Fearing that the potential power of the emerging movement will disrupt profits or undermine its ability to wage imperialist war abroad, the Democratic Party is incapable of making any genuine appeal to the “aspirations of working people” which Obama mentioned.
That the company is able to take this stance is due to the support it has from the government, which cannot allow the strike to continue at one of the largest defense contractors.
Anger is mounting among Detroit area Stellantis workers as it becomes ever more evident that the UAW’s “Keep the Promise” campaign is a sham.
The renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza, combined with systematic starvation and denial of medical access, underscores the genocidal intent of the Netanyahu government.
Loffredo was arrested by the Israeli military on charges of aiding the enemy in wartime for his reporting of the impact of Iranian missiles on military and intelligence targets inside Israel.
Recent appearances by both campaigns underscore that Republicans, Democrats and the capitalist system they defend, have nothing to offer humanity besides fascism and war.
As casualties continue to mount and amid a deepening economic crisis, European officials pledged to spend billions on deeply unpopular plans for NATO war escalation against Russia.
The SEP is intervening in this parliamentary election to build an independent political movement of the working class, based on international socialism, against war, austerity and the turn to authoritarian methods of rule.
Police arbitrarily and illegally arrested ten office bearers in the newly-established union late Tuesday evening, before detaining other striking workers in a separate incident Wednesday. T
The four-day Congress reaffirmed the SEP’s revolutionary and socialist perspective and involved intensive discussion of the unprecedented crisis of the global capitalist system.
About 60 students and academics attended a rally to oppose the violent arrest of two students who were peacefully protesting on Wednesday against the ongoing Israeli-US genocide against the Palestinian people.
The announcement by the Acero board of the closure of seven charter schools heralds future attacks on schools which must be opposed by rank-and-file teachers.
The same administration begging railroads to provide sick leave banned a strike through Congress two years ago and imposed a contract, which workers had already rejected, without sick leave.
Labour’s proposed reform agenda was initially conducted under the slogan of “A New Deal for Working People” but has now been replaced by the more austere title, “Plan to Make Work Pay.”
According to Sky News, at least 40 sub-postmasters claim they were falsely accused of stealing money due to “glitches” in the Capture software.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
This supplementary review exposes Beatty’s manipulation of evidence related to Gerry Healy’s youth in Ireland.
In an interview in Jacobin, DSA member Aidan J. Beatty repeated his slanderous biography's claim that Gerry Healy and the British Trotskyists employed violence against political opponents and party members.
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
The discussion framed the Gaza genocide within its social, economic and political context, explaining that the struggle against imperialist barbarism requires the building of a socialist movement by the working class against capitalism.
Neo-Nazi and pro-Trump sources are flooding social media with false claims that Jewish government officials are withholding aid from storm-ravaged “white” areas.
A scientific understanding must be made both of Earth’s climate and of human society, specifically the laws of capitalist development.
The official commemorations of the Israeli casualties on October 7, 2023 ignore the objective historical roots of the Palestinian rebellion against Zionist repression.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
The meeting, live in Sydney, Melbourne and online, will discuss the political issues behind Labor’s attack on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), and the way forward for workers.
Tea plantation workers block roads in India opposing government pay cuts; Pakistani teachers fight privatisation; Garment workers strike in Bangladesh against job and pay cuts.
Italian transport workers in 24-hour stoppage over pay, workload, funding and safety as collective agreement runs out; workers and retirees protest worsening social and economic conditions across Iran; national walkout by Nigerian health workers in Kaduna state over outstanding pay rise and hazard allowance
Across the world, automation, artificial intelligence and other new technologies are already being used to slash millions of jobs.
Having assumed power through an inner-party vote, Shigeru Ishiba hopes the general election will provide a “mandate” for his government’s far-right and pro-war agenda.
“I just feel like we have a right to protest. Genocide is genocide, you can’t sugarcoat it. They’re scaring people into silence and I just think it’s not fair. We should be able to talk about it freely.”
Australia’s unemployment payment, JobSeeker, amounts to just $55 per day, less than half the minimum wage and among the lowest in the OECD.
It is the United States, which has no legal standing in the disputes nor any historical right in these waters, that has destabilised the region, turning it into a plausible site for World War III.
The Citizen’s Budget Commission’s new report is a declaration of war on transit workers and riders.
The incoming administration faces explosive popular expectations of major social improvements, even as imperialism demands cheap wages and social austerity in preparation for war.
The eye of mammoth hurricane Milton was projected to make landfall in the area south of Tampa Bay on Wednesday evening, bringing catastrophic and life-threatening storm surges of 10 to 15 feet and Category 3-force winds.
The report details rampant physical, sexual and psychological abuse of children by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department that violate the Constitutional rights of children and meet the UN's definition of torture.
Manager Magazine has published a list of the 500 richest Germans and calculated that their private assets and wealth in 2023 amounted to a record €1.1 trillion, an increase of €53 billion compared to the previous year.
Leading representatives of the Left Party have used the anniversary of the Hamas attack on 7 October to demonstrate their solidarity with Israel, which has been committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza for a year and is now expanding its campaign of annihilation to the entire region.
Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle East. It was critical to air operations during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Leading figures in the opposition Tory party have now come forward to profess their own admiration for the Labour health secretary’s work.
Milton will be remembered for its rapid intensification in the Gulf of Mexico and the record number of tornadoes it spawned across Florida as it made landfall.
Drs. Gary Ruvkun and Victor Ambros have been honored for their critical work in discovering the essential role of very small RNA molecules in regulating the expression of genes.
Scientists have concluded that an unprecedented global seismic signal, first noticed in September 2023, was caused by a Greenland fjord tsunami triggered by climate change.
It should be asked why NASA continues to trust Boeing, the airplane manufacturer which developed the MAX 8 jets responsible for the deaths of 346 men, women and children in two separate crashes in 2018 and 2019.
Jones, one of the greatest American actors, also had a life story that is not well enough known.
Artists and cultural workers issued an open letter asking the Brooklyn Museum “to address its silence on the most brutal and deadly military aggression of the 21st century.”
Golson was one of the few surviving jazz masters of the 1950s, a golden age during which the innovations of the 1940s, known as bebop, flowered into the swinging and accessible modern jazz.
The closure of the Little Grosz museum in Berlin is a great loss. In the current political situation, marked by wars and crises, the artistic legacy of the painter, graphic artist and caricaturist Grosz is of burning relevance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This statement in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by a Ukrainian youth who fled the war and is now working and studying in Germany.
A number of Russian leftist organizations and media outlets have expressed their support for Bogdan, demanding his immediate release.
The persecution of Bogdan demonstrates that the defense of democratic rights is inseparable from the mobilisation of the international working class against imperialist war and capitalism.
The United Socialist Party, the Socialist People’s Forum and the Frontline Socialist Party’s “Youth for Change” have issued statements demanding the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
The US budget deficit for fiscal 2024 came in at close to $2 trillion, with total debt rapidly heading to the $36 trillion mark.
China’s main stock market index dropped sharply yesterday with the biggest one-day fall since February 2020.
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde said the world economy faced pressures similar to those of the 1920s.
The move was significant given that in July Powell said the Fed was not even considering a 50 basis point reduction.
The campaign to stop Cornell University from forcing the deportation of international PhD student and instructor Momodou Taal for his outspoken opposition to the Gaza genocide has won an important victory with the announcement that the university has rescinded his suspension.
Members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality intervened in protests across the United States to support the struggle against genocide and war while fighting for the protests to turn to the working class in an international socialist struggle against the cause of world war and genocide, the capitalist system.
More than 40 students and academics attended the SGM, which was initiated and fought for by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia).
Mobilised by the state Labor government and the university administration, police brutally arrested two students at Western Sydney University yesterday.
In the last weeks, an autumn COVID wave has been developing in Germany, exposing all the claims that the pandemic is over.
The studies highlight the dangers posed by COVID reinfection and the need to bring to clinical trials effective treatments that can prevent transmission once and for all.
Significantly, infected controls did not report any symptoms related to these cognitive deficits, indicating that potentially billions of people worldwide with a history of COVID-19, but no symptoms of long COVID, could have persistent cognitive issues without knowing it.
The latest research deals a devastating blow to the fascistic conspiracy theory claiming the virus was created in a Chinese lab in Wuhan.
Since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket Harris has raked in cash from corporate executives and Wall Street; what do they expect in return?
In a press conference, members of the Dearborn-based group said they were endorsing the Green Party candidate to punish Harris and the Democrats in the hopes of ensuring “genocide” would never be on the ballot again.
Republican groups are flooding the courts with suits designed to sow chaos, confusion and delay in the event of a Harris victory, while Trump and his fellow fascists in the GOP incite para-military violence on the basis of anti-immigrant agitation along the lines of their hysterical campaign against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
Dark MAGA aesthetics and memes have been embraced by QAnon and neo-Nazi elements within the Trump movement, who are calling on Trump to enact vengeance on his political enemies with violence.
In the wake of the election, all the Tamil parties have made congratulatory statements to the new president, whose JVP is deeply mired in anti-Tamil chauvinism.
Announcing the new inquiry in a bid to woo Catholic voters, Dissanayake covered up the role of his JVP/NPP in the vile anti-Muslim campaign that followed the 2019 bombings.
Following the talks, the IMF issued a statement declaring them “productive.” “We are encouraged,” it continued, “by the authorities’ commitment to continue the reform efforts.”
The Frontline Socialist Party is sowing illusions in Sri Lanka’s new right-wing, pro-imperialist government, which is led by the Sinhala chauvinist JVP and its electoral front, National People’s Power.
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is essential to revive the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism, Maoism, Pabloism, and bourgeoisie nationalism.
The recent strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth must forge a new path grounded in Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution.
Six people have died and 20 others are being treated for Marburg virus disease in Rwanda. This is the first-ever outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic disease in the country.
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
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Calley spent only three days in prison for his role in directing the mass murder of 504 Vietnamese men, women and children. He is now reported to have died April 28 at the age of 80.
The history of the Majdanek camp reveals the links between Nazi Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, and the extermination of the Jewish population, which primarily affected Poland and Eastern Europe.
One year after the start of the Gaza genocide, Israel, with the support of US imperialism, is only intensifying its extermination and ethnic cleansing of the civilian population of Gaza.
Labor has used the one year anniversary of October 7 to pledge unconditional support for Israel, including against Lebanon and Iran, and to again seek to outlaw anti-war opposition.
The more men, women and children are killed and maimed by Israeli bombs, the more hysterical the voices become that denounce any criticism of this as “antisemitism.”
Both Liberal Defence Minister Bill Blair and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre voiced support Monday for an Israeli attack on Iran’s oilfields, with the leader of the official opposition going even further and calling for the targeting of Tehran’s nuclear program.
The first round of local elections in São Paulo and throughout Brazil next Sunday will take place at a turning point in the global political crisis.
Sheinbaum’s promise of a human-rights-based approach to migration has become the first casualty in terms of her credibility.
Argentina’s poverty rate has reached 52.9 percent, the highest in 20 years, a 13 percent increase since Milei took power.
The implosion of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia sums up the fate of the so-called “pink tide” of bourgeois nationalist governments across Latin America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 165-page filing conclusively demonstrates that Trump, and his Republican co-conspirators, knowingly sought to overturn the 2020 election with deceit, falsehoods and violence.
Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of law and order whose administration has been engulfed by corruption charges, faces five counts of taking bribes and committing fraud.
Hawley, a major co-conspirator in the January 6, 2021 attempt to overturn the election, is a leading figure in the Republicans’ attempts to make a right-wing populist appeal to workers.
New bans on Chinese software have been announced, citing “national security” concerns.
Britain’s leading role in NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine and the military targeting of Iran ensured that McCallum’s remarks led the front pages of four major UK newspapers.
Powerful factions of the NATO ruling classes aim to provoke a Russian retaliation, hoping the shock at home will create political conditions to launch a Europe-wide war on Russia.
Amid ongoing high-level meetings between NATO leaders and Ukrainian officials at the United Nations over plans to allow Ukraine to strike Russian cities with NATO weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined Wednesday a proposed update to Russia’s nuclear policy document that would expand the conditions under which Russia would use nuclear weapons.
According to media reports, the German government is preparing another massive arms package for Ukraine, worth 1.4 billion euros.
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 program, which focuses on maintaining fiscal discipline to reduce inflation and close the budget deficit, shows that the attacks on the living and working conditions of the working class will continue and deepen.
The discussion of Turkey's possible membership of BRICS comes amid US authorisation for Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with NATO long-range weapons, bringing the two nuclear-armed powers to the brink of direct war.
Erdogan and al-Sisi are taking steps to strengthen their ties amid Israel’s US-NATO-backed genocide in Gaza, which is spreading to the West Bank, and preparations for war against Iran.
Washington has no intention of allowing Beijing to extend its influence in the Middle East, or anywhere else in the world, and will not hesitate to use all the means at its disposal to prevent this—utilising support for Israel’s annihilation of the Palestinians in Gaza as the basis for an expanding war for control of the region initially targeting Iran.
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.
As their strike reached a critical juncture, rank-and-file Dakkota auto parts workers in Chicago issued a statement Tuesday appealing for a ban on scab parts from their factory.
The courageous rebellion of striking Dakkota parts workers, who defied an unprecedented four sellout agreements, is in danger of being shut down and betrayed as the UAW is threatening workers with a fifth vote on the same agreement.
Dakkota was founded in 2001 as a joint venture between Rush Group LLC, owned by trucking and auto supply business owner Andra Rush, and Canada-based Magna International Inc.
I have always been told my job is more secure than most because we are one of the most profitable plants for GM. This sense of certainty has dwindled rapidly.
The WSWS spoke to several students who are witnessing the mass infection of their peers on college campuses in the US and Canada.
These conditions testify to the powder keg that is Africa and indeed vast parts of the world. Youth-led protests have broken out in several countries over recent months calling for political change.
As millions of students are re-entering their classrooms in schools and on college campuses across the United States for a new semester, the threat of world war and fascism is greater today than at any point since the 1930s.
At the working-class campuses of Western Sydney University (WSU) and Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne, the IYSSE clubs’ campaigns have been met with enthusiasm from students.
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.
Wije Dias belonged to the group of young people who took up the initiative in 1968 to form the Trotskyist party in Sri Lanka and he played a leading role in the movement for 54 years until his death.
The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.
Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
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.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
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.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
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.
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Eaton’s book traces the financialization of higher education from the 1980s through the 2010s, which underlay the subordination of academia to Wall Street and the war machine of US imperialism.
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.
Fearing that the potential power of the emerging movement will disrupt profits or undermine its ability to wage imperialist war abroad, the Democratic Party is incapable of making any genuine appeal to the “aspirations of working people” which Obama mentioned.
The discussion framed the Gaza genocide within its social, economic and political context, explaining that the struggle against imperialist barbarism requires the building of a socialist movement by the working class against capitalism.
Neo-Nazi and pro-Trump sources are flooding social media with false claims that Jewish government officials are withholding aid from storm-ravaged “white” areas.
A scientific understanding must be made both of Earth’s climate and of human society, specifically the laws of capitalist development.
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.
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.
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.
