Saturday, December 21, 2024 from Libertarian Socialism
Saturday, December 21, 2024 from English
Israel Defense Forces launched multiple air strikes against residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Friday. An UNRWA representative said, “An entire society here...Saturday, December 21, 2024 from English
The stripped-down measure will fund the government through March 14, but it does not include a suspension or rise in the debt ceiling.Saturday, December 21, 2024 from English
Health workers fear a fifth of the population may be dead, but the French president arrogantly told angry crowds that if France did not rule Mayotte, it would be “10,000 times” worse.Saturday, December 21, 2024 from English
More than 5,500 workers at Amazon’s JFK8 facility, alongside thousands of other workers, are fighting for their economic needs and fundamental rights.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
Workers are up against a Labor government that is utterly hostile to their demand for a real pay rise and intends to use every mechanism at its disposal to eliminate their democratic rights and shut down their struggle.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
These low-level young drug “mules,” mostly from working-class backgrounds, paid a heavy price after being deliberately handed over by the Australian Federal Police to the Indonesian authorities in 2005.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
On December 4, Germany’s Federal Cabinet decided on the National Security and Defense Strategy (SVI Strategy) to upgrade Germany and make it "war-ready" again after two lost world wars.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The meeting will be held on January 3, 2025 at the Department of Political Science, University of Peradeniya.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The plot included an operation dubbed “Green and Yellow Dagger”, which called for the the assassination of Lula and other top officials.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X, is leveraging his staggering fortune to finance and promote fascist forces throughout the world.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The online meeting was part of a campaign to alert workers to the government-initiated police attacks on SDOs and to rally support for their defence.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
According to media reports, the collective bargaining parties “wrestled” for more than 70 hours over five days to reach an agreement. In fact, the whole thing was a set-up.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The impact of growing inequality can be observed in various aspects of daily life. The number of homeless people is rising, and tent encampments are an increasingly common sight in Canadian cities. Nearly 23 percent of the population...Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The film’s jarring tone stems from the misguided decision to turn a story about abuse and forced sterilisation into an “empowering” feminist tale.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
Two days before the Georgia Court of Appeals removed prosecutor Fani Willis from the election interference case, Trump-supporting Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk released an “interim report” on the events of January 6, 2021, that...Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
India: Chandigarh power workers protest privatisation; Bangladesh: Temporary rail workers demand permanent jobs and outstanding pay; Australia: Qube workers strike at 10 ports for better pay and conditions; Rheem factory workers locked...Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
Communication Workers Union bureaucrats will join a new Advisory Committee “composed of representatives of EP Group and the CWU” that will be “contractually anchored within the amended Articles of Association of Royal Mail”, creating...Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
Turkish police detained the leader and many members of the Socialist Laborers Party, which identifies itself as Trotskyist, on trumped-up charges of being members of a “terrorist organization.” The Socialist Equality Group unequivocally...Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
We are publishing the speech introducing the resolution “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party” at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) given by Tom Scripps, its Assistant National Secretary. The...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Libertarian Socialism
Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed...Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth...Friday, December 20, 2024 from English
The fascist president-elect is seeking to destroy the US constitutional structure of “checks and balances” and give himself unlimited political authority.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
The strike is the largest ever of Amazon workers in the United States. It is part of a growing movement by workers across Amazon’s global operations, following protests in 20 countries during Black Friday last month.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection,...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
The executions of Joseph Corcoran and Kevin Underwood underscore one of the most barbarous features of the death penalty system in America, which condemns inmates to death despite their documented severe mental illnesses.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
As the government imposes brutal austerity measures, including more than 2,000 job cuts in the healthcare sector, tens of thousands of nurses and healthcare workers have stopped work across the country.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
Wong’s trip coincided with, and was part of, a further escalation of the war against Russia, including discussions of direct NATO troop deployments.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
Dawson was terminated despite the admission of an investigating law firm hired by U-M that there was no independent verification of alleged “antisemitic” remarks. A member of the Board of Regents, Mark Bernstein, intervened to overturn a...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
The pseudo-left group combines multiple strains of bankrupt middle-class politics, including open support for imperialist war, the promotion of the anti-Marxist Frankfurt School and of the Pabloite Spartacist League.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro’s death earlier this year should be the occasion for assessing and reassessing problems with contemporary fiction.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in California over the explosion of bird flu among dairy cows in the state. Meanwhile the first critical case of a person infected with bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana.Minority state government in Saxony opens door to cooperation with far-right Alternative for Germany
Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
Saxony’s minority state government hides an all-party coalition stretching from the Left Party and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, the Greens, the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats to the far-right Alternative for Germany that is...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
Around 35,000 civil servants in Spain demonstrate against planned privatisation of government health insurance scheme; workers and retirees continue to rally across Iran to protest unpaid wages, power outages and pension poverty; police...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
The UK defence secretary said, “The year may be ending, but the war is not. This is the time to step up further in Ukraine on every front.”Thursday, December 19, 2024 from English
The health secretary declared that regulators have the power, “to set conditions that a healthcare professional must work under, suspend them, or strike them entirely from the medical register."Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Libertarian Socialism
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
Last week, at the request of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), Humboldt University student parliament passed a resolution condemning the massive cuts being planned at universities. The result of the vote...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
While the gunning down of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has exposed widespread public opposition to the criminal practices of the health insurance corporations and capitalism generally, Jacobin has published an interview with Bernie Sanders...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
The killing is the latest in a series of extremely provocative measures taken by the United States and NATO with the intention of escalating the Ukraine war in the weeks before the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump on...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
To diffuse anger, the UAW bureaucracy claims it has cut job cuts by half but workers fear even larger layoffs.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
Amazon workers must insist that their strike not be limited in advance by the Teamsters to only three days, which severely limits its impact during the height of the holiday shopping season. Instead, the strike must be guided by a...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
The horrific damage caused by Cyclone Chido is due to decades of official neglect of infrastructure and the overt, fascistic contempt of the French government for its overseas territory.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
The collapse of the previously agreed-to funding measure portends massive incoming spending cuts under the new Trump administration.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
While in the end there was only one dissenting vote, there are divisions in the Fed’s policy-making body.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
The MYEFO predicts that the federal budget will be in deficit for at least a decade, and that cumulative deficits over the next four years will be almost $22 billion larger than forecast in the Labor government’s budget in May.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
The passage of the bill reflects immense fear within the US ruling class that large sections of the population will be looking for a revolutionary alternative to the unending war, inequality, austerity and fascism offered by the...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from English
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee insists that there are plenty of resources to pay educators what they need and deserve.