The May Day rally of the International Committee of the Fourth International denounced the Iran War and declared solidarity with all class war prisoners. The ICFI stressed that 2026 has witnessed the resurgence of a global working class movement against capitalism.
Turkish channel TV5 interviewed me last night (April 8) on the subject of the US-Israeli war against Iran. I stressed the urgency of building a mass working class movement against war on the basis of a socialist and internationalist program.
Trump said: "An entire civilization will die tonight." We declare our solidarity with the people of Iran. The working class of the world must oppose this monstrous crime. It must be stopped.
On Saturday, I was barred from addressing a No Kings rally in Nürnberg, Germany. The organizers had said there would be an open mike. I had identified myself as WSWS editor, and was told that I would be allowed to speak. But after waiting for nearly an hour, I was surrounded by Democratic Party goons. They would not allow me to speak and condemn the illegal war against Iran, which the Democrats support.
A war of extermination, what the Nazis called Vernichtungskrieg, is being waged against Iran. We are living in a historical period in which either the working class comes to power and puts an end to capitalism or capitalism will put an end to the world.
On Sunday, the World Socialist Web Site is sponsoring an international webinar to outline a strategy and program to stop the brutal imperialist onslaught against Iran. The aim of this discussion is to place this event in its appropriate historical, political and social context.
The Trump administration and the US ruling class has lost all sense of reality. Demanding the "unconditional surrender" of Iran, Trump is driving the United States toward an unavoidable catastrophe.
The attack on Iran is precisely what was described at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders in 1945–46 as a “crime against peace”—the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
History teaches that it is a mistake to predict a war's outcome based on the "successes" of attacks launched by the aggressor in the opening days, weeks and even months of the conflict. Trump and his cabal have started a war whose consequences they neither foresee nor control.
Statement by David North, national chairperson of the Socialist Equality Party (US), opposing the war and calling for an immediate end to the illegal attack on Iran.
I'm announcing my campaign today for president of the UAW.
I'm a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, PA.
My campaign will mobilize the rank and file to
1) abolish the corrupt UAW bureaucracy
2) put all power in the hands of workers
Class struggle, not class collaboration!
Today's cold-blooded execution of a citizen of Minneapolis is Trump's response to yesterday’s powerful demonstration against ICE’s reign of terror. It is urgent that workers build a rank-and-file movement for a nationwide general strike!
"We have no confidence in the Democratic Party carrying out a fight against Trump. That's why we're calling on the working class to fight in a different way... Build rank-and-file committees!"
Lawrence Porter, leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
#NoKings
Trump has just delivered a homicidal rant, in which he has justified the illegal attack on Iran, threatened further bombings and congratulated Netanyahu for waging a genocidal war against Gaza. Whatever the immediate military consequences of the bombing, billions of people across the globe, and millions within the US, now view the Trump administration as a criminal regime. The American oligarchy has taken yet another step toward the political abyss.
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