Five hundred more pro-Palestine protesters arrested in UK despite High Court ruling
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
•Thomas Scripps
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UK secondary school's sweeping censorship of library books
Librarian instructed to remove up to 200 books from school library deemed inappropriate by school with Christian ethos
•Margot Miller
USPS moves to suspend pension payments amid deepening financial crisis
The United States Postal Service could potentially run out of money by next year, setting the stage for massive cuts.
•Brian Green
Teamsters and UPS reach settlement over driver buyouts, while company continues plans to slash 30,000 more jobs
By claiming a victory over the buyouts, the Teamsters apparatus is signaling to UPS that, as long as the bureaucracy is included, the destruction of UPS workers' livelihoods can proceed.
•Leon Gutierrez
Trump says the US is “loading up the ships” with weapons during ceasefire talks
President Trump renewed his fascist threat to destroy Iran on Friday in a post on Truth Social in which he bemoaned Tehran’s ongoing control of the Strait of Hormuz and wrote that Tehran has “no cards,” and “The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!”
•Kevin Reed
Artemis II mission concludes after astronauts travel to the Moon and safely return to Earth
The mission unfolded in the shadow of the Trump administration's war against Iran and his genocidal threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
•Bryan Dyne
Australia: UWU boss posturing as “rank-and-file” candidate in union election
The phoney “rank-and-file” Members First campaign points to mounting discontent among United Workers Union members over previous sellouts and growing opposition to the Labor Party, of which the UWU is an integral part.
•Martin Scott
Oppose the draft! Build a working class movement against imperialist war!
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality warn workers and young people throughout the United States: the American ruling class is laying the foundations for the reimposition of the draft. The oligarchy wants cannon fodder for its illegal and expanding wars of aggression.
•Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)
Fuel shock sends inflation soaring while the oligarchy grows richer
The sharp rise in inflation was fueled above all by an unprecedented spike in gasoline prices, which is hitting millions of workers who depend on driving for their jobs.
•Jacob Crosse
Indiana University postdoctoral fellow Youhuang Xiang sentenced to time served and ordered deported
After over four months of detention, Xiang was coerced into pleading guilty to trumped-up federal charges of smuggling innocuous E. coli plasmid DNA into the United States.
•Stephen St. Clair
“Progressive” Democrats seek collaboration with fascist critics of Iran war
In a statement posted Tuesday night, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna thanked fascists Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson for opposing the Iran war and called for a “broad populist social movement.”
•Jacob Crosse
Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die–The solution to the world’s problems? Infect everyone with anti-technology allergy
It is a dreadful work. A libel against humanity, humanity returned the favor by largely staying away in droves.
•David Walsh
The International Bolshevik Tendency: Pseudo-left apologists for the union bureaucracy and Stalinism
The IBT, which is descended from the anti-Trotskyist Spartacist League, promotes the dangerous illusion that workers can rely on the union apparatus and the Chinese Stalinist regime to oppose US imperialism in Latin America and the Middle East.
•Tom Peters
IYSSE (Sri Lanka) meeting discusses socialist strategy to stop the war against Iran
Only the international working class, the sole social force creating all wealth in the society, has the capability of stopping the dragging into barbarism.
•Our correspondent
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Filipino pulp mill workers’ strike enters second month; Health workers strike over real wage cuts in Tasmania, Australia.
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Australia: Key issues buried at Brisbane rally against arrest of anti-genocide protester
There was no mention of Labor’s own “hate crime” laws and wave of arrests at a protest over the prosecution of a Palestine solidarity activist for using the prohibited anti-genocide slogan “from the river to the sea.”
•Antony Walsh
Protests and strikes erupt in Brazil in turbulent run-up to presidential election
Since the beginning of this year, a series of protests and strikes have erupted in Brazil against the privatization and austerity policies of the Workers Party (PT) administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva .
•Guilherme Ferreira
Pseudo-leftist union leadership undermines Argentine tire plant occupation with appeals to nationalism
The SUTNA union, led by the Partido Obrero, is chaining the Fate tire workers’ plant occupation to nationalist appeals to Peronist factions and other bourgeois politicians
•Andrea Lobo
Turkish independent union leader Başaran Aksu arrested
Başaran Aksu, who has played a leading role in workers’ struggles emerging in opposition to union bureaucracies, has been a target of both companies and the state for some time. It follows the unlawful arrest of independent union leader Mehmet Türkmen last month.
•Barış Demir
Starmer visits Gulf states amid fracturing “special relationship” with US
Foreign policy precepts that have determined the actions of UK governments for decades are being torn apart.
•Robert Stevens
Trades Union Congress offers Iran war partnership with Starmer government
Just as they did during the pandemic, the Britain's trade union apparatus is preparing to suppress strikes, enforce wage restraint and collaborate in austerity under the guise of “protecting the economy”.
•Tony Robson
Trump’s selective service filing prepares for activation of US military draft
A Trump administration filing reveals preparations to activate a military draft for men aged 18 to 26 as Washington readies wider imperialist war.
•Kevin Reed
New York City Mayor Mamdani reneges on promise of free bus service
The DSA’s Zohran Mamdani’s first 100 days as mayor of America’s largest city have been marked by continuous capitulation before Wall Street and the capitalist state.
•Sandy English
Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, as US media demands renewed onslaught against Iran
Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven people in the town of al-Abbassieh in southern Lebanon on Thursday, as the bombardment of the country entered its second day since the proclamation of a US-Iran ceasefire.
•Andre Damon
Jacobin and the DSA sow complacency to demobilize opposition to war against Iran
The house organ of the Democratic Socialists of America seeks to conceal the depth of the political crisis precipitated by the war and Trump’s threats of genocide against Iran.
•Patrick Martin
Detroit autoworkers denounce US-Israeli war on Iran: “This is for Big Oil”
Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers as they passed through the factory gates, shortly after reports emerged that the US government is moving toward automatic registration for a potential military draft.
•our reporters
Turkish municipal workers support Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign
The WSWS has received messages of support for Lehman’s campaign from workers at the Kadıköy, Maltepe, and Şişli municipalities in Istanbul.
•Our reporters
Australian university chiefs back Labor’s corporate agenda while pleading for funding relief
Universities Australia vows to work even more closely with the Albanese government as it enforces its Universities Accord regime.
•Mike Head
Firefighters hold more strikes across New Zealand
While the government insists that 2,000 Fire and Emergency NZ workers must take a pay cut, the opposition Labour Party, with the support of the union leaders, is seeking to divert workers’ anger behind its election campaign.
•Tom Peters
Idaho constructs remote-controlled firing squad chamber: A method of state killing with a merciless history
In the gruesome landscape of state-sanctioned murder in the US, the construction of a remote-controlled firing squad chamber in Idaho stands out for its calculated, savagery.
•Kate Randall
UAW issues statement of phony support for Mexican tire workers shot on picket line
The UAW’s “support” for Mexican tire workers promotes appeals to Trump’s Labor Department and the Mexican government and ruling class while pitting US autoworkers against their Mexican class brothers.
•Andrea Lobo
BNP government in Bangladesh imposes economic impact of Iran war on working people
Amid sky-rocketing energy prices, the recently elected right-wing Bangladesh Nationalist Party has rapidly jettisoned its election promises to improve living standards and ensure basic democratic rights.
•Wasantha Rupasingha
Far-right Alberta premier announces anti-immigrant referendum
Evoking the fascist anti-immigrant demagogy of the Trump administration, far-right Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called a provincial referendum for next fall with the aim of whipping up animosity to immigrants and providing “popular” sanction for stripping them of rights.
•Graham Beverly
Medical neglect and preventable deaths spread across ICE detention centers
From North Lake in Michigan to Camp East Montana in Texas, repeated deaths, ignored grievances and documented abuses expose medical neglect as an institutionalized feature of ICE detention.
•Anthony Callahan
German reactions to the “ceasefire” in the Iran war: Berlin sticks to its war aims
The German government and ruling class have officially welcomed the “ceasefire” in the Iran war. But behind the diplomatic phrases lies no departure from previous war policies.—on the contrary, their continuation by other means.
•Johannes Stern
Immigrant senior stripped of Medicare under Trump bill exposes bipartisan assault on social programs
Carranza’s plight exposes bipartisan policies that strip immigrant workers of earned social rights while advancing austerity, war and repression.
•Marc Wells
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Workers face riot police in general strike against welfare cuts in Northern Cyprus; Royal Fleet Auxiliary staff who support UK Royal Navy walk out over pay; resident doctors in Nigeria begin indefinite walkout over pay and conditions
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Socialist Equality Party (UK) announces public meeting series on 1926 general strike
The events are aimed at arming workers with the lessons of this experience for the political battles they face today: against a right-wing Labour government of austerity and war, and trade union bureaucracies suppressing a struggle against it.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
David North calls for building the anti-war movement in interview with Turkish channel TV5
In an interview with Turkish channel TV5, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North warns that the two-week pause in the US bombardment of Iran is merely an interlude and calls on workers internationally to build a movement against imperialism based on the unification of the working class.
•Evan Blake
As Los Angeles educators prepare strike, administrators and union officials meet for emergency talks
Workers must be warned that a sellout is in the offing. No talks under these circumstances will result in a deal favorable for workers.
•Marc Wells, Tom Hall
Australian special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith charged with war crimes against Afghan civilians
Whatever the outcome of the case against Roberts-Smith, there is no question that Australian governments and the military command oversaw and covered up war crimes in Afghanistan.
•Oscar Grenfell
“We do not defend these actions of war and aggression”: US workers denounce Trump’s threats against Iran, demand end to war
Workers across the United States have expressed deep and unequivocal opposition to the Trump administration's military aggression against Iran, defending the Iranian people and calling for mass working class resistance.
•Our reporters
Armed clash erupts near Israeli consulate in Istanbul
The circumstances surrounding this attempted armed attack near the Israeli consulate remain unclear.
•Barış Demir
Israel bombards Lebanon with 160 missiles within hours of Trump’s ceasefire announcement
Israel’s barbaric air and artillery assault on civilians in southern Lebanon, the most intense attack since the conflict began on March 2, exposed the fraudulent nature of the two-week “ceasefire” announced by President Trump on Tuesday in the war against Iran.
•Kevin Reed
Amid deep divisions over ceasefire agreement, Israel launches massive attack on Lebanon
Israel's massive assault on Lebanon, which killed over 250 people Wednesday, comes as factions of both US political parties condemn the outcome of Trump's war on Iran as a debacle that leaves Iran in control of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
•Andre Damon
Iran war shock causes IMF to revise down global growth forecast
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said the world is ill-equipped to deal with the turmoil resulting from the war on Iran, due to the lack of international collaboration and the rise of government debt.
•Nick Beams
Hungary elections: US Vice President Vance throws his weight behind Orbán
For the working class, this election offers no progressive alternative. Neither Orbán nor Magyar represents its interests. Both stand for militarism, social attacks and authoritarian forms of rule—albeit with differing foreign policy orientations.
•Markus Salzmann, Johannes Stern
Project Hail Mary—a hopeful (but somewhat wishful) adventure
The overall result is a charming but cartoonish pastiche that, while broadly appealing, falls short of its ambition to be a truly insightful film
•Lee Parsons
As election losses mount, White House pursues ballot-rigging plans
An easy Democratic victory in Wisconsin and a narrow Republican win in Georgia both showed swings of 25 percent or more against Trump.
•Patrick Martin
Nationwide roadblocks by truckers and farmers in Mexico face repression
Mexican truckers and farmers launched a nationwide strike over war-driven diesel and fertilizer cost surges and insecurity, facing brutal repression by the Morena government.
•Andrea Lobo
Japan deploys long-range missiles for the first time
In close coordination with Washington’s own military operations, Tokyo is setting the pieces in place for war against China.
•Ben McGrath
Court proceedings begin in Greece over 2023 Tempi rail crash deaths
The crime at Tempi has discredited all the main bourgeois parties. One of the main chants at demonstrations is: “Syriza, PASOK, New Democracy, this crime has a history”.
•John Vassilopoulos
Trump follows genocidal threat against Iran with 2-week “ceasefire”
Trump’s threat to annihilate a civilization of 93 million people—which by itself is a war crime—and the war as a whole have produced a political crisis of historic proportions.
•Joseph Kishore
French government refuses to denounce US threat of genocidal attack on Iran as a war crime
While it has sought to distance itself from Trump’s most undeniably genocidal statements, Paris has made itself complicit in crimes against humanity.
•Alex Lantier
3 workers killed in industrial accident at Turkish steel giant
Three workers were killed in a preventable work accident at Çolakoğlu Metallurgy, one of Turkey’s largest steel factories, on Sunday.
•Süleyman Sağlam
JBS meatpacking workers return to work at Greeley, Colorado plant after UFCW sellout of strike
Workers returned to the plant Tuesday after the United Food and Commercial Workers suddenly canceled their powerful three-week strike without any progress at the bargaining table.
•Dan Conway
BP Whiting lockout enters 4th week, as 1,700 Northern Indiana utility workers are locked out
BP Whiting refinery workers continue their battle, as Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) locks out 1,700 USW workers.
•Kristina Betinis, Brian Green
Reject the Australian Education Union sellout in Tasmania, unify with educators in Victoria, form rank-and file committees!
By calling off its work bans the AEU is signalling its willingness to force the state government’s offer through, further cutting real wages and doing nothing to address staff shortages and intolerable workloads.
•Committee for Public Education
Italy’s far-right prime minister Meloni makes emergency visit to Persian Gulf amid Iran war
Last Friday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made an unannounced emergency trip to the Gulf region to meet with Saudi, Qatari and Emirati leaders for talks on energy and the US war with Iran.
•Allison Smith
“He needs to be arrested”: US workers denounce Trump’s genocidal threats against Iran
Workers across the United States reacted furiously Tuesday to Trump’s threat to “annihilate” the civilization of Iran, a country of 93 million people.
•Our reporters
IMF delegation praises Sri Lankan government’s austerity measures
The IMF’s endorsement is a clear indication of the government’s strict adherence to IMF dictates, which impose the full burden of the crisis on the working class and rural masses.
•Saman Gunadasa
New Zealand signs neo-colonial defence deal with Cook Islands
The deal, which ensures that New Zealand’s military retains access to the Cook Islands’ vast territorial waters, escalates the US-led militarisation of the Pacific in preparation for war against China.
•Tom Peters
Suicide of U-M researcher: Stop the persecution of Chinese scientists!
The tragic death of Danhao Wang, a brilliant Chinese postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, is the direct and fatal consequence of a vicious xenophobic campaign of harassment and intimidation orchestrated by the federal government and enabled by the university administration.
•IYSSE at University of Michigan
Pentagon’s fascist revamping of military training program
In February, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a memorandum outlining a fascistic revamping of the US military’s training program for senior officers.
•Luke Galvin
Liberal government demands jobs bloodbath at Canada Post, as workers prepare to vote on concession-filled contracts
Dictated by the federal Liberal government, Canada Post's transformation into an Amazon-style employer of precarious “gig workers” will eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Scenario (Szenario): A documentary normalises German militarism
The director says she had “real images of war in her mind” while filming and wonders about “what context I see them”—but “context” is precisely what is missing from her film.
•Max Linhof
Union leaders smear resident doctors in Guardian hit piece
The Guardian has consistently witch-hunted resident doctors, with columnist Polly Toynbee urging Streeting to show his “mettle.”
•Tony Robson
National resident doctors strike in England over pay and jobs
WSWS reporters spoke to striking resident doctors as they began a six-day strike.
•our reporters
The working class must oppose Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran!
The following statement was published by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board, on Tuesday morning in response to the threat by US President Donald Trump to make Iranian civilization “die tonight.”
•David North
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
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
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