Feb 28, 2026

Oppose the US imperialist war on Iran!

反对美国帝国主义对伊朗发动的战争!

Opposez-vous à la guerre impérialiste américaine contre l'Iran !

 ¡Opóngase a la guerra imperialista estadounidense contra Irán! 

アメリカ帝国主義のイランに対する戦争に反対します! 

David North is the chairman of the International Editorial Board of theWorld Socialist Web Site and current National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US). * 斯是世界社会主义网站国际编辑委员会主席,也是美国社会主义平等党现任全国主席。* Il est président du comité de rédaction international du site web World Socialist et l'actuel président national du Parti de l'égalité socialiste des États-Unis.* Es el presidente del Consejo Editorial Internacional del World Socialist Web Site y actual presidente nacional del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad (EE.UU.). * 彼は世界社会主義ウェブサイトの国際編集委員会の議長であり、現在は社会主義平等党(米国)の全国委員長である。

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 U.S. Constitution.

 

It has been launched in collaboration with a genocidal Israeli regime without even a figment of authorization from Congress-- against a country which has not attacked the United States and poses no threat to it.

 

Within the first hours of this criminal attack at least twenty-four students were killed in an airstrike on a girls' school in Minab, in southern Iran. How many more thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, will be killed in the days ahead?

 

Only four days ago Trump appeared before Congress and the American people to deliver his State of the Union Address. Even though he had obviously decided to launch the war, he concealed his decision and barely mentioned Iran in the course of his two hour rant.

 

Now, Trump, baseball cap on his head, announces his decision in the dead of night while most Americans were sleeping.

 

He has set the United States, and the entire world on a disastrous course.

 

This war will not solve the internal social crisis of American society nor will it reverse the protracted deterioration in the global position of U.S. capitalism. All these contradictions, domestic and international, will be intensified.

 

The war itself will inevitably escalate and engulf the entire planet.

No amount of media propaganda can disguise the fact that the attack on Iran is precisely what was described at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders back in 1945 and '46 as a "crime against peace".

 

In the future, historians will compare Trump's February 28th, 2026 attack on Iran to Hitler's September 1st 1939 invasion of Poland.

 

They are crimes of equal magnitude.

 

The Socialist Equality Party demands that the bloody assault on Iran be stopped immediately.

 

The working class and youth, and all progressive and decent people, must oppose this war which has been launched in the interests of the financial corporate oligarchy.

 

The same administration that has deployed ICE agents to terrorize American cities and neighborhoods, that is violating the Bill of Rights, is the same government that has launched this criminal war.

 

Call meetings in your factories, workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods demanding the immediate end of this war.

 

The world must know that the American people are opposed to this war and want no part of it!


Take a stand! Make your voices heard!

 

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唐纳德·特朗普及其好战集团下令对伊朗发动的袭击是一起大规模的政治犯罪,违反国际法,并直接践踏了美国宪法。

这场袭击是在未经国会授权的情况下,与一个犯下种族灭绝罪行的以色列政权勾结发动的——而伊朗从未攻击过美国,也未对美国构成任何威胁。

在这场罪恶袭击发生的最初几个小时内,伊朗南部米纳布一所女子学校遭到空袭,至少24名学生丧生。未来几天,还会有多少人丧生?成千上万,数十万人?

就在四天前,特朗普在国会和美国人民面前发表了国情咨文。尽管他显然已经决定发动战争,但他却隐瞒了自己的决定,在长达两小时的演讲中几乎没有提及伊朗。

现在,特朗普头戴棒球帽,在大多数美国人熟睡的深夜宣布了他的决定。

他已将美国乃至整个世界引向灾难性的道路。

这场战争既无法解决美国社会的内部危机,也无法扭转美国资本主义在全球地位长期下滑的趋势。所有这些矛盾,无论国内还是国际,都将加剧。

战争本身将不可避免地升级,并席卷全球。

任何媒体宣传都无法掩盖这样一个事实:对伊朗的攻击正是1945年和1946年纽伦堡审判中对纳粹领导人所定义的“反和平罪”。

未来,历史学家会将特朗普2026年2月28日对伊朗的攻击与希特勒1939年9月1日入侵波兰相提并论。

它们是同等严重的罪行。

社会主义平等党要求立即停止对伊朗的血腥攻击。

工人阶级、青年以及所有进步人士和正直人士必须反对这场为金融寡头利益而发动的战争。

正是这个政府派遣移民执法局(ICE)特工恐吓美国城市和社区,践踏了《权利法案》,也正是这个政府发动了这场罪恶的战争。

在你们的工厂、工作场所、学校和社区召开会议,要求立即停止这场战争。

全世界必须知道,美国人民反对这场战争,不愿卷入其中!

表明立场!发出你们的声音!

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L'attaque contre l'Iran, ordonnée par Donald Trump et sa clique belliciste, est un crime politique majeur, illégal au regard du droit international et en violation flagrante de la Constitution américaine.

Elle a été lancée en collaboration avec un régime israélien génocidaire, sans même la moindre autorisation du Congrès, contre un pays qui n'a pas attaqué les États-Unis et ne représente aucune menace.

Dans les premières heures de cette attaque criminelle, au moins vingt-quatre étudiantes ont été tuées lors d'un raid aérien contre un lycée de filles à Minab, dans le sud de l'Iran. Combien de milliers, de dizaines de milliers, de centaines de milliers d'autres personnes seront tuées dans les jours à venir ?

Il y a seulement quatre jours, Trump s'est présenté devant le Congrès et le peuple américain pour prononcer son discours sur l'état de l'Union. Bien qu'il ait manifestement décidé de déclencher la guerre, il a dissimulé sa décision et a à peine mentionné l'Iran au cours de ses deux heures de diatribe.

Aujourd'hui, Trump, casquette vissée sur la tête, annonce sa décision en pleine nuit, alors que la plupart des Américains dormaient.

Il a engagé les États-Unis, et le monde entier, sur une voie désastreuse.

Cette guerre ne résoudra ni la crise sociale interne de la société américaine, ni n'enrayera la détérioration continue de la position du capitalisme américain sur la scène internationale. Toutes ces contradictions, tant nationales qu'internationales, s'intensifieront.

La guerre elle-même s'étendra inévitablement et embrasera la planète entière.

Aucune propagande médiatique ne saurait masquer le fait que l'attaque contre l'Iran est précisément ce qui a été qualifié de « crime contre la paix » lors des procès de Nuremberg contre les dirigeants nazis en 1945 et 1946.

À l'avenir, les historiens compareront l'attaque de Trump contre l'Iran, prévue le 28 février 2026, à l'invasion de la Pologne par Hitler le 1er septembre 1939.

Ce sont des crimes d'égale gravité.

Le Parti de l'égalité socialiste exige l'arrêt immédiat de cette agression sanglante contre l'Iran.

La classe ouvrière, la jeunesse et tous les progressistes et les gens de bonne volonté doivent s'opposer à cette guerre déclenchée dans l'intérêt de l'oligarchie financière.

Ce même gouvernement qui a déployé des agents de l'ICE pour terroriser les villes et les quartiers américains, qui viole la Déclaration des droits, est celui-là même qui a lancé cette guerre criminelle.

Organisez des réunions dans vos usines, vos lieux de travail, vos écoles et vos quartiers pour exiger la fin immédiate de cette guerre.

Le monde doit savoir que le peuple américain s'oppose à cette guerre et refuse d'y prendre part !

Mobilisez-vous ! Faites entendre votre voix ! 

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El ataque contra Irán ordenado por Donald Trump y su camarilla bélica es un crimen político masivo, ilegal según el derecho internacional y una violación directa de la Constitución de Estados Unidos.

Se ha lanzado en colaboración con un régimen genocida israelí sin siquiera una mínima autorización del Congreso, contra un país que no ha atacado a Estados Unidos ni representa una amenaza para él.

En las primeras horas de este ataque criminal, al menos veinticuatro estudiantes murieron en un ataque aéreo contra una escuela femenina en Minab, al sur de Irán. ¿Cuántos miles, decenas de miles, cientos de miles más morirán en los próximos días?

Hace tan solo cuatro días, Trump compareció ante el Congreso y el pueblo estadounidense para pronunciar su Discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión. Aunque obviamente había decidido lanzar la guerra, ocultó su decisión y apenas mencionó a Irán durante su discurso de dos horas.

Ahora, Trump, con una gorra de béisbol puesta, anuncia su decisión en plena noche, mientras la mayoría de los estadounidenses duermen.

Ha llevado a Estados Unidos y al mundo entero por un rumbo desastroso.

Esta guerra no resolverá la crisis social interna de la sociedad estadounidense ni revertirá el prolongado deterioro de la posición global del capitalismo estadounidense. Todas estas contradicciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales, se intensificarán.

La guerra en sí misma inevitablemente se intensificará y envolverá a todo el planeta.

Ninguna propaganda mediática puede ocultar el hecho de que el ataque a Irán es precisamente lo que se describió en los juicios de Núremberg a los líderes nazis en 1945 y 1946 como un "crimen contra la paz".

En el futuro, los historiadores compararán el ataque de Trump contra Irán del 28 de febrero de 2026 con la invasión de Polonia por Hitler el 1 de septiembre de 1939.

Son crímenes de igual magnitud.

El Partido Socialista por la Igualdad exige que se detenga de inmediato el sangriento ataque contra Irán.

La clase trabajadora y la juventud, y todas las personas progresistas y decentes, deben oponerse a esta guerra que se ha desatado en beneficio de la oligarquía financiera corporativa.

El mismo gobierno que ha desplegado agentes de ICE para aterrorizar ciudades y barrios estadounidenses, que está violando la Carta de Derechos, es el mismo que ha desatado esta guerra criminal.

Convoquen reuniones en sus fábricas, lugares de trabajo, escuelas y barrios para exigir el fin inmediato de esta guerra.

¡El mundo debe saber que el pueblo estadounidense se opone a esta guerra y no quiere ser parte de ella!

¡Tomen posición! ¡Hagan oír su voz!

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ドナルド・トランプと彼の戦争狂いの徒党が命じたイラン攻撃は、国際法違反であり、合衆国憲法に直接違反する、甚大な政治犯罪です。

この攻撃は、議会の承認など微塵もなしに、大量虐殺を行うイスラエル政権と共謀して開始されました。しかも、米国を攻撃したこともなく、米国にとって脅威にもならない国に対してです。

この犯罪的な攻撃開始から数時間で、イラン南部ミナブの女子校への空爆により、少なくとも24人の生徒が死亡しました。今後、さらに何千、何万、何十万人もの命が奪われるのでしょうか。

わずか4日前、トランプは議会とアメリカ国民の前に姿を現し、一般教書演説を行いました。明らかに戦争開始を決定していたにもかかわらず、その決定を隠蔽し、2時間にわたる演説の中でイランについてはほとんど触れませんでした。

今、野球帽をかぶったトランプは、ほとんどのアメリカ国民が眠っている真夜中に、その決定を発表しているのです。

彼はアメリカ合衆国、そして世界全体を破滅の道へと導いた。

この戦争は、アメリカ社会の内的危機を解決することも、アメリカ資本主義の国際的地位の長期にわたる悪化を反転させることもできない。国内外のあらゆる矛盾は、さらに激化するだろう。

戦争そのものは必然的にエスカレートし、地球全体を巻き込むだろう。

どんなメディアのプロパガンダをもってしても、イランへの攻撃がまさに1945年と46年にナチス指導者たちを裁いたニュルンベルク裁判で「平和に対する罪」とされた事実を覆い隠すことはできない。

将来、歴史家たちは、2026年2月28日のトランプによるイラン攻撃を、1939年9月1日のヒトラーによるポーランド侵攻と比較するだろう。

これらは同等の規模の犯罪である。

社会平等党は、イランへの血みどろの攻撃を直ちに停止するよう要求する。

労働者階級と若者、そしてすべての進歩的で良識ある人々は、金融企業寡頭制の利益のために開始されたこの戦争に反対しなければなりません。

アメリカの都市や地域を恐怖に陥れるために移民税関捜査局(ICE)の職員を派遣し、権利章典に違反している政権こそが、この犯罪的な戦争を開始した政府なのです。

工場、職場、学校、そして地域社会で集会を開き、この戦争の即時終結を求めましょう。

アメリカ国民はこの戦争に反対し、一切関わりたくないと強く思っていることを、世界に知らしめなければなりません。

立ち上がろう!声を上げよう!

Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:

1. 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.

2. Canada’s Defense Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society

When Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s first ever Defense Industrial Strategy (DIS) on February 17, he spoke bluntly about the aims of the Canadian ruling class. The “assumptions that shaped decades of Canadian defence and foreign policy,” he declared, “have been completely upended.” Canada now confronts a “more fractured and darker” world in which conflict is moving closer to home. Ottawa must ensure it is never again “hostage to the decisions of others.”

The MPs responsible for the DIS, including Defense Minister David McGuinty and Minister of Industry Melanie Joly, reiterated Carney’s themes in an introduction to the document, citing the NATO-instigated war in Ukraine and the global trade disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic in particular. They noted, “Long-held assumptions have been upended—about the end of imperial conquest, the durability of peace in Europe and the resilience of old alliances. In this uncertain world, it is more important than ever that Canada possess the capacity to sustain its own defense and safeguard its own sovereignty.”

The strategy translates this diagnosis into policy, marking the most far-reaching attempt in decades by the Canadian ruling class to reorganize the economy, state apparatus and labor force to equip itself as an imperialist power to participate in the violent redivision of the world that is already well underway. Its aim is to lessen the dependence of Canadian imperialism on its long-time partner in the United States amid a growing breakdown in relations between the two—as expressed in President Donald Trump’s trade war measures and annexationist threats, and Canada’s counter-tariffs.

The DIS codifies themes Carney advanced earlier at the World Economic Forum, where he warned of a “rupture of the world order.” Trade, finance, supply chains and technology, he said, are now weapons wielded by rival powers. Canada’s procurement policy, industrial investment, research funding and labor planning will be reorganized accordingly.

At the strategy’s core lies a commitment to raise military spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035, aligned with NATO demands. The DIS notes that this will be a historic level of funding. It would in fact constitute the largest sustained militarization of the Canadian economy since the Second World War. 

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Mamdani’s decision to reopen New York City schools after blizzard angers teachers and parents

Tens of thousands of New York City teachers and parents opposed Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to hold in-person school on Tuesday as the city recovered from a historic blizzard.

The area was hit by 27 inches of snowfall last week, crippling the city and making transportation nearly impossible for millions. Most businesses and city services were shut down, and schools were closed on Monday. On Tuesday, millions of workers in the city and commuters in the suburbs were unable to dig their cars out of the snow. Public transportation was unreliable and often unavailable from many areas.

Mamdani, nevertheless, declared that school buildings would be open and teachers and students expected to attend, even though much of the rest of the city was closed.

Attending school was impossible or, in many cases, dangerous, for children and their teachers. Many streets were not fully plowed or sidewalks not cleared. Only 60 percent of students were able to get to school and over 20,000 educators were unable to come in.

11. Mamdani embraces Trump: Collaboration with fascism from the DSA mayor

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s secretly organized meeting with Donald Trump in the White House, where he posed alongside the fascist president in the Oval Office, is an act of treachery aimed at forging an alliance with the far-right.

The self-proclaimed democratic socialist 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. Trump beamed as the Democratic mayor of the nation’s largest city paid him tribute—treating Mamdani as a useful prop he considers valuable, at least for the moment.

Mamdani did not stumble into this meeting. He sought it. He proposed the photo-op. It is a calculated effort by the New York City mayor and leading figure of the Democratic Socialists of America to establish close relations with a fascistic president who is escalating ICE terror, building a network of detention camps, preparing to rig the 2026 elections and driving the United States toward a catastrophic war. 

12. Newly-elected far-right Japanese government prepares war measures

Following the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) landslide victory in the Japanese general election earlier this month, the far-right government of Sanae Takaichi is rapidly accelerating Tokyo’s remilitarization agenda in preparation for waging war abroad and war against the working class at home.

On Wednesday, the LDP’s Research Commission on Security panel approved a plan to lift nearly all restrictions on Tokyo’s ability to export lethal weaponry. The plan will be submitted to the government for additional revisions before going into effect. This significant change does not require parliamentary approval from the National Diet.

Under the panel’s recommendation, Japan will now will be able to export weaponry jointly developed with one nation to a third country. Exports to nations currently at war will also be allowed with approval by the National Security Council, which includes the prime minister and cabinet ministers. At present, exports will be limited to 17 countries with which Tokyo has military technology transfer agreements, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Philippines.

Current restrictions date back to 2014 when the Shinzo Abe government scrapped a longstanding ban on military exports. The new policy allowed exports of so-called “non-lethal” equipment supposedly for use in rescue, transport, warning, surveillance, and minesweeping.

The government of Fumio Kishida further chipped away at the ban in 2023, allowing finished products to be sent to countries that held the item’s license. This paved the way for shipping Patriot missiles to the US to replenish Washington’s supply depleted by the arming of Ukraine in the US/NATO-instigated war against Russia, making Japan an indirect supplier of arms to Kiev.

The LDP and its similarly far-right, pro-war coalition partner, Nippon Ishin no Kai, view Japan’s export restrictions as an impediment to the expansion of Japan’s military industry and capabilities in preparing for war against a US-led China.

The ban was first implemented in 1967 and then strengthened in 1976 to supposedly align with Article 9 of the constitution, which makes it illegal for Japan to maintain a military or wage war abroad. The export ban was imposed as the government faced widespread anti-war opposition among workers and youth, though exceptions existed for things such as technology transfers to the US.

Furthermore, while Japan’s remilitarization has taken place under the framework of the US-Japan security treaty, Japan is also pursuing an agenda to assert its own imperialist interests. 

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While the immediate lifting of the export ban is being discussed publicly, how it is carried out in the future will take place largely behind closed doors. The government will be under no obligation to explain to or seek approval from parliament for exports. In fact, senior government and Defense Ministry officials told the Asahi Shimbun that such a requirement would be “out of the question.”

The Japanese ruling class is terrified that any exposure of its pro-war agenda and the fraudulent claims that remilitarization is limited to so-called “defense” will spark opposition from the working class. Takaichi tacitly acknowledged as much when she stated after the election that her new government would enact “bold policies that could divide national opinion.” As war planning grows, oppressive measures will also be strengthened to clamp down on any opposition.

This is the purpose of another pro-war measure the government is pursing, the so-called anti-espionage bill and other changes to Tokyo’s intelligence gathering capabilities. Long sought-after by the ruling class, this would strengthen Tokyo’s spy agencies both domestically and abroad while making it more difficult for whistleblowers to expose the machinations of the state and for reporters to write about these exposures.

The Takaichi government intends to draft a “National Intelligence Strategy” for the first time within this year. Until now, intelligence has been included within the National Security Strategy, one of Japan’s primary military documents. The new strategy would centralize intelligence gathering and clarify the roles of new bodies dedicated to this purpose.

In particular, the Takaichi government intends to establish a National Intelligence Council to oversee a new National Intelligence Agency, both of which could be set up as early as July. Another agency for foreign intelligence gathering based on the US’s CIA is slated to be set up by the end of 2027.

13. United States: Nearly blind Rohingya refugee dies in Buffalo after being “dropped off” miles from home by CBP agents

For nearly a week, Shah Alam’s family searched frantically for him. They filed a missing persons report, canvassed local hospitals and detention centers, distributed flyers and worked with advocates to pressure agencies for answers. His attorney discovered on February 22 that he was not in immigration detention and alerted Buffalo police, exposing the fact that no one in government had told the family that he had been released at all.

Family members have described “days and nights without sleep,” fearing he had fallen, been assaulted or succumbed to the cold, and denounced officials for leaving a disabled man to fend for himself without even a phone call.

On February 25, Buffalo police confirmed that the remains discovered on a downtown street two days earlier were Shah Alam, identified by the medical examiner using X‑ray comparison, and notified his relatives. He had been dead for hours when first responders arrived, and emergency personnel were unable to revive him.

14. The 2026 Winter Olympics: Remarkable athleticism poisoned by nationalist chauvinism

From a purely athletic standpoint the games saw several historic achievements. France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron secured a remarkably beautiful Ice Dance gold, while Brazil and Kazakhstan celebrated their first-ever Winter Olympic golds. Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo won six gold medals, becoming the most decorated winter Olympian of all time.

But the realization of a genuine Olympic spirit is at direct odds with a global political order characterized by capitalist economic competition teetering on the edge of world war. For this reason, the games are used to promote the most filthy forms of nationalism, pitting nations against one another as bitter rivals rather than competing as equals in sport. The degeneration of the games has reached the point where the International Olympic Committee is little more than a direct tool of imperialism.

15. Hamnet, Hamlet and the demanding effort “to show the very age and body of the time”

Artists like Zhao and O'Farrell simplify matters for themselves by projecting into history their own middle class attitudes. To understand the present “all one has to do is to attribute the thoughts, feelings and motives of present-day men to the past.” (Lukacs) Everywhere one looks one finds the same reactions and emotions – ‘Mine and those of people like me!’ And that error in this case almost inevitably blends into a kind of self-involvement and self-pity on Agnes’s part, which hardly seem appropriate or likely.

There are more significant questions, which can only be touched on here.

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More generally, the notion that Hamlet or any significant literary or dramatic work is the product of personal grief or one tragedy alone is reductive and false, again revealing a contemporary, frankly philistine conception of artistic production as the result of purely private, personal joys and griefs. 

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It is a terrible injustice to Shakespeare and Hamlet, and contrary to several hundred years of criticism and commentary, to view the drama in the O’Farrell-Zhao fashion. It ignores, first of all, what Hamlet himself says about “the purpose of playing,” whose aim, he suggests, is “both at the first and now … to show ... the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” 

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The death of a child is a terrible, devastating event. It may very well deepen an artist’s sense of the tragic side of life, its finitude, its enormous emotional demands and hardships. But it is not the source of a major artist’s work, it only strengthens its more humane and sympathetic qualities or sides. Great artists have a great cause. Shakespeare was engaged in revealing the likeness and complexion of his epoch and society, in remorselessly removing its veils.

Various harmful processes find expression in Hamnet: the “privatization” and “trivialization” of human behavior past and present; a subjective, “anything goes” attitude toward historical facts; the imposition on people of the past current motives and attitudes; and the more general retreat of affluent layers of the middle class into the family fortress-cocoon.

In regard to the latter, for some middle class layers the world is too much, too frightening, overwhelming. What do we have control (or apparent control) over? The family unit. That’s a would-be sanctuary for those who feel the earth moving beneath their feet. Zhao’s film is false because it attempts to foist this state of mind and emotion on the life and work of one of the most fearless writers of all time, someone who consistently took on the grandest and most towering questions of existence.

16. Trump blacklists Anthropic, orders all federal agencies to cease use of AI firm’s technology

The dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon unfolded rapidly this week and reveals growing divisions within the ruling class over the Trump administration’s reckless policies. Two days after being summoned to Washington on Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a statement Thursday evening refusing to back down on their demands that the Pentagon not use their AI model for fully autonomous drones or domestic mass surveillance. 

While this was presented in the corporate press as a courageous act of defiance against Trumpian authoritarianism, read in full, the letter is nothing of the kind. It is a full-throated declaration of support for US imperialism that repeats the Pentagon’s own talking points nearly verbatim, differing only on two narrow technical restrictions.

17. UAW tries to contain anger as Stellantis workers denied profit sharing checks

Workers at Stellantis reacted with fury to the formal announcement by Stellantis this week that the company would not issue profit sharing checks this year due to reported negative earnings in 2025, the first time this has happened since 2011. After years of concessions and substandard pay raises, workers count on the payouts to fill gaps in their budgets. Checks have ranged from $3,000 to as much as $14,000 in 2024.

Workers contacted by the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter expressed disgust with management as well as the UAW apparatus. A Jeep worker at the Toledo Assembly Complex said, “We were on emergency status, ten hours, six days a week. Then it went to critical status—seven days. We went all hard, and for what? We got no profit sharing. How much more can we give? 

18. Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Australia:

Queensland public sector trades workers resume industrial action
 
Experience Co. skydiving instructors continue strike action
 
Western Australian firefighters continue industrial action
 
Tasmanian public sector health workers reimpose work bans
 
Early childhood educators in Victoria strike for improved pay and conditions
 
Aruma disability care workers in Victoria begin industrial action in wage dispute

Bangladesh:

Hotel and restaurant workers protest job cuts and demand minimum wage

India:  

Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation female workers protest
 
Telangana ASHA workers protest in Hyderabad for wage rise
 
Private hospital nurses in Kerala strike for pay rise
 
Indian Oil Corporation Limited contract workers in Haryana strike for better conditions
 
Assam tea estate workers demand unpaid Durga Pooja bonus

New Zealand:

Shellfish processing workers strike

Sri Lanka:

Customs officers protest six-year promotion delay
 
State university non-academic workers hold national protest

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

Bogdan Syrotiuk

The fight for the Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist's freedom is an essential component of the struggle against imperialist war, genocide, dictatorship and fascism.

Feb 27, 2026

Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:

1. Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole faces fraudulent charges as detention continues

The political persecution of Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist–Kenya (CPM-K), has entered a new and dangerous stage.

The Kenyan regime’s so-called “broad-based unity” government under President William Ruto, an alliance between the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), founded by the late political fixer Raila Odinga, is escalating politically charged criminal accusations against him, as reports of degrading conditions spark outrage in Kenya and internationally.

In its latest update today, February 26, the CPM-K reports that Omole “has been transferred to Kitengela Remand Prison with a broken arm. The court has acted with open hostility, denying him both cash bail and urgent medical care.” The transfer and denial of treatment underscore the increasingly punitive character of his detention.

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Only after his detention did the authorities begin to assemble the series of allegations now being levelled against him. According to an official statement of the CPM-K, “Booker is accused of attempting to kill the police, assaulting the police and having connections with the now jailed President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro in the US drug cartel, this is as a result of organizing a demonstration at the US Embassy demanding the release of Nicolás Maduro.”

Among the most sensational is a claim linking him to a “drug cartel.” His and the CPM-K’s official account has categorically rejected the accusation, stating: “Linking Booker to a ‘drug cartel’ is pure political theatre. His only link to Venezuela is solidarity with Nicolás Maduro. Internationalism is not narcotics. Anti imperialism is not crime. When the state lacks evidence, it manufactures lies. 

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Washington has pursued narco-terrorism and drug trafficking charges against Maduro and his inner circle under the claim that he led the “Cartel de los Soles”. The sensational narrative was central to US justifications for the military invasion of Venezuela in early January, and the subsequent killing of civilians and the abduction of its elected president. The illegal intervention was made to seize control over Venezuela’s vast oil resources and limit China’s and Russia’s access to them.

Now, the Kenyan regime attempts to attach Omole to drug trafficking, using Washington’s playbook, to criminalize the CPM-K in an operation whose ultimate target is the Kenyan working class.

Regarding the charge of assaulting police officers, the CPM-K has explained: “They allege assault. Truth is simpler. Plain clothed men grabbed him without identifying themselves, no badges, no warrants. Any fracas arose from an illegal abduction, not resistance to law.”

For many Kenyans, this account describes a familiar reality. Plainclothes security forces frequently carry out arrests without identifying themselves, presenting no badges, warrants or official documentation. The police have a longstanding reputation for corruption, extorting ordinary Kenyans daily through bribes, arbitrary fines and intimidation. Officers regularly plant drugs on individuals in order to fabricate charges and then demand payment for their release.

Most importantly, they have been repeatedly implicated in enforced disappearances. In the past year-and-a-half alone, they have been linked to more than 80 reported cases, with some victims never seen again.

In such an environment, it is entirely understandable that citizens hesitate or resist when unidentified men attempt to seize them, fearing criminal gangs, rogue officers, or abduction.

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Omole’s detention has sparked solidarity campaigns demanding his immediate release. The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) has issued a statement supporting this demand, which has been endorsed by its Socialist Equality Party sections internationally.

Within Kenya, the Pan-Africanist Kongamano la Mapinduzi issued a statement demanding his unconditional release. Human rights and anti-corruption activist and potential 2027 presidential contender for Ukweli Party leader, Boniface Mwangi, endorsed calls for his freedom. Prominent online commentators that have tens of thousands of followers, including I Am Chege, Wanjiru, yoko have amplified these calls.

According to activity on X, more than 15,000 posts have circulated discussing his case and demanding his release.

In contrast, Kenya’s major capitalist media outlets have remained silent. Neither The Standard, Daily Nation nor The Star has provided coverage of Omole’s abduction. It underscores the extent to which the capitalist media, despite its criticisms of the Ruto regime, closes ranks when the fundamental interests of the ruling class are at stake, withholding scrutiny when state repression is directed to the left.

The ICFI reiterates its demand for the immediate and unconditional release of Omole. All politically motivated charges must be dropped, and full legal and medical access guaranteed without delay.

The escalating campaign of intimidation, fabricated allegations and degrading treatment directed against Omole forms part of a broader persecution of left-wing opposition in Kenya and internationally against IMF-austerity, war and attacks on democratic rights. This repression must end and the democratic rights of CPM-K members and supporters, including freedom of speech, assembly and political organization, must be upheld. 

2. 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.”

3. 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.

4. United States: Lorain County Ohio 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. 

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The strike unfolds against the backdrop of ongoing and massive cuts carried out by both Democrats and Republicans at the local, state, and federal levels that are leaving millions without basic necessities.

In 2023 and 2024, the Biden administration cut what remained of COVID pandemic relief benefits.

The failure of Congress to extend enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act has led to higher costs and at least 8 million people losing their health coverage.

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act slashed $186 billion from SNAP benefits over 10 years. That amounts to a 20 percent reduction, marking the largest cut in the program’s history, according to the Harvard Kennedy School.

In response to the federal cuts, Ohio’s legislature and governor have approved changes to SNAP and Medicaid eligibility requirements that will increase the workload on already overburdened JFS employees while forcing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, off these vital programs.

5. 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.

6. United Kingdom: 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.

7. UCLA, Los Angeles schools chief targeted by Trump administration

On the day of President Trump’s fascistic State of the Union address, the Department of Justice officially filed an 81-page federal lawsuit against the University of California system, focusing on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The suit alleges that UCLA violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by engaging in a “pattern or practice of discrimination” by failing to prevent and correct an “antisemitic hostile work environment” for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff in light of the campus protests over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.

The complaint claims that the spring 2024 encampment protesting the slaughter in Gaza functioned as a “Jew Exclusion Zone.” It alleges that UCLA ignored complaints of antisemitism from Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff, permitted harassment and ostracism and failed to prevent assaults, vandalism including swastikas, and the blocking of campus access. According to the DOJ, some employees took leave or resigned as a result. The lawsuit seeks court-ordered policy changes and monetary damages.

Also on Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the headquarters of Los Angeles Unified School District and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, an outspoken critic of Trump and ICE raids. Together, they constitute an extraordinary and coordinated intervention by Trump, aimed at intimidating opposition and reasserting state authority amid a rapidly intensifying class struggle.

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Los Angeles and the state of California are becoming a flashpoint of the class struggle. A four week strike by 31,000 Kaiser Permanente workers was ended this week without a contract, only through unilateral action by the union bureaucracy. Around 40,000 graduate students in the University of California system have voted for strike action; in 2024, the same workers struck against police assaults against student Gaza protests. In LAUSD, some 65,000 workers, including teachers and support staff, have authorized potential strike action.

The UCLA lawsuit represents the latest stage in a protracted offensive. By the summer of 2025, federal authorities had escalated from investigation to open financial punishment. Roughly $584 million in UCLA research grants, nearly 800 awards from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, were frozen.

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Last August, Trump demanded $1.172 billion from the University of California, including a $1 billion fine and a $172 million compensation fund. The move was pure coercion. Federal Judge Rita Lin later issued injunctions restricting the government’s use of grant freezes as leverage, underscoring the legally dubious character of the administration’s tactics.

Separately, UCLA reached a $6 million settlement with several Jewish students and a professor who alleged discrimination during the protests. The new DOJ lawsuit insists that this was inadequate and that broader judicial enforcement is required.

The narrative advanced by the federal government inverts reality.

The defining event at UCLA in spring 2024 was a violent attack on the April encampment by a far-right mob, not the alleged creation of a “Jew Exclusion Zone.” On the night of April 30–May 1, pro-Israel vigilantes, some armed and masked, assaulted participants with wooden planks, metal bars, chemical irritants and incendiary devices, causing fractures, burns, lacerations and alleged sexual violence.

The attack unfolded in full view of campus security and law enforcement, which failed to intervene. When the mob withdrew, police targeted the encampment, using flashbangs, less-lethal projectiles and mass arrests, while no attackers were detained. Injured students and faculty later filed legal action, citing UCLA’s failure to protect them.

The lawsuit is a brazen attack on political dissent. It rests on the premise that sharp criticism of Israel, Zionism or US foreign policy can be treated as unlawful discrimination.

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A $1 billion fine would devastate an already strained university system. Public higher education in California has been subjected to years of underfunding, tuition hikes, privatization and the erosion of working conditions. Under Democratic administrations, the University of California has imposed austerity on staff and students.

In fact, California Democrats have played a central role in preparing the ideological and administrative groundwork for this attack.

For years, leading Democratic politicians and university administrators have conflated anti-Zionism and criticism of Israeli state policy with antisemitism. Under the banner of combating “bias,” they have expanded bureaucratic oversight, created task forces and adopted vague definitions that blur the line between genuine antisemitism and political speech.

The unanimous passage and signing of California’s AB 715 exemplifies this trend. Framed as antisemitism prevention, the law establishes new state offices and broad standards empowering investigations and sanctions for supposed bias. In reality, such measures erect an apparatus for monitoring and policing political expression.

Within the UC system, administrators adopted “zero tolerance” protest policies, restricted encampments and tightened conduct rules. These measures were often justified as necessary to curb antisemitism, normalizing the idea that political protest constitutes a civil rights violation.

Democrats also legitimized the use of “civil rights” complaints and disciplinary investigations to target critics of Israeli policy. Universities developed bureaucratic internal investigations, event restrictions, expanded policing and more, that the federal government now exploits on a far larger scale.

The trade union apparatuses have functioned as accomplices in this process.

The UAW bureaucracy, representing many academic workers, repeatedly stalled and limited action. Strike authorization votes were announced only after intense rank-and-file pressure.

At UCLA, union officials who claimed to support the encampment were present as police prepared to clear it. Video and eyewitness accounts indicated that union representatives permitted police access through barricades, facilitating the sweep.

Other unions representing campus and public sector workers, including affiliates of the AFT, NTEU, AFSCME and SEIU, discouraged coordinated strike action and sought to channel opposition into safe, procedural avenues.

By isolating struggles and subordinating them to the Democratic Party, these organizations have helped create the conditions in which the federal government can intervene with sweeping repressive measures.

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As inequality deepens and social conflict intensifies, the ruling class is moving to curtail democratic forms of rule. Academic freedom, free speech and the right to strike are increasingly incompatible with a social order dominated by oligarchic wealth and permanent war.

The defense of these rights requires the independent mobilization of the working class, uniting university workers, students, healthcare workers and educators in a common struggle. Only through such a movement, directed against the subordination of society to profit and militarism, can public education and democratic freedoms be secured.

8. Your Party leadership elections put Corbyn in charge

Your Party’s leadership election confirmed the political character of the organization: a vehicle for advocating timid reforms, driven by Jeremy Corbyn and a narrow clique of ex-Labour Party officials.

The results were a rout for the opposed Grassroots Left faction led by Zarah Sultana. Its declared aim of pushing Your Party to the left, rejecting a Labour Party 2.0 in favour of building an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist party dedicated to nationalizing the economy, suffered a bruising rejection.

Corbyn’s faction, The Many, secured 14 of the 24 seats available on the Central Executive Committee leadership body, including Corbyn and former Labour MP and current independent councilor Laura Smith as public office holders. Sultana and Grace Lewis, a former Labour councilor turned independent, take up the other two public office holder posts. Across the 24 seats, however, Grassroots Left won only seven positions.

The unavoidable conclusion is that Your Party’s members are overwhelmingly satisfied with Corbyn’s perspective for the organization to serve as his vanity project and a meek participant in a loosely defined anti-Reform UK “left”, including not only Zack Polanski’s Green Party but also sections of the Labour Party.

If, as is expected, Keir Starmer is removed as leader, there is nothing preventing a wider “tactical alliance” with Labour.

Corbyn and his allies can now implement any policy decisions they see fit. The Many, led by Corbyn’s witch-hunter in chief Karie Murphy, has already been using its control of the party’s apparatus to suspend and expel the more prominent members of pro-Sultana groups, such as the Socialist Workers Party. It will now inevitably extend this purge.

The Many’s manifesto declared existing “proto-branches” illegitimate, “run by the Socialist Workers Party and other sectarian groups… seeking to exert control of the party through control of the branches” and leaving “ordinary individual members… effectively excluded”. They will be replaced by “official” branch structures.

Corbyn’s camp also immediately announced that he would assume the position of the party’s “leader in parliament”, despite no such position existing under its constitution.

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The Socialist Workers Party, the largest outside group active in Your Party and whose membership has suffered the most expulsions, made Sultana’s declaration appear grounded. Socialist Worker’s post-election article was headed, “After Your Party leadership results, time to get the project back on track”. The phrase takes up The Many’s own slogan, using it to advocate a course from now on of “welcoming all socialists”. 

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Once again Britain’s pseudo-left has confirmed that nothing will push them to conflict with the wider labor and trade union bureaucracy,  waging a serious struggle for a socialist alternative to Starmer’s government of austerity and war.

Corbyn’s victory has a pyrrhic character, however. He heads a rump organization with most of those initially attracted having long since turned their backs on it.

The wave of enthusiasm generated by the announcement of Your Party last July, which saw 850,000 people express an interest in joining, was, by the time of the founding conference in late November, whittled down to a declared 55,000 members. The leadership elections saw 25,000 people vote, out of 41,000 validated members. 

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As richly deserved as Corbyn’s declining political stature is, more is at stake for the working class. Once again, Britain’s pseudo-left, in gravitating around Corbyn, Sultana and Your Party, has worked to disorient those seeking a genuine socialist alternative, perpetuating rather than remedying the crisis of leadership and perspective facing the working class. 

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In contrast, the Socialist Equality Party has argued that the working class needs a new party of an entirely different character: a revolutionary socialist party opposed to the Corbynites and to illusions that social gains can be defended through a program of protest politics and parliamentary pressure—however radically presented.

9. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital nurses seething after end to 6-week strike

Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan began returning to work Thursday after a lengthy six-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. Their names have been changed to protect their anonymity.

In recent days, the hospital held return-to-work sessions to allow the nurses to vent after the strike and to connect them with “psychological support services.” A bad atmosphere hung over the sessions, said Samantha, an experienced nurse. “They stopped the two-hour meeting after one hour because people were so upset. It was awful.”

The nurses are furious, she added, because having struck for six weeks without strike pay, many nurses are in financial difficulty. Older nurses expressed their frustrations during the session, while many younger nurses remained silent, she said.

10. United States: SAG-AFTRA negotiations begin: What are the issues facing actors and other industry workers?

Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) began February 9.

The conditions today are even more tense and fraught than those that led to a 118-day strike in 2023. Tens of thousands have lost their jobs in the “Great Hollywood Contraction,” with technologies and mergers threatening tens of thousands more. Entire crafts and professions face elimination.

American society as a whole faces unprecedented circumstances, as the Trump administration, assisted by the Democrats, is building a police-state dictatorship that will shoot protesters down on the streets and launch criminal wars against any perceived enemies.

SAG-AFTRA and its new president Sean Astin talk and act as if it were “business as usual,” leaving actors and other union members entirely unprepared and disoriented. This is a recipe for disaster. The conglomerates have their ruthless plans worked out, but actors and film and television workers are left in the dark by a well-heeled, complacent union bureaucracy.

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Since the ratification of the last contract (with only 38 percent of the membership voting), there has been a jobs bloodbath in the industry. Nothing in the “historic” contract or the union leaders’ actions have slowed this contraction down in the slightest.

The “informed consent” clauses in the 2023 contract did nothing to prevent the destruction of jobs through the further integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the Hollywood production process.

The latest report from FilmLA—the official film office for the City and County of Los Angeles—revealed that the number of shoot days (SD) for 2025 stood at 19,694, a decline of 16.9 percent from 2024. With the Feature Film category sinking 19.7 percent in the fourth quarter year over year and 31.7 percent below the five-year average for this category.

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Instead of preparing workers for a major struggle against the conglomerates, the response of SAG-AFTRA to the continued loss of jobs has been to either pit workers in California against workers in other regions (#StayInLA), or to team up with management to beg for incentives and subsidies from the state. These funds only line the pockets of management, while doing nothing to stifle the wholesale destruction of jobs. 

The release earlier in February of ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 is a glaring demonstration of the existential crisis that artists face in the next few years, as AI continues to develop and becomes fully integrated into the production process, while protections for artists are either non-existent or lag behind. The new technology allows companies to create completely synthetic performers that are unrecognizable from existing artists.

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Only the intervention of the rank-and-file can turn the situation around. Actors only went on strike three years ago because artists, sensing a betrayal was in the works, sent a last-minute open letter to the union tops denouncing their plans.

As the World Socialist Web Site said at the time: “The actors’ letter warns the union not to surrender and expresses a determination to fight the corporations without compromise. A strike, they write, brings hardships to many, ‘but we are prepared to strike if it comes to that.’ In unusually stern language, the signatories insist this ‘is not a moment to meet in the middle.’”

Certain realities have to become more widely understood. The interests of actors and other film and television industry workers stand in direct opposition to those of the giant conglomerates. The plan of the latter is to slash jobs and eviscerate benefits in the interests of corporate profits.

The companies, with Trump behind them, will do everything in their power to impose the full burden of the current crisis on the backs of actors and film and television workers. SAG-AFTRA, the Writers Guild (whose own staff is on strike at present!), Teamsters, IATSE and the other union officialdoms will facilitate the corporations’ agenda. They act as an extension of management.

Moreover, the fate of Hollywood film and television is not merely a wages and benefits question. The popular cultural life of the US is now largely in the hands of reactionary oligarchs of the Ellison variety. For the economic and cultural good of the industry and the American people as a whole, this corporate chokehold has to be broken. Actors, writers and crew members will have to begin discussion on what future they would like to see for the powerful technologies. Under workers control, the sky would be the limit.

11. UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for rank-and-file slate as delegate elections begin

Will Lehman

In an open letter to members of the United Auto Workers (UAW), rank-and-file autoworker Will Lehman has called for the formation of an “insurgent slate” of delegates to the UAW’s Constitutional Convention, scheduled for June 15-18 in Detroit.

Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, Pennsylvania, is running for UAW president for the second time. In his letter, he warns that a decisive stage of the election is already underway—in delegate nominations and elections at the local level that most UAW members do not know about.

“Many members may not yet be aware that a new election is taking place this year for UAW president and other national offices,” Lehman wrote. “But it begins now—through delegate nominations and elections in every local. If the rank and file doesn’t organize to win those delegate elections, the bureaucracy will control the Constitutional Convention in June and make sure only those loyal to the apparatus can run for top officer positions.”

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In November–December 2021, UAW members and retirees voted by 63.7 percent in a court-ordered referendum to replace the union’s delegate system of choosing national officers with direct elections—widely known as “one member, one vote.” The vote followed a sweeping federal corruption investigation that exposed a network of bribery, embezzlement and labor-management collusion at the highest levels of the union.

Under the old system, delegates—largely loyal to the apparatus—were elected at the local level and then voted for approved candidates at the Constitutional Convention. This tightly controlled mechanism led to the installation of former UAW presidents Dennis Williams and Gary Jones, along with former Vice Presidents Joseph Ashton and Norwood Jewell—all of whom were later convicted on corruption-related charges tied to corporate bribes and the misuse of union dues.

The referendum was widely understood by rank-and-file workers as a mandate to break the grip of this entrenched bureaucracy and establish genuine democratic control.

But the 2022–23 election, the first direct membership vote in UAW history, was marred by what Lehman showed in lawsuits were widespread violations by the UAW apparatus of the right to vote.

“In the last UAW election, there was systematic voter suppression,” Lehman wrote in the letter. “Many members never received ballots, information was withheld, and the process was dominated by an apparatus that does not represent us.”

In lawsuits filed during the election, Lehman documented how large sections of the membership were effectively disenfranchised. The UAW apparatus failed to adequately inform workers that an election was taking place. Mailing addresses were not updated, leading to a significant number of ballots being returned as undeliverable. Certain categories of workers, including part-time temporary employees, were falsely told they were not eligible to vote.

The result was an election with historically low participation. Only 9 percent of eligible members cast ballots in the first round—one of the lowest turnouts in any major union election in the United States.

Out of this process emerged Shawn Fain, a longtime official in the UAW International and former assistant to Norwood Jewell in the UAW-Chrysler Department—identified by federal prosecutors as the center of a “culture of corruption” within the union.

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The current nomination procedures are tightly controlled. Locals hold meetings often with little or no notice to the members, where candidates for delegates are nominated. Then in a matter of weeks, the nominations are closed. With little or no notice to the members, snap elections are held. This structure virtually guarantees that those already integrated into the local apparatus are elected as delegates. 

Lehman cites the example of UAW Local 2209 at the GM Fort Wayne Assembly plant in Indiana, where he says nominations began on February 12 and were closed February 17 in a process that few workers knew about. The plant’s roughly 4,000 workers account for nearly 10 percent of the active UAW membership at GM.

“If we leave this election in the hands of the bureaucracy, they will use the same methods as before to block genuine opposition and keep control,” Lehman warned. He called on workers to demand well-publicized meetings, full notice to the membership, clear rules and an end to what he describes as backroom maneuvers.

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The open letter outlines a program centered on reversing decades of concessions and dismantling labor-management collaboration, abolishing tiers, winning major wage increases, ending layoffs and plant closures and establishing workers’ control over safety, staffing and line speed. Lehman also demands secure healthcare for active workers and guaranteed, fully funded retiree benefits, including protection of pensions and cost-of-living increases.

The letter links the struggle within the UAW to broader political questions. “The same corporate-state forces attacking living standards are escalating repression at home and war abroad,” Lehman writes. He calls for mobilizing the “social power of workers—through independent organization and united action—to defend democratic rights, oppose militarism, and put human needs ahead of profit.”

Lehman concludes his letter with a direct appeal to workers to get involved by supporting or running as part of a delegate slate. “The rank and file must take power out of the hands of the entrenched apparatus and put it where it belongs: in the hands of workers on the shop floor,” he wrote.

12. Trump backers prepare executive order to seize control of US midterm elections

Trump’s efforts to rig the 2026 midterm elections are proceeding on several tracks. In his State of the Union address, he called on the Republican-controlled Senate to pass the “Save America Act,” which has already cleared the House. The bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo ID at the polls. It would also restrict voting by mail to invalids, soldiers deployed overseas and those traveling for business on election day.

The purpose of such measures is not to combat fraud—for which there is no evidence—but to suppress voting among those layers least likely to have passports, birth certificates and driver’s licenses. This includes the very poor, racial minorities and the elderly, but the impact could be even broader: Only about half the population has a passport, and many married women have birth certificates in their maiden names, not the names under which they would register and vote.

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In his State of the Union speech, Trump gave a preview of his efforts to rig the 2026 election, claiming that the Democrats were opposed to the Save America Act because they could only win elections through vote fraud. He bellowed, “They wanna cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat. And we’re gonna stop it.”

The substance of this declaration was that Trump will not accept any outcome of the midterm elections in which his supporters are defeated. This is in the face of opinion polls showing his approval rating at below 40 percent. Democrats are heavily favored to win control of the House of Representatives (where the Republicans have only a three-seat margin), and Republican control of the Senate is also in danger.

Given the likelihood that Republican standing in the polls will slip even further, as Trump escalates his attacks on the working class and his program of worldwide military aggression, these statements would lead logically to a White House effort to cancel the elections entirely, something which Trump has already begun to suggest.

13. Mamdani deepens collaboration with Trump in second White House meeting

Getting along - President Trump embraces NYC Mayor Mamdani's stunt

Unlike Mamdani’s first visit with Trump, this one was not announced in advance and was only confirmed by Mamdani after it was leaked to the press. Mamdani traveled to Washington on Thursday, supposedly to pitch the real estate swindler in the White House a housing proposal for New York.

Demonstrating his contempt for the population of New York, Mamdani did not publicly disclose the proposal that he made to Trump behind closed doors. His communications director, however, said Trump’s response was “very enthusiastic.” 

Mamdani, renowned for his social media stunts, had his team put together a photo-op of the two with Trump holding a mock New York Daily News front page with the headline, “Trump to City: Let’s Build,” a spoof of the 1975 issue referencing Gerald Ford’s refusal to provide aid during the city’s financial crisis.

Mamdani also reportedly raised the ICE abduction early Thursday of Columbia University student Ellie Aghayeva. Trump’s immigration Gestapo, lacking a warrant, lied to gain access to the visa holder’s dorm and kidnapped her. Aghayeva was released from custody on Thursday afternoon.

To the extent that Mamdani played a role in her release, it was achieved by giving Trump cover to do far worse. Aghayeva is but one of the more than 3,000 people arrested by ICE in New York City since last year.

Mamdani’s meeting with Trump took place less than 48 hours after Trump’s State of the Union address, a nearly two-hour-long tirade packed with lies, racist filth and imperialist thuggery. Trump outlined plans for dictatorship, including undermining the midterm elections in November, if they are even held, by asserting that the Democrats are preparing to rig the vote.

Trump also boasted about massive cuts to social programs during his speech, including cutting 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps, effective between March and June this year. Somewhere around 200,000 New York City residents may be affected, a staggering number under conditions in which the cost-of-living crisis, including grocery prices, drove Mamdani’s victory.

At another point during the State of the Union address, Trump denounced the entire slate of Democratic Senators and Representatives as “crazy” for refusing to give him a standing ovation for his xenophobic comments. Overnight, Trump posted on Truth Social calls for the deportation of Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Trump also referred specifically to Mamdani during his remarks, calling him a communist but adding, “he’s a nice guy, actually. Speak to him a lot.”

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Mamdani, thanks to the services he is providing to Trump, has become the fascist president’s favorite Democrat. At least for the moment.

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The emptiness of Mamdani’s verbal appeals to tax the rich was reinforced by the mayor’s endorsement earlier this month of Hochul for reelection, despite her intransigent opposition to tax increases. Mamdani’s endorsement dealt a fatal blow to the primary challenge from Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, who selected India Walton, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), as his running mate. Delgado dropped out days after Mamdani endorsed Hochul. 

Mamdani also boycotted a rally on Wednesday in Albany intended to pressure state lawmakers to raise taxes on the wealthy. The rally was planned for months by Mamdani’s own DSA and Our Time, an organization formed directly out of Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. Mamdani refused to attend to avoid antagonizing his ally, Hochul. In the end, no major political figures participated, and attendance fell well short of expectations.

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His embrace of Trump is not simply political expediency. It reflects a class outlook and serves definite class purposes. Mamdani and the DSA represent an upper middle class layer that is more afraid of revolutionary struggle by the working class than they are of fascist dictatorship. 

Mamdani’s alliance with Trump, a “Red-Brown” coalition in action, exposes him as an unprincipled fraud who is attempting to politically disorient and undermine the developing opposition to Trump’s dictatorship.

14. 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.

15. 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.

13. Cuba repels armed provocation as US tries to starve island into submission

No amount of spin from Washington can change the basic character of this operation. It is the product of decades‑old networks of Cuban exile terrorists and US‑based paramilitaries cultivated and funded by the CIA and other agencies since the 1960s. These networks are now being activated under conditions in which the Trump administration has openly moved to strangle Cuba’s economy, declare the island a “national emergency” for the United States and threaten any country that sells it oil with punitive tariffs.

Whether or not the White House directly ordered this particular mission, it is inconceivable that the heavily armed gang trained on a farm in South Florida, recruited members through TikTok—as relatives and friends of the attackers boasted to Univision journalist Javier Díaz—launched from Florida and entered Cuban waters without coming to the attention of US intelligence and law enforcement. At the very least, the provocation received a green light from US authorities.

The hypocrisy of US officials is staggering. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has spent months championing the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and the tightening of the fuel blockade against Cuba, now declares that “we are going to have our own information” before drawing conclusions.

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, snarls that “you can’t trust the Cuban government” and vows to “hold these communists accountable,” while Senator Rick Scott demands that “the Communist Cuban regime must be held accountable.”

The aggressors are presented as victims, those fending off an armed attack as the real criminals. Is there any doubt what the response of the US national security apparatus would be to a boatload of heavily armed foreign gunmen entering US waters to carry out terrorist attacks?

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The timing of the incident underscores its political purpose. It occurred as Rubio traveled to Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, for a Caribbean Community (Caricom) summit where Washington faced criticism over the kidnapping of Maduro and the fuel blockade against Cuba. Caribbean governments have long-standing trade and political ties with both Venezuela and Cuba.

Saint Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Terrance Drew, a doctor trained in Cuba, warned bluntly: “A destabilized Cuba will destabilize all of us.” Caribbean leaders also raised grievances over US demands that they accept deportees from third countries expelled from the US, reject Cuban medical missions, cool relations with China and accept that Trump has torn up even limited commitments on climate change as rising seas and storms devastate their islands.

Confronted with this discontent, Rubio adopted a defensive tone on Venezuela. “Irrespective of how some of you may have individually felt about our operations and our policy towards Venezuela,” he said, “Venezuela is better off today than it was eight weeks ago.” He dangled the prospect of Caracas becoming an “extraordinary partner” for regional energy.

At the same time, the US Treasury theatrically announced that it would “support the Cuban people” by allowing limited gas and other oil products, including Venezuelan fuel, to be exported to private Cuban entities and individuals, explicitly excluding the Cuban state.

As Mexico’s La Jornada notes, these restrictions “in practice, exclude any Cuban entity with the capacity to coordinate and receive the shipments.” US Cuba expert William LeoGrande told the Washington Post that, in any case, private actors will not import enough oil “to really make a significant dent in the humanitarian crisis.”

The real aim is apparent: to further cultivate a layer of capitalists and middle‑class business people as Washington’s favored social base for regime change, while the broader population is starved and blackmailed. It is a textbook regime‑change operation under the Monroe Doctrine—today openly invoked in practice as the “Trump Doctrine.” 

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Since 1959, Cuba has been the target of countless CIA‑backed operations: bombings, assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, economic sabotage, the arming and funding of exile terrorist groups and the Bay of Pigs invasion.

The men killed and captured Wednesday fit squarely within this history: long‑time residents of the United States, with known records of violent opposition to the Cuban government, training on US soil and organizing openly (in this case on social media) in the name of “liberating” the island through paramilitary action.

This terrorist provocation unfolded as the Cuban people were confronting an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe engineered by Washington. Trump’s January 29 edict has imposed a US blockade, an act of war, to stop all energy supplies to the island.

Fuel shortages have brought blackouts of 20-30 hours to many areas, decimated public transport and food distribution, and wrecked refrigeration and water systems. Medicines are scarce, malnutrition is growing and children go to bed hungry. This is a calculated attempt to starve the remaining 8 million people in Cuba into accepting a US‑dictated political settlement.

It must be said clearly: the primary responsibility for this disaster lies with US imperialism. But it does not follow that the Cuban regime represents socialism or an alternative to capitalism. From the outset of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro was a bourgeois nationalist who sought an accommodation with US capitalism. Four months after coming to power, he declared:

I have stated in a clear and definite manner that we are not communists. The doors are open to private investments that contribute to the development of industry in Cuba. It is absolutely impossible for us to make progress if we do not reach an understanding with the United States.

Only when Washington rejected even limited reforms did Castro turn to nationalizations and approach the Moscow Stalinist bureaucracy for aid, in exchange for tying Cuba to the Kremlin’s foreign policy and suppressing independent working class politics on the island. After the dissolution of the USSR, the Cuban leadership responded by opening ever more widely to foreign capital.

The severe crisis created by the US embargo is seen by sections of this elite not so much as a threat, but as an opportunity to push through full‑scale “shock therapy” and integrate themselves as competitive partners in a US‑dominated order.

16. Drop Site investigation reveals Israeli surveillance and security system installed at Epstein-controlled Manhattan apartment building

Emails released in the last batch of Epstein files by the Department of Justice show that Israeli officials began installing security equipment in early 2016 at 301 East 66th Street. The building contains 200 units and “has been home for years to young models, girlfriends, pilots and lawyers” associated with Epstein, Business Insider reported on August 5, 2019, just days before Epstein’s life ended inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.

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The building itself was technically owned by a company tied to Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, but court filings and property records show that Jeffrey Epstein exercised effective control over multiple units in the building. As previously reported by Business Insider and documented in sworn depositions, apartments at 301 East 66th Street were used to house underage girls, associates and employees connected to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

The building was also where former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak frequently stayed while visiting Epstein. The emails uncovered by Drop Site show that officials from Israel’s permanent mission to the United Nations coordinated directly with Epstein’s staff to install alarms, window sensors and remote access controls at what was referred to in the email’s as “Ehud’s apartment.” 

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The implications of the Drop Site reporting are profound. By 2016, Jeffrey Epstein was not an obscure “financier.” He was a registered sex offender in Florida following his “sweetheart” federal non-prosecution agreement. Court filings, sworn depositions and police reports had already linked apartments at the 66th Street building to underage girls and individuals accused of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

Business Insider documented that multiple units in the building were used to house young women, including foreign minors recruited through Jean-Luc Brunel’s MC2 Models. Brunel, who also had an apartment inside the building, died in jail in France in February 2022, while awaiting trial on charges of rape of a minor over 15 and trafficking. Records show that several women later named as co-conspirators shared the address as well. 

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The building itself traces back to billionaire Les Wexner, Epstein’s only publicly acknowledged client for decades, who transferred significant New York real estate assets to Mark Epstein in the early 1990s. Wexner famously granted Jeffrey Epstein sweeping power of attorney over his finances.

Wexner has maintained that his relationship with Epstein was strictly professional. However, photographs and public records show a longstanding and close association, including joint appearances at social events.

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The attempt by the corporate press to squash the files comes as Trump’s Justice Department continues to obscure and remove images and documents that damage the administration. Files that were previously accessible through the Department of Justice’s Epstein Transparency Act portal are now returning “Page not found” errors.

17. 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 F-35, F-22 and F-16 warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours.

Such a war would have catastrophic consequences for the beleaguered people of Iran, and quickly set the entire region ablaze. In off-the-record briefings, Trump administration and Pentagon officials say they are preparing for a months-long bombardment of Iran. This would dwarf the 12-day unprovoked war that the US and Israel waged on Iran last June, which killed more than a thousand Iranians, most of them civilians.  

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Unless it submits to a series of sweeping demands, Iran—an historically oppressed country that has already been subject to years of punishing economic sanctions, themselves tantamount to war—is threatened with imminent attack by the largest deployment of US imperialist firepower since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.  

To underscore the point, as the Geneva talks began, the Pentagon ordered the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to leave Crete, where it has been docked since Monday, to move closer to Israel and Iran. Israeli forces have been on high alert in anticipation of a US strike on Iran for weeks. They are only awaiting Washington’s greenlight to join an attack.

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In recent interactions with the press, Iranian officials have repeatedly claimed that a “win-win” deal is within reach, if the negotiations are restricted to Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions relief.

Tehran has let it be known that as a part of any deal with Washington it is ready to make sweeping economic concessions to the US, including ceding rights to American companies to develop oil and gas and critical minerals projects. One unnamed official said they constituted a “bonanza” of investment opportunities. It is not known whether Tehran formally presented these proposals at Thursday’s talks.

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Were Iran’s Shia-clergy-led bourgeois nationalist regime to accept Washington’s demands, Iran would be rendered effectively defenseless in the face of US or Israeli aggression. Their imposition would constitute de facto imperialist-imposed regime change, regardless of who remained at the helm of the Islamic Republic and its leading institutions.  

In his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, Trump spewed a series of lies about Iran, aimed at concocting a casus belli for war. These include that Iran has refused to state that its nuclear program is solely for civilian purposes and that it is working to build missiles that “will soon reach” the USA.

All of this turns reality on its head.

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American imperialism has never reconciled itself to the 1979 Iranian revolution, which overthrew the tyrannical, CIA-installed, monarchical-dictatorship of the Shah. For decades the Pentagon has been planning to wage war on Iran. In 2003 and again in 2007-8, the George W. Bush administration actively considered attacking Iran. Obama repeatedly insisted “all options were on the table” as he used the nuclear issue to bully Iran, and sought to reassert Washington’s dominance over the Middle East after the Iraq war debacle and the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

The current war drive against Iran arises directly out of the post-October 2023 US-Israeli drive to impose a “final solution” to the Palestinian question as part of the assertion of unbridled US imperialist hegemony over the Middle East through war, regime change and, in Gaza, outright genocide.

In recent days, major media outlets with close connection to the US military-intelligence apparatus have reported that senior Pentagon officials have cautioned Trump that Iran has significant military capabilities and that any conflict with Iran will be protracted and could result in major US reversals and casualties.

Tehran, for its part, has vowed to strike US military bases and warships across the region and warned that a war will quickly engulf the region. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the other Gulf States are claiming they will not allow the US to use its bases in their countries and airspace to attack Iran. This is partly in hopes of averting Iranian retaliation, but no less importantly because they fear the reaction among their restive populations to their complicity in an unprovoked and illegal US-led, Israeli-backed assault on Iran. 

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However it starts, a war on Iran will be a war of aggression, the “supreme international crime” as defined at the Nuremberg trials, waged by a criminal regime, that on behalf of America’s capitalist oligarchy is intent on imposing unfettered US domination over the world and dictatorship at home. 

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The working class in the United States and around the world must mobilize against the impending attack on Iran. It will have untold consequences for the people of Iran, and the world. From the standpoint of the strategists of US imperialism effecting regime change in Iran and establishing domination over the Middle East—the world’s most important oil exporting region and the strategic hinge between three continents—is only a stepping stone toward war with China. 

Protests and strikes must be organized demanding “Hands off Iran,” the withdrawal of all US and other imperialist forces from the Middle East, an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the lifting of all sanctions against Iran. Such action must be animated by the fight to link opposition to imperialist war with the growing struggles of the international working class against the evisceration of its social and democratic rights, and infused with a revolutionary socialist program and perspective to put an end to capitalism—the source of war, dictatorship and oligarchy. 

18. From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means

On Tuesday, Casey Means—a wellness influencer with no active medical license—appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee for her confirmation hearing as Donald Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General. Over more than two hours, Means systematically refused to recommend measles or flu vaccination to parents, declined to rule out a vaccine-autism link despite decades of refuting scientific evidence, and defended past statements attacking hormonal birth control—all while insisting, in a formula repeated like an incantation, that she “believes vaccines save lives.”

The hearing took place against the backdrop of a national measles emergency—982 confirmed cases in 2026 as of late February, with tracking data indicating the total had surpassed 1,000, on pace to far exceed 2025’s three-decade record of 2,281—and the most sustained assault on public health infrastructure in American history, waged over the past year by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. If confirmed on a party-line Republican vote, Means would become the first surgeon general in US history without an active medical license—the nominal head of the nation’s public health at the very moment public health is being systematically destroyed.

The spectacle of Democratic senators posing “tough questions” to a nominee they are powerless to stop epitomizes the bankruptcy of bourgeois politics. The hearing was not an exercise in democratic accountability. It was theater, staged amid the ruins of a public health infrastructure that both parties, over decades, have starved of funding and subordinated to corporate interests.

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Born in 1987 to a politically connected Washington family, Means graduated from Stanford Medical School and began a surgical residency at Oregon Health and Science University before quitting. She has since built a career as a wellness influencer, with 845,000 Instagram followers, co-founding a health app called Levels and holding equity in Truemed, a company owned by her brother Calley Means, a senior adviser at HHS on food and nutrition policy.

According to a Public Citizen report filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on February 4, Casey Means failed to disclose financial relationships in 79 out of 140 instances (56 percent) of promoting affiliated products on social media, an obvious conflict of interest violation.

The Means nomination is only the latest episode in the most far-reaching assault on public health in modern American history. Since Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS Secretary on February 13, 2025, the Trump administration has waged a systematic war on American public health. 

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The consequences are measured in children’s lives. The United States recorded 2,281 measles cases in 2025—the highest since 1991—with three deaths: two children in Texas and one adult in New Mexico. These figures are set to be dwarfed in 2026, with over 1,000 measles cases already tracked. National kindergarten MMR vaccination coverage has fallen to 92.5 percent, below the threshold for herd immunity, with 39 states failing to meet the standard. In November 2025, the Pan American Health Organization declared the Americas had lost measles elimination status.

The largest ongoing outbreak, in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has devastated a working-class community with more than 900 confirmed cases. A second outbreak tore through the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where detained immigrant children were held in conditions that guaranteed the spread of a vaccine-preventable disease. The World Socialist Web Site warned in July 2025 that the Trump-Kennedy attacks “will kill millions globally,” with USAID cuts projected to cause 14 million additional deaths through 2030 and the Gavi withdrawal threatening 75 million unvaccinated children. 

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The bipartisan character of this catastrophe did not begin with Trump. For decades, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, public health has been starved of funding and subordinated to the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. These processes have only accelerated since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed over 1.5 million Americans and over 30 million people worldwide, while debilitating hundreds of millions more with Long COVID globally.

The defense of science and public health—the defense of the lives of the working class against a ruling class that treats mass infection and death as acceptable policy—is inseparable from the fight for socialism. This requires the independent mobilization of the working class, through rank-and-file safety committees, in opposition to both capitalist parties.

19. Workers Struggles: Africa & Europe

Africa

Liberia:

Police attack mine workers protesting pay and conditions

Nigeria:

Academics and workers strike at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic in Akure, Ondo State

South Africa:

Protest in Tembisa township against electricity cutoffs

Europe

Belgium:

Firefighters hold strike and demonstration in Brussels against cuts

Greece:

Actors and theater technicians strike over pay and conditions

Isle of Man:

Bus workers on walk out over pay and entitlements

Spain:

Port workers in Avilés, Spain strike for job security

Turkey:

Public sector bus drivers in Çanakkale strike over unpaid wages and poor working conditions

United Kingdom:

Teachers’ strikes in Kent, England over specialist needs service, and Rochdale, over staff shortages

Mental health workers in southwest England hold further walkout over pay

Infrastructure workers on a London overground rail route strike over pay

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

Bogdan Syrotiuk

The fight for the Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist's freedom is an essential component of the struggle against imperialist war, genocide, dictatorship and fascism.