The convergence of global warming, the exceptionally warm waters in the equatorial Pacific known as El Niño and the war against Iran has created a “perfect storm” of hunger, falling hardest on children and the poorest workers and farmers.
The scandal has laid bare the reality of the “Manchesterism”, as Burnham’s ethos is revealed as nothing more than slavish fawning after big business.
Hull workers must take the defence of their jobs out of the hands of the GMB and local politicians and establish an independent rank-and-file committee to organise a fight for the reopening of the plants.
A “new report” presented by the Sheinbaum administration on September 28 does little to advance the prosecution of those responsible and continues the cover-up of the military’s role.
A growing radicalization is developing among young people, disillusioned with the bureaucracies and organizations that have long channeled social struggles, and who are increasingly seeking a revolutionary path.
The congress adopted five resolutions that outline a socialist and internationalist perspective on the key issues facing the working class.
Five miners were killed and two others were rescued injured on 1 October when a roof collapsed in an underground coal mine in Soma, western Türkiye.
The 1,200 workers continue to resist company demands for concessions while pressing for substantial improvements.
Vithanage’s films are distinguished by their sensitivity to the social and class relations in Sri Lanka, past and present.
Yesterday, faced with mass protests nationwide to demand the right to housing, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the dissolution of parliament and general elections for November 29.
The plant was abruptly shut in August, leaving families who spent decades working at the slaughterhouse seeking food and clothing assistance.
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
With ballots about to be counted, Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president, outlined his program to mobilize autoworkers against job cuts, war and dictatorship.
Mamdani's "Strategy to Combat Antisemitism" embraces the narrative used to slander opponents of the Gaza genocide as antisemites.
Employees of Argentina’s university system are calling for a 33.4 percent wage increase while lab technicians at blood testing company Dynacare are the latest target of anti-strike legislation by Canada’s ruling class.
Although best-known for his major novels, Vasily Grossman's powerful social realism was rooted in his active involvement in the Red Army’s struggle against Nazism. His war-time writings are now presented in the most complete English edition to date.
Flávio Bolsonaro’s first-place finish against Lula is a devastating verdict on the Workers Party and the pseudo-left, whose “Broad Front” with the bankers and the right has strengthened the fascist forces it claimed to fight.
Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton offer competing strategies for imposing the costs of California’s social crisis on the working class.
Christa Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Nashville hospital five days after the state of Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on September 30. She remains hospitalized under guard as doctors try to clear the massive dose of pentobarbital from her system.
The VW management board has terminated 10 of 13 collective agreements at VW. The company’s current all-out assault will go even further than the 2024 contract unless workforces take on the IG Metall and works council apparatus.
Flock reports more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states, recording approximately 20 billion license plate scans per month. That amounts to an average of roughly 667 million scans per day, or 7,700 per second, feeding a vast searchable database of vehicle movements to police and federal agents.
"Rank-and-file committees are probably the best way to outflank the unions, to be completely independent of all the vested interests,” John said. "The fight against the current—we're not going to speed up, that's it. It's bad enough as it is. Pushing back—the shop floor is the place to do it.”
It is futile to leave the struggle against these draconian cuts in healthcare to the leaderships of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) or the unions Verdi and IG Metall.
A rally and march was held in East London on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.
Students in Türkiye and around the world are returning to school amid an intensifying wave of war, dictatorship and social devastation. At the same time, social anger and struggles are growing in the working class and among young people.
The trade union bureaucracy promotes the dangerous illusion that the replacement of Starmer with Burnham represented a step change to the left and provides “hope”, that the Labour Party will listen, and that Burnham is “on our side".
Only days after Russia again threatened NATO with the use of nuclear weapons and President Vladimir Putin warned of a “fatal point of no return,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled to Kiev on Sunday to further expand Germany’s involvement in the Ukraine war.
More than 50 cities took part in the mobilizations, which were dominated by the call: “Towards a general strike.”
More than 1,300 housekeepers, cooks, bartenders, slot attendants, drivers and warehouse workers have been on strike at Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor in Everett, Massachusetts since September 4.
Having failed to achieve its objectives through a massive bombardment and then a blockade of the country, the White House is preparing a new and desperate gambit.
The Trump administration has brought charges against a Michigan nurse for the “crime” of refusing to hand over a wounded immigrant worker to the deportation Gestapo.
A recent poll shows the DSA’s Nithya Raman with a substantial lead over incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, revealing growing hostility to the Democratic Party establishment and a deepening generational divide that the DSA strives to contain within the capitalist two-party system.
Independent actions recently in both the US and Mexico show that truckers in North America are demonstrating their enormous social and economic power.
The day before the ruling, two dozen UN human rights experts warned that the mass deportation of migrants from the US to third countries would set off a “cascade of human rights violations” that could have “deadly” consequences.
Rather than mobilize the membership to carry out the strike authorization once the contracts expired October 6, SPEEA made clear that its aim was to avoid a strike.
Tokyo is rapidly accelerating military spending and development of arms as the war already taking place in Europe and the Middle East spreads into the Asia-Pacific.
Kast’s government is closely tied to the Trump administration, which has embraced it as a model for its “Shield of the Americas” project of consolidating right-wing, pro-US regimes across the hemisphere.
The detention of a Honduran migrant accused of guiding the “Faith and Hope” caravan shows that the Sheinbaum government continues to place the repressive apparatus built by Morena at the service of Trump’s war on migrant workers.
The merger clears the path for billionaire consolidation, with Democrats, regulators and union bureaucracies working to impose its costs on workers.
What the Albanese government actually launched on October 1 was a helpline and a website—no therapies, no allied health professionals, no individualised plans.
US and Britain launch Operation Enduring Freedom, beginning the bombing of Afghanistan; Thai police and royalist paramilitaries massacre students at Thammasat University as the military seizes power in Bangkok; Truman signs the Mutual Security Act, merging Marshall Plan aid and military assistance to allied regimes; Bulgakov's The Days of the Turbins premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre.
The suicide of Sahil Wakode, a Dalit student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has exposed the brutal institutional atmosphere behind India's most celebrated educational institutions, and sparked militant student protests.
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
As Marxists, we know that the future of society and the solution to society’s great problems will be decided not in parliament, but in the class struggle.
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
With the Strait of Hormuz already closed, the US Israeli war of aggression against Iran is spreading from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
The Gen-Z uprising demonstrated the enormous potential for a mass movement cutting across the ethnic divisions cultivated by the Kenyan bourgeoisie. But it also exposed the political bankruptcy of the established opposition.
The rate rise deepens the cost-of-living crisis for working-class households and intensifies the pressure of the financial markets on the Albanese government to further slash social spending.
The role of the subjective factor is crucial in the current objective situation. The task of the SEP is to bring socialist consciousness into the working class.
Following Tennessee’s gruesome failed attempt to execute her on September 30, Christa Pike remains unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator, with both arms swollen, burned and blistered. It is unclear whether she will regain consciousness.
The September US Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, which was greeted as positive by Wall Street, showed that workers face worsening employment opportunities and wages that continue falling behind inflation.
Over the last week, protests at high schools across France against spending cuts and police repression have grown into a confrontation with the state machine.
The Trump administration is sending the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three amphibious warships carrying about 2,000 Marines to the Middle East.
At the event in Detroit hosted by the Library Street Collective, Tyler spoke about both his art and the broader issues related to the death penalty and the inhuman conditions inside US prisons including his own frame-up.
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
CDC Director Erica Schwartz cited “divisive ideologies” and the unfinished fight over pathogen sharing and drug patents that has stalled the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
The spontaneous action, organized by truckers themselves over social media, was organized to protest skyrocketing diesel costs and other grievances.
More than a month after the original September 1 expiration date, the United Steelworkers is keeping tens of thousands of workers on the job while negotiating concessions behind closed doors.
The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.
As the Volkswagen union in Puebla calls off a strike to push a sub-par deal and the Audi union leader is reelected, a former Audi worker describes to the WSWS how the “independent” unions have served the company from the start.
Bolivia arrested its attorney general two days after US sanctions, removing the prosecutor whose case against Fernando Cerimedo threatened to expose the criminal connections behind Trump’s “Shield of the Americas.”
The elections in Brazil are taking place amid an explosive reorganization of the political order across Latin America.
India: Delhi bus workers continue strike as government bans industrial action; Pakistan: 6,000 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa doctors escalate pay strike; Bangladesh: Chattogram port workers oppose terminal concession; Australia: Nurses take strike action across Tasmania.
This committee firmly believes that we must break out of the isolation imposed on us by the USW and expand our strike to other sections of the working class if we are to emerge vicgtorious. And we have extremely favourable conditions to do just that.
Since its formation 20 years ago, QS has lurched steadily right and fully integrated itself into the political establishment as the “left” flank of the Quebec independence movement, which articulates the interests of a faction of Quebec’s capitalist elite.
The 198-year-old Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which has ceased operations, holds one of the world’s largest collections of scientific specimens and a historic display of dinosaur fossils.
Neither Unite nor the GMB has indicated they will break off negotiations with Glasgow City Council in the face of threatened mass dismissal notices to enforce pays cuts against Unison members.
Authored by Baroness Heather Hallett, the report documents cost-cutting in pivotal logistics, £10 billion wasted on inadequate or unused PPE, and millions lost to unpursued fraud.
Strike ballots must be honoured and used as a springboard for a unified campaign across the public sector against austerity, budget cuts and privatisation.
Health workers, patients and campaigners protested across Britain on Thursday, demanding that the National Health Service cut ties with Palantir. More than 40 protests were held at hospitals and Integrated Care Boards across England as well as in city centres.
The school strikes show the continuing opposition among young people to conscription. But the movement can only advance if it bases itself on the international working class and a revolutionary perspective against war.
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
Barely days after Moscow formally warned NATO that an attempt to blockade or isolate the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad could provoke the use of nuclear weapons, the governments of Europe are responding not with attempts to step back from the brink, but with declarations of increased military support for Ukraine, accelerated rearmament and preparations for a direct confrontation with Russia.
Yields have risen to their highest levels in a quarter of a century with little sign of coming down.
There are incidents in contemporary American society so barbaric that they shock the sensibilities of anyone who stands for social equality, justice and human decency. The state of Tennessee’s attempted execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night is such an event.
The richest 0.1 percent of American households more than doubled their wealth between the end of 2019 and June 30, Federal Reserve figures released last month show.
Against all other political parties, their fake-left hangers on and the trade union bureaucracies, the SEP alone advanced a revolutionary socialist program during the 2022 mass uprising.
The highly regarded Nashville Symphony is suspending the rest of its 2026-27 season due to lack of funding.
The function of the pseudo-left is to subordinate the working class to the PT, the trade union bureaucracy and, ultimately, the bourgeois nation state.
The country’s labor unions, regardless of affiliation, are attempting to stifle worker opposition to the growing attacks on their living and economic conditions.
Gary Tyler, the former political prisoner who spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a murder he did not commit, has endorsed the international campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Official poverty statistics expose a deepening crisis for which Democrats and Republicans bear joint responsibility.
“I hope that the struggle to secure Bogdan Syrotiuk's release will become the foundation for an anti-war movement.”—Prasanna Vithanage
A wave of strikes in the public and private sectors exposes the class character of the Lula government and the need for an independent struggle of the working class against austerity, fascism and imperialism.
The founding congress of the SEP, held in Montreal in August, unanimously adopted the following resolution denouncing the Ukrainian state’s persecution of Bodgan Syrotiuk.
Among survey respondents, 63 percent skip meals to save money, 9 percent used a food bank during the last academic year, and 28 percent hold two or more jobs.
100,000 Irish public sector workers begin industrial action in pay dispute with government; workers and students in five days of protests across Iraq over lack of jobs and social conditions; Tunisian fuel transport workers hold 48-hour strike over pay and conditions
Albanese posed for a grinning selfie with Trump, just hours after the fascistic US president had again threatened to “annihilate” Iran.
The Congress was held amid a deepening political and economic crisis of global capitalism, marked by unfolding world war pushed by the imperialist powers and moves by the ruling class to impose austerity and dictatorial forms of rule, as well as the resurgence of class struggle globally.
At least 58 of the territory’s 94 public schools will see their funding fall, with 37 facing cuts greater than 5 percent.
The guards are being rushed into USPS facilities five weeks before the midterms, as the Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting.
Meatpacking workers in the Quad Cities area spoke with the WSWS and detailed the harsh exploitation and dangerous workplace conditions that have lead to worker deaths.
This is the text of an open letter to the leadership of the Left Party. It was sent on September 30 to Ines Schwerdtner and Luigi Pantisano, co-chairs of the Left Party, as well as to Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann, co-chairs of the Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
Yehonatan Ovadia, a member of the anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic community and outspoken opponent of the Israeli state and Gaza genocide, has been detained since August 28 and is being threatened with deportation in violation of his First Amendment rights.
Russia’s warning that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO blockades Kaliningrad shows that the US-NATO war in Ukraine is escalating into an open confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, a danger being concealed from the population.
Eight days after shooting Wilber Garces Perez in the back, the US government has charged him with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with and impeding a federal officer. The government denied him bond during a hearing on Wednesday.
Jettisoning its election promises, the JVP/NPP government has ruthlessly escalated IMF-dictated austerity, aligned itself with US imperialism, and unleashed state repression against workers and students opposing its right-wing agenda.
The Congolese Ebola epidemic has reached 8,116 confirmed cases and 3,924 deaths, amid attacks that have killed a local politician who urged prevention on the radio and a health worker at a screening post, while world leaders quibble over equity and royalties.
According to the Times, “When pressed on whether he took Mr. Trump’s threats to make Canada a 51st state seriously, Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved.”
The most disturbing possibility is that mobilizing the available resources to save the life of a 16-year-old Indigenous girl was simply not considered worthwhile.
The mayor gave his silent assent to an attack that lumped anti-genocide protesters together with the ultra-right.
The imperialist powers, including Australia and New Zealand, anticipate an upsurge of mass struggles against poverty and inequality across the Pacific.
The national security “caucus” of the House Democrats could double or even triple as a result of the November 3 vote.
The meeting hosted by the IYSSE (Sri Lanka) on October 13 will be conducted in Sinhala and translated live into Tamil.
Events over the days since the five arrests saw revelations throwing a question mark over heavy suggestions of Iranian involvement, and even over whether there was any terror incident to be involved in.
For all talk of Burnham being prepared to end Palantir’s National Health Service contract—but only through a break clause, leaving its other contracts intact—the first attempt to force the issue was shot down at this week’s annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
The secrecy surrounding the proposed deal is a warning. Birmingham bin workers must establish a rank-and-file committee to enforce direct oversight of negotiations, agree on non-negotiable demands and mobilise alongside council workers nationally facing the same austerity cuts.
US President Donald Trump hosted the heads of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology companies for lunch at the White House Tuesday, condemning any government oversight or regulation of the technology sector.
The union bureaucracy pretends it is fighting the attacks by the federal government and corporations. The opposite is true.
According to WorkSafe Victoria, the boy “was fixing defects on a precast concrete panel when an adjacent panel weighing more than two tonnes fell onto him.”
The Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation was forced to call the stoppage after doctors powerfully opposed the union bureaucracy’s last-minute cancellation of a 24-hour strike planned for September 15.
The Ministry of Social Development denied emergency food grants last year to 88,000 people and told thousands that food was “not an essential need”.
For the second time in as many days, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the execution of Christa Gail Pike, overturning a last-minute stay issued by the 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals less than two hours before she was set to die.
Facing a severe political crisis, the Erdoğan government is seeking to suppress the social powder keg through police state measures.
Workers and youth spoke to the WSWS at yesterday’s march in Paris of their growing anger and concern over economic hardship, war, and the fear of far-right dictatorship
The pseudo-left RIO admits the Left Party's record is one of cuts, rearmament and paving the way for the far-right AfD—yet its conclusion is that workers should stay inside the party, not break with it.
Three months after the UAW pushed through its "contract" after four tries, Nexteer workers have still not seen the written agreement.
Calls for truck drivers across the United States to park their rigs on October 1 are circulating among drivers as soaring diesel prices wipe out already-thin margins for owner-operators.
Orchestras and other arts organizations are under sustained attack, as all available resources are being funneled to Wall Street and the US war machine.
The lawsuits against AI companies raise difficult questions about training, reproduction and ownership.
On the centenary of Debs’ death, the foundation bearing his name honors a union official who embodies everything the socialist leader fought against.
The crushing of ramp worker Oscar Robayo by the nose gear of an Airbus A350-900 while he was performing a routine pushback at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport in August has provoked sympathy and outrage among workers throughout the aviation industry and beyond.
Milei’s “National Sovereignty Defense Law” uses a real grievance of an oppressed nation to arm the state against the working class, while the pseudo-left offers a nationalist perspective that excludes the unity of Argentine workers with workers in the US and Britain.
With British imperialism facing debt interest payments at £110 billion a year and plans to ramp war against Russia, along with deeper involvement in Middle East conflicts, Labour today has even less possibility of increasing social spending than under Tony Blair in the 1990s.
B’Tselem’s report finds, “The genocide in Gaza and the elimination project in the West Bank are different manifestations of the same regime project, directed against Palestinians’ ability to exist as a people.”
The public sector strike in France is part of an international resurgence of social struggles against the backdrop of war and the rise of the far right.
Labour’s call for a more “peaceful” orientation, with greater “independence” from the US and Israel, is a calculated fraud.
On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from the flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.
A coalition of 28 unions staged a protest in Asunción to demand pay parity for healthcare administrative workers while up to 7,000 Chicago hotel workers are prepared to launch strike action over poverty wages.
El-Sayed previously said he was “humbled and grateful” for Harris’s support, which he described as “critical” to his electoral prospects.
Just five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, with early voting having already begun, the Supreme Court ruling could enable Republican officials to run multiple checks of voters in Democratic precincts, flagging hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of suspected “illegal” voters and preventing many of them from casting ballots.
The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.
More than a week after the shooting, Garcés Pérez remains imprisoned at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall with a bullet still lodged near his spine.
The campaign against the Berlin Left Party is not about antisemitism. Its aim is to criminalise the widespread opposition to the Gaza genocide and war among voters.
The show claims to interrogate the “Fridamania” surrounding Kahlo, yet it operates as one of its engines—manufacturing, circulating and profiting from the phenomenon it pretends to analyse.
The Burnham government is backing the genocide in Gaza and criminalising opposition to it at home every bit as brutally as Starmer, despite his crocodile tears.
The US midterm elections of November 3, just five weeks away, are taking place under conditions of extreme economic, social and political crisis.
Hundreds of transit workers packed a Brooklyn funeral home to honor MTA conductor Moet McCullum, killed on the tracks while working as a construction flagger.
The Marcos faction is wielding the impeachment to eliminate its rivals, subordinate every branch of the state and clear the 2028 presidential field for a candidate acceptable to Washington.
The “socialism” of Mamdani and the DSA is being exposed for the fraud that it is.
US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire Saturday, after the Wall Street Journal reported he told aides he expected to resume bombing after the November 3 midterm elections.
Last month, the automaker reneged on its repeated pledges that the Brampton plant would reopen for production of the next-generation Jeep Compass.
The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.
An internal Army message reported by CBS News shows the Pentagon preparing logistics, military police and surgical units for an operation aimed at Cuba, days after Trump told the UN that the Cuban government “will fall.”
Jaish-e-Mohammad militants storm Kashmir legislature in Srinagar, killing 38; Callaghan Labour government applies to the IMF for a record $3.9 billion bailout for the UK; last British oil staff evacuated from Abadan, Iran; Cristero rebellion in Mexico turns to armed uprising against the Calles government.
The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991, and Pennsylvania is the epicenter, adding 129 infections in a single week to a toll that already includes four deaths.
The mass disenrollment of 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans is the latest bipartisan assault on healthcare that aims to drive millions of workers and their families deeper into poverty.
Workers at German seaports have rejected the fourth wage offer presented to them by the Verdi trade union working in conjunction with the Central Association of German Seaport Operators.
Wang’s death came amid the Trump administration’s prosecution of five Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan.
The NYPD’s arrest of over 100 anti-genocide protesters at the UN on Thursday marks the culmination of a week of collaboration by the DSA with the fascist Trump administration.
As the strike by 1,200 Braford White workers in western Michigan enters its second week workers must take stock of the fact that UAW President Shawn Fain and the UAW bureaucracy has left their fight isolated while stringing them out on $550 weekly strike pay.
The Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was “appeasing” China.
This statement calling for the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, who has himself been persecuted by the Ukrainian state under Volodymyr Zelensky.
While the representatives of the capitalist nation-states gathered at the United Nations this week amid escalating war, trade conflict and threats of repression, another international force was making itself felt in a growing movement of the working class.
As Berlin escalates its confrontation with Russia, school students across the country are striking for the fourth time against the reintroduction of conscription.
“We have a responsibility to support the release of Bogdan. What he has done cannot constitute a crime.”
The fires are occurring during a super El Niño year, increased surface temperatures due to global warming and are exacerbated by government funding cuts.
Bus drivers stop work in India’s capital, medical officers strike in Pakistan and garment workers demand unpaid wages in Bangladesh, while airline workers strike in Australia.
The use of scanning and AI algorithms has made it possible to extract meaning from scrolls dating back to Greco-Roman civilization, which were previously indecipherable.
Amid a massive escalation of the US/NATO war on Russia, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada for three days earlier this month to drum up more financial support and military equipment for his dictatorial regime.
The Unite community branch noted with horror that, after 2 years of pre-trial incarceration, Bogdan has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
The official campaign was accompanied by threats from far-right groups, calling for violence against the directors and their families and the demolition of their homes, chanting “Death penalty for traitors.”
One NATO member is carrying out a military deployment against another member of the same alliance. This escalation is a by-product of the imperialist war that is metastasising from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and tending to merge into a single conflict.
After twice rejecting union-Labor government agreements and taking statewide strike action, a majority of Victorian public school educators voted to accept a fundamentally unchanged deal that entrenches four more years of untenable workloads, low wages and a worsening staffing crisis.
Maintenance technicians at United Airlines vote by 53 percent to turn down a contract that failed to meet their wage demands and sought concessions allowing outsourcing to non-union labor.
The yield on the 10-year bond rose 0.15 percentage points on Wednesday and then followed this with a further increase of 0.11 percentage points yesterday, taking it to 5.23 percent, with no indication as to when the sell-off might stop.
The action appeared to be in direct defiance of a restraining order issued by a federal judge, requiring the Trump administration to restore access to the White House for the three media outlets.
Kishore discussed the Ukrainian socialist’s imprisonment for opposing the war and the growing international demand for his freedom.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a genocidal tirade at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, calling the victims of Israel’s rampage throughout the Middle East “barbarians,” “monsters,” “butchers” and “the worst mass murderers on earth.”
A proposed rule would strip out some 1,400 Head Start standards, hand class ratios to the states and mandate English-only instruction, deepening the administration’s assault on poor and immigrant families.
Four days after an ICE thug shot him in the back, Garces Perez remains imprisoned with a bleeding wound and a bullet near his spine, despite a specialist’s recommendation that it be surgically removed.
Nine months after US forces abducted Nicolás Maduro, his successor went to New York to thank his captor. Her appearance is the logical outcome of the “Bolivarian revolution” and of bourgeois nationalism as a whole.
By linking wage rises to individual firms' profit margins, IG Metall is setting up deeper cuts in real wages for workers in the crisis-hit auto and machine-building sectors, while dangling bonuses for arms firms.
As Sanders shares a stage with Bannon and Mamdani hosts Trump, the DSA and its allies have said nothing, and The Nation cropped Trump out of a photograph.
Ramey was condemned by a jury from which prosecutors had removed every prospective black juror, after a trial in which he was represented by a part-time lawyer who worked days as a dentist and had never tried a capital case.
Inadequate control measures result in about 5,000 to 8,500 cases of Legionnaires’ disease currently diagnosed in the US each year.
Mário Maestri has sent a reply to our article “Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian,” developing his position on the character of the American Revolution and Brazilian independence, to which the WSWS has in turn responded.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his anti-Russia address to the UN General Assembly to announce a National Centre for Information Defence that will be used to suppress political dissent at home.
Teachers in Estonia in national 24-hour strike over pay and conditions; academic staff at Dundee University, Scotland begin five-week stoppage over job cuts; civil servants in Lebanon walk out over inflation and rising cost of living; university lecturers in Sierra Leone walk out over pay and conditions
Britain’s largest carmaker has announced plans to eliminate around 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years, the cuts falling in the UK
Moves to arrest the slide of the yen can cause another problem by undermining the so-called yen carry trade, which plays a major role in US financial markets.
The elections expressed, in a highly distorted way, the immense anxiety and concern within the working class and broader population about what is correctly perceived as an escalating attack by the imperialist powers.
This year’s United Nations General Assembly has been transformed into a war summit by the US and European imperialist powers, who have turned an institution whose charter prohibits aggressive war into an arms convention.
Mamdani’s silence on Iran is a political position expresses the DSA’s acceptance of, and support for, the global aims of American imperialism.
Ford called its $1 billion investment in a new paint shop a triumph of “American manufacturing.” But the investment is one node in a global restructuring whose costs are being imposed on the working class.
Attorney Jasjit Singh discussed the attack, the racist DHS “Mr. Singh” post and the growing dangers confronting immigrant truck drivers.
GlaxoSmithKline plans to close its vaccine plant in Dresden, destroying 641 jobs. The IGBCE union and works council are channelling opposition into a “plan for the future” that will sacrifice jobs to boost profits.
A New South Wales educator has been barred from teaching over social media posts condemning Israel and expressing solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.
A ProPublica analysis finds deaths involving ectopic pregnancy nearly doubled between 2020 and 2025, rising in states with and without abortion bans but fastest where abortion is banned. No public agency is investigating.
The rape of a 16-year-old student by classmates at the Almirante Guise Naval Lyceum, a school run by the Peruvian Navy, is no isolated incident, but an expression of the brutality of the capitalist state’s military apparatus.
In the face of repeated company provocations—including the permanent closure and selling-off of the Brampton assembly plant— the union refuses to even set a strike deadline.
SEP and IYSSE members in Sri Lanka won support from students, health workers and other workers in Colombo and on two university campuses for the campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, jailed for 15 years for opposing the war.
The German photographer’s series emphasizes pixels, computer technology and the manipulation of images while suppressing social, historical and even human considerations.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the four sites will play “a vital role supporting the Government’s modern Industrial Strategy”, as the Department of Business highlighted Speciality Steels UK’s production for aerospace and defence and its “proud history” of producing “missiles, munitions and artillery casings.”
A bus driver at Wood Green said, “I am very shocked by this. Fifteen years? I will sign the petition, and I will most certainly pass it around at work and online.”
Fain’s declaration of “solidarity” with IG Metall is an alliance of two union apparatuses implementing mass job cuts, backing trade war and preparing the plants for war production, against the emerging international movement of the rank and file.
US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday that he is deciding whether to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” of Iran and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival.”
Germany posted its worst PISA scores since testing began in 2000, as the government funds the largest rearmament drive since the Nazi era.
This is not an increase in funding for disadvantaged schools, but a reallocation of scarce resources within a system that has been systematically starved for decades.
The wounded husband, father and DoorDash delivery driver remains isolated in ICE custody with a fractured collarbone and a bullet near his spine, while the agent who shot him remains unidentified and uncharged.
