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Patrick Martin writes for the World Socialist Website (wsws.org), a forum for socialist ideas & analysis & published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
SHARE Friday, May 21, 2021 Republicans block investigation into January 6 attack
The House passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 attack on Congress. Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans are determined to block the passage of the bill.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 30, 2021 Biden's new dawn: Illusion and reality
Behind the proclamations of a new dawn in the United States, Biden's speech Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress provided a portrait of panic, crisis and desperation on the part of the American ruling class.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, February 1, 2021 The Democratic Party and the fascist "enemy within"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democratic members of Congress were in physical fear for their lives, afraid that the mob attack of January 6 would be the precursor to violence against them by Republican representatives.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 4, 2021 Tape reveals Trump gangster methods in pursuing election coup
In an hour-long telephone conversation Saturday, leaked to the media and first made public Sunday by the Washington Post, President Donald Trump tried to bully the Georgia secretary of state into overturning the result of the presidential election in his state, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 22, 2020 As the oligarchs make trillions, Congress offers a pittance for the jobless
The $900 billion coronavirus relief bill is grossly inadequate to meet the vast social needs exposed by the pandemic. Once again, the corporate-controlled two-party political system has revealed its indifference to mass suffering.
SHARE Monday, December 21, 2020 Trump held White House meeting on martial law plan to overturn election
President Trump and his top aides reviewed a series of proposals for overturning his defeat in the presidential election at a meeting Friday night in the White House. This included discussion of a proposal that he declare martial law and order the seizure of voting machines in key battleground states.
SHARE Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Biden staggers toward the White House
Trump, who was massively defeated in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, is engaged in an ongoing effort to nullify the election and overturn the results.
SHARE Thursday, December 3, 2020 Donald Trump's Mein Kampf
Trump declared that the November election was "rigged" and demanded that the US Supreme Court intervene to overturn the results in all the battleground states, declare him the winner, and award him their electoral votes and thus a second term as president.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 23, 2020 The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections
In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seats.
SHARE Monday, June 22, 2020 Trump in Tulsa: Fascist ranting and political debacle
The mounting threat to his reelection clearly preoccupied Trump in the course of his 107-minute address in Tulsa, which meandered even more than usual. He was clearly far more concerned with his own political survival than with the survival of hundreds of thousands of Americans whose lives are threatened by the worst epidemic in a century.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 4, 2020 Nearly half a million health care workers worldwide infected with coronavirus
The death toll among nurses is more than double the 260 reported on May 6 by the ICN, partly from more countries issuing reports but mainly from the ongoing impact of the pandemic, which has now hit 6.5 million people globally, with more than 380,000 dead.
SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2020 Mass protests voice outrage over police murder of George Floyd
There were reportedly large numbers of people in the streets both in south Minneapolis and in the downtown area, chanting slogans like "No justice, no peace, prosecute the police!" They ignored the curfew order and the patrolling military vehicles.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 18, 2020 Back-to-work drive places countless thousands at risk
This week marks a significant turning point in the global coronavirus pandemic. In the United States, the country with more infections and more deaths than any other, the Trump administration and the governments of nearly every state have authorized the reopening of major factories and other workplaces and a broader reopening of the economy.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, April 13, 2020 Biden joins the "back-to-work" bandwagon
Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden aligns himself with the campaign by big business and the Trump administration to force workers to go back to work, regardless of the dangers from the coronavirus epidemic.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Trump boasts holding US pandemic deaths to 200,000 would be "a good job"
Trump expressed his satisfaction with as many as 200,000 American deaths. He amused himself with a series of childish photo ops, called on several of his own health officials to give servile statements thanking him for his leadership.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 13, 2020 Biden, Sanders appeal for joint action with Republicans over coronavirus pandemic
The two top Democrats in the race for the party's presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, issued appeals Thursday to the Trump administration and congressional Republicans for joint action on the growing coronavirus crisi
SHARE Thursday, February 27, 2020 Attacks against Sanders intensify ahead of South Carolina primary
Bernie Sanders is likely to take an insurmountable lead in convention delegates in the March 3 "Super Tuesday" primaries, held in 14 states, including California, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia. Those contests take place just three days after the February 29 primary in South Carolina.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 21, 2020 Las Vegas debate reveals deepening Democratic Party crisis
Perhaps more strongly than any previous debate, nearly all significant issues of foreign and domestic policy were excluded. There were only a handful of references to the deepening social crisis in America, the harrowing conditions of life facing tens of millions of workers and youth, and the turn to police-state methods by the Trump administration.