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?
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.
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.
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.
“I’m here because Australia’s complicit in genocide and it needs to stop—we need to break the system.”
The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The “Labor Modernization” bill—longer hours, gutted severance, and strike criminalization—has sparked mass protests and strikes as workers rebel against IMF-dictated slavery.
The most cynical element in the whole initiative is the bloc’s claim to represent a “position of class independence” in Venezuela.
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.
Immigration courts are being rigged in favor of the White House-driven witch-hunt against those seeking asylum under international law.
The Kaiser strike is unfolding alongside a widening movement of educators and academic workers across California and the country.
Los Angeles Democrats move to dismantle judicial oversight to shield failure on homelessness.
In addition to low wages and harsh working conditions, warehouse workers face constant violations of their legal rights including weekly working hours, overtime pay, weekly holidays, public holidays, annual leave, occupational health and safety.
India's new labour codes dismantle legal protections governing wages, job security and working conditions, and dramatically curtail workers' legal right to strike.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
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 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.
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
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.
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.
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.
Trump’s plan to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years, amid ICE repression and gaudy “America250” spectacles, exposes the deepening assault on culture and democratic rights.
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.
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.”
The police violence against protesters opposing a war criminal was orchestrated by the Labor governments and then defended by them.
“For Albanese to invite Herzog here is completely wrong—it was a line in the sand for me—and I just had to come here and be part of the opposition.”
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
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.”
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.
ICE officials are refusing to disclose the location of 33-year-old Leqaa Kordia after she suffered a medical emergency at the Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas on Friday and was taken to the hospital.
The union is attempting to push through sellout contracts for striking nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems, while isolating the 4,500 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian.
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) will host an online meeting on the way forward for the 15,000 striking New York nurses and the 31,000 striking healthcare workers in California and Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 10.
The 20 percent pay increase is the same take-it-or-leave-it offer from VW that the UAW denounced as "inadequate" last October.
The lawsuit is an implicit threat that the stream of money the union apparatus receives through the Labor-Management Partnership may be turned off if it cannot get its membership back in line.
The US military is poised to attack Iran after a massive, weeks-long redeployment of warships, bombers and personnel to the region.
The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If any further proof were needed that the phrases “freedom” and “human rights” in German foreign policy are nothing more than propaganda, it was provided by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to the reactionary Gulf monarchies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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.
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.
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.
In the New Year, Washington has attempted to reassert its hegemony over the entire Latin American region, which includes its Mexican neighbor.
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.
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.
Dissanayake is trying to cover up the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s reactionary communal record as an enthusiastic supporter of anti-Tamil racialist war.
Colombo’s draft legislation reproduces all the essential features of the existing draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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.
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.
The handover of Venezuela’s oil reserves to US imperialism by its Bolivarian regime is relentlessly unmasking anti-Trotskyist forces internationally.
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.
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.
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.
Paine’s revolutionary assault on monarchy and aristocracy cleared the way for American independence a quarter millenium ago—and speaks urgently to the present.
The events in Minneapolis in 1934 show what the working class can accomplish when it fights based on an independent class perspective.
The Instagram post included a graphic depicting the assassination of Alex Pretti with the text “Only Traitors Help Invaders.”
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.
The Washington Post announced Tuesday that it is eliminating more than 300 journalists—roughly one-third of its 800-person newsroom.
Through its dominance of the global supply of rare earths and critical minerals, vital for high-tech products, from phones to jet engines, China was able to hit back against Trump’s tariff war by rapidly cutting off supplies.
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."
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.
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.
The mechanism for this round of SNAP cuts is extending work requirements from age 54 to age 64.
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
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.
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.
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.
The report warns that unsustainable water resource practices are causing potentially irreversible damage to water systems that require urgent action to rectify
Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.
The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization marks a decisive turn toward nationalism and the dismantling of public health.
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.
Trump’s decision is the outcome of a balancing act which itself underscores the inherent instability of the US financial system.
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.
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.
On Tuesday, the dollar fell by 0.9 percent against a basket of currencies, continuing its slide of 9 percent for 2025. Gold went well over $4,700 per ounce, a new record, while the yield longer-term Treasuries rose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Budanov was trained by the CIA, maintains ties to the Trump administration and is known for his particular close ties to Ukrainian neo-fascists.
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.
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.
The January 5, 2026 decision to revise the US childhood vaccine schedule marks a turning point in the destruction of public health.
The scientist quit the CDC in protest after Trump-appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed every member of the Advisory Community on Immunization Practices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Parnarauskis is best known to readers of the WSWS for his 2006 campaign for Illinois state senate.
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 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.
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.
Engler was targeted for prosecution due to his vocal opposition to Israel’s genocide of the Gaza Palestinians and exposure of the complicity of Canada’s Liberal government and political establishment.
Just four days after the Bondi attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the creation of the Antisemitism Education Taskforce, chaired by corporate figure David Gonski and featuring the government’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
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.
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.
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
The novel takes place in Beirut between 1960 and 2023, its story divided non-chronologically into seven sections.
Grant’s Enforcer is an important reminder that political reaction is not all-powerful.
The most serious artists in the 1920s and early 1930s anticipated or often even assumed that society was proceeding to a new and higher stage.
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.
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 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.
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.
Workers reported smelling smoke hours before GM management took action to evacuate the plant, located outside Lansing, Michigan.
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.
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.
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.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
