Ankara fears that this imperialist attack, which could lead to the collapse of the Iranian regime, could in turn increase Israel’s influence on its own borders, trigger a new wave of migrants, and encourage separatist initiatives by Kurdish nationalist forces linked to the US and Israel.
The Turkish miners’ wildcat strike and occupation in İzmir, defying state oppression, is part of a growing radicalization within the working class on an international scale.
The political front mounted against LFI, encompassing far-right groups, the Socialist Party, the National Rally, and Macron's government, is waging an offensive against democratic rights and the growing opposition to the establishment of a police state.
Ruto’s statement has been met with popular contempt. Hundreds of replies on X, along with comments on Instagram and Facebook and beneath online newspaper articles, voice a common sentiment: his statement does not represent Kenyan workers.
Tara Mariwany of the European Legal Support Centre explained, “Nearly a third of people targeted are activists, 22 percent are students, and 13 percent are within the category of academics, writers and teachers.”
The unprecedented language used at a Pentagon military briefing indicates that the Trump administration is preparing to use nuclear weapons in the war of aggression it began Saturday.
This 28-day “cooling-off” period functions as a de facto state injunction in response to workers’ demands for open, transparent bargaining.
Oil and natural gas prices spiked with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
At a press conference on Monday, Left Party leader Jan van Aken openly celebrated the killing of Iranian head of state Khamenei and other leading figures by Israeli and American bombs.
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The Australian Education Union called another limited one-day strike amid mounting rank-and-file anger over the state Labor government’s failure to present a wage offer after 20 months of negotiations.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon echoed the US and Israeli propaganda to justify the onslaught against Iran, which is part of a developing world war.
The Bolivian union federation declared a “state of emergency” over legislation attacking pensions and other rights, while the Teamsters have begun a strike vote for Corewell nurses in Michigan after nine months of failed negotiations.
Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney rushed to declare Canada’s full-throated support for the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran, in a statement issued just hours after the first wave of missiles and bombs rained down on the country Saturday morning.
What the social media ban is really about is the attempt to curb the growing politicisation, radicalisation and international networking of youth.
On February 28, demonstrations took place throughout Greece and in cities around the world to mark three years since the Tempi rail disaster—a crime of capitalism, which took the lives of 57 people. WSWS reporters spoke to protesters in London, Manchester and Edinburgh in the UK and in Stuttgart, Germany.
Missiles, drones and debris are already falling in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and elsewhere as Iran retaliates to the imperialist assault on its government and people. Hotels and airports have been hit.
Over the past two years, millions of youth and workers have utilised platforms such as X, TikTok and WhatsApp to organise demonstrations and coordinate opposition to the Ruto regime.
The joint US-Israeli assault on Iran, which began in the early morning hours of February 28, is a criminal act of war waged in flagrant violation of the United States Constitution and international law.
The level of opposition at the outset of this war is unprecedented in modern US history. A Reuters poll conducted Saturday found that only 27 percent of Americans approved of the strikes.
The workers’ main demands include higher salaries, raises that exceed inflation, academic freedom, job security, housing and protection against artificial intelligence.
While announcing the elimination of 4,000 jobs, Block CEO Jack Dorsey said, “the intelligence tools we’re creating and using … are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company,” while Ladders CEO Marc Cenedella, warned, “When things crystallize like this, it brings out the pitchforks and the torches.”
Tokyo has parroted US lies about non-existent nuclear weapons in Iran to justify the latest act of imperialist criminality.
Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among the first world leaders to explicitly back the criminal war that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East and the world.
The abduction of Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva by ICE was meant to terrorize immigrants and students and force the universities to suppress opposition to war in the Middle East.
UAW L.598 officials claimed they canceled the event out of concern for the "safety of our members" without citing any specific threats.
The evidence shows that the Albanese government effectively blocked the journey of 34 women and children—all citizens—from the hellhole conditions in the Al Roj internment camp in northeastern Syria.
Residents at a protest in Doylestown condemned the police and immigration Gestapo.
The Philippines is not being armed. It is being used as a forward staging ground in preparation for American offensive operations against China.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday declared his full political support for the illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran.
The death of Nenko Gantchev—a 56-year-old immigrant from Bulgaria who had been in the US for 30 years—at the ICE detention camp in Balwin, Michigan exposes the criminal nature of the Trump administration’s dragnet and the complicity of the Democratic Party in covering it up.
In a sensational ruling, the Cologne Administrative Court has bolstered the far-right Alternative for Germany, ruling that the Secret Service may not for the time being designate and treat the party as "proven right-wing extremist."
Fireworks explosion kills 50 children in China; Spanish police massacre workers in Vitoria; Iranian prime minister assassinated; Germany places demands on League of Nations
A growing number of younger filmmakers are turning their attention to history and the current threats to human relationships posed by war, state repression, fascist violence and extreme exploitation.
A delegation of union leaders, headed by QFL President Magali Picard, attended the PQ congress, as the party doubles down on anti-immigrant chauvinism and its embrace of the far right.
While publicly invoking “de-escalation and international law,” a posture adopted because this aggression faces mass opposition within the Spanish working class, Prime Minister Sánchez has allowed Spanish territory to be used as a launchpad for the imperialist attack.
The new war launched by the US and Israel against Iran exposes the dilemma of the Erdoğan government and deepens its crisis.
UK aircraft taking direct part in the illegal war launched by Trump and Netanyahu include RAF Typhoons operating from Qatar and the Mediterranean island, Cyprus.
The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution.
Stellantis’ announcement of no profit sharing payout in 2026 provoked immediate outrage among tens of thousands of US workers who rely on the checks to pay essential bills.
Trump's blacklisting of Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei's response expose the real character of the dispute: not a conflict between ethics and militarism, but between two factions of the ruling class over the terms of AI's integration into the US war machine.
The film is built around the family life of playwright William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1590s and the death of their 11-year-old son.
The degeneration of the games has reached the point where the International Olympic Committee is little more than a direct tool of imperialism.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, who was nearly blind and unable to speak English, was left at a donut shop in Buffalo by two Customs and Border Patrol agents five miles from his home and found dead on a downtown city street four days later.
Plans for war against China coincide with plans for the suppression of political opposition and democratic rights within Japan.
Mamdani stood side-by-side with the would-be dictator who has the blood of thousands on his hands, and may soon have the blood of millions, as his war fleet assembles off the coast of Iran.
Educators and parents voiced their opposition to Mamdani’s decision—and to the leadership of the UFT, which had put up no opposition to it—online as well as in a petition that collected over 170,000 signatures.
The Labor government’s expanded “first home buyer” schemes have not provided relief for workers and young people but rather have inflated prices and further enriched banks, developers, and existing property owners.
While the DOJ has cited possible corruption, it is likely that Carvalho was targeted for his criticisms of ICE raids targeting immigrant children.
“The era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over,” according to WiseTech CEO Zubin Appoo.
The two-year agreement follows a similar sellout by the secondary teachers’ union, with both deals aimed at imposing the right-wing coalition government’s austerity agenda.
As Argentina’s Senate approved fascist President Javier Milei’s Labor Modernization bill, pseudo-left unions promoted nationalist appeals to the Peronist bureaucracy, repeating the betrayals that paved the way for the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Across the US, teachers and students who join or support anti‑ICE walkouts are being investigated, disciplined and even criminally threatened.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a two-day visit to Israel this week, choosing to further elevate India’s “strategic partnership” with Israel at the very point that Washington and Tel Aviv are poised to launched a criminal, unprovoked war on Iran.
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
India: Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation women workers protest; Private hospital nurses in Kerala strike for higher pay; National action by Sri Lankan non-academic university workers; Queensland public sector trades workers resume industrial action; New Zealand shellfish processing workers strike.
A leadership challenge to Keir Starmer is ever more likely after May’s local elections, which Labour is also expected to lose heavily.
The results were a rout for the Grassroots Left faction led by Zarah Sultana and its declared aim of transforming Your Party into an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist party dedicated to nationalising the economy.
Comments from postal workers on the CWU’s Facebook questioned whether the rejection of ODM at pilot offices signified support for the union’s proposal, which involves absorbing additional work by reducing existing duties and positions within the “Heavy and Light” model.
Staff have taken three one-day strikes in February. They have now held 13 strike days since a ballot in September last year
The Senate committee hearing laid bare the anti-science agenda driving the Trump-Kennedy assault on public health, while Democrats offered only performative opposition.
Having amassed vast military power in the Middle East spearheaded by two aircraft carrier strike groups and scores of warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours.
Drop Site News reports that newly disclosed documents show the Israeli government installed a security system at a Manhattan apartment building controlled by Jeffrey Epstein — a property that court filings, sworn depositions and police reports identify as housing underage girls and alleged co-conspirators in his sex trafficking operation.
An armed “terrorist infiltration” by a US‑flagged speedboat exposes the increasingly reckless character of Washington’s regime‑change campaign.
The police theft of a placard featuring the face of Israeli war criminal Netanyahu and the caption “wanted” was a provocation that would have been approved at high levels of the NSW government and police command.
Albanese’s ministers are seeking to satisfy a drumbeat of demands by the corporate ruling class for much sharper cuts to social spending.
Mamdani met with the president in the Oval Office supposedly to propose a housing plan less than two days after Trump’s fascistic State of the Union address.
The fascist president has threatened to issue such an order if Congress fails to pass legislation aimed at suppressing turnout by anti-Trump voters in November.
Elections are currently taking place at UAW locals for delegates to the Constitutional Convention schedule for June 15-18 in Detroit.
The conditions today are even more tense and fraught than those that led to a 118-day strike in 2023.
They face not only a new contract that fails to satisfy their demands, but also a new round of attacks and harassment from management, according to nurses who spoke to the World Socialist Web Site.
Together, they constitute an extraordinary and coordinated intervention by Trump, aimed at intimidating opposition and reasserting state authority amid a rapidly intensifying class struggle.
The 140 social service workers, members of the UAW, walked out February 18 for better wages and benefits as Democrats and Republicans make massive cuts to social spending.
The proposal by David Farrar, who is close to the New Zealand government, reflects concern in ruling circles that NZ may be sidelined by the US and other imperialist powers in the violent redivision of the world.
Ahead of international protests to mark third anniversary of Tempi rail crash, actors and theatre technicians across Greece walk out over pay and conditions; bus drivers in Çanakkale, Turkey in stoppage over unpaid wages and poor working conditions; ArcelorMittal Liberia mine workers protesting pay and conditions face police attacks
The UN human rights office said the cumulative impact of Israel’s military conduct during its war against the Palestinians, along with its blockade of the territory, had inflicted living conditions “increasingly incompatible with Palestinians’ continued existence as a group in Gaza.”
Omole has been transferred to Kitengela Remand Prison with a broken arm. He faces trumped-up charges of connections to drug cartels, assaulting a police officer and possession of a firearm.
The “coalition of political forces of Iranian Kurdistan” represents yet another episode in the protracted and disastrous alignment of Kurdish bourgeois nationalist organizations with American imperialism.
Kiswani’s suit alleges that the violent far-right group has been targeting her for over a year, including by supplying her name to the Trump administration for deportation.
Multiple media reports quote Epstein victims whose statements to the FBI were recorded, but not released by the Department of Justice last month.
The March 21 state election will resolve nothing for workers and young people.
In the United States, where the capitalist two-party system has been in place for 150 years, all those genuinely opposed to the policies and interests of the ruling class are denied the right to address the people. However, if the Socialist Equality Party had been given the opportunity to deliver a televised rebuttal, not only to Trump’s State of the Union Address but also to the Democrats’ reply, this is what we would have said.
A hypothetical scenario set out by the research firm Citrini “tapped into a new strain of fears about AI.”
The absence of any expression of popular opposition to the war reflects both the backing among the European imperialist powers and broad support among the privileged middle class “left” for a “regime change” operation led by Washington.
With the previous vote by teachers, some 65,000 Los Angeles Unified School District employees are poised to strike.
Such police-state powers mark a further shift to the right by Labor governments, seeking to crush dissent.
The “Virginia Labor Coalition” meeting at GMU seeks to tie workers to Democrats and unions while suppressing broader struggles over wages and democratic rights in the face of the Trump administration’s assault on democracy.
The legal battle exposes the irrationality of a healthcare system subordinated to financial manipulation, fraud settlements and insurance profiteering.
The renewed legal offensive against Bainimarama is an expression of intensifying factional struggles amid Fiji’s growing social crisis.
Peru has become a focal point in US imperialism’s drive to roll back China’s economic influence and reassert Washington’s hegemony in Latin America.
On the sixth anniversary of the racist terror attack, the families of the victims warn of the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the "fascistic escalation" in the US. At the same time, the establishment parties are distancing themselves from such commemorations.
Trotter’s legal team long argued for mercy based on their client's intellectual disabilities and the fact that he was high on crack at the time of the crime and came to the store unarmed, demonstrating he lacked the capacity for premeditation.
A serious artistic appraisal of the Troubles, and serious attempts to understand their effect at a personal level, would have to begin from a historical and political understanding both of British imperialism and the limitations of bourgeois nationalism.
At the centre of scandal is an investigation concerning €2.1 million government and European Union funding, out of a €73 million total, provided between 2020 and 2025 for professional education and training programmes.
CPM-K Secretary General Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted on Monday in Isiolo town by the Kenya Police Service. The ICFI demands that the Ruto regime release him immediately.
Hundreds of people in Romulus and Southfield, Michigan, protested Monday evening against plans to expand ICE operations across the Detroit metro area.
The miners have halted production to demand payment of unpaid wages, enforcement of promotion rights, retroactive contract benefits, guaranteed seniority and severance protections, and genuine health and safety measures.
The Health Workers’ Action Committee of Sri Lanka held a February 20 online meeting to defend the island nation's free public health system.
The Trump administration has given Anthropic an ultimatum to remove AI safety restrictions on its Claude model or face blacklisting and compulsion under the Defense Production Act, while simultaneously signing a deal to deploy Elon Musk's fascist Grok AI on classified military networks.
The shutdown of the strike, without prior notice, a contract or even a tentative agreement, underscores the need for a workers’ rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
