No to European rearmament!
When the European powers speak of the end of the “international rules-based order,” they are preparing for a return to the pursuit of their own imperialist interests by force of arms.
•Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps
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IYSSE holds meeting opposing mass deportations at Texas A&M University
Last Friday, the IYSSE held a successful meeting at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas opposing the mass deportations by the Trump administration that was attended by almost 30 people.
•Chase Lawrence
Cyclone Alfred hits major Australian population centre
The first cyclone in 50 years to cross the southeast coast of Australia still carries risks of intense rainfall and flooding, stretching inland from the battered coastline.
•Mark Wilson
Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka) discusses how to fight public health cuts
A well-attended online meeting of health workers discussed the government’s austerity budget and the political and industrial struggle required to fight it.
•Our correspondents
Second measles death in US reported by New Mexico health officials
New Mexico health officials confirmed on Thursday that an unvaccinated adult from Lea County on the border with Texas tested positive for measles after having died.
•Kevin Reed
Thousands demonstrate in the Stand Up for Science protests
Supporters of the WSWS spoke to numerous attendees on their thoughts on the fight for science and the need to connect the defense of science with the emerging struggles of the working class.
•Our reporters, Bryan Dyne
February job cuts hit highest monthly level in 5 years under impact of Trump’s mass firings
Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported 172,017 job cuts in February, the highest monthly total since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
•Shannon Jones
Australia: Opponent of Gaza genocide criminally charged for denouncing Zionism
By charging Hash Tayeh for declaring “all Zionists are terrorists,” police are asserting dictatorial authority to suppress political speech.
•Oscar Grenfell
Actor Gene Hackman (1930-2025): A great American realist
Hackman brought an acute, artistically informed urgency and honesty to his roles that often transcended the conceptions and methods of the filmmaker in question.
•David Walsh
Japan experiences largest wildfire in 50 years
The rapid spread of the wildfire in Ofunato was caused by both government neglect and the worsening of climate change around the world.
•Ben McGrath
US bans Chevron from Venezuela’s oil sector amid rising military tensions
The revocation of gas and oil licenses ends a financial lifeline for Venezuela, with catastrophic consequences.
•Andrea Lobo
Death of humanitarian aid worker on the streets of Ottawa highlights homelessness crisis in Canada
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reported that in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver, a full-time minimum-wage worker would need to work 138 to 141 hours per month to afford a basic two-bedroom unit, leaving nothing for other necessities like food, utilities and transportation.
•Matthew Richter
9 anti-genocide students arrested at Columbia University protest against expulsions
Barnard College administration at New York City’s Columbia University called in the New York Police Department (NYPD) Wednesday after pro-Palestinian students occupied the campus’ Milstein Library, the second occupation of a university building in a week.
•Sandy English
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Mettur Thermal Power Station workers in Tamil Nadu demand permanent jobs; Pakistan: Karachi steel workers demand reinstatement; Sri Lanka: Public sector non-academic university workers protest austerity budget; BAE shipyard workers in South Australia walk out for pay rise.
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CSX Transportation claims machinists union is the latest to push through pattern sellout contract
Members of the International Association of Machinists have reportedly ratified a five-year deal with CSX Transportation, the same sellout previously pushed through at BSNF and Norfolk Southern.
•Bill Mertz
German woman detained for over a month by ICE
Nearly 42,000 people are in ICE custody, a majority of them with no criminal history, and many of them facing similar conditions to those endured by Jessica Brösche.
•Max Jones
Texas A&M students protest Trump’s assault on immigrants, Democrats attempt to ban criticism
Rather than refuting the IYSSE’s exposure of the Democratic Party’s role in enabling Trump’s attacks, the Young Democrats resorted to attempted censorship.
•Our reporter
Vote “No” to the proposed contract at Deutsche Post! Build the Postal Workers Action Committee!
The Deutsche Post DHL Group and Verdi union leadership have agreed cuts in real wages for 170,000 workers, and the destruction of 8,000 jobs in letter and parcel delivery.
•Postal Workers Action Committee
Strike at Dundee University over job losses poses necessity for new rank-and-file strategy
Lecturers and support staff at Dundee University are opposing massive job cuts threatened because of a £30 million deficit run up by the university in pursuit of regional investment and profit.
•Steve James, Jordan Harrison
Postal worker speaks on USO reform pilots: “A tripartite attack on jobs by Royal Mail, Ofcom and the CWU”
“Our work is not an ‘unfair financial burden’ on the company, as claimed by Ofcom. It is a proud and honest occupation that should be generously remunerated.”
•Our correspondent
Zelensky faces mounting domestic political crisis amid clashes with Trump
As Zelensky has turned to the EU for support in the wake of his White House visit, the Trump administration has already begun meeting with Zelensky’s rivals within the Ukrainian ruling-class.
•Jason Melanovski
Germany leads the way, as Europe rearms
Germany is blazing the trail in Europe’s rearmament program. At around €1 trillion, Germany’s planned rearmament spending is 10 times greater than the special fund that Olaf Scholz's government adopted three years ago which he described at the time as a “new era.”
•Peter Schwarz
Australia: SEP supporters express “outrage” over anti-democratic rejection of party registration
“To not allow the SEP to have a voice in our democracy is scurrilous to say the least and is anything but democratic!”
•Our reporters
Australian ruling elite reacts nervously to Trump confrontation with Zelensky, Europe
While emphasising his ironclad commitment to the US alliance, Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed support for continuing the proxy war against Russia by backing Ukraine.
•Oscar Grenfell
Sri Lanka: How to fight the Dissanayake government’s attacks on public health
Health employees can only defend their wages and allowances and defeat the government attacks in unity with other workers facing the same assaults.
•Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)
Opposition of educators grows to Trump’s existential threat to public education
In contrast to the union bureaucracy, rank-and-file educators are pressing for collective action to halt the shutdown of the Department of Education and gutting of school programs.
•Jerry White
Australia: Whyalla Steelworks was “running on empty,” owed creditors $1.3 billion
The facility’s 1,500 direct employees are owed a total of $189.7 million, including annual leave and redundancy entitlements.
•Martin Scott
China to press ahead with growth in the face of US economic war
The work report presented to the National People’s Congress in Beijing pointed to “changes unseen in a century” unfolding at a fast pace.
•Nick Beams
Supreme Court narrowly upholds lower court order that USAID must pay bills
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a lower court can compel the Trump administration to pay bills for services already performed by USAID contractors.
•John Burton
Elon Musk calls for privatization of United States Postal Service, Amtrak passenger rail
Musk’s comments sum up the strategy of the ruling class: to loot whatever is not bolted down in the federal government in order to enrich themselves.
•A. Woodson
Lula fires health minister amid new wave of COVID-19 in Brazil
In the two years that Nísia Trindade led the ministry, her tenure was marked by the largest dengue outbreak in the country’s history and the deepening of the “herd immunity” policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
•Guilherme Ferreira
The defense of science requires a fight for socialism!
The “Stand Up for Science” protests taking place today mark a significant development in the growing opposition to the fascistic Trump administration.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
10 Democrats join Republicans in censuring Rep. Al Green for interrupting Trump
The House Freedom Caucus, the most right-wing faction of the House Republicans, announced it would propose a resolution to strip Green of his committee assignments and bring it to the floor of the House next week.
•Patrick Martin
Three valuable films from Palestine and Germany: Yalla Parkour, Köln 75, Leibniz
Yalla Parkour highlights the resilience of the youth in Gaza, their courageous attempts to make something out of nothing.
•Stefan Steinberg
Canada’s unions mobilizing workers behind country’s capitalist elite with nationalist trade-war propaganda
Canada’s ruling class, furious at the disruption of its eight-decade-long partnership with American imperialism, has responded by promoting vile Canadian nationalism to keep the working class divided and conceal its drive to make workers pay for the capitalist crisis.
•Roger Jordan
Nordic countries respond to deepening Europe-US rift with calls for European military capabilities, rearmament
The Nordic countries in particular have long viewed close relations with Washington as fundamental to their military and security interests. But the breakdown in relations between America and Europe is having a major impact on these countries, which are responding by launching major rearmament programmes.
•Jordan Shilton
The reactionary role of Germany’s Left Party in the fight against fascism and war
Young workers and students who want to fight against fascism, militarism and social cuts need a clear understanding of the Left Party, which plays a key role in implementing social cuts and the deportation of refugees, and also fundamentally agrees with government policy on the question of war.
•Johannes Stern
Michigan 8th grader fights for First Amendment rights
Arab American middle school student, Danielle Khalaf, refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance “because of what’s happening in Palestine.” She was told to “Go back to your country.”
•J. Cooper
Ford Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting condemns UAW complicity in factory police raids
Ford and other automakers have been encouraged by Trump’s ICE raids to run roughshod over the constitutional rights of autoworkers.
•George Kirby
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Dockers and port workers in France in 24-hour stoppage over pension reforms and leave entitlements; workers including nurses and medical staff and pensioners continue protests in Iran over plummeting living standards; doctors in Nairobi, Kenya walk out over sackings, lack of promotions and unpaid wages
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Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part Three
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Huge rise in council tax bills for millions in Britain as services slashed
Economist Lalitha Try noted that the poorest households are “spending almost as much on these bills as they pay in income tax. This terribly designed tax increasingly resembles the very thing it was meant to replace—the dreaded poll tax.”
•Barry Mason
Jewish reporter assaulted and arrested for anti-genocide protest at Ontario NDP election night event
The fact that the NDP requires police thugs to silence peaceful protesters at its events exposes its fundamental hostility to the working class it claims to represent.
•James Clayton
Bernie Sanders attempts to divert opposition to Trump behind the Democratic Party and support for war with Russia
Sanders' rebuttal to Trump sought to cover up the essential agreement of the Democratic Party with Trump’s social austerity policies and attacks on democratic rights.
•Jacob Crosse, Andre Damon
Walkout by Detroit high school students against anti-immigrant witch hunt
Students at Detroit's Western International High School walked out as protests against ICE raids and deportations continued across the US.
•Jerry White
Trump’s tariffs rock US and global economy
The Wall Street Journal has warned that Canada and Mexico could face contractions in their economy of up to 5 percent and 3 percent respectively because of the tariff war against them.
•Nick Beams
Steelworkers union pushes sellout contract at ATI as leaders promote tariffs and trade war
United Steelworkers leaders are determine to prevent a strike that would cut across their collaboration with Trump's trade war measures
•Samuel Davidson
How US Education Secretary Linda McMahon is dismantling public education
McMahon’s mandate is to take the Department of Education apart piece by piece until Congress approves its final elimination and the mass privatization of public education.
•Nancy Hanover
30 Los Angeles County correctional officers indicted for inciting “gladiator fights” among youth
The orchestration of “gladiator fights” is a grotesque extension of this systemic neglect. It reflects a culture within correctional institutions more broadly that dehumanizes inmates, viewing them as sources of entertainment rather than individuals in need of guidance and support.
•Marc Wells
Break through Verdi union’s stalling tactics at Berlin transit provider BVG! Prepare an indefinite strike!
There is a direct link between our industrial dispute and the rapid changes in world politics.
•Transport Workers Action Committee
Brazil faces threat of historic dengue outbreak in 2025
Brazil faces a potentially historic dengue outbreak due to government negligence, the reintroduction of serotype 3, and climate change, exacerbating the public health crisis.
•Fátima Ferrante
50th anniversary of Picnic at Hanging Rock: A landmark film of the Australian New Wave
The film’s portrayal of young people and their natural instincts, repressed by social conventions, spoke more to what was taking place in the early 1970s than in the 1900s.
•Owen Howell
Reject UAW’s support for Trump’s tariffs! Unite US, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
Shawn Fain lied when he and the UAW apparatus backed Harris and the Democrats, claiming that they were allies of workers. Now he is lying when he claims that Trump’s tariffs will benefit the working class.
•Will Lehman
Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part Two
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
The political significance of Greece’s massive protests and general strike for Tempi rail crash justice
The mass movement over Tempi developed in direct opposition to all the major parties, with demonstrations featuring banners reading “Syriza, PASOK, ND [New Democracy]—Tempi has a history”, and largely outside of the structures of the trade unions.
•Robert Stevens
Trump’s fascist Fortress America
Revealed on Tuesday night was the political underworld in power—the physiognomy of the American oligarchy that rules over society.
•Joseph Kishore
Trump threatens to pull funding from schools that refuse to suppress free speech, opposition to genocide
The aspiring dictator threatened to deport and/or arrest students for the “crime” of exercising their First Amendment rights.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: Electoral members support SEP campaign against party registration ban
“The system is designed to keep the Socialist Equality Party from registering and designed to keep a socialist voice out of Parliament completely.”
•Our reporters
Autoworkers oppose UAW backing of Trump tariffs and coming job cuts
Workers in the US and Mexico expressed concern about trade war measures and job cuts.
•WSWS reporting team
Trump’s expanding global trade war will mean mass layoffs and punishing price hikes for workers
The trade war targeting America’s three largest trading partners is part of the Trump administration’s drive to reshore production and secure its dominance over the Americas in preparation for world war against adversaries and nominal allies alike.
•Roger Jordan
Public meeting in Australia: Election ban on the SEP: An attack on democratic rights
The meeting will be held in person in Sydney and live-streamed. It is part of the SEP’s campaign to challenge the rejection of its application for official party registration.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Mexican president banks on phone call with Trump to avoid devastation from tariffs
Tuesday’s imposition of 25 percent tariffs is threatening to plunge Mexico into a historic crisis.
•Andrea Lobo
Poverty among Australian retirees has doubled in the past decade
Soaring housing costs are pushing more retirees into financial distress, with two-thirds of retired renters now living in poverty.
•Max Boddy
Australia: Court ruling undermines challenge to Victorian public housing demolition
The Supreme Court ruled the state government does not have to release internal documents related to its decision to demolish 44 public housing towers in Melbourne.
•Margaret Rees
Australia: Support for campaign against Zionist witch hunt of Randa Abdel-Fattah
This campaign is a test case for the defence of all the academics, journalists, students and workers being slandered and vilified as antisemitic for opposing Israel’s crimes and the underlying nationalist ideology of Zionism, which many Jews oppose.
•Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee
Mayor’s report understates homeless crisis in Detroit
The working class must reject half-measures and lies and demand a full accounting of the scale and depth of the homeless crisis in the city of Detroit and across the country.
•Stephen St. Clair
Coalition talks in Germany: €1 trillion for the military and infrastructure
In coalition talks, the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) are preparing a huge increase in defence spending and corresponding social cuts. The Green and far-right Alternative for Germany also largely support this course.
•Peter Schwarz
PKK accepts Öcalan’s call to end armed struggle
The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is intertwined with a deepening imperialist war in the Middle East and involves four countries in the region, cannot be found within the capitalist nation-state system.
•Ulaş Ateşçi, Barış Demir
Sam Fender’s People Watching: “I don’t wear the shoes I used to walk in”
Fender gives voice to a generation of working class youth which has grown up after the collapse of the Soviet Union, amid a prolonged suppression of the class struggle and a rotten “left” culture of barely disguised liberalism, actively hostile to class politics and to Marxism, concerned with the micro-policing of language and the selfish advancement of rival “identities”, leaving millions of people politically at sea.
•Thomas Scripps
Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part One
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Mass protests continue in Serbia
Since December, students from 65 of the country’s 80 faculties have been on strike. Schools are also on strike, and at major demonstrations, farmers have blocked main roads with dozens of tractors.
•Markus Salzmann
Trump’s 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico to take effect Tuesday
Trump’s tariffs will roil the North American economy, with workers in all three countries bearing the brunt in the form of mass layoffs and punishing price hikes.
•Keith Jones
Democrats seek to divert opposition to Trump with anti-Russia warmongering
The Democratic Party has only one significant conflict with Trump—over continuing the war with Russia in Ukraine.
•Patrick Martin, Joseph Kishore
Opposition grows to UAW sellout at Rolls-Royce Indianapolis defense plant
Rank-and-file opposition is growing over the last-minute agreement reached by the UAW to prevent a strike by 800 aircraft engine workers.
•George Kirby
Trump and Musk move towards privatization of Social Security with 7,000 job cuts
On Friday, as Elon Musk was calling Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time,” the Social Security Administration announced 7,000 job cuts and a restructuring plan that will cripple the agency’s ability to serve the more than 70 million people who receive benefits each month.
•Kevin Reed
Sri Lankan president warns against any attempt to destabilise his government
Disenchanted with Dissanayake’s ruthless implementation of IMF demands, the working class is now starting to come into conflict with the new regime.
•Saman Gunadasa
Australia: Trump tariff threats trigger corporate demands for deeper attacks on workers
These demands require an all-out assault on working-class conditions and basic democratic rights, to be unleashed as soon as the federal election is out of the way.
•Mike Head
Oppose the expulsion of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University! Mobilize the working class!
The IYSSE demands the immediate reinstatement of three expelled students and all others who have been disciplined by the university for protesting against the Gaza genocide.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality in New York and New Jersey
The success of No Other Land and I’m Still Here at the Academy Awards shows growing popular opposition and radicalization
Two of No Other Land’s co-directors, Palestinian Basel Adra and Israeli Yuval Abraham, decried the decades of injustice and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
•David Walsh
New Austrian government will implement right-wing programme
Even though the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) will not be part of the administration, the new government programme clearly bears its hallmark.
•Markus Salzmann
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers in Buenos Aires occupied the Anselmo Morvillo printing plant to defend jobs, while in Mexico, thousands marched on the State Government House in Toluca to protest the social crisis.
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Former governor Andrew Cuomo announces he will run for New York City mayor
Cuomo is a veteran right-wing Democratic Party politician.
•Sandy English
Australia: Growing opposition to Zionist censorship of Venice Biennale artist and curator
Encouraged by support from other artists, Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino have said they will find a way to exhibit their work at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
•Gabriela Zabala, Richard Phillips
Thailand: Opposition parties file no-confidence motion against prime minister
Far from defending democratic and social rights, the opposition People’s Party, which postures as progressive, is making every effort to divert growing discontent into the dead-end of parliamentary politics.
•Robert Campion
After child dies in Texas measles outbreak, Kennedy promotes “vaccine choice” and pseudoscience
RFK Jr’s opinion piece in Fox News underscores his complete disdain for public health and vaccines.
•Benjamin Mateus
Protesters speak out at global demonstrations for justice over Greek Tempi rail crash
At least 112 demonstrations were held internationally to mark the second anniversary of the Tempi rail crash deaths in Greece.
•Our reporters
Car workers in Luton respond to Stellantis UK plant closure: “Workers united internationally have the power to fight these companies”
A veteran production line worker told reporters, “I’m devastated about the closure. Luton is already deprived. My grandfather worked in this plant. It has a rich history of car and van building. I don’t know what I’m going to do to find work.”
•Michael Barnes
Netanyahu’s murdered Bibas children lie unravels after it was championed by Trump and world’s media
Netanyahu’s claims were widely regurgitated and amplified uncritically by the domestic and international media to whip up a foul atmosphere, with the Israeli government using this barefaced lie to promote another anti-Palestinian “atrocity” campaign.
•Jean Shaoul
Turkish workers occupy mine against privatisation as wildcat strikes continue
The attack of the government and the municipalities on the wages and living conditions of the working class is leading to growing struggles in different sectors.
•Hasan Yıldırım
Pentagon orders 3,000 more troops, including Stryker combat brigade, to US-Mexico border
On the same day the troop deployment was announced, Trump signed a fascist executive order declaring English the “official” language of the United States.
•Jacob Crosse
Israel blocks entry of food into Gaza, plans to cut power and water
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel had blocked the entry of all food into Gaza. The aim is to starve the population into submission and ethnically cleanse the enclave.
•Andre Damon
Democrats jump to defense of Zelensky and Ukraine war
In response to Trump’s public humiliation of the Ukraine president at the White House, congressional Democrats are reaffirming their support for escalating the US-NATO war with Russia.
•Patrick Martin
New York governor accedes to prison guard demands to loosen restrictions on solitary confinement
The main demand of the strikers was to allow them a free hand in terrorizing inmates.
•Philip Guelpa
“How the fight against fascism and war must be waged”
In the following video, the chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP), Christoph Vandreier, talks about the result of the 2025 federal election and explains “how the fight against fascism and war must be waged.”
•Christoph Vandreier
This week in history: March 3-9
Film documents Iraqi child deaths; Israeli slaughter at Savoy Hotel; US coal miners strike ends; Britain bombs Pashtun tribesmen
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Trump bans transgender athletes from entering the United States
Lifetime visa bans on international transgender athletes for “fraud” are just the latest in a series of efforts to create a pogrom-like atmosphere against transgender people.
•Isla Anderson, Evan Winters
Major US think tank highlights importance of critical minerals
Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has said that when Trump raised the issue of the country’s minerals he knew the president’s threats of annexation were a “real thing.”
•Nick Beams
Rank-and-file committee members at Sydney’s Macquarie University call for urgent staff action to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah
Abdel-Fattah’s employment has been directly threatened by last week’s decision of the Australian Research Council, acting at the behest of the Albanese government, to freeze her research grant.
•Mike Head
Continuing hysteria in NZ over Cook Islands’ deal with China
The agreement is being denounced as a threat to New Zealand and used to justify its ongoing integration into US-led plans for war against China.
•John Braddock
DOGE layoffs hit air transportation safety hard
Although none of the chronically short-staffed air traffic controllers have yet been fired, the cuts have already hit FAA staff that support their safety-critical functions.
•Claude Delphian
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