Nearly one month ago, Israel began an assault on Northern Gaza to implement the so-called “generals' plan” to ethnically cleanse the entirety of Northern Gaza. Virtually no food, water, or medical supplies have been allowed into the northern section of the Gaza Strip, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee.
Scientists long warned Spanish and EU authorities of the need to protect Valencia from floods, but masses of people received no warning until walls of water broke over their homes and workplaces.
Both workforces are fighting against a corporate oligarchy which has clearly coordinated a campaign to break their strikes.
A climate of violence hangs over the US elections following recent attacks on ballot boxes and Trump’s ongoing incitement against political opponents and the press.
Stanford University held a conference last month to promote the right-wing agenda of the Great Barrington Declaration, which opposes all social measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The decision by the Australian Labor government paves the way for further attacks on free speech and democratic rights, including crackdowns on opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
It has become absolutely clear that if we are to win this strike, we have to overthrow the dead weight of the IAM union bureaucracy.
Oxfam and the Development Finance International have released a damning report about the growth of inequality all over the world, but with policy prescriptions that cannot be implemented under capitalism.
Moore is believed to be the only person in the history of South Carolina’s death penalty to be executed in connection with an armed robbery who did not bring the fatal weapon to the scene of the crime.
A planned and internationally coordinated approach to mitigate and avoid the catastrophic impact of storms and other natural disasters is impossible under capitalism.
The Pacific Forum mission went ahead with permission from the far-right Macron government, amid talks over the French territory’s anti-colonial uprising.
Disney and some of the other major companies continue to refuse to make even the nominal concessions union officials feel they have to have to sell a deal to the membership.
The explosion in Tlaxcala was no “accident” but social murder driven by a deliberate policy of pursuing corporate and national “competitiveness” by downgrading safety and working conditions.
The rise of Peru’s protection racket mafias is the result of complex socioeconomic processes.
The fact that Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon participated in the talks Thursday underscores that Trudeau’s Liberals have already begun their preparations to enact strikebreaking legislation, just like they did in 2018. But the CUPW leadership says nothing about this threat, and has struck a deal with management to postpone our strike.
As a result of huge cuts to the number of new permanent and temporary residents and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers, Canada’s population will fall for the first time ever.
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
With the war, already the longest and most expensive Israel has ever fought, now expanding to Lebanon and Iran, the proposed tax hikes and spending cuts will likely deepen before the Knesset approves the budget in three months’ time.
The ballot was necessitated by the crushing defeat suffered by Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives in July’s general election.
Such scandals, heavily promoted by the corporate media outlets, are invariably mechanisms for executing political shifts as governments unravel in the face of popular hostility.
The report, riddled with lies and misinformation, is a crude justification for the subordination of public health and lives to the profit interests of the corporate and financial elite.
There is a pervasive sense that the political system is dysfunctional, incapable of responding to the needs of the people and heading toward violent domestic conflict.
An online petition condemning the targeting and murder of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli government in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon has received the support of nearly 800 journalists internationally.
The elevation of Kennedy Jr. threatens the end of public vaccination and will further normalize mass death from previously contained infectious diseases.
Workers and students at Western Sydney University in Australia have sent solidarity greetings to the striking Boeing workers in the United States.
This is a direct product of the conscious and planned abolition of virtually all public health measures to prevent the spread of COVID, including the removal of mask mandates in hospitals.
The film recounts the expulsion of Palestinian villagers from Masafer Yatta, a settlement of 19 villages south of Hebron in the West Bank.
Coming more than 18 months after the previous contract expired, the ratification vote was more a vote of non-confidence in the FIQ leadership than a show of support for the concessions-laden contract.
No matter the outcome of the election, the frontal assault on the social right to high-quality public education will continue to escalate.
New laws tightening gun control and increasing deportations are part of the attempts by the German government to prepare the state for the impending explosive conflicts with the working class.
Workers at the plant on the south side of Chicago last Monday reported arriving to locked gates as well as delivery drivers unaware the plant was shut down permanently.
India: Salem Steel Plant workers strike; Bangladeshi garment workers take action over unpaid wages; Sri Lankan railway station masters hold strike; Australia: Qube port workers continue industrial action; Centennial Coal miners in NSW strike for pay rise.
In this video, Des Beach, a Royal Mail delivery worker with 31-years’ service, speaks about his unfair dismissal with Tony Robson from the World Socialist Web Site.
This arrest and the appointment of a trustee to replace an elected mayor is a clear attack on basic democratic rights. The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long sought to stifle political opposition through such anti-democratic operations, building a police state.
University College London (UCL) and Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK hosted a screening of The Unequal Pandemic, followed by a panel discussion, to launch the film about inequality during COVID.
In the face of Stellantis’s economic blackmail, and with Vauxhall workers’ jobs and conditions used as bargaining chips in talks with the most “pro-business” Labour government in history, the Unite union has maintained a guilty silence.
Speaking in Michigan on Monday, Bill Clinton justified the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, openly advocating the targeting of civilians and collective punishment against non-combatants, both of which are war crimes.
This week’s announcement makes clear that the JVP/NPP administration will not hesitate to use the PTA and other repressive measures against workers and other political opponents of its International Monetary Fund-mandated program.
Investigative journalists and the recent Royal Commission into Abuse in Care have highlighted how successive governments, lawyers, judges and state officials covered up systemic abuse of hundreds of thousands of people in state-run facilities.
Ford plans to stop building its F-150 Lightning at its REV-C facility in Dearborn, Michigan from mid-November through the end of the year.
The toothless action epitomises the role of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) bureaucracy, which is working to suppress a struggle by workers against the Labor government.
In a decision announced this week, the EU lifted EV tariffs to 45 percent and declared they would last for five years.
The announcement underscores the fact that victory is only possible if workers seize control of the strike from the sellout bureaucracy.
Before Election Day, the fascist Republican presidential candidate is seeking to lay the basis for legal and extra-legal challenges in the event he loses.
The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic pathogen.
Canada’s social democrats are doubling down on their support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, which Jama was thrown out of the NDP’s parliamentary caucus for speaking out against in October 2023.
The failed assassination attempt has sharply intensified the conflict between factions of the ruling MAS party.
Volkswagen wants to cut the wages of its 120,000 employees in Germany by almost 20 percent, thereby saving €2 billion a year. This became known on Wednesday evening after the second round of negotiations on the VW company wage agreement.
Car workers in Germany strike for pay rise as global car industry demands job cuts and lower pay; retirees, municipal and oil workers and the disabled join ongoing protests across Iran as living standards collapse; healthcare workers in Nigerian stage seven-day warning strike over pay and conditions as university staff begin indefinite strike over unpaid salaries
Channel 4’s programme is based on an investigation conducted by Hope Not Hate. It is an important documentary, revealing the international and financial connections of the global fascist movement.
On her crowdfund site, Abusalama explained: “This victory is not just personal. It is a victory against attempts to silence advocates for justice in Palestine”.
The attack—far and away the biggest Israeli military strike ever launched against Iran—represents a major provocation and escalation of Israel’s war throughout the Middle East.
The pro-imperialist “socialist” from Vermont argued there would be a “much better chance of changing US policy” under war criminal Kamala Harris.
Parents at Fuentes Elementary organized a demonstration to protest the closure of their children’s school. Acero, the charter network, is closing seven schools this year, impacting 2,000 students and 250 jobs in primarily working class communities.
The Democrats are fearful above all of evoking anxiety and anger, of creating a situation where broader layers of the population will react. In the face of a fascist menace, the Democrats preach quiescence.
“As of last week, 13,319 children have been killed in Gaza, of whom 786 were under the age of one,” said human rights expert Chris Sidoti.
The letter is an indication of the deep concern among all layers of the American bourgeoisie of the economic and geopolitical impact of the strike.
The opinion of economic and financial analysts both in China and internationally is that more must be done to boost consumption spending, and that unless that happens, the target growth rate for this year of “about 5 percent” will not be achieved, let alone a viable growth path for the future.
The right-wing Supreme Court supermajority intervened to allow the continuation of a Republican-backed program to summarily disqualify voters as suspected non-citizens.
The meeting at the working-class university outlined a socialist perspective, based on the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war.
Workers voted by over 95 percent to strike, making clear their determination to fight back after years of concessions and to resist the Crown corporation's plans to use AI and other new technologies to increase worker-exploitation.
The strike by some 1,500 Samsung India workers was abruptly brought to an end by the CITU, the Stalinist trade union federation, after it capitulated all down the line to Tamil Nadu’s DMK government and Samsung management.
Spain’s worst flood in decades is a social disaster driven by the ruling elite’s inability to plan policies to halt climate change, or even to devise basic disaster management plans advocated by scientists.
There was genuine concern that too savage cuts would undermine global confidence in the UK economy or spark massive opposition in the working class.
Macron's “strategic framework” is a proposal to use Morocco as a source of cheap qualified labor and logistics to boost French corporations’ profits and increase French imperialism’s influence in the contested areas of the Sahel and West Africa more broadly.
“The government is going for the strongest section of the trade unions on purpose, for strategy. I think the goal is just straight-up austerity against the working class and this is part of it.”
Dissanayake’s indication that he would not pay the proposed salary hike is a clear signal to the IMF that his regime abides by its harsh austerity measures.
Rank-and-file committees among autoworkers in both North America and Europe must be expanded to include every key factory, giving workers the power to shut down the global industry.
In the worst single massacre since Israel launched its campaign to ethnically cleanse Northern Gaza this month, Israeli forces bombed a five-story residential building in the town of Beit Lahia Tuesday, killing 93 people, including 25 children.
Trump’s extra-legal campaign to seize the White House regardless of the vote is being bankrolled by billionaires who have yet to be held to account for funding Trump’s first coup attempt.
The only force that can stop military escalation and relentless attacks on living standards and social rights is the working class, mobilized independently of forces like Mélenchon’s New Popular Front.
The independent senatorial candidate, union bureaucrat Dan Osborn, and his Republican opponent, Deb Fischer, are competing to see who can be the biggest Trump supporter.
When a “controversial” art work or exhibition goes on display, a by now trite and even stereotyped process is set in motion.
While the Left Party still campaigned with the slogan “Every hospital counts” in the last state elections in east Germany, it is implementing the sweeping cuts wherever it is in government at state level.
Fighting between these two corrupt figures erupted in no small part due to longstanding efforts by US imperialism and other regional powers to exert control over Sudan and its resources—gold, minerals, oil and agricultural land—and cut off Khartoum’s relationships with China, Russia and Iran, which all have growing economic interests in the region.
Whatever the outcome of the election, the American political system is breaking down. The type of fascistic movement that Trump is constructing will continue to grow in strength and can only be opposed through the development of a socialist movement in the working class.
Political turmoil has seized the south Caucasus country, as pro-Western protesters heed the president's call to reject the outcome of parliamentary elections.
Whatever the form it takes, the next government will be one of instability and crisis as it seeks to impose new burdens on the working class in order to boost corporate profits and aggressively pursue the interests of Japanese imperialism.
This report includes videos of speeches delivered by SEP members, explaining the administration and outlining a perspective to fight it.
The Albanese Labor government’s caps on international student enrolments are triggering thousands of university job cuts across Australia.
“Our ability to reach broader sections of workers is an expression of the objective conditions forced upon us internationally. Across industry and geographic lines, workers are facing increasing workloads, decreasing pay, and deteriorating workplace safety.”
The vote is the latest blow to attempts by the union bureaucrats to ram through rail contracts even worse than the one imposed by Congress in a strike ban in late 2022.
Hundreds of ballots were destroyed in Vancouver, Washington, Monday morning in a targeted arson attack.
Volkswagen management is planning a radical cost-cutting program, but has so far kept details secret.
On October 27 Montreal port workers held another one-day strike, while 1,300 pilots at Allegiant are set to vote to authorize a strike after going 8 years without a wage rise.
Because Daniel Shuminov was involved in a Palestine camp at Goethe University, the Historical Museum has withdrawn all his jobs as a guide.
Keziah Ridgeway was removed from her post last month following complaints from far right Zionist elements in Philadelphia who objected to her vocal defense of her students’ rights to free speech and opposition to the Gaza genocide.
Early on Monday morning, October 21, a 46-year-old train driver died while working at a depot in the city of Duisburg.
Millions in various sectors are angered at stagnating wages and attacks on conditions amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis, expressed in the wave of strikes this month by many thousands of workers across different industries.
McDonald’s restaurant recently removed the Quarter Pounder sandwich off their menu at various locations across the country due to infection with the deadly E. coli bacteria found in raw onions. At least 75 people have been sickened, 22 hospitalized, and one has died.
Notwithstanding WSWS’ well-documented differences with Errejón and Podemos, it unequivocally condemns this baseless and reactionary witch-hunt against him.
The Israeli onslaught on Northern Gaza, aimed at completely emptying the region of its people, has entered its fourth week.
The central involvement of the Democratic Party in the persecution of opposition to genocide demonstrates that its claim to be protecting “democracy” is a cynical fraud.
The documentary’s objectivity lies in the fact that it presents historical and social truth.
Especially since the abolition of mandatory personal testing and all other coronavirus protection measures, wastewater monitoring is one of the most informative tools for determining the status of the pandemic.
The meeting was attended by autoworkers, railroaders, postal workers, nurses and bus drivers from Australia, Canada, Germany, Britain and Brazil, as well as numerous workers and youth in the United States.
