People under 18 will be banished from the streets of the Central Australian town after dark, in a harsh authoritarian move that has been met with bipartisan support at territory and federal level.
Given the undeniable fact that Israel has systematically blocked aid deliveries into Gaza, and massacred Palestinians trying to access food from the few shipments that have made it through, the Court’s statement implicitly accuses Israel of committing genocidal actions.
Officials with the NTSB and the Unified Command confirmed some of the 56 containers, or 764 tons, of hazardous material the M/V Dali was carrying when it crashed into the bridge had been punctured and is leaking.
The University of Michigan unveiled a proposal for a new administration policy that could be used to effectively prohibit public protests on campus. It is part of an escalating nationwide and global crackdown on opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Workers and young people should not be taken in by the utterly hypocritical posturing of Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who leads a party of big business and imperialist war, which is responsible for the worsening social crisis.
In the latest in a string of statements and actions directed against China, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning to it not to flood the world with cheap clean energy products that would distort global markets.
The new legislation also creates a nine-member “Fast Food Council” with the authority to annually increase wages by the lower of the Consumer Price Index or 3.5 percent, guaranteeing that workers continue to receive cuts in real pay each year.
The protest was a significant expression of the intense and ongoing opposition, in particular among young people, to the US-backed Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, which is now approaching its seventh month.
The deplorable conditions for both nurses and patients that provoked the longest healthcare strike in Massachusetts history have only worsened, exposing the rotten character of the contract pushed through by the MNA to end the strike.
This exchange is a highly revealing expression of the bureaucracy's contempt for the workers they claim to represent. They defend not the rights of workers but the so-called “right” of management to do whatever it wants.
In an interview with CBS News on Wednesday evening, Vicky Stokes, mother of deceased former Boeing employee and whistleblower John Barnett, said she holds the airline manufacturer responsible for her son’s death.
Last Sunday, some 350 artists and cultural workers took part in an action outside the main entrance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Gerrard’s assertion is part of the campaign by the political establishment in Australia to normalise COVID-19 with the claim that Long COVID is no different to the long-term symptoms of seasonal influenza.
Strikes across all sectors in Finland against austerity and right to strike extended to four weeks, but unions reduce the number of workers called out; general strike on West Bank after Israeli army kills 10 Palestinians among hundreds murdered since October 7; Kenyan doctors’ national stoppage continues into third week over low pay and poor conditions
Public meetings held this month by the Socialist Equality Party and International Youth and Students for Social Equality provoked important discussion among workers and young people on the campaign needed to free WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan (UM) condemns the latest moves by the administration to intimidate and silence opposition to the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan
Sudan faces famine, displacement, economic breakdown and an almost total absence of international aid. The government, virtually bankrupt, barely functions.
The collision between the container ship and the bridge has also exposed the collision between private profit and the needs of a modern society, which has at its disposal the technical and economic resources to prevent such disasters.
Irrespective of which election is held first, and whoever wins, all of Sri Lanka’s capitalist parties and their respective leaders are committed to ruthlessly implementing the IMF demands.
As the far-right National Party-led government imposes thousands of job cuts, its sweeping austerity program underpins a massive transfer of wealth to the rich.
“The protests signify that the people are not in line with the politicians in the parliament and the government. They have a very different position than the public, they are not listening to them; they still align with the Zionists agenda.”
The fight against world war raises the most serious and fundamental political issues. This is already demonstrated by the more than five months of bombings, executions, and deliberate starving of the people of Gaza.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan
Vanderbilt University students who organized a sit-in at the office of the chancellor to protest the administration’s suppression of pro-Palestinian voices on campus were forcibly removed on Wednesday and given interim suspensions.
In its current contract round the German Train Drivers’ Union (GdL) has caved in to the dictates of Deutsche Bahn (DB, German Rail) and is now trying to cover its tracks with its usual bluster and evasions.
The presentation of David North’s book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair, as well as the Mehring Verlag stand, received great interest under conditions of heightened political concerns.
“The Palestinians have been caught up in a struggle against colonialism, imperialism, so that we are talking about class, the class interests of the capitalist class—oil and finance—and opposition from the working class.”
The heroic 50-day strike has lost the company almost 1,200 tonnes per day of production and over €3.5 million ($3.80 million) over the last four weeks.
Five national newspapers led their front pages Tuesday with the anti-China message and three of them—the Telegraph, the Times and Mail—demanded the government go much further against China.
Shanahan, 38, is a longtime donor to Democratic Party campaigns and was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the 10th wealthiest person in the world.
“They’re trying to make it harder for minority parties to exist—it’s crazy. I’m for our voices being heard, normal people, not the billionaires sponsoring all the other parties.”
The numerous incidents on Boeing aircraft in the past three months reflect the drive of the company’s executives to maximize profits for stockholders to the detriment of safety on its fleet of commercial airliners.
The ruling class is desperately seeking to undermine democratic consciousness and popular opposition to the military in order to prepare a return to dictatorial forms of rule.
The moral outrage over the La Presse cartoon has nothing to do with opposition to antisemitism. Rather, it serves to legitimize Israel's genocidal policies, intimidate public opinion and sow confusion among workers and young people.
Several hundred people turned out Sunday in Toronto for yet another weekend of protests calling for the Canadian government to stop supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Television news reporter Ibrahim Samra has filed a lawsuit against CBS News and its Detroit affiliate WKBD for excluding his reporting and then firing him for objecting to its pro-Israel coverage of the Gaza genocide.
The essential task posed before Assange’s supporters is to link his defence to the mass movement emerging in opposition to these crimes. The same eruption of militarism and aggression fuelling the persecution of Assange is producing a mass radicalisation among workers and young people.
The British Medical Association junior doctors’ leadership presents the Labour controlled Welsh Assembly as a supposed ally in a fight against the Sunak Conservative government in Westminster.
The IYSSE at U-M condemns the latest moves by the administration, including the threat of expulsion, to intimidate and silence opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan
The WSWS spoke with Liz French from Betteshanger, a former pit village in the Kent coalfield in south-east England. Liz was a founding member of the National Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 Miner’s Strike. Among the 200 miners imprisoned during the 1984-85 strike, Liz’s late husband Terry received one of the longest prison sentences of five years.
In total, the CDC estimates that there have been roughly 1,185,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, but reliable estimates of excess deaths attributable to the pandemic place the real figure at over 1.4 million.
On Saturday, David North presented the German edition of his book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century at the Leipzig Book Fair.
As with all imperialist war propaganda over the war in Ukraine, the narrative spouted by the New York Times and the Financial Times relies on a complete obfuscation and distortion of facts and context.
Biden administration officials made it clear that they allowed the resolution to pass because it is “non-binding” and will have “no impact at all” as the US continues to arm and support Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Irrespective of the outcome of these tripartite meetings the pay rates will not provide a living wage or address the endemic poverty afflicting these highly exploited workers.
The plans for greater operational control by the commander of US Forces in Japan underscore the fact that the Pentagon is preparing for war with China in the next immediate period, not many years down the track.
The closure of the Tyson plant in Perry, Iowa, is an attack on workers that is backed by the unions, and can be opposed through the independent mobilization of rank-and-file committees across Tyson plants and workplaces in the United States and globally.
The right-wing nationalist NZ First Party is seeking to whip up racial animosity towards Māori and immigrants in order to block a unified working class movement against austerity and war.
Protests continue against savage austerity measures as the Milei administration in Argentina marks its first 100 days in office, while 1,600 teaching assistants at McGill University in Montreal have begun strike action.
Steve Hackett, the internationally acclaimed progressive rock guitarist and former member of the band Genesis, performed Foxtrot at 50 with his band at the Kalamazoo State Theater on Saturday night to an enthusiastic audience.
An outbreak of dengue fever has hit Latin America and is expected to make 2024 the year with the highest number of cases and deaths in the region’s history.
Ford has been in the process of closing or reorganising entire plants in Europe, the US, Brazil, Russia and India for four years in order to increase profits at the expense of the workforce. However, works council representatives and the IG Metall have done everything in their power for years to ensure that resistance to this has come to nothing.
These deals with Egypt’s brutal dictator indicate the real nature of the talks between the US, Egypt and the Gulf states held under the cover of negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing the text of the speech delivered by Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Chris Marsden and Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps at public meetings held in Manchester, London, Inverness and Sheffield.
The March 31 local elections in Turkey are being held against the backdrop of the threat of nuclear conflict, exacerbated by NATO’s escalating imperialist war against Russia in Ukraine, Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and preparations for war against Iran, and an emerging international movement of the working class.
Anger erupted at a local school board meeting last week when teachers, school bus drivers and other educational staff challenged the board’s plans to slash jobs and impose deep budget cuts.
The principal mouthpieces of US imperialism, the New York Times and the Washington Post, have initiated a campaign to deny the all but obvious involvement of the US and Ukraine in this attack.
According to reports, Israel’s Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the transfer, but the government plan is another expression of the Zionist regime’s brutal oppression of the Palestinians.
The Biden administration’s meaningless expressions of concern are simply window-dressing for behind-the-scenes talks that will focus on how, not if, the Israeli war in Gaza is going to reach a bloody climax in Rafah.
In a staggering rebuff, the Tasmanian Liberal government lost a quarter of its primary votes, yet Labor remained on a near record low of about 29 percent, leaving both far short of forming a majority government.
The Labor governments in NSW and Victoria are going on a rampage in a bid to stamp out mass opposition to the Gaza genocide and the federal government’s complicity in the Israeli onslaught.
In response to the hemorrhaging of support for Joe Biden due to his blatant role in facilitating Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, the Democrats are seeking to suppress all political parties outside the framework of the corporate-controlled two-party system.
Julia, a single mother of two and recently laid-off worker, spoke to the WSWS about her time working at UPS, the layoffs, the Teamsters union, as well as the immense hardship and injustice facing her and other sections of the working class.
The state government in Berlin intends to strengthen the Higher Education Act in order to reintroduce “the possibility of exmatriculation of students,” i.e., expelling them from the university.
If approved by the NLRB, this would be the first unionization vote at a nonunion auto factory since the UAW launched its widely publicized organizing campaign last fall.
The recent Berlinale presented a series of German films from the postwar period as part of its annual Retrospective with the title: “An Alternate Cinema—From the Archives of the German Cinematheque.”
Spanish officials took their distances with Macron’s call to send European ground troops to Ukraine, but only to state that NATO powers should use less provocative language to promote the war policy.
The IG Metall union, which has already given its blessing to the mass sackings, organised the protest in order to blunt the growing opposition on the factory floor.
The decision followed a provocative, unannounced meeting by US officials to the Nigerien capital, Niamey, to demand that they cut off ties with Russia and Iran.
Studies suggesting that even a brief period of rough sleeping can have an enormous impact on health and life expectancy are of particular concern amid a rise in homelessness, including among people with paid jobs.
Regardless of the immediate culprit of Friday's terrorist attack, it is clear that it took place in a context of an expanding and escalating war against Russia by the imperialist powers.
Labor, working with Zionists and police agencies, is trying to prohibit discussion of the Gaza genocide in a working-class area of Sydney with a major Middle Eastern and Islamic population.
The Democratic Party is spending millions of dollars on lawyers, operatives and propaganda to ensure that workers and youth will have no choice in the 2024 US presidential election except Biden and Trump.
Backed by the Biden administration, the defence and foreign affairs ministers of the UK and Australia signed far-reaching new military and intelligence agreements in Adelaide on Friday.