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David North answers questions at the international Trotsky commemoration in Prinkipo
North answered questions on the fate of Ernst Thälmann, the Kronstadt uprising, the situation confronting workers in the Middle East and the strength of the Left Opposition inside the Soviet Union.
•David North
Ahead of parliamentary elections, Kremlin intensifies crackdown on domestic dissent
As is always the case in Western coverage of Russia and the war, the history of both the war and the political tendencies in question is completely ignored.
•Clara Weiss
US debt at $40 trillion as financial crisis deepens
The most revealing feature of the debt mountain is not just its size, significant as that is, but the speed with which it has grown.
•Nick Beams
Israel builds execution chamber for Palestinian prisoners as Ben-Gvir threatens assassinations in Gaza
The Israeli government is building an execution facility to hang Palestinian prisoners, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Tuesday in a statement from his office. In video released from the site—a prison in central Israel that his office did not name—Ben-Gvir walks through the wing being built for condemned prisoners and says “gallows will be erected” there.
•Andre Damon
New Zealand Greens candidate fought in SAS during Afghanistan war
In a recent interview, Greens candidate Josh Jacobsen defended the NZ military’s role in the criminal imperialist war.
•Tom Peters
Meeting attendees denounce Australian government’s assault on the disabled
“The cuts will hit clients, support workers, teachers, and healthcare staff alike. It is clear this is an international offensive against the working class.” – Maureen, a former aged-care nurse.
•Our reporters
Ukraine war-hawk defeated in Florida Democratic primary
Alexander Vindman became a celebrity among pro-war Democrats for his testimony against Trump during his 2019 impeachment over withholding military aid to Ukraine.
•Patrick Martin
Directors Guild and IATSE more than happy to hand Hollywood over to the oligarchs
The Hollywood merger exposes the union bureaucracy’s collaboration with oligarchs, threatening jobs, democratic rights and artistic freedom on a global scale.
•Marc Wells
Florida executes William Silvia as the US death machine accelerates
Silvia’s execution came five days after the first triple execution day in the United States since 2010. Ten more executions are scheduled before the end of the year: two in Florida, five in Texas, two in Tennessee and one in Alabama.
•Kate Randall
Biographical fabrications and institutional failure facilitate a savage right-wing campaign
Arday’s appointment put a target on the back of a clearly quite vulnerable man, out of his depth and in no position to answer his critics and political opponents.
•Chris Marsden
Miners in Ankara demanding what they are owed defy police repression
The theft of workers' wages and other entitlements at the mines and enterprises is part of a systematic policy.
•Süleyman Sağlam, Barış Demir
Introducing “Notes from a Resident Doctor”: exposing conditions inside Britain’s National Health Service
“Notes from a Resident Doctor” aims to break the wall of silence erected by the Labour government, hospital management, and health union bureaucrats by exposing conditions inside the NHS.
•NHS FightBack
International support surges for jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The international campaign demanding the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to expand rapidly following his sentencing to 15 years in prison on August 10.
•Johannes Stern
Ukrainian government reinters another Nazi collaborator
The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets.
•James Clayton
Australia: SEP meeting discusses how to fight Labor government’s attack on National Disability Insurance Scheme
Speakers exposed the disastrous consequences of the evisceration of the NDIS and its impact on the disabled and their families, and the jobs and conditions of health, education and welfare workers.
•Our reporters
Trump turns screws on South Korea to join Iran war
Incensed by South Korea’s refusal to join the US war of aggression against Iran, Trump has unilaterally reduced major joint war games that began Monday and announced plans for talks with North Korea.
•Peter Symonds
Oligarchy, dictatorship and the political radicalization of the American working class
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
•Joseph Kishore
Russia and Ukraine bleed as NATO’s war threatens to engulf Europe
Mounting drone and missile “deep strikes” are a response to the fact that the frontline has been fought to a bloody standstill—in a meatgrinder of trenches, artillery and drones.
•Thomas Scripps
Philippine impeachment trial advances Marcos’ consolidation of state power
Behind the constitutional theater in the Philippine Senate, the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte is being staged to eliminate the last significant political obstacle to Washington’s transformation of the archipelago into a forward base for war with China.
•John Malvar
Private credit market under growing stress
Loan defaults are rising and the number of companies financed by private credit being placed on a watch list is growing.
•Nick Beams
Forklift safety expert calls for independent investigation into catastrophic accident at GM Flint Assembly
While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward.
•Tom Hall, Sheila Brehm
Federal monitor allows UAW official who issued death threat against Will Lehman to collect his $200,000 salary
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
•Jerry White
Ex-Left Party leader helps pave the way for far-right rule in eastern Germany
Sahra Wagenknecht’s rapprochement with the AfD has been apparent for years. Now, she is not only moving closer to the far-right party in terms of policy, but is helping it attain power.
•Peter Schwarz
Chilean miners’ families fight alone as management walks free and unions look the other way
The corporatized union apparatus aligned to the Chilean “left” has done nothing but issue statements, observe moments of silence and light candles.
•Our reporter
More than two-thirds of UPS’ US package volume now handled in automated facilities
These developments further expose the Teamsters’ so-called “historic” 2023 contract as a historic sellout.
•Alex Findijs
Mamdani silent on NYPD surveillance of New York City public housing tenants
New York City’s DSA mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has remained silent on a lawsuit challenging mass police surveillance of hundreds of thousands of New York City Housing Authority residents.
•Sandy English
CIA ran secret drone campaign against Ecuadorian fishermen—prosecutor investigating it was murdered
The Galapagos operation sought to leave no fingerprints, employing an unregistered aircraft, a shell company, an unmarked ship. Survivors were seized, hooded, held at sea for eight days, then delivered to a third country as shipwreck victims.
•Andrea Lobo
New reactionary Trump measures to intensify trade war
A report issued by one of the chief anti-China hawks in the Trump administration has painted a picture of a giant global scam operation directed by China against the US.
•Nick Beams
Deadly Indonesian earthquake exposes unsafe housing and rescue cuts
The earthquake was unavoidable, but the terrible impact on the island of Flores is a result of government neglect and austerity.
•Robert Campion
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Students denounced union officials during protests over educational funding in Uruguay, while Puerto Rican water workers struck and Illinois IKEA workers walked out.
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Amazon delivery driver in Florida found dead in van
Jaylene Vargas Gonzalez was found in the back of her van after it had been parked for hours.
•Patrick Smith
Amid growing support for Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk, the New York Times maintains its guilty silence
One week after a Ukrainian court sentenced the socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison, the Times published a front-page feature on a Ukrainian held in Russia—while maintaining its total silence on the political prisoners of the Zelensky regime.
•Andre Damon
Salzburg Festival sacks its acclaimed director for refusing to blacklist Russian artists
As Europe rearms against Russia, Austria’s Salzburg Festival has dismissed its acclaimed director for resisting political pressure to purge Russian artists.
•Verena Nees
LAUSD imposes sweeping screen-time limits months after mass student walkouts
The district will spend $1 million a year on software to track student screen time, six months after 12,500 students walked out against ICE raids.
•Marc Wells, Nancy Hanover, Renae Cassimeda
Postal workers: Organize now to stop the deepest cuts in US Postal Service’s history!
Management plans to spend the next four months preparing the attack. The bureaucracy of the postal unions will use the same period to block opposition from the rank and file. Postal workers need a plan of our own.
•USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Brazil: Railway workers strike exposes privatization disaster in São Paulo
After just three days of private operation, delays, crowded platforms, and a train fire sent passengers into a panic.
•Guilherme Ferreira, Brunna Machado
Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a revolution.
•Tomas Castanheira, Tom Mackaman
Fiji’s Vatukoula goldminers receive a paltry payout after 35-year battle
The fraudulent settlement enables the Rabuka government to set aside a historic crime against the working class while enlisting the unions to absolve multinational mining companies of culpability.
•John Braddock
Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo and the journey of My Life in Turkish
The fourth annual International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky was held on August 16, 2026, at the Taş Mektep venue on Büyükada, hosted by the Adalar Municipality with the support of Mehring Yayıncılık and the World Socialist Web Site.
•Ulaş Sevinç
645 million go hungry as global military spending hits a record $2.9 trillion
Nearly one in three people on earth cannot afford a healthy diet, according to the UN's annual report on food security.
•Marc Wells
New York City workers respond to Mamdani’s firing of Haitian workers
New York City workers denounced Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s firing of Haitian city employees, connected the attack on immigrants to the conditions facing the entire working class and called for rank-and-file organization and strike action.
•Our reporters
Socialist Equality Party (UK) calls on Britain’s Stop the War Coalition to defend Bogdan Syrotiuk
In a letter to STWC Convenor Lindsey German, the SEP’s Chris Marsden and Tom Scripps explained that 27-year-old Syrotiuk has been convicted of “high treason” for calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war.
•Laura Tiernan
Strike by Egyptian textile workers: A turning point for the Middle East
The question posed by the new protest movement of Egypt’s powerful working class is how to overcome the political mechanisms that have repeatedly fragmented and contained workers’ struggles.
•Jean Shaoul
Britain’s Jodrell Bank Observatory faces closure as £2.8 million science funding withdrawn
Publicly funded science is being reorganised around the requirements of British capital, with the open-ended investigation of nature squeezed out wherever there is no immediate commercial or strategic interest.
•Joe Mount
Significant loss by major Wall Street trading firm
The loss of $15 billion by Jane Street in a month shows how fast problems for one firm, even a minor player, can be rapidly transmitted.
•Nick Beams
Australian school students strike against far right
Many students had created their own placards, with some reading “blame billionaires not immigrants,” “not another Trump,” “power of the people is greater than the people in power” and “keep fascists out, not immigrants.”
•Our reporters
Horrific conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln: The ruling class’s contempt for the troops it sends to war
Reports that sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have either jumped overboard or attempted to do so have exposed the horrendous conditions facing the largely working class naval crew that has been at sea for 268 days and deployed in the Arabian Sea in the war against Iran for five months.
•Kevin Reed
One year after fatal Clairton explosion, federal report confirms warnings were ignored for decades
A Chemical Safety Board report on the deadly 2025 explosion at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works documents decades of ignored warnings.
•Samuel Davidson
WSWS German editor Johannes Stern: Stop the Ukraine war! Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
At the election rally of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei on August 15 in the Berlin district of Wedding, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German edition of the WSWS, spoke against the Ukraine war and the sentencing of 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison.
•Johannes Stern
Historians, doctors and workers on five continents demand freedom for jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Opposition to the imprisonment of Bogdan Syrotiuk continued to build over the weekend, six days after a Ukrainian court gave the 27-year-old socialist 15 years in prison for calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war.
•Andre Damon
Job cuts planned on Wellington, New Zealand rail network
The multinational company Transdev is threatening to eliminate 53 jobs as it transitions to cashless ticketing systems.
•our correspondent
ICE turns state and local police into nationwide deportation force
The Trump administration has enlisted more than 2,000 state and local law enforcement agencies in ICE’s 287(g) program, extending its mass deportation operation into traffic stops, truck inspections, schools and county jails.
•Harry Smith, Jacob Crosse
This week in history: August 17-23
Coal mine explosion kills 55 workers in Ukraine; Ford defeats Reagan for Republican presidential nomination; Britain imposes economic sanctions on Iran ; German Communist Party expels oppositionists on Stalin's orders.
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Trotsky’s My Life: An imperishable contribution to Marxism and world literature
This speech was given by David North at the fourth annual international commemoration of Leon Trotsky’s exile on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, held August 16 before an audience of more than 100, under the title “My Life, Written on Prinkipo, and Trotsky's Years in Exile.”
•David North
Fifth death at Michigan women’s prison as families confront Whitmer administration
Five women have died since May at Michigan’s only women’s prison, where incarcerated women describe systematic medical neglect under a for-profit health care system defended by the Whitmer administration.
•Stephen St. Clair
National Symphony Orchestra faces calamity in Washington D.C.
Playing to largely empty halls, NSO's ticket revenues have fallen as much as 50 percent for some concerts.
•Fred Mazelis
Museveni sends Ugandan troops to Gaza as proxies of US imperialism
Uganda will be joining other proxies within the International Stabilisation Force, including Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Lewes train derailment raises fresh alarm over Britain’s rail network safety
Lewes was the fifth major rail accident in six years, three of them occurring since Labour took office in July 2024. On Friday, just 24 hours later, there was another derailment involving a Greater Anglia train in Wickford, Essex.
•Tony Robson
Anglicare report shows deepening rental crisis for Australian workers and welfare recipients
The report found almost no rental properties in the country were affordable for low-income workers and those relying on meagre government welfare payments.
•Jessicah Green
Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride released from prison
McBride’s release is welcome news, but the Labor government has maintained his convictions and the precedent they seek to establish of preventing whistleblowers from exposing war crimes.
•Oscar Grenfell
Bernie Sanders’ AI letter: A bankrupt appeal to the oligarchs
Sanders’ letter is calculated to stoke fear while covering up the decisive fact: that AI is the private property of a financial oligarchy, developed in partnership with imperialism.
•Joseph Kishore
Australia: Labor government tightens war-related powers over universities
As in the US and Europe, a wartime-style atmosphere is being created, backed by threats of punishment of researchers and universities that fail to comply.
•Mike Head
IG Metall union and works council toast brutal cuts at German steel plant
At least 7,000 jobs are being destroyed in the Duisburg steel industry—organised and enforced by IG Metall. The union apparatus and its works council representatives cynically sell these brutal cuts as a measure to secure jobs.
•Philipp Frisch, Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Sailor jumps overboard in suicide attempt on USS Abraham Lincoln
Reports in the military press and by MSNOW confirmed that a sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln jumped into the Arabian Sea in an attempted suicide on August 3, and that other Navy personnel had been restrained from attempting to go overboard in the ninth month of their deployment from San Diego.
•Kevin Reed
Sri Lankan government rejects returning wartime military-occupied land
More than a decade and a half has passed since the 26-year communal war waged by successive Colombo governments against the LTTE ended, yet thousands of acres of civilian land remains occupied by the military forces and enclosed behind barbed-wire fences.
•M. Thevarajah
Johannes Stern on RT: Bogdan Syrotiuk convicted “for socialist thoughts”
Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the WSWS, appeared live Friday on RT to discuss the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the 27-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist sentenced to 15 years in prison for his articles opposing the war.
•Andre Damon
Three executions in a single day in America: Far more than a scheduling coincidence
There has been little examination of who these men were, the brutality of what took place, or the fact that the killings occurred amid the most sweeping campaign of domestic and foreign repression in modern American history.
•Kate Randall
US CEO pay surges to record highs
The average CEO-to-worker pay ratio The median CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2025 was 198 to one. A majority of S&P 500 CEOs received more in one day than the median US worker earned during the entire year.
•Tom Hall
Australian and New Zealand students and youth demand freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Bogdan Syrotiuk has not committed any crime. He has been made a criminal because of his opposition to both the war of the Putin regime against Ukraine and the US-led proxy war against Russia.”
•Our reporters
Colombian president sanctions US military operations amid earthquake disaster
Following the deadly earthquake, the government’s response has been marked by curfews, militarization and an invitation to foreign troops.
•Andrea Lobo
Trump’s DHS carried out vast spying operation against unions and left-wing groups in Minnesota
Newly disclosed records reveal that Homeland Security Investigators infiltrated meetings, compiled dossiers and seized years of financial records as part of a fascistic campaign against opposition to ICE murders and kidnappings.
•Jacob Crosse
Nine months after El Teniente disaster, report finds Chile’s state-owned giant ignored seismic warnings, concealed unsafe mining
The Sernageomin report documents, in exhaustive technical detail, what happens when the drive for profit is given priority over human life.
•by our reporter
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
In India, Gurugram municipal workers extended their strike and Delhi sanitation workers protested deadly sewer conditions, while in Australia, allied health workers intensified industrial action with a 24-hour Victoria-wide strike.
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East Midlands Railway workers continue strikes over safety faults with Hitachi fleet linked to Bedford crash
Rail workers have stepped in to enforce safety against the regulator and the Labour government.
•Michael Barnes
Lively discussion at Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings on the collapse of Your Party
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) has concluded a series of public meetings, “Your Party's collapse—Time to build the Socialist Equality Party”. Important discussions followed the opening report at each meeting.
•Our reporters
Forklift accident leaves worker with “life-altering” injuries at General Motors Flint Truck Assembly; workers told to keep line moving
According to a worker at the plant, the affected worker was 71 years old and had just signed her retirement papers last week.
•Sheila Brehm
Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza plan, pursues Greater Israel agenda
Far from implementing the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, Israel has continued almost daily attacks across Gaza, killing 1,300 Palestinians, while expanding its territorial control from the 53 percent sanctioned under the agreement to more than 70 percent.
•Jean Shaoul
Climate crisis: Western Europe experiences its hottest summer on record
The summer of 2026 has proven to be the hottest on record in Western Europe. According to measurements by the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Climate Change Service, June and July were the hottest since temperature records began.
•Marianne Arens
Nvidia and Wall Street propose “exotic” money line to continue AI boom
A $500 billion mechanism has been proposed using Nvidia chips as collateral to enable firms involved in the AI race to buy them.
•Nick Beams
Return of the Gestapo: Germany tears down barrier between police and secret services imposed after Hitler
The considerable legal package approved by the German cabinet on Wednesday massively expands the powers of the domestic and foreign intelligence agencies — and erases the line between them and the police established after the defeat of the Nazis.
•Peter Schwarz
Australia: Teachers on the front line of the NDIS cuts
Alongside people with disabilities and their families, the Labor government’s gutting of the National Disability Insurance Scheme will have a devastating impact on teachers and education support staff in Australia’s already crisis-ridden public schools.
•Carolyn Kennett
Escalating strikes between Ukraine, Russia threaten global food supplies
The escalating war between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia increasingly targets economic infrastructure in the Black Sea region, a critical area for global food supplies.
•Jason Melanovski
The popularity of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Estimates vary, but it appears well over 100 million people worldwide have already seen it in movie theaters.
•David Walsh
Germany: The privatisation of Berlin’s local rail system and the role of the Left Party
As always with the Left Party: it talks left but in practice acts right! The new contract for Berlin’s S-Bahn is being portrayed in political circles and the media as a major step forward. Quite the opposite is the case.
•Andy Niklaus
Disease outbreaks multiply, as Trump and Kennedy wage war on science
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
•Evan Blake
Notes on US political repression and state violence
This column reports on the increasingly dictatorial and repressive actions taken by the Trump administration and its allied state governments.
•By a reporter
Opposition mounts worldwide against 15-year sentence for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Letters of protest and petition signatures from more than 30 countries are demanding the release of the 27-year-old socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison for his antiwar writings.
•Andre Damon
New Zealand government in turmoil after failed leadership challenge
Underlying the instability within the National Party and the coalition government are tensions over how overtly New Zealand should align with US-led warmongering against China.
•Tom Peters
Pinochet’s Operation Colombo: A fascist crime and its cover-up
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Drought in Puerto Rico: mass suffering as Trump weaponizes the island against Latin America
In Puerto Rico, roughly half a million people have been cut off from running water for 48 hours at a stretch, going three and four days a week without service.
•Andrea Lobo
Corewell Health nurses in Michigan denounce sellout Teamsters deal
The contract is the result of a strategy by the Teamsters bureaucracy, not of fighting for what workers need, but of expanding its dues base while establishing the same corrupt relations with management that it has at other employers.
•Riley Ward
Company offers worse contract after SEIU shuts down strike of 950 Pennsylvania healthcare workers
Despite workers voting nearly 99 percent to strike, the SEIU moved to control and shut down the walkout. The company returned with a worse offer, and workers remain without a contract
•Landon Gourov
The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Workers’ Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Hundreds of miners in Turkey protesting unpaid wages and lack of secure jobs met with arrests; workers and retirees across Iran continue protests over dire living standards; nurses and midwives in Kenya continue strike over pay and conditions
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North London bus drivers strike against extreme heat
On Wednesday, drivers at Arriva North London’s Tottenham garage told the World Socialist Web Site that even when the “air-cooling” system is on, temperatures inside can reach 39 to 40 degrees Celsius.
•Henry Lee
Financial Times embraces Burnham’s “public control” agenda for crisis-ridden water companies
Since Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government sold off the country's water authorities in 1989, water and sewerage charges have risen by around 40 percent in real terms.
•Paul Mitchell
Australian union calls off strike by Victorian doctors
In what would have been their first strike in 20 years, thousands of doctors at seven Melbourne hospitals had planned to stop work for 3.5 hours, as part of a year-long enterprise bargaining dispute with the state Labor government over wages and conditions.
•Martin Scott, Eric Ludlow
Homeless people die in New Zealand winter
The recent deaths of a woman in Christchurch and a man in Wellington are an indictment of the successive National and Labour Party-led governments whose policies have led to soaring homelessness.
•Tom Peters
Chile’s courts seal impunity for Carabinero officer who blinded Gustavo Gatica
The legal architecture of impunity for the forces of state repression has been built through the combined efforts of the entire political establishment—right, center and pseudo-left alike.
•By our reporter
Australia: Vote No to the third AEU-Labor Sellout! Build the Victorian Educators Rank-and-File Committee!
The Australian Education Union is once again trying to bulldoze Victorian teachers and staff into accepting a wage and condition cutting sellout that they have twice rejected.
•Committee for Public Education
Democratic establishment mobilizes to defeat DSA gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, the Democratic Party establishment mounted a ferocious campaign in the run-up to the vote to prevent a victory in the gubernatorial primary by Francesca Hong, a self-described “socialist” and member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
•Barry Grey
Trump administration moves to arm ICE agents with electric-shock torture gloves
The gloves would give masked ICE agents another weapon to torture immigrants, protesters and anyone accused of “non-compliance.”
•Jacob Crosse
Ankara plane incident shows panic and disorientation of Trump White House
The episode that followed the NATO summit in Ankara is now causing a political uproar in Washington.
•Patrick Martin
Historian Mario Kessler denounces sentencing of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The following statement denouncing the sentencing of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the World Socialist Web Site by German Professor Mario Kessler.
•Mario Kessler
Official who threatened rank-and-file candidate Will Lehman suspended from UAW membership, but might remain on union payroll
According to Lehman, his legal team was told by the Monitor that it would be up to the union apparatus to determine whether or not Jensen will still be paid by the UAW.
•Jerry White
National Steel Car workers in Hamilton, Ontario launch strike for second time in three years
More than 1,200 workers at National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, August 12. The walkout followed a decisive vote to reject the company’s “last, best, and final offer,” which was handed out to workers over the heads of the United Steelworkers Local 7135 Friday afternoon.
•Dylan Lubao
Left Party leader offers a prop for Germany’s Christian Democrats
The ZDF interview with Left Party leader Luigi Pantisano shows that even under its new chairman, the party is offering itself as a reliable prop for the bourgeois state and the Christian Democrats.
•Johannes Stern
UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housing
Reform leader Nigel Farage in June published a 6,800-word essay, “Britain is a two-tier state—against white people”, asserting that “anti-white racism was embedded into the state” and that equality legislation constitutes “social cleansing”.
•Robert Stevens
Student protests against the far-right in Australia: The fight against One Nation is a fight against the Labor government and capitalism!
The rise of the far-right One Nation party is the result above all of the pro-business policies of Labor and the union bureaucracy and can only be fought by building a socialist movement of the working class.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
Australia: Albanese government prepares to ram through brutal attack on the disabled
The bipartisan assault rides roughshod over deep-seated opposition from NDIS participants and their families, disability experts, health and welfare workers and even recent warnings from the government-funded Human Rights Commission.
•Richard Phillips
Australian air traffic control crisis deepens with 2 near misses at Sydney airport
The narrowly averted collisions came amid longstanding air traffic controller shortages, which are also causing frequent flight delays.
•Paul Bartizan
US-Japan yen intervention unravelling
Half the gains in the value of the yen after joint US-Japan action were wiped out when trading began this week.
•Nick Beams
Italy: Fire at working class housing occupation exposes Rome’s housing crisis
Meloni’s crackdown on the Spin Time Labs building is part of a coordinated “law and order“ legislative campaign designed to systematically dismantle Italy's squatter networks and prioritize private property rights.
•Allison Smith
The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk and the fraud of the “war for democracy” in Ukraine
Not one major Western news outlet has reported the 15-year sentence against the Ukrainian antiwar socialist.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Hunger strike against inhumane conditions, forced labor and torture in Ukrainian prisons
The horrific conditions in Ukrainian prisons, which resemble those in concentration camps, underscore the urgency of the fight for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk, and all other political prisoners.
•Clara Weiss
Turkish parliament passes law on Kurdish PKK disarmament
The Turkish parliament passed a law on the PKK's surrender. The near-unanimity of Turkish and Kurdish parties alike expresses not a turn toward peace but the ruling elite closing ranks, as it is integrated ever more deeply into the US-led war across the Middle East.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Family members outraged over unbearable conditions on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
Family members are reporting that living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier—which had been at sea for a record 208 days—are deteriorating and becoming unbearable for 5,000 sailors and Marines deployed to the Arabian Sea in the US war against Iran.
•Kevin Reed
Mamdani fires Haitian workers after Trump administration revokes their legal status
In announcing the termination of Haitian municipal workers after Homeland Security stripped Temporary Protected Status from some 350,000 Haitians in the US, New York Mayor Mamdani revealed his DSA administration to be an instrument of the capitalist state.
•Jesse Thomas, Barry Grey
Ford brings K-9 units into Michigan Assembly, as UAW-backed surveillance regime intensifies
The UAW is helping implement a police state style atmosphere in US auto plants, with intrusive searches and zero-tolerance discipline spreading.
•Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones
Trump cuts childhood vaccine schedule and turns the Justice Department on states that require shots
The order writes into national policy the schedule Kennedy’s purged advisory committee produced, and turns federal litigation and funding against the five states that still require immunization for school entry.
•Benjamin Mateus
An assessment of the decade of socialist revolution and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
•David North
Hundreds dead in Colombia earthquake: Capitalism’s latest case of social mass murder
Seven weeks after the earthquakes in Venezuela, the world was confronted again with the same scenes across western Colombia: dozens of buildings collapsing, families with children fleeing falling structures, and thousands who have lost their loved ones, their homes and their belongings.
•Andrea Lobo
The role of Chile’s “left” in Kast’s Mega-Reform: A political autopsy of a class betrayal
The Chilean “left’s” turn to the Constitutional Court is the final act in a drama whose real content is the bipartisan facilitation of a historic transfer of wealth from the working class to the oligarchic clans and finance capital.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Morenoite “balance sheet” on Greece’s Syriza: a cover for popular frontism in Argentina
The International Workers League’s review of the Syriza experience is constructed to conceal the real class character of its record.
•Francis Portocarrero, Andrea Lobo
Paul Klee at the Jewish Museum in New York: “Other Possible Worlds”
Klee drew inspiration from, and was claimed by, many artistic movements, but his highly individual, syncretic style is hard to classify.
•Erik Schreiber
World’s housing crisis impacts nearly half of humanity
The scale of global housing inadequacy affects around 42 percent of humanity, 3.2 billion people. This has never previously been measured.
•Jean Shaoul
Australian Education Union pushing new sellout of Victorian teachers after anti-democratic conference
The AEU is once again trying to stampede educators into accepting a sellout through a rushed ballot that does not allow for discussion or debate.
•Committee for Public Education
Fascist Ukrainian court sentences Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of war, to 15 years in prison
The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk is aimed at terrorizing opposition to the NATO-backed war against Russia.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Washington pressures Fujimori to align Peru with US war drive against China
A review of cabinet appointments signals a decisive tilt in US imperialism's favor.
•César Uco
Trump’s lawless deportation machine: ICE actions ruled illegal 16,000 times
While demonizing immigrants as “illegal aliens,” the Trump administration is itself engaged in illegal actions on a massive scale.
•Patrick Martin
Australian government prepares vicious immigration crackdown
Labor’s measures will affect up to half a million temporary visa holders, forcing many into super-exploited black-market work or reliance on charities to survive, and separate many immigrant families indefinitely.
•Mike Head
US economy sheds 23,000 jobs in July
The decline in July was accompanied by downward revisions to the previous two months, showing both a continuing jobs massacre and an exodus of workers from the labor force.
•Andy Thompson
Jacobin advises union bureaucracy on how to respond to wave of contract rejections
A column by disgraced ex-UAW chief of staff Chris Brooks exposes the role of Jacobin and the DSA as advisors and direct personnel within the corrupt union apparatus.
•Tom Hall
East Asia hit by heatwaves as climate change pushes temperatures to record highs
Workers in industries like construction, logistics and farming are routinely being forced to risk their health and their lives as they labor under increasingly dangerous conditions.
•Ben McGrath
Pacific foreign ministers fail to agree on statement condemning Chinese missile test
The foreign ministers’ failure to unanimously criticise China was met with barely concealed fury in Canberra and Wellington.
•John Braddock
British Columbia declares state of emergency as wildfires force 22,000 from their homes
The worsening climate catastrophe and increasingly urgent warnings from climate scientists have been met by the Canadian ruling class with criminal indifference.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
France’s social media ban imposes universal identity checks on the entire population
The ban is a major attack on democratic rights and a step towards a police-state dictatorship imposing universal surveillance of working people.
•Stephen Parker
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A strike by dockworkers on the Parana and Rio de la Plata rivers in Argentina paralyzed shipping for three days, while 5,000 Vancouver transit workers voted against a contract' with Coast Mountain Bus Company.
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Germany: Massive cuts at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, protests in Kassel against militarisation
As the German government raises military spending to record levels, universities face cuts of hundreds of millions of euros—eliminating degree programmes, professorships and research posts, while the arms industry moves onto campus.
•Jonas Klingner
Your Party’s collapse—Time to build the Socialist Equality Party
The following report was delivered at Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings in July and August in London, Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow.
•Thomas Scripps
As USPS Inspector General lays out historic cuts, NALC convention votes against workers’ right to strike
On the convention’s final day, USPS reported a $2.5 billion third-quarter loss and Postmaster General David Steiner warned that without congressional action, the agency’s “plans would certainly have to entail changes that will impact service,” including closing “thousands of unprofitable post offices” and raising prices.
•Jane Wise, Tom Hall
Following primary victory, Abdul El-Sayed backs US-NATO war against Russia
Days after winning Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary as an opponent of the Gaza genocide, El-Sayed defended capitalism, backed the US-NATO war against Russia and embraced the party establishment.
•Jacob Crosse
Socialist Equality Party (US) holds 9th National Congress amid world war, dictatorship and political radicalization
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Jobs massacre at Bosch: Appliance giant to close washing machine plant near Berlin
The corporation, with over 400,000 employees worldwide and revenues of over €90 billion, made a profit of €3.5 billion in 2024.
•Andy Niklaus
Australia: Low turnout in vote on union sellout deal at Western Sydney University
The participation rates in the enterprise agreement votes at WSU were tiny—approximately 12.2 percent and 16.7 percent respectively of academics and professional staff.
•A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member
Ebola deaths near 2,000 as WHO concedes the outbreak is outrunning the response
The Africa CDC and the World Health Organization called on August 6 for an urgent scale-up of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, conceding that the outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to contain it. Contact tracing has collapsed to the point that nine in ten patients admitted to the treatment center in the epicenter were never on any list.
•Benjamin Mateus
As Iran crisis deepens, Democrats condemn Trump for having “lost this war”
“Donald Trump has lost this war,” Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “America is weaker. Iran is stronger.”
•Andre Damon
Senate confirms Trump’s legal attack dog Todd Blanche as attorney general
The formal elevation of Blanche to head the Department of Justice marks a significant further step in the consolidation of a personalist presidential dictatorship in the United States.
•Barry Grey
This week in history: August 10-16
Japanese PM Koizumi visits Yasukuni shrine honoring war criminals; right-wing Christian militias massacre Palestinian refugees at Tel al-Zaatar; J.D. Salinger publishes The Catcher in the Rye; Mexican troops execute four Catholics, sparking Cristero War uprising
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Trump administration moves to gut the National Historic Preservation Act
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
•Philip Guelpa
Outrage in Greece after police kill unarmed, autistic 20-year-old in Argos
The fatal shooting of Theodoris Karampampas has ignited anger and protests against a police force operating with near-total impunity.
•John Vassilopoulos
Australia: Greens promote bankrupt parliamentary appeals at NDIS protests
Opposed to any independent mobilisation of the working class, the Greens insisted that the far-right, big-business Coalition can be pressured into defending disabled people.
•Stephen Griffiths
First-ever “left-wing terrorism” charges planned in Australia
ASIO-police accusations of left-wing terrorism mark a watershed political shift amid mounting war preparations.
•Mike Head
Sri Lankan educators protest low pay and impossible working conditions
The teachers’ unions, which have suppressed opposition to the JVP/NPP government’s austerity measures, called a limited protest on August 4.
•Dayananda Ratnayake, Kapila Fernando
Ukraine and Iran votes expose support by Democrats and Republicans for global war
The bipartisan 86-11 vote in the Senate would impose further economic sanctions on Russia and Iran, both targeted by American imperialism.
•Patrick Martin
Türkiye’s new bill demands the Kurdish PKK’s liquidation, offers nothing in return
Erdoğan’s government has submitted a bill to parliament formalizing the PKK’s dissolution. It offers no amnesty, leaves Öcalan imprisoned and places the fate of those covered entirely in the hands of the Turkish security apparatus.
•Barış Demir
NZ First Party youth leader linked to neo-Nazi groups
Amid a rapidly worsening social crisis, fascistic ideas are being encouraged and normalised by New Zealand’s political establishment.
•John Braddock
German interior minister exploits Berlin Pride attack to demand police-state expansion
Questions remain unanswered about why a convicted IS supporter, under round-the-clock surveillance, was released and his monitoring scaled back days before the attack on the Pride event.
•Marianne Arens
German government uses discovery of drone in Leipzig to escalate war on Russia
The discovery of an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport, along with the provocative and irresponsible reactions to it, show just how close Germany is to a direct war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.
•Peter Schwarz
California: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and state Democrats’ policies threaten destruction of Medi-Cal
California never introduced universal healthcare. Now, the combined policies of the Trump administration and state Democrats threaten to destroy Medi-Cal.
•Marc Wells
CIA launches Cuba task force amid new sanctions and UN warnings of a “silent Gaza”
The establishment of a CIA task force and a new round of sanctions mark a sharp escalation of Washington’s regime-change operation.
•Andrea Lobo
National Steel Car workers: Reject the corporate/USW “partnership!” Prepare strike action under rank-and-file control!
The centrepiece of USW Local 7135’s 2026 contract campaign—the elimination of the “incentive” program,” i.e., piecework—has evaporated over the last two weeks. The union now proposes to get involved in administering the piecework program rather than abolish it.
•National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: App-based gig workers strike in Assam; Bihar sanitation workers continue walkout; Pakistan: CDA workers demonstrate against privatisation; Australia: Victorian public hospital doctors to strike over pay and unsafe workloads; BHP Pilbara port workers escalate industrial campaign
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Economic costs of climate change soar in Europe, leaving working class to pay
The strain falls on economies already being brought to breaking point by the parasitic growth of the super-rich oligarchy and its monopolisation of social wealth, coupled with the rapacious demands of the military.
•Thomas Scripps
Workers welcome 2-year suspension of UAW International staffer for death threat against Will Lehman
On August 4, the court-appointed UAW Monitor stripped Raymond Jensen Jr., an organizer for the UAW Department of Bargaining Strategy, of his membership for two years and barred him for life from union office after ruling that his threat violated federal election rules.
•Our reporters
Yen intervention points to US financial vulnerabilities
There was growing concern that the selling of Treasuries by Japan to support the yen would lift US interest rates and impact the AI stock market boom.
•Nick Beams
UNESCO adds sites in Palestine and Lebanon under assault from IDF to list of World Heritage in danger
The three heritage sites have come under assault from Israel and its military.
•Sandy English
Senate committee holds Fauci in contempt as multiple outbreaks rage across the US
The same government prosecuting the scientists who study infectious disease has dismantled the surveillance systems that would measure its return.
•Benjamin Mateus
Trump targets birthright citizenship in renewed attack on 14th Amendment
The orders seek to create a hereditary caste of US-born people denied citizenship based on their parents’ political affiliations, employment or alleged conduct.
•Jacob Crosse
As NATO and Ukraine’s war against Russia escalates, drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea increase
As NATO’s war against Russia escalates, seafarers in the Black Sea are paying with their lives.
•Barış Demir
Australian government establishes inquiry to prepare for war
This is not a general inquiry into “defence” but an examination of how to operationally wage a major war in the near-term, including by suppressing opposition from the population.
•Oscar Grenfell
A “socialism” for the New York Times: Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara’s interview with Ross Douthat
One of the DSA’s most prominent voices sat down with a conservative columnist of the New York Times to deliver a systematic, point-by-point assurance that the DSA is loyal to American capitalism.
•Joseph Kishore
Australia: Multiple fires on Sydney trams in 1 day highlight deepening safety crisis
There have now been six battery-related fires on Sydney’s light rail system in five months, including two within hours on July 11.
•Leonard Johns
Workers in Türkiye defend Will Lehman against death threat from top UAW official
Workers and young people in Türkiye have sent letters to the World Socialist Web Site condemning the death threat made on social media against Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker in the United States, by Raymond L. Jensen Jr., a high-ranking official of the United Auto Workers.
•Our reporters
Debt-ridden local authorities in Germany plan further social cuts
The claim that “there is no money” for public services is a lie. Whether money is available or not is decided politically.
•Lena Sokoll
Özgür Özel’s New Party: A defense of Türkiye’s old order
The New Party's program, led by Özgür Özel, is not a response to the social and democratic aspirations of working people. It is a program designed to confine these aspirations within the framework of the capitalist profit system and the NATO alliance.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Ground workers at Barcelona airport, Spain strike over conditions; journalists in Gaza rally for release of imprisoned colleagues; Misr El Amria textile workers in Egypt defy company union to strike over pay
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Socialism instead of war! — Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei approved for Berlin state elections
With the SGP on the ballot, there is a party that openly opposes the war policy of all the establishment parties and fights for a socialist perspective that places the needs of the population above the profits of the super-rich.
•Christoph Vandreier
Michigan primary shows continued shift to the left in US
The victory of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic Senate nomination is a significant repudiation of the pro-Israel policy of the Democratic Party leadership, which has refused to condemn the Gaza genocide.
•Patrick Martin
Raymond Jensen suspended from UAW, barred from ever running for office over threat to Will Lehman
The sanctions against Jensen, a paid organizer on the UAW International payroll, are a victory for Lehman's campaign and for the working class.
•Evan Blake
Cost of living rises in New Zealand
With annual inflation at 4.1 percent and increased unemployment, working-class households are sinking into debt and child poverty is rising.
•Chris Ross
European Union intensifies its fascist migration policies in wake of Ceuta
The refugee tragedy in Ceuta has starkly illustrated how the European Union (EU) is putting the far right’s inhumane migration policy into practice and systematically intensifying it.
•Peter Schwarz
Taiwan launches massive Han Kuang war games
Plans for war are ultimately based in Washington, which is seeking to goad Beijing into a conflict with the aid of sections of the Taiwanese ruling class.
•Ben McGrath
Manhattan UPS workers sleep in cafeteria, wander streets overnight under split-shift regime
UPS has eliminated the Midnight shift at its Manhattan hub, forcing full-time workers onto split shifts with five to six unpaid hours between them—too short for many to travel home and sleep. Workers sleep in the cafeteria, wander the streets and, in some cases, remain cut off from their families, while Teamsters officials reject collective action against the restructuring.
•A. Woodson, Steve Light
Australian military think tank strategises building “social licence” for war
The ASPI defence conference was part of a campaign to prepare the ground for conscription in Australia—to solve the ruling class’s “workforce” crisis by compelling a generation of workers and youth into war.
•Taylor Bennington
Canada’s Liberal government prevails on CUPE to short-circuit militant strike of 4,400 WestJet flight attendants
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has boasted that the federal Liberal government played a leading role in bringing a quick end to the WestJet flight attendants’ strike. It did so using scarcely veiled threats that the government would otherwise illegalize the strike and impose binding arbitration.
•Carl Bronski
One person killed as Sri Lankan military and police suppress prison protest
The violent operation against unarmed inmates at Mahara Prison follows the massacre of prisoners at Negombo Prison last month.
•Naveen Dewage
European wildfires continue, with record land burned and nuclear plants on verge of shutdown
Europe entered August with severe wildfires burning in Greece, France, Spain and Turkey, hundreds more scattered fires underway in Romania, and a drought and fire crisis threatening nuclear power provision in Britain, Hungary and Romania.
•Robert Stevens
What drove the surge of Moroccan migrants to Ceuta?
Official statistics capture only a partial picture of the economically and socially stultifying life of the almost 40 million people ruled by King Mohammed VI and a narrow financial elite.
•Jean Shaoul
1-month-long strike by Norwegian oil service workers ended
For appearances’ sake, the capitalist Norwegian state invokes democracy and equality before the law. In practice, however, this has long been countered by a strike law designed to suppress industrial action.
•Kim Nachtweid
Stellantis worker James Brasher killed on the job—the fourth death under the UAW’s “historic” 2023 contract
Brasher is the third Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.
•Jerry White
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: A social and cultural phenomenon
Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.
•David Walsh
Japanese PM makes brief visit to Kumamoto quake zone
Takaichi announced her government would designate the earthquake “a disaster of extreme severity,” but only provided $US127 million in assistance for the devastated prefecture.
•Peter Symonds
Australia: Queensland teachers face longer freeze on pay and conditions
Despite two widely supported 24-hour strikes last year, educators in Queensland remain straitjacketed in an arbitration system, facing a more than two-year pay freeze and no relief from intolerable workloads.
•Our correspondent
The War in Ukraine and the Struggle for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotjuk—now available from Mehring Verlag
This book provides the first comprehensive account of Bogdan’s case and brings together his own writings and analyses the historical and political causes of the war in Ukraine.
•Mehring Verlag
Nicaragua moves to ban “Yankee” agents from elections as Trump policies hit economy
The Sandinista government is pushing a constitutional reform excluding US-funded parties from elections, even as it answers imperialist pressure with concessions to Washington and foreign capital.
•Andrea Lobo
ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status
The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.
•Jacob Crosse
BMW cuts 8,000 jobs in Germany
As the last of the major German carmakers, BMW has now joined the ranks of corporations destroying jobs on a massive scale, agreeing with IG Metall to cut around 8,000 positions—almost one in 10 of its 84,000 jobs in Germany.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
First deaths in US cyclosporiasis outbreak reported in Michigan
Two people have died in Michigan in the largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis ever recorded in the United States.
•Benjamin Mateus
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