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Nick Beams

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Member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) National Committee.

Joined February 2021
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AI plunge delivers global shock wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
AI plunge delivers global shock

AI plunge delivers global shock

Friday’s fall in the Tokyo stock market was described by investors as “complete carnage.”

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Sanders and Warren look for deals with Trump as his attorney general threatens Democrats wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
Sanders and Warren look for deals with Trump as his attorney general threatens Democrats

Sanders and Warren look for deals with Trump as his attorney general threatens Democrats

Two of the most prominent Senate liberals claimed that Democrats and Trump could agree to raise the minimum wage and expand health care coverage.

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The return of measles in the US and the bipartisan dismantling of public health wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
The return of measles in the US and the bipartisan dismantling of public health

The return of measles in the US and the bipartisan dismantling of public health

Eight measles-associated deaths in the United States in 2026, after nine years in which no one died of the disease, are the product of the deliberate dismantling of public health by the capitalist...

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DSA’s Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoralty amid shift to the left wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
DSA’s Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoralty amid shift to the left

DSA’s Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoralty amid shift to the left

Raman’s victory gives DSA-affiliated mayors control of the two largest US cities and Washington D.C., reflecting a broader radicalization among workers and youth.

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After Republican election debacle, Democrats pledge “bipartisan common ground” with Trump wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
After Republican election debacle, Democrats pledge “bipartisan common ground” with Trump

After Republican election debacle, Democrats pledge “bipartisan common ground” with Trump

Following the massive repudiation of US President Donald Trump in the 2026 midterm elections, the Democratic Party has launched a campaign to rescue the Trump administration.

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Wall Street plunge wipes off $3.2 trillion in market value wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
Wall Street plunge wipes off $3.2 trillion in market value

Wall Street plunge wipes off $3.2 trillion in market value

Fears of Democrat restrictions on the AI buildout were more the catalyst than the fundamental cause of the selloff.

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After the US midterms: What next? wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
After the US midterms: What next?

After the US midterms: What next?

There is a vast and unbridgeable chasm between the sentiments animating masses of people and the political party, the Democratic Party, that is the electoral beneficiary of them. 

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Tightening credit hitting AI boom amid a “bloodbath” for junk bonds wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
Tightening credit hitting AI boom amid a “bloodbath” for junk bonds

Tightening credit hitting AI boom amid a “bloodbath” for junk bonds

Major companies in AI are looking to raise hundreds of billions of dollars of debt in very different conditions from the era of virtually free money which prevailed for almost a decade and a half...

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US midterm election: A massive repudiation of Trump and the Republicans wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
US midterm election: A massive repudiation of Trump and the Republicans

US midterm election: A massive repudiation of Trump and the Republicans

The Republican Party was swept out of power in the House of Representatives in a landslide and lost control of the Senate as well.

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Capitalist Crisis, Imperialist War and the World Socialist Revolution wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
Capitalist Crisis, Imperialist War and the World Socialist Revolution

Capitalist Crisis, Imperialist War and the World Socialist Revolution

Delivered the night before the midterm elections, this lecture explains why the war against Iran, the AI bubble and the eruption of mass struggle across Europe pose the necessity of socialist...

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Cracks start to widen in AI boom wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
Cracks start to widen in AI boom

Cracks start to widen in AI boom

The selloff began Thursday, when shares in Alphabet dropped 13 percent and its market value fell by $500 billion, its largest ever one-day loss.

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Behind the US midterm elections: economic crisis, world war and the drive to dictatorship wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
Behind the US midterm elections: Economic crisis, world war and the drive to dictatorship

Behind the US midterm elections: Economic crisis, world war and the drive to dictatorship

As Trump lays the groundwork for overturning the vote and readies a new war on Iran, the Democrats are preparing to treat their expected gains as a mandate for war against Russia.

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Support the international dockworkers’ action! Build a European general strike against war and austerity! wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
Support the international dockworkers’ action! Build a European general strike against war and...

Support the international dockworkers’ action! Build a European general strike against war and...

The Socialist Equality Parties in Europe welcome and support the international day of action by dock and port workers on Friday, October 30, against war, genocide and militarisation.

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Half of US workers go without needed care even before Trump Medicaid cuts take effect January 1 wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

Half of US workers go without needed care even before Trump Medicaid cuts take effect January 1

A Commonwealth Fund survey finds the working-age uninsured rate rose to 11.2 percent in 2026 and half of working-age adults went without needed care because of cost, before H.R. 1's Medicaid cuts...

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Spanish train crash at Urda: The fraud of “human error” and the case for workers’ power wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
Spanish train crash at Urda: The fraud of “human error” and the case for workers’ power

Spanish train crash at Urda: The fraud of “human error” and the case for workers’ power

The Urda crash exposes capitalism’s subordination of basic requirements of social life to private profit and makes an unanswerable case for socialist policies, placing the railways and the economy as...

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Parents denounce federal cover-up in Border Patrol murder of Alex Pretti wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
Parents denounce federal cover-up in Border Patrol murder of Alex Pretti

Parents denounce federal cover-up in Border Patrol murder of Alex Pretti

Michael and Susan Pretti condemned the Justice Department’s stonewalling and demanded accountability for the federal agents who killed their son in Minneapolis.

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Trump and Kennedy’s racist tirades against Muslims and Arabs: The fascist degradation of American politics wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
Trump and Kennedy’s racist tirades against Muslims and Arabs: The fascist degradation of American...

Trump and Kennedy’s racist tirades against Muslims and Arabs: The fascist degradation of American...

The open bigotry of the remarks in Michigan by the US president and a top cabinet secretary are a signal of the plans for mass repression and military aggression after the elections.

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Global index provider threatens to cut Indonesia off from international investment wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
Global index provider threatens to cut Indonesia off from international investment

Global index provider threatens to cut Indonesia off from international investment

The threat to reduce Indonesia to “standalone” status in the MSCI index resulted in the biggest fall in the Indonesian stock market since the crisis of 1998 as it plunged by 12 percent, triggering a...

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Lula’s reelection in Brazil: A vote against fascism sets stage for an eruption of class struggle wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
Lula’s reelection in Brazil: A vote against fascism sets stage for an eruption of class struggle

Lula’s reelection in Brazil: A vote against fascism sets stage for an eruption of class struggle

Lula’s reelection opens a period of intensified class struggle, in which the aspirations of the workers and young people who voted for him will collide head-on with his government’s capitalist...

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David North opens fall lecture series with meetings at Wayne State and Michigan State Universities wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…
David North opens fall lecture series with meetings at Wayne State and Michigan State universities

David North opens fall lecture series with meetings at Wayne State and Michigan State universities

Dozens of students and workers in Detroit and East Lansing attended each meeting and took part in serious discussions on war, the Democratic Party, and the fight for socialism.

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