CVO TALK -- for a revolutionary workers movement!

I don't know who Charlie Kimber is, but he seems be connected with the SWP in Britain. At any rate, he's been posting things daily about the situation in France, and in this piece I think he gets a lot of general things right about what revolutionaries should do, but I question some of the ...

About 15,000 people marched in Seattle. Lots of imaginative home made signs, and more Ukrainian flags than at previous No Kings events.

The only radical leftists I saw were ex-SA Dan, who I always have informed discussions with, and Ben. Ben was handing out the only leaflet I saw (except for small ...

Just from the news. It says 550,000 people marched today in France, and that some people burned buildings and looted. www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/hundr ... 20187.html

It was about the Brazilian senate approving a constitutional amendment ending the six-day workweek with no reduction in pay. A newer article is at
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/lula-still-in-running?share_id=10105918&socialux=facebook&utm_campaign=RebelMouse&utm_content=Common+Dreams&utm ...

Pete, it's very true that the main demands were over such things as delayed salary and bonus payments, and some trade union leaders organized it. But leftists like Domingo Andrade (www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015310279487) also mobilized for it, at least on Facebook, and said things like ...

We will see if this helps Lula overcome Flavio Bolsonaro's lead in the election: www.facebook.com/rodrigo.ibarra.899363/ ... MzFEx4nYLl

[I haven't read the full article yet.]

Daniel Pinchbeck

The real threat to the midterms is likely to come after the votes are counted. Polls show Democrats on track to retake the House and probably the Senate. Voter purges and court fights may not be enough to stop that. A policy brief from the ...

Protests in Venezuela two days ago: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1577562627010900 and https://www.facebook.com/reel/1417062543209109. They were held in two cities that I know of.

Phil, I don't know what you're trying to accomplish by raising Algeria and the Phillipsville massacre, but maybe you don't either. As you know, the FLN and Hamas are quite different organizations operating in quite different conditions.

With regard to Hamas, this is by Palestinian writer Muhammad ...

From John Mullen in France:

Tuesday, October 6, saw vibrant mass demonstrations in dozens of French towns, as five of the nation's six main trade union confederations mobilized in support of the escalating school student movement. Entering its third week, the historic uprising against years of cuts ...