According to the Bank of Israel and the Israeli Ministry of Finance, the cost of the first six months of the war, which Netanyahu has said will continue for months and shows every sign of escalating into an all-out war against Hezbollah in the north and the Houthis in the Red Sea, had reached more than 70 billion shekels ($73 billion) by the end of March.
Corbyn will not lead a movement against the Labour government. He will support it, while making the occasional criticism to supposedly pressure it to the left. But the Labour Party is impervious to such pressure, functioning as the unalloyed representative of the financial oligarchy and of British imperialism.
Sydney Trains and NSW Trains workers are opposing a real-wage slashing enterprise agreement offer from the state Labor government, in line with its broader attack on public sector spending and wages.
The result is an indication of a broad leftward movement among youth in Australia and internationally against the capitalist system, which presents a future of war, dictatorship, social misery, climate catastrophe and mass illness.
Netanyahu’s appearance, and the rapturous reception he received, recalled nothing more than the appearance of Hitler before the German Reichstag. The German deputies who shouted “Heil Hitler!” and the American congressmen who barked “USA” are cut from the same cloth.
The deal’s wage increases fall well below what Lear workers have been demanding and fail to make up for years of high inflation and earlier pay concessions.
A 36-year-old worker was killed when a die fell from a crane and struck him at Dexter Stamping near Jackson, Michigan, on July 15.
The film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
When it comes to ethnic cleansing in Gaza, there are no policy differences between “Genocide Joe” and “Killer Kamala.”
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, largely as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, are producing record temperatures year after year.
The WSWS spoke recently to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.
Nothing justifies the horrific violence meted out by the police. Fahir, who was booted in the face and had his head stamped on after being tasered, could have been killed.
Health workers in Greece walk out over privatisation as Portuguese doctors strike for pay; protests continue across Iran over dire poverty and authoritarian rule, joined by medics and nurses in Tehran hospital; doctors and nurses in Morocco in five-day walkout over pay
The HSU bureaucracy has adopted a “neutral” position on the wage-slashing offer, tacitly endorsing Labor’s deepening attack on the real wages of health workers.
In his comments on the US political crisis, Bandt gave a blanket endorsement to the pro-war, pro-business Democratic Party, and did not even bother to mention the Gaza genocide.
Wednesday’s rally and meeting hosted by the SEP marked a milestone in the development of a socialist anti-war movement in the center of world imperialism.
In his comments on the CCP’s economic plan, President Xi Jinping pointed to “intensified global problems.”
Macron can maintain his government in office despite losing the July 7 election only because the NFP works relentlessly to demobilize left-wing, anti-fascist sentiment among workers and youth.
Beneath an outward show of opposition to the war—which the letter notably does not characterize as a “genocide”—the real aim is to try to extricate Biden and the US from responsibility.
The Democratic National Committee is moving to adopt a rule that will confirm the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris before August 7.
The band’s latest effort is marked by a sharp contradiction between musical verve and lyrical demoralization.
Against the backdrop of the deep political crisis in the USA and the possibility of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, Germany’s ruling class is accelerating its return to militarism.
Far from being “fair,” the election was an opaque process that provided the ideal cover for the right-wing, pro-military establishment to engage in bloc-vote rigging and other anti-democratic manipulations behind the scenes.
Amid mounting protests—over both the dire economic situation and the military’s “dirty war” tactics against insurgents—there is growing apprehension within the ruling class that Pakistan could soon be convulsed by a mass popular uprising akin to that which chased Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power in Sri Lanka in July 2022.
Tuesday’s vote has underscored not only the authoritarian character of the UK’s Labour government. It has confirmed the bankruptcy of all claims made by Jeremy Corbyn and his allies that the party can be pushed to the left.
General Walker has spelled out the reality that the imperialist powers are engaged in a multi-front conflict threatening direct war between major powers.
The union is attempting to isolate the struggle and shut it down on the company’s terms.
Israeli tanks and airstrikes hammered Khan Younis on Monday, the third time the city has been besieged by the Israeli government over the last nine months. At least 70 were killed in their homes or in the streets before they were able to flee the area.
The Pacific’s political elites are increasingly alarmed that Paris’ provocative handling of the New Caledonia crisis will exacerbate popular discontent across the region.
The Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee is calling on staff, students and the wider community to join its campaign to defeat the restructuring and job cuts at WSU’s College.
Professional workers, physician assistants and other hospital employees are engaged in a battle with administration at Michigan Medicine over pay, benefits and understaffing that requires a unified strategy and fight against the union apparatus which is seeking to contain and divert their struggle.
Palestine Solidarity Duisberg has been banned despite not having committed any criminal action. It is being criminalised because its stance on Israel will not submit to German state policy.
Cheatle’s resignation is the latest in a series of events in the space of less than two weeks that reflect the historic scale and depth of the political crisis in the US.
The strike is among the first major battles by autoworkers since the UAW’s betrayal of the 2023 Big Three autoworkers’ struggle.
“We have nurses who can’t afford to take their kids to their own hospital, nurses working 2-3 jobs,” one nurse told the WSWS.
The deal would preempt a strike in September, when flight attendants could be joined on the picket line by Boeing workers, dockworkers, teachers and others.
The recent release on vinyl of the remastered solo recordings of the internationally acclaimed guitarist is an opportunity to review his creative legacy and significant influence.
The police operate as roving gangs and death squads whose target is the ruling class’ internal enemy: The working class.
Arbitrator James Casey, a mediator on the Alberta government’s Grievance Arbitration Roster, ruled in favour of the multi-national conglomerate, whose Alberta facility witnessed the largest outbreak in North America during the early stages of the pandemic, with over 900 workers infected and two losing their lives.
The protests have instilled fear within the Museveni regime of unrest similar to that in neighboring Kenya. In a televised address Saturday evening Museveni threatened the protestors, "We are busy producing wealth… and you here want to disturb us.”
The protests are a rejection of Ruto's announcement last Friday of the first batch of Cabinet Secretaries, replacing those dismissed on July 11 after weeks of mass anti-austerity demonstrations. In a provocative move, Ruto reinstated half of the officials he had fired just two weeks ago.
Though the bulk of these proceedings leading to the jailings took place under Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, they have been signed off by Sir Keir Starmer’s new Labour government.
Chicago Mayor Johnson and Chicago Teachers Union leaders had called for the state to increase funding, knowing full well it would not, in order to give themselves cover for the next sellout teachers contract.
Netanyahu and the Israeli regime are guilty of war crimes, for which they must be held accountable. But the invitation extended by the Democrats and Republicans in Congress for Netanyahu to speak at a joint session exposes the real relationship between US imperialism and Israel.
Intensifying diplomatic manoeuvring involving strategically placed Pacific states portends vast preparations for looming wars and police-state repression across the region.
The Zionist Federation of Australia, sections of the media and the Labor government are seeking to criminalise opposition to Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza.
The Albanese Labor government has rapidly expanded the number of refugees detained on the remote tiny Pacific island of Nauru, under appalling and punitive conditions.
Footage of the brutal murder of Massey, an unarmed woman holding a pot of water in her home, has provoked widespread anger.
The 91 percent rejection is not only in defiance of the management, but a sharp rebuke to the union bureaucrats who brought the deal to a vote.
An organization and its class character must be judged, not by what it says of itself, but on the basis of its history and program.
There is a new Democratic presidential candidate, but the same right-wing program of war and austerity.
Unions covering more than 11,400 Walmart workers have shut down a strike after just six days while 28,000 US flight attendants at United will vote next month on approval to strike.
“We got the deal signed. People are back to work,” Ontario’s right-wing Premier Doug Ford boasted Monday as more than 9,000 workers at government-owned liquor stores returned to the job after two weeks on strike.
The plight of millions of low-paid workers are routinely concealed in the official claims of low unemployment.
Growing heat deaths are a result of global warming, homelessness and the infrastructure crisis.
Germany’s federal and state governments drastically increased the number of deportations last year compared to 2022.
To fulfill its pledge to meet the NATO minimum spending target, the Trudeau government will have to double military spending to $60 billion per year.
According to the report, it was “Processes, planning and policy . . . within the UK government and devolved administrations and civil services” that “failed their citizens,” not the choices of political criminals.
Soldiers spoke of being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, and being required to torch residential buildings and kill civilians during bombing raids.
The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association’s call for a 15 percent pay rise is nothing more than a smokescreen to cover the sellout being prepared by the union bureaucracy.
The nationwide student protests, and the support they are winning from the Bangladeshi masses, point to deep hostility towards Hasina government.
Biden is one of millions of Americans who have been infected in recent weeks amid the deepening annual summer surge.
Politicians from both capitalist parties have called on Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle to resign ahead of a Congressional hearing scheduled for today.
Rising job losses and an historic fall in real wages are intensifying the discrediting of the federal and state Labor governments in workers’ eyes.
The World Socialist Web Site recently conducted an interview with journalists from the Kharkov-based underground journalist collective assembly.org.ua who oppose the war in Ukraine and support the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Whether headed by Vice President Kamala Harris or another presidential nominee, the Democratic Party remains the principal enabler of ex-President Trump and the fascistic Republicans.
The ill-timed endorsement came only days before Biden, 81 years old and in failing health, stepped down as the Democratic candidate.
The ruling elites in every major country, above all the US, are using their governments and their militaries to try to conquer the world and put down unrest at at home. Those who suffer are the workers in every country, who have no interest in war.
Workers at the Disneyland theme park and resort voted overwhelmingly to authorize strike action.
The impact of the crashing of millions of computer systems running Microsoft Windows at businesses, government offices and critical infrastructure organizations around the world continued over the weekend.
The Australian Labor government along with the US Congress and political elites around the world continue to endorse the barbaric genocide in Gaza. We say no support for the genocide and down with its defenders!
MoMA's recent exhibition was the first museum retrospective in New York dedicated to her entire body of work.
The transition from combustion engines to electric cars is being used by corporations and investors worldwide to cut jobs, reduce production costs and increase profits.
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
The SGP calls for the dissolution of the German secret service apparatus and the immediate removal of
In Peru, more than 1.5 million young people between the ages of 15 and 29 neither study nor work.
The incident has exposed the brutal state of class relations in Britain, with a newly elected Labour government responding to acute social problems produced by decades of austerity with police methods and criminalisation of the poor.
The Tony Blair Institute published a report suggesting 50,000 employees aged 50-64 who are on long-term sickness due to heart disease could be back in work within 5 years—some of whom would be 69 at such a point.
In their unstinting support for Biden, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are being exposed as nothing more than propagandists for imperialism.
In a devastating condemnation of the Israeli government and its imperialist backers, the court ruled that Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal, ordering all countries to cease enabling it.
The union leadership did not consult with members prior to ending industrial action and then held meetings blocking any discussion on their decision.
One need not idealize the American party conventions of decades past to acknowledge that this year’s Republican National Convention was an unprecedented spectacle of reaction and backwardness.
Barely mentioned in the media commentary that erupted around Dutton’s proposal is the potential of a nuclear power industry to provide a pathway for the construction of nuclear weapons.
“What’s happening in Gaza is part of a growing world war. The western countries, including Australia, are all complicit in the [Gaza] genocide.”
The university’s new policy mandates that members of the public outside the university will only be allowed to engage in demonstrations if they have prior approval from management.
Two system failures impacting Microsoft-based computers shut down airports, trains, banks, hospitals, hotels and other critical infrastructure around the world on Friday.
A meeting of the Third Plenum of the CCP Central Committee advocated tighter social and ideological controls.
In all of its coverage, the corporate media seeks to conceal from the public the scale and depth of political reaction in the US for fear of social revolution.
More than 33,000 machinists working at Boeing’s facilities in Washington and Oregon packed a Major League baseball stadium on Wednesday to vote by 99.9 percent to strike when their contract expires September 12.
For filmmaking to portray the barbarism of fascism in all its aspects therefore retains its burning relevance and necessity.
NATO boasted, at this month's Washington war summit, that with the recent addition of Sweden and Finland, it now includes “all Arctic nations"—except Russia.
The new budget bolsters spending on the state’s repressive powers at home and abroad and the working class will be made to pay for it.
A new study in The Lancet demonstrates that face coverings dramatically reduce the load of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath from infected persons. The reductions reached as high as 98 percent, with variations according to the type of face covering worn.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) demands the immediate reinstatement of the three Columbia University administrators removed from their positions in late June on bogus charges of antisemitism.
South Korea: Strike at Samsung Electronics enters second week; Indian railway workers demonstrate against new national pension scheme; Australia: Ramsay Health Care nurses in New South Wales protest over workloads and pay
Lammy personifies the venal, right-wing warmongers that make up Sir Keir Starmer’s government.
Any claim that Labour will not rubber stamp the takeover is a lie. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has made clear Labour’s top priority is to make Britain a “safe haven” for investors and her and Starmer’s repeated praise for Margaret Thatcher makes clear the government will enforce corporate interests against the working class with an iron fist.
Unsubstantiated allegations are being used to impose major attacks on the democratic rights of construction workers, in preparation for cuts to pay and conditions.
The Republican National Convention concluded Thursday night with a speech by the party’s candidate, ex-president Donald Trump, which was an unequaled display of political degradation.
