Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor and legislature passed a budget that delivers major tax breaks to corporations while withholding essential funding from schools and public services.
Climate change and the subordination of disaster management to profit exacerbate the destruction from flooding, which falls most heavily on the working class and poor.
Following the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that Trump had ordered more troops deployed to the capital.
Workers told the WSWS the company had prepared for the lockout by stockpiling product in advance and hurriedly training casuals to serve as strikebreakers.
“It is very frightening for workers and their families when they don’t know why this happened. Everyone needs answers—not just the residents of Cobar but people all over Australia.” – Cobar miner’s wife
The scenes of abundance and social harmony painted by Norman Rockwell in the middle of the 20th century—always an idealized fiction—stand in stark contrast to a society in 2025 at the breaking point. Society can progress no further while burdened by the capitalist profit system.
The residential towers, which were undergoing renovations, were all surrounded by bamboo scaffolding and netting that likely contributed to the speed with which the fire spread to seven of the eight 31-storey buildings.