In this interview with Austrian journalist Josef Mühlbauer, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North speaks on the historical foundations of Trotskyism, the program of the International Committee of the Fourth International, and the fundamental problems confronting the working class in the fight for equality and socialism.
The1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki constitute one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed. To this day, only the US government and military, the self-proclaimed leadership of the “free world,” have used nuclear weapons.
Trump’s violent language underscores the ongoing political crisis and the continuing transformation of the Republican Party into a fascist movement hellbent on destroying any vestiges of democracy in America.
The latest summer surge, which is the fourth in four years of the pandemic, upends all the lies that COVID-19 is now “endemic” and equivalent to the cold or flu.
Waging wars and interventions prosecuted under their professed objective of “fighting Islamist insurgents”, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, the imperialist powers omit the fact that Islamist militants wreaking havoc across the Sahel are the product of Washington and its allies’ earlier use of them as a proxy army in the 2011 US/NATO war against Libya.
Concerns expressed by the assistant general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union Andy Dark that “firefighters believe the Bibby Stockholm [barge] to be a potential death trap,” were brushed away by the government as “politically motivated.”
The YGBL in Russia and Ukraine submitted this statement to protest attempts to ban the IYSSE at Bochum University, Germany, from campus.
Yellow laid off 30,000 workers after failing to satisfy the demands of its creditors.
The DSA and the pseudo-left as a whole are an essential part of a state intervention against the working class, which is carried out primarily through the medium of the union bureaucracy, but also includes more direct methods such as injunctions, which the DSA also supports.
Spanberger is being politically elevated as the crisis in the American capitalist system has greatly intensified.
From the recent AfD congress, it is clear it is positioning itself as an openly fascist party for next year’s European elections.
To defend jobs at VW, the control of the IG Metall union and its works council representatives, which as part of the corporate management exercise a veritable dictatorship over the workers, must be broken.
The United Steelworkers bureaucracy, working hand in hand with National Steel Car management, is trying to pull a fast one on us by presenting a new tentative agreement and forcing us to vote on it within 72 hours.
This is a clip from a live-stream that aired on August 3, 2023.
Netrebko, following a favorable arbitration decision, is pursuing her claims that the Met has unfairly attacked her and jeopardized her career. Her suit was filed in Federal District Court last Friday.
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.
Whatever the outcome of the legal proceedings against the ex-president, the drive towards dictatorship and war is rooted in the crisis of American and world capitalism.
As US officials demand a fight to the last Ukrainian, the scale of the bloodbath is coming into view.
In its decision, Fitch Ratings Agency said there had been a “steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters.”
The SEP held a well-attended and moving meeting last Saturday honouring the life of former general secretary Wije Dias and his decades-long political struggle for Trotskyism.
In opposing the arrest of Kagarlitsky and calling for his release, the YGBL and WSWS do not extend any support to his reactionary politics and we reject his designation as a “left-wing” critic of the Putin regime and the war in Ukraine.
In proudly sharing a platform with Ukrainian neo-Nazis who are fighting a war on behalf of US imperialism, Fukuyama, the erstwhile prophet of the triumph of “liberal democracy”, has become the embodiment of the bankruptcy of his own theory.
Biden pledged that “Our commitment to Ukraine” will last “as long as it takes.” What these words really mean is that the United States is willing to accept as many deaths as it takes to achieve its goals for the war.
The Times' pro-war propaganda has given way to pro-Nazi apologetics.
Workers at Chippewa Falls-based Leinenkugel's Brewery and New Dairy Select Milk in De Pere are continuing strikes that began last month.
The UAW’s so-called “members’ demands” are a series of measures which are widely supported by rank-and-file workers, but which the UAW bureaucracy has no intention of or strategy for achieving.
Yellow laid off 30,000 workers after failing to satisfy the demands of its creditors.
Loretto hospital healthcare workers have concluded five days of strike action.
The death of Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor at just 56 is a sad loss. Genuinely talented, she combined an acute musical and social sensibility to create some extremely moving music of real emotion and passion.
“I see other actors in other countries walking out and striking in solidarity with US actors and scriptwriters. We should be doing the same here.” – Australian Shakespearean actor Kevin Hopkins.
In video interviews with the WSWS, young actors speak about the crucial nature of the US strike for the future of the conditions of movie and arts workers in Australia and internationally, and explain how bad these conditions are already.
The play is the best-known work by author J.B. Priestley. An Inspector Calls (written and first performed in 1945) has a certain enduring significance.
While the Secretary of State made crystal clear that the US is proceeding with its legal lynching of Assange, Australian PM Albanese absurdly claimed Blinken’s comments were of no importance.
In the most cynical and mealy-mouthed fashion possible, Hill was signaling that the Labor government will do nothing more to secure Assange’s freedom.
The activities of the FBI in London indicate an escalation of the campaign against WikiLeaks and Assange, now being spearheaded by the Biden administration.
Assange has only one option of appeal remaining within the British legal system and it could be rejected next week.
“From what I can tell nothing the IYSSE stands for should be kept from being aired at an institution purportedly designed to promote critical thinking,” one signee wrote.
“The IYSSE’s anti-war perspective has come under attack internationally, including by university managements, governments and fascistic Ukrainian nationalist groups that have tried, unsuccessfully, to block, obstruct or shut down a series of its meetings.”
“If one considers the programmatic principles of the IYSSE against the backdrop of Australia’s spearheading role in the US-led war preparations against China, one can only determine that your refusal to reaffiliate a long-standing and popular anti-war student organization is politically motivated.”
On July 17, the Student Representatives Conference (FSVK) of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) passed a resolution in camera calling for opponents of war and socialists to be censored and banned from campus.
Emboldened by Republican and Democratic politicians who have renounced any pretensions of “reform,” police throughout the country continue to shoot, assault and torture working class and poor people.
Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, has made accommodations for asylum seekers so difficult than hundreds of them slept on the sidewalk in front of the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan for over a week.
Robert Bowers, 50, was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Pittsburgh on Wednesday after his conviction on numerous capital charges stemming from his mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, which killed 11 and injured six in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.
The case of the Newburgh Four exposed the US government’s campaign to create bogus Islamic terrorism plots.
From the recent AfD congress, it is clear it is positioning itself as an openly fascist party for next year’s European elections.
Nowhere is the destructive impact of the multi-billioned oligarchy’s profiteering clearer than in the fossil fuel industry.
The cut in the Citizen’s Income and the brutal way in which it is being carried out are a deliberate provocation. The government of Giorgia Meloni is showing its true fascist face.
Britain’s central bank and the Sunak government are reliant on the trade union bureaucracy to enforce wage restraint and stifle growing social anger.
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.
The lessons of the Korean War should not be forgotten. It is a graphic demonstration of the ruthlessness with which US imperialism will pursue its economic and strategic interests with complete disregard for human life and suffering.
In this interview, Wheatcroft discusses his findings on the Soviet famine, the attacks on the concept of historical objectivity, and the current climate in academia.
Mehring Books is pleased to announce the publication of Marcus Garvey and the Reactionary Logic of Racialist Politics by Lawrence Porter, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
The latest summer surge, which is the fourth in four years of the pandemic, upends all the lies that COVID-19 is now “endemic” and equivalent to the cold or flu.
The latest wastewater data underscore that the summer surge of COVID-19 has been well underway for some time, despite the near-total blackout by capitalist politicians and the corporate media.
The CDC reported that COVID-related hospitalizations have begun to climb, confirming that a summer surge is underway.
Wastewater data for June indicates that the number of infections across the US has risen by more than 60 percent.
The documents released last week call for New Zealand’s military to be made “combat-ready,” so it can join in a US-led war against China well beyond New Zealand’s territory.
There is nothing defensive about Tokyo’s intentions, as the Japanese ruling class seeks to remove constitutional restrictions on its military and once again conduct war in pursuit of its imperialist interests.
The 4,000 Japanese workers join a growing international strike movement in a country where the unions have long suppressed the class struggle.
As it has done on multiple occasions to arm Ukraine, the Biden administration for the first time has handed over military equipment to Taiwan drawn directly from US defence stockpiles.
The SEP held a well-attended and moving meeting last Saturday honouring the life of former general secretary Wije Dias and his decades-long political struggle for Trotskyism.
While workers want to fight to defend their rights, trade union leaders are calling for the establishment of corporatist bodies that will impose the demands of companies and the government.
The Wickremesinghe government’s new labour laws are in order to impose the International Monetary Fund’s austerity program and make workers and the poor pay for the crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism.
The Modi regime is stepping up pressure on Colombo to align itself with India’s geopolitical interests and sideline China.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has not charged the ex-president with crimes such as insurrection and seditious conspiracy related to the violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
No justice will come from trying a child as an adult; in doing so, it will not address the underlying social and cultural factors and pressures that played their part, namely the glorification of violence, militarism, and profit.
In the face of 40 felony counts in the classified documents case and pending indictments in Georgia and Washington related to the failed coup, Trump repeated his fascistic appeals in speeches over the weekend.
Following the release of the updated indictment, Trump once again denounced the Justice Department investigations as political harassment and election interference and vowed to continue his bid for a new term in the White House, even if he is a convicted felon.
The monthly federal jobs report showed that hiring slowed in July, with 187,000 jobs added, falling below economists’ projections.
There has been a shocking decline in the global Human Development Index (HDI), measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. It has declined for two years in a row, for the first time ever.
The Fed is trying to tread a fine line as it lifts rates to try to combat the wages struggles of the working class by slowing the economy without lifting them at such a pace as would cause major problems for financial markets.
Bans on the exports of computer chips to China imposed last October “essentially seek to eradicate, root and branch, China’s entire ecosystem of advanced technology.”
Police opened fire with water cannon on protests throughout Israel against the passage of the law.
While Congress overwhelmingly approved a resolution denying that Israel is a racist state, the White House invited the racist-in-chief, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to make an official visit to Washington..
Albanese said the high number of criminal convictions for Palestinians stems from “violations of international law and criminalization of ordinary acts of life. There is no other way to define the regime that Israel has imposed on the Palestinians—which is apartheid by default—other than an open-air prison.”
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the military coup in Egypt. On July 3, 2013, the then-military chief General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi took power with the support of the imperialist powers and established one of the most brutal and bloodiest regimes in the entire globe.
The ruling Workers Party (PT) tried to avoid the convening of the commission at all costs in order to hide the true extent of the plot to overthrow constitutional rule.
Created in 1990, the São Paulo Forum claims to have inaugurated a “renewal” of Latin America’s nominal left.
The July 19 protests were the largest nationwide since March, but still dominated by indigenous peasant groups and students as the official “left” refuses to mobilize the working class.
While broad sectors of the pseudo-left have embraced the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, groups like the Workers Cause Party in Brazil seek to divert opposition to imperialism into support for bourgeois nationalism.
The WSWS had the opportunity to speak to Canadian forest fire scientist, Dr. Ellen Whitman, on the recent unprecedented fires raging across the Canadian boreal forests.
The simultaneous heatwaves across the world are a direct result of global warming.
Rho Ophiuchi is the nearest star-forming region to Earth and includes dozens of young stars, the majority of which are estimated to be less than 1 million years old.
Temperatures in excess of 110 degrees are posing a risk to human health with over 100 million people affected by extreme heat across much of the United States.
In an indication of the seriousness with which the suit is being taken, several articles about Lehman’s suit have appeared in leading legal news outlets over the past week.
In this video, Will Lehman and his attorney discuss the lawsuit Lehman filed Monday against the Biden administration’s Department of Labor over the fraudulent UAW election.
The unprecedented low-cost loan to Ford by the Biden administration reveals the extent to which the transition to EV production is being underwritten by the capitalist state.
Autoworker Rank-and-File Network members support Will Lehman's lawsuit against the Labor Department sanction of the rigged UAW election.
Following the release of the updated indictment, Trump once again denounced the Justice Department investigations as political harassment and election interference and vowed to continue his bid for a new term in the White House, even if he is a convicted felon.
While on bail for attempted murder after shooting a 17-year-old Hispanic teenager in the head, then 20-year-old Beddingfield travelled to D.C. with his father to participate in the coup.
Prosecutors allege 37-year-old Taylor Taranto had two firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a machete in the van he drove to Obama’s house.
Despite receiving dozens of specific tips warning of an imminent attack on Congress, neither the FBI nor the Department of Homeland Security issued a threat assessment prior to January 6.
March 20 marks 20 years since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, launched on the basis of lies. At the time of the initial invasion, the WSWS published many statements on the background of the war, its history and its implications. This page features some of the most important statements.
The United Auto Workers shut down the powerful 40-day strike after pushing through a concessions-laden contract, which workers had decisively rejected two times before.
It has taken less than three months for UAW President Shawn Fain and his administration to demonstrate conclusively where they stand: on the side of the corporations and opposed to the interests of the workers they claim to represent.
The sabotage by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy of the courageous strike by workers at the Toledo, Ohio, area auto battery plant is a warning to autoworkers facing their own contract battle this September.
It is already clear that the deal is nothing more than a repackaging of the first two sellout agreements brought back by the UAW bureaucracy, which workers courageously voted down by overwhelming margins.
Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.
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 following is the text of the opening report delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to the International May Day Online Rally 2023, held Sunday, April 30.
Together, the speakers set out a political programme capable of uniting the international working class and mobilising its immense social power in a struggle against the world’s major corporations and governments.
This is the report delivered by Alex Lantier, national secretary of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
This is the report delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.
“Nowadays May Day is used as political propaganda by the trade unions and the capitalist parties. In fact, May Day belongs to the workers and it should be a day that brings together workers in struggle in every country.” –Kandy Hospital nurse
The SEP held an important meeting Sunday afternoon entitled: “After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity!”
The Ukrainian edition of the WSWS will publish critical historical and programmatic documents that will create the foundations for a Ukrainian section of the ICFI.
The SEP held an online memorial meeting to pay tribute to the life of Regina Lohr, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 66.
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.
Behind the threats of the imperialist powers and Niger’s former colonial master who has no compunctions about crushing opposition to his rule in the interests of France’s financial elite, there is considerable apprehension that the coup will endanger their predatory interests in the region.
Protests are regularly outlawed, with police setting up blockades to stop marching demonstrators and refusing to provide details of the rising number of dead, injured and arrested.
Japan’s involvement in Africa is above all aimed at securing access to resources while promoting remilitarization.
United Nations figures show that more than 420 people have been killed, including at least 256 civilians, and more than 3,500 wounded since fighting broke out on April 15.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
One worker said: “I think it’s a good idea to have an international movement for the working class against war and for democratic rights, for workers to unite, it makes sense.”
The media misinformation was aimed at covering up the crisis of the two-party system and trying to ensure a “stable” government to implement budget austerity.
Among those who spoke out were victims of last year’s floods in Lismore, a regional city, where thousands of residents are still living in substandard accommodation more than a year after the floods.
Contrary to media claims, the result is no ringing endorsement of Labor. Instead it expresses a deepening of the crisis of the two-party set-up.
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.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
This five-part series and historical timeline exposes Snyder’s Bloodlands as a work of falsification, aimed at justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far-right.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
Fauci’s aim in lending credence to the conspiracy theory, which he knows to be a lie, is to distract attention from the antiscientific policies carried out under the Trump and Biden administrations that led to the deaths of over a million Americans.
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.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
The race-obsessed middle class layers which Hannah-Jones epitomizes are fundamentally fearful of and hostile to the growing movement of the working class. The last thing they want is for the party to end when there is yet so much money to be made.
This report was given by Clara Weiss to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution, “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
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.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
Twitter owner and fascistic billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged late Thursday that he had shut down the accounts of numerous prominent journalists earlier in the day, claiming falsely that they had violated a new policy on the platform against “doxxing."
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 June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
This shameful campaign reached new heights Tuesday when concerted efforts were made to prevent Comaroff from teaching. Provocations were organized both inside and outside the classroom.
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
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.
Central to NATO’s plans to defeat Russia and force regime change in Moscow is aerial supremacy over the Ukrainian battlefield. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Zelensky said, “We want to create this jet coalition.”
The US military published a series of documents Thursday outlining US plans for war with Russia and China, and asserting the central role of nuclear weapons in US warfighting.
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Steinmeier's remarks to invited soldiers, journalists, think tank representatives and leading politicians can only be described as a “war speech to the nation.” The focus was de facto a declaration of war on Russia and the Russian population.
The latest “Constitutional Protection Report” published by the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s domestic intelligence service) at the end of June aims to silence anyone who criticises the mass death being organised by the NATO powers, calls social inequality by its name, and rejects the government’s pro-war narrative.
The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion on the Soviet Union.
Around 3,000 officers from the special police forces stormed 137 locations in 11 federal states on Wednesday morning and arrested 25 people. Another 27 people are being investigated. The state prosecutor has accused them of being members or supporters of a terrorist organisation.
Regardless of whether the pending investigations can demonstrate that the agents gave the impetus to the planned terrorist attacks, a picture emerges of a right-wing extremist milieu organized and controlled by the state.
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.
The1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki constitute one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed. To this day, only the US government and military, the self-proclaimed leadership of the “free world,” have used nuclear weapons.
Whatever the outcome of the legal proceedings against the ex-president, the drive towards dictatorship and war is rooted in the crisis of American and world capitalism.
As US officials demand a fight to the last Ukrainian, the scale of the bloodbath is coming into view.
In its decision, Fitch Ratings Agency said there had been a “steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters.”
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 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.
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.
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
The fathers of two of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster are campaigning for the release of documents and correspondence relating to a 2013 decision to drop charges against Pike River CEO Peter Whittall.
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.
Thanks to her lively depictions and her factual, yet sensitive descriptions, the author brings to life the "hell of Moria".
His works are so permeated with misanthropy and a hostility to human progress that his literary output represents a step back from the great American writers of the 20th century.
Gilbert explained she was “removing the book from its publication schedule” because of complaints about its Soviet-Russian setting.
McWhorter's book offers biting criticism of racialism, but it explains neither where this ideology comes from nor how to combat it.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
