Faced with intensifying global strategic conflict and growing economic turbulence, including Trump’s tariff war, the Indian bourgeoisie is determined to intensify the exploitation of the working class and rural poor.
The service union Verdi has signed a collective agreement that results in massive cuts in real wages for public sector workers in the federal states.
More than a year after their “ground-breaking agreement,” Walsh and Ward now act as spurned partners, claiming Kretinsky has not “honoured” his undertakings.
The worker was killed when a crane crushed him between its excavator arm and the bucket of the front-end loader.
Opposition to the company’s proposals is enormous at Whiting, which voted 98 percent to strike. But if the USW’s pattern agreement is accepted at other refineries, it sets the stage for a strike to be isolated, giving management the upper hand.
Workers are outraged by the betrayals of the UAW bureaucracy and the escalating attack on jobs and the social and democratic rights of the working class.
Whatever the final composition of the mission turns out to be, the reality that the imperialist powers are competing as rivals and even enemies in the Arctic will remain.
The US government is spending billions acquiring warehouses across the country to “process” those it deems “illegal.”
The era in which the interests of the imperialist powers were concealed by diplomatic manoeuvres and international institutions is over. A new era has begun in which they are decidedly open about military force and war.
Federal investigators found that Kaiser had systematically failed to provide adequate access to in-network mental health and substance use disorder treatment for thousands of members in California.
Angered by the New York State Nurses Association’s attempt to coerce them into ratifying a pro-management contract, the striking nurses are unwilling to give up their struggle until they have won safe staffing ratios.
Speaking at a conference sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and BAE Systems, Ocasio-Cortez accused the Trump administration of insufficient commitment to the US-NATO war against Russia, echoed the Trump administration’s accusations that Iran has killed “tens of thousands of protesters” and refused to rule out sending American troops to fight China over Taiwan.
Ford worker Thomas “TJ” Sabula has reportedly returned to work after being suspended without pay for calling Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” during the president's January 13 tour of the plant.
In December 2024, Works Council leader Daniela Cavallo and IG Metall district manager Thorsten Gröger announced a “Christmas miracle” at Volkswagen: 35,000 jobs cut and wages reduced by up to 20 percent. Now the board members are collecting bonuses of up to €1.75 million each.
Last Friday several hundred Los Angeles-area students faced off and stood their ground when attacked by violent federal agents outside the federal jail in downtown Los Angeles.
The intervention involves both big-business parties collaborating in an even more direct assault on social conditions through a federal decree that the city’s budget must be reorganized according to Trump’s tax boondoggle for corporations and the wealthy.
Auto factory occupation in Windsor, Ontario; Portuguese Stalinists, social democrats bow to military; US launches counteroffensive in Korea; France sets up puppet advisory group in Annam.
The CFPE—the educators’ rank-and-file network—urges educators to vote yes on the ballot, including for strike action, but warns that the AEU bureaucracy is preparing another sellout deal, as it did in 2022.
Well-known Indian author Arundhati Roy announced her plan to turn down an invitation to attend the festival due to her disgust at the comments made by Wenders and other jury members.
The ouster of Imee Marcos from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations expresses how Washington’s preparations for war with China are driving the conflict between the Duterte and Marcos factions of the Philippine elite.
Firefighters who spoke with the WSWS denounced government ministers and right-wing media commentators who attacked them for striking against pay cuts and rundown, faulty equipment.
Two characteristics of the American petty-bourgeois intelligentsia are highlighted in the Chomsky-Epstein correspondence: an infatuation with celebrity and wealth and a complete lack of genuine intellectual independence from bourgeois society.
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
USIC is owned by Study Group and operates in partnership the University of Sheffield, using its prefix and coat of arms to attract international students to study preparation courses that can cost up to £26,000 per year.
A list of “safe countries of origin” includes Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Bangladesh, Colombia and Kosovo, paving the way for mass migrant deportations.
The development of artificial intelligence (or more correctly augmented intelligence) AI and the growing concern that it has the potential to set off a major economic and financial crises shows that contradictions identified by Marx are coming to the surface once again.
UPS is preparing to launch a new buyout program as it eyes a reduction in its workforce of further 30,000 employees, potentially bringing total layoffs since 2024 to 90,000 by the end of the year.
The rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding marks a declaration by the capitalist class that there will be no restrictions on its ability to pollute the environment, regardless of the consequences in human lives.
The rally showed the powerful support for the strike, which the union bureaucrats and Democratic Party are now attempting to shut down.
San Francisco educators, on strike since February 9, should reject with contempt the betrayal of their four-day strike and expand the struggle to Los Angeles and beyond. The fight against manufactured austerity is the defense of public education everywhere.
Berlin has provided political cover and actively supported with arms deliveries the genocide that has turned the Gaza Strip into a wasteland and cost the lives of well over 70,000 people. Now Klöckner has openly declared her solidarity with the fascist Netanyahu regime and travelled to the scene of the crime.
Determined to win safe staffing and secure workplaces, the nurses must now wrest control of the strike from the union bureaucrats, expand the struggle to other hospitals and adopt a new strategy based on rank-and-file power and political independence.
Reuters reports that the Pentagon is planning for a far larger attack than last June’s one-off strikes, with officials saying the US “fully expected Iran to retaliate.”
Socialist Alternative's provocations, based on invocations of the discredited MeToo movement, expose it as a fake-left organisation of the upper middle-class, hostile to a socialist perspective.
Angus Taylor’s installation to head the Liberals highlights the deepening breakup of the parliamentary establishment as a whole.
“My jailing on bogus spying charges in Cambodia in 2017 was to intimidate and silence other journalists. The police violence in Sydney on Monday was intended to terrify people about going to future demonstrations.”
JBS workers, who are largely immigrants and facing threats of deportation and ICE raids, are joining a growing wave of resistance in the working class.
Refinery workers must organize themselves from below to fight for a deal that meets their demands, taking all actions necessary, up to and including a national strike.
Thursday’s action was a further indication of the mass social anger against Modi’s far-right, Hindu supremacist government and the state of Indian society more generally.
India: Punjab bus contract workers strike statewide; Sri Lankan government doctors continue protests; Australia: Queensland Urban Utilities workers strike for higher pay; Victorian public health support workers’ continue industrial action; New Zealand firefighters escalate strike; Air New Zealand cabin crew walkout.
Raman’s candidacy serves to construct a “left” safety valve within the Democratic Party, absorbing opposition while preventing it from developing into an independent movement of the working class.
There must be a counteroffensive against the government’s attack on democratic rights and support for oppression around the world, fusing the spirit of urgency and self-sacrifice which has animated PA protesters with a perspective for the broad mobilisation of millions.
In its early phase many members genuinely looked to revolutionary change—an orientation that was later crushed by the rise of Stalinism and the Popular Front policies it imposed on the communist parties and their periphery.
Dockworkers at ports in Greece, Italy and across Europe in austerity protests linked to opposition to war; textile workers in Egypt strike for higher wages; water workers in Johannesburg, South Africa take unofficial action over pay
The appearance at the largest conference of national-security officials and heads of state marks the full integration of AOC and the Democratic Socialists of America into the structure of American imperialism.
A scheduled event at Princeton University featuring a discussion with Norman Finkelstein about the ongoing Gaza genocide was abruptly canceled the day before it was to be held due to “new University policy.”
In light of the keynote speech by SPD chairman, finance minister and vice-chancellor Lars Klingbeil at the Willy Brandt House in Berlin, one thing is already certain: It will be the most right-wing programme in the party's history.
Socialist Alternative is trying to suppress the political lessons of Labor's embrace of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog and its police-state repression of opposition to his visit.
“Now if someone tells me about police brutality, I know exactly what they mean. I’ve had first-hand personal experience of it.”
On Wednesday, the pseudo-left mayor of New York City delayed key funding on rental vouchers to help the homeless while telling state legislators to tax the rich.
The scale of the occupation in Minnesota has been staggering. And it continues despite the effort of the national media to divert attention elsewhere.
President Prabowo is falsely claiming that Indonesia’s participation in the US-led colonisation of Gaza will guarantee peace and safeguard against the violation of Palestinian rights.
The struggle for better conditions for health employees is inseparably bound up with defending free healthcare, won through the bitter struggles of the working class, and supported by the poor.
The so-called “dagsing” (go-slow) by the Fellesforbund union, which began on January 8 and is still ongoing, is a cynical farce that workers are paying for with significant wage losses.
In recent weeks, members of the SGP spoke with workers at several Bosch plants in Baden-Württemberg. In numerous conversations, workers expressed their rejection of the IG Metall union apparatus and supported the proposal to build independent rank-and-file committees.
In his campaign announcement, Lehman called for workers to support his campaign, including by running as delegates for the UAW Constitutional Convention, which will be held from June 15-18.
The UAW apparatus has remained silent in face of mounting provocations by Stellantis, including another delay in the projected reopening of the shuttered Belvidere Assembly Plant to June 2028, past national auto contract deadline.
In Florida, Ronald Heath was executed on the recommendation of a nonunanimous jury. Kendrick Simpson, a survivor of Hurricane Katrina and victim of poverty and childhood abuse, was put to death in Oklahoma.
For much of the 20th century, measles was regarded as an unavoidable illness of childhood, even as it killed millions of people worldwide each year. The development of a safe and effective vaccine fundamentally changed that reality.
Prime Minister Carney, the rest of the political establishment and the talking heads of the corporate media may not want to admit it publicly, but Tuesday’s sudden outburst of violence is a product of Canadian social and political life.
A remastered and much improved reissue of the controversial sixth studio album by the British progressive rock band Yes, Tales from Topographic Oceans, has been released as a 50th anniversary super deluxe edition.
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum inviting US Marines into the country has exposed Morena’s deepening alignment with Washington and the military against the working class.
On Wednesday, NYP nurses overwhelmingly rejected the sellout contract New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) leaders tried to impose through an entirely illegitimate vote.
The Foundations, like its counterparts around the world, shows that the outcome of modern Türkiye’s history requires the working class to secure its political and organizational independence from all representatives of the ruling class and to mobilize on the basis of an international socialist programme in the struggle for democracy and social equality.
Since the start of the war, Palestinian communities in Area C have been systematically displaced from their homes at unprecedented rates. The 100,000 Palestinians living there are banned from building, and demolitions and displacements are a regular occurrence. Israeli settlements have been expanding.
The seven-hour shutdown was ordered by the FAA out of concern that US military anti-drone weapons might hit commercial air traffic.
US President Donald Trump held a war council at the White House Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finalize plans for a massive military assault on Iran.
This Friday, more than 60 heads of state and government, around 100 foreign and defence ministers, and numerous high-ranking military officials, politicians and foreign policy experts will gather for the 62nd Munich Security Conference.
On Tuesday, hundreds of Cass Technical High School in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood students held their second major protest in two weeks.
Trump’s attorney general refused to answer virtually any questions related to the administration’s ongoing cover-up of a multi-decade criminal conspiracy involving Jeffrey Epstein and powerful political and financial figures.
Schools for 50,000 students in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) remain closed Thursday as the strike by more than 6,400 teachers and support staff enters its fourth day.
The BJT win was a product, above all, of the political bankruptcy of the People’s Party and Pheu Thai, which have falsely postured as defenders of democratic rights and opponents of military rule.
In pursuit of US tariff relief, Lula has effectively legitimized Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro.
The move against the major new border crossing is part of an escalating campaign of economic coercion aimed at subordinating Canada to US imperialist interests.
The Queensland bill is similar to the “hate speech” and “prohibited groups” laws imposed in recent months by the federal and state Labor governments.
The European Union has again announced the tightening of migration and asylum policy. The aim is to further expand “Fortress Europe” and significantly accelerate deportations.
Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.
Labour’s crisis brings the working class face-to-face with the urgent necessity of intervening independently in the situation, above all through the creation of its own party.
A resident doctor and supporter of NHS FightBack appealed for a unified struggle against dangerous workloads, real-terms pay cuts, and the absence of tens of thousands of specialty training post.
At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism, as an organised political tendency. The ICFI’s victory over the WRP, and expulsion of those who refused to accept its socialist internationalist principles, was an event of global, historic significance.
On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.
On Tuesday, a day after the New York State Nurses Association announced sellout tentative agreements with Montefiore and Mount Sinai, the union leadership is violating its own bylaws to shut down the strike at the remaining hospital system, NewYork Presbyterian.
The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.”
The Kaiser strike is unfolding alongside a widening movement of educators and academic workers across California and the country.
“I’m here because Australia’s complicit in genocide and it needs to stop—we need to break the system.”
Last week’s fall on Wall Street flowing from the release of a new AI tool by Anthropic has been described as a “tech wreck” placing a big question mark over the future of many software firms.
It is clear that police were told “the gloves were off” and they had a green light to violently attack protesters opposing the visit to Australia of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog.
During restricted viewings that began February 9, members of Congress confirmed that the Epstein files presented as unredacted remain heavily censored, masking FBI findings that implicated billionaire figures in Epstein’s criminal network.
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) is standing in the Berlin state elections in September. We oppose the all-party coalition for war and social spending cuts. Together with our sister parties in the International Committee of the Fourth International, we are building a worldwide movement to stop the madness of war, mass layoffs and wage cuts.
Immigration courts are being rigged in favor of the White House-driven witch-hunt against those seeking asylum under international law.
What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
The “Labor Modernization” bill—longer hours, gutted severance, and strike criminalization—has sparked mass protests and strikes as workers rebel against IMF-dictated slavery.
India's new labour codes dismantle legal protections governing wages, job security and working conditions, and dramatically curtail workers' legal right to strike.
Both men are reportedly asylum seekers and hold Temporary Protected Status. Their seizure occurred in full view of witnesses and the permission of Amazon security.
Formally, it could be described as a blues-rock album, but it is more importantly a call to fight against the fascist regime emerging in the US. This is a welcome development among popular musicians.
The Stalinists of the MLPD are playing the role of henchmen for the trade union mafia: they intimidate workers who want to defend themselves and employ the vilest lies to defend the bureaucracy.
Los Angeles Democrats move to dismantle judicial oversight to shield failure on homelessness.
Following the preventable breakdown of the capital’s wastewater treatment plant, tens of millions of litres of raw, untreated sewage have poured into the nearby ocean.
In addition to low wages and harsh working conditions, warehouse workers face constant violations of their legal rights including weekly working hours, overtime pay, weekly holidays, public holidays, annual leave, occupational health and safety.
