War crimes

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.

“The Forever Prisoner”: Abu Zubaydah’s testimony from Guantánamo Bay

Sun, 17 May 2026 17:07:12 GMT

Zubaydah’s international lawyer, Helen Duffy, explained how he has been held in arbitrary detention for 24 years without charge, trial, or judicial review and subjected to torture.

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.

US ramps up boat strikes in Latin American waters amid mounting proof that victims are fishermen

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:30:37 GMT

Escalating US military strikes targeting fishermen under the pretext of a “war on drugs” are driven by a broader agenda of imperialist domination.

Whistleblower who exposed Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan still behind bars

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:52:30 GMT

David McBride remains the only person convicted and jailed for Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan, not for committing them but for exposing them.

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.

Hegseth’s insider war investments and the character of the American ruling class

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:10:29 GMT

The Financial Times reported—based on information from sources with direct knowledge of the investments—that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s long-time financial advisor invested $9.4 million with defense contractors based on inside information about the start of the war against Iran that has since seen a 38 percent increase in value.

US begins B-52 bombing flights over Iran after Trump threatens to “completely obliterate” civilian infrastructure

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:24:59 GMT

The United States has begun bombing Iran with B-52 bombers, setting the stage for a massive increase in the US saturation bombing of the country of 90 million, as the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran intensifies.

David North’s Nuremberg video on US war against Iran evokes powerful response

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:19:17 GMT

A video of WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North speaking outside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice on the criminality of the US war against Iran has been viewed nearly 200,000 times across social media platforms, generating an outpouring of support.

Lucrative oil futures and predictive market bets on Iran war expose White House insider trading scheme

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:10:32 GMT

Media reports show a direct connection between the timing of lucrative investment bets and the pronouncements of President Trump on military decisions about the war against Iran.

Starmer government refuses parliamentary vote on UK involvement in Iran war

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:29:40 GMT

Labour government minister Steve Reed declared a vote on war unnecessary, as “There is no precedent for a vote in Parliament for defending British people.”

Iran warns UK government it is “participating in aggression”

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:07:39 GMT

Allowing US heavy bombers to fly from its Royal Air Force base in Fairford, England, and from Diego Garcia—a joint US/UK base in the Indian Ocean—has been critical to the devastating US-Israeli bombing operation against Iran.

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.

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.

Emergency Exits: Britain’s brutal counterinsurgency wars, retreat from empire and historical memory

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:27:33 GMT

The “Emergencies” in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus that are the subject of the Imperial War Museum’s current exhibition were fought to preserve the advantages of empire at a moment when Britain’s global position was collapsing.

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.

WSWS emergency webinar articulates socialist strategy to stop US-Israeli war against Iran

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:41:40 GMT

Thousands of workers and youth from around the world participated in the event, which identified the international working class as the only force capable of ending the criminal bombardment of Iran and all imperialist wars.

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.”

DSA promotes Democrats’ fake opposition to Iran war

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:32:34 GMT

The Democratic Socialists of America is seeking to undermine mass opposition to the criminal war in Iran and channel it behind the Democratic Party.

Israel tightens grip on West Bank to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:07:55 GMT

Since the start of the war, Palestinian communities in Area C have been systematically displaced from their homes at unprecedented rates. The 100,000 Palestinians living there are banned from building, and demolitions and displacements are a regular occurrence. Israeli settlements have been expanding.

Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:31:56 GMT

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.

Jury acquits Palestine Action’s Filton 6, dealing blow to Labour’s “terrorism” narrative

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:15:23 GMT

“The proscription of Palestine Action must now be lifted, and all those held as a result of this political process in prison should be released immediately,” civil liberties group CAGE demanded in response to Wednesday’s acquittal.

Israel’s Palestinian citizens strike and protest against government-sanctioned crime epidemic

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:38:35 GMT

More than 100,000 of Israel’s Palestinian citizens took to the streets of Sakhnin and Umm Al-Fahm, in the north of Israel, and other predominantly Arab towns and villages across the country.

Workers and students in Britain condemn Trump’s invasion of Venezuela, Starmer’s warmongering and authoritarianism

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:15:43 GMT

US citizen murdered by ICE, Renee Good, “was entirely innocent; that was her street and neighbourhood she was looking out for, to monitor ICE so people could go about their daily lives.”

UK Labour government supports US abduction of Maduro, while pledging to defend Greenland

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:43:03 GMT

As supportive as Starmer has been of Trump’s crimes, the UK has been excluded from the spoils and is increasingly in the firing line of a White House which views Europe as an enemy.

Eurovision 2026 plunges deeper into political crisis as boycotts multiply

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:01:24 GMT

“Participating in Eurovision allows Israel to maintain the illusion that it is a modern and exemplary Western democracy, and thus to more easily conceal its criminal actions”, said the collective of 170 Belgian artists and cultural figures.

UK Labour government and Supreme Court continue cover up of “dirty war” in Ireland

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:32:51 GMT

31 years after the murder of Paul “Topper” Thompson, the UK Supreme Court has upheld the “neither confirm nor deny” stance taken by the government when “covert human intelligence source(s)” or surveillance operations are in danger of being publicly exposed.

Israel’s far-right government seeks to tighten its grip on power

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:16:31 GMT

The measures are aimed at strengthening the powers of the Netanyahu government as it continues its wars in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and prepares for another offensive against Iran, amid plunging living standards.

US launches Christmas Day missile strikes against northwestern Nigeria

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:51:25 GMT

The Trump administration launched missile strikes against claimed ISIS militants in northwest Nigeria and made unsubstantiated claims that the act of war was in response to “existential threats” to Christian communities in the region.

Storm Byron compounds catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:05:09 GMT

At least 17 Palestinians have died due to the storm, including at least 11 people killed when damaged buildings collapsed on those sheltering inside and a 29-day-old baby and three small children from severe hypothermia.

NATO-Ukraine war on Russia spreads to commercial vessels in the Black Sea

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:28:09 GMT

Attacks on civilian merchant shipping in the Black Sea expand the scope of the war and threaten to drag NATO members like Türkiye deeper into the maelstrom.

UK inquiry told special forces had “deliberate policy” to “kill fighting-aged males” in Afghanistan

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:04:24 GMT

N1466 is the highest-ranking former special forces officer to provide evidence of war crimes. He was the assistant chief of staff for operations in UKSF headquarters.

Palestine Action prisoners on hunger strike in UK at “a very, very high risk of death” warns doctor

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:21:47 GMT

Six of the seven involved began their protest between 27 and 36 days ago. A seventh joined the hunger strike last week.

Israel tightens its grip on West Bank

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:03:06 GMT

Functioning as Israel’s subcontractor in policing the Palestinians, President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority have not lifted a finger to oppose any of Israel’s expansionist actions.

Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:41:38 GMT

Jaber Mohammed, only one among hundreds of prisoners who faced a similar fate, lost five years of his life to a regime of abuse and torture, part of the imperialist reaction to the 9/11 attacks.

US war crime exposed, as Trump escalates assault on Venezuela

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:21:06 GMT

The order to slaughter defenseless survivors in the water constitutes a blatant war crime in furtherance of Washington’s entirely criminal and predatory war aims.

Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:35:45 GMT

While Oborne offer a biting and passionate critique of the UK’s support for Israel and complicity in its genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, his disgust and moral outrage is no substitute for explaining its causes.

Palestine 36: Britain’s brutal suppression of the Palestinians during the 1936-39 Arab Revolt

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:09:51 GMT

The mass Palestinian uprising, its defeat and the expulsion and imprisonment of its leaders at the hands of the British army is largely unknown outside the Middle East, particularly in Britain itself.

Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:36:53 GMT

Their testimonies are first-hand accounts of war crimes perpetrated by the self-proclaimed “the most moral army in the world”, flatly contradicting the IDF’s insistence that it operates in accordance with international law and takes measures to minimise civilian harm in its genocidal assault on Gaza.

Proxy war for Sudan by regional powers has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:01:04 GMT

Refugees have told of mass rape, abductions and streets lined with corpses. Satellite imagery shows streets awash with blood and strewn with bodies and earth markings indicative of mass graves.

Video leak by IDF’s chief lawyer of gang rape of Palestinian sparks right-wing defence of torturers

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:01:37 GMT

Despite calls to shut it down, Israel’s High Court refused to close Sde Teiman in September 2024. Instead, the public uproar centres on the fact that the abuse was made public in the first place and by no less a person than Israel’s Chief Military Advocate.

Sri Lankan prime minister opposes international inquiry into war crimes

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:12:17 GMT

Amarasuriya’s comments expose the government’s claims to oppose communal politics, want “reconciliation” with minorities, including Tamils, and to “heal the wounds” of war.

UK government-backed persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan continues

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:31:25 GMT

A Tribunal agreed with the General Medical Council to continue investigations into Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan’s entirely legitimate social media activity.

Israel attacks third humanitarian Freedom/Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:51:20 GMT

The Israeli military continues to fire on European citizens and parliamentarians in the Mediterranean, including within the sovereign waters of European countries, with impunity.

Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov arrested in protest at Gaza border

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:21:15 GMT

International and domestic attention has been drawn to such protests by Volkov’s public stance at the Proms. As he explained afterwards, he chose the Proms to make his public statement because of its international high profile.

ひろしま / hiroshima: Beautiful and poignant images of the everyday, but is that enough?

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:51:24 GMT

Hiroshima has been represented in countless visual forms, from iconic black-and-white images of devastation to stark documentary evidence and evocative memorials. In recent years, a movement has emerged with the declared aim of moving beyond direct representation of death and destruction.

Starmer welcomes President Herzog to reaffirm Labour’s support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:45:47 GMT

Starmer’s readiness to meet Israel’s head of state confirms that he fully supports Netanyahu’s genocide of the Palestinians despite his making the token gesture of criticising Israel’s latest offensive and threatening to recognise a Palestinian state.

Tony Blair adds ethnic cleansing in Gaza to his list of crimes

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:59:14 GMT

While Blair’s record shows that no criminal enterprise is too much for Britain’s former prime minister, the present Labour prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is his ardent admirer, disciple and fellow war criminal.