Another 30,000 documents were released to the public on Tuesday by the Department of Justice along with a statement claiming some of the documents “contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump.”
US President Donald Trump’s appointment Sunday of a special envoy for Greenland underlines American imperialism’s abandonment of all restraints in pursuit of its interests and the deepening rift between Washington and its erstwhile European allies.
The immense social chasm in the US takes a particularly stark form in Detroit, whose supposed “revival” has been hailed by the media and business and political leaders.
There is little question that Ukraine is behind the assassination, which took place against the backdrop of the US-Russia negations over a peace deal and an intensifying drone war by Ukraine on Russian territory.
The Trump administration has detained a longtime Dallas resident as a “terrorist” based solely on social media posts opposing the Gaza genocide, then attempted to force him out of the country with a $3,000 cash bribe, exposing the political character of his detention.
What happened at Mordialloc beach last week was not a pre-planned “youth riot” as the media and government claim, but a confused chain of events sparked by a heavily-armed police operation.
Since the shootings on December 14 at Bondi Beach, Labor governments have introduced a barrage of anti-democratic legislation aimed at suppressing any opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
SGP Honorary Chairman Ulrich Rippert’s address traced Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler political development, from confronting the legacy of fascism to her decades-long struggle for a socialist and international workers’ movement.
•Ulrich Rippert, Honorary Chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
The Lynas Advanced Materials Plant, the only commercial-scale producer of separated heavy rare earth oxides outside China, now occupies a central position in Washington’s efforts to secure strategic supply chains essential for advanced weapons systems.
Striking nurses and case workers at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital have been on strike for 16 weeks and hospital management is doubling down on the strikebreaking, while the Teamsters bureaucracy has kept the struggle isolated.
Workers at Huntsville are working 14 hours a day; workers are being pulled from other regional facilities and boxes are piling up in front of fire exits, a clear safety hazard.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, newly installed by the billionaire Ellison family, killed the report on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador, demanding it contain an on-camera response by the Trump administration.
The US Coast Guard seized an oil tanker bound for China off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, the second seizure in two weeks, as Washington escalates a naval blockade aimed at overthrowing the Venezuelan government.
The record of Julie Su reveals the role she will play at City Hall: promoting the labor bureaucracy and collaborating with the unions to suppress class conflict and impose Wall Street’s dictates.
In their role of holding back struggles and demobilizing workers, the trade unions also receive key support both from the Stalinist PCP and from the pseudo-left grouped around the Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda).
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Workers in Argentina and Bolivia are holding strikes and protests against savage cuts, while in Canada, the United Food and Commercial Workers union has finally set a contract vote after stalling for weeks.
One of the most significant measures is the proposal to lower the criminal age of responsibility from 15 to 13 years old—making Sweden an outlier not only in Europe but even compared to most US states.
This lecture on the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU and the US capitalist state reviews the trial of the Gelfand case in March of 1983.
The police operation was clearly intended by the NSW Labor government and the police to create an atmosphere of fear and send a political message about the police-state conditions being created in the wake of the Bondi Beach tragedy.
The $11.1 billion package, the second since Trump was installed in office this year, is a calculated escalation in US imperialism’s war preparations against China.
The media coverage and the extreme prison sentences make clear that the Russian state seeks to use this case, above all, to intimidate left-wing opposition to the Putin regime.
Prolonged funding cuts and bureaucratic restructuring measures are systematically undermining Australia’s arts sector, devastating artists, and cultural institutions.
A CDC-funded trial withholding timely Hepatitis B vaccination from newborns in the tiny African country echoes historical abuses of vulnerable populations.
The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key development in human cultural evolution.
Maryland’s freezing Baltimore youth jail is emblematic of the brutal and neglectful conditions which the Democratic and Republican parties have imposed on the working population.
At least 17 Palestinians have died due to the storm, including at least 11 people killed when damaged buildings collapsed on those sheltering inside and a 29-day-old baby and three small children from severe hypothermia.
Following Mamdani’s fundraisers with billionaires and decision to retain NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Jacobin insisted that left-moving workers, youth and students should refrain from any serious political criticism of “leftist elected officials.”
Amid seething rank-and-file anger over job cuts and collapsing living standards the UAW apparatus has purged DSA operatives Chris Brooks and Jonah Furman while restoring the duties of Secretary Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President Rich Boyer.
Primary school teachers overwhelmingly rejected a sellout offer, which the union bureaucracy presented to them after similar wage cuts were imposed on high school teachers.
No mention is made of the ongoing destruction of nearly 4,000 jobs over the past year, nor of the underlying restructuring agenda of the Albanese Labor government.
The decision by the Blue Owl private equity group to pull out of an AI investment with Oracle reverberated through the market because it was taken as a sign that “they’re not so bullish as [some investors] are.”
While Republicans gloated over the conviction of Judge Hannah Dugan, Democrats remained silent, implicitly backing Trump's attacks on the judiciary and efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.
The Socialist Equality Party calls on workers and youth to take matters into their own hands and come to the aid of Jewish people or any community that comes under racialist attack. Establish independent rank-and-file committees in working-class suburbs to protect basic democratic and social rights!
Trump's Department of Justice released 10 percent of the Epstein files, heavily redacted, on Friday, violating the terms of the law signed by the president on November 19.
While the unions were still able to secure social concessions during the post-war economic boom, this is no longer possible under conditions of globalization.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting, Ludwig Weller, Peter Schwarz
His identification of Marxism and communism with the repression of its Stalinist distortions hampered his work. He exemplified the intellectual crisis of the later 20th century.
The 2025 surge in Florida adds to the grim assembly line of state murder, in which the gears of “finality” grind over the complexities of mental illness, military trauma and institutional abuse.
Ford’s strategic turn away from larger electric vehicles is being used to drive through the destruction of thousands of jobs at the main plant in Cologne, aided by the IG Metall union and the works council, who are helping to enforce a coercive severance scheme.
The SEIU, which has kept workers on the job without a contract for over a year, is delaying in a bid to block a strike, announcing it would only hold an Unfair Labor Practice strike vote sometime “early next year.”
Alberta's Bill 9 invokes the Canadian constitution’s anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause”— which allows governments to run roughshod over basic democratic rights—to shield three laws targeting transgender youth from legal challenge.
Amazon workers face grueling quotas and draconian computerized surveillance techniques, used to enforce productivity during the peak holiday season with resultant injury rates double the industry average.
India: Telangana steel workers halt production over colleague’s death in molten metal accident; Western Australia: Woodside Pluto-2 LNG construction workers ready to strike; Healthscope nurses in Victoria escalate industrial action; Union cancels Air New Zealand cabin crew strike.
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Starmer’s Labour Party is less concerned to show a trace of sympathy and concern than even Margaret Thatcher’s government was at the height of British imperialism’s “Dirty War” against the Irish Republican Army.
The dispute’s prolonged isolation and subordination to Unite’s bankrupt strategy of appealing to the Labour council to be “reasonable” threatens total defeat.
Two days after Trump boasted about the “greatest economy in the history of our country” and ranted against immigrant workers, thousands of GM workers will be thrown out of work.
The two-year budget for 2026–27 continues sweeping cuts to education, health care, social services and culture, while massively expanding the police and security apparatus. The austerity measures expose the role of all the establishment parties and trade unions in enforcing social attacks to finance militarisation and the enrichment of the wealthy.
In what appears to be another case of FBI entrapment, the Trump administration and FBI claimed to have foiled a bomb plot in which their agents and informants were intimately involved.
The 18-minute nationally televised address was a declaration of war on the working class, delivered by a president who appeared both demented and fearful.
After reporting persistent sexual harassment by a supervisor, a female postal worker received thinly veiled death threats and is now being further harassed for continuing to fight to expose the conditions that postal workers face on the job.
Tens of thousands of students have launched a powerful strike against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany, expressing mass opposition to militarism and war. This struggle can succeed only if it is extended to the working class and developed into an international socialist movement against war and capitalism.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)
Vast police-state powers adopted over the past two decades under the false banner of combatting terrorism are being expanded in a bid to silence the opposition of workers and youth to genocide, war, social inequality and austerity.
The provocation by Trump’s fascist Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was a test to see if the police state measures against immigrants could be deployed against broader sections of the working class.
The WSWS urges all resident doctors to contact NHS FightBack which called for the rejection of Streeting’s insulting offer and outlined a strategy to end the isolation of their struggle.
Thousands of health, education and public sector workers in Greece walk out over austerity budget; protests continue across Iran by retirees, gold miners, energy and health sector workers; health sector unions in Nigeria winding down ongoing strike over pay and conditions
Today, land in Nairobi is concentrated in the hands of a small number of wealthy individuals, while millions are forced to live in slums such as Mathare, Kangemi, Kibera, Mukuru, Dandora and Kawangware, or remain entirely landless.
Workers in one country cannot defend their jobs at the expense of the jobs of workers in another. Their class interests transcend national rivalries and the chaos of the market. Workers share a common interest in the use of technology to benefit all of humanity, rather than to enrich a privileged few.
•International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
In a 31-19 vote, more than half of the 40 Republicans in the Indiana Senate joined with 10 Democrats to reject a Trump-backed plan to gerrymander the state’s congressional map and eliminate the state’s two Democratic-held districts.
The talks on a supposed “peace plan” for Ukraine, which took place in Berlin over the past few days, have made one thing clear above all else: the leading European powers—above all Germany—are doing everything they can to prolong NATO’s war against Russia.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers outlined billions of dollars in cuts to government programs and declared that there would be more “difficult” decisions to come.
By December 13, the widespread water outage had affected approximately 100,000 people in Waterbury and two suburbs, in one of the city’s most significant water emergencies in decades.
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to lecturers and students about the implications of shutting down entire departments and the continuing financialisation of higher education.