A report titled How ‘stopping the boats’ kills show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".
More than 60,000 workers and their families have been driven from their homes in Spokane, Washington, as wildfires destroy hundreds of structures in the worst climate-related disaster in the region's history.
Leon Trotsky’s autobiography “My Life” is now available from Mehring Verlag. The work is published in a German translation by Alexandra Ramm, with a new foreword by David North.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed his campaign pledge to support a $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides, some of the city’s most exploited workers.
Concerns were growing that sales of dollar assets by Japan to prop up its currency could have adversely impacted the US bond market.
The Selective Service System is seeking a contractor to build a computer simulation capable of testing the mass mobilization of conscripts for a major war.
Workers at Great Canadian Entertainment casinos are demanding pay parity, while workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in Pennsylvania are demanding pay parity.
The officers involved remain on active duty; none has been suspended or stood down.
Israeli forces killed at least 26 people in Gaza over the weekend, striking apartment blocks, tent camps and the medicine warehouses of a hospital in the territory’s deadliest days in weeks.
A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.
Approximately 68,000 immigrants are languishing in a mostly for-profit concentration camp system marked by medical neglect, deaths in custody, force-feeding and contaminated drinking water.
While Porsche and the IG Metall-dominated works council have agreed to further job and pay cuts and worse conditions, union officials are being rewarded with new paid positions on a “future advisory board.”
The reorganization of Tokyo’s intelligence operations is to expand military planning with allies while attacking democratic rights at home in order to clamp down on anti-war opposition.
More than 900 fires are currently burning across Canada, with dozens of them out of control. Over 120 of these are raging in British Columbia, where residents of well over 2,000 properties had been evacuated under 32 orders as of Friday.
The trade union is enforcing the sacking of teachers for “under-performance” via the so-called Teacher Improvement Program.
WSWS writer Dinesh Heymaal was threatened with arrest by police after he opposed the nationalism and militarism of politicians and union officials following a fishermen’s protest near Jaffna.
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
Amid a right-wing backlash following events at Ceuta encompassing all Europe’s capitalist parties, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham travelled to Dover on Sunday to take his place in this xenophobic campaign.
NHS FightBack, representing rank-and-file doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, e-mailed a letter to the UAW to register outrage and demand immediate action.
Ever since the beginning of the NATO-provoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, terrorist attacks on Russian soil have formed a critical part of the NATO-Ukraine war strategy.
Last week, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC became the second largest, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak that occurred in eastern DRC as well. Health authorities have noted the current outbreak is the fastest, outpacing all other previous outbreaks. There remain no treatment or vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain to date.
There is nothing accidental about the dozens of deaths, as over 60,000 people sought to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Europe’s governments have effectively abolished refugee rights and built external borders that Trump would be proud of. Europe’s leaders prefer mass death to allowing immigrants to reach the continent.
Herma’s willingness to help others was almost boundless, but she was also a fighter for justice and equality and, above all, against war and fascism.”
The vote shows that South Australian nurses and midwives are not only up against a Labor government that wants to slash their pay and conditions, but a union bureaucracy that is complicit in the attack.
The infighting within the Republican Party and the Trump administration is a sign of the deepening political crisis within the US ruling elite.
The demise of Situational Awareness could have set off a fire sale of assets possibly sending the rout in the market for chipmaking stocks out of control.
In the latest mining industry fatality, a worker was killed and another seriously injured in a collision between two vehicles at BMA’s open-cut coal mine.
NZ First Party leader Winston Peters’ racist tirade against Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan demonises Chinese people in order to divide workers and further align New Zealand with US-led war preparations.
The family and coworkers of James Brasher received empty promises of a full investigation from the UAW and management, who are covering up details of the tragedy.
Under pressure from the UAW bureaucracy, the leadership of Student Workers of Columbia, the UAW-affiliate, dropped its demand the university administration divest from companies and institutions tied to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The VRAEM operation was carried out for maximum political impact, while international delegations were still on Peruvian soil for the inauguration.
Summing up the sentiments of the rank-and-file against a system that robs them on average of $1,100 per month and particularly penalizes low-paid, low-seniority flight attendants, the strikers’ picket signs declare: “Unpaid labour won’t fly.”
Bush restricts federal funding for embryonic stem cell research; striking ILWU worker Norman Ray Lewis murdered on a California picket line; US breaks off Korean War armistice talks; first commercial "talkie" film premieres in New York.
The RMT organised pickets at several stations, including Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and London St Pancras. The stoppage forced EMR to run a skeleton service between Sheffield and Nottingham, with only one train an hour to London St Pancras and services ending at 7p.m.
What Washington called “precision strikes” were an open extension of the war into Iraq, carried out with the participation of Saudi Arabia.
In a period marked by unprecedented global shocks, the two leaders of the Australian Council of Trade Unions have served as the linchpin of capitalist stability.
With various manoeuvres and phoney militant posturing, the pseudo-left groups are trying to keep teachers subordinated to a union leadership that is pushing a sellout.
The “no” vote rate is almost four times higher than the last enterprise agreement vote at WSU in 2022.
Sanitation worker strikes continue across India and tea workers block a highway in Bangladesh. In Australia, nurses reject a union-endorsed sellout and doctors vote to strike for the first time in decades.
El-Sayed made a point of declaring his opposition to socialism, signaling to the corporate oligarchy that he did not represent a threat to its basic interests.
Trump’s bill is projected to cut about $1.4 trillion in federal spending over 10 years. The government estimates the work requirements for Medicaid will strip 2.3 million people from the Medicaid rolls in its first year.
Sam Neill never lost his genuine concern for the plight of workers and the oppressed, contempt for racialist politics and distrust of celebrity.
Lehman advanced a program of rank-and-file power, internationalism and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy in stark contrast to the other candidates, who are seeking to place themselves at the head of the corrupt and bloated union apparatus.
The former Maine Senate president is being promoted as a working class insurgent, but his 26-year political record is defined by economic nationalism, attacks on immigrant and Canadian workers and corporate subsidies.
The courts move swiftly to protect fascist speech while criminalizing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
More than 80 public defenders, social workers, paralegals, and support staff walked out on July 24 against the Neighborhood Defender Service, an agency that handles about half of the indigent defense cases throughout Wayne County.
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
The government’s disastrous poll ratings reflect growing opposition to policies that enjoy no support whatsoever among the population.
The reactivation of Avibras, Brazil’s largest arms manufacturer, exposes the alliance between the PT government, the military and the Morenoite union bureaucracy in defense of a nationalist and militarist program.
The widening humanitarian crisis has not stopped the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales—with estimates as high as 96.5 percent of the revenue.
Since the Labour government’s proscription of Palestine Action one year ago, 3,500 people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act (2000) for holding cardboard signs reading, “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”
The £8.4 billion pledged for the next phase of Britain's Dreadnought nuclear armed submarine programme was the first significant funding announcement of Burnham’s premiership, committing him to austerity and war.
The Communication Workers Union bureaucracy has co-authored this wrecking operation because it accepts EP Group’s drive to make Royal Mail "competitive" and "sustainable" for the company’s billionaire investors.
In Labor’s doublespeak, getting the National Disability Insurance Scheme “back on track” means stripping it to the bone.
A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democratic Party to fight.
The IYSSE’s club at Victoria University of Wellington passed a resolution condemning the threat made by United Auto Workers official Raymond Jensen Jr. against Lehman, who is running for president of the UAW on a socialist platform.
The wave of protests and strikes centred in the garment industry is part of a growing international upsurge of the working class, fuelled by the economic crisis exacerbated by the US war against Iran.
The mass deaths in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean will only cease when the EU and its member governments are overthrown and brought to trial for their crimes and the murder of thousands of refugees.
A seismic change in how Medicaid benefits are distributed—requiring millions of recipients to provide documentation of 80 hours of work or face cutoff—has largely flown under the radar.
The opening of the vital Detroit-Windsor crossing exposes both the international integration of production and the efforts of the capitalist parties and union bureaucracies to divide workers through nationalism and trade war.
Trump ordered a pause to 13 nights of US air strikes on Iranian targets Friday under conditions in which US munition stockpiles, especially for its missile defence systems, are running low. However, recent days have underscored that American imperialism and its allies continue to systematically escalate the war.
Four Los Angeles water main collapses expose the systemic decay of American infrastructure under capitalism, sacrificed to war and corporate wealth.
The appointment follows the political removal of Aria Fani for criticizing US and Israeli military aggression, part of a nationwide campaign by university administrations to suppress anti-war and anti-Zionist speech.
The seven “objectives” announced by Peru's incoming president express the interests not simply of Fujimorism, but of the Peruvian financial oligarchy and US imperialism, at a moment of acute crisis of bourgeois rule.
Healthcare workers in Romania begin indefinite stoppage over pay and conditions; national 24-hour strike by rail workers in Italy for more pay and improved safety; protests across Tunisia and Libya due to collapsing infrastructure during heatwave
The report found that between 2012-25 there were six avoidable maternal deaths, 94 avoidable stillbirths and 62 neonatal deaths of babies on the threshold of life at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
More than 500 public defender workers are now on strike in New York City and Detroit, in an expanding rebellion against poverty wages, healthcare cuts and crushing caseloads.
Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties.
This outcome, after three limited strikes and 15 months of closed-door negotiations, is a warning of the retrograde enterprise agreements that the trade unions are trying to impose at public universities across the country.
The clashes in the South China Sea during last week’s ASEAN summit in Manila expose the deliberate manufacturing of conflict with China by the Philippine state, acting on behalf of a US drive to militarize Southeast Asia.
The fake left have chimed in, not to denounce the government and prison authorities for their brutality, but to join the chorus calling for prison reform and how to run the jails more efficiently.
Bond markets signal that inflation is set to rise over coming months and maybe even years.
Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the same global imperialist onslaught that includes the genocide in Gaza and the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Masked federal agents are seizing immigrants with work authorization and pending legal claims, frequently without producing warrants, before imprisoning them in an increasingly deadly network of private concentration camps.
Will Lehman, a candidate for the presidency of the United Auto Workers in the ongoing election, was sent a death threat by a top union official and close ally of current President Shawn Fain. Workers across Canada have responded angrily to Jensen’s thuggish behaviour and sent statements of solidarity to the WSWS.
More than a week after declaring an "industry-leading" agreement, the Teamsters have still not released a term sheet, wage schedule or contract language to United mechanics.
There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA is to channel this political radicalization behind the Democrats in order to block the development of an independent movement of the working class.
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
A week apart, a journalist who reported on shipments of cocaine from Ecuador aboard merchant ships owned by the oligarchic family in power and a prosecutor probing US bombing of fishing boats accused were both found murdered.
According to the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization, 52 percent of Bolivians suffer from food insecurity, and anemia afflicts 53.7 percent of young children.
Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd, releases a “reimagined” version of the 1979 iconic track “Comfortably Numb” with Palestinian artist Mona Miari.
Jonathan Reynolds reassured the FT that Burnham's talk of facilitating “public control” over critical sectors of the economy was an appeal for collaboration with private investors not an attempt to control or replace them.
The Greens have prostrated themselves before KPMG, pledging a three-year “Financial Resilience Plan” that will slash spending on key service areas including housing and adult social care “where spending is high” and which offer “the greatest opportunity” to deliver savings “through cost reductions or increased income”.
At least 13 people are dead and hundreds have been hospitalised as the quake damaged buildings, disrupted transport and cut off power to tens of thousands.
The sudden leadership change points to a developing crisis of Labor not only in Victoria but federally, which its stage-managed national conference sought to cover over with a confected display of total “unity.”
As of publication, neither Teamsters Local 384, the Teamsters national union, nor its Package Division have issued a public statement on the death.
President Trump held separate Oval Office meetings with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel on Tuesday to discuss the next stage of the wars against Russia and Iran.
The past week has seen a sharp fall in the share price of major chipmaking firms, especially those based in South Korea, but now extending to Wall Street.
Javier Milei traveled to São Paulo to headline the launch of Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign, delivering a 27-minute fascistic speech that reveals the campaign’s dependence on Washington.
Florida on Tuesday carried out its first double execution in more than 60 years. The pairing of the two executions, ordered six hours apart by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is itself a marker of the pace at which the state has been killing its prisoners.
The US president was joined by Volodymyr Zelensky, Benjamin Netanyahu and Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the funeral of the warhawk senator.
The national conventions of the American teachers unions were held without a plan to fight the escalating destruction of public education, mass school closures, or mounting layoffs. Instead, the events were handed over to the Democratic Party.
The administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as it imposed a new rule allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications to be sent into deportation proceedings without an interview.
The Green Party is seeking to neutralise mounting anger among workers and youth by pretending it will pressure a Labour-led government to address inequality and poverty.
The situation remains explosive. The CJP has been forced to threaten to resume its agitation, after the government reneged even on the modest promises it made to head off a burgeoning India-wide protest movement.
Rubio’s report blames Havana for six decades of social struggle in the US, fusing political opposition at home and resistance to US neo-colonialism abroad into a single enemy.
Postal workers at Royal Mail in Britain have added their voices to the growing international condemnation of the public death threat made against Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and candidate in the United Auto Workers presidential election, by a senior UAW official.
The union bureaucrats that have postured as opponents of the genocide played the linchpin role in suppressing any discussion of the Israeli regime’s crimes at Labor’s national conference.
The WSWS spoke to Bronx Defenders attorneys, social workers and support staff, who launched a strike Monday over wages and working conditions.
The Housing Australia Future Fund, a central part of Labor’s election platform in 2022, was supposed to make available an additional 40,000 dwellings by 2029.
