Archive: 10/2025
2025-10-01
- Australian government extends use of Nauru as a refugee prison
- Texas A&M professor, dean and department head fired in far-right backlash
- King Vidor’s World War I film The Big Parade at 100
- Trump declares war on American cities and the “enemy within”
- Unison claims victory over NHS England “pause” on private subsidiaries: Beware the fine print
- Metroline bus drivers continue strike as Unite and Labour Mayor Andy Burnham shut down unified Greater Manchester action
- Dockworkers in Genoa and Livorno block Israeli arms shipment, as mass protests denounce genocide in Gaza
- Starmer and the Labour Party roll in the nationalist gutter
- Voices Without Faces: “We didn’t cross the border—the border crossed us” — Maria and Jacinto speak on exploitation, repression, and solidarity
- Prime Minister Carney demands “significant changes” as Canada Post workers continue strike against government assault on postal service
- On eve of shutdown, Democrats plead for talks, while Trump, Republicans issue fascist attacks
- New Zealand government whitewashes Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Online meeting in Sri Lanka: Oppose restructuring of the CEB! Defend CEB employees’ struggle!
- Netanyahu pledges to violate Gaza “peace” plan just hours after its announcement
2025-10-02
- Private payroll data shows consecutive month job losses for first time since onset of COVID-19 pandemic
- Trump’s renewed threat of 100 percent tariffs on foreign films: An attack on culture and the working class
- How the GPU murdered Leon Sedov and other Trotskyists
- Israel illegally intercepts aid flotilla bound for Gaza
- Boeing defense strike in danger as AFL-CIO president visits St. Louis
- Teachers union president preaches calm as educators back call for mass strike against Trump dictatorship
- The real issue in the government shutdown: Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- How the GPU Murdered Trotsky
- Florida executes Victor Jones, School for Boys torture victim, as state shatters record for government-sanctioned killings
- California immigration bills expose the fraud of Democratic opposition to Trump
- Chancellor Merz’s declaration of war on Russia
- Australia: NSW Labor government imposes real wage cut on nurses and midwives
- Eric Adams leaves New York City mayoral race, as Trump steps up attacks on Mamdani
- Bubble fears mount over Nvidia-OpenAI “circular” deal
2025-10-03
- European summits in Copenhagen and US missile threats against Russia increase danger of world war
- After defeating union-backed deal, Long Beach, California teachers must take the struggle into their own hands!
- Israeli documentary filmmakers support boycott of Israeli film industry over genocide
- FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League following campaign by Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., neo-Nazis
- Judge rejects government’s attempt to delay again in Will Lehman’s UAW election case
- Henry Ford Genesys Hospital nurses remain determined as strike enters second month
- WSWS videos of teachers speaking out against Trump’s dictatorship resonate on Facebook and Tiktok
- Trump’s government shutdown aimed at social counterrevolution
- Long Island Rail Road union defied 99 percent of its membership to cancel strike
- Sri Lankan foreign minister opposes United Nations HRC investigation into human rights abuses
- Strike threat at Venice’s La Fenice opera company over new conductor linked to neo-fascist Meloni government
- White House declares a “non-international armed conflict” as Trump plots neo-colonial war across the Americas
- Canada Post worker calls for broadening strike to other sections of the working class
- 41 people crushed to death at Tamil Nadu political rally
- Imperialist powers tighten the noose around Iran with reimposition of sanctions
- Feds terrorize Chicago neighborhoods: Legal immigrants kidnapped, apartments ransacked, children zip-tied
- Mississippi declares public health emergency over surging infant deaths
- Stark wealth inequality in New Zealand
- Crisis in the German auto industry: Layoffs, plant closures and insolvencies
- Quebec government shifts further right amid collapsing support
- British government exploits Manchester synagogue killings to attack anti-genocide protesters
- Germany: IG Metall union agrees to cut in real wages for steelworkers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- IYSSE club at University of Melbourne holds well-attended meeting on the fight against fascism and war
2025-10-04
- One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama of rebellion and repression
- Ultra-billionaire Jeff Bezos declares economic bubbles are “good”
- NYPD and ICE assault journalists in New York City
- Explosion at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery rocks Los Angeles
- Australia Post boss demands further restructuring to boost profits
- Amid deepening drone war with Ukraine, Kremlin imposes severe internet and cellphone shutdowns
- Netherlands set for October snap election amid crisis of bourgeois rule
- Trump uses shutdown to step up anti-immigrant pogrom
- Nearly 46,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers set to strike October 14
- Scale of Australian military exports to Israel exposed
- Australia: Western Sydney University boss thanks unions for sellout deal
- “Day of German Unity”: Germany’s leading conservative paper attacks Lenin
- Police attack mass protest over wind-turbines in northern Sri Lanka
- Israel’s criminal interception of the Sumud aid flotilla and the struggle to stop the Gaza genocide
2025-10-05
2025-10-06
- Trump plans to deny Social Security disability payments to hundreds of thousands of workers
- Alabama teacher: “We need rank-and-file committees to bring us together in a collective to fight”
- Striking Canada Post workers speak out from picket lines in Ontario and Quebec
- This week in history: October 6-12
- What “freedom”? On the short film Whispers of Freedom
- How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky
- As winter months approach, LIHEAP low income heating program still non-functional after entire staff laid off
- El Segundo refinery fire the product of bipartisan dismantling of safety regulations
- Protests denounce New Zealand government’s whitewashing of Israel’s genocide
- Australian National Press Club cancels Chris Hedges’ talk on the “Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists”
- Behind Britain’s housing crisis—the financialisation of housing and the rise of the rentier class
- Zionist Bari Weiss tapped to head CBS News following merger
- Austin, Texas to close 13 schools, sell corporate sponsorships to close funding gap
- Airedale hospital support staff strike against Trust’s outsourcing company and two-tier workforce
- New autumn COVID-19 spike as UK government continues to limit access to free vaccines
- Japanese ruling party chooses likely new right-wing prime minister
- Trump prepares martial law, orders invasion of Portland and Chicago
- Italy: Mass protests and general strike over Gaza signal mounting working class opposition to war and authoritarian rule
2025-10-07
- Powerful earthquake kills at least 72 in the Philippines
- Historic protests in Spain oppose Gaza genocide
- Right-wing Democrat Mikie Sherrill struggles in New Jersey gubernatorial race
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Jane Goodall, the primatologist who revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzees and ourselves, dies at 91
- A socialist perspective against genocide, world war and fascism
- Trump threatens to override courts, invoke Insurrection Act and unleash military on US cities
- Trump threatens Venezuela with “fire and fury”
- Without membership vote, New York City government unions approve massive healthcare cuts
- The manufactured science that claims Tylenol causes autism
- Saudi Arabia and others purchase video game giant Electronic Arts for $55 billion
- Australia signs neo-colonial military treaty with PNG directed against China
- 2 years of the Gaza genocide: A crime of Zionism and imperialism
- Child dies amid far-right anti-immigrant campaign cultivated by South Africa’s ANC
- Philadelphia hotel workers launch strike
- Fall of the French government: The ruling class seeks dictatorship
- Australian Labor government presides over 000 breakdown
- Protests against Gaza genocide continue internationally, Starmer government denounces UK campus demos
2025-10-08
- Gold price surge continues, passing the $4,000 mark
- Huge fire destroys the house of South Carolina Circuit Court judge after clash with Trump, Miller
- Israel attacks another aid flotilla days after illegal capture of the Global Sumud Flotilla
- Eddie Dempsey’s “Improved Pay Offer” on London Underground prepares a sellout, as workers push back
- Kaiser healthcare workers connect upcoming national strike with fight against Trump
- A punishing assault on mothers and babies: WIC nutrition program targeted by government shutdown and Trump budget
- Canada Post’s latest “offer” marks a further escalation in the Liberal government-led war on striking postal workers
- Paramount workers to studio management: “You are aligning yourselves with … a genocide in Gaza and of the Palestinian people”
- 6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
- Free Selahattin Demirtaş and all Turkey’s political prisoners!
- Silence of the Democrats aids Trump dictatorship
- New Zealand government to push teenagers off welfare
- Survey reveals decline in Australian living standards
2025-10-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Poet Tony Harrison: a classical voice
- Soldier F trial in Northern Ireland a devastating indictment of British imperialism’s 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre
- EU imposes professional ban on German citizen, critical journalist Hüseyin Doğru
- Right-wing resignation sharpens conflicts in Australia’s Liberal-National Coalition
- Court bans protest against Gaza genocide at the Sydney Opera House
- 46,000 Kaiser workers set to walk out October 14: Build rank-and-file committees to transform strike into battle for public health and democracy
- German Chancellor Merz justifies genocide in Gaza
- Lula talks to Trump amid US escalation against Venezuela
- Daily protests in Berlin against the interception of the Sumud flotilla and the genocide in Gaza
- Why are the rail unions silent on Trump’s talk with Union Pacific’s CEO on where to deploy troops?
- Large majority of Lufthansa pilots vote for strike action
- Trump doubles down on threats to arrest Illinois Democrats Pritzker, Johnson during fascist “antifa” roundtable
- Australian Climate Risk Assessment issues dire warnings
- Emboldened by Trump, Ford expands police-state searches to Chicago plant
- Operation Dictatorship: Trump is poised to invoke the Insurrection Act
- Detroit mayoral election takes place as major cities are facing cuts—and troops—ordered by Trump
- Netherlands: 250,000 join anti-war protests against Gaza genocide and criminal interception of Sumud flotilla
2025-10-10
- Greater Manchester bus strike suspended with collusion of Unite and Labour mayor Andy Burnham
- Country music’s Zach Bryan: “ICE is gonna come bust down your door”
- Fascist gathering in the White House signals mass repression and violence
- Immigration thugs assault, kidnap US citizens in Chicago, Portland
- Public Meeting in London: “The American Volcano: Towards Fascism or Socialism”
- In White House meeting, Canada’s Carney lauds America’s would-be führer as Trump accelerates operation dictatorship
- Hypocrisy and lies: Sri Lankan President Dissanayake at the UN General Assembly
- 10th anniversary of Ankara bombings by ISIS which killed over 100 people
- Reject CUPW’s surrender! Broaden our strike to other sections of workers to defend our jobs, all public services and the right to strike!
- Behind plans for social-democratic government under Macron, French ruling elite plots dictatorship
- Impact of Trump tariffs roils global auto production as workers bear the brunt
- Australia: Kindergarten teachers take industrial action, but union seeks a deal
- Transport strike in Peru joins growing “Gen Z” protests
- “Ceasefire” deal includes permanent Israeli occupation of Gaza
- Unprecedented “circular deals” inflate AI bubble
- Trump administration threatens to fire unpaid air traffic controllers, deny back pay to furloughed federal workers
- California’s “anti-discrimination,” “antisemitism prevention” bill: A bipartisan assault on democratic rights and public education
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2025-10-11
- Strike by Henry Ford Genesys nurses in sixth week, as management ramps up strikebreaking
- Trump’s war on American cities escalates as troops arrive in Memphis and immigration Gestapo assaults and kidnaps Chicago residents
- Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
- Top military brass intensifies Germany’s war preparations against Russia
- Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and European cinema of the 1960s
- Union apparatus does nothing as Trump launches new wave of mass firings
- Trump DOJ expands political vendetta with indictment of New York AG Letitia James
- The Wohlforth-Fields violation of party security and the response of the International Committee
- Texas death row inmate Rob Roberson granted a stay of execution
- After the Los Angeles fires, the state finds a scapegoat
- 16 workers killed in explosion at Tennessee munitions plant: Another tragedy in America’s industrial slaughterhouse
- New Zealand government smears “far left” and anti-genocide protests as “violent”
- New Australian Federal Police units to enforce “social cohesion”
2025-10-12
- Missouri governor launches attack on SNAP recipients under guise of “nutrition reform”
- Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay
- Right-wing billionaire Babiš wins parliamentary election in the Czech Republic
- Millet: Life on the Land—A radical depiction of rural transition
- Half a million march in London to mark 2 years of Gaza genocide
2025-10-13
- Join the struggle for a socialist future! Mobilise the working class against genocide, dictatorship, and world war!
- This week in history: October 13-19
- Newsom’s “historic” housing reform is a handout to real estate capital
- Secret Five Eyes notes lay bare war plans against China
- Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
- Accelerating plans for dictatorship, Macron renames fallen French government under Lecornu
- Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
- Sri Lankan government prepares next IMF-dictated budget
- Jean-Luc Melenchon paralyses the struggle against French President Macron and the far right
- Trump moves to reignite tariff war with China
- Oppose the University of Michigan disciplinary charges against pro-Palestinian protesters!
- Protests continue after Peru’s right-wing congress sacks Peru’s unelected president
- 16 workers killed in Tennessee explosion: Industrial carnage followed by media cover-up
- Trump orders military paychecks as troops move into cities
- Trump’s “Compact” with universities demands ideological submission in exchange for funding
- Australian “contempt of court” threat to all protest rights
- Germany: Take action to reject and stop the steelworkers contract!
2025-10-14
- General strike in Belgium against coalition government’s austerity programme
- The death of Julia Chuñil in Chile: Boric’s war against the Mapuche people
- Protests across Australia oppose two years of the Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- 46,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers begin 5-day strike
- Letter from Bernie Monk, spokesperson for Pike River families in New Zealand, to the families of the Tennessee explosives plant disaster
- Zohran Mamdani schmoozes with executives and landlords, praises Trump’s phony Gaza “ceasefire”
- All 16 victims identified in Tennessee munitions factory explosion
- Chemical Safety Board finds broken and cracked valves contributed to fatal blast at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works
- “Peace” through genocide: Trump proclaims “historic dawn” for Middle East on the bones of the Palestinians
- Subu Vedam, falsely imprisoned for 43 years, seized by ICE for deportation
- Political censorship of art exhibition at California’s Pepperdine University
- Oppose Labor’s “national priorities” university restructuring and job cuts
- Australia: Inquiry highlights financial ties between building union and big developers
- Australian Labor government hails Trump’s neo-colonial Gaza plan
- German auto supplier ZF: IG Metall, works council and management agree on job cuts and wage reductions
2025-10-15
- Germany’s Left Party cheers Trump’s murderous colonial plan for Gaza
- German government attacks the welfare state: Basic support payments to be abolished
- Mass layoffs at the Department of Education target special education
- Executions in Florida and Missouri as 4 days of state-sanctioned killings begin
- Indonesian government promotes phony police reform following protests
- Israel resumes killing Palestinians in first phase of Trump’s “peace plan”
- British painter Edward Burra: A neglected chronicler of 20th century society
- Australia: NSW gallery cancels public discussion with pro-Palestinian curator
- Trump preparing target list of “semi-communist” federal programs to be eliminated
- Spanish workers and students stage national stoppages against Gaza genocide
- Trump, Republicans, neo-Nazis honor racist Charlie Kirk with highest official honor in Rose Garden ceremony
- Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the Democratic Party
- A socialist response to Turkey’s complicity in the imperialist-Zionist takeover of Gaza
- Corbyn’s “Your Party” reboot at The World Transformed: Europe’s pseudo-left politicians display their bankruptcy
- Trump, China tariffs and the Wall Street bubble
- 46,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers strike across the West Coast
2025-10-16
- Unite ends Greater Manchester bus strikes on Labour mayor and private operators’ terms
- Jacobin magazine attempts to conceal the pro-genocide record of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Family files suit over immigrant postal worker who died in police custody
- Australia: Glencore locks out coal mining workers in New South Wales
- Revisionism, spies and cover-ups: The origins of the Security and the Fourth International investigation
- No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
- Striking Kaiser healthcare workers need full strike pay and a political strategy to win their struggle
- Leaders of Republican youth movement praise Hitler, joke about Holocaust in internal discussion
- Texas university systems attack freedom of speech, limit discussion on gender
- Mississippi executes Charles Ray Crawford amid nationwide execution spree
- Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16 workers
- Australian police exaggerated “antisemitic” incidents amid crackdown on opposition to Gaza genocide
- Accurate Energetic Systems workers raised safety concerns before fatal Tennessee explosion
- Reform/Tory party alliance mooted as far-right replacement for Starmer’s faltering government
- Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga dies aged 80
- Washington and Berlin push NATO to the brink of war with Russia
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2025-10-17
- Union abruptly terminates strike at MRF Tyre factory in Tamil Nadu
- US-China economic war intensifying, not de-escalating
- Boarding school collapse in Indonesia kills 67
- French social-democrats back Macron to install minority Lecornu government
- Actress Diane Keaton dies at 79
- Despite “ceasefire,” Israel continues massacres and aid restriction in Gaza
- Massachusetts 13-year-old abducted by ICE and transported to Virginia detention center
- “Health care is a universal right”: Kaiser Permanente nurses speak out on third day of strike
- UAW president hails Trump, praises Stellantis move to cut jobs in Canada
- Trump authorizes CIA regime change operations against Venezuela
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- ICE agents mount violent attacks against Chicago workers
- More than 100,000 workers prepare to strike in New Zealand
- Raila Odinga’s funeral turns into another Ruto government massacre
2025-10-18
- Australia: NSW Environmental Protection Agency covers up lead poisoning in Broken Hill children
- Kaiser nurses speak out from the picket on last day of strike set to coincide with the “No Kings” protests
- Texas State University upholds firing of Professor Tom Alter for political speech
- Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez plead for GOP to negotiate, downplay Trump’s dictatorship
- Trump’s tariffs begin to bite as Stellantis shifts production from Canada to the US
- Australian court rules against draconian anti-protest laws in NSW
- Trump Justice Department indicts former National Security Adviser John Bolton
- The Great Hollywood Contraction continues and deepens
- Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests
- Australia’s High Court backs sweeping visa ban powers
- As millions march in “No Kings” protests against dictatorship, Democrats focus on escalating the war in Ukraine
- Noboa unleashes murderous repression against mass protests in Ecuador
- Sri Lanka: Electricity board union leaders suspend industrial action after meeting with government minister
2025-10-19
2025-10-20
- Tech jobs bloodbath continues with Amazon announcing new round of layoffs
- This week in history: October 20-26
- Letter from Christchurch building collapse victims in New Zealand to the families of the Tennessee explosives plant disaster
- Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara leads Chile’s presidential polls
- Labour council ramps up attacks on Birmingham bin workers
- Starmer government demands Birmingham police reverse ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv Zionist hooligans attending Aston Villa match
- Australia: Labor’s first home buyer scheme will drive house prices even higher
- More than 2,000 striking Turkish TPI workers laid off
- Life of a Showgirl: Taylor Swift’s latest self-portrait
- 4 construction workers die in Madrid construction site collapse
- 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for the discovery of Peripheral Immune Tolerance
- Victims of Bangladesh garment factory fire included teenage workers from nearby slum
- Israel massacres 45 Palestinians in a single day, exposing fraud of “peace” deal
- US State Department revokes visas of 6 people for denouncing Charlie Kirk’s politics
- Madagascar president Rajoelina flees with French aid amid mass Gen Z protest
- The October 18 “No Kings” demonstrations and the fight against Trump’s dictatorship
2025-10-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ukraine: From sporadic resistance to war to the first hotbeds of collective struggle
- Explosion at factory in Bashkiria, Russia kills 3 workers
- Nazism, big business and the working class: Historical experience and political lessons
- First Brands collapse a symptom of spreading financial rot
- The north of Cyprus, a strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean, holds presidential elections
- Australian protests against fascism and the far-right
- New Zealand government denounces looming strike by 110,000 workers for being pro-Palestine
- Amid “No Kings” protests, the Trump administration flexes military muscle to intimidate opposition
- Trump adds Colombia to Latin America target list
- Twin industrial catastrophes in Tennessee, US and Dhaka, Bangladesh expose global capitalism’s war on workers
- After the “No Kings” protests: What Next?
2025-10-22
- Sri Lankan president promises meagre wage rises for estate workers amid growing unrest
- Australian Labor PM fawns on fascist Trump at the White House
- Australian Labor government appeases financial elite on superannuation tax
- New far-right prime minister installed in Japan
- Strike by Boeing defense workers continues into third month, as IAM and management resume mediated talks
- The “No Kings” demonstrations and the political strategy to fight Trump’s fascist conspiracy
- Strike by 51,000 Alberta educators enters 3rd week as Smith government threatens back-to-work legislation
- Oppose persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan!
- Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead Office of Special Counsel, withdraws after leak of fascist texts
- “US imperialism is now coming home to roost”: Interviews from the “No Kings” demonstrations
- Australia: Halt the demolition of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers!
- Everett, Massachusetts: Lawyers group calls for state probe into police role in ICE detention of 13-year-old
- The Battleship Potemkin: A century since the making of Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece
- An open letter to supporters of Corbyn’s Your Party
- At “No Kings” rally in Washington, Bernie Sanders covers for the Democrats and capitalism
- New Zealand: Workers need a socialist perspective to fight pay cuts, austerity and war
- As push for Quebec independence referendum grows, workers in Canada must unite their struggles and oppose both the ruling-class separatist and federalist camps
- Australian care workers rally nationally against attack on pay and conditions
- Trump builds himself a Versailles on the Potomac
2025-10-23
- California’s National Guard “humanitarian mission”: Newsom’s deployment to food banks marks a new stage in the militarization of social life
- Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna defend endorsement of Maine Democrat Graham Platner after Nazi tattoo revealed
- Workers threatened with hunger as Trump’s class war shutdown continues
- Chancellor Merz plans to establish the “Tank Republic of Germany”
- The Frankfurt Book Fair—in the service of the war against Russia
- Trump administration escalates ICE raids following “No Kings” protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Palestinians released by Israel suffered mistreatment, abuse and torture
- Eddington: Lost in the desert
- Trump demanding $230 million from Justice Department over past investigations
- Gaza “peace” deal exposed as cover for genocide and ethnic cleansing
- The publication of “How the GPU Murdered Trotsky” and the initial Findings of Security and the Fourth International - Part 1
- Unifor pushes nationalist poison as Stellantis and GM cut Canadian auto jobs
- Peru’s new president brutally represses mass protest, leaving one dead and 100 wounded
2025-10-24
- New coronavirus wave: “Frankenstein” variant spreading rapidly
- Report reveals Taiwanese companies’ complicity in Gaza genocide
- CWU seeks to shore up rotten pact with Kretinsky at Royal Mail
- Anthony Boyd executed in Alabama by nitrogen gas despite ineffective counsel and doubt of his guilt
- Australian university union backs Labor’s education restructuring
- Class divide in US life expectancy reaches 9 years for elderly
- UK government-backed persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan continues
- Canada’s Carney government attacks basic democratic rights as it seeks deal with America’s would-be dictator Trump
- Mamdani placates billionaires with plan to retain NYPD chief
- Ukraine faces financial crisis as winter approaches
- Trump, Hegseth step up military murders in Latin America
- How the governing Christian Democrats pave the way for the far-right Alternative for Germany
- Netherlands: Culture or cannons? The Van Gogh Museum’s survival at stake
- Artists plan “Fall of Freedom” protests against Trump dictatorship: “Artists are a threat to American fascism”
- Dmitry Barinov’s “Zinoviev, Trotsky, University”: An important contribution to the history of the Left Opposition
- In Australian tour, US journalist Chris Hedges denounces media complicity in Gaza genocide
- The implications of the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests for the European working class
- More than 100,000 join New Zealand’s biggest strike in more than 40 years
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 500,000 Amazon jobs on chopping block due to automation in next few years
2025-10-25
- Chinese Communist Party expels 9 top generals
- Australian Services Union rally organisers promote illusions in Labor
- Union helps management block socialist student campaign at Australian university
- WSWS speaks with workers in New Zealand’s “mega strike”
- In response to Volkswagen’s “final offer” UAW schedules strike vote at Chattanooga plant
- Europe’s defence roadmap 2030 lays the groundwork for dictatorship and global war
- Following “No Kings” protests, organizers call on participants to subordinate themselves to the Democratic Party
- Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to shaky truce after week of clashes
- Australian care workers speak out against wage-cutting award “reform”
- FBI arrests NBA coach and player in sprawling sports betting and gambling probe
- Chinese leadership doubles down on high-tech development
- Target, GM, Ford announce more layoffs, as total US job cuts for 2025 approaches 1 million
2025-10-26
2025-10-27
- Australia: Meeting on demolition of Melbourne public housing towers blocks SEP speaker
- Far-right stoke anti-migrant riot in Dublin
- VW halts production due to chip shortage resulting from Trump’s trade war measures
- This week in history: October 27-November 2
- Munition factory explosion in Russia kills at least 13
- Libbey Glass strike in Toledo at crossroads
- Imprisoned CHP presidential candidate İmamoğlu indicted on charges of “espionage” in Turkey
- Trump escalates Canada-US trade war, as Ottawa prepares class-war budget
- Pentagon moving massive naval force towards Venezuela
- Fascist conspirator Steve Bannon tells The Economist “We have a plan” for a 3rd Trump term
- EU’s murderous refugee policy leads to 40 people drowning in boat disaster off Tunisia
- More interviews with workers in New Zealand’s mass strike
- Trump prepared to starve tens of millions of Americans by allowing food stamp funding to run out Saturday
- Two workers killed in Everett, Massachusetts crane collapse
- Orwell: 2+2=5–Raoul Peck’s film about George Orwell and contemporary events
- Teamsters President O’Brien steps in to prepare sellout of Henry Ford Genesys Hospital nurses’ strike
- Australia: Public meeting discusses how to fight Labor’s university restructuring
- Momodou Taal and his lawyers address law students at Wayne State on Trump attacks on democratic rights
- Denunciations of Gaza genocide secures Catherine Connolly's victory in Irish presidential election
2025-10-28
- Structural collapse at power plant in Indian Special Economic Zone kills 9 construction workers
- Boeing defense workers reject 4th company offer: Rank and file must take control of strike
- US ICE agents seize British journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi
- US-China trade truce set to be extended
- Millions threatened with hunger as South Africa’s ANC seeks to terminate Social Relief of Distress grant
- Beijing-Brussels chip war becomes a new frontline of US-China rivalry
- Number of homeless New York City public school students reaches a new high
- Tennessee munitions plant explosion: 24,000 pounds of explosives detonate—more powerful than the “Mother of All Bombs”
- Trump’s threats against food stamps: A weapon of class war
- GM’s closure of its Ontario CAMI plant exposes the dead end of Unifor’s nationalist partnership with corporate Canada
- Trump’s phony posturing as peacemaker in Asia
- Sri Lankan student leaders lament government refusal to meet demands
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SNAP cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” to intensify hunger crisis for millions of Americans
- “Trump did a better job”: Bernie Sanders praises Trump’s anti-immigrant pogrom on The Tim Dillon Show
2025-10-29
- Growing popular unrest in India’s Ladakh region as New Delhi makes it a forward base for war with China and Pakistan
- Gangster Trump unleashes Murder Inc. against Latin America
- Protests sweep Cameroon after 92-year-old Paul Biya declared president again
- Strike called over job losses at University of Sheffield, as University and College Union begin national strike ballot
- Trump purges top ICE officials, replacements to be vetted by Border Patrol Obergruppenführer Gregory Bovino
- Houston 28-year veteran postal worker dies in fatal road accident
- Joseph Hansen’s reply to Security and the Fourth International
- Hurricane Melissa strikes Jamaica, the most powerful storm in the island’s recorded history
- The Voice of Hind Rajab, film on the murder of 6-year-old girl in Gaza, finally receives distribution in US
- At election rally, DSA candidate Mamdani embraces right-wing Democratic Party establishment
- Why the poor die 9 years earlier than the rich: An interview with Dr. Marc Cohen
- Defend Resident Doctors: For a unified fight against Streeting’s war on the National Health Service
- Alberta government runs roughshod over democratic rights to illegalize strike by 50,000 teachers
- Amazon, UPS, Paramount Global slash tens of thousands of jobs as economic and social crisis in US deepens
- New Zealand union bureaucrats peddle the lie: Australia—a land of “milk and honey”
- A political prisoner's hunger strike against isolation in Turkish prisons passes 350 days
- A working class fighter for socialism: Joe Parnarauskis, 1954–2025
2025-10-30
- Severe delays at Newark airport highlight the ongoing crisis of the US air traffic control system
- With mass hunger approaching as food stamps expire Saturday, huge price increases revealed for Obamacare healthcare plans
- Israel massacres 100 Palestinians in a single day in Gaza
- Trump meets Japan’s new far-right prime minister
- Fed cuts interest rates amid market frenzy
- Tanzania’s election fraud triggers mass protests with army deployed
- Lula kisses Trump’s ring as US prepares war on Latin America
- Democrats, Sanders, Jacobin defend Maine’s Graham Platner following Nazi tattoo revelation
- GM layoffs escalate auto industry’s global job-cutting campaign amid EV policy shift, tariff chaos
- The class issues in the New York City mayoral election
- €377 billion for weapons–Germany’s most extensive rearmament programme since Hitler
- New Zealand letter of condolence to the families of those killed in Cobar, Australia mine explosion
- Australia: Queensland Teachers Union trying to rush through sell-out award deal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hundreds of Michigan high school students walk out to oppose fascist Turning Point USA club
- Two workers killed and a third injured in Australian mine explosion
- Pseudo-left ISO promotes Labour and union bureaucracy amid New Zealand’s “mega strike”
- Pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson knowingly selling carcinogenic talcum powder prompts UK’s biggest class action
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