The Kursk offensive is of limited military effectiveness, but its political significance is substantial. It is an immense political humiliation for the Putin regime and a demonstration that NATO has no “red lines” in its escalation against Russia.
We are publishing here the main resolution adopted by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Supporters of the SEP collected 1,395 signatures during the course of a three-month-long campaign across Washington state, well over the 1,000 required to place Kishore and White on the ballot.
Professor Aidan Beatty, a lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, has posted an announcement of the upcoming publication of his book on Gerry Healy.
The Israeli military is on high alert as the Biden administration moved a naval strike group, destroyers and a submarine into the region escalating the threat of war between Israel and Iran.
For over two hours, the two billionaires used the global communications platform to spread their neo-Nazi ideology and politics.
At the beginning of July, the World Socialist Web Site spoke to the internationally renowned sociologist and expert in the sociology of childhood, Prof. Dr. Doris Bühler-Niederberger. Since 2019, Bühler-Niederberger has been a senior professor and then emeritus professor of sociology of family, youth and education at the University of Wuppertal and past president of the Research Committee 53 of the Sociology of Childhood in the International Sociological Association.
The Berlin-Tiergarten district court has sentenced a young woman of Iranian origin to a fine for shouting the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
Two leaders of the student organization that initiated and led the anti-government protests have been included in the 17-member “cabinet.” However, the key portfolios are all in the hands of trusted members of the Bangladeshi capitalist elite.
In 1983, the Thatcher Conservative government adopted a policy of “Care in the Community” as part of an overall cutting of NHS provision within the political project of “rolling back the frontiers of the state”.
There has not been a single sober assessment of the political motives and timing of the case, along with the media frenzy surrounding it.
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the United States held its Eighth National Congress from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
The rally organized by the Socialist Equality Party advanced a clear program and perspective upon which opposition to the genocide has to be developed.
Autoworkers must make this the start of a broad fightback, counterposing workers’ right to employment and a decent standard of living against management’s so-called “right” to profit.
This report by Ukrainian journalists documents growing signs of disintegration of the Ukrainian army and resistance to the war at the front and in the rear.
Semyon, who fled from Ukraine and is now working and studying in Germany, fears the latest decisions by the German authorities mean he could be sent back to be used as cannon fodder.
“Because Bogdan’s ideas directly go against President Zelensky’s reactionary policies and the war, he has been put into jail.”
“We need to stand with Bogdan now, because it’s easy to imagine the alternative: if Ukraine is able to imprison socialists and ban the WSWS without protest, what’s to stop the UK, Germany or the US, from doing the same?”
Socialist Equality Party members won a warm response in a working class neighbourhood Saturday as they continued their struggle to build support for the campaign to free the Ukrainian socialist and opponent of imperialist war among Canadian workers and young people.
Nominating petitions for Joe Kishore and Jerry White have also been filed in Michigan and Washington state.
Positioning herself as a more effective “deporter-in-chief” than Trump, Harris accused the fascistic Republican of talking a “big game” when it came to “border security” but failing to “walk the walk.”
Harris’ refusal to engage with the protesters confirms that war abroad and suppression of democratic rights domestically is not just the individual policy choice of “Genocide Joe,” but the shared class policy of both capitalist parties.
The prominent role assigned to Fain by the Harris campaign shows the degree to which the Democratic Party relies on the UAW apparatus to line workers up behind its program of war and austerity.
The Delmar, New York home of former US Marine Corp intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was raided by the FBI on Wednesday in connection with an investigation into alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.
Like New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Bush lost support within the working class despite her anti-war posturing due to her unstinting support for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
The invocation of the law used to ban a rail strike in 2022 as “pro-worker” in their endorsement exposes the bureaucracy’s role as an agent of capitalist politics.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia took a previously undisclosed trip by private jet from Hawaii to New Zealand and back in November 2010 that was paid for by right-wing billionaire Harlan Crow.
The “talks” are dragging out in order to conceal from teachers the fact that massive cuts are on the way to close a $500 million deficit.
A strike would not only bring whole sections of the economy to a halt, it would also embolden workers across the country and the world to press for their own demands and become the start of a broader offensive by the working class.
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has met the companies’ aggressive demands for further concessions on crew scheduling, work hours, and fatigue management with conciliation, just as it has bowed before the Trudeau government’s legal maneuvers to stop and sabotage a strike.
Workers and residents throughout the state must mount a campaign to defend healthcare jobs and medical care at Steward Health Care.
Keating’s comments pointed to the real dynamic of the war threat, with US imperialism in decline and seeking to maintain its hegemony through aggressive conflict with China.
The Labor government’s program of militarism, complicity in genocide and cuts to working-class living conditions is opening the door for the return of a right-wing Coalition government.
The Pacific Forum’s intervention in the French colony’s crisis is driven by concerns that the situation could be the spark for wider regional unrest.
Unemployment is rising across the country, with the highest levels recorded in working-class areas.
The BMA Junior Doctors Committee is intent on ending the dispute, with joint leader Dr Robert Laurenson declaring, “I think it’s fair to say we have no plans at the moment to call for strike action.”
This cruel and vindictive decision means Begum, demonised as a “Jihadi bride”, has exhausted all legal means of challenge in the UK and she remains stateless in Syria, deprived of all human rights.
While Germany wages war against Russia in Ukraine and supports genocide against the Palestinians in the Middle East, the militarisation of society continues, extending to the enlistment of minors.
Stand Up To Racism and the Socialist Workers Party figures in its leadership minimise the connection between the far-right danger and the systematic promotion of anti-migrant and nationalist rhetoric by the official parties, diverting from the central task of opposing the Starmer Labour government which came to power based on pledges to “stop the boats” and deport “illegal” migrants.
The single day fall in the Japanese market last Monday was the most significant such event since the Wall Street and global market crash of October 1987.
Just two days after indicating rate cuts will start in September, the Fed is being denounced for doing too little too late.
Wall Street expressed its support for the move with significant increases in the major indexes.
Expectations for a recovery in the euro zone have been dealt a blow by the continued stagnation of its largest economy, Germany.
Presidential candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena explained that the SEP is the only party fighting to mobilise the working class against capitalist austerity and war.
Only our party speaks the truth and explains to workers, the poor and young people the serious situation they confront and the necessity of fighting for a revolutionary socialist alternative.
We cannot defend our jobs, wages and working conditions and improve them under these unions. We have no time to waste in organising a united struggle against the government’s IMF austerity.
The union leadership did not consult with members prior to ending industrial action and then held meetings blocking any discussion on their decision.
The Democratic administrations in Albany and NYC are criminalizing migrants and the homeless.
As the Liberal government, backed by the trade unions and New Democrats, spend tens of billions on waging war around the world and enriching their corporate paymasters, growing numbers of people are forced to resort to permanently living in tents with virtually none of the amenities necessary for modern living.
In California alone, a state with a gross domestic product of $3.23 trillion, more than 181,000 people experience homelessness daily, as reported by the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
The US Supreme Court rejected Texas inmate Arthur Lee Burton’s request for a stay based on his intellectual disability. The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole rejected Taberon Dave Honie’s petition for commutation of his death sentence on the basis of intergenerational trauma in his childhood.
The hyper-produced pop singer postures, unconvincingly, as an “anti-mainstream” pop superstar, seething with resentment at a music industry establishment dominated by essentially lifeless and manufactured trash.
Colman and Spall in particular know these sorts of lower middle class characters inside out. Their performances would be difficult to improve upon.
“To go from writing songs that say there’s no hope to lyrics that dare to attack the problems we’re experiencing in Rouyn-Noranda and point the finger at those responsible, gives meaning to what we’re doing and what we're experiencing.”
After dragging its feet for nearly two years and having been finally forced to call a strike by the companies’ intransigence, SAG-AFTRA is limiting the action to the greatest extent possible.
Earthquake in Turkey kills thousands; Greek fascist massacre in Cyprus; Fourth Geneva Convention adopted; Dawes Plan approved
The capitulation of Serbia to the US-NATO onslaught brings to an end the last major strategic experience of the twentieth century. Its bloody conclusion endows the century with a certain tragic symmetry. It began with the suppression of the anti-colonial uprising of the Chinese Boxers. The century closes with a war that completes the reduction of the Balkans to the status of a neo-colonial protectorate of the major imperialist powers.
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
The killing of yet another senior Hamas official makes a mockery of the far-right Netanyahu government’s claim to be interested in negotiating a ceasefire with Hamas, not to mention the posturing by its imperialist backers in favour of a ceasefire.
Saied‘s aim is to consolidate his one-man dictatorship and impose the full burden of Tunisia’s deep-rooted economic problems on the working class on behalf of the country’s corrupt financial elite.
The Erdoğan government’s putting this issue on the main agenda aims to create a polarisation among the working class and the youth on this basis and to deflect the growing social opposition.
In 2014, a United Nations working group found that their convictions had been “based on charges of acts that would fall under the rights to freedom of expression and of assembly,” and that their detention had been “arbitrary.”
US and European news outlets have hailed what The Economist dubbed “The second battle of Kursk,” referencing the World War II battle in which Soviet forces, then allied with the United States and Britain, decisively defeated the armies of Nazi Germany.
US, German and EU officials publicly endorsed Ukraine's ongoing military ground offensive inside Russia's Kursk region Thursday, as Ukrainian forces appeared to continue to gain ground.
Early Tuesday morning, Ukrainian forces launched what appears to be the largest incursion of Russian territory to date in the border region of Kursk.
The ISO’s support for imperialism in Ukraine demolishes its anti-war pretentions. While participating in protests against the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, it simultaneously supports the no less predatory and criminal war of the US and NATO against Russia.
The world’s corporate media has largely ignored B’Tselem’s report because Israel enjoys the support of all the imperialist powers now themselves attacking democratic rights and freedom of speech to suppress opposition to their domestic and foreign policies.
While US diplomats are supposedly “scrambling” to defuse tensions, top American military officials are huddled with their Israeli counterparts over war plans.
On the ground in Gaza, criminal attacks by the Israel Defense Forces against civilians continue. Simultaneous strikes on the Hassan Salama and Nassr schools and al Aqsa hospital in Gaza City killed at least 30 people, including children and the elderly.
As it supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza and targeted assassinations, Washington’s claim that its military escalation in the Middle East is for defensive purposes is a flagrant lie.
The NYPD has arrested videographer Samuel Seligson on trumped charges of hate crimes for filming the graffitiing of the homes of pro-genocide members of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Museum.
The RA, giving in to pro-Israeli organizations, removed two works inspired by anger over the mass murder in Gaza.
Stella Maris, elected rector of St Andrews University, intends to fight the University Court's decision to dismiss her because of her opposition to Israel’s genocidal war crimes in Gaza.
Organisers doubled down on their efforts to channel anti-genocide and anti-war sentiment into the dead end of appeals to the Labour Party to back a ceasefire, end arms sales to Israel and recognize Palestine.
A new review of Long COVID by renowned researchers places the estimate of people with Long COVID at 409 million during the first four years of the COVID pandemic.
Legislators in the Republican-led Nassau County government banned the use of medical masks in public in on Monday.
The deadlier strain of Mpox that emerged last year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread unchecked to Uganda, Kenya and the capital city of Goma, raising the dangers of another pandemic.
Dr. Şenol, a leading specialist in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at Gazi University Medical Faculty in Ankara, Turkey, denounces the cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic and stresses the ongoing dangers facing humanity.
The protest organisers, NGOs and activist organisations, had called for 10 days of street demonstrations starting August 1. Their demands include: an end to inflation now running at 34 percent, jobs, increased security amid a rise in kidnappings for ransom, a reduction in government costs and electoral, judicial and constitutional reform.
Far from opening a new era of national unity and development, the new Cabinet’s first task is to crush the months of protests, escalate IMF austerity and maintain Kenya’s status as Washington’s non-NATO proxy force across Africa and the Caribbean.
The protests have instilled fear within the Museveni regime of unrest similar to that in neighboring Kenya. In a televised address Saturday evening Museveni threatened the protestors, "We are busy producing wealth… and you here want to disturb us.”
The protests are a rejection of Ruto's announcement last Friday of the first batch of Cabinet Secretaries, replacing those dismissed on July 11 after weeks of mass anti-austerity demonstrations. In a provocative move, Ruto reinstated half of the officials he had fired just two weeks ago.
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.
Hopes that trade war between the US and China would lead companies to pour resources into Mexico’s economy are rapidly dissipating.
That an unknown stand-in for Maria Corina Machado, an extreme right-wing creature of the CIA and proponent for US sanctions, could plausibly have defeated Maduro is an indictment of the entire Bolivarian project and the pink-tide regionally.
The presidential elections scheduled for Sunday will not resolve the explosive and intersecting global and local political crises gripping Venezuela.
In Peru, more than 1.5 million young people between the ages of 15 and 29 neither study nor work.
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.
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The political significance of the IYSSE’s strong election result extends far beyond the campus of Humboldt University. At HU, the extremely acute situation in Germany and internationally finds concentrated expression.
Last week, the House of Representatives voted to make enrollment in the US Selective Service database automatic, prompting a flood of worried statements by young people and parents on social media about the reimposition of the draft.
In the following, we document the IYSSE Humboldt University election statement, which will be printed in the student election brochure. The elections are on 18 and 19 June.
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
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.
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, largely as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, are producing record temperatures year after year.
Extreme heat events are becoming more common and more extreme as climate change warms the planet
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
The last court filing lends further weight to the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for new UAW elections under the control of the rank and file.
The UAW has refused to send the monitor documents that refer to open threats or acts of criminal violence, including “cut throat,” “slit throat,” “punch,” “smack,” “knock out,” and, ominously, “kill.”
Amid new revelations of UAW corruption, Stellantis, Ford and GM workers supported the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for a new union elections.
The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has launched a “cost-cutting" race in the EV transition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zola was an eloquent opponent of obscurantism and reaction, and played a major role in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism.
The series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
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 Kursk offensive is of limited military effectiveness, but its political significance is substantial. It is an immense political humiliation for the Putin regime and a demonstration that NATO has no “red lines” in its escalation against Russia.
Scenes of mass murder like that seen at the Tabeen school play out day after day, week after week. Mass murder and war crimes in pursuit of imperialist war aims are being normalized.
The horrific collapse of American sprinter Noah Lyles at the Paris Olympics due to his infection with COVID-19 is a graphic exposure of the reality that the pandemic is ongoing and remains dangerous for the entire population.
The threat of dictatorship and world war is even greater today than in the period of the Watergate crisis and Vietnam.
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.
