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Trump assembles cabinet of fascist repression and imperialist war
The two priorities of the incoming administration are preparing for war with China and arresting and deporting millions of migrants.
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Social anger is growing among workers as mass job cuts and factory closures across the US and the world.
Jerry White•
There have been warnings that the US tariff hikes could rival those of the infamous Smoot-Hawley measures of the 1930s which led to a global trade war and played a significant role in creating the conditions for the eruption of World War 2.
Nick Beams•
An open letter, signed by more than 230 figures in the UK’s media industry, writers and academia, said the public broadcaster had failed to provide “fair and accurate” coverage of the conflict.
Jean Shaoul•
A resolution adopted by a large majority called for the building of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at every Canada Post location in opposition to the CUPW bureaucracy, and the launching of a political struggle against the Trudeau government, which backs Canada Post’s concessions demands to the hilt.
our reporters•
The initial appointments show the fascistic and militaristic character of the incoming Republican administration.
Patrick Martin•
The official inaction at the floods that cost at least 223 lives also exposes the political complicity of the CCOO and UGT union bureaucracies, who are tied to the ruling PSOE and Sumar parties.
Alejandro López•
Despite the release of the protesters, the Nigerian government has made clear there will be no retreat from its relentless offensive against workers being plunged into extreme poverty by soaring inflation, food insecurity and high unemployment.
Alice Summers•
For the first time at BVG, the rank-and-file “Action Committee” is running a slate of candidates and calling for workers to break the dictatorial control exercised by the Verdi trade union and for independent rank-and-file committees to be set up in all depots and departments.
Ulrich Rippert•
The Berlin Transport Workers Action Committee is contesting staff council elections being held this week for the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).
Our reporter•
The results gave a glimpse of the massive gulf between the militarism of the ruling class, and the growing anti-war sentiment of working people.
Oscar Grenfell•
The public response reflects intense concern over the Albanese government’s bid to suppress online material that is deemed to be politically or economically harmful.
Mike Head•
SEP online meeting, “The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship”
The socialist response to the election of Trump
The November 10 online meeting hosted by the Socialist Equality Party analyzed the causes and consequences of the Trump victory and elaborated a political strategy for the working class to fight back.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Trump names key aides for war on immigrants, China
The initial appointments show the fascistic and militaristic character of the incoming Republican administration.
Patrick Martin•
Democrats grovel before Trump
President Biden and Vice President Harris have pledged full cooperation with the incoming fascist president-elect, while issuing no warning to the American people of the dangers of mass repression and rule by force.
Patrick Martin•
Socialist Equality Party to hold emergency online meeting Sunday, November 10
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
Countless millions in the United States and throughout the world are stunned by the outcome of the election, which was made possible by the policies of the Democratic Party. But the shock is turning into disgust as they witness the Democrats’ craven surrender to Trump.
David North•
Jacob Crosse•
WSWS Editorial Board•
David North•
David North•
Patrick Martin•
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•
The fabrication of a slander: Aidan Beatty’s forgery of Gerry Healy’s youth—and Irish history
This supplementary review exposes Beatty’s manipulation of evidence related to Gerry Healy’s youth in Ireland.
Tom Mackaman•
Jacobin and DSA member Aidan Beatty falsify the so-called “Tate Affair”
In an interview in Jacobin, DSA member Aidan J. Beatty repeated his slanderous biography's claim that Gerry Healy and the British Trotskyists employed violence against political opponents and party members.
David North•
A comment on David North’s review: Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Steve Long•
David North•
David North•
Christoph Vandreier•
Eric London•
Evan Blake, Tom Mackaman•
Global temperatures set new record as capitalist governments abandon climate change pledges
The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, opened Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is the third year in a row that the ostensibly highest political meeting to fight climate change is being held in a country that has non-renewable fossil fuels as its main export.
Bryan Dyne•
Lying allegations of antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam fall apart
The official account of the Amsterdam clashes is an abominable lie, using false accusations of antisemitism against Amsterdamers as a political tool to defend fascism and the Gaza genocide.
Alex Lantier •
Book presentation in Nuremberg: Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century by David North attracts great interest
More than 50 visitors attended the lecture by Peter Schwarz, who spoke about the current relevance of Leon Trotsky’s perspective.
Mehring Verlag•
Breakup of Germany’s coalition government ushers in new phase of class struggle
Like the Democrats in the US, which with their arrogance towards the falling living standards of the working masses, their support for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and their anti-refugee deportation policy paved the way for the fascist Trump to return to the White House, the SPD also strengthens the most right-wing elements with its policies.
Peter Schwarz•
Jean Shaoul•
Nick Beams•
David North•
Our reporters•
Alejandro López, Alex Lantier•
Grounded, a contemporary opera with an anti-war theme, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera
The subject of long-distance war crimes makes this an opera of vital importance.
Jesse Thomas•
A few points about My Old Ass with Aubrey Plaza
The film, now streaming and popular with audiences, has certain strengths, including one quite moving scene but also banal and grating aspects.
David Walsh•
Agent of Happiness: People in this small South Asian country live in an economically unequal, unjust and oppressive society, why should they be happy?
The rich are satisfied with life, the aspiring petty bourgeois worries about his or her property and status, the workers and rural poor are overworked and angry.
David Walsh•
More than 5,500 writers pledge to boycott Israeli cultural institutions
The writers' statement accuses the Zionist state of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide.”
Sandy English, David Walsh•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Hong Jian•
Verena Nees•
Thomas Scripps•
Strike looms for 1,700 University of Illinois nurses, as Trump plans sweeping assaults on healthcare system
More than 1,700 nurses set to strike indefinitely at University of Illinois Health in Chicago demanding better pay and safer working conditions for themselves and their patients.
Benjamin Mateus•
Australia: More than 2,000 Sydney workers protest Labor government takeover of CFMEU
While the two previous strikes were national events, this time, workers in Sydney marched alone, cut off from the majority of building workers.
Martin Scott•
Michigan Medicine strike called off with “memorandum of understanding”
The leaders of United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals (UMMAP) called of the one-day strike less than 24 hours before it was scheduled to begin in exchange for a meaningless “memorandum of understanding” from the University of Michigan hospital administration regarding contract negotiations.
Kevin Reed•
German auto and supplier industries announce job cuts on a daily basis
Hardly a day goes by without a German company announcing massive job cuts at an international or national level.
K. Nesan•
Mike Ingram, Kate Randall•
Niles Niemuth•
George Kirby, Jerry White•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee •
Our reporters•
Vote SEP in Sri Lanka’s November 14 parliamentary election!
We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our international socialist perspective and on that basis prepare for the class struggles ahead.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
JVP/NPP leader foreshadows strike ban in Sri Lanka
The JVP/NPP’s preparation to ban all strikes is a clear expression of the fascistic character of its program, which has always been inherent in its virulent Sinhala chauvinism.
Saman Gunadasa•
Who is Sri Lanka’s new President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake?
In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and transformation into a pro-imperialist party of the Sri Lankan ruling class to implement austerity and crush any opposition.
Naveen Dewage, K. Ratnayake•
Sri Lankan president again declares: No increase to public sector salaries
Dissanayake’s indication that he would not pay the proposed salary hike is a clear signal to the IMF that his regime abides by its harsh austerity measures.
W.A. Sunil•
Sakuna Jayawardena•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondents•
Our correspondents•
Dozens killed by Israeli air strikes and ground assaults across Gaza and Lebanon
Israel intensified its murderous assault on civilians across Gaza and carried out air strikes on Lebanon over the weekend. Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said the election of Donald Trump means it is time for the Zionist annexation of the West Bank.
Kevin Reed•
UN report: Israeli war of extermination kills more children than men
On Friday, the United Nations’ Human Rights Office published a report showing that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths in Gaza are of women and children, adding further evidence that Israel is waging a war of extermination in Gaza.
Andre Damon•
Israel kills 54 Palestinians in one day during renewed northern Gaza offensive
The Israeli military moved forward with mass expulsions of Palestinians from northern Gaza with a series of air strikes and a ground assault on Tuesday that killed 54 people, mostly women and children.
Kevin Reed•
Israel bans UN Palestine relief agency as part of Gaza mass starvation campaign
The Israeli government sent a letter to the UN on Monday stating that it was withdrawing from a 1967 agreement to cooperate with the most important Palestinian relief agency amid the dire humanitarian crisis from the year-long Gaza genocide.
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
Jean Shaoul•
Andre Damon•
Peter Symonds, Keith Jones•
Andre Damon•
Trump victory deepens crisis of UK Labour government
Trump’s threat that the US could end support for NATO unless the European powers significantly up their budgets for military spending, his declaration that he intends to end the “loser” war in Ukraine, and threats to increase tariffs on all goods being imported into the US have sent a shudder through Britan’s ruling elite.
Robert Stevens•
UK Labour government hikes student tuition fees, maintains Tory repayment threshold
The policy is an attack on students and graduates, who will be made to pay for the economic crisis through fee hikes.
Henry Lee•
European governments debate relations with Trump at Budapest summits
The re-election of the billionaire fascist as US president places an eruption of class struggle on the agenda in the United States and across Europe.
Alex Lantier•
Early federal election in Germany: Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei declares war on all-party coalition of war and austerity
The end of Germany’s coalition government heralds a further intensification of the class struggle and the pro-war policy. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) is standing in the early federal election to arm workers with a socialist perspective.
Christoph Vandreier•
Santiago Guillen •
Alex Lantier•
Johannes Stern•
Robert Stevens•
Peter Schwarz•
South Korean auto parts workers strike
The auto workers’ union in South Korea is attempting to prevent a broader struggle against job cuts as the car industry around the world prepares a jobs bloodbath as part of the so-called “just transition” to electric vehicles.
Ben McGrath•
Australian government defies another High Court ruling on immigration detainees
The Labor government last week issued new regulations to allow the immigration minister to reimpose outlawed curfews and ankle bracelets on released detainees.
Mike Head•
Australia’s two major supermarket chains charged for price-gouging with fake discounts
The fraudulent practices targeting consumers are a component of a broader offensive by governments and big corporations against working people.
Taylor Bennington•
Australian Labor government pledges to collaborate with fascist Trump
Labor’s primary preoccupation is the continuation of the AUKUS pact and the aggressive US-led confrontation with China that threatens a catastrophic war.
Oscar Grenfell•
Eric Ludlow•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Jenny Campbell•
Tom Peters•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
This week in history: November 11-17
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
Book Review: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
Contemporary lessons from the slave power’s plot to overturn the 1860 election
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Eric London•
Reflections on the death of Lt. Willam Calley Jr.: Imperialist atrocities, from My Lai to Gaza
Calley spent only three days in prison for his role in directing the mass murder of 504 Vietnamese men, women and children. He is now reported to have died April 28 at the age of 80.
Patrick Martin•
80 years since the liberation of Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp: From Hitler’s war in the East to the Holocaust
The history of the Majdanek camp reveals the links between Nazi Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, and the extermination of the Jewish population, which primarily affected Poland and Eastern Europe.
Verena Nees•
Verena Nees•
David North•
Eric London•
Patrick Martin•
New study warns of the dangers in “overshooting” climate targets
This research reinforces the scientific consensus that the only viable strategy to limit catastrophic climate change requires drastic and immediate emissions cuts.
Mark Wilson•
Evolution of the human hand shows earlier use of tools than previously documented
New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution.
Philip Guelpa•
Hurricane Milton leaves behind a swath of devastation from Tampa Bay to Daytona Beach
Milton will be remembered for its rapid intensification in the Gulf of Mexico and the record number of tornadoes it spawned across Florida as it made landfall.
Jane Wise•
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to discoverers of microRNA
Drs. Gary Ruvkun and Victor Ambros have been honored for their critical work in discovering the essential role of very small RNA molecules in regulating the expression of genes.
Benjamin Mateus•
Mark Wilson•
Bryan Dyne•
Frank Gaglioti•
Mark Wilson•
Bryan Dyne•
China announces package for debt-ridden local governments
It was not a bailout for local governments but a debt swap which is not expected to provide a major boost to the economy now experiencing its lowest growth in more than three decades.
Nick Beams•
Fed cuts interest rate as chair Powell bats away questions on impact of Trump agenda
Powell pointedly sidestepped a question about how his picture of a “strong” economy contrasted so markedly with the lived experience of millions of workers and their families struggling with a significant reduction in their living standards.
Nick Beams•
Australian central bank refuses relief as interest rates, rents and prices keep punishing workers
By keeping rates high, the Reserve Bank has undercut the claims of the Albanese Labor government to be alleviating the cost-of-living crisis.
Mike Head•
An insight into China’s high-tech development and its implications
A Bloomberg analysis highlights the vast transformation in the structure of the global economy over the past three decades arising from the growth of China.
Nick Beams•
Harvey Simpkins•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Justice Department reaches $102 million settlement in Baltimore bridge collapse case
The settlement does not cover the costs for reconstructing the bridge, which is the subject of a separate suit brought by the state of Maryland against the ship owner and operator.
Ray Coleman•
Mountain Fire rages through Southern California causing massive destruction
As of Friday, the fire has destroyed more than 130 structures, mostly residential homes and has damaged 88 others.
Dan Conway•
Schools on rations: US education funding lags behind UNESCO benchmarks
A recent report from the Education Data Intiative exposes the fact that the world’s richest imperialist country has underfunded schools for decades. It indicts the US for failing to meet global benchmarks for education and, despite economic growth, allocating proportionally less for schools.
Nancy Hanover•
Body of last missing Impact Plastics worker lost in Helene’s flood water recovered
The body of Rosa Maria Andrade Reynoso was found in a debris pile in Erwin, Tennessee bringing the total number of Impact Plastics workers to die during Helene to six.
Will Coleman•
Keith Jones•
Kate Randall•
Benjamin Mateus•
Aaron Edwards•
Douglas Stewart•
White House sends military contractors to Ukraine
The Biden administration has authorized US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine in a major escalation of US involvement in the war with Russia.
Andre Damon•
Ukrainian army suffers major setbacks, as Trump election sows doubt on US war plans in Ukraine
Ukraine has been shattered as its people were used as NATO cannon fodder to attack Russia, and opposition to the war is mounting among Ukrainian workers and soldiers.
Alex Lantier•
North Korean troops in Russia as US/NATO escalates Ukraine war
As the US and its allies escalate the war against Russia in Ukraine, the global dimensions of the conflict become ever clearer: The European war is merging with advanced US-led preparations for war in Asia against China.
Peter Symonds•
North Korean troops deployed to Russia, as US/NATO ramps up Ukraine war
The condemnation of North Korean troops in Russia is entirely hypocritical given that US/NATO, in its war against Moscow, has supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars of increasingly sophisticated military hardware along with training and intelligence.
Peter Symonds•
Alex Lantier•
Jason Melanovski, Andrea Peters•
Maxim Zotov•
Alex Lantier, Robert Stevens•
Robert Stevens•
University of Michigan moves to ban local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine
The University of Michigan has filed a complaint against the campus chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine, threatening to suspend the organization for two to four years. The IYSSE denounces this attack on the campus organization and the democratic rights of all students and faculty, and demands that the complaint be rescinded.
Luke Galvin•
MIT suspends student and bans magazine for article opposing Gaza genocide
Last Friday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) issued an immediate “interim” suspension of graduate student Prahlad Iyengar for penning an article titled “On Pacifism” in an MIT student magazine Written Revolution opposing Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza. The publication itself has been banned from campus.
Chase Lawrence•
Protests against trade with Israel grow in Turkish ports
The harsh condemnation of Netanyahu by Erdogan who heads the second largest army of NATO, cannot hide the complicity of the Turkish bourgeoisie in the Gaza genocide.
Hakan Özal•
Australian police step up targeting of anti-genocide protesters
The police crackdown, being coordinated at the highest levels of government and the state, marks a further step in the criminalisation of opposition to war.
Eric Ludlow•
Laura Tiernan•
James Clayton•
Robert Stevens•
Kevin Reed•
Marianne Arens•
Erdogan government suspends elected Kurdish mayors
The appointment of trustees to replace elected mayors is a blatant attack on basic democratic rights. The Socialist Equality Group condemns this anti-democratic police state repression and calls for the reinstatement of elected mayors.
Barış Demir•
Erdogan government arrests Kurdish CHP mayor in Istanbul
This arrest and the appointment of a trustee to replace an elected mayor is a clear attack on basic democratic rights. The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long sought to stifle political opposition through such anti-democratic operations, building a police state.
Barış Demir•
Scandal exposes bankruptcy of Turkish healthcare system, killing at least 12 newborns
What the investigation has revealed is not just the criminal acts of malicious individuals. It also exposes the nature of the current healthcare system, which is increasingly being hollowed out in a capitalist system where profit comes before human life.
Barış Demir•
Armed attack on Turkey’s critical defence industry facility after calls for dialogue with Öcalan and PKK
While the Turkish ruling elites wanted to strengthen their hands and tighten their ranks in the face of the escalation of the war in the Middle East by their allies, the US and Israel--with whom they want to avoid a confrontation—it was unclear how the PKK leadership based in Iraq’s Qandil Mountain would react to Ankara’s initiative.
Barış Demir•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu•
Hakan Özal•
Barış Demir•
Barış Demir•
Explosion kills 12 steelworkers in Tlaxcala, central Mexico
The explosion in Tlaxcala was no “accident” but social murder driven by a deliberate policy of pursuing corporate and national “competitiveness” by downgrading safety and working conditions.
Andrea Lobo•
Third Peruvian transport strike raises demand for end to Boluarte regime
The rise of Peru’s protection racket mafias is the result of complex socioeconomic processes.
Cesar Uco•
Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales survives assassination attempt
The failed assassination attempt has sharply intensified the conflict between factions of the ruling MAS party.
Andrea Lobo•
Cuba in crisis as electrical grid collapses causing island-wide blackout
Cuba has repeatedly failed to bring its electrical grid back up as a result of fuel shortages and deteriorating infrastructure, threatening a social explosion.
Alexander Fangmann•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)•
Armando Cruz•
Andrea Lobo•
Rafael Azul•
Sudan’s civil war and “world’s worst” humanitarian crisis unleashed by imperialist scheming
Fighting between these two corrupt figures erupted in no small part due to longstanding efforts by US imperialism and other regional powers to exert control over Sudan and its resources—gold, minerals, oil and agricultural land—and cut off Khartoum’s relationships with China, Russia and Iran, which all have growing economic interests in the region.
Jean Shaoul•
Impeached Kenyan deputy president replaced by police-state enforcer Kithure Kindiki
The swearing-in of Kithure Kindiki, the former interior minister who oversaw police killings of anti-austerity protesters, Gen-Z activists, and pastoralists in Northern Kenya signals the Kenyan ruling class's intent to intensify repression.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kenya’s Gen Z insurgency, the strike wave and the struggle for Permanent Revolution-Part 1
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kenya’s Gen Z insurgency, the strike wave and the struggle for Permanent Revolution-Part 2
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
Jean Shaoul•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
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.
CDC video downplays danger of H5N1 bird flu
The presentation, so brief as to be little more than a public service announcement, signals an abandonment of efforts to prevent the emergence of a wider avian flu pandemic.
Bill Shaw•
The Unequal Pandemic exposes COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on the poor
University College London (UCL) and Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK hosted a screening of The Unequal Pandemic, followed by a panel discussion, to launch the film about inequality during COVID.
Jean Shaoul•
Australia: Hospital-acquired COVID infection caused more than 6,000 cases and almost 300 deaths in NSW last year
This is a direct product of the conscious and planned abolition of virtually all public health measures to prevent the spread of COVID, including the removal of mask mandates in hospitals.
John Mackay, Martin Scott•
Australian COVID inquiry promotes “let it rip,” denounces public health measures
The report, riddled with lies and misinformation, is a crude justification for the subordination of public health and lives to the profit interests of the corporate and financial elite.
Oscar Grenfell•
Benjamin Mateus•
Ioan Petrescu•
Tamino Dreisam•
Kevin Reed•
Benjamin Mateus•
Western Sydney University IYSSE Annual General Meeting elaborates socialist perspective against war and genocide
The meeting at the working-class university outlined a socialist perspective, based on the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war.
Our reporters•
Australian IYSSE clubs hold anti-war Annual General Meetings in Melbourne and Newcastle
The meetings included lively political discussion on the IYSSE’s perspective of building a global anti-war movement in the working class against Israel’s assault against the people of Palestine and Lebanon, and broader eruption of imperialist war.
Our reporters•
In victory for democratic rights, police rescind citations banning SEP/IYSSE members from University of Michigan campus
On October 15, following hearings, Ann Arbor police rescinded trespass citations that they had issued to block four SEP/IYSSE members from going on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
Momodou Taal wins case against Cornell University
The campaign to stop Cornell University from forcing the deportation of international PhD student and instructor Momodou Taal for his outspoken opposition to the Gaza genocide has won an important victory with the announcement that the university has rescinded his suspension.
Kevin Reed•
Andrea Peters•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Eric Ludlow•
Luke Galvin•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
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.
Trump’s Republican Party nears control of all levers of federal government
Four days after the US elections, fascist President-Elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party is nearing control of all levers of federal governmental power.
Barry Grey•
Wave of resignations and attacks put indicted Adams administration on life support
Amid the barrage of federal indictments and corruption investigations faced by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the Democratic politician’s inner circle is quickly falling by the wayside.
Elliott Murtagh, Fred Mazelis•
New revelations in January 6 immunity brief confirm Trump and Republican Party criminality
The 165-page filing conclusively demonstrates that Trump, and his Republican co-conspirators, knowingly sought to overturn the 2020 election with deceit, falsehoods and violence.
Jacob Crosse•
New York City Mayor Eric Adams charged with bribery
Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of law and order whose administration has been engulfed by corruption charges, faces five counts of taking bribes and committing fraud.
Daniel de Vries•
Alex Findijs•
Nick Beams•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Chase Lawrence•
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•
Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Six months after his arrest, Bogdan Syrotiuk, the courageous Ukrainian socialist arrested for opposing the war, remains in prison awaiting a drumhead trial in a legal travesty.
Johannes Stern•
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Stein has made this statement calling for the release of socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who has been imprisoned by the Zelensky regime in Ukraine.
"We must fight for Bogdan's freedom!"
Ukrainian youth speaks out in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk
This statement in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by a Ukrainian youth who fled the war and is now working and studying in Germany.
A Ukrainian youth in Germany•
Russian organizations and social media pages demand Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release
A number of Russian leftist organizations and media outlets have expressed their support for Bogdan, demanding his immediate release.
Andrei Grozov•
Pani Wijesiriwardane, SEP Presidential candidate in Sri Lanka•
Our reporters•
Andrei Grozov•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
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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•
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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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.
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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•
After plant closures announced at VW: For a global rank-and-file campaign against job cuts in the auto industry!
Rank-and-file committees among autoworkers in both North America and Europe must be expanded to include every key factory, giving workers the power to shut down the global industry.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Biden White House backs UAW bureaucracy’s phony “Keep the Promise” campaign
With anger mounting over the refusal of the UAW to fight layoffs, the Biden administration has thrown its support to Shawn Fain’s fake fight against Stellantis.
Shannon Jones•
Support the Dakkota auto parts strike! An injury to one is an injury to all! Ban the use of scab parts from Dakkota!
As their strike reached a critical juncture, rank-and-file Dakkota auto parts workers in Chicago issued a statement Tuesday appealing for a ban on scab parts from their factory.
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Dakkota workers’ strike in danger as UAW demands fifth vote on sellout agreement: “We have the strength to stand up and fight back”
The courageous rebellion of striking Dakkota parts workers, who defied an unprecedented four sellout agreements, is in danger of being shut down and betrayed as the UAW is threatening workers with a fifth vote on the same agreement.
George Marlowe•
Jerry White•
Anna Williams•
George Marlowe•
Tom Hall•
George Marlowe, Marcus Day•
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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SEP meeting in Australia calls for building worker rank-and-file committees to fight CFMEU administration
This report includes videos of speeches delivered by SEP members, explaining the administration and outlining a perspective to fight it.
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SEP in Sri Lanka commemorates second anniversary of death of Trotskyist leader Wije Dias
Wije Dias belonged to the group of young people who took up the initiative in 1968 to form the Trotskyist party in Sri Lanka and he played a leading role in the movement for 54 years until his death.
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UK Socialist Equality Party election rally advances socialist and internationalist opposition to war
The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
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Attendees at UK general election rally speak: “The Socialist Equality Party is what I want to dedicate my efforts to building.”
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.
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Statement of the Educators Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
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May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
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The political significance of the 2024 May Day Online Rally
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Johannes Stern•
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Max Boddy•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Tomas Castanheira•
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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•
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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•
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
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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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1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Chris Marsden, Ulaş Ateşçi•
The Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy’s Studies in Dialectics
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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Evan Blake, Tom Mackaman•
Max Boddy•
David North•
Samuel Tissot, Peter Schwarz•
Keith Jones•
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•
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Andre Damon•
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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•
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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•
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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•
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.
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Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
Oscar Grenfell•
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Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Robert Stevens•
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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A comment on David North’s review: Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Steve Long•
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•
Book Review: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
Contemporary lessons from the slave power’s plot to overturn the 1860 election
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Eric London•
Bankers in the Ivory Tower by Charlie Eaton
The financialization of higher education and the fight against war
Eaton’s book traces the financialization of higher education from the 1980s through the 2010s, which underlay the subordination of academia to Wall Street and the war machine of US imperialism.
Emma Arceneaux•
Fred Mazelis•
Tom Peters•
James McDonald•
Eric London•
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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.
SEP online meeting, “The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship”
The socialist response to the election of Trump
The November 10 online meeting hosted by the Socialist Equality Party analyzed the causes and consequences of the Trump victory and elaborated a political strategy for the working class to fight back.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Lying allegations of antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam fall apart
The official account of the Amsterdam clashes is an abominable lie, using false accusations of antisemitism against Amsterdamers as a political tool to defend fascism and the Gaza genocide.
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Socialist Equality Party to hold emergency online meeting Sunday, November 10
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
Countless millions in the United States and throughout the world are stunned by the outcome of the election, which was made possible by the policies of the Democratic Party. But the shock is turning into disgust as they witness the Democrats’ craven surrender to Trump.
David North•
Democrats grovel before Trump
President Biden and Vice President Harris have pledged full cooperation with the incoming fascist president-elect, while issuing no warning to the American people of the dangers of mass repression and rule by force.
Patrick Martin•
WSWS Editorial Board•
David North•
Alejandro López, Alex Lantier•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Jordan Shilton•
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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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•
Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River mine
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
Tom Peters•
Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
Jack Wang•
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Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•