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From a few weeks back, see topmost letter (by B. Lazare) on the page at this link: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1559/letters
It’s about the Weekly Worker group’s pro-Hamas’ism.
‘Rubio Neo-conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan’:
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel-mcadams/2025/11/27/rubio-neo-conned-trumps-ukraine-peace-plan/
From the blurb shown on this page it’s a worthlessly Leninist (stalinist? maoist? critique of Frankfurtism: https://nyupress.org/9781685901356/who-paid-the-pipers-of-western-marxism
I’d take WSWS-brand anti-Frankfurtism over this kind of ‘actually existing socialism’ cheerleader garbage any day.
In the course of the press conference, Mamdani was asked about the resolution against ‘socialism’ that had just been passed by the lower house of the American parliament. Here’s about that resolution:
Or, skip directly to the text of it: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/58/text
A more entertaining article than the BBC’s is this, where the keyword may be ‘surreal’: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/trump-mamdani-make-love-not-war-00665861
As for the David North Trots (i.e the WSWS), they title their article ‘Mamdani announces “partnership” with hated would-be dictator Trump’. Here, the keywords are ‘disgusting’ and ‘grotesque’:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/22/mzez-n22.htmlIf you want to actually watch the 30-minute Mamdani-Trump news conference (never a dull moment), it’s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDanzN1EUeE
‘The October 7 Industry’:https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-october-7-industry
Hermann Lueer reviews part of the Bernes book. The review has these parts:
Abstract;
1. Marx against Labor Money;
2. Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution;
3. Bordiga against the GIC;
4. Dauvé – Councils without workers in the land of milk and honey;
5. Paul Mattick’s famous introduction to the 1970 reissue of the Fundamental Principles;
ConclusionA non-favorable review of the Bernes book by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Network in the most recent issue of its organ, Rebel Worker: https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-09/RW%20Sept-Oct%202025.pdf . On PDF-page 16
A piece by Paul Mattick a few days back:
And here is the platform of him whom Trump calls a ‘100% Communist Lunatic’:
