This webinar, chaired by David North, brings together historians David Abraham, Jacques Pauwels, and Mario Kessler to examine how German big business and state institutions enabled Hitler's rise, while drawing the urgent contemporary lessons for building an opposition to fascism.
The mass protests mark the beginning of a powerful movement against the Trump regime, but without a clear political perspective and understanding of the broader situation, this immense popular opposition risks being dissipated.
The US president cut off aid to the longtime military ally and imposed new tariffs, denouncing Colombian President Gustavo Petro as an illegitimate narco leader.
A live-fire military display overseen by Vice President JD Vance marks a new stage in the Trump administration’s preparations for domestic repression and dictatorship.
The more than 2,700 separate demonstrations, involving an estimated 7 million people, were, collectively, one of the largest political demonstrations in the history of the country.
Though separated by 8,200 miles, the October 10 explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems (AES) munitions plant and the October 14 garment factory fire in Bangladesh share the same root cause: the subordination of human life to corporate profit.
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.
Reflecting mass anger against attacks on democratic rights, rising inequality and fascism, millions of people gathered at thousands of demonstrations against dictatorship.
Attempts to reverse a decision that could lead to large-scale disorder and see lives threatened in a major British city are the latest manifestation of Labour’s support for genocide and onslaught on the democratic rights of its opponents.
The mass layoffs of TPI Composite workers are an example of the working class being made to pay the full price of the economic crisis and are part of a global assault on jobs and living conditions.
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.
Resistance to forced mobilization in Ukraine is increasingly taking on social and collective forms.
The new album confirms Swift’s indifference to virtually anything outside her bubble of fame, wealth and romance.
The right-wing government is deeply concerned about widespread opposition to the Gaza genocide as well as its assault on living standards and public services.
“There are so many similarities between Trump and Hitler and their leadership. And because the US is so powerful, I feel like Australia is following suit.”
The factory explosion gives insight not only into the industrial slaughter in Russia but also into the social relations prevailing in the country amid the war in Ukraine.
The company’s demise, preceded by the failure of auto financing company Tricolor, has brought warnings that there could be more shocks in the pipeline.
The results of the elections held in Northern Cyprus amid regional power struggles and imperialist domination plans will certainly not bring any solution to the social and political issues facing the workers of Cyprus and the region.
The Democrats in fact agree with large portions of Trump’s economic policies and have systematically enabled Trump’s attack on the working class.
Trump did not equivocate in acknowledging his extraordinary escalation of US imperialist aggression in Venezuela and beyond.
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.
The move is aimed at ensuring the loyalty of soldiers ordered into action against the American population.
In a major attack on free speech rights, the Trump administration revoked the visas of six people for their social media posts criticizing the fascist politics of Charlie Kirk after his death.
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.
The Trump administration is working to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs.
These indictments mark a significant further step in Trump’s drive to establish a presidential dictatorship. With the support of the corporate oligarchy, he is seeking to consolidate a personalist regime to take on and smash the resistance of the working class with an unprecedented and violent assault on democratic and social rights.
The Hollywood Reporter comments: “Production in Los Angeles has reached another all-time low ..."
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.
Burra’s early work emerged in the wake of revolutionary artistic ferment following the Bolshevik Revolution.
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.
Israeli troops massacred 45 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday and further restricted aid shipments, in the deadliest day since the announcement of a “peace” agreement 10 days ago.
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.
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.
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.
The Birmingham strike is a test bed for the Starmer government’s austerity agenda against the entire working class. It has been systematically isolated by Unite officials led by Sharon Graham.
Amazon announced last week that it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs at the tech giant. The move follows a previous series of massive job cuts at the company and in the technology sector as a whole.
Young adults and workers marched on the national legislature in Peru, while the British Columbia General Employees Union agreed to non-binding arbitration as a province-wide strike continues.
“Everyone in this country needs to stand up and walk out. We all need to go on strike. I’ve been thinking for the last year about all these things.”
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.
A political understanding of the significance of security is inseparable from the fight for Trotskyism. Diminishing the security question is a product of revisionism.
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.
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.
On October 7, a building undergoing renovation in central Madrid to be converted into a luxury hotel collapsed, burying and killing four of the workers.
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.
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.
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.
The Bangladesh garment factory fire, which killed 16 workers, was not an "accident," but part of an ongoing industrial slaughter.
Economists are warning that the scheme, which will do nothing to resolve the shortage of affordable housing, will lock millions of workers into unaffordable home loans.
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.
The judgement underscores the flagrant illegality of the offensive against opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has been spearheaded by Labor governments.
Reflecting mass anger against attacks on democratic rights, rising inequality and fascism, millions of people gathered at thousands of demonstrations against dictatorship.
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.
The machinery of the state killing apparatus in the US continues this week, fueled by the accelerating fascistic agenda of the Trump administration.
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.
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.
President Dissanayake’s November 7 budget speech to the parliament will include new IMF directives.
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.
The Dissanayake government’s attack on Mannar residents follows its repudiation of election promises to delay the environmentally controversial project.
While the mass mobilization advances social demands that can only be met through a struggle for workers’ power and socialism, the army’s intervention aims to defend bourgeois order and preserve the interests of imperialism and the national bourgeoisie.
It is not surprising that Omole rushes to defend Odinga’s political record. His reaction underscores the historical role Stalinism has played in propping up and legitimising bourgeois figures, portraying them as progressive actors in a supposed democratic struggle.
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.
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.
Ecuador’s unrest is part of a broader trend pitting the population against right-wing governments across Latin America.
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.
Boluarte left office with a 93 percent disapproval rating, with 0 percent approval among young people and in southern Peru, known as "deep Peru."
The rapprochement between the Lula and Trump administrations is a central component of US war preparations against Venezuela.
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.
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.”
Two of Texas' largest university systems have ordered "audits" of gender courses as Republicans carry out agitation against "LGBTQ ideology."
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
New charges have been brought by the administration against pro-Palestinian protesters.
Maan Alkaisi, whose wife was one of 115 people killed in the preventable collapse in 2011, addressed the families of the 16 people killed in the Accurate Energetic Systems munitions factory explosion in Tennessee.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.
Goodall demonstrated that the evolutionary origins of many basic human behaviors are shared with our closest biological relatives.
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.
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.
A new front has opened up with the imposition of major fees on Chinese built, owned or operated ships docking at US ports.
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.
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.
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.
Ivory Coast military coup leader ousted; Soviet Venera probes send back first images of Venus; Australian government outlaws Communist Party; Fascist Italy expands Somalia domain.
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.
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.
President Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the Smithsonian Institute, accusing the museum of promoting “anti-American ideology.”
Rolling internet and cell network shutdowns are now a feature of everyday life across the country.
In this article by Ukrainian journalists, deserters from the NATO-backed Ukrainian army speak out about their experiences.
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.”
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.
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
A Harvard-led study has provided rigorous evidence that private equity ownership of hospitals increases patient mortality in emergency and intensive care units.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
The Department of Labor had sought to use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall compliance with a court-ordered deadline.
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.
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.
The mass protests mark the beginning of a powerful movement against the Trump regime, but without a clear political perspective and understanding of the broader situation, this immense popular opposition risks being dissipated.
The more than 2,700 separate demonstrations, involving an estimated 7 million people, were, collectively, one of the largest political demonstrations in the history of the country.
The Democrats in fact agree with large portions of Trump’s economic policies and have systematically enabled Trump’s attack on the working class.
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.
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.
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.
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.
