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King Vidor’s World War I film The Big Parade at 100

With its soldier's eye view, realistic depiction of battle and rejection of national chauvinism, the film departed significantly from previous treatments of the imperialist slaughter.

Erik Schreiber

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Workers at Argentina’s three nuclear power plants marched outside the facilities to protest plans by the Milei administration to sell off shares of the publicly owned utility to private investors, while Vancouver Symphony Orchestra musicians have walked out for the first time in 100 years.

Bosch to destroy 22,000 jobs in Germany

Although the jobs massacre is part of a massive wave of sackings, the IG Metall union and its Works Council representatives are doing nothing to defend jobs. The building of independent rank-and-file action committees, which oppose the nationalist policies of the union apparatus and its factory police, is more urgent than ever.

Dietmar Gaisenkersting

This week in history: September 29-October 5

Sharon provocation triggers Palestinian uprising; British Trotskyists fight back against police raid, media-witch-hunt; Truman approves Cold War military build-up; Dancer Josephine Baker first performs in France

Trump Justice Department indicts former FBI director James Comey

The indictment of former FBI director James Comey on Thursday is a significant step in the establishment of a personalist presidential dictatorship under Donald Trump. By moving to jail his opponents within the political establishment, Trump is seeking to consolidate his power to smash the democratic rights of the working class.

Barry Grey

War propaganda and militarism on children’s TV in Germany

The children’s TV channel KiKa’s editorial team—and with it the German elites—are apparently determined to reconnect with the militarist traditions of the Kaiser’s Empire and the Nazi era—starting with the youngest.

Martin Nowak

Netanyahu defends terrorism, mass murder, and genocide at the United Nations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday in which he vowed to defy international law, gloated about committing mass murder and terrorism, and vowed to continue the Gaza genocide in defiance of world public opinion.

Andre Damon

Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

Utility workers protested across Pakistan against electricity privatisation, staff shortages and IMF austerity measures, while hundreds of bus drivers in two Australian states stopped work to demand decent wages.

Thyssenkrupp Steel: IG Metall union promotes sale to Indian billionaire

Through imposing billions in cuts through a so-called “social contract,” IG Metall and its works council have made the steel industry ripe for takeover. Now they are supporting the billionaire takeover bid Jindal International Steel because it promises to safeguard their well-paid posts and privileges.

Dietmar Gaisenkersting

US bankrolls fascist Milei regime ahead of Argentine elections

The announced Argentine peso swap and other giveaways by the US Treasury constitute a brazen act of election meddling to prop up a regime whose popular support is collapsing ahead of October’s legislative elections.

Andrea Lobo

The Stalinist counterrevolution during the Spanish Civil War

The Stalinist counter-revolution during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) crushed one of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionary uprisings, when millions of workers and peasants fought to overthrow capitalism and fascism.

Alejandro López

Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War, by Michael Vorenberg

To Vorenberg, the answer to the question of when the war ended, as a political matter, appears to lie in the passage of the Reconstruction Act in March 1867, which specified that states would remain under military rule unless and until they ratified the 14th Amendment, provided freed Black males the right to vote, and barred insurrectionists from obtaining public office.

Eric London

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Bus drivers strike in Oviedo city in Spain for better conditions at work; Iranian aluminium workers call off hunger strike as national protests over pay and conditions continue; workers at Egypt’s aluminium company in Qena walk out over pay and conditions

Manual dexterity and the human brain evolved together

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of mental control that are key to tool manufacturing and use by humans.

Philip Guelpa
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