Jude Jackson

Public Meeting in London: “The American Volcano: Towards Fascism or Socialism” What is taking place in America is of the greatest political concern to workers and young people internationally because the US situation only reflects in the most extreme form the same global crisis ...

“The American Volcano: Towards Fascism or Socialism” will be held on Saturday November 22 at 2pm, at Birkbeck University of London, Malet Street London, WC1E 7JL, in Room MAL B33.

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Capitalism failing on all 45 indicators of climate progress The United Nations’ “Emissions Gap Report 2025” shows the planet is on course for 2.8 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial average by the end of this century based on current policies.

The United Nations’ “Emissions Gap Report 2025” shows the planet is on course for 2.8 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial average by the end of this century based on current policies.

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British Library workers strike over poverty pay and declining services Workers described a daily battle with the impact of low pay, forced to resort to unhealthy levels of overtime, taking second jobs, taking out loans with brutal interest rates and visiting food banks. ...

Over 300 workers at the British Library in St Pancras, London are engaged in a two-week strike until November 9 in pursuit of a wage increase.

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Mass hostility to Trump, anger over economy drove 2025 election results Despite its deep unpopularity, the Democratic Party made gains because of mounting economic hardship and widespread hostility to Trump’s efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.

Mass hostility to Trump, anger over economy drove 2025 election results - World Socialist Web Site

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The political and class issues in Mamdani’s victory in New York City The election of Mamdani reflects growing social anger and opposition to Trump—aspirations that Mamdani’s program cannot address.

The vote for Mamdani expresses not only disillusionment with the existing political establishment but outrage over the vast concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny elite, the crushing cost of living & the decay of basic democratic & social rights.

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Germany’s most senior military officer calls for conscription of entire age groups to prepare for war against Russia With the demand to conscript entire age groups, Inspector General Breuer is driving forward the reintroduction of compulsory military service and the building of a mass army, as part of Germany and NA...

Germany’s most senior military officer calls for conscription of entire age groups to prepare for war against Russia - World Socialist Web Site

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Warnings of looming systemic financial risk getting louder The chief executive of the global Swiss-based bank UBS has pointed to the dangers posed by the practices of insurance companies, once regarded as a pillar of stability in the financial system.

At first, it was just a few outlier remarks, but now there is a stream of warnings that the US stock market and the financial system more broadly is a bubble set to burst with potentially very serious consequences.

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Immigration attorney Eric Lee on Middle East Eye: Trump engaged in “aggressive conspiracy to establish a dictatorship” In the interview, Lee warned that the Trump administration is orchestrating a deliberate conspiracy to dismantle democratic rule and establish a military-style dictatorship, urging mass working class ...

Immigration attorney Eric Lee on Middle East Eye: Trump engaged in “aggressive conspiracy to establish a dictatorship”

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Supreme Court begins deliberations on Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” If the appeal is upheld, the Trump regime will have been granted virtually unlimited legal authority to impose tariffs against any country for virtually any reason it chooses to cite, simply by claimi...

Supreme Court begins deliberations on Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” - World Socialist Web Site

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French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ <em>Suspended Time</em>: Did “time stand still” during the height of the pandemic? Two brothers and their girlfriends are confined to the brothers’ family home in the countryside southwest of Paris.

French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ Suspended Time: Did “time stand still” during the height of the pandemic?

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At least 7 dead, 11 injured after UPS cargo plane crashes in Louisville The jet crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff at Louisville’s Worldport air hub, leveling industrial buildings, injuring dozens, and prompting a citywide emergency response.

At least seven people are dead and 11 injured, including two in critical condition, after a UPS cargo jet crashed and exploded into flames Tuesday evening shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF).

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Over 600 physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to hold 1-day strike against Allina Health in Minneapolis-St. Paul More than 600 healthcare workers are striking at Allina Health in Minnesota today to fight proposed cuts to their pay and benefits and to protest chronic understaffing.

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Interview with Prof. Tom Alter, fired by Texas State for political speech The <i>World Socialist Web Site </i>recently spoke to historian Tom Alter about his firing from Texas State University and about Texas labor and working class history.

“There's a long history of working class resistance in Texas”

Interview with Prof. Tom Alter, fired by Texas State for political speech - World Socialist Web Site

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At Sydney weapons expo, Labor outlines military build-up for war against China Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles declared that the weapons of war on display spanned “the breadth of the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool” and represented the highpoint of “hum...

At Sydney weapons expo, Labor outlines military build-up for war against China - World Socialist Web Site

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Democrats prepare to cave, as Trump refuses to release food stamp funding, threatens no back pay for furloughed workers While the White House sought to downplay Trump’s rant that he would not fund food stamps until after the shutdown, in violation of a court order, the government is stalling for weeks in order to rende...

Democrats prepare to cave, as Trump refuses to release food stamp funding, threatens no back pay for furloughed workers - World Socialist Web Site

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ICE shooting of TikToker Richard LA exposes the fraud of California’s “sanctuary” policy ICE agents fired 11 shots at Carlitos Ricardo Parias on October 21 for exposing the daily repression of immigrants in Los Angeles

ICE shooting of TikToker Richard LA exposes the fraud of California’s “sanctuary” policy - World Socialist Web Site

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The Gen Z protests and the struggle for the United Socialist States of Africa The experiences unfolding across Africa brings to the fore the central problem of every revolutionary movement: leadership. The courage of the youth must find conscious political direction in the buil...

One hundred and fifty years after the imperialist partition of Africa, and six decades after the flags of formal independence were first raised, the continent is a social powder keg.

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DPD uses mass sackings against UK delivery workers standing up against pay cuts One worker said, “We believe it is important that our voices are heard and that the public is made aware of the pressures and treatment faced by drivers under what many feel is a form of corporate dic...

Logistics giant DPD has launched a campaign of reprisals against workers in the UK who staged a three-day protest from October 7–9 against drastic pay cuts—including the scrapping of their Christmas bonus.

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Unite union calls off UK strike action at global arms corporation Leonardo Keeping production running and profits flowing is part and parcel of the union bureaucracy’s operations in any case, but Leonardo’s place in British imperialism’s war machine made this an even greater...

The workers were to strike on November 5-6 and November 12-13 at Yeovil, Luton, Basildon, Edinburgh and Newcastle. From November 10-18 a longer strike was set for the Edinburgh and Newcastle plants.

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In rebuke to Trump’s fascism, Mamdani elected mayor of New York City, Democrats sweep governor races In New York City—the global center of financial parasitism—a self-described democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, has won the mayoral election in New York City.

Mamdani’s victory is not merely a rebuke to the Trump administration but to the Democratic Party establishment itself. The large vote for Mamdani is a distorted reflection of the growing support for socialism and the radicalization of the working class and youth.

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Dick Cheney dead at 84: A war criminal who paved the way for Trump As the power behind the throne in the Bush-Cheney administration, the vice president was responsible for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, CIA kidnappings and torture and illegal mass surveillance of the ...

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New report by The Lancet: More than 3 million Palestinian life-years lost in Gaza genocide On Friday, the authoritative medical journal <em>The Lancet </em>issued a report that calculated 3,082,363 life-years have been lost by Palestinians during the Israeli genocide in Gaza between October...

A report published in the British medical journal The Lancet, “Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza,” provides a scientific indictment of the ethnic cleansing operations of the Israeli military against Palestinians in the enclave territory since October 7, 2023.

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Oxfam: 10 US billionaires have had their wealth increase 6-fold since 2020 The domination of the United States by a parasitic oligarchy, whose seat of power is in the White House, is on display for everyone to see.

On Monday, the charity Oxfam published a report on the growth of social inequality in the United States, titled “Unequal: The Rise of a New American Oligarchy.”

Oxfam: 10 US billionaires have had their wealth increase 6-fold since 2020

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Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life” The retrospective is the most extensive ever staged in the UK. It leans heavily on gender politics, largely omitting the deeper ideological and historical events and issues that shaped Miller’s work a...

Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life” - World Socialist Web Site

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Make resident doctors strike a united NHS workers fightback against Starmer government 50,000 resident doctors in the British Medical Association have waged a two-year battle for pay restoration. They have now added the fight to end widespread unemployment facing doctors in the NHS.

The resident doctors’ national strike in England planned for November 14–19 must become a rallying point for all National Health Service (NHS) workers against the Starmer government.

#ResidentDoctors #NHS

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Andrew stripped of his royal titles: a toxic representative of a toxic institution The royal family has moved to cut all Andrew’s titles in hopes of preserving the monarchy as a whole.

The royal family is trying to disentangle itself from a paedophile sex scandal, but the crisis is not containable.

Andrew stripped of his royal titles: a toxic representative of a toxic institution - World Socialist Web Site

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On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced the resumption of US nuclear weapons testing, in the latest move by the United States to remove all remaining guardrails restricting its preparations for World War III.

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Alan Gelfand: July 28, 1949–October 29, 2025 Accepting calmly and with dignity his approaching death, Alan expressed satisfaction with the course of his life, to which he had devoted 50 years to the struggle for socialism.

It is with immense sadness that the Socialist Equality Party announces the death early Wednesday morning of our beloved and immeasurably respected comrade, Alan Gelfand. He was 76 years old, and the cause of his death was cancer.

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Pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson knowingly selling carcinogenic talcum powder prompts UK’s biggest class action For decades Johnson and Johnson covered up the fact that their talcum powder was contaminated with asbestos and was allegedly killing its customers.

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson knowingly selling carcinogenic talcum powder prompts UK’s biggest class action - World Socialist Web Site

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Prince Andrew scandal erupts again: a toxic representative of a toxic institution To stave off the crisis, the royal family has moved to cut Andrew’s titles further. He has not been “stripped” of them, but under pressure from heir to the throne Prince William above all, he voluntar...

The royal family is now trying to disentangle themselves from a paedophile sex scandal, but the crisis is not containable.

Prince Andrew scandal erupts again: a toxic representative of a toxic institution - World Socialist Web Site

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