Under conditions of immense social inequality, accelerated by the pandemic, the primary concern of the Democratic Party is to block the emergence of a united class movement against police violence and the capitalist system.
Amid mounting tensions in the Black Sea region, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Tuesday night that Ukraine is “ready” for war with Russia. He warned that the country would “stand to the last man” in the event of a war.
India confirmed 315,728 cases on April 21, 2021. The country’s epidemiologic curve of new COVID cases continues to spiral upwards.
The swearing-in of the new Brazilian Army commander was marked by a threat of military intervention to halt any attempt to hold Bolsonaro accountable for mass COVID deaths.
Amid the deadliest wave of the pandemic to date, Canada’s vaccine rollout is operating at barely half of its capacity.
Forty-year-old Andrew Brown, father of 10, was fatally shot Wednesday morning by a Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputy in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Few details are known about the police shooting at this time, but the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office states the shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. while deputies were serving a search warrant.
The sell-out contract comes after a month-long strike in which they courageously fought for, among other things, a living wage and decent health care.
Over 90 percent of the union’s members had authorized the strike, demanding greater personal protective equipment (PPE) and accommodations for workers with young children at home.
Lamont Newton: I was forced out of the Faurecia plant in Saline Michigan nine months ago and denied access to unemployment because the company’s Human Resources Department misrepresented my condition.
The opposition parties are not concerned about the bill’s suppression of workers’ rights, but are whipping up a nationalist, anti-China campaign to align Sri Lanka with the mounting US-led confrontation with Beijing.
The IYSSE in Australia and New Zealand is holding an online meeting this Saturday to review the mounting threat of a catastrophic war and to outline the socialist and internationalist program required to prevent it.
An online rally with speakers from throughout the world, streamed live from wsws.org/mayday.
Mondale is rightly identified, not with the heyday of American liberalism, but with its putrefaction.
The Morenoite Workers’ Revolutionary Current (CRT) has demonstrated itself to be utterly indifferent to the lives to be lost due to “herd immunity” policies.
What unites the groups involved in the anti-Police Bill protests is an insistence that class issues—central to the government’s clampdown on protests—must be rejected.
Assange is being made an example of in retribution for the heavy blows he struck against imperialist interests. The same interests mandate support for Navalny, who offers himself up as a tool for realising their designs on Russia.
If the current trends in the polls persist, the Greens have a chance of nominating the successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is stepping down after 16 years in power.
With Russia and US-allied Ukraine on the brink of war, the head of the Kremlin declared Wednesday that “the organizers of any provocations that threaten the fundamental interests of our security will regret what they have done in a way that they have not regretted for a long time.”
The British Gas dispute confirms that the unions respond to pressure from below not by waging a struggle for the working class, but by integrating themselves closer still into the structures of management and the state apparatus to better suppress their members.
Like all of Europe, Greece is experiencing a fierce third wave of the pandemic. With more than 4,000 new infections daily, a new high was reached at the beginning of April.
An American Alliance of Museums survey paints a picture of economic hardship, mental turmoil and professional uncertainty. A UNESCO report points to disastrous declines in global museum attendance.
Identity politics officially prevails at film festivals, but the best filmmakers suggest the source of our problems lies in the harshness of life imposed on men and women of every ethnicity and gender by global capitalism.
Shore is the fourth full-length album from the folk-rock band Fleet Foxes. It was released six months into the global pandemic and was one of the stronger popular music albums of 2020.
Natural Light (Természetes fény) is an anti-war film of a special kind. It is set in the Second World War but has a more universal significance.
The decision has raised concerns among workers and fishermen over the impact on their jobs and health and by governments in the region.
Having forced through a sell-out enterprise agreement that gave Coles everything it wanted, the United Workers Union is presiding over an “orderly closure” of the facility.
This meeting will discuss the political lessons of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and the fight against the Ardern government’s decision to end the underground investigation and stop those responsible from facing justice.
The punitive measures would overturn some of the cosmetic “reforms” introduced to placate mass anger over the brutal treatment of children in NT detention centres such as Don Dale.
Under conditions in which India has emerged as the world epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, Modi reiterated that his government’s overriding goal is not saving lives, but “saving” India “from lockdown.”
Amid rising geopolitical tensions between the US and China, vaccine diplomacy has become an auxiliary to foreign policy.
The surge in infections is a direct result of the Modi government’s policy of reopening the economy to boost corporate profits and its deliberate downplaying of the pandemic threat.
By prioritizing corporate profits over workers’ lives, the federal Liberal and Ontario Conservative governments are ensuring that the virus and its new and more lethal variants will continue to run rampant.
Lamont Newton: I was forced out of the Faurecia plant in Saline Michigan nine months ago and denied access to unemployment because the company’s Human Resources Department misrepresented my condition.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union has betrayed the struggle of train guards and drivers against the expansion of DOO, by watering down the guards’ control over the safe operation of train doors.
“I don’t believe employers should treat employees so poorly that people are getting two, three, four, sometimes five jobs just to have the same standard of living as someone with one job only a few decades ago”.
Working hand in hand with the trade unions, multinationals operating in Spain are planning to destroy tens of thousands of jobs in coming months.
The WSWS spoke with teachers across the US on their experiences with the unions pushing teachers and students back into unsafe classrooms over the past year.
The Texas state government is refusing to disburse $17.9 billion of $19 billion in federal money intended for public education under the recently-passed COVID-19 stimulus bill.
Despite the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases throughout the state, officials have explicitly stated their intention to continue the relaxation of standard public health measures.
The strike was a diversionary tactic aimed at bolstering the unions’ credibility among teachers, while they conspire with the CAQ government to keep schools open amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic and impose sellout agreements.
As with virtually every other economic question, the introduction of a central bank digital currency is being analysed and discussed within the framework of a conflict with China.
This week’s public launch of Grab Holdings, valued at $40 billion, and that of the cryptocurrency trader Coinbase, valued at around $85 billion, are the latest expressions of the speculative bubble fuelled by cheap money.
While the strategic importance of Taiwan in any conflict between the US and China is evident, not so obvious is the role that the country plays in the manufacture of semiconductor chips.
Global food prices increased for the 10th consecutive month in March, reaching levels not seen since 2014, according to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) assessment released Thursday.
The $1.52 trillion discretionary budget proposal released on Friday increases defense and domestic spending without any new significant tax increases on the wealthy.
On Thursday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law a sweeping attack on voting rights aimed at crippling the ability of poor, minority and working class people to cast a ballot.
Republican-controlled state legislatures are responding to Trump’s defeat in an election that saw a record turnout by launching a nationwide attack on voting rights, targeting working class and minority voters.
The elderly, disabled and poor needlessly suffered after losing power without warning for days on end during extreme winter weather.
Nearly eleven months after George Floyd was brutally murdered at the hands of Minneapolis, Minnesota police, former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday of murder.
Facebook announced on Monday that it was “working around the clock” to limit content regarding the verdict in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derrick Chauvin that “could lead to civil unrest or violence.”
The programs further expose the coordinated character of the coup attempt, the central role of fascist groups and Trump’s open promotion of these forces behind his months-long effort to overturn the election.
The NDP has vowed to prop up the big business minority Liberal government until the pandemic is over. Yet party leader Jagmeet Singh huffed and puffed at the NDP convention as if he wanted nothing more than to bring down the Liberals.
The Biden administration is weighing its options for continuing the anti-Chinese propaganda campaign launched by the Trump White House regarding the purported threat to national security posed by the Beijing-based social media platform TikTok.
Democrats and Republicans used the platform of the hearing to advance their equally reactionary proposals to regulate and control online content in the aftermath of the January 6 fascist attack on the US Capitol and one year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facebook is aggressively removing posts, disabling accounts and shutting down groups that are sharing scientifically accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic and opposing the government’s deadly policy of reopening schools.
“The creation and distribution of news is controlled by a few corporations, ruthless in promoting their class interests.”
25 years ago: Stalinist-led coalition in ItalyOn April 21, 1996, general elections in Italy brought the rebranded Italian Stalinists into government for the first time in nearly 50 years. Reflecting the confidence which big business placed in the post-Stalinists, the Milan stock exchange soared 4 percent the day after the vote.
25 years ago: Israel kills Lebanese civilians in Qana Massacre On April 18, 1996, over 100 Lebanese civilians were killed after Israel shelled the United Nations compound in Qana. The shelling, known as the Qana Massacre, was part of a broader attack, Operation Grapes of Wrath, launched against Lebanon by Israel, ostensibly in retaliation for previous terrorist attacks.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has formed a committee to review the potential removal of five statues of Lincoln, along with monuments to Washington, Franklin, and Grant.
Rosa Luxemburg, who was born on 5 March, 1871, was among the most important revolutionary Marxists of the 20th century, and her work contains vital lessons for today.
The Captain Borderline mural is a powerful reminder of the real issues involved in the persecution of Assange, and of the real forces being deployed against him.
Labor’s motion does not even oppose the US attempt to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act for exposing American war crimes, human rights violations and diplomatic conspiracies.
Albanese’s highly conditional comments, made in a closed-room caucus meeting and leaked to the press, were a cynical public relations exercise that committed Labor to nothing.
Assange is still being denied proper access to his lawyers and to crucial legal documents, even after a Magistrates’ Court verdict blocking his extradition to the US last month.
For its powerful explication of major themes related to the American Revolution, the Civil War and the emergence of the working class, this book will be of interest to all readers of American history, teachers, students and workers.
Republican lawmakers, taking advantage of the racialist falsifications of the 1619 Project, are seeking to promote their own backward and chauvinistic version of US history.
Attacking the New York Times’ 1619 Project where it is weakest, the Trump Administration’s “1776 Report” responds to the controversy with its own brand of flag-waving “America First” demagoguery.
In an act of political censorship, Canada’s “newspaper of record” has refused to publish a letter from WSWS Chairman David North answering its smear.
A discussion about the first time in history that the working class took power.
On April 3, the International Committee of the Fourth International held a meeting commemorating 150 years since the Paris Commune, the world’s first workers’ state.
On March 18, 1871, the armed working class districts of Paris rose up and established the first workers state in world history, the Paris Commune.
This essay by Leon Trotsky was first published in French as a preface to the book by C. Talès, La Commune de 1871. It was written in the town of Zlatoust, on February 4, 1921, in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Paris Commune.
Armed Paris was the only serious obstacle in the way of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Paris was, therefore, to be disarmed.
With astonishing speed, the US media has swung into action churning out a growing deluge of propaganda with lurid horror stories of life in the detention camps in Xinjiang, calls for the US to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and demands for tougher measures against China.
Biden’s announcement of the nominal end of the war in Afghanistan provides an occasion for drawing a balance sheet of a savage military operation which has produced incalculable suffering for the people of Afghanistan, squandered vast resources and brutalized American society.
The Biden administration is deliberately raising tensions with China over Taiwan—potentially the most dangerous flashpoint for war in Asia.
The blast was criminal and reckless. The loss of electrical power for any length of time could have had catastrophic consequences, as the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan demonstrated.
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.
Now that Ingenuity’s basic capabilities have been validated, several more flights will be attempted, the first as early as Thursday.
A comparative study of brain impressions from early and later members of the genus Homo demonstrates a correlation between a major reorganization of the brain and the development of Acheulean tool technology.
The fossil, dating to 70 million years ago, consists of the partially preserved remains of an oviraptorosaur, a feathered, theropod dinosaur lineage tangentially related to those that eventually gave rise to modern birds.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a turning point in world history, an event comparable in scale and impact to the Great Depression and the two world wars.
Déby died fighting a Chadian opposition militia formerly based in southern Libya, and reportedly tied to Libyan Marshal Khalifa Haftar and to Moscow.
UK bus drivers continue strikes in Manchester and London United against fire and rehire, pay and conditions; one-day national stoppage of lorry drivers in Netherlands over pay and increased workload; thousands of doctors strike in Sudan against lack of PPE and unpaid wages
Tigray is only one of the festering ethnic conflicts in a country that is a mosaic of ethnicities and languages.
UK bus drivers 24-hour strike at London United while French drivers at same company walk out over pay and privatisation; strikes in Belgium by childcare workers over Covid safety, prison officers and social workers over workload; resident doctors across Nigeria strike since April 8 over salary arrears
Mehring Books Australia will feature works by the great socialist fighters and theoreticians of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Georgi Plekhanov and Rosa Luxemburg.
The IYSSE meeting will discuss Luxemburg’s revolutionary struggle for Marxism in the German and international working class and its lessons for today.
The decision of the bargaining committee to accept a “pause” in the strike was in clear and direct opposition to the will of the 3,000 rank and file members.
The bargaining committee is employing many well-known mechanisms to try to browbeat the students into accepting a sellout proposal.
Autoworkers and others support the fight of Columbia graduate student-workers as the strike begins its third week.
The damning report is the second government document released in the last week to confirm the role of the state in facilitating Trump’s attempted coup.
The report demonstrates that Trump-appointed officials in the Pentagon ignored pleas from lawmakers and the Vice President to deploy security forces as the fascist-led attack was under way.
Florida Proud Boy Joe Biggs is the latest participant in the January 6 storming of the Capitol to claim a long-term working relationship with the domestic intelligence agency.
The appointment of Walker marks the first time both the House and Senate sergeant-at-arms will be members of military.
President Bolsonaro’s sudden firing of his defense minister and the entire command of the armed forces has unleashed an unprecedented military and political crisis in Brazil.
The death of Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza is a result of the anti-immigrant measures demanded by Washington of the Mexican government.
With an official death toll of 201,623, the acknowledgement of a massive undercount stands as a confession by the ruling class of social murder.
The Bolsonaro government and the state apparatus are responding to the explosive tensions in Brazil, the world epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
US media promotion of Syria’s former Al Qaeda affiliate is a clear warning that Washington is preparing to escalate its bloody decade-old intervention.
The blockage of a vital artery of the world economy by a single ship—an accident waiting to happen—reveals fundamental aspects of modern capitalism.
If, as now expected, it takes weeks to move the ship, the Ever Given, international shipping and global supply chains will be severely disrupted.
The appalling suffering resulting from imperialist warmongering—other than that in the opposition-held Idlib province—has largely been ignored by the world’s media.
March 11 marks one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. We are republishing below statements and articles from the WSWS analyzing the response to the pandemic and calling for emergency measures to contain it.
Vast resources must be immediately mobilized to contain the spread of the disease, treat and care for those who are infected, and secure the livelihoods of the hundreds of millions of people who will be affected by the economic fallout.
The spread of the coronavirus has exposed the disastrous consequences of decades of the massive concentration of wealth and inequality spawned by capitalism.
Governments around the world are making a deliberate decision to minimize their response to the pandemic, threatening the lives of millions of people.
As the death toll from the coronavirus soars and hospitals fill up, the White House and the US media are insisting that the profits of the corporate-financial elite must take precedence over the lives of millions.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
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.
David North and Eric London speak on the significance of the latest revelations, in the context of the decades-long Security and the Fourth International investigation by the ICFI into Trotsky’s assassination by Stalin’s GPU.
This essay is based on the transcript of the remarks made by David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), in opening an online discussion held January 17 on the significance of the fascist assault on the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021.
An online meeting with historians James Oakes, Richard Carwardine and Tom Mackaman. Moderated by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North.
The SGP began its campaign for the 2021 German federal elections with a strong launch meeting that was followed by hundreds of workers and young people online.
Workers in every country around the world confront the same problems and can only oppose exploitation, militarism and fascism by uniting. This is why the SGP’s election campaign is not restricted to Germany, but addresses itself to workers throughout Europe!
Speakers explained the vital stand taken by the Smeaton Grange warehouse workers and outlined the political perspective needed to defeat the escalating assault on jobs and conditions.
The Socialist Equality Group and IYSSE in Turkey held an international online meeting January 17 titled “Amid the global breakdown of democracy, the way forward for the Boğaziçi University protests.”
To mark the anniversary of the 2011 revolution in Egypt, we present a selection of key statements and analyses produced by the WSWS in the course of the events of that year and their aftermath.
Scalice demonstrated that the “overwhelming weight of evidence” suggested that the Communist Party of the Philippines was responsible for the bombing and indicted its claims that fascism and martial law are “good for revolution.”
In a desperate bid to turn people away from this week’s lecture, Marco Valbuena, Chief Information Officer of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has again slandered Scalice as operating on behalf of the CIA.
“The honest assessment of history is the bedrock of revolutionary politics. Falsifications and slander, on the other hand, are the primary weapons of Stalinism.”
The bombing marked a critical step toward the imposition of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 and remains one of the most controversial events in the country’s history.
The WSWS has been relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
The relaunch of the WSWS and the growth of its influence reflect a process of mass political radicalization under conditions of the greatest crisis since the 1930s.
The WSWS has exhaustively documented and analyzed the political crisis and historical decay of American democracy.
The WSWS was the only publication to warn very early on the dangers the working class faced if the coronavirus became a pandemic.
In the vast archive of the WSWS, the working class will find the most critical lessons from the history of the global class struggle and an international socialist perspective needed to conduct its fight against world capitalism today.
Under conditions of immense social inequality, accelerated by the pandemic, the primary concern of the Democratic Party is to block the emergence of a united class movement against police violence and the capitalist system.
Assange is being made an example of in retribution for the heavy blows he struck against imperialist interests. The same interests mandate support for Navalny, who offers himself up as a tool for realising their designs on Russia.
The unending epidemic of police murder is an outgrowth of the rotten social and economic conditions which define life in the United States.
Even as Biden spoke of the “threat” to American democracy allegedly posed by Russia, he has remained entirely silent about Trump’s attempt to overthrow the outcome of the election.
Modern Monetary Theory is the latest in a long line of attempts by “left” theorists to maintain that capitalism can be made to work for society if only outmoded thinking about the monetary system is abandoned.
The racist massacre in Wilmington was a major turning point in the entrenchment of Jim Crow segregation throughout the South.
Two recent works of fiction interestingly portray the #MeToo campaign in operation, but don’t criticize (or probe deeply) much of what needs to be criticized.
The Kill Chain exposes US imperialism’s advanced war preparations against China, with Silicon Valley playing a critical role.
This lecture was delivered by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS, at the opening of the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 21, 2019.
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 25, 2019 by Deepal Jayasekera, Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 23, 2019 by Andre Damon, regular writer for the World Socialist Web Site and leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 24, 2019 by Barry Grey, US national editor of the World Socialist Web Site and leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
