The rally organized by the Socialist Equality Party advanced a clear program and perspective upon which opposition to the genocide has to be developed.
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Who is the US to preach “democracy” to Venezuela?
Even as Washington and its proxy forces in Israel set the Middle East on fire, the Biden-Harris administration is exploiting Sunday’s presidential elections to foment a coup in Venezuela.
That so many people are unable to feed themselves in the third decade of the 21st century, amid unprecedented scientific and technological developments in food production and distribution, is a searing indictment of the capitalist system.
Jean Shaoul•
Between June 11 and 19 alone, 192 deaths among homeless people occurred in the capital city of Delhi.
Martina Inessa•
The UAW’s endorsement of first Biden then Harris—both lifelong corporate shills—further refutes any claims of “democracy” or “transparency” within the union.
Marcus Day•
With the ALU and the Teamsters offering no strategy against Amazon, workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, must seize the initiative in their struggle against the retail giant.
Erik Schreiber•
The video of the event shows the whole incident to have taken place in just about 16 seconds, revealing police are operating in a manner identical to that of an occupying military force.
Alexander Fangmann•
A postie from Yorkshire explained: “The new 40-minute loops are twice as long as the old loops… It’s exhausting, because you’re barely stopping from one loop to the next. And the bags are so much heavier.”
Our reporter•
The WSWS warns that the Rail and Maritime Transport Union is preparing to impose another sellout agreement on hundreds of rail workers, after years in which wages have fallen behind the cost of living.
Our correspondent•
The airline entered voluntary administration this week and immediately grounded its capital city jet services.
Martin Scott•
The shortage of nurses in the US is at its worst in four decades and is expected to widen by hundreds of thousands of nurses per year, while the International Council of Nurses last year described the global nurse shortage as a “global health emergency.”
T.J. Garrison•
Journalist, novelist, workers and youth in Sri Lanka demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Because Bogdan’s ideas directly go against President Zelensky’s reactionary policies and the war, he has been put into jail.”
Our reporters•
More statements demanding freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk from Australia and New Zealand
“We need to stand with Bogdan now, because it’s easy to imagine the alternative: if Ukraine is able to imprison socialists and ban the WSWS without protest, what’s to stop the UK, Germany or the US, from doing the same?”
Our reporters•
Toronto workers support campaign for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom and express opposition to imperialist war
Socialist Equality Party members won a warm response in a working class neighbourhood Saturday as they continued their struggle to build support for the campaign to free the Ukrainian socialist and opponent of imperialist war among Canadian workers and young people.
James Clayton•
Framed-up Maruti Suzuki India workers demand release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
”Bogdan Syrotiuk did not do or say anything wrong,” declared Amarjeet one of 13 Indian autoworkers sentenced to life in prison on bogus murder charges. “What he did was fight for the sake of the international working class. He fought and is fighting for workers’ power.”
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Marianne Arens•
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Israel’s US-backed rampage across the Middle East threatens to ignite region-wide war
In what was simultaneously a calculated provocation and an act of extreme recklessness, Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas’ political wing, in Iran’s capital early Wednesday morning.
Keith Jones•
Robert Downey Jr. will receive $100 million in salary and bonuses to play Dr. Doom for Marvel Studios
The news of the $100 million bonanza can only provoke a certain degree of embarrassment and regret.
David Walsh•
SEP in Sri Lanka commemorates second anniversary of death of Trotskyist leader Wije Dias
Wije Dias belonged to the group of young people who took up the initiative in 1968 to form the Trotskyist party in Sri Lanka and he played a leading role in the movement for 54 years until his death.
Our reporter•
The 2024 police-state Olympics in Paris
The massive police operation in Paris is aimed above all at growing opposition in the international working class to the Gaza genocide, imperialist war, austerity and capitalism.
Alex Lantier•
Jordan Shilton•
Evan Blake•
Evan Blake•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Alex Lantier•
WHO warns Gaza children facing immediate threat of polio
The World Health Organization has joined the Gaza Health Ministry in raising the alarm over an impending polio outbreak.
Benjamin Mateus•
Israeli airstrike in Beirut, as wider Middle East war looms
Israel’s attack yesterday inside a heavily built-up area of the Lebanese capital of Beirut targeting a top Hezbollah military commander was aimed at provoking all-out war with the Iranian-backed militia.
Peter Symonds•
Israeli far-right activists and government officials storm military sites after soldiers arrested for assaulting Palestinian prisoner
The prisoner had been raped so violently by the reservist soldiers that he had to be transferred to a hospital in Beersheba. Sde Teiman has become known as Israel’s Guantanamo.
Jean Shaoul•
Israeli soldiers demolish water system in Gaza
The demolition of the water reservoir in Rafah is additional proof that the goal of the Israeli onslaught is to drive out or exterminate the Palestinian population of Gaza.
Benjamin Mateus•
Barış Demir•
Mike Head•
Jean Shaoul•
Kevin Reed•
Jean Shaoul•
Acute shortage of nurses deepens healthcare crisis across US
The shortage of nurses in the US is at its worst in four decades and is expected to widen by hundreds of thousands of nurses per year, while the International Council of Nurses last year described the global nurse shortage as a “global health emergency.”
T.J. Garrison•
Health workers’ struggle against privatisation of mental health services and addiction centres in Greece continues; general strike in West Bank over assassination of Hamas leader in Iranian capital Tehran; electricity workers in Enugu State, Nigeria protest to demand release of arrested workers
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Greece’s health workers’ struggle against privatisation of mental health services and addiction centres continues with a strike by doctors; general strike in West Bank over assassination of Hamas leader in Iranian capital Tehran and Hezbollah leader in Lebanese capital Beirut as NATO seeks to expand war in Middle East; electricity workers in Enugu State, Nigeria protest to demand release of workers arrested for demanding pay arrears and medical scheme reinstated and end to bullying
Union “militancy” vs. mobilizing Canada Post workers in a political struggle: A correspondence with a former Canadian Union of Postal Workers official
As part of its fight to mobilize postal workers independently of the union bureaucracy, the World Socialist Web Site has sharply criticized “militant” CUPW bureaucrats who have postured as defenders of workers’ interests. A key experience in this regard was the presidency of Mike Palecek.
Steve Hill, Roger Jordan•
American Federation of Teachers convention stumps for Democrats, genocide and budget cuts
The convention was devoted to campaigning for Kamala Harris while covering up the genocide in Gaza.
Emma Arceneaux•
Our reporters•
Norisa Diaz and Kevin Martinez•
Omri Wolfe•
Ulrich Rippert•
Trump attacks immigrants, defends January 6 fascists and white supremacists at black journalists’ convention
In a deranged appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, Trump attempted to appeal to upper middle class African Americans by stirring up hatred of immigrants.
Jacob Crosse•
100 days to US presidential election
Democrats push war, Trump pushes dictatorship
The capitalist two-party system offers working people only the alternatives of imperialist war and fascist dictatorship.
Patrick Martin•
Kamala Harris welcomes “Butcher of Gaza” to Washington: “I told him that I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself”
When it comes to ethnic cleansing in Gaza, there are no policy differences between “Genocide Joe” and “Killer Kamala.”
Jacob Crosse•
Harris consolidates control of Democratic presidential nomination
The Democratic National Committee is moving to adopt a rule that will confirm the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris before August 7.
Patrick Martin•
Tom Hall•
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Biden proposes token Supreme Court reforms, knowing they are doomed
Biden’s limited proposals will do nothing to stop the bipartisan assault on the democratic rights of the working class.
Jacob Crosse•
US appeals court blocks Biden student debt plan
Even minor bandaid measures such as SAVE evoke concentrated opposition from dominant sections of the political establishment, implemented through a court system packed with reactionaries.
Chase Lawrence•
Deflecting questions on massive security failures
Director Wray tells Congress FBI has no evidence of conspiracy in Trump shooting
Wray’s main concern in his testimony seemed to be quelling suspicions—well founded—that Crooks was not simply acting alone, but rather was part of a broader conspiracy, very possibly involving elements in the intelligence and police apparatus.
Barry Grey•
Secret Service director resigns amid bipartisan demands that she step down following Trump assassination attempt
Cheatle’s resignation is the latest in a series of events in the space of less than two weeks that reflect the historic scale and depth of the political crisis in the US.
Barry Grey•
Kevin Reed•
Erik Schreiber•
Kevin Reed•
Tom Hall•
Mike Ingram•
Fallen Leaves: Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film–Cinema history versus social history
There are elements, possibilities of real life in Fallen Leaves, in the dark humor mostly, also in the interest the characters take in one another.
David Walsh•
The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Zola, Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism
Zola was an eloquent opponent of obscurantism and reaction, and played a major role in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism.
Fred Mazelis•
After SAG-AFTRA delays 18 months, video game performers strike against major companies
The strike comes 18 months after the last contract expired and 10 months after workers voted for a strike by 98.32 percent.
Hong Jian•
Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees, escaped from “prison,” search for the land of milk and honey
The film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Erik Schreiber•
Kevin Reed•
Clare Hurley, Joanne Laurier•
Joanne Laurier•
US-led Quad meeting menaces China with naval build-up
The meeting in Tokyo was part of a broader push against China by the US, including the announcement of military aid to the Philippines and a meeting of AUKUS naval chiefs in Australia.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oil spill in Philippines threatens environmental disaster
Authorities in Manila are attempting to downplay the oil leak in Manila Bay in order to defend profits and the capitalist system, which ultimately causes these accidents.
Dante Pastrana, John Malvar•
Australia: Death of 43-year-old man points to ambulance ramping crisis
Ben Carse died of a cardiac arrest after waiting almost four hours in an ambulance outside the emergency department of a Brisbane hospital.
John Mackay•
Australia: NSW Labor conference held behind wall of security to block protesters
The conference underscored the gulf between ordinary people and Labor, which is a bureaucratic apparatus committed to austerity and war.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Martin Scott•
John Braddock•
Mike Head•
Wimal Perera•
Boeing names new CEO and reports $1.4 billion quarterly loss
On Wednesday, Boeing announced that Robert K. “Kelly” Ortberg would be replacing David Calhoun as CEO amid a deepening financial crisis, a string of safety failures on jets made by the airline manufacturer and a strike vote by 33,000 workers.
Kevin Reed•
H5N1 bird flu continues to spread among US dairy cattle
The current response has prioritized the preservation of profits and uninterrupted operations of the dairy and poultry industries over controlling H5N1.
Bill Shaw•
California's Park Fire could burn for weeks or months
The Park Fire is continuing to burn out of control and could become the largest in state history due to the exceptionally hot and dry conditions caused by capitalist-induced climate change.
Kevin Reed•
“Pharmacy deserts” grow as Rite Aid closes most Michigan operations
The mass closure of pharmacies across the US is another frontal attack on the healthcare system, which is being disassembled piece by piece at the hands of Wall Street banks and profiteers.
Nancy Hanover•
Sheila Brehm, Luke Galvin•
Brian Green•
Isla Anderson, David Brown•
Rafael Azul•
Niles Niemuth•
Fascists riot in Southport, England, seizing on tragic stabbing deaths of three children
Chief responsibility for this week’s far-right mobilisations rests with the Labour Party. The Starmer government’s authoritarian “country first, party second” manifesto, with its pledge to “secure the borders” through mass deportations of asylum seekers, is giving the far-right its head.
Robert Stevens•
The 2024 police-state Olympics in Paris
The massive police operation in Paris is aimed above all at growing opposition in the international working class to the Gaza genocide, imperialist war, austerity and capitalism.
Alex Lantier•
German government wants to cut welfare payments by 5.55 billion euros
The government is ready to force hundreds of thousands of recipients of “Citizens Income” welfare payments into low-wage jobs.
Marianne Arens•
Chancellor Reeves announces UK Labour’s austerity agenda: “If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it”
Reeves’ every attack on the outgoing Tory government was for its profligate spending having endangered the economy, not its attacks on the working class.
Robert Stevens•
Gregor Link•
Santiago Guillen•
Anthony Torres•
Laura Tiernan•
Alex Lantier•
Washington D.C. prosecutors forced to drop charges against 11 people arrested during Israeli prime minister’s visit
The ferocious state-driven attacks on the protesters further demonstrate the American ruling class’s descent into open embrace for genocide and imperialist war as their policies of choice.
Landon Gourov•
No to the ban on Palestine Solidarity Duisburg! Stop the moves to a police state in Germany!
Palestine Solidarity Duisberg has been banned despite not having committed any criminal action. It is being criminalised because its stance on Israel will not submit to German state policy.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting, Peter Schwarz•
Logistics workers: Support the July 24 demonstration against the Gaza genocide!
The ruling elites in every major country, above all the US, are using their governments and their militaries to try to conquer the world and put down unrest at at home. Those who suffer are the workers in every country, who have no interest in war.
The UPS and USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committees•
“We support the call to declare war on war”—Australian health workers endorse July 24 rally
The Australian Labor government along with the US Congress and political elites around the world continue to endorse the barbaric genocide in Gaza. We say no support for the genocide and down with its defenders!
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Australia)•
Eric Ludlow•
Gregor Link•
John Conrad, Tim Avery•
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick O’Connor•
Mexico bows to US pressure over trade with China
Hopes that trade war between the US and China would lead companies to pour resources into Mexico’s economy are rapidly dissipating.
Don Knowland•
Maduro declared winner of presidential vote, as Washington escalates drive for regime change in Venezuela
That an unknown stand-in for Maria Corina Machado, an extreme right-wing creature of the CIA and proponent for US sanctions, could plausibly have defeated Maduro is an indictment of the entire Bolivarian project and the pink-tide regionally.
Andrea Lobo•
Venezuela’s Maduro appeals to Wall Street and warns of “civil war” ahead of Sunday’s elections
The presidential elections scheduled for Sunday will not resolve the explosive and intersecting global and local political crises gripping Venezuela.
Andrea Lobo•
Unemployment and lack of access to education devastate youth in Peru
In Peru, more than 1.5 million young people between the ages of 15 and 29 neither study nor work.
Cesar Uco•
Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira•
Rafael Azul•
Andrea Lobo•
Armando Cruz•
Andrea Lobo•
US Fed opens the way for September rate cut
Wall Street expressed its support for the move with significant increases in the major indexes.
Nick Beams•
World economy “stuck in a low gear”
Expectations for a recovery in the euro zone have been dealt a blow by the continued stagnation of its largest economy, Germany.
Nick Beams•
Interest rates should remain elevated, says IMF
The latest IMF update called for “fiscal consolidation”—that is, cuts in spending.
Nick Beams•
Global Wealth Report 2023: An orgy of enrichment for the super-rich
Multimillionaires around the world benefited from the inflation year 2023, while the German super-rich alone increased their wealth by 10 percent to more than €2.1 trillion.
Andy Niklaus, Carola Kleinert•
John Vassilopoulos•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Sri Lankan university non-academic trade unions betray 75-day strike
The union leadership did not consult with members prior to ending industrial action and then held meetings blocking any discussion on their decision.
W.A. Sunil•
Public health crisis deepens as many doctors leave Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s limited free public health system, like public education, has been systematically run down and undermined by consecutive Colombo governments.
Rohantha De Silva•
Sri Lankan public sector workers take national industrial action over pay
The unions are desperate to prevent a political confrontation with the Wickremesinghe government, which has refused to grant any pay rise and threatens to ban all strike action.
Wimal Perera•
Action committee denounces Sri Lankan president’s threats against teachers
The struggle for a decent salary and to defend public education is part of a broader political fight against the government’s austerity measures.
Teachers, Students and Parents Action Committee to Defend Free Education•
Saman Gunadasa•
Action Committee of Teachers, Students and Parents for the Defence of Education (Sri Lanka)•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Our correspondents•
Dehin Wasantha•
Holiday season, Euro 2024 tournament, music festivals, and lack of vaccines fuel UK COVID wave
Official numbers must be considered a severe undercount. Supporting this, high street healthcare retailer Superdrug reported a 319 percent spike in sales of its COVID lateral flow tests, alongside a 297 percent increase in cold and flu relief sachets, suggesting a surge of illness across Britain.
Ioan Petrescu•
The 2024 Paris Olympics COVID-19 superspreader event
The normalization of a massive police presence targeting the working class in Paris during the Olympics has gone hand in hand with the normalization of mass infection.
Benjamin Mateus•
Greece’s COVID surge in holiday season fuels global spread
Deaths from COVID have been steadily increasing with the latest report recording 35 new fatalities, up from the average of 23 over the previous four weeks and twice the same time last year.
John Vassilopoulos•
UK COVID Inquiry publishes first findings, as whitewash of ruling class criminality gets underway
According to the report, it was “Processes, planning and policy . . . within the UK government and devolved administrations and civil services” that “failed their citizens,” not the choices of political criminals.
Robert Stevens•
Carl Bronski•
Bill Shaw•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Tamino Dreisam•
Anger as Kenya’s President Ruto forms government with Orange Democratic Movement opposition
Far from opening a new era of national unity and development, the new Cabinet’s first task is to crush the months of protests, escalate IMF austerity and maintain Kenya’s status as Washington’s non-NATO proxy force across Africa and the Caribbean.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Austerity protests in Uganda violently crushed
The protests have instilled fear within the Museveni regime of unrest similar to that in neighboring Kenya. In a televised address Saturday evening Museveni threatened the protestors, "We are busy producing wealth… and you here want to disturb us.”
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kenyan protesters defy Ruto’s threats
The protests are a rejection of Ruto's announcement last Friday of the first batch of Cabinet Secretaries, replacing those dismissed on July 11 after weeks of mass anti-austerity demonstrations. In a provocative move, Ruto reinstated half of the officials he had fired just two weeks ago.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kenya’s Ruto bans protests as hundreds of thousands of teachers threaten to strike
Tuesday’s “total shutdown” protest saw three people shot dead and dozens injured. This adds to the 50 dead and 413 injured as they were shot, teargassed and water cannoned since the start of protests on June 18, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Stationing of long-range US precision missiles in Germany: Another step towards Third World War
The stationing of land-based medium-range missiles in Germany, agreed by the German government at the Washington NATO summit, places the lives of millions at risk.
Peter Schwarz•
Neo-Nazi suspect arrested in killing of Ukrainian fascist Iryna Farion
The targeted killing of a notorious fascist in public is a sign of the intense destabilization of Zelensky’s Ukraine and the degree to which neo-Nazis now shape political life in the country.
Jason Melanovski•
"It’s no longer considered shameful to avoid military service"
Underground journalists speak on war fatigue and the slide to dictatorship in Ukraine
The World Socialist Web Site recently conducted an interview with journalists from the Kharkov-based underground journalist collective assembly.org.ua who oppose the war in Ukraine and support the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Clara Weiss•
Starmer’s UK Labour government hosts European summit on stepping up war with Russia
The escalation of war against Russia was coupled together with the extension of “Fortress Europe” and the war against asylum seekers and refugees.
Robert Stevens•
Jordan Shilton•
Andre Damon•
Andrea Peters•
Robert Stevens•
Johannes Stern•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
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.
This week in history: July 29-August 4
Lunar Prospector mission concludes; House moves to impeach Nixon; Yangtze incident humiliates British imperialism; China-Japan clash over immigration
After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War
The capitulation of Serbia to the US-NATO onslaught brings to an end the last major strategic experience of the twentieth century. Its bloody conclusion endows the century with a certain tragic symmetry. It began with the suppression of the anti-colonial uprising of the Chinese Boxers. The century closes with a war that completes the reduction of the Balkans to the status of a neo-colonial protectorate of the major imperialist powers.
David North•
80 years since the mass murder in Ozarichi, Belarus carried out by the German military
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
Verena Nees•
The racial quota law that inspired Hitler
100 years since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
Eric London•
Patrick Martin•
our correspondent•
Martina Inessa, Yuvan Darwin, Kranti Kumara•
Chris Marsden, Julie Hyland•
Mehring Yayıncılık•
UAE imposes life sentences on 43 defendants in second-largest trial in its history
In 2014, a United Nations working group found that their convictions had been “based on charges of acts that would fall under the rights to freedom of expression and of assembly,” and that their detention had been “arbitrary.”
Jean Shaoul•
Educators in Turkey protest draft anti-labor law
While the Turkish political establishment and the trade union apparatus have been working to suppress the growing discontent of the working class against the ongoing cost of living crisis, the police attacked a protest by educators in Ankara against the new anti-labor law.
Barış Demir•
West Nile fever epidemic in Israel
There has as yet been no mention of the implications of the WNV outbreak for the population of Gaza, suffering an Israeli genocide that has included the decimation of health infrastructure.
Benjamin Mateus•
Anti-refugee attacks in Turkey claim life of Syrian child worker
The entire political establishment is waging a dirty propaganda campaign against the refugees, who are victims of the regime change war launched by the US and its allies, including Turkey, in Syria in 2011.
Barış Demir•
Keith Jones•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu•
Barış Demir•
Keith Jones•
Hakan Özal•
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
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Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Julian Assange arrives in Australia free
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
Oscar Grenfell•
Julian Assange is free, but the struggle to defend democratic rights continues
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
John Pilger•
Julian Assange•
SEP in Sri Lanka commemorates second anniversary of death of Trotskyist leader Wije Dias
Wije Dias belonged to the group of young people who took up the initiative in 1968 to form the Trotskyist party in Sri Lanka and he played a leading role in the movement for 54 years until his death.
Our reporter•
UK Socialist Equality Party election rally advances socialist and internationalist opposition to war
The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
Our reporters•
Attendees at UK general election rally speak: “The Socialist Equality Party is what I want to dedicate my efforts to building.”
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.
Our reporters•
Billions for education not war! Support the Socialist Equality Party (UK) campaign for a unified struggle against capitalism and war!
Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.
Statement of the Educators Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Steve James•
Our reporters•
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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.
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May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
The political significance of the 2024 May Day Online Rally
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Johannes Stern•
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Max Boddy•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Tomas Castanheira•
Thomas Scripps•
IYSSE secures representation in Humboldt University student parliament for 10th time with record result of 7.7 percent and 5 seats
The political significance of the IYSSE’s strong election result extends far beyond the campus of Humboldt University. At HU, the extremely acute situation in Germany and internationally finds concentrated expression.
IYSSE Humboldt University•
Moves to change Selective Service rules in the US prompt outpouring of opposition to reintroduction of the draft
Last week, the House of Representatives voted to make enrollment in the US Selective Service database automatic, prompting a flood of worried statements by young people and parents on social media about the reimposition of the draft.
Andre Damon•
Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop police violence against anti-war students!
In the following, we document the IYSSE Humboldt University election statement, which will be printed in the student election brochure. The elections are on 18 and 19 June.
IYSSE Humboldt University•
Berlin police brutally assault students occupying Humboldt University to protest against the genocide in Gaza
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell•
Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
Our correspondents•
Andy Thompson•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
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.
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Global temperature records again broken on Monday and Tuesday
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, largely as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, are producing record temperatures year after year.
Bryan Dyne•
Death toll from global heat wave climbs as 1,000 die from extreme heat in Mecca
Extreme heat events are becoming more common and more extreme as climate change warms the planet
Alex Findijs•
Auroral display dazzles millions around the globe
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Bryan Dyne, Don Barrett•
Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
Benjamin Mateus•
Bryan Dyne•
Mark Wilson•
Frank Gaglioti•
Bryan Dyne•
Bryan Dyne•
UAW Monitor cites continuing “culture of fear or retaliation” in latest status report
The last court filing lends further weight to the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for new UAW elections under the control of the rank and file.
Shannon Jones•
UAW monitor demands court intervention as Fain administration blocks investigation into bureaucracy
The UAW has refused to send the monitor documents that refer to open threats or acts of criminal violence, including “cut throat,” “slit throat,” “punch,” “smack,” “knock out,” and, ominously, “kill.”
Eric London•
Autoworkers support call for new UAW elections: “This time everybody’s vote should count”
Amid new revelations of UAW corruption, Stellantis, Ford and GM workers supported the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for a new union elections.
Shannon Jones•
“These layoffs are like a bomb going off in people’s lives”: Stellantis workers denounce plans to cut second shift at Warren Truck
The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has launched a “cost-cutting" race in the EV transition.
Shannon Jones•
Eric London•
Jerry White•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jerry White•
Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
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Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
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.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
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Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
John Burton•
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Chris Marsden, Ulaş Ateşçi•
The Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy’s Studies in Dialectics
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Christoph Vandreier•
The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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Evan Blake, Tom Mackaman•
Max Boddy•
David North•
Samuel Tissot, Peter Schwarz•
Keith Jones•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
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.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
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.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
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.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
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 Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
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.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against 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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
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.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
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.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
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.
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
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.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms
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.
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
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Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
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.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
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Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
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Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
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.
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The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Zola, Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism
Zola was an eloquent opponent of obscurantism and reaction, and played a major role in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism.
Fred Mazelis•
David North’s The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide addresses the disastrous consequences of nationalist political programs
The series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
Tom Peters•
Nathan Thrall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy–A case study in dehumanization
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
James McDonald•
Interview with historian Dan Okrent on the centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
Eric London•
James McDonald•
James McDonald•
Mike Head•
Erik Schreiber•
James MacDonald, Sandy English•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
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.
Israel’s US-backed rampage across the Middle East threatens to ignite region-wide war
In what was simultaneously a calculated provocation and an act of extreme recklessness, Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas’ political wing, in Iran’s capital early Wednesday morning.
Keith Jones•
The 2024 police-state Olympics in Paris
The massive police operation in Paris is aimed above all at growing opposition in the international working class to the Gaza genocide, imperialist war, austerity and capitalism.
Alex Lantier•
Israel prepares region-wide escalation of war across Middle East with American imperialism’s support
The far-right Israeli regime has long been searching for a pretext to escalate the war in Gaza to its northern front. And it enjoys the full support of American imperialism for this reckless course, which threatens to plunge the entire region into a bloodbath.
Jordan Shilton•
The political issues in the July 24 demonstrations against the genocide in Gaza
The rally organized by the Socialist Equality Party advanced a clear program and perspective upon which opposition to the genocide has to be developed.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Evan Blake•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Alex Lantier•
Niles Niemuth•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party •
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
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.
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New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
Tom Peters•
Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River mine
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
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.
Tom Peters•
Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•