The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.
By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in 1967 under Lyndon Johnson.
These events highlight the falsity of claims that the regime change that took place in December 2024 with the support of the US and its allies, including Turkey, would bring democracy and peace to Syria, and point to the risk of a regional war.
The report details the wholesale destruction by the Israeli state of educational, religious and cultural institutions in Gaza and on the West Bank.
Philadelphia’s municipal workers are voicing anger at their unions, AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, charging that union officials continue to isolate rank-and-file struggles and push through deals that fall short of members’ real needs.
In the face of a total coverup by Tyson, complete silence from the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and a wall of state obstruction, Allison has received critical information and support from one crucial source: Casen’s coworkers.
Hardly any other government reacted to this massive escalation with such enthusiasm as the German one.
There wasn’t a single policy laid out that didn’t concern the mad rush to rearmament and war, other than the intensification of anti-immigration measures.
"It's Irresponsible to say these scientists were planning to commit agroterrorism.”
The preventable tragedy at Gabriel House demonstrates the potential suffering posed to vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly, by the savage cuts to social programs in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” relied upon by millions.
For an exercise nominally about the oppression of Aboriginal people, the Yoorrook Justice Commission was notable for its uncritical embrace of big business politicians and its celebration of the ascent of an Indigenous upper middle class.
The demolition can only be halted through the mobilisation of the working class, not through appeals to the government carrying it out.
Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in Trump’s incessant demands for a rate reduction is the rising interest bill on US government debt.
In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education.
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hits $120,000.
The response demonstrates that Democratic Party opposition to Trump centered on issues of foreign policy, particularly the war against Russia, not Trump’s attacks on the working class at home.
The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty plotting of all the imperialist powers.
The film is a sprawling satire about a shameless, domineering businessman and his various relationships, economic and personal.
Cousins was widely recognized for his emotionally dynamic and expressive voice. He could shift from fragile vulnerability to commanding or angry theatricality within a single phrase.
The hostility to the film in certain quarters emerges out of the high level of social and political tensions in the US.
Goldin, who is Jewish, told the crowd of 2,500, "Anti-Zionism has been totally conflated with antisemitism, which is convenient for Israel."
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
The horrific death of a 19-year-old industrial janitor at Tina’s Burritos in Vernon, California exposes the deadly reality facing workers under capitalism: deregulation, union complicity, and a state that protects profits over human life.
New evidence of corporate negligence and state complicity exposes how deregulation and exploitation led to seven preventable deaths.
Like their counterparts in North America, Italian Stellantis workers are facing a relentless attack on jobs and working conditions, which have led to workplace fatalities like the February 2024 death of Dominico Fatigati, a 52-year-old machine maintenance worker.
Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella, was arrested last year after being accused of posting an Instagram photo showing an Israeli flag being trampled.
The Sri Lankan trade union bureaucracies responded to Trump’s tariffs by assuring the government and big business of their willingness to cooperate.
The Sri Lankan meetings were part of the campaign waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International to build a global anti-war movement of the working class against the developing world war.
The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by successive Colombo governments, against the separatist LTTE.
After the failure to extend the REINFO program and the rejection of MAPE, President Boluarte claimed that "Only illegal miners are on the streets," criminalizing artisanal miners.
The same playbook used by the AFSCME union to sabotage the city workers’ strike in Philadelphia is now being used by the Teamsters to limit and prepare to shut down the fight at Republic.
The “social” contract at Thyssenkrupp, agreed last weekend by the IG Metall union and the company's top management, represents a historic attack on workers.
Delivery drivers escalate protests in Germany, Italy; strikes and protests continue across Iran; workers begin indefinite strike in Ogun State, Nigeria
The political crisis in Japan is being compounded by Trump’s tariffs and demands that the government commit to a US-led war against China over Taiwan.
Falling real wages, higher living costs, increasing unemployment and homelessness are all intensifying amid growing class inequality.
Rank-and-file committees have called a national public meeting on August 2, to take forward the fight against the Labor government-led onslaught on university jobs and conditions.
In the fourth 24-hour strike since May, drivers protested against declining real wages and attacks on their rosters and other working conditions.
The agreement is aimed at blocking a growing rank-and-file rebellion and preventing the resurgence of a powerful citywide strike movement.
This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed immediately and expanded to include transit workers, white-collar employees and all other sections of the working class in Philadelphia.
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in nearly 40 years. It occurred as white collar municipal workers began voting Thursday about whether they would launch their own strike against the city.
The new contract contains a miserly 9 percent wage increase, spread out over three years. This is only one percent better than the city’s initial offer.
The union leaders’ declaration contains no call to arms to defend the core democratic rights now under state attack. No mobilisation is proposed of the millions of workers these leaders officially represent.
The main issue for the Verdi union is not to oppose the cuts, but to take part in deciding when and where the axe should fall.
The budget would impose sweeping cuts to social programs to free up tens of billions of euros for the ongoing military build-up and NATO war plans against Russia.
The leader of the UK’s second largest union has gone on record to state that, despite her best efforts, justifying partnership with this right-wing party of big business has become politically hazardous in the face of the mass hostility in the working class.
Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights.
From Camarillo to MacArthur Park, ICE raids and military operations signal California’s role as a testing ground for dictatorship.
Two weeks after President Donald Trump toured the new detention facility in South Florida swampland, hundreds of immigrants, many of whom have never committed a crime, are suffering in hellish conditions.
The Trump administration has issued a new rule banning undocumented children from Head Start in an outright violation of Plyler v. Doe, the landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of all US residents to free public education.
Compensation deal for victims of Nazi forced-labor; Apollo-Soyuz mission; Julius Rosenberg arrested; anti-French revolt in Syria.
With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has opened a new chapter in the revival of German militarism.
The UAW, which stoked the anti-Japanese racism that led to Chin’s death, is backing Trump’s tariffs and promoting the lie that Mexican workers are taking American autoworkers' jobs.
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet, a 20-year-old US citizen from Tampa, Florida, was beaten to death in the West Bank by a mob of fascist Zionist settlers wielding sticks and bats when he attempted to defend his family's land.
Today, as grotesque as is Blair’s involvement in the filthy work of drawing up plans for a post-genocide Gaza, it is more than matched by his disciple Starmer.
While the mass killings at aid sites and refugee camps continue, former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is calling the US-Israeli “humanitarian city” near the Egyptian border, where as many as 2 million Palestinians will be relocated, a concentration camp.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to create plans for a giant concentration camp on the ruins of Rafah, where the population of Gaza would be moved in preparation for their forcible expulsion, Haaretz reported Wednesday.
The White House event Friday reflected the avid support for Trump’s bill in the ruling class, which sees it as a down payment for the shredding of all that remains of the social safety net, including Medicare and Social Security.
The former governor made his pitch to Wall Street, attacking Zohran Mamdani’s “unrealistic proposals and divisive agenda.”
Khalil is a key target in the White House’s efforts to overthrow the United States Constitution and establish a presidential dictatorship.
A comprehensive new study lays bare how austerity, inequality and profit-driven healthcare are consigning an entire generation of working class children to poor health.
The fascist plotters had amassed a vast arsenal of weapons, were actively seeking recruits for their militia, and reportedly planned to “seize land.”
A series of intense storms struck the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area on Monday, triggering flash flooding that caused the death of two women when their vehicle was swept up by ferocious waters in Plainfield, New Jersey.
At the same time as it slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from school budgets, the CAQ government has moved to gut education workers’ right to strike.
The harrowing accounts from survivors of the Gabriel House fire reveal a tragedy long in the making.
A Canterbury police officer threatened a protester that “mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that, it will come under proscribed groups which are terror groups… which we have suspicion that you’re supporting, based on your actions here, in a city with the flags and the posters you’ve got up.”
Students unfurled flags and banners, with slogans including, “Fund teaching not genocide” and “No graduates in Gaza”, before walking out of the graduation halls, to cheering and clapping.
Roughly 300 police were mobilised in London, arresting 46 people for holding signs reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Police handcuffed several people and carried them into vans. Among them was 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt.
Sanders “cited Finland as an example the UK should consider,” the Telegraph reports, telling the paper, “Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5 million people. It can survive as a government and as a society under direct missile and air attacks from Russia. We don’t have that.”
The rapid changes in Trump’s foreign policy are an expression of his commitment to an imperialist war in defense of American capital.
Russia's lead negotiator in peace talks with Ukraine warned on Monday that any deal that did not secure his country's lasting interests would ultimately result in "the end of the planet."
The attack was personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and carried out by the fascist-infested Secret Service of Ukraine (SBU).
What is truly striking about President Gabriel Boric’s fourth and final televised annual address is just how far to the right his pseudo-left coalition government has travelled over three years in office.
The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the stability of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international human rights bodies.
Cuban nationals in the United States, most of whom fled the island due to the impact of US imperialist policies, are being targeted for detention and deportation as part of Trump’s crackdown on migrants.
This sadistic call for mutilation is a thinly disguised pledge to continue murdering protesters. In total, Ruto’s regime has killed over 140 protestors, left thousands injured and maimed for life, while hundreds have disappeared or been abducted.
The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.
The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pretext for further repression.
President Ruto’s government has unleashed a violent crackdown on mass Gen Z-led protests across Kenya, leaving at least 16 dead and hundreds injured.
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hits $120,000.
The economic war against the world being waged by the US is reproducing, at a higher level, the conditions of the disastrous decade of the 1930s that played a major role in creating the conditions for World War II.
Tariffs on copper of 50 percent could be imposed as early as next month and a 200 percent impost on pharmaceuticals may be set within 18 months, with other commodities set to follow.
Trump has sent letters to 14 countries saying that the massive tariff hikes announced on April 2 would be imposed on August 1, with two of the most significant diktats issued to so-called US allies Japan and South Korea.
XFG (Stratus) is the latest subvariant of Omicron that is gaining momentum in the summer surge of the pandemic.
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
The ruling class and the capitalist political establishment will try to exploit any opportunity to suppress the deepening political crisis and divert attention away from the mounting class tensions.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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 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.
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.
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 2002, including serving as the head of NASA’s Astrophysics Division from 1993 to 1995 and as a program director for the National Science Foundation from 1999 to 2002.
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
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 letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han.
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on workers, students and youth across the United States and internationally to oppose the warmongering witch-hunting of Chinese researchers Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu.
While the protests express a growing opposition to Trump’s fascistic agenda, the pseudo-left organisers are seeking to channel those sentiments behind Australian nationalism and a pro-war Labor government.
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
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.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
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.
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.
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
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 scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.
In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education.
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hits $120,000.
The response demonstrates that Democratic Party opposition to Trump centered on issues of foreign policy, particularly the war against Russia, not Trump’s attacks on the working class at home.
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
