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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday in which he vowed to defy international law, gloated about committing mass murder and terrorism, and vowed to continue the Gaza genocide in defiance of world public opinion.

Andre Damon

The indictment of former FBI director James Comey on Thursday is a significant step in the establishment of a personalist presidential dictatorship under Donald Trump. By moving to jail his opponents within the political establishment, Trump is seeking to consolidate his power to smash the democratic rights of the working class.

Barry Grey

Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement

Once again emulating the propaganda tactics of Hitler and Goebbels, the Trump administration is portraying Kirk as a political martyr, an American version of the German Nazi Horst Wessel.

WSWS Editorial Board

Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War, by Michael Vorenberg

To Vorenberg, the answer to the question of when the war ended, as a political matter, appears to lie in the passage of the Reconstruction Act in March 1867, which specified that states would remain under military rule unless and until they ratified the 14th Amendment, provided freed Black males the right to vote, and barred insurrectionists from obtaining public office.

Eric London

American actor Robert Redford (1936-2025)

His popularity was not a fluke. Redford brought charm, calm intelligence and sophistication to his best work. His was an appealing personality and presence, not simply based on his handsome face.

David Walsh

The Lesson of Spain — A Last Warning

In this article, Trotsky contends that the Spanish Revolution was wrecked by the Popular Front’s subordination of workers to bourgeois interests, and that only an independent proletarian party guided by the strategy of permanent revolution could defeat Franco.

Leon Trotsky

The class, the party, and the leadership

Trotsky’s unfinished 1940 polemic argues that the Spanish Revolution was defeated not by the “immaturity” of workers and peasants but by the counterrevolutionary role of the Stalinists’ Popular Front policies and by the absence of an independent revolutionary party capable of leading the proletariat to victory.

Leon Trotsky

2025 Summer School Lecture 4 Part 3

The Stalinist counterrevolution during the Spanish Civil War

The Stalinist counter-revolution during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) crushed one of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionary uprisings, when millions of workers and peasants fought to overthrow capitalism and fascism.

Alejandro López

Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

Utility workers protested across Pakistan against electricity privatisation, staff shortages and IMF austerity measures, while hundreds of bus drivers in two Australian states stopped work to demand decent wages.

Thyssenkrupp Steel: IG Metall union promotes sale to Indian billionaire

Through imposing billions in cuts through a so-called “social contract,” IG Metall and its works council have made the steel industry ripe for takeover. Now they are supporting the billionaire takeover bid Jindal International Steel because it promises to safeguard their well-paid posts and privileges.

Dietmar Gaisenkersting

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Bus drivers strike in Oviedo city in Spain for better conditions at work; Iranian aluminium workers call off hunger strike as national protests over pay and conditions continue; workers at Egypt’s aluminium company in Qena walk out over pay and conditions

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

Fed cuts interest rate as US economy weakens

The decision by the 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee was carried 11–1, with Stephen Miran, Trump’s chief economic adviser, rushed into a vacant position as Fed governor on Monday, recording his dissent and advocating a cut of half a percentage point.

Nick Beams

This week in history: September 22-28

US, UK-backed regime change in Yugoslavia; Second assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford; US forces recapture Seoul in Korean War; Hindu fascist RSS founded in India.

This week in history: September 15-21

Telecom strike in India; Patricia Hearst arrested; McCarran Act authorizes mass detention of leftists; Trotsky’s “Where Is Britain Going?” published in US.

US bankrolls fascist Milei regime ahead of Argentine elections

The announced Argentine peso swap and other giveaways by the US Treasury constitute a brazen act of election meddling to prop up a regime whose popular support is collapsing ahead of October’s legislative elections.

Andrea Lobo
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.

Treason trial of South Sudan’s Vice President threatens to reignite civil war

The SPLM-IO, formed after the December 2013 massacres of Nuer civilians in Juba, is the armed and political movement representing Machar’s core power base. President Salva Kiir has relied heavily on fighters from his Dinka base, the country’s largest ethnic group. These forces formed the backbone of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and, after independence, the national army.

Kipchumba Ochieng

Abiy opens Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam amid escalating tensions in Horn of Africa

The dam, which has the potential to transform the lives of millions of people in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa and East Africa, is mired in toxic geopolitics. Denouncing the dam as an “existential” threat, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he would use “all available means to defend Egypt’s interests”.

Jean Shaoul

Syria threatened with carve-up as redivision of Middle East draws closer

The antagonistic interests of the imperialist powers and the regional powers of Israel, Turkey and the Gulf states that have backed Sharaa in their bid to control Syria has the potential to ignite further waves of bloody sectarian violence and precipitate the fragmentation of the country that itself could ignite a region-wide conflagration.

Jean Shaoul
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.

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
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.

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.

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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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 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
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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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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

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
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.

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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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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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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

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
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.

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.

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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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
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.

Netanyahu defends terrorism, mass murder, and genocide at the United Nations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday in which he vowed to defy international law, gloated about committing mass murder and terrorism, and vowed to continue the Gaza genocide in defiance of world public opinion.

Andre Damon
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR

Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster

Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.

Tom Peters