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How American imperialism plots wars of aggression
The revelation of the Trump administration's plot to attack Yemen gives a glimpse of how America's wars of aggression are prepared, packaged, launched, and fraudulently justified.
The case has been brought by Cornell University student Momodou Taal and two co-defendants. Taal is being targeted for deportation by the Trump administration in retaliation for filing the suit.
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On Tuesday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing Chung from being abducted by ICE.
Sandy English, John Conrad•
Staff reductions and other cuts at the Social Security Administration—driven by Musk and Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency—have resulted in chaos for retirees and the disabled, who depend on monthly benefits checks from the government agency.
Kevin Reed•
Unless stopped by the working class, this will lead to tens of thousands of job cuts, more facility closures and the end of USPS as a public service.
Tom Hall•
We call on workers to join and build the SEP as the necessary revolutionary leadership for the immense struggles ahead.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
In the run up to the announcement of “reciprocal tariffs” against countries, Trump has said action is impending on particular commodities, including cars, semi-conductors, lumber and pharmaceuticals.
Nick Beams•
China slammed the Hong Kong-based firm for portraying the agreement as “purely commercial in nature” and condemned the pact as “a tool to enforce US hegemony”.
Shih-Yu Chou•
Recently, there have been increasing reports that various German industrial companies want to start producing military goods.
Ludwig Weller•
At the same time as the German ruling class prepares its third bid for world power with war credits of at least €1 trillion, big business has declared war on the working class.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Starmer’s moral crusade is a smokescreen to impose cuts designed to get up to 1.2 million disabled people off disability benefits and cause untold misery to hundreds of thousands of people in Britain.
Our reporters•
Throughout its year in government with PSOE, Sumar has specialised in striking a few rhetorical poses of dissent while loyally endorsing all key government policies when it counts.
Santiago Guillen•
2025 New Year Statement
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Erdoğan tries to quell mass protests as 15 million turn out for CHP’s presidential primary
The fear driving the government to violently suppress the democratic demands of the masses is the possibility that protests led by students could mobilise the anger of the working class, which has been deepened by the rising cost of living and impoverishment.
Barış Demir•
Trump’s call for the “annihilation” of Yemen and the US war to subjugate the Middle East
As the Trump administration doubles down on its plans to ethnically cleanse and annex the Gaza Strip, the US has launched a new military offensive targeting Yemen and ultimately Iran as part of a systematic escalation of the US-Israeli war to reshape the Middle East under US domination.
Andre Damon•
İstanbul mayor İmamoğlu in custody: What lies behind Turkey’s drift into a dictatorial regime?
The detention of İmamoglu, Erdogan’s main political opponent, marks a new stage in Turkey’s descent into dictatorship under the conditions of escalating social inequality and imperialist war.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Trump’s Operation Dictatorship
Two months into the Trump administration, the presidency has become a cockpit and planning center of a dictatorship.
Joseph Kishore•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Andre Damon•
Lawrence Porter•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
A provocation that failed: On Alex Steiner’s attempt to discredit the ICFI’s defense of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Alex Steiner’s tangled web of political deceit
Three weeks have passed since Steiner posted on permanent-revolution.org a slanderous letter provided by an agent-provocateur. Steiner’s default response to the WSWS's exposure of his deceitful attempt to justify his provocation is to tell more lies.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Oppose the Steiner-Tissot smear campaign! Defend Comrade Bogdan Syrotiuk!
The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists condemns with contempt the smear campaign based on the claim that the International Committee's “negligence” in security matters was to blame for the arrest of our comrade, Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Trotskyism on trial in Ukraine
Prosecution presents its case against Bogdan Syrotiuk
Bogdan is charged not for any action committed or planned but for his Trotskyist ideas, a “thoughtcrime."
Clara Weiss•
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Thomas Scripps•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Our reporters•
Johannes Stern•
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 9
Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire from China—A doomed attempt to combine social realism with #MeToo
The message of the movie appears not to go beyond the platitudes of MeToo: that “women” although, inevitably the victim, are also “strong,” while men invariably tend to be bad.
Clara Weiss•
Co-director of award-winning No Other Land attacked by Israeli fascist settlers and military
Only three weeks ago, Ballal was on the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to accept an Oscar.
David Walsh•
American filmmaker David Lynch (1946-2025)
Lynch attracted so much attention and interest in part because he stood out as an expressive, undoubtedly unusual figure in the generally bleak cultural landscape of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years.
David Walsh•
Palestinian artist and community activist Dorgham Quraiqi: Another victim of the Israeli genocide
The self-taught painter, who had recently married, devoted his energies to organizing workshops and teaching displaced children to express themselves through art.
Erik Schreiber•
Sandy English•
Steve James•
Thomas Scripps•
Bernd Reinhardt•
Erik Schreiber•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Contract set to expire for nurses at Stanford, which employs “herd immunity” advocate turned Trump’s NIH pick Jay Bhattacharya
Through its employment of Bhattacharya within its medical school, Stanford played a key role in legitimizing an anti-science public health policy, which has claimed countless lives.
Katy Kinner•
Letter carriers rally across America against privatization of US Postal Service
“I think we need a new party, a party excluding oligarchs, excluding moguls, Democrats and excluding the one percent,” one protester said. “A working class party.”
Our reporters•
Southern California USPS rally against Trump’s privatization efforts
“I think a worldwide unification of the postal services to come together” is needed, one worker said. “The needs are worldwide. They’re not just nationwide. It’s here in America or Canada. The same needs, the same people doing the same things.”
Our correspondents•
German automaker Audi cuts 7,500 jobs
The IG Metall union boasts about the “success” of the so-called “Agreement for the Future” and is already busy working to implement the job cuts and other savings measures at Audi.
K. Nesan•
Tom Hall•
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Will Coleman, Marcus Day•
Cordell Gascoigne•
Australian government delivers sham pre-election budget
Once the looming election is out of the way, the next government, whether headed by Labor or the Liberal-National Coalition, will soon announce the necessity to cut social programs to boost military spending.
Mike Head•
Australian intelligence review calls for “urgent” powers for crises, war and political unrest
The spy and surveillance agencies are being bolstered to deal with intense social and political disaffection fuelled by deepening social inequality, the Israeli genocide and an intensifying turn to war.
Mike Head•
Australian Greens outline program for military build-up and war
The Greens are pitching to hawkish elements of the military-intelligence apparatus, who advocate a military expansion to offset the potential unreliability of the Trump administration.
Oscar Grenfell•
New Zealand government seeks closer ties with Trump, Modi administrations
The New Zealand leaders’ trips to the US and India reveal how thoroughly the ruling elite is aligning itself with the forces of fascism and preparations for war to redivide the world.
John Braddock•
Ben McGrath•
Mike Head•
Jenny Campbell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Israel prepares to fully occupy Gaza, displace entire population
The Israeli military is preparing to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, internally displace the remaining population and provide only the “minimum caloric amount necessary for survival,” according to three major publications.
Andre Damon•
Netanyahu organises Israeli “antisemitism” conference featuring Europe’s far-right
The alliance of Israel’s political elite with the world’s most reactionary forces demonstrates that Zionism is no less a bitter enemy of Jewish workers and youth than it is of the Palestinians.
Jean Shaoul•
Israel establishes government bureau to oversee Gaza ethnic cleansing, as death toll tops 50,000
Israel’s security cabinet has formally voted to oversee the establishment of an office to oversee the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Defense Minister Israel Katz reported on Sunday.
Andre Damon•
Israel’s Defence Minister vows to annex parts of Gaza as all-out aid blockade and military offensive continue
Netanyahu’s far-right regime feels it can get away with mass murder because it enjoys unconditional support from the imperialist powers. Washington, both under the Democrat Biden and the fascist Republican Trump, has viewed the genocide as a key component of a broader regional war to secure American hegemony in the Middle East.
Jordan Shilton•
Jean Shaoul•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
As families search for “disappeared” detainees, Appeals Court judge says Venezuelan migrants treated worse than Nazi agents were
Trump’s lawless and unconstitutional actions against migrants are likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court—packed with his own appointees.
Patrick Martin•
Hearing begins today on Momodou Taal’s case against Trump
A hearing before US District Judge Elizabeth C. Coombe is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon where attorneys for Cornell graduate student Momodou Taal will present arguments against the Trump administration’s attempt to deport him for speaking out against the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and apprehend him before his lawsuit is heard.
Kevin Reed•
Major law firm Paul Weiss capitulates to Trump’s fascistic executive order
Paul Weiss, one of the two major law firms targeted by president Donald Trump, capitulated with a meaningless agreement rather than fight the blatantly unconstitutional executive order in court.
John Burton•
Time is being called on “US exceptionalism”
The belief, widely held as recently as the start of the year, that the US economy and stock market would continue to power ahead is being brought into question as all the institutions of post-war capitalism are shattered.
Nick Beams•
Joseph Kishore•
Stephen Fuller•
Nick Beams•
Jacob Crosse•
Joseph Kishore•
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.
No to Starmer’s war and austerity government—fight for socialism!
The Labour Party is ruling as a militarist cabal, the most right-wing and authoritarian government in post-war British history. It has placed itself unambiguously in a line of continuity with British imperialism’s most ruthless representatives, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
German parliament agrees to massive military spending, with the votes of the Left Party
With their votes agreeing to a one-billion euro rearmament package, the class character of the Left Party is clearly exposed. Both federal states in which they are in government, voted in the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) for the gigantic military spending.
Johannes Stern•
Oppose repression of IR and CRT university students protesting Spain’s neo-fascist Vox party!
This move by the PSOE-Sumar government is a blatant act of intimidation and criminalisation of youth opposition to fascism and war.
Alejandro López•
İstanbul mayor, Erdoğan’s main rival İmamoğlu jailed amid mass protests
İmamoğlu, Erdoğan's main rival, was arrested and sent to prison amid mass protests across the country.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Peter Schwarz•
Alex Lantier•
Jason Melanovski•
Laura Tiernan•
Carola Kleinert•
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez propose “fighting oligarchy” by supporting Democrats, Chuck Schumer, capitalism
Sanders plays an indispensable role for the Democratic Party and the ruling class. After every electoral debacle, he reemerges to posture as a “left” alternative, channeling growing discontent into safe, controlled avenues.
Max Jones, Jacob Crosse•
University of Michigan students react warmly to talk by former political prisoner and artist, Gary Tyler
Attendees at last Thursday’s meeting speak about the relevance of Tyler's message and struggle in the fight against dictatorship, war and fascism.
Luke Galvin•
Musk’s Pentagon meeting points to advanced planning for conflict with China
The publication of reports of the planned Pentagon briefing triggered a highly unusual and vociferous denial by US President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as well as a Pentagon spokesperson.
Andre Damon•
Trump executive order revives discredited 1776 Commission, mandating the falsification of American history in K-12 schools
In falsifying history, the oligarchs in charge are attempting to erase any critical thoughts youth may have about American policy in the present, especially the massive growth in economic inequality, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the ever-present threat of war against China, Iran and Russia.
Harvey Simpkins•
Saadiq Shah•
Marc Wells•
Antonio Marquez•
Kranti Kumara•
J. Cooper•
Launch of Canada’s federal election campaign dominated by Trump’s tariff war and annexation threat
None of the parties running in the election offers a way forward for workers seeking to fight Trump’s threatened annexation of Canada, oppose rearmament and imperialist war, defend their jobs and living conditions, and reject the drive towards authoritarian forms of rule.
Roger Jordan, Keith Jones•
Texas arrests midwife and assistant for providing abortions
Maria Rojas and Jose Ley face politically motivated charges aimed at intimidating healthcare workers against providing reproductive healthcare under the state's reactionary abortion ban.
Chase Lawrence•
Public outrage over ICE abduction of two Honduran immigrant workers in Indianapolis
Workers and young people in Indianapolis are demanding an end to the raids on immigrant workers such as the illegal apprehension of two Honduran workers by ICE agents on February 28.
Shane Latrobe•
Stelco and contractor John Kenyon avoid trial over two Ontario worker deaths with plea deal
On April 25, 2023, Gabriel Cabral, 32, and Sean MacPherson, 56, suffered fatal burns while replacing siding on a quench tower at the Stelco steel mill in Nanticoke.
Steve Hill•
Louis Girard, Laurent Lafrance•
Kate Randall•
Lawrence Porter•
Kate Randall•
Alex Findijs•
Sri Lankan health workers protest budget cuts amid government threats
Despite widespread workers’ anger, the trade union bureaucracies oppose the independent mobilisation of the working class against the government’s attack on living and social conditions under the IMF program.
Our reporters•
Sri Lankan government expedites privatisation of state-owned enterprises, axing thousands of jobs
President Dissanayake has announced that his government will establish a state holding company, and list it on the Colombo Stock Exchange, to accelerate the restructuring of over 400 state-owned enterprises.
W. A. Sunil•
Four years on: Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka face ongoing repression
The Ceylon Workers Congress, in line with the state and the company, are directing the victimised workers to admit their guilt for an offence they did not commit.
W.A. Sunil, K. Ratnayake•
Mobilise the working class against the Sri Lankan government’s austerity agenda
The SEP stresses the urgency for workers to build action committees, independent of the trade unions, to fight to defend their social and democratic rights.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Our correspondents•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Our correspondents•
Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)•
Saman Gunadasa•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
How should Los Angeles be rebuilt after the fires?
The recent fires in Los Angeles have laid bare the devastating consequences of capitalism, a system that prioritizes profit over safety.
Marc Wells•
With Steadfast LA, billionaire Rick Caruso spearheads elite's exploitation of Los Angeles wildfires
Caruso’s initiative signals the intention of finance capital to exploit the wildfires disaster for the pursuit of profits with the help of the Democrats and Republicans.
Marc Wells•
The role of budget cuts and private equity firms in the Los Angeles wildfires
The crisis facing the LA Fire Department is a microcosm of the broader contradictions of capitalism. It highlights the urgent need for a socialist program that prioritizes public welfare over private profit.
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
Kevin Reed•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
New discovery of ancient bone tools from East Africa reveals greater complexity in the evolution of early human technology
The manufacture and use of bone tools dates to a million years earlier than previously documented.
Philip Guelpa•
What makes human culture unique from culture of other animals?
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Philip Guelpa•
Impoverished countries ask world court to rule on climate change disaster
As the hearings closed for the largest ICJ case in history, the major capitalist powers displayed their indifference to the impact of climate change on impoverished countries.
Mark Wilson•
Fluoridation of community water and the politics of disinformation
Robert F Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has promised to end water fluoridation, a program which has been called one of the 10 greatest achievements in public health.
Benjamin Mateus•
Bryan Dyne•
Bryan Dyne•
Mark Wilson•
Mark Wilson•
Philip Guelpa•
Erdogan’s main rival, İstanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu detained by police
The blatant attack on democratic rights sparked mass protests across the country.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Mass protest by municipality workers in Istanbul amid strike wave
As wildcat strikes took place ahead of a national strike by physicians, hundreds of municipal workers in Istanbul staged a mass protest for their unpaid wages despite an attempted ban.
Bahadır Çelik•
Amid massacre of Alawites in Syria, Islamist HTS regime and Kurdish SDF reach agreement
The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous administration under its control with the Damascus regime. It is part of the efforts of US imperialism, together with Israel, to dominate the Middle East.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Turkish government and corporations respond to NATO crisis with calls to deepen alliance with Europe
Erdoğan stated on Monday: “As an integral part of Europe, we consider our European Union membership process as our strategic priority… European security is unthinkable without Turkey”
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Hakan Özal•
Ulaş Ateşçi, Barış Demir•
Hasan Yıldırım•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Barış Demir•
Major reduction in Fed’s US growth forecast
The tariff wars and the sweeping cuts made by the Trump administration have brought about a vast transformation in the economic landscape in which the prospect of recession, considered negligible at the start of the year, is now a real possibility.
Nick Beams•
Gold hits $3,000 per ounce in another expression of dollar turmoil
In the past 25 years the price of gold has increased 10-fold, with its rise passing key marker points in periods of financial turbulence.
Nick Beams•
Cracks appear in facade of US “boom”
The Purchasing Managers’ Index report, issued by S&P Global, pointed to “a darkening picture of heightened uncertainty, stalling business activity and rising prices.”
Nick Beams•
Gold price continues to reach record highs
The gold surge is the expression of tensions and contradictions building up in the global financial system, accelerated by Trump’s economic war against the world.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
German Federal Court of Justice rules: Ukrainian conscientious objectors may be extradited
According to the court, the fundamental right to conscientious objection only applies to people who are liable for military service under German law. However, even for them, this right can be revoked, the court states.
Yevgeny Tkachenko•
Russian forces make major advances in Kursk amid ceasefire talks
Russian troops are on the verge of recapturing all territory seized by Ukraine in an offensive in Kursk last summer, imparting an air of crisis to calls by US President Donald Trump for a 30-day ceasefire in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
Andre Damon•
Zelensky faces mounting domestic political crisis amid clashes with Trump
As Zelensky has turned to the EU for support in the wake of his White House visit, the Trump administration has already begun meeting with Zelensky’s rivals within the Ukrainian ruling-class.
Jason Melanovski•
Democrats jump to defense of Zelensky and Ukraine war
In response to Trump’s public humiliation of the Ukraine president at the White House, congressional Democrats are reaffirming their support for escalating the US-NATO war with Russia.
Patrick Martin•
Nick Beams•
Thomas Scripps•
Ukrainian journalists•
Clara Weiss•
James Clayton•
California district attorney files charges against UC Santa Cruz student nearly year after anti-genocide protests
The fact that the charges are only being filed now, nearly a year after the protest took place, underscores their concocted character.
Max Jones•
Second anti-genocide student protester at Columbia arrested by Trump’s immigration police
On Friday, Trump’s deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, threatened to pursue terrorism charges against universities and students for previously protesting war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
Jacob Crosse•
Union blocks motion to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah at Sydney’s Macquarie University
The resolution called for an urgent campus rally of staff and students to fight moves to sack Abdel-Fattah, a widely respected academic who is being targeted because of her opposition to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine.
Our correspondents•
Australia: Labor governments refuse to repeal hate speech laws
It is increasingly clear that Labor leaders were aware the “antisemitic attacks” were a hoax, even as they declared them a major threat to national security in order to ram through the laws.
Oscar Grenfell•
Patrick Martin•
Jerry White•
Laura Tiernan•
Logan Buchko•
Patrick Martin•
This week in history: March 24-30
Putin wins first presidential term; Saudi King Faisal assassinated; Italian fascists set up postwar trade union; Mussolini protested in Italian parliament
126 years since the launching of the Philippine-American War
Trump, McKinley, and US imperialism in Asia
When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to open colonial rule and the conquest and annexation of territories.
Joseph Scalice•
Revive America’s revolutionary democratic traditions
The anti-immigrant ICE raids and the 1854 “Slave Catchers Riot” in Worcester, Massachusetts
In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman and expelled him from the city.
David Walsh•
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
A new biography of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on a little-known figure in American history.
Landon Gourov•
Eric London•
Lawrence Porter •
Parwini Zora, Daniel Woreck•
Paul Montgomery•
Alejandro López•
On the 5-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic
New York Times resurrects debunked Wuhan Lab Lie
A publication on the discovery of a novel coronavirus by Chinese scientists has been the occasion for the Times to drum up the lab leak conspiracy once more.
Benjamin Mateus•
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service spreads far-right Wuhan lab conspiracy theory
There is no scientific evidence for this “Wuhan Lab Theory”–nor can it be scientifically proven. It is a conspiracy theory that was already being advanced by right-wing extremist circles in 2020.
Tamino Dreisam•
NIH crackdown on mRNA research: The Trump administration’s march toward scientific censorship
The Trump administration, with Kennedy as its public health executioner, is determined to roll back decades of scientific progress.
Marc Wells•
5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastrophe
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this social system is in an advanced state of regression.
Evan Blake•
Kevin Reed•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Norisa Diaz•
Argentine retirees savagely assaulted for protesting benefit cuts
All the evidence points to a provocation by the Milei administration aimed at justifying an escalation of attacks on democratic rights.
Rafael Azul•
Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions
With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles have already spread to the education systems of several of Brazil’s capitals.
Brunna Machado•
Study exposes Brazilian dictatorship’s spying across Latin America
Throughout Latin America, the military and political heirs to the terror regimes of the 1960s and 1970s have once again been brought to the center of political developments.
Tomas Castanheira•
Facing record unpopularity and multiple disasters, Peru’s president turns to austerity and repression
Boluarte ranks as the most unpopular president in the world, and not a day goes by without corruption or political scandals with far-reaching effects on society.
Francis Portocarrero•
Rafael Azul•
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Fátima Ferrante•
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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84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
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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Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part Three
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part Two
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Stalinist Communist Party Marxist-Kenya seeks new political trap for rising discontent among workers, youth—Part One
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Alarm grows as “mystery illness” in Congo has now killed 60 people and infected over 1,000
Delays in reporting relate to near non-existent infrastructure conditions and poorly resourced facilities.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Marc Wells•
David Brown•
Alejandro López•
Alejandro López•
IYSSE holds meeting opposing mass deportations at Texas A&M University
Last Friday, the IYSSE held a successful meeting at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas opposing the mass deportations by the Trump administration that was attended by almost 30 people.
Chase Lawrence•
Texas A&M students protest Trump’s assault on immigrants, Democrats attempt to ban criticism
Rather than refuting the IYSSE’s exposure of the Democratic Party’s role in enabling Trump’s attacks, the Young Democrats resorted to attempted censorship.
Our reporter•
Norman Finkelstein, opponent of Zionist crimes against Palestinians, speaks at University of Michigan
In the course of his remarks, Finkelstein said of the repression of anti-genocide protesters at U-M and on campuses across the country, “What took place this past spring involved the biggest attack on academic freedom in US history.”
Matthew Brennan•
New York University complies with Trump attacks on basic democratic rights
The university administration’s willingness to collaborate in attacks on immigrants, transgender people and anti-genocide students has clearly emerged.
John Conrad, Philip Guelpa•
Andy Thompson•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Phyllis Steele, Nancy Hanover•
Christopher Lehmann•
Our reporters•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
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Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei appeal in the German federal election
Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson addresses SEP (UK) Seventh National Congress on the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
“The potential in the situation must be acted upon consciously by the cadre, in a deeper turn into the working class”
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
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Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
Chris Marsden•
Thomas Scripps•
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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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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
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•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, 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.
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Eric London•
David North•
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Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
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Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
Despite reprieve for Stellantis workers in Toledo, threats to jobs remain
Despite Stellantis rescinding its threat to lay off 1,134 workers at the Jeep complex in Toledo, the looming threat of tariffs and trade war presages a renewed attack on auto jobs.
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones•
Autoworkers speak out as UAW-Ford say police in auto plants will be the new normal
Events of the last week show that the recent police sweep at Ford Michigan Assembly was the launch of what can only be described as a police state crackdown against autoworkers.
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
US autoworkers discuss class issues behind Trump’s attack on immigrants
Workers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee sponsored a meeting to discuss the fight against job cuts and Trump’s attack on immigrant workers.
Our reporters•
Warning strikes at nine VW plants in Germany
The head of Volkswagen’s works council Daniela Cavallo has made it clear that the IG Metall union and the works council do not want to fight but “let off steam”.
Ludwig Weller•
Robert Campion•
Tony Robson•
Jerry White•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Shannon Jones•
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•
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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Eric London•
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.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
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•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
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 •
Our reporters•
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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Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
Eric London•
Danzy Senna’s Colored Television: Lacking the “pathos of distance”
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
James McDonald•
A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”—Part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
David Walsh•
A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”–Part 1
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Andrea Peters•
Steve Long•
David North•
Eric London•
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.
How American imperialism plots wars of aggression
The revelation of the Trump administration's plot to attack Yemen gives a glimpse of how America's wars of aggression are prepared, packaged, launched, and fraudulently justified.
Andre Damon•
5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The response of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Columbia’s capitulation to Trump: Academia bows before dictatorship
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality condemns the craven capitulation by Columbia University to the demands of the Trump administration to impose a regime of censorship on the campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Oppose the attack on Momodou Taal, the latest target of Trump’s assault on democratic rights!
The Trump administration is seeking to detain and deport Taal in response to a lawsuit filed by Taal against Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Andre Damon•
Joseph Kishore•
Andre Damon•
Tom Carter•
Joseph Kishore•
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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14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Tom Peters•
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•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
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