Beyond the business transactions, there can be little doubt that Trump and the other American oligarchs saw in their Saudi hosts kindred spirits. They aspire to establish a dictatorship in the US to rival Bin Salman’s in lawlessness and brutality, as shown by Trump’s actions since his return to the White House.
To help cover some $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and corporations, the House Republicans proposed at least $880 billion in cuts centered on Medicaid, the primary insurance for about one-fifth of the US population.
The contrast between the treatment of the white South Africans and the hysterical campaign against refugees and immigrants could not be clearer.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
Workers must build new organizations of class struggle that correspond to their position as a class objectively unified across national borders by the process of production and exploited by profit-hungry transnational corporations.
A few crocodile tears from German politicians about the suffering of the Palestinians and cynical references to Germany’s own historical crimes against the Jewish population cannot hide the fact that German imperialism is once again playing a key role in the implementation of genocide.
The UK has been caught red handed enabling Israel’s violations of international law and therefore violating its own obligations under international law. Starmer’s government is guilty of war crimes.
Our speakers will pose and answer the question, “Is America going fascist?” They will explain that Trump’s regime poses a threat to the working class all over the world and will outline a strategy to fight.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Responding to Starmer, Corbyn again confined himself strictly to suggestions of what Labour should be doing, while offering no means of opposing what it is actually doing.
It is essential to expose the underlying grounds of the process that led the PKK to dissolve itself and the falsity of its claims of “democracy and peace”.
The election is being held to replace former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was removed from office last month after being impeached for attempting to impose martial law in December.
Erika Mateo, a 24-year-old pregnant Guatemalan woman, was taken into custody and held under armed guard by the Department of Homeland Security and placed under expedited removal. After giving birth, she was transferred to ICE custody and denied access to her attorney, family and friends.
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker was detained for several hours in Chicago and interrogated on his political beliefs.
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech on the political situation in Sri Lanka and South Asia was given at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
While posturing as a reformer, Prevost was selected to further the Church’s alliance with capital and protect its own extensive financial interests
The alternative to global capitalist exploitation is not protectionism in the service of our ”own” ruling class, but the international unity of workers against a common enemy: the transnational corporations that exploit our labor.
India and Pakistan, South Asia’s rival nuclear powers, are on the brink of all-out war. Such a conflict would be catastrophic, not only for the region’s 2 billion people, but for the entire world.
On Monday, the Netanyahu government effectively announced the start of the final stage of ethnic cleansing of Gaza with a plan to militarily occupy the entire Gaza Strip and transfer the population into concentration camps under armed guard, in preparation for sending them on forced marches through the desert or loading them onto ships.
The letter begins by calling attention to the fate of 25-year-old Fatma Hassoun, a Palestinian freelance photojournalist, murdered in an Israeli air strike on April 16.
The documentary shows the settlers in their role as the Israeli state’s advanced guard in the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of the Palestinians.
The price rises accompany a massive purge in the industry, with thousands of layoffs in the last year, coupled with the complete shuttering of studios.
To find in reality the basis for changing the existing state of things, the artist has to approach reality with anger and partisanship.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
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.
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
At the online meeting, Thursday May 15 at 7 p.m., the Socialist Equality Party will discuss the way forward for workers after the federal election.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
The key ministers who prosecuted the previous Labor government’s militarist and socially regressive policies retain their posts but changes to the ministerial line-up signal a further lurch to the right.
The workforce reduction at NewYork-Presbyterian was announced amid a wave of job cuts in the healthcare industry, as well as President Trump’s all-out attack on public health.
Massive job losses in the German automotive industry are announced almost daily. The supplier industry is being decimated by insolvencies.
In defiance of mounting rank-and-file anger over job cuts, the UAW bureaucracy is continuing to promote Trump’s tariffs and foul anti-Mexican sentiment.
The company cites weak demand, financial losses, and shifting trade policies as reasons for the closures.
Members of NHS FightBack distributed copies of a leaflet advertising next Monday night’s Zoom meeting, “No to Labour’s NHS privatisation! Oppose mass staff transfer to private subsidiaries!” NHS workers took extra copies to share with their departments.
Since 2016, every right-wing scoundrel in Britain has embraced the anti-immigrant Brexit slogan “Take Back Control”. Starmer’s narrative was that the Brexit pledge had been betrayed by the previous Conservative government.
The cuts decided so far are huge: 130 million euros will be slashed this year alone, 149 million in 2026, and another 164 million in 2027.
NHS Fightback is holding a Zoom meeting on Monday May 19, at 7 p.m. to oppose Labour’s plans to gut and privatise the NHS. All healthcare workers, patients and their families are invited to attend.
Even under the threat of an all-out war that could spiral into a catastrophic nuclear conflict, India’s opposition parties—including the Stalinist parliamentary parties—have rallied behind the Modi-led BJP government in the name of “defending the nation.”
The Albanese government’s financial squeeze is aimed at forcing the universities to integrate themselves more fully into the demands of big business and the military, as set out in Labor’s Universities Accord.
For the ruling elite the election was a referendum over geopolitical ties. For the mass of voters it was an expression of anger over the social crisis they confront.
Students and staff joined a protest at Sydney’s Macquarie University to oppose deep cuts to courses and degrees, but the rally organisers presented the cuts as isolated to the university, divorcing them from the wave of job cuts nationally as a result of the Labor government’s policies.
Over 3,000 jet engine workers at Pratt & Whitney’s East Hartford and Middletown, Connecticut plants remain on strike after rejecting the company’s contract offer on May 4.
The trial of former officer Christopher Schurr, who was charged with murder in the 2022 execution-style shooting of Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ended with a hung jury on Thursday.
After viewing footage of his son, 18-year-old Ryan Hinton, being gunned down by police while fleeing, Rodney Hinton Jr., 38, is accused of killing a deputy by running him down with his car.
While Carney obsequiously flattered Trump, the would-be dictator president reiterated his goal of destroying the Canadian economy so as to take over the country and prepare for world war against China.
It is essential to expose the underlying grounds of the process that led the PKK to dissolve itself and the falsity of its claims of “democracy and peace”.
The Tüpraş workers must take matters into their own hands by forming rank-and-file committees to take their struggle forward,
Police-state repression is part of the government's drive to crush social and political opposition by establishing a presidential dictatorship.
A US airstrike killed 68 people Monday in Yemen's Sa'ada province, in one of the greatest massacres of civilians to date in the Trump administration's war on Yemen.
The May Day rally of the Joint Trade Union Alliance made crystal clear that its concern is not the jobs and conditions of workers, but to shore up Sri Lankan industries which rely heavily on US markets.
Despite its electoral setback, the ruling JVP/NPP will use the election results to ruthlessly implement IMF austerity and suppress the growing popular opposition of the working people.
Opposed to any mobilisation of the working class to defend its wages and conditions, the Tamil Progressive Alliance is appealing to European imperialism to pressure the Sri Lankan government to enact human rights legislation.
The SEP urges working people in Kolonnawa and Karainagar to vote for its candidates in the local government elections. In other areas, we do not endorse a vote for any party or candidate.
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Uganda’s long-time ruler Yoweri Museveni, has admitted to torturing an opposition aide in his private residence.
Mounting repression and attacks on democratic rights in Tanzania is part of a broader authoritarian turn across East Africa and globally.
As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance for imperialism.
Ruto’s crackdown on Echoes of War is a stark warning to artists, youth and workers across Kenya and internationally: any expression of opposition, no matter how symbolic or restrained, will be met with brute force.
A massive firework explosion in the Netherlands killed 23 people; 41 US Marines killed in SS Mayaguez incident; American Communist Party leader jailed defying HUAC; Virgina Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway published.
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo’s death, written by Helen Halyard.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
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.
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.
From Massachusetts to Hawaii, lawless ICE agents are raiding homes and businesses, snatching up workers, and separating families without due process or a shred of humanity.
The notion of “sanctuary” cities and states—promoted by Democratic officials such as California Governor Gavin Newsom—has proven to be a lie.
Democratic Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark—New Jersey’s largest city—was arrested by federal agents during a peaceful protest at Delaney Hall.
Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s erection of a political dictatorship.
The entire population of Gaza is at “critical risk of famine,” according to a report published Monday by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
On May 3 the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, called for the prosecution of leading European Union officials for complicity in the war crimes committed by Israel.
Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza were forced to shut down Thursday due to lack of food amid the ongoing Israeli blockade aimed at starving the Palestinian population and annexing their land.
One day after Israel's cabinet voted to approve a plan for the full military occupation of Gaza, the internal displacement of its people, and the takeover of food supplies by the IDF, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich made clear the plan would be the next step in the total ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
The international assessment by economists is that the US was forced to pull back from its frontal economic assault on China because of the damage this inflicted on itself.
The US position was set out by treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who said the international economic system had to be better balanced to serve the interests of the US.
Fed chair Jerome Powell noted that surveys of households and businesses had reported a “sharp decline in sentiment and elevated uncertainty about the economic outlook largely reflecting trade policy concerns.”
Regulators, government officials and investors would like to think the present financial turbulence is a passing phase, that “normalcy” could return, but they fear a fundamental shift has taken place.
Lawyers for a Rhode Island Hospital kidney doctor filed an amended lawsuit last week challenging her illegal deportation to Lebanon by CBP agents at Boston Logan International airport.
This protest came amid intensifying atrocities in Gaza, where the Israeli government has launched what it calls the “concluding moves” of its military campaign.
The fabricated charges and politically motivated prosecution of pro-Palestinian protesters were part of a national, bipartisan campaign to suppress and intimidate opposition to the genocidal war waged by US and Israeli imperialism.
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of around 100 anti-genocide student protesters took over the Butler Library’s main reading room and renamed it the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” after the Palestinian activist and writer killed by Israeli forces in 2017.
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.
After railroading all opposition, Atlanta’s “law-and-order” Mayor Andre Dickens celebrated the opening of the militarized police training center dubbed Cop City.
Although the 2026 budget will be the first to provide more than $1 trillion for the Pentagon, three prominent Senate Republicans issued statements opposing the military portion of the budget as inadequate.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass unveiled a proposed budget that slashes 1,647 city jobs.
A 38-year-old out-of-work vehicle mechanic and former Army reservist, Cody Balmer, has been arrested for the crime.
The European powers are engaging in a massive military build-up aiming to develop Europe as a bloc that can wage aggressive imperialist wars independently of the United States.
At its core, the deal is the pseudo-legal basis for the neocolonial exploitation of the country’s resources.
Behind the attacks on Trump in the European media lie bitter rivalries between Washington and the European imperialist powers over the plunder of Ukraine and trade war policies.
This report on the ongoing military and social crisis in Ukraine was submitted to the WSWS by Ukrainian journalists.
The establishment of a permanent US naval base in Argentina’s southernmost port, Ushuaia, would be a major departure from Argentina’s supposed neutrality.
There are suspicions of police complicity in the massacre, which is bound up with the struggle for control of lucrative gold mining operations.
Behind their maneuvers is the discrediting of the Brazilian unions, with their long history of collaboration with the companies and the state.
Despite media claims about Panama’s “economic miracle,” underlying the strikes and protests are obscene levels of social inequality and poverty.
A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism to the first class societies around the world.
The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and the entire American oligarchy.
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor infection could result in a life-threatening condition.
The rapid melting of glaciers due to climate change will have disastrous consequences for humanity.
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.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
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.
An executive order signed on May 5, 2025, weaponizes the false claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 was manufactured in a Chinese laboratory.
On Friday, April 18, the Trump White House replaced the COVID.gov site with a web page promoting the lie that the COVID pandemic was the product of nefarious activities conducted by China with the assistance of US scientists.
The capitalist response to the pandemic has exacted a stark toll of mass death and disability, while accelerating social inequality and initiating the destruction of the world’s public health infrastructure.
Dr. Peter Marks made clear that a central impetus behind his resignation was Kennedy’s criminal response to the deepening measles outbreak in the US, which has now infected over 500 people, the vast majority unvaccinated children.
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.
The conflict between Harvard and the Trump regime poses fundamental issues of democratic rights, including academic freedom.
The rally drew around 200 people from the university, including students, graduate students, and some academics, as well as workers and a few retirees in the surrounding Bryan County area on Thursday.
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.
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.
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.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
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.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on.
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.
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.
Depicting the November 24, 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the Channel opens a window onto the crimes committed against migrants all over the world.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
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.
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
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.
While posturing as a reformer, Prevost was selected to further the Church’s alliance with capital and protect its own extensive financial interests
India and Pakistan, South Asia’s rival nuclear powers, are on the brink of all-out war. Such a conflict would be catastrophic, not only for the region’s 2 billion people, but for the entire world.
On Monday, the Netanyahu government effectively announced the start of the final stage of ethnic cleansing of Gaza with a plan to militarily occupy the entire Gaza Strip and transfer the population into concentration camps under armed guard, in preparation for sending them on forced marches through the desert or loading them onto ships.
The corruption of the Trump family is an essential feature of this fascist government.
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.
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.
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.
