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The war on immigrants, and through them on the democratic rights of the entire working class, continues and is escalating, and the El Gamal family, including four minor children, remains under threat.
The United States is expanding its naval blockade of Iran into a global operation against shipping in any ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday. Hours earlier the Treasury Department sanctioned a major Chinese oil refinery and 40 shipping companies for buying Iranian crude.
The IMF forecasts the sharpest growth downgrade and the joint highest inflation rate in the G7 for the UK this year, even if energy costs stabilise by mid-2026.
Bipartisan agreement ensures working people pay for wildfire devastation through debt, austerity and higher costs, while corporate oligarchy secures profits and protection.
WSWS reporters visited picket lines and spoke with striking London Underground drivers.
Miners’ struggle demonstrates the social power that must be mobilized for the social and democratic rights and against imperialist war.
Four workers have lost their lives following hydrogen sulphide poisoning at a tannery in Runkel, Hesse, highlighting severe deficiencies in occupational safety and environmental monitoring.
The recent meetings between Pentagon officials and top US auto executives are aimed at securing the more direct integration of the auto industry into the war drive of US imperialism.
Trump’s support for Bukele seeks to normalize the authoritarian doctrine that the state may detain or even kill individuals based on suspicion alone, without due process.
Brazil’s union federations are signaling that they will do everything they can to isolate, stifle, and divert the struggles of workers and young people behind Lula’s candidacy in the October election.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is deploying troops in full combat gear, armed with assault rifles and transported in armoured vehicles and military Samil trucks. Soldiers are equipped with live ammunition, with standing orders to fire in “self-defence”.
Like his mentor Leonard Bernstein, Tilson Thomas was known for his communication skills and his ability to attract new audiences to classical music.
Protesters in Brisbane and Adelaide denounced the federal Labor government for its complicity in the US-led imperialist assault in the Middle East.
The right-wing nationalist NZ First Party is scapegoating immigrants for the social crisis caused by austerity measures imposed by successive Labour and National Party-led governments, in which NZ First has also played a major role.
South Korea: Striking worker killed on CU Logistics Centre picket line; India: 1.7 million Maharashtra state government employees walk out; 38,000 Telangana road transport workers strike; Australia: National Broadband Network subcontract workers protest low pay; Brownes Foods logistics workers strike again in Western Australia.
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El Gamal family released from Dilley concentration camp: A victory in the fight against collective punishment
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Trump Justice Department intervenes to defend fascists and neo-Nazis
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The indictment is a political provocation aimed at intimidating all opposition to the Trump administration’s policies of war, social cuts and dictatorship.
German defence minister presents new military strategy: Berlin prepares for major war against Russia
On Wednesday, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Carsten Breuer presented a comprehensive military strategy for the first time in the history of the Bundeswehr. Published excerpts already leave no doubt that Berlin is systematically preparing for a major war, especially against Russia.
In a Truth Social post on Thursday morning, President Trump ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be” that he claimed without proof were placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Trump administration held Hayam El Gamal and her five children, ages 5 to 18, at the Dilley family detention center in Texas for nearly 10 months as punishment for the alleged crimes of the children’s father.
Hundreds of immigrant detainees at ICE’s North Lake Processing Center have staged a hunger strike in protest of abusive conditions and excessive lengths of detention.
As the Trump administration launches a scorched-earth campaign to bring higher education under the direct ideological control of the far right, Harvard’s leadership has responded not by defending democratic principles but offloading the costs of this political warfare onto its workforce.
Two workers were killed and another 30 injured in a West Virginia chemical plant explosion Wednesday at a facility 20 miles outside Charleston, the state capital.
Three weeks ago workers at the Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan, overwhelmingly rejected a pro-company contract backed by the United Auto Workers International Union and UAW Local 699 officials.
Every Democrat on stage gave current Governor Gavin Newsom a passing grade on homelessness, exposing their support for the criminalization of poverty and their hostility to the working class.
A new analysis by the Climate and Community Institute finds that the first two weeks of the US-Israel war on Iran produced more greenhouse gas emissions than Iceland with its volcanos generates in a year and that the consequences for fossil fuel dependence will dwarf the emissions of the fighting itself.
On the picket last Friday, workers raised the need for unity across London if the strike breaking operation by Stagecoach is to be defeated and working conditions defended.
The federal Labor government will cut tens of billions in funding for disability supports, part of a broader agenda of austerity and military expansion.
92NO has called for a boycott by speakers and the public of events to protest the institution's support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the war in Iran and Lebanon.
The meeting, titled “After the South Australian election: Stop the war in Iran! Fight for a socialist program!” advanced the fight to build an Adelaide branch of the SEP as a component of the broader struggle to build a global movement of the working class against the threat of world war.
“I was drawn to the SEP’s internationalist perspective to unite the working class. Capitalism is breaking down, that’s why the working class needs to go on strike and organise workers at workplaces and industries independently.”
Postal workers in Wallonia, Belgium continue strike over increased exploitation despite union sabotage attempts; workers’ protests resume in Iran by gas workers, teachers and retirees against plummet in living standards; strike by medical interns continues in Mozambique, Kenyan health workers at hospital and nurses in Zimbabwe walk out over pay and funding
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