The Macron administration is setting out to build a fascistic dictatorship in France, paralleling Trump’s civil war policies in America, against mass working class opposition.
Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media simply moved on.
President Dissanayake’s November 7 budget speech to the parliament will include new IMF directives.
The judges declared that charges potentially carrying indefinite terms of imprisonment could be laid against anyone who joined a planned anti-genocide march to the Sydney Opera House.
The move is aimed at ensuring the loyalty of soldiers ordered into action against the American population.
In response to a Chinese decision to tighten controls on rare earth exports, Trump has made some of his most bellicose statements in the tariff war.
The IG Metall bargaining committee intends to approve the wage contract it negotiated for 60,000 employees in metal and steel companies in northern and western Germany. In doing so, the union wants to create the conditions for another wave of job cuts.
Secret notes taken during a Five Eyes meeting in May 2024 make clear that the US and its allies are moving with urgency to coordinate their militaries for an all-out war against China.
Boluarte left office with a 93 percent disapproval rating, with 0 percent approval among young people and in southern Peru, known as "deep Peru."
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Rail crash linked to UK privatization; South Africa invades Angola; US-backed forces take Pyongyang, North Korea; Syrian rebels advance in Damascus.
The resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu after only 27 days in office and his reappointment Friday evening is not simply another government crisis, such as France has repeatedly experienced over the past three decades. It is a crisis of capitalist rule.
This is the latest attack by the Trump administration on higher education in an American version of the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung, that is, the synchronization of culture, education and more into the arms of the state as a propaganda tool.
California’s SB 79 strengthens corporate control over housing while deepening inequality
New charges have been brought by the administration against pro-Palestinian protesters.
The “Trump of the Czech Republic” exploited widespread rejection of the anti-social militarist policies of the outgoing government and the lack of any political alternative.
Kehoe’s SNAP order serves as a cost-cutting measure for the state that stigmatizes the poor and funnels federal dollars toward “Missouri-grown” agribusiness, extending his broader drive against democratic and social rights.
Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.
With plans advanced for the transformation of Gaza into a US protectorate and amid scenes of desperate Palestinians returning to homes in ruins, platform speakers doubled down on their politically bankrupt appeals to the Starmer government to finally end its collusion with Israel.
The works of Millet and the Barbizon School endure not only as historical documents but as visionary meditations on humanity, nature, and the role of the artist in imagining a more just society.
Far from opposing Trump’s coming dictatorship, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, following in the footsteps of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has deployed State police to protect the immigration Gestapo.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.
Nineteen workers are missing after mass detonation at a Tennessee munitions plant, exposing the deadly consequences of deregulation.
The Trump administration has begun issuing reductions-in-force notices to federal employees, marking an escalation in its use of the shutdown to impose structural cuts on government services and seize personal control over the government.
It is critical for striking Genesys workers to broaden their fight, mobilizing maximum support from the working class, including autoworkers, in the region and around the state.
For her beauty, intelligence and personal strength, she was sought out by many filmmakers.
With the appointment of Lieutenant General Christian Freuding as the new Inspector of the Army, the German government has taken another step in its aggressive rearmament and war preparations.
The indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday by a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, is an escalation of Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of the Department of Justice to pursue criminal actions against his political enemies.
National Security Investigations (NSI) teams are targeting groups allegedly harming Australia’s “social fabric.”
Just days before his scheduled execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay to Rob Roberson, a Texas death row inmate convicted largely on the basis of discredited Shaken Baby Syndrome evidence.
The NZ government, following the example of the US Trump administration, is seeking to demonise opposition to imperialist war and suppress democratic rights.
This lecture reviews the Wohlforth–Fields breach of party security in the Workers League in 1974 and the event’s significance in the origins of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Federal prosecutors, led by Trump ally Bill Essayli, arrested one man for the Los Angeles fires as they attempt to deflect blame from corporate negligence, state underfunding, and capitalist decay.
India: Andhra Pradesh construction workers strike for overdue wages; Himachal Pradesh emergency ambulance workers walkout; Sri Lanka: Public sector health workers strike over management harassment; Australia: Rix’s Creek miners walk out in New South Wales; Hydro Tasmania specialised workers strike for pay rise.
Postal workers must reject the union bureaucracy’s sabotage, organize rank-and-file committees in every workplace, and take the fight into our own hands!
During his first six months in office, Carney has moved to impose Trump-style policies, dramatically hiking military spending, initiating a new era of “austerity,” criminalizing the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike, and ordering the dismantling of Canada Post as a public service.
The massacre was part of the spread to Turkey of the war for regime change in Syria launched in 2011 by Washington and its regional allies, including Ankara.
As a matter of principle, strikes should not be called off until workers have discussed and agreed a deal. This is an attempt to foist on members an agreement worked out between the companies and the union in secret.
What is taking place in America is of the greatest political concern to workers and young people internationally because the US situation only reflects in the most extreme form the same global crisis gripping every other country.
A government led by the bourgeois PS under a despised “president of the rich” would impose the diktat of the banks and strengthen neo-fascist conspiracies to impose a far-right dictatorship.
The White House has been transformed into the headquarters of a conspiracy to legitimize fascism, brand anti-fascism as “terrorism,” and mobilize the repressive machinery of the state against the population.
Deals entered into by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are estimated to cost $1 trillion, even as the company has yet to turn a profit.
California’s AB 715, passed unanimously by Democrats and Republicans, weaponizes “antisemitism prevention” to criminalize anti-Zionist thought while censoring educators and preparing the ideological foundations for dictatorship.
The agreement is yet another step in the Israeli-imperialist plan to dominate Gaza and suppress the national rights of the Palestinian people.
Counting on the compliance of the Democrats, Trump is escalating the attack on federal workers as the government shutdown reaches its tenth day.
Dissanayake’s speech was a pathetic attempt to cover up the reality that poverty in Sri Lanka has drastically worsened under his JVP/NPP administration.
Since the educators held their first strike in 11 years, the Australian Education Union has held back any further action against the Victorian Labor government.
The lyrics to the partially released song “Bad News” by Zach Bryan, denouncing ICE raids and defending immigrant families, have been the subject of a campaign by Trump administration officials against the country music star.
Empowered by the Trump administration and the complicit Democratic Party, ICE and CBP agents are violating the constitutional rights of citizens and immigrants alike with impunity.
Youth-led protests herald the deepening and escalation of workers’ struggles, as demonstrated by the transport strike and an increase in the class struggle across Peru.
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
While nine out of 10 Lufthansa pilots have voted in favour of a strike, their union Vereinigung Cockpit is doing everything it can to prevent one, treating the vote as nothing more than a bargaining chip in talks with company management.
Thousands of nursery, primary and secondary school teachers in Extremadura, Spain walk out over pay; Taftan gold miners protest conditions as demonstrations continue across Iran; police fire on mass anti-government protests in Morocco
Soldier F’s long delayed trial is only one of a stream of contested cases emerging from the decades long “dirty war”.
On Wednesday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is actively preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act, which provides the military the authority to conduct law enforcement operations within the United States under the direction of the president as commander-in-chief.
The court ruling was based on the safety concerns of NSW Police, which has been hostile to pro-Palestinian protests for the past two years and has on several occasions carried out violent attacks against them.
Prepared by the country’s leading official scientific bodies, the report predicts extreme heat and heatwaves, significant sea level rise and increased coastal hazards affecting millions of people.
Commemorative events were held throughout Germany in honour of the 1,200 Israeli victims of the Hamas attack. However, the murder of at least 67,000 Palestinians was not mentioned.
In Germany, rallies have been announced to take place in numerous cities throughout the week with a national demonstration planned in Berlin for Saturday.
Using the language of the “war on terror,” Trump, members of his cabinet and fascist provocateurs invited by the White House threatened to wage domestic and international war on all of Trump’s political opposition, above all, antifascist elements.
By refusing even to acknowledge this conspiracy to use military force against workers, the rail unions show themselves to be tools not only of the railroads but also of the would-be dictator.
The following is an open letter from the WSWS Healthcare Worker Newsletter to the nearly 46,000 Kaiser Permanente workers.
On October 5, 2025, in Amsterdam, the third "Red Line” demonstration took place, marking the largest anti-war protest in the Netherlands since the anti‑nuclear protests in 1981.
The blatant violation of basic constitutional protections coincided with and was encouraged by Trump’s deployment of troops to Chicago.
Harrison was always faithful to his vocation. “I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director,” he said. “Poet covers it all for me.”
The potential splits wracking the opposition Liberal-National Coalition have hardened since one of its most right-wing Liberal Party leaders, Andrew Hastie, quit the shadow cabinet last Friday.
The two candidates in the municipal runoff are both supporters of the Democratic Party and the domination of the city by billionaires.
The rapprochement between the Lula and Trump administrations is a central component of US war preparations against Venezuela.
For the first time, the European Union has imposed sweeping sanctions on German citizens and journalists as part of its sanctions package against Russia.
What is now unravelling in closed-door talks between RMT officials and management is Dempsey’s hollow claim that a “compromise” can be reached which “works on both sides”.
The Freedom Flotilla said in a statement, “Sources so far indicate that the unarmed crew aboard, including doctors, journalists, and elected officials, have been abducted, as well as the vital aid worth over $110,000 USD in medicines, respiratory equipment, and nutritional supplies that were destined for Gaza’s starving hospitals.”
The political imprisonment of Selahattin Demirtaş once again expose the falseness of the claims that the ongoing negotiations between the Turkish government and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) will bring peace and democracy.
The Democrats’ silence is not simply a matter of cowardice or miscalculation. It flows from the class character of the Democratic Party as a party of Wall Street and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The Employees of Conscience accuse studio executives in an open letter of lining up with genocide and investing in pro-Israeli propaganda while helping to suppress Palestinian filmmakers.
Since 2021, all indicators of financial stress have increased. These include having to ask for financial help from family, friends or welfare organisations; being unable to heat one’s home; skipping meals; pawning property, and falling behind on rent, mortgage, or utility payments.
The fire that destroyed the residence of Judge Diane Goodstein on Edisto Island took place under conditions of open incitement by Donald Trump and his fascist lieutenants against members of the judiciary who have ruled against measures aimed at establishing a presidential dictatorship.
This strike is not simply a contract dispute over wages or staffing levels. It is a political confrontation with the corporate oligarchy which is destroying public health.
The rise of US debt to $37 trillion means that the global monetary system is based on the currency of the most indebted country in history, the credit rating of which has been downgraded by the three major agencies of the world.
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
The government aims to push thousands of unemployed 18- and 19-year-olds into low-paid, casualised jobs and into the armed forces.
WIC, a nutrition program serving nearly 7 million pregnant women, new mothers, infants and young children, is threatened with running out of funds due to the government shutdown, and is targeted for $300 million in cuts in Trump’s 2026 budget.
Canada Post presented provocative new offers last Friday that translate the Liberal government’s plans to restructure the post office at workers' expense, through the elimination of tens of thousands of full-time jobs, into contract language.
“If you see a genocide taking place and you’re seeing that your government is aiding and abetting it, what else should you do but disrupt that?”
The African National Congress’s scapegoating of foreigners has paved the way for a wave of far-right vigilantism in South Africa.
While Prime Minister Sébastier Lecornu was unpopular, falling to 15 percent in the polls in just a few weeks, his resignation reflects not a revitalization but a mortal crisis of French democracy.
On the second anniversary of Israel’s launching of the genocide on Gaza, billions of people around the world are outraged by the worst crime against humanity in the 21st century.
The talk of a “Pacific family” is cynical window-dressing for a neo-colonial pact aimed at chaining the oppressed masses of PNG to the imperialist war drive against China.
Hundreds are now living in open fields under tarpaulins or borrowed tents. In San Remigio, nearly 1,000 people are staying in two tent cities.
Goodall demonstrated that the evolutionary origins of many basic human behaviors are shared with our closest biological relatives.
Students are returning to universities this October under extraordinary conditions. The IYSSE is distributing this statement at the beginning of the semester at universities in Germany and calls on students to join us in building a mass movement against war and capitalism among workers and young people.
On Monday, the fascist in the White House threatened to ignore court orders and local politicians who did not submit to his drive to establish a police-military dictatorship.
The strike brings these workers up against the most powerful real estate firms in the world, as well as major supporters of the Trump administration.
Facing public alarm, the Albanese government is trying to blame one company, Optus, for the repeated triple-zero failures since Labor took office in 2022.
The LBO to obtain Electronic Arts includes $35 billion from the consortium, while $20 billion in financing is expected to be provided by JPMorganChase.
By declaring Tylenol a cause of autism, the Trump–Kennedy administration staged a political takeover of science—turning weak associations into official doctrine and using federal health agencies to legitimize ideology over evidence.
The former Navy pilot, first elected to Congress as one of the “CIA Democrats” in 2018, has been the target of improper release of her entire military record by the Trump administration.
An explosive conflict is emerging between the working class and the capitalist political establishment, including pseudo-left parties complicit in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
The Leadership of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, with the collaboration of other city unions, have now lowered the quality of medical care for city workers in order to save the city hundreds of millions of dollars.
This volume presents the documents published during the first year of the Security and the Fourth International investigation, launched by the ICFI in May 1975.
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
