Germany’s “model industrial state” has become the country’s biggest job killer. Some 40,000 people lost their jobs last year alone, and further layoffs and cost-cutting programmes are in the works.
The Australian Labor government is directly implicated in the war crime that claimed over 140 lives and in the broader barbaric US-Israeli war against Iran of which it is a part.
Corporate media and Congress are using the shooting as an opportunity to rail against immigration and Muslims and promote war against Iran.
The aim of this webinar is to place the struggle against the war in its necessary historical, political and social context. It will cut through the endless stream of lying propaganda and disinformation pumped out by the White House, the corporate media, and all the imperialist governments.
On Monday, 2 March, the trial began at the Hanover District Court concerning the fatal accident on 8 September 2023 at the Hanover-Linden freight yard.
The $2.8 billion facilities plan unveiled by administrators on February 26 would shutter 18 schools across the Philadelphia School District.
Estefany Rodríguez Flórez was detained without a warrant and transferred hundreds of miles from her family.
With this agreement, the GDL is providing the German government, which owns Deutsche Bahn, an indispensable service against the working class.
Workers at the Lorain County Department of Job and Family Services—140 members of UAW Local 2192—are in their third week on strike for higher wages, affordable healthcare and safe, adequately staffed working conditions.
Mounting evidence points to a breakdown in hospital infrastructure and management in New South Wales, including multiple incidents of dangerous mould, asbestos and pest infestations.
The outcome of the war will be determined by the development of the class struggle in the United States itself—in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and other major working class centers.
President Donald Trump declared Friday that there will be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” signaling the intention to wage permanent war until Iranian society is destroyed.
Teachers and students confront deteriorating public schools, while military contractors and the Defence Department embed themselves in classrooms.
The Socialist Equality Party condemns the illegal war of aggression by US imperialism and Israel against Iran and the sinking of an unarmed Iranian warship as a blatant war crime.
The German-Turkish-French co-production Yellow Letters by Ilker Çatak is a powerful warning against the threat of censorship and state oppression, including in Germany and other countries.
The US is reestablishing relations as Chavista acting president Delcy Rodríguez hands oil, gold and critical minerals to Wall Street.
Protests among high school and university students have erupted after the right-wing Progressive Conservative government announced huge cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) grants last month.
India: ASHA workers and midday meal workers demand wage rise; Police attack striking L&T steel plant workers in Gujarat; Australia: Pacific National rail workers locked out in Queensland; Tasmanian public sector health workers escalate industrial action; New Zealand firefighters continue strikes.
The following statement against the US-Israel war on Iran was issued on Wednesday by Ulaş Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (Socialist Equality Party) in Türkiye.
Omole’s KES 500,000 bond (about $3,850) represents more than six months’ pay for the average formal sector worker and nearly two years’ income for many Kenyans.
The latest High Court injunction reinforces a previous injunction last May, barring effective picketing by strikers. It sets a wider precedent by removing any means through which pressure can be exerted on an employer without it being deemed unlawful.
The leaks confirm that British officials had been informed of the planned offensive 17 days in advance and were engaged in intense discussions with Washington over how the Labour government could assist.
The United States Navy’s torpedoing of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean on March 4, 2026 is a war crime.
Macron did not bother to even go through the motions of parliamentary debate and approval of his war policy, instead unilaterally committing his government to a war that threatens the world with economic and military catastrophe.
The move does not represent a shift in policies, but the removal of an official whose provocative statements and blatant corruption had become and obstacle to carrying them out.
Nearly 700 built environment practitioners have signed an open letter opposing the Victorian Labor government’s planned destruction of Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers.
This statement was distributed at the nationwide school strikes against conscription in Germany on March 5.
The criminal war overshadowed Carney’s visit and underscored the bogus character of his claims that “middle powers” could chart an alternative to the breakdown of international norms and law.
The resolutions under the War Powers Act were an empty exercise in pretended opposition to the war by the Democratic Party leadership.
As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its sixth day, Israel has ordered the mass evacuation of southern Lebanon and launched a ground incursion, opening a second major front in a war that is rapidly engulfing the entire Middle East.
In its four-year term, the Malinauskas government has overseen a massive widening in the gulf between wages and property prices.
It is impossible to halt the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the rapidly spreading war across the Middle East by relying on the diplomatic initiatives of the European powers.
Five months into the worst measles outbreak since 1992, the gutted CDC dispatches three data analysts to South Carolina as measles spreads through ICE detention camps in Texas.
Kirk’s assassination last year has been seized on a means of promoting and even normalizing fascist politics on campuses.
Tennessee seeks to track students’ legal status, turning schools into data‑collection arms for deportation.
A review of the tentative agreements makes clear that workers must reject these rotten deals with a resounding “No” as an initial step in a renewed struggle to defend their jobs, working conditions, the postal service and public services more broadly.
As writers face a contract showdown, entrenched union officials defend privileges, exposing the widening gulf between the rank and file and the bureaucracy.
Students wore keffiyehs, carried Palestinian flags and handmade anti-war signs reading “I am not dying for the Epstein class,” “No war on Iran” and “End American Imperialism.”
Through mass firings, rigged appointments, and unilateral decrees, HHS Secretary Kennedy is dismantling the federal machinery behind childhood vaccination in the United States, provoking lawsuits from pediatricians and 15 state governments as preventable disease protections are stripped away.
Israel has ordered the entire population of southern Beirut—around 500,000 people—and all residents south of the Litani River, more than 300,000 people, to evacuate. Its armed forces have invaded and launched hundreds of strikes.
Once again, a Labour government staffed by political criminals is dragging the country into a US-led war for oil.
Civil servants and government officials in Netherlands stage national 24-hour pay strike; public transport workers on buses, trams and subway trains walk out for 24 hours across Germany over pay and conditions; workers in two hospitals protest lack of funding endangering patient safety, in Nigeria and Liberia
The ANC is incapable of even characterising a criminal war carried out by Washington and Tel Aviv. Indeed, its statement, expressing “deep concern at the escalating tensions in the Middle East” does not mention the United States or Israel once.
As the war enters its fifth day, the US-Israeli assault on Iran has assumed ever more openly the character of a war of annihilation and extermination.
Anthropic's CEO has said nothing as the military uses his company's technology to wage an illegal war, while OpenAI grants the Pentagon functionally unrestricted access to ChatGPT.
Will Lehman is a rank-and-file autoworker at Mack Trucks who is running for president of the United Auto Workers union in 2026.
Colorado River states blew through another federal deadline to renegotiate river operations, as the worst drought in 1,200 years continues.
The Democratic Socialists of America is seeking to undermine mass opposition to the criminal war in Iran and channel it behind the Democratic Party.
The silence is a deliberate act of support and complicity, in line with the American union apparatus' decades of support for imperialist war
During a meeting at the White House, the German chancellor assured the US president of his full support for the criminal war of aggression against Iran—thereby revealing Berlin’s imperialist ambitions.
As more imperialist and regional powers are being dragged into the conflict, American imperialism is working to fuel ethnic civil war inside Iran by supplying arms to Kurdish nationalists.
US and Ecuadorian forces launched joint land operations Tuesday, ostensibly against drug cartels, escalating Trump’s efforts to recolonize Latin America.
Defend the right of “free metalworkers” to organise and participate in works council elections!
The war against Iran is deeply unpopular among workers and broad sections of the population in the United States.
The Republicans and Democrats, the two main parties of the financial oligarchy, poured tens of millions into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas.
South Korean stocks fell by 12 percent yesterday in the largest one-day drop recorded, eclipsing falls in the 2008 crisis.
A current exhibition tracks the development of an anti-imperialist artist who fused modernism with African iconography.
The findings again underscore the widening gulf between official rhetoric and the lived conditions facing Indigenous people.
The Adelaide merger is being used to cut courses and steer resources toward industry, particularly areas linked to the military and “national security.”
Britain’s right-wing press, alongside the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK, seized on Washington’s rebuke to press for Starmer’s downfall and a far more aggressive militarist turn by British imperialism.
These findings vindicate Marx’s analysis of the reserve army of labour—the unemployed and under‑employed population that capitalism requires to keep wages low and workers compliant.
The revival of bogus claims that Iran orchestrated firebombings on Australian soil is the Labor government’s original contribution to the deluge of propaganda surrounding the illegal US-Israeli bombardment of that country.
The French president intends to establish an “advanced deterrence” for Europe as a whole and station nuclear weapons in Germany and other European countries in the future.
The meetings in Newcastle, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will elaborate the socialist and revolutionary perspective to end war on Iran and halt the slide to a disastrous nuclear third world war.
A new harsher anti-migration and asylum law is set to come into effect once it is ratified by the upper house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat.
During a contentious Judiciary Committee hearing interrupted by protesters, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem refused to apologize for smearing victims of immigration police violence while Democrats reiterated their support for deportations and the continued existence of ICE.
With the case of the prosecution against Bogdan Syrotiuk shattered, the Ukrainian state is deliberately withholding urgently necessary medical care.
US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States Navy will begin escorting commercial tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a dramatic escalation that would place American warships directly off the coast of Iran as the US-Israeli bombing campaign enters its fourth day.
The US government whipped up claims of “agroterrorism” over the use of harmless, common lab research materials.
The following statement against the imperialist invasion of Iran and for an international socialist anti-war movement was issued on Monday evening by Christoph Vandreier, chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP-Socialist Equality Party in Germany).
This imperialist bombardment has nothing whatsoever to do with freedom from oppression, any more than the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The films reviewed here are collaborations between Israeli and Arab filmmakers and actors seeking to come to grips with the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.
As the genocidal fuel blockade triggers economic collapse, Havana has signaled submission through pro‑business “reforms.”
Kearse’s execution marks the first of three scheduled in Florida this month alone, an unprecedented pace that signals a further escalation of capital punishment policy under Governor Ron DeSantis.
Military clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continued for a fifth day Tuesday, in a conflict with potentially major implications for South Asian and world geopolitics.
Frederiksen called the vote more than six months early, amid a revival in support for her party following the conflict with US President Donald Trump over control of Greenland.
The handing down of aggravated felony assault charges to the students reveals the state’s authoritarian response to youth resistance against repression.
As infants develop bronchitis and brain tumor patients are deported mid-treatment, nearly 4,000 healthcare workers have issued a medical and political indictment of the Trump administration’s systematic imprisonment of immigrant children.
For the second contract in a row, following the 2022 deal reached at the start of the Ukraine war, the United Steelworkers bureaucracy is seeking to impose what amounts to a war contract on refinery workers.
Ankara fears that this imperialist attack, which could lead to the collapse of the Iranian regime, could in turn increase Israel’s influence on its own borders, trigger a new wave of migrants, and encourage separatist initiatives by Kurdish nationalist forces linked to the US and Israel.
The Turkish miners’ wildcat strike and occupation in İzmir, defying state oppression, is part of a growing radicalization within the working class on an international scale.
The political front mounted against LFI, encompassing far-right groups, the Socialist Party, the National Rally, and Macron's government, is waging an offensive against democratic rights and the growing opposition to the establishment of a police state.
Ruto’s statement has been met with popular contempt. Hundreds of replies on X, along with comments on Instagram and Facebook and beneath online newspaper articles, voice a common sentiment: his statement does not represent Kenyan workers.
Tara Mariwany of the European Legal Support Centre explained, “Nearly a third of people targeted are activists, 22 percent are students, and 13 percent are within the category of academics, writers and teachers.”
The unprecedented language used at a Pentagon military briefing indicates that the Trump administration is preparing to use nuclear weapons in the war of aggression it began Saturday.
This 28-day “cooling-off” period functions as a de facto state injunction in response to workers’ demands for open, transparent bargaining.
Oil and natural gas prices spiked with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
At a press conference on Monday, Left Party leader Jan van Aken openly celebrated the killing of Iranian head of state Khamenei and other leading figures by Israeli and American bombs.
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The Australian Education Union called another limited one-day strike amid mounting rank-and-file anger over the state Labor government’s failure to present a wage offer after 20 months of negotiations.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon echoed the US and Israeli propaganda to justify the onslaught against Iran, which is part of a developing world war.
The Bolivian union federation declared a “state of emergency” over legislation attacking pensions and other rights, while the Teamsters have begun a strike vote for Corewell nurses in Michigan after nine months of failed negotiations.
Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney rushed to declare Canada’s full-throated support for the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran, in a statement issued just hours after the first wave of missiles and bombs rained down on the country Saturday morning.
What the social media ban is really about is the attempt to curb the growing politicisation, radicalisation and international networking of youth.
On February 28, demonstrations took place throughout Greece and in cities around the world to mark three years since the Tempi rail disaster—a crime of capitalism, which took the lives of 57 people. WSWS reporters spoke to protesters in London, Manchester and Edinburgh in the UK and in Stuttgart, Germany.
Missiles, drones and debris are already falling in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and elsewhere as Iran retaliates to the imperialist assault on its government and people. Hotels and airports have been hit.
Over the past two years, millions of youth and workers have utilised platforms such as X, TikTok and WhatsApp to organise demonstrations and coordinate opposition to the Ruto regime.
The joint US-Israeli assault on Iran, which began in the early morning hours of February 28, is a criminal act of war waged in flagrant violation of the United States Constitution and international law.
The level of opposition at the outset of this war is unprecedented in modern US history. A Reuters poll conducted Saturday found that only 27 percent of Americans approved of the strikes.
The workers’ main demands include higher salaries, raises that exceed inflation, academic freedom, job security, housing and protection against artificial intelligence.
