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
Patrick Smith
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