Archive: 03/2025
2025-03-01
- US Food and Drug Administration cancels advisory panel meeting on flu vaccines
- Australia: Political row erupts over presence of Chinese warships
- Union officials try to block WSWS reporters from speaking to workers as union shuts down UC strike
- Democratic lawmakers in Maryland push right-wing mask ban
- The Philippines becomes the staging ground for a US-led war with China
- Trump task force to investigate 10 universities for “antisemitism”
- On eve of Carnival, costume factory fire exposes deadly working conditions in Brazil
- Enthusiasm for Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here intersects with burning political issues in Brazil
- Trump-Zelensky shouting match exposes clash between US and European powers
- Australia: Senior NSW psychiatrist condemns Labor’s assault on public sector mental health care
- Australia: Socialist Equality Party challenges decision to deny it ballot status
- The Brutalist: A Holocaust survivor reclaims his life
- Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers protest President Dissanayake’s budget cuts
2025-03-03
- “How the fight against fascism and war must be waged”
- The political issues behind the Trump administration’s attack on DEI
- Major US think tank highlights importance of critical minerals
- Donald Trump “celebrates” Black History Month with the black elite
- Continuing hysteria in NZ over Cook Islands’ deal with China
- Teamsters officials applaud Trump’s nomination of former UPS/Amazon executive to head OSHA
- Democrats jump to defense of Zelensky and Ukraine war
- Car workers in Luton respond to Stellantis UK plant closure: “Workers united internationally have the power to fight these companies”
- This week in history: March 3-9
- Turkish workers occupy mine against privatisation as wildcat strikes continue
- Pentagon orders 3,000 more troops, including Stryker combat brigade, to US-Mexico border
- Amid disarray following Trump-Zelensky rift, Europe’s leaders prepare for war
- New York governor accedes to prison guard demands to loosen restrictions on solitary confinement
- Trump bans transgender athletes from entering the United States
- Thousands protest at national parks against Trump’s mass firings
- Netanyahu’s murdered Bibas children lie unravels after it was championed by Trump and world’s media
- DOGE layoffs hit air transportation safety hard
- Protesters speak out at global demonstrations for justice over Greek Tempi rail crash
- Rank-and-file committee members at Sydney’s Macquarie University call for urgent staff action to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Israel blocks entry of food into Gaza, plans to cut power and water
2025-03-04
- Former governor Andrew Cuomo announces he will run for New York City mayor
- Thailand: Opposition parties file no-confidence motion against prime minister
- Mass protests continue in Serbia
- New Austrian government will implement right-wing programme
- Australia: Growing opposition to Zionist censorship of Venice Biennale artist and curator
- Oppose the expulsion of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University! Mobilize the working class!
- Trump and Musk move towards privatization of Social Security with 7,000 job cuts
- Democrats seek to divert opposition to Trump with anti-Russia warmongering
- The success of No Other Land and I’m Still Here at the Academy Awards shows growing popular opposition and radicalization
- Sam Fender’s People Watching: “I don’t wear the shoes I used to walk in”
- Opposition grows to UAW sellout at Rolls-Royce Indianapolis defense plant
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan president warns against any attempt to destabilise his government
- PKK accepts Öcalan’s call to end armed struggle
- After child dies in Texas measles outbreak, Kennedy promotes “vaccine choice” and pseudoscience
- Australia: Trump tariff threats trigger corporate demands for deeper attacks on workers
- Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part One
- Trump’s 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico to take effect Tuesday
2025-03-05
- Trump’s fascist Fortress America
- Trump threatens to pull funding from schools that refuse to suppress free speech, opposition to genocide
- Trump’s expanding global trade war will mean mass layoffs and punishing price hikes for workers
- Public meeting in Australia: Election ban on the SEP: An attack on democratic rights
- Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part Two
- Coalition talks in Germany: €1 trillion for the military and infrastructure
- Australia: Support for campaign against Zionist witch hunt of Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Australia: Electoral members support SEP campaign against party registration ban
- Reject UAW’s support for Trump’s tariffs! Unite US, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
- Mexican president banks on phone call with Trump to avoid devastation from tariffs
- Australia: Court ruling undermines challenge to Victorian public housing demolition
- Poverty among Australian retirees has doubled in the past decade
- The political significance of Greece’s massive protests and general strike for Tempi rail crash justice
- Mayor’s report understates homeless crisis in Detroit
- Autoworkers oppose UAW backing of Trump tariffs and coming job cuts
2025-03-06
- Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part Three
- 50th anniversary of Picnic at Hanging Rock: A landmark film of the Australian New Wave
- Trump’s tariffs rock US and global economy
- Walkout by Detroit high school students against anti-immigrant witch hunt
- How US Education Secretary Linda McMahon is dismantling public education
- Huge rise in council tax bills for millions in Britain as services slashed
- Ford Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting condemns UAW complicity in factory police raids
- 30 Los Angeles County correctional officers indicted for inciting “gladiator fights” among youth
- Jewish reporter assaulted and arrested for anti-genocide protest at Ontario NDP election night event
- Brazil faces threat of historic dengue outbreak in 2025
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Bernie Sanders attempts to divert opposition to Trump behind the Democratic Party and support for war with Russia
- Break through Verdi union’s stalling tactics at Berlin transit provider BVG! Prepare an indefinite strike!
- Steelworkers union pushes sellout contract at ATI as leaders promote tariffs and trade war
2025-03-07
- Strike at Dundee University over job losses poses necessity for new rank-and-file strategy
- Opposition of educators grows to Trump’s existential threat to public education
- Lula fires health minister amid new wave of COVID-19 in Brazil
- 10 Democrats join Republicans in censuring Rep. Al Green for interrupting Trump
- Michigan 8th grader fights for First Amendment rights
- Elon Musk calls for privatization of United States Postal Service, Amtrak passenger rail
- Canada’s unions mobilizing workers behind country’s capitalist elite with nationalist trade-war propaganda
- Zelensky faces mounting domestic political crisis amid clashes with Trump
- The defense of science requires a fight for socialism!
- Germany leads the way, as Europe rearms
- Australian ruling elite reacts nervously to Trump confrontation with Zelensky, Europe
- Australia: Whyalla Steelworks was “running on empty,” owed creditors $1.3 billion
- Three valuable films from Palestine and Germany: Yalla Parkour, Köln 75, Leibniz
- Vote “No” to the proposed contract at Deutsche Post! Build the Postal Workers Action Committee!
- Texas A&M students protest Trump’s assault on immigrants, Democrats attempt to ban criticism
- German woman detained for over a month by ICE
- Australia: SEP supporters express “outrage” over anti-democratic rejection of party registration
- Postal worker speaks on USO reform pilots: “A tripartite attack on jobs by Royal Mail, Ofcom and the CWU”
- Supreme Court narrowly upholds lower court order that USAID must pay bills
- China to press ahead with growth in the face of US economic war
- The reactionary role of Germany’s Left Party in the fight against fascism and war
- Sri Lanka: How to fight the Dissanayake government’s attacks on public health
- Nordic countries respond to deepening Europe-US rift with calls for European military capabilities, rearmament
2025-03-08
- Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka) discusses how to fight public health cuts
- Japan experiences largest wildfire in 50 years
- CSX Transportation claims machinists union is the latest to push through pattern sellout contract
- Cyclone Alfred hits major Australian population centre
- Australia: Opponent of Gaza genocide criminally charged for denouncing Zionism
- Second measles death in US reported by New Mexico health officials
- US bans Chevron from Venezuela’s oil sector amid rising military tensions
- February job cuts hit highest monthly level in 5 years under impact of Trump’s mass firings
- Thousands demonstrate in the Stand Up for Science protests
- No to European rearmament!
- 9 anti-genocide students arrested at Columbia University protest against expulsions
- Death of humanitarian aid worker on the streets of Ottawa highlights homelessness crisis in Canada
- IYSSE holds meeting opposing mass deportations at Texas A&M University
- Actor Gene Hackman (1930-2025): A great American realist
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2025-03-09
2025-03-10
- Australia: Form rank-and-file committees to halt Labor’s demolition of public housing towers in Melbourne!
- Spain’s pseudo-left Sumar and Podemos back rearmament drive
- South Carolina puts Brad Sigmon to death in first US firing squad execution since 2010
- Warning strikes in Germany’s public services: “€500 billion for us instead of for armaments”
- Mexican ruling class rallies behind President Sheinbaum after Trump delays tariffs
- 234 inmates have died in Kentucky jails since 2020, most while awaiting trial
- Royal Mail workers in Scotland speak against USO pilots: “The CWU is trying to dress this up”
- Oppose the detention of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the working class to prevent his deportation!
- Short films and their view of history: How Are You?, Lloyd Wong, Unfinished and Ceasefire
- In wake of Stand Up for Science protests, Trump to cut another 1,000 jobs from NOAA
- Australia: Ex-Cyclone Alfred still threatens extreme weather
- “An attack on the SEP and on democracy itself”—SEP electoral members in Australia denounce party registration ban
- This week in history: March 10-16
- Turkish government and corporations respond to NATO crisis with calls to deepen alliance with Europe
- Pittsburgh protesters: “Kennedy should not be allowed to speak in public because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about”
- Inmate deaths mount as wildcat strike by New York state prison guards continues
- The American oligarchy declares war on public education
- Labor Party retains office in Western Australia despite heavy swing
2025-03-11
- Corbyn offers verbal opposition, Labour’s “left” rump backs Starmer’s Ukraine war aims
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Amid massacre of Alawites in Syria, Islamist HTS regime and Kurdish SDF reach agreement
- For killing worker in Texas factory, Tesla to pay fine of $49,000, or what CEO Elon Musk makes in 8 seconds
- Former central banker Carney to become Canada’s prime minister
- Trump appoints mining industry executive to head Mining Safety and Health
- New Zealand diplomat sacked after criticizing Trump
- Massive state clampdown on UK campus protests against Gaza genocide
- Sri Lanka: IMF demands sacrifice, warns of “potential labour unrest”
- Australia: Macquarie University RFC calls for rally to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Australian police say wave of “antisemitic attacks” was a hoax
- Germany: IG Metall union supports war credits and rearmament programme costing trillions
- Nestlé Purina workers in Pennsylvania on strike
- Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
- Teamsters claim ratification of Costco sellout contract
- Sanders in Michigan promotes pro-Trump, pro-trade war UAW President Shawn Fain
- UN reports nothing is entering Gaza, as Israel imposes total food and energy blockade
- More short films in Berlin—Mother’s Child from the Netherlands, Ordinary Life and global clickworkers in Their Eyes
- Teamsters bureaucracy does nothing as UPS announces hundreds of additional layoffs
- Germany: MERA25 parliamentary candidate dismissed for expressing solidarity with Palestine
- 9 lies in the UAW contract “highlights” for Indianapolis Rolls-Royce workers
2025-03-12
- Starmer Labour government organises pandemic Day of Reflection as UK COVID deaths mount
- Mired in crypto scandal, Javier Milei escalates war on Argentina’s working class
- Atlanta Democrats press crackdown on “Cop City” opponents, with controversial training center set to open in the spring
- It Is Happening Here: Trump’s attack on immigrants and the threat of dictatorship
- 5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastrophe
- Hundreds rally in defense of Mahmoud Khalil in New York City: “There is fascism happening in this country”
- Trump orders Education Department to slash half its workforce in preparation for its destruction
- Ruling elite demands massive increase to Australian military spending for war
- Australian Labor government admits not a single house built by $10 billion fund
- Seven-month strike by video game performers remains isolated by SAG-AFTRA
- RFK Jr.’s CDC plans to resurrect the unfounded link between vaccines and autism
- Jobs cull at universities in Wales, part of over 10,000 losses UK wide
- Former Philippine President Duterte arrested for crimes against humanity
2025-03-13
- Soul, rhythm and blues and jazz singer Roberta Flack, 1937-2025
- Ford Cologne: General Works Council warns of plant closure
- Corbyn calls for “Chilcot-style inquiry” into Britain’s role in Gaza genocide
- Yale University suspends law scholar and pro-Palestinian activist targeted by AI-powered Zionist news website
- Mobilize the working class to fight Trump’s destruction of the Department of Education!
- Mass protest by municipality workers in Istanbul amid strike wave
- Questions raised over US alliance after Trump rejects Australian tariff exemption
- Staff protest job cuts at the University of Technology Sydney
- Coalition talks begin in Germany: Rearming like the Nazis, anti-refugee agitation and social cuts
- Educators discuss Khalil detention, Trump’s cuts at Detroit school board meeting
- Trump administration pursues deportation of Mahmoud Khalil while admitting he has committed no crime
- Oklahoma’s assault on public education and immigrant rights
- Over 1,000 protest in Foley Square, New York City in defense of Mahmoud Khalil: “This is what happened in Nazi Germany”
- Trump steps up tariff war as US recession threat grows
- US Southwest dust storm: A public health and safety disaster
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- 11 charged for anti-genocide protest at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University
- Quebec government moves to eviscerate the right to strike
2025-03-14
- Homeless Detroit mother could still be scapegoated for deaths of her children
- New Zealand’s record of colonial oppression of the Cook Islands
- The Room Next Door: The latest film from Pedro Almodóvar
- Russian forces make major advances in Kursk amid ceasefire talks
- Trump escalates tariff war against Europe
- Virginia governor commutes sentence for officer who killed unarmed man suspected of shoplifting
- Multiple reports indicate Trump plans to invoke Alien Enemies Act to ramp up deportations
- “An outrageous attack”—SEP electoral members in Australia speak out against party registration ban
- European powers plan massive assault on the working class to ready militaries for war
- Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham beats the drum for UK Labour’s arms spending
- Australia: Labor government to evict first 147 residents from inner-Sydney public housing
- California Governor Gavin Newsom’s rightward march: Legitimizing fascism with Stephen K. Bannon and Charlie Kirk
- Stop the rearmament of Germany! Socialism, not war!
- Sri Lanka: Political Science Department head at Peradeniya University condemns ban of IYSSE meeting
- Facing record unpopularity and multiple disasters, Peru’s president turns to austerity and repression
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Detroit autoworkers call for Mahmoud Khalil’s release and fight to defend free speech
- Nearly 100 arrested inside Trump Tower, as protests spread against detention of Mahmoud Khalil
- Kerala’s Stalinist-led state government in India slanders striking ASHA public health workers
- Boeing machinist, victimized for supporting last year’s strike, denounces inaction by the IAM union
- Help the WSWS mobilize opposition to Trump’s dictatorship!
- Jacobin on Silicon Valley alliance with Trump: A diversion from socialist politics
2025-03-15
- Australia: Labor governments refuse to repeal hate speech laws
- The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship
- Unions prepared to collaborate as USPS announces agreement with DOGE to slash spending
- Union blocks motion to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- Workers in Canada speak out against Trump’s trade war and the Canadian elite’s nationalist response
- Mobilise the working class against the Sri Lankan government’s austerity agenda
- In flagrant attack on free speech, Miami Beach mayor threatens cinema that showed award-winning documentary No Other Land
- Second anti-genocide student protester at Columbia arrested by Trump’s immigration police
- Trump’s school voucher plan: A billion-dollar tax shelter for the ruling elites
- Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” US and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
2025-03-16
- Socialist Equality Party mobilises support for Mahmoud Khalil’s freedom at UK anti-war demonstration
- Federal lawsuit seeks injunction against Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders targeting free speech
- This week in history: March 17-23
- UK Labour government launches DOGE-style attack on the National Health Service
2025-03-17
- Canada’s new banker prime minister proclaims “new era” of austerity
- Healthcare on the brink: Palliative Care Unit and Late Shift
- Australia: Union cancels strike by pathology workers at Australian Clinical Labs
- US massacres dozens of civilians in airstrikes on Yemen
- Increasing violence in Australian public schools
- Educators Rank-and-File Committee holds meeting demanding release of Mahmoud Khalil
- Mass protests over Tempi train crash deepen political crisis in Greece
- America’s “State of Exception”
- Homeless tent camp broken up by Labour-run Manchester council
- Trump regime demands Australian universities end “anti-US” and “socialist” links
- Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act: A new stage in the erection of a police-state dictatorship
- South Korea: Verdict in president’s impeachment trial expected this week
- Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions
- Storms ravage south-central US, killing dozens
- The scandal of Toxic Town—birth defects linked to pollution in former UK steel town Corby
- ATI steelworkers reject USW-backed sellout agreement
- Trump denounces media criticism as “illegal” in Justice Department rant
- US immigration gestapo ignores court orders, legal status to carry out abductions
- Trump and DOGE attack hundreds of jobs at seven long-standing federal government entities
- Study exposes Brazilian dictatorship’s spying across Latin America
- Trump doubles down after federal judge puts executive order targeting major law firm on hold
- Six years after Christchurch massacre in New Zealand by fascist Brenton Tarrant
- Germany’s Greens support historic rearmament programme
2025-03-18
- Germany’s rearmament programme: Christian Democrats and Social Democrats declare war on the working class
- Trump administration defies court on illegal deportations
- Chicago police arrest Starbucks workers at sit-in during shareholder meeting
- Australian Electoral Commission rejects challenge to election ban on SEP
- California district attorney files charges against UC Santa Cruz student nearly year after anti-genocide protests
- NIH crackdown on mRNA research: The Trump administration’s march toward scientific censorship
- Indonesian government’s austerity measures provoke student protests
- UAW Rolls-Royce sellout passes with substantial opposition from rank and file
- Verdi union leadership supports German government’s pro-war agenda: Build independent rank-and-file action committees!
- Four years on: Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka face ongoing repression
- Cumbernauld delivery office: How the CWU is enforcing Royal Mail’s USO reform pilots
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Prosecutors refuse to press charges against Missouri police officer who shot and killed a mother and her infant child
- Sharp rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian violence in Australia
- Chicago teachers must lead fight against Trump’s attacks on public education and immigrants!
- Seizing on Trump’s trade war, government officials discuss overturning Canada Post’s monopoly on delivering mail
- Britain’s Labour government announces savage welfare cuts targeting sick and disabled
- On Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison
- Chicago public meeting Saturday, March 22: How the working class can defeat Trump’s war on education and democracy
- Australian state Labor government moves to evict occupants from flood-damaged homes in Lismore
- Germany: Thousands protest in Cologne against massacre of Alawites in Syria
2025-03-19
- For a rank-and-file movement to save the Post Office and oppose dictatorship!
- Australian High Court ruling could trigger compensation payments to some indigenous “native title” holders
- At least 59 lives lost in nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia
- Louisiana ends 15-year pause in executions with nitrogen gas execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr.
- Gold hits $3,000 per ounce in another expression of dollar turmoil
- Mahmoud Khalil denounces bipartisan genocide, attacks on democratic rights from Louisiana jail
- Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17: Capitalism’s perfect worker—expendable and recyclable: “My entire life’s a … punishment”
- Brazilian teachers warn US counterparts: Trump is following Milei-Bolsonaro model to destroy public education and militarize schools
- Erdogan’s main rival, İstanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu detained by police
- Wabtec target 300 engineering job losses in Doncaster, UK
- Online meeting unites educators, students and workers to defend public education against Trump’s attacks
- Argentine retirees savagely assaulted for protesting benefit cuts
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government calls for record military spending without parliamentary debate
- Trump and Netanyahu accelerate the “final solution” in Gaza
- Frame-up victim and artist Gary Tyler speaks at the University of Michigan
- Sri Lankan government expedites privatisation of state-owned enterprises, axing thousands of jobs
- Free Mahmoud Khalil! All UAW Members Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Dictatorship!
- Berlin homeless man killed during emptying of waste bin he slept in
- Kneecap, the movie—funny, noisy and sympathetic
- “Action Day” of Germany’s IG Metall Union: A nationalist spectacle promoting Berlin’s war course
2025-03-20
- Hundreds of migrants in ICE custody go “missing” as deportees are jailed in El Salvador’s “terrorism” prison
- Judge rules to move Mahmoud Khalil’s immigration case from New York to New Jersey
- German Federal Court of Justice rules: Ukrainian conscientious objectors may be extradited
- Israel massacres another 60 Palestinians in Gaza, renews ground offensive
- Australian families struggle with escalating school costs
- Attorney Eric Lee exposes witch-hunt of Yale scholar and defends pro-Palestinian speech rights on The Hill’s “Rising”
- Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service spreads far-right Wuhan lab conspiracy theory
- Police sought to detain Momodou Taal after he filed lawsuit against Trump administration in defense of free speech
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Former political prisoner Gary Tyler calls for fight to free Mahmoud Khalil
- Trump’s Operation Dictatorship
- Biased statistics and the rejection of SEP (Australia) electoral registration
- Major reduction in Fed’s US growth forecast
- Australia: Cyclone Alfred exposes government failures
- The Purple Bird and the good intentions of Bonnie “Prince” Billy
- Israeli protests centre on Netanyahu’s dismissal of Shin Bet chief amid new stage in Gaza genocide
2025-03-21
- New discovery of ancient bone tools from East Africa reveals greater complexity in the evolution of early human technology
- İstanbul mayor İmamoğlu in custody: What lies behind Turkey’s drift into a dictatorial regime?
- Canada Post worker supports German colleagues’ struggle against wage and job cuts
- Québec Solidaire’s new co-leader Ruba Ghazal promotes the fraud of “inclusive” nationalism
- UK: Birmingham refuse workers on indefinite strike against pay cuts
- Meeting opposes ban on official registration of SEP, outlines socialist perspective for Australian election
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in New York City on brink of closure
- German parliament agrees to €1 trillion for war
- A week of executions in America: Inmates put to death in Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Florida
- Trump’s attacks on federal workers leading to local recession in the Washington D.C. region
- Labour “lefts” capitulate as Starmer targets sick and disabled
- Turkey: The way forward for mass protests against Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu’s detention
- Australia: At least 16 dead in outbreak of waterborne illness after severe storms in northern Queensland
- Long Beach Medical Center nurses fight again for adequate staffing, safe working conditions
- Trump’s call for the “annihilation” of Yemen and the US war to subjugate the Middle East
- Trump seeks to abolish crucial library and museum service
- Soaring rice prices in the Philippines drive millions deeper into poverty
- Border Gestapo arrest and threaten to deport well-known Colorado immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra
- IYSSE holds meeting in New York City to oppose the detention of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
- Trump signs executive order directing the closure of the US Department of Education
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Cornell student Momodou Taal files new emergency motion for temporary restraining order against Trump administration
- Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
- German services union negotiations: Billions for weapons, real wage cuts for the public sector
2025-03-22
- European court orders Ukraine to pay victims of the 2014 Odessa fascist massacre
- 2,300 teachers slated for layoffs in California
- Sydney nurse baited by Israeli provocateur signals he will fight bogus charge
- Oppose the attack on Momodou Taal, the latest target of Trump’s assault on democratic rights!
- Neighbourhood Action Committee established to fight Labor’s demolition of Melbourne public housing
- Two films dealing with racism and fascism: The Moelln Letters and The Lie
- Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the Working Class Against Trump’s Dictatorship!
- Postal workers protest across US against threatened privatization of USPS
- Sri Lankan health workers protest budget cuts amid government threats
- Judge denounces Trump’s “incredibly troublesome” invocation of Alien Enemies Act
- Musk’s Pentagon meeting points to advanced planning for conflict with China
- Israel’s Defence Minister vows to annex parts of Gaza as all-out aid blockade and military offensive continue
- Australia: In wake of Cyclone Alfred, local councils evict homeless
- EU adopts White Paper demanding €800 billion defense spending increase
- Trump executive order revives discredited 1776 Commission, mandating the falsification of American history in K-12 schools
- New York Times resurrects debunked Wuhan Lab Lie
2025-03-23
2025-03-24
- Texas arrests midwife and assistant for providing abortions
- Joint US-Canada protest against Trump along Detroit River
- Volkswagen to cut shift at Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in one week
- No to Starmer’s war and austerity government—fight for socialism!
- Trump escalating US economic war with looming “reciprocal tariffs”
- Public outrage over ICE abduction of two Honduran immigrant workers in Indianapolis
- Taiwan appoints Japanese ex-military chief as advisor
- Columbia’s capitulation to Trump: Academia bows before dictatorship
- Erdoğan tries to quell mass protests as 15 million turn out for CHP’s presidential primary
- House committee to take up bill giving president “right” to rip up labor contracts for federal workers
- Netanyahu organises Israeli “antisemitism” conference featuring Europe’s far-right
- Oppose repression of IR and CRT university students protesting Spain’s neo-fascist Vox party!
- University of Michigan students react warmly to talk by former political prisoner and artist, Gary Tyler
- Israel establishes government bureau to oversee Gaza ethnic cleansing, as death toll tops 50,000
- American filmmaker David Lynch (1946-2025)
- Australia: 13 tunnel workers diagnosed with life-threatening silicosis in NSW
- Adolescence: Gripping realism explores social pressures behind young male violence
- German automaker Audi cuts 7,500 jobs
- German parliament agrees to massive military spending, with the votes of the Left Party
- Stelco and contractor John Kenyon avoid trial over two Ontario worker deaths with plea deal
- Lawyers for Momodou Taal denounce Trump administration’s deportation effort as unconstitutional political retaliation
- 5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The response of the World Socialist Web Site
- New Arkansas law would enforce literacy tests on commercial drivers, in racist attack on immigrants
- Australian government urges universities to comply with Trump regime’s research funding demands
2025-03-25
- As families search for “disappeared” detainees, Appeals Court judge says Venezuelan migrants treated worse than Nazi agents were
- Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez propose “fighting oligarchy” by supporting Democrats, Chuck Schumer, capitalism
- Letter carriers rally across America against privatization of US Postal Service
- Australian Greens outline program for military build-up and war
- Israel prepares to fully occupy Gaza, displace entire population
- Southern California USPS rally against Trump’s privatization efforts
- New Zealand government seeks closer ties with Trump, Modi administrations
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Time is being called on “US exceptionalism”
- Major law firm Paul Weiss capitulates to Trump’s fascistic executive order
- Judge hears arguments in case brought by Momodou Taal against Trump’s executive orders targeting free speech
- Volkswagen plans for tanks instead of Tiguan SUVs
- Australian intelligence review calls for “urgent” powers for crises, war and political unrest
- Sick and disabled speak on Labour’s welfare cuts: “Enough to drive people to suicide”
- Co-director of award-winning No Other Land attacked by Israeli fascist settlers and military
- Hearing begins today on Momodou Taal’s case against Trump
- Launch of Canada’s federal election campaign dominated by Trump’s tariff war and annexation threat
- China denounces CK Hutchison’s port deal as “kneeling down” to the US
- Job massacre in Germany: A declaration of war on the working class
2025-03-26
- How American imperialism plots wars of aggression
- Control over Greenland: A long-standing goal of American imperialism
- Contract set to expire for nurses at Stanford, which employs “herd immunity” advocate turned Trump’s NIH pick Jay Bhattacharya
- Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire from China—A doomed attempt to combine social realism with #MeToo
- 200 people jailed as mass protests continue in Turkey
- Federal arbitrator imposes concession contract on US city letter carriers, while move towards privatization continues
- DOGE cuts to Social Security staff and services sends benefits system into chaos
- Australian government delivers sham pre-election budget
- NDP proposes “made in Canada” rearmament plan to ready Ottawa for world war
- Spain’s pseudo-left Sumar feigns opposition to its own government’s rearmament programme
- Labour slashes public spending, hands over billions to military in UK Spring Statement
- Confusion as world awaits next move in Trump trade war
- Columbia University student hunted by ICE, Yunseo Chung, sues Trump administration
- SEP (Sri Lanka) stands in local government elections for socialism against austerity, dictatorship and war
2025-03-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Academy disgraces itself by not coming to the defense of award-winning No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballal
- Trump escalates trade war with 25 percent auto tariff
- Senator John Fetterman, promoted by Jacobin, feted by Netanyahu in Israel
- New study finds that the world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate
- The dismantling of Medicare: Trump’s acceleration of a longstanding class war policy
- Zelensky arrives in Paris for European war summit targeting Russia
- Greek fascist MP given kid gloves treatments after attack on art exhibition
- Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa makes futile appeals to NZ government to oppose Gaza genocide
- Massachusetts Democrats collaborate with ICE in crackdown on immigrants
- Trump administration threatens to cut funding for New York City transit system
- Leipzig Book Fair 2025: David North to present the German edition of his book Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War
- The Summit of Resistance: Britain’s pseudo-left opposes a socialist political challenge to Starmer’s Labour government
- Democrats seize on Yemen attack leak to press for imperialist war
- Thousands protest in UK National Day of Action against billions in welfare cuts
- Stalinist-led CITU orders end to Samsung India strike leaving 23 suspended workers in the lurch
- Senate confirms Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary to escalate war on science and public health
- Emergency meeting: Stop Trump’s moves to privatize USPS! Oppose the illegitimate NALC contract!
- Thousands protest Trump administration’s kidnapping of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, Massachusetts
- Left Party leader Gregor Gysi calls for unity with the warmongers
- USPS worker exposes chaos under “Delivering for America” restructuring
- McDonald’s to offer employees “microcredentials” for university degrees
- Berlin Transport workers strike: No to arbitration! Force the Verdi union to organize an all-out strike!
2025-03-28
- Stalinist leader of Communist Party Marxist – Kenya (CPM-K) slanders Trotskyism following WSWS exposure
- Antimicrobial resistance crisis a major threat to human health
- United Auto Workers bureaucrats back Trump’s trade war auto tariffs
- São Paulo teachers stage one-day strike against attacks on education
- Verdi union enters arbitration, blocking all-out strike at Berlin transit operator BVG
- The crisis in Turkey and the fight for revolutionary leadership
- US immigration Gestapo abduct Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi
- Victims of last year’s police-abetted Zionist assault on student encampment file lawsuit against UCLA administration
- Letter from an Italian postal worker
- Trump executive order seeks to suppress voting by millions of US citizens
- WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
- Cornell student Momodou Taal files new emergency request to block political detention and deportation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- OECD report points to mounting global debt crisis
- Lecturers strike at Sheffield Hallam University over unpaid wages
- Teachers denounce intolerable conditions in São Paulo schools
- Darkside, MIKE and Sharon Van Etten: New music amid intensifying crisis
- Mass protests growing in Serbia against the government and President Vučić
- Crackdown on protesters in Turkey: police violence, torture allegations surface
- Former president Bolsonaro and military chiefs face trial for attempted fascist coup in Brazil
- As healthcare crisis worsens, New Zealand government pushes for privatisation
2025-03-29
- Trump, Vance double down on threats to annex Greenland, rail against European powers
- Huge earthquake causes death and destruction in Myanmar and Thailand
- United States, Russia announce Black Sea ceasefire
- Unifor embraces Liberals, pushes Canadian nationalism in response to Trump’s auto tariffs
- Three more deaths add to Italy’s rising toll of workplace fatalities
- With support for tariffs, UAW bureaucracy endorses Trump’s fascist plans for war on the working class
- Rewriting history on COVID lockdowns, New York Times reaffirms its support for “herd immunity”
- Australian prime minister rushes to election over-shadowed by Trump and cost-of-living crisis
- Thousands of film workers protest Academy’s refusal to defend No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal: The new “apology” explains nothing
- Trump, Kennedy and DOGE deepen war on public health with 10,000 fired at HHS
- House Republicans single out NPR and PBS in anticommunist witch-hunt
- Hegseth visits Manila: Washington prepares for war with China
- Sri Lankan government proposes phony Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Trump signs executive order ending many federal union contracts, bureaucracy responds: “Call Congress”
- Trump tariffs send global auto industry reeling
2025-03-30
- In Detail… The Toxic Waste Scandal: BBC radio documentary details fight to expose truth behind UK birth defects scandal in Corby
- The Settlement, a highly topical film from Egypt dealing with the working class
- Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand members
2025-03-31
- War profiteer Boeing selected to build latest US fighter jet
- Ecuador’s president meets Trump amid martial law elections and plans to deploy US troops
- US Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds online meeting against Trump’s threats to privatize USPS
- Hundreds of thousands protest İmamoğlu’s arrest in Istanbul as CHP and Erdoğan accuse each other of being “pro-imperialist”
- SEP (UK) delivers letter to British Foreign Office demanding action over Momodou Taal
- Capitulating to Trump’s demands, University of Michigan ends DEI programs
- Top FDA vaccine scientist resigns, denouncing Kennedy’s “misinformation and lies”
- Conditions rapidly worsening for victims of Myanmar earthquake
- This week in history: March 31-April 6
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- General strike shuts down much of Belgium as ruling elite demands more military spending
- Amid war summit in Paris, US-European rivalry mounts over how to plunder Ukraine
- Second major law firm capitulates to Trump while two others block him in court
- University administrations collaborate in Trump’s reign of terror on campuses
- UAW president promotes Trump tariffs, suggests auto plants be converted for war production
- Australian Electoral Commission rejects FOI application for evidence to justify election ban on SEP
- Support the SEP in the Australian federal election! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war, austerity and dictatorship!
- “Last Generation” climate protest group faces criminal charges in Germany: A massive attack on democratic rights
- David North’s Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War introduced at Leipzig Book Fair: “Humanity is confronting the danger of a descent into the abyss”
- Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
- Hundreds of cultural organisations in Spain speak out against war and Europe’s massive rearmament drive
- IYSSE (Sri Lanka) condemns repression of Mahmoud Khalil and Momodou Taal
- Los Angeles City Council attacks homeless authority, opening the door for profiteering
- Emboldened by Trump, Alberta premier threatens “national unity crisis” if demands not met
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