Two workers killed in Everett, Massachusetts crane collapse
Two workers were killed when a crane mounted on a barge toppled over while they were cutting pipe for a redevelopment project site on the Mystic River.
•Mike Ingram
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Trump prepared to starve tens of millions of Americans by allowing food stamp funding to run out Saturday
The White House plans to allow tens of millions to go hungry as a form of political blackmail over the shutdown, through which Trump is seeking to seize control of the federal budget process from Congress and consolidate executive power.
•Tom Hall, Nick Barrickman, Pete Salmon
Orwell: 2+2=5–Raoul Peck’s film about George Orwell and contemporary events
What is one to make of the events referenced to in 2+2=5, many of them disturbing or even horrifying? And what is to be done about them?
•David Walsh
Libbey Glass strike in Toledo at crossroads
The nearly 10-week strike by 675 Libbey Glass workers in Toledo, Ohio, is rapidly approaching the longest in the company’s history—the 2.5-month walkout in 1974.
•Jerry White
Australia: Public meeting discusses how to fight Labor’s university restructuring
Educators and students joined the meeting to oppose the assault on university education and its transformation to meet the needs of the corporate elite and the war machine.
•Our reporters
Pentagon moving massive naval force towards Venezuela
The Trump administration is mobilizing the largest naval force in the Caribbean Sea since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, in open preparation for a massive and illegal war against Venezuela.
•Patrick Martin
Teamsters President O’Brien steps in to prepare sellout of Henry Ford Genesys Hospital nurses’ strike
Behind his hot air on the picket line, the real purpose of O'Brien's visit is to help shut the strike down.
•Kevin Reed
Fascist conspirator Steve Bannon tells The Economist “We have a plan” for a 3rd Trump term
Trump is implementing the goals of his failed January 6, 2021 putsch, enabled by the cowardice and complicity of the Democrats.
•Barry Grey
Momodou Taal and his lawyers address law students at Wayne State on Trump attacks on democratic rights
There was a lively discussion focused on the scale of the attacks on democratic rights by the Trump administration, and the role that students could play in fighting back.
•Esther Galen
Munition factory explosion in Russia kills at least 13
The disaster is the second major explosion at a munitions factory in Russia in less than a week.
•Clara Weiss
This week in history: October 27-November 2
Kosovo elections rebuff KLA; Ford backs NYC austerity; Nationalist uprising in Puerto Rico; Mikhail Frunze poisoned by Stalin
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Australia: Meeting on demolition of Melbourne public housing towers blocks SEP speaker
The meeting organisers—above all, the Greens and pseudo-left organisations—promoted the illusion that the demolition of the housing towers was simply a policy mistake that protests and pressure would compel the state Labor government to reverse.
•Eric Ludlow
VW halts production due to chip shortage resulting from Trump’s trade war measures
The global economic war waged by the US against the world, and particularly against China, is once again hitting Europe’s car industry hard. VW has announced production stoppages and is already negotiating with the Federal Employment Agency over short-time work starting in November.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
More interviews with workers in New Zealand’s mass strike
Healthcare workers and teachers, who were among 100,000 people on strike last Thursday, spoke about the impact of poverty and homelessness on schools and hospitals, and denounced the National Party-led government’s support for war and genocide.
•Our reporters
Trump escalates Canada-US trade war, as Ottawa prepares class-war budget
US President Donald Trump has canceled all trade war negotiations with Canada, and announced he is slapping a further 10 percent tariff on Canadian exports to the US.
•Keith Jones
“Soldier F” found not guilty as Bloody Sunday whitewash maintained
Soldier F, the only member of the British Army to stand trial for the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972, was found not guilty last week in an extraordinarily belated trial characterised as a result by weak evidence.
•Steve James
Kenya’s President Ruto forms alliance with former dictator Moi’s KANU party
Moi’s integration into Ruto’s government represents the fusion of two wings of the same corrupt bourgeoisie, the KANU dynasty that perfected one-party rule and the Ruto-Odinga clique now enforcing International Monetary Fund austerity through police repression.
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FBI arrests NBA coach and player in sprawling sports betting and gambling probe
The arrest and indictment of 34 individuals, including Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, by the FBI for insider sports betting and rigged high-stakes poker games, has revealed American society to be politically, socially and morally hanging by a thread.
•Kevin Reed
Australian care workers speak out against wage-cutting award “reform”
“Labor might appear a little bit more like they care about healthcare and whatnot but at the end of the day, their funding and backing is from the big corporations and banks, and that’s who they prioritise.”
•Our reporters
Australian Services Union rally organisers promote illusions in Labor
Hundreds of care workers protested around the country against attacks on their wages and conditions, but the ASU leadership ensured the rallies were stage-managed affairs aimed at isolating them from other sections of the working class.
•Richard Phillips
Europe’s defence roadmap 2030 lays the groundwork for dictatorship and global war
Amid the escalating US-NATO war with Russia, the European Council’s adoption of the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 marks a decisive turn toward a fully militarized Europe, laying the groundwork for dictatorship and global war.
•Johannes Stern
WSWS speaks with workers in New Zealand’s “mega strike”
“At the top level, they have all the money in the world. Why don’t they just stop taking money from low-income people? Take it somehow from the rich people.”
•Tom Peters
Union helps management block socialist student campaign at Australian university
At an outdoor strike rally, NTEU representatives partnered with the university’s security chief to ban members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality from campaigning at the event.
•John Harris
Chinese Communist Party expels 9 top generals
The purge took place as President Xi Jinping confronts accelerating US preparations for war with China, a slowing economy, high unemployment, especially among young people, and rising social tensions.
•Peter Symonds
Target, GM, Ford announce more layoffs, as total US job cuts for 2025 approaches 1 million
The total announced layoffs in 2025 is the fifth highest in the last 36 years, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas.
•Tom Hall
Following “No Kings” protests, organizers call on participants to subordinate themselves to the Democratic Party
In the first mass call following Saturday’s protest, which drew an estimated 7 million people, speakers called on participants to support their local Democratic Party politicians.
•Jacob Crosse
In response to Volkswagen’s “final offer” UAW schedules strike vote at Chattanooga plant
More than 4,000 VW workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee are still without a first contract one and a half years after voting to join the UAW.
•Shannon Jones
Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to shaky truce after week of clashes
Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to a shaky truce last weekend in talks mediated by Qatar and Turkey after more than a week of military clashes, in which scores and likely hundreds died.
•Dr. Zayar
Chinese leadership doubles down on high-tech development
The communiqué from the fourth plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee said China would seek to “upgrade traditional industries as well as foster, strengthen and expand emerging and future industries.”
•Nick Beams
Artists plan “Fall of Freedom” protests against Trump dictatorship: “Artists are a threat to American fascism”
"Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized."
•Sandy English
Anthony Boyd executed in Alabama by nitrogen gas despite ineffective counsel and doubt of his guilt
Boyd’s spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeff Hood, who was in the chamber with him, described the execution as “torture.”
•Kate Randall
Canada’s Carney government attacks basic democratic rights as it seeks deal with America’s would-be dictator Trump
Canada’s federal Liberal government, led by former central banker and Goldman Sachs executive Mark Carney, is pushing forward with two bills containing sweeping attacks on democratic rights and immigrants.
•James Clayton
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Strike by Delhi Municipal Corporation workers enters third week; Bangladesh: Non-government secondary school teachers remain on strike; Australian Catholic University staff strike for pay rise and job security; Rix’s Creek coal mine strike in New South Wales continues.
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UK government-backed persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan continues
A Tribunal agreed with the General Medical Council to continue investigations into Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan’s entirely legitimate social media activity.
•Robert Stevens
CWU seeks to shore up rotten pact with Kretinsky at Royal Mail
The October 21 CWU update to members on Royal Mail/EP Group negotiations explodes the fraud of “mutual interests” between postal workers and EP Group the union has promoted.
•Tony Robson
Report reveals Taiwanese companies’ complicity in Gaza genocide
The Taiwanese semiconductor industry functions essentially as a component of US imperialism’s military industrial complex and its campaign of military aggression.
•Shih-Yu Chou
Dmitry Barinov’s “Zinoviev, Trotsky, University”: An important contribution to the history of the Left Opposition
Barinov has produced the most extensive account yet of the work of the Opposition in Leningrad, its structure, leading figures and activities among students and the working class.
•Clara Weiss
The implications of the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests for the European working class
Millions across Europe and internationally watched on October 18 as 7 million American youth, workers, professionals and retirees joined nationwide “No Kings” protests.
•Alex Lantier
How the governing Christian Democrats pave the way for the far-right Alternative for Germany
Advocates of direct cooperation with the AfD are now so strong that the CDU's executive committee met for a two-day retreat last weekend to discuss how to deal with the right-wing extremists in the future.
•Peter Schwarz
Ukraine faces financial crisis as winter approaches
Despite billions wasted and hundreds of thousands already killed in the proxy war with Russia, Ukraine and its EU backers remain committed to war.
•Jason Melanovski
New coronavirus wave: “Frankenstein” variant spreading rapidly
Largely ignored by governments and trade unions, the SARS-CoV-2 XFG variant has, in a short time, become the dominant variant worldwide.
•Kevin Jordan, Marianne Arens
Trump, Hegseth step up military murders in Latin America
As US missiles killed five more fishermen off the coast of Colombia, the gangster-president boasted, “We’re going to kill them, you know, they’re going to be like dead, OK?”
•Patrick Martin
Class divide in US life expectancy reaches 9 years for elderly
New data on a widening nine-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor retirees demonstrates the devastating impacts of the US' profit-driven healthcare system.
•Benjamin Mateus
Mamdani placates billionaires with plan to retain NYPD chief
At the last mayoral debate before the November election, the DSA candidate for mayor of New York pledged to keep billionaire heiress Jessica Tisch in charge of the city’s massive police force.
•Daniel de Vries
500,000 Amazon jobs on chopping block due to automation in next few years
The move marks an accelerating jobs bloodbath, with rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence being weaponized to eliminate entire sections of the workforce.
•Tom Hall
More than 100,000 join New Zealand’s biggest strike in more than 40 years
The mass strike by teachers, nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers is part of an international upsurge of the working class against brutal austerity, pay cuts and imperialist war.
•Tom Peters
Netherlands: Culture or cannons? The Van Gogh Museum’s survival at stake
The future of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum—home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh—now hangs precariously in the balance. The Dutch government’s plans to slash annual funding for arts and culture threaten one of humanity’s most vital cultural institutions.
•Daniel Woreck
Australian university union backs Labor’s education restructuring
As two developments underscore, the NTEU has opposed any unified action by university staff and students against the restructuring and job destruction across the country.
•A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member
In Australian tour, US journalist Chris Hedges denounces media complicity in Gaza genocide
The corporate media’s coverage, Hedges said, “legitimises mass slaughter. It refuses to hold Israel to account. It betrays Palestinian journalists, those reporting and being killed in Gaza.”
•Martin Scott
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Refuse workers in Italy walk out in national action over pay and conditions; protests continue across Iran over wages, pensions and conditions; demonstrations in Morocco against poverty and inequality, while in Tunisia police arrest environmental protesters
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Palestinians released by Israel suffered mistreatment, abuse and torture
The 1,726 detainees returned to Gaza appeared emaciated, bruised and scarred from tight cuffing, wearing grey prison uniforms, with shaven heads and overgrown beards and their faces making plain the suffering they had endured.
•Jean Shaoul
Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna defend endorsement of Maine Democrat Graham Platner after Nazi tattoo revealed
Platner, a US veteran and mercenary, has continued to receive support from “progressive” Democrats even after it was revealed he had a Totenkopf, the favored symbol of Hitler’s SS, on his chest for nearly two decades.
•Jacob Crosse
Trump demanding $230 million from Justice Department over past investigations
In a mafia-style shakedown, President Donald Trump is demanding that his hand-picked Justice Department appointees approve some $230 million, paid for by taxpayers, in compensation for investigations conducted during and after his first term in office.
•Barry Grey
Chancellor Merz plans to establish the “Tank Republic of Germany”
By building “Europe’s strongest conventional army” and potentially arming Germany with nuclear weapons, Chancellor Merz announced a new stage in war preparations. Industry is simultaneously being restructured for a war economy.
•Johannes Stern
Peru’s new president brutally represses mass protest, leaving one dead and 100 wounded
The repression sends a message to imperialism and the multinationals that the new government will guarantee the profits extracted from the exploitation of Peruvian workers.
•Armando Cruz
Gaza “peace” deal exposed as cover for genocide and ethnic cleansing
The "peace" agreement has sanctified the permanent Israeli occupation and annexation of a large portion of Gaza, coupled with daily mass killing and the deliberate starvation of the population.
•Andre Damon
The Frankfurt Book Fair—in the service of the war against Russia
In his acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, historian Karl Schlögel declared military victory over Russia to be the decisive question for Europe’s destiny.
•Marianne Arens
Workers threatened with hunger as Trump’s class war shutdown continues
Federal food stamps funding is a few days from being exhausted, while thousands of federal employees lined up Tuesday outside of a DC-area food bank.
•Tom Hall
Eddington: Lost in the desert
A filmmaker seeking to dramatize the explosive political climate in 2020 would be faced with significant artistic challenges, but also major opportunities.
•Carlos Delgado
California’s National Guard “humanitarian mission”: Newsom’s deployment to food banks marks a new stage in the militarization of social life
California’s deployment of the National Guard to food banks exposes the deepening social crisis and the ruling class’s turn toward militarization under the guise of humanitarian aid.
•Marc Wells
Trump administration escalates ICE raids following “No Kings” protests
Since the massive No Kings protests across the US on October 18, the Trump administration has stepped up attacks on democratic rights with violent ICE raids on immigrants in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and southern Idaho, and the mobilization of National Guard troops to suppress public opposition.
•Kevin Reed
Unifor pushes nationalist poison as Stellantis and GM cut Canadian auto jobs
Stellantis’ decision to shift Jeep production from Brampton to the US and GM’s shutdown of its CAMI plant in Ingersoll expose the disastrous impact of Trump’s tariffs and Unifor’s nationalist, pro-corporate alliance with the Carney government.
•Carl Bronski
The publication of “How the GPU Murdered Trotsky” and the initial Findings of Security and the Fourth International - Part 1
In 1975, the ICFI launched the Security and the Fourth International investigation, systematically exposing decades of GPU infiltration and the SWP cover-up around Trotsky’s assassination, and reaffirming orthodox Trotskyism.
•Andre Damon
New far-right prime minister installed in Japan
The new Japanese government marks a turning point in the ruling class’s agenda to reassert its imperialist interests militarily at the expense of the working class.
•Ben McGrath
Australian Labor government appeases financial elite on superannuation tax
Labor’s retreat followed months of intensive agitation in ruling-class circles and the establishment media against any taxation on the massively expanding wealth of the rich.
•Mike Head
An open letter to supporters of Corbyn’s Your Party
Hundreds of thousands of workers and young people recognise the need for a mass socialist party to oppose genocide, war and dictatorship. Your Party is not that party.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
Oppose persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan!
The arrest escalates the two-year campaign against Dr. Aladwan, a National Health Service doctor for seven years with an impeccable record--with her persecution organised by the highest levels of the state, including by Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
•NHS FightBack
New Zealand: Workers need a socialist perspective to fight pay cuts, austerity and war
While Thursday’s strike will be a powerful demonstration of the potential power that workers have, a single day’s strike will do nothing to stop the worsening onslaught on basic social rights.
•Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)
Trump builds himself a Versailles on the Potomac
The seat of the American presidency, the White House, is being physically transformed into the architectural embodiment of oligarchic rule.
•Patrick Martin
The “No Kings” demonstrations and the political strategy to fight Trump’s fascist conspiracy
This report was delivered by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to a public meeting held in Detroit after the “No Kings” rallies on October 18, 2025.
•Joseph Kishore
Strike by Boeing defense workers continues into third month, as IAM and management resume mediated talks
The strike of 3,200 machinists comes as the US government is demanding defense contractors rapidly expand production for war with China.
•Bryan Dyne
Sri Lankan president promises meagre wage rises for estate workers amid growing unrest
Tamil-speaking plantation workers can only win decent wages, livable housing and access to proper education and health, along with other social rights by fighting the Dissanayake government’s IMF-dictated social attacks.
•Pani Wijesiriwardena
Australian care workers rally nationally against attack on pay and conditions
The big-business Australian Industry Group is attempting to intimidate planned protests by social, community, home care and disability service workers with threats of fines and imprisonment.
•Richard Phillips
Australia: Halt the demolition of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers!
Labor’s plan to bulldoze public housing is not a matter of mistaken decisions, as the Greens and pseudo-left claim. It is an expression of the all-out assault on the social position of the entire working class amid a deepening global crisis of capitalism.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead Office of Special Counsel, withdraws after leak of fascist texts
Ingrassia is just the latest Republican operative to be outed as a Nazi.
•Jacob Crosse
At “No Kings” rally in Washington, Bernie Sanders covers for the Democrats and capitalism
When the ruling class needs someone to use radical-sounding phrases to divert workers and youth away from a struggle against capitalism and into the dead-end of the two-party system and electoral politics, Bernie, the consummate demagogue, is their man.
•Barry Grey
“US imperialism is now coming home to roost”: Interviews from the “No Kings” demonstrations
On October 18, World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to protesters at No Kings rallies across the United States. Follow the WSWS and share our videos on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X and Youtube.
•Our Reporters
Everett, Massachusetts: Lawyers group calls for state probe into police role in ICE detention of 13-year-old
Lawyers for Civil Rights is calling for a state investigation after police detained 13-year-old Arthur Berto, who was then abducted by ICE and transferred 500 miles away to a detention center in Virginia.
•Mike Ingram
Australian Labor PM fawns on fascist Trump at the White House
Trump and Albanese went out of their way to praise each other, while signing a critical minerals deal that is crucial for the accelerating US preparations for war against China.
•Mike Head
Strike by 51,000 Alberta educators enters 3rd week as Smith government threatens back-to-work legislation
The walkout by Alberta educators is part of a growing wave of working class struggles across Canada.
•Steven Fields
As push for Quebec independence referendum grows, workers in Canada must unite their struggles and oppose both the ruling-class separatist and federalist camps
Quebec’s separation would erect a new state barrier to further divide Quebec workers from their class brothers and sisters in the rest of Canada and around the world. In rejecting this trap, the working class must make no concessions to the federalist forces that oppose Quebec independence from a Canadian nationalist standpoint that is no less reactionary.
•Hugo Maltais
The Battleship Potemkin: A century since the making of Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece
One of the most direct and obvious expressions of the revolution's impact and influence is Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s epic silent film.
•Joanne Laurier
The north of Cyprus, a strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean, holds presidential elections
The results of the elections held in Northern Cyprus amid regional power struggles and imperialist domination plans will certainly not bring any solution to the social and political issues facing the workers of Cyprus and the region.
•Hakan Özal
Explosion at factory in Bashkiria, Russia kills 3 workers
The factory explosion gives insight not only into the industrial slaughter in Russia but also into the social relations prevailing in the country amid the war in Ukraine.
•Clara Weiss
After the “No Kings” protests: What Next?
The mass protests mark the beginning of a powerful movement against the Trump regime, but without a clear political perspective and understanding of the broader situation, this immense popular opposition risks being dissipated.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Twin industrial catastrophes in Tennessee, US and Dhaka, Bangladesh expose global capitalism’s war on workers
Though separated by 8,200 miles, the October 10 explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems (AES) munitions plant and the October 14 garment factory fire in Bangladesh share the same root cause: the subordination of human life to corporate profit.
•Jerry White
Amid “No Kings” protests, the Trump administration flexes military muscle to intimidate opposition
A live-fire military display overseen by Vice President JD Vance marks a new stage in the Trump administration’s preparations for domestic repression and dictatorship.
•Marc Wells
Trump adds Colombia to Latin America target list
The US president cut off aid to the longtime military ally and imposed new tariffs, denouncing Colombian President Gustavo Petro as an illegitimate narco leader.
•Patrick Martin
Australian protests against fascism and the far-right
“There are so many similarities between Trump and Hitler and their leadership. And because the US is so powerful, I feel like Australia is following suit.”
•Our reporters
Ukraine: From sporadic resistance to war to the first hotbeds of collective struggle
Resistance to forced mobilization in Ukraine is increasingly taking on social and collective forms.
•Ukrainian journalists
First Brands collapse a symptom of spreading financial rot
The company’s demise, preceded by the failure of auto financing company Tricolor, has brought warnings that there could be more shocks in the pipeline.
•Nick Beams
Nazism, big business and the working class: Historical experience and political lessons
This webinar, chaired by David North, brings together historians David Abraham, Jacques Pauwels, and Mario Kessler to examine how German big business and state institutions enabled Hitler's rise, while drawing the urgent contemporary lessons for building an opposition to fascism.
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
Young adults and workers marched on the national legislature in Peru, while the British Columbia General Employees Union agreed to non-binding arbitration as a province-wide strike continues.
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New Zealand government denounces looming strike by 110,000 workers for being pro-Palestine
The right-wing government is deeply concerned about widespread opposition to the Gaza genocide as well as its assault on living standards and public services.
•Tom Peters
Life of a Showgirl: Taylor Swift’s latest self-portrait
The new album confirms Swift’s indifference to virtually anything outside her bubble of fame, wealth and romance.
•Erik Schreiber
Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara leads Chile’s presidential polls
The CP’s Jara heads a right-wing alliance that will deepen the program of pro-market fiscal austerity and police state authoritarianism that has characterized the government of Gabriel Boric.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Labour council ramps up attacks on Birmingham bin workers
The Birmingham strike is a test bed for the Starmer government’s austerity agenda against the entire working class. It has been systematically isolated by Unite officials led by Sharon Graham.
•Tony Robson
More than 2,000 striking Turkish TPI workers laid off
The mass layoffs of TPI Composite workers are an example of the working class being made to pay the full price of the economic crisis and are part of a global assault on jobs and living conditions.
•Hasan Yıldırım
Starmer government demands Birmingham police reverse ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv Zionist hooligans attending Aston Villa match
Attempts to reverse a decision that could lead to large-scale disorder and see lives threatened in a major British city are the latest manifestation of Labour’s support for genocide and onslaught on the democratic rights of its opponents.
•Robert Stevens
How the GPU Murdered Trotsky
This volume presents the documents published during the first year of the Security and the Fourth International investigation, launched by the ICFI in May 1975.
•International Committee of the Fourth International
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