The Vietnamese government is clearly desperate for negotiations with the Trump administration, but all indications are that the White House will proceed with its economic shock treatment without exception.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington for a meeting with US President Donald Trump to give an update on the US-Israeli campaign to displace or exterminate the Palestinian people and annex their land.
Rescue workers and survivors have described harrowing scenes while the ruling junta blocks efforts to provide aid to those in need.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
The executive order, bearing the misnomer “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful,” furthers Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship by means of cracking down on demonstrations, heightening police presence and targeting agencies in the District.
Thousands of workers in cities across Chile held strikes and protests against the Boric administration on April 3 while Quebec daycare workers are expanding their fight for a new contract.
Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on.
Instead of the international unity of the working class, expressed in the age-old slogan, “Workers of the World, Unite!” UAW President Shawn Fain embraces Trump’s “America First” policies and pits workers of different countries against each other.
The next German government will be one of rearmament, war and class war. Business groups and economists are insisting that there must be massive cutbacks in social budgets to pay for military spending.
Heavy rainstorms, tornadoes and flooding struck multiple states in the US South and Midwest over the weekend, destroying structures and causing at least 23 fatalities.
In a sign of the enormous popular opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the moves toward dictatorship, The Encampments has been met with significant support and enthusiasm.
The bailout is a sweeping gift to Spain’s largest corporations, as the working class faces an unrelenting cost-of-living crisis, stagnant wages, and spiraling rents.
In a craven attempt to shield the company from accountability, TOSHA concluded that the drowning deaths of six trapped employees were “not work related.”
Washington is planning to create an anti-Iran axis between Ankara, Damascus and Tel Aviv, but these plans are being hindered by the growing rivalry between the Turkish and Israeli bourgeoisies.
Since coming to power, Labour has sought to prove itself more hostile to migrants than its Conservative predecessors and the far-right Reform UK.
Speaking at a shop stewards meeting, Francis Atwoli urged the “broad-based” government to crack down on online opposition. “Social media [users], it is time you stopped propaganda. You must love your country. If you are not patriotic, even investors will exit. Otherwise, we will plunge into chaos,” he declared.
The SEP candidates are alone in fighting to build an independent, socialist movement of the working class against the program of war, austerity and increasing authoritarianism, supported by every other party..
Allegations of “terrorism” and “threats to national security” are being exploited by the JVP/NPP government to intimidate and silence critics of Israel’s mass murder in Gaza.
What is starker in 2025 than ever before is the growing gulf between the interests of the workers the unions claim to represent and those served by the Labor Party and its governments.
The question of war shaped the programme of the book fair. On the one hand, warmongers were given a stage for their great power propaganda, while on the other hand, an increasing anti-war sentiment could be seen among many visitors.
