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World Socialist Web Site

Website of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), which describes itself as an "online newspaper of the international Trotskyist movement"

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Dec 1, 2025
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Are teachers no longer professionals

The teaching profession is not legally stripped of its “professional” label across the board, but multiple recent policy moves and mounting workforce data show teachers are under growing pressure: rou...

Dec 16, 2025
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How likely is Germany going to be involved in a war

Germany is rapidly expanding its defence posture in response to perceived Russian threats: Berlin plans a defence budget of about €108.2 billion in 2026 and is executing large-scale contingency planni...

Dec 9, 2025
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Which professions did the Trump administration label as unprofessional in official guidance or memos?

The Department of Education under the Trump administration moved to narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” excluding many healthcare, education and service fields from that de...

Nov 28, 2025

Did Trump sign a bill reclassifying nursing as "not a professional degree?

The Department of Education under the Trump administration has moved to narrow the federal definition of “professional degree,” a change that multiple outlets report excludes nursing and several other...

Nov 25, 2025

Is fascism on the rise in the UK?

Available reporting shows a visible surge in far‑right activity, street clashes, and organised campaigns around immigration and “mass deportation” themes in 2025, with groups described as more organis...

Dec 3, 2025

What were the stated reasons from Trump's administration for labeling some professions as unprofessional?

The Trump administration’s Department of Education redefined which graduate programs count as “professional,” narrowing the category to a short list (medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, vet...

Nov 18, 2025

What evidence exists of BBC political bias in UK election coverage since 2019?

Allegations of BBC political bias during UK election coverage since 2019 are documented primarily as large volumes of complaints, party complaints, academic critiques of framing, and polemical comment...

Jan 15, 2026

What is the Madrid Charter and which politicians have signed it?

The Madrid Charter is a 2020 manifesto produced by the Disenso Foundation linked to Spain’s Vox party that frames a transatlantic struggle against what it calls a resurgent “communist” threat in Ibero...

Nov 23, 2025

communism

Communism is an umbrella political and economic doctrine that seeks common ownership of the means of production and a classless society; major reference definitions describe it as replacing private pr...

Dec 15, 2025

Were other concentration camps using different toxic agents and methods?

Nazi camps used Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide) widely as a purpose-adapted killing agent at Auschwitz and Majdanek, and smaller camps also had Zyklon B chambers . Available sources discuss other camps an...

Dec 3, 2025

How many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) are in the United States in 2025?

Available reporting and government releases in the provided sources do not give a single definitive 2025 headcount of lawful permanent residents (LPRs, “green card holders”) in the United States; one ...

Nov 25, 2025

Trump slave camps

Reporting shows multiple allegations and policy plans tied to the Trump administration about building large detention facilities for migrants, including proposals to use military bases and other large...

Nov 23, 2025

communism doesnt work

Arguments that “communism doesn’t work” are widely asserted in recent official and opinion pieces, with the Trump White House proclaiming Anti‑Communism Week and calling communism “one of history’s mo...

Nov 18, 2025

Is the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil in power as of 2025 and who is its leader?

As of the sources provided through mid-2025, the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is the party of Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who returned to the presidency in 2023 an...

Jan 21, 2026

Were there any protesters killed in during the protest of Obama‘s administration during immigration arrest

Available reporting does not document a clear, verified case of a protester being killed while participating in demonstrations specifically opposing ‑era immigration arrests; the record instead shows ...

Jan 17, 2026

Which Trump administration officials discussed labeling professions as unprofessional and where were their statements made?

The reclassification of many graduate programs as not “professional” has been presented in reporting as a Department of Education policy enacted under the Trump administration and tied to President Tr...

Jan 16, 2026

What were the largest single-day anti-deportation demonstrations in the U.S. between 2009 and 2016?

Research of the supplied reporting finds no clear, documented examples of a single-day anti-deportation demonstration in the United States between 2009 and 2016 that match the scale of the mass mobili...

Jan 10, 2026

How have historians evaluated whether the newly released CIA files could have altered the Warren Commission’s investigation or conclusions?

Most historians judge the recently released CIA files as unlikely to overturn the Warren Commission’s core conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy alone, while simultaneously conclu...

Jan 7, 2026

What are the key characteristics of fascist ideology that critics attribute to Kirk?

Critics who label Charlie Kirk “fascist” point to a cluster of traits they say fit classical and modern fascist patterns: racist and antisemitic rhetoric, white-nationalist ideas including “great repl...

Jan 5, 2026

Is President Trump a dictator?

Donald Trump is not, in the strict political‑science sense, an established dictator ruling without legal constraints — several scholars and outlets say the United States has not yet consolidated into ...