Yesterday, around 3 million workers went on strike and marched in cities across France on calls to “block the economy” and force a stop to President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts.
According to press reports, 46 year-old Louis Shuster was positioned outside of the locomotive when it collided with dump truck at crossing at a Cleveland steel mill.
The move is a fig leaf which will do nothing to alleviate the long-term effects of the disaster on residents, the health effects of which will linger for years.
In response to the United States’ trade war and military escalation against China, Chinese officials warned that the relationship between the world’s two largest economies is “derailing.”
The highly stage-managed affair takes place amid growing threats of war by the US, a sharp economic slowdown and rising social tensions, exacerbated by the criminal decision to end the zero-COVID policy.
The most conservative estimates put the cost for the all-out war by the Ukrainian authorities against all public symbols, monuments and names that are associated with Russia, the October revolution and Soviet history, or leftist ideology, at 1 billion Euros.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to Iraq on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 2003 US invasion amounted to a return to the scene of a world-historic crime.
The Caterpillar Rank-and-File Committee is demanding that the full contract be released online and workers given another week to study it.
Caterpillar workers are being met with an information brick wall when they inquire about the full details of the agreement at phony “informational meetings” held by the UAW.
To all workers at Dana and beyond: We have the right to abolish the UAW bureaucracy because it takes our dues money and is not representing us. Therefore we the rank-and-file must begin representing ourselves.
In the prepared remarks for his testimony, Jerome Powell indicated the Fed’s actions so far had not slowed the economy to the extent it wants in order to suppress wages to the level it considers necessary.
People who cross the Channel on small boats will be immediately detained without bail or judicial review for 28 days. A duty will be placed on ministers to remove them “as soon as reasonably practicable.”
A survey conducted by the Office for National Statistics during February found that 92 percent of adults in Britain reported an increase in their cost of living in January-February 2023, from the situation a year ago. Even compared with one month previous, 67 percent of respondents reported a cost of living increase.
Throughout the lengthy negotiations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government have maintained a hardline stance. They are determined to make the workers pay for the cost of the war with Russia and the massive bailout given to the financial elite at the onset of the pandemic.
In this series of meetings, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality will explain the evolution of the war in Ukraine and elaborate a socialist and internationalist strategy to end it.
After decades of collaborating with the corporations and successive governments in the systematic destruction of workers’ jobs, living standards and working conditions, the affluent upper-middle class executives who occupy the union’s misnamed “Solidarity House” and its satellites are viewed with contempt by the rank and file.
There is only one explanation as to why Scholz’s personal presence was required and the content of the meeting was kept strictly secret: it was about a massive expansion of the Ukrainian war that demanded Scholz’s personal consent.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday’s meeting, which was attended by a worldwide audience, presented a powerful case for a unified movement of the international working class for socialist revolution as the only realistic strategy to stop World War III.
The Ukraine war has accelerated the decay of the Left Party. Leading members are conducting a bitter slugging match in which the disintegration of the party seems only a matter of time. There is no progressive side to be found.
The “Revolt for Peace” rally was not a call to fight war, but an appeal to the government to protect German interests more consistently.
The war games come as millions protest Macron’s pension reform, and broader attacks on wages and social spending, designed to fund the state’s rearmament campaign.
Millions of people—both homebuyers and renters—face severe financial stress and the danger of losing their homes, compounded by the soaring cost of living.
The perspective of appealing to governments has failed. The alternative is a turn to the growing struggles of the working class to overturn the profit system, the root cause of the climate crisis.
One young person said: “The working class are paying and giving money to the government and the government is giving it to the richer people so the richer people are going to get richer, and the people who are working have to work harder, longer, just to support that.”
The lies of the establishment parties are clearly evident across the state’s Northern Rivers region, where thousands of residents—both homeowners and renters—remain homeless or living in makeshift accommodation.
The rank-and-file educators' committee is fighting to mobilize teachers and all city workers against the Democrats' demands for austerity.
The call by the Postal Workers Action Committee for rank-and-file workers to take the approaching strike at Deutsche Post DHL into their own hands, to prevent a sellout by Verdi, has been accessed more than 25,000 times.
Barely a year after the Socialist Party (PS) won a majority in the Portuguese parliament, strikes and protests are erupting across the country.
The Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the WSWS for a democratic forum to analyze the UAW’s sellout tentative agreement, and outlining the strategy to mobilize workers in the US and internationally in a common fight back.
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.
A flurry of cold weather and blizzards brought monumental amounts of snow which have trapped many residents in their homes and without road access for more than a week.
Allan’s family says at least 12 bullets were fired into his car after officers attempted to pull him from the vehicle for alleged non-compliance.
A third storm since February 23 hit Metro Detroit on Friday and knocked out power again for more than 220,000 customers of DTE Energy and Consumers Energy.
The Supreme Court is hearing the case Gonzalez v. Google amid growing demands from different factions of the U.S. political establishment to either remove the Section 230 liability shield entirely or strengthen its censorship provisions to impose a much harsher regime of government control and regulation of social media and internet content.
The Swimmers’ principal focus is the horrific plight of refugees in the most immediate and direct sense. As of May 2022, the total number worldwide had reached an astronomical 100 million.
The preoccupation with identity (in the parlance of the festival and other such events, “diversity”) issues, sex and race, was in evidence throughout.
The Dark Side of the Moon paints a picture of the human condition in modern capitalist society that has consistently resonated with tens of millions globally.
Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl’s books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.
SEP and plantation action committee members campaigned at tea estates around Upcot and in Maskeliya town to build last month’s open-air meeting.
The JVP-NPP is putting itself forward as an alternative government to implement the deeply unpopular austerity measures demanded by the IMF and support the rising anger of broad layers of working people.
The unions are fearful that the rising wave of strikes and protests will lead to a major confrontation with the Wickremesinghe regime and the bourgeois state.
Wednesday’s strikes and protests powerfully indicate the determination of workers to fight the government’s social attacks. By contrast, the trade unions did everything they could limit to the industrial action.
Ongoing attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank make it clear that the pogrom-like rampage by hundreds of Israeli settlers on the town of Huwara on February 26, while Israeli troops stood by, is part of a broader campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Erdoğan and Turkish authorities continue to deny their responsibility in this historic catastrophe, which has officially claimed over 45,000 lives in Turkey.
Far-right party leaders have called for the Israel Defence Forces to drive out the Palestinians from their homes in an explicit call for the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
The intention of the attackers is to provoke a wider conflagration and create the basis for stepped up ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the West Bank and possibly an all-out war by Israel.
Democrats in the Tennessee House voted for the anti-trans bill and played a role in the campaign leading up to the passing of the law.
Trump’s speech, nearly two hours long, was devoted to a combination of obsessive self-praise and virulent and repeated attacks on socialism, Marxism and communism.
Multiple Jewish Michigan officials, some of whom were previously targeted in the 2020 fascist assassination plot, confirmed they were recently contacted by the FBI regarding the alleged terrorist plot.
On Tuesday, the White House launched a campaign to secure congressional reauthorization of the law used to continue mass electronic surveillance of the public that was exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013.
Seventy years ago, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died at the age of 73. To the extent that the worst defeats of the working class in the 20th century can be attributed to the crimes and betrayals of an individual, that person is Stalin.
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.
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.
Once again, it is asserted that all present social problems are the outcome of slavery. This theory imparts to the series its frenetic, almost dizzying and essentially incoherent quality.
Former health Secretary Matt Hancock leaked WhatsApp messages provide detail of the decisions which turned care homes into killing fields and the constant efforts of sections of the Tory party to pursue an even more socially murderous policy.
The response by the ruling elite to the renewed flood of infections is to try and cover it up and remove the limited services they provided earlier in the pandemic. The CBC reported Thursday that the federal Liberal government suspended the shipment of rapid test kits to the provinces at the end of January.
At the beginning of February, the obligation to wear a mask in buses and trains was ended throughout Germany, along with the Coronavirus Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance.
Newly released mortality statistics reveal that Turkey’s government, implicated in tens of thousands of deaths by its handling of long-predicted earthquakes, has covered up mass deaths from COVID-19.
The meeting was the first time in the month since the February 3 derailment that an official representative from Norfolk Southern attended a town hall in East Palestine.
The poisoning of East Palestine, Ohio, is not merely an environmental catastrophe. It is a man-made disaster which raises fundamental questions about the structure of the society which produced it.
More disasters and more cover-ups are inevitable as long as social decision-making is left in the hands of a tiny capitalist oligarchy.
The focus of Norfolk Southern executives and government regulators was to reopen the rail line and get trains running again as quickly as possible, regardless of the consequences for the people living in the area.
Due to the Labour-Greens government’s removal of measures to stop COVID-19 from spreading, New Zealand experienced its biggest annual increase in deaths since the 1918 flu pandemic.
The 2023 school year began in late January and early February with public schools facing an unprecedented crisis.
Ex-minister Stuart Robert’s extraordinary admission to the robodebt inquiry laid bare the reality that all governments, Labor and Liberal-National, lie and deceive the population on every front.
Catastrophic flooding across much of the North Island underscores the urgency of addressing climate change, but the rally organisers promoted illusions that the Labour-Greens government can be pressured to take action.
As the population's anger mounts at the mass loss of life in the Tempi train crash, the Greek Civil Servants’ Confederation has announced a 24-hour nationwide strike in the public sector for March 8 and a demonstration in the capital, Athens. Strikes have been announced for the same day by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) and the Greek Primary Teachers’ Federation (DOE).
Barely a year after the Socialist Party (PS) won a majority in the Portuguese parliament, strikes and protests are erupting across the country.
On Thursday, on the anniversary of his speech proclaiming a “new era” in foreign policy, Scholz again delivered a government statement in the Bundestag. It lived up to his war speech a year ago, which initiated the massive arms deliveries to Ukraine and the largest German rearmament since Hitler.
All the parties of the ruling class are implicated in the deaths, having overseen an unsafe rail system for years.
The entire American political establishment has made it clear that high-tech development in China is an existential threat to the position of the US and must be countered by all means necessary, including war.
Wage suppression is the objective of all the central banks with the European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane making it clear that even if inflationary pressures start to fade it will continue “for the next several years.”
The central bank’s monetary policy regime, advanced in the name of fighting inflation, is above all directed to the suppression of wage demands as it continually refers to a “tight” labour market.
The report of higher than expected inflation in January caused a drop on Wall Street, as investors anticipated that the US Federal Reserve will press on with its program of interest rate increases aimed at triggering a recession to undermine workers' wage demands.
The vote count will resume in Dayton, Ohio this week, with Shawn Fain holding a razor thin lead over incumbent UAW President Ray Curry.
The Caterpillar workers are in a fight that has major significance for the whole working class.
The large abstention in the second round of voting reflects the mass alienation of workers from the UAW apparatus.
In this letter to the court-appointed Monitor, Lehman calls for a "full and transparent investigation into the circumstances behind this appointment... conducted publicly in the view of the rank and file."
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.
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.
The material in the German newspaper further substantiates claims that the US government has waged an illegal global campaign against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and their supporters.
The latest revelation demonstrates that while occasionally making vague statements about Assange’s plight, Labor is continuing the more than ten-year record of Australian governments collaborating in his persecution.
While there were important remarks from a number of journalists and whistleblowers, the tribunal was characterized by the bankrupt orientation of the “Progressive International” to the Biden administration and the Democratic Party.
Hrafnsson’s urgent warnings came during an interview in Brazil with Glenn Greenwald, published Monday on Rumble.
The race-obsessed middle class layers which Hannah-Jones epitomizes are fundamentally fearful of and hostile to the growing movement of the working class. The last thing they want is for the party to end when there is yet so much money to be made.
The Times, which wishes readers to take the 1619 Project seriously as a “reframing of American history,” has said more than it intended.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
The struggle at Refap raises the possibility of a major strike during the first months of the Workers Party (PT) administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The announcement of the end of daily pandemic data came just before the PT government completely ignored the threat that Carnival represented for the worsening of the pandemic in Brazil.
For the 10th consecutive week, the wave of mass demonstrations and roadblocks across Peru has continued defying brutal repression by the US-backed coup regime of Dina Boluarte.
The massive scale of the roundups is comparable to those carried out by the military dictatorships in Central and South America during the 1970s and 1980s.
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.
The discoveries include evidence that Oldowan tools were used to cut and pound animal flesh far earlier than previously known.
The most complete skull of Homo Erectus found in the east Asian region could well shed light on the complex evolutionary history of human beings.
The ability to disinfect indoor spaces remains a critical public health endeavor. Ultraviolet technology is an important tool that has been employed for more than a century. This report reviews the current issues behind air disinfection and the history of ultraviolet disinfection.
The latest and most dangerous subvariant of Omicron is leading to high levels of hospitalization across the Northeast. The winter surge of COVID will likely overtake the rest of the country over the next few weeks.
It would be hard to find a previous election in Germany in which the gulf between the interests of the population and the politics of the established parties was as obvious as in the re-run of the Berlin state election last Sunday.
The following speech was given by Ulrich Rippert, the honorary chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and candidate in the Berlin state elections, at the SGP's rally against the war in Ukraine on February 4 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
Against the war madness and social devastation, a powerful movement of the working class is developing all over the world. The SGP election campaign has given it a voice and a socialist perspective.
We publish here an appeal by Ulaş Ateşçi to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) in the Berlin elections on February 12. Ateşçi is a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey.
Watch and share the powerful video of Will Lehman, a second-tier worker at Mack trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania, explaining the basis of his campaign for UAW president, accompanied by statements of support from workers across the US and Mexico.
The deal deepens the treacherous role of the Arab bourgeoisie, which has now formally buried its own “two state” solution and confirms that the nationalist agenda championed by all sections of the Palestinian bourgeoisie provides no way forward for the workers and oppressed masses
Calls are growing for a national shut down in opposition to Eskom’s blackouts and electricity tariff hikes of 18.6 percent in April and another 12.7 percent next year.
His election in 2017 promising to root out corruption was a feeble attempt to restore the flagging fortunes of the ANC that has now been blown apart.
A 71-year-old Libyan, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, appeared in a US federal court in Washington D.C. to face charges related to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Mas'ud has effectively been kidnapped and subjected to extraordinary rendition.
These are the concluding remarks by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the December 10 rally, “For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine!” organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
The rally on December 10 set out the background to the Ukraine war and provided an international perspective against the threat of nuclear war.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
Latin American countries, with deep economic and political ties to both the US and China, will necessarily be drawn into the center of the developing global war.
A scathing, and as-of-yet still unreleased Inspector General report on the Architect of the Capitol, revealed that James Brett Blanton, Trump-appointed member of the Capitol Police Board refused to respond during the siege.
The arrests indicate the significant level of support Trump’s coup, and fascism, have within the US military.
As evidence continues to accumulate against Solomon Peña, the failed Republican state House candidate turned shooter, Democrats issue calls to “agree to disagree.”
Solomon Peña, 39, is accused of being the “mastermind” behind at least four shootings in Albuquerque targeting Democratic politicians at their homes.
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 struggle must be expanded through the formation of rank-and-file committees representing all sections of the campus workforce and the students.
Canada’s state-owned national broadcaster is trumpeting a foul right-wing smear campaign aimed at silencing any voices critical of the US-NATO instigated war with Russia over Ukraine–a war in which Canadian imperialism is playing an especially provocative role.
Howard University’s bid to become one of the Pentagon’s higher education affiliates means it will be dedicated to the development of the US military’s killing machines.
The actions by the New York University administration against Naye Idriss constitute a fundamental assault on democratic rights and set a dangerous precedent for the victimization and targeting of left-wing students and university employees.
The SEP held an online memorial meeting to pay tribute to the life of Regina Lohr, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 66.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution states, “The international working class must take the lead in the fight to free Assange. It is the sole constituency for the defence of democratic rights, and it alone has the power to wrest the WikiLeaks founder from his captors.”
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), is the democratic organ of international working-class struggle in the 21st century.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution explains: "The two alternatives posed before mankind are either unending mass infection, debilitation and death, or the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and implementation of a policy of global elimination, to end all human-to-human transmission of COVID-19."
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.
An Auckland-based teacher told the WSWS how his increasingly severe Long COVID symptoms were misdiagnosed by doctors who said he had mental health issues. He said the government was allowing COVID to spread and ignoring the consequences for people’s health.
In this interview for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, Alberta nurse Kerry speaks on her experience with Long COVID and the unions’ complicity in enforcing the government’s “let it rip” pandemic policy.
In this interview for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, flight attendant Tim Yoder shares his experiences in early 2020. Tim caught COVID-19 in mid-March 2020 after being told he was an “essential worker” and had to continue flying despite feeling ill when multiple coworkers had already tested positive for COVID-19.
Paul, who had to stop work and has lost his home due to Long Covid, denounced the lack of government recognition and support for people with the condition.
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.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ruled against every single one of Lake’s claims and noted in his decision that none of Lake’s witnesses could point to any intentional misconduct or evidence of a single vote that was changed.
The US midterms have set the stage for two years of legislative stalemate—except when it comes to funneling billions into the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and passing record Pentagon budgets, or enacting dictatorial laws blocking strikes and imposing corporate-dictated contracts on workers, as with last week’s bipartisan vote banning a strike by rail workers.
The same right-wing forces in Arizona that backed Trump’s failed coup and his stolen election narrative are inciting violence against election officials more than a week after all but one of the major races has been decided.
The indeterminate outcome has already led to back-biting within both capitalist parties.
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.
These remarks were delivered by Tomas Castanheira to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Christoph Vandreier to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Deepal Jayasekera to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
Eighty-two years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
This 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!”
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.
This is the report delivered by Joseph Kishore to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Kishore is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
This is the report delivered by Tom Peters to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Peters is a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, which is fighting to build a section of the ICFI.
This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Link is a leading member in Germany of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, the youth movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties.
This is the report delivered by Cheryl Crisp to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Crisp is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia.
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
Labor claims to have suddenly discovered that the budget situation is “dire” so “significant savings” must be found and “productivity” driven up with the help of the trade unions.
Labor, before it has even secured a majority government, is on a foreign policy blitz aimed at shoring-up US and Australian hegemony over the Pacific.
The outcome reflects, in distorted electoral terms, a political radicalisation of workers and young people that is already finding expression in a development of working class struggles.
Autoworker and grandmother Catherine Pace died on March 27, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in the paint department at the Warren Truck Plant outside Detroit, then operated by Fiat-Chrysler, now Stellantis.
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
Twitter owner and fascistic billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged late Thursday that he had shut down the accounts of numerous prominent journalists earlier in the day, claiming falsely that they had violated a new policy on the platform against “doxxing."
Media outlets and technology experts are warning that Twitter may collapse or go bankrupt following the mass exodus of another 1,200 employees from the company.
In a rational society, a platform like Twitter would be publicly owned, but under capitalism it has become the plaything of a single billionaire oligarch, and a fascistic buffoon to boot.
Los Angeles County health officials reported last week that a man infected with monkeypox had passed away. An investigation is underway to determine the virus’ contribution to his death.
A severely immunocompromised adult male died in Houston on Sunday. Public health officials said he was infected with monkeypox. Still, they stopped short of connecting the infection as a contributory factor in his death, stating they did not know what role the virus played in his demise.
The UAW has remained silent on the spread of monkeypox in the plants, in line with its efforts to cover up the disastrous toll COVID-19 has had on workers.
The CDC’s cursory guidance posted as answers to Frequently Asked Questions only downplays and minimizes the concerns working families have about the safety of schools for their children.
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.
In his introduction to the International May Day Online Rally, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North reviews the historical origins of the US-NATO war drive against Russia and outlines the political strategy of the working class to oppose the danger of World War III.
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the British ruling class has lost its popular head of state on which it has relied to project the myth of national unity and suppress social conflict.
In its adulation of Queen Elizabeth and all the pageantry of the British monarchy, the newspaper responsible for publishing the 1619 Project has entangled itself in many layers of contradictions.
The significance of Elizabeth II’s funeral is well illustrated by reference to a previous British royal funeral, more than a century earlier, that of Edward VII.
What was being celebrated at Westminster Hall is the ability of Britain’s imperialist bourgeoisie to utilise the monarchy as a means of sanctifying and reinforcing its own power.
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
This shameful campaign reached new heights Tuesday when concerted efforts were made to prevent Comaroff from teaching. Provocations were organized both inside and outside the classroom.
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
John Comaroff, professor of African and African American studies and of anthropology at Harvard University, has become the target of what has all the earmarks of another filthy #MeToo witch-hunt.
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The US military published a series of documents Thursday outlining US plans for war with Russia and China, and asserting the central role of nuclear weapons in US warfighting.
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Steinmeier's remarks to invited soldiers, journalists, think tank representatives and leading politicians can only be described as a “war speech to the nation.” The focus was de facto a declaration of war on Russia and the Russian population.
The Afghan withdrawal represented a debacle for US imperialism, which based its policy throughout thirty years of uninterrupted wars, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1990-91, on the conviction that military force could overcome Washington’s precipitous economic decline.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
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.
While right-wing extremist terrorist networks operate unhindered in Germany’s state apparatus and are covered up by the highest authorities, federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) has called for a fight against alleged “left-wing extremists” and young climate change activists.
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement. Comrade Jean, who died November 24, 1997 at the age of 76, joined the Trotskyist-led Young Peoples Socialist League as a teenager in 1937.
Yesterday, around 3 million workers went on strike and marched in cities across France on calls to “block the economy” and force a stop to President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts.
After decades of collaborating with the corporations and successive governments in the systematic destruction of workers’ jobs, living standards and working conditions, the affluent upper-middle class executives who occupy the union’s misnamed “Solidarity House” and its satellites are viewed with contempt by the rank and file.
There is only one explanation as to why Scholz’s personal presence was required and the content of the meeting was kept strictly secret: it was about a massive expansion of the Ukrainian war that demanded Scholz’s personal consent.
The earthquake that has had such a devastating impact in Turkey and Syria is a global and historic event, that will have political consequences.
The horrific massacre of civilians was immediately exploited by the imperialist powers, led by the United States government itself, to justify far-reaching attacks on the democratic rights of their own populations, and the launching of decades-long wars in the Middle East and Africa.
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Eric London, a writer for the WSWS and author of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
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.
Police have made no guarantee that there will be any prosecution for the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster, which killed 29 workers.
The Labour Party government’s promises to “be upfront” and “empower” the survivors of catastrophic events are a fraud, as the experience of the Pike River victims’ families makes clear.
In 2013, Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall made an unsolicited and unlawful payment to the 29 families of the 2010 mine disaster, in exchange for the New Zealand government dropping charges against him.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl’s books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.
Drawing on original historical records, Geraldine Brooks has written an absorbing account of how a small village tried to combat the bubonic plague in 17th century England.
The American writer Russell Banks, who wrote about the lives of working-class people and historical figures such as John Brown, died on January 3 at the age of 82.
With a couple of exceptions, the editor has chosen stories that in their form, language and examination of thematic ideas are highly accomplished, even if the collection as a whole bumps its head against certain objective limits.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
