“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.”
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.
The six-month strike by 750 hospital nurses and case workers in Grand Blanc, Michigan, has come to a fundamental crossroads.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
The most striking result of the recent Baden-Württemberg state election is the collapse of the SPD.
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.
The 6,000 workers at DHL in the US, members of the Teamsters, are demanding improvements in pay, benefits and working conditions.
Labor is openly joining a war of annihilation against an oppressed nation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Trump’s address to his Latin American stooges opened with a boastful report about the barbaric destruction of Iran.
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.
Hollywood consolidation advances the fusion of corporate media, artificial intelligence systems and the American military-intelligence apparatus.
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.
“We need to carry on supporting people in other countries who are being oppressed and who are having war crimes committed against them.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
The price of Brent crude, the benchmark for oil, rose 28 percent last week, with predictions it could go much higher.
Museveni wins Uganda election; Sadat breaks with Soviet alliance; US forces retake Seoul in Korean War; Fascist Italy bans strikes
“The Socialist Equality Party in Australia unequivocally condemns the imperialist war of aggression being waged against Iran.”
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.
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.
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.
Viewers complained at the censorship on social media, with one commenting, “I’ve never known the Brits bleep out so much stuff.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Corporate media and Congress are using the shooting as an opportunity to rail against immigration and Muslims and promote war 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.
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.
The $2.8 billion facilities plan unveiled by administrators on February 26 would shutter 18 schools across the Philadelphia School District.
Estefany Rodríguez Flórez was detained without a warrant and transferred hundreds of miles from her family.
With this agreement, the GDL is providing the German government, which owns Deutsche Bahn, an indispensable service against the working class.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teachers and students confront deteriorating public schools, while military contractors and the Defence Department embed themselves in classrooms.
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.
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.
The US is reestablishing relations as Chavista acting president Delcy Rodríguez hands oil, gold and critical minerals to Wall Street.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The leaks confirm that British officials had been informed of the planned offensive 17 days in advance and were engaged in intense discussions with Washington over how the Labour government could assist.
The United States Navy’s torpedoing of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean on March 4, 2026 is a war crime.
Macron did not bother to even go through the motions of parliamentary debate and approval of his war policy, instead unilaterally committing his government to a war that threatens the world with economic and military catastrophe.
The move does not represent a shift in policies, but the removal of an official whose provocative statements and blatant corruption had become and obstacle to carrying them out.
Nearly 700 built environment practitioners have signed an open letter opposing the Victorian Labor government’s planned destruction of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers.
This statement was distributed at the nationwide school strikes against conscription in Germany on March 5.
The criminal war overshadowed Carney’s visit and underscored the bogus character of his claims that “middle powers” could chart an alternative to the breakdown of international norms and law.
The resolutions under the War Powers Act were an empty exercise in pretended opposition to the war by the Democratic Party leadership.
As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its sixth day, Israel has ordered the mass evacuation of southern Lebanon and launched a ground incursion, opening a second major front in a war that is rapidly engulfing the entire Middle East.
In its four-year term, the Malinauskas government has overseen a massive widening in the gulf between wages and property prices.
It is impossible to halt the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the rapidly spreading war across the Middle East by relying on the diplomatic initiatives of the European powers.
Five months into the worst measles outbreak since 1992, the gutted CDC dispatches three data analysts to South Carolina as measles spreads through ICE detention camps in Texas.
Kirk’s assassination last year has been seized on a means of promoting and even normalizing fascist politics on campuses.
Tennessee seeks to track students’ legal status, turning schools into data‑collection arms for deportation.
A review of the tentative agreements makes clear that workers must reject these rotten deals with a resounding “No” as an initial step in a renewed struggle to defend their jobs, working conditions, the postal service and public services more broadly.
As writers face a contract showdown, entrenched union officials defend privileges, exposing the widening gulf between the rank and file and the bureaucracy.
Students wore keffiyehs, carried Palestinian flags and handmade anti-war signs reading “I am not dying for the Epstein class,” “No war on Iran” and “End American Imperialism.”
Through mass firings, rigged appointments, and unilateral decrees, HHS Secretary Kennedy is dismantling the federal machinery behind childhood vaccination in the United States, provoking lawsuits from pediatricians and 15 state governments as preventable disease protections are stripped away.
Israel has ordered the entire population of southern Beirut—around 500,000 people—and all residents south of the Litani River, more than 300,000 people, to evacuate. Its armed forces have invaded and launched hundreds of strikes.
Once again, a Labour government staffed by political criminals is dragging the country into a US-led war for oil.
Civil servants and government officials in Netherlands stage national 24-hour pay strike; public transport workers on buses, trams and subway trains walk out for 24 hours across Germany over pay and conditions; workers in two hospitals protest lack of funding endangering patient safety, in Nigeria and Liberia
The ANC is incapable of even characterising a criminal war carried out by Washington and Tel Aviv. Indeed, its statement, expressing “deep concern at the escalating tensions in the Middle East” does not mention the United States or Israel once.
As the war enters its fifth day, the US-Israeli assault on Iran has assumed ever more openly the character of a war of annihilation and extermination.
Anthropic's CEO has said nothing as the military uses his company's technology to wage an illegal war, while OpenAI grants the Pentagon functionally unrestricted access to ChatGPT.
Will Lehman is a rank-and-file autoworker at Mack Trucks who is running for president of the United Auto Workers union in 2026.
Colorado River states blew through another federal deadline to renegotiate river operations, as the worst drought in 1,200 years continues.
The Democratic Socialists of America is seeking to undermine mass opposition to the criminal war in Iran and channel it behind the Democratic Party.
The silence is a deliberate act of support and complicity, in line with the American union apparatus' decades of support for imperialist war
During a meeting at the White House, the German chancellor assured the US president of his full support for the criminal war of aggression against Iran—thereby revealing Berlin’s imperialist ambitions.
As more imperialist and regional powers are being dragged into the conflict, American imperialism is working to fuel ethnic civil war inside Iran by supplying arms to Kurdish nationalists.
US and Ecuadorian forces launched joint land operations Tuesday, ostensibly against drug cartels, escalating Trump’s efforts to recolonize Latin America.
Defend the right of “free metalworkers” to organise and participate in works council elections!
The war against Iran is deeply unpopular among workers and broad sections of the population in the United States.
The Republicans and Democrats, the two main parties of the financial oligarchy, poured tens of millions into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas.
South Korean stocks fell by 12 percent yesterday in the largest one-day drop recorded, eclipsing falls in the 2008 crisis.
A current exhibition tracks the development of an anti-imperialist artist who fused modernism with African iconography.
The findings again underscore the widening gulf between official rhetoric and the lived conditions facing Indigenous people.
