75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike
The events in Minneapolis in 1934 show what the working class can accomplish when it fights based on an independent class perspective.
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
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.
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.
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.
Negotiations have been at an impasse, but on Wednesday night New York-Presbyterian Hospital System, the largest hospital in the country, announced that it would resume discussions with NYSNA on Thursday.
Denmark and Greenland rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand for the acquisition of Greenland Tuesday following a meeting at the White House with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, even as European NATO members sent troops to the Arctic island.
Despite growing tensions between the US and Europe, the European powers have backed Washington and Tel Aviv's threats of war against Iran and the associated plans for regime change.
South Australian Labor Premier Peter Malinauskas has intensified his vicious denunciations of the Palestinian academic and writer.
The nurses, who have shown determination and militancy, must recognize that they face not only hospital management, but the entire financial elite that sets the hospitals’ agenda.
While the manner of death can medically be classified as “natural,” the circumstances leading up to Russell’s death were entirely preventable.
The walkouts and demonstrations by hundreds of students, combined with the growing protests across Minnesota and the United States, show that the class struggle is entering a new upswing—leading to a direct confrontation with the Trump administration and the American oligarchy.
“They’ve taken this tragedy as an opportunity to crack down on pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist movements and free speech.”
Ford workers at the Rouge Complex are speaking out in defense of Thomas “TJ” Sabula, who was suspended without pay after denouncing Trump during the president’s visit to the plant.
Habiba Soliman—daughter of Mohamed Soliman who carried out a violent attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025—has issued a powerful statement demanding the release of her family from illegal detention by the Department of Homeland Security.
The eruption of imperialist barbarism epitomized by Trump’s Donroe doctrine urgently demands an independent political response from the working class in Canada, the United States, and around the world.
On Tuesday, President Trump paid a visit to the MotorCity Casino in Detroit. Detroiters rallied against him. Mayor Mary Sheffield dispatched the Detroit Police, who arrested at least two protesters.
Thomas "TJ" Sabula was suspended without pay pending an investigation, in clear retaliation for publicly confronting the president at the Ford Rouge Complex Tuesday.
From Minneapolis to Santa Ana, federal agents are carrying out violent attacks on civilians as the Trump administration intensifies its fascistic program to suppress dissent.
Besides having a longer range than either Storm Shadows or ATACMS, the Nightfalls could fill the gap left if Ukraine’s stock of American-made missiles is not resupplied.
Calls for “Gen-Z style” mobilisations under the political leadership of the NUP and other factions of the Ugandan bourgeoisie subordinate the social demands of youth and workers to a programme that leaves capitalist exploitation, imperialist domination and the repressive state apparatus intact.
The Trump administration is preparing an imminent military attack on Iran, in the next stage in a regime-change operation aimed at returning the Middle Eastern country of 93 million people to neo-colonial subjugation and placing its vast oil reserves under US imperialist control and domination.
The SEIU-UHW West bureaucracy announced a tentative agreement on January 10 and called off the strike—just two days before 15,000 nurses in New York City launched what has become the largest nurses' strike in the city's history.
Fearing the consequences of Trump’s actions, central bankers from around the world have declared their “full solidarity” with Jerome Powell.
The strike raises the necessity for its expansion into a unified movement against social inequality, bringing the organized power of the working class into direct conflict with the financial oligarchy, which is centered in New York City and has the Trump administration at its head.
The Greens are promoting an inquiry that has nothing to do with uncovering the circumstances of the Bondi terror attack but is aimed at legitimising police-state repression.
The immediate target is opposition to Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza, but ultimately this campaign is aimed at stamping out all forms of political dissent by workers and young people.
Prominent figures in film and music, and sports, have not been shy about condemning the Minneapolis killing.
The reintroduction and expansion of conscription is a direct result of the military rearmament in the NATO war against Russia and the preparation for a Third World War.
Government ministers are attempting to criminalise industrial action and intimidate all public sector workers who are fighting against austerity.
The refusal to investigate Renee Good’s killer, alongside FBI probes of her family and allies, marks a major escalation in the ruling class campaign to criminalize opposition and suppress the democratic rights of the working class.
Trump’s seizure of Greenland would spell the end of NATO, an outcome the European powers are desperately trying to avoid because they are not yet ready militarily to act independently without US support.
From the outset, the party's programme, policies and election promises were based on a fundamental lie: It presented itself as an anti-war party and a party of social justice, but defended the capitalist system that produces war and social inequality, and allied itself with the parties defending capitalist rule.
Labour is protecting the system that ensures public funds to subsidise private landlords, while landlord incomes and asset values soar.
Workers and students have been speaking to the WSWS across the UK about the US invasion of Venezuela, the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, and the imperialist agenda of the Starmer government.
The US attack on Venezuela is exposing the collapse of the African National Congress’ post-apartheid “non-alignment” strategy, intensifying internal divisions within South Africa’s ruling elite as Washington pressures Pretoria to choose either itself or China.
Strikers spoke about the conditions that have provoked the largest nurses' walkout the city has ever experienced.
The critical question this year is the emergence of a mass working class movement independent of the corporate political system and of the conscious sabotage carried out by the pro-capitalist union bureaucracy.
Nine days after launching an assault on Venezuela that killed over 100 people and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is openly threatening strikes against Iran, using as a pretext mass protests that have erupted across the country.
The conflict between Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell is a dispute within the US ruling class, driven by fear of a mass movement from below against capitalism.
Despite the obvious and long foreseen dangers of fire seasons intensified by climate change, successive governments in Australia have refused to provide the necessary resources to prevent such catastrophes.
Speakers Oscar Grenfell, Cheryl Crisp and chair Max Boddy exposed both the reactionary character of the mass shooting and the ruthless exploitation of the tragedy by the political establishment, led by state and federal Labor governments, as a pretext for a deepening assault on democratic rights.
Every day immigration Gestapo in the largest metro area in Minnesota are assaulting and kidnapping workers and residents, regardless of immigration status.
WSWS reporters intervened at protests across the United States, speaking with workers and students opposed to the federal occupation of Minneapolis and the police killing of Renee Nicole Good.
Adelaide Writers’ Week faces collapse after 180 writers and numerous musicians boycotted the event and its director Louise Adler resigned over the Labor‑backed censorship of Palestinian author Randa Abdel‑Fattah.
Unions in Bolivia have broken off negotiations with the government of Rodrigo Paz, as strikes and protests continue against the elimination of fuel subsidies.
Gaza journalists, like Fatima, face extreme, often fatal, risks under blockade and during assaults, including murder, injury, harassment and starvation while trying to report.
The Saxony state budget, supported by the Left Party and the Greens, is decimating social infrastructure and culture as billions are poured into the police apparatus and German rearmament.
The fate of Nicolás Maduro foreshadows an escalation of direct intervention by US imperialism in Brazilian politics.
Starmer’s authoritarian agenda could soon add the bodies of three British citizens to the toll of its genocide-supporting, militarist foreign policy.
US citizen murdered by ICE, Renee Good, “was entirely innocent; that was her street and neighbourhood she was looking out for, to monitor ICE so people could go about their daily lives.”
Opposing imperialist war and defending the oppressed is the task of the working class, guided by a Marxist—that is Trotskyist—perspective that rejects nationalism, unmasks the UN, and fights for world socialism.
While virtually blacked out in the mainstream press, more than 1,000 protests were held over the weekend in opposition to attacks on immigrants and Trump’s attempts to establish a presidential dictatorship.
The Department of Homeland Security is doubling down on the anti-immigrant campaign that led to the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good.
At a recent online meeting, the IYSSE discussed how the fight against the return of conscription in Germany must be waged as a revolutionary struggle against war and capitalism.
Mamdani has spent his first 10 days in office reaffirming his pact with Trump, supporting the Democratic Party’s hostility to anti-genocide protesters and solidifying his ties with the NYPD.
Amid a growing crisis for governments globally, there is palpable nervousness within the New Zealand ruling elite about widespread anti-war sentiment in the population.
The Iranian working class cannot endure imperialist subjugation nor the economic deprivation and political repression of the Islamic Republic. It must intervene as an independent political force in opposition to imperialism, all the institutions of the Islamic Republic and all factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie.
Congo President Kabila assassinated; Strikes rock Spanish monarchy; French inflict heavy defeat on Viet Minh forces; Premiere of Eisenstein’s film Battleship Potemkin
The current wave of plant closures are not just ‘regrettable isolated cases,’ but rather an expression of a systematic restructuring by big business in the interests of profit.
Nurses at private nonprofit hospitals throughout the city and on Long Island must organize immediately to repel management’s attacks and defeat the New York State Nurses Association’s dogged attempts to sabotage their strike.
Federal immigration agents shot two Venezuelan nationals outside a Portland clinic as national protests erupt over the Minneapolis killing of Renee Nicole Good.
Contracts for thousands of US auto parts workers face contract deadlines this year under conditions of layoffs and cost-cutting by all the major component suppliers.
Tokyo regularly justifies its program of rearmament by claiming it is working with the US to uphold the so-called “rule of law” internationally. Washington’s actions in recent weeks thoroughly discredit these claims.
Kathleen Chalfant stands out, as she must, considering the theme of the movie. Now 81 years old, she is known for decades of work in film, television and especially theater.
The Arab Alawite population, concentrated along the country's western coastline and in major cities, finds itself defenseless against the new regime's naked violence.
According to the Centre for Retail Research, the final tally by the end of 2025 is 17,349 store closures and 201,953 redundancies.
This brings to an end a year which saw a jobs bloodbath against the working class carried out by corporate America, with all indications that the assault will accelerate in the new year.
The brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good and the Trump administration’s invasion of Venezuela mark a qualitative escalation in the drive toward dictatorship at home and imperialist conquest abroad.
Cell phone video from ICE agent Jonathan Ross confirms that he violated all training procedures, placing himself in front of Good’s vehicle to justify murdering her.
The traditional winter retreat of the CSU parliamentary group, held at Seeon Abbey, marks a further authoritarian and militaristic shift to the right by Germany’s ruling class.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has remained silent on the Trump administration's military attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro, while her inaugural actions reveal a fundamentally reformist orientation toward American capitalism.
Israel launched strikes on Thursday and Friday that killed at least 14 Palestinians, including children, as the White House organizes its “Gaza Board of Peace,” made up of imperialist war criminals including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Despite the obvious and long foreseen danger, the federal and Victorian Labor governments stand exposed as utterly unprepared and unwilling to provide the resources necessary to prevent such a disaster.
Abdel-Fattah’s removal from the literary festival is part of a coordinated drive by Labor governments—state and federal—and the rest of the political establishment to suppress all opposition to all imperialist war crimes.
Labor leaders have said as little as possible, while refusing to condemn Trump’s flagrantly illegal war of aggression in the slightest.
Industrial Bank of Korea workers to strike over pay cap; India: Tamil Nadu secondary grade teachers demand equal pay; Bangladesh: Hotel and restaurant workers plan national strike action; New Zealand firefighters continue nationwide strike.
The CAQ’s “reform” will inevitably aggravate an unprecedented housing crisis—one that Premier François Legault and his CAQ government have systematically sought to blame on immigrants.
The most hawkish elements demand the UK government immediately start coughing up staggering sums to reach NATO’s new target of 5 percent of GDP spent on the military.
No way forward is provided by the Stop the War Coalition, the Corbynite Your Party or the Greens, whose response underscores the fact that only a socialist programme provides the basis for a fight against imperialism and the danger of world war.
In the face of mounting social anger, the Trump administration doubled down on its defense of ICE murderers, with JD Vance declaring that Renee Nicole Good’s killer was “protected by absolute immunity.”
The Libbey’s workers greatest danger has not been management alone. The International Association of Machinists (IAM) and United Steelworkers (USW) have repeatedly acted to divide, demobilize and betray the strike.
Many workers who spoke to WSWS reporters drew the connection between the US attack on Venezuela and escalating state violence against resistance at home.
One week after the deadly inferno in Crans-Montana, it is becoming clear that this was not a tragic accident, but manslaughter driven by profit.
This is the first English translation of Mikhail Pavlovich's 1920 pamphlet on the civil war in Ukraine.
We hope that the publication of this translation and the rediscovery of Mikhail Pavlovich will contribute to the political education of the working class, now confronted, once again, with imperialist war and fascist barbarism.
The Commission has nothing to do with uncovering the truth of the Bondi terror attack. Its role is to witch-hunt mass opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
So-called “resilience” in the face of Trump tariff hikes is “deeply misleading” according to a former IMF chief economist.
The worker submitted testimony to the independent investigation by the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee into dangerous conditions at the post office.
”What is already clear is that through the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians ... the Zionist narrative is crumbling, even in Germany.”
The union has withdrawn strike notices at seven of the 15 hospitals involved without even having secured contracts. It is preparing a repeat of its sellout two years ago, when it canceled strikes at all but two hospitals.
US forces kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after blockading and terrorizing the working class in the region.
US President Donald Trump asserted unlimited presidential powers to wage war all over the world in an interview with the New York Times published Thursday, declaring, “I don’t need international law.”
Keith Porter Jr., 43, and father of two, is at least the 13th person to have been shot by ICE since Trump returned to the White House.
Espionage allegations against a Canadian military intelligence officer accused of acting on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence have exposed a campaign waged by elements within the Canadian military to smear veteran Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese as a “Russian asset.”
A ten-fold increase in arrests in Oregon took place last year, alongside targeted workplace raids in Washington that terrorized working class communities.
Theatre performers, musicians and technicians across Greece walk out over pay and conditions; civil guard police intervene against striking Amazon pickets in O Porriño, Spain; health workers in Nigeria continue national strike over pay and conditions
Less than a year after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, US-allied forces in Syria have reached the brink of civil war. This underscores that the so-called “Syrian revolution” was a reactionary regime change operation supported by imperialism.
Resident doctors, nurses, and all National Health Service staff enjoy the respect of millions and can mobilise mass working-class opposition to austerity and war against the culprits responsible for driving the public health service to ruin.