The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is launching an initiative to sign up hundreds of new SEP Supporters and involve them in the party’s campaigning and educational work.
A government beholden to big business and not social needs has seized the drop in pupil numbers to slash public services to fund its key priority, military spending.
Protestors are angry that they should be made to bear the risks of a deadly viral disease that has already led to the deaths of at least 138 out of 695 confirmed cases in Congo, for the benefit of Washington.
The sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani marks a watershed moment in the Starmer Labour government's escalating war on democratic rights and the criminalisation of opposition to war and genocide.
The strike showed strong opposition among educators to the deepening attack on public schools, where conditions are already close to impossible. But the union speakers sought to channel this anger behind plaintive appeals to the same Labor government carrying out the attack.
Despite the populist guise of Morena, President Sheinbaum has cited “budgetary constraints” in prioritizing financial elites over teachers’ demands.
Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years on the job, was fired after speaking out against the fourth tentative agreement at a UAW Local 699 roll-out meeting held on company premises.
The rate rise was the first since 2023 and sets the stage for other central banks to possibly follow suit.
Private-sector teachers in Türkiye will launch an indefinite protest in Ankara—where the NATO summit will be held in early July—to demand their social rights.
On Friday, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. A syndicate of investment banks priced SpaceX on the Nasdaq at $135 a share Thursday night. When trading opened Friday, the stock leapt to $150, climbed as much as 30 percent intraday, and closed up about 19 percent at $161, lifting the company’s market capitalization to roughly $2.1 trillion.
The APWU's 200,000 members are being directed to the very same forces that are driving the destruction of the post office.
One thousand striking American Axle parts workers are being rushed by the UAW bureaucracy into voting on a sellout tentative agreement announced on Wednesday and deliberately denied adequate time to study and understand what is in the contract.
These arrests advance the drive by the Trump administration to construct a pseudo-legal framework for the criminalization of left-wing political opposition.
A planned strike by 2,000 hospitality workers was called off by UNITE HERE Local 11 after the announcement of a tentative agreement. Ninety-six percent of members voted overwhelmingly for strike action.
IG Metall is not fighting against the steel corporations and government, which is pouring hundreds of billions into war and rearmament while slashing social spending. It is closing ranks with the worst enemies of the steelworkers.
Sanders’ scheme amounts to a state bailout of the AI monopolies, giving Washington a direct stake in propping up their speculative valuations while binding them to the US imperialist war machine.
The June 14 No Kings event aims to dissipate mass opposition to Trump by subordinating workers and youth to the Democratic Party and American nationalism.
Every major school district in San Diego County is in deficit. The 2025-26 school year has brought mass layoffs, pay cuts and campus closures, with deeper austerity projected for years to come.
While the popularity of the viral sensation and now newly-founded political movement known as the Cockroach Janata Party reflects the deep anger and frustration of India’s unemployed and student youth, the CJP will only them into a political dead-end.
Spanning 2015 to 2026, this volume traces Trump’s rise to power, his coup of January 6 and his second term to their source in the corporate-financial oligarchy, and advances the socialist strategy required to stop the threat of fascism.
South Korea: Kakao platform workers strike over low pay; India: Rural childcare workers protest in Himachal Pradesh; Sri Lanka: Duncan Estate workers continue strike over allowances and workloads; Australia: UGL contract workers extend action at Woodside’s LNG plants.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine identifies the cause as hospitals being under resourced and pushed to the brink of collapse.
The military and the media is demanding that Labour utilise its existing parliamentary majority to push through a vast increase in military spending, while slashing welfare and social services to pay for it.
Worsley’s narratives—whether on the Romanovs, the Peasants’ Revolt, or the English Civil War—consistently displace class antagonism, economic crisis, and mass political struggle, fixating on monarchs, courtiers, domestic interiors and historical cosplay.
The pseudo-left are trying to keep teachers within the union straitjacket as it works with the Labor government to impose a sellout deal.
The group’s call to support the bourgeois opposition parties is aimed at trapping workers and youth who are moving to the left and blocking the development of a socialist anti-war movement.
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is rushing to end the 10-day strike to prevent American Axle workers from linking up with Nexteer, Dana and other parts workers fighting decades of UAW backed wage cuts.
The NATO gathering in Ankara will be a historic war summit. It will be driven by escalating imperialist war abroad and the suppression of the social and democratic rights of the working class at home.
The firing of Antwiane Sanders exposes the bureaucracy’s real function: policing workers on behalf of the corporations by suppressing opposition and enforcing labor discipline.
The fascist president has stated at least 38 times since March, by CNN’s count, that a deal with Iran is imminent.
In November 2025, the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee launched an independent inquiry into the deaths at the post office because management, federal regulators and the union bureaucracy had failed to protect workers.
Several generations of Chilean students have passed through an educational system systematically stripped of resources, handed to profiteers and disrupted by closures and regulatory failures.
World power politics, attacks on social rights and military rearmament are Merz’s priorities ahead of the European Council meeting in Brussels in mid-June.
After over two years of the CUPW leadership isolating postal workers, conniving behind the scenes with management and the government, and blocking any attempt to broaden the fight to other sections of workers confronting the same attacks, the prevailing mood among workers was that they had no option but to accept
Teachers in the United States and Britain have sent messages of solidarity to teachers and Education Support staff in Victoria fighting a sellout union-Labor deal.
Veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, parents whose youngest child is 14 or older, and people who were in foster care at age 18 are among the groups stripped of previously held exemptions from providing documentation of work to receive SNAP benefits.
The same military apparatus bombing Iran and funding genocide in Gaza now conducts combat exercises over working-class Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Fascist mobs used hit lists that were known to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, to target migrant homes, confirming that the PSNI allowed a pogrom to be mounted.
One in two workers at France’s national railways walk out over pay and conditions; further protests across Iran’s cities by high school students, academics, sacked steel workers and medical students as living standards plummet due to US sanctions and savage bombardment; miners at strategic copper mine in the Congo strike over poverty pay and conditions
The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and internationalist party of the working class.
Six in 10 NEETs (not in education, employment or training) have never had a job—up from four in 10 in 2005
The June 3 strike was the second nationwide strike against Trabalho XXI in six months, after the December 11, 2025 strike--the first in 12 years--which paralysed the country.
The flouting of safety standards in order to cut costs in the Philippines and in countries around the world regularly turns so-called "natural disasters" into man-made ones.
The volume “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk” brings together for the first time the most important statements and articles on the case.
The Dissanayake government’s move is a further step in strengthening the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinist state and towards autocratic rule.
The United States bombed Iran for a second consecutive day Wednesday, with the US military announcing that it had begun striking “multiple targets” in Iran at 5:15 p.m. Eastern time. CBS News reported Wednesday that two US officials said the targets included ammunition depots, command-and-control nodes and warehouses.
Skyrocketing energy prices are devastating the living standards of tens of millions of working people.
The Trump administration escalated its political persecution of anti-war protesters on Wednesday, as the FBI and federal law enforcement agencies raided homes across southeast Michigan and unsealed a 63-page indictment charging eight individuals associated with pro-Palestinian activism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
These were not simply tragic accidents but the lethal results of austerity. Preventing them requires an organized movement from below, not beholden to management, toothless regulatory agencies or corrupt union officials.
The bill funds the immigration Gestapo through the end of Trump’s term without a single restriction on its operations.
While workers have demanded strike action, the bureaucracy of the Chocolate Workers Local 464 is keeping them on the job.
The MTA claims there is “no money,” in the richest city in the world, for pay that keeps pace with inflation. Meanwhile, around 15 percent of the MTA’s overall budget is spent servicing debt to Wall Street firms like BlackRock and Vanguard.
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), considered a lighthouse project of Franco-German plans to arm Europe into an independent imperialist great power capable of standing up to both the US and China, has failed spectacularly.
The Trump administration’s targeting of the Detroit metro area, the historic heart of the American auto industry and home to nearly a quarter million manufacturing workers, makes it clear that ICE is not engaging in narrow immigration enforcement but a terror campaign aimed at the working class as a whole.
The protests were directed against Kast’s newly installed fascistic government and its across-the-board spending cuts in the public sector in service of Chilean and international capital.
Under the cover of a generally humane portrayal of the impact of the Ukraine war on a beat-up working class Russian town, the film, at its core, promotes typical US-NATO anti-Putin politics.
A paper-thin margin separates the two candidates as the Trump administration openly maneuvers to shape the outcome in Washington's favor.
As Sheinbaum's approval ratings fall amid spending cuts and deepening social crisis, Ottenberg offers a pseudo-socialist fig leaf to a government facing growing opposition from below.
Platner’s promoters—large sections of the Democratic Party and the trade union apparatus, most avidly its so-called “progressive” wing—present him as a genuine representative of the working class. He is nothing of the sort.
The family of stabbing victim Stephen Ogilvie defended “migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country” and insisted, “We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility.”
This review makes clear that Trotsky’s writings are the working class’s indispensable guide to this critical historical experience.
Teachers and school assistants in Canberra will join a 24-hour strike this Thursday over essentially the same issues of poor pay and deteriorating conditions that confront educators everywhere.
The launch comes in the wake of last Friday’s sharp fall of tech and AI stocks, which sent a tremor through financial markets
The far-right party is a temporary beneficiary of explosive social discontent that will increasingly find expression in the struggles of the working class.
The commemorative day on May 8 in Germany is being used ever more shamelessly as an opportunity to falsify history and create the ideological conditions for the wars of the present.
The union is celebrating the plant closure and loss of 400 jobs as a great success, as it has achieved "a significantly improved financial safeguard." Previously, the workforce had proved that it wants to fight to preserve jobs.
Thousands of basketball fans booed President Trump during his appearance at a playoff game in New York between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.
Lehman, the Mack Trucks worker waging a rank-and-file campaign for the presidency of the United Auto Workers, distributed an open letter Tuesday to a list of 300,000 UAW members maintained by the federal monitor.
Automated Track Inspection, used in conjunction with human visual inspections, can be used to greatly increase railway safety. Instead, they are being used to cut jobs on behalf of profit.
In a career spanning six decades and numerous books, articles and lectures, Wood established himself as the foremost historian of the American Revolution and the Early Republic.
The Los Angeles race lays bare the Democratic Party’s increasing reliance on the DSA to contain working class opposition to inequality, war and austerity.
Behind the talk of “enrollment decline” stands a conscious ruling class drive to gut public schools and hand education over to private profit.
UAW officials at GM's Flint Assembly plant are allowing the company to truck in axles from the strikebound American Axle plant (Dauch Corp.) in Three Rivers, Michigan.
Both avoid serious examination of the complex lives of these great artists of the 20th century.
That the decision was ultimately taken to integrate the Socialist People’s Party and Red-Green Alliance into government, or at least some form of support for it, speaks to the recognition within the ruling class that they require a political cover to proceed with their agenda.
A homeless Congolese man, Yves Sakila, resident in Ireland since childhood, was killed last month in Henry Street, Dublin. He had been chased and forced to the pavement by private security guards of Arnotts department store.
The BMA and other health unions—Unite, Unison, the GMB and the Royal College of Nursing—are suffocating a unified fightback by National Health Service workers.
Israel bombed Central and Western Iran before dawn Monday, striking air defenses, missile launchers and a petrochemical complex used by the Revolutionary Guard, hours after Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israeli cities.
A nationwide strike by Mexican teachers continues, while an eight-week strike by thousands of Nova Scotia care home workers has been suspended by the union ahead of a contract vote.
At an AEU meeting, officials declared out of order a resolution opposing their agreement with the state Labor government.
In a lengthy interview with the New York Times, Scott Pelley details the demands by newly installed corporate bosses for a pro-Trump slant in coverage.
Gordon S. Wood, 92, a leading historian of the American Revolution, died Sunday after being struck by a car. His career spanned more than half a century, most of it at Brown University, where he trained generations of early Americanists and helped shape modern interpretation of the Revolutionary era.
Four women have died in seven months at Michigan’s only women’s prison, where toxic mold, privatized medical neglect and bipartisan austerity have created deadly conditions.
The speech by one of the country’s foremost entertainers fiercely denounced government cuts to the arts budget amid soaring military spending.
The DFT invited the school superintendent to the union meeting in order to stump for a millage vote, endorsing Proposal S, which will fall on Detroit renters to pay.
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party condemn the arrest of Sangeethsan Ganeskumar—a blatant attack on freedom of expression—and demand his immediate and unconditional release.
The USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada) trade pact is due for review on July 1, with negotiations likely to run past the deadline.
The workers were massacred in Calabria by gangmasters in a system of hyper-exploitation whose conditions were created by Italy’s government and “opposition.”
Carney has his eye on a far-reaching re-write of labour laws that will deeply erode what remains of federally regulated workers’ right to strike and their precarious ability to bargain independently of government interference.
An ongoing inquiry by the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee has documented the absence of written safety protocols, the lack of defibrillators and medical personnel, blocked cell phone signals and dangerous emergency-response failures at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center.
The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.
The lockout was reinforced by a major police presence, with photographs shared by workers showing a fleet of police vehicles stationed around the site.
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
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The war has had two major effects: a deepening of the global crisis of the capitalist system and an enormous escalation of the global class struggle, not least within the United States.
Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent, Demarcus Little, told a supervisor he felt unwell last week, collapsed, and died.
Nexteer workers who have voted down three UAW-backed contracts are fighting to join American Axle workers in a common strike.
These profiles are hypothetical composites drawn from the documented demographic patterns of the Medicaid expansion population and the known mechanisms by which work requirements produce coverage loss. They represent no single individual, but they exemplify millions.
The US president walked out of an interview with NBC when asked to provide proof of his claims about “rigged” elections.
In April 2026, Stellantis announced elimination of 650 of the remaining 1,650 jobs at the Rüsselsheim, Germany development center, without hiring replacements, in open violation of an ongoing “Future Collective Bargaining Agreement.”
