Turkish coal miners march to Ankara for their unpaid wages
Following the arrest of Independent Miners’ Union leader Başaran Aksu, miners have launched their march to the capital.
•Barış Demir
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Union bureaucrats, Democrats cancel strike of 77,000 Los Angeles educators
What took place was not a genuine negotiation but an operation to stop a strike that threatened the union bureaucracy and the Democratic Party.
•Nakai Beltran, Marc Wells, Renae Cassimeda
Massachusetts postal workers form rank-and-file committee: “USPS is a public service, not a profit-making enterprise”
“Our mission is to unite postal workers worldwide to build collective power, protect our rights, and improve wages, benefits and working conditions through solidarity, transparency and democratic action to actively counter the efforts of the 1 percent.”
•Springfield NDC Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Big realtors in New York City demand massive concessions from residential building workers
Tens of thousands of residential building workers in the largest American city are prepared to strike against concessions.
•M. Gómez
Cancellation of Los Angeles schools strike latest in string of union betrayals
The last-minute deal demonstrates the ruling class’s extreme sensitivity to and fear of the class struggle and its reliance on the union bureaucracy to suppress it.
•Tom Hall
Union-initiated Australian parliamentary report covers up Labor’s university restructuring agenda
Another official inquiry makes no mention of Labor’s Universities Accord, which is driving the further corporate transformation of Australia’s public universities.
•Mike Head
Whistleblower who exposed Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan still behind bars
David McBride remains the only person convicted and jailed for Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan, not for committing them but for exposing them.
•Oscar Grenfell
IMF warns of major downturn in global growth
Under what it called a “severe scenario” the IMF said global growth could fall to as low as 2 percent close to the development of a world recession.
•Nick Beams
Trump’s NLRB rules against Henry Ford Genesys Hospital nurses as strike enters 8th month
The struggle against the hospital’s strike-breaking and refusal to address staffing issues requires a fight against management and the Teamsters union bureaucracy, which has isolated and diverted the fight into the dead end of appeals to the NLRB and the Democratic Party in Lansing.
•Kevin Reed
UAW President Shawn Fain unveils “Stand Up Slate” for 2026 election: New label, same bureaucracy
Far from representing a break with the corrupt, pro-corporate apparatus, the slate is a merger of the same bureaucratic factions that have spent decades collaborating with management to impose concessions.
•Jerry White
Art and the Influence of Revolution
No serious understanding of 20th-century cultural life is possible without considering the impact of the socialist movement and its decades-long struggle to raise the thinking and activity of the working class, culminating in the 1917 Revolution
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Right-wing think tank presses UK Starmer government to abandon “peacetime” agenda and move to “warfighting readiness”
A core theme of the Civitas report is that war cannot be fought by armies alone and is a “whole of society” effort: "This is the essence of the distinction we need to make between 'our armed forces learning to fight battles' and 'our country learning to fight war'", the authors declare.
•Robert Stevens
Netanyahu government brutally represses opposition to wars against Iran and Lebanon
These authoritarian measures are the domestic requirement for pursuing a Greater Israel policy, as part of US imperialism’s broader political and military agenda to reorganise and control the resource-rich Middle East in preparation for wider wars against China and Russia.
•Jean Shaoul
Pseudo-left “Marxism” conference in Australia suppresses any discussion of Iran war
Any attendees seeking a socialist perspective to fight the massive US-led assault left empty-handed. Over four days, not a single one of the conference's nearly 150 panels was dedicated to the war on Iran.
•Owen Howell, Oscar Grenfell
With strike deadline approaching, Los Angeles officials and unions move to block walkout of 80,000 school workers
With hours to go before a potential strike by 80,000 Los Angeles school workers, negotiations between SEIU Local 99 and the Los Angeles Unified School District are continuing under intense pressure from city and political officials, including Mayor Karen Bass, who is reportedly directly involved in talks tonight.
•Tom Hall, Marc Wells, Ivan Cardenas
The Iran war, oil and the crisis of American imperialism
The US war on Iran will be remembered as a turning point in the decline of American imperialism, exposing in concentrated form Washington’s diminishing ability to impose its will on the Persian Gulf and the global capitalist system.
•Gabriel Black
Australia: Fair Work Commission orders partial end to punitive “junior rates”
While workers aged 18–21 in the retail, fast food and pharmacy sectors will eventually receive full adult wages, the ruling still allows junior rates as low as 40 percent for younger workers.
•Leonard Johns
IMF meets as war brings greater global economic and financial disruption
Setting the stage for this week’s discussions and reports, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva made clear there would be a downward shift in global growth even in the event of an end to the war.
•Nick Beams
Kremlin declares Memorial an “extremist” organization, shuts down data base of victims of the Great Terror
The assault on Memorial is a blow against the ability of workers and youth the world over to come to grips with the crimes of Stalinism.
•Clara Weiss
Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: The next phase in the Iran war
The blockade is an act of war and an act of international piracy. The World Socialist Web Site condemns this criminal action, directed against Iran and against the working class of the entire world.
•Andre Damon
After massive no vote, UAW extends Nexteer contract behind backs of rank and file
United Auto Workers officials in Saginaw, Michigan, have kept 1,300 Nexteer Automotive workers on the job nearly two weeks after they rejected a UAW-backed contract by 96 percent.
•Sheila Brehm
New York rally by Sanders, Mamdani and union officials covers up US war drive against Iran
Beneath rhetoric about “union density,” Sunday’s New York rally served to police opposition to war, inequality and dictatorship within the framework of the Democratic Party.
•Jacob Crosse
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Healthcare workers across Bolivia to protest lack of medications and medical equipment while 2,200 Nova Scotia long term care aids walked out after months of government stonewalling.
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United Auto Workers rally in Three Rivers, Michigan aims to contain growing anger as American Axle workers face looming contract expiration
As a May 31 contract deadline approaches for 1,000 American Axle workers in Three Rivers, Michigan UAW President Fain spoke at a “kickoff” rally aimed to channel anger over declining living standards behind the union apparatus and the Democratic Party.
•George Kirby
California Supreme Court freezes Riverside ballot seizure as warrants reveal reliance on fascist election deniers
California’s high court intervened to stop Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure after warrants revealed the probe relied on debunked election denial claims and false quotes generated from Artificial Intelligence.
•Isaac de Vries
“The agencies have been pummeled down”: A conversation with Dorit Reiss on the state of American public health
Under assault by Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, his Secretary of Health and Human Services, the public health infrastructure of the United States is being destroyed.
•Benjamin Mateus
Hungary: Which way forward after Orban’s electoral defeat?
The fact that only a conservative, an authoritarian and a fascist party are represented in parliament shows just how right-wing Hungarian politics is after Orban’s defeat.
•Peter Schwarz
Peru: Far right to dominate runoff for ninth president in a decade
Peru’s elections, marked by disenfranchisement and the collapse of all establishment parties, are set to deliver a far-right-dominated runoff amid a deepening crisis of bourgeois rule.
•Our reporters
University of Michigan subreddit censors WSWS articles on suicide of Chinese researcher
Following the suicide of Chinese scientist Danhao Wang, U-M subreddit moderators removed highly viewed posts demanding an investigation into the federal witch-hunt of Chinese researchers and the complicity of the university administration.
•Stephen St. Clair
Dearborn residents oppose bombing of Lebanon at candlelight vigil
The vigil was organized by community members with family ties to Lebanon.
•Kathleen Martin, Usman Khan
Doncaster bus drivers at First South Yorkshire extend strike over pay parity
The struggle cannot be left to a Unite union apparatus that has tolerated gagging orders, intimidation, and repeatedly isolated disputes. The leadership must be taken into the hands of democratically elected rank-and-file committees.
•Harvey Thompson, Tony Robson
“Everyone dies”: Grenfell Tower, regulation, and what the ruling class want from Reform UK
Simon Dudley, less than a month after his appointment as Reform’s housing spokesman, said that the 2017 inferno that claimed 72 lives, was a “tragedy” but “everyone dies in the end.”
•Paul Bond
Freedom for Başaran Aksu and all working-class prisoners in Türkiye!
Ulaş Sevinç, leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal in Türkiye, released a video statement condemning the arrest of independent union leader Başaran Aksu.
•Ulaş Sevinç
New strikes at German airline Lufthansa: “We’re seen as nothing but a cost factor”
A new strike by Lufthansa pilots today and on Tuesday demonstrates the flight crew’s strong determination to fight. The strike is part of the growing mobilisation of the European and international working class.
•Marianne Arens
US-EU tensions erupt over Iran war as France holds back-channel talks with China
Trump’s denunciations of the Macron government reveal the irreconcilable conflicts between the major imperialist powers underlying US imperialism’s war of aggression against Iran.
•Alex Lantier
Los Angeles teachers unions announce sellout in bid to sabotage district-wide strike
The moves by UTLA and the administrators union are aimed at blocking unified strike action with 30,000 school support staff in SEIU Local 99.
•Marc Wells, Tom Hall
War-driven fuel crisis threatens recession in Australia
The Albanese Labor government is presiding over the increasingly devastating impact on working-class living conditions and the prospect of crippling fuel shortages, particularly of diesel.
•Mike Head
Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president, calls for support for Harvard academic workers’ strike
The Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU-UAW) has set a strike deadline of 12:01 am on April 21, 2026, for 4,000 Teaching Fellows, Research Assistants, and other academic workers
•Mike Ingram
US deploys warships to Strait of Hormuz, announces Iran blockade
U.S. Central Command announced Sunday that American warships will begin blockading all maritime traffic entering or exiting Iranian ports on Monday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
•Andre Damon
University of Washington graduate student and his son deported, as immigration arrests surge statewide
Kennedy Orwa, a PhD student at the University of Washington, was detained at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on April 7 and deported with his 13-year-old son the following day.
•Bryan Dyne
EU adopts far-right agenda in migration policy
The European Union is once again tightening its migration and asylum policy. Far-right parties are setting the pace.
•Lena Sokoll
The New York Times, the Democratic Party and the preparation of Phase 2 of the war against Iran
The Times, speaking for the Democratic Party, proceeds from a premise it considers too self-evident to require argument: that the failure to achieve the war's objectives would constitute a strategic catastrophe of the first order.
•David North
United Auto Workers financial report shows 2025 another bumper year for union apparatus as assets rise to $1.25 billion
The UAW’s net assets and bureaucrats’ salaries rose last year while strike activity fell to near zero.
•Shannon Jones
This week in history: April 13-19
Massacre of students in Ethiopia; India, China resume official ties; European Coal and Steel Community formed; First dance premiere for Martha Graham
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Democrat Eric Swalwell ends campaign for California governor over sexual misconduct charges
The congressman was leading in the polls for the Democratic nomination for governor of California when he was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct.
•Patrick Martin
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka: Stop the US–Israel War Against Iran!
The meeting in Hatton on April 26 will discuss the real aims of US imperialism, the complicity of Sri Lanka's ruling elite in the widening war, and the socialist strategy that must be adopted to fight against war.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
New Zealand protests against war on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
Thousands of people joined protests to denounce New Zealand’s alliance with the US and government silence on US and Israeli war crimes. The organisers, however, promoted illusions in Labour and the Greens.
•Tom Peters
Romania approves US military surge for war against Iran amid deepening domestic crisis
Romania is playing an increasingly central role in the war offensives of US imperialism in the Middle East and of NATO against Russia in Ukraine.
•Andrei Tudora
The consequences of extreme exploitation – Enjoy Your Stay and I Understand Your Displeasure
Both films underscore a central truth: under capitalism, personal decisions can be so severely restricted that they become almost irrelevant.
•Bernd Reinhardt, Stefan Steinberg
Five hundred more pro-Palestine protesters arrested in UK despite High Court ruling
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
•Thomas Scripps
UK secondary school's sweeping censorship of library books
Librarian instructed to remove up to 200 books from school library deemed inappropriate by school with Christian ethos
•Margot Miller
USPS moves to suspend pension payments amid deepening financial crisis
The United States Postal Service could potentially run out of money by next year, setting the stage for massive cuts.
•Brian Green
Teamsters and UPS reach settlement over driver buyouts, while company continues plans to slash 30,000 more jobs
By claiming a victory over the buyouts, the Teamsters apparatus is signaling to UPS that, as long as the bureaucracy is included, the destruction of UPS workers' livelihoods can proceed.
•Leon Gutierrez
Trump says the US is “loading up the ships” with weapons during ceasefire talks
President Trump renewed his fascist threat to destroy Iran on Friday in a post on Truth Social in which he bemoaned Tehran’s ongoing control of the Strait of Hormuz and wrote that Tehran has “no cards,” and “The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!”
•Kevin Reed
Artemis II mission concludes after astronauts travel to the Moon and safely return to Earth
The mission unfolded in the shadow of the Trump administration's war against Iran and his genocidal threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
•Bryan Dyne
Australia: UWU boss posturing as “rank-and-file” candidate in union election
The phoney “rank-and-file” Members First campaign points to mounting discontent among United Workers Union members over previous sellouts and growing opposition to the Labor Party, of which the UWU is an integral part.
•Martin Scott
Oppose the draft! Build a working class movement against imperialist war!
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality warn workers and young people throughout the United States: the American ruling class is laying the foundations for the reimposition of the draft. The oligarchy wants cannon fodder for its illegal and expanding wars of aggression.
•Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)
Fuel shock sends inflation soaring while the oligarchy grows richer
The sharp rise in inflation was fueled above all by an unprecedented spike in gasoline prices, which is hitting millions of workers who depend on driving for their jobs.
•Jacob Crosse
Indiana University postdoctoral fellow Youhuang Xiang sentenced to time served and ordered deported
After over four months of detention, Xiang was coerced into pleading guilty to trumped-up federal charges of smuggling innocuous E. coli plasmid DNA into the United States.
•Stephen St. Clair
“Progressive” Democrats seek collaboration with fascist critics of Iran war
In a statement posted Tuesday night, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna thanked fascists Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson for opposing the Iran war and called for a “broad populist social movement.”
•Jacob Crosse
Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die–The solution to the world’s problems? Infect everyone with anti-technology allergy
It is a dreadful work. A libel against humanity, humanity returned the favor by largely staying away in droves.
•David Walsh
The International Bolshevik Tendency: Pseudo-left apologists for the union bureaucracy and Stalinism
The IBT, which is descended from the anti-Trotskyist Spartacist League, promotes the dangerous illusion that workers can rely on the union apparatus and the Chinese Stalinist regime to oppose US imperialism in Latin America and the Middle East.
•Tom Peters
IYSSE (Sri Lanka) meeting discusses socialist strategy to stop the war against Iran
Only the international working class, the sole social force creating all wealth in the society, has the capability of stopping the dragging into barbarism.
•Our correspondent
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Filipino pulp mill workers’ strike enters second month; Health workers strike over real wage cuts in Tasmania, Australia.
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Australia: Key issues buried at Brisbane rally against arrest of anti-genocide protester
There was no mention of Labor’s own “hate crime” laws and wave of arrests at a protest over the prosecution of a Palestine solidarity activist for using the prohibited anti-genocide slogan “from the river to the sea.”
•Antony Walsh
Protests and strikes erupt in Brazil in turbulent run-up to presidential election
Since the beginning of this year, a series of protests and strikes have erupted in Brazil against the privatization and austerity policies of the Workers Party (PT) administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva .
•Guilherme Ferreira
Pseudo-leftist union leadership undermines Argentine tire plant occupation with appeals to nationalism
The SUTNA union, led by the Partido Obrero, is chaining the Fate tire workers’ plant occupation to nationalist appeals to Peronist factions and other bourgeois politicians
•Andrea Lobo
Turkish independent union leader Başaran Aksu arrested
Başaran Aksu, who has played a leading role in workers’ struggles emerging in opposition to union bureaucracies, has been a target of both companies and the state for some time. It follows the unlawful arrest of independent union leader Mehmet Türkmen last month.
•Barış Demir
Starmer visits Gulf states amid fracturing “special relationship” with US
Foreign policy precepts that have determined the actions of UK governments for decades are being torn apart.
•Robert Stevens
Trades Union Congress offers Iran war partnership with Starmer government
Just as they did during the pandemic, the Britain's trade union apparatus is preparing to suppress strikes, enforce wage restraint and collaborate in austerity under the guise of “protecting the economy”.
•Tony Robson
Trump’s selective service filing prepares for activation of US military draft
A Trump administration filing reveals preparations to activate a military draft for men aged 18 to 26 as Washington readies wider imperialist war.
•Kevin Reed
New York City Mayor Mamdani reneges on promise of free bus service
The DSA’s Zohran Mamdani’s first 100 days as mayor of America’s largest city have been marked by continuous capitulation before Wall Street and the capitalist state.
•Sandy English
Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, as US media demands renewed onslaught against Iran
Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven people in the town of al-Abbassieh in southern Lebanon on Thursday, as the bombardment of the country entered its second day since the proclamation of a US-Iran ceasefire.
•Andre Damon
Jacobin and the DSA sow complacency to demobilize opposition to war against Iran
The house organ of the Democratic Socialists of America seeks to conceal the depth of the political crisis precipitated by the war and Trump’s threats of genocide against Iran.
•Patrick Martin
Detroit autoworkers denounce US-Israeli war on Iran: “This is for Big Oil”
Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers as they passed through the factory gates, shortly after reports emerged that the US government is moving toward automatic registration for a potential military draft.
•our reporters
Turkish municipal workers support Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign
The WSWS has received messages of support for Lehman’s campaign from workers at the Kadıköy, Maltepe, and Şişli municipalities in Istanbul.
•Our reporters
Australian university chiefs back Labor’s corporate agenda while pleading for funding relief
Universities Australia vows to work even more closely with the Albanese government as it enforces its Universities Accord regime.
•Mike Head
Firefighters hold more strikes across New Zealand
While the government insists that 2,000 Fire and Emergency NZ workers must take a pay cut, the opposition Labour Party, with the support of the union leaders, is seeking to divert workers’ anger behind its election campaign.
•Tom Peters
Idaho constructs remote-controlled firing squad chamber: A method of state killing with a merciless history
In the gruesome landscape of state-sanctioned murder in the US, the construction of a remote-controlled firing squad chamber in Idaho stands out for its calculated, savagery.
•Kate Randall
UAW issues statement of phony support for Mexican tire workers shot on picket line
The UAW’s “support” for Mexican tire workers promotes appeals to Trump’s Labor Department and the Mexican government and ruling class while pitting US autoworkers against their Mexican class brothers.
•Andrea Lobo
BNP government in Bangladesh imposes economic impact of Iran war on working people
Amid sky-rocketing energy prices, the recently elected right-wing Bangladesh Nationalist Party has rapidly jettisoned its election promises to improve living standards and ensure basic democratic rights.
•Wasantha Rupasingha
Far-right Alberta premier announces anti-immigrant referendum
Evoking the fascist anti-immigrant demagogy of the Trump administration, far-right Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called a provincial referendum for next fall with the aim of whipping up animosity to immigrants and providing “popular” sanction for stripping them of rights.
•Graham Beverly
Medical neglect and preventable deaths spread across ICE detention centers
From North Lake in Michigan to Camp East Montana in Texas, repeated deaths, ignored grievances and documented abuses expose medical neglect as an institutionalized feature of ICE detention.
•Anthony Callahan
German reactions to the “ceasefire” in the Iran war: Berlin sticks to its war aims
The German government and ruling class have officially welcomed the “ceasefire” in the Iran war. But behind the diplomatic phrases lies no departure from previous war policies.—on the contrary, their continuation by other means.
•Johannes Stern
Immigrant senior stripped of Medicare under Trump bill exposes bipartisan assault on social programs
Carranza’s plight exposes bipartisan policies that strip immigrant workers of earned social rights while advancing austerity, war and repression.
•Marc Wells
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Workers face riot police in general strike against welfare cuts in Northern Cyprus; Royal Fleet Auxiliary staff who support UK Royal Navy walk out over pay; resident doctors in Nigeria begin indefinite walkout over pay and conditions
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Socialist Equality Party (UK) announces public meeting series on 1926 general strike
The events are aimed at arming workers with the lessons of this experience for the political battles they face today: against a right-wing Labour government of austerity and war, and trade union bureaucracies suppressing a struggle against it.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
David North calls for building the anti-war movement in interview with Turkish channel TV5
In an interview with Turkish channel TV5, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North warns that the two-week pause in the US bombardment of Iran is merely an interlude and calls on workers internationally to build a movement against imperialism based on the unification of the working class.
•Evan Blake
As Los Angeles educators prepare strike, administrators and union officials meet for emergency talks
Workers must be warned that a sellout is in the offing. No talks under these circumstances will result in a deal favorable for workers.
•Marc Wells, Tom Hall
Australian special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith charged with war crimes against Afghan civilians
Whatever the outcome of the case against Roberts-Smith, there is no question that Australian governments and the military command oversaw and covered up war crimes in Afghanistan.
•Oscar Grenfell
“We do not defend these actions of war and aggression”: US workers denounce Trump’s threats against Iran, demand end to war
Workers across the United States have expressed deep and unequivocal opposition to the Trump administration's military aggression against Iran, defending the Iranian people and calling for mass working class resistance.
•Our reporters
Armed clash erupts near Israeli consulate in Istanbul
The circumstances surrounding this attempted armed attack near the Israeli consulate remain unclear.
•Barış Demir
Israel bombards Lebanon with 160 missiles within hours of Trump’s ceasefire announcement
Israel’s barbaric air and artillery assault on civilians in southern Lebanon, the most intense attack since the conflict began on March 2, exposed the fraudulent nature of the two-week “ceasefire” announced by President Trump on Tuesday in the war against Iran.
•Kevin Reed
Amid deep divisions over ceasefire agreement, Israel launches massive attack on Lebanon
Israel's massive assault on Lebanon, which killed over 250 people Wednesday, comes as factions of both US political parties condemn the outcome of Trump's war on Iran as a debacle that leaves Iran in control of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
•Andre Damon
Iran war shock causes IMF to revise down global growth forecast
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said the world is ill-equipped to deal with the turmoil resulting from the war on Iran, due to the lack of international collaboration and the rise of government debt.
•Nick Beams
Hungary elections: US Vice President Vance throws his weight behind Orbán
For the working class, this election offers no progressive alternative. Neither Orbán nor Magyar represents its interests. Both stand for militarism, social attacks and authoritarian forms of rule—albeit with differing foreign policy orientations.
•Markus Salzmann, Johannes Stern
Project Hail Mary—a hopeful (but somewhat wishful) adventure
The overall result is a charming but cartoonish pastiche that, while broadly appealing, falls short of its ambition to be a truly insightful film
•Lee Parsons
As election losses mount, White House pursues ballot-rigging plans
An easy Democratic victory in Wisconsin and a narrow Republican win in Georgia both showed swings of 25 percent or more against Trump.
•Patrick Martin
Nationwide roadblocks by truckers and farmers in Mexico face repression
Mexican truckers and farmers launched a nationwide strike over war-driven diesel and fertilizer cost surges and insecurity, facing brutal repression by the Morena government.
•Andrea Lobo
Japan deploys long-range missiles for the first time
In close coordination with Washington’s own military operations, Tokyo is setting the pieces in place for war against China.
•Ben McGrath
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