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Serbian President Vučić announces his resignation

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:33:59 GMT

Vucic is banking on the opposition’s weakness ahead of snap parliamentary elections, which are expected to be held at the same time as the presidential election.

Investigation exposes militarization of California campuses

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:33:24 GMT

Military policing on California campuses has advanced under Democratic Party rule.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:48:57 GMT

South Korea: Public sector workers rally over pay and restructuring; India: Karnataka garbage pickers demand outstanding wages; Bangladesh garment workers demonstrate for unpaid wages; Australia: Mining workers set to strike at BHP Port Hedland; Victorian public hospital doctors prepare for industrial action over wages and conditions.

Chile’s Carabineros repress, detain health workers protesting budget cuts

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:20:35 GMT

The scenes outside La Moneda, with water cannon dispersing a peaceful march and union leaders dragged into detention, belong to a global pattern of state violence against working-class opposition.

SWP Marxism Festival 2026: a demoralised gathering of political bankrupts

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:01:23 GMT

Despite Corbyn expelling three SWP national committee members from Your Party last November, the SWP welcomed him onto the main stage on Saturday. Nielsen (one of those expelled) sat next to Corbyn, chatting amicably, never mentioning Your Party, let alone denouncing its betrayals.

Sharon Graham and Simon Dubbins: two bureaucrats face off for Unite general secretary

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:01:05 GMT

Both use militant-sounding rhetoric only to maintain the bureaucracy's grip over a restive membership employed across major sectors of the economy, while smothering political opposition to the most right-wing, pro-business Labour government in history.

Australia: Telstra outage stops trains, blocks emergency calls

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:28:06 GMT

The failure at Australia’s largest telecommunications company underscores the dangers created by decades of privatisation, subordinating vital public infrastructure to the profit interests of big business.

ICE murder in Houston: Trump’s war against the working class

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:08:07 GMT

The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the inevitable result of the demands by the Trump White House for an enormous increase in detention and deportation of immigrant workers.

Montefiore moves to eliminate 12 Bronx nursing positions in AI restructuring

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:04:15 GMT

The cuts exposes the NYSNA union’s sellout of the New York City nurse’s strike earlier this year, which led to a contract with no meaningful protections against AI-led job losses.

Utah book banning spree part of a broader, preemptive campaign of censorship and oppression

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:00:16 GMT

This is a concerted, organized campaign driven by ultra-right elements dedicated to forcing their anti-democratic and unpopular views on a largely unsuspecting public.

Trump bombs Iran for third day amid Khamenei funeral

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:24:08 GMT

The Trump administration continued its bombing of Iran for a third day on Thursday, striking the rail lines to Mashhad as mourners buried Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader assassinated by US and Israeli forces on the first day of the war.

Sri Lankan government abandons cyclone-affected tea plantation workers

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:07:11 GMT

The WSWS spoke with workers at Eskdale Estate about the lack of support for housing and other basic needs, seven months after Cyclone Ditwah devastated the country.

Join us to expand the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee! Support Will Lehman’s insurgent campaign for UAW president!

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:57:27 GMT

The Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee, formed by a group of militant workers to oppose the sabotage by the UAW bureaucracy, issued the following statement on the fight ahead and its support for Will Lehman.

VW Action Committee calls for strikes and industrial action at all sites. Break the control of the IG Metall union apparatus! Defend every job!

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:06:44 GMT

Volkswagen is moving forward with plans to cut 100,000 jobs and close four plants in Germany, the deepest attack on VW workers ever and part of a global wave of layoffs in the auto industry.

Colombian President Petro accused of “coup” by Trump-backed president-elect

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:38:19 GMT

Petro openly warns of fascism and calls de la Espriella’s victory illegitimate. Yet in the same breath, he calls on demonstrators to remain “calm,” and proposes a “national agreement” with the incoming administration.

New Zealand woman released after 73 days in ICE detention

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:25:22 GMT

The horrific experience of Everlee Wihongi underscores that nobody is exempt from the sweeping attacks on basic democratic rights by the Trump administration.

Canadian exhibition on the dispossession of the Palestinians accused of “antisemitism” in government-backed smear campaign

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:20:53 GMT

An extraordinary campaign is underway to suppress a modest museum exhibition about the Nakba—the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948-49—due to its purported “antisemitism.”

Chile’s “opposition” outflanks the right from the right: The bipartisan consolidation of a police state

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:12:47 GMT

Chile’s pseudo-left has attacked the government from the right, for its alleged inaction, its lack of a plan, its failure to deliver on its law-and-order promises.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:43:11 GMT

Flight and airport workers walk out across Italy over pay and conditions; journalists at Agence France-Presse in Istanbul, Türkiye walk out over pay; police shoot two dead during water outage protests in Gauteng province, South Africa

European imperialists seek access to markets, cheap labour and critical raw materials amid deepening great-power rivalries—Part 2

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:06:16 GMT

The intensification of inter-imperialist antagonisms and open reemergence of conflicting blocs resembles the competing trade blocs of the 1930s that preceded and fuelled World War II.

UK Labour government rams through authoritarian National Security Bill

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:05:56 GMT

The legislation completed its entire passage—from its official announcement in the King's Speech on May 13 to becoming law—in less than two months.

ICE Gestapo kills immigrant worker in Houston

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:11:26 GMT

As is par for the course, ICE did not provide a shred of evidence corroborating its account of events, echoing numerous fabrications put forward to justify deadly incidents involving Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.

Trump launches new phase of US imperialism’s criminal war on Iran

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:45:48 GMT

US President Donald Trump has relaunched American imperialism’s illegal war of aggression against Iran, after repeatedly making Hitlerite threats in recent days to destroy the country’s basic infrastructure and rain death and destruction on its people.

“Work more for the same money”—33,000 Mercedes-Benz employees protest in Germany

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:45:03 GMT

Mercedes is demanding longer working hours and less pay in what amounts to a declaration of war on the workforce.

Israel continues Gaza onslaught, after Hamas announces plan to hand power over to UN committee

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:44:46 GMT

The Israeli military killed 16 people, including two children, in Gaza in the two days following the announcement by Hamas that it was dissolving its government and handing power over to a UN technical committee as part of the US-brokered peace deal.

El-Sayed—Stevens debate in Michigan: Neither “progressive” nor establishment Democrats offer anything for the working class

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:13:11 GMT

The Tuesday night debate between Michigan Democratic Party candidates for US Senate Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens demonstrated that any differences between them are subordinated to their fundamental support for capitalism and the two-party system.

Fiji military commander publicly denounces budget cut

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:45:33 GMT

In the fragile Pacific country shaped by repeated coups, the general’s public interventions are a blunt reminder that the military remains ultimately in charge.

H5N1 “Bird Flu” spreads to Australia

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:42:04 GMT

The 2021–24 surge also saw over 100 human infections, and 10 deaths, with most cases in the United States and Cambodia.

Italy’s summer of struggles: Workers confront Meloni’s austerity, war and police state

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:35:32 GMT

The growth of working class struggle is the central development in Italian political life, posing the urgent need of an independent political strategy for the working class.

Massachusetts nurses strike Mass General Brigham in largest healthcare walkout in state history

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:14:24 GMT

More than 4,500 nurses and clinicians walked off the job Wednesday morning at Mass General Brigham (MGB), the largest private hospital system in Massachusetts, in the largest strike of healthcare workers in the state’s history and the first by nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH).

Under guise of relief, Pentagon deploys 2,000 troops to Venezuela, securing semicolonial foothold

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:30:03 GMT

Two weeks after twin earthquakes left thousands dead and tens of thousands missing, the Pentagon has deployed 2,000 troops to seize control of Venezuela's main airport and port in the latest step to consolidate semicolonial control.

The death of Alejandro Águila exploited to militarize Chile

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:14:04 GMT

The most significant demand to emerge from the political establishment was the call, led by figures from across the governing coalition and the so-called opposition, to deploy the Armed Forces onto the streets of Santiago.

Keiko Fujimori declared Peru's president: imperialism, institutional collapse, and the tasks of the working class

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:12:56 GMT

Fujimori's rise to power unfolds against a backdrop of open US imperialist intervention, a decade of accelerating institutional collapse and intense social crisis.

SOAS graduate Sarah Cotte defends free speech during trial on terrorism charges

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:32:36 GMT

Not a single mainstream journalist reported on the court proceedings. The trial of a student charged with terrorism for speech on campus against genocide has unfolded in near-total silence.

Trump-Erdoğan meeting: A deepening war alliance between Washington and Ankara

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:31:59 GMT

The US president, who is waging a war of aggression against Iran and threatening to destroy its civilization, and who supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza, praised Ankara’s role in the imperialist plans for war and in the Middle East and beyond.

European imperialists seek access to markets, cheap labour and critical raw materials amid deepening great-power rivalries—Part 1

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:30:37 GMT

Europe’s imperialist powers have for the past several years concluded a series of far-reaching trade agreements and raw materials partnerships spanning Latin America, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific.

Australia: What professional staff face at Western Sydney University

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:31:46 GMT

The professional staff enterprise agreement proposed by the trade unions at WSU is even worse than the academic staff version, laying the groundwork for further destruction of jobs and conditions.

Hypocritical condemnation from US Pacific allies over Chinese missile test

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:25:19 GMT

All of those governments criticising the Chinese ballistic missile launch are deeply involved with US war planning against China through basing arrangements for American forces and boosting their own military budgets.

Sri Lanka: Negombo Prison riots leave at least 27 people dead

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:04:57 GMT

Sri Lanka’s prisons are overcrowded, under-resourced and resemble a living hell, in which tensions can easily erupt into violent clashes.

IBEW apparatus shuts down Philadelphia PECO strike as deadly heat wave and storms cause mass power outages

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:21:18 GMT

Despite mass public support for the striking workers, the union apparatus quickly shut the strike down after three days, having reached a paltry tentative agreement.

Ford fired worker over a $1.95 cookie. The UAW told him to say sorry

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:20:47 GMT

Ford fired an 11-year Kentucky Truck Plant electrician over an alleged $1.95 cookie theft. The UAW’s response: “Apologize.” Kurt Kromm proved his innocence with notarized bank statements. The union that sits on $1.25 billion never lifted a finger.

German government adopts historic war budget

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:10:18 GMT

The defence budget will rise by almost one-third in 2027. While healthcare and social spending are being slashed, the German government is preparing the economy and society for a direct war against Russia.

3 children die of carbon monoxide poisoning in Michigan after massive power outage

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:07:18 GMT

Three children died of carbon monoxide poisoning in metro Detroit over the holiday weekend, as families struggled to cope with a massive power outage, which left 400,000 people without electricity, air conditioning and refrigeration after a storm Friday evening.

Police shoot patient inside Southern California hospital

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:02:15 GMT

The Los Robles shooting exposes the transformation of healthcare safety into a police and security question, while HCA’s record of unsafe staffing and profit extraction remains untouched.

NATO warmongers meet in Ankara, Turkey

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:54:24 GMT

Representatives of the NATO military alliance met Tuesday in Ankara, pledging to escalate their rearmament and warmaking across the globe.

Why the New York Times’ list of “definitive” movies about America is so unsatisfactory

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:40:45 GMT

An innovative list, but “innovation” in this case has not proved rewarding. The makers of older, more “traditional” lists had different inclinations.

UAW white paper “Trade and the American Dream”: A brief for economic nationalism and imperialist war

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:48:56 GMT

Its central claim is that trade, not capitalism, is responsible for deindustrialization, the sharp decline in real wages and the devastation of working class communities.

Graham Platner and the fraud of “working-class” Democratic Party politics

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:46:34 GMT

Platner’s campaign was a manufactured attempt to rebrand the Democratic Party with a militarized, right-wing “working-class” persona.

Keiko Fujimori declared Peru’s president: The historical roots of fujimorism and the bankruptcy of the pseudo-left

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:13:31 GMT

Fujimori’s victory is not an isolated episode. It confirms that fujimorism has remained for more than three decades the organizing axis of bourgeois rule in Peru—surviving the fall of the dictatorship, the death of its founder, and successive institutional crises.

Kenya and Tanzania deploy security forces against Gen-Z-led Saba Saba protests

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:47:10 GMT

Kenya and Tanzania’s youth opposition are part of a single continental and global process, driven by the same underlying conditions. In both countries the youth have shown they can transcend the ethnic divisions long exploited by the ruling class.

Israel’s war on Gaza continues, deliberately targeting children

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:15:41 GMT

Since the ceasefire, at least 265 children have been killed, many shot or shelled near the ill‑defined “Yellow Line”: a boundary Israel uses to justify lethal force.

WSWS begins posting highlight clips from webinar on the American Revolution

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:10:32 GMT

The WSWS is posting highlight clips from the webinar to all of our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X/Twitter.

[UPDATE] Strike by Philadelphia Electric Company workers shut down after 3 days

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:54:59 GMT

The strike is a significant expression of militancy and political symbolism. Striking on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, in the very city where independence was declared, underscores that the revolutionary conflict of the present is the struggle of the working class against capitalism.

Australia: What the proposed enterprise agreements at Western Sydney University reveal

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:42:57 GMT

What is happening at WSU is a warning to staff and students alike of the retrograde conditions that the campus trade unions are trying to inflict on them nationally, by separate enterprise agreements at one university after the other.

Massachusetts nurses, home care clinicians plan largest healthcare strike in state history

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:15:20 GMT

Nurses voted 2,798 to 12, or 99.6 percent, to authorize a strike, the largest such vote by nurses in Massachusetts history.

With the World Cup final approaching, is now the time for New York transit workers to prepare a strike?

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:14:48 GMT

With public attention throughout the world focused on the World Cup, transit workers have an unprecedented opportunity to go on the offensive.

NZ media glorifies man who died fighting in Ukraine’s fascist Azov Brigade

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:56:57 GMT

The New Zealand Herald has published pro-war propaganda that effectively encourages young people to follow the example of Sam Haines, a 22-year-old killed in Ukraine last year.

National Guard soldiers kill 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson in Memphis, Tennessee

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:32:20 GMT

The fatal shooting of Tyrin Johnson by Tennessee National Guard soldiers is the latest violent incident tied to the Memphis Safe Task Force, part of Trump’s nationwide drive to normalize military-police occupations.

Geethananda Balasuriya Jayasekara (1955–2026): A fighter for Trotskyism

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:20:16 GMT

Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for socialism of what it means to be a Trotskyist fighter.

US conducts massive RIMPAC joint naval drills

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:07:31 GMT

Regardless of fraudulent claims of defending the “free and open Indo-Pacfic,” the US is using these war games to deepen collaboration with its allies in preparation for launching a war against China.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:57:06 GMT

Mobilization Day for A Shorter Work Week in Brazil saw demonstrations in 30 cities, while 60,000 Canadian nurses are in their first week of a work-to-rule over contract issues including staffing.

Far-right Alternative for Germany holds party congress: Police violence and political support pave the way to government

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:49:57 GMT

Exactly 100 years earlier, the first Reich Party Congress of the re-established NSDAP took place in nearby Weimar, at which the party reorganised itself following its temporary ban in the wake of the Hitler Putsch and definitively pledged its allegiance to Hitler as Führer.

As they escalate war against Russia, imperialist powers greenlight Erdoğan’s police-state crackdown

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:49:14 GMT

NATO’s war summit in Ankara is opening amid conditions in which the Erdoğan government has declared war on basic democratic rights in Türkiye.

Everything Is Great!: Carsie Blanton and the Burning Hell call for the overthrow of capitalism

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:17:37 GMT

A new musical collaboration gives voice to widespread anger at war, fascism, police terror and exploitation.

Prevent closure, defend every job at the Zalando logistics hub in Erfurt, Germany!

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:16:34 GMT

Zalando is slashing 2,700 jobs at its Erfurt logistics hub to boost profits—and the Verdi union bureaucracy is helping the company do it by haggling over severance pay instead of fighting to keep the facility open.

Trump calls FIFA chief to lift suspension on US player: Chauvinism and corruption permeate World Cup

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:12:20 GMT

The episode lays bare the subordination of the world’s most popular sports tournament to the US financial oligarchy and the Trump White House.

Oppose the Erdoğan government’s arrests and censorship ahead of the NATO summit! Free all political prisoners!

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:22:38 GMT

The Erdoğan government escalated political repression ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, detaining hundreds more people.

UK Labour government embeds arms industry in higher education through Defence Universities Alliance

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:11:06 GMT

The Labour government is directly enlisting universities as part of its society-wide war drive.

Nearly 25,000 migrants flee South Africa amid xenophobic violence

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:03:25 GMT

The pogromist groups act as the extra-parliamentary spearhead of the African National Congress-led ten party Government of National Unity’s anti-immigrant policies.

Australia: Worker injured at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks as pattern of dangerous incidents continues

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:41:54 GMT

The series of incidents involving falling objects highlights the ongoing risk to BlueScope workers after the tragic death of 24-year-old worker Jack McGrath last year.

25 deaths across the US from “heat dome” during week of July 4th

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:26:23 GMT

The heat wave that struck the Midwest, South and Northeast of the US—with 35 states plus the District of Columbia hitting temperatures of 100˚ or more—has so far killed 25 people with expectations that the number of excess deaths will be significantly higher.

Hundreds of Patriot Front fascists march in Washington during US 250th anniversary celebration

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:26:03 GMT

The white supremacist march in the capital, met with police protection and official invocations of “free speech,” exposes the real class content of democratic rights under the Trump administration.

Dana, Magna workers face critical contract fights, as UAW seeks to extend pattern of betrayals

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:08:16 GMT

Auto parts workers at Dana and Magna Seating are entering contract battles in the wake of UAW sellouts at American Axle and Nexteer and continuing industry cost cutting.

No outright winner in New Caledonia election

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:26 GMT

A lower turnout in the French territory’s elections and the subsequent deadlock reflect growing opposition to the entire political establishment.

Trump’s fascist tirade at Mount Rushmore: Anticommunist hysteria and the conspiracy for dictatorship

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:00:01 GMT

The speech delivered by Trump on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence expressed both the terror gripping the capitalist oligarchy and the political conspiracy ahead of the midterm elections.

Open letter from Lula and Tedros: Preparing the next pandemic under capitalism

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:17:39 GMT

Within the framework of the imperialist crisis, data on pathogens and health responses are treated as strategic intelligence. Access to vaccines is wielded as geopolitical currency.

California governor signs 2026–27 state austerity budget

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:56:23 GMT

California Democrats pass austerity budget slashing healthcare and education, expanding corporate subsidies while centralizing executive control over public schools statewide.

Fourth death in 50 days as Michigan Democrats protect prison profiteers

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:40:37 GMT

Dalephenia Jones is the latest woman to die in Michigan's only women's prison, where a profit-driven healthcare contractor and Democratic Party state government share responsibility for mounting deaths.

In memory of Herma Huber, founding member of the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:39:30 GMT

Born into the rubble of post-war Germany, Herma Huber belonged to a generation that demanded answers to the great catastrophe of Nazi fascism. Rejecting both Stalinist lies and capitalist hypocrisy, she found her answer in Trotskyism.

This week in history: July 6-12

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:38:33 GMT

Chilean court halts Pinochet prosecution; Washington Post pressmen indicted; armistice talks begin in Korea; Kuomintang begins Northern Expedition in China.

Fired drinking water adviser files suit against EPA

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:47:58 GMT

A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.

Tanzanian regime bans Gen-Z Saba Saba protests, deploys army and police

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:17:31 GMT

The Tanzanian working class and youth confront a corrupt bourgeois state defending itself through terror, an opposition tied to the same capitalist order, and imperialist powers competing against rising capitalist powers like China to loot the country's resources.

Baby banks in the UK report overwhelming demand amid appalling poverty

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:07:32 GMT

According to research by the Baby Bank Alliance, baby banks supported an average of 1,096 children per day last year in the UK.

CWU has no mandate for backing Kretinsky's wrecking operation at Royal Mail—Build the rank-and-file opposition

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:07:02 GMT

The Communication Workers Union bureaucracy has no mandate for its collusion with Royal Mail management and Kretinsky. The ballot result on May 29 was carried on a historic low turnout of just 32 percent.

250 years since the Declaration of Independence

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:39:39 GMT

The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.

USPS rural carrier kidnapped and murdered in North Carolina

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:32:15 GMT

Customers on Reynolds’ route described her as kind, caring, hardworking and attentive to the people she served. “It was always a joy to see her,” one resident wrote.

Sahra Wagenknecht offers to cooperate with far-right Alternative for Germany

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:09:52 GMT

It has long been evident that there are similarities in the political programmes of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD). But now the BSW is going a step further and offering the far-right party political cooperation.

Australia: Union rams through sellout endorsement in small meeting at Western Sydney University

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:47:33 GMT

The meeting showed developing concern among educators over the role of the NTEU and other trade unions in enforcing the dictates of the corporate elite and its governments.

Latest jobs report shows labor force participation dropped by 720,000 workers in June

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:46:19 GMT

The unemployment rate went down by one tenth of a point—from 4.3 to 4.2 percent—in June due to 720,000 people leaving the labor force and the creation of just 57,000 new jobs was far below expectations.

New Zealand: Labour’s hollow promises in lead up to November election

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:43:35 GMT

Labour’s record demonstrates that it is a party of big business that shares the National Party-led government’s agenda of militarism and austerity.

“Let them eat wedding cake”: The Swift-Kelce spectacle at Madison Square Garden

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:41:45 GMT

The preoccupation with fame and wealth and wall-to-wall media coverage of the Swift-Kelce wedding on Friday evening—overlapping with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—is one way the ruling oligarchy is seeking to divert the attention of the public away from the terminal crisis of capitalism.

Australia: Karl Stefanovic’s turn from breakfast compere to the far-right

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:38:37 GMT

Stefanovic’s trajectory is part of a broader lurch to the right by the political and media establishment.

Canada to host new multilateral bank to fund imperialist war

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:27:30 GMT

The Liberal government, led by former central bank governor Mark Carney, has played the leading role in the development of this new multilateral bank, as part of its effort to drastically increase Canada’s military spending and cultivate military ties with powers other than its historic military-strategic ally south of the border.

US courts sentence 15 Prairieland defendants to 556 years in Trump’s fascist campaign against left-wing opposition

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:19:03 GMT

The savage sentences mark the first major prison terms in the Trump administration’s campaign to brand left-wing opposition to ICE, fascism and capitalism as terrorism.

Workers on the job amid deadly US heat wave exposes government and corporate indifference

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:16:05 GMT

Reuters reported Friday that heat indexes could reach as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the US. Trump's so-called "Great American State Fair" event in Washington D.C.’s National Mall was temporarily closed after temperatures reached 101 degrees. Philadelphia canceled its Salute to Independence Parade after tying a temperature record set in 1901.

The political significance of the Colombian and Peruvian elections

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:36:33 GMT

Rather than a turn to the right by the working class or the broad mass of the population, the elections express disgust with the entire political establishment.

“We are being sold out.” German VW workers blast union betrayal as auto plants are sacrificed to rearmament drive

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:35:04 GMT

While the government and corporations pour billions into rearmament and war, wages in the auto industry are to be cut and entire workforces laid off.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:26:13 GMT

South Korea: Kakao platform workers strike again for higher wage and bonus; India: Rajasthan sanitation workers strike for job security; Australia: Campbell’s Soups workers continue walkouts over pay; Peabody extends Wambo mine lockout of washery workers.

Turkish teachers suspend Ankara protest ahead of NATO summit

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:33:54 GMT

For teachers, the way forward lies in a struggle that mobilizes the collective strength of all educators and of the other sections of the working class.

July 4th and America’s revolutionary influence on Britain

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:03:03 GMT

The American Revolution not only freed its citizens from the domination of the British Empire; it was an inspiration to all progressive struggles in British society, from the anti-slavery movement to the radical movement for democratic reform.