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.
The German government is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Hitler’s coming to power by sending German Leopard battle tanks to fight Russia.
NATO’s top military spokesman called Saturday for NATO members to transition to a “wartime economy” in order to “increase the production in the defense industry.”
Israel appeared to be targeting nonnuclear Iranian military activities in both countries, in strikes closely coordinated with the US government.
Last week, Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government announced that Madrid plans to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
The Memphis Police Department announced on Saturday that it will disband the special street crimes unit that carried out the savage beating of Tyre Nichols, as protesters demand an end to law enforcement violence and murder.
Carrick’s propensity for cruelty was well known. He had been reported for abusive and violent behaviour on at least nine occasions during his career, without action being taken.
The political essence of the developing crisis within the Democratic Socialists of America is coming into sharper focus as a crisis within the Democratic Party and political establishment as a whole.
Chinese health authorities estimate that over 80 percent of China’s population has been infected and COVID is in retreat.
Northern California parent and media worker CJ discusses her struggle with Long COVID symptoms and for COVID safety, reflecting upon the wide-ranging social impact of the pandemic.
The US and its European allies hope to use the reserve to develop alternative supply chains for the manufacturing of batteries and military equipment that exclude China.
New Delhi, which is a key player in Washington’s preparations for war against China, is determined to undermine Beijing’s influence in Sri Lanka.
The preventable accident took place as the ILWU union has kept dockworkers on the job without a contract since July 1.
After decades of corporate attacks on living standards and concessions contracts imposed by the UAW bureaucracy, CAT workers are determined to secure major improvements to wages, benefits and working conditions.
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.
The fatal beating of Nichols by five African-American police undercuts the racialist narrative advanced by the Democratic Party and its identity and racial politics allies. It shatters the claim that the answer to police brutality is to “diversify” police departments. Police violence, like every other social evil under capitalism, is fundamentally a class question.
Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative have systematically violated every principle upon which they claim their “new movement” will be built.
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.
Both capitalist parties, Democrats as well as Republicans, seek to impose the cost of their wars, Wall Street bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy on working people.
Management’s intransigence feeds off the UCU leadership’s business friendly, corporatist approach.
A below-inflation pay deal was recommended by Unite last Wednesday after talks with Abellio.
The teachers voted overwhelmingly for strike action, set to begin January 30. The Commonwealth Employment Relations Board has issued a ruling mandating that the teachers union cease strike-related activities and resume negotiations or face fines.
More layoffs in the manufacturing and retail industries were announced on Thursday amid the drive to impose the inflation crisis onto the working class through interest rate increases.
The interest of the USC graduates and students in this historic work and the era in which it was performed is welcome and heartening. It indicates a concern with more substantial and even oppositional artistry.
The veteran hip hop artist, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, sat down with the WSWS to discuss the Philharmonic musicians’ struggle and related issues.
Singer, guitarist and songwriter David Crosby, who helped found what became known as folk-rock music with the Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash, died after a long illness January 18.
As always, the nominations themselves reflect the assorted pressures and impulses at work in the film industry and the affluent social layers associated with it.
In the four days following the engine failure, five Qantas flights turned back to their take-off airports due to technical malfunctions.
Working-class households are experiencing enormous hardship, and the greatest cut to living standards since World War II, as the central bank and the Labor government, assisted by the trade union bureaucrats, insist that real wages must continue to fall.
Anger and oppositional sentiment must be organised in 2023! The Committee for Public Education urges educators to form rank-and-file committees in your schools.
In the September quarter, new union-negotiated enterprise agreements delivered average nominal annual wage rises of just 2.6 percent, compared with 3.1 percent in non-union deals.
The decision to send main battle tanks into the conflict is intended to set in motion a chain of events that will justify an ever greater involvement of NATO troops and aircraft, up to and including a shooting war with Russia.
Washington’s turn to Latin America for both arms and resources has laid bare the ever more encompassing global character of the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine.
According to media reports, Germany is now also sending Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine following the deployment of Marder infantry fighting vehicles. The decision marks a further escalation of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia and resurrects the darkest traditions of German history.
The government reshuffle marks a significant intensification of the deep political crisis gripping the Zelensky government almost one year into the war, as NATO is leading an offensive to escalate the war against Russia.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei is running in the Berlin elections to give a voice and a socialist perspective to the opposition to the hated policies of war and social devastation.
The SGP is contesting the Berlin House of Representatives (Senate) election on the basis of a socialist programme opposing war.
The halting of the recall Berlin state elections would be a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The ruling elite would then be able to sabotage elections at will and push through its hated policies without any regard for the voters.
Against the pro-war SPD, Liebknecht declared that, “The main enemy of the German people is in Germany: German imperialism, the German parties of war and German secret diplomacy.”
The social gulf is widening. Since the beginning of the year, stock prices have been rising while thousands of jobs are being cut and real wages are falling.
Asked whether the “United States is willing to consider” sending US fighter Jets to Ukraine, White House National Security Adviser Jon Finer told MSNBC Thursday that the United States will be “discussing this very carefully.”
A one-day strike by ground crew and other workers paralysed Berlin’s BER airport on Wednesday leading to the cancellation of all 300 take-offs and landings of passenger flights.
It is a devastating climbdown for EU-backed Greek authorities, who under the pseudo-left Syriza government tried to criminalize Mardini for helping refugees.
Lehman is demanding that all candidates be placed on the ballot in the runoff or that the elections be re-held, citing widespread and deliberate voter suppression, which resulted in a catastrophically low turnout of less than 10 percent.
Autoworkers in Detroit and Chicago have expressed support for the official protest filed by Mack Trucks workers and United Auto Workers presidential candidate Will Lehman over the results of the first round of the UAW election, which concluded in November 2022.
Lehman submitted additional reports, based on information forwarded to him by workers, that the UAW Locals did not update the Local Union Information System with rank-and-file members’ contact information.
Autoworkers have responded with anger over the effort to run roughshod over their democratic rights and install a president who has no legitimacy.
Whitmer announced the “Make it in Michigan” program, which will expand on bipartisan efforts to attract jobs to the state by making it a cheap-labor platform able to compete in a race to the bottom for workers by offering low wages and high rates of exploitation.
Washington Metropolitan Safety Commission capitulated to regional business interests to reduce the frequency of safety inspections to speed up the return to service of defective railcars.
Shelby County District Attorney Steven Mulroy announced on Thursday that a grand jury had returned felony indictments against five former Memphis officers. They were arrested and are being held in the Shelby County jail.
Foods not allowed according to the proposed bill include fresh meats and seafood, cooking oil, butter, spices, soups, canned vegetables and fruit, milk, frozen prepared food, and sliced, cubed, crumbled or deli cheese.
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.
Since October 2021, the spread of the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian flu among birds in North America and Europe has killed more than 140 million poultry and wild birds through disease and culling. The spread of the virus at a mink farm in Spain raises immediate concern about the nature of the mutation the current clade of the virus possesses and its threat to human populations.
The January 12 series of 10 tweets went viral, viewed over 1.4 million times.
Acting in direct response to demands from giant corporations and imperialist governments, the Beijing bureaucracy has unleashed a wave of infection and death.
Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, is reportedly stepping down, to be replaced by multi-millionaire Jeff Zients, formerly the White House coronavirus coordinator.
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 greatest testament to the IWW’s influence was provided by the extraordinary lengths the American ruling class went to destroy it.
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 case against the only member of the British armed forces ever to face charges for the Bloody Sunday massacre of 14 unarmed demonstrators protesting internment without trial in Derry, Northern Ireland, is due to resume this month in Belfast.
The Netanyahu government can only proceed with its agenda of territorial expansionism, Jewish Supremacy and the mass repression of the Palestinians because Washington and the major European powers lend it tacit support.
The numbers testify to the anger over the trajectory of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. However, the leading lights of the former “government of change” are seeking to maintain control, prioritizing the government’s plans to weaken the High Court over broader social, economic and political issues.
The trial’s aim was to ensure no one else challenges the brutal dictatorship of General Abdul Fattah el-Sisi, who overthrew the elected government of President Mohammed Morsi in a bloody military coup in July 2013.
Saturday’s demonstrations were far larger than last week’s protest, testifying to the increasing concerns and anger on the part of Israelis, Jewish and Palestinian, over the political programme of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition government.
The unions have been forced to organise these limited protests in an attempt to contain the rising anger of their members who are facing skyrocketing inflation.
On the same day Jeevan Thondaman became a member of cabinet, the Ceylon Workers Congress announced a local electoral seat-sharing pact in the Wickremesinghe’s United National Party.
The SEP is the only party in Sri Lanka that fights for the unified mobilisation of the working class on an international socialist perspective and against the communal divisions whipped up by the ruling elites.
The government’s new law has nothing to do with “rehabilitating” drug addicts but is to incarcerate workers, youth and political opponents, without any judicial determination, in military-run centres.
While there were important remarks from a number of journalists and whistleblowers, the tribunal was characterized by the bankrupt orientation of the “Progressive International” to the Biden administration and the Democratic Party.
Hrafnsson’s urgent warnings came during an interview in Brazil with Glenn Greenwald, published Monday on Rumble.
Albanese broke a longstanding silence on Assange, but his comments fell far short of a demand for the immediate and unconditional freedom of the persecuted Australian journalist.
Ten years after Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange was forced to seek refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and three years after he was arrested and subjected to solitary confinement, the editors and publishers of the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel have issued an open letter calling on US President Joe Biden to end his prosecution.
Kevin McCarthy blocked the nomination of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell in retaliation for the previous Democratic-controlled House removing two fascist Republicans for death threats against Democratic colleagues.
In the first decision of its 2023 term, the US Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling denying a sailor benefits retroactively for injuries suffered during military service because he did not file within one year of his discharge.
While several members of the fascist militia group, including founder Stewart Rhodes, have been found guilty of plotting to keep Trump in power, the former president has yet to be charged more than two years after his failed coup.
Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, is reportedly stepping down, to be replaced by multi-millionaire Jeff Zients, formerly the White House coronavirus coordinator.
As part of the right-wing, pro-corporate program of the Workers Party government, the recent nominations point to a broad attack on teachers and public education in Brazil.
The enormous heroism of protesters defying the murderous violence of the military and police has won the attention and admiration of workers and youth all over the world.
As it seeks to placate the military, the Lula government is using the coup threats to declare any infringement upon capitalist profit interests impossible.
Facing a state of emergency and murderous repression from the US-backed coup regime, demonstrators have called for an “indefinite strike” and a march “to take Lima.”
Despite a slight reduction in overall wealth, billionaires and major corporations became “dramatically richer” in 2022 and were the main driver of global inflation.
In a letter to Congress Janet Yellen said Treasury would have to undertake “extraordinary measures” to prevent the US defaulting on its debt obligations.
The raising of interest rates by central banks, led by the US Federal Reserve, is the primary driver of of layoffs aimed at suppressing demands by workers for wage increases to combat inflation.
Numerous factors are cited as bearing down on global growth but the chief one is the synchronised tightening of monetary policies and the lifting of interest rates by the world’s central banks, spearheaded by the US Federal Reserve.
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.
Calls are growing for a national shut down in opposition to Eskom’s blackouts and electricity tariff hikes of 18.6 percent in April and another 12.7 percent next year.
His election in 2017 promising to root out corruption was a feeble attempt to restore the flagging fortunes of the ANC that has now been blown apart.
A 71-year-old Libyan, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, appeared in a US federal court in Washington D.C. to face charges related to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Mas'ud has effectively been kidnapped and subjected to extraordinary rendition.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the presence of Ebola in Uganda’s densely populated capital of Kampala poses a threat to neighboring countries.
The arrests indicate the significant level of support Trump’s coup, and fascism, have within the US military.
As evidence continues to accumulate against Solomon Peña, the failed Republican state House candidate turned shooter, Democrats issue calls to “agree to disagree.”
Solomon Peña, 39, is accused of being the “mastermind” behind at least four shootings in Albuquerque targeting Democratic politicians at their homes.
Prosecutors blamed the Proud Boys for delaying certification of the presidential election on January 6, 2021, while lawyers for the accused blamed then-President Donald Trump and the intelligence agencies.
The ability to disinfect indoor spaces remains a critical public health endeavor. Ultraviolet technology is an important tool that has been employed for more than a century. This report reviews the current issues behind air disinfection and the history of ultraviolet disinfection.
“This was a historic moment in the annals of medicine... when patients came to the fore and alerted all of us scientists that something here is wrong and needs to be investigated and researched and gave the entity its name.”
Semiconductors are as essential to modern militaries as they are to every other part of the economy.
A recent study on excess deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic found that nearly 15 million people died globally in 2020 and 2021, an unprecedented loss of human life in recent modern history.
The proposed plan would reduce monthly payments from 10 percent of discretionary income to 5 percent for undergraduate loans and ease the impact of interest accrual on debt payments. It would not forgive student debt for years, if ever.
Loan borrowers received an email with an incorrect subject line telling them their application for student debt relief had been approved, while the email only noted their application had been received. The error is the latest in a long line of blunders and setbacks for Biden’s floundering debt relief program.
“NATO must stop with its threatening gestures and expansions to the East and stop its provocations. Capitalism is a global problem. There must be no war that takes place merely for the interests of the rulers. Workers must unite against it.”
“There can be no future when global destruction is on the horizon. I believe in the international movement against war and I will be present for the IYSSE international webinar.”
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.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution states, “The international working class must take the lead in the fight to free Assange. It is the sole constituency for the defence of democratic rights, and it alone has the power to wrest the WikiLeaks founder from his captors.”
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), is the democratic organ of international working-class struggle in the 21st century.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution explains: "The two alternatives posed before mankind are either unending mass infection, debilitation and death, or the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and implementation of a policy of global elimination, to end all human-to-human transmission of COVID-19."
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.
An Auckland-based teacher told the WSWS how his increasingly severe Long COVID symptoms were misdiagnosed by doctors who said he had mental health issues. He said the government was allowing COVID to spread and ignoring the consequences for people’s health.
In this interview for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, Alberta nurse Kerry speaks on her experience with Long COVID and the unions’ complicity in enforcing the government’s “let it rip” pandemic policy.
In this interview for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, flight attendant Tim Yoder shares his experiences in early 2020. Tim caught COVID-19 in mid-March 2020 after being told he was an “essential worker” and had to continue flying despite feeling ill when multiple coworkers had already tested positive for COVID-19.
Paul, who had to stop work and has lost his home due to Long Covid, denounced the lack of government recognition and support for people with the condition.
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.
Watch and share the powerful video of Will Lehman, a second-tier worker at Mack trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania, explaining the basis of his campaign for UAW president, accompanied by statements of support from workers across the US and Mexico.
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."
Media outlets and technology experts are warning that Twitter may collapse or go bankrupt following the mass exodus of another 1,200 employees from the company.
In a rational society, a platform like Twitter would be publicly owned, but under capitalism it has become the plaything of a single billionaire oligarch, and a fascistic buffoon to boot.
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.
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.
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!”
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
The 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an editorial renewing its promotion of the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory, presenting an absurd, semi-literate attack on the research of scientists Michael Worobey and Kristian Andersen.
An explosion of right-wing venom has greeted the release in preprint form of an important work by Boston University researchers who investigated the Omicron variant’s change in virulence compared to the ancestral type of SARS-CoV-2.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The German government is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Hitler’s coming to power by sending German Leopard battle tanks to fight Russia.
The fatal beating of Nichols by five African-American police undercuts the racialist narrative advanced by the Democratic Party and its identity and racial politics allies. It shatters the claim that the answer to police brutality is to “diversify” police departments. Police violence, like every other social evil under capitalism, is fundamentally a class question.
Both capitalist parties, Democrats as well as Republicans, seek to impose the cost of their wars, Wall Street bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy on working people.
The decision to send main battle tanks into the conflict is intended to set in motion a chain of events that will justify an ever greater involvement of NATO troops and aircraft, up to and including a shooting war with Russia.
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.
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 .
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.
Police have made no guarantee that there will be any prosecution for the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster, which killed 29 workers.
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.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
With a couple of exceptions, the editor has chosen stories that in their form, language and examination of thematic ideas are highly accomplished, even if the collection as a whole bumps its head against certain objective limits.
The greatest testament to the IWW’s influence was provided by the extraordinary lengths the American ruling class went to destroy it.
Ohde, the daughter of a chemical worker and a Turkish mother, has the first-person narrator return to her father’s house for a short visit in the opening of what is clearly a semi-autobiographical novel.
The book explores the way "Dickensian" is applicable to the contemporary US opioid crisis in Appalachia, an area she knows intimately.
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.
