Bob Vylan’s Spotify listenership has grown by 100,000 in 72 hours

Ward Sakeik, 22, now faces indefinite incarceration and the threat of deportation to a third country where she has never lived and cannot claim citizenship - Newlywed Palestinian woman faces deportation by Trump’s fascistic immigration regime wsws.org/en/articles/20…

A mob of Islamists and fascists Monday stormed the Istanbul office of the weekly humor magazine Leman. In full view of the police, the attackers shouted death threats for hours against secularism - The attack on Leman magazine: A dangerous provocation wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The BIS report is a warning both as to the depth and growing intensity of the crisis of the global capitalist economy and the response of the ruling class and its state agencies to it - A sharp warning on the state of the global economy wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Armstrong paints the group as narcissistic, shallow, greedy, petulant, oblivious to the existence of others & generally repellant - Jesse Armstrong’s 'Mountainhead': A satire about technology billionaires – “Planet Earth’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet” wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Janet Baker - Orfeo ed Euridice - Che faro senza Euridice youtu.be/3ccRKZSNV24?si… via YouTube

Opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714)-These two deservedly famed arias, 'Che faro senza Euridice' from 'Orfeo ed Euridice' and 'Divinités du Styx' from 'Alceste' (1767), another “radical, new work,” respectively, amply demonstrate the enduring power of Gluck’s work."

"It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it [the government], and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - July 4, 1776

The Philadelphia strike enjoys overwhelming support from city residents. Many are calling for the growing piles of garbage on city streets to be dumped in front of City Hall - Philadelphia city workers strike: A sign of rising class struggle in the US wsws.org/en/articles/20…

"Somehow we got the combination of an Islamic extremist and a communist. For a great city…they are so brainwashed they don’t know what the hell they are doing” [Giuliani] - Trump’s DHS council targets Democratic mayoral primary winner Zohran Mamdani wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Albanese, who has received death threats, was subjected to a torrent of abuse from Zionist media outlets and the country’s leading right-wing daily - Due to speak on the genocide in Gaza, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is censored in Switzerland wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The Gaza catastrophe and the role of Israel as an unhinged attack dog of imperialism in the Middle East raises fundamental questions of historical perspective: How can Zionism be fought? - The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The union officials have explicitly marshaled themselves for measures that will operate at the direct expense of their members in other states (and in Canada in some cases) - Entertainment unions campaign for $750 million handout to California corporations wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Franz Kafka (1883)-"The Trial" conveys a dread of the “boundless maze of indirect relationships, complex mutual dependencies and compartmentations into which human beings are forced by modern forms of living.” Kafka’s outlook "is that of a man caught under wheels.” (Brecht)

The Trump administration’s assault on scientific institutions represents more than policy disagreement-it is a fascist offensive against the foundations of modern civilization- Trump-Kennedy attacks on vaccines and public health will kill millions globally wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The media offers a picture of the aid distributions as a type of dehumanizing target practice, in which the employees laugh at killing civilians and egg each other on to commit violence - Over 600 Palestinians killed at US-Israeli “aid centers” in Gaza wsws.org/en/articles/20…

"The Trump administration’s brazenly unconstitutional attempt to deport this young woman in violation of a federal court order should shock the conscience of every American." - Stateless Palestinian Ward Sakeik released after five months in ICE custody wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Homelessness is an industry. Long-term hotels are often owned by Wall Street investment firms - Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The Trump regime represents a breakdown of bourgeois democracy. No return to “normalcy.” The “abnormal” is the “new normal.” The ruling class is turning to fascism and dictatorship - July 4, 2025: Trump, the oligarchy and the American counter-revolution wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)-The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, “The Gentle Boy.” Deeply compassionate writer, enemy of puritanism. “There is a certain tragic phase of humanity which, in our opinion, was never more powerfully embodied than by Hawthorne.” (Melville)