In rejecting the deal, workers have dealt a powerful blow not just to Boeing management, but to the IAM bureaucracy and, above all, to US imperialism and the pro-corporate political establishment.
Blinken's visit carries with it enormous political, legal and historical significance. A top representative of the American government was briefed on the plan of mass extermination and proceeded to give what amounted to an unconditional and blanket endorsement of Israeli policy.
As Kamala Harris crisscrossed battleground states with ultra-right warmonger Liz Cheney, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders appeared alongside Joe Biden in New Hampshire to tout the pro-corporate Inflation Reduction Act.
As at Boeing, where workers rejected a sellout Wednesday, this deal was produced through government mediation, as Washington moves to shut down strikes jeopardizing war production.
The Democratic nominee’s comment followed interviews by former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a retired major general, describing Trump as a fascist who wanted to use the military against the American population.
The new JVP/NPP government has fully committed to the brutal IMF agenda initiated by the former Wickremesinghe regime to make working people pay for the crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism.
“This is a way of stopping dissenting voices. This is a threat. It can apply to any union who steps out of line.”
The purchase, unveiled in Washington, is transparently aimed at preparing the navy to conduct offensive operations against China throughout the Indo-Pacific.
CUPW’s record of isolating postal workers from the rest of the working class and sabotaging their struggles the moment they develop into a direct political confrontation with the government underscores that to take a single step forward in their contract struggle, postal workers must break politically and organizationally from the union bureaucracy’s suffocating straitjacket.
Jayasekara recalled how Wicks joined a precocious and politically far-sighted group of young revolutionaries who opposed the LSSP's great betrayal of 1964 and, under the ICFI's guidance, sought to lay bare its roots in Pabloite opportunism.
The best-case scenario in the World Economic Outlook report was that medium-term global growth would remain lacklustre at 3.1 percent.
The message from the conference was clear: the Left Party continues to fully support the government’s pro-war policy and is prepared to implement it should it re-enter the federal parliament.
This is the reality of the world for Graham—not class conflict but how to get along in the system as it is. His references to contested political history are all the more offensive because he is so supine about how things are.
The Starmer government would prefer a Harris victory. But it also desperately needs to keep Trump sweet to prepare the close relations it would seek with a Republican presidency.
Salmond's career as the Scottish National Party’s leading representative and the SNP’s record in government serve as devastating refutations of its “progressive” claims and the fatuous assertions of the pseudo-left that Scottish separatism is anti-imperialist and a route to socialism.
Siberian miners began a hunger strike over unpaid wages on Monday, four days after three were killed in a gold mine collapse in the Russian Far East.
While workers are determined to win better conditions for patients and themselves, the NUHW has limited the strike to only a few select days and locations to disrupt workers’ unity.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to hold a "friendly and productive" discussion about the Israeli government's plan—known as the "General's Plan"—to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza and kill all Palestinians who remain.
One worker told the World Socialist Web Site: “They didn’t address the key issues of the members, which is the retirement, and they didn’t address correctly the way of how they’re going to be taking care of the medical. The contract is a joke.”
Having fertilized the soil with the Big Lie, Trump, his network of lawyers and his allies in Congress and state legislatures are preparing to delay and block the certification of votes at the local, state and federal levels. The plan is based on violence.
On Saturday, David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, spoke to over 100 attendees at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the topic "Back to the Future: Fascism, War and Class Struggle in the 21st Century.”
While the National Party-led government slashes thousands of public sector jobs, with the assistance of the union bureaucracy, companies are also shedding jobs and closing factories, decimating regional centres.
The closures at Acero are just the beginning in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools faces a $1 billion budgetary shortfall for this year and next.
The Culture Minister asserted the film presented “a distorted picture of reality” and that its screening amounted to an incitement to violence that could foment “unrest and tensions.”
Spain’s coalition government, led by the social-democratic Socialist Party (PSOE) and the pseudo-left populist Sumar party, is escalating its role in NATO operations against Russia and the Middle East.
California Governor and Democratic Party standard bearer Gavin Newson enacts vicious measures against students’ democratic rights.
Ankara, worried about the consequences of the US-Israeli escalation of the war against Iran and across the Middle East, has re-opened talks with the Kurdish Workers Party and has put the release of the imprisoned Abdullah Öcalan on the agenda.
Tsai admires Havel precisely because they both portrayed genocidal forces with which they aligned as defenders of democracy and peace. They similarly opined that Russia and China had no reason for concern over their discourse of “peace” while preparing for further escalations and conflicts.
The fascist threatening letter targeting Rişvanoğlu, a Revolutionary Workers Party (DİP) member and lawyer, is part of the attempt of the ruling class to suppress and intimidate all social and political opposition using dark paramilitary forces.
Salmond's career as the Scottish National Party’s leading representative and the SNP’s record in government serve as devastating refutations of its “progressive” claims and the fatuous assertions of the pseudo-left that Scottish separatism is anti-imperialist and a route to socialism.
Workers are in a political fight against the union apparatus, the Labor government and capitalism. The phoney pseudo-left “rank-and-file” group has been created to cover this up.
Cabinet minister and JVP Politburo member Vijitha Herath told the media on October 15 that Wickremesinghe’s promised wage increase would have to be revisited.
Two weeks after Israel began its latest onslaught in northern Gaza, aimed at violently displacing the 400,000 Palestinians who remain there, the IDF forced the population of Jabalia refugee camp out at gunpoint amid daily massacres and deliberate starvation.
The fight at Boeing requires a new strategy, based on connecting a rebellion against the union bureaucracy with a global struggle of the working class against war.
On October 16, 37,000 workers at ten UC campuses, five medical centers and other facilities staged protests ahead of the looming expiration of their contract.
At the October 19 convention of the NYC-DSA, the home chapter of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, delegates passed resolutions encouraging members in “swing states” to vote “tactically” to “block Trump’s election.”
Despite New Zealand and Samoan governments seeking to downplay the extent of environmental damage, the ship’s sinking has raised fears of an impending ecological disaster.
The fate of Queensland Labor’s pro-business administration could prefigure that of the federal Labor government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
This open letter, also signed by WSU students, is another indication of the widespread opposition of university workers and students to the suppression of demonstrations against the US-backed Israeli genocide and wider Middle East war.
Cuba has repeatedly failed to bring its electrical grid back up as a result of fuel shortages and deteriorating infrastructure, threatening a social explosion.
Declaring that her 1619 Project had been “borne out” by US political developments, Hannah-Jones employed its racialist falsifications of history to promote the campaign of Kamala Harris, while seeking to sow divisions on the basis of race within the growing movement of the working class.
Events at the company over the last years fully attest to the fact that Eaton strikers in the US and Britain are involved not in a national but a global struggle.
Reeves trailed her budget cuts at last week’s International Investment Summit, saying that Labour’s mission of “being the most pro-business government that this country has ever seen” required “difficult choices” and “discipline on spending”.
The agreement meets none of our demands, which we have made abundantly clear from the start, including an immediate 40 percent pay increase and the restoration of our pensions. No amount of bureaucratic spin can hide the fact that it is a pro-company sellout.
Party speakers explained that President Dissanayake has called the early parliamentary elections to consolidate his administration and deepen the IMF austerity measures initiated by the Wickremesinghe regime.
Once SeeWalker’s views on Gaza became more widely known, a process was set into motion, leading to the rapid capitulation of town officials and the victimization of the artist.
The deal contains pathetic 1.3 percent annual wage increases, in addition to substandard cost of living adjustments, continued hyper-exploitation and surveillance, and the continuation of a vast restructuring program aimed at privatizing USPS.
IAM officials have yet to release ballot totals at Textron, while simultaneously preparing to ram through a deal at Boeing in a snap vote this week.
The state of Alabama executed Derrick Dearman, 36, on Thursday at Holman Correctional Facility, despite his life-long severe mental illness.
The “new” offer contains the same sub-inflationary 3.5 percent pay “rise” that workers decisively rejected in July, but the Health Services Union bureaucracy is promoting the deal as a win and pushing workers to accept it.
The bipartisan event, attended by billionaires, celebrities and politicians of both parties, underscored the fundamental class unity of both parties in waging war and attacking the working class at home.
In a curtain raiser address in advance of the IMF-World Bank meeting this week the IMF chief drew attention to rising levels of government debt.
The million-dollar payoff from Elon Musk is an example of how billionaires are literally buying the US presidential election.
As social and economic conditions decline and the danger of a US-instigated war against China looms, the Indonesian ruling class believes Prabowo is best equipped to suppress workers’ growing anger.
Biden and European heads of state have confirmed their knowledge of plans for an Israeli strike that would unleash war with Iran, but have refused to discuss them publicly.
Deere is once again placing the burden of declining sales on workers by slashing jobs.
The experienced paramedic provided testimony about the toll that the ongoing pandemic is taking on the public and about the eugenicist character of the ruling-class' abandonment of public health.
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.
New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution.
The CITU called off the strike without the rank and file having any say, and without achieving any of the workers’ demands, including for company and state recognition of the newly-organized, CITU-affiliated Samsung India Workers Union.
Boluarte is a reviled figure whose 4 percent approval rating testifies to her lack of any mandate to rule.
The coordinated crackdown on Samidoun by the Biden and Trudeau administations is a component part of their effort to suppress opposition to the Gaza genocide and the wave of pro-Palestinian protests which has continued for more than a year.
As they stopped the truck, the dockers chanted slogans including, “Freedom for Palestine”; and “No land or water to the murderers of the world’s people.” On the container were sprayed the words: “Murderers, get out of the port”.
The swearing-in of Kithure Kindiki, the former interior minister who oversaw police killings of anti-austerity protesters, Gen-Z activists, and pastoralists in Northern Kenya signals the Kenyan ruling class's intent to intensify repression.
The report demonstrates the consequences of decades of attacks by the ruling class on the social conditions of the working class.
The proposed contract confirms every warning made by the World Socialist Web Site since the beginning of the strike, that Boeing and the IAM are colluding to get a pro-company contract passed so that Boeing can resume production on its terms and force workers to pay for the company’s mountain of self-inflicted debt.
That the IAM apparatus even brought this contract to a vote is a clear indication that the bureaucracy never had any intention of waging a serious strike.
Biden’s summit with unpopular German, British and French leaders was overshadowed by the disasters caused by their wars and their fear of a possible second Trump presidency.
The killing of Sinwar prompted statements of unrestrained support for the Netanyahu government by the leaders of the United States, France, Germany and the UK, who used the occasion to openly endorse the Israeli government's campaign of extermination and ethnic cleansing against a population of 2.2 million people.
Educators in East Orange, New Jersey, called in sick to work on Thursday and Friday, after the city’s school board announced that nearly 10 percent of education workers in the district would be laid off in December.
Wong was to give a speech at the University of Tasmania on international relations and policy. Her speech was interrupted by protesters on about a dozen occasions.
Workers took to the streets in Rome, Italy, for industrial action in opposition to Stellantis’ plans to cut more jobs and move production to other countries.
The SEIU-UHW is attempting to limit the ULP strike to non-wage demands, while keeping workers on the job without a contract despite unionizing since 2022.
This development marks another intensification of the Labor government’s transformation of northern Australia into a strategic platform for US wars, both in the Middle East and against China.
FIRST Union leader Dennis Maga’s embrace of NZ First, which is notorious for its racist and xenophobic demagogy, flows from the right-wing and anti-working class character of the union bureaucracy and reinforces the urgent need for new workers’ organisations.
A contract at Norfolk Southern was ratified on low turnout, showing none of the recent rail contracts have any significant support among the rank and file.
Entirely committed to implementing IMF austerity, the JVP/NPP government wants a “strong” majority to strengthen its hand against the mass working class opposition it knows it will soon face.
More than 10,000 Bangladeshi garment workers remain on strike over months of unpaid wages.
The film, buoyed by an excellent cast, including an exceptional performance from Jeremy Strong as right-wing lawyer and Trump mentor Roy Cohn, highlights the continuity between 1950s McCarthyism and today’s emerging fascist movement led by Cohn’s protégé.
The intervention of a federal mediator points to pressure from the White House to shut down the strike against Eaton, a supplier of critical aircraft components.
The mayors made no demand that the root causes of the crisis be identified and dealt with, since to do so would implicate the entire political establishment for imposing decades of austerity.
We call on you to vote for the rank-and-file “Action Committee for Transport Workers” slate in the upcoming staff council elections in mid-November at Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). We are running in these elections to build new fighting structures that will enable us transport workers to intervene directly in workplace disputes.
The growing attacks on public education in Brazil and internationally are part of a shift by the world’s ruling elite towards dictatorship at home and war abroad.
The trauma surgeon, who worked as a volunteer in a Gaza hospital, has tried to mobilize opposition from healthcare workers to the Israeli-US genocide.
The raid is another act of blatant political harassment by the British state, aimed at intimidating a prominent reporter and opponent of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.
Whatever Petrov and Boshirov’s purpose in Salisbury, the fact remains that the “assassination gone wrong” story is not plausible on the available evidence, and is in many places ludicrous.
Opposition is growing to cost-cutting across the global airline industry, a sign of enormous potential support for the Boeing strike.
Zelensky insisted this week that with authorization from his Western backers to launch missiles deep into Moscow’s territory, tens of billions of dollars in additional aid, and an invitation to join NATO, he will deliver “peace through strength.”
Despite overwhelming popular opposition to the Gaza genocide and plans to send NATO troops to Ukraine to fight Russia, NATO governments are planning a further, reckless escalation.
The killing of Sinwar was met with unrestrained declarations of support for Israel's genocidal war by the leaders of the imperialist powers.
Robert Roberson is not only an innocent man; the state of Texas, led by the fascist Governor Greg Abbott and his equally foul Attorney General Ken Paxton are seeking to put him to death for a crime that never occurred.
With anger mounting over the refusal of the UAW to fight layoffs, the Biden administration has thrown its support to Shawn Fain’s fake fight against Stellantis.
Privatisation in the public health system is underway as funding cuts see one third of the population missing out on healthcare of some kind.
Having shown some humanity and elemental sympathy for suffering in Poor Things, Lanthimos cannot simply revert to his previous coldness and cynicism. He has to actively defend those qualities.
The International Monetary Fund has called for reductions in government spending on an unprecedented scale.
