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UK Labour government bars Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker from entering the country

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:28:36 GMT

The bans stemmed from demands from right-wing Labourites and Zionists, who deployed the now standard lie conflating opposition to the fascistic Israeli government with antisemitism and terrorism.

The reality of US-Israel relations—Part 3

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:19:23 GMT

Reducing the origins of the war to the manoeuvres of the Israel lobby or the decisions of Israel’s government sidelines the historical, geopolitical, socio‑economic and class dynamics that have shaped the conflict.

The reality of US-Israel relations—Part 2

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:26 GMT

The reality of US-Israel relations—Part 1

Sun, 31 May 2026 17:11:02 GMT

Greece deepens role as Washington's Eastern Mediterranean bulwark

Thu, 28 May 2026 17:03:30 GMT

Greece’s integration into US imperialism’s war drive is the culmination of the country’s decades-long status as a client state for Washington.

Israel escalates rampage in Lebanon

Wed, 27 May 2026 04:07:38 GMT

Israeli forces struck Lebanon with more than 120 air raids on Tuesday, the sharpest single-day escalation since Israel resumed its bombing of the country in early March. The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 40 wounded in attacks across the south and the Bekaa Valley.

Anger in Australia over brutal treatment of Gaza flotilla activists

Sat, 23 May 2026 04:29:03 GMT

Labor issued mealy-mouthed condemnations, while treating the relatives of the brutalised activists with utter contempt and hostility.

Israel faces a general election with all parties committed to war, repression and social devastation

Fri, 22 May 2026 17:14:05 GMT

The opposition boast that their bloc represents “80 percent of the country,” a figure that explicitly excludes the 20 percent of the population who are Arab citizens.

Jewish Voice for a Just Peace wins partial success in its case against the German Secret Service

Thu, 21 May 2026 01:30:01 GMT

The anti-Zionist organisation Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East has achieved a court ruling that means, for now, it can no longer be listed as "extremist" by the Secret Service.

India’s film certification board censors award-winning The Voice of Hind Rajab, citing “harm” to India-Israel relations

Tue, 19 May 2026 01:53:09 GMT

The banning of the docudrama reveals the depth of relationship now established between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-supremacist government and the murderous Zionist Netanyahu regime.

Nuclear double standard as the pretext for war against Iran in alliance with Israel

Mon, 18 May 2026 18:49:25 GMT

Israel’s nuclear programme dates to the 1950s, when Prime Minister David Ben‑Gurion established the Dimona reactor with French assistance, supplemented by heavy water from Norway and the UK.

Trump threatens Iran will be “decimated” if it does not accept US-dictated deal

Wed, 13 May 2026 04:16:46 GMT

Speaking to reporters before departing for China on Tuesday, President Trump said the US would accept only a “good deal” to end the war against Iran, or the country “would be decimated,” adding, “one way or another, we win.”

61st Venice Biennale: Cultural workers and artists strike and protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza

Tue, 12 May 2026 02:25:04 GMT

The strikers and demonstrators were responding to a call from the organisation Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), supported by a number of other activist groups.

A Sad and Beautiful World: “When things get better, we’ll come back to Beirut”

Mon, 11 May 2026 04:25:16 GMT

Beirut has been subjected to repeated, brutal Israeli bombing raids throughout the current conflict.

Starmer’s antisemitism summit deepens right-wing slander campaign against the left and Muslims

Sun, 10 May 2026 17:04:12 GMT

Slander on the scale now being mounted by the government and the media is preparation for sweeping political repression.

Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee decries Israel’s “genocidal campaign in Gaza” while declining to attend Jerusalem literature festival

Sat, 09 May 2026 04:51:38 GMT

"For the past two years the state of Israel has been conducting a genocidal campaign in Gaza."

Trump says US Navy will begin escorting ships out of the Strait of Hormuz

Mon, 04 May 2026 04:37:16 GMT

In a rambling Truth Social post on Sunday afternoon, President Trump wrote that the US would begin escorting hundreds of “Ships and Crews safely out of the Strait, ” and that any Iranian interference will “have to be dealt with forcefully.”

Israel violently and illegally intercepts Gaza flotilla, kidnaps organisers

Sun, 03 May 2026 17:40:41 GMT

This was a violent act of piracy, carried out by Israeli armed forces 600 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, in international waters, with the intent to commit grievous bodily harm and even murder.

Inside Amir: Tehran, before US and Israeli bombs rained down...

Sat, 02 May 2026 03:22:12 GMT

One can’t help but wondering after two months of war and countless waves of bombing, and thousands of civilian deaths: Does that neighborhood still look like this?

Stop the war against Iran!

Sat, 02 May 2026 02:33:40 GMT

The editor of the WSWS German site explained the social, political and historical basis of the struggle against imperialist war.

1,100 artists call for boycott of Eurovision over Israel’s Gaza genocide

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:03:01 GMT

The letter is a moving assertion of opposition to the ongoing genocide and the cultural devastation that accompanies it.

Oppose the political persecution of Dr. Ranjeet Brar and all health workers!

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:42:47 GMT

Maintaining its irreconcilable political differences with the Maoist CPGB-ML, the SEP denounces this anti-democratic act aimed at suppressing and intimidating anti-war speech and sentiment.

As third carrier strike group arrives, Trump orders Navy to “shoot and kill” Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:12:26 GMT

In a Truth Social post on Thursday morning, President Trump ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be” that he claimed without proof were placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

Artists group launches boycott of New York cultural center 92NY over support for war, genocide

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:57:38 GMT

92NO has called for a boycott by speakers and the public of events to protest the institution's support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the war in Iran and Lebanon.

Tensions between Israel and Türkiye escalate

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:59:31 GMT

The rivalry between two allies of US imperialism in the region primarily concerns their shares in the carve up of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.

War powers resolution blocked in the Senate as 10,000 more US troops head to the Middle East

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:49:39 GMT

The Senate voted 52-47 on Wednesday to reject a motion to move a Democratic Party-sponsored joint resolution to the floor that would mandate the removal of US troops, “from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.”

Netanyahu government brutally represses opposition to wars against Iran and Lebanon

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:01:41 GMT

These authoritarian measures are the domestic requirement for pursuing a Greater Israel policy, as part of US imperialism’s broader political and military agenda to reorganise and control the resource-rich Middle East in preparation for wider wars against China and Russia.

Trump says the US is “loading up the ships” with weapons during ceasefire talks

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:56:48 GMT

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!”

Israel bombards Lebanon with 160 missiles within hours of Trump’s ceasefire announcement

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:18:07 GMT

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.

US, Israel wreak further damage on Iran’s cultural heritage

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:19:42 GMT

The willful destruction of UNESCO World Heritage sites is a repudiation not only of international law but also of human civilization itself.

Conviction of UK Palestine Coalition leaders Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham criminalises anti-genocide protest

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:10:15 GMT

The judge said in a verdict whose implications are vast: “Protest rights, while fundamental, are not absolute and do not permit breaching lawfully imposed conditions.”

Israel adopts the death penalty only for Palestinians

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:09:41 GMT

By a vote of 62 to 48, Israel’s Knesset approved a law Monday enshrining the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians who carry out an “act of terrorism” on citizens of Israel.

Palestine Solidarity Duisburg: Ahmad Othman wins again in court against the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:50:33 GMT

Ahmad Othman, an activist against the genocide of the Palestinians, has successfully sued against his second dismissal by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Zionist assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani is a warning to the working class

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:04:24 GMT

The plot to kill Kiswani was not an isolated act, but the product of a political environment in which opposition to genocide has been criminalized and democratic rights are under sustained attack.

CNN news team assaulted and detained by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:28:00 GMT

A three-member CNN news team—journalist Jeremy Diamond, producer Abeer Salman, and photojournalist Cyril Theophilos—were set upon by a group of Israeli soldiers on Friday while they were interviewing Palestinians and reporting on Zionist settler violence in the area.

Zack Polanski’s Greens block anti-Zionist motion at conference

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:51:39 GMT

Polanski made clear that he was opposed to the motion’s description of Zionism as racist.

Uganda military chief says would join Iran war if Israel faced defeat

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:31:38 GMT

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is grovelling, to signal the loyalty of the Ugandan regime to US imperialism.

Netanyahu uses Iran war to pursue “Greater Israel” agenda

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:22:22 GMT

Within days of the assault on Iran, the Israel Defence Forces declared war on Hezbollah—activating a blueprint drafted well before the group fired a token volley of rockets in response to Israel’s assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel begins its long-planned ground invasion of Lebanon

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:04:20 GMT

News media reports have confirmed that Israel has started its long-planned ground invasion of southern Lebanon with plans to seize the entire area south of the Litani River which is roughly the southern third of Lebanon.

No charges for Israel Defense Forces rapists, original prosecutor faces prison

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:34:25 GMT

The Palestinian detainee had been raped so violently that he had to be transferred to a hospital for treatment for severe injury to his anus, a ruptured bowel, lung damage, and broken ribs that left him unable to walk.

Violent assault on synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan ends in death of attacker

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:47:12 GMT

Lebanese immigrant Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his truck into the entrance of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan on Thursday morning and engaged in a gunfight with synagogue security before taking his own life.

Toronto Film Critics Association near collapse over censorship of pro-Palestinian speech

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:41:51 GMT

The brief but politically significant remarks, 51 words taking 20 seconds to recite, were cut from the video recording of the awards ceremony.

UK Labour government bans Al-Quds Day march as crackdown on pro-Palestinian movement intensifies

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:50:01 GMT

Any genuine risk of violence is a result of pro-war Iranian monarchists and fascists being emboldened to carry out attacks on protesters by the government’s support for the US-Israeli war and regime-change operation against Iran.

German Foreign Minister Wadephul in Israel: Berlin backs US-Israeli escalation of war in the Middle East

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:01:33 GMT

During his trip to Israel and the Gulf region, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul demonstratively lined up behind the US-Israeli war against Iran and defended the Netanyahu government’s war propaganda.

Pentagon investigation shows US missile struck girls’ school in Minab

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:29:38 GMT

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that preliminary results of a Pentagon investigation show that the US military struck Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School with a Tomahawk missile on February 28, killing at least 150 girls aged 7-12.

Israel threatens to turn Beirut into Khan Younis and Lebanon into Gaza

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:03:13 GMT

What is emerging is a unified imperialist-led front—Washington, Israel, the Gulf monarchies, and the comprador elites of the Arab world—against the masses of the Middle East.

US military killed 160 school girls in Minab with Tomahawk missile

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:40:57 GMT

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.

“It’s always money and power”: Protesters speak out at London demonstration against the war on Iran

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:15:31 GMT

“We need to carry on supporting people in other countries who are being oppressed and who are having war crimes committed against them.”

Brit awards and Baftas: Criticising genocide and the rise of the far-right and being censored for it

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:54:25 GMT

Viewers complained at the censorship on social media, with one commenting, “I’ve never known the Brits bleep out so much stuff.”

London demonstration against Iran war deflected into futile appeals to Starmer

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:37:18 GMT

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.”