The mine explosion is another graphic example of the dangers facing miners and other workers around the world as their lives and health are subordinated to the rapacious corporate drive for profit.
These laws are the latest escalation in a bipartisan offensive to essentially criminalise the poverty, chronic housing shortages and lack of secure employment that Australian capitalism has inflicted upon many working people, particularly Indigenous people.
The death and suffering of children from a preventable disease is a political indictment of policies that have prioritised profits over universal public health.
Following the last strike in 2005, Transit Workers Union Local 100 signed an affidavit forswearing the right to ever strike again.
The near-disaster comes as the Trump administration is calling for an unprecedented 50 percent increase in the annual military budget to $1.5 trillion.
The lockout followed an overwhelming rejection of the last contract offer by 85 percent.
The scramble for these resources has resulted in the decades of civil war, with various groups and armed bands seeking to gain control of territory.
An Australian Catholic University report on the well-being of school principals points to intolerable conditions.
Xiaoyuan Li, an immigrant worker, was killed and dozens of firefighters injured when fire and explosions tore through the May Ship Repair shipyard in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island.
At least one worker is dead and nine remain missing after a massive chemical tank ruptured at Nippon Dynawave, a Washington paper mill with a record of safety and environmental violations.
Israeli forces struck Lebanon with more than 120 air raids on Tuesday, the sharpest single-day escalation since Israel resumed its bombing of the country in early March. The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 40 wounded in attacks across the south and the Bekaa Valley.
The show of force was aimed squarely at intimidation and demonstrating who is in control. Top generals and warplanes can land and depart as though the country were any military outpost on US soil.
The Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued this statement to 1,300 workers at the Saginaw, Michigan plant voting on a third sellout contract pushed by the UAW bureaucracy.
The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.
Rivers around the world are losing oxygen, which threatens resources on which millions depend.
Colleagues have seen through Walsh’s “heavy and light” alternative to the Optimised Delivery Model (“DM26”). It accepts three delivery workers doing the work of four: slashing jobs by a quarter and intensifying workloads.
What is unfolding across Sheffield is a concentrated expression of a broader, 15-year assault on higher education, accelerated under the Starmer Labour government.
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
Hundreds of Argentine and Bolivian workers, students and retirees carried out a mass march through downtown Buenos Aires and rallied at the Bolivian embassy in support for the general strike and mobilization of the Bolivian proletariat and peasantry fighting to overthrow President Rodrigo Paz.
What is unfolding in Türkiye is not a purely national event but a significant manifestation of an international process rooted in the deepening crisis of the capitalist system.
A US Central Command spokesperson said the strikes on a port city in southern Iran were carried out “to defend our forces” against “threats posed by Iranian forces,” although he provided no evidence or details about the claimed threats.
As prices soar, driving thousands into poverty, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) government is revealing itself to be just as reactionary as the more established bourgeois parties that it displaced.
Under the cover of collaboration and so-called “collective self-defense,” Tokyo is building military networks in the Indo-Pacific through agreements with nations like the Philippines.
The proposed AEU agreement in the state of Victoria amounts to a further real pay cut, does nothing to address crushing workloads or class sizes and strips educators of the right to strike until 2030.
More than 40,000 New York City subway and bus workers have now entered their second week without a contract after it expired on May 16. Workers are fighting to keep pace with the cost of living and to resist sweeping work rule concessions in a struggle of major national and international significance.
The Nexteer rebellion is the concentrated expression of decades of betrayal by the UAW bureaucracy, breaking to the surface across the entire auto parts sector.
Series creator, co-director and co-writer Lee Sung Jin makes the pressures of capitalism and class society a persistent theme and source of crises in the series.
“The government doesn’t think about us,” one displaced resident told the WSWS, as thousands remain evacuated after a toxic emergency at GKN Aerospace.
The McCarthyite probe, first reported by Fox News, targets antiwar activists, journalists and streamers who traveled to Cuba with medical aid.
With the Ebola toll past 1,000 cases, the gap between the WHO's recommendations and conditions in the eastern DRC has erupted in the torching of two treatment facilities.
Washington D.C.‘s Democratic establishment is responding to youth gatherings by adopting Trump’s law-and-order agenda, criminalizing the impoverished children of communities its own policies have hurt.
This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
The political crisis in Turkey escalated further on Sunday when police raided the CHP headquarters.
Democrats from LA City Hall to Sacramento colluded with union bureaucrats to strangle a 77,000-strong strike—then imposed more cuts.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on Nexteer workers to vote down this third sellout with the contempt it deserves and build the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee as the instrument for carrying forward the fight, constructing a new leadership drawn from workers rather than bureaucrats.
The IG Metall apparatus and its works council representatives have made it their main task to ensure that all the company’s attacks are enforced and the workforce is squeezed to the last drop to increase Bosch's profit margin.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Despite ratification, issues concerning poverty wages, housing assistance, healthcare premiums, parking costs and staffing protections will remain unaddressed and will continue to worsen until the contract’s expiration in 2029.
Demonstrating the bankruptcy of the union’s strategy, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) suspended its strike as workers faced being locked out for the summer term and beyond.
Rescue operations were hampered by the fact that blueprints of the mine provided by the company did not correspond to the actual underground layout, forcing rescuers to improvise.
The Supreme Court decision further undermined the Voting Rights Act, enabling a Republican gerrymander in Louisiana to eliminate the seat held by a black Democratic congressman.
The announcement Saturday by the Trump administration that it had “largely” reached an agreement with Iran has drawn denunciations from broad factions of the US political establishment, with Democrats joining Republicans to attack the proposed agreement as insufficiently advantageous to US imperialism.
Decades of regulatory negligence in the Democratic Party-dominated state turned a preventable chemical hazard into a crisis threatening thousands of lives.
New USCIS policy threatens to separate families and strand workers, students and spouses abroad.
These results provide an indication of the worsening price being paid by working-class households, and especially young people, for the criminal US-Israeli war on Iran.
Ahead of the release of the budget on Thursday, the government has announced an increase to student fees, nearly 9,000 public sector redundancies and cuts to welfare payments.
Just five major tech stocks have accounted for 50 percent of the recent gains in the S&P 500 index which have lifted it to record highs.
Larry Bushart was awarded $835,000 after being jailed for sharing a Facebook meme critical of Charlie Kirk. His case exposes the severe limitations being placed on “free speech” in America.
The veto of these two bills confirms—for the thousandth and first time—this fundamental reality of American politics: the Democratic party is a capitalist party charged with diffusing and disorienting popular hostility to the profit system.
The city and county governments in West Lafayette, Indiana have approved road construction projects and issued building permits for SK Hynix to proceed with plans to build a massive microchip factory on a Purdue University site, against ongoing community opposition including a pending lawsuit filed by residents.
Districts face budget deficits amid declining enrollment, budget crises, inflation and war.
The three cases, unfolding within 24 hours, share a disturbing set of commonalities: fundamentally unfair sentencing proceedings, defendants whose severe mental illness, unaddressed childhood trauma and neurological damage went largely unaddressed at trial, and execution protocols the subject of legal challenge.
US convicts four in embassy bombings; Syria intervenes in Lebanon civil war; Britain opposes Iran oil nationalization; Ukrainian rightist assassinated in Paris.
Part one of a five-part series examining the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, this article exposes the party’s defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
Under political pressure from the Erdoğan government, a court unlawfully removed the elected leadership of the Republican People's Party, triggering a major political crisis.
The Ebola epidemic ravaging central Africa is not a natural disaster but a social crime, the predictable product of the Trump administration's destruction of global disease surveillance and more than a century of imperialist plunder.
These statements are significant because they suggest that the overall value of the deal, which workers have not yet seen, is no better than the contracts workers previously rejected before the strike.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the media before the formal consultations began Friday morning that the Trump administration was “disappointed” with NATO members’ “response to our operations in the Middle East.”
Labor issued mealy-mouthed condemnations, while treating the relatives of the brutalised activists with utter contempt and hostility.
How is it that one individual can accumulate such an art collection and withhold it from the public?
The WSWS spoke with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty. Dr. Chakravarty is the chief executive officer of Fractal Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that applies mathematical modeling to drug discovery and development, and has headed an interdisciplinary team of volunteers that has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19.
The San Diego massacre exposes the fraud of the Trump administration’s claims that “left-wing extremists,” not fascists, are the central domestic terror threat.
Of the 4,382 homes or housing lots promised through the northern NSW flood recovery programs, zero had been delivered as of March 31 this year, four years after the disasters.
The working class must understand that the Dissanayake government is preparing a frontal assault on its living and social conditions and democratic rights and is turning towards autocratic rule.
Nobody is exempt from the sweeping attacks on basic democratic rights by the Trump administration, no matter what their national origin or immigration status.
The same bureaucracy that blocked a unified walkout of all 77,000 LAUSD employees now presents a letter-writing campaign as a substitute for the mass action it deliberately strangled.
The shutdown of the midnight shift at UPS's 43rd Street hub in Manhattan exposes the full scope of the company's "Network of the Future" restructuring drive—and the role of the Teamsters union in administering it.
As Bolivia's workers defy repression and maintain their indefinite strike into its fourth week, the international response exposes a single coordinated apparatus—from Washington's threats to Milei's alleged arms shipments to Lula's complicit silence.
Parti Québecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon gave a one-hour interview last month to Rebel News, a far-right media outlet with close connections to Trump’s MAGA movement and fascist forces in Europe.
South Korea: Samsung Electronics union suspends planned walkout; India: Punjab municipal sanitation workers still on strike; Gig workers across India strike over rising fuel costs and declining wages; Air India ground staff hold one-day strike in Mumbai; 20,000 South Australian nurses resume industrial action for better pay and conditions; Maintenance workers strike at Woodside’s LNG production plants.
It is “fitting and proper,” to use Lincoln’s words, to invoke the historical experience of America’s past revolutions to bring to the surface and activate the deep-rooted democratic convictions of the working class.
“The ball is in your court now. Do not give it back,” Lehman wrote in the statement, posted on his campaign website.
The opposition boast that their bloc represents “80 percent of the country,” a figure that explicitly excludes the 20 percent of the population who are Arab citizens.
“young driver told WSWS, “I’m against this deal. Nothing management comes up with is done to benefit us. It is an attack on all our hard-won terms and conditions, going back 50 years when they were won.”
Thousands of doctors across Spain and teachers in some regions walk out over pay and conditions; protests by farmers in Syria as government sets price of wheat below cost of production; over 700 arrests made during mass protests across Kenya over rising fuel prices and cost-of-living crisis
Workers should form rank-and-file committees, independent of the union apparatus, to finish what you started in your three-day strike
Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund would reward those who sought to overturn the 2020 elections, including those who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government particularly targeted the universities and their staff and students in last week’s budget.
The listing underlines the impact of climate change on Antarctica, which is posing an existential threat to wildlife with rising sea levels and atmospheric temperatures.
Sri Lanka’s worsening balance of payments crisis, soaring oil bill and rupee depreciation are driving the JVP/NPP government into a deepening crisis.
The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.
In 2022, the unions saved the government from a direct political confrontation with the working class and are determined to do so again under conditions of a much deeper social and economic crisis, and greater popular hostility to the ruling class’ agenda of austerity and war.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are standing in the student parliament elections at Humboldt University in Berlin. We are publishing their election statement here.
The Metropolitan Police’s latest statement is part of an orchestrated state cover-up that has continued under four Conservative and Labour governments, led by four different prime ministers.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union’s ability to maintain a militant posture has been greatly undermined by its role in defusing a struggle against the Starmer government—through repeated closed-door meetings with TfL and strike cancellations. Dempsey’s tub-thumping has given way to demands for “industrial peace”.
Workers at the local union hall Wednesday expressed overwhelming support for a strike and denounced union officials for collaborating with management to intimidate workers and probe for divisions among the membership.
Crutchfield ran as part of Will Lehman’s Insurgent Slate, calling for the transfer of power to the rank-and-file and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy.
Speakers at the Wellington meeting explained the real causes of the US-Israeli imperialist war and the need for a socialist anti-war movement based on the working class, independent and opposed to Labour, the Greens and all capitalist parties.
Bresnan’s film sets out the sordid details of this far-right maneuver in all its repulsive transparency.
The hearings featured ludicrous testimony, of Zionists bemoaning news reportage of Israel’s war crimes and even pro-Palestinian bake sales at university campuses as a threat to their safety.
Behind the headlines, last week’s federal budget slashes social spending, including on public schools.
The indictment of Raúl Castro is an abominable act of hypocrisy and imperialist propaganda to justify military aggression against an impoverished nation of less than 10 million people.
The Trump administration, having withdrawn from the WHO and cancelled more than 80 percent of US foreign aid, now faults the agency for responding too slowly to an Ebola epidemic its own cuts helped unleash.
While his hand-picked candidates defeated several Republican incumbents, both Trump and his policies are deeply unpopular.
ICE has shifted toward local police partnerships while aggressive arrests continue in Michigan and Democratic officials offer token objections.
The anti-Zionist organisation Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East has achieved a court ruling that means, for now, it can no longer be listed as "extremist" by the Secret Service.
While Trump officials refuse to rule out payouts to violent January 6 fascists, the Justice Department addendum seeks to foreclose claims against Trump and his related entities.
A real fight for socialism is necessarily the most conscious of political movements, rigorously analysing events, thoroughly exposing political misleaders and establishing the independence of the working class.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the federal government are driving forward the transformation of Germany into a military state. Under the cynical pretext of “civil protection,” a 10-billion-euro programme will integrate society into military war planning, preparing Germany as a central NATO hub for deployment against Russia.
The result of the deal used to betray a three-day strike is that workers will be poorer due to inflation when the contract expires.
