South Asia accounts for the largest share of people—an estimated additional 8.8 million—being pushed into poverty by the Iran war, with the region particularly exposed to rising food and energy costs and falling remittances.
The response of the media and political establishment is characterized by a staggering hypocrisy, wrapped in the sanctimonious refrain: “There is no place for violence in politics.”
Hundreds of thousands of retired workers, mostly depending on poverty-line aged pensions, are still facing prohibitive costs under the Support at Home program, which the Labor government launched last November.
We are publishing a lecture delivered by WSWS contributor Tom Mackaman to the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Gettysburg University on April 23.
Global military spending hit a record $2.887 trillion in 2025—the highest level ever recorded and the 11th consecutive year of growth, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported Monday.
Despite the record of Roberto Sánchez Palomino as a trusted administrator of capitalist interests, the far-right seeks to create a scandal over election mismanagement to block his candidacy.
Only two days before Little Lake City teachers walked out, union officials canceled a far larger strike in Los Angeles Unified School District.
If the American union bureaucracy, which for over a century was openly hostile to May Day, is now partly changing its tune, it is because they want to get in front of the growing movement to the left, dilute the radicalization and divert it into harmless channels.
Peasant, student and worker organizations conducted a week of protests in La Paz, Bolivia, while a strike by thousands of Nova Scotia long-term care workers is growing as more facilities join the action.
Meta and Microsoft announced measures to eliminate more than 16,000 jobs with references to efficiency and cost-cutting necessitated by major investments in artificial intelligence.
Home care workers in New York City ended a weeklong hunger strike after being told the “No More 24” Act would be brought to a vote—a commitment officials later denied.
Maintaining its irreconcilable political differences with the Maoist CPGB-ML, the SEP denounces this anti-democratic act aimed at suppressing and intimidating anti-war speech and sentiment.
With their anti-socialist purge, the Corbynites are the true inheritors of the Labourite tradition.
While Labor leaders obfuscated the reality, several hawkish commentators blurted out the fact that preparations are underway for a disastrous war against China.
In a flagrant violation of democratic principles, the HAW-UAW bargaining committee has unilaterally called off plans for a spring strike, overriding a clear mandate from the membership
The gunman who targeted the White House Correspondents Association dinner was tackled and subdued by Secret Service agents before even reaching the floor at which Trump and other administration officials were schmoozing with media proprietors and journalists.
This is a concerted, organized campaign driven by ultra-right elements dedicated to forcing their anti-democratic and unpopular views on a largely unsuspecting public.
Decades of bipartisan healthcare policies have gutted social protections, pushing workers into insecurity, high costs and limited access to medical care.
The resolution gives expression to the broad and growing opposition among workers to the war, which is backed by the UAW apparatus.
On April 14, a collision was narrowly avoided between a cargo jet and a smaller aircraft at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky.
Zohran Mamdani, the pseudo-left mayor of New York City, has proposed delaying the city’s contributions to city workers’ pension fund as a way of partly balancing the city budget.
This is the text of a resolution introduced by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman at a meeting of UAW Local 677 in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
Fuel, electricity and food prices are rising rapidly in impoverished Pacific countries including Papua New Guinea and Fiji, paving the way for a resurgence of class struggles.
The Pentagon is demanding uninterrupted production at Lake City to hoard vast supplies of small-arms ammunition in preparation for the bloody ground wars to come.
Police from the state of Uttar Pradesh are fanning out across the country to arrest political activists simply for being present at the recent workers’ protests near New Delhi.
Global repression against May Day rallies; Italian parliament dissolved after bribe scandal; Iran nationalizes oil industry under Mossadegh; British unions call General Strike
The report admits that at least 518 people died from “unnatural causes”, 197 by gunfire. A November report by 40 African human rights organisations estimated the real death toll at up to 3,000.
Reform UK can pose as being amenable to an agreement on Unite’s terms because the Graham leadership has gutted the demands of Birmingham bin workers and replaced them with “a fair settlement” including one-off lump sum payments of between £14,000 and £20,000.
ICE re-detained Hayam El Gamal and her five children during what was supposed to be a check-in, escalating the Trump administration’s campaign of collective punishment.
The recent meetings between Pentagon officials and top US auto executives are aimed at securing the more direct integration of the auto industry into the war drive of US imperialism.
Protesters in Brisbane and Adelaide denounced the federal Labor government for its complicity in the US-led imperialist assault in the Middle East.
The United States is expanding its naval blockade of Iran into a global operation against shipping in any ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday. Hours earlier the Treasury Department sanctioned a major Chinese oil refinery and 40 shipping companies for buying Iranian crude.
The right-wing nationalist NZ First Party is scapegoating immigrants for the social crisis caused by austerity measures imposed by successive Labour and National Party-led governments, in which NZ First has also played a major role.
Four workers have lost their lives following hydrogen sulphide poisoning at a tannery in Runkel, Hesse, highlighting severe deficiencies in occupational safety and environmental monitoring.
The war on immigrants, and through them on the democratic rights of the entire working class, continues and is escalating, and the El Gamal family, including four minor children, remains under threat.
Like his mentor Leonard Bernstein, Tilson Thomas was known for his communication skills and his ability to attract new audiences to classical music.
Trump’s support for Bukele seeks to normalize the authoritarian doctrine that the state may detain or even kill individuals based on suspicion alone, without due process.
Brazil’s union federations are signaling that they will do everything they can to isolate, stifle, and divert the struggles of workers and young people behind Lula’s candidacy in the October election.
South Korea: Striking worker killed on CU Logistics Centre picket line; India: 1.7 million Maharashtra state government employees walk out; 38,000 Telangana road transport workers strike; Australia: National Broadband Network subcontract workers protest low pay; Brownes Foods logistics workers strike again in Western Australia.
Bipartisan agreement ensures working people pay for wildfire devastation through debt, austerity and higher costs, while corporate oligarchy secures profits and protection.
Miners’ struggle demonstrates the social power that must be mobilized for the social and democratic rights and against imperialist war.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is deploying troops in full combat gear, armed with assault rifles and transported in armoured vehicles and military Samil trucks. Soldiers are equipped with live ammunition, with standing orders to fire in “self-defence”.
The IMF forecasts the sharpest growth downgrade and the joint highest inflation rate in the G7 for the UK this year, even if energy costs stabilise by mid-2026.
WSWS reporters visited picket lines and spoke with striking London Underground drivers.
The federal Labor government will cut tens of billions in funding for disability supports, part of a broader agenda of austerity and military expansion.
Every Democrat on stage gave current Governor Gavin Newsom a passing grade on homelessness, exposing their support for the criminalization of poverty and their hostility to the working class.
A new analysis by the Climate and Community Institute finds that the first two weeks of the US-Israel war on Iran produced more greenhouse gas emissions than Iceland with its volcanos generates in a year and that the consequences for fossil fuel dependence will dwarf the emissions of the fighting itself.
In a Truth Social post on Thursday morning, President Trump ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be” that he claimed without proof were placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
As the Trump administration launches a scorched-earth campaign to bring higher education under the direct ideological control of the far right, Harvard’s leadership has responded not by defending democratic principles but offloading the costs of this political warfare onto its workforce.
Two workers were killed and another 30 injured in a West Virginia chemical plant explosion Wednesday at a facility 20 miles outside Charleston, the state capital.
Hundreds of immigrant detainees at ICE’s North Lake Processing Center have staged a hunger strike in protest of abusive conditions and excessive lengths of detention.
The Trump administration held Hayam El Gamal and her five children, ages 5 to 18, at the Dilley family detention center in Texas for nearly 10 months as punishment for the alleged crimes of the children’s father.
“I was drawn to the SEP’s internationalist perspective to unite the working class. Capitalism is breaking down, that’s why the working class needs to go on strike and organise workers at workplaces and industries independently.”
The meeting, titled “After the South Australian election: Stop the war in Iran! Fight for a socialist program!” advanced the fight to build an Adelaide branch of the SEP as a component of the broader struggle to build a global movement of the working class against the threat of world war.
The indictment is a political provocation aimed at intimidating all opposition to the Trump administration’s policies of war, social cuts and dictatorship.
92NO has called for a boycott by speakers and the public of events to protest the institution's support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the war in Iran and Lebanon.
Three weeks ago workers at the Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan, overwhelmingly rejected a pro-company contract backed by the United Auto Workers International Union and UAW Local 699 officials.
On Wednesday, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Carsten Breuer presented a comprehensive military strategy for the first time in the history of the Bundeswehr. Published excerpts already leave no doubt that Berlin is systematically preparing for a major war, especially against Russia.
On the picket last Friday, workers raised the need for unity across London if the strike breaking operation by Stagecoach is to be defeated and working conditions defended.
Postal workers in Wallonia, Belgium continue strike over increased exploitation despite union sabotage attempts; workers’ protests resume in Iran by gas workers, teachers and retirees against plummet in living standards; strike by medical interns continues in Mozambique, Kenyan health workers at hospital and nurses in Zimbabwe walk out over pay and funding
A WSWS analysis of comments on union social media found roughly two-thirds of UTLA comments and a majority of SEIU 99 comments were against the contracts.
The Harvard Corporation consists of a virtual Who's Who of America's corporate-financial oligarchy.
As the US war on Iran continues, the global financial system is increasingly coming to resemble a minefield.
These terrible deaths point to a rising toll due to unsafe conditions and increased rates of exploitation in Australia and internationally.
The indictment does not expose a fraud against donors but the Trump administration’s effort to criminalize the monitoring of fascist organizations and rehabilitate the white supremacists the SPLC exposed.
Willacy was the eighth person executed this year in the US and the fifth in Florida, the latest casualty of an accelerating machinery of death overseen by Governor Ron DeSantis.
Danhao Wang’s death is the direct consequence of a systematic government- and university-sponsored political operation targeting young Chinese researchers. This xenophobic purge, deeply intertwined with the capitalist military-industrial complex, is part of the broader attack on the democratic rights of all immigrants, students and working people.
American imperialism’s determination to consolidate its geostrategic dominance over the Middle East, one of the world’s most critical energy-producing regions, has already claimed the lives of thousands of Iranians. But the economic fallout from the US-instigated war and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could prove even more deadly.
Escalating US military strikes targeting fishermen under the pretext of a “war on drugs” are driven by a broader agenda of imperialist domination.
Workers and youth will soon confront a Radev administration determined to defend the interests of the imperialist powers and the Bulgarian ruling class.
The two films present some of the same problems, some of the same problems that a good number of American (and not simply American) “small,” “realist” dramas exhibit.
The new Military Service Modernisation Act being introduced by the German government imposes far-reaching restrictions on travel freedoms for young people, demonstrating how extensive its plans are for the reintroduction of conscription and the militarisation of society.
A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes resulted from the adoption of agriculture in Western Eurasia.
Carroll Community College’s “Freedom of Expression and Public Assembly” policy is a bureaucratic censorship tool.
Talks have broken down not due to RMT intransigence but because of TfL’s hardline stance. It has used Dempsey’s demobilisation of members to press ahead with restructuring.
Hundreds of hauliers and agricultural contractors, farmers and small transport businesses brought together by right-wing organisers and social media pages forced Ireland to a standstill for days, through blockades, rolling roadblocks and protests.
The “Total Shutdown Tuesday” protests opposed a sharp fuel price hike, raising petrol prices by over 16 percent and diesel by more than 24 percent. The hike, driven by disruptions to global oil supplies by the US-Israeli war against Iran, has sharply increased the cost of transport and basic goods.
The specific aim of the contracts is to block all resistance to massive austerity which will begin, in all likelihood, soon after the agreements are ratified.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment transferring congressional redistricting authority to the Democratic Party-controlled legislature, potentially flipping four additional House seats ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s announcement effectively marks a further major reversal of what is left of Japan’s post-World War II pacifist constitution.
The decision marks the culmination of more than a year in which the Nurses and Midwives’ Association has enforced a strike ban under the phony pretext that the Industrial Relations Commission would reverse years of real wage cuts.
The brutal cuts to an already impoverished school district are the direct product of a statewide pattern of betrayal orchestrated by the California Teachers Association (CTA).
Picket lines went up April 21 at Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge and at Harvard Medical School, as graduate students indefinitely halted teaching, grading and research.
On Monday, the German government summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin, thereby raising the diplomatic confrontation with Moscow to a new level.
Iranian officials said they would not return to talks until the US ended its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while warning that Trump may be preparing a second sneak attack on their country.
Instead of the promised “democracy,” Hungary will get a government consisting of representatives of the banks and the European Union, which will continue the right-wing and undemocratic policies of the ousted Orbán government.
These unprecedented school shootings are a tragic product of the social crisis rooted in the capitalist system, the normalization of widespread violence and mass death.
The accumulating outrage and horror are inevitably finding expression in artistic circles, with greater or lesser clarity depending upon the artist or group.
Washington’s witch-hunt of Chinese scholars, which recently claimed a brilliant researcher’s life, exposes the imperialist push to monopolize advanced microelectronics for global conflict.
The 110 miners who walked 180 kilometers to Ankara to demand payment of their unpaid wages and other social benefits were taken into custody on Tuesday.
The events of the last days expose a hollowed-out, diseased body politic—serving the selfish interests of a grasping capitalist oligarchy.
The Open Letter draws a balance sheet of the three-year struggle waged by 50,000 members of the British Medical Association in England for pay restoration and resolving the acute unemployment crisis facing resident doctors in the National Health Service.
The strike by more than 200 Little Lake educators is part of a broader rebellion by teachers and school workers against poverty wages, healthcare cuts, overcrowded classrooms and the sabotage of struggles by the union bureaucracy.
UC workers confront soaring living costs and worsening conditions, as past contracts expose the need to wrest control from the union bureaucracy.
The arrests of 22 demonstrators in Brisbane follow police raids conducted by the state Labor governments in New South Wales and Victoria.
Far from representing a step forward in the construction of an international movement against fascism and war, the Porto Alegre Conference was a political platform for blocking the development of a revolutionary and independent struggle by the working class.
Less than 48 hours remain before the expiration of a ceasefire, which could lead to resumption of full-scale US bombing of Iran.
This tragedy underscores the plight of hundreds of thousands of working-class people living in slum settlements in both the Malaysian and Indonesian parts of Borneo.
While the last visit took place under conditions of a temporary diplomatic reopening, the latest delegation presented an ultimatum under threat of military aggression.
Authorities have not officially confirmed a motive, but video posted by warehouse worker Chamel Abdulkarim points to anger over low wages and poor working conditions behind the Ontario, California, fire.
