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.
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, inckuding 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
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.