English
Latest articles

New Jersey Transit commuter rail engineers launch strike

The strike, taking place on the outskirts of New York City, the center of world finance, poses the need for a general confrontation between the working class and the capitalist ruling elite.

Alan Whyte, Tom Hall

Trump administration junks committee on preventing infections in hospitals

The dismantling of HICPAC creates a situation where updates of standards for best practices will have to be undertaken at the state or local level, or possibly at the level of the individual facility. This will force facilities and practitioners to adhere to differing standards based potentially more on regional political pressure than on widely accepted scientific evidence.

T.J. Garrison

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Food processing workers in Bihar walk out over unpaid bonus and poor conditions; South Korea: Seoul bus drivers threaten to strike over pay; Australia: Allied Pinnacle bakery workers strike for pay rise.

Romania goes to second round of presidential election

The first-round win of fascist candidate George Simion exemplifies how the post-Stalinist political setup has served since the restoration of capitalism in Romania to stifle resistance and politically confuse workers, especially using the services of the union bureaucracies and their pseudo-left attendants.

Andrei Tudora

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Rail workers in France, Portugal strike over wages, while wildcat action closes Brussels metro; Iranian oil workers, truck drivers, workers in healthcare and textiles, plus retirees protest collapsing living standards and infrastructure; around 700 municipal workers in KwaDukuza, South Africa walk out over unfulfilled promised pay uplift

Smith’s snack food workers strike in South Australia

While United Workers Union officials described PepsiCo’s pay offer as “insulting,” the union’s claim is scarcely higher and would still leave workers worse off in real terms than they were in 2019.

Martin Scott

Trump and the American oligarchy dine with Saudi despot Mohammed Bin Salman

Beyond the business transactions, there can be little doubt that Trump and the other American oligarchs saw in their Saudi hosts kindred spirits. They aspire to establish a dictatorship in the US to rival Bin Salman’s in lawlessness and brutality, as shown by Trump’s actions since his return to the White House.

Jordan Shilton

Workers Struggles: The Americas

A militant strike by transit workers across Argentina halted buses in major industrial centers, while teachers in Alberta, Canada voted down a mediated deal recommended by their union.

India-Pakistan conflict threatens nuclear catastrophe

India and Pakistan, South Asia’s rival nuclear powers, are on the brink of all-out war. Such a conflict would be catastrophic, not only for the region’s 2 billion people, but for the entire world.

Keith Jones
  • Latest articles
  • Browse by month: