Paul Palinkas

Trump builds himself a Versailles on the Potomac The seat of the American presidency, the White House, is being physically transformed into the architectural embodiment of oligarchic rule.

The “renovation” of the White House is inseparable from the reconstruction of the state along dictatorial lines.

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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...

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

What is to be done? How can Trump’s coup be defeated?
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i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

Black-and-white flyer for WHUS 91.7 FM radio in Storrs, Connecticut. At the top, bold handwritten text reads: “SHUT UP AND LISTEN!” Below, a stylized illustration shows a strong figure with a raised fist, standing in front of a broadcast tower emitting signals. The WHUS logo is centered prominently, with “91.7 FM WHUS” written across the figure’s chest and arm. At the bottom, text reads “STORRS, CONNECTICUT.”

This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...

Only half of 18-49 year old men have active sports betting accounts. Gotta capture the other 50%. sri.siena.edu/2025/02/18/2...

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Trump declares war on American cities and the “enemy within” Speaking before hundreds of generals and admirals assembled at a Marine Corps base outside Washington DC, President Donald Trump laid out a plan for establishing a presidential dictatorship in America...

Trump must be taken at his word. His invocation of “the enemy within” is a declaration of war on the American people, above all the working class.

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Technics SL-1700 turntable, made sometime between 1976 and 1978. It still works great!

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement Once again emulating the propaganda tactics of Hitler and Goebbels, the Trump administration is portraying Kirk as a political martyr, an American version of the German Nazi Horst Wessel.

Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement

The denunciations of “political violence” by Trump and the GOP reek of hypocrisy. These are the same forces that orchestrated the January 6 coup, celebrated vigilante killers like Kyle Rittenhouse...
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The question must be answered not on the basis of the personalities involved, but of the fundamental class issues at the root of the collapse of American democracy.

The corporate-financial interests behind Trump’s executive orders to deploy the National Guard in US cities Trump’s program speaks for a ruling class determined to reverse the entire course of modern American history, tearing up every social advance won through struggle since the Civil War.

What political reasons would lead the administration and the ruling class to feel that it is necessary to deploy soldiers in American cities to counter “civil unrest”?

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The year is 2025 and there are still ice cream and pizza establishments that don’t have lactaid

Two weeks ago, CPJ reported on Anas Al-Sharif getting threats from the IDF to cease reporting. He didn’t, and now he’s dead.

He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.

Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated

the deli counter guy is the rock star of the grocery store

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

Fascist President Donald Trump looks down from the Presidential Box in the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s attempts to assert absolute control over academic and cultural life reflect a ruling class that has reached an impasse. It is at war with science, culture and all progressive thought. Above all, it is at war with the working class.

In a sane world, every newspaper would run on A1 tomorrow:

“IDF THREAT: IF JOURNALISTS PHOTOGRAPH GAZA, WE WILL STARVE GAZA”

"Since the finance aristocracy made the laws… the same mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere … to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others."
–K. Marx, The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850

From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July We are posting today for the benefit of our readers an article authored by James P. Cannon, published in The Militanton July 16, 1951. Cannon (1890-1974) was a founding member of the Trotskyist moveme...

"Marx sketched the whole broad outline of American capitalism as it is today in advance of its development. In return for that, American capitalism in all its main features is the crowning proof of Marxism." —James P. Cannon www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

California Democrats lead unanimous attack on free speech with AB 715 California’s AB 715, approved unanimously in the Assembly by Democrats and Republicans, is a draconian assault on free speech and political dissent disguised as anti-discrimination law, targeting oppo...

California Democrats lead unanimous attack on free speech with AB 715

The truth is that fascism cannot be fought by those who enable it. The Democratic Party is not a bulwark against authoritarianism—it is one of its main facilitators.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake.

As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.

Today, Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abuhatab was killed along with 19 other Palestinians, most of them journalists, artists, and social media activists, in an Israeli airstrike on al-Baqa Cafe on the beach in western Gaza.

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

I love the sideways M instead of an E.

Screen shot showing Apple Pay / wallet ad for $10 off fandango tickets.

What the heck is this Apple? Just straight up pushing ads to my phone now?

Stop the war against Iran! American imperialism and its Israeli proxy continue to escalate their illegal, unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, with US nuclear-capable B-52s and aircraft carrier battle groups readying to l...

The ICFI and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties call for mass opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to launch a direct war against Iran. We call for protests, demonstrations and walkouts to oppose this act of imperialist aggression.
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War criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump shake hands in the White House.

The World Socialist Web Site, the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties stand unequivocally for the defeat of US imperialism and its Israeli proxy.