The Trump administration is working to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs
The death toll in the nearly two-year-long genocide in Gaza has reached 65,000, Gaza’s health ministry said Friday. This latest horrific milestone comes as Israeli forces continue their assault on Gaza City, the last remaining part of Gaza outside direct military occupation.
The ACIP meeting, shaped entirely by RFK Jr.'s political appointees, exposed a shift from evidence-driven public health toward anti-vaccine ideology.
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
From the Oval Office, the fascist president declared nothing would stop him from deploying combat troops to major American cities, saying, “It's like war.”
The political terror campaign launched in Brazil on the pretext of Kirk’s death is an integral part of a counteroffensive by fascist forces following Bolsonaro’s coup conspiracy conviction.
The removal of powerful Civil War era photography from public museums is the latest in a series of attacks on historical truth orchestrated by the White House.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is being seized on by the Trump administration to implement a coordinated assault on democratic rights and on mounting opposition to its preparations for a police state dictatorship.
Generally, "neo-noir" efforts have little of the urgency, social bite or purposefulness of the earlier films.
These greetings from Socialist Equality Party (US) national chairman David North were sent to the founding congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, held on June 13–15, 2025.
Fighting back demands the independent political mobilisation of the working class, freed from the dead hand of the “left” representatives of the Labour and trade union bureaucracy, in a struggle against capitalism and for socialism.
The mobilisation against this attack of tens of thousands of other council workers and of workers more generally has been prevented by Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham, who presides over a union with one million members. And this has been reinforced by the collusion of the entire trade union bureaucracy.
The strike by 700 nurses and case workers in Grand Blanc, Michigan is entering its third week and the fate of the struggle is very much in danger as Teamsters union officials are doing nothing to stop Henry Ford Health from bringing in scabs and other hospital employees from crossing the picket lines every day.
The death of Robert Cherone at Palermo’s Pizza’s Milwaukee plant exposes a long history of unsafe conditions and the subordination of workers’ lives to corporate profit.
At least three people, including an eight-week-old baby, died on Thursday because of a breakdown in the Triple 0 emergency phone system, caused by a failure at Optus, one of Australia’s privatised telecommunications providers.
Sydney Airport had to limit take-offs throughout September 12 and came close to halting them entirely. The episode underscored that air traffic control runs perilously close to collapse as a matter of routine.
The economy shrank 1.1 percent in the 12 months to June, with tens of thousands of jobs destroyed in construction, manufacturing, small businesses and the public sector.
The Medium-Term Program (MTP) approved by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sets out the government’s economic strategy for the next three years (2026-2028) and will intensify austerity.
While the British ruling class looks with envy at US imperialism’s place as the world’s hegemonic power, the American ruling class looks back fondly at Britain's traditions of aristocratic arrogance and impunity, and at the rapacious, blood-soaked example of the British Empire.
Zorya Serebryakova's fate and that of her family are a tragic embodiment of the meaning of the term “political genocide.”
This interview was conducted on August 16 with WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North, as part of an event marking 85 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky, on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey.
This video elaborates the perspective of the newly established Socialist Equality Party in Turkey, in political solidarity with the ICFI.
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
This is the first part of the lecture “Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940)” delivered by Fred Williams, Katja Rippert, and Alejandro Lopez to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
In this 1937 address, Trotsky denounces the Moscow Trials as a frame-up and pledged to appear before an impartial commission of inquiry to refute the charges against him.
The following report was delivered by Jordan Shilton to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
In interviews and social media posts, Trump and his fascist minions are promising to revoke broadcast licenses from shows that do not properly venerate the aspiring Hitler.
Kennedy's newly remade ACIP vaccine panel opened its two-day meeting by curbing MMRV use for young children and moving to delay the hepatitis B birth dose, signaling a rollback of evidence-based childhood immunization that threatens access and public health protections.
Kilmeade’s suggestion to “just kill” the mentally ill homeless carries a chilling historical resonance with the clandestine Nazi program known as Aktion T4, aimed at eliminating people with mental and physical disabilities whom the Nazis deemed “genetically defective” and a “financial burden” to society.
After weeks of delay, New York Governor Kathy Hochul endorsed the Democratic candidate in the New York City mayoral election on Sunday. She is the first top Democratic Party leader to do so.
Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov ended his recent BBC Proms performance with a bold and powerful statement against the “atrocious and horrific” crimes being committed by Israel.
Kimmel’s suspension is part of an ongoing witch hunt to suppress all political views that express opposition to the fascist Trump administration.
The aim of the producers of the Emmy broadcast was to prevent any commentary on the explosive events in the US or mass murder in the Middle East.
Trump’s Executive Order imposes authoritarian aesthetics for buildings, codifies kitsch and signals a broader assault on cultural freedom.
More than 100,000 health workers in Telangana, India protested over unpaid wages, while thousands of public sector workers in South Australia rallied against the state Labor government’s meagre pay offer.
Classified staff in Evergreen Public Schools ended their 12-day strike with a contract that leaves workers trapped in poverty wages despite their determined struggle.
A striker was seriously injured Wednesday when a vehicle ploughed into construction workers picketing the Calder Gate entrance to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England.
The government’s ongoing efforts to maintain that the 2022-23 UAW elections were legitimate come amid an intensifying crisis facing the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain.
the long term unemployed now account for almost 26 percent of the total number unemployed; including a high percentage of recent college graduates.
Florida under Ron DeSantis has set a new single-year record for the state, carrying out 12 executions this year, surpassing any previous record held by a Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
By the first week of September, federal data confirmed 4,902 measles cases in 2025—a staggering toll that surpasses by multiples the yearly averages in other advanced economies which are also experiencing outbreaks.
On September 10, 2025, two employees working at the General Motors technical center in Warren, Michigan, tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease.
Labor is attempting to secure de facto control over the foreign and military policy of Pacific states, to align them fully with Washington’s preparations for war against China.
Ostensibly related to longstanding corruption charges, the court ruling is a move by right-wing factions aligned with the military and monarchy to sideline Thaksin and his party.
One of the main factors responsible for the bloom is related to climate change: a marine heatwave beginning in September 2024 that registered temperatures 2.5 degrees Celsius above average.
The US, Australia and New Zealand are seeking to militarise the entire Pacific region and to put an end to China’s economic and diplomatic influence.
The European imperialist powers have continued to escalate the war on Russia following last week’s shooting down of drones over Polish territory.
Wednesday’s continuation of the budget debate underscored not only the insane war and brutal austerity policies of the CDU/CSU-SPD coalition government, but that there is no serious opposition to them within parliament.
It was not until Tuesday’s cabinet briefing that Starmer spoke against “calls to violence from [a] foreign billionaire”. But even then, the (unnamed) billionaire’s incitement of a far-right coup against his own government passed without comment.
In the former industrial heartlands of the Ruhr, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) nearly tripled its vote share, exploiting the anger and frustration over the decades-long policies of social devastation of the establishment parties.
Telecom strike in India; Patricia Hearst arrested; McCarran Act authorizes mass detention of leftists; Trotsky’s “Where Is Britain Going?” published in US.
President Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the Smithsonian Institute, accusing the museum of promoting “anti-American ideology.”
July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in the Soviet Union.
With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has opened a new chapter in the revival of German militarism.
The unprecedented cancellation of the final stage of Spain’s Vuelta a España on Sunday has reverberated internationally, underscoring mass opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
The event was not national, there was no action and the unions were largely absent.
A WSWS photo-gallery documenting the mass arrests of anti-genocide protesters which took place on Saturday in London.
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending Saturday’s mass protest in London against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The protest was the 30th national rally against the ongoing destruction, which proceeds with the backing of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
The scheduled September 10 trial of 26 framed-up Alton Estate workers has been postponed until December because police failed to produce their main witnesses.
The Dissanayake government has only been able to go ahead with its cost-cutting attack on the CEB’s 22,000-strong workforce because the union leadership fully endorses it.
Last week’s tragedy in Uva province highlights the country’s ongoing road safety crisis and the government’s failure to implement promised infrastructure and safety reforms.
The latest data indicates a significant deterioration in the physical and mental wellbeing of students over the past eight years.
The very fact that various political figures are now assassinated with such regularity speaks of a crisis in the entire governance and security system. Simply put, the ruling class cannot rule in the old way.
The shooting down of Russian drones over Poland has inaugurated a new stage in NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine, threatening to trigger a direct military clash between the nuclear powers of Europe and Moscow.
Whatever the true story behind Parubiy’s assasination he leaves behind a violent, fascist political legacy that has resulted in the rise of fascists to the highest levels of Ukraine’s government.
While the attendance of many of the 20 leaders at the summit was unremarkable, the presence of the Indian prime minister—his first visit to China in seven years—triggered alarm bells in Washington.
The UK Health and Safety Executive reported 124 work-related deaths in 2024/25, while 1.7 million people self-reported ill health related to work the previous year.
It has now been more than four weeks since the explosion at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works that killed steelworkers Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee and injured 10 others, yet the United Steelworkers union has remained almost completely silent.
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued two emergency orders keeping the J.H. Campbell coal power plant open and continuing to pollute the air and water in West Michigan.
Amid the 11th COVID wave in the US, Kennedy is dismantling federal vaccine policy and scientific institutions and eroding decades of public health progress in the service of a radical, anti-vaccine political agenda.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo appeared on CNN Sunday to defend the state government’s push to end all mandates for vaccination against childhood diseases.
The unprecedented statewide push to end vaccine mandates for school children threatens decades of progress in public health, dismantling health measures that have saved countless lives.
Weaponizing disinformation, Kennedy is eliminating access to mRNA vaccines and empowering a network of anti-vaccine activists to dictate science and public health policy.
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Workers contacted by the WSWS stressed the fact that the continuing toll of workplace and industrial deaths is the consequence of the subordination of all concerns over safety to the drive for profit.
The World Socialist Web Site continues to publish statements of support for the IWA-RFC investigation into the death of Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams.
On Wednesday, air strikes on hospitals and refugees accompanied the penetration by a ground offensive of the center of Gaza City as the Israeli military moved to carry out its plan for a “total victory” over Palestine.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a joint appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to inaugurate what Netanyahu called the “concluding moves” in the US-Israeli onslaught on Gaza: the conquest and destruction of Gaza City.
Over 200,000 Palestinians in Gaza, or over 10 percent of the population, have been killed or injured during the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, the former chief of Israel’s military said last week.
The genocide in Gaza and the drive to war against Russia are the result of a deep crisis of global capitalism. As before the two world wars, the capitalists have only one answer: war at home and war abroad.
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
The acceptance of the case by the court is an important step in the campaign to demand the release of Bogdan.
Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported as part of the transparent political vendetta against his steadfast opposition to the Gaza genocide and attempts by the Trump administration to silence him.
On podcasts and television appearances, leading figures from the Trump administration have vowed to use the full weight of the state to go after all who do not properly venerate the white supremacist propagandist.
The World Socialist Web Site denounces this witch-hunt, which is aimed not only at silencing teachers but the working class. We call for a nationwide defense campaign, centered in the working class, to answer the attempt to ban all criticism of the extreme right.
Following their repatriation back to South Korea, workers are speaking out on the deplorable conditions they endured after being kidnapped by the immigration Gestapo.
The scientists warn: “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.”
The inability of the moribund capitalist system to effectively address climate change and all its myriad devastating consequences poses an existential crisis for humanity.
The scientific record of the impact of capitalist industrial activity on Earth’s warming climate is clear and well established.
In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that countries are legally obliged to prevent “significant harm to the climate system.”
Washington’s claims that its military operations are aimed at interdicting drugs are belied by the scale and speed of the military buildup in the Caribbean.
The fascist forces that promoted the January 8 coup attempt in Brazil are attempting to implode the ongoing trial and carry forward their political objectives.
What has been described as Brazil's “trial of the century” is unfolding in the face of Washington’s blatant intervention against the country’s political institutions.
The potential for a military operation against Venezuela long demanded by Trump and his circle of fascist advisers cannot be ruled out.
In this city of vast wealth residents of Westbury and Coronationville have been forced to block off streets with bricks, stones and burning tyres to demand water. Post-apocalyptic conditions have rapidly emerged.
The dam, which has the potential to transform the lives of millions of people in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa and East Africa, is mired in toxic geopolitics. Denouncing the dam as an “existential” threat, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he would use “all available means to defend Egypt’s interests”.
The NPC has been designed to channel the insurgent movement of workers and youth into parliamentary politics, whether as a new independent electoral slate for 2027 elections or as a temporary vehicle for discredited bourgeois politicians looking for a new home.
Little has changed since Dan Morgan wrote his groundbreaking book Merchants of Grain in 1979 describing the seven secretive families and far-flung companies that control the world’s food supplies.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
The decision by the 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee was carried 11–1, with Stephen Miran, Trump’s chief economic adviser, rushed into a vacant position as Fed governor on Monday, recording his dissent and advocating a cut of half a percentage point.
Tricolor made loans to low-income residents and immigrants, often without a Social Security number, financed with credit from banks and private investment firms, including some of the major names in the finance world.
The mounting unemployment portends an eruption of class struggle under conditions where Trump is escalating his drive toward dictatorship.
The report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics followed the release of survey data last week which showed that only 22,000 jobs have been created in August, and that over the past four months the number of jobs added has been 27,000—well below the levels of 2024.
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has entered a new phase of its judicial operation targeting fundamental democratic rights and the Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP), which emerged as the leading party in the March 2024 local elections.
The antagonistic interests of the imperialist powers and the regional powers of Israel, Turkey and the Gulf states that have backed Sharaa in their bid to control Syria has the potential to ignite further waves of bloody sectarian violence and precipitate the fragmentation of the country that itself could ignite a region-wide conflagration.
Workers in the Caucasus and around the world need to be alert: Under the guise of an “economic corridor”, preparations are being made for bloody wars that will devastate the region’s peoples as US imperialism pushes forward its predatory plans.
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
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.
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
This statement by the IYSSE in the UK will be distributed throughout Britain this month during welcome week and freshers fairs.
Columbia University’s administration, having capitulated in the face of Trump’s assault on academic freedom, cannot tolerate any semblance of workers organization on campus.
The attack on Chengxuan Han and Yunqing Jian is intimately linked to the Trump administration’s broader war on students, immigrants and the working class.
These attacks serve the aim of paving the way for a presidential dictatorship, trampling academic freedom and student activism.
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
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 most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
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.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, 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.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
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.
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
The 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 $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
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.
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.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
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.
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.
In response to continuing US threats to bomb drug cartels in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued unconvincing and toothless denials that they will ever be carried out.
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.
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.
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
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 Trump administration is working to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs
While the British ruling class looks with envy at US imperialism’s place as the world’s hegemonic power, the American ruling class looks back fondly at Britain's traditions of aristocratic arrogance and impunity, and at the rapacious, blood-soaked example of the British Empire.
It is the bankruptcy of American capitalism and the fear of social revolution, not merely Trump’s authoritarian personality, that are the source of the frontal assault on democratic rights.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a joint appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to inaugurate what Netanyahu called the “concluding moves” in the US-Israeli onslaught on Gaza: the conquest and destruction of Gaza City.
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 film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
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.
