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Workers speak in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk at the 90th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:24:36 GMT

A rally and march was held in East London on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.

Join the IYSSE in the fight for a socialist future against war, dictatorship and social devastation!

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:18:10 GMT

Students in Türkiye and around the world are returning to school amid an intensifying wave of war, dictatorship and social devastation. At the same time, social anger and struggles are growing in the working class and among young people.

UK National Education Union closes down strike ballot, allowing Labour government to impose below inflation deal

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:17:19 GMT

The trade union bureaucracy promotes the dangerous illusion that the replacement of Starmer with Burnham represented a step change to the left and provides “hope”, that the Labour Party will listen, and that Burnham is “on our side".

After Moscow’s nuclear warnings: Merz intensifies Germany’s war offensive in Kiev

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:50:22 GMT

Only days after Russia again threatened NATO with the use of nuclear weapons and President Vladimir Putin warned of a “fatal point of no return,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled to Kiev on Sunday to further expand Germany’s involvement in the Ukraine war.

Spanish government falls amid mass nationwide protests over housing costs

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:50:01 GMT

More than 50 cities took part in the mobilizations, which were dominated by the call: “Towards a general strike.”

Encore Boston Harbor strike enters fifth week

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:31:25 GMT

More than 1,300 housekeepers, cooks, bartenders, slot attendants, drivers and warehouse workers have been on strike at Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor in Everett, Massachusetts since September 4.

With complicity of media and Democrats, Trump prepares major escalation of Iran war

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:27:13 GMT

Having failed to achieve its objectives through a massive bombardment and then a blockade of the country, the White House is preparing a new and desperate gambit.

Michigan nurse prosecuted for freeing immigration police detainee: Drop the charges against Chloe Freeman!

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:56:41 GMT

The Trump administration has brought charges against a Michigan nurse for the “crime” of refusing to hand over a wounded immigrant worker to the deportation Gestapo.

New poll shows DSA member Nithya Raman surging ahead of Karen Bass in Los Angeles mayoral race

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:37:50 GMT

A recent poll shows the DSA’s Nithya Raman with a substantial lead over incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, revealing growing hostility to the Democratic Party establishment and a deepening generational divide that the DSA strives to contain within the capitalist two-party system.

“We don’t know the power we have”: US trucker discusses October 1 work stoppage, the Iran war and the fight for international unity

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:36:41 GMT

Independent actions recently in both the US and Mexico show that truckers in North America are demonstrating their enormous social and economic power.

US Supreme Court allows resumption of immigrant deportations to third countries

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:21:04 GMT

The day before the ruling, two dozen UN human rights experts warned that the mass deportation of migrants from the US to third countries would set off a “cascade of human rights violations” that could have “deadly” consequences.

Boeing engineers, technical workers approve contract after rejecting first offer

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:20:00 GMT

Rather than mobilize the membership to carry out the strike authorization once the contracts expired October 6, SPEEA made clear that its aim was to avoid a strike.

Japanese defense minister again floats acquiring nuclear weapons

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:16:39 GMT

Tokyo is rapidly accelerating military spending and development of arms as the war already taking place in Europe and the Middle East spreads into the Asia-Pacific.

Chile: Strikes erupt in mining and healthcare, as 20,000 march against Kast’s austerity budget

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:05:38 GMT

Kast’s government is closely tied to the Trump administration, which has embraced it as a model for its “Shield of the Americas” project of consolidating right-wing, pro-US regimes across the hemisphere.

Mexico arrests alleged leader of migrant caravan

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:04:52 GMT

The detention of a Honduran migrant accused of guiding the “Faith and Hope” caravan shows that the Sheinbaum government continues to place the repressive apparatus built by Morena at the service of Trump’s war on migrant workers.

Paramount-Warner merger: Democrats and union bureaucrats clear the way for a corporate takeover

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:57:54 GMT

The merger clears the path for billionaire consolidation, with Democrats, regulators and union bureaucracies working to impose its costs on workers.

Australia: Empty launch of Thriving Kids underscores Labor’s assault on children with disabilities

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:56:10 GMT

What the Albanese government actually launched on October 1 was a helpline and a website—no therapies, no allied health professionals, no individualised plans.

This week in history: October 5-11

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:48:42 GMT

US and Britain launch Operation Enduring Freedom, beginning the bombing of Afghanistan; Thai police and royalist paramilitaries massacre students at Thammasat University as the military seizes power in Bangkok; Truman signs the Mutual Security Act, merging Marshall Plan aid and military assistance to allied regimes; Bulgakov's The Days of the Turbins premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre.

The IIT Bombay suicide and the crisis facing India’s youth

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:30:48 GMT

The suicide of Sahil Wakode, a Dalit student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has exposed the brutal institutional atmosphere behind India's most celebrated educational institutions, and sparked militant student protests.

Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:17:23 GMT

The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.

The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei election result in the Berlin state election

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:17:03 GMT

As Marxists, we know that the future of society and the solution to society’s great problems will be decided not in parliament, but in the class struggle.

The Investigation Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:45:18 GMT

A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.

Fighting in Ethiopia threatens renewed civil war, destabilising Horn of Africa

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:18:24 GMT

With the Strait of Hormuz already closed, the US Israeli war of aggression against Iran is spreading from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.

Kenya’s opposition parties audition for imperialist powers ahead of elections

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:17:59 GMT

The Gen-Z uprising demonstrated the enormous potential for a mass movement cutting across the ethnic divisions cultivated by the Kenyan bourgeoisie. But it also exposed the political bankruptcy of the established opposition.

Another interest rate rise intensifies social and political crisis in Australia

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:47:16 GMT

The rate rise deepens the cost-of-living crisis for working-class households and intensifies the pressure of the financial markets on the Albanese government to further slash social spending.

The strategy and program of the SEP in the fight against the JVP government and capitalism

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:44:41 GMT

The role of the subjective factor is crucial in the current objective situation. The task of the SEP is to bring socialist consciousness into the working class.

Christa Pike in critical condition in Nashville hospital after failed execution attempt

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:33:05 GMT

Following Tennessee’s gruesome failed attempt to execute her on September 30, Christa Pike remains unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator, with both arms swollen, burned and blistered. It is unclear whether she will regain consciousness.

September US jobs data shows stagnant employment and lagging wages, as AI-driven layoffs deepen

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:32:39 GMT

The September US Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, which was greeted as positive by Wall Street, showed that workers face worsening employment opportunities and wages that continue falling behind inflation.

Mobilize the working class to defend French student protests, stop war!

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:29:52 GMT

Over the last week, protests at high schools across France against spending cuts and police repression have grown into a confrontation with the state machine.

Trump administration sends aircraft carrier and up to 10,000 troops toward Iran, threatens to resume bombing

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:59:14 GMT

The Trump administration is sending the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three amphibious warships carrying about 2,000 Marines to the Middle East.

Former political prisoner Gary Tyler hosts book signing events in Detroit, Cleveland ahead of Grand Rapids gallery show

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:37:26 GMT

At the event in Detroit hosted by the Library Street Collective, Tyler spoke about both his art and the broader issues related to the death penalty and the inhuman conditions inside US prisons including his own frame-up.

Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:49:30 GMT

The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.

United States blocks UN pandemic preparedness declaration

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:40:09 GMT

CDC Director Erica Schwartz cited “divisive ideologies” and the unfinished fight over pathogen sharing and drug patents that has stalled the WHO Pandemic Agreement.

US truckers stop work to protest skyrocketing diesel costs

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:20:44 GMT

The spontaneous action, organized by truckers themselves over social media, was organized to protest skyrocketing diesel costs and other grievances.

Cleveland-Cliffs: Worker dies at Pennsylvania coke plant, Ontario plant being idled, while USW keeps steelworkers on the job without new contracts

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:20:13 GMT

More than a month after the original September 1 expiration date, the United Steelworkers is keeping tens of thousands of workers on the job while negotiating concessions behind closed doors.

St. Paul USPS workers found Rank-and-File Committee

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:19:16 GMT

The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.

Union election at Audi and contract vote at Volkswagen in Puebla, Mexico amid mass layoffs

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:01:50 GMT

As the Volkswagen union in Puebla calls off a strike to push a sub-par deal and the Audi union leader is reelected, a former Audi worker describes to the WSWS how the “independent” unions have served the company from the start.

Bolivia jails prosecutor investigating Trump operative Cerimedo on Washington’s orders

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:00:59 GMT

Bolivia arrested its attorney general two days after US sanctions, removing the prosecutor whose case against Fernando Cerimedo threatened to expose the criminal connections behind Trump’s “Shield of the Americas.”

Brazil’s elections being held under shadow of imperialist intervention and fascist threat

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:00:01 GMT

The elections in Brazil are taking place amid an explosive reorganization of the political order across Latin America.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:37:58 GMT

India: Delhi bus workers continue strike as government bans industrial action; Pakistan: 6,000 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa doctors escalate pay strike; Bangladesh: Chattogram port workers oppose terminal concession; Australia: Nurses take strike action across Tasmania.

For a joint struggle of National Steel Car strikers with Stelco and US steelworkers against layoffs, dangerous working conditions!

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:27:59 GMT

This committee firmly believes that we must break out of the isolation imposed on us by the USW and expand our strike to other sections of the working class if we are to emerge vicgtorious. And we have extremely favourable conditions to do just that.

Québec Solidaire: Hollow reformist promises to legitimize austerity and Québécois chauvinism

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:31:36 GMT

Since its formation 20 years ago, QS has lurched steadily right and fully integrated itself into the political establishment as the “left” flank of the Quebec independence movement, which articulates the interests of a faction of Quebec’s capitalist elite.

Budget crisis prompts closure of oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:17:33 GMT

The 198-year-old Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which has ceased operations, holds one of the world’s largest collections of scientific specimens and a historic display of dinosaur fossils.

Glasgow City Council reinstates fire-and-rehire threat against thousands of council workers

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:18:58 GMT

Neither Unite nor the GMB has indicated they will break off negotiations with Glasgow City Council in the face of threatened mass dismissal notices to enforce pays cuts against Unison members.

Latest UK COVID-19 Inquiry report documents impact of privatisation, wasted resources and cronyism

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:41:06 GMT

Authored by Baroness Heather Hallett, the report documents cost-cutting in pivotal logistics, £10 billion wasted on inadequate or unused PPE, and millions lost to unpursued fraud.

Northern Ireland education union leaders sanction ineffective “work to rule”, reject strike action

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:36:22 GMT

Strike ballots must be honoured and used as a springboard for a unified campaign across the public sector against austerity, budget cuts and privatisation.

Protests over Palantir involvement in NHS as Burnham and Labour’s links exposed

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:17:54 GMT

Health workers, patients and campaigners protested across Britain on Thursday, demanding that the National Health Service cut ties with Palantir. More than 40 protests were held at hospitals and Integrated Care Boards across England as well as in city centres.

Fourth nationwide school strike in Germany: 45,000 protest against conscription

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:00:03 GMT

The school strikes show the continuing opposition among young people to conscription. But the movement can only advance if it bases itself on the international working class and a revolutionary perspective against war.

Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:55:48 GMT

The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.

European powers answer Russian nuclear warnings with further military escalation

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:55:20 GMT

Barely days after Moscow formally warned NATO that an attempt to blockade or isolate the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad could provoke the use of nuclear weapons, the governments of Europe are responding not with attempts to step back from the brink, but with declarations of increased military support for Ukraine, accelerated rearmament and preparations for a direct confrontation with Russia.

Bonds gripped by a “vicious loop”

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:54:00 GMT

Yields have risen to their highest levels in a quarter of a century with little sign of coming down.

An American horror story: The failed execution of Christa Pike

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:26:28 GMT

There are incidents in contemporary American society so barbaric that they shock the sensibilities of anyone who stands for social equality, justice and human decency. The state of Tennessee’s attempted execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night is such an event.

Wealth of America’s richest 0.1 percent doubles since 2019, as profits hit record share of income

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:17:30 GMT

The richest 0.1 percent of American households more than doubled their wealth between the end of 2019 and June 30, Federal Reserve figures released last month show.

The strategy and program of the SEP in the fight against the JVP government and capitalism

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:04:02 GMT

Against all other political parties, their fake-left hangers on and the trade union bureaucracies, the SEP alone advanced a revolutionary socialist program during the 2022 mass uprising.

“Music City” without an orchestra as Nashville Symphony suspends its season in face of financial crisis

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:45:33 GMT

The highly regarded Nashville Symphony is suspending the rest of its 2026-27 season due to lack of funding.

The pseudo-left and Brazil’s crisis elections

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:07:44 GMT

The function of the pseudo-left is to subordinate the working class to the PT, the trade union bureaucracy and, ultimately, the bourgeois nation state.

South Korean steel and shipbuilding workers hold partial strikes

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:24:05 GMT

The country’s labor unions, regardless of affiliation, are attempting to stifle worker opposition to the growing attacks on their living and economic conditions.

Gary Tyler, former political prisoner in US, endorses campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk: “This young man should be free”

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:17:17 GMT

Gary Tyler, the former political prisoner who spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a murder he did not commit, has endorsed the international campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk.

New Census poverty report conceals the social catastrophe facing working people

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:01:15 GMT

Official poverty statistics expose a deepening crisis for which Democrats and Republicans bear joint responsibility.

Sri Lankan filmmaker supports campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:58:58 GMT

“I hope that the struggle to secure Bogdan Syrotiuk's release will become the foundation for an anti-war movement.”—Prasanna Vithanage

Strikes spread across Brazil on the eve of the elections

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:22:49 GMT

A wave of strikes in the public and private sectors exposes the class character of the Lula government and the need for an independent struggle of the working class against austerity, fascism and imperialism.

SEP (Canada) founding congress pledges to fight for the freedom of socialist-internationalist, anti-war prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:53:14 GMT

The founding congress of the SEP, held in Montreal in August, unanimously adopted the following resolution denouncing the Ukrainian state’s persecution of Bodgan Syrotiuk.

Hunger, homelessness, overwork and debt: Save the Student survey shows crisis facing UK higher education students

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:47:00 GMT

Among survey respondents, 63 percent skip meals to save money, 9 percent used a food bank during the last academic year, and 28 percent hold two or more jobs.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:04:26 GMT

100,000 Irish public sector workers begin industrial action in pay dispute with government; workers and students in five days of protests across Iraq over lack of jobs and social conditions; Tunisian fuel transport workers hold 48-hour strike over pay and conditions

Australia signs security pact with Ukraine, backs NATO war against Russia

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:51:55 GMT

Albanese posed for a grinning selfie with Trump, just hours after the fascistic US president had again threatened to “annihilate” Iran.

The strategy and program of the SEP in the fight against the JVP government and capitalism

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:31:46 GMT

The Congress was held amid a deepening political and economic crisis of global capitalism, marked by unfolding world war pushed by the imperialist powers and moves by the ruling class to impose austerity and dictatorial forms of rule, as well as the resurgence of class struggle globally.

Australia: ACT Labor government slashes school budgets across Canberra

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:29:30 GMT

At least 58 of the territory’s 94 public schools will see their funding fall, with 37 facing cuts greater than 5 percent.

Nearly 1,000 private armed guards deployed in USPS plants, as Trump continues offensive against mail-in balloting

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:45:27 GMT

The guards are being rushed into USPS facilities five weeks before the midterms, as the Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting.

Smithfield workers speak out against deadly conditions after death of Patou Mpinda in Illinois meatpacking plant

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:44:51 GMT

Meatpacking workers in the Quad Cities area spoke with the WSWS and detailed the harsh exploitation and dangerous workplace conditions that have lead to worker deaths.

Stand up for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk!

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:25:33 GMT

This is the text of an open letter to the leadership of the Left Party. It was sent on September 30 to Ines Schwerdtner and Luigi Pantisano, co-chairs of the Left Party, as well as to Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann, co-chairs of the Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Judge denies bail, continues detention of anti-Zionist Hasidic father in bid to deport him to Israel

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:25:08 GMT

Yehonatan Ovadia, a member of the anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic community and outspoken opponent of the Israeli state and Gaza genocide, has been detained since August 28 and is being threatened with deportation in violation of his First Amendment rights.

Is the world on the brink of nuclear war?

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:11:37 GMT

Russia’s warning that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO blockades Kaliningrad shows that the US-NATO war in Ukraine is escalating into an open confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, a danger being concealed from the population.

US government charges ICE victim Garces Perez, refuses medical care

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:08:29 GMT

Eight days after shooting Wilber Garces Perez in the back, the US government has charged him with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with and impeding a federal officer. The government denied him bond during a hearing on Wednesday.

Two years of JVP/NPP rule in Sri Lanka

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:47:11 GMT

Jettisoning its election promises, the JVP/NPP government has ruthlessly escalated IMF-dictated austerity, aligned itself with US imperialism, and unleashed state repression against workers and students opposing its right-wing agenda.

Congo Ebola epidemic passes 8,000 cases and nears 4,000 deaths as attacks on health workers mount

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:43:53 GMT

The Congolese Ebola epidemic has reached 8,116 confirmed cases and 3,924 deaths, amid attacks that have killed a local politician who urged prevention on the radio and a health worker at a screening post, while world leaders quibble over equity and royalties.

Canada’s Prime Minister considered US military attack scenario amid trade war, Trump annexation threats

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:43:49 GMT

According to the Times, “When pressed on whether he took Mr. Trump’s threats to make Canada a 51st state seriously, Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved.”

A girl dies of measles in the Peruvian Amazon

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:37:18 GMT

The most disturbing possibility is that mobilizing the available resources to save the life of a 16-year-old Indigenous girl was simply not considered worthwhile.

Mamdani’s counterterrorism chief denounces “far-left terrorism”

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:27:26 GMT

The mayor gave his silent assent to an attack that lumped anti-genocide protesters together with the ultra-right.

Pacific defence ministers prepare to suppress civil unrest

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:27:09 GMT

The imperialist powers, including Australia and New Zealand, anticipate an upsurge of mass struggles against poverty and inequality across the Pacific.

Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:03:57 GMT

The national security “caucus” of the House Democrats could double or even triple as a result of the November 3 vote.

Online meeting in Sri Lanka: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! Build an international movement against imperialist war!

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:12:06 GMT

The meeting hosted by the IYSSE (Sri Lanka) on October 13 will be conducted in Sinhala and translated live into Tamil.

UK Prime Minister Burnham claims “strong indications” Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, as unanswered questions pile up

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:37:29 GMT

Events over the days since the five arrests saw revelations throwing a question mark over heavy suggestions of Iranian involvement, and even over whether there was any terror incident to be involved in.

Thousands to protest Palantir's role in NHS, US deportations and Gaza genocide

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:14:12 GMT

For all talk of Burnham being prepared to end Palantir’s National Health Service contract—but only through a break clause, leaving its other contracts intact—the first attempt to force the issue was shot down at this week’s annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

Birmingham bin workers’ struggle: Behind the media talk of an “imminent” deal lies a sellout — the rank and file must take control

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:03:43 GMT

The secrecy surrounding the proposed deal is a warning. Birmingham bin workers must establish a rank-and-file committee to enforce direct oversight of negotiations, agree on non-negotiable demands and mobilise alongside council workers nationally facing the same austerity cuts.

Trump condemns regulation in meeting with technology oligarchs

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:08:32 GMT

US President Donald Trump hosted the heads of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology companies for lunch at the White House Tuesday, condemning any government oversight or regulation of the technology sector.

Germany: Demonstrations against social cuts, workers’ anger met with trade union maneuvers

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:01:39 GMT

The union bureaucracy pretends it is fighting the attacks by the federal government and corporations. The opposite is true.

Australia: 15-year-old boy killed at Melbourne factory

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:44:14 GMT

According to WorkSafe Victoria, the boy “was fixing defects on a precast concrete panel when an adjacent panel weighing more than two tonnes fell onto him.”

Australia: Public sector doctors to strike in Victoria

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:39:47 GMT

The Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation was forced to call the stoppage after doctors powerfully opposed the union bureaucracy’s last-minute cancellation of a 24-hour strike planned for September 15.

NZ welfare agency denies aid to thousands, says food is “not essential”

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:32:29 GMT

The Ministry of Social Development denied emergency food grants last year to 88,000 people and told thousands that food was “not an essential need”.

US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Christa Pike

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:09:37 GMT

For the second time in as many days, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the execution of Christa Gail Pike, overturning a last-minute stay issued by the 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals less than two hours before she was set to die.

Turkish government, shaken by fund crisis, attacks freedom of expression

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:07:01 GMT

Facing a severe political crisis, the Erdoğan government is seeking to suppress the social powder keg through police state measures.

Hundreds of thousands march in French public sector strike against austerity and war

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:04:44 GMT

Workers and youth spoke to the WSWS at yesterday’s march in Paris of their growing anger and concern over economic hardship, war, and the fear of far-right dictatorship

German Morenoites tie workers and young people to the right-wing policies of the Left Party

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:36:46 GMT

The pseudo-left RIO admits the Left Party's record is one of cuts, rearmament and paving the way for the far-right AfD—yet its conclusion is that workers should stay inside the party, not break with it.

Where is our contract? Is the UAW still trying to put lipstick on a pig?

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:10:52 GMT

Three months after the UAW pushed through its "contract" after four tries, Nexteer workers have still not seen the written agreement.

“The only way things are going to change is if we unite”: US truckers discuss proposed October 1 shutdown over soaring fuel costs

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:04:42 GMT

Calls for truck drivers across the United States to park their rigs on October 1 are circulating among drivers as soaring diesel prices wipe out already-thin margins for owner-operators.

Cleveland Orchestra musicians end 3-day strike as crisis deepens for US cultural institutions

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:03:54 GMT

Orchestras and other arts organizations are under sustained attack, as all available resources are being funneled to Wall Street and the US war machine.

The AI copyright lawsuits: What happens when machines learn from culture?

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:00:04 GMT

The lawsuits against AI companies raise difficult questions about training, reproduction and ownership.

Shawn Fain wins Eugene Debs award: Desecrating the memory of America’s great socialist leader

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:01:53 GMT

On the centenary of Debs’ death, the foundation bearing his name honors a union official who embodies everything the socialist leader fought against.

Former Air Canada pilot and whistleblower speaks out on the death of Oscar Robayo and dangerous conditions in the aviation industry

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:22:42 GMT

The crushing of ramp worker Oscar Robayo by the nose gear of an Airbus A350-900 while he was performing a routine pushback at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport in August has provoked sympathy and outrage among workers throughout the aviation industry and beyond.

Milei exploits Malvinas to build up Argentina’s repressive apparatus

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:17:31 GMT

Milei’s “National Sovereignty Defense Law” uses a real grievance of an oppressed nation to arm the state against the working class, while the pseudo-left offers a nationalist perspective that excludes the unity of Argentine workers with workers in the US and Britain.