With protests in Iran raising the prospect of regime change and US military intervention, Washington opted to rely on HTS to cut the Gordian knot in Syria.
Motorway and road infrastructure workers across Germany walk out over pay and lack of investment; stoppage over pay and conditions shuts government administrative offices in Federal Capital Territory Administration around Abuja, Nigeria
The Labour government’s brutal anti-immigration programme, centred on attacking asylum seekers, is being ramped up as it seeks to outcompete the far-right Reform UK.
Mamdani’s visit to the picket line Tuesday and his collaboration with NYSNA paves the way for a snap shutdown of the powerful strike.
Reporters for the WSWS spoke to UPS workers in Minneapolis about the ongoing federal occupation and the day of action scheduled for January 23.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In remarks to the meeting, SEP member Lawrence Porter raised the fundamental political issues involved in opposing the paramilitary occupation 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The COB ended the strike to prevent it turning into a struggle to bring down the government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Microsoft chief has warned that US AI firms are being outpaced by their Chinese rivals in global markets.
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.
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.
Colombo’s draft legislation reproduces all the essential features of the existing draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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.
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.
After promising greater military spending, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expressed support for US imperialism’s criminal attack on Venezuela.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The celebrated singer-songwriter dedicated a surprise performance to ICE murder victim Renee Nicole Good.
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.
Portugal’s 2026 presidential election has delivered a stark warning about the state of the country’s political system.
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.
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.
“The UAW is stealing from the retired,” a worker said.
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.
Peters’ extraordinary public rebuke exposes the sham of “central bank independence” and lays bare the social class interests at stake in monetary policy.
Entirely preventable, the recent tragedy in Cebu is the result of capitalism’s drive for profit at the expense of workers’ safety and lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Pentagon has placed 1,500 active-duty soldiers on alert for deployment against protests over ICE violence in Minneapolis.
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.
Baumbach satirizes the failings of the contemporary movie industry and mocks the self-involvement of prominent performers.
The huge data breach highlights how intimate medical information is placed at the mercy of private corporations whose only concern is profit.
As scientists report the danger that climate change poses to millions, the Labor government refuses to abandon its support for fossil fuels.
Estrada ousted in the Philippines; Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; US uses napalm in Korean War; Textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey
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.
The EPA moves to gut the evaluation of the cost of health impacts in regulating toxic industrial emissions.
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.
Despite the pattern of repeated failures in a component that secures a multi-ton engine to the wing, Boeing ignored the danger.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The Albanese government remains intent on ramming anti-democratic laws through parliament, under the cover of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack.
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.
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.
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
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.
The response at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre shows that postal workers are searching for a way forward based on international solidarity and political clarity.
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.
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.
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.
Thousands of workers around the world have registered their support for the New York City nurses strike, which reached its fifth day on Friday.
US President Donald Trump's persistent threats to take over Greenland have provoked strong reactions in Europe.
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.
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.
Amid conflict over the Powell indictment, attention turns to the Supreme Court decision on Fed governor Lisa Cook.
According to the baby’s parents, their infant stopped breathing after ICE thugs deployed a tear gas bomb under their vehicle.
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.
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.
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.
Despite the claims of government officials, nothing will be done to address safety in Thailand’s construction industry.
Two new defence and security pacts upgrade a deal signed in 2024, providing for increased intelligence sharing and joint military activities aimed at China.
The events in Minneapolis in 1934 show what the working class can accomplish when it fights based on an independent class perspective.
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”.
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
