Jordan van den Lamb is a fitting representative of the pseudo-left. His open indifference and hostility to political principle is shared by this entire milieu, which increasingly regards even empty revolutionary socialistic flourishes as an encumbrance.
While 900 Lockheed Martin workers in Colorado and Florida walk the picket line another 2,500 General Dynamic submarine builders in Connecticut are being kept on the job despite voting to strike.
The world is now rearming at the fastest rate since the Cold War, with a 9.4 percent increase in military spending around the world – the highest rate in figures going back to 1988.
The candidates addressed questions posed by viewers in the lively text chat, as well as others that have emerged as key issues among workers and young people in the course of the election campaign.
The long-delayed jury trial of former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr began on Monday in the Kent County Courthouse with the prosecution presenting evidence and witnesses supporting the charge of second-degree murder in the execution-style killing of 26-year-old Lyoya, a Congolese refugee.
Only the Socialist Equality Party is opposing the deadly lie, peddled by governments, health authorities, trade unions and the corporate media, that the pandemic is a thing of the past.
•Keo Vongvixay, SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
“He was eligible for his green card—the only reason he left home and went back there was to get the card—but he was prejudged by consular officials, who said that he looked like a criminal, and was denied."
Following Trump’s executive order demanding the closure of the Department of Education, an escalating attack on jobs and education services is taking place across the US.
Amidst mounting popular opposition to the Trump administration, the Democrats are responding by seeking to prevent any opposition to the corporate-financial oligarchy and its war on the working class.
The support expressed by the leaders of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) for the coalition agreement, preparations for war and militarisation of society of the new German government fatally recalls the support given to the Nazi regime by the ADGB (General German Trade Union Federation) in its appeal of May 1, 1933.
“I'm here because there has been a campaign of police and legal persecution against members of the UC Santa Cruz community who have spoken out against the genocide that Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinian people.”
The SPD’s participation in government under Merz marks a new stage in the decline of the party, whose history began more than 150 years ago under the banner of Marxism.
Further public sector stoppage in Belgium against attacks on welfare including pension age and amount; protests continue in Iran’s major cities including Tehran by workers, pensioners and farmers as living standards plummet; university lecturers in Zimbabwe continue month-long stoppage to restore pay to levels before cuts in 2018
NHS Fightback is calling workers not to trust trade union leaders who have betrayed struggle after struggle and to build rank and file committees to take control of their own fate.
The SEP stresses that the decisive question is building an independent and socialist movement of the working class, directed against Labor, the Coalition, the Greens and the entire capitalist political establishment.
Socialist Equality Party campaigners, led by Senate candidate in the federal election Taylor Hernan, spoke with workers and young people over the weekend in Footscray, Melbourne, where police shot dead 35-year-old Abdifatah Ahmed on April 17.
The strike revealed two important realities: the immense, paralyzing power of the working class—and the efforts of the ruling elite and the SEIU bureaucracy to suppress it.
The SEP and IYSSE are fielding two slates of candidates in the May 6 election for the Karainagar Divisional Council in the northern Jaffna district and the Kolonnawa Urban Council in the suburbs of Colombo.
Under conditions where his poll numbers are collapsing and protesters surrounded the venue, Trump, propped up by the media, the Democratic Party and the union bureaucracy, presented his first 100 days as a new American “Golden Age.”
Those workers and youth who voted for Carney and his Liberals in the belief that they represent any type of progressive answer to Trump and all that he represents—oligarchy, dictatorship, fascism and war—have been cruelly deceived.
For this the trade unions and the social-democratic NDP are principally responsible.
Mahdawi was a leading figure alongside Mahmoud Khalil in the student protests against Israel’s genocide against Gaza at Columbia University in 2023 and 2024.
The ruling marks the first legal victory for student protesters who have faced an intensifying campaign of repression on college campuses across the United States for their opposition to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Behind this united front for war and social cuts is the deep crisis of capitalism. Like Trump in the United States, the ruling class in Germany is responding with dictatorship at home and war abroad.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has sparked widespread outrage with disparaging remarks about autism and plans to set up a national registry of the autistic.
A succession of outraged British politicians and commentators have called for Kneecap to be charged, their funding to be cut, their gigs to be cancelled and even the band's name to be dropped from public statements for the crime of opposing genocide.
Defence Minister John Healey said the operation “was carried out alongside the US, our closest security ally” and “conducted in line… with the established UK policy of this government and the last.”
The transcript confirms that Taal, a British-Gambian citizen, was one of thousands of international students targeted under Trump’s sweeping executive orders attacking anti-genocide protesters.
“Labor and the Coalition are open parties of war, marching in lockstep to transform Australia into a frontline state for US imperialism. The Greens and the pseudo-left have become their accomplices.”
Regulators, government officials and investors would like to think the present financial turbulence is a passing phase, that “normalcy” could return, but they fear a fundamental shift has taken place.
In this working class electorate, we see the growing social gulf between the colossal fortunes of oligarchs like mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer and the financial hardships facing workers and their families.
A mob of over a hundred Zionist-fascist thugs violently assaulted pro-Palestinian protesters, a bystander and a police officer in Brooklyn last Thursday, April 24, during an appearance by fascist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at a pro-Zionist religious group.
Workers must answer through mass action of their own, uniting with workers in other industries across the US and the world and prepared by a rank-and-file rebellion against the Teamsters bureaucracy.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has sparked widespread outrage with disparaging remarks about autism and plans to set up a national registry of the autistic.
In an executive order, the US president threatened state and local governments with both financial and legal sanctions if they oppose his anti-migrant policies.
The division is being repurposed from its official mandate of opposing discrimination and curtailing police abuse to encouraging police repression, targeting Trump’s political opponents, suppressing campus protests, and intensifying government control over universities.
Tensions between South Asia’s rival nuclear-armed powers have been aboil since India’s far-right, US-backed government blamed Pakistan for a brutal April 23 terrorist attack in Indian-held Kashmir.
Carney will head a vicious right-wing government committed to advancing Canadian imperialism's interests through war and brutal attacks on workers' social and democratic rights.
The LAPD arrested and charged Shriner with attempted murder, a move widely seen as an effort to cover up what appears to be an unjustifiable and reckless police shooting.
More than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers are not only confronting the intransigence of the county but the treachery of their own supposed representatives.
The meeting brought together Royal Mail workers, including at its Parcelforce division and took contributions by postal workers from affiliated sections of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees in the United States and Canada.
Between 1999 and 2015, the Post Office prosecuted 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses—an average of one a week—for accounting errors caused by a faulty IT system named Horizon, provided to the Post Office by Fujitsu.
Funded by various billionaires and multi-millionaires, far-right formations are bombarding the population with Trump-like advertisements, slogans and text messages.
From his first day in office, Trump has worked methodically to establish a presidential dictatorship, following a blueprint drawn up by his fascist advisors.
It is impossible to have safe working conditions as long as Amazon and other workplaces are under the thumb of Wall Street oligarchs. Workers showed the alternative through their own practice when they forced management to shut operations after Salcedo-Chevalier’s death for two shifts.
In Bolivia, thousands of miners and supporters presented demands to the Arce administration relating to fuel shortages and high prices. Hundreds of healthcare workers across Saskatchewan, Canada rallied to demand an improved contract.
A US airstrike killed 68 people Monday in Yemen's Sa'ada province, in one of the greatest massacres of civilians to date in the Trump administration's war on Yemen.
Subway networks, hospitals, airports, traffic lights, ATMs and telecommunications systems were crippled in scenes that brought a 21st-century population back to 19th-century conditions.
The event exposed the Morenoites’ reactionary nationalist pro-militarist policy, giving a platform to military personnel and figures who defend the bloody 1964-85 dictatorship.
Police repression of anti-genocide students and other protesters continues in New York with the full support of campus administration and the Democratic Party
The Finnish government is set to leave the Ottawa Land Mine Treaty and has struck a deal to sell icebreakers to the US in support of Trump’s military build-up against Russia and China in the Arctic.
To effectively counter police violence, the following is needed: the development of a movement in the working class that unites workers of all backgrounds, skin colours and nationalities.
This requires rank-and-file action committees to prepare coordinated actions, not waiting for permission from above by Democrats and union officials who are acting as Trump’s enablers.
Actors and museum workers strike; mass movement for socialism in Portugal; South Africa workers protest; Chinese communists found mass trade union center.
Over a more than hour-long Zoom meeting, union officials offered no concrete plan to halt the outsourcing of porters, housekeeping, catering, and estates staff into a SubCo, in a transparent privatisation operation.
Illusions promoted by the education unions that a Labour government would end more than a decade of austerity in Britain under the Tories, have rapidly dispersed.
SEP national secretary Cheryl Crisp explains in this video why our candidates appear on the ballot papers in Victoria, NSW and Queensland without their party affiliation.
The Socialist Equality Party candidate opposed the nationalism and militarism of the Labor, Liberal-National, Greens and pro-Trump “Trumpet of Patriots” representatives.
We warn working people not to believe Amarasuriya’s promises. What she stated is exposed by JVP/NPP government’s six months of austerity and police state measures.
•Dilaxshan Mahalingam, SEP candidate for Karainagar
The electorate is a microcosm of the social crisis caused by the onslaught on workers’ jobs and wages, presided over by Labor and the union bureaucracy.
•Morgan Peach, SEP candidate for the seat of Calwell
Decades of social cuts by the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party, supported by the trade unions, have allowed the AfD to grow into the second strongest force in the Bundestag. Now the fascist party is needed to intimidate and suppress growing social and political opposition.
Behind the attacks on Trump in the European media lie bitter rivalries between Washington and the European imperialist powers over the plunder of Ukraine and trade war policies.
The leaked plans completely vindicate the position of the WSWS, which warned that the CTU, the Democrats and media were concealing the real scope of the impending cuts.
After seven weeks of a full blockade of food, water, medical supplies and electricity, the United Nations World Food Program warned that it had delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meal kitchens in Gaza, raising the prospect of imminent mass starvation for the enclave’s remaining population.
It is a measure of how far to the right all the official parties of Canadian imperialism have moved that in many policy areas, the Tories’ far-right program is virtually indistinguishable from the platforms of the Liberals and New Democrats.
In a further escalation, the two sides have repeatedly exchanged gun and artillery fire across the Line of Control that demarcates India-held Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistani-controlled Azad Kashmir.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer boarded the Prince of Wales as it prepared to leave UK shores at Cornwall, declaring, “We are sending a clear message of strength to our adversaries, and a message of unity and purpose to our allies."
Irish rap group Kneecap are being investigated by British counter-terrorism police. The move, part of an orchestrated campaign, is in response to the widespread support amongst young people for the group’s principled and determined opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The following letter was sent to British Foreign Secretary David Lammy by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden on April 27, 2025.
The event has always been a celebration of militarist reaction, but all the more so under conditions of the greatest threat of a world war in 85 years.
Peach spoke strongly on issues that are being covered up by every other party in the official election campaign, including the immense threat of a nuclear world war.
The Radio NZ journalist was vilified as a “Russian agent,” resigned amid a manufactured public furore and, in a sinister development, was investigated by the country’s spy agency.
Immigration agents claimed Khalil needed to be arrested before a warrant could be produced because he was a “flight risk” and not “cooperative,” lies disproved by video of Khalil’s abduction taken by his wife.
The FBI arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday morning, and she was charged with obstruction and harboring a fugitive in connection with an immigrant worker, who appeared before her on April 18.
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
The raids were executed across Ann Arbor, Canton and Ypsilanti. No one was arrested or charged during the raids, but police and FBI agents seized electronic devices and personal belongings and briefly detained 11 individuals for interrogation.
Wolfgang Weber, an outstanding fighter for Trotskyism and a longtime leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) died on November 16, 2024. We are publishng here a message of condolence by the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the US, Joseph Kishore.
China: BYD electronics manufacturing workers strike; India: Tamil Nadu power-generation workers walk out indefinitely; Pakistani health workers continue to protest privatisation; Australia: Public mental health workers strike again