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.
The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and anger of broad layers of the population over the social crisis; and support for the JVP/NPP in sections of the ruling class as the means for suppressing that opposition.
The strikes at both Boeing and Textron are part of a growing movement of workers fighting to assert their basic social rights and fight against growing social inequality and for decent living standards.
A “hot mic” incident, in which Biden told the other leaders that Beijing was “aggressive” and “testing us,” underscored the real thrust of the anti-China summit.
The cuts were announced during the strike of 33,000 Boeing workers concentrated in the region, posing the need for a struggle by the working class to defend public education.
The latest round of global mass layoffs at Intel, Cisco, IBM and Apple in the last month is yet another episode in the deepening global crisis confronting workers in the tech industry and beyond
Former Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Bill Kelty has reappeared on the public stage amid a developing political crisis.
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde said the world economy faced pressures similar to those of the 1920s.
Following new reporting from CNN on Mark Robinson’s history of fascist and reactionary politics, neither Trump nor Vance have repudiated his endorsement of their campaign.
The US and its imperialist allies are seeking to use the United Nations General Assembly to inflame bloody military conflicts all over the world.
The letter reflects fears that rank-and-file anger will break out from under the union apparatus like it did earlier this month at Boeing.
A situation at the Pantelimon Hospital Intensive Care ICU unit, which first emerged in April, threatens to lift the veil of silence around the catastrophic state of the country’s health infrastructure.
Pinochet extradition hearing; US Trotskyists rally against police killing; Soviet atomic bomb; Assyrian Christians forced out of Turkey
Niklaus was suspended for condemning the Gaza genocide and calling for the struggle against deteriorating working conditions to be linked to the fight against war.
Prosecutors never found the weapon used and didn’t present any forensic evidence at trial linking Owens to the crime.
Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site interviewed participants at Saturday’s national Gaza protest in Liverpool that marched to the Labour Party’s Annual Conference venue.
The modern take on the play, featuring a drum and bass soundtrack, was cancelled after last-minute management demands that a song containing the phrase “Free Palestine” and referencing transgender rights be removed.
The event, held under the slogan “End the genocide in Gaza! Stop arming Israel!”, took place outside the venue of the Labour Party conference which began the following day.
At least two former Labor politicians have joined the right-wing media in openly celebrating the Mossad attacks that killed 37 people, including two children, and maimed thousands.
The tragic death is a direct result of decades of government underfunding of ambulance services and other vital public health needs.
According to media reports, the German government is preparing another massive arms package for Ukraine, worth 1.4 billion euros.
The aggressive move, which could only have been taken with the full backing of the United States and other imperialist powers, demonstrates that the Gaza genocide is developing into a region-wide war targeting Iran with catastrophic consequences for millions of people.
An investigative report by the Detroit Free Press, based on leaked documents and interviews, shows that the Detroit Police Department has been gathering online information and tracking the activity of people who participated in protests against the Gaza genocide.
The proposed antisemitism inquiry would provide a legal mechanism for censoring, silencing and criminalising anti-genocide and anti-Zionist views on all university campuses.
All of the capitalist candidates in today’s election are committed to a continuing the International Monetary Fund’s savage austerity being implemented by President Wickremesinghe.
Despite the fact many states have already begun to mail out ballots, in several states Republicans are seeking to purge voters and re-write rules to favor Trump.
On Wednesday, the following statement for the establishment of the rank-and-file committee at Volkswagen was discussed and approved at the online meeting on the attacks on the VW workforce in Germany.
Boeing employees still working received a notice on the furloughs Wednesday, which noted that it will encompass tens of thousands of nonunion employees for the duration of strike.
As with every major disaster, the effects expose the incompatibility of human life with the profit system based on exploitation and national rivalry.
The contract would eliminate thousands of conductor positions, a longstanding goal of management across all the major railroads.
Canada has been swept by a wave of militant worker struggles and mass anti-Gaza genocide protests, but in the absence of the working class mounting an independent political challenge to the Trudeau government, the field has been left open for the Conservatives and other reactionary forces to exploit mounting social anger.
This means that three of the four postal unions are now working under expired contracts, even as USPS management is carrying out an historic attack on jobs and on postal services under the “Delivering for America” restructuring program.
