Among those who spoke out were victims of last year’s floods in Lismore, a regional city, where thousands of residents are still living in substandard accommodation more than a year after the floods.
A political movement must be built among masses of rank-and-file workers and youth, independent of the union bureaucracies, to bring down Macron.
The president accuses teachers and principals of taking students hostage, but in reality, the working masses have been made hostages to the IMF with the Wickremesinghe government acting as its policeman.
Recognition is growing that the immediate source of major financial problems now coming to the surface is the measures undertaken by the Fed to try to quell previous crises.
The political explosion in Israel is another expression of a widening global revolutionary crisis of capitalism.
Albanese’s Labor government is desperate to use the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to put a progressive, even humanitarian, gloss to its reactionary, pro-business and militarist agenda.
The media misinformation was aimed at covering up the crisis of the two-party system and trying to ensure a “stable” government to implement budget austerity.
Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class.
The convention takes place amid an unprecedented crisis in the UAW bureaucracy and after the new president, Shawn Fain, has denounced “unreasonably high bargaining or organizing expectations.”
On Monday night, the union held an online membership meeting, only 45 minutes long, to try to limit critical questions from the floor and to try to sell the terms of the contract to the membership.
A train derailment in North Dakota released liquid asphalt and ethylene glycol, while another train carrying iron ore derailed just hours later in San Bernadino, California.
Police told the media that the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was a former student and had created a manifesto naming the school prior to the shooting.
The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA’s Los Angeles Branch.
The EVG rail workers’ union has called the strike in response to the widespread willingness of workers to fight, who, in view of skyrocketing prices, are not willing to accept further cuts in real wages.
With the CHIPS and Science Act, US universities are being drawn ever more directly into the war preparations against China.
A veteran worker at the Marathon Galveston Bay refinery sent the following report on the February 28 death of contract worker Alfredo Reyes.
This zombie apocalypse drama marks something of a new high-water mark for savage violence and self-assured misanthropy in the entertainment industry.
The meeting addressed the origins of the war, the capitalist crisis and growing class struggle, and the political perspective required to confront the war.
These parties' support for the Nation Alliance candidate, who is as anti-worker and pro-imperialist as Erdogan, vindicates the Socialist Equality Group's analysis of these pseudo-left forces.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
On behalf of the family, Ruth Perry’s sister, Julia Waters, said Ruth’s death was the “direct result” of the “deeply harmful” inspection and was in “a direct result of the pressure put on her by the process and outcome” of the inspection.
If Hersh’s report is true, the German government not only knows that the US carried out the attack, but is also actively participating in its cover-up. And this despite the fact that the destruction of the pipelines was in fact an act of terrorism against German-European infrastructure.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has issued assurances that Deutsche is not the next Credit Suisse in a clear indication there are major concerns it could well be.
In every workplace and school in France, resolutions must be passed demanding the bringing down of Macron.
Contrary to media claims, the result is no ringing endorsement of Labor. Instead it expresses a deepening of the crisis of the two-party set-up.
Voters in the working-class southwest Sydney electorate of Bankstown told Socialist Equality Party campaigners the state election would do nothing to resolve the escalating social crisis or stop the threat of war.
Fain is not the expression of rank-and-file revolt against the UAW apparatus. Rather, he is the defensive reaction of the apparatus and the ruling class to a growing movement from below.
On Thursday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified before the House of Representatives, declaring, “We are prepared to fight now.”
Sri Lankan plantation companies, working with the government and the estate unions, have ignored countless landslide warnings and calls for the relocation of estate workers to safe areas.
Timothy Johnson was shot while fleeing unarmed into the woods outside a northern Virginia mall in February.
At least 10 workers were injured and five killed in a Pennsylvania chocolate plant explosion on March 24 after workers’ complaints to management about gas odors were dismissed.
Brandon Johnson’s campaign for mayor has almost exclusively employed the language of identity politics, while he and others, including Jeannette Taylor, an alderman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have expressed xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants.
The worst impact was in the desperately poor rural area of central Mississippi.
The Republican front-runner began the rally playing a fascist anthem featuring himself and the “January 6 choir,” comprised of Trump acolytes currently incarcerated for their role in the former president’s failed coup.
Workers need “social disobedience on a massive scale, like a general strike,” one Michigan teacher said. “The important thing is unifying all the different groups of working people and not isolating them like the union bureaucrats tend to do.”
A graduate student at Temple University explains the contents of the current contract, which was forced on his fellow university workers in the recent strike.
Biden and Trudeau sought to cover over the imperialist interests that were the focus of their deliberations with platitudes about a “partnership” founded on “common values” like “democracy” and “freedom.”
Roughly 400 teachers from 14 different schools took part in rallies in the morning at school sites across the district before holding a central demonstration downtown.
Palestinian and Muslim students have received death threats in the wake of a student-led assembly at which a Palestinian American spoke of her experiences facing oppression.
Loach’s conception of the working class is closely bound up with the nationalist straitjacket imposed for so many decades by the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
Six construction workers were killed in Baltimore last Wednesday when a car crashed into a work area near a construction zone.
The strikes in Portugal are part of a wave of struggle against austerity and inflation by millions of workers across Europe.
By supporting the geopolitical aims of Biden’s administration and its proxy imperialist war against Russia, Sinn Féin is offering itself as a safe pair of hands in both parts of Ireland against the working class.
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing further correspondence from postal workers exposing the brutal exploitative regime being imposed by Royal Mail.
The air strikes along with the continuing occupation of Syria are among the myriad of war crimes committed by US imperialism across the Middle East.
Over the course of three days this week, Yellen flip flopped on the question of guarantees for ultra wealthy bank depositors before predictably falling into line with the demands of Wall Street.
The rapprochement between Germany and Japan comes at a time when both countries are abandoning all military restraint and massively rearming.
The IMF loan package is intended to bolster a government dedicated to continuing an imperialist proxy war that continues to ruin countless lives.
The New York Police Department confirmed that a package sent to DA Alvin Bragg’s office contained “suspicious white powder.”
On Thursday, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee put on a five-hour spectacle of xenophobia, anticommunism and anti-Chinese invective, focussed on demands to ban TikTok, the sixth most popular social network in the world.
This week’s tumultuous events in France have torn the “democratic” mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as a dictatorship of the financial oligarchy.
The government of President Luis Arce made clear its rejection of any concessions by unleashing riot police against a march of teachers in La Paz on Wednesday.
On the first day of the Los Angeles schools strike, the World Socialist Web Site spoke with Max, a fifth grade teacher who has been teaching for 24 years in LAUSD.
Kerson’s mural, comprising two 8’×24’ panels titled Vermont, the Underground Railroad and Vermont and the Fugitive Slave, is significant from a historical, political and artistic perspective.
This new wave of strikes takes place against the backdrop of relentless anti-Russian hysteria and intensified propaganda in the media to justify NATO’s war in Ukraine.
Both Democratic and Republican senators on the Commerce Committee made clear in Wednesday’s hearing that they had no intentions of developing meaningful safety regulations if they cut across the industry’s profit margins.
The government’s ruthless austerity drive, dictated by the IMF, is to pay the international credit sharks and boost corporate profits.
The University of Waterloo has backed off from its threat to arbitrarily cancel an International Youth and Students for Social Equality anti-war meeting to be held next Tuesday, March 28, at its campus in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
The contract, announced late Friday afternoon, falls far below even the limited demands raised by the SEIU Local 99 bureaucracy.
Mayor Eric Adams and the public workers union are pushing a deal for 100,000 city workers containing massive cuts to real wages.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
India: Uttar Pradesh power unions betray 100,000-strong strike for higher pay; Bangladeshi teachers demand nationalisation of schools; Western Australia: Maintenance workers strike South32 alumina refinery.
The day before Netanyahu’s leaving for London, at least 75 protesters were arrested during the latest anti-government “day of disruption” in Israel.
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing further correspondence from postal workers exposing the brutal exploitative regime being imposed by Royal Mail. The latest comes from London, Cheshunt, Luton, Chatham, Houghton Regis, Stalham and Blackburn.
Union leaders have begun an operation framed as a “dialogue” designed to pressure members into accepting a rotten deal.
The SEP held an important online meeting Thursday night, ahead of Saturday’s New South Wales state election. SEP candidates Oscar Grenfell, Max Boddy and Mike Head addressed the meeting, which was chaired by National Secretary Cheryl Crisp.
The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class.
Hundreds of teachers and principals protest in Colombo this week against the government’s arbitrary decision to dissolve the Teachers Transfer Board.
Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap.
Last weekend, Republican members of Congress carried out a war game, led by a retired US general, envisioning a war with China by 2025.
Eliminating the task force is part of the overall Biden administration policy of claiming the pandemic is “over,” even though COVID-19 continues to kill thousands of Americans every week.
The World Socialist Web Site has received numerous statements from educators involved in independent rank-and-file committees across the world supporting the three-day strike by Los Angeles school workers this week.
Since a new payroll system was implemented in 2020, workers have complained of continuous underpayment of wages.
With 3.5 million people marching against Macron's overwhelmingly unpopular cuts, a revolutionary confrontation is emerging between the working class and the capitalist state.
Workers denounced the dishonest character of the Monitor’s rejection of Lehman’s protest.
Austin Lyle,17, shot and injured two Denver East High School faculty after a handgun was found on him before he fled the school Wednesday.
Dr. Florence Débarre and colleagues have released their full report analyzing genetic sequences from Huanan wet market that showed wild-animal DNA mixed with SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
Why should the US ruling elite blink at the permanent damage done to artists and cultural life?
Hundreds of thousands of workers in Germany are participating in strikes across the country this week. At the same time, anger is growing at the role being played by service sector union Verdi, which refuses to call for joint action.
Hungarian teachers begin indefinite strike over pay in year-long dispute; strike across West Bank in response to killings by Israeli military as teachers’ stoppage continues; Nigerian public sector workers to begin general strike over cost of living
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is publishing correspondence from postal workers exposing the systemic run down of the service by Royal Mail and the unbearable workloads imposed based on an agreement between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
The IYSSE calls on all students and workers across Canada and internationally to support our democratic right to hold this important meeting—“The War in Ukraine and How to Stop It.”
Wickremesinghe’s cancellation of local government elections is in line with his essential services strike bans and mobilisation of the police and military against protesting workers and students.
China and Russia have been driven together, despite longstanding disputes and disagreements, by necessity out of weakness, not great strength, to push back against escalating US aggression and provocations.
Only the SEP has advanced a socialist program to reorganise society to meet the pressing social needs of the vast majority, not the private profits of the super-rich.
“Truth Not War” organisers express the sentiments of that wing of Australia’s ruling elite that has tactical differences with AUKUS and its submarine program and want a more effective and “independent” Australian imperialism.
Unable to continue slaving away for poverty wages in one of the most expensive cities in the world, thousands of education workers, including janitors, cafeteria workers, maintenance staff and teachers continued to publicly demonstrate on Wednesday.
In public statements before today’s one-day national protest strike, Macron claimed that the population does not have the legitimacy to challenge his government.
In his opening remarks a press conference following the meeting, Fed chair Jerome Powell said the events of the past two weeks had demonstrated, as history had shown, that “isolated banking problems if left unaddressed, can undermine confidence in healthy banks” and threaten the entire system.
The struggles in France, Britain, Greece and here in Germany must be linked to the fight against war and its cause, capitalism. No social problem can be solved without breaking the power of the financial oligarchy.
Macron is requisitioning refinery workers and sending police to assault their picket lines in an attempt to break the strike.
The film deserves at least a brief comment, as it purports both to be an account of the transition from cinema’s silent era to sound film and to expose “the real truth” about Hollywood.
If he is found guilty, Enis Jevric’s conviction would be only the second time that a Washington D.C. police officer has been found guilty of murder.
The document outlines the strategy the frontrunner for UAW president plans to use to impose management’s dictates on 150,000 GM, Ford and Stellantis workers.
The three-day strike by 65,000 public school workers and teachers in Los Angeles, the largest strike in the US since 2019, is the latest manifestation of the growing wave of international working class struggles.
Biden and Trudeau will discuss a host of geostrategic issues, including: the NATO-instigated war with Russia over Ukraine; confronting China from the Indo-Pacific to the Arctic; NORAD modernization; and war-related economic measures.
The total number of successful prosecutions could well reach two thousand, but no charges have yet been brought against Trump or his top aides and accomplices in the coup attempt.
The issue is not whether the serial liar Johnson misled the house, inadvertently or otherwise. Johnson, the entire government and the main opposition parties lied to the British working class as they took decisions that resulted in the deaths of more than 208,000 people from COVID.
