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
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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
Trump’s $200 billion Iran funding request points to massive scale of war plans
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Pentagon is seeking more than $200 billion from Congress to fund the US war of aggression against Iran—a sum that would exceed the roughly $188 billion spent on arming Ukraine over three years.
•Andre Damon
VIDEO: London meeting marks a milestone in the history of the Fourth International
The public meeting was addressed by a panel of speakers, including David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States. As the leader of the US Workers League, forerunner of the US SEP, North played the leading role in the struggle against the political degeneration of the WRP leadership.
•our reporter
Ford worker Gregory Knopf killed at Sharonville Transmission Plant in Ohio
Knopf, a father of three and grandfather of eight, was killed after a press machine activated while undergoing routine maintenance and pinned him against equipment.
•Our reporters
Washington’s assault on Cuba and Latin America: A key front in the capitalist drive to abolish the 20th century
The imperialist offensive to erase 20th‑century social gains can be stopped only through the independent mobilization of the working class across the Americas.
•Andrea Lobo
US Fed gripped by uncertainty as war dominates the economy
The overriding impression from Fed chair Jerome Powell is that the central bank is like an animal trapped in the headlights of a massive truck hurtling towards it, not knowing which way to turn.
•Nick Beams
Kaiser strike betrayed: UNAC/UHCP ends 31,000-worker walkout, advances sellout agreement
The union halted the struggle at its strongest point, isolating workers and paving the way for concessions on wages and staffing.
•Nakai Beltran
Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire: Rage at a rigged system
Van Sant has said the story interested him because it echoes today’s anger at corporate greed and financial institutions.
•Joanne Laurier
WSWS Perspectives and Statements on Iran war published in Farsi
More than a dozen critical statements, Perspectives, and World Socialist Web Site articles on the criminal US-Israeli war on Iran war and how to stop it are now available in Farsi, the mother-tongue of approximately two-thirds of the Iranian people.
•Our reporter
UAW acting as “management’s enforcer” at Columbia University, says UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman
The statement calls the UAW apparatus “complicit” in political repression at the campus and urges that rank-and-file workers take control of their own struggle.
•Our reporters
Reject the UAW–University of California sellout agreement! Organize a “No” vote and prepare strike action!
The TA (tentative agreement) is intended to cut off the growing movement of the working class and remove tens of thousands of University of California workers from the struggle.
•David Rye
Top US intelligence official resigns over Iran war
Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said that Iran was not an “imminent threat” to the United States, the pretext offered by Trump for launching his illegal war.
•Patrick Martin
Sri Lankan president blames Iran, not the US, for global fuel crisis
Dissanayake’s comments have once again exposed the government’s phony posturing of “neutrality” over the illegal US-Israel war against Iran.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
India fully complicit in US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran
The only country that New Delhi has condemned is Iran, for daring to defend itself.
•Rohantha De Silva, Keith Jones
Australia: Anti-genocide protesters arrested in Brisbane under “hate speech” laws
Police in Queensland last week arrested two participants in a Students for Palestine rally for saying or displaying the anti-genocide slogan “from the river to the sea.”
•Antony Walsh
Canada’s NDP and trade unions posture as opponents of the US-Israeli war on Iran
While "condemning" the criminal US-Israeli war targeting Iran, the NDP and its trade union sponsors have conspicuously failed to call for any working class action against it.
•Our reporters
Netanyahu uses Iran war to pursue “Greater Israel” agenda
Within days of the assault on Iran, the Israel Defence Forces declared war on Hezbollah—activating a blueprint drafted well before the group fired a token volley of rockets in response to Israel’s assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
•Jean Shaoul
Spanish trade unions subordinate anti-war opposition to Sanchez’s Socialist Party government
The zig zags of the PSOE-Sumar government reflect the imperialist interests of the Spanish bourgeoisie.
•Santiago Guillen and Alejandro López
Seven years after the fascist massacre in Christchurch
New Zealand and Australian leaders hypocritically declared their solidarity with the families of 51 Muslims murdered by the fascist Brenton Tarrant on March 15, 2019, even as both governments demonise migrants and support the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war against Iran.
•Tom Peters
4 dead in worst Michigan tornados since 1980 as Democrat Whitmer deflects responsibility
A series of rapidly forming deadly tornados struck Michigan, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Indiana between March 5 and March 10, resulting in 11 deaths, at least 20 injuries, and significant damage or destruction to hundreds of buildings across the region.
•Riley Ward
6 deaths a day: Homeless mortality exposes social catastrophe in Los Angeles
Avoidable deaths mount on Los Angeles streets as Democratic politicians defend a profit system that treats human survival as expendable.
•Marc Wells
Trump calls for a delay in summit with Chinese president
Trump’s expectation that a quick victory over Iran, a strategic partner of China, could be used to extract concessions from Xi has been dashed as the criminal war continues in its third week.
•Peter Symonds
European Union presents conditions for participation in the war against Iran
The European powers are unwilling to get involved in a war over whose course and outcome they have no influence. They want to drive a hard bargain for their participation in the war.
•Peter Schwarz
Organize the working class to support the JBS meatpacking strike!
While the war in Iran and attacks on democratic rights at home show an American ruling class plumbing the depths of barbarism, a different and progressive movement is emerging within the working class.
•Tom Hall
US Marine unit steams toward Middle East amid growing threats of ground invasion of Iran
The USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault carrier bearing the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, was tracked Tuesday transiting the Strait of Malacca on its way to the Persian Gulf.
•Andre Damon
Who Moves America: The incomplete story of the 2023 struggle at UPS
Though a new documentary captures UPS workers’ significant discontent with the 2023 tentative agreement, it obscures the role of the Teamsters leadership in enabling mass layoffs and deteriorating conditions.
•Erik Schreiber
UAW threatens to block strike by student workers at Columbia University
Following a 91.5 percent strike authorization vote by student workers, the UAW bureaucracy has threatened to withhold approval of a strike unless the campus local waters down its demands.
•Elliott Murtagh
Trump’s CDL Final Rule strips 200,000 immigrant truck drivers of licenses in sweeping attack on the working class
The Trump administration's Non-Domiciled CDL Final Rule, which took effect March 16, is a major new stage in the fascistic attack on immigrant workers and the entire working class.
•Jane Wise
Florida executes Michael Lee King, dismissing his childhood traumatic brain injury claims
King’s case exposes a legal system that disposes of individuals, mostly men, whose minds were fractured long before they ended anyone else’s life. King suffered a significant traumatic brain injury during childhood, causing permanent neurological damage.
•Kate Randall
Crowds flock to DC statue mocking Trump and Epstein in “Titanic” embrace
A gold-painted “King of the World” statue on the National Mall depicts Trump embracing Epstein in Titanic’s bow pose, drawing crowds, mockery and widespread popular hostility toward the oligarchy.
•Nick Barrickman
Australian central bank lifts interest rate again as recession threat grows
It was a split decision but undoubtedly the swing factor was the US war against Iran and the spike in inflation it has already produced.
•Nick Beams
“Without immigrants, there is no food, there is no work”: JBS meatpackers defend immigrants as historic strike continues at Greeley, Colorado plant
In one of the largest pickets in recent memory, thousands of workers marched and demonstrated outside the factory Tuesday in defense not only of their own living standards, but of all workers.
•Jacob Crosse, Dan Conway
Ontario’s Tory government tries and fails to ban Toronto Al-Quds Day demonstration
Thousands demonstrated in Toronto last Saturday in opposition to the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran and in support of the Palestinian people.
•James Clayton
Growing UK inequality in years spent living in good health between rich and poor
A boy born in Richmond upon Thames can look forward to living in good health until he reaches 69.3 years and a girl 70.3 years compared to 50.9 and 51.8 years for males and females respectively in Blackpool
•Margot Miller
RMT bureaucracy calls off this month's strikes by driver members on London Underground:
Rail, Maritime and Transport union General Secretary Eddie Dempsey insists a “workable solution” can still be found with TfL, having buried the fight for a shorter working week by members across London Underground.
•Tony Robson
Israel begins its long-planned ground invasion of Lebanon
News media reports have confirmed that Israel has started its long-planned ground invasion of southern Lebanon with plans to seize the entire area south of the Litani River which is roughly the southern third of Lebanon.
•Kevin Reed
Turkish independent union leader Mehmet Türkmen arrested
Mehmet Türkmen, general secretary of the independent rank-and-file textile union in Türkiye, was arrested on Monday due to his speech to protesting workers.
•Barış Demir
One Battle After Another wins the top Academy Awards; Javier Bardem shows courage amid a general mood of disquiet, opposition
That One Battle After Another won six Academy Awards is probably the most telling indicator of changes taking place in the artistic world, a complex reflection of important shifts in popular consciousness more broadly.
•David Walsh
Trump speaks on Iran war: The criminal underworld in power
Trump delivered a meandering account of his military assault on Iran, combining blood-curdling threats with utter indifference to the colossal human cost of this criminal war.
•Patrick Martin, David North
Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life
Yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League who was assassinated in 1977. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
•David North
“We cannot continue to be worked like slaves”: Colorado meatpacking workers strike at JBS plant
The strike at Greeley is all the more significant because the overwhelming majority of the workforce are immigrants, who have launched the strike in defiance of the broader rampage by immigration authorities.
•Jacob Crosse, Dan Conway
American Axle workers speak out against UAW bureaucracy ahead of contract talks
The bitterness expressed by workers is rooted in the outcome of the 2008 American Axle strike, which lasted 87 days and ended in a devastating concessions agreement imposed by the UAW, with wages slashed to as low as $10 an hour.
•George Kirby
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The 900 terminated workers at the FATE tire plant are demanding their jobs back while 2,300 workers at Portland Community College in Oregon have struck to demand cost-of-living raises.
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40 years since the People Power ouster of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines
The central lesson of People Power is not that the masses “once saved democracy” and must now do so again, but that no advance is possible so long as their struggles remain chained to any faction of the bourgeoisie.
•John Malvar
Australia: Discontent grows among University of Newcastle educators as they strike
An overwhelming vote to strike is a further sign of widespread opposition to the sweeping pro-business and pro-military restructuring of universities being driven by the Albanese Labor government.
•Our correspondent
Australia: Victorian educators at a crossroads—The March 24 strike and the case for rank-and-file committees
A ballot of Australian Education Union members recorded an unprecedented 98 percent vote for stopwork action, expressing widespread anger over appalling wages and conditions in public schools.
•Committee for Public Education
Australia: 238 jobs axed at Tahmoor Colliery
Workers were given less than 48 hours to decide whether to immediately accept redundancy or take six weeks’ unpaid leave in the hope that the mine is quickly sold.
•Martin Scott
In major concession to Trump, Cuban government opens island to investment by Miami exile capitalists
Cuba’s government is courting large-scale investments from US corporations and the exile bourgeoisie in Miami, a decisive step toward turning Cuba into a semi‑protectorate of US imperialism.
•Andrea Lobo
The Secret Agent—the dictatorship as an “open wound in Brazilian life”
The portrait of a ruling class marked by an absolute contempt for collective interests, culture, and human life is the strongest and most universal aspect of Mendonça’s film.
•Eduardo Parati, Tomas Castanheira
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