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The diversion of massive resources from social programs and jobs into the war machine is setting the European imperialist powers on a collision course with the working class.
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Israeli air strikes continued across Gaza over the weekend and on Monday, with dozens of Palestinians killed, including 36 people who died from an assault on a school in the Daraj area of Gaza City where displaced families were being sheltered.
Kevin Reed•
Human rights group Al-Haq contended that the UK government’s continued licensing of arms exports, particularly F-35 components—knowing that they could end up in Israel’s hands—makes the UK complicit in potential violations of international law, including the Genocide Convention.
Simon Whelan, Robert Stevens•
Our speakers will pose and answer the question, “Is America going fascist?” They will explain that Trump’s regime poses a threat to the working class all over the world and will outline a strategy to fight.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
“Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal” is being held in London on Saturday May 31.
Our reporters•
The Marxist movement opposes individual terrorism as deeply reactionary. History shows that such actions only spread political confusion and embolden the capitalist state to crack down on democratic rights. So is the case again.
Niles Niemuth•
The fascist content of Trump’s speeches is being completely buried by the capitalist press.
Jacob Crosse•
If the threatened tariffs go ahead after the new deadline of July, they will deliver a hammer blow to major European industries and economies.
Nick Beams•
Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign Office memo notoriously belittled the Chagossians as “a few Tarzans and Man Fridays”.
Jean Shaoul•
The Educators Rank-and-File Committee stands in unwavering solidarity with autoworkers demanding an independent, rank-and-file investigation into the death of the 63-year-old worker.
Statement of Educators Rank-and-File Committee (ERFC)•
The transformation of Boeing’s legal predicament from a criminal fraud conviction to a complete dismissal of charges represents the calculated intervention of the American state on behalf of the military-industrial complex.
Bryan Dyne•
The arrest of Leonardo Venegas signals that repression aimed at immigrants will be used as a dress rehearsal for wider attacks on the entire working class.
Luis Marquez, Marc Wells•
It is high time that railroad workers take measures to enforce their democratic will, countermand the betrayals of the union officials and return power from the union offices to the workers where it belongs.
Alex Findijs•
The Transport Action Committee is challenging the Verdi union in the current Staff Council elections at Berlin local transit operator BVG.
Carola Kleinert•
The United Workers Union is restricting workers to time-limited stoppages, confining the dispute to a single factory and refusing to provide strike pay.
Paul Bartizan, Martin Scott•
Next Manufacturing claims “high operational costs” are responsible for the factory’s closure. This is a warning that jobs at the company’s two other factories are under threat.
Garment Workers Action Committee and the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
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•
Memorial Day 2025: Honor the memory of Ronald Adams Sr. and the other victims of class war in America
The promotion of “national unity” on Memorial Day is aimed at concealing the fact that, within the United States itself, a relentless war is being waged against the working class by the same corporations that profit from endless wars abroad.
Jerry White•
“What are they covering up?”: Stellantis Dundee Engine worker provides details for rank-and-file investigation into death of Ronald Adams Sr.
Adams’ co-workers have voiced serious concerns that critical safety measures, including lockout/tagout procedures, may have been bypassed to get the retooled plant up and running as soon as possible.
Jerry White•
Musk’s gutting of workplace safety and the investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Musk, whose factories are notorious for poor safety, is spearheading the corporate oligarchy’s plans to remove whatever remains of workplace protections.
Chase Lawrence•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Jerry White•
Our reporters•
Jerry White•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
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•
5 years since the police murder of George Floyd
Floyd’s murder at the hands and knees of the Minneapolis Police Department sparked mass sustained protests in the United States and internationally. But five years later the cops, supported by all capitalist parties, continue to kill record numbers of people.
Jacob Crosse•
“We tried very hard to warn authorities about the dangers from these pathogens”
An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan lab lie and the defense of science—Part 1
In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
The demoralized pessimism of Chris Hedges’ “New Dark Age”
Chris Hedges transfers blame for the crimes of the Israeli-Zionist state and capitalist imperialism to the entire human race. Gaza, he proclaims, proves the futility of any belief in human progress.
David North•
Hakan Özal•
Johannes Stern•
Jean Shaoul•
Jacob Crosse•
WSWS International Editorial Board•
Hundreds of Spanish musicians boycott festivals organised by pro-Zionist hedge fund
Dozens of bands are withdrawing from festivals financed by investment giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).
Santiago Guillen •
Photo London 2025: The enduring significance of Lee Miller’s war photography
Miller's images from the front lines are a singular and haunting record of the war–ranging from the London Blitz to the liberation of Paris, and later the Nazi concentration camps.
Paul Mitchell•
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•
Exhibition Rift through Europe: How the history of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is being rewritten in the interests of German imperialism
The traveling exhibition, which was last on display at the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, is the latest building block in a campaign of historical revisionism with the aim of establishing a right-wing narrative about the Second World War against the backdrop of the escalation of war in Eastern Europe.
Katja Rippert•
Kevin Reed•
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Stefan Steinberg•
Isabel Roy•
Richard Phillips•
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•
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•
Pseudo-left promotes CTU sellout contract as Democrats prepare austerity measures
The recent leadership elections have revealed the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) bureaucracy’s deepening crisis of authority after its latest contract sellout
Joe Raymond•
Healthcare workers speak out about NewYork-Presbyterian layoffs
A physician assistant and nurse describe how quickly the medical center moved to cut 1,000 jobs in the absence of any serious opposition from the trade unions.
Erik Schreiber•
Workers Struggles: The Americas
An assault on a protest by pensioners in Buenos Aires left 80 injured, while 4,000 workers compensation workers in Ontario are now on strike against brutal workplace conditions.
Vote ‘No’ on Pratt & Whitney tentative agreement! Build rank-and-file committees to expand the strike and prepare a strategy for victory!
The IAM announced a deal at 1 am last Friday and scheduled a vote for Tuesday, while giving workers no information. Any contract introduced in such a fashion can only be a miserable sellout.
Mike Ingram, Tom Hall•
Marianne Arens•
Jerry White•
Roger Jordan•
Nick Barrickman, Landon Gourov•
Landon Gourov, Nick Barrickman•
Australian Labor government issues phony condemnation of Israel’s starvation of the Palestinians
The Labor government, like the UK and other imperialist powers, is cynically seeking to distance itself from a modern-day Holocaust that it has supported at every step.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australia: Labor’s university job cuts raise critical political issues
All of the more than 3,000 job cuts nationally flow from the Labor government’s cuts to international student enrolments and its under-funding and pro-corporate restructuring of universities.
A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member•
New Zealand’s budget for austerity and war
The right-wing government aims to double military spending while cutting public healthcare, driving down wages, reducing workers’ retirement savings and kicking teenagers off welfare.
Tom Peters•
Australia: Victorian state Labor government budget sees record debt, massive cuts
The state Labor administration’s cuts to education and its mass sacking of public sector workers are warnings of what the federal Labor government will seek to impose more broadly.
Patrick O’Connor•
Mark Wilson•
Martin Scott•
Mike Head•
Ben McGrath•
Oscar Grenfell•
Donald Trump puts US presidency up for sale at cryptocurrency dinner
In a historically unprecedented display of political corruption, Donald Trump hosted a dinner at his national golf course in Virginia on Thursday at which he openly sold access to the US presidency in exchange for investments in his $Trump cryptocurrency.
Kevin Reed•
Trump’s Gulf visit sends message to China: “Back off. The Middle East is ours”
Trump’s aim is to stoke fear into potential allies and opponents of US imperialism alike and demonstrate that they too will face a similar war of obliteration as Gaza if they stand in the way of Washington’s bid to control the world’s markets and essential resources.
Jean Shaoul•
ICE Gestapo ambushes and imprisons Mississippi father at immigration hearing
The current wave of oppression is the culmination of decades of bipartisan complicity in the assault on the democratic rights of the entire working class, including immigrants.
Stephen St. Clair, Anthony Callahan•
Trump DOJ dropping police reform agreement with Minneapolis and Louisville
The dropping of the cases takes place near the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Trump's DOJ also plans to close investigations into a number of police departments around the country.
Chase Lawrence•
Jacob Crosse•
David Rye•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Nick Beams•
Philip Guelpa•
Israeli military unveils plan to internally displace entire remaining population of Gaza
The Israeli military on Sunday unveiled a plan to occupy three-quarters of the Gaza Strip, pushing the entire remaining Palestinian population onto one-quarter of the enclave's territory.
Andre Damon•
Opposing Gaza genocide demands a socialist political struggle against Starmer Labour government
The millions of workers and young people who have mobilised in defence of the Palestinians must now recognise that protest marches are not enough. No appeal to the Labour government or moral pressure placed on it and other world governments will stop the genocide.
Chris Marsden•
For first time, Netanyahu names ethnic cleansing of Gaza as official war aim
Knowing it has the full support of the Trump administration, the Israeli government is going to previously unheard-of lengths of criminality.
Andre Damon•
The fraud of Starmer, Macron and Carney’s “opposition” to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza
After nineteen months of their colluding with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as tens of thousands were killed and Gaza was destroyed, the three leaders have issued a declaration, both cynical and toothless, that they strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
Chris Marsden•
Peter Schwarz•
Andre Damon•
Our reporters•
Max Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Spain’s Morenoite CRT peddles illusions in protest pressure on imperialism over Gaza genocide
By claiming imperialist governments can be pressured into halting genocide, the CRT works to tie the working class to the imperialist state and block a movement that can stop the genocide.
Alejandro López•
Defend Logan Rozos! Mobilize workers and students to demand his diploma, oppose the assault on democratic rights!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on students, workers and youth across the US and internationally to demand that Rozos' diploma be released immediately.
Statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Amended lawsuit filed over illegal deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh by US border control
Lawyers for a Rhode Island Hospital kidney doctor filed an amended lawsuit last week challenging her illegal deportation to Lebanon by CBP agents at Boston Logan International airport.
Chase Lawrence•
50,000 protest in Madrid against Gaza genocide of Palestinians and PSOE-Sumar complicity
This protest came amid intensifying atrocities in Gaza, where the Israeli government has launched what it calls the “concluding moves” of its military campaign.
Alejandro López•
Luke Galvin•
Jacob Crosse•
Elliott Murtagh•
Bryan Dyne•
John Conrad•
Duisburg Regional Court rules chants of “From the river to the Sea, Palestine will be free” and “Yalla Intifada” are not punishable by law
Duisburg Regional Court has acquitted one of the co-founders of the now banned “Palestine Solidarity Duisburg,” Leon Wystrychowski, of the charge of “condoning criminal offences” by Hamas.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
100,000 join Netherlands’ largest anti-war protest in two decades against Gaza genocide
On Sunday, May 18, 2025, The Hague witnessed the country’s largest demonstration in two decades as over 100,000 people gathered—thrice the number anticipated—to protest the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Parwini Zora, Daniel Woreck•
Ford Germany: IG Metall union calls off second, indefinite strike against Cologne plant closure
The 11,500 workers are prepared to fight to defend their jobs, but the union has limited them to a single 24-hour strike.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
The bankrupt perspective of the French Morenoite Révolution permanente group’s May 24 anti-war meeting in Paris
RP tries to reconcile verbal invocations of revolution, internationalism and Trotskyism with its own ties to Stalinist, social-democratic or bourgeois liberal parties and national union bureaucracies that support war and are violently hostile to Trotskyism.
Alex Lantier •
Martin Nowak•
Thomas Scripps•
Andrei Tudora•
Alejandro López•
Christoph Vandreier•
This week in history: May 26-June 1
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
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•
160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
Tom Mackaman•
100 years since the birth of Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965), martyr of the civil rights movement
We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo’s death, written by Helen Halyard.
Helen Halyard•
Joseph Scalice•
David Walsh•
Landon Gourov•
Eric London•
Lawrence Porter •
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•
The 80th anniversary of the fall of Nazism in Ukraine
How the Ukrainian government is trying to ban and erase the Victory Day holiday
In Kiev, police harassed any visitors who dared to commemorate the victims of the Nazi attack in any way other than laying flowers. At the Memorial of Eternal Glory, police tried to detain two different women for playing the popular Soviet song “Victory Day” on their phones.
Evgeny Tkachenko•
Ukrainian and Russian officials meet in Istanbul
The Trump-supported negotiations marked the first direct meeting in over three years between representatives of the oligarchic Putin regime and the right-wing dictatorial regime of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Jason Melanovski•
European foreign ministers threaten sanctions, military build-up against Russia
The European powers are engaging in a massive military build-up aiming to develop Europe as a bloc that can wage aggressive imperialist wars independently of the United States.
Alex Lantier•
Clara Weiss•
Alex Lantier•
Ukrainian journalists•
Andrea Peters•
Maxim Goldarb•
A week of state killings in America: Executions in Indiana, Texas and Tennessee
The three men executed this week all died by lethal injection. As is so often the case, their lives were plagued by either mental illness, mental disability, substance abuse, or a combination of these conditions.
Kate Randall•
California fertility clinic struck by car bomb, leaving 1 dead and 4 injured
Guy Edward Bartkus, 25-year-old resident of Twentynine Palms, California, targeted a fertility clinic in Palm Springs with a car bomb, killing himself and injuring four others.
Joshua Rodriguez, Liz Cabrera•
Indiana executes Benjamin Ritchie, inmate with “severe brain damage,” and denies media access
Ritchie, 45, was the second person put to death in Indiana since 2009, following a 15-year hiatus due to the state’s inability to obtain the drugs to carry out lethal injections.
Kate Randall•
Tornadoes rip through several US states, leaving trail of destruction and at least 28 dead
DOGE-imposed spending cuts left a skeltal staff at the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky scrambling to provide timely updates to residents caught in the storm’s path.
Jacob Crosse•
Renae Cassimeda, Kimie Saito•
James Vega, J. Cooper•
Vivien Ivy•
Stephen St. Clair•
T.J. Garrison•
Major Sri Lanka apparel company, Next, retrenches 1,500 workers
Anticipating angry protests, Next management informed employees about the closure via WhatsApp messages on Monday night, after they returned to their homes.
S.K. Keerthi, Vimal Perera•
Sri Lanka’s fake-left FSP claims to be socialist while promoting pro-capitalist policies
The FSP is seeking to divert the growing opposition among workers to the JVP/NPP government’s attacks on living conditions and democratic rights into futile protests and a reactionary chauvinist anti-Indian campaign.
K. Ratnayake•
Sri Lankan union leaders respond to US trade war with class collaboration
The May Day rally of the Joint Trade Union Alliance made crystal clear that its concern is not the jobs and conditions of workers, but to shore up Sri Lankan industries which rely heavily on US markets.
Our reporters•
Sri Lanka: Local government elections reveal growing popular opposition to ruling JVP/NPP
Despite its electoral setback, the ruling JVP/NPP will use the election results to ruthlessly implement IMF austerity and suppress the growing popular opposition of the working people.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
W. A. Sunil•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Our reporters•
Garment Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)•
Our reporters•
A year after historic flood, Rio Grande do Sul continues to face Brazilian government’s negligence
A year after catastrophic flooding, the Brazilian government's negligence and capitalist priorities leave Rio Grande do Sul’s working class in crisis.
Fátima Ferrante•
Peruvian general strike demands resignation of President Boluarte
This strike was distinguished from previous ones due to the broader participation and scope of its demands.
Cesar Uco•
Trump administration denounces Colombia for joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Washington claims the deal endangers “the safety and security of the region,” threatening retaliation.
Guilherme Ferreira•
Corporate media casts ex-Uruguayan president and former guerrilla José Mujica as secular saint
The developing revolutionary crisis in Latin America demands a sober examination of Mujica’s political legacy.
Andrea Lobo•
Rafael Azul•
Cesar Uco•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Andrea Lobo•
Eduardo Parati•
US Treasury Secretary issues threat in tariff negotiations
In a television interview on Sunday, Scott Bessent said that countries which did not engage with the US in “good faith” would receive a letter reimposing the large tariff hikes announced on April 2.
Nick Beams•
Australian central bank cuts interest rates amid global economic turmoil
The Reserve Bank board statement referred to “the heightened level of uncertainty” in the world economy and said it had “considered a severe downside scenario.”
Mike Head•
Moody’s cuts US credit rating as debt crisis grows
For the first time in history the US does not have a top rating from any of the three major agencies.
Nick Beams•
After the “truce,” what now for the Trump economic war against China?
If the talks between the US and China had failed to produce any lessening of the tariff conflict, the downward spiral in financial markets that started after the April 2 “Liberation Day” would have resumed.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Communist Party Marxist-Kenya’s “International Theoretical Conference”: Stalinist parties gather to disorientate workers and youth
The Fourth International Theoretical Conference in Nairobi is a rallying point for Stalinist parties defending capitalism and opposing Trotskyism. It reflects broader efforts to suppress revolutionary movements across Africa and Asia.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Opposition aide tortured by Museveni’s son as Uganda escalates repression ahead of 2026 elections
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Uganda’s long-time ruler Yoweri Museveni, has admitted to torturing an opposition aide in his private residence.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Tanzania’s CCM government suppresses the main opposition CHADEMA
Mounting repression and attacks on democratic rights in Tanzania is part of a broader authoritarian turn across East Africa and globally.
Alejandro López•
Two years on: Sudan’s civil war spreads amid worsening humanitarian disaster
As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance for imperialism.
Jean Shaoul•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Trump’s Big Lie about “white genocide” in South Africa
The fascist president continued his provocations, which have been met with groveling accommodation.
Fred Mazelis•
Trump DOJ dropping police reform agreement with Minneapolis and Louisville
The dropping of the cases takes place near the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Trump's DOJ also plans to close investigations into a number of police departments around the country.
Chase Lawrence•
Political issues revealed in Biden’s advanced cancer diagnosis
Far from “defending democracy” the Democratic Party, with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the forefront, sought to cover up and conceal Biden’s advanced health problems in order to install Kamala Harris, a trusted agent of imperialism and advocate of continuing war against Russia and genocide in Gaza.
Jacob Crosse•
Glen Rogers’ execution in Florida and the “pure evil” rationale for state killings
To consider what in society stands behind the depraved acts of an individual like Glen Rogers is not to discount the suffering of victims of crime. In a rational society, it should assist in finding answers to why such heinous acts are perpetrated and serve as motivation for social change.
Kate Randall•
Kranti Kumara•
Patrick Martin•
Marc Wells•
Nick Barrickman•
Marc Wells, Kimie Saito, Jacob Crosse•
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•
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.
The murder of Turkish worker Erol Eğrek demands an independent investigation
Eğrek's death, which must be considered beyond the company's specific hatred and animosity towards one worker, confirms that the lives of workers have no value in the eyes of the ruling class.
Ozan Özgür•
Kurdish Workers Party dissolves itself amid deepening war in the Middle East
It is essential to expose the underlying grounds of the process that led the PKK to dissolve itself and the falsity of its claims of “democracy and peace”.
Ulaş Ateşçi, Barış Demir•
Tüpraş oil refinery workers in Turkey protest trade union’s sell-out agreement
The Tüpraş workers must take matters into their own hands by forming rank-and-file committees to take their struggle forward,
Barış Demir•
Mass arrests ahead of May Day demonstrations in Turkey
Police-state repression is part of the government's drive to crush social and political opposition by establishing a presidential dictatorship.
Barış Demir•
Andre Damon•
Hakan Özal•
Kevin Reed•
Barış Demir•
Alex Lantier•
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.
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 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•
Australia’s second-term Labor government will accelerate pro-business, pro-war agenda
The key ministers who prosecuted the previous Labor government’s militarist and socially regressive policies retain their posts but changes to the ministerial line-up signal a further lurch to the right.
Mike Head•
After the Australian election, what the crisis of the Liberals reveals
The collapse of support for the Liberals is part and parcel of a far broader crisis of the two-party system on which the ruling class has relied since the end of World War II.
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
The origins of wealth inequality as reflected in the archaeological record
A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism to the first class societies around the world.
Philip Guelpa•
James Webb Space Telescope produces most detailed signature of the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System
The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and the entire American oligarchy.
Bryan Dyne•
Antimicrobial resistance crisis a major threat to human health
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor infection could result in a life-threatening condition.
Frank Gaglioti•
New study finds that the world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate
The rapid melting of glaciers due to climate change will have disastrous consequences for humanity.
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Mark Wilson•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bryan Dyne•
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.
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•
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.
“In time, history will judge that these hearings—and the committee behind them—were a McCarthyite, anti-science, anti-democratic, anti-China and anti-communist campaign.”
An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan Lab Lie and the defense of science—Part 3
In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
Amid new COVID-19 wave, FDA places millions at risk by restricting access to vaccines
The FDA’s new policy limits COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to older adults and high-risk groups, excluding millions from routine protection, including against Long COVID and future infection waves.
Benjamin Mateus•
Trump’s ban on “gain-of-function” research: An attack on science and preparation for war
An executive order signed on May 5, 2025, weaponizes the false claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 was manufactured in a Chinese laboratory.
Benjamin Mateus•
White House replaces government COVID website with one promoting the Wuhan Lab Leak conspiracy
On Friday, April 18, the Trump White House replaced the COVID.gov site with a web page promoting the lie that the COVID pandemic was the product of nefarious activities conducted by China with the assistance of US scientists.
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Benjamin Mateus•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
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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Defend Logan Rozos! Mobilize workers and students to demand his diploma, oppose the assault on democratic rights!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on students, workers and youth across the US and internationally to demand that Rozos' diploma be released immediately.
Statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights
The conflict between Harvard and the Trump regime poses fundamental issues of democratic rights, including academic freedom.
David Walsh•
IYSSE holds rally at Texas A&M University against Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship
The rally drew around 200 people from the university, including students, graduate students, and some academics, as well as workers and a few retirees in the surrounding Bryan County area on Thursday.
Our reporter•
IYSSE holds meeting opposing mass deportations at Texas A&M University
Last Friday, the IYSSE held a successful meeting at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas opposing the mass deportations by the Trump administration that was attended by almost 30 people.
Chase Lawrence•
Our reporter•
Matthew Brennan•
John Conrad, Philip Guelpa•
Andy Thompson•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
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.
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•
NOW AVAILABLE
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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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•
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•
Stellantis worker crushed to death at Dundee, Michigan engine plant
Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on.
Jerry White•
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones•
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
Our reporters•
Ludwig Weller•
Robert Campion•
May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
The political significance of the 2024 May Day Online Rally
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Johannes Stern•
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Max Boddy•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Tomas Castanheira•
Thomas Scripps•
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•
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•
Our reporters•
Our reporter•
our reporters•
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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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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•
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
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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1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Chris Marsden, Ulaş Ateşçi•
The Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Tom Peters, Thomas Scripps•
1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy’s Studies in Dialectics
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Christoph Vandreier•
The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Eric London•
Evan Blake, Tom Mackaman•
Max Boddy•
David North•
Samuel Tissot, Peter Schwarz•
Keith Jones•
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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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•
Vincent Delecroix’s Small Boat: Sympathy for migrants spiked by misanthropy
Depicting the November 24, 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the Channel opens a window onto the crimes committed against migrants all over the world.
Thomas Scripps•
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
Eric London•
Danzy Senna’s Colored Television: Lacking the “pathos of distance”
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Andrea Peters•
Steve Long•
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.
Oppose European rearmament!
The diversion of massive resources from social programs and jobs into the war machine is setting the European imperialist powers on a collision course with the working class.
Alex Lantier•
5 years since the police murder of George Floyd
Floyd’s murder at the hands and knees of the Minneapolis Police Department sparked mass sustained protests in the United States and internationally. But five years later the cops, supported by all capitalist parties, continue to kill record numbers of people.
Jacob Crosse•
Oppose the Trump administration’s fascist attack on international students and academic freedom at Harvard!
The Trump administration’s move to strip Harvard University of its ability to enroll international students is a fascistic assault on democratic rights and an attempt to place the entire university system under direct political control by a gangster regime in Washington.
Joseph Kishore•
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•
Johannes Stern•
Jacob Crosse•
WSWS International Editorial Board•
Dan Devries•
Jordan Shilton•
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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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•
Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River mine
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
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