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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 Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” was presented by the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Stu...

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 “Teachers Against Dying.” Responding to the post, which encouraged members to express their views on ...

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 voted for the Republican Left (ERC) candidate for regional premier, Pere Aragonès, renowned for his d...