The meeting on Saturday November 18 at 1.30pm will be addressed by David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
Cannon’s Open Letter was written in defense of the essential political principles upon which the Fourth International had been based, in opposition to a form of revisionism and opportunism known as Pabloism.
As with virtually every auto industry contract over the past 45 years, the UAW bureaucracy rammed through its sellout by means of misinformation, threats and likely outright vote-rigging.
After two days of ransacking Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in Gaza, the US and Israel have failed to substantiate their claims that the hospital housed a massive command center housing Israeli hostages.
In addition to endorsing the violent police crackdown, Democratic and Republican Party politicians smeared peaceful protesters, many whom were Jewish, as “anti-Semites” and supporters of Hamas.
Toledo Jeep is the largest Stellantis plant so far to vote down the contract.
Workers and youth around the world protesting against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza must oppose plans for imperialist attack on Iran, including potentially with nuclear weapons.
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ratchets up his rhetoric against Israel, new revelations are emerging that trade with Israel continues apace.
Langton’s diatribe, which essentially blamed Palestinian civilians for their plight, underscored the reactionary and pro-imperialist character of a narrow indigenous elite.
“We do not create our art merely for entertainment or for profit. We create because it is a human imperative in the same way that speaking out against war crimes is a moral imperative.”
A critical reading of the report underscores the impossibility of combining a scientific approach to resolving climate change with the ongoing existence of capitalism.
Rather than promote peace or “rule of law,” Biden’s discussions with the Indonesian president are aimed at pressuring Jakarta to line up more closely with Washington’s war drive against China.
These remarks were delivered on November 5 by David North on his new book, Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century, at the Istanbul Book Fair.
This lecture provides a political and historical analysis of the genocidal war now being conducted by the Zionist regime in Israel against the Palestinians. It explains the relationship between the contemporary struggle against imperialism and the international socialist program of the Left Opposition, founded by Leon Trotsky 100 years ago in October 1923.
The only other political censure in the history of Congress—that of abolitionist Joshua Giddings in 1842—was bound up with the struggle against slavery that culminated in the Civil War.
On Tuesday, a degraded spectacle took place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The “March for Israel” will be recorded in history as a rally for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
The imperialist powers have embraced Israel's war on hospitals, aiming to set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians in future wars against Russia, China, and Iran.
The Israeli government’s genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza intensified Tuesday with an all-out bombardment launched on the Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza.
Israel’s genocide against the population of Gaza, carried out with the support of the imperialist powers, is the consummation of three decades of imperialist war following the dissolution of the USSR.
Outside parliament as the vote was taken, around 15,000 people protested demanding MPs back a ceasefire.
The meetings in Stuttgart and Berlin took place in the midst of worldwide mass protests and demonstrations against the murderous policies of the Netanyahu government and the active political and military support it receives from the leading NATO powers.
The IYSSE calls on the mobilisation of the broadest layers of students to these walkouts. Young people in other cities and regional centres across the country should also develop actions against the genocide in Gaza.
The mobilizations in France and internationally reflect an increasingly open antifascist and anticapitalist conflict of the working class against the ruling elites.
The sending of Spanish warships to join a US-led battleship group off Gaza exposes the hypocritical claims of the pseudo-left Podemos party to oppose the genocide in Gaza.
This lecture provides a political and historical analysis of the genocidal war now being conducted by the Zionist regime in Israel against the Palestinians. It explains the relationship between the contemporary struggle against imperialism and the international socialist program of the Left Opposition, founded by Leon Trotsky 100 years ago in October 1923.
In October 1923, the German Communist Party prepared an insurrection and then cancelled it at the last minute, prompting Leon Trotsky to characterize it as “a classic demonstration of how it is possible to miss a perfectly exceptional revolutionary situation of world-historic importance.”
Trotsky’s October 23, 1923 letter is the first comprehensive document in the inner-party struggle in which he was forced to answer, in detail, not only political attacks but also distortions of the history of the Bolshevik Party and the October Revolution.
This is the second part of a lecture given by David North in November 1993 at the University of Michigan on the origins of the Left Opposition.
The UAW is resorting to the most illegitimate and underhanded methods to push through its pro-company deal at GM and the other automakers.
In a mockery of democratic rights, the UAW forced Mack Trucks workers to revote on a deal they had previously rejected by 72 percent in October.
Workers have dismissed claims by local officials that 85 percent voted “yes,” given the broad opposition to the deal.
The Mack Truck Workers Rank-and-File Committee is calling for a no vote by the largest possible margin on this garbage contract. But to decide what to do next, it is necessary to understand how we got into this situation.
The Labour and trade union bureaucracy is basing its opposition to the closures on a nationalist campaign.
CSU workers are divided into numerous separate unions, their contracts negotiated separately, and the “no strike” clauses enforced by the trade union officials designed to ensure a united fight that could shut down the CSU system, but it is precisely this which is needed through the building of independent rank-and-file committees.
National wildcat strike over pay and conditions by thousands of Serbian postal workers continues to spread in teeth of union opposition and dismissal threats; steel and construction workers in Iran join strikes and protests over rising poverty and authoritarian rule; nationwide strike in Nigeria over state violence to try and intimidate workers’ struggles over pay
With all terms of reference agreed behind closed doors by Royal Mail, the CWU and Falconer, the review was only “independent” from union members who were denied any say on the matter.
Unless Niko Tiliopoulos’s sacking is defeated, it will set a precedent for use throughout the tertiary education industry to victimise and sack educators who refuse, for critical health reasons, to adhere to the intensifying “return to campus” offensive.
Christina, a licensed practical nurse in Louisville, Kentucky, contacted the World Socialist Web Site after reading of a young Ohio nurse driven to suicide by the abusive conditions in the for-profit healthcare system.
The rates of congenital syphilis among newborns have risen tenfold over the last 10 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There are projections that by early December the pandemic, far from being “over,” will be causing 1 million new infections every day in the United States.
Sánchez faces rising opposition from both left and right—from workers and youth protesting the Gaza genocide and Sánchez's anti-worker policies, and from fascistic, anti-Catalan groups calling for a coup.
Germany’s coalition government fully supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza and rejects any ceasefire. At the same time, it is aggressively pushing ahead with the war offensive against Russia.
Between them, ex-prime minister Cameron’s appointment and Braverman’s self-imposed sacking sum up the trajectory in the ruling class. Unable to maintain the faintest trace of democratic legitimacy, it is turning rapidly to repression and dictatorship.
The demand Germany be “war-ready” and the associated aim of the comprehensive militarisation of society not only links back rhetorically but also substantively to the policies of the Nazis.
The probe, the most serious challenge faced by Adams in his two years in office, concerns possible benefits given in exchange for campaign contributions from Turkish donors.
Donald Trump shared a post by a supporter on his Truth Social network that called for a “citizen’s arrest” of Attorney General Letitia James and New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron.
The bill, which is expected to pass the Senate quickly, does not include either major spending cuts or new funds for the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
The Supreme Court of the United States issued a 15-page code of conduct on Monday as part of broader efforts by the ruling political establishment to rebuild confidence in the judicial body that has been exposed as a center of corruption and political influence.
Faced with significant budget deficits, colleges across the US have announced mass layoffs, program eliminations and school closures.
Research by Georgetown University and the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that at least two million children have been kicked off Medicaid and one million have no health insurance at all, following the Biden administration’s termination of pandemic-related public health measures.
The firing of workers, blacklisting of students and other attempts at intimidation are part of a drive by all the imperialist powers to suppress global opposition to Israel’s genocidal assault.
Countless workers in Acapulco have been left to fend for themselves amidst a natural disaster compounded by systemic official neglect.
In the leadup to the meeting, the Biden administration ratcheted up its threats, demands, ultimatums, provocations and trade and technology measures against China.
The program had the character of an onslaught against the sole Palestinian panelist who was treated with disdain, including as he was describing the deaths of thousands of children in Gaza.
Washington is making it plain there is no line it will not cross in attempting to enforce its hegemony in the Indo-Pacific region.
While slandering mass rallies against the Gaza genocide as antisemitic, the official parties and the media have responded with indifference to vilification and threats targeting a well-known Palestinian-Australian businessman.
The artists have a responsibility here, to stand up for the oppressed and the victimized, against imperialist barbarism. The list of musicians, actors and others opposing Israel’s campaign of death is too extensive to include in one article.
The film bases itself on a family's experiences during the Iran-Iraq War, a bitter conflict that led to the deaths of over one million people.
While the film paints a vivid picture of the appalling suffering Barghouti’s lengthy incarceration has inflicted upon both him and his family, it underplays the political issues involved.
The events in Israel have cracked open a divide between the union bureaucracies, aligned with the warmongering Biden administration, and rank-and-file writers, actors and directors opposed to the Israeli onslaught.
US government debt is now more than $33 trillion and rising and stands at more than 120 percent of GDP.
Central bank revises inflation forecast upwards, signalling a deeper cut to workers’ wages
Hong Kong conference of banking and finance chiefs strikes a dour and at times fearful note.
Governor Michele Bullock wants the economy to slow further and unemployment to increase, as mortgage payments for home buyers rise by hundreds of dollars a week.
The canceling of the elections comes amidst a profound military and political crisis of the Zelensky regime and exposes the NATO propaganda about the defense of "democracy" in Ukraine.
The Zelensky regime is refusing to disclose how long Ukrainian soldiers will be expected to remain at the front amid growing nationwide protests against never-ending deployment.
In order to offset a massive increase in spending on national defense and security, the Russian government is gutting funding for social spending, education, healthcare, and utilities.
Members of Congress in the United States are discussing a bill funding the Ukraine war to the tune of up to $100 billion in a single shot, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The well-attended lectures at Peradeniya University indicate that serious layers are seeking a Marxist analysis of the crisis of Sri Lankan and global capitalism and the socialist program needed to fight.
“I strongly condemn Israel’s murderous war on Gaza. No food, no medicine, no drinking water; Israel’s bloody activity directed against millions of people in Gaza should not be allowed.”
The Sri Lankan government has assured the IMF that it will deepen the assault on working people, further increasing taxation, privatisations and subsidy-slashing measures.
Outrage against Israel’s invasion has intensified after Israeli forces bombed the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, killing at least 500 people including medical staff and patients.
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.
Today’s events are the product of the founding of Israel in 1948 through the forcible expulsion of Palestine’s existing Arab population and of the three-quarters of a century of brutality and mass murder that followed.
This letter, sent by Leon Trotsky on October 8, 1923, to members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, was one of the most important documents that led to the emergence of the Left Opposition.
To initiate its commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition on October 15, 1923, the WSWS is re-publishing an editorial by David North on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Left Opposition.
The suppression of the strike based on court decisions continues the long record of the trade union officials in aiding the auto companies in cutting workers’ conditions and jobs.
This is not merely a “patriotic struggle” against a greedy and polluting Canadian firm, but part of a global resurgence of workers’ struggles against the neo-colonial drive to secure control over strategic locations and resources.
The eruption of imperialism is hampering the efforts by the Latin American ruling elites to even pretend to play an independent, progressive or democratic role.
Far from offering any insight into Trotsky’s immense legacy, the meeting represented a second political assassination of the great Russian revolutionary.
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.
The fossil skull, including both jaw and cranium, appears to be from an intermediate form between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens.
The awarding of the Nobel Prize to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman is justly deserved and has all the more significance in that it takes place under conditions of a vast right-wing anti-science campaign.
The next mission for the spacecraft will be orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Apophis starting in April 2029.
Many viral infections that plague humans originate from bats, yet intriguingly bats suffer no ill effects from the myriad of viruses that inhabit their bodies, a phenomenon scientists are researching in the hope of finding insights into how to moderate impacts on humans.
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.
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.
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
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.
Albanese’s lie that the Biden administration cannot end the prosecution of Assange is a greenlight for the extradition and persecution of the Australian publisher.
Murray explained in a statement, “the abuse of special anti-terrorism powers at ports in order to seize all papers and communications of journalists is becoming commonplace.”
The Labor government’s full-throated support of imperialist militarism, in Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, is incompatible with the defence of a persecuted anti-war publisher.
The tour reflected a groundswell of support for Assange among ordinary people, but also underscored the bankruptcy of a fight for his freedom based on backroom diplomacy and politicking.
The far-right campaign against students has created a chilling atmosphere in which students are faced with threats to their physical safety as well as their future careers.
Last Wednesday, roughly 30 Columbia University (CU) students staged a walkout of a lecture given by 2016 US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The action against students’ right to protest is part of a wider clampdown at SOAS. Over the past fortnight, large numbers of security personnel have been deployed at entry points to the campus and inside buildings. Police have harassed and questioned students simply for wearing a keffiyeh.
On Tuesday, thousands of students across the US and Canada protested the US-backed Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.
The event reflects the objective change that has been underway for some time in the relationship between Trotskyism and the international working class.
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.
The penetration of GPU agents into the Fourth International played a fatal role in the assassination of Trotsky.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The conflicts in the Burkina Faso military are deeply entwined with the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, as the Burkinabè junta led by Traoré develops ties with the Kremlin.
The scale of the Moroccan catastrophe is an indictment of the inability of the capitalist system to deliver earthquake-resistant housing and emergency services to the working population.
Amid massive protests in Niger against French imperialism, French President Macron announced the withdrawal of the French ambassador to Niamey on Sunday.
There are growing signs in the region that the eastern Libyan authorities are preparing a bloody crackdown against protests in Derna.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
Autoworkers have responded with enthusiasm to the editorial written by the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in 2021.
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.
Hours before Israel initiated a communications blackout of Gaza and poured troops across the border, the United States dropped dozens of bombs on what it called Iranian “proxies” in Syria as part of its escalating standoff with Tehran.
The centenary of the Turkish Republic, founded on 29 October 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, is being celebrated as the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza threatens to escalate into war across the entire Middle East.
Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, carried out with the complicity of the US, UK, French, and German governments, continued Friday with the murder of another 352 Palestinians.
The escalation of tensions in Syria points to the danger that the imperialist-backed war for regime change initiated in 2011 could be reignited and escalate into a regional conflict.
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.
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.
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.
The 68-year-old far-right lawyer will avoid prison time as long as she abides by the terms of her six-year probation, which includes testifying against her accomplices, including Trump.
The focus of opposition from the Democrats and a section of House Republicans to Jordan’s becoming Speaker is his stated opposition to further military aid to Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Nowadays May Day is used as political propaganda by the trade unions and the capitalist parties. In fact, May Day belongs to the workers and it should be a day that brings together workers in struggle in every country.” –Kandy Hospital nurse
The SEP held an important meeting Sunday afternoon entitled: “After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity!”
The Ukrainian edition of the WSWS will publish critical historical and programmatic documents that will create the foundations for a Ukrainian section of the ICFI.
The SEP held an online memorial meeting to pay tribute to the life of Regina Lohr, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 66.
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.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
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.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak 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.
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.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
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!”
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”
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!”
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!”
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.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
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.
Twitter owner and fascistic billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged late Thursday that he had shut down the accounts of numerous prominent journalists earlier in the day, claiming falsely that they had violated a new policy on the platform against “doxxing."
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The 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.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now in its sixth edition, Racism without Racists has been central to the development and dissemination of the racialist outlook that currently dominates academia, much of the media, and significant sections of the political establishment in the United States.
The new book by Dr. Jonathan Howard carefully traces how traditional attacks on medical science from the anti-vaccine movement were used by doctors around the Great Barrington Declaration to promote an ongoing political attack on public health.
A prominent Palestinian author has been censured and abused at this year’s Frankfurt Book Festival, the world’s largest book fair, which opened its doors on Wednesday.
Thanks to her lively depictions and her factual, yet sensitive descriptions, the author brings to life the "hell of Moria".
As with virtually every auto industry contract over the past 45 years, the UAW bureaucracy rammed through its sellout by means of misinformation, threats and likely outright vote-rigging.
The imperialist powers have embraced Israel's war on hospitals, aiming to set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians in future wars against Russia, China, and Iran.
On Tuesday, a degraded spectacle took place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The “March for Israel” will be recorded in history as a rally for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
The Republican presidential frontrunner declared, “The real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day, every single day.”
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 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.
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.
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
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.
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.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
