Workers face riot police in general strike against welfare cuts in Northern Cyprus; Royal Fleet Auxiliary staff who support UK Royal Navy walk out over pay; resident doctors in Nigeria begin indefinite walkout over pay and conditions
The events are aimed at arming workers with the lessons of this experience for the political battles they face today: against a right-wing Labour government of austerity and war, and trade union bureaucracies suppressing a struggle against it.
In an interview with Turkish channel TV5, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North warns that the two-week pause in the US bombardment of Iran is merely an interlude and calls on workers internationally to build a movement against imperialism based on the unification of the working class.
Workers must be warned that a sellout is in the offing. No talks under these circumstances will result in a deal favorable for workers.
Whatever the outcome of the case against Roberts-Smith, there is no question that Australian governments and the military command oversaw and covered up war crimes in Afghanistan.
Workers across the United States have expressed deep and unequivocal opposition to the Trump administration's military aggression against Iran, defending the Iranian people and calling for mass working class resistance.
The circumstances surrounding this attempted armed attack near the Israeli consulate remain unclear.
Israel’s barbaric air and artillery assault on civilians in southern Lebanon, the most intense attack since the conflict began on March 2, exposed the fraudulent nature of the two-week “ceasefire” announced by President Trump on Tuesday in the war against Iran.
Israel's massive assault on Lebanon, which killed over 250 people Wednesday, comes as factions of both US political parties condemn the outcome of Trump's war on Iran as a debacle that leaves Iran in control of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said the world is ill-equipped to deal with the turmoil resulting from the war on Iran, due to the lack of international collaboration and the rise of government debt.
For the working class, this election offers no progressive alternative. Neither Orbán nor Magyar represents its interests. Both stand for militarism, social attacks and authoritarian forms of rule—albeit with differing foreign policy orientations.
The overall result is a charming but cartoonish pastiche that, while broadly appealing, falls short of its ambition to be a truly insightful film
An easy Democratic victory in Wisconsin and a narrow Republican win in Georgia both showed swings of 25 percent or more against Trump.
Mexican truckers and farmers launched a nationwide strike over war-driven diesel and fertilizer cost surges and insecurity, facing brutal repression by the Morena government.
In close coordination with Washington’s own military operations, Tokyo is setting the pieces in place for war against China.
The crime at Tempi has discredited all the main bourgeois parties. One of the main chants at demonstrations is: “Syriza, PASOK, New Democracy, this crime has a history”.
Trump’s threat to annihilate a civilization of 93 million people—which by itself is a war crime—and the war as a whole have produced a political crisis of historic proportions.
While it has sought to distance itself from Trump’s most undeniably genocidal statements, Paris has made itself complicit in crimes against humanity.
Three workers were killed in a preventable work accident at Çolakoğlu Metallurgy, one of Turkey’s largest steel factories, on Sunday.
Workers returned to the plant Tuesday after the United Food and Commercial Workers suddenly canceled their powerful three-week strike without any progress at the bargaining table.
BP Whiting refinery workers continue their battle, as Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) locks out 1,700 USW workers.
By calling off its work bans the AEU is signalling its willingness to force the state government’s offer through, further cutting real wages and doing nothing to address staff shortages and intolerable workloads.
Last Friday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made an unannounced emergency trip to the Gulf region to meet with Saudi, Qatari and Emirati leaders for talks on energy and the US war with Iran.
Workers across the United States reacted furiously Tuesday to Trump’s threat to “annihilate” the civilization of Iran, a country of 93 million people.
The IMF’s endorsement is a clear indication of the government’s strict adherence to IMF dictates, which impose the full burden of the crisis on the working class and rural masses.
The deal, which ensures that New Zealand’s military retains access to the Cook Islands’ vast territorial waters, escalates the US-led militarisation of the Pacific in preparation for war against China.
The tragic death of Danhao Wang, a brilliant Chinese postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, is the direct and fatal consequence of a vicious xenophobic campaign of harassment and intimidation orchestrated by the federal government and enabled by the university administration.
In February, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a memorandum outlining a fascistic revamping of the US military’s training program for senior officers.
Dictated by the federal Liberal government, Canada Post's transformation into an Amazon-style employer of precarious “gig workers” will eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.
The director says she had “real images of war in her mind” while filming and wonders about “what context I see them”—but “context” is precisely what is missing from her film.
The Guardian has consistently witch-hunted resident doctors, with columnist Polly Toynbee urging Streeting to show his “mettle.”
WSWS reporters spoke to striking resident doctors as they began a six-day strike.
The following statement was published by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board, on Tuesday morning in response to the threat by US President Donald Trump to make Iranian civilization “die tonight.”
In Queensland, the far-right One Nation is outpolling both Labor and the Coalition, something unprecedented for a “third” party in modern times.
The United States is on the brink of a moral and political catastrophe. This is the inescapable conclusion to be derived from Donald Trump’s press conference on Monday.
Teamsters hailed First Student’s new contract as a “national foundation,” but drivers demand details on real gains for hours, pay, and pensions.
For decades, British governments have suppressed evidence of the human and environmental consequences of nuclear testing in the Pacific.
The new aspects of spaceflight being carried out by Artemis II largely concern the impacts of radiation on the spacecraft and the astronauts themselves.
Last week’s oral argument on Trump’s executive order to revoke birthright citizenship raised historical questions dating back to the Civil War on whether the offspring of immigrants have full citizenship rights.
The US Treasury is convening meetings with regulators to discuss the growing risks arising from the interconnections between insurance firms and the private credit markets.
Workers protest in Laz Paz Bolivia over poverty pay and the abrogation of labor law while 550 Metro grocery workers in Quebec are in the second week of a strike over pay and the issue of subcontracting.
Newly obtained footage contradicts the official account used to justify the shooting of Julio C. Sosa-Celis and the prosecution of two Venezuelan immigrants.
The Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee issued this statement after workers at the Saginaw, Michigan parts plant rejected a UAW-backed contract by 96 percent.
One year ago today, 63-year-old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. was crushed to death at the Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex in Southeast Michigan.
Everywhere, impoverished migrants face closed borders and state-sanctioned demonisation designed to divert social anger over poverty, unemployment and cuts in vital social services away from the super-rich oligarchy despoiling the planet.
Politically, Weimer’s views unquestionably overlap with those of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD.
Trump's “Greater North America” doctrine, stretching from Greenland to Ecuador, aims to recolonize the hemisphere.
Up to 750,000 disabled people are projected to receive a lower supplementary universal credit rate by 2029/30, resulting in an annual average income loss of £3,000.
Trump operates completely outside the framework of international law, of democratic conventions and basic legality. His statements and actions are a testament to the total breakdown of American democracy under the pressure of soaring social inequality, endless war and spiraling social, economic and political crisis.
Without a strike authorization vote or full disclosure, the WGA leadership moves to impose a deal designed to block rank-and-file resistance.
One of the most significant features of the police operation, conducted under Labor Premier Jacinta Allan’s state government, is that Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Luke Hilakari called in the police.
Workers should defy the back-to-work order under conditions where nothing has been secured and instead continue the strike under rank-and-file control.
The deal imposed by the NZEI consists of a 2.5 percent pay rise in the first year and 2.1 percent in the second year—well below inflation.
“If workers come together, they are like a bundle of sticks. If the sticks are separated, they can be broken. What we need to do is tie the rope—unite the working class.”
The willful destruction of UNESCO World Heritage sites is a repudiation not only of international law but also of human civilization itself.
In this interview, Daszak responds to the inaugural “Scientific Freedom” lecture held at the National Institutes of Health under the sponsorship of NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, chosen for that position by vaccine denialist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because he opposed any serious public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Immigrant and civil liberties groups have alerted hospitals and other healthcare providers about the rights of immigrant patients.
Police attack South Korean autoworkers; Chinese CP strips Deng Xiaoping of posts; Truman fires Douglas MacArther; Failed assassination attempt on Mussolini
Surging youth homelessness reveals deepening inequality as Democrats impose austerity, slash education budgets and conceal the true scale of crisis.
Adam Hochschild’s vivid, engaging account of the political subordination of the society to the needs of a ruling class waging an imperialist war deserves a wide readership.
The government’s National Health Service 10-Year Plan proposes cuts of £17 billion a year. The very existence of the NHS is under threat.
The Red-Green Alliance’s support for Denmark’s Social Democrat-led government, which has endorsed Washington’s war of extermination against Iran, is likewise a wholehearted endorsement of European imperialism against the US in the conflict over Greenland.
Nexteer Automotive workers in Saginaw, Michigan have delivered an enormous rebuke to the United Auto Workers bureaucracy by voting down a UAW-backed concessions contract by 96 percent.
On Friday, the Trump administration unveiled a budget blueprint centered on a vast escalation of military spending. In its Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, the White House is asking Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion for “defense”—that is, for military aggression—which would be the highest level of military spending in modern history.
The political import of these maneuvers is that Congress, with the full complicity of the Democrats, will resume funding of Trump’s immigration storm troopers without any limitations on their police state methods.
Doctors strike across Sri Lanka; Australian rail workers locked out by state government over limited work bans.
The Special Air Service Regiment was evidently sent in mid-March, showing that nothing the Albanese government says about the war can be believed.
Mass layoffs and factory closures are being facilitated by the corporatist trade unions, which are seeking to channel workers’ anger into the dead-end of supporting the opposition Labour Party.
The dangerous conditions at Anjun Industrial auto parts factory are not the exception but the rule around the world where workers are sacrificed in industrial slaughterhouses for profit.
The silence of these parties cannot disguise their ongoing backing for US imperialism and its war as is demonstrated by the handful of comments that have been made.
Following Trump's threats to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages," Iranian air defenses shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle jet and an A-10 Thunderbolt in a single day—the worst US aircraft losses of the war.
Stanley Plotkin, the virologist whose RA 27/3 rubella vaccine has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide, has reacted to the ongoing dismantling of public health with undisguised despair. This report traces the science he built, the class forces that made it possible, and the way forward against the ultra-right assault on vaccines.
The burning problems of the present day, genocidal wars, dictatorship and increasing social decline, bring to mind the claims made in the period immediately following the end of the Cold War.
At this year's Leipzig Book Fair, the concerns and horror over the global political situation were palpable. The escalation of war in the Middle East and the danger of fascism in America have shaken the cultural world.
Avi Lewis has been elected leader of the federal NDP on a pledge to revive Canada’s anemic social democratic party by moving “left” and “fighting the billionaire class.”
While Dr. Aladwan is being branded a supporter of “terrorism”, Israel’s genocide, backed by Britain, has killed more than 100,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
The CRT advances the “unity of left” with the trade union bureaucracy to contain and prevent workers from breaking with the pro-war parties of the capitalist state.
There is an inverse relationship between the speed and enthusiasm with which the Australian Labor government embraced the illegal war on Iran, and the tardiness and delay of Socialist Alternative in saying anything about it.
On Monday, the Health Finance Commission presented its proposals for the further development of the statutory health insurance. Its report amounts to an open declaration of war on the working class.
US President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age has met with no reaction in the European media, or at best a shrug of the shoulders.
Bondi is the second top official fired in a month, following Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem.
The mission, despite the scientific and engineering achievements, is driven primarily by geopolitical conflict with China.
The television show amounted to a whitewash of the Labor government’s agenda, accompanied by the destruction of some 4,000 jobs nationally over the past 18 months.
The demolition of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers is aimed at clearing valuable inner-city real estate and handing it over to private developers.
In these videos, Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan describe why they voted nearly unanimously to reject a concessions-laden contract pushed by the UAW bureaucracy.
Health NZ officials have falsely claimed that most people no longer need COVID boosters, while the government and media are spreading disinformation depicting vaccines as harmful to young people.
The tragic suicide of a Chinese scientist at the University of Michigan exposes the deadly consequences of the bipartisan drive toward war against China.
The unavoidable conclusion that must be drawn from the speech delivered on Wednesday night by Donald Trump is that the American president is a political criminal.
Trump’s Easter lunch remarks expose the program of the ruling class: war, austerity and social devastation for the working class.
Stanley Plotkin, the virologist whose RA 27/3 rubella vaccine has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide, has reacted to the ongoing dismantling of public health with undisguised despair. This report traces the science he built, the class forces that made it possible, and the way forward against the ultra-right assault on vaccines.
The capitalist crisis and the “donor class” are leading the BSO, the Metropolitan Opera, and other leading cultural institutions into the abyss.
The MTS is working to channel Mexico’s growing strike wave back into the US-backed union bureaucracy, the courts and the Sheinbaum government.
Postal workers at 40 distribution centres across Belgium take unofficial strike action against attacks on conditions; thousands of teachers in France walk out over job cuts; healthcare workers in Mozambique threaten to extend dispute to national stoppage over collapsing health system
The most significant feature of the summit was the absence of the United States. President Donald Trump has rocked the European powers by declaring that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not his concern.
The judge said in a verdict whose implications are vast: “Protest rights, while fundamental, are not absolute and do not permit breaching lawfully imposed conditions.”
By a vote of 62 to 48, Israel’s Knesset approved a law Monday enshrining the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians who carry out an “act of terrorism” on citizens of Israel.
Workers who spoke to the WSWS during the vote denounced its expansion of a two-tier wage system, unaffordable healthcare costs, poverty-level pay for new hires, and the role of the UAW bureaucracy in imposing it.
While the immediate aim is the subordination of Iran and the Middle East to US imperialism, the war is viewed in Washington as essential preparation for conflict with China, regarded as the chief threat to US global domination.
Tech giant Oracle joined the industry-wide AI jobs massacre by informing thousands of employees on Monday via an email message at 6:00 a.m. that “current business needs” have eliminated their position and “today is your last working day.”
Italy’s denial of US base access rests on procedural objections, but fundamentally reflects overwhelming popular opposition to war and state repression.
