Residents of two historic downtown Detroit building face loss of utilities due to landlord neglect in the midst of cold wave.
The strike reflects rising worker militancy against Meloni’s war budget, as CGIL leaders act to limit, defuse and control the opposition.
The Frontline Socialist Party’s proposals to the JVP/NPP government are to help cover up its responsibility for the disaster and the capitalist system that produced it.
A new Lancet Series presents the most comprehensive scientific assessment to date of ultra-processed foods. Its findings expose a global health crisis driven by industry profit, political inertia, and the transformation of food systems worldwide.
A wave of serious and fatal workplace accidents at Deutsche Bahn has claimed numerous lives in 2025, exposing recurring patterns of danger in shunting yards, track construction sites and overhead line work. Far from being the result of individual “human error,” these deaths are the outcome of systemic safety failures driven by profit-oriented restructuring, austerity and the complicity of management, government and trade unions.
The 11,000-plus job cuts in September 2025 were the largest monthly loss of jobs in the state since the onset of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security arrogantly denied any violations of democratic rights by the ICE and Border Patrol gestapo, and walked out of the hearing before it was half over, thumbing her nose at Democratic Party protests.
The Workers Party government has marked a new stage in its subordination of to imperialist dictates just as Washington prepares open war against a neighboring country.
Nuwara Eliya district, predominantly inhabited by Tamil-speaking tea plantation workers earning low wages, is among the worst affected by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides, and stone slides caused by the cyclone.
India: Construction workers in Tamil Nadu demand minimum wage; Assam 108 Ambulance emergency workers remain on strike; Australia: Bookstore workers to walk out for better pay and conditions; Healthscope theatre nurses strike in Victoria; New Zealand firefighters continue walkout.
The bureaucratic exclusion of Engler is entirely of a piece with the NDP’s broader record.
Tram drivers cannot entrust their dispute to the Unite apparatus, which attempted to sabotage their struggle before it even started.
The strike underlines the ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention--bound up with decades of funding cuts, curriculum reforms and attacks on conditions in UK schools.
Doctors have immense public support. Their fight is not a narrow pay issue but part of a broader political confrontation. It can become a rallying point for all National Health Service workers against the Starmer government’s austerity, privatisation and militarism.
One of the main functions of the conference was to spread the illusion that negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), supported by US and European imperialism, could bring about democratization and peace, and to endorse Öcalan’s role and the anti-Marxist postmodern perspective he has developed.
Portugal’s first general strike in twelve years, jointly called by the Socialist Party (PS) aligned UGT and the Communist Party (PCP) aligned CGTP, shook the country, confirming and extending the escalating class struggle across Europe.
Today the International Committee of the Fourth International inaugurates Socialism AI, a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
The US government has held Vijandre, a Dallas resident, in immigration detention for over nine weeks despite admitting in court filings that he has committed no crimes and that the only “evidence” of his alleged “terrorism” consists of social media posts protected under the First Amendment.
Now almost in their fourth month of strike, 650 workers at Libbey Glass in Toledo are determined to continue their fight despite pressure by the United Steelworkers International leadership to capitulate to management demands.
Reuters reported Thursday that the US has assembled a "target list" of tankers for seizure of oil tankers as the administration openly declares its intention to overthrow Maduro.
Record temperatures, strong winds and a high fuel load built up over several wet years created the conditions for catastrophic fires last week in New South Wales and Tasmania.
The real aim of the ban is to suppress growing opposition among young people to war, austerity and dictatorship and to prevent it finding organized political expression.
Family members and building workers are raising concerns about the reported lack of safety precautions involved.
The move will lead to more frequent derailments, which already take place three times a day on average.
After four years of war, hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed, and millions of refugees, NATO's war against Russia has reached an impasse.
After Teamsters shattered the strike's unity, UTR followed suit, imposing a sellout deal that betrays teachers and protects austerity.
Speaking for privileged sections of the middle class, QS serves the faction of the Quebec ruling class that sees the creation of a third imperialist state in North America as a means of intensifying the exploitation of workers and more effectively advancing its own economic and geostrategic interests.
The WSWS and the SGP propose the establishment of an independent rank-and-file committee to discuss how to fight layoffs and social cuts and why a new organizational structure is necessary.
In this video, Sri Lankan workers and villagers devastated by Cyclone Ditwah speak out about the catastrophic flooding, government negligence, and the urgent need for real change.
The Wagenknecht party is responding to falling poll numbers by continuing its anti-war rhetoric in order to win back voters, while ruthlessly pressing ahead with its right-wing, pro-capitalist programme. This exposes all its bluster against war as empty chatter.
Workers, small shop owners and residents described to reporters the terrifying impact of the disaster, the repeated flooding they endure and the destruction caused this time by the overflowing Kelani River.
The increase in state-sanctioned killings, concentrated in just a few states, is a terrifying measure of the political brutality currently promoted by the Trump administration and gripping the American justice system.
National strike in Greece by construction workers over fatality on building site blamed on unsafe conditions; deepening economic crisis fuels continuing strikes and protests in Iran; staff at African National Congress headquarters picket ANC 5th National General Council over salary delays and unpaid bonuses
The Socialist Equality Party fights to arm the working class with a revolutionary perspective. We not only reject entirely the demoralised argument that reformist consciousness cannot be challenged. We are preparing the most powerful means of doing so.
It is highly likely that there will be further boycotts of next year’s contest, given that Israel is a global pariah.
An infinitesimal 0.001 percent of the world’s population controls society through its vast wealth.
The US military seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a brazen act of piracy that marks a major escalation in President Donald Trump's war preparations against the South American country.
With the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers at assembly plant scheduled for January 5, workers are looking for a way to defend their jobs.
Seeking to replicate Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York City, DSA-backed Janeese Lewis George’s candidacy for mayor is another trap aimed at dragooning workers and youth back into the dead end of the Democratic Party and electoral politics.
Steve “Lil” Crowe died in a collision at a vehicle crossing while performing a “shoving movement,” a common but extremely dangerous maneuver.
The ending of the SAVE program will force millions of people with student loans to use costlier repayment programs, many of which do not have any mechanism for loan forgiveness.
In his remarks following the decision, Fed chair Jerome Powell said inflation risks were tilted to the upside and for the labour market to the downside.
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a visually imaginative work to some extent with a number of urgent and disturbing sequences and an overall gravitas.
Mamdani is turning to New York City’s wealthy elite for fundraising while he invites big business to advise his transition.
Ending temporary band-aids on soaring prices for domestic electricity and gas services will intensify the cost-of-living crisis for working-class households.
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
The government ordered civilians to remain indoors, leaving streets deserted and shops shuttered. Fuel stations were closed and public transport was suspended. Access to social media was severely restricted, following days of mass arrests.
Denmark’s Social Democrat-led government has used its six-month chairmanship of the European Union (EU) Council to expand the country’s cooperation with fascist Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, especially in the fields of immigration and refugee policy.
The layoffs at GM are part of a growing global jobs massacre by a money mad ruling class.
Drug commissioner Hendrik Streeck (CDU) has underlined the inhumane and de facto murderous measures the ruling class is prepared to take by proposing drastic cuts to medical care for the elderly.
US President Trump on Tuesday reneged on his earlier statement that he would have “no problem” with releasing the video of the September 2 murder of 11 unarmed civilians, declaring, “I didn’t say that.”
The strike by teachers in the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) in California has reached its fourth day, under conditions of intensifying pressure from the district, the Democrats and the union apparatus to shut it down.
Management refused to tolerate nurses discussing how to improve security after an attempted shooting in the emergency room.
Barnaby Joyce’s decision to join the far-right party is another expression of the crisis of the conservative Liberal-National Coalition and the lurch to the right by the entire political establishment.
The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a forensic linguistic analysis that shatters the fraudulent case against him.
The death of Booker T. & the M.G.s’ guitarist Steve Cropper is something of an end of an era for soul and rock and roll.
The number of people without housing in Germany has soared above 1 million for the first time, exposing the devastating impact of soaring rents, forced evictions and relentless social cuts.
Following mass walkouts and abstentions in North Carolina in response to ICE raids, students in Minnesota and Oregon have walked out of class this week in defense of immigrants.
Cuts in exports to the US due to Trump’s tariffs have been more than compensated for by the sharp increase in Chinese exports to the rest of the world.
N1466 is the highest-ranking former special forces officer to provide evidence of war crimes. He was the assistant chief of staff for operations in UKSF headquarters.
Elli devoted her entire adult life to building a better, socialist society. She joined the Trotskyist movement in 1975 and remained an active and leading member for the rest of her life.
The deal between TWU Local 234 and SEPTA is aimed at blocking resistance of workers to the Democrats and the Trump administration.
Tens of thousands of students across Germany walked out of lessons to oppose the reintroduction of conscription, denouncing the government’s militarisation drive and the growing danger of a third world war.
The linguistic examination by Yuri Irkhin, one of Ukraine’s leading criminologist, marks not only a major setback for the prosecution. It is also a powerful vindication of the principled opposition by the Trotskyist movement to the war in Ukraine.
The US intends to interfere in the internal affairs of its NATO partners, break up the European Union, strengthen fascist parties, and help enforce racist remigration policies.
Bus drivers, pensioners and people with disabilities were among those conducting strikes and protests against government policy in Argentina, while 750 Canadian Air Transat pilots could walk out later this week.
The Honduran election has been overshadowed by naked imperialist intervention, with Trump vowing there would be “hell to pay” if the country failed to elect his chosen candidate.
A memorandum from Attorney General Pam Bondi spells out a series of actions to be taken against those who oppose mass detention and deportation of immigrants or advocate “anti-capitalism.”
Adams' killing on the shop floor--crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
In oral arguments Monday in the case Trump v Slaughter, Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority signaled their willingness to grant Trump power to fire agency heads and board members created by Congress, for not adhering to his fascist agenda.
The deal for classified staff in the Northern Californian school district is almost identical to one which workers overwhelmingly rejected only two weeks ago, and isolates 1,500 striking teachers in the district.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has reappointed Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, a woman directly responsible for the NYPD’s massive spying on New York’s population.
Speaking at a blue-chip luncheon, the Labourers’ International Union of North America’s Canadian director gave a full-throated defence of Premier Ford and his labour minister in the face of reports showing hundreds of millions in job-training funds have been funnelled to the government’s union and business cronies.
In the predominantly Tamil Northern Province, the death toll stands at nine, with four people reported missing.
The NSW Resources Regulator’s November 25 “Investigation information release” neither explains what caused the tragedy nor makes any recommendation for how to stop more workers being killed.
The Defence Force head told MPs military recruitment must be raised significantly higher, just as it was before the two world wars.
Carthy has always seen folk as reflecting social life and conditions, so has never shied away from social and political issues.
Police blocked Jimenez in a parking lot and positioned themselves in the way of his vehicle, shooting him 29 times.
Six of the seven involved began their protest between 27 and 36 days ago. A seventh joined the hunger strike last week.
The strike, which began on November 13 with walkouts at 65 stores across more than 20 cities, expanded to 120 stores on Black Friday.
$50 million is being poured into a US-NATO fund, which supplies strike capabilities to Ukraine, including those that threaten to provoke a war throughout Europe and globally.
The ban is not a child welfare measure but a direct intervention by the state to dictate how ordinary people will be allowed to use the internet.
Amid the swirling corruption allegations, the police are playing a central role in the escalating state assault on the social position of the working class.
On Saturday, NBC reported that Secretary of War “Pete Hegseth ordered the US military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people” on a motorboat traveling between Venezuela and Trinidad, contradicting the administration’s denials that no such order was given.
After the racist in the White House branded Somali people as “garbage,” his immigration agents deployed in force to Minneapolis, targeting the largest Somali community outside Africa.
Socialism AI is a powerful new chatbot developed by the WSWS to advance socialist consciousness globally by bringing the scientific outlook of Marxism to workers, youth, and intellectuals.
There is hardly anything more repulsive than when the German ruling class justifies its support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians by referring to the “fight against antisemitism” and its own historical crimes.
The acquisition poses a serious threat to entertainment workers, undermining creative labor and endangering art and cultural expression.
The unfolding disaster from Cyclone Ditwah is the product of two interconnected processes: the intensification of climate change, driven by global capitalism, and the underdevelopment of scientific and disaster-prevention infrastructure, enforced through austerity.
Germany’s ruling elite is preparing a new generation for war, reintroducing conscription as part of the largest rearmament drive since 1945. This statement explains why only a socialist, international movement of young people and workers can stop militarism and the capitalist system that drives it.
Supreme Court halts Florida ballot counting in presidential election; Ford approves austerity loan to NYC; US military evacuation in North Korea; NY Governor pardons CP leader.
Seated alongside Corbyn, Owen Jones cited Sultana’s call to “nationalise the entire economy”, asking Corbyn, “What do you think of that?” Corbyn replied, “I’m not sure what that means. I’m honestly not sure.”
Over 280 workers at Bosch Rexroth's plant in Glenrothes, Scotland, are to strike for a week from Monday against a cut in pay and working hours. The Bosch parent company is planning to sack 22,000 workers as the European car industry faces collapse.
Functioning as Israel’s subcontractor in policing the Palestinians, President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority have not lifted a finger to oppose any of Israel’s expansionist actions.
More than 40 percent of listed CDL training providers could lose their ability to certify new drivers. As a result, many current CDL holders will have their credentials revoked.
A CNN investigation has exposed evidence of mass graves filled with the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israel and then bulldozed into the sands of Gaza.
World Socialist Web Site reporters and members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality spoke to students at Wayne State University about the attacks on immigrant workers coming from ICE, Trump and the oligarchy.
The survivors of the US military's September 2 drone murder in the Caribbean attempted to wave to US military aircraft for rescue, the New York Times reported Friday.
Immigrants held at the still operational state-run “Alligator Alcatraz” report that sadistic guards use the “box,” a two-by-two-foot cage, for punishment. Individuals placed inside are shackled by their hands and feet to the ground for hours with virtually no protection from the elements, insects or wildlife.
Rauschenberg belonged to a generation of artists that emerged between the twilight of Abstract Expressionism and the dawn of Pop Art.
