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.
The latest attacks fit a pattern of various Ukrainian military “successes” and more covert provocations designed to prolong and escalate the war that all suggest US involvement.
Hrafnsson’s urgent warnings came during an interview in Brazil with Glenn Greenwald, published Monday on Rumble.
The UAW and the University of California, desperate to wrap up the strike, have turned towards increasingly anti-democratic measures against academic workers.
”I just read your most recent resolution and can I just say I’m moved by your courage and clarity of conviction in the face of corporate greed,” one New York City worker wrote to the Railroad Worker Rank-and-File Committee.
The outcome of the RMT union executive’s call for government intervention is a draft framework agreement for a below inflation pay award, and massive job losses and restructuring to enforce £2 billion worth of cuts.
The trade unions have called limited and scattered protests in a bid to defuse the mounting anger in the working class over the government’s ruthless budget attacks on jobs, conditions and essential services.
An exhibition currently being hosted by Victoria University of Wellington promotes the fascist Azov Battalion, which is part of Ukraine’s armed forces in the war against Russia.
The most recent reporting week found six times the number of cases for the equivalent week in any previous flu season.
More than 1,100 writers and staffers at the nation's flagship newspaper are walking out Thursday in the latest
The historical lies and falsifications of Bloodlands are not only part and parcel of the rehabilitation of fascism and preparations for a new imperialist world war. They also constitute a fundamental assault on historical consciousness and the very concept of history as a science.
This interactive timeline accompanies a five-part review of Snyder’s book, a work of historical falsification aimed at justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far-right.
Given the immense historical and contemporary political significance of the Holocaust, and the complexity of the issues involved, a serious review of the Burns documentary requires a review of the main features of the historical context within which the Holocaust unfolded.
Amid a deepening crisis of the political establishment, VS is seeking to deflect the growing disaffection in the working class, particularly toward Labor and the unions.
The role that Snyder is playing in justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far right make it imperative to investigate his book more closely.
Confronting economic crisis at home and under the conjoined pressures of international finance capital and the military provocations of US imperialism, the Xi government is scrapping China’s Zero-COVID policy that has saved millions of lives.
United Auto Workers presidential candidate Will Lehman issued this demand in response to the UAW elections, which have been characterized by extremely low turnout due to voter suppression by the UAW apparatus.
The substantial support Lehman received among rank-and-file workers across the US is an event of historic significance for the development of the class struggle globally.
On Tuesday, the Detroit News published a letter by United Auto Workers presidential candidate Will Lehman exposing the undemocratic character of the UAW’s first-ever membership vote for top union officers.
Initial results from the first-ever direct election in UAW history show an important level of support for rank-and-file socialist candidate Will Lehman, as well as widespread alienation from the UAW apparatus, as reflected in the abysmal 10 percent turnout.
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.
Janitors at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco set up a picket line on Monday in response to being locked out of the facility last Friday.
Harrison, a migrant worker from South Africa, had been working for a third-party cleaning service contracted to Woolworths Jesmond for ten months. She leaves behind a husband, two stepchildren, and an international list of loving family and friends.
“It is clear that the problems of the workers cannot be solved under the capitalist system. We have to fight for our rights. We need to organize for that.”
Pennsylvania and Ohio educators meeting on Thursday evening voted unanimously to approve the statement below and call upon workers to support the railroad workers and oppose the Biden administration and Congress conspiracy to end workers' right to strike.
Canadian imperialism is playing a major role in the US-led war, which is aimed at subordinating Russia to the status of a semi-colony, plundering its rich natural resources, and extending the control of the Western imperialist powers over the Eurasian landmass.
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.”
Students are evidently expected to be grateful for the chance, compliments of the Democratic Party, to go into bankruptcy to avoid penury and homelessness.
The Department of Education wrote to applicants for debt relief: “We will discharge your approved debt if and when we prevail in court.”
Much of the media coverage of the financial system focuses on the collapse of FTX, with the main conclusion being drawn that the demise of the crypto exchange was the product of fraud, but there are deeper forces at work.
RBA governor Philip Lowe reiterated the central bank’s focus on “the importance of avoiding a prices-wages spiral”—code language for driving down real wages further in order to boost corporate profits.
A report issued by the International Labour Organisation has blown apart the claims by capitalist governments and central bankers around the world that interest rate hikes, now threatening to drive significant areas of the world economy into recession, are necessary to “fight inflation” by suppressing wage demands.
Global growth is becoming “increasingly imbalanced with the major Asian emerging market economies accounting for close to three-quarters of global GDP growth in 2023, reflecting their projected steady expansion and sharp slowdowns in the United States and Europe.”
The documentary chronicles the story of the massacre through interviews with surviving veterans of the Alexandroni Brigade, some remorseful, others not.
Over the decades, the book has sold millions of copies and, despite shortcomings, deserves to be read again today because of the threat of nuclear devastation.
We Are Not Ghouls is a valuable documenting of the violation of basic democratic rights that US authorities inflicted on its detainees during the “war on terror.”
West is a product of this terminally diseased society and culture. His present positions cannot be understood without grappling with broader issues.
The $168 million settlement covers multiple lawsuits filed by 364 separate customers, many of whom were arrested and, in some cases, incarcerated for as long as six and a half months before their cases were resolved.
In 2020, the US maternal mortality rate was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. Maternal mortality among black women stood at an even more appalling rate of 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, exposing severe racial disparities in maternal health care in the US.
Police confirmed that two substations were sabotaged by gunfire Saturday night as a drag show was underway nearby, leaving thousands without power.
Following the election of 25 out of 30 school board candidates endorsed by fascistic Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, school boards across Florida begin firing superintendents who previously enforced school mask mandates in 2021.
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.
Almost one month into the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni announced the three-week lockdown after previously downplaying the crisis and stating that no such measures would be employed.
The role that Snyder is playing in justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far right make it imperative to investigate his book more closely.
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 hundredth anniversary of Mussolini’s seizure of power is not only of historical interest, but of burning political actuality. A week ago, his political heirs took over the Italian government.
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.
Germany is playing an increasingly aggressive role in the massive rearmament of the Ukrainian army against Russia. According to the government, the total value of licences issued for arms deliveries until 28 November 2022 now amounts to 1.93 billion euros.
NATO has “increased our presence on the ground, we have more presence in the air,” said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the meeting.
While the US and other NATO members rejected the claim by Ukraine that last week’s missile strike was launched by Russia, NATO allies have continued to deploy weapons to Ukraine and surrounding countries.
The widespread release of videos depicting unequivocal war crimes by Ukrainian forces is a clear provocation intended to drag out Kiev's proxy war with Russia.
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.
While Trump himself was not on trial, the verdict makes it clear that the former president's business empire is a criminal enterprise.
The plan, initiated by President Biden, would give the heavily Republican state an outsize role in the selection of future Democratic presidential nominees.
Following the election of 25 out of 30 school board candidates endorsed by fascistic Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, school boards across Florida begin firing superintendents who previously enforced school mask mandates in 2021.
The Office of Government Property issued a “Safety Briefing Notice” in September warning of the potential dangers of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in buildings which is “life-expired and liable to collapse”.
November 30, 2022 will go down in history as the date on which the German parliament (Bundestag) sacrificed historical truth and freedom of opinion and scholarship on the altar of militarism.
This pseudo-left party abandoned its own earlier call for an inquiry into the massacre after reports emerged that at least one migrant died within Spain itself.
Resistance in the working class is increasingly international and directed against sabotage by the trade union bureaucracies.
Confronting economic crisis at home and under the conjoined pressures of international finance capital and the military provocations of US imperialism, the Xi government is scrapping China’s Zero-COVID policy that has saved millions of lives.
This punishment highlights the resort by governments—Labor and Liberal-National alike—to draconian anti-protest laws to try to suppress opposition to their pro-business agenda.
The Malabar naval and Himalayan “high-altitude” exercise took place as India’s ongoing border dispute with China enters its third winter, with Delhi and Beijing arraying vast military forces in “forward deployment” against each other.
Officials said identifying positive COVID cases would have “unintended consequences,” including people being “taken out of the available workforce.”
Sri Lanka is coming under intensifying pressure to line up with the US-led confrontation with China in the Indo-Pacific.
The unions are promoting the illusion that the Wickremasinghe government, which is carrying out an historic assault on workers’ living standards and social rights, can be pressured to change course.
The opposition SJB and JVP, along with the pseudo-lefts and the trade unions, have downplayed Wikremasinghe’s threats in order to disarm the working class.
The Government Press plant is one of many state-owned enterprises being targeted for privatisation and associated attacks on wages, conditions and jobs.
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.
A paramedic with 10 years experience discusses the city’s negligent response to the pandemic and the consequences that it has had for his colleagues’ mental and physical health.
“This place gave me COVID, but all they talk about is he, him or that I might be gay. I agree with the pandemic being a socially criminal policy, and this happening internationally.”
Published estimates suggest that the ending of Zero-COVID in China, now being demanded by the corporate media, could cost 1 to 2 million lives immediately.
The reckless approach of governments at all levels in lifting the remaining coronavirus protections despite the enormous excess mortality illustrates the indifference of the ruling class to human life.
Sun Chunlan said Wednesday that “preventing the epidemic” would take place through vaccination, making medical resources available and preparing therapeutics, all the while “stabilizing the economy.”
China’s National Health Commission yesterday called for an acceleration of measures to relax the Zero-COVID policy and vowed to “deal seriously” with local governments that fail to do so.
Since the State Constitutional Court decided on Wednesday to repeat the Berlin state election on February 12, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) has been campaigning vigorously.
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.
A ground offensive in the region, where US, Russian, Iranian and Syrian forces are in close proximity, could trigger a major regional or global conflict.
Protests have been fueled by popular anger over the country’s terrible social and economic conditions; Washington, London, Paris, Ottawa, Berlin and the other major powers have seized on them in pursuit of their geostrategic interests
According to a preliminary report by the authorities in Gaza, a major factor in the spread of last Thursday night’s fire was the storage of gasoline on the premises. This is a widespread practice, given the acute shortage of fuel to power Gaza’s sole generator.
Cholera has erupted in a once relatively affluent country due to the desperate poverty created by decades of imperialist wars, Washington’s proxy war for regime change in neighbouring Syria, global “let it rip” pandemic policies, the economic impact of the US/NATO war on Russia, and profiteering by the world’s pharmaceutical industry.
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.
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.
Hostile to any political struggle by the working class, Lula and the Workers Party seek to bolster their grip on power with the support of the imperialist powers.
The credit rating agency Fitch put Peru on “negative” outlook on October 20 due to the political instability of the government of pseudo-left populist Pedro Castillo.
Bolsonaro praised the fascists who have erected more than 300 roadblocks rejecting the election resultsand calling for a military intervention to stop Lula from taking office.
The SMABC fraudulently presented a Voluntary Layoff Plan as a “victory” and reported the approval of the cuts as the “agreement that guarantees the future of the São Bernardo plant.”
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.
Trump’s fate remains uncertain. All indications are that he intends to fight any attempt to dethrone him from within the GOP. But one thing is certain: the Republicans and the Democrats will lurch further to the right in the aftermath of the elections.
The 82-year-old San Francisco congresswoman was a proven defender of American imperialism and the interests of corporate America.
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 report was given by Clara Weiss to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution, “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
The 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.
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.
All five members of the militia group were found guilty of obstructing Congress, however only Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs were found guilty of the Civil War-era charge.
The reports by NBC News and the Washington Post suggest that the House Select Committee is covering up key aspects of Trump’s attempted coup d’etat.
Garland’s move comes in the context of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives just 22 months after the Republican Party and its current leaders backed Trump’s attempted coup of January 6.
In a video released on her Twitter account Thursday, Lake, a potential vice presidential candidate for Trump, vowed to pursue legal actions to “correct the many wrongs” from a “broken election system.”
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.
The fiction presented during yesterday’s proceedings was that the entire affair was simply the product of one man, seemingly a megalomaniac.
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.”
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.
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.
Los Angeles County health officials reported last week that a man infected with monkeypox had passed away. An investigation is underway to determine the virus’ contribution to his death.
A severely immunocompromised adult male died in Houston on Sunday. Public health officials said he was infected with monkeypox. Still, they stopped short of connecting the infection as a contributory factor in his death, stating they did not know what role the virus played in his demise.
The UAW has remained silent on the spread of monkeypox in the plants, in line with its efforts to cover up the disastrous toll COVID-19 has had on workers.
The CDC’s cursory guidance posted as answers to Frequently Asked Questions only downplays and minimizes the concerns working families have about the safety of schools for their children.
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
Labor claims to have suddenly discovered that the budget situation is “dire” so “significant savings” must be found and “productivity” driven up with the help of the trade unions.
Labor, before it has even secured a majority government, is on a foreign policy blitz aimed at shoring-up US and Australian hegemony over the Pacific.
The outcome reflects, in distorted electoral terms, a political radicalisation of workers and young people that is already finding expression in a development of working class struggles.
Autoworker and grandmother Catherine Pace died on March 27, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in the paint department at the Warren Truck Plant outside Detroit, then operated by Fiat-Chrysler, now Stellantis.
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.
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.
Artemis lays the ground work for further militarization of space, as well as promoting commercial interests.
Pääbo and colleagues developed techniques to sequence ancient DNA despite tens of thousands of years of degradation, thus founding the field of paleogenetics, which has greatly advanced the study of human evolution.
The goal of the Artemis project is to develop a spacecraft capable of once again landing humans on the Moon.
In the past weeks, the public has been shocked by images showing masses of dead fish floating in the Oder River, on the German-Polish border. Recent reports speak of 150 to 200 tons of fish killed.
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.
Several supporters of the committee have told the WSWS that their posts on the popular r/railroading subreddit have been deleted without explanation.
The World Socialist Web Site condemns the censorship and firing of Katie Halper by The Hill. It must be condemned by the working class and all defenders of free speech as an attack on basic democratic rights.
There can be little doubt that the lock was not “in error,” but rather a deliberate act of censorship against a campaign which has given voice to the sentiments and aspirations of rank-and-file workers.
The lock on Lehman’s account came without warning, occurring almost immediately after it tweeted a thread reporting on the support for his campaign among John Deere agricultural equipment workers.
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 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 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 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.
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.
The German court judgement and its written grounds represent a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The aim is to ban socialist ideas and any criticism of capitalism.
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 latest attacks fit a pattern of various Ukrainian military “successes” and more covert provocations designed to prolong and escalate the war that all suggest US involvement.
Confronting economic crisis at home and under the conjoined pressures of international finance capital and the military provocations of US imperialism, the Xi government is scrapping China’s Zero-COVID policy that has saved millions of lives.
The substantial support Lehman received among rank-and-file workers across the US is an event of historic significance for the development of the class struggle globally.
West is a product of this terminally diseased society and culture. His present positions cannot be understood without grappling with broader issues.
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.
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 socialist traditions of 1917 found a deeply progressive expression in the work of Vasily Grossman.
It is tempting to find aspects of an author’s life in the pages of his or her fiction. In the case of Owens and Where the Crawdads Sing, however, many are treating the novel, which includes a murder mystery, as evidence in an imaginary trial.
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.
