The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship, but what is lacking, and what is most critical, is a clear program and conscious strategy.
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As millions march in “No Kings” protests against dictatorship, Democrats focus on escalating the war in Ukraine
The Democrats in fact agree with large portions of Trump’s economic policies and have systematically enabled Trump’s attack on the working class.
Reflecting mass anger against attacks on democrats rights, rising inequality and fascism, millions of people have gathered at thousands of demonstrations against dictatorship.
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The Trump administration is working to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
The “Democratic socialists” were virtually silent on Trump’s drive to dictatorship, repeatedly touting their willingness to negotiate with the Republicans to reopen the government in exchange for an extension of some healthcare subsidies.
Jacob Crosse•
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•(updated )
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
The Socialist Party’s support for Macron’s hated minority government exposes the New Popular Front of which it is a part, and shows that workers must mobilize against Macron independently of it.
Alex Lantier•
While directed, in the first instance, against a provocative right-wing agitator, this ruling sets a precedent for wider use of visa bans, particularly against socialist and other left-wing visitors.
Mike Head•
With political issues at the forefront, the strike at Kaiser is taking place within a powder keg that is threatening to spill over beyond what the union apparatuses intended.
Norisa Diaz•
The Hollywood Reporter comments: “Production in Los Angeles has reached another all-time low ..."
Hong Jian•
Ecuador’s unrest is part of a broader trend pitting the population against right-wing governments across Latin America.
Cesar Uco•
A letter to Alter reveals that his firing is due to his advocacy for socialism.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
The shift of production from Ontario to Indiana means the loss of roughly 3,000 jobs at one of Canada’s key auto plants and reflects how the new tariff regime is accelerating the reordering of North American manufacturing at the expense of the working class.
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Nothing could more starkly capture the bankruptcy of Odinga’s legacy than the massacre that unfolded at his funeral, carried out by the “broad-based” Kenyan government he helped forge.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
The judgement underscores the flagrant illegality of the offensive against opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has been spearheaded by Labor governments.
Oscar Grenfell•
Internal emails reveal the agency suppressed publication of a study for almost four years due to “discomfort among the mining companies.”
Jenny Campbell•
The betrayal by CEB union bureaucracies is a lesson for all Sri Lankan workers and poses the need for independent action committees and a socialist program to fight Dissanayake’s IMF agenda.
Wimal Perera•
India: Nagaland public sector workers strike for promotions; Bangladesh: Non-government secondary school teachers resume protests; South Australian public sector workers strike for better wages; ANZ bank workers in Melbourne oppose major job cuts
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Trump authorizes CIA regime change operations against Venezuela
Trump did not equivocate in acknowledging his extraordinary escalation of US imperialist aggression in Venezuela and beyond.
Andrea Lobo•
16 workers killed in Tennessee explosion: Industrial carnage followed by media cover-up
Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media simply moved on.
Jerry White•
Trump orders military paychecks as troops move into cities
The move is aimed at ensuring the loyalty of soldiers ordered into action against the American population.
Patrick Martin•
Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.
Andrea Lobo•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Jordan Shilton•
Tom Hall•
Tom Mackaman•
This week in history: October 13-19
Rail crash linked to UK privatization; South Africa invades Angola; US-backed forces take Pyongyang, North Korea; Syrian rebels advance in Damascus.
10th anniversary of Ankara bombings by ISIS which killed over 100 people
The massacre was part of the spread to Turkey of the war for regime change in Syria launched in 2011 by Washington and its regional allies, including Ankara.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Historic images of slavery removed by national parks after Trump directive
The removal of powerful Civil War era photography from public museums is the latest in a series of attacks on historical truth orchestrated by the White House.
Landon Gourov, Tom Mackaman•
Trump issues threats against Smithsonian exhibitions and art works
President Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the Smithsonian Institute, accusing the museum of promoting “anti-American ideology.”
Douglas Lyons, Tom Mackaman•
Verena Nees•
Johannes Stern•
Shannon Jones•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Actress Diane Keaton dies at 79
Keaton, with her freshness and liveliness, her “free-spiritedness,” spoke to a generation—or generations—that were shedding stale morals and old prejudices in the US, including in some cases anti-communism.
David Walsh•
British painter Edward Burra: A neglected chronicler of 20th century society
Burra’s early work emerged in the wake of revolutionary artistic ferment following the Bolshevik Revolution.
Paul Mitchell•
Australia: NSW gallery cancels public discussion with pro-Palestinian curator
Hoor Al Qasimi, the artistic director of the 2026 Sydney Biennale and a highly regarded international art curator, is a well-known opponent of the Gaza genocide.
Jason Quill•
Political censorship of art exhibition at California’s Pepperdine University
Pepperdine is listed by one website among the “top 30 conservative Christian colleges and universities” in the US.
David Walsh•
Paul Mitchell•
David Walsh•
Kevin Reed•
Paul Bond•
Hong Jian•
Boarding school collapse in Indonesia kills 67
The underlying cause of man-made disasters and the overall decline in social conditions is the capitalist system, which places profit over the lives of the working class.
Aditya Syed•
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16 workers
A locked door blocked desperate garment workers from reaching the roof and fresh air, and most died from inhaling toxic fumes from the fire.
W.A.Sunil•
Australia: Glencore locks out coal mining workers in New South Wales
In response, the Mining and Energy Union is asking the pro-business Fair Work Commission to declare the dispute “intractable” and impose an enterprise agreement through arbitration.
Martin Scott•
Australian police exaggerated “antisemitic” incidents amid crackdown on opposition to Gaza genocide
The police classified pro-Palestinian protests, and even Zionist attacks on opponents of the genocide, as “antisemitism,” in a fraud that was perpetrated against the public.
Oscar Grenfell•
Ben McGrath•
Oscar Grenfell•
Committee for Public Education and IYSSE (Australia)•
Mike Head•
Tom Peters•
More than 100,000 workers prepare to strike in New Zealand
The October 23 strike by teachers, healthcare workers and others will be the biggest in four decades, pointing to growing opposition to austerity and militarism.
Tom Peters•
Union abruptly terminates strike at MRF Tyre factory in Tamil Nadu
The Madras Rubber Factory (MRF) Employees Union (MEU) working with the Stalinist CITU federation betrayed an indefinite strike at an MRF plant.
Arun Kumar, Kranti Kumara•
“Health care is a universal right”: Kaiser Permanente nurses speak out on third day of strike
The strike by 46,000 nurses and other healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente continued through its third day Thursday, in a struggle that poses the possibility of a working class movement against inequality, exploitation and dictatorship.
Marc Wells•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Nagaland public sector workers strike for promotions; Bangladesh: Non-government secondary school teachers resume protests; South Australian public sector workers strike for better wages; ANZ bank workers in Melbourne oppose major job cuts
Tony Robson•
Bryan Dyne•
Robert Stevens•
Our correspondents•
Marc Wells•
Jacobin magazine attempts to conceal the pro-genocide record of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The DSA, through Jacobin, is attempting to rewrite the record of support for genocide and present the Democratic Party and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not as defenders and enablers of the genocide, but as its opponents.
Andre Damon•
Leaders of Republican youth movement praise Hitler, joke about Holocaust in internal discussion
Following the exposure of the Telegram messages between Young Republican operatives, filled with admiration for Hitler and racial slurs, Vice President JD Vance has repeatedly defended the fascists as “kids making jokes.”
Jacob Crosse•
Texas university systems attack freedom of speech, limit discussion on gender
Two of Texas' largest university systems have ordered "audits" of gender courses as Republicans carry out agitation against "LGBTQ ideology."
Chase Lawrence•
Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the Democratic Party
Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
Patrick Martin•
Matt Rigel, Tom Hall•
Kate Randall•
Jacob Crosse•
Alex Findijs, Tom Hall•
Kevin Reed•
Sri Lankan government prepares next IMF-dictated budget
President Dissanayake’s November 7 budget speech to the parliament will include new IMF directives.
Saman Gunadasa•
Hypocrisy and lies: Sri Lankan President Dissanayake at the UN General Assembly
Dissanayake’s speech was a pathetic attempt to cover up the reality that poverty in Sri Lanka has drastically worsened under his JVP/NPP administration.
Saman Gunadasa•
Police attack mass protest over wind-turbines in northern Sri Lanka
The Dissanayake government’s attack on Mannar residents follows its repudiation of election promises to delay the environmentally controversial project.
N. Ranges•
Sri Lankan president invokes essential services act against power workers
The essential services order allows the government to ban industrial action by electricity workers. Those found guilty of breaching a ban face two to five years’ imprisonment, a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 rupees, or both.
Wasantha Rupasinghe, W.A. Sunil•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Saman Gunadasa•
S.K.Keerthi, Kapila Fernando•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Executions in Florida and Missouri as 4 days of state-sanctioned killings begin
The machinery of the state killing apparatus in the US continues this week, fueled by the accelerating fascistic agenda of the Trump administration.
Kate Randall•
Trump’s “Compact” with universities demands ideological submission in exchange for funding
This is the latest attack by the Trump administration on higher education in an American version of the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung, that is, the synchronization of culture, education and more into the arms of the state as a propaganda tool.
Landon Gourov•
Missouri governor launches attack on SNAP recipients under guise of “nutrition reform”
Kehoe’s SNAP order serves as a cost-cutting measure for the state that stigmatizes the poor and funnels federal dollars toward “Missouri-grown” agribusiness, extending his broader drive against democratic and social rights.
Julian Blackwood•
Newsom’s “historic” housing reform is a handout to real estate capital
California’s SB 79 strengthens corporate control over housing while deepening inequality
Marc Wells•
Our reporter•
Kate Randall•
Marc Wells•
Jesse Thomas, Steve Light•
Daryl Stone•
The place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
David North•
2025 Summer School Lecture 6 Part 2
Revisionism, spies and cover-ups: The origins of the Security and the Fourth International investigation
A political understanding of the significance of security is inseparable from the fight for Trotskyism. Diminishing the security question is a product of revisionism.
David Rye•
2025 Summer School Lecture 6 Part 1
The Wohlforth-Fields violation of party security and the response of the International Committee
This lecture reviews the Wohlforth–Fields breach of party security in the Workers League in 1974 and the event’s significance in the origins of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Kathleen Martin•
Towards Socialism or Capitalism?
In this work, first serialized in Pravda in September 1925, Trotsky analyzes the achievements and principal dynamics of the Soviet economy eight years after the socialist 1917 October Revolution.
Leon Trotsky•
Andrea Peters•
Tom Peters•
International Committee of the Fourth International•
Leon Trotsky•
Leon Trotsky•
French social-democrats back Macron to install minority Lecornu government
The Socialist Party’s support for Macron’s hated minority government exposes the New Popular Front of which it is a part, and shows that workers must mobilize against Macron independently of it.
Alex Lantier•
Reform/Tory party alliance mooted as far-right replacement for Starmer’s faltering government
The Conservative Party conference saw discussions of an alliance with Reform, coupled with criticisms of its “populist” attitude to spending on the one hand and a wholesale adoption of its Trumpian attacks on migrants, the “woke” left and the rule of law, on the other.
Thomas Scripps•
Washington and Berlin push NATO to the brink of war with Russia
According to reports, the United States is preparing to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles—long-range precision weapons capable of striking targets up to 2,500 kilometers away, including Moscow and other major Russian cities.
Johannes Stern•
Corbyn’s “Your Party” reboot at The World Transformed: Europe’s pseudo-left politicians display their bankruptcy
Not one of the assembled speakers even mentioned events in the United States, where President Donald Trump is erecting a presidential dictatorship based on the military, police and fascist agitators.
Laura Tiernan•
Johannes Stern•
Marianne Arens•
Dietmar Geistenkersting•
Alex Lantier•
Peter Schwarz•
Spanish workers and students stage national stoppages against Gaza genocide
The national stoppages and protests across Spain, called by major trade union and student federations, confirmed continued opposition to the Gaza genocide despite efforts to proclaim the success of Trump’s “peace deal”. But they were tightly controlled by the union bureaucracy which seeks to dissipate mass opposition into safe channels.
Alejandro López•
Protests across Australia oppose two years of the Israeli genocide in Gaza
“What they’re testing in Gaza will potentially impact the quality of life and workers’ rights in other countries. The governments are seeing how far they can push and get away with things.”
Our reporters•
Half a million march in London to mark 2 years of Gaza genocide
With plans advanced for the transformation of Gaza into a US protectorate and amid scenes of desperate Palestinians returning to homes in ruins, platform speakers doubled down on their politically bankrupt appeals to the Starmer government to finally end its collusion with Israel.
Robert Stevens•
Oppose the University of Michigan disciplinary charges against pro-Palestinian protesters!
New charges have been brought by the administration against pro-Palestinian protesters.
Luke Galvin•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
David Walsh•
Marc Wells, Johannes Stern•
Santiago Guillen•
Accurate Energetic Systems workers raised safety concerns before fatal Tennessee explosion
Several workers warned about safety hazards before the blast at the munitions factory that killed 16 workers, in one of the worst industrial disasters in the US in decades.
Jerry White•
Letter from Bernie Monk, spokesperson for Pike River families in New Zealand, to the families of the Tennessee explosives plant disaster
Bernie Monk, whose son Michael was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 underground Pike River Coal mine disaster, expresses support for the families of the 16 workers killed in the Tennessee Accurate Energetic Systems weapons factory explosion.
Bernie Monk•
All 16 victims identified in Tennessee munitions factory explosion
The victims were young and old, recent hires at AES and veteran workers, and leave behind grieving spouses, children and other loved ones and friends.
Jerry White•
Chemical Safety Board finds broken and cracked valves contributed to fatal blast at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works
Broken and cracked valves, 70-year-old and outdated equipment and more were some of the initial findings of the Chemical Safety Board investigation into the deadly explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works that killed two steelworkers and injured 10 others.
Samuel Davidson•
Jane Wise•
Marc Wells, Luis Marquez•
Samuel Davidson•
Nate Rodshaw•
Marc Wells•
Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay
Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.
Benjamin Mateus•
Jane Goodall, the primatologist who revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzees and ourselves, dies at 91
Goodall demonstrated that the evolutionary origins of many basic human behaviors are shared with our closest biological relatives.
Philip Guelpa•
The manufactured science that claims Tylenol causes autism
By declaring Tylenol a cause of autism, the Trump–Kennedy administration staged a political takeover of science—turning weak associations into official doctrine and using federal health agencies to legitimize ideology over evidence.
Benjamin Mateus•
Manual dexterity and the human brain evolved together
A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of mental control that are key to tool manufacturing and use by humans.
Philip Guelpa•
Simon Whelan•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
Mark Wilson•
Philip Guelpa•
US-China economic war intensifying, not de-escalating
A new front has opened up with the imposition of major fees on Chinese built, owned or operated ships docking at US ports.
Nick Beams•
Trump, China tariffs and the Wall Street bubble
Early last Friday Wall Street was heading for another record but then came Trump’s new tariff threat against China and it had its biggest fall in six months.
Nick Beams•
Trump moves to reignite tariff war with China
In response to a Chinese decision to tighten controls on rare earth exports, Trump has made some of his most bellicose statements in the tariff war.
Nick Beams•
Unprecedented “circular deals” inflate AI bubble
Deals entered into by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are estimated to cost $1 trillion, even as the company has yet to turn a profit.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Andre Damon•
Jacob Crosse•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Despite “ceasefire,” Israel continues massacres and aid restriction in Gaza
The events since the beginning of the “ceasefire” have made clear that, like the previous ceasefire earlier this year that Israel unilaterally violated by killing 400 people in a single day, the present agreement merely marks a new phase in the ongoing US-Israeli ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza and war throughout the Middle East.
Andre Damon•
Israel resumes killing Palestinians in first phase of Trump’s “peace plan”
Seven Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since phase one of the so-called “peace plan” brokered by the Trump administration was implemented.
Kevin Reed•
“Peace” through genocide: Trump proclaims “historic dawn” for Middle East on the bones of the Palestinians
The only way to realise the democratic and social rights of the long-suffering masses of the Middle East and establish a genuine basis for peaceful coexistence is through the fight for the perspective of the permanent revolution in the closest alliance with the working classes in the imperialist centres of North America and Europe.
Jordan Shilton•
Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
Robinson is a filthy provocateur and instigator of street violence against Muslims and asylum seekers. Israel is a state governed by mass murderers and pogromists, which Robinson looks on with undisguised admiration for doing what he can, as yet only dream of.
Jean Shaoul•
Robert Stevens•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Andre Damon•
Alejandro López•
ICE agents mount violent attacks against Chicago workers
The Trump administration is seeking to provoke conflicts which would provide the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying federal troops.
Patrick Martin•
Massachusetts 13-year-old abducted by ICE and transported to Virginia detention center
The abduction by armed ICE agents of a seventh grader in Massachusestts has provoked angry protests. More than 80 residents and city councilors gathered outside Everett City Hall to demand the return of the boy, who was transferred to a juvenile immigration facility in Virginia.
Mike Ingram•
Trump, Republicans, neo-Nazis honor racist Charlie Kirk with highest official honor in Rose Garden ceremony
At a Rose Garden event attended by the entire cabinet and far-right leadership, Trump framed Kirk’s death as a “demonic act” carried out by the “left.”
Jacob Crosse•
Subu Vedam, falsely imprisoned for 43 years, seized by ICE for deportation
The 64-year-old Vedam, who came to the US from India as a baby, was exonerated and released from prison in Pennsylvania, then immediately detained by the immigration Gestapo.
Kate Randall•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Amid deepening drone war with Ukraine, Kremlin imposes severe internet and cellphone shutdowns
Rolling internet and cell network shutdowns are now a feature of everyday life across the country.
Clara Weiss•
Ukraine’s voiceless army: Ukrainian deserters speak out
In this article by Ukrainian journalists, deserters from the NATO-backed Ukrainian army speak out about their experiences.
Ukrainian journalists•
Escalation in the Baltics: NATO exploits alleged airspace violation by Russian jets for new war escalation
With relentless war propaganda and anti-Russian agitation, the population is to be step by step accustomed to the idea that shooting down Russian aircraft in European airspace—i.e., a direct entry into the war—is an “option.”
Johannes Stern•
Behind the partial opening of borders in Ukraine and the murder of far-right MP Andriy Parubiy
The very fact that various political figures are now assassinated with such regularity speaks of a crisis in the entire governance and security system. Simply put, the ruling class cannot rule in the old way.
Ukrainian journalists•
Johannes Stern•
Jason Melanovski•
Peter Symonds•
Alex Lantier•
Johannes Stern•
Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
Benjamin Mateus•
Financialization and the crisis of US healthcare
Harvard study exposes deadly toll of private equity hospitals
A Harvard-led study has provided rigorous evidence that private equity ownership of hospitals increases patient mortality in emergency and intensive care units.
Benjamin Mateus•
As over 1 million Americans are infected with COVID daily, Trump administration plans further cutoff of vaccines
Amid the 11th COVID wave in the US, Kennedy is dismantling federal vaccine policy and scientific institutions and eroding decades of public health progress in the service of a radical, anti-vaccine political agenda.
Benjamin Mateus•
Florida’s “Charlatan General” Ladapo reveals no scientific evidence supported anti-vaccine policy
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo appeared on CNN Sunday to defend the state government’s push to end all mandates for vaccination against childhood diseases.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
David North•
6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
Jerry White•
Dundee Engine nearly six months after workplace death: “The machines are running at full blast, and not a word is being said about Ronald Adams”
At a meeting for workers returning from layoff, management and United Auto Workers officials maintained a guilty silence about the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman.
Jerry White•
5 months after death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., silence and cover-up continue
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Clara Weiss•
Expand the campaign to free the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
The death of Julia Chuñil in Chile: Boric’s war against the Mapuche people
What has been unleashed by Boric’s regime against Julia Chuñil and her family is part of a war against the Mapuche people on behalf of mining, forestry and landed property interests.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Protests continue after Peru’s right-wing congress sacks Peru’s unelected president
Boluarte left office with a 93 percent disapproval rating, with 0 percent approval among young people and in southern Peru, known as "deep Peru."
Cesar Uco•
Lula talks to Trump amid US escalation against Venezuela
The rapprochement between the Lula and Trump administrations is a central component of US war preparations against Venezuela.
Eduardo Parati, Guilherme Ferreira•
Trump threatens Venezuela with “fire and fury”
Echoing the genocidal campaign pursued under US auspices in Gaza, Trump’s threats against Latin America flow from a policy of state terror against any resistance to the American oligarchy.
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Bill Van Auken•
Andrea Lobo•
Cesar Uco•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga dies aged 80
Raila Odinga’s death marks the end of a political career spanning more than four decades, during which he served as the chief political fixer of the Kenyan ruling class and imperialism, suppressing the revolutionary strivings of Kenya’s workers and oppressed masses in defence of capitalism.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Child dies amid far-right anti-immigrant campaign cultivated by South Africa’s ANC
The African National Congress’s scapegoating of foreigners has paved the way for a wave of far-right vigilantism in South Africa.
Jean de Jager, Alejandro López•
Spiralling Gen Z protests in Morocco and Madagascar fuelled by social inequality
These terrible conditions fuelling mass anger and discontent are found internationally. They are not simply the product of corruption, but of capitalism, the production of goods for private profit.
Jean Shaoul•
Uganda’s January 2026 elections to pit Museveni’s dictatorship against the bourgeois populism of Bobi Wine
Bobi Wine seeks to replace Yoweri Museveni as a more acceptable representative of the bourgeoisie in the eyes of imperialism.
Kipchumba Ochieng •
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean de Jager•
Jean Shaoul•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
A socialist response to Turkey’s complicity in the imperialist-Zionist takeover of Gaza
Erdoğan’s signing of this dirty agreement is the culmination of the Turkish ruling class’s complicity and hypocritical stance in the ongoing genocide over the past two years.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
10th anniversary of Ankara bombings by ISIS which killed over 100 people
The massacre was part of the spread to Turkey of the war for regime change in Syria launched in 2011 by Washington and its regional allies, including Ankara.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Erdoğan-Trump meeting confirms Turkey’s allegiance to US imperialism
Erdoğan is relying on the support of the Trump administration and avoiding any conflict with it while he establishes an authoritarian regime to defend the interests of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Erdoğan government in Turkey dismisses CHP’s provincial leadership in Istanbul, deploying massive police forces
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has entered a new phase of its judicial operation targeting fundamental democratic rights and the Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP), which emerged as the leading party in the March 2024 local elections.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Jean Shaoul•
Ozan Kutlucan, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Barış Demir•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
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Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
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Join the struggle for a socialist future! Mobilise the working class against genocide, dictatorship, and world war!
The contradictions that lead capitalism to these disasters also form the basis for social revolution. Workers and youth everywhere are looking for a way out of war, genocide, the high cost of living, unemployment and anti-democratic attacks.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Turkey)•
A socialist perspective against genocide, world war and fascism
Students are returning to universities this October under extraordinary conditions. The IYSSE is distributing this statement at the beginning of the semester at universities in Germany and calls on students to join us in building a mass movement against war and capitalism among workers and young people.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
IYSSE club at University of Melbourne holds well-attended meeting on the fight against fascism and war
One student said, “This was a great introduction for anyone who wants to get into socialism. What we’re seeing now around the world is capitalism in decline.”
Our reporters•
Wayne State University president resigns
President Espy and the Board of Governors that pushed her out were both responsible for a brutal police crackdown on pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide protests at the campus in 2023-24.
Esther Galen•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Tim Avery•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at George Mason University•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
David North•
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei appeal in the German federal election
Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
Chris Marsden•
Thomas Scripps•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
UAW president hails Trump, praises Stellantis move to cut jobs in Canada
On the eve of the mass "No Kings" protests against the aspiring dictator Donald Trump, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain issued another tribute to the fascist in the White House.
Shannon Jones•
Impact of Trump tariffs roils global auto production as workers bear the brunt
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
Shannon Jones•
Judge rejects government’s attempt to delay again in Will Lehman’s UAW election case
The Department of Labor had sought to use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall compliance with a court-ordered deadline.
Our reporter•
Judge gives US government deadline to comply with order in Will Lehman’s UAW elections case
The ruling sets an October 31 deadline for the government to provide its explanation for rejecting Lehman’s claims about the anti-democratic character of the UAW elections, more than a year after it was first instructed to do so.
Our reporter•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Joseph Kishore•
Jerry White•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
Our reporters•
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Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
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DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
Max Jones•
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
John Burton•
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
President Sheinbaum minimizes growing US threats to bomb Mexico
In response to continuing US threats to bomb drug cartels in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued unconvincing and toothless denials that they will ever be carried out.
Don Knowland•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
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Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
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100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Sandy English•
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
James McDonald•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
Clara Weiss•
A Different Kind of Power whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s right-wing, pro-imperialist government
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Tom Peters•
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
As millions march in “No Kings” protests against dictatorship, Democrats focus on escalating the war in Ukraine
The Democrats in fact agree with large portions of Trump’s economic policies and have systematically enabled Trump’s attack on the working class.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship, but what is lacking, and what is most critical, is a clear program and conscious strategy.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the Democratic Party
Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the Trump administration’s drive to dictatorship.
Patrick Martin•
“Peace” through genocide: Trump proclaims “historic dawn” for Middle East on the bones of the Palestinians
The only way to realise the democratic and social rights of the long-suffering masses of the Middle East and establish a genuine basis for peaceful coexistence is through the fight for the perspective of the permanent revolution in the closest alliance with the working classes in the imperialist centres of North America and Europe.
Jordan Shilton•
Jerry White•
Andrea Lobo•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Patrick Martin•
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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Letter from Bernie Monk, spokesperson for Pike River families in New Zealand, to the families of the Tennessee explosives plant disaster
Bernie Monk, whose son Michael was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 underground Pike River Coal mine disaster, expresses support for the families of the 16 workers killed in the Tennessee Accurate Energetic Systems weapons factory explosion.
Bernie Monk•
Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Richard Phillips•
Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
Tom Peters•
14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•