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.
The strike coincides with a growing wave of working class resistance, including a strike authorization vote last month by 35,000 Los Angeles educators.
President Donald Trump incited his fascist political base late Thursday by sharing a video on Truth Social that ended with a blatantly racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in the jungle.
The visit has the character of a provocation against the population, aimed at signalling Labor’s support for imperialist war and its commitment to suppressing mass opposition.
The Trump administration is reclassifying tens if not hundreds of thousands of federal workers as “at-will” employees. The maneuver is not only an attack on workers’ protections and due process rights but a step toward establishing a presidential dictatorship.
If any further proof were needed that the phrases “freedom” and “human rights” in German foreign policy are nothing more than propaganda, it was provided by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to the reactionary Gulf monarchies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Liam and his family face imminent deportation even though they are currently applying for asylum and have not broken any laws.
The school year opens with educators in Australia confronting chronic underfunding, staff shortages, impossible workloads and rising levels of violence and distress, amid global militarism and attacks on democratic rights.
Opposition to the deal, with sub-inflation wage increases and no job guarantees against AI, must be organized into of a rank-and-file rebellion that overrides the bureaucratic sabotage and enforces the will of the membership.
More than 1,000 students at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (PCEP) campus staged a walkout on Wednesday morning against ICE.
Nearly 2,000 educators are working under an expired contract, confronting a district that has weaponized a manufactured fiscal crisis to impose permanent austerity.
Canada's unions have responded to the developments in Minneapolis and calls for a general strike with either total silence or by issuing hollow statements of "solidarity."
Trump’s plan to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years, amid ICE repression and gaudy “America250” spectacles, exposes the deepening assault on culture and democratic rights.
The Instagram post included a graphic depicting the assassination of Alex Pretti with the text “Only Traitors Help Invaders.”
Looking south from Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, where Nurrie, Jr. froze to death, there is visible a $44 million hotel development opened in 2021, a $94 million 8th District Courthouse opened in 2023, cranes building a $515 million arena and parking garage, and heavy machinery preparing a site for a planned $100 million county administration building and parking garage.
The Trump administration’s attempt to pull the plug on the Cuban economy is aimed at carrying through the nearly seven decades of efforts to overthrow the Castroite government installed by the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
India: Gig workers hold one-day nationwide protests; Punjab state power workers oppose privatisation; Bangladesh: Chittagong Port workers strike against new terminal leasing; Sri Lankan doctors continue action; Malaysia: Lumileds factory workers fight sackings and deportations; Australia: CSL pharmaceutical factory workers strike for higher pay.
ABP Foods intends to close its retail meat packing operation in Dungannon in the North of Ireland, threatening 338 workers with the sack. Rank and file committees are needed across ABP’s operations in response.
The vote to extend strike action until August 2026 shows the determination of resident doctors to defy Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who has spewed vitriol including the accusation they are “holding the country to ransom.”
The speeches and political profile of the participants revealed the fundamental message: the Turkish ruling class and its imperialist allies could better defend their interests through a government established under the leadership of the CHP.
The arrests underscore that the strike has entered a new stage and pose the necessity for a broader movement of the working class in defense of the nurses.
In his short time as mayor, Mamdani has already accomplished a great deal—in comprehensively betraying and repudiating the oppositional sentiment that propelled him to office.
The wave of layoffs is part of a global jobs bloodbath, driven by a ruthless global search for new sources of profit to sustain uncontrollable levels of debt and financial bubbles on which the wealth of the oligarchy rests.
The latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice have conclusively proven the Trump administration is lying and engaged in a massive cover-up.
Elderly tenants were blindsided by relocation letters ordering moves from midyear, after being repeatedly told their towers would be the last to be demolished.
The film is inspired by Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax, previously adapted as a film by Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras in 2005.
Through its dominance of the global supply of rare earths and critical minerals, vital for high-tech products, from phones to jet engines, China was able to hit back against Trump’s tariff war by rapidly cutting off supplies.
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border whose consequences still shape American politics.
The layoffs came the same week GM reported more than $12 billion in pre-tax earnings for 2025, along with plans to hike shareholder returns through dividend increases and a $6 billion stock buyback scheme.
Despite Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s rhetoric about supporting Cuba, she has capitulated to Trump and US imperialism by ceasing to provide oil to the island.
Thousands march for investment in public education in Brussels, transport workers in Wallonia on indefinite stoppage against cost-cutting; UK defence workers at BAE in Lancashire in three-week stoppage over pay; sugar workers at four factories in Kenya walk out over monies owed
“The proscription of Palestine Action must now be lifted, and all those held as a result of this political process in prison should be released immediately,” civil liberties group CAGE demanded in response to Wednesday’s acquittal.
The day before Walsh’s swipe against the PWRFC the company triggered the one-month Dispute Resolution Process threatening executive action to impose the roll out of the Optimised Delivery Model across 1,250 offices nationally.
The Washington Post announced Tuesday that it is eliminating more than 300 journalists—roughly one-third of its 800-person newsroom.
In a series of remarks this week, the US president has repeated his lies about the “stolen election” of 2020 and called for Republicans to “take over” the running of elections in Democratic-controlled states.
Colombian President Petro visited Trump at the White House to pledge collaboration with the would-be emperor, exposing the bankruptcy of Latin America’s Pink Tide nationalists.
A boat carrying an estimated 35 people en route from the Turkish coast to the nearby island of Chios was rammed by the Greek Coast Guard. At least 15 people were killed.
The deal will drive annual growth in spending on the $52 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme down to 5–6 percent, from about 9.5 percent last year, amounting to cuts of tens of billions of dollars over the coming decade.
Federal prosecutors allege that between 2009 and 2018, Kaiser carried out a multi-state scheme to inflate risk scores through automated and coercive practices.
Spearheaded by the fascistic Trump administration, an eruption of militarism and domestic repression has shattered the post-World War II order and this is driving deeper attacks—led by the Albanese Labor government—throughout the universities.
At the union's annual press conference on January 26 and in further statements IG Metall chair Christiane Benner has called for protectionism and trade war as integral elements of the union’s “Initiative for Jobs and Economic Recovery: Future Instead of Relocation.”
Mandelson walked when it was revealed that he had passed confidential UK government information to Epstein. Downing Street has been forced to pass information to the Metropolitan Police to investigate.
Nine further days of strike action were due to begin on February 2. The NEU claimed the agreement as a “victory” and that “strikes work”. But the ATLP remains committed to balancing its deficits and the NEU is fully on board as partners.
The University of Sheffield is refusing to pay staff who fail to reschedule teaching missed during 16 days of strike action during November and December 2025. Such measures have been threatened before by UK universities but never carried through.
The immediate causes of the disaster—the ignition of party sparklers in a basement bar, the flammable ceiling cladding, the lack of and overly narrow escape routes, and the lack of trained staff—all reveal an indifference, recklessness and greed for profit that is unparalleled.
At a rally in New York’s Foley Square, hundreds of nurses recognized the connection between the defense of healthcare and the defense of immigrants’ rights.
Argentinian airport workers announce major strike action as workers in northern Mexico's "maquiladora" plants occupy factories in response to propose mass layoffs.
The ICE agency is infamous around the world for its politically-driven executions of US citizens in Minneapolis and other cities illegally occupied by forces loyal to Trump.
The SEP has consistently explained the brutal attack near the University of Moratuwa was not an isolated street brawl, but a politically driven attempt to prevent it from organising among university workers and students.
The visit is a calculated provocation by the Labor government and a display of full support for the mass murder of Palestinians and for imperialist war globally.
A change is underway which is penetrating ever deeper into the working class. After 40 years of suppression of the class struggle, following the defeats imposed in the 1980s, the working class in the United States is beginning to move again.
The votes over the past five days demonstrate that the Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration.
Trump’s calls to “take over” elections in states Republicans are projected to lose coincide with reporting that he is directly communicating with FBI agents currently seizing ballots, voter rolls and other election data in Fulton County, Georgia.
Over 200 courses have been flagged or canceled following amendments to A&M’s “Civil Rights Protection” policies to prohibit “race and gender ideology.” Plato is among the authors banned from classrooms as a result of the new policies.
While cuts in the healthcare system are driving more and more hospitals into insolvency, health workers are threatened with cuts in real wages and layoffs. The trade unions are isolating the struggles and preparing new sellouts.
The Labor government’s claims to have begun to resolve the cost-of-living crisis have been shattered.
In the New Year, Washington has attempted to reassert its hegemony over the entire Latin American region, which includes its Mexican neighbor.
A 71-year-old subcontracted worker was killed at a New Jersey chemical plant, as official investigations were announced and fundamental questions about workplace safety and accountability remain unanswered.
Unfortunately, a number of publicly well-received and penetrating German documentaries and feature films failed to win any recognition at the Berlin ceremony.
Unifor Local 88 Plant Chair Mike Van Boekel recently revealed that discussions have been held with General Motors management on producing military vehicles at the idled CAMI auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario.
Turkish government officials have voiced their growing concerns and made efforts to establish diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran.
Two workers employed as underground guides at the museum gave interviews. Both had formerly worked as miners at the UK’s last remaining deep coal mine, Kellingley Colliery, before it was closed in 2015.
