The IYSSE provided a powerful counter to the platform of appeals to the Labor government and university management outlined by the pseudo-left organisers of the Special General Meeting.
Prime Minister Albanese announced unprecedented measures, including the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador, based on unsubstantiated and implausible accusations.
While recent media headlines, and police and government reactions, have focused on allegations of sexual abuse, the staffing crisis in childcare is long standing and points to deep systematic problems.
Trump’s program speaks for a ruling class determined to reverse the entire course of modern American history, tearing up every social advance won through struggle since the Civil War.
With the visit of German Finance Minister, Social Democrat leader, and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil to Kiev earlier this week, the German government has finally moved to the forefront of the imperialist war offensive in Eastern Europe.
The Bayrou government’s fall would set into motion an explosive crisis that can only be resolved on a progressive basis by building a revolutionary movement in the working class.
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Coming on top of the current month-long strike by 3,200 workers at Boeing jet fighter plants in Missouri and Illinois, a strike by GE Aerospace workers would substantially impact the US war machine.
Trump’s moves have been accompanied by warnings from financial circles that loss of Fed independence will have major consequences for the US financial stability and the position of the dollar.
Healthcare workers confront not only Kaiser Permanente, but a treacherous union bureaucracy enmeshed with management through corporatist schemes like the “Labor Management Partnership.”
Despite efforts in using water containment booms to halt the spillage of oil, residents some 30 miles south of the Tangipahoa River, which runs alongside the explosion site, have reported seeing oil on the surface of the river.
Opposition among Volkswagen employees against the sweeping cuts to jobs and wages worked out with the help of the IG Metall union is growing. Union officials are warning: “The mood is turning.”
The refusal to date of top national and state elected Democrats to endorse the party’s candidate in the country’s largest city, more than two months after the primary, is extraordinary. It is an expression of a deep crisis pervading the Democratic Party.
ICE has arrested parents and students in at least ten documented cases, an escalation of repression that is being deployed against the entire working class.
The gerrymandering tit-for-tat between Democrats and Republicans signals the decomposition of American democracy, as both parties dismantle democratic norms, leaving the future of the 2026 elections in doubt.
With the complicity of the pseudo-left Québec Solidaire, the unions are working to revive the Parti Québécois, a chauvinist big business party, long discredited due to its implementation of capitalist austerity and antistrike laws.
Reform UK can only be considered as a potential government due to the noxious atmosphere created over decades of Labour and Conservatives governments, competing as to which was more right-wing with their scapegoating of immigrants and asylum seekers playing a leading role
Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of “Free Palestine,” festival staff cut the band’s sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting “Let them play.”
The arrest of Wickremesinghe took place amid an intensifying political crisis confronting the JVP/NPP government, fuelled by emerging working-class struggles.
“I’m here today because it’s powerful to be here. But I know the protests are not working. In my opinion we need to take concrete actions.”
The agreement is, in fact, only the latest in a years-long series of drastic cuts and austerity to public schools in the Denver area and across Colorado.
Steelworkers continue to provide information to the WSWS about the potential causes of the August 11 explosion, which killed two workers and injured 10.
Protests and strikes took place across Argentina last weekm while GE workers in Evendale, Ohio and Erlanger, Kentucky face an August 27 contract expiration.
The WSU vice-chancellor made the announcement soon after reaching an agreement with the campus trade unions to help impose the cuts via “organisational change proposals” in union-management enterprise bargaining agreements.
The deal was announced to preempt a strike, which 94 percent of teachers voted for.
On Monday, the Israeli military carried out two airstrikes, one after another, on Nasser Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip, killing over 20 people.
The order instructs the Pentagon to create a standing force of National Guard troops that could intervene quickly anywhere in the United States.
After being illegally deported and abused in El Salvador, Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García is facing the Trump administration's ongoing public torture.
Kushner’s comment highlights how falsely equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism criminalizes any and all statements of sympathy for Palestinian victims of the Gaza genocide.
The latest comments by Federal Parliament Vice President Omid Nouripour (Greens) once again make clear that the Greens are among the most aggressive warmongers in German politics.
A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence.
The new Texas law would have required that every public school classroom display a large poster of the commandments brought down by Moses from Mt. Sinai, according to the Bible.
Educators must take the lead in a working-class counter-offensive against the fascist president’s attack on democratic and social rights.
The proliferation of so-called “workplace accidents” in Brazil and around the world is inherent to the capitalist mode of production.
In response to continuing US threats to bomb drug cartels in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued unconvincing and toothless denials that they will ever be carried out.
Chengxuan Han, a Chinese doctoral student at the University of Michigan, entered a plea of “no contest” to politically motivated federal charges. This comes just days after Han’s defense team filed a motion to suppress statements obtained through egregious violations of her Fifth Amendment rights.
As Trump accelerates mass deportations toward 400,000 in 2025, Patricia, a DACA recipient, exposes trauma, exploitation, and solidarity, revealing how the war on immigrants is a broader attack on the entire working class.
For several weeks now, the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) have been paying visits to mayors and district administrators in order to prepare municipalities for the growing danger of war on German soil.
Events at the Bell Hotel have been used as a launchpad for a national campaign of far-right mobilisations against asylum seekers, demanding forced mass deportations.
Powell’s move to ease rates will not ease the pressure from the Trump administration for major rate reductions nor that which has started to emerge from within the Fed’s governing body.
In his latest iteration of the “vote for Democrats” tour, Sanders completely ignored Trump’s dictatorial actions and threats to militarily occupy major cities while promoting illusions in reforming the Democratic Party.
The bill’s introduction is a tacit admission by the dictatorial Zelensky regime that a growing number of Ukrainians do not want a part in the war.
Following on from the march by up to 300,000 people across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, these were among the biggest pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Australia since the Zionist ethnic cleansing began in October 2023.
Students across the United States return to campuses this fall under extraordinary conditions that have no precedent in American history.
The first-term congressman from St. Louis was heavily backed by Zionist groups, particularly AIPAC, when he defeated Cori Bush last year.
Galileo detects potential ocean on Europa; Portuguese prime minister ousted; Truman seizes railroads to block strike; French troops withdraw from the Ruhr.
The Washington Post revealed that military officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard troops in the third-largest US city.
Under the “historic” Bougival agreement, the pro- and anti-independence parties committed to maintaining New Caledonia’s colonial ties to France.
Gaza's health ministry said Sunday that 289 people, including 115 children, have died of malnutrition and starvation since the start of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Lehrer, trained as a mathematician at Harvard, taught for many decades after his performing and songwriting career ended around 1970.
Witnesses said one worker was slammed to the floor and cuffed, another left bleeding, and a third was injured after falling from a stairwell.
The following letter was submitted to the WSWS in response to the August 11 explosion which occurred at the Clairton Coke Works facility near Pittsburgh. Two steel workers, 39-year-old Timothy Quinn and 52-year-old Steven Menefee, were killed and 10 injured.
This lecture was delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025.
Some 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest than health and education.
With the full complicity of the participating trade union chiefs, the “economic reform” summit became a vehicle to launch deeper cuts to social programs, boost corporate profits and prepare for war.
For the German government, the arrest comes at a very inopportune time. If the suspect reveals who was behind the attack, it could lead to serious tensions with Kiev and Washington.
Mélenchon’s nationalist calls for France get more of the “cards of power” show that the NFP and the union bureaucracies will not seriously fight social cuts to fund French militarism.
This is the latest in a string of industrial disasters in the United States.
Grocery workers face not only poverty wages, corporate domination and intensifying attacks on democratic rights under the Trump administration, but a campaign of sabotage by union bureaucurats.
The UN-affiliated body that monitors mass hunger has for the first time officially declared a famine in Gaza City and warned that other areas of Gaza will soon face famine.
The arming of over 2,200 National Guard soldiers in the capital city is a major step towards martial law.
The National Party-led government is seeking to cut teachers’ pay relative to inflation, claiming it has no money, while diverting billions of dollars to the military.
The crackdown and intimidation of political opponents is a critical aspect of Trump’s erection of a presidential dictatorship and police state.
A perusal of the artworks on show in the Biennale, disappoints, in one major respect shocks, and makes clear that enormous questions of orientation remain unresolved.
The military siege of Venezuela marks a new stage in an unprecedented escalation of US imperialist aggression against Latin America as a whole.
India: 20,000 National Health Mission workers in Maharashtra strike indefinitely; Punjab roadway and transport contract workers demand permanent jobs; Bangladesh refinery workers demand higher wages; Australia: Qantas engineers continue pay rise strike; New Zealand nurses start new round of industrial action
Underscoring that the bureaucracy is fully aware of the fact that it has sold out the flight attendants, it is denying them the right to vote on the portion of the agreement related to pre-flight pay—and all other aspects of the agreement—other than the wage schedule.
A central claim of the “Fighting Oligarchy” speaking tour and an axis of Sanders’ political activity is the notion that the Democratic Party is, was, or could be a party of the working class.
In words that constitute an indictment of the RCP’s political amnesia regarding Corbyn’s new party, Trotsky wrote of “the ‘left’ leaders” who “readily changed their line” to accommodate pressure from below: “to evaluate them one must take both sides of the matter into account. Revolutionaries need a good memory.”
Hundreds of airport workers in Spain strike over staff shortages, overwork and pay; pay strikes by radiographers and oil workers in Iran join protests against water shortages, power outages and collapsing pensions; nurses in Migori county, Kenya walk out to demand implementation of 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement to determine pay and conditions
The Israeli leader is on a rampage because of the scale of the crimes his regime is implementing and the mass global opposition they are provoking.
The Trump administration has exploded a bomb under the Fed with the demand that one of its board of seven governors, Lisa Cook, resign over alleged false information she gave in applying for a housing mortgage.
The book “Absolution? Israel and German state policy” by Daniel Marwecki shows that cooperation between Germany and Israel never had anything to do with atonement for the Shoah. Germany supplied the Zionist state with weapons and economic aid, while the latter covered up the continued existence of Nazi elites in the state and economy of post-war West Germany.
Following the recent Ukraine summits in Alaska and Washington, Germany’s Left Party is increasingly openly supporting the right-wing Zelensky regime and advocating aggressive imperialist war against Russia.
Workers contacted by the WSWS stressed the fact that the continuing toll of workplace and industrial deaths is the consequence of the subordination of all concerns over safety to the drive for profit.
The deployment of a US amphibious intervention force with 2,200 Marines aboard shatters Washington’s flimsy claims that it was engaged in counter-narcotics activity.
Arms exports are becoming an increasingly important component of Tokyo’s remilitarization, with a focus on interoperability and building alliances against China.
Ongoing job destruction at the Art Gallery of NSW and Creative NSW and other government cost-cutting measures are threatening the existence of state-funded art and cultural institutions.
The Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee calls for teachers and all city workers to build independent rank-and-file power to defeat austerity, union betrayal, and attacks on living standards.
Workers, who began receiving their first meager strike paychecks only this week, are increasingly concluding that the IAM bureaucracy is not fighting to win their demands but is instead working to wear them down and force through another pro-company contract.
The State Department said the government will begin reviewing all visa holders’ social media accounts for posts or messages that evince support for “terrorism.”
The author of Lab Leak Fever has comprehensively exposed the baseless ultra-right campaign to blame COVID-19 on the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Trump’s cuts to MassHealth will impact all workers, who are reliant on a healthcare system put under enormous strain by hundreds of thousands of people losing their insurance.
The NPC has been designed to channel the insurgent movement of workers and youth into parliamentary politics, whether as a new independent electoral slate for 2027 elections or as a temporary vehicle for discredited bourgeois politicians looking for a new home.
The Israeli military has begun its onslaught on Gaza City, the last portion of Gaza that remains outside of Israeli military occupation, in a new and even deadlier phase of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
A group of 43 immigrant dairy workers have been on strike for more than a week, demanding Dairy Farmers of America—the largest dairy cooperative in the US—pay years of severance.
More than 8,000 troops, police and armed federal agents are being mobilized to occupy the US capital.
Daulagala dedicated more than four decades of his life to the struggle for the Trotskyist principles of international socialism until prolonged illness curtailed his work.
The 751-foot CSX Coal bulk carrier exploded near Francis Scott Key bridge, which collapsed last year following a collision with another vessel.
The laws will be used to target the broad mass of workers and youth who are increasingly coming into struggle against declining living standards, falling wages and imperialist war.
Amid advanced US preparations for war against China, the Pacific states find themselves drawn into the intensifying geopolitical confrontation between Washington and Beijing.
The cuts targeting workers at the Dearborn steel mill are part of a broader program of cuts by Cleveland Cliffs that have been implemented without any serious opposition by the unions
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) was created by Congress in 1998 and tasked with conducting root cause investigations into industrial chemical accidents.
Tuesday’s accident at state-operated Korail shows that the Lee Jae-myung administration’s pledge to reduce workplace deaths is just for show.
Terrified of rising anti-capitalist sentiment among workers and youth, the government is attempting to impose an ideological firewall around the country, blocking immigrants who express alleged “anti-American” or “antisemitic” viewpoints.
This manifesto was delivered at the First Congress of the Communist International in Moscow and unanimously adopted at the Congress’s final session on March 6, 1919.
In this concluding chapter of The Permanent Revolution (1929), Trotsky distills the essential postulates of his theory of permanent revolution, in opposition to the Stalinist doctrine of “socialism in one country.”
Exploiting the PSOE-Sumar government’s assault on immigrants and workers, Vox is reviving the most reactionary traditions of the Spanish ruling class.
Recent albums by artists of diverse styles point to broader problems of current popular music.
Despite Japan’s reputation for superior safety standards, the Osaka fire reveals growing cracks, exposing a trajectory of deregulation and neglect.
