The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted this week to allocate a record amount of money to fund war all over the world, including a major buildup of the US nuclear forces.
Despite widespread outrage over the layoffs and budget cuts, the CFA union is making clear it will passively accept the attacks.
At a board meeting on Wednesday night, educators, parents and students in Chicago exploded in anger against the proposed plans to close seven charter schools.
Pioneered by the Obama administration and the Affordable Care Act, value-based care has become an important mechanism for subordinating all health services to corporate profits.
MacKinnon’s move is an attack not just on postal workers, but the entire working class. It marks the third time since August that the Liberal government, without even referring to a parliamentary vote, has arbitrarily robbed workers of their supposedly constitutionally protected right to strike.
US imperialism has not only encouraged a partnership between the CGT union apparatus and Milei, but sees it as a model for the incoming Trump administration.
The same president who has promised to deploy the military to deport undocumented immigrants and even their citizen relatives will use similar ruthless methods against the working class, against whom such measures are ultimately aimed.
It is only one step from banning books to burning them, as the Nazis did.
The IYSSE in New York and New Jersey demands that New York University’s bans on pro-Palestinian faculty and students be lifted immediately.
The declaration of war on the VW workforce heralds a new era in social policy that affects more than just Volkswagen. Just as the ruling class is once again focusing on rearmament and projecting military force in foreign policy, it is also focused on confrontation in social policy. The two are inextricably linked.
Commitments have been made to boost consumption and loosen monetary policy but there is little detail of what measures the government will undertake.
As part of the aggressive US-led plans for war with China, the Australian Labor government is reviving transparent neo-colonialism in the Pacific.
India: Dock workers at 12 major government ports prepare for strike; Taiwan telecommunication workers demand wage rise; Australia: Qantas maintenance engineers on strike; Coca-Cola factory workers in New South Wales walk out; New Zealand nurses hold rolling strikes
Now more than ever, the central issue is to mobilize the social power of the entire working class. Every worker has a stake in our struggle and we must make them aware of that.
After the regime change in Damascus, while Israel was invading Syria and destroying its defense infrastructure, Blinken visited Turkey and Turkish intelligence chief Kalın went to Damascus to meet with HTS leader al-Jolani.
The congress unanimously passed two resolutions, “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party” and “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!”, after extensive and engaged discussion. All delegates spoke with the evident benefit of the last two years of intense political activity and theoretical education.
This resolution was passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held November 29--December 2.
To dramatize an individual’s political awakening, or perhaps more accurately, in this case, his decision to act despite serious risks, to accept that sacrifices are part of a life of struggle, is a complicated matter.
Politicians and media outlets of all stripes are celebrating the takeover of Damascus by Islamist militias, demanding a stronger role for German imperialism in Syria and throughout the region, and calling for the rapid return of refugees to the war-torn country now terrorized by Islamists close to Al-Qaeda.
The US House of Representatives approved the largest annual military spending bill in US history on Wednesday, allocating another $895 billion to wage war all over the world and expand the US nuclear arsenal.
The fawning over Trump by Time is part of a general “normalization” of the fascistic president in the media.
The deal is almost identical to one workers rejected in October, with union president Tony Cardwell arrogantly claiming in a Zoom call there was “zero chance” of better wage increases.
Current and recently retired UPS workers in California recently spoke to WSWS reporters on the ongoing layoffs and the refusal of the union to fight for workers.
The police attack on protesting SDOs is yet another indication that the JVP/NPP regime will ruthlessly suppress all those coming into conflict with its savage International Monetary Fund (IMF)-dictated austerity program.
The repressive laws are not aimed primarily at gang members or youth offenders but pave the way to suppress the emerging class struggles.
Peruvian media coverage of the CADE 2024 conference touted as a model President Javier Milei’s fascistic economic program in Argentina, which has left half of the population in poverty.
By letting US defense contractors send weapons to Israel through Spanish ports, the PSOE-Sumar government is making itself complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The conflict centered on the low wages and part-time status the UAW International apparatus keeps its lower-level organizers, negotiators, public relations and other staff members on.
The Democratic Whitmer administration has handed out over $2 billion in incentives to automakers and other business since 2021, however, few if any jobs have resulted.
After announcing bans on the export of critical minerals, Beijing has launched an antitrust investigation into America’s second most valuable company, the chip maker Nvidia.
The injunction, coming just two days after the Fair Work Commission made an unprecedented ruling to ban pickets by 1,500 striking Woolworths workers, highlights the complete intolerance of the ruling class for any form of opposition by workers to the deepening assault on their standard of living.
After perpetrating a massacre of unarmed anti-government protestors on November 26, Pakistan’s Muslim League-led minority government and the country’s US-backed military are continuing their brutal crackdown against supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s PTI.
This controversy has graphically demonstrated how Québec Solidaire provides “left” cover for the turn of the entire Quebec political establishment—and particularly the governing CAQ and pro-independence Parti Québécois—towards the national chauvinism of the far right.
Contrary to the way it is being presented by IG Metall and the works council officials, state intervention would serve to re-militarise Germany and not save steelworkers’ jobs.
Workers in France in national stoppage against Social Security Budget as government falls; South Pars Complex casual oil workers in Iran join protests by students and retirees against collapsing living standards; strikes by Nigerian health workers in Lagos as staff walk out at three universities over pay and conditions
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Starmer pledged to “get to grips with the bulging benefits bill blighting our society” and to “crack down hard on anyone who tries to game the system”.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surveys the Gaza genocide and the carve-up of Syria and boasts, “We are changing the face of the Middle East,” the Pabloites are ecstatic.
By refusing to organize a fight, 1199SEIU has allowed RWJBarnabas Health to take a hard line against 500 nurses at Clara Maass Medical Center.
The California tax credit program is not an investment in the future of the film and television industry—it is a giveaway to the rich, financed by public funds.
The 53-year-old was caught under a vehicle moving on the assembly line and crushed to death on August 21.
Over the weekend Trump named three far-right Republicans to high-level positions in the State Department, including Michael Anton, Michael Needham and Christopher Landau.
The opposition Democrats have pledged to repeatedly reintroduce the impeachment motion to parliament, after the first was defeated on December 7, until President Yoon is forced from office.
Australia and New Zealand ministers agreed to uphold the 1951 ANZUS Treaty, which would automatically involve both countries in a US war against China.
Workers currently making up to $38 an hour would see their wages fall to $19 an hour or below and their benefits cut in half.
The next budget will mean further increases in taxes, utility rates and fuel prices, as well as slashing vital public services and a fire-sale of state-owned enterprises, destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The Franklin wildfire in Malibu has once again exposed the chronic failures of California’s wildfire preparedness and the broader systemic crisis that underscores these devastating events.
The killing of Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother, led to a public outcry across Australia and internationally because it pointed to the rising levels of police violence, especially against working-class people.
Australia’s main university union, the National Tertiary Education Union, has prevented any organised struggle against the restructure of WSU College, setting a brutal precedent.
Our strike is in grave danger, because the CUPW and Canadian Labour Congress are systematically isolating our struggle, and refusing to make it the spearhead of a working-class counteroffensive against capitalist austerity and the dismantling of public services.
Not only do the Israel Defense Forces refuse to intervene against these armed criminals, but they also open fire on local police attempting to stop the looting.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland arrested four protesters opposing Hilary Clinton's appearance at Queens University Belfast. Clinton, chancellor of the university since 2020, has been met with repeated protests by staff and students.
Opposition is growing among educators and working class and immigrant families against the closure of 7 of 15 charter schools by the charter schools operator.
Israeli statements make clear these bombings aim to shatter Syria’s ability to militarily defend its territory and, thus, to initiate the carve-up of the country by NATO-backed forces.
The proposal by Donald Trump to eliminate birthright citizenship by executive fiat on “day one” of his second administration would mean the formal repudiation of the bedrock democratic principle underlying the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments: that citizenship and the panoply of democratic rights attendant to it are available to all persons born in the United States, and that no branch of government can strip them away.
Woods repeats Trump’s fraudulent claims of being an anti-establishment figure while minimizing the dangers the working class faces from a Trump presidency.
The total size of the crypto market is estimated to be larger than the combined worth of Mastercard, Walmart and JPMorgan Chase.
Jerry White, vice presidential candidate of the SEP in the US, addressed the Colombo meeting through the internet, arousing an enthusiastic discussion about the significance of the US election.
The semi-coherent president coughed and hacked his way through prepared remarks at the Brookings Institution on Tuesday that were completely divorced from the economic reality facing millions of people.
General Motors has sold its stake in its joint venture battery plant in Lansing, Michigan, leaving workers in a state of uncertainty.
Before anything was even known about the identity of the individuals who torched a car and scrawled anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney, Prime Minister Albanese declared that this was a “hate crime” directed against all Jews.
Prahlad Iyengar, a second-year PhD student student at MIT, has been effectively expelled from the Cambridge, Massachusetts based university for the offense of opposing the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday and later charged by New York City prosecutors with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4.
None of these conflicts have a popular mandate. There is significant concern in ruling circles that youth are increasingly hostile to war the associated attacks on democratic rights.
A series of lawsuits have been launched by pro-Zionist outfits against California teachers and school districts in an attempt to stifle opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
The hailing of Penny as a hero is part of a right-wing campaign directed against the homeless and the mentally ill, hundreds of whom have no place to live other than New York’s massive subway system.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry presents the Labour government’s abandonment of New Zealand’s COVID-19 elimination strategy, which has led to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalisations, as inevitable.
While the FLNKS’s title proclaims it is “socialist,” its objective has never been socialism but Kanak “independence” within the framework of the global capitalism.
The Booker Prize winner has struck a popular chord in a world poised between the immense potential of scientific advances and the threat of military and ecological catastrophe.
Speakers, including postal workers from Canada and the United States, called for strikers to sieze control of their struggle from the hands of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ bureaucracy and appeal for support from broader sections of workers to make it the spearhead of a working-class counteroffensive against capitalist austerity.
UnitedHealth Group has consistently come under fire for denying patients’ claims, leaving countless individuals and families grappling with the financial and emotional toll of medical crises.
After buying a homeless man a stack of pancakes with her own money, IHOP management fired Victoria Hughes, an employee of 13 years.
Everyone who knew and worked with Larry waves a fond and sad goodbye to an outstanding representative of the international working class—and an all-around decent and good person.
The WSWS spoke with Yvonne about the police dispersal from the city of Manchester of Romany Gypsies and Irish Traveller children.
Greater Manchester Police issued a dispersal order to prevent the free movement in the city of teenagers and children from the Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller communities.
Warning of spending cuts, her comments were to reassure the ruling class that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government can be relied on to hike up military spending by billions of pounds.
The media is suddenly full of pressing items it has not seen fit to feature previously, relating the horror stories of those whose medical treatment was delayed, denied or generally undermined.
The New South Wales government’s workplace safety regulator has refused to release the most recent data on silica dust exposure so as to protect the reputation of major construction companies.
The disciplining of the youth, for wearing a keffiyeh, was clearly directed by the NSW Labor government.
On strike for more than three months, Marathon workers called for joint action to stop the cutoff of their insurance on December 13.
The main determinant of Turkey’s recent Syria policy has been to prevent the creation of a Kurdish state on its southern border and the encouragement of similar tendencies among the large Kurdish population inside the country as well.
Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican Party, hailed Milei’s measures in Argentina, proclaiming, “We are going to do the same thing in the United States.”
Over 150 faculty, staff and students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-D) campus gathered on Tuesday, December 3 to protest looming department cuts and staff layoffs in the upcoming winter semester.
Educators, support staff and other workers staged protests in Argentina over austerity, while 5,000 Providence hospital staff are in position to strike in Oregon.
Students have reacted with outrage at the university and police attempts to silence dissent on the campus.
Fifty-four percent of these children spent some time “doubled up,” or unavoidably sharing the housing of others, while another 41 percent are in families that sought space in city shelters, leaving over 7,000 children who may have spent some nights on the streets or the subway system.
Gropper at his best mercilessly skewered the charlatanry and fakery of American political life, while capturing the plight of the poor and the destitute.
The fall in Labor’s primary vote over the past month, from 30 to 27 percent, represents Labor’s worst result since it barely scraped into office in May 2022.
Germany’s Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are aggressively recruiting war volunteers among young people.
The Democratic Progressive Party in a Facebook post compared the situation in Taiwan to that in South Korea and referred to the opposition Kuomintang and the Taiwan People’s Party as “dark evil forces” against which “Team Taiwan” had been fighting.
National Health Service England's first report of the winter warned, “New weekly figures published today for the first time this year show the NHS is going into winter under more pressure than ever before”.
The Trudeau government has used the CIRB and a cooked-up “reinterpretation” of Section 107 of the Labour Code to break a series of strikes, and now threatens to use them against the 55,000 striking Canada Post workers.
A plea deal would protect the company and its top executives from being prosecuted for the full extent of their crimes, including the killing of all 346 passengers and crew who died in the two crashes.
Before any investigation, the arson has been seized upon by the Israeli prime minister, the Australian government and opposition to attack the mass popular opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
The collapse of the Assad regime virtually overnight could not have occurred without the agreement of factions of the Syrian, Iranian and Russian regimes.
Under the “revised offer,” the hated “Framework” will remain in place, with token modifications that will do nothing to protect workers from the company’s relentless demand for speed-ups.
Protests demanding the president resign continue, as South Koreans are clearly shocked and outraged at Yoon’s attempt to return the country to military dictatorship.
This police attack on SDOs is a warning to the entire working class. The JVP/NPP regime will not hesitate to crush any action by workers that challenges its pledge to fully implement the IMF austerity measures.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) strongly condemns the government’s plans to send German soldiers to Ukraine. 83 years after the beginning of Nazi Germany’s war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German troops are to go to war against Russia again.
The Environmental Protection Agency deal that Environment Minister Plibersek and the Greens signed was vetoed by Prime Minister Albanese, at the behest of the fossil fuel and mining giants.
News media commentary has reflected the fear within the corporate and financial elite over the unsympathetic and scathing public response to the murder of Brian Thompson on a New York City street on Wednesday.
