Netanyahu and the Israeli regime are guilty of war crimes, for which they must be held accountable. But the invitation extended by the Democrats and Republicans in Congress for Netanyahu to speak at a joint session exposes the real relationship between US imperialism and Israel.
The July 24 demonstration will give voice to the mass opposition throughout the world to the criminal alliance between US imperialism and its agents in the Israeli state.
The police operate as roving gangs and death squads whose target is the ruling class’ internal enemy: The working class.
Israeli tanks and airstrikes hammered Khan Younis on Monday, the third time the city has been besieged by the Israeli government over the last nine months. At least 70 were killed in their homes or in the streets before they were able to flee the area.
Against the backdrop of the deep political crisis in the USA and the possibility of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, Germany’s ruling class is accelerating its return to militarism.
General Walker has spelled out the reality that the imperialist powers are engaged in a multi-front conflict threatening direct war between major powers.
Tuesday’s vote has underscored not only the authoritarian character of the UK’s Labour government. It has confirmed the bankruptcy of all claims made by Jeremy Corbyn and his allies that the party can be pushed to the left.
Amid mounting protests—over both the dire economic situation and the military’s “dirty war” tactics against insurgents—there is growing apprehension within the ruling class that Pakistan could soon be convulsed by a mass popular uprising akin to that which chased Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power in Sri Lanka in July 2022.
Far from being “fair,” the election was an opaque process that provided the ideal cover for the right-wing, pro-military establishment to engage in bloc-vote rigging and other anti-democratic manipulations behind the scenes.
Cheatle’s resignation is the latest in a series of events in the space of less than two weeks that reflect the historic scale and depth of the political crisis in the US.
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.
“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.
”Bogdan Syrotiuk did not do or say anything wrong,” declared Amarjeet one of 13 Indian autoworkers sentenced to life in prison on bogus murder charges. “What he did was fight for the sake of the international working class. He fought and is fighting for workers’ power.”
The World Socialist Web Site is receiving statements from workers across Europe and internationally demanding freedom for imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk.
An organization and its class character must be judged, not by what it says of itself, but on the basis of its history and program.
Whether headed by Vice President Kamala Harris or another presidential nominee, the Democratic Party remains the principal enabler of ex-President Trump and the fascistic Republicans.
Biden is one of millions of Americans who have been infected in recent weeks amid the deepening annual summer surge.
Politicians from both capitalist parties have called on Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle to resign ahead of a Congressional hearing scheduled for today.
The band’s latest effort is marked by a sharp contradiction between musical verve and lyrical demoralization.
The recent release on vinyl of the remastered solo recordings of the internationally acclaimed guitarist is an opportunity to review his creative legacy and significant influence.
MoMA's recent exhibition was the first museum retrospective in New York dedicated to her entire body of work.
For filmmaking to portray the barbarism of fascism in all its aspects therefore retains its burning relevance and necessity.
Soldiers spoke of being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, and being required to torch residential buildings and kill civilians during bombing raids.
In a devastating condemnation of the Israeli government and its imperialist backers, the court ruled that Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal, ordering all countries to cease enabling it.
Announced with great fanfare by President Joseph Biden in March, the pier ended up taking two months to deliver 80 percent of the 500 truckloads of aid that arrived in Gaza each day prior to the launching of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on October 7.
It is another devastating exposure of the imperialist militarism and support for genocide of the Socialist Party-Sumar government and of its accomplices in Podemos.
Palestine Solidarity Duisberg has been banned despite not having committed any criminal action. It is being criminalised because its stance on Israel will not submit to German state policy.
The ruling elites in every major country, above all the US, are using their governments and their militaries to try to conquer the world and put down unrest at at home. Those who suffer are the workers in every country, who have no interest in war.
The Australian Labor government along with the US Congress and political elites around the world continue to endorse the barbaric genocide in Gaza. We say no support for the genocide and down with its defenders!
The university’s new policy mandates that members of the public outside the university will only be allowed to engage in demonstrations if they have prior approval from management.
The strike is among the first major battles by autoworkers since the UAW’s betrayal of the 2023 Big Three autoworkers’ struggle.
Arbitrator James Casey, a mediator on the Alberta government’s Grievance Arbitration Roster, ruled in favour of the multi-national conglomerate, whose Alberta facility witnessed the largest outbreak in North America during the early stages of the pandemic, with over 900 workers infected and two losing their lives.
“We have nurses who can’t afford to take their kids to their own hospital, nurses working 2-3 jobs,” one nurse told the WSWS.
Professional workers, physician assistants and other hospital employees are engaged in a battle with administration at Michigan Medicine over pay, benefits and understaffing that requires a unified strategy and fight against the union apparatus which is seeking to contain and divert their struggle.
There is a new Democratic presidential candidate, but the same right-wing program of war and austerity.
The signatures are an expression of the broad sentiment among workers and youth for a socialist, anti-war and anti-capitalist alternative to the capitalist parties.
In all of its coverage, the corporate media seeks to conceal from the public the scale and depth of political reaction in the US for fear of social revolution.
In their unstinting support for Biden, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are being exposed as nothing more than propagandists for imperialism.
Samual Sharpe, Jr., 43, was brutally shot and killed on Tuesday in Milwaukee in a hail of bullets fired by a five police officers from Columbus, Ohio who had been dispatched to the city for the Republican National Convention.
Menendez accepted gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz convertible and more than $480,000 in cash in exchange for efforts to assist the Egyptian dictatorship and quash a federal criminal prosecution.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump on Monday, saying Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment by the Justice Department was unconstitutional.
Sean O’Brien’s speech called for “bipartisanship” based on nationalism, militarism and the integration of the unions with management and the capitalist state—but he made clear his particular sympathy for Trump and the extreme right.
Though the bulk of these proceedings leading to the jailings took place under Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, they have been signed off by Sir Keir Starmer’s new Labour government.
Germany’s federal and state governments drastically increased the number of deportations last year compared to 2022.
The incident has exposed the brutal state of class relations in Britain, with a newly elected Labour government responding to acute social problems produced by decades of austerity with police methods and criminalisation of the poor.
The Tony Blair Institute published a report suggesting 50,000 employees aged 50-64 who are on long-term sickness due to heart disease could be back in work within 5 years—some of whom would be 69 at such a point.
The union is attempting to isolate the struggle and shut it down on the company’s terms.
The Pacific’s political elites are increasingly alarmed that Paris’ provocative handling of the New Caledonia crisis will exacerbate popular discontent across the region.
The Zionist Federation of Australia, sections of the media and the Labor government are seeking to criminalise opposition to Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza.
The Albanese Labor government has rapidly expanded the number of refugees detained on the remote tiny Pacific island of Nauru, under appalling and punitive conditions.
To fulfill its pledge to meet the NATO minimum spending target, the Trudeau government will have to double military spending to $60 billion per year.
Footage of the brutal murder of Massey, an unarmed woman holding a pot of water in her home, has provoked widespread anger.
The plight of millions of low-paid workers are routinely concealed in the official claims of low unemployment.
Growing heat deaths are a result of global warming, homelessness and the infrastructure crisis.
According to the report, it was “Processes, planning and policy . . . within the UK government and devolved administrations and civil services” that “failed their citizens,” not the choices of political criminals.
Arbitrator James Casey, a mediator on the Alberta government’s Grievance Arbitration Roster, ruled in favour of the multi-national conglomerate, whose Alberta facility witnessed the largest outbreak in North America during the early stages of the pandemic, with over 900 workers infected and two losing their lives.
A new study in The Lancet demonstrates that face coverings dramatically reduce the load of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath from infected persons. The reductions reached as high as 98 percent, with variations according to the type of face covering worn.
Two new studies on Long COVID show that the virus that causes COVID-19 poses significant ongoing threats to the well-being of the world’s population.
The union leadership did not consult with members prior to ending industrial action and then held meetings blocking any discussion on their decision.
Sri Lanka’s limited free public health system, like public education, has been systematically run down and undermined by consecutive Colombo governments.
The unions are desperate to prevent a political confrontation with the Wickremesinghe government, which has refused to grant any pay rise and threatens to ban all strike action.
The struggle for a decent salary and to defend public education is part of a broader political fight against the government’s austerity measures.
The World Socialist Web Site recently conducted an interview with journalists from the Kharkov-based underground journalist collective assembly.org.ua who oppose the war in Ukraine and support the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk.
The escalation of war against Russia was coupled together with the extension of “Fortress Europe” and the war against asylum seekers and refugees.
While shedding crocodile tears over the deaths of two people and injury of 16 others in Kiev, the cynical hypocrites occupying government offices and media editorial boards in the imperialist centres have said virtually nothing about The Lancet’s estimate that Israel has killed 186,000 people.
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan signaled a major escalation of the conflict with Russia in Ukraine and plans to significantly increase NATO's capabilities to fight a full-scale war throughout Europe.
In Peru, more than 1.5 million young people between the ages of 15 and 29 neither study nor work.
The politicians behind the Latin American version of CPAC have served as the most direct advocates of US imperialism’s agenda in the region.
Milei’s agenda echoes the “National Reorganization Process” (el Proceso) initiated by Argentina’s murderous military dictatorship.
Washington is seeking to create a bottleneck for hungry and desperate migrant workers escaping from the impact of imperialist oppression and war in dozens of countries.
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 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 latest IMF update called for “fiscal consolidation”—that is, cuts in spending.
Multimillionaires around the world benefited from the inflation year 2023, while the German super-rich alone increased their wealth by 10 percent to more than €2.1 trillion.
The most high-profile eviction case was that of Ioanna Kolovou, a retired journalist. She was evicted from her home along with her 28-year-old disabled son at the end of January this year. According to reports a large crowd gathered outside her home which was attacked with tear gas by the riot police who then arrested Kolovou and her son.
Private credit institutions in Europe hold more financial assets than banks and other traditional sources of finance.
Tuesday’s “total shutdown” protest saw three people shot dead and dozens injured. This adds to the 50 dead and 413 injured as they were shot, teargassed and water cannoned since the start of protests on June 18, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
The continued protests are a rebuke to Kenyan President William Ruto who dissolved his cabinet last Friday to pave the way for the formation of a “broad-based Government” with figures from the opposition.
The Ruto-Odinga unification is designed to impose severe cuts, tax hikes, and privatizations demanded by the banks and global financial capital, spearheaded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), by ending the mass protests against the government.
Workers are now mobilizing to fight for better wages and against precarious working conditions, despite trade union efforts to suppress opposition to Ruto.
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.
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.”
While the Turkish political establishment and the trade union apparatus have been working to suppress the growing discontent of the working class against the ongoing cost of living crisis, the police attacked a protest by educators in Ankara against the new anti-labor law.
There has as yet been no mention of the implications of the WNV outbreak for the population of Gaza, suffering an Israeli genocide that has included the decimation of health infrastructure.
The entire political establishment is waging a dirty propaganda campaign against the refugees, who are victims of the regime change war launched by the US and its allies, including Turkey, in Syria in 2011.
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
The 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.
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.
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.
Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.
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.
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
The 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.
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 second total eclipse across North America in seven years has drawn the interest of millions across the continent.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
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 police operate as roving gangs and death squads whose target is the ruling class’ internal enemy: The working class.
Netanyahu and the Israeli regime are guilty of war crimes, for which they must be held accountable. But the invitation extended by the Democrats and Republicans in Congress for Netanyahu to speak at a joint session exposes the real relationship between US imperialism and Israel.
Whether headed by Vice President Kamala Harris or another presidential nominee, the Democratic Party remains the principal enabler of ex-President Trump and the fascistic Republicans.
One need not idealize the American party conventions of decades past to acknowledge that this year’s Republican National Convention was an unprecedented spectacle of reaction and backwardness.
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.
