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A 19-year-old killed in California meat grinder: Workers must take control of safety!
Workers must organize actions from below to enforce the necessary safety measures to make sure such deaths never happen again.
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Involving almost 40,000 troops and some of the most potent weaponry in the world, the biannual war games have been transformed into a dry run for a US-led onslaught against China.
Oscar Grenfell•
Release of the Epstein files could implicate hundreds of leading political and corporate figures, Democrats and Republicans, documenting the corruption and depravity of the entire ruling class.
Barry Grey•
President Donald Trump’s deployment of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles to support federal immigration raids has triggered growing disaffection among sections of the US military.
Marc Wells, Jacob Crosse•
The plant’s use of “cheater keys” to override lockout/tagout procedures is “how people get killed,” he said.
Jerry White, George Kirby•
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” offers tax cuts to the wealthiest at the expense of low-income children’s health and education.
Phyllis Steele•
Blame offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.
Benjamin Mateus•
The candidate for New York City mayor’s rightward shift reflects the class character of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Daniel de Vries•
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.
Verena Nees•
Unacknowledged by all is the fact that any harm which might have come from the leak would have been just the latest blood spilled in a war jointly pursued by Labour and Tory governments, at the cost of up to 250,000 lives lost directly as result of the fighting, and countless more indirectly.
Thomas Scripps•
Among workers who have endured decades of the unions’ suppression of class struggle and an intensifying austerity offensive in recent years, there is a growing sense that things are no longer bearable.
Barış Demir•
The return of the Epstein scandal and the criminality of the US ruling class
The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.
Patrick Martin•
US Supreme Court greenlights destruction of Department of Education
In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education.
Nancy Hanover•
Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hits $120,000.
Nick Beams•
Democrats, media cheer as Trump escalates Ukraine-Russia war
The response demonstrates that Democratic Party opposition to Trump centered on issues of foreign policy, particularly the war against Russia, not Trump’s attacks on the working class at home.
Patrick Martin•
Andre Damon•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Andre Damon•
Patrick Martin•
Clara Weiss•
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme: For today’s “ruthless capitalist … there is no shame, everything happens with cameras and microphones on in front of everyone”
The film is a sprawling satire about a shameless, domineering businessman and his various relationships, economic and personal.
Joanne Laurier•
David Cousins, songwriter and singer for the Strawbs, dead at 85
Cousins was widely recognized for his emotionally dynamic and expressive voice. He could shift from fragile vulnerability to commanding or angry theatricality within a single phrase.
Kevin Reed•
Superman: Trump forces outraged by defense of immigrants and … “human kindness”
The hostility to the film in certain quarters emerges out of the high level of social and political tensions in the US.
David Walsh•
Photographer Nan Goldin denounces Israel’s “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza—the mass murder takes the lives of 2 more Palestinian artists
Goldin, who is Jewish, told the crowd of 2,500, "Anti-Zionism has been totally conflated with antisemitism, which is convenient for Israel."
David Walsh•
Stefan Steinberg•
Kevin Reed•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
J. L’Heureau•
Support the IWA-RFC’s rank-and-file investigation into the death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr.!
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
WSWS Editorial Board•
“The smallest thing could be what brings it all out”
Mother of Tyson worker who died in meatpacking plant reveals new information about her son’s death
In the face of a total coverup by Tyson, complete silence from the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and a wall of state obstruction, Allison has received critical information and support from one crucial source: Casen’s coworkers.
Andy Thompson, Zac Corrigan•
19-year-old killed while cleaning industrial meat grinder in Vernon, California
The horrific death of a 19-year-old industrial janitor at Tina’s Burritos in Vernon, California exposes the deadly reality facing workers under capitalism: deregulation, union complicity, and a state that protects profits over human life.
Luis Marquez, Marc Wells•
Esparto fireworks explosion: As families grieve, new evidence exposes a system of corporate crime and state collusion
New evidence of corporate negligence and state complicity exposes how deregulation and exploitation led to seven preventable deaths.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Elliot Murtaugh•
Valéry Tsekov•
Jerry White•
Nate Rodshaw, Tom Hall•
Contract details expose sellouts of Safeway and King Soopers strikes in Colorado
Workers at both companies went on strike this year, only for the UFCW to isolate and betray them.
Alex Findijs•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: 3,000 outsourced Vijayawada municipal sanitation workers strike; Odisha dairy workers strike for permanent jobs; West Bengal child development workers demonstrate; Australia: Helensburgh coal miners walk out again; New Zealand nurses vote for nationwide strike.
Hinkley Point C nuclear plant construction workers take wildcat action against management bullying
Unite and the GMB, the two main recognised trade unions on the site have not produced a press release on the workers’ action. Theirs is a guilty silence over such a vital issue as management intimidation.
Tony Robson•
Peruvian police clash with artisanal miners’ protests
After the failure to extend the REINFO program and the rejection of MAPE, President Boluarte claimed that "Only illegal miners are on the streets," criminalizing artisanal miners.
Cesar Uco•
Marc Wells, Tom Hall•
Philipp Frisch•
Aaron Jefferson, Kevin Reed•
Bill Shaw•
Residents denounce Labor’s demolition of Melbourne towers: “Shame on the government, they are taking advantage of vulnerable people!”
Labor’s profit-driven demolitions—the largest destruction of public housing in Australian history—is part of a sweeping assault against the entire working class.
Our reporters•
Australia’s rising jobless rate points to trade war impact
The number of officially unemployed people is up by 9.6 percent over the past 12 months, accelerated by the Trump administration’s worldwide tariff war.
Mike Head•
Meeting: Ban Labor’s demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers! Fight for a socialist housing program!
The demolition can only be halted through the mobilisation of the working class, not through appeals to the government carrying it out.
Victoria’s “truth-telling” commission: Australia’s Aboriginal elite demands a greater slice of the pie
For an exercise nominally about the oppression of Aboriginal people, the Yoorrook Justice Commission was notable for its uncritical embrace of big business politicians and its celebration of the ascent of an Indigenous upper middle class.
Oscar Grenfell•
Ben McGrath•
John Braddock•
WSU and MQ Rank-and-File Committees•
John Wilson, Martin Scott•
Mike Head•
Philadelphia municipal workers condemn union isolation while details emerge of tentative agreement for white collar workers
Philadelphia’s municipal workers are voicing anger at their unions, AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, charging that union officials continue to isolate rank-and-file struggles and push through deals that fall short of members’ real needs.
Nick Barrickman, Tom Eley•
Union seeks to shut down Philadelphia-wide strike movement as rank-and-file resists
The agreement is aimed at blocking a growing rank-and-file rebellion and preventing the resurgence of a powerful citywide strike movement.
our reporters•
Organize to override the AFSCME sellout in Philadelphia! Restart and expand the strike under rank-and-file control!
This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed immediately and expanded to include transit workers, white-collar employees and all other sections of the working class in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
As voting begins on sellout contract for Philadelphia city workers, Mayor Parker declares AFSCME bureaucrats “are my people”
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in nearly 40 years. It occurred as white collar municipal workers began voting Thursday about whether they would launch their own strike against the city.
Nick Barrickman•
Tom Hall, Nick Barrickman•
Marc Wells, Kimie Saito•
Tom Hall•
Tom Hall•
Tom Hall•
Muslim youth detained for nine months in Sri Lanka under draconian anti-terror law
Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella, was arrested last year after being accused of posting an Instagram photo showing an Israeli flag being trampled.
Wimal Perera•
Trump slaps 30 percent tariff on Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan trade union bureaucracies responded to Trump’s tariffs by assuring the government and big business of their willingness to cooperate.
Saman Gunadasa•
SEP and IYSSE hold successful meetings in Sri Lanka opposing the US-Israel War on Iran
The Sri Lankan meetings were part of the campaign waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International to build a global anti-war movement of the working class against the developing world war.
Our correspondents•
New mass grave uncovered at Chemmani in northern Sri Lanka
The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by successive Colombo governments, against the separatist LTTE.
N. Ranges•
Wilani Peiris, Rohantha De Silva•
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondents•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Saman Gunadasa•
German government welcomes Trump’s escalation of war against Russia
Hardly any other government reacted to this massive escalation with such enthusiasm as the German one.
Johannes Stern•
Britain and Germany sign “friendship” treaty centred on militarism and war
There wasn’t a single policy laid out that didn’t concern the mad rush to rearmament and war, other than the intensification of anti-immigration measures.
Robert Stevens•
22 British trade union heads oppose prosecution of Stop the War Coalition leaders, but make no call to mobilise against Starmer government
The union leaders’ declaration contains no call to arms to defend the core democratic rights now under state attack. No mobilisation is proposed of the millions of workers these leaders officially represent.
Tony Robson•
Amid protest against attacks on Berlin universities, union leader demands seat at the table to decide on cuts
The main issue for the Verdi union is not to oppose the cuts, but to take part in deciding when and where the axe should fall.
Our reporters•
Alex Lantier•
Tony Robson•
Tony Robson•
Tom Pearce, Robert Stevens•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Interview with plant pathologist on witch-hunt of Chinese researchers at University of Michigan
"It's Irresponsible to say these scientists were planning to commit agroterrorism.”
Stephen St. Clair•
Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants
Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights.
Jacob Crosse•
Jaime Alanís García falls 30 feet to his death fleeing ICE agents in California immigrant raid
From Camarillo to MacArthur Park, ICE raids and military operations signal California’s role as a testing ground for dictatorship.
Marc Wells•
Trump administration officials threaten to expand militarized immigration raids
Detainees and legislators report inhumane conditions at Florida concentration camp in Everglades
Two weeks after President Donald Trump toured the new detention facility in South Florida swampland, hundreds of immigrants, many of whom have never committed a crime, are suffering in hellish conditions.
Jacob Crosse•
Jane Wise•
Saadiq Shah, Samuel Davidson•
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Marc Wells•
This week in history: July 14-20
Compensation deal for victims of Nazi forced-labor; Apollo-Soyuz mission; Julius Rosenberg arrested; anti-French revolt in Syria.
80 years after Hitler’s war of annihilation in the east: Germany establishes combat brigade against Russia in Lithuania
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.
Johannes Stern•
Events in Detroit and Los Angeles mark 43rd anniversary of racist murder of Chinese American draftsman Vincent Chin
The UAW, which stoked the anti-Japanese racism that led to Chin’s death, is backing Trump’s tariffs and promoting the lie that Mexican workers are taking American autoworkers' jobs.
Shannon Jones•
250 years since the battles of Lexington and Concord
The shot heard round the world
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Helen Halyard•
Joseph Scalice•
David Walsh•
Landon Gourov•
Israel’s attack on Syria heightens tensions between Tel Aviv and Ankara
These events highlight the falsity of claims that the regime change that took place in December 2024 with the support of the US and its allies, including Turkey, would bring democracy and peace to Syria, and point to the risk of a regional war.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
UN report documents Israel’s relentless destruction of Palestinian education and culture
The report details the wholesale destruction by the Israeli state of educational, religious and cultural institutions in Gaza and on the West Bank.
Sandy English•
20-year-old Palestinian American beaten to death by Zionist mob in the West Bank
Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet, a 20-year-old US citizen from Tampa, Florida, was beaten to death in the West Bank by a mob of fascist Zionist settlers wielding sticks and bats when he attempted to defend his family's land.
Kevin Reed•
The Tony Blair Institute’s filthy role in planning the ethnic cleansing and “reconstruction” of Gaza
Today, as grotesque as is Blair’s involvement in the filthy work of drawing up plans for a post-genocide Gaza, it is more than matched by his disciple Starmer.
Jean Shaoul•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
Jean Shaoul•
Tania Kent•
Andre Damon•
US Senate votes to end funding of public broadcasting
By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in 1967 under Lyndon Johnson.
David Walsh•
Trump signs tax and spending bill: A ruling class celebration of dictatorship and austerity
The White House event Friday reflected the avid support for Trump’s bill in the ruling class, which sees it as a down payment for the shredding of all that remains of the social safety net, including Medicare and Social Security.
Barry Grey•
Cuomo announces independent mayoral bid as Mamdani seeks “partnership” with New York City business leaders
The former governor made his pitch to Wall Street, attacking Zohran Mamdani’s “unrealistic proposals and divisive agenda.”
Fred Mazelis•
Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against the Trump administration
Khalil is a key target in the White House’s efforts to overthrow the United States Constitution and establish a presidential dictatorship.
Tim Avery•
Isaac de Vries•
Chase Lawrence•
Benjamin Mateus•
Kevin Reed•
Jesse Thomas•
Death toll rises in Fall River, Mass. assisted living tragedy: Safety violations and fire department understaffing exposed
The preventable tragedy at Gabriel House demonstrates the potential suffering posed to vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly, by the savage cuts to social programs in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” relied upon by millions.
Kate Randall•
Fascist terrorist cell uncovered in Canada’s military
The fascist plotters had amassed a vast arsenal of weapons, were actively seeking recruits for their militia, and reportedly planned to “seize land.”
James Clayton•
2 deaths from massive storms in the New York-New Jersey area
A series of intense storms struck the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area on Monday, triggering flash flooding that caused the death of two women when their vehicle was swept up by ferocious waters in Plainfield, New Jersey.
Kevin Reed•
Quebec’s CAQ government makes further massive cuts to public education
At the same time as it slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from school budgets, the CAQ government has moved to gut education workers’ right to strike.
Laurent Lafrance•
Kate Randall•
Andy Hartmann•
Kevin Reed•
Barry Grey•
Marc Wells•
UK police use Palestine Action proscription to target protest mentioning “Gaza” and “genocide”
A Canterbury police officer threatened a protester that “mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that, it will come under proscribed groups which are terror groups… which we have suspicion that you’re supporting, based on your actions here, in a city with the flags and the posters you’ve got up.”
Martin Smith•
Edinburgh students defy authorities in graduation ceremony walk-outs, protesting Gaza genocide
Students unfurled flags and banners, with slogans including, “Fund teaching not genocide” and “No graduates in Gaza”, before walking out of the graduation halls, to cheering and clapping.
Steve James•
More than 80 UK protesters arrested, former head of the army speaks of “proxies”
Roughly 300 police were mobilised in London, arresting 46 people for holding signs reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Martin Smith•
Mass arrests of Palestine Action supporters after interim relief denied in antidemocratic High Court judgement
Police handcuffed several people and carried them into vans. Among them was 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt.
Our reporters•
James Clayton•
Stefan Steinberg•
Laura Tiernan•
Michael Barnes, Ajanta Silva, Thomas Scripps•
A doctor•
Former head of the British Army General Patrick Sanders declares “realistic possibility” of war with Russia within five years
Sanders “cited Finland as an example the UK should consider,” the Telegraph reports, telling the paper, “Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5 million people. It can survive as a government and as a society under direct missile and air attacks from Russia. We don’t have that.”
Robert Stevens•
Zelensky government hails Trump’s resumption of weapons deliveries
The rapid changes in Trump’s foreign policy are an expression of his commitment to an imperialist war in defense of American capital.
Jason Melanovski•
Ukraine war escalates, as Russia warns of nuclear war should peace talks fail
Russia's lead negotiator in peace talks with Ukraine warned on Monday that any deal that did not secure his country's lasting interests would ultimately result in "the end of the planet."
Andrea Peters•
Ukrainian drones strike Russian nuclear bombers in Siberia
The attack was personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and carried out by the fascist-infested Secret Service of Ukraine (SBU).
Clara Weiss•
Ukrainian journalists•
Jason Melanovski•
Marianne Arens•
Johannes Stern•
Evgeny Tkachenko•
President Gabriel Boric and the rightward shift of the Chilean pseudo-left
What is truly striking about President Gabriel Boric’s fourth and final televised annual address is just how far to the right his pseudo-left coalition government has travelled over three years in office.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Brazil tariffs add new dimension to Trump’s global economic war
The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the stability of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
Nick Beams•
Peru’s far right rams through amnesty for human rights violators
In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international human rights bodies.
Armando Cruz•
Trump administration tightens sanctions on Havana as it detains and deports Cubans in US
Cuban nationals in the United States, most of whom fled the island due to the impact of US imperialist policies, are being targeted for detention and deportation as part of Trump’s crackdown on migrants.
Alexander Fangmann•
Tomas Castanheira, Guilherme Ferreira•
Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira•
Claude Delphian•
Cesar Uco•
Tomas Castanheira•
After over 50 demonstrators gunned down this year, Kenya’s President Ruto orders: “Shoot them in the leg”
This sadistic call for mutilation is a thinly disguised pledge to continue murdering protesters. In total, Ruto’s regime has killed over 140 protestors, left thousands injured and maimed for life, while hundreds have disappeared or been abducted.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Ruto locks down Nairobi to stop Kenyan protests, police kill 10
The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
As the toll of police killings of Gen-Z protesters mounts, Kenyan Interior Minister says “job well done”
The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pretext for further repression.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kenya’s Ruto government bloodbath against Gen Z protests
President Ruto’s government has unleashed a violent crackdown on mass Gen Z-led protests across Kenya, leaving at least 16 dead and hundreds injured.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
What’s behind the Trump-Powell clash
Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in Trump’s incessant demands for a rate reduction is the rising interest bill on US government debt.
Nick Beams•
Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hits $120,000.
Nick Beams•
Trump’s tariffs and the threat of World War III
The economic war against the world being waged by the US is reproducing, at a higher level, the conditions of the disastrous decade of the 1930s that played a major role in creating the conditions for World War II.
Nick Beams•
Trump opens new front in tariff war
Tariffs on copper of 50 percent could be imposed as early as next month and a 200 percent impost on pharmaceuticals may be set within 18 months, with other commodities set to follow.
Nick Beams•
The surge of XFG (Stratus) as the next dominant variant of Omicron globally
XFG (Stratus) is the latest subvariant of Omicron that is gaining momentum in the summer surge of the pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
Measles in the US reaches a 3-decade high
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
Benjamin Mateus•
New study shows immense impact of public health on life expectancy
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kennedy’s hand-picked ACIP elevates anti-vaccine pseudoscience into US public health policy
The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Under extreme heat, Turkey continues to struggle with wildfires
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.
Barış Demir•
The attack on Leman magazine: A dangerous provocation
The ruling class and the capitalist political establishment will try to exploit any opportunity to suppress the deepening political crisis and divert attention away from the mounting class tensions.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Petty-bourgeois nationalism vs. Trotskyism: Brazil’s Workers Cause Party (PCO) defends Erdoğan’s repression in Turkey–Part 2
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Petty-bourgeois nationalism vs. Trotskyism: Brazil’s Workers Cause Party (PCO) defends Erdoğan’s repression in Turkey–Part 1
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Bahadır Çelik•
Hakan Özal•
Jordan Shilton•
Ozan Özgür•
Ulaş Ateşçi, Barış Demir•
2025 New Year Statement
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
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.
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
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.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
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.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
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.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
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.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
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.
Former NASA administrator discusses the catastrophic impact to basic science in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 2002, including serving as the head of NASA’s Astrophysics Division from 1993 to 1995 and as a program director for the National Science Foundation from 1999 to 2002.
Bryan Dyne•
SpaceX Starship explodes during test amid string of other failures and explosions
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
Bryan Dyne•
What makes human culture unique from culture of other animals?
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Philip Guelpa•
Bill Atkinson, visionary engineer behind the Apple Macintosh operating system, dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74.
Kevin Reed•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
Frank Gaglioti•
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Left Voice calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
Clara Weiss•
A provocation that failed: On Alex Steiner’s attempt to discredit the ICFI’s defense of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
WSWS Editorial Board•
State prosecution fails to present evidence in trial against Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Thomas Scripps•
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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
Our reporter•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
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.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
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.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
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.
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
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.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
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.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
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.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
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.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
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.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
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.
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Republican congressmen escalate witch-hunt against Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan
The letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han.
Stephen St. Clair•
No censorship of anti-war events! Defend freedom of expression at Berlin’s Humboldt University!
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Demand the dropping of charges against Chinese University of Michigan graduate researchers!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on workers, students and youth across the United States and internationally to oppose the warmongering witch-hunting of Chinese researchers Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Australian protests against Trump: The fight against fascism is a fight against capitalism!
While the protests express a growing opposition to Trump’s fascistic agenda, the pseudo-left organisers are seeking to channel those sentiments behind Australian nationalism and a pro-war Labor government.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
David Walsh•
Our reporter•
Chase Lawrence•
Our reporter•
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
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.
David North•
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
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.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei appeal in the German federal election
Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
Chris Marsden•
Thomas Scripps•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
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.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
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.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
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 debacle and the fight against dictatorship
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.
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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.
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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
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.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
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.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
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.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
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.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
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.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
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.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
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.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
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.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
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.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
For a rank-and-file investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.!
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.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
UAW pressing Stellantis to “finish their retooling” of Dundee plant as cover-up of Ronald Adams’ death continues
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
Jerry White•
Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Stellantis Dundee Engine worker Ronnie Adams
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.
Jerry White•
Trump continues Biden’s stonewalling of court-ordered investigation into UAW elections
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.
Joseph Kishore•
Jerry White•
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones•
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
Our reporters•
Ludwig Weller•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
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.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
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.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
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.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
Our reporters•
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Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
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.
Max Jones•
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
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.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
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.
John Burton•
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
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.
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
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.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
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.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
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.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
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.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
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 Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
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.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against 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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
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.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
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.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
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.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
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.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
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.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
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.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
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 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
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.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
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.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
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.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
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.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
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.
Our reporters•
Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
Our reporters•
Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
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.
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Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
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.
James McDonald•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
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.
Clara Weiss•
A Different Kind of Power whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s right-wing, pro-imperialist government
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.
Tom Peters•
A conversation with Blake Bailey, Philip Roth biographer and author of Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me: “I said ... I’m not going to take this lying down”
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
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.
A 19-year-old killed in California meat grinder: Workers must take control of safety!
Workers must organize actions from below to enforce the necessary safety measures to make sure such deaths never happen again.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
The return of the Epstein scandal and the criminality of the US ruling class
The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.
Patrick Martin•
US Supreme Court greenlights destruction of Department of Education
In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education.
Nancy Hanover•
Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hits $120,000.
Nick Beams•
Patrick Martin•
Andre Damon•
Thomas Scripps•
Tom Hall•
Patrick Martin•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
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.
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Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
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.
Richard Phillips•
Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
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.
Tom Peters•
14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
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.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
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.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•