Israel announces official visit to South Pacific
The provocative visit to the Pacific by a high-level Israeli delegation is in defiance of widespread pro-Palestine sentiment in the region.
•John Braddock
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Thai court removes prime minister from office
Paetongtarn’s ousting is an anti-democratic judicial coup carried out by the conservative political establishment connected to the military and monarchy.
•Ben McGrath
European powers arm Ukraine for missile strikes deep into Russia
Two weeks after the US-Russia summit in Alaska, talk of a diplomatic settlement is collapsing as the warring governments head eyes closed towards a direct Russia-Europe war.
•Alex Lantier
German police launch brutal crackdown on peace demonstration in Cologne
In Cologne on Saturday, police surrounded participants in a peace demonstration, mostly teenagers and young people, for almost 11 hours.
•our reporters
The ongoing threat of new viral pathogens: An interview with Peter Daszak on a new coronavirus study
Dr. Peter Daszak and colleagues recently published a study on coronaviruses on pig farms in China and Southeast Asia and the threat posed by potential zoonotic spillover events into dense human populations. Daszak spoke with the World Socialist Web Site to review this work and discuss the crisis erupting within the scientific community.
•Benjamin Mateus
White House plots total ethnic cleansing of Gaza
On Sunday, the Washington Post published a 38-page plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, drawn up with the collusion of the Boston Consulting Group and the staff of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and discussed at the White House.
•Andre Damon
Oppose Trump administration’s witch-hunt against Chinese scientists at University of Michigan
The attack on Chengxuan Han and Yunqing Jian is intimately linked to the Trump administration’s broader war on students, immigrants and the working class.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Labor Day 2025: No to dictatorship! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s coup!
This Labor Day one question dominates above all others: How will the transformation of the United States into a military-police dictatorship be stopped?
•Socialist Equality Party (US), International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
California’s Democratic governor leads the charge in expanding state repression
Despite boasting about “falling crime rates” across California, Newsom is doubling down on Trump-style “law-and-order” policies.
•Marc Wells
This week in history: September 1-7
Philadelphia teachers vote to strike; Egypt, Israel agreement over Sinai; Fighting rages around Pusan, South Korea; Britain and Turkey vie for control of Mosul
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Washington masses warships near Venezuela as US officials warn of attack
The potential for a military operation against Venezuela long demanded by Trump and his circle of fascist advisers cannot be ruled out.
•Andrea Lobo
European powers to impose sanctions on Iran as part of Middle East war drive
Sanctions would further devastate Iran’s economy which is plagued by hyperinflation, a plunging currency and economic recession, exacerbated by the recent US/Israeli bombardment.
•Jean Shaoul
“No fault evictions” soar under UK Labour government stuffed with landlords
Labour was elected on the manifesto pledge: “We will immediately abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, prevent private renters being exploited and discriminated against, empower them to challenge unreasonable rent increases.”
•Dennis Moore
South Korean president holds first summit with Trump
The main purpose of the meeting was to provide Lee an opportunity to assure Trump that his three-month-old administration would continue to fully back Washington’s war plans against China.
•Ben McGrath
A week of protests in Indonesia fuelled by glaring social inequality
Protests erupted on Monday after it was announced that parliamentarians would be given an exorbitant monthly accommodation allowance, highlighting the country’s worsening social inequality.
•Peter Symonds
Alleged ambush of police by “sovereign citizen” highlights danger of Australian far right
The alleged perpetrator was heavily involved in an anti-lockdown movement that was actively promoted by powerful sections of the corporate and political establishment.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australian government moves to axe legal rights for mass deportations to Nauru
The Albanese Labor government’s measures could see around 350 former detainees quickly rounded up for a new version of indefinite detention—first inside Australian detention facilities and then on the remote island of Nauru.
•Mike Head
1,400 school workers strike Evergreen Public Schools in Washington state
The workers—paraeducators, bus drivers, custodians, mechanics and food service staff—among the lowest-paid in the school workforce—voted by 92 percent to strike after five months of negotiations produced no agreement.
•David Fitzgerald
Prepare a general strike, bring down Macron, halt the war escalation in Europe!
By calling a vote of confidence on his austerity budget that he is set to lose, French Prime Minister François Bayrou has blown the lid off the political crisis in France and across Europe.
•Parti de l’égalité socialiste (France)
Global Sumud Flotilla to set sail from European and Tunisian ports against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
On Sunday, over 50 ships carrying humanitarian aid and activists from 44 countries are set to depart from Barcelona, Genoa, Sicily, Greece, and other Mediterranean ports.
•Alejandro López
3 Texas workers killed by toxic gas at sewer plant
Two of the workers were killed after they heroically sought to save their co-worker, and all three died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
•Chase Lawrence
Philadelphia teachers union rams through contract in sham vote
Even by the standards of the American trade union bureaucracy, the maneuvers to ram through this contract are noteworthy for their brazenness and crudeness
•Tom Hall
Republicans, fascists, Musk exploit Minneapolis school massacre to escalate anti-trans campaign
From the world’s richest neo-Nazi Elon Musk to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the fascists on X, far-right sections of the ruling class and their lackeys are whipping up a pogrom-like atmosphere against transgender persons following the shooting.
•Jacob Crosse
Israel moves into the ground phase of the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza City
The fascist Israeli plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians out of Gaza City has moved into a new phase of military operations with the area declared a “dangerous combat zone” and ground forces now operating on the outskirts of the city.
•Kevin Reed
20 years since Hurricane Katrina
The “rebuilding” program launched after Katrina accelerated the nationwide social counterrevolution that had been underway for decades.
•Barry Grey
Trump administration launches bigoted assault on education and democratic rights in Northern Virginia
Trump’s Department of Education has targeted Northern Virginia schools over pro-LGBTQ policies, threatening funding cuts.
•Noah Ibrahim
Kennedy’s COVID vaccine restrictions and CDC purge endanger millions amid new pandemic wave
The sweeping new COVID vaccine restrictions threaten access to lifesaving shots as infections surge nationwide.
•Benjamin Mateus
100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
•Sandy English
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Bangladesh: Momo Fashion garment workers protest factory closure; Sri Lankan public transport workers threaten strike over joint transport initiative; South Australian public sector health workers walk out again over low pay; New Zealand media workers strike.
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Carney’s European tour deepens Canada’s war drive and sets the stage for austerity at home
Canada’s Liberal government—promoted by the social democratic NDP and trade unions as a “progressive” alternative to the Conservatives—is eviscerating public services and worker rights to pay for rearmament and war.
•Niles Niemuth
CWU rams through pro-company agreements at Royal Mail off historic low voter turnout
Just 40.3 percent of members submitted a ballot return--a vote of no-confidence in the entire Communication Workers Union bureaucracy.
•Laura Tiernan
UK Court of Appeal overturns High Court Epping hotel asylum seeker ban
Since July far-right forces--including openly neo-Nazi groups and individuals--have led weekly protests outside the Bell Hotel demanding the 138 asylum seekers it houses be kicked out.
•Robert Stevens
How Australia’s pseudo-left Socialist Alternative covers for the union bureaucracy
The conference session was aimed at promoting the conception that no alternative exists or can be built to the existing unions and their leaderships.
•Martin Scott
Australian defence minister visits Washington to desperately seek Trump-Albanese meeting
Only after Marles’ return was it revealed that his trip to Washington was a desperate attempt to secure a meeting between Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Trump.
•Oscar Grenfell
Sri Lanka: SEP holds online public meeting on postal workers’ strike
Speakers placed the struggle of postal workers within the broader crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism and the need for workers to form independent action committees to fight the government’s IMF-dictated measures.
•Our reporters
Kiev attack and NATO escalation threaten direct war between Russia and Europe
The logic of the war is leading directly toward a military clash between Russia and Europe threatening the lives of millions and the destruction of the entire continent. Far from backing down in the wake of Russia’s attacks, European governments seized on them to issue new threats and accelerate the war drive.
•Johannes Stern
1,400 University of Minnesota workers ready to strike as Teamsters bureaucracy holds them back
1,400 University of Minnesota custodians, cooks, maintenance, and dorm workers prepared for the school’s first system-wide strike in nearly fifty years, only to be blocked by Teamsters Local 320 leadership.
•Matt Rigel
Boeing strike at the crossroads: IAM officials appeal for Trump intervention while starving workers out on the picket line
Workers should take the occupations of Los Angeles and Washington D.C. as dire warnings that not just cities, but also individual factories, can and will be placed under military rule if needed to ensure US military violence abroad can continue.
•Bryan Dyne
GE Aerospace workers walk out as defense industry strikes spread
If the UAW bureaucracy had to call the strike it was only because Fain & Co. knew they would not be able to impose another sellout on workers fed up with decades of union-backed givebacks.
•Jerry White
The growing wave of workplace deaths in Italy and the need to build Rank-and-File Committees
The surge in fatal workplace accidents in Italy exposes the alliance between the state, corporations and union bureaucracy, highlighting the urgent need for rank-and-file committees and an international struggle against capitalist exploitation.
•Marc Wells
New Zealand intelligence report accuses China of “foreign interference”
The “Security Threat Environment” report is aimed at justifying New Zealand’s alignment with the US against China, along with increased domestic surveillance and censorship.
•Tom Peters
Former Fed chair warns Trump’s sacking of Fed governor “profoundly dangerous” for US credibility
Former Fed chief Janet Yellen has warned of the implications for US monetary policy both at home and abroad of Trump’s actions.
•Nick Beams
Kennedy’s firing of CDC director: A coup against science and public health
The Trump administration’s attacks on science and public health are aimed at the international working class, which bears the brunt of disease, disability, and early death when protective measures are eliminated.
•Evan Blake
Guards riot, beat immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp in Florida Everglades
In frantic phone calls, immigrants reported that guards deployed tear gas and assaulted them.
•Jacob Crosse
US rail companies refuse to adopt improved safety policies, prompting FRA to dissolve safety working group formed after East Palestine disaster
The Federal Railroad Administration formed the working group to discuss new safety policies in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Two years later it dissolved the group due to lack of progress.
•Alex Findijs
German cabinet agrees to new Military Service Law and installs National War Council
The measures serve to massively increase the size of Germany’s Armed Forces and secure the cannon fodder for the coming wars of German imperialism.
•Johannes Stern
The economic strategy of Leon Trotsky
This is the first part of the lecture “Internationalist Socialism vs. Nationalist Reformism” delivered by Clara Weiss, Chris Marsden and Peter Symonds to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
•Clara Weiss
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
DPD delivery workers in Hamburg, Germany on strike against attack on work conditions; Iraqi Halliburton workers protest contract termination; in Kenya, healthcare workers in Kiambu county continue strike over 90 days and nurses walk out in Busia and Trans Nzoia county hospitals, over pay and cash-starved health system
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“Plastics crisis” endangers humanity and all aspects of the environment, concludes Lancet study
The scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
•Simon Whelan
Qantas fined $90 million over illegal sacking of 1,800 workers
At least $50 million will be paid directly to the Transport Workers Union, which unsurprisingly hailed the decision as a massive victory.
•Martin Scott
Australian pseudo-left conference: Protest politics and reformist electoral fronts to trap anti-capitalist sentiment
Socialist Alternative’s Sydney conference promoted the fraud of protest politics, that have manifestly failed to halt the Gaza genocide, and sought to justify its creation of reformist electoral fronts.
•Oscar Grenfell
Democratic National Committee silent on Trump’s military takeover of Washington and plans for troops to US cities
On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a further tightening of the Trump administration’s grip on the nation’s capital with his department’s takeover of management of Union Station.
•Barry Grey
The 1619 Project revisited: A retrospective evaluation in light of Trump’s assault on democracy
It is now clear that the main consequence of the 1619 Project’s attack on the American Revolution and Civil War was to disarm the population in the face of the fascist threat.
•Tom Mackaman, David North
Tariffs will pay for tax cuts for the wealthy
The spike in the wholesale price index “shows inflation is coursing through the economy.”
•Nick Beams
Genoa dockworkers confront Bahri Logistics over weapons shipments amid Middle East wars
Italian dockworkers’ struggle against Saudi shipping giant Bahri shows how the working class can fight genocide and war and raises important political issues facing workers internationally.
•Marc Wells
Sri Lankan union leaders shut down postal strike
The unions caved in to government threats without any of the strike’s 19 demands—including unpaid overtime benefits, job security, workplace conditions, and the imposition of fingerprint machines—being met.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Death toll from Gaza mass starvation hits 313
Ten Palestinians have died of starvation or malnutrition over the past 24 hours due to the deliberate famine created by Israel in Gaza, bringing the death toll from the famine to 313, including 119 children.
•Andre Damon
Trump’s 50% tariffs on India take force
The tariffs threaten to badly destabilize an Indian economy that already confronts slowing growth and is characterized by low private investment and mass unemployment and underemployment.
•Keith Jones
A coup against science: Kennedy tries to push out CDC director, four other public health officials resign
In the starkest expression of his war against science and public health, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demanded the resignation of the director of the Centers for Disease Control, career scientist Susan Monarez, triggering the resignation in protest by four other high-level public health officials.
•Benjamin Mateus
What teachers need to know about the sellout contract in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers’ tentative contract announces minimal raises, token parental leave, harsher attendance rules and rising healthcare costs for new employees in a bid to oppose any struggle among teachers.
•Nick Barrickman
Oklahoma to impose “America First” loyalty test for teachers from New York and California
The 50-question multiple-choice test will screen for radical leftist ideology, gender ideology, and American exceptionalism.
•Jane Wise
2 children killed and 17 wounded in Minneapolis Catholic school mass shooting
A mass shooting by 23-year-old Robin Westman at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis left two children dead and 17 others injured.
•Kevin Reed
Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ response to Air Canada flight attendants’ defiance of government strikebreaking: silence
Many postal workers have been looking at what the flight attendants did and asking themselves, “Why didn’t we defy the government like the flight attendants?” This question is entirely legitimate, but it’s important to recognize that the flight attendants’ courageous defiance was not enough to prevent their union leaders from stabbing them in the back.
•Daniel Berkley
Continents are drying at an accelerating rate, severely impacting the supply of fresh water
The inability of the moribund capitalist system to effectively address climate change and all its myriad devastating consequences poses an existential crisis for humanity.
•Philip Guelpa
Japanese American National Museum rally reveals rising opposition to Trump’s drive toward dictatorship
Growing protests against immigrant detention, suppression of history and glorification of state violence reflect a developing movement of workers and youth determined to oppose Trump’s authoritarian measures and defend democratic and social rights.
•Kimie Saito, Marc Wells
Terence Stamp (1938-2025): A supremely intelligent actor
Stamp identified himself as part of “the first wave of the educated, real, working class.”
•Paul Bond
Chancellor Merz declares Germany “can no longer afford the welfare state”
What remains of the hard-won social achievements of the past are to be thrown to the profit-hungry wolves of the stock markets and channelled into rearmament.
•Peter Schwarz
Zarah Sultana’s bid for leadership of Britain’s new left party: “Corbynism capitulated”
As set out in her interview with NLR, Sultana’s “vision” for the party is a variant of the reformist half-measures championed by Corbyn and her only proposal to prevent another political rout is to put the right people (such as herself) in place to ensure “institutional resilience”.
•Laura Tiernan
Australia: IYSSE at Western Sydney University presents a socialist perspective to fight Gaza genocide
The IYSSE provided a powerful counter to the platform of appeals to the Labor government and university management outlined by the pseudo-left organisers of the Special General Meeting.
•Our reporters
Australian government provocatively accuses Iran of antisemitic attacks
Prime Minister Albanese announced unprecedented measures, including the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador, based on unsubstantiated and implausible accusations.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australian higher education providers exploit childcare staffing crisis
While recent media headlines, and police and government reactions, have focused on allegations of sexual abuse, the staffing crisis in childcare is long standing and points to deep systematic problems.
•Carolyn Kennett
The corporate-financial interests behind Trump’s executive orders to deploy the National Guard in US cities
Trump’s program speaks for a ruling class determined to reverse the entire course of modern American history, tearing up every social advance won through struggle since the Civil War.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
With Finance Minister's Ukraine visit, Germany escalates war with Russia and austerity at home
With the visit of German Finance Minister, Social Democrat leader, and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil to Kiev earlier this week, the German government has finally moved to the forefront of the imperialist war offensive in Eastern Europe.
•Johannes Stern
France’s Bayrou government set to fall in September vote, as strikes against austerity loom
The Bayrou government’s fall would set into motion an explosive crisis that can only be resolved on a progressive basis by building a revolutionary movement in the working class.
•Alex Lantier
Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
•Clara Weiss
GE Aerospace workers in Ohio and Kentucky face midnight strike deadline
Coming on top of the current month-long strike by 3,200 workers at Boeing jet fighter plants in Missouri and Illinois, a strike by GE Aerospace workers would substantially impact the US war machine.
•Jerry White
With the Lisa Cook sacking Trump steps up drive to take over Federal Reserve
Trump’s moves have been accompanied by warnings from financial circles that loss of Fed independence will have major consequences for the US financial stability and the position of the dollar.
•Nick Beams
Contract expires for over 60,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers at the end of September
Healthcare workers confront not only Kaiser Permanente, but a treacherous union bureaucracy enmeshed with management through corporatist schemes like the “Labor Management Partnership.”
•David Levine
Plant explosion in Roseland, Louisiana threatens local air and water quality
Despite efforts in using water containment booms to halt the spillage of oil, residents some 30 miles south of the Tangipahoa River, which runs alongside the explosion site, have reported seeing oil on the surface of the river.
•J. L’Heureau
Volkswagen: Opposition to layoffs and cuts is growing
Opposition among Volkswagen employees against the sweeping cuts to jobs and wages worked out with the help of the IG Metall union is growing. Union officials are warning: “The mood is turning.”
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Minority Leader Jeffries refuses to endorse NY mayoral candidate Mamdani amid deepening Democratic Party crisis
The refusal to date of top national and state elected Democrats to endorse the party’s candidate in the country’s largest city, more than two months after the primary, is extraordinary. It is an expression of a deep crisis pervading the Democratic Party.
•Sandy English
ICE arrests at Southern California schools terrorize students and parents at start of school year
ICE has arrested parents and students in at least ten documented cases, an escalation of repression that is being deployed against the entire working class.
•Ivan Cardenas, Luis Marquez, Renae Cassimeda
The gerrymandering wars and the breakdown of American democracy
The gerrymandering tit-for-tat between Democrats and Republicans signals the decomposition of American democracy, as both parties dismantle democratic norms, leaving the future of the 2026 elections in doubt.
•Marc Wells
Separatist Parti Quebecois wins third by-election in a row as crisis of right-wing CAQ government deepens
With the complicity of the pseudo-left Québec Solidaire, the unions are working to revive the Parti Québécois, a chauvinist big business party, long discredited due to its implementation of capitalist austerity and antistrike laws.
•Laurent Lafrance, Louis Girard
Reform UK leader Farage unveils mass migrant deportations plan
Reform UK can only be considered as a potential government due to the noxious atmosphere created over decades of Labour and Conservatives governments, competing as to which was more right-wing with their scapegoating of immigrants and asylum seekers playing a leading role
•Robert Stevens
Festival censorship of Mary Wallopers over Gaza protest backfires
Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of “Free Palestine,” festival staff cut the band’s sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting “Let them play.”
•Jordan Hammond
Former Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe arrested
The arrest of Wickremesinghe took place amid an intensifying political crisis confronting the JVP/NPP government, fuelled by emerging working-class struggles.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Australian workers and youth denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza at mass protests
“I’m here today because it’s powerful to be here. But I know the protests are not working. In my opinion we need to take concrete actions.”
•Our reporters
Denver teachers vote on new contract as opposition mounts to union concessions
The agreement is, in fact, only the latest in a years-long series of drastic cuts and austerity to public schools in the Denver area and across Colorado.
•Dan Conway
Clairton workers expose conditions behind fatal blast as USW officials defend US Steel
Steelworkers continue to provide information to the WSWS about the potential causes of the August 11 explosion, which killed two workers and injured 10.
•Samuel Davidson
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Protests and strikes took place across Argentina last weekm while GE workers in Evendale, Ohio and Erlanger, Kentucky face an August 27 contract expiration.
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Australia: Western Sydney University announces deep job cuts after deal with unions
The WSU vice-chancellor made the announcement soon after reaching an agreement with the campus trade unions to help impose the cuts via “organisational change proposals” in union-management enterprise bargaining agreements.
•WSU Rank-and-File Committee member
Philadelphia teachers union announces tentative agreement with no details a week before contract expires for 14,000 educators
The deal was announced to preempt a strike, which 94 percent of teachers voted for.
•Nick Barrickman
Famine and mass murder in Gaza: A crime of Zionism and world imperialism
On Monday, the Israeli military carried out two airstrikes, one after another, on Nasser Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip, killing over 20 people.
•Andre Damon
Trump issues executive order to prepare military intervention in multiple US cities
The order instructs the Pentagon to create a standing force of National Guard troops that could intervene quickly anywhere in the United States.
•Patrick Martin
Trump administration re-imprisons Abrego García, initiates plans to deport him to Uganda
After being illegally deported and abused in El Salvador, Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García is facing the Trump administration's ongoing public torture.
•Jacob Crosse
France summons US Ambassador Kushner over claim its call for Palestinian state is antisemitic
Kushner’s comment highlights how falsely equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism criminalizes any and all statements of sympathy for Palestinian victims of the Gaza genocide.
•Alex Lantier
Germany’s warmongering Greens demand more weapons for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians
The latest comments by Federal Parliament Vice President Omid Nouripour (Greens) once again make clear that the Greens are among the most aggressive warmongers in German politics.
•Johannes Stern
Artificial Intelligence in the entertainment industry and the necessary socialist response
A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence.
•Hong Jian, David Walsh
Federal court strikes down Texas “Ten Commandments” law
The new Texas law would have required that every public school classroom display a large poster of the commandments brought down by Moses from Mt. Sinai, according to the Bible.
•Eddie Haywood
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