Although the criminal character of the attack on Iran is obvious, and Merz, Macron, and Starmer fear its disastrous consequences, they unconditionally back the aggressors.
Allegedly, the nurse who attended to the detainee has also been taken by ICE, placed on administrative leave without pay and now faces possible termination.
Members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers voted 95 percent in favor of a strike in the same week as 9,000 public sanitation workers voted to do the same, raising the potential for a city-wide shutdown of public services.
Israeli warplanes continued a relentless bombardment of Iran on Monday, after US President Donald Trump claimed that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire.
The 6-3 decision on an emergency appeal by the Trump administration allows deportation of detained immigrants, without notice, to third countries wracked by violence, civil war and mass starvation.
Yesterday, after a 24-hour delay, the Albanese government publicly endorsed the Trump administration’s criminal attack on Iran, underscoring Labor’s commitment to the US military alliance.
Zohran Mamdani is neck-and-neck or by some polls, ahead, of former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic Primary.
Workers, students, and residents voiced strong opposition to imperialist war and support for a general strike at protests this weekend against the US bombing of Iran.
Commercial real estate faces “vulnerabilities” and the massive growth of private credit threatens to become a “locus of contagion” for financial turbulence, according to two recent reports.
A strike by truckers of the National Front of Heavy Cargo Drivers and other logistics unions in Peru met heavy police repression, while locked-out DHL workers in Canada face a management strikebreaking operation.
Reversing China’s rise as the primary economic partner for Peru and South America would be the equivalent of an economic earthquake, inevitably sparking revolutionary upheavals.
The Czech-born, Austrian pianist had interests and an international outlook, and was best known for his dedication to the works of Beethoven and Schubert.
New Zealand withdrew funding from the tiny Pacific Island state after it reached an agreement with China.
Those targeted for expulsion at gun-point include Rohingya refugees and impoverished migrants from Bangladesh, as well as many poverty-stricken Muslims who have been living in India for generations.
Throughout the demonstration, police snatch squads plunged into the crowd to make violent arrests aimed at provoking a response. The BBC was quick to report the arrests and “scuffles,” while other media described a “clash with police” and “chaos.”
Millions of workers and young people who have protested the imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza will reject Palestine Action’s designation as a “terrorist” organisation.
Speaking in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday, Bernie Sanders did not call for strikes or mass action to stop the long-planned US-led imperialist war against Iran, which he blamed solely on Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ruling gives the go-ahead for a stepped-up assault on the wages, conditions and democratic rights of building workers, but it also means those who want to fight the administration can no longer be held back with the lie that all they can do is wait for the court’s verdict.
The WSWS has received statements and a video from workers in Germany who stand in solidarity with the resistance to Donald Trump’s attempts to erect a military dictatorship in the US.
Public school teachers will join a rally in Brisbane on Tuesday against a proposed state government three-year agreement that cuts real wages and further erodes working conditions.
The overwhelming vote to strike expresses deep militancy while the UFCW bureaucracy, terrified of this momentum, is working to sabotage the struggle through legal maneuvers and staged theatrics.
Economic growth has almost completely stalled in all sectors of the economy while inflation continues unabated.
Last week, the United States Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote upheld Tennessee’s reactionary ban on transgender medical care for adolescents, a further attack on science, medicine and equal protection under the law.
A 15-year veteran reviewed the record of fatal accidents and severe injuries and the company-union efforts to conceal the conditions that led to the death of Adams.
The Israeli military is carrying out continuous killings of Palestinian aid seekers, including an air strike on Friday that murdered 25 people who had gathered in Central Gaza in hopes of receiving desperately needed food.
Brian Wilson and the band he founded, the Beach Boys, made an indelible mark on American popular music.
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
In a massive and unprovoked assault, the United States launched a sneak attack on Iran, dropping the most powerful non-nuclear bunker-buster bombs ever used in combat on Iranian nuclear energy facilities.
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Miranda ruling; State of emergency in India; Korean War begins; French and British troops massacre Chinese protesters.
The votes on Canada Post’s “best and final” offers will be administered by the Canadian Industrial Relations Board, an unelected body repeatedly used by the government to illegalize workers’ struggles, including last year’s month-long postal workers’ strike.
Hundreds of thousands protested in London on Saturday. Organisers again directed the determination of those attending into dead-end demands that the warmonger and genocide apologist in chief Prime Minister Keir Starmer pursue a peace policy.
More than 2 billion workers worldwide were in informal employment in 2024, or nearly 60 percent of all workers on the planet. Labour’s share of global GDP fell from 53 percent in 2014 to 52.4 percent in 2024.
American imperialism and its Israeli proxy continue to escalate their illegal, unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, with US nuclear-capable B-52s and aircraft carrier battle groups readying to launch an imminent attack.
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was released from immigration custody on Friday evening following a ruling from a federal judge in New Jersey that said his detention was a violation of his constitutional rights.
The union’s heavy-handed actions illustrate that it is aware of the bankruptcy of its call for government-imposed arbitration.
Michigan industrial accidents and deaths continue to mount, making the IWA-RFC investigation into the death of Stellantis autoworker Ronald Adams an urgent priority for all workers.
Jacobin seeks to downplay the political significance of the mass protests and cover up the Democratic Party’s complicity with and capitulation to the Trump regime.
The decision paves the way for Trump to similarly deploy soldiers around the country in response to any protests against the immigration Gestapo that impede disappearing and deportation operations.
The resolutions serve as political cover for the fact that the illegal imperialist war against Iran enjoys bipartisan support from both Democratic and Republican leadership.
Approximately 3,000 workers are covered by contracts with the successors to General Electric, which split into three separate entities in 2023.
The deficit is largely attributable to the expiration of COVID-19 relief funds. Other contributing factors include inflation, rising fuel and power costs, and a decline in ridership that began at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the habitual underfunding of public transportation and other essential services in the eighth largest metropolitan region in the United States.
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has said there are “opportunities” for the euro to play a greater international role while the head of China’s central bank Pan Gongsheng has spoken of a “multi-polar” currency world.
New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government already has military personnel in the Middle East, embedded in US-led operations against Yemen and supporting Israel’s war machine.
The exhibition examines a crucial decade in the career of this portraitist of the bourgeoisie, who combined artistic daring with a quasi-aristocratic and conventional outlook.
Amid stalled talks over New Caledonia, Macron’s summit with Pacific leaders centred on its escalating anti-China agenda.
The defendants acknowledged that the former president conspired with the military commanders to prevent the inauguration of elected President Lula da Silva.
Dickerson rose through the UAW apparatus at a time when the union oversaw a massive erosion of jobs, safety, working conditions and pay, including the 1999 Ford Rouge explosion.
India: Telangana domestic workers demand rights and welfare benefits; Bangladesh government sector workers oppose “black law”; Australia: Bluescope Steel electricians in New South Wales impose bans; New Zealand doctors and dentists strike over pay.
The defiant stand by the bin workers is endangered by the continued isolation of their struggle by Unite under General Secretary Sharon Graham, which has done nothing to organise its million-strong membership against Labour’s strikebreaking.
The scandal engulfing Sánchez’s government is being used not only to settle internal disputes within the political establishment, but to prepare the ground for a realignment aimed at imposing deeper austerity, intensified repression of the working class, and a full-scale turn to militarism.
The UBS report on global wealth, developed for the purpose of informing the super-rich about trends in wealth accumulation, is an indictment of the capitalist system where a tiny handful of billionaires have incalculable financial assets as billions of people are plunged deeper into poverty and hunger.
A man with family roots in Palestine described the impact of the Gaza genocide on his family:“While the world looks to the events in Iran, Israel is using the silence to continue bombing Gaza undisturbed.”
The lies about "weapons of mass destruction" used to justify the 2003 US invasion of Iraq are repeated in the form of Trump and Netanyahu's claims of an "imminent threat" from Iranian nuclear weapons.
Nearly a year after a judge ruled that the DOL had illegally dismissed Lehman’s original complaint relating to voter suppression, the agency—under both the Biden and Trump administrations—has taken no action.
Fain threatened to “slit the f***ing throats” of his opponents, exposing the so-called “reform” president as just another gangster bureaucrat.
A flattering write-up in the Washington Post is only one of a series of media reports promoting former spies and military officers as the face of the Democratic Party.
Members of Philadelphia’s AFSCME District Council 33 voted 95 percent in favor of a strike in response to the city’s proposed contract.
In the aftermath of the targeted shootings by a fascist Trump supporter of Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota, Donald Trump and a number of MAGA Republicans have made statements calculated to stoke more fascist violence against members of the nominal opposition party and political opponents of the Trump regime.
On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away after a long illness.
While the immediate target of the new rules is clearly opposition to the intensifying Gaza genocide, they could be used to suppress any opposition to management, the government or the political establishment.
Workers and young people must take the government’s bolstering of the police with military personnel as a serious warning.
Labor has repeated the lying justifications of the criminal Israeli regime for its aggression, and would inevitably participate in any direct US attack on Iran.
The death of the extremely sick 17-year-old in a motel room in 2023 is an indictment of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government, which oversaw a worsening mental health crisis and declining access to services.
The ruling represents a further step in the criminalization of political opposition, which can be fought only on the basis of a sober assessment of the role played by the Peronists and pseudo-left in disarming any viable resistance in the working class.
The surge in support for Mamdami, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, reflects popular opposition to inequality and war, which the DSA seeks to channel back into the Democratic Party.
Rail workers in one-day national stoppage throughout Greece demand investment to end appalling rail safety record; doctors in Spain join growing strike wave over falling living standards; municipal workers in Umhlathuze Local Municipality, South Africa walk out over pay and impossible working conditions, including lack of health and safety and staff shortages
NATO is demanding that member states commit to at least 3.5 percent of GDP on “pure” military spending, and 5 percent including necessary infrastructure projects as early as 2032. This would require an additional £40 billion annually in the UK’s military budget, dictating the evisceration of health, education, housing and welfare spending.
Trump, who pledged to rule as a "dictator on day one," acknowledges neither international law nor the American Constitution and asserts his right to kill anyone, anywhere, whenever he feels like it.
In line with deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s demand for 3,000 daily arrests, border police and federal agents are detaining and disappearing immigrant and US citizen workers alike.
These DOJ actions follow Secretary of State Marco Rubio's May 28 threat to “aggressively revoke visas” for Chinese international students.
The Trump administration is seeking to deport Hayam El Gamal and her children in “kin punishment” for the alleged crimes of her husband, accused of firebombing protesters demanding the release of Israeli hostages.
Fain’s video is, for all intents and purposes, the response of the bureaucracy to the mass protests last weekend. In the emerging showdown between the working class and Trump, the bureaucracy is lining up against workers on the other side of the barricade.
While the word was not mentioned, stagflation—the combination of rising prices and a slowing economy—is of increasing concern.
The tentative agreement amounts to a calculated maneuver by the capitalist state, in collusion with the pro-corporate union bureaucracy, to suppress the growing militancy of the working class and impose austerity in the name of “budget stability.”
The Jungle takes on renewed importance today with rising levels of workplace death and injury—and amidst workers’ fightback for independent control of workplace safety through the Ronald Adams campaign and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
The redundancies are coupled with major curriculum changes, leaving substantially reduced options for students, in line with Labor’s restructuring of universities to meet “national priorities.”
The mass "Red Line” demonstration at The Hague on Sunday was the second of its kind within a month, marking a growing wave of popular opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
On the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz endorsed Israel's attack on Iran in an interview with public broadcaster ZDF. He said, “I can only say that I have the utmost respect for the Israeli army and the Israeli leadership for having had the courage to do this.”
The new holiday aims at nothing less than the ideological entrenchment of the military within society—in preparation for new imperialist wars and the suppression of growing social unrest at home.
The principled opposition of the SEG, which gives conscious political expression to the mass opposition of workers and youth around the world to imperialist-Zionist aggression, stands in stark contrast to the hypocritical attitude of the pro-imperialist capitalist political establishment in Turkey.
Ó hAnnaidh, who is being prosecuted under terrorism legislation, appeared in court in London Wednesday morning as protesters gathered outside.
The turnout was large for a rally held on a weekday morning, fuelled by anger against the genocide in Palestine and the escalating US-Israel war in Iran--both supported by the major European imperialist powers including the Starmer Labour government.
The honour, to be conferred by King Charles III, is a badge of shame for services rendered to the political establishment.
The attempt to claim the mantle of “the Socialist Party” and to describe itself as “the socialists” is a fraud being perpetrated by the pseudo-left Socialist Alternative, with the backing of elements of the media and political establishment.
The field is ripe for mass collective action, as seen in the massive nationwide demonstrations on June 14. The struggle of Long Beach nurses must be understood as part of this broader awakening of the American working class.
Family gathered Sunday to hold a Father’s Day memorial for the 63-year-old Stellantis worker who was tragically killed at the Dundee Engine Complex in Michigan on April 7.
The cuts also impact federal funding arrangements, which are matched to the state allocation. That brings the total withdrawal of desperately needed school funding to $3 billion.
American imperialism is rushing headlong into war with Iran, assuming direct command of a predatory conflict it has long plotted alongside Israel, its proxy in the Middle East.
The firing of Dr. Rupa Marya highlights the confluence between the university, the Democratic Party and ultra-wealthy donors who control them both.
In the version of a budget bill presented by Senate Republicans on Monday, tax cuts benefiting the wealthiest are combined with a cutoff of Medicaid for more people than the number proposed by Republicans in the House.
ICE arrested New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander for "obstruction," as he was escorting an immigrant outside an immigration court in lower Manhattan.
The initiative by the Marseille dockers underlines the determination of the working class to go on the offensive against the genocide in Gaza and against the imperialist governments complicit in this crime.
The turmoil created by the Trump administration’s policies have undermined norms that were previously taken for granted.
These and other expressions of mass global opposition occur as the crimes of the Israeli regime in Gaza, the West Bank and now Iran continue unabated.
The draft language does not contain any protections against privatization, which the Trump White House has declared as its aim. But even if it did, such terms would be rendered meaningless when Trump is actively trying to set up a military dictatorship.
Britain’s universities have responded to students protesting the genocide in Gaza by establishing a new legal framework aimed at outlawing protest altogether.
The Socialist Equality Party calls for the broadest industrial and political mobilisation of the working class to stop Keir Starmer’s Labour government dragging Britain into war with Iran.
A unified struggle would directly threaten the PSOE Sumar government’s militarist agenda, heavily reliant on the metal sector. It would confront a deeply unpopular administration besieged by corruption scandals and mounting working-class resistance to years of austerity and wage erosion.
Students, staff and academics at every threatened university face the urgent challenge of taking control of their struggle out of the hands of the union bureaucracy.
