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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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Jan 21, 2026
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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 ...

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...

Jan 24, 2026
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194 demo rate who voted for military funding

Multiple news outlets and congressional records show sizable bipartisan support for recent large military funding measures, but there is no single, verifiable list in the provided reporting that ident...

Dec 16, 2025

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

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...

Jan 26, 2026

How many people are missing from the concentration camp.in Florida?

The available reporting does not provide a single authoritative count of how many people are ""; instead, contemporaneous sources offer differing figures and emphases — one investigative piece reports...

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...

Jan 28, 2026

Where democrats stand on immigration.

supports expanding legal pathways, protecting long-time residents, and modernizing the while also emphasizing stronger, “smart” border security—an approach spelled out in the party platform and recent...

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 29, 2026

Has Gavin Newsom ever explicitly said he identifies as a Zionist in speeches or interviews?

There is no clear, sourced record in the provided reporting of uttering a sentence in a speech or interview that explicitly says “” or otherwise self-identifying in those exact terms; what the sources...

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 29, 2025

What evidence exists supporting claims that Trump established slave camps?

Multiple news and opinion pieces allege the Trump administration has created or planned detention systems likened to “concentration camps,” “penal slavery,” or “slave labor camps,” pointing to transfe...

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...

Feb 1, 2026

Did Alex Pressi get executed by ice?

— was fatally shot by on , a fact reported across major outlets . Whether that killing legally or factually amounts to an “execution” is contested: activists, politicians and unions call it an executi...

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 6, 2025

Which specific undergraduate and graduate degrees are being reclassified under the Big Beautiful Bill and effective when?

The Department of Education, implementing loan provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), has narrowed the federal definition of “professional degree” to a short list of 11 fields — includi...

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 ...