The New Popular Front is setting a political trap for left-wing workers and youth, leaving them no perspective but a coalition government with France’s despised “president of the rich.”
The chilling implications for the working class of the Supreme Court’s legal counterrevolution have already begun to emerge in the immediate aftermath of the 6-3 ruling by the court’s far-right supermajority.
Israel ordered the mass displacement of another 250,000 people from the city of Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday, in the latest stage of its genocide against the population of Gaza.
Rene Lichtman, an 86-year-old Holocaust child survivor, led the vigil outside of the Zekelman Holocaust Museum.
Last week about 100 package delivery drivers at Amazon’s DIL7 Delivery Station in Skokie, IL went on strike demanding wage increases, a standard 40-hour work week, and to protest union busting efforts by the company.
Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first Democratic lawmaker to publicly call on Biden to withdraw from the race Tuesday morning.
On Monday, more than 100 people protested at a city council meeting in Utica, New York against the killing of 13-year-old Nyah Mway by a police officer on Friday night.
The SDA deal commits Woolworths, Australia’s largest private sector employer, to little more than the bare minimum it could legally get away with.
Daniel Duggan, a former US Marine pilot, confronts dubious charges of training Chinese military pilots that could see him jailed for 65 years.
The expulsion of Bedouin communities in the Negev region is part of the Netanyahu government’s fascist program of ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Nominally “left” parties are seeing their support grow at the expense of the establishment right and far-right organisations, which currently hold power in Finland and Sweden.
Right-wing mob attacks against Syrians have been organized in cities in Turkey, while demonstrations and attacks on Turkish positions in Turkish-occupied areas in Syria have taken place, amid reports of an agreement between Ankara and Damascus.
The Liberal debacle in the June 24 Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election confirmed what polls have been indicating for well over a year: support for the Trudeau-led minority Liberal government has hemorrhaged.
The series offers not so much an alternative history, as an anti-history, aimed above all at an upper-middle class audience fixated on the politics of race and gender.
Singh, a migrant farm labourer, lost his arm in a binding machine and bled to death because he was refused help under Italy’s agricultural gangmaster system, which exploits tens of thousands.
According to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), at least 39 people have been killed, and another 361 injured in clashes with the police. KNCHR said this was not a final count.
Labour’s manifesto states that every policy the party will pursue in government is subordinate to the primary mission of national security.
In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able to engage in “bold and unhesitating action.”
The campaign against Fatima Payman underscores the sham of parliamentary democracy and the Labor government’s ongoing support for the mass murder of Palestinians.
A strike by WestJet mechanics ended after the union accepted a tentative deal while Argentine education workers walked out demanding action to address the wage crisis in academia and elsewhere.
Seizing on the reality that even Labor’s disastrously inadequate 2030 emissions target will not be met, the Liberal-National Coalition has vowed to abandon it.
The mass layoffs revealed Monday double the number Deere has announced for the year, now totaling over 1,600, part of an escalating assault on jobs throughout the auto industry and other industrial sectors.
The Bank for International Settlements annual review said central banks had to be alert to the dangers of inflation and not hesitate to raise interest rates again if necessary.
We call on all educators, parents and students to attend our July 11 meeting and participate in this important discussion.
Family members of those who died in the 2018 and 2019 crashes of Boeing 737 MAX jets have denounced the new plea agreement being offered to the airline manufacturer by the US Department of Justice.
In three 3-2 party line votes last week, Democratic members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections upheld complaints brought by a Democratic Party Super PAC and voted to block ballot access for three parties; We the People Party, Justice for All Party and Constitution Party of North Carolina.
Applebaum is closely linked to the US military-intelligence apparatus. She currently plays a leading role in churning out propaganda justifying the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia.
Everything is done to paint Stallings as a terrible mother, but absent from the official narrative is any questioning of the social conditions that would deprive a working parent of childcare, forcing them to bring their children to their workplaces.
For Milei, the main enemy of Argentine capitalism is the working class, which he aims to isolate and control, divide and defeat.
After isolating Fort Worth brewery workers on the picket line, the unions bureaucrats rammed through a deal creating new tiers with different pay rates, and keeps wage growth below inflation.
Several tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the far-right Alternative for Germany national party conference in Essen on Saturday.
The draft law is a serious attack on the basic democratic right to freedom of expression. A single “like" under a post that contradicts German foreign policy is enough for a deportation order.
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.
The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
Voters rejected Macron’s campaign, which was based on hypocritical claims to be defending democracy and his plans for troop deployments to Ukraine for war with Russia.
As expected, the extreme right-wing Supreme Court majority on Friday overturned a Ninth-Circuit ruling that prohibited local governments from fining or arresting homeless people for sleeping in public when no public shelters were available.
On Friday, police shot and killed 13-year-old Nyah Mway in Utica, New York, with a single shot after tackling him to the ground.
The union, defying a strike mandating, is carrying out an undemocratic snap vote before workers have seen the full details of the contract.
Though no one was injured, the incident, involving a far-right man entering a Labor Party electorate office in Newcastle, could have been catastrophic.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and young people throughout the United States to come to Washington D.C. on July 24 to protest the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The 30-minute interview with “Let’s Talk Everything,” a Tamil Nadu-based program with over 23,000 subscribers and 250,000 viewers, has attracted numerous positive comments from those who watched it.
Whether or not it wins the next election, the Coalition has squarely placed the question of nuclear power on the political agenda and has the backing of sections of big business as a result.
The Canberra-led, anti-China policing initiative is being launched as a new wave of popular unrest is exploding across the Pacific.
There can be no doubt that Biden is already deeply involved in the talks, as he has in every industry critical to supply chains, but there is no guarantee he will even be president by the time the contract expires.
The IMF’s prescription is for an austerity program extending over “multiple years.”
While a platoon of Democratic Party politicians publicly backed Biden in media appearances over the weekend, Republican politicians are openly discussing plans to pressure Biden cabinet officials to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president.
The sharp drop in turnout is an indication of mass disaffection with all factions of the political establishment—conservative and “reform”—and mounting social anger.
On Thursday, a grand jury in Uvalde County, Texas, indicted the former school district police chief and another former school police officer on multiple felony charges for their failure to intervene and stop a mass shooter on May 24, 2022.
French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz, who stand on the brink of the political abyss and have lost all connection to the reality of people’s lives, are responding with war and dictatorship.
The Kenyan government has deployed heavily armed troops throughout the country in anticipation of continuing mass protests against its drive to impose IMF-dictated austerity measures.
The film exposes the nightmarish difficulties suffered by the Indian masses after the Modi government imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.
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 gutting of federal oversight of business and destruction of regulatory restraints on profit-making and the enrichment of the corporate elite are part of an ongoing and accelerating social counterrevolution.
The latest offer contains a 28.4 percent (compounded) wage increase over four years, under which base pay rates in most classifications will still be lower in real terms than in 2019, until at least October 2027.
The right-wing majority, joined by Ketanji Brown Jackson, ruled that the federal obstruction law was too broadly applied by prosecutors, paving the way for hundreds of charges to be dropped.
The move is the latest in a series of coordinated attacks by university managements, the corporate media and the political establishment in Australia against the rights to protest and freedom of expression of students on campus.
The empowering of neo-Nazi figures such as Krotevych and the open backing of fascism by Western imperialism comes as the Zelensky regime is escalating the persecution of opponents of the war and suppression of democratic rights.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
While Washington and its allies denounce Chinese “provocations,” US imperialism has been instrumental in transforming the South China Sea into a dangerous flashpoint for war with China.
Without a political fight against the Wickremesinghe regime and the overthrow of the capitalist system, workers cannot defend any of their basic rights.
Even by the standards of American “political culture,” Thursday night’s presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump was a spectacle of degradation, reaction and stupidity.
The emergence of the new viral variants and the consequent surge of COVID-19 that is currently underway has been enabled by a ruling class indifferent to the suffering caused by the virus.
A growing number of scientists have sounded the alarm that immediate action to eliminate bird flu is necessary before it develops into a human pandemic.
By supporting the New Popular Front, the NPA is joining in the right-wing restucturing of the political establishment to prepare for war with Russia abroad and class war at home.
These 14,000 2,000-pound bombs have a combined yield of 7.8 kilotons, equivalent to half to the power of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb that the US used to destroy Hiroshima in 1945.
Since the strike began, there have been over 100 new clients requiring food support—almost triple the monthly average. Poverty levels in the area, according to the last census, showed that 11 per cent of people living in Guelph were low-income families.
South Korea: Hyundai Motor workers vote to strike over failed wage talks; India: Punjab Roadways bus drivers and conductors strike over unpaid wages; Thousands of Sri Lankan public sector workers continue strike action; Australia: Quantem bulk fuel supply strike for pay rise.
The fight against job cuts must be combined with the fight against war. This is only possible against IG Metall, not with it.
Feinstein wants workers in Britain to repeat, under a rerun of Corbyn’s disastrous leadership of the Labour Party, the bitter experience of creating “broad left” formations such as Syriza in Greece that sabotaged the struggle against International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union dictated austerity.
The event was billed as “an important democratic opportunity for voters to understand their local candidates’ views on climate change and the environment.” The SEP was never informed of the hustings and Zero Hour did not openly announce that certain candidates had been excluded.
Paxton said to applause, “We are here to raise the alarm of the danger of war and capitalist barbarism. Death has become an acceptable policy of the capitalist ruling class.”
While the Democratic president was visibly doddering, the Republican ex-president engaged in non-stop lying and fascistic demonizing of immigrants.
The main obstacle to mobilizing workers against war and neo-fascism independently of the New Popular Front’s pro-imperialist program are organizations like the IMT, which are petty-bourgeois descendants of renegades from Trotskyism.
“The clarity of analysis from Bogdan is a direct threat to fascistic regimes and hence he has been fraudulently charged and put in prison”– Albert from Victoria
The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has launched a “cost-cutting" race in the EV transition.
The union and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson hope to avoid the possibility of over 25,000 Chicago teachers on strike during the convention.
This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees.
Wednesday’s police assault makes clear that Sri Lankan workers need to prepare for a political general strike, based on a revolutionary socialist program, against the government’s International Monetary Fund austerity measures.
While thousands of people rallied outside parliament, Labour MP Phil Twyford falsely claimed that his party had been calling for a ceasefire for the last eight months.
Executions this week in Texas expose the arbitrary character of the death penalty and the abusive life experiences of those who find themselves on death row, while Missouri sets an execution date for an innocent man.
The latest Consumer Price Index figures make a mockery of the Albanese government’s pretence that real wages are finally rising after years of falling, let alone Labor’s 2022 election pledge of “a better future.”
According to IATSE, talks were stalled mainly due to disagreements over wages and artificial Intelligence. Workers have every right to be intensely suspicious of this process and its results.
The abortive coup marks a new stage in the turmoil gripping Bolivia ahead of the 2025 elections, where the major drivers are the escalating third world war and deepening crisis of global capitalism.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee recently held its founding meeting. Organized independently of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) bureaucracy, the PWRFC aims to mobilize postal workers in a political struggle against the corporatist alliance between management, the union apparatus and the government.
The US State Department hailed “President Ruto’s commitment to Kenyans’ constitutionally-endowed rights,” while European Union Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hailed a “reduction of the tensions… conducive to dialogue.” This is a seal of approval for the massacre Ruto committed the day before.
In Italy, agricultural workers in Latina province walk out after workplace death, while metal workers strike in South Tyrol after explosion leaves one fatality, others injured; 20,000 oil contract workers in national walkout over pay and conditions in Iran join mass protests of retirees over falling living standards; health workers in Oyo State to hold seven-day warning strike July 1 over pay and collapsing healthcare system
Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.
Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
While making empty pledges of minor social reforms, the New Popular Front endorses military escalation against Russia and calls to strengthen the military police and intelligence services.
Doled out over just nine months, this figure is nearly double the US’s typical annual Israel military aid budget of $3.4 billion and will be further supplemented by $14 billion in weapons funding allocated by Congress this year.
The Supreme Court posted and then removed a draft order that would reinstate emergency medical abortions in Idaho.
Autoworkers across the US are hailing the victory in court this week against the Department of Labor and the United Auto Workers bureaucracy over massive irregularities in the 2022 union elections.
The purpose of the July 24 demonstration is to set into motion a new and powerful mass movement of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the global escalation of imperialist militarism by the US ruling class and its NATO collaborators.
Judges in Kansas and Missouri accepted the arguments of Republican-led states and imposed preliminary injunctions on Monday blocking the main provisions of President Biden’s SAVE student debt relief program.
"The Zelensky regime put Bogdan behind bars to suppress the idea of the unity of the workers and a socialist perspective."
Bowman exposed himself in the eyes and minds of the working class with his inconsistent opposition to Zionism while at the same time supporting the re-election of “Genocide Joe” Biden.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s trip to the Middle East once again highlighted the devastating role played by German imperialism in the genocide in Gaza and the escalation of war throughout the region.
