This Labor Day one question dominates above all others: How will the transformation of the United States into a military-police dictatorship be stopped?
On Sunday, the Washington Post published a 38-page plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, drawn up with the collusion of the Boston Consulting Group and the staff of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and discussed at the White House.
The potential for a military operation against Venezuela long demanded by Trump and his circle of fascist advisers cannot be ruled out.
The court said when Congress gave the president the authority to impose tariffs it did so explicitly, noting that the word “tariff” did not appear in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act under which Trump acted.
Two weeks after the US-Russia summit in Alaska, talk of a diplomatic settlement is collapsing as the warring governments head eyes closed towards a direct Russia-Europe war.
Sanctions would further devastate Iran’s economy which is plagued by hyperinflation, a plunging currency and economic recession, exacerbated by the recent US/Israeli bombardment.
The fascist Israeli plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians out of Gaza City has moved into a new phase of military operations with the area declared a “dangerous combat zone” and ground forces now operating on the outskirts of the city.
On Sunday, over 50 ships carrying humanitarian aid and activists from 44 countries are set to depart from Barcelona, Genoa, Sicily, Greece, and other Mediterranean ports.
Dr. Peter Daszak and colleagues recently published a study on coronaviruses on pig farms in China and Southeast Asia and the threat posed by potential zoonotic spillover events into dense human populations. Daszak spoke with the World Socialist Web Site to review this work and discuss the crisis erupting within the scientific community.
The attack on Chengxuan Han and Yunqing Jian is intimately linked to the Trump administration’s broader war on students, immigrants and the working class.
Protests erupted on Monday after it was announced that parliamentarians would be given an exorbitant monthly accommodation allowance, highlighting the country’s worsening social inequality.
Despite boasting about “falling crime rates” across California, Newsom is doubling down on Trump-style “law-and-order” policies.
In Cologne on Saturday, police surrounded participants in a peace demonstration, mostly teenagers and young people, for almost 11 hours.
Paetongtarn’s ousting is an anti-democratic judicial coup carried out by the conservative political establishment connected to the military and monarchy.
This interview was conducted on August 16 with WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North, as part of an event marking 85 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky, on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey.
The “rebuilding” program launched after Katrina accelerated the nationwide social counterrevolution that had been underway for decades.
The Trump administration’s attacks on science and public health are aimed at the international working class, which bears the brunt of disease, disability, and early death when protective measures are eliminated.
It is now clear that the main consequence of the 1619 Project’s attack on the American Revolution and Civil War was to disarm the population in the face of the fascist threat.
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
This is the first part of the lecture “Internationalist Socialism vs. Nationalist Reformism” delivered by Clara Weiss, Chris Marsden and Peter Symonds to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
This lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), to the Socialist Equality Party (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025.
This lecture was delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025.
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Stamp identified himself as part of “the first wave of the educated, real, working class.”
A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence.
Lehrer, trained as a mathematician at Harvard, taught for many decades after his performing and songwriting career ended around 1970.
Even by the standards of the American trade union bureaucracy, the maneuvers to ram through this contract are noteworthy for their brazenness and crudeness
The workers—paraeducators, bus drivers, custodians, mechanics and food service staff—among the lowest-paid in the school workforce—voted by 92 percent to strike after five months of negotiations produced no agreement.
Trump’s Department of Education has targeted Northern Virginia schools over pro-LGBTQ policies, threatening funding cuts.
Bangladesh: Momo Fashion garment workers protest factory closure; Sri Lankan public transport workers threaten strike over joint transport initiative; South Australian public sector health workers walk out again over low pay; New Zealand media workers strike.
By calling a vote of confidence on his austerity budget that he is set to lose, French Prime Minister François Bayrou has blown the lid off the political crisis in France and across Europe.
Labour was elected on the manifesto pledge: “We will immediately abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, prevent private renters being exploited and discriminated against, empower them to challenge unreasonable rent increases.”
Just 40.3 percent of members submitted a ballot return--a vote of no-confidence in the entire Communication Workers Union bureaucracy.
Since July far-right forces--including openly neo-Nazi groups and individuals--have led weekly protests outside the Bell Hotel demanding the 138 asylum seekers it houses be kicked out.
The provocative visit to the Pacific by a high-level Israeli delegation is in defiance of widespread pro-Palestine sentiment in the region.
The alleged perpetrator was heavily involved in an anti-lockdown movement that was actively promoted by powerful sections of the corporate and political establishment.
The Albanese Labor government’s measures could see around 350 former detainees quickly rounded up for a new version of indefinite detention—first inside Australian detention facilities and then on the remote island of Nauru.
The main purpose of the meeting was to provide Lee an opportunity to assure Trump that his three-month-old administration would continue to fully back Washington’s war plans against China.
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
Workers contacted by the WSWS stressed the fact that the continuing toll of workplace and industrial deaths is the consequence of the subordination of all concerns over safety to the drive for profit.
The World Socialist Web Site continues to publish statements of support for the IWA-RFC investigation into the death of Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams.
Workers in Canada, Australia and Turkey gave statements in support of the investigation into the death of Stellantis Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams Sr. last April.
The surge in fatal workplace accidents in Italy exposes the alliance between the state, corporations and union bureaucracy, highlighting the urgent need for rank-and-file committees and an international struggle against capitalist exploitation.
Two of the workers were killed after they heroically sought to save their co-worker, and all three died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
The following letter was submitted to the WSWS in response to the August 11 explosion which occurred at the Clairton Coke Works facility near Pittsburgh. Two steel workers, 39-year-old Timothy Quinn and 52-year-old Steven Menefee, were killed and 10 injured.
The proliferation of so-called “workplace accidents” in Brazil and around the world is inherent to the capitalist mode of production.
Speakers placed the struggle of postal workers within the broader crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism and the need for workers to form independent action committees to fight the government’s IMF-dictated measures.
The arrest of Wickremesinghe took place amid an intensifying political crisis confronting the JVP/NPP government, fuelled by emerging working-class struggles.
Daulagala dedicated more than four decades of his life to the struggle for the Trotskyist principles of international socialism until prolonged illness curtailed his work.
The strike is part of a growing wave of industrial action and the radicalisation of workers in Sri Lanka and around the world against attacks on social and democratic rights.
From the world’s richest neo-Nazi Elon Musk to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the fascists on X, far-right sections of the ruling class and their lackeys are whipping up a pogrom-like atmosphere against transgender persons following the shooting.
On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a further tightening of the Trump administration’s grip on the nation’s capital with his department’s takeover of management of Union Station.
The 50-question multiple-choice test will screen for radical leftist ideology, gender ideology, and American exceptionalism.
The refusal to date of top national and state elected Democrats to endorse the party’s candidate in the country’s largest city, more than two months after the primary, is extraordinary. It is an expression of a deep crisis pervading the Democratic Party.
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
The acceptance of the case by the court is an important step in the campaign to demand the release of Bogdan.
The logic of the war is leading directly toward a military clash between Russia and Europe threatening the lives of millions and the destruction of the entire continent. Far from backing down in the wake of Russia’s attacks, European governments seized on them to issue new threats and accelerate the war drive.
With the visit of German Finance Minister, Social Democrat leader, and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil to Kiev earlier this week, the German government has finally moved to the forefront of the imperialist war offensive in Eastern Europe.
The bill’s introduction is a tacit admission by the dictatorial Zelensky regime that a growing number of Ukrainians do not want a part in the war.
The European powers’ goal of bringing Ukraine and Russia under their control with American support has proven to be a disastrous miscalculation.
In frantic phone calls, immigrants reported that guards deployed tear gas and assaulted them.
Growing protests against immigrant detention, suppression of history and glorification of state violence reflect a developing movement of workers and youth determined to oppose Trump’s authoritarian measures and defend democratic and social rights.
In the starkest expression of his war against science and public health, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demanded the resignation of the director of the Centers for Disease Control, career scientist Susan Monarez, triggering the resignation in protest by four other high-level public health officials.
Trump’s program speaks for a ruling class determined to reverse the entire course of modern American history, tearing up every social advance won through struggle since the Civil War.
Canada’s Liberal government—promoted by the social democratic NDP and trade unions as a “progressive” alternative to the Conservatives—is eviscerating public services and worker rights to pay for rearmament and war.
A mass shooting by 23-year-old Robin Westman at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis left two children dead and 17 others injured.
Despite efforts in using water containment booms to halt the spillage of oil, residents some 30 miles south of the Tangipahoa River, which runs alongside the explosion site, have reported seeing oil on the surface of the river.
With the complicity of the pseudo-left Québec Solidaire, the unions are working to revive the Parti Québécois, a chauvinist big business party, long discredited due to its implementation of capitalist austerity and antistrike laws.
The scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
The inability of the moribund capitalist system to effectively address climate change and all its myriad devastating consequences poses an existential crisis for humanity.
The scientific record of the impact of capitalist industrial activity on Earth’s warming climate is clear and well established.
In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that countries are legally obliged to prevent “significant harm to the climate system.”
Philadelphia teachers vote to strike; Egypt, Israel agreement over Sinai; Fighting rages around Pusan, South Korea; Britain and Turkey vie for control of Mosul
July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in the Soviet Union.
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 deployment of a US amphibious intervention force with 2,200 Marines aboard shatters Washington’s flimsy claims that it was engaged in counter-narcotics activity.
The return to power of the far right in Bolivia proves once again that bourgeois nationalism only serves to disarm the working class.
The Colombia-Peru border dispute exposes how imperialist powers and local elites exploit nationalist chauvinism to suppress the class struggle.
Sparking disputes between states and the federal government, the Lula administration’s Public Security Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) is aimed at strengthening the repressive apparatus.
Italian dockworkers’ struggle against Saudi shipping giant Bahri shows how the working class can fight genocide and war and raises important political issues facing workers internationally.
Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of “Free Palestine,” festival staff cut the band’s sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting “Let them play.”
The first-term congressman from St. Louis was heavily backed by Zionist groups, particularly AIPAC, when he defeated Cori Bush last year.
Following on from the march by up to 300,000 people across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, these were among the biggest pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Australia since the Zionist ethnic cleansing began in October 2023.
Ten Palestinians have died of starvation or malnutrition over the past 24 hours due to the deliberate famine created by Israel in Gaza, bringing the death toll from the famine to 313, including 119 children.
Kushner’s comment highlights how falsely equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism criminalizes any and all statements of sympathy for Palestinian victims of the Gaza genocide.
Gaza's health ministry said Sunday that 289 people, including 115 children, have died of malnutrition and starvation since the start of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The UN-affiliated body that monitors mass hunger has for the first time officially declared a famine in Gaza City and warned that other areas of Gaza will soon face famine.
The NPC has been designed to channel the insurgent movement of workers and youth into parliamentary politics, whether as a new independent electoral slate for 2027 elections or as a temporary vehicle for discredited bourgeois politicians looking for a new home.
Little has changed since Dan Morgan wrote his groundbreaking book Merchants of Grain in 1979 describing the seven secretive families and far-flung companies that control the world’s food supplies.
The operation is an extension of Operation Vala Umgodi that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners died after police surrounded an abandoned mine, cutting off food supplies and forcing them to the surface.
The protests erupted in response to austerity measures imposed by the long-ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) government at the behest of the International Monetary Fund.
Former Fed chief Janet Yellen has warned of the implications for US monetary policy both at home and abroad of Trump’s actions.
Trump’s moves have been accompanied by warnings from financial circles that loss of Fed independence will have major consequences for the US financial stability and the position of the dollar.
Powell’s move to ease rates will not ease the pressure from the Trump administration for major rate reductions nor that which has started to emerge from within the Fed’s governing body.
Some 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest than health and education.
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.
The sweeping new COVID vaccine restrictions threaten access to lifesaving shots as infections surge nationwide.
The author of Lab Leak Fever has comprehensively exposed the baseless ultra-right campaign to blame COVID-19 on the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Blame offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.
XFG (Stratus) is the latest subvariant of Omicron that is gaining momentum in the summer surge of the pandemic.
The antagonistic interests of the imperialist powers and the regional powers of Israel, Turkey and the Gulf states that have backed Sharaa in their bid to control Syria has the potential to ignite further waves of bloody sectarian violence and precipitate the fragmentation of the country that itself could ignite a region-wide conflagration.
Workers in the Caucasus and around the world need to be alert: Under the guise of an “economic corridor”, preparations are being made for bloody wars that will devastate the region’s peoples as US imperialism pushes forward its predatory plans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These attacks serve the aim of paving the way for a presidential dictatorship, trampling academic freedom and student activism.
If these measures are not defeated, universities will become institutions in which freedom of speech and the right to political association and protest are obliterated.
“It’s horrible. I think it’s a sign of the systematic silencing of students’ voices. Students have always been at the forefront of social movements.”
The letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han.
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.
In response to continuing US threats to bomb drug cartels in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued unconvincing and toothless denials that they will ever be carried out.
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.
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.
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
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.
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.
This Labor Day one question dominates above all others: How will the transformation of the United States into a military-police dictatorship be stopped?
The “rebuilding” program launched after Katrina accelerated the nationwide social counterrevolution that had been underway for decades.
The Trump administration’s attacks on science and public health are aimed at the international working class, which bears the brunt of disease, disability, and early death when protective measures are eliminated.
It is now clear that the main consequence of the 1619 Project’s attack on the American Revolution and Civil War was to disarm the population in the face of the fascist threat.
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.
