The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty plotting of all the imperialist powers.
Two weeks after President Donald Trump toured the new detention facility in South Florida swampland, hundreds of immigrants, many of whom have never committed a crime, are suffering in hellish conditions.
The Trump administration has issued a new rule banning undocumented children from Head Start in an outright violation of Plyler v. Doe, the landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of all US residents to free public education.
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in nearly 40 years. It occurred as white collar municipal workers began voting Thursday about whether they would launch their own strike against the city.
This is a call to action for all workers who want to defend their rights. Don’t let the bureaucrats and city officials decide your future behind closed doors!
The removal of current workplace safety standards will only ensure that the numbers of workplace injuries and fatalities will increase in Kentucky, a state that already surpasses the national average of workplace injuries and fatalities.
Local officials informed the public on Sunday that rescue personnel, equipment and vehicles were being removed from the area because of an imminent threat posed by renewed storms.
The abrupt cancelation by HHS RFK jr. of a critical preventive health task force meeting last week has once again raised alarm among health organizations about the viability of the healthcare infrastructure in the US.
The review aims to create new pathways between youth and the armed forces and to develop existing avenues to ensure increased recruitment for the war agenda of British imperialism.
Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by reactionary aims related to the imperialist war in the Middle East.
The ASEAN communique did not name the US, but its opposition to the tariffs was obvious, expressing concern over “rising global trade tensions and growing uncertainties” and “unilateral actions relating to tariffs.”
Democrat Lee Jae-myung is following the same anti-China militarist agenda as his right-wing predecessor, who was impeached and removed from office after a failed military coup attempt last year.
The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the stability of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international human rights bodies.
Goldin, who is Jewish, told the crowd of 2,500, "Anti-Zionism has been totally conflated with antisemitism, which is convenient for Israel."
The referendum was a critical experience for the international working class, with enormous political lessons that are of burning relevance in the present political situation.
As the United States begins the 250th year of its existence, it is in the throes of a political, social, intellectual and cultural counterrevolution.
The strike was a sign of growing social opposition, which is developing into a confrontation with the corporate oligarchy. The strike also shows that preparing this movement is inseparably linked with the struggle to overthrow the corrupt apparatus and return control to the rank-and-file where it belongs.
The state is home to 84 billionaires, including the world’s richest man, yet officials refuse to fund the social infrastructure needed to safeguard the population from predictable natural disasters.
Ciervo's most recent work includes the multimedia projects “mare nostrum” and “Sew in the Sea,” dedicated to migrants who died trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean.
A federal jury in New York City acquitted Sean “Diddy” Combs of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges but convicted him of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Nadal-Melsió was fired in early June. This followed protests over the Whitney’s cancellation of a performance event treating Palestinian mourning and resistance.
Bob Vylan came to international prominence recently by courageously denouncing the mass murder in Gaza at the Glastonbury Festival.
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
New evidence of corporate negligence and state complicity exposes how deregulation and exploitation led to seven preventable deaths.
Like their counterparts in North America, Italian Stellantis workers are facing a relentless attack on jobs and working conditions, which have led to workplace fatalities like the February 2024 death of Dominico Fatigati, a 52-year-old machine maintenance worker.
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.
To ram through a sellout deal, the UFCW gave workers no time to read or review the full contract, fast-tracking a vote designed to suppress opposition and silence democratic participation.
The so-called “Driver Voluntary Severance Plan” is the latest part of the company’s jobs massacre, including plans to eliminate 20,000 jobs this year.
The sellout of the strike is so naked and blatant that even the corporate press, which usually ignores such matters out of self-interest, has been forced to take note.
India: Tamil Nadu vocational training teachers hold state-wide strike; Odisha transport drivers strike for better conditions; Australia: Glencore coal miners strike for pay rise; New Zealand Uber drivers rally for employment rights.
German universities are facing the biggest austerity programme of the postwar era. State governments in Berlin and across the country plan to slash millions from research, teaching and infrastructure.
Amid continuing tensions among the European powers over how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s zig-zagging policy towards NATO and the Ukraine war, the French president and British prime minister made their latest effort to present an Anglo-French axis.
The budget debate in the Bundestag was a repulsive spectacle, demonstrating the ruthlessness with which the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats are implementing a reckless programme of rearmament and a return to German great‑power politics.
“Marxism 2025” gave clear warning of the type of pro-capitalist party the SWP is preparing to build, platforming Yanis Varoufakis, betrayer of the Greek working class, as a keynote speaker.
The conditions in the sector are the product of relentless privatisation, and a resulting assault on jobs, wages and safety standards.
Trump’s latest two industrial sector tariffs—200 percent on pharmaceuticals and 50 percent on copper—have serious implications for Australia.
Build neighbourhood and workplace rank-and-file committees! While far advanced, Labor’s devastating plans can and must be defeated by the working class.
The Labor government’s handpicked representative from the Zionist lobby has called for a draconian crackdown on opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza under the false banner of fighting antisemitism.
The decision by the Carnegie Mellon University administration to host President Trump for an “Energy” conference on July 15 lend credibility to Trump’s attacks on universities, students and science as he continues his transformation into a dictator.
Heavily armed immigration agents backed by National Guard soldiers kidnapped workers and US citizens alike, with many still missing more than 24 hours after the raid.
The US Supreme Court issued an 8-1 order on Tuesday—without addressing the constitutionality of the issue—that allows the Trump administration to proceed with the destruction of government agencies and the firing of tens of thousands of federal employees.
The deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents in MacArthur Park exposes a growing strategy of domestic militarization aimed at suppressing immigrant and working class communities.
Compensation deal for victims of Nazi forced-labor; Apollo-Soyuz mission; Julius Rosenberg arrested; anti-French revolt in Syria.
With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has opened a new chapter in the revival of German militarism.
The UAW, which stoked the anti-Japanese racism that led to Chin’s death, is backing Trump’s tariffs and promoting the lie that Mexican workers are taking American autoworkers' jobs.
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
The economic war against the world being waged by the US is reproducing, at a higher level, the conditions of the disastrous decade of the 1930s that played a major role in creating the conditions for World War II.
Tariffs on copper of 50 percent could be imposed as early as next month and a 200 percent impost on pharmaceuticals may be set within 18 months, with other commodities set to follow.
Trump has sent letters to 14 countries saying that the massive tariff hikes announced on April 2 would be imposed on August 1, with two of the most significant diktats issued to so-called US allies Japan and South Korea.
Trump announced the pause on the imposition of “reciprocal tariffs” on April 9 because of the major reaction in the bond market, which indicated a financial crisis could be in the making.
At a press conference, his first significant public response to the tragedy, held a full week after the flood, Trump refused to address multiple facts implicating his administration and that of his MAGA ally Governor Abbott in the disaster. Instead, Trump made clear that a massive coverup is underway and no one will be held to account for the preventable loss of life.
California, long heralded as a model of innovation and progress, has become a place where working class people are dying earlier, and reaping none of the benefits of medical science.
“Who’s to blame? That’s the word choice of losers,” says Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
The individual tragedies exposed by these rising suicide rates point to broader societal issues, but the focus of suicide prevention remains on individual “solutions” rather than addressing the social and economic conditions that contribute to this widespread despair.
The Justice Department and FBI have officially stated that no “client list” of powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking exists, publicly contradicting earlier claims by Attorney General Pam Bondi and walking back election campaign promises made by Donald Trump that he would release such information.
Mamdani has appointed Jeffrey Lerner—a former top Obama White House aide and Democratic National Committee political director—as his communications chief.
Mamdani’s own response to the campaign of denunciations and threats has been to shift to the right, stressing his willingness to work with “business leaders.”
The passage of the bill is an attack on a social program, Medicaid, that provides tens of millions of Americans limited access to healthcare. This will have a crippling effect on the already crisis-ridden healthcare infrastructure, impacting the most vulnerable.
Cuban nationals in the United States, most of whom fled the island due to the impact of US imperialist policies, are being targeted for detention and deportation as part of Trump’s crackdown on migrants.
In an extraordinary act of imperialist intimidation, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the imposition of 50 percent tariffs on all products exported by Brazil to the United States.
Whatever the outcome of the PT’s July 6 internal election, it and the Lula government will continue their protracted turn to the right.
The right-wing Mulino government has imposed Operation Omega to crack down on working class resistance to austerity measures.
The Sri Lankan meetings were part of the campaign waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International to build a global anti-war movement of the working class against the developing world war.
The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by successive Colombo governments, against the separatist LTTE.
The deal marks a significant expansion of New Delhi’s strategic build-up in the Indian Ocean region against China.
The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic problems, within the capitalist system.
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 2002, including serving as the head of NASA’s Astrophysics Division from 1993 to 1995 and as a program director for the National Science Foundation from 1999 to 2002.
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to create plans for a giant concentration camp on the ruins of Rafah, where the population of Gaza would be moved in preparation for their forcible expulsion, Haaretz reported Wednesday.
The BBC’s systematic bias in favour of Israel reflects the growing chasm between Britain’s ruling elite that enables and supports Israel’s war of annihilation on Gaza, and the broader public that have turned out in their millions in Britain and throughout the world to oppose the war.
Some 1,500 healthcare workers have been killed by Israeli forces and hundreds more detained, imprisoned and disappeared since October 2023.
US President Donald Trump received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a formal dinner on Monday, during which both men reiterated their plans to forcibly remove the Palestinian population from Gaza in preparation for its annexation.
Police handcuffed several people and carried them into vans. Among them was 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt.
The firing of Katherine Grzejszczak is part of a global assault by the ruling elites in all of the major imperialist powers against the mass opposition and disgust voiced by millions of people to Israel’s imperialist-backed slaughter in Gaza.
Following the publication of a devastating report detailing the involvement of major international concerns in the genocide in Gaza, a meeting to be addressed by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Bern, Switzerland was cancelled at the last moment.
Today’s vote pits a Labour government, led by former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer, against millions opposing the Gaza genocide and a groundswell of popular opposition to parliament’s historic assault on the right to protest, freedom of speech and free assembly.
The rapid changes in Trump’s foreign policy are an expression of his commitment to an imperialist war in defense of American capital.
Russia's lead negotiator in peace talks with Ukraine warned on Monday that any deal that did not secure his country's lasting interests would ultimately result in "the end of the planet."
The attack was personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and carried out by the fascist-infested Secret Service of Ukraine (SBU).
This report on by Ukrainian journalists documents the emergence of a huge shadow economy and the impact of skyrocketing food prices in the war-torn country.
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
The ruling class and the capitalist political establishment will try to exploit any opportunity to suppress the deepening political crisis and divert attention away from the mounting class tensions.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
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.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
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.
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
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.
This sadistic call for mutilation is a thinly disguised pledge to continue murdering protesters. In total, Ruto’s regime has killed over 140 protestors, left thousands injured and maimed for life, while hundreds have disappeared or been abducted.
The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.
The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pretext for further repression.
President Ruto’s government has unleashed a violent crackdown on mass Gen Z-led protests across Kenya, leaving at least 16 dead and hundreds injured.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
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.
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.
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
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.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on workers, students and youth across the United States and internationally to oppose the warmongering witch-hunting of Chinese researchers Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu.
While the protests express a growing opposition to Trump’s fascistic agenda, the pseudo-left organisers are seeking to channel those sentiments behind Australian nationalism and a pro-war Labor government.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on students, workers and youth across the US and internationally to demand that Rozos' diploma be released immediately.
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
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.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
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.
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.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
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.
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.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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 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 $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
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.
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.
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
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.
The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty plotting of all the imperialist powers.
The referendum was a critical experience for the international working class, with enormous political lessons that are of burning relevance in the present political situation.
The strike was a sign of growing social opposition, which is developing into a confrontation with the corporate oligarchy. The strike also shows that preparing this movement is inseparably linked with the struggle to overthrow the corrupt apparatus and return control to the rank-and-file where it belongs.
The state is home to 84 billionaires, including the world’s richest man, yet officials refuse to fund the social infrastructure needed to safeguard the population from predictable natural disasters.
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.
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
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.
