Letters to the WSWS

Letter from an Italian postal worker

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:37:53 GMT

“I write to you from Rome, Italy, where we postal workers have already lived through the catastrophe that now looms over you in the United States: privatization. I write not only in solidarity but in warning, so that you may learn from our painful experience and resist this assault with the full strength of an organized working class.”

“We’re at an unheard of level of solidarity to strike”—Letter from a US railroader

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:39:51 GMT

“If our union leaders aren't willing to fight and risk being arrested for standing up against these companies,” the worker said, “then maybe they need to step down from their cushy retirement jobs.”

Is Russia an imperialist state? A letter from a Russian socialist to David North

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:41:52 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site has received this letter from a Russian socialist, commenting on a letter written by David North, posted on the WSWS on April 2.

Letter from a Canadian Pacific rail worker: How deregulation and corporate greed are imperilling workers’ lives and public safety

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:21:46 GMT

“CP’s present method of decision making,” writes the worker, “is known as ‘calculated risk management.’ In other words, let’s try this and see if it works. If it doesn’t, let’s … point the finger at the crew member(s) involved and make them scapegoats.”

Letter from a Caterpillar worker to Deere strikers: “Take the reins in your own hands”

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:11:42 GMT

The UAW’s betrayals of two strikes at Caterpillar in the 1990s—one in 1991-1992 and a second, 17-month-long strike in 1994-1995—were among the most bitter and significant defeats suffered by the working class at the hands of the union bureaucracy in that decade.

Nurse’s letter exposes catastrophic COVID conditions in Sri Lankan hospitals

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 04:15:06 GMT

“If a full-scale lockdown is not immediately implemented the entire hospital system will collapse because most nurses and other staff members will become ill or die.”

A letter from a frontline nurse at Royal Bournemouth Hospital “We are in a perilous situation”

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:47:28 GMT

“We saw this coming from the first wave of the pandemic and colleagues sounded the alarm by speaking out. But these warnings have fallen on deaf ears.”

Frontline nurse at UK’s Poole Hospital Trust speaks out about unsafe working conditions amid surge of COVID-19

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:41:35 GMT

“Many staff have contracted the virus in our hospital because we don’t have enough protection.”

EU-Turkey tensions mount over Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:31:06 GMT

The unilateral opening of Varosha or Maraş in northern Cyprus and Ankara’s proposed two-state solution have intensified tensions between the European Union and Turkey.

Frontline nurse at UK’s Royal Bournemouth Hospital speaks out as COVID-19 cases surge

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 23:59:03 GMT

The following letter was sent to the WSWS from a frontline nurse at the UK’s Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

A Canadian firefighter speaks out on the opioid crisis

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:00:00 GMT

“There are two crises happening simultaneously right now,” the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis, explains a British Columbia firefighter in a letter to the WSWS.

Letter from a student in China on the COVID-19 pandemic

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 05:00:00 GMT

“People are worried that on top of the hardship they have already gone through, they would face more unknown, long-term, and negative consequences from the pandemic.”

Letter from an American teacher: “In a pandemic, no one is safe unless we are all safe.”

Fri, 29 May 2020 05:00:00 GMT

The WSWS Teacher Newsletter has received this letter from a high school AP Biology teacher in the Bay Area, California for publication.

UK postal worker: “Royal Mail are getting what they want and the Communication Workers Union is allowing it—the union really is useless”

Tue, 05 May 2020 05:00:00 GMT

This letter was sent by a postal worker to the SEP (UK) in response to the CWU claiming to have forced Royal Mail Group to back down from plans to end permanently Saturday deliveries, which would cost 20,000 jobs.

A letter from a concerned UK nurse to the WSWS

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 05:00:00 GMT

“I urge employees not to be silenced by ruthless and reckless employers and to stand together and speak out.”

A letter from a frontline nurse at the UK’s Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:00:00 GMT

The WSWS received the following letter in response to the statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson following his discharge from hospital.

Police in Pakistan beat and arrest health care workers protesting over Coronavirus safety concerns, lack of PPE

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 05:00:00 GMT

Police brutally attacked several hundred medical staff after they marched to the house of the Balochistan Chief Minister in Quetta to protest the lack of personal protective equipment or PPE.

International letters protest IYSSE censorship at University of Melbourne

Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:00:00 GMT

A British student’s letter says the IYSSE ban is “part of a systematic attempt to block students from articulating their independent political interests, across Australia and internationally.”

A letter from Athens

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 05:00:00 GMT

The WSWS recently received a letter from Greece on the Syriza betrayal.

A comment on Syriza's “back-flips” over austerity

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 05:00:00 GMT

This letter was sent to the WSWS from a reader in Greece in response to the Perspective “The capitulation of Syriza and the lessons for the working class.”

A comment from a reader: The peculiar socialism of Syriza

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 05:00:00 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site received this comment from a reader in Greece on the nature of the new Syriza-led government.

Former US intelligence personnel challenge Obama to present evidence of Russian complicity in MH17 crash

Thu, 31 Jul 2014 05:00:00 GMT

The memorandum was prepared by the VIPS Steering Group led by NSA whistleblower William Binney.

Letter on growing social polarization and class conflict in Alberta

Sat, 08 Mar 2014 05:00:00 GMT

The WSWS has received a letter from an Alberta government worker that places the recent Conservative laws attacking public sector workers in a broader context of growing social polarization and class conflict.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Sat, 08 Feb 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

An exchange of letters on “NY Times calls JPMorgan CEO’s pay raise ‘laudable’”

Thu, 06 Feb 2014 05:00:00 GMT

We are posting here a letter from a reader on “NY Times calls JPMorgan CEO’s pay raise ‘laudable’” and a reply by one of the co-authors of the article, Barry Grey.

Letters from our readers

Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Condolence messages on the death of Dave Hyland from India, Europe and the United States

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

We publish below a selection of condolences sent by some of Dave’s comrades from India, Europe and the US.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Condolences on the death of Dave Hyland from Australia and the US

Tue, 24 Dec 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Below, we publish additional letters of condolence sent by Dave’s comrades internationally.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 24 Dec 2013 06:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Further condolences on the death of Dave Hyland

Fri, 20 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Below we publish additional letters of condolence sent by Dave’s comrades internationally.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 06:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from international comrades on the death of Dave Hyland

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Below we publish an initial selection of letters of condolence sent by Dave’s comrades internationally.

Letters on the death of Dave Hyland

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Within hours of Dave’s death on the night of December 8, letters of condolence began to arrive from all over the world.

Letters from our readers

Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Sat, 07 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

Letters from our readers

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 06:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.