• Widespread support for walkout as Nexteer workers force UAW to hold strike vote: “The ball’s in our court now”
    Thursday, May 21, 2026 from English
    Workers at the local union hall Wednesday expressed overwhelming support for a strike and denounced union officials for collaborating with management to intimidate workers and probe for divisions among the membership.
  • Ford Rouge workers' vote for Insurgent Slate reveals developing rank-and-file rebellion against UAW bureaucracy
    Thursday, May 21, 2026 from English
    Crutchfield ran as part of Will Lehman’s Insurgent Slate, calling for the transfer of power to the rank-and-file and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy.
  • Socialist Equality Group and IYSSE hold successful meeting in New Zealand against Iran war
    Thursday, May 21, 2026 from English
    Speakers at the Wellington meeting explained the real causes of the US-Israeli imperialist war and the need for a socialist anti-war movement based on the working class, independent and opposed to Labour, the Greens and all capitalist...
  • First They Came for My College: Right-wing “human dust” mount takeover of New College of Florida
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    Bresnan’s film sets out the sordid details of this far-right maneuver in all its repulsive transparency.
  • Australia: Bondi Royal Commission hearings used to attack anti-genocide movement
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    The hearings featured ludicrous testimony, of Zionists bemoaning news reportage of Israel’s war crimes and even pro-Palestinian bake sales at university campuses as a threat to their safety.
  • Australian budget further cuts public school funding
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    Behind the headlines, last week’s federal budget slashes social spending, including on public schools.
  • The US indictment of Raúl Castro and the record of CIA terror against Cuba
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    The indictment of Raúl Castro is an abominable act of hypocrisy and imperialist propaganda to justify military aggression against an impoverished nation of less than 10 million people.
  • Rubio blames WHO for Ebola delay, as US aid cuts cripple public health in Africa
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    The Trump administration, having withdrawn from the WHO and cancelled more than 80 percent of US foreign aid, now faults the agency for responding too slowly to an Ebola epidemic its own cuts helped unleash.
  • Trump tightens grip on Republican Party as his poll numbers plunge
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    While his hand-picked candidates defeated several Republican incumbents, both Trump and his policies are deeply unpopular.
  • ICE operations continue in Michigan as local cops play key role
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    CE has shifted toward local police partnerships while aggressive arrests continue in Michigan and Democratic officials offer token objections.
  • Jewish Voice for a Just Peace wins partial success in its case against the German Secret Service
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    The anti-Zionist organisation Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East has achieved a court ruling that means, for now, it can no longer be listed as "extremist" by the Secret Service.
  • Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund includes side deal blocking tax probes into president and family
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    While Trump officials refuse to rule out payouts to violent January 6 fascists, the Justice Department addendum seeks to foreclose claims against Trump and his related entities.
  • The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2026 Declares Open Warfare Against Women
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from Socialist Action
    By Barry Sheppard [Photo above, Kathy Spillar, Executive Editor, Ms Magazine] The far right group wrote Project 2025, which has served as a blueprint for Trump’s second term. At the end of last year it issued Project 2026 centered on...
  • The far-right danger in the UK and the soporifics of the SWP and RCP
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    A real fight for socialism is necessarily the most conscious of political movements, rigorously analysing events, thoroughly exposing political misleaders and establishing the independence of the working class.
  • Germany’s civil defence plan: The government prepares the country for war
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the federal government are driving forward the transformation of Germany into a military state. Under the cynical pretext of “civil protection,” a 10-billion-euro programme will integrate society...
  • Details emerge of sellout deal as Long Island Rail Road workers return to work
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    The result of the deal used to betray a three-day strike is that workers will be poorer due to inflation when the contract expires.
  • Whitney Biennial 2026: Taking the pulse and finding it feeble
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    Through the biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City maintains it is taking the pulse of the contemporary art scene in the US.
  • 3 dead in San Diego mosque attack by teenage neo-Nazis
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    The killers’ manifesto glorified fascist mass murderers and echoed Republican anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim propaganda.
  • UAW Local 180 suppresses strike by CNH Industrial workers in Racine, Wisconsin
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    A contract locking in 4 percent annualized wage increases was already insufficient the day it was ratified. The war against Iran—a war of aggression waged by US imperialism that is now directly raising the cost of living for workers...
  • Voting begins for 42,000 University of California workers, who still have not seen the full deal
    Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from English
    Last Thursday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 called off a state-wide strike at around 1:00 in the morning, announcing the deal and a snap vote.
  • Zelensky’s former chief-of-staff released from jail on $3.2 million bail amid corruption charges
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The rapidly developing corruption crisis in Ukraine has revealed that the Zelensky regime and the ruling oligarchy are steeped in criminality and the plunder of the Ukrainian working class.
  • G7 imperialist governments line up behind Trump’s threats against Iran as global war escalates
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    Trump’s gangster-like threats are the authentic voice of world imperialism, which is determined to impose colonial chains on Iran and the entire region as part of the new redivision of the world among the major powers that is already...
  • Nexteer workers: No more extensions, no more delays! Set up a rank-and-file strike committee! Strike to win!
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The following statement was issued by the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee to workers at the Saginaw, Michigan, auto parts plant who forced the UAW to conduct a strike authorization vote on Wednesday and Thursday.
  • California scholars demand accountability for death of Chinese researcher Danhao Wang
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    California Scholars for Academic Freedom's Professor Stephen Roddy opposes the McCarthyite witch-hunt targeting Chinese scientists at American universities and calls for transparency over the recent suicide at the University of Michigan...
  • Nexteer workers denounce UAW bureaucrats after forcing strike authorization vote
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The highly exploited and low-paid workers, who produce critical steering components for some of the Big Three’s most profitable models, erupted in anger at a meeting of UAW Local 699 on Sunday following the overwhelming rejection last...
  • Sri Lanka’s JVP government commemorates 17 years since “victory” in racist anti-Tamil war
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The capitalist state cannot tolerate the political unity of Tamil and Sinhala workers, which threatens a system based on the exploitation of labour and communal division.
  • Modi demands India’s workers and toilers make “sacrifices” as economic fallout from Iran war expands
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    India’s far-right BJP government has raised petrol and diesel prices just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted Indians to slash energy and fertiliser consumption in response to the ever-widening economic fallout from the...
  • Australian Labor government steps up war-related crackdown on university research
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    A wartime-style atmosphere is being created in Australian universities, backed by threats of punishment of researchers that fail to comply with national security guidelines.
  • Bipartisan attack on superannuation looming in New Zealand
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The entire ruling elite is declaring that superannuation payments for future generations of workers and retirees are “unaffordable.”
  • A letter from afar by A. Lincoln
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The following letter, signed “A. Lincoln” but without a return address or subject line, appeared in my email this morning. No sooner had I made a copy of the letter than it disappeared from my inbox. Despite its strange and unexplained...
  • Rank-and-file Zoom meeting discusses campaign for a No vote to defeat CWU’s pro-company agreement with Royal Mail
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    A Royal Mail worker told the meeting, “We need a resounding No vote, linked to a vote of no confidence in Ward, Walsh and the Postal Executive who imposed this against us”.
  • Türkiye unveils its first intercontinental ballistic missile amid an intensifying imperialist war
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The massive investments made by the Erdoğan government in an “independent” defence industry must be viewed in the context of the global war that is unfolding, Türkiye’s geopolitical position and the interests of the Turkish ruling class.
  • Tony Blair Institute urges UK government to accelerate welfare state cuts and abandon the pension “triple lock”
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The triple lock maintained the value of the UK state pension, guaranteeing a basic, albeit inadequate pension during retirement.
  • Trump threatens renewed attack on Iran as emergency G7 finance summit opens in Paris
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The bloody US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the resulting blockade of the vital Strait of Hormuz threatens workers around the world with economic and financial collapse.
  • WHO opens annual assembly amid deepening Ebola crisis
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    With at least 118 dead in the DRC and Uganda and an American physician among the infected, the Trump administration has imposed a Title 42 travel ban while refusing to account for the aid cuts that crippled the international response.
  • Australian Labor government’s austerity legislation provides for complete gutting of disability supports
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The NDIS Amendment Bill 2026 provides the framework for kicking hundreds of thousands of disabled people off their support and for excluding vast numbers going forward.
  • Australia: Victorian teachers confront another AEU sellout
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The Australian Education Union’s “in-principle” agreement amounts to a further real pay cut and does nothing to address the core issues: crushing workloads, oversized classes, burnout, inadequate resources and a deepening staffing crisis.
  • FAA lowers hiring target by more than 2,000 for air traffic controllers
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    Driven by relentless cuts and generational staffing problems stretching back to Reagan’s crushing of the 1981 PATCO strike, staffing sits at a 21st-century low of approximately 11,000.
  • To all workers at Bosch in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany: Your struggle is the struggle of all workers. Build an action committee!
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    Bosch is planning to destroy more than half the jobs at its plant in Schwäbisch Gmünd. This article calls on workers to build an independent rank-and-file action committee, as the IG Metall union and works council are actively...
  • Global bond market selloff intensifies
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    Yields on long-term government debt are now recording some of their highest levels since the lead up to the global financial crisis.
  • Democratic Party, union apparatus conspire to shut down powerful New York rail strike
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    No worker should be compelled to vote on—or live under—a contract they have not seen, have not read and have not had the time to study and discuss collectively.
  • “We all should unite”: New York bus drivers speak out in support of Long Island Rail Road strike
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The powerful support for a wider struggle is precisely why the Democrats and union bureaucrats moved to shut the strike down Monday evening.
  • Trump creates unconstitutional $1.776 billion slush fund to pay off fascist allies
    Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from English
    The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” defies Congress’ power of the purse and creates a secretive claims process with no appeal or judicial review.
  • Bolivia’s indefinite national strike faces military repression
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from English
    A national strike in Bolivia has continued to expand for more than two weeks in opposition to rising fuel costs and the right-wing policies of President Rodrigo Paz.
  • Sri Lanka: Death of Welikada Prison inmate raises serious questions
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from English
    Until a credible, transparent and independent investigation is conducted, the serious doubts surrounding his death will—and must—persist.
  • Mexican economy and investment plans founder amid war against Iran
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from English
    On May 12, S&P Global Ratings revised Mexico’s credit outlook to negative from stable, citing persistently weak fiscal results, rising debt levels and weak economic growth.
  • India’s film certification board censors award-winning The Voice of Hind Rajab, citing “harm” to India-Israel relations
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from English
    The banning of the docudrama reveals the depth of relationship now established between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-supremacist government and the murderous Zionist Netanyahu regime.
  • Workers Struggles: The Americas
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from English
    Mass protests by teachers took place across Mexico May 15 demanding pensions, wages and education funding, while Toronto Transit Commission and CUPE reached a last-minute deal Monday after multiple deadlines passed.
  • ‘Capitalism Can’t be Fixed’ Conference
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from Socialist Action
    Onward to a Socialist Future!Dear Comrades and Friends,  We list below two important events initiated by our Canadian co-thinkers.  In the attachment (see below) you will find the agenda of the Sunday, May 24 Socialist Movement...
  • Italy: General strike opposes Gaza genocide
    Monday, May 18, 2026 from English
    A 24-hour general strike against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the militarism of the Meloni government and its social implications for the working class brought Italy to a halt on May 18. Its convergence with an Israeli attack on the...
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