The contradictions that drive capitalism to destruction also set into motion the conditions for its overthrow and the reorganization of society on a new and progressive, i.e., socialist, foundation.
The political crisis in the United States is rooted in the global crisis of capitalism, which threatens working people with war, social austerity and dictatorship.
Israel is determined to assault Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where over a million people are sheltering, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday.
On the flimsiest of pretexts, Washington has arrogated to itself the right to carry out murderous attacks across the Middle East, deliberately inflaming tensions throughout the region.
Facing intense anger over its collusion in the mass firing of temp workers, the UAW has announced that Stellantis is considering mass layoffs at the suburban Detroit-area plant.
The assault on jobs has impacted every industry, including the healthcare sector, which suffered nearly 60,000 job cuts in 2023.
The second of the three-volume biography of Cannon is an indispensable source on the early history of Trotskyism in the US.
Michael Feinstein: “It’s quite remarkable to consider that this piece is 100 years old, because the cultural impact, the musical influence is as strong as ever, if not stronger.”
Reading the now largely unredacted Rodal report, one understands why it was kept secret for almost 40 years. It demonstrates that many of Justice Jules Deschenes’ conclusions in the official Report on War Criminals in Canada were lies.
A protester said, "It seems to be that war is the answer every time, and we are the taxpayers who are paying for it, and we haven’t voted for that."
Speaking to a few thousand supporters, the aspiring dictator articulated his police state agenda which includes greatly expanding the border police.
The Max Planck Society has dismissed the internationally renowned scientist, who worked as a guest lecturer in social anthropology in Halle, without notice for condemning the Israeli mass murder of Palestinians on social media.
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's comments denouncing protests are worthy of a police state. They signal a further assault on democratic rights in the UK in defence of Israel’s war of annihilation against the Palestinians.
Like all wars, the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine is creating golden opportunities for the capitalist parasites to turn human blood into dollars and euros. Workers have no interest in supporting the American or European bourgeoisies in their squabble to determine who acquires the lion’s share of the booty.
Svart’s decision to step down from the top post in the DSA, one she has held for over 12 years, is one of many indications of a major political crisis in the organization, which functions as a faction of the Democratic Party.
In remarks at the White House, the Democratic president said he would put the blame on the Republicans for the supposed “crisis” at the US-Mexico border.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
The unfolding genocide in Gaza is the realization of “the descent into the abyss” of which James P. Cannon warned in his Open Letter, published 70 years ago last week.
On Friday, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement asserting that he had ordered the Israeli military to submit a plan for the forced evacuation of the southern town of Rafah, where one million refugees from other areas of Gaza have been driven.
The Argentine ruling class is drenching its hands with the blood of Gazans as a means of renewing its historic counter-revolutionary relationship with the Israeli bourgeoisie.
HBO has dropped the actor from the acclaimed series over allegations that he supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Just as the US—with Australian government support—tried to silence Julian Assange, so the Zionists are trying to intimidate and censor Australian health workers.”—Mental health nurse.
Students joining walkouts and rallies expressed their anger over the integration of universities with Britain’s and Israel’s war machine.
What has been served up is precisely the type of empty “solidarity” criticised by the Palestinian trade unions when they appealed for concrete action to stop arms production and shipments to Israel by the imperialist powers.
President Steinmeier invited the unions and employers to his official residence to discuss their support for the government’s policies of social cuts and war.
The so-called Audi Independent Union, its pseudo-left backers and most of the media are ignoring the announcement of plans to transition the plant completely to electric vehicle production, which implies major job cuts.
A-B workers not only face challenges from the company, they are also contending with the Teamsters bureaucracy, which is grandstanding over potential strike action like it did at UPS before ramming through a sellout contract.
Protests and strikes have erupted by autoworkers at the historic Stellantis Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, in response to the threat of the plant’s closure.
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 real relationship of forces, above all the role of the working class, is missing from this account.
Robert Sutton was the Superintendent of Manassas National Battlefield Park for over 12 years and later Chief Historian of the National Park Service.
Reed’s The South is unique among memoirs of the Jim Crow era in that it is intertwined with historical and social analysis.
The film defies the banality of Hollywood narratives and depictions, returning to the cinema the humanity and richness that belong in the arts and that audiences deserve.
The 37th film in the Godzilla franchise and the fourth Toho-led remake of the 1954 original film returns to its anti-nuclear-war inspirations to considerable box office success.
Her crime? Speaking out in opposition to the ongoing mass murder of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
By inviting the AfD, the Berlin Senate and the Green Party-led Culture Ministry are repudiating the Berlinale’s 2019 pledge to deny a “platform for racist-nationalist propaganda.”
The far-right ACT Party, a widely-despised member of New Zealand’s coalition government, is actively stoking racism by falsely portraying indigenous Māori as privileged. The aim is to divide the working class and divert attention from attacks on living standards.
At an Indian-government sponsored conference in Perth, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong accused Beijing of a “rapid military buildup” threatening the entire region.
The deployment is particularly provocative toward Beijing as US special forces are now based on Kinmen, a group of fortified islands just 10 kilometres from the Chinese port city of Xiamen.
The health unions’ “campaign” against paid parking is a fraud, designed to allow workers to let off steam, while preventing any real challenge to the latest attack on take-home pay.
“It’s terrifying that we’re allowing this to happen. Every piece of research I see about COVID underlines the fact that this is not a cold, it’s a multi-system vascular disease and is causing all kinds of damage to our brains and bodies.”
COVID transmission across the US remains at an alarming level. Deaths from COVID and rates of Long COVID continue to plague the population.
The global resurgence of measles has raised alarms across the world about the threat of a pathogen that just two decades ago was nearly eradicated.
The Workers Party government is continuing and deepening the “herd immunity” policy initiated by fascistic ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, normalizing continuous waves of mass infection, debilitation and death.
While Ceylon Electricity Board workers have made clear that they will fight the government and management witch-hunt, the trade unions have done everything possible to prevent a mass mobilisation to fight these anti-democratic attacks.
Dissanayake’s five-day trip signifies a further rightward shift by the JVP, as it bolsters its relations with reactionary regimes throughout the region and internationally.
“The attempts of the PPSS and SLPP to intimidate our comrades, workers and young people with cowardly acts of violence will fail.”–International Youth and Students for Social Equality in the United States
In this monumental work, Trotsky laid bare the laws governing the emergence, growth, and inevitable destruction of the Soviet bureaucracy.
While Special Counsel Robert Hur ultimately decided against bringing charges against Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents, his multiple comments on Biden’s deteriorating cognition have further imperiled his 2024 candidacy.
Svart’s decision to step down from the top post in the DSA, one she has held for over 12 years, is one of many indications of a major political crisis in the organization, which functions as a faction of the Democratic Party.
Virtually every justice indicated he or she was prepared to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that the January 6, 2021 insurrection makes Trump ineligible for the presidency.
Trying to resuscitate Biden’s plummeting standing among a vast majority of humanity, the fake socialist from New York was summoned to cable news to gin up support for “Genocide Joe.”
The smear campaign is aimed at suppressing opposition to the US-Israel genocide in Gaza.
The head of the Emirates Airline has said Boeing is in the “last chance saloon” for dealing with the major problems caused by the domination of finance over its manufacturing process.
Speaking for affluent sections of the middle class, QS is organically hostile to the prospect of broadening the struggle of public sector workers by appealing to the entire working class, not just in Quebec but across Canada.
In an unprecedented prosecution, a jury in county court in Pontiac, Michigan found Jennifer Crumbley, mother of the high school student who killed four classmates in November 2021, guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
The worst fire disaster in Chile’s history is primarily a consequence of a capitalist-made climate crisis that is with increased frequency devastating populations in every corner of the planet.
For the third time in four months, Federal Police have raided addresses connected to illegal intelligence gathering, including a beach house used by former president Bolsonaro.
Bukele easily won re-election based upon crime reduction, but social and economic conditions are pushing Salvadoran workers into struggle against his government.
A wildfire engulfed entire neighborhoods this weekend in Valparaíso and Viña del Mar in central Chile, leaving at least 122 dead and 190 missing.
The new party aims to contain the growing resistance to the war policy and suppress the class struggle that stands in the way of the war plans of the ruling class.
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s purpose is to ensure that the US’s military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean can continue to operate unimpeded. It also appears that London has dropped plans to hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, citing “concerns” over its relations with China.
That millions of people have taken to the streets in Germany shows how hated the far right is and that they only see their anger articulated through ongoing demonstrations.
Institute for Government figures show that even with the £600 million in additional funding, the core money available to councils will still be 10 percent lower than in 2010-11.
Higher interest rates are an instrument to suppress wage demands but at the same time they threaten to bring financial instability.
This week, three banks on three different continents have revealed significant losses and problems due to their exposure to commercial property.
Wall Street fell after Fed chair Powell said a March cut was not its “base case.”
The decision followed months of intense negotiations as international creditors moved against Evergrande to get some of their money back.
The words “genocide,” “mass murder” and “ethnic cleansing” do not appear in the statement. The “ceasefire” which the statement calls for would be entirely on Israel’s terms.
The Rank-and-File Committee to Fight Job Cuts, set up by fired Stellantis temporary workers, has issued the this statement.
The UAW’s bogus “stand up” strike had a negligible impact on the auto giant’s 2023 profits, Ford‘s earnings report confirmed on Tuesday.
The world’s third-largest automaker is cutting jobs in the US, Italy and France as the auto corporations seek to gain an edge in the highly competitive electric vehicle market.
One year after the disaster of February 2023, nothing concrete has been done to ensure the safety of those living in disaster-prone areas. The obstacles are not natural but social.
The Turkish government and the entire political establishment are responsible for the devastation following the earthquake. As far as Syria is concerned, the US-led NATO powers bear the main responsibility.
The 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake killed tens of thousands of people and left millions homeless. Hundreds of millions of people have been abandoned to their fate in the face of new earthquakes and similar hazards.
US imperialism is rapidly and recklessly plunging the Middle East into a region-wide war that together with the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine threatens to engulf the world.
Scholz intends to strengthen his support for President Joe Biden and ensure that the costly and dangerous war against Russia continues at all costs.
Zelensky’s firing of Zaluzhny risks a severe backlash from the country’s far-right political groups which have been armed by the imperialist powers for over a decade.
The conflict between the top army leadership and the Zelensky administration is unfolding under conditions of a serious military, political and economic crisis.
Trudeau’s invitation to the Waffen-SS veteran underscores that all factions of the ruling elite, including its purported “liberal” wing, are ready to use far-right and outright Nazi forces in aggressive pursuit of their imperialist interests around the world.
The fact that genocide has been adopted as policy by all the major capitalist powers is a warning. Gaza is the test case, the imperialist powers are making clear that there are no “red lines” they will not cross in their struggle to sustain their hegemonic rule.
During a pro-Palestinian student and faculty protest at Columbia University, two Zionists who had served in the IDF sprayed students with an irritant resembling an Israeli chemical weapon called “Skunk.”
Students and faculty at Columbia rallied and spoke out against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the attacks on democratic rights on campuses.
The forced resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on December 9 marks a new stage in a state-orchestrated campaign to attack basic democratic rights on campuses.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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.
For allegedly exposing illegal CIA hacking and spying operations, Joshua Schulte has been treated like a terrorist and held in conditions akin to a medieval dungeon.
The WikiLeaks publisher is perilously close to being extradited to the US, where he would face life imprisonment for exposing US-led war crimes, human rights abuses and diplomatic conspiracies.
Albanese’s lie that the Biden administration cannot end the prosecution of Assange is a greenlight for the extradition and persecution of the Australian publisher.
Murray explained in a statement, “the abuse of special anti-terrorism powers at ports in order to seize all papers and communications of journalists is becoming commonplace.”
This discovery significantly pushes back the known evidence of wooden architecture and the investment by humans in permanent structures suggesting relatively more settled occupation at certain locations.
Warming oceans, exacerbated by record melting of Antarctic ice shelfs, could produce heat waves, droughts and destructive storms.
Chimpanzees are aggressive toward chimps of other groups; bonobos of different groups engage in friendly and cooperative behavior toward each other.
A critical reading of the report underscores the impossibility of combining a scientific approach to resolving climate change with the ongoing existence of capitalism.
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.
This is the tribute given by Peter Symonds to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018. The tribute was read at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of Halil’s death.
This is the tribute given by Keith Jones to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018. The tribute was read at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of Halil’s death.
Ratnayake has dedicated his entire adult life, encompassing some six decades, to the fight for the socialist emancipation of the working class and the oppressed masses.
Six of the eight decades of your life have been inextricably connected to the fight for Trotskyism, the defense of the International Committee, and the building of the Fourth International as the World Party of Socialist Revolution.
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.
An open letter, issued by a privileged layer of indigenous figures who led the Voice Yes campaign, further highlights the immense class chasm shown in the referendum’s overwhelming defeat on October 14.
Socialist Alternative’s analysis of the referendum is an attack on the working class, exposing this organisation as a rightward moving representative of privileged layers of the affluent upper middle-class.
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
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 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.
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 lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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.
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.
The conflicts in the Burkina Faso military are deeply entwined with the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, as the Burkinabè junta led by Traoré develops ties with the Kremlin.
The scale of the Moroccan catastrophe is an indictment of the inability of the capitalist system to deliver earthquake-resistant housing and emergency services to the working population.
Amid massive protests in Niger against French imperialism, French President Macron announced the withdrawal of the French ambassador to Niamey on Sunday.
There are growing signs in the region that the eastern Libyan authorities are preparing a bloody crackdown against protests in Derna.
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.
It’s clear the UAW hasn’t been negotiating anything at Mack all this time, they’ve just been keeping us in the dark to prevent us from preparing to fight back against the company’s ruthless demands.
On Monday, July 3, rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman sued the Biden administration’s Department of Labor, demanding that the UAW national officers’ election be rerun with the names of all candidates on the ballot due to massive voter disenfranchisement by the bureaucracy.
“Let’s be clear on what Fain‘s announcement really means: These strikes will have no impact on production. These are parts warehouses that ship components to the dealerships, not suppliers of the Big Three.”
Autoworkers have responded with enthusiasm to the editorial written by the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in 2021.
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.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The 68-year-old far-right lawyer will avoid prison time as long as she abides by the terms of her six-year probation, which includes testifying against her accomplices, including Trump.
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.
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.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
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.
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.
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
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.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
David Marr’s Killing for Country documents many mass killings of indigenous people but falsely blames the entire population, not the ruling class and Australian capitalism.
The documentary follows the writer from his boyhood in the 1930s through his service during World War II and throughout his tumultuous literary, journalistic and personal life.
No doubt Kundera bore responsibility for his own art, his own development and his own mistakes. However, the greater, deeper blame for his unhappy trajectory and fate lies above all with Stalinism.
Reed’s The South is unique among memoirs of the Jim Crow era in that it is intertwined with historical and social analysis.
The political crisis in the United States is rooted in the global crisis of capitalism, which threatens working people with war, social austerity and dictatorship.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's comments denouncing protests are worthy of a police state. They signal a further assault on democratic rights in the UK in defence of Israel’s war of annihilation against the Palestinians.
Like all wars, the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine is creating golden opportunities for the capitalist parasites to turn human blood into dollars and euros. Workers have no interest in supporting the American or European bourgeoisies in their squabble to determine who acquires the lion’s share of the booty.
In remarks at the White House, the Democratic president said he would put the blame on the Republicans for the supposed “crisis” at the US-Mexico border.
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.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
