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ACIS president-elect Aidan Beatty and the Zionist libel against Irish history This is an open letter written to the American Conference of Irish Studies. ACIS vice president Aidan Beatty is slated to assume the organization’s presidency at its annual conference later this month...

An Open Letter to the American Conference of Irish Studies

ACIS president-elect Aidan Beatty and the Zionist libel against Irish history - World Socialist Web Site

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Trump’s plan to annex Gaza and the return of colonialism Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza marks the open embrace of colonialism and genocide by the imperialist powers.

Trump’s plans are in clear and direct violation of international law and its prohibitions against aggressive war, territorial annexation, genocide and mass murder. They are the type of crimes for which the Nazis were prosecuted after the Second World War.

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⚠️RFK Jr just told the US Senate that he does not know if COVID vaccines saved millions of lives.

2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.

COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone

Trump lays out blueprint to deport pro-Palestinian foreign nationals Executive order seeks to remove international students and 'dismantle the Palestine solidarity movement'

"Those who fail to stand up today because they disagree with the content of student protestors' speech are only making it easier for Trump to silence them tomorrow."

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🛬UPDATE—Airport control tower was understaffed at time of DCA airport crash—one controller was working 2 different tower positions, normally done by 2 people—which FAA memo says was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic”. ➡️We should not downsize the FAA

Labour’s Heathrow airport expansion and the climate crisis It is the rich and the corporations who will take the lion’s share of the benefits from Labour’s and all airport expansions, while the poorest around the world pay the costs.

The government’s suggestion that the impact can be sustainably offset by the use of biofuels is a lie.

Labour’s Heathrow airport expansion and the climate crisis - World Socialist Web Site

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Mid-air collision between passenger flight and military helicopter kills 67 in US capital The crash is the first mass casualty event involving a commercial jet in the United States since 2009.

In 2023, then Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg released information noting that there was an approximately 3,000-person shortage of ATCs in the FAA.

Mid-air collision between passenger flight and military helicopter kills 67 in US capital

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<em>Lockerbie: A Search for Truth</em>: TV series dramatises Lockerbie relatives’ campaign for justice A powerful new TV series recounts Lockerbie relative and campaigner Jim Swire’s dedicated struggle for the truth behind his daughter’s 1988 murder in the downing of PA103.

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Mike Leigh's <em>Hard Truths</em>: Life as a series of abrasive encounters Leigh has stood out importantly as someone attempting to make complicated and sensitive—and socially engaged films, which are also accessible to broad audiences

"In the generally bleak artistic landscape of the 1980s and beyond, Leigh has stood out importantly as someone attempting to make complicated and sensitive—and socially engaged films, which are also accessible to broad audiences. " Wonderful review of his latest film www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump’s first 7 days: The framework for presidential dictatorship In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

Trump’s first 7 days:The framework for presidential dictatorship

Trump’s policies reflect the interests of a tiny financial elite, determined to solidify its dominance by tearing down the remaining democratic & social protections for the vast majority of the population
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Trump’s first 7 days: The framework for presidential dictatorship In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

"In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship under the pretext of a non-existent “invasion” by immigrants" www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trade war could erupt between US and EU over Trump’s threat to seize Greenland US imperialism has long viewed Greenland as critical for geopolitical and security reasons. Its Thule air base was a key operational centre for its ballistic missiles and served as a store for nuclear...

The geopolitical and economic significance of who enjoys control over the self-governing Danish territory makes the eruption of a trade war between Europe and the United States a real possibility.

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Trump’s first 7 days: The framework for presidential dictatorship In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

The right of all non-citizens to criticize the government or the presidency has been effectively suspended by a separate executive order titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists.

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Trade war could erupt between US and EU over Trump’s threat to seize Greenland US imperialism has long viewed Greenland as critical for geopolitical and security reasons. Its Thule air base was a key operational centre for its ballistic missiles and served as a store for nuclear...

Trade war could erupt between #US and #EU over #Trump’s threat to seize #Greenland

US imperialism has long viewed Greenland as critical for geopolitical and security reasons. It has enjoyed a military presence there for over 80 years...

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Newark, New Jersey residents speak out against immigration raids: “They’re exiling people for just wanting to live” Local residents respond to federal agents raiding a warehouse in Newark without a warrant and arresting three undocumented workers last Thursday.

Newark, New Jersey residents speak out against immigration raids: “They’re exiling people for just wanting to live”

“This is supposed to be America? Land of the free...yet you’re exiling people for just wanting to live, to be human, to make a living.”

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Trump’s first 7 days: The framework for presidential dictatorship In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

'Trump is not an interloper into the Garden of Eden of American politics. The protracted process of wealth concentration, facilitated over decades by both parties, has vomited up Trump and placed him back in the White House.'
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5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the return of Trump and the war on public health Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.

'Indeed, the open repudiation of the most basic principles of public health over the past five years is, except under police state and fascist regimes, unprecedented in modern history.'
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Biden and the American oligarchy In his “farewell address” Wednesday, Biden warned of the growth of an oligarchy in America which his own administration has helped to foster and strengthen.

'While Biden spoke in conditional terms about “potential” developments that are “taking shape,” the oligarchic character of American society is already an entrenched reality, cultivated over decades by the very system he defends.'
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Arch-criminal Trump to assume the presidency The devastating summary of the evidence of an attempted coup only begs the question: Why wasn’t Trump prosecuted and jailed years ago?

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Oligarch Elon Musk posts torrent of far-right content backing Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson in the UK The most that senior Labour cabinet minister Wes Streeting would say of Musk’s actions was that “some” of the criticisms were “misjudged” and “misinformed”. He continued, “But we’re willing to work wi...

'Musk....knows exactly what he is doing. His posts tap into and advance anti-migrant and Islamophobic conspiracy theories about an “invasion” of “white countries” by violent migrants, designed to scapegoat social discontent away from the super-rich.'
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Pace Is The Trick Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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<em>A Complete Unknown</em>: A drama about singer Bob Dylan’s rise to fame The events of James Mangold’s latest film occur in the period between Dylan’s arrival on the New York City folk scene in 1961 and his controversial “going electric” in 1965.

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Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war Underlying these interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by i...

The return to power of Trump, who will take office in just three weeks, is both a debacle and a fundamental turning point.

Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war - World Socialist Web Site

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Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war Underlying these interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by i...

Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war

The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task. Its wealth must be expropriated and its stranglehold over economic and political life abolished.

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Trump exploits New Year violence to prepare attacks on immigrants and political opposition within the US Donald Trump and fascist transition team are using the violent events in New Orleans and Las Vegas during the New Year holiday to build up the forces of repression against immigrants and political opp...

'Trump makes crude attempts to link the New Year’s massacre in New Orleans and the Las Vegas car bombing to “outside and inside violent SCUM,” although both were actually perpetrated by long-time military veterans of wars he supported and even commanded.'
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<em>The Bibi Files</em>—Israel’s crisis not the product of Netanyahu but of the entire Zionist project Netanyahu’s political trajectory is not so much the product of his personal motivations, but the inevitable outcome of the Zionist project that established the state of Israel 75 years ago, through th...

'As elsewhere, the turn by Israel’s ruling elite toward dictatorship and war is rooted fundamentally in the extreme growth of social inequality and the escalation of war that are the twin products of capitalism in its death agony.'
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What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3 What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a “sect” of an “orthodoxy” disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essenti...

What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3

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The right-wing legacy of Jimmy Carter The media eulogies of the former president, who died Sunday, are silent on his initiation of a frontal assault on the working class and, above all, his effort to smash the 1977-78 coal miners’ strike ...

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... This insightful obituary explains the pivotal role played by Carter in the shift of the ruling elite to class war policies