Cancellation of Los Angeles schools strike latest in string of union betrayals

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Cancellation of Los Angeles schools strike latest in string of union betrayals The last-minute deal demonstrates the ruling class’s extreme sensitivity to and fear of the class struggle and its reliance on the union bureaucracy to suppress it. Read more Netanyahu government brutally represses opposition to wars against Iran and Lebanon These authoritarian measures are the domestic requirement for pursuing a Greater Israel policy, as part of US imperialism’s broader political and military agenda to reorganise and control the resource-rich Middle East in preparation for wider wars against China and Russia. Read more Art and the Influence of Revolution No serious understanding of 20th-century cultural life is possible without considering the impact of the socialist movement and its decades-long struggle to raise the thinking and activity of the working class, culminating in the 1917 Revolution Read more Union bureaucrats, Democrats cancel strike of 77,000 Los Angeles educators What took place was not a genuine negotiation but an operation to stop a strike that threatened the union bureaucracy and the Democratic Party. Read more Massachusetts postal workers form rank-and-file committee: “USPS is a public service, not a profit-making enterprise” “Our mission is to unite postal workers worldwide to build collective power, protect our rights, and improve wages, benefits and working conditions through solidarity, transparency and democratic action to actively counter the efforts of the 1 percent.” Read more UAW President Shawn Fain unveils “Stand Up Slate” for 2026 election: New label, same bureaucracy Far from representing a break with the corrupt, pro-corporate apparatus, the slate is a merger of the same bureaucratic factions that have spent decades collaborating with management to impose concessions. Read more IMF warns of major downturn in global growth Under what it called a “severe scenario” the IMF said global growth could fall to as low as 2 percent close to the development of a world recession. Read more Trump’s NLRB rules against Henry Ford Genesys Hospital nurses as strike enters 8th month The struggle against the hospital’s strike-breaking and refusal to address staffing issues requires a fight against management and the Teamsters union bureaucracy, which has isolated and diverted the fight into the dead end of appeals to the NLRB and the Democratic Party in Lansing. Read more Big realtors in New York City demand massive concessions from residential building workers Tens of thousands of residential building workers in the largest American city are prepared to strike against concessions. Read more Right-wing think tank presses UK Starmer government to abandon “peacetime” agenda and move to “warfighting readiness” A core theme of the Civitas report is that war cannot be fought by armies alone and is a “whole of society” effort: "This is the essence of the distinction we need to make between 'our armed forces learning to fight battles' and 'our country learning to fight war'", the authors declare. Read more Whistleblower who exposed Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan still behind bars David McBride remains the only person convicted and jailed for Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan, not for committing them but for exposing them. Read more Union-initiated Australian parliamentary report covers up Labor’s university restructuring agenda Another official inquiry makes no mention of Labor’s Universities Accord, which is driving the further corporate transformation of Australia’s public universities. Read more About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party. We’re powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. Copyright © 2024, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.

The ruling class is preparing the next phase of the war against Iran. Donate to the WSWS to organize the response of the working class.

Six weeks into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the ruling class is preparing Phase Two. The working class must organize its response.

Hello, Six weeks into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration has announced the breakdown of negotiations and imposed a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz—the latest escalation in what is a drive to seize control of the region’s oil on behalf of a criminal oligarchy. While there is enormous popular opposition to the war, it has the backing of the entire political establishment. Amidst unrelenting propaganda and warmongering from the ruling class, the World Socialist Web Site is advancing a program and perspective for the working class throughout the world to fight back. Support the WSWS On Sunday, the WSWS published a statement by Editorial Board Chairman David North that cuts through the bipartisan consensus surrounding this war and speaks directly to what workers and young people need to know and do. The starting point of the statement is the New York Times editorial published this weekend under the headline “Trump’s War Is Weakening America.” The Times isn’t merely a newspaper. It speaks for the Democratic Party, the supposed “opposition” to Trump within the political establishment. The Times editorial represents a strategic blueprint for refashioning the war, building a new political foundation for its second phase, one with broader institutional support and bipartisan cover. It treats Trump’s threats to bomb Iran to the Stone Age, his Secretary of War’s declaration of “no quarter, no mercy,” the assassination of the head of state during peace negotiations, the killing of over 100 children in the opening strikes—as “carelessness,” not crimes. As the WSWS explained, this framing exists “to ensure that Phase Two can be organized and prosecuted with the same indifference to Iranian human life that characterized Phase One.” There is massive opposition to this war in the working class. It will be made to pay, through economic devastation, through the Hormuz blockade’s impact on global energy costs, through the gutting of social programs to fund the military machine. As North wrote: “As the bourgeoisie prepares the next phase of the war, so the working class must consciously prepare its own response. The ruling class is organizing for renewed escalation. The working class must organize for revolutionary opposition.” That is the indispensable role of the WSWS. This war is spiraling. Society is being led by a criminal oligarchy with no regard for human life or democratic rights. The working class must intervene. To do that it needs political clarity, analysis, and organization. Please donate today. Your contribution funds the publication of essential political analysis, travel to cover the developing class struggle on the ground, direct interventions in workplaces and on campuses, and the infrastructure needed to reach millions of workers and young people who are searching for a way to fight back.   Donate $5 Donate $25 Donate $100 Donate $500 World Socialist Web Site We’re powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. © Copyright 2026, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.