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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.”
A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the work requirement provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will reduce federal Medicaid spending by $326 billion over 10 years—the single largest source of savings in the legislation—and strip coverage from an estimated 5.2 million adults by 2034.
A 23-year-old labourer’s arm was ripped off by a drilling machine at the Cadia East mine near Orange, New South Wales. Almost three years later, the company was fined just $750,000.
The expulsion of leading researchers from the American Diabetes Association conference by armed police exposes the capitulation of medical institutions to the Trump administration’s fascistic anti-science agenda.
Charleston Five longshoremen face state repression; Jimmy Carter clinches Democratic presidential nomination; Two of "Trenton Six” convicted in racist frame-up; June Tenth movement in Korea against Japanese rule.
Most cases have occurred in the Northern Territory, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, among the poorest and most oppressed layers of the Australian population, the hardest hit.
The Senate standoff in the Philippines has spiraled into a constitutional crisis that Marcos is exploiting to expand his presidential powers and tear up the 1987 charter restraints.
Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers have now gone nearly six months without a contract following their near-unanimous rejection of a tentative agreement.
The university is to be brought into line, critical voices are to be silenced, while the campus is being transformed into a military research facility and recruitment ground for war.
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending the lecture series held by the Socialist Equality Party (UK) last month marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike.
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
The UAW bureaucracy is seeking to impose a fourth sellout tentative agreement after autoworkers at the Saginaw steering plant rejected the first three and voted by 86 percent to authorize a strike.
Nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital have filed for a union election with the SEIU amid management intimidation, but the fight for safe staffing and patient care requires rank-and-file organization independent of a union whose history is one of isolating and betraying workers.
These struggles are two parts of a growing confrontation between the New York working class and the financial oligarchy that dominates the city.
Little was the father of a 21-year-old son, Demarcus Jr., and a four-year-old daughter, Lauren. Those who knew him described him as kind, considerate and an all-around great guy.
Israeli strikes killed at least four people in Southern Lebanon on Friday, and the military ordered the forced displacement of nine more towns and villages in the Sidon district.
The nearly $70 billion funding package is the outcome of a political operation carried out by the Democrats to strangle the mass movement that erupted after the murders of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.
The Committee for Public Education urges educators and workers to join the meeting to discuss how to develop the fight against the sellout deal between the Australian Education Union and the Victorian state Labor government, and the underlying austerity and war agenda of the federal Labor government.
The Fair Work Commission admitted that the meagre 4.75 percent increase to award wages would not “be sufficient to close the real wage gap entirely.”
Germany lost the vote for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council to Portugal and Austria, reflecting growing global opposition to its imperialist foreign policy and militarism.
A recent report by three former high-placed financial officials has warned that the rise of debt and the activities of nonbank financial institutions is increasing vulnerabilities and that a “perfect storm” could be brewing.
Thirty-six days into Bolivia's indefinite general strike, the Paz government has not broken the uprising.
His death marks the physical and “biographical” end of an era that began with the founding of bebop in New York during the final years of World War II.
South Korea: Kakao platform workers to strike over wages and bonuses; India: Maharashtra women workers rally in Mumbai to demand government status; Punjab state-operated service centre employees still on strike; Australia: 400 INPEX LNG production workers walk out in NT for higher pay; Adelaide nurses and midwives strike for better wages.
Özel’s article is not a defense of democratic rights. It is a letter of assurance from a bourgeois party to the imperialist powers.
A measure of the misery Burnham would continue inflicting on the working class can be taken from the cabinet he is planning to assemble.
Nowak’s death is being used to promote the bogus right-wing “two-tier policing” narrative, claiming whites are penalised because of “woke” attitudes and “political correctness”.
The Garden Grove near-disaster exposes a bipartisan political consensus that consistently places corporate profit above the lives of working-class communities.
After reluctantly calling a second statewide stoppage in November to head off teachers’ discontent, the QTU leadership shut down further industrial action and effectively joined hands with the state government to refer the dispute to compulsory arbitration.
Workers at Bridgewaters Interiors in Warren, Michigan, have voted to reject a tentative agreement while thousands of Dana auto parts workers are being kept in the dark ahead of imminent contract ratification votes.
The resolution is not an “anti-war” measure at all, but rather an appeal to Trump to make Congress a full partner in the war-making process.
US officials have warned that ICE immigration enforcement agents will be deployed at every stadium and every match.
As shown by the latest Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia, NATO maneuvers in the Baltic Sea, and German-Ukrainian arms cooperation, NATO is de facto waging war against Russia and risking a nuclear catastrophe.
David North replies on X to Financial Times columnist Edward Luce on the radicalization of youth and the rediscovery of Trotsky.
Like previous TAs, the latest proposal does not include any protection against layoffs, under conditions in which as many as 300 to 400 workers face job elimination over the next years through automation and consolidation.
Stocks of gold are now the second highest store of value held by central banks as part of their reserves.
One thousand American Axle workers continue their walkout which began on Monday against the key auto supplier and are reporting efforts by the company to move product across their picket lines while provocations against pickets have been reportedly instigated by company security guards.
On May 30, delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party convention approved the motion for and then observed a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted by a 12-member jury in April 2021 on state charges of murdering George Floyd.
General strike in Portugal over pay, conditions and labour reform; thousands of teachers in Valencia, Spain continue indefinite strike over staff shortages, pay and conditions; indefinite stoppage by Nigerian oil workers at regulatory commission over wages and benefits
Todd Blanche and Bill Pulte have been selected not for independence or competence, but for their proven willingness to wield state power on Trump’s behalf.
The brutal crime for which Lukehart was executed cannot be separated from the life that produced him. The evidence presented at the penalty phase described an individual who had been systematically destroyed long before he ever came before a judge.
Workers launched their struggle spontaneously, while the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers Union (CMU) has taken no action to defend hundreds of jobs.
Prieto Moreno has maintained a regular protest presence outside the Lagos de Moreno municipal presidency, using hand-lettered signs and chants to denounce corruption and abuse of power by local officials.
Labour is presiding over a social catastrophe, including the deepest levels of poverty in 30 years, and trailing the far-right Reform, the Conservatives and the Greens in general election polls. If he successfully becomes an MP, Burnham is expected to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership and to replace him in Downing Street.
“Workers should unite to fight. Workers are oppressed, but without them, the capitalists have no wealth.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his son David, CEO of Paramount, are seeking to convert CBS into another Trump mouthpiece like Fox News.
The European Parliament and EU states have agreed a new return regulation that abolishes the fundamental right to asylum and normalises collaboration with fascist parties.
Global warming is raising the probability that a Super El Niño will develop this year, resulting in widespread mixture of intense heat, drought and flooding around the world. This will have devastating impacts on billions of people.
Rank-and-file workers have already denounced the deal as the same contract they have already rejected three times.
After years of mounting anger over worsening conditions and real pay cuts, and a 98 percent vote for industrial action, many educators view the agreement as another betrayal.
To impose the brutal measures demanded by the IMF, Sri Lanka’s government, backed by every section of the ruling elite, is preparing autocratic forms of rule.
Within the next 10 days Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire, when SpaceX, the space launch monopoly he controls, carries out the largest initial public offering in history.
The DSA mayor did not attend the Israel Day parade, but his administration provided the permits and police protection for a march featuring Israeli officials implicated in genocide, annexation and ethnic cleansing.
One of the centerpieces of the anniversary is a mixed martial arts cage match scheduled to take place June 14 on the South Lawn of the White House.
Surging fuel and fertilizer prices are leading to a food crisis in the Philippines as crop yields decline.
Almost two months on, hundreds of workers remain in jail on trumped-up charges of violence and disorderly conduct, while labour activists whom the authorities claim instigated the protests are being held without charge under the draconian National Security Act.
Staff at over 50 hospitals across Germany recently protested against the government's planned cuts in the healthcare and nursing sectors, which threaten wages, working conditions and the existence of many hospitals.
Acting on the orders of the Liberal government, Canada’s border authorities are systematically handing over asylum seekers to ICE, full in the knowledge that they will be confined to concentration camp-like conditions before being expelled from the US.
This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to public meetings in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow,
That First South Yorkshire was ultimately forced to retreat from its insistence that the 7 percent offer was "final" was due to the determination and unity of the drivers.
Transport for London’s had not budged on its plans. Talks between management and the RMT union have revolved around the definition of what constitutes a “voluntary” implementation aimed at demobilising opposition.
While the cause of the accident still remains unknown, officials said 11 rail cars carrying finished vehicles derailed along a major rail corridor that cuts through a busy industrial and commuter section of northwest Houston.
The strike was shut down this week by the United Auto Workers because it raised deeper political and class questions which the bureaucracy works to suppress.
With a career spanning 47 years, Mary Jo Marinelli offers a candid look at the steady decline of the American healthcare system.
The curfew and police crackdown in Newark are part of a broader assault on immigrants and anti-ICE protesters, backed by both capitalist parties.
Commuters in the city's poorest neighborhoods, already stretched by soaring costs of living, are now facing roving MTA inspection teams in place of the free rides their mayor promised them.
The three major tech and AI companies seeking to go public on Wall Street—SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI—have yet to turn a profit, pointing to the utterly speculative nature of their IPOs.
The Opportunity Party’s claim to be neither left- nor right-wing is a fraud; backed by sections of the capitalist class, it aims to protect the wealth of the super-rich while maintaining New Zealand’s imperialist alliance with the US.
In a naked attempt to intimidate the 1,700 Nexteer workers who have defiantly rejected three UAW-backed deals, the union apparatus could hold the next vote in the plant under the supervision of management.
Workers in Cuba, the US and across the Americas must urgently mobilize in opposition to Trump’s blockade and war plans, but effective opposition to imperialism requires a historical balance sheet of Castroism and the Cuban Revolution.
A furious campaign by business leaders and the corporate media against the minor tax adjustments has demonstrated the refusal by Australia’s billionaires and their global partners to accept even the slightest inroads into their profits and fortunes.
Kast’s speech was built around the conceit: that Chile is in a “state of emergency” requiring extraordinary measures, ruling through presidential decrees and demanding that the working class pay for a crisis it did not create.
A major exhibition of the Renaissance artist’s work sheds light on the social and aesthetic factors that enabled his artistic development and on the character of his achievement.
The meeting took place at a time when Bogdan’s trial is at a critical turning point. Two expert reports have now exposed the core of the charge—that Bogdan spreads Russian propaganda—as baseless.
The Trump administration's designation of Brazil's PCC and CV as Foreign Terrorist Organizations marks an ominous escalation of imperialist intervention in Brazilian politics.
The bans stemmed from demands from right-wing Labourites and Zionists, who deployed the now standard lie conflating opposition to the fascistic Israeli government with antisemitism and terrorism.
Reducing the origins of the war to the manoeuvres of the Israel lobby or the decisions of Israel’s government sidelines the historical, geopolitical, socio‑economic and class dynamics that have shaped the conflict.
The Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee calls for the development of a movement of the rank-and-file to take control of their struggle and connect it with American Axle and other auto workers.
The final meeting in the series will be held Saturday June 6 at the University of Newcastle and online.
About 4,500 public service workers across the province of Ontario are entering their second week on strike, while journalists at four McClatchey-owned newspapers are pressing wage demands and restrictions on AI
The Labor government and the fascistic Trump administration were as one at the forum in their denunciations of China and their plans for a further military build-up.
Opposition to the war is growing among workers and youth, who face soaring living costs and worsening social conditions.
Far from being a force for stability and peace, as Hegseth claimed, the US is on a global military rampage in open violation of international law and without any mandate from the UN or the US Congress.
In reburying and celebrating this Nazi criminal as a hero, the ruling class is attempting to reanimate the political corpse of fascism.
Around 40,000 subway and bus workers in New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority remain on the job more than two weeks after their collective bargaining agreement expired.
The walkout by members of UAW Local 2093 is part of a growing revolt among auto parts workers, who are fighting to overturn decades of UAW-backed concessions.
Left Voice’s publication of an article by DSA member Joe Wrote—who celebrated Trotsky’s murder with an ice-pick tweet— exposes the politics behind the organization’s call for a “united front” with the Democratic Party-aligned pseudo-left.
After months of complaints, a coverup and a 20-day delay by the landlord to acknowledge that the complex had been condemned by local building officials, residents of Wildwood Off Main apartments in Kalamazoo were abruptly forced to vacate their residences in the 292-unit complex.
Demonstrations in Nanyuki, Kenya, have erupted against a planned US Ebola quarantine facility, denouncing Washington’s callous and imperialist response to the catastrophic outbreak ravaging central Africa.
The runoff election in the third-largest country in Latin America, a long-standing hub for US operations, has started with allegations of fraud and appeals for military intervention.
At least 11 percent of all Canadians, 11.5 percent of children, and more than 25 percent of all “unattached individuals” under the age of 64 are living in poverty, according to a recent government report.
Mehring Verlag, the publishing house of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) in Germany, will soon release a new German-language edition of Leon Trotsky’s My Life. Written from exile in 1929, the autobiography is at once a literary masterpiece and an essential document of revolutionary history.
As global warming accelerates, sea levels are projected to rise on average 1 meter (3.3 feet) by the end of the century, inundating vast low-lying areas.
