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Nick Beams

@BeamsNick

Member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) National Committee.

Joined February 2021

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · 7 h

Trump “steamroller” imposes tariff and trade deal on European Union wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The EU has agreed to a 15 percent tariff hit and to buy hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of energy products and military hardware from the US.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 23

Crypto market capitalisation hits $4 trillion wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. In less than three years, the size of the crypto market has increased five-fold, a rise which has accelerated on the back of Trump’s pledge to make the US the crypto capital of the world.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 22

6 months of the Trump administration: The stench of fascism and political crisis wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The scandal over the cover-up of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein recalls explosive affairs like Stavisky in 1930s France and Profumo in 1960s Britain, which triggered major political upheavals.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 21

Stop the escalating genocide in Gaza! wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The only way to end the genocide and the broader war of which it is a part is through the massive expansion of the class struggle in every country.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 18

The return of the Epstein scandal and the criminality of US ruling class wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 18

Victoria’s “truth-telling” commission: Australia’s Aboriginal elite demands a greater slice of the pie wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. For an exercise nominally about the oppression of Aboriginal people, the Yoorrook Justice Commission was notable for its uncritical embrace of big business politicians and its celebration of the...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 18

What’s behind the Trump-Powell clash wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in Trump’s incessant demands for a rate reduction is the rising interest...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 17

19-year-old killed while cleaning industrial meat grinder in Vernon, California wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The horrific death of a 19-year-old industrial janitor at Tina’s Burritos in Vernon, California exposes the deadly reality facing workers under capitalism: deregulation, union complicity, and a state...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 17

US Supreme Court greenlights destruction of Department of Education wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 16

Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hits $120,000.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 15

Democrats, media cheer as Trump escalates Ukraine-Russia war wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The response demonstrates that Democratic Party opposition to Trump centered on issues of foreign policy, particularly the war against Russia, not Trump’s attacks on the working class at home.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 14

Brazil tariffs add new dimension to Trump’s global economic war wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 12

Trump’s tariffs and the threat of World War 3 wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The economic war against the world being waged by the US is reproducing, at a higher level, the conditions of the disastrous decade of the 1930s that played a major role in creating the conditions...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 10

The Texas flood disaster: Trump’s Hurricane Katrina wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The state is home to 84 billionaires, including the world’s richest man, yet officials refuse to fund the social infrastructure needed to safeguard the population from predictable natural disasters.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 9

Military operation in Los Angeles signals escalation of fascist methods wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in MacArthur Park exposes a growing strategy of domestic militarization aimed at suppressing immigrant and working class communities.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 9

Trump opens new front in tariff war wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. Tariffs on copper of 50 percent could be imposed as early as next month and a 200 percent impost on pharmaceuticals may be set within 18 months, with other commodities set to follow.

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 8

Texas flood disaster: A crime of capitalism wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. At every level of government—county, state and federal—the profit interests of big business and the strategic concerns of American imperialism blocked any effort to protect the population from deadly...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 8

Trump escalates global economic war wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. Trump has sent letters to 14 countries saying that the massive tariff hikes announced on April 2 would be imposed on August 1, with two of the most significant diktats issued to so-called US allies...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 6

China the target in US-Vietnam trade deal wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The so-called “deal,” which has the character of the unequal treaties imposed on colonies in the heyday of imperialist rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has implications that go far...

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Nick Beams@BeamsNick · Jul 5

China the target in US-Vietnam trade deal wsws.org/en/articles/20…

BeamsNick's tweet card. The so-called “deal,” which has the character of the unequal treaties imposed on colonies in the heyday of imperialist rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has implications that go far...

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