The Erdoğan government escalated political repression ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, detaining hundreds more people.
The Labour government is directly enlisting universities as part of its society-wide war drive.
The pogromist groups act as the extra-parliamentary spearhead of the African National Congress-led ten party Government of National Unity’s anti-immigrant policies.
The series of incidents involving falling objects highlights the ongoing risk to BlueScope workers after the tragic death of 24-year-old worker Jack McGrath last year.
The heat wave that struck the Midwest, South and Northeast of the US—with 35 states plus the District of Columbia hitting temperatures of 100˚ or more—has so far killed 25 people with expectations that the number of excess deaths will be significantly higher.
The white supremacist march in the capital, met with police protection and official invocations of “free speech,” exposes the real class content of democratic rights under the Trump administration.
Auto parts workers at Dana and Magna Seating are entering contract battles in the wake of UAW sellouts at American Axle and Nexteer and continuing industry cost cutting.
A lower turnout in the French territory’s elections and the subsequent deadlock reflect growing opposition to the entire political establishment.
The strike is a significant expression of militancy and political symbolism. Striking on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, in the very city where independence was declared, underscores that the revolutionary conflict of the present is the struggle of the working class against capitalism.
The speech delivered by Trump on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence expressed both the terror gripping the capitalist oligarchy and the political conspiracy ahead of the midterm elections.
Within the framework of the imperialist crisis, data on pathogens and health responses are treated as strategic intelligence. Access to vaccines is wielded as geopolitical currency.
California Democrats pass austerity budget slashing healthcare and education, expanding corporate subsidies while centralizing executive control over public schools statewide.
Dalephenia Jones is the latest woman to die in Michigan's only women's prison, where a profit-driven healthcare contractor and Democratic Party state government share responsibility for mounting deaths.
Born into the rubble of post-war Germany, Herma Huber belonged to a generation that demanded answers to the great catastrophe of Nazi fascism. Rejecting both Stalinist lies and capitalist hypocrisy, she found her answer in Trotskyism. Herma dedicated her entire adult life to building the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
Chilean court halts Pinochet prosecution; Washington Post pressmen indicted; armistice talks begin in Korea; Kuomintang begins Northern Expedition in Chinas
A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.
The Tanzanian working class and youth confront a corrupt bourgeois state defending itself through terror, an opposition tied to the same capitalist order, and imperialist powers competing against rising capitalist powers like China to loot the country's resources.
According to research by the Baby Bank Alliance, baby banks supported an average of 1,096 children per day last year in the UK.
The Communication Workers Union bureaucracy has no mandate for its collusion with Royal Mail management and Kretinsky. The ballot result on May 29 was carried on a historic low turnout of just 32 percent.
The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.
Customers on Reynolds’ route described her as kind, caring, hardworking and attentive to the people she served. “It was always a joy to see her,” one resident wrote.
It has long been evident that there are similarities in the political programmes of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD). But now the BSW is going a step further and offering the far-right party political cooperation.
The meeting showed developing concern among educators over the role of the NTEU and other trade unions in enforcing the dictates of the corporate elite and its governments.
The unemployment rate went down by one tenth of a point—from 4.3 to 4.2 percent—in June due to 720,000 people leaving the labor force and the creation of just 57,000 new jobs was far below expectations.
Labour’s record demonstrates that it is a party of big business that shares the National Party-led government’s agenda of militarism and austerity.
The preoccupation with fame and wealth and wall-to-wall media coverage of the Swift-Kelce wedding on Friday evening—overlapping with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—is one way the ruling oligarchy is seeking to divert the attention of the public away from the terminal crisis of capitalism.
Stefanovic’s trajectory is part of a broader lurch to the right by the political and media establishment.
The Liberal government, led by former central bank governor Mark Carney, has played the leading role in the development of this new multilateral bank, as part of its effort to drastically increase Canada’s military spending and cultivate military ties with powers other than its historic military-strategic ally south of the border.
The savage sentences mark the first major prison terms in the Trump administration’s campaign to brand left-wing opposition to ICE, fascism and capitalism as terrorism.
Reuters reported Friday that heat indexes could reach as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the US. Trump's so-called "Great American State Fair" event in Washington D.C.’s National Mall was temporarily closed after temperatures reached 101 degrees. Philadelphia canceled its Salute to Independence Parade after tying a temperature record set in 1901.
Rather than a turn to the right by the working class or the broad mass of the population, the elections express disgust with the entire political establishment.
While the government and corporations pour billions into rearmament and war, wages in the auto industry are to be cut and entire workforces laid off.
South Korea: Kakao platform workers strike again for higher wage and bonus; India: Rajasthan sanitation workers strike for job security; Australia: Campbell’s Soups workers continue walkouts over pay; Peabody extends Wambo mine lockout of washery workers.
For teachers, the way forward lies in a struggle that mobilizes the collective strength of all educators and of the other sections of the working class.
The American Revolution not only freed its citizens from the domination of the British Empire; it was an inspiration to all progressive struggles in British society, from the anti-slavery movement to the radical movement for democratic reform.
The Times editorial Wednesday put Burnham on his marching orders. The need to vastly increase the arms budget and the funding deficit “should spur him to take radical action on pensions and welfare.”
The newspaper claimed that the Committee for Public Education, established at the initiative of the Socialist Equality Party, was responsible for the historic rejection of a sellout deal by teachers in the state of Victoria.
Roberto Sánchez conceded, allowing Fujimori to proclaim herself president-elect. The fear that protests might spiral into a national insurrection outweighed his presidential ambitions.
A dangerous heat wave across the Midwest and Eastern United States is exposing workers to serious injury and death in auto plants, warehouses, postal facilities and delivery routes, where millions are being kept on the job without air conditioning or adequate safety measures.
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The victory of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America shows the American population moving to the left, but it cannot transform the Democratic Party from a party of Wall Street and the national security apparatus into a representative of the working class.
Under the seemingly harmless phrase “Germany is becoming crisis-proof,” the Bundeswehr, the state apparatus, the economy and the whole of society are to be rapidly prepared for a direct war against Russia.
The name of each martyred child is listed in small script, both Arabic and Roman, in the chronological order of his or her death.
Göktaş, a left-wing stand-up comedian whose video of a political comedy show garnered 8.5 million views in a week was taken into custody.
Amid the disastrous rescue and aid response, the US media has mounted a damage-control operation around Washington's role. Trump's remarks, however, expose contempt for the lives of Venezuelans.
As more than 63,000 people languish in immigrant concentration camps, the Trump administration is expanding street ambushes, worksite raids and mass kidnappings across the country.
SEP Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps and a group of SEP members aimed to deliver a letter of protest to the Turkish ambassador. Staff at the embassy refused to open the door.
Andrew, a construction worker, told SEP campaigners: “The people do not realise how much power they have. The masses have to take the power. There needs to be a redistribution of wealth, and that is why I like socialism.”
Offshore oil workers in Norway walk out over pay; protests by workers and retirees continue across Iran as ceasefire unravels; Sudanese teachers in Khartoum State walk out over non-payment of wages and poor working conditions
The interim report is a warning that Labor intends to ram through the NDIS legislation despite the widespread opposition revealed in hearings and the thousands of submissions to the Senate inquiry.
Governor Newsom’s AB 181 strips the elected education superintendent of executive authority, advancing the Democratic Party's assault on democratic rights and public education.
The immediate effect of the falling yen is to increase the price of oil and energy as Japan is dependent on the Middle East for more than 90 percent of its supplies, with the hike going across the board as Japan imports much of its food and raw materials.
UNITE HERE 274 called off the strike just in time for the massive July 4 tourism rush to the city.
An annual income of $2.2 billion, equivalent to the incomes of 37,931 US autoworkers, computes to $251,000 per hour.
A member of the Democratic Socialists of America defeated an incumbent Democratic congresswoman for renomination in Denver, while Senator Michael Bennet was denied the party’s nomination for governor.
The actor’s death plunged millions into mourning. He was buried in Istanbul on June 28 in a ceremony attended by large crowds.
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than any before it, precisely as Washington dismantles the global public health infrastructure built to contain such threats.
Since late May, Albania has seen its biggest wave of protests since the collapse of the Stalinist regime in the early 1990s. The direct cause of the demonstrations is a tourism development project backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Canary’s Steve Topple told WSWS, “Our situation is a damning indictment of the treatment of independent media in this country – whereby you can be potentially ruined without recourse by banking giants like Lloyds.”
What guarantees that Burnham will deepen the offensive against the working class is the deepening crisis of British and world imperialism that led to Starmer’s downfall.
Appearing willing to take on a greater role in Europe’s “security” and to assume new NATO obligations, the Turkish political establishment is using this card to strengthen its hand—above all against its regional rivals Israel and Greece—and to secure the interests of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
In typical anti-democratic fashion, the NTEU is trying to push an endorsement vote through a hastily called members’ meeting on Thursday.
The winding down of the monitorship does not mark the end of corruption inside the union or even a separation between the union bureaucracy and the capitalist state. It amounts to official sanction for the corruption and bureaucratic suppression through which the apparatus polices the rank and file.
The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday, Mamdani laid out his conception of “democratic socialism.”
The union apparatus, in line with its role as an industrial police force, has embraced Labor’s brutal agenda and offered its assistance.
The SEP and the IYSSE in Sri Lanka pay tribute to comrade Geethananda Jayasekera’s struggle for the Trotskyist principles of international socialism and extend our deepest sympathies to his family members.
Despite a concerted UAW effort to exploit the severe economic distress that it has foisted upon the plant’s low-paid workforce, Bridgewater workers expressed enormous opposition to the contract.
The European powers calculate that strikes deep inside Russia will force Moscow to respond and that any Russian retaliation can then be used to justify a still broader NATO intervention. This is the logic of provocation. It is the logic that leads to a direct war between nuclear armed powers.
The Supreme Court narrowly struck down Trump’s executive order that would revoke the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
The ruthlessness of the crime reflects a society in which explosive social tensions are mounting without finding any progressive outlet, and in which violence is propagated from the highest level.
Under cover of a non-existent cease-fire, Israel’s military attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank surged this week as the regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also moved forward with population transfer and annexation plans and expansion of Zionist settlements in the occupied territories.
Internationally acclaimed musician Peter Gabriel is developing a new album in 2026 entitled o/i (output/input) as a year-long series of track-at-a-time releases timed to arrive with each full moon cycle.
This prosecution is a blatant and dangerous political witch-hunt and frame-up. It must not be allowed to stand. It is a major escalation by the Trump administration of the effort to criminalize left-wing opposition to war, dictatorship and social inequality.
A record-setting heat dome is spreading across the central and eastern United States, threatening millions of workers and their families with deadly temperatures, wildfire smoke, power grid strain and unsafe workplaces.
On the final day of its current term, the Supreme Court handed down reactionary opinions attacking the rights of transgender students and lifting restrictions on corporate campaign funding.
Whatever the outcome of the dispute between these two nationalist governments, the conflict underscores that their war alliance against Russia is as fragile as it is reactionary.
Without a rank-and-file rebellion by doctors against the RDC, a sellout was inevitable. That is the central lesson from the dispute. Doctors showed their willingness to fight, but their struggle was undermined by the absence of an organised opposition to the BMA’s partnership with the government.
On Monday, the Supreme Court overruled more than 90 years of precedent and practice by authorizing Trump to terminate without cause commissioners appointed for fixed terms to regulatory agencies, except for Federal Reserve Board governors.
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.
