O’Sullivan, 57, was sacked on February 3, after he sounded the alarm over the spread of COVID-19 infections at Cricklewood bus garage in north west London. The rate of fatalities among London bus drivers is three times the national average, with the families of those killed demanding answers.
Socialist Equality Party members campaigned in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on Saturday discussing the “fire and rehire” dispute at the local Jacobs Douwe Egberts factory with workers, young people and retirees.
Her interview with the WSWS covers claims of herd immunity, endemicity, and the danger of “breakthrough” infections among those fully vaccinated.
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.
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The overwhelming rejection of the UAW’s attempted sellout by a powerful contingent of industrial workers is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of working-class militancy, which is assuming the form of an insurgency against the UAW and other AFL-CIO affiliated unions.
The May Day rally both reflected and anticipated enormous changes in the world situation produced by the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Committee of the Fourth International will mark May Day with an online rally to issue a call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
More than one year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the disease is once again surging around the world.
Workers all over the world are opposed to the continued operations of nonessential workplaces as the pandemic still rages. But workers need new organizations of struggle because the unions have sanctioned this homicidal policy.
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Parties are assisting workers everywhere in the building of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees in key industries and workplaces, to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, and prepare for a political general strike.
A London transport worker for three decades, O’Sullivan was sacked for upholding workers’ rights to a safe workplace during the coronavirus pandemic.
The fight against school reopenings must spearhead a broader struggle against the pandemic and the deadly profit drive of the ruling class.
Health workers are led by trade unions that will do nothing to defend them from the Tory assault and are told to rely on a Labour Party that works in a de-facto government of national unity with Boris Johnson.
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Click here to go the the London Bus Rank-and-File Committee Facebook page, independent of the pro-company unions, for bus workers to discuss how to protect themselves from the COVID-19 pandemic and fight for workers' rights.
Click here to go the the NHS FightBack Facebook page, managed by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain), which leads the fight to establish rank-and-file committees of NHS workers.
Workers in Britain must reject all forms of racism and nationalism and link their struggles with workers in Europe and throughout the world. Against the European Union and its pro-business governments, we stand for workers’ rule across the continent.
From the beginning of the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016, the SEP called for an active boycott, opposing both the nationalist calls for an 'independent' Britain and the capitalist European Union, which has dictated savage austerity, militarism and attacks on refugees across the continent.
The insistence of European governments on fully reopening schools, workplaces and public gathering places has paved the way for a devastating resurgence of the virus.
Workers and young people in the UK must orient themselves not to British nationalism or the EU, but to the growing global upsurge of working class struggle.
Almost two decades after the United States launched the “war on terror,” the entire world is being dragged into an ever-expanding maelstrom of imperialist violence. Millions have been killed by the wars of US imperialism and its allies in the Middle East and Africa, and tens of millions maimed or turned into refugees. A century after the end of World War I, these conflicts are once again metastasizing toward a catastrophic global conflagration.
The ICFI and SEP are fighting to build a new international anti-war movement of the working class. The fight against war is the fight against its source, the capitalist profit system.
Moderated by WSWS reporters Andrea Peters and Andre Damon, the interview covered the central themes of North’s book and a wide range of topics, from the significance of the dissolution of the USSR and the crisis of the world capitalist system to the pro-imperialist politics of the pseudo-left and the revolutionary role of the working class in the struggle against war.
The statement, published on February 18, 2016, outlines a socialist strategy for the building of an international anti-war movement of the working class to oppose the drive by the ruling elites to a new imperialist world war.
Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International as the World Party of Socialist Revolution in 1938, to oppose the Stalinist degeneration of the Communist (Third) International.
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is the British section of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 and led today by the International Committee. The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) represents the continuity of the struggle waged by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to forge an independent revolutionary party of the working class for the overthrow of the capitalist profit system.
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
On Sunday, March 7, the World Socialist Web Site held an online meeting to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg, the great revolutionary leader. The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her immense historical legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership of the international working class.
The Biden administration is seeking to extradite Julian Assange, an award-winning Australian journalist, to face charges of espionage that carry a life sentence and possible death penalty. His only “crime” is the publication of document exposing the war crimes and diplomatic intrigues of US imperialism and its allies.
We urge all defenders of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to get involved and join the fight to free Julian Assange!
An international mass movement must be organized to stop the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.
This speech was delivered by Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Chris Marsden to a public rally held in London on Sunday February 23 2020.
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In virtually every country, governments are seeking to crack down on the internet, prevent the spread of socialist and left-wing views, and stop workers from being able to communicate and organize online. They are collaborating with the giant social media and technology corporations including Facebook, Google and Twitter to engage in censorship.
David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, has sent the following open letter to Google executives Sundar Pichai, Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.
Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm.
Unprecedented levels of social inequality, continuous wars and the drive to great-power conflict are incompatible with the maintenance of democratic forms of rule. Around the world, capitalist governments are building up the state apparatus, surveillance and censorship directed at the population.
From the United States to Germany, fascist forces are being systematically promoted by the ruling class. Their elevation is part of preparations to violently suppress mass opposition in the working class to social inequality and war.
At this event, leading members of the SEP in the US, Germany and UK spoke on the national and global significance of the rise of fascism in America, its social and political origins, and the necessary strategy for the working class to fight back.
David North, the National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, addressed a meeting of students and workers at Wayne State University in Detroit on April 11, 2019. The meeting was part of the series “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It.”
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) is the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party. It fights to unite students and young people for peace, equality, the rights of the working class and socialism.
Students are being treated as little more than cash cows for a marketised higher education system and scapegoats for a programme of “herd immunity”.
That the most right-wing forces feel able to posture as defenders of democratic rights is thanks to the role played by the pseudo-left and identity politics on campus.
Marsden joined the Trotskyist movement in 1983 and has played a leading role in the work of the International Committee of the Fourth International for over three decades. He is also a member of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site.
Thomas Scripps is the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party. He joined the Trotskyist movement in 2012.
