"It was outright murder... By initiating wars in other states, [Trump] is telling ICE and everyone around him you can be as violent as you want and you'll have no repercussions. We need to focus on the working class... the billionaires are not doing anything to help us."

"We don't have health care. We are saving lives, we're out here on the battlefield and we don't even have healthcare for ourselves. It's inappropriate not to take care of the nurses that are taking care of the community." #NYCNursesStrike #NYCNurseStrike

Are you getting strike pay? "We are getting absolutely nothing. We, the nurses at Montefiore Medical Center, are fighting for safe staffing." "No patient deserves to be in a hallway. We care for our patients down to the core. Nobody knows the Bronx like us." #NYCNurseStrike

"ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis." "The president and Kristi Noem are calling Renee Good a terrorist... The government tries to make you feel crazy... I'm really proud of our community. I've never been so happy to live in Minnesota because of the reaction from everyone."

The very fact that the general strike has entered political discussion is itself an expression of a new stage in the class struggle and the social and political polarization of the United States. Read the perspective at: WSWS dot org

In the actions of the Trump regime, the American oligarchy is crossing a Rubicon, from which there is no turning back. The issue confronting millions of workers and young people is the most fundamental: socialism or barbarism

Where is America going?: Oligarchy, dictatorship, and the revolutionary crisis of capitalism wsws.org/en/articles/20…

No troops in #Minneapolis! For a general strike against Trump’s coup! The Pentagon has placed 1,500 active-duty soldiers on alert for deployment against protests over ICE violence in Minneapolis wsws.org/en/articles/20…

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MUST READ THREAD 🧵 The drive to dictatorship in the United States has been underway for a generation. The U.S. capitalist class are very conscious of the mass opposition they face in their plans to maintain their dominance over the world economy. They have a strategy -

Students at University of Minnesota: "The ICE occupation is terrorists roaming the streets. I want them gone. Everyone wants them gone. They are not going after criminals. They are terrorizing families. It's a nightmare." "In terms of a general strike, I am 100 percent in support

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Those who hold this wealth are very much aware that they are objectively in conflict with the overwhelming mass of the population. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

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Nurses in New York City continued their powerful strike for the ninth day on Tuesday, braving the bitter cold to staff the picket lines to demand safe staffing levels and to defend wages, retirement and health care benefits.

wsws.org/en/articles/20… "the national bourgeoisie is incapable of establishing even formal democratic rights, including those of minorities, or of pursuing an anti-imperialist policy due to its deep ties to imperialism & its fear of the working class above all else. These tasks

"There's an assault on our constitutional rights. What happened in Minnesota is just one component of it. There's a lot of things where there are no precedent. This is actually happening in America. It's really worldwide. It's not just happening in the states." #NYCNurseStrike

"ICE needs to get the h*ll out of this city! The entire Homeland Security is a fraudulent joke... Workers and everybody need to unite against this corrupt administration." Minneapolis UPS worker

The law governed character of the trajectory of capitalist development allows us to be conscious of what’s coming. The U.S. capitalist class has a strategy: dictatorship and war. They have started. The rest of capitalism would are preparing similarly. The contradiction of an

"I have a family members that are immigrants and friends that are immigrants... If you don't do something to oppose [Trump], you're part of the situation." "[Democrats] are voting to keep the Republicans doing what they're doing. They're not cowards, they are complicit."