• 2 deaths from massive storms in the New York-New Jersey area
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from English
    A series of intense storms struck the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area on Monday, triggering flash flooding that caused the death of two women when their vehicle was swept up by ferocious waters in Plainfield, New Jersey.
  • Workers Struggles: The Americas
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from English
    Peruvian peasant miners strike, blockade roads; Hospital workers rally across Latin Ameica; California garbage haulers join growing national strike against Republic Services; Rio Tinto steelworkers begin strike in Quebec.
  • French Prime Minister Bayrou presents class war budget
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from English
    The budget would impose sweeping cuts to social programs to free up tens of billions of euros for the ongoing military build-up and NATO war plans against Russia.
  • Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from English
    Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme, which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hit $120,000.
  • Spanish unions impose sellout contract on Cádiz metalworkers strike
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from English
    The sell-out of the Cádiz strike shows the need for workers to build rank-and-file committees and take their struggles out of the hands of corrupt union bureaucracies linked to Spain's ruling social-democratic and pseudo-left parties.
  • Australia: More than 1,500 Kinetic and CDC bus drivers strike in Victoria
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    In the fourth 24-hour strike since May, drivers protested against declining real wages and attacks on their rosters and other working conditions.
  • Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights.
  • David Cousins, songwriter and singer for the Strawbs, dead at 85
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    Cousins was widely recognized for his emotionally dynamic and expressive voice. He could shift from fragile vulnerability to commanding or angry theatricality within a single phrase.
  • What is driving the university job cuts across Australia? Labor’s pro-corporate and war agenda
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    Rank-and-file committees have called a national public meeting on August 2, to take forward the fight against the Labor government-led onslaught on university jobs and conditions.
  • AFSCME announces sellout for Philadelphia white collar workers, after public meeting discusses need for rank-and-file rebellion to renew citywide strike
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    The agreement is aimed at blocking a growing rank-and-file rebellion and preventing the resurgence of a powerful citywide strike movement.
  • Cuomo announces independent mayoral bid as Mamdani seeks “partnership” with New York City business leaders
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    The former governor made his pitch to Wall Street, attacking Zohran Mamdani’s “unrealistic proposals and divisive agenda.”
  • Quebec’s CAQ government makes further massive cuts to public education
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    At the same time as it slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from school budgets, the CAQ government has moved to gut education workers’ right to strike.
  • President Gabriel Boric and the rightward shift of the Chilean pseudo-left
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    Boric used his final Public Account address last month to justify the record of Apruebo Dignidad, which has gone further to the right than any government since the return to civilian rule.
  • Former head of the British Army General Patrick Sanders declares “realistic possibility” of war with Russia within five years
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    Sanders “cited Finland as an example the UK should consider,” the Telegraph reports, telling the paper, “Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5 million people. It can survive as a government and as a society under direct missile and air...
  • বাংলা বললেই তুমি বাংলাদেশী? নানা রাজ্যে আক্রান্ত বাঙালি এবং বিজেপি শাসন।
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Libertarian Socialism
  • Edinburgh students defy authorities in graduation ceremony walk-outs, protesting Gaza genocide
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    Students unfurled flags and banners, with slogans including, “Fund teaching not genocide” and “No graduates in Gaza”, before walking out of the graduation halls, to cheering and clapping.
  • Unite forced to suspend Angela Rayner’s membership by rising opposition to Starmer Labour government
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    The leader of the UK’s second largest union has gone on record to state that, despite her best efforts, justifying partnership with this right-wing party of big business has become politically hazardous in the face of the mass hostility...
  • The Spookcast - Episode 12 : The Problem With Leftism
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Libertarian Socialism
    The Spookcast - Episode 12 : The Problem With Leftism
  • Which Labor Union Is the Best: The Bureaucratic Union or the Rank-and-File Union?
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Libertarian Socialism
    Which Labor Union Is the Best: The Bureaucratic Union or the Rank-and-File Union?
  • Class War Archive
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Libertarian Socialism
  • Former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert denounces Gaza “humanitarian city” plan as concentration camp for Palestinians
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    While the mass killings at aid sites and refugee camps continue, former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is calling the US-Israeli “humanitarian city” near the Egyptian border, where as many as 2 million Palestinians will be relocated, a...
  • South Australian supermarket wage-theft case settles for $5.5 million
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    More than 500 current and former employees of 23 Foodland stores will receive back-pay after a four-year Federal Court case.
  • Democrats, media cheer as Trump escalates Ukraine-Russia war
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    The response demonstrates that Democratic Party opposition to Trump centered on issues of foreign policy, particularly the war against Russia, not Trump’s attacks on the working class at home
  • Trump slaps 30 percent tariff on Sri Lanka
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from English
    The Sri Lankan trade union bureaucracies responded to Trump’s tariffs by assuring the government and big business of their willingness to cooperate.
  • 2,000 sanitation workers at Republic Services involved in nationwide strikes
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The strikes are all the more significant given the strike earlier this month by 9,000 Philadelphia city workers, including sanitation workers, was betrayed by the union bureaucracy.
  • Superman: Trump forces outraged by defense of immigrants and … “human kindness”
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The hostility to the film in certain quarters emerges out of the high level of social and political tensions in the US.
  • Trump plans to shut down the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    “Closing the CSB will mean more accidents at chemical plants, more explosions and more deaths.”
  • 9 dead in Fall River, Mass. assisted living facility fire: A sign of systemic neglect in US elder care
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The harrowing accounts from survivors of the Gabriel House fire reveal a tragedy long in the making.
  • Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against the Trump administration
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    Khalil is a key target in the White House’s efforts to overthrow the United States Constitution and establish a presidential dictatorship.
  • Austin, Texas firefighters denounce refusal to deploy department’s rescue teams to areas impacted by historic flash floods
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    In a statement, the Austin Firefighters Association demanded a “full investigation” and urged “investigative journalists and the public to help uncover the truth.”
  • Washington demands Australian government commit to war on China
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The Trump administration is insisting on guarantees from Australia, as well as Japan, of involvement in any, potentially “imminent,” US war against China.
  • President Gabriel Boric and the rightward shift of the Chilean pseudo-left
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    What is truly striking about President Gabriel Boric’s fourth and final televised annual address is just how far to the right his pseudo-left coalition government has travelled over three years in office.
  • Inter-imperialist Energy Rivalry: China vs. U.S.
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Socialist Action
    Inter-imperialist Energy Rivalry: China vs. U.S. By Jeff Mackler “The massive development of fossil fuel versus renewable energy resources is today driving the U.S. and China in opposite directions.” This is the central thesis of a...
  • Republican congressmen escalate witch-hunt against Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han.
  • Jaime Alanís García falls 30 feet to his death fleeing ICE agents in California immigrant raid
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    From Camarillo to MacArthur Park, ICE raids and military operations signal California’s role as a testing ground for dictatorship.
  • US child health plummets amid austerity and inequality
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    A comprehensive new study lays bare how austerity, inequality and profit-driven healthcare are consigning an entire generation of working class children to poor health.
  • Haiku.
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Libertarian Socialism
  • Ofcom’s “reform” of Royal Mail opens the spigots for Křetínský’s profiteering
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    Ofcom’s announcement, slashing mail deliveries across the UK, was a foregone conclusion. It will deliver annual cost savings of £425 million to billionaire Daniel Křetínský’s EP Group.
  • More than 80 UK protesters arrested, former head of the army speaks of “proxies”
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    Roughly 300 police were mobilised in London, arresting 46 people for holding signs reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
  • Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #1 - SF Bay Area
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Libertarian Socialism
    Anarchists in the Tenant Movement #1 - SF Bay Area
  • Brazil tariffs add new dimension to Trump’s global economic war
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the stability of the US dollar as the global...
  • Teamsters bureaucrats feign outrage as UPS announces buyout plans for full-time drivers
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The so-called “Driver Voluntary Severance Plan” is the latest part of the company’s jobs massacre, including plans to eliminate 20,000 jobs this year.
  • Australia: Allegations of abuse in childcare centres expose deep systemic crisis
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The conditions in the sector are the product of relentless privatisation, and a resulting assault on jobs, wages and safety standards.
  • US secretary of state fobs off concerns in Asia over Trump tariffs
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The ASEAN communique did not name the US, but its opposition to the tariffs was obvious, expressing concern over “rising global trade tensions and growing uncertainties” and “unilateral actions relating to tariffs.”
  • Detainees and legislators report inhumane conditions at Florida concentration camp in Everglades
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    Two weeks after President Donald Trump toured the new detention facility in South Florida swampland, hundreds of immigrants, many of whom have never committed a crime, are suffering in hellish conditions.
  • Texas halts flood catastrophe search efforts as new, life-threatening weather event approaches
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    Local officials informed the public on Sunday that rescue personnel, equipment and vehicles were being removed from the area because of an imminent threat posed by renewed storms.
  • As voting begins on sellout contract for Philadelphia city workers, Mayor Parker declares AFSCME bureaucrats “are my people”
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from English
    The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in nearly 40 years. It occurred as white collar municipal workers began voting Thursday about whether they would launch...
  • “The last summer of peace”: Imperialist powers rearm for global war
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from English
    The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty plotting of all the imperialist powers.
  • Southern California UFCW forces sellout deal on grocery workers through sham vote
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from English
    To ram through a sellout deal, the UFCW gave workers no time to read or review the full contract, fast-tracking a vote designed to suppress opposition and silence democratic participation.
  • Carnegie Mellon University to host Trump as he continues attacks on universities, students and science
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from English
    The decision by the Carnegie Mellon University administration to host President Trump for an “Energy” conference on July 15 lend credibility to Trump’s attacks on universities, students and science as he continues his transformation into...
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