Labour Party suffers Gorton and Denton by-election wipe out by Greens
A leadership challenge to Keir Starmer is ever more likely after May’s local elections, which Labour is also expected to lose heavily.
•Robert Stevens
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Your Party leadership elections put Corbyn in charge
The results were a rout for the Grassroots Left faction led by Zarah Sultana and its declared aim of transforming Your Party into an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist party dedicated to nationalising the economy.
•Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps
CWU leader Martin Walsh uses restricted consultation exercise to claim backing for restructuring at Royal Mail
Comments from postal workers on the CWU’s Facebook questioned whether the rejection of ODM at pilot offices signified support for the union’s proposal, which involves absorbing additional work by reducing existing duties and positions within the “Heavy and Light” model.
•Tony Robson
Imperial College London staff strike over pay: “Our effective pay has been cut by 9 percent since 2018”
Staff have taken three one-day strikes in February. They have now held 13 strike days since a ballot in September last year
•Our reporters
From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means
The Senate committee hearing laid bare the anti-science agenda driving the Trump-Kennedy assault on public health, while Democrats offered only performative opposition.
•Evan Blake
Trump poised to launch criminal war on Iran behind smokescreen of talks
Having amassed vast military power in the Middle East spearheaded by two aircraft carrier strike groups and scores of warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours.
•Keith Jones
Drop Site investigation reveals Israeli surveillance and security system installed at Epstein-controlled Manhattan apartment building
Drop Site News reports that newly disclosed documents show the Israeli government installed a security system at a Manhattan apartment building controlled by Jeffrey Epstein — a property that court filings, sworn depositions and police reports identify as housing underage girls and alleged co-conspirators in his sex trafficking operation.
•Jacob Crosse
Cuba repels armed provocation as US tries to starve island into submission
An armed “terrorist infiltration” by a US‑flagged speedboat exposes the increasingly reckless character of Washington’s regime‑change campaign.
•Andrea Lobo
Australia: Police confiscate anti-genocide placard at Ramadan festival in Lakemba
The police theft of a placard featuring the face of Israeli war criminal Netanyahu and the caption “wanted” was a provocation that would have been approved at high levels of the NSW government and police command.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australian government plans “tough” austerity budget
Albanese’s ministers are seeking to satisfy a drumbeat of demands by the corporate ruling class for much sharper cuts to social spending.
•Mike Head
Mamdani deepens collaboration with Trump in second White House meeting
Mamdani met with the president in the Oval Office supposedly to propose a housing plan less than two days after Trump’s fascistic State of the Union address.
•Daniel de Vries
Trump backers prepare executive order to seize control of US midterm elections
The fascist president has threatened to issue such an order if Congress fails to pass legislation aimed at suppressing turnout by anti-Trump voters in November.
•Patrick Martin
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for rank-and-file slate as delegate elections begin
Elections are currently taking place at UAW locals for delegates to the Constitutional Convention schedule for June 15-18 in Detroit.
•Jerry White
SAG-AFTRA negotiations begin: What are the issues facing actors and other industry workers?
The conditions today are even more tense and fraught than those that led to a 118-day strike in 2023.
•Hong Jian
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital nurses seething after end to 6-week strike
They face not only a new contract that fails to satisfy their demands, but also a new round of attacks and harassment from management, according to nurses who spoke to the World Socialist Web Site.
•Erik Schreiber
UCLA, Los Angeles schools chief targeted by Trump administration
Together, they constitute an extraordinary and coordinated intervention by Trump, aimed at intimidating opposition and reasserting state authority amid a rapidly intensifying class struggle.
•Marc Wells
Lorain County Jobs and Family Service workers entering second week of strike
The 140 social service workers, members of the UAW, walked out February 18 for better wages and benefits as Democrats and Republicans make massive cuts to social spending.
•Samuel Davidson
Right-wing New Zealand blogger suggests becoming part of Australia to build a war machine
The proposal by David Farrar, who is close to the New Zealand government, reflects concern in ruling circles that NZ may be sidelined by the US and other imperialist powers in the violent redivision of the world.
•Tom Peters
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Ahead of international protests to mark third anniversary of Tempi rail crash, actors and theatre technicians across Greece walk out over pay and conditions; bus drivers in Çanakkale, Turkey in stoppage over unpaid wages and poor working conditions; ArcelorMittal Liberia mine workers protesting pay and conditions face police attacks
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UN report warns of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, West Bank
The UN human rights office said the cumulative impact of Israel’s military conduct during its war against the Palestinians, along with its blockade of the territory, had inflicted living conditions “increasingly incompatible with Palestinians’ continued existence as a group in Gaza.”
•Jean Shaoul
Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole faces fraudulent charges as detention continues
Omole has been transferred to Kitengela Remand Prison with a broken arm. He faces trumped-up charges of connections to drug cartels, assaulting a police officer and possession of a firearm.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Oppose the pro-imperialist Kurdish nationalist coalition in Iran
The “coalition of political forces of Iranian Kurdistan” represents yet another episode in the protracted and disastrous alignment of Kurdish bourgeois nationalist organizations with American imperialism.
•Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
Palestinian Nerdeen Kiswani files civil rights lawsuit against Zionist Betar USA under Ku Klux Klan Act
Kiswani’s suit alleges that the violent far-right group has been targeting her for over a year, including by supplying her name to the Trump administration for deportation.
•Jacob Crosse
Epstein files naming Trump as attacker were withheld by DOJ
Multiple media reports quote Epstein victims whose statements to the FBI were recorded, but not released by the Department of Justice last month.
•Patrick Martin
South Australian election: Labor government campaigns on support for property developers, austerity and militarism
The March 21 state election will resolve nothing for workers and young people.
•Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell
The Socialist Equality Party replies to Trump’s fascist address to Congress
In the United States, where the capitalist two-party system has been in place for 150 years, all those genuinely opposed to the policies and interests of the ruling class are denied the right to address the people. However, if the Socialist Equality Party had been given the opportunity to deliver a televised rebuttal, not only to Trump’s State of the Union Address but also to the Democrats’ reply, this is what we would have said.
•David North
Report on impact of AI triggers market turmoil
A hypothetical scenario set out by the research firm Citrini “tapped into a new strain of fears about AI.”
•Nick Beams
With US imperialist war machine in position, Trump menaces Iran in State of the Union speech
The absence of any expression of popular opposition to the war reflects both the backing among the European imperialist powers and broad support among the privileged middle class “left” for a “regime change” operation led by Washington.
•Jordan Shilton
30,000 LA school support workers overwhelmingly vote to strike
With the previous vote by teachers, some 65,000 Los Angeles Unified School District employees are poised to strike.
•Marc Wells
Australia: Victorian Labor government hands police expanded stop-and-search powers
Such police-state powers mark a further shift to the right by Labor governments, seeking to crush dissent.
•Sofia Devetzi
Trade unions hold town hall at George Mason University: University workers need independent organization, not appeals to Democrats
The “Virginia Labor Coalition” meeting at GMU seeks to tie workers to Democrats and unions while suppressing broader struggles over wages and democratic rights in the face of the Trump administration’s assault on democracy.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality at George Mason University
Kaiser Permanente files $95 million insurance lawsuit after record Medicare Advantage fraud settlement
The legal battle exposes the irrationality of a healthcare system subordinated to financial manipulation, fraud settlements and insurance profiteering.
•Marc Wells
Former Fiji PM Bainimarama arrested on charges of inciting mutiny
The renewed legal offensive against Bainimarama is an expression of intensifying factional struggles amid Fiji’s growing social crisis.
•John Braddock
Amid deepening crisis of class rule, Peru saddled with eighth president in 10 years
Peru has become a focal point in US imperialism’s drive to roll back China’s economic influence and reassert Washington’s hegemony in Latin America.
•Cesar Uco, Bill Van Auken
Hanau shooting memorial highlights political shift to the right in Germany’s political establishment
On the sixth anniversary of the racist terror attack, the families of the victims warn of the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the "fascistic escalation" in the US. At the same time, the establishment parties are distancing themselves from such commemorations.
•Marianne Arens
Florida continues execution surge with lethal injection of Melvin Trotter
Trotter’s legal team long argued for mercy based on their client's intellectual disabilities and the fact that he was high on crack at the time of the crime and came to the store unarmed, demonstrating he lacked the capacity for premeditation.
•Kate Randall
Say Nothing: Everything essential about the Northern Ireland conflict left unsaid
A serious artistic appraisal of the Troubles, and serious attempts to understand their effect at a personal level, would have to begin from a historical and political understanding both of British imperialism and the limitations of bourgeois nationalism.
•Paul Bond
Corruption scandal hits Greece’s GSEE trade union bureaucracy
At the centre of scandal is an investigation concerning €2.1 million government and European Union funding, out of a €73 million total, provided between 2020 and 2025 for professional education and training programmes.
•John Vassilopoulos
Demand the immediate release of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole!
CPM-K Secretary General Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted on Monday in Isiolo town by the Kenya Police Service. The ICFI demands that the Ruto regime release him immediately.
•Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Mass protests in Detroit area against plans for ICE detention and operational centers
Hundreds of people in Romulus and Southfield, Michigan, protested Monday evening against plans to expand ICE operations across the Detroit metro area.
•Our reporters
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for solidarity with Turkish miners’ wildcat strike
The miners have halted production to demand payment of unpaid wages, enforcement of promotion rights, retroactive contract benefits, guaranteed seniority and severance protections, and genuine health and safety measures.
•Our reporters
At meeting to defend public health, Sri Lanka’s health workers express solidarity with counterparts in US
The Health Workers’ Action Committee of Sri Lanka held a February 20 online meeting to defend the island nation's free public health system.
•Health Workers Action Committee (HWAC) –Sri Lanka
Pentagon gives Anthropic 3 days to drop AI safeguards or face blacklisting
The Trump administration has given Anthropic an ultimatum to remove AI safety restrictions on its Claude model or face blacklisting and compulsion under the Defense Production Act, while simultaneously signing a deal to deploy Elon Musk's fascist Grok AI on classified military networks.
•Evan Blake
Union bureaucracy sabotages the Kaiser Permanente strike
The shutdown of the strike, without prior notice, a contract or even a tentative agreement, underscores the need for a workers’ rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
•Tom Hall
2 Pennsylvania students remain imprisoned 4 days after anti-ICE protest as “Quakertown 5” face felony charges
Five minors held more than 72 hours after being assaulted by police at an anti-ICE rally now face felony charges while the police chief seen choking a student remains uncharged.
•Jacob Crosse
Actor Robert Duvall (1931-2026): A realist who went beyond his own conceptions
Duvall began acting in the theater in the 1950s, pursued a career in television in the 1960s and achieved his greatest prominence in films in the 1970s and beyond.
•David Walsh
Militarisation of Australian universities intensifies: More than $200 million in defence contracts since 2024
The expanding contracts with universities feed into the next phase of the AUKUS military pact between the US, UK and Australia, targeting China.
•Eric Ludlow
A historic attack on citizenship rights: Labor blocks entry to Australians interned in Syria
The refusal to repatriate women and children—all Australian citizens—trapped in Syrian concentration camps constitutes a historic assault on the core democratic right of citizenship, without which no other political or civil rights can effectively be exercised.
•Mike Head
IMF chief hails Sri Lanka “success story” as its austerity agenda deepens social crisis
Kristalina Georgieva’s visit was to ensure that Sri Lanka will continue to implement the IMF’s harsh austerity policies that protect the profits of big business while heaping more burdens on workers and the poor.
•Saman Gunadasa
Measles cases in the US surge past 1,000 in 2026
Measles cases in the United States have already exceeded 1,000 in 2026, increasing at a far faster pace than last year, which marked a three-decade high. The outbreak exposes the deadly consequences of the Trump-Kennedy effort to destroy public health institutions.
•Benjamin Mateus
Cuban worker describes hellish conditions, appeals to US workers to force an end to embargo
A Cuban worker and single mother in Matanzas describes blackouts of up to 30 hours, children going to bed hungry and an atmosphere of fear under Trump’s genocidal embargo.
•Our reporters
UK Labour government reels following arrest of Peter Mandelson over Epstein connections
Not only did Mandelson epitomise the New Labour agenda of serving every requirement of the banks and corporations, but his close relations with Epstein were seen at the time as an asset that would facilitate efforts to woo the Trump administration.
•Robert Stevens
Royal Mail workers in Keighley, West Yorkshire: “They are trying to kill off the postal service”
Postal workers at the Keighley delivery office in West Yorkshire spoke out against intolerable working conditions, mail backlogs and the collusion of the Communication Workers Union leadership in enforcing Royal Mail’s restructuring agenda.
•Our reporters
After Supreme Court decision, Trump tariff war to intensify
The court ruling does not mean a return to constitutionality by the Trump regime or a restoration of the status quo ante as far as international economic relations are concerned.
•Nick Beams
Australia: Questions about Bondi terrorist attack remain unanswered
The perpetrators were known to ASIO, the domestic spy agency, and appear to have been active in an extremist milieu that included supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organisation.
•Oscar Grenfell
US begins pulling staff from Beirut embassy amid Iran attack buildup
The State Department ordered the evacuation of non-essential personnel and family members from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Monday, amid a major buildup of forces in the Middle East and intensifying preparations for war against Iran.
•Andre Damon
The real state of Trump’s America: Social misery, dictatorship, war—and an upsurge of class struggle
The fascist president heads a government of, by and for the financial oligarchy.
•WSWS Editorial Board
UNAC/UHCP bureaucrats shut down Kaiser Permanente strike without a contract
This is a flagrant violation of the basic democratic rights of the 31,000 workers, who have been on strike for a month. They must organize to overturn this decision made over their heads.
•Marc Wells
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Following a 24-hour general strike last week in Argentina, walkouts continued in some areas, while the US Department of Agriculture will permit faster line speeds in meatpacking plants.
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Union shuts down South Australian nurses’ strike in backroom deal with Labor government
The union-government deal is a betrayal of nurses and midwives’ deep-seated anger over real wage cuts and intensifying workloads throughout South Australia’s public health system.
•Vicki Mylonas
Australia: Early childhood educators in Victoria set to strike
Educators remain trapped in a cycle of low pay, excessive workloads and chronic staff shortages.
•Our reporters
Berlinale award winners demand festival and its backers take a clear stand against Gaza genocide
The support for Israel’s genocidal policy by the German government and cultural institutions was the subject of fierce and prolonged protest at this year’s Berlinale.
•Stefan Steinberg
US-backed “execution” of Jalisco Cartel chief threatens greater carnage in Mexico
The US-directed “execution” of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho in Mexico has unleashed nationwide chaos and will be exploited to deepen militarization and imperialist control.
•Andrea Lobo
High school students protesting ICE remain jailed days after police assault in Pennsylvania
Days after video showed a police chief choking a student, at least five youth remain in custody as authorities stonewall the public.
•Jacob Crosse
Oppose the persecution of high school students protesting ICE! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship!
Across the United States, students are being threatened, suspended, arrested and violently attacked for exercising basic democratic rights.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)
Canada’s Liberal government backs imperialist regime change in Iran
As Trump masses US naval and air forces for a devastating assault on Iran, Canada’s Foreign Minster has declared Ottawa’s full-throated support for regime change in Tehran.
•Graham Beverley
Turkish parliamentary committee overwhelmingly approves report on negotiations with Kurdish Workers Party
The parliamentary commission established as part of Turkey’s negotiations with the PKK mainly advances the outlook of the Erdoğan government while receiving the support of the Kurdish DEM Party.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Reject CWU/Labour government whitewash of Royal Mail crisis: for rank-and-file opposition to corporate collusion
Public anger must not be diverted, nor our independent organisation blocked against renewed attacks on jobs, terms and conditions and the crippling workloads imposed by those responsible for a wrecking operation.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Fascist mobilisation in France after Quentin Deranque’s death
A political front, embracing fascist groups, the Socialist Party, the extreme right National Rally, all the way up to Macron and his government, seeks to clear the way for either of RN’s candidates, Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella, to assume power after the current local elections and presidential elections next year.
•Anthony Torres
How to stop conscription: German IYSSE meeting discusses a socialist perspective against war and militarism
This suppression of socialist ideas serves to channel the explosive potential of youth into mere harmless appeals to politicians, while the ruling class prepares an entire generation for war.
•Jan Ritter
Great Barrington Declaration author Jay Bhattacharya takes control of CDC as measles cases surge
The Trump administration has placed a Stanford economist who championed mass infection policies during COVID-19 as the single official in charge of both the NIH and CDC.
•Benjamin Mateus
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman denounces police attack on Quakertown, Pennsylvania student protest against ICE
Five students and one adult were arrested after police attacked a protest against ICE raids and detentions.
•Our reporters
US military buildup in Middle East against Iran largest since 2003
The Trump administration is assembling the largest concentration of American military force in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, placing the United States on the brink of a massive illegal war against Iran that could last weeks or months and engulf the entire region.
•Andre Damon
NYSNA bureaucracy pushes through sellout to end nurses’ strike at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
The struggle is not over because the new contract will not satisfy the nurses’ needs. But the experience of the strike shows it must be waged on a new strategy based on rank-and-file control.
•Erik Schreiber
Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism—Foreword to the German edition
We are publishing below the foreword to the German edition of the new book Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism (edited by David North), which will soon be published by Mehring Verlag.
•Johannes Stern
Australian government banning Islamist group under laws that could illegalise political parties
Labor’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke described the attempt to prohibit Hizb-ut Tahrir as “the first time we have been able to ban a group which falls short of a terrorist listing.”
•Oscar Grenfell
Supreme Court ruling against Trump tariffs exposes ruling class crisis
Friday morning, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a 1977 emergency law did not delegate Congressional authority over setting tariffs to the president, revealing sharp divisions among the capitalists and triggering an unprecedented attack on the court and individual justices by Trump.
•John Burton
Plan for massive Georgia concentration camp for immigrants provokes outrage
Plans for a 10,000-bed immigrant detention complex in Georgia would represent the largest construction of a civilian mass detention facility in the United States since the Japanese American internment camps of 1942.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: Police raid Canberra bar, seizing anti-fascist artwork under Labor’s new “hate speech” laws
The raid is the first known enforcement action in the national capital under the Commonwealth hate-symbol provisions and is being treated as a test case.
•Jason Quill
This week in history: February 23-March 1
Supreme Court upholds $45 million fine on pilots union; British government criminalizes Irish Republican activity; 22nd Amendment to US Constitution ratified; American communist tried for blasphemy.
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15 years after Christchurch earthquake, families still fighting for justice
During the 2011 earthquake, 115 people were killed in the poorly constructed CTV building, which breached numerous regulations, yet those responsible for its design have faced no accountability.
•Tom Peters
Writers Guild of America West staff strike exposes exploitation and inequality within the union apparatus
The WGAW staff strike is unfolding amid growing wave of workers’ struggles as healthcare, education and entertainment workers confront austerity and repression.
•Marc Wells
US planes flood UK bases in preparation for attack on Iran
According to an assessment by The i Paper published Saturday, since last Tuesday, “at least 28 US military flights have used airbases in the UK and Cyprus to carry out one of the largest build-ups of US military strength in the Middle East for decades.”
•Robert Stevens
British Museum caves in to Zionist lobby group, removes “Palestine” from Ancient Middle East displays
The decision of Britain’s premier cultural institution to cave into Zionist browbeating has prompted a furious backlash from scholars in Middle Eastern history, archaeologists and experts in ancient Levantine cultures.
•Jean Shaoul
2 coup attempts: Ex-South Korean president jailed, while Trump sits in office
While Yoon sits in jail for his actions, Trump has faced no opposition from ruling circles for his own attempts to overthrow the US constitution.
•Ben McGrath
Strong support at Ford Rouge for rank-and-file campaign of Will Lehman for UAW president
Dozens of workers stopped to speak with campaigners, voicing frustration with unbearable workloads, forced overtime, harassment, and indifference from UAW reps who “side with management.”
•our reporters
Pennsylvania high school students violently attacked by police during anti-ICE walkout
From Pennsylvania to Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas, authorities are suspending and criminalizing youth protesting immigration enforcement.
•Jacob Crosse
US draws up plans for “leadership change” and “targeting individuals” in Iran strike
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest warship ever built, transited the Strait of Gibraltar on Friday and entered the Mediterranean, placing the United States within days of having the military force in position for a massive illegal assault on Iran.
•Andre Damon
Lawyer exposes illegal detention and “domestic Guantánamos” in case of former Detroit Cass Tech student, Alcides Caceres
According to his attorney, Caceres was driving his work truck when he was pulled over by a Border Patrol agent despite having no traffic violations.
•Phyllis Steele
“They are denying people’s human rights”: UPS worker speaks out against intimidation, injuries, forgeries at Redmond hub
After exposing alleged forgeries on dozens of employee files and management pressure on injured workers not to go to the hospital, a part-time UPS supervisor says she was targeted for retaliation.
•Tom Hall
NYSNA holds snap vote on second sellout agreement for NewYork-Presbyterian nurses
The new tentative agreement differs little from the previous deal which workers overwhelmingly rejected a week ago.
•Erik Schreiber
San Francisco teachers strike ends under looming budget cuts, layoffs
Immediately after announcing the tentative agreement, the union shut down the strike. Superintendent Maria Su warned of impending layoffs and budget cuts.
•Jonathan Burleigh, Aurya Zee, David Benson
Operating engineers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente to join 31,000 currently on strike
The engineers’ walkout expands the Kaiser Permanente strike, intensifying the nationwide confrontation between the healthcare workers and the industry and signaling the growing unity among technical and clinical workers.
•Marc Wells
Marty Supreme: A table tennis star’s frantic fight for fame
This movie uses the technique of “propulsive filmmaking,” while viewing the experience of Jews in America through the lens of identity politics.
•Fred Mazelis
National strike in Argentina fails to halt historic labor counterreform and mass layoffs
The Chamber of Deputies’ approval of fascist President Javier Milei’s “Labor Modernization Law” clears the way for a ruthless regime of mass layoffs, wage cuts and workplace abuse.
•Andrea Lobo
US Department of Labor reports 5,070 US workers killed on the job in 2024
The US Department of Labor’s annual report on worker deaths for 2024 reveals 5,070 preventable workplace fatalities, a figure that will surely rise as safety protections are eviscerated.
•Steve Filips
Real wages to continue falling in Australia
Wages grew by just 3.4 percent over the past year, well below the annual inflation rate of 3.8 percent, amid warnings of deepening real pay cuts for at least the next two years.
•Martin Scott
IMF calls on China to restructure its economy
The IMF said China’s trade surplus, more than $1 trillion last year, was giving rise to “international spillovers and pressures,” an implicit warning of trade war measures.
•Nick Beams
Berlin: Factories in ailing industrial sectors bought up to produce military weapons
In the German metal and electrical industries, 10,000 to 15,000 jobs are being destroyed every month, but there is a gold rush atmosphere in the arms industry. Arms companies like Rheinmetall are turning struggling factories into weapons production plants.
•Gustav Kemper, Peter Schwarz
Canadian workers express support for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president on program of rank-and-file power
Under conditions in which the Canadian ruling class has responded with foul Canadian nationalism to the would-be fascist dictator Trump’s threats to annex the country and launching of a trade war, workers north of the border have reacted with enthusiasm to Lehman’s call for international working class unity.
•our reporter
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