A report by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war to exterminate the Palestinian people and seize their land. The document provides evidence of the genocidal intent of the Zionist regime and the complicity of the imperialist powers in war crimes unprecedented since World War II.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza was denounced by a number of leading filmmakers at the final awards ceremony of the 81st Venice film festival held last Saturday.
This statement in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by a Ukrainian youth who fled the war and is now working and studying in Germany.
The announcement by the VW Group that it is terminating the agreement on job security, cutting tens of thousands of jobs and closing entire plants and production sites is a declaration of war on all workers and marks the beginning of a new stage in the class struggle.
The establishment parties paved the way for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) by outdoing them from the right on their core issue: scapegoating refugees and immigrants.
"The army is now starting major military operations to drive people out of the West Bank to Jordan. Israeli politicians are constantly talking about a ‘substitute solution’ for the Palestinians in Jordan. They want to take the whole country away from us."
The CWA’s latest moves highlight the bankruptcy of the union apparatus which is desperate to shut down the strike by presenting a rotten contract that it can force down worker’s throats and pass off as a great victory.
While they are making noises about a strike, the CUPW leadership is in fact conspiring with Canada Post to ram through a rotten contract. That is why they are saying nothing about how workers should prepare to counter the threat of a strikebreaking law or a CIRB-issued back-to-work order, although everyone knows that threat of state intervention is the linchpin of Canada Post’s “bargaining strategy.”
This looming defeat for workers without any fight organised by the unions illustrates how the union bureaucracy operates as an arm of management and the government to suppress the class struggle.
Various union leaders welcomed the new Labour government and made a show of encouraging it to enact a transformative pro-worker agenda—when its intentions are the opposite.
The public statements were aimed at conditioning public opinion for Australia to play an even greater role in the US-led war drive against China.
Major public universities have had their enrolment numbers slashed for 2025, particularly targeting those with the highest numbers of Chinese students.
The Socialist Equality Party opposes the direct and indirect support of Sri Lanka’s ruling and opposition parties for the US-led imperialist war agenda and urges the working class to do the same.
One worker wrote to the WSWS, “Union sold us out, promised to stand by us and took us to the bank instead,” and commented, “I don't have faith in Boeing, IAM and president Jon Holden to bargain in good faith for members.”
The joint communiqué reveals the advanced preparations not just involving these two key American military allies, but throughout the Indo-Pacific, for a US-led war against China.
Sanitation workers are picketing in Anne Arundel County over working in hot weather, ill-equipped garbage trucks and with a lack of protective equipment.
Argentine pilots walked off the job for nine hours on September 6 to protest stalled wage talks while 10,000 United Airlines maintenance workers in the US held pickets to demand better pay, safety standards.
In bringing this contract to a vote, the IAM bureaucrats have declared they are not on the side of workers but of management, and behind them a government which does not want a strike at a major defense contractor.
The UN rapporteur’s report stands as an indictment not only of Israel but also of the imperialist powers, including the United States, UK, France, Germany and Canada, that have funded, armed and politically defended the genocide.
Officials in the DeSantis administration are spearheading efforts to invalidate signatures and drive the petition to overturn the six-week abortion ban off the ballot.
The museum has begun firing staff who wear Palestinian keffiyehs to work.
Of all the stage acts in the Democratic Party’s 200-year-old playbill of political deception, perhaps the most hackneyed is the sleight of hand the party conducts at election time to paint its candidates as progressives, even as they move ever farther to the right.
The Standish, Michigan-based carnival firm, T.J. Schmidt & Company, settled with the US Labor Department and agreed to pay $72,253.85 in back wages and travel expenses it defrauded 32 temporary migrant workers in 2021.
The working class is confronting a supposed “broad-based” government—a newly installed coalition of President William Ruto and his United Kenya Party and the main opposition party—that is committed to IMF austerity and enjoys the backing of the bureaucrats who run the Central Organization of Trade Unions.
Top National Rally (RN) officials, who held back-channel talks with Macron, do not hide that they intend to dictate the policies of the incoming Macron-Barnier government.
Mélenchon’s strategy of uniting with Macron in the name of blocking the rise of the far right proved disastrous for the working class, paving the way for the forming of a far right government.
Amid the World Health Organization’s declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, officials in Canada are hoping that existing therapies combined with targeted vaccination of at-risk populations can limit the spread of the disease.
Royal Mail workers around the country have been taking up the statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee for its next Zoom meeting this coming Sunday: “A rank-and-file fightback strategy for Royal Mail workers.”
Lack of investment driven by the thirst for ever-increasing profits has led to a situation where the basic sanitation infrastructure introduced by the Victorians is at breaking point—which a Labour government will not reverse.
Under the direction of the NSWNMA bureaucracy, the rallies will be about nothing more than allowing nurses and midwives to let off steam, clearing the way for a union-government sellout.
The laissez-faire attitude of international and national public health agencies to emerging pandemic pathogens, which threaten human populations and the well-being of animal life in general, is nothing short of criminal.
A pivotal study published in the journal Nature elucidated the pathogenesis of COVID infections.
The World Socialist Web Site urges Boeing workers to reject this deal by the widest possible margin. Workers must organize independently of the IAM bureaucracy to impose the democratic decision made in July to strike.
“Labor promised us a lot of things, that they will help refugees. But we haven’t seen any improvement, we don’t know when this is going to end.”
The fact that NS is the first to reach a full agreement with the conductors’ union adds insult to injury to the attempt to quietly ram through new deals to pre-empt a repeat of the 2022 rebellion.
In a 5-2 decision the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that even though the Green Party collected nearly three times as many signatures as required, the party would still not appear on the ballot over a technicality that was facilitated by the Democratic Secretary of State.
The corporate-controlled two-party system offers only the alternatives of would-be dictator Donald Trump and warmonger Kamala Harris.
In opposition to all the pro-capitalist parties and candidates, the SEP is fighting to build an independent political movement of the working class based on socialist policies.
The attacks on the Belgian Audi workers are part of a broad international strategy by the Volkswagen Group.
Two workers, age 58 and 37, we killed at a repair facility operated by Delta Airlines at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Two deaths during August at the Byerwen Coal Mine brought the official number of miners who have lost their lives in the state of Queensland’s mining sector during the past decade to 26.
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 corporations are determined to wipe out entire crafts and professions. “Informed consent” means nothing when all the power is in the hands of conglomerates.
As Socialist Equality Party members argued among the protesters, no amount of moral pressure will force Starmer and his imperialist co-conspirators to withdraw their support from Israel, and their plans for a war against Iran. They will have to be stopped in their tracks, which requires the intervention of the working class, paralysing states supportive of the Israeli regime and bringing down their governments.
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending Saturday’s national rally against the genocide in Gaza, including Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos.
Asylum seekers in Ireland face violent attacks, deportation, fascist agitation and homelessness.
By allying with Macron and falsely promoting him as an enemy of neo-fascism, Mélenchon’s New Popular Front created conditions for Macron to assemble a government backed by the far right.
As four members of Black nationalist groups in the US are facing potentially 15 years in prison for advancing positions in opposition to the Ukraine war, the Department of Justice claimed on Wednesday that Russia and Iran were “interfering” in the 2024 election.
The Venezuelan crisis has exposed all bourgeois nationalist governments of the Latin American pink tide and their pseudo-left apologists as instruments of US imperialism.
With tens of thousands of workers looking for a way to fight the Labor government’s attack, the ousted CFMEU bureaucracy is trying to convince them that no fight is needed.
President Vladimir Putin, whose government failed to prevent the first seizure of Russian territory by an imperialist-backed army since World War II, is attempting to manage the debacle by downplaying the crisis in Kursk.
Ignoring the opposition of the Muslim community, which always buries its dead, the government of former president Gotabhaya Rajapakse ordered the cremation of all bodies at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Turkish-American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head and killed on Friday as Israel Defense Forces fired on protesters who were defending Palestinians against Zionist settlers in the West Bank.
Brazil’s supreme court has suspended access to X/Twitter, a platform used by tens of millions of Brazilians.
The law firm defending MSO censorship is prominent in the barrage of legal action against artists, journalists and other public figures opposing Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Just hours after Canadian National and Canadian Pacific-Kansas City imposed a lockout, Liberal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon used the quasi-dictatorial powers invested in him to outlaw all worker job action and empower an arbitrator to dictate their contracts.
India: Maharashtra road commuter transport workers walk out for pay rise; Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital workers strike indefinitely; Western Australian and New South Wales child protection workers take action over staffing; Tasmanian nurses and midwives strike
A three-judge US appeals court panel ruled that the Internet Archive violated copyright law by lending eBooks to borrowers at the beginning of the pandemic without authorization from the publishing industry.
Erdogan and al-Sisi are taking steps to strengthen their ties amid Israel’s US-NATO-backed genocide in Gaza, which is spreading to the West Bank, and preparations for war against Iran.
Several recent UK studies have investigated this harm being done to the population’s health by the policy of “living with the virus” enacted jointly by Conservative and Labour parties.
The ILA bureaucrats are drawing from the same playbook as the Teamsters and the UAW, using radical-sounding talk to ease the passage of a deal with massive hidden concessions. A general rule of thumb has emerged: the bigger the talk, the bigger the sellout.
School shootings are a manifestation of the devastating social crisis of American capitalism.
Appealing to the billionaires that control both parties, at two recent events both Trump and Harris pledged to cater their policies to the interests of the ultra-wealthy.
The turnover of the Zelensky cabinet comes amid an impending military defeat in the Donbass region.
As the US presses for ramped-up military preparations, the Pacific is being placed on a war footing without the consent of the population, who have not been consulted.
The selection of Barnier tramples upon the election victory of the New Popular Front and marks a major step towards an authoritarian regime led by the far right.
The NDP’s new oppositional posture is aimed at repositioning the social democrats and their trade union allies so they can more effectively perform their essential function for the ruling class—suppressing the class struggle and acting as political safety valves—under conditions of intensifying global capitalist crisis.
The Socialist Equality Group calls on rail workers to vote in favour of strike action in their pay dispute with Transdev and Hyundai Rotem, but warns that to carry out a real fight, workers must break from the RMTU and establish an independent rank-and-file committee.
Israel could not have killed hundreds of thousands and laid waste to Gaza’s infrastructure, creating the perfect conditions for thousands more deaths from disease, without the unstinting support of the imperialist powers.
Paradise is a poignant and compelling film that reveals much about Sri Lanka’s social relations and will resonate with workers and youth around the world.
Recent studies by the University of Minnesota and the COVID-OUT trials indicate that metformin, a commonly used drug to treat diabetes, has compelling clinical benefits in treating COVID.
While specific circumstances may differ from one event to another, the most pressing questions are the social roots of these repeated outburst of violence and how to stop them from happening.
As new school term begins, teachers across Europe strike and protest pay, conditions, class sizes and student assessments; high school teachers in Israel walk out over pay and conditions as education budget slashed to pay for Gaza genocide; South African coal miners in KwaZulu-Natal province threatened with dismissal for striking over pay
Since the 1970s, Taiwan has been no stranger to aiding and abetting genocide perpetrated by US-backed far-right dictatorships or by the US itself. It is no aberration that Haley’s visit was warmly received by Taiwan’s sub-imperialist bourgeoisie.
The state crackdown on smugglers who organise the crossings has only forced migrants into undertaking even more hazardous journeys, as they try to avoid the militarised border infrastructure established by the British and French authorities.
More than 270 workers went on strike Wednesday morning to demand substantial wage increases and an end to exhausting work schedules that threaten the health and safety of workers and the surrounding working-class community in southwest Detroit.
Emboldened by the complicit Democrats, Trump, with the Republican Party behind him, is mounting a fascist campaign aimed at suppressing the vote on the way to a presidential dictatorship.
In an unmistakeable sign that a full-scale invasion of the West Bank is in preparation, Defence Minister Gallant declared yesterday that eventually the military will need to “pull out the roots” of Palestinian resistance.
Hiding behind rules set by the bourgeois National Labor Relations Board, rules which Boeing no doubt had a say in creating, the IAM has not released any details of the discussions between itself and the company, not even on the most critical demands of wages and pensions.
Two students and two teachers were shot dead on Wednesday morning by 14-year-old Colt Gray at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, 45 miles east of Atlanta.
The social catastrophe roiling Haiti, the Western hemisphere’s poorest country, is rooted in well over a century of US imperialist predations—including repeated colonial-style occupations and “made in USA” regime changes.
The economy grew by just 0.2 percent in the June quarter following a 0.1 percent rise in the three months to the end of March, while output per head was down 0.4 percent, its sixth consecutive quarterly decline.
Anheuser-Busch announced it would close distribution facilities in Ohio and Massachusetts, destroying upwards of 150 jobs.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Prime Minister Trudeau announced the imposition of punitive tariffs on electric vehicles at a cabinet retreat which was attended by President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, making clear Canada’s ever-deeper involvement in the US war drive against China.
The death of Shannon Barnes comes as Postal workers across the US face brutal exploitation.
According to one report, the school is “now reevaluating its course offerings, contemplating layoffs, and even considering a potential merger with another school to ensure its survival.”
The victims of Grenfell Tower died as the result of an act of social murder whose architects were companies aiming to cut costs in their refurbishment of the 24-storey building. Their accomplices were successive Conservative and Labour governments.
Britain is responsible for a tiny fraction of the arms received by Israel, overwhelmingly provided by the United States. In any case, the government’s decision affects just 30 of 350 arms contracts between the UK and Israel, and excludes parts for F-35 fighter jets killing Palestinian men, women and children day after day.
What is worse, the IAM is prepared to even override a “no” vote to enforce the contract through an undemocratic technicality.
The SEP is the only party warning of the dangers of world war and fascism and advancing a socialist alternative to massive IMF austerity.
The Israeli military continued its expansion of the genocide against Palestinians into the West Bank on Tuesday with an intensified assault on the Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps.
Another media poll indicates deepening disaffection with both Labor and the Coalition.
If there is to be a fight, it must be waged by rank-and-file dockworkers against the port operators, the corrupt union bureaucracy and the federal government, which is waiting in the wings to block a strike if necessary.
A number of Russian leftist organizations and media outlets have expressed their support for Bogdan, demanding his immediate release.
The establishment parties have rolled out the red carpet for the AfD and opened all doors for them.
The IG Metall union and its works council reps have helped VW devise the “Performance” plan, to be used to slash thousands of jobs. This corporate united front is preparing to push through its attacks against the resistance of the workforce.
