Trump’s January 6 coup: Answers from Socialism AI

This is a report drawn up by Socialism AI on the background and course of the January 6, 2021 coup, which took place five years ago.

Technology and the working class: Responding to an opponent of Socialism AI

This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.

Militarisation of Australian universities intensifies: More than $200 million in defence contracts since 2024

The expanding contracts with universities feed into the next phase of the AUKUS military pact between the US, UK and Australia, targeting China.

Australia: Questions about Bondi terrorist attack remain unanswered

The perpetrators were known to ASIO, the domestic spy agency, and appear to have been active in an extremist milieu that included supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organisation.

The Artamonov Business (1925): Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution

Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.

Marty Supreme: A table tennis star’s frantic fight for fame

This movie uses the technique of “propulsive filmmaking,” while viewing the experience of Jews in America through the lens of identity politics.

Canada’s Liberal government backs imperialist regime change in Iran

As Trump masses US naval and air forces for a devastating assault on Iran, Canada’s Foreign Minster has declared Ottawa’s full-throated support for regime change in Tehran.

“The worst of the worst”: ICE detains Chilean death squad killer

The Trump administration claims ad nauseam that ICE’s anti-immigrant dragnet is targeting the “worst of the worst.” Whether by chance or design, the detention of Armando Fernández Larios fits the bill.

UK Labour government reels following arrest of Peter Mandelson over Epstein connections

Not only did Mandelson epitomise the New Labour agenda of serving every requirement of the banks and corporations, but his close relations with Epstein were seen at the time as an asset that would facilitate efforts to woo the Trump administration.

Fascist mobilisation in France after Quentin Deranque’s death

A political front, embracing fascist groups, the Socialist Party, the extreme right National Rally, all the way up to Macron and his government, seeks to clear the way for either of RN’s candidates, Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella, to assume power after the current local elections and presidential elections next year.

Union bureaucracy sabotages the Kaiser Permanente strike

The shutdown of the strike, without prior notice, a contract or even a tentative agreement, underscores the need for a workers’ rebellion against the union bureaucracy.

Royal Mail workers in Keighley, West Yorkshire: “They are trying to kill off the postal service”

Postal workers at the Keighley delivery office in West Yorkshire spoke out against intolerable working conditions, mail backlogs and the collusion of the Communication Workers Union leadership in enforcing Royal Mail’s restructuring agenda.

US-backed “execution” of Jalisco Cartel chief threatens greater carnage in Mexico

The US-directed “execution” of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho in Mexico has unleashed nationwide chaos and will be exploited to deepen militarization and imperialist control.

Gaza without the bombs: US regime change operation in Cuba deepens inequality, mass hunger

The Trump administration’s deliberate strangulation of Cuba’s economy has created a humanitarian catastrophe that could lead to mass death.

Historical issues arising from the Stalinist Turkish Communist Party’s mass meeting in Ankara

The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.

“Military glory—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood”

Trump falsifies the history of the Mexican-American War

The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border whose consequences still shape American politics.

AI turmoil continues on 2 fronts

With the development of new AI tools disrupting established business models, financial markets are “wracked with uncertainty” about what comes next.

AI development and the contradictions of capitalism

The development of artificial intelligence (or more correctly augmented intelligence) AI and the growing concern that it has the potential to set off a major economic and financial crises shows that contradictions identified by Marx are coming to the surface once again.

Bonobo demonstrates the cognitive ability to imagine “make believe” objects

Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.

The US withdrawal from the WHO and the assault on public health

The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization marks a decisive turn toward nationalism and the dismantling of public health.

Sri Lanka: 12 death sentences imposed for killing an MP amid 2022 uprising

On the basis of threadbare evidence and flawed legal reasoning, a court sentenced 12 people to death in what amounts to an act of class vengeance, designed to intimidate rising opposition to the present government’s austerity program.

Online Public Meeting: Sri Lankan doctors’ protests and the fight to defend free public health

The struggle for better conditions for health employees is inseparably bound up with defending free healthcare, won through the bitter struggles of the working class, and supported by the poor.

Plan for massive Georgia concentration camp for immigrants provokes outrage

Plans for a 10,000-bed immigrant detention complex in Georgia would represent the largest construction of a civilian mass detention facility in the United States since the Japanese American internment camps of 1942.

Pennsylvania high school students violently attacked by police during anti-ICE walkout

From Pennsylvania to Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas, authorities are suspending and criminalizing youth protesting immigration enforcement.

Billionaires and corporate lawyers resign following latest Epstein file release

Billionaires, CEOs and corporate attorneys have stepped down after newly released Justice Department files exposed their ties to Epstein. Despite mounting evidence, no new indictments have been issued.

US corporate media slanders anger over Epstein cover-up as “conspiracy theories”

As millions of Epstein files remain hidden, the US corporate press, including the New York Times and Washington Post, have published articles dismissing documented crimes and cover-ups as “conspiracies” and “antisemitism.”

Attacking the WSWS, the Communist Party Marxist–Kenya salutes the gravedigger of the revolution, Stalin

The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through terror, and subordinated the international working class to the interests of a privileged bureaucratic caste.

Hailing Stalin, Kenyan Stalinists defend Venezuelan regime’s growing ties to Trump

The handover of Venezuela’s oil reserves to US imperialism by its Bolivarian regime is relentlessly unmasking anti-Trotskyist forces internationally.

California worker killed in US Foods distribution facility

A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.

71-year-old subcontractor killed after falling into industrial vat at New Jersey chemical plant

A 71-year-old subcontracted worker was killed at a New Jersey chemical plant, as official investigations were announced and fundamental questions about workplace safety and accountability remain unanswered.

Europe’s cannon fodder: Introduction and expansion of conscription in numerous EU countries

The reintroduction and expansion of conscription is a direct result of the military rearmament in the NATO war against Russia and the preparation for a Third World War.

Starmer’s agreement to send UK troops to Ukraine fuels demands for urgent military expansion

The most hawkish elements demand the UK government immediately start coughing up staggering sums to reach NATO’s new target of 5 percent of GDP spent on the military.

UK loses measles elimination status amid sustained assault on public health

Increasing vaccine coverage is the key to eliminating measles, but this goal is being actively undermined by the Starmer government’s continued assault on public spending and the National Health Service.

An assessment of the ongoing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic

This article examines the state of public health in the United States in January 2026, detailing mass COVID-19 infection, excess deaths, collapsing vaccination coverage, immune damage and the dismantling of institutions responsible for disease prevention.

Opening Report to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal 

This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.

Statement of Principles of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)

At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.

Lecture to the 2025 SEP Summer School

Joseph Hansen—the FBI’s asset in the SWP

This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.

Lecture to the SEP 2025 Summer School

The Gelfand Case: Depositions and the fight against summary judgement

This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.

David Neita: January 5, 1948 – October 30, 2025

David Neita, who played a leading role in the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party) during the 1970s, died on October 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.

A working class fighter for socialism: Joe Parnarauskis, 1954–2025

Parnarauskis is best known to readers of the WSWS for his 2006 campaign for Illinois state senate.

Princeton University cancels discussion by Norman Finkelstein on the ongoing Gaza genocide

A scheduled event at Princeton University featuring a discussion with Norman Finkelstein about the ongoing Gaza genocide was abruptly canceled the day before it was to be held due to “new University policy.”

Trump and Netanyahu hold Iran war conclave

US President Donald Trump held a war council at the White House Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finalize plans for a massive military assault on Iran.

Canada’s Liberal government backs imperialist regime change in Iran

As Trump masses US naval and air forces for a devastating assault on Iran, Canada’s Foreign Minster has declared Ottawa’s full-throated support for regime change in Tehran.

Turkish parliamentary committee overwhelmingly approves report on negotiations with Kurdish Workers Party

The parliamentary commission established as part of Turkey’s negotiations with the PKK mainly advances the outlook of the Erdoğan government while receiving the support of the Kurdish DEM Party.

Book Review

Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism

Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.

“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”

Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history

Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.

The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective

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.

Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout

The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.

California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas

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.

Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster

Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.

IYSSE meeting: For a socialist perspective against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany

While wars are being stoked and escalated in the Middle East, Latin America and worldwide, thousands of young people in Germany are currently receiving letters to register for military service.

RT Interview with Tamino Dreisam on school strike against conscription in Germany

IYSSE in Germany: “We do not want to die for the interests of the rich”

An interview with IYSSE spokesperson Tamino Dreisam exposes the class interests behind Germany’s reintroduction of conscription, placing it within a broader drive toward militarisation, social cuts and imperialist war.

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.

A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo

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.

On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky

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.

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.

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.

US forces in position for illegal attack on Iran

The United States has positioned its naval and air forces for a massive assault on Iran in the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

US military prepares “sustained, weeks-long” war against Iran

Reuters reports that the Pentagon is planning for a far larger attack than last June’s one-off strikes, with officials saying the US “fully expected Iran to retaliate.”

An important book on fascism and World War II

Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.

National Book Award winner The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

The novel takes place in Beirut between 1960 and 2023, its story divided non-chronologically into seven sections.

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.

The real state of Trump’s America: Social misery, dictatorship, war—and an upsurge of class struggle

The fascist president heads a government of, by and for the financial oligarchy.

Supreme Court ruling against Trump tariffs exposes ruling class crisis

Friday morning, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a 1977 emergency law did not delegate Congressional authority over setting tariffs to the president, revealing sharp divisions among the capitalists and triggering an unprecedented attack on the court and individual justices by Trump.