Incoming UK Prime Minister Burnham’s declaration that his was a “cost-of-living government” amounted to a pledge to scrap VAT sales tax on domestic electricity, saving a typical household just £45 annually, or 86 pence a week. Even this provoked a right-wing media backlash.
Interviews with seven current and former nurses found that staff are questioned about calls lasting more than 15 minutes and receive monthly scores tracking their speed and activity.
In an expression of the volatile nature of the high-tech market and concerns over how long the boom can continue, Samsung’s share price fell 10 percent after it announced a record profit earlier this month.
Zelensky’s dismissal of a popular defense minister has set off a crisis within the Ukrainian ruling class and military.
The fascistic US president is hated both at home and in all the countries which took part in the World Cup.
The IWA-RFC calls on workers and all defenders of democratic rights to denounce this incitement to violence against Will Lehman and demand its unequivocal public repudiation by the UAW.
The United States bombed Iran for the 10th consecutive day on Monday, with Iranian media reporting explosions around the northwestern city of Tabriz, near Bushehr, home of the country's only operating nuclear power plant, and in the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Chabahar and Konarak.
The immediate trigger for the current mass agitation was the state’s banning of the AJK Joint Awami (Common People’s) Action Committee under a draconian anti-terrorism law, and the arrest of more than a hundred of its leaders and activists.
Cabin crew at WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, are poised to strike, while pharmacists are ready to walk out at several of Southern California’s largest grocery chains.
Hundreds of workers, young people and immigrant families rallied Sunday in Houston to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as witnesses to his killing remain imprisoned and the Trump administration escalates its assault on democratic rights.
Hundreds of cast members, musicians and technical crew are being thrown out of work with little notice and no recourse.
The Albanese Labor government is enforcing one of the most barbaric refugee detention regimes in the world.
The founding declaration combines crude nationalist rhetoric with a handful of social phrases about justice and democracy, designed above all to pull the wool over the eyes of young people and workers seeking a political alternative.
The Kast government’s cuts were prepared by four years of pseudo-left austerity under Gabriel Boric.
The continued threats against Cuba point to the Trump administration’s increasing desperation as it expands its campaign of imperialist plunder abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home.
The claim that Burnham can change the course of the government is a pale imitation of the claims made earlier about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
The strike of 500 lawyers and support staff at Brooklyn Defender Services began Tuesday, part of a developing strike movement in the sector.
Brandon Booth, an employee of the GEO Group at the Aurora ICE Processing Center, used his personal firearm to shoot at protesters who were blocking his entrance to the facility.
US forces have struck the country for nine consecutive nights, extending their targets from military sites to bridges, railways, ports and the power grid, while enforcing a naval blockade with missile fire.
Reports of exactly how many workers walked off the job range from almost 200 to just 63, with the company anxious to downplay the industrial action as an ineffectual fiasco.
Melbourne’s Port Phillip Council voted to criminalise homelessness as Labor governments slash housing and expand military spending.
Last week’s proceedings at the inquiry were another attempt to conflate anti-genocide protests with antisemitism and blame them for the Bondi Beach atrocity.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared that states that refused to hand over voter data and use a federal immigration database would be targeted for investigation, fines and criminal prosecution.
The rally was part of a concerted effort by Sanders and the DSA to channel mounting outrage over war, austerity and fascism behind the Democratic Party.
Chancellor Merz and President Macron met at a military airfield near Cologne to prepare the integration of their two national air forces into a joint nuclear command structure.
What is unfolding is a class offensive to make working people pay for a crisis they did not create, while the corporate oligarchy and finance capital reap a bonanza.
African Union brokers Burundi peace summit; Viking 1 returns first photos from the surface of Mars; Jordan's King Abdullah assassinated; French government collapses in devaluation crisis
Joan Durán Guerrero’s death came less than a week after ICE agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston under nearly identical circumstances, gunning him down as he drove to a construction job with coworkers.
Veteran rail worker Martin stressed, "We are in a race against time to prevent the next disastrous incident.”
The Committee for Public Education, a rank-and-file educators’ network, calls on teachers and educators to repudiate the government-AEU conspiracy against their rights, including by voting “no” in the union’s rushed ballot.
The line of mourners wrapped around the building, cars continued to pull into the parking lot throughout the evening, and people brought flowers and condolence cards and spoke together in Spanish and English as they waited.
The United States military bombed bridges, a railway station, an airport and the control tower of Iran's only deep-water ocean port on Friday, the seventh consecutive day of strikes, extending its assault from military targets to the infrastructure of civilian life.
The speech, manic and at times barely coherent, was the expression of an administration and a ruling class in the grip of a staggering crisis.
As hazardous wildfire smoke filled the air and workers collapsed from the heat and contaminated air, production continued full tilt at factories and worksites across the affected regions with the full support of the all the various trade union bureaucracies.
The president of PEN America has resigned over an article published by the organization that blames discrimination against Israeli and Jewish writers on cultural boycotts by anti-genocide activists.
The streets of Berlin have become the centre of a growing confrontation with the German state over the presence in the heart of the city of the Rheinmetall armaments factory.
Federal health officials identified the agribusiness giant behind the worst parasite outbreak in American history, then left it to the company to decide when to tell the public and what to withdraw.
The far-right and anti-immigrant One Nation is a toxic byproduct of the reactionary program implemented by Labor and the corporatised trade union bureaucracy.
The Korean Metal Workers’ Union is isolating the Hyundai strike from other sections of the working class and limiting its impact while orchestrating a sell-out deal behind the scenes.
Wages fell 6.4 percent between 2021 and 2026, the biggest decline among OECD countries, while the banks made tens of billions of dollars and the fortunes of the super-rich hit record levels.
The FIFA World Cup finals have been severely tainted by their exploitation by the political establishments and mass media of Argentina and Britain to whip up a frenzy of nationalist chauvinism that workers everywhere must oppose.
India: Manipur government employees continue indefinite statewide strike; Panipat refinery workers demonstrate in Haryana; Sri Lanka: Railway gatekeepers demonstrate over unpaid allowances; Australia: More BHP workers vote to strike in the Pilbara; Peabody locks out Wambo mine workers again in NSW.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is poised to take power in September’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt. Its government programme reads like a fascistic wish list for authoritarian rule.
Not only will the new Labour Party leader continue in all fundamentals Starmer’s agenda of austerity and war, he will escalate it.
This crisis is a landmark in the decomposition of the post-Cold War order and the descent of the capitalist powers into military conflict over the re-division of the world.
July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons are critical for the class struggle in the 21st century.
Police detained 52 teachers in Ankara on Thursday as they marched between ministries demanding a legal base salary. The government says there is no money — while military spending reaches $US30 billion.
Labor is presenting itself as a bystander to an illegal war that it has enthusiastically supported and actively participated in, including through the deployment of troops and military hardware.
In June, limited 24-hour strikes at Lyell McEwin Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre demonstrated nurses’ determination to fight, even as the union leadership worked to keep these actions isolated and under tight bureaucratic control.
Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota has given Detroit the worst air quality in the world. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls for workers to take independent action to protect their health and lives.
The same failures recur every monsoon: breached embankments, inadequate drainage, delayed relief and infrastructure designed to serve commercial interests rather than human need.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has removed the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei from its list of so-called "left-wing extremist" organisations following a years-long legal and political campaign, after the courts had previously upheld its surveillance on the basis that Marxist ideas themselves were deemed anti-constitutional.
The most chilling remarks came from Stephen Miller, who presented a Nazi-style characterization of the “left” as a biological deformity that had to be eliminated.
Voting is set to begin Friday on the deal, which increases top pay to $30 an hour by 2030 for current workers but expands the tier system and offers no job protections as parts suppliers slash costs through AI and automation.
During nearly five hours of questioning, Democrats remained virtually silent on ICE murders, National Guard deployments and the prosecution of left-wing opponents of the Trump administration.
This dangerous escalation would be a desperate response to the failure of the US war to overturn the Iranian regime.
WSWS reporters spoke to protesters in Houston, Texas and Biddeford, Maine this week, the sites of two daylight murders of workers on their way to work by ICE gestapo agents.
Jacobin cites recent DSA election victories to argue, in the form of friendly advice, that the Democratic Party establishment and trade union bureaucracy should not be distracted by the supposed “socialism” of the DSA. For their own good, they must instead embrace the DSA and accept the organization’s offer to lend them a “left” cover.
Billions in Venezuelan assets withheld from earthquake relief, debt payments prioritized over reconstruction, and oil wealth redirected to Wall Street all demonstrate that US operations have nothing to do with aiding the population
When 1,700 workers at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan opened their first paychecks after the UAW narrowly rammed through a fourth contract, they found that 32 hours of vacation time had disappeared.
The spread of two diseases in New York City, Legionnaires’ disease and Cyclosporiasis, highlights the failure of the capitalist system to mount effective measures to control known threats to human health and life.
The scheduling and execution of death sentences in Florida are made possible by a peculiarity of state law, in which the governor holds almost singular authority over the machinery of capital punishment and decides when death warrants are signed and executions scheduled.
Airbus workers in Spain walk out over pay and conditions; machine tool workers at factory in Iran strike over unpaid wages; stoppage by health workers fighting Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo over lack of pay
For all those groups playing a leading role in the Stop the War Coalition and the Gaza protests, this is either made a secondary issue or ignored entirely as they tout Graham’s supposed role in reviving trade union militancy presented in entirely uncritical fashion.
In an especially provocative social media post, Trump called traffic stops “one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools,” praised the agency for doing a “GREAT job” and ordered agents to continue them.
More than 130 doctors at Allina Health's Mercy and Unity hospitals in Minnesota have voted by 90 percent to authorize a strike while 65 hospice nurses held a one-day walkout, as Sacramento-based Sutter Health's takeover of Allina threatens AI-driven mass layoffs.
James “Fergie” Cox Chambers Jr., an heir to the Cox Enterprises family fortune, has been arrested by Spanish authorities and is awaiting a hearing on Thursday to determine if he will be extradited to the US on “counterterrorism” charges.
The relationship of Mamdani and the DSA to Jeffries exposes the hypocrisy of their denunciations of Zionism and their claims to be in rebellion against the Democratic Party establishment.
Pianist Jayson Gillham has shown himself to be not only an acclaimed artist but also a principled one, willing to take a stand against imperialist barbarism and official censorship.
The memory of Ganeshadev and his lifelong dedication to the fight for Trotskyism will live on among workers and party comrades in Sri Lanka and internationally.
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, Pennsylvania, who was nominated for UAW president at last month's Constitutional Convention on a program of abolishing the union bureaucracy, issued a statement this week on the federal criminal investigation into UAW President Shawn Fain.
The human toll of Super Typhoon Bavi was compounded by decades of underinvestment in public infrastructure, social inequality and the diversion of resources toward militarism.
American imperialism wages war abroad to subjugate Iran. It wages the war at home against the class that must pay for it and whose opposition must be broken.
This public lecture, hosted by the SEP and IYSSE, will discuss the lessons of Sri Lanka’s 2022 mass uprising for working people entering into struggles against the JVP/NPP government’s implementation of IMF austerity, authoritarian measures and the unfolding world war.
The union leadership is desperately seeking to regain control of the dispute, having entered backroom negotiations with the government shortly after its sellout deal was rejected by teachers.
Two months after the WHO declared a global emergency, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has spread to five provinces, and the agency now estimates the true toll is at least two to four times the confirmed count.
There is enormous anger in Biddeford, Maine, a working class city of about 22,000, over the murder of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old worker from Colombia gunned down by federal immigration agents Monday morning as he drove to work.
The PTS and its coalition partners are being called upon by the ruling class to channel the growing political radicalization behind bourgeois politics.
DHL worker and Verdi union rep Christopher Tersch won his employment tribunal case on July 8 after being dismissed without notice for giving a speech against arms deliveries to Israel at a Palestine protest in Leipzig.
A chapter in How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism, “The Malvinas War: How Healy Worked as an Imperialist Stooge”, is republished here as a means of taking forwards the political education of the younger cadres of the ICFI and the readers of the WSWS.
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
Education workers need organisations that are prepared to challenge cuts and unite workers across the education and public sector.
On the tenth anniversary of the 2016 coup attempt, the Erdoğan government marks it as a "victory of democracy," concealing the US-NATO involvement and the drive to dictatorship that followed.
The largest strike of healthcare workers in Massachusetts history has ended for now, on management’s terms.
Nearly 7,000 people have been sickened and 141 hospitalized, while the federal apparatus that would trace the outbreak to its source has been dismantled by the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The police in Germany are being granted rapidly expanding powers of surveillance including biometric tracking, state trojans, preventive detention and mass data collection.
Tariffs, militarization, and wars are not “isolated disruptions” but “interconnected symptoms of a deeper fragmentation reshaping the global economy.”
US President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges, as the United States reimposed its naval blockade of Iranian ports and bombed the country for a fourth day.
Labor is stepping up a witch-hunting atmosphere against opponents of the mounting Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
How is it that the doors to the Krome Detention Center swung open for the convicted murderer and terrorist, while tens of thousands whose sole “crime” is to be immigrants, remain locked up under abysmal conditions?
The murder of Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine—the second killing by immigration agents in less than a week—is the direct product of the Democratic Party's suppression of the mass movement against ICE that erupted in Minneapolis six months ago.
Some US locations have already seen the highest temperatures ever recorded, as a heat dome moves east, creating unhealthy and dangerous conditions at workplaces and factories that lack adequate cooling.
The violation of fire safety measures was not an isolated case, but indicative of widespread practices in Thailand where public welfare is subordinated to private profit.
The union—which has divulged no information whatsoever about the proposed contract—hopes to stampede workers into accepting it at anti-democratic, shotgun ratification meetings this weekend.
Comedian-writer Larry David has even less insight into the past than the present.
Six of Europe’s leading oil companies made $21.7 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2026, 43 percent higher than last year.
On the day Burnham secured the party leadership, he assisted outgoing Labour Prime Minister Starmer in pushing through vicious anti-immigration policies. Burnham will take over from Starmer on Friday and oversee their enforcing.
The country is on course to lose the elimination status it achieved in 2000, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the federal vaccine infrastructure.
While it remains an integral part of the US-led military build-up against China, Modi is determined to project India onto the world stage and to ruthlessly pursue its strategic and economic interests.
The WSU management is trying to push through new 2026–30 enterprise agreements that will facilitate more job destruction, further real pay cuts and increased workloads.
