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The fascist spectacle of the Republican National Convention
One need not idealize the American party conventions of decades past to acknowledge that this year’s Republican National Convention was an unprecedented spectacle of reaction and backwardness.
In a devastating condemnation of the Israeli government and its imperialist backers, the court ruled that Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal, ordering all countries to cease enabling it.
In their unstinting support for Biden, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are being exposed as nothing more than propagandists for imperialism.
In all of its coverage, the corporate media seeks to conceal from the public the scale and depth of political reaction in the US for fear of social revolution.
Two system failures impacting Microsoft-based computers shut down airports, trains, banks, hospitals, hotels and other critical infrastructure around the world on Friday.
More than 33,000 machinists working at Boeing’s facilities in Washington and Oregon packed a Major League baseball stadium on Wednesday to vote by 99.9 percent to strike when their contract expires September 12.
For filmmaking to portray the barbarism of fascism in all its aspects therefore retains its burning relevance and necessity.
A new study in The Lancet demonstrates that face coverings dramatically reduce the load of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath from infected persons. The reductions reached as high as 98 percent, with variations according to the type of face covering worn.
A meeting of the Third Plenum of the CCP Central Committee advocated tighter social and ideological controls.
Barely mentioned in the media commentary that erupted around Dutton’s proposal is the potential of a nuclear power industry to provide a pathway for the construction of nuclear weapons.
More statements demanding freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk from Australia and New Zealand
“We need to stand with Bogdan now, because it’s easy to imagine the alternative: if Ukraine is able to imprison socialists and ban the WSWS without protest, what’s to stop the UK, Germany or the US, from doing the same?”
Toronto workers support campaign for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom and express opposition to imperialist war
Socialist Equality Party members won a warm response in a working class neighbourhood Saturday as they continued their struggle to build support for the campaign to free the Ukrainian socialist and opponent of imperialist war among Canadian workers and young people.
Framed-up Maruti Suzuki India workers demand release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
”Bogdan Syrotiuk did not do or say anything wrong,” declared Amarjeet one of 13 Indian autoworkers sentenced to life in prison on bogus murder charges. “What he did was fight for the sake of the international working class. He fought and is fighting for workers’ power.”
Messages from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release
The World Socialist Web Site is receiving statements from workers across Europe and internationally demanding freedom for imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Trump delivers fascistic rant to conclude Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention concluded Thursday night with a speech by the party’s candidate, ex-president Donald Trump, which was an unequaled display of political degradation.
The normalization of American-style fascism
The corporate media treats the Republican National Convention, an unprecedented display of anti-immigrant bigotry, religious mania, and nationalistic frenzy, as though it were an ordinary political event.
“We are in Hell”: Gaza resident speaks to WSWS
Ghassan, who lives in a bomb-damaged house with dozens of people, described the desperate shortage of food, water and healthcare and the constant fear of bombings and drone attacks.
Teamsters president at the Republican National Convention: The bureaucracy throws its lot in with fascism
Sean O’Brien’s speech called for “bipartisanship” based on nationalism, militarism and the integration of the unions with management and the capitalist state—but he made clear his particular sympathy for Trump and the extreme right.
Germany’s 2025 war budget dictated by big business
The new budget bolsters spending on the state’s repressive powers at home and abroad and the working class will be made to pay for it.
David Lammy: UK Labour’s foreign secretary reaches out to Trump
Lammy personifies the venal, right-wing warmongers that make up Sir Keir Starmer’s government.
CWU electioneering for Labour: delivering the Starmer government’s pro-business agenda against postal workers
Any claim that Labour will not rubber stamp the takeover is a lie. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has made clear Labour’s top priority is to make Britain a “safe haven” for investors and her and Starmer’s repeated praise for Margaret Thatcher makes clear the government will enforce corporate interests against the working class with an iron fist.
Starmer’s UK Labour government hosts European summit on stepping up war with Russia
The escalation of war against Russia was coupled together with the extension of “Fortress Europe” and the war against asylum seekers and refugees.
University of Sydney cracks down on campus protests amid broader assault on opposition to Gaza genocide
The university’s new policy mandates that members of the public outside the university will only be allowed to engage in demonstrations if they have prior approval from management.
Renewed massive police violence and media smears against Gaza protesters in Germany
The brutal police actions are part of the intensified persecution of opponents of the war by the German state.
Columbia University removes three administrators on bogus charges of antisemitism
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) demands the immediate reinstatement of the three Columbia University administrators removed from their positions in late June on bogus charges of antisemitism.
In the face of fascist goons summoned by the Anti-Defamation League, Holocaust survivor denounces Gaza genocide
Holocaust survivor Rene Lichtman and other anti-genocide protesters rallied in front of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan despite an intimidation campaign by Zionist elements.
Australian workers and youth explain why they have joined the SEP as electoral members
“What’s happening in Gaza is part of a growing world war. The western countries, including Australia, are all complicit in the [Gaza] genocide.”
Australian Labor government, ACTU line up behind media campaign over alleged construction union corruption
Unsubstantiated allegations are being used to impose major attacks on the democratic rights of construction workers, in preparation for cuts to pay and conditions.
Australia: IYSSE campaigns at meatworks plant for anti-war movement of the working class
IYSSE members spoke to workers at the plant about the necessity to build an international movement of the working class and youth to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the danger of nuclear war.
Australian Labor Party holds state funeral for global Ukrainian fascist leader
Hailed as a “charismatic leader” by Labor MP Bill Shorten, Stefan Romaniw dedicated his entire life to furthering the cause of the Ukrainian fascists who collaborated with the Nazis in World War II.
Sri Lankan university non-academic trade unions betray 75-day strike
The union leadership did not consult with members prior to ending industrial action and then held meetings blocking any discussion on their decision.
Public health crisis deepens as many doctors leave Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s limited free public health system, like public education, has been systematically run down and undermined by consecutive Colombo governments.
Sri Lankan public sector workers take national industrial action over pay
The unions are desperate to prevent a political confrontation with the Wickremesinghe government, which has refused to grant any pay rise and threatens to ban all strike action.
Action committee denounces Sri Lankan president’s threats against teachers
The struggle for a decent salary and to defend public education is part of a broader political fight against the government’s austerity measures.
Royal Academy in London censors anti-Gaza genocide art work by young people
Such works reflect the feelings of tens of millions around the world in the face of the endless cruelties being perpetrated by the Israeli military.
Conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen leaves the San Francisco Symphony: The profit system once again proves incompatible with serious art
Salonen came into conflict with the board over budget cuts and other cost-cutting measures, which he perceived as dangerous to the artistic health and well-being of the orchestra.
Case against actor Alec Baldwin in 2021 death on Rust film set collapses over prosecution’s withholding of evidence
It was the revelation that the police and district attorney had “buried,” i.e., deliberately concealed, evidence that led to the judge’s action.
Reject IATSE sellout contract—Organize rank-and-file committees!
The two Memorandums of Agreement were released July 10 on IATSE websites, only four days before entertainment workers were scheduled to begin voting on the deals.
Canada, US and Finland form trilateral icebreaker-building pact to counter Russia and China in the Arctic
NATO boasted, at this month's Washington war summit, that with the recent addition of Sweden and Finland, it now includes “all Arctic nations"—except Russia.
Mexico’s pseudo-left launches coalition inspired by Argentine FIT-U
The newly formed “Left, Independent, Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Patriarchal Bloc” has joined the wave of triumphalism following the victory of Claudia Sheinbaum, the hand-picked successor of incumbent President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Alabama executes Keith Gavin despite serious constitutional questions in his case
Gavin had argued that his attorneys were ineffective during his trial and that the prosecution lacked forensic or DNA evidence against him. Defense counsel failed to present mitigating evidence that might have led jurors to vote for a life sentence without the possibility of parole instead of a death sentence.
Harvard appoints former Pentagon general counsel and Northrop Grumman executive as vice president
O’Connor’s appointment is a provocation and marks another step in an offensive against democratic rights on campus.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Strike at Samsung Electronics enters second week; Indian railway workers demonstrate against new national pension scheme; Australia: Ramsay Health Care nurses in New South Wales protest over workloads and pay
IATSE members ratify tentative agreements, big struggles lie ahead
While the contract was set to expire July 31, IATSE officials did not even bother to organize a strike authorization vote. The union has never held a national strike in its history.
Regional transport workers’ strikes in Portugal and Italy; general strike in West Bank cities after weekend slaughter of Palestinians by IDF in Gaza; aviation workers at South African airports on indefinite strike over pay structure
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
general strike in most cities in West Bank after weekend slaughter of Gazan Palestinians in so-called designated safe area of al-Mawasi and in a refugee camp west of Khan Younis by IDF; aviation workers at South African airports on indefinite strike over pay structure affecting baggage handling and ground services
Demand a new UAW election! Defend jobs against the UAW-management conspiracy through rank and file power! Expand the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee!
The latest revelations prove that Will Lehman and the IWA-RFC were right: that this was an illegitimate election.
Starmer’s UK Labour government hosts European summit on stepping up war with Russia
The escalation of war against Russia was coupled together with the extension of “Fortress Europe” and the war against asylum seekers and refugees.
Political and media accomplices of Gaza genocide condemn Russian missile strike on Ukrainian hospital
While shedding crocodile tears over the deaths of two people and injury of 16 others in Kiev, the cynical hypocrites occupying government offices and media editorial boards in the imperialist centres have said virtually nothing about The Lancet’s estimate that Israel has killed 186,000 people.
Washington summit will announce plans to set up NATO office inside Ukraine
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan signaled a major escalation of the conflict with Russia in Ukraine and plans to significantly increase NATO's capabilities to fight a full-scale war throughout Europe.
New York Times reveals Ukrainian war crimes, remains silent on paramilitaries’ ties to US state
Composed of volunteers from 30 countries, the “Chosen Company” executed surrendering and captured Russian soldiers during a number of operations last year, reports the New York Times, which fails to mention that the leader of the unit involved met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in March.
Socialist Equality Party candidates submit 20,000 signatures to appear on Michigan presidential ballot
The signatures are an expression of the broad sentiment among workers and youth for a socialist, anti-war and anti-capitalist alternative to the capitalist parties.
Democrats on North Carolina election board block Cornel West from appearing on presidential ballot
In a party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled North Carolina election board voted against approving ballot access for Cornel West, despite the fact that petitioners for his campaign turned in over 3,200 more verified signatures than required.
J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy memoir: How Trump’s VP choice got his start in right-wing, anti-working class politics
From right-wing author to US senator and Trump’s new running mate: The making of a junior political charlatan.
The Democratic Party, the Biden campaign crisis and the billionaire “donor” class
The crisis of the Biden election campaign has shed light on a fundamental feature of American politics—the domination by a financial oligarchy over what passes for “democracy.”
Five cops gun down homeless man in Milwaukee amid massive police presence for RNC
Samual Sharpe, Jr., 43, was brutally shot and killed on Tuesday in Milwaukee in a hail of bullets fired by a five police officers from Columbus, Ohio who had been dispatched to the city for the Republican National Convention.
Democratic Senator Robert Menendez convicted of bribery, acting as a foreign agent
Menendez accepted gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz convertible and more than $480,000 in cash in exchange for efforts to assist the Egyptian dictatorship and quash a federal criminal prosecution.
Judge Cannon dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump
US District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump on Monday, saying Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment by the Justice Department was unconstitutional.
Teamsters president at the Republican National Convention: The bureaucracy throws its lot in with fascism
Sean O’Brien’s speech called for “bipartisanship” based on nationalism, militarism and the integration of the unions with management and the capitalist state—but he made clear his particular sympathy for Trump and the extreme right.
Two recent studies on Long COVID underscore the dangers posed by the “forever COVID” policy
Two new studies on Long COVID show that the virus that causes COVID-19 poses significant ongoing threats to the well-being of the world’s population.
Cluster of H5N1 bird flu cases among Colorado poultry farm workers raises alarm
Beholden to the profit interests of the poultry and dairy industries, federal and state agencies with the authority and technology to contain H5N1 and prevent it from becoming the next pandemic are not doing what is both within their means and required.
Summer COVID wave develops in Germany
The increasing number of coronavirus infections over the summer expose the claim that the pandemic is over.
The summer surge of COVID in the US and the implications of the anti-public health policy
The summer surge of COVID is seeing infections climb across the country, along with emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths.
Washington abandons aid to Gaza via floating pier, as famine intensifies
Announced with great fanfare by President Joseph Biden in March, the pier ended up taking two months to deliver 80 percent of the 500 truckloads of aid that arrived in Gaza each day prior to the launching of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on October 7.
Delas report exposes PSOE-Sumar-Podemos collaboration with Israeli genocide in Gaza
It is another devastating exposure of the imperialist militarism and support for genocide of the Socialist Party-Sumar government and of its accomplices in Podemos.
UNRWA headquarters “flattened” as destruction of Gaza continues
Amid the killings, it was the turn of David Lammy, foreign secretary in Britain’s new Labour Party government, to tour Israel and sprinkle perfumed phrases about “peace” and “stability” on its fascist regime and genocidal war.
Israeli airstrikes massacre hundreds across Gaza over the weekend
On Saturday, Israel launched a massive airstrike on a humanitarian zone in the coastal town of al-Mawasi where Palestinians had sought refuge from the relentless bombing of Gaza. The Health Ministry said it was one of the deadliest attacks in the nine-month siege, with 92 killed and 300 wounded.
Interest rates should remain elevated, says IMF
The latest IMF update called for “fiscal consolidation”—that is, cuts in spending.
Global Wealth Report 2023: An orgy of enrichment for the super-rich
Multimillionaires around the world benefited from the inflation year 2023, while the German super-rich alone increased their wealth by 10 percent to more than €2.1 trillion.
50,000 foreclosures expected to be enforced in Greece this year
The most high-profile eviction case was that of Ioanna Kolovou, a retired journalist. She was evicted from her home along with her 28-year-old disabled son at the end of January this year. According to reports a large crowd gathered outside her home which was attacked with tear gas by the riot police who then arrested Kolovou and her son.
European Central Bank official sounds warning on growth of private credit
Private credit institutions in Europe hold more financial assets than banks and other traditional sources of finance.
Kenya’s Ruto bans protests as hundreds of thousands of teachers threaten to strike
Tuesday’s “total shutdown” protest saw three people shot dead and dozens injured. This adds to the 50 dead and 413 injured as they were shot, teargassed and water cannoned since the start of protests on June 18, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
Kenyan anti-Ruto protests continue as Uber drivers walk out and truckers threaten to strike
The continued protests are a rebuke to Kenyan President William Ruto who dissolved his cabinet last Friday to pave the way for the formation of a “broad-based Government” with figures from the opposition.
Mass outrage after Kenya’s opposition Azimio party joins Ruto’s “dialogue” initiative
The Ruto-Odinga unification is designed to impose severe cuts, tax hikes, and privatizations demanded by the banks and global financial capital, spearheaded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), by ending the mass protests against the government.
Thousands mourn those slain by Kenya’s Ruto government, as health workers strike
Workers are now mobilizing to fight for better wages and against precarious working conditions, despite trade union efforts to suppress opposition to Ruto.
Milei and Bolsonaro attend fascistic CPAC conference in Brazil
The politicians behind the Latin American version of CPAC have served as the most direct advocates of US imperialism’s agenda in the region.
President Milei rides tank in Argentine independence day parade
Milei’s agenda echoes the “National Reorganization Process” (el Proceso) initiated by Argentina’s murderous military dictatorship.
Washington uses Panama’s new government to attack migrants crossing deadly Darien jungle
Washington is seeking to create a bottleneck for hungry and desperate migrant workers escaping from the impact of imperialist oppression and war in dozens of countries.
Peru’s President Boluarte visits China amid domestic crises and global tensions
Two days after she left for China, human rights NGOs asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the massacre of 49 Peruvians following the December 2022 coup that brought Boluarte to power.
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.
This week in history: July 15-21
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.
UAE imposes life sentences on 43 defendants in second-largest trial in its history
In 2014, a United Nations working group found that their convictions had been “based on charges of acts that would fall under the rights to freedom of expression and of assembly,” and that their detention had been “arbitrary.”
Educators in Turkey protest draft anti-labor law
While the Turkish political establishment and the trade union apparatus have been working to suppress the growing discontent of the working class against the ongoing cost of living crisis, the police attacked a protest by educators in Ankara against the new anti-labor law.
West Nile fever epidemic in Israel
There has as yet been no mention of the implications of the WNV outbreak for the population of Gaza, suffering an Israeli genocide that has included the decimation of health infrastructure.
Anti-refugee attacks in Turkey claim life of Syrian child worker
The entire political establishment is waging a dirty propaganda campaign against the refugees, who are victims of the regime change war launched by the US and its allies, including Turkey, in Syria in 2011.
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.
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.
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.
UAW Monitor cites continuing “culture of fear or retaliation” in latest status report
The last court filing lends further weight to the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for new UAW elections under the control of the rank and file.
UAW monitor demands court intervention as Fain administration blocks investigation into bureaucracy
The UAW has refused to send the monitor documents that refer to open threats or acts of criminal violence, including “cut throat,” “slit throat,” “punch,” “smack,” “knock out,” and, ominously, “kill.”
Autoworkers support call for new UAW elections: “This time everybody’s vote should count”
Amid new revelations of UAW corruption, Stellantis, Ford and GM workers supported the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for a new union elections.
“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.
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.
The fascist spectacle of the Republican National Convention
One need not idealize the American party conventions of decades past to acknowledge that this year’s Republican National Convention was an unprecedented spectacle of reaction and backwardness.
Trump delivers fascistic rant to conclude Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention concluded Thursday night with a speech by the party’s candidate, ex-president Donald Trump, which was an unequaled display of political degradation.
The normalization of American-style fascism
The corporate media treats the Republican National Convention, an unprecedented display of anti-immigrant bigotry, religious mania, and nationalistic frenzy, as though it were an ordinary political event.
Teamsters president at the Republican National Convention: The bureaucracy throws its lot in with fascism
Sean O’Brien’s speech called for “bipartisanship” based on nationalism, militarism and the integration of the unions with management and the capitalist state—but he made clear his particular sympathy for Trump and the extreme right.
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.