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Whatever chain of events in the aircraft’s systems led to catastrophe, the ultimate cause is ruthless pursuit of profit by the corporate oligarchy which controls every aspect of American and world society.
The domination of the United States by a parasitic oligarchy, whose seat of power is in the White House, is on display for everyone to see.
The threat to shut off food stamps is part of a broader social counter-revolution, which will not stop until the oligarchs behind Trump are finally expropriated, and society put under workers’ control.
Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media simply moved on.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
Shamenia Stewart-Adams delivered powerful remarks to the public hearing on the death of her husband at the Dundee Engine Complex.
Workers must fight for workers’ power and workers’ control over production, harnessing the surplus created by new technologies to improve, not lower, the standard of living for the masses.
“The path forward lies in organizing independently—through the creation of rank-and-file committees democratically controlled by nurses themselves—to wage a genuine fight for your demands.”
For those reading this in Canada thinking this explosion happened in the US and thankfully it cannot happen here, they should look soberly at what our current prime minister is doing without any real pushback, and our experience at the National Steel Car plant in Hamilton, Ontario.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
Workers must fight for workers’ power and workers’ control over production, harnessing the surplus created by new technologies to improve, not lower, the standard of living for the masses.
The Stellantis group, which includes Peugeot, Fiat and Chrysler, as well as Opel, is systematically cutting jobs and preparing further plant closures. In October, production lines in six factories came to a standstill for days.
Ford has extended layoffs at its massive Rouge complex, idling the Dearborn Truck Plant (DTP) and Rouge Electric Vehicle Center (REV-C), which together employ 4,000 workers.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
The Transport Workers Union seeks to stall and handicap workers as they voted unanimously to authorize a strike amid stalled contract talks.
The company’s “proactive” decision is an exercise in damage control intended to conceal its prioritization of profit above safety.
Union Pacific, whose CEO discussed with Trump which cities to send troops to, is using the donation to curry favor for approval of its proposed merger with Norfolk Southern.
Far from Labour Mayor Andy Burnham’s PR, claiming the Bee Network as an exemplar for public transport, every section of public transport workers in Greater Manchester are revolting against the shoddy pay and conditions that have been enforced by TfGM and the private operators.
The shutdown of GP and counselling services at three Melbourne community health centres further highlights the deepening crisis in public healthcare funding under the federal and state Labor governments.
The conditions are emerging for a powerful movement in defense of the right to healthcare, but this requires a fight against the union bureaucracy, which slashed the size of the strike by more than half with last-minute sellouts.
The strike, they made clear, is a fight to defend both their future as doctors and the future of a publicly funded NHS for all. There was also opposition to social inequality and the wealth of the billionaires, the growth of the extreme right and scapegoating of immigrants, the Gaza genocide and billions being diverted for war.
Health Secretary Streeting is priming a leadership bid to replace Prime Minister Starmer, with Labour's support polling at record low levels. In the face of this offensive, the BMA leadership has repeatedly sought a compromise where none is on offer.
Declaring “Education Week,” Trump launched a sweeping attack on the Department of Education, with the aim of refashioning schooling in line with corporate and military interests.
The fascistic administration of Governor Greg Abbott, at the behest of Trump, is seeking to ensure that the approximately 1.6 million students attending public universities in Texas only come into contact with instructional material acceptable to the far right.
As a result of a wave of job and course cuts, school leavers are increasingly being told that the subjects and degrees they wished to study are no longer available.
Extensive tax exemptions handed to big business by successive governments over decades have deepened the country’s social crisis and undermined public education.
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
Mass layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Paramount Global, and in the auto industry reveal the corporate offensive to cut jobs and weaponize AI against the working class.
The move marks an accelerating jobs bloodbath, with rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence being weaponized to eliminate entire sections of the workforce.
Amazon announced last week that it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs at the tech giant. The move follows a previous series of massive job cuts at the company and in the technology sector as a whole.
The Chevron refinery disaster reveals decades of bipartisan deregulation, corporate impunity, and the collapse of environmental oversight amid the Trump administration’s shutdown and California Democrats’ fraudulent “green” agenda.
The massive explosion at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery, narrowly avoiding mass casualties, exposes the deadly consequences of corporate cost-cutting and bipartisan deregulation amid America’s crumbling industrial base.
The scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
“Closing the CSB will mean more accidents at chemical plants, more explosions and more deaths.”
One miner said, “The people all the way up, that own the companies, don’t care that much. They’re just money-hungry and not willing to take the correct procedures, fix the equipment.”
The company Polymetals announced yesterday that “mining and milling operations have successfully recommenced” and that continuous shift work was being reinstated.
The large attendance, more than filling the stands of the Tom Knight Memorial Oval, reflected the fact that McMullen’s death is a loss, not just to his family, but to the whole town.
Veteran coal miner and crew leader Steve Lipscomb, 38, was found dead in the Rolling Thunder mine at 7:30am on Thursday, five days after he became trapped by a sudden inrush of water from an abandoned adjacent mine.
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 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.
