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“The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status The electronic shackles are a modern-day version of the yellow stars of David that the Nazis forced Jews to wear in the years leading up to the Holocaust. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status
The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.
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ICE is kidnapping workers at their homes and workplaces, ambushing immigrants at airports and immigration check-ins, and carrying out traffic stops using masked agents in unmarked vehicles. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
ICE Gestapo kidnaps record 51,000 people in July as Trump expands mass deportation operation
Approximately 68,000 immigrants are languishing in a mostly for-profit concentration camp system marked by medical neglect, deaths in custody, force-feeding and contaminated drinking water.
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An Interview with Historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution "No one goes into a revolutionary situation and risks their life, separates from their family, without knowing what they’re doing." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
An Interview with Historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the con...
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European governments demand crackdown on migrants after 99 die trying to reach Spain The European powers’ demonisation of immigrants serves to divert popular anger from the real culprits for the deepening social & economic crisis confronting millions www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
European governments demand crackdown on migrants after 99 die trying to reach Spain
There is nothing accidental about the dozens of deaths, as over 60,000 people sought to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Europe’s governments have effectively abolished refugee rights and built ext...
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Union bureaucracy, DSA rally behind Troy Jackson after collapse of Graham Platner campaign Jackson is a capitalist politician with more than a quarter-century of experience subordinating workers to the Democratic Party www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Union bureaucracy, DSA rally behind Troy Jackson after collapse of Graham Platner campaign
The former Maine Senate president is being promoted as a working class insurgent, but his 26-year political record is defined by economic nationalism, attacks on immigrant and Canadian workers and cor...
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American workers and youth are turning towards socialism Workers and young people today must heed the admonition of Trotsky, “Young people, study politics!” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
American workers and youth are turning towards socialism
A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democra...
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The witch-hunt against Anthony Fauci and the war on public health Fauci is not being persecuted for the policies he actually carried out. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The witch-hunt against Anthony Fauci and the war on public health
Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties.
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ICE detains travelers at US airports in expanding police state dragnet The transformation of airports into checkpoints of a domestic police state could not proceed without the complicity of the Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO bureaucracy. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
ICE detains travelers at US airports in expanding police state dragnet
Masked federal agents are seizing immigrants with work authorization and pending legal claims, frequently without producing warrants, before imprisoning them in an increasingly deadly network of priva...
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“It was universally understood as a revolution.” An Interview with historian Matthew Stewart on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence “inequality, in the end, is hostile to reason” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
“It was universally understood as a revolution.” An Interview with historian Matthew Stewart on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American histor...
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New York Times publishes friendly interview with Mamdani The interview brought to the fore Mamdani’s conciliatory attitude toward the ruling class and the Democratic Party establishment. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
New York Times publishes friendly interview with Mamdani
There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA...
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Graham was one of the most persistent and aggressive supporters of American military operations around the world, summed up in Trump’s statement, in the course of his tribute to Graham, that “he was truly hawkish; he never saw a war he didn’t like.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
At Lindsey Graham’s funeral, Trump hails a senator who “never saw a war he didn’t like”
The US president was joined by Volodymyr Zelensky, Benjamin Netanyahu and Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the funeral of the warhawk senator.
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At Lindsey Graham’s funeral, Trump hails a senator who “never saw a war he didn’t like” Both Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington to attend Graham’s funeral. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
At Lindsey Graham’s funeral, Trump hails a senator who “never saw a war he didn’t like”
The US president was joined by Volodymyr Zelensky, Benjamin Netanyahu and Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the funeral of the warhawk senator.
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Conditions in Haiti are not the product of some inexplicable natural catastrophe. For more than two centuries, the country has been subjected to colonial plunder, military occupation, US-backed dictatorships and repeated imperialist interventions. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Over 300,000 Haitians targeted for deportation as Trump administration guts asylum rights
The administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as it imposed a new rule allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications to be sent into deportation proceedings without an ...
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Die Debatte über Trumps Pläne für eine „massive“ Eskalation im Iran: Alles wird besprochen – nur nicht das Verbrechen #wsws https://www.wsws.org/de/articles/2026/07/27/pvjo-j27.html
Europe’s “firewave” and global capitalism’s climate crisis Economic and social life is so mismanaged, so dominated by the profit interests of an obscenely rich few, that a damaged climate is endangering millions... www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Europe’s “firewave” and global capitalism’s climate crisis
Workers must fight for the resources to mount an urgent response, but to carry out such measures without also tackling the social system producing these disasters is like firefighting on the slopes of...
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T. rex fossil sold for $50.1 million The astronomical prices which these dinosaur specimens elicit are a symptom of the pathological commodification of all aspects of life under capitalism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
T. rex fossil sold for $50.1 million
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
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Protests continue against police and ICE killings in Wisconsin, Texas Democrats throughout the country continue to promote the fiction that accountability can be secured through investigations by state police... www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Protests continue against police and ICE killings in Wisconsin, Texas
While hundreds demanded justice for Corey Ruiz and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the officers responsible for their deaths remain unidentified, uncharged and protected by the state.
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Execution in Wisconsin: Only the working class can stop police state terror Ruiz’s killing is the latest in a wave of state murders carried out over less than three weeks. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Execution in Wisconsin: Only the working class can stop police state terror
The police, immigration Gestapo and military are instruments of capitalist class rule whose escalating violence can be stopped only through the independent political mobilization of the working class.
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Pleading for calm Thursday, Madison’s Democratic mayor, Satya Rhodes-Conway, said “Good investigations take time,” and that she supported “peaceful” protests. The “investigation” will no doubt exonerate the police execution of Ruiz. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Protests erupt in Madison, Wisconsin following police execution of Corey Ruiz
The brutal police killing, carried out in broad daylight and caught on camera, quickly spread online, prompting hurried calls from local officials and police for an “independent” investigation that wi...
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Despite severe overcrowding and rising death totals, ICE continues to pack immigrants in holding cells, concentration camps ICE officials know the conditions they are inflicting on immigrants are dangerous and potentially deadly. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Despite severe overcrowding and rising death totals, ICE continues to pack immigrants in holding cells, concentration camps
Recent reports from the <em>Washington Post</em> and Human Rights Watch detail the deliberately inhumane and deadly conditions in detention centers that have produced a skyrocketing death toll among d...
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James Talarico: The Democrats’ preacher “And don’t believe the hard luck stories of the professional privilege man”—Texas Socialist Party early 1900s primer on political organizing. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
James Talarico: The Democrats’ preacher
The Democratic Party is seeking ways to contain popular anger. The man it has found for the job is James Talarico—a Christ-loving “progressive” who promises to bring about universal improvement, conde...
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Solidarity with a fellow union brother and fellow socialist! With a program to take down the UAW bureaucracy and return the power to workers on the shop floor, Lehman is the only correct choice to fight the captured UAW union and to fight for workers rights. I wish he could be the UFCW leader too.
Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org@crossebarx.bsky.social · 2w agoOppose the death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman! As Lehman stated: “This threat is not aimed at me alone. It is an act of intimidation directed against the entire rank-and-file opposition.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Oppose the death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman! As Lehman stated: “This threat is not aimed at me alone. It is an act of intimidation directed against the entire rank-and-file opposition.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Oppose the death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman!
The IWA-RFC calls on workers and all defenders of democratic rights to denounce this incitement to violence against Will Lehman and demand its unequivocal public repudiation by the UAW.
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Mexican father killed by tractor-trailer while fleeing ICE operation in Florida Coronilla Durán’s death was the direct and entirely predictable product of the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mexican father killed by tractor-trailer while fleeing ICE operation in Florida
Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was the third immigrant father to die within eight days during violent operations conducted by the Trump administration’s immigration Gestapo.
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All talk of alleviating the social distress faced by millions of workers without challenging the power of the oligarchy, without mobilising the working class on an anti-capitalist and anti-war programme, is a dangerous political fraud. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
New UK prime minister Andy Burnham will step up Labour’s agenda of austerity and war
The claim that Burnham can change the course of the government is a pale imitation of the claims made earlier about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
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The response from the Democratic Party to Mullin’s threats to imprison election officials has been muted and commensurate with its political cowardice and complicity in the growth of presidential dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump administration threatens to imprison state officials who resist federal takeover of elections
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared that states that refused to hand over voter data and use a federal immigration database would be targeted for investigation, fines and criminal pr...
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Top UAW official Raymond L. Jensen posts death threat against me: Workers must oppose this act of intimidation!
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., until recently assistant director of UAW Region 9 and a prominent Shawn Fain supporter, posted an AI-generated image on Will Lehman’s Facebook page depicting him bound, gagged a...
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Rally in Detroit for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed remains silent on Iran war, downplays Trump dictatorship Amid the hot air directed against the oligarchs, none of the speakers referenced the illegal and criminal war against Iran. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Rally in Detroit for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed remains silent on Iran war, downplays Trump dictatorship
The rally was part of a concerted effort by Sanders and the DSA to channel mounting outrage over war, austerity and fascism behind the Democratic Party.
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As grieving widow speaks out, details emerge of ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford, Maine "I think maybe 20 years from now we’ll look back and be like, wow, we were living through the earlier stages of World War III and had no idea.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
As grieving widow speaks out, details emerge of ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford, Maine
Joan Durán Guerrero’s death came less than a week after ICE agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston under nearly identical circumstances, gunning him down as he drove to a construction job wit...
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