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Sybille Fuchs

The Met Gala and the hubris of wealth

On the first Monday in May each year a spectacle of excess is staged in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City – the Met Gala. The red carpet rolls out for the billionaires and their hangers-on, the politicians and parasites, and the celebrities competing in what is known as the Oscars of fashion.

Joseph Scalice

Genocide and war propaganda

Biden’s charge of “genocide” in Ukraine is a political provocation consciously aimed at whipping up a public hysteria to legitimize a massive escalation of the war, including the full-scale, open participation by the United States.

Joseph Scalice

Once again on war crimes and war criminals

If allegations of war crimes are to be made against Putin, whatever criterion is applied to him must be brought to bear against other leaders, and, above all, against the American presidents.

Joseph Scalice

What are the real lessons of the Diliman Commune?

The lessons of this key event in 1971 for students and workers in the Philippines today can only be drawn through a critical examination of the political forces involved, particularly the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines.

Joseph Scalice

Stalinist apologetics and intellectual charlatanry: A response to Teo Marasigan

The WSWS is posting Dr. Joseph Scalice’s reply to Teo Marasigan, an apologist for the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines and its founder Jose Maria Sison. Sison has slandered Scalice as a CIA agent in response to his lecture detailing the CPP’s support for the fascistic Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and explaining its roots in the reactionary politics of Stalinism.

Joseph Scalice