Following Mamdani’s fundraisers with billionaires and decision to retain NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Jacobin insisted that left-moving workers, youth and students should refrain from any serious political criticism of “leftist elected officials.”
On Tuesday, over a hundred students from Lincoln High School in downtown Portland and from other schools in the city also walked out against ICE.
Amid seething rank-and-file anger over job cuts and collapsing living standards the UAW apparatus has purged DSA operatives Chris Brooks and Jonah Furman while restoring the duties of Secretary Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President Rich Boyer.
Primary school teachers overwhelmingly rejected a sellout offer, which the union bureaucracy presented to them after similar wage cuts were imposed on high school teachers.
No mention is made of the ongoing destruction of nearly 4,000 jobs over the past year, nor of the underlying restructuring agenda of the Albanese Labor government.
The decision by the Blue Owl private equity group to pull out of an AI investment with Oracle reverberated through the market because it was taken as a sign that “they’re not so bullish as [some investors] are.”
While Republicans gloated over the conviction of Judge Hannah Dugan, Democrats remained silent, implicitly backing Trump's attacks on the judiciary and efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.
The Socialist Equality Party calls on workers and youth to take matters into their own hands and come to the aid of Jewish people or any community that comes under racialist attack. Establish independent rank-and-file committees in working-class suburbs to protect basic democratic and social rights!
Trump's Department of Justice released 10 percent of the Epstein files, heavily redacted, on Friday, violating the terms of the law signed by the president on November 19.
While the unions were still able to secure social concessions during the post-war economic boom, this is no longer possible under conditions of globalization.
His identification of Marxism and communism with the repression of its Stalinist distortions hampered his work. He exemplified the intellectual crisis of the later 20th century.
The 2025 surge in Florida adds to the grim assembly line of state murder, in which the gears of “finality” grind over the complexities of mental illness, military trauma and institutional abuse.
Ford’s strategic turn away from larger electric vehicles is being used to drive through the destruction of thousands of jobs at the main plant in Cologne, aided by the IG Metall union and the works council, who are helping to enforce a coercive severance scheme.
The SEIU, which has kept workers on the job without a contract for over a year, is delaying in a bid to block a strike, announcing it would only hold an Unfair Labor Practice strike vote sometime “early next year.”
Alberta's Bill 9 invokes the Canadian constitution’s anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause”— which allows governments to run roughshod over basic democratic rights—to shield three laws targeting transgender youth from legal challenge.
Amazon workers face grueling quotas and draconian computerized surveillance techniques, used to enforce productivity during the peak holiday season with resultant injury rates double the industry average.
The strikes, part of a global movement, continue a struggle by Brazilian federal workers against attacks by the Lula administration.
India: Telangana steel workers halt production over colleague’s death in molten metal accident; Western Australia: Woodside Pluto-2 LNG construction workers ready to strike; Healthscope nurses in Victoria escalate industrial action; Union cancels Air New Zealand cabin crew strike.
As global war, dictatorship and social counterrevolution escalate, we appeal to all our readers to donate to the WSWS New Year fund, and fight to arm the international working class with the perspective and program of world socialist revolution.
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
Postal workers were told to print glossy posters, pose for photographs, and help get #PostalWorkersDay trending.
Starmer’s Labour Party is less concerned to show a trace of sympathy and concern than even Margaret Thatcher’s government was at the height of British imperialism’s “Dirty War” against the Irish Republican Army.
Washington sees an agreement as critical to prevent a civil war between its two allies in the regime-change war it instigated in 2011.
The dispute’s prolonged isolation and subordination to Unite’s bankrupt strategy of appealing to the Labour council to be “reasonable” threatens total defeat.
Two days after Trump boasted about the “greatest economy in the history of our country” and ranted against immigrant workers, thousands of GM workers will be thrown out of work.
The two-year budget for 2026–27 continues sweeping cuts to education, health care, social services and culture, while massively expanding the police and security apparatus. The austerity measures expose the role of all the establishment parties and trade unions in enforcing social attacks to finance militarisation and the enrichment of the wealthy.
In what appears to be another case of FBI entrapment, the Trump administration and FBI claimed to have foiled a bomb plot in which their agents and informants were intimately involved.
As Trump escalates an illegal war of aggression against Venezuela, the Democratic Party has handed him a blank check.
The 18-minute nationally televised address was a declaration of war on the working class, delivered by a president who appeared both demented and fearful.
After reporting persistent sexual harassment by a supervisor, a female postal worker received thinly veiled death threats and is now being further harassed for continuing to fight to expose the conditions that postal workers face on the job.
Tens of thousands of students have launched a powerful strike against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany, expressing mass opposition to militarism and war. This struggle can succeed only if it is extended to the working class and developed into an international socialist movement against war and capitalism.
Vast police-state powers adopted over the past two decades under the false banner of combatting terrorism are being expanded in a bid to silence the opposition of workers and youth to genocide, war, social inequality and austerity.
The provocation by Trump’s fascist Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was a test to see if the police state measures against immigrants could be deployed against broader sections of the working class.
The ongoing sunscreen labelling scandal in Australia has serious implications for public health.
The Liberal government has greeted the criminal acts of Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with a diplomatic shrug.
The most serious artists in the 1920s and early 1930s anticipated or often even assumed that society was proceeding to a new and higher stage.
“I call on my brothers and sisters around the world to use Socialism AI to educate, organise and unite.”
The WSWS urges all resident doctors to contact NHS FightBack which called for the rejection of Streeting’s insulting offer and outlined a strategy to end the isolation of their struggle.
Thousands of health, education and public sector workers in Greece walk out over austerity budget; protests continue across Iran by retirees, gold miners, energy and health sector workers; health sector unions in Nigeria winding down ongoing strike over pay and conditions
Today, land in Nairobi is concentrated in the hands of a small number of wealthy individuals, while millions are forced to live in slums such as Mathare, Kangemi, Kibera, Mukuru, Dandora and Kawangware, or remain entirely landless.
Mack Trucks worker and UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman released this video explaining the significance of Socialism AI for the working class.
Workers in one country cannot defend their jobs at the expense of the jobs of workers in another. Their class interests transcend national rivalries and the chaos of the market. Workers share a common interest in the use of technology to benefit all of humanity, rather than to enrich a privileged few.
Reiner has been a household name in the US since his days on the immensely popular situation comedy "All in the Family" in the 1970s.
In a 31-19 vote, more than half of the 40 Republicans in the Indiana Senate joined with 10 Democrats to reject a Trump-backed plan to gerrymander the state’s congressional map and eliminate the state’s two Democratic-held districts.
Readers should note that the two leading politicians behind the smear campaign are members of nominally left organisations.
The talks on a supposed “peace plan” for Ukraine, which took place in Berlin over the past few days, have made one thing clear above all else: the leading European powers—above all Germany—are doing everything they can to prolong NATO’s war against Russia.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers outlined billions of dollars in cuts to government programs and declared that there would be more “difficult” decisions to come.
Despite ongoing complaints, exposures and official inquiries into the exploitative Pacific labour schemes over many years, little has changed.
“It gives you sources and suggests follow‑up questions… It raises consciousness and prompts you about what you can do.”
By December 13, the widespread water outage had affected approximately 100,000 people in Waterbury and two suburbs, in one of the city’s most significant water emergencies in decades.
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to lecturers and students about the implications of shutting down entire departments and the continuing financialisation of higher education.
This atomisation of HE workers’ struggles within a single city is an acute expression of the union's policy of isolating a series of local recent strikes over job losses, and other issues, including many dozens of course closures, at universities in Edinburgh, Nottingham, Cardiff, Bradford, Leicester and Dundee—all which face defeat.
“Sons and daughters. Colleagues. Veterans… will all have a role to play. To build. To serve. And if necessary, to fight,” Sir Richard Knighton insisted.
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
The death of Rod Paige, former US Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, who played a key role in subordinating public education to profit interests, provides an opportunity to review the bipartisan war on public education.
Prime Minister Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns, along with top police and intelligence officials, are fashioning a narrative that protects the interests of governments and the state apparatus.
Sustained mass protests have forced the resignation of Bulgaria’s government just weeks before the planned introduction of the euro. The upheaval reflects deep popular opposition to austerity, corruption and militarisation driven by the EU and enforced by successive governments.
In recent days many workers have reached out to the WSWS to express their anger and frustration with both GM and the UAW.
The biggest concern is the fall in investment which has declined markedly in the past year.
Trofimova’s documentary rejects the bogus narrative peddled by US imperialism and its Canadian and European allies about “Putin’s unprovoked war,” and gives voice to the ordinary Russian soldiers the Western media has systematically dehumanized.
The rise in cases of the highly contagious, potentially deadly disease, 10 years after it was eliminated, is due to attacks on vaccination and public health, in Australia and internationally.
The situation underscores the need for action by the working class to defend the right to a job.
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
The US president declared Venezuela a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" and claimed the country owes the United States "oil, land, and other assets."
This new feature will highlight selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Boric’s government, like its “Pink Tide” counterparts in Latin America, paved the way for the right by defending capitalist property relations and failing to alter conditions of poverty and extreme social inequality confronting the masses.
Attacks on civilian merchant shipping in the Black Sea expand the scope of the war and threaten to drag NATO members like Türkiye deeper into the maelstrom.
These are the vindictive, lawless actions of a police state. Labour has branded Palestine Action and its supporters “terrorists” to justify swallowing innocent people into the prison system and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment.
The British Medical Association announced the ballot result on Monday: a 65.34 percent turnout with an overwhelming 83.2 percent voting to strike between December 17 and 22.
“I encourage workers to try Socialism AI…because it connects to what is happening in the broader sense—to understand why it is happening, what to do about it, and how to communicate these ideas to fellow workers.”
Those responsible for the continuing carnage in Gaza, above all the Israeli government and its backers, are seeking to exploit the killing spree to insist that all protests and statements of opposition to the genocide must be shut down.
There is a now a “rapacious appetite” for deregulation of the financial system, recalling the period leading up the stock market crash of 1929.
This new feature will highlight selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
The Trump administration is seeking to plunder Venezuela’s oil reserves as part of a campaign to dominate Latin America as a resource base for war with Russia and China.
In furtherance of the mass deportation operation and a sweeping attack on the privacy rights of the entire population, the Transportation Security Administration is providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement with air passenger lists multiple times per week.
Numerous reports have emerged of residents who will be forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars or more for out-of-pocket repairs.
India’s demonstrative display of the “warmth” and “strength” of its decades-long strategic partnership with Russia was meant as a message to Washington that New Delhi will not allow the US to define its relationship with Moscow.
With the votes of the fascistic AfD, the state assembly has adopted sweeping amendments to the police law that massively expand surveillance powers, including covert home break-ins and mass data collection.
The contract expirations for more than 20,000 nurses create the potential for a major, coordinated fight for safe staffing, pay rises above inflation and the best possible healthcare benefits.
In the first popular protest against right-wing President Rodrigo Paz, workers demonstrated against increases in flour and bread prices.
On Wednesday, 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) support workers are demonstrating against poverty and exploitation which the district is seeking to deepen in a new contract.
Last Friday, educators across the Australian state walked off the job for half a day, closing most public schools in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie.
The HMNZS Aotearoa carried out “surveillance and deterrence” activities on China’s doorstep, including a provocative passage through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka’s central hill district speak out against decades of government neglect that left them living in known landslide zones with no protection or aid.
With the witness list exceeding 50 people, the trial is expected to continue well into next year.
The closures expose claims from the Teamsters that they were protecting job security in their 2024 sellout contract.
Jewish people and their children living in Australia bear no responsibility for the ongoing slaughter by the Israeli Zionist regime in Gaza and the occupied West Bank of Palestine.
Construction workers, US citizens and even Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son have been accosted by the immigration Gestapo.
Whatever deal may be reached, it will not be a solution to the structural crisis of Russian capitalism and the imperialist efforts to carve up the entire former Soviet Union to bring its resources under the direct control of the imperialist powers.
US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States would begin ground attacks in the Caribbean on Venezuela “pretty soon,” raising the prospect of a US aerial bombardment of Venezuela.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina exposes the social and political roots of vaccine refusal and the broader assault on public health institutions in the United States.
At the time of writing, neither the postal service nor the postal unions have issued any public statement acknowledging the worker's death or explaining the circumstances surrounding it.
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy has not even made a pretense of opposing the mass layoffs, which will only deepen the social crisis in Detroit, the poorest big city in America.
The SEP sadly announces the death of two working class comrades R. M. Gunathilake (87) and Leela Balasuriya (79). We will publish tributes in the coming days.
It sets out the various sides in an episode where a sexual assault has been alleged with such even-handedness that drawing larger conclusions is challenging.
The ATO’s crackdown on working-class individuals and small businesses is occurring amid a historic cost-of-living crisis.
A “person of interest” has been detained by police following a mass shooting in a classroom at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday.
Stellantis exploits Kragujevac workers through nationality-based wage tiers and forced migration.
Chinese security forces jail strike leader; Algeria expels 350,000 Moroccans; Truman declares national emergency after Korean War defeats; Russian Communist Party adopts “socialism in one country."
Across the globe, severe weather due to climate change is causing thousands of deaths and widespread destruction.
