Unite cancels May Day strike by Doncaster bus drivers to meet with management
The May Day stoppage would have provided a platform to appeal beyond their depot—to bus workers and the wider working class.
•Simon Whelan
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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
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UK Prime Minister Starmer survives vote to investigate whether he misled parliament, but Mandelson/Epstein crisis deepens
For the working class, the issue is not the personal fate of Starmer, or his replacement by another right-wing Labourite.
•Robert Stevens
4 years of the Amazon Labor Union: A balance sheet
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.
•Erik Schreiber, Tom Hall
The political issues in the New York City transit workers’ contract struggle
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.
•Daniel de Vries
Hegseth details White House plan to surge military spending by 50 percent
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.
•Andre Damon
Latest round of tech layoffs at Microsoft and Meta shows need for a working class movement to defend jobs
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.
•Tom Hall
Australian NDIS workers and participants oppose Labor’s cuts to disability support
“These supports are not optional—they are essential to my daily survival, including help with eating, hygiene, dressing and maintaining basic safety and wellbeing.”
•Our reporters
James Comey appears in court following indictment for “86 47” social media meme
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.
•Kevin Reed
Supreme Court steps up attacks on democratic rights
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.
•Patrick Martin
Fed keeps interest rates on hold as Powell declares he will stay on as a governor
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.
•Nick Beams
Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens indicted in political witch-hunt
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.
•Benjamin Mateus
Energy shortage: Macron wants to use war on Iran to wage class war in France
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.
•Alex Lantier
Ann Arbor teachers vote 1,084-4 to defeat sellout contract as teachers across Michigan face layoffs and poverty pay
Educators in Ann Arbor angrily reject demands for austerity, in a near-unanimous rejection of the union’s tentative settlement.
•Nancy Hanover
Morenoites campaign for Brazilian Army medal for metalworkers union amid escalating global war
The campaign signals a sharp lurch to the right by the PSTU Morenoites in a conjuncture marked by the escalating global of war and, internally, by dictatorial threats tied to the military.
•Eduardo Parati, Tomas Castanheira
Workers and young people in Canada and India urge participation in International Online May Day Rally
The International Committee of the Fourth International and its daily publication, the World Socialist Web Site, are organizing the International Online May Day Rally at 3pm US Eastern Time on Friday, May 1 to provide a unified revolutionary socialist program to workers around the globe in the struggle against imperialist war, dictatorship, and austerity.
•our reporters
Faculty, students oppose censorship of artist at University of North Texas
Sharp and legitimate criticism of Trump, of ICE, of Israel’s genocide, of the illegal war against Iran ... any and all of this is now termed a “disturbance,” a “disruption."
•David Walsh
Aldi DX tech workers in Germany: More than 1 in 3 jobs to be cut
On Monday, Aldi DX management announced that more than one in three IT jobs were being rationalised away at the Aldi Süd IT subsidiary in Mülheim an der Ruhr, exceeding the worst fears of the workforce.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Unite union peddles sellout deal to end Birmingham bin workers strike
Behind the backs of striking workers, all sides are engaged in a coordinated operation to peddle an agreement they insist cannot be scrutinised.
•Tony Robson
King Charles III touts “special relationship” to Congress based on decades of US-UK imperialist wars
It is a measure of the true political character of the official opposition to Trump that the Democrats joined in multiple standing ovations for this reactionary diatribe, and that it was hailed by the British and European media.
•Chris Marsden
Iran war hits Australian economy
Banks are warning of a rise in bad debts, companies are issuing profit downgrades, and a consumer confidence index has fallen by the largest amount since the start of the pandemic, with retailers reported to be “struggling.”
•Nick Beams
Trump rushes migrant children through deportation courts, while Walz backs federal raids in Minnesota
Children in US custody are being rushed toward deportation before they can secure legal relief, while federal agents and Minnesota authorities carry out raids in Twin Cities under the pretext of fighting “fraud.”
•Jacob Crosse
German government plans massive cuts to health, pensions and social benefits
German military spending rose by 24 percent last year. The bill for this massive rearmament programme is being presented to the working class in the form of falling social spending, poorer healthcare and lower pensions.
•Peter Schwarz
Australian Education Union divides teachers to prepare sellout in Victoria—build rank-and-file committees
Even as striking educators rallied at the state parliament on March 24, the AEU apparatus was already moving to contain, dissipate and ultimately shut down this movement.
•Sue Phillips
Australian pseudo-left Socialist Alternative hysterically denounces workers who voted for One Nation
Socialist Alternative declared that all those who voted for the right-wing party were “racist scum” who needed to be “crushed,” while covering up for Labor and the trade union bureaucracy.
•Oscar Grenfell
Canada’s Liberal government secures parliamentary majority after seven years of minority rule
Corporate Canada has greeted the Liberals’ pasting together of a parliamentary majority with a chorus of calls for the government to act “boldly” in imposing “sacrifices” on working people.
•James Clayton
US Agriculture Department reports food price increases from Iran war, tariffs and drought
The US Department of Agriculture issued a Food Price Outlook on April 24 which showed significant increases in a range of food prices, with more on the way, due to the economic shocks caused by the Trump administration’s illegal war against Iran, tariffs and the prolonged drought across much of the US.
•Kevin Reed
Charles III in Washington: Monarchy, oligarchy and the repudiation of 1776
Charles III’s address to Congress, under the patronage of Trump and before an audience of billionaires and Democrats, exposed the convergence of monarchy and oligarchy in the repudiation of the democratic principles of 1776.
•Joseph Kishore
School budget proposal threatens 200 job cuts in Paterson, New Jersey
The schools in New Jersey’s third largest city are being deprived of the resources that the state itself acknowledges they need to provide a “thorough and efficient” education.
•Erik Schreiber
Justice Department revives firing squad, electrocution and gas asphyxiation for federal executions
The DOJ report reinstating multiple methods for federal executions marks a further regression into barbarism by an administration that has made the expansion of state killing a central pillar of its political program.
•Kate Randall
Amid popular outrage, no official explanation of secret CIA operation in Mexico
Washington has made clear there will be no explanations, let alone apologies, after two CIA agents died in a road accident in Chihuahua during an operation kept secret from the Mexican government.
•Andrea Lobo
The gutting of the NIH and the capitalist assault on public health
The dismantling of public health through NIH funding cuts, CDC censorship and Medicaid rollbacks is a deliberate attack on the working class by the capitalist elite, for whom military spending and private profit supersede any concern for the American people.
•Benjamin Mateus
1,100 artists call for boycott of Eurovision over Israel’s Gaza genocide
The letter is a moving assertion of opposition to the ongoing genocide and the cultural devastation that accompanies it.
•Paul Bond
Italy’s Meloni government in crisis as rift with Israel and Trump opens
Rising working class opposition to war and austerity and inter-imperialist antagonisms have forced damaging zigzags in Italian foreign policy.
•Marc Wells
UNDP report exposes vulnerability of South Asia’s economies to US war against Iran
South Asia accounts for the largest share of people—an estimated additional 8.8 million—being pushed into poverty by the Iran war, with the region particularly exposed to rising food and energy costs and falling remittances.
•Saman Gunadasa
Gunman charged with attempted assassination of Trump: The political issues
The response of the media and political establishment is characterized by a staggering hypocrisy, wrapped in the sanctimonious refrain: “There is no place for violence in politics.”
•Joseph Kishore
Australia: Labor’s aged home care cuts continue
Hundreds of thousands of retired workers, mostly depending on poverty-line aged pensions, are still facing prohibitive costs under the Support at Home program, which the Labor government launched last November.
•Mike Head
Gettysburg and the New Birth of Freedom—then and now
We are publishing a lecture delivered by WSWS contributor Tom Mackaman to the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Gettysburg University on April 23.
•Tom Mackaman
Global military spending surges to record $2.887 trillion
Global military spending hit a record $2.887 trillion in 2025—the highest level ever recorded and the 11th consecutive year of growth, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported Monday.
•Andre Damon
Peruvian far-right stages scandal over elections as nominally “left” candidate climbs to second place
Despite the record of Roberto Sánchez Palomino as a trusted administrator of capitalist interests, the far-right seeks to create a scandal over election mismanagement to block his candidacy.
•Cesar Uco
Little Lake City teachers continue strike, while UTLA claims LA teachers ratified new contract
Only two days before Little Lake City teachers walked out, union officials canceled a far larger strike in Los Angeles Unified School District.
•Alex Diaz, Joshua Rodriguez
US unions’ “May Day Strong” seeks to neuter May Day
If the American union bureaucracy, which for over a century was openly hostile to May Day, is now partly changing its tune, it is because they want to get in front of the growing movement to the left, dilute the radicalization and divert it into harmless channels.
•Tom Hall
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Peasant, student and worker organizations conducted a week of protests in La Paz, Bolivia, while a strike by thousands of Nova Scotia long-term care workers is growing as more facilities join the action.
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Meta and Microsoft announce mass layoffs, as AI jobs massacre continues
Meta and Microsoft announced measures to eliminate more than 16,000 jobs with references to efficiency and cost-cutting necessitated by major investments in artificial intelligence.
•Kevin Reed
NYC home care workers end hunger strike on disputed promise of vote on 24-hour shifts
Home care workers in New York City ended a weeklong hunger strike after being told the “No More 24” Act would be brought to a vote—a commitment officials later denied.
•Robert Milkowski
Oppose the political persecution of Dr. Ranjeet Brar and all health workers!
Maintaining its irreconcilable political differences with the Maoist CPGB-ML, the SEP denounces this anti-democratic act aimed at suppressing and intimidating anti-war speech and sentiment.
•Robert Stevens
Your Party’s purge of socialists: the rotten end of the Corbyn project
With their anti-socialist purge, the Corbynites are the true inheritors of the Labourite tradition.
•Laura Tiernan
Australia’s militarist Anzac Day held amid global eruption of war
While Labor leaders obfuscated the reality, several hawkish commentators blurted out the fact that preparations are underway for a disastrous war against China.
•Oscar Grenfell
Harvard Academic Workers-UAW leaders sabotage strike of non-tenure-track faculty
In a flagrant violation of democratic principles, the HAW-UAW bargaining committee has unilaterally called off plans for a spring strike, overriding a clear mandate from the membership
•Mike Ingram
Trump seeks to profit politically from attack in Washington hotel
The gunman who targeted the White House Correspondents Association dinner was tackled and subdued by Secret Service agents before even reaching the floor at which Trump and other administration officials were schmoozing with media proprietors and journalists.
•Patrick Martin
Book banning in the US: The right-wing effort to inoculate the population against critical thought
This is a concerted, organized campaign driven by ultra-right elements dedicated to forcing their anti-democratic and unpopular views on a largely unsuspecting public.
•David Walsh
1 in 3 Americans cannot afford healthcare without cutting essentials
Decades of bipartisan healthcare policies have gutted social protections, pushing workers into insecurity, high costs and limited access to medical care.
•Marc Wells
Rank-and-file candidate for United Auto Workers president Will Lehman introduces resolution against Iran war
The resolution gives expression to the broad and growing opposition among workers to the war, which is backed by the UAW apparatus.
•Jerry White
Near-miss at UPS’s Worldport, site of deadly crash last November, part of worsening aviation safety crisis
On April 14, a collision was narrowly avoided between a cargo jet and a smaller aircraft at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky.
•Jane Wise
Mamdani’s pension deferral plan advances Wall Street austerity agenda
Zohran Mamdani, the pseudo-left mayor of New York City, has proposed delaying the city’s contributions to city workers’ pension fund as a way of partly balancing the city budget.
•Sandy English
Resolution for UAW Convention: “Against the US-Israeli Imperialist War on Iran—For the Independent Mobilization of the Working Class”
This is the text of a resolution introduced by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman at a meeting of UAW Local 677 in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
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Pacific Island economies hit hard by war on Iran
Fuel, electricity and food prices are rising rapidly in impoverished Pacific countries including Papua New Guinea and Fiji, paving the way for a resurgence of class struggles.
•Tom Peters
Lake City ammunition strike in Missouri enters fourth week: Why the fight against Olin Winchester requires a struggle against imperialist war
The Pentagon is demanding uninterrupted production at Lake City to hoard vast supplies of small-arms ammunition in preparation for the bloody ground wars to come.
•Julian Blackwood
Police in India arrest hundreds in bid to suppress mounting worker unrest
Police from the state of Uttar Pradesh are fanning out across the country to arrest political activists simply for being present at the recent workers’ protests near New Delhi.
•Kranti Kumara
This week in history: April 27-May 3
Global repression against May Day rallies; Italian parliament dissolved after bribe scandal; Iran nationalizes oil industry under Mossadegh; British unions call General Strike
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Tanzania whitewashes post-election massacre of thousands of protesters
The report admits that at least 518 people died from “unnatural causes”, 197 by gunfire. A November report by 40 African human rights organisations estimated the real death toll at up to 3,000.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Unite’s secret talks with Reform UK: Isolating Birmingham bin strike and embracing the far-right
Reform UK can pose as being amenable to an agreement on Unite’s terms because the Graham leadership has gutted the demands of Birmingham bin workers and replaced them with “a fair settlement” including one-off lump sum payments of between £14,000 and £20,000.
•Tony Robson
El Gamal family being returned to Colorado following judicial order blocking deportation
ICE re-detained Hayam El Gamal and her five children during what was supposed to be a check-in, escalating the Trump administration’s campaign of collective punishment.
•Jacob Crosse
Trump’s “Department of War” seeks to enlist US auto companies in accelerated arms buildup
The recent meetings between Pentagon officials and top US auto executives are aimed at securing the more direct integration of the auto industry into the war drive of US imperialism.
•Shannon Jones
Watch: Australian workers and youth oppose Gaza genocide and war in Iran
Protesters in Brisbane and Adelaide denounced the federal Labor government for its complicity in the US-led imperialist assault in the Middle East.
•Our reporters
Hegseth says Iran blockade “going global,” as US announces new sanctions on Chinese shipping
The United States is expanding its naval blockade of Iran into a global operation against shipping in any ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday. Hours earlier the Treasury Department sanctioned a major Chinese oil refinery and 40 shipping companies for buying Iranian crude.
•Andre Damon
New Zealand government minister stokes anti-Indian racism
The right-wing nationalist NZ First Party is scapegoating immigrants for the social crisis caused by austerity measures imposed by successive Labour and National Party-led governments, in which NZ First has also played a major role.
•Tom Peters
Hesse, Germany: 4 tannery workers killed in workplace accident
Four workers have lost their lives following hydrogen sulphide poisoning at a tannery in Runkel, Hesse, highlighting severe deficiencies in occupational safety and environmental monitoring.
•Marianne Arens
El Gamal family released from Dilley concentration camp: A victory in the fight against collective punishment
The war on immigrants, and through them on the democratic rights of the entire working class, continues and is escalating, and the El Gamal family, including four minor children, remains under threat.
•Jacob Crosse
Michael Tilson Thomas, acclaimed American conductor, has died at the age of 81
Like his mentor Leonard Bernstein, Tilson Thomas was known for his communication skills and his ability to attract new audiences to classical music.
•Fred Mazelis
El Salvador’s Bukele regime stages mass show trial for nearly 500 alleged gang members
Trump’s support for Bukele seeks to normalize the authoritarian doctrine that the state may detain or even kill individuals based on suspicion alone, without due process.
•Andrea Lobo
Union leaders meet with Lula amid strike wave in Brazil
Brazil’s union federations are signaling that they will do everything they can to isolate, stifle, and divert the struggles of workers and young people behind Lula’s candidacy in the October election.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Striking worker killed on CU Logistics Centre picket line; India: 1.7 million Maharashtra state government employees walk out; 38,000 Telangana road transport workers strike; Australia: National Broadband Network subcontract workers protest low pay; Brownes Foods logistics workers strike again in Western Australia.
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LA Mayor Bass joins Trump in pro-corporate wildfire “relief” charade
Bipartisan agreement ensures working people pay for wildfire devastation through debt, austerity and higher costs, while corporate oligarchy secures profits and protection.
•Marc Wells
Turkish miners’ struggle continues under a police siege
Miners’ struggle demonstrates the social power that must be mobilized for the social and democratic rights and against imperialist war.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
ANC-led government sends army to South Africa’s townships
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is deploying troops in full combat gear, armed with assault rifles and transported in armoured vehicles and military Samil trucks. Soldiers are equipped with live ammunition, with standing orders to fire in “self-defence”.
•Jean de Jager, Alejandro López
Unemployment to rise by a quarter of a million as Iran war hits UK economy
The IMF forecasts the sharpest growth downgrade and the joint highest inflation rate in the G7 for the UK this year, even if energy costs stabilise by mid-2026.
•Dennis Moore, Robert Stevens
London Underground drivers speak from the picket lines against imposed “condensed” four-day week
WSWS reporters visited picket lines and spoke with striking London Underground drivers.
•our reporters
Australia: Labor imposes sweeping disability cuts, forcing hundreds of thousands off essential supports
The federal Labor government will cut tens of billions in funding for disability supports, part of a broader agenda of austerity and military expansion.
•Max Boddy
California gubernatorial debate exposes right-wing character of both capitalist parties
Every Democrat on stage gave current Governor Gavin Newsom a passing grade on homelessness, exposing their support for the criminalization of poverty and their hostility to the working class.
•Jacob Crosse
US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating climate change
A new analysis by the Climate and Community Institute finds that the first two weeks of the US-Israel war on Iran produced more greenhouse gas emissions than Iceland with its volcanos generates in a year and that the consequences for fossil fuel dependence will dwarf the emissions of the fighting itself.
•Bryan Dyne
As third carrier strike group arrives, Trump orders Navy to “shoot and kill” Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz
In a Truth Social post on Thursday morning, President Trump ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be” that he claimed without proof were placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
•Kevin Reed
Harvard Corporation demands graduate workers pay the price for Trump’s assault on academic freedom
As the Trump administration launches a scorched-earth campaign to bring higher education under the direct ideological control of the far right, Harvard’s leadership has responded not by defending democratic principles but offloading the costs of this political warfare onto its workforce.
•Mike Ingram
Two killed, dozens injured in West Virginia chemical plant explosion
Two workers were killed and another 30 injured in a West Virginia chemical plant explosion Wednesday at a facility 20 miles outside Charleston, the state capital.
•Samuel Davidson
Hunger strike at Michigan immigrant detention center
Hundreds of immigrant detainees at ICE’s North Lake Processing Center have staged a hunger strike in protest of abusive conditions and excessive lengths of detention.
•Anthony Callahan
El Gamal family released from ICE detention
The Trump administration held Hayam El Gamal and her five children, ages 5 to 18, at the Dilley family detention center in Texas for nearly 10 months as punishment for the alleged crimes of the children’s father.
•Our reporters
Workers and youth in Adelaide speak out on Iran war and support a socialist perspective
“I was drawn to the SEP’s internationalist perspective to unite the working class. Capitalism is breaking down, that’s why the working class needs to go on strike and organise workers at workplaces and industries independently.”
•Our reporters
SEP holds meeting in Adelaide, South Australia on the Iran war and the fight for socialism
The meeting, titled “After the South Australian election: Stop the war in Iran! Fight for a socialist program!” advanced the fight to build an Adelaide branch of the SEP as a component of the broader struggle to build a global movement of the working class against the threat of world war.
•Our reporters
Trump Justice Department intervenes to defend fascists and neo-Nazis
The indictment is a political provocation aimed at intimidating all opposition to the Trump administration’s policies of war, social cuts and dictatorship.
•Patrick Martin
Artists group launches boycott of New York cultural center 92NY over support for war, genocide
92NO has called for a boycott by speakers and the public of events to protest the institution's support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the war in Iran and Lebanon.
•Sandy English
Nexteer workers: It is time for the rank and file to take matters into our own hands!
Three weeks ago workers at the Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan, overwhelmingly rejected a pro-company contract backed by the United Auto Workers International Union and UAW Local 699 officials.
•Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee
German defence minister presents new military strategy: Berlin prepares for major war against Russia
On Wednesday, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Carsten Breuer presented a comprehensive military strategy for the first time in the history of the Bundeswehr. Published excerpts already leave no doubt that Berlin is systematically preparing for a major war, especially against Russia.
•Johannes Stern
Bus drivers in East London strike against low pay and fatigue, defying strike-breaking operation by Stagecoach
On the picket last Friday, workers raised the need for unity across London if the strike breaking operation by Stagecoach is to be defeated and working conditions defended.
•Henry Lee and reporters
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Postal workers in Wallonia, Belgium continue strike over increased exploitation despite union sabotage attempts; workers’ protests resume in Iran by gas workers, teachers and retirees against plummet in living standards; strike by medical interns continues in Mozambique, Kenyan health workers at hospital and nurses in Zimbabwe walk out over pay and funding
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“This is gaslighting. A deception”: Los Angeles school workers denounce union-backed sellout contracts
A WSWS analysis of comments on union social media found roughly two-thirds of UTLA comments and a majority of SEIU 99 comments were against the contracts.
•Renae Cassimeda, Kimie Saito
Who are graduate student strikers up against at Harvard University?
The Harvard Corporation consists of a virtual Who's Who of America's corporate-financial oligarchy.
•Mike Ingram
Growing number of potential flashpoints in global financial system
As the US war on Iran continues, the global financial system is increasingly coming to resemble a minefield.
•Nick Beams
Australia: Two workers killed on the job in Brisbane in three days
These terrible deaths point to a rising toll due to unsafe conditions and increased rates of exploitation in Australia and internationally.
•Mike Head
Trump Justice Department indicts Southern Poverty Law Center in frame-up to aid fascist groups
The indictment does not expose a fraud against donors but the Trump administration’s effort to criminalize the monitoring of fascist organizations and rehabilitate the white supremacists the SPLC exposed.
•Jacob Crosse
Florida’s assembly line of death: The execution of Chadwick Willacy and the political machinery behind America’s killing season
Willacy was the eighth person executed this year in the US and the fifth in Florida, the latest casualty of an accelerating machinery of death overseen by Governor Ron DeSantis.
•Kate Randall
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