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A Chalkbeat analysis of data released Monday found that without the exemptions the city would have fallen just short of compliance, potentially putting it at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid.
Eric Adams declares victory on class size reduction — by issuing 10,500 exemptions
NYC officials quietly issued thousands of exemptions to class size law. Did your school get one?
www.chalkbeat.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A Chalkbeat analysis of data released Monday found that without the exemptions the city would have fallen just short of compliance, potentially putting it at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid.
In the 1st month of #Gaza “ceasefire,” #Israel has violated the agreement 282 times, killing 242 #Palestinians, wounding 622, repeatedly hit civilian Palestinian infrastructure & humanitarian zones, obliterating homes, schools & medical facilities. US-backed #Genocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In the first month of Gaza “ceasefire,” Israel has violated the agreement 282 times
A report by the Gaza Government Media Office documents 282 violations of the Gaza cease fire by the Israeli military between October 10 and November 10, exposing the Trump-brokered “peace plan” as an ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In the 1st month of #Gaza “ceasefire,” #Israel has violated the agreement 282 times, killing 242 #Palestinians, wounding 622, repeatedly hit civilian Palestinian infrastructure & humanitarian zones, obliterating homes, schools & medical facilities. US-backed #Genocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.
Veteran-led protests against Trump’s National Guard deployments encourage soldiers to resist Trump’s illegal orders.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Workers say that the death of postal mechanic Nick Acker at the Allen Park, Michigan, facility was "100% preventable." Management and the unions are concealing the truth. Workers must fight independently for control over safety. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
“100% preventable”: Postal workers demand answers on death of Nick Acker
Many questions remain unanswered in the days since his death, and no official cause has been released.
www.wsws.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Workers say that the death of postal mechanic Nick Acker at the Allen Park, Michigan, facility was "100% preventable." Management and the unions are concealing the truth. Workers must fight independently for control over safety. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Stop #Trump 's #deportation flight of 83 people to #Ukraine into forced conscription! Some are in the US since childhood, some are migrants from the USSR before Ukraine existed as a separate country. It is illegal for all to be sent to a country at war & a dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Stop Trump's deportation flight of Ukrainian immigrants into forced conscription!
The Trump administration plans Monday to deport 83 people to Ukraine—the first mass deportation to the country in years—where they face immediate conscription and deployment to the front.
www.wsws.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Stop #Trump 's #deportation flight of 83 people to #Ukraine into forced conscription! Some are in the US since childhood, some are migrants from the USSR before Ukraine existed as a separate country. It is illegal for all to be sent to a country at war & a dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#WestVirginia #coal #miner is found dead after a 5-day search in flooded mine. The death of Steve Lipscomb, part of the acceleration of workplace #accidents, is a product of the drive for increased productivity, to improve performance of company stocks. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
West Virginia coal miner is found dead after a 5-day search in flooded mine
Veteran coal miner and crew leader Steve Lipscomb, 38, was found dead in the Rolling Thunder mine at 7:30am on Thursday, five days after he became trapped by a sudden inrush of water from an abandoned...
www.wsws.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
#WestVirginia #coal #miner is found dead after a 5-day search in flooded mine. The death of Steve Lipscomb, part of the acceleration of workplace #accidents, is a product of the drive for increased productivity, to improve performance of company stocks. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
"Breaking Ranks: Inside #Israel’s War" -- #Israeli soldiers document [US-backed] war crimes against #Palestinians in #Gaza. #GazaGenocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
<em>Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War </em>
Their testimonies are first-hand accounts of war crimes perpetrated by the self-proclaimed “the most moral army in the world”, flatly contradicting the IDF’s insistence that it operates in accordance ...
www.wsws.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"Breaking Ranks: Inside #Israel’s War" -- #Israeli soldiers document [US-backed] war crimes against #Palestinians in #Gaza. #GazaGenocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The State Department’s “public charge” directive: The reemergence of #eugenics in American #immigration policy. Just as imperialist war bolsters war on the working class at home, this targeting sick and elderly adds at home for ethnic and racist persecution. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The State Department’s “public charge” directive: The reemergence of eugenics in American immigration policy
The directive empowers consular officers to deny visas over health conditions, marking a reactionary assault on immigrants, the sick and the working class.
www.wsws.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The State Department’s “public charge” directive: The reemergence of #eugenics in American #immigration policy. Just as imperialist war bolsters war on the working class at home, this targeting sick and elderly adds at home for ethnic and racist persecution. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Drop all charges against #students protesting Israeli troops at University of #Michigan! #UMich aligning with Trump's demands to turn #universities into bastions of fascist ideology, as part of erecting a dictatorship for the ruling class targeting the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Drop all charges against students protesting Israeli troops at University of Michigan!
The IYSSE at the University of Michigan denounces the arrest last month of three pro-Palestinian protesters, and the violent suppression of demonstrations against the Gaza genocide.
www.wsws.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Drop all charges against #students protesting Israeli troops at University of #Michigan! #UMich aligning with Trump's demands to turn #universities into bastions of fascist ideology, as part of erecting a dictatorship for the ruling class targeting the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Shielding the #Democrats: #RandiWeingarten’s “Why Fascists Fear #Teachers” obscures the necessary fight against #fascism. #AFT #UFT #UTLA #CTU #PFT #Educators #Schools #Parents #Students #paraprofessionals #GenreralStrike #IWARFC #SEP #socialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Shielding the Democrats: Randi Weingarten’s “Why Fascists Fear Teachers” obscures the necessary fight against fascism
The longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers and leading Democratic Party figure is incapable of presenting a historical and scientific analysis of fascism, let alone a proposal for e...
www.wsws.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Shielding the #Democrats: #RandiWeingarten’s “Why Fascists Fear #Teachers” obscures the necessary fight against #fascism. #AFT #UFT #UTLA #CTU #PFT #Educators #Schools #Parents #Students #paraprofessionals #GenreralStrike #IWARFC #SEP #socialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Philippines struck by 2 major #typhoons in a week. A million people displaced, millions left without power, 224 people killed in the 1st typhoon. The working class must mobilize its power to end profits-over-lives capitalist rule globally. Build Socialist Equality Party www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Philippines struck by 2 major typhoons in a week
The intensity of storms is being driven by climate change, a result of capitalism which places corporate profit before the needs of the working class and society as a whole.
www.wsws.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#Philippines struck by 2 major #typhoons in a week. A million people displaced, millions left without power, 224 people killed in the 1st typhoon. The working class must mobilize its power to end profits-over-lives capitalist rule globally. Build Socialist Equality Party www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
I was introduced to Hybrid Movement Company extraordinary dancing at the Symphony Space Wall-To-Wall Stevie Wonder festival. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfyt...
ON THIS JOURNEY TRAVEL LIGHT
YouTube video by Hybrid Movement
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November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I was introduced to Hybrid Movement Company extraordinary dancing at the Symphony Space Wall-To-Wall Stevie Wonder festival. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfyt...
For the 2nd year in a row, #Philadelphia #transit union officials force members to stay at work after their contract expires. #Local234 President Vera showed contempt to the membership, admitting to violating their right. #SEPTA #TWU www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
For the 2nd year in a row, Philadelphia transit union officials force members to stay at work after their contract expires
The transit union leadership has refused to call a strike following SEPTA workers’ contract expiration, a clear violation of the members’ rights to a contract.
www.wsws.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
For the 2nd year in a row, #Philadelphia #transit union officials force members to stay at work after their contract expires. #Local234 President Vera showed contempt to the membership, admitting to violating their right. #SEPTA #TWU www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Democrats move to end #shutdown, bail out #Trump. Despite huge No Kings marches, Dem sweep of elections including self-styled "democrat socialist" Mamdani, militant resistance to ICE in Chicago, Trump booed at at NFL game, & #foodstamps cuts maintained. #GeneralStrike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Democrats move to end shutdown, bail out Trump
The Democratic Party leadership is responding to the mass repudiation of Trump at the “No Kings” protests, in the streets of Chicago and at the polls November 4 by shutting down their phony display of...
www.wsws.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
#Democrats move to end #shutdown, bail out #Trump. Despite huge No Kings marches, Dem sweep of elections including self-styled "democrat socialist" Mamdani, militant resistance to ICE in Chicago, Trump booed at at NFL game, & #foodstamps cuts maintained. #GeneralStrike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Violent #ICE arrest of asylum seeker in Massachusetts causes seizure of father holding toddler.
Tearing a mother from her baby & husband - these are the same people who did this in the Holocaust murder camps & the working class must react with its power. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Tearing a mother from her baby & husband - these are the same people who did this in the Holocaust murder camps & the working class must react with its power. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Violent ICE arrest of asylum seeker in Massachusetts causes seizure of father holding toddler
Eyewitness video shows the 24-year-old father shaking in the driver’s seat while the toddler cries, causing horrified onlookers to yell at the immigration agents, while a Fitchburg police officer repe...
www.wsws.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Violent #ICE arrest of asylum seeker in Massachusetts causes seizure of father holding toddler.
Tearing a mother from her baby & husband - these are the same people who did this in the Holocaust murder camps & the working class must react with its power. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Tearing a mother from her baby & husband - these are the same people who did this in the Holocaust murder camps & the working class must react with its power. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Dmitri Shostakovich, at the age of 18, composed his First Symphony 100 years ago. A sharply knowledgable and involving review catching, as it quotes, "the true voice of history, the 'Noise of Time". www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Dmitri Shostakovich, at the age of 18, composed his First Symphony 100 years ago
Shostakovich is remembered by contemporaries who were interviewed many decades later as a student of single-minded determination, even as a young teenager.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dmitri Shostakovich, at the age of 18, composed his First Symphony 100 years ago. A sharply knowledgable and involving review catching, as it quotes, "the true voice of history, the 'Noise of Time". www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Vaccines, infections and #ChronicIllness: A new understanding. Mounting data reveal that viral pathogens are not transient threats but durable drivers of chronic conditions—chief among them, cardiovascular disease (CVD). www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Vaccines, infections and chronic diseases: A new understanding
Several new studies show that viral and bacterial infections like COVID-19 are potent drivers of “non-communicable” and especially cardiovascular diseases. This finding underscores why vaccination is ...
www.wsws.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#Vaccines, infections and #ChronicIllness: A new understanding. Mounting data reveal that viral pathogens are not transient threats but durable drivers of chronic conditions—chief among them, cardiovascular disease (CVD). www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump intensifies immigration Gestapo terror in #Chicago. New organizations of mass struggle are required. No illusions can remain in the #Democrats Party when it comes to defending against fascist attacks on the working class. #immigrants #ICE www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump intensifies immigration Gestapo terror in Chicago
In the course of the assault on the city, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino has appeared in multiple videos physically assaulting, tackling and tossing teargas canisters at demonstrators and journali...
www.wsws.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Trump intensifies immigration Gestapo terror in #Chicago. New organizations of mass struggle are required. No illusions can remain in the #Democrats Party when it comes to defending against fascist attacks on the working class. #immigrants #ICE www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
No illusions can remain in the #Democrats Party when it comes to defending against fascist attacks on the working class. Join the Socialist Equality Party meeting 11/16 for building rank-and-file committees to unite the industrial & economic power of the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
No illusions can remain in the #Democrats Party when it comes to defending against fascist attacks on the working class. Join the Socialist Equality Party meeting 11/16 for building rank-and-file committees to unite the industrial & economic power of the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Alan Gelfand: A fighter for #socialism and historical truth. "My only regret is that I may have to check out in the midst of carrying out man’s greatest achievement, the world socialist revolution, but it is comforting...many others will be carrying out that task." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Alan Gelfand: A fighter for socialism and historical truth
Alan Gelfand, whose lawsuit against the US government led to the exposure of high-level agents of the FBI and Soviet secret police in the Socialist Workers Party, died Wednesday, October 29, in Los An...
www.wsws.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Alan Gelfand: A fighter for #socialism and historical truth. "My only regret is that I may have to check out in the midst of carrying out man’s greatest achievement, the world socialist revolution, but it is comforting...many others will be carrying out that task." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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“It is high time that governments cut back on sprawling social welfare systems. Not with nail scissors, but with a scythe,” writes the European bourgeoisie. “There is no alternative.” Au contraire. The alternative is socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
IMF calls for radical reform of the European welfare state
IMF says the enormous costs of European rearmament, the consequences of the international trade war and demands made by banks and companies for increased profits are incompatible with the welfare stat...
www.wsws.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“It is high time that governments cut back on sprawling social welfare systems. Not with nail scissors, but with a scythe,” writes the European bourgeoisie. “There is no alternative.” Au contraire. The alternative is socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Online meeting November 16: Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger! Billionaires must be expropriated to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Online meeting November 16: Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger!
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
www.wsws.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Online meeting November 16: Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger! Billionaires must be expropriated to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Video leak by IDF’s chief lawyer of gang rape of #Palestinian sparks right-wing defence of torturers www.wsws.org/en/articles/... #Israel
Video leak by IDF’s chief lawyer of gang rape of Palestinian sparks right-wing defence of torturers
Despite calls to shut it down, Israel’s High Court refused to close Sde Teiman in September 2024. Instead, the public uproar centres on the fact that the abuse was made public in the first place and b...
www.wsws.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Video leak by IDF’s chief lawyer of gang rape of #Palestinian sparks right-wing defence of torturers www.wsws.org/en/articles/... #Israel
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During the very week that Tesla awarded Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package, Trump slashed food stamp funding for tens of millions of Americans. The oligarchy is enriched through the impoverishment of the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Elon Musk’s $1 trillion payout and the case for expropriation
The awarding of Musk’s pay package is, at the same time, a declaration of intent by the ruling class to massively impoverish the working class through layoffs, austerity and the destruction of social ...
www.wsws.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
During the very week that Tesla awarded Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package, Trump slashed food stamp funding for tens of millions of Americans. The oligarchy is enriched through the impoverishment of the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Elon #Musk’s $1 trillion payout and the case for expropriation - while social programs and the jobs running them, even for food, are cut. Wealth depending on a financial bubble built on increasing exploitation of workers needs to be replaced by democracy and socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Elon Musk’s $1 trillion payout and the case for expropriation
The awarding of Musk’s pay package is, at the same time, a declaration of intent by the ruling class to massively impoverish the working class through layoffs, austerity and the destruction of social ...
www.wsws.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Elon #Musk’s $1 trillion payout and the case for expropriation - while social programs and the jobs running them, even for food, are cut. Wealth depending on a financial bubble built on increasing exploitation of workers needs to be replaced by democracy and socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...