Dems said "nothing will fundamentally change" and they'd do "not a thing" different, then armed a genocide and lost worse than Hillary The Democratic Party is where movements go to die Help build an alternative in the country's largest socialist org🌹 https://t.co/0oukOYMDFs✨

@RiverValleyDSA We'd say the Russian Revolution Fund raised for the RSDLP by the Socialist Party was money well spent, and 120 years later, we remain committed to organizing for the cause of the international working class and for international socialism Join us! 🌹 https://t.co/inMU9f6h6Q 4/4

The Socialist Party of America sent funds raised to the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party Among the largest contributors were Locals Fitchburg and Leominster, in an area now covered by our chapter, and Local Holyoke, where @RiverValleyDSA's new chapter office is located 3/4

Howard A. Gibbs, a member of Local Worcester and of the National Committee of the Socialist Party, was among those who supported "the supreme and imperative duty" of aiding "our comrades in Russia... engaged in one of the most momentous struggles in the world's history" 🧵2/4

120 years ago, for the first anniversary of the start of the 1905 Revolution, the Socialist Party of America called for its locals across the U.S. to hold a week of meetings and demonstrations and raise money for the party's "Russian Revolution Fund" 🧵1/4

A journey-level carpenter and 5-year member of the union told Working Mass that union carpenters weren’t being “prioritized” by City Hall , despite their best efforts to support ostensibly pro-labor candidates. https://t.co/2obd496lAI

Join us this Saturday in Worcester for a screening of “War on Democracy,” a film about U.S. imperialism in Venezuela and Latin America! https://t.co/0xczwRv92T 🌹

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Renee Good isn’t the first person killed by ICE, funded by Dems and Republicans for decades, and won’t be the last The working class loses if we let any part of it get beaten down with bullets and border laws crafted to benefit capital A better world is possible🌹

We can build the movement to get the US out of Venezuela, now and forever! https://t.co/m8H5AXxjfE🌹

We believe in the collective liberation of the working class and all oppressed people, and we won’t stop fighting until US imperialism is gone for good Trump’s latest aggression is only a symptom of the whole global capitalist system, and the people of Venezuela know it 🧵(4/5)

Here’s Chávez, former Venezuelan president, back in '09 with a prediction that the US might use the same “narco-terrorist” tactic on him that they used to swap out political leadership in Panama He was only wrong about how long they would take to launch it in 🧵(3/5)

The US has sponsored coups in nearly every country in South America and the Caribbean Empire doesn’t swoop in to save anyone — it intervenes to serve global capital. The people of Latin America don’t deserve bombardment, kidnappings, and regime change 🧵(2/5)

Yesterday, the US kidnapped the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro and bombed the capital Caracas in a push for US control over the country and its resources We're sick of the destabilization playbook, and stand in complete solidarity with the people of Venezuela🇻🇪 🧵(1/5)

We hope more comrades will sing the Internationale and enjoy this new adaptation, and we share our work under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0) and with a full lyrics video and lyrics sheet so that others may make good use of it: 🌹 https://t.co/dWNsL3WOWT (🧵8/8)

Other English language versions do exist, including an obscure one by Daniel De Leon, plus the standard English adaptation and a controversial one by Billy Bragg. One of the world's most translated songs, the Internationale still, in many languages, unites the human race. (7/8)

Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr had prepared the first U.S. adaptation of the Internationale in the 1890s, and his version was popularized by songbooks of the Industrial Workers of the World. The work of Pottier, De Geyter, and Kerr has since entered the public domain. (6/8)

By the turn of the century, the Internationale had assumed its familiar place as the international anthem of the working class and the socialist movement. It was sung in the Russian Revolution and Spanish Civil War, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912, and in Paris in 1968. (5/8)

Set to the melody of La Marseillaise when first published in 1887, the Internationale was sung in this form at Pottier's burial later that year. Soon after, Pierre De Geyter, a member of the French Workers' Party, composed the music that is still in use today. (4/8)

Socialist Eugène Pottier first penned the Internationale after the bloody defeat of the Paris Commune. A member of the namesake First International's French section, Pottier had been elected to the Commune Council during the uprising that seized power in the city in 1871. (3/8)

Our members Ethan Carmichael and @ShaneLevett built on Charles H. Kerr's already well-known U.S. lyrics, bringing the Internationale back up to six verses while trying to remain relatively faithful, with some additions and alterations, to the original French. (2/8)