We may assume that what happens at a university has the highest pursuit of knowledge as its inspiration, but the presence of racism has long roots within the university. In the same way that the civil war and constitutional amendments did not end Jim Crow laws, the civil liberties movement… Click here to continue reading…

“In order to live, human beings must produce. People cannot live by bread alone but neither can they live without bread. This does not mean all human activity can be reduced to material motives but that all activity is linked to a material base. A work of art may have… Click here to continue reading…

The shortages should lead to cuts in production, which would provide increased profits for those investing in manufacturing. Some in manufacturing will continue to produce through the supply-chain interruptions and hoard goods in warehouses. They will see their profits increase at the expense of all legitimate businesses who order goods… Click here to continue reading…

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/13/pers-o13.html “The Wuhan lab lie is motivated not by science but geopolitics. As the United States, Australia and the UK move to provoke a military showdown with China over Taiwan, the purpose of this torrent of lies is to demonize China and the Chinese people and to scapegoat them for… Click here to continue reading…

Response to: “The 90 percent ‘no’ vote at Deere and the growing rebellion against the corporatist unions” by Jerry White. Trotsky wrote in The Third International After Lenin: The mistakes of pseudo-“leftism” which hampered the development of the communist parties, later gave an impetus to new empirical zigzags: namely, to… Click here to continue reading…

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https://news.yahoo.com/criminal-probe-opened-fbi-handling-215248450.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall An official in a position of authority that enables a criminal himself has criminal liability. A decision by the media to suppress information about such criminal liability makes the media criminally liable. The WSWS must apologize and reverse its decision to defend all those accused of rape by slandering… Click here to continue reading…

Finish reading about Trotsky and the SPA. Put up collected quotes. Edit Dobbs, etc. and prepare a final document to send to @winedarksea. Respond to The Cliff Slaughter Series. Publish Volume 5, the last volume of For the First Time. Afterwards, work on an outline for a book on Factional… Click here to continue reading…

In response to “The COVID pandemic and the supply chain crisis” by Nick Beams: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/05/supp-o05.html But as with the situation in hospitals around the world, impacted by decades of cuts, the crisis was foretold. In 2015, regulators warned: “Congestion at ports and other points in the nation’s intermodal system have… Click here to continue reading…

Shipping prices have shot up four times higher than before the pandemic. Shortages of basic goods will remain a part of the economy at least through the end of 2022. Low prices, which must rise 80% to match the excess cash produced by quantitative easing, side by side with shortages… Click here to continue reading…