More than US$726 million (€658 million) of funding to prevent child labour, modern slavery and workplace repression is set to be axed in a bonfire of worker protections being stoked by the Trump administration, “Equal Times” reports.
Worker abuse, exploitation and union-busting will almost certainly be turbo-charged by the cuts, according to the former US Special Representative for International Labour Affairs under the Biden administration, Kelly Fay Rodriguez. “Unfortunately, it is (…)

On the left, there is an urgent need to return to basics, where door-to-door canvassing and grassroots work in factories and schools are not just carried out during election periods, but because they are an effective way of countering misinformation and laying the foundations for changing the material reality and deepening the reality of activism. Toupeira Vermelha – The Red Mole, a collective of militants of the Fourth International
I. Introduction
1. Fifty years ago, Portugal held its (…)

Many of us were on vacation last month, but President Donald Trump was hard at work, dismantling American democracy and creating a reactionary authoritarian state. Trump, in an attempt to take personal and absolute control of the federal government in unprecedented moves of dubious legality, terminated three top level government officials.
First, he fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, claiming she had “faked” jobs numbers to make it look like Trump's economic (…)

The assassination of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old leader of the far-right youth organization Turning Point USA has intensified the political polarization in the United States and has led to calls by Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement to call for the elimination of the left from American political life.
Kirk was assassinated by a single rifle shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Within two days, Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old student, turned himself in (…)

Christian Tein, president of the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front), spent a year in solitary confinement in a French prison following the May 2024 uprising in Kanaky/New Caledonia. Now on provisional release but banned from returning home, he tours mainland France to expose what he calls the French state's systematic dismantling of the 1998 Nouméa Accord—the constitutional agreement that promised a path to independence.
In this interview, conducted during the NPA's (…)