Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people, in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democratic Party to fight.
A seismic change in how Medicaid benefits are distributed—requiring millions of recipients to provide documentation of 80 hours of work or face cutoff—has largely flown under the radar.
Trump ordered a pause to 13 nights of US air strikes on Iranian targets Friday under conditions in which US munition stockpiles, especially for its missile defence systems, are running low. However, recent days have underscored that American imperialism and its allies continue to systematically escalate the war.
The seven “objectives” announced by Peru's incoming president express the interests not simply of Fujimorism, but of the Peruvian financial oligarchy and US imperialism, at a moment of acute crisis of bourgeois rule.
The report found that between 2012-25 there were six avoidable maternal deaths, 94 avoidable stillbirths and 62 neonatal deaths of babies on the threshold of life at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The IYSSE’s club at Victoria University of Wellington passed a resolution condemning the threat made by United Auto Workers official Raymond Jensen Jr. against Lehman, who is running for president of the UAW on a socialist platform.
The opening of the vital Detroit-Windsor crossing exposes both the international integration of production and the efforts of the capitalist parties and union bureaucracies to divide workers through nationalism and trade war.
Four Los Angeles water main collapses expose the systemic decay of American infrastructure under capitalism, sacrificed to war and corporate wealth.
In Labor’s doublespeak, getting the National Disability Insurance Scheme “back on track” means stripping it to the bone.
The mass deaths in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean will only cease when the EU and its member governments are overthrown and brought to trial for their crimes and the murder of thousands of refugees.
The appointment follows the political removal of Aria Fani for criticizing US and Israeli military aggression, part of a nationwide campaign by university administrations to suppress anti-war and anti-Zionist speech.
The wave of protests and strikes centred in the garment industry is part of a growing international upsurge of the working class, fuelled by the economic crisis exacerbated by the US war against Iran.
Healthcare workers in Romania begin indefinite stoppage over pay and conditions; national 24-hour strike by rail workers in Italy for more pay and improved safety; protests across Tunisia and Libya due to collapsing infrastructure during heatwave
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Friday, July 31, 2026
American workers and youth are turning towards socialism
Thursday, July 30, 2026
The witch-hunt against Anthony Fauci and the war on public health
Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties.
Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the same global imperialist onslaught that includes the genocide in Gaza and the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Masked federal agents are seizing immigrants with work authorization and pending legal claims, frequently without producing warrants, before imprisoning them in an increasingly deadly network of private concentration camps.
A week apart, a journalist who reported on shipments of cocaine from Ecuador aboard merchant ships owned by the oligarchic family in power and a prosecutor probing US bombing of fishing boats accused were both found murdered.
More than 500 public defender workers are now on strike in New York City and Detroit, in an expanding rebellion against poverty wages, healthcare cuts and crushing caseloads.
Will Lehman, a candidate for the presidency of the United Auto Workers in the ongoing election, was sent a death threat by a top union official and close ally of current President Shawn Fain. Workers across Canada have responded angrily to Jensen’s thuggish behaviour and sent statements of solidarity to the WSWS.
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
Jonathan Reynolds reassured the FT that Burnham's talk of facilitating “public control” over critical sectors of the economy was an appeal for collaboration with private investors not an attempt to control or replace them.
The Greens have prostrated themselves before KPMG, pledging a three-year “Financial Resilience Plan” that will slash spending on key service areas including housing and adult social care “where spending is high” and which offer “the greatest opportunity” to deliver savings “through cost reductions or increased income”.
There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA is to channel this political radicalization behind the Democrats in order to block the development of an independent movement of the working class.
Bond markets signal that inflation is set to rise over coming months and maybe even years.
This outcome, after three limited strikes and 15 months of closed-door negotiations, is a warning of the retrograde enterprise agreements that the trade unions are trying to impose at public universities across the country.
Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd, releases a “reimagined” version of the 1979 iconic track “Comfortably Numb” with Palestinian artist Mona Miari.
According to the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization, 52 percent of Bolivians suffer from food insecurity, and anemia afflicts 53.7 percent of young children.
The clashes in the South China Sea during last week’s ASEAN summit in Manila expose the deliberate manufacturing of conflict with China by the Philippine state, acting on behalf of a US drive to militarize Southeast Asia.
The fake left have chimed in, not to denounce the government and prison authorities for their brutality, but to join the chorus calling for prison reform and how to run the jails more efficiently.
More than a week after declaring an "industry-leading" agreement, the Teamsters have still not released a term sheet, wage schedule or contract language to United mechanics.
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