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The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jan 19, 2026
World problems? Possible war? Two ongoing wars not yet settled? No, Secretary of State Rubio had a more important issue to address: typefaces on correspondence. Typefaces are the style of the letters. For example, this typeface you are reading is Times New Roman, used in a number of major newspapers and in many books. Two years ago, the Biden administration changed the typeface that had been used for the previous 20 years to Calibri, which looks like this: abcd efgh ijkl. Rubio claims the typeface is “woke,” according to whatever the administration thinks that means, and so it is changing it from now on, back to Times New Roman. “Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Mr. Rubio said.
As a leading typologist put it, “When typefaces become part of the political discourse, one should wonder if there are things we are distracted from that need more attention than picking a typeface.”
We could not have said it better.