South Korea: KMWU shuts down strike at Hyundai Transys; India: Madhya Pradesh health department workers fight for improved wages; Australia: Woolworths warehouse workers strike in New South Wales and Victoria; Canberra public hospital doctors walk out over salaries
Last Tuesday, a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, awarded $42 million in damages against US military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc., for its role in the torture of three Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison during the US imperialist occupation.
The closure of hundreds of Crown post offices is a direct outcome of the CWU’s high-level collusion with privatisation.
Physicians and allied health workers have stopped work at thousands of Family Health Centres across Turkey, protesting in city squares and in front of health directorates.
It was left to Jean Charles’s cousin, Katia da Silva, to question the firearm’s officer’s story in an interview with the Mirror and accuse him of “bragging about the brutality with which he took Jean’s life.”
The stock market has been on a tear since the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, as the financial oligarchy he represents salivates at the prospect of further boosting their already stratospheric levels of wealth under his administration.
This article was submitted to the WSWS by Ukrainian underground journalists of the assembly.org.ua website. It provides further evidence of the ongoing disintegration of the NATO-backed Ukrainian army in a war that has already claimed the lives of half a million or more Ukrainian workers and youth.
After two months on strike, 525 Eaton workers in Jackson, Michigan were forced by the UAW bureaucracy to vote on a fourth contract proposal, which was almost identical to the three they rejected before.
Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Israel was carrying out a "deliberate" policy of "ethnic cleansing" through the forcible and permanent displacement of virtually the entire population of Gaza.
After more than 10 weeks on strike, workers at Marathon Detroit Refinery are determined to win improved wages and stop subcontracting, healthcare cuts and dangerous work schedules.
The apologies by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, opposition leader Chris Hipkins and various state bureaucrats were a PR exercise, following an inquiry that implicated successive governments in the abuse of hundreds of thousands of children.
The elevation of Kennedy to head the HHS will represent a massive social retrogression, akin to sending the United States—the world’s richest capitalist country—back to the Middle Ages.
The Interim Government’s brutal assault on striking garment workers shows that it is committed to the same big business agenda as the ousted Hasina regime.
Boeing is determined to impose the cost of the strike, estimated at over $10 billion, onto the backs of workers themselves.
The Dutch ruling class is trying to strengthen Schoof’s right-wing government and grant it authoritarian powers to attack growing working class anger.
The APEC summit in Lima Peru takes place under the shadow of the growing conflict between the United States and China, which has become the main economic partner of Peru and South America as a whole.
The film details the impact of fascistic Jewish settlers, backed by the Israeli military, on the Palestinian city of Hebron and its population.
The Department of Defence and private weapons corporations are rolling out various programs directed towards primary and secondary school children.
In a nauseating 50+ minute video riddled with contradictions, the New York Representative cautioned against “sectarianism,” that is, any fight to break from the Democratic Party and the two-party system and put an end to capitalism.
Despite his absence, the gathering is completely dominated by incoming US President Donald Trump and his trade war agenda.
The tentative contract signed by the IG Metall union buttresses the ruling circles’ right-wing offensive in the early general election.
In the past few weeks, we have received around one hundred letters from 25 different countries from readers defending Bogdan and highlighting the political motives behind his imprisonment.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) says an immediate strike of all 55,000 urban and rural postal workers should be launched as soon as we are in a legal strike position Friday morning. But an all-out strike is only viable if workers take the struggle out of the hands of the CUPW bureaucrats, who connive with management, by building rank-and-file committees.
According to the National Audit Office, there are an estimated 258,000 people living in the 4,771 buildings over 11 metres requiring urgent remediation. Even that figure is an underestimation.
Indefinite walkout by healthcare workers in Croatia over pay, unsafe work conditions and staff shortages; strikes and protests continue across Iran by teachers, nurses, petrochemical workers, the disabled and retirees as living standards plummet; protest against docking of American flagged ship with arms for Israel in Morocco as container ship prevented from docking in Spain
In this interview, anti-war activist Guy Christensen shares his experiences, including being harassed by Zionists and targeted by the FBI for educating millions about the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The protests revealed broad opposition of workers and youth to the Gaza genocide, which European governments support by slandering opponents of genocide as “anti-Semites.”
As more and more provocative cabinet picks are announced, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general, the Democratic Party and the Biden administration are engaged in unrestrained collaboration.
The UC system, which will see the first major strike since the US presidential election, has emerged as a major political and social battleground.
Leaders from the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 unilaterally overturned the will of transit workers to strike as their one-year contract expired last week.
As the incoming Trump administration prepares to close the Department of Education and gut public schools, teacher unions bureaucrats—in line with the policy of the Democratic Party—advocate for “unity.”
The demise of the Pitchfork Music Festival has provoked outrage, as attacks on art, culture and education escalate.
Coming as the Zionist regime continues to starve Gaza and the US military once again struck targets in Yemen, the attacks show that there is no let-up in the drive by Washington’s attack dog to redraw the map of the Middle East.
We are publishing here the foreword to the German translation of David North’s new publication Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War If you want to stop the return of world war and fascism after the catastrophes of the 20th century, you must read this book.
While there are differences over the means, the establishment parties largely agree on the goals of their policies: increasing defence spending, deporting migrants, mass layoffs, reducing real wages and cutting social services.
This case is a major attack on basic democratic and legal rights, seeking to set a wider precedent to suppress any dissent against the escalating Israeli mass killings in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
A complex and fiercely independent figure, Lee Miller reached her creative peak as a combat photographer and reporter during World War II.
“In general, I think the government wants to get rid of the housing commission establishments forever—this is capitalism at work.”
The Labour Minister’s order is part of an escalating assault on workers’ rights, in which worker job action is being systematically criminalized so as to enable the ruling elite to intensify its class war agenda of increased worker exploitation at home and imperialist war abroad.
Scottish local authorities are offering a supposedly “enhanced” agreement which includes no extra money and no reduction in hours as a conclusion to this year's pay round. It follows a two-week strike by workers at schools in Perth and Kinross.
Any future arrivals to the Chagos Islands, of which Diego Garcia is the largest and most well-known as it houses a crucial UK-US military base, before the islands’ transfer of sovereignty to Mauritius next year, would not be admitted to the UK.
The US State Department declared Tuesday that Israel is not committing “gross violations of human rights” by withholding food to Gaza, effectively endorsing Israel’s policy of deliberately seeking to exterminate the population of Gaza through starvation.
Social anger is growing among workers as mass job cuts and factory closures mount across the US and the world.
For the first time at BVG, the rank-and-file “Action Committee” is running a slate of candidates and calling for workers to break the dictatorial control exercised by the Verdi trade union and for independent rank-and-file committees to be set up in all depots and departments.
The two priorities of the incoming administration are preparing for war with China and arresting and deporting millions of migrants.
While the two previous strikes were national events, this time, workers in Sydney marched alone, cut off from the majority of building workers.
More than 1,700 nurses set to strike indefinitely at University of Illinois Health in Chicago demanding better pay and safer working conditions for themselves and their patients.
The results gave a glimpse of the massive gulf between the militarism of the ruling class, and the growing anti-war sentiment of working people.
The leaders of United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals (UMMAP) called of the one-day strike less than 24 hours before it was scheduled to begin in exchange for a meaningless “memorandum of understanding” from the University of Michigan hospital administration regarding contract negotiations.
The public response reflects intense concern over the Albanese government’s bid to suppress online material that is deemed to be politically or economically harmful.
There have been warnings that the US tariff hikes could rival those of the infamous Smoot-Hawley measures of the 1930s, which led to a global trade war and played a significant role in creating the conditions for the eruption of World War II.
The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is not an alternative to the established parties, but rather an attempt to erect new props for capitalist rule in the midst of the deepest global crisis of capitalism.
The official inaction at the floods that cost at least 223 lives also exposes the political complicity of the CCOO and UGT union bureaucracies, who are tied to the ruling PSOE and Sumar parties.
The CRT proposes that protests impotently appeal to Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government to compel Israel to stop the genocide, whereas that government is deliberately and consciously sending arms to Israel to carry out the genocide.
Hardly a day goes by without a German company announcing massive job cuts at an international or national level.
A resolution adopted by a large majority called for the building of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at every Canada Post location in opposition to the CUPW bureaucracy, and the launching of a political struggle against the Trudeau government, which backs Canada Post’s concessions demands to the hilt.
The Berlin Transport Workers Action Committee is contesting staff council elections being held this week for the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).
Despite the release of the protesters, the Nigerian government has made clear there will be no retreat from its relentless offensive against workers being plunged into extreme poverty by soaring inflation, food insecurity and high unemployment.
An open letter, signed by more than 230 figures in the UK’s media industry, writers and academia, said the public broadcaster had failed to provide “fair and accurate” coverage of the conflict.
The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, opened Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is the third year in a row that the ostensibly highest political meeting to fight climate change is being held in a country that has non-renewable fossil fuels as its main export.
Israel intensified its murderous assault on civilians across Gaza and carried out air strikes on Lebanon over the weekend. Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said the election of Donald Trump means it is time for the Zionist annexation of the West Bank.
The November 10 online meeting hosted by the Socialist Equality Party analyzed the causes and consequences of the Trump victory and elaborated a political strategy for the working class to fight back.
The strike in Australia's most populous state shows that nurses want to fight cuts to their wages and conditions. But they are in a struggle against the Labor government and the union bureaucracy.
Teachers' strikes have begun in three districts on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Strikes began Friday, November 8, by about 800 educators in Beverly and 1,000 in Gloucester. Five hundred Marblehead teachers are set to strike beginning Tuesday, November 12.
The strike by 2,400 Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California has entered its fourth week.
The initial appointments show the fascistic and militaristic character of the incoming Republican administration.
The subject of long-distance war crimes makes this an opera of vital importance.
The auto workers’ union in South Korea is attempting to prevent a broader struggle against job cuts as the car industry around the world prepares a jobs bloodbath as part of the so-called “just transition” to electric vehicles.
As part of the global assault on jobs, 1,800 workers at PPG Industries throughout the United States and Europe will lose their jobs in the coming months. In addition, the company is selling off many of its paint manufacturing plants threatening the jobs of over 6,000 other workers.
No cargo is moving at Canada’s three largest ports following a series of employer lockouts, while military police in São Paulo last week attacked students and educators opposing privatization.
The employers on both coasts have crippled Canada’s largest port operations with the aim of compelling the Trudeau Liberal government to intervene to enforce pro-company contracts through binding arbitration or other anti-democratic means.
Trump’s threat that the US could end support for NATO unless the European powers significantly up their budgets for military spending, his declaration that he intends to end the “loser” war in Ukraine, and threats to increase tariffs on all goods being imported into the US have sent a shudder through Britan’s ruling elite.
After nearly two months on the picket line, the walkout by 525 Eaton Aerospace workers in Jackson, Michigan is in danger of defeat unless rank-and-file autoworkers break the isolation of the struggle by the UAW bureaucracy.
The policy is an attack on students and graduates, who will be made to pay for the economic crisis through fee hikes.
The past three months have demonstrated that the fight against Labor’s administration of the CFMEU requires a rank-and-file movement independent of the ousted union leadership.
Members of United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals (UMMAP), 4,500 technicians at the University of Michigan health system in Ann Arbor are scheduled for a one-day strike on Tuesday, November 12.
The official account of the Amsterdam clashes is an abominable lie, using false accusations of antisemitism against Amsterdamers as a political tool to defend fascism and the Gaza genocide.
The re-election of the billionaire fascist as US president places an eruption of class struggle on the agenda in the United States and across Europe.
The fraudulent practices targeting consumers are a component of a broader offensive by governments and big corporations against working people.
We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our international socialist perspective and on that basis prepare for the class struggles ahead.
The Labor government last week issued new regulations to allow the immigration minister to reimpose outlawed curfews and ankle bracelets on released detainees.
It was not a bailout for local governments but a debt swap which is not expected to provide a major boost to the economy now experiencing its lowest growth in more than three decades.
The Biden administration has authorized US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine in a major escalation of US involvement in the war with Russia.
It was reportedly the largest protest march in Valencia’s history, mobilizing a large portion of the metropolitan area’s 2.5 million inhabitants.
The end of Germany’s coalition government heralds a further intensification of the class struggle and the pro-war policy. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) is standing in the early federal election to arm workers with a socialist perspective.
The presentation, so brief as to be little more than a public service announcement, signals an abandonment of efforts to prevent the emergence of a wider avian flu pandemic.
Workers reporting to work faced the chilling spectacle of security in tactical gear blocking entry to the plant.
The settlement does not cover the costs for reconstructing the bridge, which is the subject of a separate suit brought by the state of Maryland against the ship owner and operator.
The film, now streaming and popular with audiences, has certain strengths, including one quite moving scene but also banal and grating aspects.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
As of Friday, the fire has destroyed more than 130 structures, mostly residential homes and has damaged 88 others.
A major sellout is in the making behind closed doors in ongoing talks with Transport for London officials on behalf of the London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Four days after the US elections, fascist President-Elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party is nearing control of all levers of federal governmental power.
The University of Michigan has filed a complaint against the campus chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine, threatening to suspend the organization for two to four years. The IYSSE denounces this attack on the campus organization and the democratic rights of all students and faculty, and demands that the complaint be rescinded.
The real focus of the Biden administration has always been to ensure “Boeing’s future as a critical part of America’s aerospace sector,” by which Biden means the corporation’s role as the chief US exporter and major defense contractor.
On Friday, the United Nations’ Human Rights Office published a report showing that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths in Gaza are of women and children, adding further evidence that Israel is waging a war of extermination in Gaza.
Last Friday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) issued an immediate “interim” suspension of graduate student Prahlad Iyengar for penning an article titled “On Pacifism” in an MIT student magazine Written Revolution opposing Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza. The publication itself has been banned from campus.
Indian Prime Minister Modi and Sri Lankan President Dissanayake were quick to publicly hail Trump’s victory.
While NATO governments are outraged that five Israeli football hooligans were briefly taken to hospital, they support the mass murder of defenseless Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The move is wholly inadequate in dealing with the mounting cost-of-living crisis and is a cynical attempt to garner support as a federal election looms.
