Houston, Texas saw 100 mile per hour winds (161 kph) from a devastating type of storm known as a derecho on Thursday. Residents affected could be without power for weeks.
The hearings this week featured devastating presentations of what the South African ambassador called the “continuing annihilation of the Palestinian people.”
Supported by the US and its EU allies, demonstrators in Georgia’s capital city, Tbilisi, are demanding the reversal of a “foreign agents law” and accusing the ruling party of being Putin's “slave.”
More universities have issued eviction notices, and an encampment that was previously attacked by Zionist thugs at Monash University has now been dismantled.
That the UAW is calling out only a single campus confirms the warnings made by the WSWS that the bureaucracy is doing everything it can to limit this struggle.
The fraudulent charge of treason brought against Syrotiuk is aimed at intimidating and suppressing growing opposition among Ukrainian workers and youth to the imperialist-backed Zelensky regime and the escalating war against Russia.
The New York Times confirmed on Friday that NATO generals are openly discussing with their Ukrainian counterparts transferring high-level intelligence to Ukraine in order to facilitate strikes on Russian troops and bases deep within the country.
The purpose of Centrepay is to ensure that landlords, utilities and other businesses get the first cut of the pittance from which the unemployed, elderly, disabled, or otherwise disadvantaged are forced to eke out an existence.
While there is rising anger among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers over stagnant pay and dangerous staffing shortages, the unions are keeping workers’ struggles isolated and divided.
The "Palestine Campus" group explained that the impulse for the protest was the start of the Israeli army's murderous ground offensive against Rafah.
Amid escalating economic turmoil and social discontent the French government is determined to tighten its grip on the strategically significant Pacific colony.
The arrest of Igor Kolomoisky indicates a significant crisis within the Zelensky government as it slams the jail doors on its former backer and ally.
These works of art, in a variety of styles, were part of a flowering that included not only the visual arts but also literature, essays, drama, dance and—perhaps most famously—jazz.
North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul has banned the group “Palestine Solidarity Duisburg” on the pretext of its alleged “antisemitism” and support for Hamas.
While drug overdose deaths decreased slightly in 2023, the US continues to be devastated by the opioid epidemic, with preliminary CDC data showing there were 107,543 overdose fatalities last year.
Any historical appraisal of Bridges, the most notable Stalinist labor official in US history, raises important historical questions for workers today.
Bangladeshi garment workers maintain sit-down protest over Gazipur factory closure; Sri Lankan government health workers walkout; Australia: Wilmar Sugar workers in Queensland strike again for pay rise; New Zealand nurses protest staff shortages.
A pseudo-left party rooted in and oriented to privileged sections of the middle class, Québec Solidaire seeks to provide a “progressive” cover to a program whose anti-democratic and historically retrograde character has become manifest.
Student encampments against Israel's genocide in Gaza have spread to 25 universities in Britain. WSWS reporters spoke to protesters at the Edinburgh University and at an encampment set up this week at Cardiff University.
The court’s politically motivated ruling sentenced the leaders of the legal Kurdish nationalist party in Turkey to a total of 408 years in prison.
Labour’s rail plan is not a programme of “renationalisation” but an effort to save a collapsed privatisation strategy and to safeguard the interests of British capitalism.
The flurry of eviction notices, “emergency meetings,” and warnings of disciplinary action indicate a nationally coordinated campaign in line with denunciations of the student protests by the federal Labor government.
The forthcoming SEP/IYSSE event will discuss the political necessity for the building of the revolutionary party in the context of current global developments and the danger of a third world war.
Gallant’s ability to declare an expansion of the ground operation in Rafah is due above all to the green light given by the imperialists in Washington, Berlin, and elsewhere to the Netanyahu government. Late Tuesday, the Biden administration confirmed it plans to dispatch over $1 billion of weaponry and other military equipment to Israel.
Federal agents grilled Pappé about his political views and copied the contents of his cellphone.
Labor joined hands with the Liberal-Nationals to pass a motion denouncing opposition to the mass murder, exposing the de facto unity ticket they are on in support of genocide and war.
Contrary to the anti-immigrant policies of DeSantis and the Republican Party, the site of the crash has been overflowing with flowers from people and families visiting to pay their respects to the farmworkers they never met.
In a major escalation of the US-NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, General Charles Q. Brown told the New York Times Thursday that the NATO military alliance will “eventually” send significant numbers of active-duty NATO troops to Ukraine, which the newspaper said meant the deployment was “inevitable.”
The motion called for a black ban and cessation of work on all university research, education or other projects linked to the Israeli military or otherwise assisting the genocide in Gaza.
The vote is a major step forward because it poses the entry of the working class into the struggle as the basic political force against war and police dictatorship.
In the following, we document the IYSSE Humboldt University election statement, which will be printed in the student election brochure. The elections are on 18 and 19 June.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Three out of four criminal proceedings against the aspiring dictator, including the most serious cases concerning the failed January 6 coup, have been delayed in the last month.
In statements and conversations with the WSWS, students, grad student workers and others expressed support for a mass strike to protect democratic rights and end the genocide in Gaza.
At Deutsche Bahn (DB) Cargo, the logistics branch of the German railway company, the threat of massive job cuts has led to a systematic increase in work pressure. This has considerable consequences for the health of railroad workers and results in life-threatening situations.
The film is an often tender-hearted and unconventional love story set against the backdrop of racial prejudice and social repression prevailing in a divided postwar Germany.
The shooting reflects mounting political and social tensions across Eastern Europe over NATO’s aggressive pursuit of war with Russia in Ukraine, which Fico has criticized.
Whatever “deal” on workers’ rights is eventually announced in June, Labour is set for a head-on collision with the working class in which the trade unions will function as an industrial police force.
Healthcare workers in Greece hold one-day strike over pay, conditions, privatisation and funding; Iran engulfed by protests including by nurses, telecommunications retirees and gold merchants over decline in living conditions; Kenyan doctors’ union sells out national strike begun March, accepts there will be no permanent jobs for interns
Were the shoe on the other foot, the case would have been frontpage news for weeks. Instead, it has been covered up almost entirely.
The HECS-HELP loan indexation adjustment is a tiny fraction of the crippling debt confronting university students amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
As the official death toll since October 7 rises to over 35,200 Palestinians—with well over 40,000 dead when those unaccounted for under the rubble are taken into account, the vast majority being women and children—Washington’s response is to double down on its support for the far-right Zionist regime and to accelerate the shipment of arms.
A week after House Democrats voted to retain Mike Johnson as Speaker, the Louisiana Republican appeared outside the Trump trial in Manhattan to fervently support the fascist ex-president.
The momentum of the strike must not be lost, especially now that the 48,000 academic workers in the UC system have voted to strike in response to police attacks against peaceful anti-genocide protests.
The Colombo Port Workers Action Committee urges all port workers and youth who value democratic rights to come forward and campaign for the release of comrade Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Educators and professional staff at WSU College face the elimination of more than 13 percent of teaching and learning jobs, and a “spill and fill” regime to force them to compete against each other for the remaining posts.
With new job cuts being announced every day, analysts are suggesting 384,000 education jobs may be axed this year as federal pandemic aid runs out.
Bainimarama’s imprisonment over an abuse of office is bound up with the divisions within the country’s ruling elites which confront a worsening economic and social crisis.
The UAW unionization drive has received the blessings of the Biden administration, which is seeking to use the unions to control and stifle social opposition to war and austerity.
Directed by American Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish, 2013) and scripted by Nick Shafir, I.S.S. defies tropes so plentiful in Cold War (and contemporary) fiction and film.
Tactical differences have emerged in the Green Party, with former co-leader James Shaw declaring that he would have been comfortable joining a right-wing National Party-led government.
Faculty at Tulane and Loyola Universities in New Orleans issue public letters denouncing the violent police assault and disciplinary measures against a peaceful student encampment protest earlier this month.
The strike ban underscores that as Canadian imperialism backs Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, and takes on an ever greater role in NATO’s war on Russia and the US strategic offensive against China the Trudeau government will tolerate no opposition from workers at home.
The University of Amsterdam administration justified the intervention of the Mobile Unit (ME) or the Dutch riot police in the university building, brutally beating and arresting students.
The strike is the first in the sector for 17 years and the first nationwide strike for 22 years.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told the assembled media, “It is abundantly clear that the process in the courts in the United Kingdom are corrupt. The case is rigged against Julian.”
Child homelessness rose last year by 14 percent to 145,800, while 55 child deaths since 2019 were directly attributed to living in temporary accommodation
The UN relief agency for Palestinians reported that around 450,000 people have been driven out of Rafah—a city whose population had been swollen to 1.3 million by a huge influx of people escaping the Israeli military onslaught elsewhere in Gaza.
The eruption of a strike by 6,000 UW workers points to the immense potential for the growing movement against war with the massive opposition in the working class to exploitation and inequality.
David McBride is the first person prosecuted over the documented war crimes, including extrajudicial killings—not for perpetrating them but for exposing them.
Only through the mobilization of the working class, which creates all of society’s wealth, can the genocide in Gaza and other criminal wars be stopped. At the same time, the broadening of the struggle will also give grad students the strongest possible position to resist attempts by the UAW bureaucracy to limit or prevent a strike.
Facing an election within 12 months, the Labor administration is desperately trying to head off working-class disaffection over the intensifying cost-of-living crisis.
Under national security powers, the US has raised tariffs on electric vehicles to 100 percent, along with tariff hikes on a range of high-tech and industrial products.
The union’s fraternizing with Stalinist parties, like its relations with the anticommunist trade unions, is aimed at building a new labor bureaucracy while ignoring the needs of Amazon workers.
Amid the current highly promoted campaign over “violence against women,” the actual situation surrounding the latest tragic deaths is deliberately ignored to conceal the social conditions that produce such deadly events.
The only social force capable of halting the drive to world war is the international working class which is coming into struggle in Sri Lanka and around the world.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Max Boddy, Socialist Equality Party (Australia) assistant national secretary, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Autoworkers in the Detroit area are expressing support for University of California academic workers who are demanding strike action to protect anti-genocide protesters on campus.
With far less than half of the membership voting on the contract, the LEO-AFT bureaucracy forced through a sellout contract, isolating pro-Palestinian protesters.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
NORAD is viewed by both Washington and Ottawa as central to waging “strategic conflict” and all-out war—including nuclear war—against its great-power rivals, above all Russia and China.
The German ruling class plays a key role in the genocide of the Palestinians. This cannot be obscured by the hypocritical "warnings" from Scholz and other leading politicians about the attack on Rafah.
Germany's ruling class is returning to the methods of the Nazis: police terror, the suppression of peaceful protests and the besieging of universities.
The work being conducted by numerous scientists concludes that the H5N1 HAPI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) virus poses a very real threat to human populations.
Two medical missions at the European Hospital in Khan Younis have been trapped in place with limited supplies since the closing of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
In 2021 the proportion of deaths related to opioids among people aged 20-29 was 29.3 percent. With 29 percent of deaths occurring among people aged 30-39, this means that those under 40 accounted for close to 60 percent of all opioid deaths.
The Communication Workers Union’s message amounted to a demand that Parcelforce workers knuckle down and compete against DPD for improved market share.
US General Brian Fenton reveals how deeply British imperialism is involved in the NATO-led war against Russia, including the deployment of Special Forces, Royal Air Force pilots and “Royal Navy teammates”.
The ongoing repression of Alton Estate workers by management and the police, supported by the trade unions, is calculated to intimidate all estate workers.
The Labor government is slandering peaceful student protests as antisemitic and dangerous, tacitly greenlighting violence against the encampments by Zionist thugs.
With Israel expanding its assault on Rafah and launching indiscriminate bombings and assaults throughout the Gaza Strip, 20 percent of Gaza's population has once again been forced to flee over the past week.
With tariffs and other barriers going up almost every day, the global economy is increasingly coming to resemble the madhouse of the 1930s.
The fascist ex-president faces up to four years in prison if convicted of maintaining false business records to cover up the payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
The vote by the graduate student workers is a sign of a new stage in which the working class will emerge as the basic social force against war and dictatorship.
Canada’s federal Liberal government has intervened to delay or block a strike by 9,300 railroad workers while unions in Argentina carried out the second national protest strike against the Milei government.
Thousands of child care providers temporarily shut down facilities or called out sick Monday to take part in the third annual “Day Without Child Care.”
The strike authorization vote places the rank and file in direct conflict with the UAW leadership, which fully endorsed President Joe Biden’s 2024 candidacy despite his genocidal and warmongering policies.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tomas Castanheira, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The strike by junior doctors comes in the face of a deepening crisis of underfunding and understaffing in the country’s public hospitals.
The district is planning the cuts even though it has more than $6.3 billion in reserve.
The film expresses the broadly felt suspicion in the population—at that time and even more so today—that there is something sinister and rotten in the American state.
Ahead of next Saturday’s national rally in London against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, dozens of protests were held over the weekend in towns and cities across Britain.
Sunak pledged that the Tories were the party to be trusted to wage war at whatever cost. Labour will respond in kind.
Defending Bogdan means challenging the endless pro-war propaganda by the British media that the NATO-backed conflict against Russia is being waged to defend democracy and human rights.
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia is holding a meeting on Sunday, May 26 in Sydney and online to discuss the urgent struggle to free Julian Assange.
