A Minnesota USPS maintenance technician was removed from the St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center by police and referred for a psychiatric evaluation after demanding that management clean human feces from mail-sorting equipment.
Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara this week, President Trump said of the ceasefire with Iran, “To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them. They’re scum.” This was followed by an announcement of a temporary pause in military action and then still more intense strikes.
Huiteng Footwear, which operated the factory, is just one of more than 5,000 shoe manufacturers employing over half a million workers in the coastal city of Jinjiang, often described as China’s “shoe capital.”
Following the massacre at Negombo Prison, in which 28 people were killed, two more prisoners have died in unexplained circumstances after being transferred to other facilities.
Eyewitness testimony and surveillance footage show Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and his co-workers being pursued, cut off and surrounded by unmarked vehicles that gave no clear indication they belonged to federal agents.
The Australian Education Union is trying to reverse the mass “no” vote against its sellout agreement and impose the same betrayal in violation of the sentiments of educators.
Labor’s $38 billion cut to disability services—part of a broader austerity agenda funding war over human need—has provoked widespread opposition from recipients, families and workers.
To finance rearmament and war, and to further enrich the wealthy, the government is condemning working people to longer working hours for less money and is abandoning the needy, the sick, the elderly and refugees to their fate.
Behind the backs of the population and under the banner of “innovation,” Berlin’s CDU-SPD government is transforming the German capital into a centre of arms production, drone development and military research.
Germany, Europe’s largest economy and manufacturing center, is at the crest of a global layoff wave that must be opposed by an international offensive by the working class to save jobs.
Farmers are being hit from all sides: sharply higher costs for fuel, fertiliser, irrigation, harvesting and transport, and falling rice prices caused by global oversupply and cheaper competitors.
The submarine purchase is not just Canada's most expensive ever military procurement. Ottawa is using it is a means to embed itself in Europe’s own massive rearmament program and strengthen their war alliance against Russia.
Over 260 members of the University of Michigan community have signed an open letter condemning the federal prosecution of eight pro-Palestinian activists as a political assault on free speech.
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry acknowledges the threat of a US military intervention, amid the intensification of Trump’s imperialist offensive against Latin America.
Vucic is banking on the opposition’s weakness ahead of snap parliamentary elections, which are expected to be held at the same time as the presidential election.
Military policing on California campuses has advanced under Democratic Party rule.
South Korea: Public sector workers rally over pay and restructuring; India: Karnataka garbage pickers demand outstanding wages; Bangladesh garment workers demonstrate for unpaid wages; Australia: Mining workers set to strike at BHP Port Hedland; Victorian public hospital doctors prepare for industrial action over wages and conditions.
The scenes outside La Moneda, with water cannon dispersing a peaceful march and union leaders dragged into detention, belong to a global pattern of state violence against working-class opposition.
Despite Corbyn expelling three SWP national committee members from Your Party last November, the SWP welcomed him onto the main stage on Saturday. Nielsen (one of those expelled) sat next to Corbyn, chatting amicably, never mentioning Your Party, let alone denouncing its betrayals.
Both use militant-sounding rhetoric only to maintain the bureaucracy's grip over a restive membership employed across major sectors of the economy, while smothering political opposition to the most right-wing, pro-business Labour government in history.
The failure at Australia’s largest telecommunications company underscores the dangers created by decades of privatisation, subordinating vital public infrastructure to the profit interests of big business.
The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the inevitable result of the demands by the Trump White House for an enormous increase in detention and deportation of immigrant workers.
The cuts exposes the NYSNA union’s sellout of the New York City nurse’s strike earlier this year, which led to a contract with no meaningful protections against AI-led job losses.
This is a concerted, organized campaign driven by ultra-right elements dedicated to forcing their anti-democratic and unpopular views on a largely unsuspecting public.
The Trump administration continued its bombing of Iran for a third day on Thursday, striking the rail lines to Mashhad as mourners buried Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader assassinated by US and Israeli forces on the first day of the war.
The WSWS spoke with workers at Eskdale Estate about the lack of support for housing and other basic needs, seven months after Cyclone Ditwah devastated the country.
The Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee, formed by a group of militant workers to oppose the sabotage by the UAW bureaucracy, issued the following statement on the fight ahead and its support for Will Lehman.
Volkswagen is moving forward with plans to cut 100,000 jobs and close four plants in Germany, the deepest attack on VW workers ever and part of a global wave of layoffs in the auto industry.
Petro openly warns of fascism and calls de la Espriella’s victory illegitimate. Yet in the same breath, he calls on demonstrators to remain “calm,” and proposes a “national agreement” with the incoming administration.
The horrific experience of Everlee Wihongi underscores that nobody is exempt from the sweeping attacks on basic democratic rights by the Trump administration.
An extraordinary campaign is underway to suppress a modest museum exhibition about the Nakba—the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948-49—due to its purported “antisemitism.”
Chile’s pseudo-left has attacked the government from the right, for its alleged inaction, its lack of a plan, its failure to deliver on its law-and-order promises.
Flight and airport workers walk out across Italy over pay and conditions; journalists at Agence France-Presse in Istanbul, Türkiye walk out over pay; police shoot two dead during water outage protests in Gauteng province, South Africa
The intensification of inter-imperialist antagonisms and open reemergence of conflicting blocs resembles the competing trade blocs of the 1930s that preceded and fuelled World War II.
The legislation completed its entire passage—from its official announcement in the King's Speech on May 13 to becoming law—in less than two months.
As is par for the course, ICE did not provide a shred of evidence corroborating its account of events, echoing numerous fabrications put forward to justify deadly incidents involving Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
US President Donald Trump has relaunched American imperialism’s illegal war of aggression against Iran, after repeatedly making Hitlerite threats in recent days to destroy the country’s basic infrastructure and rain death and destruction on its people.
Mercedes is demanding longer working hours and less pay in what amounts to a declaration of war on the workforce.
The Israeli military killed 16 people, including two children, in Gaza in the two days following the announcement by Hamas that it was dissolving its government and handing power over to a UN technical committee as part of the US-brokered peace deal.
The Tuesday night debate between Michigan Democratic Party candidates for US Senate Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens demonstrated that any differences between them are subordinated to their fundamental support for capitalism and the two-party system.
In the fragile Pacific country shaped by repeated coups, the general’s public interventions are a blunt reminder that the military remains ultimately in charge.
The 2021–24 surge also saw over 100 human infections, and 10 deaths, with most cases in the United States and Cambodia.
The growth of working class struggle is the central development in Italian political life, posing the urgent need of an independent political strategy for the working class.
More than 4,500 nurses and clinicians walked off the job Wednesday morning at Mass General Brigham (MGB), the largest private hospital system in Massachusetts, in the largest strike of healthcare workers in the state’s history and the first by nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH).
Two weeks after twin earthquakes left thousands dead and tens of thousands missing, the Pentagon has deployed 2,000 troops to seize control of Venezuela's main airport and port in the latest step to consolidate semicolonial control.
The most significant demand to emerge from the political establishment was the call, led by figures from across the governing coalition and the so-called opposition, to deploy the Armed Forces onto the streets of Santiago.
Fujimori's rise to power unfolds against a backdrop of open US imperialist intervention, a decade of accelerating institutional collapse and intense social crisis.
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.
