The World Socialist Web Site 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 in the conflict.
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 behold to international finance capital. Rather it is addressed to the working class as a lever for mobilizing it against the bankrupt capitalist order and 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.”
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.
