I am a physician in the United States and a member of the Socialist Equality Party. I write on COVID-19 for the World Socialist Web Site, https://xitter.cf/t.co/UTijC9TwGt
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Israel goes to the polls on October 27, with no political party offering an alternative to war and authoritarianism.
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Tom Petterson, Socialist Equality Group candidate for Hutt South, speaks on the healthcare crisis in New Zealand. "Universal healthcare is a fundamental right!"
Attend our public meeting on Sunday November 1, 1:30pm, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt: shorturl.at/NeTdZ
#nzpol #nzelection
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Tom Petterson, SEG candidate in the NZ election, explains the purpose of his campaign in Hutt South: not to get into parliament, but to build the revolutionary socialist leadership of the working class to wage a political fight against the capitalist system.
Attend our public meeting at 1:30pm on November 1st, in the Dowse Art Museum, 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt: shorturl.at/i9uAt
No money for war! For the social rights of the working class! Build the party of world socialism!
#nzpol #nzpolitics #nzelection #electionnz #Election2026 #NewZealand #LowerHutt #HuttSouth
Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD retweeted
After mass October 17 protest, French government prepares dictatorship
The alternative confronting workers and youth is not between Macron, Mélenchon and Le Pen, but between capitalism and socialism. wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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Last Wednesday, workers at 670 hospitals and clinics of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) rejected a wage agreement backed by the union and the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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If a general strike in France to bring down Macron and halt social austerity and the escalation of wars in Europe has not already taken place, it is not for lack of will to fight - Mass mobilisation of youth and “Yellow Vests” shakes the French government
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AfD and Wagenknecht’s BSW celebrate together after electing Germany’s first far-right state parliament president wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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A wave of student protests has been rocking the Albanian capital, Tirana, since Tuesday.
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Washington paid $1.14 trillion in interest on its debt in the fiscal year just ended, more than the $916 billion it spent on the military. Interest took 15% of all federal spending.
ALT Bar chart of federal spending in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2026: interest on the debt, $1.14 trillion, up 11% in a year, against $916 billion for the military. Source: Congressional Budget Office.
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This has become the largest wave of protests in Albania since the collapse of the Stalinist regime in the early 1990s and is deliberately organised independently of all the political parties - Student protests in Albania rattle government
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Mexican health workers vote down wage deal as rebellion grows against the union and the government wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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The UAW election is over, but workers' fight against the union apparatus must continue. Fain's sellouts can only be prevented through the organization of rank-and-file committees at every workplace. Contact us to get involved. #Automotive #automobile wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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PMC COVlD Update, Oct 17, 2026 (U.S.)
Early Release
COVlD levels have rebounded into a secondary peak, as the CDC continues to retroactively correct levels upward.
Outbreaks span 44 states (see Alt). Levels are falling in TX, still high out west, & up in the Northeast.
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ALT The US has at least 44 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks. The CDC made large, upward retroactive corrections to prior estimates, and we are now in an apparent secondary peak. States with observed outbreaks include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Additional states with poor monitoring likely have outbreaks based on high levels in bordering counties in adjacent states.
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Twice this year, supervisory personnel at the US Postal Service Michigan Metroplex in Pontiac activated sorting machinery while a maintenance worker was underneath it. These workers could easily have died or been seriously injured. #postal #postaldude wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on October 5 that it had reached a staff-level agreement with the Sri Lankan government on the seventh review of its $3 billion bailout loan, agreed in March 2023.
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The same president who incessantly denounced the prosecution over his January 6 coup attempt as political persecution is deploying federal police against his opponents on the basis of unproven allegations concerning decades-old paperwork.
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Peer-reviewed paper published this week reports a group of new SARS-related bat CoVs in Thailand, & demonstrates proof-of-concept you can get actionable public health data from wildlife sampling. 1/🧵
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Corporate press, DSA falsify UAW election, invent “mandate” for “president 6 percent” Shawn Fain
The @freep is right that the election was a “striking referendum,” though not in the sense it intended.
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More than 90 percent of the United Auto Workers membership boycotted the vote. With the entire apparatus of the union at his disposal, Shawn Fain has been “re-elected” with the votes of 6 percent of the members
#IWARFC
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