The pay cuts and job losses announced are a down payment by the Treasury on far worse to come and the trade unions will impose these attacks in alliance with Starmer.
We are publishing the opening report delivered to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) by Chris Marsden, its National Secretary. Marsden was re-elected to his position by the Congress, held November 29-December 2, 2024.
Coppell, Lewisville, Plano, and Richardson ISD all slated to close schools, citing budget shortfalls and declining enrollment, but this fails to explain broader nationwide trends.
As major economies struggle to maintain even positive growth, money is pouring into US financial markets from the rest of the world.
Trump’s plans, published as the Canadian government began moving to ban the Canada Post strike, demonstrates his government is preparing historic attacks on the working class.
The bombing is the latest in a series of assassinations of high-ranking Russian military and political figures carried out by Ukrainian forces and marks the highest-ranking Russian military figure to have been assassinated.
The nomination of Johnson makes clear that threats of military operations and a reckless tariff war against Mexico are not just bluster, as US imperialism resorts to the most brutal methods to recolonize Latin America.
Outraged protests by artists against the genocide and institutions with connections to the Zionist regime continue.
The measures, including a ban on face masks at protests and restrictions on where they can be held, are an attempt to criminalise public opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Jess Patience’s death came after numerous complaints were reportedly made to management and the government safety regulator about safety at the site in Rokewood, Victoria.
Social media videos showed rescue efforts through the night trying to reach some people yelling under the rubble, including in a three-storey structure that collapsed onto its lower floors.
The resident staff was scheduled for a three-day strike this week, seeking relief from poverty wages, burnout and other workplace hazards.
For the past several weeks, panicky reports and conspiracy theories have proliferated of “mystery” drones along the eastern seaboard of the US. They have been spearheaded by far-right political forces and social media influencers and facilitated by wall-to-wall coverage by the corporate media, including the broadcast networks and the cable news channels.
The state-led crackdown on workers’ rights underscores the ruling elite’s embrace of authoritarianism to enforce its class war agenda of austerity and war, and that to defend their jobs, workplace benefits, right to strike and public services, workers in Canada and around the world confront a political struggle over which class controls society’s resources and to what end.
On Monday, federal judge David Lawson of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ordered the UAW to produce records and documents the union had been withholding in an effort to block an investigation into ongoing corruption within the UAW bureaucracy presently led by UAW President Shawn Fain.
Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership and his Liberal government hang by a thread after his Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from the cabinet Monday morning in a manner calculated to inflict maximum political damage.
Briana Boston, 42, was arrested on charges of “written threat to kill or injure—conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism” and faces up to 15 years in prison.
The decision, intended to block an expected win by Calin Georgescu, a neo-fascist candidate who had expressed skepticism of the war against Russia, shows bourgeois democracy is rotting on its feet.
The Pennsylvania judges involved in the scandal, both Democrats, pocketed millions for selling children to for-profit prisons.
The metalworkers defending their right to strike and the millions of others demanding a decent minimum wage must be mobilized on the basis of a programme of struggle against war and genocide and in defence of democratic rights.
Starmer has made 16 international trips since Labour formed a government in July, with the most common reason being to escalate the imperialist-backed war against Russia.
The installation of François Bayrou as prime minister with the support of the NFP hands the mantle of official parliamentary opposition to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally.
The Biden administration’s response to the spread of the bird flu among dairy cattle across the US over the past year amounts to nothing short of criminal negligence.
The corporate media, dominated by billionaires and giant corporations like Disney, the owner of ABC, is dropping any pretense of a critical, let alone adversarial, relationship to the incoming administration.
Over 45,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its war of extermination in October 2023, Gaza's Health Ministry said Monday.
“What struck me was the emphasis on the urgency to pave a new way forward for the working class because the alternative is catastrophe.”
In the discussion of his recently published books, North stressed the essential role of Marxist theory in the analysis of world events and the development of socialist strategy.
The “Olympic wage” is a measure targeting hospitality and service workers in the lead-up to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. These events have transformed from international sporting events into platforms for large-scale profiteering, corruption and exploitation.
The alleged killer's case paints a chilling portrait of a deeply pessimistic and fascistic worldview.
The 250 striking workers were given just 48-hours notice to vote on a lengthy seven-year contract that failed to meet their key demands.
The JVP, a petty bourgeois organisation based on a mixture of Maoism, Castroism and Sinhala populism, jettisoned its pro-Chinese and anti-US rhetoric long ago.
Demands are emerging for a historic, all-out assault on the jobs, social services and living conditions of workers along the lines of that being mounted by Argentine President Milei and planned by US President-elect Trump.
The early election does not serve to let voters decide on the big issues of the future, but to bring a government into power that is stable enough to enforce highly unpopular measures—social cuts, mass layoffs, lower wages and longer working hours, the deportation of migrants, more rearmament and a further escalation of war.
For workers, this payout represents an infinitesimal fraction of the wealth they generate and will not change unbearable living conditions.
The overwhelming strike votes at three facilities demonstrate the widespread opposition to Amazon’s notorious regime of brutal exploitation and dangerous working conditions.
The report of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic embraces the baseless campaign fomented by the fascist right blaming a Chinese lab for starting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Postal workers must defy this anti-democratic edict, but this requires the mobilization of the broadest sections of the working class—public and private sector alike—across Canada and internationally.
Boluarte skipped a meeting in Ayacucho in South Central Peru in the face of protests, while 483 city workers in Duluth Minnesota have voted to authorize a strike.
No sooner had the Islamist militias reached Damascus and overthrown the Assad regime than the propaganda barrage against Syrian refugees began.
We are publishing the speech delivered by Tom Scripps introducing the resolution “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk” passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).
This emergency resolution was passed unanimously by the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held November 29 – December 2, 2024.
The CWU bureaucracy blazed the trail for the takeover by colluding in dismantling the mail service under the guise of Universal Service Obligation “reform”.
Prior to January 6, 2021, well placed informants provided detailed information to their FBI handlers on the violent plans of leading members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys militia groups, which were ignored by the FBI and in follow-up investigations into the failed coup.
The coalition agreements and the new administrations in Brandenburg and Thuringia send a clear message: "Business as usual!“
The delusional trust and praise by the ruling class in the fascist “loco” Milei and the social devastation wrought by his first year in office make clear that capitalism has reached a fatal dead end and offers nothing but disaster.
The life story of Leonardo (1452–1519), one of history’s most extraordinary intellects and artistic geniuses, always stirs the imagination.
The wealth of Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X (Twitter), has reached a staggering $442 billion, according to the latest estimate from Forbes magazine.
UM, a leading architect of DEI programs, is accommodating itself to the incoming fascistic Trump administration, which is spearheading an “America First” ideological offensive that falsely links identity politics with Marxism.
The report of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic embraces the baseless campaign fomented by the fascist right blaming a Chinese lab for starting the COVID-19 pandemic.
With around 1,500 students–divided between five lecture halls at three locations, which were connected via livestream, the gathering was the largest general assembly at the university in years.
Whether or not Yoon is finally removed from office, the underlying economic and social crisis will continue to fuel political instability and the resort by the ruling class to anti-democratic methods to impose new burdens on working class.
The Reserve Bank of Australia board wants to see higher unemployment levels, and greater falls in workers’ real wages, before any move to cut its punitive cash rate of 4.35 percent.
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
The CUPW leadership has issued no call for postal workers to defy the impending, patently anti-democratic government-order illegalizing their strike. As for the Canadian Labour Congress, it hasn’t so much as bothered to issue a press release denouncing the Liberal government's strikebreaking.
Crippling costs for the working class are a feeding frenzy for landlords, banks and the corporations.
The pseudo-left groups backed a war in which nearly 500,000 people lost their lives, nearly half of all the conflict-related deaths worldwide over the same period.
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.
