The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship, but what is lacking, and what is most critical, is a clear program and conscious strategy.
A locked door blocked desperate garment workers from reaching the roof and fresh air, and most died from inhaling toxic fumes from the fire.
Several workers warned about safety hazards before the blast at the munitions factory that killed 16 workers, in one of the worst industrial disasters in the US in decades.
According to reports, the United States is preparing to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles—long-range precision weapons capable of striking targets up to 2,500 kilometers away, including Moscow and other major Russian cities.
The DSA, through Jacobin, is attempting to rewrite the record of support for genocide and present the Democratic Party and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not as defenders and enablers of the genocide, but as its opponents.
Following the exposure of the Telegram messages between Young Republican operatives, filled with admiration for Hitler and racial slurs, Vice President JD Vance has repeatedly defended the fascists as “kids making jokes.”
The White House has been transformed into the headquarters of a conspiracy to legitimize fascism, brand anti-fascism as “terrorism,” and mobilize the repressive machinery of the state against the population.
The Trump administration is working to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs.
Burra’s early work emerged in the wake of revolutionary artistic ferment following the Bolshevik Revolution.
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
The participation of the Left Party in the large anti-genocide demonstration in Berlin at the end of September was a deliberate deception. In reality, it supports the US-Israeli “peace plan,” which places Gaza under colonial administration, as well as Germany’s rearmament and war policy.
The national stoppages and protests across Spain, called by major trade union and student federations, confirmed continued opposition to the Gaza genocide despite efforts to proclaim the success of Trump’s “peace deal”. But they were tightly controlled by the union bureaucracy which seeks to dissipate mass opposition into safe channels.
Erdoğan’s signing of this dirty is the culmination of the Turkish ruling class’s complicity and hypocritical stance in the ongoing genocide over the past two years.
Not one of the assembled speakers even mentioned events in the United States, where President Donald Trump is erecting a presidential dictatorship based on the military, police and fascist agitators.
Healthcare workers are engaged in a critical fight, and not only against Kaiser. They are also on a direct collision course with the Trump administration.
Two of Texas' largest university systems have ordered "audits" of gender courses as Republicans carry out agitation against "LGBTQ ideology."
Last November, Kingsley Fifi Bimpong, a 50-year-old immigrant postal worker, died after Eagan, Minnesota police arrested him on false suspicion of drunk driving and left him to suffer a fatal stroke on the floor of a jail cell.
Mississippi death row inmate Charles Crawford became the third of four men scheduled to be executed over four days this week. The US is on track to carry out 43 state-sanctioned killings in 2025, the highest number in more than a decade.
The police classified pro-Palestinian protests, and even Zionist attacks on opponents of the genocide, as “antisemitism,” in a fraud that was perpetrated against the public.
In response, the Mining and Energy Union is asking the pro-business Fair Work Commission to declare the dispute “intractable” and impose an enterprise agreement through arbitration.
Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
The only way to realise the democratic and social rights of the long-suffering masses of the Middle East and establish a genuine basis for peaceful coexistence is through the fight for the perspective of the permanent revolution in the closest alliance with the working classes in the imperialist centres of North America and Europe.
Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media simply moved on.
The move is aimed at ensuring the loyalty of soldiers ordered into action against the American population.
Rail crash linked to UK privatization; South Africa invades Angola; US-backed forces take Pyongyang, North Korea; Syrian rebels advance in Damascus.
The massacre was part of the spread to Turkey of the war for regime change in Syria launched in 2011 by Washington and its regional allies, including Ankara.
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.
President Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the Smithsonian Institute, accusing the museum of promoting “anti-American ideology.”
Hoor Al Qasimi, the artistic director of the 2026 Sydney Biennale and a highly regarded international art curator, is a well-known opponent of the Gaza genocide.
Pepperdine is listed by one website among the “top 30 conservative Christian colleges and universities” in the US.
The works of Millet and the Barbizon School endure not only as historical documents but as visionary meditations on humanity, nature, and the role of the artist in imagining a more just society.
For her beauty, intelligence and personal strength, she was sought out by many filmmakers.
The militant movement in Belgium is part of a continent-wide fightback by the working class. In recent weeks there have been general strikes and mass protests in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain.
The fight at Kaiser reveals the growing militancy of healthcare workers and the need for independent rank-and-file leadership.
The walkout by 46,000 Kaiser workers exposes decades of union-enforced corporate exploitation and signals a growing rebellion of health care workers against capitalism, inequality, and dictatorship.
The IG Metall bargaining committee intends to approve the wage contract it negotiated for 60,000 employees in metal and steel companies in northern and western Germany. In doing so, the union wants to create the conditions for another wave of job cuts.
Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
In the lead-up to the November mayoral election the Democratic Socialists of America member is doing everything in his power to reassure the ruling class his campaign presents no threat to their profits, police or foreign policy objectives.
The Trump administration has begun issuing reductions-in-force notices to federal employees, marking an escalation in its use of the shutdown to impose structural cuts on government services and seize personal control over the government.
The indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday by a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, is an escalation of Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of the Department of Justice to pursue criminal actions against his political enemies.
President Dissanayake’s November 7 budget speech to the parliament will include new IMF directives.
Dissanayake’s speech was a pathetic attempt to cover up the reality that poverty in Sri Lanka has drastically worsened under his JVP/NPP administration.
The Dissanayake government’s attack on Mannar residents follows its repudiation of election promises to delay the environmentally controversial project.
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.
The machinery of the state killing apparatus in the US continues this week, fueled by the accelerating fascistic agenda of the Trump administration.
This is the latest attack by the Trump administration on higher education in an American version of the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung, that is, the synchronization of culture, education and more into the arms of the state as a propaganda tool.
Kehoe’s SNAP order serves as a cost-cutting measure for the state that stigmatizes the poor and funnels federal dollars toward “Missouri-grown” agribusiness, extending his broader drive against democratic and social rights.
California’s SB 79 strengthens corporate control over housing while deepening inequality
The police classified pro-Palestinian protests, and even Zionist attacks on opponents of the genocide, as “antisemitism,” in a fraud that was perpetrated against the public.
Any measures enacted by the Prabowo administration will be used to strengthen police and military power in preparation for suppressing working-class opposition to capitalism in the country.
Labor leaders are gushing over the US president, presenting the war criminal and fascist as a paragon of peace.
Labor’s restructuring, combined with steep cuts to international student enrolments, is driving the destruction of some 4,000 staff jobs nationally and radically impacting the education quality, course options and futures of students.
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 lecture reviews the Wohlforth–Fields breach of party security in the Workers League in 1974 and the event’s significance in the origins of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
In this work, first serialized in Pravda in September 1925, Trotsky analyzes the achievements and principal dynamics of the Soviet economy eight years after the socialist 1917 October Revolution.
This lecture examines Stalin’s campaign to murder Leon Trotsky—tracing the GPU’s infiltration, the failed Siqueiros raid, and Ramon Mercader’s successful 1940 assassination—while situating Trotsky’s final theoretical battles and enduring revolutionary legacy amid the approach of world war.
The abolition of basic welfare benefits shows the direction taken by the coalition of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats with its war budget: Massive state debt and enrichment of the wealthy, while the working class is forced to bear the cost.
In the same timeworn approach, a corporation announces big job cuts, in ZF's case 14,000 by 2028. IGM then complains about the company’s unilateral approach, organises protests, then saves the costs required by the job cuts in other ways.
The Macron administration is setting out to build a fascistic dictatorship in France, paralleling Trump’s civil war policies in America, against mass working class opposition.
The resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu after only 27 days in office and his reappointment Friday evening is not simply another government crisis, such as France has repeatedly experienced over the past three decades. It is a crisis of capitalist rule.
“What they’re testing in Gaza will potentially impact the quality of life and workers’ rights in other countries. The governments are seeing how far they can push and get away with things.”
With plans advanced for the transformation of Gaza into a US protectorate and amid scenes of desperate Palestinians returning to homes in ruins, platform speakers doubled down on their politically bankrupt appeals to the Starmer government to finally end its collusion with Israel.
New charges have been brought by the administration against pro-Palestinian protesters.
In Germany, rallies have been announced to take place in numerous cities throughout the week with a national demonstration planned in Berlin for Saturday.
Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.
Goodall demonstrated that the evolutionary origins of many basic human behaviors are shared with our closest biological relatives.
By declaring Tylenol a cause of autism, the Trump–Kennedy administration staged a political takeover of science—turning weak associations into official doctrine and using federal health agencies to legitimize ideology over evidence.
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.
Early last Friday Wall Street was heading for another record but then came Trump’s new tariff threat against China and it had its biggest fall in six months.
In response to a Chinese decision to tighten controls on rare earth exports, Trump has made some of his most bellicose statements in the tariff war.
Deals entered into by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are estimated to cost $1 trillion, even as the company has yet to turn a profit.
The rise of US debt to $37 trillion means that the global monetary system is based on the currency of the most indebted country in history, the credit rating of which has been downgraded by the three major agencies of the world.
Seven Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since phase one of the so-called “peace plan” brokered by the Trump administration was implemented.
The only way to realise the democratic and social rights of the long-suffering masses of the Middle East and establish a genuine basis for peaceful coexistence is through the fight for the perspective of the permanent revolution in the closest alliance with the working classes in the imperialist centres of North America and Europe.
Robinson is a filthy provocateur and instigator of street violence against Muslims and asylum seekers. Israel is a state governed by mass murderers and pogromists, which Robinson looks on with undisguised admiration for doing what he can, as yet only dream of.
The Freedom Flotilla said in a statement, “Sources so far indicate that the unarmed crew aboard, including doctors, journalists, and elected officials, have been abducted, as well as the vital aid worth over $110,000 USD in medicines, respiratory equipment, and nutritional supplies that were destined for Gaza’s starving hospitals.”
At a Rose Garden event attended by the entire cabinet and far-right leadership, Trump framed Kirk’s death as a “demonic act” carried out by the “left.”
The 64-year-old Vedam, who came to the US from India as a baby, was exonerated and released from prison in Pennsylvania, then immediately detained by the immigration Gestapo.
Far from opposing Trump’s coming dictatorship, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, following in the footsteps of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has deployed State police to protect the immigration Gestapo.
Empowered by the Trump administration and the complicit Democratic Party, ICE and CBP agents are violating the constitutional rights of citizens and immigrants alike with impunity.
Bernie Monk, whose son Michael was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 underground Pike River Coal mine disaster, expresses support for the families of the 16 workers killed in the Tennessee Accurate Energetic Systems weapons factory explosion.
The victims were young and old, recent hires at AES and veteran workers, and leave behind grieving spouses, children and other loved ones and friends.
Broken and cracked valves, 70-year-old and outdated equipment and more were some of the initial findings of the Chemical Safety Board investigation into the deadly explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works that killed two steelworkers and injured 10 others.
Nineteen workers are missing after mass detonation at a Tennessee munitions plant, exposing the deadly consequences of deregulation.
Rolling internet and cell network shutdowns are now a feature of everyday life across the country.
In this article by Ukrainian journalists, deserters from the NATO-backed Ukrainian army speak out about their experiences.
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.”
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.
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
A Harvard-led study has provided rigorous evidence that private equity ownership of hospitals increases patient mortality in emergency and intensive care units.
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.
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.
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.
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
At a meeting for workers returning from layoff, management and United Auto Workers officials maintained a guilty silence about the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman.
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.”
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
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.
What has been unleashed by Boric’s regime against Julia Chuñil and her family is part of a war against the Mapuche people on behalf of mining, forestry and landed property interests.
Boluarte left office with a 93 percent disapproval rating, with 0 percent approval among young people and in southern Peru, known as "deep Peru."
The rapprochement between the Lula and Trump administrations is a central component of US war preparations against Venezuela.
Echoing the genocidal campaign pursued under US auspices in Gaza, Trump’s threats against Latin America flow from a policy of state terror against any resistance to the American oligarchy.
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 African National Congress’s scapegoating of foreigners has paved the way for a wave of far-right vigilantism in South Africa.
These terrible conditions fuelling mass anger and discontent are found internationally. They are not simply the product of corruption, but of capitalism, the production of goods for private profit.
Bobi Wine seeks to replace Yoweri Museveni as a more acceptable representative of the bourgeoisie in the eyes of imperialism.
A petty act by a couple of teenagers has been inflated into a national scandal, seized on by William Ruto’s unpopular government to promote “national unity”.
The massacre was part of the spread to Turkey of the war for regime change in Syria launched in 2011 by Washington and its regional allies, including Ankara.
Erdoğan is relying on the support of the Trump administration and avoiding any conflict with it while he establishes an authoritarian regime to defend the interests of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
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.
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.
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.
The contradictions that lead capitalism to these disasters also form the basis for social revolution. Workers and youth everywhere are looking for a way out of war, genocide, the high cost of living, unemployment and anti-democratic attacks.
Students are returning to universities this October under extraordinary conditions. The IYSSE is distributing this statement at the beginning of the semester at universities in Germany and calls on students to join us in building a mass movement against war and capitalism among workers and young people.
One student said, “This was a great introduction for anyone who wants to get into socialism. What we’re seeing now around the world is capitalism in decline.”
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.
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.
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
The Department of Labor had sought to use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall compliance with a court-ordered deadline.
The ruling sets an October 31 deadline for the government to provide its explanation for rejecting Lehman’s claims about the anti-democratic character of the UAW elections, more than a year after it was first instructed to do so.
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.
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.
The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship, but what is lacking, and what is most critical, is a clear program and conscious strategy.
Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
The only way to realise the democratic and social rights of the long-suffering masses of the Middle East and establish a genuine basis for peaceful coexistence is through the fight for the perspective of the permanent revolution in the closest alliance with the working classes in the imperialist centres of North America and Europe.
Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media simply moved on.
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.
Bernie Monk, whose son Michael was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 underground Pike River Coal mine disaster, expresses support for the families of the 16 workers killed in the Tennessee Accurate Energetic Systems weapons factory explosion.
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.
