Sandy English

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Sandy EnglishOct 23

This webinar, chaired by David North, brings together historians David Abraham, Jacques Pauwels, and Mario Kessler to examine how German big business and state institutions enabled Hitler's rise, while drawing the urgent contemporary lessons for building an opposition to fascism.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/21/vbmu-o21.html

Nazism, big business and the working class: Historical experience and political lessons

This webinar, chaired by David North, brings together historians David Abraham, Jacques Pauwels, and Mario Keßler to examine how German big business and state institutions enabled Hitler's rise, while drawing the urgent contemporary lessons for building an opposition to fascism.

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Sandy EnglishFeb 22, 2025

The mass layoff of federal employees by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk—the wealthiest individual in the world—intensified on Thursday and Friday

#DOGE.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/22/adys-f22.html

Trump intensifies mass firing of federal workers after judge refuses to block layoffs

The mass layoff of US government workers proceeded on Thursday and Friday following the predictable refusal of a US district court judge in Washington, D.C. to block the assault on the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal employees by the Trump administration.

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Sandy EnglishFeb 19, 2025

The tiny Pacific nation’s partnership agreement with China was signed amid a furious diplomatic row with New Zealand, its former colonial ruler.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/19/knhu-f19.html

Cook Islands signs strategic agreement with China

The tiny Pacific nation’s partnership agreement with China was signed amid a furious diplomatic row with New Zealand, its former colonial ruler.

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Sandy EnglishFeb 12, 2025
Jude JacksonFeb 12, 2025

Across Detroit, thousands of residents are enduring similar hardships, with many suffering without heat or electricity in their homes.

Two Detroit children freeze to death as homeless family shelters in vehicle - World Socialist Web Site

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/12/mrft-f12.html

Two Detroit children freeze to death as homeless family shelters in vehicle

Tateona Williams, a 29-year-old unemployment medical assistant, said her repeated pleas for assistance for her children were ignored by city and state authorities.

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Sandy EnglishFeb 12, 2025
Jude JacksonFeb 12, 2025

Republicans in at least five states have now introduced legislative measures to block undocumented children from attending public schools, in direct defiance of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe.

States target Plyler court ruling on educating immigrant children - World Socialist Web Site

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/12/odic-f12.html

States target Plyler court ruling on educating immigrant children

Following a strategy outlined by The Heritage Foundation, author of “Project 2025,” at least five states are seeking to force a review of the 1982 Supreme Court decision in <em>Plyler v. Doe</em>to effect an end to immigrant youths’ right to public schooling.

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Sandy EnglishFeb 12, 2025
Jude JacksonFeb 12, 2025

On Monday, hundreds of students and faculty at Cornell University held a meeting in a packed auditorium to discuss the Trump administration’s attack on immigrants and the suppression of democratic rights on college campuses.

Cornell students and faculty hold meeting to defend immigrants' rights - World Socialist Web Site

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/12/mjav-f12.html

Cornell students and faculty hold meeting to defend immigrants' rights

On Monday, hundreds of students and faculty at Cornell University held a meeting to discuss the Trump administration's attack on immigrants and the suppression of democratic rights on college campuses.

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Sandy EnglishFeb 12, 2025

No, rapper #KendrickLamar did not “protest” Trump at the Super Bowl—he wallowed in backwardness

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/12/rcbf-f12.html

No, rapper Kendrick Lamar did not “protest” Trump at the Super Bowl—he wallowed in backwardness

Lamar and much of the hip hop world swim in social backwardness and represent the antithesis of opposition to big business and capitalism. Hip hop is big business.

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Sandy EnglishFeb 12, 2025

#Jacobin magazine, the main media outlet of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to downplay the threat of fascism and dictatorship posed by the second Trump administration.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/12/maau-f12.html
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Jacobin preaches complacency, covers for Democratic complicity in Trump’s moves to dictatorship

There is nothing new in the efforts of <em>Jacobin</em>and the DSA to sow complacency and politically disarm the working class. This was their response to Trump’s attempted coup of January 6, 2021.

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Sandy EnglishJan 14, 2025

In the wake of the holiday season, respiratory illnesses that include #COVID19, #flu and #RSV are once again on a rapidly accelerating trajectory in the US, Europe and China.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/14/jftf-j14.html

Surge of respiratory viruses infecting millions worldwide in first weeks of 2025

The northern hemisphere is facing not only a surge of COVID infections, but flu, RSV, and norovirus cases are skyrocketing, driving infected people into hospitals seeking treatment and care.

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Sandy EnglishJan 14, 2025

A landmark study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, published in The Lancet last week, estimates that the official death toll of the Gaza genocide understates the number of people killed by Israeli attacks by 41 percent between October 2023 and June 2024.

#GazaGenocide

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/14/fcnl-j14.html

Study finds Israeli bullets and bombs likely killed over 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza

These findings reaffirm the undeniable fact that the systematic massacre of the people of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces, with the support and assistance of the United States and other imperialist powers, is one of the most significant genocides of the 21st century.

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