David North delivered lectures online at the invitation of Social Democracy clubs at Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, both located in Ankara, Turkey. The lectures were delivered on February 17 and 19.
The Trump administration claims ad nauseam that ICE’s anti-immigrant dragnet is targeting the “worst of the worst.” Whether by chance or design, the detention of Armando Fernández Larios fits the bill.
The open letter quotes Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who described what was taking place in Germany as “doing what they did in the 1930s.”
The Albanese government’s actions, echoing the anti-immigrant poison of One Nation, flout warnings of widespread human rights abuses in Syrian internment camps.
Union deals and enterprise agreements are enabling the Albanese Labor government’s pro-corporate and pro-military restructuring of universities.
Active across 56 countries, Veolia epitomises the subordination of vital resources and public services to the profit interests of finance capital, imposing the costs onto the working class.
The District’s Potomac sewage emergency stems from long‑neglected infrastructure which will be addressed through prolonged repairs and higher rates on the population and devastated health and livelihoods for River residents.
The artist was not criticized for her works, but for several pro-Palestinian posts on Instagram criticizing the Israeli government, including a call to boycott Israel.
Tens of thousands of Spanish doctors continue strikes over attacks on pay and conditions; Israeli port workers’ stoppage over threatened job losses; transport workers in North West province, South Africa begin walkout over non-payment of wages
Police arrested Andrew on suspicion of Misconduct in Public Office, believed to relate to emails released by the US Department of Justice showing him sharing information with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Across Catalonia, the number of demonstrators exceeded 100,000. The total number of teachers in the region is around 90,000, indicating that substantial numbers of students and other Catalan workers supported the teachers.
Having been deprived of Labour’s century-old apparatus for expelling socialists and repressing the party membership, Corbyn and his allies are endeavouring to create a new one.
The current strike authorization vote, which goes from February 9 to 20, comes after more than a year of bargaining where NYU administration has rejected key demands, according to the union.
Closures eliminate vaccinations, TB treatment and STI testing, deepening healthcare inequities for low-income communities across the county.
Walkout joins escalating struggles by academic and healthcare workers nationwide, underscoring the need for unified action against the profit system.
Some 3,200 layoff notices will be sent and at least 657 jobs cut, part of plans to reduce as much as $1.4 billion from the district's budget.
More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an “interest group” in the Democratic Party and a tool for the social advancement of a narrow stratum of the black upper middle class.
The threat of a massive American military onslaught on Iran and a broader region-wide war continues to loom large over the Middle East following the latest round of bilateral talks in Geneva Tuesday.
With the development of new AI tools disrupting established business models, financial markets are “wracked with uncertainty” about what comes next.
Mamdani announced that unless the New York state legislature increases taxes on the rich and on corporations, he will implement a 9.5 percent increase in property taxes in the city to balance the annual budget.
Thirteen months after agreeing to cut 35,000 jobs, the Volkswagen Board of Management is planning the next round of cuts—this time across all group brands.
Academic student employees at the University of California system voted to authorize a strike by 48,000 UAW members at one of the largest public university systems in the US.
Hanson’s comments underscore the reactionary climate that has been cultivated by the political and media establishment, particularly in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack.
Australian doctors, nurses, pathology and disability support workers, as well as other hospital services employees, passed a powerful resolution backing the determined strike action by health workers in New York, California and Hawaii.
While presented as necessary to combat “hate speech” and ensure students feel safe, Labor’s conduct rule changes are a weapon to silence opposition to the ongoing Gaza genocide and imperialist war more broadly.
The ICE abduction of Amazon Flex drivers Edwin Vladimir Romero Gutierrez and Angel Junior Rincon Perez reveals the exploitative nature of app-based gig work. Predominately composed of immigrant workers, most employees in the gig-economy are faced with no other means of employment.
On Monday evening, Stephen Colbert defied CBS management and told his viewers that an interview he had taped earlier in the day with Texas Democratic Party candidate for US Senate James Talarico had been blocked by the network for political reasons.
The Trump administration’s deliberate strangulation of Cuba’s economy has created a humanitarian catastrophe that could lead to mass death.
Outgoing Premier François Legault and his CAQ government have played the leading role—alongside the separatist Parti Québécois—in fomenting an ever-more explicitly far-right, anti-immigrant Quebec nationalism.
On the basis of threadbare evidence and flawed legal reasoning, a court sentenced 12 people to death in what amounts to an act of class vengeance, designed to intimidate rising opposition to the present government’s austerity program.
Protests in South Africa, and the conditions that gave rise to them, echo the experience of the youth-led uprisings seen elsewhere on the continent. The deployment of the army is a pre-emptive measure by the ruling class.
Royal Mail workers at the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre in central London have been discussing the call by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee for a fightback against CWU collusion with billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group and the Starmer government.
ICE activity is escalating sharply across the Detroit metropolitan area, marking a new stage in the Trump administration’s nationwide rampage against democratic rights.
Refinery workers at BP Whiting speak out against the isolation of their facility's contract by the USW.
An NEA bureaucrat defends the union’s anti-strike injunctions to teachers during national walkouts against ICE with the phony claim that the union supports a general strike in 2028.
NYSNA president Nancy Hagans, a member of Mayor Mamdani’s transition team, is facing calls for resignation after conspiring to shut down the nurses’ strike.
The 20,000 nurses and midwives across the state want to fight further wage cuts and dire conditions but the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation is working to isolate their struggles to individual hospitals.
The movie has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best International Feature Film.
WhatsApp was used by over two thirds of the population. For many, it was the main means of communication with friends and family abroad.
As millions of Epstein files remain hidden, the US corporate press, including the New York Times and Washington Post, have published articles dismissing documented crimes and cover-ups as “conspiracies” and “antisemitism.”
The US military killed 11 people Monday in strikes on three boats in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, in the deadliest single day of the Trump administration’s killing spree off the Latin American coast since September.
The shutting down of six First Brands’ auto-parts maquiladoras has led to plant occupations along with efforts by Morena and its allied union bureaucracy to contain the struggle.
Juan Nicolás, two months old, was sent back to the Dilley family detention center before being deported despite suffering from a severe illness.
The decisive task is the building of independent rank-and-file committees to take control of the struggles from the union bureaucracies and organize a unified fight for safe staffing and public healthcare.
Labor’s immediate aim is to silence opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but the broader intent is to establish a framework to stifle basic democratic rights, protests and free speech.
Despite its damning exposures, the Human Rights Commission’s report will not lessen French colonial domination, sustained for over 170 years by brute military force.
The case of Maja T. exemplifies how neo-Nazis, the right-wing extremist Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán, the compliant Hungarian judiciary, the Trump administration and German authorities, courts, media and politicians are working closely together to persecute anti-fascists and leftists and eliminate democratic rights.
Appearing on MS Now, Lee exposed the brutal conditions facing detained immigrants, many of them children, and warned that the rapid expansion of ICE internment camps is a threat to all workers and their families.
Over the past month, as Minneapolis became the epicenter of an explosive confrontation between the working class and the Trump administration’s authoritarian offensive, Left Voice provided a revealing case study in the role of the political pseudo-left.
The situation is worse elsewhere, with pay erosion at 16 percent in Wales, 20.8 percent Northern Ireland and 21 percent in England. But the NHS is a UK-wide service employing 1.4 million whose survival depends on a unified struggle against pay erosion, understaffing and privatisation.
“You've got people on 18-hour contracts, 24-hour contracts and they just can't do the work in that time. It means there is a point in time when you surrender, because everybody's got a backlog.
The White House is moving to rig the outcome of the election or cancel altogether.
Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker, is running to organize a rebellion of the rank and file against a parasitic bureaucracy that has transformed the UAW into an instrument of management and the state.
Four days before the first meeting of President Trump’s misnamed Board of Peace in Washington, DC, the Israeli military continued its murderous assault on Palestinians by carrying out air strikes on tent shelters in the north and south of Gaza that killed 12 people.
Declaring he was “not scared of a germ” and that “he snorted cocaine off toilet seats,” RFK Jr used Theo Von’s platform to advance mistrust of science and undermine collective public health protections.
GM workers reacted with shock and anger over the ICE operation that occurred just outside the gates of Factory Zero.
The film dramatizes the scene in the Red Crescent office, but uses the actual audio recording of Hind’s phone call—hence its title.
Workers protesting anti-worker legislation were brutally assaulted by riot police in Buenos Aires, while three contract workers received burns and were hospitalized after a work accident at a ExxonMobil refinery complex in Texas.
“That was police brutality, and I was shocked to see that happening here.”
Thursday’s large turnout was a response to the brutal police rampage orchestrated by the NSW Labor government in Sydney days earlier.
A coronial inquest into the death of 21-year-old Jerwin Royupa has revealed the slavery-like conditions he endured while in Australia under a so-called “training” visa.
Faced with intensifying global strategic conflict and growing economic turbulence, including Trump’s tariff war, the Indian bourgeoisie is determined to intensify the exploitation of the working class and rural poor.
The service union Verdi has signed a collective agreement that results in massive cuts in real wages for public sector workers in the federal states.
More than a year after their “ground-breaking agreement,” Walsh and Ward now act as spurned partners, claiming Kretinsky has not “honoured” his undertakings.
The worker was killed when a crane crushed him between its excavator arm and the bucket of the front-end loader.
Opposition to the company’s proposals is enormous at Whiting, which voted 98 percent to strike. But if the USW’s pattern agreement is accepted at other refineries, it sets the stage for a strike to be isolated, giving management the upper hand.
Workers are outraged by the betrayals of the UAW bureaucracy and the escalating attack on jobs and the social and democratic rights of the working class.
Whatever the final composition of the mission turns out to be, the reality that the imperialist powers are competing as rivals and even enemies in the Arctic will remain.
The US government is spending billions acquiring warehouses across the country to “process” those it deems “illegal.”
The era in which the interests of the imperialist powers were concealed by diplomatic manoeuvres and international institutions is over. A new era has begun in which they are decidedly open about military force and war.
Federal investigators found that Kaiser had systematically failed to provide adequate access to in-network mental health and substance use disorder treatment for thousands of members in California.
Angered by the New York State Nurses Association’s attempt to coerce them into ratifying a pro-management contract, the striking nurses are unwilling to give up their struggle until they have won safe staffing ratios.
Speaking at a conference sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and BAE Systems, Ocasio-Cortez accused the Trump administration of insufficient commitment to the US-NATO war against Russia, echoed the Trump administration’s accusations that Iran has killed “tens of thousands of protesters” and refused to rule out sending American troops to fight China over Taiwan.
Ford worker Thomas “TJ” Sabula has reportedly returned to work after being suspended without pay for calling Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” during the president's January 13 tour of the plant.
In December 2024, Works Council leader Daniela Cavallo and IG Metall district manager Thorsten Gröger announced a “Christmas miracle” at Volkswagen: 35,000 jobs cut and wages reduced by up to 20 percent. Now the board members are collecting bonuses of up to €1.75 million each.
Last Friday several hundred Los Angeles-area students faced off and stood their ground when attacked by violent federal agents outside the federal jail in downtown Los Angeles.
The intervention involves both big-business parties collaborating in an even more direct assault on social conditions through a federal decree that the city’s budget must be reorganized according to Trump’s tax boondoggle for corporations and the wealthy.
Auto factory occupation in Windsor, Ontario; Portuguese Stalinists, social democrats bow to military; US launches counteroffensive in Korea; France sets up puppet advisory group in Annam.
The CFPE—the educators’ rank-and-file network—urges educators to vote yes on the ballot, including for strike action, but warns that the AEU bureaucracy is preparing another sellout deal, as it did in 2022.
Well-known Indian author Arundhati Roy announced her plan to turn down an invitation to attend the festival due to her disgust at the comments made by Wenders and other jury members.
The ouster of Imee Marcos from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations expresses how Washington’s preparations for war with China are driving the conflict between the Duterte and Marcos factions of the Philippine elite.
Firefighters who spoke with the WSWS denounced government ministers and right-wing media commentators who attacked them for striking against pay cuts and rundown, faulty equipment.
Two characteristics of the American petty-bourgeois intelligentsia are highlighted in the Chomsky-Epstein correspondence: an infatuation with celebrity and wealth and a complete lack of genuine intellectual independence from bourgeois society.
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
USIC is owned by Study Group and operates in partnership the University of Sheffield, using its prefix and coat of arms to attract international students to study preparation courses that can cost up to £26,000 per year.
A list of “safe countries of origin” includes Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Bangladesh, Colombia and Kosovo, paving the way for mass migrant deportations.
The development of artificial intelligence (or more correctly augmented intelligence) AI and the growing concern that it has the potential to set off a major economic and financial crises shows that contradictions identified by Marx are coming to the surface once again.
UPS is preparing to launch a new buyout program as it eyes a reduction in its workforce of further 30,000 employees, potentially bringing total layoffs since 2024 to 90,000 by the end of the year.
The rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding marks a declaration by the capitalist class that there will be no restrictions on its ability to pollute the environment, regardless of the consequences in human lives.
The rally showed the powerful support for the strike, which the union bureaucrats and Democratic Party are now attempting to shut down.
San Francisco educators, on strike since February 9, should reject with contempt the betrayal of their four-day strike and expand the struggle to Los Angeles and beyond. The fight against manufactured austerity is the defense of public education everywhere.
Berlin has provided political cover and actively supported with arms deliveries the genocide that has turned the Gaza Strip into a wasteland and cost the lives of well over 70,000 people. Now Klöckner has openly declared her solidarity with the fascist Netanyahu regime and travelled to the scene of the crime.
Determined to win safe staffing and secure workplaces, the nurses must now wrest control of the strike from the union bureaucrats, expand the struggle to other hospitals and adopt a new strategy based on rank-and-file power and political independence.
Reuters reports that the Pentagon is planning for a far larger attack than last June’s one-off strikes, with officials saying the US “fully expected Iran to retaliate.”
Socialist Alternative's provocations, based on invocations of the discredited MeToo movement, expose it as a fake-left organisation of the upper middle-class, hostile to a socialist perspective.
Angus Taylor’s installation to head the Liberals highlights the deepening breakup of the parliamentary establishment as a whole.
“My jailing on bogus spying charges in Cambodia in 2017 was to intimidate and silence other journalists. The police violence in Sydney on Monday was intended to terrify people about going to future demonstrations.”
JBS workers, who are largely immigrants and facing threats of deportation and ICE raids, are joining a growing wave of resistance in the working class.
Refinery workers must organize themselves from below to fight for a deal that meets their demands, taking all actions necessary, up to and including a national strike.
Thursday’s action was a further indication of the mass social anger against Modi’s far-right, Hindu supremacist government and the state of Indian society more generally.
