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The G7 summit in Évian, France marks a further step in the collapse of the postwar capitalist order and the slide now towards a Third World War.
The net worth of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has increased by $624 billion in six days, to $1.32 trillion, according to figures from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Dropping all pretense of “reform” the Fain administration used anti-democratic tactics to block debate while ramming through amendments boosting the income of apparatus, including heft pay raises for top officials and staff.
For the first time, newly discovered photos of the Nazi massacre at Kaisariani give a face to the 200 Greek resistance fighters, including twelve Trotskyists, and reveal their courageous defiance.
The investigation into Gavin Newsom is a dangerous escalation in Trump’s use of the Justice Department against political opponents, but the Democrats offer no defense of democratic rights.
Federal prosecutors are criminalizing encrypted messaging, political slogans, and protest organizing as felony conspiracies in a legal dragnet against anti-war activity.
TDU’s support for O’Brien is an expression of the reform groups integration into the Teamsters bureaucracy and indictment of the program of bureaucratic self reform
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA contracts were not "historic victories" but a coordinated betrayal by union bureaucracies that must be fought through independent rank-and-file committees.
The fact that the ruling made specific reference to the war in Ukraine, NATO and the Five Eyes surveillance alliance makes clear the motivations behind the crackdown.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Data released yesterday show that retail sales for May fell at the fastest rate since the end of 2022 when COVID restrictions were lifted and the virus swept through the country.
The trial was a whitewash designed to cover up the wider role of the military while sending a menacing message to anyone critical of the government or armed forces.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is intent on further suppressing household spending, amid the ongoing global impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran and a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
The two prime ministers reinforced the “closeness” of the countries’ military, security and intelligence partnership amid escalating US-led preparations for war.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026
G7 powers make new war plans at Évian summit
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
US imperialism’s debacle in Iran
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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