Alexander Fangmann
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Trump’s attempts to assert absolute control over academic and cultural life reflect a ruling class that has reached an impasse. It is at war with science, culture and all progressive thought. Above all, it is at war with the working class.
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Trump’s attempts to assert absolute control over academic and cultural life reflect a ruling class that has reached an impasse. It is at war with science, culture and all progressive thought. Above all, it is at war with the working class.
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April 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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On Saturday, May 3, the ICFI and the WSWS will hold our annual International Online #MayDay Rally, uniting workers from across the globe in the fight against fascism, dictatorship, and war
#socialism
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#socialism
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International May Day 2025 Online Rally
On Saturday, May 3, the International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site will hold our annual International Online May Day Rally, uniting workers from across the gl...
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April 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
On Saturday, May 3, the ICFI and the WSWS will hold our annual International Online #MayDay Rally, uniting workers from across the globe in the fight against fascism, dictatorship, and war
#socialism
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#socialism
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In currency markets an index of the US dollar against a basket of a dozen of its peers fell 1.9 percent amid growing questions about what the economic war means for its status as the global reserve currency.
#dollars #tariffs
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#dollars #tariffs
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Wall Street tumbles again as “euphoria” gives way to fear
In currency markets an index of the US dollar against a basket of a dozen of its peers fell 1.9 percent amid growing questions about what the economic war means for its status as the global reserve cu...
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April 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In currency markets an index of the US dollar against a basket of a dozen of its peers fell 1.9 percent amid growing questions about what the economic war means for its status as the global reserve currency.
#dollars #tariffs
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#dollars #tariffs
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In his executive order related to the Smithsonian, Trump is using the fight against identity politics as a pretext to destroy the legitimate cultural, historical, and scientific contributions that the Smithsonian makes. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump vandals seize the Smithsonian Institution
As a part of its plan to wreck the democratic principles embedded in American culture, the Trump administration issued an executive order last week to impose a fascist-like conformity on the Smithsoni...
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April 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In his executive order related to the Smithsonian, Trump is using the fight against identity politics as a pretext to destroy the legitimate cultural, historical, and scientific contributions that the Smithsonian makes. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
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What the UAW’s 2024 financial filing says about Fain’s “union reform”
The UAW International’s top 15 officers were paid a reported $3.2 million in salaries and disbursements.
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The UAW International’s top 15 officers were paid a reported $3.2 million in salaries and disbursements.
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What the UAW’s 2024 financial filing says about Fain’s “union reform”
During a year in which workers saw their living standards devastated by inflation and thousands of UAW members lost their jobs, the army of UAW bureaucrats in the union’s Detroit national headquarters...
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April 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
What the UAW’s 2024 financial filing says about Fain’s “union reform”
The UAW International’s top 15 officers were paid a reported $3.2 million in salaries and disbursements.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The UAW International’s top 15 officers were paid a reported $3.2 million in salaries and disbursements.
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The mass firings at HHS, and Trump’s war on science in general, are leading most scientists to consider leaving the US. This imminent brain drain would spell the end of American scientific leadership. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mass firings at HHS signal next phase in the Trump-Kennedy war on science and public health
The Trump administration is gutting agencies, systematically firing scientists and health workers without cause and dispensing with thousands of years of collective knowledge and expertise.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The mass firings at HHS, and Trump’s war on science in general, are leading most scientists to consider leaving the US. This imminent brain drain would spell the end of American scientific leadership. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Lula imposes silence on the anniversary of the 1964 military coup in Brazil
While the Lula government has adopted a cowardly and capitulating silence on the 1964 coup and the military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has done exactly the opposite.
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While the Lula government has adopted a cowardly and capitulating silence on the 1964 coup and the military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has done exactly the opposite.
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Lula imposes silence on the anniversary of the 1964 military coup in Brazil
To avoid friction with the Armed Forces, infested with fascist apologists for the dictatorship, the official policy of the Lula government was to ignore the date.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Lula imposes silence on the anniversary of the 1964 military coup in Brazil
While the Lula government has adopted a cowardly and capitulating silence on the 1964 coup and the military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has done exactly the opposite.
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While the Lula government has adopted a cowardly and capitulating silence on the 1964 coup and the military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has done exactly the opposite.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The unexpected fall in the US stock market has international economists suggesting that the end of “American exceptionalism” is at hand. Could the end of dollar dominance be far off? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Time is being called on “US exceptionalism”
The belief, widely held as recently as the start of the year, that the US economy and stock market would continue to power ahead is being brought into question as all the institutions of post-war capi...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The unexpected fall in the US stock market has international economists suggesting that the end of “American exceptionalism” is at hand. Could the end of dollar dominance be far off? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
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USDA Terminates National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) and National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI) #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver
USDA Terminates National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) and National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI). - FoodSafetyTech
Two key food safety advisory committees have been terminated—the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) and National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI).
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March 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
USDA Terminates National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) and National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI) #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver
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Trump wants to eliminate the Institute for Museum and Library Services: the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services. This is an appalling attack on culture and on the development of critical thinking. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump seeks to abolish crucial library and museum service
Trump’s action has cut off a financial lifeline to museums and libraries, already woefully underfunded. Seventy-five staff will also lose their jobs.
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March 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Trump wants to eliminate the Institute for Museum and Library Services: the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services. This is an appalling attack on culture and on the development of critical thinking. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Unions prepared to collaborate as #USPS announces agreement with #DOGE to slash spending
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Unions prepared to collaborate as USPS announces agreement with DOGE to slash spending
Urgent action is required by the working class to halt the attacks on postal workers, up to and including strike action.
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March 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Unions prepared to collaborate as #USPS announces agreement with #DOGE to slash spending
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
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Second anti-genocide student protester at Columbia arrested by Trump's immigration police
The latest arrest follows last Saturday’s kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old graduate of Columbia and green card holder.
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The latest arrest follows last Saturday’s kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old graduate of Columbia and green card holder.
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Second anti-genocide student protester at Columbia arrested by Trump's immigration police
On Friday, Trump’s Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche threatened to pursue “terrorism” charges against universities and students for previously protesting war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Second anti-genocide student protester at Columbia arrested by Trump's immigration police
The latest arrest follows last Saturday’s kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old graduate of Columbia and green card holder.
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The latest arrest follows last Saturday’s kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old graduate of Columbia and green card holder.
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Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” US and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
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Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” US and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
March 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” US and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
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Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” US and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
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The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship
Given the opportunity to cut off funding for Trump’s government on Friday, the Democrats instead ensured that it remained fully operational.
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Given the opportunity to cut off funding for Trump’s government on Friday, the Democrats instead ensured that it remained fully operational.
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The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship
Given the opportunity to cut off funding for the government, the Democrats instead ensured that Trump's administration remained fully operational.
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March 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship
Given the opportunity to cut off funding for Trump’s government on Friday, the Democrats instead ensured that it remained fully operational.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Given the opportunity to cut off funding for Trump’s government on Friday, the Democrats instead ensured that it remained fully operational.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...