As the US prepares war against Iran, NATO ally Türkiye attempts to mediate
Turkish government officials have voiced their growing concerns and made efforts to establish diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
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Striking workers speak from picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum for England:
Two workers employed as underground guides at the museum gave interviews. Both had formerly worked as miners at the UK’s last remaining deep coal mine, Kellingley Colliery, before it was closed in 2015.
•our reporters
Deepening poverty in the UK under Starmer Labour government says major charity
Poverty blighted between 20-22 percent of the UK population from 2005/06 up to the general election 2024. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation anticipates no change under the Starmer led Labour Government.
•Margot Miller
Despite overwhelming strike vote, union keeps 650 nurses on the job at Boston Medical Center Brighton
The concessions proposed by BMC would worsen chronic staffing shortages and cost nurses thousands of dollars a year, hurting patients and nurses alike.
•TJ Garrison
Journalists identify Alex Pretti’s killers as immigration Gestapo continues nationwide terror campaign
As support for a nationwide general strike grows, Democrats in Congress are prepared to join Republicans in passing Trump’s war budget, which includes further funding for ICE and CBP.
•Jacob Crosse
ICE arrests man in raid of Amazon facility in Hazel Park, Michigan
The arrest of Edwin Romero Guttierez, a Venezuelan national, is part of an escalating series of ICE actions in Southeastern Michigan.
•Anthony Callahan
Music and recording artists denounce ICE and defend immigrants at 2026 Grammys
A group of music artists made public statements during their acceptance speeches—Olivia Dean, Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny, in particular—in opposition to the assault by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the rights of immigrants.
•Kevin Reed
The new Dutch coalition government: A minority war cabinet in the service of capital
The coalition agreement unveiled on January 30 is the Dutch expression of a continent‑wide reorganisation of capitalist rule around permanent war, authoritarianism and a frontal assault on the working class.
•Parwini Zora
Coalition break-up expresses crisis of Australia’s two-party system
Amid a massive social polarisation, the old parties of the centre that have defended capitalist rule for decades are fracturing.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australian Labor government policy drives up housing prices
Since Labor’s expansion of the First Home Buyers scheme in October, prices of eligible lower-cost homes have risen 50 percent more than those of more-expensive properties.
•Leonard Johns
Trump SNAP cuts take effect: 2.4 million people at risk of losing food assistance by 2034
The mechanism for this round of SNAP cuts is extending work requirements from age 54 to age 64.
•Kate Randall
Sri Lankan government imposes “essential services” laws
After falsely pledging to improve living standards and defend democratic rights, the government is stepping up its use of repressive measures against the working class.
•Saman Gunadasa
Kaiser healthcare strike enters second week as new walkouts loom nationwide
Several thousand pharmacy and laboratory workers in Southern California, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), have voted to authorize a strike beginning February 9, highlighting the potential for a broad, working class movement in defense of public health.
•Kimie Saito, Liz Cabrera, Marc Wells
The mass surveillance infrastructure of Trump’s assault on immigrants and protesters
An integrated network of surveillance, tracking and identification technologies are being used by gangs of ICE and CBP agents in US cities for targeting both immigrants and citizen protesters.
•Kevin Reed
Measles outbreak at Dilley concentration camp: An indictment of Trump’s war on immigrants and public health
A measles outbreak is now ripping through the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where the Trump administration confines hundreds of immigrant families and children under conditions of deliberate brutality and medical neglect.
•Evan Blake
Oil companies demand surrender, but USW keeps 30,000 refinery workers on the job after contract expires
A struggle must be waged against the union bureaucrats, who are working with management and the government to impose another concessions contract.
•Tom Hall
Ferry sinks in Philippines killing 42, dozens more missing
The latest disaster is part of a long-time pattern in which ferry and maritime safety are ignored for the benefit of big business.
•Dante Pastrana
Trump-aligned candidate wins Costa Rican presidency exposing bankruptcy of Pink Tide
The election’s result is the political responsibility of the nominal “left”, in particular the pseudo-left Broad Front (FA) and its satellite organizations, which entered a de facto alliance with the traditional parties of the local oligarchy.
•Andrea Lobo
Indonesian stock market plunge indicates deepening economic turmoil
Last week’s fall, which wiped off around $80 billion from the market, was sparked by an adverse report from global index provider Morgan Stanley Capital Investment, which sets ratings for markets.
•Nick Beams
How to carry out the rebellion against the IG Metall trade union in Germany
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) welcomes the rapidly growing opposition to the union apparatus and supports workers who want to free themselves from its straitjacket.
•Ulrich Rippert, Christoph Vandreier
Warning strikes in Germany’s public transport: Break the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy! Build independent action committees!
The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us.
•Transport Workers Action Committee
Hailing Stalin, Kenyan Stalinists defend Venezuelan regime’s growing ties to Trump
The handover of Venezuela’s oil reserves to US imperialism by its Bolivarian regime is relentlessly unmasking anti-Trotskyist forces internationally.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Mediterranean dockworkers prepare International Day of Protest against escalating global war
The February 6 protest highlights growing antiwar sentiment in the working class and the need to build rank-and-file committees affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees to free the struggle from the influence of Stalinist and Pabloite parties.
•Marc Wells
Workers and young people in the UK speak on Gaza and Minneapolis
Tens of thousands took part in the 34th national demonstration in London against the genocide of the Palestinians and the war on Gaza.
•Our reporters
Five workers killed because Greek biscuit factory was a death trap following years of safety violations
Five female workers died in a huge blast and fire in the early hours of January 26 at the Violanta biscuit factory near the city of Trikala in the Thessaly region of central Greece.
•John Vassilopoulos
2 months after Cyclone Ditwah: Sri Lanka’s humanitarian catastrophe continues
The JVP/NPP government’s relief program, while offering symbolic gestures, has failed to deliver genuine reconstruction or address the underlying vulnerabilities the cyclone has exposed.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
This week in history: February 2-8
London Underground workers strike; 22,000 killed in Guatemala earthquake; South Korea troops massacre civilians; Sean O’Casey play premiers in Dublin.
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Europe’s imperialist powers line up behind regime change in Iran
The European imperialist powers are fully complicit in preparing an imperialist war of plunder against the most populated country in the Middle East.
•Jordan Shilton
Venezuela privatizes oil at US gunpoint: The dead end of “21st Century Socialism”
Less than one month after the criminal military abduction of de facto President Nicolás Maduro, Washington is recolonizing Venezuela and its oil wealth aided by the chavista government.
•Bill Van Auken
Major financial oligarchs helped Kevin Warsh secure Trump’s nomination for Fed chair
Trump’s decision is the outcome of a balancing act which itself underscores the inherent instability of the US financial system.
•Nick Beams
Senate Democratic leadership votes to fund Trump’s wars abroad and at home
The $839 billion military funding bill, passed with overwhelming Democratic support, comes as Trump deploys an “armada” against Iran, occupies American cities with federal agents, and threatens to expand wars across the globe.
•Andre Damon
Epstein files reveal criminality of American oligarchy
The latest release documents ongoing relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and billionaires, politicians, and power brokers well after his conviction, underscoring the systemic protection afforded to criminality within the ruling class.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: Writers Victoria to close as state Labor government slashes arts funding
The destruction of Writers Victoria will mean fewer opportunities for working-class people to develop their own voices and stories.
•Jason Quill
Deadly landslide in West Java exposes consequences of government neglect
Disasters of this kind are made possible by severely underfunded infrastructure, and compounded by deforestation and climate change
•Aditya Syed
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani praises NYPD shooting of emotionally distressed 22-year-old
New York Mayor Mamdani applauded the NYPD officers who shot 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty at least four times while he was suffering a mental health crisis.
•John Conrad
“Obey now. Grieve later”: Teachers unions suppress resistance to fascism
As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective response, under the guise of “student safety.”
•Jane Wise
New York nurses: Expand the strike to defeat mass firing threats from management!
The nurses must seize control of their strike to prevent the union from surrendering completely to the hospitals’ outrageous demands.
•Erik Schreiber
Australian PM invites Canadian leader to visit
Albanese’s announcement came only three days after Carney addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he declared that the “rules-based international order” had “ruptured.”
•Mike Head
Lecture at the University of Michigan on Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra
The topic of the lecture was a significant episode in the history of 20th century American and world music—the establishment of an African-American symphony orchestra, founded by conductor and composer Ignatz Waghalter.
•Barry Grey
Measles outbreak rips through Dilley child detention center, as nationwide epidemic deepens
An outbreak of measles being reported at the Dilley children and family detention center in Texas highlights a nationwide resurgence that threatens US elimination status and underscores the collapse of vaccination, surveillance and public health infrastructure.
•Benjamin Mateus
Third “Megapicket” held in Birmingham refuse workers strike as union bureaucracy appeals to Starmer
As with the previous events staged in May and July last year, the performative “solidarity” on show was a bogus affair, lacking any genuine mobilisation of the working class.
•Robert Stevens
Birmingham bin workers defiant on the picket line
Workers said they had not waged a year-long fight to accept a lump-sum payoff that fails to compensate for their major loss of earnings, legitimizes downgraded roles, and paves the way for unsafe working conditions.
•Our reporters
“I think a general strike is necessary”: Students and workers across US speak on ICE murder, Trump dictatorship
Reporters from the WSWS will be intervening on the ground in Minneapolis and around the country as tens of thousands call for a general strike to abolish the immigration gestapo and bring down the Trump government.
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Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses continues, as strike looms for thousands of pharmacy and lab workers
Healthcare workers are being driven into direct confrontation, not only with corporate healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente, but with the entire political and economic framework that subordinates human life to profit, repression and state violence.
•Kimie Saito, Liz Cabrera, Marc Wells
“They watched him get crushed”: Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker critically injured after management ignored safety warnings
A Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker was critically injured when a vehicle fell on him due to known safety hazards, which both management and the UAW apparatus ignored.
•George Marlowe
Chancellor Merz demands German imperialism must “learn to speak the language of power politics”
Merz’s response to the new world situation he described could just as well have come from one of Hitler’s programmatic speeches in the early 1930s.
•Johannes Stern
Michigan immigrants face increasing repression from federal agents
ICE arrests in Michigan were up 230 percent in 2025 compared to 2024, and included immigrants with legal status and those with spouses or children who are US citizens.
•Anthony Callahan
Reject the IG Metall union’s nationalist defence of steel production in Germany!
While Thyssenkrupp shareholders plan to approve a €93 million dividend, the corporation is preparing to slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division. Workers must reject the complicity of the IG Metall union and build independent rank-and-file committees to defend their livelihoods against these attacks.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Israel officially accepts Gaza death toll of 70,000
After years of denial by Israel, successive US and European governments and the international media, Israel has accepted the Gaza Health Ministry’s official death toll.
•Andre Damon
Journalist Don Lemon, anti-ICE protesters arrested on orders of Trump administration
The arrests of these protesters and journalists mark a massive escalation in the Trump administration’s criminalization of dissent and assault on core democratic rights.
•Jacob Crosse
250 years since the publication of Tom Paine’s Common Sense
Paine’s revolutionary assault on monarchy and aristocracy cleared the way for American independence a quarter millenium ago—and speaks urgently to the present.
•Tom Mackaman
New York City Mayor Mamdani prepares for austerity following NYPD raid against anti-ICE protesters
The most overt expression of Mamdani’s prostration before and political integration into the capitalist establishment is his ongoing relationship with Donald Trump.
•Sandy English
“If you care about the world you live in, you might want to fight for it, because it might not be there next year.” A conversation with hip-hop artist Sole
Independent rap artist Sole spoke to the WSWS about the issues confronting hip-hop artists in the present situation, as well as his opposition to the Trump administration’s assault on the population.
•Nick Barrickman
Thailand’s election highlights deep crisis of bourgeois rule
None of the major parties expects to secure a majority with polling showing a sharp collapse in support for Pheu Thai and the People’s Party since 2023.
•Robert Campion
Architect explains why Australian public housing towers should be fixed, not demolished
“It appears that the government no longer wants to supply and manage public housing.” — Simon Robinson, OFFICE architect.
•Our reporters
Australia: Union officials stop striking health workers speaking to SEP members at Melbourne rally
Health Workers Union bureaucrats denounced the SEP as “scabs” who were “spreading division in the union.”
•Owen Howell, Martin Scott
Fire spreads in Victoria as heatwave grips Australia’s south east, air quality plummets
This inferno is tearing through a region that only days earlier had been hit by destructive flash flooding, underscoring the “whiplash” character of climate-driven extremes now confronting Victoria.
•Eric Ludlow
Trump declares Cuba a “national emergency,” orders tariffs against any country supplying the island oil
The Trump administration has imposed a de facto blockade on oil shipments to Cuba as part of a drive for regime change.
•Alexander Fangmann
One month after announcing sellout agreements, Canadian Union of Postal Workers reveals major concessions to management
The selective “highlights” released by the union bureaucracy make clear that the agreements constitute an historic betrayal, paving the way for mass job destruction, intensified exploitation and the transformation of Canada Post into a precarious, Amazon-style logistics operation.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: 800,000 government bank workers strike nationwide; West Bengal: Kilcott Tea estate workers protest overdue wages; Sri Lanka: School Development Officers renew calls for inclusion in National Teacher Service; Qantas salaried and technical workers strike again for new agreement
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UAW and labor bureaucrats mouth support for general strike while keeping workers on the job
Autoworkers should demand that the UAW sanction participation in a general strike. Putting money—drawn from workers’ dues money—where its mouth is, the union’s $800 million strike fund must be put to use for the struggle against dictatorship, not for lining pockets.
•Tom Hall
Labour’s blueprint for a centralised police-state apparatus in Britain
A national command structure and a high-tech surveillance infrastructure is being constructed to confront the inevitable eruption of social opposition.
•Ioan Petrescu
Build the New York Healthcare workers Rank-and-File Committee to prevent a sellout and expand the nurses’ strike!
On the one hand, the strike has won immense public support, but on the other, NYSNA is preparing a sellout on management's terms. The strike can be won, but only if healthcare workers take matters into their own hands.
•New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Attendees at Australia’s “Invasion Day” defend free speech and oppose oppression of Aboriginal people
Attendees not only spoke out against the oppression of Indigenous people, but also condemned the Trump administration's rampage in Minnesota and the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
•Our reporters
Large “Invasion Day” protests held in Australia amid unprecedented assault on democratic rights
The platforms were dominated by a privileged layer of the Aboriginal elite who framed oppression in racial terms and promoted the dead-end of Treaty, court cases, petitions and support for the very Labor governments attacking democratic rights.
•Our reporters
An assessment of the ongoing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic
This article examines the state of public health in the United States in January 2026, detailing mass COVID-19 infection, excess deaths, collapsing vaccination coverage, immune damage and the dismantling of institutions responsible for disease prevention.
•Benjamin Mateus
FBI raids Fulton County, Georgia election center as Trump presses bogus claim of stolen 2020 election
Agents carted off hundreds of boxes containing ballots, tabulation tapes and other election records, based on a judicial warrant characterizing these documents as potential evidence of a crime.
•Patrick Martin
New Zealand public health system in deepening crisis
As the public health system reels from decades of underfunding by all the establishment parties, the government is exploiting the crisis to systematically expand the private sector.
•John Braddock
Democrats reach deal with White House to keep immigration Gestapo funded
The deal provides a 2-week extension of funding for the Department of Homeland Security while locking in full funding for the Pentagon and the national security state as the Trump administration prepares for war with Iran.
•Jacob Crosse
Workers left in dark about fire that forced evacuation of General Motors Lansing Delta Township factory in Michigan
Workers reported smelling smoke hours before GM management took action to evacuate the plant, located outside Lansing, Michigan.
•Shane Latrobe
Trump administration threatens new war against Iran
Just weeks after attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president, US President Donald Trump is threatening to launch a major new war against Iran.
•Andre Damon
Stop ICE murders and dictatorship! Build a rank-and-file movement of the working class for a general strike!
The movement against dictatorship must be armed with a political perspective, a strategy for victory and new forms of organization rooted in the power of the working class.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Kaiser workers join call for national strike, while union holds them back
Striking healthcare workers are responding to Alex Pretti’s murder by supporting calls for a national general strike.
•Kimie Saito, David Rye, Nakai Beltran, Marc Wells
NTSB findings: 2025 Potomac midair disaster was “entirely preventable”
The National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing on Tuesday to present the “probable cause” findings from its investigation into the midair crash between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River that killed 67 people on January 29, 2025.
•Kevin Reed
First US execution of 2026: Charles Thompson dies by lethal injection in Texas
Before the lethal dose of pentobarbital was given, Thompson asked for forgiveness, while also stating: “There are no winners in this situation, it creates more victims and traumatizes more people 28 years later.”
•Kate Randall
Artists voice growing opposition to Trump, call for “general strike” and “revolution”
The upsurge of resistance, unlike anything that has been seen in decades, is beginning to find many important expressions, including among classical and popular musicians, actors, writers and even professional athletes.
•David Walsh
As capitalism hurtles to dictatorship and world war, young people must join the struggle for socialism!
For young people to have a future, they must take up a political fight against the capitalist system and fight for the establishment of socialism, which is the only way the drive towards dictatorship and war can be stopped.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
What UK Labour’s leadership crisis means for the working class
The tone in the bourgeois press is mournful, with the Financial Times best summing up the problem for the British ruling class: a prime minister failing to put through their agenda but who they are nervous about replacing.
•Thomas Scripps
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Belgian rail workers in five-day strike against austerity; Iraqi university workers walk out over allowances; poverty in South Africa highlighted by Kaniega municipal workers’ strike
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Striking Kaiser healthcare workers: “A general strike could be very powerful”
The Kaiser strike is part of a broader wave of healthcare workers' struggles across the country, totaling more than 46,000 workers from coast to coast.
•Kimie Saito, David Benson, Jonathan Burleigh, Bryan Dyne
Fed maintains rate amid indications further cuts are on hold
Throughout the press conference, Fed chair Powell stonewalled on the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into him and its efforts to have Fed governor Lisa Cook removed.
•Nick Beams
Sri Lankan president falsely postures as champion of “national unity”
Dissanayake is trying to cover up the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s reactionary communal record as an enthusiastic supporter of anti-Tamil racialist war.
•N. Rangesh
Amazon, UPS lead new wave of mass layoffs in 2026
A new and far-reaching wave of mass layoffs is sweeping the United States, marking a decisive escalation in the ruling class’s assault on the working class.
•Jerry White
Fascist assaults Ilhan Omar as White House escalates campaign against left-wing groups
The violent assault follows deliberate incitement by President Trump and the launching of an anticommunist witch-hunt by FBI Director Kash Patel.
•Patrick Martin
What must be done to prepare a nationwide general strike against the Trump administration?
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
•Socialism AI
Police, federal agents assault and arrest peaceful protesters outside Dilley detention camp in south Texas
As hundreds demanded an end to children being kept in cages, ICE locked down the Dilley facility while Texas police and immigration Gestapo used tear gas and truncheons to assault peaceful protesters outside the prison camp.
•Kathleen Martin, Jacob Crosse
30,000 refinery workers face contract expiration amid growing working class struggle
These workers account for approximately two-thirds of total US refining capacity, placing them at the center of the country’s energy infrastructure and the global oil supply chain.
•Tom Hall
Australia: Lactalis to shut Brisbane milk plant, axing more than 200 jobs
In the face of ruthless corporate restructuring, the Australian Workers Union quickly stated its willingness to collaborate with management to close the historic South Brisbane plant.
•Antony Walsh
The Pitt Season 2 and the challenges facing a serious television drama
The second season of The Pitt is being aired in the midst of historical events that have thrust healthcare workers into the spotlight in an unprecedented manner.
•Isabel Roy
Voices of solidarity from Germany in the fight against Trump’s drive to dictatorship
Workers and students in Germany send messages of support to the general strike in Minnesota and the nurses' strike in New York, linking the fight against the Trump dictatorship with the struggle against war and social cuts in Europe.
•Our reporters
New Zealand politicians express outrage over Trump’s Afghanistan accusations
Glorifying New Zealand’s role in the 20-year Afghanistan occupation, Labour Party figures are seeking to steer widespread opposition to the government and Trump in a right-wing, “patriotic” and militarist direction.
•John Braddock
Indiana immigration crackdown targets Burmese refugees as protests erupt in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis
Opposition to immigration enforcement is increasingly emerging from below, particularly among young people and workers.
•Aaron Jefferson
Birmingham bin strike: Rank-and-file workers must decide a new strategy to end their isolation
Birmingham bin strikers have won the respect of workers across the country. But they cannot win on their own and so cannot let Unite’s leadership continue to suffocate their action.
•Tony Robson
US strike on Iran appears imminent as aircraft carrier task force arrives in Arabian Sea and Trump makes new threats
On Wednesday, Trump underscored the imminence of a possible military strike on Iran, saying the fleet headed by the USS Abraham Lincoln is larger than that Washington deployed off Venezuela before kidnapping its president, and stands “prepared to rapidly fulfill its missions with speed and violence if necessary.”
•Jean Shaoul
Was Alex Pretti the subject of a targeted assassination?
Emerging evidence strongly indicates that the murder of Pretti was a targeted assassination carried out by the Trump administration’s paramilitary forces in order to terrorize Minneapolis citizens opposing and recording its criminal activities.
•Joseph Kishore
Fiancée of USPS worker Keywan Glenn speaks out on his death in Illinois facility
His death and the circumstances leading up to it expose both conditions of extreme workplace stress and, along with now many other tragic deaths, the systemic failure of emergency response in USPS facilities.
•Brian Green, Kristina Betinis
New York nurses’ strike enters third week as union prepares to accept major concessions
The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has lowered its wage demands and reached an agreement to identify “potential savings” in the healthcare plan.
•Robert Milkowski
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Oil workers in Peru staged a nationwide protest action against a government decree aimed at privatizing the state-owned oil company while 700 faculty at Laurentian University is in its second week, impacting some 9,000 students.
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Defend the internal opposition at Bosch in Schwäbisch Gmünd against the IG Metall union bureaucracy! Build independent Action Committees!
At the Bosch plant in Schwäbisch Gmünd, IG Metall is attempting to exclude an opposition list from the upcoming works council elections. This attack on democratic rights must be answered by building independent rank-and-file committees to unite workers against job cuts and the union bureaucracy.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Trump-Macron messages expose bankruptcy of Mélenchon’s France Unbowed party
As Minneapolis workers mobilize and strike against ICE's extrajudicial political executions of US citizens, France Unbowed is defending Macron's left flank and his sycophantic texts to Trump.
•Alex Lantier
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