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“The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
The anti–public health agenda and the resurgence of measles in America

The return of measles is especially tragic because it is entirely preventable.

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The anti–public health agenda and the resurgence of measles in America
The measles outbreak in South Carolina exposes the social and political roots of vaccine refusal and the broader assault on public health institutions in the United States.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Mass shooting in Sydney exploited to slander anti-genocide protests

Ordinary Jewish people and their children living in Australia bear no responsibility for the ongoing slaughter by the Israeli Zionist regime in Gaza & the occupied West Bank of Palestine.
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Mass shooting in Sydney exploited to slander anti-genocide protests
Before anything was known about the motives of the two alleged gunmen, the attack was seized upon to conflate it with the mass protests in Australia against the Gaza genocide.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Two longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyists die

We pay tribute to their intransigent fight over decades for the perspective of Trotskyism in the Sri Lankan working class.

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Two longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyists die
The SEP sadly announces the death of two working class comrades R. M. Gunathilake (87) and Leela Balasuriya (79). We will publish tributes in the coming days.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
DHS claims over 400 taken as ICE agents continue lawless kidnapping campaign in Minnesota

Encouraged by the fascists in the White House, immigration agents in Minnesota have been assaulting and kidnapping Somali Americans.
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DHS claims over 400 taken as ICE agents continue lawless kidnapping campaign in Minnesota
Construction workers, US citizens and even Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son have been accosted by the immigration Gestapo.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Stellantis relies on unions to set pay scales based on nationality at Serbian plant

The Kragujevac factory employs roughly 1,000 workers drawn from multiple countries, each layer paid according to different contracts, laws and currencies.
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Stellantis relies on unions to set pay scales based on nationality at Serbian plant
Stellantis exploits Kragujevac workers through nationality-based wage tiers and forced migration.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Stellantis relies on unions to set pay scales based on nationality at Serbian plant

The Kragujevac factory employs roughly 1,000 workers drawn from multiple countries, each layer paid according to different contracts, laws and currencies.
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Stellantis relies on unions to set pay scales based on nationality at Serbian plant
Stellantis exploits Kragujevac workers through nationality-based wage tiers and forced migration.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Welcome Socialism AI!

The launch of Socialism AI marks a significant new stage in the fight for socialist consciousness, to clarify political perspective and to prepare workers and youth for the escalation of class struggle that will define the second half of the 2020s.
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Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Today the International Committee of the Fourth International inaugurates Socialism AI, a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization o...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class

The working class requires access to knowledge—above all, the scientific worldview of Marxism—on a scale and with a speed commensurate with the crisis of capitalism.
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Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Today the International Committee of the Fourth International inaugurates Socialism AI, a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization o...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Australia’s social media ban sets global precedent for online censorship

Terrified of “revolutionary extremism” capitalist governments around the world are instituting age-verifications to prepare for mass censorship.

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Australia’s social media ban sets global precedent for online censorship
The real aim of the ban is to suppress growing opposition among young people to war, austerity and dictatorship and to prevent it finding organized political expression.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
US government brands DACA recipient Yaa’kub Vijandre a “terrorist” for opposing genocide in Gaza

Like the overwhelming majority held in ICE concentration camps, Vijandre has not been convicted of any crime and is not accused of committing one.

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US government brands DACA recipient Yaa’kub Vijandre a “terrorist” for opposing genocide in Gaza
The US government has held Vijandre, a Dallas resident, in immigration detention for over nine weeks despite admitting in court filings that he has committed no crimes and that the only “evidence” of ...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Union Pacific conductor killed in Ontario, California

Steve Crowe’s death is part of a broader and accelerating crisis. Across the logistics sector, workers are dying under intense productivity pressure.

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Union Pacific conductor killed in Ontario, California
Steve “Lil” Crowe died in a collision at a vehicle crossing while performing a “shoving movement,” a common but extremely dangerous maneuver.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Zohran Mamdani prepares for office by courting billionaires

Mamdani’s wooing of wealthy donors, combined with broader appeals to the multitude of lesser means who supported him, is not merely a matter of political hypocrisy or bad optics.

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Zohran Mamdani prepares for office by courting billionaires
Mamdani is turning to New York City’s wealthy elite for fundraising while he invites big business to advise his transition.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Over 7 million people to face higher student loan repayments after Trump administration ends Biden-era program

The ending of the program comes at a time when the majority of workers, students and their families in America are struggling to survive.

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Over 7 million people to face higher student loan repayments after Trump administration ends Biden-era program
The ending of the SAVE program will force millions of people with student loans to use costlier repayment programs, many of which do not have any mechanism for loan forgiveness.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Guillermo del Toro’s 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣: The latest film interpretation of Mary Shelley’s novel

The historical and intellectual setting in which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein is a dense one.

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Guillermo del Toro’s <em>Frankenstein</em>: The latest film interpretation of Mary Shelley’s novel
Del Toro’s <em>Frankenstein</em> is a visually imaginative work to some extent with a number of urgent and disturbing sequences and an overall gravitas.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Jacobin’s defense of the Trump–Mamdani pact and the capitalist state

The class function of the state has never been more naked, rendering absurd the DSA’s politics of tinkering around the edges of the capitalist status quo.
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Jacobin’s defense of the Trump–Mamdani pact and the capitalist state
The article is not an academic exercise. It is a political manifesto by the Democratic Socialists of America and <em>Jacobin</em>’s privileged petty-bourgeois milieu, justifying their open collaborati...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Leading Ukrainian criminologist finds charges of “state treason” against Bogdan Syrotiuk baseless

Irkhin found that all the statements by the YGBL expressed a consistent Trotskyist opposition to the war and provided no evidence of “state treason.”
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Leading Ukrainian criminologist finds charges of “state treason” against Bogdan Syrotiuk baseless
The linguistic examination by Yuri Irkhin, one of Ukraine’s leading criminologist, marks not only a major setback for the prosecution. It is also a powerful vindication of the principled opposition by...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Hundreds of high school students in Oregon and Minnesota walk out to protest ICE kidnapping operations

In addition to terrorizing longtime community members and separating families, ICE thugs continue to illegally detain and assault US citizens.

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Hundreds of high school students in Oregon and Minnesota walk out to protest ICE kidnapping operations
Following mass walkouts and abstentions in North Carolina in response to ICE raids, students in Minnesota and Oregon have walked out of class this week in defense of immigrants.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler 1956–2025: Trotskyist and fighter for the working class

Elli’s life represented the best of the workers’ movement and is a part of the history of our own movement.

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Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler 1956–2025: Trotskyist and fighter for the working class
Elli devoted her entire adult life to building a better, socialist society. She joined the Trotskyist movement in 1975 and remained an active and leading member for the rest of her life.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Supreme Court poised to empower Trump to fire independent regulators without cause

The case heard Monday has far-reaching consequences for the management of the capitalist state. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Supreme Court poised to empower Trump to fire independent regulators without cause
In oral arguments Monday in the case <em>Trump v Slaughter</em>, Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority signaled their willingness to grant Trump power to fire agency heads and board...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Immigration thugs deploy to Minnesota as 19 people kidnapped and a US citizen sexually assaulted

After the racist in the White House branded Somali people as “garbage,” his immigration agents deployed in force to Minneapolis targeting the Somali community www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Immigration thugs deploy to Minnesota as 19 people kidnapped and a US citizen sexually assaulted
After the racist in the White House branded Somali people as “garbage,” his immigration agents deployed in force to Minneapolis, targeting the largest Somali community outside Africa.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Amnesty International report details torture, abuse at immigration detention camps in Florida

Immigrants held at the still-operational state-run “Alligator Alcatraz” report that sadistic guards use the “box,” a two-by-two-foot cage, for punishment.

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Amnesty International report details torture, abuse at immigration detention camps in Florida
Immigrants held at the still-operational state-run “Alligator Alcatraz” report that sadistic guards use the “box,” a two-by-two-foot cage, for punishment. Individuals placed inside are shackled by the...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The corporations’ plans to lay workers off during the holidays do not result from a cyclical downturn or blind economic forces. Rather, they reflect a policy of class warfare, an attempt to transfer more wealth to the rich. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Holiday jobs massacre: Mobilize the working class to defend the right to a job!
The normal platitudes about “love and good cheer” are being overshadowed by massive inequality.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A tremendous comrade, rest in peace Ken.

Ken Mantell, Australian Trotskyist: November 11, 1945–November 30, 2025

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Ken Mantell, Australian Trotskyist: November 11, 1945–November 30, 2025
It was as a steel fixer that Ken joined the Socialist Labour League, the precursor to the Socialist Equality Party, in the early 1980s. Once convinced of the program and the need to build the revoluti...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The “garbage” in the White House: Trump’s racist diatribe against Somalis

Trump, a real estate swindler and racist demagogue, longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is the embodiment of the rot of American capitalism.
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The “garbage” in the White House: Trump’s racist diatribe against Somalis
For the third time in less than a week, Trump, surrounded by cabinet officials and fellow Republicans, denounced all people from Somalia as “garbage.”
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December 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The glorification of Mamdani’s meeting with Trump by Friedland during the interview underscores the reactionary character of the pseudo-left milieu surrounding the Democratic Party, including the so-called “dirtbag left,” with which Friedland is associated.
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Mamdani, speaking with comedian Adam Friedland, reviews “productive” meeting with fascist Trump
Reflecting the political character of their milieu, most of Mamdani and Friedland’s half-hour discussion centers on casual, empty-headed conversation, with several interruptions to check soccer scores...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM