13 June 2009 Even as US unemployment rolls soar to their highest levels in post-war history, employed workers face the worst conditions since the Great Depression, according to a front-page article in Friday’s USA Today. Based on its analysis of employment data, the newspaper reports that pay cuts, reduced hours,... » read this article

Protectionism. Capitalists were all for it before they were against it. When manufacturing took place in America, when they paid workers enough to buy the products they produced, adding a tariff/tax/fee on to the cost of imported goods made by these same manufacturers’ competitors overseas, was fine. It just made... » read this article

Update - Workers vote down NYT/Globe's "offer" to a 23% paycut and other benefit reductions. NYT moves to sell the Boston Globe. Scroll to the bottom of this article for the Boston Globe report. - LMB The Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times. Last month, the NYT threatened... » read this article

6 June 2009 More than 700 people marched last weekend in the Bronx, New York to the scab-run Stella D’Oro cookie factory in what was advertised as a citywide rally to defend strikers who have been on the picket line for almost 10 months after refusing to accept wage and... » read this article

6 June 2009 The US unemployment rate climbed to 9.4 percent in May, the highest level in more than a quarter century, according to statistics released by the Department of Labor on Friday. The jobless rate jumped by a half a percentage point over April, as employers shed 345,000 positions... » read this article

Monday, June 1st, 2009 Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled. As I sit here... » read this article

General strike shuts southern Basque Country Thousands of workers took to the streets May 21 in the Basque Country, the most industrialized part of the Spanish state, under the slogan “Against the bosses’ extortion.” They not only took to the streets but they walked off the job. Nearly 53 percent... » read this article

Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the “socialist transformation of basic industry”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted with satisfaction the outcomes of discussions: “I can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class.” “When the working class roars,... » read this article

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29 May 2009 The events of the past few days have demonstrated the naked class interests behind the Obama administration’s “restructuring” of the auto industry and its plan to throw General Motors into bankruptcy. On Thursday a group of major bondholders, including some of the largest financial institutions in America,... » read this article

26 May 2009 The international economic crisis is having increasingly dramatic consequences for Europe. According to official European sources, the number of unemployed in the 27 EU member states rose to over 20 million in March. This represents an increase of 4 million compared to one year previously. Further mass... » read this article

May 16, 2009 Following are excerpts from a talk given at New York City’s Workers World Party meeting on May 8 by Martha Grevatt, a 21-year Chrysler worker. Go to www.workers.org to hear the entire talk. Our late founder and chairperson Sam Marcy was fond of a saying, “Socialism is... » read this article

12 May 2009 Last week, the Italian car company Fiat presented its plans for taking over General Motors’ German auto division Opel as part of its acquisition of the insolvent Chrysler company. The plan it presented to the German government, as well as to the Opel betriebsrat (works council), includes... » read this article

9 May 2009 The official US unemployment rate jumped by 0.4 percentage points to reach 8.9 percent last month, according to figures released Friday by the Labor Department. The economy lost another 539,000 jobs in April, as total job losses reached 5.7 million since the start of the recession in... » read this article

9 May 2009 The government’s Equality Bill has been condemned as “socialism in one clause” by Britain’s right wing and a “landmark” in overcoming inequalities by the liberal media and the trade unions. It is neither. Far from promoting equality in any meaningful sense, the bill continues Labour’s reactionary advocacy... » read this article

May 6, 2009 Boston Globe shutdown averted for now WSWS Unions signal readiness to accept massive concessions The New York Times Co., owner of the Boston Globe, announced Monday that it was tentatively withdrawing its threat to shut down the newspaper. While tentative deals have been reached with six of... » read this article

2 May 2009 Millions of workers marched in May Day demonstrations around the world Friday, celebrating international proletarian solidarity. In Greece, 6,000 people marched in a peaceful demonstration in Athens. In central Athens, 4,000 policemen were deployed, as authorities feared a possible replay of the December riots that followed the... » read this article

2 May 2009 On Thursday, President Obama told a news conference that Chrysler, the third largest US automaker, would enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Obama said that this step would “save jobs” and that the process would be quick and painless. Within hours, these words were exposed as lies. All Chrysler... » read this article

Immigrant, worker unity can combat layoffs, cutbacks and racism Once more, just as every year since 2006, there will be May Day demonstrations around the United States on May 1. May Day actions, large and small, already signal an enormous political and social development. Large ones will have more impact,... » read this article

1 May 2009 May Day 2009 takes place against the background of a historic crisis of the capitalist system. Everywhere, the impact of the crisis is being felt. Tens of millions are being thrown out of work around the world, including millions in the heart of world capitalism, the United... » read this article