On Tuesday, Israel massacred over 400 people in Gaza, launching a new phase of the Gaza genocide aimed at completing the systematic extermination or displacement of the entire remaining population.
Khalil’s powerful statement came the same day Trump threatened to impeach a federal judge for seeking to block the kidnapping and deportation of Venezuelan and El Salvadoran immigrants.
The Educators Rank-and-File Committee and International Youth and Students for Social Equality meeting discussed Trump’s attack on public education and democratic rights
The Trump administration, with Kennedy as its public health executioner, is determined to roll back decades of scientific progress.
In the past 25 years the price of gold has increased 10-fold, with its rise passing key marker points in periods of financial turbulence.
Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His profoundly moving art is finding a growing audience and worldwide acclaim.
Maria Pike and her daughter Destinii Hope were killed last year after police officers responded to a domestic violence call.
The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction blocking the execution granted by a lower judge.
All the evidence points to a provocation by the Milei administration aimed at justifying an escalation of attacks on democratic rights.
IG Metall turned its “day of action” into a nationalist endorsement of Berlin’s rearmament and war course.
The participation of Sumar in the war plans underscores the political complicity of middle class pseudo-left parties in European plans for war with Russia.
More and more information is coming to light which makes it clear that the fire was the result of criminal neglect of all safety precautions.
On 15 March, several thousand people protested in the German city of Cologne against the recent massacres of members of the Alawite minority in Syria.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Drawing conspicuously from the pseudo-legal playbook of the Nazis, the capitalist oligarchy has set in motion an operation aimed at nothing less than the imposition of a police state in the US.
The AEC letter underscores the anti-democratic character of the country’s party registration legislation.
Trump and his inner circle of fascist sympathizers are systematically demolishing legal and constitutional restraints, with each violation setting the stage for even more brazen assertions of absolute power.
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Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Three weeks have passed since Steiner posted on permanent-revolution.org a slanderous letter provided by an agent-provocateur. Steiner’s default response to the WSWS's exposure of his deceitful attempt to justify his provocation is to tell more lies.
The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists condemns with contempt the smear campaign based on the claim that the International Committee's “negligence” in security matters was to blame for the arrest of our comrade, Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Bogdan is charged not for any action committed or planned but for his Trotskyist ideas, a “thoughtcrime."
Mickey 17, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, is a science fiction black comedy based on Edward Ashton's 2022 novel Mickey7.
Unit 29, edited by poet and translator Louis Bourgeois, presents the writing and artwork of over 30 inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi (also known as Parchman Farm).
Toxic Town, a scandal about birth defects in UK town Corby dramatized in 4 episodes, is streaming now on Netflix.
Late Shift in particular is a stirring tribute to an important layer of the working class that takes its work seriously despite adverse circumstances.
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting to discuss Trump's efforts to destroy public education and a political strategy for the working class to stop it.
The workplace “briefing” held at Cumbernauld presented a display of unity between management and Communication Workers Union reps.
The monopoly over letter mail forms the core of the Crown corporation’s operations. Its erosion or elimination in the name of “liberalizing” trade barriers and protecting corporate Canada’s profits during the trade war would mean the destruction of thousands of jobs and the end of Canada Post as it currently operates.
While this protest highlights the genuine sentiment of workers fighting for better conditions, it also exposes the limitations of protest tactics that focus on pressuring executives rather than confronting the profit system.
The actions taken by the Trump administration since Friday night are a crossing of the Rubicon in terms of the assertion of unlimited presidential authority.
The speech, while largely a rehash of his address to Congress two weeks ago, added new threats of criminal prosecution of critics and opponents.
Empowered by the Trump administration and with the complicity of the Democratic Party, US immigration police are detaining and deporting legal tourists, multi-decade residents and visa holders in violation of court orders.
The Educators Rank and File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality convened to address the urgent crisis in public education and attacks on democratic rights under the Trump administration.
Richard Kramer, former Chief Executive of disability rights group Sense, posted on X: “The government has announced the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record.”
Even though it is financed by loans, the costs will fall on the working class—in the form of wage cuts, social cuts, the reintroduction of compulsory military service, the militarisation of the whole of society and the suppression of democratic rights.
Only an independent and international movement of the working class, which takes up a fight against the government’s pro-war agenda, can ensure decent wages and social conditions.
Breaking up the encampment has obviously done nothing to address the underlying problem of a complete lack of accessible, secure and affordable accommodation for those in need.
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
President Dissanayake has announced that his government will establish a state holding company, and list it on the Colombo Stock Exchange, to accelerate the restructuring of over 400 state-owned enterprises.
The Ceylon Workers Congress, in line with the state and the company, are directing the victimised workers to admit their guilt for an offence they did not commit.
The SEP stresses the urgency for workers to build action committees, independent of the trade unions, to fight to defend their social and democratic rights.
“During my 32 years of experience in academia—since 1992—I cannot recall such intense external influence on the university… It is deeply concerning because universities must remain spaces for open dialogue” – Professor Upul Abeyratne
Any such payouts will be designed, in line with the Mabo decision itself, to benefit a privileged layer of indigenous land claimants and their business enterprises.
The findings of the Islamophobia Register are an indictment of governments and the media, which have stoked anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian racism to legitimise their support for the Gaza genocide.
The AEC letter underscores the anti-democratic character of the country’s party registration legislation.
Prabowo has taken an axe to vital public services, slashing up to $44 billion from education, health and infrastructure.
The fact that the charges are only being filed now, nearly a year after the protest took place, underscores their concocted character.
On Friday, Trump’s deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, threatened to pursue terrorism charges against universities and students for previously protesting war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
The resolution called for an urgent campus rally of staff and students to fight moves to sack Abdel-Fattah, a widely respected academic who is being targeted because of her opposition to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine.
It is increasingly clear that Labor leaders were aware the “antisemitic attacks” were a hoax, even as they declared them a major threat to national security in order to ram through the laws.
With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles have already spread to the education systems of several of Brazil’s capitals.
Throughout Latin America, the military and political heirs to the terror regimes of the 1960s and 1970s have once again been brought to the center of political developments.
Boluarte ranks as the most unpopular president in the world, and not a day goes by without corruption or political scandals with far-reaching effects on society.
The approval of an IMF package and the appointment of the two judges by executive decree, both clear authoritarian power grabs, took place amid accusations of corruption against Milei in connection with the “crypto crisis”.
Whether Carney, campaigning under the slogan “Canada Strong,” or Poilievre, the champion of “Canada First,” emerges as prime minister after the coming election, the working class will rapidly be plunged into convulsive social struggles.
The period for peak tornadoes seems to be moving earlier in the year, as a result of climate change.
Tateona Williams, 29, lost two of her children as she and her family sheltered in a van parked in a casino garage on February 10.
Bill 89, as Quebec’s CAQ government readily admits, was inspired by the actions of the federal Trudeau government, which in the last six months of 2024 repeatedly used a newly cooked-up reinterpretation of the Canada Labour Code to arbitrarily rob workers of the right-to-strike.
The US military carried out dozens of airstrikes on Yemen Saturday and Sunday, including strikes on residential areas in the densely populated city of Sanaa, killing at least 53 people, including 31 civilians.
The US and Israeli governments have opened up discussions with officials from Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland over the mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza and their forcible relocation to those countries.
The Israeli government announced Sunday that it will completely shut off electricity to Gaza, following the blockade of all food and humanitarian supplies earlier this month.
Netanyahu’s claims were widely regurgitated and amplified uncritically by the domestic and international media to whip up a foul atmosphere, with the Israeli government using this barefaced lie to promote another anti-Palestinian “atrocity” campaign.
Uganda cult massacre; trial of Baader-Meinhof group; Belgium government collapses; British fascists seize Communist Party leader
When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to open colonial rule and the conquest and annexation of territories.
In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman and expelled him from the city.
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on a little-known figure in American history.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Russian troops are on the verge of recapturing all territory seized by Ukraine in an offensive in Kursk last summer, imparting an air of crisis to calls by US President Donald Trump for a 30-day ceasefire in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
As Zelensky has turned to the EU for support in the wake of his White House visit, the Trump administration has already begun meeting with Zelensky’s rivals within the Ukrainian ruling-class.
In response to Trump’s public humiliation of the Ukraine president at the White House, congressional Democrats are reaffirming their support for escalating the US-NATO war with Russia.
Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has said that when Trump raised the issue of the country’s minerals he knew the president’s threats of annexation were a “real thing.”
Glenn Youngkin, Republican governor of Virginia, commuted the sentence of a former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man accused of stealing a pair of sunglasses in 2023.
Gearing up for a presidential run, Newsom is throwing the working class under the bus while offering an olive branch to fascists.
Oklahoma’s recent maneuvers to deny public education to undocumented children epitomize the reactionary trajectory of US capitalism.
As authorities in the state of Georgia prepare to formally open the military-style police training center, they continue to muzzle any form of opposition, be it peaceful protests, street demonstrations, referendums or federal lawsuits.
As wildcat strikes took place ahead of a national strike by physicians, hundreds of municipal workers in Istanbul staged a mass protest for their unpaid wages despite an attempted ban.
The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous administration under its control with the Damascus regime. It is part of the efforts of US imperialism, together with Israel, to dominate the Middle East.
Erdoğan stated on Monday: “As an integral part of Europe, we consider our European Union membership process as our strategic priority… European security is unthinkable without Turkey”
The killing of at least 745 civilians in massacres targeting the Alawite minority in Syria exposes the criminality of the NATO powers that support and legitimize the Islamist HTS regime.
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this social system is in an advanced state of regression.
New Mexico health officials confirmed on Thursday that an unvaccinated adult from Lea County on the border with Texas tested positive for measles after having died.
The abrupt cancelation by the FDA of the vaccine advisory committee meeting to determine next flu season’s vaccine has potentially catastrophic public health implications.
Delays in reporting relate to near non-existent infrastructure conditions and poorly resourced facilities.
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
Delays in reporting relate to near non-existent infrastructure conditions and poorly resourced facilities.
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
The Purchasing Managers’ Index report, issued by S&P Global, pointed to “a darkening picture of heightened uncertainty, stalling business activity and rising prices.”
The gold surge is the expression of tensions and contradictions building up in the global financial system, accelerated by Trump’s economic war against the world.
The battle plan has largely been drawn up by Peter Navarro, who has been nominated as senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing policy and is known as a ferocious anti-China hawk.
Brookings Institution researchers drew attention to an article by long-time Republican Mitch Daniels in the Washington Post, stating “only a dwindling number of denialists doubt that a cataclysmic reckoning … lies ahead.”
Last Friday, the IYSSE held a successful meeting at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas opposing the mass deportations by the Trump administration that was attended by almost 30 people.
Rather than refuting the IYSSE’s exposure of the Democratic Party’s role in enabling Trump’s attacks, the Young Democrats resorted to attempted censorship.
In the course of his remarks, Finkelstein said of the repression of anti-genocide protesters at U-M and on campuses across the country, “What took place this past spring involved the biggest attack on academic freedom in US history.”
The university administration’s willingness to collaborate in attacks on immigrants, transgender people and anti-genocide students has clearly emerged.
The recent fires in Los Angeles have laid bare the devastating consequences of capitalism, a system that prioritizes profit over safety.
Caruso’s initiative signals the intention of finance capital to exploit the wildfires disaster for the pursuit of profits with the help of the Democrats and Republicans.
The crisis facing the LA Fire Department is a microcosm of the broader contradictions of capitalism. It highlights the urgent need for a socialist program that prioritizes public welfare over private profit.
A town hall meeting in Santa Monica escalated into angry exchanges between survivors of the Pacific Palisades fire and an EPA official about the 18-month timeline for clearing debris left by the devastating fire.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
As the hearings closed for the largest ICJ case in history, the major capitalist powers displayed their indifference to the impact of climate change on impoverished countries.
Robert F Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has promised to end water fluoridation, a program which has been called one of the 10 greatest achievements in public health.
The latest climate summit embraced the same policy that has been adopted since such climate talks began in 1995: the subordination of Earth’s environment and the lives of those impacted to the corporate and economic demands of the United States and the other major capitalist powers.
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
Despite Stellantis rescinding its threat to lay off 1,134 workers at the Jeep complex in Toledo, the looming threat of tariffs and trade war presages a renewed attack on auto jobs.
Events of the last week show that the recent police sweep at Ford Michigan Assembly was the launch of what can only be described as a police state crackdown against autoworkers.
Workers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee sponsored a meeting to discuss the fight against job cuts and Trump’s attack on immigrant workers.
The head of Volkswagen’s works council Daniela Cavallo has made it clear that the IG Metall union and the works council do not want to fight but “let off steam”.
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
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A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
Drawing conspicuously from the pseudo-legal playbook of the Nazis, the capitalist oligarchy has set in motion an operation aimed at nothing less than the imposition of a police state in the US.
Trump and his inner circle of fascist sympathizers are systematically demolishing legal and constitutional restraints, with each violation setting the stage for even more brazen assertions of absolute power.
Given the opportunity to cut off funding for the government, the Democrats instead ensured that Trump's administration remained fully operational.
Your financial support is vital to ensure that the WSWS can continue its uncompromising reporting, in-depth analysis and the broadest possible mobilization of opposition.
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
