On Tuesday, over 150 people attended a lecture by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, at the University of Michigan. The meeting, called to mark the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky in 1923, also addressed the imperialist wars in Gaza and Ukraine. A full report of the meeting will be published later today.
The UAW leadership is clearly concerned that reports of huge profits by Ford and GM will fuel workers’ resistance to anything less than a massive victory.
The ability of the far-right Netanyahu government, which is deeply unpopular within Israel, to resort to such brutal methods of collective punishment is due above all to the unconditional support it enjoys from the imperialist powers, first and foremost the United States.
Today’s events are the product of the founding of Israel in 1948 through the forcible expulsion of Palestine’s existing Arab population and of the three-quarters of a century of brutality and mass murder that followed.
The press conference the French president held with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu amounted to an open-ended call for French and NATO support for Israeli escalation.
Despite attempts by the government, authorities and media to criminalise all protests against the genocide in Gaza and defame them as “anti-Semitic,” numerous rallies and demonstrations continue to take place throughout Germany.
The mealy-mouthed statement, signed by Unifor, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and others, is aimed at confining protests to futile appeals to the Liberal government—which is itself complicit in horrific Israeli war crimes—to press for a “ceasefire.”
All disciplinary action against the victimised London Underground train driver should be dropped, whatever code of conduct is cited by TfL. This is a case of class injustice which needs to be overturned through collective struggle.
Starmer’s attempt to perfume the stench pouring off Labour will do nothing to convince millions of disgusted workers and youth, not only Muslims, to vote for the party at the next election.
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.
Milei represents a program of open civil war and fascist reaction against the working class, but another Peronist administration does not represent a “democratic” alternative.
The ruling Workers Party’s main concern throughout the investigation has been to cover up the Brazilian military’s role in the coup.
The Biden administration has seized on a collision between Philippine and Chinese vessels near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea to issue a military threat to China.
Even as it threatens a broader war throughout the Middle East while backing Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza, the US is making clear that there will be no let-up in the plans for war against China.
Trotsky’s October 23, 1923 letter is the first comprehensive document in the inner-party struggle in which he was forced to answer, in detail, not only political attacks but also distortions of the history of the Bolshevik Party and the October Revolution.
This is the second part of a lecture given by David North in November 1993 at the University of Michigan on the origins of the Left Opposition.
This is the first part of a lecture originally given by David North in November 1993 on the origins of the Left Opposition.
These remarks were delivered by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US), to a meeting of the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists in the former Soviet Union.
The United States, whose military has killed over one million people during illegal wars in the Middle East over the past quarter-century, is using Israel's assault against the Palestinians to provoke a wider war throughout the region.
The November 5 meeting, in Sydney and online, will outline the socialist perspective required to halt the genocide in Gaza and the broader eruption of imperialist militarism.
Over the coming days and weeks, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in the US will be holding meetings on campuses across the country to discuss the way forward in the fight to put an end to the unfolding genocide.
More than 400 died in the 24 hours ending Monday afternoon, with Israeli warplanes bombing southern Gaza, where Palestinians had been told to shelter.
The Sterling Heights Assembly Plant is the first Detroit metro area Stellantis factory the UAW has struck.
While Fain and the UAW leadership have claimed they have to “protect” the strike fund, none of them have missed a single paycheck from their bloated $200,000-plus salaries during the strikes at the Big Three or Mack.
Claiming “movement” in contract talks, Fain refused to call any more plants on strike while going into damage control mode over the recent contract rejection vote by Mack Trucks workers.
The 2019 national GM strike cost the company nearly $4 billion over a 40-day period, 20 times more than this year’s strike, which is entering its 36th day on Friday.
La Botz brings his “Third Campism” to the current situation, piously ascribing blame to both the Zionist regime and Hamas for the violence in the Middle East.
Life expectancy in the US for those with and without a college degree has continued to widen over three decades.
In his address Thursday, President Joe Biden demanded Congress allocate an additional $105 billion to fund the US military, escalate the US/NATO war against Russia in Ukraine and arm the Israeli military with bullets, bombs and shells for its genocidal campaign against the people of occupied Palestine.
The brief prime time address, seeking to connect the US military interventions in Ukraine and Israel, was an incoherent appeal that will anger rather than persuade those opposed to the worldwide explosion of American imperialism.
WSWS reporters recently conducted an interview with the artistic team at the Theatre Factory, which focuses on the class struggle and social issues.
The 92nd Street Y, a prominent sponsor of author talks, postponed an appearance by prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen because he signed a statement, “An Open Letter on the Situation in Palestine,” published in the London Review of Books on October 16.
The latest open letter includes names from all over the world, and reflects the anger and outrage of many millions, indeed most of humanity.
Spacey’s experience was especially punishing, but it exemplified the type of treatment meted out to the victims of the ongoing sexual misconduct smear campaign.
The neurotransmitter serotonin appears to be linked to many of the symptoms of post-acute consequences of the pandemic.
According to the COVID-19 Resource Center, roughly 1 in 25 people across the country are currently infected, a number roughly 14 times higher than at the lowest point in the COVID-19 pandemic.
By shifting the contract for wastewater data collection to Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet (Google), the CDC is deliberately disrupting the main remaining source of usable data on the COVID pandemic.
The fact that the coronavirus can directly damage the arteries of the heart and induce the formation of so-called “plaques” is a surprise, but not entirely without precedent.
An open letter, issued by a privileged layer of indigenous figures who led the Voice Yes campaign, further highlights the immense class chasm shown in the referendum’s overwhelming defeat on October 14.
Socialist Alternative’s analysis of the referendum is an attack on the working class, exposing this organisation as a rightward moving representative of privileged layers of the affluent upper middle-class.
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
Members of Congress in the United States are discussing a bill funding the Ukraine war to the tune of up to $100 billion in a single shot, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
To openly place British military forces in Ukraine has only one possible aim: to provide a casus belli through the sacrifice of NATO military personnel. A third world war is the only logical outcome.
In Britain, whose government has given billions to the Ukrainian military, at least 4,740 Ukrainian families with children are now homeless.
The leading European Union imperialist powers pledged to escalate the NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, announcing €5 billion more spending on the war.
Some 360 engineers, operators, maintenance workers, supervisors, and administrative staff walked off the job early Sunday morning, shutting down the St. Lawrence Seaway, which enables oceangoing vessels to travel between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
Judicial workers held marches and rallies in key Mexican cities over state imposed cuts while government workers in Argentina struck for 72 hours over pay.
The tragic death by suicide of 28-year old emergency department nurse from Dayton, Ohio, Tristin Kate Smith, has been met with an outpouring of sympathy, grief, and anger from healthcare workers across the country.
Portland teachers have been working without a contract since June and are preparing to launch a strike as the district sets out to slash education jobs across the district.
One of the key features of the present situation is the increasing domination of the global economy by giant corporations and finance capital which has led to the reduction of the labour share of income from 57 percent in 2000 to 53 percent today.
One of the key issues at work in the selloff is whether the Treasury market has the capacity to finance the ever-growing levels of US debt.
New bans on semiconductor exports are a significant tightening of the measures introduced by the Biden administration a year ago.
The two-day BRI forum took place in Beijing as the US escalates the NATO war on Russia in Ukraine and has thrown its full support behind Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian population of Gaza.
The Labor government’s full-throated support of imperialist militarism, in Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, is incompatible with the defence of a persecuted anti-war publisher.
The tour reflected a groundswell of support for Assange among ordinary people, but also underscored the bankruptcy of a fight for his freedom based on backroom diplomacy and politicking.
While the Secretary of State made crystal clear that the US is proceeding with its legal lynching of Assange, Australian PM Albanese absurdly claimed Blinken’s comments were of no importance.
Computer files show that the Spanish company responsible for security at the Ecuadorian Embassy was secretly spying on Assange. The files name the client of the surveillance: “CIA.”
The Sri Lankan government has assured the IMF that it will deepen the assault on working people, further increasing taxation, privatisations and subsidy-slashing measures.
As the US escalates its build up for war against China, it grotesquely exaggerates the real balance of military forces to justify its own bellicose actions and provocations.
Prior to his departure, Albanese declared he would lobby for the US Congress to pass Biden’s $105 billion in military spending for the war by Israel, the Ukraine conflict and US aggression targeting China.
“The reason they can do it is because they have weapons, they have money and they have power. But we also have power, because there are a hundred thousand times more people that are willing to stand up and say ‘No!’”
The license is aimed not at significantly increasing production, much less at resolving Venezuela’s economic crisis, but at redirecting its cheap oil away from China and allowing US oil giants and a thin layer of the Venezuelan ruling elite to reach lucrative deals.
Impermeable to mass sentiments for radical change, Ecuadorian capitalist politics vomited up the election of a man who personifies privilege and plutocracy.
The struggle of the subway, rail, water and sanitation workers in São Paulo, as well as that of the students at USP and UNICAMP, is against not only extreme right-wing Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, but also the unions that are isolating these struggles.
López Obrador increasingly protects the military from culpability in the students’ disappearances and its coverup
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.
The state of Georgia under both Republican and Democratic administrations has criminalized minor traffic violations such as speeding.
The central issue in the House political crisis is the demand by the military-intelligence apparatus, backed by the political establishment in both parties, for massive new outlays for the proxy war against Russia.
The 68-year-old far-right lawyer will avoid prison time as long as she abides by the terms of her six-year probation, which includes testifying against her accomplices, including Trump.
More than 4,000 people protested at the US Consulate in Toronto against the genocidal onslaught on Palestinian people.
Multiple protesters were assaulted by police and Zionist-supporters over the weekend.
“We want to see an end to this campaign of genocide that is currently happening,” Sarah Shamy of the Palestinian Youth Movement, told the Montreal Gazette, “We want to see an end to the complicity of the western states, mainly Canada and the U.S. who every year send billions of dollars in military aid.”
Millions of people around the world have taken part in protests against Israel’s war crimes.
Today’s events are the product of the founding of Israel in 1948 through the forcible expulsion of Palestine’s existing Arab population and of the three-quarters of a century of brutality and mass murder that followed.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
This letter, sent by Leon Trotsky on October 8, 1923, to members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, was one of the most important documents that led to the emergence of the Left Opposition.
To initiate its commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition on October 15, 1923, the WSWS is re-publishing an editorial by David North on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Left Opposition.
The letter is a powerful indictment of the crimes carried out by Israel’s far-right government, with a focus on the appalling situation confronting the signatories’ fellow health workers in Gaza and their patients.
WSWS reporters spoke to some of the several hundred protesters at a demonstration on Saturday in Inverness, Scotland, in opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza.
This was the largest anti-war demonstration in Britain since 2003, when over a million protested the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Protests mobilising thousands took place in Salford, Leeds and Sheffield, just some of the mass demonstrations in cities throughout the UK.
Outrage against Israel’s invasion has intensified after Israeli forces bombed the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, killing at least 500 people including medical staff and patients.
The IYSSE will hold the lecture at the Political Science Department of the University of Peradeniya on October 26 as part of a series on Marxism.
In campaigning for its October 19 meeting “The war in Ukraine and how to stop it?”, the IYSSE in Sri Lanka has spoken to students who are outraged at Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.
President Wickremesinghe’s regime is being ordered to escalate its attacks on the working class and poor, which means even more brutal increases in taxes and the cost of essentials and basic services.
Sentiment on the campus is overwhelmingly opposed to Israel’s assault on Gaza, particularly after the hospital bombing this week that killed 500 Palestinians.
Students have been suspended from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), following a rally held protesting the Israeli government’s barbaric attack on Gaza.
Over the coming days and weeks, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in the US will be holding meetings on campuses across the country to discuss the way forward in the fight to put an end to the unfolding genocide.
The student union and management tried to prevent the speakout from going ahead, under conditions of broader censorship of anti-war opposition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The event reflects the objective change that has been underway for some time in the relationship between Trotskyism and the international working class.
This is the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North given on Sunday, August 20, honoring the life and political legacy of Leon Trotsky.
The penetration of GPU agents into the Fourth International played a fatal role in the assassination of Trotsky.
Trotsky spent the critical years of his exile on Prinkipo writing masterpieces and organizing the Left Opposition in the Communist International all over the world.
March 20 marks 20 years since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, launched on the basis of lies. At the time of the initial invasion, the WSWS published many statements on the background of the war, its history and its implications. This page features some of the most important statements.
The conflicts in the Burkina Faso military are deeply entwined with the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, as the Burkinabè junta led by Traoré develops ties with the Kremlin.
The scale of the Moroccan catastrophe is an indictment of the inability of the capitalist system to deliver earthquake-resistant housing and emergency services to the working population.
Amid massive protests in Niger against French imperialism, French President Macron announced the withdrawal of the French ambassador to Niamey on Sunday.
There are growing signs in the region that the eastern Libyan authorities are preparing a bloody crackdown against protests in Derna.
Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.
The awarding of the Nobel Prize to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman is justly deserved and has all the more significance in that it takes place under conditions of a vast right-wing anti-science campaign.
The next mission for the spacecraft will be orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Apophis starting in April 2029.
Many viral infections that plague humans originate from bats, yet intriguingly bats suffer no ill effects from the myriad of viruses that inhabit their bodies, a phenomenon scientists are researching in the hope of finding insights into how to moderate impacts on humans.
A review of An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family, by Alison Bashford.
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.
It’s clear the UAW hasn’t been negotiating anything at Mack all this time, they’ve just been keeping us in the dark to prevent us from preparing to fight back against the company’s ruthless demands.
On Monday, July 3, rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman sued the Biden administration’s Department of Labor, demanding that the UAW national officers’ election be rerun with the names of all candidates on the ballot due to massive voter disenfranchisement by the bureaucracy.
“Let’s be clear on what Fain‘s announcement really means: These strikes will have no impact on production. These are parts warehouses that ship components to the dealerships, not suppliers of the Big Three.”
Autoworkers have responded with enthusiasm to the editorial written by the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in 2021.
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.
Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, carried out with the complicity of the US, UK, French, and German governments, continued Friday with the murder of another 352 Palestinians.
The escalation of tensions in Syria points to the danger that the imperialist-backed war for regime change initiated in 2011 could be reignited and escalate into a regional conflict.
A regime of mass deportations and administrative detentions, long used against the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, will inevitably be used against Israeli workers as well.
That conditions across Syria are dire is indisputable, but primary responsibility for this rests with US imperialism and its European counterparts.
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.
The focus of opposition from the Democrats and a section of House Republicans to Jordan’s becoming Speaker is his stated opposition to further military aid to Ukraine.
Steven Sund’s testimony before Congress confirms that the Democrats are covering up the complicity of military brass and police and intelligence officials in Trump's fascist assault on the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election.
Recently published excerpts from a biography of the former Republican presidential candidate confirm that virtually the entire US government was aware of Trump’s violent plans.
The special grand jury recommended charges against top Trump advisors and Republican senators not named in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ August 14 indictment, which charged the ex-president and 18 others.
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 following is the text of the opening report delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to the International May Day Online Rally 2023, held Sunday, April 30.
Together, the speakers set out a political programme capable of uniting the international working class and mobilising its immense social power in a struggle against the world’s major corporations and governments.
This is the report delivered by Alex Lantier, national secretary of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
This is the report delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
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.
“Nowadays May Day is used as political propaganda by the trade unions and the capitalist parties. In fact, May Day belongs to the workers and it should be a day that brings together workers in struggle in every country.” –Kandy Hospital nurse
The SEP held an important meeting Sunday afternoon entitled: “After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity!”
The Ukrainian edition of the WSWS will publish critical historical and programmatic documents that will create the foundations for a Ukrainian section of the ICFI.
The SEP held an online memorial meeting to pay tribute to the life of Regina Lohr, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 66.
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.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
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.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
Fauci’s aim in lending credence to the conspiracy theory, which he knows to be a lie, is to distract attention from the antiscientific policies carried out under the Trump and Biden administrations that led to the deaths of over a million Americans.
This 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
Twitter owner and fascistic billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged late Thursday that he had shut down the accounts of numerous prominent journalists earlier in the day, claiming falsely that they had violated a new policy on the platform against “doxxing."
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 June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.
The 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.”
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.
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 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.
Central to NATO’s plans to defeat Russia and force regime change in Moscow is aerial supremacy over the Ukrainian battlefield. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Zelensky said, “We want to create this jet coalition.”
The US military published a series of documents Thursday outlining US plans for war with Russia and China, and asserting the central role of nuclear weapons in US warfighting.
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Steinmeier's remarks to invited soldiers, journalists, think tank representatives and leading politicians can only be described as a “war speech to the nation.” The focus was de facto a declaration of war on Russia and the Russian population.
The latest “Constitutional Protection Report” published by the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s domestic intelligence service) at the end of June aims to silence anyone who criticises the mass death being organised by the NATO powers, calls social inequality by its name, and rejects the government’s pro-war narrative.
The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion on the Soviet Union.
Around 3,000 officers from the special police forces stormed 137 locations in 11 federal states on Wednesday morning and arrested 25 people. Another 27 people are being investigated. The state prosecutor has accused them of being members or supporters of a terrorist organisation.
Regardless of whether the pending investigations can demonstrate that the agents gave the impetus to the planned terrorist attacks, a picture emerges of a right-wing extremist milieu organized and controlled by the state.
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 UAW leadership is clearly concerned that reports of huge profits by Ford and GM will fuel workers’ resistance to anything less than a massive victory.
The United States, whose military has killed over one million people during illegal wars in the Middle East over the past quarter-century, is using Israel's assault against the Palestinians to provoke a wider war throughout the region.
The escalating Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza has sparked massive demonstrations, involving millions of people, on every inhabited continent in the world.
In his address Thursday, President Joe Biden demanded Congress allocate an additional $105 billion to fund the US military, escalate the US/NATO war against Russia in Ukraine and arm the Israeli military with bullets, bombs and shells for its genocidal campaign against the people of occupied Palestine.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
The 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.
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
The fathers of two of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster are campaigning for the release of documents and correspondence relating to a 2013 decision to drop charges against Pike River CEO Peter Whittall.
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.
A prominent Palestinian author has been censured and abused at this year’s Frankfurt Book Festival, the world’s largest book fair, which opened its doors on Wednesday.
Thanks to her lively depictions and her factual, yet sensitive descriptions, the author brings to life the "hell of Moria".
His works are so permeated with misanthropy and a hostility to human progress that his literary output represents a step back from the great American writers of the 20th century.
Gilbert explained she was “removing the book from its publication schedule” because of complaints about its Soviet-Russian setting.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
