While the protests express a growing opposition to Trump’s fascistic agenda, the pseudo-left organisers are seeking to channel those sentiments behind Australian nationalism and a pro-war Labor government.
Anticipating angry protests, Next management informed employees about the closure via WhatsApp messages on Monday night, after they returned to their homes.
Far from mobilising workers against the changes, the union leaders have created the conditions for the protest rallies to be miserable affairs, serving only to demoralise those who want to fight.
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
The determination of the administration to continue with tax cuts, come what may, is an expression of one of the most fundamental features of the US economy—the dependence of corporations and finance capital on money from the state.
RP tries to reconcile verbal invocations of revolution, internationalism and Trotskyism with its own ties to Stalinist, social-democratic or bourgeois liberal parties and national union bureaucracies that support war and are violently hostile to Trotskyism.
Striking workers must be onguard against sellout as official talks resume and demand that trusted workers, elected by the rank and file, take part in all talks and report to the membership.
A worker was killed at the Hanwha Qcells solar panel plant in Cartersville on Monday and another was killed at the construction site of the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America battery plant in Savannah on Tuesday.
The tax and spending bill codifies Trump’s tax cuts, greatly expands the border Gestapo and military, while imposing Medicaid work requirements and cuts to food assisstance programs.
A year after catastrophic flooding, the Brazilian government's negligence and capitalist priorities leave Rio Grande do Sul’s working class in crisis.
Rafał Trzaskowski, the candidate for the Tusk government, narrowly won the first round of the presidential election. His victory in the run-off is, however, uncertain.
The latest Trump administration action could compel more than a quarter of Harvard's student body, all of whom are in the US legally, to transfer schools or leave the country.
Beyond immediate workplace grievances, the strike reflected a growing political opposition to the subordination of life to profit among healthcare workers.
The scandal lifts the lid on how the union bureaucracy as a whole lives—its corrupt appetites, its essentially parasitic and hostile relationship to the workers they claim to represent and their deep ties to management and the capitalist parties.
In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guy Edward Bartkus, 25-year-old resident of Twentynine Palms, California, targeted a fertility clinic in Palm Springs with a car bomb, killing himself and injuring four others.
De Niro finished his speech by recalling the revolutionary slogans of the French Revolution—“Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.”
Volvo Group’s decision to lay off nearly 1,000 workers is part of the global attack on the jobs, wages and conditions of the working class. These attacks must be resisted!
Kneecap have refused to be cowed by their persecutors, while making clear they have never supported Hamas or Hezbollah or endorsed the killing of MPs.
An international petition has been launched for the release of Ahmad Mammadli and Afiaddin Mammadov, political dissidents arrested in Azerbaijan.
One day general strike in Belgium against government austerity involving workers in transport, waste collection, postal sorting centres, courts and prisons; workers who collect waste in Soran, Iraq walk out over unpaid wages for March and April; university staff in Zimbabwe continue stoppage over pay and conditions in face of sackings and scab labour
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed in a court hearing Wednesday that at least eight men from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, South Sudan, Burma and Vietnam were being sent to South Sudan, a country seven of the men had never been to.
Adams’ co-workers have voiced serious concerns that critical safety measures, including lockout/tagout procedures, may have been bypassed to get the retooled plant up and running as soon as possible.
The results of the most recent elections across Europe underscore a dangerous and accelerating trend: the rise of the far-right and fascistic forces and their integration into the heart of official politics.
For all his phony “progressive” posturing in the past, Lee Jae-myung, if elected, will impose austerity and pro-war measures in line with the demands of the ruling class.
Knowing it has the full support of the Trump administration, the Israeli government is going to previously unheard-of lengths of criminality.
Albanese’s decision to attend the papal inauguration soon after winning the May 3 election was primarily driven by the heightened geostrategic tensions triggered by the US Trump administration’s global trade war.
In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jacobin and Labor Notes’ effort to prop-up one bureaucratic apparatus (UAW) by criticizing another (UFCW) has led them into the absurd position of promoting the UAW election as a model of “union democracy.”
If postal workers are to prevail, they must mobilize the full power of the working class, a task that can only be carried out if they seize control of their fight from the union bureaucracy.
Nurses are fighting against not just MemorialCare, but the profit system which subordinates healthcare and every other social issue to the bottom line of Wall Street.
One of the five most-watched debuts on HBO Max, The Pitt has already been renewed for a second season and widely discussed on TikTok and other social media.
The Trump administration is escalating the detention and disappearance of immigrants, visa holders, asylum seekers, green card holders, and even US citizens, promising to deport some one million people this year alone.
The charges came following an incident that took place at a new ICE immigrant detention center in New Jersey, and are a further step in Trump’s drive to subdue all branches of government under his dictatorship.
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and Rail Action Committee call on rail workers to participate in the investigations of the Action Committee to uncover the real causes of the spate of fatal industrial accidents.
“Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal” is being held in London on Saturday May 31.
Delivering the main report Ajitha, a senior nurse in Dorset, England began by condemning the anti-immigrant measures announced May 12 by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer which “spell disaster for the NHS”.
That so many people face death by starvation, under conditions of unprecedented scientific and technological developments in food production and distribution, is a devastating indictment of the capitalist system of production for private profit
Although the extent of the war crimes in Gaza can no longer be concealed, the German government celebrates its unwavering friendship with Israel.
In Kiev, police harassed any visitors who dared to commemorate the victims of the Nazi attack in any way other than laying flowers. At the Memorial of Eternal Glory, police tried to detain two different women for playing the popular Soviet song “Victory Day” on their phones.
The breakup of the Liberal-National Coalition, which has been in place for 80 years, expresses a historic crisis of the whole two-party set-up of capitalist rule.
Healthcare workers across the country are preparing strike action, including a statewide nursing strike next week in Connecticut.
Alongside the deliberate dismantling of public health in the US under Trump, the breakdown of the aviation infrastructure continues apace.
In a television interview on Sunday, Scott Bessent said that countries which did not engage with the US in “good faith” would receive a letter reimposing the large tariff hikes announced on April 2.
The US House is poised to pass a massive budget and tax bill that will eviscerate social programs used by millions, such as Medicaid and SNAP food benefits, while providing trillions in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and billions for the immigration Gestapo and military.
Musk, whose factories are notorious for poor safety, is spearheading the corporate oligarchy’s plans to remove whatever remains of workplace protections.
Ritchie, 45, was the second person put to death in Indiana since 2009, following a 15-year hiatus due to the state’s inability to obtain the drugs to carry out lethal injections.
The Reserve Bank board statement referred to “the heightened level of uncertainty” in the world economy and said it had “considered a severe downside scenario.”
Kriv Stender’s dramatic feature is limited by its perfunctory examination of the explosive political developments in Egypt that preceded Greste’s incarceration.
Washington claims the deal endangers “the safety and security of the region,” threatening retaliation.
The pro-EU candidate and mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan, has won the presidential elections in Romania, ostensibly ending a political crisis that began with the annulment of the elections in December 2024.
“We should not be lining up behind our own ruling classes on the basis of reactionary nationalism. Unfettered by the treacherous union bureaucracies, we could unleash our collective social power to fight for credible demands to defend our jobs, and improve our wages and working conditions. This is why we are here today.”
Chris Hedges transfers blame for the crimes of the Israeli-Zionist state and capitalist imperialism to the entire human race. Gaza, he proclaims, proves the futility of any belief in human progress.
The centrepiece of the agreement is a Security and Defence Partnership, framed in terms of combatting Russia. It opens the door to UK arms companies being given full license to fulfil contracts funded through the EU’s €150 billion rearmament programme SAFE.
We must demand the suspension of the pilots, to defend colleagues at the targeted sites, and stop a rubber-stamp deal with Kretinsky across 1,200 offices. We must inform and unite workers against the CWU apparatus that silences our voice and enforces corporate diktats.
The Fourth International Theoretical Conference in Nairobi is a rallying point for Stalinist parties defending capitalism and opposing Trotskyism. It reflects broader efforts to suppress revolutionary movements across Africa and Asia.
After nineteen months of their colluding with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as tens of thousands were killed and Gaza was destroyed, the three leaders have issued a declaration, both cynical and toothless, that they strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
Returned to office with the backing of the campus trade unions, the Albanese government is presiding over the elimination of thousands of jobs in universities, especially in arts and humanities.
There are many difficult, urgent social, political and cultural problems at present. And there are numerous filmmakers willing to address them, to one extent or another.
This is an attack on the fundamental premise of workers’ compensation legislation—that employers are financially responsible for workplace injuries, illness and death.
Far from “defending democracy” the Democratic Party, with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the forefront, sought to cover up and conceal Biden’s advanced health problems in order to install Kamala Harris, a trusted agent of imperialism and advocate of continuing war against Russia and genocide in Gaza.
The final stages of Israel’s genocidal “final solution”—the mass murder and deportation of Gazans—are being carried out with the full support of all the imperialist powers and their Arab bourgeois lackeys.
The meeting discussed the program from the Committee’s recent statement in response to the appointment of David Steiner, a member of the Fedex Board of Directors, as new Postmaster General, and took reports from postal workers around the world.
For the first time in history the US does not have a top rating from any of the three major agencies.
While the NZ government has denounced the Greens as “Marxist” and “socialist,” it is nothing of the sort: The party has a long record of supporting and joining right-wing, pro-war Labour governments.
Responsibility for the rise of Chega lies with what the media promote as the "left" in Portugal, which has betrayed and repressed an increasingly militant wave of class struggles in recent years.
The basic cause of Ronald Adams Sr.’s death was the same as that of the three deaths at our plant right here in Hamilton: the prioritization of corporate profits over the safety and very lives of the workers who produce them.
A political strike in Panama is continuing with marches, rallies and roadblocks, while a walkout set for Monday by 2,500 marine draftsmen in Groton, Connecticut was averted by a last minute deal.
This strike was distinguished from previous ones due to the broader participation and scope of its demands.
While resolutions and speeches were not short on radical rhetoric aimed at appealing to radicalised young people and workers, they remained deliberately vague in order to cover up the party’s right-wing realpolitik.
“They're cracking down on freedom of speech because they want to crackdown on anyone who wants to take action against what's happening. It seems to me like it's at least British collusion with Israel because they're selling weapons and they're doing big business with it.”
The election saw the Greens shift further to the right, campaigning for a pro-business coalition with Labor, adopting a program of militarism and dropping its campaigning against the Gaza genocide.
What is known so far, and the manner in which the deal was reached, make clear that the deal announced Sunday night to shut down the strike is a colossal betrayal.
Building upon the legacy of Stalinist falsifications of the history of the Second World War, the Putin regime falsely portrays its reactionary invasion of Ukraine as a continuation of the struggle waged by the Soviet masses against fascism and imperialism.
The Trump-supported negotiations marked the first direct meeting in over three years between representatives of the oligarchic Putin regime and the right-wing dictatorial regime of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to refugees and the construction of a police state.
More than 150 people attended the screening, which included a question-and-answer panel with director Michael T. Workman, civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh and student activists and community members, who had participated in the UC Santa Cruz encampment.
Darius Williams had 33 years at Ford and was one of the highest seniority workers at the Rouge complex.
After the trip by US President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar last week, Israel has launched what it called the “final” conquest of Gaza amid far-advanced US planning for the forcible resettlement of the Palestinian people outside their historic homeland.
The rallies drew thousands of educators, school staff, students, parents and workers, reflecting the deep and growing anger towards the Trump administration’s assault on public education.
The strike, the first at the facility in 37 years, involves nurses, mental health workers, social workers, clerical, environmental service and dietary staff.
DOGE-imposed spending cuts left a skeltal staff at the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky scrambling to provide timely updates to residents caught in the storm’s path.
The attacks are a continuation of the longstanding assault on California’s vulnerable homeless population, spearheaded by the Democratic Party.
Ford workers in Cologne, Germany are ready to fight for their jobs. This was clearly demonstrated by their 24-hour strike last Wednesday.
The DSA’s “Labor for an Arms Embargo” campaign is a political maneuver aimed at redirecting growing anti-genocide sentiment back into the Democratic Party and union bureaucracy. Rather than organizing real action, the campaign offers symbolic gestures while shielding US imperialism and suppressing working class opposition.
Donald Trump issued a rambling and incoherent post on his Truth Social platform that included a thinly veiled incitement to violence against Bruce Springsteen.
An arbitrarily imposed government strike ban on 55,000 Canada Post workers expires Thursday, May 22, amid intensified demands from the ruling class to slash postal workers’ jobs and rights and make the Crown Corporation “profitable.”
More than 30 sources who served with or alongside UK Special Forces described the murder of unarmed Afghans in their sleep; the execution of handcuffed detainees, including children; psychotic killing raids; personal kill tallies; and the systematic cover-up of all incriminating evidence.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
The developing revolutionary crisis in Latin America demands a sober examination of Mujica’s political legacy.
The $400 million cut to the federal AmeriCorps program will impact critical social programs across the US and result in a loss of income for over 32,000 “service members.”
The march, the 27th held in London since Israel’s genocide began 19 months ago in October 2023, was one of the largest yet.
The first government statement by the incoming chancellor was a declaration of war on the population.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on students, workers and youth across the US and internationally to demand that Rozos' diploma be released immediately.
The "investigations" carried out by UAW-Stellantis teams and the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) can only result in a whitewash.
Trump’s praise for al-Sharaa, the former leader of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, is a fitting culmination to the fabricated “Syrian revolution” promoted around the world for close to 15 years by a host of pro-imperialist, pseudo-left political parties.
A series of recently published books on the Flint water crisis share a common “critical” hostility toward the efforts of legitimate water scientists to oversee the recovery of the city’s water system.
The strike, taking place on the outskirts of New York City, the center of world finance, poses the need for a general confrontation between the working class and the capitalist ruling elite.
We are running in the staff council elections to free us from the straitjacket of the Verdi (Public Service workers trade union) and build genuine rank and file resistance.
The FSP is seeking to divert the growing opposition among workers to the JVP/NPP government’s attacks on living conditions and democratic rights into futile protests and a reactionary chauvinist anti-Indian campaign.
