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Trump escalates global economic war

Trump has sent letters to 14 countries saying that the massive tariff hikes announced on April 2 would be imposed on August 1, with two of the most significant diktats issued to so-called US allies Japan and South Korea.

Nick Beams

Indian pharmaceutical factory explosion leaves 42 dead

Industrial accidents have surged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, whose alignment with global capitalist interests has further eroded work safety protections.

Wasantha Rupasinghe

Trump and Netanyahu double down on plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza

US President Donald Trump received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a formal dinner on Monday, during which both men reiterated their plans to forcibly remove the Palestinian population from Gaza in preparation for its annexation.

Andre Damon

Texas flood disaster: A crime of capitalism

At every level of government—county, state and federal—the profit interests of big business and the strategic concerns of American imperialism blocked any effort to protect the population from deadly storms and floods.

Patrick Martin

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Police in Montevideo, Uruguay attacked a peaceful protest by striking fishermen, while nurses in Pennsylvania are prepared to strike Wellspan Health over work overload and low pay.

A further comment on Brian Wilson’s life and music

The cultural consciousness of posterity is enriched by Wilson’s 1962–1967 output. His greatest accomplishments during that period remain relevant, genuine, substantial, and intensely moving.

J. L’Heureau

Ruto locks down Nairobi to stop Kenyan protests, police kill 10

The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.

Kipchumba Ochieng

This week in history: July 7-13

Hundreds die in garbage mountain collapse; MPLA captures Luanda in Angolan civil war; North Korean forces push back US military; World’s oldest ceramic figurine discovered

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: A declaration of war on healthcare

The passage of the bill is an attack on a social program, Medicaid, that provides tens of millions of Americans limited access to healthcare. This will have a crippling effect on the already crisis-ridden healthcare infrastructure, impacting the most vulnerable.

Benjamin Mateus

Thyssenkrupp Steel demands €200 million in wage cuts

The early works council election at Thyssenkrupp Steel’s largest plant has only just ended, and already the IG Metall union is preparing to implement the attacks being demanded by the company’s top management.

Dietmar Gaisenkersting

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was tortured in El Salvador’s CECOT prison

In a lawsuit filed last week, Garcia, the Maryland father illegally deported in March by the Trump administration, alleges he was subjected to starvation, severe beatings and sleep deprivation inside El Salvador’s US-backed CECOT prison.

Chase Lawrence

Thai prime minister suspended from office

What is being carried out in Thailand is a judicial coup with the backing of both right-wing and phony “progressive” parties in parliament.

Ben McGrath

European heatwave threatens the lives of thousands

While workers suffer in deadly temperatures made more frequent and severe by climate change, European governments are sabotaging the required reduction in carbon emissions to guard the interests of big business and doing nothing to protect working people and the most vulnerable from the impact of extreme heat.

Henry Lee

China the target in US-Vietnam trade deal

The so-called “deal,” which has the character of the unequal treaties imposed on colonies in the heyday of imperialist rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has implications that go far beyond Vietnam.

Nick Beams

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: National Health Mission workers in Uttarakhand strike; Bangladeshi garment workers protest killing of a co-worker; Australia: Qantas engineers begin industrial action for pay rise; Grill’d fast-food restaurant workers strike over low pay and exploitation.

SOAS student appears at pre-trial hearing on UK terror charge

Sarah, 21, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student, was charged under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act (2000) on March 4, 2025 for allegedly “inviting support for a proscribed organisation” (Hamas) for remarks she made in the first days of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza in October 2023.

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German government expands arms cooperation with Ukraine

While the US government is scaling back its military aid to Ukraine, and even halting previously promised arms shipments, the German government is intensifying its military cooperation with Kiev.

Marianne Arens

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties back US-Israel war against Iran

Amid an unfolding global conflict, workers in Sri Lanka—Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim—stand in the same trench as their class brothers in Iran, Gaza, throughout the Middle East, including Israel, and internationally.

W.A. Sunil

Job cuts spread and deepen at Australian universities

By cutting international student enrolments, the Labor government is deliberately applying financial pressure to the universities, in order to restructure them to align with “national priorities” set out in last year’s Universities Accord report.

Mike Head

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

General strike in Ramallah governorate of West Bank sparked by settler killings of Palestinians; teachers and council workers in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria continue stoppage over minimum wage and pay arrears

Philadelphia city workers strike: A sign of rising class struggle in the US

Class battles are emerging which will inevitably raise revolutionary questions. Even a defense of workers’ existing low standard of living is impossible without a frontal assault by the working class against the prerogatives of wealth. It requires expropriations and a massive redistribution of wealth back downward to the working class who created it.

Tom Hall

California Democrats lead unanimous attack on free speech with AB 715

California’s AB 715, approved unanimously in the Assembly by Democrats and Republicans, is a draconian assault on free speech and political dissent disguised as anti-discrimination law, targeting opposition to U.S. and Israeli war crimes under the banner of “tolerance.”

Marc Wells
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