In an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, President Donald Trump made it clear that release of emergency assistance to victims of the disastrous Los Angeles wildfires will be contingent on political conditions imposed by the White House on California.
Workers voted by 99 percent last week to authorize a strike to win substantial raises, better retirement benefits and equal wages with Detroit Diesel workers.
Recalling the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920, the US government is resorting to police state methods against immigrants in preparation for broader attacks on the entire working class.
The meeting, bringing together representatives of the four largest militaries in the Indo-Pacific, was a clear signal that the Trump administration will intensify military preparations and threats directed at China.
The initial architect of the horrific “herd immunity” mass infection policy towards the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump is picking up where he left off four years ago and escalating far further.
The US President appeared Thursday at a virtual panel at the World Economic Forum, the annual global meeting of bankers and oligarchs, in which he coupled threats of trade war with promises to slash the US corporate tax rate, gut environmental protections, and slash social spending.
The nominations were largely weak and uninspiring, more than in recent years, reflective of a film industry in economic and artistic crisis
There is concern over how much longer governments can continue to finance the mountain of debt they have accumulated, which the IMF estimates to be $100 trillion globally.
The new Minister of Health Simeon Brown is an anti-abortion bigot and one of the most vocal opponents of the public health measures used to stop the spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic.
On Thursday, January 16, 49-year-old Cornelius Taylor was killed in Atlanta, Georgia, when the tent he was sleeping in was razed by a front loader ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.
Developments in Saxony belie all talk by the establishment parties of a supposed “firewall” against collaborating with the Alternative for Germany (AfD). They show how far advanced the integration of this far-right party into the state already is.
Quebec’s ruling elite is seeking to tighten its political and ideological grip on the working class with the fraudulent argument that working people should stand with big business in defending “Quebec’s interests.”
While the popular swimming and fishing spot is officially “closed,” warning signs are tiny and easily missed despite the presence of toxic chemicals.
Thousands of Teleperformance call centre workers in Greece strike over poor pay and conditions; general strike in West Bank city of Jenin against Israeli army murders as annexation is planned and Gazan Palestinians face expulsion and relocation; national strike by health workers in Morocco over pay, staff and funding shortages, with protests against government attempts to curb strikes
Workers using the gig economy apps are being held to ransom by companies charging fees for wages to be paid on time. YoungOnes charges workers 4.8 percent of their earnings to receive their wages in one minute, 2.9 percent to receive it in three days, or they can decline and receive their wages after waiting 30 days.
A survey of its members by the Royal College of Nursing union found that two-thirds had daily delivered care in what they considered an “inappropriate setting”.
Far from pressuring the government to concede, the mass resignation of staff psychiatrists offers the Labor government an easy opportunity to accelerate a process that is already well underway—the piecemeal privatisation of public health.
In protest of the anti-Chinese banning of TikTok, hundreds of thousands of users have flocked to Rednote, a TikTok-like app available in both China and the US with a substantial Chinese user base.
The efforts of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to collaborate with Trump, based on their shared "America First" economic nationalism, have accelerated in since the inauguration.
The mass pardoning of those who attacked the Capitol sets the stage for widespread violent attacks on those who oppose the policies of the Trump administration.
Members of the Committee for Public Education recently spoke with several teachers on how conditions in the schools have changed since the imposition of the last Australian Education Union sell-out in 2022.
The executive order entitled America First Trade Policy set up a new department to try to deal with the fact that tariffs are not paid for by foreign corporations, but by US firms and consumers.
Most educators in the state of Victoria report suffering from poor wages, deteriorating conditions, unsustainable workloads, lack of resources and growing staff shortages.
On the same day Trump ordered 1,500 troops to the Southern border to repel a non-existent “invasion,” 46 Democrats joined every House Republican in voting for the Laken Riley Act, a police state measure that requires the incarceration of undocumented immigrants simply accused of petty crimes.
Deadly low temperatures and snowstorms across much of the entire US reached into Southern US Gulf states on Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing areas of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida to a standstill and killing at least 10 people.
The campaign at the Galaha junction, the main entrance to university premises, attracted considerable attention from students and workers, who opposed the ban and expressed their hostility to the government’s IMF austerity agenda.
Following the fascist spectacle of Trump’s inauguration, New Zealand’s politicians are pitching to “work with” Washington as closely as possible.
The fear of the Mexican ruling class is that Trump’s fascist policies and their own complicity will provoke a mass radicalization among workers and youth.
Santa Clarita, the area affected by the Hughes Fire, is a densely populated community predominantly comprising workers and middle-class families.
Southern California, in addition to being a center of the film and television industry, is a major focal point of cultural creation and exhibition. It is also home to remarkable recreational sites, tourist attractions and parks.
The years of cover-ups and denials by the German judiciary in this and other cases represents a serious warning. Justice will not come from these forces.
The conference hosted over 60 speakers from universities in ten countries and several hundred participants, with a further 2,000 or so people participating online.
The CABR contains approximately 30 million pages of documents that provide valuable insights into the victims of the Holocaust, resistance fighters against Nazi occupation, and efforts by the Dutch working class to protect Jewish residents from deportation.
A coalition agreement reached between the winners of the Irish general election and a group of independents marks a sharp rightward shift, in preparation for global instability, the fascistic presidency of Donald Trump and new assaults on the working class.
The disaster is an indictment of the entire ruling elite, including capitalist corporations and officials, who failed to take even the most basic safety precautions against fire and similar hazards for reasons of cost.
Repeating the tactics used in its criminal war of genocide in Gaza, Israeli forces have surrounded the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital. Residents in several Jenin neighbourhoods were ordered to leave their homes, and the city, by loudspeaker.
Three days before Trump’s swearing in to office, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that EcoHealth Alliance and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, were cut off of all funding and formally debarred for an unprecedented five years.
Those who had their sentences commuted include the former leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and former Proud Boys Chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio. Both had been convicted of seditious conspiracy and still faced years in prison.
The Trump administration is publicly extending US support to the actual policy of the Netanyahu government, which is the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the entire territory of Palestine.
The response to Trump’s return to power underscores a basic fact: the entire political establishment serves the same oligarchic interests that Trump represents.
Fain has gone almost overnight from presenting himself as a so-called “militant,” “democratic unionist,” spouting slogans like “eat the rich” and denouncing Trump as a scab, to announcing his willingness to collaborate with the most right-wing government in US history.
The ONA has not warned its members of the dangers posed by the threats of the Trump administration to undertake ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” which historically have included hospitals.
The film has done well at the global box office, but it has largely been overshadowed by events.
The first wave of immigration-related executive orders issued by Donald Trump have now been published. With a few scribbles on paper and no involvement from Congress, Trump has undertaken a substantial transformation of the legal landscape in the United States, eviscerated the basic rights of a significant portion of the population and upended the lives of millions of people.
At least some of the incidents appear designed to discredit Palestinian supporters and Muslims, while promoting actual antisemitism.
Workers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee sponsored a meeting to discuss the fight against job cuts and Trump’s attack on immigrant workers.
Together, with potential strikes by Safeway and Costco workers, grocery workers could launch one of the first major labor struggles under the new Trump administration.
The latest attack on Abdel-Fattah has been spearheaded by the Murdoch media, which has conducted a campaign of bullying and harassment against anti-genocide voices, slandering them as antisemitic.
School development officers protested on Monday in front of the Colombo Fort railway station, demanding integration into the state teachers’ service.
The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court precedents that limit the authority of State and Federal governments to impose capital punishment.”
Based on phoney claims of meeting greenhouse gas targets and securing “well-paid” jobs, the Albanese government is pouring billions more dollars into corporate handouts.
The ruling elite’s responses to Trump include unifying Europe under German leadership, making the continent militarily independent, and achieving greater profitability and competitiveness at the expense of the working class.
Trump’s visit to Los Angeles, praised by Governor Newsom, is a cynical slap in the fire victims’ face from a president who has pledged to roll back more decades of environmental protection measures.
As a rapidly developing Third World War engulfs the globe in flames, the Arctic and Arctic Ocean have become a major arena of conflict in the imperialist drive to re-divide the world.
The IG Metall union and Works Council have been keeping the text of the new contract at Volkswagen secret. A review clause it contains enables the company to revisit the issues of maintaining production sites, wage levels and jobs.
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to health workers across the sector about the crisis they face on the front line.
The prohibition of an IYSSE lecture at Peradeniya University was followed by a blanket ban on all student meetings on or off campus, which sets a dangerous precedent for all universities.
Labor’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong participated in the inauguration and has not issued a critical word of the fascist spectacle.
The charity reported that the wealth of the world's billionaires grew from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in 2024, a rate that is three times faster than in 2023.
If it goes forward, the strike will be one of the first major labor struggles under the second Trump administration.
The murky disappearances of critical archives point further to the high-level involvement of the ruling apparatuses in the US, UK and Australia in the removal of the Whitlam Labor government.
That Biden felt it necessary to pre-emptively pardon his family members and political allies belies Democratic claims that “democracy” has been affirmed by the peaceful transfer of power to Trump.
The Palisades and Eaton fires, which continue to ravage large parts of Southern California, serve as stark reminders of the systemic failures in disaster management under capitalism.
The protests, which were organized by the Women’s March and various appendages of the Democratic Party, paled in size in comparison to the massive rallies held in response to the first Trump administration coming to power in January 2017.
Not a single Democrat objected to the barrage of fascist threats made by Trump in the course of his inaugural address.
The funding is a cynical maneuver on the part of the Democratic Party to assuage widespread fear among millions of immigrants and their families and friends, while deflecting attention from its own horrendous record on deportations and decades-long assaults on immigrants.
After an exceptionally lethal year at the prison, the warden was forced out, but families are still awaiting answers on the causes of their loved ones’ deaths.
The president lacks the power to issue executive orders that contravene constitutional provisions like the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, but that did not stop Trump.
This year marks the 275th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s death. In December, over four million viewers watched the German TV film as a prelude to the anniversary.
Hundreds of Argentine healthcare workers protested last week over lack of medications, while a walkout by Alberta support staff could spread to another 7,000 workers over the coming 10 days.
In the run-up to February’s federal elections, Germany’s ruling class is systematically pushing ahead with its military buildup and war preparations.
The police crackdown on Saturday’s national Gaza demonstration in London underscored the need for a political perspective which can animate a mass movement against British imperialism at home and abroad.
Workers were only told by email in December, “This is a resignation scheme, not a voluntary or compulsory redundancy scheme.” The fact is, anyone applying to the scheme faces the outcome of losing their job.
Israel’s entire narrative surrounding the events of October 7 has been shown to be a pack of lies.
The attacks on the CPM, abductions and transnational renditions by the Kenyan government are preparations for even more extensive attacks on the democratic rights of the population as a whole.
Socialist Alternative’s Omar Hassan is roaming around al-Qaeda controlled Syria, presenting its imperialist-backed takeover as an exciting new stage in a “revolution.”
“The psychiatrists need to call out mental health nurses but also general nurses, social workers and psychologists. Everybody should go out and fight for a decent system” – Mental health care nurse
In an action without any direct precedent in the United States, the American government forced the temporary shutdown of a major social media network on Saturday for 14 hours, setting a precedent for future violations of First Amendment rights.
The far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the conservative People's Party (ÖVP), currently negotiating a coalition government in the Alpine state, are planning massive attacks on the working class and on migrants.
The second term of Donald Trump marks an irreversible collapse of capitalist democracy in America. Only a socialist movement of the working class can provide an alternative.
Ten Democrats voted with Republicans on Friday to ensure that the Laken Riley Act, an anti-immigrant police state measure, arrives in time for Trump’s inauguration, even after Republicans rejected their amendments.
The use of inmate labor provides substantial benefits to the state and private corporations, while perpetuating an exploitative system.
The Regulatory Standards Bill will put in place a set of far-right principles aimed at reducing regulations, taxes and levies on big business and tearing up protections for workers and the environment.
The future for most people devastated by the fires is a difficult one.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
The AHA vetoed the resolution despite mass support from the membership for the resolution.
Teachers must reject the illusions peddled by CTU bureaucracy about the supposed “transformative” contract.
In defiance of the demands of historians, Holocaust survivors and public opinion, Canada’s Liberal government is suppressing an almost four-decade-old secret report that identified some 900 Nazi war criminals who had lived, or were then living, in Canada.
These included the brutal arrest by a 10-man police snatch squad of Chris Nineham, a leading figure in the Stop the War Coalition.
Collective opposition must be organised against the bureaucratic imposition of the “USO reform” pilots by the Communication Workers Union hierarchy and Royal Mail management at 37 delivery offices across the UK.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Across Russia, hundreds of cabbies, if not more, have parked their vehicles and refused to take calls during rush hour this week.
Similar to the victims of previous climate change-fueled disasters, victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires have largely been left to fend for themselves.
Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.
Wild weather is expected to continue through the weekend, with ongoing thunderstorms on the east coast and a tropical cyclone developing just off the coast of Western Australia.
Republican Governor Kristi Noem's ignoring of flood victims, opting instead to deploy resources and troops to the Texas border demonstrates the fraudulence of the "pro-worker" demagogy espoused by corporate shills like Noem.
The move marks yet another step in the systematic military encircling of Russia by the US-led military alliance, which continues to back the far-right Ukrainian regime in a war aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow and subjugating its territory to semi-colonial status.
On Friday, the Supreme Court delivered a sweeping broadside against the First Amendment of the Constitution just days ahead of the coming to power of President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to rule as "dictator on day one."
The US ruling class is approaching a consensus on the use of further economic devastation and potentially military force to oust Maduro and secure control over the world’s largest oil reserves.
As Donald Trump's inauguration approaches, concern is growing in Germany that the new US president will realise his “Make America Great Again” agenda at the expense of Europe.
