The UAW is seeking to strangle opposition to halt a potential strike that could halt production of highly profitable vehicles including the Ford F-150 and Dodge Ram light trucks.
This week’s roundup includes mass protests against the right-wing Espriella government in Colombia, a threatened July 4 strike by Philadelphia utility workers and the ongoing strike by grocery workers in Montreal.
This event makes clear the titanic, revolutionary and socialist character of the struggle necessary to move from a rearguard action against the consequences of climate change to an offensive against its source—private production for profit.
The Albanese Labor government is clearly seeking to evade a possible High Court ruling that could clarify the constitutional and basic democratic right of citizens to leave the country and return.
The combined total of people losing food stamps and health insurance approaches 10 million.
Matthew Wale has announced a sharp pivot from the Pacific country’s ties with Beijing amid escalating US-led war preparations against China.
The visit was not aimed at delivering justice for the relatives of the victims but at defusing mounting anger over decades of state cover-ups of the crimes of the military.
Intense competition in AI development has raised “the risk of firms over-committing resources to investment projects with still uncertain returns, leaving all firms vulnerable to disappointments in AI payoffs.”
The workers perform critical community support functions in autism programs, palliative care facilities, psychiatric treatment centers, disabled development centers, substance abuse programs, women-in-crisis units, homeless shelters, youth programs and many other fields.
Mintz is the author of numerous published works, including Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (2004), winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award.
As the media whips up hysteria over non-missing children, the Kast administration is carrying out a real assault on the living conditions of children, adolescents and students across Chile.
The US government expelled them like criminals after deliberately destroying their home country’s economy over decades, leaving the infrastructure incapable of withstanding the earth's movement.
The Texas State Board of Education’s approval of Bible-based reading materials marks a major escalation in the attack on secular public education and the separation of church and state.
The housing crisis is the product of 50 years of sustained class assault, carried out as a bipartisan project between Labour and the Conservatives.
Global food and beverage manufacturer PepsiCo is seeking to impose significant cuts to working conditions in a new enterprise agreement, to step up its use of precarious labour-hire working arrangements.
The Monitor’s 16th status report details a “recurring pattern of retaliation” by the UAW apparatus headed by Fain.
The Green Party’s extremely modest proposal to tax the super-rich is aimed at promoting illusions that it can “pressure” the Labour Party to adopt more progressive policies.
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania and socialist candidate for UAW president, issued a statement to workers at Nexteer Automotive following the fraudulent ratification of a fourth tentative agreement (TA4) by UAW Local 699 officials.
Trimble resigns in Northern Ireland; Israeli commandos raid Entebbe Airport; World Court rules against Iran on oil nationalization; Mexican government restricts Catholic Church.
The WPP exhibition 2026 offers a striking visual record of a world marked by war, displacement, poverty and political repression.
The decrepit state of housing stock, the collapse of the healthcare system, and the incapacity of the state to organize any meaningful emergency response are the product of the protracted oppression of Venezuela by US imperialism.
The commission’s report is an assault on American history and the First Amendment.
US warplanes bombed Iranian coastal radar and air defense sites on Friday and again on Saturday, striking 10 targets near the Strait of Hormuz in the second wave.
The Democratic Party leadership has reacted with alarm to the victories of DSA-backed congressional candidates in last week’s primary elections in New York City.
After reporters from the World Socialist Web Site visited Rawmarsh on Tuesday morning to speak with residents, parents organised a press conference that afternoon at the site of the attack.
Overturning decades of official support for non-proliferation and disarmament, Finland is now helping to promote the deployment of nuclear weapons throughout Europe under conditions in which the major imperialist powers are recklessly escalating the war in Ukraine against Russia.
What is ruled out by the union bureaucracy are the class struggle methods that could halt the offensive: indefinite all-out strikes, occupations, and coordinated action across every Sheffield campus and across the sector.
The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting authoritarianism.
The rulings will have immediate—and, in some cases, deadly—consequences for hundreds of thousands of immigrants seeking refuge in the United States from political oppression, violence and starvation in their countries of origin.
One week after President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran, US military representatives confirmed on Friday that multiple strikes were launched against missile and drone storage and coastal radar sites near a southern port in the Strait of Hormuz.
With the Albanese Labor government’s blessing, the ASIO boss has increasingly become a prominent political figure.
Throughout the proceedings, the defendants are being stripped of fundamental rights and subjected to the most adverse prison conditions in order to intimidate anyone who protests against the genocide in Gaza.
The Netherlands is one front in a strike wave now sweeping the continent, everywhere driven by the same socio-economic and political conditions: austerity at home to finance war abroad.
IG Metall and the works councils are not opponents of Volkswagen’s restructuring plans, but accomplices. Workers must take the defence of jobs into their own hands through independent rank-and-file committees.
While workers voted overwhelmingly to stop work, the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU) is doing everything possible to prevent a strike.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka is holding an online public meeting on Wednesday, July 8, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the Trotskyist strategy to mobilise the working class against imperialist war.
India: Community Health Officers strike in Punjab over long-outstanding demands; Cambodia: AJ Textile garment workers walk out over sacking and conditions; Australia: Glencore coalminers in New South Wales vote to strike.
The "Fair"'s miserable, unpopular character says more about the state of American capitalism than either Trump, the Democrats or the media would care to admit.
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the country.
Beneath the billionaire tax campaign lies the effort of Democrats and unions to preserve capitalist rule and inequality.
The first "Antifa terrorism" prosecution under Trump's domestic counterterrorism framework establishes a precedent for sentencing political opponents to decades in prison on the basis of association and ideology.
The Morenoites offer as the solution to the crisis confronting the Bolivian working class in 2026 a reedition of a betrayal that led to the most tragic defeat in its history.
Burning fossil fuels to fill the pockets of the rich increasingly means burning human beings to death for profit—another way the capitalist system spitting out wars, pandemics and deaths of despair is toxic to human life.
The hospitals impacted are Leeds General Infirmary, St James’s University Hospital and Chapel Allerton Hospital.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch is a state agency, funded through the Department for Transport and staffed largely by personnel drawn from the rail industry, regulatory bodies and government institutions. Its remit states that it "does not apportion blame, establish liability, enforce the law or pursue prosecutions."
Under the guise of “reforming” USPS’s supposedly “broken business model,” senators and postal management discussed cutting delivery days, closing post offices, outsourcing work, raising prices, attacking workers’ compensation and eliminating regulatory restraints on management.
Despite being charged with five war crimes, including murder, Roberts-Smith is being treated as a respected public figure by the powers that be.
The White House padded its request for $87.6 billion—down from the previously discussed $200 billion—with items aimed at getting the votes needed in both chambers of Congress to pass the military appropriations.
There is widespread opposition to the deal and deep anger over the way the UAW bureaucracy has defied the will of the membership.
The basic contradiction behind the tentative agreement is that district is offering limited raises while closing schools.
On June 24, SGP Chairman Christoph Vandreier and Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language World Socialist Web Site, read out an open letter to Ambassador Gökhan Turan in front of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin.
The pension reforms seamlessly follow the abolition of Bürgergeld (welfare benefits) and the so-called “health reforms.” Billions are being redistributed from the pockets of the needy, the sick, pensioners, the low-paid and workers into rearmament into the accounts of the super-rich.
Christopher Harder, a former criminal lawyer, has called for police to investigate the unlawful deal to drop charges against the company’s chief executive Peter Whittall.
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
The task facing the Bolivian working class was and remains to break from the bureaucratic agencies of the bourgeois state and establish its political independence.
Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.
The scale and deadliness of the catastrophe have been shaped not by the seismic waves alone, but by decades of imperialist sanctions, military aggression, corrupt capitalist rule under Chavismo and now the open US recolonization of the country.
More than any other single individual, Greenspan worked to create an economic system based on speculation, parasitism, and unprecedented social inequality which characterises US and world capitalism today.
The entire affair must be understood within the trajectory of Kast's criminalization of immigrants as entry-point to a broader social counterrevolution.
Workers and youth confront the capitalist state, its police and military apparatus, the courts, the trade union bureaucracy, the bourgeois opposition parties and the financial aristocracy.
If any single image captured the Labour “left” as the cowardly wretches they are, it was McDonnell welling up while appearing in LBC Radio’s studio as he watched Burnham’s election victory speech.
Transport including rail, metro and buses brought to a halt in four-hour national strike in the Netherlands over austerity attacks on pensions and welfare; legal aid workers strike and protest in South Africa as the right to legal aid is threatened by cuts
In addition to forcing workers to vote inside the plant, UAW officials are handpicking supporters of the rotten deal to oversee the vote.
In the country of five million, which once postured as a model of egalitarianism, the richest 150 people, with their collective wealth of $129 billion, own as much as the bottom half of the population.
The ranks of what we have termed the "CIA Democrats" are likely to increase again in November.
As it prepares to roll out the red carpet for US President Donald Trump and other imperialist war criminals, the Erdoğan regime is seeking to suppress all opposition to war, genocide and militarism.
The primary results reflect a profound and growing political radicalization within the working class and among youth and professional layers who are being hammered by the accelerating economic, social and political crisis of American capitalism.
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
The comical costumes worn by the two conceal the identities of two very accomplished musicians who are masters of their instruments and equipment.
Educators who participated in the Committee for Public Education’s recent online public meeting speak about the issues raised at the meeting and the No vote that followed.
Steven Linell Smith, a black maintenance mechanic at the USPS St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center in Eagan, Minnesota, endured five years of racial harassment, including death threats and slurs, before being fired.
Budgets in New South Wales and Queensland show the leading role of Labor governments in slashing social spending amid the ongoing fallout from the Iran war.
The national party conference of the Left Party (Die Linke), which took place in Potsdam from 19 to 21 June, centred primarily on one question: Will the party succeed in curbing the radicalisation of the youth?
On Wednesday, June 24, at 2:30 p.m., the following open letter from the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) and the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site in Germany will be delivered to Türkiye’s ambassador in Berlin, Gökhan Turan.
The scientific and material means to halt the disease exist in abundance but are being deliberately withheld, turning preventable mass death into a deliberate policy of social murder.
The report is titled: “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023.
The Greens are aiding a Labor government that is in a deep-going political crisis, amid widespread hostility to its austerity budget.
Will Lehman, a rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, Pennsylvania who was nominated at last week's UAW convention to run for union president, condemned the UAW's in-plant vote at Nexteer as a fraud.
Locked-out workers who spoke with the World Socialist Web Site say that BP is dragging out the lockout to starve workers into submission.
If no tentative agreement is reached, according to NALC, “unresolved issues would be addressed through an interest arbitration process,” producing “a final and binding decision on the contents of a new National Agreement.”
The summit in Kazan expresses the desperate maneuvering of the ruling classes in South East Asia as the US-led war on Iran hikes energy prices and fears of shortages.
At the campaign-style rally Trump praised union leaders in a speech laden with fascistic demagogy targeting “communists,” “globalists,” immigrants and foreigners.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a number of right-wing decisions abridging individual rights and one ruling authorizing lawsuits against Cuban state enterprises to recoup property expropriated 66 years ago.
Farmers’ fundamental problems can be resolved only through their independent mobilisation against big business and finance capital, united with the rural poor and under the leadership of the working class.
Hard-right Premier Doug Ford is placing Ontario at the centre of Canada's military-industrial buildup, unveiling a 10-year strategy aimed at rapidly transforming the country's most populous and industrialized province into a critical hub within North American and European military supply-chains.
The sentences are part of a broader effort to criminalize opposition to mass deportations, war and social inequality under the banner of combating domestic extremism.
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
The Erdoğan government is responding to the imperialist war on Türkiye’s borders and to the deepening class struggle at home by consolidating its construction of a presidential dictatorship.
Rabinowitch’s four volumes on the October Revolution and the first two years of the civil war were pathbreaking and constitute an important contribution to the historical record of 1917 and the first two years of the civil war.
Former chief executive of the Scottish National Party Peter Murrell, has been jailed for embezzling his party's funds.
The RDC leadership, headed by Dr. Jack Fletcher, called off the walkout before members had any opportunity to examine the proposed agreement. Doctors were informed by email on Saturday evening, barely 24 hours before the scheduled strike action and only provided highlights.
Ruto’s threats have been backed by Francis Atwoli, secretary general of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions, nominally representing 1.5 million workers across 36 affiliated unions.
In the guise of upholding “professional standards”, the establishment of the Chartered Institute of Media Professionals is aimed at bringing all media workers under state control.
Overall employment fell by 300,000 from April to May, with full-time jobs accounting for a disproportionate share of the cuts.
Decades of bipartisan deregulation have transformed California into an industrial tinderbox, endangering workers and entire working-class communities.
The use of private ratings for debt held by insurance firms, increasingly with private equity firms, has risen 10-fold since 2018.
The debacle is both an apt metaphor for Trump’s role in American politics and an encapsulation of the most degraded aspects of this administration.
While a mass protest was held on Sunday in Büyükada against the operation targeting the municipality, Mayor Akpolat was brought before a court on Monday.
On Monday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visited Lithuania to take part in the first major exercise of the Bundeswehr’s Armoured Brigade 45 stationed there.
Some 60,000 nurses in British Columbia are pressing for strike action after rejecting a miserable contact offer presented by their union.
