David Walsh

László Moholy-Nagy (1895) supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919. Later a professor at the Bauhaus. One of his students: “He told me, ‘The counterrevolution has already happened. Stalin is the arch-enemy…[He] explained that the new society began under Lenin and Trotsky.”

Max Liebermann (1847) – German painter “known for his naturalistic studies of the life and labour of the poor.” The realism of Women Plucking Geese shocked critics, academics. Became known as the “disciple of the ugly.” Founded the Berliner Secession, later hounded by the Nazis.

Sleepy Labeef (1935) – Reportedly knew 6,000 songs, “one of the greatest living performers of American popular music. It is hard to imagine anyone surpassing [him] in honesty, enthusiasm and intensity.” Played shows that lasted for hours, medley of rock ‘n’ roll, blues, country.

Booth was booked on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, attempted first-degree assault, felony menacing and unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon - Immigrant detention center employee shoots protester in Aurora, Colorado wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The shooter was David Michael Brouillette. His ex-wife confirmed reports he was the killer, saying he called her to admit he fired the shots and to ask her to “lie for him” - Widow speaks out, details emerge of ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford, Maine wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Markwayne Mullin repeated Trump’s demented lie that the intelligence agencies had concealed evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 election - Trump administration threatens to imprison state officials who resist federal takeover of elections wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The journalist Seymour Hersh reported June 10 that Trump asked whether using low-yield nuclear weapons against Iran’s underground missile plants “was doable” - As American deaths mount, Trump escalates war against Iran wsws.org/en/articles/20…

"Opposition to Iran's clerical rulers has long simmered in the country's impoverished south. But after bearing the brunt of U.S. strikes this month, many residents are directing their anger at President Donald Trump ​and an air campaign they say has upended their lives." Reuters

A top UAW official and Fain supporter posted a death threat against me: an AI-generated image of me bound and gagged at gunpoint. He is paid $202,000 a year from members’ dues. I will not be intimidated, and this campaign will not be stopped. Read my full statement: willforuawpresident.org/statements/leh…

Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893) “is hostile to hypocrisy, the exploitation of man by man; his sympathies entirely on the side of the proletariat.” He accepted the Revolution more naturally than any other poet, “because it was in accordance with his entire development” (Trotsky).

Edgar Degas (1834) – Impressionist painter, sculptor. He preferred to be called a “realist,” emphasized “his passion for concrete, direct observation and notation of ordinary, everyday experience.” An anti-Dreyfusard, “ferocious anti-Semite.” Shunned Pissarro, a Jewish anarchist.

Gottfried Keller (1819) – Swiss writer. Important democratic, realistic narrative writer of the post-1848 period. Author of autobiographical novel, Green Henry, highlighting “broken dreams and economic vulnerabilities of young artists within a rapidly changing capitalist society”

Martha Reeves (1941), born in Alabama, one of 11 children, moved with her parents to Detroit. She performed as a soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with her school choir before 4,000 at the Ford Auditorium. “Heat Wave,” “Dancing in the Streets,” “Nowhere to Run,” “Quicksand.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811) – Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Henry Esmond. His return to the style, structure of 18th century novels sterns “from a deep and bitter disillusionment with the nature of politics, with the relations between social and political life in his own time.”

Nowhere does the PEN document point the finger at the root cause of the difficulties: the Zionist regime and its determination to exterminate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians - PEN America president resigns over organization’s pro-Zionist statement wsws.org/en/articles/20…

This crisis is a landmark in the decomposition of the post-Cold War order and the descent of the capitalist powers into conflict over the re-division of the world - The Panama Canal crisis and US imperialism’s neocolonial drive against Latin America wsws.org/en/articles/20…

July 17 marked the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of Spain's civil war. The army led by Gen. Francisco Franco launched a fascist coup aimed at toppling the elected government of Spain’s Second Republic - 90 years since the start of the Spanish Civil War wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Iceberg lettuce that Taylor Farms sold to Taco Bell has infected 1,644. Neither corporation faces any penalty from a government gutting public health programs - Trump administration shields corporations, as thousands are poisoned in cyclosporiasis outbreak wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Hazardous wildfire smoke blanketed large swaths of the US and Canada this week. "Workers' health issues are being ignored for the sake of production” - As wildfire smoke engulfs factories and workplaces, workers demand lives before profit wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines “intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives” as a war crime - US broadens bombardment of Iran to civilian infrastructure wsws.org/en/articles/20…