Archive: 04/2026
2026-04-01
- Germany’s chemical industry: Union agrees to a cut in real wages
- Dolores Huerta’s allegations against Cesar Chavez and the political bankruptcy of the United Farm Workers
- Australian government distances itself from illegal war on Iran that it supports
- Palestine Solidarity Duisburg: Ahmad Othman wins again in court against the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Bath Iron Works naval shipyard strike betrayed as UAW subordinates workers to the war effort
- Joint statement by 11 parties in Türkiye: The “peace and democracy” deception amid the imperialist war of aggression in the Middle East
- Australia: What has happened to the enterprise agreement at Western Sydney University?
- US begins B-52 bombing flights over Iran after Trump threatens to “completely obliterate” civilian infrastructure
- Hegseth’s insider war investments and the character of the American ruling class
- Zionist assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani is a warning to the working class
- The Iran war and the erosion of international law
- Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026): The philosopher who chose the state
- “Americans don’t want this war”: Protesters at “No Kings” rallies speak out
- Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights: Is this all that we can expect?
- Workers strike auto parts manufacturer in Findlay, Ohio
- Gino Paoli, leading voice of postwar Italian popular music, dies at 91
- Ash Field School support staff vote for strikes to oppose victimization of Unison rep Tom Barker
2026-04-02
- Nexteer auto parts workers in Saginaw, Michigan reject UAW sellout deal in near unanimous vote
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- GM hits Factory Zero workers with another layoff as UAW maintains silence over escalating job cuts
- Conviction of UK Palestine Coalition leaders Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham criminalises anti-genocide protest
- Asian economies taking a double hit from US war on Iran
- Teamsters block DHL strike with tentative agreement one day before deadline
- Italy restricts US military access as crisis deepens within NATO and Meloni government amid rising opposition
- In genocidal rant, Trump vows to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages”
- Pseudo-lefts work to chain Mexico’s strike wave to US-trained union apparatus
- Violent arrests follow police rampage at Sydney anti-genocide protest
- Britain hosts Strait of Hormuz crisis summit amid breakdown of relations with US
- The unspoken target of Trump’s war on Iran—China
- Trump attacks citizenship and voting rights
- Oracle reported to lay off up to 30,000 workers globally via email
- Crimes against peace: The Nuremberg Trials precedent and the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran
- Israel adopts the death penalty only for Palestinians
2026-04-03
- NASA’s Artemis II launches crew to the Moon for first time in 54 years
- The war against Iran and the normalisation of war crimes
- The disinterest of Australian pseudo-left Socialist Alternative in the war on Iran
- “In 4 years I’ll be making the exact same amount I was making 20 years ago”: Nexteer Automotive workers in Michigan denounce UAW sellout, Trump's war in Iran
- Germany: Government commission on the future of health insurance funds declares war on the working class
- Dismissal of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons provokes uproar
- Spain’s Workers’ Revolutionary Current channels anti-war sentiment behind social democrats, pseudo-left parties and union bureaucracy
- End the politically motivated prosecution of Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan!
- “Four Corners” covers up Labor and union role in Australian university restructuring
- The American Hitler and the morality of the ruling class
- Trump says workers must pay for imperialist war with cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and daycare
- University of Michigan Chinese researcher takes his own life after interrogation by federal agents
- New Zealand government, media discourage vaccination amid COVID wave
- Australia: Labor government targets the elderly in public housing tower demolition
- Trump fires Bondi as US Attorney General
- Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
2026-04-04
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Wave of job cuts in New Zealand
- Australian Labor government secretly sends SAS to join the war against Iran
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for support for Nexteer workers
- “Left populist” Avi Lewis wins race to lead Canada’s social-democratic NDP
- Sri Lankan Tamil bourgeois parties support US-Israeli war on Iran
- US special forces launch rescue operation inside Iran after downing of US fighter jet
- South Korean factory fire investigation exposes indifference to safety
- Armed ICE officers remain at airports
- Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
- Where is America Going? Lively interest in book presentations with David North in Leipzig, Berlin and Nuremberg
- Berlinale Retrospective: A look back at the fall of the Berlin Wall—“Lost in the 90s”
- Trump’s plan to fund world war through social counter-revolution
2026-04-05
- UCLA reports expose explosive growth of student homelessness in Los Angeles County
- Book review: American Midnight: The Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis
- Resident doctor appeals for a unified fightback against Starmer government threats
- Danish pseudo-left lines up with European imperialism against US over Greenland
2026-04-06
- Sri Lankan workers and students discuss the US-Israel war on Iran and how to stop it
- This week in history: April 6-12
- Writers Guild of America suddenly announces new contract with studios
- Trump’s threats to destroy Iran and the breakdown of American democracy
- UK: Labour’s Universal Credit Act set to throw hundreds of thousands into deeper poverty
- ICE presence increasing at Michigan healthcare facilities
- The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud and the institutionalization of anti-science: An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak
- UFCW preparing to sell out 3-week strike by JBS meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado
- Australia: Labor government conducts police raids against anti-genocide protesters in Melbourne
- US, Israel wreak further damage on Iran’s cultural heritage
- Union pushes through pay cut for New Zealand primary teachers
2026-04-07
- One year since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: Family demands answers as MIOSHA investigation blocked
- Germany’s ultra-right culture minister Weimer continues his rampage against freedom of art and expression
- NASA’s Artemis II completes lunar flyby
- Trump sets Tuesday night deadline for the massive war crime against Iran
- Fortress Europe claims 70 more migrant lives in mass drowning in the Mediterranean
- Poll underscores crisis of Australia’s two-party system, rise of One Nation
- Teamsters announce last‑minute agreement for 17,000 First Student school bus drivers
- Union leaders smear resident doctors in Guardian hit piece
- Historical issues in Supreme Court argument on birthright citizenship
- Trump administration unveils plans for “Greater North America” as Iran war roils Latin American economies
- National resident doctors strike in England over pay and jobs
- Concerns over private credit deepen as war on Iran intensifies
- Minneapolis shooting video exposes ICE lies, frame-up of Venezuelan immigrants
- Cover-up of British nuclear testing in the Pacific exposed
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The working class must oppose Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran!
- After our contract rejection we must strike Nexteer to win our demands!
2026-04-08
- New Zealand signs neo-colonial defence deal with Cook Islands
- Suicide of U-M researcher: Stop the persecution of Chinese scientists!
- Reject the Australian Education Union sellout in Tasmania, unify with educators in Victoria, form rank-and file committees!
- Trump follows genocidal threat against Iran with 2-week “ceasefire”
- 3 workers killed in industrial accident at Turkish steel giant
- Italy’s far-right prime minister Meloni makes emergency visit to Persian Gulf amid Iran war
- BP Whiting lockout enters 4th week, as 1,700 Northern Indiana utility workers are locked out
- Court proceedings begin in Greece over 2023 Tempi rail crash deaths
- French government refuses to denounce US threat of genocidal attack on Iran as a war crime
- Pentagon’s fascist revamping of military training program
- JBS meatpacking workers return to work at Greeley, Colorado plant after UFCW sellout of strike
- Liberal government demands jobs bloodbath at Canada Post, as workers prepare to vote on concession-filled contracts
- Scenario (Szenario): A documentary normalises German militarism
- “He needs to be arrested”: US workers denounce Trump’s genocidal threats against Iran
- IMF delegation praises Sri Lankan government’s austerity measures
2026-04-09
- Immigrant senior stripped of Medicare under Trump bill exposes bipartisan assault on social programs
- Armed clash erupts near Israeli consulate in Istanbul
- As Los Angeles educators prepare strike, administrators and union officials meet for emergency talks
- Hungary elections: US Vice President Vance throws his weight behind Orbán
- Project Hail Mary—a hopeful (but somewhat wishful) adventure
- “We do not defend these actions of war and aggression”: US workers denounce Trump’s threats against Iran, demand end to war
- Iran war shock causes IMF to revise down global growth forecast
- Israel bombards Lebanon with 160 missiles within hours of Trump’s ceasefire announcement
- Amid deep divisions over ceasefire agreement, Israel launches massive attack on Lebanon
- As election losses mount, White House pursues ballot-rigging plans
- David North calls for building the anti-war movement in interview with Turkish channel TV5
- Australian special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith charged with war crimes against Afghan civilians
- Japan deploys long-range missiles for the first time
- Nationwide roadblocks by truckers and farmers in Mexico face repression
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings on 1926 General Strike: Attend this weekend in London and Glasgow
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2026-04-10
- Firefighters hold more strikes across New Zealand
- Far-right Alberta premier announces anti-immigrant referendum
- Australian university chiefs back Labor’s corporate agenda while pleading for funding relief
- Idaho constructs remote-controlled firing squad chamber: A method of state killing with a merciless history
- UAW issues statement of phony support for Mexican tire workers shot on picket line
- Jacobin and the DSA sow complacency to demobilize opposition to war against Iran
- Turkish independent union leader Başaran Aksu arrested
- BNP government in Bangladesh imposes economic impact of Iran war on working people
- German reactions to the “ceasefire” in the Iran war: Berlin sticks to its war aims
- Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, as US media demands renewed onslaught against Iran
- Medical neglect and preventable deaths spread across ICE detention centers
- Trades Union Congress offers Iran war partnership with Starmer government
- New York City Mayor Mamdani reneges on promise of free bus service
- Trump’s selective service filing prepares for activation of US military draft
- Detroit autoworkers denounce US-Israeli war on Iran: “This is for Big Oil”
- Starmer visits Gulf states amid fracturing “special relationship” with US
- Turkish municipal workers support Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign
2026-04-11
- Australia: Key issues buried at Brisbane rally against arrest of anti-genocide protester
- Oppose the draft! Build a working class movement against imperialist war!
- Australia: UWU boss posturing as “rank-and-file” candidate in union election
- Artemis II mission concludes after astronauts travel to the Moon and safely return to Earth
- Teamsters and UPS reach settlement over driver buyouts, while company continues plans to slash 30,000 more jobs
- Pseudo-leftist union leadership undermines Argentine tire plant occupation with appeals to nationalism
- Protests and strikes erupt in Brazil in turbulent run-up to presidential election
- USPS moves to suspend pension payments amid deepening financial crisis
- Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die–The solution to the world’s problems? Infect everyone with anti-technology allergy
- IYSSE (Sri Lanka) meeting discusses socialist strategy to stop the war against Iran
- Trump says the US is “loading up the ships” with weapons during ceasefire talks
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Indiana University postdoctoral fellow Youhuang Xiang sentenced to time served and ordered deported
- The International Bolshevik Tendency: Pseudo-left apologists for the union bureaucracy and Stalinism
- Fuel shock sends inflation soaring while the oligarchy grows richer
- “Progressive” Democrats seek collaboration with fascist critics of Iran war
2026-04-12
2026-04-13
- US-EU tensions erupt over Iran war as France holds back-channel talks with China
- University of Michigan subreddit censors WSWS articles on suicide of Chinese researcher
- Freedom for Başaran Aksu and all working-class prisoners in Türkiye!
- Democrat Eric Swalwell ends campaign for California governor over sexual misconduct charges
- New Zealand protests against war on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
- Los Angeles teachers unions announce sellout in bid to sabotage district-wide strike
- United Auto Workers financial report shows 2025 another bumper year for union apparatus as assets rise to $1.25 billion
- SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka: Stop the US–Israel War Against Iran!
- US deploys warships to Strait of Hormuz, announces Iran blockade
- This week in history: April 13-19
- The consequences of extreme exploitation – Enjoy Your Stay and I Understand Your Displeasure
- Dearborn residents oppose bombing of Lebanon at candlelight vigil
- The New York Times, the Democratic Party and the preparation of Phase 2 of the war against Iran
- “Everyone dies”: Grenfell Tower, regulation, and what the ruling class want from Reform UK
- EU adopts far-right agenda in migration policy
- Doncaster bus drivers at First South Yorkshire extend strike over pay parity
- University of Washington graduate student and his son deported, as immigration arrests surge statewide
- War-driven fuel crisis threatens recession in Australia
- Romania approves US military surge for war against Iran amid deepening domestic crisis
- Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president, calls for support for Harvard academic workers’ strike
- New strikes at German airline Lufthansa: “We’re seen as nothing but a cost factor”
2026-04-14
- IMF meets as war brings greater global economic and financial disruption
- With strike deadline approaching, Los Angeles officials and unions move to block walkout of 80,000 school workers
- Netanyahu government brutally represses opposition to wars against Iran and Lebanon
- Peru: Far right to dominate runoff for ninth president in a decade
- Art and the Influence of Revolution
- The Iran war, oil and the crisis of American imperialism
- California Supreme Court freezes Riverside ballot seizure as warrants reveal reliance on fascist election deniers
- Right-wing think tank presses UK Starmer government to abandon “peacetime” agenda and move to “warfighting readiness”
- United Auto Workers rally in Three Rivers, Michigan aims to contain growing anger as American Axle workers face looming contract expiration
- “The agencies have been pummeled down”: A conversation with Dorit Reiss on the state of American public health
- Hungary: Which way forward after Orban’s electoral defeat?
- Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: The next phase in the Iran war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pseudo-left “Marxism” conference in Australia suppresses any discussion of Iran war
- After massive no vote, UAW extends Nexteer contract behind backs of rank and file
- Australia: Fair Work Commission orders partial end to punitive “junior rates”
- Kremlin declares Memorial an “extremist” organization, shuts down data base of victims of the Great Terror
- New York rally by Sanders, Mamdani and union officials covers up US war drive against Iran
2026-04-15
- IMF warns of major downturn in global growth
- Labour peer George Robertson demands UK welfare spending cull to fund “warfighting readiness”, accusing Treasury of “vandalism”
- Trump’s NLRB rules against Henry Ford Genesys Hospital nurses as strike enters 8th month
- Whistleblower who exposed Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan still behind bars
- UAW President Shawn Fain unveils “Stand Up Slate” for 2026 election: New label, same bureaucracy
- Cancellation of Los Angeles schools strike latest in string of union betrayals
- Turkish coal miners march to Ankara for their unpaid wages
- Workers at Cummins turbo components plant in Huddersfield reject insulting pay offer
- Massachusetts postal workers form rank-and-file committee: “USPS is a public service, not a profit-making enterprise”
- Union-initiated Australian parliamentary report covers up Labor’s university restructuring agenda
- Big realtors in New York City demand massive concessions from residential building workers
- Union bureaucrats, Democrats cancel strike of 77,000 Los Angeles educators
2026-04-16
- German government prepares frontal attack on healthcare
- Australia: Labor intensifies assault on disability funding ahead of May budget
- Ukraine’s Zelensky in Berlin: Germany escalates its war offensive against Russia
- Rohingya refugees among 250 feared dead in boat capsize
- Democrat Abdul El-Sayed seeks to contain anti-war opposition during Michigan university campaign tour
- The socialist answer to the housing crisis in Britain
- War powers resolution blocked in the Senate as 10,000 more US troops head to the Middle East
- European states refuse to join in US blockade of Strait of Hormuz targeting Iran
- Coalition leader’s speech: Australian ruling elite turns to anti-immigrant poison
- Trump DOJ seeks to erase January 6 convictions of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers ringleaders ahead of 2026 elections
- Venezuelan workers protest persistent poverty amid privatizations and US corporate deals
- After Amazon worker dies at Troutdale, Oregon warehouse, management ordered employees to work around the body
- April 1776: When America opened its ports to the world
- Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell resigns amid #MeToo-style sex scandal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The political lessons of Mamdani’s first 100 days
- After shutting down JBS strike in Greeley, Colorado, UFCW pushes through contract 30 cents better than management’s initial offer
- Censorship of artist Basma al-Sharif continues: Germany’s foreign ministry reprimands Goethe-Institut for showcasing her work
- US war on Iran exposes bankruptcy of Mélenchon's France Unbowed party
2026-04-17
- “Loud and proud”: Strikes against Lufthansa continue
- Iran war brings massive price and profit gouging
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Amid Hormuz blockade, US Treasury threatens to sanction Chinese banks trading with Iran
- Pentagon drafts plans for military assault on Cuba
- After 2 votes in favor, UAW bureaucracy denies strike approval to student workers at Columbia University
- Starmer premiership threatened as Mandelson/Epstein crisis re-erupts
- New York home care workers wage second hunger strike in 2 years
- Thailand’s right-wing government formally takes power
- US blockade of Strait of Hormuz deepens conflicts between major powers
- Australia’s National Defence Strategy outlines military build-up for war against China
- Reject the Writers Guild of America sellout contract!
- The way forward for postal workers: A rank-and-file rebellion against the Carney government’s “transformation” of Canada Post and CUPW’s complicity
- Research demonstrates that enhanced instruction in genetics can reduce racist conceptions among students
- Harvard clerical, technical union leaders push through sellout deal as grad workers prepare to strike
2026-04-18
- Milei opens up Argentina’s glaciers to destruction by mining companies
- New IMF agreement requires Sri Lankan government to complete austerity program
- Massive fire at 1 of Australia’s 2 remaining oil refineries
- IMF spells it out: Workers must pay for the cost of war
- Iran reports reopening Strait of Hormuz as Paris summit plans European intervention
- Trump administration continues torment of El Gamal family as detained mother remains in severe pain
- Wall Street Journal announces the era of the “mega layoff”
- 6 films from Iran that should be seen by workers in the US and around the world
- Australian state Labor government defends unconstitutional anti-protest law
2026-04-19
2026-04-20
- Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges after IRGC closes the Strait of Hormuz
- Argentine union boss pitches corporatist alliance to US executives and fascistic President Milei
- CWU pushes “relaunch” of partnership with Kretinsky, based on sellout “negotiators agreement” with Royal Mail
- H-E-B grocery warehouse worker dies after workplace accident in San Antonio
- Union officials call off strike of 34,000 New York City doormen, porters and maintenance workers
- Mass protests by workers in northern India against price hikes due to US-Israeli war against Iran
- Australia: IYSSE speakouts opposing war against Iran draw support from university students
- The Pitt: The medical drama whose social realism and honesty have gripped millions
- Thousands march in London against housing crisis, but capitalist politicians offer no way forward
- This week in history: April 20-26
- APWU president Smith on USPS financial crisis: “nothing to see here”
- Aldi DX tech workers in Germany fight job cuts: Form a rank-and-file committee!
- Say No to the Verdi Collective Bargaining Agreement—Join the independent Transport Workers Action Committee
2026-04-21
- Federal prosecutors seize on California warehouse fire to criminalize anti-capitalist opposition
- 42,000 University of California workers prepare to strike
- Federal court orders release of El Gamal family after 10 months in ICE detention
- Mass arrests in Brisbane add to repression of anti-genocide protests in Australia
- Starmer’s Mandelson/Epstein crisis deepened by Olly Robbins’ testimony
- An Open Letter by a resident doctor on the way forward to defend the NHS against the Starmer government
- A connecting link between Trump and Epstein: Who is Paolo Zampolli?
- White House sends delegation to deliver war ultimatum to Cuba
- US seizes Iran-bound ship from China in Arabian Sea
- Disney carries out “massive layoffs,” while Sony, SnapChat, Artnet do their own job slashing
- “We do have the money to pay for education. Unfortunately, it’s been funneled away to pay for wars”: California Little Lake teachers walk out
- Lufthansa closes regional carrier CityLine with immediate effect: An act of top-down class war
- Borneo fire devastates thousands of Malaysia’s poorest people
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Porto Alegre Conference: How not to fight fascism
- The “Global Progressive Mobilization”: A bankrupt spectacle in Barcelona
2026-04-22
- Why Los Angeles teachers must vote “no” on the UTLA-LAUSD contract
- Hungary’s election winner Peter Magyar announces government of “experts”
- German government prepares comprehensive control and travel restrictions for young people as part of reintroduction of conscription
- Right-wing led fuel protests bring Ireland to a halt
- 12 killed in 2 school shootings in Türkiye
- Virginia voters approve Democratic Party-backed redistricting amendment to shift congressional seats
- Australia: Industrial court orders further real wage cut for NSW nurses
- Oppose the attempt to silence freedom of speech at Carroll Community College!
- The Strokes, David Byrne, Massive Attack, Tom Waits: Artists protest against the Iran war, ICE and the threat of dictatorship–“This ain’t no fooling around”
- Japanese government ends ban on lethal weapons exports
- Genetic evidence suggests that human evolution accelerated with the development of agriculture
- US detains and deports Chinese scientists at Seattle-Tacoma Airport
- Germany summons Russian ambassador and escalates confrontation with Moscow
- Kenya’s Ruto regime suppresses anti-fuel hike protests
- Harvard graduate workers strike to demand living wages, protection for international students against ICE and for academic freedom
- London Underground drivers strike against longer shifts under four-day week plan
- In last-minute reversal, Trump extends ceasefire with Iran
- Oakland, California schools axe 421 jobs following sellout contract
- 110 protesting coal miners detained by police in Türkiye
2026-04-23
- US imperialism’s war on Iran unleashes global economic and social catastrophe for the working class
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ricky and Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo): “Society is also something real...”
- Florida’s assembly line of death: The execution of Chadwick Willacy and the political machinery behind America’s killing season
- Trump Justice Department indicts Southern Poverty Law Center in frame-up to aid fascist groups
- US ramps up boat strikes in Latin American waters amid mounting proof that victims are fishermen
- Growing number of potential flashpoints in global financial system
- “This is gaslighting. A deception”: Los Angeles school workers denounce union-backed sellout contracts
- Australia: Two workers killed on the job in Brisbane in three days
- Bus drivers in East London strike against low pay and fatigue, defying strike-breaking operation by Stagecoach
- Who are graduate student strikers up against at Harvard University?
- The US witch-hunt against Chinese scientists and the death of Danhao Wang
- Bulgaria’s parliamentary election returns Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria with an absolute majority
2026-04-24
- Union leaders meet with Lula amid strike wave in Brazil
- Turkish miners’ struggle continues under a police siege
- German defence minister presents new military strategy: Berlin prepares for major war against Russia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Harvard Corporation demands graduate workers pay the price for Trump’s assault on academic freedom
- Workers and youth in Adelaide speak out on Iran war and support a socialist perspective
- London Underground drivers speak from the picket lines against imposed “condensed” four-day week
- LA Mayor Bass joins Trump in pro-corporate wildfire “relief” charade
- Unemployment to rise by a quarter of a million as Iran war hits UK economy
- Trump Justice Department intervenes to defend fascists and neo-Nazis
- Artists group launches boycott of New York cultural center 92NY over support for war, genocide
- US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating climate change
- California gubernatorial debate exposes right-wing character of both capitalist parties
- Hunger strike at Michigan immigrant detention center
- Nexteer workers: It is time for the rank and file to take matters into our own hands!
- El Gamal family released from ICE detention
- Two killed, dozens injured in West Virginia chemical plant explosion
- As third carrier strike group arrives, Trump orders Navy to “shoot and kill” Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz
- SEP holds meeting in Adelaide, South Australia on the Iran war and the fight for socialism
- Australia: Labor imposes sweeping disability cuts, forcing hundreds of thousands off essential supports
- ANC-led government sends army to South Africa’s townships
2026-04-25
- Michael Tilson Thomas, acclaimed American conductor, has died at the age of 81
- New Zealand government minister stokes anti-Indian racism
- Hesse, Germany: 4 tannery workers killed in workplace accident
- El Gamal family released from Dilley concentration camp: A victory in the fight against collective punishment
- Watch: Australian workers and youth oppose Gaza genocide and war in Iran
- Hegseth says Iran blockade “going global,” as US announces new sanctions on Chinese shipping
- El Salvador’s Bukele regime stages mass show trial for nearly 500 alleged gang members
- Trump’s “Department of War” seeks to enlist US auto companies in accelerated arms buildup
- El Gamal family being returned to Colorado following judicial order blocking deportation
2026-04-26
2026-04-27
- Harvard Academic Workers-UAW leaders sabotage strike of non-tenure-track faculty
- Book banning in the US: The right-wing effort to inoculate the population against critical thought
- This week in history: April 27-May 3
- Lake City ammunition strike in Missouri enters fourth week: Why the fight against Olin Winchester requires a struggle against imperialist war
- Near-miss at UPS’s Worldport, site of deadly crash last November, part of worsening aviation safety crisis
- Your Party’s purge of socialists: the rotten end of the Corbyn project
- Resolution for UAW Convention: “Against the US-Israeli Imperialist War on Iran—For the Independent Mobilization of the Working Class”
- Mamdani’s pension deferral plan advances Wall Street austerity agenda
- Trump seeks to profit politically from attack in Washington hotel
- Oppose the political persecution of Dr. Ranjeet Brar and all health workers!
- Rank-and-file candidate for United Auto Workers president Will Lehman introduces resolution against Iran war
- Police in India arrest hundreds in bid to suppress mounting worker unrest
- Pacific Island economies hit hard by war on Iran
- NYC home care workers end hunger strike on disputed promise of vote on 24-hour shifts
- 1 in 3 Americans cannot afford healthcare without cutting essentials
- Australia’s militarist Anzac Day held amid global eruption of war
2026-04-28
- Gettysburg and the New Birth of Freedom—then and now
- Global military spending surges to record $2.887 trillion
- Little Lake City teachers continue strike, while UTLA claims LA teachers ratified new contract
- UNDP report exposes vulnerability of South Asia’s economies to US war against Iran
- Peruvian far-right stages scandal over elections as nominally “left” candidate climbs to second place
- 1,100 artists call for boycott of Eurovision over Israel’s Gaza genocide
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Meta and Microsoft announce mass layoffs, as AI jobs massacre continues
- Italy’s Meloni government in crisis as rift with Israel and Trump opens
- US unions’ “May Day Strong” seeks to neuter May Day
- Gunman charged with attempted assassination of Trump: The political issues
- The gutting of the NIH and the capitalist assault on public health
- Australia: Labor’s aged home care cuts continue
2026-04-29
- Amid popular outrage, no official explanation of secret CIA operation in Mexico
- School budget proposal threatens 200 job cuts in Paterson, New Jersey
- Charles III in Washington: Monarchy, oligarchy and the repudiation of 1776
- Justice Department revives firing squad, electrocution and gas asphyxiation for federal executions
- King Charles III touts “special relationship” to Congress based on decades of US-UK imperialist wars
- Aldi DX tech workers in Germany: More than 1 in 3 jobs to be cut
- US Agriculture Department reports food price increases from Iran war, tariffs and drought
- Canada’s Liberal government secures parliamentary majority after seven years of minority rule
- German government plans massive cuts to health, pensions and social benefits
- Trump rushes migrant children through deportation courts, while Walz backs federal raids in Minnesota
- Iran war hits Australian economy
- Australian pseudo-left Socialist Alternative hysterically denounces workers who voted for One Nation
- Australian Education Union divides teachers to prepare sellout in Victoria—build rank-and-file committees
- Unite union peddles sellout deal to end Birmingham bin workers strike
2026-04-30
- The political issues in the New York City transit workers’ contract struggle
- Hegseth details White House plan to surge military spending by 50 percent
- Ann Arbor teachers vote 1,084-4 to defeat sellout contract as teachers across Michigan face layoffs and poverty pay
- Unite cancels May Day strike by Doncaster bus drivers to meet with management
- Australian NDIS workers and participants oppose Labor’s cuts to disability support
- Latest round of tech layoffs at Microsoft and Meta shows need for a working class movement to defend jobs
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Supreme Court steps up attacks on democratic rights
- James Comey appears in court following indictment for “86 47” social media meme
- Fed keeps interest rates on hold as Powell declares he will stay on as a governor
- 4 years of the Amazon Labor Union: A balance sheet
- Morenoites campaign for Brazilian Army medal for metalworkers union amid escalating global war
- UK Prime Minister Starmer survives vote to investigate whether he misled parliament, but Mandelson/Epstein crisis deepens
- Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens indicted in political witch-hunt
- Energy shortage: Macron wants to use war on Iran to wage class war in France
- Faculty, students oppose censorship of artist at University of North Texas
- Workers and young people in Canada and India urge participation in International Online May Day Rally
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