Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD

The sabotage of public health, scientific research is driven by reallocating resources toward militarism and servicing of federal debt. The NIH faces a 40% cut; but there is $1 trillion for the Pentagon - The gutting of the NIH and assault on public health wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Gettysburg and the New Birth of Freedom—then and now The nightmare that haunts the minds of the ruling class is a politically conscious, politically independent working class, fighting for a political program that actually expresses its real needs wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Lehman's resolution outlines a strategy for the working class to stop the Iran war. It denounces the war as criminal, documents its staggering human costs and implications - Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president introduces resolution against Iran war wsws.org/en/articles/20…

9/9 Net interest on the national debt hits $1 TRILLION in FY2026 — surpassing both defense AND Medicaid. The math is clear: war & debt repayment come first. Your health comes last. Full article by @WSWS_Update 👇 wsws.org/en/articles/20… #NIH #PublicHealth #LongCOVID #RFKJr

8/9 At a private Easter luncheon, Trump said it plainly: It's "not possible" to fund Medicaid, Medicare, or childcare. Gov must focus on "one thing: military protection." Citizens must "let states take care of them." Not a gaffe. A policy declaration. #Medicaid #Medicare

1/9 The NIH has awarded fewer than HALF its normal grants at this point in the fiscal year. This isn't incompetence. It's a deliberate destruction of American public health. Here's what's really happening — and why it affects all of us. 🧵 @doritmi @PeterDaszak @WSWS_Update

Crucial reading: wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The latest data from Gallup and Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) provide a devastating statistical portrait of social conditions in the United States.

"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake 'public opinion' for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. "This is a fact. "No one will ever be able to refute it." Lenin, 1921

Individual acts of violence "have more of a soporific and paralyzing effect," they weaken "the clear understanding of the absolute necessity for, and the exceptionally decisive importance of, a mass movement among the people, a mass revolution of the proletariat." Rosa Luxemburg

I introduced an anti-war resolution at UAW Local 677. The apparatus voted it down 7-1, with mine the only vote in favor. The UAW bureaucracy is fully aligned with Trump’s war drive. Workers: take this resolution up in your own locals. Read it: willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw…

"A vaccine long framed as protection against cervical cancer in women is now showing clear benefits for men. Boys and young men [who got HPV vaccines] had about half the risk of developing related cancers ...." cnn.com/2026/04/24/hea…

Kennedy may be softening his rhetoric, but he is continuing to work to undermine vaccine access and uptake in many ways, explain @ChelseaClinton and @richardhughesiv in @Newsweek newsweek.com/rfk-trump-admi…

Pentagon officials met with GM and Ford CEOs to enlist the auto industry in an accelerated military arms buildup. Workers will pay in blood. Autoworkers must oppose the war drive — the UAW bureaucracy is fully backing it. Read my full statement: willforuawpresident.org/statements/ars…