Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979
On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.
On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.
On Tuesday, a day after the New York State Nurses Association announced sellout tentative agreements with Montefiore and Mount Sinai, the union leadership is violating its own bylaws to shut down the strike at the remaining hospital system, NewYork Presbyterian.
The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.”
The Kaiser strike is unfolding alongside a widening movement of educators and academic workers across California and the country.
“I’m here because Australia’s complicit in genocide and it needs to stop—we need to break the system.”
Last week’s fall on Wall Street flowing from the release of a new AI tool by Anthropic has been describe as a “tech wreck” placing a big question mark over the future of many software firms.
It is clear that police were told “the gloves were off” and they had a green light to violently attack protesters opposing the visit to Australia of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog.
During restricted viewings that began February 9, members of Congress confirmed that the Epstein files presented as unredacted remain heavily censored, masking FBI findings that implicated billionaire figures in Epstein’s criminal network.
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) is standing in the Berlin state elections in September. We oppose the all-party coalition for war and social spending cuts. Together with our sister parties in the International Committee of the Fourth International, we are building a worldwide movement to stop the madness of war, mass layoffs and wage cuts.
Immigration courts are being rigged in favor of the White House-driven witch-hunt against those seeking asylum under international law.
What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
The “Labor Modernization” bill—longer hours, gutted severance, and strike criminalization—has sparked mass protests and strikes as workers rebel against IMF-dictated slavery.
India's new labour codes dismantle legal protections governing wages, job security and working conditions, and dramatically curtail workers' legal right to strike.
Both men are reportedly asylum seekers and hold Temporary Protected Status. Their seizure occurred in full view of witnesses and the permission of Amazon security.
Formally, it could be described as a blues-rock album, but it is more importantly a call to fight against the fascist regime emerging in the US. This is a welcome development among popular musicians.
The Stalinists of the MLPD are playing the role of henchmen for the trade union mafia: they intimidate workers who want to defend themselves and employ the vilest lies to defend the bureaucracy.
Los Angeles Democrats move to dismantle judicial oversight to shield failure on homelessness.
Following the preventable breakdown of the capital’s wastewater treatment plant, tens of millions of litres of raw, untreated sewage have poured into the nearby ocean.
In addition to low wages and harsh working conditions, warehouse workers face constant violations of their legal rights including weekly working hours, overtime pay, weekly holidays, public holidays, annual leave, occupational health and safety.
Increasing vaccine coverage is the key to eliminating measles, but this goal is being actively undermined by the Starmer government’s continued assault on public spending and the National Health Service.
The union is attempting to push through sellout contracts for striking nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems, while isolating the 4,500 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian.
The police violence against protesters opposing a war criminal was orchestrated by the Labor governments and then defended by them.
“For Albanese to invite Herzog here is completely wrong—it was a line in the sand for me—and I just had to come here and be part of the opposition.”
The US military is poised to attack Iran after a massive, weeks-long redeployment of warships, bombers and personnel to the region.
The 20 percent pay increase is the same take-it-or-leave-it offer from VW that the UAW denounced as "inadequate" last October.
Right-wing, anti-immigrant NZ First leader Winston Peters falsely declared the Free Trade Agreement will see an influx of “tens of thousands of people” from India, taking opportunities “away from New Zealanders.”
Confronted with rising anger among health workers over the government’s attacks, the unions have formed an alliance, not to wage a political fight for workers, but to suppress their opposition.
The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.
Bad Bunny’s record‑breaking Super Bowl halftime show evoked colonial and immigrant struggles and indirectly rebuked the Trump administration’s xenophobic, anti‑immigrant agenda.
ICE officials are refusing to disclose the location of 33-year-old Leqaa Kordia after she suffered a medical emergency at the Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas on Friday and was taken to the hospital.
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
While wars are being stoked and escalated in the Middle East, Latin America and worldwide, thousands of young people in Germany are currently receiving letters to register for military service.
Drivers at food delivery company FreshDirect are set to strike in the Bronx after an outsourcing threat by management while workers at 36 continuing care facilities locations across Nova Scotia are taking a strike vote.
The report warns that unsustainable water resource practices are causing potentially irreversible damage to water systems that require urgent action to rectify
Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.
With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.
At Friday’s protest, students marched and carried handmade signs that read “No one is illegal on stolen land,” “The revolution is in the hands of the youth” and “It was never about criminals.”
The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.
The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Sony and BMW--and the armed violence that secures their raw materials.
This is a frightening and tragic situation for the Guthrie family, no doubt affecting dozens of people at this point and perhaps for the rest of their lives.
The deal would increase wages by only 15 percent over four years, while leaving intact forced overtime regimes, limited sick leave and longstanding staffing and safety issues.
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) will host an online meeting on the way forward for the 15,000 striking New York nurses and the 31,000 striking healthcare workers in California and Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 10.
The German government and Bundeswehr are pushing ahead with the conversion of the Rostock-Laage air base in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania into a central military hub for the Luftwaffe and NATO.
The lawsuit is an implicit threat that the stream of money the union apparatus receives through the Labor-Management Partnership may be turned off if it cannot get its membership back in line.
What has attracted world attention at the Games is not the far-right Italian government’s lockdown of the city but the outpouring of opposition to the Trump administration, ICE and fascism.
The election highlights a further shift to the right by the entire Japanese political establishment as it prepares for war abroad while foreseeing opposition at home amid rising social inequality.
The latest strike highlights the chasm between the vast personal fortunes of billionaires like BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu and the destitution-level wages imposed on the workers whose labour produces the wealth.
In the lead-up to New Zealand’s national day, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon denounced socialism and equality, and Deputy PM David Seymour declared that poor and homeless people were “living like kings and queens.”
The violent police crackdown on protesters outside the Whipple Federal Building exposes the Democratic Party’s collaboration with Trump’s immigration police and its fear of a developing mass movement against repression, war and inequality.
USS Greeneville sinks Japanese fishing vessel, killing 9; Nigerian head of state assassinated; Dockworkers begin largest industrial action in New Zealand’s history; Mussolini issues threats to Germany over South Tyrol.
A federal lawsuit over a toddler’s hospitalization exposes how US immigration detention endangers children by allowing preventable illness to spread through overcrowded facilities like Dilley.
The “March of Sacrifice” was organized by the relatives of those murdered in 2023, when newly installed President Dina Boluarte gave shoot-to-kill orders to suppress nationwide protests.
The most cynical element in the whole initiative is the bloc’s claim to represent a “position of class independence” in Venezuela.
The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through terror, and subordinated the international working class to the interests of a privileged bureaucratic caste.
Amid ongoing negotiations between the Turkish government and the PKK, which claim to bring peace and democratization, state crackdown on the political opposition is escalating.
Corbyn’s servility to Mandelson’s mates was never ending. “We are on a journey together and can only complete it together… Labour is a broad church and can be broader still. I lead in that spirit”, Corbyn concluded his 2018 paean to the Blairites.
Corbyn’s “broad church” housed a political inquisition against the left. Sultana’s own “broad church” offers a home to Corbyn while he does the same. The SEP warns that neither provides a solution to the crisis facing the working class.
Their entry underscores both the breadth of opposition to Kaiser’s demands and the growing recognition among workers that their fight is part of a broader struggle against inequality and exploitation.
The strike coincides with a growing wave of working class resistance, including a strike authorization vote last month by 35,000 Los Angeles educators.
President Donald Trump incited his fascist political base late Thursday by sharing a video on Truth Social that ended with a blatantly racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in the jungle.
The visit has the character of a provocation against the population, aimed at signalling Labor’s support for imperialist war and its commitment to suppressing mass opposition.
The Trump administration is reclassifying tens if not hundreds of thousands of federal workers as “at-will” employees. The maneuver is not only an attack on workers’ protections and due process rights but a step toward establishing a presidential dictatorship.
If any further proof were needed that the phrases “freedom” and “human rights” in German foreign policy are nothing more than propaganda, it was provided by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to the reactionary Gulf monarchies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Liam and his family face imminent deportation even though they are currently applying for asylum and have not broken any laws.
The school year opens with educators in Australia confronting chronic underfunding, staff shortages, impossible workloads and rising levels of violence and distress, amid global militarism and attacks on democratic rights.
Opposition to the deal, with sub-inflation wage increases and no job guarantees against AI, must be organized into of a rank-and-file rebellion that overrides the bureaucratic sabotage and enforces the will of the membership.
More than 1,000 students at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (PCEP) campus staged a walkout on Wednesday morning against ICE.
Nearly 2,000 educators are working under an expired contract, confronting a district that has weaponized a manufactured fiscal crisis to impose permanent austerity.
Canada's unions have responded to the developments in Minneapolis and calls for a general strike with either total silence or by issuing hollow statements of "solidarity."
Trump’s plan to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years, amid ICE repression and gaudy “America250” spectacles, exposes the deepening assault on culture and democratic rights.
The Instagram post included a graphic depicting the assassination of Alex Pretti with the text “Only Traitors Help Invaders.”
Looking south from Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, where Nurrie, Jr. froze to death, there is visible a $44 million hotel development opened in 2021, a $94 million 8th District Courthouse opened in 2023, cranes building a $515 million arena and parking garage, and heavy machinery preparing a site for a planned $100 million county administration building and parking garage.
The Trump administration’s attempt to pull the plug on the Cuban economy is aimed at carrying through the nearly seven decades of efforts to overthrow the Castroite government installed by the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
India: Gig workers hold one-day nationwide protests; Punjab state power workers oppose privatisation; Bangladesh: Chittagong Port workers strike against new terminal leasing; Sri Lankan doctors continue action; Malaysia: Lumileds factory workers fight sackings and deportations; Australia: CSL pharmaceutical factory workers strike for higher pay.
ABP Foods intends to close its retail meat packing operation in Dungannon in the North of Ireland, threatening 338 workers with the sack. Rank and file committees are needed across ABP’s operations in response.
The vote to extend strike action until August 2026 shows the determination of resident doctors to defy Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who has spewed vitriol including the accusation they are “holding the country to ransom.”
The speeches and political profile of the participants revealed the fundamental message: the Turkish ruling class and its imperialist allies could better defend their interests through a government established under the leadership of the CHP.
The arrests underscore that the strike has entered a new stage and pose the necessity for a broader movement of the working class in defense of the nurses.
In his short time as mayor, Mamdani has already accomplished a great deal—in comprehensively betraying and repudiating the oppositional sentiment that propelled him to office.
The wave of layoffs is part of a global jobs bloodbath, driven by a ruthless global search for new sources of profit to sustain uncontrollable levels of debt and financial bubbles on which the wealth of the oligarchy rests.
The latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice have conclusively proven the Trump administration is lying and engaged in a massive cover-up.
Elderly tenants were blindsided by relocation letters ordering moves from midyear, after being repeatedly told their towers would be the last to be demolished.
The film is inspired by Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax, previously adapted as a film by Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras in 2005.
Through its dominance of the global supply of rare earths and critical minerals, vital for high-tech products, from phones to jet engines, China was able to hit back against Trump’s tariff war by rapidly cutting off supplies.
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border whose consequences still shape American politics.
The layoffs came the same week GM reported more than $12 billion in pre-tax earnings for 2025, along with plans to hike shareholder returns through dividend increases and a $6 billion stock buyback scheme.
Despite Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s rhetoric about supporting Cuba, she has capitulated to Trump and US imperialism by ceasing to provide oil to the island.
Thousands march for investment in public education in Brussels, transport workers in Wallonia on indefinite stoppage against cost-cutting; UK defence workers at BAE in Lancashire in three-week stoppage over pay; sugar workers at four factories in Kenya walk out over monies owed
“The proscription of Palestine Action must now be lifted, and all those held as a result of this political process in prison should be released immediately,” civil liberties group CAGE demanded in response to Wednesday’s acquittal.
The day before Walsh’s swipe against the PWRFC the company triggered the one-month Dispute Resolution Process threatening executive action to impose the roll out of the Optimised Delivery Model across 1,250 offices nationally.
The Washington Post announced Tuesday that it is eliminating more than 300 journalists—roughly one-third of its 800-person newsroom.
In a series of remarks this week, the US president has repeated his lies about the “stolen election” of 2020 and called for Republicans to “take over” the running of elections in Democratic-controlled states.
Colombian President Petro visited Trump at the White House to pledge collaboration with the would-be emperor, exposing the bankruptcy of Latin America’s Pink Tide nationalists.
A boat carrying an estimated 35 people en route from the Turkish coast to the nearby island of Chios was rammed by the Greek Coast Guard. At least 15 people were killed.
The deal will drive annual growth in spending on the $52 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme down to 5–6 percent, from about 9.5 percent last year, amounting to cuts of tens of billions of dollars over the coming decade.
Federal prosecutors allege that between 2009 and 2018, Kaiser carried out a multi-state scheme to inflate risk scores through automated and coercive practices.
Spearheaded by the fascistic Trump administration, an eruption of militarism and domestic repression has shattered the post-World War II order and this is driving deeper attacks—led by the Albanese Labor government—throughout the universities.
At the union's annual press conference on January 26 and in further statements IG Metall chair Christiane Benner has called for protectionism and trade war as integral elements of the union’s “Initiative for Jobs and Economic Recovery: Future Instead of Relocation.”
Mandelson walked when it was revealed that he had passed confidential UK government information to Epstein. Downing Street has been forced to pass information to the Metropolitan Police to investigate.