The attitude of the White House was summed up in an X/Twitter post over the weekend, where Trump declared that “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Modeling himself on the Fuhrer principle, Trump is declaring himself a dictator totally unbound by the law.
The potential for a movement uniting workers across North America was shown six years ago, when 70,000 maquiladora factory workers conducted a wave of explosive wildcat strikes.
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
The events of the past four weeks have confirmed that Trump’s return represents the violent realignment of the political superstructure to correspond with the oligarchic character of American society.
There are now rank-and-file committees of autoworkers, educators, Amazon and logistics workers, postal workers, bus drivers, and many other sections of the working class.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who oppress workers in order to defend the profits of the ruling elite.
Contact us now to join a committee. If there is not already a committee in your workplace, industry or region, we will help you start one!
This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed immediately and expanded to include transit workers, white-collar employees and all other sections of the working class in Philadelphia.
The purpose of the investigation, the committee emphasized, would be to “expose conditions at USPS to the workers of the world and to arm postal workers with crucial information which they need to organize a fight.”
Workers must not allow management and the union bureaucrats to sweep their deaths under the rug! The USPS (US Postal Service) Workers Rank-and-File Committee is preparing an investigation into the circumstances behind these terrible tragedies.
At every point during the current long-running contract struggle, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ leadership has made decisions designed to put workers in the worst possible position to wage their fight to defend secure jobs and public services, and exert control over the use of AI and new technologies.
The unions are doing everything possible to keep workers on the job and prevent a broader struggle against big business and capitalism.
Monday marks three months since the April 7 death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman at the Dundee Engine Plant in southern Michigan.
A Dana Ft. Wayne, Indiana worker describes conditions at his workplace after hearing about the investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
While the German government pours hundreds of billions of euros into rearmament and war, the jobs massacre in the automotive, supplier, chemical, steel and other key industries continues unabated and is now extending to the services sector.
The changes, described by management as necessary for “efficiency,” will extend delivery times for millions of residents, particularly in rural areas, as USPS seeks to eliminate trucking routes and consolidate processing operations to slash labor and transportation costs.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
More than 600 Bus drivers in Melbourne and regional Victoria, employed by ComfortDelGro, have held three one-day strikes in recent weeks, against further real wage cuts and attacks on working conditions.
The budget, which will force a 45 percent reduction in services, places the working class throughout the region on a collision course with the two-party system’s budget cutting agenda.
Among the conditions striking workers described were dangerous levels of heat.
The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic problems, within the capitalist system.
Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital announced the immediate slashing of 20 full-time equivalent roles in the birthing and delivery unit.
The union bureaucracy has shut down the strike of 1,300 workers at precisely the moment when a broadening of the struggle is needed.
The hysteria and witch-hunting over mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani mirrors the gangster methods of the UFT, which is determined to stamp out even the most limited opportunities for workers to express their opposition to the status quo.
Thursday’s meeting voted by 99 percent for stoppages, but the NTEU leaders are determined to prevent any struggle by academics and staff against mass job cuts throughout the university sector.
By cutting international student enrolments, the Labor government is deliberately applying financial pressure to the universities, in order to restructure them to align with “national priorities” set out in last year’s Universities Accord report.
Over 5,000 job cuts across UK universities have been announced this year, with thousands more in the pipeline. But staff unions led by the UCU are blocking a united fightback.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
Leony Salcedo-Chevalier, 34, was fatally struck on April 9 by a box truck backing up in a loading dock at the JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center in New York.
The workers were seriously injured in a fire that broke out inside the construction site of a new Amazon Web Services facility in New Carlisle, Indiana.
It is impossible to have safe working conditions as long as Amazon and other workplaces are under the thumb of Wall Street oligarchs. Workers showed the alternative through their own practice when they forced management to shut operations after Salcedo-Chevalier’s death for two shifts.
The 250 striking workers were given just 48-hours notice to vote on a lengthy seven-year contract that failed to meet their key demands.
On strike for more than three months, Marathon workers called for joint action to stop the cutoff of their insurance on December 13.
The working class in the metro Detroit area must come to the defense of the more than 250 Marathon refinery workers who have been on strike for three months.
After more than 10 weeks on strike, workers at Marathon Detroit Refinery are determined to win improved wages and stop subcontracting, healthcare cuts and dangerous work schedules.
The coalminers have been locked out without pay for almost three weeks, in retaliation for a single one-hour strike.
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.
The Trump administration’s move to strip Harvard University of its ability to enroll international students is a fascistic assault on democratic rights and an attempt to place the entire university system under direct political control by a gangster regime in Washington.
Graduate workers are exploited by a system that pays them in stipends and earn as little as $15,000 a year, in a city that regularly ranks as one of the poorest in the country.
The lawsuit, launched by the ACLU in California, alleges that the summary banishment by the University of California Regents was illegal.
Suspensions, banishments, withholding of diplomas, and demands for letters of apology are among the weapons used to attack freedom of speech.
The union is facilitating the destruction of a portion of its membership. This is the logical follow-up to the sellout contract agreed to by SAG-AFTRA after a lengthy strike last year.
We recently spoke to stuntwoman-actress Michelle Shock about the SAG-AFTRA contract and the general situation in the film and television industry.
When only a little more than a third of the membership bothers to vote in such circumstances, this has to be considered a vote of non-confidence in the union leadership.
The Drescher-Crabtree-Ireland leadership and the national board as a whole have proven themselves to be conscious agents of the corporate predators.
Striking London United bus strikers spoke to WSWS reports during their strike this weekend.
Last May, the union pushed through a 2.25 percent increase for a two-year agreement up to December 2021. Shepherds Bush was one of three garages that voted the deal down.
A driver from Norwood told WSWS, “It’s a really difficult time. Mortgages are going up and we have to work overtime to make ends meet. Without overtime you can’t survive.”
By Unite’s own admission, it has presided over four years of below-inflation pay deals. It now wants to impose another one.
The ICFI and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties are advancing this initiative to begin and develop a global counteroffensive of the working class against the homicidal policies of the governments controlled by the capitalist ruling class, which are responsible for the worldwide catastrophe.
This resolution was adopted unanimously by the membership of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States at its Sixth National Congress, which was held online from July 19 to July 24, 2020.
The characteristic of every great crisis is that it lays bare the contradictions that have accumulated and been suppressed for decades. All that is backward, anachronistic, corrupt, and, in the most profoundly objective sense, absurd and even irrational in the economic organization, social structure, political leadership and dominant ideology of the existing society is brutally and comprehensively exposed. The pandemic is such a crisis.
This lecture by David North examines the causes for the betrayals of the trade unions in their hostility to the class struggle and socialism, and reviews the historical conflict between the trade unions and revolutionary Marxism. It was re-published in the 2014 book, The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished 20th Century.
