Biden administration tells Supreme Court: Providing immigrants with explanations about a visa denial is a threat to national security

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in State Department v. Muñoz, one of the most important immigration cases in the recent period.

New York police arrest over 100 Columbia University students in crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests

The police state action, directed by Columbia President Dr. Minouche (Nemat) Shafik, came the day after she testified before a McCarthyite Congressional hearing about outlawing opposition to the Israeli genocide.

Upcoming IYSSE (Australia) lecture: The fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left

The lecture by Nick Beams on April 28 will provide the political weapons required by young people and workers who want to take up the fight for a socialist and revolutionary perspective against the genocide and the broader eruption of militarism and war.

Sri Lankan government announces unprecedented anti-democratic restrictions on election candidates

The measure is part of an escalating assault on democratic rights by the ruling classes in every country to block political opponents, particularly the Socialist Equality Party and independents, from contesting elections.

Australian protesters oppose Gaza genocide: Imperialist powers are “not just complicit, but directly responsible”

“We need a party that sticks to a revolutionary line and doesn’t just advocate for reform, because whenever you talk about reform, it essentially means you end up capitulating to those in power.”

Labor Notes opens 2024 conference after helping push through massive sellouts in auto, UPS

Labor Notes is playing an important political role in the attempts by the bourgeoisie to head off a political movement in the working class which escapes its control.

Teamsters call off Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, resulting in all members losing their jobs

In a culmination of nearly two years of betrayals, the Teamsters union called off the 18-month strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. None of their striking members got their jobs back, and the Teamsters agreed to dissolve the local union.

Israel strikes Iran as US and EU impose a new round of sanctions

The United States and its European allies announced a new round of sanctions targeting Iran on Thursday, deepening their participation in a spiraling war in the Middle East.

FBI opens criminal investigation Into Baltimore bridge collapse

Following the collapse of a major bridge in Baltimore after being hit by a container ship, crew members aboard the MV Dali now risk potential criminal liability, even as the ship’s owners use 1851 maritime law to limit their responsibility.

Unionization vote underway at Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagen plant

After losing previous votes in 2014 and 2019, the UAW has embraced the support of the Biden administration, which is seeking to mobilize US unions behind the war drive.

Oppose the firing of Google workers for protesting tech giant’s complicity in Gaza genocide!

Workers across the United States and internationally must mobilize to defend the 28 Google workers fired for their opposition to war.

Strike of ER clinicians begins at Ascension St. John in Detroit

Clinicians say TeamHealth, the private equity owned firm subordinates health care to the company’s financial bottom line.

Australian Labor government seeks to delay nominal wage rise for aged care workers

The complicity of the unions in Labor’s latest move to deny aged care workers a long-awaited pay rise underscores the need for workers to build their own organisations.

EU and Berlin step up attacks on refugees

With the final adoption of the Common European Asylum System on April 10, the European Parliament has effectively suspended the right to asylum and turned the immigration policies of the extreme right into law.

Rising gold price a sign of emerging financial crisis

The ever-increasing US debt, now on an unstainable and “unprecedented” trajectory, is a key factor putting a question mark over the role of the dollar as the global currency.

Soldiers’ testimony at House hearing on January 6 belies attempts to whitewash military role in Trump coup attempt

In an explosive hearing, four former senior soldiers in the D.C. National Guard, none of whom were formally interviewed by the January 6 House Select Committee, accused US Army Generals Walter Piatt and Charles Flynn, and senior civilian Pentagon officials, of blocking them from protecting Congress as it was being overrun by Trump radicals.

Indian Stalinists stump for big business Congress Party and ethno-chauvinist DMK in Tamil Nadu phase of national election

If Tamil Nadu has become India’s most industrialized state, it is because the DMK and its arch-rival, the AIADMK, have rolled out the red carpet for domestic and global capital.

Civil War without politics or social context

Alex Garland’s film provides violent images of a civil war in America, divorced from any examination of the social forces that would produce such a conflict.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

One-day general strike in Greece against pay 20 percent lower than 15 years ago and 10 percent unemployment; autoworkers and other sectors in one-day strike in Turin, Italy against mass layoffs joining 12,000 in protest; Kenyan striking doctors defy state intimidation and sack threat in fight for more staff, pay and better conditions

Starmer’s UK Labour Party declares for nuclear war

That all those auditioning for office before the ruling elite must now affirm their readiness to kill millions and destroy the planet is a stark warning. No matter who is prime minister and which party they lead, the working class in Britan, like workers internationally, confronts a single party of war.

UK Tories hound tens of thousands of unpaid carers for benefit repayments

Honest mistakes and miscalculations have left tens of thousands of the poorest people in the country owing huge sums of money. Almost a thousand are being demanded repayments of £5,000-£20,000.

Australian police rapidly declare Sydney church attack a “terrorist” incident

The rapid declaration grants police sweeping powers that override fundamental civil liberties and serves to heighten religious and other tensions among ordinary people.

Will Israel attack Iran’s nuclear plants?

For political and tactical reasons Israel may decide to hold back at least in the short term, but it is widely understood that the possibility of such an attack exists.

Oppose the campaign to silence opponents of the Gaza genocide on campuses!

The IYSSE demands that all faculty, students and organizations that have been terminated, expelled or suspended be immediately reinstated. The broadest possible support must be mobilized among youth and in the working class to fight for this demand. 

Germany’s suppression of the Palestine Congress and the fight against genocide and dictatorship

80 years after the end of the Nazi dictatorship, the ruling class in Germany is dispensing with its democratic mask. The suppression of the Palestine Congress in Berlin is reminiscent of the darkest times in German history.

New Zealand unions collaborate with thousands of job cuts

While the far-right coalition government has slashed more than 3,000 public sector jobs in a matter of weeks, the corporatist trade unions have made clear that nothing will be done to defend a single job.

Biden, steelworkers union beat the drums for anti-China campaign

Embracing trade war measures even more provocative than those of Trump, the Democratic president appeared before an enthusiastic audience of United Steelworkers union bureaucrats in Pittsburgh.

Tehran warns of “massive and harsh” response if Israel again bombs Iran

Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its strikes on Iranian and Syrian targets, backed by the NATO powers, have placed the region on the brink of total war.

Google employees arrested for sit-in protest against cloud services contract with Israel

Nine employees were arrested for occupying the corporate offices of Google in New York and California on Tuesday as part of a protest to demand an end to the company’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government and military.

Brazil’s chief justice “turns the page” on military’s involvement in Bolsonaro coup attempt

Barroso was speaking less than a week after the 60th anniversary of the bloody US-backed coup of 1964, in which the Brazilian military overthrew elected president João Goulart.

IMF says US debt creating “significant risks” for the global economy

Money to pay the debt will not come from slowing economic growth but through deepening attacks on the working class.

Boeing whistleblower Sam Salehpour testifies before Congress on safety of the 777 and 787 aircraft

Boeing’s harassment and threats against Salehpour raise new questions about the death of another whistleblower, John Barnett.

Right-wing Supreme Court majority signals it may dismiss obstruction charges against January 6 insurrectionists

Based on questioning during oral arguments ­Tuesday, the right-wing Supreme Court majority appears poised to rule in favor of dismissing some or all criminal charges against January 6 insurrectionists for violating a federal statute that prohibits obstructing official proceedings.

Global pandemic agreement undermined by corporate interests

The proposed agreement has been repeatedly watered down based on considerations of corporate profit and national interests.

Modi banks on venal, right-wing character of opposition to secure third term

Indians will go to the polls this Friday in more than 100 Lok Sabha constituencies in the first phase of a seven-phase national election that is to conclude June 1.

Meeting of Canada Post workers calls for establishment of Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee

At a meeting organized on Sunday, April 14 with the support of the World Socialist Web Site, a group of Canada Post workers passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Postal Workers Rank-and-file Committee.

No layoffs! No budget cuts! Mobilize the working class to defend public education in Ann Arbor and across Michigan!

The claim that “there is no money” is a lie. In Michigan, where the Democrats fully control the state government, corporate handouts—particularly to the automakers—amount to billions.

Biden administration issues “weasel words” assurances to secure Assange’s extradition

The US is seeking to prosecute Assange on charges under the Espionage Act which carry a de facto life sentence for publishing documents exposing war crimes and human rights abuses carried out by Washington and its imperialist allies.

Tesla axes 14,000 jobs: Workers need a global strategy to fight against mass unemployment

The announcement of 14,000 job cuts at Tesla marks an escalation of the assault by the corporate oligarchy on workers’ jobs. This a global campaign, which requires a globally coordinated response by the working class.

US imposes new sanctions on Iran amid looming threat of Israeli attack

The United States and its imperialist allies will imminently announce new sanctions targeting Iran, as the US-led war drive against Tehran continues to accelerate.

“Something will have to give”—IMF warns of build-up of US debt

Over the next five years, global growth, which has been steadily falling since the 2008 financial crisis, will trend below the historical average.

Thousands could be deported under Australian government’s draconian immigration bill

Home Affairs officials admitted that up to 5,000 non-citizens could face removal from Australia, a figure far higher than the Labor government’s earlier misleading statements.

After 24,000 sign open letter calling for Israel’s exclusion from Venice Biennale, artist shuts down exhibition

The announcement read: “The artist and curators of the Israeli pavilion will open the exhibition when a ceasefire and hostage release agreement is reached.”

New York City universities step up purge of pro-Palestinian faculty

The firings of professors at Columbia University and John Jay College are part of a coordinated campaign to silence all opponents of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Nearly five million removed from Medicaid have no health insurance

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation said on Friday that nearly one-quarter of the 20 million people removed from Medicaid rolls during Biden’s “post-pandemic unwinding” of the program this year are now uninsured.

CUPE announces sellout agreement for 3,000 striking York University academic workers

The deal which the union leadership is hoping to rush through in a three-hour online only vote on Friday is an abject capitulation to management which workers must reject with the contempt it deserves.

Ban on the Palestine Congress: Another step towards a German police state

Since hundreds of police officers broke up a Palestine Congress in Berlin last Friday, new details have come to light every day about the arbitrariness and ruthlessness with which the police disregarded the law and trampled on democratic rights.

Damage to Glen Canyon Dam pipes threatens Colorado River water supply

If the water level in Lake Powell falls too low, the dam may not be able to release water to downstream users.

DSA backs Morena’s re-election in Mexico: A dry run for endorsing Biden

In offering alibis for Morena’s right-wing policies, the discussion on Mexico demonstrated the pro-imperialist character of pseudo-left outfits like the DSA.

Tories denounce BBC’s Nick Robinson for referring to “murders of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”

Official discourse on the war in Gaza, especially in the media, is a thoroughly state-managed affair, down to the last word. It is designed to create a fantasy world in which a supposedly democratic Israeli state is conducting a war of self-defence with the best possible intentions and due regard for all aspects of international law.