The policy of the ruling class means the continuation of the pandemic and, with it, mass death and social devastation. The only social force able to stop this war on society is the international working class.
The outcome of the vote is a powerful expression of the Volvo workers’ determination to fight and a debacle for the UAW, which pulled out all the stops in its attempt to ram the contract through.
Thousands of energy workers in many cities in Turkey went on wildcat strikes, independent of the union, against the misery contracts.
The auto companies are citing the COVID-19 pandemic in order to continue their assault on wages and working conditions.
A Kansas Frito-Lay striker informed the WSWS that union officials told workers not to ask for wage increases in the new contract.
To take forward their struggle, Warrior Met miners must immediately form a rank-and-file committee to assert their own, independent interests in opposition to the UMWA bureaucracy, which is doing everything in its power to isolate and betray their strike.
Neither politics nor the pandemic are suspended by fond hopes and good will. Following a well-worn playbook, the Euros are being used as a vehicle for anti-scientific propaganda and nationalist mythmaking.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that vaccinated teachers and students don’t need to wear masks inside school buildings, further loosening guidelines for reopening schools even as COVID-19 cases surge throughout the country.
The ban is a response to mass strikes and demonstrations by workers, farmers, students and fishermen against attacks on social conditions and democratic rights.
Victims’ bodies were burnt beyond recognition in the latest industrial inferno in Bangladesh, caused by sweatshop conditions.
After a setback in regional elections marked by massive abstention, the National Rally endorsed Marine Le Pen last weekend at its congress held in Perpignan.
Two years after fire devastated the cathedral, restoration workers are still exposed to dangerous levels of the poisonous metal.
Despite the bipartisan push to blackmail jobless workers into dangerous, low-paying work, millions remain unemployed.
In its economic projections the Fed has insisted that the present rise in inflation will prove to be “transitory,” but now the opinion is being voiced that this characterisation may apply to growth as well.
The struggle against imperialism, fascism and war requires the revolutionary mobilization of the working class on the basis of an international socialist program. Support for the Russian nationalist forces in eastern Ukraine plays into the hands of the fascist forces in Kiev, which are supported by the NATO powers.
Last month it was revealed that an emergency response unit of the US Capitol Police, which failed to deploy against the January 6 insurrection, was trained by Northern Red, a private neo-Nazi paramilitary contractor.
Events like the recent Pacific Northwest disaster would have been “at least 150 times rarer without human-induced climate change.”
On Wednesday, 21 of the world’s leading experts on the origins of infectious diseases published a preprint paper demolishing the conspiracy theory promoted by the Biden administration and the US media that COVID-19 was a man-made virus.
The strike takes place as Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia, United States vote on a new contract worked out between the United Auto Workers union and Volvo management.
The wildcat action by Volvo Cars workers in Ghent comes on the eve of a vote by Volvo Trucks workers in Dublin, Virginia, on a concessions contract negotiated by the UAW to end their month-long strike.
Volvo Trucks management made a last-ditch effort Thursday to bully workers into accepting a six-year labor agreement worked out with the United Auto Workers (UAW).
The stand taken by Volvo workers “is a beacon of light for all workers seeking to break out of the isolation imposed by the unions everywhere.”
The reckless policies now being enforced by parties of all political stripes have been facilitated by the federal Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau, which declared in its throne speech last fall that all coronavirus-related measures must be “short-term” and implemented at the “local” level, i.e., totally ineffectual.
Neither politics nor the pandemic are suspended by fond hopes and good will. Following a well-worn playbook, the Euros are being used as a vehicle for anti-scientific propaganda and nationalist mythmaking.
Scotland is facing another public health disaster as the Delta variant surges. The country accounts for four of Europe’s top ten COVID-19 hotspots according to the World Health Organization.
Cases of COVID-19 across the US are climbing again, specifically across the Southeast and portions of the Midwest, where vaccination rates are relatively low in comparison to the national average.
The anti-working class character of the RMT’s participation in the RIRG is so naked that the pseudo-left Socialist Party has stepped forward as its political attorneys.
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Kathy Hanshew, Chicago leader of the poorly named “Workers United” union, said ramming through the deal was “the best decision for the entire membership.” Union officials who shut down a potential strike, she said, showed “courage and leadership.”
Having proclaimed “green shoots” and “positive signs” less than a week ago, the NSW Liberal-National government is now raising the spectre of mass illness and death.
A new bill will empower the Defence Ministry to set up university faculties, which will conduct fee levying for various academic courses.
The overwhelming vote is another indication of the underlying striving by university workers and students to fight the ongoing historic offensive against jobs and conditions, despite the opposition of the NTEU to any unified struggle.
The Sri Lankan Action Committee for the Defence of Freedom of Art and Expression is holding a public online meeting and discussion to free poet Ahnaf Jazeem.
Corporate giant Lubrizol has taken control of clean-up efforts, while Chemtool workers and their families worry about the explosion’s lingering consequences.
The unarmed white teenager was shot to death last month by an Arkansas sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop.
The candidate promoted himself both as a working-class candidate, and as an ex-cop prepared to address the issue of public safety.
Authorities announced yesterday that the operation was being recategorized from a “search-and-rescue mission” to a “recovery effort,” meaning that there was little to no possibility of finding survivors in the rubble.
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 cuts are driven by a deep-rooted assault on higher education. The ruling class views expanded access to science and culture as an intolerable encroachment on the wealth of the oligarchy.
The criminal character of the European Union is nowhere more clearly revealed than in its brutal treatment of people seeking refuge.
Over seven years after the imperialist backed-coup in Kiev, Ukrainian journalists continue to be terrorized by government-backed fascist thugs.
The TIGRR report is a blueprint for further privatisation and a ratcheting up of exploitation of the working class. Every recommendation is aimed at giving parasitic speculation free rein.
No Sudden Move is set in Detroit in 1954. To what extent the film, a gangster drama with only passing reference to the auto industry, has something meaningful to say about the city and its subsequent decline is another matter.
Some 60,000 visitors attended the open-air screenings of the Berlin film festival’s Summer Special, which ran from June 9-20.
Such measures, which have an obvious public relations value in the present political context but come at little financial cost to giant corporations, have no socially or economically progressive substance.
Lee Daniels’ film, with Andra Day, does a disservice to the memory of the music legend.
Moïse’s government had confronted mass opposition in the streets since 2018, when his government suddenly announced a 50 percent hike in gas prices.
On Monday, a Honduran court issued the eighth guilty verdict in the March 2016 killing of Berta Cáceres, a world-renowned environmental and indigenous rights activist.
Whichever of the two candidates is sworn in as president on July 28, the crisis facing the working class will only deepen.
There is growing popular unrest in Peru in the face of what has been described as a slow-motion coup to overturn the election of Pedro Castillo as president.
The science underlying the origins of SARS-CoV-2 distinctly points to the virus emerging from nature rather than from a laboratory.
The New York Times and Washington Post are citing a serial fabricator whose 2014 book was condemned by the biologists whose research he cited, together with more than 140 other scientists.
Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that the world’s leading scientists were engaged in a cover-up of the “Wuhan lab” origins of COVID-19.
The lead writer of the Wall Street Journal piece that led to the embrace by the entire US media of the “Wuhan lab” theory was the co-author with Judith Miller of the discredited "aluminum tubes" story that helped launch the US invasion of Iraq.
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.
The program addressed the pro-imperialist origins of the DSA and the significance of its present celebration of the crimes of Stalinism.
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.
A dangerous precedent has been set by the United Teachers Los Angeles that will be followed by districts throughout the West Coast.
Redbridge Council, which Labour holds with an 81 percent majority, has sided openly with the Johnson government’s Department for Education, endorsing teacher victimisations and sackings during the pandemic.
The fringe right-wing parents’ group, whose members have close ties to charter schools, has established a non-profit to lobby for an even more aggressive opening of schools this fall.
While the Los Angeles school district and teachers union intensify their drive to bring children back into unsafe classrooms, opposition continues to mount among teachers, parents and students throughout the county.
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to grant Hannah-Jones’ application for a full tenure professorship after weeks of outrage and accusations of racism over an initial decision to postpone a vote.
This letter from WSWS International Editorial Board Chairperson David North was sent to the Chronicle of Higher Education in response to its article, “‘What the Hell Happened?’ Inside the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case.”
This is the introduction by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to a volume, available for delivery in January 2021, containing the main interviews and essays published by the WSWS exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of American history.
The argument that the racial wealth gap is the most salient feature of American society today is based on a tendentious selection and presentation of data with the aim of covering up class inequalities.
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.
Stella Moris warned yesterday that the High Court’s decision meant her partner, “is still at risk of extradition where he faces a 175-year prison sentence and where according to the magistrate he is almost certain to lose his life.”
Assange has now spent more than one fifth of his life persecuted by the US state and its allies.
A Google News search indicates that not a single English-language corporate publication has reported the confession of a key US witness against Assange that his allegations were false.
The US indictment against Assange is based on fabrications concocted by American spies and a convicted Icelandic conman and pedophile who functioned as their stool pigeon.
The differences centred on two key questions: the direction of interest rate policy and at what point the Fed should start winding back its program of asset purchases.
Trillions of dollars have been pumped to the financial markets, fuelling rampant speculation but there are concerns over where this is heading.
Top officials of the US Federal Reserve, starting with chairman Jerome Powell, have pulled out all stops to reassure financial markets there will be no immediate tightening of monetary policy, and the flow of money that has sent Wall Street to record highs will continue.
According to an article in the New York Times public records and newly-obtained emails show “how intertwined Blackrock has become with the federal government.”
The Democratic Party leadership has largely dropped efforts, either in Congress or the courts, to overturn restrictive new state laws.
The reception for Prince Khalid bin Salman, a key accomplice in the savage assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, lays bare the hypocrisy of Biden’s “human rights” imperialism.
New York prosecutors charged Allen Weisselberg, longtime Trump Organization executive, with 15 counts, including criminal tax fraud and grand larceny, as part of a scheme to “defraud the government.”
President Biden hailed the cooperation of Miami Democrats with far-right Republican Governor DeSantis in concealing the real cause of the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.
All the Bennett government’s leading lights were once aides to Benjamin Netanyahu, occupied senior government posts under his leadership and have no significant political differences with him.
The strike has spread to at least 70 oil and gas installations and refineries and petrochemical plants, with tens of thousands of workers reportedly staying at home or in their dormitories.
The protests highlight the growing anger towards the Palestinian Authority over terrible economic and social conditions amid systemic corruption.
The marine mucilage, or sea snot, in the Sea of Marmara has continued to spread over the past months, exacerbating pollution and threatening sea creatures.
The US Defense Department has canceled the cloud computing solicitation known as JEDI and replaced it with a request for a more advanced IT platform that will enable imperialist warfare to be fought with artificial intelligence and unprecedented information gathering and processing power.
While Ukraine and NATO often declare that their military exercises are “defensive” in nature, “Cossack Mace” differs in that it openly states that its forces are practicing for an offensive.
The documents confirm that the UK was aware of a possible hostile response by Russia and decided to proceed anyway.
Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer expressed her “fundamental confidence” in Germany’s Special Forces Command (KSK), which despite a string of far-right scandals will not be disbanded.
The first week of July 1996, Selliah Rajkumar, a member of the Revolutionary Communist League (forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party), was imprisoned and tortured by the Sri Lankan regime after being falsely charged as a suspected terrorist.
The world historical significance of the 1921 founding of the Chinese Communist Party stands in stark contrast to the hypocrisy and falsifications that characterise the official centenary celebrations.
Eighty years ago, on June 22, 1941, the German military invaded the Soviet Union. They combined the barbarism of the Middle Ages with the most modern technology of the 20th century.
25 years ago: Yeltsin claims reelection as president of RussiaOn July 3, 1996, Boris Yeltsin won the Russian Federation’s presidential runoff election in a vote widely viewed by the population as fraudulent. The election set the stage for future social upheavals and political crises in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Families have picketed the road to Pike River coal mine, demanding that the Labour government reverse its plan to end the underground investigation into the 2010 disaster, which killed 29 people.
Equipment has been stripped out of the drift tunnel as the Labour Party-led government prepares to seal the mine in order to prevent a proper forensic investigation into the causes of the 2010 disaster that killed 29 people.
The Pike River Recovery Agency is racing to seal the coal mine to prevent the recovery of bodies and evidence that could lead to the prosecution of those responsible for the 2010 disaster that killed 29 workers.
The Labour Party government aims to prevent the thorough examination of underground evidence that could be used to prosecute corporate criminals responsible for the deaths of 29 men in the 2010 Pike River disaster.
SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias delivered this speech to an online May 30 public meeting organised by the SEP.
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.
Only an international, scientific health strategy can defeat this highly contagious virus, which ignores borders and passports and infects people of all nationalities.
The following speech was delivered by SEP (Sri Lanka) Political Committee member M. Thevarajah to a May 30 meeting organized by the SEP in Sri Lanka.
The Amazon BWI2 Independent Rank-and-File Safety Committee hereby affiliates itself with the IWA-RFC, and calls for our fellow Amazon workers to do the same.
At its latest online meeting, the Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey adopted two important resolutions.
The International Committee of the Fourth International will mark May Day with an online rally to issue a call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
We are publishing here the text of the opening report to the 2021 International Online May Day Rally delivered by David North.
The overwhelming vote is another indication of the underlying striving by university workers and students to fight the ongoing historic offensive against jobs and conditions, despite the opposition of the NTEU to any unified struggle.
A new bill will empower the Defence Ministry to set up university faculties, which will conduct fee levying for various academic courses.
The cuts are driven by a deep-rooted assault on higher education. The ruling class views expanded access to science and culture as an intolerable encroachment on the wealth of the oligarchy.
Several US newspapers have run articles in recent weeks hailing the increase in the number of teenagers who have taken on jobs.
Events like the recent Pacific Northwest disaster would have been “at least 150 times rarer without human-induced climate change.”
The community of nearly 1,000 in California’s Central Valley lost water after the pump in the only functioning well broke down.
A recent brain imaging study conducted by the University of Oxford and Imperial College London concluded that individuals with COVID-19 infection sustain a loss of brain grey matter compared to those not infected, which may increase the risk for future neurological diseases, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
The science underlying the origins of SARS-CoV-2 distinctly points to the virus emerging from nature rather than from a laboratory.
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 action comes after Jones was fired and witchhunted by Governor Ron DeSantis for opposing his campaign to ignore COVID-19 and reopen schools and workplaces.
Abiy’s loss of Mekelle marks a turning point in a war that has plunged Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country of 112 million people, into chaos amid escalating ethnic conflicts around the country.
While multi-millionaire President Cyril Ramaphosa made pro-forma statements about rooting out corruption, he has mostly targeted his political rivals.
The junta and the interim government aim to suppress mounting opposition among working and toiling people across Mali to the French occupation of their country.
Greek workers’ 24-hour strikes against draconian labour laws; stoppages in hospitals across France over pay and staff shortages; trade unions betray Spanish bank workers’ dispute, accept 2,700 job losses; Lesotho garment workers enter third week of pay strike.
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.
Last month it was revealed that an emergency response unit of the US Capitol Police, which failed to deploy against the January 6 insurrection, was trained by Northern Red, a private neo-Nazi paramilitary contractor.
A trove of email messages shows that Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf attempted to seize voting machines in Michigan in cooperation with top Trump advisers, who were seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 elections.
The noxious product of social inequality and war creates the objective conditions for dictatorship. The defense of democratic rights, not only in the US but internationally, depends on the independent mobilization of the working class for socialism.
Testifying before the House Administration Committee, Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton revealed that Northern Red, a private military contractor used for years by multiple government agencies, features neo-Nazi iconography on its website, uniforms and social media accounts.
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.
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.
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 WSWS is breaking the media/UAW blackout of the ongoing strike of nearly 3,000 Volvo Trucks workers in Dublin, Virginia, by bringing the news directly to the factory gates.
The international working class alone is capable of halting the drive to war, as it is the only social force able to overthrow capitalism and its outmoded system of rival nation-states.
We are publishing here the text of the opening report to the 2021 International Online May Day Rally delivered by David North.
On Saturday, April 3, the WSWS hosted an international online meeting to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871.
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.
What was most significant in the panel was the interaction between Scalice and the second speaker, Walden Bello, who has a prominent international reputation as a figure of the left and an opponent of globalization.
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.”
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.
The WSWS has been relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
The policy of the ruling class means the continuation of the pandemic and, with it, mass death and social devastation. The only social force able to stop this war on society is the international working class.
On Wednesday, 21 of the world’s leading experts on the origins of infectious diseases published a preprint paper demolishing the conspiracy theory promoted by the Biden administration and the US media that COVID-19 was a man-made virus.
The development of the class struggle is putting to the test political programs, tendencies and parties.
The US evacuation of Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night, without notifying Afghan forces, epitomizes the debacle wrought by 20 years of war.
Political scientist Timothy Frye argues that the crude and facile character of the anti-Russia crusade in the Western media is causing misunderstandings about the Kremlin and Russian society that could result in tactical mistakes and missed opportunities to promote regime change.
The English translation of Stalingrad will not only finally introduce a broad readership to a masterpiece of world literature, but it will also help new generations, especially young people, to understand the enormous impact of the October Revolution.
Burhan Qurbani has directed a new film adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s remarkable novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz, first published in 1929. The German filmmaker has relocated the action from crisis-ridden Weimar Germany to the present day.
Bailey’s book, likely to be the standard work on Roth’s life for some time to come, has been “pulped” and its author turned overnight into a “non-person.” There is no precedent for this in recent times.
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.
