UK Labour government slashes asylum rights, expands anti-migrant crackdown
Labour Home Secretary ends the right of permanent asylum in the most drastic attack on asylum rights since the end of World War Two.
•Steve James, Robert Stevens
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UK trade union leaders issue toothless statements on illegal war against Iran
Appeals to the government to work for a diplomatic solution are maintained even as it has made clear its commitment to the US-led war, making UK air bases available for American aircraft and deploying British aircraft to protect US bases, as well moving the destroyer HMS Dragon to the region.
•Tony Robson
The tense, explosive conditions in which the 2026 Academy Awards are being held
Given the history and importance of filmmaking in the US, the ceremony retains political and cultural significance, even if audiences have fallen sharply in recent decades.
•David Walsh
Student workers hold “Last Chance” pickets across University of California System
Around 40,000 UC workers in United Auto Workers Local 4811 voted overwhelmingly to strike, but have been kept on the job by union officials nearly two weeks since their contract expired on March 1.
•Our reporters
“I am 5 years old. I want go home”: Children’s letters expose nine months of torture at Texas immigrant concentration camp
The El Gamal family’s five children describe contaminated food, denial of medical care and the trauma of being imprisoned for a crime they did not commit.
•Jacob Crosse
Treasury Secretary Bessent says US will escort ships through Strait of Hormuz as Iran war spirals
The US-Israeli war on Iran, now in its thirteenth day, is rapidly spiraling and has triggered a cascading regional crisis centred on the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway through which 20 percent of the world's oil passes.
•Andre Damon
United Nations condemns Iran’s self-defence strikes amid American imperialism’s war of extermination
The fact that 140 governments co-sponsored a resolution denouncing the right of a historically oppressed country to resist the most brutal forms of imperialist violence underscores that world capitalism has revived the barbarism previously associated with unrestrained colonial dominance and the two world wars of the 20th century.
•Jordan Shilton
Kazakhstan demolishes historic site where Trotsky once lived
The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy.
•Artem Mikhailov
Hands off Iran! – Rally against the Iran war in Frankfurt-Main
The ever expanding war front proves that appeals to the ruling class, as presented on the stage of the demonstration, will achieve nothing
•Marianne Arens
Australian unions silent on Labor-backed US-Israel war on Iran
Not a single union has opposed the Australian state’s role in the illegal war, let alone called for industrial action to halt the supply of war materials.
•Martin Scott
Trump attacks National Institutes of Health researchers’ union in latest assault against federal workers and science
Trump’s NIH move to decertify the research fellows’ union exposes a broader drive to smash federal worker protections, weaponize the bureaucracy politically and deepen the assault on science.
•Nick Barrickman
Oil price gyrations bring significant financial losses
The wild swings in the oil price at the start of this week have directed attention to one of the most significant potential consequences of US-led war on Iran—a major financial crisis induced by losses flowing from the oil market.
•Nick Beams
VW Group increases job cuts to 50,000 to boost profits
Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume presented the business figures for the past year at the corporation’s annual press conference on Tuesday and announced an intensification of the ongoing jobs massacre.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Workers and students in Sri Lanka denounce US-Israeli war against Iran
“If this war escalates, the danger of a third world war will increase. A major power is waging war against another smaller country. It must be stopped,” a University of Jaffna student said.
•Our reporters
Terrorism charges brought against teens who targeted fascist protest with homemade bombs
No one was hurt by the unexploded devices on Saturday, but the incident is being used to revive the “war on terror.”
•Daniel de Vries
Workers at occupied plant in Matamoros, Mexico denounce being hung out to dry by “independent” union
About 1,200 workers at the Tridonex-Cardone plant in Matamoros continue to occupy the plant, but are being left to starve on the picket line, underscoring the urgent need for an international, rank‑and‑file fight by autoworkers across North America.
•Andrea Lobo
Canada’s Liberal government upholds Safe Third Country Agreement with US amid Trump’s savage persecution of immigrants
Canada’s Liberal government is continuing to uphold the Safe Third Country Agreement, under which Ottawa returns refugees arriving from the south of the border to the United States, even as the Trump administration eviscerates the rights of immigrants and refugees.
•Steven Fields
Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu on trial: A political, not legal, case
The corruption trial involving 402 defendants, including arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is seen as President Erdoğan's main political rival, began this week.
•Barış Demir
Emergency Exits: Britain’s brutal counterinsurgency wars, retreat from empire and historical memory
The “Emergencies” in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus that are the subject of the Imperial War Museum’s current exhibition were fought to preserve the advantages of empire at a moment when Britain’s global position was collapsing.
•Jean Shaoul
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Thousands of auxiliary metalworkers in Asturias, Spain walk out over pay and conditions; workers at Immingham docks in England begin indefinite strike over unfair dismissals; local government workers and civil servants begin national strike in Ghana over pay
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UK Labour government bans Al-Quds Day march as crackdown on pro-Palestinian movement intensifies
Any genuine risk of violence is a result of pro-war Iranian monarchists and fascists being emboldened to carry out attacks on protesters by the government’s support for the US-Israeli war and regime-change operation against Iran.
•Robert Stevens
German Foreign Minister Wadephul in Israel: Berlin backs US-Israeli escalation of war in the Middle East
During his trip to Israel and the Gulf region, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul demonstratively lined up behind the US-Israeli war against Iran and defended the Netanyahu government’s war propaganda.
•Johannes Stern
Jacobin proposes to subordinate opposition to war to the interests of imperialism
Jacobin’s Eric Blanc argues that Americans “feel powerless.” He counsels them to wait for the 2028 election and keep the anti-war movement safely within the Democratic Party.
•Jacob Crosse
Colorado workers to strike Monday in largest US meatpacking work stoppage in 40 years
The strike will be the first in the Greeley JBS plant’s history, and the largest in the US meatpacking industry since the 1985-86 Minnesota Hormel strike.
•Dan Conway
Pentagon investigation shows US missile struck girls’ school in Minab
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that preliminary results of a Pentagon investigation show that the US military struck Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School with a Tomahawk missile on February 28, killing at least 150 girls aged 7-12.
•Kevin Reed
New Mexico conducts first-ever search of Epstein’s Zorro Ranch after FBI sat on “buried bodies” tip for six years
Anonymous emails alleging buried bodies and a concealed incinerator at Epstein's 7,600-acre New Mexico compound—where multiple victims testified they were trafficked and assaulted—sat in FBI files until a forced document release compelled the search.
•Evan Blake
European imperialism joins in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived by helicopter on the nuclear-armed aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to announce that France would lead a European naval group in the Middle East.
•Alex Lantier
Reject the BP Whiting contract! Organize rank-and-file committees to prepare a national struggle!
Every refinery worker has a direct stake in defeating BP’s demands, which would pave the way for oil companies to dismantle national bargaining altogether.
•International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
Detroit autoworkers denounce US-Israeli war against Iran: “Like the Nazis, Trump and Hegseth will find their day in court for this war of extermination”
Trump’s illegal war is deeply unpopular among American workers and the broader population.
•Our reporters
Australian government rushes in visa ban on people trapped in Middle East war
The clear intent of the Labor’s legislation is to keep ordinary people trapped under the US-Israeli bombing in Iran and Lebanon.
•Mike Head
Australian government exploits Iranian soccer players for pro-war propaganda
The Labor government, which routinely persecutes refugees and asylum seekers, orchestrated the defections to put a gloss on its participation in the war of annihilation against Iran.
•Oscar Grenfell
Defying strike mandate, UAW keeps 40,000 University of California educators on job after contract expires
Contracts for University of California academic workers officially expired on March 1, 2026. Despite a 93.3 percent vote in favor of a strike, the UAW Local 4811 has kept their membership on the job on an expired contract.
•Joshua Rodriguez, Jerry White
Roy Medvedev (1925–2026): A critical assessment
A critical assessment of Soviet dissident historian Roy Medvedev (1925–2026), examining both his courageous exposure of Stalinist crimes in Let History Judge and the political limitations that led him from reform-minded dissent to support for the Putin regime.
•M. Schönman
Layoffs, immigration raids deepen crisis in California public education
Layoffs of thousands of California school workers expose bipartisan austerity, union complicity and a growing movement of educators and students.
•Kimie Saito, Marc Wells
Revitalization: The Best American Essays 2025
That things are changing in American writing, and they are changing, is also due to the movement of masses of people in the US and around the globe.
•James McDonald
New AI model reads and generates genetic code across all domains of life
Trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs from every domain of life, the Evo 2 model can predict disease-causing mutations, identify genomic features and generate entirely new genetic sequences.
•Bill Shaw
Israel threatens to turn Beirut into Khan Younis and Lebanon into Gaza
What is emerging is a unified imperialist-led front—Washington, Israel, the Gulf monarchies, and the comprador elites of the Arab world—against the masses of the Middle East.
•Jean Shaoul
Australian and New Zealand university students oppose US-Israeli war on Iran and Labor government complicity
“The timeline of it, how things have gone this year, and how there are all these Western countries supporting the bombing of Iran and other wars—this is a lead-up to world war.”
•Our reporters
Lessons of the 2026 New York City nurses strike
In spite of the nurses’ powerful position, the 41 day strike ended with a betrayal, demonstrating the need for rank-and-file committees to take struggles out of the hands of the union bureaucracy.
•Robert Milkowski
Henry Ford Genesys walkout enters 6th month, as Corewell Health nurses vote on strike action
The six-month strike by 750 hospital nurses and case workers in Grand Blanc, Michigan, has come to a fundamental crossroads.
•Kevin Reed
US memo exposes Sri Lankan “humanitarian” posturing over Iranian sailors’ rescue
Contrary to the president’s claims, Colombo is functioning as a compliant intermediary for the diplomatic and strategic objectives of the US and Israel in the war of extermination against Iran.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
China’s five-year plan doubles down on hi-tech to counter US threat
The growth target for this year has been set at a range between 4.5 and 5 percent, down from last year's target of “around 5 percent” and the lowest since 1991.
•Nick Beams
US media and Democratic Party enable Trump’s war of extermination against Iran
This criminal war of aggression is systematically enabled by the US media and theDemocratic Party, whose leaders have endorsed the murder of Iranian officials, provided political cover for the Trump regime and funded the war.
•Andre Damon
US and Ecuadorian militaries burn homes and torture workers in “Operation Total Extermination”
The joint military operation launched last week is turning Ecuador into a fascist laboratory for Trump’s hemispheric war drive and preparations for military dictatorships.
•Andrea Lobo
The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence
As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastrophe sustained by bipartisan political decisions.
•Benjamin Mateus
Blind in the right eye – Prosecution – and a documentary about German dramatist Einar Schleef
In an interview, the film’s young director correctly noted: “We can’t really understand the German judicial system without taking its Nazi past into account."
•Stefan Steinberg
The Dutch ruling elite, its royals, and the war against Iran
Far from being a passive observer of the US-Israeli war against Iran, the Dutch ruling class stands exposed once again as an active accomplice in the machinery of imperialist war, genocide and plunder.
•Daniel Woreck
SPD vote collapses in the Baden-Württemberg state elections
The most striking result of the recent Baden-Württemberg state election is the collapse of the SPD.
•Peter Schwarz
Labour’s SEND “reform”: an austerity-driven attack on vulnerable children
Many core elements of the reforms have been postponed until the next parliament, as ministers attempt to defuse anger among parent campaigners who recognise the measures as austerity imposed on the most vulnerable.
•Tania Kent
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The 6,000 workers at DHL in the US, members of the Teamsters, are demanding improvements in pay, benefits and working conditions.
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Australian Labor government sending missiles, warplane, troops to join illegal war on Iran
Labor is openly joining a war of annihilation against an oppressed nation.
•Oscar Grenfell
Wild swings in global markets
When the trading day began in the US the price of oil had surged from around $90 a barrel to as high as $119 and was set to go even higher as stocks were falling following significant further selloffs in Asia.
•Nick Beams
New Zealand Labour Party, Greens falsely posture as opponents of Iran war
The nationalist calls by the Labour Party, the Greens as well as sections of academia and the media for a more “independent” foreign policy are a smokescreen and fraud.
•John Braddock, Tom Peters
“The working class has to stop the war”: US workers denounce war with Iran
A Quinnipiac poll released Monday found that 53 percent of registered voters oppose the war, and 74 percent opposed sending ground troops into Iran, which Trump is reportedly seriously considering.
•our reporters
Trump says “likely be more” US troop deaths to achieve “ultimate victory” against Iran
As the US-Israeli war on Iran entered its second week, the Trump administration vowed to continue the bombardment and refused to rule out sending ground troops or implementing a military draft.
•Andre Damon
WSWS emergency webinar articulates socialist strategy to stop US-Israeli war against Iran
Thousands of workers and youth from around the world participated in the event, which identified the international working class as the only force capable of ending the criminal bombardment of Iran and all imperialist wars.
•Evan Blake
South Australian workers and youth speak ahead of state election
Socialist Equality Party members spoke with workers and young people in Adelaide about the state government’s attacks on living standards and the country’s complicity in the criminal US-led war against Iran.
•Our reporters
US military killed 160 school girls in Minab with Tomahawk missile
Numerous media analyses of photos, video and satellite imagery have concluded that the massacre of 160 children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School in Minab on February 28 was carried out by the US military.
•Kevin Reed
Trump demands passage of voter suppression, anti-transgender bill
In a social media post Sunday and a speech to Republican House members Monday, the US president said he would not sign any legislation into law until Congress passes the “Save America Act.”
•Patrick Martin
Second missile incident: War against Iran threatens to engulf Türkiye and NATO
With Ankara claiming that a second missile from Iran was intercepted by NATO, the risk of the war spreading to Türkiye and the wider alliance is growing.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Questions raised by the Workers’ Party of Türkiye’s electoral alliance with the pro-war German Left Party
TİP claims to oppose the imperialist war against Iran, but is forming an electoral alliance with the Left Party, which celebrated the illegal killings of Iran’s leadership.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” summit prepares escalation of imperialist violence in Latin America
Trump’s address to his Latin American stooges opened with a boastful report about the barbaric destruction of Iran.
•Tomas Castanheira
In speech to Congress, Milei vows to send Argentina back 100 years, exposing role played by pseudo-left
Despite his insults, Milei’s speech also laid bare the sordid division of labor between Peronism, the Peronist-led union bureaucracy and the pseudo-leftist FIT-U in suppressing the class struggle and enforcing his attacks against the working class.
•Rafael Azul, Andrea Lobo
Paramount–Warner merger signals new alliance of Silicon Valley, the Pentagon and Hollywood
Hollywood consolidation advances the fusion of corporate media, artificial intelligence systems and the American military-intelligence apparatus.
•Marc Wells
Opposition mounts against San Diego school layoffs
The political establishment insists there is “no money” for bus drivers, aides, counselors and teachers. Yet there is unlimited money to wage illegal war with Iran.
•Ivan Cardenas, Kevin Martinez
“It’s always money and power”: Protesters speak out at London demonstration against the war on Iran
“We need to carry on supporting people in other countries who are being oppressed and who are having war crimes committed against them.”
•Our reporters
The US-Israel war against Iran threatens to engulf Türkiye and Azerbaijan
Workers in Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and internationally need to be warned: The US and Israel may resort to any kind of provocation to directly involve regional states in the war against Iran.
•Barış Demir
11 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: “We need an explanation,” says widow
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
•Jerry White
Trump threatens ground troops, assassinations in escalating Iran war
The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East, a sign that the saturation bombing of a country of 90 million people will intensify.
•Patrick Martin
Trump nominates far-right Senator Markwayne Mullin to lead DHS, drawing support from Democrats and Teamsters bureaucracy
The Oklahoma senator—who has defended police killings, promoted “show your papers” policing and backed war with Iran—is being embraced by Democrats and the trade union bureaucracy.
•Jacob Crosse
Market turmoil set to intensify as war in Iran enters second week
The price of Brent crude, the benchmark for oil, rose 28 percent last week, with predictions it could go much higher.
•Nick Beams
This week in history: March 9-15
Museveni wins Uganda election; Sadat breaks with Soviet alliance; US forces retake Seoul in Korean War; Fascist Italy bans strikes
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Watch: Stop the imperialist war against Iran! Oppose the Albanese government’s complicity!
“The Socialist Equality Party in Australia unequivocally condemns the imperialist war of aggression being waged against Iran.”
•Max Boddy
Students defy right-wing death threats to protest ICE in Battle Creek, Michigan
Students at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek proceeded with a walkout and demonstration against ICE attacks on immigrants in the area in the face of a fascist threat of violence.
•Riley Ward
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo: Stop the US-Israeli war against Iran!
Speakers will discuss the causes of the war, its global implications, the historical and theoretical issues involved, and above all the necessity of the working class politically intervening to stop it.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Iranian in New Zealand speaks out against pro-war propaganda and intimidation
Bahram, who escaped Iran as a refugee in the 1980s, denounced the media and government narratives that sought to legitimise the US and Israeli bombings while elevating supporters of Reza Pahlavi, heir to the US-backed monarchy overthrown in 1979.
•Tom Peters
Brit awards and Baftas: Criticising genocide and the rise of the far-right and being censored for it
Viewers complained at the censorship on social media, with one commenting, “I’ve never known the Brits bleep out so much stuff.”
•Paul Bond
“We are fighting this war for the banks”: London post and transport workers denounce bombing of Iran
Socialist Equality Party supporters spoke to workers operating and maintaining buses across West London and to postal workers at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Royal Mail’s central sorting and distribution hub.
•Our reporters
London demonstration against Iran war deflected into futile appeals to Starmer
Keir Starmer’s policy was never not to back Trump in his bombing and regime change operation. It was only how best to ensure Britain could fully join in behind a cloak of “legality.”
•Robert Stevens
German state election in Baden-Württemberg: Parties compete with concessions to big business at the expense of the workers
Germany’s “model industrial state” has become the country’s biggest job killer. Some 40,000 people lost their jobs last year alone, and further layoffs and cost-cutting programmes are in the works.
•K. Nesan, Peter Schwarz
Australian naval personnel involved in US sinking of Iranian ship: Oppose the pro-imperialist Labor government and war against Iran!
The Australian Labor government is directly implicated in the war crime that claimed over 140 lives and in the broader barbaric US-Israeli war against Iran of which it is a part.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Republicans exploit Austin shooting to stoke anti-Muslim hysteria and demand restored funding for DHS
Corporate media and Congress are using the shooting as an opportunity to rail against immigration and Muslims and promote war against Iran.
•Chase Lawrence
Stop the imperialist war of extermination against Iran!
The aim of this webinar is to place the struggle against the war in its necessary historical, political and social context. It will cut through the endless stream of lying propaganda and disinformation pumped out by the White House, the corporate media, and all the imperialist governments.
•David North
Trial begins in Hanover: The death of rail apprentice Simon Hedemann and the responsibility of Deutsche Bahn
On Monday, 2 March, the trial began at the Hanover District Court concerning the fatal accident on 8 September 2023 at the Hanover-Linden freight yard.
•Marianne Arens
“Master Plan” outlines devastation of public education in Philadelphia
The $2.8 billion facilities plan unveiled by administrators on February 26 would shutter 18 schools across the Philadelphia School District.
•Matt Allen
Nashville journalist seized by ICE as administration targets reporters documenting immigration raids
Estefany Rodríguez Flórez was detained without a warrant and transferred hundreds of miles from her family.
•Jacob Crosse
German train drivers’ union agrees to real wage cuts and stabs local transport workers in the back
With this agreement, the GDL is providing the German government, which owns Deutsche Bahn, an indispensable service against the working class.
•Marianne Arens
Lorain County, Ohio family service workers strike enters third week: “We are fighting everyone”
Workers at the Lorain County Department of Job and Family Services—140 members of UAW Local 2192—are in their third week on strike for higher wages, affordable healthcare and safe, adequately staffed working conditions.
•Samuel Davidson
Australia: NSW health minister in damage control after fungal outbreak linked to Sydney hospital deaths
Mounting evidence points to a breakdown in hospital infrastructure and management in New South Wales, including multiple incidents of dangerous mould, asbestos and pest infestations.
•John Mackay
War abroad, mass layoffs in the US: The working class must stop the assault on Iran
The outcome of the war will be determined by the development of the class struggle in the United States itself—in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and other major working class centers.
•Tom Hall
Trump demands unconditional surrender from Iran as war enters second week
President Donald Trump declared Friday that there will be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” signaling the intention to wage permanent war until Iranian society is destroyed.
•Andre Damon
South Australian election: Public education decays as billions funnelled into AUKUS war plans
Teachers and students confront deteriorating public schools, while military contractors and the Defence Department embed themselves in classrooms.
•Sue Phillips
Condemn US sinking of Iranian vessel in Indian Ocean! Oppose US-Israel war against Iran
The Socialist Equality Party condemns the illegal war of aggression by US imperialism and Israel against Iran and the sinking of an unarmed Iranian warship as a blatant war crime.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
A warning against dictatorship: Berlinale’s main prize winner Yellow Letters—and more government censorship at the festival
The German-Turkish-French co-production Yellow Letters by Ilker Çatak is a powerful warning against the threat of censorship and state oppression, including in Germany and other countries.
•Bernd Reinhardt
Venezuela and US reestablish diplomatic relations as Chavistas hand over oil, minerals
The US is reestablishing relations as Chavista acting president Delcy Rodríguez hands oil, gold and critical minerals to Wall Street.
•Andrea Lobo
Student protests erupt against Ford government’s cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program
Protests among high school and university students have erupted after the right-wing Progressive Conservative government announced huge cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) grants last month.
•Our reporters
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: ASHA workers and midday meal workers demand wage rise; Police attack striking L&T steel plant workers in Gujarat; Australia: Pacific National rail workers locked out in Queensland; Tasmanian public sector health workers escalate industrial action; New Zealand firefighters continue strikes.
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No to the imperialist-Zionist aggression against Iran!
The following statement against the US-Israel war on Iran was issued on Wednesday by Ulaş Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (Socialist Equality Party) in Türkiye.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole released on bail, others arrested
Omole’s KES 500,000 bond (about $3,850) represents more than six months’ pay for the average formal sector worker and nearly two years’ income for many Kenyans.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Birmingham Labour council secures High Court injunction against support for striking bin workers
The latest High Court injunction reinforces a previous injunction last May, barring effective picketing by strikers. It sets a wider precedent by removing any means through which pressure can be exerted on an employer without it being deemed unlawful.
•Tony Robson
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