Michael Coats

Snowing! And today is the last day before finals, so we’ve got treats here to keep students’ spirits up. Gonna be a long day.

One thing not getting enough attention now that the U.S. has admitted to exterminating hundreds of elementary school girls is that many very powerful people lied about it.

Stop the imperialist war of extermination against Iran! The aim of this webinar is to place the struggle against the war in its necessary historical, political and social context. It will cut through the endless stream of lying propaganda and disinformatio...

If you oppose the war you need to know the context. If you've been to protests and wonder why you keep going when nothing seems to change you need to know the context. Participate tomorrow for an internationalist perspective to understand, and to learn how to fight.
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Trump demands unconditional surrender from Iran as war enters second week President Donald Trump declared Friday that there will be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” signaling the intention to wage permanent war until Iranian society is destroyed.

Trump has precluded any deal with Iran except "unconditional surrender." The administration is prepared to attack Iran until the country is totally destroyed. The only social force that can stop this atrocity is the international working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump Uses Pittsburgh Pirates’ Paul Skenes Meme to Promote Bombing Iran & “American Dominance” Cy Young winning Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes is being used to promote bombing Iran

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With Trump’s backing, Pakistan wages “open war” on Afghanistan Military clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continued for a fifth day Tuesday, in a conflict with potentially major implications for South Asian and world geopolitics.

With Trump’s backing, Pakistan wages “open war” on Afghanistan

Military clashes between #Pakistan and #Afghanistan continued for a fifth day Tuesday, in a conflict with potentially major implications for South Asian and world geopolitics.

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Demand the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk! On Thursday April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk – a socialist opponent of the fascistic Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war – was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in ...

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Bogdan Syrotyuk is in jail for calling on Russian and Ukrainian workers to unite in a common struggle against the war.

Sign and share this petition in solidarity! ✊

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Mamdani embraces Trump: Collaboration with fascism from the DSA mayor Mamdani stood side-by-side with the would-be dictator who has the blood of thousands on his hands, and may soon have the blood of millions, as his war fleet assembles off the coast of Iran.

Mamdani embraces Trump: Collaboration with fascism from the DSA mayor

Mamdani’s collaboration with Trump expresses the class character of his politics. And it must be stated plainly: these are the politics of the Democratic Socialists of America as a whole.
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Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole faces fraudulent charges as detention continues Omole has been transferred to Kitengela Remand Prison with a broken arm. He faces trumped-up charges of connections to drug cartels, assaulting a police officer and possession of a firearm.

I demand the immediate release of Booker Omole! He faces brutal conditions, including lack of care for his many injuries. Ruto's regime has again revealed its hostility to the working class of Kenya.
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Hard at work on casual Friday. T-shirt was a Christmas gift from J!

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital nurses seething after end to 6-week strike They face not only a new contract that fails to satisfy their demands, but also a new round of attacks and harassment from management, according to nurses who spoke to the <em>World Socialist Web Site...

Nurses returning to work at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are angry about their rotten contract, imminent retaliation by management, and the treachery of the NYSNA leadership. The fight must continue under the nurses' direct control. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

THREAD. I want to describe a new propaganda trend. As I explained in Copaganda, we are starting to see a lot of Card Carrying Elites (economists, Atlantic writers, Harvard professors, philanthropists) feign intellectual edginess by claiming prisons are bad and even obsolete.

With US imperialist war machine in position, Trump menaces Iran in State of the Union speech The absence of any expression of popular opposition to the war reflects both the backing among the European imperialist powers and broad support among the privileged middle class “left” for a “regime ...

The groundless accusations that Trump hurled against Iran on Tuesday night were meant to justify the impending war of aggression. The US seeks to establish a "new Middle East" in preparation for a future war with China. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Pentagon gives Anthropic 3 days to drop AI safeguards or face blacklisting The Trump administration has given Anthropic an ultimatum to remove AI safety restrictions on its Claude model or face blacklisting and compulsion under the Defense Production Act, while simultaneousl...

The Trump administration is embracing Grok AI, the most overtly fascist AI model, while threatening Claude, the model regarded as the most capable, with destruction for maintaining even nominal restrictions. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Walgreens cuts 628 jobs and closes distribution facility, alarming private equity watchdog Sycamore Partners took over the struggling retail pharmacy chain roughly six months ago, and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project fears early staffing cuts and store closures could spell trouble for...

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Pennsylvania high school students violently attacked by police during anti-ICE walkout From Pennsylvania to Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas, authorities are suspending and criminalizing youth protesting immigration enforcement.

Police in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, attacked a group of students who were peacefully protesting ICE barbarity. This attack is part of a pattern of repression that Democratic and Republican districts are visiting on students. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

2 coup attempts: Ex-South Korean president jailed, while Trump sits in office While Yoon sits in jail for his actions, Trump has faced no opposition from ruling circles for his own attempts to overthrow the US constitution.

2 coup attempts: Ex-South Korean president jailed, while Trump sits in office

Trump has not been held accountable for his actions in the slightest, whether in relation to the coup attempt or any of the other crimes he has committed...
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Pennsylvania high school students violently attacked by police during anti-ICE walkout From Pennsylvania to Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas, authorities are suspending and criminalizing youth protesting immigration enforcement.

Pennsylvania high school students violently attacked by police during anti-ICE walkout

“The situation was completely escalated by the police, and it was extremely jarring to watch.”

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Will Lehman backs plant occupations by Mexican auto parts workers against mass layoffs The Mack Trucks worker and candidate for United Auto Workers president has issued a statement supporting the Mexican auto parts workers fighting mass layoffs by US-based corporations.

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Will Lehman backs plant occupations by Mexican auto parts workers against mass layoffs

Candidate for United Auto Workers president Lehman issued statement supporting Mexican auto parts workers fighting mass layoffs by US-based corporations

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“The worst of the worst”: ICE detains Chilean death squad killer The Trump administration claims ad nauseam that ICE’s anti-immigrant dragnet is targeting the “worst of the worst.” Whether by chance or design, the detention of Armando Fernández Larios fits the bill...

For once, ICE actually has arrested “the worst of the worst.” Armando Fernández Larios was convicted of the murder of Chilean exile Orlando Letelier and his assistant. He also took part in systematic kidnapping, torture, and murder. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Hit the high A first time tonight. Embouchure is coming back. Gonna keep at it but I feel good!

Auto parts workers occupy plants across northern Mexico after 4,000 jobs cut The shutting down of six First Brands’ auto-parts <em>maquiladoras</em> has led to plant occupations along with efforts by Morena and its allied union bureaucracy to contain the struggle.

The occupation of auto parts plants in northern Mexico evokes the Matamoros wildcat strikes of 2019. The unions, including the “independent” SNITIS, are standing in the way of an international struggle of North American auto workers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Will Lehman’s UAW campaign wins broad support from workers, as DSA unleashes slanders Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker, is running to organize a rebellion of the rank and file against a parasitic bureaucracy that has transformed the UAW into an instrument of management and the state.

Workers are responding enthusiastically to Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president. For this reason, the DSA, whose leaders have secured remunerative positions as union bureaucrats, is lashing out hysterically at Lehman. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

GM workers denounce ICE operation outside Factory Zero in Detroit GM workers reacted with shock and anger over the ICE operation that occurred just outside the gates of Factory Zero.

GM workers denounce ICE operation outside Factory Zero in Detroit

“We don’t need ICE here... Look what happened in Minneapolis with the killing of two US citizens. They’re not just going after immigrants; they’re going after all of us."
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"Even the touted “Green New Deal” of the pseudo-left, championed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was always based around accommodations to the oil and gas industry."

"Its participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement was grudging under Obama, immediately revoked under Trump’s first term, rejoined by Biden as a public relations exercise and revoked again."

"Addressing climate change has always been rejected by the American ruling elite. The Clinton administration pointedly refused to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol."

Trump administration rescinds EPA Endangerment Finding: Corporate America’s license to kill The rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding marks a declaration by the capitalist class that there will be no restrictions on its ability to pollute the environment, regardless of the consequences...

The ruling class will not allow, CANNOT allow, a serious, scientific approach to addressing the devastating effects of capitalism you describe. An international socialist effort is urgently required.

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