Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Kaiser Permanente strike betrayed: UNAC/UHCP ends 31,000-worker walkout, advances sellout agreement
The union halted the struggle at its strongest point, isolating workers and paving the way for concessions on wages and staffing.
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania, and candidate for president of the United Auto Workers, has issued a statement denouncing the UAW bureaucracy’s intervention against graduate and undergraduate student workers at Columbia University, calling the apparatus “complicit” in political repression at the campus and urging that rank-and-file workers take control of their own struggle.
The statement comes after student workers at Columbia, organized under the Student Workers of Columbia (SWC), voted by 91.5 percent—1,129 to 105—to authorize a strike in pursuit of their second contract with the university. Their first contract expired in July 2025. The overwhelming vote authorized a number of demands. In addition to a living wage with a cost-of-living escalator, stronger protections for non-citizen workers, and expanded healthcare and childcare benefits, the workers raised demands tied to democratic rights on campus, including an end to police collaboration, surveillance, and the right to protest without fear of arrest or deportation.
Rather than honoring that mandate, the UAW apparatus moved quickly to block it. According to SWC communications published on X, Region 9A Servicing Representative Courtney Bither—who earned $133,000 in 2024—told the local that a strike authorization was unlikely unless demands related to democratic rights were substantially narrowed.
Friday evening, United Autoworkers (UAW) Local 4811, which represents more than 40,000 academic workers in the University of California system, announced a tentative agreement aimed at blocking strike action. Workers were kept on the job for nearly three weeks without a contract, and the tentative agreement is a complete violation of the strike mandate. This TA is intended to cut off the growing movement of the working class and remove tens of thousands of University of California workers from the struggle.
After 93.3 percent of academic student employees—including teaching assistants, graduate student researchers, postdocs, and professional academic staff—voted to strike, the UAW leadership refused to set a strike date, even after the contract expired. After two weeks, the UAW called a “last chance” picket, which did nothing but allow the union bureaucracy to posture as though it were fighting, in an effort to boost its credibility and prepare the sellout. The tentative agreement cooked up with the UC was clearly ready well before the “last chance” practice pickets, since it was announced the next day.
The tentative agreement “highlights” boasts: “Strategic contract expiration on December 31st, 2029: bargaining for our next contract will not be under the Trump administration and ending the precedent of Summer expirations in the last three contracts.” What a contemptible fraud. The time for a broad strike movement of the working class against Trump’s criminal government is now. This is not “strategic” timing that will help student workers. Rather, it will benefit Trump.
A strike by 48,000 academic workers in California would be a critical part of a broader movement of the working class against austerity, war and Trump’s efforts to destroy public health, education and democratic rights. The tentative agreement is being voted on amid a rising wave of working-class militancy, including CSU workers—who are also UAW members—working on expired contracts, as well as nurses, educators, public-sector staff, logistics and transport workers, and meatpacking workers. Faculty at New York University are poised to strike later this month.
This struggle is not merely for better stipends or housing. The US ruling class’s decision to launch and expand a criminal war against Iran has already driven up energy costs and diverted massive public resources to the war machine, intensifying attacks on living standards and democratic rights. Wars abroad and austerity at home are two sides of the same class offensive.
Voting on the tentative agreement had already begun, but workers had access to the full text of the 185-page agreement for only four days before voting started. This is a clear attempt to ram the contract through before academic workers have had a chance to study and discuss the full terms. Workers must reject this blatantly undemocratic process with a decisive “No” vote. The process has excluded the rank-and-file from the start.
4. Trump’s $200 billion Iran funding request points to massive scale of war plans
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Pentagon is seeking more than $200 billion from Congress to fund the US war of aggression against Iran, a sum that would exceed the roughly $188 billion spent by the US on arming Ukraine over three years.
The scale of the request is a measure of the war Trump has launched. Far from being, as the president has called it, an “excursion,” the $200 billion the Pentagon is seeking exceeds even the peak annual cost of the Iraq war, which ran to roughly $140 billion a year at the height of the 2007 surge—when 170,000 American troops occupied the country. No ground invasion has yet taken place in Iran, and the administration is already seeking a larger appropriation than the costliest year of the eight-year Iraq occupation.
The war burned through more than $11 billion in its first week alone.
Coinciding with a total island-wide blackout Monday, US President Donald Trump boasted to reporters, “I do believe I’ll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor.”
“Whether I free it, take it, I think I could do anything I want with it,” he said, with a gangsterism that would make even Theodore Roosevelt—the architect of “big stick” diplomacy—blush.
These arrogant pronouncements come after a series of major concessions by Havana since Trump’s January 29 designation of Cuba as a “national emergency” and the imposition of a complete energy embargo against the island nation.
In a matter of weeks, the Cuban government has: announced sweeping economic “reforms” expanding private business and allowing public‑private partnerships; invited FBI “experts” to the island to help investigate an armed incursion by Cuban‑American terrorists; openly courted US corporations and exile “gusano” capitalists in Miami; and confirmed ongoing talks with the Trump administration over the fuel blockade and “security cooperation.”
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz‑Canel on Wednesday denounced the “almost daily” threats by Trump and vowed “unyielding resistance,” but his administration’s actions signal capitulation. Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez‑Oliva told NBC News that “Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with US companies” and “also with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants.”
This is a historic reversal of Fidel Castro’s long‑standing prohibition on exile capital, justified as a defense against precisely those layers that sought to restore the semi‑colonial era through invasions, terrorist bombings and assassination attempts.
Yet this has done nothing to placate White House demands for regime change. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sitting beside Trump in the Oval Office Tuesday, dismissed Havana’s pro-business measures as inadequate: “They can’t fix it. So they have to change dramatically. What they announced yesterday is not dramatic enough. It’s not going to fix it.”
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The US siege of Cuba is a component part of a broader imperialist offensive pushed under Trump’s “Trump corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, which asserts the right of Washington to directly dictate the fate of every country in the hemisphere and to appropriate all of their resources.
Beyond quibbles about how it’s sold to the American public, the genocidal regime-change operation is supported by both parties and the corporate media. Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, considered part of the party’s “progressive” wing, wrote approvingly on X: “A deal would allow American and Cuban entrepreneurs to invest in Cuba and help Cuba recover and modernize economically.”
At the Shield of the Americas summit in Miami earlier this month, Trump brought together far‑right regimes and allies from Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Chile and elsewhere in the hemisphere on a common program: militarization, mass repression and a massive attack on living standards and social programs.
“Cuba is in its last moments of life,” Trump told the fascistic regional leaders as they applauded.
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Even without a missile fired at the island, the economic strangulation of Cuba is producing devastation on a scale comparable only to war. Following the removal of Maduro in early 2026, the US cut off Venezuelan oil shipments and threatened Mexico and other suppliers with crippling tariffs if they exported fuel to Cuba. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, halted oil shipments in January. Brazil and Colombia—both governed by “left” leaders and major oil exporters—have likewise refused to break the embargo.
This is not merely capitulation, but rather complicity in defense of local capitalist interests that seek to position themselves as junior partners in Washington’s neocolonial carve-up of the hemisphere.
The isolation of Cuba is stark. Ecuador expelled Cuban diplomats; Nicaragua curtailed visa‑free travel for Cubans; and countries like Guatemala, Honduras and Jamaica have moved to end medical cooperation deals that provided Havana with vital hard currency.
Cuba’s electric grid, dependent on aging Soviet‑era thermal plants burning heavy crude and a web of diesel generators, has been pushed beyond the breaking point. On March 16, the entire national grid collapsed, plunging the island into darkness. After 29 hours, power was only partially restored.
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A worker in Matanzas told the WSWS that days have passed without electricity in her neighborhood. While drinking water is limited, cooking gas is simply inaccessible. She recounted that a close relative recently died as a result of the healthcare system collapse that is already costing countless lives.
The medical system has a waiting list of nearly 100,000 “non‑urgent” procedures, including over 11,000 children. In many cases, “non‑urgent” simply means “not dead yet.”
Energy analyst Jorge Piñón has warned: “I have never seen or studied a country where 100 percent of the fuel disappears.”
Under these conditions, small but significant protests have erupted: university students staging sit‑ins against collapsing education, working class neighborhoods banging pots and pans to demand electricity and food and riots like the recent one in Morón, where demonstrators set furniture ablaze in a Communist Party office.
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The imperialist onslaught against Cuba has a distinctively vindictive character. Washington is not merely pursuing corporate and financial interests; it is waging a simultaneous campaign of historical retribution against two revolutions—1959 in Cuba and 1979 in Iran—that toppled US puppet regimes.
As the International Committee of the Fourth International insisted, the Cuban revolution represented not a socialist overturn of capitalist property relations under the conscious leadership of the working class. Rather, its expropriations of US corporate property, land reforms and social measures in health and education were a radical variant of the bourgeois nationalist and anti-colonial movements that came to power across much of the world in the 20th century, ultimately inspired by the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Today, under the whip of the global capitalist crisis and war drive, the ruling classes are determined to “abolish the 20th century”—to return humanity to the conditions of the 19th: naked exploitation, colonial subjugation and unchecked police‑military rule.
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The reaction of the so‑called “pink tide” governments in Latin America, along with Russia and China, to Cuba’s plight exposes their bankruptcy and the fraud of “regional integration” or BRICS as a counterweight to US imperialism.
But the vicious onslaught against Cuba and the attempt to forge a counter‑revolutionary axis of far‑right regimes in Latin America are signs not of US imperialism’s strength, but rather of its profound weakness.
The agony of Cuba is bound up with the broader collapse of the post‑1945 world order that relied on US economic and military hegemony, and the impossibility of reconstructing this order on any other capitalist basis, including multipolarity.
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If the strangulation of Cuba cannot be stopped by appealing to complicit bourgeois‑nationalist governments, on what social basis can it be opposed?
The answer lies in the international working class. The siege of Cuba is inseparable from the assault on workers everywhere, including in the United States itself. Rising oil prices driven by the criminal war on Iran are already fueling inflation and austerity that recall the 1970s, when the oil shocks detonated massive class struggles across Latin America and beyond.
The class response to the torture of Cuba must be organized as part of a broader struggle against imperialist war and social counterrevolution. Workers in the US, Canada, Latin America and internationally must demand an immediate and unconditional end to the embargo and all sanctions in order to end the starvation of the Cuban working class, allowing it to settle accounts with its own ruling elite.
The defense of Cuba is not a “national” question in the sense long upheld by the Stalinist and pseudo‑left organizations.
As David North explained in his 1993 lecture “Permanent Revolution and the National Question Today,” Trotsky demonstrated that imperialism “sounded the death knell of the national state itself.” Moreover, “the impossibility of resolving, in the epoch of imperialism, any of the basic problems of humanity on a national basis” made the perspective of “national liberation” under a native bourgeois leadership a reactionary utopia. The record of Castro and the myriad “national liberation” icons has borne this out: all rested on a nation‑state framework, sought to balance between imperialism and Stalinism, and left the working class to pay the price as their ostensible gains crumbled.
6. Top US intelligence official resigns over Iran war
A top US intelligence official, Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center and principal deputy to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, publicly resigned his position Tuesday with a blast at the Trump administration’s justifications of the war against Iran.
In a letter sent to Trump Tuesday, Kent wrote that he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.” He continued, “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
The first part of that statement is absolutely damning, confirming that the US war on Iran is illegal under both US and international law. The second part is a gross distortion, reversing the actual relationship between American imperialism and its Israeli attack dog, and catering to far-right anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
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At the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual worldwide threats hearing Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe directly contradicted Trump’s stated justification for the war—that Iran was on the verge of developing missiles capable of reaching the United States. Gabbard testified that Iran could “begin to develop” an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) “before 2035, should Tehran attempt to pursue that capability.” Ratcliffe acknowledged that Iran was “gaining experience” in longer-range missiles but refused to affirm any timeline for when they could threaten the US homeland.
Gabbard acknowledged that while the Iranian leadership had been “largely degraded” by US and Israeli attacks, the government “appears to be intact.”
At a separate House Armed Services Committee hearing, both capitalist parties framed the Iran war as one front of a three-theater confrontation with Russia, Iran and China. Democrats used the hearing to press the administration on whether the US remains committed to NATO, given Trump’s repeated public musings about withdrawing from the alliance.
7. US Fed gripped by uncertainty as war dominates the economy
The overriding impression from Fed chair Jerome Powell is that the central bank is like an animal trapped in the headlights of a massive truck hurtling towards it, not knowing which way to turn.
The election underscores the absence of any alternative for working people within the existing political establishment.
9. BP locks out Whiting, Indiana workers after decisive rejection of “last, best and final” agreement
BP confirmed it intends to continue to operate the largest refinery in the Midwest, producing 440,000 barrels daily of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
The largest meatpackers’ strike in the United States since the 1950s entered its third day on Wednesday. As with the previous two days, thousands of workers, a majority of whom are immigrants, picketed for hours outside the JBS meat processing facility in Greeley, Colorado.
JBS, a Brazil-based multinational, is the largest meatpacking corporation in the world. Workers at the Greeley plant have been laboring without a contract for over eight months after the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) ratified a national agreement covering roughly 26,000 workers at 14 facilities—excluding Greeley.
On Tuesday afternoon, reporters for the World Socialist Web Site visited the afternoon picket, which was even larger than the morning picket. Some 2,000 workers picketed in front of and near the factory. Workers from Haiti, who face threats of deportation after the Trump administration moved to revoke Temporary Protected Status from them, defiantly chanted “nou kare!” Creole for “we are holding firm/steady.”
In an extended interview, Jaden, a C-shift (third shift) sanitation worker, detailed not only the horrendous working conditions at the plant but also spoke on broader political issues facing workers, including attacks from immigration agents and the ongoing war in Iran.
In an attempt to prevent workers from exercising their First Amendment rights, during the interview, a UFCW bureaucrat attempted to block World Socialist Web Site reporters, demanding they first consult the union’s media representative.
Jaden, who has worked at the plant for two years, confirmed that management sought to collect updated contact information from workers prior to the strike in order to undermine it.
The referendum exploits popular anger at a class-biased justice system to dismantle democratic safeguards and prepare for future social conflict.
12. Ford worker Gregory Knopf killed at Sharonville Transmission Plant in Ohio
The circumstances of Knopf’s death bear a grim resemblance to a pattern of workplace fatalities across the auto industry. Just over 11 months ago, 63-year-old Ronald Adams Sr. was killed at the Stellantis Dundee Engine Plant in Monroe County, Michigan, when an overhead gantry crushed him while he serviced equipment.
An independent investigation conducted by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees found evidence of routine bypassing of lockout/tagout procedures and accelerated production schedules.
The US Department of Labor reported that 5,070 workers were killed on the job in 2024, a figure that vastly understates the true toll because it excludes most deaths from workplace-related illness. The AFL-CIO estimates that occupational disease claimed 135,000 lives in 2023 alone.
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker running for UAW president in 2026, issued a statement on Knopf’s death connecting it directly to the death of Ronald Adams Sr. and the broader failure of the UAW apparatus to defend workers’ lives. “These deaths are the predictable, preventable product of a system that treats workers as expendable inputs to production,” Lehman wrote in the statement posted on his website.
Lehman indicted the union leadership’s conduct following Adams’ death as a template for what workers should expect now. “In the eleven months since Ronald Adams Sr. was killed, Shawn Fain’s apparatus has issued no statement demanding accountability from Stellantis, made no public demands of MIOSHA, and moved as quickly as possible to restore production at Dundee Engine,” he wrote. “The UAW bureaucracy’s silence over the death of Ronald Adams Sr. tells workers everything they need to know about what to expect following the death of Gregory Knopf.”
Lehman’s statement called for rank-and-file workers to wrest control of workplace safety from both management and the union bureaucracy. “We cannot defend our lives while we are bound hand and foot by a union apparatus that stands against us at every turn,” he wrote, calling for the establishment of democratically controlled rank-and-file safety committees with real authority to halt unsafe operations, enforce lockout/tagout procedures and conduct independent investigations.
Lehman also made a direct appeal to workers with knowledge of the conditions at Sharonville. “If you work at the Sharonville Transmission Plant or anywhere in the Ford network and have information about the conditions that led to Gregory Knopf’s death, I urge you to contact my campaign,” he wrote. “Workers cannot forgive and forget what is being done to our brothers and sisters. We will not let these deaths be forgotten.”
13. Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire: Rage at a rigged system
The new film from veteran American director Gus Van Sant, Dead Man’s Wire, is an honest and humane work, the best the director has created in years. While inspired by an event that occurred in 1977, the film clearly emerges from and conveys contemporary social anger.
Written by Austin Kolodney, Dead Man’s Wire is built around several volatile days in Indianapolis half a century ago, when a furious small-time developer [Tony] turned a private financial dispute into a live-televised siege.
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In interviews, Van Sant describes Tony as a kind of “antihero from the economic margins,” someone moviegoers can understand without fully endorsing, and contrasts him with the more legally savvy world of the mortgage company and its wealthy owners. He presents Kiritsis as a man who feels economically discarded and organizes a spectacle to force the rich and powerful to listen.
Van Sant has said the story interested him because it echoes today’s anger at corporate greed and financial institutions, and he draws parallels between the 1977 hostage crisis and recent incidents rooted in resentment toward CEOs, banks, and healthcare giants.
During pre-production for Dead Man’s Wire, external events pointed to the urgency of the film’s themes. In December 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in Manhattan, allegedly by 27-year-old Luigi Mangione, who will stand trial this summer.
The director notes that the basic conditions—precarious debt, opaque financial schemes, and a sense that “the game is stacked” against ordinary people—haven’t changed, so Kiritsis’s grievances feel uncomfortably current even if his methods are extreme.
In fact, by every measure, social inequality is far more severe today than it was in 1977, a veritable golden age. To cite a few facts of American life:
- The top 1 percent of households has seen its share of total after-tax income roughly double, rising from approximately 7 percent in 1979 to 14 percent by 2022.
- Between 1979 and 2015, the top 1 percent of household incomes grew by 229 percent, while the incomes of the bottom 90 percent grew by only 46 percent.
- The top 0.01 percent of households experienced a cumulative income growth rate of 1,003 percent between 1979 and 2021.
Dead Man’s Wire speaks to this. Kiritsis was no “working class hero” or a political model for anyone to follow, but through dramatizing his disoriented response to the fixed economic set-up, Van Sant has fashioned a tough-minded, taut drama. At the heart of it lies class warfare in America and the unrelenting drive of the ruling elite to swallow up a greater and greater share of the national wealth, fueling popular outrage.
14. Sri Lankan president blames Iran, not the US, for global fuel crisis
Dissanayake’s comments have once again exposed the government’s phony posturing of “neutrality” over the illegal US-Israel war against Iran.
15. India fully complicit in US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran
The only country that New Delhi has condemned is Iran, for daring to defend itself.
16. Australia: Anti-genocide protesters arrested in Brisbane under “hate speech” laws
Police in Queensland last week arrested two participants in a Students for Palestine rally for saying or displaying the anti-genocide slogan “from the river to the sea.”
17. Canada’s NDP and trade unions posture as opponents of the US-Israeli war on Iran
Canada’s social-democratic New Democratic Party (NDP) and the party’s sponsors in the trade union bureaucracy have “condemned” American imperialism’s criminal war of extermination against Iran.
Their opposition is aimed, however, at preventing, not mobilizing working class opposition to imperialist war and Canadian rearmament. It articulates the interests of Canadian imperialism, which is seeking to advance its own “independent” predatory interests amid the ever more violent imperialist struggle to redivide the world; and is aimed at politically neutering the widespread hostility to the war within the working class.
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Neither the NDP nor the major trade union bureaucracies have lifted a finger to mobilize working class opposition to the war. This reflects their fear, which is no less pronounced throughout the ruling class as a whole, that the economic consequences of the war and its brutality will radicalize millions of workers and put at risk the stability of capitalist rule. Already within the first three weeks, energy and fuel prices have soared under conditions in which workers’ wages have stagnated and declined for decades, jobs have become precarious and governments are slashing social programs to the bone.
Workers opposed to the war in Iran cannot take a single step forward in the struggle against it in alliance with the NDP and its trade union sponsors, or any faction of the Canadian imperialist bourgeoisie. Their first task must be to politically recognize the fraudulent character of the social democrats’ anti-war posturing, so that workers in Canada can advance their own principled opposition to imperialist war in alliance with their class brothers and sisters in the US and internationally.
18. Netanyahu uses Iran war to pursue “Greater Israel” agenda
The far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is utilizing the US–Israeli war against Iran to establish a Greater Israel, by crushing all resistance—Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iranian.
Within days of the assault on Iran, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declared war on Hezbollah. This activated a blueprint drafted well before the group fired a token volley of rockets in response to Israel’s assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel has trampled on the 2024 ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah more than 10,000 times, demonstrating its rejection of any negotiated settlement. Its objective is the destruction of Hezbollah, the elimination of Iran’s influence, and the subjugation of Lebanon.
Hezbollah emerged in the 1980s as a mass movement of the Shi’ite poor, forged in the crucible of Lebanon’s civil war—a war stoked by US intervention—and Israel’s brutal occupation of the south from 1982 to 2000. It remains the principal obstacle to Israel’s domination of Lebanon.
Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reports that the government is considering raising the limit on reservist mobilization to 450,000 reservists—nearly double the current authorized ceiling—in anticipation of a full-scale ground invasion. The IDF has ordered the mass evacuation of everyone living south of the Litani River and residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs, while sending ground forces into Lebanon.
This is a replay—on a vastly more destructive scale—of the 1996 Operation Grapes of Wrath. That operation displaced up to half a million civilians and culminated in the shelling of a UN compound in Qana, killing 106 people.
Israel’s current bombardment of southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern and central districts, and the Beka’a Valley has leveled neighborhoods and infrastructure. More than 912 people have been killed, including at least 111 children; 2,200 have been injured; and nearly one million—17 percent of Lebanon’s population—have been driven from their homes.
The UN human rights office has warned that the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure constitutes a war crime, and that Israel’s sweeping displacement orders may violate international law.
19. Spanish trade unions subordinate anti-war opposition to Sanchez’s Socialist Party government
The zig zags of the PSOE-Sumar government reflect the imperialist interests of the Spanish bourgeoisie.
بیش از دوازده بیانیه انتقادی، دیدگاهها و مقالات وبسایت ورلد سوسیالیست در مورد جنگ جنایتکارانه آمریکا و اسرائیل علیه ایران و چگونگی توقف آن اکنون به زبان فارسی، زبان مادری تقریباً دو سوم مردم ایران، در دسترس است.
More than a dozen critical statements, Perspectives, and World Socialist Web Site [WSWS] articles on the criminal US-Israeli war on Iran and how to stop it are now available in Farsi, the mother-tongue of approximately two-thirds of the Iranian people.
These include: “Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!,” a statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US) National Committee issued on March 2, less than 48 hours after the US and Israel, under the cover of continuing diplomatic negotiations, launched their war of aggression on Iran; “WSWS emergency webinar articulates socialist strategy to stop US-Israeli war against Iran” (a March 9 Perspective); and “Trump is planning a ground invasion of Iran” (March 13, WSWS Editorial Board Statement.)
Also now available in Farsi are important articles that were published as Trump and Netanyahu prepared their assault in Iran, an historically oppressed country, to advance a socialist strategy for the Iranian working class to oppose imperialism and all factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie. These include: “Oppose the pro-imperialist Kurdish nationalist coalition in Iran” and “The Iranian protests, imperialist aggression and the fight for workers’ power”
Below is a list of the articles—in reverse chronological order—with links to their Farsi translations.
The war against Iran will intensify the class struggle (15 March 2026) Joseph Kishore: https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/18/wari-m18.html
Trump is planning a ground invasion of Iran (13 March 2026)
WSWS Editorial Board: https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/17/plan-m17.htmlUnited Nations condemns Iran’s self-defence strikes amid American imperialism’s war of extermination (12 March 2026)
Jordan Shilton:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/17/unna-m17.htmlAustralian government exploits Iranian soccer players for pro-war propaganda (11 March 2026) Oscar Grenfell:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/14/girl-m14.htmlWSWS emergency webinar articulates socialist strategy to stop US-Israeli war against Iran (9 March 2026) Evan Blake:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/14/este-m14.htmlSecond missile incident: War against Iran threatens to engulf Türkiye and NATO (9 March 2026)
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/11/turk-m11.htmlWar abroad, mass layoffs in the US: The working class must stop the assault on Iran (6 March 2026)
Tom Hall:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/14/layo-m14.htmlTrump and Hegseth launch “total war” against Iran (3 March 2026) WSWS Editorial Board:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/10/hegs-m10.htmlMass murder in the Indian Ocean: The torpedoing of the IRIS Dena (6 March 2026) David North:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/09/ajda-m09.htmlStop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran! (2 March 2026) Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US) National Committee: https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/06/stop-m06.html
Oppose the US imperialist war on Iran! (28 February 2026)
David North:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/02/oppo-m02.htmlOppose the pro-imperialist Kurdish nationalist coalition in Iran (26 February 2026) Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/03/06/kurd-m06.htmlThe Iranian protests, imperialist aggression and the fight for workers’ power (11 January 2026)
Keith Jones:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/01/16/prot-j16.htmlMass protests erupt in Iran over mounting economic distress (5 January 2026)
Keith Jones:
https://www.wsws.org/fa/articles/2026/01/11/iran-j11.html
21. VIDEO: London meeting marks a milestone in the history of the Fourth International
This public meeting held in London on March 14, 2026, marked the 40th anniversary of the historic struggle against the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) leadership, which led to its expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
The meeting was addressed by a panel of speakers, including David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States. As the leader of the US Workers League, forerunner of the US SEP, North played the leading role in the struggle against the political degeneration of the WRP leadership.
In his opening presentation, Chris Marsden, National Secretary of the SEP (UK), explains the protracted degeneration of the Healy, Slaughter and Banda leadership and the emergence of a Trotskyist opposition within the International Committee with the critique elaborated by David North between 1982-84, and how this won the support of a proletarian tendency within the then British section, led by Dave Hyland.
In his remarks, Peter Schwarz, the Secretary of the ICFI, describes the intervention against the WRP’s degeneration led by North, and how this clarified the essential political issues at stake in the conflict at a time when the WRP was whipping up hysteria among middle-class layers within the membership.
22. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, 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.
