Their role is to ensure that the class struggle never breaks out of the constraints of protest politics that supposedly puts “pressure” on the Labour Party and the trade union bureaucracy.
Anger toward the Communication Workers Union’s naked collusion with the company is growing. But this opposition must be organised and prepared in advance with a worked-out strategy.
Only a building an independent movement in the workplaces and among youth to mobilize workers in struggle can halt the drive of the capitalist oligarchy towards dictatorship and war.
Establishment figures like Malcolm Turnbull, who are calling for a more “independent” Australian foreign policy, represent the interests of imperialism and the ruling elite, not those of working people.
•Morgan Peach, SEP candidate for the seat of Calwell
The Vietnamese government is clearly desperate for negotiations with the Trump administration, but all indications are that the White House will proceed with its economic shock treatment without exception.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington for a meeting with US President Donald Trump to give an update on the US-Israeli campaign to displace or exterminate the Palestinian people and annex their land.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
The executive order, bearing the misnomer “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful,” furthers Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship by means of cracking down on demonstrations, heightening police presence and targeting agencies in the District.
Thousands of workers in cities across Chile held strikes and protests against the Boric administration on April 3 while Quebec daycare workers are expanding their fight for a new contract.
Instead of the international unity of the working class, expressed in the age-old slogan, “Workers of the World, Unite!” UAW President Shawn Fain embraces Trump’s “America First” policies and pits workers of different countries against each other.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality in New York and New Jersey
The next German government will be one of rearmament, war and class war. Business groups and economists are insisting that there must be massive cutbacks in social budgets to pay for military spending.
Heavy rainstorms, tornadoes and flooding struck multiple states in the US South and Midwest over the weekend, destroying structures and causing at least 23 fatalities.
In a sign of the enormous popular opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the moves toward dictatorship, The Encampments has been met with significant support and enthusiasm.
The bailout is a sweeping gift to Spain’s largest corporations, as the working class faces an unrelenting cost-of-living crisis, stagnant wages, and spiraling rents.
In a craven attempt to shield the company from accountability, TOSHA concluded that the drowning deaths of six trapped employees were “not work related.”