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.
The Japanese auto industry stands to lose billions as a result of the US tariff war which is creating what the country’s prime minister has said is a “national crisis.”
“I think when working people around the world realise that the interests of the billionaires are against them, there will definitely be a revolution.”
One day after Israel's cabinet voted to approve a plan for the full military occupation of Gaza, the internal displacement of its people, and the takeover of food supplies by the IDF, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich made clear the plan would be the next step in the total ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
The closure of the refinery will result in 400 layoffs and destroy potentially thousands of jobs across the agricultural economy in California’s poorest county.
This speech was given by Will Lehman, an autoworker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania and member of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The bipartisan anti-immigrant policies that have escalated for decades have pushed immigrants to take increasingly dangerous routes over deadly waters and through the deserts of the southwest.
The students, who have been deemed “personae non grata” (PNG) by the university for their participation in pro-Palestinian protest actions, received emails from NYU demanding that they sign a contract affirming that they will “not participate in any protest activity or disruptive activity” on campus.
The CEOs of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service stated on Sunday they oppose Donald Trump’s order to cut off finding to the public broadcasting services as unconstitutional.
The Trump administration has already banished some individuals, but recent reports indicate that it is now seeking to expand the number of countries that will serve as foreign penal colonies.
The incident once again highlights the ailing infrastructure in the German capital and the impact of decades of cutbacks by every government of that state.
After a five-year pause in student loan collections, the Trump administration has begun ruthless collection efforts while simultaneously preparing massive budget cuts to higher education programs.
For their latest collaboration, two jazz musicians sought to express sorrow, along with rebellion and the unquenchable desire for liberation.
Despite media claims about Panama’s “economic miracle,” underlying the strikes and protests are obscene levels of social inequality and poverty.
This speech was given by Andrei Ritsky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The Merz government is undoubtedly the most reactionary and anti-working class government since the fall of the Nazi regime 80 years ago. Its central aim is to remove the last restraints imposed on German militarism as a result of its unprecedented crimes in the Second World War.
The workers are fighting Labour-led Birmingham City Council and its unelected commissioners, backed by a Labour government in Downing Street determined to impose a crushing defeat, paving the way for a renewed austerity offensive on local authorities across the UK.
Depicting the November 24, 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the Channel opens a window onto the crimes committed against migrants all over the world.
The incidents have exposed how decades of understaffing and outdated equipment, exacerbated by massive federal cuts under the Trump administration, have brought the US airline industry to the brink of disaster.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday that Israel’s cabinet had adopted a plan to permanently occupy the Gaza Strip, internally displace its population into concentration camps and enforce a military monopoly on the distribution of food.
