A major report last month by the American Immigration Council detailed the human and economic costs of implementing the largest police removal operation in history.
More than half of nearly 10,000 nurses working at hospitals operated by Corewell Health in the Detroit area voted on November 15 to be represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The Democrats’ overriding concern is not Trump’s authoritarian designs but safeguarding the continuity of the Biden administration’s central imperialist objective: the war against Russia in Ukraine.
Defying mass popular opposition to a military escalation threatening total war with Russia, London and Paris are planning large-scale troop deployments in Ukraine.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor widely tipped to be chosen by Donald Trump as the next director of the National Institutes of Health, has attacked the WSWS for exposing his anti-public-health views.
While workers are seeking to defend their jobs and conditions, the struggle is being consciously betrayed by the rail unions.
Chavez-DeRemer combines right-wing politics with support for the institutional and financial interests of the labor bureaucracy.
Under Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, a former military coup leader, Fiji is aligning with Washington as it militarises the Indo-Pacific region in preparation for war against China.
Protests erupted November 21 in Ecuador against the lack of response by President Daniel Noboa to repeated electricity blackouts, while Akwel auto parts plant in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico are on an indefinite strike against the victimization of 11 workers.
During an online discussion, David North challenged Beatty to explain his falsification of history and why Zionist foundations funded his anti-Healy and anti-SEP project.
Financial vulnerabilities have not gone away, as risks remain elevated, and they are being added to by the increasing institutional embrace of crypto currencies.
The working class needs to prepare both politically and organizationally to confront the Dissanayake government’s attacks on their social and democratic rights.
The Teamster bureaucrats assurances of support for the striking Canada Post workers have proven to be worthless. Meanwhile, CUPW maintains a complicit silence, making no appeal to rank-and-file Purolator workers.
In Auerbach, we have one of the few artists whose paintings glow with a light that believes in the possibilities of life and humanity.
This has all the hallmarks of a black propaganda campaign. Police and state forces are being mobilised with the explanation that there is an ongoing terror threat and that Russia is likely pulling the strings.
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, “The average temperature anomaly for the rest of 2024 would have to drop to almost zero for 2024 to not be the warmest year.”
Israel has responded to last week’s arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by intensifying its rampage throughout the Middle East.
“I do five days per week, 12-hour shifts, just to provide for my family. I don’t have enough money to shop at Woolies, I have to shop around for food. We are not asking for a million dollars; we are asking for enough money to survive.”
All the leading personnel of the incoming administration are drawn from a narrow circle of Trump loyalists and servants, as well as a group of allied billionaires.
With layoffs mounting across the auto industry, Stellantis workers told the WSWS they are ready for a fight back.
The incident at Condell Park High is part of a broader assault on opposition to the genocide and war, particularly targeting young people.
More than 80,000 people could be removed from Australia under the Albanese government’s latest immigration deportation bill.
The closure will layoff 404 workers starting in January and renovations are slated to take at least a year to complete
The strike highlights the subordination of healthcare to profit, which the union bureaucrats are defending by isolating the strike.
Trailer manufacturing company Great Dane announced the layoff of hundreds of workers in central Pennsylvania weeks before the holidays.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has left strikers isolated on picket lines, while the Canadian Labour Congress has remained entirely silent on the strike and the attacks on postal workers’ democratic and social rights being prepared by the Liberal government and Canada Post management.
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
Goldin’s courageous speech has sent shock waves through the political and cultural establishment in Germany and beyond.
Some €660 million is to be slashed from the mobility, transport and environment sector alone, which accounts for almost 20 percent of the total budget.
Acting as agents of the pro-big business DMK government, the Stalinist-led CITU scuttled the strike under conditions where it was becoming a major flashpoint for the class struggle in Tamil Nadu and across India.
There should be no illusions that the withdrawal of former House member Matt Gaetz and his replacement by Pam Bondi as Trump’s pick for US attorney general will alter the fascist character of Trump’s cabinet or block Trump from obtaining Senate approval and Democratic Party acquiescence in his nominees.
The Luton plant 30 miles north of London and the other Stellantis plant in Ellesmere Port, north-west England producing electric vans have a closure threat hanging over them, directly threatening 2,500 jobs.
Including mass deportation flights to Nigeria and Ghana, the Labour government has organised what the right-wing press are hailing as the “three biggest returns flights in UK history.”
Netanyahu’s guilt is imperialism’s guilt. The entire American political establishment, from the Biden administration and the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and the incoming Trump administration, has supported the genocide and has united in condemning the ICC decision.
The Department of Defense published a report on Thursday with details of changes to US arms strategy in an environment of multiple nuclear peer adversaries, especially Russia and China.
With olive branches to pass Labor’s pro-business housing and environmental legislation, the Greens are again signaling that they are a “responsible” party of capitalist rule.
On the very first day the majority-JVP/NPP parliament was convened, the new government jettisoned its election pledge to renegotiate the country’s bailout agreement with the IMF to protect the most vulnerable.
Rural carriers, whose salaries have been slashed by tens of thousands under a new evaluation system, were notified earlier this week that they would be invoiced for overpayment supposedly due to inaccurate accounting for route adjustments.
Despite the fact Brandon Durham, 43 provided police an accurate description of the home intruder, Las Vegas cop Alexander Bookman shot Durham six times, including in the head, once he entered Durham’s home.
Labour, the Greens, Te Pāti Māori and the pseudo-left ISO have sought to keep the anti-government protests within the framework of capitalist politics by glorifying the Treaty of Waitangi, falsely promoting this colonial document as the means to end racism and inequality.
Workers have suffered a near 10 percent cut in living standards in just four years, further exposing the fraud of Labor’s May 2022 election pledge of a “better future.”
Sixty years after the US-backed 1964 military coup, revelations by the Federal Police have shown that Brazil was close to a new coup and the establishment of a dictatorship after Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat.
Over a year ago, workers at the Chippewa Falls facility went on strike, but Teamsters officials isolated their efforts, offering weak appeals to the Democratic Party. Now, the agreement’s sellout nature is clear, leaving workers unemployed midway through its term—a so-called ‘victory’ has ended in defeat due to the Teamsters’ betrayals.
Timothy Cartwell, a Baltimore resident and sanitation worker, died after being pinned between a trash truck and a utility pole in a tight alley earlier this month.
Carey Dale Grayson was reportedly conscious for six agonizing minutes, during which he gasped for air, struggled with his restraints and shook violently.
The artist’s $6 million work highlights the tremendous hype and speculation that have come to characterize the art market — and to degrade art itself.
Haiti’s interim prime minister was ousted last week by the Transitional Council—the government “oversight mechanism” that the US, Canada and various factions of the country’s bourgeois elite put together earlier this year to provide a fig leaf of “popular” legitimacy for the latest imperialist-sponsored military intervention in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.
In the fourth consecutive strike held in less than two months, demonstrations were aimed at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum held in Lima during the week.
Despite years in power at both the national and Valencian regional levels, these parties have done nothing to protect the population from climate change-induced floods.
On Wednesday, the carmaker Ford announced the elimination of a further 4,000 jobs in Europe, including 2,900 at its headquarters in Cologne.
South Korea: Seoul Metro workers fight for higher pay; India: Delhi Transport Corporation contract workers strike; Western Australian power utility workers walk out over wages; Nurses and midwives at Healthscope hospitals in Newcastle strike; New Zealand nurses to hold nationwide strikes
As a result of privatisation, workers face the same risks of dismissal, wage cuts, loss of social rights and even increased risk of death and injury in precarious conditions as in other companies.
By agreeing to Ukraine firing Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russian territory, Starmer has made a de facto declaration of war without so much as a debate in parliament.
The call by the CWU for “engagement” is a blueprint for a surrender document Mark II, not a call to arms for postal workers.
To defeat a line-up that includes Woolworths, the media and the Labor government, the strike must be urgently expanded.
Armed Neo-Nazis encouraged by the election of Trump, freely marched through Columbus, Ohio this past weekend.
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court formally charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
After US-UK bombings of Russia, the alarm must be sounded: Whether or not war has been declared, a state of war effectively exists between major nuclear-armed powers.
In a speech this week ECB president Christine Lagarde said the euro bloc risked facing “a future of lower tax revenues and higher debt ratios” which would mean “fewer resources for social spending.”
Auto workers cannot place their faith in the company or any section of the ruling class to protect their safety on the job or conditions overall.
The results of the vote have not been made public, but by that time the union had already called off the strike, having told nurses to report back to work on Sunday.
Workers, with healthcare and immigrant workers in the front rank, will be thrust into struggle against Trump’s program for dictatorship, which includes mass deportations and the evisceration of public health.
In a clear sign that a sell-out is being prepared behind closed doors, both the Rail, Tram and Bus Union leadership and Labor Premier Chris Minns have said they expect a deal to be stitched up before the end of the year.
Amidst a lackadaisical public health response, two viruses with pandemic potential continue to spread in the United States.
Gaetz’s withdrawal paved the way for another Trump loyalist to head up the Department of Justice.
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Chicago educators are at a critical juncture with the CTU bureaucracy sanctioning below-inflation raises and school closures
Israeli director Yuval Abraham has sharply denounced the latest campaign by the German authorities to stigmatise his film and the filmmaker himself as antisemitic.
Three months before Germany’s early federal election, pressure is growing within the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) to choose Defence Minister Boris Pistorius as the party’s lead candidate instead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The CSP-Conlutas union bureaucracy seeks to divert intense workers’ opposition to cuts demanded by Embraer into the rotten politics of economic nationalism and national chauvinism.
Following a workplace injury which left him in chronic pain and needing a cane, Ernesto Tolentino, 39, was fired and given a pitiful severance pay of $5,917 for 15 years of work and no compensation for sacrificing his physical well-being.
Healthcare, social services, education and other public sector workers join national demonstration in Belgium against cuts in public spending; ongoing protests across Iran by emergency workers, teachers, nurses and retirees over dire poverty; seven-day warning strike by Nigeria’s medical and dental consultants over pay and conditions as many migrate
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese has said, “History will judge these people who have not done anything in their power to prevent atrocities… There are responsibilities; there might be complicity.”
While the government’s proposed policies are presented as a means to assist workers, the true agenda is the preparation for war and to slash jobs to boost corporate profits.
The resolutions, advanced by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, were aimed at providing cover for the absolute support of American imperialism and the Democratic Party for the Gaza genocide.
The end of the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe underlines the fact that the war is part of a metastasizing global conflict. One of the goals of the US—to weaken Russia as a major energy supplier to European markets through the complete decoupling of its infrastructure from Ukraine—poses dangers to Europe and threatens the eruption of open conflict within the trans-Atlantic alliance.
This is the first major strike in the United States since the presidential election returned Trump to the White House earlier this month. The new administration will provoke massive social conflict on a scale never before seen in the United States.
Trump’s choices to run social service departments, like Education and Health, are better fitted to destroying these agencies than administering them.
A new United Nations report shows that the world is headed towards up to 3.1℃ of warming by the end of the century, with devastating consequences for billions of people worldwide.
Teacher anger over paltry raises and the closure of Acero schools is reaching a boiling point.
The WSWS received the following letter from a reader in the Netherlands.
The 2024 elections in Brazil were marked by a significant repudiation of the political establishment, evidenced by a record level of abstention.
The long-running discussions about the need to eliminate thousands of full-time jobs, end daily delivery, and sell off post offices underscore that striking postal workers are not merely fighting for a new contract. Rather, they are embroiled in a political fight, which if it is to succeed must be based on an explicit rejection of capitalist austerity and the profit “principle.”
The rally in Berlin against the dictatorial forms of rule of the Zelensky regime is of great significance. It illustrates the rapidly growing opposition of the Ukrainian working class to the war against Russia.
Protests against the ruling FRELIMO party continue as opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who is linked to Trump and Portuguese fascist circles, appeals for support from imperialism.
Whenever the trade union bureaucracy call a general strike in Greece, it is a sure sign that they fear an escalation of the class struggle which could spiral out of their control.
The essential response of the major European powers to Trump’s election has been to plan to step up their own military aggression against Russia and to consider what it will take to make this a European-led war.
The TİP failed to base its split with the Stalinist Communist Party on a study and assimilation of the great strategic and world-historical issues raised by Leon Trotsky’s struggle against Stalinism. This is a common feature of all the tendencies that emerged from the disintegration of the Stalinist parties after the collapse of the USSR.
As they escalate their war with Russia in Ukraine in defiance of mass popular opposition, the European NATO countries are risking total war between the major nuclear powers.
The NATO powers are knowingly and deliberately crossing a "red line" that Russian President Vladimir Putin had indicated would lead to a military response. This decision has as its aim the continuation and escalation of the war and is, to some extent, a deliberate provocation.
Police are engaged in a major cover-up after executing a mother suffering from post-partum depression and her baby earlier this month.
According to the Detroit News, the automaker has laid off nearly 4,000 workers in Detroit and Toledo metro areas since September alone.
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.
