BT workers join a lengthening list of workers whose struggles, particularly those in relation to fire and rehire, have been betrayed by unions including the CWU, the GMB at British Gas and Unite at Go North West and in its ongoing attempt to enforce a filthy concessions agreement at JDE.
Whipps Cross Hospital declared a major incident after it suffered a power outage and Newham Hospital was also forced to ask patients seeking urgent care to use other Accident and Emergency departments. Nine London Underground and Overground stations were closed.
Governments are refusing to institute the necessary safety measures, even as the country is gripped by a worsening outbreak of the highly-infectious Delta variant.
The Washington Post has a long and sordid record of promoting US “boots on the ground,” and if the intervention that the Post is advocating in Haiti is realized, it will unleash another crime against the Haitian people.
The openly fascist faction of the House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, held a press conference in front of the Justice Department to defend what they called the “political prisoners” imprisoned for their roles in the January 6 assault on Congress.
The Labour Party-led government is seeking to enforce a wage freeze, while doing nothing to address the staffing crisis in hospitals.
On top of hundreds of jobs already lost, this latest attack means the university will have retrenched 15 percent of its staff since the beginning of the pandemic.
On Monday, the Detroit Public Schools Community District and the Detroit Federation of Teachers announced that they had signed a Letter of Agreement (LOA) to fully reopen the school district for in-person instruction this fall.
The Pandemic Liability Protection Act (PLPA), signed into law by right-wing governor Gregg Abbott, provides near-blanket immunity from business liability and lawsuits for exposing workers to COVID-19
A recent march to deliver demands to the University President was met by the campus chief of police instead.
Hale, who exposed the murderous nature the US government drone warfare program during the Obama administration, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for violating the Espionage Act.
The Delta variant is leading to a surge of infections that is overwhelming the inadequate health care infrastructure across the Maghreb and all of Africa.
The National Interagency Fire Center reports that in the US there are currently 79 large fires burning in 12 states that have so far destroyed over 1.5 million acres.
The Biden administration is silent on the end of moratoriums as rising inflation and a wave of evictions and home foreclosures looms.
On Sunday, President Kaïs Saïed sacked the Islamist Ennahda Movement government, suspended parliament and deployed the army amid mounting anger among workers.
A JDE worker told the WSWS, “Anyone who spoke out against the deal is being censored… I guess they want the people with opinions to shut up.”
The bravery shown by the Volvo strikers during this weeks-long two-front confrontation has been an inspiration to workers around the world who are seeking to improve their conditions after a year of working through the pandemic and now with consumer prices on the rise.
A New York City teacher wrote to the WSWS to speak out against the dangerous school reopening plans of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio this September, which is being implemented with the connivance of the United Federation of Teachers.
We urge all teachers to build independent action committees at every school; rally parents, students and workers in other sectors, and fight for a unified struggle of the working class.
Throughout the pandemic, the government has prioritized profit interests over the advice and warnings of health officials.
Drivers need to reject the latest employment agreement proposed by NZ Bus and the Tramways Union and form a rank-and-file committee to fight for decent pay and conditions.
Last Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul publicly accused Anthony Fauci of having helped to genetically engineer the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite the highest official daily infection rate per capita in the world, the government opposes a full lockdown, declaring it would “cripple” the economy.
The record-breaking rains have highlighted the danger of climate change in China and around the world.
At a protest in the parking lot of the Menards store where 19-year-old store worker James Stanback was killed, family members gave moving testimony about his death, pointing to a deliberate cover-up by the company.
Even as COVID-19 cases begin to climb again in Brooklyn and New York City, One Brooklyn Health has consolidated the 303-bed hospital into a rump “medical village.”
About fifty people crowded the sidewalks outside a Milford, Ohio, Kroger store to protest the death of Evan Seyfried.
Some 2,200 workers at Bombardier in Toronto could walk out July 27 if a settlement isn’t reached, while truckers in Honduras and Puerto Rico staged shutdowns to demand rate rises to meet rising inflation.
Stan Swamy succumbed to complications from the COVID-19 he contracted while in prison awaiting trial on bogus terrorism charges.
In an attempt to reach an agreement and prevent a strike, the local teachers union and district administration will meet for negotiations along with a federal mediator.
Officials of OPEIU Local 40 announced a tentative agreement with McLaren Macomb Hospital, calling off preparations for strike action.
Auto parts maker Faurecia has ended its mask requirement for vaccinated employees despite the spread of the dangerous Delta variant.
On July 6, 55-year-old Charles Anderson spent his last day in Marion County Jail. He was arrested 28 days prior for unpaid debts regarding his failure to make monthly payments and fees associated with three court cases dating back to 2003. Upon his arrest, he was jailed with three other men in a 6-by-10-foot cell.
Across the globe the number of children suffering Long COVID is in the millions. The long-term impacts on developing bodies and minds remains unknown.
Countries that had successful public health responses to coronavirus are now facing outbreaks of the Delta variant.
The fact that the government and management are in favour of forming a corporatist works council has made many strikers even more sceptical about that initiative.
Written by Chuko Esiri and directed by Esiri and his twin brother Arie, This Is My Desire (Eyimofe) is a remarkable film about life in Lagos, Nigeria. It is opening in movie theaters in the US and Canada in July and August.
The strike at Rio Tinto’s Kitimat, B.C. aluminum smelter is part of a mounting wave of militant workers’ struggles involving miners, steelworkers, and other industrial workers in Canada, the US, and internationally.
The demonstrations were held amid escalating coup threats from Brazil’s fascistic president and his defense minister, Gen. Braga Netto.
These figures do not include the impact of the full opening up of the economy on July 19 and there is nothing to suggest that infections will not once again rise inexorably.
JDE Peet’s has a presence in more than 140 countries with revenues of €3.2 billion.
The trade unions are making noises of protest over the government’s pay offer but there is no chance of a genuine fight for a substantial wage increase by any health union.
Several weeks after the flooding, many Dearborn residents have yet to receive federal or insurance assistance for property damage.
The NZ government has faced increasingly strident demands to fall into line with the US-led build-up to war, regardless of the impact on economic relations with China.
The protesters, including members of the extreme-right, advanced anti-lockdown positions almost indistinguishable from those of the political and media establishment.
The meeting, on August 14, will discuss the growing wave of working class struggles internationally, and the role of students and youth in the fight for a socialist perspective within them.
The USW’s betrayal of the 106-day strike by ATI workers in Pennsylvania and four other states, which will result in the slashing of hundreds of jobs, demonstrates the role of the union as an arm of corporate management.
Biden’s lying declarations of victory over COVID-19 were aimed at justifying the abandonment of restrictions on the spread of the disease.
The ex-president spent the better part of two hours in Arizona denouncing “communists,” “socialism” and the “radical left.”
Scientists have blamed industry and Florida’s ultra-right governor for the rapid spread of the harmful toxin, spread by human-induced nutrient pollution in the Tampa Bay area
Hale wrote the following letter in advance of his sentencing hearing scheduled for Tuesday, July 27, on a guilty plea of one count of violating the Espionage Act.
The recent cluster of COVID-19 infections in New York City school buildings among children in summer school foretells an even bigger disaster when nearly a million students in the city are forced back to face-to-face learning in September
In its last sitting of the legislative session, the parliamentary budgetary committee approved spending for 27 rearmament projects with a total value of close to €20 billion at the end of June.
For decades, the ruling elites have failed to act upon warnings made by climate scientists and to build infrastructure needed to control disasters, such as floods.
Although Frito-Lay is a subsidiary of PepsiCo, neither the BCTGM nor the Teamsters have made any attempt to unite their struggles nor call upon support from the broader workforce of the multinational food conglomerate.
Hale faces a sentencing hearing on Tuesday following his guilty plea in March on charges of sharing classified information about the US military’s drone killing program with journalists.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
Biz Markie brought a relatably human quality to his records that was amusing and endearing.
A team of reporters from the World Socialist Web Site visited the area hit by the catastrophe and spoke with those affected about their experiences and their anger at the complete failure of civil protection and any state aid.
The Carrier Strike Group, with its main warship the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, was launched in May, beginning a 28-week deployment spanning over 26,000 nautical miles.
Many workers in Banbury critised Unite’s sellout deal and spoke of similar attacks on conditions and pay at their own workplaces, especially during the pandemic. Some took bundles of Socialist Equality Party leaflets to give to others.
Initial shock that Unite sided with Metroline against O’Sullivan has given way to anger based on their own experience with the growing collusion between First Group and Unite.
The courageous strike by 600 workers was sabotaged by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) union, which isolated the walkout and paid only $105 a week in strike benefits.
The New South Wales government coupled its designation of an emergency with assertions that no harder lockdown could stem the Sydney COVID-19 outbreak, in line with its defence of corporate profit interests.
The ongoing spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant threatens to transform this year’s summer Olympics, which opened July 23, from an international sporting event into a global superspreader event.
In a speech last week, President Biden linked the Republican assault on voting rights to the attempted coup of January 6, calling it the greatest threat to American democracy since the Civil War. Within days of the speech, Biden and the Democrats effectively abandoned any effort to pass voting rights legislation.
In a bipartisan 23–3 vote, the Senate Armed Services Committee rebuked President Biden’s 2022 military spending proposal and increased funding for the Pentagon by $25 billion.
Even the scant details provided by the union make clear that the proposed enterprise bargaining agreement is a sell-out.
Wednesday’s brutal operation at Lamport Stadium Park, which observers described as savage, was only the latest in a series of forced evictions imposed by the police at the behest of city authorities over the past month.
The WSWS is reprinting a letter sent by UK mines rescue expert Brian Robinson to the New Zealand government’s Pike River Recovery Agency, calling for it to continue the underground investigation of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster.
The ECB meeting on Thursday demonstrated the continuing support for an ultra-easy monetary policy against opposition from Germany and other northern European representatives on its governing council.
The outrage against the Games and its $15 billion dollar price tag has become the central focus of public anger against social inequality and nationalism in Japan.
On Thursday, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported almost 2,000 new cases and the nationwide seven-day incidence rate rose to over 12 per 100,000. The reproductive number (R) is 1.19, which means a strong exponential increase.
The 250 workers employed by Foster Farms at its Compton plant rejected a contract proposal and voted to strike.
The Pentagon has acknowledged that the Taliban now controls more than 50 percent of Afghanistan’s districts, no doubt a conservative estimate.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed a brief on Thursday arguing that the 1973 ruling establishing the legal right to abortion was “egregiously wrong and should be overturned.”
The UAW betrayal of the 87-day strike at American Axle in 2008 was part of a pattern of wage-cutting contracts imposed by the pro-corporate union which has resulted in the impoverishment of a whole generation of autoworkers.
GM Korea workers strike for higher pay; thousands of Sri Lankan teachers continue national walkout; Australian tugboat workers resume rolling strikes
With schools just weeks away from beginning the year fully in-person as the vast majority of children remain unvaccinated and school mask mandates are being ditched statewide, the fall is on course to be a deadly semester.
Joseph Szwarc, age 94, denounced images of demonstrators at the far-right protest wearing yellow Stars of David on which they had written “not vaccinated.”
Paul Schrader’s 1978 crime and social drama about workers in a Michigan auto plant still resonates under contemporary conditions.
COVID-19 is a natural pathogen, but the catastrophic loss of life in India is the product of state policy and constitutes a veritable crime against humanity.
Last week’s court hearing was mainly dominated by arguments over the distribution of the 33 percent of the $641 million settlement, which will be divided among the lawyers and the firms appointed to administer the claims, while sidelining the concerns of residents.
The new finding adds to the mountain of evidence suggesting a natural rather than laboratory origin for the virus that causes COVID-19.
Despite the aggressive statements against the Kremlin contained in the deal, the agreement has provoked an uproar in sections of the American and German ruling class, and angered the Polish and Ukrainian governments.
Over 430 undocumented migrants have staged a hunger strike for more than two months against their brutal treatment by Belgian authorities throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
The media clampdown is part of a broader effort by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to keep a lid on the social tinderbox that is Africa’s most populous country and largest economy.
The substitution of a supposed “pingdemic” for a very real and escalating pandemic is a calculated ploy, designed to create the impression that the biggest danger to the UK population is not COVID-19 but the measures used to contain it. Its purpose is to reinforce the message that we must all “learn to live with the virus.”
The government has already blocked all “legal” means for migrants to reach Britain, through fines on airlines and other transportation companies for allowing someone to travel without a visa.
The SEP is running in the California elections to provide an independent working-class voice demanding the eradication of the pandemic by placing lives over private profit.
The latest deal includes below-inflation raises, brutal working hours and mandatory overtime, which workers have been fighting to eliminate.
Instead of appeals to such false friends as Labour and open Tory enemies, JDE strikers must turn decisively to their fellow workers in the UK and internationally.
The WSWS calls on readers to oppose the New Zealand Labour-led government’s imminent move to seal Pike River mine before it has been properly investigated and before anyone has been charged over the 2010 disaster that killed 29 people.
Workers angered over the concessions imposed by the company and the UAW are refusing to volunteer for work over the scheduled maintenance shutdown that begins next week.
The Wall Street swings are the outcome of tidal wave-like movements of money, amounting to trillions of dollars, pumped into the financial system by the Fed since last March.
Federal Judge Paul Borman ruled that 234 Stellantis autoworkers are not owed any compensation flowing from the payment by management of $3.5 million in bribes to UAW officials.
The high number of deaths is the direct product of the criminal inaction by federal and state governments. Although they were warned ahead of time, they did nothing to alert the population and save lives.
Former officer Ravinder Singh also faces a potential slap-on-the-wrist sentence with a two-year negligent homicide charge in the killing of Maggie Brooks during a welfare check.
Four states—Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky and Texas—accounted for the bulk of the jump in new claims for unemployment compensation.
The election of a works council would prevent future strikes and protest actions, functioning as the factory police in the interests of the employer to ensure peace and order.
