The Parti de l’égalité socialiste condemns police prosecutions of union officials and members of the France Unbowed party over their statements in solidarity with Gaza.
Stellantis laid off 199 workers Monday at Sterling Heights Assenbly and another 57 at the Mack plant in Detroit as it continues its brutal program of job cuts in the wake of the 2023 contract.
On Tuesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to invoke cloture on the weapons packages for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as Russia-Iran economic sanctions and a TikTok ban. Biden has already promised to sign the legislation once it reaches his desk.
On Tuesday night, leaders of the student protest at Columbia University revealed that the university administration had threatened in negotiations to deploy the National Guard to crush the encampment.
The Biden administration, in alliance with the fascist-led Republican Party, is criminalizing political opposition to the Gaza genocide, the greatest war crime of the 21st century.
The SEP has received an important initial response, amid widespread hostility towards the major parties and an anti-war politicisation fuelled by outrage over the ongoing US- and Australian-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The Senate moved a step closer to an official ban of the social media platform TikTok in the US, an attack on free speech and a major step in the preparations for war with China.
The ACC IYSSE club urges students to support the resolution being put before the Student Government Association defending pro-Palestinian groups and individuals from the bipartisan witch hunt, as part of the beginnings of a political counteroffensive in defense of democratic rights.
The horrific discovery over the past 72 hours provides further evidence of Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide against the Palestinians, which is set to escalate imminently due to the looming assault on the more than 1.5 million Palestinians struggling to survive in Rafah.
In arguments Tuesday, the Biden administration argued that a US citizen has no right whatsoever to challenge the denial of her spouse’s visa, and that she does not even have a right to be provided with any specific reason why.
Ocasio-Cortez, a key political prop of the Biden administration, is emerging as a significant financial prop of the Democratic Party in the 2024 elections.
In the banning of Russian dancer Maria Khoreva and Korean Kimin Kim, a right-wing mob has effectively been allowed to hijack proceedings of one of New York City’s premier cultural institutions on the basis of anti-Russian hysteria.
The announcement by car manufacturer Tesla to cut 14,000 jobs worldwide has triggered great unrest among the workforce. Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei leader Uli Rippert spoke with workers outside the Tesla plant near Berlin.
The CRT’s posturing as an “anti-war” tendency is exposed by its unsuccessful attempt to form an election alliance with the pro-war Anticapitalistas party, which helped found Podemos.
The fascistic policies being rolled out by London are being implemented everywhere by the capitalist class, as they whip up a foul anti-immigration atmosphere the better to pursue policies of austerity and war.
We urge postal and logistics workers to attend the next online meeting of the PWRFC on April 28 at 7pm, “Oppose Royal Mail’s Assault on the USO! Defeat CWU’s Collusion."
More than 50 percent of all respondents said they would struggle to cope with any unexpected expense, under conditions where costs for housing and other basic essentials have skyrocketed.
The SEP has announced an ambitious program to increase its membership, build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and expand its political analysis for the World Socialist Web Site and its publication of Marxist literature in the Sinhala and Tamil languages.
The World Socialist Web Site denounces the enormous escalation of state attacks on protesters, including the mass arrests at Columbia, Yale University and New York University, justified on the basis of lies and slander.
The dead include men, women and children, as well as people with clear indications of being medical patients. Some were discovered handcuffed, indicating that victims were killed in mass summary executions.
Google employees, who were fired and arrested, reported on their sit-in at the company offices in New York and California on April 16. They continue their fight for an end to the cloud services contract that is supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Federal employees in Uruguay staged a 24-hour protest strike over cuts while the union for graduate teaching assistants at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec announced it had obtained ratification of a sellout deal.
In a crass display of class justice, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer (weapons handler) on the set of the film Rust, was handed the maximum allowable sentence, 18 months in prison.
Owned by the global metals producer Glencore, the Horne Smelter has long been criticized by Rouyn-Noranda residents for its massive discharge of toxic materials.
Two men were killed one month apart in the fall of 2022, while a third man died in police custody under suspicious circumstances following a voluntary hospitalization for a mental health evaluation.
With the Philippines increasingly playing a critical role in Washington’s aggressive confrontation with Beijing, New Zealand is further integrating into US-led warmongering in the Asia-Pacific.
The storming of the Palestine Congress was the prelude to an escalation of police violence and the suppression of democratic rights on an enormous scale.
Hours after the Senate passed the reauthorization and expansion of warrantless surveillance by US intelligence just after a midnight deadline, Biden signed the bill into law on Saturday.
The Democrats and Republicans approved massive additional funding for war against Russia in Ukraine, for Israeli genocide in Gaza, and for the US-led war buildup against China over Taiwan.
The mass arrest of Columbia students and political attacks by the Democrats and Republicans have failed to suppress anti-genocide protests, while fueling growing opposition in the working class to the the attack on democratic rights.
We workers have every right to take all action deemed necessary to protect our jobs, regardless of whether you choose to sanction them or not. If you will not fight the layoffs, then get out of the way so that UPS workers can do it ourselves.
While the large vote to unionize demonstrates the militancy of workers, it will only be a matter of time before workers realize they are in a fight not only against corporate management, but also against the UAW apparatus.
The fact that Biden issued such a statement testifies to the extraordinary seriousness with which the government takes the credibility of the pro-war, pro-corporate union bureaucracy.
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
The Ipsos survey also found that 68 percent oppose the government’s plans for greater spending on the military to prepare for war, which is being funded by cuts to vital public services.
The fact that not a single Democratic representative voted against the over $60 billion Ukrainian weapons package reveals that there is no “lesser evil,” between Democrats -including the phony-lefts- and Republicans.
The trip underlined two things in particular: the aggressiveness with which Germany is resorting once again to militarism and war 85 years after the start of the Second World War, and the central role played in this by the formerly pacifist Greens.
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