Healthcare workers in Romania begin indefinite stoppage over pay and conditions; national 24-hour strike by rail workers in Italy for more pay and improved safety; protests across Tunisia and Libya due to collapsing infrastructure during heatwave
The report found that between 2012-25 there were six avoidable maternal deaths, 94 avoidable stillbirths and 62 neonatal deaths of babies on the threshold of life at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
More than 500 public defender workers are now on strike in New York City and Detroit, in an expanding rebellion against poverty wages, healthcare cuts and crushing caseloads.
Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties.
This outcome, after three limited strikes and 15 months of closed-door negotiations, is a warning of the retrograde enterprise agreements that the trade unions are trying to impose at public universities across the country.
The clashes in the South China Sea during last week’s ASEAN summit in Manila expose the deliberate manufacturing of conflict with China by the Philippine state, acting on behalf of a US drive to militarize Southeast Asia.
The fake left have chimed in, not to denounce the government and prison authorities for their brutality, but to join the chorus calling for prison reform and how to run the jails more efficiently.
Bond markets signal that inflation is set to rise over coming months and maybe even years.
Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the same global imperialist onslaught that includes the genocide in Gaza and the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Masked federal agents are seizing immigrants with work authorization and pending legal claims, frequently without producing warrants, before imprisoning them in an increasingly deadly network of private concentration camps.
Will Lehman, a candidate for the presidency of the United Auto Workers in the ongoing election, was sent a death threat by a top union official and close ally of current President Shawn Fain. Workers across Canada have responded angrily to Jensen’s thuggish behaviour and sent statements of solidarity to the WSWS.
More than a week after declaring an "industry-leading" agreement, the Teamsters have still not released a term sheet, wage schedule or contract language to United mechanics.
There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA is to channel this political radicalization behind the Democrats in order to block the development of an independent movement of the working class.
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
A week apart, a journalist who reported on shipments of cocaine from Ecuador aboard merchant ships owned by the oligarchic family in power and a prosecutor probing US bombing of fishing boats accused were both found murdered.
According to the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization, 52 percent of Bolivians suffer from food insecurity, and anemia afflicts 53.7 percent of young children.
Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd, releases a “reimagined” version of the 1979 iconic track “Comfortably Numb” with Palestinian artist Mona Miari.
Jonathan Reynolds reassured the FT that Burnham's talk of facilitating “public control” over critical sectors of the economy was an appeal for collaboration with private investors not an attempt to control or replace them.
The Greens have prostrated themselves before KPMG, pledging a three-year “Financial Resilience Plan” that will slash spending on key service areas including housing and adult social care “where spending is high” and which offer “the greatest opportunity” to deliver savings “through cost reductions or increased income”.
At least 13 people are dead and hundreds have been hospitalised as the quake damaged buildings, disrupted transport and cut off power to tens of thousands.
The sudden leadership change points to a developing crisis of Labor not only in Victoria but federally, which its stage-managed national conference sought to cover over with a confected display of total “unity.”
As of publication, neither Teamsters Local 384, the Teamsters national union, nor its Package Division have issued a public statement on the death.
President Trump held separate Oval Office meetings with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel on Tuesday to discuss the next stage of the wars against Russia and Iran.
The past week has seen a sharp fall in the share price of major chipmaking firms, especially those based in South Korea, but now extending to Wall Street.
Javier Milei traveled to São Paulo to headline the launch of Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign, delivering a 27-minute fascistic speech that reveals the campaign’s dependence on Washington.
Florida on Tuesday carried out its first double execution in more than 60 years. The pairing of the two executions, ordered six hours apart by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is itself a marker of the pace at which the state has been killing its prisoners.
The US president was joined by Volodymyr Zelensky, Benjamin Netanyahu and Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the funeral of the warhawk senator.
The national conventions of the American teachers unions were held without a plan to fight the escalating destruction of public education, mass school closures, or mounting layoffs. Instead, the events were handed over to the Democratic Party.
The administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as it imposed a new rule allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications to be sent into deportation proceedings without an interview.
The Green Party is seeking to neutralise mounting anger among workers and youth by pretending it will pressure a Labour-led government to address inequality and poverty.
The situation remains explosive. The CJP has been forced to threaten to resume its agitation, after the government reneged even on the modest promises it made to head off a burgeoning India-wide protest movement.
Rubio’s report blames Havana for six decades of social struggle in the US, fusing political opposition at home and resistance to US neo-colonialism abroad into a single enemy.
Postal workers at Royal Mail in Britain have added their voices to the growing international condemnation of the public death threat made against Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and candidate in the United Auto Workers presidential election, by a senior UAW official.
The union bureaucrats that have postured as opponents of the genocide played the linchpin role in suppressing any discussion of the Israeli regime’s crimes at Labor’s national conference.
The WSWS spoke to Bronx Defenders attorneys, social workers and support staff, who launched a strike Monday over wages and working conditions.
The Housing Australia Future Fund, a central part of Labor’s election platform in 2022, was supposed to make available an additional 40,000 dwellings by 2029.
On July 27, 2025, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) presented its initial findings of its independent investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
The cuts are the outcome of the four-year contract that the Chicago Teachers Union leadership and Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson imposed on teachers in April 2025.
Floods, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires mark a further intensification of the global climate catastrophe, driven by decades of fossil-fuel emissions and the refusal of capitalist governments to undertake the internationally coordinated measures required to protect human life.
Ukraine struck an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea on Saturday claiming it was carrying drone and missile cargo destined for Russia. Iran threatened retaliation, and Russia said it was a commercial vessel carrying civilian cargo.
Trump’s appearance combined appeals to economic nationalism with red-baiting against all political opposition.
Workers must fight for the resources to mount an urgent response, but to carry out such measures without also tackling the social system producing these disasters is like firefighting on the slopes of a volcano.
Despite the bitter conflicts in the UAW centered around fabricated allegations against Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President Rich Boyer, none of the contending factions advanced any opposition to the reactionary, pro-corporate program of the union bureaucracy headed by President Shawn Fain.
The existing legislation itself amounts to a far-reaching attack on basic democratic rights, particularly against anti-war and anti-genocide activity, or any anti-government dissent.
Guatemala bus, transit and delivery drivers hold protest strike; Picket line clash between striking workers and sheriff's deputies at C&H sugar in California.
The nationwide wave of closures is not the sum of isolated local decisions. It is the restructuring of public education in the interests of the financial oligarchy that declares neighborhood schools unaffordable while submitting a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget.
Netanyahu is set to meet US President Donald Trump in the White House on Tuesday, his seventh meeting in Trump’s second term, far outpacing any other world leader.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said “it was a very warm meeting… We got on very well indeed, and this is going to be a close partnership.”
There was a close connection between the form of the conference, which suppressed any discussion, and Labor’s commitment to a program of war, austerity and attacks on democratic rights.
The reactionary attack on queer people is being used by the federal government to push forward the expansion of the police and intelligence apparatus. Its talk of “freedom” and “openness” is thoroughly hypocritical.
Felix Morrow’s Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain is one of the oldest, yet also one of the most relevant books on the Spanish Civil War, stated Peter Schwarz, a member of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, at a symposium in Berlin.
The lurch to dictatorship is not the work of one individual, but rather the response of a crisis-ridden ruling oligarchy to unprecedented levels of social polarization and growing opposition in the working class.
The Iran war is treated across the US political establishment as a policy that has failed, not a crime that has been committed.
UAW members in three states walked out on July 24.
Trump has found a new mechanism to impose tariffs and is looking to expand its use.
Support continues to grow from workers in the US, Mexico and internationally for Will Lehman, the Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for United Auto Workers president, following the death threat against him by an UAW International staff member.
While hundreds demanded justice for Corey Ruiz and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the officers responsible for their deaths remain unidentified, uncharged and protected by the state.
The fascist president’s remarks were a mixture of rehashed insults and incomprehensible meandering.
Gehry rejected the classical stylistic references adopted by the post-modernists and strove for beauty in the choice of materials and form. His work is more that of a sculptor whose creations are inhabitable by people.
FIFA and its New York billionaire partners rewrote the rules to subordinate the World Cup entirely to profit.
On July 23, 2026, the CDC reported that the number of measles cases in the US surpassed the total for the whole of 2025.
NFL player Korey Stringer dies of heat stroke; West Virginia coal miners defy back-to-work injunction; UN Refugee Convention signed in Geneva; Philippine legislature votes for independence plebiscite.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.
According to interior minister Laurent Nuñez, France saw what was "probably" the biggest peacetime civilian evacuation it has ever seen.
“The lack of resources is making staff leave and the wages are not enough. That is the situation for a lot of us. To survive I have a second job.”
Beneath the surface of the official unemployment statistics, job cuts are growing as the criminal war on Iran escalates impacts on the global economy.
The meeting will outline the socialist perspective needed to oppose the Labor government’s assault on disabled people, as part of its broader offensive against the working class.
The USW’s isolation of 800 locked-out BP Whiting oil refinery workers shows why steelworkers must organize independently of the union bureaucracy.
“When I saw the picture posted it made me feel sick to my stomach. It shows that the UAW leadership are scared of Will. Why else would you threaten him and try to intimidate him?”
The destruction of rural healthcare is neither an oversight nor ineffective policymaking. It flows from a political and economic system in crisis, where an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power can only be maintained by plundering social resources for private profit and militarism.
Mamdani’s declaration that he will not arrest Netanyahu is, as a factual matter, a reversal. As a candidate, he pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York, and as recently as July 18 he said in an interview with the New York Times that he was in “active conversation” with the city’s law department about enforcing the ICC warrant.
At its online meeting July 15, the VW Action Committee launched an intensive campaign to break the control of the IG Metall union apparatus and its plant officials and begin a serious fight in defence of jobs.
Canadian capital has traditionally played a major role on the island, whose bourgeois nationalist regime became increasingly dependent on foreign investment from Canada and Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The police, immigration Gestapo and military are instruments of capitalist class rule whose escalating violence can be stopped only through the independent political mobilization of the working class.
American warplanes and missiles struck Iran for a 13th consecutive night late Thursday and into Friday morning, hitting sites from the Strait of Hormuz to the Caspian Sea coast.
AHPRA’s decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s false definition of antisemitism will lead a widening persecution of health professionals.
Hundreds of grocery pharmacists have authorized strike action after months of bargaining over unsafe staffing, mounting workloads and wages at Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions.
The inferno in the Katuwana Industrial Zone is a case of industrial murder—the direct and inevitable product of a capitalist system that subordinates human life to the relentless drive for profit.
Jacobin’s theoretical case for subordinating the Argentine working class to Peronism rests on a falsification of Leon Trotsky's actual struggle against the Popular Front.
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
Countermeasures against the Bundibugyo strain do not exist because US medical funding follows biodefense threat designation rather than the number of dead.
Sanitation, electrical and gig-economy delivery workers strike in India; Bangladeshi sugar mill workers demand higher wages and job security; Cambodian casino workers protest years of repression; Australian health, disability and parks workers strike over pay and conditions.
In a sharp escalation of Washington’s imperialist offensive against Latin America, the Trump administration is openly intervening in Brazil’s October presidential election to bring fascist candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to power.
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House forms part of a broader US–Saudi strategy to isolate Iran by eliminating its influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
The killing of Abderrahim Fakir is the product of escalating police-state repression as Meloni’s government intensifies authoritarian rule against growing working-class resistance.
Rail, Maritime and Transport union members working at EMR, including staff responsible for onboard train operations and passenger safety, have voted for strike action over safety concerns surrounding the Hitachi-built Class 810 fleet.
As it has done from the outset, the Australian Education Union will do everything possible to prevent any further industrial action by wearing down opposition to its sell-out deal with the government.
Drapatyi is widely seen to be in favor of a military strategy, centered on the use of long-range drones that hit infrastructure and civilian targets deep within Russian territory.
The Trump administration is driven to escalation by the logic of the war, which is now in its fifth month.
The UAW rammed through the contract at Dana after extending the negotiations and refusing to call a strike using tactics similar to those employed to impose sellouts at American Axle, Nexteer and Bridgewater Interiors.
Workers at Stellantis plants in the Detroit area, along with other workers in the US and Canada, have voiced support for Lehman's campaign to abolish the UAW bureaucracy and transfer power to workers on the shop floor.
A House committee has issued subpoenas for financial records in a McCarthy-style anticommunist campaign against alleged Chinese influence.
The protest movement took on heightened significance this week, when tens of thousands defied a government ban on their marching on the parliament buildings. True to its violent and authoritarian instincts, the Modi regime responded with ferocious police repression.
Tokyo’s nuclear ambitions have nothing to do with defense, but are part of its efforts to remilitarize and assert its imperialist interests militarily throughout the region.
Cleveland library and hospital workers are moving toward strike action as more than 100 Lorain County social service workers continue one of the longest public-sector strikes in Ohio history.
The death of Umeshkumar Thakkar is the latest in a series of fatal incidents exposing the refusal of the US Postal Service to protect workers from extreme heat.
The brutal police killing, carried out in broad daylight and caught on camera, quickly spread online, prompting hurried calls from local officials and police for an “independent” investigation that will no doubt end in the exoneration of the officers.
Ahead of the New Zealand election, the right-wing NZ First party has called for recent migrants to be disenfranchised and for unemployed youth to be drafted into the military.
The censorship by ZDF management of a song by Danger Dan and Igor Levit calling for resistance against the AfD provoked no storm of outrage from the programme's hosts.
Over the course of four years, the Boric administration implemented policies that paved the way for the far right.
