Australia’s militarist ANZAC Day held under the shadow of war
The event has always been a celebration of militarist reaction, but all the more so under conditions of the greatest threat of a world war in 85 years.
•Oscar Grenfell
Dietmar Gaisenkersting
VIDEO: SEP (Australia) candidate Morgan Peach speaks to SBS journalists
Peach spoke strongly on issues that are being covered up by every other party in the official election campaign, including the immense threat of a nuclear world war.
•Our reporters
New Zealand spy agency investigated victimised journalist
The Radio NZ journalist was vilified as a “Russian agent,” resigned amid a manufactured public furore and, in a sinister development, was investigated by the country’s spy agency.
•John Braddock
Trump administration lawyers admit they seized Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant
Immigration agents claimed Khalil needed to be arrested before a warrant could be produced because he was a “flight risk” and not “cooperative,” lies disproved by video of Khalil’s abduction taken by his wife.
•Jacob Crosse
FBI arrests Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge for obstructing ICE raid on undocumented immigrant
The FBI arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday morning, and she was charged with obstruction and harboring a fugitive in connection with an immigrant worker, who appeared before her on April 18.
•Kevin Reed
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
•Our reporter
Michigan Attorney General announces FBI raids targeted pro-Palestinian protesters over “vandalism and property damage”
The raids were executed across Ann Arbor, Canton and Ypsilanti. No one was arrested or charged during the raids, but police and FBI agents seized electronic devices and personal belongings and briefly detained 11 individuals for interrogation.
•Luke Galvin
“Comrade Wolfgang made invaluable contributions to the struggle for socialism”
Wolfgang Weber, an outstanding fighter for Trotskyism and a longtime leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) died on November 16, 2024. We are publishng here a message of condolence by the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the US, Joseph Kishore.
•Joseph Kishore
The Nation, pseudo-left back UAW President Fain’s embrace of Trump tariffs
The most basic lie in The Nation’s article is that it is possible to create a “progressive” nationalist politics which benefit the working class.
•Tom Hall
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
China: BYD electronics manufacturing workers strike; India: Tamil Nadu power-generation workers walk out indefinitely; Pakistani health workers continue to protest privatisation; Australia: Public mental health workers strike again
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Pre-election polls predict halving of vote for Canada’s social democrats
Support for the NDP, which is fraudulently presented in the mainstream media as a party of the “left,” has plunged to under 10 percent—its lowest share in a quarter century.
•Penny Smith
São Paulo teachers continue strike for better wages and against school privatization
The attacks on education in São Paulo and around the world are part of the increasing shift of the world’s ruling elite towards war and fascism.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Major wildfire in southern New Jersey consumes over 15,000 acres
Increasingly dry conditions due to global warming compounded by reductions in forest management practices presage a dramatic increase in wildfire danger.
•Philip Guelpa
Moroccan dock workers stop F-35 war plane components from reaching Israel
Anti-genocide protests which have taken place regularly in Morocco escalated to coincide with the arrival of the US-flagged Maersk Detroit and another container ship involved in the onward transit of the components to Israel, the Nexoe Maersk.
•Robert Stevens
Earthquake in Istanbul shows millions at risk
The ruling class and all its parties are indifferent to the fact that earthquakes and similar natural phenomena threaten millions of people. This shows that there is no other way out than for the working class to mobilise and take matters into its own hands.
•Hakan Özal
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
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
Islamabad has warned that it will consider it "an act of war," if India makes good on its threat to cut off Pakistan's 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