In an attempt to divert attention from their own role in helping impose job losses, the BLET published a statement on its website trying to scapegoat Mexican railroaders for job losses in the United States.
Jonathan Joss, 59, known for voicing John Redcorn in King of the Hill and a number of other roles was shot to death outside the ruins of his San Antonio, Texas home after the gunman shouted violent homophobic slurs according to his husband.
A wave of teachers strikes from Mexico to Panama, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil signal the emergence of a counteroffensive against the onslaught of attacks on public education and other social rights across Latin America.
The overwhelming response demonstrates the deep anger among workers over unsafe conditions in factories and the systematic cover-up of workplace fatalities by the corporations and union bureaucracies.
Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the run-off election to become Poland’s next president. His entry into office will heighten the country’s political crisis.
Prominent media and arts personalities including Benedict Cumberbatch, Dua Lipa and Gary Lineker have joined academics, doctors, lawyers and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos in signing the letter Calling out Starmer’s recently calling the genocide “intolerable” while continuing to arm Israel.
President Ruto’s April visit to Beijing to meet President Xi took place amid escalating US-China tensions.
Charter schools have become a key mechanism for corporate interests to plunder the resources of public schools.
The Federation of Maritime and Fluvial Unions struck May 27 over deregulation, while members of the New England Health Care Employees Union are continuing a two-week walkout.
“We presented our demands to the Inter Company Employees Union but they vehemently rejected them, and want to force us to accept their program of selling us for a pittance of 200,000 rupees.”
Michelin employees began campaigning over their jobs, wages and working conditions on May 23, after learning that the factory would be sold to the Indian-owned CEAT corporation.
The destruction of strategic bombers deep inside Russia by the Ukrainian secret service SBU shows that NATO will stop at nothing to escalate the war with Russia, even if it means provoking a nuclear catastrophe.
Monday marked eight weeks since the death of the 63-year-old machine repairman at the Dundee Engine Complex in Michigan.
In an interview with the New York Times following the incident, Nadler accused the Trump adminstration of “behaving like fascists.”
Monday’s massacre followed the killing of more than 31 people and wounding over 170 in a similar massacre Sunday at an aid distribution center in the same location.
Scott Bessent’s remarks were delivered to try and reassure markets which have been roiled by rising US debt and the violent swings in Trump’s tariff war.
The union responded to Canada Post’s provocative call for the government to force a vote on its “final” contract offer, by proposing to surrender workers’ rights to strike and to determine, through collective bargaining, their terms of employment.
Megha Vemuri was banned from attending her graduation ceremony for statements supporting Palestinian rights and denouncing the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Senator Joni Ernst counseled those who objected to the prospect of death due to Medcaid cuts to seek “eternal and everlasting life” and “embrace Jesus Christ.”
The Albanese government is totally committed to the US war path, which means a wholesale assault on social spending.
The veteran British band (1976) has lots of fight left, but hope is another matter.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer declared his Labour government would create “a battle-ready, armour-clad nation,” in which “every part of society, every citizen of this country has a role to play.”
The Agreement is watered down with qualifiers, lacks enforcement mechanisms and specifies no penalties for failures to meet obligations.
Birmingham City Council’s using a High Court injunction to criminalise effective picketing by bin workers marks a renewed crackdown against the 11-week strike by 350 refuse drivers and loaders opposing job losses and £8,000 pay cuts.
The proposed deal, described by RTBU NSW secretary Toby Warnes as a “very positive development,” is in fact the product of a conspiracy by the union bureaucracy, Labor government, industrial courts and corporate media to sell rail workers out.
The decision to increase the tariff on steel to 50 percent has brought warnings of a “catastrophe” for the Canadian steel industry, with steel producers around the world to be hit.
The Dissanayake regime, completely subservient to international capital, is not ready to lose the remaining IMF installments, including the $334 million fourth tranche.
The attack was personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and carried out by the fascist-infested Secret Service of Ukraine (SBU).
This report on by Ukrainian journalists documents the emergence of a huge shadow economy and the impact of skyrocketing food prices in the war-torn country.
At the Shangri-La Dialogue, Hegseth demanded that Asian countries massively increase their military spending to 5 percent of GDP to join a US offensive against Beijing.
On Wednesday, 1,200 Israeli university academics and administrators issued an open letter protesting the “war crimes and even crimes against humanity” committed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
Over 100 people protested the raid and arrests. In response, heavily armed ICE thugs threw flash-bang grenades at the crowd.
If you are a worker and you know something about what led to the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams or any other worker, now is the time to come forward for your coworkers and for his family.
The IMF demands urgent economic adjustments, in other words, harsh austerity measures, even as poverty increases in Bolivia.
Turkish prisoners have initiated an indefinite hunger strike to protest the severe isolation prevalent in S-, Y-, and R-type high-security prisons.
In winning this growing support, Mamdani has been able to capitalize on growing anger and dissatisfaction. However, his campaign is designed to divert this opposition away from a genuine challenge to the system.
Springsteen song on police murder of Amadou Diallo; Egypt reopens Suez Canal; Supreme Court makes first breach in “separate but equal”; Shanghai protests against imperialist enclaves.
To fight the onslaught of corporations and governments, and defeat union sabotage of their struggles, workers must unite across workplaces, industries and countries.
Industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has announced plans to “gradually make all business areas independent and open them up to the participation of third parties." The approximately 96,000 employees will be made to pay for this.
The remastered edition of Playing the Fool, the official live album by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant originally recorded in 1976, reveals the extraordinary creativity and musicianship of the five band members.
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
Taal spoke at Saturday’s meeting for the first time about the circumstances surrounding his persecution by the US government. He was joined by his lawyer, Eric Lee, and SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore.
Michelin management is preparing a broader witch-hunt against the Midigama factory workers to crush their struggle for job security amid uncertainty over the plant’s future.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
At a press conference at the White House on Friday, Donald Trump lauded Elon Musk as he exited DOGE amid the spiraling crisis of his business empire.
The two leaders of the Liberal-National Coalition jointly announced a shadow ministry this week, just eight days after declaring a split between their two parties.
Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN's humanitarian office, told reporters in a briefing that “One hundred percent of the population is at risk of famine."
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton of Valais. Only a few houses remained standing, and these are now flooded by a pool of water that has formed behind the debris.
Nonprofit ChristianaCare announced it would buy several of the smaller facilities associated with Crozer Health during the auctions, leaving the larger Crozer and Taylor hospitals permanently shut down.
Over the past four months, an escalating crisis has unfolded that has included the closure of multiple school buildings, demonstrations by parents, educators and community members, and revelations of the dire consequences of the chronic underfunding of public education in the state of Wisconsin.
Workers continue to respond to the independent investigation by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees into the death of 63-year-old Stellantis skilled trades worker Ronald Adams Sr.
The strikers include respiratory therapists, licensed vocational nurses, surgical technicians, and imaging technologists—many of whom have endured nearly eight months without a contract.
On May 30, the US Supreme Court ruled the Trump adminstration could revoke previously granted protections for some 531,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, paving the way for their deportation.
Tea plantation workers in West Bengal protest the lack of clean drinking water; Australian bus drivers stop work over wages and safety; New Zealand doctors strike over understaffing and low pay.
Workers must be on guard in particular against any last minute snap contract votes used either to block a strike or rapidly shut it down, and be prepared to take measures to countermand such betrayals.
On Wednesday, the cabinet approved two legislative proposals by federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, which, in the style of the far-right Alternative for Germany, focus on isolating rather than integrating migrants.
The entire Turkish bourgeois political establishment favours strong ties and close relations with the US and NATO, who are behind the genocide in Israel.
The failure of a 70-year-old knighted campaigner like Bates—the subject of a BAFTA-winning drama eliciting an outpouring of public sympathy—to secure fair compensation after decades of injustice is a wake-up call.
As well as the alarming rate of slowdown in global development, the report found that inequality between Low Human Development Indices and Very High Human Development Indices countries grew for the fourth successive year, reversing a long-term trend that had seen inequalities between rich and poor countries decline.
Zach Smith’s resignation as national secretary of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union is an attempt to bolster his credibility with workers, as he continues to serve as a lackey of the administrator.
The assassination of Portnov in parking lot in Madrid just days after meeting with Ukrainian officials exposes the lie that Zelensky’s Ukraine is a “democratic state”.
The five-day strike, the first by nurses at the hospital, takes place amid numerous struggles of healthcare workers nationally.
New Zealand is experiencing rising child poverty, mental health problems, homelessness and drug abuse, brought about by years of austerity.
The student was driving himself and three classmates to a school field trip when he was arrested during a traffic stop, and then sent over 300 miles away to an ICE detention center. He could soon be deported.
With COVID-19 still an ongoing global threat, Kennedy's policies are not only dangerously anti-scientific but actively calculated to deepen inequality and accelerate mass death in order to drive down the life expectancy of the working class and funnel billions from social programs into the pockets of the rich.
A three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade based in Manhattan found that executive orders issued by Trump on April 2 “are declared to be invalid as contrary to law.”
There have been warnings of disastrous consequences for countries in southeast Asia and Latin America if they are forced to break links with China on which their economies depend.
Videos posted of the raid showed dozens of police vehicles, white school buses and heavily armed and masked agents descending on the consturction site.
Several Dundee workers have recently come forward and provided detailed testimony for the independent investigation into Adams’ death.
On Tuesday, HHS Secretary Kennedy unilaterally struck down the CDC recommendation to offer COVID-19 vaccination to healthy children and pregnant women without consulting the ACIP and health experts.
The plan to "aggressively revoke visas" draws from the filthiest corners of the history of anti-Chinese chauvinism and seeks to prepare public opinion for war with China.
The chancellor is trying to create an alibi for a crime against humanity that he has supported more unconditionally than almost any other German politician for a year and a half—without changing his policies in the slightest.
The 62-year-old development is facing monthly carrying charges increases of more than 22 percent.
TDU’s continued support for O’Brien follows the class logic and function of the organization, which is to prevent the emergence of a movement which escapes the straitjacket of the bureaucracy.
Davis’s music, an eclectic blend of jazz, blues, classical and hip hop, serves as a background to the story, reinforcing moods of anguish and tension as the young men and their families go through their ordeal.
Rail workers across Italy walk out over pay and health and safety; truckers strike in 100 cities across Iran sparked by safety issues, joined by bakers protesting electricity outages spoiling bread; doctors strike in Kiambu, Marsabit and Kakamega counties, Kenya over pay and conditions
The ruling of the raid on Winstanley as unlawful raises the question of whether the police have also acted illegally in their detaining, arresting and charging of other prominent opponents of war and genocide under draconian counter-terrorism legislation.
Dr. Sidhwa made a second deployment to Gaza where he worked at Nassar hospital from March 6 to April 1, nearly becoming a casualty in the March 23 attack on that hospital by Israeli forces.
Some 15 years after the war crimes were perpetrated, McBride remains the only individual behind bars over the atrocities, not for committing them, but for exposing them.
Whatever the end result of the negotiations, it is the working class that will shoulder the costs of the US trade war measures.
Union members were forced to vote on this tentative agreement the same morning it was reached, giving them no time to study or consider its details.
Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary and co-leader alongside Vladimir Lenin of the October 1917 Russian Revolution.
There has not been a picket since April 2, almost two months ago, and the union has been largely silent on the state of negotiations on the Interactive Media Agreement (IMA).
At least ten Palestinians desperately seeking food at distribution centers have been killed over the past two days, after Israeli troops opened fire on aid-seekers for a second day in a row Wednesday.
Medin’s fate illustrates the fraudulent propaganda put out by the NATO powers about their war for “democracy” against Russia in Ukraine.
Even as the ruling class revels in its ties to the British monarchy and decries Trump’s actions targeting Canada, its preference and primary objective is to secure for Canadian imperialism the status of a duly recognized junior partner in a Trump-led Fortress North America.
The attacks on education in São Paulo are part of an offensive by global ruling elites against the social and democratic rights of the working class as they turn toward fascism and war.
The European Union’s 17th packet of sanctions against Russia also sanctions pro-Russia and pro-Palestine media and German journalists. It represents an open attack on the democratic right to freedom of the press.
Raymond Feige, a 59-year-old Department of Environmental Protection worker, was killed Saturday, May 24.
Signatories include prominent authors Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureishi, Irvine Welsh, William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Elif Shafak, Jonathan Coe, Susie Orbach and Andrew O’Hagan.
At least 1,400 health care workers have been killed in Israeli attacks. The World Health Organization has reported that 94 percent of hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed and there are only 2,000 beds for a population of over 2 million.
A recent roundtable in Washington was designed to cover up the responsibility of the union bureuacrats and the Democratic Party for preparing the way for Trump’s privatization plans.
The first day of US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) operations—where just 8,000 food boxes were distributed and the IDF fired weapons over the heads of starving Gazans—demonstrated the purpose of the organization is to prepare the forcible removal of Palestinians from the Strip.
Workers have expressed their fury at the union’s secret agreement with the transnational corporation, providing for a meagre flat-rate compensation payment for the termination of their employment.
The 2,000 workers responded warmly to the call by the Socialist Equality Party for a unified struggle against the threat to their jobs posed by a secret company-union agreement.
The escalation of the war with Russia and military build-up are at the centre of the new federal government’s policies and overshadow all other areas.
The wealthy and well-connected pardoned by Trump include a Virginia sheriff convicted of federal bribery charges, a millionaire tax cheat whose mother gave lavishly to the Trump campaign, and reality-TV hucksters previously sentenced to 18 years in prison on multiple federal charges related to financial crimes.
The IAM shut down the strike because it threatened the war policies of both parties in Washington who are openly discussing launching new wars in the Middle East and against China.
Leony Salcedo-Chevalier, 34, was fatally struck on April 9 by a box truck backing up in a loading dock at the JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center in New York.
Healthscope was put into receivership on Monday, placing the future of 38 hospitals, 19,000 staff and hundreds of thousands of patients in the hands of ruthless international hedge funds.
