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The Malvinas War: How Healy Worked as an Imperialist Stooge
3+ hour ago (1482+ words) Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism The initial reaction of the WRP was politically confused, as Healy advanced the line that the war between Britain and Argentina was an inter-imperialist conflict. An…...
Teacher pay offer in England worsens financial crisis in education; unions offer no solution
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (879+ words) The Labour government announced its pay offer for teachers in England on July 1, a 3.5 percent increase from September, followed by a further 3 percent increase the following year. The Department for Education (DfE) announced £1.8 billion in additional funding for schools. The…...
From the archives of Marxism: Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (986+ words) This year is the 44th anniversary of the 74-day Malvinas (Falklands) War between Argentina and Britain in 1982. The conflict—which ended in Argentina’s defeat—began on April 2, 1982, claiming the lives of 907 people: 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 from Britain and three Falkland Islanders....
10 years since the Turkish military coup attempt targeting Erdoğan
13+ hour, 19+ min ago (267+ words) That these matters were all swept under the carpet by Ankara is the political expression of the Turkish bourgeoisie’s powerful orientation to restabilize its military-strategic alliance with the US and NATO. General Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command…...
Cyclosporiasis outbreak sickens thousands in Michigan and across the US
15+ hour, 50+ min ago (150+ words) Nearly 7,000 people have been sickened and 141 hospitalized, while the federal apparatus that would trace the outbreak to its source has been dismantled by the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “There is a lot of underreporting when it…...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses return to work in Boston without a contract
15+ hour, 48+ min ago (378+ words) A firefighter and a teacher from Lawrence, Massachusetts, who joined the picket line, told the WSWS the strike should last “as long as it needs to.” A patient at the Brigham left his hospital bed to walk the floor wearing…...
German government expands surveillance and police state measures
15+ hour, 51+ min ago (262+ words) The powers of the police in Germany are being rapidly expanded, granting them sweeping powers of surveillance including biometric tracking, state trojans, preventive detention and mass data collection. These attacks on democratic rights coincide with massive spending on rearmament financed…...
Facing debacle in Iran, Trump threatens to attack Iranian power plants and bridges
16+ hour, 13+ min ago (1018+ words) US President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges, as the United States reimposed its naval blockade of Iranian ports and bombed the country for a fourth day. “We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow…...
Australian government threats to defund universities that fail to suppress anti-genocide dissent
16+ hour, 24+ min ago (1005+ words) As the Gaza genocide intensifies, the Albanese Labor government is making unprecedented threats to strip accreditation and funding from any university that it alleges fails to sufficiently silence anti-genocide campaigns by staff and students. In recent weeks, Education Minister Jason…...
The ICE murders in Maine and Texas and the lessons of Minneapolis
16+ hour, 42+ min ago (524+ words) His last words, according to witness Daniel Boucher, were, “I tried to stop.” Guerrero’s partner and his 3-year-old daughter, “wearing Bluey pajamas,” with a “pink rolling backpack,” according to the Portland Press Herald’s account, watched from the sidewalk as he…...