In a rambling Truth Social post on Sunday afternoon, President Trump wrote that the US would begin escorting hundreds of “Ships and Crews safely out of the Strait, ” and that any Iranian interference will “have to be dealt with forcefully.”
The government’s decision not to rescue Spirit, on the absurd grounds that they did not “have half a billion dollars laying around,” is deliberate class policy aimed at making the working class pay for the war.
SEP speakers explained that the military assault on Iran was part of US imperialism’s efforts to dominate oil and gas resources in the Middle East, as part of a far wider unfolding conflict against China and Russia.
Will Lehman, a rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker who is running as a socialist candidate for UAW president, is calling on workers to break the union's isolation of the nearly two-week walkout by 4,000 Harvard graduate student workers.
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
The data center is an important element of the economic and military policy of the Democratic Party. Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state Democratic establishment have worked to transform Michigan into an industrial, logistical and computational hub for the military-industrial complex.
Many thousands of devoted revolutionaries, including most of the leaders of the October 1917 Revolution, were put to death between 1936-38 by the counterrevolutionary bureaucracy.
The decision has been appealed immediately to the US Supreme Court, which overturned abortion rights four years ago.
The "New" SDS substitutes identity politics for class analysis, bourgeois nationalism for socialist internationalism and protest theater for the independent mobilization of the working class against the capitalist parties and the system they defend.
The Albanese government’s actions set a wider precedent for barring the return of citizens deemed to be lacking in respect for the “values” prescribed by the ruling capitalist establishment.
South African gold mine explosion kills twelve miners; Red Army Faction founder Ulrike Meinhof is found dead in her prison cell; US conducts the test preparing hydrogen bomb; British General Strike begins.
An SEP stall next to Glass Works Square, where the rally assembled, promoted the party's public meetings this month across the UK.
The final Barnsley rally, with Graham as keynote speaker, represented the very forces responsible for the betrayal of 1984-85 miners’ strike and every betrayal thereafter.
This was a violent act of piracy, carried out by Israeli armed forces 600 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, in international waters, with the intent to commit grievous bodily harm and even murder.
The official cost-of-living index rose 4.6 percent in the 12 months to March, up sharply from 3.7 percent in February.
People with disabilities will be subjected to demeaning tests, aimed at kicking them off the NDIS or dramatically reducing the support they receive.
The reported 28 percent pay rise offer reflects the fears of state and federal Labor governments that strikes in Victoria could become the starting point of broader action by teachers and others nationally.
The central fraud of this contract is that it conceals massive cuts just over the horizon. A new budget proposal for the next school year is expected in mid-May—days after the ratification vote closes.
The more than 1,500 graduate workers who have walked out teach courses, run laboratories, and generate the research revenue that makes UIC function.
Over the past two months, the Swedish political establishment has moved to consolidate the Sweden Democrats—the far-right party that emerged from the neo-Nazi milieu of the 1980s—as the dominant force in official politics.
The bank’s chief economist has warned that the war is hitting the global economy in a series of cumulative waves.
The US national debt has crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product for the first peacetime year since 1946, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)—a milestone that arrives as the Trump administration is demanding a $1.535 trillion Pentagon budget and preparing for conflict with nuclear-armed China and Russia.
One can’t help but wondering after two months of war and countless waves of bombing, and thousands of civilian deaths: Does that neighborhood still look like this?
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
Congressional Democrats joined Republicans in ending the longest Homeland Security shutdown in US history while clearing the way for Trump’s immigration Gestapo to receive tens of billions of dollars, without any reforms, through a fast-track budget process requiring no Democratic votes.
The housing crisis is destroying the lives of tens of thousands of children and young people: The number of homeless minors has almost tripled nationwide.
The editor of the WSWS German site explained the social, political and historical basis of the struggle against imperialist war.
The case is a politically motivated fabrication and an assault on the political conscience of millions of workers and young people in Brazil and around the world.
Expansion of biometric surveillance raises concerns over privacy loss, data sharing with authorities and erosion of anonymity in public life.
The twin executions of James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, and James Broadnax, 37, took place as the US death penalty machinery continues its accelerating pace in 2026.
India: Andhra Pradesh hospital sanitation workers at Vijayawada demand outstanding wages; Haryana fire and emergency services workers’ strike; Australia: Queensland rail workers resume industrial action; Victoria’s state school nurses demand wage parity.
This scapegoating must be understood in the context of the social order the ANC has presided over since 1994. While the legal framework of apartheid was dismantled, the underlying class structures have been preserved.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer responded by holding those who have protested the Gaza genocide responsible, and promising draconian attacks on demonstrations.
Reports from SEP branches in London, Sheffield and Inverness are featured.
The integration of the RIO Morenoites into the Left Party marks a further political shift to the right by this pseudo-left tendency, which can only be understood in the context of the current crisis of capitalism.
The International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site are holding our 13th annual International May Day Online Rally at 3:00 pm EDT.
The cabinet has decided to massively increase military spending and correspondingly slash social spending. One “reform” will deliver a death blow to healthcare in its current form.
Leading Senate Democrats called Thursday for a major expansion of US military spending at the testimony by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was briefing the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Trump administration's plans to massively increase military spending.
The known workplace fatalities around Brisbane now total seven in six months—part of a rising toll due to unsafe conditions, increased rates of exploitation by employers, official coverups and government complicity.
With the Trump administration continuing its massive assault on workplace safety and environmental protections, the American trade union bureaucracy issued boilerplate statements calling for increased lobbying and voter drives.
The JVP/NPP government censors Tamil writers under the guise of “national unity," while allowing Sinhala chauvinist and militarist propaganda to circulate freely.
Associating Trump with “peace,” Rodriguez whitewashes the ongoing avalanche of war crimes unleashed by Washington across the globe and directly against Venezuela itself.
Dr. Abeer Omar, an assistant nursing professor at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, denounced the systematic slaughter of healthcare workers by Israel in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and the US and Israel’s targeting of civilians in their war of extermination against Iran.
The May Day stoppage would have provided a platform to appeal beyond their depot—to bus workers and the wider working class.
Doctors in Spain continue monthly national strikes over pay and conditions; shop workers in Belgium at Aldi stores in wildcat strike over Sunday working; Nigerian oil and gas workers begin indefinite strike at Seplat Energy over pay and conditions
For the working class, the issue is not the personal fate of Starmer, or his replacement by another right-wing Labourite.
The ALU could not simultaneously integrate itself into the orbit of the union bureaucracy and the Democratic Party while developing an independent movement of Amazon workers against the entire corporate and political structure those forces defend.
Mid-May marks the contract expiration for 40,000 subway and bus workers and the end of the cooling off period for 3,500 rail workers, posing confrontations with the Hochul and Mamdani administrations.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday on the Trump administration’s plan to increase military spending by 50 percent, from $1 trillion this year to $1.5 trillion in Fiscal Year 2027.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being cut as the ruling class seizes on the artificial intelligence boom to eliminate vast sections of the workforce.
“These supports are not optional—they are essential to my daily survival, including help with eating, hygiene, dressing and maintaining basic safety and wellbeing.”
James Comey, the former FBI director who was fired by Donald Trump in 2017, was indicted by a North Carolina grand jury on Tuesday for a post on Instagram that prosecutors claim was a threat to kill the president.
The right-wing majority overturned congressional district lines in Louisiana and seemed poised to support Trump’s efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants.
Dissent by three members of the Fed’s interest rate setting body, because of what they see as a bias toward easing, indicates that a rate rise is not far away.
The Trump administration has brought the indictment to cover up the criminal handling of the COVID pandemic under two administrations, and to legitimize the bogus claim that China deliberately created the coronavirus.
Ignoring the economic catastrophe threatened by Trump’s blockade of Iran, Macron is instead focused on using the energy crisis to justify imposing austerity measures already rejected by the French people.
Educators in Ann Arbor angrily reject demands for austerity, in a near-unanimous rejection of the union’s tentative settlement.
The campaign signals a sharp lurch to the right by the PSTU Morenoites in a conjuncture marked by the escalating global of war and, internally, by dictatorial threats tied to the military.
The International Committee of the Fourth International and its daily publication, the World Socialist Web Site, are organizing the International Online May Day Rally at 3pm US Eastern Time on Friday, May 1 to provide a unified revolutionary socialist program to workers around the globe in the struggle against imperialist war, dictatorship, and austerity.
Sharp and legitimate criticism of Trump, of ICE, of Israel’s genocide, of the illegal war against Iran ... any and all of this is now termed a “disturbance,” a “disruption."
On Monday, Aldi DX management announced that more than one in three IT jobs were being rationalised away at the Aldi Süd IT subsidiary in Mülheim an der Ruhr, exceeding the worst fears of the workforce.
Behind the backs of striking workers, all sides are engaged in a coordinated operation to peddle an agreement they insist cannot be scrutinised.
It is a measure of the true political character of the official opposition to Trump that the Democrats joined in multiple standing ovations for this reactionary diatribe, and that it was hailed by the British and European media.
Banks are warning of a rise in bad debts, companies are issuing profit downgrades, and a consumer confidence index has fallen by the largest amount since the start of the pandemic, with retailers reported to be “struggling.”
Children in US custody are being rushed toward deportation before they can secure legal relief, while federal agents and Minnesota authorities carry out raids in Twin Cities under the pretext of fighting “fraud.”
German military spending rose by 24 percent last year. The bill for this massive rearmament programme is being presented to the working class in the form of falling social spending, poorer healthcare and lower pensions.
Even as striking educators rallied at the state parliament on March 24, the AEU apparatus was already moving to contain, dissipate and ultimately shut down this movement.
Socialist Alternative declared that all those who voted for the right-wing party were “racist scum” who needed to be “crushed,” while covering up for Labor and the trade union bureaucracy.
Corporate Canada has greeted the Liberals’ pasting together of a parliamentary majority with a chorus of calls for the government to act “boldly” in imposing “sacrifices” on working people.
The US Department of Agriculture issued a Food Price Outlook on April 24 which showed significant increases in a range of food prices, with more on the way, due to the economic shocks caused by the Trump administration’s illegal war against Iran, tariffs and the prolonged drought across much of the US.
Charles III’s address to Congress, under the patronage of Trump and before an audience of billionaires and Democrats, exposed the convergence of monarchy and oligarchy in the repudiation of the democratic principles of 1776.
The schools in New Jersey’s third largest city are being deprived of the resources that the state itself acknowledges they need to provide a “thorough and efficient” education.
The DOJ report reinstating multiple methods for federal executions marks a further regression into barbarism by an administration that has made the expansion of state killing a central pillar of its political program.
Washington has made clear there will be no explanations, let alone apologies, after two CIA agents died in a road accident in Chihuahua during an operation kept secret from the Mexican government.
The dismantling of public health through NIH funding cuts, CDC censorship and Medicaid rollbacks is a deliberate attack on the working class by the capitalist elite, for whom military spending and private profit supersede any concern for the American people.
The letter is a moving assertion of opposition to the ongoing genocide and the cultural devastation that accompanies it.
Rising working class opposition to war and austerity and inter-imperialist antagonisms have forced damaging zigzags in Italian foreign policy.
South Asia accounts for the largest share of people—an estimated additional 8.8 million—being pushed into poverty by the Iran war, with the region particularly exposed to rising food and energy costs and falling remittances.
The response of the media and political establishment is characterized by a staggering hypocrisy, wrapped in the sanctimonious refrain: “There is no place for violence in politics.”
Hundreds of thousands of retired workers, mostly depending on poverty-line aged pensions, are still facing prohibitive costs under the Support at Home program, which the Labor government launched last November.
We are publishing a lecture delivered by WSWS contributor Tom Mackaman to the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Gettysburg University on April 23.
Global military spending hit a record $2.887 trillion in 2025—the highest level ever recorded and the 11th consecutive year of growth, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported Monday.
Despite the record of Roberto Sánchez Palomino as a trusted administrator of capitalist interests, the far-right seeks to create a scandal over election mismanagement to block his candidacy.
Only two days before Little Lake City teachers walked out, union officials canceled a far larger strike in Los Angeles Unified School District.
If the American union bureaucracy, which for over a century was openly hostile to May Day, is now partly changing its tune, it is because they want to get in front of the growing movement to the left, dilute the radicalization and divert it into harmless channels.
Peasant, student and worker organizations conducted a week of protests in La Paz, Bolivia, while a strike by thousands of Nova Scotia long-term care workers is growing as more facilities join the action.
Meta and Microsoft announced measures to eliminate more than 16,000 jobs with references to efficiency and cost-cutting necessitated by major investments in artificial intelligence.
Home care workers in New York City ended a weeklong hunger strike after being told the “No More 24” Act would be brought to a vote—a commitment officials later denied.
Maintaining its irreconcilable political differences with the Maoist CPGB-ML, the SEP denounces this anti-democratic act aimed at suppressing and intimidating anti-war speech and sentiment.
With their anti-socialist purge, the Corbynites are the true inheritors of the Labourite tradition.
While Labor leaders obfuscated the reality, several hawkish commentators blurted out the fact that preparations are underway for a disastrous war against China.
In a flagrant violation of democratic principles, the HAW-UAW bargaining committee has unilaterally called off plans for a spring strike, overriding a clear mandate from the membership
The gunman who targeted the White House Correspondents Association dinner was tackled and subdued by Secret Service agents before even reaching the floor at which Trump and other administration officials were schmoozing with media proprietors and journalists.
This is a concerted, organized campaign driven by ultra-right elements dedicated to forcing their anti-democratic and unpopular views on a largely unsuspecting public.
Decades of bipartisan healthcare policies have gutted social protections, pushing workers into insecurity, high costs and limited access to medical care.
The resolution gives expression to the broad and growing opposition among workers to the war, which is backed by the UAW apparatus.
On April 14, a collision was narrowly avoided between a cargo jet and a smaller aircraft at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky.
Zohran Mamdani, the pseudo-left mayor of New York City, has proposed delaying the city’s contributions to city workers’ pension fund as a way of partly balancing the city budget.
This is the text of a resolution introduced by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman at a meeting of UAW Local 677 in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
Fuel, electricity and food prices are rising rapidly in impoverished Pacific countries including Papua New Guinea and Fiji, paving the way for a resurgence of class struggles.
