As resident doctors prepare to strike, NHS FightBack is holding an online Zoom meeting on November 18 “Defeat Starmer-Streeting budget cuts and privatisation! For a united fightback by NHS workers!” To encourage the widest discussion the World Socialist Web Site is publishing an interview with a resident doctor about the issues posed in the dispute.
Despite calls to shut it down, Israel’s High Court refused to close Sde Teiman in September 2024. Instead, the public uproar centres on the fact that the abuse was made public in the first place and by no less a person than Israel’s Chief Military Advocate.
The RMT’s attempt to present the settlement ending the dispute as achieving the aims London Underground train drivers, engineers, signalling and station staff were fighting for is based on distortions and evasions over the central demands for a pay rise and a shorter working week.
Political arrests, operations targeting journalists, and growing attacks on press freedom are steps taken by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government to use the judiciary to build an authoritarian regime.
Mass chaos threatens to erupt as federal government shutdown drags on.
Tens of millions face food shortages and job losses as Trump’s forced hunger policy continues, while Democrats plead for negotiations with the fascistic administration.
The massive payout for Musk sends a clear message from Wall Street that the sky is the limit for CEO pay and the enrichment of the financial oligarchy.
All possibilities are on the table, including a rupture of the Coalition, the dumping of Liberal leader Sussan Ley and a major split within the Liberal Party.
The agitation against refugees also serves domestic political aims. It strengthens the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and shifts the axis of official politics ever further to the right.
An explosion sparked by a malfunctioning electrical transformer killed 23 people and injured 15 more on November 1 in Hermosillo in northwest Mexico.
The number of high-priority defects reached an all-time record of 4,714 in June 2025, compared with just over 3,800 when the “Rail Repair Plan” started two years earlier.
If one is prepared to suspend one’s disbelief to an extent, A House of Dynamite has genuine value in evoking the horrifying threat of nuclear warfare.
In response to attacks from the Trump administration and sections of the corporate oligarchy, Mamdani is lurching rapidly to the right in the immediate aftermath of the election.
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.
Following the mass strike last month, the Labour Party and the unions are promoting the lie that workers can oppose pay cuts and austerity by electing another Labour-led government.
National strikes continue in Nigeria by resident doctors and in Kenya by postal workers over lack of pay, and protests continue in Johannesburg, South Africa over catastrophic water crisis; tens of thousands of metal workers strike in Spain over pay and conditions; Iranian nurses protest pay, with critics barred from national Nurses Day celebration
Workers described a daily battle with the impact of low pay, forced to resort to unhealthy levels of overtime, taking second jobs, taking out loans with brutal interest rates and visiting food banks. Some colleagues had left to work in shops, supermarkets and restaurants.
The United Nations’ “Emissions Gap Report 2025” shows the planet is on course for 2.8 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial average by the end of this century based on current policies.
The election of Mamdani reflects growing social anger and opposition to Trump—aspirations that Mamdani’s program cannot address.
Despite its deep unpopularity, the Democratic Party made gains because of mounting economic hardship and widespread hostility to Trump’s efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.
With the demand to conscript entire age groups, Inspector General Breuer is driving forward the reintroduction of compulsory military service and the building of a mass army, as part of Germany and NATO’s comprehensive preparations for war against Russia.
The chief executive of the global Swiss-based bank UBS has pointed to the dangers posed by the practices of insurance companies, once regarded as a pillar of stability in the financial system.
Neither the Transport Workers Union nor the Communication Workers Union have said a word about Theena Barton’s death.
In the interview, Lee warned that the Trump administration is orchestrating a deliberate conspiracy to dismantle democratic rule and establish a military-style dictatorship, urging mass working class action as the only means to defend democratic rights.
More information will emerge, but what can be said for certain is that ruthless cost-cutting and profiteering by the capitalist ruling class make such disasters inevitable.
The company is demanding huge government subsidies, on top of those already received, to keep the smelter open.
This lecture examines the life and death of Comrade Tom Henehan in the context of the investigation into Security and the Fourth International.
The Liberal government’s 2025 budget slashes public services and jobs while pouring billions into the military and corporate subsidies, marking a new stage in the ruling class assault on the working class.
Queensland public school teachers last week strongly voted down a union-government deal that provided for below-inflation pay and did nothing to stop intolerable workloads.
The inauguration took place with the streets of major cities still stained with blood. As internet services gradually return following a six-day shutdown, reports are surfacing of mass killings.
The ceasefire will be monitored by the signatories to the deal—the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey—with the US guaranteeing to enforce it. Ever since, all four signatories have done nothing to stop Israel continuing its daily attacks on Gaza and withholding aid.
If the appeal is upheld, the Trump regime will have been granted virtually unlimited legal authority to impose tariffs against any country for virtually any reason it chooses to cite, simply by claiming its actions are in response to a national emergency.
Two brothers and their girlfriends are confined to the brothers’ family home in the countryside southwest of Paris.
The jet crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff at Louisville’s Worldport air hub, leveling industrial buildings, injuring dozens, and prompting a citywide emergency response.
As the power behind the throne in the Bush-Cheney administration, the vice president was responsible for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, CIA kidnappings and torture and illegal mass surveillance of the American population.
More than 600 healthcare workers are striking at Allina Health in Minnesota today to fight proposed cuts to their pay and benefits and to protest chronic understaffing.
In New York City—the global center of financial parasitism—a self-described democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, has won the mayoral election.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to historian Tom Alter about his firing from Texas State University and about Texas labor and working class history.
Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles declared that the weapons of war on display spanned “the breadth of the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool” and represented the highpoint of “human ingenuity.”
While the White House sought to downplay Trump’s rant that he would not fund food stamps until after the shutdown, in violation of a court order, the government is stalling for weeks in order to render the order meaningless.
ICE agents fired 11 shots at Carlitos Ricardo Parias on October 21 for exposing the daily repression of immigrants in Los Angeles
The experiences unfolding across Africa brings to the fore the central problem of every revolutionary movement: leadership. The courage of the youth must find conscious political direction in the building of a revolutionary Trotskyist movement.
One worker said, “We believe it is important that our voices are heard and that the public is made aware of the pressures and treatment faced by drivers under what many feel is a form of corporate dictatorship.”
Keeping production running and profits flowing is part and parcel of the union bureaucracy’s operations in any case, but Leonardo’s place in British imperialism’s war machine made this an even greater imperative for Unite’s leadership.
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 Endeavor incident that killed two workers last week is far from an isolated tragedy. It is part of a growing pattern, in Australia and globally, of preventable workplace deaths and injuries.
The film rewrites history to promote the Labour Party and the union bureaucracy, obscuring their role both in the 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and in the ongoing cover-up.
On Friday, the authoritative medical journal The Lancet issued a report that calculated 3,082,363 life-years have been lost by Palestinians during the Israeli genocide in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and July 31, 2025.
The operation was deliberately conducted as a blood-soaked political spectacle by the same fascist forces that promoted the January 8, 2023 coup attempt.
While advocating a “yes” vote on the ballot, the WSU Rank-and-File Committee warns that the NTEU is seeking such a vote only for the purpose of negotiating yet another treacherous deal.
Task Force Philippines will place the supervision and control of maritime confrontations between the Philippines and China under the command of a US general.
As air traffic controllers take leave to find paying work, slowdowns and ground stops have plagued US airports.
On October 30, around 1,400 registered nurses staged a one-day strike at Keck Medicine of USC (University of Southern California) facilities.
Amarasuriya’s comments expose the government’s claims to oppose communal politics, want “reconciliation” with minorities, including Tamils, and to “heal the wounds” of war.
Every day in the United States, heavily armed masked agents of the state violate the constitutional rights of citizens and immigrants alike.
The Michigan state budget has exposed the widening chasm between the state’s rhetoric of “equity” and “universal access” and the concrete policies being implemented to satisfy the demands of Wall Street, credit rating agencies, and the corporate elite.
A 24-hour strike paralyzed the Montreal transit system Saturday with more scheduled as workers press contract demands. Meanwhile, thousands of educators in Uruguay and Colombia have staged powerful strikes in recent days.
Key elements in the CAQs class-war agenda include: slashing and privatizing public services; gutting environmental regulations; continued attacks on immigrants; and further coercive measures to suppress working-class opposition.
The event was the only one at the fair that addressed the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the danger of a third world war.
Hudson Regional Health threatens shutdown of Heights University Hospital unless it receives more state assistance.
The retrospective is the most extensive ever staged in the UK. It leans heavily on gender politics, largely omitting the deeper ideological and historical events and issues that shaped Miller’s work and political engagement.
Whatever form such regroupments take, the Permanent Revolutionary Congress and Kongomano la Mapinduzi share with the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya a fundamental orientation toward the capitalist state. These projects are designed to steer the Gen-Z revolt and the emerging strike movement against low wages and austerity back into safe parliamentary channels.
With 92 percent voting to strike, Minneapolis educators confront a politically engineered budget crisis and a union leadership seeking to suppress their struggle, highlighting the need for rank-and-file committees to defend public education and connect the struggle to the broader fight of the working class.
Food banks throughout the state are preparing for an influx of people seeking assistance, both out-of-work federal employees and recipients of aid programs, such as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
A spokesperson for a DC-area food bank told the WSWS that over 36 percent of the area's residents, or 1.5 million, were food insecure even before the threat to food stamps and the government shutdown.
The US military has carried out at least 15 lethal strikes on small boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific since Trump’s September 2 order for the summary execution of supposed drug smugglers. All the attacks are war crimes under international law.
The crisis in the German and European automotive and supplier industries is assuming catastrophic proportions.
Trump’s brandishing of the nuclear threat immediately prior to meeting Xi is the sharpest warning that the US is preparing for all-out war against China.
The NSW Police have admitted that they have no evidence whatsoever of Iranian involvement, months after it was trumpeted as fact by the federal Labor government and ASIO.
The Environmental Protection Agency is being restaffed with corporate poisoners and climate change deniers.
The department dismissed the complaint of Will Lehman, a socialist Mack Trucks worker and candidate for UAW president in 2022, documenting mass disenfranchisement in the government-supervised election.
Based on a half century of data, new research shows that woody biomass, a major component of tropical rainforest ecosystems, has become a net emitter of carbon dioxide.
The exposure and discrediting of the Times is an important task of political and intellectual hygiene, indispensable to the development of socialist consciousness.
The attack on Alter is an assault on democratic rights and the ability of the working class to learn the history of its own class struggle.
Amid a wave of mass protests against social inequality, Peru’s nominal opposition parties are doing everything possible to block any actions against recently installed President José Jerí.
Bush-Gore election result in doubt; Morocco monarchy stages “Green March” into Spanish Sahara; Battle of Pakchon in Korean War; Failed plot to assassinate Benito Mussolini
In laying siege to hotels, the far-right and its echo chamber media claim day in day out that asylum seekers are living a life of luxury at tax payers’ expense. This is a pack of lies.
Opposition party CHADEMA alleges that as many as 800 people have been killed. A diplomatic source told the BBC that deaths could exceed 500. With restrictions to social media, foreign journalists barred from entering and domestic outlets parroting official CCM statements, the full scale of the bloodshed cannot be confirmed.
50,000 resident doctors in the British Medical Association have waged a two-year battle for pay restoration. They have now added the fight to end widespread unemployment facing doctors in the NHS.
The confirmation of former UPS and Amazon executive David Keeling to head OSHA and long-time Republican operative Wayne Palmer to oversee mine safety presages a stepped up assault on worker safety protections.
“If there was a clear failure somewhere, you could say ‘let’s make sure that’s not happening anywhere else.'”
Merz and his government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, are preparing for ferocious conflicts with the working class.
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.
The censorship measure in Nuremberg is one of countless attacks on fundamental democratic rights. Congresses have been banned, cultural centres closed and artists and scientists persecuted for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.
Neither the Democratic nor the Republican candidate offers solutions to the 22 percent jump in electricity prices.
Workers from Windsor, Ontario and suburban Detroit spoke out against the destruction of jobs and the UAW and Unifor’s support for trade war.
This lecture reviews in detail the key developments in the Security and the Fourth International investigation in 1976-77, as the ICFI relentlessly pursued the truth behind the GPU conspiracy to murder Leon Trotsky.
In a statement Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said there was “no justification in international law” for the missile strikes that have killed over 60 people.
Just three days after two workers were killed and another was seriously injured in the blast, Polymetals Resources has announced that work will resume at the mine on Wednesday.
School bus operators have said they will lay off thousands of workers and stop bus service if they are not offered five-year contract extensions.
Teachers in Tasmania held stoppages this week in the latest sign of mounting unrest among educators and other public sector workers nationally.
Following the mass public sector strike in New Zealand, the November 9 online meeting will discuss the socialist and internationalist strategy required to fight austerity, wage cuts, dictatorship and war.
The summit’s agenda was devoted to developing “operational collaboration” between Pacific militaries to face “new trends in security challenges,” targeting China.
"At university, they push us to attract industry funds, and they do not encourage critical thinking in students. It shouldn't be about job training all the time!”
In creating his Little Tramp character, Chaplin took a social type that was reviled by official bourgeois society—the vagrant, the unemployed man, the person without property—and turned him into arguably the most beloved character in the world.
What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.
While the outcome is touted by the media as a popular endorsement of Milei’s economic austerity agenda, the mid-terms saw the lowest turnout since the end of the dictatorship in 1983.
India: Striking ASHA workers in Kerala attacked by police; Bangladesh: Dhaka police attack protesting madrasa teachers; Australia: Genex Power hydro project workers strike over unsafe accommodation; Thousands of Tasmanian public sector workers hold rolling stoppages.
The negotiations between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party have nothing to do with the pursuit of peace and democracy. Turkey’s ruling elites have approached the negotiations from the outset as a security issue.
In Ankara, the capital of Turkey, a group of fascists armed with knives attacked university students in front of the police.
