World Socialist Web Site correspondent. Writer on Marxism and law, and democratic rights.

Joined August 2021
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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From France to Albania to India, youth protests are growing. A thread:
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Israeli settlers carried out a wave of attacks across the occupied West Bank over the weekend, protected by soldiers. In Gaza, the UN is cutting food aid. A thread:
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We have to organize ourselves. We have to take matters into our own hands. That is what this campaign proposes: rank-and-file committees in every plant and workplace, controlled by you, workers, deciding our own policy.
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MikeHeadWSWS retweeted
If the fascist president is praising you, you aren't a socialist.
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — President Trump: "Mamdani will be a great mayor — he is off to a great start."
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The role of the World Socialist Web Site stood in the sharpest contrast to the subservience of the corporate media. From the day of the attacks, the WSWS denounced them as reactionary acts of mass murder, while warning that they would be seized on by US imperialism as a means of carrying out long-planned military attacks and the destruction of democratic rights at home. Read the Perspective at WSWS dot org.
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MikeHeadWSWS retweeted
WSU IYSSE club president Zach explains how the 15-year sentence of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk is the spearpoint of an assault on anti-war sentiment globally, including protests against the US-Israeli genocide against Palestinians Go to freebogdan.wsws.org
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MikeHeadWSWS retweeted
Part of the speakout at the University of Melbourne calling for freedom for imprisoned Ukrainian socialist and anti war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk Sign the petition at freebogdan.wsws.org #FreeBogdan
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MikeHeadWSWS retweeted
IYSSE speakout at QUT demanding freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk, a Ukrainian socialist who opposed war and called for unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers. The Ukrainian regime sentenced him to 15 years in prison - a virtual death sentence Go to freebogdan.wsws.org #FreeBogdan
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Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old socialist, got 15 years in a Ukrainian prison for writing that Russian and Ukrainian workers have no reason to kill each other. I demand his immediate, unconditional release. So should every UAW member. Sign the petition. Link in comments.
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MikeHeadWSWS retweeted
The fight to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, sentenced to 15 years in prison for opposing the war, requires your support. To sign the petition, learn more about Bogdan's case, and send a letter to the court that will decide his appeal, go here: freebogdan.wsws.org
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Political repressions in Ukraine under Zelensky ---- Bogdan has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for six articles. What was the subversive content? According to the court, the articles contained “non-recognition of Ukraine’s legitimately elected political leadership and democratic processes,” “comparisons with fascists and Nazis,” “negative assessments of Ukraine’s Armed Forces” and “reinterpretation of national heroes and historical figures.” As for the “national heroes” whom Bogdan is accused of “reinterpreting,” they are Stepan Bandera and the leaders of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and the Waffen-SS Galicia Division—Nazi collaborators who supported Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and were implicated in the mass murder of Jews and Poles. The court’s complaint about “comparisons with fascists and Nazis” refers to Bogdan’s exposure of the official rehabilitation and celebration of these forces.
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Join the fight to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist! Send statements of support! 🖊️ SIGN THE PETITION wsws.org/freebogdan 📰 Read wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08… #FreeBogdan #antiwar
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The fight for Bogdan’s freedom enters its decisive stage—and it can be won. We call on workers, young people, journalists, scientists, artists and all defenders of democratic rights to expand the international campaign for his freedom—now, while the appeal is being prepared.
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MikeHeadWSWS retweeted
Youth and students should join this Sunday's online meeting at 2pm, "Fight NDIS cuts and Labor’s war on the working class!" hosted by the @SEP_Australia, @CFPE_Australia and @HealthRandF_Aus Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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The reality is, the interests of workers and the interests of the capitalists are antagonistic. They cannot be reconciled. Socialism means equality. It means workers' control of production. It means the international unity of the working class, based on our interests.
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MikeHeadWSWS retweeted
On Aug. 10, a sham Ukrainian court convicted 27-yr-old socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk of "treason" for opposing US-NATO war against Russia, imposing 15 yr sentence. His "crime" was possessing WSWS articles & opposing fascist "national heroes" like Stepan Bandera. Free Bogdan!👇
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