a strike but cannot afford the loss of income.
If this sounds interesting to you, and you think you might have knowledge, experience, or skills that can help, please drop me a reply or DM.
"“We are not going to shop. We are not going to work. We are not going to school on Friday, January 23. For some people they call that a strike.. For many of us, this is our right to refusal until something changes.”"
ICE murdered a woman in the streets today. You need to know, and you need to tell others.
ICE shot a woman, believed but not confirmed to be an American and confirmed not to be a target of their raids, to death in the streets today, murdering her. They are lying about it, calling her a terrorist and lying about what happened. Tricia McLaughlin in particular is lying about what happened. ICE and Tricia McLaughlin have lied many times, irrefutably, in the past, about ICE violence; this is yet another time.
There is third-party video. I have reviewed it several times. It matches reported eyewitness descriptions taken at the scene. In it, the ICE agent shoots while fully clear of any vehicle – having in fact stepped back from the vehicle to make room to raise his pistol – as the vehicle is moving away from him. Eyewitnesses say he shot directly into the vehicle, from the side, at a near-right-angle (at first), which matches what can be seen in the video itself.
Here’s one posting. If necessary, I have a copy and can make more copies if needed. I think these’ll be disappeared if we don’t put them enough places.
The fash are building a lie, a “false narrative.” That’s just extra syllables for “lie,” one that they’ll all pretend to believe. Debunk it at every turn.
ICE murdered a woman in the streets today for funsies and because they were mad about it, and now they’re lying about what they did, while this woman is indeed quite dead.
ETA: The original video has been moved behind moderation and is no longer visible without a Bluesky account. This is a different video from a different angle, unfortunately lacking earlier context.
Santa Clara nurses strike for third week against Kaiser Permanente ( fightbacknews.org )
Striking Santa Clara, California nurses take on Kaiser Permanente. ...
Naysayers on The Strike | Lady Izdihar ( www.youtube.com )
Just some final thoughts before the strike tomorrow with what I've been seeing pop up yesterday and today. ...
"Insurrection Must Be Treated as an Art" ( socialismforall.substack.com )
Human-read Marxist audiobook + discussion of V. I. Lenin’s Marxism and Insurrection (1917), read by Socialism for All ...
Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) ( pluralistic.net )
https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/27Jan2026.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 ...
From General Strike to Uprising, Part 1 ( socialismforall.substack.com )
Human-read Marxist audiobook + discussion of V. I. Lenin’s Lessons of the Moscow Uprising (1906), read by Socialism for All ...
Fear Is a Weapon Under Capitalism | Lady Izdihar ( www.youtube.com )
YES IM YELLING AT YOU!! ...