The tariff on a large range of countries is not determined by the tariffs they actually levy, but is calculated to include the effect of a range of internal measures, including taxes, subsidies and regulations, that the administration has determined are inimical to US interests.
During a year in which workers saw their living standards devastated by inflation and thousands of UAW members lost their jobs, the army of UAW bureaucrats in the union’s Detroit national headquarters had a prosperous 2024.
The Pentagon has sent six of its B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean—within striking distance of Iran—or 30 percent of the entire US stealth bomber fleet.
The initiation of mass firings of over 20,000 scientists and public health workers at the Department of Health and Human Services marks a historic turning point in the collapse of American democracy and the Trump administration’s efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship in the United States.
According to the absurd ruling, the no strike clause in the ATU contract not only prohibits striking during the term of the contract, which would be bad enough, but all potential strikes in the future.
Under conditions of exploding income inequality, widespread poverty and inflation-driven real wages cuts, the parties campaigning for the April 28 federal election are offering phony “affordability” measures that don’t even amount to a Band-Aid.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has given his support to an extreme right-wing campaign making lurid and baseless insinuations that Green MP Benjamin Doyle is a paedophile.
Confirming their collaboration with the Trump administration’s fascistic attacks on free speech, several university administrations have announced they will fully cooperate with a right-wing congressional committee formed to attack student protesters.
The political significance of our contract battle is becoming ever clearer. Every effort is being made to prevent us from organising an all-out strike and enforcing our justified wage demands.
Tensions in ruling circles have markedly sharpened amid a worsening economic crisis and growing fears of an eruption of opposition by workers, peasants and youth.
To avoid friction with the Armed Forces, infested with fascist apologists for the dictatorship, the official policy of the Lula government was to ignore the date.
Within the political straitjacket of the US two-party system, the only alternatives to the fascist Republicans were right-wing, pro-corporate Democrats.
Virtually no one believes that the last-minute election pledges, even if they were to be kept, would make any real difference to the lives or prospects of workers and their families.
Israel’s Attorney-General Galia Beharav-Miara has greenlighted war crimes against the Palestinians. As she acknowledged in her defence, she gave her legal support for the government’s “operational approach to Gaza.”
The Starmer government is using the Birmingham strike as a test case, whose defeat would be used as a springboard for imposing its austerity agenda.
The Russian ruling class is hoping that a negotiated settlement with the United States over the war in Ukraine will give it some relief as falling oil revenues and military-industrial expenditures blow a hole in the federal budget.
The SEP urges workers, students, young people and all those seeking an alternative to Labor, the Liberal-Nationals and the Greens to attend the online meeting on Thursday April 10.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, the DSA Democrat shed her previous “left” lip service and pined for a Democratic Party that used the rhetoric of “economic populism” to advance the interests of US imperialism.
In line with IMF demands, the government’s attack on workers’ allowances and its minimal pay increase are aimed at drastically slashing state expenditure.
Taal’s case is part of a broader system of state terror now unfolding in the United States. Dissent is being criminalized and the legal architecture of dictatorship is being constructed.
The World Socialist Web Site has received a large volume of correspondence from railroaders at BNSF, in response to an interview published earlier this year.
Yale Law School fired law scholar Doutaghi on Friday in violation of her rights to speak against the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and to defend herself against false accusations published by an AI-generated pro-Zionist website.
The government’s attitude to working people in Australia is in line with its callous indifference to the plight of earthquake victims in Myanmar for whom it is providing just 11 cents per person in aid.
The Trump administration is gutting agencies, systematically firing scientists and health workers without cause and dispensing with thousands of years of collective knowledge and expertise.
The growth of extreme wildfire activity is being driven by climate change while resources to fight disasters are being diverted to preparations for war.
The growing economic crisis has been highlighted by the fall in the value of the rupiah to levels not seen since the Asian financial crisis of 2008.
A total of 38,631 young people aged 15–24 made homelessness services requests without family support or stable housing in 2023–24.
The nurses union has kept its members on the job without a contract, despite growing demands for action over worsening conditions.
CTU officials, Mayor Johnson and the news media are conspiring to conceal the full impact of Trump's historic cuts on Chicago schools.
Every bakery in Gaza operated by the United Nations World Food Program closed Tuesday due to shortages of food and fuel caused by the ongoing Israeli blockade.
Thirty-five years after its dissolution, a stream of television films and documentaries continue to be made about the GDR, presenting the state solely as a brutal dictatorship demonstrating the failure of socialism.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
If there is one takeaway from this episode, it is how panicked the Communication Workers Union leadership becomes when they are faced with even a hint of organised opposition in the workplace.
Before a gathered crowd of senior officers, Kahariri said, “We cannot have anarchy as a country. Even as people exercise their freedom, they must do so within certain limits.”
Attempts by the capitalist state to ban fascist politicians or parties will not stop war or attacks on democratic rights, but set the stage for attacks on the left and the working class.
Ordinary people are hostile to the program of war and dictatorship embodied by Trump, but the capitalist parties are in a competition over who can work best with the would-be dictator in the White House.
The new measures would represent the most aggressive US siege against Venezuela’s economy thus far, posing the threat of mass death and a renewed exodus.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an extensive article on US involvement in the Ukraine war entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.”
The HWU bureaucracy is attempting to turn one section of its membership against the rest. This divisive action must be opposed!
The Israeli military murdered and then bulldozed the bodies and ambulances of Palestinian and UN aid workers who attempted to retrieve casualties after Israeli forces launched an offensive in the Tel al-Sultan district of the southern city of Rafah.
President Prabowo Subianto, a former general in the Suharto regime, is taking a step towards dictatorial rule, amid a massive social crisis and an international political shift to the right by the ruling class.
The Trumpian statements by Winston Peters point to rising fears in the entire political establishment of the growing shift to the left among workers and youth.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the Communications Electrical and Plumbers Union sought to undermine the struggle from the outset.
Elon Musk’s giveaway of million-dollar checks is only the most garish and crass of the interventions by the super-rich behind the Republican and Democratic candidates in this closely contested state.
The exhibition came under vicious attack by the far-right StopAntisemitism on X.
At food banks throughout the country, deliveries of millions of dollars’ worth of food were abruptly stopped last week by the Trump administration as hunger across America grows.
At the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany, David North, chairman of the WSWS Editorial Board, introduced the newly released German translation of his book Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War. We are publishing here the introduction to North’s remarks by Johannes Stern.
Taal is one of hundreds of international students facing imprisonment and deportation for exercising their First Amendment rights.
The so-called “antisemitism” resolution passed by the German parliament in the midst of the recent federal election campaign makes clear that the ruling class intends to continue its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Cruz K-12 and Paz Elementary will close at the end of the year, while CTU works to prevent any opposition to the winding down of operations.
The Noboa-Trump meeting should sound the alarm over a conspiracy to use the state of exception and the threat of a US military intervention to overturn an election and establish an openly fascistic dictatorship.
Premier Smith’s ultimatum and the spectre it invokes of an “unprecedented national unity crisis” are an implicit threat that if the Alberta government’s demands are not met the province could secede from Canada and appeal for Trump’s support.
Brazil Petrobras oil workers staged a nationwide strike March 28, while 5,000 workers and students marched in Chile on Sunday against regressive changes to pensions.
Last week Skadden Arps, the world’s fifth largest law firm, capitulated to Trump while two smaller firms obtained temporary restraining orders against his fascistic executive decrees.
The growing movement of the working class in Belgium is developing under conditions of rising opposition to militarism continent-wide.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK)’s Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps visited the Foreign Office in London Monday afternoon.
As huge protests gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to demand İmamoglu’s release, President Erdoğan, the commander-in-chief of NATO’s second largest army, accused the CHP of serving imperialism.
“The alternatives as posed by Rosa Luxemburg, ‘Socialism or Barbarism,’ confronts us all today. The alarm has been sounded. Now we must respond to it.”
The administrations of the major universities in the United States are playing an absolutely foul role in facilitating the reign of terror against free speech and democratic rights being implemented by the Trump administration.
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to build an independent movement of the working class against Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, the Greens and capitalism itself.
Postal workers, outraged at the betrayals of the trade unions, discussed what needed to be done now to protect jobs, which included unifying all sections of the working class in a common struggle against oligarchy and dictatorship.
France and Britain pledged to send troops to Ukraine, risking total war with Russia, amid rising US-European tensions as Washington and the EU both try to seize Ukrainian mineral resources.
A broad coalition of Spanish cultural workers has issued a powerful manifesto opposing the European Union’s rearmament programme and denouncing NATO’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
We fully support Khalil and Taal and our comrades in the IYSSE and Socialist Equality Party in the US, who are in the forefront of defending the democratic rights of students, youth and immigrants, and all workers facing the Trump administration’s savage assault on jobs.
This Freedom of Information decision further exposes the anti-democratic character of Australia’s electoral laws and the AEC’s totally obscure use of them against the Socialist Equality Party.
In an interview Sunday morning Fain reiterated his support for the tariff and trade war policies of fascist President Donald Trump.
The charges against “Last Generation” are a massive attack on the freedoms of association, assembly and expression.
By choosing Boeing to build the “next-generation” F-47, the Trump administration is reaffirming the American state’s support for a critical defense contractor.
The sudden elimination of the $236 million program marks a complete capitulation by the university to the fascist Trump administration.
Dr. Peter Marks made clear that a central impetus behind his resignation was Kennedy’s criminal response to the deepening measles outbreak in the US, which has now infected over 500 people, the vast majority unvaccinated children.
The massive disaster has struck a country already reeling from widespread poverty, food insecurity and civil war.
Nine months of intense scrutiny, by the media, state and federal police task forces and inquiries launched by governments and the administrator himself, have unearthed virtually nothing.
The City Council’s plan to cut funding to LAHSA does not address the root causes of homelessness; instead, it ensures that corporate profiteers will control the flow of resources.
Mass jobs protest in Britain; Chiang Kai-shek dies; US longshore leader witch-hunted; Eisenstein films Battleship Potemkin.
This is a gripping film, without nostalgic working class romanticism or "proletarian hero" pathos, and also without the moralistically tinged tone of petty-bourgeois intellectuals, which characterises many other socially critical films.
The raid on the group’s publicly advertised meeting at Westminster Quaker Meeting House, a little over half a mile from Downing Street, is a major escalation in the Starmer Labour government’s assault on democratic rights.
[In Detail…The Toxic Waste Scandal, a documentary in eight parts on the birth defects scandal in UK town Corby. Available on BBC Sounds in the UK.
US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance doubled down Thursday and Friday on their threats to annex Greenland, which Trump previously threatened to conquer by force.
The United Auto Workers’ endorsement of Trump’s auto tariffs amounts to a declaration of support for world war.
The deal is already under question, as the European Union made clear on Thursday that it will not honor terms that the Kremlin insists must be implemented for the arrangement to go forward.
The hearing summoned executives from both NPR and PBS to be subjected to fascist lies and conspiracy theories.
While this latest attack on federal workers portends the destruction of previously won protections and hundreds of thousands of layoffs, the union bureaucracy, lined up with the Democratic Party, is proposing no strategy for victory.
As part of their commemoration of the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, the Times aired a special episode of their podcast The Daily titled, “Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?” to which they answer definitively “No.”
More than 700 people have been killed and at least 1,670 injured, but the death toll could rise into the thousands as rescue operations get underway in Myanmar, where the quake was centred.
Like this week’s budget, the election is a conspiracy, involving Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition and all the parliamentary parties, to hide the reality from the working class as much as possible.
The suffering Tamil masses cannot achieve justice or win their democratic rights through the JVP/NPP government or any other capitalist regime.
In just one day, three Italian workers lost their lives in horrific accidents that underscore the criminal negligence of corporate interests and the political establishment in Italy.
The US secretary of defense’s press conference in Manila is indicative of the openly aggressive face of US imperialism under Trump. He spoke of “preparing for war” and “war plans.”
The Department of Health and Human Services and its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced a program of job cuts and agency reorganization aimed at dismantling what remains of the public health infrastructure in the US.
Why didn’t the Academy strenuously come to Ballal’s defense in its first public response to the events?
The US auto giants are the most affected but every auto company in the world is impacted with major adverse consequences for American workers whom Trump, with the support of the trade union bureaucracy, falsely claims to be defending.
Unifor is the largest private-sector union in Canada, with approximately 320,000 members, including over 35,000 employed in the auto sector who will be directly impacted by expected slowdowns and layoffs as a result of the tariffs, which are set to go into effect on April 2.
After four and a half months of constant protests, the Serbian capital Belgrade recently witnessed the biggest demonstration since the breakup of Yugoslavia more than 30 years ago.
Some 16,000 workers at public transit operator BVG took limited strike action March 26-28 in support of their demand for a wage increase of €750 per month, while the Verdi union was entering closed-door arbitration with the employers, blocking any further strikes, despite mass support for all-out action.
The new TRO motion lays bare the government’s efforts to criminalize pro-Palestinian speech and carry out retaliatory arrests under the pretext of two executive orders signed by President Trump.
São Paulo teachers are fighting not only against the local allies of the fascist ex-president Bolsonaro, but also against the unions that have isolated and betrayed their struggles.
South Korea: Hyundai Steel workers strike again over wages; Philippines: Jeepney drivers hold three-day national strike; Pakistan: Punjab health workers protest privatisation; Australia: Healthscope nurses continue rolling stoppages; New Zealand medical lab workers strike
Booker Omole’s outburst reveals critical questioning among CPM-K members, particularly youth, who are asking questions about perspective, programme and leadership.
As the wave of unlawful arrests and detentions launched by the government to suppress mass protests continues, videos and testimonies of brutal police violence and torture are emerging.
