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On the eve of the UAW Constitutional Convention, American capitalism has minted its first trillionaire, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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.
While the terms of the settlement remain undisclosed, this much is already clear: The Trump administration achieved none of the aims for which it went to war.
The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting reviewed the four deaths at Palmetto, Steiner’s restructuring plans, the USPS safety crisis and reports from postal workers in Britain and Canada.
Manslaughter charges over Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court inferno expose a vast corrupt system of profiteering, bid‑rigging and brutal housing conditions.
The Trump administration has granted ICE an expansive mandate to conduct enforcement with no meaningful constraint—no requirement to identify themselves in plainclothes operations, no obligation to notify families, no accountability for injuries caused during pursuits or arrests.
Anthony’s 35-year prison sentence stands in sharp contrast to far more lenient sentences and outright acquittals given to defendants in similar “self defense” cases, namely those in which victims were political targets of the Trump administration and the far right.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is launching an initiative to sign up hundreds of new SEP Supporters and involve them in the party’s campaigning and educational work.
The sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani marks a watershed moment in the Starmer Labour government's escalating war on democratic rights and the criminalisation of opposition to war and genocide.
A government beholden to big business and not social needs has seized the drop in pupil numbers to slash public services to fund its key priority, military spending.
Protestors are angry that they should be made to bear the risks of a deadly viral disease that has already led to the deaths of at least 138 out of 695 confirmed cases in Congo, for the benefit of Washington.
Nearly one month since the declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a bleak assessment of the outbreak.
The legal architecture now being used to seize workers’ wages was built through the very reform that the pseudo-left sold to students as a “victory.”
Six people were injured in the crash, which could have been avoided if Wellington’s train network was equipped with modern safety systems used in Auckland and many other parts of the world.
The restructuring by the office supplies retailer is another demonstration of the relentless corporate drive to lower labour costs, and the complicity of governments and trade unions.
The export-control directive against Anthropic reveals the capitalist state asserting direct power over who may build and deploy the most advanced AI, and for what ends.
In a darkly humorous and disturbing movie, a media executive approaches the high point of her career just as a mysterious illness begins to kill the world’s plutocrats.
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.
The Albanese government’s extraordinary bid to block a false imprisonment case essentially sought to protect governments being sued for any illegal action.
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Monday, June 15, 2026
Capitalist oligarchy, the UAW and the class struggle
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