In this video interview, Cornell University PhD student Momodou Taal and his attorney Eric Lee discuss Cornell's threat to suspend Taal for participating in protests against the Gaza genocide, and the broader attacks on free speech across the US.
This will be the third round of talks mediated by the federal government, which is eager to shut down the strike on the eve of war with Iran.
Vice President Kamala Harris heaped praise on Republican ex-Congresswoman Liz Cheney, as well as her war criminal father Dick Cheney, as the two campaigned together in Ripon, Wisconsin, on Thursday.
The first round of local elections in São Paulo and throughout Brazil next Sunday will take place at a turning point in the global political crisis.
US imperialism and its European allies have declared their firm support for Israel to strike Iran, a move that will further escalate the region-wide war. Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime has no alternative to offer workers and the oppressed masses throughout the Middle East.
Workers at the plant make fasteners, screws and bolts for Boeing, where 33,000 workers have been on strike for nearly three weeks, Airbus and others major manufacturers.
Despite its public warnings of a “wildfire,” the German government would support strikes against Iran's nuclear program, military installations, or oil fields that would plunge the entire region into a catastrophic war.
An open letter by 99 healthcare workers who volunteered to provide care and treatment in Gaza calls for an immediate ceasefire in the ongoing genocide.
While selected areas—including the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, German filmmaking and broadcaster Deutsche Welle—are to receive more money, the six federal funds that support the independent cultural scene will lose around half of their budget: €14 million.
Sheinbaum’s promise of a human-rights-based approach to migration has become the first casualty in terms of her credibility.
Scientists have concluded that an unprecedented global seismic signal, first noticed in September 2023, was caused by a Greenland fjord tsunami triggered by climate change.
Dragan Bjelogrlić’s compelling film is about a little-known accident at a Yugoslav reactor and the ground-breaking response by a French medical scientist.
Bangladesh security forces shoot demonstrating garment worker; India: Nationwide protests demand repeal of Modi government’s anti-labour laws; Pakistani public-school teachers oppose privatisation; Australia: Qantas maintenance engineers expand strike action; Qube dock workers in Port Kembla widen industrial bans.
In September, CEO Richard Lutz presented a new “General Renovation Programme” to the company’s supervisory board.
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
Our call for a Yes vote is to oppose state control over union funds. These should be controlled by the membership. This means a rank-and-file insurgency to challenge the domination of the Communication Workers Union’s unaccountable bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy has shut down the strike because it was having a powerful impact on corporate America. More significantly, the strike threatened to undermine the US escalation of war in the Middle East and against Russia.
In a press conference Thursday, Fain made it clear the UAW had no intention of calling a strike at Stellantis.
The Frontline Socialist Party is sowing illusions in Sri Lanka’s new right-wing, pro-imperialist government, which is led by the Sinhala chauvinist JVP and its electoral front, National People’s Power.
Every day across the Southeast the historic extent of the devastation and its consequences are being revealed.
Denouncing Iran as a “terrorist regime,” Trudeau told reporters, “Obviously, Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks.”
The 165-page filing conclusively demonstrates that Trump, and his Republican co-conspirators, knowingly sought to overturn the 2020 election with deceit, falsehoods and violence.
The speakers at the rally limited themselves to hollow pacifist phrases and fuelled the illusion that the federal government could be dissuaded from its war course in this way.
The Biden/Harris administration’s decision to end schools’ federal COVID funding relief and prioritize war spending has created a massive fiscal cliff across the US. Class battles over the right to public education are set to occur, but require a new political perspective and the formation of independent rank-and-file committees of educators, parents and students.
It is preparation for military warfare, not simply trade warfare, that underlies the US pressure campaign.
We have to press our advantage. We are demonstrating in every industry that we are the most powerful social force, and now it must be organized.
One-day general strike in France for repeal of unpopular pension reform and against imposition of right-wing Barnier government; ongoing protests escalate against low wages, pensions and worsening social conditions across Iran; demonstrations against hunger and soaring prices of fuel and imports in major cities across Nigeria met with police bullets and teargas
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
She had little time for celebrity, saying: “One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act and one’s still acting.”
The United States and Israel stand on the verge of a direct attack on Iran, with the most far-reaching and catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the whole world.
"We have to press our advantage. We are demonstrating in every industry that we are the most powerful social force and now it must be organized."
Victims of industrial poisoning of East Palestine say that the class action settlement does not go far enough to restore what they have lost, or to compensate them if health problems develop in the future.
Never before has the threat of nuclear annihilation been as great as it is today. It is high time to stop the unbridled escalation of the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine by the NATO powers.
The 90-minute debate between Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz put on display the basic agreement between the two right-wing corporate parties.
The full extent of the damage to infrastructure is still largely unknown, while hundreds of thousands of people in the Southeast are still without running water, electricity and cell phone service.
The film is totally uninterested in the social issues bound up with so-called “natural” disasters.
Amid the need to mobilize workers across North America to refuse to handle redirected shipments, the union bureaucracies are ordering their members to scab on the historic US strike.
The stimulus was welcomed in financial circles, but the overwhelming sentiment is that much more must be done to halt the slide in the economy.
The campaign, which led to the temporary suspension of the film’s screening at Toronto’s world-renowned film festival, included threats of violence by fascists against festival organizers and visitors. Virtually no condemnation of this outrage or the tacit approval it received from the Liberal government is to be found in the media.
In a televised speech in Downing Street Tuesday evening, Starmer turned reality on its head, declaring that Iran was the aggressor in the Middle East and was threatening the world with carnage.
War and genocide cannot be stopped by appealing to the Zionist state, the imperialist powers or the international institutions under their control.
US and Israeli officials openly endorsed a large-scale attack on Iran Tuesday, following a strike by Iran on Israel with 185 ballistic missiles the same day.
On the first day of the walkout by 45,000 dockworkers, several spoke to WSWS reporters about the issues at stake in this struggle.
Favorable conditions are emerging for waging an all-out fight against job cuts, which the UAW apparatus is desperately seeking to hold back.
The strike wave poses both the urgent need, as well as the possibility, of an independent class movement directed against the capitalist profit system as a whole.
On the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 student teachers enrolled in the Ayotzinapa Normal College in Guerrero State, more than 10,000 people marched in Mexico City.
Throughout the university sector, managements have responded to Labor’s “loopholes” legislation by preventing casuals from gaining any claim to permanency or ending their employment altogether.
A fire at a chemical factory broke out on Sunday morning and released a plume of chlorine gas and other toxic substances into the air east of Atlanta, causing mass shelter in place orders and the shutdown of county government offices through Friday.
All workers must stand shoulder to shoulder with dockworkers and launch a joint struggle that unites all sections of the working class.
Under the headline, “Warnings as Doomsday Clock edges ever closer to midnight,” Alan Dupont urged “national mobilisation on a scale we haven’t seen since World War II.”
The latest developments are highly concerning, as they raise the possibility that the H5N1 virus has evolved the ability to transmit from human-to-human and thus the potential to cause the next pandemic.
Impact Plastics made employees come in to work on Friday morning despite the imminent threat of flooding from Helene and kept them there as the nearby Nolichuky River overflowed its banks and inundated the plant.
White’s life story mirrors that of many of the more than 2,200 men and women still on death row in America, as well as those of the 1,600 individuals who have already been sent to their deaths since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
MSU in East Lansing recently canceled a campus event over a piece of art with a pro-Palestinian image.
The work stoppage coincides with and must link up with the ongoing strike by 45,000 dockworkers along the US East Coast, which has shuttered 36 ports between Maine and Houston, Texas, including five of the continent’s 10 largest ports.
In an interview in Jacobin, DSA member Aidan J. Beatty repeated his slanderous biography's claim that Gerry Healy and the British Trotskyists employed violence against political opponents and party members.
Between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024 a record 1,001,150 unique individuals visited a food bank to supplement their dietary shortfalls in the region that is the business and financial heart of the country.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Conditions are emerging for a broader class movement pitting the working class against US and global capitalism.
The presence of a few Hezbollah flags was seized upon as a pretext for a stepped-up denunciation of the mass anti-genocide rallies.
The lawsuit, launched by the ACLU in California, alleges that the summary banishment by the University of California Regents was illegal.
The death toll from Hurricane Helene topped 130 Monday night making it the deadliest storm to hit the US mainland since Katrina drowned the city of New Orleans in 2005.
Underscoring the central involvement of American imperialism in the escalating region-wide war, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Washington is in “continuous conversation” with the Israeli military about its invasion.
The studies highlight the dangers posed by COVID reinfection and the need to bring to clinical trials effective treatments that can prevent transmission once and for all.
Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff issued a statement to the entire university community on Monday defending the crackdown on campus protesters and the suspension of international graduate student Momodou Taal.
Argentina’s poverty rate has reached 52.9 percent, the highest in 20 years, a 13 percent increase since Milei took power.
Anthropology professor Maura Finkelstein’s dismissal from Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, came after the intervention of the US Department of Education.
A striking Eaton worker in Michigan was killed late Saturday night when a pickup truck lost control and crashed into a group of workers picketing near the factory.
Labor ministers were at pains to contrast their record of slashing spending with that of the last Coalition government headed by Scott Morrison.
The result of last Sunday's Austrian parliamentary elections followed the same pattern as the 2022 elections in Italy, 2023 in the Netherlands and 2024 in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg.
Refusing to back down after the latest attempt to silence him, Macklemore issued a principled statement that placed his music and public comments within the history of protest movements.
The class character of political tendencies is particularly revealed in their attitude to war, as demonstrated by the vote on the European Parliament resolution for support to Ukraine.
Only 14 when she fatally shot her mother, the teenager was tried as an adult and sentenced to life without parole, despite a history of mental health issues.
The implosion of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia sums up the fate of the so-called “pink tide” of bourgeois nationalist governments across Latin America.
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee has issued its report, “Ukraine: a wake-up call” proposing measures by which the UK and Europe can take on “Putin’s Russia” and China.
The potential start of coast-wide docks strike has the potential to transform the Boeing strike into part of a nationwide offensive by the working class.
Far from simply balancing between the major powers, Dissanayake and the JVP/NPP have made abundantly clear that his government will continue the pro-US line of its predecessor.
The imperialist powers are demonstrating that they will stop at nothing in their quest to reimpose shackles on the former colonies. Whether in the Middle East or in the war against Russia, all means are permitted: not just assassination but mass terrorism and genocide.
Ishiba’s election marks a significant further shift in official Japanese politics toward remilitarization and preparations for war against China.
Upwards of three feet of rain caused disastrous flash flooding and mudslides in the region, taking out roads, bridges and towns.
With a contract covering 45,000 US East and Gulf Coast dockworkers expiring midnight Monday, the rank and file is determined to carry out a strike to defend jobs and working conditions.
CEO Pedro Martinez has refused to resign and his position has become a flashpoint for divisions in the ruling class over how to handle the district’s upcoming fiscal cliff and suppress the wage demands of teachers and other educators.
Six people have died and 20 others are being treated for Marburg virus disease in Rwanda. This is the first-ever outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic disease in the country.
Paddington rail crash; Spinola steps down in Portugal; People’s Republic of China founded; League of Nations adopts bankrupt anti-war measure.
The American Federation of Musicians announced a settlement providing 4 percent raises annually for the next two years.
The CWU’s call for a “new business and ownership model” under the sole ownership of EP Group is in line with the Labour government’s pledge to be the “most pro-business in history”. It preserves the privileged status of the CWU bureaucracy as corporate enforcer.
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.
