Postal workers at 40 distribution centres across Belgium take unofficial strike action against attacks on conditions; thousands of teachers in France walk out over job cuts; healthcare workers in Mozambique threaten to extend dispute to national stoppage over collapsing health system
The most significant feature of the summit was the absence of the United States. President Donald Trump has rocked the European powers by declaring that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not his concern.
The judge said in a verdict whose implications are vast: “Protest rights, while fundamental, are not absolute and do not permit breaching lawfully imposed conditions.”
By a vote of 62 to 48, Israel’s Knesset approved a law Monday enshrining the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians who carry out an “act of terrorism” on citizens of Israel.
Workers who spoke to the WSWS during the vote denounced its expansion of a two-tier wage system, unaffordable healthcare costs, poverty-level pay for new hires, and the role of the UAW bureaucracy in imposing it.
While the immediate aim is the subordination of Iran and the Middle East to US imperialism, the war is viewed in Washington as essential preparation for conflict with China, regarded as the chief threat to US global domination.
Tech giant Oracle joined the industry-wide AI jobs massacre by informing thousands of employees on Monday via an email message at 6:00 a.m. that “current business needs” have eliminated their position and “today is your last working day.”
Italy’s denial of US base access rests on procedural objections, but fundamentally reflects overwhelming popular opposition to war and state repression.
In a prime-time television address Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the goal of the United States in the Iran war is the destruction of Iranian society.
The would-be dictator in the White House seeks to strip millions of their citizenship and rig the 2026 elections.
The UAW, which pledged to defend jobs in the transition to electric vehicles, has offered workers nothing but platitudes and silence.
Six thousand DHL workers in the US had authorized strike action by 96 percent against the global logistics giant earlier in March.
As the war enters its second month, the price of Brent crude, the global benchmark, has risen by 63 percent from its pre-war level, eclipsing the previous record monthly rise of 46 percent following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
In a powerful lecture at Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg, David North demonstrated that the US-Israeli war against Iran constitutes a crime against peace under the legal standards established at the Nuremberg Trials.
Eleven parties, including Kurdish nationalists and nominally “left-wing” groups in Türkiye, issued a statement appealing to the Erdoğan government for "peace" without addressing US imperialist aggression against Iran and across the Middle East.
Ahmad Othman, an activist against the genocide of the Palestinians, has successfully sued against his second dismissal by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In the third round of negotiations, the German mining and chemical union IGBCE (Industrial Union of Mining, Chemistry, and Energy) reached an agreement with the employers' association BAVC on real wage cuts for the 585,000 employees in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry nationwide in Germany.
The force, the genius, of Emily Brontë’s novel is totally absent, wholly unexplored in this adaptation.
Ash Field is a specialist school for children aged four to 19 with complex medical conditions, serious physical disabilities, leading to Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and/or Moderate Learning Difficulties.
Jürgen Habermas, who died on March 14 in Starnberg at the age of 96, occupied for more than half a century a position of extraordinary influence in German intellectual and political life.
Neither the Trump administration, General Dynamics management nor the union bureaucracy could allow this strike to continue.
Located about 60 miles south of Toledo, parts from the Findlay plant make their way into the final assembly of engines, cars and light trucks produced by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis throughout the Great Lakes region.
Albanese’s comments, which do not include even slight criticism of the US-Israeli war of aggression, are a cynical attempt to distance his government from a war that it is participating in.
The Financial Times reported—based on information from sources with direct knowledge of the investments—that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s long-time financial advisor invested $9.4 million with defense contractors based on inside information about the start of the war against Iran that has since seen a 38 percent increase in value.
Among the first victims of the Iran war is international law, as it was developed after the Second World War. Almost all legal experts agree that there is no basis in international law for the war being waged by the US and Israel.
WSWS video reporters spoke to protesters at the massive "No Kings" rallies held across the US on March 28.
The plot to kill Kiswani was not an isolated act, but the product of a political environment in which opposition to genocide has been criminalized and democratic rights are under sustained attack.
The United States has begun bombing Iran with B-52 bombers, setting the stage for a massive increase in the US saturation bombing of the country of 90 million, as the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran intensifies.
Two months on, no copy of an agreement has been provided to NTEU members, let alone voted on.
Revelations of abuse and rape expose the UFW’s decay, cynically weaponized by fascistic forces to intensify attacks on farmworkers and immigrant communities nationwide.
Paoli’s work helped define the “cantautore” tradition and expressed Italy’s complex cultural transformation amid postwar reconstruction and social change.
The Liberals are intent on ensuring that they and future governments retain the broadest possible latitude to invoke emergency powers in political and social crises, in particular against the working class and a developing movement against austerity and war.
Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have signalled their impending intervention as active belligerents against Iran.
Labour’s paltry offer is not only an insult to resident doctors. It is an indictment of the course of action pursued by the Resident Doctors Committee.
The reception of Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Berlin exposes the hypocrisy of German war propaganda and underlines its imperialist goals in the Middle East.
A new tentative agreement for Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan, contains sweeping concessions, particularly on pay for new hires and out-of-pocket benefit costs.
On Monday, the 30th day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, US President Donald Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran’s energy generation and water desalination plants unless it surrendered to his demands.
The financial press has noted that this could set a precedent for the slashing of labour-hire wages throughout the coal mining industry and more broadly.
A three-member CNN news team—journalist Jeremy Diamond, producer Abeer Salman, and photojournalist Cyril Theophilos—were set upon by a group of Israeli soldiers on Friday while they were interviewing Palestinians and reporting on Zionist settler violence in the area.
A member of the Jewish Defense League Brotherhood 613 planned to firebomb Kiswani’s home in Brooklyn, NY, with the aim of killing her, her husband and her 10-month-old baby.
None of the measures outlined will meaningfully ease the cost-of-living crisis and supply shortages resulting from the increasingly catastrophic US-Israeli war on the people of Iran.
In response to soaring prices, the National Party-led government announced a pitiful $50 weekly payment for some families, while making clear that workers must sacrifice their living standards because of the war.
Trump’s efforts to placate markets are wearing thin as investors focus on energy shortages and troop movements rather than statements from the White House or the social media account of the president.
Letting in a single Russian oil tanker, while simultaneously boasting that “Cuba’s next” shows that the regime-change operation is only accelerating.
A video of WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North speaking outside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice on the criminality of the US war against Iran has been viewed nearly 200,000 times across social media platforms, generating an outpouring of support.
Dockers at a key Brazilian port launched a limited strike in opposition to pending anti-labor legislation, while 17,000 US First Student bus drivers have authorized strike.
The war’s most immediate impact has been on India’s liquid petroleum gas supply, but its fallout threatens to spread across the economy, driving up inflation, especially the cost of food and transport.
A Deutsche Bahn signal mechanic has been sentenced to a fine of €6,300 for negligent manslaughter.
The military collaboration underscores that the wars in Ukraine and Iran are essentially part of a global conflict, in which the fronts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are closely interlinked.
Polanski made clear that he was opposed to the motion’s description of Zionism as racist.
An ethylene production plant at Mossmorran, Scotland has ceased production and started laying off its 400 strong workforce.
The third round of “No Kings” demonstrations on March 28 drew millions of people into the streets across the United States in what was the largest single-day protest in American history.
Actors, musicians and others have raised their voices in protests in recent months, and specifically on March 28.
Mass layoffs and strikes are taking place in industries such as metals and transport.
While it will be greeted with outrage, Trump’s decision to fix his signature to the dollar may well come to be regarded as a fitting symbol of the economic, financial, cultural and political decline of US capitalism, of which he is the personification.
The PT and the pseudo-left’s argument that the conviction of Bolsonaro and his military coup cabal “buried” the fascist threat in Brazil proves to be not only false, but politically complicit in its resurgence.
In an interview published Sunday in the Financial Times, US President Donald Trump announced his “preference” to “take the oil” from Iran—a massive expansion of the US war of aggression that would only be possible through a ground invasion of the country.
The outgoing government, comprising the liberal Freedom Movement (GS), the Social Democrats (SD) and the Left Party (Levica), no longer has a majority of its own.
The defiance by JBS management must be answered by workers through a deepening of the struggle through the formation of rank-and-file strike committees.
The Trump administration’s deliberate refusal to nominate a CDC director, combined with a federal injunction against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisory panel, exposes a systematic capitalist assault on working class public health.
Labor’s specific travel ban on Iranians further demolishes its claim to be supporting the illegal war in order to free them from oppression or protect people in the Persian Gulf region.
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands, which sits atop 120,000 tons of radioactive debris from US nuclear weapons tests, is leaking.
Abdul El-Sayed, “progressive” Democratic Party candidate for US Senate in Michigan, is holding rallies at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan on April 7 as part of an effort to corral students behind his pro-capitalist politics.
The claims of Chinese espionage rest on anonymous confessions and unsubstantiated military claims and are being weaponized to fuel anti-Chinese racism and sabotage a possible reorientation by the Marcos administration toward Beijing.
Huge crowds gathered in major cities and rural communities alike, underscoring the breadth of opposition to war, fascism and the attacks on immigrants.
Social Democratic Party leader Lars Klingbeil has reacted to the SPD’s recent election defeats with a frontal attack on pensions, working conditions, health insurance and other social achievements.
Milošević arrested in Serbia; General strike by Israeli Palestinians; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death; Communal rioting in West Bengal
The DSA's role in the Los Angeles mayoral race exposes its function as an appendage of the Democratic Party in blocking the independent political mobilization of the working class.
A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations.
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is grovelling, to signal the loyalty of the Ugandan regime to US imperialism.
The growth of Reform UK was used by the Together Alliance, to mount a “get the vote out” drive for the Labour Party, backed as necessary by the Green Party.
The 230 Unite union members are determined to overcome a deal failing to give them parity with their First South Yorkshire colleagues in Sheffield, just 18 miles away.
The attack—carried out during the US-Israel war of annihilation against Iran, Türkiye’s eastern neighbor—points to the danger of escalation and expansion in the Ukraine war.
The Wall Street Journal and Axios reported Thursday that the Trump administration is considering deploying an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East as the US war of aggression against Iran enters its fifth week. “If President Trump gives the go-ahead, the U.S. could soon have more than 17,000 ground troops on Iran’s doorstep,” the Journal reported.
A right-wing judge has stalled sentencing to probe fines and finances, extending Xiang’s four- month incarceration amid a DOJ/university witch-hunt of Chinese scientists.
The government’s decision to reduce subsidies and hike fuel prices is driven by its determination to implement the IMF’s austerity program requiring huge cuts to public spending.
“The conditions in schools are terrible. We did so much heavy lifting along with all the health services during COVID, and this is how we got repaid. It's just appalling.”
“Lots of ABC workers are struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table, which is becoming more difficult because of inflation and rising housing and living costs.”
The presence of ICE at airports is a further step in normalizing the use of armed federal agents and the military in civilian settings to intimidate and terrorize the population.
Edwin Soto was part of a generation of working class youth who were won to the cause of socialism in the course of the struggles of the 1960s and 70s.
A binding arbitration proposal exposes the union’s betrayal, ending the strike by surrendering workers’ power and subordinating struggle to management-controlled processes.
Less than a year after his election, Mamdani is moving to implement austerity to meet the legal requirements of a budget “balanced” on behalf of the bond markets and the financial aristocracy.
Plant occupations and strike threats across Mexico are pitting workers against not only transnational corporations, but also the union bureaucracy and the Sheinbaum government.
Indian transport workers protest over wages and against privatisation; Australian mining workers denied pay over partial strikes; New Zealand firefighters’ strikes continue.
ICE is operating a network of clandestine detention sites in which people are confined for weeks or months without basic sanitation, legal access or public accountability.
Whatever their tactical disagreements, all of the candidates for the NDP leadership are staunch defenders of Canadian capitalism and its state, inveterate opponents of class struggle and determined to contain and neuter social opposition by shackling it to the pro-employer trade unions and parliamentary-electoral politics.
In February, Kiswani filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Betar USA, charging that the Zionist organization orchestrated a coordinated campaign of “racial harassment, violent threats, stalking and intimidation.”
Streamlined deportations to Nigeria are part of a sweeping attack on the rights of migrants in the UK, including arguably the most severe curtailment of asylum protections in the post-war period.
The UCU’s refusal to coordinate strike action even across Sheffield’s three ongoing HE disputes, well as its repeated suspension of strikes, are central to the impasse workers face, not just in that city but nationally.
We are publishing here the remarks by Johannes Stern introducing the book presentation Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism with David North at Humboldt University in Berlin. David North’s lecture at Humboldt University, titled “American Imperialism and the Subjugation of Iran,” is published here. In the coming days, the WSWS will also publish a video of the event.
The war against Iran is being waged as a criminal conspiracy against the population of the United States and the entire world.
The 47-year-old contractor died after falling while doing maintenance work at the South32-owned facility near Collie, south of Perth.
While UFCW Local 7 has indicated picketing will end on Friday, workers on the picket line told the WSWS they are eager to extend and expand the struggle.
Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco, a former Oath Keeper and outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, seized ballots cast in the recent special election that gerrymandered California congressional districts to favor Democrats.
“We’ve got mould in our ceiling. We’ve got leaking roofs. The place is nearly falling around us in some instances, but we’re not being given the funding to be able to have that fixed.”
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka are campaigning ahead of a public meeting against the US-Israeli war on Iran, to he held on April 7.
The marches reflected both a living identification with the tens of thousands murdered between 1976 and 1983 and a mounting anger over the Milei administration’s authoritarian measures.
The city of 300,000 is projected to run out of water this year without intervention, with the state and corporations attempting to get the working class to foot the bill
Notwithstanding the faux outrage by Labour MPs, every aspect of Kretinsky’s wrecking operation was rubber-stamped by the Starmer government and by CWU officials Dave Ward and Martin Walsh.
