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.
The task of averting a catastrophic escalation falls to the working class, in a struggle to rise up and take power out of the hands of the representatives of the capitalist oligarchy.
The murder of Renee Nicole Good by an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Wednesday morning in Minneapolis was a deliberate, daylight execution.
In the aftermath of Saturday's US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has unleashed a global looting operation, seizing a Russian-flagged tanker on the high seas in a stand-off with the Russian navy, announcing the plunder of billions of dollars in Venezuelan oil and categorically asserting that a military attack on the territory of NATO ally Denmark to seize Greenland is an "option."
Hundreds of educators rallied to fight for better wages and benefits across North Carolina on Wednesday.
Comrade Leela’s death is a sad loss for the SEP, but the memory of this courageous fighter lives on today in the party’s struggle.
The US attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro has provoked anger and concern among workers in factories and workplaces across the United States.
The CPB’s dissolution was triggered by the “rescission package” passed by Congress and signed by Trump in July 2025, which clawed back $1.1 billion in funding.
Just three months after replacing Peru’s ex-president Dina Boluarte and with barely three months to go until national elections, the rightist regime of President José Jerí is confronting an escalating crisis of bourgeois rule.
Some 3.3 million people, more than one-fifth of the workforce, are either unemployed or underemployed, 431,000 more than a year ago.
Demands for fiscal “discipline” mask deliberate decisions to prioritise military spending and debt servicing, meaning continued starving of health, education and social programs, and attacks on wages.
A masked ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, a mother, in broad daylight in south Minneapolis. Video shatters the Trump administration’s lies and exposes a state-sanctioned and politically motivated murder that has ignited mass outrage.
After previously occurring only twice in 60 years, that disposable incomes have now fallen for three consecutive quarters no less than three times in a single decade highlights the deepening crisis of British capitalism.
Irish Republican Bobby Sands died after 66 days of a hunger strike—a milestone reached by Muraisi on Tuesday. Other Irish hunger strikers died between 46 and 61 days.
Budanov was trained by the CIA, maintains ties to the Trump administration and is known for his particular close ties to Ukrainian neo-fascists.
The January 5, 2026 decision to revise the US childhood vaccine schedule marks a turning point in the destruction of public health.
Under conditions of a sharp shift in the political situation, the pseudo-left are trying to subordinate anger and opposition to the Labor Party and the fraud that endless protests will shift the establishment to the left.
Nine months after the preventable death of 63‑year‑old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. , the silence from the company, the United Auto Workers and state remains deafening.
In an interview with NBC on Monday, President Donald Trump suggested the US could launch a second military incursion into Venezuela if newly sworn in President Delcy Rodríguez stops cooperating with US officials.
In asserting the “iron law” that might makes right, Trump is not inventing a new doctrine but stripping away the tattered remains of the democratic pretexts that once accompanied American aggression.
This is not just a local fight—it is the first battle of 2026 and part of a rising tide of opposition by the working class against the attack on the right to public education, growing austerity, the witch-hunting of immigrants, dictatorship and war.
This is a report drawn up by Socialism AI on the background and course of the January 6, 2021 coup, which took place five years ago.
The cuts hit Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and childcare funds that provide food, housing and basic income for low-income families across five states.
Australia has recorded the highest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in more than four decades, alongside a rise in fatalities among non-Indigenous prisoners.
The Left Party’s reaction to the illegal US attack on Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro once again exposes it as an openly pro-imperialist force.
Entering their fourth year without a contract, EMS workers are struggling to respond to increasing call volumes while staffing and real wages decline.
Deputy Prime Minister Seymour’s glorifying of Milei’s shock therapy and police state regime must be taken as a sharp warning by the working class.
The struggle against conscription can only be successful if it is directed against militarism as a whole and expands into a broad movement of the entire working class.
As supportive as Starmer has been of Trump’s crimes, the UK has been excluded from the spoils and is increasingly in the firing line of a White House which views Europe as an enemy.
The class and geostrategic interests are the questions which most need tackling, especially among an audience likely already very familiar with the material dealt with in the documentary.
The schizophrenia of the European powers, who invoke international law all the more loudly the more openly they violate it, is an expression of the political dilemma in which they find themselves. They need the US for the war against Russia in Ukraine but view it as an increasing threat.
It impresses the viewer primarily as a criticism of the self-involvement and self-delusion of a certain masculine type.
Public school teachers in Bolivia joined a wave of strikes against fuel price rises, while a walkout by staff has hit the Le Massif de Charlevoix ski resort in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec.
Under conditions in which Trump’s popularity is collapsing, Walz’s resignation serves to bolster Republican claims that Democrats deliberately oversaw a massive fraud campaign centered in the Somali community.
Major US news outlets are working to cover up the criminal nature of the aggressive US invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro with a propaganda campaign hailing the military operation.
The methods of violent overthrow of democratic institutions are now being employed both at home and abroad in an unprecedented drive for dictatorship and imperialist domination of the world.
In a degrading pseudo-legal farce, the Trump administration dragged kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores before a federal court in Manhattan on Monday.
Jeff Palmer, 59, is the third worker to be killed at the Coronado Global Resources-owned mine in the past six years.
The fight for jobs and working conditions in the refineries is inseparable from a struggle against a government of the oligarchy that is launching wars around the world, including against the population of the United States itself.
The areas most deeply affected will be environment, education and health, with lower-level staff bearing most of the brunt.
The inquiry was a diversion promoted by the Greens and aimed at promoting the fraud that appeals to the Labor government would halt its destruction of public housing.
When the final figures for 2025 are in it is expected that this type of operation will have set new records.
The abduction of a least five Detroit area teenagers by ICE poses fundamental questions about how to mobilize the working class to defeat Trump’s attack on immigrant workers and youth.
The aspirations of those who voted for Mamdani stand in stark contrast to the political reality of a Mamdani administration.
Ottawa has long worked with Washington to bring about regime change in Venezuela.
War and outright colonial intervention by Washington plunges the already decrepit political order in Latin America into chaos.
The United States’ imperialist gangsterism in attacking Venezuela and abducting President Nicolás Maduro once again exposed the pro-imperialist character of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government and the capitalist political and media establishment.
All the forces that propagated a two-stage theory ended up subordinating workers and youth to supposedly progressive factions of the national bourgeoisie or diverting their struggles into peasant-based guerrilla fighting that ended up consolidating capitalist rule.
The decision to freeze bank accounts is in line with Labour government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, and its criminalisation of protests in support of the Palestinian people.
Egan’s electoral victory amid mass abstention reveals that the left-wing of the union bureaucracy commands little to no credibility in the working class, despite the deep unpopularity of the most pro-business and right-wing Labour government in history.
Large protests against mounting economic distress have occurred in many parts of Iran over the past week, and have continued in the face of increasing state repression.
Everything that is known so far about the cause of the fire confirms that the disaster was not a tragic accident, but consciously accepted manslaughter by the dozen.
The demands from powerful sections of the ruling class are not aimed at exposing the role of the state in the Bondi terrorist atrocity, but at attacking mass opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The day after the US carried out an illegal military attack on Venezuela and kidnapped its president, the Trump administration unleashed a torrent of threats against countries around the world.
Some regions across northern Queensland have received a year’s worth of rain in just a few days.
The exodus of artists from the Kennedy Center began in February 2025, when Trump named himself chairman of the board of trustees.
The conviction of a 19-year-old former pupil in Freiburg for satirical criticism of the Bundeswehr exposes the growing repression directed at young people opposing militarism, conscription and the militarisation of education.
The closure of bank accounts of left-wing organisations is part of an authoritarian shift that is taking place not only in the US, but in Germany and throughout Europe. Any critical voice against armament, war, social cuts and layoffs is to be intimidated and silenced.
The only way to oppose imperialist wars of plunder is to mobilize the working class, independently of the union bureaucracies and pseudo-left parties in or allied to the Spanish government.
The scientist quit the CDC in protest after Trump-appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed every member of the Advisory Community on Immunization Practices.
Even though fascist Nick Shirley’s reporting targeting alleged fraud by Somali-run child care centers is complete bunk, the Trump administration is using the video to cut federal funding for child, health and food programs.
Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to mobilize the population as cannon fodder in an imperialist war of plunder to the East.
The nurses’ determined stand is the first major act in what will promise to be a major year of the class struggle in the US, as workers fight against mass layoffs and other accelerating attacks. But the New York State Nurses Association union bureaucrats are preparing a repeat of their 2023 betrayal.
Amid a surge in people sleeping rough, the government will strengthen police powers to “move on” homeless people from city streets.
The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and connection between biology and culture in human evolution.
Congress certifies Bush theft of 2000 election; Seymour Hersh exposes CIA funding of Italian parties; South Korean forces massacre hundreds in Ganghwa; Appeal heard for Sacco and Vanzetti.
South Korea: Seoul city bus union announces January strike; India: Thousands of gig workers strike on New Year’s eve; Australia: Crown Melbourne casino workers strike over pay cut; New Zealand Woolworths workers walkout.
The ANC’s “non-alignment” policy is rapidly breaking down as the US seeks to halt China’s expanding influence on the continent, amid its own historic decline.
Drawing a balance sheet of post-colonial rule is indispensable. Clarifying which leaderships and programmes failed, why they failed, and whose class interests they ultimately served is the starting point for meeting the challenges of the new period of revolutionary struggle.
The World Socialist Web Site, the Socialist Equality Party in the US and the International Committee of the Fourth International unequivocally denounce the invasion of Venezuela and the criminal abduction of President Nicolás Maduro.
The FUP’s latest betrayal underscores the need for Petrobras workers to form independent rank-and-file committees with an internationalist and socialist perspective.
It was inevitable that new tensions should find expression in artists’ work and erupt as well as within existing industries and institutions
As Democrats join with Republicans to divert $1 trillion to the military budget, schools are being starved of resources.
The ruling class has used the year to carry out a deliberate restructuring of production, accelerating automation, artificial intelligence and global reorganization to slash labor costs and vastly enrich a tiny financial oligarchy.
Falling sales and profits, as well as the impact of Trump’s tariffs, are among the factors pushing restructuring and downsizing among auto parts suppliers in the US and globally.
CNN confirmed Tuesday that the CIA conducted a drone strike inside Venezuela on December 24, the first air strike on the country since the US military buildup began in August.
Vijayakumar was killed after being struck by a tea-leaf grinding machine that lacked safety guards; Rajinikantha died when a decades-old boiler, which had not been properly maintained, exploded.
Overall, musicians made their strongest statements outside the recording studio, reflecting the growing mass opposition within the world population.
Victorian trade union leader Luke Hilakari said pro-Palestine protesters had “made all the points they need to make about Gaza” and “they just need to back off.”
Far-right, anti-immigrant groups are being cultivated and accommodated by key sections of the political establishment in response to mounting social and political opposition.
Washington’s aims encompass far more than Venezuela, amounting to a drive for the recolonization of Latin America and the subordination of the region to US profit interests and preparation for world war.
The arrest and prosecution of Chinese researcher Youhuang Xiang, announced December 19 by FBI Director Kash Patel, is the latest episode in an FBI/Department of Justice campaign to criminalize scientific exchange with China.
Eighty-five years ago, the ruling camarilla around Marshal Gustav Mannerheim invited Nazi Germany to garrison Finland and began preparations for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
The decades-long demand for decent, livable housing for Sri Lanka’s plantation workers has reemerged with urgency after Cyclone Ditwah devastated estates across all 25 districts.
Their experiences are part of a broader pattern of inadequate preparedness and neglect by state and federal governments to so-called “natural” disasters, which are made more frequent and catastrophic as a result of climate change.
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
Germany is experiencing an accelerating economic crisis marked by mass layoffs across industry, as trade war, militarisation and pro-corporate policies deepen social insecurity for millions of workers and their families.
“Participating in Eurovision allows Israel to maintain the illusion that it is a modern and exemplary Western democracy, and thus to more easily conceal its criminal actions”, said the collective of 170 Belgian artists and cultural figures.
It is Abd El-Fattah’s pro-democracy campaigning which angers his persecutors, especially his defence of the rights of the Palestinians against the fascistic Israeli state and its genocide.
The organization and attacks of ISIS in Turkey reveal the consequences of the Turkish government’s reactionary policies regarding jihadist forces.
During a photo-op with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, President Trump said the US military struck a “big facility” in a dock area in Venezuela where “they load boats up with drugs,” and a “major explosion” occurred.
As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal the pandemic’s continuing public health consequences as well as the impact of social inequality.
US President Donald Trump threatened to “knock the hell out of” Iran and warned there would be “hell to pay” in Gaza, while reiterating his calls for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
The meeting will examine the political significance of the Bondi terrorist attack, which is being exploited to implement a raft of anti-democratic measures that will inevitably be used against the working class.
Governments are exploiting the reactionary terrorist attack to implement an assault on democratic rights that resembles the actions undertaken by military dictatorships.
Court rulings, body camera footage and arrest statistics expose fabricated ICE narratives now being used to justify escalating federal raids against Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
The past year has seen a significant shift to debt-financed AI operations amid the proliferation of circular deals involving the major players.
A fragile ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia commenced on Saturday following weeks of intense border fighting.
