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"To the factories, not to the Democratic Party!" Writer for the World Socialist Web Site https://www.wsws.org/en/authors/Sandy-English Educators Rank-and-File Committee https://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/educators-rank-and-file-committee.htm

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At election rally, DSA candidate Mamdani embraces right-wing Democratic Party establishment By joining hands with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who refuses to raise taxes on the wealthy, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani demonstrated the fraudulence of his avowed “socialism.”

During the event, the top three state party officials, including pro-business Governor Kathy Hochul, promoted Mamdani and received his support. #Mamdani demonstratively raised Hochul’s hand in the midst of hostile heckling of her from the audience.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

29.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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After more than a century of steady progress, life expectancy has stagnated since 2010, with mortality now rising among the working class, while the most affluent enjoy the continued increases progress offers.

29.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

As a state assemblyman, he said he wanted to defund the police.

Now that he is running for Mayor he says he doesn't want to defund the police.

Zohran is clearly an opportunist unwilling to be the kind of mayor Bill DeBlasio failed to be.

24.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Europe’s defence roadmap 2030 lays the groundwork for dictatorship and global war Amid the escalating US-NATO war with Russia, the European Council’s adoption of the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 marks a decisive turn toward a fully militarized Europe, laying the groundwork for di...

Europe is increasing its arms production and military budgets not only to intensify the war against Russia, but also to defend its interests around the world. This mad aggression threatens to develop into nuclear war. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

25.10.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Europe’s defence roadmap 2030 lays the groundwork for dictatorship and global war Amid the escalating US-NATO war with Russia, the European Council’s adoption of the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 marks a decisive turn toward a fully militarized Europe, laying the groundwork for di...

Europe’s defence roadmap 2030 lays the groundwork for dictatorship and global war - World Socialist Web Site

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

25.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Artists plan "Fall of Freedom" protests against Trump dictatorship: “Artists are a threat to American fascism” "Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized."

Artists plan #FallofFreedom" protests against Trump dictatorship: “Artists are a threat to American fascism”

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

25.10.2025 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"The SEG New Zealand urges workers and young people to attend a public webinar at 4:00pm on November 9, to discuss these urgent issues and the way forward in the fight against pay cuts, austerity and war" us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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24.10.2025 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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On Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7pm, the IYSSE will hold a public meeting in New York City to answer the question, “How can Trump’s drive to dictatorship be defeated?”

Join us to discuss the root causes of dictatorship, the role of the Democratic Party, & what alternative strategy is needed.

#NYC #Fascism

24.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After the “No Kings” protests: What Next? The mass protests mark the beginning of a powerful movement against the Trump regime, but without a clear political perspective and understanding of the broader situation, this immense popular opposit...

The mass protests mark the beginning of a powerful movement against the Trump regime, but without a clear political perspective and understanding of the broader situation, this immense popular opposition risks being dissipated.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

24.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Netherlands: Culture or cannons? The Van Gogh Museum’s survival at stake The future of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum—home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh—now hangs precariously in the balance. The Dutch government’s ...

Netherlands: Culture or cannons? The Van Gogh Museum’s survival at stake - World Socialist Web Site

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

24.10.2025 07:41 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The implications of the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests for the European working class Millions across Europe and internationally watched on October 18 as 7 million American youth, workers, professionals and retirees joined nationwide “No Kings” protests.

The growth of opposition to Trump has major implications for the European proletariat, but pseudo-leftist figures from Corbyn to Wagenknecht have said nothing about the No Kings protests. They seek to suppress and disarm this opposition. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

24.10.2025 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In Oakland, California, an ICE GOON shot a local clergyman point-blank.

24.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 5016    🔁 3146    💬 840    📌 342
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Mamdani placates billionaires with plan to retain NYPD chief At the last mayoral debate before the November election, the DSA candidate for mayor of New York pledged to keep billionaire heiress Jessica Tisch in charge of the city’s massive police force.

At the last mayoral debate before the November election, the DSA candidate for mayor of New York pledged to keep billionaire heiress Jessica #Tisch in charge of the city’s massive police force

#Mamdani

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

24.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
Australian care workers rally nationally against attack on pay and conditions   

- World Socialist Web Site

Australian care workers rally nationally against attack on pay and conditions - World Socialist Web Site

Australian care workers rally nationally against attack on pay and conditions

- World Socialist Web Site wsws.org/en/articles/...

22.10.2025 06:39 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The October 18 “No Kings” demonstrations and the fight against Trump’s dictatorship The more than 2,700 separate demonstrations, involving an estimated 7 million people, were, collectively, one of the largest political demonstrations in the history of the country.

Masses of people are coming into conflict not only with the fascistic Trump administration, but also with the Democrats, who represent another faction of the capitalist oligarchy

#NoKingsDayOct18

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

20.10.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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our fate is in our hands.

"What is unfolding is not a temporary aberration or a passing episode. There will be no “return to normal.” With the Trump administration, the American ruling class is breaking with constitutional forms of rule."

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

16.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship! The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship, but what is lacking, and what is most critical, is a clear program and co...

No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship! - World Socialist Web Site

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

16.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cartoon by wolvertoon.com.

16.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 8055    🔁 2825    💬 263    📌 104
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The Socialist Equality Party calls for the formation of rank-and-file committees in every workplace, factory and neighborhood to coordinate this struggle.

#NoKingsDay

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

16.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Zohran Mamdani schmoozes with executives and landlords, praises Trump’s phony Gaza “ceasefire” In the lead-up to the November mayoral election the Democratic Socialists of America member is doing everything in his power to reassure the ruling class his campaign presents no threat to their profi...

Mamdani defines socialism in terms of “whether you’re willing to fight for these ideals that you hold.” He has shown an impressive ability to abandon his own ideals, particularly during his closed-door meetings with billionaires. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

14.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

11.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Illinois State Troopers Arrest ICE protesters at Broadview Detention Center

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No leading Democrat—including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, or Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders—has issued a single statement on the gathering of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the executive mansion.

10.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

Fascist gathering in the White House signals mass repression and violence

What is underway is a systematic conspiracy by the Trump administration to establish a #dictatorship.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

10.10.2025 12:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

Operation #Dictatorship: Trump is poised to invoke the Insurrection Act

The time has come to pull off the blinders. Every warning issued by the Socialist Equality Party about the preparations for dictatorship is being confirmed.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

09.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

07.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 11490    🔁 3889    💬 303    📌 241
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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.

Before the eyes of the entire world, the Israeli government—armed, financed and defended by every imperialist power—has carried out a campaign of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and deliberate starvation

#October7

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

07.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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06.10.2025 21:58 — 👍 16152    🔁 7606    💬 833    📌 1102
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A socialist perspective against genocide, world war and fascism

International Youth and Students for Social Equality (GERMANY)
7 October 2025
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

07.10.2025 06:20 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Jane Goodall, the primatologist who revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzees and ourselves, dies at 91 Goodall demonstrated that the evolutionary origins of many basic human behaviors are shared with our closest biological relatives.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

07.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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