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Skyrocketing energy prices are devastating the living standards of tens of millions of working people.
The United States bombed Iran for a second consecutive day Wednesday, with the US military announcing that it had begun striking “multiple targets” in Iran at 5:15 p.m. Eastern time. CBS News reported Wednesday that two US officials said the targets included ammunition depots, command-and-control nodes and warehouses.
The Trump administration escalated its political persecution of anti-war protesters on Wednesday, as the FBI and federal law enforcement agencies raided homes across southeast Michigan and unsealed a 63-page indictment charging eight individuals associated with pro-Palestinian activism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
These were not simply tragic accidents but the lethal results of austerity. Preventing them requires an organized movement from below, not beholden to management, toothless regulatory agencies or corrupt union officials.
The bill funds the immigration Gestapo through the end of Trump’s term without a single restriction on its operations.
The Trump administration’s targeting of the Detroit metro area, the historic heart of the American auto industry and home to nearly a quarter million manufacturing workers, makes it clear that ICE is not engaging in narrow immigration enforcement but a terror campaign aimed at the working class as a whole.
The volume “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk” brings together for the first time the most important statements and articles on the case.
The MTA claims there is “no money,” in the richest city in the world, for pay that keeps pace with inflation. Meanwhile, around 15 percent of the MTA’s overall budget is spent servicing debt to Wall Street firms like BlackRock and Vanguard.
While workers have demanded strike action, the bureaucracy of the Chocolate Workers Local 464 is keeping them on the job.
As Sheinbaum's approval ratings fall amid spending cuts and deepening social crisis, Ottenberg offers a pseudo-socialist fig leaf to a government facing growing opposition from below.
Platner’s promoters—large sections of the Democratic Party and the trade union apparatus, most avidly its so-called “progressive” wing—present him as a genuine representative of the working class. He is nothing of the sort.
The protests were directed against Kast’s newly installed fascistic government and its across-the-board spending cuts in the public sector in service of Chilean and international capital.
A paper-thin margin separates the two candidates as the Trump administration openly maneuvers to shape the outcome in Washington's favor.
This review makes clear that Trotsky’s writings are the working class’s indispensable guide to this critical historical experience.
Under the cover of a generally humane portrayal of the impact of the Ukraine war on a beat-up working class Russian town, the film, at its core, promotes typical US-NATO anti-Putin politics.
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), considered a lighthouse project of Franco-German plans to arm Europe into an independent imperialist great power capable of standing up to both the US and China, has failed spectacularly.
The flouting of safety standards in order to cut costs in the Philippines and in countries around the world regularly turns so-called "natural disasters" into man-made ones.
The Dissanayake government’s move is a further step in strengthening the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinist state and towards autocratic rule.
The family of stabbing victim Stephen Ogilvie defended “migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country” and insisted, “We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility.”
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
US consumer prices jump as workers pay for American imperialism’s war on Iran
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