Trump’s deployment of warships to Strait of Hormuz escalates Iran war

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Trump’s deployment of warships to Strait of Hormuz escalates Iran war The increasingly desperate actions of American imperialism express the strategic debacle it confronts after 35 years of uninterrupted wars of aggression. Read more Spirit workers lose paychecks and benefits as executives seek $10.7 million in “retention” bonuses The collapse of Spirit has priced millions of working class travelers out of air travel overnight—and it is only the first casualty of the fuel crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran. Read more “All this money for bombs but no money for education”: May Day protesters in US denounce war and dictatorship Although officially dominated by Democrats and the labor bureaucracy, hundreds of thousands in the US marched on May Day to oppose war and defend immigrants and democratic rights. Read more Islamist offensive tacitly backed by Paris shakes Mali Against the backdrop of the war against Iran and Russia, the conflict between the anti-imperialist aspirations of the Malian masses and the bourgeois politics of the Malian junta is emerging ever more clearly. Read more Union presents pay-cutting offer to New Zealand nurses Nurses and healthcare workers should reject the offer presented by the NZNO, which would slash wages and do nothing to address the staffing crisis in hospitals. Read more Australian Labor government axing public sector jobs to deepen budget cuts The Albanese government is slashing thousands of public service positions—a warning of what is to come in next week’s budget. Read more New sanctions, threats and military exercises set stage for US assault on Cuba Amid escalating sanctions, military exercises, and threats by Donald Trump to take the island “immediately,” Washington is laying the groundwork for a regime-change war against Cuba. Read more Brazil’s unions isolate São Paulo education strikes The struggles of teachers and students in São Paulo are part of a growing movement of the international working class against the austerity policies driven by the capitalist crisis and the effects of the war against Iran. Read more Graham Platner: A bogus “pro-worker” face for the Democratic Party in Maine Platner is being promoted as an outsider, but his campaign was recruited, packaged and launched through the AFL-CIO, Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party apparatus. Read more UK Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood targets children for brutal treatment in asylum seeker crackdown In a joint letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on April 27, almost 150 organisations—including social care workers, refugee charities, and fostering groups—accused the government of a “sustained attack on children’s rights.” Read more Trump withdraws 5,000 US troops from Germany as Berlin steps up rearmament The announcement by President Donald Trump to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany and halt the planned deployment of US intermediate-range weapons in Germany marks a further escalation of the crisis in transatlantic relations. Read more The Revolutionary Communist Party abandons Corbyn only to embrace Zack Polanski’s Green Party Building socialist consciousness means fighting to bring the historical and international experience of the working class to bear on contemporary political issues, in order to break the working class from its potential misleaders. Read more Further light shed on criminal US torpedoing of Iranian ship The evasions and hypocritical declarations of “neutrality” by Colombo and New Delhi, along with the silence of the imperialist-aligned media, cannot cover up the fact that these governments were complicit in this US war crime. Read more The new code of silence: Texas Tech University bans gender and sexuality teaching and research The draconian directive is an obvious appeal to social and intellectual backwardness and an attempt to shove ultra-right Christian ideology down the throats of faculty, students and staff. Read more Workers Struggles: The Americas Thousands of nurses at long-term care facilities in the province of Ontario have voted to authorize strikes, while workers in Puerto Rico held May Day protests demanding the end of the Wall Street financial dictatorship over the US island colony. Read more About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party. We’re powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. Copyright © 2024, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.

The 2026 International May Day Online Rally and the tasks of the international working class

What the rally was, and where the fight goes next.

readers, On May 1, the International Committee of the Fourth International, the World Socialist Web Site, the IYSSE, and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees held the 2026 International May Day Online Rally. Eighteen speakers from 14 countries on five continents addressed the rally, with subtitles in 11 languages. Watch the recording The rally was entirely unique in the political analysis and orientation it advanced. This is not a subjective claim. There exists today no other political tendency anywhere in the world that addresses the global crisis as the eruption of the historic and insoluble contradictions of the capitalist system, or that identifies the international working class as the revolutionary force capable of resolving that crisis. The language of Marxism is spoken nowhere else. The rally addressed, as a unified whole, all the decisive questions confronting the international working class. In doing so, it underscored a central political fact: the ICFI stands alone today in advancing a Marxist-Trotskyist program based on the perspective of world socialist revolution. The political framework of the rally was set out in the opening report delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North. “The celebration of May Day,” North insisted, “must not be limited to declarations of international solidarity. It must also be the occasion for an objective analysis of the present world situation, for it is on the basis of such an analysis that the strategy of the working class is formulated.” The rally, in its entirety, supplied that analysis, centered on the US-Israeli war against Iran and its historical significance and global impact. North characterized the US-Israeli war against Iran as “the culmination of a distinct 35-year period of history,” beginning with the dissolution of the USSR. World war, he said, “is not a future threat but a presently unfolding reality,” expressing the crisis of the entire capitalist order in its most concentrated and explosive form. North identified the first months of 2026 as the point at which “the resistance of the working class has emerged as a global force.” The rally documented that resistance with statements from postal workers, autoworkers, teachers, dockworkers, and students on every continent, and it elaborated the program required to unify these struggles into a conscious movement against war, dictatorship and capitalism. The rally was, above all, a call to action. The decisive question is whether the political consciousness, organization and leadership required to transform the eruption of class struggle into a conscious revolutionary movement can be developed at the pace demanded by events. That is the work of the Socialist Equality Party and its sister parties of the ICFI internationally. We call on our readers and supporters to widen the impact of the rally. Share the video and the written reports as they are published, circulate them to coworkers, classmates, friends and family, and post the rally on social media. Use the rally as a starting point for meetings and political discussion in workplaces, schools and neighborhoods. Most importantly, if you agree with our analysis and perspective, draw the necessary political conclusions: Join the Socialist Equality Party, or contact us to speak with a party member about how to become involved in building a revolutionary movement of the working class against war, dictatorship and capitalism. Join the SEP Get involved World Socialist Web Site We're powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. © Copyright 2026, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.