The schizophrenia of the European powers, who invoke international law all the more loudly the more openly they violate it, is an expression of the political dilemma in which they find themselves. They need the US for the war against Russia in Ukraine but view it as an increasing threat.
It impresses the viewer primarily as a criticism of the self-involvement and self-delusion of a certain masculine type.
Public school teachers in Bolivia joined a wave of strikes against fuel price rises, while a walkout by staff has hit the Le Massif de Charlevoix ski resort in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec.
Under conditions in which Trump’s popularity is collapsing, Walz’s resignation serves to bolster Republican claims that Democrats deliberately oversaw a massive fraud campaign centered in the Somali community.
Major US news outlets are working to cover up the criminal nature of the aggressive US invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro with a propaganda campaign hailing the military operation.
The methods of violent overthrow of democratic institutions are now being employed both at home and abroad in an unprecedented drive for dictatorship and imperialist domination of the world.
In a degrading pseudo-legal farce, the Trump administration dragged kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores before a federal court in Manhattan on Monday.
Jeff Palmer, 59, is the third worker to be killed at the Coronado Global Resources-owned mine in the past six years.
The fight for jobs and working conditions in the refineries is inseparable from a struggle against a government of the oligarchy that is launching wars around the world, including against the population of the United States itself.
The areas most deeply affected will be environment, education and health, with lower-level staff bearing most of the brunt.
The inquiry was a diversion promoted by the Greens and aimed at promoting the fraud that appeals to the Labor government would halt its destruction of public housing.
When the final figures for 2025 are in it is expected that this type of operation will have set new records.
The abduction of a least five Detroit area teenagers by ICE poses fundamental questions about how to mobilize the working class to defeat Trump’s attack on immigrant workers and youth.
The aspirations of those who voted for Mamdani stand in stark contrast to the political reality of a Mamdani administration.
Ottawa has long worked with Washington to bring about regime change in Venezuela.
War and outright colonial intervention by Washington plunges the already decrepit political order in Latin America into chaos.
The United States’ imperialist gangsterism in attacking Venezuela and abducting President Nicolás Maduro once again exposed the pro-imperialist character of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government and the capitalist political and media establishment.
All the forces that propagated a two-stage theory ended up subordinating workers and youth to supposedly progressive factions of the national bourgeoisie or diverting their struggles into peasant-based guerrilla fighting that ended up consolidating capitalist rule.
The decision to freeze bank accounts is in line with Labour government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, and its criminalisation of protests in support of the Palestinian people.
Egan’s electoral victory amid mass abstention reveals that the left-wing of the union bureaucracy commands little to no credibility in the working class, despite the deep unpopularity of the most pro-business and right-wing Labour government in history.
Large protests against mounting economic distress have occurred in many parts of Iran over the past week, and have continued in the face of increasing state repression.
Everything that is known so far about the cause of the fire confirms that the disaster was not a tragic accident, but consciously accepted manslaughter by the dozen.
The demands from powerful sections of the ruling class are not aimed at exposing the role of the state in the Bondi terrorist atrocity, but at attacking mass opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The day after the US carried out an illegal military attack on Venezuela and kidnapped its president, the Trump administration unleashed a torrent of threats against countries around the world.
Some regions across northern Queensland have received a year’s worth of rain in just a few days.
The exodus of artists from the Kennedy Center began in February 2025, when Trump named himself chairman of the board of trustees.
The conviction of a 19-year-old former pupil in Freiburg for satirical criticism of the Bundeswehr exposes the growing repression directed at young people opposing militarism, conscription and the militarisation of education.
The closure of bank accounts of left-wing organisations is part of an authoritarian shift that is taking place not only in the US, but in Germany and throughout Europe. Any critical voice against armament, war, social cuts and layoffs is to be intimidated and silenced.
The only way to oppose imperialist wars of plunder is to mobilize the working class, independently of the union bureaucracies and pseudo-left parties in or allied to the Spanish government.
The scientist quit the CDC in protest after Trump-appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed every member of the Advisory Community on Immunization Practices.
Even though fascist Nick Shirley’s reporting targeting alleged fraud by Somali-run child care centers is complete bunk, the Trump administration is using the video to cut federal funding for child, health and food programs.
Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to mobilize the population as cannon fodder in an imperialist war of plunder to the East.
The nurses’ determined stand is the first major act in what will promise to be a major year of the class struggle in the US, as workers fight against mass layoffs and other accelerating attacks. But the New York State Nurses Association union bureaucrats are preparing a repeat of their 2023 betrayal.
Amid a surge in people sleeping rough, the government will strengthen police powers to “move on” homeless people from city streets.
The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and connection between biology and culture in human evolution.
Congress certifies Bush theft of 2000 election; Seymour Hersh exposes CIA funding of Italian parties; South Korean forces massacre hundreds in Ganghwa; Appeal heard for Sacco and Vanzetti.
South Korea: Seoul city bus union announces January strike; India: Thousands of gig workers strike on New Year’s eve; Australia: Crown Melbourne casino workers strike over pay cut; New Zealand Woolworths workers walkout.
The ANC’s “non-alignment” policy is rapidly breaking down as the US seeks to halt China’s expanding influence on the continent, amid its own historic decline.
Drawing a balance sheet of post-colonial rule is indispensable. Clarifying which leaderships and programmes failed, why they failed, and whose class interests they ultimately served is the starting point for meeting the challenges of the new period of revolutionary struggle.
The World Socialist Web Site, the Socialist Equality Party in the US and the International Committee of the Fourth International unequivocally denounce the invasion of Venezuela and the criminal abduction of President Nicolás Maduro.
The FUP’s latest betrayal underscores the need for Petrobras workers to form independent rank-and-file committees with an internationalist and socialist perspective.
It was inevitable that new tensions should find expression in artists’ work and erupt as well as within existing industries and institutions
As Democrats join with Republicans to divert $1 trillion to the military budget, schools are being starved of resources.
The ruling class has used the year to carry out a deliberate restructuring of production, accelerating automation, artificial intelligence and global reorganization to slash labor costs and vastly enrich a tiny financial oligarchy.
Falling sales and profits, as well as the impact of Trump’s tariffs, are among the factors pushing restructuring and downsizing among auto parts suppliers in the US and globally.
CNN confirmed Tuesday that the CIA conducted a drone strike inside Venezuela on December 24, the first air strike on the country since the US military buildup began in August.
Vijayakumar was killed after being struck by a tea-leaf grinding machine that lacked safety guards; Rajinikantha died when a decades-old boiler, which had not been properly maintained, exploded.
Overall, musicians made their strongest statements outside the recording studio, reflecting the growing mass opposition within the world population.
Victorian trade union leader Luke Hilakari said pro-Palestine protesters had “made all the points they need to make about Gaza” and “they just need to back off.”
Far-right, anti-immigrant groups are being cultivated and accommodated by key sections of the political establishment in response to mounting social and political opposition.
Washington’s aims encompass far more than Venezuela, amounting to a drive for the recolonization of Latin America and the subordination of the region to US profit interests and preparation for world war.
The arrest and prosecution of Chinese researcher Youhuang Xiang, announced December 19 by FBI Director Kash Patel, is the latest episode in an FBI/Department of Justice campaign to criminalize scientific exchange with China.
Eighty-five years ago, the ruling camarilla around Marshal Gustav Mannerheim invited Nazi Germany to garrison Finland and began preparations for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
The decades-long demand for decent, livable housing for Sri Lanka’s plantation workers has reemerged with urgency after Cyclone Ditwah devastated estates across all 25 districts.
Their experiences are part of a broader pattern of inadequate preparedness and neglect by state and federal governments to so-called “natural” disasters, which are made more frequent and catastrophic as a result of climate change.
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
Germany is experiencing an accelerating economic crisis marked by mass layoffs across industry, as trade war, militarisation and pro-corporate policies deepen social insecurity for millions of workers and their families.
“Participating in Eurovision allows Israel to maintain the illusion that it is a modern and exemplary Western democracy, and thus to more easily conceal its criminal actions”, said the collective of 170 Belgian artists and cultural figures.
It is Abd El-Fattah’s pro-democracy campaigning which angers his persecutors, especially his defence of the rights of the Palestinians against the fascistic Israeli state and its genocide.
The organization and attacks of ISIS in Turkey reveal the consequences of the Turkish government’s reactionary policies regarding jihadist forces.
During a photo-op with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, President Trump said the US military struck a “big facility” in a dock area in Venezuela where “they load boats up with drugs,” and a “major explosion” occurred.
As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal the pandemic’s continuing public health consequences as well as the impact of social inequality.
US President Donald Trump threatened to “knock the hell out of” Iran and warned there would be “hell to pay” in Gaza, while reiterating his calls for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
The meeting will examine the political significance of the Bondi terrorist attack, which is being exploited to implement a raft of anti-democratic measures that will inevitably be used against the working class.
Governments are exploiting the reactionary terrorist attack to implement an assault on democratic rights that resembles the actions undertaken by military dictatorships.
Court rulings, body camera footage and arrest statistics expose fabricated ICE narratives now being used to justify escalating federal raids against Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
The past year has seen a significant shift to debt-financed AI operations amid the proliferation of circular deals involving the major players.
A fragile ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia commenced on Saturday following weeks of intense border fighting.
Thousands of workers across Bolivia are continuing strikes and protests against withdrawal of fuel and other subsidies, while Colorado’s Telluride Mountain ski resort has been shut down as the result of a strike by ski patrollers.
Washington’s aims encompass far more than Venezuela, amounting to a drive for the recolonization of Latin America and the subordination of the region to US profit interests and preparation for world war.
Grant’s Enforcer is an important reminder that political reaction is not all-powerful.
Ten months after her Australian Research Council fellowship was suspended at the behest of the Albanese Labor government, Abdel-Fattah has been exonerated.
31 years after the murder of Paul “Topper” Thompson, the UK Supreme Court has upheld the “neither confirm nor deny” stance taken by the government when “covert human intelligence source(s)” or surveillance operations are in danger of being publicly exposed.
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 is part of a 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.
