Oppose the US imperialist war on Iran!
The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution.
•David North
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UAW tries to contain anger as Stellantis workers denied profit sharing checks
Stellantis’ announcement of no profit sharing payout in 2026 provoked immediate outrage among tens of thousands of US workers who rely on the checks to pay essential bills.
•Shannon Jones
Trump blacklists Anthropic, orders all federal agencies to cease use of AI firm’s technology
Trump's blacklisting of Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei's response expose the real character of the dispute: not a conflict between ethics and militarism, but between two factions of the ruling class over the terms of AI's integration into the US war machine.
•Evan Blake
Hamnet, Hamlet and the demanding effort “to show the very age and body of the time”
The film is built around the family life of playwright William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1590s and the death of their 11-year-old son.
•David Walsh
The 2026 Winter Olympics: Remarkable athleticism poisoned by nationalist chauvinism
The degeneration of the games has reached the point where the International Olympic Committee is little more than a direct tool of imperialism.
•Andy Thompson
Nearly blind Rohingya refugee dies in Buffalo after being “dropped off” miles from home by CBP agents
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, who was nearly blind and unable to speak English, was left at a donut shop in Buffalo by two Customs and Border Patrol agents five miles from his home and found dead on a downtown city street four days later.
•Kevin Reed
Newly-elected far-right Japanese government prepares war measures
Plans for war against China coincide with plans for the suppression of political opposition and democratic rights within Japan.
•Ben McGrath
Mamdani embraces Trump: Collaboration with fascism from the DSA mayor
Mamdani stood side-by-side with the would-be dictator who has the blood of thousands on his hands, and may soon have the blood of millions, as his war fleet assembles off the coast of Iran.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Mamdani’s decision to reopen New York City schools after blizzard angers teachers and parents
Educators and parents voiced their opposition to Mamdani’s decision—and to the leadership of the UFT, which had put up no opposition to it—online as well as in a petition that collected over 170,000 signatures.
•Sandy English
Australian housing crisis: Unaffordability at record levels
The Labor government’s expanded “first home buyer” schemes have not provided relief for workers and young people but rather have inflated prices and further enriched banks, developers, and existing property owners.
•Cheryl Crisp
FBI raids LAUSD headquarters and superintendent Carvalho’s home
While the DOJ has cited possible corruption, it is likely that Carvalho was targeted for his criticisms of ICE raids targeting immigrant children.
•Marc Wells
Australian logistics software maker WiseTech announces 2,000 AI-driven job cuts
“The era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over,” according to WiseTech CEO Zubin Appoo.
•Martin Scott
New Zealand: Union pushes through pay cut for 12,300 health workers
The two-year agreement follows a similar sellout by the secondary teachers’ union, with both deals aimed at imposing the right-wing coalition government’s austerity agenda.
•Tom Peters
Argentina’s labor bill vote and tire factory shutdown expose pseudo-left unionism
As Argentina’s Senate approved fascist President Javier Milei’s Labor Modernization bill, pseudo-left unions promoted nationalist appeals to the Peronist bureaucracy, repeating the betrayals that paved the way for the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
•Andrea Lobo
Teachers face illegal reprisals over support for student walkouts against ICE
Across the US, teachers and students who join or support anti‑ICE walkouts are being investigated, disciplined and even criminally threatened.
•Nancy Hanover
Modi visits Israel to strengthen India-Israeli strategic axis, as Washington and Tel Aviv prepare assault on Iran
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a two-day visit to Israel this week, choosing to further elevate India’s “strategic partnership” with Israel at the very point that Washington and Tel Aviv are poised to launched a criminal, unprovoked war on Iran.
•Rohantha De Silva, Keith Jones
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation women workers protest; Private hospital nurses in Kerala strike for higher pay; National action by Sri Lankan non-academic university workers; Queensland public sector trades workers resume industrial action; New Zealand shellfish processing workers strike.
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Labour Party suffers Gorton and Denton by-election wipe out by Greens
A leadership challenge to Keir Starmer is ever more likely after May’s local elections, which Labour is also expected to lose heavily.
•Robert Stevens
Your Party leadership elections put Corbyn in charge
The results were a rout for the Grassroots Left faction led by Zarah Sultana and its declared aim of transforming Your Party into an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist party dedicated to nationalising the economy.
•Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps
CWU leader Martin Walsh uses restricted consultation exercise to claim backing for restructuring at Royal Mail
Comments from postal workers on the CWU’s Facebook questioned whether the rejection of ODM at pilot offices signified support for the union’s proposal, which involves absorbing additional work by reducing existing duties and positions within the “Heavy and Light” model.
•Tony Robson
Imperial College London staff strike over pay: “Our effective pay has been cut by 9 percent since 2018”
Staff have taken three one-day strikes in February. They have now held 13 strike days since a ballot in September last year
•Our reporters
From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means
The Senate committee hearing laid bare the anti-science agenda driving the Trump-Kennedy assault on public health, while Democrats offered only performative opposition.
•Evan Blake
Trump poised to launch criminal war on Iran behind smokescreen of talks
Having amassed vast military power in the Middle East spearheaded by two aircraft carrier strike groups and scores of warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours.
•Keith Jones
Drop Site investigation reveals Israeli surveillance and security system installed at Epstein-controlled Manhattan apartment building
Drop Site News reports that newly disclosed documents show the Israeli government installed a security system at a Manhattan apartment building controlled by Jeffrey Epstein — a property that court filings, sworn depositions and police reports identify as housing underage girls and alleged co-conspirators in his sex trafficking operation.
•Jacob Crosse
Cuba repels armed provocation as US tries to starve island into submission
An armed “terrorist infiltration” by a US‑flagged speedboat exposes the increasingly reckless character of Washington’s regime‑change campaign.
•Andrea Lobo
Australia: Police confiscate anti-genocide placard at Ramadan festival in Lakemba
The police theft of a placard featuring the face of Israeli war criminal Netanyahu and the caption “wanted” was a provocation that would have been approved at high levels of the NSW government and police command.
•Oscar Grenfell
Australian government plans “tough” austerity budget
Albanese’s ministers are seeking to satisfy a drumbeat of demands by the corporate ruling class for much sharper cuts to social spending.
•Mike Head
Mamdani deepens collaboration with Trump in second White House meeting
Mamdani met with the president in the Oval Office supposedly to propose a housing plan less than two days after Trump’s fascistic State of the Union address.
•Daniel de Vries
Trump backers prepare executive order to seize control of US midterm elections
The fascist president has threatened to issue such an order if Congress fails to pass legislation aimed at suppressing turnout by anti-Trump voters in November.
•Patrick Martin
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for rank-and-file slate as delegate elections begin
Elections are currently taking place at UAW locals for delegates to the Constitutional Convention schedule for June 15-18 in Detroit.
•Jerry White
SAG-AFTRA negotiations begin: What are the issues facing actors and other industry workers?
The conditions today are even more tense and fraught than those that led to a 118-day strike in 2023.
•Hong Jian
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital nurses seething after end to 6-week strike
They face not only a new contract that fails to satisfy their demands, but also a new round of attacks and harassment from management, according to nurses who spoke to the World Socialist Web Site.
•Erik Schreiber
UCLA, Los Angeles schools chief targeted by Trump administration
Together, they constitute an extraordinary and coordinated intervention by Trump, aimed at intimidating opposition and reasserting state authority amid a rapidly intensifying class struggle.
•Marc Wells
Lorain County Jobs and Family Service workers entering second week of strike
The 140 social service workers, members of the UAW, walked out February 18 for better wages and benefits as Democrats and Republicans make massive cuts to social spending.
•Samuel Davidson
Right-wing New Zealand blogger suggests becoming part of Australia to build a war machine
The proposal by David Farrar, who is close to the New Zealand government, reflects concern in ruling circles that NZ may be sidelined by the US and other imperialist powers in the violent redivision of the world.
•Tom Peters
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Ahead of international protests to mark third anniversary of Tempi rail crash, actors and theatre technicians across Greece walk out over pay and conditions; bus drivers in Çanakkale, Turkey in stoppage over unpaid wages and poor working conditions; ArcelorMittal Liberia mine workers protesting pay and conditions face police attacks
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UN report warns of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, West Bank
The UN human rights office said the cumulative impact of Israel’s military conduct during its war against the Palestinians, along with its blockade of the territory, had inflicted living conditions “increasingly incompatible with Palestinians’ continued existence as a group in Gaza.”
•Jean Shaoul
Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole faces fraudulent charges as detention continues
Omole has been transferred to Kitengela Remand Prison with a broken arm. He faces trumped-up charges of connections to drug cartels, assaulting a police officer and possession of a firearm.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Oppose the pro-imperialist Kurdish nationalist coalition in Iran
The “coalition of political forces of Iranian Kurdistan” represents yet another episode in the protracted and disastrous alignment of Kurdish bourgeois nationalist organizations with American imperialism.
•Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
Palestinian Nerdeen Kiswani files civil rights lawsuit against Zionist Betar USA under Ku Klux Klan Act
Kiswani’s suit alleges that the violent far-right group has been targeting her for over a year, including by supplying her name to the Trump administration for deportation.
•Jacob Crosse
Epstein files naming Trump as attacker were withheld by DOJ
Multiple media reports quote Epstein victims whose statements to the FBI were recorded, but not released by the Department of Justice last month.
•Patrick Martin
South Australian election: Labor government campaigns on support for property developers, austerity and militarism
The March 21 state election will resolve nothing for workers and young people.
•Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell
The Socialist Equality Party replies to Trump’s fascist address to Congress
In the United States, where the capitalist two-party system has been in place for 150 years, all those genuinely opposed to the policies and interests of the ruling class are denied the right to address the people. However, if the Socialist Equality Party had been given the opportunity to deliver a televised rebuttal, not only to Trump’s State of the Union Address but also to the Democrats’ reply, this is what we would have said.
•David North
Report on impact of AI triggers market turmoil
A hypothetical scenario set out by the research firm Citrini “tapped into a new strain of fears about AI.”
•Nick Beams
With US imperialist war machine in position, Trump menaces Iran in State of the Union speech
The absence of any expression of popular opposition to the war reflects both the backing among the European imperialist powers and broad support among the privileged middle class “left” for a “regime change” operation led by Washington.
•Jordan Shilton
30,000 LA school support workers overwhelmingly vote to strike
With the previous vote by teachers, some 65,000 Los Angeles Unified School District employees are poised to strike.
•Marc Wells
Australia: Victorian Labor government hands police expanded stop-and-search powers
Such police-state powers mark a further shift to the right by Labor governments, seeking to crush dissent.
•Sofia Devetzi
Trade unions hold town hall at George Mason University: University workers need independent organization, not appeals to Democrats
The “Virginia Labor Coalition” meeting at GMU seeks to tie workers to Democrats and unions while suppressing broader struggles over wages and democratic rights in the face of the Trump administration’s assault on democracy.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality at George Mason University
Kaiser Permanente files $95 million insurance lawsuit after record Medicare Advantage fraud settlement
The legal battle exposes the irrationality of a healthcare system subordinated to financial manipulation, fraud settlements and insurance profiteering.
•Marc Wells
Former Fiji PM Bainimarama arrested on charges of inciting mutiny
The renewed legal offensive against Bainimarama is an expression of intensifying factional struggles amid Fiji’s growing social crisis.
•John Braddock
Amid deepening crisis of class rule, Peru saddled with eighth president in 10 years
Peru has become a focal point in US imperialism’s drive to roll back China’s economic influence and reassert Washington’s hegemony in Latin America.
•Cesar Uco, Bill Van Auken
Hanau shooting memorial highlights political shift to the right in Germany’s political establishment
On the sixth anniversary of the racist terror attack, the families of the victims warn of the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the "fascistic escalation" in the US. At the same time, the establishment parties are distancing themselves from such commemorations.
•Marianne Arens
Florida continues execution surge with lethal injection of Melvin Trotter
Trotter’s legal team long argued for mercy based on their client's intellectual disabilities and the fact that he was high on crack at the time of the crime and came to the store unarmed, demonstrating he lacked the capacity for premeditation.
•Kate Randall
Say Nothing: Everything essential about the Northern Ireland conflict left unsaid
A serious artistic appraisal of the Troubles, and serious attempts to understand their effect at a personal level, would have to begin from a historical and political understanding both of British imperialism and the limitations of bourgeois nationalism.
•Paul Bond
Corruption scandal hits Greece’s GSEE trade union bureaucracy
At the centre of scandal is an investigation concerning €2.1 million government and European Union funding, out of a €73 million total, provided between 2020 and 2025 for professional education and training programmes.
•John Vassilopoulos
Demand the immediate release of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole!
CPM-K Secretary General Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted on Monday in Isiolo town by the Kenya Police Service. The ICFI demands that the Ruto regime release him immediately.
•Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Mass protests in Detroit area against plans for ICE detention and operational centers
Hundreds of people in Romulus and Southfield, Michigan, protested Monday evening against plans to expand ICE operations across the Detroit metro area.
•Our reporters
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for solidarity with Turkish miners’ wildcat strike
The miners have halted production to demand payment of unpaid wages, enforcement of promotion rights, retroactive contract benefits, guaranteed seniority and severance protections, and genuine health and safety measures.
•Our reporters
At meeting to defend public health, Sri Lanka’s health workers express solidarity with counterparts in US
The Health Workers’ Action Committee of Sri Lanka held a February 20 online meeting to defend the island nation's free public health system.
•Health Workers Action Committee (HWAC) –Sri Lanka
Pentagon gives Anthropic 3 days to drop AI safeguards or face blacklisting
The Trump administration has given Anthropic an ultimatum to remove AI safety restrictions on its Claude model or face blacklisting and compulsion under the Defense Production Act, while simultaneously signing a deal to deploy Elon Musk's fascist Grok AI on classified military networks.
•Evan Blake
Union bureaucracy sabotages the Kaiser Permanente strike
The shutdown of the strike, without prior notice, a contract or even a tentative agreement, underscores the need for a workers’ rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
•Tom Hall
2 Pennsylvania students remain imprisoned 4 days after anti-ICE protest as “Quakertown 5” face felony charges
Five minors held more than 72 hours after being assaulted by police at an anti-ICE rally now face felony charges while the police chief seen choking a student remains uncharged.
•Jacob Crosse
Actor Robert Duvall (1931-2026): A realist who went beyond his own conceptions
Duvall began acting in the theater in the 1950s, pursued a career in television in the 1960s and achieved his greatest prominence in films in the 1970s and beyond.
•David Walsh
Militarisation of Australian universities intensifies: More than $200 million in defence contracts since 2024
The expanding contracts with universities feed into the next phase of the AUKUS military pact between the US, UK and Australia, targeting China.
•Eric Ludlow
A historic attack on citizenship rights: Labor blocks entry to Australians interned in Syria
The refusal to repatriate women and children—all Australian citizens—trapped in Syrian concentration camps constitutes a historic assault on the core democratic right of citizenship, without which no other political or civil rights can effectively be exercised.
•Mike Head
IMF chief hails Sri Lanka “success story” as its austerity agenda deepens social crisis
Kristalina Georgieva’s visit was to ensure that Sri Lanka will continue to implement the IMF’s harsh austerity policies that protect the profits of big business while heaping more burdens on workers and the poor.
•Saman Gunadasa
Measles cases in the US surge past 1,000 in 2026
Measles cases in the United States have already exceeded 1,000 in 2026, increasing at a far faster pace than last year, which marked a three-decade high. The outbreak exposes the deadly consequences of the Trump-Kennedy effort to destroy public health institutions.
•Benjamin Mateus
Cuban worker describes hellish conditions, appeals to US workers to force an end to embargo
A Cuban worker and single mother in Matanzas describes blackouts of up to 30 hours, children going to bed hungry and an atmosphere of fear under Trump’s genocidal embargo.
•Our reporters
UK Labour government reels following arrest of Peter Mandelson over Epstein connections
Not only did Mandelson epitomise the New Labour agenda of serving every requirement of the banks and corporations, but his close relations with Epstein were seen at the time as an asset that would facilitate efforts to woo the Trump administration.
•Robert Stevens
Royal Mail workers in Keighley, West Yorkshire: “They are trying to kill off the postal service”
Postal workers at the Keighley delivery office in West Yorkshire spoke out against intolerable working conditions, mail backlogs and the collusion of the Communication Workers Union leadership in enforcing Royal Mail’s restructuring agenda.
•Our reporters
After Supreme Court decision, Trump tariff war to intensify
The court ruling does not mean a return to constitutionality by the Trump regime or a restoration of the status quo ante as far as international economic relations are concerned.
•Nick Beams
Australia: Questions about Bondi terrorist attack remain unanswered
The perpetrators were known to ASIO, the domestic spy agency, and appear to have been active in an extremist milieu that included supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organisation.
•Oscar Grenfell
US begins pulling staff from Beirut embassy amid Iran attack buildup
The State Department ordered the evacuation of non-essential personnel and family members from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Monday, amid a major buildup of forces in the Middle East and intensifying preparations for war against Iran.
•Andre Damon
The real state of Trump’s America: Social misery, dictatorship, war—and an upsurge of class struggle
The fascist president heads a government of, by and for the financial oligarchy.
•WSWS Editorial Board
UNAC/UHCP bureaucrats shut down Kaiser Permanente strike without a contract
This is a flagrant violation of the basic democratic rights of the 31,000 workers, who have been on strike for a month. They must organize to overturn this decision made over their heads.
•Marc Wells
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Following a 24-hour general strike last week in Argentina, walkouts continued in some areas, while the US Department of Agriculture will permit faster line speeds in meatpacking plants.
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Union shuts down South Australian nurses’ strike in backroom deal with Labor government
The union-government deal is a betrayal of nurses and midwives’ deep-seated anger over real wage cuts and intensifying workloads throughout South Australia’s public health system.
•Vicki Mylonas
Australia: Early childhood educators in Victoria set to strike
Educators remain trapped in a cycle of low pay, excessive workloads and chronic staff shortages.
•Our reporters
Berlinale award winners demand festival and its backers take a clear stand against Gaza genocide
The support for Israel’s genocidal policy by the German government and cultural institutions was the subject of fierce and prolonged protest at this year’s Berlinale.
•Stefan Steinberg
US-backed “execution” of Jalisco Cartel chief threatens greater carnage in Mexico
The US-directed “execution” of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho in Mexico has unleashed nationwide chaos and will be exploited to deepen militarization and imperialist control.
•Andrea Lobo
High school students protesting ICE remain jailed days after police assault in Pennsylvania
Days after video showed a police chief choking a student, at least five youth remain in custody as authorities stonewall the public.
•Jacob Crosse
Oppose the persecution of high school students protesting ICE! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship!
Across the United States, students are being threatened, suspended, arrested and violently attacked for exercising basic democratic rights.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)
Canada’s Liberal government backs imperialist regime change in Iran
As Trump masses US naval and air forces for a devastating assault on Iran, Canada’s Foreign Minster has declared Ottawa’s full-throated support for regime change in Tehran.
•Graham Beverley
Turkish parliamentary committee overwhelmingly approves report on negotiations with Kurdish Workers Party
The parliamentary commission established as part of Turkey’s negotiations with the PKK mainly advances the outlook of the Erdoğan government while receiving the support of the Kurdish DEM Party.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Reject CWU/Labour government whitewash of Royal Mail crisis: for rank-and-file opposition to corporate collusion
Public anger must not be diverted, nor our independent organisation blocked against renewed attacks on jobs, terms and conditions and the crippling workloads imposed by those responsible for a wrecking operation.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Fascist mobilisation in France after Quentin Deranque’s death
A political front, embracing fascist groups, the Socialist Party, the extreme right National Rally, all the way up to Macron and his government, seeks to clear the way for either of RN’s candidates, Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella, to assume power after the current local elections and presidential elections next year.
•Anthony Torres
How to stop conscription: German IYSSE meeting discusses a socialist perspective against war and militarism
This suppression of socialist ideas serves to channel the explosive potential of youth into mere harmless appeals to politicians, while the ruling class prepares an entire generation for war.
•Jan Ritter
Great Barrington Declaration author Jay Bhattacharya takes control of CDC as measles cases surge
The Trump administration has placed a Stanford economist who championed mass infection policies during COVID-19 as the single official in charge of both the NIH and CDC.
•Benjamin Mateus
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman denounces police attack on Quakertown, Pennsylvania student protest against ICE
Five students and one adult were arrested after police attacked a protest against ICE raids and detentions.
•Our reporters
US military buildup in Middle East against Iran largest since 2003
The Trump administration is assembling the largest concentration of American military force in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, placing the United States on the brink of a massive illegal war against Iran that could last weeks or months and engulf the entire region.
•Andre Damon
NYSNA bureaucracy pushes through sellout to end nurses’ strike at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
The struggle is not over because the new contract will not satisfy the nurses’ needs. But the experience of the strike shows it must be waged on a new strategy based on rank-and-file control.
•Erik Schreiber
Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism—Foreword to the German edition
We are publishing below the foreword to the German edition of the new book Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism (edited by David North), which will soon be published by Mehring Verlag.
•Johannes Stern
Australian government banning Islamist group under laws that could illegalise political parties
Labor’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke described the attempt to prohibit Hizb-ut Tahrir as “the first time we have been able to ban a group which falls short of a terrorist listing.”
•Oscar Grenfell
Supreme Court ruling against Trump tariffs exposes ruling class crisis
Friday morning, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a 1977 emergency law did not delegate Congressional authority over setting tariffs to the president, revealing sharp divisions among the capitalists and triggering an unprecedented attack on the court and individual justices by Trump.
•John Burton
Plan for massive Georgia concentration camp for immigrants provokes outrage
Plans for a 10,000-bed immigrant detention complex in Georgia would represent the largest construction of a civilian mass detention facility in the United States since the Japanese American internment camps of 1942.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: Police raid Canberra bar, seizing anti-fascist artwork under Labor’s new “hate speech” laws
The raid is the first known enforcement action in the national capital under the Commonwealth hate-symbol provisions and is being treated as a test case.
•Jason Quill
This week in history: February 23-March 1
Supreme Court upholds $45 million fine on pilots union; British government criminalizes Irish Republican activity; 22nd Amendment to US Constitution ratified; American communist tried for blasphemy.
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15 years after Christchurch earthquake, families still fighting for justice
During the 2011 earthquake, 115 people were killed in the poorly constructed CTV building, which breached numerous regulations, yet those responsible for its design have faced no accountability.
•Tom Peters
Writers Guild of America West staff strike exposes exploitation and inequality within the union apparatus
The WGAW staff strike is unfolding amid growing wave of workers’ struggles as healthcare, education and entertainment workers confront austerity and repression.
•Marc Wells
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