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US-NATO escalate war threats against Russia: Are you ready for World War III?
The drive to war is fueled by an utterly toxic mixture of deranged geopolitical ambitions and insoluble internal crisis.
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The wave of educator and student opposition to school reopenings continues to spread across the globe as capitalist governments ever more openly adopt policies to deliberately infect society with COVID-19.
Emma Arceneaux•
Teachers and educators at all public kindergartens and schools, excluding special education schools, had been set to hold a protest strike yesterday.
Jean Shaoul•
The Omicron subvariant BA.2 is now dominant in Denmark. This variant of the virus has also been detected in more than 40 countries across the world and is beginning to displace the original Omicron.
Benjamin Mateus•
In the first part of this interview, Ferrante talks about the pandemic in Brazil and Manaus, the danger of resuming in-person classes, and why COVID-19 will not become endemic.
Our reporters•
Popular opposition is mounting against the decision of the PSOE-Podemos government to send warships to join NATO naval forces in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia.
Alejandro López•
Opposition is continuing to build among workers at the railway BNSF to a punitive new attendance policy which exposes workers to discipline and termination.
Erik Schreiber•
Biden will replace Breyer with another corporate liberal, leaving the present 6–3 super-majority of right-wing justices unchanged.
Patrick Martin•
Embracing Trump’s fascistic election fraud claims, “America First” secretary of state candidates are seeking to oust Democratic and Republican incumbents alike.
Jacob Crosse•
The crisis wracking the Johnson government is only spurring on its reactionary agenda at home and abroad. MPs left the capital amid discussions on the UK possibly sending thousands of troops to Eastern Europe to confront Russia.
Robert Stevens•
With Boris Johnson’s premiership hanging by a thread amid the deepest political crisis since the 1930s, the RMT union has thrown the Tories a lifeline.
Laura Tiernan•
The lone survivor told authorities after his rescue that he was one of 40 migrants aboard the vessel when it left the Bahamas, about 50 miles east of Miami, on Saturday night.
Trévon Austin•
The purpose of the original agreement signed in 2004 was to allow the Canadian government to turn back all asylum seekers entering Canada from the United States on the pretext that the latter is a “safe country” for refugees.
Louis Girard•
Judge imposes strike ban on 17,000 BNSF railway workers
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.
Tom Hall•
American capitalism demands the infection of China
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.”
Andre Damon•
An open letter to the working class: The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022!
As we approach the end of the year, workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Why the US and NATO want war with Russia
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Nancy Hanover•
Erik Schreiber•
K. Ratnayake•
Eric London•
Eduardo Parati, Tomas Castanheira•
Riverside, California, school bus driver speaks out against mass infection in schools
Since December 2020, educational facilities have accounted for 45.7 percent of all reported COVID-19 outbreaks in Riverside.
Renae Cassimeda•
Union trying to cancel South Australian teachers’ strike against dangerous school reopening
The union is trying to prevent even a token one-day strike, on the basis of “progress” from the government that amounts to nothing.
Oscar Grenfell•
School-driven explosion of COVID cases in children linked to alarming spike of MIS-C
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.
Linda Rios•
Pseudo-left National Educators United “understands” Biden’s diktat that schools stay open
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.
Nancy Hanover•
Patrick Kelly•
Gabriel Black•
Joshua Rodriguez•
Nick Barrickman•
Jake Silver•
Victimized Indian autoworker speaks in support of Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
“The corporations and the governments,” explains Balakrishnan, “are only concerned about accumulating profit, not the well-being and safety of people.”
Arun Kumar•
"It's going to keep killing us, the ones who forcibly have to work."
Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Tim Rivers, Zac Corrigan•
Australian epidemiologists call for global action to eliminate COVID-19
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.
Richard Phillips•
“This is the worst moment of the pandemic,” an interview with Brazil’s leading neuroscientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis
“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.”
Eduardo Parati, Tomas Castanheira•
Tim Rivers, Zac Corrigan•
Sue Phillips•
Our reporter•
Dehin Wasantha•
Laurent Lafrance•
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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COVID-19 surges in Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities
Overcrowded housing and lack of isolation facilities has led to rapid spread through Australia’s most vulnerable populations.
Martin Scott•
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin removes last remaining pandemic safety measures, declares state “open for business”
Youngkin has eliminated worker, student, and patient COVID-19 protections, while also making Virginia the latest Republican-led state to begin the process of banning “divisive concepts” in the classroom.
B. Grammer•
As COVID-19 surges, deaths exceeded births in half of US states
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.
Kate Randall•
Wall Street millionaire Jeff Zients directs Biden’s policy of mass death
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.
Evan Blake, Chase Lawrence•
Saman Gunadasa•
George Locke•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Gregor Link•
Hospital employees at Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31
Health care workers at Trinity Health-Mercy hospital in Muskegon held a rally on January 17 to demand that the hospital chain negotiate a new contract by January 31 that includes wage increases and improved working conditions.
Kevin Reed•
London United bus drivers reject derisory 2.5 percent final pay offer
A driver told WSWS, “The company must think we are stupid saying they have not got the money. Of course they have, or why would they be in business?”
Tony Robson•
“I no longer believe the people in the union”: anger from King Soopers grocery workers over shutdown of their strike by UFCW
The union has claimed that a sellout contract passed overwhelmingly, but refused to provide any vote counts for either Colorado Springs or Denver.
Alex Findijs•
One-day national strike across public sector in France over pay and pensions; South African Clover dairy workers’ strike against job and pay cuts enters tenth week and spreading; Lebanese teachers walk out against deteriorating conditions
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
One-day national strike across public sector in France over pay and pensions as wave of strikes continues in healthcare; South African Clover dairy workers’ strike against job and pay cuts continues into tenth week, joined by other affected sectors; Lebanese teachers begin indefinite walkout against deteriorating conditions and for higher pay
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James Tatsch•
Kevin Reed•
George Gallanis•
Henry Lee•
Alex Findijs•
A Twelve-Year Night from Uruguay: No reckoning with the past
Focusing on the “inner hell” of three political prisoners, the film assiduously avoids the historical and political questions that gave rise to their plight.
Gabriela Zabala•
Berlin film festival officials decide to hold in-person event despite record Omicron infection rates
The decision of the Berlinale management is clearly directed against the health, lives and cultural interests of the population.
WSWS arts editors•
The Silent Sea on Netflix: A barren Earth, a mysterious Moon
The South Korean mystery series effectively conveys the claustrophobic atmosphere inside a Moon base.
Patrick Martin•
The Conference: A haunting, disturbingly topical film about the Nazis’ “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”
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.
Clara Weiss•
Paul Bond•
David Walsh•
James Martin•
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Eighty-five percent of Tonga’s population impacted by volcanic eruption
Driven by geo-strategic rivalries, the international aid operation is woefully inadequate to meet the urgent needs of Samoa’s people.
John Braddock•
Australian Labor leader offers to use pandemic crisis to restructure economy
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.
Mike Head•
South Australian teachers vote for strike action against dangerous school reopenings
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Committee for Public Education (Australia) holds online meeting opposing schools reopening
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.
Carolyn Kennett•
Our reporter•
P. T. Sampanthar•
Peter Symonds•
Eric Ludlow•
Martin Scott•
IMF cuts global growth forecast as Omicron spreads
The global economic losses from the pandemic, resulting from the refusal of governments to take effective action to eliminate it, are estimated to be in order of $13.8 trillion.
Nick Beams•
Fed set to lift interest rates amid concerns over “very, very tight” labour market
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.
Nick Beams•
Inflation and threat of interest rate rise send tremor through financial markets
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.
Nick Beams•
Further slowdown in Chinese growth
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.
Nick Beams•
Peter Symonds•
Kevin Reed•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government backs NATO war threats against Russia
Popular opposition is mounting against the decision of the PSOE-Podemos government to send warships to join NATO naval forces in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia.
Alejandro López•
UK: “Partygate” report delayed as Johnson seeks political survival through warmongering and untrammelled COVID herd immunity
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.
Chris Marsden•
Workers devastated as UK cost-of-living crisis worsens
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.”
Barry Mason•
Berlin justice system prosecutes anti-fascist artists
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).
Justus Leicht•
Robert Stevens•
Thomas Scripps•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Anthony Torres•
Chris Marsden•
E.O. Wilson, groundbreaking figure in evolutionary biology, dead at 92
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.
Philip Guelpa•
James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches
The spacecraft, when fully operational, will peer deeper into the Universe than any previous astronomical instrument.
Bryan Dyne, Don Barrett•
A comparative analysis of COVID-19 and the flu highlights the immense dangers of the pandemic
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
COP26 climate summit ends in failure
The world’s major capitalist powers and giant corporations have no solution to the climate emergency they have created.
Patrick Martin•
Daniel de Vries•
Bryan Dyne•
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bryan Dyne•
Assange granted leave to appeal to UK Supreme Court against extradition
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.
Oscar Grenfell, Thomas Scripps•
Canada’s state broadcaster CBC peddles lies and slanders about jailed journalist Julian Assange
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.
J.D. Palmer•
Julian Assange passes one thousand days in Belmarsh Prison, dubbed “Britain’s Guantanamo Bay”
Assange is imprisoned without charge to facilitate an extradition request from the American government, which plotted his illegal kidnapping or assassination.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australian SEP supporters: “The only force that can free Assange is the international working class”
The Socialist Equality Party is today publishing further comments from WSWS readers and supporters of the fight to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Our correspondents•
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the International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
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Late-January wildfire erupts near Big Sur, California
Due to the impact of climate change, the wildfire “season” in California has been extended throughout the entire year.
Adria French•
Newt Gingrich threatens January 6 committee members with imprisonment
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.
Jacob Crosse•
In face of protests, US judge imposes Puerto Rico debt restructuring plan
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.
Rafael Azul•
Jury hears opening statements in federal trial of three former cops involved in the murder of George Floyd
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.
Kevin Reed•
Benjamin Mateus•
Jacob Crosse•
Brady Guy, Jerry White•
E.P. Milligan•
Zac Thorton•
Historian Jack Rakove on American history writing and the falsifications of the 1619 Project and its defenders
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
Tom Mackaman•
The New York Times’ Jake Silverstein concocts “a new origin story” for the 1619 Project
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
Tom Mackaman•
Woody Holton retreats from Dunmore Proclamation claims in “historians’ debate” with Gordon Wood
Though Holton conceded the major historical point, he used the debate to attack Wood over the latter’s criticism of the 1619 Project.
Tom Mackaman•
Nikole Hannah-Jones rejects UNC tenure offer to take position at Howard University, backed by millions in foundation funding
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.
Niles Niemuth•
Niles Niemuth•
David North•
David North•
Andrea Peters•
Trévon Austin, Tom Mackaman•
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.
US brings new charges against Haitian suspect in assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
The latest charges signal an acceleration of the US imperialist intervention in Haiti.
Alex Johnson•
Amid record infections, Argentina’s Peronist President scraps measures to contain COVID
Argentina is experiencing its largest outbreak of COVID-19 infections so far, with a new record of 139,853 infections in a single day.
Eduardo Parati•
Mexico’s COVID cases soar as AMLO minimizes danger
A record number of new COVID-19 cases were reported this week by Mexican health authorities.
Rafael Azul, Don Knowland•
Brazilian Army prepares for “Capitol scenario” in coming presidential election
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.
Tomas Castanheira•
Alex Johnson•
Tomas Castanheira•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Cesar Uco, Bill Van Auken•
This week in history: January 24-30
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.
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Book Review: The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland by Mark Kruger
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.
Douglas Lyons•
Russian Supreme Court orders liquidation of Memorial, the leading research center on Great Terror
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.
Clara Weiss•
An Anniversary of Stalinist Counterrevolution: 30 years since the end of the USSR
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.
John Malvar•
Peter Symonds•
Clara Weiss•
Shannon Jones, Marcus Day•
Peter Symonds•
Patrick O’Connor•
Anti-vaccine zealots join with fascist militia forces at D.C. rally to oppose all COVID-19 public health measures
Promoted by Fox News, the sparsely attended event promoted fascistic, anti-Semitic and anti-scientific conspiracy theories.
Jacob Crosse•
The global media’s latest anti-China salvo: “Won’t somebody please think of the hamsters?”
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.”
Joseph Scalice•
Democrats’ pretend fight on voting rights comes to its predictable end
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.
Patrick Martin•
Speaking to the January 6 Committee
Former White House press secretary details “secret meetings” Trump held at White House residence before January 6 coup
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.
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Scores killed in Saudi-led airstrikes, highlighting US-Saudi war crimes
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.
Jean Shaoul•
Nationwide protests break out in Lebanon amid mounting economic, social and political crisis
Soaring inflation, including a massive rise in the cost of food, fuel and medicine, has completely devastated workers’ living standards.
Jean Shaoul•
Israel escalates war on all fronts against Palestinians
2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since the assault on Gaza in 2021
Jean Shaoul•
Striking school students in Italy join students' and educators’ fight for COVID safety in US and France; protests in Lebanon as currency continues to fall; hundreds of striking South African Clover Foods dairy workers protest wage cuts, retrenchments and restructuring
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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
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Frank Anderson•
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Bill Van Auken•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu•
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Australian SEP electoral members discuss Omicron surge and Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
“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.”
our reporters•
The historic assault on university education and Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
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.
Jack Turner•
SEP Australia electoral members discuss worsening coronavirus infections and the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
“The ICFI and the SEP is the only organisation that is offering workers a way out of the pandemic.”
Our reporters•
Australia’s housing crisis and the new anti-democratic electoral laws
The meteoric rise in housing and rental prices across Australia is fueling mounting social discontent, which the party deregistration laws seek to stifle.
John Harris•
Mike Head•
our reporters•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oppose the dangerous reopening of universities! Students and youth must take up a fight against the pandemic!
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Harvard tells students with COVID-19 to “self-isolate” and conduct their own contact tracing
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.
Kate Randall•
“This needs to spread further statewide and elsewhere”
Hundreds of Oakland students and teachers show support for student strike during online rally
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.
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Graduate students at University of Oregon walk out for safe working conditions
Graduate workers at the University of Oregon staged a walkout to protest inadequate measures to protect them against the Omicron surge.
Claude Delphian•
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Trévon Austin•
Eric Ludlow•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
Matthew Brennan•
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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Sudan’s prime minister resigns amid lethal military crackdown on protests
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.
Jean Shaoul•
World leaders mourn Archbishop Desmond Tutu in acknowledgement of services rendered to imperialism
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).
Jean Shaoul•
Spring by the Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quintet: A remarkable “lost” 1968 debut jazz album is now available to a global audience
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.
Matthew Brennan•
French troops fire on growing protests against French presence in Africa
Nearly nine years after France invaded Mali, opposition to the French-led European military presence is reaching explosive levels across the region.
Kumaran Ira•
Jean Shaoul•
Benjamin Mateus•
Will Morrow•
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul•
UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee denounces court ruling upholding designation of Germany's Socialist Equality Party as “left wing extremists”
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”.
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Berlin Administrative Court rules socialist ideas are “anti-constitutional”
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.
Peter Schwarz•
In speech before the court, Trotskyist leader indicts German state’s revival of Nazi-style anti-socialist laws
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.
Christoph Vandreier•
Video: No new anti-socialist laws! Defend the SGP!
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.
Christoph Vandreier•
our reporters•
Christoph Vandreier•
Wolfgang Weber•
Johannes Stern•
Christoph Vandreier•
Promoters of “Wuhan lab” conspiracy theory fume as their claims fall apart
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.”
Andre Damon•
A disgraced liar accuses scientists: Matt Ridley’s Viral
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.
Andre Damon•
Washington Post calls for a COVID-19 cover-up
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.
Andre Damon•
Scientist Peter Daszak refutes false media allegations about Wuhan research
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.
Andre Damon•
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Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
John Braddock•
Andre Damon•
Preface to the Turkish-language edition of Leon Trotsky and the Development of Marxism
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Campus opposition at University of Michigan mounts to victimization of Bright Sheng
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Australian High Court sets precedent for sacking dissenting academics
The judges effectively cleared the way for universities to dismiss staff for criticising management or breaching confidentiality rules.
Mike Head•
University of Michigan faculty open letter supports witch-hunt, rejects letter signed by hundreds defending victimized professor Bright Sheng
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.”
Matthew Brennan, Barry Grey•
Over 700 University of Michigan faculty sign open letter protesting administration witch hunt against composer and Professor Bright Sheng
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.
Barry Grey•
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David Walsh•
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Matthew Brennan•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at UM•
100 years since the birth of Jean Brust
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.
An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America
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.
David North•
Democratic Socialists of America must issue public apology for celebrating assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
Victoria Bynum•
Joseph Kishore, Eric London discuss DSA’s celebration of Trotsky assassination on “Eclectic Radical with Chris Richards”
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.
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Open letter to co-leader of Germany’s Left Party Janine Wissler
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.
Johannes Stern•
Twenty years since the September 11 terror attacks
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.
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US-NATO escalate war threats against Russia: Are you ready for World War III?
The drive to war is fueled by an utterly toxic mixture of deranged geopolitical ambitions and insoluble internal crisis.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Judge imposes strike ban on 17,000 BNSF railway workers
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.
Tom Hall•
American capitalism demands the infection of China
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.”
Andre Damon•
Why the US and NATO want war with Russia
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Eric London•
Oscar Grenfell•
Evan Blake•
Patrick Martin•
Kevin Reed•
Cliff Slaughter: A political biography (1928-1963)
By David North
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.
A New Year’s appeal from the World Socialist Web Site
The fight against COVID is a fight against capitalism! Support the World Socialist Web Site! Unite the working class! Take up the fight for World Socialism in 2022!
David North•
The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022!—an open letter to the working class
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.
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada)•
SEP (Canada) to hold online meeting on Canada’s pandemic election and the fight for socialism
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.
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Reminiscences of Jean Brust 100 years since her birth
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.
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Statement of David Moore—California gubernatorial candidate of the Socialist Equality Party•
Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)•
David North•
Harvey Thompson•
US-NATO escalate war threats against Russia: Are you ready for World War III?
The drive to war is fueled by an utterly toxic mixture of deranged geopolitical ambitions and insoluble internal crisis.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government backs NATO war threats against Russia
Popular opposition is mounting against the decision of the PSOE-Podemos government to send warships to join NATO naval forces in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia.
Alejandro López•
US rejects Russian demands for security guarantees, escalates Ukraine crisis
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.
Alex Lantier, Johannes Stern•
US charged with war crimes in Syria prison siege
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.
Bill Van Auken•
Clara Weiss•
Peter Symonds•
Jason Melanovski•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
J.D. Palmer•
“America First” secretary of state candidates in eight states promote Trump’s “stolen election” lie
Embracing Trump’s fascistic election fraud claims, “America First” secretary of state candidates are seeking to oust Democratic and Republican incumbents alike.
Jacob Crosse•
Newt Gingrich threatens January 6 committee members with imprisonment
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.
Jacob Crosse•
On eve of January 6 attack, Trump lawyers drafted order requiring military to seize ballots
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.
Eric London•
Trump draft executive order called for military to seize ballots and voting machines as part of coup plot
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.
Jacob Crosse•
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Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
Eric London•
Jacob Crosse•
Eighty years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
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.
Read more
Socialist Equality Party summer school prepares membership for growth of class struggle
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.
Barry Grey•
SEP Summer School 2021 Lecture
The historical background and initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
SEP Summer School 2021 Lecture
January 6, 2021: Donald Trump’s plot against America
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.
Eric London•
The lessons of the 2021 Volvo strike
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 .
Marcus Day•
Tom Carter•
Jerry White•
Tom Mackaman•
Andre Damon•
Patrick Martin•
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
With David North and Eric London
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
Watch the video
New Zealand: More bodies photographed after sealing of Pike River mine
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.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine
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.
Tom Peters•
Recovery 29 whitewashes New Zealand government’s cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
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.
Tom Peters•
Public anger over cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
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.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
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Whistleblower testimony launches bipartisan campaign for Facebook censorship
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.
Kevin Reed•
US seizes PressTV.com and 32 other Iranian media website domains
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.”
Kevin Reed•
Why is the World Socialist Web Site still blacklisted on the Reddit r/coronavirus and r/politics forums?
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 .
Kevin Reed•
Stop the censorship of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
Jones’s suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.
Alex Johnson•
150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
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.
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Historical falsification and the struggle for socialism
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.
Andrea Peters•
Book Review: The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland by Mark Kruger
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.
Douglas Lyons•
Adam Hilton’s True Blues, the Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party: A DSA fairy tale about the Democratic Party
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.
Eric London•
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge—An invaluable critical study of the popular filmmaker
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.
David Walsh•
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Andre Damon•
Fred Mazelis•
Andre Damon•
Fred Mazelis•
