Andre Damon

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT) won an unprecedented fourth term as president of Brazil on Sunday, October 25.

For the first time, the Socialist Equality Group is standing a candidate in the New Zealand election—Tom Petterson in the Hutt South electorate—to advance a socialist and internationalist perspective, to fight against the program of war and austerity that every established party is putting forward.

Rarely have hopes and reality been so far apart as they were on Sunday evening in Belgrade.

The New York Times reported that officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan met in Tehran for emergency talks as the Trump administration and Israel threatened renewed assaults on Iran, possibly before or after the November 3 US midterm elections.

Yesterday, during a visit to Marseille, Emmanuel Macron raised the threat of imposing a state of emergency against the mass mobilization of youth and workers against his government.

Following appeals sent by WSWS reporters to media outlets, trade unions, left parties, artists and public intellectuals, the Free Bogdan Syrotiuk campaign has won support in Greece—including signing the petition demanding Bogdan’s release.

On September 29, after months of protests and strike threats, the Dutch minority cabinet of Prime Minister Rob Jetten (D66) announced the withdrawal of planned cuts to social security amounting to more than 6 billion Euros.

Two sets of figures, published within days of each other, define the social reality of Chile in 2026 with a clarity that no amount of official spin can obscure.

Back-to-back campaign rallies in Michigan, addressed by former President Barack Obama Saturday and President Donald Trump Sunday, expressed the degrading and reactionary alternatives offered by the two corporate-controlled parties in the midterm election, only a week away.

In an unprecedented action, taken 12 days before the November 3 midterm election, the federal Department of Justice filed suit late last Thursday to block the state of Alaska from certifying the results of its own Senate election if Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan is defeated.

The Trump and Netanyahu administrations are in the final stages of preparing a massive new assault against Iran, in advance of elections in which both leaders are expected to face major electoral setbacks.

Labour’s Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has declared that Britain must be ready to fight a war in 1,000 days.

Masked far-right thugs violently assaulted a public meeting held by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Glasgow last Thursday night.

Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of the Stalinist (CPM-K), has been acquitted of all criminal charges following an eight-month prosecution initiated after his violent arrest and torture by Kenyan police in February.

On Saturday, hundreds of journalists and thousands of others took to the streets in at least 10 cities across Türkiye, including Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Diyarbakır and Adana, to protest the escalating attacks on the press by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

María Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and US-backed Venezuelan right leader, unexpectedly appeared at mass in a Santa Rosa chapel, near Barquisimeto in Lara, a stronghold of right-wing opposition support.

The October 8 deployment of Carabinero special forces at the Manuel Barros Borgoño Lyceum, in which a 17-year-old student and his father were beaten and arrested, is the latest and most violent escalation in a coordinated offensive against Chile’s youth.

Ecuadorian police arrested Luisa González, the twice-defeated presidential candidate of former President Rafael Correa’s Citizen Revolution (Revolución Ciudadana—RC), in a pre-dawn raid on her home in the coastal province of Manabí on Thursday, October 22.

One of the very dangerous consequences of global warming is the growing incidence of wildfires.

Voters in British Columbia go to the polls Saturday to vote in a snap election called by the province’s New Democratic Party (NDP) premier, David Eby, two years ahead of schedule.

The Socialist Equality Group (SEG) in New Zealand has held numerous discussions with many workers and young people over the past week, as part of its candidate Tom Petterson’s campaign in the Hutt South electorate for the November 7 election.

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka held a successful online meeting on Tuesday, October 13 as part of the international campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk.

The conservative New Democracy (ND) government in Athens is integrating Greece ever more deeply into Washington’s drive to war from the Eastern Mediterranean to Iran and Ukraine.

President José Antonio Kast's government has spent four months creating the Agenda Against Organized Crime and Terrorism (ACOT), a package of over 30 bills and a constitutional reform.

Three years of horrific bombardment, destruction, wanton murder in Gaza… The lives of its residents, already unbearable, have become a living (or dying) hell.