Two days after Trump boasted about the “greatest economy in the history of our country” and ranted against immigrant workers, thousands of GM workers will be thrown out of work.
The two-year budget for 2026–27 continues sweeping cuts to education, health care, social services and culture, while massively expanding the police and security apparatus. The austerity measures expose the role of all the establishment parties and trade unions in enforcing social attacks to finance militarisation and the enrichment of the wealthy.
In what appears to be another case of FBI entrapment, the Trump administration and FBI claimed to have foiled a bomb plot their agents and informants were intimately involved in.
As Trump escalates an illegal war of aggression against Venezuela, the Democratic Party has handed him a blank check.
The 18-minute nationally televised address was a declaration of war on the working class, delivered by a president who appeared both demented and fearful.
After reporting persistent sexual harassment by a supervisor, a female postal worker received thinly veiled death threats and is now being further harassed for continuing to fight to expose the conditions that postal workers face on the job.
Tens of thousands of students have launched a powerful strike against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany, expressing mass opposition to militarism and war. This struggle can succeed only if it is extended to the working class and developed into an international socialist movement against war and capitalism.
Vast police-state powers adopted over the past two decades under the false banner of combatting terrorism are being expanded in a bid to silence the opposition of workers and youth to genocide, war, social inequality and austerity.
The provocation by Trump’s fascist Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was a test to see if the police state measures against immigrants could be deployed against broader sections of the working class.
The ongoing sunscreen labelling scandal in Australia has serious implications for public health.
The Liberal government has greeted the criminal acts of Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with a diplomatic shrug.
The most serious artists in the 1920s and early 1930s anticipated or often even assumed that society was proceeding to a new and higher stage.
“I call on my brothers and sisters around the world to use Socialism AI to educate, organise and unite.”
The WSWS urges all resident doctors to contact NHS FightBack which called for the rejection of Streeting’s insulting offer and outlined a strategy to end the isolation of their struggle.
Thousands of health, education and public sector workers in Greece walk out over austerity budget; protests continue across Iran by retirees, gold miners, energy and health sector workers; health sector unions in Nigeria winding down ongoing strike over pay and conditions
Today, land in Nairobi is concentrated in the hands of a small number of wealthy individuals, while millions are forced to live in slums such as Mathare, Kangemi, Kibera, Mukuru, Dandora and Kawangware, or remain entirely landless.
Mack Trucks worker and UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman released this video explaining the significance of Socialism AI for the working class.
Workers in one country cannot defend their jobs at the expense of the jobs of workers in another. Their class interests transcend national rivalries and the chaos of the market. Workers share a common interest in the use of technology to benefit all of humanity, rather than to enrich a privileged few.
Reiner has been a household name in the US since his days on the immensely popular situation comedy "All in the Family" in the 1970s.
In a 31-19 vote, more than half of the 40 Republicans in the Indiana Senate joined with 10 Democrats to reject a Trump-backed plan to gerrymander the state’s congressional map and eliminate the state’s two Democratic-held districts.
Readers should note that the two leading politicians behind the smear campaign are members of nominally left organisations.
The talks on a supposed “peace plan” for Ukraine, which took place in Berlin over the past few days, have made one thing clear above all else: the leading European powers—above all Germany—are doing everything they can to prolong NATO’s war against Russia.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers outlined billions of dollars in cuts to government programs and declared that there would be more “difficult” decisions to come.
Despite ongoing complaints, exposures and official inquiries into the exploitative Pacific labour schemes over many years, little has changed.
“It gives you sources and suggests follow‑up questions… It raises consciousness and prompts you about what you can do.”
By December 13, the widespread water outage had affected approximately 100,000 people in Waterbury and two suburbs, in one of the city’s most significant water emergencies in decades.
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to lecturers and students about the implications of shutting down entire departments and the continuing financialisation of higher education.
This atomisation of HE workers’ struggles within a single city is an acute expression of the union's policy of isolating a series of local recent strikes over job losses, and other issues, including many dozens of course closures, at universities in Edinburgh, Nottingham, Cardiff, Bradford, Leicester and Dundee—all which face defeat.
“Sons and daughters. Colleagues. Veterans… will all have a role to play. To build. To serve. And if necessary, to fight,” Sir Richard Knighton insisted.
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
The death of Rod Paige, former US Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, who played a key role in subordinating public education to profit interests, provides an opportunity to review the bipartisan war on public education.
Prime Minister Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns, along with top police and intelligence officials, are fashioning a narrative that protects the interests of governments and the state apparatus.
Sustained mass protests have forced the resignation of Bulgaria’s government just weeks before the planned introduction of the euro. The upheaval reflects deep popular opposition to austerity, corruption and militarisation driven by the EU and enforced by successive governments.
In recent days many workers have reached out to the WSWS to express their anger and frustration with both GM and the UAW.
The biggest concern is the fall in investment which has declined markedly in the past year.
Trofimova’s documentary rejects the bogus narrative peddled by US imperialism and its Canadian and European allies about “Putin’s unprovoked war,” and gives voice to the ordinary Russian soldiers the Western media has systematically dehumanized.
The rise in cases of the highly contagious, potentially deadly disease, 10 years after it was eliminated, is due to attacks on vaccination and public health, in Australia and internationally.
The situation underscores the need for action by the working class to defend the right to a job.
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
The US president declared Venezuela a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" and claimed the country owes the United States "oil, land, and other assets."
This new feature will highlight selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Boric’s government, like its “Pink Tide” counterparts in Latin America, paved the way for the right by defending capitalist property relations and failing to alter conditions of poverty and extreme social inequality confronting the masses.
Attacks on civilian merchant shipping in the Black Sea expand the scope of the war and threaten to drag NATO members like Türkiye deeper into the maelstrom.
These are the vindictive, lawless actions of a police state. Labour has branded Palestine Action and its supporters “terrorists” to justify swallowing innocent people into the prison system and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment.
The British Medical Association announced the ballot result on Monday: a 65.34 percent turnout with an overwhelming 83.2 percent voting to strike between December 17 and 22.
“I encourage workers to try Socialism AI…because it connects to what is happening in the broader sense—to understand why it is happening, what to do about it, and how to communicate these ideas to fellow workers.”
Those responsible for the continuing carnage in Gaza, above all the Israeli government and its backers, are seeking to exploit the killing spree to insist that all protests and statements of opposition to the genocide must be shut down.
There is a now a “rapacious appetite” for deregulation of the financial system, recalling the period leading up the stock market crash of 1929.
This new feature will highlight selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
The Trump administration is seeking to plunder Venezuela’s oil reserves as part of a campaign to dominate Latin America as a resource base for war with Russia and China.
In furtherance of the mass deportation operation and a sweeping attack on the privacy rights of the entire population, the Transportation Security Administration is providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement with air passenger lists multiple times per week.
Numerous reports have emerged of residents who will be forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars or more for out-of-pocket repairs.
India’s demonstrative display of the “warmth” and “strength” of its decades-long strategic partnership with Russia was meant as a message to Washington that New Delhi will not allow the US to define its relationship with Moscow.
With the votes of the fascistic AfD, the state assembly has adopted sweeping amendments to the police law that massively expand surveillance powers, including covert home break-ins and mass data collection.
The contract expirations for more than 20,000 nurses create the potential for a major, coordinated fight for safe staffing, pay rises above inflation and the best possible healthcare benefits.
In the first popular protest against right-wing President Rodrigo Paz, workers demonstrated against increases in flour and bread prices.
On Wednesday, 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) support workers are demonstrating against poverty and exploitation which the district is seeking to deepen in a new contract.
Last Friday, educators across the Australian state walked off the job for half a day, closing most public schools in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie.
The HMNZS Aotearoa carried out “surveillance and deterrence” activities on China’s doorstep, including a provocative passage through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka’s central hill district speak out against decades of government neglect that left them living in known landslide zones with no protection or aid.
With the witness list exceeding 50 people, the trial is expected to continue well into next year.
The closures expose claims from the Teamsters that they were protecting job security in their 2024 sellout contract.
Jewish people and their children living in Australia bear no responsibility for the ongoing slaughter by the Israeli Zionist regime in Gaza and the occupied West Bank of Palestine.
Construction workers, US citizens and even Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son have been accosted by the immigration Gestapo.
Whatever deal may be reached, it will not be a solution to the structural crisis of Russian capitalism and the imperialist efforts to carve up the entire former Soviet Union to bring its resources under the direct control of the imperialist powers.
US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States would begin ground attacks in the Caribbean on Venezuela “pretty soon,” raising the prospect of a US aerial bombardment of Venezuela.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina exposes the social and political roots of vaccine refusal and the broader assault on public health institutions in the United States.
At the time of writing, neither the postal service nor the postal unions have issued any public statement acknowledging the worker's death or explaining the circumstances surrounding it.
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy has not even made a pretense of opposing the mass layoffs, which will only deepen the social crisis in Detroit, the poorest big city in America.
The SEP sadly announces the death of two working class comrades R. M. Gunathilake (87) and Leela Balasuriya (79). We will publish tributes in the coming days.
It sets out the various sides in an episode where a sexual assault has been alleged with such even-handedness that drawing larger conclusions is challenging.
The ATO’s crackdown on working-class individuals and small businesses is occurring amid a historic cost-of-living crisis.
A “person of interest” has been detained by police following a mass shooting in a classroom at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday.
Stellantis exploits Kragujevac workers through nationality-based wage tiers and forced migration.
Chinese security forces jail strike leader; Algeria expels 350,000 Moroccans; Truman declares national emergency after Korean War defeats; Russian Communist Party adopts “socialism in one country."
Across the globe, severe weather due to climate change is causing thousands of deaths and widespread destruction.
The Left Party has launched a ferocious campaign against its own youth organisation after it explicitly described Israel’s assault on Gaza as genocide. The episode exposes the party’s deep integration into the German state apparatus and underlines why young people need a genuine socialist alternative rooted in internationalism and the working class.
The US trade deal was Starmer’s attempt to secure an advantage over Europe in the UK’s dealings with America. The pharmaceuticals scandal makes clear that any favourable treatment secured by Labour was won by selling the working class down the river.
From Social Democrats to fascist parties, all are pushing towards an agreement by the spring of 2026 that will spell the end of any commitment to the universalist principles proclaimed in the European Convention on Human Rights in the aftermath of the horrific crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II.
Leading House Democrats released two groups of pictures—first, 19 and then later, another 70—on Friday from a reported trove of 95,000 photos that were turned over to the Oversight Committee on Thursday by the Epstein estate.
Many displaced WSU workers are being shunted into lower-paid positions, face higher workloads or are yet to be allocated alternative positions.
Understaffing and the federal designation of nursing as a nonprofessional degree are arousing healthcare workers’ opposition.
Democratic Party leaders voted for the record Pentagon spending bill, as the Trump administration deploys F-35s and electronic warfare jets to the Caribbean in preparation for war against Venezuela.
The Washington meetings raised questions that were not publicly answered, including whether the Australian Labor government gave commitments to increase military spending beyond even the current record levels.
Residents of two historic downtown Detroit building face loss of utilities due to landlord neglect in the midst of cold wave.
The strike reflects rising worker militancy against Meloni’s war budget, as CGIL leaders act to limit, defuse and control the opposition.
The Frontline Socialist Party’s proposals to the JVP/NPP government are to help cover up its responsibility for the disaster and the capitalist system that produced it.
A new Lancet Series presents the most comprehensive scientific assessment to date of ultra-processed foods. Its findings expose a global health crisis driven by industry profit, political inertia, and the transformation of food systems worldwide.
A wave of serious and fatal workplace accidents at Deutsche Bahn has claimed numerous lives in 2025, exposing recurring patterns of danger in shunting yards, track construction sites and overhead line work.
The 11,000-plus job cuts in September 2025 were the largest monthly loss of jobs in the state since the onset of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security arrogantly denied any violations of democratic rights by the ICE and Border Patrol gestapo, and walked out of the hearing before it was half over, thumbing her nose at Democratic Party protests.
The Workers Party government has marked a new stage in its subordination of to imperialist dictates just as Washington prepares open war against a neighboring country.
Nuwara Eliya district, predominantly inhabited by Tamil-speaking tea plantation workers earning low wages, is among the worst affected by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides, and stone slides caused by the cyclone.
India: Construction workers in Tamil Nadu demand minimum wage; Assam 108 Ambulance emergency workers remain on strike; Australia: Bookstore workers to walk out for better pay and conditions; Healthscope theatre nurses strike in Victoria; New Zealand firefighters continue walkout.
The bureaucratic exclusion of Engler is entirely of a piece with the NDP’s broader record.
Tram drivers cannot entrust their dispute to the Unite apparatus, which attempted to sabotage their struggle before it even started.
The strike underlines the ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention--bound up with decades of funding cuts, curriculum reforms and attacks on conditions in UK schools.
Doctors have immense public support. Their fight is not a narrow pay issue but part of a broader political confrontation. It can become a rallying point for all National Health Service workers against the Starmer government’s austerity, privatisation and militarism.
One of the main functions of the conference was to spread the illusion that negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), supported by US and European imperialism, could bring about democratization and peace, and to endorse Öcalan’s role and the anti-Marxist postmodern perspective he has developed.
Portugal’s first general strike in twelve years, jointly called by the Socialist Party (PS) aligned UGT and the Communist Party (PCP) aligned CGTP, shook the country, confirming and extending the escalating class struggle across Europe.
