The ouster of the two student leaders is part of a nationwide purge, spearheaded by the Democratic Party, of those opposed to the genocide in Gaza.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has been recently promoting his "Classrooms to Careers" initiative, which would alter high school graduation requirements in the state to ensure students are enrolled in a college, trade school, or the military, sparking outrage among parents, teachers and students.
The embrace of Māori Party founder Tariana Turia by the National Party-ACT-NZ First coalition government and the opposition Labour and Green parties underscores the party’s reactionary record and the right-wing character of its racial identity politics.
The more obvious the genocide in Palestine becomes and the more blatantly the German government supports the government in Israel politically, financially and with weapons, and the more vehemently it acts against those opposing it.
Trump’s threats of neo-colonial subjugation can be opposed only by a working class revolutionary socialist movement that unites workers across North, Central and South America.
An arrest order for ex-president Evo Morales, issued by his former ally and now rival President Luis Arce, has sparked anger among Morales supporters.
Ko is the second major politician to face anti-graft investigations and charges since President Lai Ching-te took power in May 2024. Both have shown an interest in competing for president in 2028, and they were and continue to be Lai’s political opponents.
Labour reneged on promises made while in opposition that it would compensate women who lost tens of thousands of pounds due to pension changes.
When Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her “Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy” in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was “ultimately about enforcing geostrategic and economic interests.” If necessary, this would also be done in “close cooperation with the most reactionary regimes in the world.”
This is the latest hub to be closed since the passage of the new Teamsters contract in 2023, which union officials falsely described as a "historic" victory.
Congress will certify Trump’s election only four years after the failure of his violent attack on the Capitol.
The distribution workers have been on strike since mid-November, citing seniority treatment and pay which is below the cost of living.
As Trump’s inauguration draws near, the financial oligarchy is more openly asserting its control over all aspects of society, including the so-called “free press.”
Öcalan death sentence delayed; Soviet Union launches Soyuz 17; Nkrumah independence campaign in Gold Coast; Polish nationalist campaign on Danzig.
The IYSSE meeting, which will discuss the socialist program necessary to defend the social and democratic rights of workers and youth, is being held in Kandy after being anti-democratically banned at Peradeniya University.
Tokyo has all but thrown out the legal limitations set in Article 9 of the constitution, which bans Japan from acquiring military weaponry and waging war overseas.
The US market has risen by more than 40 percent in the past two years on the basis of speculative hype and expectations over high-tech and AI.
Management at the University of Sydney, historically a centre of political opposition to war and inequality, is moving to prohibit any form of political opposition on campus, particularly to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The exhibition spotlights a contradictory modern art movement that, though it celebrated technological advances, was rooted in subjectivism and irrationality.
Sixth form colleges that have transformed into academies (state-funded but privately run) have been granted funding for a paltry teacher pay rise through the post-16 schools budget grant. But the remaining non-academised sixth form colleges have been given nothing at all.
The US is building a new $1.2 billion fortified embassy on a 43-acre site near Beirut whose declared purpose is to counter the “Axis of Resistance”, meaning Iran. Its scale, out of all proportion to the country’s size, is indicative of US geo-political interests in Lebanon, with its strategic location and newly found sources of gas and oil under the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
A World Socialist Web Site reporting team campaigned on Friday at the Mount Pleasant mail centre in London for the online meeting on Sunday of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee, “For a rank-and-file fightback against Kretinsky takeover and defence of the mail service.”
German politicians and the media have reacted to Donald Trump’s election victory in the US by aggressively normalizing fascism.
The horrific attack that left five people dead and more than 200 injured at the Christmas market in Magdeburg on December 20 is being exploited by German politicians to expand the powers of the police and intelligence services and establish a police state.
Following Johnson’s election, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries promised to work with Republicans and the incoming Trump administration “on any issue, whenever and wherever possible,” including to “secure our borders.”
Data gathered by the New York State Nurses Association show the ineffectual character of the legislative reform that it had championed.
Israel killed at least 82 Palestinians in air strikes during the first three days of the new year, as reports emerge of children freezing to death in the Gaza winter.
In opposing the deal on “national security” grounds, the Biden White House and the unions have aligned with Trump’s “America First” nationalism.
The danger of another declaration of martial law or military coup remains in South Korea as Yoon makes clear he intends to cling to power, emboldened by the rolling back of protests by the opposition party.
While the local authorities have declared the death not to be suspicious, the perfunctory character of the reporting on the case and silence surrounding what actually happened speak to the utter indifference felt within the financial oligarchy towards the lives of the workers they employ.
In the same week that the bushfire in the Grampians began, the Albanese Labor government announced four coal mine expansions.
The coroner found Simon Cartwright’s death from a peptic ulcer in Silverwater jail was “preventable” and a result of “unacceptable care.”
There are strong indications that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)/National People’s Power (NPP) government played a role in cancelling the lecture.
Industrial Bank of Korea workers strike over low pay; India: Porters at Gujarat textile warehouses strike over heavy loads; Western Australia: Offshore LNG platform workers continue industrial action
The most that senior Labour cabinet minister Wes Streeting would say of Musk’s actions was that “some” of the criticisms were “misjudged” and “misinformed”. He continued, “But we’re willing to work with Elon Musk… If he wants to work with us and roll his sleeves up, we’d welcome that.”
Government spending on culture in Britain is a tiny fraction of overall spending: only 0.17 percent of GDP in 2023 and among the lowest rates in Europe, where the average is around four-and-a-half times higher—at a still-low 0.74 percent.
The renewed negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party, which Turkey has been trying to suppress for 40 years, are part of the war in the Middle East--which has escalated with the genocide committed by Israel in Gaza, the struggle for the division of Syria, and the efforts of the US imperialism to reshape the region.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Donald Trump and his fascist transition team are using the violent events in New Orleans and Las Vegas during the New Year holiday to build up the forces of repression against immigrants and political opposition to his fascist agenda by the working class.
For over 10 years, Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group, has documented a steady increase in police killings in the United States, including over 1,250 in 2024.
The events of James Mangold’s latest film occur in the period between Dylan’s arrival on the New York City folk scene in 1961 and his controversial “going electric” in 1965.
A 61-year-old woman, Bajarma Batozhapov, who had traveled to the Camilla plant in search of work, died while sleeping in a truck.
The Deer River strike is part of a larger wave of class struggle within the United States and globally, as workers increasingly rebel against decades of stagnant wages, austerity, and the erosion of their living conditions.
In 2024 New Zealand’s financial and political elite vastly increased their wealth while the level of need for many people over Christmas was the worst it has ever been.
Recent weeks have produced revelations of financially crippling penalties wrongly inflicted on unemployed workers through the Australian government’s Targeted Compliance Framework.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek attempted to greenwash Labor’s environmental record by falsely claiming not to have permitted any new coal mines in 2024.
As Maduro plans to begin his third term on January 10, the US government and its regional partners are escalating reckless plans to oust him.
Hundreds of public sector workers and fast food delivery drivers in Athens, Greece stage 24-hour stoppage and demonstrate over pay and conditions; protests by telecommunications and teaching retirees in Iran and oil and petrochemical workers at two companies walk out as pensions and wages fall behind inflation; phosphate workers in two-day stoppage in Tunisia to demand pay in line with inflation
For all the liberal complaints directed towards the draconian record of “the last government”, the fact is that the Tory and Labour parties have passed the baton of anti-democratic legislation seamlessly for decades.
The media eulogies of the former president, who died Sunday, are silent on his initiation of a frontal assault on the working class and, above all, his effort to smash the 1977-78 coal miners’ strike by invoking the Taft-Hartley Law.
These figures reveal widespread social distress and economic insecurity in America’s supposedly booming economy.
The agreement at Volkswagen is unprecedented. More than one in four jobs, a total of 35,000, will be destroyed, which corresponds to three large plants. Wages will be cut by up to 18 percent in real terms.
In this interview, Dr. Chakravarty discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health globally five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China.
Amid war, austerity and the promotion of far-right forces, a major radicalisation of workers and youth is underway. Films and television series have spoken very weakly so far to these complex, convulsive processes.
The closures, which will destroy tens of thousands of jobs, take place amid broader closures of US retailers.
The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling classes and their governments to take the necessary steps to protect populations and assist the victims to recover and rebuild their lives.
While seeking to lock China out of the Pacific, the Australian-led operation establishes a rapid deployment force for police-military interventions against unrest in the region.
Credit card write-offs by lenders rose by 50 percent in the first nine months of the year compared to 2023.
Newly unionized workers at Costco are demanding significant improvements while 15,000 Ontario educators will soon be in a legal position to strike.
The researchers compiled a list of 2,131 deaths in custody since the year 2000. While the average life expectancy in Canada is 81, the average age at death in the list is 44—meaning that being in custody can reduce an individual’s life expectancy by almost half.
The Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) bureaucracy vowed that disruptive action would not be resumed until at least January 3, guaranteeing the Labor government a trouble-free New Year’s Eve.
Aviation experts have raised numerous questions about the cause of the tragic Jeju Air accident, but at this stage many details are still unknown.
In recent months, a campaign for the reduction of the workweek has gone viral on social media and received significant attention from Brazil's corporate media.
Netanyahu’s political trajectory is not so much the product of his personal motivations, but the inevitable outcome of the Zionist project that established the state of Israel 75 years ago, through the forcible expulsion and brutal suppression of the Palestinians.
What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a “sect” of an “orthodoxy” disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essential struggle for the perspective of world socialist revolution and the international party required for its realisation.
The Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey has launched a petition against the frame-up “terror” charges targeting its leader and many members. The World Socialist Web Site and the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, notwithstanding their political differences with the SLP, oppose this sham police operation and support the petition.
The industrial action would have seen thousands of aviation and health care workers down tools for several days, shutting airports during one of the busiest times of the year for international travel and significantly impacting 50 public hospitals across Kenya.
The latest report shows an 18 percent rise in 2024, with only a trickle of federal aid compared to the hundreds of billions wasted on war.
The Israeli military raided and set ablaze Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia on Friday, shutting down the last operating hospital in northern Gaza.
The brutalization of human beings in the huge American prison gulag, with its nearly 2 million inmates, accounting for about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, is entirely routine.
Han assumed presidential duties on December 14, when President Yoon Suk-yeol was also impeached and suspended from office over his failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3.
The party-room election of Brad Battin, a “law and order” ex-police officer, marks a political realignment not just in Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state, but nationally.
Greens leader Adam Bandt whitewashed Labor’s ongoing complicity in the Gaza genocide, as part of his bid for a power-sharing arrangement with a Labor government after the next election.
President Dissanayake's selection of India to visit first is to signal his government’s commitment to aligning Colombo with the US-led preparations for war against China.
In a year of historic crises and growing working class opposition, popular music in 2024 remained largely removed from the burning issues shaping global reality, with some notable exceptions.
The UAW has been forcing laid-off Stellantis workers in Kokomo to work at the new battery plant, where workers face low pay, multiple safety hazards and a host of uncertainties.
No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state’s longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.
NY state to pay Attica victims; top Nixon aides convicted in Watergate scandal; Soviet trial of Japanese war criminals; Stalin steps up slander of Trotsky.
Former International Marxist Tendency leader Ted Grant’s claim to orthodoxy was decisively refuted by his attitude to the emergence of Pabloite liquidationism within the Fourth International. Indeed, the theoretical revisions of Grant were a clear anticipation of those associated with Pabloism.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper boasted, “The number of operations and arrests are up, and we are on track to meet our target of increasing removals to the highest level in five years.”
Ukraine is now waging drone warfare across Russia, and there is growing speculation that Russian air defenses may have mistaken the jetliner as a drone and hit it.
In a series of recent interviews, Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan has brought the incoming administration’s nightmarish mass deportation plans into focus. Despite the muted response among the Democratic Party and its allies in the corporate media, Homan’s statements make clear that the administration is planning a social crime of historic proportions.
Israeli fighter jets launched a series of missile strikes on Yemen Thursday, including several that hit Sanaa International Airport near where World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was preparing to board a flight.
Thousands of Amazon drivers ended their week-long strike on Thursday while an estimated 5,000 Starbucks workers ended a five-day strike on Christmas Day.
Promotion of the death penalty is a critical component of Trump’s bid to establish a presidential dictatorship. It is part of the anti-immigrant agitation that is central to his America-first, ultra-nationalistic ideological offensive and fascist incitement.
The policies of federal and state governments of all political colours have led to a massive increase in rents in recent years, which are becoming almost impossible to afford for ever larger sections of the population. At the same time, property companies are making fantastic profits.
Just 7.9 percent of private-sector employees are union members, down from 8.3 percent in 2022. The overall uptick is entirely attributable to the relative growth of the public sector, but even there, the rate of union membership fell to 32.2 percent.
Scammell, an accomplished conductor and music director, denounces the media outlets instrumental in promoting sexual misconduct accusations against her partner, effectively destroying his television and theatrical career and ruining his mental health.
South Korea: Industrial Bank of Korea workers strike; India: Puri Municipality sanitation workers oppose job outsourcing; Qantas engineers walk out again for higher pay; BlueScope steel workers strike in Victoria for wage rise.
The RCI continues the decades-long efforts of the tendency initially led by Ted Grant to oppose the Fourth International and to orient workers and youth to the Stalinist, trade union and social democratic bureaucracies—under the cover of a torrent of radical-sounding rhetoric.
We are publishing the response of postal workers to the WSWS article “The CWU’s ‘framework agreement’ backs Kretinsky’s Royal Mail takeover”, which subjected to close scrutiny the 12-page document drawn up after months of private talks between CWU leader Dave Ward and EP Group executives.
After the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Syria, several attacks on the country’s Alawite and Christian minorities sparked mass protests.
Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, said the new administration would construct large interment camps, euphemistically dubbed “family facilities,” to expedite the mass deportation of human beings out of the United States.
The store closures are driven by cautious consumer spending due to inflation, higher interest rates and crushing levels of household debt.
On Thursday, the New York Times published a detailed account reporting the existence of official Israeli military documents authorizing the killing of 20 non-combatants for every "pre-emptive" attack on a single presumed Hamas supporter, with the ratio in some cases reaching 100 to one.
The police frameup of SDOs is a warning to all Sri Lankan workers of how the Dissanayake government will treat them if they dare to fight for their legitimate social demands.
In his most provocative language yet, Trump sent Christmas greetings to the “wonderful Chinese soldiers” he claims are “operating” the Panama Canal.
A spokesperson for Union Pacific identified the two workers who died as engineer Clay Burt, 63, and conductor Philip Araujo, 47.
Having failed to get its proposed student enrolment caps through parliament last month, the Albanese government has issued a new immigration Ministerial Direction, despite warnings that it could be illegal.
An investigation will be conducted under Section 301 of the US Trade Act and will target “foundational” Chinese-made computer chips that are widely used in the auto and other manufacturing industries as well as in healthcare, infrastructure, aerospace and even defence.
