May Day 2026
Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
US Politics
“May Day Strong” in Chicago: Labor bureaucracy, Democrats seek to smother growing resistance to war and Trump dictatorship
With thousands of workers and young people marching to oppose Trump, the AFL-CIO and Democratic Party is trying to prevent this movement from evolving into a politically conscious challenge to oligarchic rule and the capitalist system that both parties defend.
Kristina Betinis, Jerry White•
Trump’s deployment of warships to Strait of Hormuz escalates Iran war
The increasingly desperate actions of American imperialism express the strategic debacle it confronts after 35 years of uninterrupted wars of aggression.
WSWS Editorial Board•
From Port Huron to postmodernism: The class politics of the “New” Students for a Democratic Society
The "New" SDS substitutes identity politics for class analysis, bourgeois nationalism for socialist internationalism and protest theater for the independent mobilization of the working class against the capitalist parties and the system they defend.
Nancy Hanover•
Jacob Crosse•
Joseph Kishore•
David North•
David North•
Daniel de Vries•
Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund”: The fusion of the gangster-oligarchy and the state
Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund would reward those who sought to overturn the 2020 elections, including those who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Patrick Martin•
Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund includes side deal blocking tax probes into president and family
While Trump officials refuse to rule out payouts to violent January 6 fascists, the Justice Department addendum seeks to foreclose claims against Trump and his related entities.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump DOJ seeks to erase January 6 convictions of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers ringleaders ahead of 2026 elections
Trump’s commutations and pardons last year freed militia members charged with the most serious January 6 crimes but left their convictions intact. This new motion seeks to vacate those convictions and dismiss the indictments, helping clear the way for the fascist militia forces to legally rearm.
Jacob Crosse•
5 years since Trump’s January 6 coup
The methods of violent overthrow of democratic institutions are now being employed both at home and abroad in an unprecedented drive for dictatorship and imperialist domination of the world.
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Robert Stevens•
Laura Tiernan•
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
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