Poll underscores crisis of Australia’s two-party system, rise of One Nation
In Queensland, the far-right One Nation is outpolling both Labor and the Coalition, something unprecedented for a “third” party in modern times.
•Oscar Grenfell
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Trump sets Tuesday night deadline for the massive war crime against Iran
The United States is on the brink of a moral and political catastrophe. This is the inescapable conclusion to be derived from Donald Trump’s press conference on Monday.
•Patrick Martin
Teamsters announce last‑minute agreement for 17,000 First Student school bus drivers
Teamsters hailed First Student’s new contract as a “national foundation,” but drivers demand details on real gains for hours, pay, and pensions.
•Jane Wise
Cover-up of British nuclear testing in the Pacific exposed
For decades, British governments have suppressed evidence of the human and environmental consequences of nuclear testing in the Pacific.
•John Braddock
NASA’s Artemis II completes lunar flyby
The new aspects of spaceflight being carried out by Artemis II largely concern the impacts of radiation on the spacecraft and the astronauts themselves.
•Bryan Dyne
Historical issues in Supreme Court argument on birthright citizenship
Last week’s oral argument on Trump’s executive order to revoke birthright citizenship raised historical questions dating back to the Civil War on whether the offspring of immigrants have full citizenship rights.
•John Burton
Concerns over private credit deepen as war on Iran intensifies
The US Treasury is convening meetings with regulators to discuss the growing risks arising from the interconnections between insurance firms and the private credit markets.
•Nick Beams
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers protest in Laz Paz Bolivia over poverty pay and the abrogation of labor law while 550 Metro grocery workers in Quebec are in the second week of a strike over pay and the issue of subcontracting.
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Minneapolis shooting video exposes ICE lies, frame-up of Venezuelan immigrants
Newly obtained footage contradicts the official account used to justify the shooting of Julio C. Sosa-Celis and the prosecution of two Venezuelan immigrants.
•Jacob Crosse
After our contract rejection we must strike Nexteer to win our demands!
The Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee issued this statement after workers at the Saginaw, Michigan parts plant rejected a UAW-backed contract by 96 percent.
•The Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee
One year since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: Family demands answers as MIOSHA investigation blocked
One year ago today, 63-year-old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. was crushed to death at the Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex in Southeast Michigan.
•Jerry White
Fortress Europe claims 70 more migrant lives in mass drowning in the Mediterranean
Everywhere, impoverished migrants face closed borders and state-sanctioned demonisation designed to divert social anger over poverty, unemployment and cuts in vital social services away from the super-rich oligarchy despoiling the planet.
•Robert Stevens
Germany’s ultra-right culture minister Weimer continues his rampage against freedom of art and expression
Politically, Weimer’s views unquestionably overlap with those of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD.
•Sybille Fuchs
Trump administration unveils plans for “Greater North America” as Iran war roils Latin American economies
Trump's “Greater North America” doctrine, stretching from Greenland to Ecuador, aims to recolonize the hemisphere.
•Andrea Lobo
UK: Labour’s Universal Credit Act set to throw hundreds of thousands into deeper poverty
Up to 750,000 disabled people are projected to receive a lower supplementary universal credit rate by 2029/30, resulting in an annual average income loss of £3,000.
•Mark Taylor
Trump’s threats to destroy Iran and the breakdown of American democracy
Trump operates completely outside the framework of international law, of democratic conventions and basic legality. His statements and actions are a testament to the total breakdown of American democracy under the pressure of soaring social inequality, endless war and spiraling social, economic and political crisis.
•Andre Damon
Writers Guild of America suddenly announces new contract with studios
Without a strike authorization vote or full disclosure, the WGA leadership moves to impose a deal designed to block rank-and-file resistance.
•Marc Wells
Australia: Labor government conducts police raids against anti-genocide protesters in Melbourne
One of the most significant features of the police operation, conducted under Labor Premier Jacinta Allan’s state government, is that Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Luke Hilakari called in the police.
•Mike Head
UFCW preparing to sell out 3-week strike by JBS meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado
Workers should defy the back-to-work order under conditions where nothing has been secured and instead continue the strike under rank-and-file control.
•Jacob Crosse
Union pushes through pay cut for New Zealand primary teachers
The deal imposed by the NZEI consists of a 2.5 percent pay rise in the first year and 2.1 percent in the second year—well below inflation.
•Tom Peters
Sri Lankan workers and students discuss the US-Israel war on Iran and how to stop it
“If workers come together, they are like a bundle of sticks. If the sticks are separated, they can be broken. What we need to do is tie the rope—unite the working class.”
•Our correspondents
US, Israel wreak further damage on Iran’s cultural heritage
The willful destruction of UNESCO World Heritage sites is a repudiation not only of international law but also of human civilization itself.
•Erik Schreiber
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud and the institutionalization of anti-science: An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak
In this interview, Daszak responds to the inaugural “Scientific Freedom” lecture held at the National Institutes of Health under the sponsorship of NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, chosen for that position by vaccine denialist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because he opposed any serious public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
•Benjamin Mateus
ICE presence increasing at Michigan healthcare facilities
Immigrant and civil liberties groups have alerted hospitals and other healthcare providers about the rights of immigrant patients.
•Anthony Callahan
This week in history: April 6-12
Police attack South Korean autoworkers; Chinese CP strips Deng Xiaoping of posts; Truman fires Douglas MacArther; Failed assassination attempt on Mussolini
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UCLA reports expose explosive growth of student homelessness in Los Angeles County
Surging youth homelessness reveals deepening inequality as Democrats impose austerity, slash education budgets and conceal the true scale of crisis.
•Marc Wells
Book review: American Midnight: The Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis
Adam Hochschild’s vivid, engaging account of the political subordination of the society to the needs of a ruling class waging an imperialist war deserves a wide readership.
•Nicoletta Montaner
Resident doctor appeals for a unified fightback against Starmer government threats
The government’s National Health Service 10-Year Plan proposes cuts of £17 billion a year. The very existence of the NHS is under threat.
•our correspondent
Danish pseudo-left lines up with European imperialism against US over Greenland
The Red-Green Alliance’s support for Denmark’s Social Democrat-led government, which has endorsed Washington’s war of extermination against Iran, is likewise a wholehearted endorsement of European imperialism against the US in the conflict over Greenland.
•Jordan Shilton
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for support for Nexteer workers
Nexteer Automotive workers in Saginaw, Michigan have delivered an enormous rebuke to the United Auto Workers bureaucracy by voting down a UAW-backed concessions contract by 96 percent.
•Sheila Brehm
Trump’s plan to fund world war through social counter-revolution
On Friday, the Trump administration unveiled a budget blueprint centered on a vast escalation of military spending. In its Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, the White House is asking Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion for “defense”—that is, for military aggression—which would be the highest level of military spending in modern history.
•Joseph Kishore
Armed ICE officers remain at airports
The political import of these maneuvers is that Congress, with the full complicity of the Democrats, will resume funding of Trump’s immigration storm troopers without any limitations on their police state methods.
•Barry Grey
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Doctors strike across Sri Lanka; Australian rail workers locked out by state government over limited work bans.
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Australian Labor government secretly sends SAS to join the war against Iran
The Special Air Service Regiment was evidently sent in mid-March, showing that nothing the Albanese government says about the war can be believed.
•Mike Head
Wave of job cuts in New Zealand
Mass layoffs and factory closures are being facilitated by the corporatist trade unions, which are seeking to channel workers’ anger into the dead-end of supporting the opposition Labour Party.
•Chris Ross, Tom Peters
South Korean factory fire investigation exposes indifference to safety
The dangerous conditions at Anjun Industrial auto parts factory are not the exception but the rule around the world where workers are sacrificed in industrial slaughterhouses for profit.
•Ben McGrath
Sri Lankan Tamil bourgeois parties support US-Israeli war on Iran
The silence of these parties cannot disguise their ongoing backing for US imperialism and its war as is demonstrated by the handful of comments that have been made.
•P.T.Sampanthar, Wasantha Rupasinghe
US special forces launch rescue operation inside Iran after downing of US fighter jet
Following Trump's threats to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages," Iranian air defenses shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle jet and an A-10 Thunderbolt in a single day—the worst US aircraft losses of the war.
•Andre Damon
Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
Stanley Plotkin, the virologist whose RA 27/3 rubella vaccine has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide, has reacted to the ongoing dismantling of public health with undisguised despair. This report traces the science he built, the class forces that made it possible, and the way forward against the ultra-right assault on vaccines.
•Benjamin Mateus
Berlinale Retrospective: A look back at the fall of the Berlin Wall—“Lost in the 90s”
The burning problems of the present day, genocidal wars, dictatorship and increasing social decline, bring to mind the claims made in the period immediately following the end of the Cold War.
•Bernd Reinhardt, Verena Nees
Where is America Going? Lively interest in book presentations with David North in Leipzig, Berlin and Nuremberg
At this year's Leipzig Book Fair, the concerns and horror over the global political situation were palpable. The escalation of war in the Middle East and the danger of fascism in America have shaken the cultural world.
•Katerina Selin
“Left populist” Avi Lewis wins race to lead Canada’s social-democratic NDP
Avi Lewis has been elected leader of the federal NDP on a pledge to revive Canada’s anemic social democratic party by moving “left” and “fighting the billionaire class.”
•Roger Jordan, Keith Jones
End the politically motivated prosecution of Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan!
While Dr. Aladwan is being branded a supporter of “terrorism”, Israel’s genocide, backed by Britain, has killed more than 100,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
•NHS FightBack
Spain’s Workers’ Revolutionary Current channels anti-war sentiment behind social democrats, pseudo-left parties and union bureaucracy
The CRT advances the “unity of left” with the trade union bureaucracy to contain and prevent workers from breaking with the pro-war parties of the capitalist state.
•Santiago Guillen, Alejandro López
The disinterest of Australian pseudo-left Socialist Alternative in the war on Iran
There is an inverse relationship between the speed and enthusiasm with which the Australian Labor government embraced the illegal war on Iran, and the tardiness and delay of Socialist Alternative in saying anything about it.
•Oscar Grenfell
Germany: Government commission on the future of health insurance funds declares war on the working class
On Monday, the Health Finance Commission presented its proposals for the further development of the statutory health insurance. Its report amounts to an open declaration of war on the working class.
•Kevin Jordan, Marianne Arens
The war against Iran and the normalisation of war crimes
US President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age has met with no reaction in the European media, or at best a shrug of the shoulders.
•Peter Schwarz
Trump fires Bondi as US Attorney General
Bondi is the second top official fired in a month, following Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem.
•Patrick Martin
NASA’s Artemis II launches crew to the Moon for first time in 54 years
The mission, despite the scientific and engineering achievements, is driven primarily by geopolitical conflict with China.
•Bryan Dyne
“Four Corners” covers up Labor and union role in Australian university restructuring
The television show amounted to a whitewash of the Labor government’s agenda, accompanied by the destruction of some 4,000 jobs nationally over the past 18 months.
•Mike Head
Australia: Labor government targets the elderly in public housing tower demolition
The demolition of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers is aimed at clearing valuable inner-city real estate and handing it over to private developers.
•Paul Bartizan
“In 4 years I’ll be making the exact same amount I was making 20 years ago”: Nexteer Automotive workers in Michigan denounce UAW sellout, Trump's war in Iran
In these videos, Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan describe why they voted nearly unanimously to reject a concessions-laden contract pushed by the UAW bureaucracy.
•Jerry White
New Zealand government, media discourage vaccination amid COVID wave
Health NZ officials have falsely claimed that most people no longer need COVID boosters, while the government and media are spreading disinformation depicting vaccines as harmful to young people.
•Tom Peters
University of Michigan Chinese researcher takes his own life after interrogation by federal agents
The tragic suicide of a Chinese scientist at the University of Michigan exposes the deadly consequences of the bipartisan drive toward war against China.
•Stephen St. Clair
The American Hitler and the morality of the ruling class
The unavoidable conclusion that must be drawn from the speech delivered on Wednesday night by Donald Trump is that the American president is a political criminal.
•David North
Trump says workers must pay for imperialist war with cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and daycare
Trump’s Easter lunch remarks expose the program of the ruling class: war, austerity and social devastation for the working class.
•Jacob Crosse
Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
Stanley Plotkin, the virologist whose RA 27/3 rubella vaccine has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide, has reacted to the ongoing dismantling of public health with undisguised despair. This report traces the science he built, the class forces that made it possible, and the way forward against the ultra-right assault on vaccines.
•Benjamin Mateus
Dismissal of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons provokes uproar
The capitalist crisis and the “donor class” are leading the BSO, the Metropolitan Opera, and other leading cultural institutions into the abyss.
•Fred Mazelis
Pseudo-lefts work to chain Mexico’s strike wave to US-trained union apparatus
The MTS is working to channel Mexico’s growing strike wave back into the US-backed union bureaucracy, the courts and the Sheinbaum government.
•Andrea Lobo
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Postal workers at 40 distribution centres across Belgium take unofficial strike action against attacks on conditions; thousands of teachers in France walk out over job cuts; healthcare workers in Mozambique threaten to extend dispute to national stoppage over collapsing health system
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Britain hosts Strait of Hormuz crisis summit amid breakdown of relations with US
The most significant feature of the summit was the absence of the United States. President Donald Trump has rocked the European powers by declaring that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not his concern.
•Thomas Scripps
Conviction of UK Palestine Coalition leaders Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham criminalises anti-genocide protest
The judge said in a verdict whose implications are vast: “Protest rights, while fundamental, are not absolute and do not permit breaching lawfully imposed conditions.”
•Robert Stevens
Israel adopts the death penalty only for Palestinians
By a vote of 62 to 48, Israel’s Knesset approved a law Monday enshrining the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians who carry out an “act of terrorism” on citizens of Israel.
•Jordan Shilton
Nexteer auto parts workers in Saginaw, Michigan reject UAW sellout deal in near unanimous vote
Workers who spoke to the WSWS during the vote denounced its expansion of a two-tier wage system, unaffordable healthcare costs, poverty-level pay for new hires, and the role of the UAW bureaucracy in imposing it.
•Jerry White
The unspoken target of Trump’s war on Iran—China
While the immediate aim is the subordination of Iran and the Middle East to US imperialism, the war is viewed in Washington as essential preparation for conflict with China, regarded as the chief threat to US global domination.
•Peter Symonds
Oracle reported to lay off up to 30,000 workers globally via email
Tech giant Oracle joined the industry-wide AI jobs massacre by informing thousands of employees on Monday via an email message at 6:00 a.m. that “current business needs” have eliminated their position and “today is your last working day.”
•Kevin Reed
Italy restricts US military access as crisis deepens within NATO and Meloni government amid rising opposition
Italy’s denial of US base access rests on procedural objections, but fundamentally reflects overwhelming popular opposition to war and state repression.
•Marc Wells
In genocidal rant, Trump vows to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages”
In a prime-time television address Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the goal of the United States in the Iran war is the destruction of Iranian society.
•Andre Damon
Trump attacks citizenship and voting rights
The would-be dictator in the White House seeks to strip millions of their citizenship and rig the 2026 elections.
•Patrick Martin
GM hits Factory Zero workers with another layoff as UAW maintains silence over escalating job cuts
The UAW, which pledged to defend jobs in the transition to electric vehicles, has offered workers nothing but platitudes and silence.
•Jerry White
Teamsters block DHL strike with tentative agreement one day before deadline
Six thousand DHL workers in the US had authorized strike action by 96 percent against the global logistics giant earlier in March.
•Alex Findijs
Asian economies taking a double hit from US war on Iran
As the war enters its second month, the price of Brent crude, the global benchmark, has risen by 63 percent from its pre-war level, eclipsing the previous record monthly rise of 46 percent following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
•Nick Beams
Violent arrests follow police rampage at Sydney anti-genocide protest
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
•Mike Head
Crimes against peace: The Nuremberg Trials precedent and the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran
In a powerful lecture at Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg, David North demonstrated that the US-Israeli war against Iran constitutes a crime against peace under the legal standards established at the Nuremberg Trials.
•Evan Blake
Joint statement by 11 parties in Türkiye: The “peace and democracy” deception amid the imperialist war of aggression in the Middle East
Eleven parties, including Kurdish nationalists and nominally “left-wing” groups in Türkiye, issued a statement appealing to the Erdoğan government for "peace" without addressing US imperialist aggression against Iran and across the Middle East.
•Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
Palestine Solidarity Duisburg: Ahmad Othman wins again in court against the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Ahmad Othman, an activist against the genocide of the Palestinians, has successfully sued against his second dismissal by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Germany’s chemical industry: Union agrees to a cut in real wages
In the third round of negotiations, the German mining and chemical union IGBCE (Industrial Union of Mining, Chemistry, and Energy) reached an agreement with the employers' association BAVC on real wage cuts for the 585,000 employees in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry nationwide in Germany.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights: Is this all that we can expect?
The force, the genius, of Emily Brontë’s novel is totally absent, wholly unexplored in this adaptation.
•Paul Bond
Ash Field School support staff vote for strikes to oppose victimization of Unison rep Tom Barker
Ash Field is a specialist school for children aged four to 19 with complex medical conditions, serious physical disabilities, leading to Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and/or Moderate Learning Difficulties.
•Judith Lomax, Tania Kent
Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026): The philosopher who chose the state
Jürgen Habermas, who died on March 14 in Starnberg at the age of 96, occupied for more than half a century a position of extraordinary influence in German intellectual and political life.
•D. Szejnman, Steve Long
Bath Iron Works naval shipyard strike betrayed as UAW subordinates workers to the war effort
Neither the Trump administration, General Dynamics management nor the union bureaucracy could allow this strike to continue.
•Mike Ingram
Workers strike auto parts manufacturer in Findlay, Ohio
Located about 60 miles south of Toledo, parts from the Findlay plant make their way into the final assembly of engines, cars and light trucks produced by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis throughout the Great Lakes region.
•Samuel Davidson
Australian government distances itself from illegal war on Iran that it supports
Albanese’s comments, which do not include even slight criticism of the US-Israeli war of aggression, are a cynical attempt to distance his government from a war that it is participating in.
•Oscar Grenfell
Hegseth’s insider war investments and the character of the American ruling class
The Financial Times reported—based on information from sources with direct knowledge of the investments—that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s long-time financial advisor invested $9.4 million with defense contractors based on inside information about the start of the war against Iran that has since seen a 38 percent increase in value.
•Kevin Reed
The Iran war and the erosion of international law
Among the first victims of the Iran war is international law, as it was developed after the Second World War. Almost all legal experts agree that there is no basis in international law for the war being waged by the US and Israel.
•Peter Schwarz
“Americans don’t want this war”: Protesters at “No Kings” rallies speak out
WSWS video reporters spoke to protesters at the massive "No Kings" rallies held across the US on March 28.
•Our reporters
Zionist assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani is a warning to the working class
The plot to kill Kiswani was not an isolated act, but the product of a political environment in which opposition to genocide has been criminalized and democratic rights are under sustained attack.
•Jacob Crosse
US begins B-52 bombing flights over Iran after Trump threatens to “completely obliterate” civilian infrastructure
The United States has begun bombing Iran with B-52 bombers, setting the stage for a massive increase in the US saturation bombing of the country of 90 million, as the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran intensifies.
•Andre Damon
Australia: What has happened to the enterprise agreement at Western Sydney University?
Two months on, no copy of an agreement has been provided to NTEU members, let alone voted on.
•A Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee member
Dolores Huerta’s allegations against Cesar Chavez and the political bankruptcy of the United Farm Workers
Revelations of abuse and rape expose the UFW’s decay, cynically weaponized by fascistic forces to intensify attacks on farmworkers and immigrant communities nationwide.
•Marc Wells
Gino Paoli, leading voice of postwar Italian popular music, dies at 91
Paoli’s work helped define the “cantautore” tradition and expressed Italy’s complex cultural transformation amid postwar reconstruction and social change.
•Marc Wells
Carney government asks Canada’s Supreme Court to overturn rulings against use of Emergencies Act to end 2022 “Freedom Convoy”
The Liberals are intent on ensuring that they and future governments retain the broadest possible latitude to invoke emergency powers in political and social crises, in particular against the working class and a developing movement against austerity and war.
•Pierre Lajeunesse, Keith Jones
Arab regimes’ backing for US-Israel war on Iran preparing region-wide conflagration
Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have signalled their impending intervention as active belligerents against Iran.
•Jean Shaoul
Resident doctors to strike, Starmer threatens—Time for a unified fightback to defend the NHS!
Labour’s paltry offer is not only an insult to resident doctors. It is an indictment of the course of action pursued by the Resident Doctors Committee.
•NHS FightBack
Berlin welcomes Syrian interim president and intensifies war and deportation campaign
The reception of Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Berlin exposes the hypocrisy of German war propaganda and underlines its imperialist goals in the Middle East.
•Johannes Stern
“A slap in the face”: Nexteer workers denounce sellout contract ahead of vote Wednesday
A new tentative agreement for Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan, contains sweeping concessions, particularly on pay for new hires and out-of-pocket benefit costs.
•Tom Hall
As ground troops arrive in the Middle East, Trump threatens “obliteration” of Iran’s infrastructure
On Monday, the 30th day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, US President Donald Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran’s energy generation and water desalination plants unless it surrendered to his demands.
•Andre Damon
Australia: Glencore threatens tiered wages at Mangoola coal mine
The financial press has noted that this could set a precedent for the slashing of labour-hire wages throughout the coal mining industry and more broadly.
•Martin Scott
CNN news team assaulted and detained by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
A three-member CNN news team—journalist Jeremy Diamond, producer Abeer Salman, and photojournalist Cyril Theophilos—were set upon by a group of Israeli soldiers on Friday while they were interviewing Palestinians and reporting on Zionist settler violence in the area.
•Kevin Reed
Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani and her attorneys speak out on Zionist assassination plot
A member of the Jewish Defense League Brotherhood 613 planned to firebomb Kiswani’s home in Brooklyn, NY, with the aim of killing her, her husband and her 10-month-old baby.
•Patrick Martin
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