Given the history and importance of filmmaking in the US, the ceremony retains political and cultural significance, even if audiences have fallen sharply in recent decades.
Around 40,000 UC workers in United Auto Workers Local 4811 voted overwhelmingly to strike, but have been kept on the job by union officials nearly two weeks since their contract expired on March 1.
The El Gamal family’s five children describe contaminated food, denial of medical care and the trauma of being imprisoned for a crime they did not commit.
The US-Israeli war on Iran, now in its thirteenth day, is rapidly spiraling and has triggered a cascading regional crisis centred on the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway through which 20 percent of the world's oil passes.
The fact that 140 governments co-sponsored a resolution denouncing the right of a historically oppressed country to resist the most brutal forms of imperialist violence underscores that world capitalism has revived the barbarism previously associated with unrestrained colonial dominance and the two world wars of the 20th century.
The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy.
The ever expanding war front proves that appeals to the ruling class, as presented on the stage of the demonstration, will achieve nothing
Not a single union has opposed the Australian state’s role in the illegal war, let alone called for industrial action to halt the supply of war materials.
Trump’s NIH move to decertify the research fellows’ union exposes a broader drive to smash federal worker protections, weaponize the bureaucracy politically and deepen the assault on science.
The wild swings in the oil price at the start of this week have directed attention to one of the most significant potential consequences of US-led war on Iran—a major financial crisis induced by losses flowing from the oil market.
Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume presented the business figures for the past year at the corporation’s annual press conference on Tuesday and announced an intensification of the ongoing jobs massacre.
“If this war escalates, the danger of a third world war will increase. A major power is waging war against another smaller country. It must be stopped,” a University of Jaffna student said.
No one was hurt by the unexploded devices on Saturday, but the incident is being used to revive the “war on terror.”
About 1,200 workers at the Tridonex-Cardone plant in Matamoros continue to occupy the plant, but are being left to starve on the picket line, underscoring the urgent need for an international, rank‑and‑file fight by autoworkers across North America.
Canada’s Liberal government is continuing to uphold the Safe Third Country Agreement, under which Ottawa returns refugees arriving from the south of the border to the United States, even as the Trump administration eviscerates the rights of immigrants and refugees.
The corruption trial involving 402 defendants, including arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is seen as President Erdoğan's main political rival, began this week.
The “Emergencies” in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus that are the subject of the Imperial War Museum’s current exhibition were fought to preserve the advantages of empire at a moment when Britain’s global position was collapsing.
Thousands of auxiliary metalworkers in Asturias, Spain walk out over pay and conditions; workers at Immingham docks in England begin indefinite strike over unfair dismissals; local government workers and civil servants begin national strike in Ghana over pay
Any genuine risk of violence is a result of pro-war Iranian monarchists and fascists being emboldened to carry out attacks on protesters by the government’s support for the US-Israeli war and regime-change operation against Iran.
During his trip to Israel and the Gulf region, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul demonstratively lined up behind the US-Israeli war against Iran and defended the Netanyahu government’s war propaganda.
Jacobin’s Eric Blanc argues that Americans “feel powerless.” He counsels them to wait for the 2028 election and keep the anti-war movement safely within the Democratic Party.
The strike will be the first in the Greeley JBS plant’s history, and the largest in the US meatpacking industry since the 1985-86 Minnesota Hormel strike.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that preliminary results of a Pentagon investigation show that the US military struck Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School with a Tomahawk missile on February 28, killing at least 150 girls aged 7-12.
Anonymous emails alleging buried bodies and a concealed incinerator at Epstein's 7,600-acre New Mexico compound—where multiple victims testified they were trafficked and assaulted—sat in FBI files until a forced document release compelled the search.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived by helicopter on the nuclear-armed aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to announce that France would lead a European naval group in the Middle East.
Every refinery worker has a direct stake in defeating BP’s demands, which would pave the way for oil companies to dismantle national bargaining altogether.
Trump’s illegal war is deeply unpopular among American workers and the broader population.
The clear intent of the Labor’s legislation is to keep ordinary people trapped under the US-Israeli bombing in Iran and Lebanon.
The Labor government, which routinely persecutes refugees and asylum seekers, orchestrated the defections to put a gloss on its participation in the war of annihilation against Iran.
Contracts for University of California academic workers officially expired on March 1, 2026. Despite a 93.3 percent vote in favor of a strike, the UAW Local 4811 has kept their membership on the job on an expired contract.
A critical assessment of Soviet dissident historian Roy Medvedev (1925–2026), examining both his courageous exposure of Stalinist crimes in Let History Judge and the political limitations that led him from reform-minded dissent to support for the Putin regime.
Layoffs of thousands of California school workers expose bipartisan austerity, union complicity and a growing movement of educators and students.
That things are changing in American writing, and they are changing, is also due to the movement of masses of people in the US and around the globe.
Trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs from every domain of life, the Evo 2 model can predict disease-causing mutations, identify genomic features and generate entirely new genetic sequences.
What is emerging is a unified imperialist-led front—Washington, Israel, the Gulf monarchies, and the comprador elites of the Arab world—against the masses of the Middle East.
“The timeline of it, how things have gone this year, and how there are all these Western countries supporting the bombing of Iran and other wars—this is a lead-up to world war.”
In spite of the nurses’ powerful position, the 41 day strike ended with a betrayal, demonstrating the need for rank-and-file committees to take struggles out of the hands of the union bureaucracy.
The six-month strike by 750 hospital nurses and case workers in Grand Blanc, Michigan, has come to a fundamental crossroads.
Contrary to the president’s claims, Colombo is functioning as a compliant intermediary for the diplomatic and strategic objectives of the US and Israel in the war of extermination against Iran.
The growth target for this year has been set at a range between 4.5 and 5 percent, down from last year's target of “around 5 percent” and the lowest since 1991.
This criminal war of aggression is systematically enabled by the US media and theDemocratic Party, whose leaders have endorsed the murder of Iranian officials, provided political cover for the Trump regime and funded the war.
The joint military operation launched last week is turning Ecuador into a fascist laboratory for Trump’s hemispheric war drive and preparations for military dictatorships.
As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastrophe sustained by bipartisan political decisions.
In an interview, the film’s young director correctly noted: “We can’t really understand the German judicial system without taking its Nazi past into account."
Far from being a passive observer of the US-Israeli war against Iran, the Dutch ruling class stands exposed once again as an active accomplice in the machinery of imperialist war, genocide and plunder.
The most striking result of the recent Baden-Württemberg state election is the collapse of the SPD.
Many core elements of the reforms have been postponed until the next parliament, as ministers attempt to defuse anger among parent campaigners who recognise the measures as austerity imposed on the most vulnerable.
The 6,000 workers at DHL in the US, members of the Teamsters, are demanding improvements in pay, benefits and working conditions.
Labor is openly joining a war of annihilation against an oppressed nation.
When the trading day began in the US the price of oil had surged from around $90 a barrel to as high as $119 and was set to go even higher as stocks were falling following significant further selloffs in Asia.
The nationalist calls by the Labour Party, the Greens as well as sections of academia and the media for a more “independent” foreign policy are a smokescreen and fraud.
A Quinnipiac poll released Monday found that 53 percent of registered voters oppose the war, and 74 percent opposed sending ground troops into Iran, which Trump is reportedly seriously considering.
As the US-Israeli war on Iran entered its second week, the Trump administration vowed to continue the bombardment and refused to rule out sending ground troops or implementing a military draft.
Thousands of workers and youth from around the world participated in the event, which identified the international working class as the only force capable of ending the criminal bombardment of Iran and all imperialist wars.
Socialist Equality Party members spoke with workers and young people in Adelaide about the state government’s attacks on living standards and the country’s complicity in the criminal US-led war against Iran.
Numerous media analyses of photos, video and satellite imagery have concluded that the massacre of 160 children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School in Minab on February 28 was carried out by the US military.
In a social media post Sunday and a speech to Republican House members Monday, the US president said he would not sign any legislation into law until Congress passes the “Save America Act.”
With Ankara claiming that a second missile from Iran was intercepted by NATO, the risk of the war spreading to Türkiye and the wider alliance is growing.
TİP claims to oppose the imperialist war against Iran, but is forming an electoral alliance with the Left Party, which celebrated the illegal killings of Iran’s leadership.
Trump’s address to his Latin American stooges opened with a boastful report about the barbaric destruction of Iran.
Despite his insults, Milei’s speech also laid bare the sordid division of labor between Peronism, the Peronist-led union bureaucracy and the pseudo-leftist FIT-U in suppressing the class struggle and enforcing his attacks against the working class.
Hollywood consolidation advances the fusion of corporate media, artificial intelligence systems and the American military-intelligence apparatus.
The political establishment insists there is “no money” for bus drivers, aides, counselors and teachers. Yet there is unlimited money to wage illegal war with Iran.
“We need to carry on supporting people in other countries who are being oppressed and who are having war crimes committed against them.”
Workers in Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and internationally need to be warned: The US and Israel may resort to any kind of provocation to directly involve regional states in the war against Iran.
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East, a sign that the saturation bombing of a country of 90 million people will intensify.
The Oklahoma senator—who has defended police killings, promoted “show your papers” policing and backed war with Iran—is being embraced by Democrats and the trade union bureaucracy.
The price of Brent crude, the benchmark for oil, rose 28 percent last week, with predictions it could go much higher.
Museveni wins Uganda election; Sadat breaks with Soviet alliance; US forces retake Seoul in Korean War; Fascist Italy bans strikes
“The Socialist Equality Party in Australia unequivocally condemns the imperialist war of aggression being waged against Iran.”
Students at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek proceeded with a walkout and demonstration against ICE attacks on immigrants in the area in the face of a fascist threat of violence.
Speakers will discuss the causes of the war, its global implications, the historical and theoretical issues involved, and above all the necessity of the working class politically intervening to stop it.
Bahram, who escaped Iran as a refugee in the 1980s, denounced the media and government narratives that sought to legitimise the US and Israeli bombings while elevating supporters of Reza Pahlavi, heir to the US-backed monarchy overthrown in 1979.
Viewers complained at the censorship on social media, with one commenting, “I’ve never known the Brits bleep out so much stuff.”
Socialist Equality Party supporters spoke to workers operating and maintaining buses across West London and to postal workers at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Royal Mail’s central sorting and distribution hub.
Keir Starmer’s policy was never not to back Trump in his bombing and regime change operation. It was only how best to ensure Britain could fully join in behind a cloak of “legality.”
Germany’s “model industrial state” has become the country’s biggest job killer. Some 40,000 people lost their jobs last year alone, and further layoffs and cost-cutting programmes are in the works.
The Australian Labor government is directly implicated in the war crime that claimed over 140 lives and in the broader barbaric US-Israeli war against Iran of which it is a part.
Corporate media and Congress are using the shooting as an opportunity to rail against immigration and Muslims and promote war against Iran.
The aim of this webinar is to place the struggle against the war in its necessary historical, political and social context. It will cut through the endless stream of lying propaganda and disinformation pumped out by the White House, the corporate media, and all the imperialist governments.
On Monday, 2 March, the trial began at the Hanover District Court concerning the fatal accident on 8 September 2023 at the Hanover-Linden freight yard.
The $2.8 billion facilities plan unveiled by administrators on February 26 would shutter 18 schools across the Philadelphia School District.
Estefany Rodríguez Flórez was detained without a warrant and transferred hundreds of miles from her family.
With this agreement, the GDL is providing the German government, which owns Deutsche Bahn, an indispensable service against the working class.
Workers at the Lorain County Department of Job and Family Services—140 members of UAW Local 2192—are in their third week on strike for higher wages, affordable healthcare and safe, adequately staffed working conditions.
Mounting evidence points to a breakdown in hospital infrastructure and management in New South Wales, including multiple incidents of dangerous mould, asbestos and pest infestations.
The outcome of the war will be determined by the development of the class struggle in the United States itself—in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and other major working class centers.
President Donald Trump declared Friday that there will be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” signaling the intention to wage permanent war until Iranian society is destroyed.
Teachers and students confront deteriorating public schools, while military contractors and the Defence Department embed themselves in classrooms.
The Socialist Equality Party condemns the illegal war of aggression by US imperialism and Israel against Iran and the sinking of an unarmed Iranian warship as a blatant war crime.
The German-Turkish-French co-production Yellow Letters by Ilker Çatak is a powerful warning against the threat of censorship and state oppression, including in Germany and other countries.
The US is reestablishing relations as Chavista acting president Delcy Rodríguez hands oil, gold and critical minerals to Wall Street.
Protests among high school and university students have erupted after the right-wing Progressive Conservative government announced huge cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) grants last month.
India: ASHA workers and midday meal workers demand wage rise; Police attack striking L&T steel plant workers in Gujarat; Australia: Pacific National rail workers locked out in Queensland; Tasmanian public sector health workers escalate industrial action; New Zealand firefighters continue strikes.
The following statement against the US-Israel war on Iran was issued on Wednesday by Ulaş Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (Socialist Equality Party) in Türkiye.
Omole’s KES 500,000 bond (about $3,850) represents more than six months’ pay for the average formal sector worker and nearly two years’ income for many Kenyans.
The latest High Court injunction reinforces a previous injunction last May, barring effective picketing by strikers. It sets a wider precedent by removing any means through which pressure can be exerted on an employer without it being deemed unlawful.
The leaks confirm that British officials had been informed of the planned offensive 17 days in advance and were engaged in intense discussions with Washington over how the Labour government could assist.
The United States Navy’s torpedoing of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean on March 4, 2026 is a war crime.
