Mehring Yayıncılık is pleased to announce the publication of the Turkish edition of The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide by David North.
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On Saturday, David North presented the German edition of his book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century at the Leipzig Book Fair.
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The US-Israeli murder of World Central Kitchen aid workers
The Gaza genocide, now six months old, marks a major milestone in the criminalization of imperialist foreign policy, in which systematic mass murder, starvation and genocide are being normalized as tools of statecraft.
The Russian and French defense ministers, Sergei Shoigu and Sébastien Lecornu, spoke for an hour via phone on the Ukraine war and the March 22 terror attack in Moscow.
Alex Lantier•
A rank-and-file rebellion against not just management, but also against the union bureaucracy, is the only thing that can stop this. As long as the Teamsters sellout artists remain in charge, UPS will succeed in its drive to cut jobs. But if we break out of their control, and develop new, alternative structures, that will change the balance of power in our favor.
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
The rules requires all locomotives to be operated by a two-person crew, but includes an extensive list of exceptions and loopholes that make the regulation toothless.
Alex Findijs•
The ongoing protests at U-M, as well as campuses across the US and internationally, will not be able to force their administrations to divest from Israel, let alone stop the genocide, so long as they remain isolated on the campuses.
Matthew Brennan•
Hakan Özal•
Andrea Peters•
The Democrats trail behind, declaring that “migrant crime” is a legitimate political concern.
Patrick Martin•
Whatever their radical rhetoric, the principal concern of Socialist Alternative and Cornel West is to preempt a challenge to capitalism, US imperialism and one of its principal instruments of class rule and war—the Democratic Party—from the working class.
John Conrad, Isaac Finn•
A World Weather Attribution study shows that climate change has sharply increased both the severity and frequency of extraordinary heat events in Africa’s Guinea region.
Mark Wilson•
American imperialism, in league with its Canadian minion, seeks a fortress North America against China, and even Europe, in its march to war. Mexican President López Obrador is kowtowing to this agenda.
Don Knowland•
Ian said: “Dave Ward and the CWU Postal Executive signed us up for the gig-economy at Royal Mail and totally sold us down the river. It is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank.”
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Mercer also told the inquiry he had gradually become aware of the SAS allegations on his last tour of Afghanistan in 2010 and then been given two specific warning by former colleagues—one a senior officer—in 2017 after he had become an MP.
Harvey Thompson•
The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2024 US elections
What accounts for the silence of all the capitalist and middle class parties on this world historic event that has impacted every human being and profoundly altered global society?
Evan Blake•
Washington’s enablers of Israeli genocide in Gaza
The Biden administration and the entire US ruling elite are directly responsible for the war of extermination that Israel is waging against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Patrick Martin•
Growing opposition to Democrats’ “all-out war” to block third parties from ballot
In response to the hemorrhaging of support for Joe Biden due to his blatant role in facilitating Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, the Democrats are seeking to suppress all political parties outside the framework of the corporate-controlled two-party system.
Evan Blake•
Right-wing presidential candidate RFK Jr. picks wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as running mate
Shanahan, 38, is a longtime donor to Democratic Party campaigns and was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the 10th wealthiest person in the world.
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
Nick Barrickman•
NATO summit in Brussels prepares massive escalation of war on Russia
To prevent the imminent collapse of Ukrainian troops at the front, the alliance is feverishly working on measures that threaten to plunge the entire continent into a devastating war.
Johannes Stern•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei of Germany authorized to stand in European elections
On Friday, the German Federal Election Committee authorised the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) to stand in the European elections.
Justus Leicht•
An appeal from David North: Build the socialist movement against war and fascism! Support the WSWS!
Amidst the descent of capitalism into barbarism, the arming of the working class with a socialist perspective is of decisive importance. For this reason, the World Socialist Web Site needs the support of all of its readers.
David North•
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.
David North•
Oscar Grenfell•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Hall•
Jacob Crosse•
“Nothing has changed”: White House backs Israel after murder of foreign aid workers
The Biden administration doubled down on its total support for Israel's genocide in Gaza Wednesday after Israeli forces systematically and deliberately murdered seven foreign aid workers from World Central Kitchen on Monday.
Andre Damon•
UK leaders issue cynical protests over Israeli assassination of British aid workers in Gaza
The sole concrete action “demanded” of Israel by Sunak was a “thorough and transparent independent investigation into what happened”, a request reiterated by foreign office minister Andrew Mitchell in a meeting with the summoned Israeli ambassador.
Thomas Scripps•
Israel bombs Iran’s embassy in Damascus: The Middle East on the brink of region-wide war
Amid a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine and growing US plans for war with China, an Israeli-Iranian war would rapidly threaten to spread across Eurasia and the world.
Alex Lantier•
Details show Israel’s airstrike on World Central Kitchen staff was deliberate
The strikes which killed seven aid workers used precision munitions fired from the air that directly targeted the roofs of the vehicles, which displayed large logos clearly identifying their occupants.
Andre Damon•
Oscar Grenfell•
Andre Damon•
Peter Symonds•
Jean Shaoul•
Andre Damon•
UK arts venue HOME bans performance of Palestinian poetry and writings, Voices of Resilience
The event was advertised by HOME on March 25 as “celebrating Palestinian voices”. These voices were cancelled within two days after a filthy campaign by Zionist backers of Israel’s genocide.
Margot Miller, Robert Stevens•
Thousands of Australian demonstrators protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza
“What I’ve learned through what is going on in Gaza is that even if the UN says ‘this is genocide,’ governments will not do anything.”
Our reporters•
Israeli rallies demand end of Netanyahu government, early elections and a hostage release deal
Demands for Netanyahu and his fascist gang to step down are valid, but the developing movement must reject all sections of the Zionist ruling elite and their program of genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza.
Jean Shaoul•
Video Report: Workers and youth speak out at UK demonstrations against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending the rallies in London, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds last Saturday against Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza.
our reporters•
Tony Robson•
Robert Stevens•
Kevin Reed•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Kevin Reed•
German public service union agrees wage cuts and industrial action amnesty for Lufthansa ground staff
After three days of negotiations behind closed doors, on March 27 the executive of Germany’s Lufthansa Airways and the public service union Verdi announced a wage deal for ground staff.
Marianne Arens•
Australia: Mine owner rejected safety measures ahead of fatal collapse, citing “significant cost”
An internal company memo issued last year declared that the “globally accepted standard, that ‘we don’t work under unsupported ground,” was “dated.”
Martin Scott•
St. Paul and Minneapolis Public Schools reveal plans to cut hundreds of jobs and gut student programs
The proposed cuts to Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools are set to eliminate hundreds of full-time positions across numerous departments, drastically reduce department budgets by up to 60 percent and impact afterschool programs.
Matt Rigel•
Two-day national postal strike in Romania over pay; teachers in France walk out over education “reforms” and funding; Kenyan doctors’ stoppage joined by clinicians
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
National strike by Romanian workers called off after unions accept pay award around minimum wage; teachers in France in one-day national strike against streaming of classes and teacher shortages; three-week strike by doctors in Kenya over pay, conditions and staff shortages joined by clinicians
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
George Kirby•
Harvey Thompson•
Shannon Jones•
Federal judge dismisses $600 million lawsuit against paper mill for decades of toxic chemical releases in Kalamazoo, Michigan
US District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou sided with Graphic Packaging International and 21 government defendants and threw out the lawsuit filed on behalf of the Northside Kalamazoo residents, who were demanding compensation for damages from decades of toxic pollution in their neighborhood.
Kevin Reed•
Further evidence of Boeing’s criminality exposed as near-silence on death of whistleblower John Barnett continues
The basis of the report from the Wall Street Journal is previously unreported communications from Boeing’s internal messaging system, the Shipside Action Tracker.
Bryan Dyne•
Worker infected with H5N1 bird flu in Texas after cases found in US dairy cows
The present case is the first involving a direct transmission from bovines to humans and is also the first time cows have shown susceptibility to this virus, surprising influenza virologists.
Benjamin Mateus•
Capitalist welfare under AMLO: a critical analysis of Mexico’s cash transfer and minimum wage policies
All told, these measures have not had a significant impact on poverty rates, which remain at very high levels throughout the country.
Jesus Ugarte•
Dan Conway•
Kevin Reed•
Andrea Lobo•
Tom Hall•
Hugo Maltais•
UK arts centre HOME forced to reverse censorship of Palestinian event after protests
The decision by HOME to reinstate Voices of Resilience is a political victory over the supporters of Israel’s war on the Palestinians, and the attempts of Zionists to silence opposition by levelling bogus allegations of antisemitism.
Robert Stevens•
Leipzig Book Fair: A seismograph for the growing opposition to war, genocide, and Germany’s coalition government
The presentation of David North’s book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair, as well as the Mehring Verlag stand, received great interest under conditions of heightened political concerns.
Our reporters•
Vultures 1: Rapper Kanye West’s ongoing romance with fascism
West is unrepentant about his previous provocative statements sympathizing with Hitler and antisemitism.
Nick Barrickman•
Ghassan Zeineddine’s Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
James McDonald•
Clara Weiss•
Hong Jian•
Sandy English•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Hundreds of desperate Sri Lankans hired as mercenaries in Ukraine war
Colombo’s Sunday Times reported last month that about 100 former Sri Lankan military servicemen are in the Ukraine foreign legion along with hundreds in the Russian military.
W.A. Sunil•
Zelensky government intensifies shelling of Russia’s Belgorod region in wake of Moscow terror attack
As the crisis of the Ukrainian military on the front has deepened, Kiev has intensified its attacks on Russian territories.
Jason Melanovski, Clara Weiss•
Terrorist attack in Moscow: The Ukrainian trail
If ISIS or one of its offshoots actually committed the attack in Moscow, this does not speak against but for the complicity of Ukraine and NATO.
Peter Schwarz•
Pro-NATO media doubles down on propaganda narrative about Moscow terror attack
As with all imperialist war propaganda over the war in Ukraine, the narrative spouted by the New York Times and the Financial Times relies on a complete obfuscation and distortion of facts and context.
Clara Weiss•
Alejandro López•
Anthony Torres•
Chris Marsden•
Kumaran Ira•
Andre Damon•
Biden-Xi phone call underscores US confrontation, not cooperation, with China
Whatever the immediate twists and turns in its relations with Beijing, US imperialism is determined to crush by all available means, including military, the threat posed to US global hegemony by China’s economic expansion.
Peter Symonds•
Australian Labor government appoints corporate leader to key post of governor-general
Samantha Mostyn, with a lifetime of service to the legal, political and corporate establishment, could play a critical role if the next federal election results, as opinion polls indicate, in a “parliamentary deadlock.”
Mike Head•
VIDEO: Australian workers explain why they’ve joined the SEP as electoral members
“If ever there’s a war, it’s the working class who gets sent off to be killed.”
Our reporters•
Long-time Australian Labor Party member resigns to become SEP electoral member
A retired nurse and longtime Labor Party member explains why he has quit that party to join the Socialist Equality Party as an electoral member.
Mike Head•
Rohantha De Silva•
John Braddock, Tom Peters•
Leith Smith•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Australia)•
Martin Scott•
Record low primary turnout as Chicago Democrats shift further to the right
There was significant opposition to the Gaza genocide in the March 26 Illinois primary.
Kristina Betinis, Andy Thompson•
University of Florida eliminates all “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” positions, Texas shuts DEI offices
The campaign against “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” pits the far-right “America First” forces gathered around Trump against one of the key institutional bastions of identity politics, itself a reactionary ideology promoted by the Democratic Party.
Chase Lawrence, Tom Carter•
Florida Supreme Court ruling enables adoption of six-week abortion ban on May 1
The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the law signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis in 2022 restricting abortion to 15 weeks or less is constitutional and opens the way for a second six-week ban on the procedure to take effect on May 1.
Kevin Reed•
Trump shares video on social media featuring image of Biden hogtied with rope
Campaign staff for Trump refused to apologize for sharing the image even as Trump posted more violent content from fascists and neo-Nazis on his Truth Social platform.
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
Chase Lawrence•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Four fatalities following arson attack in Solingen, Germany
Although investigations are still ongoing, it is highly likely that the attack had a right-wing extremist background.
Markus Salzmann•
Multiple campaigns plan to stand against UK Labour Party candidates
There is a growing sentiment in favour of a genuine left-wing alternative. But the aim of the various electoral fronts and initiatives is to limit workers to one of two dead end alternatives: pressuring the Labour Party to the left, above all to back a ceasefire in Gaza, or at some point forming a new “left” party modelled on Labour and hopefully led by its former leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Thomas Scripps•
Hungary’s new president lied about his father’s Nazi past
On March 5, Tamás Sulyok replaced Hungarian President Katalin Novák. Sulyok is deeply entangled in the country's fascist past.
Martin Nowak•
Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government establishes NATO naval base on Menorca island
The decision was taken covertly with the participation of the pseudo-left Podemos party over year ago but was not announced publicly.
Alejandro López•
Ulrich Rippert•
Liz Smith•
Laura Tiernan•
Oscar Grenfell•
Philipp Frisch•
Mass protests erupt in Turkey after election of Kurdish mayor annulled
The dismissal of Van’s elected Kurdish nationalist mayor in local elections, in which Erdoğan’s AKP suffered a heavy defeat, triggered mass protests.
Ulaş Ateşçi •
Erdoğan’s AKP suffers setback in Turkish local elections as CHP comes first
In elections dominated by the cost-of-living crisis and held amidst the genocide in Gaza and NATO's escalating war against Russia, the ruling party suffered a significant defeat.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Turkey: TİP’s Hatay candidacy crisis underscores bankruptcy of the pseudo-left’s orientation to the bourgeoisie
The scandal is fundamentally the product of the TİP’s unprincipled collaboration with the CHP, a pro-NATO, right-wing bourgeois party.
Hakan Özal•
Erkan Baş’s local election campaign shows the TİP’s orientation towards the bourgeoisie and trade union bureaucracy
The entire electoral campaign of the TİP is based on unprincipled horse-trading for seats with the Kemalist CHP, the Kurdish nationalist DEM Party and various pseudo-left parties, and serves to politically disarm the working class and youth.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Harvey Thompson•
Johannes Stern•
Peter Symonds•
Barış Demir•
Barış Demir•
Slowing global economy intensifying economic war against China
Hostility to Chinese exports of electric vehicles said to be reaching “fever pitch.”
Nick Beams•
Accelerated US protectionism rooted in preparations for war
In the latest in a string of statements and actions directed against China, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning to it not to flood the world with cheap clean energy products that would distort global markets.
Nick Beams•
“Unprecedented” growth of US debt could bring market shock
The Congressional Budget Office director has warned the US could face a Liz Truss style financial crisis.
Nick Beams•
Wall Street hits record high on the back of Fed decision
According to “dot plot” projections by members of the Fed’s governing body, interest rates will drop 0.75 percentage points by the end of the year.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Niles Niemuth•
Nick Beams•
Sudan’s “forgotten war” leads to epic suffering and regional instability
Sudan faces famine, displacement, economic breakdown and an almost total absence of international aid. The government, virtually bankrupt, barely functions.
Jean Shaoul•
EU, IMF and regional powers bail out Egypt in return for services rendered to Israel’s genocidal war
These deals with Egypt’s brutal dictator indicate the real nature of the talks between the US, Egypt and the Gulf states held under the cover of negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Jean Shaoul•
Niger’s junta cancels military agreement with the United States
The decision followed a provocative, unannounced meeting by US officials to the Nigerien capital, Niamey, to demand that they cut off ties with Russia and Iran.
Athiyan Silva •
170 killed in Burkina Faso massacre as French-Russian rivalry grows in Sahel
Burkina Faso, a former French colony, was plunged into bloody internal fighting by French imperialism’s 2013-2021 war in neighboring Mali.
Athiyan Silva•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Bernd Reinhardt•
Johannes Stern•
Alex Lantier•
Marc Wells•
COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose major challenge for healthcare system across Canada
From March 3 to March 9, there were 54 official COVID-19 deaths. However, COVID Resources Canada estimates that the government only reports 61 percent of COVID-19 deaths. This would put the actual number at 90 deaths in just under one week. By comparison, federal government data shows influenza deaths at roughly five per week.
Dylan Lubao•
Study demonstrates effectiveness of air cleaners at daycare centers
Despite the growing evidence for air purifiers and other public health measures, the capitalist ruling elites continue to display criminal indifference to the suffering of their populations.
Bill Shaw•
UN report highlights growing global inequality since beginning of COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic precipitated the world’s greatest recession since World War II, with global output falling three times more than during the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. Global unemployment rates have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Jean Shaoul•
Australia: Queensland’s chief health officer calls for the scrapping of the term “Long COVID”
Gerrard’s assertion is part of the campaign by the political establishment in Australia to normalise COVID-19 with the claim that Long COVID is no different to the long-term symptoms of seasonal influenza.
Frank Gaglioti•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Our reporters•
Benjamin Mateus•
Michael Anders, Esther Galen•
Sri Lanka: Build action committees to fight for salary increase, against IMF austerity
The Health Trade Union Alliance (HTUA) last Wednesday announced that it would call an indefinite strike from today. However, after discussion with health and finance ministry officials, HTUA leaders called off the strike.
Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)•
Sudden death of Sri Lankan student at Kelaniya University exposes harsh conditions facing undergraduates
The circumstances facing Sri Lankan students cannot be reduced to the personal indifference of university administrations but are the direct result of spending cuts by successive Colombo governments.
Kapila Fernando•
Sri Lankan parties in sordid manoeuvres over presidential and national election dates
Irrespective of which election is held first, and whoever wins, all of Sri Lanka’s capitalist parties and their respective leaders are committed to ruthlessly implementing the IMF demands.
Saman Gunadasa, K. Ratnayake•
Sri Lankan government, companies and unions conspire to impose poverty wage on estate workers
Irrespective of the outcome of these tripartite meetings the pay rates will not provide a living wage or address the endemic poverty afflicting these highly exploited workers.
M. Thevarajah, W.A. Sunil•
Wimal Perera•
Our correspondents•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Wimal Perera•
Our reporters•
Venezuela’s electoral dispute triggers regional crisis
The diplomatic flare-up in Latin America reflects the maneuvers of ruling class factions in response to the US-NATO war drive.
Andrea Lobo•
Argentine President Milei defends fascist-military junta on anniversary of 1976 coup
The ruling class is desperately seeking to undermine democratic consciousness and popular opposition to the military in order to prepare a return to dictatorial forms of rule.
Andrea Lobo•
Latin America faces unprecedented dengue outbreak
An outbreak of dengue fever has hit Latin America and is expected to make 2024 the year with the highest number of cases and deaths in the region’s history.
Brunna Machado•
Pseudo-left Workers’ Cause Party (PCO) denounces WSWS for exposing fascist coup attempt in Brazil
The article consists of a miserable attempt to deny the established fact that former president Bolsonaro and the Brazilian military top brass actively prepared a fascist coup d’état.
Tomas Castanheira •
Eduardo Parati•
Andrea Lobo•
Our reporters•
Felix Gauthier•
Andrea Lobo•
This week in history: April 1-7
Guilty plea in murder of Matthew Shepard; French president Pompidou dies in office; US, European countries establish NATO; Northern Rhodesia becomes a British protectorate
Liz French on the 40th Anniversary of the British Miners’ Strike: “We were betrayed by the TUC and Labour Party.”
The WSWS spoke with Liz French from Betteshanger, a former pit village in the Kent coalfield in south-east England. Liz was a founding member of the National Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 Miner’s Strike. Among the 200 miners imprisoned during the 1984-85 strike, Liz’s late husband Terry received one of the longest prison sentences of five years.
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India’s 1983 Nellie communal massacre in historical perspective
The Nellie massacre—in which India’s now governing party, the Hindu supremacist BJP, played a major role—was the outcome of a campaign of communal incitement targeting “illegal foreigners,” that is highly impoverished refugees and migrants from Bangladesh.
Martina Inessa, Yuvan Darwin, Kranti Kumara•
Forty years since the British miners’ strike
The strike’s fortieth anniversary takes place amid a resurgence of the class struggle not just in Britain but internationally.
Chris Marsden, Julie Hyland•
Mehring Yayıncılık•
Tom Mackaman•
Fred Mazelis•
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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Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat
The Labor government is doing nothing to obstruct Assange’s looming extradition to the US, where he would face 175 years imprisonment for exposing war crimes.
Oscar Grenfell•
Young people speak at UK public meetings on fight to free Julian Assange: “It should be a focus for this generation”
Public meetings held this month by the Socialist Equality Party and International Youth and Students for Social Equality provoked important discussion among workers and young people on the campaign needed to free WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
Our reporters•
UK High Court puts Assange on the brink of extradition to the United States
The essential task posed before Assange’s supporters is to link his defence to the mass movement emerging in opposition to these crimes. The same eruption of militarism and aggression fuelling the persecution of Assange is producing a mass radicalisation among workers and young people.
Thomas Scripps•
Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing the text of the speech delivered by Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Chris Marsden and Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps at public meetings held in Manchester, London, Inverness and Sheffield.
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Thomas Scripps•
Our reporters•
Robert Stevens•
Our correspondent•
Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell•
Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts
“With a few exceptions, increasing warming leads to greater exposure to drought, fluvial and coastal flooding, and greater declines in biodiversity and crop yields.”
Mark Wilson•
Genetic makeup of modern Europeans derived through ancient migrations from Asia
The studies provide further confirmation that modern populations are the result of a complex mixing of migrants of varying origins and cultures that have nothing to do with the pseudo-concept of “race."
Frank Gaglioti•
Average global surface temperatures rose to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in 2023
Every year, millions are temporarily or permanently displaced and tens of thousands die from the impacts of climate change, none of which has ever been seriously addressed by capitalist governments.
Bryan Dyne•
Latest privately-owned Moon mission ends abruptly after botched landing
The failure of the Odysseus lander, built and launched by Intuitive Machines, is a further demonstration that the exploration of outer space is incompatible with the profit motive.
Bryan Dyne•
Mark Wilson•
Philip Guelpa•
Frank Gaglioti•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
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Financial assets of UAW rose in 2023 as bureaucracy pushed through sellout contracts
UAW net assets topped $1.13 billion even as membership fell to the lowest level since 2009.
Shannon Jones•
UAW-backed Mexican union tries to ram through sell-out contract at General Motors
The so-called “independent” union SINTTIA is described by workers as just another “company union” that consistently takes the side of management.
Andrea Lobo•
Mass layoffs hit auto industry as job cuts mount, profits surge
The stepped-up attack on jobs takes place as newly released government data shows profits rose $133.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 for an annualized rate of $3.4 trillion, the highest ever.
Shannon Jones•
Ford announces mass layoffs at flagship Rouge complex west of Detroit
Workers at the Ford Rouge complex speak out on job cuts and the impact on workers’ lives.
Tim Rivers•
Marcus Day•
Shannon Jones•
Shannon Jones•
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IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand: The crisis of political perspective of the Gaza protests
We encourage youth, students and workers to attend the events which will provide the international socialist revolutionary program necessary to end the genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli state and its imperialist backers.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
IYSSE holds first meeting at Otago University in New Zealand
The meeting in Dunedin last Thursday was held to establish the International Youth and Students for Social Equality as a student club at Otago, and to discuss the socialist strategy to fight against war and the genocide in Gaza.
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Australian IYSSE wins support at universities for its opposition to the Gaza genocide
“What’s happening in Gaza is so hard and so sad, because many people and many kids are getting killed. We have to stop these things, we have to stand with the people of Gaza.”
Our reporters•
Build the IYSSE!
Capitalism leads to genocide and war—youth and students must fight for world socialism!
The fact that genocide has been adopted as policy by all the major capitalist powers is a warning. Gaza is the test case, the imperialist powers are making clear that there are no “red lines” they will not cross in their struggle to sustain their hegemonic rule.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Elliott Murtagh, Jesse Thomas•
Elliott Murtagh, Jesse Thomas•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
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.
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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.
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Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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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.
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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.
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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•
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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Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!
Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Sri Lankan SEP meeting to launch two books on the Sinhala chauvinist JVP
The JVP’s rightward evolution is not an isolated, national phenomenon but an expression of the transformation internationally of similar organisations into pro-imperialist outfits.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Comrade Halil Çelik: An inspiration for workers and youth internationally
This is the tribute given by Peter Symonds to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018. The tribute was read at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of Halil’s death.
Peter Symonds•
Comrade Halil Çelik blazed the socialist-internationalist path the workers of Turkey must follow
This is the tribute given by Keith Jones to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018. The tribute was read at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of Halil’s death.
Keith Jones•
Our reporters•
David North•
our reporters•
Our reporters•
World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
20 years since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq
March 20 marks 20 years since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, launched on the basis of lies. At the time of the initial invasion, the WSWS published many statements on the background of the war, its history and its implications. This page features some of the most important statements.
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Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters
An open letter, issued by a privileged layer of indigenous figures who led the Voice Yes campaign, further highlights the immense class chasm shown in the referendum’s overwhelming defeat on October 14.
Mike Head•
Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum
Socialist Alternative’s analysis of the referendum is an attack on the working class, exposing this organisation as a rightward moving representative of privileged layers of the affluent upper middle-class.
Oscar Grenfell•
Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
Mike Head•
Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Our reporters•
On the 25th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site
Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.
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The Prinkipo commemoration of Trotsky’s exile and the global resurgence of the working class
The event reflects the objective change that has been underway for some time in the relationship between Trotskyism and the international working class.
Statement of the WSWS International Editorial Board•
An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo
This is the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North given on Sunday, August 20, honoring the life and political legacy of Leon Trotsky.
David North•
The ICFI’s investigation exposed the GPU conspiracy to murder Trotsky
The penetration of GPU agents into the Fourth International played a fatal role in the assassination of Trotsky.
Eric London•
Leon Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo
Trotsky spent the critical years of his exile on Prinkipo writing masterpieces and organizing the Left Opposition in the Communist International all over the world.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
2023: The global capitalist crisis and the growing offensive of the international working class
In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.
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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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Will Lehman issues letter to Mack Trucks coworkers on eve of UAW contract expiration: “We must seriously prepare for a major battle”
It’s clear the UAW hasn’t been negotiating anything at Mack all this time, they’ve just been keeping us in the dark to prevent us from preparing to fight back against the company’s ruthless demands.
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election
On Monday, July 3, rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman sued the Biden administration’s Department of Labor, demanding that the UAW national officers’ election be rerun with the names of all candidates on the ballot due to massive voter disenfranchisement by the bureaucracy.
Eric London•
Stop the UAW sabotage of the autoworkers struggle! Hold emergency local meetings to demand an all-out strike!
“Let’s be clear on what Fain‘s announcement really means: These strikes will have no impact on production. These are parts warehouses that ship components to the dealerships, not suppliers of the Big Three.”
Will Lehman•
“It’s almost like we are in a civil war between the rich and the poor”: Autoworkers respond to Will Lehman’s Newsweek op-ed
Autoworkers have responded with enthusiasm to the editorial written by the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in 2021.
Jerry White•
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman•
Will Lehman•
Jerry White•
Will Lehman•
A call to youth throughout the world: Build a mass movement to stop the Ukraine war!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
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May Day 2023: For the international unity of the working class against national chauvinism and war!
The following is the text of the opening report delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to the International May Day Online Rally 2023, held Sunday, April 30.
David North•
The ICFI’s May Day 2023 online rally: A milestone in the building of a global, working class movement against war
Together, the speakers set out a political programme capable of uniting the international working class and mobilising its immense social power in a struggle against the world’s major corporations and governments.
Thomas Scripps•
The developing struggle to bring down the Macron government in France
This is the report delivered by Alex Lantier, national secretary of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
Alex Lantier•
The struggle for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka
This is the report delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
Deepal Jayasekera•
Stepan Geller, Andrei Ritsky•
Andre Damon•
Joseph Kishore•
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
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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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 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•
Republicans revive discredited Wuhan Lab Leak theory and call Anthony Fauci to testify
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
Benjamin Mateus•
Anthony Fauci gives aid and comfort to COVID-19 “lab leak” conspiracy theory
Fauci’s aim in lending credence to the conspiracy theory, which he knows to be a lie, is to distract attention from the antiscientific policies carried out under the Trump and Biden administrations that led to the deaths of over a million Americans.
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Kevin Reed•
Frank Gaglioti•
Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship
This five-part series and historical timeline exposes Snyder’s Bloodlands as a work of falsification, aimed at justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far-right.
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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•
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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Report to Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
The historical and political principles of the socialist opposition to imperialist war and the Putin regime
This report was given by Clara Weiss to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution, “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
Clara Weiss•
Report to Seventh Congress of Socialist Equality Party (US)
The historical background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for global elimination
This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
Evan Blake•
America’s “New World Order”— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
Andre Damon•
Report to Seventh Congress of Socialist Equality Party (US)
Build rank-and-file committees, the organs of 21st century working class struggle!
This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
Eric London•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Tomas Castanheira•
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.
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•
Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Our reporter•
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•
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.
Russia downs British-supplied long-range missile as Zelensky and Sunak declare “jets coalition”
Central to NATO’s plans to defeat Russia and force regime change in Moscow is aerial supremacy over the Ukrainian battlefield. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Zelensky said, “We want to create this jet coalition.”
Robert Stevens•
Pentagon national strategy document targets China
The US military published a series of documents Thursday outlining US plans for war with Russia and China, and asserting the central role of nuclear weapons in US warfighting.
Andre Damon•
Australia dispatching military “trainers” to aid the US-NATO war against Russia
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Oscar Grenfell•
German President Steinmeier delivers war speech to the nation
Steinmeier's remarks to invited soldiers, journalists, think tank representatives and leading politicians can only be described as a “war speech to the nation.” The focus was de facto a declaration of war on Russia and the Russian population.
Johannes Stern, Christoph Vandreier•
Jordan Shilton•
Tom Peters•
Jean Shaoul•
Peter Symonds•
Tom Peters•
A historic advance in the fight for Trotskyism
The International Committee of the Fourth International accepts application of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu to become its section in Turkey
The June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.
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Germany’s secret service intensifies persecution of war opponents and warns against “Trotskyism”
The latest “Constitutional Protection Report” published by the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s domestic intelligence service) at the end of June aims to silence anyone who criticises the mass death being organised by the NATO powers, calls social inequality by its name, and rejects the government’s pro-war narrative.
Gregor Link•
Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine
The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion on the Soviet Union.
Justus Leicht•
Large-scale raid against right-wing terrorist network reveals the extent of the fascist danger in Germany
Around 3,000 officers from the special police forces stormed 137 locations in 11 federal states on Wednesday morning and arrested 25 people. Another 27 people are being investigated. The state prosecutor has accused them of being members or supporters of a terrorist organisation.
Peter Schwarz•
German secret service operates hundreds of far-right social media profiles
Regardless of whether the pending investigations can demonstrate that the agents gave the impetus to the planned terrorist attacks, a picture emerges of a right-wing extremist milieu organized and controlled by the state.
Christoph Vandreier•
Christoph Vandreier•
Justus Leicht•
Statement of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK)•
Peter Schwarz•
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.
Ghassan Zeineddine’s Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
James McDonald•
The Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward
Perhaps half the pieces are coming-of-age stories, that lyrical standby now usually written in a gritty but still rhapsodic voice.
James McDonald•
Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people
David Marr’s Killing for Country documents many mass killings of indigenous people but falsely blames the entire population, not the ruling class and Australian capitalism.
Mike Head•
DOC NYC Film Festival 2023: Part 3
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer: A documentary approaches the American novelist with sympathy, but not enough scrutiny
The documentary follows the writer from his boyhood in the 1930s through his service during World War II and throughout his tumultuous literary, journalistic and personal life.
Erik Schreiber•
James MacDonald, Sandy English•
Helen Halyard•
Bernd Reinhardt•
David Walsh•
Andrea Peters•
The US-Israeli murder of World Central Kitchen aid workers
The Gaza genocide, now six months old, marks a major milestone in the criminalization of imperialist foreign policy, in which systematic mass murder, starvation and genocide are being normalized as tools of statecraft.
Andre Damon•
The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2024 US elections
What accounts for the silence of all the capitalist and middle class parties on this world historic event that has impacted every human being and profoundly altered global society?
Evan Blake•
Israel bombs Iran’s embassy in Damascus: The Middle East on the brink of region-wide war
Amid a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine and growing US plans for war with China, an Israeli-Iranian war would rapidly threaten to spread across Eurasia and the world.
Alex Lantier•
Washington’s enablers of Israeli genocide in Gaza
The Biden administration and the entire US ruling elite are directly responsible for the war of extermination that Israel is waging against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Patrick Martin•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Tom Carter•
Tom Hall•
Thomas Scripps•
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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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•
Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
Jack Wang•
New Zealand: Court action over Pike River mine disaster
The fathers of two of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster are campaigning for the release of documents and correspondence relating to a 2013 decision to drop charges against Pike River CEO Peter Whittall.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Tom Peters•
Eighty years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
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Cliff Slaughter: A political biography (1928-1963)
By David North
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
With David North and Eric London
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
Watch the video