While millions protested against the right-wing policies and dictatorial methods of the Trump administration, the US president brought tanks and thousands of troops to the US capital in a show of force against the American people.
Israel's onslaught on Iran appeared to enter a new phase Sunday in what has been described as the heaviest period of attacks yet.
Mass protests are taking place today in more than 2,000 cities and towns across the United States in opposition to the Trump administration’s fascist assault on immigrants and its escalating drive to establish a presidential dictatorship.
Workers and youth are confronting a crisis without precedent in living memory, one comparable only to the Civil War. Then, it was a life-and-death struggle against slavery; today, it is a life-and-death struggle against capitalism.
In a political assassination, 57-year-old Vance Boelter allegedly shot two leading Minnesota Democrats and their spouses—one couple was killed—early Saturday morning. Boelter is a Christian fascist and Trump supporter.
The Netflix miniseries is based on a classic of Argentine science fiction, whose writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld was a leftist intellectual killed by the military dictatorship.
Eid Hthaleen and Ouda Alhadlin, two humanitarian activists from the West Bank with valid B-1/B-2 visas, were detained and denied entry into the US by Customs and Border Protection at San Francisco International Airport.
Egypt’s naked hostility towards the aid convoy confirms that the Arab masses are on a collision course with their leaders.
The role of the joint union management safety committee is to cover up responsibility for unsafe conditions and make sure no one is held accountable.
Five nights of anti-migrant protests, riots and attacks on property in Northern Ireland culminated in migrant workers’ houses being burnt out and a leisure centre petrol bombed.
With a strong campaign on campus, the IYSSE was able to counter the attempted censorship by the university administration, which has now approved our meetings.
Workers and youth are confronting a crisis without precedent in living memory, one comparable only to the Civil War. Then, it was a life-and-death struggle against slavery; today, it is a life-and-death struggle against capitalism.
The deployment of the military onto the streets of Los Angeles—the second-largest city in the United States—marks a qualitative escalation of the Trump administration’s ongoing, well-prepared coup d’état.
Donald Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg on Tuesday is a massive escalation in his unfolding conspiracy to establish a military dictatorship under his personal control.
Padilla was violently thrown to the ground and handcuffed after interjecting during a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles.
The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally denounces Israel’s illegal and unprovoked assault on Iran as a naked act of imperialist aggression.
Armed with a socialist political perspective, rooted in the scientific foundations of Marxism and the assimilation of the historical experiences of the international class struggle, the WSWS is relentless in its exposure of the Big Lies and its defense of the truth.
Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary and co-leader alongside Vladimir Lenin of the October 1917 Russian Revolution.
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
At a time when workers can only defend their right to workplace safety by building an international movement to take control over working conditions from transnational corporations and nationalist unions and governments, the expressions of solidarity and appeals from workers south of the US-Mexico border takes on crucial importance.
The details of the fatal accident are critical evidence for the rank-and-file investigation into the death of Ronald Adams Sr. at the Stellantis Dundee Engine Complex on April 7, 2025, less than eight months after Gaston’s death.
Adams’ death is part of a continuing pattern of preventable workplace tragedies in which workers’ lives are sacrificed for the sake of profit.
The headline of Monday's perspective referred to the well-known 1964 film Seven Days in May, which imagined a conspiracy by “a military-political cabal to take over the government of the United States.”
Trump was met Wednesday with loud boos, as well as cheers, from what presumably was an audience stacked with his supporters. His intended appearance at the performance had been well-advertised.
These are far-reaching and unprecedented moves, which are setting the stage for a massive confrontation between the government and broad layers of the population.
Fatoum’s appeal for peace and humanity had nothing in common with an unprofessional provocation. Rather, it was in keeping with the best traditions of theatre since antiquity.
The officials of the United Food and Commercial Workers are deliberately isolating different sections of grocery workers to keep a national movement from emerging.
If the Liberal government can intervene so brazenly on the side of the employer, it is above all due to sabotage of the CUPW bureaucracy, which has done everything to isolate and demobilize the postal workers.
Spain’s main trade union federations have betrayed the 22,000 metalworkers in Cantabria by forcing through a sellout deal aimed at preventing a unified national struggle of metalworkers and workers in other sectors, just as the class struggle deepens across the country.
Robert Gardner was killed while working in Nacogdoches, Texas, the same day that a Union Pacific train derailed in downtown Waxahachie.
“Help us fight the lie that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Help us fight the lie that Palestinian lives don’t matter,” de Kretser told the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
New Zealand’s 119 richest individuals and families, including 18 billionaires, control $102.1 billion, up from $95.55 billion last year—equivalent to more than 40 percent of the country’s annual GDP.
The New South Wales Labor government’s latest miserly pay offer will be put to a formal vote early next month, despite token objections from one of the unions involved in negotiating the Sydney Trains and NSW Trains enterprise agreement.
Whatever the official cause of the deadly Air India plane crash, both the Modi government and Boeing are more focused on safeguarding corporate interests than upholding passenger safety.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo’s death, written by Helen Halyard.
The SPD manifesto is aimed at defusing the growing outrage over the party's militaristic course, which resulted in its worst-ever election result in February.
A balance sheet must be drawn of the Corbyn/McDonnell experience and the necessary conclusion formed that neither can be trusted to fight for the working class.
Despite Trump’s creeping coup unfolding in plain sight, not a single leading German politician has spoken out or even raised a warning.
Speaking to the Disability News Service, Jodey’s mother Joy backed calls for a public inquiry into the hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions’ actions and failings, and said she hoped to carry on campaigning for other disabled people.
China sets six-month limit on the easing of export controls on vital rare earth minerals and magnets necessary for key sections of US industry.
The economic war launched by US president Trump against the rest of the world, with China the principal target, was the main factor driving the downgrade of forecasts made barely six months ago.
China’s domination of rare earth production, vital for key sections of US industry and its military, has placed Beijing in a strong position with the failure of US high-tech bans to have a major effect.
Public spending was significantly reduced but was not matched by an increase in business investment which, as a proportion of GDP, is at its lowest level in 40 years.
While public concern is rising over the worsening situation, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna/National People’s Power (JVP/NPP) government is concealing the true extent of the spread of this and other highly infectious diseases.
The ICEU bureaucracy, in line with the International Monetary Fund and the pro-big business policies of the JVP/NPP government, is completely responsible for the witch hunt of Michelin workers.
The IYSSE invites students, university lecturers and employees to attend this significant meeting which will discuss the life-and-death questions now confronting humanity.
Michelin employees began campaigning over their jobs, wages and working conditions on May 23, after learning that the factory would be sold to the Indian-owned CEAT corporation.
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74.
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
Funding and staff cuts will gut the protection of archaeological sites under the National Historic Preservation Act.
A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism to the first class societies around the world.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
The Guardian report documented that a systematic campaign was pursued that involved trailing pro-Palestinian student protesters on and off campus, furtively recording their activities and conversations, eavesdropping in cafes and bars, and engaging in verbal harassment and intimidation.
A New Jersey federal court has issued a preliminary injunction stating that Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident who has been in US custody at a Louisiana immigration detention center for three months, is being held against his rights and must be released.
The event brought together a cross-section of René’s comrades, friends and family, young and old, including from Jewish and Arabic backgrounds.
Israel detained all aboard the Madleen, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and France Unbowed legislator Rima Hassan, and seized the ship’s cargo of aid.
The termination of the program will end education, housing, and job training for tens of thousands of young people in low-income households.
The early start of the Canadian wildfire season has highlighted one of the many dangers caused by climate change and the inability of the capitalist system to resolve the global crisis.
The response from capitalist politicians at all levels of government has followed the predictable pattern of declaring emergencies while offering wholly inadequate resources to address the crisis.
The long-standing fraud operation demonstrates that the United States law enforcement agencies, far from protecting the population, operate largely as a law unto themselves and represent a clear threat to the working class.
The unprecedented mobilization of Marines in Los Angeles and threats from a Florida law enforcement official to kill protesters took place on the eve of mass demonstrations across the country against the attempt by Donald Trump to establish a military dictatorship in the US.
At least two high school students in New York City have been detained by ICE in the past several weeks, part of an intensification of attacks on immigrants across New York and all over the country.
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
The extraordinary indictment of a sitting congresswoman is an attempt to terrorize and suppress even token opposition to President Donald Trump’s fascistic campaign of mass deportations.
A Harvard masters student spoke with the WSWS about his work documenting the horrific toll of Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The UK and its allies are simply trying to divert attention from their refusal to change their unwavering support for Israel.
The militarization of aid in Gaza by the US and Israel is being used to intensify the famine as part of the ethnic cleansing and forced removal of Palestinians from the Strip.
In the week since Israel launched food distributions under the auspices of the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” Israeli forces have turned the aid distributions into killing fields almost every day.
Representative Mikie Sherrill is one of a group of military-intelligence veterans who entered Congress in 2018 as part of a right-wing political makeover of the Democratic Party.
Trump’s workforce initiatives aim to transform K-12 and higher education into a pipeline for the defense industrial base and the broader war economy.
The coalition lining up behind the DSA’s mayoral candidate give an indication of the political trap being laid for the working class
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire had travelled to Tanzania in an act of solidarity with opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who is facing a trumped-up treason trial.
President Ruto’s April visit to Beijing to meet President Xi took place amid escalating US-China tensions.
The Fourth International Theoretical Conference in Nairobi is a rallying point for Stalinist parties defending capitalism and opposing Trotskyism. It reflects broader efforts to suppress revolutionary movements across Africa and Asia.
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Uganda’s long-time ruler Yoweri Museveni, has admitted to torturing an opposition aide in his private residence.
What the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates is that the Armed Forces went along with the coup conspiracy that erupted on January 8, 2023.
A wave of teachers strikes from Mexico to Panama, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil signals the emergence of a counteroffensive against the onslaught of attacks on public education and other social rights across Latin America.
The IMF demands urgent economic adjustments, in other words, harsh austerity measures, even as poverty increases in Bolivia.
The attacks on education in São Paulo are part of an offensive by global ruling elites against the social and democratic rights of the working class as they turn toward fascism and war.
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
The abrupt firing of 17 vaccine advisers threatens decades of vaccine progress and opens the door to fringe, anti-vaccine ideologues in federal health policy.
The study found that 15 percent of preschool-aged children with confirmed COVID infection are suffering from Long COVID.
Acclaimed Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei peels back the layers of a global controversy to reveal the human cost of a conspiracy. With quiet precision and emotional depth, he confronts the lab leak narrative.
Russia's lead negotiator in peace talks with Ukraine warned on Monday that any deal that did not secure his country's lasting interests would ultimately result in "the end of the planet."
The attack was personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and carried out by the fascist-infested Secret Service of Ukraine (SBU).
This report on by Ukrainian journalists documents the emergence of a huge shadow economy and the impact of skyrocketing food prices in the war-torn country.
The assassination of Portnov in parking lot in Madrid just days after meeting with Ukrainian officials exposes the lie that Zelensky’s Ukraine is a “democratic state”.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
To fight the onslaught of corporations and governments, and defeat union sabotage of their struggles, workers must unite across workplaces, industries and countries.
Turkish prisoners have initiated an indefinite hunger strike to protest the severe isolation prevalent in S-, Y-, and R-type high-security prisons.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on workers, students and youth across the United States and internationally to oppose the warmongering witch-hunting of Chinese researchers Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu.
While the protests express a growing opposition to Trump’s fascistic agenda, the pseudo-left organisers are seeking to channel those sentiments behind Australian nationalism and a pro-war Labor government.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on students, workers and youth across the US and internationally to demand that Rozos' diploma be released immediately.
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
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.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, 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.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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.
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
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.
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
The 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.
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.
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.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
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.
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.
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.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
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.
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.
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 World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
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.
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
Depicting the November 24, 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the Channel opens a window onto the crimes committed against migrants all over the world.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
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.
While millions protested against the right-wing policies and dictatorial methods of the Trump administration, the US president brought tanks and thousands of troops to the US capital in a show of force against the American people.
The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally denounces Israel’s illegal and unprovoked assault on Iran as a naked act of imperialist aggression.
Workers and youth are confronting a crisis without precedent in living memory, one comparable only to the Civil War. Then, it was a life-and-death struggle against slavery; today, it is a life-and-death struggle against capitalism.
As Trump speaks in the language of civil war and prepares the machinery of state repression, the Democrats respond with lawsuits and platitudes.
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.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
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.
