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Reinstate Nexteer worker Antwiane Sanders immediately! An injury to one is an injury to all! Remove the company’s cops in the UAW bureaucracy!

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:52:25 GMT

Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years on the job, was fired after speaking out against the fourth tentative agreement at a UAW Local 699 roll-out meeting held on company premises.

Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire: The SpaceX IPO and the social physiognomy of oligarchy

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:37:16 GMT

On Friday, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. A syndicate of investment banks priced SpaceX on the Nasdaq at $135 a share Thursday night. When trading opened Friday, the stock leapt to $150, climbed as much as 30 percent intraday, and closed up about 19 percent at $161, lifting the company’s market capitalization to roughly $2.1 trillion.

APWU webinar on post office closures diverts workers into appeals to Congress, corporate America

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:20:14 GMT

The APWU's 200,000 members are being directed to the very same forces that are driving the destruction of the post office.

Text of tentative agreement exposes UAW bureaucracy’s effort to betray American Axle strikers

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:28:33 GMT

One thousand striking American Axle parts workers are being rushed by the UAW bureaucracy into voting on a sellout tentative agreement announced on Wednesday and deliberately denied adequate time to study and understand what is in the contract.

4 University of Michigan anti-genocide protesters plead not guilty, are released on bond in federal conspiracy frame-up

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:01:19 GMT

These arrests advance the drive by the Trump administration to construct a pseudo-legal framework for the criminalization of left-wing political opposition.

UNITE HERE Local 11 cancels strike by 2,000 hospitality workers days before 2026 FIFA World Cup

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:55:27 GMT

A planned strike by 2,000 hospitality workers was called off by UNITE HERE Local 11 after the announcement of a tentative agreement. Ninety-six percent of members voted overwhelmingly for strike action.

Bernie Sanders’ AI “sovereign wealth fund”: a public-private partnership to bail out the tech giants

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:49:01 GMT

Sanders’ scheme amounts to a state bailout of the AI monopolies, giving Washington a direct stake in propping up their speculative valuations while binding them to the US imperialist war machine.

Democrats counter Trump’s White House UFC spectacle with nationalist “No Kings” concert

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:39:37 GMT

The June 14 No Kings event aims to dissipate mass opposition to Trump by subordinating workers and youth to the Democratic Party and American nationalism.

San Diego County schools gutted by cuts in 2025-26, as budget deficits deepen

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:46:15 GMT

Every major school district in San Diego County is in deficit. The 2025-26 school year has brought mass layoffs, pay cuts and campus closures, with deeper austerity projected for years to come.

Oligarchy: Trump and the Breakdown of American Democracy

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:06:59 GMT

Spanning 2015 to 2026, this volume traces Trump’s rise to power, his coup of January 6 and his second term to their source in the corporate-financial oligarchy, and advances the socialist strategy required to stop the threat of fascism.

Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution: Is this all the BBC can offer on one of the most decisive events in world history?

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:27:23 GMT

Worsley’s narratives—whether on the Romanovs, the Peasants’ Revolt, or the English Civil War—consistently displace class antagonism, economic crisis, and mass political struggle, fixating on monarchs, courtiers, domestic interiors and historical cosplay.

UAW bureaucracy announces deal in bid to end American Axle strike

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:01:32 GMT

The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is rushing to end the 10-day strike to prevent American Axle workers from linking up with Nexteer, Dana and other parts workers fighting decades of UAW backed wage cuts.

Nexteer worker fired for opposing UAW sellout

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:59:35 GMT

The firing of Antwiane Sanders exposes the bureaucracy’s real function: policing workers on behalf of the corporations by suppressing opposition and enforcing labor discipline.

After week of escalation, Trump threatens ground invasion of Iran

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:10:52 GMT

The fascist president has stated at least 38 times since March, by CNN’s count, that a deal with Iran is imminent.

What the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Inquiry uncovered about Palmetto RPDC, where 4 workers have died in 2 years

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:08:18 GMT

In November 2025, the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee launched an independent inquiry into the deaths at the post office because management, federal regulators and the union bureaucracy had failed to protect workers.

“Work or starve”: Trump’s SNAP cuts drive millions from food stamp rolls

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:09:24 GMT

Veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, parents whose youngest child is 14 or older, and people who were in foster care at age 18 are among the groups stripped of previously held exemptions from providing documentation of work to receive SNAP benefits.

US consumer prices jump as workers pay for American imperialism’s war on Iran

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:26:48 GMT

Skyrocketing energy prices are devastating the living standards of tens of millions of working people.

FBI raids pro-Palestinian activists at University of Michigan, indicting 8 and arresting 7

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:26:10 GMT

The Trump administration escalated its political persecution of anti-war protesters on Wednesday, as the FBI and federal law enforcement agencies raided homes across southeast Michigan and unsealed a 63-page indictment charging eight individuals associated with pro-Palestinian activism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

4 workers dead at Palmetto: The safety crisis, the privatization drive, and how postal workers can fight back

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:35:22 GMT

These were not simply tragic accidents but the lethal results of austerity. Preventing them requires an organized movement from below, not beholden to management, toothless regulatory agencies or corrupt union officials.

Trump signs $70 billion blank check for ICE and Border Patrol after Democrats enable passage

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:21:49 GMT

The bill funds the immigration Gestapo through the end of Trump’s term without a single restriction on its operations.

Hersheypark workers in Pennsylvania reject 4th tentative agreement, vote to strike

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:09:35 GMT

While workers have demanded strike action, the bureaucracy of the Chocolate Workers Local 464 is keeping them on the job.

“I would be willing to strike”: New York transit workers prepared to fight for their needs

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:58:07 GMT

The MTA claims there is “no money,” in the richest city in the world, for pay that keeps pace with inflation. Meanwhile, around 15 percent of the MTA’s overall budget is spent servicing debt to Wall Street firms like BlackRock and Vanguard.

ICE abducts mother at Ann Arbor middle school

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:00:35 GMT

The Trump administration’s targeting of the Detroit metro area, the historic heart of the American auto industry and home to nearly a quarter million manufacturing workers, makes it clear that ICE is not engaging in narrow immigration enforcement but a terror campaign aimed at the working class as a whole.

Platner wins Democratic Senate primary in Maine

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:24:33 GMT

Platner’s promoters—large sections of the Democratic Party and the trade union apparatus, most avidly its so-called “progressive” wing—present him as a genuine representative of the working class. He is nothing of the sort.

Trump booed at Madison Square Garden during NBA playoffs

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:43:26 GMT

Thousands of basketball fans booed President Trump during his appearance at a playoff game in New York between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.

US railroad CSX plans to reduce human track inspections following government waiver

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:31:41 GMT

Automated Track Inspection, used in conjunction with human visual inspections, can be used to greatly increase railway safety. Instead, they are being used to cut jobs on behalf of profit.

A tribute to Gordon S. Wood (1933-2026), historian of the American Revolution

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:23:05 GMT

In a career spanning six decades and numerous books, articles and lectures, Wood established himself as the foremost historian of the American Revolution and the Early Republic.

DSA candidate Raman advances to Los Angeles mayoral runoff as Democrats seek new “progressive” face

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:53:14 GMT

The Los Angeles race lays bare the Democratic Party’s increasing reliance on the DSA to contain working class opposition to inequality, war and austerity.

An opera and an art exhibition in New York focus on Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:19:24 GMT

Both avoid serious examination of the complex lives of these great artists of the 20th century.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:46:13 GMT

A nationwide strike by Mexican teachers continues, while an eight-week strike by thousands of Nova Scotia care home workers has been suspended by the union ahead of a contract vote.

Fired “60 Minutes” journalist reveals pro-Trump censorship at CBS News

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:19:54 GMT

In a lengthy interview with the New York Times, Scott Pelley details the demands by newly installed corporate bosses for a pro-Trump slant in coverage.

3 women dead in 25 days: Social murder in Michigan prisons

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:56:11 GMT

Four women have died in seven months at Michigan’s only women’s prison, where toxic mold, privatized medical neglect and bipartisan austerity have created deadly conditions.

Renegotiation of US-Mexico-Canada trade pact faces hurdles

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:44:10 GMT

The USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada) trade pact is due for review on July 1, with negotiations likely to run past the deadline.

Postal workers demand investigation into Demarcus Little’s death, fourth in two years at Palmetto facility

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:44:46 GMT

An ongoing inquiry by the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee has documented the absence of written safety protocols, the lack of defibrillators and medical personnel, blocked cell phone signals and dangerous emergency-response failures at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center.

European powers pledge arms to Ukraine while issuing ultimatums to Russia at London summit

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:20:06 GMT

The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.

Donate to the WSWS! Build a mass socialist movement of the working class!

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:10:47 GMT

Donate today to strengthen the WSWS—the indispensable voice and organizing center of the international working class—so we can expand our coverage, deepen our interventions, and build a movement of the working class for socialism.

Four workers dead at Palmetto—the consequence of decades of cuts and the drive to privatize USPS

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:09:46 GMT

Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent, Demarcus Little, told a supervisor he felt unwell last week, collapsed, and died.

Who stands to lose: Future faces of the Medicaid work requirement cuts

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:22:33 GMT

These profiles are hypothetical composites drawn from the documented demographic patterns of the Medicaid expansion population and the known mechanisms by which work requirements produce coverage loss. They represent no single individual, but they exemplify millions.

Trump denounces California election, defends January 6 attackers

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:21:26 GMT

The US president walked out of an interview with NBC when asked to provide proof of his claims about “rigged” elections.

Court rules that Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:04:56 GMT

A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”

Medicaid work requirements threaten coverage for millions as Trump escalates class war on the poor

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:48:55 GMT

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the work requirement provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will reduce federal Medicaid spending by $326 billion over 10 years—the single largest source of savings in the legislation—and strip coverage from an estimated 5.2 million adults by 2034.

Scientists expelled by police at diabetes conference as Trump administration accelerates dismantling of biomedical research

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:38:23 GMT

The expulsion of leading researchers from the American Diabetes Association conference by armed police exposes the capitulation of medical institutions to the Trump administration’s fascistic anti-science agenda.

Ann Arbor public school teachers enter sixth month without a new contract

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:36:45 GMT

Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers have now gone nearly six months without a contract following their near-unanimous rejection of a tentative agreement.

Nexteer workers call for walkout to join with American Axle strikers

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:01:50 GMT

The UAW bureaucracy is seeking to impose a fourth sellout tentative agreement after autoworkers at the Saginaw steering plant rejected the first three and voted by 86 percent to authorize a strike.

Madison, Wisconsin nurses facing harassment over unionization effort after hospital calls union pin “Equivalent to a KKK Pin”

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:55:54 GMT

Nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital have filed for a union election with the SEIU amid management intimidation, but the fight for safe staffing and patient care requires rank-and-file organization independent of a union whose history is one of isolating and betraying workers.

“We're getting duped both ways”: New York transit workers speak out on sellout Long Island Rail Road contract and the fight ahead for subway and bus workers

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:54:45 GMT

These struggles are two parts of a growing confrontation between the New York working class and the financial oligarchy that dominates the city.

Fourth death in 2 years at Palmetto, Georgia, USPS facility: Demarcus Little dies after reporting feeling unwell

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:53:00 GMT

Little was the father of a 21-year-old son, Demarcus Jr., and a four-year-old daughter, Lauren. Those who knew him described him as kind, considerate and an all-around great guy.

How the Democrats enabled the allocation of an extra $70 billion for Trump’s immigration Gestapo

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:38:01 GMT

The nearly $70 billion funding package is the outcome of a political operation carried out by the Democrats to strangle the mass movement that erupted after the murders of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

More warnings on the state of the US and global financial system

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:14:46 GMT

A recent report by three former high-placed financial officials has warned that the rise of debt and the activities of nonbank financial institutions is increasing vulnerabilities and that a “perfect storm” could be brewing.

“Saxophone Colossus” Sonny Rollins dies at 95

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:28:23 GMT

His death marks the physical and “biographical” end of an era that began with the founding of bebop in New York during the final years of World War II.