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
Cliff Slaughter
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
Mass walkout by tourism workers in Canary Islands over pay; Iran convulsed by ongoing cost-of-living protests; teachers and council workers continue pay strike in Federal Capital territory, Nigeria
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