While prosecuting whistleblowers who exposed war crimes with zeal, Australian authorities are refusing to charge those credibly accused of murdering Afghan civilians.
The tightly scripted, 25-minute event was aimed at projecting an air of “transparency” and militancy on the part of the UAW’s new top leadership, while they in fact prepare to carry out the same policies as their predecessors: brutal attacks on jobs, wages and working conditions at the behest of the auto companies.
Zelensky said of the enormous cost in lives of the offensive, “it can go a variety of ways, completely different. But we are going to do it, and we are ready.”
Seven workers were arrested when they and dozens of others laid down their tools at the lunch hour and refused to restart the line until that night.
Working-class households are being driven into destitution by skyrocketing rents, mortgage payments and power prices, making a mockery of Labor’s budget and election promises.
The PT wishes to prevent at all costs the exposure of the military’s involvement in the bid to overturn Brazil's election.
This was a blatant act of political censorship, showing that the NTEU bureaucrats are intent on stifling the democratic rights of members as they rush to push through sell-out enterprise bargaining deals at one university after the other.
The government has been spending lavishly on the military, as part of its deepening strategic alliance with US imperialism against China, while refusing to make the necessary investments in a rail system that is a crucial means of transportation for the country’s more than a billion people.
Furious over the meager across-the-board $1.56 pay increase, dockworkers along the West Coast were absent from work last Friday, leading to the closure of several terminals.
The deal would effectively transform the Transport Workers Union into a division of management to drive up worker productivity.
While imposing an illegitimate and overwhelmingly unpopular pension cut, Macron is building a “war economy” amid the NATO war with Russia.
Sánchez has not brought down his own PSOE-Podemos government in order to campaign against the right, but to coordinate with it and with NATO an escalation of the war with Russia.
Workers on strike at the Clarios auto battery plant in Holland, Ohio are calling for solidarity action from GM, Ford and Stellantis workers who are facing their own contract battle in September.
The tentative agreement is a deliberate and ruthless stab in the back of television and film writers, in the second month of a strike against the AMPTP, which represents major film and television studios and networks.
The court determined that the four defendants had formed a criminal organization that targeted, attacked and injured neo-Nazis.
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.
For the ruling class, Waters’ “crimes” are that he has opposed the US-NATO-instigated war against Russia in Ukraine and vocally supported the Palestinian people in the face of criminal attacks on them by Israel.
The rapid and lopsided passage by both houses of Congress of the debt ceiling bill worked out between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with the Democrats supplying the bulk of the votes, must serve as an object lesson on the unbridgeable class chasm between the entire political establishment and the working class.
Under the guise of cracking down on climate change protests that triggered a minor traffic delay, Labor joined hands with the Liberal Party to pass laws that ban any activity that disrupts “free passage of a public place.”
On Thursday it was reported that FBI agents are trawling around, apparently seeking dirt on Assange despite him being locked up in a maximum-security British prison for the past four years.
The 8-1 ruling throws open the door for employers to sue unions for damages in the event of a strike, implying that strikes are only allowed so long as they do not in any way harm the company’s bottom line.
The US jobs report delivered mixed signals Friday, with the unemployment rate rising to from 3.4 to 3.7 percent while the economy added 339,000 new jobs, well above expectations.
“I lost my day off and nearly $20,000 a year,” one worker said. “We need to strike! People need to know what is happening!”
The WSWS spoke to two Bulgarian workers who were prevented from speaking about the miserable conditions of temporary agency workers at the Left Party’s recent conference.
In every district in Massachusetts where teachers went on strike over the past two years—or had voted to strike before last-minute negotiations behind closed doors averted action—contracts included raises that fell far below the rate of inflation.
The new Teamsters administration has pledged repeatedly to strike UPS if a deal is not in place by July 31, but is weeks behind schedule sending out strike authorization ballots to 340,000 members.
The job cuts are being made while Maximus is preparing to reap huge profits from the resumption of Medicaid disenrollment restrictions enacted during the pandemic.
The Biden administration is exploiting the supposed threat by North Korea to deepen its trilateral military collaboration with Seoul and Tokyo in preparation for war against China.
The release of documents from the period of Epstein’s imprisonment come as more information is emerging on his high-level connections in the rancorous world of the ultra-rich.
While tens of thousands of fans cheered on rock musician Roger Waters, politicians and the media organized an unprecedented witch-hunt.
Instead of appealing to other sections of the working class in common struggle against the major studios and their Wall Street owners, the union bureaucracies are releasing empty statements of “solidarity” while appealing to rapacious studios for a “fair” agreement.
Workers and young people have spoken out powerfully in defence of the IYSSE’s right to hold its anti-war meeting in opposition to the threats and intimidation from the far-right UCC and its allies within the Canadian state.
In Milan, Naples and Turin, strikers marched through the city center chanting, "Abbassate le armi, alzate i salari!" (Down with arms, up with wages!).
India: Utter Pradesh government workers protest against new pension scheme; Western Australian firefighters protest after rejecting pay offer; New Zealand nurses hold stop-works to demand pay rise
Workers in both main rail unions have voted to strike and then renewed a six-month mandate as demanded by anti-union legislation. But thanks to the union bureaucracy, the strikes have achieved nothing.
The CWU’s statement confirms Ward, Furey and the postal executive remain unaccountable to the membership and are working hand-in-glove with Royal Mail.
The Communication Workers Union is suppressing all news of an unofficial walkout by postal workers at Glasgow’s G1-5 delivery office in late May. The walkout was reportedly triggered by management bullying.
The open intervention of a government minister in the campaign to shut down an antiwar meeting organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Toronto marks a new stage in the efforts of ruling elites around the world to censor opponents of imperialist war.
The combination of sustained attacks inside of Russia, accelerated moves to accept Ukraine into the NATO alliance structure, and the massive deployment of US troops on Russia’s border point to an extremely dangerous escalation of the war.
The New Zealand Reserve Bank’s agenda of deliberately engineering a recession is escalating the cost-of-living crisis and initiating an onslaught on jobs.
The war crimes, by Ben Roberts-Smith and others, flowed directly from the character of the war as a neo-colonial occupation aimed at subjugating an entire population.
The Victorian government’s regressive measures represent only a down payment for the sharper austerity cuts demanded by the ruling class.
The below inflation wage increases is a disgrace for a workforce that lost more than 170 people while maintaining transit service throughout the pandemic.
The Atlanta Solidarity Fund has been heavily involved in raising funds in support of those arrested while protesting “Cop City,” a proposed multimillion-dollar military-style police training facility on the city’s outskirts.
The union has declared the agreement a “historic win,” however it provides no guaranteed staffing of counselors, paraeducators or nurses, and includes paltry wage increases that barely meet inflation.
Amazon staff were protesting the company’s forced return to in-person work amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic and its lack of genuine policies toward climate change.
Despite the union bureaucracies’ efforts to strangle the struggles of millions of workers to throw out Macron, workers are determined to continue the fight.
If the organisers had been honest, they would have titled their congress “Defending the Trade Unions.”
More Democrats than Republicans supported the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the deal worked out between the Biden White House and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Amis was lauded in life and now in death because he was a man not simply of his time, but of a deeply reactionary upper-middle-class social milieu.
Hundreds of North Sea oil workers’ strike over derisory pay offer; workers including transport workers, teachers and healthcare workers in Italy walk out in one day general strike demanding money for wages not war, and in defence of migrants; in Iran pensioners, striking truck drivers, oil and gas workers protest collapse of economy and regime’s police state attacks; Nigerian health workers walk out over salary structure and unpaid COVID hazard allowances
Amid the deepest crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s, the PS is trying to impose austerity and the costs of a war economy on the backs of the working class.
Despite numerous complaints from residents and even serious warning from local contractors about serious structural problems, the building passed numerous city inspections in the months prior to the deadly collapse.
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is publishing a further round-up of comments received from UK postal workers condemning the Communication Workers Union sell-out deal with Royal Mail.
On Friday, Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv and publicly praised the death of Russians in the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine.
This was not a strike, but a stunt designed to create the illusion that the union will lead a fight for decent wages and conditions.
Striking workers in Ohio are battling the giant auto battery manufacturer and the sabotage of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy.
Ukrainian attacks inside Russia continued with a series of drone strikes against two oil refineries in the region of Russian Krasnodar and the shelling of the Belgorod region of Russia near the Ukrainian border.
The introduction of paying wards, to convert the free public health system to a paid service, is occurring amid a deliberate rundown of the public health system and its network of government hospitals.
The 2023 Turkish elections exposed all the pseudo-left groups that supported Kılıçdaroğlu as a supposedly “left” or “democratic” candidate against Erdoğan.
The precedent for Britain’s arbitrary detention of journalists and publishers was set by the seizure and imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Despite data which indicates a growing crisis for ever increasing sections of the population, the Reserve Bank of Australia, in line with its counterparts internationally, is determined to press ahead with the suppression of the living standards of the working class.
Even more than in previous surges of the virus, mass illness and death are being treated by governments and the official media as a non-event.
The governors of Virginia, South Carolina, West Virginia and Iowa all announced on Wednesday that they would support the call of Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott for the National Guard and law enforcement to “help combat the border crisis.”
The student protests against the militarisation of PNG point to growing opposition throughout the Pacific region to the accelerating US-led drive against China.
Dana Corporation auto parts workers announce the formation of a rank-and-file committee in Pennsylvania to link their struggles with other workers at the company and throughout the globe.
The two leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are threatening, as part of a war against socialism, to destroy democratic rights embedded in the US Constitution.
The unions are presenting teachers with one below-inflation agreement after another in an effort to wear down their resistance and force them to accept a wage-cutting deal.
A new stage has been reached in the Quebec ruling elite’s promotion of an explicitly chauvinistic Quebec nationalism, with the media and all four parties in the National Assembly lending support to hysterical claims of a “federalist plot” to destroy the “Quebec nation” through “mass” immigration.
SAG-AFTRA and DGA members are fighting against a progressive worsening of working and living conditions.
As part of the drive to privatize the US Postal Service, and in collaboration with the union, a convoluted formula has been imposed which dramatically cuts the pay of rural letter carriers.
While the Stalinists have rushed to hail the DMK-led government’s reversal, workers should anticipate that it will revive a version of its anti-worker Factories Act at the first available opportunity, most probably following next year’s general election.
Adams is increasingly channeling the red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy of the 1950s and the fascistic former president, Donald Trump.
Impoverishment of the working class and bipartisan destruction of the social safety net leading to elderly being thrown out on the streets, poorer health outcomes.
All workers and young people in the GTA looking for a way to oppose war should make plans to attend Sunday’s meeting and join the struggle for the construction of an international working class-led anti-war movement.
BAE’s plans to produce weapons in Ukraine is confirmation of the fact that Britain is in an undeclared war with Russia.
Given the impact of inflation, the cap on spending to 2023 levels will mean a cut in billions of real dollars to already cash-strapped school districts.
While Mark McGowan insisted he was simply “exhausted,” his departure reveals sharp shifts in the political situation.
Ukraine's attacks on Moscow are aimed at provoking a retaliatory response by Russia, which could then be used to justify a massive escalation by NATO, including the potential entry of NATO troops directly into the conflict.
A book by two central advocates of the Labor government’s Voice scheme shows that, far from being a grassroots movement, it originated as a bid to head off anger and disaffection among ordinary indigenous people.
The youth jobless rate has reached a record high of more than 20 percent with around 11.5 million graduates entering the labour force in coming months.
Workers are regularly forced to work six-day weeks, have 4-5 hours of unpaid time between split shifts, wages far below the cost of living and no access to safe and clean bathrooms.
The Socialist Equality Party opposes the victimisation of SLIC workers and stands unconditionally in defense of the jobs and democratic rights of all insurance corporation employees.
The successful in-person and online event provoked an extended discussion on the political and historical questions examined in the two books. Over 50 copies of each publication sold after the meeting.
The century-old plant in Milwaukee’s impoverished Sherman Park neighborhood is slated to close by March 2024 with the loss of 360 jobs.
Residents gathered in Davenport, Iowa, on Monday and Tuesday to demonstrate against the planned demolition of a partially collapsed century-old apartment building.
Last week, UPS workers from Local 804 in New York City spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the conditions they face in the most expensive city in the world and the struggle ahead.
The number of mass shootings in the US continues climbing at an alarming rate as 16 people were killed and 80 injured in a series of at least 20 incidents over the Memorial Day weekend.
The Republican Party makes the most extreme demands for social cuts, allowing the Democrats to agree to somewhat less onerous attacks while accelerating the gutting all of the social gains won by the working class.
Music teacher Kay Thomas is being victimized with the direct collusion of the Detroit Federation of Teachers bureaucracy.
It is not necessarily the case that no books about working lives are being written, only that they are not eagerly sought by the publishing industry.
The attendees, numbering in the hundreds, were a mix of lower-level union and Democratic Party officials and supporters, and those writers who decided to attend.
The following statement was adopted by the Steering Committee of the Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committees to defend the striking Clarios auto battery workers in Holland, Ohio.
Speakers addressed the Communication Workers Union (CWU)’s second postponement of the ballot on its sellout agreement with Royal Mail to prevent a crushing NO vote.
There is no attempt by the University and College Union to mount a unified campaign of strikes throughout further education, let alone with hundreds of thousands of educators under attack at universities and schools.
The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee supports all actions taken by workers in the sector. But the token stop-work meetings and work bans called by the HSU bureaucracy will do nothing to resolve the crisis in health.
While workers went into struggle to defeat Royal Mail’s offensive, the Communication Workers Union’s sole concern was to preserve its longstanding role as corporate partner.
Sanctions imposed by the US and the major imperialist powers against Russia at the start of the Ukraine war have produced some unintended consequences, most notably attempts to shift away from dependence on the dollar as the global reserve currency.
To stop another union betrayal, the dispute at Macquarie can and must become part of a wider counter-offensive by educators and other workers.
The PSOE-Podemos government is calling snap elections to hand over power to the right and escalate European participation in the NATO war on Russia in Ukraine.
