Addressing a news conference on the eve of his first anniversary in office, the US president had no answers for the escalating pandemic, the danger of fascism or the threat of world war.
As Omicron continues to inundate hospitals and kill upwards of 2,000 people each day in the US, the WHO has warned that the pandemic is far from over.
The WSWS spoke with a clinical psychologist in Edison Township Public Schools, where the start of the spring semester has seen mass infections at schools fuel a broader spread of COVID-19 in the surrounding community.
Students are joining educators and workers throughout the country fighting for the emergency closure of schools and non-essential workplaces to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The knife fight underway in the Tory Party is fundamentally over who can be best trusted to enforce class war measures on the working class. Johnson is proving he will do whatever is required of him, but there are substantial numbers in his party who want to see him gone.
Nothing that the cabal of murderers in Downing Street do will elicit any fight by the trade union bureaucracy.
The world is in the grip of preventable mass death, and the mainstream media find cause of outrage in the culling of infected hamsters, which it has called the “latest sacrifice in China’s attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero.”
In more than 100 schools across the country, pupils went on strike Tuesday against the homicidal herd immunity policies of the conservative Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) and Green Party coalition government.
A struggle to halt the devastating COVID-19 pandemic requires a political break with the union bureaucracy and its petty-bourgeois pseudo-left allies.
Such is the crisis that urgent cancer and heart surgery is being deferred in Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state.
Prominent scientists Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy say their university told them to refrain from public comment despite being threatened by conspiracy theorists opposed to vaccination and lockdowns.
Modi has made clear that his policy, like that of capitalist governments across the world, is to allow the coronavirus to spread throughout the population.
The US and its European allies are on the precipice of plunging the world into a war with Russia of catastrophic proportions.
The saga exposes the power of federal governments—Liberal-National or Labor—to deport anyone designated as a “risk” to “good order” in Australia.
On Monday, the British charity Oxfam published a report documenting the malignant growth of social inequality during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The US federal government will no longer require hospitals to report the number of people who die from COVID-19 every day, according to new guidelines from the US Department of Health and Human services.
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.”
Though Holton conceded the major historical point, he used the debate to attack Wood over the latter’s criticism of the 1619 Project.
The 1619 Project creator will join writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in founding the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard with $20 million in funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
In order to prevent school closures dues to widespread COVID-19 infections among teachers, schools in Moore, Oklahoma, brought in police officers to supervise classes.
COVID-19 deaths in Chicago are reaching their highest point so far in the Omicron surge, provoking increasing outrage among students, teachers and parents.
“By organizing rank-and-file committees,” writes the Toronto school caretaker, “education workers will be in a powerful position to force school closures as part of a broader Zero COVID strategy.”
As an unprecedented surge of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maryland has brought the state’s health care infrastructure to near-collapse, opposition has formed to government officials’ indifference to public safety.
There have been almost 1.8 million infections in Australia since December 15. Only 203 have been recorded in Western Australia, which has a population of 2.7 million and accounts for a third of the country’s land mass.
There are widespread fears of as yet undetected transmission within the capital’s slums.
The plaintiffs, Dayman Blackburn, Edrick Floreal-Wooten, Jeremiah Little, and Julio Gonzales, say they were given ivermectin in “high doses,” a drug which the FDA and CDC have warned should not be used to treat COVID-19, causing them to develop side effects such as blurred vision, diarrhea, and bloody stool.
“The week before I tested positive, four drivers in my team were out sick or were covering for sick workers in other areas.”
In seeking a court order to compel testimony and documents from Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., New York Attorney General released details of the ongoing three-year-plus investigation into the Trump clan’s parasitic businesses.
Fanta Bility was shot and killed by the officers last summer as she and her family exited a high school football game. Her older sister and two others were also shot and wounded by the police, but not killed.
The fire Tuesday morning was the second such tragedy in just over a week in the poorest borough of New York City.
Following Trump’s November 2020 defeat, the far-right lawyers propagated his bogus claims of election fraud while helping orchestrate his legal and extra-legal efforts to remain in power.
On some islands in the small South Pacific nation, entire villages have been wiped out by the tsunami that followed the most explosive volcanic eruption seen anywhere in decades.
Like other similar reports, the Oxfam analysis is marked by the stark contrast between the devastating facts and figures it presents and the empty policy prescriptions it advances.
Children, teachers, and school workers are being told to accept the risk of infection and serious health consequences in the interests of big business and finance capital.
The volcanic eruption, described as the largest-ever recorded by satellite, has devastated Tonga and impacted countries across the Pacific.
Workers who spoke out placed the blame of Caleb Dye’s death on the unions, the auto companies and the profit system.
O’Sullivan said, “This case goes to the heart of what rights employees have to protect themselves in the pandemic, and how far they can go in pursuing those rights.”
King Soopers has filed for a restraining order against striking workers, citing unproven allegations that workers have threatened and harassed customers.
The miners are in a powerful position to demand and win major real-terms pay increases, but their struggle is being hamstrung and sabotaged by the United Steelworkers, which has forced workers to continue on the job without a contract since September.
Maggie Gyllenhaal shows talent as a director and storyteller, but the ideas behind the film are confused.
There is no let-up in the campaign to discredit and, if possible, eliminate artistic figures, past or present, whose work does not conform to the outlook and interests of the gender- and race-obsessed upper middle class.
Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos focuses on a week in the lives of comic performers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and their hit television series I Love Lucy (1951–1957).
Spector was the lead singer for the Ronettes singing group, active from 1957 to 1967 and most famed for “Be My Baby.” The group also included her elder sister and a cousin. She pursued a solo career until her death.
Signs of nervousness in ruling circles are evident in the People’s Bank of China’s decision to cut a key lending rate for the first time since April 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
The concerted push by the Western media for the Chinese government to drop its COVID-zero policy takes on another dimension as global corporations grapple with mounting supply chain breakdowns.
Richard Clarida, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, announced on Monday that he would be resigning early after details emerged about stock trades he made at the beginning of the pandemic.
Fed chair Powell indicated the central bank would use interest rate hikes and other measures to tighten monetary policy to push down on wage demands if other methods fail and inflation continues to climb.
The Tories’ defeat will be short lived. The government can overturn the Lords votes against the amendments in the House of Commons.
The press spokesmen for German capitalism seem determined to wage its third war against Russia or the Soviet Union in little more than a century.
The Tory agenda is driven by a raging crisis of British and world imperialism that has been deepened immeasurably by the pandemic.
The Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government plans to ignore mass COVID-19 infections and deaths by treating it as an “endemic disease” similar to influenza.
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.
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.
Kruger’s book is a rebuke to the most basic lie of American history: that there has been no class struggle or socialism in the United States.
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 event in Florence, outside Phoenix, was the first of dozens of election year appearances planned for the Republican ex-president and coup plotter.
British national Malik Faisal Akram was killed after the last of his four hostages was freed at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Saturday.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to block the Biden administration’s policy that would force companies with more than 100 employees to require their staff to be vaccinated or wear masks daily and be tested weekly at their own expense.
In response to the right-wing onslaught against democratic rights, President Biden has combined inflated rhetoric with empty gestures.
“Health workers held protests demanding a lockdown, as well as more tests and health facilities. The government only declared a second lockdown because this opposition was developing.” – Sri Lanka doctor
Sri Lankan migrant workers explain difficulties they faced due to the criminal response of the ruling elite to the pandemic in both the Middle East and Sri Lanka.
In this interview, expert Nicolas Smit documents the negligent response of Canada’s governments to the COVID-19 pandemic, including their longstanding refusal to admit the virus spreads primarily through aerosols, and the unions’ failure to fight for the PPE workers need to protect their health and lives.
“As frontline health workers we have been battling the pandemic in hospitals and experiencing how the government has been handling the pandemic in a criminal manner.”
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.
Soaring inflation, including a massive rise in the cost of food, fuel and medicine, has completely devastated workers’ living standards.
2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since the assault on Gaza in 2021
School students in Italy in COVID safety strike demand return to remote learning and free tests and masks; protests in major cities in Lebanon and teachers strike as currency continues to fall; hundreds of striking South African Clover Foods dairy workers out for eight weeks protest wage cuts, retrenchments and restructuring
A number of recent Iranian short films stand out not simply for their aesthetic quality, but also for their realistic approach and the seriousness with which they treat the problems of wide layers of the population.
Argentina is experiencing its largest outbreak of COVID-19 infections so far, with a new record of 139,853 infections in a single day.
A record number of new COVID-19 cases were reported this week by Mexican health authorities.
The military chiefs are talking about a replay of the January 6 events in Washington led by “radical supporters” of Brazil’s fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro.
The revelations add more evidence that the plot was a conspiracy orchestrated by powerful figures within Moïse’s cabinet and backed by US authorities.
“The Workers Inquest is critical. It’s become clear that the governments and health organisations don’t want to provide the evidence about how it spreads, and what we need to do to keep safe.”
The deep hostility among university staff and students is part of the rising political discontent that drove the Liberal-National and Labor parties to rush through new electoral laws in August.
“The ICFI and the SEP is the only organisation that is offering workers a way out of the pandemic.”
The meteoric rise in housing and rental prices across Australia is fueling mounting social discontent, which the party deregistration laws seek to stifle.
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.
Assange is imprisoned without charge to facilitate an extradition request from the American government, which plotted his illegal kidnapping or assassination.
The Socialist Equality Party is today publishing further comments from WSWS readers and supporters of the fight to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Doctors for Assange delivered an open letter to Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, imploring him to seek the WikiLeaks founder’s release on medical grounds.
“Assange’s salvation has never been the British judiciary. His freedom and defence have always depended on a mass movement of the international working class.”
In fighting against the unsafe reopening of schools, youth are fighting not only for their own health and safety, but for the community as a whole.
After removing Schlissel from his position over an alleged consensual relationship with a subordinate, the university administration intends to continue the same policy of mass infection that Schlissel oversaw.
The fight in Chicago to close schools and save lives is far from over, but the development of this struggle requires a united movement of workers and student youth independent of the big-business parties and the corporatist unions.
Dr. Steenshorne is one of the millions of human beings internationally whose lives have been tragically cut short by capitalist governments’ criminal policies to allow the highly infectious and deadly coronavirus to rampage unchecked through the population.
School students in Italy in COVID safety strike demand return to remote learning and free tests and masks; protests in major cities in Lebanon and teachers strike as currency continues to fall; hundreds of striking South African Clover Foods dairy workers out for eight weeks protest wage cuts, retrenchments and restructuring
The political crisis takes place as the economy faces collapse under the impact of the pandemic, with growing unemployment, 360 percent inflation and soaring food prices.
French secondary school teachers begin a week of strikes over COVID-19 danger, unions demand mitigation only; 3,000 workers begin five-week strike at Finnish forestry company UPM over collective bargaining agreement; further protests by Iranian workers and pensioners in defence of livelihoods as food inflation hits 80 percent; strike by 5,000 workers at South African dairy group Clover Foods continues, with factory closures imminent and 1,000 job losses
Post-apartheid, Tutu’s greatest service by far to South African capitalism and world imperialism was as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) passed a resolution Monday condemning the ruling of the Berlin Administrative Court, which on November 18, 2021, upheld the designation of the German security service of the German section of the ICFI as “left wing extremists”.
The court’s ruling against the Socialist Equality Party stands in the tradition of National Socialist ideological jurisprudence and Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws, and opens the door for the surveillance and suppression of all opposition to capitalism and arbitrary state power.
Christoph Vandreier, the deputy chairman of the Socialist Equality Party, defended the right to advocate for the socialist transformation of society in a speech at the Berlin Administrative Court on November 18.
The deputy chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the importance of the lawsuit against the surveillance of the party by the German secret service.
As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak “theory.”
In the most systematic defense of the Wuhan lab libel to date, Matt Ridley proves only the falsehood of his bad-faith attack on science.
The commission advocated by the Washington Post will be aimed at shielding the government and corporate officials responsible for the deaths of more than one million Americans, while scapegoating China for the pandemic.
In a letter to the National Institutes of Health made public Thursday, zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance refuted claims that his organization failed to keep the US government appraised of coronavirus research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
The judges effectively cleared the way for universities to dismiss staff for criticising management or breaching confidentiality rules.
The letter aims to intimidate all those who oppose the strictures of racial and identity politics and their enforcement by institutionalized thought police by branding them as “racist.”
The open letter from UM faculty takes a principled stand in defense of Sheng, demanding that the university reinstate Sheng to his undergraduate course in composition and make a public apology both for the sanctions taken against him and the outrageous charges of racism.
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.
This letter, by Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North, responds to Twitter posts by DSA leaders in support of the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of Stalin’s secret police.
Historian Victoria Bynum issued the following statement demanding the DSA repudiate and apologize for the leadership’s coordinated celebration of the assassination of Trotsky and discipline those responsible.
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
The Socialist Equality Party and WSWS call on Wissler and the Left Party to publicly condemn the DSA leaders’ Twitter posts and other media publications celebrating Trotsky’s assassination.
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.
On Monday, the British charity Oxfam published a report documenting the malignant growth of social inequality during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the media and political establishment works tirelessly to downplay the dangers of COVID-19, America’s health care system is buckling under the weight of mass infection and death.
The US and its European allies are on the precipice of plunging the world into a war with Russia of catastrophic proportions.
The arrest of fascist Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy explodes the claim that January 6 was merely an unruly protest and not a conspiracy by Trump to overturn the 2020 election result and establish a dictatorship.
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.
With the lawsuit filed by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei against the Federal Republic of Germany set to be heard in court in the coming days, more than 5,300 workers and young people have expressed their support for the SGP’s case and its fight to defend democratic rights.
The working class must organise an offensive against the government’s austerity measures, independent of the trade unions, pseudo lefts and so-called opposition parties, and based on socialist policies.
The SEP’s campaign against the state of emergency is receiving significant support from workers in various sectors, including from the education, health services and plantation action committees established under the party’s guidance.
Saturday’s meeting, which was addressed by leading members of the SEPs of Canada, the United States, and Germany, advanced a fighting program for the working class.
The press spokesmen for German capitalism seem determined to wage its third war against Russia or the Soviet Union in little more than a century.
The Tory agenda is driven by a raging crisis of British and world imperialism that has been deepened immeasurably by the pandemic.
The US and its European allies are on the precipice of plunging the world into a war with Russia of catastrophic proportions.
Within the context of escalating tensions over Ukraine, the reports by CNN and the New York Times have a highly provocative character.
The spacecraft, when fully operational, will peer deeper into the Universe than any previous astronomical instrument.
The facile equation of COVID and the flu made by right-wing politicians are lies on both sides of the comparison. The flu is nothing to trifle with, but COVID is infinitely worse, a brutal killer with incalculable consequences even for those who survive its initial ravages.
The world’s major capitalist powers and giant corporations have no solution to the climate emergency they have created.
The past two years have seen a series of escalating climate disasters in all regions of the globe, including massive wildfires from the Australian bush to the American west, devastating flooding in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and deadly heatwaves the world over.
Following Trump’s November 2020 defeat, the far-right lawyers propagated his bogus claims of election fraud while helping orchestrate his legal and extra-legal efforts to remain in power.
The event in Florence, outside Phoenix, was the first of dozens of election year appearances planned for the Republican ex-president and coup plotter.
The arrest of fascist Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy explodes the claim that January 6 was merely an unruly protest and not a conspiracy by Trump to overturn the 2020 election result and establish a dictatorship.
Stewart Rhodes and 10 other members of the militia group were indicted on charges that they stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of Trump’s election defeat.
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.
The announcement underlines the criminality of the Labour Party government’s decision to permanently seal the mine, preventing the 29 bodies being recovered and the 2010 disaster properly investigated.
The discovery sparked anger among some families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims, and supporters, who questioned why the Labour Party-led government had sealed the mine, preventing the recovery of the 29 men who died.
The television documentary sets out to justify the government’s decision to abandon the underground investigation of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and for which no one has been held accountable.
The media has blacked out the widespread opposition to the New Zealand Labour Party government’s decision to seal Pike River mine that prevents a thorough investigation and accountability for the deaths of 29 men in the 2010 disaster.
The Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has intensified the bipartisan drive to clamp down on left-wing and socialist political content on social media platforms.
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
We are calling on Reddit members to demand that the moderators of r/coronavirus and r/politics halt the McCarthyite blacklisting of content links from the World Socialist Web Site .
Jones’s suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.
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.
In this work, Soviet historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin (1937–1998) explodes the myth, shared by both anti-communists and Stalinists alike, that Stalinism evolved naturally and seamlessly out of Bolshevism.
Kruger’s book is a rebuke to the most basic lie of American history: that there has been no class struggle or socialism in the United States.
The DSA promotes a fairy-tale version of the Democratic Party because it is a part of the Democratic Party and its raison d’être is to prevent an independent movement of the working class.
The filmmaker’s life spanned nearly the entire 1900s and was inevitably “roughed up” and shaped by the critical events of that turbulent and traumatic century.
