The crisis of the Starmer government, the Labour Party and British capitalism

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The crisis of the Starmer government, the Labour Party and British capitalism The crisis of the Starmer government is the product of two long-term and twinned processes: the international decline of British imperialism amid the convulsions of global capitalism, and the total collapse of the Labour Party’s working-class constituency. Read more Anger spreads after strike by 42,000 UC California workers canceled in the middle of the night The union bureaucracy is deliberately sabotaging workers in order to prevent a struggle which would inevitably develop into a broader fight which would threaten their ties to management and the Democratic Party. Read more Vote NO on the SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement: Entertainment workers must join the broader struggle of the working class The SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement locks performers into four years of managed decline, institutionalizes AI exploitation and must be rejected. Build rank-and-file committees now! Read more Release activists arrested for protesting French imperialist-backed Africa Forward summit in Kenya! The detained include Lee Sang-hun and Song Dan-bi of the People’s Democracy Party of South Korea, Joti Brar of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Dimitris Patelis, a professor of philosophy at the Technical University of Crete and Guy Bremond, a French activist. Read more French imperialism, the war on Iran and the EU assault on migrants This speech was delivered by Alex Lantier, Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI. Read more Democrats force House vote on increased military aid to Ukraine A discharge petition to bring the military aid bill to the floor had the support of two Republicans, one independent and all 215 Democrats. Read more Bond markets send out a warning The yield or interest rate on UK bonds has reached its highest level since 1998. Read more From the Ford Rouge plant: build rank-and-file committees This speech was delivered by Martaz Crutchfield, candidate for UAW delegate at Ford Dearborn Truck Plant, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI. Read more US Postmaster General floats ending six-days-a-week mail delivery, closing most local post offices The proposals, made at the May 8 Board of Governors meeting, amounts to the abolition of USPS as a public service, converting it openly into a for-profit model and setting the stage for its privatization. Read more Mass layoffs to hit New York City’s New School next month The New School University in New York City has announced massive layoffs of faculty and staff as a part of its right-wing restructuring program. Read more Mélenchon 2027: A presidential campaign that holds back workers’ mobilization Sunday, May 3, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced on TF1 a candidacy not to mobilize workers against austerity and the war against Iran but to smother that mobilization within a nationalist orientation toward French capitalist institutions. Read more Worker with 35 years at Canadian Coca-Cola distributor terminated following job injury Days after making a splash in the local Calgary media by unveiling a new $75 million state-of-the-art warehouse facility, Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited unceremoniously axed an injured worker with 35 years at the company—essentially crying poor. Read more Postal workers challenge CWU spin over its restructuring plans with Royal Mail What terrifies the CWU bureaucracy is that workers increasingly recognise the union apparatus as an arm of management. “He's reading off a script,” one worker said of Tony Bouch’s video. Another answered: “from a Royal Mail director.” Read more Germany’s trade union apparatus closes ranks with the government Yasmin Fahimi’s 96 percent reelection exposes the German Trade Union Confederation’s role in enforcing social cuts to finance German rearmament. Read more Germany: Labour court investigates possible irregularities at works council election at Bosch GmbH It is entirely justified to have the legality of the works council elections of March 11 reviewed by the Aalen Labour Court. Read more Australia: Longtime carer Julienne Verhagen denounces Labor government’s attack on the disabled “It will be disastrous for tens of thousands of people, including workers in the sector. The burden will fall onto families, creating even more physical, mental, and financial pain.” Read more Australian Liberal leader launches tirade against immigrants in budget reply The speech was a political signal that amid its crisis, the opposition Liberal-National Coalition is turning to a fascistic, Trump-style “Australia First” appeal. Read more Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa Tens of thousands in national 24-hour strike in Belgium against austerity; protests continue across Iran over wages and conditions; Read more Workers at Hersheypark theme park in Pennsylvania voting to strike More than 200 members of Chocolate Workers Local 464 are preparing to strike against the chocolate giant after rejecting three offers. 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. 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