Leon Trotsky 1918:

“Duty is cruel, my friend; but if it were not a little difficult to perform, where would be the heroism?” Stendhal, “Vanina Vanini,” 1829

More than nine months after intensive care nurse Alex Pretti was murdered by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) thugs, his parents, Michael and Susan, held a press conference Tuesday demanding justice for their son.

Actors have gone public about a situation once considered embarrassing to acknowledge: not being able to meet the union’s health insurance threshold.

#Marxism #Lenin Lenin’s conditional attitude toward self-determination wsws.org/en/special/library/…

In addition to Greenblatt regularly meeting with the school's antisemitism committee, Columbia hired former ADL official Stacy Burdett as a consultant to integrate ADL frameworks into campus governance, ultimately leading to CUAD's banishment from campus.

Excerpt from "The ADL: A Critical Reader" that touches on the ADL's obsession with CUAD and its role in quelling protest at Columbia

Healey’s first UK budget: crumbs for workers, billions for war wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

Rail workers to strike as train crash in Spain’s Toledo province kills at least 68 wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

I can hardly imagine anyone who hasn’t seen this photograph. But it was taken on this day in 2000. I cannot believe the photo is 26 years old now. The boy in the photograph was Fares Odeh. He was just 14 years old. Ten days after this image was captured, Fares went out again to throw stones at Israeli tanks, seeking to avenge the killing of his 17-year-old cousin. An Israeli sniper shot him in the neck, killing him. And there is another chilling detail to this photograph. The photo changed Israeli tank doctrine. In August 2001, The Jerusalem Post quoted an anonymous tank doctrinist saying tank personnel were now instructed to fire upon rock-throwers.

Video: Attend the Socialist Equality Party launch for the Victorian election! wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

The State Dept denied visas to Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Graham Greene, & others for left-wing political views. A whole legal doctrine (consular nonreviewability) denied them right to sue. But Trump rolls out red carpet for fascist Bolsonaro...

After election debacle, the UAW apparatus moves to break the Bradford White strike wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

Parents denounce federal cover-up in Border Patrol murder of Alex Pretti wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

Anger over actors’ dire conditions erupts in SAG-AFTRA wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

Today I spoke with health workers at Northern Hospital in Epping, an outer working-class suburb of Melbourne. We discussed the crisis in healthcare, the union-Labor sellout of striking doctors, and the need for an independent movement of workers.

NEW: Hackers have leaked the identities, contact details & job assignments of more than 40,000 DHS employees, including agents with ICE & CBP as well as those working undercover. san.com/cc/shielded-by-dhs-i…

Remember, if you want to support my show please check out my Patreon. You can watch all my shows there too! patreon.com/eclecticradical/…

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous, not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful. - Ann Druyan

"Cost of living has gone up way faster than salaries. As you can see with the demonstration, people are feeling the effects of inflation, current political climate... I'm putting 60 to 80 hours a week." lecturer at Cal State Long Beach

"Oppression against laborers anywhere in the world is oppression against all workers everywhere. So it would be incumbent upon us to join in and fight with our brothers across the border in Mexico, our brothers in Canada." Dakkota autoworker, Detroit