There are events which burst through the crust of official politics and media-managed opinion and let popular sentiment erupt to the surface. Saturday afternoon at the UK’s Glastonbury music festival was one of those.
A 51-49 near-party line vote opened debate on a so-called “reconciliation” bill that will extend Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy while cutting more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and food stamps.
The “unavoidable” catastrophe is the direct result of a political system that treats transit as a commodity rather than a social right.
At least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza during the US-Israeli genocide, Gaza’s government media office said this weekend, as mass hunger skyrockets in the besieged enclave.
Over half a million people are now at risk of being seized and deported to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
The right-wing Mulino government has imposed Operation Omega to crack down on working class resistance to austerity measures.
Contracts for nearly 80,000 educators in California's largest districts, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento, are expiring on June 30.
While the German government pours hundreds of billions of euros into rearmament and war, the jobs massacre in the automotive, supplier, chemical, steel and other key industries continues unabated and is now extending to the services sector.
Workers' jobs cannot be defended by converting to war production. The defence of jobs must be directly linked to the fight against militarism and war.
Handwritten letters to his Nazi superiors boast of Dobrowolski “personally” taking part “in the extermination of the Jews” and killing hundreds of Ukrainian resistance fighters.
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
The ACTU’s involvement in this event underscores the Albanese government’s increasing dependence on the trade union apparatus to suppress working-class opposition to its agenda of war and austerity.
In its decision in Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court has dismantled constitutional protections, sanctioned executive lawlessness, and established the pseudo-legal foundation for presidential dictatorship.
The sentiments animating the vote for Mamdani are bringing masses of people into conflict with the Democratic Party and the entire political order.
The NATO summit held this week in The Hague marks a turning point in history. Seventy-five years after its founding, the imperialist alliance has agreed to the largest military buildup since the Second World War.
Armed with a socialist political perspective, rooted in the scientific foundations of Marxism and the assimilation of the historical experiences of the international class struggle, the WSWS is relentless in its exposure of the Big Lies and its defense of the truth.
In a massive and unprovoked assault, the United States launched a sneak attack on Iran, dropping the most powerful non-nuclear bunker-buster bombs ever used in combat on Iranian nuclear energy facilities.
On Friday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an in-depth report substantiating the existence of orders instructing Israeli soldiers to fire into unarmed crowds of aid-seekers.
The Israeli government shut down crossings into northern Gaza on Thursday, claiming without evidence that militants were stealing aid, as 71 more people were killed across the Strip, many of them seeking food aid.
The assault on Iran marks a dangerous escalation by US imperialism—aimed at controlling oil flows and preparing for a major war against China.
While millions protested against the right-wing policies and dictatorial methods of the Trump administration, the US president brought tanks and thousands of troops to the US capital in a show of force against the American people.
Politicians from both capitalist parties are terrified that Mamdani’s dominant primary victory signals the emergence of a mass socialist movement in the heart of global finance capital.
The whistleblower complaint filed by Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni, who previously admitted in court that the government wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, exposes the criminal and lawless character not only of the Trump administration but of the entire US government.
Bogoya-Duarte, who arrived from Colombia in 2022, was snatched by border patrol while driving to a school field trip.
Grenfell Tower—which had been a safe concrete structure for the previous five decades—was turned into a death trap as a result of corporate profiteering.
Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.
Andor speaks to the brutality of modern capitalist society, reflecting the real-world descent into dictatorship, war and global crisis.
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi confronts the betrayal of the Mau Mau struggle by Kenya’s bourgeoisie and highlights the urgent need for workers and youth to draw the lessons of that experience in the fight for socialism.
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
Monday marked 11 weeks since the fatal accident that took the life of the 63-year-old machine repairman.
A 15-year veteran reviewed the record of fatal accidents and severe injuries and the company-union efforts to conceal the conditions that led to the death of Adams.
Family gathered Sunday to hold a Father’s Day memorial for the 63-year-old Stellantis worker who was tragically killed at the Dundee Engine Complex in Michigan on April 7.
The contract is nothing more than a rehash of the deal the union bureaucracies tried to impose on workers a week ago, and that the rank and file voted down.
Postal workers must now take steps to break out of the restraints of the CWU’s corporatist Framework Agreement with EP Group it is seeking to ram through.
The bureaucracy is lining up behind the Trump administration's ongoing preparations to privatize the Postal Service. Trump has installed David Steiner, a former FedEx board member, as Postmaster General, and plans are being drawn up in secret to dismantle the post office.
India: Hyundai Motor workers in Tamil Nadu plan to walk out; Haryana health and science university outsourced workers still on strike; Bangladesh government workers demonstrate against “black law”; South Australia: Public hospital doctors and other health workers in separate disputes strike over pay; New Zealand hospital theatre nurses strike over pay
Traverse City officials recently enforced a new no camping ordinance and shut down The Pines, a large homeless encampment, even though local shelters are at capacity and regularly turn people away every night.
Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard Jordan, who suffered from PTSD after three combat tours in Vietnam.
Michigan House Bill 4580 proposes to cut funding for U-M by $234.4 million (65 per cent) and MSU by $56.6 million (18 per cent).
Tuesday marked the peak of the heat wave, with cities from Boston to Philadelphia experiencing their hottest temperatures in over a decade.
Mexico ruling party defeated; composer Shostakovich finishes final work; North Korean troops in first combat with US forces; Fascists attack anti-fascists on Staten Island
The UAW, which stoked the anti-Japanese racism that led to Chin’s death, is backing Trump’s tariffs and promoting the lie that Mexican workers are taking American autoworkers' jobs.
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
A former Greens candidate was left with horrific facial injuries, with her relatives telling the media she may never regain sight in one eye.
“It could be curtains for everybody with World War Three, nuclear war, and I’m trying to stop that. I’m terrified, horrified, especially so because I have children and grandchildren.”
Ahmed, a rail worker, told WSWS, “The attack on Iran is totally unjustified, it’s also a total threat to democracy… Before we know it, we won’t be able to protest.”
Workers, students, and residents voiced strong opposition to imperialist war and support for a general strike at protests this weekend against the US bombing of Iran.
The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
The abrupt firing of 17 vaccine advisers threatens decades of vaccine progress and opens the door to fringe, anti-vaccine ideologues in federal health policy.
The study found that 15 percent of preschool-aged children with confirmed COVID infection are suffering from Long COVID.
NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has echoed the fraudulent pretexts for the US-Israeli war against Iran and the illegal US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
In the first three months of this year, 8,587 patients were forced to wait longer than the time clinically recommended for their conditions, 150 percent more than the same period last year.
Antoinette Lattouf’s victory is a damning exposure of the extensive campaign that has been waged by the Labor government and the entire establishment, to falsely brand opposition to the Israeli genocide as antisemitism.
The event confirmed the character of the new electoral fronts, controlled by Socialist Alternative, as political traps aimed at diverting anti-capitalist sentiment back behind the discredited parliamentary order.
We urge all workers, youth, students and concerned individuals to attend the meetings and join the struggle against imperialist war.
The so-called economic recovery promoted at this month’s “Debt and Governance” conference in Colombo is being paid for by Sri Lankan workers and the rural masses.
The ruling JVP, which decades ago abandoned its anti-imperialist pretensions, starkly revealed its pro-US and pro-Israel foreign policy.
Workers and young people must take the government’s bolstering of the police with military personnel as a serious warning.
The latest study from Capgemini shows that wealth in Germany is increasingly being concentrated ever faster among a tiny layer of the super-rich.
In November 2021, Presiding Judge Peters rejected the complaint filed by the Socialist Equality Party against the federal Interior Ministry and Verfassungsschutz (Secret Service), ruling that the party should also bear the full costs of the proceedings.
The Left Party’s apparent opposition to the war is nothing more than a tactical difference within the camp of imperialism regarding the choice of means. The objective—subjugating Iran—is shared unreservedly by the Left Party.
The document’s release comes just days after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a commitment to lifting military spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035, adopted as a common goal at yesterday’s NATO summit.
Outraged by the growing support for socialist politics and what it represents, Trump and the fascists in the Republican Party have escalated their violent rhetoric against Zohran Mamdani—including threats to deport the US citizen.
The exact issues involved behind Weingarten’s resignation is difficult to say with certainty, but what can be said is that there are no issues of political principle involved.
Over the last three months in particular the scale and intensity of the assault on Medicare have plumbed new depths.
The House of Representatives voted to table the impeachment resolution, with a majority of Democrats, including the entire leadership, joining a unanimous Republican caucus.
The move out of long-term US bonds is the most significant since the crisis of early 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chinese premier Li Qiang touted major expansion in domestic market and said the country would “open its doors wider” to trade and industry.
Commercial real estate faces “vulnerabilities” and the massive growth of private credit threatens to become a “locus of contagion” for financial turbulence, according to two recent reports.
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has said there are “opportunities” for the euro to play a greater international role while the head of China’s central bank Pan Gongsheng has spoken of a “multi-polar” currency world.
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74.
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pretext for further repression.
President Ruto’s government has unleashed a violent crackdown on mass Gen Z-led protests across Kenya, leaving at least 16 dead and hundreds injured.
Kenya’s 2024 youth-led protests exposed the brutality of the Ruto regime and the complicity of the traditional opposition, trade unions, and pseudo-left groups. Its betrayal underscores the essential need for revolutionary leadership.
The mass protests sparked by the police murder of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang expose the class nature of police violence, the role of the capitalist state, and the need for the international working class to unite against repression and inequality.
Reversing China’s rise as the primary economic partner for Peru and South America would be the equivalent of an economic earthquake, inevitably sparking revolutionary upheavals.
The defendants acknowledged that the former president conspired with the military commanders to prevent the inauguration of elected President Lula da Silva.
The ruling represents a further step in the criminalization of political opposition, which can be fought only on the basis of a sober assessment of the role played by the Peronists and pseudo-left in disarming any viable resistance in the working class.
What the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates is that the Armed Forces went along with the coup conspiracy that erupted on January 8, 2023.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Russia's lead negotiator in peace talks with Ukraine warned on Monday that any deal that did not secure his country's lasting interests would ultimately result in "the end of the planet."
The attack was personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and carried out by the fascist-infested Secret Service of Ukraine (SBU).
This report on by Ukrainian journalists documents the emergence of a huge shadow economy and the impact of skyrocketing food prices in the war-torn country.
The assassination of Portnov in parking lot in Madrid just days after meeting with Ukrainian officials exposes the lie that Zelensky’s Ukraine is a “democratic state”.
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
To fight the onslaught of corporations and governments, and defeat union sabotage of their struggles, workers must unite across workplaces, industries and countries.
Turkish prisoners have initiated an indefinite hunger strike to protest the severe isolation prevalent in S-, Y-, and R-type high-security prisons.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“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
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
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.
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on workers, students and youth across the United States and internationally to oppose the warmongering witch-hunting of Chinese researchers Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu.
While the protests express a growing opposition to Trump’s fascistic agenda, the pseudo-left organisers are seeking to channel those sentiments behind Australian nationalism and a pro-war Labor government.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on students, workers and youth across the US and internationally to demand that Rozos' diploma be released immediately.
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
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.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
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 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.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
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.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
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.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
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.
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.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
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.
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.
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.”
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.
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.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
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.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
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 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
Depicting the November 24, 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the Channel opens a window onto the crimes committed against migrants all over the world.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
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.
There are events which burst through the crust of official politics and media-managed opinion and let popular sentiment erupt to the surface. Saturday afternoon at the UK’s Glastonbury music festival was one of those.
In its decision in Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court has dismantled constitutional protections, sanctioned executive lawlessness, and established the pseudo-legal foundation for presidential dictatorship.
The NATO summit held this week in The Hague marks a turning point in history. Seventy-five years after its founding, the imperialist alliance has agreed to the largest military buildup since the Second World War.
The sentiments animating the vote for Mamdani are bringing masses of people into conflict with the Democratic Party and the entire political order.
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.
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
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.
