The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) will host an online meeting in support of the 15,000 striking New York nurses at 3 p.m. EST on Sunday, January 25. Click here to register for the meeting.

The issues nurses are fighting against—inadequate staffing ratios, substandard pay and benefits—are part of a corporate attack on public health. At the federal level, Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suppressing medical science and attacking vaccinations, leading to the resurgence of previously suppressed or eliminated diseases such as measles and hepatitis.

The nurses’ strike, located in the center of world finance, is part of a broader movement of the working class, whose logic culminates in a national and international movement against oligarchy and dictatorship. On Friday, workers in Minneapolis will conduct a general strike against the occupation of the city by ICE agents, who have already killed one person, Renée Nicole Good.

The World Socialist Web Site welcomes this development and calls for the expansion of such actions to New York City and across America. An upcoming strike by 31,000 West Coast nurses, strike votes by teachers in Los Angeles and academic workers at the University of California, as well as the contract expiring next month for 30,000 oil refinery workers, shows the potential for a broader movement in which the demands in every workplace coalesce into a class movement aimed at the entrenched privileges of the capitalist elite.

To prepare such action, workers should form broad, democratic, rank-and-file organizations to link up their struggles and mobilize in opposition to the entire political establishment.

Register now to attend the public meeting, support the striking nurses and organize a fight for workers’ control of society.