Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the federal government are driving forward the transformation of Germany into a military state. Under the cynical pretext of “civil protection,” a 10-billion-euro programme will integrate society into military war planning, preparing Germany as a central NATO hub for deployment against Russia.
The result of the deal used to betray a three-day strike is that workers will be poorer due to inflation when the contract expires.
Through the biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City maintains it is taking the pulse of the contemporary art scene in the US.
The killers’ manifesto glorified fascist mass murderers and echoed Republican anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim propaganda.
A contract locking in 4 percent annualized wage increases was already insufficient the day it was ratified. The war against Iran—a war of aggression waged by US imperialism that is now directly raising the cost of living for workers across the country—makes the inadequacy of this contract all the more stark.
Last Thursday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 called off a state-wide strike at around 1:00 in the morning, announcing the deal and a snap vote.
The rapidly developing corruption crisis in Ukraine has revealed that the Zelensky regime and the ruling oligarchy are steeped in criminality and the plunder of the Ukrainian working class.
Trump’s gangster-like threats are the authentic voice of world imperialism, which is determined to impose colonial chains on Iran and the entire region as part of the new redivision of the world among the major powers that is already well underway.
The following statement was issued by the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee to workers at the Saginaw, Michigan auto parts plant who forced the UAW to conduct a strike authorization vote on Wednesday and Thursday.
California Scholars for Academic Freedom's Professor Stephen Roddy opposes the McCarthyite witch-hunt targeting Chinese scientists at American universities and calls for transparency over the recent suicide at the University of Michigan of Danhao Wang.
The highly exploited and low-paid workers, who produce critical steering components for some of the Big Three’s most profitable models, erupted in anger at a meeting of UAW Local 699 on Sunday following the overwhelming rejection last week of the second tentative agreement brought by the union.
The capitalist state cannot tolerate the political unity of Tamil and Sinhala workers, which threatens a system based on the exploitation of labour and communal division.
India’s far-right BJP government has raised petrol and diesel prices just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted Indians to slash energy and fertiliser consumption in response to the ever-widening economic fallout from the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran.
A wartime-style atmosphere is being created in Australian universities, backed by threats of punishment of researchers that fail to comply with national security guidelines.
The entire ruling elite is declaring that superannuation payments for future generations of workers and retirees are “unaffordable.”
The following letter, signed “A. Lincoln” but without a return address or subject line, appeared in my email this morning. No sooner had I made a copy of the letter than it disappeared from my inbox. Despite its strange and unexplained origin, the signature demands that attention be given to the letter; and, for this reason, it is being made available to readers of the WSWS.
A Royal Mail worker told the meeting, “We need a resounding No vote, linked to a vote of no confidence in Ward, Walsh and the Postal Executive who imposed this against us”.
The massive investments made by the Erdoğan government in an “independent” defence industry must be viewed in the context of the global war that is unfolding, Türkiye’s geopolitical position and the interests of the Turkish ruling class.
The triple lock maintained the value of the UK state pension, guaranteeing a basic, albeit inadequate pension during retirement.
The bloody US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the resulting blockade of the vital Strait of Hormuz threaten workers around the world with economic and financial collapse.
With at least 118 dead in the DRC and Uganda and an American physician among the infected, the Trump administration has imposed a Title 42 travel ban while refusing to account for the aid cuts that crippled the international response.
The NDIS Amendment Bill 2026 provides the framework for kicking hundreds of thousands of disabled people off their support and for excluding vast numbers going forward.
The Australian Education Union’s “in-principle” agreement amounts to a further real pay cut and does nothing to address the core issues: crushing workloads, oversized classes, burnout, inadequate resources and a deepening staffing crisis.
Driven by relentless cuts and generational staffing problems stretching back to Reagan’s crushing of the 1981 PATCO strike, staffing sits at a 21st-century low of approximately 11,000.
Bosch is planning to destroy more than half the jobs at its plant in Schwäbisch Gmünd. This article calls on workers to build an independent rank-and-file action committee, as the IG Metall union and works council are actively collaborating with management to enforce the cuts.
Yields on long-term government debt are now recording some of their highest levels since the lead up to the global financial crisis.
No worker should be compelled to vote on—or live under—a contract they have not seen, have not read and have not had the time to study and discuss collectively.
The powerful support for a wider struggle is precisely why the Democrats and union bureaucrats moved to shut the strike down Monday evening.
The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” defies Congress’ power of the purse and creates a secretive claims process with no appeal or judicial review.
A national strike in Bolivia has continued to expand for more than two weeks in opposition to rising fuel costs and the right-wing policies of President Rodrigo Paz.
Until a credible, transparent and independent investigation is conducted, the serious doubts surrounding his death will—and must—persist.
On May 12, S&P Global Ratings revised Mexico’s credit outlook to negative from stable, citing persistently weak fiscal results, rising debt levels and weak economic growth.
The banning of the docudrama reveals the depth of relationship now established between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-supremacist government and the murderous Zionist Netanyahu regime.
Mass protests by teachers took place across Mexico May 15 demanding pensions, wages and education funding, while Toronto Transit Commission and CUPE reached a last-minute deal Monday after multiple deadlines passed.
A 24-hour general strike against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the militarism of the Meloni government and its social implications for the working class brought Italy to a halt on May 18. Its convergence with an Israeli attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla transformed it into a political earthquake.
In working-class areas, anger spilled into the streets. Protesters blocked the Nairobi-Tanzania road in Kitengela and Githurai, while demonstrations also erupted in Madaraka, Nyandarua, Rongai and Narok, where protesters pelted police with stones.
Israel’s nuclear programme dates to the 1950s, when Prime Minister David Ben‑Gurion established the Dimona reactor with French assistance, supplemented by heavy water from Norway and the UK.
The threat to Oasis residents takes place amid a housing crisis and the Victorian Labor government’s program to evict 10,000 people from the city’s 44 public housing towers.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
The strike is a major political confrontation in the center of world finance, pitting workers against Wall Street and its political agents, in the first place the Democratic Party.
To prevent another defeat, workers must begin independently organizing, plan a resumption of the strike and the struggle for their non-negotiable demands, not what AFSCME officials dictate they must accept.
Backed by the Trump administration and major corporations, Rededicate 250 fused Christian nationalism, historical falsification and authoritarian politics.
Just days after Trump’s return from Beijing, American imperialism is making active preparations for a renewed onslaught against Iran.
A Nexteer strike could quickly shut down production at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis and ignite a wave of strikes at US auto parts companies. This is precisely what the UAW bureaucrats are desperate to prevent.
Science magazine, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the world, has published an investigative report titled “Researching While Chinese,” detailing the Department of Justice (DOJ) persecution of Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan and Indiana University.
The Department of Justice has charged the ship operator and a supervisor with criminal behavior connected to the Key Bridge collapse, but avoided any scrutiny of decades of neglect.
This speech was delivered by Keith Jones, Socialist Equality Party (Canada) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Tom Peters, a leader of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The WHO's emergency declaration exposes a global health system in collapse, with surveillance programs terminated, WHO defunded and the CDC barred from international coordination.
The Left Party's election programme for the Berlin state election focuses on the housing question, but its record in government reveals its responsibility for the city's housing crisis and exploding rents.
25 years ago, 14 Mexican migrants die crossing the Arizona desert amid intensified US border militarization; 50 years ago, Pol Pot is installed as Cambodia’s prime minister, consolidating Khmer Rouge rule; 75 years ago, the “17-point” agreement formalizes China’s annexation of Tibet; 100 years ago, French forces capture the Rif rebel capital in Morocco
Zubaydah’s international lawyer, Helen Duffy, explained how he has been held in arbitrary detention for 24 years without charge, trial, or judicial review and subjected to torture.
Finland’s right-wing government is aligning with US war crimes and using the growing economic crisis to attack social services
Tunnelling workers’ health and lives are at risk from the continued refusal of corporations and government authorities to address the known dangers of respirable crystalline silica dust inhalation.
By the government’s own figures, its changes to the tax regime for property investment will not decrease super-inflated housing prices even slightly.
The 2026 cruise ship outbreak has thrust into global view a pathogen with a 40 percent fatality rate, no approved treatment and a person-to-person transmission capability that capitalist governments chose to study as little as possible.
A week of near-daily mobilizations in São Paulo exposes the explosive crisis of the Brazilian bourgeois regime five months before the presidential elections.
The meeting took place in the shadow of the US attack on Iran that had been launched less than three months earlier.
Steyer is not a “class traitor,” but a conscious defender of capitalism seeking to buy political office as a Democrat.
The attack on jobs in the German auto and supplier industry is accelerating. It goes hand in hand with the social cutbacks the government has introduced in relation to the citizen’s income, healthcare and pensions, and with the squandering of vast sums of money on rearmament and war. Unless this trend is halted, disaster looms.
This speech was delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), and Dilaxshan Mahalingam, a leader of the IYSSE (Sri Lanka), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The CIA owes much of its nickname—Murder Inc.—to its record of terrorist attacks on Cuba.
After workers voted down a second UAW-backed contract by 73 percent, local union officials called a membership meeting for Sunday. The following is a statement by the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
President Dissanayake can rule through emergency decrees, deploy the military and police with extraordinary powers, restrict gatherings, detain individuals without normal judicial procedures, invoke censorship and ban strikes.
On May 8, the 81st anniversary of Germany’s liberation from the Nazis, around 45,000 school students protested nationwide against conscription and war. The movement shows the enormous opposition of an entire generation, but requires a socialist perspective to succeed.
The proposed fund would be overseen by a commission, subject to removal by Trump, with no obligation to disclose how more than $1 billion is awarded.
India: Haryana sanitation workers continue statewide strike; Bangladesh: Barishal University teachers demand promotions; Australia: Wambo coal mine workers hold another 3-day strike; ACT public servants and teachers walk out for better pay and conditions; DXC Technology workers strike again.
The WSWS spoke to Brian Goldstone in 2025 about homelessness in America and about his book.
This speech was delivered by Cheryl Crisp, Socialist Equality Party (Australia) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The rejection of a second sellout contract by Nexteer workers must be the signal for rank-and-file action to take the fight into their own hands by building the Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee.
The trade union bureaucracy bears direct responsibility for delivering the working class into the hands of the Starmer government.
Horus is paid roughly £900 a month by universities specifically to compile “encampment updates”, which use the information to identify students.
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman boasted that police had “arrested and charged people for calling for intifada at protests”
Sunday, May 3, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced on TF1 a candidacy not to mobilize workers against austerity and the war against Iran but to smother that mobilization within a nationalist orientation toward French capitalist institutions.
The union bureaucracy is sabotaging workers in order to prevent a struggle which would inevitably develop into a broader fight that would threaten its ties to management and the Democratic Party.
“It will be disastrous for tens of thousands of people, including workers in the sector. The burden will fall onto families, creating even more physical, mental, and financial pain.”
The speech was a political signal that amid its crisis, the opposition Liberal-National Coalition is turning to a fascistic, Trump-style “Australia First” appeal.
The proposals, made at the May 8 Board of Governors meeting, amounts to the abolition of USPS as a public service, converting it openly into a for-profit model and setting the stage for its privatization.
Yasmin Fahimi’s 96 percent reelection exposes the German Trade Union Confederation’s role in enforcing social cuts to finance German rearmament.
It is entirely justified to have the legality of the works council elections of March 11 reviewed by the Aalen Labour Court.
A discharge petition to bring the military aid bill to the floor had the support of two Republicans, one independent and all 215 Democrats.
The yield or interest rate on UK bonds has reached its highest level since 1998.
The New School in New York City has announced massive layoffs of faculty and staff as a part of its right-wing restructuring program.
The SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement locks performers into four years of managed decline, institutionalizes AI exploitation and must be rejected. Build rank-and-file committees now!
This speech was delivered by Martaz Crutchfield, candidate for UAW delegate at Ford Dearborn Truck Plant, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Alex Lantier, Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The crisis of the Starmer government is the product of two long-term and twinned processes: the international decline of British imperialism amid the convulsions of global capitalism, and the total collapse of the Labour Party’s working class constituency.
Days after making a splash in the local Calgary media by unveiling a new $75 million state-of-the-art warehouse facility, Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited unceremoniously axed an injured worker with 35 years at the company—essentially crying poor.
Tens of thousands in national 24-hour strike in Belgium against austerity; protests continue across Iran over wages and conditions;
What terrifies the CWU bureaucracy is that workers increasingly recognise the union apparatus as an arm of management. “He's reading off a script,” one worker said of Tony Bouch’s video. Another answered: “from a Royal Mail director.”
More than 200 members of Chocolate Workers Local 464 are preparing to strike against the chocolate giant after rejecting three offers.
The detained include Lee Sang-hun and Song Dan-bi of the People’s Democracy Party of South Korea, Joti Brar of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Dimitris Patelis, a professor of philosophy at the Technical University of Crete and Guy Bremond, a French activist.
TWU International President John Samuelsen denounced the WSWS’s reporting of the union’s support, calling it “provably incorrect.” But this is a lie, aimed at concealing the bureaucracy’s connections with management.
In congressional testimony Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst told the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense that the running cost of the Iran war has grown to $29 billion—and that this figure does not include damage to US military bases.
“My pay has gone down 12 percent since 2021. That’s a sharp fall, not a minor fall. Since the economic uncertainty prompted by COVID, it hasn't improved. So now we're forced here today to vent our frustrations.”
More than 1,000 Melbourne local government workers held a 24-hour strike last week. The action included workers in waste collection, maternal and child health services, aged care, childcare, libraries and parks maintenance.
The second impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte triggered a chain of crisis events—a power grab in the Senate, an ICC arrest warrant and gunfire in the legislature—that have shaken Philippine politics.
Peter Daszak is a British-born zoologist and disease ecologist best known for his work on emerging zoonotic diseases and for leading the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. Because EcoHealth had funded and collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Daszak became a target of the Trump administration and others who promoted the false “Wuhan lab leak” narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The political task facing the Argentine working class cannot be carried out within the framework of the FIT-U, nor on the basis of the politics of the PTS, whose objective function is that of a centrist obstacle to the development of revolutionary leadership.
A “no” vote on the new TA and strike by the 1,300 Nexteer workers could spark a mass movement of auto parts workers and galvanize production workers at the Big Three factories.
