Healthcare workers are being driven into direct confrontation, not only with corporate healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente, but with the entire political and economic framework that subordinates human life to profit, repression and state violence.
A Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker was critically injured when a vehicle fell on him due to known safety hazards, which both management and the UAW apparatus ignored.
Merz’s response to the new world situation he described could just as well have come from one of Hitler’s programmatic speeches in the early 1930s.
ICE arrests in Michigan were up 230 percent in 2025 compared to 2024, and included immigrants with legal status and those with spouses or children who are US citizens.
While Thyssenkrupp shareholders plan to approve a €93 million dividend, the corporation is preparing to slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division. Workers must reject the complicity of the IG Metall union and build independent rank-and-file committees to defend their livelihoods against these attacks.
After years of denial by Israel, successive US and European governments and the international media, Israel has accepted the Gaza Health Ministry’s official death toll.
The arrests of these protesters and journalists mark a massive escalation in the Trump administration’s criminalization of dissent and assault on core democratic rights.
Paine’s revolutionary assault on monarchy and aristocracy cleared the way for American independence a quarter millenium ago—and speaks urgently to the present.
The most overt expression of Mamdani’s prostration before and political integration into the capitalist establishment is his ongoing relationship with Donald Trump.
Independent rap artist Sole spoke to the WSWS about the issues confronting hip-hop artists in the present situation, as well as his opposition to the Trump administration’s assault on the population.
Reporters from the WSWS will be intervening on the ground in Minneapolis and around the country as tens of thousands call for a general strike to abolish the immigration gestapo and bring down the Trump government.
None of the major parties expects to secure a majority with polling showing a sharp collapse in support for Pheu Thai and the People’s Party since 2023.
“It appears that the government no longer wants to supply and manage public housing.” — Simon Robinson, OFFICE architect.
Health Workers Union bureaucrats denounced the SEP as “scabs” who were “spreading division in the union.”
This inferno is tearing through a region that only days earlier had been hit by destructive flash flooding, underscoring the “whiplash” character of climate-driven extremes now confronting Victoria.
The Trump administration has imposed a de facto blockade on oil shipments to Cuba as part of a drive for regime change.
The selective “highlights” released by the union bureaucracy make clear that the agreements constitute an historic betrayal, paving the way for mass job destruction, intensified exploitation and the transformation of Canada Post into a precarious, Amazon-style logistics operation.
India: 800,000 government bank workers strike nationwide; West Bengal: Kilcott Tea estate workers protest overdue wages; Sri Lanka: School Development Officers renew calls for inclusion in National Teacher Service; Qantas salaried and technical workers strike again for new agreement
Autoworkers should demand that the UAW sanction participation in a general strike. Putting money—drawn from workers’ dues money—where its mouth is, the union’s $800 million strike fund must be put to use for the struggle against dictatorship, not for lining pockets.
A national command structure and a high-tech surveillance infrastructure is being constructed to confront the inevitable eruption of social opposition.
On the one hand, the strike has won immense public support, but on the other, NYSNA is preparing a sellout on management's terms. The strike can be won, but only if healthcare workers take matters into their own hands.
Attendees not only spoke out against the oppression of Indigenous people, but also condemned the Trump administration's rampage in Minnesota and the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
The platforms were dominated by a privileged layer of the Aboriginal elite who framed oppression in racial terms and promoted the dead-end of Treaty, court cases, petitions and support for the very Labor governments attacking democratic rights.
This article examines the state of public health in the United States in January 2026, detailing mass COVID-19 infection, excess deaths, collapsing vaccination coverage, immune damage and the dismantling of institutions responsible for disease prevention.
Agents carted off hundreds of boxes containing ballots, tabulation tapes and other election records, based on a judicial warrant characterizing these documents as potential evidence of a crime.
As the public health system reels from decades of underfunding by all the establishment parties, the government is exploiting the crisis to systematically expand the private sector.
The deal provides a 2-week extension of funding for the Department of Homeland Security while locking in full funding for the Pentagon and the national security state as the Trump administration prepares for war with Iran.
Workers reported smelling smoke hours before GM management took action to evacuate the plant, located outside Lansing, Michigan.
Just weeks after attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president, US President Donald Trump is threatening to launch a major new war against Iran.
The movement against dictatorship must be armed with a political perspective, a strategy for victory and new forms of organization rooted in the power of the working class.
Striking healthcare workers are responding to Alex Pretti’s murder by supporting calls for a national general strike.
The National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing on Tuesday to present the “probable cause” findings from its investigation into the midair crash between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River that killed 67 people on January 29, 2025.
Before the lethal dose of pentobarbital was given, Thompson asked for forgiveness, while also stating: “There are no winners in this situation, it creates more victims and traumatizes more people 28 years later.”
The upsurge of resistance, unlike anything that has been seen in decades, is beginning to find many important expressions, including among classical and popular musicians, actors, writers and even professional athletes.
For young people to have a future, they must take up a political fight against the capitalist system and fight for the establishment of socialism, which is the only way the drive towards dictatorship and war can be stopped.
The tone in the bourgeois press is mournful, with the Financial Times best summing up the problem for the British ruling class: a prime minister failing to put through their agenda but who they are nervous about replacing.
Belgian rail workers in five-day strike against austerity; Iraqi university workers walk out over allowances; poverty in South Africa highlighted by Kaniega municipal workers’ strike
The Kaiser strike is part of a broader wave of healthcare workers' struggles across the country, totaling more than 46,000 workers from coast to coast.
Throughout the press conference, Fed chair Powell stonewalled on the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into him and its efforts to have Fed governor Lisa Cook removed.
Dissanayake is trying to cover up the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s reactionary communal record as an enthusiastic supporter of anti-Tamil racialist war.
A new and far-reaching wave of mass layoffs is sweeping the United States, marking a decisive escalation in the ruling class’s assault on the working class.
The violent assault follows deliberate incitement by President Trump and the launching of an anticommunist witch-hunt by FBI Director Kash Patel.
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
As hundreds demanded an end to children being kept in cages, ICE locked down the Dilley facility while Texas police and immigration Gestapo used tear gas and truncheons to assault peaceful protesters outside the prison camp.
These workers account for approximately two-thirds of total US refining capacity, placing them at the center of the country’s energy infrastructure and the global oil supply chain.
In the face of ruthless corporate restructuring, the Australian Workers Union quickly stated its willingness to collaborate with management to close the historic South Brisbane plant.
The second season of The Pitt is being aired in the midst of historical events that have thrust healthcare workers into the spotlight in an unprecedented manner.
Workers and students in Germany send messages of support to the general strike in Minnesota and the nurses' strike in New York, linking the fight against the Trump dictatorship with the struggle against war and social cuts in Europe.
Glorifying New Zealand’s role in the 20-year Afghanistan occupation, Labour Party figures are seeking to steer widespread opposition to the government and Trump in a right-wing, “patriotic” and militarist direction.
Opposition to immigration enforcement is increasingly emerging from below, particularly among young people and workers.
Birmingham bin strikers have won the respect of workers across the country. But they cannot win on their own and so cannot let Unite’s leadership continue to suffocate their action.
On Wednesday, Trump underscored the imminence of a possible military strike on Iran, saying the fleet headed by the USS Abraham Lincoln is larger than that Washington deployed off Venezuela before kidnapping its president, and stands “prepared to rapidly fulfill its missions with speed and violence if necessary.”
Emerging evidence strongly indicates that the murder of Pretti was a targeted assassination carried out by the Trump administration’s paramilitary forces in order to terrorize Minneapolis citizens opposing and recording its criminal activities.
His death and the circumstances leading up to it expose both conditions of extreme workplace stress and, along with now many other tragic deaths, the systemic failure of emergency response in USPS facilities.
The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has lowered its wage demands and reached an agreement to identify “potential savings” in the healthcare plan.
Oil workers in Peru staged a nationwide protest action against a government decree aimed at privatizing the state-owned oil company while 700 faculty at Laurentian University is in its second week, impacting some 9,000 students.
At the Bosch plant in Schwäbisch Gmünd, IG Metall is attempting to exclude an opposition list from the upcoming works council elections. This attack on democratic rights must be answered by building independent rank-and-file committees to unite workers against job cuts and the union bureaucracy.
As Minneapolis workers mobilize and strike against ICE's extrajudicial political executions of US citizens, France Unbowed is defending Macron's left flank and his sycophantic texts to Trump.
There is still no official explanation for the tragedy, but mine owner Polymetals has been allowed to proceed with business as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Gold has risen by around 20 percent so far this year and all forecasts are that it has still further to go as investors as well as central banks shift out of the dollar and US assets.
A committee at the AGO rejected buying a work by Goldin because several members found her denunciation of the Gaza genocide “offensive” and “antisemitic.”
While the ruling LDP is now in coalition with the far-right Nippon Ishin no Kai, the opposition CDP has cast aside its progressive pretenses to merge with Komeito, the LDP’s former coalition partner of 26 years.
The Parti Québécois has seized upon the trade deal as a further argument for Quebec independence, and above all to signal their allegiance to American imperialism, now led by the would-be dictator Donald Trump.
Behind promises of accountability, Democrats reorganize homelessness bureaucracy while austerity, privatization and repression deepen the crisis facing the working class.
The Trump administration has launched a massive immigration enforcement surge in Maine, cynically dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day,” unleashing a campaign of terror designed to intimidate immigrant and working class communities across the state.
According to figures compiled by the Federation of Technical Company Trade Unions, 630 workers lost their lives at work between 2022 and 2025.
The action in the Midlands is significant for revealing the well of opposition among educators, and their determination to fight. By rights, it should be expanded across the country in a fightback against austerity, privatisation and the decimation of education.
Immediately levelling up new entrants and opposing unsafe workloads means asserting what is right and necessary against the profit interest of the private-equity billionaires at EP Group
Nurses and healthcare workers condemn immigration police, denounce the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and call for a general strike.
A huge winter storm blanketed more than half of the lower 48 US states, beginning on Friday and bringing subfreezing temperatures, snow, ice, freezing rain and devastation to hundreds of millions of people from New Mexico to New England.
The defence of artistic freedom is inseparably connected to the fight to mobilise the entire working class against social austerity, dictatorship, imperialist war and barbarism.
The removal of Zhang, who ranked second behind President Xi Jinping in the powerful Central Military Commission, points to sharp tensions within China’s military and the top echelons of the Chinese Communist Party regime.
The tactical retreat on the part of the Trump administration is not an abandonment of its authoritarian course—it is a recalibration and regroupment.
“It was murder. It definitely was a murder. He was just trying to protect those ladies from being pepper sprayed. He was just protecting them.”
The Trump administration released its 2026 National Defense Strategy on Thursday, a 34-page document that openly proclaims American military domination of North and South America as a platform for global war.
The same CEB union officials now threatening strike action shut down all industrial action four months ago, following false promises from Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody.
The new German-Italian axis is also a warning from a historical standpoint. On the eve of and during the Second World War, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy formed a close alliance.
Public sector workers in Germany are striking amid huge workloads and declining real wages, but the unions are isolating their struggle. A successful fight requires breaking with the unions and building independent rank-and-file committees to unite with workers internationally.
Bernie Monk, whose son was killed in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, warned families of the six people killed in the Mount Maunganui landslide not to trust official promises of an impartial and transparent inquiry.
Engler was targeted for prosecution due to his vocal opposition to Israel’s genocide of the Gaza Palestinians and exposure of the complicity of Canada’s Liberal government and political establishment.
The Metropolitan Police violently arrested at least 86 protesters outside Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. They had gathered peacefully in solidarity with Umer Khalid, a pro-Palestinian activist on a hunger and thirst strike.
More than 100,000 of Israel’s Palestinian citizens took to the streets of Sakhnin and Umm Al-Fahm, in the north of Israel, and other predominantly Arab towns and villages across the country.
The walkout, involving a wide range of frontline medical staff, marks a major confrontation between healthcare workers and one of the largest corporate healthcare systems in the United States.
Attendees expressed solidarity with the striking nurses and echoed calls for a general strike against dictatorship.
Pretti, a VA nurse, was murdered in Minneapolis by agents of Customs and Border Protection.
Representatives of the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the White House have doubled down on their slanders of the latest victim of ICE-CBP violence, VA nurse Alex Pretti.
The murder of Alex Pretti is a vast escalation in the paramilitary terror in Minneapolis which is the spearhead of an ongoing conspiracy to establish a presidential dictatorship in the United States.
In response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to use military force to seize control of Greenland, Denmark’s Social Democrat-led government equipped soldiers deployed to the island earlier this month with live ammunition and an order to engage in combat if attacked.
The impending strike vote by LA teachers expresses growing anger and determination among educators to fight even as the union leadership promotes healthcare cost shifting and disunity.
Immigration attorney Eric Lee spoke with MS NOW Friday about a protest by detained immigrant families at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
The Élysée Oudinot Accord presents another neo-colonial constitutional order designed to secure French strategic interests in the Pacific.
The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization marks a decisive turn toward nationalism and the dismantling of public health.
Amazon announced a second round of job cuts Friday as part of its goal of laying off 30,000 employees.
The OECD report on Australia means enforcing deep cuts to social spending and corporate taxes amid widespread discontent over plummeting living standards, global militarism and war preparations.
The novel takes place in Beirut between 1960 and 2023, its story divided non-chronologically into seven sections.
The WSWS calls for the immediate reinstatement of Lora Santhakumar and the defence of her right, and the right of all academics, university workers and students, to oppose war without fear of reprisal
The cost-cutting onslaught is a central component of the federal Liberal government’s drive to raise tens of billions of dollars for Canada’s war machine and the enrichment of the financial oligarchy.
Earthquake kills 20,000 in western India; Indira Gandhi extends emergency rule; first nuclear explosion at Nevada Test Site; French colonial crackdown in Tunisia.
Live video reports and social media posts by immigration attorney Eric Lee on Saturday revealed that dozens of families held by DHS at the South Texas Residential Center denounced their indefinite detention and chanted “Let us go” and “Liberty for the kids.”
As a first step, all deals currently being voted on should be rejected, and collective action throughout England resumed. No workplace should fight alone; no one should be left behind.
