The police, immigration Gestapo and military are instruments of capitalist class rule whose escalating violence can be stopped only through the independent political mobilization of the working class.
American warplanes and missiles struck Iran for a 13th consecutive night late Thursday and into Friday morning, hitting sites from the Strait of Hormuz to the Caspian Sea coast.
The Trump administration is driven to escalation by the logic of the war, which is now in its fifth month.
Jacobin’s theoretical case for subordinating the Argentine working class to Peronism rests on a falsification of Leon Trotsky's actual struggle against the Popular Front.
Mamdani’s declaration that he will not arrest Netanyahu is, as a factual matter, a reversal. As a candidate, he pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York, and as recently as July 18 he said in an interview with the New York Times that he was in “active conversation” with the city’s law department about enforcing the ICC warrant.
Workers at Stellantis plants in the Detroit area, along with other workers in the US and Canada, have voiced support for Lehman's campaign to abolish the UAW bureaucracy and transfer power to workers on the shop floor.
“When I saw the picture posted it made me feel sick to my stomach. It shows that the UAW leadership are scared of Will. Why else would you threaten him and try to intimidate him?”
At its online meeting July 15, the VW Action Committee launched an intensive campaign to break the control of the IG Metall union apparatus and its plant officials and begin a serious fight in defence of jobs.
The revelations have deepened the crisis within the UAW bureaucracy, which is facing growing rank-and-file opposition, including massive rejections of UAW-backed contracts at Nexteer, Dana and other parts suppliers.
Countermeasures against the Bundibugyo strain do not exist because US medical funding follows biodefense threat designation rather than the number of dead.
Canadian capital has traditionally played a major role on the island, whose bourgeois nationalist regime became increasingly dependent on foreign investment from Canada and Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The destruction of rural healthcare is neither an oversight nor ineffective policymaking. It flows from a political and economic system in crisis, where an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power can only be maintained by plundering social resources for private profit and militarism.
Hundreds of grocery pharmacists have authorized strike action after months of bargaining over unsafe staffing, mounting workloads and wages at Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions.
The inferno in the Katuwana Industrial Zone is a case of industrial murder—the direct and inevitable product of a capitalist system that subordinates human life to the relentless drive for profit.
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
The killing of Abderrahim Fakir is the product of escalating police-state repression as Meloni’s government intensifies authoritarian rule against growing working-class resistance.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified alongside Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday to demand $67 billion in emergency funding for the Iran war.
US forces have struck the country for nine consecutive nights, extending their targets from military sites to bridges, railways, ports and the power grid, while enforcing a naval blockade with missile fire.
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House forms part of a broader US–Saudi strategy to isolate Iran by eliminating its influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
In a sharp escalation of Washington’s imperialist offensive against Latin America, the Trump administration is openly intervening in Brazil’s October presidential election to bring fascist candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to power.
Spanning 2015 to 2026, this volume traces Trump’s rise to power, his coup of January 6 and his second term to their source in the corporate-financial oligarchy, and advances the socialist strategy required to stop the threat of fascism.
In 2025, Trump made at least 44 stock purchases of 21 different companies within a week of posting a complimentary Truth Social message about the firms, their executives or their products.
“The lack of resources is making staff leave and the wages are not enough. That is the situation for a lot of us. To survive I have a second job.”
AHPRA’s decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s false definition of antisemitism will lead a widening persecution of health professionals.
The meeting will outline the socialist perspective needed to oppose the Labor government’s assault on disabled people, as part of its broader offensive against the working class.
Beneath the surface of the official unemployment statistics, job cuts are growing as the criminal war on Iran escalates impacts on the global economy.
The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and internationalist party of the working class.
This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to public meetings in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow,
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
The WSWS is posting highlight clips from the webinar to all of our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X/Twitter.
The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.
The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting authoritarianism.
The release of two Chinese open-weight AI models matching the most advanced American systems has provoked panic in Washington and Silicon Valley, exposing the fragility of the speculative bubble on which the entire US stock market rests.
The IWA-RFC calls on workers and all defenders of democratic rights to denounce this incitement to violence against Will Lehman and demand its unequivocal public repudiation by the UAW.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified alongside Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday to demand $67 billion in emergency funding for the Iran war.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared that states that refused to hand over voter data and use a federal immigration database would be targeted for investigation, fines and criminal prosecution.
The United States bombed Iran for the 10th consecutive day on Monday, with Iranian media reporting explosions around the northwestern city of Tabriz, near Bushehr, home of the country's only operating nuclear power plant, and in the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Chabahar and Konarak.
US forces have struck the country for nine consecutive nights, extending their targets from military sites to bridges, railways, ports and the power grid, while enforcing a naval blockade with missile fire.
The United States military bombed bridges, a railway station, an airport and the control tower of Iran's only deep-water ocean port on Friday, the seventh consecutive day of strikes, extending its assault from military targets to the infrastructure of civilian life.
This dangerous escalation would be a desperate response to the failure of the US war to overturn the Iranian regime.
Tokyo’s nuclear ambitions have nothing to do with defense, but are part of its efforts to remilitarize and assert its imperialist interests militarily throughout the region.
The protest movement took on heightened significance this week, when tens of thousands defied a government ban on their marching on the parliament buildings. True to its violent and authoritarian instincts, the Modi regime responded with ferocious police repression.
Ahead of the New Zealand election, the right-wing NZ First party has called for recent migrants to be disenfranchised and for unemployed youth to be drafted into the military.
The working class must come to the defence of one of the most vulnerable layers of the population. If the ruling class can strip essential support from the disabled in order to finance war and corporate profit, it will stop at nothing in imposing its austerity agenda.
The censorship by ZDF management of a song by Danger Dan and Igor Levit calling for resistance against the AfD provoked no storm of outrage from the programme's hosts.
The performance of some of the greatest music of the past and present is vital to the general cultural, intellectual and moral life of a country.
Hundreds of cast members, musicians and technical crew are being thrown out of work with little notice and no recourse.
Comedian-writer Larry David has even less insight into the past than the present.
The volume “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk” brings together for the first time the most important statements and articles on the case.
The meeting took place at a time when Bogdan’s trial is at a critical turning point. Two expert reports have now exposed the core of the charge—that Bogdan spreads Russian propaganda—as baseless.
The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.
In the case against 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, a third linguistic expert opinion requested by the court further undermines the case of the prosecution, based on charges of “state treason under martial law”.
Sanitation, electrical and gig-economy delivery workers strike in India; Bangladeshi sugar mill workers demand higher wages and job security; Cambodian casino workers protest years of repression; Australian health, disability and parks workers strike over pay and conditions.
As it has done from the outset, the Australian Education Union will do everything possible to prevent any further industrial action by wearing down opposition to its sell-out deal with the government.
Cleveland library and hospital workers are moving toward strike action as more than 100 Lorain County social service workers continue one of the longest public-sector strikes in Ohio history.
The resistance at Çapa is part of a rising wave of class struggle in Türkiye. In recent months, many sections of the working class, above all the miners, have entered into battle for their unpaid wages and rights.
The SEP and the IYSSE call on workers and youth to demand the unconditional release of 12 people sentenced to death on threadbare circumstantial evidence.
The memory of Ganeshadev and his lifelong dedication to the fight for Trotskyism will live on among workers and party comrades in Sri Lanka and internationally.
This public lecture, hosted by the SEP and IYSSE, will discuss the lessons of Sri Lanka’s 2022 mass uprising for working people entering into struggles against the JVP/NPP government’s implementation of IMF austerity, authoritarian measures and the unfolding world war.
The epidemic, which has killed nearly 50 people, is a social crime produced by the systematic destruction of Sri Lanka’s public health system by successive governments.
The UAW rammed through the contract at Dana after extending the negotiations and refusing to call a strike using tactics similar to those employed to impose sellouts at American Axle, Nexteer and Bridgewater Interiors.
Opposition continues to grow among autoworkers to the death threat issued by a high-ranking United Auto Workers official against Will Lehman, the Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president.
One young worker responded to the threats by saying, “They’re trying to shut you up. And they usually only do that when somebody’s telling the truth.”
When 1,700 workers at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan opened their first paychecks after the UAW narrowly rammed through a fourth contract, they found that 32 hours of vacation time had disappeared.
The brutal police killing, carried out in broad daylight and caught on camera, quickly spread online, prompting hurried calls from local officials and police for an “independent” investigation that will no doubt end in the exoneration of the officers.
A federal judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order barring thousands of CSX railway workers represented by SMART-TD from striking over a punitive new attendance policy—and ordering the union to discipline any member who defied the ban.
The impending insolvency of the nation’s second-largest school district, combined with Trump’s dismantling of public education and union sabotage, shows that the right to education cannot be defended within capitalism.
As hazardous wildfire smoke filled the air and workers collapsed from the heat and contaminated air, production continued full tilt at factories and worksites across the affected regions with the full support of the all the various trade union bureaucracies.
Pledges to spend hundreds of billions of pounds more on the military in the next few years demolish Burnham’s claims to be running a “cost-of-living government”.
As Finance Senator since April 2023, Evers has been the principal architect and enforcer of the Christian Democratic Union/Social Democratic Party Senate’s rigorous austerity course.
Özgür Özel's announcement of a new party formalises the split produced by the politically motivated judicial removal of the CHP's elected leadership.
As he took office, Burnham’s bellicose rhetoric against Moscow provoked an incident with a Russian warship in the Channel. Within 24 hours he then agreed to deepen collaboration with the Trump administration in its strikes against Iran.
Children are the youngest victims of the war launched by Trump and the Republicans, with the complicity of the Democrats, against the working class.
The Democratic Party is seeking ways to contain popular anger. The man it has found for the job is James Talarico—a Christ-loving “progressive” who promises to bring about universal improvement, condemns wars in the Middle East and cuts down the far-right with Jesus’ words.
In 2025, Trump made at least 44 stock purchases of 21 different companies within a week of posting a complimentary Truth Social message about the firms, their executives or their products.
The fascistic US president is hated both at home and in all the countries which took part in the World Cup.
A House committee has issued subpoenas for financial records in a McCarthy-style anticommunist campaign against alleged Chinese influence.
Recent reports from the Washington Post and Human Rights Watch detail the deliberately inhumane and deadly conditions in detention centers that have produced a skyrocketing death toll among detained immigrants since Trump’s return to the White House.
Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was the third immigrant father to die within eight days during violent operations conducted by the Trump administration’s immigration Gestapo.
Hundreds of workers, young people and immigrant families rallied Sunday in Houston to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as witnesses to his killing remain imprisoned and the Trump administration escalates its assault on democratic rights.
Over the course of four years, the Boric administration implemented policies that paved the way for the far right.
Jacobin cites recent DSA election victories to argue, in the form of friendly advice, that the Democratic Party establishment and trade union bureaucracy should not be distracted by the supposed “socialism” of the DSA. For their own good, they must instead embrace the DSA and accept the organization’s offer to lend them a “left” cover.
For all those groups playing a leading role in the Stop the War Coalition and the Gaza protests, this is either made a secondary issue or ignored entirely as they tout Graham’s supposed role in reviving trade union militancy presented in entirely uncritical fashion.
Despite Corbyn expelling three SWP national committee members from Your Party last November, the SWP welcomed him onto the main stage on Saturday. Nielsen (one of those expelled) sat next to Corbyn, chatting amicably, never mentioning Your Party, let alone denouncing its betrayals.
The Kast government's National Reconstruction and Economic and Social Development plan constitutes the most ambitious restructuring of the Chilean state's relationship to capital since the Pinochet dictatorship.
The irrationality of the market system is laid bare by the fact that many of the areas now submerged under floodwaters have been suffering from a protracted megadrought for over 15 years.
The prison plan has won establishment-wide approval spanning the entire spectrum of bourgeois parties.
Beneath their apparently opposed postures—Petro's invocation of a “people's army” and de la Espriella's promise of restored “authority”—both pointed to the same institution as the ultimate guarantor of the existing social order.
A chapter in How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism, “The Malvinas War: How Healy Worked as an Imperialist Stooge”, is republished here as a means of taking forwards the political education of the younger cadres of the ICFI and the readers of the WSWS.
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for socialism of what it means to be a Trotskyist fighter.
Born into the rubble of post-war Germany, Herma Huber belonged to a generation that demanded answers to the great catastrophe of Nazi fascism. Rejecting both Stalinist lies and capitalist hypocrisy, she found her answer in Trotskyism.
Police detained 52 teachers in Ankara on Thursday as they marched between ministries demanding a legal base salary. The government says there is no money — while military spending reaches $US30 billion.
On the tenth anniversary of the 2016 coup attempt, the Erdoğan government marks it as a "victory of democracy," concealing the US-NATO involvement and the drive to dictatorship that followed.
Türkiye’s official statistics cannot hide the fact that the country is experiencing one of the sharpest and most devastating forms of the global youth unemployment crisis.
Representative Ro Khanna and his delegation were detained by a gang of armed Zionist settler vigilantes and a group of four Israeli soldiers for more than an hour on Wednesday during a tour of the West Bank.
Drapatyi is widely seen to be in favor of a military strategy, centered on the use of long-range drones that hit infrastructure and civilian targets deep within Russian territory.
Under the seemingly harmless phrase “Germany is becoming crisis-proof,” the Bundeswehr, the state apparatus, the economy and the whole of society are to be rapidly prepared for a direct war against Russia.
Whatever the outcome of the dispute between these two nationalist governments, the conflict underscores that their war alliance against Russia is as fragile as it is reactionary.
The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.
The death of Umeshkumar Thakkar is the latest in a series of fatal incidents exposing the refusal of the US Postal Service to protect workers from extreme heat.
Nelson and two other employees were working on a transformer that malfunctioned during a storm. He was attempting to shut it off when he was electrocuted.
Huiteng Footwear, which operated the factory, is just one of more than 5,000 shoe manufacturers employing over half a million workers in the coastal city of Jinjiang, often described as China’s “shoe capital.”
The series of incidents involving falling objects highlights the ongoing risk to BlueScope workers after the tragic death of 24-year-old worker Jack McGrath last year.
In an expression of the volatile nature of the high-tech market and concerns over how long the boom can continue, Samsung’s share price fell 10 percent after it announced a record profit earlier this month.
Tariffs, militarization, and wars are not “isolated disruptions” but “interconnected symptoms of a deeper fragmentation reshaping the global economy.”
The immediate effect of the falling yen is to increase the price of oil and energy as Japan is dependent on the Middle East for more than 90 percent of its supplies, with the hike going across the board as Japan imports much of its food and raw materials.
Intense competition in AI development has raised “the risk of firms over-committing resources to investment projects with still uncertain returns, leaving all firms vulnerable to disappointments in AI payoffs.”
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.
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.
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.
July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons are critical for the class struggle in the 21st century.
African Union brokers Burundi peace summit; Viking 1 returns first photos from the surface of Mars; Jordan's King Abdullah assassinated; French government collapses in devaluation crisis
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
Kenya and Tanzania’s youth opposition are part of a single continental and global process, driven by the same underlying conditions. In both countries the youth have shown they can transcend the ethnic divisions long exploited by the ruling class.
The pogromist groups act as the extra-parliamentary spearhead of the African National Congress-led ten party Government of National Unity’s anti-immigrant policies.
The Tanzanian working class and youth confront a corrupt bourgeois state defending itself through terror, an opposition tied to the same capitalist order, and imperialist powers competing against rising capitalist powers like China to loot the country's resources.
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than any before it, precisely as Washington dismantles the global public health infrastructure built to contain such threats.
The country is on course to lose the elimination status it achieved in 2000, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the federal vaccine infrastructure.
A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.
Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
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.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
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.
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.
With more than 6,000 cases in Michigan alone and no confirmed product test, the government has extracted no penalty from Taylor Farms, which continues to dictate the scope of its own recall.
Federal health officials identified the agribusiness giant behind the worst parasite outbreak in American history, then left it to the company to decide when to tell the public and what to withdraw.
The spread of two diseases in New York City, Legionnaires’ disease and Cyclosporiasis, highlights the failure of the capitalist system to mount effective measures to control known threats to human health and life.
Nearly 7,000 people have been sickened and 141 hospitalized, while the federal apparatus that would trace the outbreak to its source has been dismantled by the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
This speech was delivered by Keith Jones, Socialist Equality Party (Canada) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Tom Peters, a leader of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.
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.
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.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
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.
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
Thousands of people joined protests to denounce New Zealand’s alliance with the US and government silence on US and Israeli war crimes. The organisers, however, promoted illusions in Labour and the Greens.
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
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.
“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.”
“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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
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.
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.
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.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
This prosecution is a blatant and dangerous political witch-hunt and frame-up. It must not be allowed to stand. It is a major escalation by the Trump administration of the effort to criminalize left-wing opposition to war, dictatorship and social inequality.
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are standing in the student parliament elections at Humboldt University in Berlin. We are publishing their election statement here.
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.
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the country.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
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.
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
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 drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
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.
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 police, immigration Gestapo and military are instruments of capitalist class rule whose escalating violence can be stopped only through the independent political mobilization of the working class.
The Trump administration is driven to escalation by the logic of the war, which is now in its fifth month.
The release of two Chinese open-weight AI models matching the most advanced American systems has provoked panic in Washington and Silicon Valley, exposing the fragility of the speculative bubble on which the entire US stock market rests.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified alongside Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday to demand $67 billion in emergency funding for the Iran war.
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.
