The Liberal government, first under Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney, has sat for more than a year on a 1,000-page report detailing the Canadian military’s role in the torture and murder of persons detained, often falsely, as Taliban fighters.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
The attempt by the Erdoğan government to criminalise the CHP shows the extent of the ruling class’s crisis, which is intensifying amid growing international and class tensions.
The emergency powers effectively establish a mini-police state where they are invoked, enabling police to establish roadblocks and to conduct searches without any reasonable grounds.
Appeals to the Victorian Labor government are futile under conditions where it is slashing expenditure and public sector jobs to reduce government debt at the behest of the financial markets and credit rating agencies.
Trump has sent letters to 14 countries saying that the massive tariff hikes announced on April 2 would be imposed on August 1, with two of the most significant diktats issued to so-called US allies Japan and South Korea.
Industrial accidents have surged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, whose alignment with global capitalist interests has further eroded work safety protections.
US President Donald Trump received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a formal dinner on Monday, during which both men reiterated their plans to forcibly remove the Palestinian population from Gaza in preparation for its annexation.
It must be said plainly: the strike is in danger as long as the AFSCME bureaucrats retain control. Victory can be achieved, but only if workers take control over the strike themselves.
•International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
At every level of government—county, state and federal—the profit interests of big business and the strategic concerns of American imperialism blocked any effort to protect the population from deadly storms and floods.
Police in Montevideo, Uruguay attacked a peaceful protest by striking fishermen, while nurses in Pennsylvania are prepared to strike Wellspan Health over work overload and low pay.
On May 31, Kroger workers in Indianapolis, nearly 4,000 members of UFCW Local 700, voted by 75 percent to reject a sellout tentative contract negotiated by the union bureaucracy and are now demanding immediate strike action.
The measures spearheaded by Democrats in California’s new budget will have disastrous consequences for the vast majority of workers and immigrants, exposing the fraud of the “sanctuary state.”
The cultural consciousness of posterity is enriched by Wilson’s 1962–1967 output. His greatest accomplishments during that period remain relevant, genuine, substantial, and intensely moving.
Joselyn Chipantiza-Sisalema, a 20-year-old student and asylum seeker, was abducted by the immigration Gestapo as she left a routine immigration hearing.
The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.
Thursday’s meeting voted by 99 percent for stoppages, but the NTEU leaders are determined to prevent any struggle by academics and staff against mass job cuts throughout the university sector.
More than 600 Bus drivers in Melbourne and regional Victoria, employed by ComfortDelGro, have held three one-day strikes in recent weeks, against further real wage cuts and attacks on working conditions.
The Labor Party and the Zionist lobby are seeking to overcome recent blows to the fraudulent campaign conflating opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza with antisemitism.
The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic problems, within the capitalist system.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to plot the next stage of the Gaza genocide and US-Israeli war throughout the Middle East.
Dozens are dead not because such events are unpredictable, but because society is organized around the profit interests of the financial oligarchy, not human need.
Hundreds die in garbage mountain collapse; MPLA captures Luanda in Angolan civil war; North Korean forces push back US military; World’s oldest ceramic figurine discovered
The passage of the bill is an attack on a social program, Medicaid, that provides tens of millions of Americans limited access to healthcare. This will have a crippling effect on the already crisis-ridden healthcare infrastructure, impacting the most vulnerable.
The early works council election at Thyssenkrupp Steel’s largest plant has only just ended, and already the IG Metall union is preparing to implement the attacks being demanded by the company’s top management.
The Esparto explosion reveals, once again, the catastrophic consequences of deregulation, cronyism and the hollowing out of safety standards across the US and internationally.
The IYSSE was the only slate to stand on a socialist programme, opposing the genocide in Gaza, the escalation of war and the militarisation of universities.
War, rising inequality and resurgent fascism seem to have prompted the band to break its 15-year silence, but its musical and political approaches have not changed.
In a lawsuit filed last week, Garcia, the Maryland father illegally deported in March by the Trump administration, alleges he was subjected to starvation, severe beatings and sleep deprivation inside El Salvador’s US-backed CECOT prison.
The “complex negotiations” weren’t to secure the “right agreement” for workers, but to package a new benchmark in corporate restructuring, cooked up with Křetínský and the Starmer government.
Sakeik’s powerful testimony exposing the criminal character of her 140-day internment and the brutal, degrading conditions inside US detention centers has sparked outrage among workers in the US and internationally.
The decision is a significant blow against the efforts of the pro-Zionist Labor government and the Liberal-National opposition to silence creative workers opposing the Gaza genocide.
While workers suffer in deadly temperatures made more frequent and severe by climate change, European governments are sabotaging the required reduction in carbon emissions to guard the interests of big business and doing nothing to protect working people and the most vulnerable from the impact of extreme heat.
A historic flood devastated Central Texas early Friday and caused the Guadalupe River to rise by 26 feet in just 45 minutes. It killed as many as 13 people and swept through an all-girls summer camp with as many as 20 girls still missing.
Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian, who has lived in the US since she was eight years old, spoke to the press and World Socialist Web Site following her release from ICE custody.
The so-called “deal,” which has the character of the unequal treaties imposed on colonies in the heyday of imperialist rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has implications that go far beyond Vietnam.
The Liberal National Party state budget was falsely depicted by the government and the media as a “no austerity” budget, reflecting anxiety about the danger of social unrest.
The White House event Friday reflected the avid support for Trump’s bill in the ruling class, which sees it as a down payment for the shredding of all that remains of the social safety net, including Medicare and Social Security.
The government and party leaders have made clear they are determined to squeeze trillions of euros out of the working population in order to finance rearmament and preparations for war.
Following Mamdani’s primary win, Jacobin has rushed to reinforce the political domination of the Democratic Party and lower expectations among his supporters.
The strike has revealed the massive chasm that exists throughout the city of Philadelphia between the working population and the Democratic Party-run political establishment.
The firing of Katherine Grzejszczak is part of a global assault by the ruling elites in all of the major imperialist powers against the mass opposition and disgust voiced by millions of people to Israel’s imperialist-backed slaughter in Gaza.
India: National Health Mission workers in Uttarakhand strike; Bangladeshi garment workers protest killing of a co-worker; Australia: Qantas engineers begin industrial action for pay rise; Grill’d fast-food restaurant workers strike over low pay and exploitation.
Sarah, 21, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student, was charged under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act (2000) on March 4, 2025 for allegedly “inviting support for a proscribed organisation” (Hamas) for remarks she made in the first days of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza in October 2023.
The same political concern animates the reluctance of the Corbyn camp and the Sultana camp’s efforts to bounce him into action: a desire not to let mass social opposition in the working class and youth burst the banks of Labourite politics.
The budget, which will force a 45 percent reduction in services, places the working class throughout the region on a collision course with the two-party system’s budget cutting agenda.
LA’s City Council—including four members of the DSA—voted unanimously to declare a “fiscal emergency” vote by the LA City Council, setting the stage for major cuts in America’s second-largest city.
Numerous reports suggest strikers are either ignoring or skirting around the injunction limiting pickets to 8 people, while a standoff occurred Wednesday between police and strikers attempting to enforce the picket line at a trash drop-off site.
Ward Sakeik, a 22-year-old stateless Palestinian, was released from ICE custody late Tuesday just two days after the Trump administration failed to illegally deport her to a third country for a second time.
The bill cuts taxes for the wealthy by $3 trillion, slashes more than $1 trillion from social spending on Medicaid and food stamps and pours $300 billion more into military violence abroad and domestic repression, particularly against immigrants.
Three simultaneous withdrawals—from the World Health Organization, USAID and the Gavi vaccine alliance—represent a coordinated abandonment of America’s role in global health leadership with devastating consequences for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
At least 600 Palestinians have been killed over the past five weeks at food distributions operated by the US and Israeli-backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF), Gaza’s government media office said this week.
A Dana Ft. Wayne, Indiana worker describes conditions at his workplace after hearing about the investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Luxon made explicit at the NATO summit that he fully supports the war in the Ukraine against Russia while doubling NZ’s military spending, aimed ultimately at China.
While the US government is scaling back its military aid to Ukraine, and even halting previously promised arms shipments, the German government is intensifying its military cooperation with Kiev.
Canada's ruling class is rushing to implement massive military spending hikes and Trump-like socio-economic policies, using his bullying as the cover to push through changes for which it has long agitated.
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
Amid an unfolding global conflict, workers in Sri Lanka—Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim—stand in the same trench as their class brothers in Iran, Gaza, throughout the Middle East, including Israel, and internationally.
By cutting international student enrolments, the Labor government is deliberately applying financial pressure to the universities, in order to restructure them to align with “national priorities” set out in last year’s Universities Accord report.
In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, authorities said the scene remained too dangerous for firefighters and emergency workers to extinguish ongoing fires and search for the missing workers.
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
Over 5,000 job cuts across UK universities have been announced this year, with thousands more in the pipeline. But staff unions led by the UCU are blocking a united fightback.
General strike in Ramallah governorate of West Bank sparked by settler killings of Palestinians; teachers and council workers in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria continue stoppage over minimum wage and pay arrears
Following the publication of a devastating report detailing the involvement of major international concerns in the genocide in Gaza, a meeting to be addressed by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Bern, Switzerland was cancelled at the last moment.
The Parker government’s attack is part of an effort to isolate and weaken the workers under conditions where there is mass support within the public for the strike.
Class battles are emerging which will inevitably raise revolutionary questions. Even a defense of workers’ existing low standard of living is impossible without a frontal assault by the working class against the prerogatives of wealth. It requires expropriations and a massive redistribution of wealth back downward to the working class who created it.
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
The day after President Trump called for Mamdani’s arrest and deportation, DHS Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared the agency had “authorities it has never utilized before.”
As the Trump administration’s illegal funding freeze triggers a nationwide cuts to public schools, the Democrats and union leaders reiterate dead-end appeals to Congress.
Trump announced the pause on the imposition of “reciprocal tariffs” on April 9 because of the major reaction in the bond market, which indicated a financial crisis could be in the making.
First of all, the well-heeled union officials have explicitly marshaled themselves for measures that will operate at the direct expense of their members in other states (and in Canada in some cases).
Teachers showed their determination to fight, but Queensland Teachers Union speakers sought to divert them into appeals for a deal with the Liberal-National state government.
California’s AB 715, approved unanimously in the Assembly by Democrats and Republicans, is a draconian assault on free speech and political dissent disguised as anti-discrimination law, targeting opposition to U.S. and Israeli war crimes under the banner of “tolerance.”
Anyone who followed the Social Democratic Party (SPD) congress in Berlin last weekend must again answer the question—“Are there any limits to the decline and political bankruptcy of the Social Democrats?”—with a resounding “No.”
Today’s vote pits a Labour government, led by former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer, against millions opposing the Gaza genocide and a groundswell of popular opposition to parliament’s historic assault on the right to protest, freedom of speech and free assembly.
The figures of yesterday’s parliamentary vote on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill speak to two things: the weakness of Keir Starmer’s Labour government and the unprincipled and spineless character of what passes for the “left” opposition within the Labour Party.
The new contract is a slap in the face to the ancillary workers, cooked up behind closed doors between management, the union and Berlin’s state government.
The fascist president threatened that the facility would also be used as jail before deporting US citizens. “Many of them were born in our country,” he said. “I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.”
The strike shows that the conditions are emerging for a mass movement across the country against austerity, not only from Trump but the Democrats who run most major US cities.
The dismantling of Medicaid, in the face of growing popular opposition to Trump’s program of dictatorship, war, mass deportations and social cuts, marks a new stage in the social counterrevolution.