Workers are in a political fight against the union apparatus, the Labor government and capitalism. The phoney pseudo-left “rank-and-file” group has been created to cover this up.
Cabinet minister and JVP Politburo member Vijitha Herath told the media on October 15 that Wickremesinghe’s promised wage increase would have to be revisited.
Two weeks after Israel began its latest onslaught in northern Gaza, aimed at violently displacing the 400,000 Palestinians who remain there, the IDF forced the population of Jabalia refugee camp out at gunpoint amid daily massacres and deliberate starvation.
The fight at Boeing requires a new strategy, based on connecting a rebellion against the union bureaucracy with a global struggle of the working class against war.
On October 16, 37,000 workers at ten UC campuses, five medical centers and other facilities staged protests ahead of the looming expiration of their contract.
At the October 19 convention of the NYC-DSA, the home chapter of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, delegates passed resolutions encouraging members in “swing states” to vote “tactically” to “block Trump’s election.”
Despite New Zealand and Samoan governments seeking to downplay the extent of environmental damage, the ship’s sinking has raised fears of an impending ecological disaster.
The fate of Queensland Labor’s pro-business administration could prefigure that of the federal Labor government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
This open letter, also signed by WSU students, is another indication of the widespread opposition of university workers and students to the suppression of demonstrations against the US-backed Israeli genocide and wider Middle East war.
Cuba has repeatedly failed to bring its electrical grid back up as a result of fuel shortages and deteriorating infrastructure, threatening a social explosion.
Declaring that her 1619 Project had been “borne out” by US political developments, Hannah-Jones employed its racialist falsifications of history to promote the campaign of Kamala Harris, while seeking to sow divisions on the basis of race within the growing movement of the working class.
Events at the company over the last years fully attest to the fact that Eaton strikers in the US and Britain are involved not in a national but a global struggle.
Reeves trailed her budget cuts at last week’s International Investment Summit, saying that Labour’s mission of “being the most pro-business government that this country has ever seen” required “difficult choices” and “discipline on spending”.
The agreement meets none of our demands, which we have made abundantly clear from the start, including an immediate 40 percent pay increase and the restoration of our pensions. No amount of bureaucratic spin can hide the fact that it is a pro-company sellout.
Party speakers explained that President Dissanayake has called the early parliamentary elections to consolidate his administration and deepen the IMF austerity measures initiated by the Wickremesinghe regime.
Once SeeWalker’s views on Gaza became more widely known, a process was set into motion, leading to the rapid capitulation of town officials and the victimization of the artist.
The deal contains pathetic 1.3 percent annual wage increases, in addition to substandard cost of living adjustments, continued hyper-exploitation and surveillance, and the continuation of a vast restructuring program aimed at privatizing USPS.
IAM officials have yet to release ballot totals at Textron, while simultaneously preparing to ram through a deal at Boeing in a snap vote this week.
The state of Alabama executed Derrick Dearman, 36, on Thursday at Holman Correctional Facility, despite his life-long severe mental illness.
The “new” offer contains the same sub-inflationary 3.5 percent pay “rise” that workers decisively rejected in July, but the Health Services Union bureaucracy is promoting the deal as a win and pushing workers to accept it.
The bipartisan event, attended by billionaires, celebrities and politicians of both parties, underscored the fundamental class unity of both parties in waging war and attacking the working class at home.
In a curtain raiser address in advance of the IMF-World Bank meeting this week the IMF chief drew attention to rising levels of government debt.
The million-dollar payoff from Elon Musk is an example of how billionaires are literally buying the US presidential election.
As social and economic conditions decline and the danger of a US-instigated war against China looms, the Indonesian ruling class believes Prabowo is best equipped to suppress workers’ growing anger.
Biden and European heads of state have confirmed their knowledge of plans for an Israeli strike that would unleash war with Iran, but have refused to discuss them publicly.
Deere is once again placing the burden of declining sales on workers by slashing jobs.
The experienced paramedic provided testimony about the toll that the ongoing pandemic is taking on the public and about the eugenicist character of the ruling-class' abandonment of public health.
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.
New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution.
The CITU called off the strike without the rank and file having any say, and without achieving any of the workers’ demands, including for company and state recognition of the newly-organized, CITU-affiliated Samsung India Workers Union.
Boluarte is a reviled figure whose 4 percent approval rating testifies to her lack of any mandate to rule.
The coordinated crackdown on Samidoun by the Biden and Trudeau administations is a component part of their effort to suppress opposition to the Gaza genocide and the wave of pro-Palestinian protests which has continued for more than a year.
As they stopped the truck, the dockers chanted slogans including, “Freedom for Palestine”; and “No land or water to the murderers of the world’s people.” On the container were sprayed the words: “Murderers, get out of the port”.
The swearing-in of Kithure Kindiki, the former interior minister who oversaw police killings of anti-austerity protesters, Gen-Z activists, and pastoralists in Northern Kenya signals the Kenyan ruling class's intent to intensify repression.
The report demonstrates the consequences of decades of attacks by the ruling class on the social conditions of the working class.
The proposed contract confirms every warning made by the World Socialist Web Site since the beginning of the strike, that Boeing and the IAM are colluding to get a pro-company contract passed so that Boeing can resume production on its terms and force workers to pay for the company’s mountain of self-inflicted debt.
That the IAM apparatus even brought this contract to a vote is a clear indication that the bureaucracy never had any intention of waging a serious strike.
Biden’s summit with unpopular German, British and French leaders was overshadowed by the disasters caused by their wars and their fear of a possible second Trump presidency.
The killing of Sinwar prompted statements of unrestrained support for the Netanyahu government by the leaders of the United States, France, Germany and the UK, who used the occasion to openly endorse the Israeli government's campaign of extermination and ethnic cleansing against a population of 2.2 million people.
Educators in East Orange, New Jersey, called in sick to work on Thursday and Friday, after the city’s school board announced that nearly 10 percent of education workers in the district would be laid off in December.
Wong was to give a speech at the University of Tasmania on international relations and policy. Her speech was interrupted by protesters on about a dozen occasions.
Workers took to the streets in Rome, Italy, for industrial action in opposition to Stellantis’ plans to cut more jobs and move production to other countries.
The SEIU-UHW is attempting to limit the ULP strike to non-wage demands, while keeping workers on the job without a contract despite unionizing since 2022.
This development marks another intensification of the Labor government’s transformation of northern Australia into a strategic platform for US wars, both in the Middle East and against China.
FIRST Union leader Dennis Maga’s embrace of NZ First, which is notorious for its racist and xenophobic demagogy, flows from the right-wing and anti-working class character of the union bureaucracy and reinforces the urgent need for new workers’ organisations.
A contract at Norfolk Southern was ratified on low turnout, showing none of the recent rail contracts have any significant support among the rank and file.
Entirely committed to implementing IMF austerity, the JVP/NPP government wants a “strong” majority to strengthen its hand against the mass working class opposition it knows it will soon face.
More than 10,000 Bangladeshi garment workers remain on strike over months of unpaid wages.
The film, buoyed by an excellent cast, including an exceptional performance from Jeremy Strong as right-wing lawyer and Trump mentor Roy Cohn, highlights the continuity between 1950s McCarthyism and today’s emerging fascist movement led by Cohn’s protégé.
The intervention of a federal mediator points to pressure from the White House to shut down the strike against Eaton, a supplier of critical aircraft components.
The mayors made no demand that the root causes of the crisis be identified and dealt with, since to do so would implicate the entire political establishment for imposing decades of austerity.
We call on you to vote for the rank-and-file “Action Committee for Transport Workers” slate in the upcoming staff council elections in mid-November at Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). We are running in these elections to build new fighting structures that will enable us transport workers to intervene directly in workplace disputes.
The growing attacks on public education in Brazil and internationally are part of a shift by the world’s ruling elite towards dictatorship at home and war abroad.
The trauma surgeon, who worked as a volunteer in a Gaza hospital, has tried to mobilize opposition from healthcare workers to the Israeli-US genocide.
The raid is another act of blatant political harassment by the British state, aimed at intimidating a prominent reporter and opponent of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.
Whatever Petrov and Boshirov’s purpose in Salisbury, the fact remains that the “assassination gone wrong” story is not plausible on the available evidence, and is in many places ludicrous.
Opposition is growing to cost-cutting across the global airline industry, a sign of enormous potential support for the Boeing strike.
Zelensky insisted this week that with authorization from his Western backers to launch missiles deep into Moscow’s territory, tens of billions of dollars in additional aid, and an invitation to join NATO, he will deliver “peace through strength.”
Despite overwhelming popular opposition to the Gaza genocide and plans to send NATO troops to Ukraine to fight Russia, NATO governments are planning a further, reckless escalation.
The killing of Sinwar was met with unrestrained declarations of support for Israel's genocidal war by the leaders of the imperialist powers.
Robert Roberson is not only an innocent man; the state of Texas, led by the fascist Governor Greg Abbott and his equally foul Attorney General Ken Paxton are seeking to put him to death for a crime that never occurred.
With anger mounting over the refusal of the UAW to fight layoffs, the Biden administration has thrown its support to Shawn Fain’s fake fight against Stellantis.
Privatisation in the public health system is underway as funding cuts see one third of the population missing out on healthcare of some kind.
Having shown some humanity and elemental sympathy for suffering in Poor Things, Lanthimos cannot simply revert to his previous coldness and cynicism. He has to actively defend those qualities.
The International Monetary Fund has called for reductions in government spending on an unprecedented scale.
This resolution was adopted by the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from October 3-6.
Finkelstein, a tenured professor of anthropology, was fired earlier this year for public and social media comments opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Gig economy delivery workers in Greece in 24-hour walkout against pay cuts and for direct employment; protests and strikes continue across Iran by retirees, teachers, taxi drivers and oil workers over collapsing living standards; South African workers block roads in Johannesburg suburbs over water shortages due to neglected infrastructure
Des told the World Socialist Web Site, “I’d been paying union subs since day one of joining Royal Mail, but CWU officials were not interested in my case.”
Italian autoworkers call for industrial action in opposition to Stellantis’ plans to cut more jobs and move plants to other countries.
The DeVos family, thanks to their Amway billions, have become leading financial backers of right-wing and fascist groups.
Amid the chorus for war with Iran, the imperialist powers’ simultaneous attempt to present themselves as the defenders of the human rights of Palestinians in Gaza in the face of Israel’s deliberate campaign of starvation and ethnic cleansing is an exercise in breathtaking hypocrisy.
There is mass hostility to Labor and the entire political establishment, in opposition to the program of austerity, support for the Israeli genocide and for war.
While the former president steps up his fascistic threats of mass repression, his Democratic opponents confine themselves to declaring him unserious and “unhinged.”
Amid a deafening silence on the content of the Berlin summit, the leading NATO governments are covering up the disaster they have caused in Ukraine as well as their plans for escalation.
A report issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has called into question the very foundations of the regulatory mechanisms put in place after the 2008 crisis.
The whole of corporate America is lining up behind Boeing; the working class must line up behind us.
If Roberson is put to death, he will be the first person in the United States convicted and executed based on now widely discredited scientific criteria for determining “shaken baby syndrome.”
As the campaign for BC's Oct. 19 election comes to a close, polls show a dead heat between the New Democratic Party, which heads the country’s longest tenured provincial social democratic government, and the BC Conservative Party, a newly constituted far-right formation.
The DSA Democrat is a stalwart supporter of the Biden administration, which has from the onset of the Israeli campaign of mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza last October 7 provided the Zionist regime with the arms and political and diplomatic support required for it to carry out its ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Whatever the circumstances behind the accident, the ultimate cause is the failure to adequately fund basic rail safety measures.
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to call for a new mass party for socialism—not because the time is not yet ripe, but because it would win huge popular support.
With less than three weeks to go before the US presidential election, coverage in the media and the statements from Harris and Trump are dominated by trivialities, personal attacks and demagogic lies.
In late September, the Russian government submitted to the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) a draft federal budget for 2024-2026, which provides for a scale of defense spending that is unprecedented in the history of modern Russia.
The conditions at the new joint venture battery plant are appalling, with workers subject to low pay, long hours and numerous safety hazards.
Walgreens announced it intends to close 1,200 retail stores over the next three years as a corporate cost-cutting strategy that will shutter what they deem as poor performing stores.
The SEIU at Michigan Medicine—representing 2,700 hospital employees—announced the night before a one-day strike was scheduled to take place that the walkout had been canceled and a tentative agreement had been reached with management.
The JVP’s opposition to any human rights investigation, based on the lie that the military committed no war crimes, flows from its Sinhala chauvinist politics and ardent support for the protracted anti-Tamil civil war.
While also lashing out at Russia and North Korea, Blinken directed his main criticisms against China, which US imperialism regards as the chief threat to its global economic and strategic dominance.
Taipei’s position is bound up with its support for US imperialism, the promotion of war in defense of capitalism and the belief that the Taiwanese bourgeoisie will ultimately enrich itself as a result.
Wall Street is prepared to spend billions to crush the resistance of the working class in this critical sector of the economy and restore production and profitability at Boeing.
Transit workers are unable to afford the cost of living in the exclusive ski resort town, one of the most expensive places to live in the United States.
Roberson has argued since his conviction that he is the victim of a justice system that wrongly attributed his daughter’s tragic death to “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) and falsely pointed to him as the vicious perpetrator.
On October 15, following hearings, Ann Arbor police rescinded trespass citations that they had issued to block four SEP/IYSSE members from going on campus.
The film presents itself as a “fable” set in New Rome, i.e., present-day New York City. It makes reference through various characters’ names in particular to the Catilinarian conspiracy, in 63 B.C., during the waning years of the Roman Republic.
