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Douglas Stewart
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Marxist. Supporter of Socialist Equality Parties, the World Socialist Website and the ICFI.
A superb long read covering the ongoing attempts by German and Eastern European right-wing ‘scholars’ to downplay Nazi imperialism and crimes in service of contemporary German imperialism. These academic imperialists use post-modern ‘methods’ to oppose objective truth.
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Exhibition <em>Rift through Europe</em>: How the history of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is being rewritten in the interests of German imperialism
The traveling exhibition, which was last on display at the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, is the latest building block in a campaign of historical revisionism with the aim of establishing a right-wing narr...
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May 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Douglas Stewart
Chancellor Merz has announced a program of social cuts, rearmament, and war in the name of German imperialism. This agenda will require compulsory military service and the suppression of anti-war and anti-genocide opposition. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: Make Bundeswehr “the strongest conventional army in Europe”
The first government statement by the incoming chancellor was a declaration of war on the population.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This important article explains the steps India is taking to make itself the new home of super-exploitative manufacturing and how India’s unions are predictably aiding and abetting their class enemies. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Capitulating to Modi’s war-mongering, India’s unions cancel May 20 general strike
The unions have justified their scrapping of the strike with a frank declaration of their support for the Indian bourgeoisie in its reactionary strategic conflict with Pakistan, proclaiming themselves...
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May 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This excellent article explains the duplicity of the UAW’s supposed left-wing faction, how these reactionary entities undermine workers’ class struggle, and the falsity of the pseudo-left/marxist groups that continually divert workers into a pathetic plea for reforms to unions, politics, and economy
Unite All Workers for Democracy, faction of UAW apparatus, dissolves itself: The lessons for the working class
The dissolution of UAWD is further proof that the anti-working-class actions of the UAW bureaucracy are not the result of merely “bad” policies, but express the social interests of the apparatus itsel...
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May 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
While I loathe the Stalinist Communist Party of Vietnam and am saddened by the bureaucratic caste’s predictable return to capitalism to preserve their privileges, I salute the heroic Vietnamese workers and peasants who stood up to two successive imperial invasions.
Vietnam marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday with a boisterous parade in Ho Chi Minh City featuring soldiers, dancers and speeches celebrating what the country’s communist leader called "a triumph of justice." Read more: nyti.ms/3EF1JZ5
April 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Workers forced Amazon to shut down its JFK8 warehouse after a worker was killed by a truck. This militant action, properly organized, is the way forward, not the ALU’s capitulation to the Teamsters, which has a long history of betrayals. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Amazon workers force temporary shutdown after death at JFK8 warehouse
The spontaneous reaction reflects not only the determined mood among workers at the facility, it expresses the seething anger among workers across the country, especially as the Trump administration c...
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April 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The war in Gaza has killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined, according to a new report.
War in Gaza the ‘Worst Ever Conflict for Reporters’
A new report accuses Israel of waging an “unrelenting war on the press.”
foreignpolicy.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The auto tariffs are an escalation of the trade war, which pits each country against all others. The working class in each country must break with its "own" ruling class and develop an international, socialist perspective. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump tariffs send global auto industry reeling
The US auto giants are the most affected but every auto company in the world is impacted with major adverse consequences for American workers whom Trump, with the support of the trade union bureaucrac...
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March 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This article is essential reading for all workers. It demonstrates the WSWS and ICFI’s commitment to the health and safety of the global working class. It reminds of the barbarism imposed on us by capitalism amid this pandemic, and how a socialist society might have saved so many lives.
5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The response of the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em>
The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The real purpose of the gigantic armaments package is to transform Germany back into a major military power that can free itself from US control, dominate Europe & take on other great powers—Russia, China and the US—in the battle for the violent redivision of the world.

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German parliament agrees to €1 trillion for war
Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, the sustained weakening and imperialist subjugation of Russia and German do...
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March 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“The real goal of COP29, as has been the case for the past several climate summits, was to figure out new ways of speculating on carbon emissions through “carbon credits” and “climate finance,” using climate change as another way for the bourgeoisie to enrich itself.”

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COP29 ends with empty deal, as 2024 set to be warmest year on human record
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, “The average temperature anomaly for the rest of 2024 would have to drop to almost zero for 2024 to not be the warmest year.”
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November 25, 2024 at 9:16 PM
While references to international law by imperial powers have always been based on their interests and frequently hypocritical, with their ongoing support of genocide and ethnic cleansing the U.S. and its allies have now completely abandoned any pretence.

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US threats against the International Criminal Court and the normalization of genocide
Netanyahu's guilt is imperialism's guilt. The entire American political establishment, from the Biden administration and the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and the incoming Trump administrat...
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November 23, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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US threatens to sanction International Criminal Court over war crimes charges against #Netanyahu

The #UnitedStates, the world’s leading perpetrator of #WarCrimes, is not signatory to the #Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court

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US threatens to sanction International Criminal Court over war crimes charges against Netanyahu
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court formally charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Israeli i...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:27 AM