Archive: 04/2025
2025-04-01
- Introduction to David North at the Leipzig Book Fair
- Chicago Teachers Union backs shutdown of Acero charter schools and layoffs of CTU members
- Indonesian parliament expands military’s role in government
- Germany’s Merz government to extend support for Israeli genocide against the Palestinians
- Israeli military kills and bulldozes 15 Palestinian aid workers in drive to finish ethnic cleansing of Gaza
- Majority of Australians oppose Trump, while political leaders pledge to work with the fascist president
- The New York Times admits direct US involvement in Ukraine war
- US sanctions and “secondary tariffs” begin to shut down Venezuela’s oil sector
- Rhode Island School of Design shuts down pro-Palestinian art exhibition
- Communication Workers Union's Martin Walsh attacks WSWS over opposition to “USO reform” pilots
- Momodou Taal leaves United States: “I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted”
- Health Workers Union pushes sell-out deal at Australian Clinical Labs
- Australia: Unions shut down industrial action at Nestlé with workers’ demands unmet
- Kenyan Chief of Defence Forces threatens youth anti-austerity opposition
- California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
- Billionaires pour funds into Wisconsin state Supreme Court race
- French courts ban neo-fascist Marine Le Pen from 2027 presidential elections
- New Zealand deputy PM rails against “Marxists” and declares “war on woke”
- As hunger and poverty grow, Trump halts $500 million in deliveries to food banks
2025-04-02
- Russia says terms of US-proposed peace deal inadequate
- East German film comedies from the 1970s–Don’t Cheat, Darling!, Orpheus in the Underworld, Carnations in Aspic
- Birmingham Council, in alliance with Labour government, intensifies operation against refuse workers strike
- “A wildcat strike is about the only option left”: US railroad workers speak out against BNSF’s “Hi-Viz” attendance policies
- Contract expires for 6,000 nurses at Stanford Health as Trump guts public health agencies
- All UN bakeries in Gaza close as Israel maintains starvation policy
- Mass firings at HHS signal next phase in the Trump-Kennedy war on science and public health
- Under threat of seizure and disappearance, Momodou Taal leaves the US
- Reports reveal youth homelessness crisis in Australia
- Sri Lankan health union leader says workers will make “sacrifices to enhance the economy”
- Ocasio-Cortez promotes “economic populism” led by CIA Democrat Jared Golden as future of Democratic Party
- South Korea experiences worst-ever wildfires
- Australian election: Labor’s contempt for Myanmar quake victims
- Chicago teachers: Reject the CTU-Johnson sellout deal! Build rank-and-file committees for a counter-offensive against Trump's destruction of public education
- Yale Law School fires Helyeh Doutaghi in violation of her democratic rights
- Public meeting: Support the Socialist Equality Party in the Australian federal election!
- Netanyahu steps up assault on Israel’s legal authorities, confirms no end to Gaza genocide
- Slowing Indonesian economy battered by flow-on from Trump tariffs
- The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
2025-04-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sweeping court ruling ends transit strike in San Jose, California
- What the UAW’s 2024 financial filing says about Fain’s “union reform”
- Berlin promises Kiev billions more and deploys combat troops in Lithuania
- Lula imposes silence on the anniversary of the 1964 military coup in Brazil
- The historic significance of Trump’s fascist assault on science
- Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” escalate economic war against the world
- Thailand’s prime minister survives no-confidence motion
- US sends stealth bombers and aircraft carrier to the Middle East in threat against Iran
- Wisconsin, Florida elections show rising opposition to Trump
- New Zealand government stokes fascistic smear campaign against Green MP
- Berlin transit BVG pay dispute: Verdi union submits to arbitration despite holding strike ballot, we need to prevent a sell-out!
- Canada’s parties vie for votes with phony “affordability” pledges amid soaring levels of social inequality and poverty
- Dundee University crisis deepens as lecturer's strike ends, Edinburgh University announces massive cuts
- Trump, Congress mount fraudulent charges of antisemitism to launch new attacks on student speech
- Phoney “cost-of-living” Australian election promises cannot hide the social crisis
2025-04-04
- War: The great unmentionable in the Australian election campaign
- As ICE continues to abduct mothers and students, one immigrant dies, another injured, attempting to climb border wall in San Diego
- As Trump’s tariffs take effect Stellantis announces thousands of layoffs in Canada, Mexico and US
- European Union threatens retaliation against Trump tariffs
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold local government election campaign meetings
- Labour’s lies exposed: Think tank declares the “UK is neither a high wage nor high welfare country”
- Education Dept. abruptly ends COVID relief extensions, revoking $3 billion nationwide
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams to run for reelection as independent
- University of California workers carry out 1-day strike
- Trump Department of Justice seeks death penalty for Luigi Mangione
- French overseas minister returns for talks in New Caledonia amid ongoing crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Committee for Public Education holds online meeting to unite educators, workers and students against the assault on public education
- The madness of Trump’s economic war and the necessary socialist response
- No to Labour’s war for the rich! Young people need jobs and a future
- Video game performers’ strike enters its 9th month
2025-04-05
- Australia: Senior Lismore psychiatrist speaks out against understaffing and worsening workloads
- South Korean court confirms president Yoon’s impeachment
- Stanford nurses union announces sellout contract for 6,000 healthcare workers
- Canada announces retaliation for Trump’s 25 percent auto tariffs
- Stop the deportation of anti-genocide activists in Berlin
- Jacobin magazine blames Gaza genocide on Palestinian resistance
- International students face severe housing stress in Australia
- Stop Trump’s dictatorship! Build a movement of the working class for socialism!
- China announces retaliation against Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs”
- DHL Deutsche Post: Verdi overrides member opposition, accepts real wage cuts and job losses for German postal workers
- Australian election: The Labor government’s record of war and austerity
- “Of course people are going to be laid off because of this”: US autoworkers react to the launch of Trump’s global tariff war
- Senate Democrats overwhelmingly reject restricting US arms sales to Israel
- Trump vandals seize the Smithsonian Institution
- Sri Lanka: The JVP/NPP’s bogus local government election campaign
- German public sector workers contract: No to the arbitration recommendation!
2025-04-06
- Starmer government greenlights Birmingham Labour council using police to break bin workers strike
- Millions protest across the US against Trump’s efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship
- Child poverty soars as UK Labour government slashes welfare to fund armed forces
- Martin Walsh doubles down on CWU partnership with Royal Mail over USO pilot reforms: “the principles work”
- Jewish students, faculty, staff at University of Michigan denounce “weaponization of antisemitism”
- Second unvaccinated child dies of measles in Texas under Kennedy’s watch
2025-04-07
- National Nurses United misdirects opposition to Trump’s abolition of federal union contracts
- Organised Immigration Crime Summit: Starmer government leads global anti-migrant offensive
- This week in history: April 7-13
- Evidence shows Palestinian aid workers were executed at close range by Israeli military
- Interview with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi: “What’s happening in Palestine, in Yemen, and on US university campuses are threads of the same fabric”
- Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker James Longley on Gaza: “I remember all those beautiful, brave people… I remember the erased cities”
- Israeli strikes in Syria escalate tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv
- After Trump tariffs, Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government hands corporations €14 billion bailout
- Leipzig Book Fair 2025 marked by official war propaganda and popular anti-war sentiments
- Chicago teachers: Reject the CTU sellout agreement and mobilize against Trump’s war on public education!
- Socialist Equality Party announces candidates for 2025 Australian federal election
- Australia: Public hospital doctors to strike, defying NSW government threats
- Financial markets are having “flashbacks” to 2008 crisis
- The political meaning of the April 5 mass protests against Trump
- Australian unions promote Labor ahead of federal election
- State whitewash exonerates profit-driven negligence in deaths of Impact Plastics workers during Hurricane Helene
- Kenyan trade union leader demands social media censorship ahead of Gen Z protest anniversary
- Sri Lankan police detain youth under anti-terrorist laws for opposing Gaza genocide
- Trump immigrant crackdown escalates: Suicide of detained Chinese woman, workplace raids, visas for South Sudanese immigrants and college students revoked
2025-04-08
- Australian election: Anti-AUKUS movement a trap for anti-Trump, anti-war sentiment
- Trump continues Biden’s stonewalling of court-ordered investigation into UAW elections
- Myanmar earthquake survivors face increased hardships
- Attend Zoom meeting to oppose CWU-Royal Mail "USO reform": A rank-and-file strategy
- The Encampments: A new documentary focusing on the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University
- Trump threatens to hike anti-China tariffs again amid growing financial turmoil
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- No to Macron and Le Pen! Mobilize the working class against fascism and war!
- Stellantis worker crushed to death at Dundee, Michigan engine plant
- US storms death toll rises to 23 as NWS/NOAA cuts expected to affect ability to warn of danger
- For rank-and-file action by the working class to demand the reinstatement of Columbia grad students!
- The Summit of Resistance: How Britain’s pseudo-left police the class struggle
- Berlin protesters oppose the deportation of four anti-genocide activists
- French neo-fascists, New Popular Front hold rival rallies after electoral ban on Le Pen
- Australia: Bipartisan vow to end Chinese lease of Darwin port points to war plans
- Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social Democrats prepare social cutbacks in coalition negotiations
- Vietnam among hardest hit by Trump tariffs
- President Trump signs executive order facilitating federal takeover of the District of Columbia
- “We’re working on it”: Netanyahu gives Trump a progress report on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza
2025-04-09
- Florida puts Michael Tanzi to death in 11th US execution of 2025
- Sri Lanka: Meethotamulla residents’ anger grows over soaring price hikes
- Musicians, artists, scientists and others collide with Trump administration’s police-state policies
- As layoffs hit Stellantis plants and parts suppliers, UAW President Shawn Fain defends Trump trade war policies
- The business of suffering: Los Angeles politicians aim to turn homelessness into a source of profits
- Pseudo-left “Build a Fighting NALC” defends union bureaucrats and Trump against rank-and-file opposition
- General strike in Greece to demand higher pay, end to austerity, and justice for Tempi rail crash victims
- New Zealand government downplays Trump’s tariffs, despite business fears
- Obama preaches complacency in response to Trump drive to dictatorship
- Trump’s Homeland Security Department revokes temporary protected status for tens of thousands of immigrants
- Trump imposes 104 percent tariff on China, as financial turmoil grows
- Supreme Court greenlights Trump’s mass deportations under Alien Enemies Act: A fascistic attack on democratic rights
- Australian election debate marked by lies, banalities and evasions
- “I would love to strike”: Wyoming railroader speaks out on safety issues at BNSF caused by “Hi-Viz” attendance policies
- The Russian oligarchy and the politics of social catastrophe
- Laid off federal NIOSH workers join Pittsburgh rally against Trump
- German public service workers: Vote down the miserable arbitration result! Prepare an all out strike!
2025-04-10
- Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony (1937) in concert in New York City
- Chicago teachers want fight to defend public education as CTU, Democrats move to impose Trump budget cuts
- US seeks to align Turkey and Israel in preparation for war against Iran
- Pentagon plans drone strikes, shifts resources “toward combating cartels” in Mexico
- The cut of 8,000 jobs in German parcel delivery “is unacceptable”
- Genocide and starvation in Gaza stepped up following Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump
- NSW public hospital doctors speak out over unsafe and worsening conditions
- “I was born here, this is my hospital”: Staff and residents respond to the looming closure of New York facility
- Australian Labor government, teacher unions pitch bogus school funding promises in election campaign
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Papua New Guinea police “test” shuts down Facebook
- European Union imposes counter-tariffs on the US
- Oppose the Verdi union’s divide-and-rule strategy: For a united strike by German postal, public service and transport workers
- Oppose Starmer’s campus crackdown on Gaza genocide protest!
- Defend Birmingham refuse workers against Labour government’s strike-breaking operation!
- Stop the Verdi sell-out at Berlin transit operator BVG! Implement the already decided all-out strike!
- Australia: NSW public hospital doctors hold mass protests during statewide walkout
- Homeland Security Department to surveil social media accounts of immigrants, lawful residents for “antisemitic” activity
- Oppose Trump’s deportation of international students!
- Oppose austerity, imperialist war, Trump and “Team Canada”! Unite Canadian, US and Mexican workers in the fight for a workers’ North America!
- Trump’s tariff “pause”: Another expression of the deepening crisis of US imperialism and the capitalist order
2025-04-11
- Trump administration admits Mahmoud Khalil committed no crime, seeks deportation based solely on his “beliefs, statements, or associations”
- Protester arrested ahead of "Hands Off" rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- The socialist response to China’s being labelled “a foreign hostile force” by Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te
- Mounting opposition from Chicago teachers to CTU sellout, as contract voting continues
- Shocked by Trump’s tariff increase, Sri Lankan president calls for “national unity”
- Wall Street tumbles again as “euphoria” gives way to fear
- Australian SEP candidate addresses Neighbourhood Action Committee meeting opposing public housing demolition
- 100 years since the birth of Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965), martyr of the civil rights movement
- Australia: A socialist perspective to fight the destruction of public housing
- Mothers Against Genocide members arrested in Dublin as Irish government moves to drop neutrality “triple lock”
- International student at University of Florida deported after traffic stop
- Quebec unions refuse to mobilize workers against proposed strike-ban law they call a “declaration of war”
- Borderland: The Line Within and the “border industrial complex”
- USAID cuts send pro-US opposition in country of Georgia into crisis
- George Mason University president welcomes Trump administration’s crackdown on students
- Kennedy tours epicenter of US measles outbreak to promote anti-science quackery
- Trump’s tariff pull-back and the class character of the capitalist state
- International legal team seek prosecution of 10 Britons for war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza
- Nightclub roof collapse kills hundreds in Dominican Republic
- Germany’s next coalition government: Rearming like Hitler, far-right refugee policies and social desolation
2025-04-12
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The deepening toll of Long COVID after 5 years of the pandemic
- Trump tariffs continue to fuel economic turmoil
- Trump administration revokes student visas at universities across Michigan
- In Facebook livestream and Jacobin interview, UAW President Fain promotes economic nationalism and militarism
- Trump policies designed to block seniors from getting Social Security benefits
- Cultural counterrevolution: Funds cut from humanities grants to go toward Trump’s fascistic “National Garden of American Heroes”
- Washington threatens war with Iran ahead of talks in Oman
- SEP (Australia) holds well-attended election campaign launch meeting
- In federal court, Trump administration refuses to return or acknowledge existence of Abrego Garcia
- Ukraine summit underlines European powers’ determination to escalate war with Russia
- Trump’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil for “thought crimes” is the spearhead of dictatorship
- Indian PM’s visit to Sri Lanka boosts economic and military ties
- Australian election: Parties silent on revelations of direct US-NATO involvement in Ukraine war
- Australian doctors’ union shuts down industrial action after three-day NSW strike
2025-04-13
- Birmingham refuse workers condemn Starmer government’s strike breaking and voice opposition to sellout deal
- This week in history: April 14-20
- Germany’s next government plans more weapons for Kiev, a war economy and conscription
- SOAS student charged under counter-terror laws for protesting Gaza genocide appears at Old Bailey
- Starmer government uses emergency powers to take control of British Steel Scunthorpe from Chinese company
- The Teacher, from the occupied West Bank: “The system is rigged. It is perverted.”
- Thousands laid off at Canadian auto plants as workers pay the price for Trump’s trade war
- Striking Birmingham refuse workers: “We’d like every city council to come out. What they are doing here, they will be doing everywhere.”
2025-04-14
- On Falling: Crushing exploitation and a sense that something’s got to give
- Trump administration revokes student visas at Cal State Long Beach as part of fascistic crackdown on dissent
- Trump directs US military to take control of much of US-Mexico border
- Third general strike in Argentina against Milei government
- Trump says tech tariff exemption only temporary
- IYSSE holds rally at Texas A&M University against Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship
- Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez resume fraudulent “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Los Angeles
- Postal, transport and public sector Action Committees in Germany hold joint online meeting
- Teachers in England reject 2.8 percent wage offer and support indicative strike ballot over wages and conditions
- 160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Bogus housing promises from Labor and Liberals at Australian election launches
- Before releasing contract vote results, Chicago Teachers Union officials defend record of betrayal
- CRONA nurses union pushes through sellout contract at Stanford Health
- New Mexico governor declares state of emergency, deploys National Guard to back Albuquerque police crackdown
- Far-right smear campaign continues against New Zealand Green MP
- Amazon workers force temporary shutdown after death at JFK8 warehouse
- Israel attacks last fully functional hospital in Gaza City
2025-04-15
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds local government election campaign meeting in Jaffna
- No to genocide and fascist dictatorship!
- Australia: Union attempt to sell-out NSW doctors highlights need for unified struggle of health workers
- Birmingham bin workers vote to continue strike, defying Labour government clampdown
- Kenyan government violently suppresses student play critical of state violence and corruption
- Striking Birmingham bin workers speak out: “I think we’re just the start”
- Furore over New Zealand Green MP’s criticisms of police
- Incoming German chancellor intends to send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine
- Chinese president in South East Asia to counter US economic warfare
- Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi snatched by federal agents
- Ukraine’s NATO-backed Kursk invasion ends in failure
- WSWS reporter Evan Blake interviewed on Trump’s fascist attacks on science
- China hits back at Trump by tightening exports of rare earths
- Webinar with David North: “It’s happening here: Fascism in 1933 Germany and today”
- In meeting with Bukele, Trump bars return of Abrego Garcia, threatens deportation of US citizens
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump targets hundreds of University of California faculty over opposition to Gaza genocide
- Chicago Teachers Union, Democrats push through 4-year deal by concealing coming cuts
2025-04-16
- Social Security to mark immigrants as dead to force them to “self-deport”
- Administrative court postpones deportation of genocide opponent Shane O’Brien but the Berlin4 remain in danger
- Baltimore’s Key Bridge was one of dozens potentially at risk across US
- Australia: SEP election candidates outline socialist anti-war program on podcast
- Hundreds of thousands march in nationwide protests for right to decent housing in Spain
- Leaked documents reveal Trump’s proposal to halve NASA’s science budget
- Mass protests erupt in high schools in Turkey
- Latin American leaders meet at CELAC summit amid Trump’s escalating economic war against China
- Thousands of Vogue Tex garment workers in Sri Lanka protest over bonuses
- Israeli air force veterans and reservists call for hostage deal and end to Gaza war
- Canada’s ruling class doubles down on support for Gaza genocide amid federal election campaign
- “Safety was out the door!”: Former co-worker details conditions behind death of Stellantis worker Ronnie Adams
- Australia: Refugee prison boat cruelty highlights bipartisan scapegoating of immigrants
- Trump administration lawyers refuse to provide updates on Abrego Garcia, promise to deport him again if he returns to US
- Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights
- New Zealand to nearly double military spending
2025-04-17
- Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham: A new biography of the filmmaker now “a social pariah in America”
- An interview with Patrick McGilligan, author of Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham: “I identify with people who have troubles and flaws, and are complicated human beings”
- Pennsylvania governor’s mansion targeted by arsonist attack
- Trump ally Noboa claims victory in Ecuador’s gunpoint election
- Trump administration threatens to deport half million immigrant workers, who entered US legally
- Australian election: A complicit silence on the Gaza genocide
- Seven more major law firms capitulate to Trump’s extortion
- Trump plans to shut down Head Start, destroying early education and childcare services
- Release Mohsen Mahdawi! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship, genocide and imperialist war!
- An interview with David North on fascism, Trump and the lessons of history
- Australian Greens, Socialist Alliance display pro-Labor, bankrupt protest politics at election forum
- ICE agents smash car window to apprehend Guatemalan immigrant worker in Massachusetts
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- IRS to slash 40 percent of workforce as deadline passes for agencies to plan cuts
- Trump tariff hikes send global trade into reverse
- Anti-genocide protesters silenced at Bernie Sanders “Fighting Oligarchy” rally
- Demonstration in Berlin opposes deportations of refugees to Greece
- New York City public schools face historic crisis amid federal, state and municipal attacks
- Labour council demands Unite accept surrender deal already rejected by Birmingham bin workers
2025-04-18
- Trump administration engaged in advanced planning for military strike on Iran
- Trump’s $40 billion Health and Human Services cuts: A prescription for social devastation
- Appeals Court rules Trump trampling on due process in Abrego Garcia deportation case
- For an all-out strike at Berlin local transit operator BVG: Don’t be fooled by the Verdi union!
- Australian workers and youth support SEP election campaign
- Student kills 2, injures 5 in Florida State mass shooting
- The resignation of LACAHSA CEO Ryan Johnson and the financialization of homelessness in Los Angeles
- Mahmoud Khalil asks: “What does my detention by ICE say about America?”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Measles outbreak in Ontario underscores spread of infectious diseases across Canada
- Judge postpones hearing in lawsuit over police seizure of UCSC student protester’s phone
- Defend the Berlin4! Stop the deportation of genocide opponents!
- Sri Lankan SEP election meeting discusses how to fight IMF austerity
- The Birmingham bin workers fight and the lessons of the 2022-23 strike wave
- But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism at the Lenbachhaus in Munich explores the political roots of the Surrealist movement
- Australian Greens campaigning for pro-business, pro-war coalition with Labor
- Trump threatens to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status and visas for international students
- German parliament excludes Russia from ceremony marking victory over the Nazis
2025-04-19
- Dollar’s role as global reserve currency under fire
- US airstrikes in Yemen kill 80 and injure over 150
- Australian state Supreme Court dismisses legal case of public housing towers’ residents
- Was Palestinian artist-photojournalist Fatima Hassouna targeted for death by the Israeli military?
- State prosecution fails to present evidence in trial against Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Political lessons of the defeated court challenge to Melbourne public housing demolitions
- The shot heard round the world
2025-04-20
- Thousands of job losses across National Health Service as Labour’s cull of workforce begins
- Hundreds of thousands protest against Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship in the US
- The grand capitalist deception is at work again
- This week in history: April 21-27
- Build a socialist movement to stop Trump’s dictatorship!
2025-04-21
- The Victorian Socialists: A pseudo-left trap in the Australian federal election
- CWU update on USO pilots: defending profits to sacrifice workers' jobs, conditions and the mail service
- Reply to a laid-off Stellantis worker on UAW support for Trump’s tariffs
- The April 19 mass protests against Trump and the need for a revolutionary strategy
- New Zealand parliament votes down contentious “Treaty principles” bill
- Citing tariffs, Volvo North America cutting 800 jobs at Mack Truck and NRV plants
- Australian election: National Tertiary Education Union covers up Labor’s role in university crisis
- Irish band Kneecap leads thousands in chant of “Free Palestine” at Coachella festival
- Supreme Court bars Trump deportation flights
- Opponents of the Gaza genocide successfully defend themselves in German courts
- Florida State shooter a fascist “deeply embedded” in police community
- Threat of mass layoffs at Thyssenkrupp and HKM, the conversion of Germany’s steel industry to a war economy
- Video: Defend the Berlin4! Stop the deportation of genocide opponents!
- An appeal to Sri Lankan garment workers: How to fight tariff war attacks on jobs and wages
2025-04-22
- As rents rise and social housing dwindles, new German government policies to exacerbate housing crisis
- Mack Trucks layoffs and the fight for the international unity of workers against trade war
- Gold price surges as US dollar crisis deepens
- USPS rural carriers contract sets stage for privatization
- Vote No! Reject the concessions contract at ATI
- Unite teachers, students and workers against Santa Ana, California layoffs and austerity!
- Veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe dies aged 85
- Amid Australian election, hundreds of jobs threatened at Western Sydney University
- Homeland Security blames US citizen for his false arrest; Minnesota father detained after “silent revocation” of student visa
- Staff and students face unbearable conditions at Western Sydney University College
- Dorset National Health Service prepares mass transfer of staff to private subsidiary in cost-cutting drive
- Three men die in a fire that ravaged an overcrowded house in Queens, New York
- SEP (Australia) election meetings: The socialist alternative to war and austerity
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises Texas doctor who exposed community to measles
- California Republican mayor calls for the extermination of the homeless
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia’s housing crisis needs a socialist solution
2025-04-23
- IMF says Trump tariff war to bring “significant slowdown” in global economy
- Trade war, economic crisis and the Australian election
- Trade war against China fuels disruption for US ports, threatening job losses
- Reinstate staff member Zainab Hakim and four student workers at University of Michigan!
- Venezuelan man disappeared to El Salvador by US immigration Gestapo after making wrong turn on bridge
- Oppose the visa revocations at George Mason University! Mobilize the working class in defense of democratic rights!
- White House replaces government COVID website with one promoting the Wuhan Lab Leak conspiracy
- Ukrainian forces on the ground in another Russian territory
- Two years on: Sudan’s civil war spreads amid worsening humanitarian disaster
- Trump Education Secretary Linda McMahon unleashes debt collectors on millions of delinquent student loan holders
- CDU-SPD coalition government agreement aims to further militarize German universities
- Greens leader refuses to condemn Australian Labor’s complicity in Gaza genocide
- Birmingham bin workers discuss way forward in their fight as strike enters seventh week
- New Zealand senior doctors vote for national strike
- Film industry job losses, the bankruptcy of the unions and the fight for rank-and-file committees
- Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
2025-04-24
- James Webb Space Telescope produces most detailed signature of the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System
- Co-worker demands answers about death of Ronnie Adams at Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex
- Fatal police shooting in Melbourne triggers widespread outrage
- Taiwan’s social democrats and Stalinists counter Trump tariff hikes with calls for closer China-Taiwan trade relations
- SEP (Australia) election candidate speaks on Brisbane community radio
- US-Philippine military drills: A “full battle test” for war with China
- 13th US execution of 2025: Texas puts Moises Mendoza to death
- As oligarch fortunes soar: The case for expropriating the billionaires
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers set to strike
- Plain-clothed ICE thugs kidnap Venezuelan men at Charlottesville, Virginia courthouse
- “Dirty War” Pope blesses Trump administration hours before his death
- Israeli national security minister pledges to bomb food depots as Gaza blockade reaches 50th day
- FBI raids homes of pro-Palestinian protesters across southeastern Michigan
- Harvard files suit against Trump funding freeze
- Peru’s government responds to transport strikes with police state threats
- The climate change crisis and the Australian election
2025-04-25
- Souleymane’s Story, Xoftex and Where the Wind Comes From: “I don’t know why I came to France”
- Workers and youth support SEP (Australia) election campaign
- Earthquake in Istanbul shows millions at risk
- Trump rages as court rulings hamper his illegal actions
- Australian election: Labor’s posturing on penalty rates covers up real record on jobs, wages
- Fight for a socialist movement of the working class to defend students, academic freedom and democratic rights!
- In memory of Wolfgang Weber: A fighter for Trotskyism
- São Paulo teachers continue strike for better wages and against school privatization
- Michigan autoworkers speak on tariffs as Stellantis pauses production of Jeep Grand Cherokee in Detroit
- Moroccan dockworkers stop F-35 war plane components from reaching Israel
- 1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- China demands withdrawal of all unilateral tariffs if US wants trade talks
- Pre-election polls predict halving of vote for Canada’s social democrats
- Major wildfire in southern New Jersey consumes over 15,000 acres
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government to impose unpopular €10 billion military spending hike by decree
- India and Pakistan cascading toward war after New Delhi blames Islamabad for terrorist attack
2025-04-26
- Australia’s militarist ANZAC Day held under the shadow of war
- VIDEO: SEP (Australia) candidate Morgan Peach speaks to SBS journalists
- New Zealand spy agency investigated victimised journalist
- FBI arrests Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge for obstructing ICE raid on undocumented immigrant
- Trump administration lawyers admit they seized Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant
- Michigan Attorney General announces FBI raids targeted pro-Palestinian protesters over “vandalism and property damage”
- The Nation, pseudo-left back UAW President Fain’s embrace of Trump tariffs
- International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
- “Comrade Wolfgang made invaluable contributions to the struggle for socialism”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2025-04-27
- Canada’s Conservatives threaten democratic rights and vow massive military build-up in Trump-style election campaign
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) responds to British Foreign Office handwashing over Momodou Taal
- War tensions between India and Pakistan mount following terrorist attack in Indian-held Kashmir
- UK Starmer government sends Carrier Strike Group to Indo-Pacific amid raging global tensions
- War fatigue in Ukraine continues to grow amid peace talks
- Kneecap rap group face down Zionist intimidation: “The young people at our gigs see through the lies”
- Whooping cough cases surging towards 70-year high in US
2025-04-28
- 55,000 Los Angeles County workers strike: Build a movement in the working class against inequality, fascism and dictatorship!
- Sri Lankan prime minister’s false election promises in Karainagar
- Karen Bass’ “State of the City” speech: A declaration of war on Los Angeles’ working class
- Finnish government invokes Nazi-collaborationist traditions as it backs Trump, builds up military
- NYPD violently breaks up attempt by students to establish protest encampment at City College of New York
- A panel discussion with the Socialist Equality Party candidates in the Australian federal election
- Chicago Teachers Union’s “transformative” contract unravels, as mayor and school authorities prepare brutal cuts
- National Education Union conference reveals growing opposition to Labour’s attack on education
- Australian electorate of Calwell—a microcosm of the social and political crisis
- Australian election: How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party
- This week in history: April 28-May 4
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