What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
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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.
The seven-hour shutdown was ordered by the FAA out of concern that US military anti-drone weapons might hit commercial air traffic.
Patrick Martin•
The move against the major new border crossing is part of an escalating campaign of economic coercion aimed at subordinating Canada to US imperialist interests.
Pierre Lajeunesse, Roger Jordan•
Labour’s crisis brings the working class face-to-face with the urgent necessity of intervening independently in the situation, above all through the creation of its own party.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Trump’s attorney general refused to answer virtually any questions related to the administration’s ongoing cover-up of a multi-decade criminal conspiracy involving Jeffrey Epstein and powerful political and financial figures.
Jacob Crosse•
This Friday, more than 60 heads of state and government, around 100 foreign and defence ministers, and numerous high-ranking military officials, politicians and foreign policy experts will gather for the 62nd Munich Security Conference.
Peter Schwarz•
On Tuesday, hundreds of Cass Technical High School in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood students held their second major protest in two weeks.
Lawrence Porter•
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.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Corbyn’s “broad church” housed a political inquisition against the left. Sultana’s own “broad church” offers a home to Corbyn while he does the same. The SEP warns that neither provides a solution to the crisis facing the working class.
Thomas Scripps•
The most cynical element in the whole initiative is the bloc’s claim to represent a “position of class independence” in Venezuela.
Tomas Castanheira•
In pursuit of US tariff relief, Lula has effectively legitimized Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro.
Guilherme Ferreira•
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.
Owen Howell•
Schools for 50,000 students in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) remain closed Thursday as the strike by more than 6,400 teachers and support staff enters its fourth day.
Kathleen Martin•
The European Union has again announced the tightening of migration and asylum policy. The aim is to further expand “Fortress Europe” and significantly accelerate deportations.
Lena Sokoll•
Public Meeting: Trotskyism and the fight for revolutionary leadership
40 years since the expulsion of the Workers Revolutionary Party from the International Committee of the Fourth International
At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism, as an organised political tendency. The ICFI’s victory over the WRP, and expulsion of those who refused to accept its socialist internationalist principles, was an event of global, historic significance.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
A resident doctor and supporter of NHS FightBack appealed for a unified struggle against dangerous workloads, real-terms pay cuts, and the absence of tens of thousands of specialty training post.
Rory Woods, Tony Robson•
The Queensland bill is similar to the “hate speech” and “prohibited groups” laws imposed in recent months by the federal and state Labor governments.
Mike Head•
The BJT win was a product, above all, of the political bankruptcy of the People’s Party and Pheu Thai, which have falsely postured as defenders of democratic rights and opponents of military rule.
Robert Campion•
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David North•
Oppose austerity, war and fascism!
Berlin state election: Socialism, not war
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) is standing in the Berlin state elections in September. We oppose the all-party coalition for war and social spending cuts. Together with our sister parties in the International Committee of the Fourth International, we are building a worldwide movement to stop the madness of war, mass layoffs and wage cuts.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
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.
Stefan Steinberg, Clara Weiss•
Class Struggle USA: Major strikes erupt nationwide
The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.
Tom Hall•
Alex Lantier•
Jacob Crosse•
Joseph Kishore•
Patrick Martin•
Tom Hall•
Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
WSWS International Editorial Board•
Answers from Socialism AI
What must be done to prepare a nationwide general strike against the Trump administration?
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Socialism AI•
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.
Socialism AI•
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.
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
Ty•
Our reporters•
Australia: “Prohibited hate group” laws recall 1951 referendum to ban “communism”
The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.”
Mike Head•
India’s Labour Code “reform”: A savage attack on worker rights
India's new labour codes dismantle legal protections governing wages, job security and working conditions, and dramatically curtail workers' legal right to strike.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
New Zealand’s capital city faces environmental disaster from massive sewage leak
Following the preventable breakdown of the capital’s wastewater treatment plant, tens of millions of litres of raw, untreated sewage have poured into the nearby ocean.
John Braddock•
Divisions within NZ coalition government over India Free Trade Agreement
Right-wing, anti-immigrant NZ First leader Winston Peters falsely declared the Free Trade Agreement will see an influx of “tens of thousands of people” from India, taking opportunities “away from New Zealanders.”
John Braddock•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Peter Symonds•
Tom Peters•
Ben McGrath•
Lucinda Williams’ World’s Gone Wrong: An urgent protest against the fascist danger
Formally, it could be described as a blues-rock album, but it is more importantly a call to fight against the fascist regime emerging in the US. This is a welcome development among popular musicians.
Matthew Brennan•
Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show highlights mass opposition to Trump
Bad Bunny’s record‑breaking Super Bowl halftime show evoked colonial and immigrant struggles and indirectly rebuked the Trump administration’s xenophobic, anti‑immigrant agenda.
Nick Barrickman•
Lecture at the University of Michigan on Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra
The topic of the lecture was a significant episode in the history of 20th century American and world music—the establishment of an African-American symphony orchestra, founded by conductor and composer Ignatz Waghalter.
Barry Grey•
The Guthrie kidnapping, the US media and the thousands of ICE abductions
This is a frightening and tragic situation for the Guthrie family, no doubt affecting dozens of people at this point and perhaps for the rest of their lives.
David Walsh•
Nick Barrickman•
David Walsh•
Stefan Steinberg•
Kevin Reed•
Nick Barrickman•
Two Amazon Flex workers were arrested in ICE raid in Hazel Park, Michigan
Both men are reportedly asylum seekers and hold Temporary Protected Status. Their seizure occurred in full view of witnesses and the permission of Amazon security.
Anthony Callahan•
The Department of Justice moves to gut the right of asylum
Immigration courts are being rigged in favor of the White House-driven witch-hunt against those seeking asylum under international law.
Anthony Callahan•
Royal Oak High School students in Detroit suburb walk out to defend immigrants
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
Shannon Jones, Noah Prince, Valery Tsekov•
Carson High School students walk out against ICE raids, dictatorship and war
At Friday’s protest, students marched and carried handmade signs that read “No one is illegal on stolen land,” “The revolution is in the hands of the youth” and “It was never about criminals.”
Jessica Gateu, Marc Wells•
Kevin Reed•
Jonas Boquist•
Benjamin Mateus•
Usman Khan, Joshua Rodriguez•
Andre Damon•
Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979
On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.
Nancy Hanover, Kathleen Martin•
How New York City nurses can fight the sellout of their 4-week strike
On Tuesday, a day after the New York State Nurses Association announced sellout tentative agreements with Montefiore and Mount Sinai, the union leadership is violating its own bylaws to shut down the strike at the remaining hospital system, NewYork Presbyterian.
New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
3,000 pharmacy, lab workers join strike of 31,000 Kaiser healthcare workers
The Kaiser strike is unfolding alongside a widening movement of educators and academic workers across California and the country.
Kimie Saito, Liz Cabrera, Marc Wells•
Germany: At Bosch, Stalinist MLPD attacks opposition to IG Metall union apparatus
The Stalinists of the MLPD are playing the role of henchmen for the trade union mafia: they intimidate workers who want to defend themselves and employ the vilest lies to defend the bureaucracy.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting, Christoph Vandreier•
Barış Demir•
Daniel de Vries•
WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter•
Aaron Edwards•
David Rye•
New alliance of Sri Lankan health unions to contain opposition to IMF austerity
Confronted with rising anger among health workers over the government’s attacks, the unions have formed an alliance, not to wage a political fight for workers, but to suppress their opposition.
Wimal Perera•
Sri Lankan court hearing on violent 2023 assault on SEP members
The SEP has consistently explained the brutal attack near the University of Moratuwa was not an isolated street brawl, but a politically driven attempt to prevent it from organising among university workers and students.
Our reporters•
Sri Lankan president falsely postures as champion of “national unity”
Dissanayake is trying to cover up the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s reactionary communal record as an enthusiastic supporter of anti-Tamil racialist war.
N. Rangesh•
Sri Lanka’s new “anti-terror laws” foreshadow sweeping attacks on democratic rights
Colombo’s draft legislation reproduces all the essential features of the existing draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.
W.A. Sunil•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondents•
K. Kandeepan and M. Thevarajah•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
UN report calls for action on “water bankruptcy” affecting billions of people
The report warns that unsustainable water resource practices are causing potentially irreversible damage to water systems that require urgent action to rectify
Alex Findijs•
Bonobo demonstrates the cognitive ability to imagine “make believe” objects
Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.
Philip Guelpa•
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
NASA closes Goddard Space Flight Center library as it dismantles astronomy infrastructure
The closure of NASA's largest research library at Goddard Space Flight Center represents a deliberate attack on scientific infrastructure and marks another step toward the privatization of space exploration.
Bryan Dyne•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus •
Gary Alvernia•
Philip Guelpa•
Fascist Argentine President Milei’s draconian labor counter-reform sparks mass strikes
The “Labor Modernization” bill—longer hours, gutted severance, and strike criminalization—has sparked mass protests and strikes as workers rebel against IMF-dictated slavery.
Andrea Lobo•
Peru protest joins drivers, university students and relatives of state repression victims
The “March of Sacrifice” was organized by the relatives of those murdered in 2023, when newly installed President Dina Boluarte gave shoot-to-kill orders to suppress nationwide protests.
Cesar Uco•
US energy blockade threatens Cuba with humanitarian “collapse”
The Trump administration’s attempt to pull the plug on the Cuban economy is aimed at carrying through the nearly seven decades of efforts to overthrow the Castroite government installed by the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Andrea Lobo•
Trump welcomes Colombian President Petro at the White House after military threats
Colombian President Petro visited Trump at the White House to pledge collaboration with the would-be emperor, exposing the bankruptcy of Latin America’s Pink Tide nationalists.
Andrea Lobo•
Don Knowland•
Andrea Lobo•
Bill Van Auken•
Alexander Fangmann•
Mauricio Saavedra•
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.
Ulaş Sevinç•
“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.
Tom Mackaman•
This week in history: February 9-15
USS Greeneville sinks Japanese fishing vessel, killing 9; Nigerian head of state assassinated; Dockworkers begin largest industrial action in New Zealand’s history; Mussolini issues threats to Germany over South Tyrol.
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
250 years since the publication of Tom Paine’s Common Sense
Paine’s revolutionary assault on monarchy and aristocracy cleared the way for American independence a quarter millenium ago—and speaks urgently to the present.
Tom Mackaman•
Ron Jorgenson•
James Clayton•
Mikhail Pavlovich•
David Brown•
Fred Mazelis•
Trump, the Epstein files and the putrefaction of the American oligarchy
What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
David North•
Epstein files reveal FBI identified billionaire Leslie Wexner as co-conspirator in 2019
During restricted viewings that began February 9, members of Congress confirmed that the Epstein files presented as unredacted remain heavily censored, masking FBI findings that implicated billionaire figures in Epstein’s criminal network.
Jacob Crosse•
University of Illinois student Republican club calls for assassination of political opponents
The Instagram post included a graphic depicting the assassination of Alex Pretti with the text “Only Traitors Help Invaders.”
Andy Thompson•
Trump calls for country to “move on” from Epstein files, as scale and scope of criminality, cover-up expand
The latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice have conclusively proven the Trump administration is lying and engaged in a massive cover-up.
Jacob Crosse•
Andre Damon•
Nick Beams•
Kevin Reed•
Kate Randall•
Andre Damon•
Rampage against Sydney pro-Palestinian protest orchestrated by NSW government, police command
It is clear that police were told “the gloves were off” and they had a green light to violently attack protesters opposing the visit to Australia of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australian workers and youth speak out against Herzog visit and anti-protest laws
“I’m here because Australia’s complicit in genocide and it needs to stop—we need to break the system.”
Our reporters•
Mediterranean dockworkers prepare International Day of Protest against escalating global war
The February 6 protest highlights growing antiwar sentiment in the working class and the need to build rank-and-file committees affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees to free the struggle from the influence of Stalinist and Pabloite parties.
Marc Wells•
Israel’s Palestinian citizens strike and protest against government-sanctioned crime epidemic
More than 100,000 of Israel’s Palestinian citizens took to the streets of Sakhnin and Umm Al-Fahm, in the north of Israel, and other predominantly Arab towns and villages across the country.
Jean Shaoul•
James Clayton•
Sue Phillips•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Robert Stevens•
Los Angeles moves to dismantle federal oversight of homelessness as crisis deepens
Los Angeles Democrats move to dismantle judicial oversight to shield failure on homelessness.
Marc Wells•
Canadian unions mute as working-class opposition to Trump and his operation dictatorship surges
Canada's unions have responded to the developments in Minneapolis and calls for a general strike with either total silence or by issuing hollow statements of "solidarity."
Pierre Lajeunesse, Keith Jones•
Layoffs by US firms tripled in January, as mass job cuts accelerate to Great Recession levels
The wave of layoffs is part of a global jobs bloodbath, driven by a ruthless global search for new sources of profit to sustain uncontrollable levels of debt and financial bubbles on which the wealth of the oligarchy rests.
Tom Hall•
Washington pressures Mexico to halt supply of oil to Cuba
Despite Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s rhetoric about supporting Cuba, she has capitulated to Trump and US imperialism by ceasing to provide oil to the island.
Don Knowland•
Kate Randall•
Kevin Reed•
Kate Randall•
Marc Wells•
Félix Gauthier•
Oppose austerity, war and fascism!
Berlin state election: Socialism, not war
The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) is standing in the Berlin state elections in September. We oppose the all-party coalition for war and social spending cuts. Together with our sister parties in the International Committee of the Fourth International, we are building a worldwide movement to stop the madness of war, mass layoffs and wage cuts.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Corbyn and the Epstein-Mandelson crisis: An essential lesson
Corbyn’s servility to Mandelson’s mates was never ending. “We are on a journey together and can only complete it together… Labour is a broad church and can be broader still. I lead in that spirit”, Corbyn concluded his 2018 paean to the Blairites.
Robert Stevens•
On NATO’s eastern flank: German government seeks to transform regional airport into military fortress
The German government and Bundeswehr are pushing ahead with the conversion of the Rostock-Laage air base in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania into a central military hub for the Luftwaffe and NATO.
Tom Weber, Carola Kleinert•
Johannes Stern•
Tony Robson•
Steve James•
Laura Tiernan•
Robert Stevens•
Landslides kill 227 at Democratic Republic of Congo coltan mines at the centre of Washington’s struggle to control vital mineral resources
The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Sony and BMW--and the armed violence that secures their raw materials.
Jean Shaoul•
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.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
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.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kenyan Stalinist CPM-K attacks WSWS while praising Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez ahead of CIA talks
The Venezuelan regime’s attempts to work out military and economic collaboration with Trump are exposing forces like the CPM-K who promoted it as an “anti-imperialist” force.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul, Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean de Jager, Alejandro López•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean de Jager, Alejandro López•
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.
Marc Wells•
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.
Robert Milkowski•
Five workers killed because Greek biscuit factory was a death trap following years of safety violations
Five female workers died in a huge blast and fire in the early hours of January 26 at the Violanta biscuit factory near the city of Trikala in the Thessaly region of central Greece.
John Vassilopoulos•
“They watched him get crushed”: Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker critically injured after management ignored safety warnings
A Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker was critically injured when a vehicle fell on him due to known safety hazards, which both management and the UAW apparatus ignored.
George Marlowe•
John Vassilopoulos, Robert Stevens•
Martin Scott•
Brian Green, Kristina Betinis•
Kristina Betinis•
Bryan Dyne•
Software firms take major hit from AI
Last week’s fall on Wall Street flowing from the release of a new AI tool by Anthropic has been describe as a “tech wreck” placing a big question mark over the future of many software firms.
Nick Beams•
Major financial oligarchs helped Kevin Warsh secure Trump’s nomination for Fed chair
Trump’s decision is the outcome of a balancing act which itself underscores the inherent instability of the US financial system.
Nick Beams•
Fed maintains rate amid indications further cuts are on hold
Throughout the press conference, Fed chair Powell stonewalled on the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into him and its efforts to have Fed governor Lisa Cook removed.
Nick Beams•
Gold price spiral and Japanese bond market selloff signal deepening financial turmoil
Gold has risen by around 20 percent so far this year and all forecasts are that it has still further to go as investors as well as central banks shift out of the dollar and US assets.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Andre Damon•
Nick Beams•
Our reporters•
Nick Beams•
9 months since death of Michigan autoworker Ronald Adams
Nine months after the preventable death of 63‑year‑old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. , the silence from the company, the United Auto Workers and state remains deafening.
Jerry White •
“Our family wants answers that we have not gotten”: 8 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
Jerry White•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
David North•
6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
New Ukrainian Defense Minister reveals scale of desertions, draft dodgers
Fedorov’s comments underscore that beneath the propaganda and government lies, huge numbers of Ukrainian working class youth refuse to sacrifice their lives in the ongoing imperialist proxy war.
Jason Melanovski•
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.
Katerina Selin•
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.
Robert Stevens•
Zelensky names military spy chief to lead Office of President
Budanov was trained by the CIA, maintains ties to the Trump administration and is known for his particular close ties to Ukrainian neo-fascists.
Jason Melanovski•
Clara Weiss•
Barış Demir•
Evgeny Kostrov•
Peter Schwarz•
Jason Melanovski•
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.
Henry Lee•
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Public health collapsing as COVID pandemic enters its 7th year
The systematic dismantling of public health services in the United States, including childhood vaccinations that have saved millions of lives, is a historic crime committed by the US ruling elite.
Benjamin Mateus•
CDC slashes vaccine schedule: Trump-Kennedy atrocity against children’s lives and health
The January 5, 2026 decision to revise the US childhood vaccine schedule marks a turning point in the destruction of public health.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi defies Turkish state’s intervention on its program
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office demanding that it change its program. It categorically rejected this political intervention.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
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.
Ulaş Sevinç•
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.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi•
David North•
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
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.
The place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
David North•
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
Eric London•
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.
Thomas Scripps•
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.
John Burton•
Tom Carter•
Norisa Diaz•
Patrick Martin•
Andrea Lobo•
International Committee of the Fourth International•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
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.
Leela Balasuriya (1946–2025): A veteran Trotskyist fighter in Sri Lanka
Comrade Leela’s death is a sad loss for the SEP, but the memory of this courageous fighter lives on today in the party’s struggle.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Alan Gelfand: A fighter for socialism and historical truth
Alan Gelfand, whose lawsuit against the US government led to the exposure of high-level agents of the FBI and Soviet secret police in the Socialist Workers Party, died Wednesday, October 29, in Los Angeles. He was 76 years old.
David North•
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.
David North•
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.
Tom Mackaman•
David North•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Israel officially accepts Gaza death toll of 70,000
After years of denial by Israel, successive US and European governments and the international media, Israel has accepted the Gaza Health Ministry’s official death toll.
Andre Damon•
Israel kills 14 Palestinians as Trump prepares imperialist “Board of Peace” for Gaza
Israel launched strikes on Thursday and Friday that killed at least 14 Palestinians, including children, as the White House organizes its “Gaza Board of Peace,” made up of imperialist war criminals including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Kevin Reed•
Israel’s far-right government seeks to tighten its grip on power
The measures are aimed at strengthening the powers of the Netanyahu government as it continues its wars in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and prepares for another offensive against Iran, amid plunging living standards.
Jean Shaoul•
Storm Byron compounds catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza
At least 17 Palestinians have died due to the storm, including at least 11 people killed when damaged buildings collapsed on those sheltering inside and a 29-day-old baby and three small children from severe hypothermia.
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul•
Johannes Stern•
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
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.
Expert report shatters fraudulent case against Bogdan Syrotiuk: Deepen the international campaign for his freedom!
The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a forensic linguistic analysis that shatters the fraudulent case against him.
Johannes Stern•
Leading Ukrainian criminologist finds charges of “state treason” against Bogdan Syrotiuk baseless
The linguistic examination by Yuri Irkhin, one of Ukraine’s leading criminologist, marks not only a major setback for the prosecution. It is also a powerful vindication of the principled opposition by the Trotskyist movement to the war in Ukraine.
Clara Weiss•
Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
Washington preparing military strikes against Iran
The US military is poised to attack Iran after a massive, weeks-long redeployment of warships, bombers and personnel to the region.
Keith Jones•
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.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Türkiye imprisons 77 members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), puts six members of Left Party under house arrest
Amid ongoing negotiations between the Turkish government and the PKK, which claim to bring peace and democratization, state crackdown on the political opposition is escalating.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Turkish CHP holds “Social Peace and Democracy Conference”
The speeches and political profile of the participants revealed the fundamental message: the Turkish ruling class and its imperialist allies could better defend their interests through a government established under the leadership of the CHP.
Barış Demir•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
Jordan Shilton•
Jean Shaoul•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
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.
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May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
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.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
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.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
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.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
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.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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
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40 years since the suspension of the Workers Revolutionary Party from the ICFI
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
Peter Schwarz•
From the Archives
Documents of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the suspension of the WRP
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
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.
David North•
“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.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
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.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
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.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
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.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
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.
Marc Wells•
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.
Marc Wells•
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.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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.
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Royal Oak High School students in Detroit suburb walk out to defend immigrants
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
Shannon Jones, Noah Prince, Valery Tsekov•
Carson High School students walk out against ICE raids, dictatorship and war
At Friday’s protest, students marched and carried handmade signs that read “No one is illegal on stolen land,” “The revolution is in the hands of the youth” and “It was never about criminals.”
Jessica Gateu, Marc Wells•
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
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.
our reporters•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Josh Andrews•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Turkey)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
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.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
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.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
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 debacle and the fight against dictatorship
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.
Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
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.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
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.”
Laura Tiernan•
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
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.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
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.
David North•
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.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
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.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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UAW and labor bureaucrats mouth support for general strike while keeping workers on the job
Autoworkers should demand that the UAW sanction participation in a general strike. Putting money—drawn from workers’ dues money—where its mouth is, the union’s $800 million strike fund must be put to use for the struggle against dictatorship, not for lining pockets.
Tom Hall•
Workers left in dark about fire that forced evacuation of General Motors Lansing Delta Township factory in Michigan
Workers reported smelling smoke hours before GM management took action to evacuate the plant, located outside Lansing, Michigan.
Shane Latrobe•
While Ford Kentucky Truck UAW officials pad their salaries, conditions at plant worsen
Major financial irregularities at UAW Local 862 in Louisville take place as rank-and-file anger continues to simmer over deteriorating conditions, including safety issues and management harassment.
Aaron Edwards•
Major shakeup at UAW headquarters as crisis of bureaucracy deepens
Amid seething rank-and-file anger over job cuts and collapsing living standards the UAW apparatus has purged DSA operatives Chris Brooks and Jonah Furman while restoring the duties of Secretary Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President Rich Boyer.
Shannon Jones•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Shannon Jones•
Tim Rivers•
Jerry White•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Find out more
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
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.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
Our reporters•
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25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
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.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
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.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
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.
Evan Blake•
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.
Evan Blake•
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.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
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.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
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.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
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.”
Tom Carter•
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
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.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
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.
Owen Howell•
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.
Stefan Steinberg, Clara Weiss•
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.
James McDonald•
Book Review
Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan
Grant’s Enforcer is an important reminder that political reaction is not all-powerful.
Eric London •
David Walsh, Sandy English•
Fred Mazelis•
Jean Shaoul•
James McDonald•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
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.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
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.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
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.
Kevin Reed•
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.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
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.
White House threatens “lethal force” against Iran
Nine days after launching an assault on Venezuela that killed over 100 people and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is openly threatening strikes against Iran, using as a pretext mass protests that have erupted across the country.
Andre Damon•
Survivors of September 2 boat strike waved for rescue, did not know they had been attacked
The survivors of the US military's September 2 drone murder in the Caribbean attempted to wave to US military aircraft for rescue, the New York Times reported Friday.
Andre Damon•
President Sheinbaum minimizes growing US threats to bomb Mexico
In response to continuing US threats to bomb drug cartels in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued unconvincing and toothless denials that they will ever be carried out.
Don Knowland•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Robert Stevens•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
Our reporters•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
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.
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The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
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.
Trump, the Epstein files and the putrefaction of the American oligarchy
What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
David North•
Class Struggle USA: Major strikes erupt nationwide
The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.
Tom Hall•
International opposition to Trump and ICE shapes opening of Milan Olympics
What has attracted world attention at the Games is not the far-right Italian government’s lockdown of the city but the outpouring of opposition to the Trump administration, ICE and fascism.
Alex Lantier•
Trump’s plan to purge the federal government and the threat of dictatorship
The Trump administration is reclassifying tens if not hundreds of thousands of federal workers as “at-will” employees. The maneuver is not only an attack on workers’ protections and due process rights but a step toward establishing a presidential dictatorship.
Jacob Crosse•
Joseph Kishore•
Patrick Martin•
Tom Hall•
Evan Blake•
Jacob Crosse•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
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.
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