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. We post today Evan Blake's introduction to the book.
The Brazilian political crisis is one of the epicenters of a globally interconnected process of dissolution of democratic forms of rule by the ruling class in all countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a lengthy speech that was meant to justify the ruling regime's actions in annexing four new territories to Russia through referendums.
A new wave of COVID-19 infections is beginning to accelerate across Northern Europe. With the prediction of a severe flu season, combining these deadly pathogens will significantly affect the population’s health.
The full reopening of K-12 schools with no masking or other mitigation measures in place has caused a surge of multiple respiratory viruses.
There can be little doubt that the lock was not “in error,” but rather a deliberate act of censorship against a campaign which has given voice to the sentiments and aspirations of rank-and-file workers.
Three years ago, about twenty workers were fired at General Motors in Silao, Mexico, for organizing to drive out a gangster-ridden union and for supporting the U.S. national strike at GM.
The storm’s path northward through the Carolinas and Virginia follows the devasting havoc it wrought on Florida this week. Rescue workers are uncovering bodies found in the storm’s wake.
This statement was issued by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee (RWRFC), which has been established by railroad workers to organize and unify their struggle independently of the union apparatus.
The end of any infection control by the federal Labor government means that current COVID deaths, already at record levels, will be dwarfed by the mass casualties to come.
While a new COVID wave is gathering pace in Germany, the federal and state governments are dismantling the last remaining mitigation measures and promoting a “live with the virus” strategy.
The memorial service Thursday morning was an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity for Max and Ben Morrissey, two young workers tragically killed at the BP Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
Workers must draw an important conclusion from the past few decades’ experience: that the unions respond to “pressure” by intensifying efforts to impose sellout deals on their members.
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.
Attempts by NATO officials to pin the blame on Russia and rule out US responsibility in the bombing of the pipeline, which Washington has called to be destroyed, have no credibility.
Amid claims that the United States has sent so many weapons to Ukraine that it verges on depleting the capabilities of the US military, the US and its allies have announced a major new initiative to expand arms production.
The declaration by politicians, generals and the media that the US must not be “deterred’ by the threat of nuclear annihilation is an assertion that the American ruling class will accept the deaths of millions in pursuit of its aims.
Waters said that neither he nor his managers had scrubbed the Krakow dates, part of his highly successful “This Is Not a Drill” concert tour, and that he intended to go forward with the shows.
The event will be held Saturday, at 3pm (GMT-3), on the eve of elections which mark the highest point of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Brazil in four decades.
Hurricane Ian has inflicted a catastrophe in Florida, with a large but as yet uncounted death toll, and massive destruction of homes and infrastructure. This is not simply a “natural disaster,” but was prepared by the staggering negligence of government officials at both the state and federal level.
The election of a far-right government is the product of the disenfranchisement of the working class by reactionary parties that the ruling elite falsely markets as the “left.”
This week the grieving families and friends of Ben and Max Morrissey will bury the two brothers, who died in the September 20 fire at the BP-Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
The debate revealed two irreconcilable positions. Lehman advanced a program of abolishing the UAW apparatus, which he called “a subdivision of the companies,” and transferring power to the workers on the shop floor. All the other candidates who spoke represented and defended this apparatus.
Supporters of Lehman visited several Deere plants in the Quad Cities region last weekend, encountering many workers who expressed keen interest in his program and denounced the corrupt UAW bureaucracy.
The campaign of Will Lehman, a 34-year-old worker at Mack Trucks in Pennsylvania (USA), for president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is also meeting with broad support in Germany.
In this letter, Lehman replies to former New York Times journalist and debate moderator Steven Greenhouse’s defense of using a false quote from Lehman during last week’s presidential debate.
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.
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!”
These remarks were delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group, SEG) in Turkey, to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
These remarks were delivered by Cheryl Crisp, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Australia, to the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (US), held from July 31 to August 5, 2022.
It was an extraordinary display of unity, led by Albanese, backing Washington’s plans for war against China to re-assert US hegemony over the Indo-Pacific.
US imperialism wants nothing less than a totally subservient, pro-Washington regime in Sri Lanka that fully endorses the military encirclement of China.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hypocritically called for nuclear disarmament, while aligning New Zealand with the war against Russia in Ukraine, and calling for greater censorship of the internet.
Survivors of Tuesday’s fire told WSWS reporters that politicians falsely pledged to provide accommodation to homeless families after previous fires, and that similar empty promises would be made again.
The rule change reverses the previous guidance and makes 800,000 people, whose loans are guaranteed by the government but held by private banks, ineligible for the $10,000 debt write-off.
The 49-year-old nurse was approaching the hospital as he was starting his overnight shift when he was stabbed multiple times in the neck and wounded in his right hand.
Chairman of the committee Bennie Thompson told CNN reporters that it was unlikely the committee would meet next week, further increasing the chances that Thomas’ testimony will not be featured in a public hearing until after the midterm elections.
Students from across the state responded to far-right governor’s attempt to undermine the civil rights of transgender students.
This development, the first of its kind in the small North Atlantic island nation with a population of just 360,000, is yet another explosive manifestation of the re-emergence of fascist tendencies throughout Europe and internationally.
Around 250,000 workers demonstrated across France, according to trade unions, as working class anger mounts over the danger of hunger and cold this winter, linked to the war against Russia.
The petty-bourgeois Anticapitalistas tendency is signaling that its middle class supporters should rally to the support of Podemos' right-wing agenda based on identity politics.
In the face of an extraordinary crisis of rule, the Labour Party is being prepared for a role in government to save British imperialism from an insurgent working class.
The Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union is ensuring that the lockout will financially cripple workers, leaving them with no choice but to accept whatever rotten deal the company puts before them.
India: Tripura police attack teachers demanding reinstatement; Tamil Nadu district cooperative workers demand higher pay; Australia: Tasmanian public school teachers strike; BHP mine workers in Queensland to vote on strike action
Multiple members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have contacted the World Socialist Web Site to report serious irregularities in voting on the recent tentative agreement impacting the 4,000 IBEW members in the rail industry.
Governments in every province, from John Horgan’s New Democrats in British Columbia to the hard-right Ford Tories in Ontario, reopened schools at the beginning of this month after dismantling all remaining COVID public health measures.
Recent lawsuits on mRNA technology are attempts by various corporations to take control of these vital discoveries for their own enrichment. Recent advances in molecular technology that allows for gene editing and protein manufacturing portend a revolution in medicine that can offer personalized treatments for a broad array of diseases.
The positions of the extreme-right, allowing the elderly and the sick to die in the interests of profit, have been adopted by the entire political establishment including the federal Labor government.
A critical report from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis highlights the horrific neurological consequences associated with COVID infection.
Nasturica-Herschcowici has been celebrated as the “devil’s violinist," in reference to early 19th century violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini.
Roach’s “Took the Children Away”—a landmark in Australian contemporary music—opened the way for other artistic work about historic and current social crimes committed against Aborigines by Australian governments.
On Monday, workers gathered at various points around the museum chanting, “No contract, no peace! No contract, no Matisse!” The latter slogan is a reference to the upcoming exhibition of the works of French painter Henri Matisse.
Waters said that neither he nor his managers had scrubbed the Krakow dates, part of his highly successful “This Is Not a Drill” concert tour, and that he intended to go forward with the shows.
The online public meeting “Build an international working class movement to stop nuclear war danger” will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 16.
Speakers explained that the fight against state repression, and for the release of all political prisoners, had to be based on mobilising the working class against capitalism.
President Wickremesinghe is preparing for class war against the working class and poor as he is implementing savage austerity measures under the dictates of International Monetary Fund.
The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) is holding a meeting this Sunday to outline a revolutionary socialist program to mobilize the working class and and oppressed masses against the wave of repression unleashed by the newly installed government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The universal view in financial markets is that nothing has been resolved and a new crisis could erupt at any time, not only in the UK but also in the US where bond markets are undergoing major swings, far beyond anything in “normal” times.
After two days of mayhem, in which the fall in bond prices sent yields rising in leaps and bounds, the BoE stepped in declaring that were the dysfunction “to continue or worsen there would be a material risk to UK financial stability.”
In his opening remarks to a press conference at the conclusion of a meeting of the Fed’s policy-making body, chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would “likely require maintaining a restrictive policy stance for some time” and “the historical record cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy.”
The turmoil reached a new level of intensity this week, sparked by the reaction of financial markets to the UK mini-budget, which handed out £45 billion in tax cuts to the wealthy while increasing government debt by £72 billion.
As Brazil’s fascistic president Bolsonaro declares he will accept no result other than his victory in Sunday’s election, the PT’s only appeal against a coup has been to the financial markets and the US embassy.
The event will be held Saturday, at 3pm (GMT-3), on the eve of elections which mark the highest point of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Brazil in four decades.
The fact that the union is responding to the layoffs not by denouncing them, but by covering them up, exposes its collaboration with the company.
Protests escalated in Haiti against the impoverished conditions millions are facing and out of political opposition to Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
The trial of five members of the Trump-aligned militia group began Tuesday with jury selection.
Using data analysis and communications from leading Trump co-conspirators former Virginia Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman detailed the central role Trump and his family played in directing the violence of January 6.
The video further confirms that Trump was aided in his efforts to establish a dictatorship by Republicans throughout the country.
The latest press salvo against Trump underscores the extraordinary intensity of the political conflict within the US ruling elite.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
The right-wing Republican denounces a distinguished historian as an “elitist” and a “snob” for raising the danger of right-wing authoritarianism in America.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
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 World Bank has warned that the number of Africans living in extreme poverty is set to rise from 424 million before the pandemic in 2019 to 463 million this year, more than one third of the continent’s 1.2 billion population.
Ruto is set to implement savage IMF-dictated austerity measures and line up behind Washington against China and Russia.
In recent years, mass strikes have erupted among teachers, university lecturers, health workers, port workers and long-distance truck drivers over low pay and precarious conditions.
The deadliest violence since near weekly mass protests began last October over the military’s ouster of the interim government of Dr Abdulla Hamdok brings the total number killed since the coup to 114, including 18 children.
The conference was the first in more than a half century to discuss the ongoing scandal of hunger and malnutrition in the richest country in the world.
The political establishment and corporate media have falsely blamed remote learning as the reason for a decline in reading and mathematics scores among age nine students since 2020.
A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, including two judges appointed by Donald Trump, reversed a pro-Trump lower court ruling.
“Ginni” Thomas, a life-long Republican activist and wife of Clarence Thomas, had previously refused to speak to the committee.
Los Angeles County health officials reported last week that a man infected with monkeypox had passed away. An investigation is underway to determine the virus’ contribution to his death.
A severely immunocompromised adult male died in Houston on Sunday. Public health officials said he was infected with monkeypox. Still, they stopped short of connecting the infection as a contributory factor in his death, stating they did not know what role the virus played in his demise.
The UAW has remained silent on the spread of monkeypox in the plants, in line with its efforts to cover up the disastrous toll COVID-19 has had on workers.
The CDC’s cursory guidance posted as answers to Frequently Asked Questions only downplays and minimizes the concerns working families have about the safety of schools for their children.
The goal of the Artemis project is to develop a spacecraft capable of once again landing humans on the Moon.
In the past weeks, the public has been shocked by images showing masses of dead fish floating in the Oder River, on the German-Polish border. Recent reports speak of 150 to 200 tons of fish killed.
The initial images and accompanying data released by the JWST are a first glimpse of the full capabilities of the new astronomical observatory and mark a major step forward in humanity’s ability to understand the Universe and our place within it.
The high-energy particle collider first confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson almost exactly 10 years ago, completing the Standard Model of Particle Physics and opening a new era of scientific inquiry.
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.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded by saying his government would “follow up” the allegations, while declaring that intelligence agencies must be “flexible” and “creative in their approaches” to fighting terrorism.
In the past weeks, the US and Israel have carried out a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and elsewhere, setting the stage for a dangerous escalation of conflict in the Middle East.
The caretaker government of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew, while Iran closed its borders with Iraq on the eve of an annual pilgrimage to Iraqi Shia sites.
In April, the government announced a raft of new austerity measures, including cutbacks in government spending, the postponement of all new projects, a freeze on new hires and the privatization of state-owned companies.
The appeal, if the High Court agrees to hear it, will focus on the major political issues in Assange’s persecution, including revelations that the American government and the CIA plotted his kidnap or murder.
The Labor government is more and more open in its hostility to the courageous Australian journalist, who is being persecuted for exposing US-led war crimes.
"Remember the pursuit of Julian is a measure of his achievements. He informed millions about the deceptions of governments too many trusted; he respected their right to know."
"The attack on Assange is being used as a warning against any journalist, including future journalists to be careful as to what they bring to the attention of the general public."
The IYSSE is fighting the decision, which is intended as a precedent to be used, above all, against clubs that represent oppositional, anti-war and left-wing voices.
The university administration is creating conditions for a massive outbreak of the second deadly disease to hit the campus.
The IYSSE and numerous other clubs have been disaffiliated by university management.
The third IYSSE club in Melbourne was built after months of campaigning among students for a socialist, anti-war perspective and in defence of democratic rights.
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.
Professor Morawska criticises the failure of Australian governments to improve indoor air quality standards to minimise airborne transmission of COVID-19. She also raises concerns about the “disciplinary” action against Dr David Berger for his zero-COVID advocacy on social media.
The survey exposed the consequences of the criminal pandemic policies promoted by all the ruling political parties and capitalist companies.
I had no intention of bowing down to such outrageous demands for secrecy, so I went on Snapchat to publicise that there was a case of COVID within the store.
“We now know how to eliminate this virus. Why not give ourselves the best chance so that our children can live a normal life, so that we can go to work without stress, go shopping without the fear of catching a deadly disease?”
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.
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
Labor claims to have suddenly discovered that the budget situation is “dire” so “significant savings” must be found and “productivity” driven up with the help of the trade unions.
Labor, before it has even secured a majority government, is on a foreign policy blitz aimed at shoring-up US and Australian hegemony over the Pacific.
The outcome reflects, in distorted electoral terms, a political radicalisation of workers and young people that is already finding expression in a development of working class struggles.
In his introduction to the International May Day Online Rally, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North reviews the historical origins of the US-NATO war drive against Russia and outlines the political strategy of the working class to oppose the danger of World War III.
This is the report delivered by Joseph Kishore to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Kishore is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
This is the report delivered by Tom Peters to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Peters is a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, which is fighting to build a section of the ICFI.
This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Link is a leading member in Germany of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, the youth movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties.
This is the report delivered by Cheryl Crisp to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Crisp is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia.
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.
“This censorship is not only directed against us, but against the mass opposition to a world war,” says Vandreier. The socialist anti-war perspective of the SGP “is to be banned and censored in the midst of deafening war propaganda for a third world war.”
Workers including bus drivers, healthcare staff and teachers active in rank-and-file committees in the UK were invited by the SEP to discuss a fight against war based on the working class and socialism.
The speakers emphasized that the opposition of the working class to the war is needed to be developed as a conscious political movement for socialism.
“The destruction created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the drive towards a third world war clearly shows that capitalism neither wants nor is able to resolve the basic questions faced by mankind”
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 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.
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
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.
Widespread reports that Twitter has been falsely labeling tweets by scientists, doctors and other public health experts about COVID-19 as “misinformation” has intensified an ongoing crisis at the social media platform.
On Saturday, Facebook deleted a video posted by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany opposing the German government’s participation in the US-led NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
YouTube deleted the archive of Chris Hedges’ On Contact television program from its platform with no explanation.
The Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has intensified the bipartisan drive to clamp down on left-wing and socialist political content on social media platforms.
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.
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.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
The Afghan withdrawal represented a debacle for US imperialism, which based its policy throughout thirty years of uninterrupted wars, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1990-91, on the conviction that military force could overcome Washington’s precipitous economic decline.
Corporal Dominic Abelen, who was killed while fighting in eastern Ukraine, is being glorified as a national hero in order to build support for greater NZ involvement in the US-NATO imperialist war against Russia over Ukraine.
At no point does the UN even hint at the role the US and its allies played in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, or in the transformation of Syria from a middle-income country into the hell hole it is today.
Increasingly openly the US is treating the military war against Russia and the mounting confrontation with China as part of a far broader conflict to weaken and subjugate potential rivals.
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement. Comrade Jean, who died November 24, 1997 at the age of 76, joined the Trotskyist-led Young Peoples Socialist League as a teenager in 1937.
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.
On 18 March, the Berlin Administrative Court rejected an emergency application by junge Welt that it no longer be described as “left-wing extremist” in the secret service annual report.
The German court judgement and its written grounds represent a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The aim is to ban socialist ideas and any criticism of capitalism.
The horrific massacre of civilians was immediately exploited by the imperialist powers, led by the United States government itself, to justify far-reaching attacks on the democratic rights of their own populations, and the launching of decades-long wars in the Middle East and Africa.
Widespread reports that Twitter has been falsely labeling tweets by scientists, doctors and other public health experts about COVID-19 as “misinformation” has intensified an ongoing crisis at the social media platform.
There is further scientific evidence that the claims that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab are completely baseless.
The same day that the House Select January 6 Committee documented how Trump used his “big lie” about the 2020 election to justify an attempted fascist coup, the Washington Post published an editorial promoting Trump’s other big lie: The claim that COVID-19 is a man-made virus created by China.
Three just-released studies provide substantive evidence for the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2, with the Huanan market in Wuhan, China the location of the first zoonotic (animal to human) transfer.
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.
The Brazilian political crisis is one of the epicenters of a globally interconnected process of dissolution of democratic forms of rule by the ruling class in all countries.
Hurricane Ian has inflicted a catastrophe in Florida, with a large but as yet uncounted death toll, and massive destruction of homes and infrastructure. This is not simply a “natural disaster,” but was prepared by the staggering negligence of government officials at both the state and federal level.
Attempts by NATO officials to pin the blame on Russia and rule out US responsibility in the bombing of the pipeline, which Washington has called to be destroyed, have no credibility.
This week the grieving families and friends of Ben and Max Morrissey will bury the two brothers, who died in the September 20 fire at the BP-Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
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.
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Eric London, a writer for the WSWS and author of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
The Labour Party government’s promises to “be upfront” and “empower” the survivors of catastrophic events are a fraud, as the experience of the Pike River victims’ families makes clear.
In 2013, Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall made an unsolicited and unlawful payment to the 29 families of the 2010 mine disaster, in exchange for the New Zealand government dropping charges against him.
The SEG and the WSWS are holding an online meeting on June 4 to discuss the new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up by Tom Peters, about the 2010 mine disaster in New Zealand.
Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up, published by Mehring Books, examines the causes of the 2010 New Zealand mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and the decade-long cover-up by successive governments and the judicial system, which have shielded the company leadership from prosecution.
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.
Mantel was considered and thoughtful on the role of history in culture, and extremely cautious about easy, shallow and inappropriate historical comparisons.
History, poverty and the difficulty of human relationships are baked into the lives of the characters.
McCullough’s work, though limited by his focus on the personal and a mystical “American spirit,” revealed that there is a hunger for history among masses of people.
Briggs’ work is admired, even loved, by millions of children and adults alike as he didn’t compromise with what he told them.
