Thai court to hear petition to dismiss prime minister
The petition to remove Srettha Thavisin as prime minister at the behest of sections of the military exposes the fraud of Thailand’s “return to democracy.”
The petition to remove Srettha Thavisin as prime minister at the behest of sections of the military exposes the fraud of Thailand’s “return to democracy.”
When protesters requested they be allowed to proceed, police pushed them back. At one stage a police officer drew his baton. Meanwhile, a small group of officers formed a line some way in front of the Zionist roadblock.
Corbyn’s response to his removal sums up his deep opposition to any political challenge to Labour as he continues his life’s mission of subordinating the working class to this pro-imperialist party.
Lawyers are going to be hard at work to devise a scheme whereby the outright theft of Russian assets to finance Ukraine can be made to appear to be compatible with EU and international law.
Securing the US-dominated reorganization of the Middle East requires the systematic crushing of organized resistance by the Palestinian people to Israeli domination, which is only possible through extermination and mass displacement.
Amid a massive police-military operation, Macron made it clear in Nouméa that full independence for the French colony is off the agenda.
“Together with the indefinite postponement of democratic elections, the arrest of Syrotiuk on high-treason charges signals Ukraine’s headlong plunge into right-wing extremism. The arrest of Syrotiuk is an attempt to silence democratic dissent in society…” – Ameen Izzadeen, senior journalist, Colombo-based Daily Mirror
The Justice Department launched the investigation into Kentucky’s juvenile justice system following continued reports of “excessive force by staff, prolonged and punitive isolation and inadequate protection from violence and sexual abuse.”
The Labor government’s legislation presents far-reaching threats, especially for university educators and researchers in a wide range of science and technology fields.
More than 200 people registered for the meeting from different industries to link the campus protests with workers’ struggles against mass layoffs and other cuts.
Workers are following events in Gaza with horror and are stunned and angry that the German government is supporting the genocide and assaulting student protests.
The isolated rural Yambili village, with an estimated 4,000 residents, was almost entirely submerged by the landslide.
In the face of a media blackout and intimidation, there is a growing protest movement in Israel against the Netanyahu regime’s war on Gaza. The WSWS spoke with two members of one of the protest groups.
The brutality used by police against peaceful protests at Berlin’s Humboldt University on Thursday is an escalation of violence against opponents of war in Germany.
While both candidates sought the endorsement of the rabidly pro-capitalist delegates, neither one garnered more than 2 percent of the vote.
The recent departure of Podemos from Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government brought to a close another strategic experience of the international working class with the pseudo-left.
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
The job cuts at Pixar are happening in the midst of what is being called Hollywood’s “Great Contraction,” part of the jobs destruction affecting every major industry.
Much press attention has been given to Alito’s role in authoring the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision eliminating the right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Little attention, however, has been given to the role Alito played as a major conspirator in the January 6 coup plot itself.
The CSIS director’s outburst is part of a sustained campaign of anti-Chinese hysteria whipped up by Canada’s spy agencies, corporate media, and political elite with the aim of integrating Canada even more fully in the US strategic offensive against China.
Launching his military conscription pledge, Sunak said national service was needed because the world was “more dangerous and challenging than it has been in decades… There’s China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. These things aren’t just happening far away, they impact us here at home.”
The Labour Party’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, a vociferous apologist for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, is attempting to posture as a defender of the international rule of law.
Under the guise of ensuring “safety” on campuses, the administrations are working with the Labor government to strip away the democratic rights to free speech and protest.
While Moscow is signaling that it is seeking a settlement of the war, NATO countries are escalating long-range strikes and threatening to directly enter the war.
The Chinese military drills came just days after the installation of Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, who is known for his provocative, separatist views.
The ICJ ruling, together with the ferocious response of US and Israeli officials, massively discredits and exposes US-NATO imperialism while vindicating the mass protests against the Gaza genocide.
“I have two words for what is going on at campuses across the country: ‘Kent State,’” one Ford worker said. “Students opposing these wars are being beaten and arrested. I agree with the UC strike and we should support them.”
An investigation by CBS News found that deputies who patrol rural areas are three times more lethal than city police departments.
French imperialism is trying to crush a social revolt driven by a deep social and economic crisis and preparations for imperialist war against China in the Pacific.
The interview with Samuel Johsua reveals the obstacles that Pabloism poses to a revolutionary struggle of the working class for socialism.
Two years after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 19 students and two adults were killed and 17 others were injured, no one has been held accountable.
In the face of mass murder in Gaza and unfolding world war, the #MeToo activists demonstrated their indifference to the mass suffering.
Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan demand abolition of broker system; India: Tea plantation workers in Assam protest unpaid wages; Australia: New South Wales ambulance paramedics strike over rostering; Victorian TAFE teachers escalate action for improved enterprise deal.
Like other elite universities, the UC system is run like a corporation by a board of multi-millionaires and Democratic Party operatives, and has been deeply integrated into the US war machine.
The Educators Rank-and-File Committee (US) demands the immediate release of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk from a Ukrainian prison and urges educators and students to fight for his freedom.
Law Professor Clemens Arzt demonstrated that the violent police action against students protesting the Israeli genocide in Gaza has been illegal in every respect.
While the TTC and the city of Toronto claim there is no money to make desperately needed repairs to infrastructure, the ruling class is showering unlimited cash on the military and providing unlimited funds to wage war abroad.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei organised a rally against the genocide in Gaza as part of its European election campaign in the Neukölln district of Berlin, in which many workers and young people participated.
More than 30,000 NHS patients were given blood infected with hepatitis C or HIV over a period of three decades, resulting in over 3,000 deaths.
It was clear before the announcement that the two campuses were prepared to walk out, with or without the official sanction of the union.
Tax concessions for the wealthy and corporations far outweigh the “not fiscally sustainable” cost of increasing welfare payments by $550 a fortnight.
The arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant are based on extremely well-documented facts. They were written by internationally renowned lawyers, whom even the pro-Israel German press cannot accuse of bias.
Labor’s leaders have again backed the Israeli regime, after it has murdered more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza as part of a genocidal ethnic-cleansing campaign.
Outrage against the contract by rank-and-file workers prompted the Teamsters to take down their post on Facebook announcing the contract to cover over their betrayal.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP), German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, held its party congress from 12 to 15 April. We are publishing here the resolution that was unanimously adopted by the delegates.
Hundreds of students walked out of commencement at Harvard after the main student speaker denounced the administration for barring 13 Gaza protesters from graduating with their class.
Israel's attack on Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, has now displaced nearly 1 million people and massively intensified famine throughout the entire territory.
Sunak’s decision on a snap general election was dictated by the need to form a stable government to pursue a rapid escalation of NATO’s de facto war against Russia in Ukraine.
The Democratic Party administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams has begun the removal of migrants from shelters under new rules limiting stays to 30 or 60 days and adopted by the city in March.
The full burden of the US-based restaurant chain's downsizing and cost-cutting process will be imposed on the company’s pre-bankruptcy 36,000-strong workforce.
The systematic censorship in the US of artists who express sympathy with the plight of the Gazan population and oppose the genocidal policies of Netanyahu-Biden continues.
On May 18, the SGP organised powerful rallies in Duisburg-Hamborn and Munich-Giesing, two working class districts of major German cities. The SGP candidates and members explained the party's programme and called upon workers to join the party.
The dairy worker in Michigan fortunately suffered only a mild eye infection, but experts believe that the number of people potentially infected by the deadly virus is far higher.
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
National 24-hour strikes of public sector workers in both Greece and Portugal over wages; protests in Iran continue over poor pensions, wages and working conditions; Ghana’s judicial workers begin indefinite walkout over non-payment of allowances
Labour Party-run Birmingham Council, covering a population of over 1 million, is imposing £300 million in cuts, and must sell off a staggering £1.25 billion of historic assets, land and property to repay a government bailout loan.
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
The attack on Wasantha is politically calculated to intimidate him and stop discussion on the SEP’s fight for workers’ independent action committees.
“Socialist opponents of the Ukraine war are being demonised as traitors just as opponents of the Gaza genocide are being slandered as antisemitic and terrorist supporters.” – Dr Zewlan Moor
What became evident is essentially a partnership between the union and management to stifle opposition by pressuring or encouraging staff members to apply for redundancies.
The BJP has a long history of communalist incitement and violence. Nevertheless, its current election campaign stands out for the stridency of its fascistic appeals.
An overworked bus driver, having just completed a 20-hour shift the day before, lost control of his vehicle and plunged into the Moika river.
The coup took place as Washington and its NATO allies wage a bitter struggle for influence in Africa with China and Russia, amid the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.
Fico was targeted for murder over his criticisms of NATO’s war with Russia in Ukraine, and European media are hailing his shooting, claiming it will intimidate Moscow.
Telstra’s is the largest job cut announcement by an Australian company so far this year, but takes place in the context of a broader attack on working-class jobs and wages.
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives called on the White House to formally authorize Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russian territory, a move that Russian officials had previously warned would trigger war between Russia and NATO.
The strike by 2,000 academic workers at the University of California, Santa Cruz against the crackdown on Gaza protests continues through Wednesday amidst the threat of an injunction to ban the action.
The ruling class wants to set a precedent to ban all political activity in the working class and rip up the core First Amendment right to free speech.
One week after the New York Times revealed that an upside-down American flag was flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Alito, the paper disclosed that a Christian nationalist “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, carried by pro-Trump fanatics during the January 6 attack, was also flown at Alito’s vacation house in New Jersey last year.
The plans pursued by German Foreign Minister Baerbock and Defence Minister Pistorius for the expansion of air defences in Ukraine are aimed at preparing for direct NATO intervention in the conflict against Russia.
One unsubstantiated claim, which when tested in a courtroom five years later took a jury 45 minutes to dismiss, led to Spacey being driven out of the film, television and theater world.
Juan Chavez, 68, was reported dead at the scene at a UPS facility in Dallas on May 16.
The fight that postal workers must wage is above all political, since the push by management to make Canada Post “profitable” at the expense of its workers is backed to the hilt by the Trudeau Liberal government.
The fascistic Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic President Biden have sought to outdo each other in scapegoating and dehumanizing migrants as “illegals.”
The recent tour of the US by officials of the CSP-Conlutas union federation served to integrate it into support for the emerging US war against Russia and China.
Despite attacks by the police and slanders in the media, protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza are continuing to spread globally and across Germany.
Union president Chris Woods is being charged with stealing workers’ dues to support Democratic political campaigns
The study excluded patients who had serious, life-threatening infections, demonstrating that even mild cases of COVID can have dire lifetime consequences.
Workers must take action to defend the strike. It must be expanded not only to the entire University of California system but to the entire UAW membership and other industries.
Notwithstanding the fate of the Tories, despised by millions, the problem facing workers in Britain is that there is nothing fundamental to distinguish Sunak’s government from Starmer’s Labour Party.
Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
The Institute of Health Equity confirms that life expectancy for the working class is stagnating and falling, while the life expectancy of the wealthiest rises.
US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have joined hands with the fascistic Christian fundamentalist Republicans Mike Johnson and Lindsay Graham to condemn the ICC and assert the right of Israel and the United States to commit war crimes with impunity.
In the well established tradition of US imperialism, Janet Yellen in a speech in Germany sought to present US actions as benefiting the world.
The Democratic Party-controlled school board approved $20 million in budget cuts, including the elimination of 141 positions
The anti-democratic maneuvers of the UC administration are aided by the UAW apparatus, which has called out only one campus and kept the vast majority of workers on the job.
Tuesday's court filing amounts to a demand that all strike activity of a political character be banned in the United States.
Four students were arrested and several more injured after riot police assaulted the peaceful encampment early Tuesday morning. The police attack came less than two weeks after the lecturers’ union forced through a poverty contract that doubled as a political betrayal of the students and workers, who have protested for months against the Gaza genocide.
Six months after the Dutch general election, three far-right parties together with the Liberals (VVD) of incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte have agreed on forming the most right-wing Dutch government since the Second World War.
On Saturday, in the German capital, Berlin, some 10,000 people demonstrated against the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli regime with the support of the imperialist powers against the Palestinian population in Gaza.
Amid a fierce police crackdown, New Caledonia’s unrest has exposed the class chasm between indigenous workers and youth and the French colony’s political establishment.
Chilling legislation points to intensifying AUKUS preparations for war against China.
Lai Ching-te’s support for US imperialism exposes his phony concerns about “democracy” and “peace” in the Indo-Pacific and around the globe.
To legitimize their support for the Gaza genocide, Taiwan’s rulers are seeking to whitewash today’s German establishment and the complicity of Zionist organizations, along with the “democratic” imperialist powers, especially the United States and Britain, in the Holocaust.
Kenya and the entire African continent are being drawn into the maelstrom of an expanding global war. The continent’s geostrategic position and vast mineral resources are viewed by Washington as critical in its conflicts with Russia, Iran and China.
The real-wage slashing deal was voted down in a meeting of around 3,000 health workers, despite a concerted attempt by the union leadership to suppress criticism of the proposed enterprise agreement and fraudulently portray it as a win.
The strike must become the beginning of a broader action, including the entire membership of the United Auto Workers, against the war and in defense of the students.
“With our brothers and sisters of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), we are for abolishing, not reforming, the UAW bureaucracy, to put power into the hands of the workers.”
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia is holding a meeting on Sunday, May 26 in Sydney and online to discuss the urgent struggle to free Julian Assange.