While the United States never tires of lecturing other countries about their violation of “human rights” and “democracy,” the US government regularly runs roughshod over the basic rights of workers, including their right to strike and their right to a safe and healthy work environment.
The NATO alliance is stoking a war crisis, demanding that the far-right regime in Ukraine be armed to fight an invasion of Ukraine it alleges Russia is preparing.
The Pentagon’s proxy ground force, the SDF militia, claims to have retaken the jail, but offered no information on the fate of 850 children held there.
The devastation wrought by the pandemic has also led to an unprecedented situation in which deaths exceeded births in half of all US states in 2020. This decline in the birth-to-death ratio produced the smallest annual percentage population gain in at least a century.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics reports that the vast majority of MIS-C resulted from mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 infections.
In order to understand the catastrophic response of the Biden administration to the pandemic, it is necessary to examine the background and political career of the man quietly operating at the center of this response.
Amid skyrocketing COVID-19 cases, a collapsing health care system and a horrifying death toll, the NEU has organized a petition to beg Biden and the Democrats for a bit more PPE.
Johnson stood his ground on his ability to “deliver” the policies dearest to the heart of the Tory right-wing, historically Brexit and today the reopening of the economy and assuming a leading role in US-led military provocations against Russia.
An economist at recruitment firm Indeed Hiring Lab said that despite increased demand in some job sectors as the economy opened up, “we’re not seeing any signs of any real gains for the average worker, which is concerning given the squeeze on energy bills and the general cost of living.”
The worker was identified as Esteban Mantilla, a 48-year-old Cuban immigrant and Grand Island resident.
A group of seven health care specialists were temporarily blocked by a Wisconsin judge’s court order from leaving ThedaCare and starting new jobs at a competing hospital chain.
Two conflicting assessments of the direction of Fed policy—one that it will back down from monetary tightening if the market falls, the other that it will be forced to press ahead because of inflation and wage demands—were evidenced by the swings on Wall Street in response its meeting.
The Berlin state public prosecutor’s office is proceeding with house searches and substantial charges against the artists’ collective Centre for Political Beauty (ZPS) for carrying out an art action against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
The ruling classes in the United States and Europe confront a series of intractable economic, social and political crises, all of which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. They are turning to war in a desperate attempt to find a way out.
Amid skyrocketing COVID-19 cases, a collapsing health care system and a horrifying death toll, the NEU has organized a petition to beg Biden and the Democrats for a bit more PPE.
On Tuesday, a day that the United States recorded nearly 3,000 COVID-19 deaths, the New York Times published an op-ed calling China’s decision to prioritize saving lives from COVID-19 a “mistake,” and extolling the benefits of “natural immunity through infection.”
Workers have voted by an overwhelming margin in favor of strike action against a new punitive attendance policy unilaterally imposed on them by the company.
“The corporations and the governments,” explains Balakrishnan, “are only concerned about accumulating profit, not the well-being and safety of people.”
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The urgent appeal by three distinguished epidemiologists reflects the growing opposition of principled medical scientists, doctors and health workers to the “let it rip” response of governments to the pandemic.
“I think the situation in Brazil in the next two to three weeks will break all records of infections and may cause a health care collapse as great as in the second wave.”
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 documents underscore the unsafe conditions that await school workers and students—unless opposed, the return to face to face teaching will inflict entirely preventable mass infection and serious illness and death.
The tentative agreement reached between the Oakland Unified School District and the Oakland Educators Association will do nothing to fundamentally stop the spread of the virus.
On Sunday, the West Coast Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees held an online meeting in opposition to the ruling class drive to keep schools open amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
Students in Washington D.C. join a growing movement of students throughout the world who are opposed to being subjected by capitalist governments to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Omicron outbreak in Sri Lanka has exploded Rajapakse’s lie that his regime has brought the pandemic under control and created the conditions “to resume normal community life.”
Recently homeless individuals are ten times more likely to need intensive care treatment and five times more likely to die than other Canadians infected with COVID-19.
The effort to normalize COVID-19 infections and deaths in Europe and the US is not driven by science or public health but by economic considerations.
Government officials and the corporate media want to declare COVID-19 “endemic,” to enforce policies that will have disastrous consequences for the working class.
The court order from the judge prohibits any action by workers to fight the railways’ oppressive and dangerous attendance policy.
The UCU’s delaying tactics, limited action and constant appeals for university management to “see sense” are dispelling any illusions its members still have about the readiness of the union to fight.
The contract was such a naked betrayal that neither Sanders nor the union could even attempt to spin its contents in a positive light, and so nothing of substance concerning the contract was raised during the event.
Workers have been forced to remain on the job without a local agreement since 2019.
The decision of the Berlinale management is clearly directed against the health, lives and cultural interests of the population.
The South Korean mystery series effectively conveys the claustrophobic atmosphere inside a Moon base.
The film marks the 80th anniversary of the infamous Wannsee conference of January 20, 1942, at which leading Nazis and ministers planned the extermination of Europe’s Jewish population.
Kevin Sampson’s four-part television series is an admirable tribute to Anne Williams, who lost her 15-year-old son Kevin in Britain’s worst sporting disaster, the 1989 crush at Hillsborough football stadium.
Albanese, who as opposition leader has backed the profit-driven “live with the virus” drive, made no mention in his National Press Club speech to the huge wave of infections that it has unleashed.
The ballot demonstrates the intense hostility of teachers to the profit driven reopening of the schools amid surging COVID cases, not only in South Australia but across the country.
The event drew a wide range of participants from across regional and urban Australia, and was also viewed by several international supporters of the WSWS.
“Health workers are being asked to make sacrifices, but the reason we’re being put under so much stress is because of the criminal actions of governments” –Queensland public hospital doctor .
Wilson made major contributions in the fields of ecology, animal behavior, biodiversity, and evolutionary biology; his attempt to apply biology to the qualitatively distinct nature of human behavior based on culture was unsuccessful.
The spacecraft, when fully operational, will peer deeper into the Universe than any previous astronomical instrument.
The facile equation of COVID and the flu made by right-wing politicians are lies on both sides of the comparison. The flu is nothing to trifle with, but COVID is infinitely worse, a brutal killer with incalculable consequences even for those who survive its initial ravages.
The world’s major capitalist powers and giant corporations have no solution to the climate emergency they have created.
The intervention by Met Commissioner Cressida Dick is indicative of the right-wing forces leading the “partygate” campaign to unseat Johnson.
A motion calling for the party whip to be restored to Corbyn tabled by NEC members Ian Murray, President of the Fire Brigades Union, and Nadia Jama was convincingly defeated yesterday evening by 23 votes to 14, with one abstention.
The ruling classes in the United States and Europe confront a series of intractable economic, social and political crises, all of which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. They are turning to war in a desperate attempt to find a way out.
The French president’s proposal to launch “American-style” tuition fees reflects his broader policy of intensifying social inequality in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although the threat of imminent extradition has been stayed, Assange stands on thin ice. His freedom depends on a political movement of the working class.
Following last month’s calamitous British High Court ruling ordering Julian Assange extradited to face US espionage charges, the CBC aired deceitful and manipulative reports that lent support to Washington’s efforts to persecute and silence the award-winning journalist.
Assange is imprisoned without charge to facilitate an extradition request from the American government, which plotted his illegal kidnapping or assassination.
The Socialist Equality Party is today publishing further comments from WSWS readers and supporters of the fight to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Due to the impact of climate change, the wildfire “season” in California has been extended throughout the entire year.
Speaking like the representative of a right-wing dictatorship, the former House Speaker vowed retribution if the Republican Party regains control of the House in the 2022 elections.
Puerto Rico’s 25 years of financial implosion and economic decline will now take a new turn with the approval of the debt restructuring plan.
The federal civil rights trial began on Monday of the three officers who assisted Derek Chauvin as he killed George Floyd in front of bystanders in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
Though Holton conceded the major historical point, he used the debate to attack Wood over the latter’s criticism of the 1619 Project.
The 1619 Project creator will join writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in founding the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard with $20 million in funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
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 latest charges signal an acceleration of the US imperialist intervention in Haiti.
Argentina is experiencing its largest outbreak of COVID-19 infections so far, with a new record of 139,853 infections in a single day.
A record number of new COVID-19 cases were reported this week by Mexican health authorities.
The military chiefs are talking about a replay of the January 6 events in Washington led by “radical supporters” of Brazil’s fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
Kruger’s book is a rebuke to the most basic lie of American history: that there has been no class struggle or socialism in the United States.
The human rights organization and research center Memorial is being targeted by the Putin government because its work cuts across the Kremlin’s efforts to rehabilitate and justify the crimes of Stalin.
The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) recognized, as early as 1985, that Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika expressed the drive of the Stalinist bureaucracy to reintegrate the Soviet economy with the world market through the restoration of capitalism.
Wall Street’s tech-heavy NASDAQ index has now fallen by more than 10 percent since it reached its record high last November and is now designated as in “correction” territory.
Signs of nervousness in ruling circles are evident in the People’s Bank of China’s decision to cut a key lending rate for the first time since April 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
The concerted push by the Western media for the Chinese government to drop its COVID-zero policy takes on another dimension as global corporations grapple with mounting supply chain breakdowns.
Richard Clarida, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, announced on Monday that he would be resigning early after details emerged about stock trades he made at the beginning of the pandemic.
Promoted by Fox News, the sparsely attended event promoted fascistic, anti-Semitic and anti-scientific conspiracy theories.
The world is in the grip of preventable mass death, and the mainstream media find cause of outrage in the culling of infected hamsters, which it has called the “latest sacrifice in China’s attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero.”
The Biden administration and the Democratic congressional leadership have used the voting rights legislation in a cynical effort to mobilize black and other minority voters to go the polls in 2022.
The “off-the-books” meetings were only known to a select few staff and conducted in secret in order to conceal conversations, according to Stephanie Grisham.
On Friday, a Saudi airstrike on a detention center in Saada, northern Yemen, housing African migrant workers transiting through Yemen to Saudi Arabia, killed at least 82 people and wounded 266 more.
Soaring inflation, including a massive rise in the cost of food, fuel and medicine, has completely devastated workers’ living standards.
2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since the assault on Gaza in 2021
School students in Italy in COVID safety strike demand return to remote learning and free tests and masks; protests in major cities in Lebanon and teachers strike as currency continues to fall; hundreds of striking South African Clover Foods dairy workers out for eight weeks protest wage cuts, retrenchments and restructuring
“The Workers Inquest is critical. It’s become clear that the governments and health organisations don’t want to provide the evidence about how it spreads, and what we need to do to keep safe.”
The deep hostility among university staff and students is part of the rising political discontent that drove the Liberal-National and Labor parties to rush through new electoral laws in August.
“The ICFI and the SEP is the only organisation that is offering workers a way out of the pandemic.”
The meteoric rise in housing and rental prices across Australia is fueling mounting social discontent, which the party deregistration laws seek to stifle.
The start of 2022 has brought young people around Australia face to face with the cruel reality of the ruling elite’s criminal policies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the spring semester, Harvard students who test positive for COVID-19 will not be required to move into university-provided isolation housing but are being advised to “self-isolate” in their dorms or off-campus housing instead.
An estimated 500 students and teachers across Oakland participated in an online Zoom meeting organized by students to discuss their strike and COVID-19 safety concerns in the district.
Graduate workers at the University of Oregon staged a walkout to protest inadequate measures to protect them against the Omicron surge.
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The political crisis takes place as the economy faces collapse under the impact of the pandemic, with growing unemployment, 360 percent inflation and soaring food prices.
Post-apartheid, Tutu’s greatest service by far to South African capitalism and world imperialism was as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
The struggles of nonwhite South African artists in the 1950s and 60s are well-documented. A talented collection of musicians and singers began to emerge across the country during this period.
Nearly nine years after France invaded Mali, opposition to the French-led European military presence is reaching explosive levels across the region.
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) passed a resolution Monday condemning the ruling of the Berlin Administrative Court, which on November 18, 2021, upheld the designation of the German security service of the German section of the ICFI as “left wing extremists”.
The court’s ruling against the Socialist Equality Party stands in the tradition of National Socialist ideological jurisprudence and Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws, and opens the door for the surveillance and suppression of all opposition to capitalism and arbitrary state power.
Christoph Vandreier, the deputy chairman of the Socialist Equality Party, defended the right to advocate for the socialist transformation of society in a speech at the Berlin Administrative Court on November 18.
The deputy chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the importance of the lawsuit against the surveillance of the party by the German secret service.
As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak “theory.”
In the most systematic defense of the Wuhan lab libel to date, Matt Ridley proves only the falsehood of his bad-faith attack on science.
The commission advocated by the Washington Post will be aimed at shielding the government and corporate officials responsible for the deaths of more than one million Americans, while scapegoating China for the pandemic.
In a letter to the National Institutes of Health made public Thursday, zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance refuted claims that his organization failed to keep the US government appraised of coronavirus research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
The judges effectively cleared the way for universities to dismiss staff for criticising management or breaching confidentiality rules.
The letter aims to intimidate all those who oppose the strictures of racial and identity politics and their enforcement by institutionalized thought police by branding them as “racist.”
The open letter from UM faculty takes a principled stand in defense of Sheng, demanding that the university reinstate Sheng to his undergraduate course in composition and make a public apology both for the sanctions taken against him and the outrageous charges of racism.
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement. Comrade Jean, who died November 24, 1997 at the age of 76, joined the Trotskyist-led Young Peoples Socialist League as a teenager in 1937.
This letter, by Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North, responds to Twitter posts by DSA leaders in support of the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of Stalin’s secret police.
Historian Victoria Bynum issued the following statement demanding the DSA repudiate and apologize for the leadership’s coordinated celebration of the assassination of Trotsky and discipline those responsible.
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
The Socialist Equality Party and WSWS call on Wissler and the Left Party to publicly condemn the DSA leaders’ Twitter posts and other media publications celebrating Trotsky’s assassination.
The horrific massacre of civilians was immediately exploited by the imperialist powers, led by the United States government itself, to justify far-reaching attacks on the democratic rights of their own populations, and the launching of decades-long wars in the Middle East and Africa.
While the United States never tires of lecturing other countries about their violation of “human rights” and “democracy,” the US government regularly runs roughshod over the basic rights of workers, including their right to strike and their right to a safe and healthy work environment.
On Tuesday, a day that the United States recorded nearly 3,000 COVID-19 deaths, the New York Times published an op-ed calling China’s decision to prioritize saving lives from COVID-19 a “mistake,” and extolling the benefits of “natural immunity through infection.”
The ruling classes in the United States and Europe confront a series of intractable economic, social and political crises, all of which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. They are turning to war in a desperate attempt to find a way out.
The draft order was a charter for presidential dictatorship. It would have declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and placed the country under military rule.
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
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2022 must not be another nightmarish year of mass infections, illness and death! Workers in Canada and throughout the world must act collectively to end the COVID-19 pandemic once and for all.
The meeting, which will be held in English and French, will advance a fighting program for the working class to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic, and oppose the intensified assault on workers’ social and democratic rights that Canada’s next government will mount whichever party or combination of parties leads it.
Steven Brust is the son of veteran Trotskyists and founding members of the Workers League, Jean and Bill Brust. August 31 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jean Brust, who died on November 24, 1997.
The NATO alliance is stoking a war crisis, demanding that the far-right regime in Ukraine be armed to fight an invasion of Ukraine it alleges Russia is preparing.
The Pentagon’s proxy ground force, the SDF militia, claims to have retaken the jail, but offered no information on the fate of 850 children held there.
A day after the US announced the extraordinarily provocative move of sending 8,500 troops to Eastern Europe, the US delivered some 300 javelin anti-tank missiles along with shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapons and bunker busters to Ukraine.
These provocative exercises involving two US aircraft carrier strike groups clearly indicate that the Pentagon’s war planners recognise that any conflict with Russia could quickly embroil China.
Speaking like the representative of a right-wing dictatorship, the former House Speaker vowed retribution if the Republican Party regains control of the House in the 2022 elections.
The draft order was a charter for presidential dictatorship. It would have declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and placed the country under military rule.
The unsigned executive order was part of a trove of documents Trump sought to conceal, which were turned over to the January 6 Committee following Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision.
The “off-the-books” meetings were only known to a select few staff and conducted in secret in order to conceal conversations, according to Stephanie Grisham.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Eric London, a writer for the WSWS and author of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
The announcement underlines the criminality of the Labour Party government’s decision to permanently seal the mine, preventing the 29 bodies being recovered and the 2010 disaster properly investigated.
The discovery sparked anger among some families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims, and supporters, who questioned why the Labour Party-led government had sealed the mine, preventing the recovery of the 29 men who died.
The television documentary sets out to justify the government’s decision to abandon the underground investigation of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and for which no one has been held accountable.
The media has blacked out the widespread opposition to the New Zealand Labour Party government’s decision to seal Pike River mine that prevents a thorough investigation and accountability for the deaths of 29 men in the 2010 disaster.
The Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has intensified the bipartisan drive to clamp down on left-wing and socialist political content on social media platforms.
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
We are calling on Reddit members to demand that the moderators of r/coronavirus and r/politics halt the McCarthyite blacklisting of content links from the World Socialist Web Site .
Jones’s suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
In this work, Soviet historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin (1937–1998) explodes the myth, shared by both anti-communists and Stalinists alike, that Stalinism evolved naturally and seamlessly out of Bolshevism.
Kruger’s book is a rebuke to the most basic lie of American history: that there has been no class struggle or socialism in the United States.
The DSA promotes a fairy-tale version of the Democratic Party because it is a part of the Democratic Party and its raison d’être is to prevent an independent movement of the working class.
The filmmaker’s life spanned nearly the entire 1900s and was inevitably “roughed up” and shaped by the critical events of that turbulent and traumatic century.
