The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in State Department v. Muñoz, one of the most important immigration cases in the recent period.
The police state-type action, directed by Columbia President Dr. Minouche (Nemat) Shafik, came the day after she testified before a McCarthyite Congressional hearing about outlawing opposition to the Israeli genocide.
The lecture by Nick Beams on April 28 will provide the political weapons required by young people and workers who want to take up the fight for a socialist and revolutionary perspective against the genocide and the broader eruption of militarism and war.
The measure is part of an escalating assault on democratic rights by the ruling classes in every country to block political opponents, particularly the Socialist Equality Party and independents, from contesting elections.
“We need a party that sticks to a revolutionary line and doesn’t just advocate for reform, because whenever you talk about reform, it essentially means you end up capitulating to those in power.”
Labor Notes is playing an important political role in the attempts by the bourgeoisie to head off a political movement in the working class which escapes its control.
In a culmination of nearly two years of betrayals, the Teamsters union called off the 18-month strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. None of their striking members got their jobs back, and the Teamsters agreed to dissolve the local union.
The United States and its European allies announced a new round of sanctions targeting Iran on Thursday, deepening their participation in a spiraling war in the Middle East.
Following the collapse of a major bridge in Baltimore after being hit by a container ship, crew members aboard the MV Dali now risk potential criminal liability, even as the ship’s owners use 1851 maritime law to limit their responsibility.
After losing previous votes in 2014 and 2019, the UAW has embraced the support of the Biden administration, which is seeking to mobilize US unions behind the war drive.
Workers across the United States and internationally must mobilize to the defense of the 28 Google workers fired for their opposition to war.
Clinicians say TeamHealth, the private equity owned firm subordinates health care to the company’s financial bottom line.
The complicity of the unions in Labor’s latest move to deny aged care workers a long-awaited pay rise underscores the need for workers to build their own organisations.
With the final adoption of the Common European Asylum System on April 10, the European Parliament has effectively suspended the right to asylum and turned the immigration policies of the extreme right into law.
The ever-increasing US debt, now on an unstainable and “unprecedented” trajectory, is a key factor putting a question mark over the role of the dollar as the global currency.
In an explosive hearing, four former senior soldiers in the D.C. National Guard, none of whom were formally interviewed by the January 6 House Select Committee, accused US Army Generals Walter Piatt and Charles Flynn, and senior civilian Pentagon officials, of blocking them from protecting Congress as it was being overrun by Trump radicals.
If Tamil Nadu has become India’s most industrialized state, it is because the DMK and its arch-rival, the AIADMK, have rolled out the red carpet for domestic and global capital.
Alex Garland’s film provides violent images of a civil war in America, divorced from any examination of the social forces that would produce such a conflict.
One-day general strike in Greece against pay 20 percent lower than 15 years ago and 10 percent unemployment; autoworkers and other sectors in one-day strike in Turin, Italy against mass layoffs joining 12,000 in protest; Kenyan striking doctors defy state intimidation and sack threat in fight for more staff, pay and better conditions
That all those auditioning for office before the ruling elite must now affirm their readiness to kill millions and destroy the planet is a stark warning. No matter who is prime minister and which party they lead, the working class in Britan, like workers internationally, confronts a single party of war.
Honest mistakes and miscalculations have left tens of thousands of the poorest people in the country owing huge sums of money. Almost a thousand are being demanded repayments of £5,000-£20,000.
The rapid declaration grants police sweeping powers that override fundamental civil liberties and serves to heighten religious and other tensions among ordinary people.
For political and tactical reasons Israel may decide to hold back at least in the short term, but it is widely understood that the possibility of such an attack exists.
The IYSSE demands that all faculty, students and organizations that have been terminated, expelled or suspended be immediately reinstated. The broadest possible support must be mobilized among youth and in the working class to fight for this demand.
80 years after the end of the Nazi dictatorship, the ruling class in Germany is dispensing with its democratic mask. The suppression of the Palestine Congress in Berlin is reminiscent of the darkest times in German history.
While the far-right coalition government has slashed more than 3,000 public sector jobs in a matter of weeks, the corporatist trade unions have made clear that nothing will be done to defend a single job.
Embracing trade war measures even more provocative than those of Trump, the Democratic president appeared before an enthusiastic audience of United Steelworkers union bureaucrats in Pittsburgh.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its strikes on Iranian and Syrian targets, backed by the NATO powers, have placed the region on the brink of total war.
Nine employees were arrested for occupying the corporate offices of Google in New York and California on Tuesday as part of a protest to demand an end to the company’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government and military.
Barroso was speaking less than a week after the 60th anniversary of the bloody US-backed coup of 1964, in which the Brazilian military overthrew elected president João Goulart.
Money to pay the debt will not come from slowing economic growth but through deepening attacks on the working class.
Boeing’s harassment and threats against Salehpour raise new questions about the death of another whistleblower, John Barnett.
Based on questioning during oral arguments Tuesday, the right-wing Supreme Court majority appears poised to rule in favor of dismissing some or all criminal charges against January 6 insurrectionists for violating a federal statute that prohibits obstructing official proceedings.
The proposed agreement has been repeatedly watered down based on considerations of corporate profit and national interests.
Indians will go to the polls this Friday in more than 100 Lok Sabha constituencies in the first phase of a seven-phase national election that is to conclude June 1.
At a meeting organized on Sunday, April 14 with the support of the World Socialist Web Site, a group of Canada Post workers passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Postal Workers Rank-and-file Committee.
The claim that “there is no money” is a lie. In Michigan, where the Democrats fully control the state government, corporate handouts—particularly to the automakers—amount to billions.
The US is seeking to prosecute Assange on charges under the Espionage Act which carry a de facto life sentence for publishing documents exposing war crimes and human rights abuses carried out by Washington and its imperialist allies.
The announcement of 14,000 job cuts at Tesla marks an escalation of the assault by the corporate oligarchy on workers’ jobs. This a global campaign, which requires a globally coordinated response by the working class.
The United States and its imperialist allies will imminently announce new sanctions targeting Iran, as the US-led war drive against Tehran continues to accelerate.
Over the next five years, global growth, which has been steadily falling since the 2008 financial crisis, will trend below the historical average.
Home Affairs officials admitted that up to 5,000 non-citizens could face removal from Australia, a figure far higher than the Labor government’s earlier misleading statements.
The announcement read: “The artist and curators of the Israeli pavilion will open the exhibition when a ceasefire and hostage release agreement is reached.”
The firings of professors at Columbia University and John Jay College are part of a coordinated campaign to silence all opponents of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation said on Friday that nearly one-quarter of the 20 million people removed from Medicaid rolls during Biden’s “post-pandemic unwinding” of the program this year are now uninsured.
The deal which the union leadership is hoping to rush through in a three-hour online only vote on Friday is an abject capitulation to management which workers must reject with the contempt it deserves.
Since hundreds of police officers broke up a Palestine Congress in Berlin last Friday, new details have come to light every day about the arbitrariness and ruthlessness with which the police disregarded the law and trampled on democratic rights.
If the water level in Lake Powell falls too low, the dam may not be able to release water to downstream users.
In offering alibis for Morena’s right-wing policies, the discussion on Mexico demonstrated the pro-imperialist character of pseudo-left outfits like the DSA.
Official discourse on the war in Gaza, especially in the media, is a thoroughly state-managed affair, down to the last word. It is designed to create a fantasy world in which a supposedly democratic Israeli state is conducting a war of self-defence with the best possible intentions and due regard for all aspects of international law.
The fascist ex-president is being tried, not for his real crimes against democracy, but for an alleged campaign finance violation related to his personal conduct.
The layoffs are not just the product of the ample greed and stupidity of Elon Musk, but part of a broader attack on jobs in the auto industry and in industries across the world.
Forty-eight hours after Iran launched an airstrike on Israel, Israeli officials offered indications Monday that Israel is preparing military strikes on Iranian targets, as the US-provoked war in the Middle East continued to escalate.
The Albanese government’s Universities Accord cannot be separated from Labor’s whole pro-business agenda, its commitment to US war plans and its complicity in the US-backed genocide in Gaza.
Gannet workers at papers in New York and Texas walked out over wages while graduate assistants at Western University struck after rejecting management’s contract offer.
In coordinated actions, protesters in major cities around the world blocked traffic and logistics hubs to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
This critical question-and-answer session, organized by the IYSSE at Wayne State University, should be studied by all those who want to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Canada’s Liberal government presented a “defence policy update” last week that pledges tens of billions of dollars in increased military spending and outlines plans to procure a vast array of new weapons.
The military exercises repeatedly conducted in the Indo-Pacific are designed to raise tensions with China and paint Beijing as the aggressor while also preparing US-led alliances for war.
The reactionary decree, which explicitly targets the Students for Justice in Palestine, declares total support for Israel’s genocide and identifies every expression of criticism of Zionism as a form of antisemitism that is to be subject to punitive measures.
University of California administrators are slandering students as antisemitic to justify a crackdown on protests in defense of the Palestinians in Gaza.
A series of recent events demonstrate the manner in which the repression of opponents of the Israeli genocide in Gaza is being massively intensified.
In this video, Christoph Vandreier, chairman and leading candidate of the SGP in the European elections, condemns the recent attack on the Palestine Congress in Berlin.
The arch-Thatcherite Daily Mail declared that Starmer was in the process of removing “one more of the dwindling number of reasons to vote Tory.”
The imperialist powers are asserting that they and their proxies can violate international law at will, but any resistance to their efforts to dominate the world is intolerable.
What has been revealed already indicates that the attack was a horrific manifestation of the deepening social crisis.
Trade union leaders’ effort to block workers’ struggles and subordinate them to capitalist parties must be rejected. Workers can mobilise their industrial and political strength only by organising independently from capitalist parties and trade unions.
While the rapid rise of the water levels of the Ural River was bound up with climate change, the devastating consequences of the floods are the direct result of the failure of the ruling class to invest in the infrastructure necessary to protect the population from its impact.
The OIG’s reports are exercises in damage control, beginning by hailing DFA as “creating a best-in-class mail and package processing network” and then describing staggering levels of negligence and incompetence at facilities in Richmond and Houston.
Following the collapse of a major bridge in Baltimore after being hit by a container ship, officials aim to fully reopen the port by the end of May, as bodies of three workers remain missing.
The election is being held under the shadow of Washington’s highly provocative moves to counter China’s influence in the strategically significant South Pacific region.
Labor’s “Future Made in Australia Act” would subsidise investment in strategic industries, all of which are critical for war preparations.
After markets considered at one point there may have been six interest rate cuts this year, now there is concern there may not even be one.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
In this society, success in any endeavor is identified not with its intrinsic value or the personal satisfaction it brings, but with the accumulation of wealth and status. The concrete, qualitative side of an activity, whether it be playing football or anything else, loses significance; it becomes merely a means to an end.
The star’s new album, which alternates between the forgettable and the ludicrous, is a ready-made vehicle for the promotion of racialist and gender politics, along with the generation of corporate profits.
The outcome of the O.J. Simpson trial proved once again that the essential issue in American society is class, not race.
Nearly five million people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been infected.
Far from criticising the Conservative government for failing to properly fund the National Health Service, he denounced the Tories for pouring funds “into a black hole.”
Biden’s “ironclad” guarantee amounts to a blank cheque to the Israeli regime to carry out illegal acts of aggression anywhere in the Middle East, including on Iran.
The 43 members of the newly formed Greater Detroit Association of Emergency Physicians union are contracted by Ascension St. John Hospital but employed by a private equity-funded staffing company called TeamHealth.
A four-hour strike by 800 airport firefighters has been called off by the United Firefighters Union of Australia, on the basis of an “in-principle agreement” that will impose further cuts to real wages.
The pro-Israeli campaign of lies and intimidation has its limits, as evidenced by the principled and courageous statements of world-renowned actors Hugo Weaving and Miriam Margolyes.
The role of the trade union bureaucracy in the escalating global war is to discipline the working class on the “home front” so as to ensure continued production and deployment of military equipment, and to suppress opposition from workers both to the war itself and to austerity and heightened exploitation to pay for it.
This proposal on Palestinian statehood is an empty gesture with no practical implications, as the Israeli genocide in Gaza can only be stopped by opposing NATO’s backing for Israel.
On Friday afternoon, Berlin witnessed scenes reminiscent of the era of the Nazi regime. Hundreds of police officers terrorised a Palestine Congress, which was directed against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, eventually banning it altogether.
New Zealand’s foreign and defence ministers visited Washington this week to reinforce their support for the US military build-up against China and the US-NATO war against Russia.
The newest film by Woody Allen had to be made in France because the US movie industry has essentially excluded the veteran writer-director.
A bipartisan 2-1 majority of the House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday reauthorizing and strengthening the power of the intelligence state to spy on the public contained in Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
The selection of Melina Abdullah as running mate signals a decision by West to emphasize racial divisions rather than class conflict.
The Ann Arbor School Board voted 4-3 to impose cuts in the face of heated opposition from an overflow crowd at the meeting.
The laid-off workers sequenced parts for Stellantis assembly plants in Detroit.
As well as massive cuts in social programmes, the president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy is proposing an annual special fund of €150 billion for the military, financed through credit. Just as under the Nazis, such massive credits can only be repaid through the booty of imperialist wars of conquest.
The RCMP report expresses alarm over the erosion of the control the ruling class has long exercised through its traditional parties and institutions, including the media and the trade unions.
Air India contract technicians to strike for pay parity; Telangana pharmaceutical workers demand compensation after deadly explosion; Australia: Child protection employees strike in New South Wales over staffing crisis; Adelaide rail workers walk out to demand higher pay
Starmer’s class war agenda would exceed by far that waged by his hero, Thatcher. It would be shock-therapy imposed on a victim already tortured half to death.
The meeting unanimously passed a resolution condemning the US-led vendetta and demanding Assange’s immediate and unconditional freedom.
The company placed blame on the US International Trade Commission (ITC) for failing to impose trade war measures against its foreign rivals.
Following the layoff of 1,400 at the Ford Rouge complex, the UAW is holding a cynical "Going Away Party" for the terminated workers.
