The government’s police-state measure again demonstrates Labor’s support for the genocidal Zionist state and its determination to suppress mass opposition to war crimes.
Korean American scientist and longtime US legal permanent resident Tae Heung Kim was detained by ICE on July 21 and has been denied both access to his attorney and communication with his family without explanation.
Video footage of the horrifying incident has circulated widely. Hathalin, 31, was a teacher from Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, who played a supporting role in No Other Land.
Many Tamil families have spent decades searching for their loved ones and demanding the prosecution of the war criminals responsible.
The university’s prostration before Trump is a warning that no section of the ruling class is capable of defending democratic rights.
The promotion of crypto is only the most egregious expression of the growth of financial speculation, parasitism and outright criminality.
The refusal of the UFCW to release a statement, much less defend any of the workers facing immediate deportation, underscores that it is not a union organized in defense of workers' economic, social and democratic rights but an organization of scabs operating on behalf of the corporations and government.
The following resolution was unanimously supported by workers and young people at the public hearing in Detroit on Sunday, July 27.
House Bill 595 gives landlords across the state the explicit right to refuse tenants who pay rent using Section 8 housing vouchers, Social Security, child support, disability payments or tipped income.
The treaty marks an escalation of the preparations for war against China, accompanied by an aggressive reassertion of the role of British imperialism in the Indo-Pacific region.
As cuts are handed down, Chicago teachers are furious over denial of backpay owed from last year after their contract agreement was months-delayed.
Starmer’s policy is a recipe for a Palestinian state with no Palestinians in it, the myth of a “land without people” made real.
Workers in the Caucasus and around the world need to be alert: Under the guise of an “economic corridor”, preparations are being made for bloody wars that will devastate the region’s peoples as US imperialism pushes forward its predatory plans.
The resident doctors strike is a decisive battle—not just over wages, but for the future of the National Health Service. They are confronting the Starmer government, the political establishment, and the media on behalf of the millions they serve in their frontline NHS role.
The Israeli government, the B’Tselem states, is advancing “an agenda of Jewish supremacy, destruction, and expulsion.”
The Albanese government’s moves are attacking the existence of a vital free, open-source, encrypted communications platform used by millions of people worldwide.
The trade deal agreed on Sunday by US President Donald Trump and European Union (EU) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen marks a further stage in an escalating trade war that is being waged on the backs of the working class and dragging the whole world into the abyss.
Some 34,000 provincial government workers in British Columbia are preparing for potential strike action in September, while nurses in Baltimore walked out July 24 to press demands for a contract with Ascension Saint Agnes.
Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “There is no starvation in Gaza,” and went on to claim that the viral images circulating around the world of Palestinian children who have starved to death are “false pictures.”
For two consecutive weekends, fascist groups have mobilized across towns in Spain with the aim of assaulting or lynching immigrants.
The US President's grotesqueries must not conceal the importance of the issues discussed between Trump, von der Leyen and Starmer, which pose a grave threat to working people all over the world.
The only way out of poverty is in struggle against the Dissanayake government’s IMF austerity program and the entire capitalist system.
The university management announced a “voluntary redundancy” scheme just a day after the National Tertiary Education Union revealed that it had made a similar proposal.
New reporting from the Minnesota Star Tribune raises serious questions about the police response to last month’s targeted assassinations.
The veteran worker was in the hospital for two weeks following an incident at work, the circumstances of which have not been explained by either management or the United Auto Workers.
In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that countries are legally obliged to prevent “significant harm to the climate system.”
In a coordinated act of betrayal, the UFCW has blocked a historic Safeway strike by ramming through a secretive sellout deal that workers are being ordered to ratify sight unseen.
On July 9, Segula Technologies GmbH, based in Rüsselsheim, Germany filed for insolvency in self-administration with the Darmstadt Local Court. This means that a further 500 jobs for engineers, technicians and developers are at risk.
Approximately 100 workers and youth attended the hearing, which was addressed by members of the IWA-RFC and Shamenia Stewart-Adams, the widow of Ronald Adams, Sr.
The escalation of the conflict within the oligarchy and the protests come amidst an intense political crisis and growing social discontent.
Ontario’s right-wing Progressive Conservative government has taken over the running of four school boards in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, in order to ram through massive budget cuts and sweeping attacks on workers’ rights.
CEB workers confront a political struggle against the Dissanayake government’s IMF-dictated restructuring and privatisation of state-owned enterprises.
The EU has agreed to a 15 percent tariff hit and to buy hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of energy products and military hardware from the US.
The bitterly fought campaign reflects sharp infighting in Taiwanese ruling circles fuelled by the intensifying US-led drive to war against China, in which Taiwan is the central flashpoint.
Reports and images from Gaza prove that the fascist Israeli government of Netanyahu is systematically using starvation of children as a weapon of war in its campaign to ethnically cleanse the strip of Palestinians.
The Trump administration is slashing health agency budgets and firing vaccine experts as highly transmissible variants threaten to double daily infections within a month.
Albanese’s comments were part of an internationally coordinated shift in rhetoric, not in substance, from a number of imperialist powers that have been key backers of Israel.
Everyone in Cloud is either a fraudster, a cynic, an opportunist or a psychopath. How accurate is that as a view of life in Japan, or anywhere else?
Throughout the strike and after, the DSA’s role was to provide left cover for the union leaders and the Democratic Party.
The low turnout reflects a lack of confidence in the union leadership, which sought to contain the struggle.
Trump did not deny he might pardon the convicted sex trafficker, likely in return for statements protecting him and damaging to his political opponents.
This investigation, like the June 18 congressional inquiry into “research security” at U-Mich, promotes witch-hunting claims against Chinese scientists associated with the university.
The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally condemns the vicious and life-threatening political witch hunt targeting Dr. Marta Havryshko, a scholar of the Nazi Holocaust.
The investigation revealed a critical breakdown in the emergency response, bound up with the degradation of government services and the prioritisation of profit and the wealthy over mass social need.
Millions of workers and youth see the need for a new party to challenge Labour. But this requires a revolutionary socialist and internationalist programme, not a Labour Party Mark II.
Republican convention to ratifies Bush-Cheney ticket; Helsinki Accords signed by US, USSR; Belgian general strike ousts Leopold III; British government avoids miners’ strike
A resident doctor in Leeds told WSWS reporters, “If the pillars of the NHS, the staff of the NHS, are not happy, are leaving, are burnt out, it’s only going to have a domino effect, and things are going to start to crumble.”
Far from mobilising workers against this vicious offensive, the event was another token gesture, providing left-talking union officials with political cover while they preach conciliation with Labour.
Without a single mention in the May 3 election campaign, the Albanese government is extending and broadening ASIO’s forcible questioning powers.
The first ever strike by concessions workers at Fenway Park against poverty wages and automation is being hamstrung by the UNITE HERE bureaucracy, which has limited the workers’ action to three days and refused to call for the shutdown of the ballpark.
The clashes reflect heightened political and social tensions in both countries, fuelled by slowing economies that will be further hit by the Trump administration’s tariffs.
“The Labor government keeps talking about how we need more housing but in fact they are pulling them down.”
The sole reason for continued industrial slaughter, year after year, is the capitalist system. It has become an absolute barrier to human progress.
It is a crisis not only of the Trump administration, but of the entire political system. Prominent Democrats as well as Republicans associated with the sexual predator. The pervasive depravity of the ruling elite reflected in the Epstein affair has been covered up for years.
The order promotes forced institutionalization while ordering federal funds to be withheld from programs that promote placing people in housing first.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who constantly accuses the US of harming all sides with its tariffs, threatened China with Trump-style tariffs.
The Teamsters union recently hired Peter Cytanovic, a known neo-Nazi who took part in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, for an administrative role at its Washington D.C. headquarters. He was reportedly fired after co-workers uncovered his background.
Peymann's importance lay in the fact that he understood and defended the theatre as a politically and socially significant and indispensable institution, without making any artistic concessions
Hyundai workers in Korea reject union-management pay deal; 30,000 public hospital nurses in India continue indefinite strike over pay and staffing shortages; Australian mining workers strike and rally over wages.
Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University earlier this month, Trump outlined his program of reorganizing the American economy in preparation for war, primarily with China.
The timing of the announcement was undoubtedly tied to the deepening Epstein scandal and Trump’s role.
Those lucky enough to escape death directly at the hands of Israel’s genocide face the increasing danger of succumbing to the ravages of disease. According to British charity OXFAM, waterborne diseases have shot up in Gaza over the past three months by 150 percent.
Postal workers should demand a no-confidence vote in Ward, Walsh, and the entire CWU postal executive. The will of the membership must be asserted against the pro-company apparatus.
The wrecking operation could be brought to an immediate halt through a sector wide ban on demolition-related work at the towers. But the building union has not, and will not, call any such action.
As the carriers plan two significant mergers, the leadership of the rail unions is collaborating with management to withhold information and divide workers.
Inequality and poverty which emerged under the 2017-2023 Labour government is escalating under the National Party-led coalition’s brutal austerity agenda.
According to his family, Brayan had only months prior immigrated to the US from Guatemala, “in hopes of supporting his mother and siblings.”
The shooting of a 19-year-old patient has caused great unrest among the nursing staff: What does it mean for both patients and nursing staff when police officers simply shoot in psychiatric wards?
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
If confirmed, this would be the third death of a Stellantis worker in less than a year, following Antonio Gaston and Ronald Adams Sr.
Under conditions where ICE agents are disappearing immigrants at worksites, courthouses and hospitals, the agency is seeking to shackle 180,000 people with GPS monitors to more easily track and deport them.
The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an article by David North written in 1973 on the death of Rick Hertzig, a steelworker who was horrifically killed on the job at a US Steel mill in Lorain, Ohio.
The settlement includes broad changes to the university's admissions policies and academic programs, along with a crackdown on student protests.
The WSWS spoke last year to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.
Fleifel’s fiction film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, Reda and Chatila, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
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.
A more aggressive form of black lung disease is showing up among young miners.
Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump of this fact in May, but Trump denied it as recently as July 15.
“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.
Corporate mergers, political pressure and economic decline are reshaping American media.
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 knowledge that we gain and the importance of international relationships in science is critical. And COVID proved that."
The acceptance of the case by the court is an important step in the campaign to demand the release of Bogdan.
Unite’s token actions, including its petition stunt, are designed to uphold its credibility while demobilising 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 fifteen Palestinians who starved to death yesterday included four children, the youngest a six-week-old baby.
The visit by Marcos was the first official trip by a South East Asian leader to the United States during Trump’s second term.
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.
The primary aim of the government shakeup is to solidify Kiev’s ties with the Trump administration.
The massive expansion of immigration police and detention centers will be used against all opponents of the financial oligarchy, not just immigrants.
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.
