Britain’s union leaders are not “laying the groundwork for widespread strikes” as claimed by the Telegraph, they are doing everything possible to isolate, divide and suppress them.
SEP and IYSSE speakers discussed the deepening global crisis of capitalism, the eruption of fascist tendencies, the danger of world war and the need for a socialist and internationalist program.
“I support the SEP because I care about freedom of speech, I don’t support the war and I want genocide to end.”
A Labor-Greens government would collaborate with the fascist Trump, intensify the plans for war with China, continue supporting the Gaza genocide and attack the social and democratic rights of working people.
Days after she filed a lawsuit against the university administration, police seized Laaila Irshad’s phone with a warrant that purportedly authorized an unrestricted search of all the data on it.
The Trump administration has ratcheted up its attempt to force Harvard University to accept its dictatorial rule, to subordinate the school to his fascist political and ideological agenda.
Sheriff Walter McNeil of Leon County identified the gunman as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, and said he was the son of a deputy in his department. McNeil admitted that “Unfortunately, he had access to one of her weapons.”
A three-judge panel warned that the “lawlessness” of the executive branch was threatening the constitutional order in the United States.
The FIARI declared: “Art has as little a fatherland as the workers. To advocate today a return to ‘French’ art is ... to consciously promote historical regression.”
The German government and Analena Baerbock’s Foreign Ministry are excluding Russia from the commemoration because they are reviving Hitler’s great power politics and waging war on Russia.
The Trump-Kennedy program to slash HHS funding threatens global health, scientific progress, and the lives of millions of workers and children.
Khalil pens op-ed from prison; filthy conditions for Rümeysa Öztürk; US citizen detained by ICE in Florida as "illegal."
The latest negotiations result hardly differs from the previous arbitration proposal, which was an outrageous sham, and is miles away from our original demands.
Canada is just emerging from another winter wave of multiple infectious diseases only for the population to be confronted with a growing measles outbreak, as the ruling class’ deliberate undermining of public health since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic takes its toll.
To win, Birmingham strikers must defeat the corporatist alliance between Unite, the Labour council and the Starmer government.
Postal workers in Orléans, France begin indefinite strike over increased workloads and in Leipzig, Germany postal workers strike over pay and conditions; workers and retirees continue protests against collapse in living standards, across a quarter of Iran’s provinces; teachers and local government workers in Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria continue month-long stoppage to demand minimum wage
In this critical interview, North addresses the Marxist understanding of fascism, the historical processes that led to the rise of Hitler and the relevance for today amid the Trump administration’s efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship.
The large rallies headlined by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez demonstrate the growing audience for anti-capitalist, anti-war and socialist politics. But if this healthy impulse is to be developed, it must break free from Sanders and the Democratic Party.
Socialist Equality Party candidate for the Senate in Victoria, Taylor Hernan, challenged both candidates in the forum’s discussion period.
The World Trade Organisation has said global trade could contract by as much as 1.5 percent this year and has warned that forecasting is problematic because “there has been no directly comparable event in recent history.”
All the parties of the political establishment, including the Greens, are doing everything they can, with the assistance of the corporate media, to bury all mention of the historic crimes being committed by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Monday, Juan Francisco Méndez was apprehended on a street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, after immigration police smashed his car window with a pick-axe and yanked him and his wife out of the vehicle.
A federal judge has temporarily halted the revoking of deportation protections for 532,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan immigrants.
A 38-year-old out-of-work vehicle mechanic and former Army reservist, Cody Balmer, has been arrested for the crime.
The purpose of the IRS layoffs is to facilitate tax fraud by the wealthy and eliminate the programs their taxes help fund.
Prolific film biographer and historian Patrick McGilligan has written an immensely valuable and entertaining biography of the American comic-filmmaker.
New York City’s public education system is facing an impending crisis as federal, state, and local budget cuts converge with a deepening social crisis, threatening essential programs and the futures of hundreds of thousands of students.
Seven more major US law firms have made deals pledging hundreds of millions in legal services to Trump-approved causes, even though a fourth federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration is engaged in illegal coercion and interfering with attorney-client relationships.
The destruction of the Head Start program, part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” would eliminate education and social services for nearly 800,000 children and result in the loss of a quarter of a million jobs.
The re-election of Noboa was achieved on the shoulders of the military-police apparatus and of US imperialism, consolidating the direct dictatorship of the Ecuadorian oligarchy.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) demands the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi and calls for the broadest possible resistance among workers and youth to this further assault on democratic rights.
On Saturday, around 400 demonstrators protested at Leopoldplatz in Berlin’s working-class district of Wedding against the deportations of refugees, including Palestinians, to Greece.
The WSWS spoke recently with Patrick McGilligan, author of Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham.
Although the immediate cause of the students’ reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor quality of education, lack of a future, growing social inequality and state repression.
Workers in Israel must adopt a new political axis, in unity with and fighting for the liberation of the Palestinian masses from Zionist oppression.
The list already includes over 6,300 individuals, and officials admit it will likely expand.
The Key Bridge collapse led to the deaths of six construction workers and untold economic damages for the Chesapeake Bay region.
The determined fight against management’s refusal to pay an annual bonus makes clear that workers will not tolerate attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions.
The National Party-led government’s plan to lift defence spending from 1 to 2 percent of GDP, as it prepares to join US-led wars, is fully supported by the opposition Labour Party.
The Ombudsman’s report contained shocking pictures of the primitive, unhygienic and cramped cells in which captured asylum seekers have been held indefinitely on military vessels.
Socialist Equality Party Senate candidates Max Boddy and Warwick Dove appeared on the Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove podcast on Monday night.
The conflict between Harvard and the Trump regime poses fundamental issues of democratic rights, including academic freedom.
The Trump administration is using the case of Abrego Garcia to steamroll over what remains of democratic rights in the United States.
The following letter was sent to the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter on unsafe conditions at the Stellantis engine plant in Dundee, Michigan, and the collusion of United Auto Workers officials with management.
The housing protests in Spain came amid mass protests against Trump in the United States and rising protests and calls for strike action across Europe.
The attempts by Lula and other leaders to counter the US offensive by building a “multipolar world” is a reactionary illusion.
The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend of subordinating science to private profit.
It is now considered intolerable even for members of the political establishment to acknowledge the basic reality of the illegal Israeli occupation and the genocide.
The court’s ruling clearly shows how democratic rights are being trampled underfoot in the proceedings against O’Brien and the other three activists.
Striking refuse workers spoke with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site explaining the significance of the strike and the assault being mounted against them.
On Monday, the right-wing Telegraph newspaper reported the Labour government was on a war footing against the strike.
Ruto’s crackdown on Echoes of War is a stark warning to artists, youth and workers across Kenya and internationally: any expression of opposition, no matter how symbolic or restrained, will be met with brute force.
“The democratic rights of the Tamil people can only be achieved through the overthrow of capitalism and the fight for socialism.”
The new restrictions, which will impact on the US auto industry and military contractors, appear to be the most significant retaliatory measure by China so far.
The Russian government would see the delivery and use of this weapon as a declaration of war. No one can guarantee that it will not respond with attacks on German targets.
In Vietnam, Xi hit out indirectly at the Trump administration’s policies, warning there were “no winners in trade wars or tariff wars, and protectionism leads nowhere.”
The failure of Ukraine’s NATO-backed invasion of Russian territory has intensified infighting within the Ukrainian ruling class and state.
This report was delivered to a public meeting hosted by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Wayne State University in Detroit, on April 10, 2025.
Trump beamed as the Salvadoran dictator declared it would be “preposterous” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported father of three, to the United States.
Despite the right-wing backlash, the Green MP’s contention that reforms and “alternatives” to the police are possible within the capitalist system is bankrupt.
The campaign cynically usees the EEOC, an agency ostensibly meant to protect workers from discrimination, to punish scholars for holding dissenting views on US foreign policy.
ASMOF’s strike shutdown is a blatant violation of the intentions of doctors, made clear in the unprecedented turnout to rallies last week.
On Tuesday, April 15, WSWS International Editorial Board chairman David North will take part in this critical webinar hosted by San Diego State University Political Science Professor Emanuele Saccarelli.
In an interview with WBAI’s “Frontline Voices,” Evan Blake speaks to the historic significance of the Trump administration’s attacks on science, the threat of new pandemics, and the urgent need for socialist public health.
Large sections of educators had no confidence that the Chicago Teachers Union would bring back a better deal, let alone lead a fight against Trump.
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration police and deportation proceedings began against him when he reported for a citizenship application interview in his home state of Vermont.
A general strike called to oppose the policies of the fascist Milei largely paralyzed Argentina April 10 while 3,000 city workers in Lages, Santa Catalina state in Brazil have walked out over contract issues.
The central question addressed by the meeting was: How do we continue the fight against the Verdi union selling out our struggles for better wages and conditions?
The strike took place two days after the International Monetary Fund announced a “technical agreement” for a 20-billion-dollar (US) loan to the Milei administration.
Director Laura Carreira repeatedly returns to the same settings of Aurora’s work and life, almost tableaus, to illustrate the repetitiveness and drudgery of her existence.
Teachers face intolerable working conditions, a funding crisis, a near collapse of SEND (special education needs) provision, and crumbling schools threatening the safety of teachers and children.
The policies unveiled by both major parties are a transparent attempt to maintain the inflated housing bubble and boost the profits of the banks and property developers.
Warnings grow of a deepening crisis in US and global financial systems.
In contrast to the thousands in attendance looking to fight the system, Democratic politicians and trade union bureaucrats, capped by Sanders and AOC, advanced the dead-end perspective of pressuring the Democratic Party.
As part of its renewed, high-intensity genocide in Gaza, Israel targeted Al-Ahli Hospital, the last remaining fully functional medical facility in Gaza City, killing one child in the evacuation and forcing 100 patients and dozens of staff into the street.
City officials stated that the troops, numbering approximately 60-70, will undergo a period of training and deploy to the Central Avenue Corridor area by mid-May, an area home to many poor and working class residents.
The rally drew around 200 people from the university, including students, graduate students, and some academics, as well as workers and a few retirees in the surrounding Bryan County area on Thursday.
A 60-foot strip along the land border will be handed over to the Pentagon, running from the Pacific Ocean to the Rio Grande.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is continuing to demand a police investigation of Doyle based on fascistic and totally unsubstantiated claims that he is a danger to children.
A wage increase of 12 percent over three years was agreed to, essentially a cut in wages when adjusted for inflation. Several nurses commented their dissatisfaction with the contract on CRONA’s instagram page.
The spontaneous reaction reflects not only the determined mood among workers at the facility, it expresses the seething anger among workers across the country, especially as the Trump administration carries out its war against the working class.
The Chicago Teachers Union will a hold a press conference Monday morning to announce the results of the vote by 28,000 educators on its deal with the city.
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
The Trump administration has launched a sweeping crackdown on international students across the United States.
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
Filmed mostly in the Nablus (West Bank) area, the movie is tense, enraged, and provides a sense of what Palestinian men and women experience on a daily basis under Israel’s horrific occupation.
Like the UAW in the United States, Unifor is seeking to line workers up behind the global trade war, whipping up flag-waving nationalism and supporting tariff measures whose cost will be borne by workers in the form of job cuts and punishing price rises.
A trial was set for the week beginning February 23, 2026, and a pre-trial hearing for July 4 this year, to be held before Judge Sarah Munro KC.
Following the presentation of the coalition agreement last week by the leaders of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), the ruling class is systematically promoting the return of German militarism.
The fight to defend jobs at Scunthorpe must be consciously politically separated from all calls to unite with Britain’s ruling elite, its trade war and escalation of military tensions with both Russia and China.
A driver commented, “The Labour Party was founded to represent the working class. This isn’t working class.” A loader added, “Labour isn’t Labour anymore”.
The latest rotten deal should be rejected. But the fact that it is even being put to a vote shows this is not only a fight against Labour, at local authority and government level, but against the isolation of the dispute by the Unite leadership under Graham.
The ASMOF union never wanted the strike to take place, and then as soon as it was over, promised the Labor government that it would prevent any further stoppages.
In the 1930s, when the world market collapsed, there arose rival trade and currency blocs and deep economic conflicts that played a role in creating the conditions for war. There are now signs that such developments are getting underway.
The direct precedent for the Trump administration’s positions is the concept of Willensstrafrecht (“punishment of the will”), developed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
Amid the Gaza genocide and Trump’s escalating trade war, not only a US war but also a US deal with Iran would ultimately threaten war with China and Russia, who signed alliances with Iran.
The meeting exposed the fraudulent character of claims by all the parliamentary parties and the corporate media that Australia is an “exception” to the crisis unfolding worldwide.
All of the major parties and the media are complicit in the criminal US-led war against Russia in Ukraine and knowingly propagate the lies used the justify it.
Teachers in Nepal fight for better pay and conditions; Sri Lankan garment workers protest unpaid New Year bonus; Shipyard workers continue rolling stoppages in South Australia; Mental health workers in Victoria impose bans for higher pay.
Sri Lankan President Dissanayake guaranteed full cooperation with New Delhi, Washington’s key strategic partner in South Asia as the US ramps up its confrontation with China.
