CWU pushes through sellout deal at Royal Mail with record low vote
CWU leaders Ward and Walsh have not been in a dispute with the company, but with their own members.
•Tony Robson
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Italian rank-and-file unions hold nationwide strike against austerity and war
WSWS reporters spoke to members of the SI-Cobas rank-and-file union, which mainly organizes logistics workers, at a demonstration in Rome.
•Joshua Seubert, Alex Lantier
The reality of US-Israel relations—Part 2
Reducing the origins of the war to the manoeuvres of the Israel lobby or the decisions of Israel’s government sidelines the historical, geopolitical, socio‑economic and class dynamics that have shaped the conflict.
•Jean Shaoul
Australia: Bondi terrorist was on ASIO radar in 2022
The information that has dripped out over the past six months has indicated far more intensive and longstanding contact between the intelligence agency and the terrorists than first admitted.
•Oscar Grenfell
3 miners killed in the US over 3 days
Together they expose a single reality: The mining companies, the federal and state regulators and the union apparatus are all part of the same machinery that treats miners' lives as a cost of production.
•Samuel Davidson
While Wall Street claims “no money” for city’s transit workers, fire at New York’s Penn Station injures 5
A predawn fire at Penn Station, injuring five workers, is the second major rail disruption in two weeks and a result of the systematic neglect of public infrastructure in the shadow of Wall Street.
•Robert Milkowski
Democratic Party austerity, pseudo-left posturing and a MAGA aspirant: The 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race
Los Angeles voters head to the polls amid a billion-dollar budget crisis, mass layoffs and ecological disaster to choose among candidates offering austerity, pseudo-left posturing or right-wing populism.
•Isaac de Vries
US murder spree in Latin American waters moves beyond 200 killed
The Trump administration’s campaign of extrajudicial killings off the coast of Latin America has killed more than 200 people, exposing the complicity of the Democratic Party and all regional governments with the normalization of mass murder as imperialist policy.
•Andrea Lobo
Germany’s Council of Economic Experts demands “U-turn” on care, health and pensions
The German Council of Economic Experts is demanding deep cuts in social spending to pass the costs of the Iran war, rearmament and the enrichment of the rich onto the weakest in society.
•Peter Schwarz
New Jersey Democrats unleash police riot against anti-ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall
As immigrants inside Delaney Hall continue their hunger and labor strike, Democratic officials have deployed state and local police to attack protesters, journalists and residents outside the facility.
•Tim Avery, Robert Milkowski, Jacob Crosse
New Zealand budget deepens austerity to make workers pay for war
The budget starves public healthcare and cuts education and welfare, while pouring money into prisons and the military.
•Tom Peters
Australia: Victorian education support staff speak out against AEU-Labor sellout
“If members can’t ask questions or raise concerns without being censored, what sort of democracy is that? The union clearly works for the government not for us.”
•Our reporters
Why are art schools disappearing in America?
Arts education has suffered an unprecedented reversal in the past few years. Art schools, a number of which have served students and communities for over 100 years, have been abruptly closed.
•Coleman Prince, Nancy Hanover
This week in history: June 1-7
Massacre of royal family in Nepal; Teton Dam collapse kills 11 in Idaho; US Supreme Court upholds convictions of Communist Party leaders; Pilsudski chooses crony as Polish president.
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Mamdani’s “COGE” commission to prepare deeper cuts to New York City social programs and regulations
After avoiding mass layoffs and cuts to social programs in the 2027 New York City budget, Mamdani has announced the formation of COGE to recommend the implementation of permanent austerity.
•Erik Schreiber, Sandy English
Chile under the fascistic Kast government: Preliminary assessment of a social counterrevolution
The Kast administration has issued a battery of anti-democratic and pro-market executive decrees that will deepen already extreme social inequality, while vastly expanding police state structures built up under Boric.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Long COVID affects twice as many Americans as official counts show, new AI study finds
A new AI study from Mass General Brigham finds that roughly one in six Americans who contracted COVID-19 developed long COVID, more than double the rate captured by official surveillance, exposing the human and economic toll hidden by flawed diagnostic systems.
•Benjamin Mateus
Death of vulnerable 69-year-old man in terrible conditions exposes UK’s social care, housing and local government crises
In its 2024/25 budget, Oldham Council proposed cutting £2.8 million from health and social care, reducing care contracts, and cutting 12 social worker posts.
•Dennis Moore, Robert Stevens
The reality of US-Israel relations—Part 1
Reducing the origins of the war to the manoeuvres of the Israel lobby or the decisions of Israel’s government sidelines the historical, geopolitical, socio‑economic and class dynamics that have shaped the conflict.
•Jean Shaoul
The Nexteer rebellion: The working class vs the trade union apparatus
On Friday morning, for the third time in less than two months, 1,300 workers at the auto parts plant voted down a pro-company tentative agreement brought forward by the United Auto Workers apparatus.
•International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
Labor share of income hits record low as corporate profits soar
Workers’ share of US economic output has fallen to its lowest level since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data the Commerce Department released Thursday.
•Andre Damon
Kenyan court blocks US offshore Ebola camp as epidemic accelerates across central Africa
Following intense domestic backlash and a strike threat, Kenya’s High Court halted a bilateral agreement with the Trump administration to open a 50-bed foreign Ebola containment facility.
•Evan Blake
Sri Lankan court case continues over violent attack on SEP members
The defence lawyer attempted to portray the SEP as an NGO dependent on foreign funding and suggested that the complaint was motivated by efforts to obtain overseas funds.
•Our reporters
Australian unions endorse Labor’s war and austerity budget
The unions’ endorsement of Labor’s budget is a clear statement that they stand ready to enforce the brutal cuts to social spending, jobs and wages demanded by the federal government and the corporate elite it represents.
•Martin Scott
Australia: Victoria’s Labor government oversees police state raids against anti-war protesters
The political logic underlying these operations is suppression of all opposition amid mounting attacks on social conditions and expanding imperialist violence.
•Eric Ludlow
Students protest against New Zealand budget cuts
Members of the IYSSE spoke with students in Wellington who opposed the increase in student fees and other attacks, and the diversion of billions of dollars to the military.
•Tom Peters
Police-state riot outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall as 300 immigrants continue hunger and labor strike
Democratic officials have responded to the federal rampage not by opposing ICE, but by deploying state police to disperse the protests.
•Jacob Crosse
After third contract rejection, Nexteer workers denounce UAW-management collusion: “What are we paying the union for?”
After voting down three sellout agreements, workers at Nexteer are determined to defeat UAW-management collusion.
•By our reporter
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
1.2 million Indian chemists and pharmaceutical distributers hold one-day national strike; Australia: Early childhood educators threaten national walkout; Australian Capital Territory public school teachers strike for better pay and conditions.
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Miles Davis at 100, a complex figure reflecting a complex time
The jazz world is celebrating the centenary of jazz trumpet master and bandleader Miles Davis, one of the 20th century’s most impactful musicians.
•John Andrews
Peru declares state of emergency as measles epidemic exposes crisis of capitalist-run public health
The outbreak has exposed once again the catastrophic failure of the capitalist state to guarantee the most basic conditions of life for the working class.
•Cesar Uco
Colombian elections: how pseudo-leftist President Gustavo Petro paved way for ultra-right
That a fascistic figure like De la Espriella is running second in the polls is the direct product of four years of Petro's government.
•Andrea Lobo
West Bengal’s BJP government seeks to stamp Hindu-supremacist rule on India’s fourth largest state
The new BJP government in West Bengal is using communalism, repression and anti-poor demolition drives to divide workers and impose the burden of economic crisis, now aggravated by the Iran war, on the working class.
•Arun Kumar
European warmongers seize on Russian drone crash in Romania to escalate war
The growing intensity of drone strikes between Ukraine and Russia has made incursions into neighbouring countries a regularity, presenting opportunities for the European leaders to warmonger.
•Jordan Shilton
OSHA fines USPS only $26,481 over death of Allen Park, Michigan, postal worker Nick Acker
The fine is a reduction from the initial figure of $66,200, equivalent to 10 seconds worth of USPS revenue and likely not even half of what Acker’s yearly salary was at the post office.
•Kathleen Martin
On the shutdown of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by CBS
The shutdown of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show by CBS after 11 years raises important questions about the consolidation of the corporate media with the drive by the financial oligarchy and the Trump White House to silence opposition and control what the public has access to.
•Kevin Reed
Nexteer workers defeat third UAW sellout contract, press for immediate strike: “Enough is enough”
Workers voted down the deal by 55–45 percent, with production workers rejecting it by 59 percent, according to UAW Local 699.
•Jerry White
Justice Department begins retaliatory investigation against Trump victim E. Jean Carroll
Carroll won civil judgements against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, with damages totaling $88 million. Both cases are on appeal to the US Supreme Court.
•Patrick Martin
ISIS-linked families return to Australia, but mother and child blocked
One mother was barred from re-entry by an arbitrary Labor government exclusion order, violating the fundamental democratic rights of citizenship.
•Mike Head
As economic crisis worsens, Sri Lanka’s opposition leader urges talks for another IMF program
Sri Lanka’s opposition parties, including the SJB, are signaling that they are ready to join hands with the JVP government to suppress workers’ struggles.
•Rohantha De Silva
Industrial slaughter in Longview: 11 workers killed in Washington’s deadliest workplace disaster in nearly 100 years
The deaths of 11 workers in Longview are not an aberration, but part of the return of mass industrial slaughter under capitalism.
•Jacob Crosse
Under cover of US-Iran negotiations, Israel steps up effort to annex Gaza
While the US and international press are focused on the terms of negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran, Israel is massively expanding its rampage across the Middle East—moving to permanently occupy Gaza and escalating its bombardment of Lebanon.
•Andre Damon
New Zealand government introduces anti-transgender legislation
The far-right coalition government is seeking to narrowly define the words “woman” and “man” in order to demonise and discriminate against transgender people.
•Tom Peters
Mexican government bows to Washington despite resisting US prosecution of politicians for cartel links
The Mexican government’s capitulation on migrants, Cuban oil, and operations by US troops and spies has only emboldened the Trump administration.
•Don Knowland
Syrian refugees fear deportation from Germany
The German government's friendly reception of Syrian Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and its plans to deport up to 80 percent of Syrian refugees have sparked massive fear among those who have sought asylum in Germany.
•Lena Sokoll
Bolivian government authorizes deployment of military against working class uprising
That MAS voted to hand repressive tools to a government already shooting its own citizens requires an explanation beyond factional rivalry.
•Tomas Castanheira
War on Iran could trigger a financial crisis, European Central Bank warns
The shock generated by the Iran war is now testing the so-called “resilience” of the banking system, threatening to expose credit, liquidity and funding vulnerabilities.
•Nick Beams
Australian High Court to hear limited challenge to Melbourne public housing tower demolitions
Even if the case succeeds, it will not stop the state Labor government’s criminal wrecking operation; just require Homes Victoria to hold a consultation process.
•Margaret Rees
The politics of Hasan Piker: Radical rhetoric in service of the Democratic Party
Piker represents a certain social and political type, who can gain a widespread following but are easily absorbed into the milieu of the Democratic Party.
•David Rye
Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb wins Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District
Rabb appealed to voters based on his opposition to inequality, ICE, genocide and war, but promotes the dead end of the Democratic Party.
•Landon Gourov
Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 5
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Mass demonstration in Madrid, Spain against housing shortages, high rents and property speculation; hundreds of miners at Özşen Mining, Turkey strike over unpaid wages and sackings; petrochemical workers at Petronad in Iran protest sackings as US blockade bites; iron ore miners walk out in Guinea over pay and conditions
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Greece deepens role as Washington's Eastern Mediterranean bulwark
Greece’s integration into US imperialism’s war drive is the culmination of the country’s decades-long status as a client state for Washington.
•John Vassilopoulos
WSWS speaks to Australian disability advocate Megan Spindler-Smith on Labor’s NDIS cuts
“If you don’t get access to support at the right age, during pivotal periods of mental and physical development, it can have long-term effects, including increased psychosocial disability and mental health challenges.”
•Richard Phillips, Mark Wilson
Tony Abbott to become Australian Liberal Party president in further lurch to right
Abbott’s ascendancy signals that the Liberals are moving towards an openly far-right pitch, in a bid to stem their existential crisis and to compete with the fascistic One Nation.
•Oscar Grenfell
Mine disaster exposes grim reality facing Chinese workers
The high death toll at the Liushenyu mine and widespread public outrage on social media has meant the tragedy could not simply be hushed up locally. A more sophisticated top-level cover-up is now underway.
•Peter Symonds
Trump-backed fascist wins Texas Republican primary
State Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn to be the Republican candidate for Senate in November.
•Patrick Martin
May 29 general strike in Italy: What way forward for the working class?
To defeat Meloni, workers striving for political independence from the union bureaucracy and the parliamentary parties must be deepened through the establishment of rank-and-file committees.
•The European Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site
Second death confirmed in Longview paper mill disaster, as officials say there is “no hope” for 9 missing workers
The confirmed death toll from the Longview paper mill disaster rose to two Wednesday, with nine workers still inside the wrecked facility presumed dead.
•Bryan Dyne
The SpaceX IPO: Speculation on steroids
The SpaceX market launch could make Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, the first trillionaire.
•Nick Beams
“You’re setting an example for everybody”: Big Three workers back Nexteer rank and file as opposition mounts to third UAW-backed sellout
The Rouge Workers Rank-and-File Committee at Ford Dearborn Truck Plant and a retired GM worker have issued statements of support for the Nexteer workers.
•Jerry White
ICE brutalizes protesters at detention center in New Jersey as detainees go on hunger strike
The attack marked a new escalation in ICE’s repression at the prison, where 300 immigrant detainees are waging a hunger and labor strike.
•Erik Schreiber
Trump weaponizes public health as Ebola epidemic expands
As Ebola deaths surpass 250, the Trump administration has responded not with resources but with border control orders and offshore quarantine camps for American citizens.
•Benjamin Mateus
“I’m just a number to them”: Garden Grove residents demand closure of GKN plant after toxic emergency
The evacuation orders were lifted Tuesday night, but many residents face financial hardship and worry that the danger from chemical exposures, or a future explosion, has not yet passed.
•Kimie Saito, Joshua Rodriguez, Jacob Crosse
Right-wing German expellee gathering in the Czech Republic: A political provocation
For the first time, the “Sudeten German Day” gathering took place in Brno, in the Czech Republic, rather than Germany. Following the Second World War ethnic Germans, many of whom had supported the Nazis, were expelled from the former Czechoslovakia. This year’s event served as a political provocation amidst the growing militarisation and eastward expansion of German imperialism.
•Markus Salzmann
The foreseeable catastrophe: How GKN Aerospace, California regulators and the Teamsters built the Garden Grove disaster
Workers warned for years as management ignored failing tanks and Teamsters Local 952 buried grievances to preserve labor peace.
•Marc Wells
Unifor names Ford as its pattern-setting “partner” for auto contracts in Canada
In explaining its decision, Unifor extolled its “longstanding and productive working relationship with the Ford Motor Company.”
•Carl Bronski
São Paulo university strike: 10,000 march on governor’s palace in largest demonstration yet
As 10,000 marched in São Paulo, pseudo-left leaderships steered the strike toward negotiations with a state government and a legislature dominated by the far right.
•Eduardo Parati
Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 4
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Mine disaster in China: Another tragedy in the global industrial slaughterhouse
The mine explosion is another graphic example of the dangers facing miners and other workers around the world as their lives and health are subordinated to the rapacious corporate drive for profit.
•Peter Symonds
Australia: NT laws to permit police interrogation of children without legal guardian
These laws are the latest escalation in a bipartisan offensive to essentially criminalise the poverty, chronic housing shortages and lack of secure employment that Australian capitalism has inflicted upon many working people, particularly Indigenous people.
•Antony Walsh
Measles outbreak in Bangladesh kills over 500 children
The death and suffering of children from a preventable disease is a political indictment of policies that have prioritised profits over universal public health.
•Wimal Perera
As New York transit workers prepare to fight MTA austerity, former union president Toussaint defends no-strike affidavit
Following the last strike in 2005, Transit Workers Union Local 100 signed an affidavit forswearing the right to ever strike again.
•Alan Whyte, Tom Hall
Chemical tank disaster averted in Southern California; owner GKN Aerospace is major military contractor cited for safety violations
The near-disaster comes as the Trump administration is calling for an unprecedented 50 percent increase in the annual military budget to $1.5 trillion.
•Marc Wells
Cargill locks out Colorado beef plant, as struggles of meatpacking workers intensify
The lockout followed an overwhelming rejection of the last contract offer by 85 percent.
•Dan Conway
Enough is Enough: Catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The scramble for these resources has resulted in the decades of civil war, with various groups and armed bands seeking to gain control of territory.
•David Walsh, Joanne Laurier
Report reveals impact of Australian school crisis on principals
An Australian Catholic University report on the well-being of school principals points to intolerable conditions.
•Erika Zimmer
Worker killed, dozens of firefighters injured in Staten Island shipyard fire and explosion
Xiaoyuan Li, an immigrant worker, was killed and dozens of firefighters injured when fire and explosions tore through the May Ship Repair shipyard in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island.
•Robert Milkowski
Industrial slaughter in Washington: 1 dead, 9 missing after chemical tank implosion at paper mill
At least one worker is dead and nine remain missing after a massive chemical tank ruptured at Nippon Dynawave, a Washington paper mill with a record of safety and environmental violations.
•Jacob Crosse
Israel escalates rampage in Lebanon
Israeli forces struck Lebanon with more than 120 air raids on Tuesday, the sharpest single-day escalation since Israel resumed its bombing of the country in early March. The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 40 wounded in attacks across the south and the Bekaa Valley.
•Andre Damon
US warplanes fly over Caracas in provocative show of semi-colonial dominance
The show of force was aimed squarely at intimidation and demonstrating who is in control. Top generals and warplanes can land and depart as though the country were any military outpost on US soil.
•Andrea Lobo
Nexteer workers: Vote NO! Prepare to walk out! The fight is ours to win!
The Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued this statement to 1,300 workers at the Saginaw, Michigan plant voting on a third sellout contract pushed by the UAW bureaucracy.
•Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Students and workers in Germany demand the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.
•Our reporters
Global warming is heating rivers, endangering human food supplies
Rivers around the world are losing oxygen, which threatens resources on which millions depend.
•Philip Guelpa
Vote No and reject blackmail by CWU’s Martin Walsh to enforce pro-company agreement with Kretinsky
Colleagues have seen through Walsh’s “heavy and light” alternative to the Optimised Delivery Model (“DM26”). It accepts three delivery workers doing the work of four: slashing jobs by a quarter and intensifying workloads.
•Postal Workers Rank-and File-Committee (UK)
Sheffield Hallam university staff to take strike action—Unite the city’s three higher education disputes!
What is unfolding across Sheffield is a concentrated expression of a broader, 15-year assault on higher education, accelerated under the Starmer Labour government.
•Simon Whelan
Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 3
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Hundreds of Argentine and Bolivian workers, students and retirees carried out a mass march through downtown Buenos Aires and rallied at the Bolivian embassy in support for the general strike and mobilization of the Bolivian proletariat and peasantry fighting to overthrow President Rodrigo Paz.
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The international significance of Erdoğan’s preemptive coup against the CHP in Türkiye
What is unfolding in Türkiye is not a purely national event but a significant manifestation of an international process rooted in the deepening crisis of the capitalist system.
•Ulaş Sevinç
US launches missile strikes on Iran in advance of talks in Qatar
A US Central Command spokesperson said the strikes on a port city in southern Iran were carried out “to defend our forces” against “threats posed by Iranian forces,” although he provided no evidence or details about the claimed threats.
•Kevin Reed
Nepal’s RSP government shifts Iran war burden onto working people
As prices soar, driving thousands into poverty, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) government is revealing itself to be just as reactionary as the more established bourgeois parties that it displaced.
•Rohantha De Silva
Japan and the Philippines to deepen military collaboration against China
Under the cover of collaboration and so-called “collective self-defense,” Tokyo is building military networks in the Indo-Pacific through agreements with nations like the Philippines.
•Ben McGrath
Vote No to the Australian Education Union/Labor sell-out deal! Build independent rank-and-file committees in every school!
The proposed AEU agreement in the state of Victoria amounts to a further real pay cut, does nothing to address crushing workloads or class sizes and strips educators of the right to strike until 2030.
•Committee for Public Education
New York subway and bus workers enter second week without contract, as MTA demands austerity
More than 40,000 New York City subway and bus workers have now entered their second week without a contract after it expired on May 16. Workers are fighting to keep pace with the cost of living and to resist sweeping work rule concessions in a struggle of major national and international significance.
•Tom Hall, Daniel de Vries
The Nexteer workers’ revolt and the case for rank-and-file committees throughout the auto parts industry
The Nexteer rebellion is the concentrated expression of decades of betrayal by the UAW bureaucracy, breaking to the surface across the entire auto parts sector.
•Jerry White
Beef Season 2: “The people in charge have made it impossible for us”
Series creator, co-director and co-writer Lee Sung Jin makes the pressures of capitalism and class society a persistent theme and source of crises in the series.
•Matthew Brennan
16,000 Orange County, California residents still displaced due to toxic emergency at global defense contractor GKN Aerospace
“The government doesn’t think about us,” one displaced resident told the WSWS, as thousands remain evacuated after a toxic emergency at GKN Aerospace.
•Kimie Saito, Joshua Rodriguez
Trump administration targets Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trip
The McCarthyite probe, first reported by Fox News, targets antiwar activists, journalists and streamers who traveled to Cuba with medical aid.
•Jacob Crosse
Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda passes 1,000 cases, as Italy reports 2 suspected cases
With the Ebola toll past 1,000 cases, the gap between the WHO's recommendations and conditions in the eastern DRC has erupted in the torching of two treatment facilities.
•Benjamin Mateus
Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings on 1926 General Strike: Attend this weekend in London and Glasgow
The final two public meetings being held by the Socialist Equality Party (UK) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike are being held this weekend in London (Saturday May 30) and Glasgow (Sunday May 31). We urge SEP supporters and WSWS readers to attend these important events.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
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