The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) held a well-attended public meeting on March 17 under the title “Stop the US-Israel criminal war against Iran” at the Colombo Public Library Auditorium.

A meeting of the Committee for Public Education (CFPE), the rank-and-file educators’ network in Australia, passed a resolution last week denouncing the barbaric US-Israeli assault on Iran and the Albanese Labor government’s participation in it.

This Saturday’s South Australian election is being held amid a global eruption of imperialist war, exemplified by the US-led assault on Iran, an historic crime.

Iran has warned Keir Starmer’s Labour government that it views Britain as “participating in aggression” for allowing the United States to use UK bases in its military operations.

A deadly outbreak of meningitis in the county of Kent in England has claimed the lives of two young people, a 21-year-old student at the University of Kent and a sixth-form pupil at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Faversham.

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The World Socialist Web Site continues to receive statements of support from workers across Canada for Will Lehman’s campaign for the presidency of the United Autoworkers (UAW) in the United States.

On Wednesday, 2,400 mental health professionals from the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) carried out a one-day strike.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Burlington Federal Courthouse in Vermont on Tuesday, March 17, as 31-year-old Christian Jerez Andrade from Honduras appeared before a judge.

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In an hour-long public appearance with the board of the Kennedy Center—renamed after himself by his own decree—US President Donald Trump defended his launching of the war against Iran and proclaimed its results had already constituted a major success.

Mehmet Türkmen, general secretary of the independent rank-and-file union BİRTEK-SEN (United Textile, Weaving and Leather Workers’ Union), was arrested on Monday at a court appearance following a speech he had delivered.

London Underground train drivers are set to strike against the implementation of a compressed four-day working week.

On many indices relating to health, education, and quality of life, the working class trails behind its better-off counterparts.

Al-Quds Day, the annual demonstration for Palestinian rights, which has been peacefully observed in Toronto for decades, went ahead on Saturday, March 14.

February marked 40 years since a mass demonstration of millions of Filipinos in Manila, combined with a coup plot by a cohort of disgruntled officers, ousted the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines.

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Workers at American Axle & Manufacturing’s (AAM) Three Rivers, Michigan, plant voiced growing opposition to the United Auto Workers (UAW) bureaucracy ahead of contract negotiations set to begin this month.

Over 1,000 meatpacking workers at the massive JBS meat processing plant in Greeley, Colorado braved freezing temperatures to picket for hours early Monday morning.

Hundreds of workers face immediate redundancy at the Tahmoor Colliery, southwest of Sydney, after liquidator McGrathNicol announced on March 12 that 238 of the 328 employees would be let go.

The proposed 24-hour statewide stoppage on March 24 marks a turning point for Victorian educators, many of whom will be taking strike action for the first time.

Academic staff at the University of Newcastle (UoN), two hours north of Sydney, are set to strike on March 18 for 24 hours, demanding an end to real pay cuts and intolerable workloads.

The rightward lurch and splintering of the opposition Liberal-National Coalition in Australia intensified last Wednesday.

Israel’s top military lawyer has dropped all criminal charges against five Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists who brutally assaulted—including raping—a Palestinian detainee held at the notorious Sde Teiman military detention centre during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

When The Economist crowned Portugal the “best performing economy of 2025,” it was applauding a model that has turned Portugal into a low-cost platform for global capital.

Following his attacks on the recently concluded Berlinale, the German government commissioner for culture and the media (BKM), Minister of State Wolfram Weimer, has set his sights on the book trade.

On the afternoon of March 8, a large number of school pupils, students and young workers gathered for an online meeting of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).

The Secret Agent, the latest film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, has gained a wide audience in Brazil and internationally since its release in November 2025.

The Cuban government is openly courting US corporations and Cuban-American exile capital, marking a decisive step toward transforming the island into a semi‑protectorate of American imperialism, with catastrophic consequences for Cuban workers.

Nearly 3,800 meatpacking workers are walking off the job today at the JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, one of the largest beef processing facilities in the United States.

Former Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant is billing herself as an “independent revolutionary socialist” candidate for Congress.

At the end of 2025, the Morenoite current led by the Socialist Workers Party (PTS) of Argentina held an international conference in São Paulo, Brazil.

Nine North Texas activists were convicted of “material support for terrorism” and a list of other offenses last Friday for their alleged roles in a shooting on July 4 of last year.

Multiple recently released studies highlight dire changes in the earth’s climate and environment due to global warming which may soon unleash a self-reinforcing feedback loop which is difficult or impossible to reverse.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s invocation of “no rules of engagement” and fighting “to win” at all costs in the current barbarous assault on Iran are the hallmarks of a war of extermination.

On Saturday, March 15, the Socialist Equality Party (UK) hosted a public meeting at Birkbeck, University of London under the title “Trotskyism and the Fight for Revolutionary Leadership”.

A deadly HIV epidemic in Fiji is worsening and spreading beyond its initial outbreak groups, the South Pacific country’s Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu told parliament on March 10.

At a Pentagon press conference on Friday morning, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a chilling declaration.

Recent remarks by US actor Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme) suggesting that opera and ballet were obsolescent art forms reveals something about the crisis and decline of culture more broadly.

The decision to censor a pro-Palestinian comment in the awards acceptance speech of Canadian actor and director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers has plunged the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) into a crisis which threatens to collapse the organization.

The state of Texas carried out the execution of Cedric Allen Ricks on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, putting him to death by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit penitentiary.

On Thursday, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, a former member of the Virginia National Guard, carried out an attack against members of the US military on the Old Dominion University campus in Norfolk, Virginia.

On Thursday morning, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41‑year‑old naturalized American citizen originally from Lebanon, rammed his pickup truck through the double front doors of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, one of the largest synagogues in the US.

In a powerful 98.3 percent “no” vote, refinery workers in Whiting, Indiana near Chicago rejected BP’s “last, best and final” offer in voting Thursday.

At least 60 Amazon Flex delivery drivers have been detained by ICE across southeast Michigan, People’s Assembly Detroit is reporting.

On Thursday, March 5, light rail services in Sydney’s CBD were suspended after a fire broke out on the roof of a tram during morning peak hour.

Around a thousand participants gathered in Frankfurt’s Römerberg square last Sunday for a rally under the slogan “Hands off Iran—stop US-Israeli aggression.”

The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) effectively endorsed the US-Israeli war against Iran Wednesday with the passage of Resolution 2817 (2026).

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that the US Navy will begin escorting commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz—a major escalation that would place US warships directly in the line of Iranian fire with a high likelihood of casualties.