Behind the backs of the population, the Biden administration is implementing a dangerous and reactionary shift in immigrant policy and enforcing it through dictatorial expansions of presidential power.
In an extraordinary revelation Tuesday, US Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder admitted during an official briefing that active-duty US military personnel are not only deployed inside of Ukraine, but are operating throughout the country, far away from the US embassy.
Biden’s feigned outrage over corporate price- and profit-gouging cannot conceal the fact that his administration is working relentlessly with the trade union apparatuses to impose the full inflationary impact of the war in Ukraine on the working class.
Financial concerns have quickly overtaken the hollow statements by Elon Musk that his takeover of Twitter was motivated by his drive to preserve the platform as a “digital town square.”
This letter, sent on November 1, demands that the Monitor investigate reports from workers that UAW officials are telling Temporary Part Time workers that they cannot vote in the UAW elections.
Delta Airlines’ 15,000 pilots voted on Monday to go on strike if a mediator failed to present an acceptable contract proposal.
Members and supporters of the Ontario Education Workers Rank-and-File Committee are outraged by Ford and Lecce’s brazen disregard for workers' rights and the refusal of the education unions to offer a way forward for the struggle.
This 1997 International Workers Bulletin editorial board statement drew lessons—that remain critical today—from the unions’ sabotage of a militant two-week Ontario teacher strike that was rapidly becoming a mass working-class political challenge to the hated Tory government of Mike Harris and its class war agenda.
The British poet and translator Robert Chandler and his wife Elizabeth Chandler have spent decades translating many of Grossman’s works into English.
De Jong gives a detailed and well-researched account of the intimate involvement of some of Germany's largest business dynasties with the National Socialists (Nazis) and shows how, after the war, they were able to continue amassing wealth, retain decisive influence in business and financial spheres, and even resume the financing of fascist tendencies.
Several supporters of the committee have told the WSWS that their posts on the popular r/railroading subreddit have been deleted without explanation.
An explosion of right-wing venom has greeted the release in preprint form of an important work by Boston University researchers who investigated the Omicron variant’s change in virulence compared to the ancestral type of SARS-CoV-2.
In opposition to the government, opposition parties, trade unions and their fake “left” hangers-on, the SEP urges workers to take matters into their own hands and build independent action committees to fight for their social and democratic rights.
Under pressure from the BJP state government, maintenance and operation of the bridge was recently given to a company with no experience in bridge maintenance or repair.
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.
This statement was submitted by the Young Guard of the Bolshevik-Leninists (YGBL), an organization in Russia that has declared its political support for the International Committee of the Fourth International.
While the world was nearly brought to the brink of destruction 60 years ago, the actions of Kennedy and Khrushchev look positively restrained when seen in the light of the present war.
A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet is the latest effort to provoke an escalation of the military conflict.
From the standpoint of who benefits, the accusation that Britain was responsible, or played a critical role in the bombing of Nord Stream, is far more credible than claims of Russia rendering inoperable key infrastructure it has been developing over almost three decades.
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.
Bolsonaro praised the fascists who have erected more than 300 roadblocks rejecting the election resultsand calling for a military intervention to stop Lula from taking office.
The measure, which its proponents have openly stated is aimed at preparing for a war with China, has the character of a conspiracy against the population, never having been publicly announced or even discussed in the Australian parliament.
Lula’s narrow margin of victory will be exploited by Bolsonaro, posing the threat of a dictatorial conspiracy right up to the January 1 inauguration.
On the eve of the 2022 elections, one capitalist party openly incites right-wing violence while the other capitulates to it.
Eighty-two years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
Workers denounced the dangerous conditions at the Kokomo Casting and Transmission plants.
The recently formed rank-and-file committee said it “will not only campaign to elect Will, but through this campaign we will fight for our critical needs and demands.”
Workers at factories in Ohio and Michigan proudly declared their support for Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president.
Stellantis workers at the Warren Truck assembly and stamping plants in suburban Detroit explained why they voted for the rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for president of the UAW.
These remarks were delivered by Christoph Vandreier to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Keith Jones to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Joe Kishore to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
The ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is bound up with imperialist war, escalating online censorship and a broader turn to authoritarianism.
A mass network of interconnected rank-and-file committees can and must serve as the foundation for the fight for the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ government based on a socialist program.
“The criminal ‘let it rip’ pandemic policies of governments—invariably enforced by the labour and trade union bureaucracies—have exposed the brutality of capitalism, and its readiness to sacrifice lives for corporate profit and private wealth accumulation.”
“The same contradictions and crisis of world capitalism are also propelling the working class into struggle, providing the basis for the building of an international anti-war movement.”
The Congress adopted four resolutions on key aspects of the political situation and elected the Socialist Equality Party’s leadership for the next two years.
The government “reforms” are a first step in implementing long-held plans for comprehensive hospital closures.
This act of right-wing terror is the direct result of the filthy anti-migrant atmosphere whipped up by the Conservative government, the Labour opposition and the media.
With her appeal to end “bloc politics,” Danish Prime Minister and Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen is laying the basis for a further lurch to the right of Denmark’s political system.
Only a mass mobilization of the working class will expose the political criminality of the official policy, in France and internationally, of “living with” COVID-19.
Since RBA rate increases began in May, average mortgage repayments have risen by 32.6 percent with the central bank stating it “expects to increase interest rates further over the period ahead.”
Recession fears have been heightened by the figures on consumer spending, which showed an increase of only 1.4 percent for the quarter, a slower rate than the 2 percent rise over the previous three months—a sign that rising inflation is having its effects.
Outlining the economic situation at her press conference following the meeting of its governing council yesterday, ECB president Christine Lagarde pointed to worsening conditions on several fronts.
In the period 2013-2021, Chinese growth accounted for around one-third of the expansion of global GDP but has now dropped to around a quarter and is set to go even lower.
Yeoman spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the failure of Australian governments to support sufferers of the debilitating illness and the disastrous consequences of ending basic COVID safety measures.
An obstetrician and gynaecologist from London describes an NHS woefully unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Morawska criticises the failure of Australian governments to improve indoor air quality standards to minimise airborne transmission of COVID-19. She also raises concerns about the “disciplinary” action against Dr David Berger for his zero-COVID advocacy on social media.
The survey exposed the consequences of the criminal pandemic policies promoted by all the ruling political parties and capitalist companies.
The anticipated COVID-19 surge will take place amid a massive rise in pediatric hospitalizations across the US due to respiratory syncytial virus and an unusually harsh beginning to the influenza season.
With the near-total abandonment of measures to contain the spread of the virus, epidemiologists are warning of the deadly impact of two new vaccine-resistant variants this winter.
The number of hospitalizations has been rising rapidly, now reaching about 16,000 hospitalizations per week.
The real nightmare this Halloween is being experienced by thousands of parents and children in hospital waiting rooms and by the millions of health care providers witnessing patients suffer and health systems collapse long before the expected peak of respiratory viruses.
The setback for ALU at ONT8 does not reflect satisfication by Amazon workers with their working conditions. But since ingratiating itself with the Democrats and union bureaucracy, it has been increasingly unable to appeal to rank-and-file anger.
The workers, contracted through an outside agency, were paid minimum wage, while the hospital CEO’s annual compensation was recently reported as $13 million.
The deal, struck with the unions on September 15 to prevent a national strike, is a sellout, reached in flagrant violation of the will of railroaders who voted nearly unanimously to authorize a strike.
The legislation is an attack on the entire working class. It robs workers of their democratic rights to strike and bargain collectively and sets a benchmark for savage pay cuts.
There were nearly 1.5 million visits to food banks in March alone, 15 percent more than the same month in 2021 and 35 percent more than in March 2019, at the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada.
In a probable cause hearing that was delayed three times, US District Court Judge Nicholas Ayoub ruled on Monday that the former police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, would stand trial for murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Sunday’s deadly fire highlights the housing crisis for the working class in the United States’ largest city and economic center.
According to a new study, over 104,000 students in New York City schools experienced some form of homelessness last year, an increase of 3 percent from the previous year.
While much remains unknown about the killing, it took place in the context of official attempts to whip-up nationalism and racism to divert from an unprecedented social crisis.
The measure, which its proponents have openly stated is aimed at preparing for a war with China, has the character of a conspiracy against the population, never having been publicly announced or even discussed in the Australian parliament.
The tragedy is a result of a lack of basic safety measures, a long-standing problem for which both the ruling and opposition parties are responsible.
The pro-business, rightwing Labor government of Premier Daniel Andrews has been in power since 2014, and presides over Australia’s worst state debt and deficit situation.
Chilling new details released Monday by the Department of Justice underscore the fascistic political motives behind last Friday’s attack.
A federal judge denied a request for an injunction against fascists who are intimidating voters at Arizona ballot drop boxes, ruling that the First Amendment protects their threatening conduct.
Social media posts by the assailant echo the fascist themes promoted by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans in midterm campaign speeches, which have become increasingly violent and openly anti-Semitic in the run-up to Election Day.
In the hour-long debate, Fetterman sought to distance himself from his previous positions, now considered too far to the left for the Democratic Party.
Although there are more than enough resources available to provide proper housing and a decent life for all, these resources are controlled by a handful of capitalists.
Far from marking a “return to democracy,” the amendment retains the sweeping powers of the autocratic executive presidency making only minor cosmetic changes.
Wickremesinghe, backed by the entire political and business establishment, insists that the devastating austerity measures demanded by the IMF must be implemented.
To defend its class interests, the working class needs to understand why the discredited SLPP has been able to raise its ugly head again.
Who is able to form a government will largely depend on the surging vote for the far-right, and the plunging support for the traditional organizations of the “left” and the Arab parties.
Operation “Break the Wave” was launched in April by the then Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. He put the military on high alert, dispatched extra troops to the West Bank and called on people to carry arms.
The teachers’ strike is the largest organised intervention of the working class into the protest movement to date.
Monday’s actions are the first sign of organised working-class involvement in the mass protests against Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime that erupted following the Sept. 16 death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
Lula’s narrow margin of victory will be exploited by Bolsonaro, posing the threat of a dictatorial conspiracy right up to the January 1 inauguration.
The Defense Ministry declared its "audit" of the electronic voting machines would be available only in January, after the next president’s inauguration.
The UNE has isolated the students’ struggle from the growing movement of the Brazilian working class and diverted it behind Workers Party candidate, Lula.
Amid the explosion of the world capitalist crisis, the pseudo-left’s support for the PT is a vote for the ruling class to intensify levels of exploitation and break the ability of the working class to resist.
The pandemic is exacerbating the already difficult conditions for musicians, many of whom can ill afford to cancel performances.
Corporate sponsors have fled in droves as the rapper-celebrity has engaged in unprecedented displays of fascistic bigotry in recent weeks.
Five years of the sexual conduct witch-hunt have destroyed scores of lives and careers in film, music and the media.
The current production marks the first time in 45 years since Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s play attacking Kenya’s post-independence capitalism, corruption and religious hypocrisy has been staged in Kenya. Its success among the audience is testament that many of its themes continue to resonate today.
Rejecting the recommendations of top Department of Defense officials, President Joe Biden intervened to quash the promotion of Lt. General Walter E. Piatt.
Musk’s tweet included a link to an article published by the Santa Monica Observer, a right-wing news site with a history of posting misinformation.
Social media posts by the assailant echo the fascist themes promoted by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans in midterm campaign speeches, which have become increasingly violent and openly anti-Semitic in the run-up to Election Day.
One day after Proud Boys assaulted and pepper-sprayed students at Penn State, members of the fascist militia group attacked students and community members at UC Davis.
On November 6, 1997, hundreds of thousands of truck drivers in France walked off the job for a week, bringing much of European road transport to a halt and challenging the regime of Socialist Party Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, in power since the previous June.
This article, originally published in the Bulletin on September 18, 1984, was written as a polemic against the defense of anti-Semitism by the Socialist Workers Party, which had long since broken with Trotskyism.
Yesterday 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.
The socialist traditions of 1917 found a deeply progressive expression in the work of Vasily Grossman.
The SEP is holding a memorial meeting to pay tribute to the life of Regina Lohr, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 66.
Regina was sustained during her difficult struggle against cancer by her belief in socialist internationalism and an unwavering determination to contribute to that historic fight.
“A dangerous nuclear catastrophe is waiting to happen because of the American war drive for world dominance.” – Balakrishnan, a sacked Motherson auto parts worker in Tamil Nadu
The online public meeting “Build an international working class movement to stop nuclear war danger” will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 16.
The appeals court’s action could set the stage for an indefinite delay in the implementation of the debt relief program, if not its complete scuttling, as the program gets entangled in endless litigation.
The student union is riding roughshod over the democratic rights of students who want to fight for a socialist alternative to war, austerity and dictatorship.
The IYSSE is fighting the decision, which is intended as a precedent to be used, above all, against clubs that represent oppositional, anti-war and left-wing voices.
The university administration is creating conditions for a massive outbreak of the second deadly disease to hit the campus.
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.
There have now been 14 Ebola infections in Uganda’s densely populated capital, Kampala, raising concerns among health officials about the potential for the epidemic to spiral out of control.
Almost one month into the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni announced the three-week lockdown after previously downplaying the crisis and stating that no such measures would be employed.
Even as its economic ties with China grow, the Kenyan regime is signing up to the US-NATO war targeting Russia and China.
The second military coup in France’s former colony this year comes as masses of people protest French imperialist war in nearby Mali and across the region.
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!”
Bannon was found guilty by a Washington D.C. jury on two counts of contempt of Congress earlier this year.
As in previous hearings, Thursday’s session combined striking evidence of Trump’s criminal conspiracy to remain in power with the concealment of the role of key federal agencies in enabling the attack on the Capitol to go forward.
On Thursday, prosecutors presented text messages sent by Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes in which he stated his belief that the Secret Service would be “happy to have us out there” on January 6.
US prosecutors presented text messages Rhodes sent on November 7, 2020 to the “Friends of Stone” chat group, which included Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, and “Stop the Steal” lead organizer Ali Alexander.
The letter was issued after Assange had tested positive to COVID-19, placing his health and life, already compromised by more than a decade of state persecution, under even greater threat.
The address was subjected to a virtual boycott by Australia’s official media, demonstrating its alignment with the state and with imperialist war.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Mr. Kiriakou at a recent rally in Washington D.C. about the implications of the US attempt to extradite Assange, the defense of democratic rights, as well as the importance of Assange’s plight for working people
Assange’s wife, Stella, told the press, “I am obviously worried about him and the next few days will be crucial for his general health. He is now locked in his cell for 24 hours a day.”
Pääbo and colleagues developed techniques to sequence ancient DNA despite tens of thousands of years of degradation, thus founding the field of paleogenetics, which has greatly advanced the study of human evolution.
The goal of the Artemis project is to develop a spacecraft capable of once again landing humans on the Moon.
In the past weeks, the public has been shocked by images showing masses of dead fish floating in the Oder River, on the German-Polish border. Recent reports speak of 150 to 200 tons of fish killed.
The initial images and accompanying data released by the JWST are a first glimpse of the full capabilities of the new astronomical observatory and mark a major step forward in humanity’s ability to understand the Universe and our place within it.
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.
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the British ruling class has lost its popular head of state on which it has relied to project the myth of national unity and suppress social conflict.
In its adulation of Queen Elizabeth and all the pageantry of the British monarchy, the newspaper responsible for publishing the 1619 Project has entangled itself in many layers of contradictions.
The significance of Elizabeth II’s funeral is well illustrated by reference to a previous British royal funeral, more than a century earlier, that of Edward VII.
What was being celebrated at Westminster Hall is the ability of Britain’s imperialist bourgeoisie to utilise the monarchy as a means of sanctifying and reinforcing its own power.
Los Angeles County health officials reported last week that a man infected with monkeypox had passed away. An investigation is underway to determine the virus’ contribution to his death.
A severely immunocompromised adult male died in Houston on Sunday. Public health officials said he was infected with monkeypox. Still, they stopped short of connecting the infection as a contributory factor in his death, stating they did not know what role the virus played in his demise.
The UAW has remained silent on the spread of monkeypox in the plants, in line with its efforts to cover up the disastrous toll COVID-19 has had on workers.
The CDC’s cursory guidance posted as answers to Frequently Asked Questions only downplays and minimizes the concerns working families have about the safety of schools for their children.
Autoworker and grandmother Catherine Pace died on March 27, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in the paint department at the Warren Truck Plant outside Detroit, then operated by Fiat-Chrysler, now Stellantis.
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.
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
Labor claims to have suddenly discovered that the budget situation is “dire” so “significant savings” must be found and “productivity” driven up with the help of the trade unions.
Labor, before it has even secured a majority government, is on a foreign policy blitz aimed at shoring-up US and Australian hegemony over the Pacific.
The outcome reflects, in distorted electoral terms, a political radicalisation of workers and young people that is already finding expression in a development of working class struggles.
This is the report delivered by Joseph Kishore to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Kishore is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
This is the report delivered by Tom Peters to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Peters is a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, which is fighting to build a section of the ICFI.
This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Link is a leading member in Germany of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, the youth movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties.
This is the report delivered by Cheryl Crisp to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Crisp is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia.
The World Socialist Web Site condemns the censorship and firing of Katie Halper by The Hill. It must be condemned by the working class and all defenders of free speech as an attack on basic democratic rights.
There can be little doubt that the lock was not “in error,” but rather a deliberate act of censorship against a campaign which has given voice to the sentiments and aspirations of rank-and-file workers.
The lock on Lehman’s account came without warning, occurring almost immediately after it tweeted a thread reporting on the support for his campaign among John Deere agricultural equipment workers.
Quoting unnamed White House and Defense officials, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Pentagon has been operating fake social media accounts to promote pro-US narratives and anti-Russia propaganda for at least a decade.
In his introduction to the International May Day Online Rally, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North reviews the historical origins of the US-NATO war drive against Russia and outlines the political strategy of the working class to oppose the danger of World War III.
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.
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.
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.
This shameful campaign reached new heights Tuesday when concerted efforts were made to prevent Comaroff from teaching. Provocations were organized both inside and outside the classroom.
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 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 Afghan withdrawal represented a debacle for US imperialism, which based its policy throughout thirty years of uninterrupted wars, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1990-91, on the conviction that military force could overcome Washington’s precipitous economic decline.
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.
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.
While right-wing extremist terrorist networks operate unhindered in Germany’s state apparatus and are covered up by the highest authorities, federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) has called for a fight against alleged “left-wing extremists” and young climate change activists.
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 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.
An explosion of right-wing venom has greeted the release in preprint form of an important work by Boston University researchers who investigated the Omicron variant’s change in virulence compared to the ancestral type of SARS-CoV-2.
Widespread reports that Twitter has been falsely labeling tweets by scientists, doctors and other public health experts about COVID-19 as “misinformation” has intensified an ongoing crisis at the social media platform.
There is further scientific evidence that the claims that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab are completely baseless.
The same day that the House Select January 6 Committee documented how Trump used his “big lie” about the 2020 election to justify an attempted fascist coup, the Washington Post published an editorial promoting Trump’s other big lie: The claim that COVID-19 is a man-made virus created by China.
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.
Behind the backs of the population, the Biden administration is implementing a dangerous and reactionary shift in immigrant policy and enforcing it through dictatorial expansions of presidential power.
The measure, which its proponents have openly stated is aimed at preparing for a war with China, has the character of a conspiracy against the population, never having been publicly announced or even discussed in the Australian parliament.
On the eve of the 2022 elections, one capitalist party openly incites right-wing violence while the other capitulates to it.
The letter’s demand that Biden intervene to ensure that the contract “be ratified”—i.e., with or without the consent of workers—is the attitude of a corporatist dictatorship.
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.
Police have made no guarantee that there will be any prosecution for the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster, which killed 29 workers.
The Labour Party government’s promises to “be upfront” and “empower” the survivors of catastrophic events are a fraud, as the experience of the Pike River victims’ families makes clear.
In 2013, Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall made an unsolicited and unlawful payment to the 29 families of the 2010 mine disaster, in exchange for the New Zealand government dropping charges against him.
The SEG and the WSWS are holding an online meeting on June 4 to discuss the new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up by Tom Peters, about the 2010 mine disaster in New Zealand.
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.
The socialist traditions of 1917 found a deeply progressive expression in the work of Vasily Grossman.
It is tempting to find aspects of an author’s life in the pages of his or her fiction. In the case of Owens and Where the Crawdads Sing, however, many are treating the novel, which includes a murder mystery, as evidence in an imaginary trial.
Immense pressure was exerted on individuals under conditions of the Cold War, anti-communist hysteria to “name names.” The witch-hunters were implacable.
Rossoliński-Liebe’s biography of Bandera provides irrefutable evidence for the horrific crimes and fascist outlook of Stepan Bandera, who is now widely glorified as a “hero” by the Ukrainian regime.
