The US State Department declared Tuesday that Israel is not committing “gross violations of human rights” by withholding food to Gaza, effectively endorsing Israel’s policy of deliberately seeking to exterminate the population of Gaza through starvation.
Social anger is growing among workers as mass job cuts and factory closures across the US and the world.
For the first time at BVG, the rank-and-file “Action Committee” is running a slate of candidates and calling for workers to break the dictatorial control exercised by the Verdi trade union and for independent rank-and-file committees to be set up in all depots and departments.
The two priorities of the incoming administration are preparing for war with China and arresting and deporting millions of migrants.
While the two previous strikes were national events, this time, workers in Sydney marched alone, cut off from the majority of building workers.
More than 1,700 nurses set to strike indefinitely at University of Illinois Health in Chicago demanding better pay and safer working conditions for themselves and their patients.
The results gave a glimpse of the massive gulf between the militarism of the ruling class, and the growing anti-war sentiment of working people.
The leaders of United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals (UMMAP) called of the one-day strike less than 24 hours before it was scheduled to begin in exchange for a meaningless “memorandum of understanding” from the University of Michigan hospital administration regarding contract negotiations.
The public response reflects intense concern over the Albanese government’s bid to suppress online material that is deemed to be politically or economically harmful.
There have been warnings that the US tariff hikes could rival those of the infamous Smoot-Hawley measures of the 1930s which led to a global trade war and played a significant role in creating the conditions for the eruption of World War 2.
The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is not an alternative to the established parties, but rather an attempt to erect new props for capitalist rule in the midst of the deepest global crisis of capitalism.
The official inaction at the floods that cost at least 223 lives also exposes the political complicity of the CCOO and UGT union bureaucracies, who are tied to the ruling PSOE and Sumar parties.
The CRT proposes that protests impotently appeal to Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government to compel Israel to stop the genocide, whereas that government is deliberately and consciously sending arms to Israel to carry out the genocide.
Hardly a day goes by without a German company announcing massive job cuts at an international or national level.
A resolution adopted by a large majority called for the building of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at every Canada Post location in opposition to the CUPW bureaucracy, and the launching of a political struggle against the Trudeau government, which backs Canada Post’s concessions demands to the hilt.
The Berlin Transport Workers Action Committee is contesting staff council elections being held this week for the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).
Despite the release of the protesters, the Nigerian government has made clear there will be no retreat from its relentless offensive against workers being plunged into extreme poverty by soaring inflation, food insecurity and high unemployment.
An open letter, signed by more than 230 figures in the UK’s media industry, writers and academia, said the public broadcaster had failed to provide “fair and accurate” coverage of the conflict.
The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, opened Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is the third year in a row that the ostensibly highest political meeting to fight climate change is being held in a country that has non-renewable fossil fuels as its main export.
Israel intensified its murderous assault on civilians across Gaza and carried out air strikes on Lebanon over the weekend. Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said the election of Donald Trump means it is time for the Zionist annexation of the West Bank.
The November 10 online meeting hosted by the Socialist Equality Party analyzed the causes and consequences of the Trump victory and elaborated a political strategy for the working class to fight back.
The strike in Australia's most populous state shows that nurses want to fight cuts to their wages and conditions. But they are in a struggle against the Labor government and the union bureaucracy.
Teachers' strikes have begun in three districts on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Strikes began Friday, November 8, by about 800 educators in Beverly and 1,000 in Gloucester. Five hundred Marblehead teachers are set to strike beginning Tuesday, November 12.
The strike by 2,400 Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California has entered its fourth week.
The initial appointments show the fascistic and militaristic character of the incoming Republican administration.
The subject of long-distance war crimes makes this an opera of vital importance.
The auto workers’ union in South Korea is attempting to prevent a broader struggle against job cuts as the car industry around the world prepares a jobs bloodbath as part of the so-called “just transition” to electric vehicles.
As part of the global assault on jobs, 1,800 workers at PPG Industries throughout the United States and Europe will lose their jobs in the coming months. In addition, the company is selling off many of its paint manufacturing plants threatening the jobs of over 6,000 other workers.
No cargo is moving at Canada’s three largest ports following a series of employer lockouts, while military police in São Paulo last week attacked students and educators opposing privatization.
The employers on both coasts have crippled Canada’s largest port operations with the aim of compelling the Trudeau Liberal government to intervene to enforce pro-company contracts through binding arbitration or other anti-democratic means.
Trump’s threat that the US could end support for NATO unless the European powers significantly up their budgets for military spending, his declaration that he intends to end the “loser” war in Ukraine, and threats to increase tariffs on all goods being imported into the US have sent a shudder through Britan’s ruling elite.
After nearly two months on the picket line, the walkout by 525 Eaton Aerospace workers in Jackson, Michigan is in danger of defeat unless rank-and-file autoworkers break the isolation of the struggle by the UAW bureaucracy.
The policy is an attack on students and graduates, who will be made to pay for the economic crisis through fee hikes.
The past three months have demonstrated that the fight against Labor’s administration of the CFMEU requires a rank-and-file movement independent of the ousted union leadership.
Members of United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals (UMMAP), 4,500 technicians at the University of Michigan health system in Ann Arbor are scheduled for a one-day strike on Tuesday, November 12.
The official account of the Amsterdam clashes is an abominable lie, using false accusations of antisemitism against Amsterdamers as a political tool to defend fascism and the Gaza genocide.
The re-election of the billionaire fascist as US president places an eruption of class struggle on the agenda in the United States and across Europe.
The fraudulent practices targeting consumers are a component of a broader offensive by governments and big corporations against working people.
We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our international socialist perspective and on that basis prepare for the class struggles ahead.
The Labor government last week issued new regulations to allow the immigration minister to reimpose outlawed curfews and ankle bracelets on released detainees.
It was not a bailout for local governments but a debt swap which is not expected to provide a major boost to the economy now experiencing its lowest growth in more than three decades.
The Biden administration has authorized US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine in a major escalation of US involvement in the war with Russia.
It was reportedly the largest protest march in Valencia’s history, mobilizing a large portion of the metropolitan area’s 2.5 million inhabitants.
The end of Germany’s coalition government heralds a further intensification of the class struggle and the pro-war policy. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) is standing in the early federal election to arm workers with a socialist perspective.
The presentation, so brief as to be little more than a public service announcement, signals an abandonment of efforts to prevent the emergence of a wider avian flu pandemic.
Workers reporting to work faced the chilling spectacle of security in tactical gear blocking entry to the plant.
The settlement does not cover the costs for reconstructing the bridge, which is the subject of a separate suit brought by the state of Maryland against the ship owner and operator.
The film, now streaming and popular with audiences, has certain strengths, including one quite moving scene but also banal and grating aspects.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
As of Friday, the fire has destroyed more than 130 structures, mostly residential homes and has damaged 88 others.
A major sellout is in the making behind closed doors in ongoing talks with Transport for London officials on behalf of the London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Four days after the US elections, fascist President-Elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party is nearing control of all levers of federal governmental power.
The University of Michigan has filed a complaint against the campus chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine, threatening to suspend the organization for two to four years. The IYSSE denounces this attack on the campus organization and the democratic rights of all students and faculty, and demands that the complaint be rescinded.
The real focus of the Biden administration has always been to ensure “Boeing’s future as a critical part of America’s aerospace sector,” by which Biden means the corporation’s role as the chief US exporter and major defense contractor.
On Friday, the United Nations’ Human Rights Office published a report showing that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths in Gaza are of women and children, adding further evidence that Israel is waging a war of extermination in Gaza.
Last Friday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) issued an immediate “interim” suspension of graduate student Prahlad Iyengar for penning an article titled “On Pacifism” in an MIT student magazine Written Revolution opposing Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza. The publication itself has been banned from campus.
Indian Prime Minister Modi and Sri Lankan President Dissanayake were quick to publicly hail Trump’s victory.
While NATO governments are outraged that five Israeli football hooligans were briefly taken to hospital, they support the mass murder of defenseless Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The move is wholly inadequate in dealing with the mounting cost-of-living crisis and is a cynical attempt to garner support as a federal election looms.
Labor’s primary preoccupation is the continuation of the AUKUS pact and the aggressive US-led confrontation with China that threatens a catastrophic war.
The National Health and Medical Research Council is aiming to play down the major health risks posed by the presence of PFAS in the drinking water supply.
The meeting will enable postal workers to voice their concerns and demands, and discuss the PWRFC’s strategy to counter the union bureaucrats conniving with Canada Post management to impose yet another concessions-filled contract on us.
Countless millions in the United States and throughout the world are stunned by the outcome of the election, which was made possible by the policies of the Democratic Party. But the shock is turning into disgust as they witness the Democrats’ craven surrender to Trump.
The rich are satisfied with life, the aspiring petty bourgeois worries about his or her property and status, the workers and rural poor are overworked and angry.
South Korea: Strike at Hyundai Transys enters fourth week; Bangladesh: Tea gardens workers still on strike; Australia: Qube Port workers voting to extend action; Nurses and midwives walk out at Healthscope’s Northern Beaches Hospital
The resolution aims to defend Israel's genocide against the Palestinians and to criminalise any criticism of it under the false accusation of “antisemitism."
With the election of US President Donald Trump, a chorus is growing that all delays to raising military spending must end and that it is hiked higher than presently planned.
President Biden and Vice President Harris have pledged full cooperation with the incoming fascist president-elect, while issuing no warning to the American people of the dangers of mass repression and rule by force.
The UAW bureaucracy is collaborating with Stellantis to eliminate a shift at the giant plant in northwestern Ohio.
More than 50 visitors attended the lecture by Peter Schwarz, who spoke about the current relevance of Leon Trotsky’s perspective.
Like the Democrats in the US, which with their arrogance towards the falling living standards of the working masses, their support for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and their anti-refugee deportation policy paved the way for the fascist Trump to return to the White House, the SPD also strengthens the most right-wing elements with its policies.
When did Sanders reach this epiphany? Since running for president in 2016, the “democratic socialist” from Vermont has used left phraseology to cover for the Democrats’ right-wing agenda while at the same time rallying his supporters behind the viciously anti-worker presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
“I can’t sleep thinking about what would happen if I lost my job because I didn’t meet the standards a few times and my average wasn’t high enough.”
Powell pointedly sidestepped a question about how his picture of a “strong” economy contrasted so markedly with the lived experience of millions of workers and their families struggling with a significant reduction in their living standards.
The writers' statement accuses the Zionist state of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide.”
This research reinforces the scientific consensus that the only viable strategy to limit catastrophic climate change requires drastic and immediate emissions cuts.
The National Party-led coalition government has hailed Trump’s victory and called for closer military cooperation with the US in the Indo-Pacific region, where US-led preparations for war against China are already far advanced.
With the lockout of dock foremen on Canada’s Pacific Coast entering its fifth day and the partial strike of longshoremen in Montreal now in its ninth day, big business interests, political officials and their mouthpieces in the country’s mainstream press are clamouring once again for government intervention.
A recent report from the Education Data Intiative exposes the fact that the world’s richest imperialist country has underfunded schools for decades. It indicts the US for failing to meet global benchmarks for education and, despite economic growth, allocating proportionally less for schools.
Strike by German air force engineers joined by one-day stoppage by 10,000 Mercedes engineers demanding 7 percent pay rise; nurses across Iran strike against collapsing living conditions, retirees continue protests while government imprisons three workers for protesting; pay strike at Mr Sweet in South Africa ends after union accepts offer workers rejected
The giant auto producer like all its major competitors has seized on the transition to EV production to cut jobs and labour costs at the expense of its global workforce, including slashing thousands of jobs in the US and Italy.
Ukraine has been shattered as its people were used as NATO cannon fodder to attack Russia, and opposition to the war is mounting among Ukrainian workers and soldiers.
The Thompsontown closure is another in a string of plant closures and layoffs throughout Pennsylvania and more broadly.
Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is considering closing 13 schools.
The police crackdown, being coordinated at the highest levels of government and the state, marks a further step in the criminalisation of opposition to war.
The Democratic Party lost at least three Senate seats, and possibly as many as seven, while largely failing in its efforts to gain seats in the House.
After a year of negotiations and more than one hundred bargaining sessions between CUPW and management, Canada Post workers are not any clearer as to if or when the union will authorize job action.
A significant article in the Financial Times characterised the US as a gilded economy with a “shiny but thin veneer.”
Since the Transport Workers Action Committee published a statement in support of its candidates for the staff council elections at Berlin’s regional transport provider (BVG), a lively discussion has been taking place among workers at the company.
WSU is becoming a prototype for the Labor government's Universities Accord, channelling students and research into war-related industries.
Trump owes his political triumph to the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, whose fixation with the identity politics of the affluent middle class, arrogant indifference to the devastating impact of inflation on workers’ living standards and unrelenting support for war in Ukraine and genocide in Gaza prepared the ground for the election debacle.
“How can the CWU allow Royal Mail to dismiss this lad unchallenged, whilst frauding the public daily on a seismic scale?”
Gallant is a vicious war hawk, whose disagreements with Netanyahu are over how best to assert Zionism’s interests militarily.
The appointment of trustees to replace elected mayors is a blatant attack on basic democratic rights. The Socialist Equality Group condemns this anti-democratic police state repression and calls for the reinstatement of elected mayors.
The harsh condemnation of Netanyahu by Erdogan who heads the second largest army of NATO, cannot hide the complicity of the Turkish bourgeoisie in the Gaza genocide.
The disastrous consequences of Trump’s victory can be averted only by “a new birth” of genuinely socialist politics, based on the working class and animated by an international strategy that unites global humanity.
While the votes are still being counted and no official results have been announced, it is all but certain that Donald Trump has won the US presidential election. This not so much a victory for Trump as it is a debacle for the Democratic Party.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers at the polls in Detroit on Election Day about their thoughts on the candidates and the striking abyss between the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and the main issues facing the working class.
The JVP/NPP’s preparation to ban all strikes is a clear expression of the fascistic character of its program, which has always been inherent in its virulent Sinhala chauvinism.
The company is also seeking to impose further real wage cuts for remaining workers at the facility.
