The Teamsters bureaucrats will not organize a wider struggle because they are not interested in taking the fight to Amazon on behalf of workers everywhere, but in establishing the same corrupt relations with Amazon management it enjoys elsewhere.
Andrew Bird's Gezelligheid concerts in Chicago showcased his virtuosic musicianship and thoughtful songwriting, set in a beautifully intimate atmosphere.
China is the central target, but tariff hikes will go across the board.
The premature end of the widely despised ruling ‘traffic light coalition’ of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Greens and neo-liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the decision for an early election is not aimed at giving the electorate a say, but rather to ensure that an even more reactionary government comes to power.
Every day, 99 workers die in America’s industrial slaughterhouse.
After a month-long strike by 55,000 workers, CUPW and the Canadian Labour Congress capitulated without a fight to Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon’s order to ban the job action, without any of the workers’ demands for real wage increases, job security, and workers’ control over the use of new technologies being met.
Entering the sixth year of the pandemic, Australian governments continue to maintain a “let it rip” policy, amidst rising infection numbers.
While President Yoon is impeached and suspended from office after his failed attempt to impose martial law, his removal by the Constitutional Court is by no means certain.
Without giving any reasons, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus authorised the removal to the US of Daniel Duggan, an Australian citizen, to confront concocted charges of training Chinese military pilots.
Student and faculty groups at New York University called a rally last week to demand that NYU lift the “persona non grata” status it imposed on dozens of pro-Palestinian students and faculty for protesting at Bobst Library one week earlier.
It is necessary to focus this opposition on the working class and to arm it with an international socialist perspective, independent of the imperialist powers of NATO as well as the capitalist regimes in Ukraine and Russia.
Fidan’s visit is part of Ankara’s efforts to increase its influence over the future of Syria and the HTS leadership, and to eliminate the Washington-backed Kurdish forces.
The naming of Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo as a “spy” working on behalf Beijing by anti-China hawks in Britain’s ruling elite has exacerbated the crisis facing the Labour government’s geopolitical strategy.
The Irish government, faced with popular protests, felt obliged to go somewhat further than its peers in offering criticisms of the starvation and massacre of the Palestinians.
GMU president Gregory Washington cynically conflated the raid on two student activists engaged in constitutionally protected activities and the arrest of a terror suspect.
Political hatred and the fear of persecution can only lead to such a monstrous crime in a sick society in which violence and killing people have become the norm.
Resident physicians who recently voted to unionized are battling Tenet Healthcare to win better wages and working conditions
The basic task of our time is the expropriation of United Healthcare and other major corporations by the working class in a socialist revolution, not “vengeance” against individual executives. Marxists oppose individual violence because it runs directly counter to this, replacing the action of the class with the action of desperate, angry individuals.
The bullying declaration to a conference of fascist supporters follows his suggestions that the US should absorb Canada as the 51st state.
What sort of society drives its artists into pornography? One that has no need for virtually any of them, and “fears superstitiously every new word.”
The Parti de l’égalité socialiste condemns the the fascist threats against Mélenchon, which also target millions of workers and youth who voted for him, hoping for a more left-wing policy.
The Rail, Tram and Bus Union promised to give the New South Wales Labor government exactly what it wanted while workers received nothing in exchange.
Graduates are shunning teaching degrees, while registered teachers are leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers.
Act 10 stripped public sector employees in the state of their collective bargaining rights, allowing them to bargain only over wages—with increases capped at the rate of inflation—while prohibiting negotiations for improved safety, benefits, and working conditions.
A week on from the powerful Pacific earthquake, Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila is a scene of “absolute carnage” and could produce a major tragedy.
The fact that Yoon feels he can brazenly impede his removal from office is a result of the perfidy of the Democrats and their allies in the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.
Aaron Siri, the attorney who is advising Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., filed a petition with the FDA in 2022 to revoke the polio vaccine due to supposed safety concerns, it was revealed last week.
The Rivian deal explicitly ties the interests of the UAW apparatus to the profit interests of the company’s wealthy shareholders.
Ivory Coast military coup; Vietnamese launch battle of Phuoc Long; Massacre by South Korean military; Mussolini’s violence exposed
This contribution was delivered by veteran Trotskyist Barbara Slaughter to the Socialist Equality Party (UK)'s Seventh National Congress
Despite the rhetoric about a global war against Islamist terrorism, the US has long utilised reactionary Islamist groups in the Middle East and Asia. In Syria, it is partnering with a HTS regime that traces its roots directly to al-Qaeda.
Israel Defense Forces launched multiple air strikes against residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Friday. An UNRWA representative said, “An entire society here is now a graveyard.”
The stripped-down measure will fund the government through March 14, but it does not include a suspension or rise in the debt ceiling.
Health workers fear a fifth of the population may be dead, but the French president arrogantly told angry crowds that if France did not rule Mayotte, it would be “10,000 times” worse.
More than 5,500 workers at Amazon’s JFK8 facility, alongside thousands of other workers, are fighting for their economic needs and fundamental rights.
Workers are up against a Labor government that is utterly hostile to their demand for a real pay rise and intends to use every mechanism at its disposal to eliminate their democratic rights and shut down their struggle.
These low-level young drug “mules,” mostly from working-class backgrounds, paid a heavy price after being deliberately handed over by the Australian Federal Police to the Indonesian authorities in 2005.
On December 4, Germany’s Federal Cabinet decided on the National Security and Defense Strategy (SVI Strategy) to upgrade Germany and make it "war-ready" again after two lost world wars.
The meeting will be held on January 3, 2025 at the Department of Political Science, University of Peradeniya.
The plot included an operation dubbed “Green and Yellow Dagger”, which called for the the assassination of Lula and other top officials.
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X, is leveraging his staggering fortune to finance and promote fascist forces throughout the world.
The online meeting was part of a campaign to alert workers to the government-initiated police attacks on SDOs and to rally support for their defence.
According to media reports, the collective bargaining parties “wrestled” for more than 70 hours over five days to reach an agreement. In fact, the whole thing was a set-up.
The impact of growing inequality can be observed in various aspects of daily life. The number of homeless people is rising, and tent encampments are an increasingly common sight in Canadian cities. Nearly 23 percent of the population reported some type of food insecurity in 2022.
The film’s jarring tone stems from the misguided decision to turn a story about abuse and forced sterilisation into an “empowering” feminist tale.
Trump-supporting Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk released an “interim report” on the events of January 6, 2021, that recommended criminal prosecution of Cheney, rather than the coup plotters.
India: Chandigarh power workers protest privatisation; Bangladesh: Temporary rail workers demand permanent jobs and outstanding pay; Australia: Qube workers strike at 10 ports for better pay and conditions; Rheem factory workers locked out in New South Wales
Communication Workers Union bureaucrats will join a new Advisory Committee that will create what amounts to a partnership between the CWU and the billionaire who is taking over Royal Mail.
Turkish police detained the leader and many members of the Socialist Laborers Party, which identifies itself as Trotskyist, on trumped-up charges of being members of a “terrorist organization.” The Socialist Equality Group unequivocally condemns this police state operation.
We are publishing the speech introducing the resolution “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party” at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) given by Tom Scripps, its assistant national secretary. The resolution was passed unanimously. Scripps was re-elected to his position by the Congress.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The fascist president-elect is seeking to destroy the US constitutional structure of “checks and balances” and give himself unlimited political authority.
The strike is the largest ever of Amazon workers in the United States. It is part of a growing movement by workers across Amazon’s global operations, following protests in 20 countries during Black Friday last month.
The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.
The executions of Joseph Corcoran and Kevin Underwood underscore one of the most barbarous features of the death penalty system in America, which condemns inmates to death despite their documented severe mental illnesses.
As the government imposes brutal austerity measures, including more than 2,000 job cuts in the healthcare sector, tens of thousands of nurses and healthcare workers have stopped work across the country.
Wong’s trip coincided with, and was part of, a further escalation of the war against Russia, including discussions of direct NATO troop deployments.
Dawson was terminated despite the admission of an investigating law firm hired by U-M that there was no independent verification of alleged “antisemitic” remarks. A member of the Board of Regents, Mark Bernstein, intervened to overturn a lesser disciplinary action by the university and demand that she be terminated.
The pseudo-left group combines multiple strains of bankrupt middle-class politics, including open support for imperialist war, the promotion of the anti-Marxist Frankfurt School and of the Pabloite Spartacist League.
Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro’s death earlier this year should be the occasion for assessing and reassessing problems with contemporary fiction.
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in California over the explosion of bird flu among dairy cows in the state. Meanwhile the first critical case of a person infected with bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana.
Saxony’s minority state government hides an all-party coalition stretching from the Left Party and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, the Greens, the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats to the far-right Alternative for Germany that is directed against the broad majority of the population.
Around 35,000 civil servants in Spain demonstrate against planned privatisation of government health insurance scheme; workers and retirees continue to rally across Iran to protest unpaid wages, power outages and pension poverty; police in Johannesburg fire rubber bullets at public sector protest for a pay rise, injuring several workers
The UK defence secretary said, “The year may be ending, but the war is not. This is the time to step up further in Ukraine on every front.”
The health secretary declared that regulators have the power, “to set conditions that a healthcare professional must work under, suspend them, or strike them entirely from the medical register."
Last week, at the request of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), Humboldt University student parliament passed a resolution condemning the massive cuts being planned at universities. The result of the vote is an expression of growing opposition to the militarisation of German society and the cuts with which it is to be financed.
While the gunning down of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has exposed widespread public opposition to the criminal practices of the health insurance corporations and capitalism generally, Jacobin has published an interview with Bernie Sanders aimed at reviving illusions in the Democratic Party and reform of the healthcare system.
The killing is the latest in a series of extremely provocative measures taken by the United States and NATO with the intention of escalating the Ukraine war in the weeks before the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump on January 20.
To diffuse anger, the UAW bureaucracy claims it has cut job cuts by half but workers fear even larger layoffs.
Amazon workers must insist that their strike not be limited in advance by the Teamsters to only three days, which severely limits its impact during the height of the holiday shopping season. Instead, the strike must be guided by a strategy worked out and democratically enforced from below by workers, through rank-and-file committees made up of representatives from every Amazon facility.
The horrific damage caused by Cyclone Chido is due to decades of official neglect of infrastructure and the overt, fascistic contempt of the French government for its overseas territory.
The collapse of the previously agreed-to funding measure portends massive incoming spending cuts under the new Trump administration.
While in the end there was only one dissenting vote, there are divisions in the Fed’s policy-making body.
The MYEFO predicts that the federal budget will be in deficit for at least a decade, and that cumulative deficits over the next four years will be almost $22 billion larger than forecast in the Labor government’s budget in May.
The passage of the bill reflects immense fear within the US ruling class that large sections of the population will be looking for a revolutionary alternative to the unending war, inequality, austerity and fascism offered by the capitalist system.
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee insists that there are plenty of resources to pay educators what they need and deserve.
“I feel that we are giving up our power and momentum by following this order. I do want to find other ways of defying and sticking it to the one percent, where it actually hurts them and not the Canadian public,” one Ontario postal worker told the WSWS.
The PSOE and its pseudo-left government allies like Sumar and Podemos are promoting Meloni, the political descendent of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy.
The pay cuts and job losses announced are a down payment by the Treasury on far worse to come and the trade unions will impose these attacks in alliance with Starmer.
We are publishing the opening report delivered to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) by Chris Marsden, its National Secretary. Marsden was re-elected to his position by the Congress, held November 29-December 2, 2024.
Coppell, Lewisville, Plano, and Richardson ISD all slated to close schools, citing budget shortfalls and declining enrollment, but this fails to explain broader nationwide trends.
As major economies struggle to maintain even positive growth, money is pouring into US financial markets from the rest of the world.
Trump’s plans, published as the Canadian government began moving to ban the Canada Post strike, demonstrates his government is preparing historic attacks on the working class.
The bombing is the latest in a series of assassinations of high-ranking Russian military and political figures carried out by Ukrainian forces and marks the highest-ranking Russian military figure to have been assassinated.
The nomination of Johnson makes clear that threats of military operations and a reckless tariff war against Mexico are not just bluster, as US imperialism resorts to the most brutal methods to recolonize Latin America.
Outraged protests by artists against the genocide and institutions with connections to the Zionist regime continue.
The measures, including a ban on face masks at protests and restrictions on where they can be held, are an attempt to criminalise public opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Jess Patience’s death came after numerous complaints were reportedly made to management and the government safety regulator about safety at the site in Rokewood, Victoria.
Social media videos showed rescue efforts through the night trying to reach some people yelling under the rubble, including in a three-storey structure that collapsed onto its lower floors.
The resident staff was scheduled for a three-day strike this week, seeking relief from poverty wages, burnout and other workplace hazards.
For the past several weeks, panicky reports and conspiracy theories have proliferated of “mystery” drones along the eastern seaboard of the US. They have been spearheaded by far-right political forces and social media influencers and facilitated by wall-to-wall coverage by the corporate media, including the broadcast networks and the cable news channels.
The state-led crackdown on workers’ rights underscores the ruling elite’s embrace of authoritarianism to enforce its class war agenda of austerity and war, and that to defend their jobs, workplace benefits, right to strike and public services, workers in Canada and around the world confront a political struggle over which class controls society’s resources and to what end.
On Monday, federal judge David Lawson of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ordered the UAW to produce records and documents the union had been withholding in an effort to block an investigation into ongoing corruption within the UAW bureaucracy presently led by UAW President Shawn Fain.
Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership and his Liberal government hang by a thread after his Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from the cabinet Monday morning in a manner calculated to inflict maximum political damage.
Briana Boston, 42, was arrested on charges of “written threat to kill or injure—conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism” and faces up to 15 years in prison.
The decision, intended to block an expected win by Calin Georgescu, a neo-fascist candidate who had expressed skepticism of the war against Russia, shows bourgeois democracy is rotting on its feet.
The Pennsylvania judges involved in the scandal, both Democrats, pocketed millions for selling children to for-profit prisons.
The metalworkers defending their right to strike and the millions of others demanding a decent minimum wage must be mobilized on the basis of a programme of struggle against war and genocide and in defence of democratic rights.
