Academic staff at Bradford University, UK walk out for five days over jobs cull; protests against collapse in living standards continue in Iran, including by steelworkers demanding jobs and youth protesting exorbitant price of bread; stoppage by lecturers at University of Zimbabwe begun April over massive pay cut continues
Resident doctors are demanding a 29.2 percent increase to restore their pay to 2008 levels. Working up to 72-hours a week, many are burdened with massive student debt and see no future in the UK.
Press reports make clear these plans for a catastrophic war with Russia are bound up with preparations for military rule against working people in Europe.
Declarations that any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza amounts to “antisemitism" and represents an abuse of Holocaust remembrance are assuming increasingly bizarre forms.
The genocidal war in Gaza, waged by Israel with the full backing of the United States and its imperialist allies, can only be stopped through the unified and revolutionary action of the international working class.
While Trump has said he has “no plans” to remove Powell—he has received legal advice that an attempt to do so would most likely fail if it went to the Supreme Court—he has maintained a virtual daily barrage against the Fed chair over his refusal to lower interest rates.
The ruling LDP has only been able to remain in office as a minority government as a result of the deep divisions among the opposition parties—between the far-right and the nominally liberal parties.
This is the first publicly reported case of a patient being denied prenatal care under Tennessee’s Medical Ethics Defense Act (MEDA), a sweeping piece of legislation passed by the Republican-dominated state government.
“Departments that were once stable are now running with only a third or half of the required staff. That affects everything—from patient care to service development and quality improvement.”
The ongoing assault against migrants and refugees serves as a lever for capitalist governments to eliminate democratic rights, suspend basic human rights, and establish dictatorship. This applies to both the United States and the European Union.
What is now being voted on is not the product of free negotiations. It’s a corporate and state diktat. And the CUPW leadership has no intention of challenging it. That task falls to the rank and file.
The resolution is a containment exercise, meant to defuse rank-and-file anger while preserving Unite’s cosy ties with arms manufacturers and the Labour government.
The Epstein case, six years after the perpetrator was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell, officially ruled a “suicide,” is a crisis of the entire political system.
The business pages of the main media outlets are also full of suggestions on how to save billions at the expense of the needy, pensioners, the sick and wage workers.
In less than three years, the size of the crypto market has increased five-fold, a rise which has accelerated on the back of Trump’s pledge to make the US the crypto capital of the world.
The technology and skills involved in Formula 1 racing are extraordinary—the vehicles are traveling at 200 miles per hour and more, and sometimes within inches of each other.
The Department of Health, Aged Care and Disability said nearly a quarter of doctors’ clinics were unlikely to bulk-bill all their patients, despite the Albanese government’s election vow.
The report is yet another back-door attempt to outlaw all expression of opposition to Israel’s criminal war of annihilation against the Palestinians, under the guise of “equality and diversity”.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that at least 130 Palestinians were killed Monday and over 1,000 wounded across Gaza, as Israeli troops assaulted the city of Deir al-Balah.
The scandal over the cover-up of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein recalls explosive affairs like Stavisky in 1930s France and Profumo in 1960s Britain, which triggered major political upheavals.
Washington and the EU imperialist powers are tearing apart the economic foundations of the NATO alliance that have underlay relations between them since the end of World War II.
Argentina: Mass protest in defense of public health; Brazilian Government workers protest in Natal; California farm workers to strike against ICE raids;
While the exact nature and contents of the packages remain unknown, the leaked documents uncovered by Declassified Australia expose the deliberate complicity of the Australian government in Israel’s war crimes.
The ruling LDP and its junior partner Komeito both suffered significant losses amid widespread concerns over the rising cost of living and hostility to the political establishment as a whole.
As Israel continues to massacre starving civilians, Ocasio-Cortez justified her refusal to support an amendment stripping $500 million from US arms shipments to Israel, claiming it would “cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities.”
California’s workplace safety agency has been crippled by understaffing and weak enforcement due to the Democrats' decades-long dismantling of labor protections.
If these measures are not defeated, universities will become institutions in which freedom of speech and the right to political association and protest are obliterated.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)
As Washington prepares for war with China, Taiwan holds its longest and most extensive military exercises and civilian drills, based on “whole-of-society defence resilience.”
The visit underscored the crisis of Australian capitalism with its heavy economic dependence on China and its military-strategic alignment with US imperialism, which is preparing for war against Beijing.
The White House is seeking to block any significant release of information about the sex-trafficking operation by the long-time Trump crony, which implicates a large section of the US ruling elite.
The island state of Tasmania has become a concentrated expression of the deteriorating living and social conditions for the working class throughout Australia, and the resulting political disaffection.
There are many political questions to be discussed and worked through, but the organization of an alliance of artists to oppose Zionist lies and attacks is a step forward.
The controversy surrounding the election of a judge to the Federal Constitutional Court shows how the far-right AfD is being systematically used to drive all official politics to the right.
The personal data of nearly 80 million people will be in the hands not only of fascistic border agents, but also of private companies that have politically supported Trump’s rise and return to the White House.
The GSI calls on the Brazilian working class to respond to the rise of imperialism and war, the threat of fascism and mounting social inequality by fighting alongside its international class brothers and sisters for a global socialist revolution.
•Statement of the Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)
“I just want to show the world how corrupt they are, and hopefully this is going to raise awareness so people know the truth about what’s going on in there,” she said in announcing the lawsuit.
There is growing anger among Philadelphia city workers as AFSCME District Council 33 fails to deliver promised strike stipends, compounding outrage over a sellout tentative agreement.
The aim of the lengthy campaign—already effectively underway—is to resuscitate the party as a trap for the working class after its historic debacle in last April’s federal election.
Los Angeles officials, with the enthusiastic backing of the media and the DSA, are using manipulated data, identity politics and privatization to conceal mass displacement and protect the profits of billionaires as homelessness deepens in the county.
Atwoli’s speech at the International Trade Union Confederation Africa is a signal that COTU fully endorses the Ruto regime’s shoot-to-kill policy that has claimed the lives of over 160 protesters this year alone, and maimed thousands.
The measure is a death sentence on many desperate people who are trying to flee economic hardship, political persecution or escape war, risking their lives in the process.
Involving almost 40,000 troops and some of the most potent weaponry in the world, the biannual war games have been transformed into a dry run for a US-led onslaught against China.
Labor’s profit-driven demolitions—the largest destruction of public housing in Australian history—is part of a sweeping assault against the entire working class.
Release of the Epstein files could implicate hundreds of leading political and corporate figures, Democrats and Republicans, documenting the corruption and depravity of the entire ruling class.
The number of officially unemployed people is up by 9.6 percent over the past 12 months, accelerated by the Trump administration’s worldwide tariff war.
President Donald Trump’s deployment of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles to support federal immigration raids has triggered growing disaffection among sections of the US military.
India: 3,000 outsourced Vijayawada municipal sanitation workers strike; Odisha dairy workers strike for permanent jobs; West Bengal child development workers demonstrate; Australia: Helensburgh coal miners walk out again; New Zealand nurses vote for nationwide strike.
Unite and the GMB, the two main recognised trade unions on the site have not produced a press release on the workers’ action. Theirs is a guilty silence over such a vital issue as management intimidation.
Among workers who have endured decades of the unions’ suppression of class struggle and an intensifying austerity offensive in recent years, there is a growing sense that things are no longer bearable.
Unacknowledged by all is the fact that any harm which might have come from the leak would have been just the latest blood spilled in a war jointly pursued by Labour and Tory governments, at the cost of up to 250,000 lives lost directly as result of the fighting, and countless more indirectly.
By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in 1967 under Lyndon Johnson.
The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.
Philadelphia’s municipal workers are voicing anger at their unions, AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, charging that union officials continue to isolate rank-and-file struggles and push through deals that fall short of members’ real needs.
Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in Trump’s incessant demands for a rate reduction is the rising interest bill on US government debt.
For an exercise nominally about the oppression of Aboriginal people, the Yoorrook Justice Commission was notable for its uncritical embrace of big business politicians and its celebration of the ascent of an Indigenous upper middle class.
The “social” contract at Thyssenkrupp, agreed last weekend by the IG Metall union and the company's top management, represents a historic attack on workers.
Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella, was arrested last year after being accused of posting an Instagram photo showing an Israeli flag being trampled.
The preventable tragedy at Gabriel House demonstrates the potential suffering posed to vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly, by the savage cuts to social programs in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” relied upon by millions.
After the failure to extend the REINFO program and the rejection of MAPE, President Boluarte claimed that "Only illegal miners are on the streets," criminalizing artisanal miners.
The same playbook used by the AFSCME union to sabotage the city workers’ strike in Philadelphia is now being used by the Teamsters to limit and prepare to shut down the fight at Republic.
In the face of a total coverup by Tyson, complete silence from the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and a wall of state obstruction, Allison has received critical information and support from one crucial source: Casen’s coworkers.
There wasn’t a single policy laid out that didn’t concern the mad rush to rearmament and war, other than the intensification of anti-immigration measures.
Delivery drivers escalate protests in Germany, Italy; strikes and protests continue across Iran; workers begin indefinite strike in Ogun State, Nigeria
The union leaders’ declaration contains no call to arms to defend the core democratic rights now under state attack. No mobilisation is proposed of the millions of workers these leaders officially represent.
These events highlight the falsity of claims that the regime change that took place in December 2024 with the support of the US and its allies, including Turkey, would bring democracy and peace to Syria, and point to the risk of a regional war.
Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet, a 20-year-old US citizen from Tampa, Florida, was beaten to death in the West Bank by a mob of fascist Zionist settlers wielding sticks and bats when he attempted to defend his family's land.
On July 9 workers at the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) voted by 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize a strike, another indication of the growing anger and militancy among workers across the United States, and internationally, where waves of strikes and protests are increasing.
In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education.