On July 1, 2001, Northern Ireland’s First Minister David Trimble, head of the pro-British Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), resigned from office, deepening the crisis of the sectarian “power‑sharing” system created by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania and socialist candidate for UAW president, has issued a statement to workers at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan following the fraudulent ratification of a fourth tentative agreement (TA4) by UAW Local 699 officials on June 26.

On June 21, the New Zealand Green Party released a 2.5 percent wealth tax policy, which it claims will “make sure the super-rich and big corporations contribute their share,” reduce taxes for workers and boost public services.

US warplanes bombed Iranian coastal radar and air defense sites on Friday and again on Saturday, striking 10 targets near the Strait of Hormuz in the second wave.

The victory in the June 23 Democratic primary elections for Congress of three self-described socialist candidates, all backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has sparked alarm in both parties of the capitalist oligarchy.

The University and College Union (UCU) declared a “global academic boycott” of the University of Sheffield (UoS), urging academics to avoid conferences, guest lectures, visiting positions, and new examiner contracts, while asking honorary graduates and external examiners to resign.

Finland’s parliament voted 17 June to repeal the country’s ban on nuclear weapons to remove any obstacles to the deployment of NATO bombs and missiles to the country, which has a 1,300-kilometre border with Russia.

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Autoworkers at Hyundai Motors in South Korea overwhelmingly voted to strike on Wednesday.

The VW Group Executive Board, led by Oliver Blume, is determined to cut 100,000 jobs, twice as many as previously planned.

In the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, June 24, the rail, bus, tram and metro networks of the Netherlands fell silent.

A trial has been underway since April 27, 2026 that is setting a dangerous precedent in Germany’s post-war history.

Mike Burgess, the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the country’s domestic political spy agency, this week gave his seventh annual threat assessment address, again ratcheting up headline-grabbing claims of unparalleled multiple “national security” dangers.

The US launched a new round of strikes on Iran on Friday in the most explicit indication yet that the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has collapsed into an escalating and open conflict.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued two virulently anti-immigrant decisions authored by arch-reactionary Justice Samuel Alito on behalf of the six-justice right-wing bloc.

On the eve of the Declaration of Independence's 250th anniversary, the World Socialist Web Site held a global webinar, “The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to ‘No Kings.’” It was co-moderated by David North, WSWS chairman, and Eric Lee, a federal civil...

United Auto Workers Local 699 officials on Friday morning claimed their fourth tentative agreement with Nexteer Automotive had been ratified by workers at the Saginaw, Michigan plant by 57 to 43 percent with 831 workers voting yes, 635 voting no and more than 200 workers abstaining.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration requested Congress approve $87.6 billion in extra funding for the war with Iran as well as several other unrelated programs.

Since former special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was charged with five war crimes, allegedly committed during the neo-colonial occupation of Afghanistan, he has been accorded extraordinary treatment by the political, legal and media establishment.

A Senate hearing this week on the finances of the United States Postal Service (USPS) laid out the framework for a sweeping attack on one of the oldest public institutions in the country.

Last Friday’s train collision near Bedford, England, claimed the life of 60-year-old train driver Shaun Burton and injured 162 passengers, with 102 requiring hospital treatment and eight remaining in a critical condition as of Wednesday.

Operating Theatre Assistants (OTAs) at three major hospitals in Leeds, England belonging to the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust began a two-week strike June 22.

Cities across Western Europe have been hotter than much of the Middle East this week.

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Türkiye is being subjected to a police state mobilization in the shadow of the 36th NATO Summit, which will be held in its capital, Ankara, on July 7-8.

Tuesday’s primary elections highlighted a leftward shift among New York City voters, while the Democratic Party strengthened ties to the military-intelligence sector by selecting a former Navy admiral and four Middle East war veterans as congressional candidates.

The combined wealth of New Zealand’s richest people has climbed to $NZ129 billion ($US74.5 billion), according to the latest National Business Review (NBR) Rich List, with the number of billionaires rising sharply.

Hours before 1,700 workers at the Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan began to vote on a fourth tentative agreement (TA4), rank-and-file workers report that United Auto Workers Local 699 bargaining committee officials have seized control of the vote oversight process.

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The resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his imminent replacement by the former Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham have confirmed that the Labour “left” will fight for nothing.

The Kenyan government of President William Ruto moved to suppress demonstrations in Nairobi on Thursday.

On June 15, 2026, Biobío news site published a leaked preliminary report from the Comptroller General’s Office, dated April 14, 2026, setting off a political firestorm that has dominated Chilean public life.

On June 17 and 18, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered in Kazan, Russia, for a commemorative summit with President Vladimir Putin marking 35 years of ASEAN-Russia relations.

The National Association of Letter Carriers is preparing to deny city letter carriers even the right to vote on their next contract if closed-door mediation with the US Postal Service proceeds directly to binding arbitration.

The lockout of more than 850 oil refinery workers at BP’s massive Whiting, Indiana facility has entered its fourth month.

On June 25-26, the United Auto Workers union is holding a ratification vote on a fourth tentative agreement for 1,700 workers at the Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan after workers voted down three previous pro-company deals.

The Greens struck a deal yesterday to pass measures of the Labor government’s May budget that make minor changes to the tax regime governing property investment.

A United Nations independent commission has issued a damning indictment of Israel’s campaign of mass killing in Gaza, concluding that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Palestinian people, especially against Palestinian children.

On June 21, just 37 days after the epidemic was declared, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000 confirmed Ebola cases.

On Wednesday, June 24, at 2:30 p.m., the following open letter from the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) and the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site in Germany will be delivered to Türkiye’s ambassador in Berlin, Gökhan Turan.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna/National People’s Power (JVP/NPP) government has gazetted a bill to establish a statutory body, the Chartered Institute of Media Professionals of Sri Lanka (CIMP).

Kenyan President William Ruto has issued a deadly threat ahead of the June 25 anniversary of Gen-Z protests this week.

Resident doctors have been speaking out against the “new offer” they are being balloted on by the British Medical Association (BMA) in a referendum running from June 18-26.

Former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Peter Murrell, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Tuesday for embezzling party funds.

Professor Alexander Rabinowitch, the most important American historian of the 1917 Russian Revolution, passed away on June 16 at age 91.

In Türkiye, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has escalated its repression of the left and anti-war opposition ahead of the 36th NATO Summit, to be held in Ankara on July 7–8, detaining 209 people on Tuesday morning.

We, the Action Committee, Nurseries & Education, condemn the presence of Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) members in schools in the strongest terms!

Eight people convicted in connection with the July 4, 2025 protest at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas were sentenced on Tuesday to a combined 450 years in prison in one of the most draconian political prosecutions in modern American history.

Since assuming power on March 11, 2026 the government of President José Antonio Kast has launched the most sweeping assault on immigrants in Chile since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990.

Efforts are underway to expand all branches of the US armed forces.