Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Where is America going?: Oligarchy, dictatorship, and the revolutionary crisis of capitalism
The World Socialist Web Site publishes the text of a lecture delivered by David North in London on November 22 examining the global crisis of capitalism and the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
2. Markets and US economy increasingly dependent on AI boom
A record revenue rise by chipmaker Nvidia has not quelled the growing fears that the AI boom is a bubble which may soon burst.
(Party of the Revolution—CCM) Chama Cha Mapinduzi’s bloody crackdown after the fraudulent October 29 vote flows from the class foundations of Julius Nyerere’s African Socialism and Pan-Africanism, whose rise was paved by Stalinism and Pabloism.
4. Political crisis sharpens in the Philippines
The current political crisis, fueled by immense social anger, is the sharpest since the ouster of President Estrada a quarter century ago.
5. Ken Burns’ The American Revolution
Audiences cannot help but grasp the relevance of the film’s subject—a population revolting against tyranny and despotism in the name of equality and inalienable rights.
6. Don McCullin at 90: A reflection on his life and photography
McCullin’s attraction to socialist ideas was part of a wider ferment, where photography was understood as means of revealing and indicting imperialism, exploitation and poverty rather than mere documentation.
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The task today is to reconnect art with revolution. In that struggle, unfolding amid an unprecedented global crisis and the political collapse of the old Stalinist and social democratic parties, McCullin’s photographs still provide a searing indictment of a system that must be overthrown.
7. United States: IAM shuts down four-month Boeing strike, ignores workers’ major demands
8. China-Japan tensions continue to worsen
The diplomatic row triggered by Japanese prime minister Takaichi’s provocative remarks on Taiwan on November 7, far from subsiding, has escalated with mounting economic repercussions.
The ruling class is arming for a global war and preparing to suppress the inevitable resistance of the working class with violence. The militarization of domestic policy is an integral component of the war preparations.
10. CUPW capitulates to government-management jobs massacre at Canada Post with “agreement in principle”
Postal workers must immediately move to countermand this sellout through the formation of independent rank-and-file committees in every postal sorting plant and depot across Canada.
11. The Gelfand Case: 1978-1982 (Part 1)
World Socialist Web Site reporter Nora Diaz, who covers many topics including labor issues and US immigration delivers the first part of a two-part lecture to the the 2025 Socialist Equality Party Summer School. In this lecture, Diaz focuses on the experience of socialist attorney Alan Gelfand after he insisted on getting to the bottom of questions he had about why leaders of the Socialist Workers Party expelled him without any honest explanation. Workers and youth must learn this history if they are to defend and promote genuine socialism.
12. United States: Mamdani intervenes to quash primary challenge to Hakeem Jeffries
Three weeks after the election, Mamdani is moving at a breakneck pace to support the political establishment he vowed to challenge.
13. Ford hit again by layoffs as a second major fire erupts at critical aluminum plant in New York state
The disruption caused by the recent plant fires at Novelis in Oswego County, New York demonstrate the increasingly fragile character of supply chains, vulnerabilities exacerbated by Trump’s tariffs.
Trump’s redefinition of “professional” degrees aims to push working-class students out of healthcare and education specialties and further undermine science and culture.
15. The lessons of New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster for workers internationally
The 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 workers, and the cover-up by successive governments, demonstrate the urgent need for workers to build rank-and-file committees, independent of and opposed to the union bureaucracy and all capitalist parties.
16. British ruling elite to increase military spending to fight “protracted, industrial-scale war”
Not a day passes without the Starmer government moving forward its preparations for the re-armament and conscription necessary for an extended war with Russia.
17. Turkish parliamentary delegation meets with imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader Öcalan
This process, conducted through secret diplomacy, is an attempt by the Turkish and Kurdish bourgeois nationalist leaderships to reach an agreement in line with US imperialism's efforts to reorganize the Middle East.
18. Workers Struggles: The Americas
Argentina:
Brazil:
Canada:
Alberta hospital union shuts down strike
Chile:
Ecuador:
United States:
Workers at Portland, Oregon New Seasons Market vote to strike
Harvard custodial workers carry out two-day strike
Uruguay:
Public health workers in 24-hour protest strike
19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
The fight for the Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist's freedom is an essential component of the struggle against imperialist war, genocide, dictatorship and fascism.
