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Australian Labor government sending missiles, warplane, troops to join illegal war on Iran
Labor is openly joining a war of annihilation against an oppressed nation.
•Oscar Grenfell
Wild swings in global markets
When the trading day began in the US the price of oil had surged from around $90 a barrel to as high as $119 and was set to go even higher as stocks were falling following significant further selloffs in Asia.
•Nick Beams
New Zealand Labour Party, Greens falsely posture as opponents of Iran war
The nationalist calls by the Labour Party, the Greens as well as sections of academia and the media for a more “independent” foreign policy are a smokescreen and fraud.
•John Braddock, Tom Peters
“The working class has to stop the war”: US workers denounce war with Iran
A Quinnipiac poll released Monday found that 53 percent of registered voters oppose the war, and 74 percent opposed sending ground troops into Iran, which Trump is reportedly seriously considering.
•our reporters
Trump says “likely be more” US troop deaths to achieve “ultimate victory” against Iran
As the US-Israeli war on Iran entered its second week, the Trump administration vowed to continue the bombardment and refused to rule out sending ground troops or implementing a military draft.
•Andre Damon
WSWS emergency webinar articulates socialist strategy to stop US-Israeli war against Iran
Thousands of workers and youth from around the world participated in the event, which identified the international working class as the only force capable of ending the criminal bombardment of Iran and all imperialist wars.
•Evan Blake
South Australian workers and youth speak ahead of state election
Socialist Equality Party members spoke with workers and young people in Adelaide about the state government’s attacks on living standards and the country’s complicity in the criminal US-led war against Iran.
•Our reporters
US military killed 160 school girls in Minab with Tomahawk missile
Numerous media analyses of photos, video and satellite imagery have concluded that the massacre of 160 children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School in Minab on February 28 was carried out by the US military.
•Kevin Reed
Trump demands passage of voter suppression, anti-transgender bill
In a social media post Sunday and a speech to Republican House members Monday, the US president said he would not sign any legislation into law until Congress passes the “Save America Act.”
•Patrick Martin
War against Iran threatens to engulf Türkiye and NATO
With Ankara claiming that a second missile from Iran was intercepted by NATO, the risk of the war spreading to Türkiye and the wider alliance is growing.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Questions raised by the Workers’ Party of Türkiye’s electoral alliance with the pro-war German Left Party
TİP claims to oppose the imperialist war against Iran, but is forming an electoral alliance with the Left Party, which celebrated the illegal killings of Iran’s leadership.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” summit prepares escalation of imperialist violence in Latin America
Trump’s address to his Latin American stooges opened with a boastful report about the barbaric destruction of Iran.
•Tomas Castanheira
In speech to Congress, Milei vows to send Argentina back 100 years, exposing role played by pseudo-left
Despite his insults, Milei’s speech also laid bare the sordid division of labor between Peronism, the Peronist-led union bureaucracy and the pseudo-leftist FIT-U in suppressing the class struggle and enforcing his attacks against the working class.
•Rafael Azul, Andrea Lobo
Paramount–Warner merger signals new alliance of Silicon Valley, the Pentagon and Hollywood
Hollywood consolidation advances the fusion of corporate media, artificial intelligence systems and the American military-intelligence apparatus.
•Marc Wells
San Diego school layoffs expose union betrayal and the deepening assault on public education
The political establishment insists there is “no money” for bus drivers, aides, counselors and teachers. Yet there is unlimited money to wage illegal war with Iran.
•Ivan Cardenas, Kevin Martinez
“It’s always money and power”: Protesters speak out at London demonstration against the war on Iran
“We need to carry on supporting people in other countries who are being oppressed and who are having war crimes committed against them.”
•Our reporters
The US-Israel war against Iran threatens to engulf Türkiye and Azerbaijan
Workers in Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and internationally need to be warned: The US and Israel may resort to any kind of provocation to directly involve regional states in the war against Iran.
•Barış Demir
11 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: “We need an explanation,” says widow
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
•Jerry White
Trump threatens ground troops, assassinations in escalating Iran war
The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East, a sign that the saturation bombing of a country of 90 million people will intensify.
•Patrick Martin
Trump nominates far-right Senator Markwayne Mullin to lead DHS, drawing support from Democrats and Teamsters bureaucracy
The Oklahoma senator—who has defended police killings, promoted “show your papers” policing and backed war with Iran—is being embraced by Democrats and the trade union bureaucracy.
•Jacob Crosse
Market turmoil set to intensify as war in Iran enters second week
The price of Brent crude, the benchmark for oil, rose 28 percent last week, with predictions it could go much higher.
•Nick Beams
This week in history: March 9-15
Museveni wins Uganda election; Sadat breaks with Soviet alliance; US forces retake Seoul in Korean War; Fascist Italy bans strikes
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Watch: Stop the imperialist war against Iran! Oppose the Albanese government’s complicity!
“The Socialist Equality Party in Australia unequivocally condemns the imperialist war of aggression being waged against Iran.”
•Max Boddy
Students defy right-wing death threats to protest ICE in Battle Creek, Michigan
Students at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek proceeded with a walkout and demonstration against ICE attacks on immigrants in the area in the face of a fascist threat of violence.
•Riley Ward
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo: Stop the US-Israeli war against Iran!
Speakers will discuss the causes of the war, its global implications, the historical and theoretical issues involved, and above all the necessity of the working class politically intervening to stop it.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Iranian in New Zealand speaks out against pro-war propaganda and intimidation
Bahram, who escaped Iran as a refugee in the 1980s, denounced the media and government narratives that sought to legitimise the US and Israeli bombings while elevating supporters of Reza Pahlavi, heir to the US-backed monarchy overthrown in 1979.
•Tom Peters
Brit awards and Baftas: Criticising genocide and the rise of the far-right and being censored for it
Viewers complained at the censorship on social media, with one commenting, “I’ve never known the Brits bleep out so much stuff.”
•Paul Bond
“We are fighting this war for the banks”: London post and transport workers denounce bombing of Iran
Socialist Equality Party supporters spoke to workers operating and maintaining buses across West London and to postal workers at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Royal Mail’s central sorting and distribution hub.
•Our reporters
London demonstration against Iran war deflected into futile appeals to Starmer
Keir Starmer’s policy was never not to back Trump in his bombing and regime change operation. It was only how best to ensure Britain could fully join in behind a cloak of “legality.”
•Robert Stevens
German state election in Baden-Württemberg: Parties compete with concessions to big business at the expense of the workers
Germany’s “model industrial state” has become the country’s biggest job killer. Some 40,000 people lost their jobs last year alone, and further layoffs and cost-cutting programmes are in the works.
•K. Nesan, Peter Schwarz
Australian naval personnel involved in US sinking of Iranian ship: Oppose the pro-imperialist Labor government and war against Iran!
The Australian Labor government is directly implicated in the war crime that claimed over 140 lives and in the broader barbaric US-Israeli war against Iran of which it is a part.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Republicans exploit Austin shooting to stoke anti-Muslim hysteria and demand restored funding for DHS
Corporate media and Congress are using the shooting as an opportunity to rail against immigration and Muslims and promote war against Iran.
•Chase Lawrence
Stop the imperialist war of extermination against Iran!
The aim of this webinar is to place the struggle against the war in its necessary historical, political and social context. It will cut through the endless stream of lying propaganda and disinformation pumped out by the White House, the corporate media, and all the imperialist governments.
•David North
Trial begins in Hanover: The death of rail apprentice Simon Hedemann and the responsibility of Deutsche Bahn
On Monday, 2 March, the trial began at the Hanover District Court concerning the fatal accident on 8 September 2023 at the Hanover-Linden freight yard.
•Marianne Arens
“Master Plan” outlines devastation of public education in Philadelphia
The $2.8 billion facilities plan unveiled by administrators on February 26 would shutter 18 schools across the Philadelphia School District.
•Matt Allen
Nashville journalist seized by ICE as administration targets reporters documenting immigration raids
Estefany Rodríguez Flórez was detained without a warrant and transferred hundreds of miles from her family.
•Jacob Crosse
German train drivers’ union agrees to real wage cuts and stabs local transport workers in the back
With this agreement, the GDL is providing the German government, which owns Deutsche Bahn, an indispensable service against the working class.
•Marianne Arens
Lorain County, Ohio family service workers strike enters third week: “We are fighting everyone”
Workers at the Lorain County Department of Job and Family Services—140 members of UAW Local 2192—are in their third week on strike for higher wages, affordable healthcare and safe, adequately staffed working conditions.
•Samuel Davidson
Australia: NSW health minister in damage control after fungal outbreak linked to Sydney hospital deaths
Mounting evidence points to a breakdown in hospital infrastructure and management in New South Wales, including multiple incidents of dangerous mould, asbestos and pest infestations.
•John Mackay
War abroad, mass layoffs in the US: The working class must stop the assault on Iran
The outcome of the war will be determined by the development of the class struggle in the United States itself—in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and other major working class centers.
•Tom Hall
Trump demands unconditional surrender from Iran as war enters second week
President Donald Trump declared Friday that there will be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” signaling the intention to wage permanent war until Iranian society is destroyed.
•Andre Damon
South Australian election: Public education decays as billions funnelled into AUKUS war plans
Teachers and students confront deteriorating public schools, while military contractors and the Defence Department embed themselves in classrooms.
•Sue Phillips
Condemn US sinking of Iranian vessel in Indian Ocean! Oppose US-Israel war against Iran
The Socialist Equality Party condemns the illegal war of aggression by US imperialism and Israel against Iran and the sinking of an unarmed Iranian warship as a blatant war crime.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
A warning against dictatorship: Berlinale’s main prize winner Yellow Letters—and more government censorship at the festival
The German-Turkish-French co-production Yellow Letters by Ilker Çatak is a powerful warning against the threat of censorship and state oppression, including in Germany and other countries.
•Bernd Reinhardt
Venezuela and US reestablish diplomatic relations as Chavistas hand over oil, minerals
The US is reestablishing relations as Chavista acting president Delcy Rodríguez hands oil, gold and critical minerals to Wall Street.
•Andrea Lobo
Student protests erupt against Ford government’s cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program
Protests among high school and university students have erupted after the right-wing Progressive Conservative government announced huge cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) grants last month.
•Our reporters
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: ASHA workers and midday meal workers demand wage rise; Police attack striking L&T steel plant workers in Gujarat; Australia: Pacific National rail workers locked out in Queensland; Tasmanian public sector health workers escalate industrial action; New Zealand firefighters continue strikes.
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No to the imperialist-Zionist aggression against Iran!
The following statement against the US-Israel war on Iran was issued on Wednesday by Ulaş Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (Socialist Equality Party) in Türkiye.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole released on bail, others arrested
Omole’s KES 500,000 bond (about $3,850) represents more than six months’ pay for the average formal sector worker and nearly two years’ income for many Kenyans.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Birmingham Labour council secures High Court injunction against support for striking bin workers
The latest High Court injunction reinforces a previous injunction last May, barring effective picketing by strikers. It sets a wider precedent by removing any means through which pressure can be exerted on an employer without it being deemed unlawful.
•Tony Robson
British National Security Council leaks reveal secret preparations for assault on Iran
The leaks confirm that British officials had been informed of the planned offensive 17 days in advance and were engaged in intense discussions with Washington over how the Labour government could assist.
•Robert Stevens
Mass murder in the Indian Ocean: The torpedoing of the IRIS Dena
The United States Navy’s torpedoing of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean on March 4, 2026 is a war crime.
•David North
Macron commits France to joining neocolonial US war on Iran
Macron did not bother to even go through the motions of parliamentary debate and approval of his war policy, instead unilaterally committing his government to a war that threatens the world with economic and military catastrophe.
•Alex Lantier
Trump fires Noem as DHS secretary, but war on immigrants continues
The move does not represent a shift in policies, but the removal of an official whose provocative statements and blatant corruption had become and obstacle to carrying them out.
•Patrick Martin
Australian architects and building professionals demand halt to demolition of public housing towers
Nearly 700 built environment practitioners have signed an open letter opposing the Victorian Labor government’s planned destruction of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers.
•Paul Bartizan
Stop the war against Iran! Against imperialist war! Against conscription in Germany!
This statement was distributed at the nationwide school strikes against conscription in Germany on March 5.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Australian and Canadian PMs fully committed to illegal US war against Iran
The criminal war overshadowed Carney’s visit and underscored the bogus character of his claims that “middle powers” could chart an alternative to the breakdown of international norms and law.
•Oscar Grenfell
Congress votes down resolutions to restrict war on Iran
The resolutions under the War Powers Act were an empty exercise in pretended opposition to the war by the Democratic Party leadership.
•Patrick Martin
Iran death toll surges past 1,200 as Israel bombs two more schools
As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its sixth day, Israel has ordered the mass evacuation of southern Lebanon and launched a ground incursion, opening a second major front in a war that is rapidly engulfing the entire Middle East.
•Andre Damon
Labor’s promises will not resolve the South Australian housing crisis
In its four-year term, the Malinauskas government has overseen a massive widening in the gulf between wages and property prices.
•Vicki Mylonas, Martin Scott
Spain sends warships to Cyprus after Trump threatens to cut off US trade unless Madrid joins Iran war
It is impossible to halt the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the rapidly spreading war across the Middle East by relying on the diplomatic initiatives of the European powers.
•Alejandro López
CDC belatedly deploys team to South Carolina amid deepening measles outbreak
Five months into the worst measles outbreak since 1992, the gutted CDC dispatches three data analysts to South Carolina as measles spreads through ICE detention camps in Texas.
•Evan Blake
Trump administration venerates fascist Charlie Kirk with massive banner over D.C. Department of Education building
Kirk’s assassination last year has been seized on a means of promoting and even normalizing fascist politics on campuses.
•David Rye
Tennessee legislators push bill to track immigrant students in bid to overturn universal right to public education
Tennessee seeks to track students’ legal status, turning schools into data‑collection arms for deportation.
•Nancy Hanover
Draft collective agreements detail CUPW-endorsed government/management onslaught on Canada Post workers
A review of the tentative agreements makes clear that workers must reject these rotten deals with a resounding “No” as an initial step in a renewed struggle to defend their jobs, working conditions, the postal service and public services more broadly.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Entertainment industry turmoil intensifies as WGA staff walkout continues
As writers face a contract showdown, entrenched union officials defend privileges, exposing the widening gulf between the rank and file and the bureaucracy.
•Marc Wells
Students at San Diego State University protest war on Iran
Students wore keffiyehs, carried Palestinian flags and handmade anti-war signs reading “I am not dying for the Epstein class,” “No war on Iran” and “End American Imperialism.”
•Our reporter
Kennedy deepens assault on the childhood vaccine schedule
Through mass firings, rigged appointments, and unilateral decrees, HHS Secretary Kennedy is dismantling the federal machinery behind childhood vaccination in the United States, provoking lawsuits from pediatricians and 15 state governments as preventable disease protections are stripped away.
•Benjamin Mateus
Israel expands the war on Iran, ordering mass displacement in Lebanon
Israel has ordered the entire population of southern Beirut—around 500,000 people—and all residents south of the Litani River, more than 300,000 people, to evacuate. Its armed forces have invaded and launched hundreds of strikes.
•Jean Shaoul
Stop the illegal war on Iran, end Britain's collusion!
Once again, a Labour government staffed by political criminals is dragging the country into a US-led war for oil.
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Civil servants and government officials in Netherlands stage national 24-hour pay strike; public transport workers on buses, trams and subway trains walk out for 24 hours across Germany over pay and conditions; workers in two hospitals protest lack of funding endangering patient safety, in Nigeria and Liberia
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South Africa: ANC-led government roiled by Iran war
The ANC is incapable of even characterising a criminal war carried out by Washington and Tel Aviv. Indeed, its statement, expressing “deep concern at the escalating tensions in the Middle East” does not mention the United States or Israel once.
•Jean de Jager
American imperialism wages war of extermination against Iran
As the war enters its fifth day, the US-Israeli assault on Iran has assumed ever more openly the character of a war of annihilation and extermination.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Claude AI has selected over 1,000 targets in the US-Israeli war against Iran
Anthropic's CEO has said nothing as the military uses his company's technology to wage an illegal war, while OpenAI grants the Pentagon functionally unrestricted access to ChatGPT.
•Evan Blake
“The goal is for workers to take power”: Will Lehman explains campaign for UAW president
Will Lehman is a rank-and-file autoworker at Mack Trucks who is running for president of the United Auto Workers union in 2026.
•Andre Damon
Severe drought conditions imperil US Southwest, as states wrestle over water rights
Colorado River states blew through another federal deadline to renegotiate river operations, as the worst drought in 1,200 years continues.
•Alex Findijs, Dan Conway
DSA promotes Democrats’ fake opposition to Iran war
The Democratic Socialists of America is seeking to undermine mass opposition to the criminal war in Iran and channel it behind the Democratic Party.
•Barry Grey
US trade union bureaucracy silent as Trump launches illegal war against Iran
The silence is a deliberate act of support and complicity, in line with the American union apparatus' decades of support for imperialist war
•Jerry White
Merz kisses Trump’s ring: Berlin openly backs the criminal war of aggression against Iran
During a meeting at the White House, the German chancellor assured the US president of his full support for the criminal war of aggression against Iran—thereby revealing Berlin’s imperialist ambitions.
•Johannes Stern
Washington’s criminal war on Iran rapidly expanding throughout the Middle East and drawing in imperialist powers
As more imperialist and regional powers are being dragged into the conflict, American imperialism is working to fuel ethnic civil war inside Iran by supplying arms to Kurdish nationalists.
•Jordan Shilton
US-Ecuador joint military operation signals accelerated turn to fascist militarism across Latin America
US and Ecuadorian forces launched joint land operations Tuesday, ostensibly against drug cartels, escalating Trump’s efforts to recolonize Latin America.
•Andrea Lobo
Bosch in Germany: IG Metal trade union cracks down on opposition workers
Defend the right of “free metalworkers” to organise and participate in works council elections!
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
“We shouldn’t be bombing people, period”: Detroit autoworkers denounce war against Iran
The war against Iran is deeply unpopular among workers and broad sections of the population in the United States.
•Our reporters
First primaries held in US mid-term election campaign
The Republicans and Democrats, the two main parties of the financial oligarchy, poured tens of millions into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas.
•Patrick Martin
Asian markets take major hit from war against Iran
South Korean stocks fell by 12 percent yesterday in the largest one-day drop recorded, eclipsing falls in the 2008 crisis.
•Nick Beams
Wifredo Lam at New York’s Museum of Modern Art: “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream”
A current exhibition tracks the development of an anti-imperialist artist who fused modernism with African iconography.
•Erik Schreiber
Australia: Worsening conditions for Aboriginal workers and youth in latest “Closing the Gap” report
The findings again underscore the widening gulf between official rhetoric and the lived conditions facing Indigenous people.
•Sue Phillips
Adelaide University: Labor government’s pro-business Universities Accord in action
The Adelaide merger is being used to cut courses and steer resources toward industry, particularly areas linked to the military and “national security.”
•Carolyn Kennett
Trump warns Starmer: Fall into line over Iran, or else
Britain’s right-wing press, alongside the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK, seized on Washington’s rebuke to press for Starmer’s downfall and a far more aggressive militarist turn by British imperialism.
•Robert Stevens
More than 2.1 billion of world’s 3.6 billion workers are in the informal economy
These findings vindicate Marx’s analysis of the reserve army of labour—the unemployed and under‑employed population that capitalism requires to keep wages low and workers compliant.
•Jean Shaoul
Australian Labor government accuses Iran of “antisemitic” attacks to justify Trump’s criminal war
The revival of bogus claims that Iran orchestrated firebombings on Australian soil is the Labor government’s original contribution to the deluge of propaganda surrounding the illegal US-Israeli bombardment of that country.
•Oscar Grenfell
French President Macron announces expansion of nuclear weapons arsenal
The French president intends to establish an “advanced deterrence” for Europe as a whole and station nuclear weapons in Germany and other European countries in the future.
•Peter Schwarz
IYSSE (Australia) campus meetings: Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!
The meetings in Newcastle, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will elaborate the socialist and revolutionary perspective to end war on Iran and halt the slide to a disastrous nuclear third world war.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
Germany set to introduce further crackdown on migrants and refugees
A new harsher anti-migration and asylum law is set to come into effect once it is ratified by the upper house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat.
•Lena Sokoll
Kristi Noem defends murderous immigration Gestapo as Senate hearing exposes bipartisan support for ICE
During a contentious Judiciary Committee hearing interrupted by protesters, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem refused to apologize for smearing victims of immigration police violence while Democrats reiterated their support for deportations and the continued existence of ICE.
•Jacob Crosse, Anthony Bertolt
Ukrainian state intensifies pressure on Bogdan Syrotiuk by withholding medical care
With the case of the prosecution against Bogdan Syrotiuk shattered, the Ukrainian state is deliberately withholding urgently necessary medical care.
•Clara Weiss
Trump says US Navy will escort ships through Strait of Hormuz as Iran war spirals
US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States Navy will begin escorting commercial tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a dramatic escalation that would place American warships directly off the coast of Iran as the US-Israeli bombing campaign enters its fourth day.
•Andre Damon
Charges dismissed for University of Michigan Chinese researchers—but the political witch-hunt continues
The US government whipped up claims of “agroterrorism” over the use of harmless, common lab research materials.
•Stephen St. Clair
Stop the criminal war of aggression against Iran!
The following statement against the imperialist invasion of Iran and for an international socialist anti-war movement was issued on Monday evening by Christoph Vandreier, chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP-Socialist Equality Party in Germany).
•Christoph Vandreier
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