At least three people, including an eight-week-old baby, died on Thursday because of a breakdown in the Triple 0 emergency phone system, caused by a failure at Optus, one of Australia’s privatised telecommunications providers.
The death of Robert Cherone at Palermo’s Pizza’s Milwaukee plant exposes a long history of unsafe conditions and the subordination of workers’ lives to corporate profit.
From the Oval Office, the fascist president declared nothing would stop him from deploying combat troops to major American cities, saying, “It's like war.”
The strike by 700 nurses and case workers in Grand Blanc, Michigan is entering its third week and the fate of the struggle is very much in danger as Teamsters union officials are doing nothing to stop Henry Ford Health from bringing in scabs and other hospital employees from crossing the picket lines every day.
The Trump administration is working to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs.
The death toll in the nearly two-year-long genocide in Gaza has reached 65,000, Gaza’s health ministry said Friday. This latest horrific milestone comes as Israeli forces continue their assault on Gaza City, the last remaining part of Gaza outside direct military occupation.
The economy shrank 1.1 percent in the 12 months to June, with tens of thousands of jobs destroyed in construction, manufacturing, small businesses and the public sector.
Sydney Airport had to limit take-offs throughout September 12 and came close to halting them entirely. The episode underscored that air traffic control runs perilously close to collapse as a matter of routine.
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
Generally, "neo-noir" efforts have little of the urgency, social bite or purposefulness of the earlier films.
The political terror campaign launched in Brazil on the pretext of Kirk’s death is an integral part of a counteroffensive by fascist forces following Bolsonaro’s coup conspiracy conviction.
More than 100,000 health workers in Telangana, India protested over unpaid wages, while thousands of public sector workers in South Australia rallied against the state Labor government’s meagre pay offer.
The ACIP meeting, shaped entirely by RFK Jr.'s political appointees, exposed a shift from evidence-driven public health toward anti-vaccine ideology.
The removal of powerful Civil War era photography from public museums is the latest in a series of attacks on historical truth orchestrated by the White House.
Fighting back demands the independent political mobilisation of the working class, freed from the dead hand of the “left” representatives of the Labour and trade union bureaucracy, in a struggle against capitalism and for socialism.
The mobilisation against this attack of tens of thousands of other council workers and of workers more generally has been prevented by Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham, who presides over a union with one million members. And this has been reinforced by the collusion of the entire trade union bureaucracy.
The Medium-Term Program (MTP) approved by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sets out the government’s economic strategy for the next three years (2026-2028) and will intensify austerity.
Classified staff in Evergreen Public Schools ended their 12-day strike with a contract that leaves workers trapped in poverty wages despite their determined struggle.
Florida under Ron DeSantis has set a new single-year record for the state, carrying out 12 executions this year, surpassing any previous record held by a Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported as part of the transparent political vendetta against his steadfast opposition to the Gaza genocide and attempts by the Trump administration to silence him.
While the British ruling class looks with envy at US imperialism’s place as the world’s hegemonic power, the American ruling class looks back fondly at Britain's traditions of aristocratic arrogance and impunity, and at the rapacious, blood-soaked example of the British Empire.
Wednesday’s continuation of the budget debate underscored not only the insane war and brutal austerity policies of the CDU/CSU-SPD coalition government, but that there is no serious opposition to them within parliament.
The European imperialist powers have continued to escalate the war on Russia following last week’s shooting down of drones over Polish territory.
In interviews and social media posts, Trump and his fascist minions are promising to revoke broadcast licenses from shows that do not properly venerate the aspiring Hitler.
the long term unemployed now account for almost 26 percent of the total number unemployed; including a high percentage of recent college graduates.
Kennedy's newly remade ACIP vaccine panel opened its two-day meeting by curbing MMRV use for young children and moving to delay the hepatitis B birth dose, signaling a rollback of evidence-based childhood immunization that threatens access and public health protections.
By the first week of September, federal data confirmed 4,902 measles cases in 2025—a staggering toll that surpasses by multiples the yearly averages in other advanced economies which are also experiencing outbreaks.
Labor’s market-driven compensation measures have drastically slashed support to those suffering from stress, burnout and other psychological trauma.
Amid warnings Coles and Woolworths are just the tip of the iceberg, big business is calling for industrial awards to be “simplified”—transparent code for the evisceration of workers’ entitlements.
Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov ended his recent BBC Proms performance with a bold and powerful statement against the “atrocious and horrific” crimes being committed by Israel.
A striker was seriously injured Wednesday when a vehicle ploughed into construction workers picketing the Calder Gate entrance to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England.
Public sector workers in Cyprus in three-hour national stoppage over IMF austerity measures; striking oil and auto workers join ongoing protests in Iran against collapsing living standards; workers in Buffalo, South Africa walk out over outsourcing of services, face police teargas and rubber bullets
It was not until Tuesday’s cabinet briefing that Starmer spoke against “calls to violence from [a] foreign billionaire”. But even then, the (unnamed) billionaire’s incitement of a far-right coup against his own government passed without comment.
Labor is attempting to secure de facto control over the foreign and military policy of Pacific states, to align them fully with Washington’s preparations for war against China.
The decision by the 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee was carried 11–1, with Stephen Miran, Trump’s chief economic adviser, rushed into a vacant position as Fed governor on Monday, recording his dissent and advocating a cut of half a percentage point.
On Wednesday, air strikes on hospitals and refugees accompanied the penetration by a ground offensive of the center of Gaza City as the Israeli military moved to carry out its plan for a “total victory” over Palestine.
International Association of Machinists officials are demanding workers vote on a union-proposed settlement that Boeing has not agreed to, in a transparent attempt to end a six-week strike by defense workers.
Ostensibly related to longstanding corruption charges, the court ruling is a move by right-wing factions aligned with the military and monarchy to sideline Thaksin and his party.
It is the bankruptcy of American capitalism and the fear of social revolution, not merely Trump’s authoritarian personality, that are the source of the frontal assault on democratic rights.
As workers strike for today’s nationwide day of action, they face the task of breaking free of bureaucracies that police the class struggle and enable the capitalist state to rule against the people.
On September 10, 2025, two employees working at the General Motors technical center in Warren, Michigan, tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease.
One of the main factors responsible for the bloom is related to climate change: a marine heatwave beginning in September 2024 that registered temperatures 2.5 degrees Celsius above average.
Kimmel’s suspension is part of an ongoing witch hunt to suppress all political views that express opposition to the fascist Trump administration.
The government’s ongoing efforts to maintain that the 2022-23 UAW elections were legitimate come amid an intensifying crisis facing the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain.
This is the first part of the lecture “Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940)” delivered by Fred Williams, Katja Rippert, and Alejandro Lopez to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
The ban on delivering commercial flyers, which replaces a more than three-month overtime ban, continues CUPWs’ role as the main roadblock to any genuine struggle by postal workers against the government-backed attacks on their jobs and conditions.
In the former industrial heartlands of the Ruhr, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) nearly tripled its vote share, exploiting the anger and frustration over the decades-long policies of social devastation of the establishment parties.
The fight for a genuine pay rise and parity is not only a fight against the profiteers of Stagecoach, Metroline and First Bus, but also against the leadership of Unite and the Labour authority’ entrenched relations with the private operators.
Trump would have liked the trip to serve as a distraction from persistent questions over his own relationship with Epstein, but the Mandelson saga meant the scandal has followed him over the Atlantic with renewed force.
More rifts have erupted in the Coalition since Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley sacked Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from the shadow ministry last week.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a joint appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to inaugurate what Netanyahu called the “concluding moves” in the US-Israeli onslaught on Gaza: the conquest and destruction of Gaza City.
The aim of the producers of the Emmy broadcast was to prevent any commentary on the explosive events in the US or mass murder in the Middle East.
On podcasts and television appearances, leading figures from the Trump administration have vowed to use the full weight of the state to go after all who do not properly venerate the white supremacist propagandist.
These crises are symptoms of a nationwide assault on public education and the social rights of the working class.
The World Socialist Web Site denounces this witch-hunt, which is aimed not only at silencing teachers but the working class. We call for a nationwide defense campaign, centered in the working class, to answer the attempt to ban all criticism of the extreme right.
Following their repatriation back to South Korea, workers are speaking out on the deplorable conditions they endured after being kidnapped by the immigration Gestapo.
Kilmeade’s suggestion to “just kill” the mentally ill homeless carries a chilling historical resonance with the clandestine Nazi program known as Aktion T4, aimed at eliminating people with mental and physical disabilities whom the Nazis deemed “genetically defective” and a “financial burden” to society.
The public sector unions oppose any genuine mobilisation of their members to fight Labor’s attacks on art gallery and museum workers.
The US, Australia and New Zealand are seeking to militarise the entire Pacific region and to put an end to China’s economic and diplomatic influence.
These greetings from Socialist Equality Party (US) national chairman David North were sent to the founding congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, held on June 13–15, 2025.
Washington’s claims that its military operations are aimed at interdicting drugs are belied by the scale and speed of the military buildup in the Caribbean.
A Texas State University professor and labor historian was fired after being accused of inciting violence against the US government.
Children on free school meals are less likely to take up costlier subjects at GCSE level like music, geography and foreign languages than their better off counterparts.
In this city of vast wealth residents of Westbury and Coronationville have been forced to block off streets with bricks, stones and burning tyres to demand water. Post-apocalyptic conditions have rapidly emerged.
The courting of the fascist in the White House, instigated by an equally despised Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a grotesque celebration of wealth and military power, is a provocation against the working class.
Labor is transforming Perth, which is adjacent to the Indian Ocean, into one of US imperialism’s most important bases for aggressive naval operations as it accelerates its war drive against China.
If there is any individual whom Kirk most closely resembled, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.
In appealing to Trump, the union chiefs have aligned themselves with the would-be dictator, who is preparing to deploy troops all over the country, including New York City, to crush resistance in the working class.
The scheduled September 10 trial of 26 framed-up Alton Estate workers has been postponed until December because police failed to produce their main witnesses.
Surrounded by politicians and cabinet officials, Trump indicated that Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore would face similar occupations in the near future.
The unprecedented cancellation of the final stage of Spain’s Vuelta a España on Sunday has reverberated internationally, underscoring mass opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
Amid the 11th COVID wave in the US, Kennedy is dismantling federal vaccine policy and scientific institutions and eroding decades of public health progress in the service of a radical, anti-vaccine political agenda.
The UAW bureaucracy is rushing to shut down the strike to prevent any further disruption to the Trump administration's war plans.
After weeks of delay, New York Governor Kathy Hochul endorsed the Democratic candidate in the New York City mayoral election on Sunday. She is the first top Democratic Party leader to do so.
Aligning itself with the global shift of the ruling class toward militarism and attacks on the working class, the Romanian government is dismantling social and democratic rights won through generations of struggle.
The strike was shut down as it was garnering broader support, including from performers at the upcoming Farm Aid concert.
Tricolor made loans to low-income residents and immigrants, often without a Social Security number, financed with credit from banks and private investment firms, including some of the major names in the finance world.
The prospect of extensive school closures looms over the Austin Independent School District (AISD) after nearly a third of its schools received failing marks from the Texas Education Agency (TEA).
Some 60,000 members of the National Union of Social Security Nurses in Peru went on strike September 9, while the union for 55,000 Canada post workers lifted its overtime ban in a blatant act of capitulation.
Trump’s Executive Order imposes authoritarian aesthetics for buildings, codifies kitsch and signals a broader assault on cultural freedom.
The embrace of Kirk reached a high point Monday when the Canadian parliament gave the far-right provocateur a standing ovation.
While ZF workers demonstrated their readiness to fight for their jobs, the protests merely served as leverage for the works council and IG Metall to become involved in the development of the restructuring program.
A wave of job destruction is sweeping across Germany. The trade unions, led by IG Metall, are closing ranks with corporations and the government.
This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.
The UK Health and Safety Executive reported 124 work-related deaths in 2024/25, while 1.7 million people self-reported ill health related to work the previous year.
The dam, which has the potential to transform the lives of millions of people in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa and East Africa, is mired in toxic geopolitics. Denouncing the dam as an “existential” threat, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he would use “all available means to defend Egypt’s interests”.
The event was not national, there was no action and the unions were largely absent.
Fain shamelessly touted his support for the fascist in the White House as the administration ramped up its drive toward dictatorship and issued violent threats against opponents on the left.
Trump told Fox News that Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena asked him to send troops to Memphis, St. Louis and Chicago, three cities critical for the rail industry.
A strike by Kaiser nurses would be a major step in creating the conditions for a movement of the working class against fascism and corporate oligarchy. But for this to take place, Kaiser workers must also prepare a fight against the union bureaucracy.
The interim government will be a right-wing capitalist administration, relying on the military’s support, focused on restoring a semblance of political stability in the wake of mass protests.
The very fact that various political figures are now assassinated with such regularity speaks of a crisis in the entire governance and security system. Simply put, the ruling class cannot rule in the old way.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is being seized on by the Trump administration to implement a coordinated assault on democratic rights and on mounting opposition to its preparations for a police state dictatorship.
Neil Young: “No more money to the fascists The billionaire fascists Time to blackout the system”
Over 200,000 Palestinians in Gaza, or over 10 percent of the population, have been killed or injured during the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, the former chief of Israel’s military said last week.
While “crime” is the pretext for troop deployments, the real goal is the buildup of a military-police dictatorship in America.
The claim by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Left Party, the trade unions and the media that an alliance of all so-called “democrats” would stop the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is being refuted every day.
Telecom strike in India; Patricia Hearst arrested; McCarran Act authorizes mass detention of leftists; Trotsky’s “Where Is Britain Going?” published in US.
The far-right ACT and NZ First parties are seeking to legitimise Kirk’s anti-immigrant and racist views in order to divide and suppress the working class.
Through the public vilification of a young scientist, the Trump administration has sent an intimidating message to the academic community, created a precedent for the further persecution of Chinese scholars, and whipped up anti-Chinese sentiment to advance its agenda of economic confrontation and war.
