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The questions left hanging by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The questions left hanging by Christopher Nolan’s <em>The Odyssey</em>
The theme of social crisis, a crisis of authority, compelling the conscious creation of new ways of living speaks across the centuries, even millennia.
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August 23, 2026 at 3:48 AM
The questions left hanging by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The US bond market crisis & the coming eruption of class struggle. The working class must reject a ruling class declaring that there is “no money” for social needs while it directs almost $1 trillion a year to creditors & limitless resources to financial rescue and war. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The US bond market crisis and the coming eruption of class struggle
The financial oligarchy can defend the immense mass of fictitious wealth only by continuously driving down the living standards of the working class at home and seizing foreign markets, resources and ...
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August 23, 2026 at 3:44 AM
The US bond market crisis & the coming eruption of class struggle. The working class must reject a ruling class declaring that there is “no money” for social needs while it directs almost $1 trillion a year to creditors & limitless resources to financial rescue and war. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The #Colorado primary and the turn toward socialist politics. "This radicalization is not yet informed by scientific socialist consciousness. It is the initial product of anger over conditions produced by decaying capitalism". Join the SEP www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Colorado primary and the turn toward socialist politics
The victory of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America shows the American population moving to the left, but it cannot transform the Democratic Party from a party of Wall Street and ...
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July 3, 2026 at 2:51 AM
The #Colorado primary and the turn toward socialist politics. "This radicalization is not yet informed by scientific socialist consciousness. It is the initial product of anger over conditions produced by decaying capitalism". Join the SEP www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
"Wall of Tears" memorial to child victims of the US-backed #GazaGenocide comes to Dearborn, Michigan. Not trivializing this imperialist crime, but until the working class mobilizes for socialism internationally, mass deaths of war, heat waves, etc go on #Palestinians www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
<em>Wall of Tears</em> memorial to child victims of the Gaza genocide comes to Dearborn, Michigan
The name of each martyred child is listed in small script, both Arabic and Roman, in the chronological order of his or her death.
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July 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"Wall of Tears" memorial to child victims of the US-backed #GazaGenocide comes to Dearborn, Michigan. Not trivializing this imperialist crime, but until the working class mobilizes for socialism internationally, mass deaths of war, heat waves, etc go on #Palestinians www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The U.S. oligarchy's crime boss: Trump pocketed $2.2 billion in 2025 -- equivalent to a wage of $70/second, or 3600 times more than twice the average autoworkers wage per hour, a fraction of what the working class must expropriate back from the capitalists by socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The U.S. oligarchy's crime boss: Trump pocketed $2.2 billion in 2025
An annual income of $2.2 billion, equivalent to the incomes of 37,931 US autoworkers, computes to $251,000 per hour.
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July 3, 2026 at 2:07 AM
The U.S. oligarchy's crime boss: Trump pocketed $2.2 billion in 2025 -- equivalent to a wage of $70/second, or 3600 times more than twice the average autoworkers wage per hour, a fraction of what the working class must expropriate back from the capitalists by socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Lloyds has frozen the bank account of the leftist publication Canary without any explanation. All defenders of democratic rights must oppose not only this unjust action, but also the domination of finance capital. #censorship www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Lloyds de-banks <em>Canary</em> in fundamental attack on independent media
Canary’s Steve Topple told WSWS, “Our situation is a damning indictment of the treatment of independent media in this country – whereby you can be potentially ruined without recourse by banking giants...
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July 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Lloyds has frozen the bank account of the leftist publication Canary without any explanation. All defenders of democratic rights must oppose not only this unjust action, but also the domination of finance capital. #censorship www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
1991, US launching unending wars & Russia becoming capitalist initiated a new drive to world (nuclear) war. European powers too mobilize funding & militarization of society. Hundreds thousands dead & wounded over Ukraine, Mideast. China targeted. Mobilize for Socialism? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
On the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara: European powers drive Ukraine war toward direct conflict with Russia
The European powers calculate that strikes deep inside Russia will force Moscow to respond and that any Russian retaliation can then be used to justify a still broader NATO intervention. This is the l...
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July 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
1991, US launching unending wars & Russia becoming capitalist initiated a new drive to world (nuclear) war. European powers too mobilize funding & militarization of society. Hundreds thousands dead & wounded over Ukraine, Mideast. China targeted. Mobilize for Socialism? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Steven Mintz, of the University of Texas at Austin, praised the WSWS webinar on the American Revolution. “What the broadcast offered—and what so much supposedly ‘radical’ history now lacks—was a serious Marxist understanding of historical development.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
A letter from historian Steven Mintz on “The American Revolution and Its Place in History”
Mintz is the author of numerous published works, including Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (2004), winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award.
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June 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Steven Mintz, of the University of Texas at Austin, praised the WSWS webinar on the American Revolution. “What the broadcast offered—and what so much supposedly ‘radical’ history now lacks—was a serious Marxist understanding of historical development.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
World Press #Photography 2026 in Amsterdam. The problem is not too many photos of misery but too much misery, & the need for more photos overcoming "the problem that misery is too often presented stripped of its social, political, class and historical context." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
World Press Photo 2026 in Amsterdam: Striking images of crisis-ridden capitalism
The WPP exhibition 2026 offers a striking visual record of a world marked by war, displacement, poverty and political repression.
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June 29, 2026 at 4:16 PM
World Press #Photography 2026 in Amsterdam. The problem is not too many photos of misery but too much misery, & the need for more photos overcoming "the problem that misery is too often presented stripped of its social, political, class and historical context." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
June 28, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
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The massive deployment of the US military to Venezuela is aimed at exerting imperial control, not conducting humanitarian operations. Rodriguez, for her part, will rely more heavily on the US to buttress her power and authority. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
US sends troops under cover of Venezuelan earthquake, as death toll surges
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the count...
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June 28, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The massive deployment of the US military to Venezuela is aimed at exerting imperial control, not conducting humanitarian operations. Rodriguez, for her part, will rely more heavily on the US to buttress her power and authority. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
World Press #Photography 2026. The problem is not too much photos of misery but too much misery, & the need for more photos overcoming "the problem that misery is too often presented stripped of its social, political, class and historical context." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
World Press Photo 2026 in Amsterdam: Striking images of crisis-ridden capitalism
The WPP exhibition 2026 offers a striking visual record of a world marked by war, displacement, poverty and political repression.
www.wsws.org
June 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM
World Press #Photography 2026. The problem is not too much photos of misery but too much misery, & the need for more photos overcoming "the problem that misery is too often presented stripped of its social, political, class and historical context." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Donate to the WSWS! Build a mass socialist movement of the working class! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Donate to the WSWS! Build a mass socialist movement of the working class!
Donate today to strengthen the WSWS—the indispensable voice and organizing center of the international working class—so we can expand our coverage, deepen our interventions, and build a movement of th...
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June 28, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Donate to the WSWS! Build a mass socialist movement of the working class! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Yet another example of where money speaks louder than justice.
June 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Yet another example of where money speaks louder than justice.
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How legitimate is a contract vote carried out in the plant under the eyes of management? One that is held while the union apparatus is overriding workers’ vote to strike? From Fain down, the UAW officialdom is nothing but traitors. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
“Round up all the new hires and tell them to vote yes”: After rigged vote, UAW claims fourth deal ratified at Nexteer
There is widespread opposition to the deal and deep anger over the way the UAW bureaucracy has defied the will of the membership.
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June 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
How legitimate is a contract vote carried out in the plant under the eyes of management? One that is held while the union apparatus is overriding workers’ vote to strike? From Fain down, the UAW officialdom is nothing but traitors. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
True but if the Democrat faction representing the same oligarchy as the Republicans wanted to protect kids from gun violence they would not support funding Israel or war in Ukraine against Russia of Trump's war in Iran. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
June 27, 2026 at 5:28 AM
True but if the Democrat faction representing the same oligarchy as the Republicans wanted to protect kids from gun violence they would not support funding Israel or war in Ukraine against Russia of Trump's war in Iran. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Maybe your favorite book that you’re obsessed with isn’t such a great read if you have to pass laws to *force* other people to read it.
The Texas education board on Friday approved a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages. apnews.com/article/texa...
Texas board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools
Texas public schools will require students to read Bible stories under a reading list approved by the state’s education board.
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June 26, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Maybe your favorite book that you’re obsessed with isn’t such a great read if you have to pass laws to *force* other people to read it.
#Mamdani-backed candidates win NYC congressional primaries: Political issues. Leftward shift from hatred for Trump & disgust with the #Democrat Party & more fundamentally the hammering by the economic, social & political crisis of capitalism. But Dems no solution. #DSA www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mamdani-backed candidates win NYC congressional primaries: The political issues
The primary results reflect a profound and growing political radicalization within the working class and among youth and professional layers who are being hammered by the accelerating economic, social...
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June 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM
#Mamdani-backed candidates win NYC congressional primaries: Political issues. Leftward shift from hatred for Trump & disgust with the #Democrat Party & more fundamentally the hammering by the economic, social & political crisis of capitalism. But Dems no solution. #DSA www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Attend UK public meetings: #YourParty collapse—Time to build the Socialist Equality Party. #JeremyCorbin #ZackPolanski #SWP #RCP #GreenParty #SEP www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Attend UK public meetings: Your Party’s collapse—Time to build the Socialist Equality Party
The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and inter...
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June 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Attend UK public meetings: #YourParty collapse—Time to build the Socialist Equality Party. #JeremyCorbin #ZackPolanski #SWP #RCP #GreenParty #SEP www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Climate conditions in much of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa, & parts of Central & South America could result in up to 250 days a year being so hot that the bodies of #agriculture workers cannot sustain meaningful physical labor. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Extreme heat has devastating effects on agriculture and workers
Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.
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June 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM
#Climate conditions in much of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa, & parts of Central & South America could result in up to 250 days a year being so hot that the bodies of #agriculture workers cannot sustain meaningful physical labor. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump administration requests approval of $87.6 billion for #Iran war. More and more and again more for imperialist war, a front of a world war, the only solution that capitalism has. This can be stopped by the working class of every country. Join the SEP. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump administration requests approval of $87.6 billion for Iran war
The White House padded its request for $87.6 billion—down from the previously discussed $200 billion—with items aimed at getting the votes needed in both chambers of Congress to pass the military appr...
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June 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Trump administration requests approval of $87.6 billion for #Iran war. More and more and again more for imperialist war, a front of a world war, the only solution that capitalism has. This can be stopped by the working class of every country. Join the SEP. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Thousands feared dead in #Venezuela after strongest #earthquake in 125 years. The catastrophe was shaped not just by seismic waves, but by decades of imperialist sanctions, military aggression, corrupt capitalist rule under Chavismo & now US recolonization of the country www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Thousands feared dead in Venezuela after strongest earthquake in 125 years
The scale and deadliness of the catastrophe have been shaped not by the seismic waves alone, but by decades of imperialist sanctions, military aggression, corrupt capitalist rule under Chavismo and no...
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June 26, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Thousands feared dead in #Venezuela after strongest #earthquake in 125 years. The catastrophe was shaped not just by seismic waves, but by decades of imperialist sanctions, military aggression, corrupt capitalist rule under Chavismo & now US recolonization of the country www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The #AmericanRevolution and Its Place in #History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings”. Leading historians on what was revolutionary in the #Revolution, what was limited, what was betrayed, what was carried forward, and what remains unresolved. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings”
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-...
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June 26, 2026 at 4:14 PM
The #AmericanRevolution and Its Place in #History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings”. Leading historians on what was revolutionary in the #Revolution, what was limited, what was betrayed, what was carried forward, and what remains unresolved. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Secret police secretly filming a regular citizen at a public space. This is what is looks like a totalitarian regime. This is not KGB action in Russia. This is USA on 23rd June 2026.
Woman arrested for TOUCHING the water at Reflecting Pool.
Woman arrested for TOUCHING the water at Reflecting Pool.
June 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Secret police secretly filming a regular citizen at a public space. This is what is looks like a totalitarian regime. This is not KGB action in Russia. This is USA on 23rd June 2026.
Woman arrested for TOUCHING the water at Reflecting Pool.
Woman arrested for TOUCHING the water at Reflecting Pool.