Australia’s contribution to relief efforts would not be enough to purchase three average houses in Sydney, and is equivalent to 44 minutes of military spending.
This development points to a further unravelling of the lies and misinformation by the media, Zionist groups and state and federal Labor governments to depict arson and vandalism in Sydney in 2024–25 as antisemitic terrorism.
One commentator described it as a “cleanup” act, as Fed chair Kevin Warsh used his speech to the bankers’ Jackson Hole symposium to insist he was determined to take action on inflation.
As the French presidential election campaign begins, France and the world face a capitalist crisis that no election will resolve, against which the working class must be mobilized in revolutionary struggle in France and internationally.
As rescue and recovery efforts continue in the areas that were flooded along the border between Nepal and China on Wednesday, the danger of a second flood is building as a barrier lake has been formed by a landslide dam with a “high risk of breaching,” according to China’s Ministry of Water Resources.
The JVP/NPP government aims to suppress opposition to the deliberate running down of railway services and its privatization agenda.
The first visit by a CIA director to Moscow since the eve of the Ukraine war comes as the NATO powers pour weapons, money and intelligence into an escalation that brings a direct clash with nuclear-armed Russia ever closer.
We are publishing here the report delivered by Tom Hall to the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 2–7, 2026, introducing the fourth resolution, “On the international class struggle and the building of the IWA-RFC.”
“We were always together the four of us and we would always talk about how dangerous and stupid the procedures at Samsic were.”
The US military used a high energy laser to down alleged Mexican cartel drones in the same week that the governor of Sinaloa was driven from office as a product of a campaign launched by Washington.
Dr. John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alberta and one of the world’s foremost historians of modern Ukraine.
The conditions in Chile’s schools are not the result of one government’s negligence, but the cumulative impact of a system imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship and preserved by every administration since.
Barbara spoke with the World Socialist Web Site to encourage Palmetto workers to come forward with what they know about Russell’s death and conditions inside the USPS Palmetto facility in Georgia.
For the first time since the collapse of Hitler’s Nazi regime 81 years ago, a politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could become premier of a German federal state, Saxony-Anhalt.
India: Bank unions plan nationwide strike action; Punjab National Health Mission workers continue strike; Bangladesh: Outsourced public-sector workers demand permanent jobs; Australia: Newcastle Coal terminal workers take industrial action; FedEx workers hold two-hour strikes around Australia.
The toll of the takeover is the product of three decades of bipartisan deregulation, consolidation and attacks on workers.
The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee’s joint appearances with party leaders were organized to demonstrate his post-primary embrace of the party establishment.
On August 19, the jury in the second Filton Palestine Action trial at the Old Bailey was discharged having failed to reach verdicts on 14 of 15 charges.
Our speakers will include Chris Marsden and Tom Scripps, the national and assistant national secretaries of the SEP (UK), and Johannes Stern, the German language editor of the WSWS and leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei.
The working class confronts a deepening cost-of-living crisis, as inflation continues to outpace wages. At the same time, banks, mining giants, supermarket chains and other major corporations have racked up record profits.
“This young man is immensely courageous in speaking out against war. His persecution is setting a precedent against anyone who opposes any war and a warning to all.” — Mental health nurse
In the six years since the US Treasury market “froze,” the role of hedge funds, which sparked the “dash for cash,” has increased markedly.
“Bogdan is a fighter who defended the people of Ukraine, Russia and the world. That is why the Zelensky regime imprisoned him for 15 years.”
1,000 postdoctoral researchers, associate research scientists, and associate research scholars at Columbia University, organized in the UAW, have voted by over 90 percent to authorize strike action.
The unprecedented action is aimed at criminalizing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the wider US-Israeli aggression throughout the Middle East.
The social catastrophe that has resulted is the latest consequence of the inability of the world’s capitalist governments to halt climate change or prepare their populations for the inevitable deadly consequences.
A letter from a group of some 200 California scholars, a statement from a socialist organization inside Russia and a wave of articles in the Turkish and European left-wing press have joined the international campaign for the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist.
The flight carried 57 people, including US-born children, as the administration prepares to increase deportation flights to Haiti from monthly to weekly.
Striking workers at National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario discussed the major issues in the strike by 1,200 workers who are now entering the third week of their walkout.
When Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s most influential news magazines, feels compelled to put Karl Marx on its cover, things cannot be going well for capitalism.
The scale of the death and destruction cannot be explained by geology or weather alone. It is the product of climate change, decades of state neglect, and the subordination of public safety to profit and the demands of capitalism.
Spanish Airbus workers resume indefinite strike over pay, as air traffic controllers strike across Europe; portering staff at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport in wildcat strike over staff shortages; sugar workers in South Africa walk out demanding pay increase
Independent union leaders who spearheaded numerous miners’ struggles this year were arrested on charges of “inciting the population to hatred and hostility” to intimidate the entire working class.
Having already supplied Ukraine with long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles, the UK has now shared classified blueprints with Kyiv to allow the country to eventually manufacture its own.
The abject subservience of both sides of the table was summed up by the Financial Times, which reported that the government made no mention whatsoever of freeing former president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from their US prison cells.
In honoring Musk, a committed ideological fascist and the world's leading promoter of the global far-right movement, the Zelensky regime is once again exposing the fraud of those who claim that Ukraine is fighting for "democracy."
The growing confrontations between Ukrainian workers and forced mobilization exposes the lie that Ukrainian society uniformly supports the disastrous imperialist proxy war.
Trump will attempt to use the uncertainty surrounding the elections fomented by his baseless charges of election fraud and compounded by his attack on mail-in voting to manipulate the elections and possibly suspend them altogether.
Logistics workers at the DHL Supply Chain warehouse in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila have been on strike for more than a week in a battle for their jobs.
The Albanese government is creating a wartime-like atmosphere, directed against countries deemed to be threats to Australian national security or foreign relations, particularly China, Russia and Iran.
The executive board of the Volkswagen Group has begun preparing workers at the core VW brand for an extension of the cutbacks that began at the end of 2024. The process could ultimately end in the break-up of one of the world’s largest car makers.
The students of Rayen Mapu, their parents and their teachers have demonstrated courage and democratic conviction in the face of state violence.
Tauranga City Council failed to act on repeated warnings about the risks posed by the location of the Beachside Holiday Park, where six people were killed in a landslide in January.
A Montreal Airport worker, who worked alongside Robayo, contacted the World Socialist Web Site to speak out about the fatal incident. He was especially incensed by the attempts of Samsic Assistance, Robayo’s employer and a globally operating provider of “business services,” to place the blame on the victim.
The National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee (NSC-RFC) was founded by shop floor workers in June 2023, on the eve of the last strike, after it became clear to them that the United Steelworkers (USW) bureaucracy would not wage a genuine fight for workers' demands.
As public funds bankroll corporate relocation, entertainment unions enforce the competitive framework and suppress a unified struggle against job destruction.
This is the third of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
Pennsylvania has confirmed 393 cases across 28 counties, nearly two-thirds of them in adults, as national kindergarten vaccination falls to its lowest level on record.
A worker who spoke with the World Socialist Web Site described a disastrous combination of cutting corners, broken equipment and a general high-pressure working environment overseen by the subcontractor Samsic that led to Robayo’s death.
The right to scrutinise any further deal before strike action is suspended must be enforced from below. This basic principle of rank-and-file democracy must be restored.
These events took place under conditions in which negotiations between Ankara and the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, are continuing, and in which the parliament this month adopted a law related to those talks.
The decisive question two weeks into the strike is whether we organize ourselves to win or allow the United Steelworkers bureaucracy to fritter away our strength until we are starved into accepting another sellout.
Josh Thomson-Parkin had raised concerns about the reliability and safety of the machine in the days before his death.
A strike would disrupt both commercial-aircraft certification and military production under conditions of expanding US wars and preparations for conflict with China.
The trade war between Washington and Ottawa is a reactionary conflict involving two capitalist ruling classes striving to advance the predatory imperialist interests of their respective nation-states. The real division is not between Canada and America, but between the working class of both countries and the corporate oligarchies that exploit them.
As well as workers’ pay demands, the company has rejected virtually all the limited claims submitted by the unions.
The arrest of Fernando Cerimedo, business partner of Trump’s former campaign manager, exposes the criminal network behind the installation of far-right regimes in Latin America.
Members of the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) exposed the fascist Ukrainian court’s frame-up of the young Trotskyist leader, who is sentenced to 15 years in prison for “treason” for opposing the war.
The Trump administration on Monday launched what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called an “economic D-Day” against Iran—a campaign of secondary sanctions aimed at every country, bank and company that trades with Tehran, above all China, which took roughly nine-tenths of Iran’s oil exports before the US blockade choked them off.
In a powerful interview with ABC, the Pretti family condemned the Trump administration's cover-up of the murder of their son Alex, an intensive care nurse at the Department of Veterans Affairs who was shot and killed by Customs and Border Protection thugs during the federal occupation of Minnesota.
Federal regulators repeatedly inspected the US Steel plant while deadly hazards remained uncorrected.
“Our schools are supposed to be places where children are safe, learning and being protected,” one parent said, “not places where electrical weapons become another tool of discipline or control.”
A leaked internal email reveals plans to hire a “Director of Anti-Extremism,” days after the Democratic-Party aligned think tank cited the 1947 purge of the unions as its model.
Trump’s troop deployment has been a critical element in his plans to construct a presidential dictatorship.
Speaking at the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei Berlin state election campaign launch, the party's honorary chairman explains that 35 years ago it was not socialism but Stalinism that collapsed, and that today's crisis demands the working class reclaim its revolutionary traditions.
The criminalization of thought in Ukraine is a dress rehearsal for what capitalist governments worldwide, including in Brazil, have in store for all those who rise up against war and fascism.
Workers and young people must oppose the use of the judiciary as a weapon to suppress and neutralize political opposition, and must defend democratic rights.
The statement followed a letter from the Socialist Equality Party (UK) to STWC Convenor Lindsey German on August 14. It is a blow against efforts to silence Bogdan’s defence campaign, including a mass media blackout.
Amid a deepening political crisis triggered by growing popular opposition to the escalating war against Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went on a tirade over the weekend against free and open elections, declaring that a vote would “destroy the country.”
The death of 28-year-old Jonathan Stepp is the second at a major US steel mill in little more than a month. It occurs as the USW bureaucracy negotiates new contracts with Cleveland-Cliffs and US Steel.
Some 10,000 John Deere workers rejected a sellout contract extension Sunday, defying a UAW apparatus that tried to smother the 2027 contract fight before it could begin and joining a widening rank-and-file revolt across the auto industry.
At least a dozen left-wing political organizations in 11 countries have publicly backed the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison on August 10 for opposing the war.
Actor Mark Ruffalo issued a powerful statement in response to the efforts of Paramount Skydance to slander him as an antisemite for publicly denouncing the Ellisons’ support for Israeli genocide and the media monopoly’s merger with Warner Brothers Discovery as a threat to freedom of expression and the jobs of entertainment workers.
Some 4,500 San Jose city workers across multiple unions have given strike authorization, while Vermont Medical Center workers fight for safe staffing, benefits and wages.
The Mark 3 version of the Australian Education-Labor deal is the same as the first two, with only cosmetic changes that will do nothing to relieve the intolerable working conditions.
Annual reports by the Security Intelligence Service have become increasingly bellicose in their anti-China denunciations.
The human-caused wildfire has burned more than 15,000 acres, destroyed at least 32 homes and injured seven people as extreme heat grips much of the western United States.
The attempt to intimidate Socialist Equality Party members is an attack on free speech and the democratic rights of all workers and students.
The rise in interest rates contains the threat of a “doom loop” where more debt is incurred to pay the interest bill on past debt.
Five children are dead in two unprecedented school shootings, the outcome of a decade of state killing, the militarization of Mindanao, and the routine violence of Philippine schools.
Toxic contamination was first identified nearly 50 years ago but a concerted effort at delineation and cleanup has only recently been undertaken.
Nearly two weeks after a derecho devastated northwest Indiana and Chicago’s southern suburbs, working class residents described prolonged outages, mounting expenses and abandonment by the government and major corporations.
The exhibition documents the lives, courage and determination of Palestinian journalists murdered by the Israeli regime in Gaza.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei chairman Christoph Vandreier warns that Germany is being prepared for war against the nuclear power Russia, and calls for an international movement of the working class against capitalism, the root of war and fascism.
We are publishing here the report delivered by Eric London to the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 2–7, 2026, introducing the third resolution, “For the defense of immigrants and the abolition of the immigration Gestapo.”
Members of the SEP met Nargis during a campaign in North London. Less than a week later she sent a poem for Bogdan Syrotiuk, imprisoned by the Zelensky regime for opposing the war in Ukraine and fighting for socialism.
Healthcare workers have demonstrated in central London and outside the prime minister’s office in Downing Street in defence of Abu Safiya.
“I call for the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk. His only crime has been fighting for the unification of Ukrainian and Russian workers to oppose a war that comes at the expense of those workers through their pockets and blood.”
Members of the Socialist Equality Group (GSI) campaigned at USP demanding freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk, jailed for opposing the Ukraine war.
Mamdani’s lawsuit foreshadows a massive conflict between his supposedly “democratic socialist” administration and the powerful New York City working class, which includes hundreds of thousands of public school educators.
A young man has been arrested on charges of foreign interference for allegedly trying to communicate information relating to Ukrainian military operations to individuals “he believed” were connected to Russian intelligence services.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney ended tariff talks after saying the US had introduced last-minute changes to a proposed deal which compromised the country’s sovereignty.
The meeting between the leader of the House Democrats and Trump’s son-in-law and trouble-shooter shows the real unity of the corporate ruling elite against the working class.
As France’s ruling elite prepares for the political return from summer recess and for the 2027 presidential campaign, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government is preparing new social attacks on workers.
The KMWU has refused to call out its membership in a sustained general strike or to link the struggle at Hyundai with other workers including at the automaker’s sister company, Kia.
The whereabouts of Pastor Gilbert Joubert Adrien and Victor Yonel remain unknown, while a five-year-old is imprisoned with his father in the Dilley concentration camp.
By blocking a united struggle against crushing caseloads, the union apparatus has collaborated in the ruling-class attack on workers’ Constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Today, I want to ask you to do something very concrete: Please make a generous donation to support the international campaign to free 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and opponent of war Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Israel assassinates PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa; Soweto student uprising builds into workers' general strike; United States and Philippines sign Mutual Defense Treaty; presidential decrees seek to stabilize Piłsudski regime in Poland.
What the Chilean ruling class calls “school violence” is the organic expression of a social catastrophe decades in the making.
Maxine Walker emphasised that the fight for Bogdan’s freedom means combating NATO’s pro-war messaging and falsifications: “In my experience, the narrative surrounding the Ukraine war is the most successful propaganda exercise mounted by Western states in living memory.”
Workers are rejecting a model in which vital cultural institutions are sustained by low-paid labour and goodwill while management pursues commercial expansion.
Johannes Stern joins The Katie Halper Show to discuss the 15-year sentence against the 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk and the international campaign to win his freedom.
The collapse of infrastructure in Gary and the broader Calumet region is the result of decades of policies through which the financial elite has drained resources from essential physical assets and funneled them into speculation.
Hundreds of thousands of retired workers and their families are being denied adequate support packages or left waiting interminably for basic services.
While bemoaning the IDF’s exoneration of itself, Labor leaders repeated the fraudulent Israeli narrative that the bombardment of a clearly marked aid convoy was an error.
“The Ukrainian government is committing a great crime by imprisoning Bogdan for 15 years because he spoke and wrote against the war.”
Three mass mortality events, involving a total of more than 1,000 greater crested terns, were detected in South Australia on Wednesday, with H5N1 the presumed cause.
India: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh protests over wages, pensions and labour-code provisions; Mumbai public transport workers begin indefinite action; Bangladesh: Ettadee Jeans workers demand unpaid wages; Sri Lanka: Wildlife veterinarians maintain work-to-rule action; Australia: Public sector doctors strike in Victoria.
Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swaths of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm.
The appointment of the SBU-linked Khmara signals a profound crisis of the Zelensky regime and the entire NATO war against Russia.
The financial oligarchy can defend the immense mass of fictitious wealth only by continuously driving down the living standards of the working class at home and seizing foreign markets, resources and supply chains abroad.
The FCC action, effectively ordered by President Donald Trump and implemented by his fascistic operative FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, is a frontal attack on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and the press.
More than 1,000 people in 58 countries and territories have signed the petition for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release since August 10, when a Ukrainian court imposed a 15-year prison term on the 27-year-old for seeking to unite the workers of Russia and Ukraine against the war.
The US government is sending immigrants to a country it warns its own citizens not to visit, where Blackwater founder Erik Prince’s latest mercenary outfit is helping conduct a drone war that has killed more than 1,200 people.
The El Teniente disaster was caused by the relentless pressure to cut costs, outsource labor and maximize production that is inherent to the capitalist mode of production, a pressure that operates whether the owner is a state corporation or a private shareholder.
The 57-year-old Stellantis worker killed on the job August 1 at the company's Mopar Parts Distribution Center in Center Line.
Nurses at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan were rushed into a ratification vote on a new three-year contract amid a UMPNC and corporate media campaign hailing the “historic gains” of the agreement and concealing the provisions that protect the interests of hospital management.
The WHO has allocated 70,000 doses of a vaccine licensed against a different Ebola species, while the destruction of US aid has stripped the region of the surveillance, food and sanitation that containment depends on.
The highly respected nurse, originally from Zambia, had an active asylum application when she was arrested.
A US deportation flight carrying Venezuelans, Cubans and Colombians landed in Liberia Thursday, the first under an agreement to transfer 1,200 people to one of the world’s poorest countries.
The theme of social crisis, a crisis of authority, compelling the conscious creation of new ways of living speaks across the centuries, even millennia.
“A young man writes what he believes. He says war is wrong. He says working people on both sides should stand together. For that—15 years in prison.”
Unite said there will be a ballot before the next strike scheduled for the 25th, although several bus drivers told the World Socialist Web Site they had received no details of the deal.
This pact offers the working classes of the signatory countries no protection whatsoever. It bids them to a chain of conflicts stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to South Asia and drives them into war.
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
August 11 was the second 24-hour strike by the radiographers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, pharmacists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists and other health professionals, in a 10-month enterprise bargaining dispute with the state government.
Analysts described the decision by the Treasury to lift its buybacks of long-term debt as a “band-aid solution" and focused on the rise in US debt, which passed the $40 trillion mark this week.
Not one of the officials and executives who enforced the policy of mass COVID infection has been charged with any crime, and several now run the federal health agencies.
"The drive to dictatorship and the political radicalization in the United States" is the second of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
Fishermen in northern Sri Lanka must unite with workers and poor fishers across the country and in India, who face the same struggle against big fishing corporations.
On the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, the WSWS is republishing its 2016 assessment of his political legacy. The disaster confronting Cuban workers today is not a break with Castroism but its outcome.
A member of the British section of the Pabloites is acting as a political provocateur on behalf of the Ukrainian regime and NATO.
The WSWS spoke to a defender of the Noida workers about the Uttar Pradesh government’s repression campaign of frame-ups, custodial torture and NSA detentions against labour activists. This is a part of a ruthless effort to make an example of those who dare to fight for a living wage.
Since 2023, Tyson has shut down six chicken plants, a pork plant in Perry, Iowa, a beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, and several other sites—cutting over 10,000 jobs.
The Texas state government, as with state and local governments across the country controlled by both parties, is engaged in a huge attack on public education.
Workers at the General Motors complex in Silao, Guanajuato have issued statements demanding the freedom of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, supporting the campaign of socialist autoworker Will Lehman for president of the United Auto Workers.
WSWS readers in Türkiye are calling on the court to release Bogdan. The 15-year prison sentence handed down against the 27-year-old socialist and opponent of war is also being covered in the left-wing press.
French firefighters strike against understaffing and austerity; 11,000 German port workers stage warning strike for higher pay; More than 32,000 Kenyan nurses continue national walkout
North answered questions on the fate of Ernst Thälmann, the Kronstadt uprising, the situation confronting workers in the Middle East and the strength of the Left Opposition inside the Soviet Union.
As is always the case in Western coverage of Russia and the war, the history of both the war and the political tendencies in question is completely ignored.
The most revealing feature of the debt mountain is not just its size, significant as that is, but the speed with which it has grown.
The Israeli government is building an execution facility to hang Palestinian prisoners, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Tuesday in a statement from his office. In video released from the site—a prison in central Israel that his office did not name—Ben-Gvir walks through the wing being built for condemned prisoners and says “gallows will be erected” there.
In a recent interview, Greens candidate Josh Jacobsen defended the NZ military’s role in the criminal imperialist war.
“The cuts will hit clients, support workers, teachers, and healthcare staff alike. It is clear this is an international offensive against the working class.” – Maureen, a former aged-care nurse.
Alexander Vindman became a celebrity among pro-war Democrats for his testimony against Trump during his 2019 impeachment over withholding military aid to Ukraine.
The Hollywood merger exposes the union bureaucracy’s collaboration with oligarchs, threatening jobs, democratic rights and artistic freedom on a global scale.
Silvia’s execution came five days after the first triple execution day in the United States since 2010. Ten more executions are scheduled before the end of the year: two in Florida, five in Texas, two in Tennessee and one in Alabama.
Arday’s appointment put a target on the back of a clearly quite vulnerable man, out of his depth and in no position to answer his critics and political opponents.
The theft of workers' wages and other entitlements at the mines and enterprises is part of a systematic policy.
“Notes from a Resident Doctor” aims to break the wall of silence erected by the Labour government, hospital management, and health union bureaucrats by exposing conditions inside the NHS.
The international campaign demanding the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to expand rapidly following his sentencing to 15 years in prison on August 10.
The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets.
Speakers exposed the disastrous consequences of the evisceration of the NDIS and its impact on the disabled and their families, and the jobs and conditions of health, education and welfare workers.
Incensed by South Korea’s refusal to join the US war of aggression against Iran, Trump has unilaterally reduced major joint war games that began Monday and announced plans for talks with North Korea.
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
Mounting drone and missile “deep strikes” are a response to the fact that the frontline has been fought to a bloody standstill—in a meatgrinder of trenches, artillery and drones.
Behind the constitutional theater in the Philippine Senate, the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte is being staged to eliminate the last significant political obstacle to Washington’s transformation of the archipelago into a forward base for war with China.
Loan defaults are rising and the number of companies financed by private credit being placed on a watch list is growing.
While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward.
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
Sahra Wagenknecht’s rapprochement with the AfD has been apparent for years. Now, she is not only moving closer to the far-right party in terms of policy, but is helping it attain power.
The corporatized union apparatus aligned to the Chilean “left” has done nothing but issue statements, observe moments of silence and light candles.
These developments further expose the Teamsters’ so-called “historic” 2023 contract as a historic sellout.
New York City’s DSA mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has remained silent on a lawsuit challenging mass police surveillance of hundreds of thousands of New York City Housing Authority residents.
The Galapagos operation sought to leave no fingerprints, employing an unregistered aircraft, a shell company, an unmarked ship. Survivors were seized, hooded, held at sea for eight days, then delivered to a third country as shipwreck victims.
A report issued by one of the chief anti-China hawks in the Trump administration has painted a picture of a giant global scam operation directed by China against the US.
The earthquake was unavoidable, but the terrible impact on the island of Flores is a result of government neglect and austerity.
Students denounced union officials during protests over educational funding in Uruguay, while Puerto Rican water workers struck and Illinois IKEA workers walked out.
Jaylene Vargas Gonzalez was found in the back of her van after it had been parked for hours.
One week after a Ukrainian court sentenced the socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison, the Times published a front-page feature on a Ukrainian held in Russia—while maintaining its total silence on the political prisoners of the Zelensky regime.
As Europe rearms against Russia, Austria’s Salzburg Festival has dismissed its acclaimed director for resisting political pressure to purge Russian artists.
The district will spend $1 million a year on software to track student screen time, six months after 12,500 students walked out against ICE raids.
Management plans to spend the next four months preparing the attack. The bureaucracy of the postal unions will use the same period to block opposition from the rank and file. Postal workers need a plan of our own.
After just three days of private operation, delays, crowded platforms, and a train fire sent passengers into a panic.
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a revolution.
The fraudulent settlement enables the Rabuka government to set aside a historic crime against the working class while enlisting the unions to absolve multinational mining companies of culpability.
The fourth annual International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky was held on August 16, 2026, at the Taş Mektep venue on Büyükada, hosted by the Adalar Municipality with the support of Mehring Yayıncılık and the World Socialist Web Site.
Nearly one in three people on earth cannot afford a healthy diet, according to the UN's annual report on food security.
New York City workers denounced Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s firing of Haitian city employees, connected the attack on immigrants to the conditions facing the entire working class and called for rank-and-file organization and strike action.
In a letter to STWC Convenor Lindsey German, the SEP’s Chris Marsden and Tom Scripps explained that 27-year-old Syrotiuk has been convicted of “high treason” for calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war.
The question posed by the new protest movement of Egypt’s powerful working class is how to overcome the political mechanisms that have repeatedly fragmented and contained workers’ struggles.
Publicly funded science is being reorganised around the requirements of British capital, with the open-ended investigation of nature squeezed out wherever there is no immediate commercial or strategic interest.
The loss of $15 billion by Jane Street in a month shows how fast problems for one firm, even a minor player, can be rapidly transmitted.
Many students had created their own placards, with some reading “blame billionaires not immigrants,” “not another Trump,” “power of the people is greater than the people in power” and “keep fascists out, not immigrants.”
Reports that sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have either jumped overboard or attempted to do so have exposed the horrendous conditions facing the largely working class naval crew that has been at sea for 268 days and deployed in the Arabian Sea in the war against Iran for five months.
A Chemical Safety Board report on the deadly 2025 explosion at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works documents decades of ignored warnings.
At the election rally of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei on August 15 in the Berlin district of Wedding, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German edition of the WSWS, spoke against the Ukraine war and the sentencing of 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison.
Opposition to the imprisonment of Bogdan Syrotiuk continued to build over the weekend, six days after a Ukrainian court gave the 27-year-old socialist 15 years in prison for calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war.
The multinational company Transdev is threatening to eliminate 53 jobs as it transitions to cashless ticketing systems.
The Trump administration has enlisted more than 2,000 state and local law enforcement agencies in ICE’s 287(g) program, extending its mass deportation operation into traffic stops, truck inspections, schools and county jails.
Coal mine explosion kills 55 workers in Ukraine; Ford defeats Reagan for Republican presidential nomination; Britain imposes economic sanctions on Iran ; German Communist Party expels oppositionists on Stalin's orders.
This speech was given by David North at the fourth annual international commemoration of Leon Trotsky’s exile on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, held August 16 before an audience of more than 100, under the title “My Life, Written on Prinkipo, and Trotsky's Years in Exile.”
Five women have died since May at Michigan’s only women’s prison, where incarcerated women describe systematic medical neglect under a for-profit health care system defended by the Whitmer administration.
Playing to largely empty halls, NSO's ticket revenues have fallen as much as 50 percent for some concerts.
Uganda will be joining other proxies within the International Stabilisation Force, including Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania.
Lewes was the fifth major rail accident in six years, three of them occurring since Labour took office in July 2024. On Friday, just 24 hours later, there was another derailment involving a Greater Anglia train in Wickford, Essex.
The report found almost no rental properties in the country were affordable for low-income workers and those relying on meagre government welfare payments.
McBride’s release is welcome news, but the Labor government has maintained his convictions and the precedent they seek to establish of preventing whistleblowers from exposing war crimes.
Sanders’ letter is calculated to stoke fear while covering up the decisive fact: that AI is the private property of a financial oligarchy, developed in partnership with imperialism.
