Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
The complacent and self-congratulatory speeches from the convention podium avoided all mention of the drive by the Trump administration to establish a fascist dictatorship or the seething rank-and-file discontent expressed in a series of contract rejections by auto parts workers.
Company thugs opened fire on the Özşen Mining workers and their families, who were staging a sit-in to demand payment of their wages.
At the protest held in Izmir, a Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi member denounced the armed attack on miners and called for a broader mobilisation of the working class.
If Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer does not succeed in meeting the demands of the warmongers, then replacements are waiting in the wings to implement their agenda.
The UAW bureaucracy gave workers less than 48 hours to review the 118-page agreement, and threatened that workers would be replaced with strikebreakers if they rejected the pro-company deal.
As early as December 2025, IAV management announced its intention to eliminate roughly 1,500 jobs this year. Over the course of seven rounds of negotiations with management to date, union officials have, in their own words, proven themselves “willing to compromise.”
As a matter of principle, no offer should be used to call off mandated strike action before British Medical Association members have been given time to scrutinise its contents and determine whether it meets their demands.
Africa’s four richest billionaires own $57.4 billion—more than the combined wealth of half the continent’s 1.5 billion population
For nearly a decade, successive governments have refused to hold elections for the provincial councils in flagrant violation of the country’s constitution.
Teachers, support workers and student teachers spoke out against the intolerable conditions in public schools and the Australian Education Union’s anti-democratic methods.
The suit claims the teachers’ union created a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli members, particularly at a July 2025 Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon.
The tournament has been transformed into a platform for imperialist arrogance, militarism and anti-immigrant chauvinism by the Trump administration, without protest by FIFA and its co-hosts.
The reaction to the Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years is not simply about basketball. It expresses, in distorted form, immense social tensions for which workers and youth have been denied any progressive political outlet.
The Labor government’s far-reaching assault on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has provoked an outpouring of anger from disabled people, their families and advocacy organisations.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026
US imperialism’s debacle in Iran
Monday, June 15, 2026
Capitalist oligarchy, the UAW and the class struggle
Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
On the eve of the UAW Constitutional Convention, American capitalism has minted its first trillionaire, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
It would be difficult to conjure up a more grotesque expression of the collapse of American democracy and the depravity of American capitalism in its death agony.
While the terms of the settlement remain undisclosed, this much is already clear: The Trump administration achieved none of the aims for which it went to war.
The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting reviewed the four deaths at Palmetto, Steiner’s restructuring plans, the USPS safety crisis and reports from postal workers in Britain and Canada.
Manslaughter charges over Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court inferno expose a vast corrupt system of profiteering, bid‑rigging and brutal housing conditions.
The Trump administration has granted ICE an expansive mandate to conduct enforcement with no meaningful constraint—no requirement to identify themselves in plainclothes operations, no obligation to notify families, no accountability for injuries caused during pursuits or arrests.
Anthony’s 35-year prison sentence stands in sharp contrast to far more lenient sentences and outright acquittals given to defendants in similar “self defense” cases, namely those in which victims were political targets of the Trump administration and the far right.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is launching an initiative to sign up hundreds of new SEP Supporters and involve them in the party’s campaigning and educational work.
The sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani marks a watershed moment in the Starmer Labour government's escalating war on democratic rights and the criminalisation of opposition to war and genocide.
A government beholden to big business and not social needs has seized the drop in pupil numbers to slash public services to fund its key priority, military spending.
Protestors are angry that they should be made to bear the risks of a deadly viral disease that has already led to the deaths of at least 138 out of 695 confirmed cases in Congo, for the benefit of Washington.
Nearly one month since the declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a bleak assessment of the outbreak.
The legal architecture now being used to seize workers’ wages was built through the very reform that the pseudo-left sold to students as a “victory.”
Six people were injured in the crash, which could have been avoided if Wellington’s train network was equipped with modern safety systems used in Auckland and many other parts of the world.
The restructuring by the office supplies retailer is another demonstration of the relentless corporate drive to lower labour costs, and the complicity of governments and trade unions.
The export-control directive against Anthropic reveals the capitalist state asserting direct power over who may build and deploy the most advanced AI, and for what ends.
In a darkly humorous and disturbing movie, a media executive approaches the high point of her career just as a mysterious illness begins to kill the world’s plutocrats.
Lori Berenson show trial in Peru; Soweto uprising in South Africa; Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act; German working class votes to expropriate the former monarchs.
The Albanese government’s extraordinary bid to block a false imprisonment case essentially sought to protect governments being sued for any illegal action.
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