Stellantis worker crushed to death at Dundee, Michigan engine plant
Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on.
•Jerry White
Graham Beverley
For rank-and-file action by the working class to demand the reinstatement of Columbia grad students!
Instead of the international unity of the working class, expressed in the age-old slogan, “Workers of the World, Unite!” UAW President Shawn Fain embraces Trump’s “America First” policies and pits workers of different countries against each other.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality in New York and New Jersey
Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social Democrats prepare social cutbacks in coalition negotiations
The next German government will be one of rearmament, war and class war. Business groups and economists are insisting that there must be massive cutbacks in social budgets to pay for military spending.
•Peter Schwarz
US storms death toll rises to 23 as NWS/NOAA cuts expected to have far reaching impact on ability to warn of danger
Heavy rainstorms, tornadoes and flooding struck multiple states in the US South and Midwest over the weekend, destroying structures and causing at least 23 fatalities.
•Kevin Reed
The Encampments: A new documentary focusing on the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University
In a sign of the enormous popular opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the moves toward dictatorship, The Encampments has been met with significant support and enthusiasm.
•John Conrad
After Trump tariffs, Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government hands corporations €14 billion bailout
The bailout is a sweeping gift to Spain’s largest corporations, as the working class faces an unrelenting cost-of-living crisis, stagnant wages, and spiraling rents.
•Alejandro López
State whitewash exonerates profit-driven negligence in deaths of Impact Plastics workers during Hurricane Helene
In a craven attempt to shield the company from accountability, TOSHA concluded that the drowning deaths of six trapped employees were “not work related.”
•Jane Wise
Israeli strikes in Syria escalate tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv
Washington is planning to create an anti-Iran axis between Ankara, Damascus and Tel Aviv, but these plans are being hindered by the growing rivalry between the Turkish and Israeli bourgeoisies.
•Hakan Özal
Organised Immigration Crime Summit: Starmer government leads global anti-migrant offensive
Since coming to power, Labour has sought to prove itself more hostile to migrants than its Conservative predecessors and the far-right Reform UK.
•Paul Bond
Kenyan trade union leader demands social media censorship ahead of Gen Z protest anniversary
Speaking at a shop stewards meeting, Francis Atwoli urged the “broad-based” government to crack down on online opposition. “Social media [users], it is time you stopped propaganda. You must love your country. If you are not patriotic, even investors will exit. Otherwise, we will plunge into chaos,” he declared.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Socialist Equality Party announces candidates for 2025 Australian federal election
The SEP candidates are alone in fighting to build an independent, socialist movement of the working class against the program of war, austerity and increasing authoritarianism, supported by every other party..
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Sri Lankan police detain youth under anti-terrorist laws for opposing Gaza genocide
Allegations of “terrorism” and “threats to national security” are being exploited by the JVP/NPP government to intimidate and silence critics of Israel’s mass murder in Gaza.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Australian unions promote Labor ahead of federal election
What is starker in 2025 than ever before is the growing gulf between the interests of the workers the unions claim to represent and those served by the Labor Party and its governments.
•Warwick Dove, SEP candidate for the Senate in NSW
Leipzig Book Fair 2025 marked by official war propaganda and popular anti-war sentiments
The question of war shaped the programme of the book fair. On the one hand, warmongers were given a stage for their great power propaganda, while on the other hand, an increasing anti-war sentiment could be seen among many visitors.
•Our reporters
Financial markets are having “flashbacks” to 2008 crisis
The two-day selloff last week was the fourth most significant in the post-war period.
•Nick Beams
Trump immigrant crackdown escalates: Suicide of detained Chinese woman, workplace raids, visas for South Sudanese immigrants and college students revoked
Today's immigrant jails will be utilized tomorrow to detain workers who oppose the Trump administration’s fascistic government.
•Norisa Diaz, Alex Diaz
The political meaning of the April 5 mass protests against Trump
Mass opposition is developing to the fascist in the White House, but the movement can only go forward through a break with the Democratic Party and a struggle against the capitalist system.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Evidence shows Palestinian aid workers were executed at close range by Israeli military
A forensic analysis of the bodies, along with a smartphone video captured by one of those killed, shows that the official Israeli narrative regarding the deaths and mass burial of 15 Palestinian aid workers near Rafah on March 23 is nothing but lies.
•Kevin Reed
Interview with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi: “What’s happening in Palestine, in Yemen, and on US university campuses are threads of the same fabric”
In an interview with the WSWS, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi reviewed her academic research and expertise, recounted the circumstances of her firing by Yale Law School, and explained the political context within which freedom of speech and political opposition are being attacked.
•Our reporter
Australia: Public hospital doctors to strike, defying NSW government threats
Doctors are demanding a 30 percent salary increase, safe working conditions and other measures to stop escalating cases of burnout amongst doctors.
•Richard Phillips