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Netanyahu uses Iran war to pursue “Greater Israel” agenda

Within days of the assault on Iran, the Israel Defence Forces declared war on Hezbollah—activating a blueprint drafted well before the group fired a token volley of rockets in response to Israel’s assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Jean Shaoul

Seven years after the fascist massacre in Christchurch

New Zealand and Australian leaders hypocritically declared their solidarity with the families of 51 Muslims murdered by the fascist Brenton Tarrant on March 15, 2019, even as both governments demonise migrants and support the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war against Iran.

Tom Peters

Israel begins its long-planned ground invasion of Lebanon

News media reports have confirmed that Israel has started its long-planned ground invasion of southern Lebanon with plans to seize the entire area south of the Litani River which is roughly the southern third of Lebanon.

Kevin Reed

Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life

Yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League who was assassinated in 1977. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.

David North

Workers Struggles: The Americas

The 900 terminated workers at the FATE tire plant are demanding their jobs back while 2,300 workers at Portland Community College in Oregon have struck to demand cost-of-living raises.

Australia: 238 jobs axed at Tahmoor Colliery

Workers were given less than 48 hours to decide whether to immediately accept redundancy or take six weeks’ unpaid leave in the hope that the mine is quickly sold.

Martin Scott

Portugal’s “Miracle” of 2025: Profits soar and workers suffer

Capitalist recovery rests on intensified exploitation and a growing reserve army of under- and unemployed workers. Nominal wage increases are trumpeted as progress, yet real wages lag far behind the soaring costs of housing, energy, and food.

Paul Mitchell

Kshama Sawant: Revolutionary rhetoric and reformist politics

Sawant seeks to channel mass popular opposition to war, social inequality and attacks on democratic rights into the dead end of bourgeois electoral politics, while promoting the illusion that pressure from below can force a section of the trade union bureaucracy to lead general strikes and wring major concessions from the ruling class.

David Fitzgerald, Bryan Dyne, Barry Grey

This week in history: March 16-22

US Supreme Court bars discrimination suits by workers; Harold Wilson resigns; Iranian oil workers strike; Chiang Kai-shek stages military coup.

Trump is planning a ground invasion of Iran

A ground invasion of the Iranian coastline would not be a limited or contained operation. It would be a protracted and gruesome bloodbath.

WSWS Editorial Board

Two days of pilot strikes at Lufthansa

Around 5,300 Lufthansa pilots embarked on a warning strike March 12, including for the first time the pilots of regional subsidiary Cityline.

Marianne Arens

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: West Bengal tea plantation workers protest low wages; Bangladeshi construction workers demand outstanding wages and Eid allowance; Pakistan: Punjab public sector employees protest austerity; Tasmanian public sector workers escalate industrial action; Australian Broadcasting Corporation workers vote for industrial action.

UK trade union leaders issue toothless statements on illegal war against Iran

Appeals to the government to work for a diplomatic solution are maintained even as it has made clear its commitment to the US-led war, making UK air bases available for American aircraft and deploying British aircraft to protect US bases, as well moving the destroyer HMS Dragon to the region.

Tony Robson

Oil price gyrations bring significant financial losses

The wild swings in the oil price at the start of this week have directed attention to one of the most significant potential consequences of US-led war on Iran—a major financial crisis induced by losses flowing from the oil market.

Nick Beams

VW Group increases job cuts to 50,000 to boost profits

Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume presented the business figures for the past year at the corporation’s annual press conference on Tuesday and announced an intensification of the ongoing jobs massacre.

Dietmar Gaisenkersting

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Thousands of auxiliary metalworkers in Asturias, Spain walk out over pay and conditions; workers at Immingham docks in England begin indefinite strike over unfair dismissals; local government workers and civil servants begin national strike in Ghana over pay

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