Today in Labor History October 29, 1941: Nazis shot over 10,000 Jews at the Ninth Fort, during the Kaunas Ghetto Massacre. It was the largest mass murder of Lithuanian Jews by the Nazis. Over the course of the Nazi occupation, 50,000 Jews were executed there. Prior to this, the Soviet Union used the fort as a prison and way-station for prisoners being transported to labor camps. #workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #nazis #holocaust #massacre #genocide #antisemitism #lithuania #soviet

Today in Labor History October 29, 1948: Israeli soldiers captured the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee, where the IDF committed a massacre of up to 64 villagers. Evidence suggests that they were shot with their hands tied and buried in a pit. Several women reported that they were raped by the IDF, including a 14-year-old girl. At least two internal inquiries were initiated by the IDF, but their reports remain classified. This massacre was part of the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when 78% of the Palestine Mandate was unilaterally declared as Israel, 700,000 Palestinians were forced off their land, and 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed by Zionist militias. It also led to the creation of permanent Palestinian refugees and the denial of their right to ever return. #workingclass #LaborHistory #Naqba #palestine #zionism #racism #ethniccleansing #refugees #massacre #rape #idf #freepalestine #EndTheOccupation

Australia's tropical forests now emit more CO2 than they take in during photosynthesis, becoming one of the first carbon sinks to flip and become a new carbon source. Meanwhile, the largest tropical storm ever to hit Jamaica is starting to make landfall with winds of 180 mph. Scientists say it is super charged due to climate change. Oh yeh, and it looks like we aren't gonna come close to holding temperature rise to less than 1.5C. So, whatever organizing we're doing now to fight fascism, create alternative institutions, provide mutual aid, etc, we're gonna most likely need to keep on doing, as the wealthy try to secure what resources and safety nets exist and use the full force of the police and military to protect. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/australia-tropical-forests-co2-cop30?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us #climate #Australia #climatecrisis #co2

For the first time ever, the U.S. government is going to run out of money for food stamps, placing 40 million Americans (1 in every 8 people in the US) at risk of going hungry. As f*cked up as this is, why aren't the media, or the politicians, talking about the fact that 1 in every 8 Americans is so poor that they are dependent on government aid just to not starve? Meanwhile, food banks are already turning people away because they don't have enough food to give away. Keep in mind that, even with food stamps, people were still dependent on the food banks because the government handouts have never been sufficient to feed a family. Exacerbating this crisis, millions of Americans who aren't eligible for food stamps because they earn "too much" are now the fastest growing recipients of aid from food banks. #food #hunger #snap #foodstamps #poverty #classwar

What Trump wants his base to see: Lots of jobs for white men. The Reality is this many layoffs since April: Amazon: 30k Intel: 25k Microsoft: 15k Meta: 3600 Target: 1800 Charter: 1200 Paramount: 1000 Rivian: 600 XAl: 500

Job creator? Yeah, right.