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 daily new cases hitting levels unseen since the worst days of the pandemic in January, it is becoming clear that the United States is facing a catastrophic surge of COVID-19 for which the country is totally unprepared.
The financial results are a further demonstration of the continuing profit orgy by American capitalism, which has largely reversed losses incurred during 2020 by ending whatever remains of public health measures and reopening the economy inspite of the impact on human life.
Twenty other passengers were seriously injured in the deadly crash that involved a vehicle carrying over two dozen people near Encino, Texas, an hour north of the US-Mexico border.
Forest fires that have spread across several Mediterranean countries since July continue to burn fiercely.
Despite a large early lead in the polls and a big fundraising advantage, Nina Turner lost to a more right-wing figure, Shontel Brown.
Trumka, who was installed as AFL-CIO president in 2009, helped enforce a vast transfer of wealth from the working class to the coffers of big business through the virtual elimination of strikes and other forms of class struggle.
On a racial analysis, the problem of the population’s health is entirely confused and distorted.
The PATCO strike was provoked by the Carter and Reagan administrations to tame working class militancy.
The 165-page report issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo deserves to be treated with contempt.
The PATCO strike was provoked by the Carter and Reagan administrations to tame working class militancy.
With PATCO, history exposed as unviable and bankrupt a labor movement that based itself on anti-communism, defense of the profit system and nationalism.
The sentencing of Murray has set a dangerous precedent above all in its singling out of independent media.
Hundreds of infections are being recorded every day in Sydney, where the COVID crisis is out of control, while the virus is spreading to cities and states across the country.
The transmission of the virulent Delta variant into PNG underscores the vulnerability and dangers facing the impoverished countries of the Pacific to the raging global pandemic.
Alongside that sobering figure are more than 4.26 million lives that have been taken prematurely from their coworkers, friends and families.
The new means of recording infections was always to be utilised to legitimise the removal of all Covid protections by the government on its planned “Freedom Day” on July 19.
The IAM is isolating the strike of 800 Chicago-area mechanics by implementing a myriad of side deals that favor the interests of the car dealerships with the connivance of the AFL-CIO and Democratic Party.
Strikes spread at several UK rail companies over pay, pensions, conditions; South African construction workers protesting unpaid wages clash with private security firm; strikes continue in Iran over pay and arrears, protests mounting over pensions
As the strike by 700 nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester approached the 150-day mark, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) met with a federal mediator and Tenet management earlier this week to push for an agreement to end the strike.
JDE workers voted with a gun held to their head. If they voted “no” then termination notices would take effect on September 13. Unite has “removed” fire and rehire only by giving the company everything it wanted.
Real terms pay cuts for FE lecturers have totalled 30 percent in the past decade, but the union is only calling for a 5 percent pay increase.
Workers in several departments were told to find other jobs at the company or leave it altogether.
The gangster-like attempt to force Timonovskaya’s return to Belarus over a minor critique of the Belarusian Olympic Committee is part of a massive government crackdown on all political and social opposition.
Well before people were caught in the deadly waters, governments and authorities had been warned.
Students are seeking ways to fight the sacking of educators and the shutting down of courses, and to break through the stifling of opposition by the student and staff unions.
The Federal Court did not order the company to reinstate and compensate the displaced workers.
Speakers explained the necessity to build action committees in every workplace and school, independent of the unions, to take up the fight for social and democratic rights.
The contrast between the response of Chinese authorities and the “herd immunity” policies of the imperialist governments of North America and Europe is staggering.
The action, announced Tuesday, is almost certain to be overturned by the federal courts, based on a Supreme Court ruling last June 29.
An early morning workplace shooting by an employee at a SmileDirectClub facility near Nashville, Tennessee, has left three employees wounded and the alleged shooter dead.
Ten days before his supporters stormed the Capitol, the US president told the acting attorney general to “leave the rest to me” in terms of overturning the November 3 vote.
Agricultural workers are among the most harmed by the dangerous air quality produced during this year’s ongoing fire season.
Director Andrew Levitas last week publicly rebuked MGM, which has still not announced a North American release for this remarkable but now almost two-year-old movie.
Cannon Busters, created by Satelight and Yumeta Company, is an anime adaptation of LeSean Thomas’ fantasy-action-comedy comic book series.
Crowds totaling several hundred thousand people have been exposed to the highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19.
Cate Shortland’s $200-million film was shot in 2019 and originally scheduled to be released by Disney Studios on May 1, 2020. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted that plan.
NASA is this week celebrating the advance enabled by the Deep Field and its subsequent scientific results.
The giant Paraceratherium’s skull alone was roughly the size of a human torso while the animal’s shoulders would have reached five meters above the ground.
Under conditions of the global pandemic of a lethal virus, mass vaccination is an elementary requirement of public health and for the self-defense of the working class.
Scientists have blamed industry and Florida’s ultra-right governor for the rapid spread of the harmful toxin, spread by human-induced nutrient pollution in the Tampa Bay area
The PATCO strike was provoked by the Carter and Reagan administrations to tame working class militancy.
With PATCO, history exposed as unviable and bankrupt a labor movement that based itself on anti-communism, defense of the profit system and nationalism.
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.
Eighty-five years ago, on July 17, 1936, the Spanish army launched a fascist coup against the the country’s Republic, provoking the Spanish Civil War.
The schools’ reopening proposal flies in the face of all epidemiological science and, if implemented, is guaranteed to result in deaths and serious injuries.
As the Delta variant spreads in the country, state governments, including those of the Workers Party and the Communist Party of Brazil are reopening schools and the entire economy.
This statement was passed unanimously at a committee meeting Tuesday, and we will fight for our demands in the weeks and months ahead to ensure that the surge of the Delta variant is fully contained.
The recent cluster of COVID-19 infections in New York City school buildings among children in summer school foretells an even bigger disaster when nearly a million students in the city are forced back to face-to-face learning in September
Ten days before his supporters stormed the Capitol, the US president told the acting attorney general to “leave the rest to me” in terms of overturning the November 3 vote.
Tuesday’s hearing of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack provided harrowing first-hand accounts of the fascist assault on the U.S. Capitol directed by then-President Donald Trump.
Ignoring the FBI’s long history of cultivating far-right elements to attack and kill left-wing and class-conscious workers, Greenwald presents fascist militia members as victims of a government sting operation.
The openly fascist faction of the House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, held a press conference in front of the Justice Department to defend what they called the “political prisoners” imprisoned for their roles in the January 6 assault on Congress.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, "We are in very close contact in coordination with the United Kingdom, Israel, Romania, and other countries. And there will be there will be a collective response" to the attack.
Hale, who exposed the murderous nature of the US government drone warfare program during the Obama administration, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for violating the Espionage Act.
Hale faces a sentencing hearing on Tuesday following his guilty plea in March on charges of sharing classified information about the US military’s drone killing program with journalists.
Hale wrote the following letter in advance of his sentencing hearing scheduled for Tuesday, July 27, on a guilty plea of one count of violating the Espionage Act.
The SEP is running in the California elections to provide an independent working-class voice demanding the eradication of the pandemic by placing lives over private profit.
The Federal Election Committee upheld the party status of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP), enabling it to participate in September’s federal election. However, in an attack on democratic rights, it withheld party status to almost half the organisations that applied.
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.
NZ First leader Winston Peters was deputy prime minister in the Labour-led government when it announced it would end the underground investigation of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster which killed 29 people.
The majority of Pike River mine victims’ families are seeking to stop the Labour Party-led government’s plan to permanently seal the mine.
The WSWS is reprinting a letter sent by UK mines rescue expert Brian Robinson to the New Zealand government’s Pike River Recovery Agency, calling for it to continue the underground investigation of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster.
The WSWS calls on readers to oppose the New Zealand Labour-led government’s imminent move to seal Pike River mine before it has been properly investigated and before anyone has been charged over the 2010 disaster that killed 29 people.
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.
Workers angered over the concessions imposed by the company and the UAW are refusing to volunteer for work over the scheduled maintenance shutdown that begins next week.
Less than a week after United Auto Workers President Ray Curry conspired with management to shut down the five-week Volvo strike and ram through a contract previously rejected by workers, he wrote a feature column in the Detroit New s titled “UAW works with employers for union members.”
While mouthing certain criticisms of the conduct of the UAW, the Valley Labor Report program completely falsified the record of the strike, writing out the role of the World Socialist Web Site and the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
Volvo’s substantial earnings contradict the dishonest argument advanced by both the company and the UAW over the course of the past three months that there was simply not enough corporate money to meet workers’ demands.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) ran three candidates in the student parliament election at Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU) in June.
The new rules are an attempt to suppress political discussion and activity by students under conditions of an historic pro-business assault on university jobs, conditions and courses.
While the pandemic has unquestionably dramatically worsened the mental health crisis facing children, the real cause of the dramatic rise in suicides and substance abuse, which had begun well before COVID-19 emerged, is the capitalist profit system.
After months of protests from staff at the university, the number of redundancies was reduced to 24. That the university was not forced to take the cuts completely off the table was due to the role played by the University and College Union.
Last Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul publicly accused Anthony Fauci of having helped to genetically engineer the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 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.
Although no government has confirmed that it used the spyware to hack into the smartphones of political opponents and journalists around the world, the Israeli-based NSO Group, which developed the Pegasus tool, has suspended the accounts of several of its state customers.
The openly fascist faction of the House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, held a press conference in front of the Justice Department to defend what they called the “political prisoners” imprisoned for their roles in the January 6 assault on Congress.
From January 20, when Biden was inaugurated, he has pursued policies dictated by the interests of Wall Street and American imperialism.
A breach of Israeli spy company NSO Group revealed 50,000 phone numbers, including those belonging to journalists, slated for infection with spyware capable of viewing a target’s personal messages and information.
According to one asset management chief, Fed chair Jerome Powell could not have been more “dovish” or more “accommodative to the stock market.”
The ECB meeting on Thursday demonstrated the continuing support for an ultra-easy monetary policy against opposition from Germany and other northern European representatives on its governing council.
The Wall Street swings are the outcome of tidal wave-like movements of money, amounting to trillions of dollars, pumped into the financial system by the Fed since last March.
The claims that the Amazon founder’s space flight was historic, and that he is obsessed with climate change and “saving the world” need to be seen in the proper context. Nonetheless, something revealing did emerge out of the sordid excursion July 20.
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 scale and persistence of the demonstrations express growing discontent among broad layers of the population with the existing capitalist order.
As the majority of US K-12 districts push forward with a full reopening of schools, cases among children ages 0-17 have nearly doubled in recent weeks, and multiple states have reported a rise in hospitalizations and deaths among children.
A US security delegation dispatched to Port-au-Prince brought together the three figures claiming to be head of state following the assassination of de facto president Jovenel Moïse.
In the aftermath of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in the early hours of the morning last Wednesday, the impoverished Caribbean nation’s interim government has appealed for a foreign military intervention to protect key infrastructure.
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.
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 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 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.
Assange’s lawyer, Carlos Poveda, will appeal the “purely political” decision, which he argued was based on unsubstantiated allegations. He commented, “More than the importance of nationality, it is a matter of respecting rights and following due process in withdrawing nationality.”
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.
Thousands of energy workers in many cities in Turkey went on wildcat strikes, independent of the union, against the misery contracts.
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 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.
Egypt’s military dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is using the courts, new laws and censorship of the internet and social media to suppress all opposition to his brutal regime.
The protests were initially triggered by last week’s jailing of former president Jacob Zuma, ordered by the Constitutional Court for contempt of court for initially defying its order to appear at an inquiry into corruption during his presidency from 2009 to 2018.
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.
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.
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.
This video features two striking Volvo workers in Virginia speaking on their struggle and denouncing the UAW's efforts to ram through a pro-company contract already voted down by the rank-and-file.
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.
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.
With daily new cases hitting levels unseen since the worst days of the pandemic in January, it is becoming clear that the United States is facing a catastrophic surge of COVID-19 for which the country is totally unprepared.
The 165-page report issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo deserves to be treated with contempt.
The sentencing of Murray has set a dangerous precedent above all in its singling out of independent media.
With PATCO, history exposed as unviable and bankrupt a labor movement that based itself on anti-communism, defense of the profit system and nationalism.
With Milton as his guide, a poet examines present-day America through the lens of Civil War history.
With Milton as his guide, a poet examines present-day America through the lens of Civil War history.
A leading member of the German Left Party, Wagenknecht rages venomously against cosmopolitanism and cultural openness while promoting protectionism and a strong state.
Wagenknecht venomously fulminates against “cosmopolitanism” and cultural openness while promoting protectionism and a strong state, and denouncing migrants and refugees.
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.
