Workers and youth confront the capitalist state, its police and military apparatus, the courts, the trade union bureaucracy, the bourgeois opposition parties and the financial aristocracy.
If any single image captured the Labour “left” as the cowardly wretches they are, it was McDonnell welling up while appearing in LBC Radio’s studio as he watched Burnham’s election victory speech.
Transport including rail, metro and buses brought to a halt in four-hour national strike in the Netherlands over austerity attacks on pensions and welfare; legal aid workers strike and protest in South Africa as the right to legal aid is threatened by cuts
In addition to forcing workers to vote inside the plant, UAW officials are handpicking supporters of the rotten deal to oversee the vote.
In the country of five million, which once postured as a model of egalitarianism, the richest 150 people, with their collective wealth of $129 billion, own as much as the bottom half of the population.
The ranks of what we have termed the "CIA Democrats" are likely to increase again in November.
As it prepares to roll out the red carpet for US President Donald Trump and other imperialist war criminals, the Erdoğan regime is seeking to suppress all opposition to war, genocide and militarism.
The primary results reflect a profound and growing political radicalization within the working class and among youth and professional layers who are being hammered by the accelerating economic, social and political crisis of American capitalism.
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
The comical costumes worn by the two conceal the identities of two very accomplished musicians who are masters of their instruments and equipment.
Educators who participated in the Committee for Public Education’s recent online public meeting speak about the issues raised at the meeting and the No vote that followed.
Steven Linell Smith, a black maintenance mechanic at the USPS St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center in Eagan, Minnesota, endured five years of racial harassment, including death threats and slurs, before being fired.
Budgets in New South Wales and Queensland show the leading role of Labor governments in slashing social spending amid the ongoing fallout from the Iran war.
The national party conference of the Left Party (Die Linke), which took place in Potsdam from 19 to 21 June, centred primarily on one question: Will the party succeed in curbing the radicalisation of the youth?
On Wednesday, June 24, at 2:30 p.m., the following open letter from the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) and the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site in Germany will be delivered to Türkiye’s ambassador in Berlin, Gökhan Turan.
The scientific and material means to halt the disease exist in abundance but are being deliberately withheld, turning preventable mass death into a deliberate policy of social murder.
The report is titled: “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023.
The Greens are aiding a Labor government that is in a deep-going political crisis, amid widespread hostility to its austerity budget.
Will Lehman, a rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, Pennsylvania who was nominated at last week's UAW convention to run for union president, condemned the UAW's in-plant vote at Nexteer as a fraud.
Locked-out workers who spoke with the World Socialist Web Site say that BP is dragging out the lockout to starve workers into submission.
If no tentative agreement is reached, according to NALC, “unresolved issues would be addressed through an interest arbitration process,” producing “a final and binding decision on the contents of a new National Agreement.”
The summit in Kazan expresses the desperate maneuvering of the ruling classes in South East Asia as the US-led war on Iran hikes energy prices and fears of shortages.
At the campaign-style rally Trump praised union leaders in a speech laden with fascistic demagogy targeting “communists,” “globalists,” immigrants and foreigners.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a number of right-wing decisions abridging individual rights and one ruling authorizing lawsuits against Cuban state enterprises to recoup property expropriated 66 years ago.
Farmers’ fundamental problems can be resolved only through their independent mobilisation against big business and finance capital, united with the rural poor and under the leadership of the working class.
Hard-right Premier Doug Ford is placing Ontario at the centre of Canada's military-industrial buildup, unveiling a 10-year strategy aimed at rapidly transforming the country's most populous and industrialized province into a critical hub within North American and European military supply-chains.
The sentences are part of a broader effort to criminalize opposition to mass deportations, war and social inequality under the banner of combating domestic extremism.
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
The Erdoğan government is responding to the imperialist war on Türkiye’s borders and to the deepening class struggle at home by consolidating its construction of a presidential dictatorship.
Rabinowitch’s four volumes on the October Revolution and the first two years of the civil war were pathbreaking and constitute an important contribution to the historical record of 1917 and the first two years of the civil war.
Former chief executive of the Scottish National Party Peter Murrell, has been jailed for embezzling his party's funds.
The RDC leadership, headed by Dr. Jack Fletcher, called off the walkout before members had any opportunity to examine the proposed agreement. Doctors were informed by email on Saturday evening, barely 24 hours before the scheduled strike action and only provided highlights.
Ruto’s threats have been backed by Francis Atwoli, secretary general of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions, nominally representing 1.5 million workers across 36 affiliated unions.
In the guise of upholding “professional standards”, the establishment of the Chartered Institute of Media Professionals is aimed at bringing all media workers under state control.
Overall employment fell by 300,000 from April to May, with full-time jobs accounting for a disproportionate share of the cuts.
Decades of bipartisan deregulation have transformed California into an industrial tinderbox, endangering workers and entire working-class communities.
The use of private ratings for debt held by insurance firms, increasingly with private equity firms, has risen 10-fold since 2018.
The debacle is both an apt metaphor for Trump’s role in American politics and an encapsulation of the most degraded aspects of this administration.
While a mass protest was held on Sunday in Büyükada against the operation targeting the municipality, Mayor Akpolat was brought before a court on Monday.
On Monday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visited Lithuania to take part in the first major exercise of the Bundeswehr’s Armoured Brigade 45 stationed there.
Some 60,000 nurses in British Columbia are pressing for strike action after rejecting a miserable contact offer presented by their union.
The visit comes just days after Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at the plant and a socialist, was nominated for president of the United Auto Workers at the union’s Constitutional Convention in Detroit.
The Corbynites and the trade union bureaucracy, which suppressed and betrayed the major strikes which erupted against the Tory government, have stymied every attempt to develop a working class, socialist opposition to Starmer’s Labour.
The pseudo-left government provided a “progressive” cover for a xenophobic assault that the right could never have legitimized on its own.
The Pentagon carried out military exercises on land being searched for remains of people who were disappeared under the Videla dictatorship.
For the past quarter century, Colombian workers and poor have rejected overwhelmingly the traditional parties of the oligarchy and imperialism only to be served a more right-wing version of the same politics.
The film serves up a very limited portrait of the rise of Putin, based on a book by an Italian cultural figure and bourgeois politician.
In a transparent effort to silence opposition, UAW Local 699 officials intend to hold the vote inside the plant, where a worker was fired for criticizing a UAW rep during a contract rollout meeting.
A former United States Postal Service electronics technician says he was exposed twice to muriatic acid at USPS’ massive Avondale, Arizona processing hub, according to reporting last week by the Arizona Republic.
Chicago nurses at Prime Healthcare's Saint Mary of Nazareth voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The win against a for-profit chain with a long record of obstruction opens a longer fight over the road ahead.
The drive to corral working class youth into uniform through automatic conscription registration, the expansion of JROTC and the deepening “economic draft” is being intensified as the US builds for World War III.
Kast's program represents a social counterrevolution targeting first the most vulnerable section of the population—some 337,000 irregular immigrants and refugees.
Every sentence of the lead motion presented at the congress is formulated in such a way that it combines mild criticism of existing conditions with a policy that is compatible with that of the federal government – and in stretches also with that of the far-right Alternative for Germany.
85 years ago, on June 22, 1941, the German military invaded the Soviet Union. It combined the barbarism of the Middle Ages with the most modern technology of the 20th century.
The diplomatic crisis over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s promotion of anti-Polish Nazi-collaborationist forces during World War II is stripping away the political lies in which the NATO imperialist powers have shrouded their proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
A parliamentary committee has been given evidence of the lack of medical care and other shocking conditions for detainees on the remote Pacific island.
On May 1, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), Local 3350 of the American Federation of Teachers, extended the old contract with the University of Michigan and announced no plans to strike for a new agreement.
The agreement between the Trump administration and Iran that suspended the four-month war began to unravel over the weekend, four days after US President Donald Trump signed it at Versailles, as leading Democrats and Republicans intensified their attack on it as a capitulation to Iran.
India rail bridge collapse kills 59; Polish workers strike against price hikes imposed by Stalinist regime;; Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh appeals to the US against Britain; Spanish military officers attempt coup against Primo de Rivera
The results reflect not a popular mandate but the determination of Peru's ruling class and Washington to prevent even a hint of social reforms that could feed the class struggle.
DSA member Janeese Lewis George won D.C.’s Democratic mayoral primary on a wave of working class radicalization—which her election will serve to contain and misdirect, not advance.
At the shipyard, where 2,000 workers are employed, the workers protested the union’s sellout with chants of “Union, resign!”
Train services resumed on the Johnsonville line in Wellington last week following a crash on June 6 that injured six people.
In a conversation recorded on the margins of the G7 summit, Brazilian President Lula assured the IMF’s managing director and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that he had "never" been a leftist.
The self-serving reassurances issued by Labour government ministers and rail executives are aimed at preventing accountability. The investigation is assigned to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, whose function is to examine the causes, not assign blame, establish liability or pursue prosecutions.
“The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” in London was part of an international roadshow that previously visited Toronto and New York City, encouraging prospective buyers from the United States, the UK and South Africa to “explore the best Anglo neighbourhoods” and find their “dream home”.
At four weeks, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda is three times larger than any previous epidemic at the same stage, with 894 cases and over 200 dead.
The overwhelming no vote was registered despite anti-democratic mechanisms the AEU deployed in an attempt to ram the deal through.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers fronted a media conference on Thursday to outline backflips on Labor’s minimal capital gains tax tweaks.
The police attack demonstrates the Labor government’s determination to proceed with its plan to tear down around 150 homes by the end of June, as the first phase of demolishing all 750 homes in the Waterloo South estate over the next six to nine months.
Ercan Akpolat, the mayor of Büyükada—where Trotsky spent his years in exile in Turkey—has been taken into custody.
Mamdani’s hypocrisy and opportunism are in the service of what? The promotion of the fiction that the Democratic Party—a party of the same corporate-financial oligarchy that controls the Republicans--can be reformed, as can the capitalist system.
“If you remove a disabled person’s ability to participate in society, then inevitably many will question whether they have value, whether they belong, and whether there is a place for them in the wider community.”
The first round of nuclear talks, scheduled to open in Switzerland, was scrapped before it began after Iran refused to send its negotiator in response to a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
Workers backed his campaign because it expressed their own experiences with the UAW apparatus: sellout contracts, suppression of opposition, the defense of corporate profit and the subordination of workers’ struggles to the Democratic Party and the state.
The EU summit held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday was in every respect a war summit. Behind the official formulations about “security,” “competitiveness,” “resilience” and “migration” lies a comprehensive program of rearmament, war escalation, social cuts and attacks on democratic rights.
State and national Democratic Party officials have either endorsed the witch-hunt or remained silent.
David Hockney’s death at 88 closes one of the most remarkable careers in modern art. His legacy is to remind us that careful looking is the beginning of understanding—but not its end.
Michel’s death, apparently caused by exposure to freezing temperatures after her release from ICE custody, is another indictment of the US immigration system.
A Munich Labour Court has rated the “business freedom” of local transit operator MVG higher than the freedom of conscience of a driver who refused to drive a tram covered in advertising for Germany’s armed forces.
India: Flipkart warehouse workers strike in Haryana; Chennai urban health centre workers protest outstanding wages; Australia: Thousands of striking public hospital allied health professionals march for higher pay; Melbourne metropolitan council workers walk out again.
The Erdoğan government is preparing for the Ankara summit by stepping up repressions against anti-NATO and anti-war opposition groups at home.
Burnham’s remaining rhetoric will be discarded the instant he crosses the threshold of Downing Street.
Ahead of her trial, Sarah spoke with the World Socialist Web Site, outlining the significance of her case. She explained, “There’s potentially really large and quite dangerous consequences if I get a guilty verdict.”
Artists of Soderbergh’s generation were cut off at the knees, so to speak, by the reactionary atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s.
One-year old Kohen Kartier Wiley was killed and the driver was critically injured when an as yet unidentified police officer opened fire on their vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi.
Autoworkers continue to respond with enthusiasm to the nomination of Mack Trucks worker and socialist Will Lehman to run for United Auto Workers president.
The opening of the Obama Presidential Center was an over-the-top exercise in political mythmaking, aimed at recasting a presidency of Wall Street bailouts, war, deportations and attacks on workers as a lost age of democratic progress.
The publication of the terms of the memorandum of understanding between the Trump administration and Iran has triggered an outpouring of criticism from both the Democratic and Republican parties.
The 225th Interior Ministers’ Conference, which has been meeting in Hamburg since Wednesday, marks a new stage in the construction of a German police and military state.
At the EU-Western Balkans summit held on June 5 in Tivat, Montenegro, the European Union’s leading powers—above all Germany—pushed for the fastest possible integration of the Western Balkan states into the EU.
Despite “liberalising” posturing by Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, two recent deaths at the hands of the security forces prove that nothing has fundamentally changed.
As with all other social problems, the experiences of workers and the poor have demonstrated that the housing crisis cannot be resolved by appealing to capitalist governments.
In a tactical retreat, management has said that new cuts will be prepared after consultation processes in which the National Tertiary Education Union has signalled its readiness to play a central role.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
Six months after US special forces abducted Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, the Chavista government is jointly operating with the US military to execute Venezuelans under indictment in US courts.
A strike, now in its third week, by 300 signalmen and communications workers at the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway has exposed once again the gaping, pro-company loopholes in federal labour law that allow employers to subvert and break legal walkouts.
Marc Salgado's death exposes years of preventable fatalities and unsafe conditions fostered by union-management collaboration on the waterfront.
Doctors in Spain walk out in further national strike over government cuts to health spending; protests in Basra, Iraq over power outages while farmers in the south and east demand restoration of wheat prices; security guards and cleaners in Germiston Municipality, South Africa continue ten-month strike to demand permanent jobs
NHS FightBack calls on GPs in England to vote NO in the referendum and reject the BMA’s privatisation blueprint for General Practices; government attacks must be answered by the demand for full funding.
