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.
The central issue in the strike is chronic understaffing and the catastrophic state of the health care system in the US, as the fourth year of the global pandemic begins.
President Emmanuel Macron had abandoned his plan to raise the pension age two years, which provoked a rail strike in 2019, amid mass strikes at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
German public retirement insurance issuers generated a 2.1 billion euro surplus last year. A major contributor was the COVID deaths from an above-average number of pensioners.
The nurses are fighting for higher wages, but, above all, their struggle is directed against dangerous levels of understaffing and the catastrophic state of the health care system in the fourth year of the pandemic.
The industrial massacre is a social crime that is the result of speedup and long hours that cause exhaustion and illness.
The Ukrainian edition of the WSWS will publish critical historical and programmatic documents that will create the foundations for a Ukrainian section of the ICFI.
Iran's Shia clergy-led bourgeois nationalist regime has increasingly resorted to barbaric methods to terrorise the Iranian people so as to stomp out the anti-government protests that erupted after the police-custody death of a young Kurdish woman.
Amid the largest strike wave in generations, the TUC will not organise coordinated action even for one day.
The reports of classified documents held in a private office of Biden’s are being compared by Republicans to Trump’s actions at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Five members of the fascist militia group are facing serious charges for spearheading the assault on Congress as part of Trump’s failed coup.
The failure of the NOTAM system, which sends alerts to pilots and airport personnel about safety issues across the country, caused a ground stop ordered by the FAA on a scale not seen since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
Numerous factors are cited as bearing down on global growth but the chief one is the synchronised tightening of monetary policies and the lifting of interest rates by the world’s central banks, spearheaded by the US Federal Reserve.
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. The report reviews the current issues behind air disinfection and the history of ultraviolet disinfection.
In the first days of 2023, the reactionary and repulsive dynamic of American capitalist politics has been on full display. The Democratic Socialists of America and its congressional representatives play a critical part of this right-wing process.
The central issue in the strike is chronic understaffing and the catastrophic state of the health care system in the US, as the fourth year of the global pandemic begins.
The organizers of the fascist assault in Brasilia are deeply entrenched in the state and especially in the military.
At a certain point, escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia begets escalation, creating a chain reaction that cannot be contained.
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 Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei rally in the Spandau district gave a strong political lead in opposition to the German government sending tanks to Ukraine.
Eighty-two years after the beginning of the German war of extermination against the Soviet Union, German tanks are again rolling against Russia. The German government is thereby risking a nuclear world war.
In the first days of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) campaign for the Berlin state election, members and supporters have distributed thousands of leaflets at vocational schools, in residential neighbourhoods and at factories, and held countless discussions with workers and young people.
On Monday, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) broadcast its launch event for the 2023 Berlin state elections. In it, leading members of the party explained the SGP’s principles, socialist program and historical foundations.
The United States and Germany have announced they will expand their training of Ukrainian troops inside their own borders, further embroiling them in a war with Russia.
The announcement that Germany will supply Ukraine with Marder fighting vehicles is part of a spiral of escalation raising the danger of a third nuclear war. Politicians and the media are conducting an aggressive campaign for this to be followed by the delivery of battle tanks and other heavy weaponry.
The announcement came after a bilateral meeting between Canadian Prime Justin Trudeau and US President Joe Biden, where the two allies discussed waging war on Russia, thwarting China, securing access to critical raw materials and “friendshoring” supply chains.
Amidst death and destruction at the front, the Zelensky government is engaged in far-reaching attacks on democratic rights.
Workers at Deutsche Post must not accept being stabbed in the back again by the Verdi trade union, as it did in 2020.
Members of the public gathered last weekend in Washington D.C. to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Amazon worker Poushawn Brown, who had been a COVID-19 tester in a nearby facility.
“We warn Pampas workers, the biggest obstacle you confront is the UWU bureaucracy, which is working hand-in-glove with management to impose real wage cuts that will only drive workers further into the ground.”
More than 7,000 nurses are standing strong on the picket line even as the New York State Nurses Association seeks to isolate and shut down the strike.
Ohde, the daughter of a chemical worker and a Turkish mother, has the first-person narrator return to her father’s house for a short visit in the opening of what is clearly a semi-autobiographical novel.
Many of the pieces powerfully convey the intensity of Hurricane Maria, the Category 5 hurricane that struck the island in September 2017.
In response to management's presentation of its “best and final” offer, musicians say they will continue to fight for their demand for restoration of pay cut due to the pandemic and the defense of full-time orchestra positions.
A Palestinian construction worker lives in a West Bank home 200 meters away from his wife and three children on the other side of the Israeli border wall.
While specific details of the incident at Richneck Elementary School have not been released by authorities, the police allege that the shooting was intentional.
Emboldened by the UAW’s sellout, the University of California has made a substantial investment in a company that profits from the maintenance of high rent.
The verdict last December is the first time a Washington D.C. police officer has been charged and found guilty of murder.
While 24-year-old professional football player Damar Hamlin had his breathing tube removed by doctors on Thursday and he was able to speak with family and his teammates via video, the cause of his on-field collapse as well as his ability to make a full recovery remain unknown.
Sinan Ateş, ex-chairman of the Grey Wolves paramilitary group linked to the fascistic Nationalist Movement Party, was murdered in central Ankara on December 30.
The renewed escalation of the Kosovo conflict is a direct result of the aggressive policy of the European Union, which is using the Ukraine war to reinforce its political and economic dominance over the Western Balkans. Germany is playing the leading role in this process.
The measures outlined by Shapps are part of the turn in the ruling class internationally to authoritarian forms of rule, which has seen the outright banning of critical strikes.
Of the 100,000 civil service workers who can strike, no more than 5,000 PCS members have taken part in the “rolling action” until now.
The ditching of the final restrictions from the Zero-COVID policy takes place two weeks before the Lunar New Year holiday, historically the largest annual human migration, which will deepen the spread of COVID-19 across China.
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.
The family of a 67-year-old driver for Walt Disney Company in Massachusetts has filed a wrongful death suit with management over his death from COVID-19.
The number of COVID-19 cases are close to record-highs as nearly all measures to stop the spread of the virus have been removed in Japan.
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.
The majority of workers never knew there was an election, because the entrenched UAW leadership did not want us to have a real chance to remove them from power.
Lehman’s written protest is an encyclopedic historical record of the election, comprehensively detailing every facet of the antidemocratic conspiracy by the entrenched bureaucracy to cling to power by suppressing the vote.
After widespread vote suppression by the apparatus resulted in a turnout of less than 10 percent in the UAW presidential election, candidate Will Lehman has filed a formal protest arguing that the election is not a legitimate expression of the will of the membership and the results cannot be certified.
The GM Rank-and-File Committee recently issued a statement responding to the claims by UAW officials that low turnout in the union’s national elections was due to “apathy.”
The proposed legislation paves the way for the government, made up of fascistic, ultra-nationalist and religious forces, to assume dictatorial powers.
There is a real and growing danger that the US-NATO drive to militarily defeat and subjugate Russia will help trigger a major Mideast war, or the expansion of the current war to the Middle East.
Israel is intent on provoking a military conflict with the Palestinians. It was Ariel Sharon’s visit to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in September 2000 that precipitated the second intifada, the five-year-long uprising.
Having pushed Israeli politics to the right during his 15 years of premiership, Netanyahu will now head the most right-wing government in Israel’s 75-year history.
The strike was the first this year and expressed the growing anger of workers over the deepening assault on their basic social and democratic rights by the government as it imposes the IMF’s austerity agenda.
Wickremesinghe’s message underscores his determination to impose the burden of the deepening economic crisis gripping Sri Lanka onto the working class and the poor.
The HWAC is calling on health employees to fight for the mobilisation of workers to defeat the government’s paying ward plan, which is aimed at wiping out Sri Lanka’s public health system, a fundamental gain won by the working class.
Sarath joined the Revolutionary Communist League, forerunner of the SEP, in 1991 and remained a courageous and dedicated working-class fighter for Trotskyism until his death aged 57.
The US is setting a trap for China by pushing it to take military action against Taiwan in the same way that it provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, having made advanced preparations for such a war.
The sordid flip-flopping alliances of the Maoist Centre and the Stalinist Communist Party of Nepal with the Nepali Congress and other bourgeois parties further expose the thoroughly corrupt character of these formations.
As in the US, Europe and elsewhere, the fall in life expectancy is a historical retrogression reversing a decades-long trend.
An examination of the union’s financial records makes clear that the union has far more in common with the corporate world than with the workers it supposedly represents.
Beyond the initial demands for the resignation of the Dina Boluarte administration, the shutdown of Congress, and general elections, protesters are increasingly advancing social demands over the high cost of living and staggering social inequality.
The surge of desperate migrants arrives as the Biden administration moves to tighten anti-migrant policies.
The inauguration ceremony took place under conditions unprecedented in the 40 years since the end of the US-backed military regime that dominated the country from 1964 to 1985.
The inauguration of Brazil’s president-elect Luís Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT), set for January 1, is being prepared under the shadow of fascistic conspiracies in the country.
The basic thrust of the rules changes is to slash federal spending on social programs, block tax increases on the wealthy, and make it easier to block federal government funding and any increase in the debt limit.
While the stated topics of discussion at the gathering included economic partnership and cooperation, stopping drug and human trafficking, promotion of clean energy and addressing the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border, the agenda subordinated all of these issues to the strategic interests of US imperialism, with Canada playing a supporting role.
President Biden’s trip to El Paso, his first to the southern border since taking office, is aimed at solidifying the collaboration of the White House with the Republicans in attacking the basic rights of migrant workers and their families to seek asylum in the US.
The Republicans said they would seek major cuts in domestic social spending, while the Democrats emphasized protecting Wall Street and funding the war in Ukraine.
The significance of the crypto debacle, marked by ongoing bankruptcies, lies in the fact that it is the most egregious expression of processes in the broader financial system.
Once again, the Federal Open Market Committee, the key policy-making body, underscored that for all the talk in public about the need to bring down inflation, the discussion behind closed doors is about blocking a wages upsurge in the working class.
The buying surge appears to be a response to two developments––the freezing of the Russian central bank’s dollar holdings after the invasion in Ukraine, and the development of uncertainty over the stability of US financial markets and its political system.
A slowing global economy will cause problems for financial markets already experiencing instability, as the reversal of ultra-easy monetary policies by the world’s central banks make itself felt.
The evidence strongly indicates that Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election through state legislatures were aided by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, through his surrogate and life-long Republican operative, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas.
The revelation explodes the false claim made in the Select Committee's final report that there was no “intentional delay” in deploying military assets to the Capitol during Trump’s coup.
Damning revelations concerning the role played by elements within key state institutions in support of Trump’s coup are omitted in the 814-page report.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft, Jr. were sentenced to 16 years and 19.5 years, respectively, in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Tuesday and Wednesday for the roles they played in plotting to kidnap and kill governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
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.
Christian Gerlach, who has done pioneering research into the Nazi war against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, spoke to the WSWS about his work.
The perhaps most disturbing component of the relativization of the crimes of fascism in Bloodlands is Snyder’s systematic distortions of the Nazi-led genocide of 6 million European Jews and his attempt to whitewash the crimes of Ukrainian fascists and collaborators.
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.
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."
The energy output needed to really start considering inertial confinement fusion as a power source for industrial, commercial and residential use needs to be more than 240 times what was reported on Tuesday.
The landing was the final major milestone of the Artemis I mission, which is being hailed by the Biden administration and the corporate media as the precursor to new crewed missions to the Moon and possibly Mars.
The study, based on data prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, found a marked disparity between the rate of fatalities due to bacterial infections between relatively wealthy and poor populations.
A new Dutch and British study found hospitalizations for RSV among infants younger than one year of age was higher than anticipated.
Loan borrowers received an email with an incorrect subject line telling them their application for student debt relief had been approved, while the email only noted their application had been received. The error is the latest in a long line of blunders and setbacks for Biden’s floundering debt relief program.
“NATO must stop with its threatening gestures and expansions to the East and stop its provocations. Capitalism is a global problem. There must be no war that takes place merely for the interests of the rulers. Workers must unite against it.”
“There can be no future when global destruction is on the horizon. I believe in the international movement against war and I will be present for the IYSSE international webinar.”
Last Tuesday, the Berlin Humboldt University student parliament (StuPa) faction of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) youth organization—the Young Socialists (Jusos)—introduced a motion denouncing any “joint struggle” of Palestinian and Jewish workers against the Israeli state apparatus as “anti-Semitic.”
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
After 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.
Hrafnsson’s urgent warnings came during an interview in Brazil with Glenn Greenwald, published Monday on Rumble.
Albanese broke a longstanding silence on Assange, but his comments fell far short of a demand for the immediate and unconditional freedom of the persecuted Australian journalist.
Ten years after Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange was forced to seek refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and three years after he was arrested and subjected to solitary confinement, the editors and publishers of the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel have issued an open letter calling on US President Joe Biden to end his prosecution.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the presence of Ebola in Uganda’s densely populated capital of Kampala poses a threat to neighboring countries.
There have now been 14 Ebola infections in Uganda’s densely populated capital, Kampala, raising concerns among health officials about the potential for the epidemic to spiral out of control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This report was given by Clara Weiss to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution, “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an editorial renewing its promotion of the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory, presenting an absurd, semi-literate attack on the research of scientists Michael Worobey and Kristian Andersen.
An explosion of right-wing venom has greeted the release in preprint form of an important work by Boston University researchers who investigated the Omicron variant’s change in virulence compared to the ancestral type of SARS-CoV-2.
Widespread reports that Twitter has been falsely labeling tweets by scientists, doctors and other public health experts about COVID-19 as “misinformation” has intensified an ongoing crisis at the social media platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
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 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 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.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
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.
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.
On 18 March, the Berlin Administrative Court rejected an emergency application by junge Welt that it no longer be described as “left-wing extremist” in the secret service annual report.
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.
The central issue in the strike is chronic understaffing and the catastrophic state of the health care system in the US, as the fourth year of the global pandemic begins.
The organizers of the fascist assault in Brasilia are deeply entrenched in the state and especially in the military.
At a certain point, escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia begets escalation, creating a chain reaction that cannot be contained.
The mass layoffs announced by Amazon and the jobs bloodbath of the ruling class must be opposed through the development of rank-and-file committees and a political struggle against the capitalist system.
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.
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.
The SEG and the WSWS are holding an online meeting on June 4 to discuss the new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up by Tom Peters, about the 2010 mine disaster in New Zealand.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
Ohde, the daughter of a chemical worker and a Turkish mother, has the first-person narrator return to her father’s house for a short visit in the opening of what is clearly a semi-autobiographical novel.
The book explores the way "Dickensian" is applicable to the contemporary US opioid crisis in Appalachia, an area she knows intimately.
Gunty’s novel stands out as a smart, funny and humane alternative that recognizes to a degree the importance of class and environment on the formation of character.
De Jong gives a detailed and well-researched account of the intimate involvement of some of Germany's largest business dynasties with the National Socialists (Nazis) and shows how, after the war, they were able to continue amassing wealth, retain decisive influence in business and financial spheres, and even resume the financing of fascist tendencies.
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.
