Taal’s case is part of a broader system of state terror now unfolding in the United States. Dissent is being criminalized and the legal architecture of dictatorship is being constructed.
The Trump administration is gutting agencies, systematically firing scientists and health workers without cause and dispensing with thousands of years of collective knowledge and expertise.
The nurses union has kept its members on the job without a contract, despite growing demands for action over worsening conditions.
Israel’s Attorney-General Galia Beharav-Miara has greenlighted war crimes against the Palestinians. As she acknowledged in her defence, she gave her legal support for the government’s “operational approach to Gaza.”
Within the political straitjacket of the US two-party system, the only alternatives to the fascist Republicans were right-wing, pro-corporate Democrats.
Confirming their collaboration with the Trump administration’s fascistic attacks on free speech, several university administrations have announced they will fully cooperate with a right-wing congressional committee formed to attack student protesters.
Virtually no one believes that the last-minute election pledges, even if they were to be kept, would make any real difference to the lives or prospects of workers and their families.
The SEP urges workers, students, young people and all those seeking an alternative to Labor, the Liberal-Nationals and the Greens to attend the online meeting on Thursday April 10.
The Russian ruling class is hoping that a negotiated settlement with the United States over the war in Ukraine will give it some relief as falling oil revenues and military-industrial expenditures blow a hole in the federal budget.
Attempts by the capitalist state to ban fascist politicians or parties will not stop war or attacks on democratic rights, but set the stage for attacks on the left and the working class.
To avoid friction with the Armed Forces, infested with fascist apologists for the dictatorship, the official policy of the Lula government was to ignore the date.
Under conditions of exploding income inequality, widespread poverty and inflation-driven real wages cuts, the parties campaigning for the April 28 federal election are offering phony “affordability” measures that don’t even amount to a Band-Aid.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has given his support to an extreme right-wing campaign making lurid and baseless insinuations that Green MP Benjamin Doyle is a paedophile.
Tensions in ruling circles have markedly sharpened amid a worsening economic crisis and growing fears of an eruption of opposition by workers, peasants and youth.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
“The alternatives as posed by Rosa Luxemburg, ‘Socialism or Barbarism,’ confronts us all today. The alarm has been sounded. Now we must respond to it.”
At the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany, David North, chairman of the WSWS Editorial Board, introduced the newly released German translation of his book Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War. We are publishing here the introduction to North’s remarks by Johannes Stern.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, the DSA Democrat shed her previous “left” lip service and pined for a Democratic Party that used the rhetoric of “economic populism” to advance the interests of US imperialism.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an extensive article on US involvement in the Ukraine war entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.”
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.
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Three weeks have passed since Steiner posted on permanent-revolution.org a slanderous letter provided by an agent-provocateur. Steiner’s default response to the WSWS's exposure of his deceitful attempt to justify his provocation is to tell more lies.
The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists condemns with contempt the smear campaign based on the claim that the International Committee's “negligence” in security matters was to blame for the arrest of our comrade, Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Bogdan is charged not for any action committed or planned but for his Trotskyist ideas, a “thoughtcrime."
Thirty-five years after its dissolution, a stream of television films and documentaries continue to be made about the GDR, presenting the state solely as a brutal dictatorship demonstrating the failure of socialism.
The exhibition came under vicious attack by the far-right StopAntisemitism on X.
A broad coalition of Spanish cultural workers has issued a powerful manifesto opposing the European Union’s rearmament programme and denouncing NATO’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This is a gripping film, without nostalgic working class romanticism or "proletarian hero" pathos, and also without the moralistically tinged tone of petty-bourgeois intellectuals, which characterises many other socially critical films.
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to build an independent movement of the working class against Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, the Greens and capitalism itself.
The SEP urges workers, students, young people and all those seeking an alternative to Labor, the Liberal-Nationals and the Greens to attend the online meeting on Thursday April 10.
The government’s attitude to working people in Australia is in line with its callous indifference to the plight of earthquake victims in Myanmar for whom it is providing just 11 cents per person in aid.
Like this week’s budget, the election is a conspiracy, involving Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition and all the parliamentary parties, to hide the reality from the working class as much as possible.
Yale Law School fired law scholar Doutaghi on Friday in violation of her rights to speak against the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and to defend herself against false accusations published by an AI-generated pro-Zionist website.
Taal is one of hundreds of international students facing imprisonment and deportation for exercising their First Amendment rights.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK)’s Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps visited the Foreign Office in London Monday afternoon.
Elon Musk’s giveaway of million-dollar checks is only the most garish and crass of the interventions by the super-rich behind the Republican and Democratic candidates in this closely contested state.
The political significance of our contract battle is becoming ever clearer. Every effort is being made to prevent us from organising an all-out strike and enforcing our justified wage demands.
According to the absurd ruling, the no strike clause in the ATU contract not only prohibits striking during the term of the contract, which would be bad enough, but all potential strikes in the future.
CTU officials, Mayor Johnson and the news media are conspiring to conceal the full impact of Trump's historic cuts on Chicago schools.
If there is one takeaway from this episode, it is how panicked the Communication Workers Union leadership becomes when they are faced with even a hint of organised opposition in the workplace.
The growth of extreme wildfire activity is being driven by climate change while resources to fight disasters are being diverted to preparations for war.
The growing economic crisis has been highlighted by the fall in the value of the rupiah to levels not seen since the Asian financial crisis of 2008.
A total of 38,631 young people aged 15–24 made homelessness services requests without family support or stable housing in 2023–24.
Ordinary people are hostile to the program of war and dictatorship embodied by Trump, but the capitalist parties are in a competition over who can work best with the would-be dictator in the White House.
In line with IMF demands, the government’s attack on workers’ allowances and its minimal pay increase are aimed at drastically slashing state expenditure.
We call on workers to join and build the SEP as the necessary revolutionary leadership for the immense struggles ahead.
Despite widespread workers’ anger, the trade union bureaucracies oppose the independent mobilisation of the working class against the government’s attack on living and social conditions under the IMF program.
President Dissanayake has announced that his government will establish a state holding company, and list it on the Colombo Stock Exchange, to accelerate the restructuring of over 400 state-owned enterprises.
Every bakery in Gaza operated by the United Nations World Food Program closed Tuesday due to shortages of food and fuel caused by the ongoing Israeli blockade.
The Israeli military murdered and then bulldozed the bodies and ambulances of Palestinian and UN aid workers who attempted to retrieve casualties after Israeli forces launched an offensive in the Tel al-Sultan district of the southern city of Rafah.
The Israeli military is preparing to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, internally displace the remaining population and provide only the “minimum caloric amount necessary for survival,” according to three major publications.
The alliance of Israel’s political elite with the world’s most reactionary forces demonstrates that Zionism is no less a bitter enemy of Jewish workers and youth than it is of the Palestinians.
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.
The recent fires in Los Angeles have laid bare the devastating consequences of capitalism, a system that prioritizes profit over safety.
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.
We fully support Khalil and Taal and our comrades in the IYSSE and Socialist Equality Party in the US, who are in the forefront of defending the democratic rights of students, youth and immigrants, and all workers facing the Trump administration’s savage assault on jobs.
35 students, faculty, journalists and community members filed a lawsuit against UCLA for their role in protecting Zionists and abetting police violence.
The PSNA promotes the delusional perspective that New Zealand’s right-wing government can be persuaded to pressure the fascistic Trump administration to “stand up to” Israel.
The fact that the charges are only being filed now, nearly a year after the protest took place, underscores their concocted character.
As huge protests gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to demand İmamoglu’s release, President Erdoğan, the commander-in-chief of NATO’s second largest army, accused the CHP of serving imperialism.
As the wave of unlawful arrests and detentions launched by the government to suppress mass protests continues, videos and testimonies of brutal police violence and torture are emerging.
As Erdoğan responds to the mass protests with a growing state crackdown, the CHP is seeking to end the movement and is appealing to its NATO allies.
The blatant attack on democratic rights sparked mass protests across the country.
The Noboa-Trump meeting should sound the alarm over a conspiracy to use the state of exception and the threat of a US military intervention to overturn an election and establish an openly fascistic dictatorship.
The new measures would represent the most aggressive US siege against Venezuela’s economy thus far, posing the threat of mass death and a renewed exodus.
The opening of the case against Bolsonaro and his fascist co-conspirators, almost all members of the upper echelons of the military, is an unprecedented event in Brazilian history.
The death of a teacher in São Paulo after suffering a heart attack during a pedagogical meeting last week has brought to light the intense pressure and harassment inflicted by pro-corporate education programs.
France and Britain pledged to send troops to Ukraine, risking total war with Russia, amid rising US-European tensions as Washington and the EU both try to seize Ukrainian mineral resources.
The deal is already under question, as the European Union made clear on Thursday that it will not honor terms that the Kremlin insists must be implemented for the arrangement to go forward.
According to the court, the fundamental right to conscientious objection only applies to people who are liable for military service under German law. However, even for them, this right can be revoked, the court states.
Russian troops are on the verge of recapturing all territory seized by Ukraine in an offensive in Kursk last summer, imparting an air of crisis to calls by US President Donald Trump for a 30-day ceasefire in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
Dr. Peter Marks made clear that a central impetus behind his resignation was Kennedy’s criminal response to the deepening measles outbreak in the US, which has now infected over 500 people, the vast majority unvaccinated children.
The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.
As part of their commemoration of the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, the Times aired a special episode of their podcast The Daily titled, “Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?” to which they answer definitively “No.”
A publication on the discovery of a novel coronavirus by Chinese scientists has been the occasion for the Times to drum up the lab leak conspiracy once more.
The Starmer government is using the Birmingham strike as a test case, whose defeat would be used as a springboard for imposing its austerity agenda.
The growing movement of the working class in Belgium is developing under conditions of rising opposition to militarism continent-wide.
The raid on the group’s publicly advertised meeting at Westminster Quaker Meeting House, a little over half a mile from Downing Street, is a major escalation in the Starmer Labour government’s assault on democratic rights.
The charges against “Last Generation” are a massive attack on the freedoms of association, assembly and expression.
Premier Smith’s ultimatum and the spectre it invokes of an “unprecedented national unity crisis” are an implicit threat that if the Alberta government’s demands are not met the province could secede from Canada and appeal for Trump’s support.
The City Council’s plan to cut funding to LAHSA does not address the root causes of homelessness; instead, it ensures that corporate profiteers will control the flow of resources.
Unifor is the largest private-sector union in Canada, with approximately 320,000 members, including over 35,000 employed in the auto sector who will be directly impacted by expected slowdowns and layoffs as a result of the tariffs, which are set to go into effect on April 2.
The trade union-sponsored NDP is trumpeting a “Made in Canada” plan to pour tens billions of dollars into new war spending.
Mass jobs protest in Britain; Chiang Kai-shek dies; US longshore leader witch-hunted; Eisenstein films Battleship Potemkin.
When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to open colonial rule and the conquest and annexation of territories.
In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman and expelled him from the city.
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on a little-known figure in American history.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor infection could result in a life-threatening condition.
The rapid melting of glaciers due to climate change will have disastrous consequences for humanity.
The manufacture and use of bone tools dates to a million years earlier than previously documented.
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
The US auto giants are the most affected but every auto company in the world is impacted with major adverse consequences for American workers whom Trump, with the support of the trade union bureaucracy, falsely claims to be defending.
Across the 38-member organisation, interest payments on government debt are swallowing an ever-greater portion of government spending.
Trump has indicated there is nothing companies can do to have the tariffs removed and that they are “permanent, 100 percent.”
The tariff wars and the sweeping cuts made by the Trump administration have brought about a vast transformation in the economic landscape in which the prospect of recession, considered negligible at the start of the year, is now a real possibility.
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
Before a gathered crowd of senior officers, Kahariri said, “We cannot have anarchy as a country. Even as people exercise their freedom, they must do so within certain limits.”
Booker Omole’s outburst reveals critical questioning among CPM-K members, particularly youth, who are asking questions about perspective, programme and leadership.
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
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.
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.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, the DSA Democrat shed her previous “left” lip service and pined for a Democratic Party that used the rhetoric of “economic populism” to advance the interests of US imperialism.
The hearing summoned executives from both NPR and PBS to be subjected to fascist lies and conspiracy theories.
The Pennsylvania Senator exchanged gifts with the war criminal Netanyahu and gloated over the Gaza genocide during his visit to Israel last week
Sanders plays an indispensable role for the Democratic Party and the ruling class. After every electoral debacle, he reemerges to posture as a “left” alternative, channeling growing discontent into safe, controlled avenues.
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.
Last Friday, the IYSSE held a successful meeting at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas opposing the mass deportations by the Trump administration that was attended by almost 30 people.
Rather than refuting the IYSSE’s exposure of the Democratic Party’s role in enabling Trump’s attacks, the Young Democrats resorted to attempted censorship.
In the course of his remarks, Finkelstein said of the repression of anti-genocide protesters at U-M and on campuses across the country, “What took place this past spring involved the biggest attack on academic freedom in US history.”
The university administration’s willingness to collaborate in attacks on immigrants, transgender people and anti-genocide students has clearly emerged.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
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.
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.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Despite Stellantis rescinding its threat to lay off 1,134 workers at the Jeep complex in Toledo, the looming threat of tariffs and trade war presages a renewed attack on auto jobs.
Events of the last week show that the recent police sweep at Ford Michigan Assembly was the launch of what can only be described as a police state crackdown against autoworkers.
Workers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee sponsored a meeting to discuss the fight against job cuts and Trump’s attack on immigrant workers.
The head of Volkswagen’s works council Daniela Cavallo has made it clear that the IG Metall union and the works council do not want to fight but “let off steam”.
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
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.
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
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.
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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.
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
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.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
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.
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
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 Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
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.
Taal’s case is part of a broader system of state terror now unfolding in the United States. Dissent is being criminalized and the legal architecture of dictatorship is being constructed.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an extensive article on US involvement in the Ukraine war entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.”
The administrations of the major universities in the United States are playing an absolutely foul role in facilitating the reign of terror against free speech and democratic rights being implemented by the Trump administration.
The United Auto Workers’ endorsement of Trump’s auto tariffs amounts to a declaration of support for world war.
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
