Pursuing NATO’s war against Russia was pivotal in further cooperation, alongside confronting China, in alliance with the US and Australia in the AUKUS alliance.
NATO’s July 11-12 summit in Vilnius, Lithuania will mark a major escalation of the US-led alliance’s rapidly expanding war with Russia.
The unprecedented indictment of an ex-president on felony charges is an expression of the increasingly bitter conflict within the US ruling elite.
The wildfires are of unprecedented intensity and scope, creating extremely hazardous air quality.
Rising global geopolitical tensions have added a new dimension to the struggle between New Delhi and Beijing for strategic influence in landlocked Nepal, which is sandwiched between China and India.
The DSA and other pseudo-left groups have said nothing about the strike by 525 workers in Holland, Ohio, lining up with the de facto information blackout by the media and the UAW apparatus.
Amid the forest of emails surrounding the case and the questions of who, among the partners of the firm, knew what and when, etc., the essence of what PwC did, largely in plain sight, is straight forward enough.
Assange has only one option of appeal remaining within the British legal system and it could be rejected next week.
The union has released no information about the deal. The contract will be reviewed by Teamsters officials in Chicago next week before being sent to a vote.
The World Socialist Web Site urges workers to vote to authorize a strike by the widest possible margin. But in and of it itself, this resolves nothing. Workers must begin organizing themselves now to take the conduct of the fight out of the hands of the apparatus.
The Florida government claimed responsibility for two flights, dumping 36 asylum seekers in Sacramento, as bipartisan attacks on immigrants in the US escalate.
Australia Post plans to reduce letter delivery to once or twice a week, as part of a longstanding plan to slash costs and transform the mail carrier into a lucrative parcel delivery business.
Ahead of the October 14 election, the political and media establishment is fomenting a “cultural” and race-based frenzy to divert attention from the right-wing agenda being prepared for the entire working class.
Wave of strikes in education and healthcare continues across all of Europe; protests continue in Iran as economic condition worsens; Nigeria: union federation calls off nationwide strike against fuel price hike in face of legal challenge
Two opposed camps have been revealed in this dispute–rank-and-file postal workers on one side and an alliance between Royal Mail and the union bureaucracy on the other.
Amid a NATO war against Russia in Ukraine and an inflationary crisis that has plunged millions into economic distress, the media has fixated on Schofield’s alleged “abuse of power” and “deception” in initially concealing his relationship with a younger man.
This letter by Carolyn Kennett protests against NTEU officials blocking her and a fellow Committee for Public Education member from moving a resolution at a stopwork meeting at Sydney’s Macquarie University, calling for a unified struggle against pay cutting, casualisation and restructuring.
While dressed up as a climate crisis measure, the agreement is above all to ensure US access to key minerals vital for a broad range of applications, including military, as it intensifies its war drive against Beijing.
The latest OPEC+ meeting was held just two months after the cartel announced production cuts in order to sustain prices which have proved largely ineffective in halting the slide.
The SEP/IYSSE public meeting will elaborate on the program and perspective of international socialism that the working class needs to fight the government’s austerity measures.
This is the second successive cut to the real wages of low-paid workers delivered under the Albanese Labor government, which reiterated its opposition to an “across-the-board” pay rise in line with inflation.
Prime Minister Modi and his railway minister are involved in a damage-control exercise, worried that train disaster is undermining the government’s global image and impacting on its fortunes in next year’s elections.
On Wednesday, the Guardian published an article in which former NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen raised the prospect that NATO members would deploy their own ground troops in Ukraine.
As with every weather disaster or public health crisis the capitalist ruling elite and their political representatives have proven incapable and uninterested in meeting the needs of the population as the smoke billowed in.
The ruling elites through their corrupt media outlets are attempting to destroy Waters and intimidate other artists, performers and intellectuals from speaking out. This is a desperate and systematic attack on freedom of speech and artistic expression.
The struggle against the pension cut is a political struggle against the capitalist state, and to wage it, workers have to fight to bring down Macron.
Workers and young people marching across France against Emmanuel Macron’s illegitimate pension reform must form rank-and-file committees independent of the pro-capitalist trade unions.
All of the actions of the UAW bureaucracy throughout the strike fly in the face of the pious and hypocritical claims of Fain and Co. to be instituting a new era of “transparency” and “democracy” in the union.
Amidst continuing slowdowns on West Coast ports, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su was “engaged” in talks with the port operators and the dockworkers union.
The company announced that the second shift at one of its facilities was canceled after a sizable number of workers called out, citing concerns about the air quality at the facility.
The bill is tailored so that it only applies to Harris County, the state’s largest and heavily Democratic
The jet, a Cessna Citation carrying several passengers, later crashed in the Northern Virginia wilderness as it ran out of fuel.
The UCP’s re-election is a damning indictment of the right-wing record of the trade union-sponsored NDP and of the unions’ role in suppressing the class struggle.
Education and research funding authorized by the CHIPS Act in question as US Congress enacts sweeping cuts to domestic spending.
The RECOVER initiative trial begins the attempt to define Long COVID through symptom-based scoring, which will hopefully assist in future studies of the disease, but could be misused by insurance companies to deny coverage.
Thousands of migrants will be housed on barges, converted cruise ships and two former military bases in Essex, and Lincolnshire.
Whatever the immediate causes of the dam's collapse, workers must understand the unfolding humanitarian and ecological disaster above all as an urgent warning about the immense dangers presented by the NATO war against Russia in Ukraine for workers across Europe and internationally.
The New York Times published yesterday a column by Paul Krugman dismissing the role of Ukrainian fascists in the mass murder of Jews and Soviet citizens during World War II and minimizing as mere “shadows” their prominence in the present NATO proxy war against Russia.
In line with policies of major central banks around the world, the RBA is lifting rates to slow the economy, or even induce a recession, to crush the growing wages struggles of the working class under the banner of the need to “fight inflation.”
In a motion that was filed on Friday with the US District Court in Youngstown, Ohio, Norfolk Southern made the absurd claim that they are not responsible for the derailment or obligated to pay for any of the damages caused to residents health, homes or businesses
Workers have responded with disgust and anger to the decision by the unions to allow Clarios to ramp up output at the St. Joseph plant in a bid to undermine the strike.
Notable in the campaign to commute Michael Tisius’ execution were the calls from several jurors, who had convicted him, for his life to be spared.
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Albanese echoed, at times almost word for word, the aggressive message delivered by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Computer files show that the Spanish company responsible for security at the Ecuadorian Embassy was secretly spying on Assange. The files name the client of the surveillance: “CIA.”
After some 16 hours of public comment, the Democratic Party-dominated Atlanta city council voted 11-4 in favor of allocating over $30 million in public funds to the private non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation.
The ruling class in South Korea, as around the globe, cannot tolerate dissent as it accelerates attacks on the working class and makes preparations for war.
NTEU officials told workers at the strike rally that the union would enter “intensive bargaining” in the Fair Work Commission and “you may not get everything that you want.”
Pseudo-left organisations at Otago University and Victoria University of Wellington are seeking to subordinate opposition to hundreds of job cuts to the Tertiary Education Union, which has a long record of imposing mass redundancies.
The show, presented in four seasons over the course of 2018 to 2023, depicts the power struggles and moral decay bound up with the fate of a corporate-financial dynasty that wields enormous influence over politics, culture and society.
The rapid and disorganized character of the vote, with in-person voting only, in some cases taking placing inside UPS facilities under the eye of management, guarantees that the turnout will be artificially deflated.
The increasingly use of state violence against youth, peaceful protesters and workers shows that it is impossible to wage war abroad without waging class war at home.
Capitalist-induced climate change is dramatically increasing the intensity and extent of wildfires across the country, impacting remote rural communities as well as major urban centers and pushing Canada’s firefighting resources past their limits.
One of the responsibilities of the serious writer is to go beyond momentary appearances, to get at the real motives of individuals and groups behind their public motives. What would such a writer make of the cast of characters involved in the present conflict?
The NUJ’s refusal to defend Klarenberg is of a piece with its history of abject capitulation to the government and capitalist state and is made more venal under conditions in which Britain is playing a central role in NATO’s war against Russia
The dispute at one delivery office threatened to spread and grind delivery services across Scotland to a halt because of the determination by postal workers to defend their colleagues.
The refusal to affiliate the IYSSE, based on entirely false claims, forms part of a broader crackdown on anti-war opposition amid the danger of a global conflagration.
Union calls for increased involvement in the government’s restructuring and privatisation policies are not new and saw the elimination of over 2,000 Telecom jobs between 2000 and 2006.
More than 85 percent of workers who took part in the ballot voted against the deal, despite its tacit endorsement by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).
The Biden administration played a thoroughly duplicitous role at the Singapore meeting: professing the need for improved relations with China, while parading its aggressive military build-up throughout the region.
The UAW Local 598 shop chairman said instructions to unload and handle scab batteries from the strikebound Clarios plant had come from the UAW International.
The operations in Ukraine are only one part of an expanding and ever more open war between NATO and Russia.
A worker in the facility’s single pack department describes the exhausting work, low pay, poor benefits and company surveillance that persist despite workers’ vote for the Amazon Labor Union in 2022.
It was not only Scholz’s roar that was reminiscent of Hitler, but also the content of what he said.
Striking copper miners blockaded the major highway in northern Mexico to press grievances, while locomotive workers in Pennsylvania are gearing up for a June 9 contract deadline.
On May 24, two CSX locomotives collided, resulting in a diesel fuel spill in a rail yard next to Curtis Bay in Baltimore, polluting the air for the residents.
Of the ten declared candidates, only the two most openly fascist, Trump and DeSantis, have significant support in polls of likely Republican primary voters.
The Greens are seeking to politically rescue the Labor government as rents and home mortgage interest rates have continued to soar, threatening millions of working-class households with acute financial stress and evictions.
Whether Wagenknecht stays in the party or founds a new one at the end of the year is in essence a dispute within the ruling class as to how best to conduct the war in the face of broad popular opposition.
Romanian teachers join workers in the UK, Spain, Portugal, France and Germany, who are engaged in mass protests and strikes against austerity.
The French president’s provocative statements aim to escalate the war in Ukraine as the ruling class tries to contain rising working class anger across Europe.
Mélenchon's Unsubmissive France party is complicit in the union bureaucracies' attempt to demobilize the struggle against Macron's pension cuts and against the escalating NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
This message of solidarity was sent by the YGBL to the antiwar meeting held in Toronto, Canada, on June 4 by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
Despite the lineup of state forces behind the campaign by far-right Ukrainian nationalist forces, including Ontario’s labour minister, the IYSSE was able to hold the first anti-war meeting in Toronto since the war in Ukraine began 16 months ago.
The New York Times palms off the deep historical and present-day links of Ukrainian nationalism to Nazism and genocide as merely "thorny issues," i.e., a public relations problem for media propagandists, who are trying to sell NATO's proxy war as a struggle for democracy.
Accounts sent in show the shared experience of postal workers is crippling workloads and failed deliveries resulting from the cost cutting revisions rammed through.
The Cabinet Office took the extraordinary decision June 1 to launch legal action against the Inquiry via a judicial review, claiming that making available requested material would compromise ministers' and other individuals' right to privacy.
The UK has secretly deployed special forces in Ukraine. Special Forces can be deployed without parliamentary approval and with the government refusing to even list their operations.
While prosecuting whistleblowers who exposed war crimes with zeal, Australian authorities are refusing to charge those credibly accused of murdering Afghan civilians.
The tightly scripted, 25-minute event was aimed at projecting an air of “transparency” and militancy on the part of the UAW’s new top leadership, while they in fact prepare to carry out the same policies as their predecessors: brutal attacks on jobs, wages and working conditions at the behest of the auto companies.
Zelensky said of the enormous cost in lives of the offensive, “it can go a variety of ways, completely different. But we are going to do it, and we are ready.”
Seven workers were arrested when they and dozens of others laid down their tools at the lunch hour and refused to restart the line until that night.
Working-class households are being driven into destitution by skyrocketing rents, mortgage payments and power prices, making a mockery of Labor’s budget and election promises.
The PT wishes to prevent at all costs the exposure of the military’s involvement in the bid to overturn Brazil's election.
This was a blatant act of political censorship, showing that the NTEU bureaucrats are intent on stifling the democratic rights of members as they rush to push through sell-out enterprise bargaining deals at one university after the other.
The government has been spending lavishly on the military, as part of its deepening strategic alliance with US imperialism against China, while refusing to make the necessary investments in a rail system that is a crucial means of transportation for the country’s more than a billion people.
Furious over the meager across-the-board $1.56 pay increase, dockworkers along the West Coast were absent from work last Friday, leading to the closure of several terminals.
The deal would effectively transform the Transport Workers Union into a division of management to drive up worker productivity.
While imposing an illegitimate and overwhelmingly unpopular pension cut, Macron is building a “war economy” amid the NATO war with Russia.
Sánchez has not brought down his own PSOE-Podemos government in order to campaign against the right, but to coordinate with it and with NATO an escalation of the war with Russia.
Workers on strike at the Clarios auto battery plant in Holland, Ohio are calling for solidarity action from GM, Ford and Stellantis workers who are facing their own contract battle in September.
The tentative agreement is a deliberate and ruthless stab in the back of television and film writers, in the second month of a strike against the AMPTP, which represents major film and television studios and networks.
The court determined that the four defendants had formed a criminal organization that targeted, attacked and injured neo-Nazis.
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.
For the ruling class, Waters’ “crimes” are that he has opposed the US-NATO-instigated war against Russia in Ukraine and vocally supported the Palestinian people in the face of criminal attacks on them by Israel.
The rapid and lopsided passage by both houses of Congress of the debt ceiling bill worked out between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with the Democrats supplying the bulk of the votes, must serve as an object lesson on the unbridgeable class chasm between the entire political establishment and the working class.
Under the guise of cracking down on climate change protests that triggered a minor traffic delay, Labor joined hands with the Liberal Party to pass laws that ban any activity that disrupts “free passage of a public place.”
On Thursday it was reported that FBI agents are trawling around, apparently seeking dirt on Assange despite him being locked up in a maximum-security British prison for the past four years.
The 8-1 ruling throws open the door for employers to sue unions for damages in the event of a strike, implying that strikes are only allowed so long as they do not in any way harm the company’s bottom line.
The US jobs report delivered mixed signals Friday, with the unemployment rate rising to from 3.4 to 3.7 percent while the economy added 339,000 new jobs, well above expectations.
“I lost my day off and nearly $20,000 a year,” one worker said. “We need to strike! People need to know what is happening!”
