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Trump to American workers: Let them pay for the war
The US president seemed to channel the obliviousness of the French monarchy or the Russian tsar on the eve of their revolutionary overthrow.
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In congressional testimony Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst told the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense that the running cost of the Iran war has grown to $29 billion—and that this figure does not include damage to US military bases.
Andre Damon•
Peter Daszak is a British-born zoologist and disease ecologist best known for his work on emerging zoonotic diseases and for leading the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. Because EcoHealth had funded and collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Daszak became a target of the Trump administration and others who promoted the false “Wuhan lab leak” narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
Six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the institutions of public health have been so thoroughly dismantled that the ruling class no longer knows, or wishes to know, how far this outbreak has spread.
Evan Blake•
To mark 100 years since the end of the 1926 General Strike (on May 12, 1926), the WSWS is republishing a lecture by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK). The lecture, "Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926" was delivered at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025.
Chris Marsden•
This speech was delivered by Thomas Scripps, Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Thomas Scripps•
This speech was delivered by Tomas Castanheira, leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Tomas Castanheira•
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
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.
WSWS Editorial Board•
The political task facing the Argentine working class cannot be carried out within the framework of the FIT-U, nor on the basis of the politics of the PTS, whose objective function is that of a centrist obstacle to the development of revolutionary leadership.
Tomas Castanheira•
After last week’s death of Jesús Martín Olivera at the GM Silao Complex, one worker at the plant said, “stress, the long working hours, and the production demands the company imposes are killing workers.”
Andrea Lobo•
TWU International President John Samuelsen denounced the WSWS’s reporting of the union’s support, calling it “provably incorrect.” But this is a lie, aimed at concealing the bureaucracy’s connections with management.
Daniel de Vries•
A “no” vote on the new TA and strike by the 1,300 Nexteer workers could spark a mass movement of auto parts workers and galvanize production workers at the Big Three factories.
Barry Grey•
State repression is aimed at crushing the developing independent workers’ movement, expressed in a growing number of wildcat strikes and acts of resistance
Barış Demir•
The detained include Lee Sang-hun and Song Dan-bi of the People’s Democracy Party of South Korea, Joti Brar of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Dimitris Patelis, a professor of philosophy at the Technical University of Crete and Guy Bremond, a French activist.
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
The fact that Streeting could conceivably become Labour leader and prime minister points to the putrid state of the Labour Party, and its advanced stage of political collapse.
Robert Stevens•
These events vindicate the struggle of the Socialist Equality Party, which opposed the election of this rotten party and the pseudo-left tendencies who backed Starmer as the “lesser of two evils”.
Robert Stevens•
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), like mass transit agencies all over the country, is determined to make the workers pay for a fiscal crisis that they did not create.
Alan Whyte, Daniel de Vries, Jerry White•
The Met Gala on Monday evening was an expression of the putrefaction of the ruling establishment where fashion, Hollywood, corporate money, celebrity culture and politics comingled in a display of wealth and privilege.
David North•
A progressive response to this offensive is possible only through a frontal assault by the working class on the unchallenged “right” of capitalist property itself.
Tom Hall•
The resolution gives expression to the broad and growing opposition among workers to the war, which is backed by the UAW apparatus.
Jerry White•
This is the text of a resolution introduced by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman at a meeting of UAW Local 677 in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
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Behind promises of “accountability,” a joint Los Angeles task force on homelessness is eliminating hundreds of frontline workers, increasing the privatization that produced the crisis in the first place.
Isaac de Vries•
The second impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte triggered a chain of crisis events—a power grab in the Senate, an ICC arrest warrant and gunfire in the legislature—that have shaken Philippine politics.
John Malvar•
More than 1,000 Melbourne local government workers held a 24-hour strike last week. The action included workers in waste collection, maternal and child health services, aged care, childcare, libraries and parks maintenance.
Our reporters•
New York City transit workers confront need for fight against Wall Street and Mamdani
A strike would shut down the center of American and world finance and set the stage for a far broader movement of the working class against inequality and exploitation.
Tom Hall•
Trump and Xi to meet amid global eruption of imperialist war
Trump is traveling to Beijing under conditions of extreme crisis, amidst an ongoing war against Iran that has failed to achieve the war aims of American imperialism.
Andre Damon•
Reckless disembarkation of hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius exposes collapse of public health
As one of the French passengers repatriated from the MV Hondius developed symptoms mid-flight, the Trump administration announced it will neither quarantine nor test the 17 Americans returning from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.
Benjamin Mateus•
War, genocide and the weaponization of healthcare: An interview with Bilal Irfan
Bilal Irfan is a US‑based medical and bioethics researcher working on Gaza and Palestinian health.
Benjamin Mateus•
Evan Blake•
Thomas Scripps•
Jacob Crosse•
Christoph Vandreier•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Trump threatens Iran will be “decimated” if it does not accept US-dictated deal
Speaking to reporters before departing for China on Tuesday, President Trump said the US would accept only a “good deal” to end the war against Iran, or the country “would be decimated,” adding, “one way or another, we win.”
Kevin Reed•
South Korea moves towards joining war against Iran
An attack involving two “unidentified airborne objects” on a South Korean-operated ship in the Strait of Hormuz last week is being seized upon by Seoul as a possible pretext to join the US-led war against Iran.
Ben McGrath•
Trump and Xi to meet amid global eruption of imperialist war
Trump is traveling to Beijing under conditions of extreme crisis, amidst an ongoing war against Iran that has failed to achieve the war aims of American imperialism.
Andre Damon•
Trump calls Iranian response to negotiations “unacceptable,” as Israel continues Lebanon bloodbath
US President Donald Trump declared Iran's reply to his negotiation terms "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE" on Sunday, threatening renewed military escalation four days before his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
David Walsh•
Andre Damon•
Peter Schwarz•
Andre Damon•
May Day 2026
Socialism AI and the political education of the working class
This speech was delivered by Evan Blake, a Socialist Equality Party (US) National Committee member, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Evan Blake•
May Day 2026
The crisis of the Putin regime and the struggle for historical truth
This speech was delivered by Andrei Ritsky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists (YGBL), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Andrei Ritsky•
May Day 2026
Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
May Day 2026
German imperialism’s third campaign for world domination
This speech was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, National Secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Christoph Vandreier•
Tamino Dreisam•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Will Lehman•
Joseph Kishore•
Our reporters•
Michael: An exercise in image control
An estate-approved film about Michael Jackson is an exploitation that leans heavily on his music and provides a superficial, selective view of his life.
Erik Schreiber•
A new work from Mehring Books
Art and the Influence of Revolution
No serious understanding of 20th-century cultural life is possible without considering the impact of the socialist movement and its decades-long struggle to raise the thinking and activity of the working class, culminating in the 1917 Revolution.
90 years of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
Released under tumultuous social, political and economic circumstances, Chaplin’s movie retains the artistic, cultural, political and social significance it had in 1936.
John Conrad•
61st Venice Biennale: Cultural workers and artists strike and protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza
The strikers and demonstrators were responding to a call from the organisation Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), supported by a number of other activist groups.
Stefan Steinberg•
Fred Mazelis•
Armando Cruz•
Our reporters•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
New expert opinion deepens debacle for prosecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
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”.
Clara Weiss•
After devastating expert report
Ukrainian state intensifies pressure on Bogdan Syrotiuk by withholding medical care
With the case of the prosecution against Bogdan Syrotiuk shattered, the Ukrainian state is deliberately withholding urgently necessary medical care.
Clara Weiss•
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•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
42,000 UC healthcare and service workers set to strike, as AFSCME and management near agreement: Build rank-and-file committees now!
On May 14, 42,000 University of California workers are set to strike in a major confrontation with the state's Democratic Party establishment.
Marc Wells•
New York City transit workers confront need for fight against Wall Street and Mamdani
A strike would shut down the center of American and world finance and set the stage for a far broader movement of the working class against inequality and exploitation.
Tom Hall•
BioNTech: Profit takes precedence over health—and 1,860 employees lose their jobs in Germany
The company which produced the first approved COVID-19 vaccine profited enormously, but not its workers.
Marianne Arens, Peter Schwarz•
After Greeley betrayal, UFCW blocks new strike action by Denver, Colorado meatpacking workers
Less than three weeks after United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 called off the powerful strike of meatpacking workers at the JBS meat processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, meatpacking workers at the JBS beef and pork plant in nearby Denver voted April 27 to authorize strike action.
Dan Conway•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Barış Demir•
Alan Whyte, Daniel de Vries, Jerry White•
Samuel Davidson•
Three Rivers American Axle workers vote 98 percent to authorize strike
American Axle parts workers overwhelmingly authorized a strike, joining Nexteer employees in a rank-and-file rebellion against decades of wage cuts and UAW sellouts.
Stephen St. Clair•
UAW calls off bogus strike vote over subcontracting at Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly as grueling 7-day schedule continues
The claim by the local UAW to be waging a determined fight to defend jobs was exposed within a few days, when the UAW suddenly called off the vote and announced a settlement that does not guarantee a single job.
Shannon Jones•
“I’m not going to stop using my voice”: Dana auto parts worker fired for exposing deadly conditions at Detroit area plant
Kamara Bond was fired twice for reporting dangerous conditions at the Dana plant in Warren, Michigan.
Kathleen Martin•
Nexteer auto parts workers condemn new tentative agreement
The reaction from the shop floor to a new TA brought back by the UAW last week is broadly one of anger and disgust.
Tony Callahan•
Our reporters•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee •
Shannon Jones•
Shannon Jones•
Pistorius in Kiev: Germany arms for war against Russia
Almost 85 years after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Berlin is once again driving forward a military offensive against Russia. The visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to Kiev marks a new stage in German-Ukrainian arms integration.
Johannes Stern•
Germany summons Russian ambassador and escalates confrontation with Moscow
On Monday, the German government summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin, thereby raising the diplomatic confrontation with Moscow to a new level.
Johannes Stern•
Black Sea turns into a battlefield: A Turkish-operated tanker carrying Russian oil was hit
The attack—carried out during the US-Israel war of annihilation against Iran, Türkiye’s eastern neighbor—points to the danger of escalation and expansion in the Ukraine war.
Barış Demir•
British military to seize Russian ships, threatening shoot-outs
Labour’s position is that a shooting war can be started with Russia without so much as a press conference.
Thomas Scripps•
Jason Melanovski•
Jason Melanovski•
Katerina Selin•
Robert Stevens•
Jason Melanovski•
German government launches multiple attacks on basic rights
The German government is implementing the most extensive rearmament programme since Hitler - all to be financed by massive cuts to social services.
Tino Jacobson•
Governments downplay pandemic risk as MV Hondius hantavirus cases mount in US, Europe
Authorities claim the virus poses a very low risk to the public even as they mention the threat of a pandemic like COVID-19 and transport passengers to top-level biosecurity facilities.
Alex Lantier, Benjamin Mateus•
The end of printing press manufacturer Manroland in Offenbach, Germany and the role of the IG Metall union
The closure of the Manroland plant in Offenbach marks the culmination of a process begun with the breakup of the company during the 2011–12 insolvency crisis, in which the IG Metall union played a central role.
Marianne Arens•
Starmer’s antisemitism summit deepens right-wing slander campaign against the left and Muslims
Slander on the scale now being mounted by the government and the media is preparation for sweeping political repression.
Thomas Scripps•
Jason Melanovski•
Robert Stevens•
Johannes Stern•
Robert Stevens•
Steve James•
Australian local government workers at strike rally speak against pay cuts and worsening conditions
“My pay has gone down 12 percent since 2021. That’s a sharp fall, not a minor fall. Since the economic uncertainty prompted by COVID, it hasn't improved. So now we're forced here today to vent our frustrations.”
Our reporters•
Australia: Labor government’s pro-business budget targets the disabled and poor
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, the government is carrying out an onslaught against the most vulnerable sections of the working class, including the disabled and the poor.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australia, Fiji sign new security agreement aimed against China
The upgraded Vuvale Union is part of an expanding web of alliances and arrangements escalating Pacific involvement in the US-led preparations for war against China.
John Braddock•
Meetings in Australia and New Zealand to oppose the imperialist war on Iran and government austerity
The meetings will outline the socialist perspective needed to halt the descent into global war and the accompanying onslaught on the conditions of the working class.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Our reporters•
Wasantha Rupasinghe, Keith Jones •
Our reporter•
Leonard Johns•
Mike Head•
Mamdani faces backlash after NYPD aids ICE at Brooklyn hospital
The popular opposition is so intense that several Democratic Party officeholders made mild criticisms of the DSA mayor.
Elliott Murtagh•
US rural healthcare collapse accelerates under Medicaid cuts and privatization
One-third of rural hospitals face closure as the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” slashes Medicaid by over $900 billion, gutting healthcare for 60 million Americans to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and a $1.5 trillion military buildup.
Max Jones•
Judge forces unsealing of alleged Epstein “suicide note”
A judge from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that an alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein before he was found dead in his jail cell was to be unsealed and released to the public.
Kevin Reed•
Louisiana governor suspends primary election to enforce new congressional gerrymandering
The action by Republican Jeff Landry, postponing a primary in order to carry out a pro-Republican redistricting approved by the Supreme Court, has no historical precedent.
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Kate Randall•
Nancy Hanover•
Jacob Crosse•
Andre Damon•
Rising fertilizer prices, shortages threaten Sri Lankan farmers with disaster
The problems facing the peasantry can only be solved through a struggle against capitalism in unity with the working class.
Our correspondents•
Sri Lanka: 12 men sentenced to death over killing of MP prepare to appeal
The Socialist Equality Party categorically opposes these convictions and the death penalties, the aim of which is to intimidate the masses of workers and oppressed people who took part in the 2022 uprising.
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Sri Lanka: Government May Day rallies promote lies, austerity and autocratic rule
President Dissanayake’s claims to head “a workers’ government” are absurd. The JVP/NPP presides over a capitalist government carrying out sweeping attacks on workers and the poor, including higher taxes, higher prices and wholesale privatization.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka: Stop the US–Israel War Against Iran!
The meeting in Hatton on April 26 will discuss the real aims of US imperialism, the complicity of Sri Lanka's ruling elite in the widening war, and the socialist strategy that must be adopted to fight against war.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondent•
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondents•
P.T.Sampanthar, Wasantha Rupasinghe•
May Day and Morenoite opportunism in the face of Argentina’s revolutionary crisis
The political task facing the Argentine working class cannot be carried out within the framework of the FIT-U, nor on the basis of the politics of the PTS, whose objective function is that of a centrist obstacle to the development of revolutionary leadership.
Tomas Castanheira•
The Revolutionary Communist Party abandons Corbyn only to embrace Zack Polanski’s Green Party
Building socialist consciousness means fighting to bring the historical and international experience of the working class to bear on contemporary political issues, in order to break the working class from its potential misleaders.
Thomas Scripps•
From Port Huron to postmodernism: The class politics of the “New” Students for a Democratic Society
The "New" SDS substitutes identity politics for class analysis, bourgeois nationalism for socialist internationalism and protest theater for the independent mobilization of the working class against the capitalist parties and the system they defend.
Nancy Hanover•
Germany’s Morenoite RIO joins Left Party in support of war, attacks on the working class
The integration of the RIO Morenoites into the Left Party marks a further political shift to the right by this pseudo-left tendency, which can only be understood in the context of the current crisis of capitalism.
Johannes Stern•
Eduardo Parati, Tomas Castanheira•
Oscar Grenfell•
Laura Tiernan•
Joseph Kishore•
Sandy English•
Amid dozens of spy flights over Cuba, US sanctions drive out foreign companies
A report by CNN based on publicly available aviation data reveals a dramatic surge in US military intelligence flights around the island.
Andrea Lobo•
Extradition requests for top politicians deepen US-Mexico crisis
If Sheinbaum complies, she risks opening the floodgates to more US extradition requests, and fissures in her party. If she doesn’t, she risks aggression from an increasingly unhinged Trump administration.
Don Knowland•
Brazil’s Lula comes to White House, whitewashing Trump’s imperialist crimes
The Brazilian president’s posturing as a “left-wing” opponent of war collapsed with a single phone call from Trump—who reportedly signed off with “I love you.”
Tomas Castanheira•
“Hondurasgate” exposes living legacy of Operation Condor across the Americas
The recordings involve discussions about imprisoning or assassinating opponents, and coordinating a continental offensive against the “cancer of the left.”
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)•
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
South Texas horror: 7 immigrants, including 14-year-old boy, die after being trapped in rail container
The deaths in Texas are the latest social crime produced by the bipartisan anti-immigrant policies of the US government.
Jacob Crosse•
Federal agents seize Indiana University lab: Witch-hunt against Chinese scientists targets senior US faculty
Government agents have locked down a biology laboratory at Indiana University, attacking Professor Roger Innes for defending his Chinese postdoctoral researcher against fabricated federal charges.
Stephen St. Clair•
UMass Boston academic worker backs Harvard grad student strikers: “I have classmates on food stamps"
A graduate student worker at UMass in Boston described how Harvard and other major universities rely on exploitation of academic workers.
Mike Ingram•
Nearly half of California teachers may quit within a decade, survey finds
Bipartisan austerity, union betrayals and deepening inequality are devastating public education in California and across the United States.
Marc Wells•
Philip Guelpa•
Alex Findijs•
Stephen St. Clair•
Claude Delphian•
Tom Hall•
US Steel contests OSHA fines for deadly Clairton Coke Works explosion
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined US Steel and its contractor MPW Industrial Services $180,000 for the deaths of Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee.
Samuel Davidson•
Australia: 6 months since the fatal Endeavor mine explosion in Cobar
There is still no official explanation of what caused the explosion at Polymetals Resources’ Endeavor mine on October 28, 2025, that killed workers Patrick “Ambrose” McMullen and Holly Clarke.
Martin Scott•
Australia: 4 workers killed on the job in southeast Queensland in recent weeks
The known workplace fatalities around Brisbane now total seven in six months—part of a rising toll due to unsafe conditions, increased rates of exploitation by employers, official coverups and government complicity.
Our correspondents•
Hesse, Germany: 4 tannery workers killed in workplace accident
Four workers have lost their lives following hydrogen sulphide poisoning at a tannery in Runkel, Hesse, highlighting severe deficiencies in occupational safety and environmental monitoring.
Marianne Arens•
Mike Head•
Andy Hartmann•
Bryan Dyne•
Süleyman Sağlam•
Leonard Johns•
Major global bank takes a private credit hit
The $400 million loss by HSBC has raised questions about the connections between major banks and private credit which are often hidden from view.
Nick Beams•
A revealing report on the rise and rise of private credit
Financial authorities are largely in the dark about the operations and risk factors associated with private credit, which has undergone explosive growth in the recent period.
Nick Beams•
Higher oil prices to come as reserves fall at record pace
The “baseline” assumption of official forecasts that the war would be over in weeks has been shattered by events, with warnings that oil price hikes so far are only the beginning.
Nick Beams•
US national debt surpasses size of the economy, as Trump administration demands surge in military spending
The US national debt has crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product for the first peacetime year since 1946, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)—a milestone that arrives as the Trump administration is demanding a $1.535 trillion Pentagon budget and preparing for conflict with nuclear-armed China and Russia.
Andre Damon•
Nick Beams•
Kevin Reed•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
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
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
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•
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•
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
Ty•
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British General Strike
May 4 marked 100 years since the beginning of the 1926 British General Strike. The strike, defeated after nine days, was a pivotal experience for the working class in Britain and internationally.
Chris Marsden•
Gettysburg and the New Birth of Freedom—then and now
We are publishing a lecture delivered by WSWS contributor Tom Mackaman to the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Gettysburg University on April 23.
Tom Mackaman•
This week in history: May 11-17
Berlusconi returns to power in Italy; Terry Tyler arrested in Louisiana; Battle of Soyang River in Korean War; British General Strike betrayed.
April 1776: When America opened its ports to the world
As the Trump administration imposes a military closure of Iranian ports, it is notable that 250 years ago this month, on April 6, 1776, the Continental Congress announced that American ports would be open to world.
Tom Mackaman•
Nicoletta Montaner•
D. Szejnman, Steve Long•
Marc Wells•
Andrea Peters•
M. Szejnman•
Iran war wreaks havoc in Africa
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has driven fuel prices in Africa up by as much as 80 percent. Inflation is rising, and food production is in jeopardy, with governments scrambling to avert agricultural collapse.
Jean Shaoul•
Islamist offensive tacitly backed by Paris shakes Mali
Against the backdrop of the war against Iran and Russia, the conflict between the anti-imperialist aspirations of the Malian masses and the bourgeois politics of the Malian junta is emerging ever more clearly.
Alex Lantier•
South Africa’s ruling class incites pogroms against migrants
This scapegoating must be understood in the context of the social order the ANC has presided over since 1994. While the legal framework of apartheid was dismantled, the underlying class structures have been preserved.
Jean de Jager•
Tanzania whitewashes post-election massacre of thousands of protesters
The report admits that at least 518 people died from “unnatural causes”, 197 by gunfire. A November report by 40 African human rights organisations estimated the real death toll at up to 3,000.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean de Jager, Alejandro López•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean de Jager•
Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship exposes the continuing threat of zoonotic spillover
A lethal hantavirus outbreak aboard the luxury vessel MV Hondius highlights how capitalist encroachment into ecological frontiers and global mobility transform localized zoonotic spillovers into urgent international public health crises.
Benjamin Mateus•
Genetic evidence suggests that human evolution accelerated with the development of agriculture
A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes resulted from the adoption of agriculture in Western Eurasia.
Philip Guelpa•
Research demonstrates that enhanced instruction in genetics can reduce racist conceptions among students
A groundbreaking study in genetics education examines the relationship between the quality of genetics education and the development of racist ideas among young people and the dire consequences for a researcher’s career.
Philip Guelpa•
“The agencies have been pummeled down”: A conversation with Dorit Reiss on the state of American public health
Under assault by Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, his Secretary of Health and Human Services, the public health infrastructure of the United States is being destroyed.
Benjamin Mateus•
Bryan Dyne•
Bryan Dyne•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bryan Dyne•
El Gamal lawyers detail ICE kidnapping operation, as Congress prepares $53 billion for ICE and CBP
The El Gamal family’s legal team detailed last Saturday’s kidnapping, as Congress moves to pour billions more into ICE and CBP.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump rushes migrant children through deportation courts, while Walz backs federal raids in Minnesota
Children in US custody are being rushed toward deportation before they can secure legal relief, while federal agents and Minnesota authorities carry out raids in Twin Cities under the pretext of fighting “fraud.”
Jacob Crosse•
Justice Department revives firing squad, electrocution and gas asphyxiation for federal executions
The DOJ report reinstating multiple methods for federal executions marks a further regression into barbarism by an administration that has made the expansion of state killing a central pillar of its political program.
Kate Randall•
Charles III in Washington: Monarchy, oligarchy and the repudiation of 1776
Charles III’s address to Congress, under the patronage of Trump and before an audience of billionaires and Democrats, exposed the convergence of monarchy and oligarchy in the repudiation of the democratic principles of 1776.
Joseph Kishore•
Jacob Crosse•
Our reporters•
Anthony Callahan•
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
11 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: “We need an explanation,” says widow
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.
Jerry White •
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•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
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.
“It should be fine, we hope”
Trump dismisses hantavirus threat as outbreak spreads
The deepening hantavirus outbreak and the Trump administration’s response to it expose the catastrophic dismantling of US public health and scientific infrastructure six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Evan Blake•
The gutting of the NIH and the capitalist assault on public health
The dismantling of public health through NIH funding cuts, CDC censorship and Medicaid rollbacks is a deliberate attack on the working class by the capitalist elite, for whom military spending and private profit supersede any concern for the American people.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud and the institutionalization of anti-science: An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak
In this interview, Daszak responds to the inaugural “Scientific Freedom” lecture held at the National Institutes of Health under the sponsorship of NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, chosen for that position by vaccine denialist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because he opposed any serious public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
Stanley Plotkin, the virologist whose RA 27/3 rubella vaccine has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide, has reacted to the ongoing dismantling of public health with undisguised despair. This report traces the science he built, the class forces that made it possible, and the way forward against the ultra-right assault on vaccines.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Tom Peters•
Margot Miller•
John Braddock•
Benjamin Mateus•
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.
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•
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•
Edwin Soto (1953-2026): Transit worker and lifetime supporter of the fight for socialism
Edwin Soto was part of a generation of working class youth who were won to the cause of socialism in the course of the struggles of the 1960s and 70s.
Fred Mazelis•
Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life
Yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League who was assassinated in 1977. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
David North•
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 North•
Tom Mackaman•
David North•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tamino Dreisam•
Five hundred more pro-Palestine protesters arrested in UK despite High Court ruling
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.
Thomas Scripps•
New Zealand protests against war on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
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.
Tom Peters•
Violent arrests follow police rampage at Sydney anti-genocide protest
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
Mike Head•
Palestine Solidarity Duisburg: Ahmad Othman wins again in court against the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Ahmad Othman, an activist against the genocide of the Palestinians, has successfully sued against his second dismissal by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jacob Crosse•
Antony Walsh•
Jean Shaoul•
Eric Ludlow•
Our reporters•
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.
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•
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.
Turkish miners’ struggle continues under a police siege
Miners’ struggle demonstrates the social power that must be mobilized for the social and democratic rights and against imperialist war.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
12 killed in 2 school shootings in Türkiye
These unprecedented school shootings are a tragic product of the social crisis rooted in the capitalist system, the normalization of widespread violence and mass death.
Barış Demir•
Armed clash erupts near Israeli consulate in Istanbul
The circumstances surrounding this attempted armed attack near the Israeli consulate remain unclear.
Barış Demir•
Joint statement by 11 parties in Türkiye: The “peace and democracy” deception amid the imperialist war of aggression in the Middle East
Eleven parties, including Kurdish nationalists and nominally “left-wing” groups in Türkiye, issued a statement appealing to the Erdoğan government for "peace" without addressing US imperialist aggression against Iran and across the Middle East.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
Barış Demir•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Graham Beverley•
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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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
Our reporter•
London meeting marks 40 years since the expulsion of the Workers Revolutionary Party
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.
Our reporters•
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•
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
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•
IYSSE statement on the May 8 school strike
No cannon fodder for war plans of the German ruling class!
Eighty-one years after the end of World War II in Europe, the spectres of war and fascism are back. The IYSSE calls for building an international, socialist anti-war movement against conscription and militarism.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Canada’s universities and colleges to serve as cogs in war machine under Liberal government’s Defence Industrial Strategy
The government’s Defence Industrial Strategy pulls no punches when it comes to laying out the purpose of its strengthened collaboration with post-secondary institutions—waging war.
Omar Ali, Roger Jordan•
Harvard Corporation demands graduate workers pay the price for Trump’s assault on academic freedom
As the Trump administration launches a scorched-earth campaign to bring higher education under the direct ideological control of the far right, Harvard’s leadership has responded not by defending democratic principles but offloading the costs of this political warfare onto its workforce.
Mike Ingram•
Australian and New Zealand university students oppose US-Israeli war on Iran and Labor government complicity
“The timeline of it, how things have gone this year, and how there are all these Western countries supporting the bombing of Iran and other wars—this is a lead-up to world war.”
Our reporters•
Shannon Jones, Noah Prince, Valery Tsekov•
Jessica Gateu, Marc Wells•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
our reporters•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
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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David North to speak at two universities in Ankara, Turkey: “The American volcano and the global tsunami”
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.
Our reporters•
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•
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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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•
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.
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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•
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.
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society
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.
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Trump poised to launch criminal war on Iran behind smokescreen of talks
Having amassed vast military power in the Middle East spearheaded by two aircraft carrier strike groups and scores of warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours.
Keith Jones•
US planes flood UK bases in preparation for attack on Iran
According to an assessment by The i Paper published Saturday, since last Tuesday, “at least 28 US military flights have used airbases in the UK and Cyprus to carry out one of the largest build-ups of US military strength in the Middle East for decades.”
Robert Stevens•
US draws up plans for “leadership change” and “targeting individuals” in Iran strike
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest warship ever built, transited the Strait of Gibraltar on Friday and entered the Mediterranean, placing the United States within days of having the military force in position for a massive illegal assault on Iran.
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Don Knowland•
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.
Jörg Baberowski’s Bypassing the People: Fascism as a revitalisation of democracy
Jörg Baberowski’s latest treatise, Am Volk vorbei—Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie (Bypassing the People—On the Crisis of Liberal Democracy), is being hailed and praised in countless media outlets. This can only be understood as a deliberate political campaign to secure the AfD a place in government.
Christoph Vandreier•
Book review: American Midnight: The Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis
Adam Hochschild’s vivid, engaging account of the political subordination of the society to the needs of a ruling class waging an imperialist war deserves a wide readership.
Nicoletta Montaner•
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights: Is this all that we can expect?
The force, the genius, of Emily Brontë’s novel is totally absent, wholly unexplored in this adaptation.
Paul Bond•
Video: Strong interest in “Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism” at the Leipzig Book Fair
The presentation of 'Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism', featuring David North at the Leipzig Book Fair, met with strong interest and underscored the growing interest in a socialist perspective against fascism and war.
David North, Johannes Stern•
Paul Bond•
Owen Howell•
Stefan Steinberg, Clara Weiss•
James McDonald•
Eric London •
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 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•
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 to American workers: Let them pay for the war
The US president seemed to channel the obliviousness of the French monarchy or the Russian tsar on the eve of their revolutionary overthrow.
Patrick Martin•
New York City transit workers confront need for fight against Wall Street and Mamdani
A strike would shut down the center of American and world finance and set the stage for a far broader movement of the working class against inequality and exploitation.
Tom Hall•
Trump and Xi to meet amid global eruption of imperialist war
Trump is traveling to Beijing under conditions of extreme crisis, amidst an ongoing war against Iran that has failed to achieve the war aims of American imperialism.
Andre Damon•
How workers can fight the wave of AI layoffs
A progressive response to this offensive is possible only through a frontal assault by the working class on the unchallenged “right” of capitalist property itself.
Tom Hall•
Thomas Scripps•
Evan Blake•
David North•
Tom Hall•
WSWS Editorial Board•
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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