Meetings and Announcements
SEP/ISSE public meeting:
Defend Quebec’s striking students! Education should be a social right!
May 16, 2012
The International Students for Social Equality and the SEP (Canada) are holding a public meeting in Kingston, Ontario on the afternoon of Saturday, May 19 as part of the fight to mobilize the working class in defence of Quebec’s striking students.
SEP (Australia) congress resolutions
May 11, 2012
In the course of the congress, SEP delegates unanimously adopted the seven resolutions published below.
Special offer from Mehring Books
May 3, 2012
New subscribers to Mehring’s Book Link newsletter will receive a $5 gift coupon.
May 1 meeting at Cornell University
Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth
April 26, 2012
David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board, will speak in Ithaca, New York on the enduring significance of the life and thought of Leon Trotsky, one of the greatest revolutionary figures of the 20th Century.
Featured title
The Third International After Lenin by Leon Trotsky
April 20, 2012
This week Mehring Books is featuring The Third International After Lenin by Leon Trotsky.
ISSE Emergency Meeting in Montreal this Sunday
Quebec student strike at the crossroads: Students must turn to the working class
April 14, 2012
The International Students for Social Equality is holding an emergency meeting in Montreal this Sunday to discuss the way forward for the militant struggle students are mounting against the Quebec government’s plan to raise university tuition fees by 75 percent.
In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available in multiple eBook formats
April 11, 2012
In Defense of Leon Trotsky, by David North, is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Russian Revolution and the essential role of Leon Trotsky in the 20th Century.
Donate to the World Socialist Web Site
April 11, 2012
I am appealing to all readers and supporters of the World Socialist Web Site to make a generous contribution today to support and expand the work of our site.
WSWS announces on-the-spot coverage of French presidential election
By Alex Lantier in Paris, April 9, 2012
The World Socialist Web Site will be reporting from France in the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, which will be held in two weeks.
SEP (UK) candidates in council elections
April 5, 2012
Stephen Woodbridge is standing for the SEP in the Bretton North ward of Peterborough. A socialist his entire adult life, Stephen worked at the Perkins diesel engines plant (now a subsidiary of Caterpillar) for 35 years until 2009.
Leipzig Book Fair 2012
Mehring Publishers presents new German edition of Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Come to Power
By Wolfgang Weber, March 21, 2012
The new German edition of Alexander Rabinowitch’s book on the October Revolution is an achievement of archival scholarship that exposes the pseudo-intellectualism and reactionary politics of the post-modernist camp.
No to Cuts at the MBTA!
February 27, 2012
The MBTA is planning deep cuts to the transit system relied upon by millions throughout the Boston area. The T is seeking to make working people pay for a crisis that is not of their making.
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