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
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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 surges thousands of ground troops toward the Persian Gulf, the White House threatened Tuesday to massively escalate its war of aggression against Iran unless it accepts 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
Governing parties suffer losses in Danish election
Neither the traditional “red block” of parties on the left or “blue block” of right-wing parties reached the 90 seats needed for a governmental majority in the 179-seat parliament. The result produced a highly fragmented parliament, with 12 parties represented.
•Jordan Shilton
Defending political and artistic dissent: Why Banksy’s anonymity matters
Banksy’s anonymity has allowed him to indict the crimes of the powerful in a mass popular medium without facing immediate legal sanction, corporate blacklisting, far-right threats and state surveillance.
•Paul Mitchell
Fighting the right means stopping the Iran war!
Saturday’s Together Alliance march in London against the far right shields Labour and blocks any effective struggle by the working class against a capitalist system hurtling to World War III.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
Lucrative oil futures and predictive market bets on Iran war expose White House insider trading scheme
Media reports show a direct connection between the timing of lucrative investment bets and the pronouncements of President Trump on military decisions about the war against Iran.
•Kevin Reed
“We negotiate with bombs”: US moves to deploy 82nd Airborne to Iran
On Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump declared that the United States had “won” its undeclared and illegal war against Iran and claimed negotiations are ongoing, US media reports made clear that the military buildup targeting the country is only expanding.
•Andre Damon
Hundreds of contract faculty at New York University begin strike
Contract faculty, highly exploited full-time non-tenure-track educators, are demanding higher salaries, raises that exceed inflation, academic freedom, job security, subsidized housing and protection against artificial intelligence in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
•John Conrad
“Workers need to organize for a mass general strike”—an Amazon worker in Massachusetts speaks out on exploitation, surveillance and organizing the fight back
A core element of Amazon’s operations is the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program—a sprawling network of nominally independent subcontractors through which Amazon controls the lives of hundreds of thousands of delivery drivers without, it claims, employing a single one of them.
•Kate Randall
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Staff at 42 care facilities in Nova Scotia have now authorized strike action by margins averaging 95 percent.
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Draftsmen strike at Bath Iron Works as UAW bureaucracy pleads with War Secretary Hegseth
Under the escalating drive of American militarism, the same workers that the ruling class demands build its warships at breakneck speed are denied wages that keep pace with inflation, affordable healthcare or any meaningful retirement security.
•Mike Ingram
Australia: University staff strike in Newcastle
Stoppages at the University of Newcastle and University of Technology Sydney show the need for a unified struggle against the Albanese government’s funding cuts and pro-corporate restructuring.
•Our correspondents
Explosion rocks Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery
This is the second major incident at a US refinery in the past five months, following an explosion at the El Segundo Chevron refinery which rocked much of the Los Angeles area last October.
•Omri Wolfe
Trump’s handpicked board of trustees votes to close Kennedy Center for two years
The closure, which Trump said is to coincide with the nation’s celebrations of its 250th anniversary of independence, comes as artists and performers cancel events at the national cultural institution of the United States capital.
•Ray Coleman, Nick Barrickman
G7 states condemn Iran and prepare entry into the war
The G7 statement marks the European imperialist powers’ final departure from international law in favour of the principle that "might makes right.”
•Peter Schwarz
Australia, New Zealand solidify pro-US military alliance against China
The two imperialist powers are moving to establish a combined “Anzac force” that will support US-led wars and dominate impoverished Pacific countries.
•John Braddock
Purge of military, government advances US regime change operation in Venezuela
The Chavista regime’s sweeping overhaul under Acting President Delcy Rodríguez marks the consolidation of the US‑orchestrated regime change operation.
•Andrea Lobo
American imperialism and the oppression of Iran
The war that began on February 28 is the culmination of more than 80 years of American imperialist intervention in Iran and cannot be understood apart from that history.
•David North
Brazilian JBS workers speak out on wages, degrading conditions and the Greeley strike in US
JBS workers in Brazil, the US and other countries are all subordinated to a single regime of exploitation for the benefit of the same international financial oligarchy, and united by the same objective class interests.
•Our reporters
Your Party Scotland adopts separatism
Your Party Scotland’s founding conference voted to create an “autonomous nation” Your Party Scotland and to campaign for Scottish separatism in upcoming elections.
•Steve James
Birmingham bin strike: Labour council leader offers talks with Unite on sellout terms
What has been accepted on a de facto basis by the Unite apparatus—including the axing of the WRCO role—must be challenged by rank-and-file workers to prevent a final sell-out.
•Tony Robson
Australia: ABC workers to strike for the first time in 20 years
The strike vote at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows a determination to fight the low pay and poor working and employment conditions resulting from past trade union sellouts.
•Richard Phillips
Trump sends ICE thugs into major airports, threatens National Guard deployment ahead of 2026 midterms
Trump made clear that the ICE airport occupation is not about shortening lines but about leveraging a manufactured crisis to expand repression and attack democratic and voting rights.
•Jacob Crosse
BP Whiting lockout continues towards second week
BP’s “last, best and final offer” was nothing less than a declaration of war against oil workers, with the company demanding job cuts, reductions in pay and free rein to introduce AI-based automation and further job cuts down the line.
•Alexander Fangmann
Impact of Iran war on global economy intensifies daily
There are forecasts that the oil price will continue to surge as many countries face a “cliff edge” with regard to LNG supplies.
•Nick Beams
UNAC/UHCP rams through sellout for tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses
The union bureaucracy suppressed a militant healthcare strike as explosive nationwide struggles were developing against inequality, police repression and war.
•Marc Wells
Plane-truck crash at LaGuardia Airport kills 2 pilots
The collision, which could have killed dozens of passengers on the plane, seems linked to overwork for the air traffic controller, who was handling two jobs at the time.
•Patrick Martin
Australian health workers denounce Labor’s backing for US-Israeli war against Iran
“In my workplace we’re using outdated, sometimes broken equipment. Meanwhile billions go to the military. I’ve heard nothing from the unions—no statements, no leaflets, nothing opposing the war.”
•Our reporter
Workers and youth in South Australia speak out against war and major parties in the state election
“If all of these parties support the war, then the election has no meaning. What are we voting for? No one is even raising the question of war, so people don’t get a chance to have their voice heard.”
•Our reporters
Despite “postponing” attacks on power plants, Trump expands preparation for Iran invasion
In light of Trump’s record of launching military attacks under the cover of negotiations, his claim about “conversations” about a “total resolution of our hostilities” with Iran is not simply unbelievable. It is sinister.
•Andre Damon
ICE agents appear in The Pitt episode “5:00 P.M.”—“What can we do?”
It is another indication of the broad-based opposition to the Trump administration and its drive toward dictatorship, including its vicious anti-immigrant witch-hunt.
•Isabel Roy
The Riyadh statement: Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Arab regimes legitimize US-Israel war on Iran
This shameful statement not only fails to condemn the unlawful, unprovoked imperialist war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran, but also fails to even mention the aggressor by name and instead blames Iran.
•Barış Demir
The Philippines: National transport strike as Iran war creates economic crisis
Washington’s war on Iran has triggered a crippling fuel shock in the Philippines, sparking a mass transport strike and intensifying the political crisis of the US-backed Marcos regime.
•John Malvar
IG Metall union suffers losses in works council elections
The IG Metall has suffered losses in many car plants in works council elections that began at the start of March. Even though it still commands a majority in the large plants, the dominance of the trade union apparatus has been shaken.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Starmer government refuses parliamentary vote on UK involvement in Iran war
Labour government minister Steve Reed declared a vote on war unnecessary, as “There is no precedent for a vote in Parliament for defending British people.”
•Robert Stevens
South Australian election underscores crisis of two-party system
Labor was returned to office but its vote fell in key working-class areas in an election characterised by the disintegration of the Liberals and the rise of One Nation.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australia: Teachers to strike across Tasmania against real wage cuts
This week, Tasmanian and Victorian teachers will carry out full-day strikes over pay cuts and dire conditions, but the Australian Education Union bureaucracy is keeping their struggles entirely separate.
•Carolyn Kennett
Australian government transports ex-detainees to Nauru to thwart High Court ruling
Once again, the Albanese Labor government is effectively defying a High Court ruling to stop illegally punishing former immigration detainees who have been shackled in ankle bracelet monitors and subject to curfews.
•Mike Head
Sri Lankan fake-left FSP calls for sham “global people’s power” against Iran war
The Frontline Socialist Party is not calling for an international anti-war movement based on the working class, but an international coalition of opportunist groups dressed up as “Global People’s Power.”
•K. Ratnayake
Colorado healthcare workers issue statement supporting striking JBS meatpackers
“The same economic pressures that lead to dangerous line speeds, inadequate safety protections, and a lack of proper PPE and equipment in the past are mirrored in our own workplaces through chronic understaffing and cuts to essential services.”
•Greeley Health Care Workers
Fire kills 14 workers at South Korean auto parts plant
This tragedy underscores the increasing corporate and official disregard for workers’ safety and lives, not just in South Korea but internationally, especially in the auto industry.
•Mike Head
Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum: A criminal threat of mass murder
There is no other government in modern history that has issued so explicit a threat to destroy the foundational life-support systems of an entire civilian population as a condition of political submission.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Trump orders ICE agents to deploy to airports in force
The armed thugs, who murdered two protesters in Minneapolis earlier this year, will now be backing up TSA agents, who have not been paid since February.
•Patrick Martin
Video: Strong interest in “Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism” at the Leipzig Book Fair
The presentation of 'Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism', featuring David North at the Leipzig Book Fair, met with strong interest and underscored the growing interest in a socialist perspective against fascism and war.
•David North, Johannes Stern
German city of Duisburg maintains entry ban against “The Mauritanian” Mohamedou Ould Slahi
“The Mauritanian” Mohamedou Ould Slahi has become the public face of the prosecution against the US prison camp Guantánamo, where he was imprisoned and severely tortured for 14 years. But despite being released 10 years ago, and his innocence proven beyond doubt, he is not allowed to travel to Duisburg. The German authorities continue to treat him as a “terrorist.”
•Sybille Fuchs
Court ruling temporarily halts Trump-Kennedy vaccine rollback
A federal judge has stayed the Trump administration’s revised childhood immunization schedule and frozen 13 ACIP appointments, delivering a temporary check on Kennedy’s anti-vaccine agenda.
•Benjamin Mateus
Jacobin calls anti-capitalist opposition to war “sectarian”
Far from advancing the struggle against war, the SWP’s opportunist perspective misled youth and workers who opposed the Vietnam War and blocked the development of socialist consciousness.
•Barry Grey
Cuba suffers another island-wide blackout as US bars arrival of Russian fuel
Cuba has suffered a second nationwide blackout in less than a week, underscoring the catastrophic impact of the US fuel embargo.
•Andrea Lobo
This week in history: March 23-29
School fire kills 67 in Kenya; Argentine military overthrows Isabel Perón; MacArthur ultimatum to China in Korean War; Fascist killers of Matteotti given light sentence.
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Newroz 2026: Mobilize the working class against imperialist war and for workers’ power in the Middle East!
Newroz, the traditional spring festival of the peoples of the Middle East and Central Asia—particularly the Kurds and Persians—is being celebrated this year amid an eruption of imperialist barbarism directed against Iran and the broader region.
•Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
East London bus drivers opposing fatigue face strike breaking by Stagecoach
More than a dozen workers assembled on the picket line holding placards demanding “No more long shifts,” drawing support from passing workers including drivers of other bus companies.
•Ioan Petrescu
Spain’s Socialist Party-Sumar government unveils €1 billion military aid package for Ukraine
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned that the US-led war against Iran was distracting from NATO’s war against Russia.
•Alejandro López
US ground invasion looms as Iran war escalates
Axios reported Friday that three sources in the White House said deploying ground troops is “under serious consideration.” One of the most likely scenarios is an attempt to capture Kharg Island, where some 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports is processed.
•Jordan Shilton
Haitian asylum seeker found dead in Pittsburgh after ICE detention
Daphy Michel, 31, was released alone into freezing temperatures, 40 miles from home, with no family notification. Days later she was dead—still wearing the ankle monitor ICE had put on her.
•Samuel Davidson
6,000 US DHL workers authorize nationwide strike action
Workers across the US could go on strike at the end of the month when their current contract expires.
•Alex Findijs
Teamsters bureaucracy lines up behind Trump’s DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin
O’Brien’s personal appearance at Mullin’s hearing is a warning to workers that the union bureaucracy is aligning itself ever more openly with dictatorship, war and the repression of the working class.
•Jacob Crosse
In Washington, far-right Japanese prime minister backs war on Iran
Trump praised Tokyo for “stepping up” as the Takaichi government deepens its involvement in the criminal conflict.
•Ben McGrath
Hundreds of immigrants illegally jailed in Michigan
The Trump administration’s expansion of mandatory immigration detention has resulted in illegal confinement and has turned detention facilities like North Lake in Baldwin, Michigan, into sites of mass medical neglect.
•Anthony Callahan
Australian PM heckled at Lakemba mosque over support for Gaza genocide, war
The incident provided a rare glimpse of popular anti-war sentiment that is usually blacked out by the media.
•Oscar Grenfell
Berlinale short films: A search for social cohesion and direction in a world full of war and disasters
The selection, which also included animations, offered some whimsical pieces, many focused on individual emotions, as well as thoughtful explorations of social and historical issues.
•Max Linhof, Verena Nees
Expansion of Kansas detention facilities; protests against Missouri police serving as ICE enforcement
The expansion of immigration detention facilities is a multibillion-dollar industry dominated by a handful of private corporations.
•Julian Blackwood
Australian Robodebt coverup deepens: No one held accountable
Every official inquiry into the Robodebt scheme’s systemic cruelty to welfare recipients has now ended with all those responsible going scot-free.
•Mike Head
Militant support for strike grows at GM Silao Complex in Mexico
Workers describe widespread support for a March 25 strike at GM’s Silao Complex in Mexico as they demand a 20 percent increase in wages.
•Andrea Lobo
Socialism in the “reactionary” Southwest: Lessons from James Green’s Grass-Roots Socialism
Green's book shows that, beneath the familiar myth of the reactionary Southwest, there lay a vibrant world of tenant-farmer revolt, labor militancy, and interracial socialist organizing.
•Andrea Peters
Lessons from the San Francisco strike: How the unions, Democratic Party and pseudo-left betrayed the teachers
The four-day strike of San Francisco educators, the first in 50 years, contains critical lessons for workers seeking to defend public education.
•Nancy Hanover
Los Angeles teachers announce April 14 strike as thousands rally against austerity and war
The California Teachers Association (CTA) has kept some 80,000 teachers across the state working under expired contracts under its fraudulent “We Can’t Wait” campaign. LAUSD educators must form independent rank-and-file committees and mobilize teachers across the state in a general strike against war and in defense of public education.
•Kimie Saito, Joshua Rodriguez
Iran war threatens contraction of Thai economy
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is causing major disruption to the Thai economy.
•Robert Campion
More Canadian workers support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW presidency
The WSWS continues to receive statements of support from workers across Canada for Will Lehman’s campaign for the presidency of the UAW in the United States. Lehman is running as a socialist on a program to abolish the union bureaucracy and place power back in the hands of workers on the shop floor.
•Our reporters
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Samsung Electronics semiconductor workers approve strike action; India: Madhya Pradesh power workers strike for pay rise; Australia: Thousands of Victorian school teachers prepare to strike; Mater hospital nurses in Queensland strike for pay parity.
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Deadly meningitis outbreak in UK due to erosion of public health
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in infectious diseases, explained: “This is… one of the greatest clusters of cases outside of Africa that I can recall.”
•Margot Miller
Iran warns UK government it is “participating in aggression”
Allowing US heavy bombers to fly from its Royal Air Force base in Fairford, England, and from Diego Garcia—a joint US/UK base in the Indian Ocean—has been critical to the devastating US-Israeli bombing operation against Iran.
•Robert Stevens
South Australian election: Reject Labor’s AUKUS war program!
Labor is turning South Australia into a militarised AUKUS hub at the centre of US-led preparations for war against China amid a global conflagration, while social conditions for the working class sharply deteriorate.
•Eric Ludlow
Australian educators call for opposition to the war on Iran
The meeting called on educators, students and workers to move similar resolutions denouncing the US-Israeli assault on Iran and the Albanese Labor government’s participation in it.
•Our correspondents
SEP/IYSSE Sri Lanka meeting against US-Israeli war on Iran reveals growing interest in socialist program
The SEP’s well attended Colombo public meeting, which was live-streamed on Zoom and the party’s Facebook page, discussed the urgent need to build an international working-class movement against the imperialist onslaught on Iran which threatens to escalate into a broader global conflict.
•Our correspondent
As Trump demands $200 billion for Iran, USPS announces it will run out of money next year
Postmaster General David Steiner warned USPS will run out of cash by February, and both parties agreed on the need for the deepest cuts in the agency's history.
•Jacob Crosse
A week after ICE raid in South Burlington, Vermont, 1 detainee free, 2 remain in custody
An ICE raid in South Burlington, Vermont resulted in a chaotic nine-hour standoff, the discharge of a federal agent’s weapon and the detention of three individuals who were not the primary targets of the investigation.
•Mike Ingram
25,000 Kaiser healthcare workers carry out one-day strike in defense of mental healthcare
The well-attended picket lines showed healthcare workers are determined to fight against ongoing attacks on their working conditions and living standards. But the role of the union bureaucracy has been to undermine this growing movement, isolating different sections of the workforce from each other.
•Jonathan Burleigh, David Benson
Against the censorship of left-wing bookshops in Germany! Defend freedom of culture and expression!
Mehring Verlag strongly condemns the government's recent censorship of left-wing bookshops in Germany.
•Mehring Verlag
European powers prepare participation in war against Iran
On Thursday, the heads of state and government of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Japan issued a joint statement in which they pledged to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
•Peter Schwarz
Trump’s $200 billion Iran spending request reveals scale of US war plans
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Trump administration is seeking more than $200 billion to fund the war against Iran.
•Andre Damon
Blues singer John Hammond dead at 83
While widely known and respected among musicians, Hammond purposefully avoided the trappings of celebrity bestowed upon “big name” artists.
•James Brewer
New Zealand police given power to “move on” homeless people
The criminalisation of homeless people must serve as a warning to the entire working class of the repressive measures that will be used against any opposition to austerity and social inequality.
•John Braddock
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Belgian workers in national strike against austerity; Health workers strike and protest in Greece; Spain strikes over pay and conditions; Stoppages continue at UK universities over redundancies, pensions; Afrimat miners in South Africa begin indefinite strike over pay and erosion of medical insurance
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South Australian election will resolve nothing for workers: Build a socialist movement against austerity and war!
The election underscores the absence of any alternative for working people within the existing political establishment.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
BP locks out Whiting, Indiana workers after decisive rejection of “last, best and final” agreement
BP confirmed it intends to continue to operate the largest refinery in the Midwest, producing 440,000 barrels daily of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
•Kristina Betinis
“People have died working this job”: JBS workers denounce unsafe conditions as strike enters third day
Thousands of meatpackers, many facing deportation threats, are striking against low wages, unsafe conditions and union betrayal at the nation’s largest beef facility.
•Jacob Crosse, Dan Conway
Italy’s Meloni government pushes judicial “reform” in preparation for massive opposition to war and austerity
The referendum exploits popular anger at a class-biased justice system to dismantle democratic safeguards and prepare for future social conflict.
•Marc Wells
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