New Zealand nurses union promotes racial divisions
The NZNO falsely claims that white people have benefited from healthcare policies, demands increased recruitment of Māori nurses and opposes immigration.
The NZNO falsely claims that white people have benefited from healthcare policies, demands increased recruitment of Māori nurses and opposes immigration.
Hundreds of people were displaced and thousands more impacted, especially in working-class areas, as the result of record rainfalls.
The evidence paints a sinister portrait of the military-fascist cabal that controlled the Brazilian state under the Bolsonaro government.
The warning strikes must be made the starting point for the mobilization of all workers against the incoming government, which is preparing attacks on jobs, wages and social benefits on a scale not seen since the end of the Second World War.
In the past few days, tens of thousands in over 100 cities have protested and paid tribute to the nine young people with a migrant background, who were shot dead by the German racist Tobias Rathjen five years ago, on 19 February 2020.
Constant incitement against refugees and migrants, far-right conspiracy theories about “left-wing elites” or the denial of pandemics—in Germany, all of this has been rendered socially acceptable in recent years, promoted by media and government representatives.
The film depicts the world of sex workers convincingly, before evolving into a type of dark “screwball comedy.”
In just three weeks and after just three rounds of negotiations, Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German train company, and the German rail union Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsgewerkschaft (EVG) have concluded a wage settlement with a massive reduction in real wages.
In the last few years, George Mason has dramatically increased its ties with the Department of Defense.
Jama, who was expelled from the NDP’s parliamentary caucus in late 2023 after defending the Palestinians against Israel’s barbaric onslaught, has been forced to run for reelection in next week’s provincial election as an independent.
Utterly opposed to mobilizing the social power of the working class against the giant corporation, the unions are promoting a diversionary consumer boycott, while urging workers to pressure Ottawa and Quebec City to intervene on their behalf.
The deepening measles outbreak is a direct result of decades of anti-vaccine disinformation peddled by Kennedy and his fascistic co-conspirators.
South Korea: Gwangju Global Motors assembly workers strike; India: Samsung household appliance factory workers in Tamil Nadu remain on strike; Pakistan: National strike by Utility Store Corporation workers; Australia: Tomago Aluminium smelter workers in walkout in New South Wales.
USIC workers must prepare to take the dispute out of the hands of the UCU leadership which is sabotaging a fightback even as management states that its job cuts programme must still go ahead.
The school leaders taking unprecedented action to ensure a safe learning environment with amenities in good working order face legal threats from Labour council.
Taking control of USPS would be the first step in Trump’s plan to dismantle USPS entirely and privatize it, while also giving him direct access to the sensitive personal communications such as tax returns and mail-in ballots.
The plant was the site of a workers’ rebellion in 2021 against repeated attempts by the United Auto Workers to force through a sellout contract, in which the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee played a critical role.
The Trump administration is seeking a redeployment of military resources from the European theater for use in the domination of the Americas and ultimately focusing on the central target of US military aggression: China.
WSWS reporters spoke to federal workers and supporters about the impact of mass layoffs and the struggle against dictatorship.
The more-than-four-month suspension clears the way for a sell-out deal to be cooked up by the Labor government and the union bureaucracy, which has already been boasting for weeks of being “excruciatingly close” to agreement.
Under the guise of a new privacy policy, the administration of the university in Melbourne is seeking to control all political interactions among students.
The Salvation Army’s “State of the Nation” report points to historic attacks on workers’ living standards as New Zealand’s recession deepens.
Making a mockery of parliamentary democracy, the “Electoral Reform” bill was rammed through without even giving MPs a chance to read its final details, let alone members of the public, after a backroom deal between Labor and the Coalition.
The battle plan has largely been drawn up by Peter Navarro, who has been nominated as senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing policy and is known as a ferocious anti-China hawk.
Patel’s chief qualification in leading the largest federal domestic police/intelligence agency is his unswerving loyalty to Trump and his program of fascist retribution.
Hundreds of workers and young people turned out for the funeral of nine-year-old Darnell Currie and two-year-old Amillah Currie in Detroit on Thursday, in an outpouring of public sympathy for the two homeless children who froze to death sheltering in a van parked in a casino garage.
In her vivid, at times poetic remarks, Swinton described the cinema as a boundless haven of freedom and solidarity, qualities increasingly difficult to find in the world.
The transition to a ruthless imperialist foreign policy and authoritarian methods of rule that characterise Trump’s first month in office is not limited to the US. The ruling class in Germany is also returning to its criminal traditions.
Some 1,500 historians, and counting, have opposed the AHA executive council’s decision to block from a vote a resolution that had passed by an overwhelming majority at the organization’s annual meeting
The "foreign terrorist" designations pave the way to a more predatory foreign policy and military interventions.
Three weeks have passed since Steiner posted on permanent-revolution.org a slanderous letter provided by an agent-provocateur. Steiner’s default response to the WSWS's exposure of his deceitful attempt to justify his provocation is to tell more lies.
The attacks on federal workers are part of a broader attack on the social and democratic rights of workers across the country. Join postal workers, federal employees, autoworkers, postal workers from other countries and others in an online meeting this Sunday at 3pm Eastern/12pm Pacific to discuss a strategy to fight back.
Public sector workers and journalists in Greece in 24-hour walkout over pay and conditions; general strike across sectors in Iran, including workers in textiles, energy, telecommunications, transport as well as youth protesting collapse of infrastructure; sugar cane workers striking to demand their pay attacked by police, some shot dead
In response to the prospect of a tariff war, representatives of Taiwan’s ruling establishment headed to Washington on February 11 to express their willingness to “work with” the Trump administration.
Following the cancellation at short notice of her planned lecture at universities in Munich and Berlin, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, finally spoke in Berlin in a room organised at very short notice and under police surveillance.
The events of the past four weeks have confirmed that Trump’s return represents the violent realignment of the political superstructure to correspond with the oligarchic character of American society.
When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to open colonial rule and the conquest and annexation of territories.
The order is an assertion of the fascistic theory of the “unitary executive,” which has no constitutional basis but is likely to be supported by the ultra-right majority on the Supreme Court.
The revelation points to the fraudulent character of the broader hysteria over purported antisemitism, which has been whipped-up by politicians seeking to suppress mass opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The sellout contract, the result of the ONA’s meeting with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek three weeks ago, was resoundingly voted down by 83 percent.
ACL’s offer would have locked us into a wage deal with annual “increases” as low as 0.24 percent.
Nearly 20,000 workers, including nurse case managers, mental health counselors, pharmacists and lab technicians, plan to walk out for three days starting February 26.
The working class must oppose this racist campaign and fight for the unity of Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim workers to defend the social and democratic rights of all.
In return for an undisclosed sum of money, Nauru’s government has “agreed” to grant 30-year visas to an initial three victims of the Albanese government’s deportation regime.
Jocelynn Rojo Carranza’s death is a result of the mass deportation campaign led by the Trump administration and embraced by both the Democrats and Republicans.
All parties, from the far-right Progress to the Socialist Left and ex-Maoist Red Party, agree that Oslo must massively expand its military spending. While no expense will be spared on equipping Norway to serve as a junior partner of the imperialist powers, broad sections of the population confront high energy prices and a rising cost of living.
UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk announced the suspension of the SJP and GSJP chapters on February 12th over a protest on February 5th targeting the residence of UC regent Jay Sures. Protests against the suspension were held on February 18th across campus.
Regardless of which parties form a government or whether there will be new elections, social cuts, anti-refugee agitation and increasing rearmament spending will be at the centre of the next government’s agenda.
Michigan educators voted to endorse the Educators Rank-and-File Committee statement of February 7, pledging to fight Trump’s assault on public schools and to defend immigrant workers and students.
Under the proposed agreement which dockworkers will vote on next Tuesday, they will have to “out-perform” new technology in exchange for keeping their jobs, ILA President Harold Daggett declared in a video statement.
Amer as a humorist-artist and a human being faces a very difficult situation. The circumstances of the last nearly 17 months of unceasing mass killings by the Israeli forces have nothing comical about them.
The federal and provincial governments of every political stripe are determined to defend the profits of the corporate elite, and offload the cost of the trade war onto the backs of the working class on both sides of the Canada-US border.
Funeral services are being held Thursday for A’millah Currie, 2, and Darnell Currie Jr., 9. The children froze to death February 10 while sheltering with their homeless family inside a van parked at a Detroit casino garage.
Funding the military to fight wars means the end of welfare state policies in Britain and a relentless offensive on workers’ livelihoods.
The regulator Ofcom claims USO reform will improve “Quality of Service” for customers. But how do these claims stack up?
The decision was made as the looming election is characterised by mass hostility to the official parties and a growing desire among workers and young people for a genuine alternative.
The tiny Pacific nation’s partnership agreement with China was signed amid a furious diplomatic row with New Zealand, its former colonial ruler.
The sudden decision to dump the acclaimed artist and curator occurred soon after the Albanese Labor government’s arts minister phoned Creative Australia’s chief executive officer.
On Monday, Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the creation of a directorate in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tasked with overseeing the implementation of the plan announced by President Donald Trump to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
There is enormous anger and a willingness to fight among large sections of federal workers illegally fired by the fascist billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Nurses say overwork, understaffing, and spiraling health care costs are the main issues they confront.
The number of retail store closures is expected to double this year to 15,000, with workers struggling with inflation, stagnating wages and record credit card debt.
The government-appointed Reserve Bank of Australia board begrudgingly cut rates to try to ease the political crisis produced by the widespread working-class hostility that has developed to the Labor government.
A wide range of New York City and state Democratic politicians have urged Mayor Eric Adams to resign in the wake of the deal he struck with the Trump administration to dismiss federal charges against him in exchange for allowing the roundup of immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
An initial goal of the data heist is to facilitate a massive assault on social programs, but the broader aim is to create an all-encompassing database that can be used to track, monitor and suppress political opposition.
The sellout and premature cancellation of the two-week strike called on February 6 breaks the momentum of the strike and secures no real gains for workers, only an agreement to restart negotiations over the next 100 days. But, according to the union, no negotiations have actually been scheduled.
Brookings Institution researchers drew attention to an article by long-time Republican Mitch Daniels in the Washington Post, stating “only a dwindling number of denialists doubt that a cataclysmic reckoning … lies ahead.”
All indicators point to the likelihood that the ongoing 2024-2025 flu season will surpass recent years’ figures for both pediatric and adult flu deaths in the United States.
Jacobin magazine, associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), published a politically backward and reactionary article last week titled “The Case for Social Drinking.” In it, writer Ryan Zickgraf railed against reports that Americans' alcohol use has significantly declined in recent years, a healthy trend.
The entire campaign for this month’s federal election is a repulsive spectacle. All the parties in the Bundestag (parliament) and their candidates to be the next chancellor are competing with each other in inciting anti-refugee hatred, calling for more German and European rearmament spending and currying favour with the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD).
The operation against the Peoples’ Democratic Congress, a coalition of nominally left parties led by the Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, is part of a much broader campaign of repression.
The media has been reporting the figure of $500 billion-worth of critical minerals demanded by Trump, but a leaked document seen by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper shows the reality is even more extreme.
Major European powers held an emergency summit yesterday in Paris after US officials threatened to cut Europe out of Trump’s planned talks with Russia over Ukraine.
To enforce the escalating attack on free speech, the committee recommended changes to allow universities to discipline or dismiss employees accused of “hate speech.”
Calls for federal intervention came after mass train cancellations and delays on Friday, when the New South Wales Labor government told workers they would not be paid if they took part in limited work bans.
The NSW nurses union has not held a single event opposing the Gaza genocide, but did hold a protest last week vilifying two lowly health workers who made backward comments about Israel.
The SGP is running in the early federal elections on February 23 to oppose the all-party coalition for war and social cuts, and to build an international movement against war and capitalism.
The world’s richest man is systematically seeking to build the world’s largest database to direct benefit cutoffs and mass political repression.
Flood threats remained in effect across Kentucky on Monday following heavy rainfall and snowmelt that devastated communities and killed at least 12 people, including a mother and her 7-year-old child.
In small towns and large cities, protesters denounced attacks on immigrants and federal workers spearheaded by billionaires Musk and Trump.
The European response to Trump is no less reactionary than the fascist president’s own policy. It is to rearm, rearm and rearm some more.
With wind-chill temperatures near zero, residents were forced to evacuate as first responders used boats, rafts and diving equipment to rescue those trapped by the rising water and ice.
While USAID is well known for prosecuting US imperialism’s foreign policy objectives, the cutoff of its limited aid to contain disease and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa will have a devastating impact.
The Indian budget for 2025–26 provides massive subsidies for corporations, tax cuts for a wealthy few and increased military spending, while slashing social spending for impoverished workers and toilers.
Workers protest Panama pension privatization plan, while Alberta school support workers continue vote on strike mandates.
The contract would have facilitated massive cuts and consolidation under the “Delivering for America” program, including slashing tens of thousands of USPS jobs and closing over 1,000 post offices around the country.
With a contract deadline approaching, 800 workers at the company's Indianapolis plant voted massively for strike.
Under the new system, CSX railmen would have to work in a wider geographic area, meaning longer shifts, increased workloads and fewer crew changes, further upending their lives and daily routines.
German politicians and the media scrutinise artistic statements and cultural policy measures to see whether they can find any criticism of the Israeli government’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
The core issue in the strike’s failure is that the union leaders represent the interests of private transport companies rather than those of drivers and other workers.
The promotion of such backward sentiments, for which the players are by no means chiefly responsible, underscores the real dangers confronting North American workers as the rival capitalist elites whip up national chauvinism.
A Miami-Dade middle school science teacher, a DACA recipient, was detained by ICE and then deported, in the final days of the Biden administration.
The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists condemns with contempt the smear campaign based on the claim that the International Committee's “negligence” in security matters was to blame for the arrest of our comrade, Bogdan Syrotiuk.
The ruling class and the government fear that local workers’ struggles outside the control of the trade union confederations could trigger mass action across the country.
Marie Curie revealed that the Labour Party’s savage cut to the winter fuel payments will leave 44,000 terminally ill pensioners without the much-needed payment worth up to £300.
According to the trade union bureaucracy the current federal election should not be disrupted by protesting or even striking workers.
On Sunday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich raised the possibility of the imminent implementation of US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace the Palestinian people from Gaza. “It’s a process I hope will begin in the coming weeks,” Smotrich told Israel’s Channel 12 news station.
The attitude of the White House was summed up in an X/Twitter post over the weekend, where Trump declared that “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Modeling himself on the Fuhrer principle, Trump is declaring himself a dictator totally unbound by the law.
Workers, youth and peasants must strongly condemn the thuggish and provocative actions of the JVP which are a serious warning of the repressive measures the government will resort to.
On Friday, after the resignations, Acting US Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove found two prosecutors willing to file a motion to dismiss the bribery and corruption charges against Eric Adams.