Erik Schreiber
@socialistschreiber.bsky.social
Reporter for the World Socialist Web Site, member of the Socialist Equality Party, and revolutionary optimist.
To put Mamdani’s reappointment of Tisch in perspective, she oversaw the introduction of a pervasive surveillance infrastructure throughout New York. She facilitates mass spying on behalf of the city’s ruling elite. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Zohran Mamdani, Jessica Tisch and the NYPD’s mass surveillance program
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has reappointed Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, a woman directly responsible for the NYPD’s massive spying on New York’s population.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
To put Mamdani’s reappointment of Tisch in perspective, she oversaw the introduction of a pervasive surveillance infrastructure throughout New York. She facilitates mass spying on behalf of the city’s ruling elite. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Supreme Court may well give Trump the power to fire congressionally appointed regulators without cause. This would be a major expansion of presidential power and a new step toward dictatorship. 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 7:36 PM
The Supreme Court may well give Trump the power to fire congressionally appointed regulators without cause. This would be a major expansion of presidential power and a new step toward dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
A leading Ukrainian criminologist found no basis whatsoever for the charge of state treason against Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk. This is a blow against the prosecution, but the fight to free Bogdan is far from over. Sign the petition! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A leading Ukrainian criminologist found no basis whatsoever for the charge of state treason against Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk. This is a blow against the prosecution, but the fight to free Bogdan is far from over. Sign the petition! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Justice Department is compiling lists of left-wing organizations, which it calls “domestic terrorists” without distinction. This is a fascistic attempt to suppress dissent and establish a dictatorship. The working class must respond. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Bondi memorandum: FBI, DOJ seek to outlaw political opposition
A memorandum from Attorney General Pam Bondi spells out a series of actions to be taken against those who oppose mass detention and deportation of immigrants or advocate “anti-capitalism.”
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December 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Justice Department is compiling lists of left-wing organizations, which it calls “domestic terrorists” without distinction. This is a fascistic attempt to suppress dissent and establish a dictatorship. The working class must respond. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
A nationwide strike by Starbucks workers is approaching the start of its fourth week on Wednesday. The struggle must be expanded, unified and taken out of the narrow channels imposed from above. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Starbucks workers’ strike approaches 4th week
The strike, which began on November 13 with walkouts at 65 stores across more than 20 cities, expanded to 120 stores on Black Friday.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A nationwide strike by Starbucks workers is approaching the start of its fourth week on Wednesday. The struggle must be expanded, unified and taken out of the narrow channels imposed from above. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
“Nationalizations? Quelle horreur!” cried Corbyn. This poseur has spent his political life defending British capitalism. Your Party is a trap for left-wing workers and youth. Build the SEP (UK) and fight for socialism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Jeremy Corbyn attacks Zarah Sultana’s demand for nationalisation against the billionaires
Seated alongside Corbyn, Owen Jones cited Sultana’s call to “nationalise the entire economy”, asking Corbyn, “What do you think of that?” Corbyn replied, “I’m not sure what that means. I’m honestly no...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“Nationalizations? Quelle horreur!” cried Corbyn. This poseur has spent his political life defending British capitalism. Your Party is a trap for left-wing workers and youth. Build the SEP (UK) and fight for socialism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Law professor Rebecca Ingber told the New York Times, “the focus on the 2nd strike and … the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
NBC confirms Hegseth ordered murder of all boat passengers and crew in September 2 strike
On Saturday, NBC reported that Secretary of War “Pete Hegseth ordered the US military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people” on a motorboat traveling between Venezuela and Trinidad, contradicting the admin...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Law professor Rebecca Ingber told the New York Times, “the focus on the 2nd strike and … the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Socialism AI goes live on December 12, 2025
Socialism AI is a powerful new chatbot developed by the WSWS to advance socialist consciousness globally by bringing the scientific outlook of Marxism to workers, youth, and intellectuals.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Socialism AI harnesses the most powerful recent technological advance to the education and political clarification of the working class. Be among the first to use Socialism AI, which will play an immense role in the revolutionary movement. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The effects of the floods on Indonesia were greatly worsened by government policy. The Prabowo administration cut funding for Indonesia’s disaster management agency by 50 percent from last year. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Massive flooding in Asia leaves over 1,500 dead, hundreds missing
Capitalist governments around the world have taken no serious steps to address climate change and other forms of environmental degradation that contribute to the extreme weather events now unfolding o...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The effects of the floods on Indonesia were greatly worsened by government policy. The Prabowo administration cut funding for Indonesia’s disaster management agency by 50 percent from last year. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Postal workers in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, voted to strike on December 16 amid deadlocked negotiations for a new contract. They are also fighting a “restructuring plan” presented by Lula. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Brazilian postal workers set to strike against attacks by Lula government
The Lula administration’s recent attacks on the Brazilian postal service are part of a global drive to privatize postal services.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Postal workers in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, voted to strike on December 16 amid deadlocked negotiations for a new contract. They are also fighting a “restructuring plan” presented by Lula. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Jacobin's ongoing praise of Mamdani's meeting with Trump is meant to obscure the class character of the state. The capitalist US government can't be reformed. It must be abolished, but this is precisely what Jacobin and the DSA seek to prevent. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Jacobin's ongoing praise of Mamdani's meeting with Trump is meant to obscure the class character of the state. The capitalist US government can't be reformed. It must be abolished, but this is precisely what Jacobin and the DSA seek to prevent. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Israel's bulldozing of unidentified Palestinian bodies into unmarked masked graves constitutes a war crime just as its indiscriminate and systematic killing of civilians does. The imperialist powers and Gulf monarchies are complicit. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Israel bulldozed the bodies of unidentified Palestinians into mass graves in Gaza
A CNN investigation has exposed evidence of mass graves filled with the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israel and then bulldozed into the sands of Gaza.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Israel's bulldozing of unidentified Palestinian bodies into unmarked masked graves constitutes a war crime just as its indiscriminate and systematic killing of civilians does. The imperialist powers and Gulf monarchies are complicit. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Robert Rauschenberg was a transitional figure in American art. Despite his talent and warmth, his work was hampered by the prevailing social conditions, which discouraged political engagement and the striving for a better world. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Painter Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) at New York’s Guggenheim Museum: “Life Can’t Be Stopped”
Rauschenberg belonged to a generation of artists that emerged between the twilight of Abstract Expressionism and the dawn of Pop Art.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Robert Rauschenberg was a transitional figure in American art. Despite his talent and warmth, his work was hampered by the prevailing social conditions, which discouraged political engagement and the striving for a better world. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The inhuman conditions at Alligator Alcatraz and the Krome detention center replicate those at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The ruling class is now using its methods of torture, first used abroad, against the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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 9:45 PM
The inhuman conditions at Alligator Alcatraz and the Krome detention center replicate those at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The ruling class is now using its methods of torture, first used abroad, against the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Americans have a right to see the video of the September 2 drone strike in the Caribbean. But Trump will seek to hide or destroy the evidence of his war crime, and the Democrats will help him, just as they helped George W. Bush. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Survivors of September 2 boat strike waved for rescue, did not know they had been attacked
The survivors of the US military's September 2 drone murder in the Caribbean attempted to wave to US military aircraft for rescue, the <em>New York Times </em>reported Friday.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Americans have a right to see the video of the September 2 drone strike in the Caribbean. But Trump will seek to hide or destroy the evidence of his war crime, and the Democrats will help him, just as they helped George W. Bush. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The recommendation to delay the hepatitis B vaccine is “a direct threat to infant safety” that “contradicts every major body of scientific evidence accumulated over four decades,” according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In major attack on public health, CDC recommends delaying Hepatitis B vaccine at birth
What is being implemented under the guise of “health freedom” is, in fact, the demolition of the very institutions and structures that have protected millions from infectious disease.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The recommendation to delay the hepatitis B vaccine is “a direct threat to infant safety” that “contradicts every major body of scientific evidence accumulated over four decades,” according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Evo Morales, Bolivian hero of the “pink tide” has proposed discussions with the right-wing President Paz, whose administration is crumbling. These ostensible opponents both want to prevent an independent popular uprising. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Crisis and division grip Bolivia’s new right-wing government
Caught between the demands of global finance capital and the resistance of the working class, Bolivia’s ruling class is incapable of governing in the old way.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Evo Morales, Bolivian hero of the “pink tide” has proposed discussions with the right-wing President Paz, whose administration is crumbling. These ostensible opponents both want to prevent an independent popular uprising. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Parents, grandparents, and teachers vocally opposed the foundation of a Turning Point USA club during a Michigan school board meeting. The administration claims that it can’t stop the foundation of this fascist club. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Royal Oak, Michigan parents oppose fascist high school club
A packed meeting of the Royal Oak Board of Education heard parents describe the forming of a Turning Point USA club at the local high school as a threat to their children.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Parents, grandparents, and teachers vocally opposed the foundation of a Turning Point USA club during a Michigan school board meeting. The administration claims that it can’t stop the foundation of this fascist club. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The debate over whether Hegseth ordered the second strike on September 2 obscures the fact that every one of these strikes was illegal. The Trump administration is an openly criminal organization that is hostile to human rights. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Video of September 2 killing showed US massacred “shipwrecked” people, House committee leaders say
U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two “shipwrecked individuals” were ...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The debate over whether Hegseth ordered the second strike on September 2 obscures the fact that every one of these strikes was illegal. The Trump administration is an openly criminal organization that is hostile to human rights. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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
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/...
I'm sorry to hear of the death of guitarist Steve Cropper, whose spare, pithy playing graced many a rock, soul, and blues tune for decades. He left a legacy that influenced at least a generation of musicians. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies at 84
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005, and two years later received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm sorry to hear of the death of guitarist Steve Cropper, whose spare, pithy playing graced many a rock, soul, and blues tune for decades. He left a legacy that influenced at least a generation of musicians. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The unions are doing nothing as avoidable “accidents” kill postal employees. Workers themselves must step forward to defend themselves. Contact us with information about working conditions, injuries, and deaths at your workplace. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Postal workers: Come forward with information on workplace deaths and unsafe conditions!
“The only way we will see justice is if we reveal the truth, hold accountable those responsible for the conditions that put us in harm’s way, and set up our own shop floor organizations to take contro...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The unions are doing nothing as avoidable “accidents” kill postal employees. Workers themselves must step forward to defend themselves. Contact us with information about working conditions, injuries, and deaths at your workplace. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The language that Trump used to smear Somalis comes straight from Nazi publications like Der Stürmer. This filth is a sign of great weakness and crisis in the ruling class. The working class has the power to overthrow this rabble. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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 6:02 PM
The language that Trump used to smear Somalis comes straight from Nazi publications like Der Stürmer. This filth is a sign of great weakness and crisis in the ruling class. The working class has the power to overthrow this rabble. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The TDU’s endorsement of Teamsters President O’Brien, who supports the fascist Trump, exposes the entire project of reforming the unions. Workers must form rank-and-file committees to fight against exploitation and dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
TDU conference endorses Trump supporter Sean O’Brien for re-election as Teamsters general president
This is the inevitable outcome of their rejection of a struggle by the rank-and-file to overthrow the corrupt union apparatus in favor of bureaucratic self-reform, and its program of combining workers...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The TDU’s endorsement of Teamsters President O’Brien, who supports the fascist Trump, exposes the entire project of reforming the unions. Workers must form rank-and-file committees to fight against exploitation and dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Your Party is the Labour Party. In Your Party, Corbyn is Starmer, and Sultana is Corbyn. And round and round until left-leaning workers and young people are dizzy. Down with reformism! Fight Labour with Trotskyism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party founding conference: Witch-hunts and expulsions against the left
The founding conference began with witch-hunts and expulsions against the left and continued with every conceivable form of bureaucratic skulduggery.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Your Party is the Labour Party. In Your Party, Corbyn is Starmer, and Sultana is Corbyn. And round and round until left-leaning workers and young people are dizzy. Down with reformism! Fight Labour with Trotskyism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...