David North, the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), announced today the selection of Joe Kishore and Jerry White as the SEP's candidates in the 2024 presidential election campaign.
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Kishore has served as the party’s national secretary for nearly 16 years, while White is the labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site . Both candidates have run in prior elections as the SEP’s presidential candidate.
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Mobilize the working class against NATO’s plan to deploy troops in Ukraine!
French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement Monday that sending European troops to Ukraine is “not ruled out” shows that the NATO alliance has taken a decision for war with Russia.
While the 100,000 votes for “uncommitted” rather than Biden express popular outrage over the genocide in Gaza, Democrats promoting the campaign are trying to channel this sentiment behind the capitalist party of war and reaction.
Patrick Martin•
Will books be burned again soon in Germany?
A comment on the attacks on the Berlin International Film Festival
Because some Berlinale laureates and jurors had the courage to call things by their right names instead of being mouthpieces of the powers that be, they are treated like criminals.
Peter Schwarz•
The announcement is a sign of the depth of opposition among Indian workers to Israel’s massacring of tens of thousands of defenceless Palestinians with US-supplied weapons and Washington’s full-throated political support.
Yuan Darwin•
Republican-controlled state governments in Florida and Texas adopted the laws after Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube blocked President Trump for inciting the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress.
John Burton•
While rhetorically comparing the genocide of the Palestinians to Hitler’s extermination of the Jews, Lula covers up the fundamental forces behind the slaughter in Gaza.
Eduardo Parati•
New research challenges key findings of the Christchurch terror attack inquiry and reveals failures by police and security agencies to track and investigate far-right on-line activity.
John Braddock•
The 0.1 percentage point difference between wage growth and inflation is negligible—less than $2 a week for most workers—and does nothing to reverse years of real wage cuts.
Martin Scott•
The so-called “concerted strikes” being organised by service sector union Verdi are in reality fragmenting the industrial action. What is necessary is the building of independent rank-and-file action committees that take the struggle into their own hands.
Andy Niklaus, Ulrich Rippert•
The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism, and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution
(Part One)
The New Year opens against the backdrop of a massive escalation of imperialist violence throughout the world. Genocide and nuclear war are being normalized.
Statement of the WSWS International Editorial Board•
Why has Oppenheimer reached such a large global audience?
Nolan's film is a work that bears re-viewing, and the second or third viewing brings out elements that one has previously missed.
David Walsh•
Tlaib, UAW, pseudo-left promote “uncommitted” diversion on eve of Democratic primary in Michigan
The aim of the “Vote ‘Uncommitted’” maneuver is to promote the illusion that Biden and the Democratic Party as a whole can be shifted through pressure from below from their policies of global war and mass death.
Kathleen Martin, Barry Grey•
“Labor for Ceasefire” event with Rashida Tlaib: Official “pacifism” in the service of war
The real aim of this event was not stopping the genocide in Gaza but blocking the emergence of a politically independent antiwar movement based in the working class.
Tom Hall•
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Alex Lantier•
Patrick Martin•
Johannes Stern•
Jordan Shilton•
10 years since the far-right coup in Kiev
This article, which draws the political lessons of the 2014 far-right coup in Kiev, was submitted to the WSWS by a socialist from Ukraine living abroad.
A Ukrainian socialist•
"Everything that we have to experience today is the result of what happened in February 2014"
Ukrainian youth speak on 10 years of the 2014 coup in Kiev
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 2014 coup in Kiev, the WSWS spoke with youth in Ukraine, whose experiences belie the propaganda in the media.
Clara Weiss•
In Kiev visit, Trudeau reaffirms Canadian imperialism’s support for US-NATO war on Russia
Trudeau announced hundreds of millions of dollars in additional military aid for the far-right Zelensky regime, and unveiled a 10-year Canada-Ukraine security agreement that commits Ottawa to strengthening its military support and cooperation with Kiev.
Roger Jordan•
Two years of the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine
The imperialist governments have not a shred of concern for “democracy” in Ukraine. In reality, they intend to bring Ukraine into their sphere of influence as part of their drive to carve up the Russian Federation, seize its natural resources, and thereby prepare for military conflict with China.
Jordan Shilton•
Andrea Peters•
Peter Schwarz•
Jason Melanovski•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Peter Schwarz•
Biden claims Gaza ceasefire in sight as Palestinians starve
On the ground the reality is that the Palestinians are being starved to death, and Israel is expanding its war.
Thomas Scripps•
Police attack anti-Netanyahu protesters as disillusionment with Gaza offensive grows
There is as yet only a small group protesting against the war itself, supporting a ceasefire and opposing Israel’s occupation, although there are signs this is growing.
Jean Shaoul•
His final message: “I will no longer be complicit in genocide”
Opposing genocide in Gaza, US Air Force soldier live-streams self-immolation in front of Israeli embassy
As 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell succumbed to the flames, he repeatedly shouted, “Free Palestine!”
Jacob Crosse•
Israel pledges to assault 1.4 million Gaza refugees in Rafah city
A US-backed Israeli assault on the defenseless refugee camps in Rafah would cause catastrophic new Palestinian casualties, and risk war with Egypt and other regional powers.
Alex Lantier•
Peter Symonds•
Jean Shaoul•
Jordan Shilton•
Tom Carter•
Andre Damon•
Italian police attack children protesting Gaza genocide
The children were peacefully expressing their democratic right to protest the US-backed Israeli genocide.
Allison Smith•
UK Sunak government moves to outlaw protests over Gaza, with Labour Party backing
Lies claiming widespread intimidation and violent intent are used to justify proposals to restrict and ban protests, as part of an overall clamp down on fundamental democratic rights.
Robert Stevens•
Twenty weeks of protests in Australia against Gaza genocide
“I’m increasingly convinced that socialism is the only option. There’s clearly a need for a change, for a system that doesn’t work in the interests of profit and exploitation.”
Our reporters•
Australian pseudo-left and Greens seek to wear down Gaza protests by appealing to pro-genocide Labor government
It has become increasingly obvious to many participants that the orientation being advanced at the demonstrations—that the same governments backing Israel can be pressured to halt the mass killing and devastation in Gaza—has failed.
Mike Head•
Robert Stevens•
Kate Randall•
Clement Daly•
Chris Marsden•
Our reporters•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
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.
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National “Strike for Palestine” in Italy; public sector workers walk out indefinitely in Lebanon over pay as inflation rages; public sector national strike in Nigeria against low wages and high pricess
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Workers across Italy join “Strike for Palestine,” as police brutally attack protesting students; indefinite public sector pay strike in Lebanon as inflation rages at over 177 percent; public sector national strike in Nigeria against low wages and high prices following big demonstrations in major cities
Macy’s announces 150 store closures as layoffs continue in tech and logistics
The cuts at Macy’s impact about 30 percent of its remaining stores and follow an announcement of 2,300 layoffs in January.
Shannon Jones•
Northern Virginia transit workers’ strike enters second week after union and company negotiations fail
Since last week, several hundred bus drivers, mechanics, utility, facility workers and clerks have been involved in the largest transit strike in the Washington D.C. region since 2019.
Dominic Gustavo, Leon Gutierrez•
“The union is doing nothing”: New York City UPS workers speak out as company announces more layoffs
Around 135 jobs will reportedly be lost at the the Western Region International Air Hub in southern California, one of UPS’ largest air facilities in the country.
Tom Hall, A. Woodson, Steve Light•
Chase Lawrence, Tom Hall•
Alex Findijs•
Anthony Bertolt, George Gallanis•
George Kirby•
Steve Filips•
Anatomy of a Fall: “Forcing the game”
The members of the affluent middle class are inevitably driven into battle against one other, along gender, racial and many other lines.
Penny Smith•
Why has Oppenheimer reached such a large global audience?
Nolan's film is a work that bears re-viewing, and the second or third viewing brings out elements that one has previously missed.
David Walsh•
Berlin Film Festival: Artists courageously speak out against Israel’s genocide despite right-wing media agitation
In a significant blow to the German political establishment and media the documentary film No Other Land won the Panorama Audience Award at this year’s film festival. A number of film makers made powerful statements against Israel’s genocide.
Stefan Steinberg•
J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow: An optimistic view of humanity
Bayona’s film argues very firmly that camaraderie and self-sacrifice, and not “every man for himself” individualism, are what prevail in the bleakest conditions.
Norisa Diaz•
Paul Bond•
Sybille Fuchs•
Verena Nees•
Landon Gourov•
Joanne Laurier•
Hundreds protest, hold vigils across US for non-binary Oklahoma high school student who died after being beaten
Nex Benedict’s family has said they will perform their own independent investigation into the 16-year-old's death.
Chase Lawrence•
Impact of Alabama Supreme Court ruling against in vitro fertilization spreads across the US
The devastating impact of the reactionary Alabama Supreme Court ruling that declared a frozen embryo to be an “unborn child,” with all the rights of a living child, is already being widely felt.
Kevin Reed•
Federal prosecutors charge journalist with 14 felonies for sharing unaired segments of antisemitic Tucker Carlson/Kanye West interview
Independent Florida journalist Timothy Burke is facing serious charges for accessing and sharing publicly available, but unbroadcast, video clips featuring former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and anti-Semite Kanye West/Ye.
Jacob Crosse•
Amazon argues in court that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional
The retailer has joined a growing corporate campaign to abolish government regulation and restore the open dictatorship of management.
Erik Schreiber, Jerry White •
Milo Stevens•
Chase Lawrence•
Benjamin Mateus•
Hugo Maltais•
Kristina Betinis•
Australian workers and youth speak on social crisis, hostility toward political establishment ahead of Dunkley by-election
A WSWS reporting team spoke with residents from working-class suburbs in the Dunkley electorate, providing an insight into the social and political crisis across Australia.
Our reporters•
Australian audit report reveals severe housing shortages after 2022 floods
Nearly two years on, an auditor-general’s report sheds light on the official contempt for the plight of thousands of victims of the floods.
Mike Head•
Australian educators demand freedom of Julian Assange
A group of teachers from the northern and western working-class suburbs of Melbourne overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional freedom of imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
Committee for Public Education•
Australian government’s universities report outlines pro-business and war restructuring
The Labor government’s Universities Accord final report, reveals a further restructuring of universities to satisfy the employment and research demands of the corporate elite and preparations for war.
Mike Head•
Patrick O’Connor•
Vicki Mylonas•
John Braddock•
The Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
John Wilson, Peter Symonds•
Thousands of textile workers strike at Egypt's largest industrial plant in Mahalla al-Kubra
While the imperialist powers and their Arab stooge regimes in the region support Israel's genocide against the Palestinians, resistance is growing among the working class.
Johannes Stern•
Australian government expands military involvement in US-led attacks on Yemen
While the increase is small, the decision signals the Labor government’s unalloyed political commitment to US war plans in the Middle East and its full support for the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza.
Peter Symonds•
“No rest for the union officials from now on!”
Amid surging wildcat strike wave in Turkey, union bureaucrats accuse workers of terrorism
Alaattin Soydan, chairman of T. Harb-İş union, denounced strikers, declaring, “There is a desire to create chaos in the country before the local elections.”
Barış Demir•
Gold mine disaster in Turkey poses international public health risk
If waste soil said to contain toxic substances such as cyanide and sulphuric acid reaches the Euphrates River just a few hundred metres away, it could cause an environmental disaster that would last for decades in a vast area that includes war-torn Syria and Iraq as well as eastern and south-eastern Turkey.
Barış Demir•
Hakan Özal, Ozan Özgür•
Hakan Özal, Ozan Özgür•
Hakan Özal, Ozan Özgür•
Peter Symonds•
Andre Damon•
The right-wing roots of Sarah Wagenknecht’s party in Saxony, Germany
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) founded its first regional organisation last Saturday in Chemnitz, Saxony. It stands in the long, right-wing traditions of the Left Party in that state.
Martin Nowak•
Works Council and IG Metall union seal plant closure at Ford Saarlouis in Germany
Last week, the works council and IG Metall union held a factory meeting in order to seal the closure of Ford’s Saarlouis plant.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
UK Tory Deputy Chairman refuses to apologise for anti-Muslim diatribe
Given the widespread support for Anderson, a leading Brexiteer, among Tory MPs and in the party ranks, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was careful not go too far—stating only that his comments were “wrong, unacceptable and ill-judged”.
Robert Stevens•
BBC Panorama’s “Where is my post?”: What we’ve got here is a failure to investigate
The surest sign Panorama’s investigation would be a cover-up was the involvement of Dave Ward, General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union.
Laura Tiernan•
Steve James•
Joshua Seubert, Clemens Huber•
Alex Lantier•
Marc Wells•
Tony Robson•
Sri Lankan university student union prepares another reactionary alliance with opposition parties
We warn students and workers that the FSP and IUSF are preparing another political disaster, just as they did during the April–July 2022 mass uprising against former President Rajapakse and his government.
Kapila Fernando•
Sri Lankan SEP gains support for campaign against pro-government thuggery
The SEP is calling on all those concerned to defend democratic rights to register their opposition to the attack on our members by sending protest letters to the relevant Sri Lankan authorities.
Our reporters•
Sri Lankan trade unions end protest with more futile appeals to government
The trade union leaderships are desperately attempting to block a unified national movement of the working class to fight the Wickremesinghe government and its IMF austerity measures.
Our reporters•
Successive governments have used Sri Lanka’s Essential Public Services Act multiple times to ban strikes
While Sri Lankan workers have defied government bans, the trade unions have not demanded or campaigned for the repeal of these repressive laws.
W.A. Sunil•
Wimal Perera•
our reporters•
Deepal Jayasekera•
W.A. Sunil•
Our reporters•
Biden presses House Speaker for Ukraine war funding with congressional leaders at budget impasse
President Biden met with top Republican and Democratic Party congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the budget impasse and press the administration’s priority of funding for war.
Kevin Reed•
Tlaib, UAW, pseudo-left promote “uncommitted” diversion on eve of Democratic primary in Michigan
The aim of the “Vote ‘Uncommitted’” maneuver is to promote the illusion that Biden and the Democratic Party as a whole can be shifted through pressure from below from their policies of global war and mass death.
Kathleen Martin, Barry Grey•
“Labor for Ceasefire” event with Rashida Tlaib: Official “pacifism” in the service of war
The real aim of this event was not stopping the genocide in Gaza but blocking the emergence of a politically independent antiwar movement based in the working class.
Tom Hall•
Washington D.C. Democrats and pseudo-left support draconian, punitive crime bill
As is the case in Democratic Party-run governments at the local and national levels, rather than deal with the root social causes of crime, bourgeois politicians advocate a massive crackdown on the poorest layers of the population and criminalizing poverty.
Pete Salmon, Nick Barrickman•
Mitch Marcus•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Latest privately-owned Moon mission ends abruptly after botched landing
The failure of the Odysseus lander, built and launched by Intuitive Machines, is a further demonstration that the exploration of outer space is incompatible with the profit motive.
Bryan Dyne•
Climate change disruption of Atlantic currents reaching dangerous tipping point
The further weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major system of currents throughout the Atlantic Ocean, is likely to have drastic climatic consequences in northern Europe and globally.
Mark Wilson•
Earliest known example of a human-built wood structure, dating to nearly a half-million years ago, discovered in Africa
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.
Philip Guelpa•
Climate scientists predict devastating weather conditions for the Southern Hemisphere summer
Warming oceans, exacerbated by record melting of Antarctic ice shelfs, could produce heat waves, droughts and destructive storms.
Frank Gaglioti•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
Frank Gaglioti•
Evan Blake•
Bryan Dyne•
Assange lawyers rebuff anti-democratic US government extradition arguments
Mark Summers KC told the High Court, “What happened in this case is state retaliation ordered from the very top.”
Thomas Scripps•
Assange supporters march to Downing Steet as two-day hearing ends in London
Stella Assange told a rally, “They are liars, they are criminals, and they are persecuting a journalist who exposed them.”
Our reporters•
Demonstrators outside UK High Court demand Assange’s freedom
Many drivers on the busy road adjacent to the court beeped their horns in support, with bus passengers also expressing support and giving thumbs up signs.
Robert Stevens•
UK postal workers demand freedom for Julian Assange
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee has appealed for resolutions to be passed in workplaces and for messages of support for Julian Assange demanding an end to extradition proceedings against him and his immediate and unconditional freedom.
Our correspondent•
Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
IYSSE holds first meeting at Otago University in New Zealand
The meeting in Dunedin last Thursday was held to establish the International Youth and Students for Social Equality as a student club at Otago, and to discuss the socialist strategy to fight against war and the genocide in Gaza.
Our reporters•
Australian IYSSE wins support at universities for its opposition to the Gaza genocide
“What’s happening in Gaza is so hard and so sad, because many people and many kids are getting killed. We have to stop these things, we have to stand with the people of Gaza.”
Our reporters•
Build the IYSSE!
Capitalism leads to genocide and war—youth and students must fight for world socialism!
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Former IDF soldiers attack pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University
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.”
Elliott Murtagh, Jesse Thomas•
Elliott Murtagh, Jesse Thomas•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Judy Ryden, Barry Grey•
Book Review
Bryan Palmer’s James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938
The second of the three-volume biography of Cannon is an indispensable source on the early history of Trotskyism in the US.
Tom Mackaman•
This week in history: February 26-March 3
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.
Nazi Town USA: US public television examines the German-American Bund in the 1930s
The real relationship of forces, above all the role of the working class, is missing from this account.
Fred Mazelis•
"Blood was spilled outside of the boundaries of the park where this data center will be built"
Historian Robert Sutton speaks on commercial real estate threat to Civil War battlefield at Manassas
Robert Sutton was the Superintendent of Manassas National Battlefield Park for over 12 years and later Chief Historian of the National Park Service.
Douglas Lyons•
Helen Halyard•
Douglas Lyons, Tom Mackaman•
David North•
David North•
Jean Shaoul•
Growth of US debt threatens dollar dominance
The Congressional Budget Office has predicted that the total US debt burden will go above 100 percent of GDP next year and reach 116 percent by 2034.
Nick Beams•
Mass layoffs sweep Canada as interest rate hikes push economy toward recession
Bell Canada Enterprises announced on February 8 that it was slashing 9 percent of its workforce, accounting for 4,800 jobs, adding to a rising wave of layoffs sweeping the country.
Niles Niemuth•
Nvidia and AI fuel market frenzy
Nvidia, which two years ago made most of its money from selling graphics cards for computer games, has now become the world’s third largest company by market value.
Nick Beams•
Recessionary trends in the world economy strengthening
The German central bank warned that the country’s economy was likely to further contract in the first quarter of this year.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Preeminent COVID-19 scientists urge action to confront Long COVID
In a joint article in Science magazine, Ziyad Al-Aly and Eric Topol call for funding of a systematic effort of research and treatment into a disorder that affects tens of millions in the US.
Bill Shaw•
Winter COVID wave of mass infection continues across the US
After the holiday peaks, wastewater data from Biobot indicated an unexpected rise in COVID infections across the country for the month of February.
Benjamin Mateus•
Data analyst Greg Travis speaks on COVID pandemic-related excess deaths in the US
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with health care expert and data analyst Greg Travis, who has been maintaining the only COVID-19 excess death tracker for the US and documenting his findings through his social media.
Benjamin Mateus•
Study gives insight into post-exertional malaise in Long COVID patients
The study fills several gaps in our knowledge and helps improve our understanding of post-exertional malaise in Long COVID, confirming that patients with the condition get worse, not better, with exercise.
Bill Shaw•
Bill Shaw•
Evan Blake•
Benjamin Mateus•
Margot Miller•
Benjamin Mateus•
Police raids against former president Bolsonaro and generals expose coup plot in Brazil
The raids stem from investigations into Bolsonaro’s plans to overthrow the 2022 presidential elections and remain in power as a dictator.
Miguel Andrade•
Chile’s deadly forest fires, climate change and the need for socialism
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.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Evidence on “parallel” intelligence network cultivated by Bolsonaro exposes rot of Brazil’s democracy
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.
Miguel Andrade•
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's would-be dictator, re-elected president
Bukele easily won re-election based upon crime reduction, but social and economic conditions are pushing Salvadoran workers into struggle against his government.
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Mark Wilson•
Don Knowland•
Andrea Lobo•
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup
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.
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UAW reaches deal with Ford, calls off bogus strike threat at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant
As anger simmers among plant workers over the 2023 contract betrayal the UAW local at KTP is attempting a militant pose by talk of a strike Thursday.
Shannon Jones•
Automakers announce billions in Brazil investments after jobs bloodbath imposed by unions
Volkswagen Brazil’s president pointed to union suppression of opposition as the decisive factor in the “largest post-pandemic investment by an automaker in the country.”
Eduardo Parati•
Fired Stellantis temps issue open letter: “Unite all workers to stop the job cuts!”
The Rank-and-File Committee to Fight Job Cuts, set up by fired Stellantis temporary workers, has issued the this statement.
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Ford reports $10.4 billion in 2023 profits, outlines plan to cut jobs
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.
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Sheila Brehm•
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Jerry White•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
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.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
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.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
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.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
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Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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Comrade Halil Çelik: An inspiration for workers and youth internationally
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.
Peter Symonds•
Comrade Halil Çelik blazed the socialist-internationalist path the workers of Turkey must follow
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.
Keith Jones•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) celebrates 80th birthday of veteran Trotskyist K. Ratnayake
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.
Our reporters•
Greetings to veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist K. Ratnayake on his 80th birthday
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.
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World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters
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.
Mike Head•
Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
Mike Head•
Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Our reporters•
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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.
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The Prinkipo commemoration of Trotsky’s exile and the global resurgence of the working class
The event reflects the objective change that has been underway for some time in the relationship between Trotskyism and the international working class.
Statement of the WSWS International Editorial Board•
An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo
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.
David North•
The ICFI’s investigation exposed the GPU conspiracy to murder Trotsky
The penetration of GPU agents into the Fourth International played a fatal role in the assassination of Trotsky.
Eric London•
Leon Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo
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.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
20 years since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq
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.
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1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
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.
Chris Marsden, Ulaş Ateşçi•
The Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
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.
Tom Peters, Thomas Scripps•
1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy’s Studies in Dialectics
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.
Christoph Vandreier•
The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
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.
Eric London•
Evan Blake, Tom Mackaman•
Max Boddy•
David North•
Samuel Tissot, Peter Schwarz•
Keith Jones•
On the 25th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site
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.
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Protests erupt across Senegal as President Sall cancels elections
The Constitutional Council voided Sall’s cancellation of the election last night, after protests erupted across Senegal in defiance of mass arrests launched by Sall.
Alex Lantier•
An interview with Giacomo Abbruzzese, director of anti-war Disco Boy: “The stranger’s gaze sees things we no longer see or perhaps have never seen”
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.
Marc Wells•
Study finds that half of confirmed COVID patients in Africa now suffer from Long COVID
The study underlines the massive social crime committed by the ruling class in promoting the infection of billions of people worldwide by the novel pathogen.
Bill Shaw•
The “election victory” of al-Sisi in Egypt
If anything was needed in the midst of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians to reduce the human rights propaganda of the imperialist powers to absurdity, it is their partnership with the butcher of Cairo.
Johannes Stern•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Athiyan Silva•
Athiyan Silva•
Alex Lantier•
Athiyan Silva•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
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.
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Will Lehman issues letter to Mack Trucks coworkers on eve of UAW contract expiration: “We must seriously prepare for a major battle”
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.
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election
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.
Eric London•
Stop the UAW sabotage of the autoworkers struggle! Hold emergency local meetings to demand an all-out strike!
“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.”
Will Lehman•
“It’s almost like we are in a civil war between the rich and the poor”: Autoworkers respond to Will Lehman’s Newsweek op-ed
Autoworkers have responded with enthusiasm to the editorial written by the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in 2021.
Jerry White•
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman•
Jerry White•
Will Lehman•
2023: The global capitalist crisis and the growing offensive of the international working class
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.
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Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
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.
John Burton•
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
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.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
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.
Kevin Reed•
Top Trump coup lawyer Sidney Powell turns state’s witness on eve of Georgia trial
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.
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
A call to youth throughout the world: Build a mass movement to stop the Ukraine war!
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.
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May Day 2023: For the international unity of the working class against national chauvinism and war!
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.
David North•
The ICFI’s May Day 2023 online rally: A milestone in the building of a global, working class movement against war
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.
Thomas Scripps•
The developing struggle to bring down the Macron government in France
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.
Alex Lantier•
The struggle for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka
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.
Deepal Jayasekera•
Stepan Geller, Andrei Ritsky•
Andre Damon•
Joseph Kishore•
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
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.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
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.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
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.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
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.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against 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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Republicans revive discredited Wuhan Lab Leak theory and call Anthony Fauci to testify
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
Benjamin Mateus•
Anthony Fauci gives aid and comfort to COVID-19 “lab leak” conspiracy 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.
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Kevin Reed•
Frank Gaglioti•
Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship
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.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
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.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
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.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
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.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
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.
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Report to Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
The historical and political principles of the socialist opposition to imperialist war and the Putin regime
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!”
Clara Weiss•
Report to Seventh Congress of Socialist Equality Party (US)
The historical background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for global elimination
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”
Evan Blake•
America’s “New World Order”— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China
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!”
Andre Damon•
Report to Seventh Congress of Socialist Equality Party (US)
Build rank-and-file committees, the organs of 21st century working class struggle!
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!”
Eric London•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Tomas Castanheira•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
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 shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
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.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms
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.
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Our reporter•
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
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.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
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.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
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.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
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.
Russia downs British-supplied long-range missile as Zelensky and Sunak declare “jets coalition”
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.”
Robert Stevens•
Pentagon national strategy document targets China
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.
Andre Damon•
Australia dispatching military “trainers” to aid the US-NATO war against Russia
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
German President Steinmeier delivers war speech to the nation
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.
Johannes Stern, Christoph Vandreier•
Jordan Shilton•
Tom Peters•
Jean Shaoul•
Peter Symonds•
Tom Peters•
A historic advance in the fight for Trotskyism
The International Committee of the Fourth International accepts application of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu to become its section in Turkey
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.
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Germany’s secret service intensifies persecution of war opponents and warns against “Trotskyism”
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.
Gregor Link•
Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine
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.
Justus Leicht•
Large-scale raid against right-wing terrorist network reveals the extent of the fascist danger in Germany
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.
Peter Schwarz•
German secret service operates hundreds of far-right social media profiles
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.
Christoph Vandreier•
Christoph Vandreier•
Justus Leicht•
Statement of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK)•
Peter Schwarz•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
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 Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward
Perhaps half the pieces are coming-of-age stories, that lyrical standby now usually written in a gritty but still rhapsodic voice.
James McDonald•
Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people
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.
Mike Head•
DOC NYC Film Festival 2023: Part 3
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer: A documentary approaches the American novelist with sympathy, but not enough scrutiny
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.
Erik Schreiber•
A comment on the life and death of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023)
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.
James MacDonald, Sandy English•
Helen Halyard•
Bernd Reinhardt•
David Walsh•
Andrea Peters•
David Moore•
Mobilize the working class against NATO’s plan to deploy troops in Ukraine!
French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement Monday that sending European troops to Ukraine is “not ruled out” shows that the NATO alliance has taken a decision for war with Russia.
Alex Lantier, Johannes Stern•
The SEP launches its campaign for a socialist alternative in 2024 to Biden and Trump, the corporate candidates of war and dictatorship!
David North, the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), announced today the selection of Joe Kishore and Jerry White as the SEP's candidates in the 2024 presidential election campaign.
David North•
Paris war summit prepares for direct deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine
Facing the imminent collapse of NATO’s Ukrainian proxy forces amid massive losses, the Paris summit was called to lay the groundwork for the introduction of troops from NATO and EU member countries to fight Russia in Ukraine.
Alex Lantier•
New York Times report demolishes the narrative of the “unprovoked war” in Ukraine
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a lengthy article revealing that the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 was instigated by a systematic and widespread campaign of military-intelligence aggression on the part of the United States.
Patrick Martin•
Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
Patrick Martin•
Tom Carter•
Thomas Scripps•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River mine
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.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
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.
Tom Peters•
Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
Jack Wang•
New Zealand: Court action over Pike River mine disaster
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.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Tom Peters•
Eighty years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
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Cliff Slaughter: A political biography (1928-1963)
By David North
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
With David North and Eric London
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
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