Zac Corrigan is a journalist for the WSWS and a member of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
The horrific incident provides a glimpse of the real class relations in American society and the daily humiliations faced by masses of workers in America which virtually never make the headlines.
An upcoming rally in Michigan against the genocide in Gaza, organized by Holocaust survivor Rene Lichtman, has been slandered as “antisemitic” by prominent Zionists on X/Twitter.
At a rally at Wayne State University in Detroit on June 4, professors read an open letter signed by 184 faculty and staff condemning the violent, university-ordered police attack on students manning an anti-genocide encampment on May 30.
This critical question-and-answer session, organized by the IYSSE at Wayne State University, should be studied by all those who want to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Rene Lichtman, born 1937, is a "hidden child" Holocaust survivor who opposes the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
After AFT-affiliated unions at the University of Michigan and the Detroit public school system pushed through sellout contracts last week, educators and students met to review the political lessons and discuss the fight for rank-and-file committees.
On Thursday members of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee spoke to Stellantis autoworkers at Warren Truck to build unity against education cuts.
Music teacher Kay Thomas is being victimized with the direct collusion of the Detroit Federation of Teachers bureaucracy.
The example of Jimari Williams shows how the population will be treated by the capitalist state and media from now on: Workers and children will get sick and die at school and work and nothing will be done.
The outbreak was detected over a month ago, but the mill was kept running.
“I have a 14 year old, she goes to school here. She has no future. You don’t know what the long-term effects are,” one resident told the WSWS.
Such tragic “accidents” can only happen in a society where conditions are ripe for tragedy.
In the face of 7 percent inflation, and with the immune-evasive new XBB.1.5 variant now spreading throughout the country, the resumption of water shutoffs will be a social and health disaster for Detroit’s working class.
The family of 22-year-old Casen Garcia speaks out about the terrible conditions at Tyson that led to the young man's death.
This touching and zany sci-fi action movie from directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert sends a quarreling Chinese-American family on an adventure through alternate realities, raising some big social issues along the way.
In this interview, Aaron discusses how the experience of the last two years has impacted his thinking and explains why he is taking a stand against both the pandemic and the drive to war.
As one worker put it, to understand the war, “you have to understand economics, and understand the world.”
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
In this video interview, Randall explains the unsafe conditions in Michigan’s auto parts plants. Randall's brother died from Covid, their grandmother has Long Covid, and officials are threatening to charge Randall and his fiancee for trying to keep their daughter out of school.
The proposal to use school bus drivers, secretaries and cafeteria workers as substitute teachers explodes Governor Whitmer's pretenses over being concerned about the academic needs of children.
