Starmer and the Labour Party roll in the nationalist gutter
This week’s conference took the party’s jingoism to a new and repulsive level, coupled with the usual pledges of austerity and war.
This week’s conference took the party’s jingoism to a new and repulsive level, coupled with the usual pledges of austerity and war.
Strike action by 2,000 Greater Manchester bus drivers at Stagecoach, First Bus and Metroline scheduled for Tuesday to Thursday this week was largely suspended at the last minute by Unite in collusion with Labour Mayor Andy Burnham.
NHS England’s agreement with Unison confirms the preferred strategy of the Starmer government: inflict attacks on NHS workers via collaboration with the health unions.
The CEB workers’ fight to defend their rights has become a focal point in the struggle to defeat the Dissanayake government’s IMF program.
Dockworkers’ blockade of an Israeli arms shipment in Genoa exposes the power of the working class against genocide—yet it also highlights the urgent need for independent, international, revolutionary organization.
Speaking before hundreds of generals and admirals assembled at a Marine Corps base outside Washington DC, President Donald Trump laid out a plan for establishing a presidential dictatorship in America.
Within 48 hours of audio of a professor teaching that there are more than two genders being uploaded to social media, the professor was fired.
The Trump-Netanyahu proposal is intended to allow the US media to claim that the US and Israeli governments are seeking “peace” while they move ahead with their plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
As the US government barreled toward a Tuesday midnight shutdown, Democrats pleaded for negotiations, while President Donald Trump and the Republicans issued fascistic attacks on Democratic leaders and threatened to use a shutdown to carry out mass permanent layoffs of federal workers.
With its soldier's eye view, realistic depiction of battle and rejection of national chauvinism, the film departed significantly from previous treatments of the imperialist slaughter.
Maria, an undocumented mother, and Jacinto a permanent resident, describe sacrifice, hardship, and political awakening, exposing immigrant exploitation and calling for international working class unity against Trump’s repression.
The latest extension of the Nauru prison contract underscores Labor’s brutal treatment of asylum seekers, its flouting of international refugee law and its use of Nauru as a neo-colonial dumping ground.
At the UN General Assembly, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters demanded the removal of Hamas from Gaza and did not condemn Israel’s genocide.
The strikers face a political struggle against the Liberal government and all corporate Canada, which back the demands of Canada Post management to the hilt.
Erdoğan is relying on the support of the Trump administration and avoiding any conflict with it while he establishes an authoritarian regime to defend the interests of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
The deployment of warships aims to deflect popular anger and provide governments that have facilitated genocide for two years with an alibi while the slaughter continues.
With critical support from the Democratic Party, the Republican-led Congress has passed several harsh crime bills which further undermine the city’s home rule laws while punishing youthful offenders.
Of the six mass shootings in the United States over the weekend, the two deadliest incidents were perpetrated by former Marines who had previously deployed to Iraq.
The mass mobilisation showed the enormous opposition among the population to Israel's war crimes and Germany's participation in them.
One of the most threatening military manoeuvres of the post-war period took place in Hamburg. As the ruling class in Germany push forward their war offensive against Russia, they also intensify the repressive measures at home.
The Super Typhoon was the most intense tropical storm of 2025 so far, with climate change creating the conditions for such events to become more frequent.
The Pentagon must have its missiles and fighter jets. This is why Boeing has been given a free hand to ruthlessly crush the strike, including through hiring permanent replacements.
The announcement marks a further escalation in the nationwide campaign of the Republican Party and the Trump administration to dismantle public education, criminalize teachers, and mobilize a political army around authoritarianism.
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers face payless paydays and temporary or permanent layoffs beginning Wednesday morning.
The decision by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a warning: The lessons of Wounded Knee are not consigned to the past, but must urgently be recalled as a present danger.
So-called “reciprocal tariffs” are the key weapon in what is a massive international shakedown operation, more akin to Mafia measures than anything seen in the history of international trade.
Workers in Portland, Oregon, expressed their opposition to the deployment of federal troops to their city and the complicity of the Democratic Party in Trump’s ongoing efforts to establish a dictatorship.
Workers at Argentina’s three nuclear power plants marched outside the facilities to protest plans by the Milei administration to sell off shares of the publicly owned utility to private investors, while Vancouver Symphony Orchestra musicians have walked out for the first time in 100 years.
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
A Harvard-led study has provided rigorous evidence that private equity ownership of hospitals increases patient mortality in emergency and intensive care units.
Back on Labour’s backbenches, McDonnell was offered a platform by Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Liverpool on Saturday to burnish his tattered “left” reputation.
Bobi Wine seeks to replace Yoweri Museveni as a more acceptable representative of the bourgeoisie in the eyes of imperialism.
Albanese fraudulently claimed to be defending “democracy,” alongside Starmer, under conditions where their governments are militarist instruments of the corporate elite carrying out a major assault on civil liberties.
Any scrapping or even undercutting of the PBS, on which the Australian government spent nearly $18 billion last year to subsidise retail medicine prices, would have a devastating effect on millions of people.
The scientists looked for 50 known PFAS compounds and found 31 in the drinking water samples, 21 of which were previously undocumented in Australia.
Trump has deployed troops in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and ordered them into Portland and Memphis, while summoning hundreds of generals and admirals to the capital to pledge loyalty to him.
The film and design work is intelligent, restless, assertive, but thematically, the watchword here is intense passivity and accommodation to the status quo.
Amazon management did nothing to stop the alleged bullying of Mylen Belyue, which contributed to a mental health crisis.
Although the jobs massacre is part of a massive wave of sackings, the IG Metall union and its Works Council representatives are doing nothing to defend jobs. The building of independent rank-and-file action committees, which oppose the nationalist policies of the union apparatus and its factory police, is more urgent than ever.
Riders and workers warn of economic catastrophe as CTA officials outline a potential $1 billion shortfall, with solutions hinging on state action.
Protests have been held throughout the state following the abduction of Dr. Ian Roberts by ICE agents on Friday.
Sharon provocation triggers Palestinian uprising; British Trotskyists fight back against police raid, media-witch-hunt; Truman approves Cold War military build-up; Dancer Josephine Baker first performs in France
The arrival of ICE was met with protest and anger that is growing, at both the Trump administration’s violations of the most basic democratic and social rights and the inaction of the Democratic Party.
The attack on Galloway and his wife represents a ratcheting up of the massive onslaught against democratic rights in Britain being carried out by Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
A petty act by a couple of teenagers has been inflated into a national scandal, seized on by William Ruto’s unpopular government to promote “national unity”.
The demands of London transport workers are coming into head-on collision with the Starmer government’s brutal austerity and frontal assault on workers’ rights.
Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, with authorization to use deadly violence, is a criminal assault on the American people and part of a calculated conspiracy to obliterate democratic rights and establish a police state.
The laying of the charge is an exercise in damage control, amid revelations indicating that the attack on the small protest was ordered at the highest levels of the police and state Labor government.
This meltdown, the second such disaster in less than two years, has shocked the population by showing the dubious reliability of the 000 system, which is a life-and-death issue.
The indictment of former FBI director James Comey on Thursday is a significant step in the establishment of a personalist presidential dictatorship under Donald Trump. By moving to jail his opponents within the political establishment, Trump is seeking to consolidate his power to smash the democratic rights of the working class.
The children’s TV channel KiKa’s editorial team—and with it the German elites—are apparently determined to reconnect with the militarist traditions of the Kaiser’s Empire and the Nazi era—starting with the youngest.
After two years of ongoing mass protests around the world, it is time to take political stock: What is the political, historical and economic background to the genocide?—And what strategy and perspective can stop it?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday in which he vowed to defy international law, gloated about committing mass murder and terrorism, and vowed to continue the Gaza genocide in defiance of world public opinion.
The Trump White House issued an executive order on Thursday called, “Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security,” that approves the framework for a deal to place the Chinese-based social media platform under more than 80 percent US corporate ownership.
In this article by Ukrainian journalists, deserters from the NATO-backed Ukrainian army speak out about their experiences.
The mostly muted criticism of the Trump administration, including its massacre of civilians in the Caribbean, came as Latin America’s militaries staged war games with the same US forces perpetrating these criminal attacks.
A separate state bill, passed in 2023, allows teachers to carry firearms in school as the “solution” to mass shootings.
At a meeting for workers returning from layoff, management and United Auto Workers officials maintained a guilty silence about the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman.
Teachers are being crushed by an ever-expanding administrative workload, while also being asked to deal with the increasing and complex social and emotional traumas of students and their families.
The strike by 6,000 doctors follows nationwide strikes by tens of thousands of teachers and nurses against the government’s austerity measures.
By treating political beliefs as the “animating threads” of terrorism, NSPM-7 provides a pseudo-legal justification for the persecution of individuals and organizations on the basis of their political convictions.
Utility workers protested across Pakistan against electricity privatisation, staff shortages and IMF austerity measures, while hundreds of bus drivers in two Australian states stopped work to demand decent wages.
Workers began to spontaneously walkout Thursday afternoon in Atlantic Canada soon after Liberal Public Works Minister Joël Lightbound announced the implementation of a “transformation plan” which would gut operations and slash jobs.
Regardless of vote totals, Missouri Republicans are seeking to maintain control of Congress in next year’s mid-term elections.
Hours before the back-to-back executions, Trump signed a presidential memo directing the US attorney general to “fully enforce” the death penalty for federal crimes in Washington D.C., which abolished capital punishment in 1981.
Chief magistrate Goldspring’s excoriating judgement could only come about because of the Starmer government’s attempt to ride roughshod over basic democratic norms.
The assembled pseudo-left groups offered Sultana a hero’s welcome, making clear their loyalty to Your Party despite Corbyn banning them from joining.
Their silence is an indication that both US Steel and the United Steelworkers are working to cover up the explosion, and the record of the company of putting profits before the safety of the workers.
The ruling sets an October 31 deadline for the government to provide its explanation for rejecting Lehman’s claims about the anti-democratic character of the UAW elections, more than a year after it was first instructed to do so.
On Sunday, September 21, Shadi Charara, a car dealer, was driving his family home after a lunch at his father-in-law’s house in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil when their vehicle was destroyed by an Israeli drone strike.
Tens of thousands of workers could be not just furloughed, but permanently laid off, if a spending agreement is not reached by September 30.
By trying to suppress all forms of resistance in the working class, they hope to carve out spaces for themselves under a new regime.
The unprecedented assembly of hundreds of generals and admirals to a conference next week is linked to Trump’s plans for dictatorship at home and war abroad.
A recent report comparing rental prices over the past ten years shows that housing costs are not only outpacing wages, but increasing at a ever faster rate.
After a resident spoke powerfully about the devastating consequences of the planned demolition, teachers passed a resolution opposing the state Labor government’s attack on public housing.
More than 100 US workers are killed on the job each week under conditions where the Trump administration is seeking to dismantle workplace safety protections.
Workers at the facility were forced to continue laboring as their dead worker remained in an open trailer for hours.
Through imposing billions in cuts through a so-called “social contract,” IG Metall and its works council have made the steel industry ripe for takeover. Now they are supporting the billionaire takeover bid Jindal International Steel because it promises to safeguard their well-paid posts and privileges.
The announced Argentine peso swap and other giveaways by the US Treasury constitute a brazen act of election meddling to prop up a regime whose popular support is collapsing ahead of October’s legislative elections.
The Stalinist counter-revolution during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) crushed one of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionary uprisings, when millions of workers and peasants fought to overthrow capitalism and fascism.
To Vorenberg, the answer to the question of when the war ended, as a political matter, appears to lie in the passage of the Reconstruction Act in March 1867, which specified that states would remain under military rule unless and until they ratified the 14th Amendment, provided freed Black males the right to vote, and barred insurrectionists from obtaining public office.
While it promises anti-corruption measures, there are serious doubts about President Dina Boluarte and the right-wing parties that support her in Congress fulfilling the agreement.
Bus drivers strike in Oviedo city in Spain for better conditions at work; Iranian aluminium workers call off hunger strike as national protests over pay and conditions continue; workers at Egypt’s aluminium company in Qena walk out over pay and conditions
Streeting’s “reform” rhetoric is code for the worst attack on the NHS and its workforce since it was founded 77 years ago as the jewel in the crown of the post-war welfare state.
The Israeli military continues to fire on European citizens and parliamentarians in the Mediterranean, including within the sovereign waters of European countries, with impunity.
A little under two weeks ago, on 12 September, the Greek fascist Nikos Michaloliakos was released early from prison into home detention. The Holocaust denier and admirer of Hitler bears responsibility for numerous acts of violence against left-wingers and migrants.
The essential services order allows the government to ban industrial action by electricity workers. Those found guilty of breaching a ban face two to five years’ imprisonment, a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 rupees, or both.
It is increasingly clear that the US is demanding an even greater military build-up by Australia, as the quid pro quo for a meeting between Albanese and Trump.
Eric Smith’s death, and Shannon Barnes’s before him, show the human price of the policy’s unbridled restructuring and cost-cutting.
The US auto company, First Brands, involved in the sale of parts and highly dependent on debt, is facing bankruptcy, with its creditors involved to the tune of billions of dollars.
John, who provided testimony to the public hearing on the death of fellow skilled tradesman Ronald Adams Sr., spoke recently with the World Socialist Web Site about the hearing and about how to build a working class movement against dictatorship.
The right-wing campaign leading to Kimmel’s suspension was launched in the wake of his comments on September 15.
While Trump gave the appearance of a semi-senile idiot, underlying his deranged ravings and those of Kennedy are much darker forces and motives.
While no motive has yet to emerge, Republicans and Trump administration officials immediately blamed Democratic Party rhetoric and “Deranged Radical Leftists” for the attack.
The extreme right-wing Supreme Court majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s summary termination of a member of the Federal Trade Commission, setting the stage for using her case to strip Congress of legislative power to establish federal agencies independent of the executive, a major step in the erection of a dictatorship.
Over the past few days, there have been multiple suspensions and terminations of workers who refused to permit searches, including the two-week suspension of a worker with 25 to 30 years with no previous disciplinary issues.
A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of mental control that are key to tool manufacturing and use by humans.
The conference in New York City marking the DSA-linked magazine’s 15 year anniversary was intended to reinforce the authority of the Democratic Party and the capitalist order it serves.
Jian faces a vicious state campaign that has seen the 33-year-old plant biologist incarcerated without bail for over three months and branded an “agroterrorist” and spy for the Chinese Communist Party.
A WSU meeting demonstrated how far union officials are going to trap university workers in sham “consultation” processes and oppose any unified fight against the estimated 4,000 job losses throughout Australia’s 39 public universities.