China denounces CK Hutchison’s port deal as “kneeling down” to the US
China slammed the Hong Kong-based firm for portraying the agreement as “purely commercial in nature” and condemned the pact as “a tool to enforce US hegemony”.
•Shih-Yu Chou
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Sick and disabled speak on Labour’s welfare cuts: “Enough to drive people to suicide”
Starmer’s moral crusade is a smokescreen to impose cuts designed to get up to 1.2 million disabled people off disability benefits and cause untold misery to hundreds of thousands of people in Britain.
•Our reporters
Southern California USPS rally against Trump’s privatization efforts
“I think a worldwide unification of the postal services to come together” is needed, one worker said. “The needs are worldwide. They’re not just nationwide. It’s here in America or Canada. The same needs, the same people doing the same things.”
•Our correspondents
Letter carriers rally across America against privatization of US Postal Service
“I think we need a new party, a party excluding oligarchs, excluding moguls, Democrats and excluding the one percent,” one protester said. “A working class party.”
•Our reporters
Co-director of award-winning No Other Land attacked by Israeli fascist settlers and military
Only three weeks ago, Ballal was on the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to accept an Oscar.
•David Walsh
Australian Greens outline program for military build-up and war
The Greens are pitching to hawkish elements of the military-intelligence apparatus, who advocate a military expansion to offset the potential unreliability of the Trump administration.
•Oscar Grenfell
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Haitian police repress demonstration in Port Au Prince; Panamanians strike against Social Security ‘reform’; Wisconsin Cummins workers on strike against use of temporary workers, mandatory overtime.
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Hearing begins today on Momodou Taal’s case against Trump
A hearing before US District Judge Elizabeth C. Coombe is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon where attorneys for Cornell graduate student Momodou Taal will present arguments against the Trump administration’s attempt to deport him for speaking out against the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and apprehend him before his lawsuit is heard.
•Kevin Reed
Israel prepares to fully occupy Gaza, displace entire population
The Israeli military is preparing to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, internally displace the remaining population and provide only the “minimum caloric amount necessary for survival,” according to three major publications.
•Andre Damon
Major law firm Paul Weiss capitulates to Trump’s fascistic executive order
Paul Weiss, one of the two major law firms targeted by president Donald Trump, capitulated with a meaningless agreement rather than fight the blatantly unconstitutional executive order in court.
•John Burton
As families search for “disappeared” detainees, Appeals Court judge says Venezuelan migrants treated worse than Nazi agents were
Trump’s lawless and unconstitutional actions against migrants are likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court—packed with his own appointees.
•Patrick Martin
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez propose “fighting oligarchy” by supporting Democrats, Chuck Schumer, capitalism
Sanders plays an indispensable role for the Democratic Party and the ruling class. After every electoral debacle, he reemerges to posture as a “left” alternative, channeling growing discontent into safe, controlled avenues.
•Max Jones, Jacob Crosse
Time is being called on “US exceptionalism”
The belief, widely held as recently as the start of the year, that the US economy and stock market would continue to power ahead is being brought into question as all the institutions of post-war capitalism are shattered.
•Nick Beams
Australian intelligence review calls for “urgent” powers for crises, war and political unrest
The spy and surveillance agencies are being bolstered to deal with intense social and political disaffection fuelled by deepening social inequality, the Israeli genocide and an intensifying turn to war.
•Mike Head
Launch of Canada’s federal election campaign dominated by Trump’s tariff war and annexation threat
None of the parties running in the election offers a way forward for workers seeking to fight Trump’s threatened annexation of Canada, oppose rearmament and imperialist war, defend their jobs and living conditions, and reject the drive towards authoritarian forms of rule.
•Roger Jordan, Keith Jones
New Zealand government seeks closer ties with Trump, Modi administrations
The New Zealand leaders’ trips to the US and India reveal how thoroughly the ruling elite is aligning itself with the forces of fascism and preparations for war to redivide the world.
•John Braddock
Public outrage over ICE abduction of two Honduran immigrant workers in Indianapolis
Workers and young people in Indianapolis are demanding an end to the raids on immigrant workers such as the illegal apprehension of two Honduran workers by ICE agents on February 28.
•Shane Latrobe
German automaker Audi cuts 7,500 jobs
The IG Metall union boasts about the “success” of the so-called “Agreement for the Future” and is already busy working to implement the job cuts and other savings measures at Audi.
•K. Nesan
Texas arrests midwife and assistant for providing abortions
Maria Rojas and Jose Ley face politically motivated charges aimed at intimidating healthcare workers against providing reproductive healthcare under the state's reactionary abortion ban.
•Chase Lawrence
5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The response of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.
•WSWS Editorial Board