In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.
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Trump pushes drive toward dictatorship, as Democrats block opposition
Democratic congressional leaders have claimed falsely that they are “powerless” to fight Trump and in “shock” over the speed of his actions.
Backed by dozens of ultra-right anti-vaccine zealots in the audience, Kennedy engaged in over three hours of lies, half-truths, and disinformation in his effort to become the top general in Trump’s war on public health.
Evan Blake•
Across the US, protests by students, educators and workers are mounting against Trump’s scapegoating of immigrants, mass deportations, arbitrary arrests, brutal assaults on migrants and violations of longstanding democratic rights.
Nancy Hanover•
Prior to signing the fascistic Laken Riley Act into law, Trump ordered the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to begin preparations for housing 30,000 human beings at the US Navy base.
Jacob Crosse•
The video has been viewed tens of millions of times on other X-Twitter after she posted it to her nearly 500 million followers on her Instagram account.
Nick Barrickman•
Last week, DeepSeek, a startup company based in Hongzhou China, released its newest artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek R1. Within days, the chatbot became the most-downloaded app in Apple’s app store.
Bill Shaw•
Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president has just set out with our own dynamism… Every country has to do it.”
Robert Stevens•
Far-right minister David Seymour proposed selling state houses and privatising health and education, and expressed alarm at growing support for socialism among young people.
Tom Peters•
On Wednesday, with the support of the Alternative for Germany, the Christian Democrats passed a motion on migration policy through the Bundestag which abrogates fundamental constitutional principles and European law.
Peter Schwarz•
The Nazis have been emboldened by the promotion of the far-right internationally, epitomised by the ascension to power of the fascistic Trump regime in the US.
Oscar Grenfell•
The conflict comes amid rising global tensions after Donald Trump’s election, especially between Washington and Beijing, over control of strategic minerals like those present in the Congo.
Alejandro López•
These attacks are the latest in a series of aerial bombardments by the Nigerian government as part of a protracted campaign against armed groups and insurgents in the north of the country, much of which is effectively outside of federal government control.
Alice Summers•
2025 New Year Statement
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.
Trump denounces Fed decision not to cut interest rate
Fed chair Powell told his press conference that policymakers “do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance.”
Nick Beams•
Trump’s spending freeze: A direct attack on the working class and the US Constitution
Trump’s attempt to block previously approved Congressional funding not only threatens social programs that benefit millions, but is blatantly unconstitutional.
Jacob Crosse•
Canada’s social-democrats advocate “national unity” to wage tariff war on US
The impending Canada-US trade war is a reactionary conflict between rival imperialist powers that will be waged at the expense of workers on both sides of the border.
E.P. Milligan, Keith Jones•
Trump unleashes large-scale anti-immigrant operation at California-Mexico border
Approximately 1,500 active-duty troops, including 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton, have been deployed to assist in securing the border.
Marc Wells, Rafael Azul•
Andre Damon•
Tom Carter•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Kevin Reed•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
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.
Trump’s spending freeze: A direct attack on the working class and the US Constitution
Trump’s attempt to block previously approved Congressional funding not only threatens social programs that benefit millions, but is blatantly unconstitutional.
Jacob Crosse•
Gazans allowed to return to the devastated north
Pictures bear comparison only with the scenes of devastation in the aftermath of the Second World War. According to the United Nations, 92 percent of dwellings are either destroyed or severely or partially damaged.
Thomas Scripps•
Trump adopts ethnic cleansing as US policy in Gaza
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump called for Israel to “clean” Gaza of its Arab inhabitants, in an open call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Andre Damon•
80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz: Imperialist barbarism returns
Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, genocide, the persecution of millions of people because of their origin, war and even the possible use of nuclear weapons are once again considered “normal.”
Peter Schwarz•
Andre Damon•
Evan Blake•
Patrick Martin•
Benjamin Mateus•
Patrick Martin, David North•
Author Neil Gaiman faces allegations of sexual assault and abuse
Although no charges have been filed against the popular author, Norton will no longer publish his work, and at least one bookstore will no longer carry his books.
Erik Schreiber•
The Last Showgirl and why “the real rebel move is staying soft”
Gia Coppola’s depiction of aging entertainers in “America’s adult playground” is a turn to serious subject matter, and the results are generally impressive.
Ed Hightower•
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth: TV series dramatises Lockerbie relatives’ campaign for justice
A powerful new TV series recounts Lockerbie relative and campaigner Jim Swire’s dedicated struggle for the truth behind his daughter’s 1988 murder in the downing of PA103.
Steve James•
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths: Life as a series of abrasive encounters
Leigh has stood out importantly as someone attempting to make complicated and sensitive—and socially engaged films, which are also accessible to broad audiences
Joanne Laurier•
Luke Galvin•
David Walsh•
Hong Jian•
David Walsh•
Bernd Reinhardt•
Providence healthcare strike in danger as Oregon governor intervenes to re-start talks
The intervention by the governor is the “kiss of death” for the striking healthcare worker, aimed at shutting down the strike with a sellout contract before it expands.
Michael Connelly, Bryan Dyne•
Warning strikes at Berlin’s local transit operator BVG
At all costs, the trade unions, politicians and big business want to avoid industrial action at BVG, as across other sectors and companies, in the midst of the current federal election campaign.
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Amazon’s expansion in Knoxville threatens jobs and livelihoods of rural carriers
The e-commerce giant has extended its reach into smaller markets and rural areas, a move that has significant economic implications for rural carriers and raises serious questions about the future of the United States Postal Service.
Jane Wise•
Canada Post seeks to block constitutional challenge to strike ban, receives $1 billion government bailout
Having obtained a government strike ban, Canada Post now has the audacity to insist that the union should not even have the right to legally challenge it.
Niles Niemuth•
Jerry White•
Our reporters•
Shannon Jones•
Bryan Dyne•
Turkish Erdoğan government crackdown on political opposition and journalists escalates
The repression of political opposition and journalists in Turkey is increasing in the context of the deepening social offensive of the bourgeoisie against the working class.
Barış Demir, Hasan Yıldırım•
Hotel fire in Turkey: A preventable massacre
The disaster is an indictment of the entire ruling elite, including capitalist corporations and officials, who failed to take even the most basic safety precautions against fire and similar hazards for reasons of cost.
Hakan Özal•
As Ankara and Washington disagree over the future of Syrian Kurds, Israel warns of war with Turkey
The appointment of trustees and other attacks on democratic rights by the government show that the renewed negotiations between Ankara and the PKK, which Ankara has been trying to suppress for 40 years, have nothing to do with the claim of “peace and democracy”.
Barış Demir•
European imperialists demand Russian withdrawal from Syria as great-power conflicts simmer following Assad’s downfall
The call, combined with various promises of economic and constitutional support to the Islamist regime led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former al-Qaida affiliate, demonstrates how the imperialist powers intend to use Syria’s regime change to step up their war on Russia and prepare an all-out conflict with Iran.
Jordan Shilton•
Barış Demir•
Barış Demir•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Hakan Özal•
Jean Shaoul•
4 additional students arrested at Case Western Reserve University for protesting genocide in Gaza
A total of 8 Case Western students have now been arrested and charged with felonies stemming from a November 8 protest against genocide in Gaza. The arrests are part of a broad attack on the right to protest and a warning of further attacks.
Logan Buchko•
Swiss government releases and deports Palestinian American journalist Ali Abunimah to Turkey
Ali Abunimah, executive director of Chicago-based Electronic Intifada, was released by Swiss authorities on Monday and put on a plane bound for Istanbul after being held in detention for three days in Zürich.
Kevin Reed•
Australian right-wing launches witch-hunt against anti-Zionist Jewish leader
Sarah Schwartz has been venomously targeted, for exposing bogus claims of far-right and conservative forces to be opposing antisemitism, when they are simply supporting Israeli war crimes.
Oscar Grenfell•
Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah arrested and detained in Switzerland
The Swiss government arrested and detained Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah, executive director of the Electronic Intifada, on Saturday based on lies and false claims that he is an “Islamist Jew-hater.”
Kevin Reed•
Our reporters•
Marianne Arens•
Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee•
Our reporters•
Landon Gourov•
Canada’s social-democrats advocate “national unity” to wage tariff war on US
The impending Canada-US trade war is a reactionary conflict between rival imperialist powers that will be waged at the expense of workers on both sides of the border.
E.P. Milligan, Keith Jones•
Fascist kills one, injures two, before turning gun on self, in Nashville, Tennessee high school shooting
On his social media accounts and in a purported manifesto, the fascist shooter repeated the same anti-immigrant “Great Replacement Theory” politics promoted by the Republican Party, and large sections of the financial oligarchy.
Chase Lawrence•
Homeless man crushed to death as Atlanta city authorities attempted to clear encampment
On Thursday, January 16, 49-year-old Cornelius Taylor was killed in Atlanta, Georgia, when the tent he was sleeping in was razed by a front loader ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.
Kranti Kumara•
Quebec’s ruling elite responds to Trump’s threats with trepidation and an orgy of nationalism
Quebec’s ruling elite is seeking to tighten its political and ideological grip on the working class with the fraudulent argument that working people should stand with big business in defending “Quebec’s interests.”
Hugo Maltais•
Kevin Reed•
Chase Lawrence•
E.P. Milligan•
A.S. Cason, Kristina Betinis•
Keith Jones•
Impoverished Sydney boarding house residents face imminent eviction
“The government is the cause of the housing shortage. I’ve worked all my life as a truck driver. The government does nothing for the worker.”
Our reporters•
Victimisation of Alton estate workers in Sri Lanka continues
In March 2021, 38 Alton plantation workers were sacked and 22 of them arrested on trumped up charges. Four years later the Labor Tribunal has refused to reinstate the workers and the 22 are still being dragged through the courts.
M. Thevarajah, W.A. Sunil•
Midterm Philippine elections destabilized by advent of Trump administration
The election will be referendum between pro-US and pro-China camps of the elite, and more than any other factor will be shaped by speculation over relations with Trump’s America.
John Malvar•
Australia: Protest resignation of psychiatrists highlights crisis of public mental health sector
Mental health services are disastrously under-funded and under-resourced after decades of government cuts.
Our reporters•
John Braddock•
Mike Head•
Shih-Yu Chou•
Eric Ludlow•
Margaret Rees, Richard Phillips•
IYSSE/SEP (Sri Lanka) campaigns against meeting ban at Peradeniya University
The campaign at the Galaha junction, the main entrance to university premises, attracted considerable attention from students and workers, who opposed the ban and expressed their hostility to the government’s IMF austerity agenda.
Our reporters•
Sri Lanka: School development officers demand job permanency
School development officers protested on Monday in front of the Colombo Fort railway station, demanding integration into the state teachers’ service.
Our reporters•
Bans at Sri Lanka university: A far-reaching attack on students’ democratic rights
The prohibition of an IYSSE lecture at Peradeniya University was followed by a blanket ban on all student meetings on or off campus, which sets a dangerous precedent for all universities.
Sakuna Jayawardena and Kapila Fernando•
Sri Lankan government escalates witch-hunt against school development officers
As the JVP/NPP government steps up its repression of school development officers, the teachers' and principals' trade unions are either openly endorsing police actions or turning a blind eye.
Kapila Fernando•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Our correspondents•
Naveen Dewage•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
Our correspondents•
The role of budget cuts and private equity firms in the Los Angeles wildfires
The crisis facing the LA Fire Department is a microcosm of the broader contradictions of capitalism. It highlights the urgent need for a socialist program that prioritizes public welfare over private profit.
Marc Wells•
Los Angeles fire survivors erupt in anger over slow and inadequate government response
A town hall meeting in Santa Monica escalated into angry exchanges between survivors of the Pacific Palisades fire and an EPA official about the 18-month timeline for clearing debris left by the devastating fire.
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Trump’s visit to Los Angeles foreshadows massive attacks on social programs, democratic rights
Trump’s presence in North Carolina and California signals his administration’s push towards the privatization of disaster response, further erosion of environmental programs and the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of voting people.
Marc Wells•
Trump says aid to Los Angeles fire victims will have political strings attached
In an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, President Donald Trump made it clear that release of emergency assistance to victims of the disastrous Los Angeles wildfires will be contingent on political conditions imposed by the White House on California.
Kevin Reed•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells, Kimie Saito, David Rye•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party•
Kimie Saito, David Rye, Marc Wells•
Axel Rudakubana’s Southport murders: Who bears responsibility?
Starmer’s inquiry will not address the problems in the National Health Service, social services and schools which prevented them from intervening effectively to shift Rudakubana from the path he was on. Nor will it pose the question: what are the psychological pressures at work in today’s society which drove him down that path in the first place?
Tania Kent•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
After the Aschaffenburg attack, all of Germany’s establishment parties on far-right course
With their anti-migrant tirades, the establishment parties are pursuing two goals: two goals: dividing the working class and building a police state.
Peter Schwarz•
Mass protests in Greece and globally demand end to Tempi rail crash cover-up
The demonstrations recalled the mass protests of the working class which filled up city centres during the movement against austerity in Greece from 2010.
Robert Stevens•
Evgeny Kostrov •
Robert Stevens•
Marianne Arens, Peter Schwarz•
Richard Tyler•
Darren Paxton•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei appeal in the German federal election
Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson addresses SEP (UK) Seventh National Congress on the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
“The potential in the situation must be acted upon consciously by the cadre, in a deeper turn into the working class”
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
Tony Robson•
“Gerry Healy fought against all odds for the continuity of the Fourth International”
This contribution was delivered by veteran Trotskyist Barbara Slaughter to the Socialist Equality Party (UK)'s Seventh National Congress
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
Chris Marsden•
Thomas Scripps•
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Our reporters•
DeepSeek shock wave hits Wall Street
Shares in Nvidia, the leading US AI firm, dropped by 17 percent yesterday, the biggest one-day loss to the market capitalisation of a company in history, after the announcement by Chinese firm DeepSeek that it had developed a cheaper way of producing AI technology
Nick Beams•
Bond markets reveal growing concern over government debt
There is concern over how much longer governments can continue to finance the mountain of debt they have accumulated, which the IMF estimates to be $100 trillion globally.
Nick Beams•
China’s economic malaise deepens as economic warfare intensifies
The continuing fall in bond market yields reflects the fear of long-term deflation.
Nick Beams•
Stock market bubble gets even bigger
The US market has risen by more than 40 percent in the past two years on the basis of speculative hype and expectations over high-tech and AI.
Nick Beams•
Jerry White•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
The CIA joins the anti-China bandwagon on COVID origins, despite lack of any evidence
On Saturday, new CIA Director John Ratcliffe made public the CIA’s reassessment that shifts from an inconclusive position to now believing the lab-leak was most likely despite a low level of confidence.
Benjamin Mateus•
US quits the World Health Organization and sabotages international public health
The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.
Benjamin Mateus•
COVID surge underway in Bolivia and Peru
The new surge, in countries with the world’s highest death rates from COVID-19, shows the continuing threat posed by the deadly virus.
Cesar Uco•
Surge of respiratory viruses infecting millions worldwide in first weeks of 2025
The northern hemisphere is facing not only a surge of COVID infections, but flu, RSV, and norovirus cases are skyrocketing.
Benjamin Mateus•
Jane Wise•
Bill Shaw•
Bill Shaw•
Gary Alvernia•
Bill Shaw•
Trump launches economic war after Colombian government denies entry to deportation flights
With the US far and away the main recipient of Colombian exports, the measures threaten to devastate South America’s third largest economy.
Andrea Lobo•
Argentina’s president defends fascism, expands war on the working class
In a vulgarity-laden statement posted on X, Argentine President Javier Milei defended billionaire Elon Musk’s Nazi salute and threatened to hunt down and exterminate left-wingers.
Rafael Azul•
In run-up to Trump’s inauguration, US ruling circles discuss plans for Venezuela intervention
The US ruling class is approaching a consensus on the use of further economic devastation and potentially military force to oust Maduro and secure control over the world’s largest oil reserves.
Andrea Lobo•
Financial markets and corporate media call for “Milei model” in Brazil
The pressure on the Lula government to deepen its austerity measures will intensify this year amid an escalation of multiple global crises and Trump’s return to the US presidency.
Guilherme Ferreira•
Andrea Lobo•
Tomas Castanheira•
Rafael Azul•
Cesar Uco•
Andrea Lobo•
Maryland’s Democratic governor proposes austerity budget for next fiscal year
Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, recently released his budget plan for the next fiscal year, which includes $2 billion in cuts for climate spending and other vital social programs.
Saadiq Shah, Nick Barrickman•
New York Mayor Eric Adams prostrates himself before Trump
Adams canceled commitments to take part in Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday celebrations in New York City to rush down to Washington to attend Trump’s inauguration.
Philip Guelpa, Sandy English•
Obama and Trump laugh as Los Angeles burns
Obama's friendly exchange with Trump sent a signal that dominant sections of the state are prepared to accept as president a man who, just months earlier, they had correctly identified as a fascist and would-be dictator.
Andre Damon•
Senate Democrats overwhelmingly vote with Republicans to advance fascistic anti-immigrant bill
Providing a “smooth transition” for incoming President Donald Trump, Democrats joined with Republicans to advance the “Laken Riley Act,” which will greatly empower anti-immigrant attorneys general and racist police to imprison and deport immigrants, including children.
Jacob Crosse•
Fred Mazelis•
Bill Shaw•
Matthew Brennan•
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
This week in history, January 27-February 2
Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; dogsleds deliver diphtheria antitoxins in Alaska.
On Biden’s posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey, the “patron saint” of black separatism
The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity politics to the powers that be.
Lawrence Porter •
The Netherlands 80 years on: Unique archive reveals names of nearly half a million Nazi collaborators
The CABR contains approximately 30 million pages of documents that provide valuable insights into the victims of the Holocaust, resistance fighters against Nazi occupation, and efforts by the Dutch working class to protect Jewish residents from deportation.
Parwini Zora, Daniel Woreck•
Trump’s threats against Chinese immigrants and the history of Chinese Exclusion in the US
As the incoming Trump administration threatens Chinese immigrants with deportation, it is urgent to draw the lessons from the ugly history of Chinese Exclusion in the 19th century. A recent article and podcast by NPR on the Chinese Exclusion era significantly distorts that history.
Paul Montgomery•
Alejandro López•
Jerry White•
Fred Mazelis•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Patrick Martin•
Gazans allowed to return to the devastated north
Pictures bear comparison only with the scenes of devastation in the aftermath of the Second World War. According to the United Nations, 92 percent of dwellings are either destroyed or severely or partially damaged.
Thomas Scripps•
Israel tightens its grip on Jenin and the wider West Bank
Repeating the tactics used in its criminal war of genocide in Gaza, Israeli forces have surrounded the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital. Residents in several Jenin neighbourhoods were ordered to leave their homes, and the city, by loudspeaker.
Thomas Scripps•
Another set of Israeli lies collapses: Prosecutor admits no evidence of rape in October 7 attack
Israel’s entire narrative surrounding the events of October 7 has been shown to be a pack of lies.
Jean Shaoul•
Israeli forces have killed 86 people in Gaza since Biden announced a ceasefire
Despite the announcement Wednesday that Israel had agreed to implement a ceasefire in the genocide, the Israeli military is continuing its rampage throughout Gaza.
Andre Damon•
Erik Schreiber•
Andre Damon•
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul•
Kevin Reed•
Trudeau government refuses to release the names of 900 Nazi war criminals, for fear it would damage NATO-Ukraine war on Russia
In defiance of the demands of historians, Holocaust survivors and public opinion, Canada’s Liberal government is suppressing an almost four-decade-old secret report that identified some 900 Nazi war criminals who had lived, or were then living, in Canada.
James Clayton•
NATO announces further militarisation of Baltic Sea
The move marks yet another step in the systematic military encircling of Russia by the US-led military alliance, which continues to back the far-right Ukrainian regime in a war aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow and subjugating its territory to semi-colonial status.
Jordan Shilton•
UK Prime Minister Starmer signs “100-year partnership treaty” with Ukraine ahead of Trump inauguration
Both this visit and his subsequent trip to Poland were held very much under the shadow of the incoming Trump administration, with Britain and the NATO powers unsure how fully Trump will commit to the Ukraine war and how much more he will demand the European powers contribute.
Robert Stevens•
Does Ukraine face a “Syrian scenario?”
This report on the disastrous state of the Ukrainian military was submitted to the WSWS by underground journalists from the assembly.org.ua website.
Ukrainian journalists•
Our reporters•
Johannes Stern•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Andre Damon•
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.
Ghanaian army kills nine “illegal” miners at AngloGold Ashanti’s goldmine
The military’s murderous tactics in defence of the mining giant’s profits caused outrage, with people taking to the streets of Obuasi town in protest and setting fire to several buses.
Jean Shaoul•
Attempted assassination of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya, as abductions, repression mount
The attacks on the CPM, abductions and transnational renditions by the Kenyan government are preparations for even more extensive attacks on the democratic rights of the population as a whole.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Over 100 miners starved to death by the ANC in South Africa, hundreds still in danger
This is a revolting crime of South African capitalism. Comparisons are already being drawn in the country to the Marikana Massacre of 2012, where police under the command of the ANC killed 36 striking workers at the Lonmin platinum mine.
Thomas Scripps•
140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part One
The conference’s proceedings, discussion and conclusions made clear that the continent’s rich resources and human labour were to be exploited for profits. Its mountains, lakes, rivers, canals and coastlines were now geostrategic enclaves in the competition for world hegemony.
Alejandro López•
Alice Summers•
Alejandro López•
Alejandro López•
Kumaran Ira•
David Brown•
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.
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
What makes human culture unique from culture of other animals?
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Philip Guelpa•
Impoverished countries ask world court to rule on climate change disaster
As the hearings closed for the largest ICJ case in history, the major capitalist powers displayed their indifference to the impact of climate change on impoverished countries.
Mark Wilson•
Fluoridation of community water and the politics of disinformation
Robert F Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has promised to end water fluoridation, a program which has been called one of the 10 greatest achievements in public health.
Benjamin Mateus•
COP29, climate change and the normalization of mass death
The latest climate summit embraced the same policy that has been adopted since such climate talks began in 1995: the subordination of Earth’s environment and the lives of those impacted to the corporate and economic demands of the United States and the other major capitalist powers.
Bryan Dyne•
Bryan Dyne•
Mark Wilson•
Mark Wilson•
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus•
Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
This emergency resolution was passed unanimously by the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held November 29 – December 2, 2024.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
“We will redouble our efforts to build a mass campaign for Bogdan’s release”
We are publishing the speech delivered by Tom Scripps introducing the resolution “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk” passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).
Thomas Scripps•
Russian Militant group supports campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk
More than six months have passed since Bogdan's arrest. During this time many organizations, parties, intellectuals and scholars have expressed their support for him.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
WSWS readers demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
In the past few weeks, we have received around one hundred letters from 25 different countries from readers defending Bogdan and highlighting the political motives behind his imprisonment.
Our reporters•
Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Six months after his arrest, Bogdan Syrotiuk, the courageous Ukrainian socialist arrested for opposing the war, remains in prison awaiting a drumhead trial in a legal travesty.
Johannes Stern•
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Stein has made this statement calling for the release of socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who has been imprisoned by the Zelensky regime in Ukraine.
"We must fight for Bogdan's freedom!"
Ukrainian youth speaks out in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk
This statement in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by a Ukrainian youth who fled the war and is now working and studying in Germany.
A Ukrainian youth in Germany•
The weaponization of student absenteeism: Lies to justify school privatization under Trump
The incoming administration intends to use the crisis of "chronic absenteeism," a product of the intense social crisis in the US, to justify vast new attacks on public education.
Phyllis Steele, Nancy Hanover•
Student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University approves IYSSE motion opposing state attacks on freedom of expression and academic freedom
On November 11 the student parliament (StuPa) at the Berlin Humboldt University approved a resolution introduced by the International Youth & Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) entitled "Condemn the attack on academic freedom by the Federal Ministry of Education."
Christopher Lehmann•
Western Sydney University IYSSE Annual General Meeting elaborates socialist perspective against war and genocide
The meeting at the working-class university outlined a socialist perspective, based on the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war.
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Australian IYSSE clubs hold anti-war Annual General Meetings in Melbourne and Newcastle
The meetings included lively political discussion on the IYSSE’s perspective of building a global anti-war movement in the working class against Israel’s assault against the people of Palestine and Lebanon, and broader eruption of imperialist war.
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International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
Kevin Reed•
Andrea Peters•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Eric Ludlow•
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
NOW AVAILABLE
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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Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
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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US autoworkers discuss class issues behind Trump’s attack on immigrants
Workers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee sponsored a meeting to discuss the fight against job cuts and Trump’s attack on immigrant workers.
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Warning strikes at nine VW plants in Germany
The head of Volkswagen’s works council Daniela Cavallo has made it clear that the IG Metall union and the works council do not want to fight but “let off steam”.
Ludwig Weller•
Thai autoworkers face mass layoffs
As the largest producer of vehicles in South East Asia, tens if not hundreds of thousands of jobs in Thailand are potentially on the chopping block.
Robert Campion•
Defeat Unite’s collusion with Stellantis and Labour government! Organise rank-and-file action to defend jobs!
United and effective action by Stellantis workers worldwide can only be achieved by the rank-and-file in direct opposition to the economic nationalism and corporatism of the trade union bureaucracy.
Tony Robson•
Jerry White•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Shannon Jones•
Dakkota Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
George Marlowe•
May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
The political significance of the 2024 May Day Online Rally
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Johannes Stern•
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Max Boddy•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Tomas Castanheira•
Thomas Scripps•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
John Burton•
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
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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1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Chris Marsden, Ulaş Ateşçi•
The Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Tom Peters, Thomas Scripps•
1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy’s Studies in Dialectics
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Christoph Vandreier•
The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Eric London•
Evan Blake, Tom Mackaman•
Max Boddy•
David North•
Samuel Tissot, Peter Schwarz•
Keith Jones•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
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Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
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Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Robert Stevens•
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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A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”—Part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
David Walsh•
A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”–Part 1
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
David Walsh•
Orbital: Samantha Harvey’s award-winning novel about problems of climate and social change
The Booker Prize winner has struck a popular chord in a world poised between the immense potential of scientific advances and the threat of military and ecological catastrophe.
Thomas Scripps•
Aidan Beatty’s hackwork: The Israel-Zionist connection
The academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-state sources.
Andrea Peters•
Steve Long•
David North•
Eric London•
Emma Arceneaux•
Fred Mazelis•
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.
Trump’s spending freeze: A direct attack on the working class and the US Constitution
Trump’s attempt to block previously approved Congressional funding not only threatens social programs that benefit millions, but is blatantly unconstitutional.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump’s first 7 days: The framework for presidential dictatorship
In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Trump adopts ethnic cleansing as US policy in Gaza
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump called for Israel to “clean” Gaza of its Arab inhabitants, in an open call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Andre Damon•
The “aristocratic oligarchy” assembles at Davos
Trump set himself above the bank and energy executives on the panel, who groveled, flattered and praised him. But like every dictator, he speaks not only for himself but for a social class.
Andre Damon•
Evan Blake•
Patrick Martin•
Joseph Kishore•
Patrick Martin, David North•
WSWS Editorial Board•
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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14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Tom Peters•
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•
Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River mine
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•