May 2010 ~ Permanent Revolution

More unhinged slanders from the WSWS

Libel and defamation on the left:More unhinged slanders from the WSWS
A scurrilous libel from the WSWS

Libel and defamation on the left:A scurrilous libel from the WSWS
Defend democracy not the Constitution

Defending Democracy: Defend democracy,not the Constitution
The crisis of democracy and the 2024 elections

Defending Democracy:The crisis of democracy and the 2024 elections
Trump embraced by the ex-left

Defending Democracy: Trump embraced by the ex-left

A case of political hypocrisy: the WSWS's 'defense' of jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi

Alex SteinerMay 29, 2010 6 comments

by Frank Brenner May 29, 2010 The surrealist poet and revolutionary Andre Breton once declared with obvious exasperation that “the intellectual trade is plied with such impunity.” What he meant is that intellectuals often get away with flagrant contradictions and inconsistencies in their positions, which they never bother...

May Day and the International

Alex SteinerMay 01, 2010 No comments

THE CHARACTER of the entire workers’ movement during the era of the Second International is reflected in the history and the fate of the May Day holiday. May 1 was established as a holiday by the Paris International Socialist Congress in 1889. The purpose of designating it thus was, by means of a simultaneous demonstration...