Elli devoted her entire adult life to building a better, socialist society. She joined the Trotskyist movement in 1975 and remained an active and leading member for the rest of her life.
The deal between TWU Local 234 and SEPTA is aimed at blocking resistance of workers to the Democrats and the Trump administration.
Tens of thousands of students across Germany walked out of lessons to oppose the reintroduction of conscription, denouncing the government’s militarisation drive and the growing danger of a third world war.
The linguistic examination by Yuri Irkhin, one of Ukraine’s leading criminologist, marks not only a major setback for the prosecution. It is also a powerful vindication of the principled opposition by the Trotskyist movement to the war in Ukraine.
The US intends to interfere in the internal affairs of its NATO partners, break up the European Union, strengthen fascist parties, and help enforce racist remigration policies.
Bus drivers, pensioners and people with disabilities were among those conducting strikes and protests against government policy in Argentina, while 750 Canadian Air Transat pilots could walk out later this week.
The Honduran election has been overshadowed by naked imperialist intervention, with Trump vowing there would be “hell to pay” if the country failed to elect his chosen candidate.
A memorandum from Attorney General Pam Bondi spells out a series of actions to be taken against those who oppose mass detention and deportation of immigrants or advocate “anti-capitalism.”
Adams' killing on the shop floor--crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
In oral arguments Monday in the case Trump v Slaughter, Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority signaled their willingness to grant Trump power to fire agency heads and board members created by Congress, for not adhering to his fascist agenda.
The deal for classified staff in the Northern Californian school district is almost identical to one which workers overwhelmingly rejected only two weeks ago, and isolates 1,500 striking teachers in the district.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has reappointed Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, a woman directly responsible for the NYPD’s massive spying on New York’s population.
Speaking at a blue-chip luncheon, the Labourers’ International Union of North America’s Canadian director gave a full-throated defence of Premier Ford and his labour minister in the face of reports showing hundreds of millions in job-training funds have been funnelled to the government’s union and business cronies.
In the predominantly Tamil Northern Province, the death toll stands at nine, with four people reported missing.
The NSW Resources Regulator’s November 25 “Investigation information release” neither explains what caused the tragedy nor makes any recommendation for how to stop more workers being killed.
The Defence Force head told MPs military recruitment must be raised significantly higher, just as it was before the two world wars.
Carty has always seen folk as reflecting social life and conditions, so has never shied away from social and political issues.
Police blocked Jimenez in a parking lot and positioned themselves in the way of his vehicle, shooting him 29 times.
Six of the seven involved began their protest between 27 and 36 days ago. A seventh joined the hunger strike last week.
The strike, which began on November 13 with walkouts at 65 stores across more than 20 cities, expanded to 120 stores on Black Friday.
$50 million is being poured into a US-NATO fund, which supplies strike capabilities to Ukraine, including those that threaten to provoke a war throughout Europe and globally.
The ban is not a child welfare measure but a direct intervention by the state to dictate how ordinary people will be allowed to use the internet.
Amid the swirling corruption allegations, the police are playing a central role in the escalating state assault on the social position of the working class.
On Saturday, NBC reported that Secretary of War “Pete Hegseth ordered the US military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people” on a motorboat traveling between Venezuela and Trinidad, contradicting the administration’s denials that no such order was given.
After the racist in the White House branded Somali people as “garbage,” his immigration agents deployed in force to Minneapolis, targeting the largest Somali community outside Africa.
Socialism AI is a powerful new chatbot developed by the WSWS to advance socialist consciousness globally by bringing the scientific outlook of Marxism to workers, youth, and intellectuals.
There is hardly anything more repulsive than when the German ruling class justifies its support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians by referring to the “fight against antisemitism” and its own historical crimes.
The acquisition poses a serious threat to entertainment workers, undermining creative labor and endangering art and cultural expression.
The unfolding disaster from Cyclone Ditwah is the product of two interconnected processes: the intensification of climate change, driven by global capitalism, and the underdevelopment of scientific and disaster-prevention infrastructure, enforced through austerity.
Germany’s ruling elite is preparing a new generation for war, reintroducing conscription as part of the largest rearmament drive since 1945. This statement explains why only a socialist, international movement of young people and workers can stop militarism and the capitalist system that drives it.
Supreme Court halts Florida ballot counting in presidential election; Ford approves austerity loan to NYC; US military evacuation in North Korea; NY Governor pardons CP leader.
Seated alongside Corbyn, Owen Jones cited Sultana’s call to “nationalise the entire economy”, asking Corbyn, “What do you think of that?” Corbyn replied, “I’m not sure what that means. I’m honestly not sure.”
Over 280 workers at Bosch Rexroth's plant in Glenrothes, Scotland, are to strike for a week from Monday against a cut in pay and working hours. The Bosch parent company is planning to sack 22,000 workers as the European car industry faces collapse.
Functioning as Israel’s subcontractor in policing the Palestinians, President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority have not lifted a finger to oppose any of Israel’s expansionist actions.
More than 40 percent of listed CDL training providers could lose their ability to certify new drivers. As a result, many current CDL holders will have their credentials revoked.
A CNN investigation has exposed evidence of mass graves filled with the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israel and then bulldozed into the sands of Gaza.
World Socialist Web Site reporters and members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality spoke to students at Wayne State University about the attacks on immigrant workers coming from ICE, Trump and the oligarchy.
The survivors of the US military's September 2 drone murder in the Caribbean attempted to wave to US military aircraft for rescue, the New York Times reported Friday.
Immigrants held at the still operational state-run “Alligator Alcatraz” report that sadistic guards use the “box,” a two-by-two-foot cage, for punishment. Individuals placed inside are shackled by their hands and feet to the ground for hours with virtually no protection from the elements, insects or wildlife.
Rauschenberg belonged to a generation of artists that emerged between the twilight of Abstract Expressionism and the dawn of Pop Art.
The Lula administration’s recent attacks on the Brazilian postal service are part of a global drive to privatize postal services.
The Cyclone Ditwah disaster has completely exposed the bankruptcy of the JVP/NPP government and the capitalist system as a whole.
The article is not an academic exercise. It is a political manifesto by the Democratic Socialists of America and Jacobin’s privileged petty-bourgeois milieu, justifying their open collaboration with a fascistic administration and defending the capitalist state itself.
The Left Party’s abstention on Merz’s pensions package exposes its role as a pro-capitalist prop for the most right-wing German government since 1945. By helping push through rearmament, social cuts and policies aligned with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the Left Party demonstrates its complete hostility to the working class.
What is being implemented under the guise of “health freedom” is, in fact, the demolition of the very institutions and structures that have protected millions from infectious disease.
The layoffs begin in “phases” starting in January, with the facility fully closing in April, the latest in tens of thousands of job cuts by US logistics firms.
The mass arrests were part of an ongoing crackdown against democratic rights by the NSW Labor government.
The pay cuts imposed by the PPTA on 20,000 teachers reinforces the need for workers to rebel against the union bureaucracy by forming independent rank-and-file committees to fight against austerity and militarism.
The real purpose of the Victorian youth crime laws is to construct new mechanisms of state repression under conditions of a deepening social and economic crisis.
South Korea: National rail and Seoul Metro workers to walk out; Philippines school teachers hold national strike; India: Outsourced power workers protest privatisation in Punjab; Australia: Public sector health workers protest over wages and conditions in Tasmania, South Australia, Northern Territory and Victoria.
A reporting team from the World Socialist Web Site spoke with teaching staff about their concerns and why they have decided that strike action was necessary.
The persecution of students and teachers is a product of the government's agenda to eliminate fundamental democratic rights and establish a presidential dictatorship.
The US and European Union are cynically weaponising “human rights” over Tanzania’s post-election massacre to pull the country away from China amid an intensifying scramble for Africa’s critical minerals.
The strike by 3,000 educators and support staff has shut down normal operations in one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest school districts.
The normal platitudes about “love and good cheer” are being overshadowed by massive inequality.
Healthcare workers at Oregon Health & Science University overwhelmingly vote to authorize strike action, demanding higher wages and safe staffing, as unions work to isolate struggle from broader working class movement.
U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two “shipwrecked individuals” were “killed by the United States military.”
Caught between the demands of global finance capital and the resistance of the working class, Bolivia’s ruling class is incapable of governing in the old way.
The data shows a drop to zero in the per capita growth rate, under conditions of rising inflation, a continuing cost-of-living crisis and low levels of corporate investment, except for AI-related data centres.
The attack on benefits for the poor is part of unprecedented attacks on living standards, as the government imposes the austerity measures demanded by the IMF.
Capitalist governments around the world have taken no serious steps to address climate change and other forms of environmental degradation that contribute to the extreme weather events now unfolding on a regular basis.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once the premier disease-fighting institution in the US, and even the world, has been taken over by anti-vaccine quacks under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A packed meeting of the Royal Oak Board of Education heard parents describe the forming of a Turning Point USA club at the local high school as a threat to their children.
The lawsuits allege that camp management was long aware of the risk of flooding at the camp and failed to take action to save the lives of the 25 children who died during the July flood.
Nuwara Eliya District, with a population of 724,957 and located in a hilly region, is among the worst hit by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides and stone slides.
Tens of thousands in Bulgaria and thousands in France take to the streets to oppose austerity budgets; strikes and protests continue across Iran as currency in freefall; health union suspends Nigerian doctors’ month-long stoppage with demands unfulfilled
Over 36 years, an orchestrated cover-up was organised by Britain’s ruling elite to ensure that no-one was ever brought to justice over the deaths of 97 Liverpool Football Club supporters.
The Liverpool supporters were crushed and suffocated to death after police gave the order to open an egress gate just before the kick-off of an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989. Thousands of fans were directed into two already dangerously overcrowded pens.
Increased military spending demands an intensifying assault on the living standards of Taiwanese workers and masses.
The figures are startling, revealing a body of men and women often obliged to work two, three or four jobs to stay afloat and facing uncertainty and precarity on various fronts.
A coordinated campaign is underway by Zionist lobby groups and the German press to censor and/or close the exhibition "Commune – The Paradox of Similarity in the Middle East Conflict", which has been on display in Potsdam since mid-November.
The picture that emerges is of a massive redistribution of wealth from the working class and more economically vulnerable sections of the middle class to the wealthiest layers of society.
A Berlin court has ruled that the violent shutdown of the 2024 Palestine Congress was unlawful, exposing the arbitrary political actions behind the police operation. The judgment highlights how the German authorities have trampled on democratic rights to suppress criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
For the third time in less than a week, Trump, surrounded by cabinet officials and fellow Republicans, denounced all people from Somalia as “garbage.”
Until a few years ago, the US and European powers worked closely together to encircle Russia and bring Eastern Europe and large parts of the former Soviet Union under their control. But now the axis of conflict is shifting. The rivalry between the US and Europe is increasingly coming to the fore.
It was as a steel fixer that Ken joined the Socialist Labour League, the precursor to the Socialist Equality Party, in the early 1980s. Once convinced of the program and the need to build the revolutionary party, he never wavered.
“The only way we will see justice is if we reveal the truth, hold accountable those responsible for the conditions that put us in harm’s way, and set up our own shop floor organizations to take control.”
The combination of record levels of government debt and the involvement of speculative capital in its financing is presenting “new financial stability challenges,” according to the Bank for International Settlements.
The inquest into the killing of three police found the Trains were motivated by a psychotic disorder, even though it heard extensive evidence that they were far-right extremists motivated by apocalyptic Christianity and conspiracy theories.
The Republican official made the bogus and inflammatory claim that the company involved was “employing illegal aliens” to gather signatures.
The attack is the latest police-state operation carried out by Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security on the orders of Trump.
Reflecting the political character of their milieu, most of Mamdani and Friedland’s half-hour discussion centers on casual, empty-headed conversation, with several interruptions to check soccer scores and ad breaks for nicotine and sexual performance products. While by no means a master manipulator, Friedland’s characteristic rambling and aimlessness hide a sharper intent.
A distressed flood-surviving woman asked: “Our parents were submerged in water. We, too, have gone under water. Will our children also suffer the same fate?”
A series of deaths points to the subordination of workers’ health and lives to the interests of corporate profit through speed-ups, subcontracting and casualisation.
More than 5,000 measles cases have been confirmed in 2025 compared to 147 in 2024, with infections reported in nine provinces and the Northwest Territories. Two deaths have been recorded, both infants exposed to the virus in utero.
Following the 2023 presidential elections, Mehmet Şimşek was appointed as the Minister of Treasury and Finance to impose the severe austerity program demanded by international and domestic financial capital.
On Monday, agency workers employed through Job & Talent—used to supply the council’s strikebreaking workforce—began indefinite strike action after voting to do so two weeks ago in a ballot organised by Unite. Around 40 agency workers joined the dispute.
This is the inevitable outcome of their rejection of a struggle by the rank-and-file to overthrow the corrupt union apparatus in favor of bureaucratic self-reform, and its program of combining workers’ “democracy” without a fight against capitalism.
The Trump administration's series of murders in the Caribbean is the consummation of decades of murder, torture and aggressive war by US imperialism, all illegal under the precedent set by the 1945 Nuremberg tribunal.
The fascist in the White House delivered a racist rant targeting Somalis as he ordered the ICE Gestapo to Minnesota.
At the start of the holiday season, General Motors announced the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers, and dozens of low-income and elderly tenants at the historic Leland House downtown were abruptly told they must leave their homes.
Jaber Mohammed, only one among hundreds of prisoners who faced a similar fate, lost five years of his life to a regime of abuse and torture, part of the imperialist reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
Workers’ determination to resist the dismantling of public services and the Legault government’s attacks on democratic rights—including the right to strike—was palpable.
The Greens’ party congress demonstrates that they have moved even further to the right, endorsing the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and preparing for a future war with Russia. Behind their moral posturing lies the real class basis of their politics: unwavering loyalty to German imperialism and the capitalist system.
Heartbreaking scenes reminiscent of the 2004 tsunami are now unfolding across Sri Lanka. Shocking accounts continue to emerge from flood- and landslide-devastated areas as survivors begin to access previously cut-off regions.
At the UTS rally, union speakers claimed to be “winning,” even as the vice-chancellor’s update showed that the majority of the cuts and course closures are still proceeding.
Under Lee Jae-myung and the Democrats, Seoul is marching in lockstep with Washington’s aggressive imperialist agenda, demonstrating that there is no section of the South Korean ruling class opposed to war.
Competing sections of the indigenous capitalist class appear to be fighting for control of Te Pāti Māori, which is threatened with a split.
The founding conference began with witch-hunts and expulsions against the left and continued with every conceivable form of bureaucratic skulduggery.
At events held by Trotskyist publisher Mehring Yayıncılık to screen the documentary film Tsar to Lenin, Ulaş Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, gave a speech on the relevance of the October Revolution of 1917.
