Far from pledging never to use nuclear weapons again, the imperialist cabal is accelerating the NATO conflict against Russia in Ukraine and the US-led war drive against China, which threaten to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
UAW officials announced Friday that they had reached a tentative agreement with Clarios and have scheduled a meeting and ratification vote for Monday morning.
On Friday, the White House announced its most reckless and dangerous escalation of US involvement in the war with Russia to date, declaring its support for sending nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
The arrest of the highest judicial official in the country signals an intensifying struggle within the Ukrainian ruling class and a deepening crisis of the Zelensky regime.
The “crisis talks” are part of a heavily stage-managed, bipartisan operation, including a manufactured default deadline, to enable “progressive” Democrats to cover for Biden and vote for massive cuts while concealing the corporate interests and imperialist war aims that are being served.
With an additional 8,000 officers in England and Wales carrying Taster guns, it means that 25,000 out of 123,000 cops—one in five—are armed.
The Scottish government scrapped the use of masks in health and social care settings, four days after the World Health Organisation falsely declared the pandemic emergency over.
Educators expressed a strong desire to fight against deteriorating conditions, including spiraling class sizes, high turnover, poorly maintained infrastructure and inadequate COVID-19 safety measures.
The 62-minute episode has an unquestionably unnerving quality. It provides an artistic and accurate depiction of the breakdown of democracy and the lurch toward fascism by the American ruling elite.
The catastrophe is the latest in a spree of natural disasters in Italy now being made a regular fact of life by capitalism-driven climate change.
It is an indictment of SYRIZA—the doyen of pseudo-left parties internationally—that despite a further four years in opposition, it is unable to offer anything to convince workers it would shape their lives for the better.
The official opposition leaderships are determined to suppress any struggles against Lasso’s measures by channeling them behind empty electoral promises.
This essay by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North is the preface to the upcoming book, Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century. The print and epub versions of the book are available now for pre-order from Mehring Books.
The following is the text of the opening report delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to the International May Day Online Rally 2023, held Sunday, April 30.
Together, the speakers set out a political programme capable of uniting the international working class and mobilising its immense social power in a struggle against the world’s major corporations and governments.
This is the report delivered by Alex Lantier, national secretary of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
This is the report delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
In a major new milestone in the bipartisan effort to censor the internet and undermine the freedom of speech in America, the state of Montana signed into law a ban on the distribution of the TikTok social media app Wednesday.
A succession of US presidents, Democratic and Republican, share responsibility for the worst crimes of the 21st century.
The strike of 525 autoworkers at the Clarios battery plant outside Toledo, Ohio, is of decisive importance for autoworkers everywhere. This is the first battle in the contract fight of 150,000 Big Three autoworkers in the US and 23,000 in Canada.
The Biden administration and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are united in their determination to use the manufactured debt ceiling crisis to implement brutal attacks on social programs.
Following the formation of a “jets coalition” by the UK and the Netherlands aimed at “procuring F-16 jets” for Ukraine, a group of bipartisan lawmakers in the US sent a letter to the White House calling on the US to also send fighter jets to Ukraine.
On Tuesday, a UK defense official confirmed to the Washington Post that the Britain is preparing to send long-range missiles to Ukraine capable of striking Crimea.
The series marks an important political development in the fight by the IYSSE to develop a global anti war movement that is rooted in the international working class and the historical perspectives of Trotskyism.
Central to NATO’s plans to defeat Russia and force regime change in Moscow is aerial supremacy over the Ukrainian battlefield. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Zelensky said, “We want to create this jet coalition.”
With the contract for 340,000 UPS workers set to expire July 31, workers at the logistics giant are determined to win back decades of concessions given up to the company.
The Committee of Interns and Residents announced a tentative agreement that will maintain poverty wages for its members at Jamaica and Flushing hospitals, who work as many as 80 hours per week.
India: Tamil Nadu contract nurses protest; West Bengal public school teachers oppose poverty-level wages; Sri Lankan Inland Revenue Department workers strike over pay cut; Australia: Cleanaway waste collection workers New South Wales strike; NSW paramedics and patient transfer officers impose work bans.
WSWS reporters spoke Wednesday with striking writers and their supporters on the picket lines in Los Angeles.
Currently, more than 50,000 asylum seekers are housed in hotels. With space in barges and military sites still limited, the government is forcing them into substandard and unregulated accommodation.
The outcome reveals the bankruptcy of the bourgeois opposition, which the pseudo-left supported as an “alternative” to Erdoğan’s right-wing government.
US President Joe Biden and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met at the White House on Friday as Spain is set to assume the EU Council's rotating presidency.
The meeting focused on the war in Ukraine since the European governments are diverting funds from social spending to war.
According to economist Ross Garnaut, interest rate hikes actually increase rather than decrease inflation because of changes in the structure of the Australian economy over the past several decades, above all the rise of monopolies which make their money not through productive activity but by the extraction of economic rents.
One of the most significant figures was the rise in youth unemployment, which hit a new record of 20.4 percent, surpassing the previous record of 19.9 percent last summer.
Rapidly rising prices for basic necessities have devastated household budgets, forcing working people to borrow on their credit cards or take equity out of refinancing their homes to pay their bills.
Behind a show of unity on the Ukraine war, there were signs of developing tensions as financial problems, centred in the US, continue to grow and the world economy slows significantly amid differences over the issue of China.
Los Angeles County Public Health Department issued a report documenting 2,201 homeless deaths in 2021.
The child’s death comes only days after an unaccompanied Honduran 17-year-old held at a Florida detention center died while under the care of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement.
The latest ban will further undermine abortion access in the southern US.
The drug shortages in the US have reached historic highs. In particular, the scarcity of chemotherapy drugs means people with cancers face delays in treatments, which will have lethal consequences.
The death of Jimari Williams in Detroit from an unexplained infection has brought forward reports of similar infections among other school children.
The onset of the pandemic, which is still killing people, exposed, exacerbated and compounded the crisis in the National Health Service and public health generally.
The Lula government welcomed last Friday’s WHO decision and is acting as if the pandemic is over.
The notion that medical professionals would suddenly stop masking around patients with Long COVID can only be understood within the larger context of the abandonment of all COVID safety measures in the US to ensure the continuing enrichment of the ruling class.
Protesters the authorities allege were involved in attacks on military installations or personnel will be tried in military courts that are closed to the media and public and whose rulings cannot be appealed, even to Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
The cancellation had the character of a snub. Some militarist commentators have suggested dissatisfaction in Washington over the slow pace of an Australian military build-up directed towards preparing for war against China.
Contrary to the media spin, the Labour government’s budget continues to starve healthcare, welfare and other services, while significantly increasing military spending.
The fire at Loafers Lodge in Wellington is being investigated as arson, but there are growing indications that rundown and unsafe conditions in the building contributed to the blaze and deaths of more than six people.
Identity politics operates consciously to divide the working class, pitting blacks against whites, women against men and so on, and generally to inject as much confusion and ideological poison into the atmosphere as possible.
This world-famous musician, who was born in Germany and escaped the Nazis 84 years ago, lived through the terror of Kristallnacht, the murderous antisemitic pogrom that took place in 1938.
The average television and film writer has seen his or her income shrink over the past decade, as the companies have used every trick in the book to cut staffing and costs—the only area in which they genuinely demonstrate “creativity.”
Writer-director Chie Hayakawa’s movie centres on the life of a 78-year-old woman, who, despite some initial scepticism decides to join a Japanese government-assisted euthanasia program.
The speech, full of vague phrases, again demonstrated the Democratic Party’s reliance on the promotion of racial politics to block a socialist movement of the working class and youth in opposition to capitalism and war.
Under conditions of an escalating social crisis, the longtime Democratic Party official, backed by the union apparatus and the Democratic Socialists of America, is being brought forward in an effort to contain and suppress the class struggle in the country’s third-largest city.
Daniel Penny, a former Marine, is just the latest right-wing killer to be venerated by the financial oligarchs and their puppets in the Republican Party.
The 34 year-old freshman Republican is accused of several financial crimes, including embezzling money from campaign contributors and fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits for over a year.
“The graduate students, they’re the ones I think of as my teachers because I get into discussions with them. They’re the ones I interact with. Their work is just as important as that of the lecturers and faculty.”
Withdrawal of the ban by the ESG followed a wave of angry protests against what was clearly a flagrant act of political censorship.
We are publishing here a selection of protest emails from readers sent to the ESG to protest against the political censorship of the IYSSE at the University of Frankfurt.
"They want the kids in school, so parents are on the job to keep the so-called economy running. They will sacrifice as many people as needed. How can a child die, and we get no communications?"
The 285-day strike by Toledo AP Parts workers was the longest in the history of the city and bears important lessons for autoworkers today.
Zelensky’s visit to Berlin marks a new stage in the intervention of German imperialism in the war in Ukraine. It continues a dark tradition. Already in the 20th century, German imperialism tried twice to subdue Russia militarily and failed. Now the ruling class is trying a third time.
At least 13 million Soviet soldiers and 14 million civilians lost their lives in the war. But at the Berlin commemorative events this year, the displaying of the Soviet flag was forbidden.
The Wickremesinghe government’s response to the worsening health crisis is revealed in its 2023 budget, with 539 billion rupees for the military-police repressive apparatus and just 322 billion rupees for health.
The Wickremesinghe government’s denigration of last year’s mass movement that forced out President Gotabhaya Rajapakse is in preparation for state repression against the working class and rural masses.
Last weekend’s security operation is to ready the police, military and other sections of the state apparatus to deal with the inevitable eruption of working-class struggles against the government and its IMF austerity policies.
Wickremesinghe’s initiative is a cynical and desperate attempt to dissipate rising popular anger over brutal government attacks on social conditions.
Hatchet Speed, who spent more than 20 years in the US Navy as a cryptologic technician and intelligence analyst, was previously sentenced to three years in prison for stockpiling illegal silencers, which he planned on using in a kidnapping and assassination plot targeting Trump’s political enemies and Jewish people.
US Assistant attorney Conor Mulroe told jurors that the Proud Boys were a “violent gang” fighting to “keep their preferred leader in power no matter what the law or the courts had to say about it.”
In his March 5 column, the ex-left journalist continued his political adaption to the far right.
A scathing, and as-of-yet still unreleased Inspector General report on the Architect of the Capitol, revealed that James Brett Blanton, Trump-appointed member of the Capitol Police Board refused to respond during the siege.
The Australian Labor government is itself presiding over prosecutions aimed at punishing those who have exposed war crimes in Afghanistan, in a clear parallel with the attempted US extradition of Assange.
The entire thrust of Albanese’s remarks was that Assange’s fate was out of the Labor government’s hands, thus leaving him to the mercy of the British and US administrations.
Assange has spent almost a third of his adult life in detention, for the “crime” of exposing illegal wars, diplomatic conspiracies and mass surveillance.
This comment is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger in Sydney on 10 March to mark the launch in Australia of Davide Dormino’s sculpture of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, ‘Figures of Courage’.
AMLO’s nationalist rhetoric serves to cover his government’s subordination to US imperialism on all fundamental questions and is aimed above all against the working class.
The migrants are scapegoats in a show of military force that is driven by the irresolvable political and economic crises gripping both governments.
The unions have done everything they can to isolate and break a series of teacher strikes as they try to channel a growing movement of the Brazilian working class behind the Lula government.
With the entire political establishment facing a historic crisis, Argentina’s pseudo-left parties are scrambling to provide an electoral formula to help prop up capitalist rule.
Netanyahu has refused to cancel a march of right-wing Israeli nationalists through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, one of Islamic Jihad’s conditions for a ceasefire.
Opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s campaign against Russia underlines how workers’ social aspirations and opposition to war find no expression in the official election campaign.
Muharrem İnce’s withdrawal from the presidential race could lead to Kılıçdaroğlu, NATO’s preferred candidate, winning the election in the first round.
The Morenoites have lined up behind the main bourgeois opposition alliance through an alliance with Stalinism and Kurdish nationalism.
“Nowadays May Day is used as political propaganda by the trade unions and the capitalist parties. In fact, May Day belongs to the workers and it should be a day that brings together workers in struggle in every country.” –Kandy Hospital nurse
The SEP held an important meeting Sunday afternoon entitled: “After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity!”
The Ukrainian edition of the WSWS will publish critical historical and programmatic documents that will create the foundations for a Ukrainian section of the ICFI.
The SEP held an online memorial meeting to pay tribute to the life of Regina Lohr, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 66.
Japan’s involvement in Africa is above all aimed at securing access to resources while promoting remilitarization.
United Nations figures show that more than 420 people have been killed, including at least 256 civilians, and more than 3,500 wounded since fighting broke out on April 15.
South Africa, in comparison to its most important trading partners, is a leaf in the gale-force maelstrom of the global economy.
Violence broke out amid increased army deployment, security measures and jockeying for public and international support over the planned integration of various militia groups into the Sudanese army.
March 20 marks 20 years since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, launched on the basis of lies. At the time of the initial invasion, the WSWS published many statements on the background of the war, its history and its implications. This page features some of the most important statements.
The company’s CEO, Elon Musk, claims the spacecraft will one day ferry humans to Mars.
The use of a hammer-and-anvil technique to crack nuts by monkeys and chimpanzees may represent the precursor of human stone tool technology.
ChatGPT, released as a free prototype by the research laboratory OpenAI last November, is a powerful artificial intelligence technology with socially transformative potential that is being used under capitalism to eliminate jobs, increase exploitation and automate warfare.
The discoveries include evidence that Oldowan tools were used to cut and pound animal flesh far earlier than previously known.
Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.
On Saturday, rank-and-file candidate for UAW president Will Lehman wrote to Thomas Murray, Detroit-Milwaukee District Director of the Department of Labor’s Office for Labor-Management Standards, objecting to the withholding of Curry’s election protest.
The outbreak of the campus strikes in New Jersey and Illinois threatens to break through the isolation imposed by the AFT bureaucracy and its local enforcers on the strike by U-M grad student instructors. This makes all the more sinister the promotion by the GEO leadership at U-M, dominated by the DSA, of the phony “reform” wing of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy headed by newly installed UAW president Shawn Fain.
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman’s complaint to the Department of Labor, filed March 29, reviews the UAW monitor’s conflict of interest, which Lehman said is a ground to re-run the election in its own right.
In a report on the 2021 Deere strike, UAW Vice President Chuck Browning said officials had faced a “serpent” of opposition from workers.
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.
One worker said: “I think it’s a good idea to have an international movement for the working class against war and for democratic rights, for workers to unite, it makes sense.”
The media misinformation was aimed at covering up the crisis of the two-party system and trying to ensure a “stable” government to implement budget austerity.
Among those who spoke out were victims of last year’s floods in Lismore, a regional city, where thousands of residents are still living in substandard accommodation more than a year after the floods.
Contrary to media claims, the result is no ringing endorsement of Labor. Instead it expresses a deepening of the crisis of the two-party set-up.
In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.
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.
Last week, a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the East Palestine derailment site overturned, with the driver suffering injuries in the crash.
Both Democratic and Republican senators on the Commerce Committee made clear in Wednesday’s hearing that they had no intentions of developing meaningful safety regulations if they cut across the industry’s profit margins.
The poisoning of East Palestine, Ohio, is not merely an environmental catastrophe. It is a man-made disaster which raises fundamental questions about the structure of the society which produced it.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
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.
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
Fauci’s aim in lending credence to the conspiracy theory, which he knows to be a lie, is to distract attention from the antiscientific policies carried out under the Trump and Biden administrations that led to the deaths of over a million Americans.
This five-part series and historical timeline exposes Snyder’s Bloodlands as a work of falsification, aimed at justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far-right.
The race-obsessed middle class layers which Hannah-Jones epitomizes are fundamentally fearful of and hostile to the growing movement of the working class. The last thing they want is for the party to end when there is yet so much money to be made.
The Times, which wishes readers to take the 1619 Project seriously as a “reframing of American history,” has said more than it intended.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
It would be hard to find a previous election in Germany in which the gulf between the interests of the population and the politics of the established parties was as obvious as in the re-run of the Berlin state election last Sunday.
The following speech was given by Ulrich Rippert, the honorary chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and candidate in the Berlin state elections, at the SGP's rally against the war in Ukraine on February 4 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
Against the war madness and social devastation, a powerful movement of the working class is developing all over the world. The SGP election campaign has given it a voice and a socialist perspective.
We publish here an appeal by Ulaş Ateşçi to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) in the Berlin elections on February 12. Ateşçi is a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey.
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.
These are the concluding remarks by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the December 10 rally, “For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine!” organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
The rally on December 10 set out the background to the Ukraine war and provided an international perspective against the threat of nuclear war.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
Latin American countries, with deep economic and political ties to both the US and China, will necessarily be drawn into the center of the developing global war.
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.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ruled against every single one of Lake’s claims and noted in his decision that none of Lake’s witnesses could point to any intentional misconduct or evidence of a single vote that was changed.
The US midterms have set the stage for two years of legislative stalemate—except when it comes to funneling billions into the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and passing record Pentagon budgets, or enacting dictatorial laws blocking strikes and imposing corporate-dictated contracts on workers, as with last week’s bipartisan vote banning a strike by rail workers.
The same right-wing forces in Arizona that backed Trump’s failed coup and his stolen election narrative are inciting violence against election officials more than a week after all but one of the major races has been decided.
The indeterminate outcome has already led to back-biting within both capitalist parties.
These remarks were delivered by Tomas Castanheira to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Christoph Vandreier to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Deepal Jayasekera to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
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.
This report was given by Clara Weiss to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution, “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
Eighty-two years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
The 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 right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
This shameful campaign reached new heights Tuesday when concerted efforts were made to prevent Comaroff from teaching. Provocations were organized both inside and outside the classroom.
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
John Comaroff, professor of African and African American studies and of anthropology at Harvard University, has become the target of what has all the earmarks of another filthy #MeToo witch-hunt.
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.
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.
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
Twitter owner and fascistic billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged late Thursday that he had shut down the accounts of numerous prominent journalists earlier in the day, claiming falsely that they had violated a new policy on the platform against “doxxing."
Autoworker and grandmother Catherine Pace died on March 27, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in the paint department at the Warren Truck Plant outside Detroit, then operated by Fiat-Chrysler, now Stellantis.
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the British ruling class has lost its popular head of state on which it has relied to project the myth of national unity and suppress social conflict.
In its adulation of Queen Elizabeth and all the pageantry of the British monarchy, the newspaper responsible for publishing the 1619 Project has entangled itself in many layers of contradictions.
The significance of Elizabeth II’s funeral is well illustrated by reference to a previous British royal funeral, more than a century earlier, that of Edward VII.
What was being celebrated at Westminster Hall is the ability of Britain’s imperialist bourgeoisie to utilise the monarchy as a means of sanctifying and reinforcing its own power.
The June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.
Central to NATO’s plans to defeat Russia and force regime change in Moscow is aerial supremacy over the Ukrainian battlefield. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Zelensky said, “We want to create this jet coalition.”
The US military published a series of documents Thursday outlining US plans for war with Russia and China, and asserting the central role of nuclear weapons in US warfighting.
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Steinmeier's remarks to invited soldiers, journalists, think tank representatives and leading politicians can only be described as a “war speech to the nation.” The focus was de facto a declaration of war on Russia and the Russian population.
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 Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion on the Soviet Union.
Around 3,000 officers from the special police forces stormed 137 locations in 11 federal states on Wednesday morning and arrested 25 people. Another 27 people are being investigated. The state prosecutor has accused them of being members or supporters of a terrorist organisation.
Regardless of whether the pending investigations can demonstrate that the agents gave the impetus to the planned terrorist attacks, a picture emerges of a right-wing extremist milieu organized and controlled by the state.
While right-wing extremist terrorist networks operate unhindered in Germany’s state apparatus and are covered up by the highest authorities, federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) has called for a fight against alleged “left-wing extremists” and young climate change activists.
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.
Far from pledging never to use nuclear weapons again, the imperialist cabal is accelerating the NATO conflict against Russia in Ukraine and the US-led war drive against China, which threaten to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
In a major new milestone in the bipartisan effort to censor the internet and undermine the freedom of speech in America, the state of Montana signed into law a ban on the distribution of the TikTok social media app Wednesday.
The strike of 525 autoworkers at the Clarios battery plant outside Toledo, Ohio, is of decisive importance for autoworkers everywhere. This is the first battle in the contract fight of 150,000 Big Three autoworkers in the US and 23,000 in Canada.
The Biden administration and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are united in their determination to use the manufactured debt ceiling crisis to implement brutal attacks on social programs.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
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.
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
The fathers of two of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster are campaigning for the release of documents and correspondence relating to a 2013 decision to drop charges against Pike River CEO Peter Whittall.
Police have made no guarantee that there will be any prosecution for the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster, which killed 29 workers.
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
A Hell Called Ohio centers on the life of its narrator, Warrell Swanson, a worker in a metal factory on the Maumee River in Defiance, in northwest Ohio.
Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl’s books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.
Drawing on original historical records, Geraldine Brooks has written an absorbing account of how a small village tried to combat the bubonic plague in 17th century England.
The American writer Russell Banks, who wrote about the lives of working-class people and historical figures such as John Brown, died on January 3 at the age of 82.
