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Erik Schreiber

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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 · 23m

David Walsh has written a valuable appreciation of Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and, in her words, "a cinema that is no more." Cardinale's death raises the question of the enormous decline in European cinema after the early 1970s. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and European cinema of the 1960s

For her beauty, intelligence and personal strength, she was sought out by many filmmakers.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 1h

In Chicago, ICE agents handcuffed an employee of a news organization, rammed a vehicle into that of an innocent commuter, and attempted to break into workers' homes. The working class must put an end to this fascistic violence. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump’s war on American cities escalates, as troops arrive in Memphis and immigration Gestapo assault and kidnap Chicago residents

Far from opposing Trump’s coming dictatorship, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, following in the footsteps of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has deployed State police to protect the immigration Gesta...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 7h

Right. The article refers to Tom Lehrer's comment that the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger had made political satire obsolete.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 7h

Trump has already fired 4,000 workers during the shutdown, which he is using to consolidate his personal control of the government. The unions' response? "Avoid any actions that could reflect poorly on you!" This is treachery! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Union aparatus does nothing as Trump launches new wave of mass firings

The Trump administration has begun issuing reductions-in-force notices to federal employees, marking an escalation in its use of the shutdown to impose structural cuts on government services and seize...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 8h

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, who makes common cause with fascists and acts as the willing tool of US imperialism. This outrage is a warning that the ruling class is preparing bloody new crimes. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 1d

Commenting on the AI surge in the Financial Times, Ruchir Sharma, the chair of Rockefeller International, said that “America has become one big bet on AI” and the US and its markets could “lose the one leg they are standing on.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Unprecedented “circular deals” inflate AI bubble

Deals entered into by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are estimated to cost $1 trillion, even as the company has yet to turn a profit.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration’s extraordinarily hostile and vocal denunciations of Zach Bryan’s “Bad News” reflect the administration’s consciousness of the mass opposition to its fascistic policies. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Country music’s Zach Bryan: “ICE is gonna come bust down your door”

The lyrics to the partially released song “Bad News” by Zach Bryan, denouncing ICE raids and defending immigrant families, have been the subject of a campaign by Trump administration officials against...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 1d

The “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas opens the door to the colonial control of Gaza and the disenfranchisement of the Palestinians. The Arab nationalist regimes have played a foul role in preparing this betrayal. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

“Ceasefire” deal includes permanent Israeli occupation of Gaza

The agreement is yet another step in the Israeli-imperialist plan to dominate Gaza and suppress the national rights of the Palestinian people.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s meeting with neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists, and white supremacists left no doubt that he is preparing a dictatorship. The Democrats and the media have ignored this threat. It’s up to the working class to defeat fascism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Fascist gathering in the White House signals mass repression and violence

The White House has been transformed into the headquarters of a conspiracy to legitimize fascism, brand anti-fascism as “terrorism,” and mobilize the repressive machinery of the state against the popu...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

Tony Harrison combined a respect for common speech, an abiding appreciation for the relevance of the classics, and political engagement in work that is among the most compelling in contemporary poetry. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Poet Tony Harrison: a classical voice

Harrison was always faithful to his vocation. “I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director,” he said. “Poet covers it all for me.”

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

The issues that Kaiser Permanente workers face—unsafe staffing, sub-inflation pay raises and relentless overwork—flow from the subordination of medicine to profit. These issues can’t be resolved without overturning capitalism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

46,000 Kaiser workers set to walk out October 14: Build rank-and-file committees to transform strike into battle for public health and democracy

The following is an open letter from the WSWS Healthcare Worker Newsletter to the nearly 46,000 Kaiser Permanente workers.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

The rail unions have said nothing about Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena’s advice to Trump about where to deploy the National Guard. This silence is an attempt to disarm the working class, thus aiding the corporate oligarchy. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Why are the rail unions silent on Trump’s talk with Union Pacific’s CEO on where to deploy troops?

By refusing even to acknowledge this conspiracy to use military force against workers, the rail unions show themselves to be tools not only of the railroads but also of the would-be dictator.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has decided to invoke the Insurrection Act at the right moment, thus paving the way for martial law. The Democrats are proposing no resistance. Dictatorship can only be prevented by the working class in the struggle for socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Operation Dictatorship: Trump is poised to invoke the Insurrection Act

On Wednesday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is actively preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which provides the military the authority to conduct law enforcement operations with...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

The price of gold has surpassed $4,000 per ounce, reflecting deep uncertainty about the stability of the international monetary system, which is based on the US dollar. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Gold price surge continues, passing the $4,000 mark

The rise of US debt to $37 trillion means that the global monetary system is based on the currency of the most indebted country in history, the credit rating of which has been downgraded by the three ...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

The cause of the fire that destroyed Judge Diane Goodstein’s home is under investigation. But the fire followed open incitement by Trump and his fascist lieutenants against members of the judiciary who have ruled against them. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Huge fire destroys the house of South Carolina Circuit Court judge after clash with Trump, Miller

The fire that destroyed the residence of Judge Diane Goodstein on Edisto Island took place under conditions of open incitement by Donald Trump and his fascist lieutenants against members of the judici...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

Paramount opposed a boycott of Israeli film institutions with solemn pieties about the need for more communication. Paramount Employees of Conscience pointed out that the company has been suppressing Palestinian stories for years. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Paramount workers to studio management: “You are aligning yourselves with … a genocide in Gaza and of the Palestinian people”

The Employees of Conscience accuse studio executives in an open letter of lining up with genocide and investing in pro-Israeli propaganda while helping to suppress Palestinian filmmakers.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

“Trump’s actions are authoritarian and illegal,” say the Democrats. “We will fight him by filing lawsuits, even though he will ignore all adverse decisions.” This is not idiocy but a conscious effort to disarm the population. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Silence of the Democrats aids Trump dictatorship

The Democrats’ silence is not simply a matter of cowardice or miscalculation. It flows from the class character of the Democratic Party as a party of Wall Street and the military-intelligence apparatu...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d

The working class must mobilize, but the question of political perspective is crucial. Previous demonstrations have appealed to the Democrats, who are complicit in Trump’s ongoing coup. Workers must break decisively with the Democrats and fight for socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The mass protests against dictatorship in the US and the way forward in the fight against Trump’s coup

While millions protested against the right-wing policies and dictatorial methods of the Trump administration, the US president brought tanks and thousands of troops to the US capital in a show of forc...

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration continues to murder people in small boats in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary of War Hegseth is implying that these attacks are part of an open-ended campaign of military aggression. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump threatens Venezuela with “fire and fury”

Echoing the genocidal campaign pursued under US auspices in Gaza, Trump’s threats against Latin America flow from a policy of state terror against any resistance to the American oligarchy.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d

After Lecornu’s resignation, Macron will pursue austerity and war with the support of either Mélenchon or Le Pen. The only way to preserve democracy is for the French working class to join the international fight for socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Fall of the French government: The ruling class seeks dictatorship

While Prime Minister Sébastier Lecornu was unpopular, falling to 15 percent in the polls in just a few weeks, his resignation reflects not a revitalization but a mortal crisis of French democracy.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d

Trump and his fascist adviser Stephen Miller declare that the administration will ignore all adverse court rulings. Trump also threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. The Democrats’ resistance to these dictatorial measures amounts to nil. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump threatens to override courts, invoke Insurrection Act and unleash military on US cities

On Monday, the fascist in the White House threatened to ignore court orders and local politicians who did not submit to his drive to establish a police-military dictatorship.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d

Two years of protest have shown that appeals to the ruling class to stop the genocide are useless. The recent strike in Italy shows the potential power of the working class, which requires revolutionary socialist leadership. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Two years of the Gaza genocide: A crime of Zionism and imperialism

On the second anniversary of Israel’s launching of the genocide on Gaza, billions of people around the world are outraged by the worst crime against humanity in the 21st century.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 4d

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic candidate in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, has been the subject of a Swift-Boat-type attack. She, a Navy veteran and warmonger, and Trump sycophant Jack Ciattarelli are equally hostile to the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Right-wing Democrat Mikie Sherrill struggles in New Jersey gubernatorial race

The former Navy pilot, first elected to Congress as one of the “CIA Democrats” in 2018, has been the target of improper release of her entire military record by the Trump administration.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 5d

Morocco & Madagascar are only two of the African countries where large demonstrations against inequality are taking place. The tremendous opposition across the continent needs a socialist program to achieve equality and democracy. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Spiralling Gen Z protests in Morocco and Madagascar fuelled by social inequality

These terrible conditions fuelling mass anger and discontent are found internationally. They are not simply the product of corruption, but of capitalism, the production of goods for private profit.

Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 5d

The film “Whispers of Freedom” fits in with the condemnations of socialism that German Reunification Day has sparked, even if it is more subtle about it. The media are perpetuating the lie that Stalinism is socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

What “freedom”? On the short film <em>Whispers of Freedom</em>

Young people should watch the film with a critical eye and ask themselves the following question: What “freedom” does capitalism offer?