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Residents of East Palestine, Ohio say they have long-term health problems stemming from the massive derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in February 2023.
January 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Even Thatcher feigned sympathy for hunger strikers. Starmer is brazen in his heartlessness. But the reactionary British ruling class cannot be overthrown by a few heroic martyrs. The working class must sweep it away. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Palestine Action political prisoners starving to death as Labour government refuses to intervene
Starmer’s Labour Party is less concerned to show a trace of sympathy and concern than even Margaret Thatcher’s government was at the height of British imperialism’s “Dirty War” against the Irish Repub...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The resignation of Yermak, Zelensky’s chief of staff, removes an obstacle to US attempts to negotiate peace with Russia. It also significantly weakens Zelensky’s political standing. But the crucial factor will be the intervention of the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Zelensky’s chief of staff and closest ally forced to resign amid massive corruption scandal
With Yermak’s ouster amid peace negotiations with Russia and growing popular anger, the fate of the Zelensky regime is hanging by a thread.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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A film that attempts to depict the Nuremberg Trials is certainly welcome at this moment, when genocide and fascist dictatorship have once more begun to threaten humanity.

#fascism

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<em>Nuremberg</em>: Where does fascist barbarism come from?
The film gives a largely accurate account of the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, but it seeks the cause of the Nazis’ crimes in their individual psychology.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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On Monday, Trump plans to deport 83 people from the US to Ukraine, where they will be drafted. In this bloody war, being drafted is tantamount to a death sentence. Workers must halt this illegal deportation and defend basic rights! 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—first mass deportation to the country in years—where they face immediate conscription and deployment to the front.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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In Chicago, ICE agents handcuffed an employee of a news organization, rammed a vehicle into that of an innocent commuter, and attempted to break into workers' homes. The working class must put an end to this fascistic violence. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump’s war on American cities escalates, as troops arrive in Memphis and immigration Gestapo assault and kidnap Chicago residents
Far from opposing Trump’s coming dictatorship, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, following in the footsteps of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has deployed State police to protect the immigration Gesta...
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October 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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David Walsh has written a valuable appreciation of Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and, in her words, "a cinema that is no more." Cardinale's death raises the question of the enormous decline in European cinema after the early 1970s. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and European cinema of the 1960s
For her beauty, intelligence and personal strength, she was sought out by many filmmakers.
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October 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM