We encourage spreading this initiative to campuses across the country and drawing in broader layers, including working-class youth and workers in key industries, to defend the encampments against attack from the corporate media and political establishment.
The decision raises the prospect of turmoil in international currency markets where the Japanese yen has been falling and hit its lowest rate against the dollar in 34 years on Monday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Tuesday that a military assault on Rafah “would be an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.”
Teamsters Local 952 rushed through a sellout agreement for OCTA bus operators with a very slim majority and a sizable abstention.
Students have taken a courageous stand. But their actions anticipate an even more powerful movement in the working class. The issues they have raised can only be resolved not on the campuses but in the factories, warehouses, railroads and docks.
The unions called the rallies in order to block any mobilisation of the working class and to bolster illusions in the deeply discredited Labour Party, which agrees with austerity and with New Zealand’s integration into US imperialist wars.
The fascist ex-president suggested possible prosecution of Biden, immunity for police violence, and the military round-up of 20 million immigrants.
Last week’s oral arguments before the US Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for any actions he took while president, including his attempted coup of January 6, 2021, brought out divisions among the nine justices over criminality in the White House.
The ongoing Israeli mass murder in Gaza and stepped up brutality and repression on the West Bank provide immediate, living context, if such be needed, for Farah Nabulsi’s film.
The CAQ government is determined to push through an employer-dictated construction industry “modernization,” aimed at boosting profits at the expense of workers’ jobs and safety.
General Motors announced last Friday the shutdown of its manufacturing plants in Colombia and Ecuador, eliminating about 1,300 jobs, along with thousands more indirectly.
A new law will extend arbitrary police powers, enabling the state to limit and ban protests.
This underscores the potential internationally for students protesting the genocide to mobilize the working class to halt the genocide and the war.
Students in the UK have taken action in solidarity with those in the US facing down fierce police repression and fascist violence to protest the imperialist-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Students at University College Dublin protested the visit of the former Democratic Party speaker of the US House of Representatives who had been invited to receive an honorary degree.
Even if industrial action is called, this will be of a token character with no call for support from other steelworkers in Britain, Europe and internationally. And without such an appeal workers will continue to be played off against one another in an endless race to the bottom.
The miserable tentative contract agreement at Daimler Truck has been hailed by Biden and leading Democrats as another supposed “historics” win for workers
The third week of Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial began on Tuesday with more details about payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
Events were hosted in person on campuses at the University of Melbourne, University of Newcastle and Western Sydney University. An in-person meeting was also held in Brisbane and an online one in New Zealand.
What is required is the struggle for socialism, based on a turn to the working class, the social force whose fundamental interests align with reconstructing society to address the climate crisis.
These calls to bomb 1.5 million defenseless civilians in Rafah expose that, by backing Israel’s war on Gaza, NATO governments are supporting genocidal war crimes.
Ukraine is becoming more and more like a giant prison for its own trapped and disenfranchised population. Now, the authorities even seek to force those back inside who had managed to escape it.
The drastic cost-cutting in the already understaffed and underfunded public health system is intensifying a crisis of patient care.
On Thursday, April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk—a socialist opponent of the right-wing Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war—was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine.
Five days earlier, Sanchez had suddenly threatened to resign, after far-right forces published unsubstantiated allegations of corruption targeting Sánchez’ wife, Begoña Gómez.
Having largely adopted the AfD’s political programme on refugees and domestic policy, the federal government now wants to overtake it from the right in foreign policy.
As anti-genocide student protests sweep the country DeSantis is injecting anti-communist propaganda into all grades throughout the state’s public schools.
The measures are a show of force by the Erdoğan-led state apparatus against those marking the international day of struggle of the working class.
In her 60s, she was strip-searched, handcuffed so tightly it caused pain, denied access to food, water and medication for several hours, and held overnight in a cold cell without adequate clothing or blankets, conditions her lawyers described as “terrible” and designed to humiliate.
In addition to the billions already allocated to Ukraine, the 2024 defence budget is expected to rise by nearly 43 percent, a war-budget that is expected to continually rise each year to reach an initial sum of €21.4 billion euros, or roughly 2 percent of the Dutch GDP by 2030.
Postal workers voiced support for building rank-and-file committees in their own workplaces: “It would certainly upset the Communication Workers Union, and their collusion with Royal Mail, if they knew masses of the workforce stood against their joint campaign.”
On Monday afternoon, organizers of the student encampment at Northwestern University (NU) in the north suburb of Chicago reached an agreement behind closed doors with the university administration and shut down the protest against the genocide in Gaza.
Albanese arrived a little over 24 hours after the Chinese foreign minister left, and couched his entire visit in terms of collaboration between Australia and its then colony in World War II.
Led by young workers and Middle Eastern families, more than 100 people rallied and marched through Surfers Paradise on Saturday to denounce the intensifying Israeli genocide in Gaza and the Australian Labor government’s support for it.
We call on all students at Sri Lankan universities and higher education institutions, and the working class, to defend protesting US students and to oppose the Netanyahu government’s genocidal military operation in Gaza.
The picture presented by the governor of the Italian central bank was of a world in which all the economic and political institutions set in place after 1945 to prevent war are breaking down.
ICC prosecutors have interviewed medical personnel at Shifa and Nasser hospitals, where Israeli forces reportedly carried out summary executions and dumped bodies in mass graves.
Murdoch’s Australian blatantly sought to link a Sydney University anti-genocide encampment to a witch hunt against seven Islamic teenagers arrested last week on flimsy “terrorism” charges.
In the “historic” 2023 contract the UAW lifted all restrictions on management’s right to impose mandatory overtime, including seven-day operations.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced new working hour rules for air traffic controllers following a runway incident at Reagan National Airport on April 18 in which two jetliners came within 400 feet of each other.
Some writers and directors are making heartfelt films about the poor and oppressed.
The German Train Drivers' Union has announced that 77 percent of its members voted in favor of accepting the collective agreement the union reached with Deutsche Bahn. The GDL provided no information on the turnout.
Non-contract teachers in Sao Paulo, Brazil strike against privatization, while a strike vote by Canadian rail workers at CPKC and CN is set to conclude May 1.
The FDA reported last week that one in five milks samples from US retail stores contained fragments of the H5N1 bird flu that has recently infected dairy cows in the US.
Police officers employed force, using batons and painful holds in breaking up the peaceful protest camp, then immediately kettled a spontaneous counter-demonstration, arresting dozens of participants.
Imperialist war is incompatible with democracy. The more openly the German government pursues rearmament and war, the more the freedom of expression must give way to political censorship and conformity.
The anger expressed by students over the support of the political establishment for Israel’s genocide in Gaza is shared by thousands who have participated in protests.
The Hi-Viz policy was a key issue when railroaders pushed for strike action in 2022, before it was pre-emptively banned by Congress and Biden.
All charges must be dropped against Stein and the hundreds of others who have been arrested while protesting in recent weeks.
Confronted with the loss of thousands of jobs, 10,000 steel workers from Thyssenkrupp and HKM are holding a joint works meeting on April 30 in Duisburg.
Students have taken a courageous stand. But we, the working class, have to be the base of the fight against war.
The ongoing crisis around the Scottish National Party marks the end of all claims that the SNP, and its project of Scottish independence represents a left alternative.
As 200,000 took part in a national demonstration against the Gaza genocide in London on Saturday, thousands more participated in local protests around the country.
On Friday, the US Defense Department announced it was sending its largest weapons order to Ukraine to date, totaling $6 billion, after President Joe Biden signed into law a $95 billion military spending bill last Wednesday.
Marles’ visit confirmed that Australia is now providing lethal aid to Ukraine, making it a de facto participant in the US-NATO conflict with Russia.
At the top of the list of US demands was the insistence that China assist the US and its NATO allies in crippling the Russian economy, particularly its war industries.
Not one of the assembled journalists raised the criminal role of the Biden administration in the Israeli mass murder in Gaza.
The CFPE forum called for educators to mobilise against the imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza and the accompanying crackdown on democratic rights.
As the television documentary series progresses, historians and critics of US foreign policy are replaced by some—for lack of a better phrase—of the world’s leading war criminals.
The Japanese government is working to gain an understanding of where Trump stands on the war drive against China and to ensure Tokyo is not left in the lurch should he win the US presidency.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
The new contract for workers at MASS MoCA, highly regarded and one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the US, raises wages to only $18 an hour, leaving workers earning well below a living wage.
Mobilizing the working class internationally to halt the genocide requires breaking with the nationalist outlook of pseudo-left groups that subordinate workers to the Spanish capitalist state.
The Day of Mourning and the stated purposes behind it has been in effect for 34 years. Yet at our workplace alone, four people, brothers Andrew Kenmuir, Fraser Cowan, Colin Grayley, Quoc Le, have been gruesomely killed in 20 years—three of them in less than two.
All workers and youth opposed to genocide and the many students now returning to campus must take forward a struggle independently from and against the trade union bureaucracy, and all those appealing to the “political establishment”.
Workers and young people must pick up the gauntlet thrown down by the government and the police. Protest must be mounted wherever asylum snatches are made, outside detention centres and at airports.
Fearing a merger of the movement of students against war and genocide with workers’ struggles, the U-M lecturers’ union leadership defied a strike authorization vote and hurriedly signed a tentative agreement that fails to meet the workers’ demands.
Jasmin, a dentist, said the “doxxing of health workers criticising the attack on Gaza is inhumane and cruel. Healthcare workers should be able to give voice to the victims affected by the war.”
Today’s Australian splashed over its front page “exclusive” stories demonising arrested Islamic boys, apparently based on prejudicial leaked police information.
Business analysts have warned that the demise of Qenos is a sign of things to come as other energy intensive industries cease operations in Australia, destroying thousands more jobs.
“It’s unsustainable because people are going to get more angry and they won’t continue to support a government that is actively supporting genocide oversees while violently oppressing minorities and the working class in our own country.”
Trotsky’s political analysis and revolutionary struggle for socialist internationalism against imperialist war, Stalinism and fascism must be studied and assimilated by all those opposed to capitalist barbarism.
Weingarten, a member of the Democratic National Committee with close ties to the Clintons, “Genocide Joe” Biden and other war criminals, personifies the role of the AFL-CIO bureaucracy as a mouthpiece for US imperialism abroad and austerity at home.
What the Biden administration is and what it is prepared to do arise from the class interests the Democratic Party represents--and from its entire history.
Over a year after the UAW rammed through a sell-out contract, ending a nearly nine-month-long strike by CNH workers, the company seeks to slash its Mount Pleasant factory from 660 workers to 170.
Teamsters Local 952 members are set to vote on a contract that they have no details on. Teamsters will inform membership of the details and rush a vote after.
An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 individuals, including seven top advisers and 11 fake electors, for the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections. Donald Trump is not named and listed as an unindicted coconspirator.
The handling of the April 13 shooting incident at the plant highlights the broader disregard of both management and the United Steelworkers for the health and safety of workers.
Bangladesh police open fire on protesting garment workers; Australia: Fraser Island Council workers protest for better pay and conditions; New Zealand doctors to strike after rejecting pay deal.
PEN America has canceled its annual festival, as well as its literary awards, after scores of authors withdrew from both programs to protest its acquiescence to the Gaza genocide.
The adopted motion stated that the Berlin Senate’s draft law "stands in the tradition of the expulsion of politically unwelcome students" and aims to criminalise "legitimate democratic protest culture at universities."
The financial markets have hailed the Lula government as its reactionary character has been exposed.
One hour before the midnight April 26 contract deadline for 7,300 Daimler Truck workers, the UAW apparatus headed by President Shawn Fain announced a supposedly historic deal, in reality a sellout.
The top 1 percent of India’s population gorged on 22.6 percent of national income and 40.1 percent of national wealth in 2022-23.
The Green politician knows what he's talking about. The last time there was a defence industry minister was under Hitler.
“Managers are manipulative, intimidating and specifically target new starters who might feel their job is at risk.”
This is the first case of its kind against the intelligence service and threatens to unravel a massive state cover-up.
On Saturday, May 4, the International Committee of the Fourth International will hold an online rally to celebrate May Day. This year's rally is of exceptional importance.
Apart from the US, where there are mounting concerns over the levels of government debt, major industrial countries are in grip of a marked economic slowdown.
The 2020 conviction of former film producer Harvey Weinstein was thrown out on Thursday by the New York Court of Appeals, which found that he had been denied the right to a fair trial.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
Both the attorney for Trump and the Department of Justice representative agreed that the president must have broad immunity from prosecution for actions taken in his capacity as commander-in-chief.
Better than expected profits are the result of a $3 billion cost cutting plan that will reduce UPS’s “dependency on labor”
The World Health Organization published a consensus statement on airborne pathogens, finally aligning the WHO with scientists who presented evidence of this early in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but with no guidance on what measures should now be taken on the pandemic.
The WSWS is providing on-the-ground coverage of the developing protest movement against the genocide in Gaza and the state crackdown on democratic rights.
At a press conference, two Polish ministers made abundantly clear that the new school programme is not about imparting neutral knowledge about first aid and disaster control, but instead is aimed at creating a militaristic culture.
A laid-off Foxtrot worker said, "This whole situation makes you realize how under capitalism, everything is temporary, and anyone can be discarded.”
Ten years after the disastrous switch of the city of 100,000's water supply it is more than apparent that this was a bipartisan crime in which the Obama Administration’s policies played a central role.
An official Israel Defense Forces statement explained that the strikes on Lebanon were not carried out in response to any specific attack but as “part of the effort to destroy [Hezbollah’s] infrastructure in the border area.”
Belgian postal workers begin stoppages against job cuts and restructuring involving race to bottom with Amazon and other parcel companies; general strike in West Bank after Israeli forces kill 10 Palestinians, bringing total deaths since October to 500; Kenyan doctors continue national stoppage to demand permanent contracts, defy government threats to sack them or make them all temporary
