For all that has been said and written about the Holocaust, it remains a strangely obscure event. The one basic question raised by the Holocaust, “Why did it happen?” is precisely that to which it is most difficult to obtain an answer.
This is the second part of a two-part review.
Kassow’s history of the Oyneg Shabes underground archive in the Warsaw Ghetto combines remarkable objectivity with a deep compassion for the tragic fate of Warsaw’s Jewry during World War II.
This lecture was delivered at San Diego State University on April 29. It was the eighth in a series entitled "Killing for a higher cause: Political violence in a world in crisis" sponsored by the Institute on World Affairs within the Political Science Department of the San Diego State University.
The fundamental lesson of a study of the Holocaust is that the alternatives before humanity remain those of socialism or barbarism.
Hanebrink’s book focuses on examining the relationship between the fear of the “specter of communism” haunting Europe—to which Marx and Engels famously alluded in their Communist Manifesto of 1847—and of anti-Semitism.
World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North sent this letter to journalist James Angelos in response to his recently published article “The New German Anti-Semitism.”
The core exhibition at the recently opened POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has now marked its second anniversary.
The collaboration of Germany and the US with Ukrainian fascists has historical precedents reaching back 100 years.
The action will have a “chilling effect” on all forms of political speech and scientific research opposed by the ultra-right Polish authorities.
The leak of the Labour Party investigation marks an appropriate endpoint to Corbyn’s five-year record of political surrender and collusion.
The witch-hunt centres on a concerted attempt to equate opposition to Zionism and the colonial policies of the Israeli state with hatred of the Jewish people in general and the infamous and reactionary anti-Semitism of the Nazis in particular.
The event has always been a celebration of militarist reaction, but all the more so under conditions of the greatest threat of a world war in 85 years.
Peach spoke strongly on issues that are being covered up by every other party in the official election campaign, including the immense threat of a nuclear world war.
The Radio NZ journalist was vilified as a “Russian agent,” resigned amid a manufactured public furore and, in a sinister development, was investigated by the country’s spy agency.
Immigration agents claimed Khalil needed to be arrested before a warrant could be produced because he was a “flight risk” and not “cooperative,” lies disproved by video of Khalil’s abduction taken by his wife.
The FBI arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday morning, and she was charged with obstruction and harboring a fugitive in connection with an immigrant worker, who appeared before her on April 18.
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
The raids were executed across Ann Arbor, Canton and Ypsilanti. No one was arrested or charged during the raids, but police and FBI agents seized electronic devices and personal belongings and briefly detained 11 individuals for interrogation.
Wolfgang Weber, an outstanding fighter for Trotskyism and a longtime leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) died on November 16, 2024. We are publishng here a message of condolence by the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the US, Joseph Kishore.
The most basic lie in The Nation’s article is that it is possible to create a “progressive” nationalist politics which benefit the working class.
China: BYD electronics manufacturing workers strike; India: Tamil Nadu power-generation workers walk out indefinitely; Pakistani health workers continue to protest privatisation; Australia: Public mental health workers strike again
Support for the NDP, which is fraudulently presented in the mainstream media as a party of the “left,” has plunged to under 10 percent—its lowest share in a quarter century.
The attacks on education in São Paulo and around the world are part of the increasing shift of the world’s ruling elite towards war and fascism.
Increasingly dry conditions due to global warming compounded by reductions in forest management practices presage a dramatic increase in wildfire danger.
Anti-genocide protests which have taken place regularly in Morocco escalated to coincide with the arrival of the US-flagged Maersk Detroit and another container ship involved in the onward transit of the components to Israel, the Nexoe Maersk.
The ruling class and all its parties are indifferent to the fact that earthquakes and similar natural phenomena threaten millions of people. This shows that there is no other way out than for the working class to mobilise and take matters into its own hands.
“All these parties, Labor, Liberal, whatever, it’s just a façade. At the end of the day they all want the same thing.”
Chinese government officials have said claims by the Trump administration that there are “active” discussions between Washington and Beijing are “fake news.”
Labor’s proposed change would not protect workers from the elimination or slashing of penalty rates through union-management agreements.
Islamabad has warned that it will consider it "an act of war," if India makes good on its threat to cut off Pakistan's access to the water upon which its power grid and irrigation network rely.
With Trump’s tariffs on auto parts set to begin May 3, the UAW has ignored or tried to downplay the mounting attacks on auto jobs.
