Erik Schreiber
@socialistschreiber.bsky.social
Reporter for the World Socialist Web Site, member of the Socialist Equality Party, and revolutionary optimist.
AI is almost the only thing booming in the US economy. Other industries have high unemployment, slow hiring, and slumping consumer sentiment. Even the AI boom seems to be a bubble that is not far from bursting. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Markets and US economy increasingly dependent on AI boom
A record revenue rise by chipmaker Nvidia has not quelled the growing fears that the AI boom is a bubble which may soon burst.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
AI is almost the only thing booming in the US economy. Other industries have high unemployment, slow hiring, and slumping consumer sentiment. Even the AI boom seems to be a bubble that is not far from bursting. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Declaration of Independence indicts George III on charges that are just as applicable to Trump: “unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” guilty of “injuries and usurpations” against “the rights of the people,” etc. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Ken Burns’ <em>The American Revolution</em>
Audiences cannot help but grasp the relevance of the film’s subject—a population revolting against tyranny and despotism in the name of equality and inalienable rights.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Declaration of Independence indicts George III on charges that are just as applicable to Trump: “unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” guilty of “injuries and usurpations” against “the rights of the people,” etc. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mamdani has quashed a primary challenge to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who supports the genocide and led the House’s capitulation to Trump. Mamdani is betraying his supporters, who wanted to end the genocide and fight fascism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mamdani intervenes to quash primary challenge to Hakeem Jeffries
Three weeks after the election, Mamdani is moving at a breakneck pace to support the political establishment he vowed to challenge.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Mamdani has quashed a primary challenge to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who supports the genocide and led the House’s capitulation to Trump. Mamdani is betraying his supporters, who wanted to end the genocide and fight fascism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Education Department has reclassified nursing, teaching, social work, and other essential professions as nonprofessional fields, which will impose severe financial barriers on students attempting to pursue these careers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump’s Department of Education strips “professional” status from teaching, nursing and other essential fields
Trump’s redefinition of “professional” degrees aims to push working-class students out of healthcare and education specialities and further undermine science and culture.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Education Department has reclassified nursing, teaching, social work, and other essential professions as nonprofessional fields, which will impose severe financial barriers on students attempting to pursue these careers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Israeli military killed dozens of people in Gaza and Lebanon over the weekend, continuing its rampage throughout the Middle East under the cover of “ceasefires” in both Gaza and Lebanon. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Despite “ceasefires,” Israel massacres dozens in Gaza and Lebanon over the weekend
The Israeli military killed dozens of people in Gaza and Lebanon over the weekend, continuing its rampage throughout the Middle East under the cover of “ceasefires” in both Gaza and Lebanon.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Israeli military killed dozens of people in Gaza and Lebanon over the weekend, continuing its rampage throughout the Middle East under the cover of “ceasefires” in both Gaza and Lebanon. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In Berlin and London last week, David North announced that the World Socialist Web Site is launching Socialism AI, a revolutionary tool that will harness artificial intelligence for the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
<em>World Socialist Web Site</em> to launch Socialism AI
This revolutionary tool will harness artificial intelligence for the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In Berlin and London last week, David North announced that the World Socialist Web Site is launching Socialism AI, a revolutionary tool that will harness artificial intelligence for the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Jacobin is using pop psychology in a desperate attempt to prettify Mamdani’s meeting with Trump. Mamdani claims that he and Trump have a “shared analysis” of the situation. What analysis could a self-professed socialist have with a fascist? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The Mamdani-Trump Pact and the bankrupt politics of the upper middle class pseudo-left
The immediate political consequence of Mamdani’s visit will be to confuse and disorient the very people who brought him to office.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Jacobin is using pop psychology in a desperate attempt to prettify Mamdani’s meeting with Trump. Mamdani claims that he and Trump have a “shared analysis” of the situation. What analysis could a self-professed socialist have with a fascist? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
All the parties contending in the Chilean elections are campaigning on nationalism, xenophobia, and law and order policies. The ruling class is trying to divide workers on secondary issues to prevent a united challenge to its rule. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Ultra-right gains in Chilean election dominated by anti-immigrant, law-and-order campaigns
All the candidates, from Kast and Kaiser to the Stalinist Jara, focused their campaigns on xenophobic anti-immigrant appeals in combination with vows to get “tough on crime.”
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November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
All the parties contending in the Chilean elections are campaigning on nationalism, xenophobia, and law and order policies. The ruling class is trying to divide workers on secondary issues to prevent a united challenge to its rule. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Ellen Mei, a program specialist at the US Department of Agriculture, was interviewed about how the shutdown affected federal workers and citizens who depend on SNAP. Trump seeks to fire her for exercising her First Amendment rights. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump administration victimizes federal worker for press appearance during shutdown
Trump’s Department of Agriculture is attempting to fire a worker in retaliation for speaking publicly on the impacts of the shutdown.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ellen Mei, a program specialist at the US Department of Agriculture, was interviewed about how the shutdown affected federal workers and citizens who depend on SNAP. Trump seeks to fire her for exercising her First Amendment rights. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Thousands of healthcare workers across the US are being laid off as part of a major campaign of healthcare workforce reduction that is being abetted by the trade unions. Workers need rank-and-file committees to fight back. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mass layoffs escalate in US healthcare industry
This is part of a wider jobs massacre, with US employers announcing 1.1 million jobs this year alone.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thousands of healthcare workers across the US are being laid off as part of a major campaign of healthcare workforce reduction that is being abetted by the trade unions. Workers need rank-and-file committees to fight back. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In a recent speech, Postmaster General Steiner bragged about modernizing the US Postal Service and increasing its productivity. He didn't acknowledge the needless deaths of postal workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Days after Nick Acker’s death in mail sorting machine, Postmaster General pledges full steam ahead on restructuring of USPS Board of Governors
This is the human cost of “modernization” at the United States Postal Service, where jobs are being slashed through automation and the postal infrastructure handed over to private corporations.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In a recent speech, Postmaster General Steiner bragged about modernizing the US Postal Service and increasing its productivity. He didn't acknowledge the needless deaths of postal workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The CDC has amended its "Autism and Vaccines" web page to falsely claim that vaccines may cause autism. One of the world's premier public health agencies is now promoting quackery and conspiracy theories. This is an unconscionable assault. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The CDC embraces bogus claims of autism-vaccine links
At the direction of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has embraced the unfounded claims of right-wing anti-vaxxers that child...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The CDC has amended its "Autism and Vaccines" web page to falsely claim that vaccines may cause autism. One of the world's premier public health agencies is now promoting quackery and conspiracy theories. This is an unconscionable assault. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The decision of the Eindhoven concert hall to cancel a performance by the Soviet-Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya is part of the anti-Russian hysteria sweeping European governments and cultural establishments. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
As part of anti-Russian hysteria, Dutch venue cancels scheduled concert by renowned pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya
Officials have become entangled in the campaign to justify war against Russia and a new imperialist slaughter.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The decision of the Eindhoven concert hall to cancel a performance by the Soviet-Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya is part of the anti-Russian hysteria sweeping European governments and cultural establishments. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump called for the death of Democrats who merely pointed out service members' well-established duty to refuse illegal orders. This extraordinary outburst underscores the urgent danger of Trump's plans for dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump calls for execution of Democratic Party legislators
In response to a video put out by former CIA and military Democrats urging agents and soldiers to follow “lawful orders,” Trump and members of his administration called for their trial and execution.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump called for the death of Democrats who merely pointed out service members' well-established duty to refuse illegal orders. This extraordinary outburst underscores the urgent danger of Trump's plans for dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mamdani engaged in a grotesque lovefest with Trump as the latter, mired in crisis and facing mass hostility, continues to build a dictatorship and even call for the death of his opponents! A genuine revolutionary movement must be built! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mamdani announces “partnership” with hated would-be dictator Trump
Coming only a day after Trump called for the execution of Democratic Party legislators, Mamdani’s voyage to the White House served to bolster the political legitimacy of the crisis-ridden Trump regime...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Mamdani engaged in a grotesque lovefest with Trump as the latter, mired in crisis and facing mass hostility, continues to build a dictatorship and even call for the death of his opponents! A genuine revolutionary movement must be built! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The UN Security Council unanimously approved Trump's "peace plan" for Gaza, which establishes a colonial-style regime and violates the Palestinians' basic rights. It is not the UN, but the working class that can liberate the Palestinians. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
UN Security Council rubber-stamps Trump’s “peace plan,” as Israel bombards Gaza and Lebanon
The absurdity of describing the Trump administration’s plan as a peace agreement was underscored in the days following Monday’s UN vote. On Wednesday alone, Israel killed at least 25 people across the...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The UN Security Council unanimously approved Trump's "peace plan" for Gaza, which establishes a colonial-style regime and violates the Palestinians' basic rights. It is not the UN, but the working class that can liberate the Palestinians. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The peace proposal that the US seeks to impose on Ukraine acknowledges that NATO is losing the war that it provoked. It also highlights divisions within NATO, since the European members were not consulted on the proposal. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
As Ukraine faces military and political crisis, White House proposes negotiated settlement of war
With the Ukrainian government of Volodymyr Zelensky facing a deepening corruption scandal and military crisis, the Trump administration submitted to Kiev on Thursday a 28-point plan for a negotiated s...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The peace proposal that the US seeks to impose on Ukraine acknowledges that NATO is losing the war that it provoked. It also highlights divisions within NATO, since the European members were not consulted on the proposal. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Amazon, General Motors, IBM, Microsoft, Paramount, Target, and UPS plan to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. Verizon’s 13,000-job assault is merely the latest expression of a rapidly widening corporate job-cutting campaign. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Verizon begins cutting 13,000 workers as global jobs massacre accelerates
Verizon posted nearly $5 billion in profit in the third quarter alone and is aggressively restructuring to boost its stock price, slash labor costs and prepare for intensified competition in wireless,...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Amazon, General Motors, IBM, Microsoft, Paramount, Target, and UPS plan to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. Verizon’s 13,000-job assault is merely the latest expression of a rapidly widening corporate job-cutting campaign. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The student walkouts in North Carolina are a significant development in the anti-ICE protests. The Democrats have said nothing about Trump's plan to establish a dictatorship. The opposition must be led by the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mass walkouts in North Carolina against immigration raids: Workers must lead the fight against kidnapping operations!
There is mass anger in Charlotte and other cities targeted by Trump’s mass deportation operation, this anger must be transformed into concrete action to end the attacks on the working class.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The student walkouts in North Carolina are a significant development in the anti-ICE protests. The Democrats have said nothing about Trump's plan to establish a dictatorship. The opposition must be led by the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In “Bugonia,” director Yorgos Lanthimos can’t seem to decide whether he cares very much about his fellow men and women or not. He sometimes stumbles over his own self-conscious, “quirky” cynicism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
<em>Bugonia</em>: The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos—“All that’s been done to us … We’re setting that right again”
Two cousins, in an act of revenge, kidnap a successful, powerful corporate executive and hold her captive in their basement.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
In “Bugonia,” director Yorgos Lanthimos can’t seem to decide whether he cares very much about his fellow men and women or not. He sometimes stumbles over his own self-conscious, “quirky” cynicism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The mask is coming off quickly. New York Mayor-elect Mamdani has already reached out to Trump for talks, praised the NYPD and its billionaire commissioner, and withheld his support from a primary challenge to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Zohran Mamdani’s first acts as mayor-elect: Seek Trump meeting, keep NYPD commissioner Tisch and protect Hakeem Jeffries
The DSA Democrat is repudiating his left-wing posturing as he cements his ties to defending the Democratic Party and capitalism.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The mask is coming off quickly. New York Mayor-elect Mamdani has already reached out to Trump for talks, praised the NYPD and its billionaire commissioner, and withheld his support from a primary challenge to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The New York Times, which backed the criminal war on Iraq in 2003, is now calling for the US to invade Venezuela and overthrow Maduro. It explicitly links regime change with a developing imperialist war against Russia, Iran, and China. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
<em>New York Times</em> backs regime change war against Venezuela
Titled “The Case for Overthrowing Maduro,” the piece was drafted by Bret Stephens, a man who never met a US war of aggression that he didn’t like.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The New York Times, which backed the criminal war on Iraq in 2003, is now calling for the US to invade Venezuela and overthrow Maduro. It explicitly links regime change with a developing imperialist war against Russia, Iran, and China. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with both parties in Congress before joining a long meeting with billionaires and CEOs. The entire US ruling class embraces this bloodstained tyrant, no doubt dreaming of using his methods against Americans. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Congress, CEOs follow Trump in welcome to Saudi butcher
Trump spoke for the entire US ruling class when he welcomed the blood-drenched Saudi crown prince to the White House.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with both parties in Congress before joining a long meeting with billionaires and CEOs. The entire US ruling class embraces this bloodstained tyrant, no doubt dreaming of using his methods against Americans. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The IWA-RFC calls for a workers' inquiry into the deaths of postal workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs, Jr. The investigation will be the advance action in the fight for workers' control of safety. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
For a rank-and-file inquiry into the deaths of USPS workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs, Jr.!
An inquiry, organized by workers and not corrupt union bureaucrats, is needed to arm workers with the knowledge they need to defend themselves and go on the offensive against the regime of corporate d...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The IWA-RFC calls for a workers' inquiry into the deaths of postal workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs, Jr. The investigation will be the advance action in the fight for workers' control of safety. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Voters supported Katie Wilson for mayor of Seattle as a means of fighting the socioeconomic order. But Wilson doesn't want to "tear down the system" and seeks "unity" with Seattle's bourgeoisie. She will contain and demobilize opposition. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The class issues in Katie Wilson’s Seattle mayoral election victory
Katie Wilson's election as mayor of Seattle reflects growing anger at the two-party system. But her career shows a middle-class orientation incapable of fighting the corporate oligarchy.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Voters supported Katie Wilson for mayor of Seattle as a means of fighting the socioeconomic order. But Wilson doesn't want to "tear down the system" and seeks "unity" with Seattle's bourgeoisie. She will contain and demobilize opposition. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...