Dissanayake retains the main portfolios, such as finance and defence, in particular, to ensure the government’s foremost task of ruthlessly implementing the IMF austerity measures is directly in his hands.
Wall Street has been salivating over the prospect that Trump will bring further tax cuts and regulations governing the operations of finance capital will be further relaxed so as to become almost non-existent
Labor is intent on outdoing the Liberal-National Coalition opposition in making overseas students, along with immigrants and refugees, scapegoats for the intensifying cost-of-living, housing and social crisis affecting millions of working-class households.
In its campaign material for a “Student Strike for Palestine,” the RCP advances no call for young people to turn to the working class and fight to mobilize it in struggle against genocide and imperialist war. Nor does it indict the trade unions and NDP for their support for the pro-genocide, pro-war Trudeau government.
The National Party-led coalition government is promoting the lie that indigenous Māori enjoy a privileged position, in order to divert social anger caused by austerity and the assault on workers’ living standards.
The artist seems obliquely to acknowledge the potentially fatal threats that humanity faces while choosing to indulge in escapism and hedonism.
Five faculty members at CSULB were cited for participating in protests against the genocide in Gaza.
The immediate task of the new naval headquarters on Germany’s Baltic coast is developing a so-called situational maritime picture in this critical region as part of NATO’s war offensive against Russia.
Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.
The Berlin state government, a coalition of the CDU and SPD, is already anticipating the budget cuts to be implemented at a federal level.
This is the first major new strike in the US since this month’s presidential election. Trump is seeking to convert the presidency into a fascist dictatorship, the most extreme form of government of, by and for the corporate oligarchy.
The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has soared to 42 percent and economic desperation is widespread in the world’s most unequal society.
United and effective action by Stellantis workers worldwide can only be achieved by the rank-and-file in direct opposition to the economic nationalism and corporatism of the trade union bureaucracy.
Turkey, Italy, Cyprus and Greece play a key role in providing transshipment services to Israel. As the terminus of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline, Turkey ranks first in terms of volume, accounting for 26 percent.
The election of Trump is the filthiest expression of the brutal restructuring of society being carried out by the financial oligarchy via war, genocide and draconian exploitation of the working class.
The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists (YGBL) condemns the racist riots. The events in Korkino are part of an international trend in which the far right is being built up and encouraged by the ruling class and its state apparatus in order to divide and suppress the working class.
More than six months have passed since Bogdan's arrest. During this time many organizations, parties, intellectuals and scholars have expressed their support for him.
Florida has nearly doubled the number of books it has removed from school libraries this year compared to 2023. This is an indication of the wave of censorship that the far right plans, which the Democrats will do nothing to block.
Although corporate executives, union officials and the media claimed there would be no effect on normal operations, the bankruptcy filing is a prelude to a savage cost-cutting campaign.
The deployment of Japanese troops in Darwin is one component of a far-reaching integration of the three militaries, directed against China.
Both Roberson and Lucio are innocent of the charges for which they were sentenced to death.
In a social media post, Trump declared it was “True!!!” that he would declare a national emergency to wage war on migrants.
Thousands of Brazilian workers participated in a November 15 protest over excess working hours, while the families of four COVID victims have taken their case to the Iowa Supreme Court.
While the company has stated the closure would take place in mid-2026, it is already escalating its attacks on jobs, with “temporary” months-long layoffs beginning in December.
The streaming service claimed some 65 million viewers around the globe watched the sickening spectacle that combined glorification of wealth with elder abuse.
“The NSWTF gave in. They could have fought more for a better deal. They are not in touch with what it’s like in the schools.”
Instead of participating in a race to the bottom against low-paid, precariously employed delivery workers, we must turn to these workers and fight to rally them alongside us, for a joint struggle, based on our common class interests for well-paid and secure jobs for all.
The academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-state sources.
In discussion and commentary, the protectionist US Smoot-Hawley legislation of the 1930s and its disastrous consequences are increasingly being recalled.
Before workers have even begun their struggle, the United Workers Union bureaucracy is offering management a compromise that will leave workers earning less in real terms than they were a decade ago.
In line with warnings made in previous articles on the World Socialist Web Site, medical professionals are pointing to clear indications that the program is becoming a convenient alternative to solving complex long-term social and economic problems.
A drought in the northeast United States, combined with high winds, is creating record-breaking numbers of wildfires with dangerous smoke conditions in the New York metropolitan area and beyond.
On Tuesday the University of Michigan Central Student Government (CSG) voted overwhelmingly to impeach the student president and vice president, who are both opponents of the university’s connections to the genocide in Gaza. Students connected to the Democratic Party and far-right and Zionist groups led the impeachment campaign.
The attack on the Supreme Court came at a critical moment in international politics, with Bolsonaro enthusiastically celebrating Trump’s victory in the US.
Mamdani’s employment of pseudo-radical slogans is a desperate effort to boost the image of both the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party as a whole.
Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams will play key roles in the onslaught against immigrants being planned by the incoming administration.
The Greens are determined to enter the next government in order to rearm Germany to become the leading military power in Europe, to continue the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and to stifle the growing anti-war opposition at home.
Syriza’s popular support has collapsed. One survey conducted by Real Polls last week has it polling in eighth place, at 3.6 percent.
A look at the background of those arrested, all of whom are between 20 and 30 years old, reveals they are not an isolated phenomenon, but have emerged from established neo-fascist structures developed over a long period of time.
Farmers are beginning nationwide protests in France and railworkers have announced strikes starting December 11, as workers face a wave of mass layoffs announced across Europe and internationally.
With less than two months remaining in his term, US President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use US long-range ATACMS missiles to strike deep inside Russia, crossing a “red line” that Russian President Vladimir Putin said could lead to direct war between Russia and NATO.
The new contract in the metal and electrical industries, which IG Metall agreed to without a workplace vote and despite the declared opposition of many members, marks the beginning of a new stage in the struggle against the union apparatus.
Wolfgang Weber was an outstanding fighter who devoted his entire life to the service of the working class and the preparation of the socialist revolution.
This legislation is yet another attempt to rescue the corporate political elite in the face of deepening popular disaffection with the entire ruling class program of austerity and war.
Police denied that the bombing of a restaurant in Melbourne had anything to do with the pro-Palestinian statements of its owners, even though one of the accused told them the motive was “the conflict overseas between Palestine and Israel.”
The re-election of Donald Trump signifies the violent realignment of American politics with its underlying social reality: a society dominated by staggering inequality and ruled by a capitalist oligarchy.
The WHO said that in 2023 measles surged 20 percent above the previous year, underscoring the need to vaccinate against this dreadfully contagious disease.
The WSWS spoke with Harvard student Bilal Irfan, who has been involved with the non-profit group FAJR Scientific, to assist in bringing aid to Gaza and conducting medical research documenting the horrific toll of the Israeli offensive.
UCLA astrophysics professor Daniel McKeown became homeless after working a year with a paltry salary. McKeown has been retaliated against by the administration for his outspoken social media posts denouncing UCLA’s refusal to renegotiate a livable wage for his work.
This demand is addressed not to the right-wing JVP/NPP government, parliament or the opposition parties—all of which are organically beholden to international finance capital. Rather it is addressed to the working class as a lever for mobilizing it against the bankrupt capitalist order, in the fight for workers’ power and the socialist reorganization of society.
The breakdown of talks is an exposure of the supposed “victory” declared by the ILA after shutting down a three day strike by 45,000 workers in October.
Myanmar-Thailand border clash; UN recognizes Palestinian “right of return”;British Labour government nationalizes iron and steel industry; first Australopithecus skull discovered.
London is the epicentre of a national emergency, accounting for over half of England’s homelessness figures.
The issue of the restitution of such artefacts as the token 26 statues to the Republic of Benin, so long rejected by the colonial powers, has now become entangled in broader geopolitical conflicts, with a few institutions now repatriating--or offering to repatriate—a handful as a public relations exercise.
The escalation in the courts must be responded in kind by expanding the struggle. Striking teachers should demand, instead of submitting to the districts’ stalling tactics and refusal to negotiate, that their strike be spread to the 117,000 members of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) in districts across the state.
“I have only worked two years and I feel like I am done. It’s such an unsustainable job, the hours, the workload.”
NSWNMA officials have stepped up their divisive claims that nurses and midwives are being discriminated against because they work in a female dominated industry.
A veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and Guantanamo torture camp, Hegseth rejects international law and will loyally purge the Pentagon of any elements unwilling to commit war crimes on behalf of the Trump administration.
Milei’s appearance as the star guest at Mar-a-Lago provides a glimpse of what the incoming Trump administration has in store for the working class in the United States.
In the wake of the election, the proponents of identity politics, stung by the blow to their political project, have attacked the population for supposedly being too racist to cast their votes for the Democratic Party.
A standing UN committee investigating human rights violations by Israel said in a report issued Thursday that Israeli actions in Gaza "are consistent with the characteristics of genocide."
The global character of the cuts requires an internationally unified response of the working class. Job cuts in the auto industry are escalating worldwide as employers seek to slash costs in the EV transition.
The explosion occurred just east of downtown Louisville at 3:00 p.m., shattering windows of nearby homes and cutting power to the area.
The ban is transparent censorship, aimed at suppressing discussion and political activity among a generation that is being radicalised by the reality of war, climate catastrophe and dictatorship.
As the Albanese government and the union bureaucrats work hand-in-glove, workers in Australia have lost about 9 percent of their purchasing power over the past three years.
Reporters with the World Socialist Web Site spoke with striking nurses in Chicago at the picket line on Wednesday. Read their statements.
Continental is set to close two plants next year and Schaeffler has announced mass sackings. The IG Metal union has agreed a new contract that imposes an “industrial peace” and so will not lift a finger to conduct a fight to defend jobs.
“I've been with the post for almost nine years, eight of which are permanent full time, and I'm making just dollars above minimum wage,” a striker said. “With the cost of living rising, due to inflation brought to us by the Trudeau government, 11.5 percent is not an option over four years. 22 percent is very reasonable.”
The working class will rapidly come into conflict with the JVP/NPP government, which while posturing as anti-establishment, is a right-wing communalist party committed to imposing IMF austerity.
Workers across the country from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Vancouver, British Columbia, took enthusiastically to picket lines outside their depots and workplaces, seeking to beat back demands for major concessions by the federally controlled Crown corporation.
Microsoft has been one of the industry’s prime movers in implementing job cuts. In January 2024 it slashed 1,900 people from its gaming workforce, and purged an additional 650 September 12.
In mid October, a 40-year-old gay man was brutally held and beaten by the group of students, all of whom have been suspended from the college.
A teenager in British Columbia who is being treated in the critical care unit was confirmed to have been infected with the bird flu virus.
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.”
