More catching up:

1. Tony Bennett

2. Oppenheimer and Barbie

3. Kevin Spacey

4. Washington demands renewed bloodbath in Ukraine

5. 70 years since the end of the Korean War

6. Trotskyism and the fight for socialism today

Catching up:

1. Francis Fukuyama parades Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Stanford University

2. US flying blind amid warnings of new COVID-19 surge

3. The Biden doctrine: “As long as it takes,” or “No matter how many die”

The task that confronts us:

Bastille Day 1789–Bastille Day 2023

Frankenstein monster:

Vilnius NATO summit unveils plans for global domination

Deciding who runs the show:

The SAG-AFTRA strike and the path of global class struggle

Convocation in Lithuania:

NATO summit in Vilnius: War plotting at the site of a historic crime

 

1. War in Ukraine not going away anytime soon:

NATO’s Vilnius summit will authorize escalation of its war against Russia

2. Stalking horse:

The bankruptcy of DSA politics: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Biden reelection

3. Teamster bureaucracy prepares to betray UPS workers:

Teamsters promote strike-breaking Democrats as UPS contract nears expiration

 

As munitions manufacturers get richer:

Sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, Washington makes clear it will stop at nothing

1. Terror and double standards:

US media covers up Israeli war crimes in Jenin

2. The Hollywood Blacklist and how it should inform us today:

Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist director Judy Chaikin: “When you silence that part of society, you cut its heart out”

For "however long it takes":

Amid threats of nuclear provocation 

NATO plans massive escalation against Russia at Vilnius summit

And Democrats are not your friends:

US ruling class sets the stage for a massive attack on Social Security and Medicare

 

How long will people be mystified by the crooked narratives of identity politics?

1. New York City Mayor Eric Adams employs racial identity politics to cover over the deepening social crisis

2. Chevalier and the life of composer Joseph Bologne: Why the mean-spirited attack on Mozart and Gluck?

Villains:

World’s richest added $852 billion to their fortunes in first half of 2023

Hero:

Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election

The profoundly anti-democratic nature of the United States government:

The US Supreme Court’s rampage against democratic rights

1. Crisis in France mirrors crises in other countries:

Mobilize the working class against French police murders and state repression!

2. Supreme Court rulings:

US Supreme Court majority abolishes racial preferences in university admission

Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief

3. An advanced lesson for UPS and other delivery workers:

What is Teamsters for a Democratic Union?

 

Syriza in Greece; beware the pseudo-left!

Jacobin, Democratic Socialists of America cover up for Syriza and prepare new betrayals

When the eyes of history are on all of us:

Actors warn SAG-AFTRA union leadership: Don’t sell us out!

Former president of the United States is a Nazi:

In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of socialists and communists

Criminal:

Trump escalates fascistic rants against socialism and Marxism

Prisoner:

A memoir of a worker’s experience in the American gulag

The next shoe to drop?

Fed chair tries to project calm as financial problems continue to mount

How Covid scientists were scapegoated:

Intelligence report exposes media promotion of Wuhan Lab lie

Looking beyond Prigozhin and Putin:

The failed coup in Russia: Causes and consequences

"Jazzing" rightward:

Cornel West's campaign for US president: A paragmatic and bankrupt muddle

Separate realms:

Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean

The necessity of all workers aligning:

New dangers in film writers’ strike: SAG-AFTRA officials hint they may not call a strike when contract expires

The Clarios strike and its lessons for the working class

 Thinking of Robin Williams:

Everyone who ever knew him had nothing but good to say about him. 

I bumped into him twice.

I have nothing but good to say about him.