The May Day rally of the Joint Trade Union Alliance made crystal clear that its concern is not the jobs and conditions of workers, but to shore up Sri Lankan industries which rely heavily on US markets.
The international assessment by economists is that the US was forced to pull back from its frontal economic assault on China because of the damage this inflicted on itself.
In the aftermath of events like this, the FAA consistently claims that “safety was never compromised.” This is double-speak for “nothing happened this time.”
Graduate workers are exploited by a system that pays them in stipends and earn as little as $15,000 a year, in a city that regularly ranks as one of the poorest in the country.
For the ruling elite the election was a referendum over geopolitical ties. For the mass of voters it was an expression of anger over the social crisis they confront.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The railroads are using Trump’s destruction of all corporate regulations to push for what has been a top priority for years and which will cost thousands of jobs and lead to more accidents.
A militant strike by transit workers across Argentina halted buses in major industrial centers, while teachers in Alberta, Canada voted down a mediated deal recommended by their union.
While posturing as a reformer, Prevost was selected to further the Church’s alliance with capital and protect its own extensive financial interests
Around 11,500 Ford workers in Cologne voted overwhelmingly last week for an indefinite strike to defend their jobs.
The entire population of Gaza is at “critical risk of famine,” according to a report published Monday by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
Students and staff joined a protest at Sydney’s Macquarie University to oppose deep cuts to courses and degrees, but the rally organisers presented the cuts as isolated to the university, divorcing them from the wave of job cuts nationally as a result of the Labor government’s policies.
An executive order signed on May 5, 2025, weaponizes the false claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 was manufactured in a Chinese laboratory.
The cuts decided so far are huge: 130 million euros will be slashed this year alone, 149 million in 2026, and another 164 million in 2027.
Lawyers for a Rhode Island Hospital kidney doctor filed an amended lawsuit last week challenging her illegal deportation to Lebanon by CBP agents at Boston Logan International airport.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The alternative to global capitalist exploitation is not protectionism in the service of our ”own” ruling class, but the international unity of workers against a common enemy: the transnational corporations that exploit our labor.
Since 2016, every right-wing scoundrel in Britain has embraced the anti-immigrant Brexit slogan “Take Back Control”. Starmer’s narrative was that the Brexit pledge had been betrayed by the previous Conservative government.
The documentary shows the settlers in their role as the Israeli state’s advanced guard in the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of the Palestinians.
The aim of the proposed restructure is to ensure that union officials at every level, from the branch leadership down to site delegates, are committed to carrying out the dictates of the administrator—that is, of the ruling elite.
In order to save billions of dollars, the government has cancelled negotiations for 33 pay equity claims covering teachers and other workers who are alleging underpayment due to gender-based discrimination.
On May 3 the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, called for the prosecution of leading European Union officials for complicity in the war crimes committed by Israel.
India and Pakistan, South Asia’s rival nuclear powers, are on the brink of all-out war. Such a conflict would be catastrophic, not only for the region’s 2 billion people, but for the entire world.
The collapse of support for the Liberals is part and parcel of a far broader crisis of the two-party system on which the ruling class has relied since the end of World War II.
This protest came amid intensifying atrocities in Gaza, where the Israeli government has launched what it calls the “concluding moves” of its military campaign.
Over 3,000 jet engine workers at Pratt & Whitney’s East Hartford and Middletown, Connecticut plants remain on strike after rejecting the company’s contract offer on May 4.
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From Massachusetts to Hawaii, lawless ICE agents are raiding homes and businesses, snatching up workers, and separating families without due process or a shred of humanity.
Social media posts reveal abusive conditions at the Stellantis-Samsung SDI joint venture plant in Kokomo where the UAW gained a foothold earlier this year.
After NJ Transit engineers rejected a grossly inadequate tentative agreement, the Federal government is attempting to prevent a strike that could cripple transit service in the state.
A massive firework explosion in the Netherlands killed 23 people; 41 US Marines killed in SS Mayaguez incident; American Communist Party leader jailed defying HUAC; Virgina Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway published.
The notion of “sanctuary” cities and states—promoted by Democratic officials such as California Governor Gavin Newsom—has proven to be a lie.
This speech on the political situation in Sri Lanka and South Asia was given at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
On May 5, 25 students in California launched a hunger strike to oppose mass starvation as part of the genocide in Gaza.
This speech was given by Socialist Equality Party (Australia) assistant national secretary Max Boddy at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The establishment of a permanent US naval base in Argentina’s southernmost port, Ushuaia, would be a major departure from Argentina’s supposed neutrality.
There are suspicions of police complicity in the massacre, which is bound up with the struggle for control of lucrative gold mining operations.
The stage-managed “megapicket” provided an opportunity for union leaders to pose before the cameras with their hollow declarations of solidarity, while surrender terms are plotted behind closed doors at ACAS.
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Uganda’s long-time ruler Yoweri Museveni, has admitted to torturing an opposition aide in his private residence.
The pseudo-left is peddling the fraud that the new Labor government can be pressured for reforms, when its real agenda will be massive austerity and militarism in preparation for war with China.
On Monday, the Netanyahu government effectively announced the start of the final stage of ethnic cleansing of Gaza with a plan to militarily occupy the entire Gaza Strip and transfer the population into concentration camps under armed guard, in preparation for sending them on forced marches through the desert or loading them onto ships.
Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s erection of a political dictatorship.
Many questions remain unanswered in the tragic April 7 death of Adams, a 19-year plant veteran known as an outspoken advocate for safety.
The Left Party’s support was decisive in enabling Merz to take office—a politician who openly works with the far-right AfD on key issues and supports the interests of finance capital, aggressive militarism and an authoritarian state like almost no other German politician.
The trial of former officer Christopher Schurr, who was charged with murder in the 2022 execution-style shooting of Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ended with a hung jury on Thursday.
Despite its electoral setback, the ruling JVP/NPP will use the election results to ruthlessly implement IMF austerity and suppress the growing popular opposition of the working people.
Democratic Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark—New Jersey’s largest city—was arrested by federal agents during a peaceful protest at Delaney Hall.
This speech was given by Evan Blake, Coordinator of the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tomas Castanheira, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
South Korea: Seoul bus drivers impose work bans; Striking teachers in Nepal win better pay and conditions; Bangladeshi tea garden workers protest for unpaid entitlements; Australia: Mental health workers continue rolling stoppages in Victoria.
According to some estimates, 90 percent of Pakistan’s population depends on the waters of the Indus.
Whatever the origins of this particular proposal, it is a demonstration of the fundamentally sadistic preoccupation with brutal repression as the solution to the crisis of American capitalism.
Wolfgang underwent the “internal revolution” that Trotsky said was necessary for intellectuals to break from their class and fully join the ranks of the working class. He consciously merged all the progressive elements of his humanist education with the revolutionary traditions of the working class and Marxism.
To find in reality the basis for changing the existing state of things, the artist has to approach reality with anger and partisanship.
The fabricated charges and politically motivated prosecution of pro-Palestinian protesters were part of a national, bipartisan campaign to suppress and intimidate opposition to the genocidal war waged by US and Israeli imperialism.
More than anything, the deal is a signal from Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government that it is prioritising relations with America over those with Europe. And Trump’s White House is eager to use this fact to its advantage in its trade war, against the European Union, but also globally.
NHS Fightback is holding a Zoom meeting on Monday May 19, at 7 p.m. to oppose Labour’s plans to gut and privatise the NHS. All healthcare workers, patients and their families are invited to attend.
The bureaucrats are signalling that they will enforce the pro-war, pro-business agenda of the Labor government and do everything they can to suppress opposition.
Proposed cuts would result in 500,000 riders losing access to nearby bus routes and entire neighborhoods severed from rail service.
In his remarks, the President made clear that after two lost world wars, German imperialism is planning nothing less than a third grab for world power.
Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza were forced to shut down Thursday due to lack of food amid the ongoing Israeli blockade aimed at starving the Palestinian population and annexing their land.
After viewing footage of his son, 18-year-old Ryan Hinton, being gunned down by police while fleeing, Rodney Hinton Jr., 38, is accused of killing a deputy by running him down with his car.
The US position was set out by treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who said the international economic system had to be better balanced to serve the interests of the US.
Last week’s equipment failure did not have a fatal result this time, but it illustrates the crumbling nature of the National Airspace System (NAS) in the United States.
Harsono’s spouse, Peyton Harsono, believes that her husband was detained due to his political activism and support for Palestine.
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of around 100 anti-genocide student protesters took over the Butler Library’s main reading room and renamed it the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” after the Palestinian activist and writer killed by Israeli forces in 2017.
The corruption of the Trump family is an essential feature of this fascist government.
Their support for the EU’s war drive constitutes a wholesale betrayal of the working class and a damning exposure of their role as enforcers of capitalist rule.
Behind their maneuvers is the discrediting of the Brazilian unions, with their long history of collaboration with the companies and the state.
The only conclusion to be drawn is that the Transport Workers' Action Committee must now be established so we can represent our interests. Verdi's termination of the contract dispute underlines nothing can be achieved under the union leadership. New forms of organisation are needed: action committees.
General Motors Canada announced Friday that it will idle the third shift at its Oshawa, Ontario assembly plant this coming September. About 700 production workers will be laid off at that time. Another 1,500 supply chain jobs will also be affected.
The pro-Labour Party publication is supporting the New Zealand Herald’s call for conscription as part of efforts to integrate the country into US war preparations.
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
This speech was given by Darren Paxton, leader of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The Tüpraş workers must take matters into their own hands by forming rank-and-file committees to take their struggle forward,
The Irish hip-hop trio’s opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues to win support from artists across the musical spectrum and around the world.
National rail strikes over pay and conditions, eight-hours in Italy and seven-days by French workers on regional railways; teachers in Israel in wildcat strike after union calls off stoppage and accepts pay cuts; council workers and teachers in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory continue walkout rejecting pay offer below minimum wage
Amid the growing din of threats and counter-threats emanating from political and military leaders on both sides, Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict.
Fed chair Jerome Powell noted that surveys of households and businesses had reported a “sharp decline in sentiment and elevated uncertainty about the economic outlook largely reflecting trade policy concerns.”
The company, the United Auto Workers and safety agencies have released no information about the causes of the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
The commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II are taking place in the midst of the return of global war and fascism.
The acquittal has once again brought to the fore the reality of police violence and murder in America.
The ruling is one of several issued by judges in the last 48 hours against Trump’s efforts to kidnap and exile immigrants without due process to foreign torture dungeons.
The move signals a massive escalation of attacks on the post office, especially its privatization, which Trump supports.
Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services has embraced vaccine myths, the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory, and even claims that his own department has in the past engaged in child trafficking.
In the space of two weeks, two of the pro-Palestinian singer’s concerts were cancelled in a brazen attack on freedom of speech.
While Carney obsequiously flattered Trump, the would-be dictator president reiterated his goal of destroying the Canadian economy so as to take over the country and prepare for world war against China.
The protest called attention to Shaban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old Gazan who was burned alive by an Israeli Defense Forces attack on October 14, 2024.
A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism to the first class societies around the world.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
This speech was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Committee member Jean Shaoul at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Nick Beams, a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Our speakers will pose and answer the question, “Is America going fascist?” They will explain that Trump’s regime poses a threat to the working class all over the world and will outline a strategy to fight.
The drama is made all the more convincing by fine acting, including by Edison Alcaide as Jean Charles, and the fact that the filmmakers worked closely with the De Menezes family.
At the online meeting, Thursday May 15 at 7 p.m., the Socialist Equality Party will discuss the way forward for workers after the federal election.
The attacks have deliberately inflamed one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints for war. The rivalry of the two nuclear-armed countries, which have already fought three wars over Kashmir, is now intertwined with the US-led preparations for war with China.
Opposed to any mobilisation of the working class to defend its wages and conditions, the Tamil Progressive Alliance is appealing to European imperialism to pressure the Sri Lankan government to enact human rights legislation.
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz was only elected German Chancellor in the second round of voting on Tuesday. And only thanks to the help of the Left Party and the Greens.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
