The British establishment’s campaign to expose Banksy’s identity has nothing to do with the public interest. The ruling class cannot tolerate the artist’s consistent exposure of its crimes and hypocrisy and wants to intimidate dissenters. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The UAW is trying to betray the strike of NYU contract faculty like it betrayed the 2024 strike at the New School. Contract faculty members must take control of the strike and expand it to other schools and industries. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The White House threatened to “unleash hell” on Iran and “hit [them] harder than they have ever been hit before.” This is the voice of shameless barbarity and a threat to use nuclear weapons. These criminals must be stopped. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The crisis driving the international ruling class to world war is also spurring a resurgence of strikes. The mass opposition in the working class must be united internationally in a revolutionary struggle for socialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

A two‑year closure of the Trump Kennedy Center is less a renovation than a retreat: an attempt to wait out the damage inflicted by Trump’s own cultural vandalism and reopen the institution as a fait accompli under a new brand. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The shakeup of the Venezuelan cabinet is being carried out not to guarantee “national sovereignty” but to install pliable pro-US officials. The disgraceful capitulation of Rodriguez shows the dead end of bourgeois nationalism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

While Trump claimed that negotiations with Iran are ongoing, Hegseth let the cat out of the bag by blurting, “We negotiate with bombs.” About 4,500 Marines are already en route to Iran, and the 82nd Airborne will be deployed at any moment. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Cuba has suffered a second nationwide blackout in less than a week, underscoring the catastrophic impact of the US fuel embargo. The failure of a unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey tripped the entire grid. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump has dispatched armed ICE agents to harass immigrants and citizens at airports. He has declared the Democratic Party to be “the greatest enemy that America has.” Democracy is being attacked on the 250th anniversary of US independence. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump’s threat to obliterate Iran’s electrical grid is a stunning act of criminality. Not a single leading Democrat condemned Trump’s threat or moved to impeach him. This silence reflects the Democrats’ complicity in the war. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Roughly 6,000 workers at DHL voted by 96% to authorize strike action earlier this month. This is the latest in a growing list of worker struggles against the company, which employs 600,000 people across the globe. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

ICE released Daphy Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker with mental illness, into an unfamiliar city in freezing weather without notifying her family or her lawyer. Her body was found five days later. This crime fits a well-documented pattern. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Detention facilities are not simply built in response to enforcement needs; they are part of a system in which detention itself is treated as a guaranteed revenue stream. Government policy is aligned with corporate profit interests. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The AFT swooped in to end the San Francisco teachers' strike, suppress wages, and prepare the way for layoffs. Joining the AFT in presenting this betrayal as a victory were pseudo-leftists such as Left Voice and the PSL. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Under the pretext of defending "freedom of navigation," Japan has pledged to support the criminal US war on Iran. Japan is reasserting its might as an imperialist power and gearing up to aid the US in a confrontation with China. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Thousands of educators and school workers rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday as United Teachers Los Angeles and SEIU Local 99 announced a possible April 14 strike against the Los Angeles Unified School District. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien publicly embraced reactionary Senator Markwayne Mullin and endorsed his bid to oversee the federal system of anti-immigrant terror and the network of concentration camps. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

By sending Marines in such large numbers to the Persian Gulf, Trump has made a ground invasion all but inevitable. From his viewpoint, the only alternative is a withdrawal that he would not politically survive. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

John Hammond dedicated himself to the blues for its own sake. He earned the respect of fellow musicians and fans but didn’t enjoy a wide following. An artist of his seriousness and singlemindedness would face impossible odds today. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The US will likely find $200 billion for the war on Iran but refuse to fund the Postal Service and guarantee mail delivery. The ruling class is attacking the most basic governmental functions to fund imperialist crimes. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

On Wednesday, 2,400 mental health professionals workers carried out a one-day strike. The well-attended picket lines showed healthcare workers are determined to fight against ongoing attacks on their working conditions and living standards. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Come to our meeting tomorrow at 6:30 pm in New York to discuss the invasion of Iran and help build a socialist antiwar movement. x.com/erikschreibe...

We’ve lost a talented guitarist in Wayne Perkins, who combined sharp blues phrasing with yearning lyricism. See his solos on the Stones’ “Worried About You” and the Wailers’ “Concrete Jungle.” His contribution changed the song. www.cleveland.com/nation/2026/...

“Dead Man’s Wire” is an honest and humane work, the best that director Gus Van Sant has made in years. While inspired by an event that occurred in 1977, the film clearly emerges from and conveys contemporary social anger. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump has asked Congress for more than $200 billion for the war on Iran. This amount exceeds even the peak annual cost of the Iraq war, which ran to roughly $140 billion. This request signals a tremendous escalation. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump speaks of “taking” Cuba as though he’s eyeing an hors d’oeuvre on a platter. The US has proclaimed its “right” to dispose of the Western Hemisphere as it sees fit, heedless of the suffering it inflicts on masses of people. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Columbia U student workers voted to strike and approved a list of demands. But the UAW leadership is threatening to block the strike unless the workers water down their demands. This is the foul role that the union bureaucrats play. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump’s expectation that a quick victory over Iran, a strategic partner of China, could be used to extract concessions from Xi has been dashed as the criminal war continues in its third week. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Despite mass public opposition, Trump is sending Marines toward Iran for a potential ground invasion. Such a move would lead to a protracted and bloody campaign in a desperate attempt to stop the protracted decline of US imperialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The JBS meatpackers’ strike in Colorado needs the support of workers in every industry and every country. The JBS workers, most of whom are immigrants, are courageously defying Trump’s anti-immigrant terror. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Though a new documentary captures UPS workers’ significant discontent with the 2023 tentative agreement, it obscures the role of the Teamsters leadership in enabling mass layoffs and deteriorating conditions. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Cuba’s government is courting large-scale investments from US corporations and the exile bourgeoisie in Miami, a decisive step toward turning Cuba into a semi‑protectorate of US imperialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

That “One Battle After Another” won six Academy Awards on Sunday is likely the most telling indicator of changes taking place in the artistic world, a complex reflection of important shifts in popular consciousness more broadly. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The same propaganda used during the barbaric destruction of Gaza (“terror tunnels,” “human shields,” etc.) is now being reproduced almost verbatim to justify the onslaught against Lebanon.‌ www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The White House has been the home of a fair number of rotten individuals. But Trump represents a level of intellectual and moral degeneracy that makes even Richard Nixon appear as a pillar of integrity. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Kshama Sawant is not an “independent revolutionary socialist” candidate for Congress. She’s a fraud. Instead of providing Marxist analysis, she supports bourgeois politicians and moves from one pseudo-left faction to another without explanation. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

“Their reasons to drag us into another war are BS—fighting someone else’s wars with our children,” said a UPS worker. “And obviously it also plays a part of driving the costs up of daily everyday needs, and more precisely, oil.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump’s escalation of the war on Iran will also intensify the class struggle at home. Meatpacking workers at JBS are only the latest to strike. These struggles must be united in a socialist movement against war and exploitation. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The US/Israeli war on Iran threatens to spiral out of control. Neither the Democrats nor the unions will oppose this crime. Come to our meeting in New York on Saturday, March 21 and help build a socialist antiwar movement in the working class.

The political establishment and corporate media are exploiting an attack on a Michigan synagogue to intensify state repression, inflame Islamophobia and criminalize opposition to the joint US‑Israeli onslaught in the Middle East. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Leading Republicans are using the shooting at Old Dominion University to promote Islamophobia and even genocide. At the state level, Republicans are criminalizing Islamic organizations and attacking democratic rights. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Toronto Film Critics Association claims to have cut a pro-Palestinian statement from an actor/director's acceptance speech for brevity. This excuse insults the intelligence of everyone who is aware of world developments. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

At least 60 Amazon Flex delivery drivers have been detained by ICE across southeast Michigan. Amazon is collaborating readily with ICE, and workers must prepare strike action in response to any effort to seize their coworkers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Timothée Chalamet's laughing dismissal of opera and ballet was not simply a personal gaffe. It reflects decades of reaction, repression, and philistinism promoted by the ruling class, which no longer has any use for the arts. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Indiana refinery workers resoundingly rejected BP's attempt to cut wages and attack seniority. This blow must be the starting point of a counteroffensive. The workers must organize across plants and break out of their isolation. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Trump administration is threatening a ground invasion of Iran and has refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons. A terrible crime is being prepared. The opposition within the working class must be organized and politically directed. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The US will escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as it is militarily possible.” This is a major escalation of the war that will put American sailors at risk and spark even greater opposition.‌ www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The UN Security Council’s condemnation of Iran’s retaliatory strikes is an infamous exercise in victim-blaming and an endorsement of the criminal war waged by the US and Israel. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Do you oppose the war on Iran but “feel powerless” to stop it? Jacobin recommends that you avoid “sectarianism” and vote in the 2028 election. This ridiculous advice is meant to prevent a break with the Democrats. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

“The Best American Essays 2025” provides welcome signs that writers are beginning to engage directly and critically with genocide, economic crisis, and governmental mendacity. There is hope for the development of this vital form. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...