The fine is a reduction from the initial figure of $66,200, equivalent to 10 seconds worth of USPS revenue and likely not even half of what Acker’s yearly salary was at the post office.
The shutdown of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show by CBS after 11 years raises important questions about the consolidation of the corporate media with the drive by the financial oligarchy and the Trump White House to silence opposition and control what the public has access to.
The workers at the plant have already rejected two deals and voted to strike. But rather than honor that mandate, the UAW extended the contract, lied to workers that a strike would be “illegal,” and has now brought back a third agreement.
Carroll won civil judgements against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, with damages totaling $88 million. Both cases are on appeal to the US Supreme Court.
One mother was barred from re-entry by an arbitrary Labor government exclusion order, violating the fundamental democratic rights of citizenship.
Sri Lanka’s opposition parties, including the SJB, are signaling that they are ready to join hands with the JVP government to suppress workers’ struggles.
The deaths of 11 workers in Longview are not an aberration, but part of the return of mass industrial slaughter under capitalism.
While the US and international press are focused on the terms of negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran, Israel is massively expanding its rampage across the Middle East—moving to permanently occupy Gaza and escalating its bombardment of Lebanon.
The far-right coalition government is seeking to narrowly define the words “woman” and “man” in order to demonise and discriminate against transgender people.
The Mexican government’s capitulation on migrants, Cuban oil, and operations by US troops and spies has only emboldened the Trump administration.
The German government's friendly reception of Syrian Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and its plans to deport up to 80 percent of Syrian refugees have sparked massive fear among those who have sought asylum in Germany.
That MAS voted to hand repressive tools to a government already shooting its own citizens requires an explanation beyond factional rivalry.
The shock generated by the Iran war is now testing the so-called “resilience” of the banking system, threatening to expose credit, liquidity and funding vulnerabilities.
Even if the case succeeds, it will not stop the state Labor government’s criminal wrecking operation; just require Homes Victoria to hold a consultation process.
Piker represents a certain social and political type, who can gain a widespread following but are easily absorbed into the milieu of the Democratic Party.
Rabb appealed to voters based on his opposition to inequality, ICE, genocide and war, but promotes the dead end of the Democratic Party.
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
Mass demonstration in Madrid, Spain against housing shortages, high rents and property speculation; hundreds of miners at Özşen Mining, Turkey strike over unpaid wages and sackings; petrochemical workers at Petronad in Iran protest sackings as US blockade bites; iron ore miners walk out in Guinea over pay and conditions
Greece’s integration into US imperialism’s war drive is the culmination of the country’s decades-long status as a client state for Washington.
“If you don’t get access to support at the right age, during pivotal periods of mental and physical development, it can have long-term effects, including increased psychosocial disability and mental health challenges.”
Abbott’s ascendancy signals that the Liberals are moving towards an openly far-right pitch, in a bid to stem their existential crisis and to compete with the fascistic One Nation.
The high death toll at the Liushenyu mine and widespread public outrage on social media has meant the tragedy could not simply be hushed up locally. A more sophisticated top-level cover-up is now underway.
State Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn to be the Republican candidate for Senate in November.
To defeat Meloni, workers striving for political independence from the union bureaucracy and the parliamentary parties must be deepened through the establishment of rank-and-file committees.
The confirmed death toll from the Longview paper mill disaster rose to two Wednesday, with nine workers still inside the wrecked facility presumed dead.
The SpaceX market launch could make Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, the first trillionaire.
The Rouge Workers Rank-and-File Committee at Ford Dearborn Truck Plant and a retired GM worker have issued statements of support for the Nexteer workers.
The attack marked a new escalation in ICE’s repression at the prison, where 300 immigrant detainees are waging a hunger and labor strike.
As Ebola deaths surpass 250, the Trump administration has responded not with resources but with border control orders and offshore quarantine camps for American citizens.
The evacuation orders were lifted Tuesday night, but many residents face financial hardship and worry that the danger from chemical exposures, or a future explosion, has not yet passed.
For the first time, the “Sudeten German Day” gathering took place in Brno, in the Czech Republic, rather than Germany. Following the Second World War ethnic Germans, many of whom had supported the Nazis, were expelled from the former Czechoslovakia. This year’s event served as a political provocation amidst the growing militarisation and eastward expansion of German imperialism.
Workers warned for years as management ignored failing tanks and Teamsters Local 952 buried grievances to preserve labor peace.
In explaining its decision, Unifor extolled its “longstanding and productive working relationship with the Ford Motor Company.”
As 10,000 marched in São Paulo, pseudo-left leaderships steered the strike toward negotiations with a state government and a legislature dominated by the far right.
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
The mine explosion is another graphic example of the dangers facing miners and other workers around the world as their lives and health are subordinated to the rapacious corporate drive for profit.
These laws are the latest escalation in a bipartisan offensive to essentially criminalise the poverty, chronic housing shortages and lack of secure employment that Australian capitalism has inflicted upon many working people, particularly Indigenous people.
The death and suffering of children from a preventable disease is a political indictment of policies that have prioritised profits over universal public health.
Following the last strike in 2005, Transit Workers Union Local 100 signed an affidavit forswearing the right to ever strike again.
The near-disaster comes as the Trump administration is calling for an unprecedented 50 percent increase in the annual military budget to $1.5 trillion.
The lockout followed an overwhelming rejection of the last contract offer by 85 percent.
The scramble for these resources has resulted in the decades of civil war, with various groups and armed bands seeking to gain control of territory.
An Australian Catholic University report on the well-being of school principals points to intolerable conditions.
Xiaoyuan Li, an immigrant worker, was killed and dozens of firefighters injured when fire and explosions tore through the May Ship Repair shipyard in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island.
At least one worker is dead and nine remain missing after a massive chemical tank ruptured at Nippon Dynawave, a Washington paper mill with a record of safety and environmental violations.
Israeli forces struck Lebanon with more than 120 air raids on Tuesday, the sharpest single-day escalation since Israel resumed its bombing of the country in early March. The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 40 wounded in attacks across the south and the Bekaa Valley.
The show of force was aimed squarely at intimidation and demonstrating who is in control. Top generals and warplanes can land and depart as though the country were any military outpost on US soil.
The Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued this statement to 1,300 workers at the Saginaw, Michigan plant voting on a third sellout contract pushed by the UAW bureaucracy.
The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.
Rivers around the world are losing oxygen, which threatens resources on which millions depend.
Colleagues have seen through Walsh’s “heavy and light” alternative to the Optimised Delivery Model (“DM26”). It accepts three delivery workers doing the work of four: slashing jobs by a quarter and intensifying workloads.
What is unfolding across Sheffield is a concentrated expression of a broader, 15-year assault on higher education, accelerated under the Starmer Labour government.
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
Hundreds of Argentine and Bolivian workers, students and retirees carried out a mass march through downtown Buenos Aires and rallied at the Bolivian embassy in support for the general strike and mobilization of the Bolivian proletariat and peasantry fighting to overthrow President Rodrigo Paz.
What is unfolding in Türkiye is not a purely national event but a significant manifestation of an international process rooted in the deepening crisis of the capitalist system.
A US Central Command spokesperson said the strikes on a port city in southern Iran were carried out “to defend our forces” against “threats posed by Iranian forces,” although he provided no evidence or details about the claimed threats.
As prices soar, driving thousands into poverty, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) government is revealing itself to be just as reactionary as the more established bourgeois parties that it displaced.
Under the cover of collaboration and so-called “collective self-defense,” Tokyo is building military networks in the Indo-Pacific through agreements with nations like the Philippines.
The proposed AEU agreement in the state of Victoria amounts to a further real pay cut, does nothing to address crushing workloads or class sizes and strips educators of the right to strike until 2030.
More than 40,000 New York City subway and bus workers have now entered their second week without a contract after it expired on May 16. Workers are fighting to keep pace with the cost of living and to resist sweeping work rule concessions in a struggle of major national and international significance.
The Nexteer rebellion is the concentrated expression of decades of betrayal by the UAW bureaucracy, breaking to the surface across the entire auto parts sector.
Series creator, co-director and co-writer Lee Sung Jin makes the pressures of capitalism and class society a persistent theme and source of crises in the series.
“The government doesn’t think about us,” one displaced resident told the WSWS, as thousands remain evacuated after a toxic emergency at GKN Aerospace.
The McCarthyite probe, first reported by Fox News, targets antiwar activists, journalists and streamers who traveled to Cuba with medical aid.
With the Ebola toll past 1,000 cases, the gap between the WHO's recommendations and conditions in the eastern DRC has erupted in the torching of two treatment facilities.
Washington D.C.‘s Democratic establishment is responding to youth gatherings by adopting Trump’s law-and-order agenda, criminalizing the impoverished children of communities its own policies have hurt.
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
The political crisis in Turkey escalated further on Sunday when police raided the CHP headquarters.
Democrats from LA City Hall to Sacramento colluded with union bureaucrats to strangle a 77,000-strong strike—then imposed more cuts.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on Nexteer workers to vote down this third sellout with the contempt it deserves and build the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee as the instrument for carrying forward the fight, constructing a new leadership drawn from workers rather than bureaucrats.
The IG Metall apparatus and its works council representatives have made it their main task to ensure that all the company’s attacks are enforced and the workforce is squeezed to the last drop to increase Bosch's profit margin.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Despite ratification, issues concerning poverty wages, housing assistance, healthcare premiums, parking costs and staffing protections will remain unaddressed and will continue to worsen until the contract’s expiration in 2029.
Demonstrating the bankruptcy of the union’s strategy, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) suspended its strike as workers faced being locked out for the summer term and beyond.
Rescue operations were hampered by the fact that blueprints of the mine provided by the company did not correspond to the actual underground layout, forcing rescuers to improvise.
The Supreme Court decision further undermined the Voting Rights Act, enabling a Republican gerrymander in Louisiana to eliminate the seat held by a black Democratic congressman.
The announcement Saturday by the Trump administration that it had “largely” reached an agreement with Iran has drawn denunciations from broad factions of the US political establishment, with Democrats joining Republicans to attack the proposed agreement as insufficiently advantageous to US imperialism.
Decades of regulatory negligence in the Democratic Party-dominated state turned a preventable chemical hazard into a crisis threatening thousands of lives.
New USCIS policy threatens to separate families and strand workers, students and spouses abroad.
These results provide an indication of the worsening price being paid by working-class households, and especially young people, for the criminal US-Israeli war on Iran.
Ahead of the release of the budget on Thursday, the government has announced an increase to student fees, nearly 9,000 public sector redundancies and cuts to welfare payments.
Just five major tech stocks have accounted for 50 percent of the recent gains in the S&P 500 index which have lifted it to record highs.
Larry Bushart was awarded $835,000 after being jailed for sharing a Facebook meme critical of Charlie Kirk. His case exposes the severe limitations being placed on “free speech” in America.
The veto of these two bills confirms—for the thousandth and first time—this fundamental reality of American politics: the Democratic party is a capitalist party charged with diffusing and disorienting popular hostility to the profit system.
The city and county governments in West Lafayette, Indiana have approved road construction projects and issued building permits for SK Hynix to proceed with plans to build a massive microchip factory on a Purdue University site, against ongoing community opposition including a pending lawsuit filed by residents.
Districts face budget deficits amid declining enrollment, budget crises, inflation and war.
The three cases, unfolding within 24 hours, share a disturbing set of commonalities: fundamentally unfair sentencing proceedings, defendants whose severe mental illness, unaddressed childhood trauma and neurological damage went largely unaddressed at trial, and execution protocols the subject of legal challenge.
US convicts four in embassy bombings; Syria intervenes in Lebanon civil war; Britain opposes Iran oil nationalization; Ukrainian rightist assassinated in Paris.
Part one of a five-part series examining the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, this article exposes the party’s defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
Under political pressure from the Erdoğan government, a court unlawfully removed the elected leadership of the Republican People's Party, triggering a major political crisis.
The Ebola epidemic ravaging central Africa is not a natural disaster but a social crime, the predictable product of the Trump administration's destruction of global disease surveillance and more than a century of imperialist plunder.
These statements are significant because they suggest that the overall value of the deal, which workers have not yet seen, is no better than the contracts workers previously rejected before the strike.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the media before the formal consultations began Friday morning that the Trump administration was “disappointed” with NATO members’ “response to our operations in the Middle East.”
Labor issued mealy-mouthed condemnations, while treating the relatives of the brutalised activists with utter contempt and hostility.
How is it that one individual can accumulate such an art collection and withhold it from the public?
The WSWS spoke with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty. Dr. Chakravarty is the chief executive officer of Fractal Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that applies mathematical modeling to drug discovery and development, and has headed an interdisciplinary team of volunteers that has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19.
The San Diego massacre exposes the fraud of the Trump administration’s claims that “left-wing extremists,” not fascists, are the central domestic terror threat.
Of the 4,382 homes or housing lots promised through the northern NSW flood recovery programs, zero had been delivered as of March 31 this year, four years after the disasters.
The working class must understand that the Dissanayake government is preparing a frontal assault on its living and social conditions and democratic rights and is turning towards autocratic rule.
Nobody is exempt from the sweeping attacks on basic democratic rights by the Trump administration, no matter what their national origin or immigration status.
