Supreme Court narrowly upholds 5-4 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
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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
Teamsters officials applaud Trump’s nomination of former UPS/Amazon executive to head OSHA
Amazon executive and former UPS executive David Keeling has been named by Trump to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
•Steve Filips
Amid disarray following Trump-Zelensky rift, Europe’s leaders prepare for war
Whatever attempts at a compromise are made and whatever the difficulties posed to London, Paris and Berlin, the direction is toward open conflict with Washington.
•Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps
Thousands protest at national parks against Trump’s mass firings
The push and pull of personnel left agencies weakened ahead of fire season and the lands they manage ready for dismemberment, while workers are left homeless and jobless.
•Joshua Fae
Donald Trump “celebrates” Black History Month with the black elite
Those in attendance agree that black history is really all about personal aggrandizement, not common sacrifice and struggle.
•Lawrence Porter
The political issues behind the Trump administration’s attack on DEI
The White House is using widespread animosity toward DEI to arrogate new powers to the executive branch and dismantle democratic rights.
•Andrea Peters
Huo Meng’s Living the Land: A moving portrait of rural China in the 1990s
Set in 1991 in an impoverished village in Henan province, in central China, the film is a moving and vivid portrayal of rural life in China.
•Clara Weiss
The Brutalist: A Holocaust survivor reclaims his life
There are striking images and certain convincing performances, but on the whole the filmmakers seem very much out of their depth. The work is starved of genuine historical and social insight.
•David Walsh
Trump-Zelensky shouting match exposes clash between US and European powers
President Trump and Vice President Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House on Friday, exposing the crisis caused by the failure of the war in Ukraine and growing tensions between the US and its European allies.
•Andre Damon
Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers protest President Dissanayake’s budget cuts
Nurses and other health workers are angered by the government’s drastic cuts to overtime and public holiday pay rates and the imposition of longer promotion periods.
•Our correspondents
Enthusiasm for Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here intersects with burning political issues in Brazil
The film’s success is undoubtedly linked to a growing recognition that resolving the country’s acute political crisis is impossible without a serious reckoning with its history.
•Tomas Castanheira
Australia: Political row erupts over presence of Chinese warships
Amid the furore, no-one has suggested that the Chinese “live fire” exercises were a military threat, were not held in international waters or that China had no right to carry them out.
•Peter Symonds
Australia: Socialist Equality Party challenges decision to deny it ballot status
The SEP has formally challenged and launched a public campaign against the Australian Electoral Commission’s rejection of our application for official party registration.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Trump task force to investigate 10 universities for “antisemitism”
In a major escalation of the attack on the rights of pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide protesters, the Department of Justice announced the task force created by President Trump to “combat antisemitism” would be investigating 10 universities for violating the law.
•Kevin Reed
Union officials try to block WSWS reporters from speaking to workers as union shuts down UC strike
Despite attempts to censor the WSWS, workers wanted to discuss the broader questions and did so with our reporters at length.
•Evelyn Rios, Kimie Saito
The Philippines becomes the staging ground for a US-led war with China
Over the past month, France, Australia, Japan, Canada, New Zealand—following Washington’s lead—have each staged war games or concluded alliances with Manila targeting China.
•John Malvar
US Food and Drug Administration cancels advisory panel meeting on flu vaccines
The abrupt cancelation by the FDA of the vaccine advisory committee meeting to determine next flu season’s vaccine has potentially catastrophic public health implications.
•Benjamin Mateus
Democratic lawmakers in Maryland push right-wing mask ban
A group of lawmakers in Maryland has proposed a bill that would criminalize so-called “masked intimidation.”
•Ray Coleman
Australia: Senior NSW psychiatrist condemns Labor’s assault on public sector mental health care
“We’re trying to treat unstable and traumatised patients in a public mental health care system that has become unstable itself and can re-traumatise.”
•Richard Phillips
On eve of Carnival, costume factory fire exposes deadly working conditions in Brazil
The frantic preparations for Carnival, driven by lucrative private investments, underly the dangerous working conditions at the factory.
•Eduardo Parati
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Japan: Nurses strike for higher pay; India: ASHA workers in Kerala still on strike after two weeks; Bangladeshi coal miners demand permanency; Australia: Victorian mental health care workers escalate state-wide action
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Trump calls for federal takeover of the District of Columbia
The attempt to take over the District of Columbia is of a piece with the attacks on federal workers and the effort to create a personalist dictatorship.
•Pete Salmon
2 Chicago construction workers electrocuted, 1 dead, at West Side building site
The platform where the men, ages 26 and 33, were working apparently touched live electrical lines.
•Brian Green
Ontario Tories win third term with union-backed Canadian nationalist campaign in “tariff war” election
That Ford, who has presided over vicious attacks on public services and worker rights, was able to posture as a man of the people leading “Team Canada” against Trump threats was entirely due to the political bankruptcy of the union-sponsored NDP, and the suppression of working-class opposition by the union bureaucracy.
•Roger Jordan
Greece’s largest ever protests and general strike demand justice for Tempi rail crash victims
The protests were supported by demonstrations at more than 100 Greek embassies and consulates internationally, across all six inhabited continents.
•Robert Stevens
Öcalan calls on Kurdish PKK to lay down arms and dissolve itself
Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish question could be solved by “democratizing” the Turkish state.
•Ulaş Ateşçi
Starmer-Trump meeting resolves nothing for British imperialism
Amid the self-congratulatory commentary in the British media on Starmer’s successes in schmoozing Trump, there are guarded acknowledgements that not very much was, in fact, achieved.
•Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps
Anger erupts as Stellantis workers told profit-sharing checks will be cut by 73 percent
Stellantis workers learned this week that their profit sharing checks for 2024, before taxes, will be $3,780 compared to $13,860 the previous year.
•Shannon Jones, Jerry White
University of California strike raises major political issues
The struggle of 57,000 UC workers represents a larger battle against a system that serves the ruling elite at the expense of society’s basic needs.
•Our reporters
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