Dissanayake’s call for a unified national response to Washington’s new tariffs means vicious attacks on the Sri Lankan working class and the rural masses.
The US president seeks to exercise dictatorial powers against the working class, but he remains the servant of the financial markets and the billionaires.
American funding has long played a central role in sustaining the large network of non-profit and civil society organizations seeking to drive out the current ruling authorities for failing to adopt a decisively anti-Russian line.
In currency markets an index of the US dollar against a basket of a dozen of its peers fell 1.9 percent amid growing questions about what the economic war means for its status as the global reserve currency.
“The decision by the Victorian Labor state government to demolish the public housing towers is socially and politically criminal. It is directly placing profit above the interest of thousands of people.”
The demolition of public housing in Melbourne and nationally can be defeated, but that requires mobilising the power of the working class.
Despite assurances by the Chicago Teachers Union that the deal will “Trump-proof” the district, teachers worry about severe budget cuts planned by city officials and the White House.
Felipe Zapata Velázquez, a third-year international student at the University of Florida, was pulled over by Gainesville police on March 28 for traffic violations and, without a hearing, handed over to ICE officials and disappeared to a Miami-Dade detention facility. From there, he elected to return back to Colombia.
More than a month after Khalil was abducted by government agents outside his apartment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted Khalil’s deportation is based solely on his opposition to genocide.
The film is an exploration of the “border industrial complex,” a term used to describe the profitable systems, worth billions of dollars annually, built around capturing, incarcerating, and deporting immigrants.
With a shocking death toll of at least 221, the Dominican ruling class is already seeking to divert attention from the the crime by promoting nationalist chauvinism and anti-Haitian xenophobia.
The agreement establishing a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) underscores that this will be the most right-wing German government since the Nazis held power.
Health Secretary Kennedy, America’s top anti-vaccine zealot, tours measles-ravaged regions while cynically consoling families of children whose deaths his own propaganda helped cause.
George Mason University president Gregory Washington openly welcomed the Trump administration attack on democratic rights as part of its crackdown on anti-genocide protests.
Emerson Wolfe was taken into custody just as the “Hands Off” rally against the Trump administration was set to begin in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Labour’s repressive measures against the Birmingham bin strike are aimed against the entire working class.
24-hour general strike across all sectors in Greece to protest austerity; strikes in the West Bank and Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza; police use tear gas against nationwide demonstrations in Nigeria against poverty and attacks on democratic rights
Building a movement to defeat these attacks on democratic rights means understanding the class and imperialist interests behind them.
“There’s no way to pretend there isn’t enough money. Everyone seems to have money for a war but not for health.”
As striking doctors turn out to fight the Minns Labor government, ASMOF officials are determined to keep them separated from tens of thousands of other public sector health workers while appealing for “compromise” negotiations.
The “pause” came as it was becoming apparent the entire financial system was on the verge of another crisis rivalling those of 2008 and March 2020 or possibly even greater.
The consequences of an escalating trade war between the US and the European Union would be devastating.
Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, the Israeli military launched air strikes on Palestinians that killed as many as 35 people and maintained its program of extermination through starvation in Gaza.
The urgency of the question regarding the pending closure of New York City hospital, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, has been heightened by Trump’s assault on healthcare.
This latest attack on the First Amendment and free speech was met with silence by leading Democrats.
Shostakovich’s symphony, composed in 1937, is one of the greatest works of the 20th century.
The bipartisan promise to “fully fund” public education is as much of a fraud as the entire official election campaign. Whichever party assumes office will deepen the decades-long assault on public schools.
The day-long shutdown of Facebook reveals the extensive powers given to police under the new Counter-Terrorism Act and the threat posed to basic democratic rights.
Threats of drone strikes are part of an increasingly aggressive exercise of gunboat diplomacy to subordinate Mexico and the wider region to colonial status.
A strike by 28,000 teachers in one of America’s largest school districts would be a catalyst for a broader, nationwide fight against Trump’s savage cuts.
Trump is a menace to the workers of Canada and the world. But workers can’t fight him by lining up with the Canadian bourgeoisie.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality calls on students, youth and the working class to mobilize in opposition to the Trump administration’s escalating campaign of terror on college campuses.
Trump has nominated a close business crony, billionaire Thomas Barrack, as US ambassador to Turkey.
The Verdi leadership unreservedly supports the warmongering policy of both the outgoing and incoming federal governments.
The new collective agreement at the German parcel delivery company, Deutsche Post DHL, has angered and disappointed letter and parcel carriers and many other postal workers.
The arbitration result at BVG hardly differs from the employers’ last offer, which we rejected by an overwhelming majority. It is now important to immediately initiate the agreed all-out strike in order to enforce our justified demands.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a budget containing tens of millions in cuts to homelessness services.
The group Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty said in a statement on Tanzi’s execution, “It is not justice to take a physically and mentally broken man, strap him to a gurney, and commit premeditated murder. This is revenge, plain and simple.”
Despite the efforts of the union bureaucracy, Tempi remained very much in the air during Wednesday’s general strike, with workers and youth bringing homemade placards to demand justice.
Albanese and Dutton touted their miserable cost of living policies and promised a “better future,” under conditions of a meltdown of world capitalism triggered by Trump’s trade war.
When previous tariff increases are considered, imposed under the first Trump administration and maintained under President Biden, the tariff level against China is now around 120 percent. Nothing like this has ever been seen before.
Taking part in the 2,000-strong protest were a group of federal workers at the local facility of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), who had found out days before that they and their 400 coworkers were fired.
“It seems like we’re living in 1930s Germany all over again,” said Jonah.
After three years of war, the Putin regime is increasingly unable to control its explosive social consequences, which have exacerbated the internal contradictions of Russian capitalism.
Deputy Prime Minister Peters, who advocates strengthening New Zealand’s alliance with the US, said the country should “celebrate” the fact that Trump’s tariffs on NZ goods are “only” 10 percent.
“If this government continues like this, the President will have to go by such a mass uprising again,” a resident warned.
This is how an authoritarian regime or a military dictatorship operates.
The task facing workers is smashing the union apparatus and replacing it with rank-and-file committees, real democratic organs of workers power. BFN and similar groups are being deployed in an effort to block this.
Over 20,000 auto and auto parts workers in the US, Canada and Mexico are potentially facing layoff as the impact of Trump’s tariffs begins to be felt.
Immigrants who previously entered the United States through the CPB One app are now facing “immediate” deportation by the Trump administration.
Speaking at Hamilton College in upstate New York, the ex-president sought to block students from drawing revolutionary conclusions from the deepening political crisis in America.
A gang of five unelected fascists on the Supreme Court rubber-stamped a presidential dictatorship.
Approximately 3 million public service workers in Germany are supposed to pay with their wages and jobs for the one trillion euros agreed by the government for armaments and war.
Although they have not been convicted of any crime by a court, the three EU citizens and one US citizen have been ordered to leave Germany by April 21. Otherwise, they are to be forcibly deported.
Their role is to ensure that the class struggle never breaks out of the constraints of protest politics that supposedly puts “pressure” on the Labour Party and the trade union bureaucracy.
Anger toward the Communication Workers Union’s naked collusion with the company is growing. But this opposition must be organised and prepared in advance with a worked-out strategy.
Only a building an independent movement in the workplaces and among youth to mobilize workers in struggle can halt the drive of the capitalist oligarchy towards dictatorship and war.
The demonstrations highlighted the bankruptcy of the New Popular Front in terms of leading a struggle against the far right.
There have been multiple warnings from investors and business chiefs that the tariff war is threatening to bring recession to the US and globally.
Establishment figures like Malcolm Turnbull, who are calling for a more “independent” Australian foreign policy, represent the interests of imperialism and the ruling elite, not those of working people.
The rush to scrap the Darwin port lease is bound up with the Trump White House’s ever-more incendiary trade war measures against China.
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.
The two-day selloff last week was the fourth most significant in the post-war period.
Today's immigrant jails will be utilized tomorrow to detain workers who oppose the Trump administration’s fascistic government.
Mass opposition is developing to the fascist in the White House, but the movement can only go forward through a break with the Democratic Party and a struggle against the capitalist system.
A forensic analysis of the bodies, along with a smartphone video captured by one of those killed, shows that the official Israeli narrative regarding the deaths and mass burial of 15 Palestinian aid workers near Rafah on March 23 is nothing but lies.
In an interview with the WSWS, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi reviewed her academic research and expertise, recounted the circumstances of her firing by Yale Law School, and explained the political context within which freedom of speech and political opposition are being attacked.
Doctors are demanding a 30 percent salary increase, safe working conditions and other measures to stop escalating cases of burnout amongst doctors.
The sellout deal worked out by the Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Brandon Johnson not only fails to meet the needs of teachers and students, it aims to demobilize teachers as popular opposition grows to Trump’s war on education and democratic rights.
Filmmaker James Longley sent the WSWS the following eloquent statement, which focuses on the catastrophe in Gaza and the criminals responsible.
The union’s main concern is not about workers’ rights but the disruption of its mutually beneficial relations with hospital management and the state.
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Tens of thousands of people protested in every single state in the US on Saturday, while thousands more demonstrated in cities across Europe.
Over 400 Jewish students, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan have signed open letters denouncing the administration’s “weaponization of antisemitism.” The letters demand that the university end its collaboration with the Trump administration in the crackdown on political speech.
Public health officials are struggling not only with the disease itself but also with the disinformation fueling vaccine hesitancy, emanating above all from Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who continues to downplay the outbreak.
In Parliament last Wednesday, Starmer denounced the strike and demanded it end. Two days later police were sent to break up picket lines.
The shock-and-awe tactics used by the CWU and Royal Mail to enforce the USO pilot scheme is proving insufficient to quell growing suspicion and anger.
Sir Keir Starmer’s right-wing government—with just nine months in office—is now the only Labour government in history that has increased child poverty under its rule.
The blanket tariff on all US goods was previously considered a worst-case option, but such is the level of the attack that Beijing decided to go ahead with it.
The JVP/NPP is attempting to win support in the local government elections in order to claim a renewed mandate even as it intensifies the imposition of the IMF’s austerity demands.
Workers cannot accept the agreement at Deutsche Post. It would not only have catastrophic consequences for postal workers, but also serves as a precedent for workers in the public sector and other companies, such as the Berlin public transport operator BVG.
