These events vindicate the struggle of the Socialist Equality Party, which opposed the election of this rotten party and the pseudo-left tendencies who backed Starmer as the “lesser of two evils”.
Less than three weeks after United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 called off the powerful strike of meatpacking workers at the JBS meat processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, meatpacking workers at the JBS beef and pork plant in nearby Denver voted April 27 to authorize strike action.
The meeting of health and disability workers unanimously passed a resolution opposing the cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme and discussed a campaign to mobilise health workers against Labor’s brutal austerity agenda.
The plunge of the Liberal vote to just 12 percent, in a seat held by its previous leader, indicates that the traditional conservative party of the ruling elite is on the brink of collapse.
Bilal Irfan is a US‑based medical and bioethics researcher working on Gaza and Palestinian health.
In the case against 26-year old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, a third linguistic expertise requested by the court further undermines the case of the prosecution based on charges of “state treason under martial law”.
A progressive response to this offensive is possible only through a frontal assault by the working class on the unchallenged “right” of capitalist property itself.
Beirut has been subjected to repeated, brutal Israeli bombing raids throughout the current conflict.
A proposed “citizenship test” seeks to portray migrants as a threat to New Zealand “values,” while other legislation will significantly expand the ability of the state to deport people.
The Socialist Equality Party categorically opposes these convictions and the death penalties, the aim of which is to intimidate the masses of workers and oppressed people who took part in the 2022 uprising.
A graduate student worker at UMass in Boston described how Harvard and other major universities rely on exploitation of academic workers.
As in the rest of the United States, New Jersey is experiencing a wave of layoffs of educators and school workers because of budget shortfalls.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined US Steel and its contractor MPW Industrial Services $180,000 for the deaths of Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee.
US President Donald Trump declared Iran's reply to his negotiation terms "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE" on Sunday, threatening renewed military escalation four days before his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Volkswagen is preparing the next round of mass cuts. The plants in Emden and Zwickau, the commercial vehicle plant in Hanover and the Audi plant in Neckarsulm face closure. A total of 40,000 people work at these plants.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA), like mass transit agencies all over the country, is determined to make the workers pay for a fiscal crisis that they did not create.
As one of the French passengers repatriated from the MV Hondius developed symptoms mid-flight, the Trump administration announced it will neither quarantine nor test the 17 Americans returning from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.
This speech was delivered by Will Lehman, candidate for president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and member of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Ulaş Sevinç, Chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The results of the five Indian state and territorial assembly elections announced Monday, May 4, point to a deepening crisis of bourgeois rule and the urgency of arming the working class with a revolutionary socialist program and strategy.
Berlusconi returns to power in Italy; Terry Tyler arrested in Louisiana; Battle of Soyang River in Korean War; British General Strike betrayed.
The reaction from the shop floor to a new TA brought back by the UAW last week is broadly one of anger and disgust.
If Sheinbaum complies, she risks opening the floodgates to more US extradition requests, and fissures in her party. If she doesn’t, she risks aggression from an increasingly unhinged Trump administration.
Bosch's plan to cut 1,400 jobs at a facility in Turkey, in addition to the 22,000 job cuts at its facilities in Germany, raises the need for workers to organize an international fightback.
Slander on the scale now being mounted by the government and the media is preparation for sweeping political repression.
As Ukrainian soldiers continue to perish in the NATO-backed proxy war, new revelations make clear that the Ukrainian ruling class is enriching itself to obscene levels in Europe’s poorest country.
The deepening hantavirus outbreak and the Trump administration’s response to it expose the catastrophic dismantling of US public health and scientific infrastructure six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"For the past two years the state of Israel has been conducting a genocidal campaign in Gaza."
US Navy aircraft attacked two Iranian-flagged oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Friday as part of the US naval blockade of Iran, in a major escalation of the war.
The Brazilian president’s posturing as a “left-wing” opponent of war collapsed with a single phone call from Trump—who reportedly signed off with “I love you.”
President Dissanayake’s claims to head “a workers’ government” are absurd. The JVP/NPP presides over a capitalist government carrying out sweeping attacks on workers and the poor, including higher taxes, higher prices and wholesale privatization.
Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan are determined to vote down a second pro-company tentative agreement handed to them by the UAW Local 699 leadership just five weeks after they rejected an initial TA by 96.2 percent on April 2.
Labour has been haemorrhaging support since Tony Blair, but what has really given Reform UK its head is the repeated sabotage of the striving by workers for a left-wing alternative.
Residents of nearby Orange have raised concerns mining activity contributed to the most powerful seismic event ever recorded in the region.
A judge fined the company just $7 million for industrial manslaughter over the preventable death of an underground coal worker in Queensland.
Workers rejected the first tentative agreement last July by 71 percent on a 92 percent turnout.
Ignoring protests from archaeologists and local Native Americans, a border wall construction crew knowingly cut a wide swath through a pre-Columbian geoglyph site. This is just one of many such impacts to archaeological sites by this project.
The government’s Defence Industrial Strategy pulls no punches when it comes to laying out the purpose of its strengthened collaboration with post-secondary institutions—waging war.
The recordings involve discussions about imprisoning or assassinating opponents, and coordinating a continental offensive against the “cancer of the left.”
India: Karnal municipal sanitation workers strike; Bangladesh: Garment workers at Chattogram demand unpaid wages and benefits; Australia: Workers at eight Melbourne metropolitan councils walk out; Queensland Rail workers escalate industrial action.
The heat wave in March led to a record collapse in snowpack across much of the American west, threatening already overstressed water supplies for millions
Eighty-one years after the end of World War II in Europe, the spectres of war and fascism are back. The IYSSE calls for building an international, socialist anti-war movement against conscription and militarism.
Bipartisan austerity, union betrayals and deepening inequality are devastating public education in California and across the United States.
Mehmet Türkmen, an independent union leader who has been in prison since mid-March, was placed in solitary confinement for drawing attention to the dire conditions of a fellow inmate.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has driven fuel prices in Africa up by as much as 80 percent. Inflation is rising, and food production is in jeopardy, with governments scrambling to avert agricultural collapse.
Pointing to the company headquarters where CWU officials are in constant discussion with management, a worker from Mt Pleasant said: “Them lot upstairs are not interested in us, it's how much profit they can make.”
IMF austerity attacks, compounded by the war burden, are hitting already impoverished workers and the poor.
Labor is brutalising the vulnerable people to attack democratic rights and to compete with the fascistic, anti-immigrant One Nation in the demonisation of Muslims.
Jörg Baberowski’s latest treatise, Am Volk vorbei—Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie (Bypassing the People—On the Crisis of Liberal Democracy), is being hailed and praised in countless media outlets. This can only be understood as a deliberate political campaign to secure the AfD a place in government.
Six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the institutions of public health have been so thoroughly dismantled that the ruling class no longer knows, or wishes to know, how far this outbreak has spread.
The mission is neither peaceful nor neutral. The former colonial powers France and Britain are pursuing their own imperialist interests in the Middle East, which do not align with those of the US. The same applies to Germany and the European Union.
A judge from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that an alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein before he was found dead in his jail cell was to be unsealed and released to the public.
The Philadelphia’s Board of Education’s vote to shutter schools is the latest assault on social programs to benefit the wealthy and the U.S. war machine.
Financial authorities are largely in the dark about the operations and risk factors associated with private credit, which has undergone explosive growth in the recent period.
The White House document equates anti-fascists and left-wing opponents of the government with terrorists, while erasing the threat of far-right fascist violence.
Workers at the facility last month founded a rank-and-file committee affiliated with the national USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee, citing the failure of the American Postal Workers Union to enforce contractual rights or respond to safety hazards.
Over 1,500 students, faculty and staff have signed an open letter denouncing U-M President Grasso and defending Professor Peterson. A separate alumni letter with over 750 signatures is also circulating.
The incident, which came the day after the collapse of Spirit Airlines, reflects the systemic crisis of FAA understaffing, crumbling navigation infrastructure and airline cost-cutting.
US forces struck Iranian military targets on Thursday after sending three US Navy destroyers through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed since February.
The new Nexteer tentative agreement expands the tier system and maintains poverty wages as in the first TA, which workers voted down by 96 percent. Workers should reject it, dismiss the bargaining committee, and prepare to strike.
In order to produce a surplus, the state Labor government’s budget deepens cuts to education, health and disability services, while rejecting the wage demands of public sector workers.
The decisive question confronting workers and youth is to draw the political lessons from the debacle of the MAS and the role played by the COB and indigenous leaderships in paving the way for the return of the right.
The social and political issues are deliberately ignored in order to present the rescue operation as a binary struggle between the “heroic” army and a guerrilla force that is the enemy of the entire nation.
The attack on the right to a fair trial reached astounding levels during the closing phase of both trials. Centuries-old legal and democratic rights are being trampled.
May Day general strike in Italy heralds month of strikes against falling living standards; Unison ends long pay strike at Mining Museum in England to bolster Labour’s chances in local elections; software workers in Israel begin organisational sanctions over contracts; South African Post Office workers protest over wages and privatisation
A lethal hantavirus outbreak aboard the luxury vessel MV Hondius highlights how capitalist encroachment into ecological frontiers and global mobility transform localized zoonotic spillovers into urgent international public health crises.
This speech was given by Joseph Kishore, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), at the International May Day 2026 Online Rally, held Friday, May 1.
There is still no official explanation of what caused the explosion at Polymetals Resources’ Endeavor mine on October 28, 2025, that killed workers Patrick “Ambrose” McMullen and Holly Clarke.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters, leader of the right-wing nationalist NZ First Party, released emails sent in early March which indicate that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wanted the government to express stronger support for the criminal US-Israeli war.
The Merz-Klingbeil government is the most right-wing and hated government in the history of the Federal Republic. The struggle against it requires an independent socialist perspective.
The Met Gala on Monday evening was an expression of the putrefaction of the ruling establishment where fashion, Hollywood, corporate money, celebrity culture and politics comingled in a display of wealth and privilege.
The “baseline” assumption of official forecasts that the war would be over in weeks has been shattered by events, with warnings that oil price hikes so far are only the beginning.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has proclaimed that the country will play a “more proactive” role in the Indo-Pacific, amid a flurry of regional visits all directed against Beijing.
Despite the right-wing character of La Nación, the visa revocations are a naked attack by a Hitler-inspired imperialist regime seeking to crush even limited criticism of its puppet government.
Under conditions of the ongoing war on Iran that is disrupting the world economy and the Canada-US trade war that has hit our facility here in Hamilton, Ontario, for over a year now, Management aims to offload the crisis onto our backs through real wage cuts and continued job insecurity.
The Scottish National Party appears headed for a fifth consecutive electoral victory, thanks to Labour’s rotten right-wing record, which has fuelled Reform UK's growth in Scotland.
The Northern Navies would centre on the Joint Expeditionary Force, a UK-led grouping of 10 European countries.
As soon as details of the “groundbreaking agreement” were released on April 15, opposition went viral among postal workers who slammed the proposed deal.
The miners’ struggle in Ankara has ended with the promise that all their demands will be met. The lessons from this important struggle must be drawn.
An estimated 50,000 people gathered in the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park to mark Constitution Memorial Day, carrying banners reading “STOP Constitutional Revision and Military Expansion.”
The hikes for this year so far total three quarters of a percent with more rises threatened in the future, taking hundreds of dollars a month from the disposable income of households battling to pay off mortgages.
The AEU move to sell out the educators’ struggle is driven by fears of a wider working-class movement against the cost-of-living crisis imposed by the state and federal Labor governments.
US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that he was pausing the day-old US military operation to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz "for a short period of time," citing what he said was "great progress" toward an agreement with Iran.
After extending the last contract behind the backs of workers UAW Local 699 officials have announced that they have reached a new deal.
The ruling class is using the economic shocks produced by the war on Iran to accelerate a sustained, bipartisan attack on the working class stretching back half a century.
Everything indicates that the vote called by leaders of UAW Local 1700 at SHAP is performative, aimed at venting workers' anger and will lead to no consequential action by the union.
The El Gamal family’s legal team detailed last Saturday’s kidnapping, as Congress moves to pour billions more into ICE and CBP.
Washington’s largest-ever war games in the Philippines featured the first live Tomahawk firing on Philippine soil and the first Japanese combat deployment since its World War II occupation.
Mehring Yayıncılık successfully held the first cinema screening in Türkiye of the unique documentary Tsar to Lenin.
The action by Republican Jeff Landry, postponing a primary in order to carry out a pro-Republican redistricting approved by the Supreme Court, has no historical precedent.
May 4 marked 100 years since the beginning of the 1926 British General Strike. The strike, defeated after nine days, was a pivotal experience for the working class in Britain and internationally.
The increasingly desperate actions of American imperialism express the strategic debacle it confronts after 35 years of uninterrupted wars of aggression.
Although officially dominated by Democrats and the labor bureaucracy, hundreds of thousands in the US marched on May Day to oppose war and defend immigrants and democratic rights.
The announcement by President Donald Trump to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany and halt the planned deployment of US intermediate-range weapons in Germany marks a further escalation of the crisis in transatlantic relations.
The evasions and hypocritical declarations of “neutrality” by Colombo and New Delhi, along with the silence of the imperialist-aligned media, cannot cover up the fact that these governments were complicit in this US war crime.
Platner is being promoted as an outsider, but his campaign was recruited, packaged and launched through the AFL-CIO, Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party apparatus.
Against the backdrop of the war against Iran and Russia, the conflict between the anti-imperialist aspirations of the Malian masses and the bourgeois politics of the Malian junta is emerging ever more clearly.
The collapse of Spirit has priced millions of working class travelers out of air travel overnight—and it is only the first casualty of the fuel crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Amid escalating sanctions, military exercises, and threats by Donald Trump to take the island “immediately,” Washington is laying the groundwork for a regime-change war against Cuba.
The struggles of teachers and students in São Paulo are part of a growing movement of the international working class against the austerity policies driven by the capitalist crisis and the effects of the war against Iran.
