Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin: Some bluntness, and a lot of evasion
The film serves up a very limited portrait of the rise of Putin, based on a book by an Italian cultural figure and bourgeois politician.
•Andrea Peters
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No voting inside Nexteer plant! No to the fourth sellout deal! Strike Now!
In a transparent effort to silence opposition, UAW Local 699 officials intend to hold the vote inside the plant, where a worker was fired for criticizing a UAW rep during a contract rollout meeting.
•Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee
USPS worker twice exposed to acid at Arizona mega-facility
A former United States Postal Service electronics technician says he was exposed twice to muriatic acid at USPS’ massive Avondale, Arizona processing hub, according to reporting last week by the Arizona Republic.
•Max Jones
Chicago nurses vote overwhelmingly to unionize at Prime Healthcare's Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital
Chicago nurses at Prime Healthcare's Saint Mary of Nazareth voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The win against a for-profit chain with a long record of obstruction opens a longer fight over the road ahead.
•Benjamin Mateus
The US government’s multi-pronged push to coerce young people into the military
The drive to corral working class youth into uniform through automatic conscription registration, the expansion of JROTC and the deepening “economic draft” is being intensified as the US builds for World War III.
•Nancy Hanover
The ignominious role of Chile’s “left” in Kast’s sweeping assault on immigrants
Kast's program represents a social counterrevolution targeting first the most vulnerable section of the population—some 337,000 irregular immigrants and refugees.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Die Linke/Left Party congress provides a safety valve for capitalism
Every sentence of the lead motion presented at the congress is formulated in such a way that it combines mild criticism of existing conditions with a policy that is compatible with that of the federal government – and in stretches also with that of the far-right Alternative for Germany.
•Peter Schwarz
85 years since the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union
85 years ago, on June 22, 1941, the German military invaded the Soviet Union. It combined the barbarism of the Middle Ages with the most modern technology of the 20th century.
•Peter Schwarz
Ukrainian-Polish diplomatic crisis over Nazi collaboration exposes NATO war with Russia
The diplomatic crisis over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s promotion of anti-Polish Nazi-collaborationist forces during World War II is stripping away the political lies in which the NATO imperialist powers have shrouded their proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
•Alex Lantier
Australian Labor government covers up cruelty of refugee detention in Nauru
A parliamentary committee has been given evidence of the lack of medical care and other shocking conditions for detainees on the remote Pacific island.
•Mike Head
University of Michigan graduate student workers’ union extends contract
On May 1, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), Local 3350 of the American Federation of Teachers, extended the old contract with the University of Michigan and announced no plans to strike for a new agreement.
•Luke Galvin
With US-Iran negotiations on the verge of breakdown, Democrats, Republicans intensify attack on Iran agreement
The agreement between the Trump administration and Iran that suspended the four-month war began to unravel over the weekend, four days after US President Donald Trump signed it at Versailles, as leading Democrats and Republicans intensified their attack on it as a capitulation to Iran.
•Andre Damon
This week in history: June 22-28
India rail bridge collapse kills 59; Polish workers strike against price hikes imposed by Stalinist regime;; Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh appeals to the US against Britain; Spanish military officers attempt coup against Primo de Rivera
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Keiko Fujimori claims Peru election victory amid protests, fraud allegations and open US intervention
The results reflect not a popular mandate but the determination of Peru's ruling class and Washington to prevent even a hint of social reforms that could feed the class struggle.
•César Uco
DSA member Janeese Lewis George wins Washington D.C. mayoral primary, pledges to work with Trump
DSA member Janeese Lewis George won D.C.’s Democratic mayoral primary on a wave of working class radicalization—which her election will serve to contain and misdirect, not advance.
•Nick Barrickman, Pete Salmon
Turkish shipyard workers revolt against union sellout on eve of strike
At the shipyard, where 2,000 workers are employed, the workers protested the union’s sellout with chants of “Union, resign!”
•Barış Demir
New Zealand: Company, union gag workers from speaking publicly on train crash
Train services resumed on the Johnsonville line in Wellington last week following a crash on June 6 that injured six people.
•Our correspondent
“I was never a leftist,” Brazil’s Lula assures the IMF and imperialist powers at the G7
In a conversation recorded on the margins of the G7 summit, Brazilian President Lula assured the IMF’s managing director and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that he had "never" been a leftist.
•Tomas Castanheira
For a rank-and-file inquiry into UK’s Bedford train collision that killed driver and injured 100
The self-serving reassurances issued by Labour government ministers and rail executives are aimed at preventing accountability. The investigation is assigned to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, whose function is to examine the causes, not assign blame, establish liability or pursue prosecutions.
•Tony Robson, Robert Stevens
UK Labour government colludes in illegal sale of stolen Palestinian land
“The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” in London was part of an international roadshow that previously visited Toronto and New York City, encouraging prospective buyers from the United States, the UK and South Africa to “explore the best Anglo neighbourhoods” and find their “dream home”.
•Jean Shaoul
Ebola surges in central Africa as funding collapses
At four weeks, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda is three times larger than any previous epidemic at the same stage, with 894 cases and over 200 dead.
•Benjamin Mateus
Australia: Victorian educators reject AEU-Labor sellout—Build rank-and-file committees to take the struggle forward!
The overwhelming no vote was registered despite anti-democratic mechanisms the AEU deployed in an attempt to ram the deal through.
•Sue Phillips
Australian government backpaddles on cosmetic tax changes
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers fronted a media conference on Thursday to outline backflips on Labor’s minimal capital gains tax tweaks.
•Mike Head
Australia: Protester arrested in Sydney as Labor government starts demolition of public housing
The police attack demonstrates the Labor government’s determination to proceed with its plan to tear down around 150 homes by the end of June, as the first phase of demolishing all 750 homes in the Waterloo South estate over the next six to nine months.
•Zac Hambides, Martin Scott
Free Ercan Akpolat, the Turkish mayor of the historic Prinkipo island where Trotsky lived! Stop the political witch hunt by the Erdoğan regime!
Ercan Akpolat, the mayor of Büyükada—where Trotsky spent his years in exile in Turkey—has been taken into custody.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Mamdani promotes DSA candidates in New York Democratic primary election
Mamdani’s hypocrisy and opportunism are in the service of what? The promotion of the fiction that the Democratic Party—a party of the same corporate-financial oligarchy that controls the Republicans--can be reformed, as can the capitalist system.
•Sandy English, Barry Grey
Actor and author Hannah Diviney denounces Australian Labor government’s attacks on the disabled
“If you remove a disabled person’s ability to participate in society, then inevitably many will question whether they have value, whether they belong, and whether there is a place for them in the wider community.”
•Max Boddy, Richard Phillips
US-Iran deal on the verge of breakdown 48 hours after being signed
The first round of nuclear talks, scheduled to open in Switzerland, was scrapped before it began after Iran refused to send its negotiator in response to a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
•Andre Damon
Will Lehman’s nomination for UAW president: A milestone in the fight for rank-and-file power
Workers backed his campaign because it expressed their own experiences with the UAW apparatus: sellout contracts, suppression of opposition, the defense of corporate profit and the subordination of workers’ struggles to the Democratic Party and the state.
•Tom Hall
EU summit accelerates war course: Arms build-up, trade war, social cuts and anti-refugee measures
The EU summit held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday was in every respect a war summit. Behind the official formulations about “security,” “competitiveness,” “resilience” and “migration” lies a comprehensive program of rearmament, war escalation, social cuts and attacks on democratic rights.
•Johannes Stern
Democrats back Trump’s frame-up of anti-genocide protesters at the University of Michigan
State and national Democratic Party officials have either endorsed the witch-hunt or remained silent.
•Stephen St. Clair
David Hockney and the art of seeing in an age of upheaval
David Hockney’s death at 88 closes one of the most remarkable careers in modern art. His legacy is to remind us that careful looking is the beginning of understanding—but not its end.
•Paul Mitchell
Haitian asylum seeker Daphy Michel’s death ruled a homicide after ICE release in Pittsburgh
Michel’s death, apparently caused by exposure to freezing temperatures after her release from ICE custody, is another indictment of the US immigration system.
•Samuel Davidson
German court tramples on freedom of conscience to protect military advertising
A Munich Labour Court has rated the “business freedom” of local transit operator MVG higher than the freedom of conscience of a driver who refused to drive a tram covered in advertising for Germany’s armed forces.
•Robert Sutherland, Marianne Arens
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Flipkart warehouse workers strike in Haryana; Chennai urban health centre workers protest outstanding wages; Australia: Thousands of striking public hospital allied health professionals march for higher pay; Melbourne metropolitan council workers walk out again.
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Preventive arrests targeting anti-war activists ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara
The Erdoğan government is preparing for the Ankara summit by stepping up repressions against anti-NATO and anti-war opposition groups at home.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Burnham wins Makerfield by-election, clearing path for Labour leadership challenge
Burnham’s remaining rhetoric will be discarded the instant he crosses the threshold of Downing Street.
•Robert Stevens
SOAS student faces week-long trial at the Old Bailey: Drop the terrorism charges against Sarah Cotte!
Ahead of her trial, Sarah spoke with the World Socialist Web Site, outlining the significance of her case. She explained, “There’s potentially really large and quite dangerous consequences if I get a guilty verdict.”
•Laura Tiernan
Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers: A Portrait of the Artist as a Not Very Important Person
Artists of Soderbergh’s generation were cut off at the knees, so to speak, by the reactionary atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s.
•David Walsh
Mississippi cop fires on vehicle in Walmart parking lot, killing 1-year-old child
One-year old Kohen Kartier Wiley was killed and the driver was critically injured when an as yet unidentified police officer opened fire on their vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi.
•Kevin Reed
“We cannot be contained—the rebellion is real”: Autoworkers welcome nomination of Will Lehman for UAW president
Autoworkers continue to respond with enthusiasm to the nomination of Mack Trucks worker and socialist Will Lehman to run for United Auto Workers president.
•Our reporters
Obama library dedication turns presidency of war, Wall Street bailouts into Democratic Camelot
The opening of the Obama Presidential Center was an over-the-top exercise in political mythmaking, aimed at recasting a presidency of Wall Street bailouts, war, deportations and attacks on workers as a lost age of democratic progress.
•Jacob Crosse
Democratic condemnation of Trump’s Iran deal exposes bipartisan conspiracy for war
The publication of the terms of the memorandum of understanding between the Trump administration and Iran has triggered an outpouring of criticism from both the Democratic and Republican parties.
•Andre Damon
German federal government and states coordinate police, intelligence agencies, and the Bundeswehr in preparation for war
The 225th Interior Ministers’ Conference, which has been meeting in Hamburg since Wednesday, marks a new stage in the construction of a German police and military state.
•Johannes Stern
Western Balkans Summit: The EU pushes for economic and military alignment
At the EU-Western Balkans summit held on June 5 in Tivat, Montenegro, the European Union’s leading powers—above all Germany—pushed for the fastest possible integration of the Western Balkan states into the EU.
•Markus Salzmann
Fiji deaths in custody reignite allegations of state brutality
Despite “liberalising” posturing by Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, two recent deaths at the hands of the security forces prove that nothing has fundamentally changed.
•John Braddock
Sri Lanka: Residents in Colombo housing complex protest dilapidated conditions
As with all other social problems, the experiences of workers and the poor have demonstrated that the housing crisis cannot be resolved by appealing to capitalist governments.
•Our reporters
Australia’s Deakin University shelves job cuts to seek union consultation
In a tactical retreat, management has said that new cuts will be prepared after consultation processes in which the National Tertiary Education Union has signalled its readiness to play a central role.
•Eric Ludlow
New book questions official finding that fascist Brenton Tarrant acted alone in Christchurch massacre
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
•Tom Peters
US-Venezuelan forces carry out extrajudicial killing of alleged cartel leader as they bomb informal miners
Six months after US special forces abducted Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, the Chavista government is jointly operating with the US military to execute Venezuelans under indictment in US courts.
•Andrea Lobo
Striking Canadian Pacific-Kansas City rail workers confront strikebreaking operation backed up by Canada’s anti-worker labour laws
A strike, now in its third week, by 300 signalmen and communications workers at the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway has exposed once again the gaping, pro-company loopholes in federal labour law that allow employers to subvert and break legal walkouts.
•Carl Bronski
Dockworker killed in 50-foot fall at Port of Los Angeles
Marc Salgado's death exposes years of preventable fatalities and unsafe conditions fostered by union-management collaboration on the waterfront.
•Marc Wells
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Doctors in Spain walk out in further national strike over government cuts to health spending; protests in Basra, Iraq over power outages while farmers in the south and east demand restoration of wheat prices; security guards and cleaners in Germiston Municipality, South Africa continue ten-month strike to demand permanent jobs
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UK: GPs reject government-imposed contract changes, BMA diverts opposition into a “Plan B” for privatisation
NHS FightBack calls on GPs in England to vote NO in the referendum and reject the BMA’s privatisation blueprint for General Practices; government attacks must be answered by the demand for full funding.
•Rory Woods
Australia: BHP hires strikebreakers as mining workers vote for industrial action
The unions responded to BHP’s scab labour initiative by pleading for more backroom talks.
•Martin Scott
Washington’s Pax Silica and the return of extraterritoriality in the Philippines
The US plan for extraterritorial immunity over an industrial hub at its former Clark Air Base in the Philippines exposes Pax Silica as an attempt to reimpose colonial forms of rule in preparation for war.
•John Malvar
One Nation leader delivers racist, pro-business rant at Australian press club
The event underscored the bogus character of One Nation’s populist pitch, with its leader Pauline Hanson denouncing workers as “lazy” and declaring there were too many obstacles to sacking them.
•Oscar Grenfell
Mack Trucks worker and socialist Will Lehman nominated for UAW president
In a statement following the nomination, Lehman said his campaign was about “building a genuine rank-and-file movement, a movement that turns every factory into a citadel of resistance.”
•Shannon Jones
US central bank on course to tighten interest rates
In what was characterised as a “hawkish” move, the Fed’s monetary policy statement was one of the shortest on record and removed a “bias” towards lower rates.
•Nick Beams
Australian government dismisses wide opposition to disability scheme cuts
Health Minister Mark Butler rejected calls for delays in implementing changes to the NDIS, as a rushed Senate inquiry reveals what the cuts mean.
•Max Boddy
Shots fired in the Channel—Britain, Russia and the threat of World War III
European officials speak of war with Russia “by the end of the decade” or “within years” as if this is an unfortunate fact of life, not a catastrophe for humanity. Under these conditions, the smallest incident can become the starting point of a rapid escalatory spiral.
•Thomas Scripps
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The union representing Chilean dockworkers announced a June 18 strike date while nearly 3,000 Boston nurses voted June 16 by 99.6 percent to authorize a one-day strike.
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Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters face federal felony charges in Trump administration frame-up
The indictment, brought under the framework of NSPM-7, is part of a broader campaign to criminalize anti-fascist and pro-immigrant protests as “terrorism.”
•Jacob Crosse
Railroad workers at CPKC reject 9-year contract by 2-to-1 margin across 11 states
CPKC locomotive engineers voted down a nine-year concessionary contract by a 2-to-1 margin, the latest in a wave of rank-and-file revolts against the union .bureaucracy across the US railroads.
•George Gallanis
Trump strips special education and civil rights oversight from the Department of Education
There is little more than a shell remaining of the federal agency responsible for assisting public education at the state and local level.
•Renae Cassimeda
Germany deploys soldiers to classrooms as militarisation of schools accelerates
In the first quarter of 2026 alone, Bundeswehr soldiers made 2,013 vists to schools and 20 to higher education institutions nationwide – with further visits already planned.
•Joshua Seubert
Nexteer worker fired for speaking up at UAW contract meeting: “I feel like management is protecting the union from us”
Antwiane Sanders was terminated after confronting UAW International Rep Jason Tuck over the denial of back pay to workers at the Saginaw, Michigan plant.
•Antwiane Sanders
Will Lehman: 2026 UAW convention exposes “apparatus vs. the rank-and-file”
As delegates prepared to nominate candidates for international office. Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, charged that the proceedings had laid bare the gulf between the union bureaucracy and the membership it claims to represent.
•Shannon Jones
Teamsters for a Democratic Union helps return far-right Teamsters general president Sean O’Brien to power unopposed
TDU’s support for O’Brien is an expression of the reform groups integration into the Teamsters bureaucracy and indictment of the program of bureaucratic self reform
•Alex Findijs, Tom Hall
On second day of UAW convention Fain apparatus blocks debate, rams through anti-democratic motions
Dropping all pretense of “reform,” the Fain administration used anti-democratic tactics to block debate while ramming through amendments boosting the income of the apparatus, including hefty pay raises for top officials and staff.
•Shannon Jones
G7 powers make new war plans at Évian summit
The G7 summit in Évian, France marks a further step in the collapse of the postwar capitalist order and the slide now towards a Third World War.
•Peter Schwarz
Trump administration targets Gavin Newsom in latest weaponization of Justice Department
The investigation into Gavin Newsom is a dangerous escalation in Trump’s use of the Justice Department against political opponents, but the Democrats offer no defense of democratic rights.
•Jacob Crosse
Australian and New Zealand governments boost anti-China military integration
The two prime ministers reinforced the “closeness” of the countries’ military, security and intelligence partnership amid escalating US-led preparations for war.
•John Braddock
Wealth of Elon Musk rises $624 billion in 6 days
The net worth of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has increased by $624 billion in six days, to $1.32 trillion, according to figures from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
•Andre Damon
Why the Hollywood unions actually “didn’t put up a fight” this year and what that means for entertainment workers
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA contracts were not "historic victories" but a coordinated betrayal by union bureaucracies that must be fought through independent rank-and-file committees.
•Marc Wells
2 more University of Michigan anti-genocide protesters released on bond in conspiracy frame-up
Federal prosecutors are criminalizing encrypted messaging, political slogans, and protest organizing as felony conspiracies in a legal dragnet against anti-war activity.
•Stephen St. Clair
Australian central bank holds interest rates but warns of further hikes
The Reserve Bank of Australia is intent on further suppressing household spending, amid the ongoing global impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran and a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
•Mike Head
China’s exports surge as domestic economy weakens
Data released yesterday show that retail sales for May fell at the fastest rate since the end of 2022 when COVID restrictions were lifted and the virus swept through the country.
•Nick Beams
Indonesia: 4 military personnel jailed for acid attack on rights activist
The trial was a whitewash designed to cover up the wider role of the military while sending a menacing message to anyone critical of the government or armed forces.
•Ben McGrath
Threat of US military action against Cuba mounts with Iran ceasefire
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
•Andrea Lobo
Faces of defiance: Newly unearthed photos document the 1944 Kaisariani massacre of 200 Greek communists by the Nazis
For the first time, newly discovered photos of the Nazi massacre at Kaisariani give a face to the 200 Greek resistance fighters, including twelve Trotskyists, and reveal their courageous defiance.
•Katja Rippert
UK Court of Appeal confirms Palestine Action ban in landmark attack on democratic rights
The fact that the ruling made specific reference to the war in Ukraine, NATO and the Five Eyes surveillance alliance makes clear the motivations behind the crackdown.
•Robert Stevens
UAW convention opens in Detroit amid rebellion by auto parts workers
The complacent and self-congratulatory speeches from the convention podium avoided all mention of the drive by the Trump administration to establish a fascist dictatorship or the seething rank-and-file discontent expressed in a series of contract rejections by auto parts workers.
•Shannon Jones
Australia: Broad opposition to Labor’s NDIS bill that cuts support for disabled
The Labor government’s far-reaching assault on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has provoked an outpouring of anger from disabled people, their families and advocacy organisations.
•Richard Phillips
Corporate thugs open fire on miners in Türkiye
Company thugs opened fire on the Özşen Mining workers and their families, who were staging a sit-in to demand payment of their wages.
•Barış Demir
Africa’s billionaires and the causes of the continent’s poverty
Africa’s four richest billionaires own $57.4 billion—more than the combined wealth of half the continent’s 1.5 billion population
•Jean Shaoul
Australia’s educators online meeting exposes AEU suppression of opposition to sellout deal
Teachers, support workers and student teachers spoke out against the intolerable conditions in public schools and the Australian Education Union’s anti-democratic methods.
•Our reporters
Pro-Zionist organization files discrimination charges against National Education Assocation
The suit claims the teachers’ union created a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli members, particularly at a July 2025 Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon.
•Marc Wells
Auto supplier IAV to shutter Berlin site: Form an action committee to defend every job!
As early as December 2025, IAV management announced its intention to eliminate roughly 1,500 jobs this year. Over the course of seven rounds of negotiations with management to date, union officials have, in their own words, proven themselves “willing to compromise.”
•Ludwig Weller
US imperialism’s debacle in Iran
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
•Andre Damon
Sri Lanka: JVP-led government’s broken promise on provincial council elections
For nearly a decade, successive governments have refused to hold elections for the provincial councils in flagrant violation of the country’s constitution.
•Rohantha De Silva, Wasantha Rupasinghe
UAW officials rush through sellout contract at American Axle on eve of Detroit convention
The UAW bureaucracy gave workers less than 48 hours to review the 118-page agreement, and threatened that workers would be replaced with strikebreakers if they rejected the pro-company deal.
•Kevin Reed
FIFA World Cup 2026: “The beautiful game” in grip of Trump and financial oligarchy
The tournament has been transformed into a platform for imperialist arrogance, militarism and anti-immigrant chauvinism by the Trump administration, without protest by FIFA and its co-hosts.
•Andrea Lobo
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi member speaks against the armed attack on miners in Türkiye
At the protest held in Izmir, a Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi member denounced the armed attack on miners and called for a broader mobilisation of the working class.
•Can Denizli
The NY Knicks championship and the social reality behind New York’s “impossible joy”
The reaction to the Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years is not simply about basketball. It expresses, in distorted form, immense social tensions for which workers and youth have been denied any progressive political outlet.
•Jacob Crosse, Barry Grey
Britain seizes Russian tanker as drumbeat for more military spending grows louder
If Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer does not succeed in meeting the demands of the warmongers, then replacements are waiting in the wings to implement their agenda.
•Thomas Scripps
Mobilise resident doctors against the BMA sellout deal with Starmer government
As a matter of principle, no offer should be used to call off mandated strike action before British Medical Association members have been given time to scrutinise its contents and determine whether it meets their demands.
•Tony Robson
Capitalist oligarchy, the UAW and the class struggle
On the eve of the UAW Constitutional Convention, American capitalism has minted its first trillionaire, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
•Socialist Equality Party
Trump’s White House cage match: A fascistic exercise in sadism
It would be difficult to conjure up a more grotesque expression of the collapse of American democracy and the depravity of American capitalism in its death agony.
•Barry Grey
This week in history: June 15-21
Lori Berenson show trial in Peru; Soweto uprising in South Africa; Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act; German working class votes to expropriate the former monarchs.
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