President Dissanayake’s address to the nation—a commitment to global capital and Sri Lankan big business

Toxic PFAS chemicals detected at high levels in Blue Mountains, Sydney drinking water

Plan to use long-range NATO missiles against Russia threatens uncontrolled escalation of global war

IAM leaders work with Boeing and federal mediator to shut down strike as official "talks" resume

As working class upsurge grows, Michigan Medicine workers vote on strike action

New York City Mayor Eric Adams charged with bribery

Trump fascists continue terror campaign against Haitian immigrants with racist X post

Stellantis Warren Truck worker: “If we don’t fight now, they are going to take our jobs”

SMART union endorses fascist Republican Senator Josh Hawley

As protests mount, Cornell University VP of Student Life rejects Momodou Taal’s appeal of suspension

Relentless attempts to suppress the truth about Israeli crimes: Conflict at New York’s 92NY and, in the face of attacks, the Emmy victory of Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda 

Australian Labor government desperate to falsely claim action on the housing crisis

Police killings in New Caledonia as Macron installs far-right administration

Toronto International Film Festival screens Russians at War amid ongoing government-backed, pro-Ukraine war censorship campaign

3,000 VW workers in Germany protest against cutbacks

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Israeli government rejects calls for ceasefire in war on Lebanon

Britain’s Jewish Chronicle exposed as propaganda outlet for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Türk-İş work stoppage and DİSK’s rallies aim to restrain workers in Turkey

Socialist Equality Party (Australia) completes campaign to win 1,500 electoral members

Israeli military threatens ground invasion of Lebanon amid expanding air assault

After Vice President Harris doubles down on global war and genocide in Gaza, Uncommitted Movement commits to electing Harris

Japan’s main opposition party elects right-wing ex-prime minister as leader

Australia: Royal Commission details high suicide rate among soldiers and veterans

As US prepares to allow NATO weapons to strike Russia, Putin threatens nuclear retaliation

Boeing machinist denounces company’s “Best and Final” offer

Chinese central bank unleashes major financial stimulus

New Sri Lankan president calls snap elections

East Coast dockworkers: Unite with Boeing workers to build a movement of the working class! Build rank-and-file committees to take control out of the hands of ILA bureaucrats!

What’s behind the Teamsters’ decision not to endorse in the presidential election

Kamala Harris courts the billionaires

The state murder of Marcellus Williams and the fight to abolish the death penalty

PQ sets tone for Quebec establishment with anti-immigrant incitement

San Francisco Symphony Chorus holds three-day strike, forcing cancellation of season opener

No to the Gaza genocide, mobilize workers against Spanish state complicity!

Austria: Anti-refugee hate campaign dominates elections

Intel halts construction of chip factory in Magdeburg, Germany

Forest fires engulf the entire Amazon basin

Corbynites moot new party

RCN blocks strike ballot after nurses in England reject 5.5 percent pay award by Labour government

Strike by Sheffield Hallam University staff over 400 planned redundancies suspended by UCU

At statewide strike, NSW nurses speak on increasingly difficult working conditions

Australia: More than 10,000 nurses and midwives strike against Labor government cuts

“We need to come together as one”: Striking Eaton workers call for unity with Boeing strike

Reject Boeing’s blackmail threats! Mobilize all workers to win our strike!

Targeting China, US deploys medium-range missile system to the Philippines

Barnier government ministers embrace policies of French far-right

Union calls off Wellington, New Zealand rail workers’ industrial action

Biden-Harris administration intensifies economic war against China

Biden delivers warmongering tirade at the United Nations

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, an innocent man on death row

Vernon Stevens, long time working class fighter for Trotskyism, dies at age 82

Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War, by David North

Former workers at New York City’s Noguchi Museum speak out on museum’s firings, anti-Palestine censorship

Cornell student suspended and threatened with deportation for protesting Gaza genocide

Study shows that COVID-19 causes cognitive decline among those without long COVID symptoms

Far-right AfD and anti-immigrant BSW win half the seats in Brandenburg state election

Israel vows to intensify onslaught on Lebanon as danger of region-wide war grows

Protests by West Bengal junior doctors over rape and killing of colleague continues after state passes reactionary death penalty legislation

Taiwan pathetically blames China’s cognitive warfare for implicating the island in the Lebanon pager bombings

Starmer makes right-wing nationalist pitch for austerity

A comment on David North’s review: Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism

Striking Boeing machinists denounce company’s “Best and Final Contract Offer”

The Sri Lankan elections: JVP assumes responsibility for defending capitalism amid a deepening revolutionary crisis

Teamsters union shuts down BorgWarner auto parts strike with third vote on sellout agreement

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Israel massively expands Middle East war, killing nearly 500 in Lebanon

Study by international researchers zeroes in on the natural origin of the COVID pandemic

Maternal mortality rates soar in Texas after abortion ban

SAG-AFTRA has no strategy to defeat ravages of AI and other technologies

Missouri governor and Supreme Court refuse to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams, an innocent man on death row

Prominent Australian Jewish cultural leader denounces Zionism and Israel’s barbarism

Australia: Rail union cancels industrial action against privatisation, automation

New Zealand government’s Treaty of Waitangi “debate” stokes racial divisions

University of California Regents summon riot police to expel students protesting further militarization of campuses

No to wrist-slap fines for workplace deaths! Reject the National Steel Car/United Steelworkers-backed settlement for Quoc Le’s death!

Reeves tries to sugarcoat austerity as UK Labour’s support plummets

Turkish government’s Medium Term Program: A frontal attack on the social conditions of the working class

JVP/NPP leader elected as new president of Sri Lanka

5,000 Textron machinists walk out in Wichita, Kansas, while Boeing workers hold public meeting on strike

Biden hosts Quad meeting directed against China

Seattle Public Schools set to close up to 21 schools next year

Thousands laid off in August and September in the technology sector as the global jobs bloodbath intensifies

Former Australian union boss pushes for renewed business-union partnership to deepen attack on workers

Some revealing comments on the state of the global economy

Trump and Vance refuse to distance themselves from self-admitted Nazi and North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson

Imperialist powers turn UN General Assembly into a war summit

Trade groups again appeal for government intervention as East Coast dockworkers’ strike deadline nears

Romanian doctors blamed for health crisis fuelled by the ruling class “forever COVID” policy

This week in history: September 23–29

Stop the intimidation of opponents of war! Defend bus driver Andy Niklaus against the Berlin Transport Company!

South Carolina executes first prisoner in 13 years, rejecting new evidence that questions his guilt

Demonstrators in Liverpool speak with WSWS: “Keir Starmer is a war criminal”

Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre cancels A Midsummer Night’s Dream adaptation over Gaza references

Gaza protest in Liverpool seeks to pressure Labour government

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