On Saturday, David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, spoke to over 100 attendees at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the topic ”Back to the Future: Fascism, War and Class Struggle in the 21st Century.”
The Democrats are fearful above all of evoking anxiety and anger, of creating a situation where broader layers of the population will react. In the face of a fascist menace, the Democrats preach quiescence.
“As of last week, 13,319 children have been killed in Gaza, of whom 786 were under the age of one,” said human rights expert Chris Sidoti.
The attack—far and away the biggest Israeli military strike ever launched against Iran—represents a major provocation and escalation of Israel’s war throughout the Middle East.
On her crowdfund site, Abusalama explained: “This victory is not just personal. It is a victory against attempts to silence advocates for justice in Palestine”.
The letter is an indication of the deep concern among all layers of the American bourgeoisie of the economic and geopolitical impact of the strike.
Workers voted by over 95 percent to strike, making clear their determination to fight back after years of concessions and to resist the Crown corporation's plans to use AI and other new technologies to increase worker-exploitation.
Spain’s worst flood in decades is a social disaster driven by the ruling elite’s inability to plan policies to halt climate change, or even to devise basic disaster management plans advocated by scientists.
There was genuine concern that too savage cuts would undermine global confidence in the UK economy or spark massive opposition in the working class.
Volkswagen wants to cut the wages of its 120,000 employees in Germany by almost 20 percent, thereby saving €2 billion a year. This became known on Wednesday evening after the second round of negotiations on the VW company wage agreement.
Parents at Fuentes Elementary organized a demonstration to protest the closure of their children’s school. Acero, the charter network, is closing seven schools this year, impacting 2,000 students and 250 jobs in primarily working class communities.
The meeting at the working-class university outlined a socialist perspective, based on the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
This supplementary review exposes Beatty’s manipulation of evidence related to Gerry Healy’s youth in Ireland.
In an interview in Jacobin, DSA member Aidan J. Beatty repeated his slanderous biography's claim that Gerry Healy and the British Trotskyists employed violence against political opponents and party members.
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Rank-and-file committees among autoworkers in both North America and Europe must be expanded to include every key factory, giving workers the power to shut down the global industry.
Whatever the outcome of the election, the American political system is breaking down. The type of fascistic movement that Trump is constructing will continue to grow in strength and can only be opposed through the development of a socialist movement in the working class.
The central involvement of the Democratic Party in the persecution of opposition to genocide demonstrates that its claim to be protecting “democracy” is a cynical fraud.
Dollar supremacy is a decisive issue for the entire political establishment of US imperialism as it seeks to maintain its global hegemony through an ever-expanding war front.
The pro-imperialist “socialist” from Vermont argued there would be a “much better chance of changing US policy” under war criminal Kamala Harris.
The right-wing Supreme Court supermajority intervened to allow the continuation of a Republican-backed program to summarily disqualify voters as suspected non-citizens.
Trump’s extra-legal campaign to seize the White House regardless of the vote is being bankrolled by billionaires who have yet to be held to account for funding Trump’s first coup attempt.
The independent senatorial candidate, union bureaucrat Dan Osborn, and his Republican opponent, Deb Fischer, are competing to see who can be the biggest Trump supporter.
Channel 4’s programme is based on an investigation conducted by Hope Not Hate. It is an important documentary, revealing the international and financial connections of the global fascist movement.
When a “controversial” art work or exhibition goes on display, a by now trite and even stereotyped process is set in motion.
Because Daniel Shuminov was involved in a Palestine camp at Goethe University, the Historical Museum has withdrawn all his jobs as a guide.
The documentary’s objectivity lies in the fact that it presents historical and social truth.
Canada’s social democrats are doubling down on their support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, which Jama was thrown out of the NDP’s parliamentary caucus for speaking out against in October 2023.
Because Daniel Shuminov was involved in a Palestine camp at Goethe University, the Historical Museum has withdrawn all his jobs as a guide.
Keziah Ridgeway was removed from her post last month following complaints from far right Zionist elements in Philadelphia who objected to her vocal defense of her students’ rights to free speech and opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The two demonstrators are facing charges of “disguise with intent,” making them liable to 10-year prison terms, for wearing medical masks which protect from COVID-19 and other diseases during a March 7 protest.
Car workers in Germany strike for pay rise as global car industry demands job cuts and lower pay; retirees, municipal and oil workers and the disabled join ongoing protests across Iran as living standards collapse; healthcare workers in Nigerian stage seven-day warning strike over pay and conditions as university staff begin indefinite strike over unpaid salaries
Parents at Fuentes Elementary organized a demonstration to protest the closure of their children’s school. Acero, the charter network, is closing seven schools this year, impacting 2,000 students and 250 jobs in primarily working class communities.
“The government is going for the strongest section of the trade unions on purpose, for strategy. I think the goal is just straight-up austerity against the working class and this is part of it.”
Volkswagen management is planning a radical cost-cutting program, but has so far kept details secret.
The failed assassination attempt has sharply intensified the conflict between factions of the ruling MAS party.
Cuba has repeatedly failed to bring its electrical grid back up as a result of fuel shortages and deteriorating infrastructure, threatening a social explosion.
Boluarte is a reviled figure whose 4 percent approval rating testifies to her lack of any mandate to rule.
The growing attacks on public education in Brazil and internationally are part of a shift by the world’s ruling elite towards dictatorship at home and war abroad.
In the worst single massacre since Israel launched its campaign to ethnically cleanse Northern Gaza this month, Israeli forces bombed a five-story residential building in the town of Beit Lahia Tuesday, killing 93 people, including 25 children.
The Israeli onslaught on Northern Gaza, aimed at completely emptying the region of its people, has entered its fourth week.
In a major escalation of the imperialist military offensive throughout the Middle East, Israel launched three waves of airstrikes on Iran Saturday morning in coordination with the Biden Administration.
This massacre is part of a systematic campaign, now 20 days old, to displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who remain in northern Gaza through mass killing, starvation, and the total destruction of social services and infrastructure.
Macron's “strategic framework” is a proposal to use Morocco as a source of cheap qualified labor and logistics to boost French corporations’ profits and increase French imperialism’s influence in the contested areas of the Sahel and West Africa more broadly.
The only force that can stop military escalation and relentless attacks on living standards and social rights is the working class, mobilized independently of forces like Mélenchon’s New Popular Front.
While the Left Party still campaigned with the slogan “Every hospital counts” in the last state elections in east Germany, it is implementing the sweeping cuts wherever it is in government at state level.
Political turmoil has seized the south Caucasus country, as pro-Western protesters heed the president's call to reject the outcome of parliamentary elections.
The opinion of economic and financial analysts both in China and internationally is that more must be done to boost consumption spending, and that unless that happens, the target growth rate for this year of “about 5 percent” will not be achieved, let alone a viable growth path for the future.
The strike by some 1,500 Samsung India workers was abruptly brought to an end by the CITU, the Stalinist trade union federation, after it capitulated all down the line to Tamil Nadu’s DMK government and Samsung management.
Whatever the form it takes, the next government will be one of instability and crisis as it seeks to impose new burdens on the working class in order to boost corporate profits and aggressively pursue the interests of Japanese imperialism.
Britain, Australia and New Zealand used the meeting in Samoa to promote the further militarisation of the Pacific against China; meanwhile the imperialist powers dismissed demands for meaningful action on climate change.
Dissanayake’s indication that he would not pay the proposed salary hike is a clear signal to the IMF that his regime abides by its harsh austerity measures.
Inter-University Student Federation convener Madhushan Chandrajith told the media that the new government refused to take any action to alleviate the plight facing students.
The SEP has been targeted because it has a long and courageous history of fighting to unite workers—Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim—against the Sri Lankan capitalist elite and on the basis of a socialist program.
The new JVP/NPP government has fully committed to the brutal IMF agenda initiated by the former Wickremesinghe regime to make working people pay for the crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism.
Fighting between these two corrupt figures erupted in no small part due to longstanding efforts by US imperialism and other regional powers to exert control over Sudan and its resources—gold, minerals, oil and agricultural land—and cut off Khartoum’s relationships with China, Russia and Iran, which all have growing economic interests in the region.
The swearing-in of Kithure Kindiki, the former interior minister who oversaw police killings of anti-austerity protesters, Gen-Z activists, and pastoralists in Northern Kenya signals the Kenyan ruling class's intent to intensify repression.
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
A big strength of the study is the significant number of people examined, which enabled the researchers to assess the effects of the vaccines across a wide variety of demographics and clinical subgroups, such as age, sex, ethnicity, and prior health conditions.
Especially since the abolition of mandatory personal testing and all other coronavirus protection measures, wastewater monitoring is one of the most informative tools for determining the status of the pandemic.
Eighty six percent of union members voted overwhelmingly to authorize strike action against Michigan Medicine to win their demands for wage and benefits increases and an end to understaffing at the University of Michigan hospital system.
The CDC now recommends offering the pneumonia vaccine to people 50 years of age or older, and more frequent COVID vaccines for people 65 years or older and those who are immune compromised.
The condemnation of North Korean troops in Russia is entirely hypocritical given that US/NATO, in its war against Moscow, has supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars of increasingly sophisticated military hardware along with training and intelligence.
Despite overwhelming popular opposition to the Gaza genocide and plans to send NATO troops to Ukraine to fight Russia, NATO governments are planning a further, reckless escalation.
Zelensky insisted this week that with authorization from his Western backers to launch missiles deep into Moscow’s territory, tens of billions of dollars in additional aid, and an invitation to join NATO, he will deliver “peace through strength.”
In late September, the Russian government submitted to the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) a draft federal budget for 2024-2026, which provides for a scale of defense spending that is unprecedented in the history of modern Russia.
McDonald’s restaurant recently removed the Quarter Pounder sandwich off their menu at various locations across the country due to infection with the deadly E. coli bacteria found in raw onions. At least 75 people have been sickened, 22 hospitalized, and one has died.
The WSWS recently spoke with Kate, a resident of the small rural community of Green Mountain, North Carolina, which was devastated last month by Hurricane Helene.
Even if the BC Conservatives fall short of forming government once all ballots from the Oct. 19 election are tabulated, one must ask, “How did this far-right party, full of climate-change deniers and ‘Freedom’ Convoy supporters, secure such a strong showing?”
The state of Alabama executed Derrick Dearman, 36, on Thursday at Holman Correctional Facility, despite his life-long severe mental illness.
What the investigation has revealed is not just the criminal acts of malicious individuals. It also exposes the nature of the current healthcare system, which is increasingly being hollowed out in a capitalist system where profit comes before human life.
While the Turkish ruling elites wanted to strengthen their hands and tighten their ranks in the face of the escalation of the war in the Middle East by their allies, the US and Israel--with whom they want to avoid a confrontation—it was unclear how the PKK leadership based in Iraq’s Qandil Mountain would react to Ankara’s initiative.
Ankara, worried about the consequences of the US-Israeli escalation of the war against Iran and across the Middle East, has re-opened talks with the Kurdish Workers Party and has put the release of the imprisoned Abdullah Öcalan on the agenda.
The fascist threatening letter targeting Rişvanoğlu, a Revolutionary Workers Party (DİP) member and lawyer, is part of the attempt of the ruling class to suppress and intimidate all social and political opposition using dark paramilitary forces.
The meetings included lively political discussion on the IYSSE’s perspective of building a global anti-war movement in the working class against Israel’s assault against the people of Palestine and Lebanon, and broader eruption of imperialist war.
On October 15, following hearings, Ann Arbor police rescinded trespass citations that they had issued to block four SEP/IYSSE members from going on campus.
The campaign to stop Cornell University from forcing the deportation of international PhD student and instructor Momodou Taal for his outspoken opposition to the Gaza genocide has won an important victory with the announcement that the university has rescinded his suspension.
In this video interview, Cornell University PhD student Momodou Taal and his attorney Eric Lee discuss Cornell's threat to suspend Taal for participating in protests against the Gaza genocide, and the broader attacks on free speech across the US.
The best-case scenario in the World Economic Outlook report was that medium-term global growth would remain lacklustre at 3.1 percent.
In a curtain raiser address in advance of the IMF-World Bank meeting this week the IMF chief drew attention to rising levels of government debt.
The International Monetary Fund has called for reductions in government spending on an unprecedented scale.
A report issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has called into question the very foundations of the regulatory mechanisms put in place after the 2008 crisis.
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.
New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution.
Milton will be remembered for its rapid intensification in the Gulf of Mexico and the record number of tornadoes it spawned across Florida as it made landfall.
Drs. Gary Ruvkun and Victor Ambros have been honored for their critical work in discovering the essential role of very small RNA molecules in regulating the expression of genes.
Scientists have concluded that an unprecedented global seismic signal, first noticed in September 2023, was caused by a Greenland fjord tsunami triggered by climate change.
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.
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Calley spent only three days in prison for his role in directing the mass murder of 504 Vietnamese men, women and children. He is now reported to have died April 28 at the age of 80.
The history of the Majdanek camp reveals the links between Nazi Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, and the extermination of the Jewish population, which primarily affected Poland and Eastern Europe.
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.
Amid the barrage of federal indictments and corruption investigations faced by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the Democratic politician’s inner circle is quickly falling by the wayside.
The 165-page filing conclusively demonstrates that Trump, and his Republican co-conspirators, knowingly sought to overturn the 2020 election with deceit, falsehoods and violence.
Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of law and order whose administration has been engulfed by corruption charges, faces five counts of taking bribes and committing fraud.
Hawley, a major co-conspirator in the January 6, 2021 attempt to overturn the election, is a leading figure in the Republicans’ attempts to make a right-wing populist appeal to workers.
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.
Six months after his arrest, Bogdan Syrotiuk, the courageous Ukrainian socialist arrested for opposing the war, remains in prison awaiting a drumhead trial in a legal travesty.
Stein has made this statement calling for the release of socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who has been imprisoned by the Zelensky regime in Ukraine.
This statement in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by a Ukrainian youth who fled the war and is now working and studying in Germany.
A number of Russian leftist organizations and media outlets have expressed their support for Bogdan, demanding his immediate release.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rank-and-file committees among autoworkers in both North America and Europe must be expanded to include every key factory, giving workers the power to shut down the global industry.
With anger mounting over the refusal of the UAW to fight layoffs, the Biden administration has thrown its support to Shawn Fain’s fake fight against Stellantis.
As their strike reached a critical juncture, rank-and-file Dakkota auto parts workers in Chicago issued a statement Tuesday appealing for a ban on scab parts from their factory.
The courageous rebellion of striking Dakkota parts workers, who defied an unprecedented four sellout agreements, is in danger of being shut down and betrayed as the UAW is threatening workers with a fifth vote on the same agreement.
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.
This report includes videos of speeches delivered by SEP members, explaining the administration and outlining a perspective to fight it.
Wije Dias belonged to the group of young people who took up the initiative in 1968 to form the Trotskyist party in Sri Lanka and he played a leading role in the movement for 54 years until his death.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Eaton’s book traces the financialization of higher education from the 1980s through the 2010s, which underlay the subordination of academia to Wall Street and the war machine of US imperialism.
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 Democrats are fearful above all of evoking anxiety and anger, of creating a situation where broader layers of the population will react. In the face of a fascist menace, the Democrats preach quiescence.
Rank-and-file committees among autoworkers in both North America and Europe must be expanded to include every key factory, giving workers the power to shut down the global industry.
Whatever the outcome of the election, the American political system is breaking down. The type of fascistic movement that Trump is constructing will continue to grow in strength and can only be opposed through the development of a socialist movement in the working class.
The central involvement of the Democratic Party in the persecution of opposition to genocide demonstrates that its claim to be protecting “democracy” is a cynical fraud.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
