Mass demonstration in Warsaw against right-wing Polish government

The widespread disgust towards the government's far-right agenda drove masses onto the streets in Poland, but the civic platform of former EU Council President Donald Tusk offers no alternative.

Release the full UAW-Mack contract! Workers have a right to know what’s in the agreement!

If the UAW does not release the agreement immediately, that can only mean that they called off a strike before they even had a contract, for the sole purpose of preventing us from joining our brothers and sisters at the Big Three on the picket lines.

Cost-of-living, jobs and social crisis deepening in Australia

This deepening social crisis is fuelling discontent with the Labor government, reflected in media opinion polls reporting collapsing support for the government, and correspondingly for its Voice referendum.

Leading filmmakers protest German culture minister’s assault on the Berlin Film Festival

An open letter signed by over 470 directors and actors conveyed the concern and anger of film artists over these developments.

Labor government starves Aboriginal schools of funds in Australia’s Northern Territory

The territory Labor government is continuing to impose a punitive schools funding model based on attendance, not enrolment, creating a cycle of worsening literacy rates.

Trump fraud trial opens in Manhattan

The judge in the civil case has already ruled that Trump committed fraud in valuing real estate properties over many years. The question at issue is the impact of the fraud and the penalty.

“We all should be on strike at the same time”: Ford Chicago workers speak out from the picket lines

Ford Chicago workers spoke from the picket lines, demanding an all-out strike to win what they’re fighting for, including massive wage increases, COLA, pensions and more.

Workers and young people support SEP campaign for active boycott of Australia’s Voice referendum

“I’m a supporter of the Active Boycott. I think it is a very good position because I do not see eye to eye with either side of the official Voice campaign.”

California Governor Newsom picks long-time Democratic Party operative Laphonza Butler to replace Senator Feinstein

A long-time union bureaucrat and former Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System, Butler is trusted agent of the financial oligrachy.

Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses its campaign for an active boycott of Australia’s Voice referendum

The in-person and livestreamed meeting explained the geo-strategic and class-war considerations underpinning the Albanese government’s promotion of the Voice and how the working class should respond.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Health workers occupied Chile’s Health Ministry to protest impending job cuts while Air Canada pilots are demanding significant pay improvements in contract negotiations.

Nobel Prize awarded to pioneering mRNA scientists who helped develop COVID vaccines

The awarding of the Nobel Prize to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman is justly deserved and has all the more significance in that it takes place under conditions of a vast right-wing anti-science campaign.

European Union foreign ministers meet in Ukraine to escalate war with Russia

The leading European Union imperialist powers pledged to escalate the NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, announcing €5 billion more spending on the war.

Oppose RMT and ASLEF sell outs: Build rail and Tube workers rank-and-file committees!

Rather than the spearhead of the fight demanded by workers, both rail unions are seeking an exit ramp from the 18-month dispute on sellout terms.

Germany’s 2024 budget: Armaments über alles

The German parliament looks set to pass a 2024 budget incorporating the largest military spending since World War II. This will be paid for by enormous cuts across every social sector.

Six facts autoworkers need to know about the UAW strike fund

The official total reported for the assets of the UAW strike fund is a gross understatement of the financial wealth controlled by the union apparatus.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs $29 million contract with Virginia-based defense firm for migrant camp

The plan to have private security firm GardaWorld build and operate migrant camps, is provoking popular revulsion and anger and deepening the crisis within the Democratic Party.

50 years since the Who’s Quadrophenia

A certain breed of feeling attends adolescence, often called “angst,” which rages against the illusions of childhood as they fall but also against the hypocrisies of bourgeois adulthood as they make themselves known.

Australian teachers union strikes sellout deal with Labor government in NSW

Teachers themselves have been given no say on the agreement, which is essentially a blank cheque for the state Labor government over the next four years.

California nursing home worker speaks on the continued spread of COVID and workers’ struggles

In this interview, a nurse at a long-term care facility in California discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and the struggle of healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente.

Stellantis Jeep and Ford Dearborn Truck workers join call for all-out strike

WSWS reporters spoke to striking Stellantis workers in Toledo, Ohio, as well as Ford workers in Michigan.

Australia: Molycop steelworkers speak out against job cuts in Newcastle

“Back in the day, people would just not turn up to work over something like this and stand out the front… I’d happily go on strike for this if it was organised.”

Why no referendum on AUKUS and Australia’s role in war plans against China?

The population is being given a vote on the debate within the ruling elites over whether or not to create the Voice, an indigenous advisory body. But it gets no say on decisions that threaten a nuclear world war.

World Bank forecasts slowdown in east Asian economies

Growth in this region, one of the mainstays for global expansion set to hit lowest level in five decades.

Judge bans Trump from posting statements about court staff in New York civil fraud trial

On Tuesday, Judge Arthur Engoron halted the trial of Donald Trump in New York over the submission of fraudulent business documents by his two sons and their business entities.

Tens of thousands of educators threaten strikes across the US

From coast-to-coast, educators and school workers in the US are preparing strike action against falling wages, impossible workloads and unsafe schools as the bipartisan assault against public education deepens.

The UAW bureaucracy’s fraudulent “stand-up” strike will end in a sellout of autoworkers

In every sector, in the US and in other countries, the union apparatuses are completely committed to suppressing workers’ opposition and preventing a unified struggle.

US political crisis deepens with removal of Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

In a 216 to 210 vote, eight Republicans led by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz joined all Democrats in voting to oust McCarthy.

Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo González still in “Polish Guantanamo” 18 months after arrest

González’s arrest on baseless espionage allegations is an assault of freedom of the press, aiming to intimidate journalists and silence reporting on the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.

UK government prepares to use anti-strike laws against doctors

Threats to use the Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Act were ramped up during this week’s annual conference of the Conservative Party.

Damning report exposes Ontario government’s catastrophic pandemic policy in long-term care facilities

The ombusdman's report follows the certification in January of a class-action lawsuit by a provincial court judge against the Ontario government charging that the province was “grossly negligent” both before and during the early stages of the pandemic in failing to prevent waves of long-term care deaths.

Florida executes man after US Supreme Court denies his intellectual disability claim

Michael Zack’s execution took place after the US Supreme Court denied his appeal for a stay based on his intellectual disability from fetal alcohol syndrome. He was the sixth person put to death in Florida so far this year after Governor Ron DeSantis resumed signing death warrants.

Lahaina resident and aid hub volunteer blasts government response to Maui fire disaster

Nearly two months after the fire anger is boiling over as the displaced residents of Lahaina languish waiting for assistance.

Hesse and Bavaria state elections: Anti-refugee agitation strengthens far right

All the major parties have conspired to strengthen the most right-wing political forces in order to intimidate any political opposition to wage and social cuts, war, and rearmament.

“Highlights” of UAW-Mack deal reveal sellout contract with below-inflation wage increases

The tentative contract includes below inflation raises averaging roughly 4 percent a year, has no COLA clause and leaves untouched the hated tier system.

Chemical spill kills five after tanker truck crash in southern Illinois

A tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of anhydrous ammonia crashed and spilled its contents while traveling on US Highway 40 in southern Illinois, killing 5 and forcing the evacuation of 500.

The Polish far-right’s vicious campaign against Agnieszka Holland's film The Green Border

The campaign against the film is not restricted to the far-right Polish ruling party. Tomasz Siemoniak, defence minister under Donald Tusk (Civic Platform, PO) until 2015, also mocked the film in a TV interview, comparing its veracity to Star Wars.

Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to resume construction of Trump’s border wall

Reneging on campaign promises to cease construction of Trump’s border wall, on Wednesday, Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the “immediate” construction of dozens of miles of “roads, barriers, cameras and sensors” through a wildlife refuge in south Texas.

Chinese property giant Evergrande another step closer to collapse

Liquidation can set in motion a desperate scramble by creditors to grab what they can leading to unforeseen consequences for the financial system.

Kaiser workers speak out on first day of strike

Reporters from the WSWS spoke to many Kaiser workers on the first day of the largest healthcare strike in US history.

Sri Lankan Appeal Court upholds government decision to terminate all CWE employees

The dismissal of CWE workers poses the critical political issues before the entire working class: the fight to defend basic social rights is a fight against the Wickremesinghe government.

Both camps in Australia’s Voice referendum pledge to cut spending for impoverished Aborigines

The yes and no camps are both promising to slash federal spending on indigenous programs, underscoring the fraud of the entire referendum.

75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers begin the largest healthcare strike in US history

The strike opens up another front of the class struggle in the US and internationally.

Striking Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield workers angered over UAW silence on contract talks

More than one thousand Blue Cross Blue Shield workers in Michigan, members of the UAW, have been walking the picket lines for three weeks while union officials have refused to provide updates on what is being discussed in negotiations.

McCarthy’s downfall, the Democratic Party and the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia

The bitter conflict within the state apparatus is not a battle between “left” and “right.” All factions of the ruling class are pursuing an absolutely reactionary agenda.

Yaroslav Hunka, Politico and the rehabilitation of Nazi war crimes

The US daily Politico, which is fully owned by Axel Springer Verlag, has published an article justifying Yaroslav Hunka's membership in the Waffen-SS with lies and falsifications of history.

Wall Street backs GM and Ford, while UAW bureaucracy accelerates moves towards sellout of Big Three autoworkers

The UAW is floating the possibility that it may not call any additional plants out on strike Friday, as it continues to keep 83 percent of its members at the Big Three working without a contract.

Vote NO on the UAW-Mack sellout contract!

The so-called “highlights” of the UAW’s agreement with Mack released Wednesday are enough to show us that this contract is a sellout that belongs in the garbage.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

National one-day strike in Belgium opposing draconian laws against right to protest but unions keep railways running; Iranian aluminium workers in Arak strike over pay as further protests held against deaths of 100 including Mahsa Amini at hands of police; third week of pay strike at one of the world’s largest coal terminals at Richards Bay South Africa

UK Conservative government lurches to far-right on agenda of war and austerity

The Conservative’s party conference focused on British imperialism's preparations for war against Russia and China, escalating attacks on the working class and the abrogation of democratic rights.