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On Friday of last week, 13 August, our comrade Werner Siepmann passed away at the age of 90.

American capitalism needs a means of containing the growth of socialist politics within the working class. It has such means with the trade unions.

The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Patrick Martin, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site specializing in US politics and a member of the SEP National Committee.

Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991. It arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party that broke off from the right-wing Menshevik group.

WASHINGTON — When Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist and Soviet NKVD assassin, died in Cuba in 1978, his last words included “I hear it always. I hear the scream.”

"We dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God."

There is no other socialist whose name is so inseparably connected with the struggle against militarism and war than Karl Liebknecht.

The aim of our election campaign is to build a party through which the working class can independently intervene in the political process.

US gymnast Simone Biles, the Olympic games and “the weight of the world” The decision by American gymnast Simone Biles to withdraw from competition during the Olympic team final in Tokyo on Tuesday has drawn censure from various quarters, much of it politically or ideologically motivated. This July 27, 2021, file photo shows Simone Biles, of the United States, waiting to perform on the vault during the artistic gymnastics womens final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in ...

Family of woman killed by Arlington, Texas police in 2019 sue city, officer for wrongful death The family of Margarita “Maggie” Brooks filed a wrongful death lawsuit last Thursday seeking $1 million in damages and for medical and funeral costs against the city of Arlington, Texas. They are also suing former police officer Ravinder Singh, who killed 30-year-old Brooks on August 1, 2019 while ostensibly attempting to shoot her dog, which ran to him during a welfare check on the woman. Maggie ...