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Invoking Genocide Convention, International Court of Justice orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive
The ICJ ruling, together with the ferocious response of US and Israeli officials, massively discredits and exposes US-NATO imperialism while vindicating the mass protests against the Gaza genocide.
While Moscow is signaling that it is seeking a settlement of the war, NATO countries are escalating long-range strikes and threatening to directly enter the war.
“I have two words for what is going on at campuses across the country: ‘Kent State,’” one Ford worker said. “Students are opposing these workers are being beaten and arrested. I agree with the UC strike and we should support them.”
Like other elite universities, the UC system is run like a corporation by a board of multi-millionaires and Democratic Party operatives, and has been deeply integrated into the US war machine.
The Educators Rank-and-File Committee (US) demands the immediate release of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk from a Ukrainian prison and urges educators and students to fight for his freedom.
In the face of mass murder in Gaza and unfolding world war, the #MeToo activists demonstrated their indifference to the mass suffering.
The Chinese military drills came just days after the installation of Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, who is known for his provocative, separatist views.
French imperialism is trying to crush a social revolt driven by a deep social and economic crisis and preparations for imperialist war against China in the Pacific.
The interview with Samuel Johsua reveals the obstacles that Pabloism poses to a revolutionary struggle of the working class for socialism.
An investigation by CBS News found that deputies who patrol rural areas are three times more lethal than city police departments.
May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The political significance of the 2024 May Day Online Rally
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Australia demands the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Socialist opponents of the Ukraine war are being demonised as traitors just as opponents of the Gaza genocide are being slandered as antisemitic and terrorist supporters.” – Dr Zewlan Moor
Demand the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of NATO’s proxy war, from a Ukrainian prison
On Thursday, April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk—a socialist opponent of the right-wing Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war—was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine.
“The people of both Russia and Ukraine deserve to hear Bogdan’s progressive ideas about unity and internationalism”
Left-wing websites, artists and workers endorse campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk and his fight for the principles of socialist internationalism have struck a nerve among workers, intellectuals and youth throughout the world.
Postal workers in Britain demand: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Defending Bogdan means challenging the endless pro-war propaganda by the British media that the NATO-backed conflict against Russia is being waged to defend democracy and human rights.
Britain’s snap general election: A prelude to direct NATO war against Russia
Sunak’s decision on a snap general election was dictated by the need to form a stable government to pursue a rapid escalation of NATO’s de facto war against Russia in Ukraine.
SGP 2024 Congress Resolution
The fight against war and the tasks of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP), German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, held its party congress from 12 to 15 April. We are publishing here the resolution that was unanimously adopted by the delegates.
Snap British general election on July 4: Socialist Equality Party will challenge Tory and Labour parties of genocide and war
Notwithstanding the fate of the Tories, despised by millions, the problem facing workers in Britain is that there is nothing fundamental to distinguish Sunak’s government from Starmer’s Labour Party.
The working class must organize to defeat injunction threat against the University of California Gaza strike!
The ruling class wants to set a precedent to ban all political activity in the working class and rip up the core First Amendment right to free speech.
With de facto endorsement from Biden, Israel broadens Rafah onslaught
Israel's attack on Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, has now displaced nearly 1 million people and massively intensified famine throughout the entire territory.
League of imperialist criminals denounces the International Criminal Court
US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have joined hands with the fascistic Christian fundamentalist Republicans Mike Johnson and Lindsay Graham to condemn the ICC and assert the right of Israel and the United States to commit war crimes with impunity.
Arrest warrant against Netanyahu undermines German war propaganda
The arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant are based on extremely well-documented facts. They were written by internationally renowned lawyers, whom even the pro-Israel German press cannot accuse of bias.
Australian Labor government lines up behind US/Israeli attacks on ICC
Labor’s leaders have again backed the Israeli regime, after it has murdered more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza as part of a genocidal ethnic-cleansing campaign.
Musician Michael Barenboim, Berlin professors defend Gaza protests at Federal Press Conference
Law Professor Clemens Arzt demonstrated that the violent police action against students protesting the Israeli genocide in Gaza has been illegal in every respect.
As student protests over Gaza spread, US House Committee demands further crackdown
Hundreds of students walked out of commencement at Harvard after the main student speaker denounced the administration for barring 13 Gaza protesters from graduating with their class.
As court denies injunction to ban strike
UAW forced by growing anger to expand University of California anti-genocide strike to UCLA, UC Davis
It was clear before the announcement that the two campuses were prepared to walk out, with or without the official sanction of the union.
Stop the genocide in Gaza! Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei holds Berlin rally for the European elections
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei organised a rally against the genocide in Gaza as part of its European election campaign in the Neukölln district of Berlin, in which many workers and young people participated.
12,000 Toronto transit workers set for first strike in 16 years as of June 7
While the TTC and the city of Toronto claim there is no money to make desperately needed repairs to infrastructure, the ruling class is showering unlimited cash on the military and providing unlimited funds to wage war abroad.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan demand abolition of broker system; India: Tea plantation workers in Assam protest unpaid wages; Australia: New South Wales ambulance paramedics strike over rostering; Victorian TAFE teachers escalate action for improved enterprise deal.
Teamsters push through sellout contract to shut down three-month strike at Molson Coors brewery in Fort Worth, Texas
Outrage against the contract by rank-and-file workers prompted the Teamsters to take down their post on Facebook announcing the contract to cover over their betrayal.
National public sector strikes in Greece and Portugal over wages; pension and wage protests continue across Iran; Ghanaian judicial workers in indefinite walkout
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
National 24-hour strikes of public sector workers in both Greece and Portugal over wages; protests in Iran continue over poor pensions, wages and working conditions; Ghana’s judicial workers begin indefinite walkout over non-payment of allowances
UK Infected Blood Inquiry report: “Justice delayed is justice denied”
More than 30,000 NHS patients were given blood infected with hepatitis C or HIV over a period of three decades, resulting in over 3,000 deaths.
Bust UK councils allowed to sell public assets to cover increasing deficits
Labour Party-run Birmingham Council, covering a population of over 1 million, is imposing £300 million in cuts, and must sell off a staggering £1.25 billion of historic assets, land and property to repay a government bailout loan.
NATO war on Russia in Ukraine drove attempted murder of Slovakia’s Fico
Fico was targeted for murder over his criticisms of NATO’s war with Russia in Ukraine, and European media are hailing his shooting, claiming it will intimidate Moscow.
Working class life expectancy falling in England
The Institute of Health Equity confirms that life expectancy for the working class is stagnating and falling, while the life expectancy of the wealthiest rises.
Pro-Palestinian artists face ongoing censorship in the US, while rich art collectors demand student protesters be “dragged off campus”
The systematic censorship in the US of artists who express sympathy with the plight of the Gazan population and oppose the genocidal policies of Netanyahu-Biden continues.
The welcome reappearance of actor Kevin Spacey
One unsubstantiated claim, which when tested in a courtroom five years later took a jury 45 minutes to dismiss, led to Spacey being driven out of the film, television and theater world.
The Tortured Poets Department and the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The megastar is best understood not primarily as an artist, but as a creation of the music industry and a reflection of the present state of cultural decline.
Entertainment industry union IATSE pauses negotiations with studios, workers continue to be left in the dark
The producers, under the gun from Wall Street and major investors, are determined to cut costs and jobs, while IATSE is desperately appealing to the studios for something it can “sell” to the workers.
Members of Congress demand White House authorize Ukrainian strikes inside Russia
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives called on the White House to formally authorize Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russian territory, a move that Russian officials had previously warned would trigger war between Russia and NATO.
German Foreign Minister Baerbock’s war visit to Kiev
The plans pursued by German Foreign Minister Baerbock and Defence Minister Pistorius for the expansion of air defences in Ukraine are aimed at preparing for direct NATO intervention in the conflict against Russia.
As NATO escalates Ukraine war, Putin meets Xi for Russia-China summit
The visit was a rebuke by Beijing to the NATO imperialist powers’ pressure on China to cut its ties to Russia amid the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.
As NATO prepares to provide Ukraine capability to strike deep within Russia, SEP presidential candidate denounces plans to deploy troops
The New York Times confirmed on Friday that NATO generals are openly discussing with their Ukrainian counterparts transferring high-level intelligence to Ukraine in order to facilitate strikes on Russian troops and bases deep within the country.
Revealing data on escalation of income inequality in Australia
Tax concessions for the wealthy and corporations far outweigh the “not fiscally sustainable” cost of increasing welfare payments by $550 a fortnight.
SEP (Australia) public meeting: Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia is holding a meeting on Sunday, May 26 in Sydney and online to discuss the urgent struggle to free Julian Assange.
Seeking re-election, Modi and his BJP wage far-right, communalist campaign
The BJP has a long history of communalist incitement and violence. Nevertheless, its current election campaign stands out for the stridency of its fascistic appeals.
Australia: Telstra slashes 2,800 jobs in latest profit-driven restructuring
Telstra’s is the largest job cut announcement by an Australian company so far this year, but takes place in the context of a broader attack on working-class jobs and wages.
Brazil’s Morenoite-led union federation cements ties with UAW based on support for war
The recent tour of the US by officials of the CSP-Conlutas union federation served to integrate it into support for the emerging US war against Russia and China.
Union federations turn May Day in Brazil into platform for Lula government
President Lula is pursuing a corporatist agenda to integrate the unions into the state in order to suppress the class struggle in Brazil.
Colombia cuts ties with Israel over Gaza genocide
The decision was first announced in President Petro's May Day speech, delivered Wednesday to tens of thousands of supporters in Bogota.
GM closes Colombia and Ecuador plants as UAW and other bureaucracies remain silent
General Motors announced last Friday the shutdown of its manufacturing plants in Colombia and Ecuador, eliminating about 1,300 jobs, along with thousands more indirectly.
Second pro-insurrectionist flag revealed to have flown on property owned by Justice Samuel Alito following Trump coup
One week after the New York Times revealed that an upside-down American flag was flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Alito, the paper disclosed that a Christian nationalist “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, carried by pro-Trump fanatics during the January 6 attack, was also flown at Alito’s vacation house in New Jersey last year.
In address to committee of the Israeli Knesset
Republican congresswoman Stefanik calls for “crushing” protests against Gaza genocide
Representative Elise Stefanik denounced any limitation on military aid to the Israeli war machine.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardons fascist killer of protester
Daniel Perry, then an Army sergeant, was convicted of the murder of Garrett Foster in 2020.
Major Trump trials delayed until after election
Three out of four criminal proceedings against the aspiring dictator, including the most serious cases concerning the failed January 6 coup, have been delayed in the last month.
Government cover-up continues 2 years after Uvalde, Texas school massacre
Two years after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 19 students and two adults were killed and 17 others were injured, no one has been held accountable.
New York City steps up evictions of migrants from shelters
The Democratic Party administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams has begun the removal of migrants from shelters under new rules limiting stays to 30 or 60 days and adopted by the city in March.
After closing restaurants and terminating workers without notice, Red Lobster files for bankruptcy
The full burden of the US-based restaurant chain's downsizing and cost-cutting process will be imposed on the company’s pre-bankruptcy 36,000-strong workforce.
Oppose all capitalist candidates in the Mexican elections — unite workers across the Americas against US imperialism!
The fascistic Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic President Biden have sought to outdo each other in scapegoating and dehumanizing migrants as “illegals.”
Failed pro-imperialist coup targets Democratic Republic of Congo
The coup took place as Washington and its NATO allies wage a bitter struggle for influence in Africa with China and Russia, amid the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.
President Ruto grovels to Washington to put Kenya on the global war map
Kenya and the entire African continent are being drawn into the maelstrom of an expanding global war. The continent’s geostrategic position and vast mineral resources are viewed by Washington as critical in its conflicts with Russia, Iran and China.
The class struggle in France and the fight against war
This is the text of the speech delivered by Alex Lantier, the national secretary of the Parti de l'Egalité Socialiste (PES) in France, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Boeing 737-300 catches fire on runway in Senegal, injures 10
It is only a matter of time before more people are killed on Boeing planes, repeating or exceeding the tragedies of the two 737 MAX 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019.
A second US farmworker infected with the bird flu virus
The dairy worker in Michigan fortunately suffered only a mild eye infection, but experts believe that the number of people potentially infected by the deadly virus is far higher.
Chinese study finds association between viral persistence and Long COVID
The study excluded patients who had serious, life-threatening infections, demonstrating that even mild cases of COVID can have dire lifetime consequences.
North Carolina Senate passes reactionary anti-masking bill
These laws are being invoked as a mechanism of repression against student protests opposing the genocidal policies being promoted by Biden and the White House.
Rising infection and death rates from COVID contracted in Australian hospitals
Australian hospitals and other medical facilities now determine their own COVID policy with only slight variations in their approaches to “preventing” infection with the deadly disease.
Sri Lankan court takes case of violent assault on SEP members
The attack on Wasantha is politically calculated to intimidate him and stop discussion on the SEP’s fight for workers’ independent action committees.
Sri Lankan police attack striking university workers in Colombo
Protesters involved in an indefinite strike were violently assaulted by riot police, including with a water cannon spraying polluted water at them at high pressure.
SEP/IYSSE (Sri Lanka) to hold public lecture—“Two years since the 2022 mass uprising in Sri Lanka: The political lessons”
The forthcoming SEP/IYSSE event will discuss the political necessity for the building of the revolutionary party in the context of current global developments and the danger of a third world war.
Oppose imperialist War! SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka
The only social force capable of halting the drive to world war is the international working class which is coming into struggle in Sri Lanka and around the world.
Political prisoners mount hunger strike as state repression grows in Turkey
Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
Iranian president killed in helicopter crash
The death of President Ebrahim Raisi could trigger a political crisis and lead to sharp infighting in the country’s Islamic bourgeois clerical regime.
Tenth anniversary of the death of 301 miners in the Soma disaster in Turkey
The last decade has witnessed a deepening of the ruling elite's disregard for the safety of workers for the sake of profit, let alone the necessary occupational safety measures, in Turkey and around the world.
Fire disaster in Istanbul kills 29 workers
This fire disaster is an indictment of the entire ruling elite, including business owners and officials.
US Treasury secretary seeks European support in economic war against China
In the well established tradition of US imperialism, Janet Yellen in a speech in Germany sought to present US actions as benefiting the world.
Biden’s tariffs, a significant economic turning point
The economic war is being falsely presented as a response to “unfair” Chinese state subsidies which are undercutting “market prices.”
Biden administration intensifies economic war against China
Under national security powers, the US has raised tariffs on electric vehicles to 100 percent, along with tariff hikes on a range of high-tech and industrial products.
US to quadruple tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles
With tariffs and other barriers going up almost every day, the global economy is increasingly coming to resemble the madhouse of the 1930s.
Assange granted leave to appeal before UK’s High Court against extradition to the US
The judgement is a victory, both for blocking what could otherwise have been Assange’s immediate transfer to America and for further exposing the reactionary nature of the US prosecution.
Stella Assange: “Julian is just one decision away from being extradited”
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told the assembled media, “It is abundantly clear that the process in the courts in the United Kingdom are corrupt. The case is rigged against Julian.”
SEP (Australia) public meeting: Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia is holding a meeting on Sunday, May 26 in Sydney and online to discuss the urgent struggle to free Julian Assange.
Imperialist leaders cover up illegal detention of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
The leaders of the imperialist powers responsible for the detention and pending extradition from Britain to the US of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange remained silent on his illegal imprisonment on United Nation’s World Press Freedom Day.
Democrats step up campaign to block third parties
Political action committees linked to the Biden campaign are attacking the campaigns of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein of the Green Party and Cornel West.
Democratic Party enlists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to cover up Biden’s war crimes
A lengthy New York Times essay has acknowledged that DSA representative Ocasio-Cortez is now the lynchpin in the Democratic Party’s strategy to block growing opposition to imperialist war and genocide in Gaza and channel it behind Biden’s reelection campaign.
The arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is an attack on democratic rights
All charges must be dropped against Stein and the hundreds of others who have been arrested while protesting in recent weeks.
The hush money trial of Donald Trump and the crisis of class rule in America
The opening of the trial marks a new stage in an intense crisis at the highest levels of the American state that has been building for 50 years. This August will mark the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 as a result of the crisis stemming from his campaign’s break-in at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
The racial quota law that inspired Hitler
100 years since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
This week in history: May 20-May 26
India-Pakistan clash over Kashmir; national rail strike in India; West Germany formally established; 13th Congress of Russian Communist Party opens.
54 years since the Kent State massacre—and a warning for today
The article reviews the experience of the Kent State massacre of anti-war college students in 1970, which has enormous relevance for today amid the massive police crackdown on campus protests against the Gaza genocide.
Liz French on the 40th Anniversary of the British Miners’ Strike: “We were betrayed by the TUC and Labour Party.”
The WSWS spoke with Liz French from Betteshanger, a former pit village in the Kent coalfield in south-east England. Liz was a founding member of the National Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 Miner’s Strike. Among the 200 miners imprisoned during the 1984-85 strike, Liz’s late husband Terry received one of the longest prison sentences of five years.
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.
Sri Lankan IYSSE to hold public lecture on “Leon Trotsky and his place in history” at Peradeniya University
Trotsky’s political analysis and revolutionary struggle for socialist internationalism against imperialist war, Stalinism and fascism must be studied and assimilated by all those opposed to capitalist barbarism.
Upcoming IYSSE (Australia) lecture: The fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left
The lecture by Nick Beams on April 28 will provide the political weapons required by young people and workers who want to take up the fight for a socialist and revolutionary perspective against the genocide and the broader eruption of militarism and war.
IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand: The crisis of political perspective of the Gaza protests
We encourage youth, students and workers to attend the events which will provide the international socialist revolutionary program necessary to end the genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli state and its imperialist backers.
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.
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.
Auroral display dazzles millions around the globe
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
Scientific—and social—dimensions of the 2024 total solar eclipse
The second total eclipse across North America in seven years has drawn the interest of millions across the continent.
Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts
“With a few exceptions, increasing warming leads to greater exposure to drought, fluvial and coastal flooding, and greater declines in biodiversity and crop yields.”
Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Ford worker Tywaun Long
The 46-year-old worker collapsed on the assembly line at the Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17 and reportedly died of a heart attack.
Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee founded in opposition to UAW betrayals and war
“With our brothers and sisters of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), we are for abolishing, not reforming, the UAW bureaucracy, to put power into the hands of the workers.”
Stellantis Warren Stamping workers approve strike over health and safety
The strike vote at Warren Stamping, a critical components plant, comes as anger is seething among rank-and-file workers over layoffs and a host of issues.
In the aftermath of mass layoffs
Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line
An autoworker died after suffering a medical emergency after waiting a half hour for medical help at the Ford Rouge complex outside Detroit.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!
Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
Sri Lankan SEP meeting to launch two books on the Sinhala chauvinist JVP
The JVP’s rightward evolution is not an isolated, national phenomenon but an expression of the transformation internationally of similar organisations into pro-imperialist outfits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.”
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!”
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”
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!”
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!”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ghassan Zeineddine’s Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
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.
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.
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.
Invoking Genocide Convention, International Court of Justice orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive
The ICJ ruling, together with the ferocious response of US and Israeli officials, massively discredits and exposes US-NATO imperialism while vindicating the mass protests against the Gaza genocide.
Britain’s snap general election: A prelude to direct NATO war against Russia
Sunak’s decision on a snap general election was dictated by the need to form a stable government to pursue a rapid escalation of NATO’s de facto war against Russia in Ukraine.
The working class must organize to defeat injunction threat against the University of California Gaza strike!
The ruling class wants to set a precedent to ban all political activity in the working class and rip up the core First Amendment right to free speech.
League of imperialist criminals denounces the International Criminal Court
US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have joined hands with the fascistic Christian fundamentalist Republicans Mike Johnson and Lindsay Graham to condemn the ICC and assert the right of Israel and the United States to commit war crimes with impunity.
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.
New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.