The election underscores the absence of any alternative for working people within the existing political establishment.
BP confirmed it intends to continue to operate the largest refinery in the Midwest, producing 440,000 barrels daily of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
Thousands of meatpackers, many facing deportation threats, are striking against low wages, unsafe conditions and union betrayal at the nation’s largest beef facility.
The referendum exploits popular anger at a class-biased justice system to dismantle democratic safeguards and prepare for future social conflict.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Pentagon is seeking more than $200 billion from Congress to fund the US war of aggression against Iran—a sum that would exceed the roughly $188 billion spent on arming Ukraine over three years.
The public meeting was addressed by a panel of speakers, including David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States. As the leader of the US Workers League, forerunner of the US SEP, North played the leading role in the struggle against the political degeneration of the WRP leadership.
Knopf, a father of three and grandfather of eight, was killed after a press machine activated while undergoing routine maintenance and pinned him against equipment.
The imperialist offensive to erase 20th‑century social gains can be stopped only through the independent mobilization of the working class across the Americas.
The overriding impression from Fed chair Jerome Powell is that the central bank is like an animal trapped in the headlights of a massive truck hurtling towards it, not knowing which way to turn.
The union halted the struggle at its strongest point, isolating workers and paving the way for concessions on wages and staffing.
Van Sant has said the story interested him because it echoes today’s anger at corporate greed and financial institutions.
More than a dozen critical statements, Perspectives, and World Socialist Web Site articles on the criminal US-Israeli war on Iran war and how to stop it are now available in Farsi, the mother-tongue of approximately two-thirds of the Iranian people.
The statement calls the UAW apparatus “complicit” in political repression at the campus and urging that rank-and-file workers take control of their own struggle.
The TA (tentative agreement) is intended to cut off the growing movement of the working class and remove tens of thousands of University of California workers from the struggle.
Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said that Iran was not an “imminent threat” to the United States, the pretext offered by Trump for launching his illegal war.
Dissanayake’s comments have once again exposed the government’s phony posturing of “neutrality” over the illegal US-Israel war against Iran.
The only country that New Delhi has condemned is Iran, for daring to defend itself.
Police in Queensland last week arrested two participants in a Students for Palestine rally for saying or displaying the anti-genocide slogan “from the river to the sea.”
While "condemning" the criminal US-Israeli war targeting Iran, the NDP and its trade union sponsors have conspicuously failed to call for any working class action against it.
Within days of the assault on Iran, the Israel Defence Forces declared war on Hezbollah—activating a blueprint drafted well before the group fired a token volley of rockets in response to Israel’s assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The zig zags of the PSOE-Sumar government reflect the imperialist interests of the Spanish bourgeoisie.
New Zealand and Australian leaders hypocritically declared their solidarity with the families of 51 Muslims murdered by the fascist Brenton Tarrant on March 15, 2019, even as both governments demonise migrants and support the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war against Iran.
A series of rapidly forming deadly tornados struck Michigan, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Indiana between March 5 and March 10, resulting in 11 deaths, at least 20 injuries, and significant damage or destruction to hundreds of buildings across the region.
Avoidable deaths mount on Los Angeles streets as Democratic politicians defend a profit system that treats human survival as expendable.
Trump’s expectation that a quick victory over Iran, a strategic partner of China, could be used to extract concessions from Xi has been dashed as the criminal war continues in its third week.
The European powers are unwilling to get involved in a war over whose course and outcome they have no influence. They want to drive a hard bargain for their participation in the war.
While the war in Iran and attacks on democratic rights at home show an American ruling class plumbing the depths of barbarism, a different and progressive movement is emerging within the working class.
The USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault carrier bearing the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, was tracked Tuesday transiting the Strait of Malacca on its way to the Persian Gulf.
Though a new documentary captures UPS workers’ significant discontent with the 2023 tentative agreement, it obscures the role of the Teamsters leadership in enabling mass layoffs and deteriorating conditions.
Following a 91.5 percent strike authorization vote by student workers, the UAW bureaucracy has threatened to withhold approval of a strike unless the campus local waters down its demands.
The Trump administration's Non-Domiciled CDL Final Rule, which took effect March 16, is a major new stage in the fascistic attack on immigrant workers and the entire working class.
King’s case exposes a legal system that disposes of individuals, mostly men, whose minds were fractured long before they ended anyone else’s life. King suffered a significant traumatic brain injury during childhood, causing permanent neurological damage.
A gold-painted “King of the World” statue on the National Mall depicts Trump embracing Epstein in Titanic’s bow pose, drawing crowds, mockery and widespread popular hostility toward the oligarchy.
It was a split decision but undoubtedly the swing factor was the US war against Iran and the spike in inflation it has already produced.
In one of the largest pickets in recent memory, thousands of workers marched and demonstrated outside the factory Tuesday in defense not only of their own living standards, but of all workers.
Thousands demonstrated in Toronto last Saturday in opposition to the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran and in support of the Palestinian people.
A boy born in Richmond upon Thames can look forward to living in good health until he reaches 69.3 years and a girl 70.3 years compared to 50.9 and 51.8 years for males and females respectively in Blackpool
Rail, Maritime and Transport union General Secretary Eddie Dempsey insists a “workable solution” can still be found with TfL, having buried the fight for a shorter working week by members across London Underground.
News media reports have confirmed that Israel has started its long-planned ground invasion of southern Lebanon with plans to seize the entire area south of the Litani River which is roughly the southern third of Lebanon.
Mehmet Türkmen, general secretary of the independent rank-and-file textile union in Türkiye, was arrested on Monday due to his speech to protesting workers.
That One Battle After Another won six Academy Awards is probably the most telling indicator of changes taking place in the artistic world, a complex reflection of important shifts in popular consciousness more broadly.
Trump delivered a meandering account of his military assault on Iran, combining blood-curdling threats with utter indifference to the colossal human cost of this criminal war.
Yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League who was assassinated in 1977. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
The strike at Greeley is all the more significant because the overwhelming majority of the workforce are immigrants, who have launched the strike in defiance of the broader rampage by immigration authorities.
The bitterness expressed by workers is rooted in the outcome of the 2008 American Axle strike, which lasted 87 days and ended in a devastating concessions agreement imposed by the UAW, with wages slashed to as low as $10 an hour.
The 900 terminated workers at the FATE tire plant are demanding their jobs back while 2,300 workers at Portland Community College in Oregon have struck to demand cost-of-living raises.
The central lesson of People Power is not that the masses “once saved democracy” and must now do so again, but that no advance is possible so long as their struggles remain chained to any faction of the bourgeoisie.
An overwhelming vote to strike is a further sign of widespread opposition to the sweeping pro-business and pro-military restructuring of universities being driven by the Albanese Labor government.
A ballot of Australian Education Union members recorded an unprecedented 98 percent vote for stopwork action, expressing widespread anger over appalling wages and conditions in public schools.
Workers were given less than 48 hours to decide whether to immediately accept redundancy or take six weeks’ unpaid leave in the hope that the mine is quickly sold.
Cuba’s government is courting large-scale investments from US corporations and the exile bourgeoisie in Miami, a decisive step toward turning Cuba into a semi‑protectorate of US imperialism.
The portrait of a ruling class marked by an absolute contempt for collective interests, culture, and human life is the strongest and most universal aspect of Mendonça’s film.
The meeting stressed that the methods tested in the genocide in Gaza are now being applied to Iran.
Weimer’s censorship measures involve removing three left-wing bookshops from a list of 118 shops compiled by an independent expert jury for the German Bookshop Award. The move has triggered a massive wave of protest and criticism.
Capitalist recovery rests on intensified exploitation and a growing reserve army of under- and unemployed workers. Nominal wage increases are trumpeted as progress, yet real wages lag far behind the soaring costs of housing, energy, and food.
The Palestinian detainee had been raped so violently that he had to be transferred to a hospital for treatment for severe injury to his anus, a ruptured bowel, lung damage, and broken ribs that left him unable to walk.
The Greens are seeking to direct opposition to the war on Iran into the dead-end of appeals to the very Labor government that is an active participant in this historic crime.
Matt Canavan has been the most vocal agitator in the rural-based Nationals to push the Liberal-National Coalition for a more aggressive, Trump-style agenda.
Underscoring the importance attached by the imperialist powers to the Arctic in the rapidly escalating redivision of the world, Merz was joined on his visit to northern Norway by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Both countries are participating in the “Cold Response” manoeuvre with significant troop contingents.
Workers across the country, regardless of legal status, race or nationality, have an obligation to support the strike.
Throughout history, regimes that confront deep internal crises have sought to resolve them through war.
Amid an ever-greater escalation of the US war on Iran, the American media and political establishment are openly raising the prospect of sending ground troops into the country, which would vastly expand the scope and scale of a war that has already killed thousands.
Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE members have spoken with workers and students in their campaign against the US-Israel war on Iran.
As the US-Israeli war against Iran rages on with the support of the European imperialist powers and the United Nations, opposition is building in the working class throughout the United States.
A video uploaded to TikTok shows the warehouse doors being shut and locked as more than a dozen drivers tried to get inside.
The unprecedented convictions aim to provide pseudo-legal mechanisms to the government to criminalize dissent, under the guise of combating the fictitious group “Antifa”
At the center of the Morenoite conference was a reactionary theoretical revision aimed at eviscerating Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution.
Sawant seeks to channel mass popular opposition to war, social inequality and attacks on democratic rights into the dead end of bourgeois electoral politics, while promoting the illusion that pressure from below can force a section of the trade union bureaucracy to lead general strikes and wring major concessions from the ruling class.
US Supreme Court bars discrimination suits by workers; Harold Wilson resigns; Iranian oil workers strike; Chiang Kai-shek stages military coup.
The Trump administration and its various accomplices at home and abroad seek to obliterate the culture and historical memory of the Iranian people.
Multiple recently published scientific studies all point to the increasing pace of global warming, driven by the mounting contradictions and irrationality of the capitalist system.
The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.
A tram fire in the Sydney CBD highlights ongoing safety and reliability problems with the city’s increasingly privatised public transport network.
Detroit, the historic center of the American car industry and home to large immigrant communities, is increasingly in the crosshairs of Trump’s immigration gestapo.
The contract would have led to 100 fewer union workers and wider use of contract workers, $8-$10 hourly wage cuts, the closure of the environmental department, attacks on seniority and implementation of AI with no job protections.
Lebanese immigrant Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his truck into the entrance of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan on Thursday morning and engaged in a gunfight with synagogue security before taking his own life.
Even before Thursday’s shooting, Republicans across the country were promoting anti-Muslim rhetoric aimed at destroying the democratic rights of the population as a whole.
Cedric Allen Ricks was executed in Texas, while Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton received a rare commutation.
The brief but politically significant remarks, 51 words taking 20 seconds to recite, were cut from the video recording of the awards ceremony.
It appears Chalamet has taken on a bit too much of his unpleasant character’s “hardboiled,” thoughtless personality and approach.
A ground invasion of the Iranian coastline would not be a limited or contained operation. It would be a protracted and gruesome bloodbath.
The impoverished Pacific island nation has one of the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemics.
Socialist Aotearoa’s whitewashing of Labour and its allies points to the reactionary, pro-imperialist character of this tendency, which is determined to prevent the building of an independent, socialist movement against war.
Around 5,300 Lufthansa pilots embarked on a warning strike March 12, including for the first time the pilots of regional subsidiary Cityline.
In the works council elections that took place between 2 and 4 March at Europe's only Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin, the IG Metall suffered a crushing defeat.
Díaz‑Canel’s talk of “dialogue” in reality signals negotiations over the terms of Havana’s capitulation to US imperialism.
The disaster has exposed once again how a corrupt ruling oligarchy and its political representatives are unable and unwilling to protect the lives and welfare of the masses of Peruvian working people.
India: West Bengal tea plantation workers protest low wages; Bangladeshi construction workers demand outstanding wages and Eid allowance; Pakistan: Punjab public sector employees protest austerity; Tasmanian public sector workers escalate industrial action; Australian Broadcasting Corporation workers vote for industrial action.
Labour Home Secretary ends the right of permanent asylum in the most drastic attack on asylum rights since the end of World War Two.
Appeals to the government to work for a diplomatic solution are maintained even as it has made clear its commitment to the US-led war, making UK air bases available for American aircraft and deploying British aircraft to protect US bases, as well moving the destroyer HMS Dragon to the region.
Given the history and importance of filmmaking in the US, the ceremony retains political and cultural significance, even if audiences have fallen sharply in recent decades.
Around 40,000 UC workers in United Auto Workers Local 4811 voted overwhelmingly to strike, but have been kept on the job by union officials nearly two weeks since their contract expired on March 1.
The El Gamal family’s five children describe contaminated food, denial of medical care and the trauma of being imprisoned for a crime they did not commit.
The US-Israeli war on Iran, now in its thirteenth day, is rapidly spiraling and has triggered a cascading regional crisis centred on the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway through which 20 percent of the world's oil passes.
The fact that 140 governments co-sponsored a resolution denouncing the right of a historically oppressed country to resist the most brutal forms of imperialist violence underscores that world capitalism has revived the barbarism previously associated with unrestrained colonial dominance and the two world wars of the 20th century.
The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy.
The ever expanding war front proves that appeals to the ruling class, as presented on the stage of the demonstration, will achieve nothing
Not a single union has opposed the Australian state’s role in the illegal war, let alone called for industrial action to halt the supply of war materials.
Trump’s NIH move to decertify the research fellows’ union exposes a broader drive to smash federal worker protections, weaponize the bureaucracy politically and deepen the assault on science.
The wild swings in the oil price at the start of this week have directed attention to one of the most significant potential consequences of US-led war on Iran—a major financial crisis induced by losses flowing from the oil market.
