Sri Lankan big business rushes to congratulate new president
The rapacious Sri Lankan elites see the IMF’s harsh austerity demands as encouraging greater foreign direct investment and expanding their opportunities for boosting profits.
The rapacious Sri Lankan elites see the IMF’s harsh austerity demands as encouraging greater foreign direct investment and expanding their opportunities for boosting profits.
Powerful factions of the NATO ruling classes aim to provoke a Russian retaliation, hoping the shock at home will create political conditions to launch a Europe-wide war on Russia.
This is a repeat in reverse of the same maneuvers conducted between 2022 through 2023 when the contract for the West Coast ports expired.
Barely an hour after Netanyahu finished speaking, his regime demonstrated the genocidal content of his war vow, as huge explosions reduced residential apartment buildings to rubble in heavily-populated southern Beirut.
We successfully initiated this meeting after gaining nearly 300 signatures from WSU students to petition the Student Representative Council to call the SGM.
The sailing of a warship through the strait, a first by Japan, goes hand-in-hand with Tokyo’s ongoing remilitarization and involvement in the US-led war preparations against China.
The size and intensity of the storm, as well as its duration over land, must be attributed to the impact of climate change.
Hours after Trump promised to carry out mass deportations of legal immigrants, Harris, who has yet to visit Springfield, Ohio, flew to the US-Mexico border wall where she pledged to adopt virtually all of the Republicans' anti-immigrant agenda.
Certain artists are demonstrating principle in the face of the world-historical crimes of Israel and its imperialist backers.
The three-year deal recommended by the RMTU to more than 400 rail workers is a wage cut relative to the soaring cost of living.
The move to suspend and deport Taal is part of a broader assault on democratic rights under conditions of escalating global war.
In the last few days, New York City police arrested scores protesters against the bombing of Lebanon and the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly.
Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths of Freddie Owens, Travis Mullis, Marcellus Williams, Emmanuel Littlejohn and Alan Miller, the US has now executed 1,600 people since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
India: Sacked Maruti Suzuki workers demand reinstatement; Samsung electronics workers in Tamil Nadu strike; Qantas maintenance engineers strike at Melbourne Airport; New Zealand health workers protest hospital cuts
The cruel treatment of refugees housed at the former Berlin-Tegel airport throws a spotlight on the alleged concern for people in war zones.
Workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland are posed with taking the struggle to defend their livelihoods out of the hands of the trade union apparatus and official and government bodies claiming to represent their interests.
With the possibility of Trump winning the presidency in November very real, Starmer was intent on making clear to Britain’s ruling elite that Labour would do whatever it takes to defend the specific interests on British imperialism under all conditions.
Dissanayake made clear that the first order of business will be to impose savage International Monetary Fund austerity.
The result exposes a cover-up involving the official water authorities, as well as state and federal governments, going back decades.
Despite claims by the US media that Russia's threats of retaliation are a "bluff," attacks on Russia with NATO weapons would trigger a massive escalation of the war.
“I think the IAM leadership is trying to smooth this out because they have multiple strikes going on,” one veteran worker told the WSWS.
More than 7,000 Michigan Medicine workers are in a fight against the hospital and University of Michigan administration for a new contract.
Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of law and order whose administration has been engulfed by corruption charges, faces five counts of taking bribes and committing fraud.
In response to a nonprofit Haitian immigrant group filing criminal charges against Trump and Vance, Higgins posted a racist statement on X accusing Haitians of “eating pets” and to get “their ass out of our country before January 20th.”
With less than two weeks before Stellantis lays off 2,500 workers at Warren Truck, a veteran autoworker is calling for an all-out fight to defend jobs.
Hawley, a major co-conspirator in the January 6, 2021 attempt to overturn the election, is a leading figure in the Republicans’ attempts to make a right-wing populist appeal to workers.
Students and supporters of Taal held a demonstration in front of the Cornell University administration building Wednesday to demand the immediate rescinding of his suspension for his protest against the Gaza genocide and banning from the campus as a violation of his basic rights.
The relentless character of the homicidal Israeli-US war is accompanied by an equally relentless campaign to deny the reality of the genocide and shield the perpetrators.
Labor’s bills would represent a drop in the ocean compared to the acute shortage of affordable housing, and would only benefit the property developers that have a stranglehold over the housing market.
French police shot and killed two Kanak militants in New Caledonia as pro-independence groups seek talks with Macron’s far-right government in Paris.
The far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress, backed by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and threats of violence by outright fascists, has sought to censor the film because it portrays ordinary Russian soldiers in a humane manner.
The aim of the contract negotiations between the Volkswagen board, works council and the IG Metall union is directly the opposite of the workers. While the union bureaucracy are negotiating how to realise the cuts demanded by management, workers are not prepared to make any more concessions.
Rail workers in Greece in 24-hour national walkout to demand more staff and safety measures in wake of fatal rail crash and near miss; workers and pensioners continue protests across Iran over decline in living standards as NATO military attack grows imminent; teachers in and around capital Abuja, Nigeria on indefinite strike to demand 25 months’ pay arrears
Sixty people were killed in total in the latest 24-hour period reported by the Lebanese authorities, and 81 injured, taking the total killed since Monday to more than 600, roughly a quarter of them women and children.
This has opened up questions about the secrecy of the JC’s ownership and funding, something previously unheard of in the British newspaper industry.
The protests organised under conditions of growing social anger and opposition are aimed at controlling, not mobilising the working class.
The campaign has revealed a growing constituency of workers and young people seeking a genuine political alternative to the capitalist programs of Labor, Liberal, and the Greens.
Top Israeli military officials threatened a ground invasion as the war against Lebanon intensified on Wednesday, with more than 280 air strikes across the country that killed at least 81 people.
Resolving to continue working within, and for, the Democratic Party, in a statement issued last week, leaders of the group urged followers to “block Trump” and “avoid third-party candidates.”
During the election campaign, the Democrats auditioned as a more stable alternative for the Japanese bourgeoisie, in contrast to the scandal-ridden ruling LDP.
The concern of Australia’s defence chiefs and imperialist leaders is not the welfare of soldiers and veterans, but a deepening recruitment and retention crisis in the military.
Amid ongoing high-level meetings between NATO leaders and Ukrainian officials at the United Nations over plans to allow Ukraine to strike Russian cities with NATO weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined Wednesday a proposed update to Russia’s nuclear policy document that would expand the conditions under which Russia would use nuclear weapons.
IAM negotiators, Boeing and the federal mediator will be meeting this Friday, no doubt seeking to avoid a situation in which Boeing machinists and East Coast dockworkers, who might strike as early as next Tuesday, are out at the same time.
Economic analysts welcomed the measures but insisted there had to be action by the government on the fiscal front.
Dissanayake wants to establish a “stable” government with a clear parliamentary majority in order to carry out the harsh austerity measures dictated by the IMF.
Dockworkers have immense power, but the question is how to use it. Establishing lines of communication with workers in other strategic industries, they must build their struggle into a broad counteroffensive by the working class against worsening conditions and automation-driven layoffs.
While the union presents itself as staying neutral, the decision is a de facto endorsement of Trump. A real fight against fascism requires an independent movement of the working class against both parties and the pro-corporate bureaucracy.
While professing to defend the “middle class,” Harris, like Donald Trump, is a defender of corporate America and the dictatorship of Wall Street over working people.
The continued existence of the death penalty in the United States is yet another confirmation of the criminality and violence of the capitalist political and economic system, which oozes filth out of every pore.
With the unions suppressing the class struggle, the Parti Québécois has gained political traction by whipping up chauvinist hostility to immigrants.
The chorus consists primarily of unpaid volunteers. Out of over 150 members, only 32 are paid for their work.
Friday's nationwide protest against the Gaza genocide must become the point of departure for a struggle by workers and youth, independent of Podemos and the union bureaucracies, to .stop the arming of Israel and the genocide in Gaza.
According to opinion polls, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) could emerge as the strongest party in this Sunday’s elections to the National Council, Austria’s parliament.
Chipmaker Intel has put the construction of its €30 billion factory in the southwest of Magdeburg on hold and postponed the start of construction by two years.
Forest fires have consumed tens of millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and illegal burning of forests and pastures.
The right-wing evolution of Labour into such a naked party of big business and imperialist war was not reversed by Corbyn’s leadership and cannot be answered by the formation of what would essentially be a Labour Party Mark II.
The results were announced on the same day Reeves delivered her high-profile speech to the Labour Party conference claiming to be “proud to stand here as the first Chancellor in 14 years to have delivered a meaningful, real pay rise to millions of public sector workers.”
The strike was suspended by the UCU because Hallam’s University Executive Board made a renewed offer the union will put to the membership. No details have been released about the renewed offer.
“When you go to work, you don’t want to think about the pay, you’re there to care for sick people. But it’s difficult when you’re given eight patients all by yourself.”
The mass attendance expresses the mounting hostility among nurses and midwives to the Labor government, which is seeking to cut real wages, even as working conditions in the public health system become increasingly dire.
For more than a week, over 500 workers have been on strike at the Eaton aerospace plant in Jackson, Michigan.
The Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued this response to the aerospace company's "Best and Final Contract Offer."
Armed with a Tomahawk missile, the system is capable of striking the South China Sea, all of mainland Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and the entire eastern portion of China as far north as Beijing.
President Macron’s installation of this government after the New Popular Front won the July 7 elections is a humiliating exposure of the NFP’s bankrupt alliances with Macron.
The RMTU cancelled industrial action in a totally anti-democratic manner ahead of a meeting on Thursday where rail workers will be shown a revised pay offer.
New bans on Chinese software have been announced, citing “national security” concerns.
On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden delivered a warmongering rant at the United Nations, demanding an escalation of war against Russia and Iran, and threatening China.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to spare the life of Williams, who spent nearly a quarter-century on Missouri’s death row for a crime he did not commit.
Drawing the lessons of the betrayals of Stalinism and the trade union bureaucracies Vernon joined the Trotskyist movement in a period when workers suffered grave defeats.
This September, Mehring Books published the speeches delivered by David North at the ICFI's Online May Day celebrations over the past decade. The speeches are a timely year-by-year analysis of the relentless escalation of imperialist militarism and the growing danger of a nuclear third world war.
Staff fired from Noguchi Museum in New York City for wearing Palestinian scarves spoke to the World Socialist Web Site.
Momodou Taal, an international graduate student and instructor, has been suspended without due process by the Cornell University administration for his participation in the campus protests against the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Significantly, infected controls did not report any symptoms related to these cognitive deficits, indicating that potentially billions of people worldwide with a history of COVID-19, but no symptoms of long COVID, could have persistent cognitive issues without knowing it.
Anger over the federal government’s policies of war and social cutbacks is manifesting itself in massive losses for the establishment parties, from which the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party split-off Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) are benefiting.
A senior Israeli Air Force officer stated that the bombardment of Lebanon since Monday was the most extensive ever carried out in the air force’s history, according to the Times of Israel. Over 1,600 sites were struck using over 2,000 munitions.
At the outset, the junior doctors raised numerous critical issues relating to the state of healthcare, but these have increasingly been shunted aside in favour of the most narrow and reactionary law-and-order demands.
Asked by media if he knew the Hungary-based firm was a bogus company, Hsu declined to comment. He readily admitted, as reported by Reuters, that remittances made by BAC strangely came from the Middle East.
Amid the usual promises to “work hand-in-hand with business… unashamed to partner with private sector”, and of “steadfast support for Ukraine”, the UK Labour leader delivered a one-hour address filled with anti-migrant rhetoric, promises of “stronger borders” and pledges to be “tough on crime”.
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Workers must be clear that far from opposing this corporate blackmail, the IAM bureaucrats are the company’s accomplices in trying to divide workers and set the stage to defeat the strike.
The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s executive president is a major international event that warrants careful examination.
The new agreement was ratified only under duress, after the company shut off workers’ health insurance last Tuesday.
Charlene Hudy, the chair of the Air Canada ALPA Master Executive Council, is facing strong rank-and-file opposition to a sellout deal negotiated by the union that ignores the demands of lower paid junior pilots.
Israel launched a massive strike on Lebanon Monday, killing 492 people, including 35 children, 58 women, and two medics in over a thousand separate airstrikes.
The latest research deals a devastating blow to the fascistic conspiracy theory claiming the virus was created in a Chinese lab in Wuhan.
Maternal mortality rates have soared in Texas after the abortion ban went into effect.
SAG-AFTRA has fully accepted the fact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will destroy thousands of jobs, and entire professions, and is simply looking for a face-saving way of ending the current strike.
The governor of Missouri and state Supreme Court refused Monday to halt the execution of death row inmate Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams. Williams, 55, has spent almost a quarter-century on death row for a crime he did not commit.
Louise Adler provided a powerful exposure of the myth that the Zionist regime in Israel represents the Jewish people, and of the slanders that any opposition to its fascistic crimes in Palestine and the Middle East is antisemitic.
With the Bankstown line privatisation almost a foregone conclusion, the Rail, Tram and Bus Union has allowed the Labor government to buy its way out of industrial disruption for merely the price of a weekend’s fares.
The Treaty Principles Bill advanced by the far-right ACT Party, part of New Zealand’s coalition government, promotes the lie that indigenous Māori have received “privileged” treatment.
College administrators and wealthy regents, terrified of anti-war and anti-genocide protests, are expanding the repressive elements under their command.
The USW maintains we should leave the decisions to the courts where, apparently, major issues can be hashed out in an “independent legal forum.” The decision in the Quoc Le case, which culminates a sad nearly 4-year saga, has blown this “theory” out of the water and exposed the consequences of the USW’s efforts to subordinate our struggle to pro-employer state institutions.
According to Ipsos, just 22 percent of people are “pleased” with Labour’s performance. Fewer than half of Labour’s voters are “pleased,” and one fifth regret voting for the party.
The program, which focuses on maintaining fiscal discipline to reduce inflation and close the budget deficit, shows that the attacks on the living and working conditions of the working class will continue and deepen.