https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/socialIssuesCategory/ineq-ushttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/09/blgn-j09.htmlThe speech by one of the country’s foremost entertainers fiercely denounced government cuts to the arts budget amid soaring military spending.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:46:24 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/fa822433-9068-4883-8ddc-0bf1fad7181A/blgn-j09.html2026-06-09T03:46:24Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/zgkr-j08.htmlDonate 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.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:10:47 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/64f05a05-1486-4e6f-a043-16c8382a412E/zgkr-j08.html2026-06-08T10:10:47Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/dbvt-j08.htmlThese 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.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:22:33 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/67dd5a65-534f-4b33-b26b-5ca9866a42cB/dbvt-j08.html2026-06-08T03:22:33Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/kujj-j08.htmlThe 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.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:48:55 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/604465b2-c0ed-4de8-b39b-3d3f381acfcJ/kujj-j08.html2026-06-08T01:48:55Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/gxlk-j08.htmlMost cases have occurred in the Northern Territory, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, among the poorest and most oppressed layers of the Australian population, the hardest hit.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:49:58 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/e8e6e5b1-739f-44cf-961f-86865cf7fc4N/gxlk-j08.html2026-06-08T00:49:58Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/07/vyuq-j07.htmlThe capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:11:17 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/cb881122-ad54-4636-85c9-14c0fb007d4N/vyuq-j07.html2026-06-07T17:11:17Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/coyr-j05.htmlÖzel’s article is not a defense of democratic rights. It is a letter of assurance from a bourgeois party to the imperialist powers.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:53:56 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/3308f878-7aed-4f21-a514-2fe6ebcdc7fB/coyr-j05.html2026-06-05T17:53:56Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/tryj-j05.htmlA measure of the misery Burnham would continue inflicting on the working class can be taken from the cabinet he is planning to assemble.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:16:51 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/601947c5-154a-4a5c-9810-191ec3f57eaO/tryj-j05.html2026-06-05T17:16:51Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/pfzp-j05.htmlNowak’s death is being used to promote the bogus right-wing “two-tier policing” narrative, claiming whites are penalised because of “woke” attitudes and “political correctness”.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:16:24 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/c43f210f-7ae3-4f23-8520-92f68d10e3bM/pfzp-j05.html2026-06-05T17:16:24Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/bvva-j05.htmlThe brutal crime for which Lukehart was executed cannot be separated from the life that produced him. The evidence presented at the penalty phase described an individual who had been systematically destroyed long before he ever came before a judge.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:20:20 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ecb7bdd8-36fc-4352-91ee-c4a527b077fB/bvva-j05.html2026-06-05T02:20:20Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/ttuc-j04.htmlLabour is presiding over a social catastrophe, including the deepest levels of poverty in 30 years, and trailing the far-right Reform, the Conservatives and the Greens in general election polls. If he successfully becomes an MP, Burnham is expected to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership and to replace him in Downing Street.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:16:22 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/7c282933-d3a5-465a-8df4-811395e239fI/ttuc-j04.html2026-06-04T17:16:22Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/eckw-j04.htmlOracle CEO Larry Ellison and his son David, CEO of Paramount, are seeking to convert CBS into another Trump mouthpiece like Fox News.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:41:49 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/9fefcc18-4e7d-46b9-8b33-0918d64d207D/eckw-j04.html2026-06-04T04:41:49Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/kycn-j04.htmlTo impose the brutal measures demanded by the IMF, Sri Lanka’s government, backed by every section of the ruling elite, is preparing autocratic forms of rule.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:13:49 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/cbe44b20-f3ef-4ce8-83ff-b53ba19708aB/kycn-j04.html2026-06-04T03:13:49Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/kaod-j04.htmlWithin the next 10 days Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire, when SpaceX, the space launch monopoly he controls, carries out the largest initial public offering in history.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:11:05 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/3726f55b-719b-455a-953a-346ebd6a838B/kaod-j04.html2026-06-04T03:11:05Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/jhyx-j04.htmlSurging fuel and fertilizer prices are leading to a food crisis in the Philippines as crop yields decline.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:43:10 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/cb709ab5-d7af-4e26-953e-229357273f7D/jhyx-j04.html2026-06-04T01:43:10Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/euky-j03.htmlA furious campaign by business leaders and the corporate media against the minor tax adjustments has demonstrated the refusal by Australia’s billionaires and their global partners to accept even the slightest inroads into their profits and fortunes.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:05:26 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/f8c04f77-a07d-4d5c-81af-a100dcbba1cN/euky-j03.html2026-06-03T02:05:26Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/02/uauw-j02.htmlAt least 11 percent of all Canadians, 11.5 percent of children, and more than 25 percent of all “unattached individuals” under the age of 64 are living in poverty, according to a recent government report.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:33:42 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ae332ff3-2602-4518-9386-7c1f4377793L/uauw-j02.html2026-06-02T01:33:42Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/01/rdsq-j01.htmlWSWS reporters spoke to members of the SI-Cobas rank-and-file union, which mainly organizes logistics workers, at a demonstration in Rome.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:47 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/c8f5292c-e5d3-4639-8caf-8ab6671eda5P/rdsq-j01.html2026-06-01T17:11:47Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/01/aasr-j01.htmlThe German Council of Economic Experts is demanding deep cuts in social spending to pass the costs of the Iran war, rearmament and the enrichment of the rich onto the weakest in society.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:22:23 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/5662cd9b-1a1c-499f-a8a4-b54c455b6daF/aasr-j01.html2026-06-01T04:22:23Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/01/eegw-j01.htmlThe budget starves public healthcare and cuts education and welfare, while pouring money into prisons and the military.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:50:23 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/7fa0867b-339b-4e27-82a5-fe5d82bd1cbM/eegw-j01.html2026-06-01T03:50:23Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/31/tfgj-m31.htmlIn its 2024/25 budget, Oldham Council proposed cutting £2.8 million from health and social care, reducing care contracts, and cutting 12 social worker posts.Sun, 31 May 2026 18:37:46 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/6fd873b7-d7f2-4f3d-b3ac-946d3d81d34P/tfgj-m31.html2026-05-31T18:37:46Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/30/lmle-m30.htmlWorkers’ share of US economic output has fallen to its lowest level since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data the Commerce Department released Thursday.Sat, 30 May 2026 04:02:49 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ee85ccef-dc18-427d-8b80-17dd1c6e655G/lmle-m30.html2026-05-30T04:02:49Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/28/qzrl-m28.html“If you don’t get access to support at the right age, during pivotal periods of mental and physical development, it can have long-term effects, including increased psychosocial disability and mental health challenges.”Thu, 28 May 2026 05:32:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/fa58eee7-c0b3-495b-99cc-b723923d27fG/qzrl-m28.html2026-05-28T05:32:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/28/mtrj-m28.htmlThe SpaceX market launch could make Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, the first trillionaire.Thu, 28 May 2026 04:19:57 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ff4a138e-f555-4e7f-aea1-51b978d6eccK/mtrj-m28.html2026-05-28T04:19:57Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/28/deub-m28.htmlThe evacuation orders were lifted Tuesday night, but many residents face financial hardship and worry that the danger from chemical exposures, or a future explosion, has not yet passed.Thu, 28 May 2026 02:44:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/79af65e5-737d-4810-a78b-522c9b9d6efM/deub-m28.html2026-05-28T02:44:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/26/kivz-m26.html“The government doesn’t think about us,” one displaced resident told the WSWS, as thousands remain evacuated after a toxic emergency at GKN Aerospace.Tue, 26 May 2026 03:45:34 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/067ad2a5-d1ac-448a-a620-71eed5bb047I/kivz-m26.html2026-05-26T03:45:34Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/25/mtlo-m25.htmlAhead of the release of the budget on Thursday, the government has announced an increase to student fees, nearly 9,000 public sector redundancies and cuts to welfare payments.Mon, 25 May 2026 02:58:51 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/e2719a6c-8ba7-484a-abd9-b3831f00944H/mtlo-m25.html2026-05-25T02:58:51Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/25/kgtr-m25.htmlDistricts face budget deficits amid declining enrollment, budget crises, inflation and war.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:51:07 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d6c52c05-f6ea-44b5-92c5-16ee7495cceN/kgtr-m25.html2026-05-25T00:51:07Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/25/oico-m25.htmlThe three cases, unfolding within 24 hours, share a disturbing set of commonalities: fundamentally unfair sentencing proceedings, defendants whose severe mental illness, unaddressed childhood trauma and neurological damage went largely unaddressed at trial, and execution protocols the subject of legal challenge.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:17:59 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/b15cd407-cc8a-4099-9916-ec0bcbe8060L/oico-m25.html2026-05-25T00:17:59Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/23/dqgp-m23.htmlThe San Diego massacre exposes the fraud of the Trump administration’s claims that “left-wing extremists,” not fascists, are the central domestic terror threat.Sat, 23 May 2026 03:21:03 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/9eaf0753-80dc-44f9-a365-ee62dd83c16I/dqgp-m23.html2026-05-23T03:21:03Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/22/uloi-m22.htmlThe 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.Fri, 22 May 2026 17:14:05 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d4f7f1e9-206c-42ee-9930-dc649f2a1a5D/uloi-m22.html2026-05-22T17:14:05Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/22/zqyb-m22.htmlThe New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.Fri, 22 May 2026 01:25:26 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d13d36e5-8a98-4a10-9bfc-515deac7546I/zqyb-m22.html2026-05-22T01:25:26Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/dmel-m21.htmlThe Metropolitan Police’s latest statement is part of an orchestrated state cover-up that has continued under four Conservative and Labour governments, led by four different prime ministers.Thu, 21 May 2026 17:07:43 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/47a90145-6344-4cda-ba73-9a4853119a0I/dmel-m21.html2026-05-21T17:07:43Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/21/katl-m21.htmlWhile Trump officials refuse to rule out payouts to violent January 6 fascists, the Justice Department addendum seeks to foreclose claims against Trump and his related entities.Thu, 21 May 2026 01:05:51 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/a0f7e257-8e7f-4871-bdbe-fbb24e5574dC/katl-m21.html2026-05-21T01:05:51Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/20/odyi-m20.htmlThe killers’ manifesto glorified fascist mass murderers and echoed Republican anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim propaganda.Wed, 20 May 2026 04:21:48 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/9f6734b8-0eb8-4e56-afcc-128b57d8da2A/odyi-m20.html2026-05-20T04:21:48Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/20/oity-m20.htmlThe rapidly developing corruption crisis in Ukraine has revealed that the Zelensky regime and the ruling oligarchy are steeped in criminality and the plunder of the Ukrainian working class.Wed, 20 May 2026 03:52:57 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/1534e103-d661-4bb1-af00-4ee4f8f43f8E/oity-m20.html2026-05-20T03:52:57Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/20/qtdj-m20.htmlThe entire ruling elite is declaring that superannuation payments for future generations of workers and retirees are “unaffordable.”Wed, 20 May 2026 01:12:54 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/9fb3ab7b-a503-43f7-83ac-18dcc38649cJ/qtdj-m20.html2026-05-20T01:12:54Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/19/jmxw-m19.htmlThe triple lock maintained the value of the UK state pension, guaranteeing a basic, albeit inadequate pension during retirement.Tue, 19 May 2026 17:10:49 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/2ba321c0-3937-46a3-ad55-2de9ec59da4H/jmxw-m19.html2026-05-19T17:10:49Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/18/puiq-m18.htmlThe threat to Oasis residents takes place amid a housing crisis and the Victorian Labor government’s program to evict 10,000 people from the city’s 44 public housing towers.Mon, 18 May 2026 05:26:33 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/047153b5-f75e-4f80-9d0f-5e77de29407N/puiq-m18.html2026-05-18T05:26:33Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/17/hthh-m17.htmlFinland’s right-wing government is aligning with US war crimes and using the growing economic crisis to attack social servicesSun, 17 May 2026 17:06:53 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/2394bf59-ab6b-476b-b6b6-577533230baN/hthh-m17.html2026-05-17T17:06:53Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/16/jbko-m16.htmlBy the government’s own figures, its changes to the tax regime for property investment will not decrease super-inflated housing prices even slightly.Sat, 16 May 2026 04:58:38 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/17728bcd-0d53-4e94-b566-59da3ebb39bL/jbko-m16.html2026-05-16T04:58:38Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/16/752e-m16.htmlThe attack on jobs in the German auto and supplier industry is accelerating. It goes hand in hand with the social cutbacks the government has introduced in relation to the citizen’s income, healthcare and pensions, and with the squandering of vast sums of money on rearmament and war. Unless this trend is halted, disaster looms.Sat, 16 May 2026 03:49:46 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/700ce657-02b8-40c9-813b-41698484604P/752e-m16.html2026-05-16T03:49:46Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/oqst-m15.htmlThe trade union bureaucracy bears direct responsibility for delivering the working class into the hands of the Starmer government.Fri, 15 May 2026 17:28:16 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/bd32a366-45ae-4451-907f-fe603f3f752B/oqst-m15.html2026-05-15T17:28:16Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/uuoa-m15.htmlMet Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman boasted that police had “arrested and charged people for calling for intifada at protests”Fri, 15 May 2026 17:06:01 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/cc630a2a-2e50-4e90-8a58-00366615e85B/uuoa-m15.html2026-05-15T17:06:01Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/bckr-m15.html“It will be disastrous for tens of thousands of people, including workers in the sector. The burden will fall onto families, creating even more physical, mental, and financial pain.”Fri, 15 May 2026 04:30:01 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/eead7173-0707-453d-a7e4-d3682ba59b1J/bckr-m15.html2026-05-15T04:30:01Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/14/alpg-m14.htmlThe US president seemed to channel the obliviousness of the French monarchy or the Russian tsar on the eve of their revolutionary overthrow.Thu, 14 May 2026 03:02:21 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/618e7f53-22df-4eda-9f7c-72ca5637599K/alpg-m14.html2026-05-14T03:02:21Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/hifc-m13.htmlBehind promises of “accountability,” a joint Los Angeles task force on homelessness is eliminating hundreds of frontline workers, increasing the privatization that produced the crisis in the first place. Wed, 13 May 2026 22:43:07 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ba1c9497-1dcc-45ce-a783-72bfe65ad05D/hifc-m13.html2026-05-13T22:43:07Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/tkaw-m13.htmlThe fact that Streeting could conceivably become Labour leader and prime minister points to the putrid state of the Labour Party, and its advanced stage of political collapse.Wed, 13 May 2026 19:40:10 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/c2012323-b937-48b7-87eb-75bbe27b7d7J/tkaw-m13.html2026-05-13T19:40:10Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/kfde-m13.htmlAmid a cost-of-living crisis, the government is carrying out an onslaught against the most vulnerable sections of the working class, including the disabled and the poor.Wed, 13 May 2026 05:57:41 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/8eaed2d3-60c4-44e4-a154-e7442821ff9M/kfde-m13.html2026-05-13T05:57:41Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/11/rbpa-m11.htmlThese events vindicate the struggle of the Socialist Equality Party, which opposed the election of this rotten party and the pseudo-left tendencies who backed Starmer as the “lesser of two evils”.Mon, 11 May 2026 19:25:37 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/98e5dd53-57ca-4c17-aaaa-dcd5d1e47b7M/rbpa-m11.html2026-05-11T19:25:37Z