Anheuser-Busch to close 3 breweries in the US, affecting hundreds of jobs
The closures expose claims from the Teamsters that they were protecting job security in their 2024 sellout contract.
•Alex Findijs
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Reactionary shooting in Sydney kills 15 people
Jewish people and their children living in Australia bear no responsibility for the ongoing slaughter by the Israeli Zionist regime in Gaza and the occupied West Bank of Palestine.
•Mike Head
DHS claims over 400 taken as ICE agents continue lawless kidnapping campaign in Minnesota
Construction workers, US citizens and even Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son have been accosted by the immigration Gestapo.
•Jacob Crosse
The backdrop to Putin’s negotiations with Trump: A deepening domestic crisis
Whatever deal may be reached, it will not be a solution to the structural crisis of Russian capitalism and the imperialist efforts to carve up the entire former Soviet Union to bring its resources under the direct control of the imperialist powers.
•Evgeny Kostrov
Trump says US will start ground attacks “soon” as US surges military assets near Venezuela
US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States would begin ground attacks in the Caribbean on Venezuela “pretty soon,” raising the prospect of a US aerial bombardment of Venezuela.
•Andre Damon
The anti–public health agenda and the resurgence of measles in America
The measles outbreak in South Carolina exposes the social and political roots of vaccine refusal and the broader assault on public health institutions in the United States.
•Benjamin Mateus
Postal employees say coworker died on the job at Morgan PDC in Midtown Manhattan
At the time of writing, neither the postal service nor the postal unions have issued any public statement acknowledging the worker's death or explaining the circumstances surrounding it.
•Robert Milkowski, A. Woodson
GM moves to permanently lay off 1,145 workers at Factory Zero amid record profits and UAW silence
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy has not even made a pretense of opposing the mass layoffs, which will only deepen the social crisis in Detroit, the poorest big city in America.
•Jerry White
Two longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyists die
The SEP sadly announces the death of two working class comrades R. M. Gunathilake (87) and Leela Balasuriya (79). We will publish tributes in the coming days.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt: Zero net displacement on a flat plane
It sets out the various sides in an episode where a sexual assault has been alleged with such even-handedness that drawing larger conclusions is challenging.
•David Walsh
Aggressive use by Australian Tax Office of private debt collectors
The ATO’s crackdown on working-class individuals and small businesses is occurring amid a historic cost-of-living crisis.
•Vicki Mylonas
Two dead and nine injured in mass shooting at Brown University
A “person of interest” has been detained by police following a mass shooting in a classroom at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday.
•Kevin Reed
Stellantis relies on unions to set pay scales based on nationality at Serbian plant
Stellantis exploits Kragujevac workers through nationality-based wage tiers and forced migration.
•Marc Wells
This week in history: December 15-21
Chinese security forces jail strike leader; Algeria expels 350,000 Moroccans; Truman declares national emergency after Korean War defeats; Russian Communist Party adopts “socialism in one country."
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Uncontrolled global warming causes devastating storms and floods
Across the globe, severe weather due to climate change is causing thousands of deaths and widespread destruction.
•Philip Guelpa
Germany’s Left Party attacks its own youth organisation over Gaza resolution: Why young people need a genuine socialist alternative
The Left Party has launched a ferocious campaign against its own youth organisation after it explicitly described Israel’s assault on Gaza as genocide. The episode exposes the party’s deep integration into the German state apparatus and underlines why young people need a genuine socialist alternative rooted in internationalism and the working class.
•Tamino Dreisam, Johannes Stern
US-UK medicines deal could lead to over 15,000 deaths per year in the UK
The US trade deal was Starmer’s attempt to secure an advantage over Europe in the UK’s dealings with America. The pharmaceuticals scandal makes clear that any favourable treatment secured by Labour was won by selling the working class down the river.
•Tania Kent
Europe’s governments plot abrogation of immigrant rights
From Social Democrats to fascist parties, all are pushing towards an agreement by the spring of 2026 that will spell the end of any commitment to the universalist principles proclaimed in the European Convention on Human Rights in the aftermath of the horrific crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II.
•Jordan Shilton
Democrats release small group of photos from massive Epstein trove
Leading House Democrats released two groups of pictures—first, 19 and then later, another 70—on Friday from a reported trove of 95,000 photos that were turned over to the Oversight Committee on Thursday by the Epstein estate.
•Kevin Reed
Australia: Staff members expose disastrous “Reset” at Western Sydney University
Many displaced WSU workers are being shunted into lower-paid positions, face higher workloads or are yet to be allocated alternative positions.
•A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member
New York healthcare workers speak out amid strike authorization vote
Understaffing and the federal designation of nursing as a nonprofessional degree are arousing healthcare workers’ opposition.
•Erik Schreiber, Steve Light
Democrats join Republicans to grant Trump $1 trillion in military spending for 2026
Democratic Party leaders voted for the record Pentagon spending bill, as the Trump administration deploys F-35s and electronic warfare jets to the Caribbean in preparation for war against Venezuela.
•Andre Damon
US, Australia, UK pledge “full steam ahead” on AUKUS preparations for war against China
The Washington meetings raised questions that were not publicly answered, including whether the Australian Labor government gave commitments to increase military spending beyond even the current record levels.
•Oscar Grenfell
Detroit: Leland House tenants forced to evacuate due to power outage; Alden Towers residents without heat for one month
Residents of two historic downtown Detroit building face loss of utilities due to landlord neglect in the midst of cold wave.
•Shannon Jones
Italy’s general strike exposes workers’ opposition to austerity and war—and the treachery of the union bureaucracy
The strike reflects rising worker militancy against Meloni’s war budget, as CGIL leaders act to limit, defuse and control the opposition.
•Marc Wells
Sri Lankan fake-left FSP offers to aid government amid crisis over cyclone devastation
The Frontline Socialist Party’s proposals to the JVP/NPP government are to help cover up its responsibility for the disaster and the capitalist system that produced it.
•K. Ratnayake
The science and politics of ultra-processed foods
A new Lancet Series presents the most comprehensive scientific assessment to date of ultra-processed foods. Its findings expose a global health crisis driven by industry profit, political inertia, and the transformation of food systems worldwide.
•Benjamin Mateus
Deutsche Bahn: More deaths and a mounting number of victims on Germany’s railway tracks
A wave of serious and fatal workplace accidents at Deutsche Bahn has claimed numerous lives in 2025, exposing recurring patterns of danger in shunting yards, track construction sites and overhead line work.
•Marianne Arens
Job losses in Massachusetts hit retail, biotech, healthcare and education sectors
The 11,000-plus job cuts in September 2025 were the largest monthly loss of jobs in the state since the onset of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
•T.J. Garrison
DHS secretary Kristi Noem before Congress: Fascist lies and Democratic Party pretense
The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security arrogantly denied any violations of democratic rights by the ICE and Border Patrol gestapo, and walked out of the hearing before it was half over, thumbing her nose at Democratic Party protests.
•Patrick Martin
Brazil’s Lula uses imperialist intervention in Venezuela as bargaining chip with Trump
The Workers Party government has marked a new stage in its subordination of to imperialist dictates just as Washington prepares open war against a neighboring country.
•Eduardo Parati
Sri Lanka: Cyclone-affected plantation workers demand decent houses in safe places
Nuwara Eliya district, predominantly inhabited by Tamil-speaking tea plantation workers earning low wages, is among the worst affected by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides, and stone slides caused by the cyclone.
•G. Devakumar, M. Thevarajah
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Construction workers in Tamil Nadu demand minimum wage; Assam 108 Ambulance emergency workers remain on strike; Australia: Bookstore workers to walk out for better pay and conditions; Healthscope theatre nurses strike in Victoria; New Zealand firefighters continue walkout.
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NDP blocks anti-genocide activist Yves Engler’s leadership bid over his opposition to Canadian imperialist aggression
The bureaucratic exclusion of Engler is entirely of a piece with the NDP’s broader record.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Greater Manchester tram drivers to strike over fatigue
Tram drivers cannot entrust their dispute to the Unite apparatus, which attempted to sabotage their struggle before it even started.
•Dennis Moore, Tony Robson
UK teachers in Bacup secondary school continue strike to oppose online virtual teachers replacing teachers in the classroom
The strike underlines the ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention--bound up with decades of funding cuts, curriculum reforms and attacks on conditions in UK schools.
•our reporters
Reject BMA leaders’ sell-out of resident doctors: for a rank-and file fightback to unite NHS workers against Starmer!
Doctors have immense public support. Their fight is not a narrow pay issue but part of a broader political confrontation. It can become a rallying point for all National Health Service workers against the Starmer government’s austerity, privatisation and militarism.
•NHS FightBack
DEM Party international conference: The bankruptcy of the nationalist perspective
One of the main functions of the conference was to spread the illusion that negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), supported by US and European imperialism, could bring about democratization and peace, and to endorse Öcalan’s role and the anti-Marxist postmodern perspective he has developed.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
General strike brings Portugal to a standstill
Portugal’s first general strike in twelve years, jointly called by the Socialist Party (PS) aligned UGT and the Communist Party (PCP) aligned CGTP, shook the country, confirming and extending the escalating class struggle across Europe.
•Paul Mitchell
Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Today the International Committee of the Fourth International inaugurates Socialism AI, a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
•WSWS International Editorial Board
US government brands DACA recipient Yaa’kub Vijandre a “terrorist” for opposing genocide in Gaza
The US government has held Vijandre, a Dallas resident, in immigration detention for over nine weeks despite admitting in court filings that he has committed no crimes and that the only “evidence” of his alleged “terrorism” consists of social media posts protected under the First Amendment.
•Jacob Crosse
“The people doing the work should be making the money”: On Toledo, Ohio picket line Libbey Glass workers discuss 4-month strike
Now almost in their fourth month of strike, 650 workers at Libbey Glass in Toledo are determined to continue their fight despite pressure by the United Steelworkers International leadership to capitulate to management demands.
•Jerry White
White House plans oil blockade of Venezuela in drive for regime change
Reuters reported Thursday that the US has assembled a "target list" of tankers for seizure of oil tankers as the administration openly declares its intention to overthrow Maduro.
•Andre Damon
Firefighter killed, homes destroyed in Australian bushfires
Record temperatures, strong winds and a high fuel load built up over several wet years created the conditions for catastrophic fires last week in New South Wales and Tasmania.
•Jenny Campbell
Australia’s social media ban sets global precedent for online censorship
The real aim of the ban is to suppress growing opposition among young people to war, austerity and dictatorship and to prevent it finding organized political expression.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australia: Concerns that unsafe conditions killed 2 Queensland building workers
Family members and building workers are raising concerns about the reported lack of safety precautions involved.
•Our correspondents
Federal government loosens track inspection requirements in latest gift to railroads
The move will lead to more frequent derailments, which already take place three times a day on average.
•Bill Mertz
European powers strive to prolong war in Ukraine
After four years of war, hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed, and millions of refugees, NATO's war against Russia has reached an impasse.
•Peter Schwarz
Vote NO on the UTR–WCCUSD tentative agreement! Teachers must seize control of the struggle and expand it!
After Teamsters shattered the strike's unity, UTR followed suit, imposing a sellout deal that betrays teachers and protects austerity.
•Marc Wells, David Benson
Québec Solidaire chooses right-wing nationalist Sol Zanetti as co-spokesperson
Speaking for privileged sections of the middle class, QS serves the faction of the Quebec ruling class that sees the creation of a third imperialist state in North America as a means of intensifying the exploitation of workers and more effectively advancing its own economic and geostrategic interests.
•Hugo Maltais
Growing resistance to IG Metall union at Berlin Mercedes plant
The WSWS and the SGP propose the establishment of an independent rank-and-file committee to discuss how to fight layoffs and social cuts and why a new organizational structure is necessary.
•Ludwig Weller, Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Video: Workers speak on Cyclone Ditwah disaster and government neglect in Sri Lanka
In this video, Sri Lankan workers and villagers devastated by Cyclone Ditwah speak out about the catastrophic flooding, government negligence, and the urgent need for real change.
•Our reporters
BSW Congress: Why Sahra Wagenknecht’s party in Germany is not an anti-war party
The Wagenknecht party is responding to falling poll numbers by continuing its anti-war rhetoric in order to win back voters, while ruthlessly pressing ahead with its right-wing, pro-capitalist programme. This exposes all its bluster against war as empty chatter.
•Christoph Vandreier
Sri Lankan workers in Biyagama FTZ blame authorities for cyclone disaster
Workers, small shop owners and residents described to reporters the terrifying impact of the disaster, the repeated flooding they endure and the destruction caused this time by the overflowing Kelani River.
•Our reporters
Executions in Florida and Tennessee as state killing spree reaches highest level in over a decade
The increase in state-sanctioned killings, concentrated in just a few states, is a terrifying measure of the political brutality currently promoted by the Trump administration and gripping the American justice system.
•Kate Randall
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
National strike in Greece by construction workers over fatality on building site blamed on unsafe conditions; deepening economic crisis fuels continuing strikes and protests in Iran; staff at African National Congress headquarters picket ANC 5th National General Council over salary delays and unpaid bonuses
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The “Your Party” debacle, Socialism AI and the fight for a revolutionary party
The Socialist Equality Party fights to arm the working class with a revolutionary perspective. We not only reject entirely the demoralised argument that reformist consciousness cannot be challenged. We are preparing the most powerful means of doing so.
•Chris Marsden
Five countries boycott Eurovision Song Contest protesting inclusion of Israel
It is highly likely that there will be further boycotts of next year’s contest, given that Israel is a global pariah.
•Robert Stevens, Paul Mitchell
60,000 multimillionaires own 3 times more wealth than half the world’s population
An infinitesimal 0.001 percent of the world’s population controls society through its vast wealth.
•Patrick Martin
US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker in act of international piracy, as Trump escalates war preparations
The US military seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a brazen act of piracy that marks a major escalation in President Donald Trump's war preparations against the South American country.
•Andre Damon
“The union lets them get away with everything”: GM Factory Zero workers denounce UAW complicity, call for fight against mass layoffs
With the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers at assembly plant scheduled for January 5, workers are looking for a way to defend their jobs.
•Jerry White
DSA’s Janeese Lewis George seeks DC mayor’s office after Bowser declines fourth term
Seeking to replicate Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York City, DSA-backed Janeese Lewis George’s candidacy for mayor is another trap aimed at dragooning workers and youth back into the dead end of the Democratic Party and electoral politics.
•Pete Salmon
Union Pacific conductor killed in Ontario, California
Steve “Lil” Crowe died in a collision at a vehicle crossing while performing a “shoving movement,” a common but extremely dangerous maneuver.
•Isaac de Vries, Marc Wells
Over 7 million people to face higher student loan repayments after Trump administration ends Biden-era program
The ending of the SAVE program will force millions of people with student loans to use costlier repayment programs, many of which do not have any mechanism for loan forgiveness.
•Jacob Crosse
US Federal Reserve cuts interest rate in split decision
In his remarks following the decision, Fed chair Jerome Powell said inflation risks were tilted to the upside and for the labour market to the downside.
•Nick Beams
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein: The latest film interpretation of Mary Shelley’s novel
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a visually imaginative work to some extent with a number of urgent and disturbing sequences and an overall gravitas.
•Joanne Laurier
Zohran Mamdani prepares for office by courting billionaires
Mamdani is turning to New York City’s wealthy elite for fundraising while he invites big business to advise his transition.
•Daniel de Vries
Australian Labor government scraps energy bill rebates
Ending temporary band-aids on soaring prices for domestic electricity and gas services will intensify the cost-of-living crisis for working-class households.
•Mike Head
The Gelfand Case: Depositions and the fight against summary judgement
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
•John Burton
Tanzania’s CCM regime imposes nationwide state terror on Independence Day
The government ordered civilians to remain indoors, leaving streets deserted and shops shuttered. Fuel stations were closed and public transport was suspended. Access to social media was severely restricted, following days of mass arrests.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Denmark’s Social Democratic government leads Europe’s vicious anti-immigrant crackdown, allied with Italy’s fascist Meloni
Denmark’s Social Democrat-led government has used its six-month chairmanship of the European Union (EU) Council to expand the country’s cooperation with fascist Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, especially in the fields of immigration and refugee policy.
•Jordan Shilton
Mobilize to stop GM layoffs at Factory Zero in Detroit—Build Rank-and-File Committees
The layoffs at GM are part of a growing global jobs massacre by a money mad ruling class.
•Shannon Jones
German government’s drug commissioner advocates restricting medical care for the elderly
Drug commissioner Hendrik Streeck (CDU) has underlined the inhumane and de facto murderous measures the ruling class is prepared to take by proposing drastic cuts to medical care for the elderly.
•Markus Salzmann, Tino Jacobson
White House doubles down on September 2 boat strike cover-up
US President Trump on Tuesday reneged on his earlier statement that he would have “no problem” with releasing the video of the September 2 murder of 11 unarmed civilians, declaring, “I didn’t say that.”
•Andre Damon
Teachers in West Contra Costa speak out: “We need a general strike to fight the oligarchs”
The strike by teachers in the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) in California has reached its fourth day, under conditions of intensifying pressure from the district, the Democrats and the union apparatus to shut it down.
•David Benson, Renae Cassimeda
Mount Sinai Hospital disciplines New York nurses who raised safety concerns
Management refused to tolerate nurses discussing how to improve security after an attempted shooting in the emergency room.
•Erik Schreiber
Former deputy Australian prime minister defects to far-right One Nation
Barnaby Joyce’s decision to join the far-right party is another expression of the crisis of the conservative Liberal-National Coalition and the lurch to the right by the entire political establishment.
•Oscar Grenfell
Expert report shatters fraudulent case against Bogdan Syrotiuk: Deepen the international campaign for his freedom!
The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a forensic linguistic analysis that shatters the fraudulent case against him.
•Johannes Stern
Legendary Stax Records guitarist Steve Cropper (1941-2025)
The death of Booker T. & the M.G.s’ guitarist Steve Cropper is something of an end of an era for soul and rock and roll.
•James Brewer
More than 1 million people in Germany without housing
The number of people without housing in Germany has soared above 1 million for the first time, exposing the devastating impact of soaring rents, forced evictions and relentless social cuts.
•Tino Jacobson, Markus Salzmann
Hundreds of high school students in Oregon and Minnesota walk out to protest ICE kidnapping operations
Following mass walkouts and abstentions in North Carolina in response to ICE raids, students in Minnesota and Oregon have walked out of class this week in defense of immigrants.
•Jacob Crosse
China trade surplus tops $1 trillion
Cuts in exports to the US due to Trump’s tariffs have been more than compensated for by the sharp increase in Chinese exports to the rest of the world.
•Nick Beams
UK inquiry told special forces had “deliberate policy” to “kill fighting-aged males” in Afghanistan
N1466 is the highest-ranking former special forces officer to provide evidence of war crimes. He was the assistant chief of staff for operations in UKSF headquarters.
•Harvey Thompson
Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler 1956–2025: Trotskyist and fighter for the working class
Elli devoted her entire adult life to building a better, socialist society. She joined the Trotskyist movement in 1975 and remained an active and leading member for the rest of her life.
•Marianne Arens, Peter Schwarz
Philadelphia transit and trade union officials announce tentative agreement to keep workers on the job days before Christmas
The deal between TWU Local 234 and SEPTA is aimed at blocking resistance of workers to the Democrats and the Trump administration.
•Nick Barrickman
Tens of thousands of students strike throughout Germany against militarisation and conscription
Tens of thousands of students across Germany walked out of lessons to oppose the reintroduction of conscription, denouncing the government’s militarisation drive and the growing danger of a third world war.
•our reporters
Leading Ukrainian criminologist finds charges of “state treason” against Bogdan Syrotiuk baseless
The linguistic examination by Yuri Irkhin, one of Ukraine’s leading criminologist, marks not only a major setback for the prosecution. It is also a powerful vindication of the principled opposition by the Trotskyist movement to the war in Ukraine.
•Clara Weiss
Trump’s National Security Strategy deepens split within NATO
The US intends to interfere in the internal affairs of its NATO partners, break up the European Union, strengthen fascist parties, and help enforce racist remigration policies.
•Peter Schwarz
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Bus drivers, pensioners and people with disabilities were among those conducting strikes and protests against government policy in Argentina, while 750 Canadian Air Transat pilots could walk out later this week.
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Fraud charges mount in Honduras after week-long vote count and no clear winner
The Honduran election has been overshadowed by naked imperialist intervention, with Trump vowing there would be “hell to pay” if the country failed to elect his chosen candidate.
•Bill Van Auken
The Bondi memorandum: FBI, DOJ seek to outlaw political opposition
A memorandum from Attorney General Pam Bondi spells out a series of actions to be taken against those who oppose mass detention and deportation of immigrants or advocate “anti-capitalism.”
•Patrick Martin
“Our family wants answers that we have not gotten”: 8 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
•Jerry White
Supreme Court poised to empower Trump to fire independent regulators without cause
In oral arguments Monday in the case Trump v Slaughter, Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority signaled their willingness to grant Trump power to fire agency heads and board members created by Congress, for not adhering to his fascist agenda.
•Jacob Crosse
Vote NO on the West Contra Costa schools sellout deal! Organize rank-and-file committees to unite educators and school support workers!
The deal for classified staff in the Northern Californian school district is almost identical to one which workers overwhelmingly rejected only two weeks ago, and isolates 1,500 striking teachers in the district.
•Marc Wells
Zohran Mamdani, Jessica Tisch and the NYPD’s mass surveillance program
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has reappointed Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, a woman directly responsible for the NYPD’s massive spying on New York’s population.
•Sandy English
Top Ontario union official defends Tory government’s multi-billion-dollar training program amid fraud scandal
Speaking at a blue-chip luncheon, the Labourers’ International Union of North America’s Canadian director gave a full-throated defence of Premier Ford and his labour minister in the face of reports showing hundreds of millions in job-training funds have been funnelled to the government’s union and business cronies.
•Carl Bronski
Sri Lanka: Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah in war-ravaged Northern Province accuse government of negligence
In the predominantly Tamil Northern Province, the death toll stands at nine, with four people reported missing.
•Our reporters
Australian safety regulator’s initial report on fatal Cobar mine explosion: more questions than answers
The NSW Resources Regulator’s November 25 “Investigation information release” neither explains what caused the tragedy nor makes any recommendation for how to stop more workers being killed.
•Martin Scott
New Zealand Defence Force aims to double recruitment
The Defence Force head told MPs military recruitment must be raised significantly higher, just as it was before the two world wars.
•John Braddock
English folk singer and guitarist Martin Carthy: An appraisal of his six-decade career
Carthy has always seen folk as reflecting social life and conditions, so has never shied away from social and political issues.
•Paul Bond
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