Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
Spanning 2015 to 2026, this volume traces Trump’s rise to power, his coup of January 6 and his second term to their source in the corporate-financial oligarchy, and advances the socialist strategy required to stop the threat of fascism.
On Friday, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. A syndicate of investment banks priced SpaceX onto the Nasdaq at $135 a share Thursday night. When trading opened Friday, the stock leapt to $150, climbed as much as 30 percent intraday, and closed up about 19 percent at $161, lifting the company’s market capitalization to roughly $2.1 trillion.
One thousand striking American Axle parts workers are being rushed by the UAW bureaucracy into voting on a sellout tentative agreement announced on Wednesday and deliberately denied adequate time to study and understand what is in the contract.
Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years on the job, was fired after speaking out against the fourth tentative agreement at a UAW Local 699 roll-out meeting held on company premises.
Bernie Sanders’ AI “sovereign wealth fund”: a public-private partnership to bail out the tech giants
Sanders’ scheme amounts to a state bailout of the AI monopolies, giving Washington a direct stake in propping up their speculative valuations while binding them to the US imperialist war machine.
The rate rise was the first since 2023 and sets the stage for other central banks to possibly follow suit.
The June 14 No Kings event aims to dissipate mass opposition to Trump by subordinating workers and youth to the Democratic Party and American nationalism.
These arrests advance the drive by the Trump administration to construct a pseudo-legal framework for the criminalization of left-wing political opposition.
Despite the populist guise of Morena, President Sheinbaum has cited “budgetary constraints” in prioritizing financial elites over teachers’ demands.
A planned strike by 2,000 hospitality workers was called off by UNITE HERE Local 11 after the announcement of a tentative agreement. Ninety-six percent of members voted overwhelmingly for strike action.
The military and the media is demanding that Labour utilise its existing parliamentary majority to push through a vast increase in military spending, while slashing welfare and social services to pay for it.
IG Metall is not fighting against the steel corporations and government, which is pouring hundreds of billions into war and rearmament while slashing social spending. It is closing ranks with the worst enemies of the steelworkers.
The APWU's 200,000 members are being directed to the very same forces that are driving the destruction of the post office.
Every major school district in San Diego County is in deficit. The 2025-26 school year has brought mass layoffs, pay cuts and campus closures, with deeper austerity projected for years to come.
Private-sector teachers in Türkiye will launch an indefinite protest in Ankara—where the NATO summit will be held in early July—to demand their social rights.
While the popularity of the viral sensation and now newly-founded political movement known as the Cockroach Janata Party reflects the deep anger and frustration of India’s unemployed and student youth, the CJP will only them into a political dead-end.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine identifies the cause as hospitals being under resourced and pushed to the brink of collapse.
The strike showed strong opposition among educators to the deepening attack on public schools, where conditions are already close to impossible. But the union speakers sought to channel this anger behind plaintive appeals to the same Labor government carrying out the attack.
South Korea: Kakao platform workers strike over low pay; India: Rural childcare workers protest in Himachal Pradesh; Sri Lanka: Duncan Estate workers continue strike over allowances and workloads; Australia: UGL contract workers extend action at Woodside’s LNG plants.
Worsley’s narratives—whether on the Romanovs, the Peasants’ Revolt, or the English Civil War—consistently displace class antagonism, economic crisis, and mass political struggle, fixating on monarchs, courtiers, domestic interiors and historical cosplay.
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
Oligarchy: Trump and the Breakdown of American Democracy
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