Contract technician dies at Applied Materials facility in Austin, Texas
The Applied Materials death comes amid a series of high-profile workplace fatalities nationwide.
•our reporter
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Australian Labor premier defends unconstitutional ban on Gaza genocide protests
New South Wales Premier Minns also vented frothing hostility for the hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the streets in repeated anti-genocide demonstrations.
•Mike Head
Sri Lankan government boasts of “economic recovery” as austerity deepens
The economic growth since the 2022 crisis has been achieved by suppressing workers’ real wages and starving public services.
•Saman Gunadasa
Australian filmmaker James Ricketson demands the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
“My own experience suggests that this excessive sentence has a dual purpose—not just to punish Bogdan, but to intimidate other Ukrainian journalists and critics of the government.”
•Our reporters
SGP rally at Brandenburg Gate: Stop the war in Ukraine! Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk!
The rally opposed the increasingly dangerous escalation of the war against Russia and demanded the release of imprisoned Ukrainian socialist and opponent of war Bogdan Syrotiuk.
•Our Reporters
Versatile jazz artist Cassandra Wilson dies at 70
The untimely loss of the exceptionally talented jazz artist leaves music fans searching for more of her music.
•James Brewer
Dutch central bank removes gold from New York
The Dutch National Bank said its decision was motivated by the need to have greater “crisis preparedness.”
•Nick Beams
ICE kidnaps record number of immigrants amid growing popular opposition
ICE arrested nearly 51,000 immigrants in August, as students, workers and community members organized protests across the country against the expanding deportation drive.
•Jacob Crosse
Social Democrats, Left Party, unions responsible for far-right Alternative for Germany’s record election result
The far-right party, which trivialises the Nazi regime, stirs up hatred against migrants, seeks to ideologically co-opt culture and education, and aims to establish a police state, secured 44.2 percent of the vote. And this was achieved with a record turnout of 78 percent.
•Peter Schwarz
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk launches a new website
The new platform at FreeBogdan.org gathers the petition, the letters of protest and the statements of support in one place, and gives every reader a tool to write to the Ukrainian courts in both English and Ukrainian, days before the September 9 appeal deadline.
•Our reporters
US anti-China push dominates Pacific Islands summit
While the PIF summit concentrated on anti-China positioning, the imperialist powers announced nothing to address the urgent social and environmental crises facing the Pacific.
•John Braddock, Tom Peters
Will Lehman calls on workers to take up the defense of jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Mack Trucks worker and UAW rank-and-file presidential candidate Will Lehman demanded the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk and called on autoworkers to bring resolutions for his freedom before their locals.
•Evan Blake
Labor Day 2026: The oligarchy demands that workers pay for the crisis of American capitalism
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps are being dismantled to finance war and a tribute to the bondholders, while the union bureaucracy suppresses every struggle against it.
•Jerry White
New York City transit worker killed on the subway tracks
The death of a subway conductor last week—leaving three children motherless—is the product of the transit agency’s refusal to protect workers and the complicity of the TWU bureaucracy, which has kept workers on the job without a contract for four months.
•Alan Whyte, Daniel de Vries
Volkswagen supervisory board rubber-stamps 50,000 more job cuts in secret deal with IG Metall union
Without any discussion with their members, a handful of highly paid trade union bureaucrats agreed to every demand of the VW executive board and the company's owners.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
This week in history: September 7-13
Al-Qaeda attack on World Trade Center, Pentagon; Death of Mao Zedong; Japan signs two treaties with US, allies; Germany joins the League of Nations.
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Peru’s President Fujimori backs US war drive, breaking diplomatic ties with Tehran
The war in the Middle East is increasingly intertwined with the imperialist struggle for markets, resources and strategic dominance worldwide, drawing South America ever more directly into an expanding global confrontation.
•César Uco
Britain’s Socialist Equality Party hosts online meeting demanding freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Socialist Equality Party devoted its monthly readers meeting on to a call to join the campaign to free or comrade, Bogdan Syrotiuk.
•our reporters
Spanish far-right use Ceuta crisis to seek downfall of PSOE-Sumar government
The Vox and PP seek to channel mounting social anger against migrants, in order to ultimately target the entire working class, demanding a vast expansion of military expenditure and subordinating every aspect of social policy to rearmament and the interests of Spanish and European capitalism.
•Alejandro López
V&A workers strike over pay, conditions and government cuts: “We make the museum what it is”
A striker explained, “Since the financial crash in 2008, our wages have deteriorated hugely. We had three years with no increase at all.”
•our reporters
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: 14,000 Haryana sanitation and fire workers continue statewide strike; Bangladesh: Moulvibazar tea workers demand 500-taka daily wage; Sri Lankan development officers protest nationwide over salaries; Australian ferry workers strike in Brisbane and Sydney.
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US to expand “force posture” at Australian bases
While confirming the expansion, Labor’s Defence Minister Richard Marles would provide no details at all of what it entailed.
•Oscar Grenfell
Millions purged from US food stamp rolls, as Wall Street demands more cuts
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has stripped SNAP benefits from roughly 5 million people since the law’s enactment. At least 1.2 million children are affected, while schools are seeing enrollment in free school breakfasts and lunches plunge.
•Kate Randall
The New York Times fabricates a “Russian sabotage” narrative
Friday's front-page report in the New York Times is a propaganda piece, built entirely on the unsubstantiated claims of unnamed intelligence officials, whose purpose is to justify an escalation of the war against Russia.
•Andre Damon
Railroaders: Break the isolation of the National Steel Car strike! Refuse to handle NSCX cars! For a united, cross-border struggle across the railroad industry!
The struggle at National Steel Car cuts directly across the national divisions that the corporations, governments and union bureaucracies are trying to impose on workers.
•The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Tornado hits Detroit’s east side, as storms leave 250,000 without power in Michigan
Aging power grids were once again overwhelmed as heavy storms tore across Michigan for the second time this summer.
•Shannon Jones
The fight against the Alternative for Germany demands a fight against capitalism
The very same parties now canvassing for votes with the promise of stopping the AfD have paved the way for its rise and are preparing to collaborate with it.
•Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
Homeless man dies outside New Zealand government minister’s office
The death prompted an outpouring of angry statements from ordinary people about the country’s worsening social crisis.
•Chris Egan
Professor Mark Steinberg, leading scholar of Soviet and Russian history, submits letter in defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk
The World Socialist Web Site has received the following letter in defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk from Mark D. Steinberg, a leading scholar of Soviet and Russian history, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who previously taught at Harvard University and Yale University.
•Mark Steinberg
Who decides what is safe to eat: The cyclosporiasis outbreak and the failure of American food safety
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in US history has spread through 48 states without a source being named. A century after the Pure Food and Drug Act, the apparatus built to answer such questions is being dismantled.
•Benjamin Mateus
“15 years in prison – just because he opposes the war”: voices from Germany call for the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
A wave of protest against the verdict is building around the world. In recent weeks, members and supporters of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei have distributed leaflets, put up posters and held discussions across Germany to publicise the campaign for Bogdan’s release.
•Our reporters
Unifor promotes trade war and Canadian militarism as it rams through “pattern” agreement with General Motors
Canada’s largest private-sector union, with over 300,000 members, has been focused with the Detroit Three on finalizing new agreements well ahead of the September 21 expiration to block any rank-and-file opposition amid a crisis driven by the global restructuring of the auto industry and the US-Canada trade war.
•Carl Bronski
Videos show LAPD personnel beating handcuffed man before his death and fatally shooting another
Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz died after LAPD personnel repeatedly beat him in custody while Alejandro Luis Garcia was fatally shot last month.
•Joshua Rodriguez
US Southern Command announces sustained operations in Ecuador and Colombia while sinking more fishing boats in the Pacific
US imperialism is building a hemispheric repressive apparatus that is distinctly fascist: fishermen killed or their livelihoods destroyed without trial, prosecutors and journalists murdered and bodies displayed as propaganda.
•Andrea Lobo
Australia: Victorian Labor government moves to ban independent workers’ organisations
Under the phoney pretext of “stopping workers from being scammed,” the state government has launched a major attack on workers’ democratic rights, with the full-throated support of the Victorian Trades Hall Council.
•Martin Scott
Growing support in Spain for campaign to free jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The international campaign is winning growing support among socialist organisations, left-wing publications and antimilitarist groups in Spain.
•Alejandro López
Essential, exploited and disposable: Migrant care workers in Labour’s Britain
Workers hailed as “essential” throughout the pandemic must not be made disposable now.
•Rory Woods
Burnham unveils Sainsbury’s “work experience” scheme: unpaid labour for UK employers
Burnham’s choice of Sainsbury’s to promote his “Modern Work Experience Programme” underscores the incestuous relationship between the Labour Party he leads and major corporate and financial interests.
•Tony Robson
Australian educators rank-and-file committees demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
“People should not be forced into silence… Freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and the right to participate in public debate are fundamental human rights.” – Yasemin, Victoria
•Our reporters
Australia: Anti-corruption hearings underscore growth of far-right in Liberal Party
A semi-secret faction of hardline Catholic conservatives dubbed the “Reformers” was allegedly engaged in a plot to take over the New South Wales Liberal Party.
•Oscar Grenfell
Will Lehman calls for rank-and-file committees as UAW academic workers return to campuses
Academic workers now account for roughly one quarter of UAW membership. In recent years, graduate employees, postdocs, adjuncts and other university workers have carried out major strikes and repeatedly voted by overwhelming margins for strike action over wages, housing, insecure employment, immigration, democratic rights and the Gaza genocide.
•Our reporters
Over 5,600 people still missing after Nepal flood, as death toll passes 1,200
Mass graves are being filled, while some families are holding symbolic burials for loved ones whose bodies may never be recovered.
•Rohantha De Silva
Autoworker crushed at Kentucky auto parts plant, 1 day after Democratic governor celebrated its expansion
Bradley Clouse, a 33-year-old maintenance worker, was killed on the job early Wednesday morning at the Astemo Americas auto parts plant in Berea, Kentucky.
•Milo Stevens
The Mykolaiv court invokes Ukrainian-only language rule to stop the inflow of letters demanding Bogdan’s freedom
The demand by a Ukrainian court that letters protesting the 15-year sentence of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk be written in Ukrainian is an act of cynical chauvinism.
•David North
As capitalist crisis deepens, US House again votes to condemn socialism
This is the third time in four years that the Republican-controlled House has voted to condemn socialism.
•Patrick Martin
Oppose war, fascism and oligarchy! Fight for socialism! Join the IYSSE!
Students are returning to campus for the fall semester in the US under conditions of unprecedented crisis. A global war is expanding on three continents, a fascistic government of the oligarchy is dismantling democratic rights, and the capitalist system is driving the planet toward climate catastrophe.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)
New CDC director erases 2 measles deaths from the record
Two unvaccinated Lancaster County residents died of measles in August, but the CDC is saying that they died “with” the disease rather than “of” it, the same lie used to justify mass COVID-19 deaths.
•Benjamin Mateus
Thousands of development officers protest across Sri Lanka
The nationwide protest by low-paid public servants is part of a growing wave of workers’ struggles amid soaring living costs.
•Kapila Fernando
AI, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The Congress was held from August 2–7, 2026. This report introduced the fifth resolution, “AI and the fight for socialism,” which was unanimously adopted.
•Evan Blake
Quebec election called amid intensifying Canada-US trade war
Opinion polls show widespread popular anger over dilapidated public services and a severe shortage of affordable housing, as well as great volatility in voting intentions.
•Hugo Maltais
Crisis in Peru and the lessons of the 1977 general strike
The lessons of the general strike by the working class half a century ago are now more urgent than ever with the coming to power of Peru’s new far right president, Keiko Fujimori.
•César Uco
Jewish artists oppose campaign to tar actor Mark Ruffalo as an “antisemite”
An open letter signed by more than 180 actors, writers and others reflects mass opposition to the genocide, corporate consolidation and oligarchic rule.
•Erik Schreiber
Italian workers enter an autumn of struggles against austerity and militarism
A growing strike movement in Italy links wages, privatization and democratic rights to opposition against militarism and Israel’s war in Gaza.
•Marc Wells
Los Angeles DSA endorses mayoral candidate Nithya Raman after she abandons call to defund police
Raman secured the endorsement as she works to assure the financial elite and police that her campaign represents no threat to their interests ahead of the November 3 election.
•Jacob Crosse
Trump administration tightens sanctions as Cuban government expands private ownership and foreign trade
Washington is waging economic warfare aimed at the starvation and subjugation of 10 million people, while the Cuban government has responded by promising to open up the economy to foreign capital.
•Alexander Fangmann
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Greek seasonal firefighters march for permanent jobs as deadly wildfires continue across the country; protests in Baghdad, Iraq demanding public sector jobs; nurses in Kenya continue national strike over pay and conditions
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Burnham hosts Macron: Bayeux Tapestry pageantry, a migrant crackdown and an escalation of war in Ukraine
A Downing Street readout noted that the two "discussed next steps on establishing local assembly lines in Ukraine for the long-range missile, SCALP, which uses British technology."
•Robert Stevens
Burnham's government: Not tackling the “cost of living” but imposing austerity and war
That Burnham presides over a government of guns and no butter throws into sharp relief just how politically criminal it is for Britain's pseudo-left groups to portray his premiership as an opportunity to push Labour to the left.
•Robert Stevens, Chris Marsden
Labor’s NAPLAN widens education inequality in Australia
National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy results show that the gap between rich and poor school students is growing at an increasing rate.
•Erika Zimmer
Australia: Public sector doctors strike in Melbourne for first time in decades
Doctors walked off the job in opposition to the state Labor government’s attempts to inflict deeper real wage cuts and further entrench dire conditions in the sector.
•Martin Scott
Growing divisions at G20 finance ministers meeting
The commitments on which the G20 was established—to promote global growth and enhance international cooperation—lie in tatters as conflicts within the global economy intensify.
•Nick Beams
2 weeks after deadly Brent Industries explosion in Toledo, Ohio families, residents demand answers
No cause of the explosion has been determined that ripped through Brent Industries on August 18, killing Heladio Perez, 46, and Mary Allen, 64.
•Shannon Jones
Australian novelist, photographers and a human rights activist demand immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
“History is littered with a plethora of men who start homicidal wars. In far fewer numbers, history is peppered with courageous men who stand up to the behemoth of war and say ‘No!’ Bogdan Syrotiuk is such a man.”
•Our reporters
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi raises campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk at Istanbul antiwar events
Members of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi in Türkiye brought the “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk” campaign to the forefront at a panel discussion on war and press freedom and at an anti-war march held in Istanbul.
•Our reporters
Break the isolation of the National Steel Car strike by turning to workers across North America! For workers’ unity, not bogus USW “solidarity”
Either we seize control of our struggle, broadening it to unite workers across North America with the fight for workplace safety, better conditions and wage increases to make up for decades of givebacks, or the USW bureaucracy will sell us out, just as they did in 2023.
•National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee
German government provokes escalation of Ukraine war
The German government's accusation that Russia carried out a failed terrorist attack at Leipzig Airport on August 4 is a political provocation that was organized on—of all days—the 87th anniversary of the beginning of World War II.
•Peter Schwarz
Germany’s capital is being transformed into a centre for arms production—and workers must pay the bill
While hospitals and schools are falling into disrepair, 600 million euros are being cut from public transport, rents are skyrocketing, and social infrastructure is collapsing, billions are being poured into rearmament.
•Tamino Wilck
US bombs a wedding in Iran, killing four, amid escalating crisis in the US military
The US military attacked a house hosting a wedding in Kuhestak, in Sirik County on Iran’s southern coast, with a missile on Tuesday, killing at least four people, including a 4-year-old child, and wounding dozens, Iranian officials said Wednesday.
•Andre Damon
Political and media establishment silent on US constitutional implications of Pentagon oil grab in Venezuela
Four days after the Pentagon acquired an ownership stake in Venezuelan oil, not a single American politician or major publication has addressed what it means for civilian control of the military.
•Andrea Lobo
Alexander Bahar, other historians of fascism and Ukrainian nationalism join call to free Bogdan Syrotiuk
Among those denouncing the sentencing is the German scholar Alexander Bahar, co-author of The Reichstag Fire - How History is Created.
•Clara Weiss
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Government employed doctors across Paraguay staged a 5-day strike over wages while grocery workers in the western Canadian province of Alberta are pushing back against major concession demands by Safeway/Sobey’s management.
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Turkish Independent Miners Union organiser Başaran Aksu on hunger strike in prison
Aksu is protesting the unlawful imprisonment of himself and the union’s chairman, Gökay Çakır, and demanding he and Cakir be immediately released. This demand must be taken up by workers in every mine, factory and workplace in Türkiye and internationally. They must be freed at once.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Florida executes Harold Gene Lucas after 50 years on death row and 5 death sentences
After spending 50 years on Florida’s death row and being sentenced to death five times, the 74-year-old told a judge he was too tired to continue fighting his execution.
•Kate Randall
The Madrid Forum comes to Santiago: An international organization of counterrevolution
The same ruling class that made preemptive war its strategic doctrine is now applying the same logic to its domestic class enemies: strike before the enemy is organized. This is what the Madrid Forum is all about.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Volkswagen board votes to close four plants, cut tens of thousands of jobs across Germany
Behind the closures lie the billionaire Porsche-Piëch owners, who are demanding nothing less than the dismantling of one of the world’s largest carmakers.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
ICE kidnaps 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer at citizenship interview
Loreto Javar has missed cancer treatments, developed a blood clot and suffered rapid weight loss during more than two months in ICE’s Tacoma concentration camp.
•Marc Wells
Berlin Tenants are being fed a tissue of lies by the main parties
Fewer and fewer households can afford the city’s rapidly rising rents, and housing is increasingly becoming a luxury. Whilst families are forced to cut back on essentials to pay exorbitant rents, unscrupulous property corporations are raking in huge profits.
•Tino Jacobson, Markus Salzmann
ICE plans to spend up to $2 million on robot dogs for immigration raids
The purchase of the four-legged robots built by Boston Dynamics is only the latest addition to an arsenal the Trump administration has been assembling for ICE with terrifying speed.
•Mike Ingram
Former Samsic ramp supervisor exposes deadly conditions behind Montreal airport worker Oscar Robayo’s death
The death of Robayo has exposed the deadly consequences of airport subcontracting and deregulation.
•our reporter
Hemingway in decline: Film version of Across the River and Into the Trees
But a decline in what? Simply in Hemingway’s skill as a writer? Or something more? It is necessary to briefly consider his history.
•David Walsh
Maintenance worker crushed to death at Kaiser Aluminum plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew “Andy” Block was killed at the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan two weeks ago when he was crushed by a powered scrap shoot clam shell that closed on him while he was performing a welding repair.
•George Kirby
Bond yields surge as governments borrow for war and rearmament
The rise in US bond yields was particularly significant because it came in the face of attempts by Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to suppress them.
•Nick Beams
Whistleblower warns Postal Service will deny mail ballots to millions under Trump scheme
A whistleblower report by an anonymous United States Postal Service official made public on Tuesday warns that under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, USPS will withhold mail ballots from millions of voters.
•Barry Grey
Former New Zealand defence minister says World War III is underway
Ron Mark, who wants to be the defence minister again, said New Zealand must be “mentally prepared to start arming ourselves” for war against China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
•Tom Peters
Russian-Israeli historian Artem Kirpichenok detained by Israeli secret service
Kirpichenok’s arrest is an attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class and speaks to the utter lawlessness and criminality with which the Israeli state suppresses its critics, regardless of their faith and nationality.
•Clara Weiss
Pacific leaders pull out of contentious Pacific Islands summit
Five prime ministers have withdrawn from the Pacific summit amid escalating tensions caused by far-advanced war preparations by the US against China.
•John Braddock
Sri Lanka: More than 1,000 workers strike at Sevanagala Sugar Factory
Workers have been on strike for more than a week demanding a wage increase, in defiance of the union bureaucracy.
•Aruna Malalagama
American Postal Workers Union convention offers no fight against historic USPS cuts
Under conditions of the deepest attacks on USPS in history, and ongoing conspiracies from the White House, the postal unions are attempting to divide up workers and prevent a counter-offensive in defense of jobs and democratic rights.
•Tom Hall
Gary, Indiana residents speak out after 14 days without power
We spoke to residents of Gary, Indiana who spent 14 days without power after a storm damaged electrical infrastructure owned by NIPSCO, the local power monopoly.
•Kathleen Martin, Usman Khan
Australia: Teachers denounce union pay “victory” in Queensland
Educators are furious at the Queensland Teachers Union’s claim that they had a “significant win” last week when the state’s industrial relations judges granted a supposed 3 percent wage rise.
•Mike Head
Thousands of children face catastrophic conditions following Nepal floods
Flash floods in Nepal have left over 22,000 children vulnerable, with families struggling to access clean water.
•Rohantha De Silva
Berlin state election: Left Party candidate sides with right-wing media frenzy against her own party’s Gaza rally
The real offence, it turns out, was criticising a genocide the Left Party itself has supported—in parliament, in coalition budgets, and now on the campaign trail.
•Tamino Wilck
Blood on their hands: Trump’s immigration Gestapo drives Haitian student Pierre Damas Bel to suicide
More than 100 Haitians in Springfield have been fitted with electronic monitors as the Trump administration accelerates deportation flights and mass immigration raids.
•Jacob Crosse
“We’re going to have to draw a line in the sand”: Locked-out Martinez refinery workers speak out
The lockout of 120 Marathon refinery workers, the contract struggle involving 23,000 steelworkers and the National Steel Car strike in Canada point to the conditions for a united struggle across North America.
•Tom Hall, David Benson
UK press demand Burnham delivers a war budget targeting Russia
The message is that Burnham and Healey must fund war preparations and impose the savage austerity required, or stand aside and make way for forces prepared to carry it through.
•Robert Stevens
The Roman Space Telescope: The power of science and the bankruptcy of capitalism
The extended international effort to probe the history of the universe of which the Roman telescope is a part conflicts directly with the continued existence of the profit motive and the nation-state system.
•Bryan Dyne
Hundreds of workers trapped in flooded tunnels, as Nepal deaths near 1,000
Rescue teams from Nepal, India and China are drilling and blasting toward hundreds of workers still trapped underground at hydropower plants, five days after the flood that has killed at least 939 people.
•Kevin Reed
New Zealand hospitals in crisis amid surging winter illnesses
Emergency Department nurses have declared a “state of emergency,” asserting they will no longer remain silent about appalling hospital conditions.
•John Braddock
Prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan denounces escalating pro-Zionist attacks on democratic rights in Australia
Flanagan’s speech, which received a prolonged standing ovation from a sold-out audience of 1,000 people, systematically exposed the state-backed pro-Zionist campaign that falsely equates opposition to Israel’s war crimes with antisemitism.
•Richard Phillips
Interest rate rises adding to surging US debt
G7 economies have already taken a hit of $16 billion in additional debt financing costs since the war on Iran began and may face $34 billion in extra costs by early next year.
•Nick Beams
One Nation victory in Western Australia underscores working-class discontent
This by-election is the first time that the far-right formation has won a seat in an Australian parliament at the direct expense of the Labor Party.
•Mike Head
On the international class struggle and the building of the IWA-RFC
We are publishing here the fourth of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2–7, 2026.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
The deportation of Brian Morales García: The war on immigrants is a war on the entire working class
A construction worker deported despite being a US citizen exposes how immigration repression is preparing the machinery for attacks on workers.
•Marc Wells
The goon attack at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University—The BJP’s war on student dissent
A mob of Hindu supremacist thugs allied with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party violently attacked students at Jadavpur University, in Kolkata, West Bengal, on the night of August 19–20.
•R.A. Vasikh
Photographer, filmmaker and translator Eugene Ulman calls for the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Ukraine’s government cannot credibly invoke democracy as the justification for its struggle against Russia while imposing such a sentence on a young journalist for doing his job.”
•Our reporters
Case of pro-Trump operative Cerimedo opens Pandora’s box of corruption, election interference and drug ties across Latin America
Four separate investigations have opened in Bolivia against Cerimedo, who served as President Paz’s top adviser, exposing the methods used by Washington to install far-right governments across the hemisphere.
•Andrea Lobo
At least 2 dead, more than 20 unaccounted for after Grand Canyon flash flood
The flooding was intensified by the burn scar left by last year’s 150,000-acre Dragon Bravo Fire, exemplifying the compound disasters made increasingly destructive by climate change.
•Jacob Crosse
Detroit judiciary attacks public defenders’ right to strike
Wayne County judges threatened three striking public defenders with jail and thousands of dollars in fines before dismissing the contempt charges against them.
•Anthony Callahan
UK Prime Minister Burnham U-turns over Thames Water nationalisation
Burnham’s retreat confirms the real character of his government: a continuation of the profit‑driven order that has looted public infrastructure for decades.
•Paul Mitchell
Australian ruling elite demands stepped-up assault on opposition to Gaza genocide
Military-intelligence chiefs and the Murdoch media have complained that the witch-hunting Royal Commission into Antisemitism did not go far enough in persecuting the pro-Palestinian movement.
•Oscar Grenfell
“Borders don’t mean anything to the workers”: National Steel Car strikers in Hamilton, Ontario speak out
WSWS reporters along with supporters of Will Lehman visited the picket line at the National Steel Car plant in Hamilton, Ontario
•Our reporters
Pro-government Turkish journalist calls for extermination of Syria’s Arab Alawites
A Turkish journalist with deep ties to the Erdoğan government made remarks on a major national television channel that sought to normalize the massacre of Arab Alawites in Syria.
•Hakan Özal
Australia: Teachers speak out against union sellout in Victoria
“Agreement after agreement has seen our working conditions deteriorate while outcomes that fall well short of what staff originally fought for are presented as victories.”
•Our reporters
German auto industry moves into arms production—just as under the Nazis
To ramp up booming arms production, the arms industry needs new capacity. Under the slogan “Auto2Defence,” it is seeking available labour, factories and technical expertise from the crisis-hit auto industry.
•Ludwig Weller
The Pentagon takes control of Venezuela’s oil: Imperialist thievery and the bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism
The Pentagon has taken an ownership stake in one-fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves in a deal that exposes both the gangsterism of the US ruling class and the terminal bankruptcy of Chavismo and bourgeois nationalism.
•Andrea Lobo
FAA moves to fire 2 LaGuardia controllers before fatal runway-collision investigation is complete
The threatened firings are a naked effort to scapegoat workers for chronic understaffing and unsafe conditions throughout the National Airspace System.
•Claude Delphian
Humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in Nepal after floods
Thousands are missing and displacement camps are short of food and medicine, while the imperialist countries have pledged a pittance in aid.
•Rohantha De Silva
NASA launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to survey dark energy, dark matter
Roman is the most capable deep space survey telescope ever built and will be used to study dark energy, exoplanets, supernovae and much more.
•Bryan Dyne
ICE Gestapo expands deportation flights to third countries in Africa
Deportees sent to Liberia described being shackled for hours, denied access to restrooms and assaulted after protesting their forced removal to countries where they have no ties.
•Jacob Crosse
US resumes bombing of Iran
US forces bombed Iranian territory early Sunday for the first time in a month, striking two rocket launchers on Iran’s Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
•Andre Damon
Mamdani reaffirms support for Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries
One day after the New York Times reported a private meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, New York City Mayor and DSA member Zohran Mamdani reaffirmed his support for Jeffries’ bid to become the next speaker of the House.
•Erik Schreiber, Barry Grey
New Zealand to deepen involvement in Ukraine war
The National Party-led government and opposition Labour Party both support the extension of NZ’s training of Ukrainian conscripts.
•Tom Peters
Contract deadline looms this week for 23,000 steelworkers in the US
The USW bureaucracy is blocking preparations for a unified struggle with Canadian USW members on strike at National steel Car, instead subordinating steelworkers to nationalism, protectionism and trade war.
•Samuel Davidson, Tom Hall
Canada’s opposition parties and trade unions join hands with Carney government in trade war with US
The leaders of Canada’s main opposition parties, including the social-democratic NDP, met with Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney last Tuesday to demonstrate their full-throated support for Canadian imperialism in the escalating trade war with the US.
•Roger Jordan
Gary, Indiana residents still without power weeks after storm
Over 300,000 people lost power after hurricane-strength winds and multiple tornadoes downed power lines, trees and utility poles across the Calumet region.
•Kathleen Martin, Usman Khan
Millions mourn singer Dolly Parton
The loss of country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton is keenly felt by artists and audiences alike throughout the world.
•James Brewer
This week in history: August 31-September 6
Volkswagen workers strike in Puebla, Mexico ends; Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to the United States with MiG-25; S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike founds the Sri Lanka Freedom Party; British gunboats bombard the Chinese city of Wanhsien on the Yangtze River
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The vindictive prosecution of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy
Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse from Massachusetts, is accused of criminal responsibility for the deaths of her three children in January 2023.
•Norisa Diaz
Socialist Equality Party (UK) calls on 50 British trade unions to defend Bogdan Syrotiuk
The SEP calls on workers to take this campaign into their own hands by popularising the Bogdan’s case in their workplaces and passing resolutions in his defence in their branch and regional meetings.
•Thomas Scripps, Tony Robson
Newly established Communist League of Uganda leaders arrested by Museveni regime
Workers, youth and defenders of democratic rights internationally must oppose the persecution of political organisations by the Ugandan state and demand the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and legal status of all those detained.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Australian government pledges a miserable $5 million for Nepal-China flood victims
Australia’s contribution to relief efforts would not be enough to purchase three average houses in Sydney, and is equivalent to 44 minutes of military spending.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australia: Prisoner denied parole despite judge rejecting antisemitism claim
This development points to a further unravelling of the lies and misinformation by the media, Zionist groups and state and federal Labor governments to depict arson and vandalism in Sydney in 2024–25 as antisemitic terrorism.
•Mike Head
Fed chief sets the stage for interest rate increase
One commentator described it as a “cleanup” act, as Fed chair Kevin Warsh used his speech to the bankers’ Jackson Hole symposium to insist he was determined to take action on inflation.
•Nick Beams
What lessons must be drawn from Mélenchon’s warnings of a French neofascist presidency?
As the French presidential election campaign begins, France and the world face a capitalist crisis that no election will resolve, against which the working class must be mobilized in revolutionary struggle in France and internationally.
•Alex Lantier
Numbers of dead and missing climb in Nepal catastrophe as new barrier lake threatens second flood
As rescue and recovery efforts continue in the areas that were flooded along the border between Nepal and China on Wednesday, the danger of a second flood is building as a barrier lake has been formed by a landslide dam with a “high risk of breaching,” according to China’s Ministry of Water Resources.
•Kevin Reed
Sri Lankan government bans railway workers from using social media
The JVP/NPP government aims to suppress opposition to the deliberate running down of railway services and its privatization agenda.
•Sujeewa Amaranath
Behind CIA Director Ratcliffe’s secret trip to Russia: The Ukraine war spirals out of control
The first visit by a CIA director to Moscow since the eve of the Ukraine war comes as the NATO powers pour weapons, money and intelligence into an escalation that brings a direct clash with nuclear-armed Russia ever closer.
•Andre Damon
The global eruption of the class struggle and the rebellion against the union bureaucracies
We are publishing here the report delivered by Tom Hall to the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 2–7, 2026, introducing the fourth resolution, “On the international class struggle and the building of the IWA-RFC.”
•Tom Hall
Moving tribute to Oscar Robayo, Montreal airport worker crushed to death amid safety violations by subcontractor
“We were always together, the four of us, and we would always talk about how dangerous and stupid the procedures at Samsic were.”
•Our reporter
US strikes on border and resignation of Sinaloa governor expose logic of Sheinbaum’s endless concessions to Trump
The US military used a high energy laser to down alleged Mexican cartel drones in the same week that the governor of Sinaloa was driven from office as a product of a campaign launched by Washington.
•Andrea Lobo
John-Paul Himka, leading historian of Ukraine, condemns prosecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Dr. John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alberta and one of the world’s foremost historians of modern Ukraine.
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Rodent infestations in Chile’s collapsed schools: A powder keg in the making
The conditions in Chile’s schools are not the result of one government’s negligence, but the cumulative impact of a system imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship and preserved by every administration since.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Postal worker Russell Scruggs Jr.’s ex-wife speaks out, backs call for rank-and-file inquiry into postal deaths
Barbara spoke with the World Socialist Web Site to encourage Palmetto workers to come forward with what they know about Russell’s death and conditions inside the USPS Palmetto facility in Georgia.
•Kathleen Martin
How to combat the far-right AfD
For the first time since the collapse of Hitler’s Nazi regime 81 years ago, a politician from the far-right could become premier of a German federal state, Saxony-Anhalt.
•Peter Schwarz
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Bank unions plan nationwide strike action; Punjab National Health Mission workers continue strike; Bangladesh: Outsourced public-sector workers demand permanent jobs; Australia: Newcastle Coal terminal workers take industrial action; FedEx workers hold two-hour strikes around Australia.
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The human cost of the Paramount-Warner merger
The toll of the takeover is the product of three decades of bipartisan deregulation, consolidation and attacks on workers.
•Marc Wells
El-Sayed drops his left rhetoric at Michigan rallies
The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee’s joint appearances with party leaders were organized to demonstrate his post-primary embrace of the party establishment.
•Stephen St. Clair
Scottish prosecutors allege “terrorist connection” over Trump golf course protest, as juries throw out terror cases
On August 19, the jury in the second Filton Palestine Action trial at the Old Bailey was discharged having failed to reach verdicts on 14 of 15 charges.
•Robert Stevens
SEP (UK) Zoom Meeting: The Ukraine War and the Fight to Free Bogdan Syrotiuk
Our speakers will include Chris Marsden and Tom Scripps, the national and assistant national secretaries of the SEP (UK), and Johannes Stern, the German language editor of the WSWS and leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei.
•Our reporters
Australian workers face deepening real wage cuts
The working class confronts a deepening cost-of-living crisis, as inflation continues to outpace wages. At the same time, banks, mining giants, supermarket chains and other major corporations have racked up record profits.
•Martin Scott
Australian Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
“This young man is immensely courageous in speaking out against war. His persecution is setting a precedent against anyone who opposes any war and a warning to all.” — Mental health nurse
•Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee
The crisis of March 2020 is haunting the US financial system
In the six years since the US Treasury market “froze,” the role of hedge funds, which sparked the “dash for cash,” has increased markedly.
•Nick Beams
Sri Lanka: Railway workers and Katunayake Free Trade Zone workers back campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Bogdan is a fighter who defended the people of Ukraine, Russia and the world. That is why the Zelensky regime imprisoned him for 15 years.”
•Our reporters
Columbia University postdoctoral workers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
1,000 postdoctoral researchers, associate research scientists, and associate research scholars at Columbia University, organized in the UAW, have voted by over 90 percent to authorize strike action.
•John Conrad
US government officially designates Palestine Action as a terrorist organization
The unprecedented action is aimed at criminalizing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the wider US-Israeli aggression throughout the Middle East.
•Patrick Martin
The Nepal-China flood, climate change and the fight for socialism
The social catastrophe that has resulted is the latest consequence of the inability of the world’s capitalist governments to halt climate change or prepare their populations for the inevitable deadly consequences.
•Bryan Dyne
California academics and socialist groups in Russia, France and Turkey demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
A letter from a group of some 200 California scholars, a statement from a socialist organization inside Russia and a wave of articles in the Turkish and European left-wing press have joined the international campaign for the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist.
•Andre Damon
Trump sends second deportation flight to Haiti as ICE kidnaps nearly 50,000 in July
The flight carried 57 people, including US-born children, as the administration prepares to increase deportation flights to Haiti from monthly to weekly.
•Jacob Crosse
“The union has given us the runaround for years”: National Steel Car workers discuss rank-and-file alternative as USW bureaucrats try to silence opposition
Striking workers at National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario discussed the major issues in the strike by 1,200 workers who are now entering the third week of their walkout.
•our reporters
Marxism, AI and Der Spiegel’s fear of revolution
When Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s most influential news magazines, feels compelled to put Karl Marx on its cover, things cannot be going well for capitalism.
•Fabian Winter
Nepal suffers devastating flooding
The scale of the death and destruction cannot be explained by geology or weather alone. It is the product of climate change, decades of state neglect, and the subordination of public safety to profit and the demands of capitalism.
•Rohantha De Silva
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Spanish Airbus workers resume indefinite strike over pay, as air traffic controllers strike across Europe; portering staff at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport in wildcat strike over staff shortages; sugar workers in South Africa walk out demanding pay increase
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Oppose the arrest of Independent Miners Union leaders in Türkiye!
Independent union leaders who spearheaded numerous miners’ struggles this year were arrested on charges of “inciting the population to hatred and hostility” to intimidate the entire working class.
•Ulaş Sevinç
UK-Russia conflict escalates after Burnham’s provocations in Ukraine
Having already supplied Ukraine with long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles, the UK has now shared classified blueprints with Kyiv to allow the country to eventually manufacture its own.
•Thomas Scripps
Amid earthquake disaster in Venezuela, US stages talks between puppet government and right-wing opposition
The abject subservience of both sides of the table was summed up by the Financial Times, which reported that the government made no mention whatsoever of freeing former president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from their US prison cells.
•Andrea Lobo
Elon Musk becomes the latest Nazi decorated by the Zelensky regime
In honoring Musk, a committed ideological fascist and the world's leading promoter of the global far-right movement, the Zelensky regime is once again exposing the fraud of those who claim that Ukraine is fighting for "democracy."
•Andre Damon
Ukrainian workers destroy army recruitment vehicle in expanding protests against “busification”
The growing confrontations between Ukrainian workers and forced mobilization exposes the lie that Ukrainian society uniformly supports the disastrous imperialist proxy war.
•Jason Melanovski
Supreme Court boosts Trump’s attack on mail-in voting
Trump will attempt to use the uncertainty surrounding the elections fomented by his baseless charges of election fraud and compounded by his attack on mail-in voting to manipulate the elections and possibly suspend them altogether.
•Barry Grey
Philippine DHL workers strike against warehouse closure
Logistics workers at the DHL Supply Chain warehouse in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila have been on strike for more than a week in a battle for their jobs.
•Dante Pastrana
Australian Labor government further intensifies war-related powers over university staff
The Albanese government is creating a wartime-like atmosphere, directed against countries deemed to be threats to Australian national security or foreign relations, particularly China, Russia and Iran.
•Mike Head
Growing unrest, resistance to the break-up of the Volkswagen Group
The executive board of the Volkswagen Group has begun preparing workers at the core VW brand for an extension of the cutbacks that began at the end of 2024. The process could ultimately end in the break-up of one of the world’s largest car makers.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Chilean students protest strip-searches as Kast government, media remain silent
The students of Rayen Mapu, their parents and their teachers have demonstrated courage and democratic conviction in the face of state violence.
•Our reporter
Review into fatal New Zealand landslide finds multiple warnings were ignored
Tauranga City Council failed to act on repeated warnings about the risks posed by the location of the Beachside Holiday Park, where six people were killed in a landslide in January.
•Chris Egan
“He was a great lead and a great friend”: Montreal airport worker denounces systematic safety violations following Oscar Robayo’s death
A Montreal Airport worker, who worked alongside Robayo, contacted the World Socialist Web Site to speak out about the fatal incident. He was especially incensed by the attempts of Samsic Assistance, Robayo’s employer and a globally operating provider of “business services,” to place the blame on the victim.
•A WSWS reporting team
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee leader on the fight against piecework, union betrayal, and the path forward
The National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee (NSC-RFC) was founded by shop floor workers in June 2023, on the eve of the last strike, after it became clear to them that the United Steelworkers (USW) bureaucracy would not wage a genuine fight for workers' demands.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Entertainment unions intensify campaign for corporate tax handouts as film subsidy race to the bottom accelerates
As public funds bankroll corporate relocation, entertainment unions enforce the competitive framework and suppress a unified struggle against job destruction.
•Marc Wells
For the defense of immigrants and the abolition of the immigration Gestapo
This is the third of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Two unvaccinated Pennsylvanians dead as measles epidemic accelerates
Pennsylvania has confirmed 393 cases across 28 counties, nearly two-thirds of them in adults, as national kindergarten vaccination falls to its lowest level on record.
•Benjamin Mateus
Ramp worker Oscar Robayo crushed to death in workplace accident involving passenger jet at Montréal Trudeau Airport
A worker who spoke with the World Socialist Web Site described a disastrous combination of cutting corners, broken equipment and a general high-pressure working environment overseen by the subcontractor Samsic that led to Robayo’s death.
•A WSWS reporting team
Arriva North London bus drivers restart strikes demanding safety improvements against extreme heat
The right to scrutinise any further deal before strike action is suspended must be enforced from below. This basic principle of rank-and-file democracy must be restored.
•Tony Robson
Türkiye: Attacks on Kurdish seasonal farm workers and chauvinist provocations in football stadiums
These events took place under conditions in which negotiations between Ankara and the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, are continuing, and in which the parliament this month adopted a law related to those talks.
•Barış Demir
Turn the National Steel Car strike into a counter-offensive by workers across North America: For class struggle, not trade war
The decisive question two weeks into the strike is whether we organize ourselves to win or allow the United Steelworkers bureaucracy to fritter away our strength until we are starved into accepting another sellout.
•National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee
26-year-old South Australian worker killed in woodchipper accident
Josh Thomson-Parkin had raised concerns about the reliability and safety of the machine in the days before his death.
•Vicki Mylonas
Boeing engineers and technical workers reject contract, vote to authorize strike
A strike would disrupt both commercial-aircraft certification and military production under conditions of expanding US wars and preparations for conflict with China.
•Bryan Dyne
Oppose the US-Canada trade war! Unite the workers of the Americas against tariffs, war and dictatorship!
The trade war between Washington and Ottawa is a reactionary conflict involving two capitalist ruling classes striving to advance the predatory imperialist interests of their respective nation-states. The real division is not between Canada and America, but between the working class of both countries and the corporate oligarchies that exploit them.
•Roger Jordan
Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factory
As well as workers’ pay demands, the company has rejected virtually all the limited claims submitted by the unions.
•Our reporters
“MAGA’s Man in LatAm” jailed in Bolivia over political assassination plot
The arrest of Fernando Cerimedo, business partner of Trump’s former campaign manager, exposes the criminal network behind the installation of far-right regimes in Latin America.
•Andrea Lobo
Campaign to free Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk discussed on NZ Māori radio
Members of the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) exposed the fascist Ukrainian court’s frame-up of the young Trotskyist leader, who is sentenced to 15 years in prison for “treason” for opposing the war.
•Our reporter
With “economic D-Day” against Iran, Washington escalates conflict with China
The Trump administration on Monday launched what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called an “economic D-Day” against Iran—a campaign of secondary sanctions aimed at every country, bank and company that trades with Tehran, above all China, which took roughly nine-tenths of Iran’s oil exports before the US blockade choked them off.
•Andre Damon
7 months after Alex Pretti’s murder by the immigration Gestapo, his family speaks out against the ongoing cover-up
In a powerful interview with ABC, the Pretti family condemned the Trump administration's cover-up of the murder of their son Alex, an intensive care nurse at the Department of Veterans Affairs who was shot and killed by Customs and Border Protection thugs during the federal occupation of Minnesota.
•Jacob Crosse
US Steel Clairton disaster exposes 13 years of OSHA failure under Democratic and Republican administrations
Federal regulators repeatedly inspected the US Steel plant while deadly hazards remained uncorrected.
•Samuel Davidson
Electric shock gloves sought by ICE were used on Omaha schoolchildren
“Our schools are supposed to be places where children are safe, learning and being protected,” one parent said, “not places where electrical weapons become another tool of discipline or control.”
•Harry Smith
Democratic Party think tank Third Way launches campaign against socialism
A leaked internal email reveals plans to hire a “Director of Anti-Extremism,” days after the Democratic-Party aligned think tank cited the 1947 purge of the unions as its model.
•Isaac de Vries
One year since Trump’s military occupation of Washington D.C.: A milestone in the march toward dictatorship
Trump’s troop deployment has been a critical element in his plans to construct a presidential dictatorship.
•Nick Barrickman
SGP in the Berlin state election: “We embody the revolutionary, socialist and internationalist traditions of the working class”
Speaking at the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei Berlin state election campaign launch, the party's honorary chairman explains that 35 years ago it was not socialism but Stalinism that collapsed, and that today's crisis demands the working class reclaim its revolutionary traditions.
•Ulrich Rippert
Socialist Equality Group (Brazil) demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
The criminalization of thought in Ukraine is a dress rehearsal for what capitalist governments worldwide, including in Brazil, have in store for all those who rise up against war and fascism.
•Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)
Prison sentences for mayors in politically motivated trial in Türkiye
Workers and young people must oppose the use of the judiciary as a weapon to suppress and neutralize political opposition, and must defend democratic rights.
•Barış Demir
Britain’s Stop the War Coalition calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
The statement followed a letter from the Socialist Equality Party (UK) to STWC Convenor Lindsey German on August 14. It is a blow against efforts to silence Bogdan’s defence campaign, including a mass media blackout.
•Our reporters
Zelensky rules out elections, as Ukraine’s dictatorship jails opponents of the war
Amid a deepening political crisis triggered by growing popular opposition to the escalating war against Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went on a tirade over the weekend against free and open elections, declaring that a vote would “destroy the country.”
•Johannes Stern
Young father killed at Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor steel mill
The death of 28-year-old Jonathan Stepp is the second at a major US steel mill in little more than a month. It occurs as the USW bureaucracy negotiates new contracts with Cleveland-Cliffs and US Steel.
•Samuel Davidson
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