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wsws.orgCalgary Opera fires principal singer for displaying Palestinian flag at opening night of <em>Tosca</em>Sanchez-Ortega, an emerging artist in his first year of the McPhee Artist Development Program, was replaced in the role of Angelotti, the escaped political prisoner in Giacomo Puccini's popular opera.

#CalgaryOpera fires principal singer for displaying #Palestine flag at opening night of #Tosca. Macklemore, the musicians who quit Sheeran’s tour in solidarity, the 182 RBO staff, and now Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega—are giving voice to the mass opposition against #genocide. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgSalvadoran man dies in Georgia concentration camp amid ongoing hunger strikeAccording to ICE, Luis Sandoval, 48, was found with a ligature around his neck at the Folkston Detention Center on October 23.

Salvadoran man dies in Georgia concentration camp. His, & death of 3 others, were not attributed to an ongoing hunger strike. A prisoner said, "prisons can be better because you know when you’ll be out". Free immigrant workers, jail the crimnal government. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgMamdani hits the campaign trail for Hochul, governor of strikebreaking and police repressionMamdani’s campaign video for Hochul refutes the Democratic Socialists of America’s claim to be turning the Democratic Party into an organization that defends workers.

"#Mamdani hits campaign trail for #Hochul, governor of strikebreaking and police repression." While using the anti-worker Taylor Law to deny a $10,000 payment to impoverished school paraprofessionals, this only verifies the fraud of "reform" of capitalism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgThe mass protests in France are reverberating throughout EuropeOver the month since high school blockades and shutdowns began in France, an outpouring of anti-austerity, anti-repression, anti-war and anti-fascist sentiment has staggered the French government and ...

The mass protests in #France are reverberating throughout Europe. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgUSPS workers say: No private armed guards in our postal facilities!Nearly 1,000 armed private security guards are being rushed into USPS plants in the final weeks before the midterm elections—into the very facilities that will process millions of mail-in ballots, and...

#USPS workers say: No private armed guards in our postal facilities! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.org3 years after October 7, evidence mounts that Israel had advance knowledge of attacksIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received repeated, detailed warnings about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, according to multiple reports published in Israeli and American media outlets ov...

As #US-backed #Israel #genocide continues to expand in #Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, and US & Israel prepare to step up war against #Iran after the US elections, it is worth re-posting about the planning for these crimes of #imperialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgWorkers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & AfricaGreek teachers, school and university students stage 24-hour walkout to demand adequate funding for education; Lebanese University professors continue stoppage over lack of permanent employment; multi...

#Educators striking in Greece, Portugal, Lebanon, Kenya. Every week, read Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa (also weekly on Americas, and on South and East Asia and Australia). www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgEbola spreads to Nigeria and Kenya as epidemic expands beyond Congo (DRC)Nigeria has confirmed an imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola and Kenya has nine, while the Congolese epidemic has reached 9,552 cases and 4,602 deaths in eight provinces, with children dying at the high...

#Ebola spreads to #Nigeria and #Kenya as epidemic expands beyond #Congo (DRC). Profits-over-lives capitalism can fund wars but not international cooperation for humanity's #health to prevent #pandemic. Fight for socialism. Join the SEP. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgWorker crushed to death at New Jersey foundry which was previously awarded OSHA’s highest safety recognitionHenry Antonio Marmol Martinez, a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic and father of six, was crushed to death at the McWane Ductile Foundry in Phillipsburg, New Jersey—a plant OSHA had certified under its...

Worker crushed to death at #NewJersey foundry which was previously awarded OSHA’s highest safety recognition. #USW #safety #IWARFC www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgTrump calls French protests a “full-on revolution,” demands mass deportationsBehind the fascist president’s demands for deportations lies the fear that workers will recognize their common struggle against inequality, war and dictatorship.

Trump calls French protests a “full-on revolution,” demands mass deportations. Trump's disgusting rant could not be closer to those of Hitler's scapegoating, representing capitalist oligarchs fear of the crisis their war on the working class created. Unite for socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgThe bond markets, rearmament and the global assault on social spendingThe immediate ruling class agenda is budget cuts amounting to €54 billion which will make major inroads into social spending. But this is only the start.

The bond markets, rearmament and the global assault on social spending. Capitalist frenzy for profits creates debt, producing more crisis, drive to war, more debt, with war on the working class to squeeze the working class, the only source of real value. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgGeneral Motors announces $20 billion share buyback for Wall Street, while closing Brownstown battery plantUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain responded to the buyback with a florid denunciation of “legalized mass looting,” designed to conceal the UAW bureaucracy's concessions that have made this loot...

#GM announces $20 billion share buyback for Wall Street, while closing Brownstown battery plant. That money, created by workers' labor should go to the workers laid off. Since #UAW does not fight, rank-and-file committees are needed. Fight for socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgFlorida executes William Reaves Jr., 77, a Vietnam veteran with PTSDReaves execution encapsulates the barbarism of capital punishment in America: the execution of an elderly man, a combat veteran whose psychological injuries were never put before the jury, sentenced t...

Florida executes William Reaves Jr., 77, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD, psychological injuries never put before the jury,whose vote was non-unanimous. The ruling class continues the wars, executions at home, ICE shootings in the streets. Fight for socialism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgThis week in history: October 19-25Two postal workers die from anthrax inhaled at a Washington facility; Arab League summit sanctions Syria’s military occupation of Lebanon; Egypt declares a state of emergency in confrontation with Bri...

This week in history: October 19-25. This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago. #history www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia to demand their unredacted voter rolls. Again and again, the cases have been thrown out: propub.li/4zG7n3T

wsws.org“We’ll be so powerful if we could organize worldwide”: New York-New Jersey port trucker speaks about conditions facing driversThe <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> spoke with Richie Respek, a New York-New Jersey port trucker and founder of the Pier Trucker Facebook group, about the long hours, unpaid labor and deteriorating ...

“We’ll be so powerful if we could organize worldwide”: New York-New Jersey port #trucker speaks about conditions facing drivers. #Teamsters #dockers #ILA #ILWU www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgIn run-up to midterms, Trump steps up drive to rig the electionsWith less than three weeks to go before the midterm elections, inflation is up, Trump’s poll numbers are down and the White House is intensifying its efforts to block or overturn the vote.

#Trump, representing the corporate-financial oligarchy, steps up drive to rig the #elections, which would rely on dispatching ICE, FBI, or National Guard to seize voting machines, arrest state officials, storm the Capitol again. The working class must prepare, mobilize. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgUAW election debacle: More than 90 percent of members boycott vote, as apparatus reinstalls FainMore than 90 percent of the United Auto Workers membership boycotted the vote. With the entire apparatus of the union at his disposal, Shawn Fain has been “re-elected” with the votes of 6 percent of t...

#UAW election debacle: More than 90 percent of members boycott vote, as apparatus reinstalls #ShawnFain. #autoworkers #Stellantis #Ford #GM #MackTruck #Volvo #Nexteer #Catepillar #unions #DSA #LaborNotes #UAWLocal7902 #UAWLocal2325 #UAWLocal2110 #SENSUAW www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgTexas prosecutor accuses ICE of intentionally running over worker, obstructing investigationSean Teare told NBC News it was “pretty obvious” the ICE officer intentionally ran over the worker. He added the agency may have allowed critical vehicle data to be erased.

Texas prosecutor accuses #ICE of intentionally running over worker, obstructing investigation. In Trump’s term 2, the #immigration Gestapo shot 25 people, 55 have died in ICE custody, and hundreds, or thousands were brutalized by feds and for-profit prison guards. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgCorporate press, DSA falsify UAW election, invent “mandate” for “president 6 percent” Shawn FainBy inventing mass support for UAW President Shawn Fain, the media and the pseudo-left are seeking to delegitimize all opposition to the bureaucracy and providing cover for it to move against oppositio...

Corporate press, DSA falsify UAW election, invent “mandate” for “president 6 percent” Shawn Fain www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgNobel Prize in Medicine awarded for optogenetics, a light switch for the brainPeter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth turned a light-sensitive protein from algae into a tool for switching brain cells on and off, giving the study of emotion, memory and behavior a causal,...

#NobelPrize in #Medicine for optogenetics, allowing study of what individual nerve cells in the brain do for emotion, memory, behavior, that may aid mental helath or repair blindness. #Trump administration guts the research and health care this science should serve. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgAs Trump looks on, supporters beat woman protester at rally in Youngstown, OhioRacist and anti-communist denunciations accompanied attacks on protesters in scenes recalling the German American Bund’s 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.

As Trump looks on, supporters beat woman protester at rally in Youngstown, Ohio. The scenes recall the German American Bund’s Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgUS schools deploy weaponized drones as testing ground for dictatorshipFlorida and Georgia have appropriated $1.67 million for school drone pilot programs, while the manufacturer envisions using the systems “anywhere there’s a mass gathering.”

US #schools deploy weaponized #drones as testing ground for #dictatorship. Florida, Georgia budgeted $1.67 million for school drone pilot programs. Manufacturer sees using the systems at any mass gathering. Join the #IYSSE. #students #teachers #parents #UFT #AFT #NEA www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

US #schools deploy weaponized #drones as testing ground for #dictatorship. Florida, Georgia budget $1.67 million for school drone pilot programs. Manufacturer sees using the systems use at any mass gathering.” Join the #IYSSE. #students #teachers #parents #UFT #AFT #NEA www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgProtests erupt in New York City following latest ICE shootingPolice under DSA Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration assaulted protesters and protected the federal agents following the attempted murder of Oscar Belgal.

Protests erupt in NYC following latest ICE shooting. Mamdani spent 2 hours on the phone to the White House trying to legitimize his relationship with Trump, as well as his accommodation to oligarchs and Zionists. Break with the Democrats. Fight for socialism. Join SEP www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Zohran Mamdani: Fighting Oligarchy, or Serving It? A socialist perspective for the fight against war, dictatorship and inequality. After registering, you wi...The election of Mamdani as mayor of New York City reflected the explosive anger over the cost of living, the genocide in Gaza, and the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, and the desire to fight the T...

Join the public online meeting: "Zohran Mamdani -- Fighting Oligarchy, or Serving It? A socialist perspective for the fight against war, dictatorship and inequality". Oct 21, Wed., 7 PM. Sponsored by the Socialist Equality Party and IYSSE. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

wsws.orgFrench youth protests grow, as government cancels high school classesHundreds of thousands of high school and university students, teachers and workers marched across France on Tuesday in a third national day of action of the high school movement, now in its third week...

#France #students protests grow, as government cancels high schools classes. Ruling class, pushed by global economic crisis with falling Franc & bond market, will not end cuts (lesson of pension fight). Unite students & workers for international socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgPlaying Russian Roulette with nuclear weaponsWith staggering recklessness, the NATO governments are preparing an escalation of the war against Russia on the assumption that Moscow’s nuclear warnings over Kaliningrad can be ignored.

Playing Russian Roulette with nuclear weapons. From the Kremlin viewpoint, every non-#nuclear means to halt NATO escalation failed. NATO ruling classes need to believe #Russia is bluffing in order to intensify military while cutting social programs. Fight for socialism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

wsws.org“We don’t know the power we have”: US trucker discusses October 1 work stoppage, the Iran war and the fight for international unityIndependent actions recently in both the US and Mexico show that truckers in North America are demonstrating their enormous social and economic power.

“We don’t know the power we have”: US #trucker discusses October 1 work stoppage, the Iran war and the fight for international unity. #Teamsters www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgUS truckers stop work to protest skyrocketing diesel costsThe spontaneous action, organized by truckers themselves over social media, was organized to protest skyrocketing diesel costs and other grievances.

US truckers stop work to protest skyrocketing diesel costs., just weeks after 300 Mexican drivers blockaded both sides of the border. That unions & other official organizations refused to support these makes the spontaneious action even more significant. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgMobilize the working class to defend French student protests, stop war!Over the last week, protests at high schools across France against spending cuts and police repression have grown into a confrontation with the state machine.

Mobilize the working class to defend #students protests in #France, stop war! Violent police, shutdown of transportation against occupations of 1/4 high schools, 29 universities, fearing general strike & unity with protests of rents in Spain, military draft in Gemany. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgIs the world on the brink of nuclear war?Russia's warning that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO blockades Kaliningrad shows that the US-NATO war in Ukraine is escalating into an open confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, a da...

Is the world on the brink of #NuclearWar? With war or preparations on every continent & space, & no negotiations with Russia, only workers - driven into class struggle for jobs & social programs cut to finance war, & defending democracy- are the alternative. Join the SEP www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgTurkish government, shaken by fund crisis, attacks freedom of expressionFacing a severe political crisis, the Erdoğan government is seeking to suppress the social powder keg through police state measures.

Government of #Turkiye, shaken by fund crisis, attacks freedom of expression. Workers struggle for wages, living conditions & democratic rights requires struggle for socialism. #Turkey #AKP #Erdoğan #Kaya #Gülen #Pusula #Tera #censorship #Musk #Şekeroğlu www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

As Trump rejects Iranian cease-fire proposal, Wall Street Journal reports plans to resume bombing #Iran after midterms. United power of the working class can be mobilized to stop the metastisizing world. Join the SEP! warhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/28/vjtl-s28.html

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propublica.orgTwo Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm’s WayThe aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could...

NEW: The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could be swept away.

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propublica.orgKids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”

At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. (Published May)

wsws.orgDemocrats accuse Trump of “appeasing” China in state visit by XiThe Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threat...

#Democrats, always a promoter of wars, accuse #Trump, more aggressive against #China than any previous president, of “appeasing” Xi, despite his raising tariffs, seizing oil tankers headed to China, providing Taiwan $10s of billions in missiles, even as US debt grows. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgWhile Trump and Netanyahu threaten the world at UN, class struggle grows on every continentWhile the representatives of the capitalist nation-states gathered at the United Nations this week amid escalating war, trade conflict and threats of repression, another international force was making...

"While Trump & Netanyahu threaten the world at #UN, #classstruggle grows on every continent". The objective power of globalized production "has stretched the factory across the planet", although initial in form & limited by nationalist unions & pseudoleft. #IWARFC www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgFederal judge blocks deportation, as ICE continues torture of Wilber Garces Perez in Texas concentration campThe wounded husband, father and DoorDash delivery driver remains isolated in ICE custody with a fractured collarbone and a bullet near his spine, while the agent who shot him remains unidentified and ...

Federal judge blocks deportation, as #ICE continues torture of Wilber Garces Perez in Texas concentration camp. The criminal attacks on immigrants are part of the establishing of dictatorship for the oligarchy aimed at the whole working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgInside Pearsall, the ICE prison holding wounded delivery worker Wilber Garces Perez“To me, it looked like a modern-day concentration camp in there,” a former Pearsall detainee told the WSWS.

Inside Pearsall, the ICE prison holding wounded delivery worker Wilber Garces Perez www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgICE raids in Danbury, Connecticut: City’s history exposes Democrats’ complicity in immigration crackdownFrom August 24 to 27, ICE agents detained nearly 100 people across Connecticut, including more than 60 in Danbury.

18 Sept

#ICE raids in #Danbury, Connecticut: City’s history exposes Democrats’ complicity in immigration crackdown www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

17 Sept

#Macklemore #GazaGenocide #FightForSocialism

wsws.orgThe “Pro-Human Assembly” on AI: Sanders and the trade union bureaucracy join hands with the fascist rightBernie Sanders, Liz Shuler and Randi Weingarten shared a platform with Steve Bannon and January 6 rally organizer Amy Kremer at an event that marks the emergence of am alliance between the Democratic ...

17 Sept

The “Pro-Human Assembly” on #AI: #Sanders and the trade #unions bureaucracy join hands with the #fascist right. Directing concerns to a campaign against China but not against control of the technology by the #oligarchy, they outline an American "national socialism". www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgAI and the fight for socialismWe are publishing here “AI and the fight for socialism,” the fifth of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, ...

17 Sept

"AI and the fight for socialism" -- Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.orgAPWU bureaucracy enables Trump’s attack on mail votingThe new rules restricting mail-in voting cannot be enforced if thousands of postal workers refuse to carry out the procedure.

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#APWU bureaucracy enables Trump’s attack on mail-in #voting. Postal workers should organize independently of the bureaucracy, refuse to carry out the new ballot verification & rejection procedures, & defend any worker victimized for doing so. #NALC #NPMHU #USPS www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.org25 years since the September 11 terrorist attacksThe attacks of September 11, 2001 were seized upon as the pretext for a vast escalation of war abroad and the construction of a police state at home, which is now being turned against the working clas...

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25 years since the #9/11 terrorist attacks. The attacks of September 11, 2001 were seized upon as the pretext for a vast escalation of war abroad and the construction of a police state at home, which is now being turned against the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...