Archive: 02/2026
2026-02-01
- Lecture at the University of Michigan on Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra
- Third “Megapicket” held in Birmingham refuse workers strike as union bureaucracy appeals to Starmer
- Birmingham bin workers defiant on the picket line
- Measles outbreak rips through Dilley child detention center, as nationwide epidemic deepens
2026-02-02
- Europe’s imperialist powers line up behind regime change in Iran
- Major financial oligarchs helped Kevin Warsh secure Trump’s nomination for Fed chair
- Epstein files reveal criminality of American oligarchy
- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani praises NYPD shooting of emotionally distressed 22-year-old
- Senate Democratic leadership votes to fund Trump’s wars abroad and at home
- “Obey now. Grieve later”: Teachers unions suppress resistance to fascism
- Australian PM invites Canadian leader to visit
- This week in history: February 2-8
- Australia: Writers Victoria to close as state Labor government slashes arts funding
- Venezuela privatizes oil at US gunpoint: The dead end of “21st Century Socialism”
- Five workers killed because Greek biscuit factory was a death trap following years of safety violations
- Deadly landslide in West Java exposes consequences of government neglect
- Workers and young people in the UK speak on Gaza and Minneapolis
- New York nurses: Expand the strike to defeat mass firing threats from management!
- 2 months after Cyclone Ditwah: Sri Lanka’s humanitarian catastrophe continues
2026-02-03
- The new Dutch coalition government: A minority war cabinet in the service of capital
- ICE arrests man in raid of Amazon facility in Hazel Park, Michigan
- Australian Labor government policy drives up housing prices
- Hailing Stalin, Kenyan Stalinists defend Venezuelan regime’s growing ties to Trump
- As the US prepares war against Iran, NATO ally Türkiye attempts to mediate
- Sri Lankan government imposes “essential services” laws
- Indonesian stock market plunge indicates deepening economic turmoil
- Oil companies demand surrender, but USW keeps 30,000 refinery workers on the job after contract expires
- The mass surveillance infrastructure of Trump’s assault on immigrants and protesters
- Trump SNAP cuts take effect: 2.4 million people at risk of losing food assistance by 2034
- Trump-aligned candidate wins Costa Rican presidency exposing bankruptcy of Pink Tide
- Despite overwhelming strike vote, union keeps 650 nurses on the job at Boston Medical Center Brighton
- Coalition break-up expresses crisis of Australia’s two-party system
- Journalists identify Alex Pretti’s killers as immigration Gestapo continues nationwide terror campaign
- Striking workers speak from picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum for England:
- Deepening poverty in the UK under Starmer Labour government says major charity
- Measles outbreak at Dilley concentration camp: An indictment of Trump’s war on immigrants and public health
- Mediterranean dockworkers prepare International Day of Protest against escalating global war
- Warning strikes in Germany’s public transport: Break the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy! Build independent action committees!
- Music and recording artists denounce ICE and defend immigrants at 2026 Grammys
- Ferry sinks in Philippines killing 42, dozens more missing
- Kaiser healthcare strike enters second week as new walkouts loom nationwide
- How to carry out the rebellion against the IG Metall trade union in Germany
2026-02-04
- Canada’s Unifor union urges conversion of auto plant to war production
- 71-year-old subcontractor killed after falling into industrial vat at New Jersey chemical plant
- Australian Labor government rolls out red carpet for Israeli president
- University of Sheffield lock-out of staff adhering to action short of striking
- Students, faculty protest against academic censorship at Texas A&M University
- Strikes and protests on the rise as Germany’s hospital sector faces growing crisis
- Protests erupt in Italy against ICE presence at Winter Olympics in Milan
- The US nurses’ strikes and the call for a general strike against Trump: How workers must prepare
- Trump calls for federal seizure of elections while directing FBI agents in Fulton County, Georgia
- The European Film Awards favour films celebrating family (Sentimental) values and “dancing in the face of oblivion”
- Sri Lankan court hearing on violent 2023 assault on SEP members
- Australian interest rate hike hits working-class households
- National Education Union ends Midlands, England teachers’ strike following agreement with Trust
- NYSNA seeks to undermine nurses strike as hospitals move to replace workers
- Epstein scandal engulfs Labour’s Peter Mandelson and former Prince Andrew, threatening Starmer
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- House Democrats ensure funding of Trump’s global military rampage and domestic dictatorship
- Washington escalates aggression against Mexico in bid to impose rule over the Americas
- Switzerland: Fire disaster in Crans-Montana claims 41st victim
2026-02-05
- Jury acquits Palestine Action’s Filton 6, dealing blow to Labour’s “terrorism” narrative
- Trump welcomes Colombian President Petro at the White House after military threats
- Build rank-and-file committees at Australian universities to fight job destruction and pro-war restructuring
- Washington Post slashes one-third of its newsroom, as 2026 jobs bloodbath continues
- Kaiser Permanente pays $556 million for Medicare fraud while claiming there is no money for striking workers
- Communication Worker Union’s Martin Walsh opposes call for rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: National Cabinet agrees on plan to drive tens of thousands of children off NDIS disability support
- Greek Coast Guard rams refugee boat, killing and injuring dozens
- IG Metall boss calls for protectionism and trade war
- Trump prepares to rig—or cancel—the 2026 elections
2026-02-06
- Trump calls for country to “move on” from Epstein files, as scale and scope of criminality, cover-up expand
- No Other Choice from South Korea: Doesn’t “necessity knows no law” cut both ways?
- Layoffs by US firms tripled in January, as mass job cuts accelerate to Great Recession levels
- Washington pressures Mexico to halt supply of oil to Cuba
- Resident doctors in England renew strike mandate for pay restoration and to end employment crisis
- Trump falsifies the history of the Mexican-American War
- New York City nurses arrested as Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul escalate pressure to end 4-week strike
- Hundreds of ABP meat packers in Dungannon, Northern Ireland facing redundancy
- Turkish CHP holds “Social Peace and Democracy Conference”
- Australia: Labor government pressing ahead with demolition of Melbourne public housing towers
- Trump’s “critical minerals” conference aimed against China
- Mamdani caps one month of betrayal with endorsement of right-wing Democrat Kathy Hochul
- California worker killed in US Foods distribution facility
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 1,200 autoworkers in Canada lose their jobs as GM ends third shift at Oshawa Assembly Plant
2026-02-07
- University of Illinois student Republican club calls for assassination of political opponents
- DHS vindictively targets Liam Ramos’s family for deportation following release from measles-ridden south Texas concentration camp
- Canadian unions mute as working-class opposition to Trump and his operation dictatorship surges
- San Francisco teachers to walk out Monday against austerity in the richest tech enclave on the planet
- The crisis in Australian public education and the need for rank-and-file committees
- Merz in the Gulf region: Alliance with murderers, dictators in the name of German great power politics
- US energy blockade threatens Cuba with humanitarian “collapse”
- Trump posts racist video depicting the Obamas as apes
- Ann Arbor, Michigan educators working under expired contract amid massive cuts
- Trump’s plan to purge the federal government and the threat of dictatorship
- Homeless Kalamazoo, Michigan man freezes to death while city spends $515 million on arena
- Kaiser healthcare strike approaches 3rd week; 4,000 pharmacy and lab workers prepare to join the pickets
- Workers furious after USW announce sellout deal for 30,000 refinery workers
- Students in Southeast Michigan join nationwide walkouts against ICE terror and dictatorship
- Israeli President Herzog’s visit to Australia: Labor governments embrace mass murder and police state repression
- Trump announces plan to close Kennedy Center for 2 years coinciding with July 4th celebrations
2026-02-08
- Corbyn and the Mandelson-Epstein crisis: An essential lesson
- Attacking the WSWS, the Communist Party Marxist–Kenya salutes the gravedigger of the revolution, Stalin
- Corbyn’s anti-socialism, Sultana’s reformism and the necessary revolutionary alternative
- Türkiye imprisons 77 members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), puts six members of Left Party under house arrest
2026-02-09
- Workers at BYD’s Xi’an plant in China strike over poverty wages
- Ruling right-wing party in Japan wins general election in landslide
- International opposition to Trump and ICE shapes opening of Milan Olympics
- This week in history: February 9-15
- The Guthrie kidnapping, the US media and the thousands of ICE abductions
- Peru protest joins drivers, university students and relatives of state repression victims
- Historical issues arising from the Stalinist Turkish Communist Party’s mass meeting in Ankara
- Kaiser lawsuit exposes Labor Management Partnership as conspiracy against healthcare workers
- A toddler’s near death at Dilley exposes the reality of US immigration detention
- Online meeting: The Nurses’ Strikes and the Movement Against Dictatorship
- Landslides kill 227 at Democratic Republic of Congo coltan mines at the centre of Washington’s struggle to control vital mineral resources
- “They represented Marathon, not us”: Refinery workers denounce USW sellout in national pattern deal
- Carson High School students walk out against ICE raids, dictatorship and war
- New Zealand government defends social inequality on Waitangi Day
- On NATO’s eastern flank: German government seeks to transform regional airport into military fortress
- Morenoites and Stalinists form reactionary bloc in Venezuela: The betrayal of the working class continues!
- Minnesota police riot against protesters outside Whipple Federal building
2026-02-10
- Divisions within NZ coalition government over India Free Trade Agreement
- Widespread anger over NYSNA’s sellout bid to end New York nurses’ strike
- Washington preparing military strikes against Iran
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show highlights mass opposition to Trump
- UAW hails sellout agreement at Tennessee Volkswagen plant as “historic”
- UN report calls for action on “water bankruptcy” affecting billions of people
- Police rampage against Sydney protest opposing Israeli president’s Australian visit
- Class Struggle USA: Major strikes erupt nationwide
- Australian workers and youth denounce visit by Israeli President Herzog
- New alliance of Sri Lankan health unions to contain opposition to IMF austerity
- Leqaa Kordia, Palestinian detained for one year, suffers medical emergency at Texas ICE facility
- Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”
- Migros warehouse workers’ struggle continues despite Turkish police pressure and dismissals
- IYSSE meeting: For a socialist perspective against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany
- Royal Oak High School students in Detroit suburb walk out to defend immigrants
- UK loses measles elimination status amid sustained assault on public health
- Bonobo demonstrates the cognitive ability to imagine “make believe” objects
2026-02-11
- Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979
- Los Angeles moves to dismantle federal oversight of homelessness as crisis deepens
- Germany: At Bosch, Stalinist MLPD attacks opposition to IG Metall union apparatus
- 3,000 pharmacy, lab workers join strike of 31,000 Kaiser healthcare workers
- Trump, the Epstein files and the putrefaction of the American oligarchy
- Australia: “Prohibited hate group” laws recall 1951 referendum to ban “communism”
- Software firms take major hit from AI
- Rampage against Sydney pro-Palestinian protest orchestrated by NSW government, police command
- Fascist Argentine President Milei’s draconian labor counter-reform sparks mass strikes
- Australian workers and youth speak out against Herzog visit and anti-protest laws
- Australia: Queensland LNP government matches Labor by banning “prescribed phrases”
- New Zealand’s capital city faces environmental disaster from massive sewage leak
- The Artamonov Business (1925): Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution
- How New York City nurses can fight the sellout of their 4-week strike
- The Department of Justice moves to gut the right of asylum
- The Mandelson-Epstein crisis and the socialist struggle against the Starmer government
- Berlin state election: Socialism, not war
- BMA obstructs resident doctors fight against Starmer government: Rank and file must take charge
- India’s Labour Code “reform”: A savage attack on worker rights
- Epstein files reveal FBI identified billionaire Leslie Wexner as co-conspirator in 2019
- Public Meeting: Trotskyism and the fight for revolutionary leadership
- Lucinda Williams’ World’s Gone Wrong: An urgent protest against the fascist danger
- Two Amazon Flex workers were arrested in ICE raid in Hazel Park, Michigan
- “Return Hubs”: EU organises deportation camps outside Europe
2026-02-12
- Military-aligned BJT wins most seats in Thai election
- Mexico’s president invites in US Marines after marking 1913 US-orchestrated overthrow of Madero
- Mehring Yayıncılık publishes The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
- The 50th anniversary remaster of Tales from Topographic Oceans by progressive rock band Yes
- Bondi hearing exposes Epstein cover-up and secret “domestic terrorist” lists
- Trump and Netanyahu hold Iran war conclave
- NewYork-Presbyterian nurses defeat strong-arming by NYSNA bureaucracy, continue strike
- Trump threatens to block opening of Gordie Howe International Bridge as part of escalating economic war on Canada
- Detroit area student walkouts declare, “ICE are the criminals, not us”
- In advance of White House meeting, Brazil's Lula sanctions US abduction of Maduro
- Israel tightens grip on West Bank to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”
- Teachers, supporters speak out from San Francisco picket lines
- Pentagon weapons test forces closure of El Paso Airport
- “Nurses should demand an end to this sham vote”: Opening report to meeting of New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- Munich Security Conference overshadowed by transatlantic conflict
2026-02-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Stellantis steps up attacks on workers as company takes $26 billion charge due to EV reversal
- Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman announces 2026 campaign for UAW president on a platform for rank-and-file power
- Bosch workers in Germany express support for the formation of action committees
- Indonesian government joins Trump’s colonial “Board of Peace” in Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The measles vaccine: A product of two centuries of science and public health reform
- The Tumbler Ridge mass shooting: An indictment of social and political life in Canada
- DSA councilmember Nithya Raman enters Los Angeles mayoral race
- “Germany must be strengthened”: Social Democrats prepare new right-wing party programme
- Australian protesters against Herzog visit speak about police attacks
- Australian pseudo-left downplays police rampage in Sydney, promotes appeals to Labor after Herzog visit
- Executions in Florida and Oklahoma: A death penalty system indifferent to trauma and sentencing disparities
- Princeton University cancels discussion by Norman Finkelstein on the ongoing Gaza genocide
- Proscription of Palestine Action ruled unlawful in blow to UK Labour government
- Comrades in Art: How Stalinism ruined the Artists’ International Association
- Online Public Meeting: Sri Lankan doctors’ protests and the fight to defend free public health
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will make her debut as an imperialist strategist at the Munich Security Conference
- New York City Mayor Mamdani seeks to stop aid to homeless while grandstanding on taxing the rich
- Walz hails Homan as ICE shifts tactics in Minnesota
- Norwegian union makes M.A.N. Truck & Bus workers pay for a phoney strike
2026-02-14
- Australian filmmaker James Ricketson speaks with WSWS about police violence at Sydney Town Hall
- Vote “No” to betrayal of San Francisco teachers’ strike! No more sacrificing livelihoods and social rights while billionaires feast!
- Teachers, students, parents speak out from Ocean Beach rally
- Millions of Indian workers join one-day protest strike against Modi’s class war assault
- AI development and the contradictions of capitalism
- US military prepares “sustained, weeks-long” war against Iran
- Which way forward after the nurses’ rejection of the agreement with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital?
- Oil workers: Reject the national agreement! Mobilize to prevent isolation of BP Whiting workers!
- Liberal leadership spill underscores Australian political crisis
- Australia: Pseudo-left seek to block IYSSE’s socialist campaigning at Victoria University with provocations, lies
- Colorado meatpacking workers authorize strike over horrific plant conditions despite deportation threat
- German Parliament President Klöckner “embedded” in Gaza: Berlin endorses Israel’s genocide
- UPS preparing to offer second driver buyout, as it plans 30,000 layoffs in 2026
- Trump administration rescinds EPA Endangerment Finding: Corporate America’s license to kill
2026-02-15
- Sections of European social democrats vote with conservatives and far-right to pass anti-migrant policies
- UCU members to strike again at the University of Sheffield International College
- Noam Chomsky’s contemptible friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
- David North to speak at two universities in Ankara, Turkey: “The American volcano and the global tsunami”
2026-02-16
- Widespread enthusiasm for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Australia: Victorian educators’ industrial action ballot opens—Vote yes but build rank-and-file committees to take the struggle forward
- Another multi-million dollar settlement against Kaiser exposes how nonprofit operates like a corporation for profit
- New Zealand firefighters continue strikes
- 53-year-old Flint worker crushed to death in scrap yard
- The crisis at Royal Mail: Postal workers need a rank-and-file strategy to fight back
- ICE memo outlines massive $38.3 billion expansion of concentration camp network
- Political conflict in the Philippine elite deepens over Washington’s war preparations
- With strike looming, BP Whiting refinery workers rally to defend jobs, wages and safety
- After another anti-ICE school walkout, Los Angeles students confront federal thugs
- “We haven’t been here for five weeks now for no reason”: New York City nurses speak out on the picket line
- Verdi union agrees sell-out contract for Germany’s federal state workers
- Germany: VW workforce bleeds while the board cashes in—with help from the Works Council and IG Metall
- Berlin film festival jury president Wim Wenders insists the role of artists is to “stay out of politics”
- At Munich conference, AOC accuses Trump of insufficient commitment to war against Russia, refuses to rule out war with China
- Congress deepens social counterrevolution with assault on D.C. home rule and budget
- This week in history: February 16-22
- Thomas “TJ” Sabula is back at work—but the lessons must be learned
- The Munich War Conference
- NATO’s Arctic Sentry mission sets stage for militarisation of High North and deepening conflicts between imperialist powers
2026-02-17
- India’s budget combines austerity for working people with huge boosts in military spending and business subsidies
- Will Lehman’s UAW campaign wins broad support from workers, as DSA unleashes slanders
- Mass protest against Israeli war criminal Herzog in Melbourne
- GM workers denounce ICE operation outside Factory Zero in Detroit
- The Voice of Hind Rajab: A harrowing account of the killing of a Palestinian child
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Kennedy’s attack on science and public health finds a platform on Theo Von’s podcast
- Australia: Filipino migrant worker “increasingly fearful” of boss before his death, inquest finds
- Royal Mail workers in Sheffield expose reasons for mail delays amid CWU-backed restructuring
- BMA settlement for resident doctors in Scotland: pay restoration deferred and a joint struggle to defend NHS blocked
- Trump threatens executive order to curb voting in midterm election
- Melbourne protesters denounce Israeli war criminal’s visit to Australia, Labor’s police-state measures
- Israeli air strikes kill 12 in Gaza on eve of Trump’s first “Board of Peace” meeting
2026-02-18
- Royal Mail workers in London oppose CWU union leaders
- Sentimental Value: We will have to take their word for it
- Auto parts workers occupy plants across northern Mexico after 4,000 jobs cut
- Expanding nurses strikes in California and New York raise need for unified struggle
- New York nurses in “uprising” against union boss’s attempts to sabotage strike
- BP Whiting workers denounce USW betrayal, call for national strike to defend jobs
- Teachers union bureaucrat falsely claims to support a “general strike,” while insisting school workers “Obey Now, Grieve Later”
- US corporate media slanders anger over Epstein cover-up as “conspiracy theories”
- Sick 2-month-old baby deported after falling ill in south Texas ICE concentration camp
- New report documents France’s human rights abuses during New Caledonia unrest
- Immigration attorney Eric Lee warns ICE mass detention is spearhead for dictatorship in MS Now interview
- Left Voice: An accomplice of labor bureaucracy in Minneapolis
- Show trial in Hungary: German anti-fascist Maja T. sentenced to 8 years in prison
- South Africa’s ANC to deploy army to police the working class
- The Kremlin bans WhatsApp
- US murders 11 people with airstrikes on boats in both Caribbean and Pacific
- ICE targets Detroit
- South Australian nurses to strike at Adelaide hospital over Labor government wage cuts
- Australian universities on trial: The Albanese government’s “report card” against dissent
2026-02-19
- Los Angeles school district announces hundreds of job cuts
- Zohran Mamdani threatens to increase property tax on New York City workers
- Trade unions, Catalan regional government work to suppress teachers’ anger after mass strike
- Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested in Epstein investigation
- 7 Los Angeles County public health clinics to end clinical services
- Gaza without the bombs: US regime change operation in Cuba deepens inequality, mass hunger
- Sri Lanka: 12 death sentences imposed for killing an MP amid 2022 uprising
- Leader of Australia’s far-right One Nation party goes on Islamophobic tirade
- Jeremy Corbyn: Britain’s anti-socialist witch-hunter
- Volkswagen to impose 20 percent cost reduction across all brands, threatening jobs and plants
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman issues statement supporting University of California student employees strike vote
- AI turmoil continues on 2 fronts
- Australia: Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee supports striking US nurses and healthcare workers
- Jesse Jackson: From civil rights to black capitalism
- Washington mobilizes for war, as Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime offers major concessions
- ICE abduction of 2 Amazon Flex drivers reveals the exploitative nature of the app-based gig economy labor model
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- CBS censors Stephen Colbert’s interview with James Talarico, Texas Democrat for US Senate
- 1,100 California State University skilled trades workers launch 4-day strike across 23 campuses
- Australian state Labor government imposes anti-democratic “code of conduct” changes on school staff
- François Legault and the sharp right-ward lurch in Quebec politics
- New York University contract faculty threaten strike action to win first contract
2026-02-20
- Andrew’s arrest, the British monarchy, and the international oligarchy
- Job cuts and restructuring continue at Australian universities, facilitated by the trade unions
- Billionaires and corporate lawyers resign following latest Epstein file release
- Labor government moves to bar entry to Australian women and children interned in Syria
- “The worst of the worst”: ICE detains Chilean death squad killer
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: 6 years since the racist murders in Hanau
- Heads of British and German armed forces insist Europe’s population must be made ready for war
- Washington D.C. declares public emergency after Potomac sewer collapse
- World Socialist Revolution is the answer to imperialist war and fascism
- Walter Reed military hospital formalizes deal with Kaiser Permanente to prepare for mass casualties in future wars
- US forces in position for illegal attack on Iran
- Will Lehman backs plant occupations by Mexican auto parts workers against mass layoffs
- Ukrainian President Zelensky pledges elections, quickly backtracks
- The global company Veolia at the heart of NZ’s wastewater disaster
- More than 100 film artists condemn Berlinale’s censorship of opposition to Israel’s Gaza genocide
- French politics lurches right after the death of a fascist
- Düsseldorf Art Academy accused of antisemitism due to performance by Palestinian artist Basma al-Sharif
2026-02-21
- NYSNA holds snap vote on second sellout agreement for NewYork-Presbyterian nurses
- US Department of Labor reports 5,070 US workers killed on the job in 2024
- Canadian workers express support for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president on program of rank-and-file power
- San Francisco teachers strike ends under looming budget cuts, layoffs
- Operating engineers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente to join 31,000 currently on strike
- Marty Supreme: A table tennis star’s frantic fight for fame
- IMF calls on China to restructure its economy
- Real wages to continue falling in Australia
- Pennsylvania high school students violently attacked by police during anti-ICE walkout
- 2 coup attempts: Ex-South Korean president jailed, while Trump sits in office
- “They are denying people’s human rights”: UPS worker speaks out against intimidation, injuries, forgeries at Redmond hub
- Berlin: Factories in ailing industrial sectors bought up to produce military weapons
- Lawyer exposes illegal detention and “domestic Guantánamos” in case of former Detroit Cass Tech student, Alcides Caceres
- Strong support at Ford Rouge for rank-and-file campaign of Will Lehman for UAW president
- National strike in Argentina fails to halt historic labor counterreform and mass layoffs
- US draws up plans for “leadership change” and “targeting individuals” in Iran strike
2026-02-22
2026-02-23
- Canada’s Liberal government backs imperialist regime change in Iran
- Great Barrington Declaration author Jay Bhattacharya takes control of CDC as measles cases surge
- Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism—Foreword to the German edition
- Supreme Court ruling against Trump tariffs exposes ruling class crisis
- 15 years after Christchurch earthquake, families still fighting for justice
- Writers Guild of America West staff strike exposes exploitation and inequality within the union apparatus
- Australia: Police raid Canberra bar, seizing anti-fascist artwork under Labor’s new “hate speech” laws
- Fascist mobilisation in France after Quentin Deranque’s death
- Reject CWU/Labour government whitewash of Royal Mail crisis: for rank-and-file opposition to corporate collusion
- Plan for massive Georgia concentration camp for immigrants provokes outrage
- Turkish parliamentary committee overwhelmingly approves report on negotiations with Kurdish Workers Party
- This week in history: February 23-March 1
- NYSNA bureaucracy pushes through sellout to end nurses’ strike at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman denounces police attack on Quakertown, Pennsylvania student protest against ICE
- US military buildup in Middle East against Iran largest since 2003
- Australian government banning Islamist group under laws that could illegalise political parties
- How to stop conscription: German IYSSE meeting discusses a socialist perspective against war and militarism
2026-02-24
- UK Labour government reels following arrest of Peter Mandelson over Epstein connections
- US begins pulling staff from Beirut embassy amid Iran attack buildup
- Oppose the persecution of high school students protesting ICE! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship!
- The real state of Trump’s America: Social misery, dictatorship, war—and an upsurge of class struggle
- Australia: Early childhood educators in Victoria set to strike
- US-backed “execution” of Jalisco Cartel chief threatens greater carnage in Mexico
- Australia: Questions about Bondi terrorist attack remain unanswered
- High school students protesting ICE remain jailed days after police assault in Pennsylvania
- After Supreme Court decision, Trump tariff war to intensify
- Royal Mail workers in Keighley, West Yorkshire: “They are trying to kill off the postal service”
- Union shuts down South Australian nurses’ strike in backroom deal with Labor government
- Berlinale award winners demand festival and its backers take a clear stand against Gaza genocide
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UNAC/UHCP bureaucrats shut down Kaiser Permanente strike without a contract
2026-02-25
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for solidarity with Turkish miners’ wildcat strike
- 2 Pennsylvania students remain imprisoned 4 days after anti-ICE protest as “Quakertown 5” face felony charges
- A historic attack on citizenship rights: Labor blocks entry to Australians interned in Syria
- Actor Robert Duvall (1931-2026): A realist who went beyond his own conceptions
- Florida continues execution surge with lethal injection of Melvin Trotter
- Mass protests in Detroit area against plans for ICE detention and operational centers
- Demand the immediate release of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole!
- At meeting to defend public health, Sri Lanka’s health workers express solidarity with counterparts in US
- Measles cases in the US surge past 1,000 in 2026
- Say Nothing: Everything essential about the Northern Ireland conflict left unsaid
- Union bureaucracy sabotages the Kaiser Permanente strike
- Pentagon gives Anthropic 3 days to drop AI safeguards or face blacklisting
- Cuban worker describes hellish conditions, appeals to US workers to force an end to embargo
- Militarisation of Australian universities intensifies: More than $200 million in defence contracts since 2024
- Corruption scandal hits Greece’s GSEE trade union bureaucracy
- IMF chief hails Sri Lanka “success story” as its austerity agenda deepens social crisis
2026-02-26
- 30,000 LA school support workers overwhelmingly vote to strike
- Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole faces fraudulent charges as detention continues
- The Socialist Equality Party replies to Trump’s fascist address to Congress
- Amid deepening crisis of class rule, Peru saddled with eighth president in 10 years
- Trade unions hold town hall at George Mason University: University workers need independent organization, not appeals to Democrats
- With US imperialist war machine in position, Trump menaces Iran in State of the Union speech
- Epstein files naming Trump as attacker were withheld by DOJ
- South Australian election: Labor government campaigns on support for property developers, austerity and militarism
- Report on impact of AI triggers market turmoil
- Right-wing New Zealand blogger suggests becoming part of Australia to build a war machine
- Australia: Victorian Labor government hands police expanded stop-and-search powers
- Hanau shooting memorial highlights political shift to the right in Germany’s political establishment
- Oppose the pro-imperialist Kurdish nationalist coalition in Iran
- Kaiser Permanente files $95 million insurance lawsuit after record Medicare Advantage fraud settlement
- UN report warns of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, West Bank
- Former Fiji PM Bainimarama arrested on charges of inciting mutiny
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Palestinian Nerdeen Kiswani files civil rights lawsuit against Zionist Betar USA under Ku Klux Klan Act
2026-02-27
- Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society
- Australia: Police confiscate anti-genocide placard at Ramadan festival in Lakemba
- Trump backers prepare executive order to seize control of US midterm elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Cuba repels armed provocation as US tries to starve island into submission
- Labour Party suffers Gorton and Denton by-election wipe-out by Greens
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for rank-and-file slate as delegate elections begin
- Drop Site investigation reveals Israeli surveillance and security system installed at Epstein-controlled Manhattan apartment building
- Trump poised to launch criminal war on Iran behind smokescreen of talks
- Lorain County Jobs and Family Service workers entering second week of strike
- Mamdani deepens collaboration with Trump in second White House meeting
- From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means
- Australian government plans “tough” austerity budget
- CWU leader Martin Walsh uses restricted consultation exercise to claim backing for restructuring at Royal Mail
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital nurses seething after end to 6-week strike
- Imperial College London staff strike over pay: “Our effective pay has been cut by 9 percent since 2018”
- UCLA, Los Angeles schools chief targeted by Trump administration
- SAG-AFTRA negotiations begin: What are the issues facing actors and other industry workers?
- Your Party leadership elections put Corbyn in charge
2026-02-28
- Hamnet, Hamlet and the demanding effort “to show the very age and body of the time”
- Australian logistics software maker WiseTech announces 2,000 AI-driven job cuts
- Newly-elected far-right Japanese government prepares war measures
- Oppose the US imperialist war on Iran!
- The 2026 Winter Olympics: Remarkable athleticism poisoned by nationalist chauvinism
- Argentina’s labor bill vote and tire factory shutdown expose pseudo-left unionism
- Modi visits Israel to strengthen India-Israeli strategic axis, as Washington and Tel Aviv prepare assault on Iran
- New Zealand: Union pushes through pay cut for 12,300 health workers
- Teachers face illegal reprisals over support for student walkouts against ICE
- Mamdani’s decision to reopen New York City schools after blizzard angers teachers and parents
- FBI raids LAUSD headquarters and superintendent Carvalho’s home
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