Workers and youth support SEP (Australia) election campaign
“All these parties, Labor, Liberal, whatever, it’s just a façade. At the end of the day they all want the same thing.”
•Our reporters
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China demands withdrawal of all unilateral tariffs if US wants trade talks
Chinese government officials have said claims by the Trump administration that there are “active” discussions between Washington and Beijing are “fake news.”
•Nick Beams
Australian election: Labor’s posturing on penalty rates covers up real record on jobs, wages
Labor’s proposed change would not protect workers from the elimination or slashing of penalty rates through union-management agreements.
•Warwick Dove, SEP candidate for the Senate in NSW
India and Pakistan cascading toward war, after New Delhi blames Islamabad for terrorist attack
Pakistan has warned that it will be considered "an act of war," if India make good on its threat to cut off its access to the water upon which its power grid and irrigation network rely.
•Keith Jones
Michigan autoworkers speak on tariffs as Stellantis pauses production of Jeep Grand Cherokee in Detroit
With Trump’s tariffs on auto parts set to begin May 3, the UAW has ignored or tried to downplay the mounting attacks on auto jobs.
•Shannon Jones
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
•Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists
Souleymane’s Story, Xoftex and Where the Wind Comes From: “I don’t know why I came to France”
The phrase “precarious work” may be metaphorical in some cases, but in the unstable and perilous existence Souleymane leads the “precariousness” is real and ever-present.
•David Walsh
Trump rages as court rulings hamper his illegal actions
The legal setbacks have already prompted House passage of a law against “rogue judges,” while Trump for the first time attacked the Supreme Court publicly.
•Patrick Martin, Luis Marquez
In memory of Wolfgang Weber: A fighter for Trotskyism
Wolfgang Weber was a great champion of Trotskyism, a defender of historical truth, an implacable foe of capitalism and a fighter against the barbarism it represents.
•David North
Fight for a socialist movement of the working class to defend students, academic freedom and democratic rights!
More than 1,500 student visas have been summarily revoked, including at least four at Wayne State University. Campus workers who have spoken out against genocide are having their jobs terminated at the University of Michigan.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at Wayne State University
Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government to impose unpopular €10 billion military spending hike by decree
Sánchez plans to impose this increase by decree, bypassing the normal budgetary process, underscoring how militarism and war are inseparable from a drive to dictatorship at home.
•Alejandro López
Peru’s government responds to transport strikes with police state threats
The strike received overwhelming support from the population, which is increasingly hostile to the political setup in a country deemed by the World Bank as the fourth most unequal in the world.
•Cesar Uco
Taiwan’s social democrats and Stalinists counter Trump tariff hikes with calls for closer China-Taiwan trade relations
Whose “national interests” and “division of labor” do Taiwan’s social democrats and Stalinists embody?
•Shih-Yu Chou
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Over 80,000 hotel, catering and hospitality workers in the Canary Islands walk out to demand pay increase; cost-of-living protests continue across Iran by pensioners and workers in shadow of growing US war threats; Nigerian teachers and council workers continue stoppage over minimum wage in Federal Capital territory
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As oligarch fortunes soar: The case for expropriating the billionaires
It is impossible to defend democratic rights or any of the social interests of working people without seizing the unearned wealth of the billionaire parasites.
•Patrick Martin
Fatal police shooting in Melbourne triggers widespread outrage
A critical shortage of affordable housing, grossly inadequate mental health services and escalating poverty rates have seen increasing numbers of homeless people in Footscray and other inner-city meeting points.
•Margaret Rees
More than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers set to strike
The struggle, taking place in the midst of mounting opposition to Trump’s authoritarian regime, is also a confrontation with both the Democratic Party machine that governs Los Angeles County and the SEIU bureaucracy.
•Marc Wells
Co-worker demands answers about death of Ronnie Adams at Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex
More than two weeks since the fatal accident, the company, UAW and state safety agencies have not released any new information.
•Jerry White
The climate change crisis and the Australian election
The Socialist Equality Party is the only party in this election telling workers the truth about the climate crisis and advancing the program needed to end it globally: socialism.
•Taylor Hernan, SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
Harvard files suit against Trump funding freeze
On Monday, Harvard University sued the Trump administration and demanded an injunction against the government’s cutoff of over $3 billion in grants that are vital to the ongoing research and educational work of the oldest university in the US.
•Kevin Reed
SEP (Australia) election candidate speaks on Brisbane community radio
Socialist Equality Party candidate for Oxley, Mike Head, appeared Wednesday night on 4ZZZ’s Queer Radio, hosted by Blair Martin.
•Our reporters
James Webb Space Telescope produces most detailed signature of the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System
The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and the entire American oligarchy.
•Bryan Dyne
US-Philippine military drills: A “full battle test” for war with China
The war games are an immense provocation, a combined and coordinated simulation of war with China over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
•John Malvar
Plain-clothed ICE thugs kidnap Venezuelan men at Charlottesville, Virginia courthouse
Over 100,000 people have been deported and more than 113,000 have been arrested as part of Trump's mass deportation drive.
•Jacob Crosse
Israeli national security minister pledges to bomb food depots as Gaza blockade reaches 50th day
On Tuesday, Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attended a meeting with leading members of Congress at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club where he pledged to bomb food and aid distribution centers, claiming his proposals met with support on the part of the lawmakers.
•Andre Damon
13th US execution of 2025: Texas puts Moises Mendoza to death
The US Supreme Court denied Mendoza’s request for a stay of execution, clearing the way for his lethal injection. His attorneys had asked the high court to review a Texas Criminal Court of Appeals decision to deny a request that claimed Mendoza’s counsel at trial was ineffective.
•Kate Randall
“Dirty War” Pope blesses Trump administration hours before his death
The media’s praise of Pope Francis aims to place a last coat of “democratic” and “modern” varnish on the Catholic Church as it grants its blessing to the global turn to fascist and dictatorial forms of rule.
•Andrea Lobo
FBI raids homes of pro-Palestinian protesters across southeastern Michigan
Police broke down the door of at least one of the three raided residences and initially refused to show warrants for the assault.
•Barry Grey
Reinstate staff member Zainab Hakim and four student workers at University of Michigan!
This attack is part of U-M’s efforts to placate Trump in order to avert his threat to block billions in government grants, bowing in the process to the government’s drive to carry out an American version of Hitler’s Nazification of higher education.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at U-M
CDU-SPD coalition government agreement aims to further militarize German universities
One of the stated goals of the coalition agreement between the CDU/CSU and SPD is the militarization of universities.
•Rosalie Arlova
Birmingham bin workers discuss way forward in their fight as strike enters seventh week
The bin workers’ uncompromising stance finds no reflection in the position of Unite’s top officials, led by general secretary Sharon Graham.
•Tony Robson
Two years on: Sudan’s civil war spreads amid worsening humanitarian disaster
As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance for imperialism.
•Jean Shaoul
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Greens leader refuses to condemn Australian Labor’s complicity in Gaza genocide
When he speaks before a national audience, Adam Bandt avoids even mentioning Gaza for fear that the mass slaughter of Palestinians will get in the way of the Greens’ aspirations for a coalition government with Labor.
•Oscar Grenfell
Trade war, economic crisis and the Australian election
In the current Australian election, the practice of deception centres on trying to cover up the global economic conditions—the breakdown of the entire capitalist order—under which it is being held.
•Nick Beams
New Zealand senior doctors vote for national strike
The first ever 24-hour strike by senior doctors is the latest in a rising struggle of medical workers against underfunding, under-staffing and low pay in the public health system.
•John Braddock
Venezuelan man disappeared to El Salvador by US immigration Gestapo after making wrong turn on bridge
Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a 32-year-old Venezuelan immigrant and father, legally in the United States, has apparently been disappeared to El Salvador after making a wrong turn on the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Ontario, Canada.
•Jacob Crosse
Ukrainian forces on the ground in another Russian territory
Against the backdrop of the prospect of a US-brokered peace deal between the Zelensky and Putin governments, the Ukrainian military has launched another incursion into Russian territory.
•Andrea Peters
IMF says Trump tariff war to bring “significant slowdown” in global economy
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said “trade policy uncertainty is literally off the charts.”
•Nick Beams
Film industry job losses, the bankruptcy of the unions and the fight for rank-and-file committees
Annual television production in Los Angeles declined by 58.4 percent in just three years.
•Hong Jian, David Walsh
Trade war against China fuels disruption for US ports, threatening job losses
The implications of multi-million dollar port fees will be nothing short of disastrous for workers inside the US and abroad.
•Joshua Rodriguez
Trump Education Secretary Linda McMahon unleashes debt collectors on millions of delinquent student loan holders
The US Department of Education, aiming to end federal loan support for students, has announced aggressive debt collection measures targeting nearly 10 million former students delinquent or in default on their college loans.
•Nancy Hanover
Oppose the visa revocations at George Mason University! Mobilize the working class in defense of democratic rights!
Fifteen international students have had their visas revoked and terminated at George Mason, as part of the Trump administration’s assault on democratic rights.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality at George Mason University
White House replaces government COVID website with one promoting the Wuhan Lab Leak conspiracy
On Friday, April 18, the Trump White House replaced the COVID.gov site with a web page promoting the lie that the COVID pandemic was the product of nefarious activities conducted by China with the assistance of US scientists.
•Benjamin Mateus
As rents rise and social housing dwindles, new German government policies to exacerbate housing crisis
The next federal government will defend the interests of the property companies and ensure they continue to reap massive profits at the expense of tenants.
•Tino Jacobson, Markus Salzmann
Three men die in a fire that ravaged an overcrowded house in Queens, New York
The single-family home had been illegally converted into at least a dozen cubicle-sized “apartments” creating extremely dangerous conditions, to which the city building department turned a blind eye despite years of complaints.
•Philip Guelpa
Dorset National Health Service prepares mass transfer of staff to private subsidiary in cost-cutting drive
The move affects essential workers in housekeeping, catering, portering, estates, and health and safety roles, many of whom are among the lowest-paid staff in the NHS.
•Rory Woods, Robert Stevens
SEP (Australia) election meetings: The socialist alternative to war and austerity
We urge workers and young people looking for an alternative to the lies and misinformation of Labor, the Liberal-Nationals, the Greens and the media to attend.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Gold price surges as US dollar crisis deepens
Turbulence in financial markets has intensified with Trump’s threats to sack Fed Chair Powell, amid concerns that the lawlessness which has characterized every area of the administration could extend.
•Nick Beams
Mack Trucks layoffs and the fight for the international unity of workers against trade war
Workers need an international strategy to fight against Trump's trade war measures, which are already causing mass layoffs throughout North America.
•Jerry White
Australia’s housing crisis needs a socialist solution
The policies proposed by the parliamentary parties will do nothing to address the acute and worsening shortage of affordable homes.
•Warwick Dove, SEP candidate for the Senate in NSW
Workers Struggles: The Americas
On April 15, some 2,000 teachers rallied at Sao Paulo City Hall to oppose their conversion to contingent status. In Canada, a strike by 1,100 LifeLab medical technicians continues into its 11th week.
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Unite teachers, students and workers against Santa Ana, California layoffs and austerity!
The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) in Southern California is poised to carry out a devastating assault on public education by eliminating the jobs of nearly 280 teachers and counselors by June 30, 2025.
•Marc Wells, Kimie Saito
Homeland Security blames US citizen for his false arrest; Minnesota father detained after “silent revocation” of student visa
Jose Hermosillo, a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is at least the second US citizen arrested and imprisoned by immigration agents this month.
•Jacob Crosse
Veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe dies aged 85
Nanda Wickremesinghe, known as Comrade Wicks, played a prominent role in the leadership of Trotskyist movement until his deteriorating health prevented him taking part in day-to-day political work.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
California Republican mayor calls for the extermination of the homeless
Rex Parris, mayor of Lancaster, just north of Los Angeles, claimed that homeless people were responsible for the vast majority of crime in his city, and said he would support a “purge” by the Trump administration.
•Marc Wells
USPS rural carriers contract sets stage for privatization
As expected, the deal is a virtual copy of the concessions-filled agreement imposed earlier this year on city letter carriers through binding arbitration.
•Tom Hall
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises Texas doctor who exposed community to measles
When asked if he were suffering from measles, Dr. Ben Edwards confirmed, saying that his symptoms began one day prior to working in his clinic.
•Bill Shaw
Amid Australian election, hundreds of jobs threatened at Western Sydney University
In a warning of what is to come after the May 3 election, university administrations across the country have launched similar attacks in recent months, now targeting close to 3,000 jobs of academics and professional staff.
•Mike Head, SEP candidate for the seat of Oxley
Staff and students face unbearable conditions at Western Sydney University College
Colleagues are referring to “fast-food education” and “sausage factory learning.”
•Our correspondent
Vote No! Reject the concessions contract at ATI
After overwhelmingly voting down the first concessions contract, the United Steelworkers bureaucracy is again seeking to push through a second, largely unchanged, contract for the 1,000 steelworkers at ATI, formerly Allegheny Technologies Incorporated.
•Samuel Davidson
Video: Defend the Berlin4! Stop the deportation of genocide opponents!
Around 50 students and workers demonstrated in front of Berlin’s Humboldt University last Thursday against the impending deportation of four pro-Palestine activists.
•Our reporters
Opponents of the Gaza genocide successfully defend themselves in German courts
The Dortmund Labour Court found that the sacking of Ahmad Otham, who had supported Palästina Solidarität Duisburg (PSDU), by the state of North Rhine-Westphalian was unlawful. The Duisburg Regional Court stayed the proceedings against Jamal A, who was accused of “condoning criminal offences,” in reference to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
CWU update on USO pilots: defending profits to sacrifice workers' jobs, conditions and the mail service
The Communication Workers Union hierarchy is enforcing the USO’s dismantling, in partnership with Kretinsky, Ofcom and the British government.
•Tony Robson
The Victorian Socialists: A pseudo-left trap in the Australian federal election
The Victorian Socialists are not fighting to build an independent and socialist movement of the working class but to block its emergence.
•Morgan Peach, SEP candidate for the seat of Calwell
Australian election: National Tertiary Education Union covers up Labor’s role in university crisis
The NTEU is backing Labor in the face of more than 2,000 job cuts as a direct result of the Albanese government’s cuts to international student enrolments and its continued chronic under-funding of the public universities.
•Mike Head, SEP candidate for the seat of Oxley
An appeal to Sri Lankan garment workers: How to fight tariff war attacks on jobs and wages
Like the struggle against International Monetary Fund austerity, the fight against the devastating consequences of tariff war is international.
•Garment Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)
Threat of mass layoffs at Thyssenkrupp and HKM, the conversion of Germany’s steel industry to a war economy
The defence of steel jobs is immediately bound up with the fight against rearmament and the transformation of industry onto a war footing. This is only possible against the IG Metall union, not with it.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Irish band Kneecap leads thousands in chant of “Free Palestine” at Coachella festival
According to various media reports, Kneecap’s projections were also used during their appearance on the festival’s first weekend, leading “to the livestream of the band’s set being cut off."
•David Walsh
New Zealand parliament votes down contentious “Treaty principles” bill
Popular opposition to the far-right ACT Party’s bill was channelled into a campaign promoting national “unity” and denying escalating class tensions.
•John Braddock
Florida State shooter a fascist “deeply embedded” in police community
The suspect, stepson of a deputy sheriff, was on the Sheriff's Youth Advisory Council, and had a history of anti-communist rants, support for the Gaza genocide and hatred towards minorities.
•Chase Lawrence
Citing tariffs, Volvo North America cutting 800 jobs at Mack Truck and NRV plants
The company has cited “market uncertainty about freight rates and demand, possible regulatory changes, and the impact of tariffs” as key reasons for the layoffs.
•Jerry White, Nick Barrickman
The April 19 mass protests against Trump and the need for a revolutionary strategy
The most striking feature of this weekend’s protests was their more militant character compared to previous demonstrations, with many expressing a more conscious opposition to the Democratic Party.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Reply to a laid-off Stellantis worker on UAW support for Trump’s tariffs
The incessant promotion of economic nationalism by the United Auto Workers union has left some workers vulnerable to the nationalist demagogy of Trump.
•Shannon Jones, Barry Grey
Supreme Court bars Trump deportation flights
While the order is temporary, its issuance was nonetheless extraordinary, coming in the middle of the night as prisoners were already being bused to an airport to be shipped to El Salvador.
•Patrick Martin
Hundreds of thousands protest against Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship in the US
For the second time in two weeks, hundreds of thousands of people in every state demonstrated in opposition to inequality and attacks on democratic rights.
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The grand capitalist deception is at work again
This article was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, a Ukrainian socialist compelled to go into exile by political persecution from the NATO-backed Zelensky regime.
•Maxim Goldarb
This week in history: April 21-27
Elian Gonzalez returned to his Cuban father; Workers shout down Democrats, US union bureaucrats; Jordan annexes West Bank; Kafka’s The Trial published
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Build a socialist movement to stop Trump’s dictatorship!
The fight against fascism and dictatorship is inseparable from the fight against capitalism.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Thousands of job losses across National Health Service as Labour’s cull of workforce begins
Aping the rhetoric of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency in the US, Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting claims to be attacking “bureaucracy” and “waste” in the NHS.
•Robert Stevens
The shot heard round the world
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
•Tom Mackaman
US airstrikes in Yemen kill 80 and injure over 150
The Trump administration launched a series of deadly airstrikes on a major oil port at Ras Isa, Yemen, in which scores of people were killed, including port workers, civilians and aid workers, who were responding to the initial blast and were then hit with a Pentagon directed “double-tap.”
•Kevin Reed
Political lessons of the defeated court challenge to Melbourne public housing demolitions
Public housing residents and the entire working class must draw sharp lessons from the legal case—above all else, the urgent need to mobilise against the threatened demolitions through the Neighbourhood Action Committee.
•Taylor Hernan, SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
Australian state Supreme Court dismisses legal case of public housing towers’ residents
The court ruling was a class decision, against the public housing residents and in the interests of the corporate developers.
•Margaret Rees, Patrick O’Connor
Dollar’s role as global reserve currency under fire
This week the Financial Times ran a major article headlined “Is the world losing faith in the almighty US dollar?” The answer, in the wake of the fall in the dollar’s value in the midst of the turmoil unleashed by Trump’s tariff war was that it is.
•Nick Beams
Was Palestinian artist-photojournalist Fatima Hassouna targeted for death by the Israeli military?
The first thing one needs to do is dismiss with contempt the claims of IDF officials, who lie as often as they draw breath.
•David Walsh
State prosecution fails to present evidence in trial against Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
•Clara Weiss
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Nepal national teachers’ strike continues; India: Karnataka truck owners end indefinite strike over diesel prices; Australia: Keolis Downer bus mechanics in Sydney strike for higher pay; New Zealand senior doctors to walk out over pay, staffing
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Trump administration engaged in advanced planning for military strike on Iran
According to a detailed New York Times report, the US and Israel have been working in close consultation for months on plans to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities in an attack slated for as early as May.
•Jordan Shilton
The resignation of LACAHSA CEO Ryan Johnson and the financialization of homelessness in Los Angeles
The resignation of Johnson is not the end of a mistake: it is the signal that a plan has succeeded, the machinery is now in place, the money is flowing.
•Marc Wells
Defend the Berlin4! Stop the deportation of genocide opponents!
On Thursday, 17 April, the rally “Defend the #Berlin4! Stop the deportation of genocide opponents!” took place in front of the main building of Berlin’s Humboldt University.
•Katja Rippert
The Birmingham bin workers fight and the lessons of the 2022-23 strike wave
Britain’s union leaders are not “laying the groundwork for widespread strikes” as claimed by the Telegraph, they are doing everything possible to isolate, divide and suppress them.
•Robert Stevens
Sri Lankan SEP election meeting discusses how to fight IMF austerity
SEP and IYSSE speakers discussed the deepening global crisis of capitalism, the eruption of fascist tendencies, the danger of world war and the need for a socialist and internationalist program.
•Our reporters
Australian workers and youth support SEP election campaign
“I support the SEP because I care about freedom of speech, I don’t support the war and I want genocide to end.”
•Our reporters
Australian Greens campaigning for pro-business, pro-war coalition with Labor
A Labor-Greens government would collaborate with the fascist Trump, intensify the plans for war with China, continue supporting the Gaza genocide and attack the social and democratic rights of working people.
•Robert Creech, SEP candidate for the seat of Newcastle
Judge postpones hearing in lawsuit over police seizure of UCSC student protester’s phone
Days after she filed a lawsuit against the university administration, police seized Laaila Irshad’s phone with a warrant that purportedly authorized an unrestricted search of all the data on it.
•Don Knowland, David Benson
Trump threatens to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status and visas for international students
The Trump administration has ratcheted up its attempt to force Harvard University to accept its dictatorial rule, to subordinate the school to his fascist political and ideological agenda.
•Kevin Reed
Student kills 2, injures 5 in Florida State mass shooting
Sheriff Walter McNeil of Leon County identified the gunman as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, and said he was the son of a deputy in his department. McNeil admitted that “Unfortunately, he had access to one of her weapons.”
•Chase Lawrence
Appeals Court rules Trump trampling on due process in Abrego Garcia deportation case
A three-judge panel warned that the “lawlessness” of the executive branch was threatening the constitutional order in the United States.
•Patrick Martin
But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism at the Lenbachhaus in Munich explores the political roots of the Surrealist movement
The FIARI declared: “Art has as little a fatherland as the workers. To advocate today a return to ‘French’ art is ... to consciously promote historical regression.”
•Stefan Steinberg
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