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12+ min ago (1733+ words) Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler devoted her entire adult life to building a better, socialist society. In 1975, at the age of 19, she joined the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) and remained an active and leading member for the rest of her life. On November 28 she died from the consequences of a tragic accident in her flat in Duisburg. Her German and international comrades will remember "Elli," as everyone called her, for the tireless energy with which she championed Marxism among workers and party members, for her firmness of principle and for her human warmth. Dozens of messages of condolence received by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) from all over the world express this. "For Elli, the struggle to build the International Committee of the Fourth International as the world party of socialist revolution was her…...

13+ min ago (453+ words) Negotiators for the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) announced a tentative agreement on Monday, aimed at heading off a strike by over 5,000 SEPTA transit workers in Philadelphia. Transit workers in Pennsylvania's most economically important region have been laboring without a contract for more than a month." After holding a strike authorization vote on November 16 under conditions of mounting rank-and-file anger, TWU officials deliberately kept workers on the job, demobilizing their power while openly collaborating with management and the state. After the expiration of their one-year contract on November 7, the TWU 234 leadership kept members guessing about what would come next. Only after mounting pressure from below did the leadership formally call a strike authorization vote more than a week later on November 16, when members voted unanimously for a strike. Following this, the Philadelphia Federation…...

15+ min ago (550+ words) The world is witnessing a genuine transformation in the design and use of intelligent systems with the emergence of Agentic AI. Unlike traditional AI, which mainly analyzes data or executes isolated commands, Agentic AI can plan, act, and self-evaluate within defined boundaries to achieve human-set goals under continuous human supervision. What prompted me to write this article is the FDA's landmark announcement in December 2025, confirming that Agentic AI will now be integrated into its regulatory processes for drug and device review, surveillance, and oversight. This institutional step signals that Agentic AI has moved from theory into practice, shaping real-world governance, healthcare, and decision-making systems. What Makes Agentic AI Distinct? Agentic AI differs from conventional systems because it is delegated a set of tasks and operates semi-autonomously within permitted limits. It combines: This is not "fully autonomous AI." Agentic AI performs…...

15+ min ago (423+ words) Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP Former Colorado election official Tina Peters" latest effort to get out of prison flopped Monday, as a federal magistrate judge denied her habeas corpus petition because her state-level appeals had not yet run their course. She was convicted of seven felonies (including attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failure to comply with the statutory requirements of her role as clerk) and then sentenced to nine years in prison in October 2024. Trump has repeatedly and vociferously attacked the prosecutors, the judge, and others involved in convicting Peters, complaining it was caused by "Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020" " even though the DA was a Republican. The president has gone so far as to…...

15+ min ago (796+ words) From Berlin, Munich and Dresden to Dortmund, Essen and Stuttgart, tens of thousands of young people took to the streets on December 5 in more than 90 cities to protest against the reintroduction of conscription. The demonstrations were a powerful expression of the enormous opposition to German militarism and the danger of a third world war. In Saxony alone, around 2,000 pupils took part in the demonstrations. "Up with education, down with armaments," they chanted in Dresden. "We are not cannon fodder!" and "Send [chancellor] Merz to the front" appeared on hand-made placards in Essen. One slogan recalled the'xenophobic agitation'of the chancellor aimed at migrants: "Too bad for the urban environment, but good enough for the front." Most participants linked the fight against conscription with the broader struggle against militarism and war, and some also addressed the underlying cause of this development in…...

18+ min ago (247+ words) Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts committed two turnovers on the same play in a losing effort against the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night Football. But the most memorable " and infamous " moment of the game came midway through the second quarter with the Eagles trailing 7-3. On 3rd and 2 from the Los Angeles 21, Hurts dropped back and threw a pass that was intercepted by defensive lineman Da'Shawn Hand, who promptly fumbled the ball, which Hurts scooped up, only to cough it up back to the Chargers. HURTS THREW A PICK, GOT IT BACK, THEN FUMBLED " " ESPN (@espn) December 9, 2025 Here is the chaos as documented by ESPN's play-by-play log from the game. (Shotgun) J.Hurts pass short middle intended for A.Brown INTERCEPTED by D.Hand at LAC 17. D.Hand to LAC 24 for 7 yards (W.Shipley). FUMBLES (W.Shipley), RECOVERED by PHI-J.Hurts at LAC 32. J.Hurts to LAC 33 for…...

19+ min ago (242+ words) The defense lawyers commissioned Yuri Borisovich Irkhin, one of Ukraine's leading criminologists, to conduct a "linguistic examination" of the statements and articles that Bogdan wrote and published, and that have served as the principal foundation for his prosecution. Irkhin found that they provide no basis whatsoever for his prosecution as a "traitor" and a supporter of the Putin regime. His conclusion is unequivocal:" 2. ".there are NO statements, phrases, sentences, or word combinations that have signs of propaganda aimed at supporting the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine." (Emphasis in the original) Irkhin reached the same basic conclusion with regard to all statements that expressed the position of the YGBL and the WSWS on the war. Thus, after analyzing the speeches of Andrei Ritsky and Bogdan Syrotiuk to the 2023 International May Day Rally, Irkhin notes:" Irkhin found that all…...

20+ min ago (531+ words) All the bulls't reasons we used to justify the disastrous war in Iraq, [the Trump administration is] trotting out to justify war in Venezuela," the comedian adds Jon Stewart accused the Trump administration of giving him Iraq War d'j" vu over their reasoning for the looming conflict with Venezuela. The comedian addressed the eerie" similarities between the two separate conflicts during Monday's monologue for The Daily Show," where he slammed the president and his administration for recycling old Iraq War-era justifications amid the growing conflict in South America. So the two dictators [Nicol's Maduro and Saddam Hussein] share a remarkably similar taste in facial hair, body shape, ceremonial sabers and headgear. It doesn't mean that the pretext for the wars will be the same," Stewart joked before airing news footage of MAGA supporters accusing narco-terrorists of being in possession of…...

26+ min ago (1684+ words) For decades, India's diamond industry offered workers a way to a better income and life for their families. Not anymore. By Anuj Behal and Suchak Patel Surat, India "In 2018, Alpesh Bhai enrolled his three-year-old daughter in an English-language private school in Surat. This was something he never imagined possible while growing up in his village in the Indian state of Gujarat, where his family survived on small fields of fennel, castor and cumin, with their earnings barely enough to cover basic needs. He had studied in a public school, where, he recalled, "teachers were a rarity, and English almost didn't exist. "Maybe if I knew English, I would have been some government worker. Who knows?, he said, referring to the dream of a majority of Indians, as government jobs come with tenure and benefits. His finances improved once he joined…...

31+ min ago (1713+ words) Somewhere between a renaming and a re-founding " deceptively labelled "Generation Germany" (GG) " Germany's far-right, or neo-Nazi, AfD has given itself a new youth organization. The cunning, innocent, and thoroughly deceptive name " "Generation Deutschland" " clearly could not be "HJ 2.0" or the more modern version of the HDJ " Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend. At one point the HDJ's Nazi connotations and ideology became all too obvious; the state declared it illegal. The neo-fascist AfD's "Generation Deutschland" is designed to avoid this fate. The founding of the AfD's new youth platoon was a right-wing revelation. As has become common for the neo-fascist AfD, the minions' congregation of the neo-fascistic faith-"fools" was accompanied by loud and persistent protests organised by Germany's democratic civil society. At the meeting, right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis, right-wing populists and members of neo-fascist networks shook hands. At the well-choreographed party show, the…...