Tens of thousands of people protested in every single state in the US on Saturday, while thousands more demonstrated in cities across Europe.
The blanket tariff on all US goods was previously considered a worst-case option, but such is the level of the attack that Beijing decided to go ahead with it.
The JVP/NPP is attempting to win support in the local government elections in order to claim a renewed mandate even as it intensifies the imposition of the IMF’s austerity demands.
Workers cannot accept the agreement at Deutsche Post. It would not only have catastrophic consequences for postal workers, but also serves as a precedent for workers in the public sector and other companies, such as the Berlin public transport operator BVG.
Health care as a profession is under a full-frontal assault led by the Trump administration and anti-science quack Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was installed by Trump as the head of Health and Human Services.
“Our mental health system is failing patients, their families and communities” – Dr Kylie Cheng
The resolutions, like the previous ones Sen. Sanders advanced less than four months ago, had no chance of passing and were aimed at covering up the bipartisan support for genocide in Washington.
Immigrants and international students are some of the most severely affected by the cost of housing, often forced to live in degrading conditions
Yoon’s ousting from power does not resolve the political crisis in the country, which is above all driven by the crisis of capitalism internationally.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs on non-USMCA-compliant, US-made automobiles marks the third time the Canadian government has responded to Trump's trade war measures.
US autoworkers are already feeling the impact of the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Trump this week as anger mounts against the UAW leadership, which has aligned itself with the fascist administration.
Amid profound global shocks and dangers, it is essential for workers and youth to review their bitter political experiences with the Labor government and draw the necessary conclusion—to join the fight for a socialist future.
The Berlin state government is planning to deport four activists because of their involvement in pro-Palestinian protests. This action is unprecedented in Germany and shows that those in power are in no way in second place after the fascist US President Donald Trump and are using dictatorial methods to enforce the brutal pro-war policy in Germany too.
Millions of workers in Germany are expected to pay with their jobs and wages for the €1 trillion agreed by the government for new spending on armaments and war. Nowhere is this more evident than in the country’s public sector.
As a part of its plan to wreck the democratic principles embedded in American culture, the Trump administration issued an executive order last week to impose a fascist-like conformity on the Smithsonian Institution.
Jacobin is echoing the official position of the Netanyahu government, the Biden administration, and the Trump administration, all of whom have claimed that Israel's assault on Gaza is a "response" to Palestinian resistance.
The situation must be stated with absolute clarity: The Trump administration is moving systematically and deliberately to establish a dictatorship.
Adams’ move, while widely expected, further scrambles this year’s contest for mayor of the largest US city.
India: ASHA workers’ strike in Kerala enters eighth week; Bangladesh: TNZ Group garment workers protest for unpaid wages in Gazipur; Australia: Castlemaine Perkins brewery workers strike for higher pay; Mental health workers strike and march on Victorian parliament; New Zealand: Hospitality workers protest over low minimum wage.
One startling conclusion of the NIESR is that “The poorest households in Slovenia and Malta are now better off than the poorest in the UK
Labour has nearly doubled the money to be spent on army recruitment campaigns this year to £17.2 million. It is spending £1.3 billion on a new Armed Forces Recruitment Service, run by private sector conglomerate Serco, set to launch in 2027.
US-Europe ties are suffering a historic breakdown, and a trade war is being set into motion that threatens unprecedented attacks on workers in America, Europe and internationally.
The tariff measures have been launched under the banner “Made in America,” but there is not a single commodity, in the US or anywhere else, which is not the outcome of a global production process.
Stellantis will “temporarily” idle its Windsor Assembly Plant in Canada and Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico. About 4,500 workers in Windsor will be impacted. Some 2,600 are employed at the Toluca facility.
With a 19,000 strong workforce UC workers are in a powerful position to carry out a fight against the assault on the working class, but the question at hand is a struggle against the Democratic party and the trade union apparatus.
The SEP is alone in sounding the alarm about the danger of a global war, including in this region, and in fighting to build a movement of the working class against it.
Since the Trump administration raised the height of the border wall to 30 feet in 2019, hundreds of people have been injured or killed trying to circumvent the structure.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon abruptly ends COVID relief reimbursements for public schools, leaving essential programs and thousands of educator jobs in jeopardy.
The high-profile Mangione case is being seized upon by the Trump administration to advance its bloodthirsty drive to revive the federal death penalty. It follows President Trump’s signing of an executive order titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety.
The union has isolated the performers for months, leaving them to fight giant corporations on their own.
The SEP’s election intervention aims to educate and mobilise workers independently of all capitalist parties and their political hangers-on and for a socialist and internationalist program.
The reports and discussions outlined the crisis in public education and emphasised the urgent need for educators to form independent organisations of struggle to counter the widening attacks on public education and democratic rights.
While all-party discussions take place over the colony’s future the territory’s economic and social crisis could erupt again.
After the federal election and the approval of the largest war credits since the Nazis, Germany’s ruling class is systematically pursuing its war offensive. This centres on military expansion to the east and war preparations against the nuclear power Russia.
Metalworkers in national eight-hour walkout in major cities across Italy demanding workplace safety, better pay and conditions; teachers in Lebanon in 24-hour stoppage for a living wage as economy collapses; health workers and teachers strike over minimum wage in capital Abuja and surrounding area
As lecturers concluded a three-week strike. Dundee University management announced as many as 632 job losses--around one fifth of the university's entire work force.
The tariff on a large range of countries is not determined by the tariffs they actually levy, but is calculated to include the effect of a range of internal measures, including taxes, subsidies and regulations, that the administration has determined are inimical to US interests.
During a year in which workers saw their living standards devastated by inflation and thousands of UAW members lost their jobs, the army of UAW bureaucrats in the union’s Detroit national headquarters had a prosperous 2024.
The Pentagon has sent six of its B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean—within striking distance of Iran—or 30 percent of the entire US stealth bomber fleet.
The initiation of mass firings of over 20,000 scientists and public health workers at the Department of Health and Human Services marks a historic turning point in the collapse of American democracy and the Trump administration’s efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship in the United States.
According to the absurd ruling, the no strike clause in the ATU contract not only prohibits striking during the term of the contract, which would be bad enough, but all potential strikes in the future.
Under conditions of exploding income inequality, widespread poverty and inflation-driven real wages cuts, the parties campaigning for the April 28 federal election are offering phony “affordability” measures that don’t even amount to a Band-Aid.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has given his support to an extreme right-wing campaign making lurid and baseless insinuations that Green MP Benjamin Doyle is a paedophile.
Confirming their collaboration with the Trump administration’s fascistic attacks on free speech, several university administrations have announced they will fully cooperate with a right-wing congressional committee formed to attack student protesters.
The political significance of our contract battle is becoming ever clearer. Every effort is being made to prevent us from organising an all-out strike and enforcing our justified wage demands.
Tensions in ruling circles have markedly sharpened amid a worsening economic crisis and growing fears of an eruption of opposition by workers, peasants and youth.
To avoid friction with the Armed Forces, infested with fascist apologists for the dictatorship, the official policy of the Lula government was to ignore the date.
Within the political straitjacket of the US two-party system, the only alternatives to the fascist Republicans were right-wing, pro-corporate Democrats.
Virtually no one believes that the last-minute election pledges, even if they were to be kept, would make any real difference to the lives or prospects of workers and their families.
Israel’s Attorney-General Galia Beharav-Miara has greenlighted war crimes against the Palestinians. As she acknowledged in her defence, she gave her legal support for the government’s “operational approach to Gaza.”
The Starmer government is using the Birmingham strike as a test case, whose defeat would be used as a springboard for imposing its austerity agenda.
The Russian ruling class is hoping that a negotiated settlement with the United States over the war in Ukraine will give it some relief as falling oil revenues and military-industrial expenditures blow a hole in the federal budget.
The SEP urges workers, students, young people and all those seeking an alternative to Labor, the Liberal-Nationals and the Greens to attend the online meeting on Thursday April 10.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, the DSA Democrat shed her previous “left” lip service and pined for a Democratic Party that used the rhetoric of “economic populism” to advance the interests of US imperialism.
In line with IMF demands, the government’s attack on workers’ allowances and its minimal pay increase are aimed at drastically slashing state expenditure.
Taal’s case is part of a broader system of state terror now unfolding in the United States. Dissent is being criminalized and the legal architecture of dictatorship is being constructed.
The World Socialist Web Site has received a large volume of correspondence from railroaders at BNSF, in response to an interview published earlier this year.
Yale Law School fired law scholar Doutaghi on Friday in violation of her rights to speak against the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and to defend herself against false accusations published by an AI-generated pro-Zionist website.
The government’s attitude to working people in Australia is in line with its callous indifference to the plight of earthquake victims in Myanmar for whom it is providing just 11 cents per person in aid.
The Trump administration is gutting agencies, systematically firing scientists and health workers without cause and dispensing with thousands of years of collective knowledge and expertise.
The growth of extreme wildfire activity is being driven by climate change while resources to fight disasters are being diverted to preparations for war.
The growing economic crisis has been highlighted by the fall in the value of the rupiah to levels not seen since the Asian financial crisis of 2008.
A total of 38,631 young people aged 15–24 made homelessness services requests without family support or stable housing in 2023–24.
The nurses union has kept its members on the job without a contract, despite growing demands for action over worsening conditions.
CTU officials, Mayor Johnson and the news media are conspiring to conceal the full impact of Trump's historic cuts on Chicago schools.
Every bakery in Gaza operated by the United Nations World Food Program closed Tuesday due to shortages of food and fuel caused by the ongoing Israeli blockade.
Thirty-five years after its dissolution, a stream of television films and documentaries continue to be made about the GDR, presenting the state solely as a brutal dictatorship demonstrating the failure of socialism.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
If there is one takeaway from this episode, it is how panicked the Communication Workers Union leadership becomes when they are faced with even a hint of organised opposition in the workplace.
Before a gathered crowd of senior officers, Kahariri said, “We cannot have anarchy as a country. Even as people exercise their freedom, they must do so within certain limits.”
Attempts by the capitalist state to ban fascist politicians or parties will not stop war or attacks on democratic rights, but set the stage for attacks on the left and the working class.
Ordinary people are hostile to the program of war and dictatorship embodied by Trump, but the capitalist parties are in a competition over who can work best with the would-be dictator in the White House.
The new measures would represent the most aggressive US siege against Venezuela’s economy thus far, posing the threat of mass death and a renewed exodus.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an extensive article on US involvement in the Ukraine war entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.”
The HWU bureaucracy is attempting to turn one section of its membership against the rest. This divisive action must be opposed!
The Israeli military murdered and then bulldozed the bodies and ambulances of Palestinian and UN aid workers who attempted to retrieve casualties after Israeli forces launched an offensive in the Tel al-Sultan district of the southern city of Rafah.
President Prabowo Subianto, a former general in the Suharto regime, is taking a step towards dictatorial rule, amid a massive social crisis and an international political shift to the right by the ruling class.
The Trumpian statements by Winston Peters point to rising fears in the entire political establishment of the growing shift to the left among workers and youth.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the Communications Electrical and Plumbers Union sought to undermine the struggle from the outset.
Elon Musk’s giveaway of million-dollar checks is only the most garish and crass of the interventions by the super-rich behind the Republican and Democratic candidates in this closely contested state.
The exhibition came under vicious attack by the far-right StopAntisemitism on X.
At food banks throughout the country, deliveries of millions of dollars’ worth of food were abruptly stopped last week by the Trump administration as hunger across America grows.
At the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany, David North, chairman of the WSWS Editorial Board, introduced the newly released German translation of his book Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War. We are publishing here the introduction to North’s remarks by Johannes Stern.
Taal is one of hundreds of international students facing imprisonment and deportation for exercising their First Amendment rights.
The so-called “antisemitism” resolution passed by the German parliament in the midst of the recent federal election campaign makes clear that the ruling class intends to continue its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Cruz K-12 and Paz Elementary will close at the end of the year, while CTU works to prevent any opposition to the winding down of operations.
The Noboa-Trump meeting should sound the alarm over a conspiracy to use the state of exception and the threat of a US military intervention to overturn an election and establish an openly fascistic dictatorship.
Premier Smith’s ultimatum and the spectre it invokes of an “unprecedented national unity crisis” are an implicit threat that if the Alberta government’s demands are not met the province could secede from Canada and appeal for Trump’s support.
Brazil Petrobras oil workers staged a nationwide strike March 28, while 5,000 workers and students marched in Chile on Sunday against regressive changes to pensions.
Last week Skadden Arps, the world’s fifth largest law firm, capitulated to Trump while two smaller firms obtained temporary restraining orders against his fascistic executive decrees.
The growing movement of the working class in Belgium is developing under conditions of rising opposition to militarism continent-wide.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK)’s Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps visited the Foreign Office in London Monday afternoon.
As huge protests gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to demand İmamoglu’s release, President Erdoğan, the commander-in-chief of NATO’s second largest army, accused the CHP of serving imperialism.
“The alternatives as posed by Rosa Luxemburg, ‘Socialism or Barbarism,’ confronts us all today. The alarm has been sounded. Now we must respond to it.”
The administrations of the major universities in the United States are playing an absolutely foul role in facilitating the reign of terror against free speech and democratic rights being implemented by the Trump administration.
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to build an independent movement of the working class against Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, the Greens and capitalism itself.
Postal workers, outraged at the betrayals of the trade unions, discussed what needed to be done now to protect jobs, which included unifying all sections of the working class in a common struggle against oligarchy and dictatorship.
France and Britain pledged to send troops to Ukraine, risking total war with Russia, amid rising US-European tensions as Washington and the EU both try to seize Ukrainian mineral resources.
A broad coalition of Spanish cultural workers has issued a powerful manifesto opposing the European Union’s rearmament programme and denouncing NATO’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
