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The US president seemed to channel the obliviousness of the French monarchy or the Russian tsar on the eve of their revolutionary overthrow.
In congressional testimony Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst told the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense that the running cost of the Iran war has grown to $29 billion—and that this figure does not include damage to US military bases.
Peter Daszak is a British-born zoologist and disease ecologist best known for his work on emerging zoonotic diseases and for leading the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. Because EcoHealth had funded and collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Daszak became a target of the Trump administration and others who promoted the false “Wuhan lab leak” narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To mark 100 years since the end of the 1926 General Strike (on May 12, 1926), the WSWS is republishing a lecture by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK). The lecture, "Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926" was delivered at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025.
This speech was delivered by Thomas Scripps, Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Tomas Castanheira, leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
After last week’s death of Jesús Martín Olivera at the GM Silao Complex, one worker at the plant said, “stress, the long working hours, and the production demands the company imposes are killing workers.”
TWU International President John Samuelsen denounced the WSWS’s reporting of the union’s support, calling it “provably incorrect.” But this is a lie, aimed at concealing the bureaucracy’s connections with management.
A “no” vote on the new TA and strike by the 1,300 Nexteer workers could spark a mass movement of auto parts workers and galvanize production workers at the Big Three factories.
State repression is aimed at crushing the developing independent workers’ movement, expressed in a growing number of wildcat strikes and acts of resistance
The fact that Streeting could conceivably become Labour leader and prime minister points to the putrid state of the Labour Party, and its advanced stage of political collapse.
Behind promises of “accountability,” a joint Los Angeles task force on homelessness is eliminating hundreds of frontline workers, increasing the privatization that produced the crisis in the first place.
The second impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte triggered a chain of crisis events—a power grab in the Senate, an ICC arrest warrant and gunfire in the legislature—that have shaken Philippine politics.
More than 1,000 Melbourne local government workers held a 24-hour strike last week. The action included workers in waste collection, maternal and child health services, aged care, childcare, libraries and parks maintenance.
“My pay has gone down 12 percent since 2021. That’s a sharp fall, not a minor fall. Since the economic uncertainty prompted by COVID, it hasn't improved. So now we're forced here today to vent our frustrations.”
The political task facing the Argentine working class cannot be carried out within the framework of the FIT-U, nor on the basis of the politics of the PTS, whose objective function is that of a centrist obstacle to the development of revolutionary leadership.
An estate-approved film about Michael Jackson is an exploitation that leans heavily on his music and provides a superficial, selective view of his life.
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