Meatpacker Tyson has shut its Lexington beef plant eliminating 3,212 jobs and laid off another 1,761 in Amarillo, reducing the plant to one-shift.
On January 18, the Socialist Equality Party held a memorial meeting to celebrate the life of Ken Mantell, a member of the Trotskyist movement for more than 40 years.
Fedorov’s comments underscore that beneath the propaganda and government lies, huge numbers of Ukrainian working class youth refuse to sacrifice their lives in the ongoing imperialist proxy war.
The demand for mass coordinated action has emerged not from trade union officials or politicians but from below.
Merz in Davos: A call for European great-power politics under German leadership
Gambian-British citizen and Cornell University graduate student Momodou Taal was detained and questioned by UK police on Friday under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in violation of his rights.
The recent death in childbirth of Dr. Janell Green Smith casts a grim light on the deplorable state of mortality among black mothers in America.
By assigning zero economic value to lives saved through environmental protection while attributing full value to corporate profitability, the Trump administration is imposing the entire social and biological cost of production on the working class.
As the Trump administration proceeds with the military police occupation of Minnesota in the face of mass resistance, and wages war all over the world, the majority of Democrats have joined with Republicans to pass a record military spending bill.
Interogation by Chile’s infamous Carabineros can easily slip into torture to extract false testimony or confessions.
Trading in the market on Tuesday was described as some of the most “chaotic” seen in years.
Questions are being raised about why a campground at Mount Maunganui, where a huge landslide buried six people, had not been evacuated earlier.
Opposition Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins’ pledges to address the worsening social crisis are utterly hollow, as is his pretence of opposing US military interventions.
The WSWS will be providing live on-the-ground updates in Minnesota and beyond on the unfolding confrontation between workers and youth and federal forces.
India: Tamil Nadu school midday meal workers strike; Bangladeshi tannery workers demand fixed wages; Qantas workers in Sydney strike for new work agreement; New Zealand firefighters continue nationwide strike action.
For the ruling class, it is essential that Reform be ready to hit the ground running with an agenda for slashing welfare and overall public spending, while vastly increasing military spending with the proceeds.
The award nominations were the usual combination of the thoughtful and the confounding, or even disturbing.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney painted a stark picture of a global capitalist system roiled by inter-imperialist rivalries and hurtling towards world war in a speech Tuesday to the World Economic Forum.
Prospect filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2025, leaving a trail of broken equipment, more than $100 million in unpaid state taxes, and devastating patient care, leaving safety-net institutions like Manchester Memorial, Rockville General and Waterbury Hospital reeling from long-term neglect and infrastructure gaps.
As negotiations resume under mediation, New York City nurses remain on strike amid escalating retaliation by hospital management, including unlawful terminations and the use of strikebreakers.
“I would definitely call for a general strike. I think that's a great idea. This is a national problem, if not a world problem, with nurses ...”
This statement will be distributed at demonstrations and protests organized in Minneapolis and other cities throughout the US on January 23, 2026.
The family continues to be held at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas after the children’s father, Mohamed Soliman, was accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel march in Colorado Springs on June 1 last year, more than seven months ago. Even FBI testimony has declared the family innocent of any collaboration with the father’s actions.
The publicity stunt in California cannot disguise the Democratic Party’s collaboration in Trump’s war on immigrants.
For more than a decade, postal workers have faced relentless speedup, mandatory overtime, short-staffing, the elimination of breaks, and a punitive monitoring regime.
Two anonymous DHS officials have exposed through Whistleblower Aid a secret memorandum from Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons that authorizes federal immigration police to forcibly enter homes with only “administrative” paperwork, not a search warrant issued by a judge.
The agreement is designed to legitimise the widespread replacement of jobs with AI, and a commitment from Australia’s top union bureaucrats to suppress workers’ opposition to the rollout.
With protests in Iran raising the prospect of regime change and US military intervention, Washington opted to rely on HTS to cut the Gordian knot in Syria.
Motorway and road infrastructure workers across Germany walk out over pay and lack of investment; stoppage over pay and conditions shuts government administrative offices in Federal Capital Territory Administration around Abuja, Nigeria
The Labour government’s brutal anti-immigration programme, centred on attacking asylum seekers, is being ramped up as it seeks to outcompete the far-right Reform UK.
Mamdani’s visit to the picket line Tuesday and his collaboration with NYSNA paves the way for a snap shutdown of the powerful strike.
Reporters for the WSWS spoke to UPS workers in Minneapolis about the ongoing federal occupation and the day of action scheduled for January 23.
The World Economic Forum, which opened Monday in Davos, Switzerland, was dominated by the deepening rift between the United States and the European powers over US President Donald Trump’s efforts to take control of Greenland.
Public filings and earnings reports show that UPS slashed its workforce by eliminating 48,000 jobs in 2025 and that another 20,000 positions are to be cut by early 2026 as part of the company’s three-year strategic plan.
The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee also calls for mass participation in the Minnesota strike, part of a wave of class struggle across the country which has the potential to change the country.
The break-up of the Coalition is not only a crisis of that right-wing formation, but of the whole political order that has defended capitalist rule for the past 80 years.
Bill 3 will impose stricter state oversight over the province’s trade unions with the aim of smothering working class opposition to the CAQ’s right-wing, class-war agenda.
In remarks to the meeting, SEP member Lawrence Porter raised the fundamental political issues involved in opposing the paramilitary occupation in Minneapolis.
A January 20 online meeting hosted by PayDay Report exposed the hostility of the union bureaucracy to independent working-class action, as officials rejected mass meetings, strike action and rank-and-file decision-making in the face of ICE repression.
Another inquiry is not a solution but a smokescreen: a mechanism to channel anger into years of hearings and reports, while the same underlying policies remain untouched.
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Facing a January 30 deadline for another federal government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday that the Democratic leadership would not seek to block funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other units of the Department of Homeland Security.
The company’s announcement this week of yet another round of devastating cutbacks exposes the incapacity of American capitalism to sustain even its most celebrated cultural institutions.
The budget presented by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu confirms the crisis of French democracy and the complicity of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s New Popular Front.
There will be no genuine opposition to wars of plunder from a government that is also working to loot Venezuela—whether through sanctions, diplomatic activities, or active complicity with Trump.
On Tuesday, the dollar fell by 0.9 percent against a basket of currencies, continuing its slide of 9 percent for 2025. Gold went well over $4,700 per ounce, a new record, while the yield longer-term Treasuries rose.
The nurses’ strike, located in the center of world finance, is part of a broader movement of the working class, whose logic culminates in a national and international movement against oligarchy and dictatorship.
The COB ended the strike to prevent it turning into a struggle to bring down the government.
The deals are part of a rapidly growing set of military agreements with the Philippines concluded by the United States and other imperialist powers in preparation for war with China.
Initial reports point to a catastrophic infrastructure failure due to poor maintenance amid the rail privatization program overseen by Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.
The Socialist Equality Party statements were welcomed by workers, who opposed the imperialist banditry of the Trump administration and declared their solidarity with US workers mounting a struggle against the would-be dictator.
The Labor government’s bill allows for the outlawing of political groups and imprisonment of their supporters on the false basis that opposition to the ongoing Gaza genocide constitutes antisemitic hatred of Jews.
On Tuesday, protests continued across the city, with growing support for a general strike on Friday, January 23, to force the removal of Trump’s paramilitary forces.
The Microsoft chief has warned that US AI firms are being outpaced by their Chinese rivals in global markets.
As hospital executives again slander nurses as irresponsible, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders intervened at the picket lines on Tuesday to make appeals for negotiations.
The latest right-wing extremism scandal in the German army is not an isolated case, but the expression of a deeply rooted development that has taken on a new quality with the return of German militarism and the preparation for war against Russia.
Colombo’s draft legislation reproduces all the essential features of the existing draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.
In 2025, global billionaire wealth grew at three times the rate of the previous five years, reaching a record $18.3 trillion, an 81 percent increase since 2020.
The decision to add “Donald Trump” to the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts reflects the isolation of the American oligarchy as well as its social and political self-delusion.
After promising greater military spending, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expressed support for US imperialism’s criminal attack on Venezuela.
As a result of an imperialist-backed proxy war, HTS was brought to power in Damascus with the support of Washington and Ankara and now it seeks to consolidate its control of the country by violently suppressing all minorities, including the Kurds.
During their rampage in Amsterdam, a year prior, Maccabi’s hooligans tore up Palestinian flags, hit taxis driven by Arabic drivers with crowbars, and chanted pro-genocide slogans.
The strike at the mining museum raises point blank the necessity for a contemporary fight against those who co-authored the defeat of the heroic 1984–85 miners’ strike against Thatcher’s state orchestrated attacks – the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
As support grows for mass collective action to drive ICE out of Minnesota and the fascists out of the White House, Minnesota trade union bureaucrats made clear at a press conference Monday that they would not lead any strike action.
Over 2,000 healthcare workers in Minneapolis-St. Paul are set to strike, while in Argentina, protests were held in support of Lutramax workers who are opposing firings.
This strike vote is unfolding amid a rapidly escalating and explosive wave of working class opposition across the United States, raising the potential for a general strike.
The celebrated singer-songwriter dedicated a surprise performance to ICE murder victim Renee Nicole Good.
The answer to Trump’s fascistic policy of “might makes right” is not European rearmament but the international mobilization of the working class against all imperialist warmongers.
Portugal’s 2026 presidential election has delivered a stark warning about the state of the country’s political system.
The debacle in Venezuela is the product not only of criminal US aggression but also of a turn to the right by the chavista government and the bourgeois layers it represents under the unrelenting pressure of imperialism.
The closure of NASA's largest research library at Goddard Space Flight Center represents a deliberate attack on scientific infrastructure and marks another step toward the privatization of space exploration.
“The UAW is stealing from the retired,” a worker said.
Switzerland is implementing a far-reaching security-policy shift, marked by massive increases in military spending, the erosion of neutrality and closer integration with NATO, all justified by exaggerated claims of external threats.
Peters’ extraordinary public rebuke exposes the sham of “central bank independence” and lays bare the social class interests at stake in monetary policy.
Entirely preventable, the recent tragedy in Cebu is the result of capitalism’s drive for profit at the expense of workers’ safety and lives.
Carney’s rhetoric cannot conceal the fact that his trade deal with Beijing is extremely modest. Nonetheless, it threatens to exacerbate tensions with Washington, and deepen the regional cleavages within the Canadian ruling class.
The Venezuelan regime’s attempts to work out military and economic collaboration with Trump are exposing forces like the CPM-K who promoted it as an “anti-imperialist” force.
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2-1 decision sends the case back to immigration court and overturns the ruling by a New Jersey judge that Khalil’s rights had been violated when he was apprehended in New York City and sent to a DHS detention center in Louisiana for three months.
At a rally Sunday in Minnesota, postal workers, students, and community members spoke with WSWS reporters about the murder of Renee Good and the way forward for the working class.
Public sector workers across Germany have staged warning strikes to demand higher wages, but the unions are working to suppress opposition. The strikes must be expanded into a political fight against the government's pro-war policies and austerity measures.
Workers at University Hospital Essen participated in a warning strike to protest low wages and intolerable working conditions. In interviews with the WSWS, they linked their struggle to the broader fight against war and social inequality.
US-European relations are teetering on the brink of collapse, amid growing threats of trade and military conflict among the major imperialist powers of the NATO alliance.
Jake Lang was pardoned by Trump for his role in the failed coup of January 6, 2021, when he was in the mob which stormed the Capitol.
The Pentagon has placed 1,500 active-duty soldiers on alert for deployment against protests over ICE violence in Minneapolis.
Workers are opposing ongoing poor working conditions and the Victorian Labor government’s efforts to impose further real pay cuts in a new enterprise agreement.
Baumbach satirizes the failings of the contemporary movie industry and mocks the self-involvement of prominent performers.
The huge data breach highlights how intimate medical information is placed at the mercy of private corporations whose only concern is profit.
As scientists report the danger that climate change poses to millions, the Labor government refuses to abandon its support for fossil fuels.
Estrada ousted in the Philippines; Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; US uses napalm in Korean War; Textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey
Speaking in support of the week-long strike by 15,000 nurses, a worker at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital connected the attacks on healthcare workers with the diversion of social resources toward repression and war.
The EPA moves to gut the evaluation of the cost of health impacts in regulating toxic industrial emissions.
Every teacher, staff member, and child deserves a safe environment—an essential foundation for learning to thrive. However, understanding breakdowns in staff–pupil relationships requires placing them in context.
Despite the pattern of repeated failures in a component that secures a multi-ton engine to the wing, Boeing ignored the danger.
WSWS reporters interviewed students in the Paris area on Trump’s military operation against Venezuela to kidnap its president and try to seize its oil revenues.
The United States has reached a point where the scale of political breakdown and the ferocity of class tensions are generating profound shifts in consciousness.
Workers cannot stop imperialism’s accelerating plunge into military dictatorship and wars of plunder without breaking politically with forces like Mélenchon, who calls for them to subordinate themselves to the Venezuelan bourgeois nationalist regime’s negotiations with Trump.
Washington’s preparations for a military onslaught on Iran have nothing to do with alleged concern for the democratic rights of its 93-million-strong population.
Major financial irregularities at UAW Local 862 in Louisville take place as rank-and-file anger continues to simmer over deteriorating conditions, including safety issues and management harassment.
Ten federal prisoners whose death sentences were commuted to life by Biden have been moved to ADX Florence in Colorado, where inmates are kept in concrete cells smaller than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day and are subject to near-total social and sensory deprivation.
The case of Zalando highlights the importance of workers taking the defense of jobs into their own hands by setting up rank-and-file committees, joining forces with other workers to organize joint industrial action.
