As Henry Ford Genesys nurses complete third month on strike, management steps up strikebreaking
Despite the great determination evinced by nurses, the main danger is that they remain isolated as Ford continues its operations.
•Shannon Jones
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Disastrous “Ditwah” cyclone creates immense catastrophe, killing potentially hundreds across Sri Lanka
Natural disasters, including landslides, are not purely natural phenomena but catastrophic creations of the profit-driven capitalist system.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Trump threatens to denaturalize and deport US citizens after D.C. National Guard shooting
The administration is using the shooting, committed by a long-time CIA asset, as a pretext to strip citizenship from naturalized and native-born residents alike.
•Jacob Crosse
Death toll reaches 128 in horrific Hong Kong apartment fire
Two hundred people remain unaccounted for as emergency crews continue search, recovery and support operations in the catastrophic and preventable 43-hour fire at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong.
•Kevin Reed
Summary execution in the West Bank: Trump’s “peace” deal in practice
The summary execution of two Palestinians in the West Bank reveals the "peace" deal signed by Israel and sanctified by the U.N. Security Council as nothing more than an enabling act for genocide throughout all of Palestine.
•Andre Damon
“Things like this happen everywhere”: Residents of Hermosillo, Mexico speak on Waldo’s explosion
The November 1 explosion, which killed 24 people, began at an electrical transformer improperly installed inside the store.
•Our reporters
Australia: Labor-Greens deal to fast-track mining and military projects
After talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the Greens helped the government ram through parliament seven “environmental” bills to speed up approvals of critical minerals and other war-related projects.
•Mike Head
Australia: Residents highlight big-business neglect of worker safety after Port Kembla steelworks death
“If it’s left to the company, it’s going to be a cover-up. Workers should lead the investigation.”
•Our reporters
Cook Islands PM condemns New Zealand’s “coercion”
Wellington’s diplomatic bullying of the Cook Islands is part of the sharpening geopolitical tensions in the Pacific region aimed at China.
•John Braddock
Rebellion begins against IG Metall union at Bosch in Germany
Growing anger over mass redundancies and wage cuts has produced an open revolt against IG Metall. At Bosch in Schwäbisch Gmünd, workers are now moving to establish their own independent organisation to defend jobs and living standards.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: 5,000 sanitation workers strike indefinitely in Jaipur; Bangladesh: Garment workers fight sudden closure of factory; Australia: Bus drivers strike in Newcastle; Tasmania’s public hospital scientists walk out for better enterprise deal.
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UK Labour government’s war on migrant workers threatens health and social care
The trade union leaders in the sector have responded only with statements of concern, moral indignation and sternly worded press releases.
•Rory Woods
Reject CWU’s Royal Mail letter writing stunt
The pre-written email piles one falsehood on another to cover up the CWU leadership’s record of betrayal.
•Tony Robson
The December 9 protest in Tanzania, Nyerere’s “African Socialism” and the struggle for Permanent Revolution—Part Four
The trajectory of Tanzania under Nyerere stands as a decisive refutation of the petty-bourgeois illusion that national independence, state ownership, or Pan-African sentiment could substitute for proletarian revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
European governments oppose any negotiated settlement to Ukraine war
The crisis of US imperialism is driving not only American but also European society towards a revolutionary confrontation.
•Peter Schwarz
Germany’s all-party coalition for a war budget
The German parliament is debating the 2026 federal budget this week, which raises the defence budget to €108 billion.
•Peter Schwarz
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known as H. Rap Brown in the 1960s, dies in federal prison at 82
H. Rap Brown became one of many figures associated with the civil rights struggle who attracted the attention of the FBI, then headed by the notorious racist and red-baiter J. Edgar Hoover.
•Fred Mazelis
Death toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 94, hundreds still missing
It is increasingly likely that the conflagration was caused by corruption and cost cutting measures, including the use of illegal highly flammable materials.
•Erik Long
Canadian imperialism plans to militarize the “whole of society” in preparation for global war
The Canadian military top brass recently signed off on a plan to create a 300,000-strong supplementary reserve.
•James Clayton
Australia: Thousands of Queensland teachers join second one-day strike
At strike rallies, teachers were offered no perspective by union officials except to keep appealing to right-wing Premier David Crisafulli for an unspecified deal or accept arbitration.
•Antony Walsh
Australian Labor government demands deeper austerity cuts
The Albanese government is escalating its assault on working-class living conditions.
•Mike Head
Elevated Australian inflation rules out further interest rate cuts
The cost of electricity has risen a staggering 31.7 percent over the past year.
•Nick Beams
Potsdam museum curator promotes Zionist propaganda at the opening of pro-Palestinian art exhibition—A response by Italian artist Costantino Ciervo
In his introductory speech, the curator of the museum expressed his vehement opposition to the content of the exhibition, which seeks to encourage debate and shed light on the background to the persecution of the Palestinian people by Israel and the imperialist powers led by the United States.
•Stefan Steinberg
The December 9 protest in Tanzania, Nyerere’s “African Socialism” and the struggle for Permanent Revolution—Part Three
The fragmentation of Africa into more than fifty states along colonial borders was not the “inevitable” outcome of a bourgeois-democratic stage, but the direct product of the counterrevolutionary role of Pabloism.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
General strike in Belgium over government austerity; strikes and protests continue in Iran by oil and gas workers and retirees as living standards continue to plummet; doctors in Tunisia walk out over collapsing health care system
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Attendees speak on London public lecture by David North, and announcement of Socialism AI
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to some of those who attended the Socialist Equality Party event held in London on November 22,“The American Volcano: Towards Fascism or Socialism”.
•Our reporters
Corbyn’s Your Party bars World Socialist Web Site reporter from founding conference
Unable to justify their political positions and actions, Corbyn’s clique resorts in time-honoured fashion to the methods of bureaucratic censorship and exclusion.
•Thomas Scripps
US escalates war threats, branding Venezuelan government a “foreign terrorist organization”
The Trump administration’s claim that its massive show of force has been mounted to stop “narco-terrorists” is ludicrous on its face.
•Bill Van Auken
Dozens killed, hundreds missing in Hong Kong inferno
The residential towers, which were undergoing renovations, were all surrounded by bamboo scaffolding and netting that likely contributed to the speed with which the fire spread to seven of the eight 31-storey buildings.
•Peter Symonds
American authoritarianism in Anniversary: It does happen here
The film is among a number of recent works that address—or attempt to address—the burning question of mass state repression and fascism.
•David Walsh
Thanksgiving 2025 in America: Misery for workers, unprecedented wealth for the elite
The scenes of abundance and social harmony painted by Norman Rockwell in the middle of the 20th century—always an idealized fiction—stand in stark contrast to a society in 2025 at the breaking point. Society can progress no further while burdened by the capitalist profit system.
•Tom Hall
Australia: Cobar residents oppose rapid reopening of Endeavor mine after fatal explosion
“It is very frightening for workers and their families when they don’t know why this happened. Everyone needs answers—not just the residents of Cobar but people all over Australia.” – Cobar miner’s wife
•Our reporters
Australia: CSR plasterboard factory workers locked out over pay claim
Workers told the WSWS the company had prepared for the lockout by stockpiling product in advance and hurriedly training casuals to serve as strikebreakers.
•Paul Bartizan, Martin Scott
Trump administration plans to deploy 500 more National Guard soldiers following D.C. shooting
Following the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that Trump had ordered more troops deployed to the capital.
•Jacob Crosse
Tyson eliminates 3,200 jobs with closure of Nebraska beef plant
Last week, Tyson Foods announced it will close its massive Lexington, Nebraska beef plant—wiping out 3,000–3,200 jobs in a town of 11,000.
•George Gallanis
Floods in Southeast Asia lead to over 130 deaths
Climate change and the subordination of disaster management to profit exacerbate the destruction from flooding, which falls most heavily on the working class and poor.
•Ben McGrath
“You’re told don’t be a troublemaker”: New York postal worker speaks on deaths of Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr.
A veteran New York City postal worker describes the deadly conditions at USPS facilities.
•Robert Milkowski, Alden Woodsen
After 4-month delay, Pennsylvania Democrats pass pro-corporate austerity budget
Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor and legislature passed a budget that delivers major tax breaks to corporations while withholding essential funding from schools and public services.
•Matt Allen
Italy’s general strikes against the 2026 budget of austerity and war
Italian workers enter the front line of an expanding international fight against austerity and war, challenging the capitalist order across borders.
•Marc Wells
Video of David North’s lecture in Berlin: “Where is America going?”
We are posting here the full video of the lecture delivered by David North to a public meeting in Berlin on November 22.
•David North
UK Labour’s budget piles on suffering for workers, but not enough to satisfy ruling class
Conservative opposition leader Kemi Badenoch denounced Reeves for delivering a “budget for benefits”. Far-right Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged a £20 billion a year cut in public spending.
•Robert Stevens
The December 9 protest in Tanzania, Nyerere’s “African Socialism” and the struggle for Permanent Revolution—Part Two
As Trotsky had warned, the democratic, economic and social aspirations of workers and peasants could not be resolved through the creation of a Tanzanian capitalist state along the borders of colonialism and within the imperialist framework.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
The Böcek family's death by poisoning in Istanbul: A preventable tragedy
The death of the Böcek family is a result of years of lack of oversight, uncontrolled chemical use, and the underlying “profit before lives” policies in Turkey.
•Hakan Özal
Revolutionary Communist Party junks its opportunist turn to Corbyn and Sultana’s Your Party
Having witnessed the shipwreck of the pseudo-reformist Your Party project they endorsed, the RCP is making clear that it also intends to repeat the disastrous turn to Zohran Mamdani here in the UK.
•Chris Marsden
European leaders accuse US of “betrayal” over Ukraine
The European powers in particular have made it clear that they will redouble their rearmament and war efforts if an agreement is reached between Russia and Ukraine.
•Peter Schwarz
Germany’s economics professors call for pension cuts
Twenty-two prominent economists have demanded that the pension package, scheduled to take effect on January 1, be withdrawn entirely. In doing so, they are strengthening the hand of business lobbies, the Christian Democrat Young Union and others who are pressing for accelerated social cutbacks.
•Peter Schwarz
Australia: Polymetals holds AGM after fatal Endeavor mine explosion
The company’s presentation to shareholders included a token reference to the deaths of Ambrose McMullen and Holly Clarke in its Cobar mine, but the overall tone of the presentation was jubilant, declaring from the beginning “2025 is a milestone year.”
•Martin Scott
Walkouts spread as students protest ICE and Border Patrol raids in North Carolina and Oregon
Student walkouts in North Carolina and Oregon reveal growing opposition to ICE raids and the assault on immigrant workers.
•Jane Wise
What do the Democrats know about Trump’s plans for dictatorship and war crimes?
A video statement released last week by six Democratic senators and representatives urges armed forces personnel not obey illegal orders. Trump has declared they should be tried and executed.
•Patrick Martin
Worker killed in trench collapse in Massachusetts
Revoli Construction, the contractor at the worksite West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, had a long history of workplace safety violations.
•T.J. Garrison
City of Los Angeles paid millions for homeless beds that did not exist
Court-appointed monitors reveal half of Lincoln Safe Sleep Village beds were empty, exposing systemic failures in city homelessness programs.
•Marc Wells
Australian capitalism embroiled ever deeper in developing global crisis
All the institutions on which post-war capitalism was based have either been shattered or are in the process of advanced disintegration as a “permacrisis” develops.
•Nick Beams
New Jersey hospital shut down after months of deception by owners
The hospital closure, which opens the door for the profitable redevelopment of the property, is impeding patients’ access to care and leaving workers unpaid.
•Robert Milkowski
Family of postal worker Russell Scruggs, Jr. launches GoFundMe campaign to cover legal and funeral expenses
"His death has left our family devastated, confused and searching for answers," said Latoya Scruggs, the sister of Russell Scruggs, Jr.
•Kathleen Martin
Brazil’s Bolsonaro arrested for plot to escape sentence for coup attempt
The designation of the US Embassy as a planned political refuge for Bolsonaro is linked to Trump’s aggressive defense of his Brazilian fascist ally.
•Tomas Castanheira
Anger grows over forced overtime, rising injuries and UAW complicity at Stellantis’ Toledo Assembly Complex
The Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex has accounted for 30 percent of the injuries that have occurred in the company's North American facilities.
•Jerry White
Turkish parliamentary delegation meets with imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader Öcalan
This process, conducted through secret diplomacy, is an attempt by the Turkish and Kurdish bourgeois nationalist leaderships to reach an agreement in line with US imperialism's efforts to reorganize the Middle East.
•Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç
Don McCullin at 90: A reflection on his life and photography
McCullin’s attraction to socialist ideas was part of a wider ferment, where photography was understood as means of revealing and indicting imperialism, exploitation and poverty rather than mere documentation.
•Paul Mitchell
The December 9 protest in Tanzania, Nyerere’s “African Socialism” and the struggle for Permanent Revolution—Part One
CCM’s bloody crackdown after the fraudulent October 29 vote flows from the class foundations of Julius Nyerere’s African Socialism and Pan-Africanism, whose rise was paved by Stalinism and Pabloism.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Political crisis sharpens in the Philippines
The current political crisis, fueled by immense social anger, is the sharpest since the ouster of President Estrada a quarter century ago.
•John Malvar
China-Japan tensions continue to worsen
The diplomatic row triggered by Japanese prime minister Takaichi’s provocative remarks on Taiwan on November 7, far from subsiding, has escalated with mounting economic repercussions.
•Peter Symonds
IAM shuts down four-month Boeing strike, ignores workers’ major demands
Workers rejected four sellout deals, but the critical element enabling the company to end the strike was its isolation by bureaucracy of the International Association of Machinists, which allowed Boeing to starve workers into submission.
•Bryan Dyne
Ken Burns’ The American Revolution
Audiences cannot help but grasp the relevance of the film’s subject—a population revolting against tyranny and despotism in the name of equality and inalienable rights.
•Tom Mackaman
Bollwerk Bärlin: Germany’s military practices domestic deployment and operates as far as New Zealand and into outer space
The ruling class is arming for a global war and preparing to suppress the inevitable resistance of the working class with violence. The militarisation of domestic policy is an integral component of the war preparations.
•Johannes Stern
The Gelfand Case: 1978-1982 (Part 1)
This lecture traces how Alan Gelfand’s principled efforts to investigate evidence of state infiltration in the SWP were met by censorship, intimidation, and an unconstitutional expulsion that set the stage for his landmark civil rights lawsuit known as the Gelfand Case.
•Norisa Diaz
Markets and US economy increasingly dependent on AI boom
A record revenue rise by chipmaker Nvidia has not quelled the growing fears that the AI boom is a bubble which may soon burst.
•Nick Beams
CUPW capitulates to government-management jobs massacre at Canada Post with “agreement in principle”
Postal workers must immediately move to countermand this sellout through the formation of independent rank-and-file committees in every postal sorting plant and depot across Canada.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Mamdani intervenes to quash primary challenge to Hakeem Jeffries
Three weeks after the election, Mamdani is moving at a breakneck pace to support the political establishment he vowed to challenge.
•Daniel de Vries
Where is America going?: Oligarchy, dictatorship, and the revolutionary crisis of capitalism
The WSWS publishes here the text of a lecture delivered by David North in London on November 22 examining the global crisis of capitalism and the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
•David North
Ford hit again by layoffs as a second major fire erupts at critical aluminum plant in New York state
The disruption caused by the recent plant fires at Novelis in Oswego County, New York demonstrate the increasingly fragile character of supply chains, vulnerabilities exacerbated by Trump’s tariffs.
•Tim Rivers
Trump’s Department of Education strips “professional” status from teaching, nursing and other essential fields
Trump’s redefinition of “professional” degrees aims to push working-class students out of healthcare and education specialties and further undermine science and culture.
•Nancy Hanover, Kimie Saito
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees announced a last-minute deal, shutting down a strike by 16,000 hospital staff, while more than 1,130 grocery workers at 11 New Seasons Markets have voted to strike over contract demands.
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The lessons of New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster for workers internationally
The 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 workers, and the cover-up by successive governments, demonstrate the urgent need for workers to build rank-and-file committees, independent of and opposed to the union bureaucracy and all capitalist parties.
•Tom Peters
British ruling elite to increase military spending to fight “protracted, industrial-scale war”
Not a day passes without the Starmer government moving forward its preparations for the re-armament and conscription necessary for an extended war with Russia.
•Steve James
European powers denounce proposed US peace deal on Ukraine
Desperate to continue war with Russia in Ukraine and escalate cuts to social spending to fund the “war economy,” European officials denounced the peace deal with Russia as a “capitulation.”
•Alex Lantier
Despite “ceasefires,” Israel massacres dozens in Gaza and Lebanon over the weekend
The Israeli military killed dozens of people in Gaza and Lebanon over the weekend, continuing its rampage throughout the Middle East under the cover of “ceasefires” in both Gaza and Lebanon.
•Andre Damon
Mass layoffs and welfare cuts: Germany at the center of the European crisis
A social counterrevolution is developing in Europe, the likes of which has not been seen since the 1930s.
•Peter Schwarz
Trump administration threatens further cuts to food benefits
The Trump administration is looking to further slash food benefits for workers as rents explode, layoffs mount and corporate America posts record profits.
•Hong Jian
Status report by UAW monitor points to deepening crisis in union apparatus
In a scathing report earlier this month the monitor pointed to a “toxic culture of division and retaliation at the highest levels of the UAW bureaucracy.”
•Shannon Jones
ICE death of Chinese detainee raises questions of torture and coverup
Chaofeng Ge had been in ICE custody for only five days before his death.
•Anthony Callahan
This week in history: November 24-30
UN climate summit ends in failure; Right-wing military coup in Portugal; China launches second major counteroffensive in Korean War; 12 British communist leaders sentenced to prison.
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Australia: Queensland Teachers Union calls second one-day strike
The QTU has been forced to call another 24-hour stoppage, while still pleading for talks with the state’s right-wing Liberal National Party premier.
•Antony Walsh
Australia: Cobar miner warns fatal accident at Endeavor Mine could be repeated
“I don’t think what the company has done in sending workers back on the job is right at all,” a Cobar worker said, referring to the October 28 mine explosion that killed two workers.
•Oscar Grenfell, Richard Phillips
The Mamdani-Trump Pact and the bankrupt politics of the upper middle class pseudo-left
The immediate political consequence of Mamdani’s visit will be to confuse and disorient the very people who brought him to office.
•Joseph Kishore
WSWS speaks to family of worker killed in Sri Lankan factory explosion
We invite workers, youth, and others to attend a public meeting on the death of plantation worker Vijayakumar at the Maussakelle Tea Factory on Sunday, November 30.
•Our reporters
Australian establishment pays tribute to ruthless Labor powerbroker
Richardson was instrumental in installing the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, which worked with the unions to impose the global “free market” agenda of Reagan and Thatcher in Australia of wage cuts, job destruction and privatisation.
•Mike Head, Peter Symonds
Montreal transit unions capitulate before ruling-class campaign of intimidation and repression
For weeks, employers, the corporate media and the entire political establishment—both federalist and Quebec sovereignist—joined forces to demonize the Montreal transit workers, accusing STM bus and subway drivers and maintenance workers of “holding the population hostage.”
•Laurent Lafrance
World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI
This revolutionary tool will harness artificial intelligence for the development of socialist consciousness in the international working class.
•Our reporter
Mass layoffs escalate in US healthcare industry
This is part of a wider jobs massacre, with US employers announcing 1.1 million jobs this year alone.
•Max Jones
Trump calls for execution of Democratic Party legislators
In response to a video put out by former CIA and military Democrats urging agents and soldiers to follow “lawful orders,” Trump and members of his administration called for their trial and execution.
•Jacob Crosse
Social resistance in Ukraine on the eve of the funding crisis
The confrontation between the people and the state in Ukraine is developing dynamically.
•Ukrainian journalists
Texas university board upholds firing of labor historian Tom Alter
Thomas Alter's dismissal sets a precedent for the systematic dismantling of democratic rights on the campuses and the initiation of a purge at universities of all those who do not subscribe to the fascist ideology running rampant through the Republican Party.
•Andrea Peters
Days after Nick Acker’s death in mail sorting machine, Postmaster General pledges full steam ahead on restructuring of USPS Board of Governors
This is the human cost of “modernization” at the United States Postal Service, where jobs are being slashed through automation and the postal infrastructure handed over to private corporations.
•Tom Hall
Trump administration victimizes federal worker for press appearance during shutdown
Trump’s Department of Agriculture is attempting to fire a worker in retaliation for speaking publicly on the impacts of the shutdown.
•Daniel de Vries
Mamdani announces “partnership” with hated would-be dictator Trump
Coming only a day after Trump called for the execution of Democratic Party legislators, Mamdani’s voyage to the White House served to bolster the political legitimacy of the crisis-ridden Trump regime.
•Joseph Kishore
As part of anti-Russian hysteria, Dutch venue cancels scheduled concert by renowned pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya
Officials have become entangled in the campaign to justify war against Russia and a new imperialist slaughter.
•David Walsh
The CDC embraces bogus claims of autism-vaccine links
At the direction of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has embraced the unfounded claims of right-wing anti-vaxxers that childhood vaccines may be linked to autism.
•Benjamin Mateus
Liberals’ “Canada strong” class-war budget passed with NDP, union and Green Party complicity
The role of the NDP and Greens in securing the budget's passage confirms their function as props of a right-wing big business government committed to restructuring class relations in the interests of Canadian capitalism at a time of accelerating social and economic crisis.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
Australia: Concerns over official responses to asbestos in children’s sand products
The only state or territory to temporarily shut all affected schools has been the Australian Capital Territory, centred on Canberra.
•Kaye Tucker
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
Around 22,000 public sector workers are on strike in Uttarakhand, India, demanding permanent jobs, while more than 23,000 Sri Lankan doctors are protesting budget cuts.
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