The Online May Day Rally will bring workers together from all over the world to mark International Workers Day and discuss the strategy for a revolutionary socialist solution to the crisis of the capitalist system.
Troops will be deployed in a series of four separate NATO wargames codenamed Arrow, Hedgehog, Defender and Swift Response. The Ministry of Defence noted, “Tens of thousands of troops from NATO and Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) allies and partners are involved in the exercises.”
Regular readers of the World Socialist Web Site in the UK have given interviews or sent in personal appeals for workers and young people to take part in this Sunday’s rally.
Contrary to their deep roots in mankind’s yearning for peaceful and humane social relations, art and culture as a whole are being turned into weapons of war by those responsible for cultural policy.
Tokyo is aggressively asserting its territorial claims to the Kuril Islands in its longstanding dispute with Moscow, while accusing China of preparing to invade Taiwan.
Striking Stanford nurses and Oakland educators, as well as SoCal Kaiser workers, speak out in favor of a joint struggle against overwork, insuffient pay, and unsafe conditions.
The refusal of a senior US State Department official to rule out military action against Solomon Islands means that is exactly what is under discussion in Washington.
Yesterday, the tech-heavy NASDAQ index dropped by 4.2 percent, bringing its loss for April to 13 percent, making it the worst month since the global financial crisis of 2008.
Hundreds of estate workers join demonstrations and marches organised by the SEP and the Alton and Glenugie estates action committees.
Kapila Fernando addressed a general strike meeting on Thursday in Chilaw of over 2,000 postal, bank, power, health and divisional administration employees, and teachers.
“The capitalist politicians aren’t going to make any changes, because they’re the ones who have brought us to this situation in the first place.”
Public school teachers are beset by chronic staff shortages, an average of more than ten hours unpaid work a week, pupil overcrowding and inadequate infrastructure.
David North, chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board, issues call for May Day online rally: 'The fate of humanity must not be left in the hands of a money-mad and war-mongering ruling class.'
The celebration of May Day 2022 must be dedicated to the unification of the international working class in a global struggle against imperialist war and its root cause, the capitalist system.
A Michigan teacher and member of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee explains why she will be attending the upcoming May Day Rally, and calls for the end to war and the pandemic as well as improvement in living standards for all workers and their families.
A joint meeting convened by rank-and-file committees of educators and rail workers adopted a resolution calling for a worker-led global counteroffensive against war, the pandemic, and the spiralling cost of living, while workers explained why they will attend the rally.
“I urge all workers to attend. It is the only way forward, against the virus and against war.”
The United States and the NATO powers of Europe have set into motion a chain of events that is leading to World War III.
On Thursday, US President Joe Biden called on Congress to approve $20 billion in weapons shipments for the US war with Russia, increasing US involvement in the conflict by a factor of six.
Following the declaration by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the US is in a “fight” with Russia, Putin made his most open threat to date to retaliate against NATO’s involvement in the war.
Two months after the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, US officials are making it clear that their goal in the conflict is not a ceasefire or end to the war, but a decisive strategic defeat for Russia.
In this webinar, an international panel of leading members of the ICFI and WSWS writers reviewed the causes and consequences of the US-NATO war drive against Russia and present the political basis for a fight against war.
The Biden administration has scrapped even the pretense of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, admitting that preventing infections is “not even a policy goal.”
The Daily Blog, which supports the Labour Party-led government, demands state repression against the Socialist Equality Group, because of the SEG’s opposition to anti-China war propaganda.
The trial has dealt a sharp blow to the #MeToo campaign and the self-serving mythologies with which it has attempted to surround relations between the sexes.
Cases across China continue to decline in response to massive efforts employed by the Chinese authorities and population. However, Beijing is implementing citywide mass testing to identify the extent of community spread, and financial interests are concerned health authorities will implement a complete lockdown.
The MSP submitted the first series of documents of its investigation into the murder of Lyoya by officer Christopher Schurr to the Kent County Prosecutor’s office.
In her weekly press conference, Pelosi lashed out at reporters who asked her to respond to audio tapes confirming that Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy blamed Trump for the coup and feared further violence following the attack.
The bill prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant, and allows private citizens to file civil lawsuits against abortion providers.
While Biden attempted to downplay the abysmal numbers, his bravado cannot paper over the myriad contradictions facing US and world capitalism.
3,500 RMT members registered for Thursday’s online mass meeting, the first in the union’s history, and its largest in decades. Thousands more listened via Facebook livestream. The turnout demonstrated workers’ determination to fight.
After working for eight months without a contract, the Boston Teachers Union is demanding members accept its “post pandemic” vision, as negotiations with the Boston Public Schools system continue.
The one-day stoppage will close 114 Crown Post Offices (those run directly by the Post Office) around the country and there will be no cash deliveries or collections from 11,500 sub-post offices
CNH agricultural and heavy equipment workers in Wisconsin and Iowa are seeking to win back major concessions in wages and benefits previously surrendered by the UAW.
The Tory leader is playing his hand badly, but it was a bad hand to begin with.
At a meeting at the Ramstein US airbase, Washington and its allies planned an extensive confrontation with Russia.
In the days surrounding official acknowledgment that miners labor under brutal conditions, news broke of more deaths in the country’s extraction, metallurgy and construction industries.
The ruling is a damning indictment of government policy, but as with every intervention by the judiciary it lets the government off the hook on the essential issues.
The protests were a cynical photo opportunity for Labor politicians, whose party has presided over the privatisation of the sector and the decimation of workers wages and conditions.
Asked about what Labor and the Coalition were saying in the election campaign, Andrew, a Brisbane construction worker said with disgust: “I don’t listen to them any more. It’s all about money.”
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to provide workers with the political weapons and organisational means to fight for their social and democratic rights.
The SEP’s fight for ballot access, and the enthusiastic and determined response we won from working-class and young people, further exposes the anti-democratic efforts of the entire corporate-backed parliamentary elite to stifle dissent.
The Biden administration has scrapped even the pretense of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, admitting that preventing infections is “not even a policy goal.”
Cases across China continue to decline in response to massive efforts employed by the Chinese authorities and population. However, Beijing is implementing citywide mass testing to identify the extent of community spread, and financial interests are concerned health authorities will implement a complete lockdown.
Colleges and universities across the United States, particularly in the Northeast, have reinstated mask mandates and returned to online learning in response to a recent surge of COVID-19 infections on campuses, marking the third straight academic year disrupted by the coronavirus.
The Bolsonaro government is promoting the narrative that the pandemic is becoming “endemic." The term has been used by governments around the world as they cut all resources to track the spread of the virus.
The documentary provides the media and political establishment’s version of the city of Detroit’s supposed “monumental climb out of bankruptcy [in 2013] toward a new era.”
The trial has dealt a sharp blow to the #MeToo campaign and the self-serving mythologies with which it has attempted to surround relations between the sexes.
The Time of the Fireflies (El tiempo de las luciérnagas), about Mexican immigrants in the US, and Sun (Sonne), about Kurdish immigrants in Austria, are two intelligent, moving films about physical dislocation and its emotional consequences.
New Mexico authorities found Rust Movie Productions guilty of "willful and serious" safety violations
Neither the Sri Lankan government nor the opposition parties have any solution to the hunger and want facing working people. The SEP is advancing a program of action for the working class which alone can resolve the immense social and economic crisis.
Bring down the Rajapakse government! Abolish executive presidency! No to interim regimes! Oppose hunger and IMF austerity! Build Action Committees to fight for a socialist program to ensure food, fuel and medicine for all!
Although limited by the trade unions to just one day, yesterday’s massive walkout was a powerful and significant intervention by the working class into Sri Lanka’s deepening political and social crisis.
On April 19, amid mass anti-government protests, Sri Lankan police forces opened fire on a crowd of protesters at Rambukkana demanding affordable food and fuel.
The Colombo political establishment will accept the IMF’s austerity terms and the “pain” will inevitably be imposed on the vast majority of the population—working people and rural toilers.
Jessica Bleasdale spoke to the WSWS about her experiences advocating for her son and others who are vulnerable, as well as her thoughts on the New Brunswick government’s decision to drop all protective measures.
The studies led by Ferrante showed that the reopening of schools in Manaus in late 2020 led to the emergence of the Gamma variant, responsible for two-thirds of the COVID-19 deaths in Brazil.
In this interview, David describes his experience during the pandemic, the inadequate response from the hospitals and government, and the chasm between hospital administration and staff.
Travis exposes the lies and misinformation spread about COVID-19, in particular its impacts on children, and documents the steady erosion of data tracking over the past year and during the Omicron surge.
Jean Luc-Mélenchon is not trying to mobilise the workers, but to bring together discredited bourgeois or petty-bourgeois political parties.
On Saturday, the day before polling in the French presidential elections, WSWS journalists interviewed workers and young people in the working-class north Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis about the vote between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
In the city of Amiens, WSWS journalists interviewed Clémence, a student and job seeker, on the French presidential elections.
The debate showed above all the very limited character of the differences separating Macron from a political descendant of the collaboration with Nazism in France.
"If the unions won’t do it for us, fight for solidarity, then we need to do it ourselves. As the CFPE says, form rank-and-file committees and vote 'no' to the Victorian agreement!"
The SEP is the only party in the federal elections opposing the explosion of militarism and Australia’s front-line participation in the US-led war drive against Russia and the escalating provocations against China.
Runaway price rises for food, fuel, housing, education and other essentials are tearing through working-class living conditions.
Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up, published by Mehring Books, examines the causes of the 2010 New Zealand mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and the decade-long cover-up by successive governments and the judicial system, which have shielded the company leadership from prosecution.
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
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
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
The WSWS is today republishing an excerpt from the 1986 statement How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism to mark the 40th anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands War.
Any conception that a Labor government would defend Assange is refuted by over a decade of experience and the statements of Labor leaders themselves.
According to the Extradition Act (2003) which governs the process, Assange now has four weeks (to May 18) to make representations to Patel before her decision is announced.
A particularly pernicious role is played by Greens MPs who have criticised Assange’s persecution, but are working with Labor to ensure it is buried in the forthcoming election.
By holding their wedding, Moris said, they were fighting back against the British state’s efforts to keep Assange “invisible to the public at all costs”.
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
The value of the euro and the yen has fallen sharply in recent weeks because of the expectation that interest rates will not rise as fast as in the US, if at all.
The ECB resisted pressure to follow the lead of the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, as well as other central banks, to lift interest rates in response to the global surge in inflation
Dealings in global commodity markets for basic items, such as oil and gas, industrial metals, as well as grains and other foodstuffs, have been characterised as “chaotic” as prices spiral and gyrate.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development reported that consumer prices in the world’s 30 richest countries rose by 7.7 percent in February, compared with just 1.7 percent a year ago.
In early 2020, Professor Baberowski physically assaulted an IYSSE member of the student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University and destroyed large amounts of student election campaign material.
A mood of growing frustration is building among university faculty and grad student workers throughout the University of Illinois system, centered on the surging cost of living and eroding incomes.
Michigan schools have the nation’s second-worst student-to-counselor ratio, 691 to 1, under conditions of a deepening mental health emergency nationally.
The IYSSE calls on students and youth to link the struggle against climate change with the broader fight against all the existential threats confronting humanity, above all imperialism’s relentless march toward a catastrophic nuclear war.
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.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, 153 Palestinians were hospitalised, while “dozens of other injuries” were treated at the scene. Nearly 400 people were arrested.
According to the UN’s World Food Programme, which has previously warned that the war in Ukraine could drive millions in the Middle East into food poverty and lead to global food insecurity, the cost of the basic food basket in Lebanon, the minimum a family needs per month, soared by 351 percent in the past year.
This year has seen numerous demonstrations protesting social and economic conditions, with the total number of demonstrations in the eight months since Saïed’s July coup topping those that proceeded it.
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi said the IDF must be prepared for “Guardian of the Walls 2,” a reference to last May when Israel launched a murderous 11-day assault on Gaza.
Trump has refused to comply with a December subpoena requiring him to turn over documents to the office of Democratic New York Attorney General Leticia James.
In prepared remarks following a meeting with Ukrainian officials, Austin declared, “our focus in the meeting was to talk about those things that would enable us to win the current fight and also build for tomorrow.”
The stay came after significant sections of the political establishment, nervous about the execution of a clearly innocent person discrediting the death penalty and aware of the outrage it was provoking, called for a delay in Lucio’s execution.
Both state parties are on the verge of nominating fanatical advocates of the “stolen election” lie as statewide candidates in 2022.
David North, the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, spoke with Turkey’s KİTABA DAİR on his book, The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished 20th Century, and the rapidly intensifying conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine.
“This censorship is not only directed against us, but against the mass opposition to a world war,” says Vandreier. The socialist anti-war perspective of the SGP “is to be banned and censored in the midst of deafening war propaganda for a third world war.”
Workers including bus drivers, healthcare staff and teachers active in rank-and-file committees in the UK were invited by the SEP to discuss a fight against war based on the working class and socialism.
The speakers emphasized that the opposition of the working class to the war is needed to be developed as a conscious political movement for socialism.
“The destruction created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the drive towards a third world war clearly shows that capitalism neither wants nor is able to resolve the basic questions faced by mankind”
The popular slogan has been “out with all of them,” reflecting a rejection of Peru's entire bourgeois governmental setup.
The WSWS and the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil demand the immediate reinstatement of the rank-and-file commission and all fired workers at CSN.
The growing protests in Peru are the latest expression of a global wave of social protest over spiraling prices exacerbated by the war between the US/NATO and Russia in Ukraine
The “Caso Quemados” (case of the burnt ones) occurred in the midst of demonstrations against depression-level unemployment, poverty and bloody repression under the Pinochet dictatorship.
The move could hardly come at a worse time, with the more infectious Omicron BA.2 sub-variant of COVID-19 starting to produce yet another surge of infections and deaths around the world.
The latest official data reveals the highest infection rates in all age groups were among 2-11-year-olds, the age group which remains unvaccinated in the UK. Yet they must attend pre-school settings, nurseries and primary schools with no mitigation measures in place.
Seattle Public Schools students join the global movement of educators and students and stage a walkout to protest inadequate measures to protect them against the Omicron BA.2 surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the announcement of an agreement last Friday to end mandatory masking in Los Angeles schools, virtually every school across the US West Coast has now made masks optional on campuses as coronavirus cases continue to increase among school-aged children.
On Saturday, Facebook deleted a video posted by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany opposing the German government’s participation in the US-led NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
YouTube deleted the archive of Chris Hedges’ On Contact television program from its platform with no explanation.
The Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has intensified the bipartisan drive to clamp down on left-wing and socialist political content on social media platforms.
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
The Times, which wishes readers to take the 1619 Project seriously as a “reframing of American history,” has said more than it intended.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The World Socialist Web Site five years ago interviewed Greg Mello, an expert on the dangers of nuclear war. Today we are republishing that interview.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report is an indictment of global capitalism’s utter failure to address climate change.
The JWST is also slated to join a survey of nearby galaxies involving the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The discovery in China of the Oviraptorid embryo known as “Baby Yingliang” is one of a number of findings marking a renaissance in the field of paleontology.
Russia and Ukraine account for nearly one third of the world’s grain exports, one fifth of its corn trade and almost 80 percent of sunflower oil production.
This withdrawal, driven by mounting popular opposition to French imperialism, comes amid the closely related NATO operations to provoke a war with Russia over Ukraine.
Amid the media frenzy, not a single journalist alluded to the economic and social conditions that gave rise to the tragedy. Yet on Tuesday, a seven-year-old boy died after falling into a 50-metre deep well in the village of Al-Sabt just hours after Rayan’s funeral.
The political crisis takes place as the economy faces collapse under the impact of the pandemic, with growing unemployment, 360 percent inflation and soaring food prices.
The SEP is the only party in the federal elections opposing the explosion of militarism and Australia’s front-line participation in the US-led war drive against Russia and the escalating provocations against China.
The SEP is demanding the basic democratic right to stand candidates in its name at the looming federal election in order to advance, in the broadest possible way, the necessary socialist perspective, based on the protection of health and lives, not private profit.
“The Workers Inquest is critical. It’s become clear that the governments and health organisations don’t want to provide the evidence about how it spreads, and what we need to do to keep safe.”
The deep hostility among university staff and students is part of the rising political discontent that drove the Liberal-National and Labor parties to rush through new electoral laws in August.
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
John Comaroff, professor of African and African American studies and of anthropology at Harvard University, has become the target of what has all the earmarks of another filthy #MeToo witch-hunt.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
The judges effectively cleared the way for universities to dismiss staff for criticising management or breaching confidentiality rules.
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
.The White House announced on Thursday that it will be sending an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine for its proxy war with Russia which is now focused in the East of the country.
NATO wants the military defeat and economic ruin of Russia. It has no interest in ending the war through a ceasefire.
Russia has submitted a formal note protesting the US transfer of billions of dollars in military hardware to Ukraine, and raising the prospect of Russian retaliation against US/NATO arms shipments.
The Biden administration has now provided $2.4 billion in weapons to Ukraine, of which $1.7 billion worth has been delivered just since the start of the war.
On 18 March, the Berlin Administrative Court rejected an emergency application by junge Welt that it no longer be described as “left-wing extremist” in the secret service annual report.
The German court judgement and its written grounds represent a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The aim is to ban socialist ideas and any criticism of capitalism.
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) passed a resolution Monday condemning the ruling of the Berlin Administrative Court, which on November 18, 2021, upheld the designation of the German security service of the German section of the ICFI as “left wing extremists”.
The court’s ruling against the Socialist Equality Party stands in the tradition of National Socialist ideological jurisprudence and Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws, and opens the door for the surveillance and suppression of all opposition to capitalism and arbitrary state power.
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement. Comrade Jean, who died November 24, 1997 at the age of 76, joined the Trotskyist-led Young Peoples Socialist League as a teenager in 1937.
Three just-released studies provide substantive evidence for the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2, with the Huanan market in Wuhan, China the location of the first zoonotic (animal to human) transfer.
As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak “theory.”
In the most systematic defense of the Wuhan lab libel to date, Matt Ridley proves only the falsehood of his bad-faith attack on science.
The commission advocated by the Washington Post will be aimed at shielding the government and corporate officials responsible for the deaths of more than one million Americans, while scapegoating China for the pandemic.
The horrific massacre of civilians was immediately exploited by the imperialist powers, led by the United States government itself, to justify far-reaching attacks on the democratic rights of their own populations, and the launching of decades-long wars in the Middle East and Africa.
The Online May Day Rally will bring workers together from all over the world to mark International Workers Day and discuss the strategy for a revolutionary socialist solution to the crisis of the capitalist system.
On Thursday, US President Joe Biden called on Congress to approve $20 billion in weapons shipments for the US war with Russia, increasing US involvement in the conflict by a factor of six.
The Biden administration has scrapped even the pretense of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, admitting that preventing infections is “not even a policy goal.”
The United States and the NATO powers of Europe have set into motion a chain of events that is leading to World War III.
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.
In her weekly press conference, Pelosi lashed out at reporters who asked her to respond to audio tapes confirming that Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy blamed Trump for the coup and feared further violence following the attack.
McCarthy received a “standing ovation” from House Republicans at a closed-door meeting Wednesday, his first with the conference since the release of audio recordings from January 2021 in which McCarthy suggested Trump should resign following the failed coup.
New revelations implicating Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and leading Republicans in the January 6 coup plot further expose danger of dictatorship.
The motion describes meetings and communications involving Trump, Meadows and their congressional allies where they discussed illegal strategies to stop the certification of Biden's election victory.
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.
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Eric London, a writer for the WSWS and author of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up, published by Mehring Books, examines the causes of the 2010 New Zealand mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and the decade-long cover-up by successive governments and the judicial system, which have shielded the company leadership from prosecution.
Ben Joynson was 10-years-old when his father William died, with 28 other workers, in the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster. He said the trauma suffered by the victims’ families has been made worse by the lack of accountability.
Gordon Dixon, whose brother Allan died in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, told the WSWS that the Labour Party-led government’s decision to permanently seal the mine was part of an ongoing cover-up to protect those responsible.
The Labour Party-led government permanently sealed Pike River mine last year, preventing the recovery of the bodies of 29 men who perished in the 2010 underground disaster, and locking away vital evidence of what caused the explosions.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
In this new collection, the stated theme of illusion is not always probed deeply—nor is it the only theme.
Joan Didion, the essayist and novelist who critically described nearly 60 years of American social and cultural life, died on December 23.
The second book by an acclaimed and politically engaged young poet is notable for its international and historical perspective.
Michael Kazin’s book What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party is as unoriginal as it is wrong
