Under conditions of bipartisan complicity, the Trump administration is building a domestic gulag system of mass detention, rendition and deportation. This assault on immigrants is the spearhead of a broader drive toward dictatorship that must be opposed through independent working class action.
The elimination of 1,145 workers at GM's Factory Zero in Detroit are part of the wave of mass layoffs that will continue into the new year.
The threatened lawsuit over a canceled Christmas Eve concert at the renamed "Trump Kennedy Center" exposes the authoritarian bid to intimidate artists and silence dissent.
Teenagers in the industrial city of Newcastle, north of Sydney, speak out against the Labor government’s legislation to bar them from accessing social media platforms.
“By invoking Jewish safety to shield imperial and corporate interests, the government fuels resentment against Jews while enabling future war crimes.”–Michelle Berkon
This interview is the second extended discussion between Professor Reiss and the World Socialist Web Site examining the accelerating assault on vaccines and public health in the United States.
Throughout more than two years of bargaining, CUPW has worked consistently to smother opposition among rank-and-file postal workers to the ruling class’s drive to return the Crown corporation to profitability.
The telecommunication company’s report seeks to absolve management of any responsibility for the fatal events of September 18, when some 605 calls to emergency services numbers failed to connect.
Workers and the poor must oppose the government’s plans to impose the huge costs of cyclone recovery on the masses. They are not responsible for the cyclone catastrophe or the underlying capitalist crisis.
The German budget abolishes “citizens' income” (basic welfare support) and imposes sweeping social cuts to finance rearmament, war and tax handouts for the wealthy, while expanding precarious work and social insecurity for millions.
The 2023 contract prohibits the use of inward-facing cameras but Lytx cameras are using AI to monitor drivers and issue distracted driving alerts
Immigrant farmworkers killed in Spain; Venezuela nationalizes oil industry; North Korean and Chinese forces recapture Seoul; Huge funeral march for poet Esenin in Moscow
The measures are aimed at strengthening the powers of the Netanyahu government as it continues its wars in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and prepares for another offensive against Iran, amid plunging living standards.
The Trump administration launched missile strikes against claimed ISIS militants in northwest Nigeria and made unsubstantiated claims that the act of war was in response to “existential threats” to Christian communities in the region.
The brutal treatment by Britain’s Labour government of the hunger strikers is a step change in this lurch to authoritarianism and dictatorship by imperialist powers internationally. The government made clear from the outset that it would not consider any of the legitimate democratic demands of the political prisoners.
An interview with IYSSE spokesperson Tamino Dreisam exposes the class interests behind Germany’s reintroduction of conscription, placing it within a broader drive toward militarisation, social cuts and imperialist war.
ICE violence escalates as alleged US citizen Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales remains imprisoned, and the Trump administration prepares mass warehouse detention camps.
This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.
The death in Melbourne’s western suburbs on December 17 is the fifth fatality linked to the recycling and waste management company over the past 18 months.
In this depiction of the end of Lorenz Hart’s career and his life, his legacy gets short-changed.
A cover-up is underway to shield the police and intelligence agencies. Any “deficiencies” exposed in official investigations will be used to justify a further major boost to the state security apparatus.
Behind the US regime change operation aginst Venezuela is the unique, strategic role, Venezuela plays in the global economy – the largest holder of so-called "proven" oil reserve in the world.
The Modi government is gutting the rural job “guarantee,” fulfilling a longstanding demand of the most rapacious sections of the ruling class who have long derided its cost and complained that it “boosts” rural wages.
Gig economy food delivery workers strike across India, Bangladeshi hospitality staff demand minimum wage and a strike by Australian rail maintenance workers enters its third week.
The autobiographical volume is both a history of a frame-up and a warning of contemporary significance.
The escalating offensive against wages, jobs and working conditions is the ruling class’s response to the global crisis of the capitalist system.
The Starmer–Streeting government, backed by the union apparatus, is enforcing an agenda on behalf of the oligarchy: austerity, market expansion and hikes in military spending.
Another 30,000 documents were released to the public on Tuesday by the Department of Justice along with a statement claiming some of the documents “contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump.”
The fact that the EU is investing such large sums in the war in Ukraine confirms that it is a proxy war between NATO and Russia.
Ty, an educator who led sickouts against COVID in 2020, explains how workers can use Socialism AI to get the knowledge they need.
US President Donald Trump’s appointment Sunday of a special envoy for Greenland underlines American imperialism’s abandonment of all restraints in pursuit of its interests and the deepening rift between Washington and its erstwhile European allies.
The immense social chasm in the US takes a particularly stark form in Detroit, whose supposed “revival” has been hailed by the media and business and political leaders.
There is little question that Ukraine is behind the assassination, which took place against the backdrop of the US-Russia negations over a peace deal and an intensifying drone war by Ukraine on Russian territory.
The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.
The Trump administration has detained a longtime Dallas resident as a “terrorist” based solely on social media posts opposing the Gaza genocide, then attempted to force him out of the country with a $3,000 cash bribe, exposing the political character of his detention.
What happened at Mordialloc beach last week was not a pre-planned “youth riot” as the media and government claim, but a confused chain of events sparked by a heavily-armed police operation.
Since the shootings on December 14 at Bondi Beach, Labor governments have introduced a barrage of anti-democratic legislation aimed at suppressing any opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
SGP Honorary Chairman Ulrich Rippert’s address traced Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler political development, from confronting the legacy of fascism to her decades-long struggle for a socialist and international workers’ movement.
Legislation passed today in New South Wales creates a framework that can effectively criminalise all political gatherings.
So far, the price of gold has risen by almost 70 percent this year, the biggest surge since the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979.
The Lynas Advanced Materials Plant, the only commercial-scale producer of separated heavy rare earth oxides outside China, now occupies a central position in Washington’s efforts to secure strategic supply chains essential for advanced weapons systems.
The return to Tonga’s monarchy and nobles reflects the shift to authoritarian forms of rule by governments around the world.
Striking nurses and case workers at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital have been on strike for 16 weeks and hospital management is doubling down on the strikebreaking, while the Teamsters bureaucracy has kept the struggle isolated.
In the meeting at CUNY, Roger Toussaint obscured the central role of the Democratic Party and whitewashed his own role in sabotaging the strike.
Morgan workers have begun raising critical questions about the circumstances surrounding their coworker’s death.
Nutritious food is quickly becoming a luxury item in Canada, one of the world’s most advanced and wealthiest capitalist countries.
The hunger strike now involves five people: Amu Gib, Kamran Ahmed, Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha and Lewie Chiaramello.
Workers at Huntsville are working 14 hours a day; workers are being pulled from other regional facilities and boxes are piling up in front of fire exits, a clear safety hazard.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, newly installed by the billionaire Ellison family, killed the report on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador, demanding it contain an on-camera response by the Trump administration.
The US Coast Guard seized an oil tanker bound for China off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, the second seizure in two weeks, as Washington escalates a naval blockade aimed at overthrowing the Venezuelan government.
The record of Julie Su reveals the role she will play at City Hall: promoting the labor bureaucracy and collaborating with the unions to suppress class conflict and impose Wall Street’s dictates.
As the Trump administration accelerates war preparations against Venezuela, the response of Spanish imperialism has been extraordinarily muted.
In their role of holding back struggles and demobilizing workers, the trade unions also receive key support both from the Stalinist PCP and from the pseudo-left grouped around the Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda).
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Workers in Argentina and Bolivia are holding strikes and protests against savage cuts, while in Canada, the United Food and Commercial Workers union has finally set a contract vote after stalling for weeks.
In his speech, Vance rejected any “purity tests” within the MAGA movement.
One of the most significant measures is the proposal to lower the criminal age of responsibility from 15 to 13 years old—making Sweden an outlier not only in Europe but even compared to most US states.
Macron is seeking to push through an agreement that maintains the Pacific colony as a state within the French Constitution.
The WSWS spoke with firefighters who have held multiple one-hour strikes in opposition to pay cuts, faulty equipment and understaffing.
This lecture on the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU and the US capitalist state reviews the trial of the Gelfand case in March of 1983.
“It’s not a victory”, as the Unite union claims, “Nothing has changed”, tram drivers tell WSWS reporters.
The police operation was clearly intended by the NSW Labor government and the police to create an atmosphere of fear and send a political message about the police-state conditions being created in the wake of the Bondi Beach tragedy.
The $11.1 billion package, the second since Trump was installed in office this year, is a calculated escalation in US imperialism’s war preparations against China.
The media coverage and the extreme prison sentences make clear that the Russian state seeks to use this case, above all, to intimidate left-wing opposition to the Putin regime.
Prolonged funding cuts and bureaucratic restructuring measures are systematically undermining Australia’s arts sector, devastating artists, and cultural institutions.
A CDC-funded trial withholding timely Hepatitis B vaccination from newborns in the tiny African country echoes historical abuses of vulnerable populations.
The New School has targeted 40 percent of its full-time professors for elimination under the guise of “voluntary separation packages.”
The Trump administration is running a network of concentration camps, many of them established under Biden.
The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key development in human cultural evolution.
Luoyang fire kills 300 in China; Castro Cuban CP holds first congress; US backs French colonial war in Vietnam; Communist Party of India founded.
The renaming of the Kennedy Center is part of a wider authoritarian assault on democratic rights, critical art and public culture.
The ruling lays bare the complete subordination of the American legal system to the financial oligarchy.
Maryland’s freezing Baltimore youth jail is emblematic of the brutal and neglectful conditions which the Democratic and Republican parties have imposed on the working population.
This is an Open Letter responding to several harsh criticisms of Socialism AI posted by Professor Tony Williams in the comments section of the WSWS.
At least 17 Palestinians have died due to the storm, including at least 11 people killed when damaged buildings collapsed on those sheltering inside and a 29-day-old baby and three small children from severe hypothermia.
The African National Congress’s role is the culmination of the class function it performed during the transition from apartheid.
Following Mamdani’s fundraisers with billionaires and decision to retain NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Jacobin insisted that left-moving workers, youth and students should refrain from any serious political criticism of “leftist elected officials.”
On Tuesday, over a hundred students from Lincoln High School in downtown Portland and from other schools in the city also walked out against ICE.
Amid seething rank-and-file anger over job cuts and collapsing living standards the UAW apparatus has purged DSA operatives Chris Brooks and Jonah Furman while restoring the duties of Secretary Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President Rich Boyer.
Primary school teachers overwhelmingly rejected a sellout offer, which the union bureaucracy presented to them after similar wage cuts were imposed on high school teachers.
No mention is made of the ongoing destruction of nearly 4,000 jobs over the past year, nor of the underlying restructuring agenda of the Albanese Labor government.
The decision by the Blue Owl private equity group to pull out of an AI investment with Oracle reverberated through the market because it was taken as a sign that “they’re not so bullish as [some investors] are.”
While Republicans gloated over the conviction of Judge Hannah Dugan, Democrats remained silent, implicitly backing Trump's attacks on the judiciary and efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.
The Socialist Equality Party calls on workers and youth to take matters into their own hands and come to the aid of Jewish people or any community that comes under racialist attack. Establish independent rank-and-file committees in working-class suburbs to protect basic democratic and social rights!
Trump's Department of Justice released 10 percent of the Epstein files, heavily redacted, on Friday, violating the terms of the law signed by the president on November 19.
While the unions were still able to secure social concessions during the post-war economic boom, this is no longer possible under conditions of globalization.
His identification of Marxism and communism with the repression of its Stalinist distortions hampered his work. He exemplified the intellectual crisis of the later 20th century.
The 2025 surge in Florida adds to the grim assembly line of state murder, in which the gears of “finality” grind over the complexities of mental illness, military trauma and institutional abuse.
Ford’s strategic turn away from larger electric vehicles is being used to drive through the destruction of thousands of jobs at the main plant in Cologne, aided by the IG Metall union and the works council, who are helping to enforce a coercive severance scheme.
The SEIU, which has kept workers on the job without a contract for over a year, is delaying in a bid to block a strike, announcing it would only hold an Unfair Labor Practice strike vote sometime “early next year.”
Alberta's Bill 9 invokes the Canadian constitution’s anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause”— which allows governments to run roughshod over basic democratic rights—to shield three laws targeting transgender youth from legal challenge.
Amazon workers face grueling quotas and draconian computerized surveillance techniques, used to enforce productivity during the peak holiday season with resultant injury rates double the industry average.
The strikes, part of a global movement, continue a struggle by Brazilian federal workers against attacks by the Lula administration.
India: Telangana steel workers halt production over colleague’s death in molten metal accident; Western Australia: Woodside Pluto-2 LNG construction workers ready to strike; Healthscope nurses in Victoria escalate industrial action; Union cancels Air New Zealand cabin crew strike.
As global war, dictatorship and social counterrevolution escalate, we appeal to all our readers to donate to the WSWS New Year fund, and fight to arm the international working class with the perspective and program of world socialist revolution.
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
Postal workers were told to print glossy posters, pose for photographs, and help get #PostalWorkersDay trending.
Starmer’s Labour Party is less concerned to show a trace of sympathy and concern than even Margaret Thatcher’s government was at the height of British imperialism’s “Dirty War” against the Irish Republican Army.
Washington sees an agreement as critical to prevent a civil war between its two allies in the regime-change war it instigated in 2011.
The dispute’s prolonged isolation and subordination to Unite’s bankrupt strategy of appealing to the Labour council to be “reasonable” threatens total defeat.
