The Russian presidential elections and the tasks of the working class
The fifth term of Vladimir Putin will be characterized by an expanding war and an ever greater social and political crisis for which his regime does not and cannot have an answer.
The fifth term of Vladimir Putin will be characterized by an expanding war and an ever greater social and political crisis for which his regime does not and cannot have an answer.
Mass protests and strikes continue in Argentina with mass actions in opposition to cuts in cinema and universities taking place while 1,300 Airbus machinists in Montreal have voted by a wide margin to reject management’s offer and authorize a strike
Palestinians who had fled Gaza were instructed just minutes before boarding flights that they had been barred from Australia, leaving them in a desperate situation.
The JVP’s rightward evolution is not an isolated, national phenomenon but an expression of the transformation internationally of similar organisations into pro-imperialist outfits.
US employers announced over 84,000 layoffs, as part of a continuing offensive against jobs to smash the resistance of the working class.
Summary autopsy report lists cause of death as suicide by overdosing on a medication combination which experts call ‘very, very uncommon’, while failing to list extensive injuries documented in the full report as exposed by the family
Under the guise of placing limits on political donations by the wealthy, the legislation will erect onerous fund-raising and bureaucratic hurdles for smaller parties.
The “Secure DC” bill is the latest salvo in the Democrats' punitive attacks on the urban working class and poor.
Under conditions of seemingly irresolvable Tory meltdown, the ruling class is working closely with Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party to prepare a politically like-for-like replacement to rescue British capitalism.
With Labor and the unions increasingly discredited, the pseudo-left is desperately seeking to channel opposition back behind these forces, which are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
James Crumbley, father of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, who killed four of his classmates on November 30, 2021, was found guilty on all counts of involuntary manslaughter on Friday in Pontiac, Michigan.
An internal paper from the defence ministry, quoted by Der Spiegel, plans to “present options for a German military service model” by 1 April.
The episode is part of an ongoing conflict between the Barbican, the largest performing arts center in Europe, and opponents of the horrifying genocide.
The Wickremesinghe government, which confronts rising working-class opposition to its austerity measures, is attempting to intimidate and silence journalists.
One can and should ask, who benefits from the silence surrounding the challenges to the official narrative of Barnett’s death?
In the Brisbane western suburb of Inala, which has among the lowest income levels and highest unemployment rates in the state of Queensland, Labor lost almost half its primary vote.
The latest penalties demonstrate that the contract imposed by the New York State Nurses Association has institutionalized understaffing.
After workers on Germany’s railways, in public transport and at airports proved once again over the past week their readiness to fight for better working conditions and wages, the trade unions are beating a retreat.
As Trump escalated his violent rhetoric and defense of his January 6 foot soldiers at an Ohio rally, Biden attended a $400-a-plate dinner in Washington D.C.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would proceed with its plans to assault Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where over 1.5 million refugees are sheltering.
Haitians escaping the violence produced by imperialist oppression are summarily deported back to the island.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
A flurry of diplomatic activity over the past 10 days has made clear that the trade union-backed Liberal government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fully endorses the far-right Israeli government’s looming onslaught on Rafah.
The hearing was the latest in a series chaired by Sanders to stump for the corrupt trade union bureaucracy, which is enabling the automation-driven corporate jobs bloodbath.
Macron’s remarks show that the European powers are preparing a ground intervention into Ukraine, threatening to unleash nuclear war between NATO and Russia.
The unbridled cynicism involved is breathtaking. Pineda is speaking about his own government, which has been arming the Zionist regime as it carries out its onslaught in Gaza.
The interim report from Operation Kenova confirmed that British agents within the Provisional Irish Republican Army committed multiple murders. No one is to be charged.
Crocker is in a position to know. Beginning his diplomatic career with a posting in the US consulate in the inland port city of Khorramshahr, near Iran’s oilfields, in 1972 during the Shah’s reign, he later served in Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Kuwait.
The nuclear-powered submarine program is just one component of a far broader militarisation aimed at preparing an aggressive US-led war against China.
The Berlin summit came as the European powers’ bellicose statements threaten to unleash total war between NATO and Russia in Ukraine.
It does not detract from the political importance of the student strikes to note that they have become smaller. Blame for this lies with the pseudo-left organisations who, at present, form the leadership of these protests.
The Netanyahu government is carrying out the “Final Solution of the Palestinian Problem” by means of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the population of Gaza. It has the full support of the Biden administration and both political parties in the United States.
Barnett was discovered dead last Saturday after failing to appear for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the aerospace giant.
Five years after the Christchurch terror attack, which killed 51 people at two mosques, disturbing questions remain about why the fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant was not stopped from carrying out his massacre.
Stellantis and Ford workers warmly greeted SEP vice presidential candidate Jerry White and many signed petitions to place the SEP ticket on the ballot.
In an intensifying attack on academic freedom, the US House Committee on Education is focusing Columbia University in New York City in its crosshairs.
Church and her family have been threatened by Zionists and fascists for her participation in events supporting the Palestinian people.
More than 100 music acts have withdrawn from SXSW, the largest music festival of its kind, in opposition to sponsorships by the US military and defense contractors responsible for the Gaza genocide.
India: Tamil Nadu Primary Cooperative Bank employees demand higher wages: Bangladeshi garment workers violently attacked by police in Gazipur; Qantas pilots in Western Australia strike again for pay rise; New Zealand nurses protest over payment delays.
Widely viewed as illegitimate, Pakistan’s new military-orchestrated minority government is tasked with implementing another round of savage austerity measures, ensuring it will rapidly come into headlong conflict with the country’s impoverished masses.
Scholz and his antagonists are deceiving the public. They know far more than they publicly admit and are working closely behind the scenes to escalate the Ukraine war.
The DSA is reaffirming its pro-capitalist, pro-war policies by endorsing Biden shill AOC and backing pro-Israel fake-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
Many of the stores to be closed are located in rural areas and impoverished towns and cities.
The deadly shooting and subsequent coverup took place under the Guerrero state government controlled by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party.
A new report published March 13 documents two interconnected processes: A steep decline in federal tax payments by top US corporations and an explosive rise in executive compensation.
Mehring Yayıncılık is pleased to announce the publication of the Turkish edition of 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror by Vadim Z. Rogovin.
The cynical political maneuvers of Podemos in parliament and on the streets are aimed at keeping mass anger against the Israeli genocide in Gaza trapped within the straitjacket of the PSOE-Sumar government.
The Colombo event was the final in a series of island-wide meetings by the SEP/IYSSE on Trotsky’s classic analysis of the Soviet Union.
“I think we can very easily lay the blame for all the mass atrocities that are occurring, both on governments and the corporations who have captured them through the way that capitalism currently operates in the world.”
In face of the latest debates about sending NATO ground troops to Ukraine, the Polish elites are closing ranks and intensifying their war course.
Israeli troops carried out another massacre of civilians waiting to receive aid Thursday, killing 60 people and injuring 160, the Euro-Med Monitor reported.
Censorship of the internet is seen as a key part of the American ruling class’s preparations for great power conflict, most openly against China and Russia, that is, preparations for World War III.
The underlying aim of censoring North’s lecture—which uniquely examines Bushnell’s death from a Marxist perspective—is to bury this event and keep it hidden from the public.
The new operation by the Democratic National Committee is only part of an array of anti-democratic attacks primarily directed against left-wing candidates.
Teachers have faced years of poverty wages and struggle with inadequate resources to help students in the city made infamous for its lead-laced water.
Healthcare professionals “are duty bound to support people in need and call out injustice where they see it, and that’s all these people were doing. I applaud them for their actions.” – Molecular biologist and science communicator
Kishore said, “We are seeking through our campaign, to appeal to the working class, which is increasingly entering political life and becoming radicalized, to offer a political program based on internationalism and socialism.”
Workers and area residents strongly oppose a plan backed by the Democrats that could jeopardize access to care in an already underserved area.
Someone letting the general public in on a dirty secret had to be denounced and smeared.
Thousands of autoworkers are being laid off in Italy and other countries and plans for mass dismissals are well advanced.
Presenting the report in the federal press conference room, Högl stated that she had to "unfortunately determine" that the armed forces (Bundeswehr) "still had too little of everything.”
In this, the second part of the interviews, four anti-COVID activists in Brazil talk about Long COVID and the lack of measures by the Workers Party government to stop the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
The definition was announced in Parliament by Communities Secretary Michael Gove, who made clear that the intention was to make oppositional thought a criminal offence.
Protests and strikes across Europe marking International Women’s Day March 8 denounce discrimination, austerity and genocide in Gaza; nurses and medical staff in Iran protest low wages, overwork and compulsory overtime, following strikes and protests by retirees, oil and sugar workers; municipal workers in eThekwini, South Africa continue wildcat stoppage over pay parity in defiance of court order and union pleas
The people who contributed to this segment of world culture are being slaughtered mercilessly in Gaza, with the backing of the NATO powers funding and arming the Israeli government’s genocide.
The fact that the SGP has reached and surpassed the required support signatures is an important step. Now the party will be gearing up its election campaign to conduct a Europe-wide and international offensive for Trotskyism.
Classes in Flint were cancelled Wednesday after 119 teachers called in sick after their contract, which included the first pay raises in years, was unilaterally abrogated.
Discussions between HTUA bureaucrats and health ministry officials have been held behind closed doors, ensuring that the more than 100,000 members of the alliance know nothing about on the proposals under discussion.
The strike vote at Daimler Truck marks the beginning of the first major battle by a section of autoworkers in 2024 and the first since the UAW’s so-called “stand-up strikes” at the Big Three automakers last year.
The US Defense Department will send another $300 million in weapons to Ukraine, amid growing warning signs that the US-NATO war with Russia is on the verge of a significant escalation.
While shedding crocodile tears over mass civilian deaths, Australia continues to march in lockstep with the Biden administration that is funding and overseeing the genocide.
The union bureaucracy has accepted the closure of Newshub, which will destroy about 300 jobs, and will assist in imposing more job cuts at the state broadcaster TVNZ.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
A strike by East Coast dockworkers would have a tremendous impact, not only on the United States, but the entire globe.
The meeting with Biden came as the Teamsters made numerous mutual shows of support with Josh Hawley, one of the main co-conspirators in the Senate on January 6.
The US House of Representatives passed a bill banning the short-form video-sharing app TikTok on Wednesday, with Democrats and Republicans coming together in support of a law to promote anti-Chinese propaganda and attacks on First Amendment rights.
Fearing that the much vaunted “resilience and stability” of the banking and financial system could be undermined at any point regulators are working to put in place measures to prevent such an occurrence.
Henry’s swift dismissal as Haiti’s head of government proves yet again that Washington views Haiti’s political leaders, whether elected or unelected, as valets to be dismissed at its convenience, and treats the impoverished Haitian people with criminal indifference and hostility.
In the midst of a new wave of the pandemic in Brazil, the WSWS spoke to four anti-COVID activists who have been denouncing on social media a number of aspects of the Workers Party government's criminal negligence in response to the pandemic.
The National Football League refused to postpone a playoff game despite the dire risk to the health of the fans attending.
Scheduled to address the March 15 protest by Long COVID patients at the Lincoln Memorial, Julie Lam speaks with the WSWS.
The Nellie massacre—in which India’s now governing party, the Hindu supremacist BJP, played a major role—was the outcome of a campaign of communal incitement targeting “illegal foreigners,” that is highly impoverished refugees and migrants from Bangladesh.
Gallant and Netanyahu’s comments lay bare the reality hidden behind a veil of hollow “cautions” and “warnings” from Israel’s imperialist patrons.
The Workers Revolutionary Party, as the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, was the only political tendency which could have provided a lead, but unbeknownst to me it had undergone a political degeneration and a turn away from its Trotskyist principles.
A Boeing 787-9 jet operated by a Chilean airline headed from Sydney to Auckland dropped suddenly midflight on Monday, causing passengers and crew members to be flung into the ceiling of the cabin and injuring 50 of the 272 people on board.
The fight against inflation, cuts in real wages and increasing workloads cannot be conducted under the leadership of the trade unions and is inextricably linked to the fight against war and military rearmament.
On Monday, multiple media outlets reported that over 60 Republican National Committee staff members were fired by the recently installed Trump leadership team, which includes his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
Biden is relying on union bureaucrats, arch-sellouts like Shawn Fain, to suppress the class struggle as the US prepares for World War III.
Second and concluding part of an interview with nurse victimized because of a patient death caused by faulty systems for distributing and administering potentially lethal drugs.
The deliberate and massive explosion and release of toxic chemicals into an Eastern Ohio community last year was not necessary, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board stated in testimony before Congress last week.
At warehouses nationwide, shifts are being cut and entire facilities being replaced by new automated hubs requiring a fraction of the labor.
The SEP is fighting to provide the working class with a political voice, in opposition to the pro-genocide, pro-war Labor government and political establishment.
To justify war in the Indo-Pacific region, both Washington and Seoul falsely claim they represent “democracy” and “rule of law” in order to demonize China.
One week after industrial explosions rocked the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township, Michigan, killing a young bystander and spewing steel gas canisters and shrapnel as far as two miles from the blast site, the police and local authorities have yet to initiate an investigation or lay any charges against the owners of the cannabis business that erupted in flames and multiple detonations.
In an angry commentary in the Monday edition of the FAZ, foreign policy experts Anton Hofreiter (Greens) and Norbert Röttgen (Christian Democrats, CDU) called for a massive escalation of the NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
Contract talks between IATSE and the AMPTP have begun, while rank-and-file need to prepare opposition to a betrayal.
The organization filed a complaint on behalf of the teachers, whose pro-Palestinian sympathies were maligned as antisemitic to justify their dismissal.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke to James, a paraprofessional in the New York City public school system who has been witch-hunted for his pro-Palestinian views by Zionist forces, with the complicity of the school administration and the police.
The outbreak, so far concentrated in an overcrowded facility in which a five-year-old boy died in December, threatens to expand as city officials delay in publicizing the presence of the disease.
Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon complained that “action against antisemitism needs to come from within” and that, so far, university vice-chancellors have been merely reactive in their curbing of free speech instead of being proactive.