Severe drought conditions imperil US Southwest, as states wrestle over water rights
Colorado River states blew through another federal deadline to renegotiate river operations, as the worst drought in 1,200 years continues.
•Alex Findijs, Dan Conway
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DSA promotes Democrats’ fake opposition to Iran war
The Democratic Socialists of America is seeking to undermine mass opposition to the criminal war in Iran and channel it behind the Democratic Party.
•Barry Grey
US trade union bureaucracy silent as Trump launches illegal war against Iran
The silence is a deliberate act of support and complicity, in line with the American union apparatus' decades of support for imperialist war
•Jerry White
Merz kisses Trump’s ring: Berlin openly backs the criminal war of aggression against Iran
During a meeting at the White House, the German chancellor assured the US president of his full support for the criminal war of aggression against Iran—thereby revealing Berlin’s imperialist ambitions.
•Johannes Stern
Washington’s criminal war on Iran rapidly expanding throughout the Middle East and drawing in imperialist powers
As more imperialist and regional powers are being dragged into the conflict, American imperialism is working to fuel ethnic civil war inside Iran by supplying arms to Kurdish nationalists.
•Jordan Shilton
US-Ecuador joint military operation signals accelerated turn to fascist militarism across Latin America
US and Ecuadorian forces launched joint land operations Tuesday, ostensibly against drug cartels, escalating Trump’s efforts to recolonize Latin America.
•Andrea Lobo
Bosch in Germany: IG Metal trade union cracks down on opposition workers
Defend the right of “free metalworkers” to organise and participate in works council elections!
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
“We shouldn’t be bombing people, period”: Detroit autoworkers denounce war against Iran
The war against Iran is deeply unpopular among workers and broad sections of the population in the United States.
•Our reporters
First primaries held in US mid-term election campaign
The Republicans and Democrats, the two main parties of the financial oligarchy, poured tens of millions into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas.
•Patrick Martin
Asian markets take major hit from war against Iran
South Korean stocks fell by 12 percent yesterday in the largest one-day drop recorded, eclipsing falls in the 2008 crisis.
•Nick Beams
Wifredo Lam at New York’s Museum of Modern Art: “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream”
A current exhibition tracks the development of an anti-imperialist artist who fused modernism with African iconography.
•Erik Schreiber
Australia: Worsening conditions for Aboriginal workers and youth in latest “Closing the Gap” report
The findings again underscore the widening gulf between official rhetoric and the lived conditions facing Indigenous people.
•Sue Phillips
Adelaide University: Labor government’s pro-business Universities Accord in action
The Adelaide merger is being used to cut courses and steer resources toward industry, particularly areas linked to the military and “national security.”
•Carolyn Kennett
Trump warns Starmer: Fall into line over Iran, or else
Britain’s right-wing press, alongside the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK, seized on Washington’s rebuke to press for Starmer’s downfall and a far more aggressive militarist turn by British imperialism.
•Robert Stevens
More than 2.1 billion of world’s 3.6 billion workers are in the informal economy
These findings vindicate Marx’s analysis of the reserve army of labour—the unemployed and under‑employed population that capitalism requires to keep wages low and workers compliant.
•Jean Shaoul
Australian Labor government accuses Iran of “antisemitic” attacks to justify Trump’s criminal war
The revival of bogus claims that Iran orchestrated firebombings on Australian soil is the Labor government’s original contribution to the deluge of propaganda surrounding the illegal US-Israeli bombardment of that country.
•Oscar Grenfell
French President Macron announces expansion of nuclear weapons arsenal
The French president intends to establish an “advanced deterrence” for Europe as a whole and station nuclear weapons in Germany and other European countries in the future.
•Peter Schwarz
IYSSE (Australia) campus meetings: Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!
The meetings in Newcastle, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will elaborate the socialist and revolutionary perspective to end war on Iran and halt the slide to a disastrous nuclear third world war.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
Germany set to introduce further crackdown on migrants and refugees
A new harsher anti-migration and asylum law is set to come into effect once it is ratified by the upper house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat.
•Lena Sokoll
Kristi Noem defends murderous immigration Gestapo as Senate hearing exposes bipartisan support for ICE
During a contentious Judiciary Committee hearing interrupted by protesters, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem refused to apologize for smearing victims of immigration police violence while Democrats reiterated their support for deportations and the continued existence of ICE.
•Jacob Crosse, Anthony Bertolt
Ukrainian state intensifies pressure on Bogdan Syrotiuk by withholding medical care
With the case of the prosecution against Bogdan Syrotiuk shattered, the Ukrainian state is deliberately withholding urgently necessary medical care.
•Clara Weiss
Trump says US Navy will escort ships through Strait of Hormuz as Iran war spirals
US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States Navy will begin escorting commercial tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a dramatic escalation that would place American warships directly off the coast of Iran as the US-Israeli bombing campaign enters its fourth day.
•Andre Damon
Charges dismissed for University of Michigan Chinese researchers—but the political witch-hunt continues
The US government whipped up claims of “agroterrorism” over the use of harmless, common lab research materials.
•Stephen St. Clair
Stop the criminal war of aggression against Iran!
The following statement against the imperialist invasion of Iran and for an international socialist anti-war movement was issued on Monday evening by Christoph Vandreier, chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP-Socialist Equality Party in Germany).
•Christoph Vandreier
Australian Labor government fully complicit in illegal war on Iran
This imperialist bombardment has nothing whatsoever to do with freedom from oppression, any more than the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
•Mike Head
German government declares “no politics” at the Berlinale ... unless it’s the politics of the government
The films reviewed here are collaborations between Israeli and Arab filmmakers and actors seeking to come to grips with the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.
•Stefan Steinberg
Following armed provocation and energy blockade, Trump floats “friendly takeover” of Cuba
As the genocidal fuel blockade triggers economic collapse, Havana has signaled submission through pro‑business “reforms.”
•Andrea Lobo
Florida’s assembly line of death grinds on with execution of Billy Leon Kearse
Kearse’s execution marks the first of three scheduled in Florida this month alone, an unprecedented pace that signals a further escalation of capital punishment policy under Governor Ron DeSantis.
•Kate Randall
With Trump’s backing, Pakistan wages “open war” on Afghanistan
Military clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continued for a fifth day Tuesday, in a conflict with potentially major implications for South Asian and world geopolitics.
•Keith Jones
Early election called in Denmark, as Social Democrats seek to capitalise on anti-Trump sentiment
Frederiksen called the vote more than six months early, amid a revival in support for her party following the conflict with US President Donald Trump over control of Greenland.
•Jordan Shilton
Pennsylvania student protesters face daunting legal battle in “Quakertown 5” case
The handing down of aggravated felony assault charges to the students reveals the state’s authoritarian response to youth resistance against repression.
•Nick Barrickman
“Child imprisonment”: Healthcare workers demand end to ICE detention of children as medical toll mounts
As infants develop bronchitis and brain tumor patients are deported mid-treatment, nearly 4,000 healthcare workers have issued a medical and political indictment of the Trump administration’s systematic imprisonment of immigrant children.
•Benjamin Mateus
How the USW refinery contract helps oil companies profit off Trump’s war in Iran
For the second contract in a row, following the 2022 deal reached at the start of the Ukraine war, the United Steelworkers bureaucracy is seeking to impose what amounts to a war contract on refinery workers.
•Tom Hall, Chase Lawrence
Türkiye’s concerns mount over US-Israeli war on Iran
Ankara fears that this imperialist attack, which could lead to the collapse of the Iranian regime, could in turn increase Israel’s influence on its own borders, trigger a new wave of migrants, and encourage separatist initiatives by Kurdish nationalist forces linked to the US and Israel.
•Barış Demir
Turkish miners break through gendarmerie barricade, seizing mine
The Turkish miners’ wildcat strike and occupation in İzmir, defying state oppression, is part of a growing radicalization within the working class on an international scale.
•Ulaş Sevinç
French state classifies Melenchon’s LFI as “extreme left-wing” to deepen assault on democratic rights
The political front mounted against LFI, encompassing far-right groups, the Socialist Party, the National Rally, and Macron's government, is waging an offensive against democratic rights and the growing opposition to the establishment of a police state.
•Anthony Torres
Kenya backs US-Israeli imperialist attack on Iran
Ruto’s statement has been met with popular contempt. Hundreds of replies on X, along with comments on Instagram and Facebook and beneath online newspaper articles, voice a common sentiment: his statement does not represent Kenyan workers.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Index of Repression maps huge scale of anti-Palestinian crackdown in Britain
Tara Mariwany of the European Legal Support Centre explained, “Nearly a third of people targeted are activists, 22 percent are students, and 13 percent are within the category of academics, writers and teachers.”
•Thomas Scripps
Trump and Hegseth launch “total war” against Iran
The unprecedented language used at a Pentagon military briefing indicates that the Trump administration is preparing to use nuclear weapons in the war of aggression it began Saturday.
•WSWS Editorial Board
Michigan Democrats move to suppress University of Michigan graduate workers’ struggle
This 28-day “cooling-off” period functions as a de facto state injunction in response to workers’ demands for open, transparent bargaining.
•Stephen St. Clair
US war on Iran to hit weak global economy and fragile financial system
Oil and natural gas prices spiked with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
•Nick Beams
“May Khamenei rot in hell”: Left Party leader van Aken backs murderous regime-change war against Iran
At a press conference on Monday, Left Party leader Jan van Aken openly celebrated the killing of Iranian head of state Khamenei and other leading figures by Israeli and American bombs.
•Johannes Stern
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
•Socialism AI
Australia: Victorian early childhood educators strike for second time
The Australian Education Union called another limited one-day strike amid mounting rank-and-file anger over the state Labor government’s failure to present a wage offer after 20 months of negotiations.
•Estella Winters
New Zealand government backs criminal war against Iran
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon echoed the US and Israeli propaganda to justify the onslaught against Iran, which is part of a developing world war.
•Tom Peters
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The Bolivian union federation declared a “state of emergency” over legislation attacking pensions and other rights, while the Teamsters have begun a strike vote for Corewell nurses in Michigan after nine months of failed negotiations.
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Canada’s Liberal government lines up behind US-Israeli war against Iran
Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney rushed to declare Canada’s full-throated support for the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran, in a statement issued just hours after the first wave of missiles and bombs rained down on the country Saturday morning.
•Graham Beverley
No social media ban in Germany for young people!
What the social media ban is really about is the attempt to curb the growing politicisation, radicalisation and international networking of youth.
•Florian Hasek
Protesters speak out at global demonstrations marking three years since Greece’s Tempi rail crash deaths
On February 28, demonstrations took place throughout Greece and in cities around the world to mark three years since the Tempi rail disaster—a crime of capitalism, which took the lives of 57 people. WSWS reporters spoke to protesters in London, Manchester and Edinburgh in the UK and in Stuttgart, Germany.
•Our reporters
Starmer risks the lives of 300,000 British citizens in the Gulf to support illegal war against Iran
Missiles, drones and debris are already falling in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and elsewhere as Iran retaliates to the imperialist assault on its government and people. Hotels and airports have been hit.
•Thomas Scripps
Kenya’s Ruto regime arrests TikToker following satirical video
Over the past two years, millions of youth and workers have utilised platforms such as X, TikTok and WhatsApp to organise demonstrations and coordinate opposition to the Ruto regime.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!
The joint US-Israeli assault on Iran, which began in the early morning hours of February 28, is a criminal act of war waged in flagrant violation of the United States Constitution and international law.
•Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US) National Committee
“We have more in common with the Iranian people than we do with billionaires”: American workers denounce attack on Iran
The level of opposition at the outset of this war is unprecedented in modern US history. A Reuters poll conducted Saturday found that only 27 percent of Americans approved of the strikes.
•Our reporters
Strike date announced for New York University contract faculty
The workers’ main demands include higher salaries, raises that exceed inflation, academic freedom, job security, housing and protection against artificial intelligence.
•Erik Schreiber
Tech CEOs boast about AI-driven mass layoffs
While announcing the elimination of 4,000 jobs, Block CEO Jack Dorsey said, “the intelligence tools we’re creating and using … are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company,” while Ladders CEO Marc Cenedella, warned, “When things crystallize like this, it brings out the pitchforks and the torches.”
•Kevin Reed
Right-wing Japanese government supports criminal US-Israeli war against Iran
Tokyo has parroted US lies about non-existent nuclear weapons in Iran to justify the latest act of imperialist criminality.
•Ben McGrath
Australian Labor government supports illegal US-Israeli war against Iran
Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among the first world leaders to explicitly back the criminal war that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East and the world.
•Oscar Grenfell
Trump’s attack on immigrants and students continues with abduction of Ellie Aghayeva from Columbia University
The abduction of Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva by ICE was meant to terrorize immigrants and students and force the universities to suppress opposition to war in the Middle East.
•Tim Avery, Sandy English
Flint UAW local cancels anti-ICE protest
UAW L.598 officials claimed they canceled the event out of concern for the "safety of our members" without citing any specific threats.
•Sheila Brehm, Jerry White
Labor directly blocking return of Australian citizens interned in Syria
The evidence shows that the Albanese government effectively blocked the journey of 34 women and children—all citizens—from the hellhole conditions in the Al Roj internment camp in northeastern Syria.
•Mike Head
Pennsylvania residents, students protest and speak out in support of “Quakertown 5”
Residents at a protest in Doylestown condemned the police and immigration Gestapo.
•Nick Barrickman, Jacob Crosse
Washington to deploy more medium-range missiles to the Philippines
The Philippines is not being armed. It is being used as a forward staging ground in preparation for American offensive operations against China.
•John Malvar
German chancellor Merz backs US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran
Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday declared his full political support for the illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran.
•Johannes Stern
Nenko Gantchev died in Michigan ICE detention facility amid Democratic Party “oversight”
The death of Nenko Gantchev—a 56-year-old immigrant from Bulgaria who had been in the US for 30 years—at the ICE detention camp in Balwin, Michigan exposes the criminal nature of the Trump administration’s dragnet and the complicity of the Democratic Party in covering it up.
•Riley Ward
Cologne Administrative Court bolsters far-right Alternative for Germany
In a sensational ruling, the Cologne Administrative Court has bolstered the far-right Alternative for Germany, ruling that the Secret Service may not for the time being designate and treat the party as "proven right-wing extremist."
•Peter Schwarz
This week in history: March 2-8
Fireworks explosion kills 50 children in China; Spanish police massacre workers in Vitoria; Iranian prime minister assassinated; Germany places demands on League of Nations
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Increasing social criticism in Berlin and a new, committed tone of film realism: The Red Hangar from Chile
A growing number of younger filmmakers are turning their attention to history and the current threats to human relationships posed by war, state repression, fascist violence and extreme exploitation.
•Verena Nees
Quebec’s trade unions renew their alliance with the Parti Québécois, as it embraces far-right politics
A delegation of union leaders, headed by QFL President Magali Picard, attended the PQ congress, as the party doubles down on anti-immigrant chauvinism and its embrace of the far right.
•Laurent Lafrance
Spain’s Socialist Party-Sumar government complicit in the US-Israeli attack on Iran
While publicly invoking “de-escalation and international law,” a posture adopted because this aggression faces mass opposition within the Spanish working class, Prime Minister Sánchez has allowed Spanish territory to be used as a launchpad for the imperialist attack.
•Alejandro López
Türkiye calls for negotiations after US and Israel launch an illegal war against Iran
The new war launched by the US and Israel against Iran exposes the dilemma of the Erdoğan government and deepens its crisis.
•Ulaş Sevinç
UK Starmer government endorses and participates in the US/Israel attack on Iran
UK aircraft taking direct part in the illegal war launched by Trump and Netanyahu include RAF Typhoons operating from Qatar and the Mediterranean island, Cyprus.
•Robert Stevens
Oppose the US imperialist war on Iran!
The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution.
•David North
UAW tries to contain anger as Stellantis workers denied profit sharing checks
Stellantis’ announcement of no profit sharing payout in 2026 provoked immediate outrage among tens of thousands of US workers who rely on the checks to pay essential bills.
•Shannon Jones
Trump blacklists Anthropic, orders all federal agencies to cease use of AI firm’s technology
Trump's blacklisting of Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei's response expose the real character of the dispute: not a conflict between ethics and militarism, but between two factions of the ruling class over the terms of AI's integration into the US war machine.
•Evan Blake
Hamnet, Hamlet and the demanding effort “to show the very age and body of the time”
The film is built around the family life of playwright William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1590s and the death of their 11-year-old son.
•David Walsh
The 2026 Winter Olympics: Remarkable athleticism poisoned by nationalist chauvinism
The degeneration of the games has reached the point where the International Olympic Committee is little more than a direct tool of imperialism.
•Andy Thompson
Nearly blind Rohingya refugee dies in Buffalo after being “dropped off” miles from home by CBP agents
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, who was nearly blind and unable to speak English, was left at a donut shop in Buffalo by two Customs and Border Patrol agents five miles from his home and found dead on a downtown city street four days later.
•Kevin Reed
Newly-elected far-right Japanese government prepares war measures
Plans for war against China coincide with plans for the suppression of political opposition and democratic rights within Japan.
•Ben McGrath
Mamdani embraces Trump: Collaboration with fascism from the DSA mayor
Mamdani stood side-by-side with the would-be dictator who has the blood of thousands on his hands, and may soon have the blood of millions, as his war fleet assembles off the coast of Iran.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Mamdani’s decision to reopen New York City schools after blizzard angers teachers and parents
Educators and parents voiced their opposition to Mamdani’s decision—and to the leadership of the UFT, which had put up no opposition to it—online as well as in a petition that collected over 170,000 signatures.
•Sandy English
Australian housing crisis: Unaffordability at record levels
The Labor government’s expanded “first home buyer” schemes have not provided relief for workers and young people but rather have inflated prices and further enriched banks, developers, and existing property owners.
•Cheryl Crisp
FBI raids LAUSD headquarters and superintendent Carvalho’s home
While the DOJ has cited possible corruption, it is likely that Carvalho was targeted for his criticisms of ICE raids targeting immigrant children.
•Marc Wells
Australian logistics software maker WiseTech announces 2,000 AI-driven job cuts
“The era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over,” according to WiseTech CEO Zubin Appoo.
•Martin Scott
New Zealand: Union pushes through pay cut for 12,300 health workers
The two-year agreement follows a similar sellout by the secondary teachers’ union, with both deals aimed at imposing the right-wing coalition government’s austerity agenda.
•Tom Peters
Argentina’s labor bill vote and tire factory shutdown expose pseudo-left unionism
As Argentina’s Senate approved fascist President Javier Milei’s Labor Modernization bill, pseudo-left unions promoted nationalist appeals to the Peronist bureaucracy, repeating the betrayals that paved the way for the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
•Andrea Lobo
Teachers face illegal reprisals over support for student walkouts against ICE
Across the US, teachers and students who join or support anti‑ICE walkouts are being investigated, disciplined and even criminally threatened.
•Nancy Hanover
Modi visits Israel to strengthen India-Israeli strategic axis, as Washington and Tel Aviv prepare assault on Iran
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a two-day visit to Israel this week, choosing to further elevate India’s “strategic partnership” with Israel at the very point that Washington and Tel Aviv are poised to launched a criminal, unprovoked war on Iran.
•Rohantha De Silva, Keith Jones
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation women workers protest; Private hospital nurses in Kerala strike for higher pay; National action by Sri Lankan non-academic university workers; Queensland public sector trades workers resume industrial action; New Zealand shellfish processing workers strike.
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Labour Party suffers Gorton and Denton by-election wipe-out by Greens
A leadership challenge to Keir Starmer is ever more likely after May’s local elections, which Labour is also expected to lose heavily.
•Robert Stevens
Your Party leadership elections put Corbyn in charge
The results were a rout for the Grassroots Left faction led by Zarah Sultana and its declared aim of transforming Your Party into an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist party dedicated to nationalising the economy.
•Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps
CWU leader Martin Walsh uses restricted consultation exercise to claim backing for restructuring at Royal Mail
Comments from postal workers on the CWU’s Facebook questioned whether the rejection of ODM at pilot offices signified support for the union’s proposal, which involves absorbing additional work by reducing existing duties and positions within the “Heavy and Light” model.
•Tony Robson
Imperial College London staff strike over pay: “Our effective pay has been cut by 9 percent since 2018”
Staff have taken three one-day strikes in February. They have now held 13 strike days since a ballot in September last year
•Our reporters
From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means
The Senate committee hearing laid bare the anti-science agenda driving the Trump-Kennedy assault on public health, while Democrats offered only performative opposition.
•Evan Blake
Trump poised to launch criminal war on Iran behind smokescreen of talks
Having amassed vast military power in the Middle East spearheaded by two aircraft carrier strike groups and scores of warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours.
•Keith Jones
Drop Site investigation reveals Israeli surveillance and security system installed at Epstein-controlled Manhattan apartment building
Drop Site News reports that newly disclosed documents show the Israeli government installed a security system at a Manhattan apartment building controlled by Jeffrey Epstein — a property that court filings, sworn depositions and police reports identify as housing underage girls and alleged co-conspirators in his sex trafficking operation.
•Jacob Crosse
Cuba repels armed provocation as US tries to starve island into submission
An armed “terrorist infiltration” by a US‑flagged speedboat exposes the increasingly reckless character of Washington’s regime‑change campaign.
•Andrea Lobo
Australia: Police confiscate anti-genocide placard at Ramadan festival in Lakemba
The police theft of a placard featuring the face of Israeli war criminal Netanyahu and the caption “wanted” was a provocation that would have been approved at high levels of the NSW government and police command.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australian government plans “tough” austerity budget
Albanese’s ministers are seeking to satisfy a drumbeat of demands by the corporate ruling class for much sharper cuts to social spending.
•Mike Head
Mamdani deepens collaboration with Trump in second White House meeting
Mamdani met with the president in the Oval Office supposedly to propose a housing plan less than two days after Trump’s fascistic State of the Union address.
•Daniel de Vries
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