In laying siege to hotels, the far-right and its echo chamber media claim day in day out that asylum seekers are living a life of luxury at tax payers’ expense. This is a pack of lies.
Opposition party CHADEMA alleges that as many as 800 people have been killed. A diplomatic source told the BBC that deaths could exceed 500. With restrictions to social media, foreign journalists barred from entering and domestic outlets...
50,000 resident doctors in the British Medical Association have waged a two-year battle for pay restoration. They have now added the fight to end widespread unemployment facing doctors in the NHS.
The confirmation of former UPS and Amazon executive David Keeling to head OSHA and long-time Republican operative Wayne Palmer to oversee mine safety presages a stepped up assault on worker safety protections.
The threat to shut off food stamps is part of a broader social counter-revolution, which will not stop until the oligarchs behind Trump are finally expropriated, and society put under workers’ control.
The censorship measure in Nuremberg is one of countless attacks on fundamental democratic rights. Congresses have been banned, cultural centres closed and artists and scientists persecuted for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.
This lecture reviews in detail the key developments in the Security and the Fourth International investigation in 1976-77, as the ICFI relentlessly pursued the truth behind the GPU conspiracy to murder Leon Trotsky.
In a statement Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said there was “no justification in international law” for the missile strikes that have killed over 60 people.
Just three days after two workers were killed and another was seriously injured in the blast, Polymetals Resources has announced that work will resume at the mine on Wednesday.
Following the mass public sector strike in New Zealand, the November 9 online meeting will discuss the socialist and internationalist strategy required to fight austerity, wage cuts, dictatorship and war.
The summit’s agenda was devoted to developing “operational collaboration” between Pacific militaries to face “new trends in security challenges,” targeting China.
"At university, they push us to attract industry funds, and they do not encourage critical thinking in students. It shouldn't be about job training all the time!”
In creating his Little Tramp character, Chaplin took a social type that was reviled by official bourgeois society—the vagrant, the unemployed man, the person without property—and turned him into arguably the most beloved character in the...
What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.
While the outcome is touted by the media as a popular endorsement of Milei’s economic austerity agenda, the mid-terms saw the lowest turnout since the end of the dictatorship in 1983.
India: Striking ASHA workers in Kerala attacked by police; Bangladesh: Dhaka police attack protesting madrasa teachers; Australia: Genex Power hydro project workers strike over unsafe accommodation; Thousands of Tasmanian public sector...
The negotiations between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party have nothing to do with the pursuit of peace and democracy. Turkey’s ruling elites have approached the negotiations from the outset as a security issue.
The Labour government was elected in July last year with a manifesto stating that under the Conservatives rough sleepers were “an all too-common sight in our towns and cities” and promising to “put Britain back on track to ending...
Following an agreement with Malaysia in which it will invest $70 billion in the US over the course of 10 years, Trump managed to finalise the commitment by South Korea to supply $350 billion in investment funds to the US.
The summit was overshadowed by Trump’s highly provocative announcement, just prior to meeting Xi, that the US would immediately recommence “nuclear testing” in a move that threatens to dramatically escalate the nuclear arms race.
Nuclear testing, beyond scattering deadly radiation into the atmosphere and contaminating groundwater, is universally understood as a massively escalatory gesture, expanding the possibility of nuclear war, whether through miscalculation...
Far from expressing the urgent interests of the masses, the vote represents a further stage in the reshuffling of power among factions of the ruling elite as they grapple with mounting social, economic and geopolitical turmoil.
While Berlin’s public schools are falling apart, social institutions are on the brink of collapse, and ruthless cuts are being made in hospitals, care services, universities and public infrastructure, the Berlin state administration is...
The documentary has attracted an audience seeking to understand the rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil, but it ignores the role played by the Workers Party (PT) of President Lula.
Accepting calmly and with dignity his approaching death, Alan expressed satisfaction with the course of his life, to which he had devoted 50 years to the struggle for socialism.
After initial news reportage, the mainstream media has largely dropped the story, showing little interest in how this tragedy will impact psychologically and economically on the immediate families or the community.
A recent Associated Press investigation revealing hundreds of anti-science bills across the United States anchors this analysis of the MAHA movement, whose integration with the Trump administration’s austerity agenda threatens public...
“Whether it’s safe work, governments or the unions, they’re all covering up the real cause of workplace deaths and injuries, that is, the capitalist system that puts profits over lives.”
With the aim of “creating the strongest conventional army in Europe,” the Merz government is pushing forward an unprecedented militarisation and preparations for war.
Mass protests have erupted across Tanzania following a fraudulent vote engineered to secure President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling CCM another term in power.
Public sector workers across Portugal strike over funding cuts, pay and conditions; workers at Israel’s Holocaust museum stage first ever full strike over wages; postal workers in Kenya and Embu, Nigeria walk out over months of salary...
General Motors on Wednesday announced a new wave of job cuts at its US electric-vehicle and battery operations, part of a mounting assault on jobs throughout the American and global economy.
Some 277 students at Royal Oak High School conducted a walkout/sit-in last Wednesday, after news got around that a Turning Point club had been established at their school.
Support for the Mamdani campaign reflects a shift to the left among workers and youth, but Mamdani’s program does not represent a way forward in the fight against oligarchy and dictatorship.