The Sri Lankan meetings were part of the campaign waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International to build a global anti-war movement of the working class against the developing world war.
The sellout of the strike is so naked and blatant that even the corporate press, which usually ignores such matters out of self-interest, has been forced to take note.
Heavily armed immigration agents backed by National Guard soldiers kidnapped workers and US citizens alike, with many still missing more than 24 hours after the raid.
The economic war against the world being waged by the US is reproducing, at a higher level, the conditions of the disastrous decade of the 1930s that played a major role in creating the conditions for World War II.
The Labor government’s handpicked representative from the Zionist lobby has called for a draconian crackdown on opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza under the false banner of fighting antisemitism.
The referendum was a critical experience for the international working class, with enormous political lessons that are of burning relevance in the present political situation.
California, long heralded as a model of innovation and progress, has become a place where working class people are dying earlier, and reaping none of the benefits of medical science.
The budget debate in the Bundestag was a repulsive spectacle, demonstrating the ruthlessness with which the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats are implementing a reckless programme of rearmament and a return to German great‑power politics.
Ciervo's most recent work includes the multimedia projects “mare nostrum” and “Sew in the Sea,” dedicated to migrants who died trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean.
The Justice Department and FBI have officially stated that no “client list” of powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking exists, publicly contradicting earlier claims by Attorney General Pam Bondi and walking back election campaign promises made by Donald Trump that he would release such information.
Build neighbourhood and workplace rank-and-file committees! While far advanced, Labor’s devastating plans can and must be defeated by the working class.
At a press conference, his first significant public response to the tragedy, held a full week after the flood, Trump refused to address multiple facts implicating his administration and that of his MAGA ally Governor Abbott in the disaster. Instead, Trump made clear that a massive coverup is underway and no one will be held to account for the preventable loss of life.
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992-2002, including serving as the head of NASA’s Astrophysics Division from 1993-1995 and as a program director for the National Science Foundation from 1999-2002.
India: Tamil Nadu vocational training teachers hold state-wide strike; Odisha transport drivers strike for better conditions; Australia: Glencore coal miners strike for pay rise; New Zealand Uber drivers rally for employment rights.
Cuban nationals in the United States, most of whom fled the island due to the impact of US imperialist policies, are being targeted for detention and deportation as part of Trump’s crackdown on migrants.
This is a call to action for all workers who want to defend their rights. Don’t let the bureaucrats and city officials decide your future behind closed doors!
This sadistic call for mutilation is a thinly disguised pledge to continue murdering protesters. In total, Ruto’s regime has killed over 140 protestors, left thousands injured and maimed for life, while hundreds have disappeared or been abducted.
Amid continuing tensions among the European powers over how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s zig-zagging policy towards NATO and the Ukraine war, the French president and British prime minister made their latest effort to present an Anglo-French axis.
The strike was a sign of growing social opposition, which is developing into a confrontation with the corporate oligarchy. The strike also shows that preparing this movement is inseparably linked with the struggle to overthrow the corrupt apparatus and return control to the rank-and-file where it belongs.
Mamdani has appointed Jeffrey Lerner—a former top Obama White House aide and Democratic National Committee political director—as his communications chief.
Wagenknecht is prepared to do whatever is necessary to realise her nationalist agenda. Die Linke/Left Party, her former party, is not an alternative but part of the shift to the right.
The rapid changes in Trump’s foreign policy are an expression of his commitment to an imperialist war in defense of American capital.
Labor is persecuting 62-year-old Palestinian grandmother Maha Almassri, who has already endured decades of oppression by the Israeli state.
Proposed techniques for age estimation of social media users include facial analysis or tracking individuals’ online metadata to determine if a user is under the age of 16.
In an extraordinary act of imperialist intimidation, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the imposition of 50 percent tariffs on all products exported by Brazil to the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to create plans for a giant concentration camp on the ruins of Rafah, where the population of Gaza would be moved in preparation for their forcible expulsion, Haaretz reported Wednesday.
A federal jury in New York City acquitted Sean “Diddy” Combs of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges but convicted him of transportation to engage in prostitution.
“Who’s to blame? That’s the word choice of losers,” says Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Despite filing numerous complaints with HR and government agencies including the EEOC, Susan faced continued harassment and was denied medical accommodations.
The individual tragedies exposed by these rising suicide rates point to broader societal issues, but the focus of suicide prevention remains on individual “solutions” rather than addressing the social and economic conditions that contribute to this widespread despair.
Postal workers must make a massive "No" vote the starting point for relaunching their struggle as the spearhead of a working-class industrial and political counter-offensive.
Cost-cutting, fragmented subcontracting, poor licensing oversight, and weak regulatory enforcement have led to record numbers of preventable, man-made workplace disasters in Italy in recent years.
“Marxism 2025” gave clear warning of the type of pro-capitalist party the SWP is preparing to build, platforming Yanis Varoufakis, betrayer of the Greek working class, as a keynote speaker.
Sheffield and Birmingham refuse workers have shown real determination, and their action can galvanise broader working-class opposition. But this is something the bureaucracy dreads as it would mean direct confrontation with the Labour government and its locally controlled authorities.
The new and decisive impulse for Starmer’s commissioning of the report is his government’s drive to impose mass repression against rising opposition to its agenda of austerity and imperialist violence.
National strike over pay, conditions and lack of investment on Italian railways causes widespread disruption; civil servants’ walkout across Lebanon over low pay joined by legal professionals; public sector workers at the Nkomazi Local Municipality, South Africa join growing pay strikes in municipalities
The new contract contains a miserly 9 percent wage increase, spread out over three years. This is only one percent better than the city’s initial offer.
The unions are doing everything possible to keep workers on the job and prevent a broader struggle against big business and capitalism.
The UFCW-backed contract deepens exploitation, locking in poverty wages in the context of rising costs and job cuts, while dressing it up as progress.
The US Supreme Court issued an 8-1 order on Tuesday—without addressing the constitutionality of the issue—that allows the Trump administration to proceed with the destruction of government agencies and the firing of tens of thousands of federal employees.
Residents have given powerful testimony condemning the destruction of their homes, but the overall thrust of the inquiry is to legitimise the assault on this vulnerable section of the working class.
The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by successive Colombo governments, against the separatist LTTE.
Mamdani’s own response to the campaign of denunciations and threats has been to shift to the right, stressing his willingness to work with “business leaders.”
The state is home to 84 billionaires, including the world’s richest man, yet officials refuse to fund the social infrastructure needed to safeguard the population from predictable natural disasters.
The strikers voiced their opposition to the lengthening of the work day, the spread of precarious contract-labour jobs, privatization, the evisceration of public services, and legislation that will illegalize most strikes.
This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed immediately and expanded to include transit workers, white-collar employees and all other sections of the working class in Philadelphia.
The slashing of worker protections is aimed at increasing the rate of exploitation and boosting the profits of US corporations.
New evidence of corporate negligence and state complicity exposes how deregulation and exploitation led to seven preventable deaths.
The hysteria and witch-hunting over mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani mirrors the gangster methods of the UFT, which is determined to stamp out even the most limited opportunities for workers to express their opposition to the status quo.
Nadal-Melsió was fired in early June. This followed protests over the Whitney’s cancellation of a performance event treating Palestinian mourning and resistance.
The BBC’s systematic bias in favour of Israel reflects the growing chasm between Britain’s ruling elite that enables and supports Israel’s war of annihilation on Gaza, and the broader public that have turned out in their millions in Britain and throughout the world to oppose the war.
Some 1,500 healthcare workers have been killed by Israeli forces and hundreds more detained, imprisoned and disappeared since October 2023.
Imposing a return to work without membership approval is a blatant violation of workers’ democratic rights and the will of the rank and file. Workers must immediately organize meetings and discussions today to override this sellout!
The changes, described by management as necessary for “efficiency,” will extend delivery times for millions of residents, particularly in rural areas, as USPS seeks to eliminate trucking routes and consolidate processing operations to slash labor and transportation costs.
The Reserve Bank of Australia decision dashed the expectations of millions of working-class households of early relief from crushing home mortgage repayments.
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
Tariffs on copper of 50 percent could be imposed as early as next month and a 200 percent impost on pharmaceuticals may be set within 18 months, with other commodities set to follow.
Among the conditions striking workers described were dangerous levels of heat.
The deal marks a significant expansion of New Delhi’s strategic build-up in the Indian Ocean region against China.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has nominated US President Donald Trump, the author of a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In a further step toward war with China, the Trump administration announced Tuesday it would ban purchases of US farmland by Chinese nationals and other “adversaries.”
Bob Vylan came to international prominence recently by courageously denouncing the mass murder in Gaza at the Glastonbury Festival.
Like their counterparts in North America, Italian Stellantis workers are facing a relentless attack on jobs and working conditions, which have led to workplace fatalities like the February 2024 death of Dominico Fatigati, a 52-year-old machine maintenance worker.
The deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in MacArthur Park exposes a growing strategy of domestic militarization aimed at suppressing immigrant and working class communities.
The Liberal government, first under Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney, has sat for more than a year on a 1,000-page report detailing the Canadian military’s role in the torture and murder of persons detained, often falsely, as Taliban fighters.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
The attempt by the Erdoğan government to criminalise the CHP shows the extent of the ruling class’s crisis, which is intensifying amid growing international and class tensions.
Workers at Veolia’s Lumley Street depot in Sheffield are marking the eleventh month of their strike with a “mega-picket” this Wednesday.
The emergency powers effectively establish a mini-police state where they are invoked, enabling police to establish roadblocks and to conduct searches without any reasonable grounds.
Ryan Starnes was killed June 30 when he was hit by a large excavator bucket while he was working in a dug-out ditch.
Appeals to the Victorian Labor government are futile under conditions where it is slashing expenditure and public sector jobs to reduce government debt at the behest of the financial markets and credit rating agencies.
Trump has sent letters to 14 countries saying that the massive tariff hikes announced on April 2 would be imposed on August 1, with two of the most significant diktats issued to so-called US allies Japan and South Korea.
Industrial accidents have surged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, whose alignment with global capitalist interests has further eroded work safety protections.
US President Donald Trump received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a formal dinner on Monday, during which both men reiterated their plans to forcibly remove the Palestinian population from Gaza in preparation for its annexation.
It must be said plainly: the strike is in danger as long as the AFSCME bureaucrats retain control. Victory can be achieved, but only if workers take control over the strike themselves.
At every level of government—county, state and federal—the profit interests of big business and the strategic concerns of American imperialism blocked any effort to protect the population from deadly storms and floods.
Police in Montevideo, Uruguay attacked a peaceful protest by striking fishermen, while nurses in Pennsylvania are prepared to strike Wellspan Health over work overload and low pay.
On May 31, Kroger workers in Indianapolis, nearly 4,000 members of UFCW Local 700, voted by 75 percent to reject a sellout tentative contract negotiated by the union bureaucracy and are now demanding immediate strike action.
The measures spearheaded by Democrats in California’s new budget will have disastrous consequences for the vast majority of workers and immigrants, exposing the fraud of the “sanctuary state.”
On June 2, Microsoft expanded a long run of layoffs by announcing a workforce reduction of up to 4 percent, or about 9,100.
The cultural consciousness of posterity is enriched by Wilson’s 1962–1967 output. His greatest accomplishments during that period remain relevant, genuine, substantial, and intensely moving.
Joselyn Chipantiza-Sisalema, a 20-year-old student and asylum seeker, was abducted by the immigration Gestapo as she left a routine immigration hearing.
The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.
Police handcuffed several people and carried them into vans. Among them was 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt.
Thursday’s meeting voted by 99 percent for stoppages, but the NTEU leaders are determined to prevent any struggle by academics and staff against mass job cuts throughout the university sector.
More than 600 Bus drivers in Melbourne and regional Victoria, employed by ComfortDelGro, have held three one-day strikes in recent weeks, against further real wage cuts and attacks on working conditions.
The Labor Party and the Zionist lobby are seeking to overcome recent blows to the fraudulent campaign conflating opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza with antisemitism.
The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic problems, within the capitalist system.
This is the latest in a campaign by the UFCW aimed at preventing a national strike movement by grocery workers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to plot the next stage of the Gaza genocide and US-Israeli war throughout the Middle East.
Monday marks three months since the April 7 death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman at the Dundee Engine Plant in southern Michigan.
Dozens are dead not because such events are unpredictable, but because society is organized around the profit interests of the financial oligarchy, not human need.
Hundreds die in garbage mountain collapse; MPLA captures Luanda in Angolan civil war; North Korean forces push back US military; World’s oldest ceramic figurine discovered
New Zealand already has one of the worst occupational health and safety records, per head of population, among OECD nations.
AFSCME District Council 33 is seeking to rapidly wind down the strike in discussions with the city while keeping its members in the dark.
The passage of the bill is an attack on a social program, Medicaid, that provides tens of millions of Americans limited access to healthcare. This will have a crippling effect on the already crisis-ridden healthcare infrastructure, impacting the most vulnerable.
The early works council election at Thyssenkrupp Steel’s largest plant has only just ended, and already the IG Metall union is preparing to implement the attacks being demanded by the company’s top management.
The Esparto explosion reveals, once again, the catastrophic consequences of deregulation, cronyism and the hollowing out of safety standards across the US and internationally.
The IYSSE was the only slate to stand on a socialist programme, opposing the genocide in Gaza, the escalation of war and the militarisation of universities.
War, rising inequality and resurgent fascism seem to have prompted the band to break its 15-year silence, but its musical and political approaches have not changed.
