Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Chicago educators are at a critical juncture with the CTU bureaucracy sanctioning below-inflation raises and school closures
Israeli director Yuval Abraham has sharply denounced the latest campaign by the German authorities to stigmatise his film and the filmmaker himself as antisemitic.
Three months before Germany’s early federal election, pressure is growing within the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) to choose Defence Minister Boris Pistorius as the party’s lead candidate instead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The CSP-Conlutas union bureaucracy seeks to divert intense workers’ opposition to cuts demanded by Embraer into the rotten politics of economic nationalism and national chauvinism.
Following a workplace injury which left him in chronic pain and needing a cane, Ernesto Tolentino, 39, was fired and given a pitiful severance pay of $5,917 for 15 years of work and no compensation for sacrificing his physical well-being.
Healthcare, social services, education and other public sector workers join national demonstration in Belgium against cuts in public spending; ongoing protests across Iran by emergency workers, teachers, nurses and retirees over dire poverty; seven-day warning strike by Nigeria’s medical and dental consultants over pay and conditions as many migrate
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese has said, “History will judge these people who have not done anything in their power to prevent atrocities… There are responsibilities; there might be complicity.”
While the government’s proposed policies are presented as a means to assist workers, the true agenda is the preparation for war and to slash jobs to boost corporate profits.
The resolutions, advanced by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, were aimed at providing cover for the absolute support of American imperialism and the Democratic Party for the Gaza genocide.
The end of the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe underlines the fact that the war is part of a metastasizing global conflict. One of the goals of the US—to weaken Russia as a major energy supplier to European markets through the complete decoupling of its infrastructure from Ukraine—poses dangers to Europe and threatens the eruption of open conflict within the trans-Atlantic alliance.
This is the first major strike in the United States since the presidential election returned Trump to the White House earlier this month. The new administration will provoke massive social conflict on a scale never before seen in the United States.
Trump’s choices to run social service departments, like Education and Health, are better fitted to destroying these agencies than administering them.
A new United Nations report shows that the world is headed towards up to 3.1℃ of warming by the end of the century, with devastating consequences for billions of people worldwide.
Teacher anger over paltry raises and the closure of Acero schools is reaching a boiling point.
The WSWS received the following letter from a reader in the Netherlands.
The 2024 elections in Brazil were marked by a significant repudiation of the political establishment, evidenced by a record level of abstention.
The long-running discussions about the need to eliminate thousands of full-time jobs, end daily delivery, and sell off post offices underscore that striking postal workers are not merely fighting for a new contract. Rather, they are embroiled in a political fight, which if it is to succeed must be based on an explicit rejection of capitalist austerity and the profit “principle.”
The rally in Berlin against the dictatorial forms of rule of the Zelensky regime is of great significance. It illustrates the rapidly growing opposition of the Ukrainian working class to the war against Russia.
Protests against the ruling FRELIMO party continue as opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who is linked to Trump and Portuguese fascist circles, appeals for support from imperialism.
Whenever the trade union bureaucracy call a general strike in Greece, it is a sure sign that they fear an escalation of the class struggle which could spiral out of their control.
The essential response of the major European powers to Trump’s election has been to plan to step up their own military aggression against Russia and to consider what it will take to make this a European-led war.
The TİP failed to base its split with the Stalinist Communist Party on a study and assimilation of the great strategic and world-historical issues raised by Leon Trotsky’s struggle against Stalinism. This is a common feature of all the tendencies that emerged from the disintegration of the Stalinist parties after the collapse of the USSR.
As they escalate their war with Russia in Ukraine in defiance of mass popular opposition, the European NATO countries are risking total war between the major nuclear powers.
The NATO powers are knowingly and deliberately crossing a "red line" that Russian President Vladimir Putin had indicated would lead to a military response. This decision has as its aim the continuation and escalation of the war and is, to some extent, a deliberate provocation.
Police are engaged in a major cover-up after executing a mother suffering from post-partum depression and her baby earlier this month.
According to the Detroit News, the automaker has laid off nearly 4,000 workers in Detroit and Toledo metro areas since September alone.
Dissanayake retains the main portfolios, such as finance and defence, in particular, to ensure the government’s foremost task of ruthlessly implementing the IMF austerity measures is directly in his hands.
Wall Street has been salivating over the prospect that Trump will bring further tax cuts and regulations governing the operations of finance capital will be further relaxed so as to become almost non-existent
Labor is intent on outdoing the Liberal-National Coalition opposition in making overseas students, along with immigrants and refugees, scapegoats for the intensifying cost-of-living, housing and social crisis affecting millions of working-class households.
In its campaign material for a “Student Strike for Palestine,” the RCP advances no call for young people to turn to the working class and fight to mobilize it in struggle against genocide and imperialist war. Nor does it indict the trade unions and NDP for their support for the pro-genocide, pro-war Trudeau government.
The National Party-led coalition government is promoting the lie that indigenous Māori enjoy a privileged position, in order to divert social anger caused by austerity and the assault on workers’ living standards.
The artist seems obliquely to acknowledge the potentially fatal threats that humanity faces while choosing to indulge in escapism and hedonism.
Five faculty members at CSULB were cited for participating in protests against the genocide in Gaza.
The immediate task of the new naval headquarters on Germany’s Baltic coast is developing a so-called situational maritime picture in this critical region as part of NATO’s war offensive against Russia.
Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.
The Berlin state government, a coalition of the CDU and SPD, is already anticipating the budget cuts to be implemented at a federal level.
This is the first major new strike in the US since this month’s presidential election. Trump is seeking to convert the presidency into a fascist dictatorship, the most extreme form of government of, by and for the corporate oligarchy.
The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has soared to 42 percent and economic desperation is widespread in the world’s most unequal society.
United and effective action by Stellantis workers worldwide can only be achieved by the rank-and-file in direct opposition to the economic nationalism and corporatism of the trade union bureaucracy.
Turkey, Italy, Cyprus and Greece play a key role in providing transshipment services to Israel. As the terminus of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline, Turkey ranks first in terms of volume, accounting for 26 percent.
The election of Trump is the filthiest expression of the brutal restructuring of society being carried out by the financial oligarchy via war, genocide and draconian exploitation of the working class.
The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists (YGBL) condemns the racist riots. The events in Korkino are part of an international trend in which the far right is being built up and encouraged by the ruling class and its state apparatus in order to divide and suppress the working class.
More than six months have passed since Bogdan's arrest. During this time many organizations, parties, intellectuals and scholars have expressed their support for him.
Florida has nearly doubled the number of books it has removed from school libraries this year compared to 2023. This is an indication of the wave of censorship that the far right plans, which the Democrats will do nothing to block.
Although corporate executives, union officials and the media claimed there would be no effect on normal operations, the bankruptcy filing is a prelude to a savage cost-cutting campaign.
The deployment of Japanese troops in Darwin is one component of a far-reaching integration of the three militaries, directed against China.
Both Roberson and Lucio are innocent of the charges for which they were sentenced to death.
In a social media post, Trump declared it was “True!!!” that he would declare a national emergency to wage war on migrants.
Thousands of Brazilian workers participated in a November 15 protest over excess working hours, while the families of four COVID victims have taken their case to the Iowa Supreme Court.
While the company has stated the closure would take place in mid-2026, it is already escalating its attacks on jobs, with “temporary” months-long layoffs beginning in December.
The streaming service claimed some 65 million viewers around the globe watched the sickening spectacle that combined glorification of wealth with elder abuse.
“The NSWTF gave in. They could have fought more for a better deal. They are not in touch with what it’s like in the schools.”
Instead of participating in a race to the bottom against low-paid, precariously employed delivery workers, we must turn to these workers and fight to rally them alongside us, for a joint struggle, based on our common class interests for well-paid and secure jobs for all.
The academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-state sources.
In discussion and commentary, the protectionist US Smoot-Hawley legislation of the 1930s and its disastrous consequences are increasingly being recalled.
Before workers have even begun their struggle, the United Workers Union bureaucracy is offering management a compromise that will leave workers earning less in real terms than they were a decade ago.
In line with warnings made in previous articles on the World Socialist Web Site, medical professionals are pointing to clear indications that the program is becoming a convenient alternative to solving complex long-term social and economic problems.
A drought in the northeast United States, combined with high winds, is creating record-breaking numbers of wildfires with dangerous smoke conditions in the New York metropolitan area and beyond.
On Tuesday the University of Michigan Central Student Government (CSG) voted overwhelmingly to impeach the student president and vice president, who are both opponents of the university’s connections to the genocide in Gaza. Students connected to the Democratic Party and far-right and Zionist groups led the impeachment campaign.
The attack on the Supreme Court came at a critical moment in international politics, with Bolsonaro enthusiastically celebrating Trump’s victory in the US.
Mamdani’s employment of pseudo-radical slogans is a desperate effort to boost the image of both the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party as a whole.
Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams will play key roles in the onslaught against immigrants being planned by the incoming administration.
The Greens are determined to enter the next government in order to rearm Germany to become the leading military power in Europe, to continue the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and to stifle the growing anti-war opposition at home.
Syriza’s popular support has collapsed. One survey conducted by Real Polls last week has it polling in eighth place, at 3.6 percent.
A look at the background of those arrested, all of whom are between 20 and 30 years old, reveals they are not an isolated phenomenon, but have emerged from established neo-fascist structures developed over a long period of time.
Farmers are beginning nationwide protests in France and railworkers have announced strikes starting December 11, as workers face a wave of mass layoffs announced across Europe and internationally.
With less than two months remaining in his term, US President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use US long-range ATACMS missiles to strike deep inside Russia, crossing a “red line” that Russian President Vladimir Putin said could lead to direct war between Russia and NATO.
The new contract in the metal and electrical industries, which IG Metall agreed to without a workplace vote and despite the declared opposition of many members, marks the beginning of a new stage in the struggle against the union apparatus.
Wolfgang Weber was an outstanding fighter who devoted his entire life to the service of the working class and the preparation of the socialist revolution.
This legislation is yet another attempt to rescue the corporate political elite in the face of deepening popular disaffection with the entire ruling class program of austerity and war.
Police denied that the bombing of a restaurant in Melbourne had anything to do with the pro-Palestinian statements of its owners, even though one of the accused told them the motive was “the conflict overseas between Palestine and Israel.”
The re-election of Donald Trump signifies the violent realignment of American politics with its underlying social reality: a society dominated by staggering inequality and ruled by a capitalist oligarchy.
The WHO said that in 2023 measles surged 20 percent above the previous year, underscoring the need to vaccinate against this dreadfully contagious disease.
The WSWS spoke with Harvard student Bilal Irfan, who has been involved with the non-profit group FAJR Scientific, to assist in bringing aid to Gaza and conducting medical research documenting the horrific toll of the Israeli offensive.
UCLA astrophysics professor Daniel McKeown became homeless after working a year with a paltry salary. McKeown has been retaliated against by the administration for his outspoken social media posts denouncing UCLA’s refusal to renegotiate a livable wage for his work.
This demand is addressed not to the right-wing JVP/NPP government, parliament or the opposition parties—all of which are organically beholden to international finance capital. Rather it is addressed to the working class as a lever for mobilizing it against the bankrupt capitalist order, in the fight for workers’ power and the socialist reorganization of society.
The breakdown of talks is an exposure of the supposed “victory” declared by the ILA after shutting down a three day strike by 45,000 workers in October.
Myanmar-Thailand border clash; UN recognizes Palestinian “right of return”;British Labour government nationalizes iron and steel industry; first Australopithecus skull discovered.
London is the epicentre of a national emergency, accounting for over half of England’s homelessness figures.
The issue of the restitution of such artefacts as the token 26 statues to the Republic of Benin, so long rejected by the colonial powers, has now become entangled in broader geopolitical conflicts, with a few institutions now repatriating--or offering to repatriate—a handful as a public relations exercise.
The escalation in the courts must be responded in kind by expanding the struggle. Striking teachers should demand, instead of submitting to the districts’ stalling tactics and refusal to negotiate, that their strike be spread to the 117,000 members of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) in districts across the state.
“I have only worked two years and I feel like I am done. It’s such an unsustainable job, the hours, the workload.”
NSWNMA officials have stepped up their divisive claims that nurses and midwives are being discriminated against because they work in a female dominated industry.
A veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and Guantanamo torture camp, Hegseth rejects international law and will loyally purge the Pentagon of any elements unwilling to commit war crimes on behalf of the Trump administration.
Milei’s appearance as the star guest at Mar-a-Lago provides a glimpse of what the incoming Trump administration has in store for the working class in the United States.
In the wake of the election, the proponents of identity politics, stung by the blow to their political project, have attacked the population for supposedly being too racist to cast their votes for the Democratic Party.
A standing UN committee investigating human rights violations by Israel said in a report issued Thursday that Israeli actions in Gaza "are consistent with the characteristics of genocide."
The global character of the cuts requires an internationally unified response of the working class. Job cuts in the auto industry are escalating worldwide as employers seek to slash costs in the EV transition.
The explosion occurred just east of downtown Louisville at 3:00 p.m., shattering windows of nearby homes and cutting power to the area.
The ban is transparent censorship, aimed at suppressing discussion and political activity among a generation that is being radicalised by the reality of war, climate catastrophe and dictatorship.
As the Albanese government and the union bureaucrats work hand-in-glove, workers in Australia have lost about 9 percent of their purchasing power over the past three years.
Reporters with the World Socialist Web Site spoke with striking nurses in Chicago at the picket line on Wednesday. Read their statements.
Continental is set to close two plants next year and Schaeffler has announced mass sackings. The IG Metal union has agreed a new contract that imposes an “industrial peace” and so will not lift a finger to conduct a fight to defend jobs.
“I've been with the post for almost nine years, eight of which are permanent full time, and I'm making just dollars above minimum wage,” a striker said. “With the cost of living rising, due to inflation brought to us by the Trudeau government, 11.5 percent is not an option over four years. 22 percent is very reasonable.”
The working class will rapidly come into conflict with the JVP/NPP government, which while posturing as anti-establishment, is a right-wing communalist party committed to imposing IMF austerity.
Workers across the country from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Vancouver, British Columbia, took enthusiastically to picket lines outside their depots and workplaces, seeking to beat back demands for major concessions by the federally controlled Crown corporation.
Microsoft has been one of the industry’s prime movers in implementing job cuts. In January 2024 it slashed 1,900 people from its gaming workforce, and purged an additional 650 September 12.
In mid October, a 40-year-old gay man was brutally held and beaten by the group of students, all of whom have been suspended from the college.
A teenager in British Columbia who is being treated in the critical care unit was confirmed to have been infected with the bird flu virus.
