Strikes and mass protests are spreading from Mexico to Chile against austerity, war and governments installed with Washington's backing.
Defence Minister Theo Francken is accelerating plans for a military-trained police force with a remit to crush social disorder.
The protests in Albania and France are part of an international wave of class struggle that has also swept through other countries, such as Spain and Belgium. Everywhere, the anger of young people and workers is directed against the same trends: austerity, social inequality, police repression, militarisation and war.
Ukraine attacked Russia with more than 1,000 drones overnight Saturday, in the largest bombardment of St. Petersburg since the Second World War.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Richie Respek, a New York-New Jersey port trucker and founder of the Pier Trucker Facebook group, about the long hours, unpaid labor and deteriorating working conditions drivers face.
Labor’s curriculum “de-cluttering” has resulted in a dramatic decline in drama enrolments in New South Wales schools.
Amid rising discontent over deteriorating conditions and continued real pay cuts under the Albanese Labor government, the National Tertiary Education Union is seeking new three-year enterprise agreements with university managements across Australia.
After earlier demonstrations drew millions, organizers narrowed Saturday’s events to electoral appeals, as Trump escalated his attacks on democratic rights.
After helping elect an AfD state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right AfD and Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW dined together with the AfD at an event hosted by the far-right Compact magazine, and agreed to collaborate on joint motions.
Despite massive state repression, India’s far-right BJP government has failed to stamp out a wave of youth-led protests against its purge of millions of rural poor and working-class voters from the electoral rolls.
Two postal workers die from anthrax inhaled at a Washington facility; Arab League summit sanctions Syria’s military occupation of Lebanon; Egypt declares a state of emergency in confrontation with Britain over the Suez Canal Zone; Trotsky and Kamenev removed from the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party
The separatists’ Alberta First appeal is bound up with demands for unrestricted exploitation of the province' tar-sands oil reserves, sweeping reductions in federal authority, attacks on immigrants and a more direct political alignment with the far-right and fascist forces in the United States.
The UK government is placing culture at the mercy of its criminal policies, which are coming into conflict with an increased determination to speak out against genocide and war. Sally Rooney’s case points to the threats levelled against artists and their livelihoods.
The high school student revolt in October has revived the specter of May 68, which the government is trying to suppress with fierce police repression, but which was overwhelmed yesterday by the number of demonstrators.
Masses of people demonstrated across France yesterday against the crackdown on the high school student movement and the rise in energy prices and the cost of living, with the influx of protesters overwhelming law enforcement in many cities.
The AFT’s “iron-clad” AI safety standard was signed with the company that funds the union’s own AI academy, then carried to a platform shared with the fascist strategist Steve Bannon.
By Monday, workers in two major industries could be on strike simultaneously in the third-largest US city, only weeks before the November elections.
Several recent incidents involving the activation of machinery during maintenance highlight unsafe conditions at the Michigan Metroplex mail processing center in Pontiac, Michigan.
The unions covering BHP workers in the Pilbara issued token denunciations of the job cuts, before immediately pledging their assistance in delivering them.
While the Trump administration, amid its conflict with the European powers, is seeking at least for the moment a certain accommodation with Russia, the EU governments, led by Berlin, are pressing for the continuation and expansion of the Ukraine war.
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the November 28 Victorian election to provide workers with a socialist and internationalist perspective against every other party.
The major American AI firm CoreWeave was hit by a “tornado” this week, as its shares plunged at one point by around 28 percent.
The Labor government’s rising number of wrongful immigration detentions is another warning of the anti-immigrant bidding war underway in the political establishment.
President Trump announced October 16 that the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, set for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, will not be livestreamed, reversing the plan by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to broadcast the killing.
The latest IMF staff-level agreement means another round of austerity to guarantee debt repayment and protect the interests of international capital.
Citizenship is being made vulnerable to a government determined to punish opposition.
This statement was issued by Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania who ran for president of the UAW in the recently-concluded elections.
Tisch used the occasion of the Al Smith banquet to taunt her nominal boss, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, for rejecting the call of the Democratic Socialists of America that he fire her for assaulting anti-ICE protesters and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
The hotel workers’ agreements expired August 31, when 85 percent of members at 46 hotel properties authorized a strike. But just six hotels have walked out.
IMSS workers rejected the SNTSS wage deal after a national march called over the union’s head. The union and the Sheinbaum government are now moving to suppress the struggle.
Carney demonstrated during the two-day summit what his government really stands for: enhanced profits for the oligarchy, intensified worker exploitation and a full-throttle drive to expand Canadian imperialism’s ability to wage war against its rivals in pursuit of resources, markets, and strategic influence.
India: 50,000 Uttar Pradesh health workers protest for permanent jobs; Bangladesh garment workers block Dhaka roads for higher wages; Australia: Qantas engineers hold first strike in 16 years.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee calls for the scrapping the DM26 delivery model, ending the two-tier workforce and a defence of the universal mail service as a social right.
Branch members discussed how Bogdan's case punctures the dominant media narrative on Ukraine, with the term ‘meat grinder’ used to describe the grim reality of the conflict
Halk TV, one of Türkiye’s most-watched news channels, has been taken over by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a police raid on the morning of October 14.
The Democrats are making clear behind the scenes that their central priority, should they win a majority in one or both houses of Congress, will be the escalation of the war against Russia
Ahead of the October 17 day of action, which grew out of calls on social media for a revival of the “yellow vest” protest over purchasing power and social inequality, blockades are intensifying.
Michigan autoworkers discussed the massive boycott of the UAW elections, which reinstalled Shawn Fain with the backing of only 6 percent of eligible voters.
Behind its bogus claim of "neutrality," the JVP/NPP has thoroughly tied itself to US imperialism, shedding its pretence of anti-imperialism in the past.
The Albanese government is using the pretence of climate talks to further seek to dominate the South Pacific, directed primarily against China.
The Morenoites of the PSTU and MRT are calling for a vote for Lula in the October 25 runoff. Their “critical” addenda serve only to reinforce illusions in the Broad Front.
Hundreds of preventable deaths have been linked to understaffing, while the Labour and National parties promise more cuts.
The administration is using unproven allegations about decades-old paperwork to threaten an opposition congresswoman with expulsion and make citizenship contingent on political submission.
Nearly fifty years after Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act, a series of aviation industry fatalities demonstrates the viciousness of the onslaught by the ruling class on working conditions it unleashed. These include the death of Oscar Robayo in Montreal and five workers after a cargo plane overshot the runway in Miami.
A 19-year-old neo-Nazi has been arrested and charged with making a terrorist threat and weapons offenses after an alleged attempt to massacre worshippers at an Illinois Hindu temple.
The film focuses on two teenagers without presenting the social context that could explain why they are drawn to the far right.
The results were a clear vote against the federal government and its policies of rearmament, war and social cuts. The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats are responding with further steps towards war and dictatorship.
Neither the SPD nor the IG BCE (IG Mining, Chemical, Energy) union cares about “the people who work here.”
The carnage is the direct product of a profit drive that has intensified to the point of outright criminality, creating a situation that the ruling class, the government and the trade union apparatus all recognize as explosive.
UK families are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis—including households not previously considered poor
Tens of thousands of Madrid teachers and students strike over pay and conditions, while public sector workers strike in Lebanon
The first ever vote for unified national strike action by university and polytechnic staff is an expression of rising anger over worsening austerity hitting all layers of the working class.
The SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka will hold a public meeting entitled “Two Years of JVP/NPP Rule: A Regime of Big Business and IMF Austerity” on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at the Colombo Public Library Auditorium.
Albanese presented “all” Afghan veterans as exemplars of “Australian values” before an audience that included one accused of murdering civilians and prisoners.
Inflation driven by the Iran war is cutting real wages, while higher interest rates make workers pay twice—on their own debts and on a trillion-dollar federal interest bill owed to the rich.
The most striking feature of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report is that the eruption of another financial crisis is taken as a given.
With less than three weeks to go before the midterm elections, inflation is up, Trump’s poll numbers are down and the White House is intensifying its efforts to block or overturn the vote.
We are publishing here the second of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
Sean Teare told NBC News it was “pretty obvious” the ICE officer intentionally ran over the worker. He added the agency may have allowed critical vehicle data to be erased.
A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Ferguson, Missouri on September 20, knocking out power to some 240 blocks.
Robertson, whose execution was Florida’s 17th this year, told investigators he killed his cellmate so he would be charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded guilty, waived the jury penalty phase and was sentenced to death.
The Trump administration is threatening direct US airstrikes on Yemen in a major new escalation of the war that US imperialism has been waging alongside its ally Saudi Arabia for more than a decade.
The eruption of mass protests across Spain against the housing crisis, following the eviction and subsequent death of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal, has brought millions of workers and young people into confrontation with the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.
Hours before the first national protests against his government, Colombia’s far-right president loosened restraints on the police, as US attack drones arrive and IMF-backed cuts are prepared.
The UCP’s Alberta independence referendum is part of its broader assault on the social rights of the working class and its efforts to enhance the power and wealth of Alberta’s energy barons and financial elite within the Canadian federal state.
As wildfires kill six in Peru and a Super El Niño builds in the Pacific, capitalist governments across Latin America are pouring billions into weapons and lining up behind Washington's drive to war against China.
After finishing second to fascist candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, Lula and the PT have responded by courting the bourgeoisie and the traditional right to broaden the “broad front” responsible for Flávio’s electoral rise in the first place.
The division between the White House and the European capitals is over two strategies for Ukraine’s domination.
The Social Democrats, who have dominated Swedish politics since World War II, are trying to form a government following their worst electoral performance since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1921.
The strike was called by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, covering 19 unions. Pickets were held in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford and 100 towns and cities.
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
Thousands of workers and young people joined rallies across Australia last weekend marking three years since the start of the Zionist regime’s imperialist-backed onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza.
The film features interviews with two dozen members of the Israeli military who detail the AI systems and protocols by which the IDF target and murder civilians.
Leading SEG member Tom Petterson will stand in the November 7 election, in opposition to all the capitalist parties, on a socialist and anti-war platform.
No longer simply a problem of so-called “emerging markets,” the debt crisis is lodged within all the major economies.
Racist and anti-communist denunciations accompanied attacks on protesters in scenes recalling the German American Bund’s 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
The proclamation by President Donald Trump of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine and his lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel have been met with scathing denunciations by broad factions of the US political establishment, led by the Democratic Party.
By inventing mass support for UAW President Shawn Fain, the media and the pseudo-left are seeking to delegitimize all opposition to the bureaucracy and providing cover for it to move against opposition in the rank and file.
As workers march on Miraflores against starvation wages, Delcy Rodríguez boasts in Rome of Chavismo’s “zero hunger” record. The catastrophe is the work of US imperialism and its Chavista enforcers, but political responsibility for disarming the working class lies with their pseudo-left apologists.
In a joint statement, the Left Party, Greens and Social Democratic Party have affirmed Israel’s “right to exist,” announced campus bans for pro-Palestinian activists at Berlin universities, and committed to strengthening the police and domestic intelligence agency in their “task of protecting Jewish life in Berlin.”
The bill's “reconstruction” provisions are a pittance that will leave the overwhelming majority of disaster victims homeless for years to come, while its core content is a sweeping program of tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
A resident doctor responds to British Medical Association research showing healthcare workers die by suicide at a rate 24 percent above the national average. Helplines and wellbeing schemes, the doctor argues, treat as personal a crisis produced by austerity and privatisation in the National Health Service.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Thornett was a prominent militant in the car industry who was won from the Stalinist Communist Party of Great Britain to the Socialist Labour League, then the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
The aim of the unlawful “preventive” arrests was to keep anti-war opposition off the streets and intimidate broader masses of workers and youth.
More than half of Ituri’s new positives on Oct. 9 came from swabs of the dead, while a man who had been ill for a month passed two airport screenings before dying in Nairobi.
In the midst of the most dangerous escalation of the Ukraine war since its outbreak, the European powers on Monday adopted the most extensive expansion of sanctions against the Russian arms industry to date.
A government that sends federal agents into the home of an opposition legislator, on the strength of smears spread by the president, is preparing to dispense with the constitutional forms that are supposed to hold it to account.
The high school protests shaking France, which have mounted alongside mass housing protests calling for a general strike in Spain, have turned into a confrontation with the French capitalist regime.
WSWS reporters went to the Plaza del Sol in Madrid to interview workers, professionals and youth who were occupying the square.
The antitrust investigation seeks to punish even limited resistance to Trump’s censorship campaign and subordinate the media to his drive for presidential dictatorship.
Over 700 workers in Antofagasta, Chile went on strike October 7, while Unifor has set a strike vote for 9,000 Canadian Stellantis workers.
Florida and Georgia have appropriated $1.67 million for school drone pilot programs, while the manufacturer envisions using the systems “anywhere there’s a mass gathering.”
The new bill’s broad definition of terrorism opens the way to criminalizing popular opposition and class struggle against government policies.
We are publishing here the first of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
These strikes are a sharp expression of a crisis that is convulsing the entire Chilean mining industry and a working class that is beginning to move against the corporatist union apparatus that has policed it for four decades.
The protest organisers, including pseudo-left groups, sought to turn the rallies into election campaign rallies for the pro-imperialist Labour Party and its allies.
A report by the humanitarian organisation ALNAP finds that 64 million fewer people received aid last year as humanitarian funding fell 30 percent between 2022 and 2025, while the imperialist powers pour record sums into rearmament and redirect aid towards border control and security.
Medway NHS Foundation Trust faces the loss of 861 posts and £143.8 million in savings under a five-year plan, as the Burnham government enforces break-even targets on hospitals while diverting billions to rearmament.
Students at the University of Michigan speak in defense of Chloe Freeman, the Ann Arbor registered nurse being prosecuted by the Trump administration for helping an injured immigrant worker escape from Border Patrol agents.
The election campaign is already marked by mass anger over the soaring cost of living, the degradation of social services and enormous social inequality.
More than 7,000 and possibly as many 15,000 protesters were detained nationwide in the lead up to and during Saturday’s Jantar Mantar protest.
More than 90 percent of the United Auto Workers membership boycotted the vote. With the entire apparatus of the union at his disposal, Shawn Fain has been “re-elected” with the votes of 6 percent of the members.
The German government is rapidly advancing the rearmament of the German Navy and preparations for a direct war against Russia.
The German media understand the international dimensions of the French protests. They fear that the same movement will develop in Germany.
The question is how this movement can fight for its aims, and avoid being dissipated or controlled by Spain's capitalist PSOE-Sumar government.
Protests against US invasion of Afghanistan; Canadian workers strike against wage controls; Pakistani prime minister assassinated; United Opposition renounces factional methods in USSR
Amid rising discontent, the National Tertiary Education Union called the event as part of a push to secure new sellout enterprise agreements at Australia’s 39 public universities.
The New York Times on Friday published a lengthy article accusing Russia of waging a “shadow war” against the European NATO powers, without substantiating a single one of the attacks it alleges, and argued for escalation ranging from cyberattacks on the Moscow subway to a no-fly zone over Ukraine—a shooting war between NATO and nuclear-armed Russia.
While there have been hasty reassurances that the Firmus debacle does not mean the AI bubble is bursting, there are signs pointing in that direction.
An ICE cop ran over a man in Texas and another assaulted a father and daughter in California as the Trump administration escalated its defense of wanton state violence.
Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth turned a light-sensitive protein from algae into a tool for switching brain cells on and off, giving the study of emotion, memory and behavior a causal, material basis. The prize comes as the Trump administration guts the research and health care this science should serve.
Michigan’s “progressive” Senate candidate defends capitalism and tariffs, denounces Iran and Venezuela, and backs a “safe and secure” border as he prepares to campaign with Obama.
The secretary of war chose the university to begin his “Send Me” tour appealing for military volunteers on a religious and nationalistic basis.
Near- and long-term effects of accelerating global warming will devastate the entire planet and cause major population displacements.
We do not only blame the company. The fact the UAW did not ensure that our benefits were automatically rolled over just underscores how completely the union apparatus has betrayed us.
The company has come up with $10 million, the equivalent of pocket change for its multibillionaire owner, to ensure that the coming season of the symphony goes ahead.
Royal Mail’s announcement of 2,500 head office and support job cuts is part of the restructuring under billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group. The Communication Workers Union is enforcing it through the DM26 delivery model and the two-tier workforce, as Burnham Labour government endorses privatisation.
The 37th national march for Palestine in London was part of a global day of action marking three years of Israel’s genocide, with platform speakers claiming mass pressure was shifting the pro-Zionist position of the Labour government.
A 20-year-old leukemia patient who could not be vaccinated is among Pennsylvania’s five measles-associated deaths. The CDC still acknowledges only two deaths nationally, and New York has declared a disaster emergency.
After seven hours of talks at the Interior Ministry produced nothing, IMSS workers called a national stoppage over the head of their union, shutting clinics and blocking roads in at least 17 states and Mexico City.
New York City DSA leaders forced the party's youth organization to withdraw its endorsement of a pro-Palestinian protest critical of Mamdani.
More than two weeks after a teenage boy was crushed to death at a Dandenong South factory, fundamental questions about the tragedy remain unanswered. WSWS reporters spoke to workers and residents in Melbourne’s southeast, several of whom had not even heard about the death.
The Liberal-National announcement demonstrates the fundamental unity between the capitalist parties in trying to divert growing working-class discontent into anti-foreigner and nationalist directions.
The very fact that they were called upon to vote on the union-Labor deal demonstrates that no such fight can proceed within the framework of the ASMOF bureaucracy.
With Cemil Tugay, the number of mayors who were elected on the CHP ticket in the 2024 local elections and later switched to the AKP has passed 30.
"The struggle to secure Bogdan’s release is connected to the mobilization of workers to stop the war.”
Police under DSA Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration assaulted protesters and protected the federal agents following the attempted murder of Oscar Belgal.
The announcement by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that the Pentagon will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan marks a new stage in the descent of the American state into fascistic barbarism
Robayo, a 39-year-old employee of the French-based multinational Samsic, was crushed to death by the nose gear of an Airbus A350 at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport on August 24.
Washington is tightening its fuel blockade of Cuba while Ecuadorian courts have thrown out the drug charges against fishermen captured in the boat campaign.
India: Karnataka garment workers protest pension and provident-fund restrictions; Western Australian coalminers strike over pay and redundancy entitlements; NZ university and polytech staff vote for unified strike.
Labour held Keir Starmer’s former seat on the lowest by-election turnout in England this parliament, as the Green Party revival under Zack Polanski faltered.
Countering the myth of journalistic neutrality, Abdel-Fattah was at her most forceful. “What is the other side of [a child’s body] having more than 300 bullets?” she asked. “How can you talk of balance with children’s dismembered, decapitated bodies in plastic bags?”
The movement is part of a wave of social and class struggles against austerity, neo-fascism and war with high school protests in France, housing protests in Spain and across Europe.
On Thursday, over 100,000 youth and workers marched in France in a nationwide day of action called by high school student unions against President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
Across North America strikes and protests by workers have been growing in recent weeks, driven by the impossible cost of living and growing conflict with the corrupt trade union apparatus.
Harvard University graduate student workers have voted 88 percent in favor of strike authorization. In addition to demands on wages and conditions, they are fighting in defense of international and non-citizen workers.
The Trump administration is preparing a major new bombing campaign against Iran, according to reports published Wednesday and Thursday by The Atlantic, Axios, NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
It has been estimated that investment in AI will total $10.3 trillion between 2025 and 2032 and that “never before has the US economy been so dependent on the build-out of a single industry.”
IMSS workers must learn from the maquiladora workers in 2019 and begin to gather in democratic assemblies to form rank-and-file committees in every hospital, clinic and department, independent of the SNTSS, the SNTSA and every capitalist party.
A US judge refused to release Cilia Flores from a Brooklyn jail despite her failing health, as prosecutors added torture charges against her and Nicolás Maduro. In Venezuela, protests over blackouts and starvation wages are spreading against the Rodríguez regime.
Defending the war in Iran, Trump said, “Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles.”
During the debate on Tuesday evening, both Republican incumbent Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Troy Jackson defended the capitalist healthcare system, attacks on immigrant rights and the war aims of US imperialism internationally.
The film depicts a fascist-military plot to unleash superhuman killers upon civilians.
More than 900 electric utility workers at Duquesne Light in Pittsburgh are entering the second week of a walkout that began September 15, the first strike at the company in 58 years.
Texas put Jamaal Howard to death Wednesday evening at the state prison in Huntsville, the first execution in the United States since Tennessee’s failed attempt to kill Christa Pike on September 30.
Germany’s intelligence chiefs are now stating openly what this is about: the population is to be prepared for war with Russia.
The turning point in Magdeburg shows that, 80 years after the Nazi terror, significant sections of the ruling class are once again turning to fascist methods to impose their policies of war and social cuts against the population.
While the 220,000 employees want to fight for decent wages, the Verdi union is trying to impose real-terms pay cuts and poverty wages on them.
Former senator Antonio Trillanes’s allegations of Chinese financial ties to Vice President Sara Duterte have turned the impeachment trial into an open instrument of Washington’s anti-China war drive.
Working-class communities confront the consequences of inadequate flood protection, which is not simply an issue of engineering or natural forces, but of the ruling class’s refusal to address public safety.
The Carney government has already slashed over 22,000 jobs in the federal public sector and aims to cut tens of thousands more.
The meeting saw a further hardening of positions over a war between Russia and NATO-backed Ukraine which is now rapidly piling up civilian casualties.
Polanski now faces the same type of witch-hunt that greeted Corbyn's mealy-mouthed opposition to Zionism. He will be no less ready to capitulate to his critics, and based on past performance, perhaps more so.
Student and youth protests in Europe spread, as secondary school students in Belgium demonstrate against education cuts; 24-hour general strike in Italy over cost-of-living crisis; public administration employees strike in Lebanon over transport allowances; education and public sector workers walk out over pay, conditions and funding in Nigeria
Nearly half a million youth and workers marched against austerity and militarism in the October 6 day of action in France, as high school protests entered their third week.
A video appeal and a statement signed by 14 detainees expose medical neglect, sleep deprivation, prolonged imprisonment and abuse at the GEO Group’s Folkston concentration camp.
The election shows how ever larger sections of the ruling class are relying on the AfD to push through the hated policies of war and cuts against the population with the utmost brutality.
Mexican Social Security Institute workers are in revolt against a union-imposed below-inflation raise, as the Sheinbaum government increases military and debt spending under pressure from Washington and the IMF.
Recent US military and diplomatic visits are bound up with the transformation of Sri Lanka into a strategic outpost in the build-up to war against China.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received repeated, detailed warnings about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, according to multiple reports published in Israeli and American media outlets over the past month.
Workers in the tech industry on the island face declining wages and conditions while big business experiences a boom.
More than 300 independent schools have been forced to repay $12 million in disability funding already, forcing the sacking of teachers and support staff.
“It’s not about when the wheels fall off, they’ve already fallen off.”
The Supreme Court has begun its new term with ceremony and pomp that masks a deepening constitutional crisis and growing disrespect arising from its reactionary rulings and obvious bias in favor of the Trump administration.
Pledged to a program of austerity, corporate tax cuts, deregulation, and a massive reduction in immigration, the incoming PQ government will quickly come into headlong conflict with the working class.
Mass protests have erupted across India after an investigative report in one of India’s major dailies exposed the staggering scale of the illegal deletion of voters from the electoral rolls by the Hindu-supremacist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Will Lehman calls on UAW members and all members to demand the dropping of charges against former Trinity Health nurse Chloe Freeman.
Delegates to the Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress held in Montreal from August 22 to 24 unanimously adopted the following Statement of Principles.
Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb used 117 drones, smuggled in on lorries, in coordinated strikes on Russia’s long-range aviation at five airbases. Repeating such an operation with no shared border and no direct military involvement would be impossible.
Unite has yet to announce a strike date after a mandate it described as “emphatic” by its 160 members in a ballot that closed on October 1.
Violence against minorities, including the Alawites, has not abated under the regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The public hearing of the heads of Germany’s intelligence agencies in the Bundestag on Monday was an undisguised propaganda event for preparations for a direct war against Russia and a massive expansion of the state apparatus of repression at home.
Hundreds of thousands of high school and university students, teachers and workers marched across France on Tuesday in a third national day of action of the high school movement, now in its third week.
The findings underscore that the attack on immigrants is an attack on the entire working class regardless of citizenship status.
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., an organizer in the UAW’s Department of Bargaining Strategy, has been fired from his $202,000 a year position.
Hasan’s killing would be the first execution by the US military since April 13, 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
The IYSSE distributed a statement outlining a socialist strategy to oppose the militarization of AI and harness the revolutionary technology to meet social needs.
Nearly 2,000 police officers were reportedly mobilised to shield the display of high-tech weaponry at the three-day Land Forces event.
The drawing of Türkiye, which has NATO’s second-largest army, and nuclear-armed Pakistan into this war—both share a land border with Iran—opens the door to a conflict that could engulf the entire region.
The postal service—a product of the American Revolution—has been systematically bled over decades by both Democratic and Republican parties. We have been forced to operate like a profit-making company despite the clear intention by the Founding Fathers to have the mail system as a universal right to all in the name of having an informed society able to fight back against tyranny.
“Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care," reported her attorneys. "Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed."
Since the start of the US war on Iran, the interest rate on long-term French bonds has risen more than any other G7 country.
A GoFundMe page has received hundreds of donations and raised over $31,000. Workers have expressed support for nurse Chloe Freeman with messages of solidarity.
Luca Marinelli’s commanding performance anchors a series whose historical insights are diminished by an overriding fascination with the dictator’s persona.
Truckers across Mexico are demanding the release of a driver held without charges after a deadly crash with federal agents accused of running extortion checkpoints. The struggle follows the B-1 border blockade and joins a growing movement of drivers across North America.
The German Interior Ministry plans to revoke the protected status of Syrian refugees on a large scale—even though the Islamisation of Syria is being driven forward and the humanitarian situation in the country as a whole is catastrophic.
Sivarasa Anojan, 27, has been sentenced to death over a Facebook post, in a brutal decision by Saudi Arabia’s imperialist-backed monarchical regime.
With staggering recklessness, the NATO governments are preparing an escalation of the war against Russia on the assumption that Moscow’s nuclear warnings over Kaliningrad can be ignored.
The convergence of global warming, the exceptionally warm waters in the equatorial Pacific known as El Niño and the war against Iran has created a “perfect storm” of hunger, falling hardest on children and the poorest workers and farmers.
The scandal has laid bare the reality of the “Manchesterism”, as Burnham’s ethos is revealed as nothing more than slavish fawning after big business.
Hull workers must take the defence of their jobs out of the hands of the GMB and local politicians and establish an independent rank-and-file committee to organise a fight for the reopening of the plants.
A “new report” presented by the Sheinbaum administration on September 28 does little to advance the prosecution of those responsible and continues the cover-up of the military’s role.
A growing radicalization is developing among young people, disillusioned with the bureaucracies and organizations that have long channeled social struggles, and who are increasingly seeking a revolutionary path.
The congress adopted five resolutions that outline a socialist and internationalist perspective on the key issues facing the working class.
Five miners were killed and two others were rescued injured on 1 October when a roof collapsed in an underground coal mine in Soma, western Türkiye.
The 1,200 workers continue to resist company demands for concessions while pressing for substantial improvements.
Vithanage’s films are distinguished by their sensitivity to the social and class relations in Sri Lanka, past and present.
Yesterday, faced with mass protests nationwide to demand the right to housing, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the dissolution of parliament and general elections for November 29.
The plant was abruptly shut in August, leaving families who spent decades working at the slaughterhouse seeking food and clothing assistance.
