Such scandals, heavily promoted by the corporate media outlets, are invariably mechanisms for executing political shifts as governments unravel in the face of popular hostility.
The report, riddled with lies and misinformation, is a crude justification for the subordination of public health and lives to the profit interests of the corporate and financial elite.
There is a pervasive sense that the political system is dysfunctional, incapable of responding to the needs of the people and heading toward violent domestic conflict.
An online petition condemning the targeting and murder of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli government in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon has received the support of nearly 800 journalists internationally.
The elevation of Kennedy Jr. threatens the end of public vaccination and will further normalize mass death from previously contained infectious diseases.
This is a direct product of the conscious and planned abolition of virtually all public health measures to prevent the spread of COVID, including the removal of mask mandates in hospitals.
Coming more than 18 months after the previous contract expired, the ratification vote was more a vote of non-confidence in the FIQ leadership than a show of support for the concessions-laden contract.
New laws tightening gun control and increasing deportations are part of the attempts by the German government to prepare the state for the impending explosive conflicts with the working class.
Workers at the plant on the south side of Chicago last Monday reported arriving to locked gates as well as delivery drivers unaware the plant was shut down permanently.
India: Salem Steel Plant workers strike; Bangladeshi garment workers take action over unpaid wages; Sri Lankan railway station masters hold strike; Australia: Qube port workers continue industrial action; Centennial Coal miners in NSW...
In this video, Des Beach, a Royal Mail delivery worker with 31-years’ service, speaks about his unfair dismissal with Tony Robson from the World Socialist Web Site .
This arrest and the appointment of a trustee to replace an elected mayor is a clear attack on basic democratic rights. The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long sought to stifle political opposition through such...
University College London (UCL) and Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK hosted a screening of The Unequal Pandemic, followed by a panel discussion, to launch the film about inequality during COVID.
In the face of Stellantis’s economic blackmail, and with Vauxhall workers’ jobs and conditions used as bargaining chips in talks with the most “pro-business” Labour government in history, the Unite union has maintained a guilty silence.
Speaking in Michigan on Monday, Bill Clinton justified the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, openly advocating the targeting of civilians and collective punishment against non-combatants, both of which are war crimes.
This week’s announcement makes clear that the JVP/NPP administration will not hesitate to use the PTA and other repressive measures against workers and other political opponents of its International Monetary Fund-mandated program.
Investigative journalists and the recent Royal Commission into Abuse in Care have highlighted how successive governments, lawyers, judges and state officials covered up systemic abuse of hundreds of thousands of people in state-run...
The toothless action epitomises the role of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) bureaucracy, which is working to suppress a struggle by workers against the Labor government.
Before Election Day, the fascist Republican presidential candidate is seeking to lay the basis for legal and extra-legal challenges in the event he loses.
Canada’s social democrats are doubling down on their support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, which Jama was thrown out of the NDP’s parliamentary caucus for speaking out against in October 2023.
Volkswagen wants to cut the wages of its 120,000 employees in Germany by almost 20 percent, thereby saving €2 billion a year. This became known on Wednesday evening after the second round of negotiations on the VW company wage agreement.
Car workers in Germany strike for pay rise as global car industry demands job cuts and lower pay; retirees, municipal and oil workers and the disabled join ongoing protests across Iran as living standards collapse; healthcare workers in...
Channel 4’s programme is based on an investigation conducted by Hope Not Hate. It is an important documentary, revealing the international and financial connections of the global fascist movement.
On her crowdfund site, Abusalama explained: “This victory is not just personal. It is a victory against attempts to silence advocates for justice in Palestine”.
The attack—far and away the biggest Israeli military strike ever launched against Iran—represents a major provocation and escalation of Israel’s war throughout the Middle East.
Parents at Fuentes Elementary organized a demonstration to protest the closure of their children’s school. Acero, the charter network, is closing seven schools this year, impacting 2,000 students and 250 jobs in primarily working class...
The Democrats are fearful above all of evoking anxiety and anger, of creating a situation where broader layers of the population will react. In the face of a fascist menace, the Democrats preach quiescence.
The opinion of economic and financial analysts both in China and internationally is that more must be done to boost consumption spending, and that unless that happens, the target growth rate for this year of “about 5 percent” will not be...
The right-wing Supreme Court supermajority intervened to allow the continuation of a Republican-backed program to summarily disqualify voters as suspected non-citizens.
The meeting at the working-class university outlined a socialist perspective, based on the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war.
Workers voted by over 95 percent to strike, making clear their determination to fight back after years of concessions and to resist the Crown corporation's plans to use AI and other new technologies to increase worker-exploitation.
The strike by some 1,500 Samsung India workers was abruptly brought to an end by the CITU, the Stalinist trade union federation, after it capitulated all down the line to Tamil Nadu’s DMK government and Samsung management.
Spain’s worst flood in decades is a social disaster driven by the ruling elite’s inability to plan policies to halt climate change, or even to devise basic disaster management plans advocated by scientists.
Macron's “strategic framework” is a proposal to use Morocco as a source of cheap qualified labor and logistics to boost French corporations’ profits and increase French imperialism’s influence in the contested areas of the Sahel and West...