World Socialist Web Site Daily Podcast

Trump to American workers: Let them pay for the war / Los Angeles homeless authority guts workforce, destroying 284 jobs and enabling private profiteers

New York City transit workers confront need for fight against Wall Street and Mamdani / South Texas horror: 7 immigrants, including 14-year-old boy, die after being trapped in rail container / Rising fertilizer prices, shortages threaten Sri Lankan farmers with disaster

Trump and Xi to meet amid global eruption of imperialist war / Governments downplay pandemic risk as MV Hondius hantavirus cases mount in US, Europe / Starmer's "survival speech" only postpones his downfall amid Labour's collapse

How workers can fight the wave of AI layoffs / Reckless disembarkation of hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius exposes collapse of public health / Trump calls Iranian response to negotiations “unacceptable,” as Israel continues Lebanon bloodbath

Far-right Reform UK benefits from the electoral collapse of Britain’s Labour Party—what way forward for the working class? / “It should be fine, we hope” Trump dismisses hantavirus threat as outbreak spreads / US attacks two Iranian-flagged tankers as Trump escalates war ahead of China summit

The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak and the threat of another pandemic / Trump’s “America First” Counterterrorism Strategy: A blueprint for dictatorship / US resumes strikes on Iran, as Trump threatens further escalation

What is it about the Met fashion gala that leads one to think fondly of the guillotine? / 1 year of the Merz government: War, militarism and social devastation

The collapse of Spirit Airlines: The latest in a decades-long war on the working class / Nexteer workers: Prepare now to defeat another UAW sellout contract! / Louisiana governor suspends primary election to enforce new congressional gerrymandering

Trump’s deployment of warships to Strait of Hormuz escalates Iran war / Spirit workers lose paychecks and benefits as executives seek $10.7 million in “retention” bonuses / New sanctions, threats and military exercises set stage for US assault on Cuba

The 2026 International May Day Online Rally and the tasks of the international working class / Spirit Airlines collapses: 17,000 workers pay for Wall Street's war on Iran

May Day 2026: Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle

Join the May Day Online Rally! For Socialism! Against war, genocide and fascism! / Senate Democrats voice support for major surge in military spending at Hegseth briefing / German government passes war budget, agrees sharp attacks on healthcare

Latest round of tech layoffs at Microsoft and Meta shows need for a working class movement to defend jobs / Supreme Court steps up attacks on democratic rights / Energy shortage: Macron wants to use war on Iran to wage class war in France

Charles III in Washington: Monarchy, oligarchy and the repudiation of 1776 / Trump rushes migrant children through deportation courts, while Walz backs federal raids in Minnesota / Amid popular outrage, no official explanation of secret CIA operation in Mexico

Gunman charged with attempted assassination of Trump: The political issues / Global military spending surges to record $2.887 trillion / US unions "May Day Strong" seeks to neuter May Day

Rank-and-file candidate for United Auto Workers president, Will Lehman, introduces resolution against Iran war / Trump seeks to profit politically from attack in Washington hotel / Pacific Island economies hit hard by war on Iran

Unemployment to rise by a quarter of a million as Iran war hits UK economy

Trump Justice Department intervenes to defend fascists and neo-Nazis / German defence minister presents new military strategy: Berlin prepares for major war against Russia / As third carrier strike group arrives, Trump orders Navy to “shoot and kill” Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz

US imperialism’s war on Iran unleashes global economic and social catastrophe for the working class / Trump Justice Department indicts Southern Poverty Law Center in frame-up to aid fascist groups / Growing number of potential flashpoints in global financial system

Germany summons Russian ambassador and escalates confrontation with Moscow / 110 miners detained in Türkiye amid Iran war / In last-minute reversal, Trump extends ceasefire with Iran

The "Global Progressive Mobilization" : A bankrupt spectacle in Barcelona / US seizes Iran-bound ship from China in Arabian Sea / White House sends delegation to deliver war ultimatum to Cuba

The Pitt: The medical drama whose social realism and honesty have gripped millions / Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges after IRGC closes the Strait of Hormuz / H-E-B grocery warehouse worker dies after workplace accident in San Antonio