Notwithstanding the faux outrage by Labour MPs, every aspect of Kretinsky’s wrecking operation was rubber-stamped by the Starmer government and by CWU officials Dave Ward and Martin Walsh.
Teachers in Catalonia, Spain, on week-long strike in defiance of agreement between management and unions; civil servants, teachers and nurses walk out across Portugal over deteriorating pay and conditions; nurses in Kilifi County, Kenya and largest hospital in Zimbabwe strike over falling living standards and crumbling healthcare system
The council released a statement supporting its censorship of the “Anatomy of Solidarity” exhibition, declaring its “obligation to ensure we balance freedom of speech and a duty to prevent harm to people and property.”
Labour’s position is that a shooting war can be started with Russia without so much as a press conference.
The campaign was kicked off by Larry Fink, head of the $14 trillion investment fund BlackRock, and Jeff Bezos, the longtime boss of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post.
The stoppage expressed explosive anger over pay and conditions which the union is trying to dissipate.
The South Australian election shows how the far right is exploiting a social crisis inflicted by Labor and the union bureaucracy amid a breakdown of the two-party system.
Bond prices have been falling, lifting their yields or interest rate, reflecting a growing fear of stagflation: the combination of higher prices and a slowing economy, even recession.
The result expresses the rejection of reactionary policies of war, genocide and authoritarianism, reflecting intensifying global working class opposition.
The federal government is demanding some $1.7 billion for war, while exacting more than a pound of flesh from cash-strapped student loan borrowers.
As the Trump administration surged thousands of ground troops toward the Persian Gulf, the White House threatened Tuesday to massively escalate its war of aggression against Iran unless it accepted US demands.
The few details of the tentative agreement that have been released indicate an attempt to sell out the strike.
To defend the Iranian people and defeat the US-Israeli war criminals, it is necessary to politically mobilize the international working class against global capitalism on the basis of a socialist perspective.
As a result of the illegal US-Israeli war on the people of Iran, working-class households are already facing soaring petrol and diesel prices, as well as growing shortages.
In the month since the US-Israeli war against Iran began, the United States has been shaken by an accelerating eruption of class struggle.
New peer-reviewed studies continue to build an overwhelming case for the natural origin of COVID-19, vindicating the life’s work of Dr. Peter Daszak—the scientist who predicted this pandemic and was then witch-hunted for it.
The richest 1 percent in Canada holds nearly $1.25 trillion in wealth, or almost as much as the bottom 80 percent combined.
In the face of official prejudice and indifference, filmmakers fight for solidarity and compassion in a series of short films at the Berlin film festival.
New details from the NTSB point to overworked controllers, inadequate tracking technology and a chain of preventable failures behind the deadly LaGuardia runway collision.
Neither the traditional “red block” of parties on the left or “blue block” of right-wing parties reached the 90 seats needed for a governmental majority in the 179-seat parliament. The result produced a highly fragmented parliament, with 12 parties represented.
Banksy’s anonymity has allowed him to indict the crimes of the powerful in a mass popular medium without facing immediate legal sanction, corporate blacklisting, far-right threats and state surveillance.
Saturday’s Together Alliance march in London against the far right shields Labour and blocks any effective struggle by the working class against a capitalist system hurtling to World War III.
Media reports show a direct connection between the timing of lucrative investment bets and the pronouncements of President Trump on military decisions about the war against Iran.
On Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump declared that the United States had “won” its undeclared and illegal war against Iran and claimed negotiations are ongoing, US media reports made clear that the military buildup targeting the country is only expanding.
Contract faculty, highly exploited full-time non-tenure-track educators, are demanding higher salaries, raises that exceed inflation, academic freedom, job security, subsidized housing and protection against artificial intelligence in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
A core element of Amazon’s operations is the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program—a sprawling network of nominally independent subcontractors through which Amazon controls the lives of hundreds of thousands of delivery drivers without, it claims, employing a single one of them.
Staff at 42 care facilities in Nova Scotia have now authorized strike action by margins averaging 95 percent.
Under the escalating drive of American militarism, the same workers that the ruling class demands build its warships at breakneck speed are denied wages that keep pace with inflation, affordable healthcare or any meaningful retirement security.
Stoppages at the University of Newcastle and University of Technology Sydney show the need for a unified struggle against the Albanese government’s funding cuts and pro-corporate restructuring.
This is the second major incident at a US refinery in the past five months, following an explosion at the El Segundo Chevron refinery which rocked much of the Los Angeles area last October.
The closure, which Trump said is to coincide with the nation’s celebrations of its 250th anniversary of independence, comes as artists and performers cancel events at the national cultural institution of the United States capital.
The G7 statement marks the European imperialist powers’ final departure from international law in favour of the principle that "might makes right.”
The two imperialist powers are moving to establish a combined “Anzac force” that will support US-led wars and dominate impoverished Pacific countries.
The Chavista regime’s sweeping overhaul under Acting President Delcy Rodríguez marks the consolidation of the US‑orchestrated regime change operation.
The war that began on February 28 is the culmination of more than 80 years of American imperialist intervention in Iran and cannot be understood apart from that history.
JBS workers in Brazil, the US and other countries are all subordinated to a single regime of exploitation for the benefit of the same international financial oligarchy, and united by the same objective class interests.
Your Party Scotland’s founding conference voted to create an “autonomous nation” Your Party Scotland and to campaign for Scottish separatism in upcoming elections.
What has been accepted on a de facto basis by the Unite apparatus—including the axing of the WRCO role—must be challenged by rank-and-file workers to prevent a final sell-out.
The strike vote at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows a determination to fight the low pay and poor working and employment conditions resulting from past trade union sellouts.
Trump made clear that the ICE airport occupation is not about shortening lines but about leveraging a manufactured crisis to expand repression and attack democratic and voting rights.
BP’s “last, best and final offer” was nothing less than a declaration of war against oil workers, with the company demanding job cuts, reductions in pay and free rein to introduce AI-based automation and further job cuts down the line.
There are forecasts that the oil price will continue to surge as many countries face a “cliff edge” with regard to LNG supplies.
The union bureaucracy suppressed a militant healthcare strike as explosive nationwide struggles were developing against inequality, police repression and war.
The collision, which could have killed dozens of passengers on the plane, seems linked to overwork for the air traffic controller, who was handling two jobs at the time.
“In my workplace we’re using outdated, sometimes broken equipment. Meanwhile billions go to the military. I’ve heard nothing from the unions—no statements, no leaflets, nothing opposing the war.”
“If all of these parties support the war, then the election has no meaning. What are we voting for? No one is even raising the question of war, so people don’t get a chance to have their voice heard.”
In light of Trump’s record of launching military attacks under the cover of negotiations, his claim about “conversations” about a “total resolution of our hostilities” with Iran is not simply unbelievable. It is sinister.
It is another indication of the broad-based opposition to the Trump administration and its drive toward dictatorship, including its vicious anti-immigrant witch-hunt.
This shameful statement not only fails to condemn the unlawful, unprovoked imperialist war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran, but also fails to even mention the aggressor by name and instead blames Iran.
Washington’s war on Iran has triggered a crippling fuel shock in the Philippines, sparking a mass transport strike and intensifying the political crisis of the US-backed Marcos regime.
The IG Metall has suffered losses in many car plants in works council elections that began at the start of March. Even though it still commands a majority in the large plants, the dominance of the trade union apparatus has been shaken.
Labour government minister Steve Reed declared a vote on war unnecessary, as “There is no precedent for a vote in Parliament for defending British people.”
Labor was returned to office but its vote fell in key working-class areas in an election characterised by the disintegration of the Liberals and the rise of One Nation.
This week, Tasmanian and Victorian teachers will carry out full-day strikes over pay cuts and dire conditions, but the Australian Education Union bureaucracy is keeping their struggles entirely separate.
Once again, the Albanese Labor government is effectively defying a High Court ruling to stop illegally punishing former immigration detainees who have been shackled in ankle bracelet monitors and subject to curfews.
The Frontline Socialist Party is not calling for an international anti-war movement based on the working class, but an international coalition of opportunist groups dressed up as “Global People’s Power.”
“The same economic pressures that lead to dangerous line speeds, inadequate safety protections, and a lack of proper PPE and equipment in the past are mirrored in our own workplaces through chronic understaffing and cuts to essential services.”
This tragedy underscores the increasing corporate and official disregard for workers’ safety and lives, not just in South Korea but internationally, especially in the auto industry.
There is no other government in modern history that has issued so explicit a threat to destroy the foundational life-support systems of an entire civilian population as a condition of political submission.
The armed thugs, who murdered two protesters in Minneapolis earlier this year, will now be backing up TSA agents, who have not been paid since February.
The presentation of 'Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism', featuring David North at the Leipzig Book Fair, met with strong interest and underscored the growing interest in a socialist perspective against fascism and war.
“The Mauritanian” Mohamedou Ould Slahi has become the public face of the prosecution against the US prison camp Guantánamo, where he was imprisoned and severely tortured for 14 years. But despite being released 10 years ago, and his innocence proven beyond doubt, he is not allowed to travel to Duisburg. The German authorities continue to treat him as a “terrorist.”
A federal judge has stayed the Trump administration’s revised childhood immunization schedule and frozen 13 ACIP appointments, delivering a temporary check on Kennedy’s anti-vaccine agenda.
Far from advancing the struggle against war, the SWP’s opportunist perspective misled youth and workers who opposed the Vietnam War and blocked the development of socialist consciousness.
Cuba has suffered a second nationwide blackout in less than a week, underscoring the catastrophic impact of the US fuel embargo.
School fire kills 67 in Kenya; Argentine military overthrows Isabel Perón; MacArthur ultimatum to China in Korean War; Fascist killers of Matteotti given light sentence.
Newroz, the traditional spring festival of the peoples of the Middle East and Central Asia—particularly the Kurds and Persians—is being celebrated this year amid an eruption of imperialist barbarism directed against Iran and the broader region.
More than a dozen workers assembled on the picket line holding placards demanding “No more long shifts,” drawing support from passing workers including drivers of other bus companies.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned that the US-led war against Iran was distracting from NATO’s war against Russia.
Axios reported Friday that three sources in the White House said deploying ground troops is “under serious consideration.” One of the most likely scenarios is an attempt to capture Kharg Island, where some 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports is processed.
Daphy Michel, 31, was released alone into freezing temperatures, 40 miles from home, with no family notification. Days later she was dead—still wearing the ankle monitor ICE had put on her.
Workers across the US could go on strike at the end of the month when their current contract expires.
O’Brien’s personal appearance at Mullin’s hearing is a warning to workers that the union bureaucracy is aligning itself ever more openly with dictatorship, war and the repression of the working class.
Trump praised Tokyo for “stepping up” as the Takaichi government deepens its involvement in the criminal conflict.
The Trump administration’s expansion of mandatory immigration detention has resulted in illegal confinement and has turned detention facilities like North Lake in Baldwin, Michigan, into sites of mass medical neglect.
The incident provided a rare glimpse of popular anti-war sentiment that is usually blacked out by the media.
The selection, which also included animations, offered some whimsical pieces, many focused on individual emotions, as well as thoughtful explorations of social and historical issues.
The expansion of immigration detention facilities is a multibillion-dollar industry dominated by a handful of private corporations.
Every official inquiry into the Robodebt scheme’s systemic cruelty to welfare recipients has now ended with all those responsible going scot-free.
Workers describe widespread support for a March 25 strike at GM’s Silao Complex in Mexico as they demand a 20 percent increase in wages.
Green's book shows that, beneath the familiar myth of the reactionary Southwest, there lay a vibrant world of tenant-farmer revolt, labor militancy, and interracial socialist organizing.
The four-day strike of San Francisco educators, the first in 50 years, contains critical lessons for workers seeking to defend public education.
The California Teachers Association (CTA) has kept some 80,000 teachers across the state working under expired contracts under its fraudulent “We Can’t Wait” campaign. LAUSD educators must form independent rank-and-file committees and mobilize teachers across the state in a general strike against war and in defense of public education.
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is causing major disruption to the Thai economy.
The WSWS continues to receive statements of support from workers across Canada for Will Lehman’s campaign for the presidency of the UAW in the United States. Lehman is running as a socialist on a program to abolish the union bureaucracy and place power back in the hands of workers on the shop floor.
South Korea: Samsung Electronics semiconductor workers approve strike action; India: Madhya Pradesh power workers strike for pay rise; Australia: Thousands of Victorian school teachers prepare to strike; Mater hospital nurses in Queensland strike for pay parity.
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in infectious diseases, explained: “This is… one of the greatest clusters of cases outside of Africa that I can recall.”
Allowing US heavy bombers to fly from its Royal Air Force base in Fairford, England, and from Diego Garcia—a joint US/UK base in the Indian Ocean—has been critical to the devastating US-Israeli bombing operation against Iran.
Labor is turning South Australia into a militarised AUKUS hub at the centre of US-led preparations for war against China amid a global conflagration, while social conditions for the working class sharply deteriorate.
The meeting called on educators, students and workers to move similar resolutions denouncing the US-Israeli assault on Iran and the Albanese Labor government’s participation in it.
The SEP’s well attended Colombo public meeting, which was live-streamed on Zoom and the party’s Facebook page, discussed the urgent need to build an international working-class movement against the imperialist onslaught on Iran which threatens to escalate into a broader global conflict.
Postmaster General David Steiner warned USPS will run out of cash by February, and both parties agreed on the need for the deepest cuts in the agency's history.
An ICE raid in South Burlington, Vermont resulted in a chaotic nine-hour standoff, the discharge of a federal agent’s weapon and the detention of three individuals who were not the primary targets of the investigation.
The well-attended picket lines showed healthcare workers are determined to fight against ongoing attacks on their working conditions and living standards. But the role of the union bureaucracy has been to undermine this growing movement, isolating different sections of the workforce from each other.
Mehring Verlag strongly condemns the government's recent censorship of left-wing bookshops in Germany.
On Thursday, the heads of state and government of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Japan issued a joint statement in which they pledged to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Trump administration is seeking more than $200 billion to fund the war against Iran.
While widely known and respected among musicians, Hammond purposefully avoided the trappings of celebrity bestowed upon “big name” artists.
The criminalisation of homeless people must serve as a warning to the entire working class of the repressive measures that will be used against any opposition to austerity and social inequality.
Belgian workers in national strike against austerity; Health workers strike and protest in Greece; Spain strikes over pay and conditions; Stoppages continue at UK universities over redundancies, pensions; Afrimat miners in South Africa begin indefinite strike over pay and erosion of medical insurance
