Although the immediate cause of the students’ reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor quality of education, lack of a future, growing social inequality and state repression.
Workers in Israel must adopt a new political axis, in unity with and fighting for the liberation of the Palestinian masses from Zionist oppression.
The list already includes over 6,300 individuals, and officials admit it will likely expand.
The Key Bridge collapse led to the deaths of six construction workers and untold economic damages for the Chesapeake Bay region.
The determined fight against management’s refusal to pay an annual bonus makes clear that workers will not tolerate attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions.
The National Party-led government’s plan to lift defence spending from 1 to 2 percent of GDP, as it prepares to join US-led wars, is fully supported by the opposition Labour Party.
The Ombudsman’s report contained shocking pictures of the primitive, unhygienic and cramped cells in which captured asylum seekers have been held indefinitely on military vessels.
Socialist Equality Party Senate candidates Max Boddy and Warwick Dove appeared on the Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove podcast on Monday night.
The conflict between Harvard and the Trump regime poses fundamental issues of democratic rights, including academic freedom.
The Trump administration is using the case of Abrego Garcia to steamroll over what remains of democratic rights in the United States.
The following letter was sent to the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter on unsafe conditions at the Stellantis engine plant in Dundee, Michigan, and the collusion of United Auto Workers officials with management.
The housing protests in Spain came amid mass protests against Trump in the United States and rising protests and calls for strike action across Europe.
The attempts by Lula and other leaders to counter the US offensive by building a “multipolar world” is a reactionary illusion.
The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend of subordinating science to private profit.
It is now considered intolerable even for members of the political establishment to acknowledge the basic reality of the illegal Israeli occupation and the genocide.
The court’s ruling clearly shows how democratic rights are being trampled underfoot in the proceedings against O’Brien and the other three activists.
Striking refuse workers spoke with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site explaining the significance of the strike and the assault being mounted against them.
On Monday, the right-wing Telegraph newspaper reported the Labour government was on a war footing against the strike.
Ruto’s crackdown on Echoes of War is a stark warning to artists, youth and workers across Kenya and internationally: any expression of opposition, no matter how symbolic or restrained, will be met with brute force.
“The democratic rights of the Tamil people can only be achieved through the overthrow of capitalism and the fight for socialism.”
The new restrictions, which will impact on the US auto industry and military contractors, appear to be the most significant retaliatory measure by China so far.
The Russian government would see the delivery and use of this weapon as a declaration of war. No one can guarantee that it will not respond with attacks on German targets.
In Vietnam, Xi hit out indirectly at the Trump administration’s policies, warning there were “no winners in trade wars or tariff wars, and protectionism leads nowhere.”
The failure of Ukraine’s NATO-backed invasion of Russian territory has intensified infighting within the Ukrainian ruling class and state.
This report was delivered to a public meeting hosted by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Wayne State University in Detroit, on April 10, 2025.
Trump beamed as the Salvadoran dictator declared it would be “preposterous” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported father of three, to the United States.
Despite the right-wing backlash, the Green MP’s contention that reforms and “alternatives” to the police are possible within the capitalist system is bankrupt.
The campaign cynically usees the EEOC, an agency ostensibly meant to protect workers from discrimination, to punish scholars for holding dissenting views on US foreign policy.
ASMOF’s strike shutdown is a blatant violation of the intentions of doctors, made clear in the unprecedented turnout to rallies last week.
On Tuesday, April 15, WSWS International Editorial Board chairman David North will take part in this critical webinar hosted by San Diego State University Political Science Professor Emanuele Saccarelli.
In an interview with WBAI’s “Frontline Voices,” Evan Blake speaks to the historic significance of the Trump administration’s attacks on science, the threat of new pandemics, and the urgent need for socialist public health.
Large sections of educators had no confidence that the Chicago Teachers Union would bring back a better deal, let alone lead a fight against Trump.
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration police and deportation proceedings began against him when he reported for a citizenship application interview in his home state of Vermont.
A general strike called to oppose the policies of the fascist Milei largely paralyzed Argentina April 10 while 3,000 city workers in Lages, Santa Catalina state in Brazil have walked out over contract issues.
The central question addressed by the meeting was: How do we continue the fight against the Verdi union selling out our struggles for better wages and conditions?
The strike took place two days after the International Monetary Fund announced a “technical agreement” for a 20-billion-dollar (US) loan to the Milei administration.
Director Laura Carreira repeatedly returns to the same settings of Aurora’s work and life, almost tableaus, to illustrate the repetitiveness and drudgery of her existence.
Teachers face intolerable working conditions, a funding crisis, a near collapse of SEND (special education needs) provision, and crumbling schools threatening the safety of teachers and children.
The policies unveiled by both major parties are a transparent attempt to maintain the inflated housing bubble and boost the profits of the banks and property developers.
Warnings grow of a deepening crisis in US and global financial systems.
In contrast to the thousands in attendance looking to fight the system, Democratic politicians and trade union bureaucrats, capped by Sanders and AOC, advanced the dead-end perspective of pressuring the Democratic Party.
As part of its renewed, high-intensity genocide in Gaza, Israel targeted Al-Ahli Hospital, the last remaining fully functional medical facility in Gaza City, killing one child in the evacuation and forcing 100 patients and dozens of staff into the street.
City officials stated that the troops, numbering approximately 60-70, will undergo a period of training and deploy to the Central Avenue Corridor area by mid-May, an area home to many poor and working class residents.
The rally drew around 200 people from the university, including students, graduate students, and some academics, as well as workers and a few retirees in the surrounding Bryan County area on Thursday.
A 60-foot strip along the land border will be handed over to the Pentagon, running from the Pacific Ocean to the Rio Grande.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is continuing to demand a police investigation of Doyle based on fascistic and totally unsubstantiated claims that he is a danger to children.
A wage increase of 12 percent over three years was agreed to, essentially a cut in wages when adjusted for inflation. Several nurses commented their dissatisfaction with the contract on CRONA’s instagram page.
The spontaneous reaction reflects not only the determined mood among workers at the facility, it expresses the seething anger among workers across the country, especially as the Trump administration carries out its war against the working class.
The Chicago Teachers Union will a hold a press conference Monday morning to announce the results of the vote by 28,000 educators on its deal with the city.
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
The Trump administration has launched a sweeping crackdown on international students across the United States.
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
Filmed mostly in the Nablus (West Bank) area, the movie is tense, enraged, and provides a sense of what Palestinian men and women experience on a daily basis under Israel’s horrific occupation.
Like the UAW in the United States, Unifor is seeking to line workers up behind the global trade war, whipping up flag-waving nationalism and supporting tariff measures whose cost will be borne by workers in the form of job cuts and punishing price rises.
A trial was set for the week beginning February 23, 2026, and a pre-trial hearing for July 4 this year, to be held before Judge Sarah Munro KC.
Following the presentation of the coalition agreement last week by the leaders of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), the ruling class is systematically promoting the return of German militarism.
The fight to defend jobs at Scunthorpe must be consciously politically separated from all calls to unite with Britain’s ruling elite, its trade war and escalation of military tensions with both Russia and China.
A driver commented, “The Labour Party was founded to represent the working class. This isn’t working class.” A loader added, “Labour isn’t Labour anymore”.
The latest rotten deal should be rejected. But the fact that it is even being put to a vote shows this is not only a fight against Labour, at local authority and government level, but against the isolation of the dispute by the Unite leadership under Graham.
The ASMOF union never wanted the strike to take place, and then as soon as it was over, promised the Labor government that it would prevent any further stoppages.
In the 1930s, when the world market collapsed, there arose rival trade and currency blocs and deep economic conflicts that played a role in creating the conditions for war. There are now signs that such developments are getting underway.
The direct precedent for the Trump administration’s positions is the concept of Willensstrafrecht (“punishment of the will”), developed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
Amid the Gaza genocide and Trump’s escalating trade war, not only a US war but also a US deal with Iran would ultimately threaten war with China and Russia, who signed alliances with Iran.
The meeting exposed the fraudulent character of claims by all the parliamentary parties and the corporate media that Australia is an “exception” to the crisis unfolding worldwide.
All of the major parties and the media are complicit in the criminal US-led war against Russia in Ukraine and knowingly propagate the lies used the justify it.
Teachers in Nepal fight for better pay and conditions; Sri Lankan garment workers protest unpaid New Year bonus; Shipyard workers continue rolling stoppages in South Australia; Mental health workers in Victoria impose bans for higher pay.
Sri Lankan President Dissanayake guaranteed full cooperation with New Delhi, Washington’s key strategic partner in South Asia as the US ramps up its confrontation with China.
Fain attempted damage control over the UAW’s embrace of Trump under conditions of mounting rank-and-file anger over layoffs and attacks on democratic rights.
The capitalist response to the pandemic has exacted a stark toll of mass death and disability, while accelerating social inequality and initiating the destruction of the world’s public health infrastructure.
The position of the US government is that under the Alien Enemies Act the president can disappear people to a foreign gulag and then claim they are outside any judicial review.
At the University of Michigan (U-M) the federal government has revoked the visas of 22 current and former international students or otherwise terminated their right to remain in the country legally
Trump first broached the issue of a patriotic sculpture garden in July 2020, using the attacks on various monuments by participants in demonstrations against police violence as his pretext.
Friday’s meeting in Brussels of the Ukraine Contact Group saw the European imperialist powers pledge over €20 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine and issue bellicose statements against Russia.
While denying plans to directly cut Social Security checks, the Trump administration is imposing job cuts, office closures and “identity-proofing” requirements designed to wreck the Social Security Administration and block seniors from applying for and receiving benefits.
The unions’ main concern is retaining the traditional state-regulated collective bargaining system, which underpins the privileges of the caste of union functionaries, and through which they suppress the class struggle in tri-partite collaboration with the bosses and government.
How did the DPP rise as “the opposition” in the late 1980s? What role did the KMT and US imperialism play in this development? What do social democrats and Stalinists mean when they say “peace”?
Peaceful protestors holding pillows to represent murdered Palestinian children were arrested last week in Dublin.
Starmer’s Labour government has branded opposition to Israel’s war and expressions of support for the Palestinians as antisemitic, with police making mass arrests and mounting a clampdown on student protests at university campuses.
We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo’s death, written by Helen Halyard.
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.
