Renault Korea workers strike over wages; Bangladeshi tea garden workers demand higher wages and better conditions; Australia: Rail workers in NSW impose bans; New Zealand ambulance staff to hold second national strike
On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania-Ohio Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee met, discussed and passed the following resolution condemning the fascist violence being directed against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
The Biden administration has responded with relative quiescence to recent setbacks in its effort to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, prioritizing the uninterrupted flow of oil.
Against the illusions promoted by the union, GM workers showed their determination to fight by voting down two contract proposals at Monday’s mass assembly.
Not only does the UK fare badly in terms of early years spending, but class sizes across the age range are larger than those in Mexico, Turkey and Columbia.
The Colombo meeting was addressed by SEP (US) presidential candidate Joe Kishore, who spoke via an online link, and followed by a presentation from Pani Wijesiriwardane, the SEP’s presidential candidate in Sri Lanka.
It is clear that the pager terrorist attacks were part of a pre-planned military offensive that would have been approved by Washington and the other imperialist powers.
The report arose out of the recognition that as a result of slowing growth, extending back decades and virtual stagnation in recent years, the EU is falling ever further behind the US and China in its economic development.
Dockworkers are expressing their solidarity with the Boeing rank-and-file workers' revolt against the International Association of Machinists leadership.
In another incendiary appeal to violence, Trump told a rally that he would travel to cities with large immigrant populations to show his opposition.
In an effort to contain the growing opposition of auto workers to layoffs at Stellantis before the 2024 elections, Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, gave a speech on Tuesday that combined vague talk of strike action with economic nationalism.
The explosion marked one of the largest strikes on a Russian arms depot since the start of the war. The arsenal in Toropets, located 300 miles north of Ukraine and 230 miles west of Moscow, reportedly housed long-range missiles and glide bombs.
Despite a rap sheet a mile long, Routh was able to freely travel to Ukraine, recruit mercenaries for the war effort, return to the US, acquire a high powered rifle and come within 500 yards of the former president.
On September 6, an exhibition of the series of collages by Palestinian-Gazan artist Mohammed Al Hawajri should have opened at the Bahnhof Langendreer arts centre.
The 9th wave of the pandemic and new research into the neurological effects of Long COVID have firmly established the criminality of the "forever COVID" policy.
Were the JVP/NPP to come to power, it would rapidly come into open and violent conflict with the working class, using communalist incitement and the security forces, with whom it has long colluded, to divide and suppress the working class.
Protests against the police shooting of an alleged fare evader and two bystanders on Wednesday were confronted with brutality by the New York Police Department.
While Unifor Local 88 Plant Chair Mike Van Boekel boasted in a statement that it was a deal the bargaining team could be “proud of,” the union is withholding details of the agreement from workers until a ratification meeting which is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sunday, September 22.
Responsibility for foreign policy and defence will in future lie with representatives of two Baltic states, Estonia and Lithuania, which are home to less than 1 percent of the EU population but are known for their hysterical hostility towards Russia.
Doctors asked to forego pay rise walk out across Germany in warning strike; protests in Iran to mark second anniversary of murder of Mahsa Amini by morality police for improperly wearing the veil, as cost-of-living protests by workers and retirees continue; striking workers at BMW in Pretoria, South Africa fighting redundancy plans face police rubber bullets as Cape Town teachers protest education cuts
The train drivers’ two-year strike and the junior doctors’ action in England were the two remaining national disputes from the 2022-3 strike wave of rail, postal and telecom workers, NHS staff, teachers and lecturers that was demobilised by the union bureaucracy based on sellout agreements.
Elections in the absolute monarchy are fraudulent, but saw support for Palestinian Hamas surge, with the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood to which Hamas is affiliated, winning 31 seats.
The demands of Boeing workers—at least a 40 percent raise to combat inflation, maintaining their yearly bonus, improved healthcare and the restoration of pensions—echo among all workers who have faced decades of slashed wages and declining living standards.
The strike was called after the extension expired on September 5 and after workers voted down two tentative agreements brought by the United Auto Workers.
On Sunday, September 22, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific/5:00 p.m. Eastern, the Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee is holding an online meeting to mobilize the broadest support in the working class for the 33,000 striking Boeing machinists.
Neither the ousted CFMEU bureaucracy, nor the leadership of the other building unions, has a perspective through which workers can take forward their struggle against Labor’s anti-democratic administration process.
The debate in Australian ruling circles over AUKUS reflects the imminent threat of a US-led war against China in the Indo-Pacific.
Israel’s terrorist attack marks a new stage in the criminalization of imperialist foreign policy, setting a precedent for the legitimization of terrorist attacks on both political leaders and the broader civilian population.
The move was significant given that in July Powell said the Fed was not even considering a 50 basis point reduction.
While Trump has been the target of at least two assassination attempts, a July 13 sniper attack in Pennsylvania and a September 15 ambush at his Florida golf course, the threats of violence have been largely aimed at his Democratic opponents, and at election officials in the seven states most critical to victory in the Electoral College.
The open letter is diplomatic in some of its language, but the material it presents, most of which has not been mentioned in the press coverage of the protest, is devastating enough.
The longstanding ties of Podemos and Sumar with German middle class politicians now developing explicity xenophobic policies exposes their own reactionary, nationalist politics.
Tens of thousands of workers marched in the Belgian capital against Audi’s plans to shutter plants in Belgium as carmaker Volkswagen launches a global assault on jobs.
The SEP fights for a socialist alternative against imperialist war, austerity and the slashing of basic social rights, and the preparations by the ruling class for dictatorial forms of rule.
On Monday, a team from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to auto workers at Volkswagen’s largest German plant, in Wolfsburg.
Labour has not only continued to fully back Israel’s genocide but confirmed its role as a right-wing government of savage austerity, anti-migrant measures, attacks on democratic rights and advocating for the use of long-range NATO missiles that would transform the proxy war in Ukraine into a direct war with Russia.
As millions of students are re-entering their classrooms in schools, colleges and university campuses across the UK, a blunt warning must be issued: The threat of world war and fascism is greater today than at any point since the 1930s.
The strike by 33,000 Boeing workers in the states of Washington, Oregon and California, which began five days ago, is of immense significance for the working class throughout the US and internationally.
As Republicans broadened their fascist anti-immigrant terror campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris refused to defend Haitian immigrants by name at an event hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia.
At a joint press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart Lurynas Kasčiūnas last Friday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius claimed that the use of long-range NATO weapons against targets on Russian territory was covered by international law.
Social media giants Meta and Alphabet took measures to censor RT and other Russian media outlets on Monday and Tuesday in response to sanctions announced by the US State Department for “covert influence operations.”
Israel launched a coordinated attack throughout Lebanon Tuesday, triggering tiny bombs which it had hidden in thousands of pagers that exploded simultaneously, killing nine people and wounding 2,750 others.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Under the proposed agreement, base pay rates in most classifications will remain lower in real terms than they were in 2019, until at least October 2027. Moreover, the deal will do nothing to address the deepening crisis in the state’s public health system.
7,000 low-wage CVS retail pharmacy workers across California are carrying out a strike vote that coincides with a powerful strike by 33,000 Boeing workers along the West Coast
The decisive factor that has brought the Philippines to the brink of war with China, while Malaysian relations with China remain comparatively peaceful, is the involvement of the United States.
Whatever their tactical differences, their common aim is to pressure the next government for greater powers and privileges for the Tamil bourgeoisie at the expense of the Tamil masses.
While storm Boris, which brought the enormous rainfall, was caused by the rather unusual collision of polar air and warm, humid air from the unusually hot Mediterranean, the deeper causes lie in the dramatic acceleration of climate change.
It was not a coincidence that Canada’s ruling elite implemented what is in all essentials a program of social euthanasia in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like governments the world over, the Canadian Liberal government prioritized the protection of corporate profits over human lives.
Williams' case demonstrates how the death penalty in America is meted out in the most arbitrary manner—to those denied adequate legal counsel, those facing racial discrimination at trial, those railroaded to death on “technicalities,” as well as to the factually innocent.
Mendes first became professionally active in the late 1950s and is widely recognized as a popularizer of Brazilian music styles, particularly for US audiences.
The sellout of workers in Puebla has exposed the treachery of not only SITIAVW, but also the German and American union bureaucracies that have long sponsored its activities.
The discussion of Turkey's possible membership of BRICS comes amid US authorisation for Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with NATO long-range weapons, bringing the two nuclear-armed powers to the brink of direct war.
Since 2018, the WSWS has been drawing attention to the influx of military-intelligence operatives into the Democratic Party, running as candidates for the US House of Representatives. The CIA “caucus” numbers more than a dozen, and could well increase this year.
Greetings were brought to the meeting from the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at Canada Post, where around 55,000 workers are being balloted for strike action over new collective agreements.
The following remarks were delivered at a Zoom meeting of Royal Mail workers on Sunday as a message of solidarity from the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at Canada Post.
The meeting with the federal mediator makes clear that there is a strategy to end the strike being worked out behind closed doors, and that Boeing machinists must meet that with their own strategy of fighting until their demands are met, and the democratic will of the membership carried out.
Regardless of the outcome of the next election, a historic crisis of capitalist rule is developing amid intensifying social discontent and political disaffection.
The attack on the SEP and IYSSE at the University of Michigan is only one component of a nationwide attack on the democratic rights of students and working people opposed to imperialist war and genocide.
Tuesday marks five months since the tragic death of Tywaun Long at the Ford Rouge Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17, 2024, at the age of 46.
BorgWarner workers in New York have overwhelmingly rejected two contract proposals, defeating a sellout deal backed by the Teamsters last Friday.
The rally was a dismal affair, full of empty demagogy and drawing perhaps 100 participants, mostly lower and mid-level UAW officials.
NYPD officers shot an alleged fare-evader, another cop and two bystanders, one critically, in a subway car in a station in one of New York’s poorest neighborhoods.
The 1,120 Ventra workers in Sandusky were only given one day to review the full contract before taking a vote on a four-year agreement.
The contempt and brutality with which Islamabad deals with the legitimate grievances of the population has fueled the growth of numerous Balochi nationalist groups and an exclusivist insurgency that has seen atrocities on both sides.
Pilots at Aerolineas Argentinas held a one-day strike against layoffs and privatizations, while Canada’s Airline Pilots Association announced a tentative contract agreement for 5,200 pilots at Air Canada.
58-year-old Ryan W. Routh was arrested on I-95 in Martin County Florida after allegedly fleeing gunfire from Secret Service agents who claimed to have spotted an AK-47 rifle with a scope pointed into the Trump International Golf Club where the former president was golfing.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Just as Washington backed Fujimori as a defender of big business interests and vehement anti-communist, so today it supports the illegitimate Boluarte regime, including with military aid and training.
East Coast dockworkers speak on the issues as they prepare for confrontation with shippers over poverty pay, grueling hours and job security.
China has supplanted the United States and the European Union as Africa’s main trading and investment partner.
The UK Labour Prime Minister has made a crackdown on migration a centrepiece of his government. He travelled to Italy to meet the neo-fascist Meloni, the darling of anti-migrant forces across Europe.
Tens of thousands of workers have shown their determination to fight this anti-democratic travesty. Their struggle can only go forward through the formation of rank-and-file committees and a political offensive against the Labor government.
The FSP seeks to dupe working people into believing that the deepening attacks on democratic and social rights can be resolved within the capitalist system and the framework of discredited electoral politics.
The TCU, TWU, and BRC announced ratification of the contract without any evidence of support from the rank and file
There is little chance of reaching 5 percent unless there is a “bazooka” stimulus by the government.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
Over the weekend, the military committee of the NATO alliance met to plot the next stage in its war against Russia, with the Alliance’s top military leader calling for Ukraine to be allowed to use NATO weapons to strike inside Russia.
The campaign of political terror initiated by Donald Trump and the Republican Party against thousands of Haitian workers in Springfield, Ohio, marks a turning point in the crisis of the American political system.
With the strike by 33,000 aerospace workers entering its first full week, the Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued the following statement spelling out the issues workers now confront.
Workers on the New Zealand capital’s rail network voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action, but the RMTU is seeking to limit it to a nine-day overtime ban before going back into negotiations with Transdev and Hyundai Rotem to come up with a new sellout agreement.
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Supporters of the Socialist Equality Party and International Youth and Students for Social Equality were cited for campaigning on the campus of the University of Michigan and barred from university property for one year.
Taken together, these provisions would result in a wartime-style censorship regime not seen in Australia since World Wars I and II.
Suspensions, banishments, withholding of diplomas, and demands for letters of apology are among the weapons used to attack freedom of speech.
The charges are part of of the bipartisan campaign to attack and suppress the rights of students and workers to protest war and genocide.
The novel and film are inspired by the real-life story of a Malayali man from Kerala, who was enslaved in Saudi Arabia for several years in the early 1990s as a goat herder.
Conditions are ripe for CAMI workers to spearhead a counteroffensive to secure decent-paying, permanent jobs for all autoworkers. Their contract is expiring under conditions of a major upsurge of the class struggle across North America.
The warmongers and gangsters running Israel’s finance ministry are talking about a permanent increase of NIS 20 billion a year for the defence budget, while the defence ministry is demanding an annual increase of NIS 60 billion.
Labour’s new welfare payment restriction, means testing winter fuel allowance, will add hundreds of thousands of elderly people to this growing toll of victims of austerity.
Boeing machinists are expressing the true feelings of workers across the country and around the world, including the enormous opposition within the working class to the assault on living standards, the increase of social inequality and attacks on basic social rights.
The SEP is the only party fighting for the mobilisation of the Sri Lankan working class on a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program against the capitalist profit system.
The meeting called for a unified campaign by educators and students, and workers and youth more broadly, against the Albanese government’s cuts to international student enrolments and the thousands of job cuts they are triggering across the tertiary education sector.
On Friday, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met to discuss the decision to begin striking large sections of the Russian mainland with NATO missiles launched from Ukraine.
After accusing Haitian immigrants of “destroying their way of life” in Springfield, Trump promised to carry out “the largest deportation in the history of our country, and we are going to start with Springfield and Aurora.”
The mass anti-government agitation in Sri Lanka “was the result of real class differences in our society, the divisions between the haves and the have nots” – Prasanna Vithanage
Despite the widespread damage, the response from the Biden administration and Kamala Harris has been muted with only one brief statement on X being released by the White House.
The Russian bourgeoisie significantly intensified its anti-immigrant witch-hunt in the wake of the March terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall.
The passage of two German warships through the Taiwan Strait underlines that Germany is once again pursuing its imperialist interests with relentless military force regardless of casualties.
