The tone in the bourgeois press is mournful, with the Financial Times best summing up the problem for the British ruling class: a prime minister failing to put through their agenda but who they are nervous about replacing.
Belgian rail workers in five-day strike against austerity; Iraqi university workers walk out over allowances; poverty in South Africa highlighted by Kaniega municipal workers’ strike
The Kaiser strike is part of a broader wave of healthcare workers' struggles across the country, totaling more than 46,000 workers from coast to coast.
Throughout the press conference, Fed chair Powell stonewalled on the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into him and its efforts to have Fed governor Lisa Cook removed.
Dissanayake is trying to cover up the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s reactionary communal record as an enthusiastic supporter of anti-Tamil racialist war.
A new and far-reaching wave of mass layoffs is sweeping the United States, marking a decisive escalation in the ruling class’s assault on the working class.
The violent assault follows deliberate incitement by President Trump and the launching of an anticommunist witch-hunt by FBI Director Kash Patel.
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As hundreds demanded an end to children being kept in cages, ICE locked down the Dilley facility while Texas police and immigration Gestapo used tear gas and truncheons to assault peaceful protesters outside the prison camp.
These workers account for approximately two-thirds of total US refining capacity, placing them at the center of the country’s energy infrastructure and the global oil supply chain.
In the face of ruthless corporate restructuring, the Australian Workers Union quickly stated its willingness to collaborate with management to close the historic South Brisbane plant.
The second season of The Pitt is being aired in the midst of historical events that have thrust healthcare workers into the spotlight in an unprecedented manner.
Workers and students in Germany send messages of support to the general strike in Minnesota and the nurses' strike in New York, linking the fight against the Trump dictatorship with the struggle against war and social cuts in Europe.
Glorifying New Zealand’s role in the 20-year Afghanistan occupation, Labour Party figures are seeking to steer widespread opposition to the government and Trump in a right-wing, “patriotic” and militarist direction.
Opposition to immigration enforcement is increasingly emerging from below, particularly among young people and workers.
Birmingham bin strikers have won the respect of workers across the country. But they cannot win on their own and so cannot let Unite’s leadership continue to suffocate their action.
On Wednesday, Trump underscored the imminence of a possible military strike on Iran, saying the fleet headed by the USS Abraham Lincoln is larger than that Washington deployed off Venezuela before kidnapping its president, and stands “prepared to rapidly fulfill its missions with speed and violence if necessary.”
Emerging evidence strongly indicates that the murder of Pretti was a targeted assassination carried out by the Trump administration’s paramilitary forces in order to terrorize Minneapolis citizens opposing and recording its criminal activities.
His death and the circumstances leading up to it expose both conditions of extreme workplace stress and, along with now many other tragic deaths, the systemic failure of emergency response in USPS facilities.
The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has lowered its wage demands and reached an agreement to identify “potential savings” in the healthcare plan.
Oil workers in Peru staged a nationwide protest action against a government decree aimed at privatizing the state-owned oil company while 700 faculty at Laurentian University is in its second week, impacting some 9,000 students.
At the Bosch plant in Schwäbisch Gmünd, IG Metall is attempting to exclude an opposition list from the upcoming works council elections. This attack on democratic rights must be answered by building independent rank-and-file committees to unite workers against job cuts and the union bureaucracy.
As Minneapolis workers mobilize and strike against ICE's extrajudicial political executions of US citizens, France Unbowed is defending Macron's left flank and his sycophantic texts to Trump.
There is still no official explanation for the tragedy, but mine owner Polymetals has been allowed to proceed with business as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Gold has risen by around 20 percent so far this year and all forecasts are that it has still further to go as investors as well as central banks shift out of the dollar and US assets.
A committee at the AGO rejected buying a work by Goldin because several members found her denunciation of the Gaza genocide “offensive” and “antisemitic.”
While the ruling LDP is now in coalition with the far-right Nippon Ishin no Kai, the opposition CDP has cast aside its progressive pretenses to merge with Komeito, the LDP’s former coalition partner of 26 years.
The Parti Québécois has seized upon the trade deal as a further argument for Quebec independence, and above all to signal their allegiance to American imperialism, now led by the would-be dictator Donald Trump.
Behind promises of accountability, Democrats reorganize homelessness bureaucracy while austerity, privatization and repression deepen the crisis facing the working class.
The Trump administration has launched a massive immigration enforcement surge in Maine, cynically dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day,” unleashing a campaign of terror designed to intimidate immigrant and working class communities across the state.
Nurses and healthcare workers condemn immigration police, denounce the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and call for a general strike.
According to figures compiled by the Federation of Technical Company Trade Unions, 630 workers lost their lives at work between 2022 and 2025.
The action in the Midlands is significant for revealing the well of opposition among educators, and their determination to fight. By rights, it should be expanded across the country in a fightback against austerity, privatisation and the decimation of education.
Immediately levelling up new entrants and opposing unsafe workloads means asserting what is right and necessary against the profit interest of the private-equity billionaires at EP Group
A huge winter storm blanketed more than half of the lower 48 US states, beginning on Friday and bringing subfreezing temperatures, snow, ice, freezing rain and devastation to hundreds of millions of people from New Mexico to New England.
The defence of artistic freedom is inseparably connected to the fight to mobilise the entire working class against social austerity, dictatorship, imperialist war and barbarism.
The removal of Zhang, who ranked second behind President Xi Jinping in the powerful Central Military Commission, points to sharp tensions within China’s military and the top echelons of the Chinese Communist Party regime.
The tactical retreat on the part of the Trump administration is not an abandonment of its authoritarian course—it is a recalibration and regroupment.
“It was murder. It definitely was a murder. He was just trying to protect those ladies from being pepper sprayed. He was just protecting them.”
The Trump administration released its 2026 National Defense Strategy on Thursday, a 34-page document that openly proclaims American military domination of North and South America as a platform for global war.
The same CEB union officials now threatening strike action shut down all industrial action four months ago, following false promises from Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody.
The new German-Italian axis is also a warning from a historical standpoint. On the eve of and during the Second World War, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy formed a close alliance.
Public sector workers in Germany are striking amid huge workloads and declining real wages, but the unions are isolating their struggle. A successful fight requires breaking with the unions and building independent rank-and-file committees to unite with workers internationally.
Bernie Monk, whose son was killed in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, warned families of the six people killed in the Mount Maunganui landslide not to trust official promises of an impartial and transparent inquiry.
Engler was targeted for prosecution due to his vocal opposition to Israel’s genocide of the Gaza Palestinians and exposure of the complicity of Canada’s Liberal government and political establishment.
The Metropolitan Police violently arrested at least 86 protesters outside Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. They had gathered peacefully in solidarity with Umer Khalid, a pro-Palestinian activist on a hunger and thirst strike.
More than 100,000 of Israel’s Palestinian citizens took to the streets of Sakhnin and Umm Al-Fahm, in the north of Israel, and other predominantly Arab towns and villages across the country.
The walkout, involving a wide range of frontline medical staff, marks a major confrontation between healthcare workers and one of the largest corporate healthcare systems in the United States.
Attendees expressed solidarity with the striking nurses and echoed calls for a general strike against dictatorship.
Pretti, a VA nurse, was murdered in Minneapolis by agents of Customs and Border Protection.
Representatives of the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the White House have doubled down on their slanders of the latest victim of ICE-CBP violence, VA nurse Alex Pretti.
The murder of Alex Pretti is a vast escalation in the paramilitary terror in Minneapolis which is the spearhead of an ongoing conspiracy to establish a presidential dictatorship in the United States.
In response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to use military force to seize control of Greenland, Denmark’s Social Democrat-led government equipped soldiers deployed to the island earlier this month with live ammunition and an order to engage in combat if attacked.
The impending strike vote by LA teachers expresses growing anger and determination among educators to fight even as the union leadership promotes healthcare cost shifting and disunity.
Immigration attorney Eric Lee spoke with MS NOW Friday about a protest by detained immigrant families at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
The Élysée Oudinot Accord presents another neo-colonial constitutional order designed to secure French strategic interests in the Pacific.
The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization marks a decisive turn toward nationalism and the dismantling of public health.
Amazon announced a second round of job cuts Friday as part of its goal of laying off 30,000 employees.
The OECD report on Australia means enforcing deep cuts to social spending and corporate taxes amid widespread discontent over plummeting living standards, global militarism and war preparations.
The novel takes place in Beirut between 1960 and 2023, its story divided non-chronologically into seven sections.
The WSWS calls for the immediate reinstatement of Lora Santhakumar and the defence of her right, and the right of all academics, university workers and students, to oppose war without fear of reprisal
The cost-cutting onslaught is a central component of the federal Liberal government’s drive to raise tens of billions of dollars for Canada’s war machine and the enrichment of the financial oligarchy.
Earthquake kills 20,000 in western India; Indira Gandhi extends emergency rule; first nuclear explosion at Nevada Test Site; French colonial crackdown in Tunisia.
Live video reports and social media posts by immigration attorney Eric Lee on Saturday revealed that dozens of families held by DHS at the South Texas Residential Center denounced their indefinite detention and chanted “Let us go” and “Liberty for the kids.”
As a first step, all deals currently being voted on should be rejected, and collective action throughout England resumed. No workplace should fight alone; no one should be left behind.
The murder of Alex Pretti is the response of the Trump administration to yesterday’s powerful and peaceful demonstration against ICE’s reign of terror against the workers and youth of Minneapolis.
Meatpacker Tyson has shut its Lexington beef plant eliminating 3,212 jobs and laid off another 1,761 in Amarillo, reducing the plant to one-shift.
On January 18, the Socialist Equality Party held a memorial meeting to celebrate the life of Ken Mantell, a member of the Trotskyist movement for more than 40 years.
Fedorov’s comments underscore that beneath the propaganda and government lies, huge numbers of Ukrainian working class youth refuse to sacrifice their lives in the ongoing imperialist proxy war.
The demand for mass coordinated action has emerged not from trade union officials or politicians but from below.
Merz in Davos: A call for European great-power politics under German leadership
Gambian-British citizen and Cornell University graduate student Momodou Taal was detained and questioned by UK police on Friday under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in violation of his rights.
The recent death in childbirth of Dr. Janell Green Smith casts a grim light on the deplorable state of mortality among black mothers in America.
By assigning zero economic value to lives saved through environmental protection while attributing full value to corporate profitability, the Trump administration is imposing the entire social and biological cost of production on the working class.
As the Trump administration proceeds with the military police occupation of Minnesota in the face of mass resistance, and wages war all over the world, the majority of Democrats have joined with Republicans to pass a record military spending bill.
Interogation by Chile’s infamous Carabineros can easily slip into torture to extract false testimony or confessions.
Trading in the market on Tuesday was described as some of the most “chaotic” seen in years.
Questions are being raised about why a campground at Mount Maunganui, where a huge landslide buried six people, had not been evacuated earlier.
Opposition Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins’ pledges to address the worsening social crisis are utterly hollow, as is his pretence of opposing US military interventions.
India: Tamil Nadu school midday meal workers strike; Bangladeshi tannery workers demand fixed wages; Qantas workers in Sydney strike for new work agreement; New Zealand firefighters continue nationwide strike action.
For the ruling class, it is essential that Reform be ready to hit the ground running with an agenda for slashing welfare and overall public spending, while vastly increasing military spending with the proceeds.
The award nominations were the usual combination of the thoughtful and the confounding, or even disturbing.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney painted a stark picture of a global capitalist system roiled by inter-imperialist rivalries and hurtling towards world war in a speech Tuesday to the World Economic Forum.
Prospect filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2025, leaving a trail of broken equipment, more than $100 million in unpaid state taxes, and devastating patient care, leaving safety-net institutions like Manchester Memorial, Rockville General and Waterbury Hospital reeling from long-term neglect and infrastructure gaps.
As negotiations resume under mediation, New York City nurses remain on strike amid escalating retaliation by hospital management, including unlawful terminations and the use of strikebreakers.
“I would definitely call for a general strike. I think that's a great idea. This is a national problem, if not a world problem, with nurses ...”
This statement will be distributed at demonstrations and protests organized in Minneapolis and other cities throughout the US on January 23, 2026.
The family continues to be held at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas after the children’s father, Mohamed Soliman, was accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel march in Colorado Springs on June 1 last year, more than seven months ago. Even FBI testimony has declared the family innocent of any collaboration with the father’s actions.
The publicity stunt in California cannot disguise the Democratic Party’s collaboration in Trump’s war on immigrants.
For more than a decade, postal workers have faced relentless speedup, mandatory overtime, short-staffing, the elimination of breaks, and a punitive monitoring regime.
Two anonymous DHS officials have exposed through Whistleblower Aid a secret memorandum from Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons that authorizes federal immigration police to forcibly enter homes with only “administrative” paperwork, not a search warrant issued by a judge.
The agreement is designed to legitimise the widespread replacement of jobs with AI, and a commitment from Australia’s top union bureaucrats to suppress workers’ opposition to the rollout.
The WSWS will be providing live on-the-ground updates in Minnesota and beyond on the unfolding confrontation between workers and youth and federal forces.
With protests in Iran raising the prospect of regime change and US military intervention, Washington opted to rely on HTS to cut the Gordian knot in Syria.
Motorway and road infrastructure workers across Germany walk out over pay and lack of investment; stoppage over pay and conditions shuts government administrative offices in Federal Capital Territory Administration around Abuja, Nigeria
The Labour government’s brutal anti-immigration programme, centred on attacking asylum seekers, is being ramped up as it seeks to outcompete the far-right Reform UK.
Mamdani’s visit to the picket line Tuesday and his collaboration with NYSNA paves the way for a snap shutdown of the powerful strike.
Reporters for the WSWS spoke to UPS workers in Minneapolis about the ongoing federal occupation and the day of action scheduled for January 23.
The World Economic Forum, which opened Monday in Davos, Switzerland, was dominated by the deepening rift between the United States and the European powers over US President Donald Trump’s efforts to take control of Greenland.
Public filings and earnings reports show that UPS slashed its workforce by eliminating 48,000 jobs in 2025 and that another 20,000 positions are to be cut by early 2026 as part of the company’s three-year strategic plan.
