There is mass anger in Charlotte and other cities targeted by Trump’s mass deportation operation, this anger must be transformed into concrete action to end the attacks on the working class.
The absurdity of describing the Trump administration’s plan as a peace agreement was underscored in the days following Monday’s UN vote. On Wednesday alone, Israel killed at least 25 people across the enclave in a series of air strikes.
Mass opposition to governments that slash social rights to fund war and tax cuts for the rich needs international forms of organization and a European and international revolutionary perspective.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 50 people on Tuesday—45 men and 5 women—that it said were Ukrainian nationals on a flight from Louisiana to the Ukrainian Shehyni checkpoint on the border with Poland.
Verizon posted nearly $5 billion in profit in the third quarter alone and is aggressively restructuring to boost its stock price, slash labor costs and prepare for intensified competition in wireless, home internet and enterprise services.
A well-attended public meeting was held in Indianapolis on Monday to review and discuss the Socialist Equality Party’s program in response to the threat by Donald Trump to establish a fascist dictatorship in the US following the No Kings protest on October 18.
California’s action exposes Democratic complicity with Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda and deepening attacks on the working class.
With the Ukrainian government of Volodymyr Zelensky facing a deepening corruption scandal and military crisis, the Trump administration submitted to Kiev on Thursday a 28-point plan for a negotiated settlement of the war.
Lack of maintenance and the push for profits were among the causes for the November 4 crash of a UPS cargo plane that killed 14 people, according to several UPS workers who work at the Louisville, Kentucky hub and who spoke confidentially with the World Socialist Web Site.
A December rate cut is starting to look increasingly unlikely as concerns grow over a possible AI bust.
“It’s a shame what they are doing. And they are doing all over the place. They are so damn greedy. The top 1 percent, what do they control? 60 percent of all the wealth? They are getting it all, but we can’t get healthcare, but we can build bombs.”
All the candidates, from Kast and Kaiser to the Stalinist Jara, focused their campaigns on xenophobic anti-immigrant appeals in combination with vows to get “tough on crime.”
Radical journalist and anti-war activist Yves Engler is seeking the leadership of Canada’s NDP based on the claim that this moribund, right-wing social-democratic party can be transformed into an instrument to fight the billionaires, oppose imperialism and its wars, and build “eco-socialism.”
The phoney populist statements by Labour’s Chris Hipkins are driven by fear that working class anger over inequality, pay cuts and war could erupt outside the control of the capitalist political establishment.
The union’s talk of “full alignment” in some indefinite future is political theatre. A bitter struggle for equal treatment has been reduced to a handful of concessions designed to keep the outsourcing racket intact.
Sophie warned that the NHS faces “creeping privatisation and a government that’s determined to wage war on it.”
The following report was given by a senior nurse to an NHS FightBack meeting on Tuesday: “Defeat Starmer-Streeting budget cuts and privatisation! For a united fightback by NHS workers!”
Workers at Hellenic Train in Greece walk out over staff shortages and ongoing safety issues; nurses in Mashhad, Iran strike over pay and staff shortages; health workers join resident doctors’ stoppage in Nigeria over lack of funding
Textile companies have profited for decades from government subsidies and intense worker exploitation. Now, these companies are eliminating jobs and trying to seize accumulated wages and compensation, pushing workers to resist.
In a courageous act Wednesday, Libbey Glass workers decisively defeated the attempt by the United Steelworkers International Union to ram through a pro-company contract and shut down their powerful three-month strike.
David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States and chairperson of the WSWS International Editorial Board, is the featured speaker.
Nick’s coworkers are speaking out about unsafe conditions inside the facility as well as the fact that grievances were filed less than 90 days before Nick’s death.
The DSA Democrat is repudiating his left-wing posturing as he cements his ties to defending the Democratic Party and capitalism.
An inquiry, organized by workers and not corrupt union bureaucrats, is needed to arm workers with the knowledge they need to defend themselves and go on the offensive against the regime of corporate dictatorship in the workplaces which makes these deaths inevitable.
A strike by cleaning chemical workers at Brulin Holding Company in Indianapolis has entered its seventh week in a fight by the workers for wage increases, improved working conditions and fair contract bargaining.
This speech was delivered at the online meeting hosted by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) on Sunday, November 16, 2025, “Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger!”
Concerns are growing that the ending of the AI “bubble” could bring a financial crisis.
Endeavor workers have not only been instructed not to speak to the media, but even to their own families about the tragic death of their colleagues and the conditions in the mine.
Aged just 24, Jack McGrath died this week at the BlueScope Steel complex, underlining the growing toll of workplace fatalities and injuries.
Trump spoke for the entire US ruling class when he welcomed the blood-drenched Saudi crown prince to the White House.
UPTE’s sellout deal exposes union betrayal, undermines the strike, and signals to workers nationwide the urgent need for independent rank-and-file action against austerity.
Two cousins, in an act of revenge, kidnap a successful, powerful corporate executive and hold her captive in their basement.
On Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, 1938; mobs spurred on by the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues across Germany.
Titled “The Case for Overthrowing Maduro,” the piece was drafted by Bret Stephens, a man who never met a US war of aggression that he didn’t like.
The Thatcherite policies enacted by Conservative governments in the 1980s greatly exacerbated the UK’s historic north-south inequality divide. But they also set in train what is today a vast housing crisis in London that fuels poverty and defies this easy characterisation.
The visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman culminated in a lavish dinner in his honor with dozens of Wall Street executives and other billionaires.
These are not “industrial accidents” but industrial murders, the direct result of the profit-driven assault on essential safety precautions by the capitalist class.
One miner said, “The people all the way up, that own the companies, don’t care that much. They’re just money-hungry and not willing to take the correct procedures, fix the equipment.”
The company Polymetals announced yesterday that “mining and milling operations have successfully recommenced” and that continuous shift work was being reinstated.
Russell’s coworkers are coming forward and speaking out about dangerous conditions and a toxic environment inside the plant.
“Albo won on a landslide with health as a primary big issue. They said ‘we’re going to fix Medicare’ and then suddenly, we’re facing closure.”
The shutdown of GP and counselling services at three Melbourne community health centres further highlights the deepening crisis in public healthcare funding under the federal and state Labor governments.
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a proclamation on Tuesday declaring two long-standing Muslim organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” even though US states do not have the authority to issue such declarations.
Katie Wilson's election as mayor of Seattle reflects growing anger at the two-party system. But her career shows a middle-class orientation incapable of fighting the corporate oligarchy.
While the Berlin state government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD), plans to tighten the city’s police and domestic intelligence laws, accusations have emerged of questionable public funding practices in the cultural sector favouring Zionist lobby organisations.
The conditions are emerging for a powerful movement in defense of the right to healthcare, but this requires a fight against the union bureaucracy, which slashed the size of the strike by more than half with last-minute sellouts.
Declaring “Education Week,” Trump launched a sweeping attack on the Department of Education, with the aim of refashioning schooling in line with corporate and military interests.
The fascistic administration of Governor Greg Abbott, at the behest of Trump, is seeking to ensure that the approximately 1.6 million students attending public universities in Texas only come into contact with instructional material acceptable to the far right.
The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA), charged with protecting workers from industrial hazards, had inspected AES only once in 20 years.
After nearly three months on strike, the United Steelworkers International is trying to ram through a sellout contract behind the backs of 650 workers at Libbey Glass.
The column penned by former Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume was a blunt warning to the Parti Québécois that its virulent attacks on immigrants and minorities could hurt the Quebec indépendentiste cause by exposing the fiction that it has any democratic, let alone, “progressive” content.
The mass Palestinian uprising, its defeat and the expulsion and imprisonment of its leaders at the hands of the British army is largely unknown outside the Middle East, particularly in Britain itself.
Despite talk of a “revolt” against the Labour leadership over the measures, which include ending the permanent residency status of refugees, less than two dozen of the party’s MPs have bothered to register any form of protest.
Workers must fight for workers’ power and workers’ control over production, harnessing the surplus created by new technologies to improve, not lower, the standard of living for the masses.
Students, workers and retirees, concerned with Trump’s fascistic policies, have expressed their interest in attending the meeting.
The Ukrainian government is directly implicated in a massive embezzlement scandal that threatens the continued existence of a Zelensky presidency.
Crumbling support among congressional Republicans forced Trump to reverse himself on the resolution to require the Department of Justice to make public its files on the billionaire convicted sex trafficker.
On Monday, the Trump administration began deporting some 83 people to Ukraine, where they face conscription and dictatorship.
The Transport Workers Union seeks to stall and handicap workers as they voted unanimously to authorize a strike amid stalled contract talks.
A nationwide blackout triggered mass protests in the Dominican Republic, while on November 13 and 14 teachers across Mexico staged a 48-hour protest strike.
As a result of a wave of job and course cuts, school leavers are increasingly being told that the subjects and degrees they wished to study are no longer available.
Extensive tax exemptions handed to big business by successive governments over decades have deepened the country’s social crisis and undermined public education.
The large attendance, more than filling the stands of the Tom Knight Memorial Oval, reflected the fact that McMullen’s death is a loss, not just to his family, but to the whole town.
The University of Michigan has refused to defend its scholars, acting as a compliant arm of the government. It remained shamefully silent as its researchers were vilified and it actively participated in their persecution.
This lecture examines the steady degeneration of the SWP in the aftermath of the ICFI's launching of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
The Trump administration’s imposition of 50 percent tariffs on most Indian exports has led to devastating job losses in numerous industries in just the past three months.
Russell Scruggs Jr. was 44 years old and had just started work at the USPS distribution center three weeks earlier.
Our reporters spoke to workers and young people in the Chicago neighborhoods being targeted by ICE, as well as Ford workers at the Chicago Assembly Plant.
Decades of neglect and lack of investment in education have left UK school buildings a danger to life and limb.
The SEP warned in May, weeks before the fascist-led mobilisations outside hotels housing asylum seekers began, “Shorn of its name, conjuring images of a long-abandoned connections to reformism, the Labour government is a far-right formation.”
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi has received a letter of solidarity from the Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey. It condemns the intervention by the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office against its program.
The Stellantis group, which includes Peugeot, Fiat and Chrysler, as well as Opel, is systematically cutting jobs and preparing further plant closures. In October, production lines in six factories came to a standstill for days.
The drawing once again of even the remotest parts of Europe into the rapidly escalating worldwide struggle between the major powers for markets, raw materials and spheres of influence underlines that the working class in every country must take up the fight to construct a global anti-war movement.
A report by the Gaza Government Media Office documents 282 violations of the Gaza cease fire by the Israeli military between October 10 and November 10, exposing the Trump-brokered “peace plan” as an imperialist rebranding of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Zionist-occupied Palestinian territories.
Over the weekend, masked and heavily armed federal immigration agents, led by Customs and Border Protection commander Gregory Bovino, abducted and assaulted immigrants and citizens.
The declaration that the mass murderer Suharto is a national hero is a statement of intent by the capitalist class and should be treated by the working class in every country as a serious warning.
In the face of mounting climate change-induced natural disasters and evidence of runaway global warming, capitalist governments and corporations have abandoned any pretense to be fighting climate change.
The Trump administration has declared war on libraries, universities, cultural institutions, historical sites, museums and individual scholars.
Pakistan has blamed India for a November 11 suicide bombing in the heart of Islamabad that killed 12 people and injured dozens more.
Ethiopia is experiencing its first recorded outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, unfolding amid political unrest, displacement, and strained health systems.
On Thursday, a tanker truck in a parking lot at the Holiday Inn in Weatherford, Oklahoma leaked a substantial portion of its 25,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia gas, causing a mass evacuation of the neighborhood and sending dozens to local hospitals.
“I genuinely think that the Post Office feels that the American people want their mail at all costs, and I think that that is not correct. I think that the American people would rather have their mail tomorrow and have everybody safe.”
Fujimori resigns and flees Peru; Spanish dictator Franco dies; US troops reach Yalu River in Korean War; Tutankhamen mummy is opened
Under Takaichi, Tokyo has moved to accelerate its remilitarization in alliance with the US under the pretext of “collective self-defense.”
After cancelling a strike, the union held rallies to appeal to the right-wing Premier David Crisafulli to “intervene in our ongoing pay dispute.”
The strike, they made clear, is a fight to defend both their future as doctors and the future of a publicly funded NHS for all. There was also opposition to social inequality and the wealth of the billionaires, the growth of the extreme right and scapegoating of immigrants, the Gaza genocide and billions being diverted for war.
Health Secretary Streeting is priming a leadership bid to replace Prime Minister Starmer, with Labour's support polling at record low levels. In the face of this offensive, the BMA leadership has repeatedly sought a compromise where none is on offer.
Unite’s failure to end industrial action at Leonardo with a shoddy deal meant it was forced to announce a new round of industrial action. As with the original planned action, this does not consist of a unified strike at all five plants but is being held sporadically involving one or two plants at a time.
No Music for Genocide and the response of large numbers of performers and musicians speak to the broad leftward shift currently under way.
The Trump administration plans Monday to deport 83 people to Ukraine—the first mass deportation to the country in years—where they face immediate conscription and deployment to the front.
While students face ever greater restrictions on their right to freedom of expression, German universities themselves are by no means neutral. They increasingly take sides with German militarism and defend far-right political positions.
Many questions remain unanswered in the days since his death, and no official cause has been released.
The vote, repudiating even a nominal commitment to address climate change, underscores the long-term rout of a “moderate” faction within the conservative party.
The country’s low vaccination rate, particularly for young children, is an indictment of successive Labour and National Party governments that have starved the public health system.
“They are doing this to us, pushing us. This is the way they are treating us. How come I have to make a decision in two days when this is where I am going to live my whole life?”
This is the latest in a series of mass layoff announcements throughout the US economy, as companies respond to a deepening economic slowdown and the proliferation of AI technology with job cuts and speed-ups.
The Human Rights Watch report details systematic torture and abuse of detainees in El Salvador’s CECOT concentration camp, with intimate US involvement.
Tremane Wood received a last-minute commutation of his death sentence in Oklahoma, Bryan Jennings died by lethal injection in Florida, and Stephen Bryant died by firing squad in South Carolina.
Without a trace of a class analysis and employing the most banal tropes of protest politics, Jacobin seeks to channel the growing revolt of workers and youth against dictatorship, war, genocide and inequality and their interest in socialism back behind the Democratic Party.
At least 125 protesting primary school teachers were injured on November 8 when they were attacked by police in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
