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Trump’s fascist conspiracy and how to fight it: A socialist strategy
The Trump administration is working to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs.
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Trump’s anti-science crusade against autism and the modern revival of eugenics
While Trump gave the appearance of a semi-senile idiot, underlying his deranged ravings and those of Kennedy are much darker forces and motives.
While no motive has yet to emerge, Republicans and Trump administration officials immediately blamed Democratic Party rhetoric and “Deranged Radical Leftists” for the attack.
Jacob Crosse•
The right-wing campaign leading to Kimmel’s suspension was launched in the wake of his comments on September 15.
David Walsh•
John, who provided testimony to the public hearing on the death of fellow skilled tradesman Ronald Adams Sr., spoke recently with the World Socialist Web Site about the hearing and about how to build a working class movement against dictatorship.
Jerry White•
US President Donald Trump delivered a fascist rant Tuesday to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in which he proclaimed "America First" should be the world’s organizing principle, threatened war and aggression the world over, and lionized the criminal actions of his administration at home and abroad.
Keith Jones•
This lecture was delivered by Katja Rippert, a member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), at the SEP (US) 2025 International Summer School.
Katja Rippert•
Vadim Rogovin•
Vadim Rogovin•
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is being seized on by the Trump administration to implement a coordinated assault on democratic rights and on mounting opposition to its preparations for a police state dictatorship.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
These greetings from Socialist Equality Party (US) national chairman David North were sent to the founding congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, held on June 13–15, 2025.
David North•
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
Eric Smith’s death, and Shannon Barnes’s before him, show the human price of the policy’s unbridled restructuring and cost-cutting.
Jane Wise•
Over the past few days, there have been multiple suspensions and terminations of workers who refused to permit searches, including the two-week suspension of a worker with 25 to 30 years with no previous disciplinary issues.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
His popularity was not a fluke. Redford brought charm, calm intelligence and sophistication to his best work. His was an appealing personality and presence, not simply based on his handsome face.
David Walsh•
It is increasingly clear that the US is demanding an even greater military build-up by Australia, as the quid pro quo for a meeting between Albanese and Trump.
Oscar Grenfell•
The essential services order allows the government to ban industrial action by electricity workers. Those found guilty of breaching a ban face two to five years’ imprisonment, a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 rupees, or both.
Wasantha Rupasinghe, W.A. Sunil•
The extreme right-wing Supreme Court majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s summary termination of a member of the Federal Trade Commission, setting the stage for using her case to strip Congress of legislative power to establish federal agencies independent of the executive, a major step in the erection of a dictatorship.
John Burton•
The US auto company, First Brands, involved in the sale of parts and highly dependent on debt, is facing bankruptcy, with its creditors involved to the tune of billions of dollars.
Nick Beams•
The conference in New York City marking the DSA-linked magazine’s 15 year anniversary was intended to reinforce the authority of the Democratic Party and the capitalist order it serves.
Daniel de Vries•
Jian faces a vicious state campaign that has seen the 33-year-old plant biologist incarcerated without bail for over three months and branded an “agroterrorist” and spy for the Chinese Communist Party.
Stephen St. Clair•
Top Democrats plead for meeting with fascist Trump as government shutdown looms
The Democrats are desperate to maintain funding for a fascist administration that is waging war on democratic rights and on the social conditions and jobs of the working class.
Barry Grey•
US health insurance costs to surge as Trump administration declares war on workers’ medical care
Congressional Democrats are posturing as defenders of health care but have previously voted to enable Trump’s budget cuts.
T.J. Garrison•
Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference
Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Evan Blake•
Fascist Steve Bannon denounces teachers as “terrorists” in tribute to Charlie Kirk
Alongside defunding public education and a brutal campaign of intimidation, censorship, and firings against educators, the Trump administration is rolling out a new “patriotic” civic curriculum for K-12 schools.
Nancy Hanover•
Renae Cassimeda, David Benson, Tom Hall•
Patrick Martin•
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Jerry White, Tom Hall•
Trump turns Kirk memorial into campaign for theocratic-fascist dictatorship
The event in Glendale, Arizona was staged for the purpose of preparing a fascist assault on the working class.
Patrick Martin•
The dirty secret of America under Trump: 1 in 5 children goes hungry
Hunger in America is surging due to the combination of soaring food prices, stagnating wages, growing unemployment and the Trump administration’s unrelenting assault on social programs.
Andre Damon•
Royalty celebrates oligarchy—Trump’s second state visit to the UK
While the British ruling class looks with envy at US imperialism’s place as the world’s hegemonic power, the American ruling class looks back fondly at Britain's traditions of aristocratic arrogance and impunity, and at the rapacious, blood-soaked example of the British Empire.
Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps•
In memory of Zorya Serebryakova (1923-2024), daughter of Old Bolshevik and Opposition leader Leonid Serebryakov
Zorya Serebryakova's fate and that of her family are a tragic embodiment of the meaning of the term “political genocide.”
Clara Weiss•
David North•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi•
Patrick Martin•
Parti de l’égalité socialiste (France) •
The place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
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.
David North•
2025 Summer School Lecture 4 Part 1
Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940): The Moscow Trials and the Dewey Commission
This is the first part of the lecture “Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940)” delivered by Fred Williams, Katja Rippert, and Alejandro Lopez to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Fred Williams•
I Stake My Life
In this 1937 address, Trotsky denounces the Moscow Trials as a frame-up and pledged to appear before an impartial commission of inquiry to refute the charges against him.
Leon Trotsky•
Lecture to the SEP 2025 Summer School
Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed, the counter-revolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy and the call for a political revolution in the Soviet Union
The following report was delivered by Jordan Shilton to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Jordan Shilton•
Johannes Stern•
Soviet Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Christian Rakovsky •
CUPE imposes arbitration after Air Canada flight attendants’ 99% rejection of sellout wage deal
The union’s decision to scrap mediation and force Air Canada flight attendants into binding arbitration cements its betrayal of the rank and file, who last month courageously defied Liberal government strikebreaking.
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Unite and unions “solidarity” with Birmingham bin workers: Cosplay to block a fightback against Starmer government
The pseudo-left groups have no concern over the consequences for the Birmingham workers of a sellout or the precedent it sets against the working class so long as they can act as cheerleaders for the union bureaucracy.
Tony Robson•
New Zealand teachers, nurses, doctors and all workers must unite against austerity and war
Tens of thousands of healthcare workers and teachers have held nationwide strikes, but the development of a real fight against austerity requires a socialist perspective and a rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of strike
Workers in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington state voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike last week, in anticipation of contract expiration on September 30.
David Levine•
Jerry White•
by our reporters•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Shannon Jones, Anthony Callahan, Kevin Reed•
World Children’s Day in Berlin: Michael Barenboim accuses the German government of complicity in genocide at musicians flash mob for Gaza
Barenboim’s powerful and moving indictment of the German government was greeted with huge applause by the large audience which had gathered at Berlin’s central Gendarmenmarkt.
Stefan Steinberg•
Journalism award withdrawn from young German media activist opposing genocide
Following a slanderous campaign by the pro-Zionist Cologne Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation accusing human rights activist Judith Scheyyt of “antisemitism”, the Friends of the Grimme Prize withdrew the award they had previously granted. `
Sybille Fuchs•
Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov arrested in protest at Gaza border
International and domestic attention has been drawn to such protests by Volkov’s public stance at the Proms. As he explained afterwards, he chose the Proms to make his public statement because of its international high profile.
Paul Bond•
Irish rap group Kneecap banned from entering Canada for speaking out against genocide
In a flagrant violation of free artistic expression and an act of “solidarity” with Israel’s genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza, Canada’s Liberal government has banned Kneecap from entering the country ahead of their sold-out tour dates in Toronto and Vancouver.
Isabel Roy •
Marc Wells•
Alejandro López•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
The mass job cuts at TCS and the way forward for Indian IT workers
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT company, has initiated the biggest retrenchment in its history, eliminating around 12,000 jobs.
Yuvan Darwin•
Australia: As anger mounts, unions assist job destruction at Western Sydney University
A WSU meeting demonstrated how far union officials are going to trap university workers in sham “consultation” processes and oppose any unified fight against the estimated 4,000 job losses throughout Australia’s 39 public universities.
A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member•
Ex-Australian Labor leader calls for corporate and militarist “re-imagining” of universities
Bill Shorten’s speech made more explicit the content of the Albanese government’s assault on tertiary education, which is currently driving the destruction of nearly 4,000 jobs throughout the country’s 39 public universities.
Mike Head•
Australia: Worker killed in Perth factory earmarked to build AUKUS submarine parts
The 45-year-old man was the second worker killed at the Hofmann Engineering factory in a little over six years.
Martin Scott•
John Malvar•
Mark Wilson•
Jenny Campbell•
John Braddock•
Oscar Grenfell•
Trump signs executive order criminalizing opposition to fascism
Since “antifa” as a formal organization does not exist, Trump’s executive order amounts to a blanket authorization to brand opposition to his fascism as “terrorism.”
Jacob Crosse•
American workers speak out against dictatorship and fascism
Reporting teams from the World Socialist Web Site distributed copies of the Socialist Equality Party’s statement, “Trump’s fascist conspiracy and how to fight it: A socialist strategy,” which was received with great interest.
Our reporters•
Invoking “war,” Trump threatens to send troops to more American cities
From the Oval Office, the fascist president declared nothing would stop him from deploying combat troops to major American cities, saying, “It's like war.”
Jacob Crosse•
Louisiana immigration judge orders Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria
Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported as part of the transparent political vendetta against his steadfast opposition to the Gaza genocide and attempts by the Trump administration to silence him.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Renae Cassimeda•
Patrick Smith•
Trévon Austin•
Joseph Kishore, David North•
Make the oligarchs pay for transit and other public needs! Build rank-and-file committees to defend transit and other social rights!
In contrast to the Democrats and Republicans, who say workers must accept massive cuts, we insist that workers have the inalienable social right to transportation, as well as education, healthcare and other public services needed to live decently in a modern society.
Socialist Equality Party, Chicago branch•
Dozens of shipping containers fall at Port of Long Beach, attesting to ongoing safety issues in America’s second largest port
The cargo ship Mississippi lost 75 cargo containers when preparing to unload at the Port of Long Beach, highlighting dangerous working conditions and hazards to the local workforce.
Joshua Rodriguez•
ICE crackdown in Michigan targets working class immigrants without criminal convictions
Close to two-thirds of the more than 3,100 people Detroit ICE arrested from January to July had no convictions. Most had never been charged with a crime.
Anthony Callahan•
Health before profits: West Lafayette, Indiana residents fight SK hynix microchip plant
Residents say government and Purdue University officials have ignored health and safety concerns to force through the construction of a massive microchip plant in a residential neighborhood.
George Kirby•
Shannon Jones•
Kate Randall•
Omar Ali•
Stephen Fuller•
Jane Wise•
Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t!: A private detective sets to work in “non-glamorous” California
Generally, "neo-noir" efforts have little of the urgency, social bite or purposefulness of the earlier films.
David Walsh•
ひろしま / hiroshima: Beautiful and poignant images of the everyday, but is that enough?
Hiroshima has been represented in countless visual forms, from iconic black-and-white images of devastation to stark documentary evidence and evocative memorials. In recent years, a movement has emerged with the declared aim of moving beyond direct representation of death and destruction.
Paul Mitchell•
Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov speaks out powerfully against Gaza genocide at BBC Proms
Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov ended his recent BBC Proms performance with a bold and powerful statement against the “atrocious and horrific” crimes being committed by Israel.
Paul Bond•
ABC/Disney joins fascist purge, suspends Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely over Kirk remarks
Kimmel’s suspension is part of an ongoing witch hunt to suppress all political views that express opposition to the fascist Trump administration.
Jacob Crosse•
David Walsh•
Tim Rivers•
Matthew Brennan•
Paul Bond•
Peter Schwarz•
Manual dexterity and the human brain evolved together
A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of mental control that are key to tool manufacturing and use by humans.
Philip Guelpa•
“Plastics crisis” endangers humanity and all aspects of the environment, concludes Lancet study
The scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
Simon Whelan•
Continents are drying at an accelerating rate, severely impacting the supply of fresh water
The inability of the moribund capitalist system to effectively address climate change and all its myriad devastating consequences poses an existential crisis for humanity.
Philip Guelpa•
Trump administration to eliminate key climate-related environmental regulation
The scientific record of the impact of capitalist industrial activity on Earth’s warming climate is clear and well established.
Bryan Dyne•
Mark Wilson•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
Bryan Dyne•
Philip Guelpa•
Erdoğan to meet with Trump, Turkey and Egypt’s tensions with Israel intensify
The dispute and rivalry between these allies of US imperialism in the region primarily concerns their shares in the carve up of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Révolution Permanente tries to block independent political struggle by French workers against Macron
Despite rhetoric on “self-organization,” RP in reality tries to limit workers' struggles to a national perspective subordinated to the existing union bureaucracies.
Anthony Torres•
Workers and youth speak out against French government and budget crisis
Opposition is continuing to mount at President Emmanuel Macron’s funding war and military spending increases via social cuts.
WSWS reporting team•
The UK’s “Your Party” implodes—build the Socialist Equality Party
Fighting back demands the independent political mobilisation of the working class, freed from the dead hand of the “left” representatives of the Labour and trade union bureaucracy, in a struggle against capitalism and for socialism.
Thomas Scripps, Chris Marsden•
Tony Robson•
Barış Demir•
Jordan Shilton•
Christoph Vandreier•
Laura Tiernan•
This week in history: September 22-28
US, UK-backed regime change in Yugoslavia; Second assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford; US forces recapture Seoul in Korean War; Hindu fascist RSS founded in India.
Historic images of slavery removed by national parks after Trump directive
The removal of powerful Civil War era photography from public museums is the latest in a series of attacks on historical truth orchestrated by the White House.
Landon Gourov, Tom Mackaman•
This week in history: September 15-21
Telecom strike in India; Patricia Hearst arrested; McCarran Act authorizes mass detention of leftists; Trotsky’s “Where Is Britain Going?” published in US.
Trump issues threats against Smithsonian exhibitions and art works
President Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the Smithsonian Institute, accusing the museum of promoting “anti-American ideology.”
Douglas Lyons, Tom Mackaman•
Verena Nees•
Johannes Stern•
Shannon Jones•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Extraordinary Fed meeting highlights developing US financial crisis
US President Trump is continuing to make strenuous efforts to bring the Fed under his direct control to engineer a cut in rates as the interest bill on US government debt mounts.
Nick Beams•
Faced with mounting US pressure, Mexico slaps trade tariffs on China
On September 10, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a legislative proposal that would slap tariffs of between 10 percent and 50 percent on a wide range of goods.
Don Knowland•
Fed cuts interest rate as US economy weakens
The decision by the 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee was carried 11–1, with Stephen Miran, Trump’s chief economic adviser, rushed into a vacant position as Fed governor on Monday, recording his dissent and advocating a cut of half a percentage point.
Nick Beams•
Collapse of car lender Tricolor sends out a tremor
Tricolor made loans to low-income residents and immigrants, often without a Social Security number, financed with credit from banks and private investment firms, including some of the major names in the finance world.
Nick Beams•
Tom Hall•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Worker crushed to death at Palermo’s Pizza in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The death of Robert Cherone at Palermo’s Pizza’s Milwaukee plant exposes a long history of unsafe conditions and the subordination of workers’ lives to corporate profit.
George Gallanis•
Horrific death of UK worker after falling into silo
The UK Health and Safety Executive reported 124 work-related deaths in 2024/25, while 1.7 million people self-reported ill health related to work the previous year.
Margot Miller•
One month since the death of Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee
USW remains silent on Clairton Coke Works explosion
It has now been more than four weeks since the explosion at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works that killed steelworkers Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee and injured 10 others, yet the United Steelworkers union has remained almost completely silent.
Samuel Davidson•
5 months after death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., silence and cover-up continue
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Jerry White•
Ashley O'Hara•
Marc Wells•
Alex Findijs•
J. L’Heureau•
Samuel Davidson•
Sri Lankan power workers oppose government restructuring plans
Around 10,000 workers joined the two-day protest in Colombo, opposing the government's pro-business restructuring of the electricity board.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Harassment of framed-up Alton Estate workers continues in Sri Lanka
The scheduled September 10 trial of 26 framed-up Alton Estate workers has been postponed until December because police failed to produce their main witnesses.
Saman Gunadasa•
Sri Lankan unions undermine Ceylon Electricity Board workers opposition to government’s restructuring agenda
The Dissanayake government has only been able to go ahead with its cost-cutting attack on the CEB’s 22,000-strong workforce because the union leadership fully endorses it.
S.K.Keerthi, Kapila Fernando•
Sri Lanka: 15 killed in horrific Ella-Wellawaya bus accident
Last week’s tragedy in Uva province highlights the country’s ongoing road safety crisis and the government’s failure to implement promised infrastructure and safety reforms.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Our reporters•
Vimal Perera•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Escalation in the Baltics: NATO exploits alleged airspace violation by Russian jets for new war escalation
With relentless war propaganda and anti-Russian agitation, the population is to be step by step accustomed to the idea that shooting down Russian aircraft in European airspace—i.e., a direct entry into the war—is an “option.”
Johannes Stern•
Behind the partial opening of borders in Ukraine and the murder of far-right MP Andriy Parubiy
The very fact that various political figures are now assassinated with such regularity speaks of a crisis in the entire governance and security system. Simply put, the ruling class cannot rule in the old way.
Ukrainian journalists•
NATO powers escalate confrontation with Russia after drone shootdowns over Poland, heightening risk of direct war
The shooting down of Russian drones over Poland has inaugurated a new stage in NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine, threatening to trigger a direct military clash between the nuclear powers of Europe and Moscow.
Johannes Stern•
Investigation continues following arrest of suspect in assassination of prominent Ukrainian fascist politician
Whatever the true story behind Parubiy’s assasination he leaves behind a violent, fascist political legacy that has resulted in the rise of fascists to the highest levels of Ukraine’s government.
Jason Melanovski•
Peter Symonds•
Alex Lantier•
Johannes Stern•
Johannes Stern•
Jason Melanovski•
Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
Benjamin Mateus•
As over 1 million Americans are infected with COVID daily, Trump administration plans further cutoff of vaccines
Amid the 11th COVID wave in the US, Kennedy is dismantling federal vaccine policy and scientific institutions and eroding decades of public health progress in the service of a radical, anti-vaccine political agenda.
Benjamin Mateus•
Florida’s “Charlatan General” Ladapo reveals no scientific evidence supported anti-vaccine policy
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo appeared on CNN Sunday to defend the state government’s push to end all mandates for vaccination against childhood diseases.
Benjamin Mateus•
Florida state government to bar vaccine mandates for all childhood diseases
The unprecedented statewide push to end vaccine mandates for school children threatens decades of progress in public health, dismantling health measures that have saved countless lives.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
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.
David North•
5 months after death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., silence and cover-up continue
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Jerry White•
“The union works with the bosses behind closed doors to cover up the injuries and deaths that happen every day”
Autoworkers speak on the investigation into the death of Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams Sr. and continuing industrial carnage
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.
Our reporter•
International statements of solidarity to IWA-RFC hearing into the death of Ronald Adams Sr.
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.
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Jerry White•
Our reporters•
Britain, Canada, Australia, Portugal recognise “Palestinian state”: A disgusting display of imperialist hypocrisy
The declarations of recent days and those still to come this week are a cynical manoeuvre on the part of some European imperialist powers, Canada, and Australia to whitewash their complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Jordan Shilton•
Australian Labor government “recognises” a Palestine it is helping to ethnically cleanse
Prime Minister Albanese’s remarks scarcely included a hint of criticism of Israel and covered over the genocide that is well underway.
Oscar Grenfell•
Gaza death toll tops 65,000 as hundreds of thousands flee south
The death toll in the nearly two-year-long genocide in Gaza has reached 65,000, Gaza’s health ministry said Friday. This latest horrific milestone comes as Israeli forces continue their assault on Gaza City, the last remaining part of Gaza outside direct military occupation.
Andre Damon•
Israeli tanks, bulldozers and ground troops have entered Gaza City
On Wednesday, air strikes on hospitals and refugees accompanied the penetration by a ground offensive of the center of Gaza City as the Israeli military moved to carry out its plan for a “total victory” over Palestine.
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Clara Weiss•
Expand the campaign to free the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
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.
Clara Weiss•
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
European Court of Human Rights accepts case of imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The acceptance of the case by the court is an important step in the campaign to demand the release of Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Mass protests in Brazil against amnesty for Bolsonaro’s fascist coup attempt
Sunday’s nationwide demonstrations in Brazil expressed widespread social, economic and political dissatisfaction, which is also fueling mass protests around the world.
Guilherme Ferreira•
US fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile as Trump threatens Venezuela with “incalculable” consequences
In an alarming escalation, on Sunday evening the Astronomical Society of the Caribbean reported the sighting of a nuclear-capable Trident missile fired from a submarine off Florida.
Andrea Lobo•
Chilean fascists, emboldened by Trump and Boric government’s appeasement, make headway in presidential race
Fascist supporters of former dictator Augusto Pinochet are forecast to win a second-round vote in Chile’s elections scheduled for November and December.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Brazilian right exploits death of Charlie Kirk to mount assault on democratic rights
The political terror campaign launched in Brazil on the pretext of Kirk’s death is an integral part of a counteroffensive by fascist forces following Bolsonaro’s coup conspiracy conviction.
Tomas Castanheira•
Andrea Lobo•
Tomas Castanheira•
Tomas Castanheira•
Andrea Lobo•
Alex Lantier•
2025 New Year Statement
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
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.
Treason trial of South Sudan’s Vice President threatens to reignite civil war
The SPLM-IO, formed after the December 2013 massacres of Nuer civilians in Juba, is the armed and political movement representing Machar’s core power base. President Salva Kiir has relied heavily on fighters from his Dinka base, the country’s largest ethnic group. These forces formed the backbone of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and, after independence, the national army.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Residents in working-class districts of Johannesburg protest after two-week loss of water supply
In this city of vast wealth residents of Westbury and Coronationville have been forced to block off streets with bricks, stones and burning tyres to demand water. Post-apocalyptic conditions have rapidly emerged.
Jean de Jager•
Abiy opens Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam amid escalating tensions in Horn of Africa
The dam, which has the potential to transform the lives of millions of people in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa and East Africa, is mired in toxic geopolitics. Denouncing the dam as an “existential” threat, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he would use “all available means to defend Egypt’s interests”.
Jean Shaoul•
Kenya’s National People’s Council: A petty-bourgeois nationalist trap for the Gen Z revolt
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.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean Shaoul•
Alejandro Lopez•
Alejandro López•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Erdoğan government in Turkey dismisses CHP’s provincial leadership in Istanbul, deploying massive police forces
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has entered a new phase of its judicial operation targeting fundamental democratic rights and the Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP), which emerged as the leading party in the March 2024 local elections.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Syria threatened with carve-up as redivision of Middle East draws closer
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.
Jean Shaoul•
The US’s Turkey-backed “economic corridor” plan in the Caucasus targets Russia and Iran
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.
Ozan Kutlucan, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Under extreme heat, Turkey continues to struggle with wildfires
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.
Barış Demir•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Bahadır Çelik•
Hakan Özal•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
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.
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
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.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
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.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
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.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
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.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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
Our reporter•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
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.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
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.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
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.
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
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.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
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.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
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.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
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.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
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.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
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.
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Wayne State University president resigns
President Espy and the Board of Governors that pushed her out were both responsible for a brutal police crackdown on pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide protests at the campus in 2023-24.
Esther Galen•
Take up the fight for socialism! Mobilise the working class against genocide, dictatorship and world war!
This statement by the IYSSE in the UK will be distributed throughout Britain this month during welcome week and freshers fairs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Columbia University attacks graduate student workers’ right to organize
Columbia University’s administration, having capitulated in the face of Trump’s assault on academic freedom, cannot tolerate any semblance of workers organization on campus.
Tim Avery•
Oppose Trump administration’s witch-hunt against Chinese scientists at University of Michigan
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at George Mason University•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Our reporters•
Stephen St. Clair•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
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.
David North•
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
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.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei appeal in the German federal election
Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
Chris Marsden•
Thomas Scripps•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
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.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
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.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
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 debacle and the fight against dictatorship
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.
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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.
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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
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.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
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.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
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.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
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.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
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.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
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.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
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.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
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.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
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.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
For a rank-and-file investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.!
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.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
UAW pressing Stellantis to “finish their retooling” of Dundee plant as cover-up of Ronald Adams’ death continues
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
Jerry White•
Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Stellantis Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams
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.
Jerry White•
Trump continues Biden’s stonewalling of court-ordered investigation into UAW elections
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.
Joseph Kishore•
Jerry White•
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones•
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
Our reporters•
Ludwig Weller•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
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.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
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.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
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.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
Our reporters•
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Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
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.
Max Jones•
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
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.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
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.
John Burton•
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
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.
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
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.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
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.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
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.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
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.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
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 Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
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.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against 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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
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.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
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.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
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.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
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.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
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.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
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.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
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 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
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.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
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.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
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.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
President Sheinbaum minimizes growing US threats to bomb Mexico
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.
Don Knowland•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
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.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
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.
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
Our reporters•
Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
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.
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100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Sandy English•
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
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.
James McDonald•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
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.
Clara Weiss•
A Different Kind of Power whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s right-wing, pro-imperialist government
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.
Tom Peters•
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
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.
Trump’s anti-science crusade against autism and the modern revival of eugenics
While Trump gave the appearance of a semi-senile idiot, underlying his deranged ravings and those of Kennedy are much darker forces and motives.
Evan Blake•
Trump declares war on the world at UN General Assembly speech
US President Donald Trump delivered a fascist rant Tuesday to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in which he proclaimed "America First" should be the world’s organizing principle, threatened war and aggression the world over, and lionized the criminal actions of his administration at home and abroad.
Keith Jones•
Trump turns Kirk memorial into campaign for theocratic-fascist dictatorship
The event in Glendale, Arizona was staged for the purpose of preparing a fascist assault on the working class.
Patrick Martin•
The dirty secret of America under Trump: 1 in 5 children goes hungry
Hunger in America is surging due to the combination of soaring food prices, stagnating wages, growing unemployment and the Trump administration’s unrelenting assault on social programs.
Andre Damon•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps•
Patrick Martin•
Andre Damon•
Joseph Kishore, David North•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
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.
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Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
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.
Richard Phillips•
Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
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.
Tom Peters•
14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
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.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
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.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•