Their entry underscores both the breadth of opposition to Kaiser’s demands and the growing recognition among workers that their fight is part of a broader struggle against inequality and exploitation.
The strike coincides with a growing wave of working class resistance, including a strike authorization vote last month by 35,000 Los Angeles educators.
President Donald Trump incited his fascist political base late Thursday by sharing a video on Truth Social that ended with a blatantly racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in the jungle.
The visit has the character of a provocation against the population, aimed at signalling Labor’s support for imperialist war and its commitment to suppressing mass opposition.
The Trump administration is reclassifying tens if not hundreds of thousands of federal workers as “at-will” employees. The maneuver is not only an attack on workers’ protections and due process rights but a step toward establishing a presidential dictatorship.
If any further proof were needed that the phrases “freedom” and “human rights” in German foreign policy are nothing more than propaganda, it was provided by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to the reactionary Gulf monarchies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Liam and his family face imminent deportation even though they are currently applying for asylum and have not broken any laws.
The school year opens with educators in Australia confronting chronic underfunding, staff shortages, impossible workloads and rising levels of violence and distress, amid global militarism and attacks on democratic rights.
Opposition to the deal, with sub-inflation wage increases and no job guarantees against AI, must be organized into of a rank-and-file rebellion that overrides the bureaucratic sabotage and enforces the will of the membership.
More than 1,000 students at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (PCEP) campus staged a walkout on Wednesday morning against ICE.
Nearly 2,000 educators are working under an expired contract, confronting a district that has weaponized a manufactured fiscal crisis to impose permanent austerity.
Canada's unions have responded to the developments in Minneapolis and calls for a general strike with either total silence or by issuing hollow statements of "solidarity."
Trump’s plan to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years, amid ICE repression and gaudy “America250” spectacles, exposes the deepening assault on culture and democratic rights.
The Instagram post included a graphic depicting the assassination of Alex Pretti with the text “Only Traitors Help Invaders.”
Looking south from Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, where Nurrie, Jr. froze to death, there is visible a $44 million hotel development opened in 2021, a $94 million 8th District Courthouse opened in 2023, cranes building a $515 million arena and parking garage, and heavy machinery preparing a site for a planned $100 million county administration building and parking garage.
The Trump administration’s attempt to pull the plug on the Cuban economy is aimed at carrying through the nearly seven decades of efforts to overthrow the Castroite government installed by the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
India: Gig workers hold one-day nationwide protests; Punjab state power workers oppose privatisation; Bangladesh: Chittagong Port workers strike against new terminal leasing; Sri Lankan doctors continue action; Malaysia: Lumileds factory workers fight sackings and deportations; Australia: CSL pharmaceutical factory workers strike for higher pay.
ABP Foods intends to close its retail meat packing operation in Dungannon in the North of Ireland, threatening 338 workers with the sack. Rank and file committees are needed across ABP’s operations in response.
The vote to extend strike action until August 2026 shows the determination of resident doctors to defy Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who has spewed vitriol including the accusation they are “holding the country to ransom.”
The speeches and political profile of the participants revealed the fundamental message: the Turkish ruling class and its imperialist allies could better defend their interests through a government established under the leadership of the CHP.
The arrests underscore that the strike has entered a new stage and pose the necessity for a broader movement of the working class in defense of the nurses.
In his short time as mayor, Mamdani has already accomplished a great deal—in comprehensively betraying and repudiating the oppositional sentiment that propelled him to office.
The wave of layoffs is part of a global jobs bloodbath, driven by a ruthless global search for new sources of profit to sustain uncontrollable levels of debt and financial bubbles on which the wealth of the oligarchy rests.
The latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice have conclusively proven the Trump administration is lying and engaged in a massive cover-up.
Elderly tenants were blindsided by relocation letters ordering moves from midyear, after being repeatedly told their towers would be the last to be demolished.
The film is inspired by Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax, previously adapted as a film by Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras in 2005.
Through its dominance of the global supply of rare earths and critical minerals, vital for high-tech products, from phones to jet engines, China was able to hit back against Trump’s tariff war by rapidly cutting off supplies.
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border whose consequences still shape American politics.
The layoffs came the same week GM reported more than $12 billion in pre-tax earnings for 2025, along with plans to hike shareholder returns through dividend increases and a $6 billion stock buyback scheme.
Despite Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s rhetoric about supporting Cuba, she has capitulated to Trump and US imperialism by ceasing to provide oil to the island.
Thousands march for investment in public education in Brussels, transport workers in Wallonia on indefinite stoppage against cost-cutting; UK defence workers at BAE in Lancashire in three-week stoppage over pay; sugar workers at four factories in Kenya walk out over monies owed
“The proscription of Palestine Action must now be lifted, and all those held as a result of this political process in prison should be released immediately,” civil liberties group CAGE demanded in response to Wednesday’s acquittal.
The day before Walsh’s swipe against the PWRFC the company triggered the one-month Dispute Resolution Process threatening executive action to impose the roll out of the Optimised Delivery Model across 1,250 offices nationally.
The Washington Post announced Tuesday that it is eliminating more than 300 journalists—roughly one-third of its 800-person newsroom.
In a series of remarks this week, the US president has repeated his lies about the “stolen election” of 2020 and called for Republicans to “take over” the running of elections in Democratic-controlled states.
Colombian President Petro visited Trump at the White House to pledge collaboration with the would-be emperor, exposing the bankruptcy of Latin America’s Pink Tide nationalists.
A boat carrying an estimated 35 people en route from the Turkish coast to the nearby island of Chios was rammed by the Greek Coast Guard. At least 15 people were killed.
The deal will drive annual growth in spending on the $52 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme down to 5–6 percent, from about 9.5 percent last year, amounting to cuts of tens of billions of dollars over the coming decade.
Federal prosecutors allege that between 2009 and 2018, Kaiser carried out a multi-state scheme to inflate risk scores through automated and coercive practices.
Spearheaded by the fascistic Trump administration, an eruption of militarism and domestic repression has shattered the post-World War II order and this is driving deeper attacks—led by the Albanese Labor government—throughout the universities.
At the union's annual press conference on January 26 and in further statements IG Metall chair Christiane Benner has called for protectionism and trade war as integral elements of the union’s “Initiative for Jobs and Economic Recovery: Future Instead of Relocation.”
Mandelson walked when it was revealed that he had passed confidential UK government information to Epstein. Downing Street has been forced to pass information to the Metropolitan Police to investigate.
Nine further days of strike action were due to begin on February 2. The NEU claimed the agreement as a “victory” and that “strikes work”. But the ATLP remains committed to balancing its deficits and the NEU is fully on board as partners.
The University of Sheffield is refusing to pay staff who fail to reschedule teaching missed during 16 days of strike action during November and December 2025. Such measures have been threatened before by UK universities but never carried through.
The immediate causes of the disaster—the ignition of party sparklers in a basement bar, the flammable ceiling cladding, the lack of and overly narrow escape routes, and the lack of trained staff—all reveal an indifference, recklessness and greed for profit that is unparalleled.
At a rally in New York’s Foley Square, hundreds of nurses recognized the connection between the defense of healthcare and the defense of immigrants’ rights.
Argentinian airport workers announce major strike action as workers in northern Mexico's "maquiladora" plants occupy factories in response to propose mass layoffs.
The ICE agency is infamous around the world for its politically-driven executions of US citizens in Minneapolis and other cities illegally occupied by forces loyal to Trump.
The SEP has consistently explained the brutal attack near the University of Moratuwa was not an isolated street brawl, but a politically driven attempt to prevent it from organising among university workers and students.
The visit is a calculated provocation by the Labor government and a display of full support for the mass murder of Palestinians and for imperialist war globally.
A change is underway which is penetrating ever deeper into the working class. After 40 years of suppression of the class struggle, following the defeats imposed in the 1980s, the working class in the United States is beginning to move again.
The votes over the past five days demonstrate that the Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration.
Trump’s calls to “take over” elections in states Republicans are projected to lose coincide with reporting that he is directly communicating with FBI agents currently seizing ballots, voter rolls and other election data in Fulton County, Georgia.
Over 200 courses have been flagged or canceled following amendments to A&M’s “Civil Rights Protection” policies to prohibit “race and gender ideology.” Plato is among the authors banned from classrooms as a result of the new policies.
While cuts in the healthcare system are driving more and more hospitals into insolvency, health workers are threatened with cuts in real wages and layoffs. The trade unions are isolating the struggles and preparing new sellouts.
The Labor government’s claims to have begun to resolve the cost-of-living crisis have been shattered.
In the New Year, Washington has attempted to reassert its hegemony over the entire Latin American region, which includes its Mexican neighbor.
A 71-year-old subcontracted worker was killed at a New Jersey chemical plant, as official investigations were announced and fundamental questions about workplace safety and accountability remain unanswered.
Unfortunately, a number of publicly well-received and penetrating German documentaries and feature films failed to win any recognition at the Berlin ceremony.
Unifor Local 88 Plant Chair Mike Van Boekel recently revealed that discussions have been held with General Motors management on producing military vehicles at the idled CAMI auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario.
Turkish government officials have voiced their growing concerns and made efforts to establish diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran.
Two workers employed as underground guides at the museum gave interviews. Both had formerly worked as miners at the UK’s last remaining deep coal mine, Kellingley Colliery, before it was closed in 2015.
Poverty blighted between 20-22 percent of the UK population from 2005/06 up to the general election 2024. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation anticipates no change under the Starmer led Labour government.
The concessions proposed by BMC would worsen chronic staffing shortages and cost nurses thousands of dollars a year, hurting patients and nurses alike.
As support for a nationwide general strike grows, Democrats in Congress are prepared to join Republicans in passing Trump’s war budget, which includes further funding for ICE and CBP.
The arrest of Edwin Romero Guttierez, a Venezuelan national, is part of an escalating series of ICE actions in Southeastern Michigan.
A group of music artists made public statements during their acceptance speeches—Olivia Dean, Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny, in particular—in opposition to the assault by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the rights of immigrants.
The coalition agreement unveiled on January 30 is the Dutch expression of a continent‑wide reorganisation of capitalist rule around permanent war, authoritarianism and a frontal assault on the working class.
Amid a massive social polarisation, the old parties of the centre that have defended capitalist rule for decades are fracturing.
Since Labor’s expansion of the First Home Buyers scheme in October, prices of eligible lower-cost homes have risen 50 percent more than those of more-expensive properties.
The mechanism for this round of SNAP cuts is extending work requirements from age 54 to age 64.
After falsely pledging to improve living standards and defend democratic rights, the government is stepping up its use of repressive measures against the working class.
Several thousand pharmacy and laboratory workers in Southern California, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), have voted to authorize a strike beginning February 9, highlighting the potential for a broad, working class movement in defense of public health.
An integrated network of surveillance, tracking and identification technologies are being used by gangs of ICE and CBP agents in US cities for targeting both immigrants and citizen protesters.
A measles outbreak is now ripping through the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where the Trump administration confines hundreds of immigrant families and children under conditions of deliberate brutality and medical neglect.
A struggle must be waged against the union bureaucrats, who are working with management and the government to impose another concessions contract.
The latest disaster is part of a long-time pattern in which ferry and maritime safety are ignored for the benefit of big business.
The election’s result is the political responsibility of the nominal “left”, in particular the pseudo-left Broad Front (FA) and its satellite organizations, which entered a de facto alliance with the traditional parties of the local oligarchy.
Last week’s fall, which wiped off around $80 billion from the market, was sparked by an adverse report from global index provider Morgan Stanley Capital Investment, which sets ratings for markets.
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) welcomes the rapidly growing opposition to the union apparatus and supports workers who want to free themselves from its straitjacket.
The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us.
The handover of Venezuela’s oil reserves to US imperialism by its Bolivarian regime is relentlessly unmasking anti-Trotskyist forces internationally.
The February 6 protest highlights growing antiwar sentiment in the working class and the need to build rank-and-file committees affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees to free the struggle from the influence of Stalinist and Pabloite parties.
Tens of thousands took part in the 34th national demonstration in London against the genocide of the Palestinians and the war on Gaza.
Five female workers died in a huge blast and fire in the early hours of January 26 at the Violanta biscuit factory near the city of Trikala in the Thessaly region of central Greece.
The JVP/NPP government’s relief program, while offering symbolic gestures, has failed to deliver genuine reconstruction or address the underlying vulnerabilities the cyclone has exposed.
London Underground workers strike; 22,000 killed in Guatemala earthquake; South Korea troops massacre civilians; Sean O’Casey play premiers in Dublin.
The European imperialist powers are fully complicit in preparing an imperialist war of plunder against the most populated country in the Middle East.
Less than one month after the criminal military abduction of de facto President Nicolás Maduro, Washington is recolonizing Venezuela and its oil wealth aided by the chavista government.
Trump’s decision is the outcome of a balancing act which itself underscores the inherent instability of the US financial system.
The $839 billion military funding bill, passed with overwhelming Democratic support, comes as Trump deploys an “armada” against Iran, occupies American cities with federal agents, and threatens to expand wars across the globe.
The latest release documents ongoing relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and billionaires, politicians, and power brokers well after his conviction, underscoring the systemic protection afforded to criminality within the ruling class.
The destruction of Writers Victoria will mean fewer opportunities for working-class people to develop their own voices and stories.
Disasters of this kind are made possible by severely underfunded infrastructure, and compounded by deforestation and climate change
New York Mayor Mamdani applauded the NYPD officers who shot 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty at least four times while he was suffering a mental health crisis.
As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective response, under the guise of “student safety.”
The nurses must seize control of their strike to prevent the union from surrendering completely to the hospitals’ outrageous demands.
Albanese’s announcement came only three days after Carney addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he declared that the “rules-based international order” had “ruptured.”
The topic of the lecture was a significant episode in the history of 20th century American and world music—the establishment of an African-American symphony orchestra, founded by conductor and composer Ignatz Waghalter.
