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Yale University hosted speaker who shared fantasies about murdering white people A New York psychiatrist invited to give a lecture at Yale University spoke about her fantasies of murdering white people, while insisting that racism is an inherent part of “whiteness.” University officials have since restricted public access to the talk while distancing themselves from the comments in an effort to downplay their role in promoting these backward conceptions. The April 6 online lecture, “The P...

The NYU strike is an object lesson in pseudo-left politics.

“Badass Teachers” Facebook group administrators uphold ban on WSWS writer Evan Blake Administrators for the national Facebook group “Badass Teachers Association” (BATs) have voted in secret to uphold their ban on World Socialist Web Site writer and Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Evan Blake. This decision was made without any personal communication with Blake himself and was only made public in a comment by BATs administrator Michael Flanagan on a post in the Facebook group “Te...

Allinson is a typical representative of the “union activist”—invariably low-ranking functionaries and members of various pseudo-left and Stalinist groups, whose activism is carried out solely in the interests of the union bureaucracy’s imposition of the dictates of the corporations.

Spain’s CUP to enter pro-“herd immunity” Catalan regional government The Catalan-nationalist Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) is preparing to enter a regional government in Catalonia prepared to impose policies of herd immunity, austerity and police repression of social opposition. It illustrates the reactionary role of the CUP and all the middle-class tendencies who have promoted its false pretensions to being an “anti-capitalist” force. On March 26, after regional elections, the CUP vo...

The phony “socialist” takeover of the Nevada State Democratic Party On March 6, Judith Whitmer, formerly the chair of the Clark County Democratic Party and a member of the Las Vegas chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), beat Tick Segerblom to become the new chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party. Segerblom is a former state representative and long-time Democratic Party operative. He is also a member of the DSA. Judith Whitmer (Source: judithwhitmer.com) After then chair...

Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant joins the DSA: The Democratic Party politics of the pseudo-left Last week, Kshama Sawant, a leader of Socialist Alternative and member of the Seattle City Council, announced that she was joining the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in the US. Sawant’s declaration followed a December 15 statement by Socialist Alternative announcing that it would be sending a significant section of its membership into the DSA. City council member Kshama Sawant speak...

São Paulo teachers continue strike against deadly school reopenings despite union sabotage Teachers voted on Saturday, February 27, to continue their strike against the murderous reopening of public schools in São Paulo, the state with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Brazil. The vote, carried out through virtual assemblies, came the day after Brazil reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic over a year ago. Despite the deadly impl...

Argentina: The death of ex-president Carlos Saúl Menem Argentine ex-president Carlos Menem died on February 14 at the age of 90. Menem’s health had deteriorated significantly since June 2020, due to persistent bacterial infections. Widely hated by Argentine workers for his destruction of jobs and living standards in the 1990s, his death evoked tributes from the country’s Peronist President Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, as well as from the right-wing ex-p...

Chicago elementary teachers begin returning to classrooms under near-total media blackout - our committee. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers for kindergarten through fifth grades began returning to schools on Monday, a consequence of the sellout agreement the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) concluded with the district. With their students scheduled to return next week, the danger facing teachers and other workers is likely to escalate further as new variants of the COVID-19 virus are provided ...