Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
Brasher is the fourth Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.
The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.
A report titled How ‘stopping the boats’ kills show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".
Two people have died in Michigan in the largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis ever recorded in the United States.
Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.
As the last of the major German carmakers, BMW has now joined the ranks of corporations destroying jobs on a massive scale, agreeing with IG Metall to cut around 8,000 positions—almost one in 10 of its 84,000 jobs in Germany.
For appearances’ sake, the capitalist Norwegian state invokes democracy and equality before the law. In practice, however, this has long been countered by a strike law designed to suppress industrial action.
The Sandinista government is pushing a constitutional reform excluding US-funded parties from elections, even as it answers imperialist pressure with concessions to Washington and foreign capital.
The raids expose the growing anti-China witch-hunt as a pretext for building the legal framework to criminalize political opposition.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled for the second time in less than a month, July 22, that management at the strikebound Bank of Canada, a key institution of the Canadian capitalist state, were in violation of the recently enacted revisions of the Canada Labour Code in Bill C-58.
Takaichi announced her government would designate the earthquake “a disaster of extreme severity,” but only provided $US127 million in assistance for the devastated prefecture.
This TV program is a full-throated promotion of militarism, seeking to counter the animosity toward war among young people.
Despite two widely supported 24-hour strikes last year, educators in Queensland remain straitjacketed in an arbitration system, facing a more than two-year pay freeze and no relief from intolerable workloads.
This book provides the first comprehensive account of Bogdan’s case and brings together his own writings and analyses the historical and political causes of the war in Ukraine.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Stellantis worker James Brasher killed on the job—the third death under the UAW’s “historic” 2023 contract
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Ontario to Bordeaux to Spokane: The escalating climate crisis and the fight for socialism
Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
More than 60,000 workers and their families have been driven from their homes in Spokane, Washington, as wildfires destroy hundreds of structures in the worst climate-related disaster in the region's history.
Israeli forces killed at least 26 people in Gaza over the weekend, striking apartment blocks, tent camps and the medicine warehouses of a hospital in the territory’s deadliest days in weeks.
More than 900 fires are currently burning across Canada, with dozens of them out of control. Over 120 of these are raging in British Columbia, where residents of well over 2,000 properties had been evacuated under 32 orders as of Friday.
Approximately 68,000 immigrants are languishing in a mostly for-profit concentration camp system marked by medical neglect, deaths in custody, force-feeding and contaminated drinking water.
Amid a right-wing backlash following events at Ceuta encompassing all Europe’s capitalist parties, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham travelled to Dover on Sunday to take his place in this xenophobic campaign.
The Selective Service System is seeking a contractor to build a computer simulation capable of testing the mass mobilization of conscripts for a major war.
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
NHS FightBack, representing rank-and-file doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, e-mailed a letter to the UAW to register outrage and demand immediate action.
WSWS writer Dinesh Heymaal was threatened with arrest by police after he opposed the nationalism and militarism of politicians and union officials following a fishermen’s protest near Jaffna.
While Porsche and the IG Metall-dominated works council have agreed to further job and pay cuts and worse conditions, union officials are being rewarded with new paid positions on a “future advisory board.”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed his campaign pledge to support a $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides, some of the city’s most exploited workers.
Concerns were growing that sales of dollar assets by Japan to prop up its currency could have adversely impacted the US bond market.
The reorganization of Tokyo’s intelligence operations is to expand military planning with allies while attacking democratic rights at home in order to clamp down on anti-war opposition.
A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.
Leon Trotsky’s autobiography “My Life” is now available from Mehring Verlag. The work is published in a German translation by Alexandra Ramm, with a new foreword by David North.
Workers at Great Canadian Entertainment casinos are demanding pay parity, while workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in Pennsylvania are demanding pay parity.
The officers involved remain on active duty; none has been suspended or stood down.
The trade union is enforcing the sacking of teachers for “under-performance” via the so-called Teacher Improvement Program.
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