This is vital history, from more than six decades ago, that the vast majority of today’s global population knows nothing about.
Tens of thousands of workers marched in the Belgian capital against Audi’s plans to shutter plants in Belgium as carmaker Volkswagen launches a global assault on jobs.
The attacks on the Belgian Audi workers are part of a broad international strategy by the Volkswagen Group.
The transition from combustion engines to electric cars is being used by corporations and investors worldwide to cut jobs, reduce production costs and increase profits.
With over 15,000 protesting outside the final Saturday evening, the 68th annual event was held under a regime of censorship, intimidation and police repression.
The decisive issue is linking these growing protests into a movement of the working class against the NATO war on Russia, the financial aristocracy and the capitalist system.
The initiative of the Belgian airport ground crew unions points to the vast potential to build an international struggle in the working class to stop the genocide in Gaza.
The gunman, a 45-year-old asylum-seeker from Tunisia, cited the reactionary state-backed Koran burnings in Sweden throughout the summer as the motivation for his attack Monday night.
The populations in all these countries, like the vast majority of the world’s people, solidarise with the Palestinians. The “support” for the genocidal war being waged by Israel is in fact only the support of bourgeois ruling cliques.
Lokita and Tori feign being siblings, but in fact they have become that close since they met on a boat as refugees, traveling from Africa to Sicily. She looks out for him, and he is devoted to her.
The strikes in Belgium adds to the growing wave of rail workers’ struggles against job cuts, inflation, and dilapidated infrastructure internationally.
The strikes are being driven by surges in the cost of living with inflation continent-wide at its highest rate in decades.
Airline workers are a strategic section of the working population whose mobilisation points to the vast social and industrial power of the international working class.
The action in Belgium is part of a growing strike movement across Europe and beyond against the global surge in prices driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the NATO war on Russia.
Outstanding Russian conductors, singers and musicians such as Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Anna Netrebko and Alexander Malofeev have become victims of the hysteria incited by the Biden administration and Western European governments.
The Polish government, with the support of the European Union and NATO, is waging a veritable war against refugees.
Over 430 undocumented migrants have staged a hunger strike for more than two months against their brutal treatment by Belgian authorities throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
The flood disaster in western Germany, Belgium and part of the Netherlands is taking on ever more horrific proportions.
On the part of the authorities, there were either no warnings, or they came so late that the residents could not get to safety in time.
The WSWS spoke with workers today at the afternoon shift change at Volvo Cars in Ghent, Belgium about their struggle and the ongoing Volvo Trucks strike in Virginia
