The latest offer contains a 28.4 percent (compounded) wage increase over four years, under which base pay rates in most classifications will still be lower in real terms than in 2019, until at least October 2027.
The right-wing majority, joined by Kentanji Brown Jackson, ruled that the federal obstruction law was too broadly applied by prosecutors, paving the way for hundreds of charges to be dropped.
The move is the latest in a series of coordinated attacks by university managements, the corporate media and the political establishment in Australia against the rights to protest and freedom of expression of students on campus.
The empowering of neo-Nazi figures such as Krotevych and the open backing of fascism by Western imperialism comes as the Zelensky regime is escalating the persecution of opponents of the war and suppression of democratic rights.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
While Washington and its allies denounce Chinese “provocations,” US imperialism has been instrumental in transforming the South China Sea into a dangerous flashpoint for war with China.
Without a political fight against the Wickremesinghe regime and the overthrow of the capitalist system, workers cannot defend any of their basic rights.
Even by the standards of American “political culture,” Thursday night’s presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump was a spectacle of degradation, reaction and stupidity.
The emergence of the new viral variants and the consequent surge of COVID-19 that is currently underway has been enabled by a ruling class indifferent to the suffering caused by the virus.
A growing number of scientists have sounded the alarm that immediate action to eliminate bird flu is necessary before it develops into a human pandemic.
By supporting the New Popular Front, the NPA is joining in the right-wing restucturing of the political establishment to prepare for war with Russia abroad and class war at home.
These 14,000 2,000-pound bombs have a combined yield of 7.8 kilotons, equivalent to half to the power of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb that the US used to destroy Hiroshima in 1945.
Since the strike began, there have been over 100 new clients requiring food support—almost triple the monthly average. Poverty levels in the area, according to the last census, showed that 11 per cent of people living in Guelph were low-income families.
South Korea: Hyundai Motor workers vote to strike over failed wage talks; India: Punjab Roadways bus drivers and conductors strike over unpaid wages; Thousands of Sri Lankan public sector workers continue strike action; Australia: Quantem bulk fuel supply strike for pay rise.
The fight against job cuts must be combined with the fight against war. This is only possible against IG Metall, not with it.
Feinstein wants workers in Britain to repeat, under a rerun of Corbyn’s disastrous leadership of the Labour Party, the bitter experience of creating “broad left” formations such as Syriza in Greece that sabotaged the struggle against International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union dictated austerity.
The event was billed as “an important democratic opportunity for voters to understand their local candidates’ views on climate change and the environment.” The SEP was never informed of the hustings and Zero Hour did not openly announce that certain candidates had been excluded.
Paxton said to applause, “We are here to raise the alarm of the danger of war and capitalist barbarism. Death has become an acceptable policy of the capitalist ruling class.”
While the Democratic president was visibly doddering, the Republican ex-president engaged in non-stop lying and fascistic demonizing of immigrants.
The main obstacle to mobilizing workers against war and neo-fascism independently of the New Popular Front’s pro-imperialist program are organizations like the IMT, which are petty-bourgeois descendants of renegades from Trotskyism.
“The clarity of analysis from Bogdan is a direct threat to fascistic regimes and hence he has been fraudulently charged and put in prison”– Albert from Victoria
The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has launched a “cost-cutting" race in the EV transition.
The union and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson hope to avoid the possibility of over 25,000 Chicago teachers on strike during the convention.
This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees.
Wednesday’s police assault makes clear that Sri Lankan workers need to prepare for a political general strike, based on a revolutionary socialist program, against the government’s International Monetary Fund austerity measures.
While thousands of people rallied outside parliament, Labour MP Phil Twyford falsely claimed that his party had been calling for a ceasefire for the last eight months.
Executions this week in Texas expose the arbitrary character of the death penalty and the abusive life experiences of those who find themselves on death row, while Missouri sets an execution date for an innocent man.
The latest Consumer Price Index figures make a mockery of the Albanese government’s pretence that real wages are finally rising after years of falling, let alone Labor’s 2022 election pledge of “a better future.”
According to IATSE, talks were stalled mainly due to disagreements over wages and artificial Intelligence. Workers have every right to be intensely suspicious of this process and its results.
The abortive coup marks a new stage in the turmoil gripping Bolivia ahead of the 2025 elections, where the major drivers are the escalating third world war and deepening crisis of global capitalism.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee recently held its founding meeting. Organized independently of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) bureaucracy, the PWRFC aims to mobilize postal workers in a political struggle against the corporatist alliance between management, the union apparatus and the government.
The US State Department hailed “President Ruto’s commitment to Kenyans’ constitutionally-endowed rights,” while European Union Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hailed a “reduction of the tensions… conducive to dialogue.” This is a seal of approval for the massacre Ruto committed the day before.
In Italy, agricultural workers in Latina province walk out after workplace death, while metal workers strike in South Tyrol after explosion leaves one fatality, others injured; 20,000 oil contract workers in national walkout over pay and conditions in Iran join mass protests of retirees over falling living standards; health workers in Oyo State to hold seven-day warning strike July 1 over pay and collapsing healthcare system
Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.
Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
While making empty pledges of minor social reforms, the New Popular Front endorses military escalation against Russia and calls to strengthen the military police and intelligence services.
Doled out over just nine months, this figure is nearly double the US’s typical annual Israel military aid budget of $3.4 billion and will be further supplemented by $14 billion in weapons funding allocated by Congress this year.
The Supreme Court posted and then removed a draft order that would reinstate emergency medical abortions in Idaho.
Autoworkers across the US are hailing the victory in court this week against the Department of Labor and the United Auto Workers bureaucracy over massive irregularities in the 2022 union elections.
The purpose of the July 24 demonstration is to set into motion a new and powerful mass movement of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the global escalation of imperialist militarism by the US ruling class and its NATO collaborators.
Judges in Kansas and Missouri accepted the arguments of Republican-led states and imposed preliminary injunctions on Monday blocking the main provisions of President Biden’s SAVE student debt relief program.
"The Zelensky regime put Bogdan behind bars to suppress the idea of the unity of the workers and a socialist perspective."
Bowman exposed himself in the eyes and minds of the working class with his inconsistent opposition to Zionism while at the same time supporting the re-election of “Genocide Joe” Biden.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s trip to the Middle East once again highlighted the devastating role played by German imperialism in the genocide in Gaza and the escalation of war throughout the region.
The city is reneging on its earlier pledge not to arrest peaceful protesters as it links up the fascist-ridden Chicago police with federal law enforcement agencies.
This new version of McCarthyite blacklisting has come about because official Hollywood has done whatever it can in recent years to erase Polanski’s films and his very artistic existence.
In order to maintain a valid Ukrainian passport—a precondition for their maintaining their “temporary resident” status under Canadian immigration law—Ukrainians who fled to Canada must now return to Ukraine and risk being seized and forcibly enlisted in the military.
The unions subordinated the strike to futile negotiations with the Lula government, isolating this powerful movement from the struggles of state teachers and other federal workers.
The driving force behind the new law is the demand by Christian fundamentalist groups that separation of church and state should be overthrown, and religion made the basis of all public policy.
The latest report by the Verfassungsschutz (Germany's secret service) lays the basis to criminalise every voice critical of the government’s pro-war policy and support for the genocide in Gaza.
Everything indicates that the imperialist powers were involved in the attack which serves their war aims and strategy in several respects.
Although assaults continued around the synagogue and the nearby neighborhood for several hours, the only arrest reported was a pro-Israeli counter demonstrator for carrying a sharp pole.
The opposition is led by millionaire Raila Odinga and has no fundamental differences with the Ruto government’s economic programme. Odinga’s concern is that the current government is incapable of implementing the required austerity measures in the face of rising opposition.
The campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk, the anti-war socialist imprisoned by the Zelenskiy regime, has seen many workers and youth from Turkey post messages calling for his immediate release.
Mélenchon could not make it clearer that he sees his task as promoting the completely discredited politicians of the Socialist Party.
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
The so-called “forever chemicals” pose a considerable health threat, causing thyroid cancer and liver damage. High exposure can lead to decreased fertility, developmental delays in children, as well as increased risk of prostate, kidney and testicular cancer.
In comments to an investors meeting in Milan, Italy, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares pledged to shift the company’s supplier base “from the Western world to the best-cost countries.”
In a country with a history of industrial disasters, the tragedy raises further questions about unsafe and exploitative conditions in the facilities feeding corporate global supply chains.
The next contract covering nearly 130,000 workers, is an opportunity for rural carriers to mobilize a rank-and-file rebellion to fight the destruction of the post office, which is being carried out with the support of both big-business parties and the postal union bureaucracy.
The deportations, in an operation clearly planned at the top levels of the French state, further exposes Macron’s shift towards dictatorial rule.
Li’s visit, one leg of a regional tour, was aimed at cultivating the Malaysian government’s support as a counterweight to US diplomatic and military encirclement as part of preparations for war against China.
As the June 30, 2024 contract deadline approaches for the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT), educators spoke with the WSWS about conditions in the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) and the issues they feel must be addressed in a new contract.
Recent reports reveal that workers in construction and mining are committing suicide at rates that are more than double the average for all occupations.
A petition demanding the halt of Williams’ impending execution is approaching nearly half a million signatures.
The court decision characterizes the Biden administration’s pseudo-legal efforts to sidestep claims of voter suppression as “pedantic” and “inherently illogical and textually unsupported.”
Workers must be warned. As the Canadian government backs the Israeli genocide in Gaza with millions in aid and diplomatic cover, fuels the escalation of the NATO-led war against Russia in Ukraine and sabre rattles against China in the Indo-Pacific, it is establishing the powers needed to crack down on opposition at home.
The indictment makes clear that this is far from being a radical but harmless group of nutcases, but rather is a networked organisation with a lot of money, a lot of weapons, the expertise to use them and detailed plans to commit massive, murderous terror.
Protestors stormed the Parliament and set parts of it ablaze, while lawmakers fled using underground tunnels or hid in ambulances. Police used live ammunition, teargas and truncheons, resulting in the deaths of several protestors and hundreds of injuries.
Tish Murtha wrote of the unemployed youth she photographed: “The sense of aimlessness and pent-up frustrations are reaching critical levels where they will be transformed into an explosive anger, directed against the establishment that has been so careless of their hopes and needs.”
Teams on Camden Town High Street, in Kentish Town, and at workplaces including Royal Mail offices and hospitals, have distributed thousands of copies of the SEP’s manifesto and sold literature.
The principled stand taken by workers at the May 20 meeting, in opposition to the ANMF bureaucracy, was important, but it is only a first step.
Far from being held accountable for his barbaric crimes, Gallant was welcomed in the cockpit of world imperialism with open arms by fellow war criminals drenched in the blood of Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Ukrainians and Russians.
The arrangement represents a massive victory for Assange, whose liberation will be welcomed by defenders of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war around the world.
O’Brien will be speaking at a meeting that will be, for all intents and purposes, a fascist rally put on by one of the two main political parties.
Facing electoral defeat, and increasing hostility among workers, the Queensland budget’s token measures attempt to mask a big business agenda.
The tiny crowd for Saturday’s rally is of objective significance. The “left” face of the Democratic Party stands exposed in the minds of millions as supporters of genocide and war.
Unlike Jane Fonda, who has done everything in her power to make the public forget her onetime radical days and views, Sutherland retained a general hostility to capitalism until his death.
The 1,350 workers at the Bombardier plant in Toronto, Canada walked out Sunday after the expiration of their contract as leaders of Unifor urgently sought to continue discussions with management.
The Russian president’s trip to Vietnam was aimed at countering Washington’s aggressive actions throughout the Indo-Pacific aimed against both Russia and China.
The SPD and the German government are working to strengthen the far right in Germany and internationally, as shown by the meeting between Scholz and Argentina’s Milei in Berlin on Sunday.
On World Refugee Day, of all days, politicians from Germany’s federal and state governments discussed how they could deport refugees even more effectively and keep them out of Germany.
Campaign teams for SEP parliamentary candidate Darren Paxton have held many conversations around Inverness on the Gaza genocide, the danger of war and the shift to the right in official politics
Murray’s response to Labour’s alleged dirty tricks operation against him in Blackburn, is, like that of Corbyn’s response to the witch-hunt, one of utter prostration.
The mounting attacks on jobs are part of a broader jobs bloodbath in the industry’s transition to electric vehicle production. An estimated 40 percent of autoworkers’ jobs will be eliminated in the US and internationally in the transition to EV production.
“I’m so over this business of spending my weekends volunteering. What a sad state of affairs it is when our taxes can’t cover essential medical equipment for a rural town.”
Four people were killed and 144 were injured Sunday, when a US-made long-range missile fired from Ukraine released cluster bomblets over a busy beach in Sevastopol.
Questions are being raised in media and financial circles about who is going to buy the Treasury bonds being issued to finance the growing government debt.
The furore has served to further bury the reality of what is occurring in Gaza, while the Labor government that is complicit in the mass murder has presented itself as a wounded party.
The Supreme Court’s decision Friday upholds the Biden administration’s claim of unrestricted powers to separate married US citizens from their immigrant spouses, preparing the way for a vast escalation of attacks on basic rights.
Flight attendants’ right to strike is highly restricted under the Railway Labor Act, which was used by Biden and Congress to ban a strike on the railroads in 2022.
Pablo Moyano, a co-leader of the CGT and Trucker’s Union, withdrew from the June 12 demonstration after security forces warned him that a police onslaught was about to begin.
Michigan teachers’ unions keep mum as contracts expire and massive budget cuts threaten public education.
The rise of the AfD cannot be stopped by voting for supposedly “democratic” parties. The fight against fascism is not a question of parliamentary arithmetic but the class struggle.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced more New Zealand military forces will be deployed to Japan and South Korea, as part of US-led preparations for war against China.
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.
Workers and young people must reject Quebec nationalism and anti-immigrant prejudice—both in the unabashedly chauvinist forms advocated by the Parti Québécois and the CAQ government, and the hypocritically “polite,” ostensibly “inclusive” variant promoted by the pseudo-left Québec Solidaire.
