Not a single mainstream journalist reported on the court proceedings. The trial of a student charged with terrorism for speech on campus against genocide has unfolded in near-total silence.
The US president, who is waging a war of aggression against Iran and threatening to destroy its civilization, and who supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza, praised Ankara’s role in the imperialist plans for war and in the Middle East and beyond.
Europe’s imperialist powers have for the past several years concluded a series of far-reaching trade agreements and raw materials partnerships spanning Latin America, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific.
The professional staff enterprise agreement proposed by the trade unions at WSU is even worse than the academic staff version, laying the groundwork for further destruction of jobs and conditions.
All of those governments criticising the Chinese ballistic missile launch are deeply involved with US war planning against China through basing arrangements for American forces and boosting their own military budgets.
Sri Lanka’s prisons are overcrowded, under-resourced and resemble a living hell, in which tensions can easily erupt into violent clashes.
Despite mass public support for the striking workers, the union apparatus quickly shut the strike down after three days, having reached a paltry tentative agreement.
Ford fired an 11-year Kentucky Truck Plant electrician over an alleged $1.95 cookie theft. The UAW’s response: “Apologize.” Kurt Kromm proved his innocence with notarized bank statements. The union that sits on $1.25 billion never lifted a finger.
The defence budget will rise by almost one-third in 2027. While healthcare and social spending are being slashed, the German government is preparing the economy and society for a direct war against Russia.
Three children died of carbon monoxide poisoning in metro Detroit over the holiday weekend, as families struggled to cope with a massive power outage, which left 400,000 people without electricity, air conditioning and refrigeration after a storm Friday evening.
The Los Robles shooting exposes the transformation of healthcare safety into a police and security question, while HCA’s record of unsafe staffing and profit extraction remains untouched.
Representatives of the NATO military alliance met Tuesday in Ankara, pledging to escalate their rearmament and warmaking across the globe.
An innovative list, but “innovation” in this case has not proved rewarding. The makers of older, more “traditional” lists had different inclinations.
Its central claim is that trade, not capitalism, is responsible for deindustrialization, the sharp decline in real wages and the devastation of working class communities.
Platner’s campaign was a manufactured attempt to rebrand the Democratic Party with a militarized, right-wing “working-class” persona.
Fujimori’s victory is not an isolated episode. It confirms that fujimorism has remained for more than three decades the organizing axis of bourgeois rule in Peru—surviving the fall of the dictatorship, the death of its founder, and successive institutional crises.
Kenya and Tanzania’s youth opposition are part of a single continental and global process, driven by the same underlying conditions. In both countries the youth have shown they can transcend the ethnic divisions long exploited by the ruling class.
Since the ceasefire, at least 265 children have been killed, many shot or shelled near the ill‑defined “Yellow Line”: a boundary Israel uses to justify lethal force.
The WSWS is posting highlight clips from the webinar to all of our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X/Twitter.
What is happening at WSU is a warning to staff and students alike of the retrograde conditions that the campus trade unions are trying to inflict on them nationally, by separate enterprise agreements at one university after the other.
Nurses voted 2,798 to 12, or 99.6 percent, to authorize a strike, the largest such vote by nurses in Massachusetts history.
With public attention throughout the world focused on the World Cup, transit workers have an unprecedented opportunity to go on the offensive.
The New Zealand Herald has published pro-war propaganda that effectively encourages young people to follow the example of Sam Haines, a 22-year-old killed in Ukraine last year.
The fatal shooting of Tyrin Johnson by Tennessee National Guard soldiers is the latest violent incident tied to the Memphis Safe Task Force, part of Trump’s nationwide drive to normalize military-police occupations.
Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for socialism of what it means to be a Trotskyist fighter.
Regardless of fraudulent claims of defending the “free and open Indo-Pacfic,” the US is using these war games to deepen collaboration with its allies in preparation for launching a war against China.
Mobilization Day for A Shorter Work Week in Brazil saw demonstrations in 30 cities, while 60,000 Canadian nurses are in their first week of a work-to-rule over contract issues including staffing.
Exactly 100 years earlier, the first Reich Party Congress of the re-established NSDAP took place in nearby Weimar, at which the party reorganised itself following its temporary ban in the wake of the Hitler Putsch and definitively pledged its allegiance to Hitler as Führer.
NATO’s war summit in Ankara is opening amid conditions in which the Erdoğan government has declared war on basic democratic rights in Türkiye.
A new musical collaboration gives voice to widespread anger at war, fascism, police terror and exploitation.
Zalando is slashing 2,700 jobs at its Erfurt logistics hub to boost profits—and the Verdi union bureaucracy is helping the company do it by haggling over severance pay instead of fighting to keep the facility open.
The episode lays bare the subordination of the world’s most popular sports tournament to the US financial oligarchy and the Trump White House.
The strike is a significant expression of militancy and political symbolism. Striking on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, in the very city where independence was declared, underscores that the revolutionary conflict of the present is the struggle of the working class against capitalism.
The Erdoğan government escalated political repression ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, detaining hundreds more people.
The Labour government is directly enlisting universities as part of its society-wide war drive.
The pogromist groups act as the extra-parliamentary spearhead of the African National Congress-led ten party Government of National Unity’s anti-immigrant policies.
The series of incidents involving falling objects highlights the ongoing risk to BlueScope workers after the tragic death of 24-year-old worker Jack McGrath last year.
The heat wave that struck the Midwest, South and Northeast of the US—with 35 states plus the District of Columbia hitting temperatures of 100˚ or more—has so far killed 25 people with expectations that the number of excess deaths will be significantly higher.
The white supremacist march in the capital, met with police protection and official invocations of “free speech,” exposes the real class content of democratic rights under the Trump administration.
Auto parts workers at Dana and Magna Seating are entering contract battles in the wake of UAW sellouts at American Axle and Nexteer and continuing industry cost cutting.
A lower turnout in the French territory’s elections and the subsequent deadlock reflect growing opposition to the entire political establishment.
The speech delivered by Trump on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence expressed both the terror gripping the capitalist oligarchy and the political conspiracy ahead of the midterm elections.
Within the framework of the imperialist crisis, data on pathogens and health responses are treated as strategic intelligence. Access to vaccines is wielded as geopolitical currency.
California Democrats pass austerity budget slashing healthcare and education, expanding corporate subsidies while centralizing executive control over public schools statewide.
Dalephenia Jones is the latest woman to die in Michigan's only women's prison, where a profit-driven healthcare contractor and Democratic Party state government share responsibility for mounting deaths.
Born into the rubble of post-war Germany, Herma Huber belonged to a generation that demanded answers to the great catastrophe of Nazi fascism. Rejecting both Stalinist lies and capitalist hypocrisy, she found her answer in Trotskyism.
Chilean court halts Pinochet prosecution; Washington Post pressmen indicted; armistice talks begin in Korea; Kuomintang begins Northern Expedition in China.
A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.
The Tanzanian working class and youth confront a corrupt bourgeois state defending itself through terror, an opposition tied to the same capitalist order, and imperialist powers competing against rising capitalist powers like China to loot the country's resources.
According to research by the Baby Bank Alliance, baby banks supported an average of 1,096 children per day last year in the UK.
The Communication Workers Union bureaucracy has no mandate for its collusion with Royal Mail management and Kretinsky. The ballot result on May 29 was carried on a historic low turnout of just 32 percent.
The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.
Customers on Reynolds’ route described her as kind, caring, hardworking and attentive to the people she served. “It was always a joy to see her,” one resident wrote.
It has long been evident that there are similarities in the political programmes of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD). But now the BSW is going a step further and offering the far-right party political cooperation.
The meeting showed developing concern among educators over the role of the NTEU and other trade unions in enforcing the dictates of the corporate elite and its governments.
The unemployment rate went down by one tenth of a point—from 4.3 to 4.2 percent—in June due to 720,000 people leaving the labor force and the creation of just 57,000 new jobs was far below expectations.
Labour’s record demonstrates that it is a party of big business that shares the National Party-led government’s agenda of militarism and austerity.
The preoccupation with fame and wealth and wall-to-wall media coverage of the Swift-Kelce wedding on Friday evening—overlapping with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—is one way the ruling oligarchy is seeking to divert the attention of the public away from the terminal crisis of capitalism.
Stefanovic’s trajectory is part of a broader lurch to the right by the political and media establishment.
The Liberal government, led by former central bank governor Mark Carney, has played the leading role in the development of this new multilateral bank, as part of its effort to drastically increase Canada’s military spending and cultivate military ties with powers other than its historic military-strategic ally south of the border.
The savage sentences mark the first major prison terms in the Trump administration’s campaign to brand left-wing opposition to ICE, fascism and capitalism as terrorism.
Reuters reported Friday that heat indexes could reach as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the US. Trump's so-called "Great American State Fair" event in Washington D.C.’s National Mall was temporarily closed after temperatures reached 101 degrees. Philadelphia canceled its Salute to Independence Parade after tying a temperature record set in 1901.
Rather than a turn to the right by the working class or the broad mass of the population, the elections express disgust with the entire political establishment.
While the government and corporations pour billions into rearmament and war, wages in the auto industry are to be cut and entire workforces laid off.
South Korea: Kakao platform workers strike again for higher wage and bonus; India: Rajasthan sanitation workers strike for job security; Australia: Campbell’s Soups workers continue walkouts over pay; Peabody extends Wambo mine lockout of washery workers.
For teachers, the way forward lies in a struggle that mobilizes the collective strength of all educators and of the other sections of the working class.
The American Revolution not only freed its citizens from the domination of the British Empire; it was an inspiration to all progressive struggles in British society, from the anti-slavery movement to the radical movement for democratic reform.
The Times editorial Wednesday put Burnham on his marching orders. The need to vastly increase the arms budget and the funding deficit “should spur him to take radical action on pensions and welfare.”
The newspaper claimed that the Committee for Public Education, established at the initiative of the Socialist Equality Party, was responsible for the historic rejection of a sellout deal by teachers in the state of Victoria.
Roberto Sánchez conceded, allowing Fujimori to proclaim herself president-elect. The fear that protests might spiral into a national insurrection outweighed his presidential ambitions.
A dangerous heat wave across the Midwest and Eastern United States is exposing workers to serious injury and death in auto plants, warehouses, postal facilities and delivery routes, where millions are being kept on the job without air conditioning or adequate safety measures.
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The victory of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America shows the American population moving to the left, but it cannot transform the Democratic Party from a party of Wall Street and the national security apparatus into a representative of the working class.
Under the seemingly harmless phrase “Germany is becoming crisis-proof,” the Bundeswehr, the state apparatus, the economy and the whole of society are to be rapidly prepared for a direct war against Russia.
The name of each martyred child is listed in small script, both Arabic and Roman, in the chronological order of his or her death.
Göktaş, a left-wing stand-up comedian whose video of a political comedy show garnered 8.5 million views in a week was taken into custody.
Amid the disastrous rescue and aid response, the US media has mounted a damage-control operation around Washington's role. Trump's remarks, however, expose contempt for the lives of Venezuelans.
As more than 63,000 people languish in immigrant concentration camps, the Trump administration is expanding street ambushes, worksite raids and mass kidnappings across the country.
SEP Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps and a group of SEP members aimed to deliver a letter of protest to the Turkish ambassador. Staff at the embassy refused to open the door.
Andrew, a construction worker, told SEP campaigners: “The people do not realise how much power they have. The masses have to take the power. There needs to be a redistribution of wealth, and that is why I like socialism.”
Offshore oil workers in Norway walk out over pay; protests by workers and retirees continue across Iran as ceasefire unravels; Sudanese teachers in Khartoum State walk out over non-payment of wages and poor working conditions
The interim report is a warning that Labor intends to ram through the NDIS legislation despite the widespread opposition revealed in hearings and the thousands of submissions to the Senate inquiry.
Governor Newsom’s AB 181 strips the elected education superintendent of executive authority, advancing the Democratic Party's assault on democratic rights and public education.
The immediate effect of the falling yen is to increase the price of oil and energy as Japan is dependent on the Middle East for more than 90 percent of its supplies, with the hike going across the board as Japan imports much of its food and raw materials.
UNITE HERE 274 called off the strike just in time for the massive July 4 tourism rush to the city.
An annual income of $2.2 billion, equivalent to the incomes of 37,931 US autoworkers, computes to $251,000 per hour.
A member of the Democratic Socialists of America defeated an incumbent Democratic congresswoman for renomination in Denver, while Senator Michael Bennet was denied the party’s nomination for governor.
The actor’s death plunged millions into mourning. He was buried in Istanbul on June 28 in a ceremony attended by large crowds.
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than any before it, precisely as Washington dismantles the global public health infrastructure built to contain such threats.
Since late May, Albania has seen its biggest wave of protests since the collapse of the Stalinist regime in the early 1990s. The direct cause of the demonstrations is a tourism development project backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Canary’s Steve Topple told WSWS, “Our situation is a damning indictment of the treatment of independent media in this country – whereby you can be potentially ruined without recourse by banking giants like Lloyds.”
What guarantees that Burnham will deepen the offensive against the working class is the deepening crisis of British and world imperialism that led to Starmer’s downfall.
Appearing willing to take on a greater role in Europe’s “security” and to assume new NATO obligations, the Turkish political establishment is using this card to strengthen its hand—above all against its regional rivals Israel and Greece—and to secure the interests of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
In typical anti-democratic fashion, the NTEU is trying to push an endorsement vote through a hastily called members’ meeting on Thursday.
The winding down of the monitorship does not mark the end of corruption inside the union or even a separation between the union bureaucracy and the capitalist state. It amounts to official sanction for the corruption and bureaucratic suppression through which the apparatus polices the rank and file.
The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday, Mamdani laid out his conception of “democratic socialism.”
The union apparatus, in line with its role as an industrial police force, has embraced Labor’s brutal agenda and offered its assistance.
The SEP and the IYSSE in Sri Lanka pay tribute to comrade Geethananda Jayasekera’s struggle for the Trotskyist principles of international socialism and extend our deepest sympathies to his family members.
Despite a concerted UAW effort to exploit the severe economic distress that it has foisted upon the plant’s low-paid workforce, Bridgewater workers expressed enormous opposition to the contract.
