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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The vigil was organized by community members with family ties to Lebanon.
The struggle cannot be left to a Unite union apparatus that has tolerated gagging orders, intimidation, and repeatedly isolated disputes. Leadership must be taken into the hands of democratically elected rank-and-file committees.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The European Union is once again tightening its migration and asylum policy. Far-right parties are setting the pace.
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.
The UAW’s net assets and bureaucrats’ salaries rose last year while strike activity fell to near zero.
Massacre of students in Ethiopia; India, China resume official ties; European Coal and Steel Community formed; First dance premiere for Martha Graham
The congressman was leading in the polls for the Democratic nomination for governor of California when he was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct.
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.
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.
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.
Both films underscore a central truth: under capitalism, personal decisions can be so severely restricted that they become almost irrelevant.
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.
Librarian instructed to remove up to 200 books from school library deemed inappropriate by school with Christian ethos
The United States Postal Service could potentially run out of money by next year, setting the stage for massive cuts.
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.
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!”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
It is a dreadful work. A libel against humanity, humanity returned the favor by largely staying away in droves.
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.
Only the international working class, the sole social force creating all wealth in the society, has the capability of stopping the dragging into barbarism.
Filipino pulp mill workers’ strike enters second month; Health workers strike over real wage cuts in Tasmania, Australia.
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.”
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 .
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
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.
Foreign policy precepts that have determined the actions of UK governments for decades are being torn apart.
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”.
A Trump administration filing reveals preparations to activate a military draft for men aged 18 to 26 as Washington readies wider imperialist war.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The WSWS has received messages of support for Lehman’s campaign from workers at the Kadıköy, Maltepe, and Şişli municipalities in Istanbul.
Universities Australia vows to work even more closely with the Albanese government as it enforces its Universities Accord regime.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carranza’s plight exposes bipartisan policies that strip immigrant workers of earned social rights while advancing austerity, war and repression.
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
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.
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.
Workers must be warned that a sellout is in the offing. No talks under these circumstances will result in a deal favorable for workers.
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.
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.
The circumstances surrounding this attempted armed attack near the Israeli consulate remain unclear.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The overall result is a charming but cartoonish pastiche that, while broadly appealing, falls short of its ambition to be a truly insightful film
An easy Democratic victory in Wisconsin and a narrow Republican win in Georgia both showed swings of 25 percent or more against Trump.
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.
In close coordination with Washington’s own military operations, Tokyo is setting the pieces in place for war against China.
The crime at Tempi has discredited all the main bourgeois parties. One of the main chants at demonstrations is: “Syriza, PASOK, New Democracy, this crime has a history”.
Trump’s threat to annihilate a civilization of 93 million people—which by itself is a war crime—and the war as a whole have produced a political crisis of historic proportions.
While it has sought to distance itself from Trump’s most undeniably genocidal statements, Paris has made itself complicit in crimes against humanity.
Three workers were killed in a preventable work accident at Çolakoğlu Metallurgy, one of Turkey’s largest steel factories, on Sunday.
Workers returned to the plant Tuesday after the United Food and Commercial Workers suddenly canceled their powerful three-week strike without any progress at the bargaining table.
BP Whiting refinery workers continue their battle, as Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) locks out 1,700 USW workers.
By calling off its work bans the AEU is signalling its willingness to force the state government’s offer through, further cutting real wages and doing nothing to address staff shortages and intolerable workloads.
Last Friday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made an unannounced emergency trip to the Gulf region to meet with Saudi, Qatari and Emirati leaders for talks on energy and the US war with Iran.
Workers across the United States reacted furiously Tuesday to Trump’s threat to “annihilate” the civilization of Iran, a country of 93 million people.
The IMF’s endorsement is a clear indication of the government’s strict adherence to IMF dictates, which impose the full burden of the crisis on the working class and rural masses.
The deal, which ensures that New Zealand’s military retains access to the Cook Islands’ vast territorial waters, escalates the US-led militarisation of the Pacific in preparation for war against China.
The tragic death of Danhao Wang, a brilliant Chinese postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, is the direct and fatal consequence of a vicious xenophobic campaign of harassment and intimidation orchestrated by the federal government and enabled by the university administration.
In February, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a memorandum outlining a fascistic revamping of the US military’s training program for senior officers.
Dictated by the federal Liberal government, Canada Post's transformation into an Amazon-style employer of precarious “gig workers” will eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.
The director says she had “real images of war in her mind” while filming and wonders about “what context I see them”—but “context” is precisely what is missing from her film.
The Guardian has consistently witch-hunted resident doctors, with columnist Polly Toynbee urging Streeting to show his “mettle.”
WSWS reporters spoke to striking resident doctors as they began a six-day strike.
The following statement was published by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board, on Tuesday morning in response to the threat by US President Donald Trump to make Iranian civilization “die tonight.”
In Queensland, the far-right One Nation is outpolling both Labor and the Coalition, something unprecedented for a “third” party in modern times.
The United States is on the brink of a moral and political catastrophe. This is the inescapable conclusion to be derived from Donald Trump’s press conference on Monday.
Teamsters hailed First Student’s new contract as a “national foundation,” but drivers demand details on real gains for hours, pay, and pensions.
For decades, British governments have suppressed evidence of the human and environmental consequences of nuclear testing in the Pacific.
The new aspects of spaceflight being carried out by Artemis II largely concern the impacts of radiation on the spacecraft and the astronauts themselves.
Last week’s oral argument on Trump’s executive order to revoke birthright citizenship raised historical questions dating back to the Civil War on whether the offspring of immigrants have full citizenship rights.
