Tunnelling workers’ health and lives are at risk from the continued refusal of corporations and government authorities to address the known dangers of respirable crystalline silica dust inhalation.
By the government’s own figures, its changes to the tax regime for property investment will not decrease super-inflated housing prices even slightly.
The 2026 cruise ship outbreak has thrust into global view a pathogen with a 40 percent fatality rate, no approved treatment and a person-to-person transmission capability that capitalist governments chose to study as little as possible.
A week of near-daily mobilizations in São Paulo exposes the explosive crisis of the Brazilian bourgeois regime five months before the presidential elections.
The meeting took place in the shadow of the US attack on Iran that had been launched less than three months earlier.
Steyer is not a “class traitor,” but a conscious defender of capitalism seeking to buy political office as a Democrat.
The attack on jobs in the German auto and supplier industry is accelerating. It goes hand in hand with the social cutbacks the government has introduced in relation to the citizen’s income, healthcare and pensions, and with the squandering of vast sums of money on rearmament and war. Unless this trend is halted, disaster looms.
This speech was delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), and Dilaxshan Mahalingam, a leader of the IYSSE (Sri Lanka), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The CIA owes much of its nickname—Murder Inc.—to its record of terrorist attacks on Cuba.
After workers voted down a second UAW-backed contract by 73 percent, local union officials called a membership meeting for Sunday. The following is a statement by the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
President Dissanayake can rule through emergency decrees, deploy the military and police with extraordinary powers, restrict gatherings, detain individuals without normal judicial procedures, invoke censorship and ban strikes.
On May 8, the 81st anniversary of Germany’s liberation from the Nazis, around 45,000 school students protested nationwide against conscription and war. The movement shows the enormous opposition of an entire generation, but requires a socialist perspective to succeed.
The proposed fund would be overseen by a commission, subject to removal by Trump, with no obligation to disclose how more than $1 billion is awarded.
India: Haryana sanitation workers continue statewide strike; Bangladesh: Barishal University teachers demand promotions; Australia: Wambo coal mine workers hold another 3-day strike; ACT public servants and teachers walk out for better pay and conditions; DXC Technology workers strike again.
The WSWS spoke to Brian Goldstone in 2025 about homelessness in America and about his book.
This speech was delivered by Cheryl Crisp, Socialist Equality Party (Australia) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The rejection of a second sellout contract by Nexteer workers must be the signal for rank-and-file action to take the fight into their own hands by building the Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee.
The trade union bureaucracy bears direct responsibility for delivering the working class into the hands of the Starmer government.
Horus is paid roughly £900 a month by universities specifically to compile “encampment updates”, which use the information to identify students.
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman boasted that police had “arrested and charged people for calling for intifada at protests”
Sunday, May 3, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced on TF1 a candidacy not to mobilize workers against austerity and the war against Iran but to smother that mobilization within a nationalist orientation toward French capitalist institutions.
The union bureaucracy is sabotaging workers in order to prevent a struggle which would inevitably develop into a broader fight that would threaten its ties to management and the Democratic Party.
“It will be disastrous for tens of thousands of people, including workers in the sector. The burden will fall onto families, creating even more physical, mental, and financial pain.”
The speech was a political signal that amid its crisis, the opposition Liberal-National Coalition is turning to a fascistic, Trump-style “Australia First” appeal.
The proposals, made at the May 8 Board of Governors meeting, amounts to the abolition of USPS as a public service, converting it openly into a for-profit model and setting the stage for its privatization.
Yasmin Fahimi’s 96 percent reelection exposes the German Trade Union Confederation’s role in enforcing social cuts to finance German rearmament.
It is entirely justified to have the legality of the works council elections of March 11 reviewed by the Aalen Labour Court.
A discharge petition to bring the military aid bill to the floor had the support of two Republicans, one independent and all 215 Democrats.
The yield or interest rate on UK bonds has reached its highest level since 1998.
The New School University in New York City has announced massive layoffs of faculty and staff as a part of its right-wing restructuring program.
The SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement locks performers into four years of managed decline, institutionalizes AI exploitation and must be rejected. Build rank-and-file committees now!
This speech was delivered by Martaz Crutchfield, candidate for UAW delegate at Ford Dearborn Truck Plant, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Alex Lantier, Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
The crisis of the Starmer government is the product of two long-term and twinned processes: the international decline of British imperialism amid the convulsions of global capitalism, and the total collapse of the Labour Party’s working class constituency.
Days after making a splash in the local Calgary media by unveiling a new $75 million state-of-the-art warehouse facility, Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited unceremoniously axed an injured worker with 35 years at the company—essentially crying poor.
Tens of thousands in national 24-hour strike in Belgium against austerity; protests continue across Iran over wages and conditions;
What terrifies the CWU bureaucracy is that workers increasingly recognise the union apparatus as an arm of management. “He's reading off a script,” one worker said of Tony Bouch’s video. Another answered: “from a Royal Mail director.”
More than 200 members of Chocolate Workers Local 464 are preparing to strike against the chocolate giant after rejecting three offers.
The detained include Lee Sang-hun and Song Dan-bi of the People’s Democracy Party of South Korea, Joti Brar of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Dimitris Patelis, a professor of philosophy at the Technical University of Crete and Guy Bremond, a French activist.
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.
