Turkish metalworkers must prepare rank-and-file committee led strike against wage misery!
The escalating offensive against wages, jobs and working conditions is the ruling class’s response to the global crisis of the capitalist system.
•Hakan Özal
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BMA deepen collaboration with UK Labour Health Secretary after resident doctors strike against insulting pay/jobs offer
The Starmer–Streeting government, backed by the union apparatus, is enforcing an agenda on behalf of the oligarchy: austerity, market expansion and hikes in military spending.
•NHS FightBack
Epstein’s co-conspirators remain protected in new DOJ file release
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.”
•Kevin Reed
European Union provides €90 billion for war against Russia in Ukraine
The fact that the EU is investing such large sums in the war in Ukraine confirms that it is a proxy war between NATO and Russia.
•Peter Schwarz
“Get the knowledge that you need, at SocialismAI.com”
Ty, an educator who led sickouts against COVID in 2020, explains how workers can use Socialism AI to get the knowledge they need.
•Ty
Denmark summons American ambassador, after Trump appoints special envoy to “make Greenland a part of the US”
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.
•Jordan Shilton
Christmas in America: Staggering wealth concentration and deepening social crisis
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.
•Jerry White
High-ranking Russian general killed in Moscow car bombing
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.
•Clara Weiss
100 years since the death of Russian poet Sergei Esenin
The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.
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US brands DACA recipient Yaa’kub Vijandre a “terrorist,” then offers $3,000 to “self-deport”
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.
•Jacob Crosse
Australian teenagers oppose police repression, social media ban after beach clash
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.
•Eric Ludlow, Owen Howell
Australia: Hundreds rally against Labor’s anti-protest laws
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.
•Martin Scott
The funeral of Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler in Duisburg: “An extraordinarily courageous personality”
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
Australia: Labor governments exploit Bondi shootings to impose sweeping anti-democratic laws
Legislation passed today in New South Wales creates a framework that can effectively criminalise all political gatherings.
•Mike Head
Gold price resumes its rise to hit new record
So far, the price of gold has risen by almost 70 percent this year, the biggest surge since the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979.
•Nick Beams
Australian-owned rare earths plant in Malaysia drawn into US war preparations
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.
•Kurt Brown
Elite “noble” installed as new Tongan prime minister
The return to Tonga’s monarchy and nobles reflects the shift to authoritarian forms of rule by governments around the world.
•John Braddock
Striking Genesys Hospital nurses remain intransigent while Henry Ford Health threatens to hire permanent replacements
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.
•Kevin Reed
Twenty years later, the former head of the Transport Workers Union local rewrites the history of the New York City 2005 transit strike
In the meeting at CUNY, Roger Toussaint obscured the central role of the Democratic Party and whitewashed his own role in sabotaging the strike.
•Alan Whyte
Postal workers report six weeks of silence following death of coworker Lucy Diaz at Morgan PDC in New York City
Morgan workers have begun raising critical questions about the circumstances surrounding their coworker’s death.
•Robert Milkowski, A. Woodson
Sharp price increases make basic foodstuffs unaffordable for millions in Canada
Nutritious food is quickly becoming a luxury item in Canada, one of the world’s most advanced and wealthiest capitalist countries.
•Steve Hill
Two more pro-Palestine UK political prisoners hospitalised while Starmer government refused to act
The hunger strike now involves five people: Amu Gib, Kamran Ahmed, Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha and Lewie Chiaramello.
•Robert Stevens
Peak season disaster at Alabama USPS facility shows need for rank-and-file control of staffing
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.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
CBS censors “60 Minutes” report on torture of immigrant detainees
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.
•Patrick Martin
US seizure of China-bound tanker near Venezuela escalates US conflict with Beijing
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.
•Andre Damon
Mamdani appoints Julie Su, who worked to suppress class struggle under Biden, to major economic post
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.
•Jerry White
Spanish imperialism at crossroads over Trump’s escalation toward war on Venezuela
As the Trump administration accelerates war preparations against Venezuela, the response of Spanish imperialism has been extraordinarily muted.
•Alejandro López
Pabloite Left Bloc seeks to demobilize Portuguese workers after mass 1-day strike
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).
•Santiago Guillen
What could Musk’s wealth fund? Answers from Socialism AI
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
•Socialism AI
Workers Struggles: The Americas
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.
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JD Vance calls for fascist unity at Turning Point USA conference
In his speech, Vance rejected any “purity tests” within the MAGA movement.
•Jacob Crosse
Sweden’s right-wing government strengthens repressive state powers in the name of fighting crime
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.
•Bran Karlsson
Macron seeks to break impasse over France-New Caledonia agreement
Macron is seeking to push through an agreement that maintains the Pacific colony as a state within the French Constitution.
•John Braddock
New Zealand firefighters continue nationwide strikes
The WSWS spoke with firefighters who have held multiple one-hour strikes in opposition to pay cuts, faulty equipment and understaffing.
•Tom Peters
The Gelfand Case: Trial and conclusion
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.
•Don Knowland
Unite calls off Greater Manchester tram drivers’ strike against fatigue to push through shoddy agreement
“It’s not a victory”, as the Unite union claims, “Nothing has changed”, tram drivers tell WSWS reporters.
•Our reporters
Australia: NSW premier, police justify violent arrests in Sydney following Bondi shootings
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.
•Mike Head
Trump approves largest-ever arms sale to Taiwan
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.
•Peter Symonds
Russian court sentences members of Marxist circle to draconian prison terms
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.
•Clara Weiss
Australia: Artists expose devastating impact of government funding cuts
Prolonged funding cuts and bureaucratic restructuring measures are systematically undermining Australia’s arts sector, devastating artists, and cultural institutions.
•Kaye Tucker, Richard Phillips
CDC-funded study in Guinea-Bissau exposes criminal character of Kennedy’s vaccine agenda
A CDC-funded trial withholding timely Hepatitis B vaccination from newborns in the tiny African country echoes historical abuses of vulnerable populations.
•Benjamin Mateus
“Devastating”: The New School students denounce major attacks on faculty and academic programs
The New School has targeted 40 percent of its full-time professors for elimination under the guise of “voluntary separation packages.”
•Elliott Murtagh
4 immigrants die in 4 days in ICE private prisons
The Trump administration is running a network of concentration camps, many of them established under Biden.
•Patrick Martin, Nancy Hanover
New evidence for the earliest intentional human fire-making
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.
•Philip Guelpa
This week in history: December 22-28
Luoyang fire kills 300 in China; Castro Cuban CP holds first congress; US backs French colonial war in Vietnam; Communist Party of India founded.
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Trump announces creation of the “Trump Kennedy Center” in latest assault on democracy and culture
The renaming of the Kennedy Center is part of a wider authoritarian assault on democratic rights, critical art and public culture.
•Linda Rios
Musk’s wealth surges to $750 billion after court grants him $150 billion payday
The ruling lays bare the complete subordination of the American legal system to the financial oligarchy.
•Andre Damon
Baltimore youth detention facility forces its residents to go without heating during early winter cold snap
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.
•Saadiq Shah
Science vs. suspicion and fear: An Open Letter to a critic of Socialism AI
This is an Open Letter responding to several harsh criticisms of Socialism AI posted by Professor Tony Williams in the comments section of the WSWS.
•David North
Storm Byron compounds catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza
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.
•Jean Shaoul
Two-thirds of South Africa’s population in absolute poverty, with one-third unemployed
The African National Congress’s role is the culmination of the class function it performed during the transition from apartheid.
•Jean de Jager
Jacobin magazine denounces left-wing criticism of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
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.”
•John Conrad
1,600 students walk out against ICE in Hillsboro, Oregon
On Tuesday, over a hundred students from Lincoln High School in downtown Portland and from other schools in the city also walked out against ICE.
•Hector Cordon
Major shakeup at UAW headquarters as crisis of bureaucracy deepens
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.
•Shannon Jones
New Zealand primary school teachers reject pay-cutting deal
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.
•Tom Peters
Australian Senate universities report covers up Labor’s onslaught on tertiary education
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.
•Mike Head
Doubts mounting over viability of AI boom
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.”
•Nick Beams
Wisconsin judge convicted as Trump administration escalates attacks on immigrants and political opponents
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.
•Jacob Crosse
Australia: The political issues behind the Bondi Beach terrorist attack
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!
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Trump Justice Department violates Epstein Act, continues coverup of sex trafficking network
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.
•Kevin Reed
Once again: Why German union IG Metall cannot be reformed and rank-and-file committees must be established
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
British playwright, screenwriter Tom Stoppard (1937-2025): Dazzling, erudite, damaged by history
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.
•Paul Bond
The bloody record: Florida executes Frank Walls amid 2025’s unprecedented US killing spree
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.
•Kate Randall
Ford plant in Cologne: Death by instalments
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.
•Andreas Kunstmann, Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Los Angeles school support staff hold rallies as contract talks officially reach impasse
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.”
•Kimie Saito, Marc Wells
Far-right Alberta government invokes “Notwithstanding Clause” for fourth time in two months, as onslaught on democratic rights accelerates across Canada
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.
•James Clayton, Keith Jones
Seasonal workers at Amazon face grueling quotas and draconian computerized surveillance
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.
•T.J. Garrison
Oil and postal workers strike across Brazil
The strikes, part of a global movement, continue a struggle by Brazilian federal workers against attacks by the Lula administration.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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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Support the fight for socialism in 2026: Donate to the WSWS New Year Fund!
As global war, dictatorship and social counterrevolution escalate, we appeal to all our readers to donate to the WSWS New Year fund, and fight to arm the international working class with the perspective and program of world socialist revolution.
•Joseph Kishore
Technology and the working class: Responding to an opponent of Socialism AI
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
•Evan Blake, David North
National Postal Workers Day: A stage-managed CWU event to cover up collaboration with Royal Mail and EP Group
Postal workers were told to print glossy posters, pose for photographs, and help get #PostalWorkersDay trending.
•Tony Robson
Palestine Action political prisoners starving to death as Labour government refuses to intervene
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.
•Robert Stevens
US secures military agreement between Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces and jihadist HTS regime
Washington sees an agreement as critical to prevent a civil war between its two allies in the regime-change war it instigated in 2011.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Birmingham City’s Labour Council issues compulsory redundancies to striking bin workers
The dispute’s prolonged isolation and subordination to Unite’s bankrupt strategy of appealing to the Labour council to be “reasonable” threatens total defeat.
•Tania Kent
“They treat their employees like we’re disposable:” Last day of work Friday for workers at GM Factory Zero in Detroit and Ultium Cells in Ohio
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.
•Jerry White, Paul Sherman
Berlin state executive adopts austerity budget and steps up police powers
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.
•Markus Salzmann
FBI informant, undercover agent played major role in alleged Turtle Island Liberation Front New Year’s bomb plot
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.
•Jacob Crosse
Democrats vote to give Trump $1 trillion for global war
As Trump escalates an illegal war of aggression against Venezuela, the Democratic Party has handed him a blank check.
•Andre Damon
Trump delivers fascist diatribe in year-end speech
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.
•Patrick Martin
Postal worker exposes rampant abuse at Illinois post office
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.
•Kathleen Martin
What next in the school strike against conscription in Germany?
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)
Australian Labor governments exploit Bondi shootings to outlaw anti-genocide protests
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.
•Mike Head
Trump’s border Gestapo target striking workers in Chicago
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.
•Andy Thompson, Jerry White
Australia: Sunscreen products withdrawn over incorrect safety ratings
The ongoing sunscreen labelling scandal in Australia has serious implications for public health.
•Margaret Rees, Richard Phillips
Canada complicit as Trump escalates toward war on Venezuela
The Liberal government has greeted the criminal acts of Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with a diplomatic shrug.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
The centenary of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy
The most serious artists in the 1920s and early 1930s anticipated or often even assumed that society was proceeding to a new and higher stage.
•David Walsh, Sandy English
Australia postal worker encourages use of Socialism AI
“I call on my brothers and sisters around the world to use Socialism AI to educate, organise and unite.”
•Our reporters
Striking resident doctors speak out from picket lines across England
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.
•Our reporters
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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
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Richest 125 Kenyans own more wealth than 42 million people
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.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Will Lehman: Every worker should be using Socialism AI
Mack Trucks worker and UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman released this video explaining the significance of Socialism AI for the working class.
•Will Lehman
For a united global movement against layoffs in the auto industry!
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
Trump denounces actor-director Rob Reiner as “very bad for our country” following tragic killings
Reiner has been a household name in the US since his days on the immensely popular situation comedy "All in the Family" in the 1970s.
•David Walsh
Trump-backed redistricting effort fails in Indiana
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.
•Aaron Jefferson
Germany: Italian artist Costantino Ciervo rebuffs criticism from Zionist lobbies, politicians seeking to close his exhibition
Readers should note that the two leading politicians behind the smear campaign are members of nominally left organisations.
•Stefan Steinberg
European powers set course for escalation of war in Ukraine against Russia
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.
•Johannes Stern
Australian government pledges to keep slashing spending
Treasurer Jim Chalmers outlined billions of dollars in cuts to government programs and declared that there would be more “difficult” decisions to come.
•Mike Head
Abuse and exploitation endemic in Australia’s Pacific “guest worker” scheme
Despite ongoing complaints, exposures and official inquiries into the exploitative Pacific labour schemes over many years, little has changed.
•John Braddock
More Australian workers and youth are using Socialism AI
“It gives you sources and suggests follow‑up questions… It raises consciousness and prompts you about what you can do.”
•Our reporters
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