Judging by the response of the UAW bureaucracy and corporate media to Joe Biden’s brief visit to a UAW picket line in Michigan Tuesday, the president and former Delaware senator has transformed himself overnight from a longtime representative of the corporations into the greatest champion of the working class since Karl Marx himself.
M1 Abrams tanks from the United States have arrived in Ukraine, the Pentagon confirmed Monday, in the latest escalation of US involvement in the war.
The revelation that the Unifor bureaucracy violated its own constitution by declaring its sellout contract with Ford Canada ratified despite the opposition of skilled trades workers underscores that autoworkers must urgently seize control of their contract struggle from the union apparatus.
Workers at Ford Oakville Assembly were informed at an in person meeting Monday by Unifor Skilled Trades National Director John Breslin that even though skilled trades had rejected the contract, it was still going to be ratified.
Striking Ford workers at the Michigan Assembly Plant showed no enthusiasm over Biden's photo-op at a nearby warehouse.
The struggle of academic workers at the CSU System is significantly taking place as autoworkers, also represented by the UAW, have begun their battle against the Big Three.
In the decades following World War II, Canada became a safe haven for Ukrainian fascists who had been accomplices of the Nazis in the mass extermination of European Jewry and Hitler's "war of annihilation" against the Soviet Union.
Almost six months after the expiry of collective agreements covering 650,000 Quebec hospital workers, nurses, public school teachers and other public sector workers, the leaders of the Common Front inter-union alliance have announced that they will poll their members on a possible strike.
The next mission for the spacecraft will be orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Apophis starting in April 2029.
The University of Pennsylvania informed acclaimed rock music artist and activist Roger Waters that he would not be permitted to participate in-person on a panel scheduled Friday evening at the Palestine Writes festival hosted by the university.
Amid massive protests in Niger against French imperialism, French President Macron announced the withdrawal of the French ambassador to Niamey on Sunday.
Criticism of Braverman for prejudicing a future trial barely scratches the surface of what is represented by her intervention. The aim of her proposed review is to provide armed police with de facto immunity from future prosecutions—effectively a license to kill.
The revelations, which included the possibility of secret graves on site, are just one of the many hidden crimes of the dark and violent history of Australian capitalism against Aboriginal people.
“There should be a further investigation into the deaths at Kinchela. Things have been swept under the rug.”
Biden’s tourist stop in Detroit is an effort to bolster an increasingly discredited UAW apparatus, lend credibility to its stay on the job "strike," and facilitate a sellout of the workers.
“The auto companies are making millions and we are making pennies,“ a picketing Michigan Ford worker said.
It is increasingly clear that the UAW is finalizing its preparations to announce an agreement with Ford Motor Company, one which will be completely in line with the company’s demands for massive attacks on jobs and wages.
The announcement by Unifor Sunday that the three-year sellout agreement announced last week had been ratified with 54 percent support has been met by an outpouring of anger and disbelief.
The event reflects the objective change that has been underway for some time in the relationship between Trotskyism and the international working class.
This is the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North given on Sunday, August 20, honoring the life and political legacy of Leon Trotsky.
The penetration of GPU agents into the Fourth International played a fatal role in the assassination of Trotsky.
Trotsky spent the critical years of his exile on Prinkipo writing masterpieces and organizing the Left Opposition in the Communist International all over the world.
The Canadian parliament’s standing ovation of a Nazi war criminal was a deliberate move to rehabilitate Nazism as part of the NATO offensive against Russia.
The UAW is using a tactic developed by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) that has led to a disaster for airline workers.
Considering the enormous sums of money dependent on the public’s continuing to attend concerts, a pressure exists, on individual musicians and on promoters, to avoid associating such events with COVID.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's appearance at the United Nations in New York underlined how aggressively German imperialism is behaving again, despite its historical crimes.
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
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.
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Hundreds of reps and workers have been abandoned and “The call by our committee for a fightback has resonated at mail centres, delivery and sorting offices up and down the country.”
Whatever the result of the upcoming election, Amazon workers will need new organizations to mobilize their strength independent of the trade union apparatus.
Mega-chicken processors Tyson Foods and Perdue are suspected of hiring migrant children to clean slaughterhouses in Virginia.
In interviews with WSWS reporters, students and parents in the fifth largest school district in the US supported teachers demands for increased pay.
Demonstrations against the disastrous state of the public education sector took place in about 30 cities across Germany.
This weekend’s protest revealed continuing popular hostility to Macron’s police state, and the bureaucracies’ attempts to divert opposition in a racialist direction.
Criticism of Braverman for prejudicing a future trial barely scratches the surface of what is represented by her intervention. The aim of her proposed review is to provide armed police with de facto immunity from future prosecutions—effectively a license to kill.
On September 5 last year, a firearms officer shot the unarmed Kaba in the head. The murder charge has prompted fellow firearms officers and the Conservative government to rally round in his defence.
The announcement by a subsidiary of the giant property developer Evergrande that it has defaulted on a bond has thrown into doubt a long-developed plan for the restructuring of its debts.
Minns’s visit to Lismore sought to promote a small house repair scheme relying heavily on volunteer labour, after scrapping a joint housing assistance promise by the state and federal Labor governments
In just two months, China’s foreign minister has been removed and the defence minister has been absent from public view for weeks. These unexplained events point to growing political tensions and infighting within the Beijing regime.
Regardless of the prospect of a repeat of the catastrophic 2019‒20 bushfire season, virtually nothing has been done to mitigate the risks.
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The break with Wohlforth is among the most significant events in the history of the ICFI, involving fundamental issues of historical perspective, political principle, organizational security and the defense of dialectical materialism.
This lecture was delivered by Max Boddy, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
Prime Minister Albanese issued his plea as media polls reported a parallel fall in support for the Voice and the Labor government, above all because of the worsening cost-of-living crisis.
In the struggle to end the oppression of Aboriginal people, the critical issue is the development of an independent political movement of the working class, directed against the entire political establishment, its program of war and austerity, and the capitalist system itself.
“This boycott involves more than just casting informal ballots. It requires active participation in the campaign leading up to the referendum on the October 14.”
The Socialist Equality Party urges workers and youth to reject both the Yes and the No cases presented by the ruling political establishment and calls for an active boycott campaign to oppose the referendum itself.
The determination and solidarity of the writers and actors is undeniable, and inspiring. But that does not lead to the conclusion that the agreement is “exceptional,” with “meaningful gains and protections for writers.”
The behind-closed-doors talks represent a grave danger to the striking writers, who have made immense sacrifices over the course of more than 140 days.
Legal and democratic rights must be defended to put an end to the situation where public figures can be torn down on the basis purely of allegations.
A flagrant example of censorship occurred last month, when objections from police officers led to the abrupt closure of all art exhibitions at municipal galleries in San Mateo, California.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality declares that Sri Lankan youth and students will only be able to secure their future by fighting against capitalism and for socialism.
On Monday, the online edition of the Berliner Zeitung, one of the most popular media outlets in the German capital, prominently reported on the student protest and the "sharp criticism of the president and professors of Berlin's Humboldt University" made by the IYSSE due to the "exhibition of grisly photos at HU.”
The future for young people is dominated by a series of crises, including: the escalation of the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, another surge of COVID-19 infections, the deadly consequences of climate change, and the rise of the far-right across Europe and attacks on democratic rights.
The vote by the Board of Governors to approve the cuts came despite almost unanimous opposition from the student body and faculty and marks a new stage in the assault on public education and the right to culture by the working class in the US and internationally.
On September 30, 1973, the Chilean military death squad nicknamed “The Caravan of Death” began a two-month-long campaign of political assassinations and terror against opponents of the new dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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).
As the Biden administration lifts all remaining restraints on its direct involvement in the Ukraine war, Washington's claim that the US is not at war with Russia is unraveling.
The Trudeau Liberal government and Canada’s political establishment as a whole are in damage-control mode after Ottawa’s longstanding ties to the Nazis’ Ukrainian fascist collaborators and their political descendants were brought too far into the limelight.
Polish officials’ statements reflect explosive international and class tensions unleashed by the escalating NATO war on Russia in Ukraine.
Amid a deepening military crisis triggered by the collapse of Ukraine’s spring offensive, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spent hours Thursday meeting behind closed doors at the Pentagon, as well as with US President Joe Biden, top Cabinet officials, the US Senate, and leading House lawmakers.
The powerful Senate Democrat is charged with a bribery conspiracy involving three New Jersey businessmen and the Egyptian military dictatorship.
McCarthy has put forward a continuing resolution that would fund the government at a sharply reduced rate through October to keep the government running while he works to hash out a budget deal with the Biden White House and the Democratic-controlled Senate. It does not include funding for the Ukraine war.
While Republicans screamed and yelled about Hunter Biden, Democrats barely mentioned the far greater crimes of Donald Trump.
Political warfare between Trump-aligned members of the House Freedom Caucus and Speaker Kevin McCarthy over proposed spending cuts is driving the government towards a shutdown at the end of the month.
The indictment of Senator Robert Menendez, his wife Nadine and three New Jersey businessmen with connections to the Egyptian government on bribery charges has exposed the depths of corruption existing within the political establishment.
Infighting between ultra-right factions of the Republican Party is the immediate trigger for the failure to pass a budget.
Locking hands with Republican anti-immigrant fascists, the Biden administration announced on Wednesday the deployment of an additional 800 US Army soldiers to the border.
An anesthesiologist at Emory University Hospital described the execution method as “death by asphyxiation. This is choking someone to death with a gas. Why anyone would think that would be something pleasant or painless is really beyond my understanding.”
Government cuts and hyperinflation have led to a drastic rundown of education facilities and the increasing inability of parents to pay for the education of their children.
The Sri Lankan government encourages people to seek employment abroad to boost foreign exchange earnings but is indifferent to their ruthless exploitation and harassment.
The Wickremesinghe government has launched a vicious campaign against the drivers, describing the walkout as an act of “train terrorism.”
When enacted, the main target of these repressive measures, will be workers, youth and the rural masses seeking a way to defeat Wickremesinghe’s IMF-dictated austerity measures.
The Fed wants the unemployment rate to rise, with projections by members of the FOMC—the so-called dot plot—putting the jobless rate at 4.1 percent next year, up from its present level of 3.8 percent.
The Bank for International Settlements has said in its quarterly review that “speculation is back,” based on massive leverage with the potential to set off a crisis.
In her press conference, ECB president Christine Lagarde described the economy as slow and sluggish with estimates by officials putting growth at only 0.7 percent for 2023, 1.0 percent in 2024, rising to 1.5 percent in 2025.
Gurner said the unemployment rate must rise by 50 percent to hit the working class and change its “attitudes” and “arrogance” by bringing “pain” to the economy.
There are growing signs in the region that the eastern Libyan authorities are preparing a bloody crackdown against protests in Derna.
As Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso develop ties with Russia, the danger is mounting that the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine will explode across Africa.
Amidst massive working class opposition to French Imperialism throughout the Sahel, Revolution Permanente presents the Gabon coup as a purely national conflict within the Gabonese bourgeoisie.
The backdoor maneuvering of the Nigerien junta with Washington exposes its posture of opposition to French imperialism as a fraud.
Many viral infections that plague humans originate from bats, yet intriguingly bats suffer no ill effects from the myriad of viruses that inhabit their bodies, a phenomenon scientists are researching in the hope of finding insights into how to moderate impacts on humans.
Considering the enormous sums of money dependent on the public’s continuing to attend concerts, a pressure exists, on individual musicians and on promoters, to avoid associating such events with COVID.
Turkish officials and media have been forced to acknowledge that the pandemic is on the rise, but are working to suppress calls for necessary public health measures.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said that the White House will reinstitute the policy of sending Americans free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.
The tour reflected a groundswell of support for Assange among ordinary people, but also underscored the bankruptcy of a fight for his freedom based on backroom diplomacy and politicking.
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.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
The delegation led by AOC was aimed at lulling workers in the US and across Latin America while lending US imperialism a “democratic” face.
With the numerous investigations against ex-president Bolsonaro getting closer to high-ranking military officers, the Lula government has redoubled its efforts to cover up the role of the armed forces in January 8’s coup attempt.
On top of the flooding and fires, Chile confronts a water crisis that is due not only to protracted drought, but also to the wholesale privatization of the nation’s water supplies, 80 percent of which are controlled by corporate interests.
Whether under Maduro, Machado or any other capitalist politician, the Venezuelan ruling elite offers no alternative to the subordination of the country to foreign finance capital, which is intent on exploiting its natural resources and cheap labor.
Many viral infections that plague humans originate from bats, yet intriguingly bats suffer no ill effects from the myriad of viruses that inhabit their bodies, a phenomenon scientists are researching in the hope of finding insights into how to moderate impacts on humans.
A review of An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family, by Alison Bashford.
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.
Fain and the UAW bureaucrats aren’t putting forward a strategy, but the rank and file must, in order to take control of our struggle.
The filing takes apart the ridiculous claims by the DOL that Lehman should have filed his complaint—which centered on the fact that the historically low turnout was the product of deliberate voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy--before the election results were known.
The August 8 letter from the Office of Labor-Management Standards Enforcement ignores the widespread evidence of voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy.
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.
A regime of mass deportations and administrative detentions, long used against the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, will inevitably be used against Israeli workers as well.
That conditions across Syria are dire is indisputable, but primary responsibility for this rests with US imperialism and its European counterparts.
Netanyahu hopes to derail the protest movement opposed to his far-right government’s efforts to grant itself dictatorial powers, and to unite Israelis amid the threat of a wider war.
Sometimes upwards of 100 people were killed in a single assault. Mass killings continued as the victims fled back toward Yemen. Mass graves are being dug at crossing points along the border.
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.
Steven Sund’s testimony before Congress confirms that the Democrats are covering up the complicity of military brass and police and intelligence officials in Trump's fascist assault on the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election.
Recently published excerpts from a biography of the former Republican presidential candidate confirm that virtually the entire US government was aware of Trump’s violent plans.
The special grand jury recommended charges against top Trump advisors and Republican senators not named in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ August 14 indictment, which charged the ex-president and 18 others.
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the fascistic militia group and protégé of Trump political crony Roger Stone, was previously convicted of six felonies related to the failed coup, including seditious conspiracy.
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 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.
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
The 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.
“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.
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.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
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.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
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 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.
Judging by the response of the UAW bureaucracy and corporate media to Joe Biden’s brief visit to a UAW picket line in Michigan Tuesday, the president and former Delaware senator has transformed himself overnight from a longtime representative of the corporations into the greatest champion of the working class since Karl Marx himself.
Biden’s tourist stop in Detroit is an effort to bolster an increasingly discredited UAW apparatus, lend credibility to its stay on the job "strike," and facilitate a sellout of the workers.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's appearance at the United Nations in New York underlined how aggressively German imperialism is behaving again, despite its historical crimes.
Emergency meetings should be called at locals, resolutions passed in favour of an industry-wide walkout, and preparations made for broadening the strike in the US and launching one at all Detroit Three operations in Canada.
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.
