Trump and Netanyahu hold Iran war conclave

US President Donald Trump held a war council at the White House Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finalize plans for a massive military assault on Iran.

Munich Security Conference overshadowed by Transatlantic conflict

This Friday, more than 60 heads of state and government, around 100 foreign and defence ministers, and numerous high-ranking military officials, politicians and foreign policy experts will gather for the 62nd Munich Security Conference.

Detroit area student walkouts declare, “ICE are the criminals, not us”

On Tuesday, hundreds of Cass Technical High School in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood students held their second major protest in two weeks.

Bondi hearing exposes Epstein cover-up and secret “domestic terrorist” lists

Trump’s attorney general refused to answer virtually any questions related to the administration’s ongoing cover-up of a multi-decade criminal conspiracy involving Jeffrey Epstein and powerful political and financial figures.

Teachers, supporters speak out from San Francisco picket lines

Schools for 50,000 students in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) remain closed Thursday as the strike by more than 6,400 teachers and support staff enters its fourth day.

Military-aligned BJT wins most seats in Thai election

The BJT win was a product, above all, of the political bankruptcy of the People’s Party and Pheu Thai, which have falsely postured as defenders of democratic rights and opponents of military rule.

“Nurses should demand an end to this sham vote”: Opening report to meeting of New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee

In advance of White House meeting, Brazil's Lula sanctions US abduction of Maduro

In pursuit of US tariff relief, Lula has effectively legitimized Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro.

Trump threatens to block opening of Gordie Howe International Bridge as part of escalating economic war on Canada

The move against the major new border crossing is part of an escalating campaign of economic coercion aimed at subordinating Canada to US imperialist interests.

“Return Hubs”: EU organises deportation camps outside Europe

The European Union has again announced the tightening of migration and asylum policy. The aim is to further expand “Fortress Europe” and significantly accelerate deportations.

The Artamonov Business (1925): Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution

Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.

The Mandelson-Epstein crisis and the socialist struggle against the Starmer government

Labour’s crisis brings the working class face-to-face with the urgent necessity of intervening independently in the situation, above all through the creation of its own party.

BMA obstructs resident doctors fight against Starmer government: Rank and file must take charge

A resident doctor and supporter of NHS FightBack appealed for a unified struggle against dangerous workloads, real-terms pay cuts, and the absence of tens of thousands of specialty training post.

Public Meeting: Trotskyism and the fight for revolutionary leadership

At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism, as an organised political tendency. The ICFI’s victory over the WRP, and expulsion of those who refused to accept its socialist internationalist principles, was an event of global, historic significance.

Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979

On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.

How New York City nurses can fight the sellout of their 4-week strike

On Tuesday, a day after the New York State Nurses Association announced sellout tentative agreements with Montefiore and Mount Sinai, the union leadership is violating its own bylaws to shut down the strike at the remaining hospital system, NewYork Presbyterian.

Australia: “Prohibited hate group” laws recall 1951 referendum to ban “communism”

The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.”

3,000 pharmacy, lab workers join strike of 31,000 Kaiser healthcare workers

The Kaiser strike is unfolding alongside a widening movement of educators and academic workers across California and the country.

Australian workers and youth speak out against Herzog visit and anti-protest laws

“I’m here because Australia’s complicit in genocide and it needs to stop—we need to break the system.”

Software firms take major hit from AI

Last week’s fall on Wall Street flowing from the release of a new AI tool by Anthropic has been describe as a “tech wreck” placing a big question mark over the future of many software firms.

Rampage against Sydney pro-Palestinian protest orchestrated by NSW government, police command

It is clear that police were told “the gloves were off” and they had a green light to violently attack protesters opposing the visit to Australia of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog.

Epstein files reveal FBI identified billionaire Leslie Wexner as co-conspirator in 2019

During restricted viewings that began February 9, members of Congress confirmed that the Epstein files presented as unredacted remain heavily censored, masking FBI findings that implicated billionaire figures in Epstein’s criminal network.

Berlin state election: Socialism, not war

The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) is standing in the Berlin state elections in September. We oppose the all-party coalition for war and social spending cuts. Together with our sister parties in the International Committee of the Fourth International, we are building a worldwide movement to stop the madness of war, mass layoffs and wage cuts.

The Department of Justice moves to gut the right of asylum

Immigration courts are being rigged in favor of the White House-driven witch-hunt against those seeking asylum under international law.

Trump, the Epstein files and the putrefaction of the American oligarchy

What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?

Fascist Argentine President Milei’s draconian labor counter-reform sparks mass strikes

The “Labor Modernization” bill—longer hours, gutted severance, and strike criminalization—has sparked mass protests and strikes as workers rebel against IMF-dictated slavery.

India’s Labour Code “reform”: A savage attack on worker rights

India's new labour codes dismantle legal protections governing wages, job security and working conditions, and dramatically curtail workers' legal right to strike.

Two Amazon Flex workers were arrested in ICE raid in Hazel Park, Michigan

Both men are reportedly asylum seekers and hold Temporary Protected Status. Their seizure occurred in full view of witnesses and the permission of Amazon security. 

Lucinda Williams’ World’s Gone Wrong: An urgent protest against the fascist danger

Formally, it could be described as a blues-rock album, but it is more importantly a call to fight against the fascist regime emerging in the US. This is a welcome development among popular musicians.

Germany: At Bosch, Stalinist MLPD attacks opposition to IG Metall union apparatus

The Stalinists of the MLPD are playing the role of henchmen for the trade union mafia: they intimidate workers who want to defend themselves and employ the vilest lies to defend the bureaucracy.

Los Angeles moves to dismantle federal oversight of homelessness as crisis deepens

Los Angeles Democrats move to dismantle judicial oversight to shield failure on homelessness.

New Zealand’s capital city faces environmental disaster from massive sewage leak

Following the preventable breakdown of the capital’s wastewater treatment plant, tens of millions of litres of raw, untreated sewage have poured into the nearby ocean.

UK loses measles elimination status amid sustained assault on public health

Increasing vaccine coverage is the key to eliminating measles, but this goal is being actively undermined by the Starmer government’s continued assault on public spending and the National Health Service.

Widespread anger over NYSNA’s sellout bid to end New York nurses’ strike

The union is attempting to push through sellout contracts for striking nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems, while isolating the 4,500 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian.

Police rampage against Sydney protest opposing Israeli president’s Australian visit

The police violence against protesters opposing a war criminal was orchestrated by the Labor governments and then defended by them.

Australian workers and youth denounce visit by Israeli President Herzog

“For Albanese to invite Herzog here is completely wrong—it was a line in the sand for me—and I just had to come here and be part of the opposition.”

Washington preparing military strikes against Iran

The US military is poised to attack Iran after a massive, weeks-long redeployment of warships, bombers and personnel to the region.

UAW hails sellout agreement at Tennessee Volkswagen plant as “historic”

The 20 percent pay increase is the same take-it-or-leave-it offer from VW that the UAW denounced as "inadequate" last October.

Divisions within NZ coalition government over India Free Trade Agreement

Right-wing, anti-immigrant NZ First leader Winston Peters falsely declared the Free Trade Agreement will see an influx of “tens of thousands of people” from India, taking opportunities “away from New Zealanders.”

New alliance of Sri Lankan health unions to contain opposition to IMF austerity

Confronted with rising anger among health workers over the government’s attacks, the unions have formed an alliance, not to wage a political fight for workers, but to suppress their opposition.

Class Struggle USA: Major strikes erupt nationwide

The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.

Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show highlights mass opposition to Trump

Bad Bunny’s record‑breaking Super Bowl halftime show evoked colonial and immigrant struggles and indirectly rebuked the Trump administration’s xenophobic, anti‑immigrant agenda.

Leqaa Kordia, Palestinian detained for one year, suffers medical emergency at Texas ICE facility

ICE officials are refusing to disclose the location of 33-year-old Leqaa Kordia after she suffered a medical emergency at the Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas on Friday and was taken to the hospital.

Royal Oak High School students in Detroit suburb walk out to defend immigrants

Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.

IYSSE meeting: For a socialist perspective against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany

While wars are being stoked and escalated in the Middle East, Latin America and worldwide, thousands of young people in Germany are currently receiving letters to register for military service.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Drivers at food delivery company FreshDirect are set to strike in the Bronx after an outsourcing threat by management while workers at 36 continuing care facilities locations across Nova Scotia are taking a strike vote.

UN report calls for action on “water bankruptcy” affecting billions of people

The report warns that unsustainable water resource practices are causing potentially irreversible damage to water systems that require urgent action to rectify

Bonobo demonstrates the cognitive ability to imagine “make believe” objects

Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.

Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.

Historical issues arising from the Stalinist Turkish Communist Party’s mass meeting in Ankara

The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.

Landslides kill 227 at Democratic Republic of Congo coltan mines at the centre of Washington’s struggle to control vital mineral resources

The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Sony and BMW--and the armed violence that secures their raw materials.

The Guthrie kidnapping, the US media and the thousands of ICE abductions

This is a frightening and tragic situation for the Guthrie family, no doubt affecting dozens of people at this point and perhaps for the rest of their lives.

“They represented Marathon, not us”: Refinery workers denounce USW sellout in national pattern deal

The deal would increase wages by only 15 percent over four years, while leaving intact forced overtime regimes, limited sick leave and longstanding staffing and safety issues.

Online meeting: The Nurses’ Strikes and the Movement Against Dictatorship

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) will host an online meeting on the way forward for the 15,000 striking New York nurses and the 31,000 striking healthcare workers in California and Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 10.

On NATO’s eastern flank: German government seeks to transform regional airport into military fortress

The German government and Bundeswehr are pushing ahead with the conversion of the Rostock-Laage air base in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania into a central military hub for the Luftwaffe and NATO.

Kaiser lawsuit exposes Labor Management Partnership as conspiracy against healthcare workers

The lawsuit is an implicit threat that the stream of money the union apparatus receives through the Labor-Management Partnership may be turned off if it cannot get its membership back in line.

International opposition to Trump and ICE shapes opening of Milan Olympics

What has attracted world attention at the Games is not the far-right Italian government’s lockdown of the city but the outpouring of opposition to the Trump administration, ICE and fascism.

Ruling right-wing party in Japan wins general election in landslide

The election highlights a further shift to the right by the entire Japanese political establishment as it prepares for war abroad while foreseeing opposition at home amid rising social inequality.

Workers at BYD’s Xi’an plant in China strike over poverty wages

The latest strike highlights the chasm between the vast personal fortunes of billionaires like BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu and the destitution-level wages imposed on the workers whose labour produces the wealth.

New Zealand government defends social inequality on Waitangi Day

In the lead-up to New Zealand’s national day, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon denounced socialism and equality, and Deputy PM David Seymour declared that poor and homeless people were “living like kings and queens.”

Minnesota police riot against protesters outside Whipple Federal building

The violent police crackdown on protesters outside the Whipple Federal Building exposes the Democratic Party’s collaboration with Trump’s immigration police and its fear of a developing mass movement against repression, war and inequality.

This week in history: February 9-15

USS Greeneville sinks Japanese fishing vessel, killing 9; Nigerian head of state assassinated; Dockworkers begin largest industrial action in New Zealand’s history; Mussolini issues threats to Germany over South Tyrol.

A toddler’s near death at Dilley exposes the reality of US immigration detention

A federal lawsuit over a toddler’s hospitalization exposes how US immigration detention endangers children by allowing preventable illness to spread through overcrowded facilities like Dilley.

Peru protest joins drivers, university students and relatives of state repression victims

The “March of Sacrifice” was organized by the relatives of those murdered in 2023, when newly installed President Dina Boluarte gave shoot-to-kill orders to suppress nationwide protests.

Morenoites and Stalinists form reactionary bloc in Venezuela: The betrayal of the working class continues!

The most cynical element in the whole initiative is the bloc’s claim to represent a “position of class independence” in Venezuela.

Türkiye imprisons 77 members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), puts six members of Left Party under house arrest

Amid ongoing negotiations between the Turkish government and the PKK, which claim to bring peace and democratization, state crackdown on the political opposition is escalating.

Corbyn and the Epstein-Mandelson crisis: An essential lesson

Corbyn’s servility to Mandelson’s mates was never ending. “We are on a journey together and can only complete it together… Labour is a broad church and can be broader still. I lead in that spirit”, Corbyn concluded his 2018 paean to the Blairites.

Corbyn’s anti-socialism, Sultana’s reformism and the necessary revolutionary alternative

Corbyn’s “broad church” housed a political inquisition against the left. Sultana’s own “broad church” offers a home to Corbyn while he does the same. The SEP warns that neither provides a solution to the crisis facing the working class.

San Francisco teachers to walk out Monday against austerity in the richest tech enclave on the planet

The strike coincides with a growing wave of working class resistance, including a strike authorization vote last month by 35,000 Los Angeles educators.

Israeli President Herzog’s visit to Australia: Labor governments embrace mass murder and police state repression

The visit has the character of a provocation against the population, aimed at signalling Labor’s support for imperialist war and its commitment to suppressing mass opposition.

Trump’s plan to purge the federal government and the threat of dictatorship

The Trump administration is reclassifying tens if not hundreds of thousands of federal workers as “at-will” employees. The maneuver is not only an attack on workers’ protections and due process rights but a step toward establishing a presidential dictatorship.

Merz in the Gulf region: Alliance with murderers, dictators in the name of German great power politics

If any further proof were needed that the phrases “freedom” and “human rights” in German foreign policy are nothing more than propaganda, it was provided by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to the reactionary Gulf monarchies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

DHS vindictively targets Liam Ramos’s family for deportation following release from measles-ridden south Texas concentration camp

Liam and his family face imminent deportation even though they are currently applying for asylum and have not broken any laws.

The crisis in Australian public education and the need for rank-and-file committees

The school year opens with educators in Australia confronting chronic underfunding, staff shortages, impossible workloads and rising levels of violence and distress, amid global militarism and attacks on democratic rights.

Workers furious after USW announce sellout deal for 30,000 refinery workers

Opposition to the deal, with sub-inflation wage increases and no job guarantees against AI, must be organized into of a rank-and-file rebellion that overrides the bureaucratic sabotage and enforces the will of the membership.

Students in Southeast Michigan join nationwide walkouts against ICE terror and dictatorship

More than 1,000 students at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (PCEP) campus staged a walkout on Wednesday morning against ICE.

Ann Arbor, Michigan educators working under expired contract amid massive cuts

Nearly 2,000 educators are working under an expired contract, confronting a district that has weaponized a manufactured fiscal crisis to impose permanent austerity.

Canadian unions mute as working-class opposition to Trump and his operation dictatorship surges

Canada's unions have responded to the developments in Minneapolis and calls for a general strike with either total silence or by issuing hollow statements of "solidarity."

Trump announces plan to close Kennedy Center for 2 years coinciding with July 4th celebrations

Trump’s plan to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years, amid ICE repression and gaudy “America250” spectacles, exposes the deepening assault on culture and democratic rights.

University of Illinois student Republican club calls for assassination of political opponents

The Instagram post included a graphic depicting the assassination of Alex Pretti with the text “Only Traitors Help Invaders.”

Homeless Kalamazoo, Michigan man freezes to death while city spends $515 million on arena

Looking south from Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, where Nurrie, Jr. froze to death, there is visible a $44 million hotel development opened in 2021, a $94 million 8th District Courthouse opened in 2023, cranes building a $515 million arena and parking garage, and heavy machinery preparing a site for a planned $100 million county administration building and parking garage.

US energy blockade threatens Cuba with humanitarian “collapse”

The Trump administration’s attempt to pull the plug on the Cuban economy is aimed at carrying through the nearly seven decades of efforts to overthrow the Castroite government installed by the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Hundreds of ABP meat packers in Dungannon, Northern Ireland facing redundancy

ABP Foods intends to close its retail meat packing operation in Dungannon in the North of Ireland, threatening 338 workers with the sack. Rank and file committees are needed across ABP’s operations in response.

Resident doctors in England renew strike mandate for pay restoration and to end employment crisis

The vote to extend strike action until August 2026 shows the determination of resident doctors to defy Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who has spewed vitriol including the accusation they are “holding the country to ransom.”

Turkish CHP holds “Social Peace and Democracy Conference”

The speeches and political profile of the participants revealed the fundamental message: the Turkish ruling class and its imperialist allies could better defend their interests through a government established under the leadership of the CHP.

New York City nurses arrested as Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul escalate pressure to end 4-week strike

The arrests underscore that the strike has entered a new stage and pose the necessity for a broader movement of the working class in defense of the nurses.

Mamdani caps one month of betrayal with endorsement of right-wing Democrat Kathy Hochul

In his short time as mayor, Mamdani has already accomplished a great deal—in comprehensively betraying and repudiating the oppositional sentiment that propelled him to office.

Layoffs by US firms tripled in January, as mass job cuts accelerate to Great Recession levels

The wave of layoffs is part of a global jobs bloodbath, driven by a ruthless global search for new sources of profit to sustain uncontrollable levels of debt and financial bubbles on which the wealth of the oligarchy rests.

Trump calls for country to “move on” from Epstein files, as scale and scope of criminality, cover-up expand

The latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice have conclusively proven the Trump administration is lying and engaged in a massive cover-up.

Australia: Labor government pressing ahead with demolition of Melbourne public housing towers

Elderly tenants were blindsided by relocation letters ordering moves from midyear, after being repeatedly told their towers would be the last to be demolished.

No Other Choice from South Korea: Doesn’t “necessity knows no law” cut both ways?

The film is inspired by Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax, previously adapted as a film by Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras in 2005.

Trump’s “critical minerals” conference aimed against China

Through its dominance of the global supply of rare earths and critical minerals, vital for high-tech products, from phones to jet engines, China was able to hit back against Trump’s tariff war by rapidly cutting off supplies.