TWU International President John Samuelsen denounced the WSWS’s reporting of the union’s support, calling it “provably incorrect.” But this is a lie, aimed at concealing the bureaucracy’s connections with management.
In congressional testimony Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst told the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense that the running cost of the Iran war has grown to $29 billion — and that this figure does not include damage to US military bases.
“My pay has gone down 12 percent since 2021. That’s a sharp fall, not a minor fall. Since the economic uncertainty prompted by COVID, it hasn't improved. So now we're forced here today to vent our frustrations.”
More than 1,000 Melbourne local government workers held a 24-hour strike last week. The action included workers in waste collection, maternal and child health services, aged care, childcare, libraries and parks maintenance.
The second impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte triggered a chain of crisis events—a power grab in the Senate, an ICC arrest warrant and gunfire in the legislature—that have shaken Philippine politics.
Peter Daszak is a British-born zoologist and disease ecologist best known for his work on emerging zoonotic diseases and for leading the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. Because EcoHealth had funded and collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Daszak became a target of the Trump administration and others who promoted the false “Wuhan lab leak” narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The political task facing the Argentine working class cannot be carried out within the framework of the FIT-U, nor on the basis of the politics of the PTS, whose objective function is that of a centrist obstacle to the development of revolutionary leadership.
A “no” vote on the new TA and strike by the 1,300 Nexteer workers could spark a mass movement of auto parts workers and galvanize production workers at the Big Three factories.
The US president seemed to channel the obliviousness of the French monarchy or the Russian tsar on the eve of their revolutionary overthrow.
This speech was delivered by Thomas Scripps, Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Tomas Castanheira, leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
After last week’s death of Jesús Martín Olivera at the GM Silao Complex, one worker at the plant said, “stress, the long working hours, and the production demands the company imposes are killing workers.”
An estate-approved film about Michael Jackson is an exploitation that leans heavily on his music and provides a superficial, selective view of his life.
Behind promises of “accountability,” a joint Los Angeles task force on homelessness is eliminating hundreds of frontline workers, increasing the privatization that produced the crisis in the first place.
The fact that Streeting could conceivably become Labour leader and prime minister points to the putrid state of the Labour Party, and its advanced stage of political collapse.
State repression is aimed at crushing the developing independent workers’ movement, expressed in a growing number of wildcat strikes and acts of resistance
To mark 100 years since the end of the 1926 General Strike (on May 12, 1926), the WSWS is republishing a lecture by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK). The lecture, "Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926" was delivered at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025.
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, the government is carrying out an onslaught against the most vulnerable sections of the working class, including the disabled and the poor.
A strike would shut down the center of American and world finance and set the stage for a far broader movement of the working class against inequality and exploitation.
Almost 85 years after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Berlin is once again driving forward a military offensive against Russia. The visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to Kiev marks a new stage in German-Ukrainian arms integration.
This speech was delivered by Evan Blake, a Socialist Equality Party (US) National Committee member, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Andrei Ritsky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists (YGBL), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Speaking to reporters before departing for China on Tuesday, President Trump said the US would accept only a “good deal” to end the war against Iran, or the country “would be decimated,” adding, “one way or another, we win.”
The problems facing the peasantry can only be solved through a struggle against capitalism in unity with the working class.
On May 14, 42,000 University of California workers are set to strike in a major confrontation with the state's Democratic Party establishment.
The deaths in Texas are the latest social crime produced by the bipartisan anti-immigrant policies of the US government.
The claim by the local UAW to be waging a determined fight to defend jobs was exposed within a few days, when the UAW suddenly called off the vote and announced a settlement that does not guarantee a single job.
An attack involving two “unidentified airborne objects” on a South Korean-operated ship in the Strait of Hormuz last week is being seized upon by Seoul as a possible pretext to join the US-led war against Iran.
American Axle parts workers overwhelmingly authorized a strike, joining Nexteer employees in a rank-and-file rebellion against decades of wage cuts and UAW sellouts.
The upgraded Vuvale Union is part of an expanding web of alliances and arrangements escalating Pacific involvement in the US-led preparations for war against China.
Released under tumultuous social, political and economic circumstances, Chaplin’s movie retains the artistic, cultural, political and social significance it had in 1936.
The German government is implementing the most extensive rearmament programme since Hitler - all to be financed by massive cuts to social services.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with staff on the picket on the first day of strike action.
Trump is traveling to Beijing under conditions of extreme crisis, amidst an ongoing war against Iran that has failed to achieve the war aims of American imperialism.
The meetings will outline the socialist perspective needed to halt the descent into global war and the accompanying onslaught on the conditions of the working class.
“There’s clearly money for the military and for war, but there’s never enough money for people and their basic needs.”
The $400 million loss by HSBC has raised questions about the connections between major banks and private credit which are often hidden from view.
Authorities claim the virus poses a very low risk to the public even as they mention the threat of a pandemic like COVID-19 and transport passengers to top-level biosecurity facilities.
Kamara Bond was fired twice for reporting dangerous conditions at the Dana plant in Warren, Michigan.
The popular opposition is so intense that several Democratic Party officeholders made mild criticisms of the DSA mayor.
One-third of rural hospitals face closure as the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” slashes Medicaid by over $900 billion, gutting healthcare for 60 million Americans to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and a $1.5 trillion military buildup.
Government agents have locked down a biology laboratory at Indiana University, attacking Professor Roger Innes for defending his Chinese postdoctoral researcher against fabricated federal charges.
This speech was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, National Secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Job action by 55,000 BC nurses could be imminent, while unions in Bolivia have refused to negotiate with the La Paz regime, saying it is not legitimate.
This speech was delivered by Tamino Dreisam, Leader of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The strikers and demonstrators were responding to a call from the organisation Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), supported by a number of other activist groups.
A report by CNN based on publicly available aviation data reveals a dramatic surge in US military intelligence flights around the island.
The company which produced the first approved COVID-19 vaccine profited enormously, but not its workers.
The closure of the Manroland plant in Offenbach marks the culmination of a process begun with the breakup of the company during the 2011–12 insolvency crisis, in which the IG Metall union played a central role.
These events vindicate the struggle of the Socialist Equality Party, which opposed the election of this rotten party and the pseudo-left tendencies who backed Starmer as the “lesser of two evils”.
Less than three weeks after United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 called off the powerful strike of meatpacking workers at the JBS meat processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, meatpacking workers at the JBS beef and pork plant in nearby Denver voted April 27 to authorize strike action.
The meeting of health and disability workers unanimously passed a resolution opposing the cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme and discussed a campaign to mobilise health workers against Labor’s brutal austerity agenda.
The plunge of the Liberal vote to just 12 percent, in a seat held by its previous leader, indicates that the traditional conservative party of the ruling elite is on the brink of collapse.
Bilal Irfan is a US‑based medical and bioethics researcher working on Gaza and Palestinian health.
In the case against 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, a third linguistic expert opinion requested by the court further undermines the case of the prosecution, based on charges of “state treason under martial law”.
A progressive response to this offensive is possible only through a frontal assault by the working class on the unchallenged “right” of capitalist property itself.
Beirut has been subjected to repeated, brutal Israeli bombing raids throughout the current conflict.
A proposed “citizenship test” seeks to portray migrants as a threat to New Zealand “values,” while other legislation will significantly expand the ability of the state to deport people.
The Socialist Equality Party categorically opposes these convictions and the death penalties, the aim of which is to intimidate the masses of workers and oppressed people who took part in the 2022 uprising.
A graduate student worker at UMass in Boston described how Harvard and other major universities rely on exploitation of academic workers.
As in the rest of the United States, New Jersey is experiencing a wave of layoffs of educators and school workers because of budget shortfalls.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined US Steel and its contractor MPW Industrial Services $180,000 for the deaths of Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee.
US President Donald Trump declared Iran's reply to his negotiation terms "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE" on Sunday, threatening renewed military escalation four days before his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Volkswagen is preparing the next round of mass cuts. The plants in Emden and Zwickau, the commercial vehicle plant in Hanover and the Audi plant in Neckarsulm face closure. A total of 40,000 people work at these plants.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), like mass transit agencies all over the country, is determined to make the workers pay for a fiscal crisis that they did not create.
As one of the French passengers repatriated from the MV Hondius developed symptoms mid-flight, the Trump administration announced it will neither quarantine nor test the 17 Americans returning from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.
This speech was delivered by Will Lehman, candidate for president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and member of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Ulaş Sevinç, Chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The results of the five Indian state and territorial assembly elections announced Monday, May 4, point to a deepening crisis of bourgeois rule and the urgency of arming the working class with a revolutionary socialist program and strategy.
Berlusconi returns to power in Italy; Terry Tyler arrested in Louisiana; Battle of Soyang River in Korean War; British General Strike betrayed.
The reaction from the shop floor to a new TA brought back by the UAW last week is broadly one of anger and disgust.
If Sheinbaum complies, she risks opening the floodgates to more US extradition requests, and fissures in her party. If she doesn’t, she risks aggression from an increasingly unhinged Trump administration.
Bosch's plan to cut 1,400 jobs at a facility in Turkey, in addition to the 22,000 job cuts at its facilities in Germany, raises the need for workers to organize an international fightback.
Slander on the scale now being mounted by the government and the media is preparation for sweeping political repression.
As Ukrainian soldiers continue to perish in the NATO-backed proxy war, new revelations make clear that the Ukrainian ruling class is enriching itself to obscene levels in Europe’s poorest country.
The deepening hantavirus outbreak and the Trump administration’s response to it expose the catastrophic dismantling of US public health and scientific infrastructure six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"For the past two years the state of Israel has been conducting a genocidal campaign in Gaza."
US Navy aircraft attacked two Iranian-flagged oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Friday as part of the US naval blockade of Iran, in a major escalation of the war.
The Brazilian president’s posturing as a “left-wing” opponent of war collapsed with a single phone call from Trump—who reportedly signed off with “I love you.”
President Dissanayake’s claims to head “a workers’ government” are absurd. The JVP/NPP presides over a capitalist government carrying out sweeping attacks on workers and the poor, including higher taxes, higher prices and wholesale privatization.
Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan are determined to vote down a second pro-company tentative agreement handed to them by the UAW Local 699 leadership just five weeks after they rejected an initial TA by 96.2 percent on April 2.
Labour has been haemorrhaging support since Tony Blair, but what has really given Reform UK its head is the repeated sabotage of the striving by workers for a left-wing alternative.
Residents of nearby Orange have raised concerns mining activity contributed to the most powerful seismic event ever recorded in the region.
A judge fined the company just $7 million for industrial manslaughter over the preventable death of an underground coal worker in Queensland.
Workers rejected the first tentative agreement last July by 71 percent on a 92 percent turnout.
Ignoring protests from archaeologists and local Native Americans, a border wall construction crew knowingly cut a wide swath through a pre-Columbian geoglyph site. This is just one of many such impacts to archaeological sites by this project.
The government’s Defence Industrial Strategy pulls no punches when it comes to laying out the purpose of its strengthened collaboration with post-secondary institutions—waging war.
The recordings involve discussions about imprisoning or assassinating opponents, and coordinating a continental offensive against the “cancer of the left.”
India: Karnal municipal sanitation workers strike; Bangladesh: Garment workers at Chattogram demand unpaid wages and benefits; Australia: Workers at eight Melbourne metropolitan councils walk out; Queensland Rail workers escalate industrial action.
The heat wave in March led to a record collapse in snowpack across much of the American west, threatening already overstressed water supplies for millions
Eighty-one years after the end of World War II in Europe, the spectres of war and fascism are back. The IYSSE calls for building an international, socialist anti-war movement against conscription and militarism.
Bipartisan austerity, union betrayals and deepening inequality are devastating public education in California and across the United States.
Mehmet Türkmen, an independent union leader who has been in prison since mid-March, was placed in solitary confinement for drawing attention to the dire conditions of a fellow inmate.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has driven fuel prices in Africa up by as much as 80 percent. Inflation is rising, and food production is in jeopardy, with governments scrambling to avert agricultural collapse.
Pointing to the company headquarters where CWU officials are in constant discussion with management, a worker from Mt Pleasant said: “Them lot upstairs are not interested in us, it's how much profit they can make.”
IMF austerity attacks, compounded by the war burden, are hitting already impoverished workers and the poor.
Labor is brutalising the vulnerable people to attack democratic rights and to compete with the fascistic, anti-immigrant One Nation in the demonisation of Muslims.
Jörg Baberowski’s latest treatise, Am Volk vorbei—Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie (Bypassing the People—On the Crisis of Liberal Democracy), is being hailed and praised in countless media outlets. This can only be understood as a deliberate political campaign to secure the AfD a place in government.
Six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the institutions of public health have been so thoroughly dismantled that the ruling class no longer knows, or wishes to know, how far this outbreak has spread.
The mission is neither peaceful nor neutral. The former colonial powers France and Britain are pursuing their own imperialist interests in the Middle East, which do not align with those of the US. The same applies to Germany and the European Union.
