Sakeik’s powerful testimony exposing the criminal character of her 140-day internment and the brutal, degrading conditions inside US detention centers has sparked outrage among workers in the US and internationally.
What is being carried out in Thailand is a judicial coup with the backing of both right-wing and phony “progressive” parties in parliament.
The decision is a significant blow against the efforts of the pro-Zionist Labor government and the Liberal-National opposition to silence creative workers opposing the Gaza genocide.
While workers suffer in deadly temperatures made more frequent and severe by climate change, European governments are sabotaging the required reduction in carbon emissions to guard the interests of big business and doing nothing to protect working people and the most vulnerable from the impact of extreme heat.
A historic flood devastated Central Texas early Friday and caused the Guadalupe River to rise by 26 feet in just 45 minutes. It killed as many as 13 people and swept through an all-girls summer camp with as many as 20 girls still missing.
Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian, who has lived in the US since she was eight years old, spoke to the press and World Socialist Web Site following her release from ICE custody.
“It’s clear that imperialist powers do not care about human lives when it comes to their economic and other goals.” — railway worker.
The so-called “deal,” which has the character of the unequal treaties imposed on colonies in the heyday of imperialist rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has implications that go far beyond Vietnam.
The Liberal National Party state budget was falsely depicted by the government and the media as a “no austerity” budget, reflecting anxiety about the danger of social unrest.
Whatever the outcome of the PT’s July 6 internal election, it and the Lula government will continue their protracted turn to the right.
The White House event Friday reflected the avid support for Trump’s bill in the ruling class, which sees it as a down payment for the shredding of all that remains of the social safety net, including Medicare and Social Security.
The government and party leaders have made clear they are determined to squeeze trillions of euros out of the working population in order to finance rearmament and preparations for war.
Following Mamdani’s primary win, Jacobin has rushed to reinforce the political domination of the Democratic Party and lower expectations among his supporters.
Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital announced the immediate slashing of 20 full-time equivalent roles in the birthing and delivery unit.
The strike has revealed the massive chasm that exists throughout the city of Philadelphia between the working population and the Democratic Party-run political establishment.
The firing of Katherine Grzejszczak is part of a global assault by the ruling elites in all of the major imperialist powers against the mass opposition and disgust voiced by millions of people to Israel’s imperialist-backed slaughter in Gaza.
Two Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan are being framed up by the Trump administration on bogus “terrorism” charges.
India: National Health Mission workers in Uttarakhand strike; Bangladeshi garment workers protest killing of a co-worker; Australia: Qantas engineers begin industrial action for pay rise; Grill’d fast-food restaurant workers strike over low pay and exploitation.
Sarah, 21, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student, was charged under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act (2000) on March 4, 2025 for allegedly “inviting support for a proscribed organisation” (Hamas) for remarks she made in the first days of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza in October 2023.
The government is turning to authoritarianism because its agenda of enriching the financial oligarchy and waging war cannot be pursued democratically.
The same political concern animates the reluctance of the Corbyn camp and the Sultana camp’s efforts to bounce him into action: a desire not to let mass social opposition in the working-class and youth burst the banks of Labourite politics.
The budget, which will force a 45 percent reduction in services, places the working class throughout the region on a collision course with the two-party system’s budget cutting agenda.
LA’s City Council—including four members of the DSA—voted unanimously to declare a “fiscal emergency” vote by the LA City Council, setting the stage for major cuts in America’s second-largest city.
Numerous reports suggest strikers are either ignoring or skirting around the injunction limiting pickets to 8 people, while a standoff occurred Wednesday between police and strikers attempting to enforce the picket line at a trash drop-off site.
Ward Sakeik, a 22-year-old stateless Palestinian, was released from ICE custody late Tuesday just two days after the Trump administration failed to illegally deport her to a third country for a second time.
The bill cuts taxes for the wealthy by $3 trillion, slashes more than $1 trillion from social spending on Medicaid and food stamps and pours $300 billion more into military violence abroad and domestic repression, particularly against immigrants.
Three simultaneous withdrawals—from the World Health Organization, USAID and the Gavi vaccine alliance—represent a coordinated abandonment of America’s role in global health leadership with devastating consequences for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
As the United States begins the 250th year of its existence, it is in the throes of a political, social, intellectual and cultural counterrevolution.
At least 600 Palestinians have been killed over the past five weeks at food distributions operated by the US and Israeli-backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF), Gaza’s government media office said this week.
A Dana Ft. Wayne, Indiana worker describes conditions at his workplace after hearing about the investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Luxon made explicit at the NATO summit that he fully supports the war in the Ukraine against Russia while doubling NZ’s military spending, aimed ultimately at China.
While the US government is scaling back its military aid to Ukraine, and even halting previously promised arms shipments, the German government is intensifying its military cooperation with Kiev.
Canada's ruling class is rushing to implement massive military spending hikes and Trump-like socio-economic policies, using his bullying as the cover to push through changes for which it has long agitated.
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
Amid an unfolding global conflict, workers in Sri Lanka—Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim—stand in the same trench as their class brothers in Iran, Gaza, throughout the Middle East, including Israel, and internationally.
By cutting international student enrolments, the Labor government is deliberately applying financial pressure to the universities, in order to restructure them to align with “national priorities” set out in last year’s Universities Accord report.
In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, authorities said the scene remained too dangerous for firefighters and emergency workers to extinguish ongoing fires and search for the missing workers.
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
Over 5,000 job cuts across UK universities have been announced this year, with thousands more in the pipeline. But staff unions led by the UCU are blocking a united fightback.
General strike in Ramallah governorate of West Bank sparked by settler killings of Palestinians; teachers and council workers in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria continue stoppage over minimum wage and pay arrears
Following the publication of a devastating report detailing the involvement of major international concerns in the genocide in Gaza, a meeting to be addressed by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Bern, Switzerland was cancelled at the last moment.
The Parker government’s attack is part of an effort to isolate and weaken the workers under conditions where there is mass support within the public for the strike.
The tentative agreement was announced with zero details and a few empty phrases, in defiance of the membership that voted 90 percent to strike.
Class battles are emerging which will inevitably raise revolutionary questions. Even a defense of workers’ existing low standard of living is impossible without a frontal assault by the working class against the prerogatives of wealth. It requires expropriations and a massive redistribution of wealth back downward to the working class who created it.
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
The gathering, clearly directed against China, was held amid a massive escalation of US-led militarism in Europe, the Middle East and globally.
The day after President Trump called for Mamdani’s arrest and deportation, DHS Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared the agency had “authorities it has never utilized before.”
As the Trump administration’s illegal funding freeze triggers a nationwide cuts to public schools, the Democrats and union leaders reiterate dead-end appeals to Congress.
The network’s billionaire owner is seeking Trump administration approval for a lucrative corporate merger.
Trump announced the pause on the imposition of “reciprocal tariffs” on April 9 because of the major reaction in the bond market, which indicated a financial crisis could be in the making.
First of all, the well-heeled union officials have explicitly marshaled themselves for measures that will operate at the direct expense of their members in other states (and in Canada in some cases).
Teachers showed their determination to fight, but Queensland Teachers Union speakers sought to divert them into appeals for a deal with the Liberal-National state government.
California’s AB 715, approved unanimously in the Assembly by Democrats and Republicans, is a draconian assault on free speech and political dissent disguised as anti-discrimination law, targeting opposition to U.S. and Israeli war crimes under the banner of “tolerance.”
Anyone who followed the Social Democratic Party (SPD) congress in Berlin last weekend must again answer the question—“Are there any limits to the decline and political bankruptcy of the Social Democrats?”—with a resounding “No.”
Today’s vote pits a Labour government, led by former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer, against millions opposing the Gaza genocide and a groundswell of popular opposition to parliament’s historic assault on the right to protest, freedom of speech and free assembly.
The figures of yesterday’s parliamentary vote on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill speak to two things: the weakness of Keir Starmer’s Labour government and the unprincipled and spineless character of what passes for the “left” opposition within the Labour Party.
The union bureaucracy has shut down the strike of 1,300 workers at precisely the moment when a broadening of the struggle is needed.
The new contract is a slap in the face to the ancillary workers, cooked up behind closed doors between management, the union and Berlin’s state government.
The fascist president threatened that the facility would also be used as jail before deporting US citizens. “Many of them were born in our country,” he said. “I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.”
The strike shows that the conditions are emerging for a mass movement across the country against austerity, not only from Trump but the Democrats who run most major US cities.
The storyline involves rivalries and conflicts that inevitably surface at Mountainhead among the four swollen economic interests and egos
The dismantling of Medicaid, in the face of growing popular opposition to Trump’s program of dictatorship, war, mass deportations and social cuts, marks a new stage in the social counterrevolution.
Ward Sakeik, a 22-year-old Palestinian woman who was born in Saudi Arabia, has been in ICE detention since February against her fundamental rights and faces deportation to a third country she is neither a citizen of nor has ever lived there.
The annual report of the Bank for International Settlements has pointed to the decades-long slowdown in the global economy, exacerbated by Trump’s economic war, and the “vulnerabilities” in the financial system from the escalation of government debt.
The fate of the rule exposes the complete control of the government by the corporate oligarchy.
Federal agents detonated explosives to raid a Los Angeles home without a judicial warrant as part of Trump’s lawless, fascistic crackdown on immigrant workers and democratic rights.
The open letter and the response it has generated speak to the depth of the anguish, shock and anger felt by healthcare workers as they bear witness to the atrocities occurring in Gaza.
Premier Chris Minns’ state government is inflicting austerity measures on workers to satisfy the dictates of developers, corporate investors and the financial markets.
Nova Scotia resident Lisa Adams was kept for 16 days in a solitary room with no running water or flushing toilet under lighted observation by sight and security camera, and with no privacy whatsoever for the entire duration.
Washington is using the tariffs to force countries to further align with US war interests and substantially boost military spending.
The wrecking operation needs to be stopped, the pilots halted and USO “reform” opposed. The mail service will not survive this vandalism, and postal workers cannot endure these sweatshop conditions.
Israel regards its Palestinian citizens as the enemy within and a target in its US-funded war against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
The ruling class and the capitalist political establishment will try to exploit any opportunity to suppress the deepening political crisis and divert attention away from the mounting class tensions.
The Labor governments are overseeing a crackdown on anti-war opposition, comparable to that being carried out by openly fascistic and authoritarian regimes such as Trump’s in America.
The bureaucracy is stalling precisely because grocery workers are in a powerful position, not in spite of it. They do not want to do anything that threatens their cozy ties with management.
At least 95 Palestinians were killed on Monday across the Gaza Strip, including more than 30 who were shelled from an Israeli naval vessel in a Gaza City seaside café.
The coalminers have been locked out without pay for almost three weeks, in retaliation for a single one-hour strike.
BPU members lash out after the WSWS exposes their censorship of socialist campaigners at a protest over the killing of Kumanjayi White.
The dollar has fallen 10 percent since the start of the year, a sign of the loss of confidence in its role as the global currency and a safe haven amid growing financial storms.
The mayor offered city municipal workers a total wage increase of 12 percent throughout the life of a three year contract. This offer would not even cover the inflation levels which have eroded wages over the last three years.
While appealing to the mass social anger that propelled his election victory, Mamdani claims that the issues that drove his support can be resolved through the Democratic Party.
The same day the Trump administration announced it had banned the punk rock group from entering the United States, it was reported that wanted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be welcomed to Washington next Monday.
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
The purpose of the investigation, the committee emphasized, would be to “expose conditions at USPS to the workers of the world and to arm postal workers with crucial information which they need to organize a fight.”
On Saturday, around 500 people demonstrated in Duisburg against the genocide in Gaza and the repression directed at those who express solidarity with the Palestinians.
More than 3,200 workers at the Tyson beef processing plant in Amarillo have voted to strike, while protests against cuts to education funding were carried out in university cities across Argentina.
Public sector workers in Turkey, like other sections of the working class, are facing class warfare measures by the government, municipalities and companies, aimed at suppressing wages and eliminating social benefits.
Lawyers for Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice Monday morning, where their application for an urgent hearing was granted by Mr Justice Chamberlain.
Among the featured speakers at the rally was Clare Hinchcliffe, mother of Zoë Rogers, one of the Filton 18, and Anne Farooque, mother of Zahra Farooque another of the defendants.
The ACTU’s involvement in this event underscores the Albanese government’s increasing dependence on the trade union apparatus to suppress working-class opposition to its agenda of war and austerity.
Contracts for nearly 80,000 educators in California's largest districts, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento, are expiring on June 30.
While the German government pours hundreds of billions of euros into rearmament and war, the jobs massacre in the automotive, supplier, chemical, steel and other key industries continues unabated and is now extending to the services sector.
Workers' jobs cannot be defended by converting to war production. The defence of jobs must be directly linked to the fight against militarism and war.
A 51-49 near-party line vote opened debate on a so-called “reconciliation” bill that will extend Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy while cutting more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and food stamps.
At least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza during the US-Israeli genocide, Gaza’s government media office said this weekend, as mass hunger skyrockets in the besieged enclave.
Traverse City officials recently enforced a new no camping ordinance and shut down The Pines, a large homeless encampment, even though local shelters are at capacity and regularly turn people away every night.
Over half a million people are now at risk of being seized and deported to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
The contract is nothing more than a rehash of the deal the union bureaucracies tried to impose on workers a week ago, and that the rank and file voted down.
Mexico ruling party defeated; composer Shostakovich finishes final work; North Korean troops in first combat with US forces; Fascists attack anti-fascists on Staten Island
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
