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Joined March 2012
Attend our public election meeting on Sunday November 1 at 1:30pm, in the Dowse Art Museum, 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt. Register here: shorturl.at/qgPDM Vote for the Socialist Equality Group's Tom Petterson for Hutt South! No money for war! For the social rights of the working class! Build the party of world socialism! #nzelection #HuttSouth #nzpol #socialismNZ #socialist #NewZealandelection #election2026
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The Socialist Equality Group's candidate in the NZ election, Tom Petterson, participated in a public candidates' meeting yesterday in Lower Hutt, answering questions submitted by local residents. Watch the event here: youtu.be/fjstzp7ODwA
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Workers and youth are outraged over Mamdani's mounting betrayals. Only a genuine socialist program can defeat fascism and sweep away the pseudo-left apologists for capitalism. Join the New York IYSSE online meeting on Wednesday evening. #Mamdani #NewYork #Trump
NYC International Youth and Students for Social Equality Online Meeting: Wed. Oct 21, 7:00 PM Eastern Zohran Mamdani: Fighting Oligarchy, or Serving It? A socialist perspective for the fight against war, dictatorship and inequality us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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I wrote a full, detailed account of the October 16 settler and soldier attack on the olive harvest in Abu Falah. I think it may be the most important thing I’ve ever written. “The Palestinians Who Rescued Heidi Levine” Link in next tweet.
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The Trump administration is asserting the power to drive an opponent out of Congress and out of the country. This attack on democratic rights must be opposed by the working class - Oppose the Trump administration’s drive to strip Ilhan Omar of citizenship! wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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Georg Büchner (1813) – One of the great modern playwrights, and a revolutionary. Hessian Courier, Danton's Death, Lenz, Woyzeck. “I have recently learned that only the necessary needs of the masses can bring about changes, every movement and shouting of the individual is foolish”
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Nathanael West (1903) – Writer best known for satiric novels of the 1930s. He mocks the American success dream, sharply attacks Hollywood and its manipulations. Miss Lonelyhearts. The Day of the Locust “dramatizes the false world and people on the fringes of the movie industry.”
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Hegseth chose the firing squad: “Well I kind of like the mentality we had in World War II.” Hitler’s Wehrmacht utilized the firing squad as an instrument of discipline, shooting more than 18,000 - Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood shooter’s execution wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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Canaletto (1697) – Venetian painter famed for “detailed and atmospheric cityscapes,” his works “characterized by their luminous quality, precise architectural detail, and vivid use of color, often incorporating theatrical elements that he learned while working in stage design.”
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Henri de Saint-Simon (1760) – Utopian socialist, “what interests him first, and above all other things, is the lot of the class that is the most numerous and most poor…To recognize the French Revolution as a class war …was, in the year 1802, a most pregnant discovery.” (Engels)
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On this day in 1969, The Pioneers’ classic “Long Shot Kick De Bucket” made its debut on the UK charts. 🎶 A reggae favourite that’s stood the test of time - when did you first hear this one?
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Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine is hospitalised, after being brutally attacked by Israeli settlers this morning
🚨 NOW: Settler terror attack on Abu Falah in the West Bank. American journalist Heidi Levine was beaten by the settlers, many Palestinian were injured, one shot by the IDF. The army allowed the settler attack, and tear gassed and assaulted the Palestinians.
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“Hopefully one day these criminals will be held to account and the Australian government will be forever held in shame.”—Retired teacher Jody, at the Melbourne protest against the Israeli genocide
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