India: Flipkart warehouse workers strike in Haryana; Chennai urban health centre workers protest outstanding wages; Australia: Thousands of striking public hospital allied health professionals march for higher pay; Melbourne metropolitan council workers walk out again.
The Erdoğan government is preparing for the Ankara summit by stepping up repressions against anti-NATO and anti-war opposition groups at home.
Burnham’s remaining rhetoric will be discarded will be discarded the instant he crosses the threshold of Downing Street.
Ahead of her trial, Sarah spoke with the World Socialist Web Site, outlining the significance of her case. She explained, “There’s potentially really large and quite dangerous consequences if I get a guilty verdict.”
Artists of Soderbergh’s generation were cut off at the knees, so to speak, by the reactionary atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s.
One-year old Kohen Kartier Wiley was killed and the driver was critically injured when an as yet unidentified police officer opened fire on their vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi.
Autoworkers continue to respond with enthusiasm to the nomination of Mack Trucks worker and socialist Will Lehman to run for United Auto Workers president.
The opening of the Obama Presidential Center was an over-the-top exercise in political mythmaking, aimed at recasting a presidency of Wall Street bailouts, war, deportations and attacks on workers as a lost age of democratic progress.
The publication of the terms of the memorandum of understanding between the Trump administration and Iran has triggered an outpouring of criticism from both the Democratic and Republican parties.
The 225th Interior Ministers’ Conference, which has been meeting in Hamburg since Wednesday, marks a new stage in the construction of a German police and military state.
At the EU-Western Balkans summit held on June 5 in Tivat, Montenegro, the European Union’s leading powers—above all Germany—pushed for the fastest possible integration of the Western Balkan states into the EU.
Despite “liberalising” posturing by Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, two recent deaths at the hands of the security forces prove that nothing has fundamentally changed.
As with all other social problems, the experiences of workers and the poor have demonstrated that the housing crisis cannot be resolved by appealing to capitalist governments.
In a tactical retreat, management has said that new cuts will be prepared after consultation processes in which the National Tertiary Education Union has signalled its readiness to play a central role.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
Six months after US special forces abducted Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, the Chavista government is jointly operating with the US military to execute Venezuelans under indictment in US courts.
A strike, now in its third week, by 300 signalmen and communications workers at the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway has exposed once again the gaping, pro-company loopholes in federal labour law that allow employers to subvert and break legal walkouts.
Marc Salgado's death exposes years of preventable fatalities and unsafe conditions fostered by union-management collaboration on the waterfront.
Doctors in Spain walk out in further national strike over government cuts to health spending; protests in Basra, Iraq over power outages while farmers in the south and east demand restoration of wheat prices; security guards and cleaners in Germiston Municipality, South Africa continue ten-month strike to demand permanent jobs
NHS FightBack calls on GPs in England to vote NO in the referendum and reject the BMA’s privatisation blueprint for General Practices; government attacks must be answered by the demand for full funding.
The unions responded to BHP’s scab labour initiative by pleading for more backroom talks.
The US plan for extraterritorial immunity over an industrial hub at its former Clark Air Base in the Philippines exposes Pax Silica as an attempt to reimpose colonial forms of rule in preparation for war.
The event underscored the bogus character of One Nation’s populist pitch, with its leader Pauline Hanson denouncing workers as “lazy” and declaring there were too many obstacles to sacking them.
In a statement following the nomination, Lehman said his campaign was about “building a genuine rank-and-file movement, a movement that turns every factory into a citadel of resistance.”
In what was characterised as a “hawkish” move, the Fed’s monetary policy statement was one of the shortest on record and removed a “bias” towards lower rates.
Health Minister Mark Butler rejected calls for delays in implementing changes to the NDIS, as a rushed Senate inquiry reveals what the cuts mean.
European officials speak of war with Russia “by the end of the decade” or “within years” as if this is an unfortunate fact of life, not a catastrophe for humanity. Under these conditions, the smallest incident can become the starting point of a rapid escalatory spiral.
The union representing Chilean dockworkers announced a June 18 strike date while nearly 3,000 Boston nurses voted June 16 by 99.6 percent to authorize a one-day strike.
The indictment, brought under the framework of NSPM-7, is part of a broader campaign to criminalize anti-fascist and pro-immigrant protests as “terrorism.”
CPKC locomotive engineers voted down a nine-year concessionary contract by a 2-to-1 margin, the latest in a wave of rank-and-file revolts against the union .bureaucracy across the US railroads.
There is little more than a shell remaining of the federal agency responsible for assisting public education at the state and local level.
In the first quarter of 2026 alone, Bundeswehr soldiers made 2,013 vists to schools and 20 to higher education institutions nationwide – with further visits already planned.
Antwiane Sanders was terminated after confronting UAW International Rep Jason Tuck over the denial of back pay to workers at the Saginaw, Michigan plant.
As delegates prepared to nominate candidates for international office. Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, charged that the proceedings had laid bare the gulf between the union bureaucracy and the membership it claims to represent.
TDU’s support for O’Brien is an expression of the reform groups integration into the Teamsters bureaucracy and indictment of the program of bureaucratic self reform
Dropping all pretense of “reform,” the Fain administration used anti-democratic tactics to block debate while ramming through amendments boosting the income of the apparatus, including hefty pay raises for top officials and staff.
The G7 summit in Évian, France marks a further step in the collapse of the postwar capitalist order and the slide now towards a Third World War.
The investigation into Gavin Newsom is a dangerous escalation in Trump’s use of the Justice Department against political opponents, but the Democrats offer no defense of democratic rights.
The two prime ministers reinforced the “closeness” of the countries’ military, security and intelligence partnership amid escalating US-led preparations for war.
The net worth of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has increased by $624 billion in six days, to $1.32 trillion, according to figures from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA contracts were not "historic victories" but a coordinated betrayal by union bureaucracies that must be fought through independent rank-and-file committees.
Federal prosecutors are criminalizing encrypted messaging, political slogans, and protest organizing as felony conspiracies in a legal dragnet against anti-war activity.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is intent on further suppressing household spending, amid the ongoing global impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran and a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
Data released yesterday show that retail sales for May fell at the fastest rate since the end of 2022 when COVID restrictions were lifted and the virus swept through the country.
The trial was a whitewash designed to cover up the wider role of the military while sending a menacing message to anyone critical of the government or armed forces.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
For the first time, newly discovered photos of the Nazi massacre at Kaisariani give a face to the 200 Greek resistance fighters, including twelve Trotskyists, and reveal their courageous defiance.
The fact that the ruling made specific reference to the war in Ukraine, NATO and the Five Eyes surveillance alliance makes clear the motivations behind the crackdown.
The complacent and self-congratulatory speeches from the convention podium avoided all mention of the drive by the Trump administration to establish a fascist dictatorship or the seething rank-and-file discontent expressed in a series of contract rejections by auto parts workers.
The Labor government’s far-reaching assault on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has provoked an outpouring of anger from disabled people, their families and advocacy organisations.
Company thugs opened fire on the Özşen Mining workers and their families, who were staging a sit-in to demand payment of their wages.
Africa’s four richest billionaires own $57.4 billion—more than the combined wealth of half the continent’s 1.5 billion population
Teachers, support workers and student teachers spoke out against the intolerable conditions in public schools and the Australian Education Union’s anti-democratic methods.
The suit claims the teachers’ union created a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli members, particularly at a July 2025 Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon.
As early as December 2025, IAV management announced its intention to eliminate roughly 1,500 jobs this year. Over the course of seven rounds of negotiations with management to date, union officials have, in their own words, proven themselves “willing to compromise.”
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
For nearly a decade, successive governments have refused to hold elections for the provincial councils in flagrant violation of the country’s constitution.
The UAW bureaucracy gave workers less than 48 hours to review the 118-page agreement, and threatened that workers would be replaced with strikebreakers if they rejected the pro-company deal.
The tournament has been transformed into a platform for imperialist arrogance, militarism and anti-immigrant chauvinism by the Trump administration, without protest by FIFA and its co-hosts.
At the protest held in Izmir, a Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi member denounced the armed attack on miners and called for a broader mobilisation of the working class.
The reaction to the Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years is not simply about basketball. It expresses, in distorted form, immense social tensions for which workers and youth have been denied any progressive political outlet.
If Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer does not succeed in meeting the demands of the warmongers, then replacements are waiting in the wings to implement their agenda.
As a matter of principle, no offer should be used to call off mandated strike action before British Medical Association members have been given time to scrutinise its contents and determine whether it meets their demands.
On the eve of the UAW Constitutional Convention, American capitalism has minted its first trillionaire, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
It would be difficult to conjure up a more grotesque expression of the collapse of American democracy and the depravity of American capitalism in its death agony.
Lori Berenson show trial in Peru; Soweto uprising in South Africa; Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act; German working class votes to expropriate the former monarchs.
The export-control directive against Anthropic reveals the capitalist state asserting direct power over who may build and deploy the most advanced AI, and for what ends.
While the terms of the settlement remain undisclosed, this much is already clear: The Trump administration achieved none of the aims for which it went to war.
The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting reviewed the four deaths at Palmetto, Steiner’s restructuring plans, the USPS safety crisis and reports from postal workers in Britain and Canada.
Six people were injured in the crash, which could have been avoided if Wellington’s train network was equipped with modern safety systems used in Auckland and many other parts of the world.
Manslaughter charges over Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court inferno expose a vast corrupt system of profiteering, bid‑rigging and brutal housing conditions.
Nearly one month since the declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a bleak assessment of the outbreak.
The Albanese government’s extraordinary bid to block a false imprisonment case essentially sought to protect governments being sued for any illegal action.
Anthony’s 35-year prison sentence stands in sharp contrast to far more lenient sentences and outright acquittals given to defendants in similar “self defense” cases, namely those in which victims were political targets of the Trump administration and the far right.
The restructuring by the office supplies retailer is another demonstration of the relentless corporate drive to lower labour costs, and the complicity of governments and trade unions.
In a darkly humorous and disturbing movie, a media executive approaches the high point of her career just as a mysterious illness begins to kill the world’s plutocrats.
The legal architecture now being used to seize workers’ wages was built through the very reform that the pseudo-left sold to students as a “victory.”
The Trump administration has granted ICE an expansive mandate to conduct enforcement with no meaningful constraint—no requirement to identify themselves in plainclothes operations, no obligation to notify families, no accountability for injuries caused during pursuits or arrests.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is launching an initiative to sign up hundreds of new SEP Supporters and involve them in the party’s campaigning and educational work.
A government beholden to big business and not social needs has seized the drop in pupil numbers to slash public services to fund its key priority, military spending.
Protestors are angry that they should be made to bear the risks of a deadly viral disease that has already led to the deaths of at least 138 out of 695 confirmed cases in Congo, for the benefit of Washington.
The sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani marks a watershed moment in the Starmer Labour government's escalating war on democratic rights and the criminalisation of opposition to war and genocide.
The strike showed strong opposition among educators to the deepening attack on public schools, where conditions are already close to impossible. But the union speakers sought to channel this anger behind plaintive appeals to the same Labor government carrying out the attack.
Despite the populist guise of Morena, President Sheinbaum has cited “budgetary constraints” in prioritizing financial elites over teachers’ demands.
Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years on the job, was fired after speaking out against the fourth tentative agreement at a UAW Local 699 roll-out meeting held on company premises.
The rate rise was the first since 2023 and sets the stage for other central banks to possibly follow suit.
Private-sector teachers in Türkiye will launch an indefinite protest in Ankara—where the NATO summit will be held in early July—to demand their social rights.
On Friday, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. A syndicate of investment banks priced SpaceX on the Nasdaq at $135 a share Thursday night. When trading opened Friday, the stock leapt to $150, climbed as much as 30 percent intraday, and closed up about 19 percent at $161, lifting the company’s market capitalization to roughly $2.1 trillion.
The APWU's 200,000 members are being directed to the very same forces that are driving the destruction of the post office.
One thousand striking American Axle parts workers are being rushed by the UAW bureaucracy into voting on a sellout tentative agreement announced on Wednesday and deliberately denied adequate time to study and understand what is in the contract.
These arrests advance the drive by the Trump administration to construct a pseudo-legal framework for the criminalization of left-wing political opposition.
A planned strike by 2,000 hospitality workers was called off by UNITE HERE Local 11 after the announcement of a tentative agreement. Ninety-six percent of members voted overwhelmingly for strike action.
IG Metall is not fighting against the steel corporations and government, which is pouring hundreds of billions into war and rearmament while slashing social spending. It is closing ranks with the worst enemies of the steelworkers.
Sanders’ scheme amounts to a state bailout of the AI monopolies, giving Washington a direct stake in propping up their speculative valuations while binding them to the US imperialist war machine.
The June 14 No Kings event aims to dissipate mass opposition to Trump by subordinating workers and youth to the Democratic Party and American nationalism.
Every major school district in San Diego County is in deficit. The 2025-26 school year has brought mass layoffs, pay cuts and campus closures, with deeper austerity projected for years to come.
While the popularity of the viral sensation and now newly-founded political movement known as the Cockroach Janata Party reflects the deep anger and frustration of India’s unemployed and student youth, the CJP will only them into a political dead-end.
Spanning 2015 to 2026, this volume traces Trump’s rise to power, his coup of January 6 and his second term to their source in the corporate-financial oligarchy, and advances the socialist strategy required to stop the threat of fascism.
South Korea: Kakao platform workers strike over low pay; India: Rural childcare workers protest in Himachal Pradesh; Sri Lanka: Duncan Estate workers continue strike over allowances and workloads; Australia: UGL contract workers extend action at Woodside’s LNG plants.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine identifies the cause as hospitals being under resourced and pushed to the brink of collapse.
