Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
On Friday morning, for the third time in less than two months, 1,300 workers at the auto parts plant voted down a pro-company tentative agreement brought forward by the United Auto Workers apparatus.
The growing intensity of drone strikes between Ukraine and Russia has made incursions into neighbouring countries a regularity, presenting opportunities for the European leaders to warmonger.
Workers’ share of US economic output has fallen to its lowest level since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data the Commerce Department released Thursday.
After voting down three sellout agreements, workers at Nexteer are determined to defeat UAW-management collusion.
Following intense domestic backlash and a strike threat, Kenya’s High Court halted a bilateral agreement with the Trump administration to open a 50-bed foreign Ebola containment facility.
The outbreak has exposed once again the catastrophic failure of the capitalist state to guarantee the most basic conditions of life for the working class.
Democratic officials have responded to the federal rampage not by opposing ICE, but by deploying state police to disperse the protests.
The jazz world is celebrating the centenary of jazz trumpet master and bandleader Miles Davis, one of the 20th century’s most impactful musicians.
The defence lawyer attempted to portray the SEP as an NGO dependent on foreign funding and suggested that the complaint was motivated by efforts to obtain overseas funds.
The new BJP government in West Bengal is using communalism, repression and anti-poor demolition drives to divide workers and impose the burden of economic crisis, now aggravated by the Iran war, on the working class.
That a fascistic figure like De la Espriella is running second in the polls is the direct product of four years of Petro's government.
The unions’ endorsement of Labor’s budget is a clear statement that they stand ready to enforce the brutal cuts to social spending, jobs and wages demanded by the federal government and the corporate elite it represents.
The political logic underlying these operations is suppression of all opposition amid mounting attacks on social conditions and expanding imperialist violence.
Members of the IYSSE spoke with students in Wellington who opposed the increase in student fees and other attacks, and the diversion of billions of dollars to the military.
1.2 million Indian chemists and pharmaceutical distributers hold one-day national strike; Australia: Early childhood educators threaten national walkout; Australian Capital Territory public school teachers strike for better pay and conditions.
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Saturday, May 30, 2026
The Nexteer rebellion: The working class vs the trade union apparatus
Friday, May 29, 2026
Industrial slaughter in Longview: 11 workers killed in Washington’s deadliest workplace disaster in nearly 100 years
Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
The deaths of 11 workers in Longview are not an aberration, but part of the return of mass industrial slaughter under capitalism.
While the US and international press are focused on the terms of negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran, Israel is massively expanding its rampage across the Middle East—moving to permanently occupy Gaza and escalating its bombardment of Lebanon.
The workers at the plant have already rejected two deals and voted to strike. But rather than honor that mandate, the UAW extended the contract, lied to workers that a strike would be “illegal,” and has now brought back a third agreement.
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
The shock generated by the Iran war is now testing the so-called “resilience” of the banking system, threatening to expose credit, liquidity and funding vulnerabilities.
Greece’s integration into US imperialism’s war drive is the culmination of the country’s decades-long status as a client state for Washington.
That MAS voted to hand repressive tools to a government already shooting its own citizens requires an explanation beyond factional rivalry.
The Mexican government’s capitulation on migrants, Cuban oil, and operations by US troops and spies has only emboldened the Trump administration.
Carroll won civil judgements against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, with damages totaling $88 million. Both cases are on appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The shutdown of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show by CBS after 11 years raises important questions about the consolidation of the corporate media with the drive by the financial oligarchy and the Trump White House to silence opposition and control what the public has access to.
The fine is a reduction from the initial figure of $66,200, equivalent to 10 seconds worth of USPS revenue and likely not even half of what Acker’s yearly salary was at the post office.
Piker represents a certain social and political type, who can gain a widespread following but are easily absorbed into the milieu of the Democratic Party.
Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb wins Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District
Rabb appealed to voters based on his opposition to inequality, ICE, genocide and war, but promotes the dead end of the Democratic Party.
The German government's friendly reception of Syrian Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and its plans to deport up to 80 percent of Syrian refugees have sparked massive fear among those who have sought asylum in Germany.
The far-right coalition government is seeking to narrowly define the words “woman” and “man” in order to demonise and discriminate against transgender people.
Sri Lanka’s opposition parties, including the SJB, are signaling that they are ready to join hands with the JVP government to suppress workers’ struggles.
One mother was barred from re-entry by an arbitrary Labor government exclusion order, violating the fundamental democratic rights of citizenship.
Even if the case succeeds, it will not stop the state Labor government’s criminal wrecking operation; just require Homes Victoria to hold a consultation process.
Mass demonstration in Madrid, Spain against housing shortages, high rents and property speculation; hundreds of miners at Özşen Mining, Turkey strike over unpaid wages and sackings; petrochemical workers at Petronad in Iran protest sackings as US blockade bites; iron ore miners walk out in Guinea over pay and conditions
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