On Wednesday, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Carsten Breuer presented a comprehensive military strategy for the first time in the history of the Bundeswehr. Published excerpts already leave no doubt that Berlin is systematically preparing for a major war, especially against Russia.
On the picket last Friday, workers raised the need for unity across London if the strike breaking operation by Stagecoach is to be defeated and working conditions defended.
Postal workers in Wallonia, Belgium continue strike over increased exploitation despite union sabotage attempts; workers’ protests resume in Iran by gas workers, teachers and retirees against plummet in living standards; strike by medical interns continues in Mozambique, Kenyan health workers at hospital and nurses in Zimbabwe walk out over pay and funding
A WSWS analysis of comments on union social media found roughly two-thirds of UTLA comments and a majority of SEIU 99 comments were against the contracts.
The Harvard Corporation consists of a virtual Who's Who of America's corporate-financial oligarchy.
As the US war on Iran continues, the global financial system is increasingly coming to resemble a minefield.
These terrible deaths point to a rising toll due to unsafe conditions and increased rates of exploitation in Australia and internationally.
The indictment does not expose a fraud against donors but the Trump administration’s effort to criminalize the monitoring of fascist organizations and rehabilitate the white supremacists the SPLC exposed.
Willacy was the eighth person executed this year in the US and the fifth in Florida, the latest casualty of an accelerating machinery of death overseen by Governor Ron DeSantis.
Danhao Wang’s death is the direct consequence of a systematic government- and university-sponsored political operation targeting young Chinese researchers. This xenophobic purge, deeply intertwined with the capitalist military-industrial complex, is part of the broader attack on the democratic rights of all immigrants, students and working people.
American imperialism’s determination to consolidate its geostrategic dominance over the Middle East, one of the world’s most critical energy-producing regions, has already claimed the lives of thousands of Iranians. But the economic fallout from the US-instigated war and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could prove even more deadly.
Escalating US military strikes targeting fishermen under the pretext of a “war on drugs” are driven by a broader agenda of imperialist domination.
Workers and youth will soon confront a Radev administration determined to defend the interests of the imperialist powers and the Bulgarian ruling class.
The two films present some of the same problems, some of the same problems that a good number of American (and not simply American) “small,” “realist” dramas exhibit.
The new Military Service Modernisation Act being introduced by the German government imposes far-reaching restrictions on travel freedoms for young people, demonstrating how extensive its plans are for the reintroduction of conscription and the militarisation of society.
A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes resulted from the adoption of agriculture in Western Eurasia.
Carroll Community College’s “Freedom of Expression and Public Assembly” policy is a bureaucratic censorship tool.
Talks have broken down not due to RMT intransigence but because of TfL’s hardline stance. It has used Dempsey’s demobilisation of members to press ahead with restructuring.
Hundreds of hauliers and agricultural contractors, farmers and small transport businesses brought together by right-wing organisers and social media pages forced Ireland to a standstill for days, through blockades, rolling roadblocks and protests.
The “Total Shutdown Tuesday” protests opposed a sharp fuel price hike, raising petrol prices by over 16 percent and diesel by more than 24 percent. The hike, driven by disruptions to global oil supplies by the US-Israeli war against Iran, has sharply increased the cost of transport and basic goods.
The specific aim of the contracts is to block all resistance to massive austerity which will begin, in all likelihood, soon after the agreements are ratified.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment transferring congressional redistricting authority to the Democratic Party-controlled legislature, potentially flipping four additional House seats ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s announcement effectively marks a further major reversal of what is left of Japan’s post-World War II pacifist constitution.
The decision marks the culmination of more than a year in which the Nurses and Midwives’ Association has enforced a strike ban under the phony pretext that the Industrial Relations Commission would reverse years of real wage cuts.
The brutal cuts to an already impoverished school district are the direct product of a statewide pattern of betrayal orchestrated by the California Teachers Association (CTA).
Picket lines went up April 21 at Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge and at Harvard Medical School, as graduate students indefinitely halted teaching, grading and research.
On Monday, the German government summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin, thereby raising the diplomatic confrontation with Moscow to a new level.
Iranian officials said they would not return to talks until the US ended its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while warning that Trump may be preparing a second sneak attack on their country.
Instead of the promised “democracy,” Hungary will get a government consisting of representatives of the banks and the European Union, which will continue the right-wing and undemocratic policies of the ousted Orbán government.
These unprecedented school shootings are a tragic product of the social crisis rooted in the capitalist system, the normalization of widespread violence and mass death.
The accumulating outrage and horror are inevitably finding expression in artistic circles, with greater or lesser clarity depending upon the artist or group.
Washington’s witch-hunt of Chinese scholars, which recently claimed a brilliant researcher’s life, exposes the imperialist push to monopolize advanced microelectronics for global conflict.
The 110 miners who walked 180 kilometers to Ankara to demand payment of their unpaid wages and other social benefits were taken into custody on Tuesday.
The events of the last days expose a hollowed-out, diseased body politic—serving the selfish interests of a grasping capitalist oligarchy.
The Open Letter draws a balance sheet of the three-year struggle waged by 50,000 members of the British Medical Association in England for pay restoration and resolving the acute unemployment crisis facing resident doctors in the National Health Service.
The strike by more than 200 Little Lake educators is part of a broader rebellion by teachers and school workers against poverty wages, healthcare cuts, overcrowded classrooms and the sabotage of struggles by the union bureaucracy.
UC workers confront soaring living costs and worsening conditions, as past contracts expose the need to wrest control from the union bureaucracy.
The arrests of 22 demonstrators in Brisbane follow police raids conducted by the state Labor governments in New South Wales and Victoria.
Far from representing a step forward in the construction of an international movement against fascism and war, the Porto Alegre Conference was a political platform for blocking the development of a revolutionary and independent struggle by the working class.
Less than 48 hours remain before the expiration of a ceasefire, which could lead to resumption of full-scale US bombing of Iran.
This tragedy underscores the plight of hundreds of thousands of working-class people living in slum settlements in both the Malaysian and Indonesian parts of Borneo.
While the last visit took place under conditions of a temporary diplomatic reopening, the latest delegation presented an ultimatum under threat of military aggression.
Authorities have not officially confirmed a motive, but video posted by warehouse worker Chamel Abdulkarim points to anger over low wages and poor working conditions behind the Ontario, California, fire.
With the immediate closure of its regional carrier CityLine, Lufthansa has immediately suspended around 1,300 pilots, stewards and stewardesses, and technical and other personnel.
The emergence of figures like Zampolli signals the consolidation of oligarchic domination over political life and the decay of democratic rule.
The weekend conference was a bogus defense of democracy by parties and government leaders who have facilitated the rise of the fascist threat they claim to oppose.
Teachers carried out a one-day strike over medical benefits in several major cities across Colombia last week, while 5,500 municipal workers in Montreal struck for three days to protest stalled contract negotiations.
April so far has seen a wave of layoffs at Disney, Sony Pictures, at arts web platforms and in social media.
The ruling is a victory for Hayam El Gamal and her five children, but the family remains imprisoned and threatened with deportation as the Trump administration continues expanding the immigration police state and the network of for-profit detention camps.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) calls for a resounding No vote. Opposition must be mobilised demanding the removal of Ward, Walsh and the entire CWU Postal Executive who serve as Royal Mail’s enforcers.
When Labour MP Apsana Begum arrived onstage, she was met with loud booing and shouts of “When are you leaving Labour?” She portrayed Labour’s housing policy as “progress”, concealing its draconian 7B regulations aimed at penalising immigrant households.
“There needs to be a building of class consciousness among people, not just in Australia, but across the globe.”
All the hard-won social gains of the 20th century are to be abolished for the sake of war, not only in Germany, but in every country.
The American Postal Workers Union bureaucracy is telling postal workers that the financial crisis at the United States Postal Service is not a crisis at all—but a “situation,” and that victory is only a phone call to Congress away.
This follows the death of another H-E-B warehouse worker at the same location last October.
The deal between of 32BJ SEIU and the Realty Advisory Board was done without any vote by the membership on whether to call off the strike.
Tens of thousands of unorganized workers are demanding substantial wage increases to keep up with spiking rent, utilities and food costs.
The interest in the series is a sympathetic response to an unusually humane treatment of social life as a whole in the US.
2,000 workers gathered at Aldi DX IT in Essen to elect a board to carry out the works council election, with many determined to fight job cuts and deteriorating working conditions.
In Truth Social posts Saturday night and Sunday morning, Trump wrote that unless Iran accepts his terms, “the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.”
Peru and CIA shoot down missionary aircraft; Socialist Party wins election in Portugal; Mass strikes in Spain against Franco dictatorship; Reza Khan crowned Shah of Iran.
Speaking at the AmCham summit, CGT chief Jorge Sola proposed to Milei and the assembled business executives and politicians a strategic alliance against the working class.
There is a fear that Starmer's downfall will bring to a head a far broader political crisis of rule for the British bourgeoisie, possibly claiming the Labour government as its victim.
The rivalry between two allies of US imperialism in the region primarily concerns their shares in the carve up of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Around 50 workers on site when the blaze erupted escaped without injury, but some were forced to literally run for their lives.
The NSW Labor government is defiantly proceeding with arrests and charges under its invalid anti-protest legislation.
The Fiscal Monitor report insisted that governments must not undertake measures to alleviate the intensifying cost-of-living pressures on workers around the world.
The government has announced a package of paltry relief measures in a desperate attempt to contain rising social tensions, while meeting all of the IMF’s demands.
The fascistic administration of President Javier Milei rammed through a bill modifying legal protections to glaciers to increase mining activity in the Andes.
The cost of their attempts to sustain massive debt, while also financing the massive cost to society of the corporate oligarchy itself, can only be carved out of the backs of the working class under capitalism.
These films provide some insight into the problems of Iranian society and help transform the Iranian “devils” into humans very much like ourselves.
Hayam El Gamal, mother of five children, was taken to the emergency room earlier this month after repeated medical complaints were ignored at the Dilley detention camp.
The flurry of announcements, while they produced a sharp fall in oil prices, has neither produced a lasting peace nor resolved any of the fundamental conflicts underlying the war.
South Korea: Hyundai workers demand negotiations; India: Uttar Pradesh police attack workers protesting for minimum wage; Australia: Aurizon Coal train drivers strike for pay rise and better conditions; Northern Territory iron ore mine workers stood down without pay.
These highly exploited workers are risking their health to end torturous 24-hour shifts, but previous experience shows that protests and moral appeals must give way to class struggle.
The contract is only one year long and is designed to prevent a fight over central issues: healthcare costs, job security and wage adequacy.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee urges postal workers to vote “No” to the union-backed tentative agreements and “Yes” to authorizing strike action.
For days, pilots and flight attendants have been striking against Lufthansa's brutal restructuring course. On Wednesday, 15 April, a strike by over 19,000 stewards and stewardesses from Lufthansa and LH-CityLine began again.
Trump’s self-declared “cease-fire” in his war of aggression against Iran is rapidly proving to be the prelude to another vast escalation of what is in reality a global conflict, now involving China.
Mandelson, the main architect with Tony Blair of the New Labour project, was appointed by Starmer as UK ambassador to the US in December 2024, with the prime minister fully aware of his intimate connections with the billionaire child sex trafficker.
The document is a statement of the Labor government’s complete commitment to US-led wars globally, and above all to preparations for a catastrophic conflict in the Indo-Pacific targeting China.
The contract contains huge givebacks on healthcare, sub-inflation pay increases and no meaningful AI protections.
The UAW bureaucracy has twice now rejected their democratic vote; students must organize to impose their decision, with or without the approval of corrupt and unaccountable bureaucrats.
Global oil companies are raking in additional profits at the rate of $30 million per hour as the result of the price hikes induced by the war.
US Vice President Vance’s remarks Tuesday that Washington is seeking a “grand bargain” with Tehran underscores that US imperialism wants nothing less than the complete reorganisation of the Middle East in its interests, at the expense of all its rivals.
A groundbreaking study in genetics education examines the relationship between the quality of genetics education and the development of racist ideas among young people and the dire consequences for a researcher’s career.
The Trump administration has ordered preparations for a military attack on Cuba as part of its broader campaign for hemispheric dominance.
The new cabinet, in which the Bhumjaithai Party holds 31 posts and its junior partner Pheu Thai holds nine, is unmistakably pro-business and pro-military.
Mélenchon organised no significant mobilisation of workers against the war in Iran, while remaining silent about the intrigues Trump used to prepare it.
The German government is planning the most comprehensive attack on public healthcare since Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck introduced statutory health insurance in 1883.
As the Trump administration imposes a military closure of Iranian ports, it is notable that 250 years ago this month, on April 6, 1776, the Continental Congress announced that American ports would be open to world.
Government employees in Netherlands hold one-day national strike over pay; strikes across London involving academic staff at London Metropolitan University, passenger support staff at a London Stansted airport, bus drivers at Stagecoach and teachers at Great Ormond Street Hospital; strike by judiciary workers in Abia State, Nigeria continues into fourth week
Land and property have become asset vehicles for funnelling billions of pounds from the working class—those who produce society’s wealth—to the billionaires.
The cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme target those with so-called “mild” or “moderate” needs, who will be stripped of supports or face drastic reductions.
The Senate voted 52-47 on Wednesday to reject a motion to move a Democratic Party-sponsored joint resolution to the floor that would mandate the removal of US troops, “from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.”
The agreement addresses none of the workers’ demands which led to a powerful three-week strike, the largest in the US meatpacking industry in more than 60 years.
The death went unreported for a week before the online investigative outlet, the Western Edge, broke the story on April 13.
In less than 100 hours, Swalwell went from frontrunning candidate for governor of California to political oblivion.
A trawler carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants has sunk in the Andaman Sea, with about 250 people missing, presumed dead in the absence of any serious search-and-rescue effort.
Trump’s commutations and pardons last year freed militia members charged with the most serious January 6 crimes but left their convictions intact. This new motion seeks to vacate those convictions and dismiss the indictments, helping clear the way for the fascist militia forces to legally rearm.
