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Erik Schreiber

@socialistschreiber.bsky.social

Reporter for the World Socialist Web Site, member of the Socialist Equality Party, and revolutionary optimist.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 12h ago

The Nicaraguan working class can support neither the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship nor the forces Washington funds against it. It requires an independent revolutionary party on the perspective of permanent revolution, a section of the ICFI. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Nicaragua moves to ban “Yankee” agents from elections as Trump policies hit economy

The Sandinista government is pushing a constitutional reform excluding US-funded parties from elections, even as it answers imperialist pressure with concessions to Washington and foreign capital.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 13h ago

In Nolan's "The Odyssey," it is impossible to see the ghastliness of war, the abuse of strangers, the cruelty of the wealthy, et cetera without thinking of contemporary life, whether this was fully Nolan’s aim or not. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Christopher Nolan’s <em>The Odyssey</em>: A social and cultural phenomenon

Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 17h ago

If the government can revoke the rights of hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have lived, worked, paid taxes and raised families in the US for years, then nothing will stop it from waging similar attacks on US citizens. 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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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 18h ago

James Brasher, a 57-year-old Stellantis worker and UAW member, died at work on August 1. He is the fourth Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022. Workers must investigate this death; the UAW won't. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Stellantis worker James Brasher killed on the job—the fourth death under the UAW’s “historic” 2023 contract

Brasher is the fourth Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Mamdani is not only opposing the $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides but also citing the antilabor Taylor law as justification! At every turn, Mamdani has enforced the interests of finance capital and attacked workers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Mamdani opposes $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed his campaign pledge to support a $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides, some of the city’s most exploited workers.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d ago

During the partial DHS shutdown, Democrats called for the removal of ICE agents deployed as substitute airport personnel. They've completely abandoned those demands even as ICE and the TSA have transformed airports into hunting grounds. 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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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d ago

With the support of the US, the filthy Netanyahu regime attacked apartment blocks, tent camps, and medicine warehouses in Gaza over the weekend. This bestial, criminal violence reveals the irredeemable degeneracy of the international ruling class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Israel launches massacre in Gaza, as Trump threatens Iran with “decapitation”

Israeli forces killed at least 26 people in Gaza over the weekend, striking apartment blocks, tent camps and the medicine warehouses of a hospital in the territory’s deadliest days in weeks.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d ago

For the second time in two weeks, a major city might go up in flames. The bipartisan refusal to address climate change (except to worsen it) is threatening the lives of workers around the world. The fight for socialism is an existential question. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Ontario to Bordeaux to Spokane: The escalating climate crisis and the fight for socialism

More than 60,000 workers and their families have been driven from their homes in Spokane, Washington, as wildfires destroy hundreds of structures in the worst climate-related disaster in the region's ...

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d ago

Like her father, Fujimori is using the moribund Shining Path as a pretext for putting the armed forces and the National Police in charge of internal security. Like her father, Fujimori intends to rule as a dictator. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Peru’s newly elected President Keiko Fujimori exploits killing of Shining Path commander as pretext for military rule

The VRAEM operation was carried out for maximum political impact, while international delegations were still on Peruvian soil for the inauguration.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump is threatening to renew his push for a $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that would benefit the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He is seeking to maintain a loyal base of fascistic followers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump revives push to create slush fund for fascist rioters

The infighting within the Republican Party and the Trump administration is a sign of the deepening political crisis within the US ruling elite.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d ago

Saudi Arabia may be preparing for a major ground offensive in central Yemen. The US‑Israeli war on Iran is metastasizing across the region, drawing in Gulf monarchies and reshaping Iraq’s internal balance of forces. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Joint US–Saudi attack on Iraq widens front of the imperialist war in Middle East

What Washington called “precision strikes” were an open extension of the war into Iraq, carried out with the participation of Saudi Arabia.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez, a Socialist, responded to the entry of poor Moroccans into Ceuta in the same way that Meloni or Trump would have. The bourgeois left has collaborated in the abolition of the right to asylum. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

European governments demand military-style crackdown on “hybrid threats,” after at least 99 migrants 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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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d ago

Troy Jackson, Democratic Senate candidate from Maine, has a record of national chauvinism, corporate handouts, and opposition to abortion and gay rights. He enjoys the endorsements of Sanders, the DSA, and the UAW. 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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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d ago

Michigan's Democratic primary for senator pits an open representative of the party establishment against a supposed progressive who defends capitalism. These candidates differ on tactics but oppose the interests of the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Stevens and El-Sayed ("I am a capitalist") debate in run-up to Democratic primary

El-Sayed made a point of declaring his opposition to socialism, signaling to the corporate oligarchy that he did not represent a threat to its basic interests.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d ago

The metamorphosis of the Chavistas from proponents of “Socialism of the 21st Century” into the managers of US imperialist interests is the most damning refutation possible of bourgeois nationalism and left reformism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

US looting of Venezuela continues amid earthquake disaster

The widening humanitarian crisis has not stopped the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales—with estimates as high as 96.5 percent of the revenue.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 5d ago

Will Lehman was the only candidate at the UAW presidential debate who squarely addressed the reality that workers face. Corrupt bully President Shawn Fain, meanwhile, told Lehman that he'd better get used to death threats. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

UAW presidential debate reveals class divide between socialist autoworker Will Lehman and pro-apparatus candidates

Lehman advanced a program of rank-and-file power, internationalism and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy in stark contrast to the other candidates seeking to place themselves at the head of the cor...

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 5d ago

While Wall Street investors are wealthier than ever, the US government is slashing billions from Medicaid and SNAP. This money is being redirected toward criminal wars and the further enrichment of the oligarchy. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Medicaid work requirements take effect: No money for healthcare, $1.5 trillion for war

Trump’s bill is projected to cut about $1.4 trillion in federal spending over 10 years. The government estimates the work requirements for Medicaid will strip 2.3 million people from the Medicaid roll...

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 5d ago

Keiko Fujimori has outlined an agenda of surveillance, emergency decrees, and military repression. It is an agenda of class war to be carried out in cooperation with US and European imperialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Keiko Fujimori’s inaugural speech: A class war agenda for Peru’s oligarchy and US imperialism

The seven “objectives” announced by Peru's incoming president express the interests not simply of Fujimorism, but of the Peruvian financial oligarchy and US imperialism, at a moment of acute crisis of...

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 6d ago

The hourlong US bombardment of Iran on Thursday killed a family of three on Qeshm Island, including a 2-year-old child. Washington framed it as retaliation for attacks by Tehran on US assets in Jordan and Egypt.‌ www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

US resumes strikes on Iran as global war escalates

Trump ordered a pause to 13 nights of US air strikes on Iranian targets Friday under conditions in which US munition stockpiles, especially for its missile defence systems, are running low. However, r...

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 6d ago

The propaganda portrait of the Medicaid recipient—the “able-bodied” adult “sitting at home watching television,” in the words of CMS administrator Mehmet Oz—bears no relationship to reality. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Tens of millions face Medicaid cutoff, as Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” work requirements lock into place

A seismic change in how Medicaid benefits are distributed—requiring millions of recipients to provide documentation of 80 hours of work or face cutoff—has largely flown under the radar.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 6d ago

New polls refute the claim that interest in socialism is a phenomenon of the white middle class. Workers and young people who are becoming radicalized must study politics, which means reading the WSWS and joining the SEP. 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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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 6d ago

Chinese and Philippine forces clashed three times in the South China Sea, marking a week of confrontations that coincided exactly with the week-long ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ summit. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

As ASEAN meets, manufactured confrontations in the South China Sea

The clashes in the South China Sea during last week’s ASEAN summit in Manila expose the deliberate manufacturing of conflict with China by the Philippine state, acting on behalf of a US drive to milit...

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 7d ago

Right now, ICE is blocking immigrants from leaving the country. But as part of the dictatorship that Trump is erecting, they will be used to block political opponents from leaving. 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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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 7d ago

Workers in Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, Europe, the US and China have no interest in killing one another for the profits and strategic ambitions of their ruling classes. Build an international anti-war movement in the working class! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Ukraine’s attack on Iranian ship exposes global character of imperialist war

Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the sam...

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 7d ago

The extraordinary congressional abuse of Dr. Fauci showed the extent to which the government is attacking science while promoting religion and conspiracy theories. The bourgeoisie opposes all scientific findings that impinge on profits. 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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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · last wk.

Discarding diplomatic protocol, Milei has inserted himself into the Brazilian presidential election on behalf of Flávio Bolsonaro, whose politics are as odious as his father’s (and Milei’s). www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Milei in Brazil: Argentina’s fascist president campaigns for Flávio Bolsonaro on behalf of US imperialism

Javier Milei traveled to São Paulo to headline the launch of Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign, delivering a 27-minute fascistic speech that reveals the campaign’s dependence on Washington.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · last wk.

The White House summits with Zelensky and Netanyahu and the Caspian Sea strike reveal an imperialist offensive in which Ukraine and Israel serve as instruments of US policy in Eurasia and the Middle East. ‌ www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump meets with Zelensky and Netanyahu in the White House on Russia and Iran war crises

President Trump held separate Oval Office meetings with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel on Tuesday to discuss the next stage of the wars against Russia and Iran.

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Erik Schreiber@socialistschreiber.bsky.social · last wk.

More than 300,000 Haitian immigrants have had their temporary protected status and work authorization revoked. They’re now vulnerable to mass roundups and deportation to a country wracked by imperialist-fueled violence. 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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