Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights: Is this all that we can expect?
The force, the genius, of Emily Brontë’s novel is totally absent, wholly unexplored in this adaptation.
•Paul Bond
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Ash Field School support staff vote for strikes to oppose victimization of Unison rep Tom Barker
Ash Field is a specialist school for children aged four to 19 with complex medical conditions, serious physical disabilities, leading to Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and/or Moderate Learning Difficulties.
•Judith Lomax, Tania Kent
Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026): The philosopher who chose the state
Jürgen Habermas, who died on March 14 in Starnberg at the age of 96, occupied for more than half a century a position of extraordinary influence in German intellectual and political life.
•D. Szejnman, Steve Long
Bath Iron Works naval shipyard strike betrayed as UAW subordinates workers to the war effort
Neither the Trump administration, General Dynamics management nor the union bureaucracy could allow this strike to continue.
•Mike Ingram
Workers strike auto parts manufacturer in Findlay, Ohio
Located about 60 miles south of Toledo, parts from the Findlay plant make their way into the final assembly of engines, cars and light trucks produced by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis throughout the Great Lakes region.
•Samuel Davidson
Australian government distances itself from illegal war on Iran that it supports
Albanese’s comments, which do not include even slight criticism of the US-Israeli war of aggression, are a cynical attempt to distance his government from a war that it is participating in.
•Oscar Grenfell
Hegseth’s insider war investments and the character of the American ruling class
The Financial Times reported—based on information from sources with direct knowledge of the investments—that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s long-time financial advisor invested $9.4 million with defense contractors based on inside information about the start of the war against Iran that has since seen a 38 percent increase in value.
•Kevin Reed
The Iran war and the erosion of international law
Among the first victims of the Iran war is international law, as it was developed after the Second World War. Almost all legal experts agree that there is no basis in international law for the war being waged by the US and Israel.
•Peter Schwarz
“Americans don’t want this war”: Protesters at “No Kings” rallies speak out
WSWS video reporters spoke to protesters at the massive "No Kings" rallies held across the US on March 28.
•Our reporters
Zionist assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani is a warning to the working class
The plot to kill Kiswani was not an isolated act, but the product of a political environment in which opposition to genocide has been criminalized and democratic rights are under sustained attack.
•Jacob Crosse
US begins B-52 bombing flights over Iran after Trump threatens to “completely obliterate” civilian infrastructure
The United States has begun bombing Iran with B-52 bombers, setting the stage for a massive increase in the US saturation bombing of the country of 90 million, as the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran intensifies.
•Andre Damon
Australia: What has happened to the enterprise agreement at Western Sydney University?
Two months on, no copy of an agreement has been provided to NTEU members, let alone voted on.
•A Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee member
Dolores Huerta’s allegations against Cesar Chavez and the political bankruptcy of the United Farm Workers
Revelations of abuse and rape expose the UFW’s decay, cynically weaponized by fascistic forces to intensify attacks on farmworkers and immigrant communities nationwide.
•Marc Wells
Gino Paoli, leading voice of postwar Italian popular music, dies at 91
Paoli’s work helped define the “cantautore” tradition and expressed Italy’s complex cultural transformation amid postwar reconstruction and social change.
•Marc Wells
Carney government asks Canada’s Supreme Court to overturn rulings against use of Emergencies Act to end 2022 “Freedom Convoy”
The Liberals are intent on ensuring that they and future governments retain the broadest possible latitude to invoke emergency powers in political and social crises, in particular against the working class and a developing movement against austerity and war.
•Pierre Lajeunesse, Keith Jones
Arab regimes’ backing for US-Israel war on Iran preparing region-wide conflagration
Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have signalled their impending intervention as active belligerents against Iran.
•Jean Shaoul
Resident doctors to strike, Starmer threatens—Time for a unified fightback to defend the NHS!
Labour’s paltry offer is not only an insult to resident doctors. It is an indictment of the course of action pursued by the Resident Doctors Committee.
•NHS FightBack
Berlin welcomes Syrian interim president and intensifies war and deportation campaign
The reception of Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Berlin exposes the hypocrisy of German war propaganda and underlines its imperialist goals in the Middle East.
•Johannes Stern
“A slap in the face”: Nexteer workers denounce sellout contract ahead of vote Wednesday
A new tentative agreement for Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan, contains sweeping concessions, particularly on pay for new hires and out-of-pocket benefit costs.
•Tom Hall
As ground troops arrive in the Middle East, Trump threatens “obliteration” of Iran’s infrastructure
On Monday, the 30th day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, US President Donald Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran’s energy generation and water desalination plants unless it surrendered to his demands.
•Andre Damon
Australia: Glencore threatens tiered wages at Mangoola coal mine
The financial press has noted that this could set a precedent for the slashing of labour-hire wages throughout the coal mining industry and more broadly.
•Martin Scott
CNN news team assaulted and detained by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
A three-member CNN news team—journalist Jeremy Diamond, producer Abeer Salman, and photojournalist Cyril Theophilos—were set upon by a group of Israeli soldiers on Friday while they were interviewing Palestinians and reporting on Zionist settler violence in the area.
•Kevin Reed
Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani and her attorneys speak out on Zionist assassination plot
A member of the Jewish Defense League Brotherhood 613 planned to firebomb Kiswani’s home in Brooklyn, NY, with the aim of killing her, her husband and her 10-month-old baby.
•Patrick Martin
Australian government’s fuel plan offers workers no real relief from Iran war impact
None of the measures outlined will meaningfully ease the cost-of-living crisis and supply shortages resulting from the increasingly catastrophic US-Israeli war on the people of Iran.
•Mike Head
War on Iran deepens social crisis in New Zealand
In response to soaring prices, the National Party-led government announced a pitiful $50 weekly payment for some families, while making clear that workers must sacrifice their living standards because of the war.
•Tom Peters
Storm clouds gather over global financial system
Trump’s efforts to placate markets are wearing thin as investors focus on energy shortages and troop movements rather than statements from the White House or the social media account of the president.
•Nick Beams
US allows Russian oil tanker to dock in Cuba even as Trump threatens military action
Letting in a single Russian oil tanker, while simultaneously boasting that “Cuba’s next” shows that the regime-change operation is only accelerating.
•Andrea Lobo
David North’s Nuremberg video on US war against Iran evokes powerful response
A video of WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North speaking outside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice on the criminality of the US war against Iran has been viewed nearly 200,000 times across social media platforms, generating an outpouring of support.
•Evan Blake
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Dockers at a key Brazilian port launched a limited strike in opposition to pending anti-labor legislation, while 17,000 US First Student bus drivers have authorized strike.
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India roiled by economic shocks from criminal US-Israeli war on Iran
The war’s most immediate impact has been on India’s liquid petroleum gas supply, but its fallout threatens to spread across the economy, driving up inflation, especially the cost of food and transport.
•Yuvan Darwin
Germany: Verdict in trial for death of railway apprentice Simon Hedemann
A Deutsche Bahn signal mechanic has been sentenced to a fine of €6,300 for negligent manslaughter.
•Marianne Arens
Ukraine announces military deals with UAE, Saudi Arabia for war on Iran
The military collaboration underscores that the wars in Ukraine and Iran are essentially part of a global conflict, in which the fronts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are closely interlinked.
•Jason Melanovski
Zack Polanski’s Greens block anti-Zionist motion at conference
Polanski made clear that he was opposed to the motion’s description of Zionism as racist.
•Thomas Scripps
Ethylene plant closing in Scotland with 400 jobs lost
An ethylene production plant at Mossmorran, Scotland has ceased production and started laying off its 400 strong workforce.
•Lucy Connell
The March 28 “No Kings” demonstrations: The political lessons
The third round of “No Kings” demonstrations on March 28 drew millions of people into the streets across the United States in what was the largest single-day protest in American history.
•Joseph Kishore
Actors, performers oppose Trump at No Kings protests and elsewhere–the question of the Democratic Party looms large
Actors, musicians and others have raised their voices in protests in recent months, and specifically on March 28.
•David Walsh
Russia: Mass layoffs, strikes amid expanding war
Mass layoffs and strikes are taking place in industries such as metals and transport.
•Clara Weiss
Trump to put his signature on the dollar crisis
While it will be greeted with outrage, Trump’s decision to fix his signature to the dollar may well come to be regarded as a fitting symbol of the economic, financial, cultural and political decline of US capitalism, of which he is the personification.
•Nick Beams
Flávio Bolsonaro’s rise in polls exposes political debacle of PT and persistent fascist threat in Brazil
The PT and the pseudo-left’s argument that the conviction of Bolsonaro and his military coup cabal “buried” the fascist threat in Brazil proves to be not only false, but politically complicit in its resurgence.
•Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira
In Financial Times interview, Trump announces intention to launch ground invasion of Iran
In an interview published Sunday in the Financial Times, US President Donald Trump announced his “preference” to “take the oil” from Iran—a massive expansion of the US war of aggression that would only be possible through a ground invasion of the country.
•Andre Damon
Stalemate following parliamentary elections in Slovenia
The outgoing government, comprising the liberal Freedom Movement (GS), the Social Democrats (SD) and the Left Party (Levica), no longer has a majority of its own.
•Markus Salzmann
In show of defiance, JBS workers in Greeley, Colorado extend strike into third week
The defiance by JBS management must be answered by workers through a deepening of the struggle through the formation of rank-and-file strike committees.
•Jacob Crosse
Failure to nominate CDC director exposes Trump-Kennedy war on public health
The Trump administration’s deliberate refusal to nominate a CDC director, combined with a federal injunction against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisory panel, exposes a systematic capitalist assault on working class public health.
•Benjamin Mateus
Australia’s Labor government bars entry to Iranians trapped in US-Israeli carnage
Labor’s specific travel ban on Iranians further demolishes its claim to be supporting the illegal war in order to free them from oppression or protect people in the Persian Gulf region.
•Mike Head
Scientists warn of looming crisis at US Pacific nuclear dump
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands, which sits atop 120,000 tons of radioactive debris from US nuclear weapons tests, is leaking.
•John Braddock
The campus tour of Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and the dead end of pseudo-left politics
Abdul El-Sayed, “progressive” Democratic Party candidate for US Senate in Michigan, is holding rallies at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan on April 7 as part of an effort to corral students behind his pro-capitalist politics.
•Shane Latrobe, Kevin Reed
Philippine “Chinese spy” allegations surge as Marcos signals reset with Beijing
The claims of Chinese espionage rest on anonymous confessions and unsubstantiated military claims and are being weaponized to fuel anti-Chinese racism and sabotage a possible reorientation by the Marcos administration toward Beijing.
•John Malvar
More than 8 million join mass anti-Trump “No Kings” protests
Huge crowds gathered in major cities and rural communities alike, underscoring the breadth of opposition to war, fascism and the attacks on immigrants.
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Germany’s SPD leader launches attack on working conditions and pensions
Social Democratic Party leader Lars Klingbeil has reacted to the SPD’s recent election defeats with a frontal attack on pensions, working conditions, health insurance and other social achievements.
•Peter Schwarz
This week in history: March 30-April 5
Milošević arrested in Serbia; General strike by Israeli Palestinians; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death; Communal rioting in West Bengal
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DSA declines to endorse its own members in Los Angeles mayoral race
The DSA's role in the Los Angeles mayoral race exposes its function as an appendage of the Democratic Party in blocking the independent political mobilization of the working class.
•Marc Wells
How humans’ capacity for cultural adaptation allowed them to spread across the planet
A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations.
•Philip Guelpa
Uganda military chief says would join Iran war if Israel faced defeat
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is grovelling, to signal the loyalty of the Ugandan regime to US imperialism.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Hundreds of thousands march against far right in London to be told to vote for Labour
The growth of Reform UK was used by the Together Alliance, to mount a “get the vote out” drive for the Labour Party, backed as necessary by the Green Party.
•Thomas Scripps
Doncaster bus drivers at First South Yorkshire strike for pay parity
The 230 Unite union members are determined to overcome a deal failing to give them parity with their First South Yorkshire colleagues in Sheffield, just 18 miles away.
•Simon Whelan
Black Sea turns into a battlefield: A Turkish-operated tanker carrying Russian oil was hit
The attack—carried out during the US-Israel war of annihilation against Iran, Türkiye’s eastern neighbor—points to the danger of escalation and expansion in the Ukraine war.
•Barış Demir
US to send another 10,000 ground troops to Middle East, as war with Iran escalates
The Wall Street Journal and Axios reported Thursday that the Trump administration is considering deploying an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East as the US war of aggression against Iran enters its fifth week. “If President Trump gives the go-ahead, the U.S. could soon have more than 17,000 ground troops on Iran’s doorstep,” the Journal reported.
•Andre Damon
Federal judge delays sentencing of Chinese researcher Youhuang Xiang despite “time served” plea agreement
A right-wing judge has stalled sentencing to probe fines and finances, extending Xiang’s four- month incarceration amid a DOJ/university witch-hunt of Chinese scientists.
•Stephen St. Clair
Sri Lankan government institutes huge fuel price increases
The government’s decision to reduce subsidies and hike fuel prices is driven by its determination to implement the IMF’s austerity program requiring huge cuts to public spending.
•Saman Gunadasa
Australia: More Victorian teachers and supporters call for better wages, conditions at mass strike
“The conditions in schools are terrible. We did so much heavy lifting along with all the health services during COVID, and this is how we got repaid. It's just appalling.”
•Our reporters
Australian Broadcasting Corporation staff strike over pay and conditions
“Lots of ABC workers are struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table, which is becoming more difficult because of inflation and rising housing and living costs.”
•Our reporters
ICE at airports: A dress rehearsal for police state dictatorship
The presence of ICE at airports is a further step in normalizing the use of armed federal agents and the military in civilian settings to intimidate and terrorize the population.
•Barry Grey
Edwin Soto (1953-2026): Transit worker and lifetime supporter of the fight for socialism
Edwin Soto was part of a generation of working class youth who were won to the cause of socialism in the course of the struggles of the 1960s and 70s.
•Fred Mazelis
Writers Guild of America West staff union moves to shut down strike
A binding arbitration proposal exposes the union’s betrayal, ending the strike by surrendering workers’ power and subordinating struggle to management-controlled processes.
•Marc Wells
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will cut school and homeless programs to balance budget
Less than a year after his election, Mamdani is moving to implement austerity to meet the legal requirements of a budget “balanced” on behalf of the bond markets and the financial aristocracy.
•Sandy English
Mass layoffs, inflation fuel strikes across Mexico
Plant occupations and strike threats across Mexico are pitting workers against not only transnational corporations, but also the union bureaucracy and the Sheinbaum government.
•Andrea Lobo
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Indian transport workers protest over wages and against privatisation; Australian mining workers denied pay over partial strikes; New Zealand firefighters’ strikes continue.
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ICE black sites exposed: Secret detention network operated for years under both parties
ICE is operating a network of clandestine detention sites in which people are confined for weeks or months without basic sanitation, legal access or public accountability.
•Anthony Callahan
Canada’s NDP to pick new leader one year after election debacle
Whatever their tactical disagreements, all of the candidates for the NDP leadership are staunch defenders of Canadian capitalism and its state, inveterate opponents of class struggle and determined to contain and neuter social opposition by shackling it to the pro-employer trade unions and parliamentary-electoral politics.
•Keith Jones
Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani targeted in attempted assassination plot
In February, Kiswani filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Betar USA, charging that the Zionist organization orchestrated a coordinated campaign of “racial harassment, violent threats, stalking and intimidation.”
•Our reporter
UK Labour government speeds up deportations to Nigeria in expanding anti-migrant crackdown
Streamlined deportations to Nigeria are part of a sweeping attack on the rights of migrants in the UK, including arguably the most severe curtailment of asylum protections in the post-war period.
•Harvey Thompson, Robert Stevens
Staff at Sheffield Hallam University balloting again to strike over job losses and attack on pensions
The UCU’s refusal to coordinate strike action even across Sheffield’s three ongoing HE disputes, well as its repeated suspension of strikes, are central to the impasse workers face, not just in that city but nationally.
•Simon Whelan
Introduction to the book presentation: “Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism” with David North at Humboldt University in Berlin
We are publishing here the remarks by Johannes Stern introducing the book presentation Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism with David North at Humboldt University in Berlin. David North’s lecture at Humboldt University, titled “American Imperialism and the Subjugation of Iran,” is published here. In the coming days, the WSWS will also publish a video of the event.
•Johannes Stern
March 28 “No Kings” protests: The fight against the war on Iran is at the center of the fight against Trump’s dictatorship
The war against Iran is being waged as a criminal conspiracy against the population of the United States and the entire world.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Boilermaker Simon Mukwarami killed at Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia
The 47-year-old contractor died after falling while doing maintenance work at the South32-owned facility near Collie, south of Perth.
•Leonard Johns
“I’m all for everyone going on strike”: JBS meatpackers in Greeley, Colorado continue historic strike
While UFCW Local 7 has indicated picketing will end on Friday, workers on the picket line told the WSWS they are eager to extend and expand the struggle.
•Jacob Crosse, Dan Conway
Fascist local sheriff Chad Bianco seizes ballots cast in recent California referendum on redistricting
Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco, a former Oath Keeper and outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, seized ballots cast in the recent special election that gerrymandered California congressional districts to favor Democrats.
•Isaac de Vries
Australian teachers speak out against assault on wages, conditions at mass strike in Victoria
“We’ve got mould in our ceiling. We’ve got leaking roofs. The place is nearly falling around us in some instances, but we’re not being given the funding to be able to have that fixed.”
•Our reporters
Sri Lanka: Workers and students call for mobilization against the US-Israeli war on Iran
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka are campaigning ahead of a public meeting against the US-Israeli war on Iran, to he held on April 7.
•Our correspondent
Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Argentina on 50th anniversary of US-backed military coup
The marches reflected both a living identification with the tens of thousands murdered between 1976 and 1983 and a mounting anger over the Milei administration’s authoritarian measures.
•Andrea Lobo
What is behind the Corpus Christi water crisis?
The city of 300,000 is projected to run out of water this year without intervention, with the state and corporations attempting to get the working class to foot the bill
•Chase Lawrence
Kretinsky appears at UK select committee: multi-billionaire owner of Royal Mail denounces the mail service
Notwithstanding the faux outrage by Labour MPs, every aspect of Kretinsky’s wrecking operation was rubber-stamped by the Starmer government and by CWU officials Dave Ward and Martin Walsh.
•Tony Robson
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Teachers in Catalonia, Spain, on week-long strike in defiance of agreement between management and unions; civil servants, teachers and nurses walk out across Portugal over deteriorating pay and conditions; nurses in Kilifi County, Kenya and largest hospital in Zimbabwe strike over falling living standards and crumbling healthcare system
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Greens-led Bristol City Council censors art against genocide
The council released a statement supporting its censorship of the “Anatomy of Solidarity” exhibition, declaring its “obligation to ensure we balance freedom of speech and a duty to prevent harm to people and property.”
•Laura Tiernan, Amelia Lopez
British military to seize Russian ships, threatening shoot-outs
Labour’s position is that a shooting war can be started with Russia without so much as a press conference.
•Thomas Scripps
Billionaires target Social Security for cuts
The campaign was kicked off by Larry Fink, head of the $14 trillion investment fund BlackRock, and Jeff Bezos, the longtime boss of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post.
•Patrick Martin
Australia: Mass strike of Victorian educators reveals anger over pay and conditions
The stoppage expressed explosive anger over pay and conditions which the union is trying to dissipate.
•Our correspondents
One Nation’s rise: The fight against the Australian far right requires a political fight against Labor
The South Australian election shows how the far right is exploiting a social crisis inflicted by Labor and the union bureaucracy amid a breakdown of the two-party system.
•Oscar Grenfell
Major financial fallout from US war on Iran
Bond prices have been falling, lifting their yields or interest rate, reflecting a growing fear of stagflation: the combination of higher prices and a slowing economy, even recession.
•Nick Beams
Italy rejects constitutional attack with “No” vote
The result expresses the rejection of reactionary policies of war, genocide and authoritarianism, reflecting intensifying global working class opposition.
•Marc Wells
Trump tightens the screws on student loan holders as he breaks up the Department of Education and deepens the “default cliff”
The federal government is demanding some $1.7 billion for war, while exacting more than a pound of flesh from cash-strapped student loan borrowers.
•Noah Prince, Nancy Hanover
White House threatens to “unleash hell” against Iran as US surges troops to Middle East
As the Trump administration surged thousands of ground troops toward the Persian Gulf, the White House threatened Tuesday to massively escalate its war of aggression against Iran unless it accepted US demands.
•Andre Damon
New York University faculty strike shut down after UAW announces tentative agreement Wednesday morning
The few details of the tentative agreement that have been released indicate an attempt to sell out the strike.
•John Conrad, Tim Avery
Stop the US–Israeli War Against Iran!
To defend the Iranian people and defeat the US-Israeli war criminals, it is necessary to politically mobilize the international working class against global capitalism on the basis of a socialist perspective.
•IYSSE (Sri Lanka)
Workers in Australia paying the price for the criminal war against Iran
As a result of the illegal US-Israeli war on the people of Iran, working-class households are already facing soaring petrol and diesel prices, as well as growing shortages.
•Mike Head
As Trump escalates war on Iran, a strike wave spreads across the United States
In the month since the US-Israeli war against Iran began, the United States has been shaken by an accelerating eruption of class struggle.
•International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
Peter Daszak and the scientific verdict on the origins of COVID-19
New peer-reviewed studies continue to build an overwhelming case for the natural origin of COVID-19, vindicating the life’s work of Dr. Peter Daszak—the scientist who predicted this pandemic and was then witch-hunted for it.
•Benjamin Mateus
Oxfam Canada report reveals record levels of income and wealth inequality in 2025
The richest 1 percent in Canada holds nearly $1.25 trillion in wealth, or almost as much as the bottom 80 percent combined.
•Steve Hill
More Berlinale short films: Cosmonauts, With a Kind Regard, Graft Versus Host
In the face of official prejudice and indifference, filmmakers fight for solidarity and compassion in a series of short films at the Berlin film festival.
•Max Linhof, Verena Nees
LaGuardia disaster exposes dangerous airport conditions as Trump deploys ICE agents to terminals
New details from the NTSB point to overworked controllers, inadequate tracking technology and a chain of preventable failures behind the deadly LaGuardia runway collision.
•Jacob Crosse
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