The document explicitly names China as the target of a major military build-up, and unveils $50 billion in additional defence spending over the decade, on top of already record spending.
Thousands of Uber and Didi rideshare drivers stop work in Western Australia against high commissions, while Korean electronics workers plan first strike in Samsung’s 55-year history.
The cuts will accelerate the decline in enrolments, which began in the 1980s as the result of the deliberate weakening of public education by Labor and Liberal-National Coalition governments.
Breaking from standard procedure, Democrats supplied the necessary votes to overcome far-right Republican objections to a series of military bills supported by majorities in both big business parties.
The intent of the facility’s construction is to weaken the resistance of workers in North America as the U.S. economy gears up for military conflict with its competitors abroad.
Teachers, parents and community members in Ann Arbor gathered this week at city-wide meeting speaking out against layoffs and attacks on public education.
“We took an oath to do no harm,” one doctor said. But “When I walk into my shift and see a full waiting room and I don’t have the staff to take care of them ... that doesn’t sit well with me.”
Students and faculty at Columbia University are mobilizing to oppose the police-state crackdown on democratic rights.
The opening of the trial marks a new stage in an intense crisis at the highest levels of the American state that has been building for 50 years. This August will mark the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 as a result of the crisis stemming from his campaign’s break-in at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
On Friday morning, Israel carried out an airstrike on a military base in Iran near one of its nuclear facilities, further widening the war in the Middle East instigated by the imperialist powers.
France has initiated the constitutional change to strengthen its grip over the strategically significant Pacific colony amid escalating preparations for a US-led war in the region against China.
Pellegrini’s election success is a distorted expression of the widespread rejection of the war against Russia, which the leading EU powers continue to escalate.
Effectively jeopardizing the right to organize any large protest in the US, the Supreme Court refused to intervene Monday to stop a lawsuit by a police officer seeking to hold a protest organizer liable for the act of one of the protesters.
Exposing the alleged racism of the opera and its creators—George and Ira Gershwin and Dubose Heyward—has become a preoccupation of the postmodernist proponents of “critical race theory” and related obsessions with gender, sexual preference and other aspects of personal identity.
The WSWS spoke Friday with Zelda, a 23-year-old software engineer, who was arrested and fired by Google for participating in a sit-in to protest the company's complicity in the Gaza genocide.
The ban is part of an ever more sweeping and draconian ruling class crackdown on any opposition to its support for the Israeli genocide of the Gaza Palestinians.
Twenty-five years ago, two students at Columbine High School killed 12 fellow students and one teacher, and wounded 24 others, before committing suicide.
Latin America’s far-right regimes act as provocateurs, in direct coordination with the CIA, while supposedly anti-imperialist “pink tide” governments issue bankrupt appeals to the UN.
The gathering in Chicago came amid a number of high-profile protests throughout the country earlier in the day when demonstrators blocked major highways.
Nurses and public sector workers can make no gains based on a strategy of pressuring the unions and the government. They must turn to the rest of the working class and mobilize its immense power in a counter-offensive against the entire austerity program of the ruling class.
The pleas from the semi-feudal Arab regimes for “caution” and “restraint” testify above all to their fears of an explosion from below. They point to the fundamental “polarity” between all factions of the bourgeoisie and the working class on which the struggle against war must be based.
As one of the most globalised sections of the working class, postal and logistics workers have tremendous power. But this can only be realised by breaking the grip of the pro-company trade unions enforcing the dictates of the market.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in State Department v. Muñoz, one of the most important immigration cases in the recent period.
The police state action, directed by Columbia President Dr. Minouche (Nemat) Shafik, came the day after she testified before a McCarthyite Congressional hearing about outlawing opposition to the Israeli genocide.
The lecture by Nick Beams on April 28 will provide the political weapons required by young people and workers who want to take up the fight for a socialist and revolutionary perspective against the genocide and the broader eruption of militarism and war.
The measure is part of an escalating assault on democratic rights by the ruling classes in every country to block political opponents, particularly the Socialist Equality Party and independents, from contesting elections.
“We need a party that sticks to a revolutionary line and doesn’t just advocate for reform, because whenever you talk about reform, it essentially means you end up capitulating to those in power.”
Labor Notes is playing an important political role in the attempts by the bourgeoisie to head off a political movement in the working class which escapes its control.
In a culmination of nearly two years of betrayals, the Teamsters union called off the 18-month strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. None of their striking members got their jobs back, and the Teamsters agreed to dissolve the local union.
The United States and its European allies announced a new round of sanctions targeting Iran on Thursday, deepening their participation in a spiraling war in the Middle East.
Following the collapse of a major bridge in Baltimore after being hit by a container ship, crew members aboard the MV Dali now risk potential criminal liability, even as the ship’s owners use 1851 maritime law to limit their responsibility.
After losing previous votes in 2014 and 2019, the UAW has embraced the support of the Biden administration, which is seeking to mobilize US unions behind the war drive.
Workers across the United States and internationally must mobilize to defend the 28 Google workers fired for their opposition to war.
Clinicians say TeamHealth, the private equity owned firm subordinates health care to the company’s financial bottom line.
The complicity of the unions in Labor’s latest move to deny aged care workers a long-awaited pay rise underscores the need for workers to build their own organisations.
With the final adoption of the Common European Asylum System on April 10, the European Parliament has effectively suspended the right to asylum and turned the immigration policies of the extreme right into law.
The ever-increasing US debt, now on an unsustainable and “unprecedented” trajectory, is a key factor putting a question mark over the role of the dollar as the global currency.
In an explosive hearing, four former senior soldiers in the D.C. National Guard, none of whom were formally interviewed by the January 6 House Select Committee, accused US Army Generals Walter Piatt and Charles Flynn, and senior civilian Pentagon officials, of blocking them from protecting Congress as it was being overrun by Trump radicals.
If Tamil Nadu has become India’s most industrialized state, it is because the DMK and its arch-rival, the AIADMK, have rolled out the red carpet for domestic and global capital.
Alex Garland’s film provides violent images of a civil war in America, divorced from any examination of the social forces that would produce such a conflict.
One-day general strike in Greece against pay 20 percent lower than 15 years ago and 10 percent unemployment; autoworkers and other sectors in one-day strike in Turin, Italy against mass layoffs joining 12,000 in protest; Kenyan striking doctors defy state intimidation and sack threat in fight for more staff, pay and better conditions
That all those auditioning for office before the ruling elite must now affirm their readiness to kill millions and destroy the planet is a stark warning. No matter who is prime minister and which party they lead, the working class in Britan, like workers internationally, confronts a single party of war.
Honest mistakes and miscalculations have left tens of thousands of the poorest people in the country owing huge sums of money. Almost a thousand are being demanded repayments of £5,000-£20,000.
The rapid declaration grants police sweeping powers that override fundamental civil liberties and serves to heighten religious and other tensions among ordinary people.
For political and tactical reasons Israel may decide to hold back at least in the short term, but it is widely understood that the possibility of such an attack exists.
The IYSSE demands that all faculty, students and organizations that have been terminated, expelled or suspended be immediately reinstated. The broadest possible support must be mobilized among youth and in the working class to fight for this demand.
80 years after the end of the Nazi dictatorship, the ruling class in Germany is dispensing with its democratic mask. The suppression of the Palestine Congress in Berlin is reminiscent of the darkest times in German history.
While the far-right coalition government has slashed more than 3,000 public sector jobs in a matter of weeks, the corporatist trade unions have made clear that nothing will be done to defend a single job.
Embracing trade war measures even more provocative than those of Trump, the Democratic president appeared before an enthusiastic audience of United Steelworkers union bureaucrats in Pittsburgh.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its strikes on Iranian and Syrian targets, backed by the NATO powers, have placed the region on the brink of total war.
Nine employees were arrested for occupying the corporate offices of Google in New York and California on Tuesday as part of a protest to demand an end to the company’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government and military.
Barroso was speaking less than a week after the 60th anniversary of the bloody US-backed coup of 1964, in which the Brazilian military overthrew elected president João Goulart.
Money to pay the debt will not come from slowing economic growth but through deepening attacks on the working class.
Boeing’s harassment and threats against Salehpour raise new questions about the death of another whistleblower, John Barnett.
Based on questioning during oral arguments Tuesday, the right-wing Supreme Court majority appears poised to rule in favor of dismissing some or all criminal charges against January 6 insurrectionists for violating a federal statute that prohibits obstructing official proceedings.
The proposed agreement has been repeatedly watered down based on considerations of corporate profit and national interests.
Indians will go to the polls this Friday in more than 100 Lok Sabha constituencies in the first phase of a seven-phase national election that is to conclude June 1.
At a meeting organized on Sunday, April 14 with the support of the World Socialist Web Site, a group of Canada Post workers passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Postal Workers Rank-and-file Committee.
The claim that “there is no money” is a lie. In Michigan, where the Democrats fully control the state government, corporate handouts—particularly to the automakers—amount to billions.
The US is seeking to prosecute Assange on charges under the Espionage Act which carry a de facto life sentence for publishing documents exposing war crimes and human rights abuses carried out by Washington and its imperialist allies.
The announcement of 14,000 job cuts at Tesla marks an escalation of the assault by the corporate oligarchy on workers’ jobs. This a global campaign, which requires a globally coordinated response by the working class.
The United States and its imperialist allies will imminently announce new sanctions targeting Iran, as the US-led war drive against Tehran continues to accelerate.
Over the next five years, global growth, which has been steadily falling since the 2008 financial crisis, will trend below the historical average.
Home Affairs officials admitted that up to 5,000 non-citizens could face removal from Australia, a figure far higher than the Labor government’s earlier misleading statements.
The announcement read: “The artist and curators of the Israeli pavilion will open the exhibition when a ceasefire and hostage release agreement is reached.”
The firings of professors at Columbia University and John Jay College are part of a coordinated campaign to silence all opponents of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation said on Friday that nearly one-quarter of the 20 million people removed from Medicaid rolls during Biden’s “post-pandemic unwinding” of the program this year are now uninsured.
The deal which the union leadership is hoping to rush through in a three-hour online only vote on Friday is an abject capitulation to management which workers must reject with the contempt it deserves.
Since hundreds of police officers broke up a Palestine Congress in Berlin last Friday, new details have come to light every day about the arbitrariness and ruthlessness with which the police disregarded the law and trampled on democratic rights.
If the water level in Lake Powell falls too low, the dam may not be able to release water to downstream users.
In offering alibis for Morena’s right-wing policies, the discussion on Mexico demonstrated the pro-imperialist character of pseudo-left outfits like the DSA.
Official discourse on the war in Gaza, especially in the media, is a thoroughly state-managed affair, down to the last word. It is designed to create a fantasy world in which a supposedly democratic Israeli state is conducting a war of self-defence with the best possible intentions and due regard for all aspects of international law.
The fascist ex-president is being tried, not for his real crimes against democracy, but for an alleged campaign finance violation related to his personal conduct.
The layoffs are not just the product of the ample greed and stupidity of Elon Musk, but part of a broader attack on jobs in the auto industry and in industries across the world.
Forty-eight hours after Iran launched an airstrike on Israel, Israeli officials offered indications Monday that Israel is preparing military strikes on Iranian targets, as the US-provoked war in the Middle East continued to escalate.
The Albanese government’s Universities Accord cannot be separated from Labor’s whole pro-business agenda, its commitment to US war plans and its complicity in the US-backed genocide in Gaza.
Gannet workers at papers in New York and Texas walked out over wages while graduate assistants at Western University struck after rejecting management’s contract offer.
In coordinated actions, protesters in major cities around the world blocked traffic and logistics hubs to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
This critical question-and-answer session, organized by the IYSSE at Wayne State University, should be studied by all those who want to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Canada’s Liberal government presented a “defence policy update” last week that pledges tens of billions of dollars in increased military spending and outlines plans to procure a vast array of new weapons.
The military exercises repeatedly conducted in the Indo-Pacific are designed to raise tensions with China and paint Beijing as the aggressor while also preparing US-led alliances for war.
The reactionary decree, which explicitly targets the Students for Justice in Palestine, declares total support for Israel’s genocide and identifies every expression of criticism of Zionism as a form of antisemitism that is to be subject to punitive measures.
University of California administrators are slandering students as antisemitic to justify a crackdown on protests in defense of the Palestinians in Gaza.
A series of recent events demonstrate the manner in which the repression of opponents of the Israeli genocide in Gaza is being massively intensified.
In this video, Christoph Vandreier, chairman and leading candidate of the SGP in the European elections, condemns the recent attack on the Palestine Congress in Berlin.
The arch-Thatcherite Daily Mail declared that Starmer was in the process of removing “one more of the dwindling number of reasons to vote Tory.”
The imperialist powers are asserting that they and their proxies can violate international law at will, but any resistance to their efforts to dominate the world is intolerable.
What has been revealed already indicates that the attack was a horrific manifestation of the deepening social crisis.
Trade union leaders’ effort to block workers’ struggles and subordinate them to capitalist parties must be rejected. Workers can mobilise their industrial and political strength only by organising independently from capitalist parties and trade unions.
While the rapid rise of the water levels of the Ural River was bound up with climate change, the devastating consequences of the floods are the direct result of the failure of the ruling class to invest in the infrastructure necessary to protect the population from its impact.
The OIG’s reports are exercises in damage control, beginning by hailing DFA as “creating a best-in-class mail and package processing network” and then describing staggering levels of negligence and incompetence at facilities in Richmond and Houston.
Following the collapse of a major bridge in Baltimore after being hit by a container ship, officials aim to fully reopen the port by the end of May, as bodies of three workers remain missing.
The election is being held under the shadow of Washington’s highly provocative moves to counter China’s influence in the strategically significant South Pacific region.
Labor’s “Future Made in Australia Act” would subsidise investment in strategic industries, all of which are critical for war preparations.
After markets considered at one point there may have been six interest rate cuts this year, now there is concern there may not even be one.
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.
In this society, success in any endeavor is identified not with its intrinsic value or the personal satisfaction it brings, but with the accumulation of wealth and status. The concrete, qualitative side of an activity, whether it be playing football or anything else, loses significance; it becomes merely a means to an end.
The star’s new album, which alternates between the forgettable and the ludicrous, is a ready-made vehicle for the promotion of racialist and gender politics, along with the generation of corporate profits.
The outcome of the O.J. Simpson trial proved once again that the essential issue in American society is class, not race.
