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The war is intensifying every element of the capitalist crisis, economic, political, and social, and fueling a growing movement of the working class.
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William Butler Yeats (1865) – Irish poet
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree …
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831) – Responsible for the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon. Matched only by Newton’s work on gravitation. Ludwig Boltzmann quoted Goethe’s Faust: “Who was the god who wrote these lines?”
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Worker at the Saginaw, Michigan plant fired for opposing the 4th agreement being pushed by the UAW bureaucracy - Reinstate Nexteer worker Antwiane Sanders immediately! An injury to one is an injury to all! Remove the company’s cops in the UAW bureaucracy!
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Fanny Burney (1752) – Undervalued English novelist, Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla. “One of the sharpest observers of her time.” Her influence can be traced through “Jane Austen’s comedies of manners, Dickens’ insightful realism, and the social satires of William Makepeace Thackeray”
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Mexican education workers seek 100 percent salary increase, better working conditions and the resumption of direct dialogue with President Sheinbaum - Mexico’s teachers march against wage and pension cuts as tens of millions are doled out on FIFA World Cup
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The Trump administration is attempting to construct a pseudo-legal framework for the criminalization of left-wing political opposition - 4 University of Michigan anti-genocide protesters plead not guilty, are released on bond in federal conspiracy frame-up
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Chick Corea (1941) - Jazz pianist, composer. His 1973 “Spain” has become a standard performed, recorded by many others. If his overall musical contribution is ultimately uneven, he “leaves behind a significant body of work with some truly exceptional moments scattered throughout”
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The tech giants would remain in private hands, run by the same people and driven by the pursuit of profit. Workers would own nothing, control nothing, decide nothing - Bernie Sanders’ AI “sovereign wealth fund”: a public-private bail-out of the tech giants
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Charlie Feathers (1932) – Rockabilly, country music performer, born in Mississippi. Famous for “Tongue-Tied Jill,” “Bottle to the Baby.” He had a “theatrical, hiccup-styled, energetic, rockabilly vocal style.” His influences were from African American field blues heard as a youth
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An oligarchy built on speculation and parasitism conducts a foreign policy of criminality and gangsterism. As SpaceX was being floated on the Nasdaq, US bombs fell on Iran, and Trump proposed to seize its oil fields and refineries and raised the prospect of using nuclear weapons.
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The endless rise in share values is the deliberate product of state policy. The Federal Reserve has pumped trillions of dollars into Wall Street, through bailout after bailout, driving asset prices to the stratosphere while wages stagnated and social spending was starved.
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SpaceX's valuation bears no relationship to any actual process of production. It lost $4.9 billion in 2025, on $18.7 billion of revenue. It is valued at roughly 95 times its annual revenue - Musk, the first trillionaire: The social physiognomy of oligarchy
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The BBC/PBS co-production reduces one of the most consequential events in modern history to a tale of misunderstandings, wounded feelings and personal relationships - 'Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution': Is this all the BBC has to offer
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That Trump has come to dominate the political life of the United States testifies to a protracted and staggering breakdown of American democracy. That breakdown is the subject of this book - Oligarchy: Trump and the Breakdown of American Democracy
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Anne Frank (1929) – Her diary is one of the best known, moving testimonies of life under Nazi rule in Europe. The famed work appeared for the first time in German in 1950 (in English in 1952) and has moved generations ever since. It has been translated into more than 60 languages
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Egon Schiele (1890) – Austrian Expressionist who painted many self-portraits along with nudes. “The police confiscated hundreds of his works due to their sexually explicit nature.” He died in the flu epidemic of 1918. The Nazis included Schiele in the category of “degenerate art”
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The American Axle agreement fails to make up for the lost income that was essentially stolen from workers over the past 18 years, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars each - UAW bureaucracy announces deal in bid to end American Axle strike
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A Wall Street Journal editorial on June 7: “The Food Stamp Rolls Decline—Hurray.” Forced work as civic virtue, hunger as personal choice revives the logic of the Victorian workhouse - “Work or starve”: Trump’s SNAP cuts drive millions from food stamp rolls
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Workers must counterpose its own program to the Merz war policy: the global unification of workers in Germany, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East against their ruling classes - German government statement: War abroad, social counterrevolution at home
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