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.
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.
Workers across the US could go on strike at the end of the month when their current contract expires.
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.
Trump praised Tokyo for “stepping up” as the Takaichi government deepens its involvement in the criminal conflict.
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.
The incident provided a rare glimpse of popular anti-war sentiment that is usually blacked out by the media.
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.
The expansion of immigration detention facilities is a multibillion-dollar industry dominated by a handful of private corporations.
Every official inquiry into the Robodebt scheme’s systemic cruelty to welfare recipients has now ended with all those responsible going scot-free.
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.
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.
The four-day strike of San Francisco educators, the first in 50 years, contains critical lessons for workers seeking to defend public education.
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.
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is causing major disruption to the Thai economy.
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.
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.
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.”
Allowing US heavy bombers to fly from its Royal Air Force base in Fairford, England, and from Diego Garcia—a UK base in the Indian Ocean—has been critical to the devastating US-Israeli bombing operation against Iran.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mehring Verlag strongly condemns the government's recent censorship of left-wing bookshops in Germany.
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.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Trump administration is seeking more than $200 billion to fund the war against Iran.
While widely known and respected among musicians, Hammond purposefully avoided the trappings of celebrity bestowed upon “big name” artists.
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.
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
The election underscores the absence of any alternative for working people within the existing political establishment.
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.
Thousands of meatpackers, many facing deportation threats, are striking against low wages, unsafe conditions and union betrayal at the nation’s largest beef facility.
The referendum exploits popular anger at a class-biased justice system to dismantle democratic safeguards and prepare for future social conflict.
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.
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.
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.
The imperialist offensive to erase 20th‑century social gains can be stopped only through the independent mobilization of the working class across the Americas.
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.
The union halted the struggle at its strongest point, isolating workers and paving the way for concessions on wages and staffing.
Van Sant has said the story interested him because it echoes today’s anger at corporate greed and financial institutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dissanayake’s comments have once again exposed the government’s phony posturing of “neutrality” over the illegal US-Israel war against Iran.
The only country that New Delhi has condemned is Iran, for daring to defend itself.
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.”
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.
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.
The zig zags of the PSOE-Sumar government reflect the imperialist interests of the Spanish bourgeoisie.
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.
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.
Avoidable deaths mount on Los Angeles streets as Democratic politicians defend a profit system that treats human survival as expendable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thousands demonstrated in Toronto last Saturday in opposition to the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran and in support of the Palestinian people.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The meeting stressed that the methods tested in the genocide in Gaza are now being applied to Iran.
Weimer’s censorship measures involve removing three left-wing bookshops from a list of 118 shops compiled by an independent expert jury for the German Bookshop Award. The move has triggered a massive wave of protest and criticism.
Capitalist recovery rests on intensified exploitation and a growing reserve army of under- and unemployed workers. Nominal wage increases are trumpeted as progress, yet real wages lag far behind the soaring costs of housing, energy, and food.
The Palestinian detainee had been raped so violently that he had to be transferred to a hospital for treatment for severe injury to his anus, a ruptured bowel, lung damage, and broken ribs that left him unable to walk.
The Greens are seeking to direct opposition to the war on Iran into the dead-end of appeals to the very Labor government that is an active participant in this historic crime.
Matt Canavan has been the most vocal agitator in the rural-based Nationals to push the Liberal-National Coalition for a more aggressive, Trump-style agenda.
Underscoring the importance attached by the imperialist powers to the Arctic in the rapidly escalating redivision of the world, Merz was joined on his visit to northern Norway by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Both countries are participating in the “Cold Response” manoeuvre with significant troop contingents.
Workers across the country, regardless of legal status, race or nationality, have an obligation to support the strike.
Throughout history, regimes that confront deep internal crises have sought to resolve them through war.
Amid an ever-greater escalation of the US war on Iran, the American media and political establishment are openly raising the prospect of sending ground troops into the country, which would vastly expand the scope and scale of a war that has already killed thousands.
Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE members have spoken with workers and students in their campaign against the US-Israel war on Iran.
As the US-Israeli war against Iran rages on with the support of the European imperialist powers and the United Nations, opposition is building in the working class throughout the United States.
A video uploaded to TikTok shows the warehouse doors being shut and locked as more than a dozen drivers tried to get inside.
The unprecedented convictions aim to provide pseudo-legal mechanisms to the government to criminalize dissent, under the guise of combating the fictitious group “Antifa”
At the center of the Morenoite conference was a reactionary theoretical revision aimed at eviscerating Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution.
Sawant seeks to channel mass popular opposition to war, social inequality and attacks on democratic rights into the dead end of bourgeois electoral politics, while promoting the illusion that pressure from below can force a section of the trade union bureaucracy to lead general strikes and wring major concessions from the ruling class.
US Supreme Court bars discrimination suits by workers; Harold Wilson resigns; Iranian oil workers strike; Chiang Kai-shek stages military coup.
