Thousands of California educators and support staff are expected to lose their jobs before the start of the 2025-2026 academic year more than 2,300 school employees received pink slips last week.
Together with The German People, the documentaries The Moelln Letters and The Lie were met with great interest at this year’s Berlin film festival.
A deep anger and concern over Trump’s bid for dictatorship was a constant at every rally Thursday, with many veterans of the 1970 national wildcat strike taking part.
This report was delivered to a meeting of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at University of Michigan on March 20.
The Trump administration is seeking to detain and deport Taal in response to a lawsuit filed by Taal against Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders.
In falsifying history, the oligarchs in charge are attempting to erase any critical thoughts youth may have about American policy in the present, especially the massive growth in economic inequality, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the ever-present threat of war against China, Iran and Russia.
The following statement was sent to the World Socialist Web Site by Daniel Berkley, a leading member of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada), in response to a statement issued by the Deutsche Post Action Committee earlier this month.
Collective bargaining in the German public sector has again demonstrated that the working class is facing a political struggle against not only the incoming government of the conservative Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, but against their lackeys leading the trade unions as well.
India: Bank workers plan national strike over pay and conditions; Sri Lankan postal workers strike over workloads; Australia: BAE shipyard workers walkout; Healthscope nurses in New South Wales resume industrial action.
Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, the sustained weakening and imperialist subjugation of Russia and German dominance in Europe.
The protest movement needs a clear political perspective and leadership. This will not be provided by the CHP, which fears the protests spiraling out of its control and spreading to workplaces, turning into a mass mobilization of the working class.
Unite is doing everything to disarm its members, with Birmingham City Council used as a test case to enforce a level of austerity—against its 1.1 million population—outstripping that imposed under successive Tory-led central governments.
McDonnell’s appeal for a “threshold of suffering” epitomises the collapse of any serious challenge by the Corbynite “left” to the Starmer government’s class war measures.
Held in person in the working-class Sydney suburb of Bankstown and streamed on Zoom, the meeting was attended by a broad cross-section of workers, students and young people.
Trump claims he is speaking for millions of parents supposedly clamoring for education to be “run by the states.” The reality is he represents a filthy rich oligarchy that wants to privatize schools and transfer billions from public coffers to Wall Street.
While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to completion by the new administration’s rampage against democratic rights.
The Mount Sinai Health System has long sought to close the hospital, which would deprive neighborhood residents of easy access to emergency care.
On Tuesday, nearly 2,200 nurses protested the inhumane conditions that have become the norm in hospitals across the United States.
The wave of melioidosis infections has been exacerbated by poverty and the increasing severity of storms and floods resulting from climate change.
In spite of intimidation by law enforcement, several hundred students protested Thursday to show support for Taal and his lawsuit against Trump.
As the Trump administration doubles down on its plans to ethnically cleanse and annex the Gaza Strip, the US has launched a new military offensive targeting Yemen and ultimately Iran as part of a systematic escalation of the US-Israeli war to reshape the Middle East under US domination.
The detention of İmamoglu, Erdogan’s main political opponent, marks a new stage in Turkey’s descent into dictatorship under the conditions of escalating social inequality and imperialist war.
Vizguerra’s arrest, detention and possible deportation underscore that Trump’s racist and dehumanizing attacks on immigrants have nothing to do with “public safety” but are aimed at intimidating and suppressing the democratic rights of everyone.
In Washington D.C., the seat of the federal government where almost 20 percent of the workforce is situated, the wave of mass firings undertaken by Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency threatens to bring the local economy into turmoil.
The manufacture and use of bone tools dates to a million years earlier than previously documented.
Food production is subordinated to the profit interests of a tiny layer of wealthy landlords and ruling elites while the working class and rural poor are left to suffer.
Behind her “moderate left” image, Ghazal is a fervent Quebec nationalist who poses no threat to the established capitalist order.
Trump’s action has cut off a financial lifeline to museums and libraries, already woefully underfunded. Seventy-five staff will also lose their jobs.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
The meeting, titled “Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the Working Class Against Trump’s Dictatorship,” was attended by workers from various industries and students and staff from schools across the city.
These actions echo the crimes committed by fascist regimes in the 1930s, and the CIA’s “Operation Condor’s” cross-border repression by Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s.
Healthcare workers in Athens, Greece walk out over pay and staff shortages as health system operates with half the staff numbers since 2009; protests by retirees and strikes by oil workers and radiology technicians across Iran over cost-of-living crisis; junior doctors and tertiary college staff in Oyo State, Nigeria strike over non-implementation of minimum wage and staff shortages
The political and constitutional crisis now engulfing Israel is not merely the product of Netanyahu’s desire to remain in power and somehow avoid imprisonment for corruption via war, as the opposition leaders claim. It is the inevitable outcome of the Zionist project.
Taal reported on social media that police were stalking him outside his residence after a federal judge scheduled an in-person hearing concerning his lawsuit against Trump’s executive orders.
There is no scientific evidence for this “Wuhan Lab Theory”–nor can it be scientifically proven. It is a conspiracy theory that was already being advanced by right-wing extremist circles in 2020.
Two months into the Trump administration, the presidency has become a cockpit and planning center of a dictatorship.
According to the court, the fundamental right to conscientious objection only applies to people who are liable for military service under German law. However, even for them, this right can be revoked, the court states.
The statistical method used to test party membership serves the political purpose of anti-democratic legislation requiring party registration: to shore up the failing two-party system by preventing parties such as the SEP contesting with their name on the ballot paper.
The tariff wars and the sweeping cuts made by the Trump administration have brought about a vast transformation in the economic landscape in which the prospect of recession, considered negligible at the start of the year, is now a real possibility.
Overall, families in 2025 are expected to spend $13.6 billion on schooling costs, including uniforms, tuition, technology and excursions.
Government lawyers had sought to get the case moved to Louisiana, where Khalil remains imprisoned and at risk of deportation.
Immigration lawyer Eric Lee spoke on The Hill’s “Rising” on Friday and exposed the repeated attempts by the program hosts to further the McCarthyite witch-hunt against Iranian-born law scholar Helyeh Doutaghi that her opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza constitutes “terrorism.”
Just one day after Israel massacred over 400 people in a series of airstrikes in Gaza, the Israeli military continued its bombing campaign and launched a ground offensive into the territory.
In discussion with this reporter, Tyler denounced the arrest and threatened deportation of Khalil, a legal US resident detained by the Trump administration for opposing the Gaza genocide, and called for action to defend freedom of speech.
On his latest, country-oriented album, Will Oldham shows concern about the world’s ills, but offers misguided ideas about how to cure them.
Cyclone Alfred laid bare basic political issues left unaddressed after catastrophic 2022 floods, leaving millions of people vulnerable to extreme weather disasters.
Last Monday, a shocking accident occurred in Berlin, Germany, which once again highlighted the inhumane living conditions of the homeless of that city.
The fight to protect the USPS is not just about defending our jobs, as important as that is. It is part of the fight against an emerging dictatorship in the United States.
Wabtec Rail Limited is part of the Fortune 500 Wabtec Corporation headquartered in Pittsburgh, US. The corporation employs around 27,000 people across 50 countries supplying components and services to the rail industry, with an annual $8 billion turnover.
The blatant attack on democratic rights sparked mass protests across the country.
The seizure of Khalil is a major escalation of Trump’s move toward dictatorship that must be opposed by all members of the United Auto Workers.
Kneecap, the movie is part comedy, part fictionalised music biopic, part contribution to Irish language rights and part investigation of the state of mind of a generation in the North of Ireland.
The participation of Sumar in the war plans underscores the political complicity of middle class pseudo-left parties in European plans for war with Russia.
President Dissanayake has announced that his government will establish a state holding company, and list it on the Colombo Stock Exchange, to accelerate the restructuring of over 400 state-owned enterprises.
In the past 25 years the price of gold has increased 10-fold, with its rise passing key marker points in periods of financial turbulence.
All the evidence points to a provocation by the Milei administration aimed at justifying an escalation of attacks on democratic rights.
Any such payouts will be designed, in line with the Mabo decision itself, to benefit a privileged layer of indigenous land claimants and their business enterprises.
The following comments were made by Tomas Castanheira, a Brazilian teacher and member of the Socialist Equality Group (SEG), to the March 15 online meeting co-sponsored by the Educators Rank-and-File Committee (ERFC-US) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).
IG Metall turned its “day of action” into a nationalist endorsement of Berlin’s rearmament and war course.
On Tuesday, Israel massacred over 400 people in Gaza, launching a new phase of the Gaza genocide aimed at completing the systematic extermination or displacement of the entire remaining population.
Khalil’s powerful statement came the same day Trump threatened to impeach a federal judge for seeking to block the kidnapping and deportation of Venezuelan and El Salvadoran immigrants.
The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction blocking the execution granted by a lower judge.
The Educators Rank-and-File Committee and International Youth and Students for Social Equality meeting discussed Trump’s attack on public education and democratic rights
Mickey 17, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, is a science fiction black comedy based on Edward Ashton's 2022 novel Mickey7.
Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His profoundly moving art is finding a growing audience and worldwide acclaim.
More and more information is coming to light which makes it clear that the fire was the result of criminal neglect of all safety precautions.
The Trump administration, with Kennedy as its public health executioner, is determined to roll back decades of scientific progress.
Maria Pike and her daughter Destinii Hope were killed last year after police officers responded to a domestic violence call.
On 15 March, several thousand people protested in the German city of Cologne against the recent massacres of members of the Alawite minority in Syria.
Richard Kramer, former Chief Executive of disability rights group Sense, posted on X: “The government has announced the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record.”
The workplace “briefing” held at Cumbernauld presented a display of unity between management and Communication Workers Union reps.
The Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Committee calls for the broadest mobilization of the working class to oppose the Trump administration’s plans to destroy public education.
While this protest highlights the genuine sentiment of workers fighting for better conditions, it also exposes the limitations of protest tactics that focus on pressuring executives rather than confronting the profit system.
The monopoly over letter mail forms the core of the Crown corporation’s operations. Its erosion or elimination in the name of “liberalizing” trade barriers and protecting corporate Canada’s profits during the trade war would mean the destruction of thousands of jobs and the end of Canada Post as it currently operates.
The Ceylon Workers Congress, in line with the state and the company, are directing the victimised workers to admit their guilt for an offence they did not commit.
The findings of the Islamophobia Register are an indictment of governments and the media, which have stoked anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian racism to legitimise their support for the Gaza genocide.
Even though it is financed by loans, the costs will fall on the working class—in the form of wage cuts, social cuts, the reintroduction of compulsory military service, the militarisation of the whole of society and the suppression of democratic rights.
Unit 29, edited by poet and translator Louis Bourgeois, presents the writing and artwork of over 30 inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi (also known as Parchman Farm).
The AEC letter underscores the anti-democratic character of the country’s party registration legislation.
Police attack pensioners’ protest march in Argentina, while health workers strike throughout Chile.
In the middle of a cyclone and flooding, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns ordered the removal of “squatters” from vacant houses.
The actions taken by the Trump administration since Friday night are a crossing of the Rubicon in terms of the assertion of unlimited presidential authority.
The contract was announced on February 26 in order to violate the decision by 99.5 percent of the 800 workers at the plant, which produces engines for US military vehicles, to authorize strike action.
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting to discuss Trump's efforts to destroy public education and a political strategy for the working class to stop it.
The fact that the charges are only being filed now, nearly a year after the protest took place, underscores their concocted character.
Only an independent and international movement of the working class, which takes up a fight against the government’s pro-war agenda, can ensure decent wages and social conditions.
Prabowo has taken an axe to vital public services, slashing up to $44 billion from education, health and infrastructure.
Drawing conspicuously from the pseudo-legal playbook of the Nazis, the capitalist oligarchy has set in motion an operation aimed at nothing less than the imposition of a police state in the US.
With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles have already spread to the education systems of several of Brazil’s capitals.
Breaking up the encampment has obviously done nothing to address the underlying problem of a complete lack of accessible, secure and affordable accommodation for those in need.
Toxic Town, a scandal about birth defects in UK town Corby dramatized in 4 episodes, is streaming now on Netflix.
The Educators Rank and File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality convened to address the urgent crisis in public education and attacks on democratic rights under the Trump administration.
Studies highlight a growing and alarming trend, reflecting deeper economic, social and political issues.
The five-page questionnaire, which appears to be a global notice, essentially demands that all research serve US military and strategic interests.
Workers are ready to fight against real pay cuts, chronic staffing shortages and unsafe conditions, but their efforts are being thwarted by the Health Workers Union bureaucracy.
The end of the impeachment trial will not end the political crisis. Instead, the bitter divisions in ruling circles will only deepen amid worsening economic conditions at home and rising geo-political tensions internationally.
The Trump administration announced on Friday the destruction of hundreds of jobs and the effective elimination of seven US government entities that have been targeted for political reasons.
The mass movement of young people and workers that broke out two years after the Tempi train crash is shaking the ruling class in Greece. In the face of the biggest protests in the country’s history, the government is hanging on by a thread.
Australian and New Zealand leaders have hypocritically condemned Islamophobia, even as they embrace the fascist Trump and back the Gaza genocide.
The period for peak tornadoes seems to be moving earlier in the year, as a result of climate change.
