IRS to slash 40 percent of workforce as deadline passes for agencies to plan cuts
The purpose of the IRS layoffs is to facilitate tax fraud by the wealthy and eliminate the programs their taxes help fund.
Tom Hall•
Trump plans to shut down Head Start, destroying early education and childcare services
The destruction of the Head Start program, part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” would eliminate education and social services for nearly 800,000 children and result in the loss of a quarter of a million jobs.
Nancy Hanover•
Mass protests erupt in high schools in Turkey
Although the immediate cause of the students’ reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor quality of education, lack of a future, growing social inequality and state repression.
Barış Demir•
Striking Birmingham bin workers speak out: “I think we’re just the start”
Striking refuse workers spoke with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site explaining the significance of the strike and the assault being mounted against them.
Our reporters•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Philip Guelpa, Elliott Murtagh•
Our reporters•
Tony Robson•
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Featured Analysis
May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
Nick Beams•
Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
Thomas Scripps•
The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
David Walsh•
The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Eric London•
Joseph Scalice•
Niles Niemuth•
Eric London•