Cleveland Orchestra musicians end 3-day strike as crisis deepens for US cultural institutions

Orchestras and other arts organizations are under sustained attack, as all available resources are being funneled to Wall Street and the US war machine.

Frida: The Making of an Icon: Tate Modern’s erasure of Frida Kahlo’s politics

The show claims to interrogate the “Fridamania” surrounding Kahlo, yet it operates as one of its engines—manufacturing, circulating and profiting from the phenomenon it pretends to analyse.

“Attacks on postal workers are accelerating, and the official channels have proven incapable of stopping them”

St. Paul USPS workers found Rank-and-File Committee

The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Delhi bus workers continue strike as government bans industrial action; Pakistan: 6,000 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa doctors escalate pay strike; Bangladesh: Chattogram port workers oppose terminal concession; Australia: Nurses take strike action across Tasmania.

UN reports that the earth will “overshoot” the 1.5 degree warming limit

The goal of limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average that was agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate accord will be entirely missed, with devastating consequences.

Scientific study sheds new light on human evolution

The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct populations for which there are at present no known fossils.

As Trump rejects Iranian cease-fire proposal, Wall Street Journal reports plans to resume bombing after midterms

US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire Saturday, after the Wall Street Journal reported he told aides he expected to resume bombing after the November 3 midterm elections.

Netanyahu delivers genocidal tirade at the United Nations as Mamdani’s police arrest more than 100 protesters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a genocidal tirade at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, calling the victims of Israel’s rampage throughout the Middle East “barbarians,” “monsters,” “butchers” and “the worst mass murderers on earth.”

Pacific defence ministers prepare to suppress civil unrest

The imperialist powers, including Australia and New Zealand, anticipate an upsurge of mass struggles against poverty and inequality across the Pacific.

Australia: ACT Labor government slashes school budgets across Canberra

At least 58 of the territory’s 94 public schools will see their funding fall, with 37 facing cuts greater than 5 percent.

Democrats accuse Trump of “appeasing” China in state visit by Xi

The Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was “appeasing” China.

58 Democrats join House vote to grant Trump additional war and tariff powers

Fifty-eight Democrats in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans Wednesday to grant US President Donald Trump additional war and tariff powers, including the authority to put tariffs as high as 100 percent on goods from China and India.

Thousands to protest Palantir's role in NHS, US deportations and Gaza genocide

For all talk of Burnham being prepared to end Palantir’s National Health Service contract—but only through a break clause, leaving its other contracts intact—the first attempt to force the issue was shot down at this week’s annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

Hundreds of thousands march in French public sector strike against austerity and war

Workers and youth spoke to the WSWS at yesterday’s march in Paris of their growing anger and concern over economic hardship, war, and the fear of far-right dictatorship

Sri Lankan government boasts of “economic recovery” as austerity deepens

The economic growth since the 2022 crisis has been achieved by suppressing workers’ real wages and starving public services.

Thousands of development officers protest across Sri Lanka

The nationwide protest by low-paid public servants is part of a growing wave of workers’ struggles amid soaring living costs.

Canada’s Prime Minister considered US military attack scenario amid trade war, Trump annexation threats

According to the Times, “When pressed on whether he took Mr. Trump’s threats to make Canada a 51st state seriously, Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved.”

With Pennsylvania hardest hit, worst US measles outbreak since 1991 accelerates

The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991, and Pennsylvania is the epicenter, adding 129 infections in a single week to a toll that already includes four deaths.

US military makes preparations for assault on Cuba within “90-120 days”

An internal Army message reported by CBS News shows the Pentagon preparing logistics, military police and surgical units for an operation aimed at Cuba, days after Trump told the UN that the Cuban government “will fall.”

Delcy Rodríguez thanks Trump at the UN: Chavismo and American fascism embrace

Nine months after US forces abducted Nicolás Maduro, his successor went to New York to thank his captor. Her appearance is the logical outcome of the “Bolivarian revolution” and of bourgeois nationalism as a whole.

Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds founding congress—a major advance in the building of the world party of socialist revolution

The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.

SEP Sri Lanka Congress resolution: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

The Sri Lankan SEP’s Fourth National Congress declared the fight to free Bogdan, the Ukrainian Trotskyist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, a central task of the party.

Fund bubble bursts in Türkiye, freezing the savings of half a million people

The collapse of a speculative fund bubble on the Istanbul stock exchange has frozen the savings of more than 500,000 small investors, exposing the financial parasitism fostered by the Erdoğan government's austerity program.

Turkish government escalates crackdown on left-wing parties, LGBTQ+ associations and media outlets

Over three days, police raided LGBTQ+ associations in 15 provinces, hundreds of social media accounts were blocked and 39 leftists were detained, including the SYKP co-chair.

“There has to be accountability... You can’t sweep this under the rug”

Transit workers call for independent investigation into the death of subway conductor Moet McCullum

Workers condemned the participation of Transport Workers Union Local 100 in the investigation alongside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), arguing that the agency cannot be relied upon to hold itself accountable.

30-year-old CPKC conductor killed at Port of Montreal by moving train

In response to Luc Massie’s death, the railway issued a lying statement, claiming safety is “our highest priority.” As every rail worker knows, the “highest priority” for CPKC, which controls a continent-wide railroad network, is maximizing profits.

The 13th COVID-19 wave and the further dismantling of US public health

The United States has entered its thirteenth COVID-19 wave as federal agencies suppress evidence of vaccine effectiveness, retroactively relabel transmission data, strip pandemic preparedness from research plans and transfer the work to the Pentagon.

Who decides what is safe to eat: The cyclosporiasis outbreak and the failure of American food safety

The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in US history has spread through 48 states without a source being named. A century after the Pure Food and Drug Act, the apparatus built to answer such questions is being dismantled.

Britain’s ruling elite stokes war fever against Russia, demanding conscription and the jailing of opponents

Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his anti-Russia address to the UN General Assembly to announce a National Centre for Information Defence that will be used to suppress political dissent at home.

In warmongering tirade, Zelensky boasts of arms deals negotiated at UN

This year’s United Nations General Assembly has been transformed into a war summit by the US and European imperialist powers, who have turned an institution whose charter prohibits aggressive war into an arms convention.

Pressures building up in yen carry trade

Moves to arrest the slide of the yen can cause another problem by undermining the so-called yen carry trade, which plays a major role in US financial markets.

A gathering crisis in the US financial system

Last week the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury bond went over 5 percent for the first time since 2007 under conditions where the national debt has risen fourfold since then and now stands at over $40 trillion.

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.

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.

40 years since the attempted assassination of Pinochet

The pseudo-left cannot defend its track record, so it flees into an idealized past. It cannot offer a program, so it offers assassination of an individual dictator as a substitute for the overthrow of an entire social system.

This week in history: September 14-20

Bush administration advances police-state legislation after 9/11; 170,000 Ford workers launch national strike; US, UK and France back West German rearmament and NATO expansion; Lawyers for Sacco and Vanzett petition for a new trial.

The number of fatalities in the Congo Ebola outbreak reaches 3,226

The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues unimpeded with little aid provided by the imperialist powers that extract untold riches from the country’s natural resources.

Newly established Communist League of Uganda leaders arrested by Museveni regime

Workers, youth and defenders of democratic rights internationally must oppose the persecution of political organisations by the Ugandan state and demand the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and legal status of all those detained.

“We’re not supposed to be living in terror”: Austin, Texas residents speak out after ICE shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez

More than a week after the shooting, Garcés Pérez remains imprisoned at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall with a bullet still lodged near his spine.

Supreme Court allows expanded Homeland Security database to purge voter rolls ahead of midterm elections

Just five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, with early voting having already begun, the Supreme Court ruling could enable Republican officials to run multiple checks of voters in Democratic precincts, flagging hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of suspected “illegal” voters and preventing many of them from casting ballots.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An interview with historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution

Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.

“It was universally understood as a revolution.” An Interview with historian Matthew Stewart on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.

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.

Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout

The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.

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.

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.

Fight war, oligarchy and climate catastrophe! Fight for socialism!

Imperialist wars abroad are coupled with class war at home. Students will graduate into a society ransacked by the capitalist oligarchy.

54-day strike at São Paulo’s universities: The political lessons

A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.

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.

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.

David North answers questions at the international Trotsky commemoration in Prinkipo

North answered questions on the fate of Ernst Thälmann, the Kronstadt uprising, the situation confronting workers in the Middle East and the strength of the Left Opposition inside the Soviet Union.

International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky

Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo and the journey of My Life in Turkish

The fourth annual International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky was held on August 16, 2026, at the Taş Mektep venue on Büyükada, hosted by the Adalar Municipality with the support of Mehring Yayıncılık and the World Socialist Web Site.

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.

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.

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.

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.