A lethal hantavirus outbreak aboard the luxury vessel MV Hondius highlights how capitalist encroachment into ecological frontiers and global mobility transform localized zoonotic spillovers into urgent international public health crises.
This speech was given by Joseph Kishore, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), at the International May Day 2026 Online Rally, held Friday, May 1.
There is still no official explanation of what caused the explosion at Polymetals Resources’ Endeavor mine on October 28, 2025, that killed workers Patrick “Ambrose” McMullen and Holly Clarke.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters, leader of the right-wing nationalist NZ First Party, released emails sent in early March which indicate that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wanted the government to express stronger support for the criminal US-Israeli war.
The Merz-Klingbeil government is the most right-wing and hated government in the history of the Federal Republic. The struggle against it requires an independent socialist perspective.
The Met Gala on Monday evening was an expression of the putrefaction of the ruling establishment where fashion, Hollywood, corporate money, celebrity culture and politics comingled in a display of wealth and privilege.
The “baseline” assumption of official forecasts that the war would be over in weeks has been shattered by events, with warnings that oil price hikes so far are only the beginning.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has proclaimed that the country will play a “more proactive” role in the Indo-Pacific, amid a flurry of regional visits all directed against Beijing.
Despite the right-wing character of La Nación, the visa revocations are a naked attack by a Hitler-inspired imperialist regime seeking to crush even limited criticism of its puppet government.
Under conditions of the ongoing war on Iran that is disrupting the world economy and the Canada-US trade war that has hit our facility here in Hamilton, Ontario, for over a year now, Management aims to offload the crisis onto our backs through real wage cuts and continued job insecurity.
The Scottish National Party appears headed for a fifth consecutive electoral victory, thanks to Labour’s rotten right-wing record, which has fuelled Reform UK's growth in Scotland.
The Northern Navies would centre on the Joint Expeditionary Force, a UK-led grouping of 10 European countries.
As soon as details of the “groundbreaking agreement” were released on April 15, opposition went viral among postal workers who slammed the proposed deal.
The miners’ struggle in Ankara has ended with the promise that all their demands will be met. The lessons from this important struggle must be drawn.
An estimated 50,000 people gathered in the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park to mark Constitution Memorial Day, carrying banners reading “STOP Constitutional Revision and Military Expansion.”
The hikes for this year so far total three quarters of a percent with more rises threatened in the future, taking hundreds of dollars a month from the disposable income of households battling to pay off mortgages.
The AEU move to sell out the educators’ struggle is driven by fears of a wider working-class movement against the cost-of-living crisis imposed by the state and federal Labor governments.
US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that he was pausing the day-old US military operation to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz "for a short period of time," citing what he said was "great progress" toward an agreement with Iran.
After extending the last contract behind the backs of workers UAW Local 699 officials have announced that they have reached a new deal.
The ruling class is using the economic shocks produced by the war on Iran to accelerate a sustained, bipartisan attack on the working class stretching back half a century.
Everything indicates that the vote called by leaders of UAW Local 1700 at SHAP is performative, aimed at venting workers' anger and will lead to no consequential action by the union.
The El Gamal family’s legal team detailed last Saturday’s kidnapping, as Congress moves to pour billions more into ICE and CBP.
Washington’s largest-ever war games in the Philippines featured the first live Tomahawk firing on Philippine soil and the first Japanese combat deployment since its World War II occupation.
Mehring Yayıncılık successfully held the first cinema screening in Türkiye of the unique documentary Tsar to Lenin.
The action by Republican Jeff Landry, postponing a primary in order to carry out a pro-Republican redistricting approved by the Supreme Court, has no historical precedent.
May 4 marked 100 years since the beginning of the 1926 British General Strike. The strike, defeated after nine days, was a pivotal experience for the working class in Britain and internationally.
The increasingly desperate actions of American imperialism express the strategic debacle it confronts after 35 years of uninterrupted wars of aggression.
Although officially dominated by Democrats and the labor bureaucracy, hundreds of thousands in the US marched on May Day to oppose war and defend immigrants and democratic rights.
The announcement by President Donald Trump to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany and halt the planned deployment of US intermediate-range weapons in Germany marks a further escalation of the crisis in transatlantic relations.
The evasions and hypocritical declarations of “neutrality” by Colombo and New Delhi, along with the silence of the imperialist-aligned media, cannot cover up the fact that these governments were complicit in this US war crime.
Platner is being promoted as an outsider, but his campaign was recruited, packaged and launched through the AFL-CIO, Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party apparatus.
Against the backdrop of the war against Iran and Russia, the conflict between the anti-imperialist aspirations of the Malian masses and the bourgeois politics of the Malian junta is emerging ever more clearly.
The collapse of Spirit has priced millions of working class travelers out of air travel overnight—and it is only the first casualty of the fuel crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Amid escalating sanctions, military exercises, and threats by Donald Trump to take the island “immediately,” Washington is laying the groundwork for a regime-change war against Cuba.
The struggles of teachers and students in São Paulo are part of a growing movement of the international working class against the austerity policies driven by the capitalist crisis and the effects of the war against Iran.
The Albanese government is slashing thousands of public service positions—a warning of what is to come in next week’s budget.
Nurses and healthcare workers should reject the offer presented by the NZNO, which would slash wages and do nothing to address the staffing crisis in hospitals.
Thousands of nurses at long-term care facilities in the province of Ontario have voted to authorize strikes, while workers in Puerto Rico held May Day protests demanding the end of the Wall Street financial dictatorship over the US island colony.
The draconian directive is an obvious appeal to social and intellectual backwardness and an attempt to shove ultra-right Christian ideology down the throats of faculty, students and staff.
Building socialist consciousness means fighting to bring the historical and international experience of the working class to bear on contemporary political issues, in order to break the working class from its potential misleaders.
In a joint letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on April 27, almost 150 organisations—including social care workers, refugee charities, and fostering groups—accused the government of a “sustained attack on children’s rights.”
The section of the report dealing with the role played by the federal policing and intelligence agencies, about which so many questions remain, has been suppressed entirely.
With thousands of workers and young people marching to oppose Trump, the AFL-CIO and Democratic Party is trying to prevent this movement from evolving into a politically conscious challenge to oligarchic rule and the capitalist system that both parties defend.
The decision was taken before teachers were given access to the full terms of the tentative agreement and before any meaningful rank-and-file review could take place.
In a rambling Truth Social post on Sunday afternoon, President Trump wrote that the US would begin escorting hundreds of “Ships and Crews safely out of the Strait, ” and that any Iranian interference will “have to be dealt with forcefully.”
The government’s decision not to rescue Spirit, on the absurd grounds that they did not “have half a billion dollars laying around,” is deliberate class policy aimed at making the working class pay for the war.
SEP speakers explained that the military assault on Iran was part of US imperialism’s efforts to dominate oil and gas resources in the Middle East, as part of a far wider unfolding conflict against China and Russia.
Will Lehman, a rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker who is running as a socialist candidate for UAW president, is calling on workers to break the union's isolation of the nearly two-week walkout by 4,000 Harvard graduate student workers.
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
The data center is an important element of the economic and military policy of the Democratic Party. Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state Democratic establishment have worked to transform Michigan into an industrial, logistical and computational hub for the military-industrial complex.
Many thousands of devoted revolutionaries, including most of the leaders of the October 1917 Revolution, were put to death between 1936 and 1938 by the counterrevolutionary bureaucracy.
The decision has been appealed immediately to the US Supreme Court, which overturned abortion rights four years ago.
The "New" SDS substitutes identity politics for class analysis, bourgeois nationalism for socialist internationalism and protest theater for the independent mobilization of the working class against the capitalist parties and the system they defend.
The Albanese government’s actions set a wider precedent for barring the return of citizens deemed to be lacking in respect for the “values” prescribed by the ruling capitalist establishment.
South African gold mine explosion kills twelve miners; Red Army Faction founder Ulrike Meinhof is found dead in her prison cell; US conducts the test preparing hydrogen bomb; British General Strike begins.
An SEP stall next to Glass Works Square, where the rally assembled, promoted the party's public meetings this month across the UK.
The final Barnsley rally, with Graham as keynote speaker, represented the very forces responsible for the betrayal of 1984-85 miners’ strike and every betrayal thereafter.
This was a violent act of piracy, carried out by Israeli armed forces 600 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, in international waters, with the intent to commit grievous bodily harm and even murder.
The official cost-of-living index rose 4.6 percent in the 12 months to March, up sharply from 3.7 percent in February.
People with disabilities will be subjected to demeaning tests, aimed at kicking them off the NDIS or dramatically reducing the support they receive.
The reported 28 percent pay rise offer reflects the fears of state and federal Labor governments that strikes in Victoria could become the starting point of broader action by teachers and others nationally.
The central fraud of this contract is that it conceals massive cuts just over the horizon. A new budget proposal for the next school year is expected in mid-May—days after the ratification vote closes.
The more than 1,500 graduate workers who have walked out teach courses, run laboratories, and generate the research revenue that makes UIC function.
Over the past two months, the Swedish political establishment has moved to consolidate the Sweden Democrats—the far-right party that emerged from the neo-Nazi milieu of the 1980s—as the dominant force in official politics.
The bank’s chief economist has warned that the war is hitting the global economy in a series of cumulative waves.
The US national debt has crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product for the first peacetime year since 1946, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)—a milestone that arrives as the Trump administration is demanding a $1.535 trillion Pentagon budget and preparing for conflict with nuclear-armed China and Russia.
One can’t help but wondering after two months of war and countless waves of bombing, and thousands of civilian deaths: Does that neighborhood still look like this?
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
Congressional Democrats joined Republicans in ending the longest Homeland Security shutdown in US history while clearing the way for Trump’s immigration Gestapo to receive tens of billions of dollars, without any reforms, through a fast-track budget process requiring no Democratic votes.
The housing crisis is destroying the lives of tens of thousands of children and young people: The number of homeless minors has almost tripled nationwide.
The editor of the WSWS German site explained the social, political and historical basis of the struggle against imperialist war.
The case is a politically motivated fabrication and an assault on the political conscience of millions of workers and young people in Brazil and around the world.
Expansion of biometric surveillance raises concerns over privacy loss, data sharing with authorities and erosion of anonymity in public life.
The twin executions of James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, and James Broadnax, 37, took place as the US death penalty machinery continues its accelerating pace in 2026.
India: Andhra Pradesh hospital sanitation workers at Vijayawada demand outstanding wages; Haryana fire and emergency services workers’ strike; Australia: Queensland rail workers resume industrial action; Victoria’s state school nurses demand wage parity.
This scapegoating must be understood in the context of the social order the ANC has presided over since 1994. While the legal framework of apartheid was dismantled, the underlying class structures have been preserved.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer responded by holding those who have protested the Gaza genocide responsible, and promising draconian attacks on demonstrations.
Reports from SEP branches in London, Sheffield and Inverness are featured.
The integration of the RIO Morenoites into the Left Party marks a further political shift to the right by this pseudo-left tendency, which can only be understood in the context of the current crisis of capitalism.
The International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site are holding our 13th annual International May Day Online Rally at 3:00 pm EDT.
The cabinet has decided to massively increase military spending and correspondingly slash social spending. One “reform” will deliver a death blow to healthcare in its current form.
Leading Senate Democrats called Thursday for a major expansion of US military spending at the testimony by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was briefing the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Trump administration's plans to massively increase military spending.
The known workplace fatalities around Brisbane now total seven in six months—part of a rising toll due to unsafe conditions, increased rates of exploitation by employers, official coverups and government complicity.
With the Trump administration continuing its massive assault on workplace safety and environmental protections, the American trade union bureaucracy issued boilerplate statements calling for increased lobbying and voter drives.
The JVP/NPP government censors Tamil writers under the guise of “national unity," while allowing Sinhala chauvinist and militarist propaganda to circulate freely.
Associating Trump with “peace,” Rodriguez whitewashes the ongoing avalanche of war crimes unleashed by Washington across the globe and directly against Venezuela itself.
Dr. Abeer Omar, an assistant nursing professor at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, denounced the systematic slaughter of healthcare workers by Israel in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and the US and Israel’s targeting of civilians in their war of extermination against Iran.
The May Day stoppage would have provided a platform to appeal beyond their depot—to bus workers and the wider working class.
Doctors in Spain continue monthly national strikes over pay and conditions; shop workers in Belgium at Aldi stores in wildcat strike over Sunday working; Nigerian oil and gas workers begin indefinite strike at Seplat Energy over pay and conditions
For the working class, the issue is not the personal fate of Starmer, or his replacement by another right-wing Labourite.
The ALU could not simultaneously integrate itself into the orbit of the union bureaucracy and the Democratic Party while developing an independent movement of Amazon workers against the entire corporate and political structure those forces defend.
Mid-May marks the contract expiration for 40,000 subway and bus workers and the end of the cooling off period for 3,500 rail workers, posing confrontations with the Hochul and Mamdani administrations.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday on the Trump administration’s plan to increase military spending by 50 percent, from $1 trillion this year to $1.5 trillion in Fiscal Year 2027.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being cut as the ruling class seizes on the artificial intelligence boom to eliminate vast sections of the workforce.
“These supports are not optional—they are essential to my daily survival, including help with eating, hygiene, dressing and maintaining basic safety and wellbeing.”
James Comey, the former FBI director who was fired by Donald Trump in 2017, was indicted by a North Carolina grand jury on Tuesday for a post on Instagram that prosecutors claim was a threat to kill the president.
The right-wing majority overturned congressional district lines in Louisiana and seemed poised to support Trump’s efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants.
Dissent by three members of the Fed’s interest rate setting body, because of what they see as a bias toward easing, indicates that a rate rise is not far away.
The Trump administration has brought the indictment to cover up the criminal handling of the COVID pandemic under two administrations, and to legitimize the bogus claim that China deliberately created the coronavirus.
Ignoring the economic catastrophe threatened by Trump’s blockade of Iran, Macron is instead focused on using the energy crisis to justify imposing austerity measures already rejected by the French people.
