Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship in the United States serves the interests of the financial oligarchy, and that the target of this dictatorship are the workers whose labor creates the oligarchy’s wealth.
In a massive dragnet operation, hundreds of workers were taken in an immigration raid at the sprawling Hyundai Motor battery plant in Georgia.
While presenting their campus alert bill as “protection,” California Democrats quietly integrate schools into Trump’s mass deportation framework, as they deepen CHP policing powers and enable an escalating authoritarian offensive against workers and youth.
Video footage and reports by major news outlets showed the collapse on Friday of the Mushtaha Tower, among the tallest buildings in Gaza City, from three air strikes by Israel Defense Forces, part of the preparation for the final occupation of the largest city in the Gaza Strip.
This lecture documents the beginning war on the Trotskyist movement in the USSR in 1928-1932.
In this text from 1929, Christian Rakovsky, one of Trotsky's closest friends and allies, describes in detail how the GPU exploited and aggravated this political crisis through its ruthless methods of repression and manipulation.
While the US was not named, Chinese President Xi Jinping used the occasion to respond to the Trump administration’s unmistakable, accelerating build-up to war with China.
Tube and DLR workers have suffered a decade of declining wages and are fighting the consequences of austerity cuts enforced by Transport for London on behalf of successive Conservative and Labour governments.
Behind this escalating government crisis lay the demands of Britain’s ruling elite that Labour massively escalate its offensive against the working class to tackle rising public debts and create the necessary conditions for imperialism to pursue an agenda of trade and military war.
Whether current Labour Party Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre or Conservative leader Erna Solberg emerges as the next head of government, nothing fundamental will change in the ruling class’ policies of war and offloading the costs onto workers.
The new munitions factory for Rheinmetall, Germany's largest arms manufacturer, is located on the site where its wartime predecessor murdered hundreds of forced labourers producing weapons for the Third Reich.
The European imperialists want to carry through a comprehensive onslaught on the working class to raise the financial resources needed for them to escalate the war with Russia and ruthlessly pursue their own global interests without having to rely on the US.
While healthcare workers and journalists provided valuable empirical reports on the ongoing genocide, the political perspective advanced by organizers is a dead-end.
In its submission to the court, the administration claimed, following the line of the president’s rantings on social media, that disallowing the tariffs could thrust the US “to the brink of economic catastrophe.”
This interview was conducted on August 16 with WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North, as part of an event marking 85 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky, on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey.
The Trump administration’s assault on vaccines and public health infrastructure represents nothing less than a plot to kill Americans through the deliberate spread of disease.
The World Socialist Web Site strongly condemns the US missile strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela. Despite the limited verifiable information currently available, it can be stated clearly that this was a criminal act of mass murder and imperialist aggression.
In the three weeks since Trump deployed the National Guard to occupy Washington D.C., the Democratic Socialists of America and its publications have said virtually nothing.
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.
This is the third part of the lecture “Internationalist Socialism vs. Nationalist Reformism” delivered by Clara Weiss, Chris Marsden and Peter Symonds to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
In Part 3 of "The Third International After Lenin," Trotsky argues that the failure of the 1925-27 Chinese revolution stemmed from abandoning the strategy of permanent revolution and incorrectly subordinating the Chinese Communist Party to the bourgeois Kuomintang.
This is the second part of the lecture “Internationalist Socialism vs. Nationalist Reformism” delivered by Clara Weiss, Chris Marsden and Peter Symonds to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Around 36,000 healthcare workers struck for two days in opposition to the government’s plan to cut wages amid a staffing crisis in hospitals.
“There was major pressure on workers from day one at the delivery office. Senior managers and CWU officials descended on the workplace to tell us there was no Plan B.”
The decision reflects concerns within the region’s business community and political establishment over the impact of the transit system’s collapse.
Workers at GE Aerospace plants in the Cincinnati area explained the issues in their week-long strike.
Organizers of the anti-genocide rally described it as “possibly the largest protest ever seen at a major film event.”
Shamefully, Polanski’s important film has been banned from US movie theaters for six years, the product of the pressure of a sordid coalition of far-right forces and pseudo-left feminists.
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Stamp identified himself as part of “the first wave of the educated, real, working class.”
As Trump sets up a billionaire’s dictatorship in America and the RN courts French business, workers voting for the far right must be warned: they are being played for fools.
Mélenchon’s call to resolve the crisis simply by removing President Macron reflect his opposition to the necessary revolutionary, socialist measures that the working class must take.
“The DGB and its constituent unions certainly see the necessity in Germany and Europe to strengthen shared defence capabilities,” reads the DGB’s call for its supposed “Anti-War Day” rallies.
The stepping up of the persecution of leading Defend Our Juries personnel exposes the fraudulent assurances from the Starmer government that, in proscribing Palestine Action, they would not target protest in support of the Palestinians.
The death of Daniel Silva Saraiva should have been prevented as workers had already reported the malfunctioning of the machine that killed him.
Decades of bipartisan deregulation and union collaboration have created a social catastrophe. The defense of workers’ lives requires rank-and-file committees, not token reforms designed to protect the corporations.
The surge in fatal workplace accidents in Italy exposes the alliance between the state, corporations and union bureaucracy, highlighting the urgent need for rank-and-file committees and an international struggle against capitalist exploitation.
Two of the workers were killed after they heroically sought to save their co-worker, and all three died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
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.
Workers contacted by the WSWS stressed the fact that the continuing toll of workplace and industrial deaths is the consequence of the subordination of all concerns over safety to the drive for profit.
The World Socialist Web Site continues to publish statements of support for the IWA-RFC investigation into the death of Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams.
Workers in Canada, Australia and Turkey gave statements in support of the investigation into the death of Stellantis Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams Sr. last April.
While Blair’s record shows that no criminal enterprise is too much for Britain’s former prime minister, the present Labour prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is his ardent admirer, disciple and fellow war criminal.
The half-hour film is a harrowing chronicle of the human cost inflicted on the civilian population, as well as medical professionals, in Gaza.
On Sunday, the Washington Post published a 38-page plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, drawn up with the collusion of the Boston Consulting Group and the staff of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and discussed at the White House.
Sanctions would further devastate Iran’s economy which is plagued by hyperinflation, a plunging currency and economic recession, exacerbated by the recent US/Israeli bombardment.
Socialist Alternative suppressed any discussion at the meetings, above all the IYSSE’s call for a political struggle against the Labor government and a fight to mobilise the working class independently to halt the Gaza genocide.
“I think we need to hit them where their heart lies most, and that’s their wallet. We need targeted industrial actions, interrupting supply chains, and workers’ strikes.”
The massive demonstration was a further impressive example of the deep gulf that separates the working class and young people from the state authorities, establishment politicians and the media.
On Sunday, over 50 ships carrying humanitarian aid and activists from 44 countries are set to depart from Barcelona, Genoa, Sicily, Greece, and other Mediterranean ports.
Labor’s bill, personally championed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is the most serious attack on the Freedom of Information laws for decades.
Labor’s promotion of anti-immigrant xenophobia and its imposition of a major social crisis have created the political conditions for far-right tendencies to make an appeal to discontent.
Governments, Labor and Liberal-National alike, have responded to disturbing allegations of sexual abuse in childcare centres by refusing to address the underlying issue of profit-driven understaffing.
The parliamentary inquiry is a thinly disguised exercise in covering over the profit motive behind the wrecking operation and promoting illusions that the state Labor government can be persuaded to change its plans.
As Trump prepares to extend his domestic military crackdown to the third-largest US city, congressional Democrats have been largely silent about the threat of a presidential dictatorship.
Trump's police-state measures will not stop with immigrants, but will be extended to suppress all forms of working class opposition to the capitalist system.
In the three weeks since Trump deployed the National Guard to occupy Washington D.C., the Democratic Socialists of America and its publications have said virtually nothing.
Taking measure of complicit Democrats and the suppressed turnout of the rallies, on Tuesday Trump made clear the decision to deploy soldiers to Chicago had already been made.
The severity of the housing crisis in New York stands in sharp contrast to the milquetoast proposals of the Democratic Socialists of America candidate for mayor.
The Trump administration has instructed all US embassies and consulates to halt visa approvals for all Palestinians regardless of the reason for travel, such as medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends and family or business.
The case of sacked Fed governor Lisa Cook, which is likely to go to the Supreme Court, has at its heart the issue of whether the central bank can be subjected to direct political control.
On September 1, dozens of laws furthering the far-right agenda of Trump and his allies in Texas went into effect. Only days prior, Trump's "One Big Beautiful Map" was also approved.
Philadelphia teachers vote to strike; Egypt, Israel agreement over Sinai; Fighting rages around Pusan, South Korea; Britain and Turkey vie for control of Mosul
July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in the Soviet Union.
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 scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
The inability of the moribund capitalist system to effectively address climate change and all its myriad devastating consequences poses an existential crisis for humanity.
The scientific record of the impact of capitalist industrial activity on Earth’s warming climate is clear and well established.
In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that countries are legally obliged to prevent “significant harm to the climate system.”
The issue of joining “Golden Dome” is being raised as part of Ottawa's efforts to reach a new economic and security arrangement with the would-be dictator Trump, whose “America First” trade policies and threats to annex Canada have shaken the neighbours’ more-than-eight-decade-long alliance.
Behind the numbers, a stark portrait emerges: a society in the throes of a deepening social crisis. Skyrocketing home prices and rents, especially in major urban centers, continue to push housing out of reach for many Canadians, while the latest reports note that over two million people rely on food banks.
SEPTA’s $213 million budget shortfall triggers major service cuts and fare hikes, disrupting Philadelphia commuters and students amid political funding deadlock.
Canada’s Liberal government—promoted by the social democratic NDP and trade unions as a “progressive” alternative to the Conservatives—is eviscerating public services and worker rights to pay for rearmament and war.
The latest data indicates a significant deterioration in the physical and mental wellbeing of students over the past eight years.
The government, which is fully committed to the IMF program, has only been able to prepare its attack on this key section of the working class because of repeated betrayals by the trade unions.
Speakers placed the struggle of postal workers within the broader crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism and the need for workers to form independent action committees to fight the government’s IMF-dictated measures.
The arrest of Wickremesinghe took place amid an intensifying political crisis confronting the JVP/NPP government, fuelled by emerging working-class struggles.
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
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.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
The acceptance of the case by the court is an important step in the campaign to demand the release of Bogdan.
What has been described as Brazil's “trial of the century” is unfolding in the face of Washington’s blatant intervention against the country’s political institutions.
The potential for a military operation against Venezuela long demanded by Trump and his circle of fascist advisers cannot be ruled out.
The deployment of a US amphibious intervention force with 2,200 Marines aboard shatters Washington’s flimsy claims that it was engaged in counter-narcotics activity.
The return to power of the far right in Bolivia proves once again that bourgeois nationalism only serves to disarm the working class.
The unprecedented statewide push to end vaccine mandates for school children threatens decades of progress in public health, dismantling health measures that have saved countless lives.
Weaponizing disinformation, Kennedy is eliminating access to mRNA vaccines and empowering a network of anti-vaccine activists to dictate science and public health policy.
Dr. Peter Daszak and colleagues recently published a study on coronaviruses on pig farms in China and Southeast Asia and the threat posed by potential zoonotic spillover events into dense human populations.
The sweeping new COVID vaccine restrictions threaten access to lifesaving shots as infections surge nationwide.
While the attendance of many of the 20 leaders at the summit was unremarkable, the presence of the Indian prime minister—his first visit to China in seven years—triggered alarm bells in Washington.
Two weeks after the US-Russia summit in Alaska, talk of a diplomatic settlement is collapsing as the warring governments head eyes closed towards a direct Russia-Europe war.
The logic of the war is leading directly toward a military clash between Russia and Europe threatening the lives of millions and the destruction of the entire continent. Far from backing down in the wake of Russia’s attacks, European governments seized on them to issue new threats and accelerate the war drive.
With the visit of German Finance Minister, Social Democrat leader, and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil to Kiev earlier this week, the German government has finally moved to the forefront of the imperialist war offensive in Eastern Europe.
The NPC has been designed to channel the insurgent movement of workers and youth into parliamentary politics, whether as a new independent electoral slate for 2027 elections or as a temporary vehicle for discredited bourgeois politicians looking for a new home.
Little has changed since Dan Morgan wrote his groundbreaking book Merchants of Grain in 1979 describing the seven secretive families and far-flung companies that control the world’s food supplies.
The operation is an extension of Operation Vala Umgodi that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners died after police surrounded an abandoned mine, cutting off food supplies and forcing them to the surface.
The protests erupted in response to austerity measures imposed by the long-ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) government at the behest of the International Monetary Fund.
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 price of gold has nearly doubled since the start of 2023, much of it a result of increased buying by central banks.
The court noted that the word “tariff” did not appear in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act under which Trump has imposed the measures.
Former Fed chief Janet Yellen has warned of the implications for US monetary policy both at home and abroad of Trump’s actions.
Trump’s moves have been accompanied by warnings from financial circles that loss of Fed independence will have major consequences for the US financial stability and the position of the dollar.
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.
Workers in the Caucasus and around the world need to be alert: Under the guise of an “economic corridor”, preparations are being made for bloody wars that will devastate the region’s peoples as US imperialism pushes forward its predatory plans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Columbia University’s administration, having capitulated in the face of Trump’s assault on academic freedom, cannot tolerate any semblance of workers organization on campus.
The attack on Chengxuan Han and Yunqing Jian is intimately linked to the Trump administration’s broader war on students, immigrants and the working class.
These attacks serve the aim of paving the way for a presidential dictatorship, trampling academic freedom and student activism.
If these measures are not defeated, universities will become institutions in which freedom of speech and the right to political association and protest are obliterated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
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.
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.
Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship in the United States serves the interests of the financial oligarchy, and that the target of this dictatorship are the workers whose labor creates the oligarchy’s wealth.
The Trump administration’s assault on vaccines and public health infrastructure represents nothing less than a plot to kill Americans through the deliberate spread of disease.
The World Socialist Web Site strongly condemns the US missile strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela. Despite the limited verifiable information currently available, it can be stated clearly that this was a criminal act of mass murder and imperialist aggression.
In the three weeks since Trump deployed the National Guard to occupy Washington D.C., the Democratic Socialists of America and its publications have said virtually nothing.
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.
