The purpose of the July 24 demonstration is to set into motion a new and powerful mass movement of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the global escalation of imperialist militarism by the US ruling class and its NATO collaborators.
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Build the socialist opposition to Starmer’s right-wing government!
Keir Starmer owes his “landslide” victory entirely to the hatred of the Tories, the thoroughly undemocratic first-past-the-post system, and the fact that widespread left-wing sentiment has found no organised socialist expression.
The US-led NATO military alliance will establish a separate command dedicated to the war against Russia in Ukraine at next week's summit in Washington, D.C., NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday.
Jacinda Ardern will lead a new fellowship to train European political leaders, as part of a Democratic Party-aligned think tank specialising in imperialist propaganda.
For the third presidential election cycle in a row, the Vermont senator is doing everything in his power to hoodwink workers and youth into backing the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
A hearing has been scheduled for Marcellus Williams ahead of his September 24 execution date, while Texas has set Robert Roberson’s execution for October 17. Both men are innocent.
Temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) hit the West Coast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast during the July 4th weekend, with 150 million people facing a record deadly heat wave.
Around 9,000 Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) workers walked out on strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 5. The strike is the first in the 100-year history of Ontario’s public provider of alcoholic beverages.
Eisler’s life and career were closely bound up with the vicissitudes of the international class struggle in the first half of the 20th century.
Cuba’s economy deteriorates as Washington continues sanctions aimed at starving the country into submission.
Sri Lankan workers and youth support public meeting to demand release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“The Ukrainian government has imprisoned Bogdan Syrotiuk because in his activism he tells workers and young people that this is not your war. I demand he be released forthwith.” – Sanduni, a Jaffna University zoology student
ICFI mounts international pickets demanding the Ukrainian government release Bogdan Syrotiuk
The international pickets held in Istanbul, Paris, London, Berlin, Washington D.C., Toronto, Canberra and Sydney marked an important step forward in the building of an international working class campaign demanding Bogdan’s freedom and an end to imperialist war.
An Open Letter to the Ukrainian government: Release Bogdan Syrotiuk!
On Thursday, June 13, the following letter from the Socialist Equality Party and the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site will be delivered to Oksana Markarova, the ambassador of Ukraine, in Washington, D.C.
“We will all help him together and make sure that the war ends”
Ukrainian refugees talk about the war and the fight for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s liberation
Above all, the vast majority of the refugees wanted an end to the war. Many supported the WSWS campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk and the call for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers.
Demand a new UAW election! All power to the rank and file!
The UAW bureaucracy’s continued sellout of workers, the further exposure of corruption, and now the exposure that Fain was installed in an illegitimate election make an indisputable case for the holding of a new UAW election.
The Supreme Court and the Counter-Revolution of July 1, 2024
Issued days before the Independence Day holiday, two years shy of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Republic, the decision on presidential immunity from prosecution guts the American constitutional framework.
No to Macron and Le Pen! The French election crisis, the threat of fascism and the treachery of the New Popular Front
The New Popular Front is setting a political trap for left-wing workers and youth, leaving them no perspective but a coalition government with France’s despised “president of the rich.”
Supreme Court declares America a presidential dictatorship
In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able to engage in “bold and unhesitating action.”
UAW formally ends UC academic workers strike as university works to expand no-strike clause
Pickets had already ended because the United Auto Workers bureaucracy seized on a court injunction as the excuse they needed to shut down the strike against genocide.
Contract negotiations in Germany’s metal and electrical industries a prelude to job cuts in automotive sector
IG Metall plans to use contract negotiations in the metal and electrical industries to slash corporate costs through lowering wages and cutting thousands of jobs.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Samsung Electronics workers to hold three-day strike for higher pay; Bangladesh university workers hold national strike over pension scheme; Sri Lankan public sector workers still on strike over wages; Australia: Victorian ambulance paramedics intensify industrial action; NSW child protection workers strike over staff shortages.
“What’s happening to us will directly affect all workers”
California grocery warehouse workers fight unionbusting by Smart & Final
Over 600 workers, members of Teamsters Local 630, have been on strike for two weeks at two Chedraui-owned Smart & Final grocery warehouses in the City of Commerce and Riverside in the Los Angeles area.
Australia: Victorian Labor government demands public hospitals slash budgets
Labor’s cuts will have a devastating impact on public hospital services and patients, as well as health workers’ jobs and conditions.
Fatima Payman resigns, Australian Labor government on Islamophobic rampage
Labor’s furious response to Payman’s limited stand can only be understood in the context of the government’s deepgoing crisis and its commitment to imperialist war in Gaza and globally.
Australian university union tries to block campaign against Western Sydney University College job cuts
The NTEU sent an email to its members at WSU College that attempts to split them into “individual cases” and encourages them to accept redundancy packages.
Ex-US pilot in Australia faces extradition to face trumped-up charges of assisting China
Daniel Duggan, a former US Marine pilot, confronts dubious charges of training Chinese military pilots that could see him jailed for 65 years.
As calls mount for Biden’s withdrawal and resignation, White House pushes ahead with war policies
Crisis meetings at the White House and in the Biden campaign reveal the increasingly beleaguered position of the Democratic president.
Democrats and Republicans unite to block RFK Jr., Jill Stein and other third parties from Illinois ballot
Unable to brook any democratic challenge to their political dominance, the preferred parties of Wall Street and the Pentagon are trying to remove all third party and independent candidates from the ballot.
Biden campaign in free fall as Democrats privately and publicly call on president to withdraw
Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first Democratic lawmaker to publicly call on Biden to withdraw from the race Tuesday morning.
War on third parties continues
North Carolina Democrats strike three campaigns from the ballot, including Cornel West and RFK Jr.
In three 3-2 party line votes last week, Democratic members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections upheld complaints brought by a Democratic Party Super PAC and voted to block ballot access for three parties; We the People Party, Justice for All Party and Constitution Party of North Carolina.
Allora McCullough: “We are just two young artists in the Midwest of America, what can we do?”
The anatomy of an act of censorship: St. Louis arts center shuts down pro-Palestinian exhibition
Craft Alliance officials shut down an exhibition by artists Dani Collette and Allora McCullough, accusing the pair of using “antisemitic slogan[s] and imagery.”
Bridgerton: Season 3 of the anti-history
The series offers not so much an alternative history, as an anti-history, aimed above all at an upper-middle class audience fixated on the politics of race and gender.
IATSE announces tentative agreement: film and television workers need to prepare to oppose betrayal
According to IATSE, talks were stalled mainly due to disagreements over wages and artificial Intelligence. Workers have every right to be intensely suspicious of this process and its results.
The filmmaker vanishes: Roman Polanski’s name missing from Paramount’s Blu-ray version of Chinatown (1974)
This new version of McCarthyite blacklisting has come about because official Hollywood has done whatever it can in recent years to erase Polanski’s films and his very artistic existence.
Socialist Equality Party’s Joseph Kishore and Tom Scripps speak at Marx’s grave in London
Joseph Kishore and Thomas Scripps visited the grave of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, London this week.
Landslide victory against Tories, but collapse in Labour’s popular vote heralds UK government of crisis
Labour takes power with the lowest share of the popular vote of any incoming government in British history.
France’s Lutte Ouvrière backs New Popular Front as it seeks alliance with Macron
LO is a petty-bourgeois cog in the machine the French ruling class has set up to try to tie workers to Macron, the “president of the rich” who rules against the people.
Far-right Alternative for Germany holds party conference
Behind the facade of unity, the fascist core of the AfD was plain for all to see in Essen. While the fascist networks used to clash with more moderate elements, they now dominate the entire party.
No to anti-immigrant campaign and imperialist war! Unite the workers of Turkey, Syria and the Middle East!
The defense of the democratic rights of refugees and migrant workers, the victims of imperialist wars, cannot be separated from the struggle against war and the capitalist system that produces it. It is a struggle to unite workers in oppressed regions like the Middle East and in the imperialist centers into an international socialist movement against war.
Provocations against Syrians in Turkey: Oppose mob attacks and defend refugees!
Right-wing mob attacks against Syrians have been organized in cities in Turkey, while demonstrations and attacks on Turkish positions in Turkish-occupied areas in Syria have taken place, amid reports of an agreement between Ankara and Damascus.
Iran’s presidential elections head to a run-off amid escalating Mideast war
The sharp drop in turnout is an indication of mass disaffection with all factions of the political establishment—conservative and “reform”—and mounting social anger.
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.
Biden admits to seeing doctor after debate debacle
In a meeting held with 22 Democratic governors, Biden admitted to seeing a physician after the debate, contradicting previous statements given by his White House press secretary.
Political prisoner and Native American activist Leonard Peltier denied parole again
Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier, 79, who was framed up for the death of two FBI agents in 1975 and has been in prison for nearly 50 years, was denied his request for parole on Tuesday.
Democrats downplay Supreme Court immunity ruling, while Trump doubles down on plans for dictatorship
The chilling implications for the working class of the Supreme Court’s legal counterrevolution have already begun to emerge in the immediate aftermath of the 6-3 ruling by the court’s far-right supermajority.
US Supreme Court attacks federal regulation of corporate interests
The gutting of federal oversight of business and destruction of regulatory restraints on profit-making and the enrichment of the corporate elite are part of an ongoing and accelerating social counterrevolution.
Backed by the Trudeau and Ford governments, Toronto Police wage campaign of repression against anti-genocide protestors
Soon after Israel launched its onslaught on Gaza, the Toronto Police launched a special operation to arrest anti-genocide protestors on trumped up charges, including for “hate crimes.”
Holocaust survivor leads Michigan vigil against US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza
Rene Lichtman, an 86-year-old Holocaust child survivor, led the vigil outside of the Zekelman Holocaust Museum.
Australia: University of Melbourne threatens about 20 pro-Palestinian students with disciplinary action
The move is the latest in a series of coordinated attacks by university managements, the corporate media and the political establishment in Australia against the rights to protest and freedom of expression of students on campus.
Thousands protest in New Zealand against Gaza genocide, as Labour lies about its record
While thousands of people rallied outside parliament, Labour MP Phil Twyford falsely claimed that his party had been calling for a ceasefire for the last eight months.
Israel orders mass displacement of Palestinians from Khan Younis
Israel ordered the mass displacement of another 250,000 people from the city of Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday, in the latest stage of its genocide against the population of Gaza.
Israeli regime escalates destruction of Bedouin villages
The expulsion of Bedouin communities in the Negev region is part of the Netanyahu government’s fascist program of ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
US has sent Israel 14,000 2,000-pound bombs since October
These 14,000 2,000-pound bombs have a combined yield of 7.8 kilotons, equivalent to half to the power of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb that the US used to destroy Hiroshima in 1945.
White House brags that it has given Israel $6.5 billion in weapons since October 7
Doled out over just nine months, this figure is nearly double the US’s typical annual Israel military aid budget of $3.4 billion and will be further supplemented by $14 billion in weapons funding allocated by Congress this year.
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Julian Assange arrives in Australia free
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
Julian Assange is free, but the struggle to defend democratic rights continues
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
Bheed: The plight of India’s migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown
The film exposes the nightmarish difficulties suffered by the Indian masses after the Modi government imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.
New COVID-19 surge driven by KP.2 and KP.3 variants
The emergence of the new viral variants and the consequent surge of COVID-19 that is currently underway has been enabled by a ruling class indifferent to the suffering caused by the virus.
Threat posed by H5N1 bird flu deepens, as public health authorities delay action
A growing number of scientists have sounded the alarm that immediate action to eliminate bird flu is necessary before it develops into a human pandemic.
Finding by UK disease tracker Airfinity
Infectious diseases skyrocket worldwide fueled by COVID-19 pandemic
There has been a global surge of infectious diseases attributable to the anti-public health policies that have placed profits over lives.
More tanks, ammunition, warships and fighter jets: German government intensifies arms offensive ahead of NATO summit in Washington
Ahead of the NATO summit in Washington from July 9-11, where the military alliance will decide on a massive escalation of its war against Russia, the German government is systematically pushing ahead with massive rearmament plans.
US puts military bases in Europe on second-highest alert ahead of Washington NATO Summit
The United States has put its military bases at the second-highest level of alert ahead of next week’s NATO summit in Washington, which is expected to see a significant escalation of direct NATO participation in the war against Russia in Ukraine.
Problems mount in Russian economy as government tries to finance war machine
Moscow’s decision last fall to double military and security expenditures to 40 percent of the federal budget is unsustainable and requires a massive assault on the living standards of the working class.
German Publishers and Booksellers Association awards its annual “Peace Prize” to US war hawk Anne Applebaum
Applebaum is closely linked to the US military-intelligence apparatus. She currently plays a leading role in churning out propaganda justifying the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia.
New whistleblower exposes Boeing's use of scrapped parts
Boeing managers used an “elaborate off-the-books practice” that involved taking parts from the company’s internal scrap yards and putting them back on the production line, despite being marked with red paint as defective.
As automakers rake in cash
Michigan Democratic Governor Whitmer delivers gut punch to schools in 2025 budget
School officials have reacted in stunned disbelief to the Michigan 2025 budget. The $1 billion cut to the school aid fund compounds the crisis gripping schools following the cutoff of COVID relief funding.
Mounting pressure within Canada’s Liberals for Trudeau to quit as PM, party leader
The Liberal debacle in the June 24 Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election confirmed what polls have been indicating for well over a year: support for the Trudeau-led minority Liberal government has hemorrhaged.
More than 100 protest police killing of Nyah Mway in Utica, New York
On Monday, more than 100 people protested at a city council meeting in Utica, New York against the killing of 13-year-old Nyah Mway by a police officer on Friday night.
Sri Lankan president threatens the Supreme Court
Wickremesinghe and his government—for that matter every faction of the ruling elite—are well aware that it is impossible to continue IMF austerity by peaceful means, and that they need dictatorial rule.
Online public meeting in Sri Lanka: Condemn the police attack on teachers! Defend free public education! Higher salaries for educators!
We call on all educators, parents and students to attend our July 11 meeting and participate in this important discussion.
Oppose Sri Lankan trade unions attempt to subordinate class struggles to upcoming elections! Prepare a general strike against government austerity! Fight for socialist policies!
Without a political fight against the Wickremesinghe regime and the overthrow of the capitalist system, workers cannot defend any of their basic rights.
Sri Lankan police brutally attack thousands of protesting teachers
Wednesday’s police assault makes clear that Sri Lankan workers need to prepare for a political general strike, based on a revolutionary socialist program, against the government’s International Monetary Fund austerity measures.
Spreading protests demand Kenyan president “Ruto must go!”
According to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), at least 39 people have been killed, and another 361 injured in clashes with the police. KNCHR said this was not a final count.
Kenyan President Ruto imposes savage austerity as High Court upholds military deployment
The Kenyan government has deployed heavily armed troops throughout the country in anticipation of continuing mass protests against its drive to impose IMF-dictated austerity measures.
Ruto deploys Kenyan army onto the streets with US, European Union support
The US State Department hailed “President Ruto’s commitment to Kenyans’ constitutionally-endowed rights,” while European Union Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hailed a “reduction of the tensions… conducive to dialogue.” This is a seal of approval for the massacre Ruto committed the day before.
Bloodbath in Nairobi as millions protest Kenyan President Ruto and parliament is stormed
Protestors stormed the Parliament and set parts of it ablaze, while lawmakers fled using underground tunnels or hid in ambulances. Police used live ammunition, teargas and truncheons, resulting in the deaths of several protestors and hundreds of injuries.
Record breaking Hurricane Beryl is a warning of the consequences of unchecked climate change
Fueled by a warming climate, Hurricane Beryl became both the earliest Category 4 hurricane and Category 5 hurricane in history as it left Caribbean communities in ruin.
Argentina’s Milei launches assault on workers after pushing through sweeping legislation
For Milei, the main enemy of Argentine capitalism is the working class, which he aims to isolate and control, divide and defeat.
Short-lived military coup fails against Arce in Bolivia
The abortive coup marks a new stage in the turmoil gripping Bolivia ahead of the 2025 elections, where the major drivers are the escalating third world war and deepening crisis of global capitalism.
Unions shut down federal education strike in Brazil
The unions subordinated the strike to futile negotiations with the Lula government, isolating this powerful movement from the struggles of state teachers and other federal workers.
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.
BIS report points to mounting economic and financial instability
The Bank for International Settlements annual review said central banks had to be alert to the dangers of inflation and not hesitate to raise interest rates again if necessary.
IMF says growing US debt must be “urgently” dealt with
The IMF’s prescription is for an austerity program extending over “multiple years.”
US debt warnings grow louder
Questions are being raised in media and financial circles about who is going to buy the Treasury bonds being issued to finance the growing government debt.
UN report details developing countries’ rising debt burden
The public debt of less developed countries has reached $29 trillion and is rising rapidly exacerbated by “inequality in the international financial architecture.”
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.
This week in history: July 1-7
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
After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War
The capitulation of Serbia to the US-NATO onslaught brings to an end the last major strategic experience of the twentieth century. Its bloody conclusion endows the century with a certain tragic symmetry. It began with the suppression of the anti-colonial uprising of the Chinese Boxers. The century closes with a war that completes the reduction of the Balkans to the status of a neo-colonial protectorate of the major imperialist powers.
80 years since the mass murder in Ozarichi, Belarus carried out by the German military
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
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.
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.
UK Socialist Equality Party election rally advances socialist and internationalist opposition to war
The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
Attendees at UK general election rally speak: “The Socialist Equality Party is what I want to dedicate my efforts to building.”
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.
Billions for education not war! Support the Socialist Equality Party (UK) campaign for a unified struggle against capitalism and war!
Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.
Socialist Equality Party candidate Darren Paxton speaks at Inverness Trades Council general election hustings
Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.
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.
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.
IYSSE secures representation in Humboldt University student parliament for 10th time with record result of 7.7 percent and 5 seats
The political significance of the IYSSE’s strong election result extends far beyond the campus of Humboldt University. At HU, the extremely acute situation in Germany and internationally finds concentrated expression.
Moves to change Selective Service rules in the US prompt outpouring of opposition to reintroduction of the draft
Last week, the House of Representatives voted to make enrollment in the US Selective Service database automatic, prompting a flood of worried statements by young people and parents on social media about the reimposition of the draft.
Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop police violence against anti-war students!
In the following, we document the IYSSE Humboldt University election statement, which will be printed in the student election brochure. The elections are on 18 and 19 June.
Berlin police brutally assault students occupying Humboldt University to protest against the genocide in Gaza
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
Death toll from global heat wave climbs as 1,000 die from extreme heat in Mecca
Extreme heat events are becoming more common and more extreme as climate change warms the planet
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.
“These layoffs are like a bomb going off in people’s lives”: Stellantis workers denounce plans to cut second shift at Warren Truck
The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has launched a “cost-cutting" race in the EV transition.
Federal court orders Labor Department to review rank-and-file protests over UAW elections
The court decision characterizes the Biden administration’s pseudo-legal efforts to sidestep claims of voter suppression as “pedantic” and “inherently illogical and textually unsupported.”
“The EV race has become a cost-cutting race”: Global auto execs declare war on workers
In comments to an investors meeting in Milan, Italy, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares pledged to shift the company’s supplier base “from the Western world to the best-cost countries.”
Thousands more jobs to be destroyed at Ford Cologne
As in the last year, IG Metall and its works council representative are preparing a few hollow protests. At the same time, behind the backs of the workforce, they are conspiring with management to implement a jobs massacre.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
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.
David North’s The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide addresses the disastrous consequences of nationalist political programs
The series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
Nathan Thrall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy–A case study in dehumanization
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
Interview with historian Dan Okrent on the centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
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 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.
Build the socialist opposition to Starmer’s right-wing government!
Keir Starmer owes his “landslide” victory entirely to the hatred of the Tories, the thoroughly undemocratic first-past-the-post system, and the fact that widespread left-wing sentiment has found no organised socialist expression.
Demand a new UAW election! All power to the rank and file!
The UAW bureaucracy’s continued sellout of workers, the further exposure of corruption, and now the exposure that Fain was installed in an illegitimate election make an indisputable case for the holding of a new UAW election.
The Supreme Court and the Counter-Revolution of July 1, 2024
Issued days before the Independence Day holiday, two years shy of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Republic, the decision on presidential immunity from prosecution guts the American constitutional framework.
No to Macron and Le Pen! The French election crisis, the threat of fascism and the treachery of the New Popular Front
The New Popular Front is setting a political trap for left-wing workers and youth, leaving them no perspective but a coalition government with France’s despised “president of the rich.”
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.