Social Security to mark immigrants as dead to force them to “self-deport”
The list already includes over 6,300 individuals, and officials admit it will likely expand.
•Marc Wells
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Baltimore’s Key Bridge was one of dozens potentially at risk across US
The Key Bridge collapse led to the deaths of six construction workers and untold economic damages for the Chesapeake Bay region.
•Ray Coleman
Thousands of Vogue Tex garment workers in Sri Lanka protest over bonuses
The determined fight against management’s refusal to pay an annual bonus makes clear that workers will not tolerate attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions.
•Aruna Malalagama
New Zealand to nearly double military spending
The National Party-led government’s plan to lift defence spending from 1 to 2 percent of GDP, as it prepares to join US-led wars, is fully supported by the opposition Labour Party.
•Tom Peters
Australia: Refugee prison boat cruelty highlights bipartisan scapegoating of immigrants
The Ombudsman’s report contained shocking pictures of the primitive, unhygienic and cramped cells in which captured asylum seekers have been held indefinitely on military vessels.
•Mike Head, SEP candidate for the seat of Oxley
Australia: SEP election candidates outline socialist anti-war program on podcast
Socialist Equality Party Senate candidates Max Boddy and Warwick Dove appeared on the Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove podcast on Monday night.
•Our reporters
Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights
The conflict between Harvard and the Trump regime poses fundamental issues of democratic rights, including academic freedom.
•David Walsh
Trump administration lawyers refuse to provide updates on Abrego Garcia, promise to deport him again if he returns to US
The Trump administration is using the case of Abrego Garcia to steamroll over what little remains of democratic rights in the United States.
•Jacob Crosse
“Safety was out the door!”: Former co-worker details conditions behind death of Stellantis worker Ronnie Adams
The following letter was sent to the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter on unsafe conditions at the Stellantis engine plant in Dundee, Michigan, and the collusion of United Auto Workers officials with management.
•Jerry White
Hundreds of thousands march in nationwide protests for right to decent housing in Spain
The housing protests in Spain came amid mass protests against Trump in the United States and rising protests and calls for strike action across Europe.
•Santiago Guillen
Latin American leaders meet at CELAC summit amid Trump’s escalating economic war against China
The attempts by Lula and other leaders to counter the US offensive by building a “multipolar world” is a reactionary illusion.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Leaked documents reveal Trump’s proposal to halve NASA’s science budget
The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend of subordinating science to private profit.
•Bryan Dyne
Canada’s ruling class doubles down on support for Gaza genocide amid federal election campaign
It is now considered intolerable even for members of the political establishment to acknowledge the basic reality of the illegal Israeli occupation and the genocide.
•James Clayton
Administrative court postpones deportation of genocide opponent Shane O’Brien but the Berlin4 remain in danger
The court’s ruling clearly shows how democratic rights are being trampled underfoot in the proceedings against O’Brien and the other three activists.
•Tamino Dreisam
Striking Birmingham bin workers speak out: “I think we’re just the start”
Striking refuse workers spoke with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site explaining the significance of the strike and the assault being mounted against them.
•Our reporters
Birmingham bin workers vote to continue strike, defying Labour government clampdown
On Monday, the right-wing Telegraph newspaper reported the Labour government was on a war footing against the strike.
•Robert Stevens
Kenyan government violently suppresses student play critical of state violence and corruption
Ruto’s crackdown on Echoes of War is a stark warning to artists, youth and workers across Kenya and internationally: any expression of opposition, no matter how symbolic or restrained, will be met with brute force.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
SEP (Sri Lanka) holds local government election campaign meeting in Jaffna
“The democratic rights of the Tamil people can only be achieved through the overthrow of capitalism and the fight for socialism.”
•Our reporters
China hits back at Trump by tightening exports of rare earths
The new restrictions, which will impact on the US auto industry and military contractors, appear to be the most significant retaliatory measure by China so far.
•Nick Beams
Incoming German chancellor intends to send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine
The Russian government would see the delivery and use of this weapon as a declaration of war. No one can guarantee that it will not respond with attacks on German targets.
•Peter Schwarz
Chinese president in South East Asia to counter US economic warfare
In Vietnam, Xi hit out indirectly at the Trump administration’s policies, warning there were “no winners in trade wars or tariff wars, and protectionism leads nowhere.”
•Peter Symonds
Ukraine’s NATO-backed Kursk invasion ends in failure
The failure of Ukraine’s NATO-backed invasion of Russian territory has intensified infighting within the Ukrainian ruling class and state.
•Jason Melanovski
No to genocide and fascist dictatorship!
This report was delivered to a public meeting hosted by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Wayne State University in Detroit, on April 10, 2025.
•Andre Damon
In meeting with Bukele, Trump bars return of Abrego Garcia, threatens deportation of US citizens
Trump beamed as the Salvadoran dictator declared it would be “preposterous” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported father of three, to the United States.
•Patrick Martin
Furore over New Zealand Green MP’s criticisms of police
Despite the right-wing backlash, the Green MP’s contention that reforms and “alternatives” to the police are possible within the capitalist system is bankrupt.
•John Braddock
Trump targets hundreds of University of California faculty over opposition to Gaza genocide
The campaign cynically usees the EEOC, an agency ostensibly meant to protect workers from discrimination, to punish scholars for holding dissenting views on US foreign policy.
•Marc Wells
Australia: Union attempt to sell-out NSW doctors highlights need for unified struggle of health workers
ASMOF’s strike shutdown is a blatant violation of the intentions of doctors, made clear in the unprecedented turnout to rallies last week.
•Keo Vongvixay, SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
Webinar with David North: “It’s happening here: Fascism in 1933 Germany and today”
On Tuesday, April 15, WSWS International Editorial Board chairman David North will take part in this critical webinar hosted by San Diego State University Political Science Professor Emanuele Saccarelli.
•Our reporters
WSWS reporter Evan Blake interviewed on Trump’s fascist attacks on science
In an interview with WBAI’s “Frontline Voices,” Evan Blake speaks to the historic significance of the Trump administration’s attacks on science, the threat of new pandemics, and the urgent need for socialist public health.
•Our reporters
Chicago Teachers Union, Democrats push through 4-year deal by concealing coming cuts
Large sections of educators had no confidence that the Chicago Teachers Union would bring back a better deal, let alone lead a fight against Trump.
•Jerry White
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi snatched by federal agents
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration police and deportation proceedings began against him when he reported for a citizenship application interview in his home state of Vermont.
•Kevin Reed
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A general strike called to oppose the policies of the fascist Milei largely paralyzed Argentina April 10 while 3,000 city workers in Lages, Santa Catalina state in Brazil have walked out over contract issues.
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Postal, transport and public sector Action Committees in Germany hold joint online meeting
The central question addressed by the meeting was: How do we continue the fight against the Verdi union selling out our struggles for better wages and conditions?
•Our reporters
Third general strike in Argentina against Milei government
The strike took place two days after the International Monetary Fund announced a “technical agreement” for a 20-billion-dollar (US) loan to the Milei administration.
•Rafael Azul
On Falling: Crushing exploitation and a sense that something’s got to give
Director Laura Carreira repeatedly returns to the same settings of Aurora’s work and life, almost tableaus, to illustrate the repetitiveness and drudgery of her existence.
•Darren Paxton
Teachers in England reject 2.8 percent wage offer and support indicative strike ballot over wages and conditions
Teachers face intolerable working conditions, a funding crisis, a near collapse of SEND (special education needs) provision, and crumbling schools threatening the safety of teachers and children.
•Tania Kent
Bogus housing promises from Labor and Liberals at Australian election launches
The policies unveiled by both major parties are a transparent attempt to maintain the inflated housing bubble and boost the profits of the banks and property developers.
•Keo Vongvixay, SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
Trump says tech tariff exemption only temporary
Warnings grow of a deepening crisis in US and global financial systems.
•Nick Beams
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez resume fraudulent “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Los Angeles
In contrast to the thousands in attendance looking to fight the system, Democratic politicians and trade union bureaucrats, capped by Sanders and AOC, advanced the dead-end perspective of pressuring the Democratic Party.
•Marc Wells, Kimie Saito, Jacob Crosse
Israel attacks last fully functional hospital in Gaza City
As part of its renewed, high-intensity genocide in Gaza, Israel targeted Al-Ahli Hospital, the last remaining fully functional medical facility in Gaza City, killing one child in the evacuation and forcing 100 patients and dozens of staff into the street.
•Kevin Reed
New Mexico governor declares state of emergency, deploys National Guard to back Albuquerque police crackdown
City officials stated that the troops, numbering approximately 60-70, will undergo a period of training and deploy to the Central Avenue Corridor area by mid-May, an area home to many poor and working class residents.
•Eddie Haywood
IYSSE holds rally at Texas A&M University against Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship
The rally drew around 200 people from the university, including students, graduate students, and some academics, as well as workers and a few retirees in the surrounding Bryan County area on Thursday.
•Our reporter
Trump directs US military to take control of much of US-Mexico border
A 60-foot strip along the land border will be handed over to the Pentagon, running from the Pacific Ocean to the Rio Grande.
•Patrick Martin
Far-right smear campaign continues against New Zealand Green MP
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is continuing to demand a police investigation of Doyle based on fascistic and totally unsubstantiated claims that he is a danger to children.
•Tom Peters
CRONA nurses union pushes through sellout contract at Stanford Health
A wage increase of 12 percent over three years was agreed to, essentially a cut in wages when adjusted for inflation. Several nurses commented their dissatisfaction with the contract on CRONA’s instagram page.
•Liz Cabrera
Amazon workers force temporary shutdown after death at JFK8 warehouse
The spontaneous reaction reflects not only the determined mood among workers at the facility, it expresses the seething anger among workers across the country, especially as the Trump administration carries out its war against the working class.
•Philip Guelpa, Elliott Murtagh
Before releasing contract vote results, Chicago Teachers Union officials defend record of betrayal
The Chicago Teachers Union will a hold a press conference Monday morning to announce the results of the vote by 28,000 educators on its deal with the city.
•Kristina Betinis
160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
•Tom Mackaman
Trump administration revokes student visas at Cal State Long Beach as part of fascistic crackdown on dissent
The Trump administration has launched a sweeping crackdown on international students across the United States.
•Marc Wells
This week in history: April 14-20
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
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The Teacher, from the occupied West Bank: “The system is rigged. It is perverted.”
Filmed mostly in the Nablus (West Bank) area, the movie is tense, enraged, and provides a sense of what Palestinian men and women experience on a daily basis under Israel’s horrific occupation.
•Joanne Laurier
Thousands laid off at Canadian auto plants as workers pay the price for Trump’s trade war
Like the UAW in the United States, Unifor is seeking to line workers up behind the global trade war, whipping up flag-waving nationalism and supporting tariff measures whose cost will be borne by workers in the form of job cuts and punishing price rises.
•Carl Bronski
SOAS student charged under counter-terror laws for protesting Gaza genocide appears at Old Bailey
A trial was set for the week beginning February 23, 2026, and a pre-trial hearing for July 4 this year, to be held before Judge Sarah Munro KC.
•Our reporters
Germany’s next government plans more weapons for Kiev, a war economy and conscription
Following the presentation of the coalition agreement last week by the leaders of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), the ruling class is systematically promoting the return of German militarism.
•Johannes Stern
Starmer government uses emergency powers to take control of British Steel Scunthorpe from Chinese company
The fight to defend jobs at Scunthorpe must be consciously politically separated from all calls to unite with Britain’s ruling elite, its trade war and escalation of military tensions with both Russia and China.
•Robert Stevens
Striking Birmingham refuse workers: “We’d like every city council to come out. What they are doing here, they will be doing everywhere.”
A driver commented, “The Labour Party was founded to represent the working class. This isn’t working class.” A loader added, “Labour isn’t Labour anymore”.
•Our reporters
Birmingham refuse workers condemn Starmer government’s strike breaking and voice opposition to sellout deal
The latest rotten deal should be rejected. But the fact that it is even being put to a vote shows this is not only a fight against Labour, at local authority and government level, but against the isolation of the dispute by the Unite leadership under Graham.
•Tony Robson
Australian doctors’ union shuts down industrial action after three-day NSW strike
The ASMOF union never wanted the strike to take place, and then as soon as it was over, promised the Labor government that it would prevent any further stoppages.
•Richard Phillips
Trump tariffs continue to fuel economic turmoil
In the 1930s, when the world market collapsed, there arose rival trade and currency blocs and deep economic conflicts that played a role in creating the conditions for war. There are now signs that such developments are getting underway.
•Nick Beams
Trump’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil for “thought crimes” is the spearhead of dictatorship
The direct precedent for the Trump administration’s positions is the concept of Willensstrafrecht (“punishment of the will”), developed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
•Niles Niemuth
Washington threatens war with Iran ahead of talks in Oman
Amid the Gaza genocide and Trump’s escalating trade war, not only a US war but also a US deal with Iran would ultimately threaten war with China and Russia, who signed alliances with Iran.
•Alex Lantier
SEP (Australia) holds well-attended election campaign launch meeting
The meeting exposed the fraudulent character of claims by all the parliamentary parties and the corporate media that Australia is an “exception” to the crisis unfolding worldwide.
•Martin Scott
Australian election: Parties silent on revelations of direct US-NATO involvement in Ukraine war
All of the major parties and the media are complicit in the criminal US-led war against Russia in Ukraine and knowingly propagate the lies used the justify it.
•Robert Creech, SEP candidate for the seat of Newcastle
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Teachers in Nepal fight for better pay and conditions; Sri Lankan garment workers protest unpaid New Year bonus; Shipyard workers continue rolling stoppages in South Australia; Mental health workers in Victoria impose bans for higher pay.
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Indian PM’s visit to Sri Lanka boosts economic and military ties
Sri Lankan President Dissanayake guaranteed full cooperation with New Delhi, Washington’s key strategic partner in South Asia as the US ramps up its confrontation with China.
•Rohantha De Silva
In Facebook livestream and Jacobin interview, UAW President Fain promotes economic nationalism and militarism
Fain attempted damage control over the UAW’s embrace of Trump under conditions of mounting rank-and-file anger over layoffs and attacks on democratic rights.
•Shannon Jones
The deepening toll of Long COVID after 5 years of the pandemic
The capitalist response to the pandemic has exacted a stark toll of mass death and disability, while accelerating social inequality and initiating the destruction of the world’s public health infrastructure.
•Bill Shaw
In federal court, Trump administration refuses to return or acknowledge existence of Abrego Garcia
The position of the US government is that under the Alien Enemies Act the president can disappear people to a foreign gulag and then claim they are outside any judicial review.
•Jacob Crosse
Trump administration revokes student visas at universities across Michigan
At the University of Michigan (U-M) the federal government has revoked the visas of 22 current and former international students or otherwise terminated their right to remain in the country legally
•Luke Galvin
Cultural counterrevolution: Funds cut from humanities grants to go toward Trump’s fascistic “National Garden of American Heroes”
Trump first broached the issue of a patriotic sculpture garden in July 2020, using the attacks on various monuments by participants in demonstrations against police violence as his pretext.
•David Walsh
Ukraine summit underlines European powers’ determination to escalate war with Russia
Friday’s meeting in Brussels of the Ukraine Contact Group saw the European imperialist powers pledge over €20 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine and issue bellicose statements against Russia.
•Jordan Shilton
Trump policies designed to block seniors from getting Social Security benefits
While denying plans to directly cut Social Security checks, the Trump administration is imposing job cuts, office closures and “identity-proofing” requirements designed to wreck the Social Security Administration and block seniors from applying for and receiving benefits.
•Barry Grey
Quebec unions refuse to mobilize workers against proposed strike-ban law they call a “declaration of war”
The unions’ main concern is retaining the traditional state-regulated collective bargaining system, which underpins the privileges of the caste of union functionaries, and through which they suppress the class struggle in tri-partite collaboration with the bosses and government.
•Laurent Lafrance
The socialist response to China’s being labelled “a foreign hostile force” by Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te
How did the DPP rise as “the opposition” in the late 1980s? What role did the KMT and US imperialism play in this development? What do social democrats and Stalinists mean when they say “peace”?
•Shih-Yu Chou
Mothers Against Genocide members arrested in Dublin as Irish government moves to drop neutrality “triple lock”
Peaceful protestors holding pillows to represent murdered Palestinian children were arrested last week in Dublin.
•Steve James, Dermot Quinn
International legal team seek prosecution of 10 Britons for war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza
Starmer’s Labour government has branded opposition to Israel’s war and expressions of support for the Palestinians as antisemitic, with police making mass arrests and mounting a clampdown on student protests at university campuses.
•Jean Shaoul
100 years since the birth of Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965), martyr of the civil rights movement
We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo’s death, written by Helen Halyard.
•Helen Halyard
Shocked by Trump’s tariff increase, Sri Lankan president calls for “national unity”
Dissanayake’s call for a unified national response to Washington’s new tariffs means vicious attacks on the Sri Lankan working class and the rural masses.
•Pani Wijesiriwardena
Trump’s tariff pull-back and the class character of the capitalist state
The US president seeks to exercise dictatorial powers against the working class, but he remains the servant of the financial markets and the billionaires.
•Patrick Martin
USAID cuts send pro-US opposition in country of Georgia into crisis
American funding has long played a central role in sustaining the large network of non-profit and civil society organizations seeking to drive out the current ruling authorities for failing to adopt a decisively anti-Russian line.
•Andrea Peters
Wall Street tumbles again as “euphoria” gives way to fear
In currency markets an index of the US dollar against a basket of a dozen of its peers fell 1.9 percent amid growing questions about what the economic war means for its status as the global reserve currency.
•Nick Beams
Australian SEP candidate addresses Neighbourhood Action Committee meeting opposing public housing demolition
“The decision by the Victorian Labor state government to demolish the public housing towers is socially and politically criminal. It is directly placing profit above the interest of thousands of people.”
•Our reporters
Australia: A socialist perspective to fight the destruction of public housing
The demolition of public housing in Melbourne and nationally can be defeated, but that requires mobilising the power of the working class.
•Taylor Hernan, SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
Mounting opposition from Chicago teachers to CTU sellout, as contract voting continues
Despite assurances by the Chicago Teachers Union that the deal will “Trump-proof” the district, teachers worry about severe budget cuts planned by city officials and the White House.
•Jerry White, Kristina Betinis
International student at University of Florida deported after traffic stop
Felipe Zapata Velázquez, a third-year international student at the University of Florida, was pulled over by Gainesville police on March 28 for traffic violations and, without a hearing, handed over to ICE officials and disappeared to a Miami-Dade detention facility. From there, he elected to return back to Colombia.
•Kevin Reed
Trump administration admits Mahmoud Khalil committed no crime, seeks deportation based solely on his “beliefs, statements, or associations”
More than a month after Khalil was abducted by government agents outside his apartment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted Khalil’s deportation is based solely on his opposition to genocide.
•Jacob Crosse
Borderland: The Line Within and the “border industrial complex”
The film is an exploration of the “border industrial complex,” a term used to describe the profitable systems, worth billions of dollars annually, built around capturing, incarcerating, and deporting immigrants.
•Joanne Laurier
Nightclub roof collapse kills hundreds in Dominican Republic
With a shocking death toll of at least 221, the Dominican ruling class is already seeking to divert attention from the the crime by promoting nationalist chauvinism and anti-Haitian xenophobia.
•Andrea Lobo
Germany’s next coalition government: Rearming like Hitler, far-right refugee policies and social desolation
The agreement establishing a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) underscores that this will be the most right-wing German government since the Nazis held power.
•Johannes Stern
Kennedy tours epicenter of US measles outbreak to promote anti-science quackery
Health Secretary Kennedy, America’s top anti-vaccine zealot, tours measles-ravaged regions while cynically consoling families of children whose deaths his own propaganda helped cause.
•Benjamin Mateus
George Mason University president welcomes Trump administration’s crackdown on students
George Mason University president Gregory Washington openly welcomed the Trump administration attack on democratic rights as part of its crackdown on anti-genocide protests.
•Landon Gourov
Protester arrested ahead of "Hands Off" rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Emerson Wolfe was taken into custody just as the “Hands Off” rally against the Trump administration was set to begin in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
•Ashley O'Hara
Defend Birmingham refuse workers against Labour government’s strike-breaking operation!
Labour’s repressive measures against the Birmingham bin strike are aimed against the entire working class.
•Tony Robson
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24-hour general strike across all sectors in Greece to protest austerity; strikes in the West Bank and Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza; police use tear gas against nationwide demonstrations in Nigeria against poverty and attacks on democratic rights
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Oppose Starmer’s campus crackdown on Gaza genocide protest!
Building a movement to defeat these attacks on democratic rights means understanding the class and imperialist interests behind them.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)
NSW public hospital doctors speak out over unsafe and worsening conditions
“There’s no way to pretend there isn’t enough money. Everyone seems to have money for a war but not for health.”
•Our reporters
Australia: NSW public hospital doctors hold mass protests during statewide walkout
As striking doctors turn out to fight the Minns Labor government, ASMOF officials are determined to keep them separated from tens of thousands of other public sector health workers while appealing for “compromise” negotiations.
•Richard Phillips
Trump’s tariff “pause”: Another expression of the deepening crisis of US imperialism and the capitalist order
The “pause” came as it was becoming apparent the entire financial system was on the verge of another crisis rivalling those of 2008 and March 2020 or possibly even greater.
•Nick Beams
European Union imposes counter-tariffs on the US
The consequences of an escalating trade war between the US and the European Union would be devastating.
•Peter Schwarz
Genocide and starvation in Gaza stepped up following Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump
Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, the Israeli military launched air strikes on Palestinians that killed as many as 35 people and maintained its program of extermination through starvation in Gaza.
•Kevin Reed
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