Foreign Minister Penny Wong contemptuously rejected calls to intervene in defence of Assange, the Australian citizen and journalist persecuted for exposing the war crimes of the US and its allies.
Under Trump and now Biden, Washington has fundamentally altered the delicate balancing act that led to the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between Beijing and Washington in 1979.
Students demonstrated in Paris against Macron and his pension reform, and against the indifference of university administrations to neo-Nazi attacks targeting them.
The SEP calls on all workers to oppose the government’s strike-breaking and defend the jobs, wages and democratic rights of petroleum workers.
There are no issues of democratic import in the indictment. Rather, the Democratic Party has chosen to focus on the flimsiest and most inconsequential matter possible: a sex scandal.
ChatGPT, released as a free prototype by the research laboratory OpenAI last November, is a powerful artificial intelligence technology with socially transformative potential that is being used under capitalism to eliminate jobs, increase exploitation and automate warfare.
Like the war in Ukraine itself, the integration of Finland and soon Sweden into NATO was prepared over decades of aggressive US wars and NATO’s eastward expansion up to Russia’s borders.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the first leader of a NATO country to publicly raise the prospect of the deployment of troops from NATO countries into Ukraine.
Numerous tornadoes were spotted in Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas and Tennessee. Meteorologists report that as many as 89 million people in at least 15 states were at risk from the “explosive” storms.
The grad students and their supporters braved cold and rain on their third day on the picket line.
German public sector workers are indignant over the employers' demands for cuts in real wages, but the services union Verdi has accepted arbitration in an attempt to wear down the workers' militancy and prevent a strike.
Wingard has faced public backlash for his handling of the recently-concluded university workers’ strike.
In violation of international law, all migrants seeking refuge in Canada who enter “irregularly,” whether via land or waterway, will now be handed over to American ICE agents.
India: Uttar Pradesh government sector workers protest sackings; Tamil Nadu government farm workers strike for permanency; Australia: Melton City Council nurses demand higher wages; Offshore shipping workers strike in Western Australia.
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman’s complaint to the Department of Labor, filed March 29, reviews the UAW monitor’s conflict of interest, which Lehman said is a ground to re-run the election in its own right.
More than 1,000 Sysco workers have gone on strike in California, Indiana and Kentucky as the Teamsters union seeks to contain and betray the struggle of truck drivers and warehouse workers against the $40 billion food distribution monopoly.
That major financial players ignored the flashing warning lights and continued to invest with Madoff points to the social psychology of a ruling class so manic in its pursuit of ever-greater personal wealth that it has become blinded by its own greed. More, however, is involved in this sociopathic outlook than subjective personality traits.
A mass of new data has revealed the long-term decline in the living conditions of millions across the UK and provided forecasts of even worse circumstances for years to come.
Ward and Furey have lost the confidence of postal workers, having conspired with management behind their backs and agreed further attacks, while undemocratically overruling the vote to renew strike action.
Trump is being prosecuted, not for the January 6 coup attempt or other crimes, but for a private sexual matter.
Preparing a general strike cannot be left in the hands of a former capitalist minister like Mélenchon, but must be carried out by building a mass movement of rank-and-file workers.
Earlier this week, the first German battle tanks arrived in Ukraine. This has far-reaching historical and political implications. 82 years after Hitler's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German tanks are again rolling against Russia.
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares reportedly told UAW officials he should have closed the plant a year and a half ago.
“I’m afraid to go to the hospital because I fear contracting COVID-19 again.”
The ultra-wealthy continue to amass billions as workers face a social catastrophe.
Workers should reject the contract by the widest possible margin, sending it into the trash can where it belongs.
According to the UK central bank, many of the “vulnerabilities” which emerged in previous periods, such as the March 2020 crisis “remain largely unaddressed” and could surface again.
The Associated Press interview is part of a PR campaign by Zelensky to drum up support for a bloody offensive within Ukraine and abroad and legitimize the massive losses at Bakhmut.
The IYSSE meeting—part of a series being organized around the world to develop a global working class-led movement against war—went ahead despite the University of Waterloo’s attempt to censor it and Ukrainian-Canadian nationalists’ attempt to disrupt it.
Sri Lanka has about 35,000 hectares of cinnamon, which is mainly grown in Galle and Matara districts, with about 60,000 farmers and 300,000 workers earning a living from the labour intensive low-paid industry.
The horrific explosion at a factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, which killed at least seven workers, is part of an unending series of workplace tragedies in the US.
This is the second time in the last month a US Army-piloted UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has crashed and killed everyone on board.
Angel Davis, a 35-year-old woman, was put in critical condition after being shot in the head by a landlord-tenant officer contracted through the city.
On Monday, the CDC stated that only one bivalent COVID booster was sufficient to protect individuals despite data that indicates rapidly waning immunity and proven benefits from boosters against severe disease, especially for elderly and immune-compromised people.
While imposing pension cuts in Spain, the PSOE and Podemos are terrified of an eruption of class struggles in Spain like the current mass movement in France against Macron.
Particularly impressive were a number of contributions from France that sought to portray the current attitudes of a young generation in a refreshingly open and honest manner, occasionally using surprisingly experimental means.
WSWS reporters interviewed striking railway workers at the incinerator picket line in Ivry-sur-Seine during Tuesday's day of action against Macron.
Equally committed to the Zionist project, Jewish supremacy and the suppression of the Palestinians within a system of apartheid rule, along with the enrichment of Israel’s corporate elite, the protest leaders fear Netanyahu’s measures will destroy Israel’s democratic fig leaf.
Higher education workers entered into this fight determined to defend their living standards and defeat a concerted offensive by the employers and government. To prevent another UCU sellout, they must take leadership of the dispute out of the hands of the union bureaucracy.
Teachers in Portugal resume strikes over pay and career progression in the face of government minimum service requirements; Lebanese telecom workers on indefinite walkout over pay as currency plummets and inflation hits 124 percent; South African workers at Makro stores begin 10-day strike over pay and sackings in year-long dispute
SEP campaigners spoke with residents at Sanhida Sevana, an 11-storey apartment block accommodating about 200 families about the impact of soaring prices, shortages and deteriorating services.
The plea by the university, that there is no money, for the kind of raise the graduate students are demanding is a lie. The University of Michigan is one of the wealthiest universities in the US.
The unions are seeking to divide teachers and block the development of a mass working class movement against the Labour Party government’s austerity agenda.
Labor’s victory will mean continuing massive cuts to real wages, with tiny nominal increases that the government and the union bureaucracy hope will subdue mounting anger in the working class.
“We often say, if it doesn’t suit big business then it won’t happen. They hold the purse strings, and they hold the power. Governments make the announcements but they’re only puppets for big business.”
In a report on the 2021 Deere strike, UAW Vice President Chuck Browning said officials had faced a “serpent” of opposition from workers.
Students said they supported teachers getting regular hours and more than “poverty” wages.
The starting wage would increase under the new deal from $15 to $20 by 2025.
Gandhi’s expulsion was the culmination of a weeks-long campaign by the governing far-right BJP to denigrate and silence him after he raised pointed questions about Modi’s connections to the billionaire Adani and his troubled corporate empire.
Workers must mobilize in strikes and protests—independently of the union bureaucracies, who are seeking “mediation” with the government to impose its pension cuts—and bring down Macron.
During February and March, pediatric health care facilities in West Bengal were overwhelmed by an adenovirus outbreak.
The Biden administration’s criterion for an invitation to its second Summit for Democracy was whether a government was aligned with US war policies against Russia and China.
The group doesn't document any of its sweeping claims. What “sexual violence crisis”? What administration complicity in “harassment, misogyny, and discrimination”?
The SGP calls on civil servants to form rank-and-file committees, independent of the trade unions, to take the strike into their own hands and to network with workers from other companies throughout Europe and internationally.
Lehman’s complaint contains new and damning information on the close relationship between the Monitor and the auto companies, requiring the Monitor’s removal from a re-vote.
On their first album in a decade, Quasi comes out swinging but seems far from certain that the fight can be won.
The unions tried to "blow off steam" with the warning strikes while their leaders met with the employers to negotiate the details of a sellout that had already been decided behind closed doors.
Authorities in the state of Georgia are escalating their repressive actions to suppress widespread opposition towards their plans to build the largest militarized police training center in the country.
Life expectancy in the UK has grown at a slower rate than comparable countries over the past seven decades. The researchers conclude that this is due to widening social inequality.
Thousands will find themselves in a state of permanent semi-imprisonment in Britain, deprived of access to basic social services.
Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee Tuesday, the US Navy’s operations chief said the United States Navy is currently building 56 new warships and has contracted the building of 76 more, as part of a massive military buildup targeting China.
Students and young people need to take a hard look at the society in which we live. The orientation must not be to the Democratic Party or any faction of the ruling class but to the international working class.
The PES proposed to the Paris inter-university coordinating committee to adopt a resolution calling to bring down Macron and build a movement in the working class for a general strike.
Mexico's president issued a statement calling the incident a “terrible misfortune,” but what took place was a crime that was the product of US-Mexico government policy.
There is nothing to negotiate with Macron, the president of the rich who must be brought down by the escalating mass movement in the working class and the youth.
Fed vice chair Michael Barr told a Senate committee hearing the extent of the SVB bank run was significantly larger than previously reported and that after $42 billion was withdrawn on March 9 $100 billion was lined up to leave the next day.
The explosion that sent one worker to the hospital with burns comes after the company was hit with numerous citations for safety violations.
Convention delegates overwhelmingly rejected or prevented votes on resolutions calling for cost-of-living increases, opposition to tiers in electric vehicle plants and the rights of academic workers.
The speakers’ central criticism of the AUKUS military pact was that it undermines Australia’s “national interests”—that is, economic and strategic interests of Australian imperialism, including in the South Pacific and other parts of the region.
The PIT-CNT and other unions held a limited general strike March 23 while 500 workers at Maui Health are continuing their two month strike after voting down another management offer.
A former teacher gave powerful remarks at last weekend’s meeting of the West Coast Educators Rank-and-File Committee, held to discuss the way forward after the three-day strike by LA public school teachers.
While authorities, after days of inaction and mixed-messages, claim the water is safe to drink, one of the chemicals was also released in the East Palestine, Ohio derailment.
The developing ties between Tokyo and Seoul are part of a US push to forge alliances throughout the Indo-Pacific region in preparation for war against China.
One worker said: “I think it’s a good idea to have an international movement for the working class against war and for democratic rights, for workers to unite, it makes sense.”
The cause of the explosion has not been officially confirmed, though evidence points strongly to a gas leak.
The Cook County commissioner, Brandon Johnson, is seeking to use his affiliation with the Chicago Teachers Union to suggest that he will defend the working class. Actually, his role as a CTU official means the direct opposite.
The Young Guard of the Bolshevik-Leninists in the former Soviet Union sent the following message to the meeting held by the Socialist Equality Group (Brazil) at the University of Sao Paulo on March 20.
The offer follows six days of behind-closed-doors “intensive talks” between the UK government and the education unions.
Netanyahu announced that the legislation would be “paused” to prevent “civil war”. But only after negotiations with the far-right parties in his government, granting them a National Guard led by Jewish supremacistItamar Ben-Gvir.
Although the union is now run by Shawn Fain and his “Members United” faction, the UAW is maintaining the ban on the WSWS that was first imposed by Fain’s predecessors.
Among those who spoke out were victims of last year’s floods in Lismore, a regional city, where thousands of residents are still living in substandard accommodation more than a year after the floods.
A political movement must be built among masses of rank-and-file workers and youth, independent of the union bureaucracies, to bring down Macron.
The president accuses teachers and principals of taking students hostage, but in reality, the working masses have been made hostages to the IMF with the Wickremesinghe government acting as its policeman.
Recognition is growing that the immediate source of major financial problems now coming to the surface is the measures undertaken by the Fed to try to quell previous crises.
The political explosion in Israel is another expression of a widening global revolutionary crisis of capitalism.
Albanese’s Labor government is desperate to use the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to put a progressive, even humanitarian, gloss to its reactionary, pro-business and militarist agenda.
The media misinformation was aimed at covering up the crisis of the two-party system and trying to ensure a “stable” government to implement budget austerity.
Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.
The convention takes place amid an unprecedented crisis in the UAW bureaucracy and after the new president, Shawn Fain, has denounced “unreasonably high bargaining or organizing expectations.”
On Monday night, the union held an online membership meeting, only 45 minutes long, to try to limit critical questions from the floor and to try to sell the terms of the contract to the membership.
A train derailment in North Dakota released liquid asphalt and ethylene glycol, while another train carrying iron ore derailed just hours later in San Bernadino, California.
Police told the media that the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was a former student and had created a manifesto naming the school prior to the shooting.
The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA’s Los Angeles Branch.
The EVG rail workers’ union has called the strike in response to the widespread willingness of workers to fight, who, in view of skyrocketing prices, are not willing to accept further cuts in real wages.
With the CHIPS and Science Act, US universities are being drawn ever more directly into the war preparations against China.
A veteran worker at the Marathon Galveston Bay refinery sent the following report on the February 28 death of contract worker Alfredo Reyes.
This zombie apocalypse drama marks something of a new high-water mark for savage violence and self-assured misanthropy in the entertainment industry.
The meeting addressed the origins of the war, the capitalist crisis and growing class struggle, and the political perspective required to confront the war.
These parties' support for the Nation Alliance candidate, who is as anti-worker and pro-imperialist as Erdogan, vindicates the Socialist Equality Group's analysis of these pseudo-left forces.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
