US sends long-range missiles to Ukraine
The White House announced Friday that it would send long-range missiles to Ukraine capable of striking nearly 100 miles into Russian territory.
The White House announced Friday that it would send long-range missiles to Ukraine capable of striking nearly 100 miles into Russian territory.
Last week the US Congress spent three days denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Under the terms of EDCA, Washington is re-establishing its military bases, critical to its war aims in the Indo-Pacific region, in its former colony, the Philippines.
As far as management is concerned, the “contract” is only binding on us workers. They feel emboldened because they know they have not only Congress on their side, but the union apparatus.
Temple University students in Philadelphia began an indefinite strike this week after the university refused to bargain with them for cost of living and other improvements.
The entire European Union leadership traveled to Kiev on Thursday, where it met with the Ukrainian government for two days.
The hysteria over the balloon points to the increasingly strident war propaganda emanating from Washington against China, as well as the potential for such a minor incident to be inflated to trigger a military conflict.
House Speaker McCarthy has allotted an outsized number of slots on key committees to members of the fascistic House Freedom Caucus who held up his election for Speaker for 15 ballots, as well as other far-right lawmakers who supported his bid for the speakership.
Between rising energy bills, expensive groceries, and stagnant wages, the latest round of record-breaking inflation further pushes Japanese workers to the brink.
The Modi government’s 2023-24 budget combines brutal austerity measures for India’s workers and toilers, with a 13 percent hike in military spending and massive sops to big business, the rich and superrich.
Four decades of capitalist austerity and the profits-before-lives response to the COVID-19 pandemic have left Medicare on life support.
Van Zandt’s reactionary, bloodthirsty comments would have no significance whatsoever—they would simply be more pro-war propaganda from the wealthy upper middle class in America—were it not for his celebrity and his musical history.
Twenty-five defendants are awaiting a trial and face up to 20 years in prison. The allegations reflect a deepening crisis in the health care and education systems, which the defendants sought to exploit.
In this letter to the ICFI, the YGBL reviews the political situation and moods in Russia amidst the escalating US-NATO war over Ukraine.
Brisbane-based Mantle Group Hospitality has dodged weekend, evening and public holiday penalty rates for more than two decades.
As the US-led NATO powers escalate their war against Russia, tensions with Turkey are increasing on many fronts.
The four-day trip was dominated by the intensification of the NATO war against Russia and the suppression of the escalating class struggle worldwide.
The State Department Wednesday “expressed US support” for the Boluarte regime’s efforts to ensure “stability,” after the brutal killing of nearly 60 unarmed demonstrators.
India: Tamil Nadu rural sanitation and water delivery workers demand wage rise; Pakistan: Railway workers protest delays in wage payments; Australia: Nurses and midwives at major Sydney private hospitals walk out over staffing and pay
Spain’s ruling pseudo-left party is hypocritically distancing itself from its policy of arming the Peruvian regime with the same weapons it uses to assault strikers at home.
In an interview Thursday night, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne insisted she would impose her pension cuts despite overwhelming popular opposition.
In this video, Socialist Equality Party (SGP) Honorary Chairman and candidate for the Berlin state elections Ulrich Rippert speaks about the growing social divisions worldwide and the social catastrophe in Berlin.
Teachers Jack and Sylvan spoke to the WSWS during the “Protect the Right to Strike” rally in London on February 1, 2023.
The Department for Education is making International Monetary Fund-type “safety valve” deals with local councils facing bankruptcy, involving major cost cutting in the provision of special education needs and disability support.
All discussions at ACAS have been about how far the CWU will go to accommodate Royal Mail.
The latest Eurobarometer survey found that nearly 40 percent are experiencing problems paying for things, and one in two has said his or her standard of living has fallen.
Teachers in Woburn, Massachusetts, struck for a fourth day on Thursday in the face of a court-ordered injunction, a fine of $40,000 plus an additional $5,000 to be levied for each day the strike continues.
The crackdown within the Ukrainian military on soldiers is a reflection of anxiety within the leadership that they will have insufficient cannon fodder as the war escalates.
On January 26, less than a month before a February 19 increase in the minimum wage was set to take effect for tens of thousands of Michigan workers, the Michigan Appeals Court blocked the increase by upholding a 2018 “adopt and amend” maneuver of the Republican-led legislature.
In effect, Riseborough’s nomination disrupted various plans, on which, in turn, a great deal of money and prestige were riding.
This exercise in kabuki theater, repeated over and over, makes clear the extent to which the US civilian political leadership has become merely a means to package decisions made by the Pentagon to the broader public.
Media and policy outlets linked to both big business parties have attacked as over-generous or wasteful the Biden administration’s proposed changes to REPAYE, which would reduce payments for some students without canceling their debts.
Family members of 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr. protested outside the Huntington Police Department on Monday after a video released by a witness on social media showed police shooting the double amputee multiple times.
Strikers speak from “Protect the right to Strike” rallies during the mass national walkout of 500,000 workers in Britain on February 1, 2023.
The visit takes place after South Korea’s president suggested Seoul could develop its own nuclear weapons.
The state-owned postal service has entrusted the CWU with the task of introducing changes to the delivery model that will drastically increase the workload of postal workers and slash jobs.
The announcement marks a further significant stepping up of both governments’ involvement in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, and the resumption of closer ties in preparation for war against China.
SGP candidate and nurse, Endrik Bastian, speaks at a rally of the Socialist Equality Party at Leopold Square in Berlin's working class district of Wedding. He condemns the immense cuts in the health sector in favor of rearmament.
Thousands attended “Protect the right to Strike” rallies called by the Trades Union Congress during Wednesday’s strike by 500,000 workers throughout Britain.
Members of the Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the Socialist Equality Party visited picket lines and held intensive discussions with striking teachers during Wednesday’s walkout.
Striking Scottish teachers join rail workers, civil servants, university lecturers and fellow educators in coordinated national strike across UK, as further NHS strikes planned; teachers’ strikes continue in Hungary and Portugal over pay, staff shortages and minimum service levels.
Among Stellantis workers, there is broad disdain for the bogus run-off between Ray Curry and Shawn Fain after a first round of the election that left 90 percent of the membership out of the voting.
A driver explained, “Everyone is mad. The drivers are saying the union is a sell-out. Even the managers are saying they’ve never seen the drivers fighting against the company so hard, and against the union as well.”
The company’s 2022 earnings report showed substantial sales increases and projected robust demand for 2023, despite growing economic headwinds.
The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally denounces the state-led persecution of the Union of Left Forces - For a New Socialism party in Ukraine by the NATO-backed Zelensky-government.
ExxonMobil and Chevron have reported record profits and at the same time implemented massive share buybacks to further enrich shareholders amid growing world poverty and hunger.
Macron is calling for slashing pensions in France, massively increasing military spending and intensifying the NATO war against Russia, which threatens to escalate into a global nuclear conflict.
Property developers are expecting billion-dollar profits from the New South Wales government privatisation and redevelopment of Waterloo public housing estate.
The focus of the January 17 panel discussion at the former German-Russian Museum was Lasar Mojshes’ wartime diary and the memories of his daughter Anna.
The new wave of protests has terrified the Wickremesinghe regime, the opposition parliamentary parties and the trade unions.
University workers and students across Australia face intensified pro-business restructuring and integration into war research, as well as deepening budget cuts.
The ISO hails Ardern as an “inspirational” leader who deserves “solidarity” against “misogynist” attacks, while whitewashing her Labour government’s assault on the working class and participation in imperialist wars.
While family and friends reflected warmly and consciously on the life of Nichols, and all victims of police violence, Democratic Party politicians and operatives sowed racial divisions and sought to channel mass anger at unending police murder towards legislative “reform.”
The main concern of both capitalist parties is the impact of any breach in the debt ceiling on the stock markets and the financial interests of the billionaires.
The findings come as recent CDC sero-prevalence data indicate nearly 100 percent of American children have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.
On Saturday, January 28, the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) held its fourth election rally in Berlin-Neukölln. Main candidate and SGP chairman Christoph Vandreier spoke on the 90th anniversary of Hitler’s seizure of power and how the German government is marking this anniversary by sending tanks against Russia again.
On Monday, TikTok deleted a viral anti-war video by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) that had received over over 150,000 views.
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) strongly condemns the conviction of the antiwar and peace activist Heinrich Bücker and calls on workers and young people to take action against the scandalous verdict.
Ahmed White, of the University of Colorado Law School, is the author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.
The SPD-led German government is aggressively stepping up its war policy. The SPD strategy paper “Social Democratic Responses to a World in Transition” asserts a leading role for Germany in Europe and the world.
The president of the faculty union has opposed appealing to other workers, including teaching assistants, not to cross the strikers’ picket lines, declaring “We are not hooligans.”
The strikes were called to coincide with the passage through Parliament by the Conservative government of new anti-strike legislation, representing the greatest threat to workers’ democratic rights ever mounted.
His de facto support for Netanyahu is bound up with the dependence of US imperialism on Israel as the guardian of its predatory interests in the resource-rich region and as its subcontractor in its covert war against Iran and its allies.
Supporters of UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman are touring factories in Indiana and other states to inform workers about Lehman’s protest against the disenfranchisement of UAW members.
The Memphis Fire Department also announced the firing of three employees, including two emergency medical technicians, for failing to properly assess Nichols' condition after arriving on the scene.
Opposition among the millions who marched yesterday was not limited to pension cuts but extended as well to the Macron government and the NATO war on Russia in Ukraine.
The Biden administration’s plan to end COVID-19 emergency declarations is wholly unscientific and will have vast consequences for the American and international working class.
The workers once again rejected the company’s “last, best, and final offer” on January 4. In response, the company ramped up its efforts to break the workers’ resistance by holding a job fair in Phenix City, Alabama, 26 miles north of Cottonton.
Rail and transit workers, energy and refinery workers and public servants went on strike and protested in France on Tuesday, as strikes spread to Britain, Belgium, Finland, Spain and across Europe.
As far as management, Congress and the corrupt union apparatus are concerned, the contract is only “binding” upon workers, while the railroads are free to flaunt it whenever convenient.
While his internal memo starkly sets out Washington’s agenda for war, Air Force General Michael Minihan is not an isolated maverick within the US military.
The latest revelation demonstrates that while occasionally making vague statements about Assange’s plight, Labor is continuing the more than ten-year record of Australian governments collaborating in his persecution.
The most recent Theatre Facts survey covers the state of the field in 2020-2021. That is to say, it provides a glimpse of the conditions produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, both short- and long-term.
Twelve NATO countries have pledged to send between 120 and 140 modern main battle tanks to Ukraine, in what Ukrainian Defense Minister Dmytro Kuleba said was the “first wave” of tank deliveries, with more to come.
Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, with more than 230 million inhabitants, is teetering on the brink of financial default.
The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion on the Soviet Union.
After years of very low wages, ever-tightening schedules that leave no time for turnaround breaks, and a lack of safety, lunch and toilet facilities, Kinetic workers struck yesterday for the second time in a month.
The trade unions have not organised a single day of strike action against the greatest threat to workers’ democratic rights ever mounted, urging workers to rely instead on a future Starmer-led Labour government.
Drivers from Go Ahead and Metroline spoke out as Unite officials stepped up efforts to end the Abellio strike, due to resume February 1 for three days.
The UCU union bureaucracy is seeking to wear workers’ resistance down in order to impose a below-inflation deal.
The result shows the intense anger built up among firefighters over years of declining pay and conditions, declining numbers of firefighters and staff, closed fire stations and degraded services.
The Democratic Socialists of America are exploiting the results of the New York State 2022 elections to build their brand of pro-imperialist and corporate-friendly “socialism.”
Anonymous sources have told corporate news media that the US Department of Justice is investigating Abbott Laboratories in connection with its baby formula manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, which was shut down in February 2022 for bacterial contamination.
Hundreds of workers—full-time, freelance and trainees—at broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) went on a day-long strike on Friday.
The unprecedented promotion of war propaganda and the deliberate minimization of the crimes of Nazism at the Auschwitz commemoration are inseparable from the renewed explosion of imperialist militarism now underway in Europe.
In the aftermath of the release of the video showing the horrendous beating of Tyre Nichols by at least five black Memphis cops, the American media and Democratic political establishment have contorted themselves trying to present the killing as an expression of “systemic racism” in order to mystify the class character of police violence and divide the working class.
Washington is concerned that mounting political instability, both in the occupied territories and within Israel itself, is weakening the main US military bastion in the Middle East.
Elections are to be held on May 14, while the bourgeois opposition parties have accepted President Erdoğan’s candidacy despite its unconstitutionality.
You don’t need a degree in political science to see the difference in how the corporate media and political establishment treated two elections that took place in December 2022.
Albanese responded to a viscous right-wing campaign against Aboriginal youth by pledging a major increase in police funding, while doing nothing to address a massive social crisis.
Four people have died in the ongoing floods and there is widespread anger over the failure of the Auckland Council to provide sufficient early warnings and other assistance to residents.
Singh neglected to mention a “trifle”—His NDP, with the full-throated backing of the trade unions, has been propping up the minority Liberal government for years and since March 2022 has been in a formal governmental alliance with them.
The raid demonstrates that the government of right-wing President Yoon Suk-yeol is preparing new assaults on the social and democratic rights of the working class as social tensions intensify.
Last week residents of Meethotamulla, a low-income working-class area, vehemently denounced successive governments, angrily explaining how they were attempting to deal with the social disaster they now confronted.
GM Flint workers contrasted the UAW bureaucracy’s silence on its own election with their energetic promotion of the Democrats in the federal midterm elections.
Comments on social media in China after the government’s sudden lifting of COVID restrictions leading to rapidly escalating infections and deaths indicate the widespread concern and hostility among working people to the change.
The intellectual life, literary and political history of Germany after 1945 cannot be imagined without the poet and writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
As it has done many times, the union will use mediation as an excuse for accepting an agreement that workers would otherwise reject.
There was a systematic effort by the entrenched bureaucracy across the board to cling to power by suppressing the vote, which resulted in an election that had such low turnout that it was not meaningful in any fundamental democratic sense.
Independently of the Alabama Education Association, Montgomery teachers waged a courageous struggle to save lives. The lessons of this struggle remain of critical significance as teachers face a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic.