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.
Increasing vaccine coverage is the key to eliminating measles, but this goal is being actively undermined by the Starmer government’s continued assault on public spending and the National Health Service.
The union is attempting to push through sellout contracts for striking nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems, while isolating the 4,500 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian.
The police violence against protesters opposing a war criminal was orchestrated by the Labor governments and then defended by them.
“For Albanese to invite Herzog here is completely wrong—it was a line in the sand for me—and I just had to come here and be part of the opposition.”
The US military is poised to attack Iran after a massive, weeks-long redeployment of warships, bombers and personnel to the region.
The 20 percent pay increase is the same take-it-or-leave-it offer from VW that the UAW denounced as "inadequate" last October.
Right-wing, anti-immigrant NZ First leader Winston Peters falsely declared the Free Trade Agreement will see an influx of “tens of thousands of people” from India, taking opportunities “away from New Zealanders.”
Confronted with rising anger among health workers over the government’s attacks, the unions have formed an alliance, not to wage a political fight for workers, but to suppress their opposition.
The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.
Bad Bunny’s record‑breaking Super Bowl halftime show evoked colonial and immigrant struggles and indirectly rebuked the Trump administration’s xenophobic, anti‑immigrant agenda.
ICE officials are refusing to disclose the location of 33-year-old Leqaa Kordia after she suffered a medical emergency at the Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas on Friday and was taken to the hospital.
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
While wars are being stoked and escalated in the Middle East, Latin America and worldwide, thousands of young people in Germany are currently receiving letters to register for military service.
Drivers at food delivery company FreshDirect are set to strike in the Bronx after an outsourcing threat by management while workers at 36 continuing care facilities locations across Nova Scotia are taking a strike vote.
The report warns that unsustainable water resource practices are causing potentially irreversible damage to water systems that require urgent action to rectify
Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.
With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.
At Friday’s protest, students marched and carried handmade signs that read “No one is illegal on stolen land,” “The revolution is in the hands of the youth” and “It was never about criminals.”
The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.
The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Sony and BMW--and the armed violence that secures their raw materials.
This is a frightening and tragic situation for the Guthrie family, no doubt affecting dozens of people at this point and perhaps for the rest of their lives.
The deal would increase wages by only 15 percent over four years, while leaving intact forced overtime regimes, limited sick leave and longstanding staffing and safety issues.
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) will host an online meeting on the way forward for the 15,000 striking New York nurses and the 31,000 striking healthcare workers in California and Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 10.
The German government and Bundeswehr are pushing ahead with the conversion of the Rostock-Laage air base in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania into a central military hub for the Luftwaffe and NATO.
The lawsuit is an implicit threat that the stream of money the union apparatus receives through the Labor-Management Partnership may be turned off if it cannot get its membership back in line.
What has attracted world attention at the Games is not the far-right Italian government’s lockdown of the city but the outpouring of opposition to the Trump administration, ICE and fascism.
The election highlights a further shift to the right by the entire Japanese political establishment as it prepares for war abroad while foreseeing opposition at home amid rising social inequality.
The latest strike highlights the chasm between the vast personal fortunes of billionaires like BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu and the destitution-level wages imposed on the workers whose labour produces the wealth.
In the lead-up to New Zealand’s national day, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon denounced socialism and equality, and Deputy PM David Seymour declared that poor and homeless people were “living like kings and queens.”
The violent police crackdown on protesters outside the Whipple Federal Building exposes the Democratic Party’s collaboration with Trump’s immigration police and its fear of a developing mass movement against repression, war and inequality.
USS Greeneville sinks Japanese fishing vessel, killing 9; Nigerian head of state assassinated; Dockworkers begin largest industrial action in New Zealand’s history; Mussolini issues threats to Germany over South Tyrol.
A federal lawsuit over a toddler’s hospitalization exposes how US immigration detention endangers children by allowing preventable illness to spread through overcrowded facilities like Dilley.
The “March of Sacrifice” was organized by the relatives of those murdered in 2023, when newly installed President Dina Boluarte gave shoot-to-kill orders to suppress nationwide protests.
The most cynical element in the whole initiative is the bloc’s claim to represent a “position of class independence” in Venezuela.
The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through terror, and subordinated the international working class to the interests of a privileged bureaucratic caste.
Amid ongoing negotiations between the Turkish government and the PKK, which claim to bring peace and democratization, state crackdown on the political opposition is escalating.
Corbyn’s servility to Mandelson’s mates was never ending. “We are on a journey together and can only complete it together… Labour is a broad church and can be broader still. I lead in that spirit”, Corbyn concluded his 2018 paean to the Blairites.
Corbyn’s “broad church” housed a political inquisition against the left. Sultana’s own “broad church” offers a home to Corbyn while he does the same. The SEP warns that neither provides a solution to the crisis facing the working class.
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.
