University of Illinois student Republican club calls for assassination of political opponents
The Instagram post included a graphic depicting the assassination of Alex Pretti with the text “Only Traitors Help Invaders.”
•Andy Thompson
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Homeless Kalamazoo, Michigan man freezes to death while city spends $515 million on arena
Looking south from Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, where Nurrie, Jr. froze to death, there is visible a $44 million hotel development opened in 2021, a $94 million 8th District Courthouse opened in 2023, cranes building a $515 million arena and parking garage, and heavy machinery preparing a site for a planned $100 million county administration building and parking garage.
•Riley Ward
US energy blockade threatens Cuba with humanitarian “collapse”
The current isolation of the Cuban regime provides an unmistakable vindication of the International Committee of the Fourth International’s principled stance on the Cuban Revolution based on a defense of Leon Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution.
•Andrea Lobo
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Gig workers hold one-day nationwide protests; Punjab state power workers oppose privatisation; Bangladesh: Chittagong Port workers strike against new terminal leasing; Sri Lankan doctors continue action; Malaysia: Lumileds factory workers fight sackings and deportations; Australia: CSL pharmaceutical factory workers strike for higher pay.
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Hundreds of ABP meat packers in Dungannon, Northern Ireland facing redundancy
ABP Foods intends to close its retail meat packing operation in Dungannon in the North of Ireland, threatening 338 workers with the sack. Rank and file committees are needed across ABP’s operations in response.
•Steve James
Resident doctors in England renew strike mandate for pay restoration and to end employment crisis
The vote to extend strike action until August 2026 shows the determination of resident doctors to defy Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who has spewed vitriol including the accusation they are “holding the country to ransom.”
•Tony Robson
Turkish CHP holds “Social Peace and Democracy Conference”
The speeches and political profile of the participants revealed the fundamental message: the Turkish ruling class and its imperialist allies could better defend their interests through a government established under the leadership of the CHP.
•Barış Demir
New York City nurses arrested as Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul escalate pressure to end 4-week strike
The arrests underscore that the strike has entered a new stage and pose the necessity for a broader movement of the working class in defense of the nurses.
•Robert Milkowski
Mamdani caps one month of betrayal with endorsement of right-wing Democrat Kathy Hochul
In his short time as mayor, Mamdani has already accomplished a great deal—in comprehensively betraying and repudiating the oppositional sentiment that propelled him to office.
•Joseph Kishore
Layoffs by US firms tripled in January, as mass job cuts accelerate to Great Recession levels
The wave of layoffs is part of a global jobs bloodbath, driven by a ruthless global search for new sources of profit to sustain uncontrollable levels of debt and financial bubbles on which the wealth of the oligarchy rests.
•Tom Hall
Trump calls for country to “move on” from Epstein files, as scale and scope of criminality, cover-up expand
The latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice have conclusively proven the Trump administration is lying and engaged in a massive cover-up.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: Labor government pressing ahead with demolition of Melbourne public housing towers
Elderly tenants were blindsided by relocation letters ordering moves from midyear, after being repeatedly told their towers would be the last to be demolished.
•Margaret Rees
No Other Choice from South Korea: Doesn’t “necessity knows no law” cut both ways?
The film is inspired by Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax, previously adapted as a film by Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras in 2005.
•David Walsh
Trump’s “critical minerals” conference aimed against China
Through its dominance of the global supply of rare earths and critical minerals, vital for high-tech products, from phones to jet engines, China was able to hit back against Trump’s tariff war by rapidly cutting off supplies.
•Nick Beams
California worker killed in US Foods distribution facility
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
•Marc Wells
Trump falsifies the history of the Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border whose consequences still shape American politics.
•Tom Mackaman
1,200 autoworkers in Canada lose their jobs as GM ends third shift at Oshawa Assembly Plant
The layoffs came the same week GM reported more than $12 billion in pre-tax earnings for 2025, along with plans to hike shareholder returns through dividend increases and a $6 billion stock buyback scheme.
•Carl Bronski
Washington pressures Mexico to halt supply of oil to Cuba
Despite Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s rhetoric about supporting Cuba, she has capitulated to Trump and US imperialism by ceasing to provide oil to the island.
•Don Knowland
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Thousands march for investment in public education in Brussels, transport workers in Wallonia on indefinite stoppage against cost-cutting; UK defence workers at BAE in Lancashire in three-week stoppage over pay; sugar workers at four factories in Kenya walk out over monies owed
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Jury acquits Palestine Action’s Filton 6, dealing blow to Labour’s “terrorism” narrative
“The proscription of Palestine Action must now be lifted, and all those held as a result of this political process in prison should be released immediately,” civil liberties group CAGE demanded in response to Wednesday’s acquittal.
•Laura Tiernan
Communication Worker Union’s Martin Walsh opposes call for rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail
The day before Walsh’s swipe against the PWRFC the company triggered the one-month Dispute Resolution Process threatening executive action to impose the roll out of the Optimised Delivery Model across 1,250 offices nationally.
•Tony Robson
Washington Post slashes one-third of its newsroom, as 2026 jobs bloodbath continues
The Washington Post announced Tuesday that it is eliminating more than 300 journalists—roughly one-third of its 800-person newsroom.
•Andre Damon
Trump prepares to rig—or cancel—the 2026 elections
In a series of remarks this week, the US president has repeated his lies about the “stolen election” of 2020 and called for Republicans to “take over” the running of elections in Democratic-controlled states.
•Patrick Martin
Trump welcomes Colombian President Petro at the White House after military threats
Colombian President Petro visited Trump at the White House to pledge collaboration with the would-be emperor, exposing the bankruptcy of Latin America’s Pink Tide nationalists.
•Andrea Lobo
Greek Coast Guard rams refugee boat, killing and injuring dozens
A boat carrying an estimated 35 people en route from the Turkish coast to the nearby island of Chios was rammed by the Greek Coast Guard. At least 15 people were killed.
•Lena Sokoll
Australia: National Cabinet agrees on plan to drive tens of thousands of children off NDIS disability support
The deal will drive annual growth in spending on the $52 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme down to 5–6 percent, from about 9.5 percent last year, amounting to cuts of tens of billions of dollars over the coming decade.
•Max Boddy
Kaiser Permanente pays $556 million for Medicare fraud while claiming there is no money for striking workers
Federal prosecutors allege that between 2009 and 2018, Kaiser carried out a multi-state scheme to inflate risk scores through automated and coercive practices.
•Marc Wells
Build rank-and-file committees at Australian universities to fight job destruction and pro-war restructuring
Spearheaded by the fascistic Trump administration, an eruption of militarism and domestic repression has shattered the post-World War II order and this is driving deeper attacks—led by the Albanese Labor government—throughout the universities.
•Committee for Public Education
IG Metall boss calls for protectionism and trade war
At the union's annual press conference on January 26 and in further statements IG Metall chair Christiane Benner has called for protectionism and trade war as integral elements of the union’s “Initiative for Jobs and Economic Recovery: Future Instead of Relocation.”
•Ludwig Weller, Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Epstein scandal engulfs Labour’s Peter Mandelson and former Prince Andrew, threatening Starmer
Mandelson walked when it was revealed that he had passed confidential UK government information to Epstein. Downing Street has been forced to pass information to the Metropolitan Police to investigate.
•Robert Stevens
National Education Union ends Midlands, England teachers’ strike following agreement with Trust
Nine further days of strike action were due to begin on February 2. The NEU claimed the agreement as a “victory” and that “strikes work”. But the ATLP remains committed to balancing its deficits and the NEU is fully on board as partners.
•Tania Kent
University of Sheffield lock-out of staff adhering to action short of striking
The University of Sheffield is refusing to pay staff who fail to reschedule teaching missed during 16 days of strike action during November and December 2025. Such measures have been threatened before by UK universities but never carried through.
•Simon Whelan
Switzerland: Fire disaster in Crans-Montana claims 41st victim
The immediate causes of the disaster—the ignition of party sparklers in a basement bar, the flammable ceiling cladding, the lack of and overly narrow escape routes, and the lack of trained staff—all reveal an indifference, recklessness and greed for profit that is unparalleled.
•Marianne Arens
NYSNA seeks to undermine nurses strike as hospitals move to replace workers
At a rally in New York’s Foley Square, hundreds of nurses recognized the connection between the defense of healthcare and the defense of immigrants’ rights.
•Erik Schreiber
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Argentinian airport workers announce major strike action as workers in northern Mexico's "maquiladora" plants occupy factories in response to propose mass layoffs.
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Protests erupt in Italy against ICE presence at Winter Olympics in Milan
The ICE agency is infamous around the world for its politically-driven executions of US citizens in Minneapolis and other cities illegally occupied by forces loyal to Trump.
•Allison Smith
Sri Lankan court hearing on violent 2023 assault on SEP members
The SEP has consistently explained the brutal attack near the University of Moratuwa was not an isolated street brawl, but a politically driven attempt to prevent it from organising among university workers and students.
•Our reporters
Australian Labor government rolls out red carpet for Israeli president
The visit is a calculated provocation by the Labor government and a display of full support for the mass murder of Palestinians and for imperialist war globally.
•Oscar Grenfell
The US nurses’ strikes and the call for a general strike against Trump: How workers must prepare
A change is underway which is penetrating ever deeper into the working class. After 40 years of suppression of the class struggle, following the defeats imposed in the 1980s, the working class in the United States is beginning to move again.
•Tom Hall
House Democrats ensure funding of Trump’s global military rampage and domestic dictatorship
The votes over the past five days demonstrate that the Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration.
•Andre Damon
Trump calls for federal seizure of elections while directing FBI agents in Fulton County, Georgia
Trump’s calls to “take over” elections in states Republicans are projected to lose coincide with reporting that he is directly communicating with FBI agents currently seizing ballots, voter rolls and other election data in Fulton County, Georgia.
•Jacob Crosse
Students, faculty protest against academic censorship at Texas A&M University
Over 200 courses have been flagged or canceled following amendments to A&M’s “Civil Rights Protection” policies to prohibit “race and gender ideology.” Plato is among the authors banned from classrooms as a result of the new policies.
•Our reporter
Strikes and protests on the rise as Germany’s hospital sector faces growing crisis
While cuts in the healthcare system are driving more and more hospitals into insolvency, health workers are threatened with cuts in real wages and layoffs. The trade unions are isolating the struggles and preparing new sellouts.
•Markus Salzmann
Australian interest rate hike hits working-class households
The Labor government’s claims to have begun to resolve the cost-of-living crisis have been shattered.
•Mike Head
Washington escalates aggression against Mexico in bid to impose rule over the Americas
In the New Year, Washington has attempted to reassert its hegemony over the entire Latin American region, which includes its Mexican neighbor.
•Don Knowland
71-year-old subcontractor killed after falling into industrial vat at New Jersey chemical plant
A 71-year-old subcontracted worker was killed at a New Jersey chemical plant, as official investigations were announced and fundamental questions about workplace safety and accountability remain unanswered.
•Robert Milkowski
The European Film Awards favour films celebrating family (Sentimental) values and “dancing in the face of oblivion”
Unfortunately, a number of publicly well-received and penetrating German documentaries and feature films failed to win any recognition at the Berlin ceremony.
•Stefan Steinberg
Canada’s Unifor union urges conversion of auto plant to war production
Unifor Local 88 Plant Chair Mike Van Boekel recently revealed that discussions have been held with General Motors management on producing military vehicles at the idled CAMI auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario.
•Carl Bronski
As the US prepares war against Iran, NATO ally Türkiye attempts to mediate
Turkish government officials have voiced their growing concerns and made efforts to establish diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Striking workers speak from picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum for England:
Two workers employed as underground guides at the museum gave interviews. Both had formerly worked as miners at the UK’s last remaining deep coal mine, Kellingley Colliery, before it was closed in 2015.
•our reporters
Deepening poverty in the UK under Starmer Labour government says major charity
Poverty blighted between 20-22 percent of the UK population from 2005/06 up to the general election 2024. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation anticipates no change under the Starmer led Labour government.
•Margot Miller
Despite overwhelming strike vote, union keeps 650 nurses on the job at Boston Medical Center Brighton
The concessions proposed by BMC would worsen chronic staffing shortages and cost nurses thousands of dollars a year, hurting patients and nurses alike.
•T.J. Garrison
Journalists identify Alex Pretti’s killers as immigration Gestapo continues nationwide terror campaign
As support for a nationwide general strike grows, Democrats in Congress are prepared to join Republicans in passing Trump’s war budget, which includes further funding for ICE and CBP.
•Jacob Crosse
ICE arrests man in raid of Amazon facility in Hazel Park, Michigan
The arrest of Edwin Romero Guttierez, a Venezuelan national, is part of an escalating series of ICE actions in Southeastern Michigan.
•Anthony Callahan
Music and recording artists denounce ICE and defend immigrants at 2026 Grammys
A group of music artists made public statements during their acceptance speeches—Olivia Dean, Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny, in particular—in opposition to the assault by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the rights of immigrants.
•Kevin Reed
The new Dutch coalition government: A minority war cabinet in the service of capital
The coalition agreement unveiled on January 30 is the Dutch expression of a continent‑wide reorganisation of capitalist rule around permanent war, authoritarianism and a frontal assault on the working class.
•Parwini Zora
Coalition break-up expresses crisis of Australia’s two-party system
Amid a massive social polarisation, the old parties of the centre that have defended capitalist rule for decades are fracturing.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australian Labor government policy drives up housing prices
Since Labor’s expansion of the First Home Buyers scheme in October, prices of eligible lower-cost homes have risen 50 percent more than those of more-expensive properties.
•Leonard Johns
Trump SNAP cuts take effect: 2.4 million people at risk of losing food assistance by 2034
The mechanism for this round of SNAP cuts is extending work requirements from age 54 to age 64.
•Kate Randall
Sri Lankan government imposes “essential services” laws
After falsely pledging to improve living standards and defend democratic rights, the government is stepping up its use of repressive measures against the working class.
•Saman Gunadasa
Kaiser healthcare strike enters second week as new walkouts loom nationwide
Several thousand pharmacy and laboratory workers in Southern California, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), have voted to authorize a strike beginning February 9, highlighting the potential for a broad, working class movement in defense of public health.
•Kimie Saito, Liz Cabrera, Marc Wells
The mass surveillance infrastructure of Trump’s assault on immigrants and protesters
An integrated network of surveillance, tracking and identification technologies are being used by gangs of ICE and CBP agents in US cities for targeting both immigrants and citizen protesters.
•Kevin Reed
Measles outbreak at Dilley concentration camp: An indictment of Trump’s war on immigrants and public health
A measles outbreak is now ripping through the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where the Trump administration confines hundreds of immigrant families and children under conditions of deliberate brutality and medical neglect.
•Evan Blake
Oil companies demand surrender, but USW keeps 30,000 refinery workers on the job after contract expires
A struggle must be waged against the union bureaucrats, who are working with management and the government to impose another concessions contract.
•Tom Hall
Ferry sinks in Philippines killing 42, dozens more missing
The latest disaster is part of a long-time pattern in which ferry and maritime safety are ignored for the benefit of big business.
•Dante Pastrana
Trump-aligned candidate wins Costa Rican presidency exposing bankruptcy of Pink Tide
The election’s result is the political responsibility of the nominal “left”, in particular the pseudo-left Broad Front (FA) and its satellite organizations, which entered a de facto alliance with the traditional parties of the local oligarchy.
•Andrea Lobo
Indonesian stock market plunge indicates deepening economic turmoil
Last week’s fall, which wiped off around $80 billion from the market, was sparked by an adverse report from global index provider Morgan Stanley Capital Investment, which sets ratings for markets.
•Nick Beams
How to carry out the rebellion against the IG Metall trade union in Germany
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) welcomes the rapidly growing opposition to the union apparatus and supports workers who want to free themselves from its straitjacket.
•Ulrich Rippert, Christoph Vandreier
Warning strikes in Germany’s public transport: Break the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy! Build independent action committees!
The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us.
•Transport Workers Action Committee
Hailing Stalin, Kenyan Stalinists defend Venezuelan regime’s growing ties to Trump
The handover of Venezuela’s oil reserves to US imperialism by its Bolivarian regime is relentlessly unmasking anti-Trotskyist forces internationally.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Mediterranean dockworkers prepare International Day of Protest against escalating global war
The February 6 protest highlights growing antiwar sentiment in the working class and the need to build rank-and-file committees affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees to free the struggle from the influence of Stalinist and Pabloite parties.
•Marc Wells
Workers and young people in the UK speak on Gaza and Minneapolis
Tens of thousands took part in the 34th national demonstration in London against the genocide of the Palestinians and the war on Gaza.
•Our reporters
Five workers killed because Greek biscuit factory was a death trap following years of safety violations
Five female workers died in a huge blast and fire in the early hours of January 26 at the Violanta biscuit factory near the city of Trikala in the Thessaly region of central Greece.
•John Vassilopoulos
2 months after Cyclone Ditwah: Sri Lanka’s humanitarian catastrophe continues
The JVP/NPP government’s relief program, while offering symbolic gestures, has failed to deliver genuine reconstruction or address the underlying vulnerabilities the cyclone has exposed.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
This week in history: February 2-8
London Underground workers strike; 22,000 killed in Guatemala earthquake; South Korea troops massacre civilians; Sean O’Casey play premiers in Dublin.
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Europe’s imperialist powers line up behind regime change in Iran
The European imperialist powers are fully complicit in preparing an imperialist war of plunder against the most populated country in the Middle East.
•Jordan Shilton
Venezuela privatizes oil at US gunpoint: The dead end of “21st Century Socialism”
Less than one month after the criminal military abduction of de facto President Nicolás Maduro, Washington is recolonizing Venezuela and its oil wealth aided by the chavista government.
•Bill Van Auken
Major financial oligarchs helped Kevin Warsh secure Trump’s nomination for Fed chair
Trump’s decision is the outcome of a balancing act which itself underscores the inherent instability of the US financial system.
•Nick Beams
Senate Democratic leadership votes to fund Trump’s wars abroad and at home
The $839 billion military funding bill, passed with overwhelming Democratic support, comes as Trump deploys an “armada” against Iran, occupies American cities with federal agents, and threatens to expand wars across the globe.
•Andre Damon
Epstein files reveal criminality of American oligarchy
The latest release documents ongoing relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and billionaires, politicians, and power brokers well after his conviction, underscoring the systemic protection afforded to criminality within the ruling class.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: Writers Victoria to close as state Labor government slashes arts funding
The destruction of Writers Victoria will mean fewer opportunities for working-class people to develop their own voices and stories.
•Jason Quill
Deadly landslide in West Java exposes consequences of government neglect
Disasters of this kind are made possible by severely underfunded infrastructure, and compounded by deforestation and climate change
•Aditya Syed
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani praises NYPD shooting of emotionally distressed 22-year-old
New York Mayor Mamdani applauded the NYPD officers who shot 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty at least four times while he was suffering a mental health crisis.
•John Conrad
“Obey now. Grieve later”: Teachers unions suppress resistance to fascism
As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective response, under the guise of “student safety.”
•Jane Wise
New York nurses: Expand the strike to defeat mass firing threats from management!
The nurses must seize control of their strike to prevent the union from surrendering completely to the hospitals’ outrageous demands.
•Erik Schreiber
Australian PM invites Canadian leader to visit
Albanese’s announcement came only three days after Carney addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he declared that the “rules-based international order” had “ruptured.”
•Mike Head
Lecture at the University of Michigan on Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra
The topic of the lecture was a significant episode in the history of 20th century American and world music—the establishment of an African-American symphony orchestra, founded by conductor and composer Ignatz Waghalter.
•Barry Grey
Measles outbreak rips through Dilley child detention center, as nationwide epidemic deepens
An outbreak of measles being reported at the Dilley children and family detention center in Texas highlights a nationwide resurgence that threatens US elimination status and underscores the collapse of vaccination, surveillance and public health infrastructure.
•Benjamin Mateus
Third “Megapicket” held in Birmingham refuse workers strike as union bureaucracy appeals to Starmer
As with the previous events staged in May and July last year, the performative “solidarity” on show was a bogus affair, lacking any genuine mobilisation of the working class.
•Robert Stevens
Birmingham bin workers defiant on the picket line
Workers said they had not waged a year-long fight to accept a lump-sum payoff that fails to compensate for their major loss of earnings, legitimizes downgraded roles, and paves the way for unsafe working conditions.
•Our reporters
Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses continues, as strike looms for thousands of pharmacy and lab workers
Healthcare workers are being driven into direct confrontation, not only with corporate healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente, but with the entire political and economic framework that subordinates human life to profit, repression and state violence.
•Kimie Saito, Liz Cabrera, Marc Wells
“They watched him get crushed”: Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker critically injured after management ignored safety warnings
A Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker was critically injured when a vehicle fell on him due to known safety hazards, which both management and the UAW apparatus ignored.
•George Marlowe
Chancellor Merz demands German imperialism must “learn to speak the language of power politics”
Merz’s response to the new world situation he described could just as well have come from one of Hitler’s programmatic speeches in the early 1930s.
•Johannes Stern
Michigan immigrants face increasing repression from federal agents
ICE arrests in Michigan were up 230 percent in 2025 compared to 2024, and included immigrants with legal status and those with spouses or children who are US citizens.
•Anthony Callahan
Reject the IG Metall union’s nationalist defence of steel production in Germany!
While Thyssenkrupp shareholders plan to approve a €93 million dividend, the corporation is preparing to slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division. Workers must reject the complicity of the IG Metall union and build independent rank-and-file committees to defend their livelihoods against these attacks.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Israel officially accepts Gaza death toll of 70,000
After years of denial by Israel, successive US and European governments and the international media, Israel has accepted the Gaza Health Ministry’s official death toll.
•Andre Damon
Journalist Don Lemon, anti-ICE protesters arrested on orders of Trump administration
The arrests of these protesters and journalists mark a massive escalation in the Trump administration’s criminalization of dissent and assault on core democratic rights.
•Jacob Crosse
250 years since the publication of Tom Paine’s Common Sense
Paine’s revolutionary assault on monarchy and aristocracy cleared the way for American independence a quarter millenium ago—and speaks urgently to the present.
•Tom Mackaman
New York City Mayor Mamdani prepares for austerity following NYPD raid against anti-ICE protesters
The most overt expression of Mamdani’s prostration before and political integration into the capitalist establishment is his ongoing relationship with Donald Trump.
•Sandy English
“If you care about the world you live in, you might want to fight for it, because it might not be there next year.” A conversation with hip-hop artist Sole
Independent rap artist Sole spoke to the WSWS about the issues confronting hip-hop artists in the present situation, as well as his opposition to the Trump administration’s assault on the population.
•Nick Barrickman
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