Jasmin, a dentist, said the “doxxing of health workers criticising the attack on Gaza is inhumane and cruel. Healthcare workers should be able to give voice to the victims affected by the war.”
Today’s Australian splashed over its front page “exclusive” stories demonising arrested Islamic boys, apparently based on prejudicial leaked police information.
Business analysts have warned that the demise of Qenos is a sign of things to come as other energy intensive industries cease operations in Australia, destroying thousands more jobs.
“It’s unsustainable because people are going to get more angry and they won’t continue to support a government that is actively supporting genocide oversees while violently oppressing minorities and the working class in our own country.”
Trotsky’s political analysis and revolutionary struggle for socialist internationalism against imperialist war, Stalinism and fascism must be studied and assimilated by all those opposed to capitalist barbarism.
Weingarten, a member of the Democratic National Committee with close ties to the Clintons, “Genocide Joe” Biden and other war criminals, personifies the role of the AFL-CIO bureaucracy as a mouthpiece for US imperialism abroad and austerity at home.
What the Biden administration is and what it is prepared to do arises from the class interests the Democratic Party represents--and from its entire history
Over a year after the UAW rammed through a sell-out contract, ending a nearly nine-month-long strike by CNH workers, the company seeks to slash its Mount Pleasant factory from 660 workers to 170.
Teamsters Local 952 members are set to vote on a contract that they have no details on. Teamsters will inform membership of the details and rush a vote after.
An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 individuals, including seven top advisers and 11 fake electors, for the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections. Donald Trump is not named and listed as an unindicted coconspirator.
The handling of the April 13 shooting incident at the plant highlights the broader disregard of both management and the United Steelworkers for the health and safety of workers.
Bangladesh police open fire on protesting garment workers; Australia: Fraser Island Council workers protest for better pay and conditions; New Zealand doctors to strike after rejecting pay deal.
PEN America has canceled its annual festival, as well as its literary awards, after scores of authors withdrew from both programs to protest its acquiescence to the Gaza genocide.
The adopted motion stated that the Berlin Senate’s draft law "stands in the tradition of the expulsion of politically unwelcome students" and aims to criminalise "legitimate democratic protest culture at universities."
The financial markets have hailed the Lula government as its reactionary character has been exposed.
One hour before the midnight April 26 contract deadline for 7,300 Daimler Truck workers a, the UAW apparatus headed by President Shawn Fain announced a supposedly historic deal, in reality a sellout.
The top 1 percent of India’s population gorged on 22.6 percent of national income and 40.1 percent of national wealth in 2022-23.
The Green politician knows what he's talking about. The last time there was a defence industry minister was under Hitler.
“Managers are manipulative, intimidating and specifically target new starters who might feel their job is at risk.”
This is the first case of its kind against the intelligence service and threatens to unravel a massive state cover-up.
On Saturday, May 4, the International Committee of the Fourth International will hold an online rally to celebrate May Day. This year's rally is of exceptional importance.
Apart from the US, where there are mounting concerns over the levels of government debt, major industrial countries are in grip of a marked economic slowdown.
The 2020 conviction of former film producer Harvey Weinstein was thrown out on Thursday by the New York Court of Appeals, which found that he had been denied the right to a fair trial.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
Both the attorney for Trump and the Department of Justice representative agreed that the president must have broad immunity from prosecution for actions taken in his capacity as commander-in-chief.
Better than expected profits are the result of a $3 billion cost cutting plan that will reduce UPS’s “dependency on labor”
The World Health Organization published a consensus statement on airborne pathogens, finally aligning the WHO with scientists who presented evidence of this early in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but with no guidance on what measures should now be taken on the pandemic.
The WSWS is providing on-the-ground coverage of the developing protest movement against the genocide in Gaza and the state crackdown on democratic rights.
At a press conference, two Polish ministers made abundantly clear that the new school programme is not about imparting neutral knowledge about first aid and disaster control, but instead is aimed at creating a militaristic culture.
A laid-off Foxtrot worker said, "This whole situation makes you realize how under capitalism, everything is temporary, and anyone can be discarded.”
Ten years after the disastrous switch of the city of 100,000's water supply it is more than apparent that this was a bipartisan crime in which the Obama Administration’s policies played a central role.
An official Israel Defense Forces statement explained that the strikes on Lebanon were not carried out in response to any specific attack but as “part of the effort to destroy [Hezbollah’s] infrastructure in the border area.”
Belgian postal workers begin stoppages against job cuts and restructuring involving race to bottom with Amazon and other parcel companies; general strike in West Bank after Israeli forces kill 10 Palestinians, bringing total deaths since October to 500; Kenyan doctors continue national stoppage to demand permanent contracts, defy government threats to sack them or make them all temporary
Royal Mail has a set of capabilities for spying on its employees that would be the envy (or at least equal) of any secret police force in the world. Rather than oppose this, the Communication Workers Union appears fully on board.
All the circumstances point to a politically-charged and timed police and intelligence operation, directly backed by of the Albanese Labor government.
The peak union body statement is an exercise in political damage control, aimed at covering over the fact that Australia’s unions continue to prevent any action by workers against the Zionist genocide.
The response of the CEB trade unions to the suspension of 62 of their members is another demonstration that the working class cannot rely on the trade unions and their leaders to defend their democratic and social rights.
The line of the feminist commentators is profoundly reactionary, denying the responsibility of governments for the social and mental health crisis and promoting sweeping police powers.
Facing a military debacle, the Ukrainian government is desperately trying to force more men into the carnage on behalf of imperialism.
In oral arguments on Monday, comments by the six justices who comprise the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court suggested they would overturn a lower court injunction that protects unhoused people in Grants Pass, Oregon from being arrested for sleeping in public.
While funnelling ever-more quantities of sophisticated arms to Ukraine, Washington is now demanding that China assist in crippling Russia’s industrial capacity and thus the Russian military.
Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow far-right Republicans visited Columbia University and demanded the resignation of university President Shafik and the shuttering of a student encampment.
The camps are part of far-reaching plans for an assault on the southernmost city of Gaza, where more than half the population has fled for shelter.
The series is a slap in the face of contemporary cultural backwardness and degradation, and for that alone, writer/director Steven Zaillian deserves credit.
The bill signed into law Wednesday by Biden provides a combined $95 billion in additional war spending in Ukraine against Russia, in Israel and against China.
The event ws a major effort to promote the union apparatus, which functions as a central pillar of class rule.
While no one was injured in the incident, it is likely firefighters, railroaders and residents were exposed to the carcinogenic smoke and soot. It took a crew of London firefighters around an hour-and-a-half to put out the flames.
Conditions in Berlin’s so-called “Ukraine Arrival Centre TXL” are intolerable. In early March, one of the large tents being used even stood in flames.
Every day the harsh austerity measures being pursued by the government of fascistic President Javier Milei bring Argentina closer to all-out class war.
Speaking in front of armoured vehicles and alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw, Poland, Sunak said the increase in military spending “is a turning point for European security and a landmark moment in the defence of the United Kingdom.”
The article presented below was published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. It explains how the Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Portugal, assisted by pseudo-left groups that served as appendages to the main labour bureaucracies, were responsible for its defeat.
The Parti de l’égalité socialiste condemns police prosecutions of union officials and members of the France Unbowed party over their statements in solidarity with Gaza.
An autoworker died after suffering a medical emergency after waiting a half hour for medical help at the Ford Rouge complex outside Detroit.
Stellantis laid off 199 workers Monday at Sterling Heights Assenbly and another 57 at the Mack plant in Detroit as it continues its brutal program of job cuts in the wake of the 2023 contract.
On Tuesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to invoke cloture on the weapons packages for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as Russia-Iran economic sanctions and a TikTok ban. Biden has already promised to sign the legislation once it reaches his desk.
On Tuesday night, leaders of the student protest at Columbia University revealed that the university administration had threatened in negotiations to deploy the National Guard to crush the encampment.
The Biden administration, in alliance with the fascist-led Republican Party, is criminalizing political opposition to the Gaza genocide, the greatest war crime of the 21st century.
The SEP has received an important initial response, amid widespread hostility towards the major parties and an anti-war politicisation fuelled by outrage over the ongoing US- and Australian-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The pay gap between male and female workers is an integral part of the system of capitalist exploitation that ensures lucrative profits for investors.
The Senate moved a step closer to an official ban of the social media platform TikTok in the US, an attack on free speech and a major step in the preparations for war with China.
The ACC IYSSE club urges students to support the resolution being put before the Student Government Association defending pro-Palestinian groups and individuals from the bipartisan witch hunt, as part of the beginnings of a political counteroffensive in defense of democratic rights.
The horrific discovery over the past 72 hours provides further evidence of Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide against the Palestinians, which is set to escalate imminently due to the looming assault on the more than 1.5 million Palestinians struggling to survive in Rafah.
In arguments Tuesday, the Biden administration argued that a US citizen has no right whatsoever to challenge the denial of her spouse’s visa, and that she does not even have a right to be provided with any specific reason why.
Ocasio-Cortez, a key political prop of the Biden administration, is emerging as a significant financial prop of the Democratic Party in the 2024 elections.
In the banning of Russian dancer Maria Khoreva and Korean Kimin Kim, a right-wing mob has effectively been allowed to hijack proceedings of one of New York City’s premier cultural institutions on the basis of anti-Russian hysteria.
Yuri Dmitriev’s case is important but Gorter’s film is confused and superficial and serves to feed into the anti-Russian war propaganda of NATO.
The announcement by car manufacturer Tesla to cut 14,000 jobs worldwide has triggered great unrest among the workforce. Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei leader Uli Rippert spoke with workers outside the Tesla plant near Berlin.
The CRT’s posturing as an “anti-war” tendency is exposed by its unsuccessful attempt to form an election alliance with the pro-war Anticapitalistas party, which helped found Podemos.
The fascistic policies being rolled out by London are being implemented everywhere by the capitalist class, as they whip up a foul anti-immigration atmosphere the better to pursue policies of austerity and war.
We urge postal and logistics workers to attend the next online meeting of the PWRFC on April 28 at 7pm, “Oppose Royal Mail’s Assault on the USO! Defeat CWU’s Collusion."
More than 50 percent of all respondents said they would struggle to cope with any unexpected expense, under conditions where costs for housing and other basic essentials have skyrocketed.
The SEP has announced an ambitious program to increase its membership, build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and expand its political analysis for the World Socialist Web Site and its publication of Marxist literature in the Sinhala and Tamil languages.
The ruling class has responded to the rapid spread of protests with a growing state crackdown, including mass arrests at Yale University and NYU.
The World Socialist Web Site denounces the enormous escalation of state attacks on protesters, including the mass arrests at Columbia, Yale University and New York University, justified on the basis of lies and slander.
The dead include men, women and children, as well as people with clear indications of being medical patients. Some were discovered handcuffed, indicating that victims were killed in mass summary executions.
Google employees, who were fired and arrested, reported on their sit-in at the company offices in New York and California on April 16. They continue their fight for an end to the cloud services contract that is supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The Teamsters bureaucracy consumes over a hundred million dollars a year to pay its bureaucrats lavish salaries and invest in financial assets.
Federal employees in Uruguay staged a 24-hour protest strike over cuts while the union for graduate teaching assistants at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec announced it had obtained ratification of a sellout deal.
The trial may shed light on the corrupt methods of Trump and bourgeois politics as a whole, but it does not address his real crimes.
In a crass display of class justice, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer (weapons handler) on the set of the film Rust, was handed the maximum allowable sentence, 18 months in prison.
Owned by the global metals producer Glencore, the Horne Smelter has long been criticized by Rouyn-Noranda residents for its massive discharge of toxic materials.
Two men were killed one month apart in the fall of 2022, while a third man died in police custody under suspicious circumstances following a voluntary hospitalization for a mental health evaluation.
With the Philippines increasingly playing a critical role in Washington’s aggressive confrontation with Beijing, New Zealand is further integrating into US-led warmongering in the Asia-Pacific.
The storming of the Palestine Congress was the prelude to an escalation of police violence and the suppression of democratic rights on an enormous scale.
Cruelty and outright criminality against migrant workers in Mexico are driven by cold, profit-based calculations.
This weekend around 40 protests were held nationwide. WSWS reporters spoke to protesters in Sheffield, Leicester and Manchester
Israeli air strikes continue virtually every day as the Netanyahu regime prepares for an imminent ground assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.
Hours after the Senate passed the reauthorization and expansion of warrantless surveillance by US intelligence just after a midnight deadline, Biden signed the bill into law on Saturday.
Lee Chang-dong, also a novelist and screenwriter, directed several films in the 1990s and early 2000s that were highly and deservedly praised.
The Democrats and Republicans approved massive additional funding for war against Russia in Ukraine, for Israeli genocide in Gaza, and for the US-led war buildup against China over Taiwan.
The mass arrest of Columbia students and political attacks by the Democrats and Republicans have failed to suppress anti-genocide protests, while fueling growing opposition in the working class to the the attack on democratic rights.
We workers have every right to take all action deemed necessary to protect our jobs, regardless of whether you choose to sanction them or not. If you will not fight the layoffs, then get out of the way so that UPS workers can do it ourselves.
While the large vote to unionize demonstrates the militancy of workers, it will only be a matter of time before workers realize they are in a fight not only against corporate management, but also against the UAW apparatus.
The fact that Biden issued such a statement testifies to the extraordinary seriousness with which the government takes the credibility of the pro-war, pro-corporate union bureaucracy.
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
The Ipsos survey also found that 68 percent oppose the government’s plans for greater spending on the military to prepare for war, which is being funded by cuts to vital public services.
Rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal; Coup ousts fascistic dictatorship in Portugal ; Lausanne Conference on Israel-Palestine; German leader backs Dawes Plan
The fact that not a single Democratic representative voted against the over $60 billion Ukrainian weapons package reveals that there is no “lesser evil,” between Democrats -including the phony-lefts- and Republicans.
The trip underlined two things in particular: the aggressiveness with which Germany is resorting once again to militarism and war 85 years after the start of the Second World War, and the central role played in this by the formerly pacifist Greens.
Amid a skyrocketing cost of living, the Labor government and the unions have enforced a public sector wage freeze.
