Zohran Mamdani intervenes in effort to shut down the New York nurses strike
Mamdani’s visit to the picket line Tuesday and his collaboration with NYSNA paves the way for a snap shutdown of the powerful strike.
•Daniel de Vries
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UPS workers back Minneapolis general strike, oppose Teamsters sabotage of walkout against ICE
Reporters for the WSWS spoke to UPS workers in Minneapolis about the ongoing federal occupation and the day of action scheduled for January 23.
•Jerry White
Davos World Economic Forum dominated by Trump threats over Greenland
The World Economic Forum, which opened Monday in Davos, Switzerland, was dominated by the deepening rift between the United States and the European powers over US President Donald Trump’s efforts to take control of Greenland.
•Andre Damon
UPS will have eliminated at least 68,000 jobs through early 2026
Public filings and earnings reports show that UPS slashed its workforce by eliminating 48,000 jobs in 2025 and that another 20,000 positions are to be cut by early 2026 as part of the company’s three-year strategic plan.
•Kevin Reed
USPS workers report on initial findings of rank-and-file safety inquiry
The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee also calls for mass participation in the Minnesota strike, part of a wave of class struggle across the country which has the potential to change the country.
•USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Right-wing Coalition breaks apart in crisis of Australia’s two-party system
The break-up of the Coalition is not only a crisis of that right-wing formation, but of the whole political order that has defended capitalist rule for the past 80 years.
•Oscar Grenfell
Quebec intensifies assault on worker rights with its Bill 3
Bill 3 will impose stricter state oversight over the province’s trade unions with the aim of smothering working class opposition to the CAQ’s right-wing, class-war agenda.
•Frédéric Charlebois, Laurent Lafrance
Detroit January 23 Coalition excludes Socialist Equality Party speaker to shield the Democratic Party
In remarks to the meeting, SEP member Lawrence Porter raised the fundamental political issues involved in opposing the paramilitary occupation in Minneapolis.
•Our reporters
Union bureaucracy seeks to block strike action against ICE rampage in Minneapolis
A January 20 online meeting hosted by PayDay Report exposed the hostility of the union bureaucracy to independent working-class action, as officials rejected mass meetings, strike action and rank-and-file decision-making in the face of ICE repression.
•Jacob Crosse
Anger in Australia’s fire zones as government underfunding and negligence exposed
Another inquiry is not a solution but a smokescreen: a mechanism to channel anger into years of hearings and reports, while the same underlying policies remain untouched.
•Eric Ludlow
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•David North
Democrats will allow full ICE funding in budget bill
Facing a January 30 deadline for another federal government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday that the Democratic leadership would not seek to block funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other units of the Department of Homeland Security.
•Patrick Martin
Twilight at the Met: Capitalism’s contempt for culture
The company’s announcement this week of yet another round of devastating cutbacks exposes the incapacity of American capitalism to sustain even its most celebrated cultural institutions.
•Fred Mazelis, David North
War abroad, austerity at home: French government presents budget with aid of New Popular Front
The budget presented by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu confirms the crisis of French democracy and the complicity of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s New Popular Front.
•Anthony Torres
Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government tries to join in US plans to plunder Venezuela
There will be no genuine opposition to wars of plunder from a government that is also working to loot Venezuela—whether through sanctions, diplomatic activities, or active complicity with Trump.
•Santiago Guillen
Wall Street impacted by Trump’s Greenland annexation threat
On Tuesday, the dollar fell by 0.9 percent against a basket of currencies, continuing its slide of 9 percent for 2025. Gold went well over $4,700 per ounce, a new record, while the yield longer-term Treasuries rose.
•Nick Beams
Online meeting Sunday: The New York nurses’ strike and the fight against the financial oligarchy
The nurses’ strike, located in the center of world finance, is part of a broader movement of the working class, whose logic culminates in a national and international movement against oligarchy and dictatorship.
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Bolivian union bureaucracy calls off general strike, betraying workers and peasants
The COB ended the strike to prevent it turning into a struggle to bring down the government.
•César Uco
Japan signs new defense agreements with the Philippines
The deals are part of a rapidly growing set of military agreements with the Philippines concluded by the United States and other imperialist powers in preparation for war with China.
•John Malvar
Calls mount for rail strike after 42 die in high-speed train crash in Adamuz, Spain
Initial reports point to a catastrophic infrastructure failure due to poor maintenance amid the rail privatization program overseen by Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.
•Alex Lantier
London bus workers condemn US aggression against Venezuela, Trump’s domestic repression
The Socialist Equality Party statements were welcomed by workers, who opposed the imperialist banditry of the Trump administration and declared their solidarity with US workers mounting a struggle against the would-be dictator.
•Our reporters
Australia: Bipartisan deal exploits Bondi shootings to impose expanded “hate crime” laws
The Labor government’s bill allows for the outlawing of political groups and imprisonment of their supporters on the false basis that opposition to the ongoing Gaza genocide constitutes antisemitic hatred of Jews.
•Mike Head
Support grows for general strike in Minneapolis, as Trump escalates ICE terror campaign
On Tuesday, protests continued across the city, with growing support for a general strike on Friday, January 23, to force the removal of Trump’s paramilitary forces.
•Jerry White
One year after DeepSeek, Chinese AI surges
The Microsoft chief has warned that US AI firms are being outpaced by their Chinese rivals in global markets.
•Nick Beams
New York nurses remain defiant as hospitals dig in
As hospital executives again slander nurses as irresponsible, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders intervened at the picket lines on Tuesday to make appeals for negotiations.
•Daniel de Vries, Robert Milkowski, Steve Light
The Zweibrücken scandal: Right-wing extremism in the armed forces and the return of German militarism
The latest right-wing extremism scandal in the German army is not an isolated case, but the expression of a deeply rooted development that has taken on a new quality with the return of German militarism and the preparation for war against Russia.
•Florian Hasek, Johannes Stern
Sri Lanka’s new “anti-terror laws” foreshadow sweeping attacks on democratic rights
Colombo’s draft legislation reproduces all the essential features of the existing draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.
•W.A. Sunil
Oxfam report shows billionaire wealth surged in 2025: The case for expropriation
In 2025, global billionaire wealth grew at three times the rate of the previous five years, reaching a record $18.3 trillion, an 81 percent increase since 2020.
•Andre Damon
Ongoing fiasco at the “Kennedy-Trump” center: Musicians, dance companies and others reject effort to associate the US president with the arts
The decision to add “Donald Trump” to the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts reflects the isolation of the American oligarchy as well as its social and political self-delusion.
•David Walsh
New Zealand PM promises deeper austerity and military build-up
After promising greater military spending, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expressed support for US imperialism’s criminal attack on Venezuela.
•Tom Peters
The only way to fight the Al-Qaeda regime in Syria is to fight imperialism
As a result of an imperialist-backed proxy war, HTS was brought to power in Damascus with the support of Washington and Ankara and now it seeks to consolidate its control of the country by violently suppressing all minorities, including the Kurds.
•Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
Pro-Zionist campaign ousts West Midlands Police chief who banned Maccabi thugs from UK football match
During their rampage in Amsterdam, a year prior, Maccabi’s hooligans tore up Palestinian flags, hit taxis driven by Arabic drivers with crowbars, and chanted pro-genocide slogans.
•Robert Stevens
UK National Coal Mining Museum management issues disciplinary threats against strikers
The strike at the mining museum raises point blank the necessity for a contemporary fight against those who co-authored the defeat of the heroic 1984–85 miners’ strike against Thatcher’s state orchestrated attacks – the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
•Harvey Thompson, Tony Robson
US immigration thugs escalate terror campaign, as sentiment for Minneapolis general strike grows among workers
As support grows for mass collective action to drive ICE out of Minnesota and the fascists out of the White House, Minnesota trade union bureaucrats made clear at a press conference Monday that they would not lead any strike action.
•Jacob Crosse
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Over 2,000 healthcare workers in Minneapolis-St. Paul are set to strike, while in Argentina, protests were held in support of Lutramax workers who are opposing firings.
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Strike authorization vote coming for 40,000 University of California academic workers
This strike vote is unfolding amid a rapidly escalating and explosive wave of working class opposition across the United States, raising the potential for a general strike.
•Marc Wells
Bruce Springsteen denounces ICE “Gestapo tactics” in Minneapolis occupation
The celebrated singer-songwriter dedicated a surprise performance to ICE murder victim Renee Nicole Good.
•Ed Hightower
The eruption of American imperialism reaches Europe: The conflict over Greenland and the fight against imperialist war
The answer to Trump’s fascistic policy of “might makes right” is not European rearmament but the international mobilization of the working class against all imperialist warmongers.
•Johannes Stern
Chega’s Ventura faces Socialist Party’s Seguro in run-offs of Portugal’s presidential election
Portugal’s 2026 presidential election has delivered a stark warning about the state of the country’s political system.
•Paul Mitchell
Trump takes Machado’s Nobel medal as CIA chief meets with Venezuela’s “interim president”
The debacle in Venezuela is the product not only of criminal US aggression but also of a turn to the right by the chavista government and the bourgeois layers it represents under the unrelenting pressure of imperialism.
•Bill Van Auken
NASA closes Goddard Space Flight Center library as it dismantles astronomy infrastructure
The closure of NASA's largest research library at Goddard Space Flight Center represents a deliberate attack on scientific infrastructure and marks another step toward the privatization of space exploration.
•Bryan Dyne
Ford Kentucky Truck workers respond to exposure of union corruption and unsafe conditions
“The UAW is stealing from the retired,” a worker said.
•Jane Wise
As World Economic Forum in Davos opens, a major shift in Swiss security policy underway
Switzerland is implementing a far-reaching security-policy shift, marked by massive increases in military spending, the erosion of neutrality and closer integration with NATO, all justified by exaggerated claims of external threats.
•Marianne Arens
New Zealand foreign minister publicly rebukes Reserve Bank governor for criticising Trump
Peters’ extraordinary public rebuke exposes the sham of “central bank independence” and lays bare the social class interests at stake in monetary policy.
•John Braddock
36 workers killed in huge landfill collapse in the Philippines
Entirely preventable, the recent tragedy in Cebu is the result of capitalism’s drive for profit at the expense of workers’ safety and lives.
•Dante Pastrana
Under threat from Trump, Ottawa unveils new trade deal with China
Carney’s rhetoric cannot conceal the fact that his trade deal with Beijing is extremely modest. Nonetheless, it threatens to exacerbate tensions with Washington, and deepen the regional cleavages within the Canadian ruling class.
•Our reporters
Kenyan Stalinist CPM-K attacks WSWS while praising Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez ahead of CIA talks
The Venezuelan regime’s attempts to work out military and economic collaboration with Trump are exposing forces like the CPM-K who promoted it as an “anti-imperialist” force.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
US appeals court overturns judge’s ruling that blocked arrest and deportation of Mahmoud Khalil
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2-1 decision sends the case back to immigration court and overturns the ruling by a New Jersey judge that Khalil’s rights had been violated when he was apprehended in New York City and sent to a DHS detention center in Louisiana for three months.
•Kevin Reed
Students and workers support call for a general strike to oppose federal occupation of Minneapolis
At a rally Sunday in Minnesota, postal workers, students, and community members spoke with WSWS reporters about the murder of Renee Good and the way forward for the working class.
•Jacob Crosse, Anthony Bertolt
Warning strikes for higher wages in Germany’s public sector
Public sector workers across Germany have staged warning strikes to demand higher wages, but the unions are working to suppress opposition. The strikes must be expanded into a political fight against the government's pro-war policies and austerity measures.
•Katerina Selin
Strikers at University Hospital Essen speak about staffing crisis and the danger of war
Workers at University Hospital Essen participated in a warning strike to protest low wages and intolerable working conditions. In interviews with the WSWS, they linked their struggle to the broader fight against war and social inequality.
•Our reporters
Trump, EU escalate tariff war as US-European conflict mounts over Greenland
US-European relations are teetering on the brink of collapse, amid growing threats of trade and military conflict among the major imperialist powers of the NATO alliance.
•Alex Lantier
Fascist run out of Minneapolis while attempting to lead pro-ICE, anti-immigrant hate rally
Jake Lang was pardoned by Trump for his role in the failed coup of January 6, 2021, when he was in the mob which stormed the Capitol.
•Jacob Crosse
No troops in Minneapolis! For a general strike against Trump’s coup!
The Pentagon has placed 1,500 active-duty soldiers on alert for deployment against protests over ICE violence in Minneapolis.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
Australia: More than 10,000 health workers to strike in Victoria
Workers are opposing ongoing poor working conditions and the Victorian Labor government’s efforts to impose further real pay cuts in a new enterprise agreement.
•Clare Bruderlin
Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly: A veteran film star undergoes a crisis
Baumbach satirizes the failings of the contemporary movie industry and mocks the self-involvement of prominent performers.
•David Walsh
New Zealand “ManageMyHealth” hack exposes thousands of patients’ medical records
The huge data breach highlights how intimate medical information is placed at the mercy of private corporations whose only concern is profit.
•John Braddock
Almost 7 million people threatened by deadly Australian bushfires, according to new climate report
As scientists report the danger that climate change poses to millions, the Labor government refuses to abandon its support for fossil fuels.
•Mark Wilson
This week in history: January 19-25
Estrada ousted in the Philippines; Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; US uses napalm in Korean War; Textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey
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New York healthcare worker voices solidarity with striking nurses
Speaking in support of the week-long strike by 15,000 nurses, a worker at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital connected the attacks on healthcare workers with the diversion of social resources toward repression and war.
•Erik Schreiber
Trump’s EPA places a zero-dollar value on human life and health
The EPA moves to gut the evaluation of the cost of health impacts in regulating toxic industrial emissions.
•Philip Guelpa
Teachers walk out at two Greater Manchester schools over impact of rundown state education on pupil behaviour
Every teacher, staff member, and child deserves a safe environment—an essential foundation for learning to thrive. However, understanding breakdowns in staff–pupil relationships requires placing them in context.
•Margot Miller
NTSB report reveals Boeing knew of fatal defect in UPS plane that killed 14 in Louisville
Despite the pattern of repeated failures in a component that secures a multi-ton engine to the wing, Boeing ignored the danger.
•Bryan Dyne
French youth speak out against Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela
WSWS reporters interviewed students in the Paris area on Trump’s military operation against Venezuela to kidnap its president and try to seize its oil revenues.
•V. Gnana
The Minnesota general strike and the re-emergence of class struggle in the United States
The United States has reached a point where the scale of political breakdown and the ferocity of class tensions are generating profound shifts in consciousness.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
US invasion of Venezuela exposes bankruptcy of Mélenchon’s France Unbowed Party
Workers cannot stop imperialism’s accelerating plunge into military dictatorship and wars of plunder without breaking politically with forces like Mélenchon, who calls for them to subordinate themselves to the Venezuelan bourgeois nationalist regime’s negotiations with Trump.
•Alex Lantier
Washington menaces Iran at UN Security Council amid mounting signs of an impending US military strike
Washington’s preparations for a military onslaught on Iran have nothing to do with alleged concern for the democratic rights of its 93-million-strong population.
•Jordan Shilton
While Ford Kentucky Truck UAW officials pad their salaries, conditions at plant worsen
Major financial irregularities at UAW Local 862 in Louisville take place as rank-and-file anger continues to simmer over deteriorating conditions, including safety issues and management harassment.
•Aaron Edwards
Trump’s vendetta against federal death row inmates: Sends prisoners who received commutations to “Alcatraz of the Rockies”
Ten federal prisoners whose death sentences were commuted to life by Biden have been moved to ADX Florence in Colorado, where inmates are kept in concrete cells smaller than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day and are subject to near-total social and sensory deprivation.
•Kate Randall
Erfurt, Germany: Mail order fashion company Zalando closes logistics center with 2,700 employees
The case of Zalando highlights the importance of workers taking the defense of jobs into their own hands by setting up rank-and-file committees, joining forces with other workers to organize joint industrial action.
•Marianne Arens
Blackout in Berlin: Pretext for erection of a police state
While those politically responsible largely ignored the plight of the population, within hours they began to politically exploit the attack on the power grid. The act of sabotage is being ruthlessly used to advance the expansion of a police state and domestic militarisation.
•Carola Kleinert, Andy Niklaus, Peter Schwarz
“I support a general strike”: New York nurses call for broader struggle
The WSWS spoke with nurses on the picket line and at a nearby hospital about the conditions they are struggling against and the calls for a general strike in Minneapolis and beyond
•Daniel de Vries, Robert Milkowski, Steve Light, Alden Woodson
31,000 Kaiser nurses prepare to walk out in California, Hawaii as conditions emerge for a general strike
With 15,000 nurses on strike in New York City and a general strike in Minneapolis set for next Friday, the conditions are rapidly emerging in the United States for a mass movement in the working class against inequality and dictatorship, with healthcare workers at the forefront.
•Marc Wells, Tom Hall
China trade surplus hits historic record
The record surplus, up from $993 billion in 2024, was achieved despite a 20 percent fall in exports to the US, which was more than compensated for by the increase in exports to the rest of the world.
•Nick Beams
Australian government exploits Bondi shootings to launch historic attack on free speech
The Albanese government remains intent on ramming anti-democratic laws through parliament, under the cover of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack.
•Mike Head
Australia: While massive fires continue, Victoria experiences flash floods
Like the bushfires, Victoria’s Great Ocean Road floods expose the criminal indifference of the state Labor government to the mounting toll of climate catastrophe on the working class.
•Eric Ludlow
Amid New York City nurses strike, Long Island Railroad unions again prevent walkout with appeal to Trump
This is a repeat of the bureaucrats’ action last September, when they blocked a strike by calling on Trump to appoint a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), whose findings were rejected by management.
•Alan Whyte
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Seoul city bus union ends strike with inferior pay deal; India: Tamil Nadu malaria prevention workers protest in Chennai; Pakistan: Power sector workers protest IMF-driven privatisation; Australia: 5,000 Victorian public sector health workers escalate industrial action
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Israel’s recognition of breakaway Somaliland fuels the fires of regional conflict
Israel—and the UAE’s—efforts to secure recognition for Somaliland highlight and enflame the enormous geopolitical tensions in the Horn of Africa, a region that is already contending with multiple crises amid drought and famine.
•Jean Shaoul
Royal Mail workers in London condemn war against Venezuela and express solidarity with US workers against Trump
The response at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre shows that postal workers are searching for a way forward based on international solidarity and political clarity.
•Our reporters
Striking Further Education workers speak from the picket line at London college
Last year local authorities were told by the Labour government to cut 2 to 3 percent from their adult skills funding, after years of real-terms cuts.
•Our reporters
Australia: Antisemitism Education Taskforce to attack democratic rights and academic freedom
Just four days after the Bondi attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the creation of the Antisemitism Education Taskforce, chaired by corporate figure David Gonski and featuring the government’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal.
•Sue Phillips
For a general strike to stop Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis!
The call for a one‑day general strike and economic shutdown on Friday, January 23 to oppose the rampage by Trump’s ICE must become the beginning of a broader working class mobilization across the city, state and country against the Trump administration.
•Socialist Equality Party (US)
New York City workers urge broadening strike of 15,000 nurses
Thousands of workers around the world have registered their support for the New York City nurses strike, which reached its fifth day on Friday.
•A. Woodson, Alan Whyte, Tim Avery, Rob Milkowski, Sandy English
Following Trump’s threat: European powers send troops to Greenland
US President Donald Trump's persistent threats to take over Greenland have provoked strong reactions in Europe.
•Peter Schwarz
Governments advance universal digital identification, mass surveillance and censorship
Major Western governments are coordinating the implementation of universal digital IDs and surveillance frameworks to abolish online anonymity and monitor political dissent under the guise of child safety.
•Stephen Parker
East Palestine, Ohio residents report long-term health problems from 2023 Norfolk Southern rail disaster
Following a massive derailment in February 2023, the railroad and government released 1.1 million pounds of toxic chemicals from the train in a bid to reopen the tracks as quickly as possible.
•Samuel Davidson
Amid conflict over Powell indictment, attention turns to Supreme Court decision on Fed governor Lisa Cook
Amid conflict over the Powell indictment, attention turns to the Supreme Court decision on Fed governor Lisa Cook.
•Nick Beams
Federal agents in Minneapolis tear gas family, sending 2 children and a baby to hospital
According to the baby’s parents, their infant stopped breathing after ICE thugs deployed a tear gas bomb under their vehicle.
•Jacob Crosse
Federal agents raid Washington Post reporter’s home in crackdown on press freedom
The FBI’s unprecedented raid on Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home is an authoritarian attack on press freedom, whistleblowers and working class social protections.
•Nick Barrickman
Public health collapsing as COVID pandemic enters its 7th year
The systematic dismantling of public health services in the United States, including childhood vaccinations that have saved millions of lives, is a historic crime committed by the US ruling elite.
•Benjamin Mateus
Squid Game 3: Ending not with a bang, but a bleak (and lucrative) whimper
With its explosive entry into social consciousness looking ever smaller in the rearview mirror, Squid Game’s third season sets out to close its story saga while seeding potential for a financially lucrative successor.
•Luke Galvin
Collapsing crane kills 32 people on train in Thailand
Despite the claims of government officials, nothing will be done to address safety in Thailand’s construction industry.
•Ben McGrath
New Zealand, Japan strengthen military links
Two new defence and security pacts upgrade a deal signed in 2024, providing for increased intelligence sharing and joint military activities aimed at China.
•John Braddock
Revolutionary leadership and the Minneapolis general strike of 1934
The events in Minneapolis in 1934 show what the working class can accomplish when it fights based on an independent class perspective.
•Ron Jorgenson
Further Education workers strike 17 colleges in England as University and College Union stifles action
Pushing through local deals is a recipe for defeat. It flies in the face of the guiding principle of the workers’ movement that “an injury to one is an injury to all”.
•Henry Lee
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Tens of thousands of doctors in Spain walk out over pay and conditions; 25,000 students strike to protest Israeli ban on teachers from the West Bank; Nigerian JOHESU health workers continue stoppage over pay and conditions
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Reject BMA Scotland’s sellout deal: For a united fight by resident doctors and NHS workers
Resident doctors in Scotland should vote “No” to the divisive package cobbled together between the Scottish government and leaders of the British Medical Association Scotland, after they vetoed a four-day strike due to start January 13.
•Steve James
Stop the ICE reign of terror in Minnesota!
In the week following the January 7 murder of Renée Nicole Good, Minneapolis has been occupied by thousands of federal paramilitary forces operating under the direction of the president.
•Patrick Martin
Texas A&M censors Plato in massive course purge
The purge follows the passage of Senate Bill 37 and is being used to impose sweeping political control over university curricula as part of a broader campaign of academic repression.
•Josh Andrews
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