The financial oligarchy can defend the immense mass of fictitious wealth only by continuously driving down the living standards of the working class at home and seizing foreign markets, resources and supply chains abroad.
More than 1,000 people in 58 countries and territories have signed the petition for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release since August 10, when a Ukrainian court imposed a 15-year prison term on the 27-year-old for seeking to unite the workers of Russia and Ukraine against the war.
“The Ukrainian government is committing a great crime by imprisoning Bogdan for 15 years because he spoke and wrote against the war.”
A member of the British section of the Pabloites is acting as a political provocateur on behalf of the Ukrainian regime and NATO.
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
This speech was given by David North at the fourth annual international commemoration of Leon Trotsky’s exile on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, held August 16 before an audience of more than 100, under the title “My Life, Written on Prinkipo, and Trotsky's Years in Exile.”
"The drive to dictatorship and the political radicalization in the United States" is the second of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
The appointment of the SBU-linked Khmara signals a profound crisis of the Zelensky regime and the entire NATO war against Russia.
This pact offers the working classes of the signatory countries no protection whatsoever. It bids them to a chain of conflicts stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to South Asia and drives them into war.
The FCC action, effectively ordered by President Donald Trump and implemented by his fascistic operative FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, is a frontal attack on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and the press.
The highly respected nurse, originally from Zambia, had an active asylum application when she was arrested.
The theme of social crisis, a crisis of authority, compelling the conscious creation of new ways of living speaks across the centuries, even millennia.
A US deportation flight carrying Venezuelans, Cubans and Colombians landed in Liberia Thursday, the first under an agreement to transfer 1,200 people to one of the world’s poorest countries.
The US government is sending immigrants to a country it warns its own citizens not to visit, where Blackwater founder Erik Prince’s latest mercenary outfit is helping conduct a drone war that has killed more than 1,200 people.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
The 57-year-old Stellantis worker killed on the job August 1 at the company's Mopar Parts Distribution Center in Center Line.
The collapse of infrastructure in Gary and the broader Calumet region is the result of decades of policies through which the financial elite has drained resources from essential physical assets and funneled them into speculation.
Three mass mortality events, involving a total of more than 1,000 greater crested terns, were detected in South Australia on Wednesday, with H5N1 the presumed cause.
Nurses at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan were rushed into a ratification vote on a new three-year contract amid a UMPNC and corporate media campaign hailing the “historic gains” of the agreement and concealing the provisions that protect the interests of hospital management.
Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm.
Unite said there will be a ballot before the next strike scheduled for the 25th, although several bus drivers told the World Socialist Web Site they had received no details of the deal.
The WHO has allocated 70,000 doses of a vaccine licensed against a different Ebola species, while the destruction of US aid has stripped the region of the surveillance, food and sanitation that containment depends on.
Not one of the officials and executives who enforced the policy of mass COVID infection has been charged with any crime, and several now run the federal health agencies.
While bemoaning the IDF’s exoneration of itself, Labor leaders repeated the fraudulent Israeli narrative that the bombardment of a clearly marked aid convoy was an error.
Hundreds of thousands of retired workers and their families are being denied adequate support packages or left waiting interminably for basic services.
Workers at the General Motors complex in Silao, Guanajuato have issued statements demanding the freedom of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, supporting the campaign of socialist autoworker Will Lehman for president of the United Auto Workers.
WSWS readers in Türkiye are calling on the court to release Bogdan. The 15-year prison sentence handed down against the 27-year-old socialist and opponent of war is also being covered in the left-wing press.
One week after a Ukrainian court sentenced the socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison, the Times published a front-page feature on a Ukrainian held in Russia—while maintaining its total silence on the political prisoners of the Zelensky regime.
The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk is aimed at terrorizing opposition to the NATO-backed war against Russia.
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
"The drive to dictatorship and the political radicalization in the United States" is the second of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
Reports that sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have either jumped overboard or attempted to do so have exposed the horrendous conditions facing the largely working class naval crew that has been at sea for 268 days and deployed in the Arabian Sea in the war against Iran for five months.
Sanders’ letter is calculated to stoke fear while covering up the decisive fact: that AI is the private property of a financial oligarchy, developed in partnership with imperialism.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
The episode that followed the NATO summit in Ankara is now causing a political uproar in Washington.
The Israeli government is building an execution facility to hang Palestinian prisoners, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Tuesday in a statement from his office. In video released from the site—a prison in central Israel that his office did not name—Ben-Gvir walks through the wing being built for condemned prisoners and says “gallows will be erected” there.
Incensed by South Korea’s refusal to join the US war of aggression against Iran, Trump has unilaterally reduced major joint war games that began Monday and announced plans for talks with North Korea.
Uganda will be joining other proxies within the International Stabilisation Force, including Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania.
Reports in the military press and by MSNOW confirmed that a sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln jumped into the Arabian Sea in an attempted suicide on August 3, and that other Navy personnel had been restrained from attempting to go overboard in the ninth month of their deployment from San Diego.
The WSWS spoke to a defender of the Noida workers about the Uttar Pradesh government’s repression campaign of frame-ups, custodial torture and NSA detentions against labour activists. This is a part of a ruthless effort to make an example of those who dare to fight for a living wage.
“The cuts will hit clients, support workers, teachers, and healthcare staff alike. It is clear this is an international offensive against the working class.” – Maureen, a former aged-care nurse.
In a recent interview, Greens candidate Josh Jacobsen defended the NZ military’s role in the criminal imperialist war.
Speakers exposed the disastrous consequences of the evisceration of the NDIS and its impact on the disabled and their families, and the jobs and conditions of health, education and welfare workers.
The El Teniente disaster was caused by the relentless pressure to cut costs, outsource labor and maximize production that is inherent to the capitalist mode of production, a pressure that operates whether the owner is a state corporation or a private shareholder.
On the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, the WSWS is republishing its 2016 assessment of his political legacy. The disaster confronting Cuban workers today is not a break with Castroism but its outcome.
The corporatized union apparatus aligned to the Chilean “left” has done nothing but issue statements, observe moments of silence and light candles.
Following the deadly earthquake, the government’s response has been marked by curfews, militarization and an invitation to foreign troops.
The Hollywood merger exposes the union bureaucracy’s collaboration with oligarchs, threatening jobs, democratic rights and artistic freedom on a global scale.
As Europe rearms against Russia, Austria’s Salzburg Festival has dismissed its acclaimed director for resisting political pressure to purge Russian artists.
Estimates vary, but it appears well over 100 million people worldwide have already seen it in movie theaters.
Klee drew inspiration from, and was claimed by, many artistic movements, but his highly individual, syncretic style is hard to classify.
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a 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.
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.
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
India: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh protests over wages, pensions and labour-code provisions; Mumbai public transport workers begin indefinite action; Bangladesh: Ettadee Jeans workers demand unpaid wages; Sri Lanka: Wildlife veterinarians maintain work-to-rule action; Australia: Public sector doctors strike in Victoria.
August 11 was the second 24-hour strike by the radiographers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, pharmacists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists and other health professionals, in a 10-month enterprise bargaining dispute with the state government.
The theft of workers' wages and other entitlements at the mines and enterprises is part of a systematic policy.
Management plans to spend the next four months preparing the attack. The bureaucracy of the postal unions will use the same period to block opposition from the rank and file. Postal workers need a plan of our own.
As is always the case in Western coverage of Russia and the war, the history of both the war and the political tendencies in question is completely ignored.
Arday’s appointment put a target on the back of a clearly quite vulnerable man, out of his depth and in no position to answer his critics and political opponents.
“Notes from a Resident Doctor” aims to break the wall of silence erected by the Labour government, hospital management, and health union bureaucrats by exposing conditions inside the NHS.
The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets.
Fishermen in northern Sri Lanka must unite with workers and poor fishers across the country and in India, who face the same struggle against big fishing corporations.
More than a decade and a half has passed since the 26-year communal war waged by successive Colombo governments against the LTTE ended, yet thousands of acres of civilian land remains occupied by the military forces and enclosed behind barbed-wire fences.
The teachers’ unions, which have suppressed opposition to the JVP/NPP government’s austerity measures, called a limited protest on August 4.
The violent operation against unarmed inmates at Mahara Prison follows the massacre of prisoners at Negombo Prison last month.
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward.
According to a worker at the plant, the affected worker was 71 years old and had just signed her retirement papers last week.
According to Lehman, his legal team was told by the Monitor that it would be up to the union apparatus to determine whether or not Jensen will still be paid by the UAW.
The Texas state government, as with state and local governments across the country controlled by both parties, is engaged in a huge attack on public education.
Since 2023, Tyson has shut down six chicken plants, a pork plant in Perry, Iowa, a beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, and several other sites—cutting over 10,000 jobs.
Silvia’s execution came five days after the first triple execution day in the United States since 2010. Ten more executions are scheduled before the end of the year: two in Florida, five in Texas, two in Tennessee and one in Alabama.
These developments further expose the Teamsters’ so-called “historic” 2023 contract as a historic sellout.
Not one of the officials and executives who enforced the policy of mass COVID infection has been charged with any crime, and several now run the federal health agencies.
Alexander Vindman became a celebrity among pro-war Democrats for his testimony against Trump during his 2019 impeachment over withholding military aid to Ukraine.
In Wisconsin, the Democratic Party establishment mounted a ferocious campaign in the run-up to the vote to prevent a victory in the gubernatorial primary by Francesca Hong, a self-described “socialist” and member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
The episode that followed the NATO summit in Ankara is now causing a political uproar in Washington.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed his campaign pledge to support a $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides, some of the city’s most exploited workers.
The former Maine Senate president is being promoted as a working class insurgent, but his 26-year political record is defined by economic nationalism, attacks on immigrant and Canadian workers and corporate subsidies.
With various manoeuvres and phoney militant posturing, the pseudo-left groups are trying to keep teachers subordinated to a union leadership that is pushing a sellout.
There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA is to channel this political radicalization behind the Democrats in order to block the development of an independent movement of the working class.
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for socialism of what it means to be a Trotskyist fighter.
The Turkish parliament passed a law on the PKK's surrender. The near-unanimity of Turkish and Kurdish parties alike expresses not a turn toward peace but the ruling elite closing ranks, as it is integrated ever more deeply into the US-led war across the Middle East.
Erdoğan’s government has submitted a bill to parliament formalizing the PKK’s dissolution. It offers no amnesty, leaves Öcalan imprisoned and places the fate of those covered entirely in the hands of the Turkish security apparatus.
Police detained 52 teachers in Ankara on Thursday as they marched between ministries demanding a legal base salary. The government says there is no money — while military spending reaches $US30 billion.
On the tenth anniversary of the 2016 coup attempt, the Erdoğan government marks it as a "victory of democracy," concealing the US-NATO involvement and the drive to dictatorship that followed.
Jaylene Vargas Gonzalez was found in the back of her van after it had been parked for hours.
A Chemical Safety Board report on the deadly 2025 explosion at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works documents decades of ignored warnings.
The family and coworkers of James Brasher received empty promises of a full investigation from the UAW and management, who are covering up details of the tragedy.
In the latest mining industry fatality, a worker was killed and another seriously injured in a collision between two vehicles at BMA’s open-cut coal mine.
Mounting drone and missile “deep strikes” are a response to the fact that the frontline has been fought to a bloody standstill—in a meatgrinder of trenches, artillery and drones.
The escalating war between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia increasingly targets economic infrastructure in the Black Sea region, a critical area for global food supplies.
The discovery of an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport, along with the provocative and irresponsible reactions to it, show just how close Germany is to a direct war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.
As NATO’s war against Russia escalates, seafarers in the Black Sea are paying with their lives.
Analysts described the decision by the Treasury to lift its buybacks of long-term debt as a “band-aid solution" and focused on the rise in US debt, which passed the $40 trillion mark this week.
The most revealing feature of the debt mountain is not just its size, significant as that is, but the speed with which it has grown.
Loan defaults are rising and the number of companies financed by private credit being placed on a watch list is growing.
A report issued by one of the chief anti-China hawks in the Trump administration has painted a picture of a giant global scam operation directed by China against the US.
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Coal mine explosion kills 55 workers in Ukraine; Ford defeats Reagan for Republican presidential nomination; Britain imposes economic sanctions on Iran ; German Communist Party expels oppositionists on Stalin's orders.
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons are critical for the class struggle in the 21st century.
The Africa CDC and the World Health Organization called on August 6 for an urgent scale-up of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, conceding that the outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to contain it. Contact tracing has collapsed to the point that nine in ten patients admitted to the treatment center in the epicenter were never on any list.
Last week, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC became the second largest, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak that occurred in eastern DRC as well. Health authorities have noted the current outbreak is the fastest, outpacing all other previous outbreaks. There remain no treatment or vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain to date.
Kenya and Tanzania’s youth opposition are part of a single continental and global process, driven by the same underlying conditions. In both countries the youth have shown they can transcend the ethnic divisions long exploited by the ruling class.
The pogromist groups act as the extra-parliamentary spearhead of the African National Congress-led ten party Government of National Unity’s anti-immigrant policies.
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
The country is on course to lose the elimination status it achieved in 2000, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the federal vaccine infrastructure.
A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.
Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.
The Trump administration has enlisted more than 2,000 state and local law enforcement agencies in ICE’s 287(g) program, extending its mass deportation operation into traffic stops, truck inspections, schools and county jails.
Newly disclosed records reveal that Homeland Security Investigators infiltrated meetings, compiled dossiers and seized years of financial records as part of a fascistic campaign against opposition to ICE murders and kidnappings.
This column reports on the increasingly dictatorial and repressive actions taken by the Trump administration and its allied state governments.
The gloves would give masked ICE agents another weapon to torture immigrants, protesters and anyone accused of “non-compliance.”
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
Nine months after the preventable death of 63‑year‑old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. , the silence from the company, the United Auto Workers and state remains deafening.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
The order writes into national policy the schedule Kennedy’s purged advisory committee produced, and turns federal litigation and funding against the five states that still require immunization for school entry.
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office demanding that it change its program. It categorically rejected this political intervention.
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
This speech was delivered by Keith Jones, Socialist Equality Party (Canada) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Tom Peters, a leader of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
Thousands of people joined protests to denounce New Zealand’s alliance with the US and government silence on US and Israeli war crimes. The organisers, however, promoted illusions in Labour and the Greens.
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
This prosecution is a blatant and dangerous political witch-hunt and frame-up. It must not be allowed to stand. It is a major escalation by the Trump administration of the effort to criminalize left-wing opposition to war, dictatorship and social inequality.
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
Leon Trotsky’s autobiography “My Life” is now available from Mehring Verlag. The work is published in a German translation by Alexandra Ramm, with a new foreword by David North.
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 Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the country.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
The financial oligarchy can defend the immense mass of fictitious wealth only by continuously driving down the living standards of the working class at home and seizing foreign markets, resources and supply chains abroad.
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
The most revealing feature of the debt mountain is not just its size, significant as that is, but the speed with which it has grown.
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
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.
