I am in total despair. Sheffield has elected a Nazi to the council. This pillock said the Nazis were real visionaries. Its a disgrace.

South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee has joined the group of illustrious authors who have denounced Israel's campaign of genocide in Gaza. Coetzee refused to attend the upcoming International Writers Festival in Jerusalem. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Jörg Baberowski’s Bypassing the People: Fascism as a revitalisation of democracy No fewer than six major media outlets have published detailed and favourable interviews with Baberowski about his book. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

As usual, no mention of Epstein in the mainstream media today.

I see that #photogenic #birds are trending today, so here’s a red-winged blackbird singing its heart out for your Friday!

The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak and the threat of another pandemic As with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, every official statement is a soporific, and nothing is being done to warn the public of the potential dangers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

“One of the major sources of contagion is the relationship between the private credit providers and the banks which finance them. These connections often only emerge when there is a crisis or a bankruptcy.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Conviction of Palestine Action activists escalates Labour’s historic assault on democratic rights The methods employed in the Filton case are establishing sinister precedents for the suppression of all political opposition by equating civil disobedience w/ terrorism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The hantavirus outbreak highlights the fact that the US is less prepared for a new pandemic today than it was in 2020. The ruling class is waging an unprecedented and systematic campaign against public health and science. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband Mahmoud who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving. Mahmoud urgently needs surgery to save his life:

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Trump’s “America First” Counterterrorism Strategy: A blueprint for dictatorship - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15.

As is customary with Baberowski’s books, Am Volk vorbei is rife with contradictions, inconsistencies and outright fabrications. Jörg Baberowski’s “Bypassing the People” Fascism as a revitalisation of democracy - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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A federal court order releasing Hayam El Gamal and her five children from the Dilley family detention center in South Texas is a significant victory for democratic rights and a defeat for the Trump administration’s campaign of collective family punishment. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Funny how a $1.8M property couldn’t sell for 2 years… until 9 days after Gorsuch got a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court and a lawyer with cases before SCOTUS suddenly appeared with a checkbook. Totally normal. #QuidProQuo

Back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social. Why? Management is pushing ahead with restructures despite sitting on £200m+ in reserves. Along with colleagues in East Asian Studies, I also find out in 12 days how many of us they want to fire. No justification is deemed necessary by management.

One year after the Merz-Klingbeil government took office, one thing is clear: It is the most right-wing and hated government in the history of the Federal Republic. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

What is it about the Met fashion gala that leads one to think fondly of the guillotine? - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

ICE took Hayam El Gamal and her children behind locked doors, defied court orders, rushed them onto a private jet and flew them around the country. Congress is preparing $53 billion more for ICE and CBP. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Large protests took place on Sunday throughout Japan against plans by the right-wing coalition government of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to water down Article 9—the so-called pacifist clause—of the country’s constitution. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

New PLOS Biology paper arising from a collaboration between us at the Sanger/U Cambridge and the U York and Sheffield, and many more collaborators across the Americas and Europe. Regulatory changes in the same genes (optix, ivory) led to the same colour patterns in mimetic butterflies and moths.

Iran military source says that if the UAE takes “unwise” action against Iran, all Emirati interests will become Iranian targets.-Tasnim

The four-week truce in the Middle East appears to falter as the UAE says Iran launched attacks on its territory, and the US military says it sunk six Iranian military boats. Follow the latest: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

UAE’s Fujairah on fire following Iranian attack today.

Reform Watch & The New World – Reform UK Election Files Nathaniel Menday, candidate for Woodhouse in Sheffield, praised Nazi-era architecture, identified as an ethno-nationalist, and promoted a neo-Nazi symbol, placing extremist ideology firmly in the open.

Very sorry to see that the last undergrad archaeology class at Uni #Sheffield was taught yesterday. The wanton destruction happening now in academia on both sides of the Atlantic will be widely seen as the violence it is one day. #SaveSheffield #SaveSheffieldArchaeology

The flotilla was bound for Gaza to protest the ongoing Israeli siege with a symbolic delivery of essential aid. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband Mahmoud who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving. Mahmoud urgently needs surgery to save his life:

Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband Mahmoud who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving. Mahmoud urgently needs surgery to save his life:

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Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

There remain to this day countless petty-bourgeois academics, pretending to be historians, who claim that the conflict between Stalin and Trotsky was merely a struggle for individual power Leon Trotsky’s four fateful years in Prinkipo: 1929-1933 www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Time to play catch up! Friday 24th April A few #wildflowers from along the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation Canal (Rotherham)

Hegseth, a war criminal and reactionary, told a House committee that the Pentagon will need $1.5 trillion next year. Rather than opposing this increase, the Democrats went out of their way to express their support for the war machine. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The level of greed is sickening.

The same unions now promoting a phony "May Day Strong" campaign are the ones that just canceled strikes of LA teachers, New York doormen and porters, Columbia University academic workers, and Nexteer auto workers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

But that's the point, isn't it. When a side wants only their votes to count. The police to only act on their behalf. The courts to only function in their interests. ...that's no longer democracy. ...it no longer supports the Constitution.

Y'all have no problem with political violence when it’s dressed up as an ice agent or police officer. Disrespectfully... go to hell. -Vanesa Lele

Daily Memo: ICE Uses Spike Strips and Chases Fleeing Woman With Guns Drawn Into A Residential Area

US unions’ “May Day Strong” seeks to neuter May Day www.wsws.org/en/articles/... One of the chief lessons of May Day is that the emancipation of the working class requires a struggle for independence from capitalist politics in all forms, and from the agents of capitalism in the union bureaucracy.

Global military spending hit a record $2.887 trillion in 2025—the highest level ever recorded and the 11th consecutive year of growth, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported Monday. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

wsws.org/MayDay Workers of the world unite, they have nothing to lose except ... the prospect of a third world war, fascism, repression, censorship, austerity, early death, destruction of the planet, dictatorship, social alienation, theocracy, barbarism, genocide, ... THEY HAVE A LOT MORE TO GAIN!

One of the most striking examples of camouflage is the Kallima Inachus Butterfly, which closely resembles a dry leaf when its wings are closed. Nature never ceases to amaze 😎💙😎

The world is pouring nearly $3 trillion into weapons while people are told there’s no money for healthcare, housing, daycare, or education. The “budget crisis” is a political choice: war gets funded first, human needs get cut.