The Monitor’s denial of Lehman's protest exemplifies the fraudulent character of the election and reveals the total contempt with which the UAW, the federal courts, and the Monitor view the democratic rights of the working class.
Workers in the America’s second-largest district, which serves 420,000 students are demanding improvements on short staffing, high workloads and class sizes and poverty wages, made worse by skyrocketing inflation.
During Biden’s two-day visit, he and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss a host of geostrategic issues, including: the NATO-instigated war with Russia over Ukraine; countering China from the Indo-Pacific to the Arctic; NORAD modernization; securing strategic minerals; and “friendshoring” production chains.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues.
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing correspondence from UK postal workers, angry over the endless drive to ratchet up exploitation by Royal Mail.
The total number of successful prosecutions could well reach two thousand, but no charges have yet been brought against Trump or his top aides and accomplices in the coup attempt.
The issue is not whether the serial liar Johnson misled the house, inadvertently or otherwise. Johnson, the entire government and the main opposition parties lied to the British working class as they took decisions that resulted in the deaths of more than 208,000 people from COVID.
The WSWS spoke with students protesting Macron’s anti-democratic passage of the pension reform at the Tolbiac university campus in central Paris.
Such is the fragility of the financial system that the operations of the “free market,” through which failed investments are purged, cannot continue to function because any problem threatens to set off a collapse requiring the intervention of the state and its agencies using their capacity to create more money.
Montel Mickles says he took an emergency vacation day to visit his sick mother in the hospital. He was fired from Dana, got evicted, and is now fighting for his job back.
The intimidation and victimizations of workers at Dana corporation have enraged and encouraged autoworkers at the Detroit Three automakers to respond with support and stories of their own victimizations.
The conquest and occupation of Iraq is one of the greatest crimes of the 21st century.
Macron’s decision to impose pension cuts on the French people without a vote has torn the democratic mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as instrument of class rule.
In his March 5 column, the ex-left journalist continued his political adaption to the far right.
The richest country in the world has the worst showing for maternal mortality among all major industrialized nations.
March 20 marks 20 years since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, launched on the basis of lies. At the time of the initial invasion, the WSWS published many statements on the background of the war, its history and its implications. This page features some of the most important statements.
Behind the demagogy and bluster, the perspective advanced by the speakers was a thoroughly bankrupt one: placing pressure on the Democratic Party, which is spearheading the war.
There is no left-wing or anti-war faction within the Labour Party whatsoever; no one has challenged or will challenge Starmer’s “party of NATO”.
The transparently political action by the International Criminal Court takes place amidst ever more open statements from US and NATO officials that the aim of the war is regime change in Moscow.
The downing of the $30 million military drone is a dangerous milestone in the escalating war between the United States and Russia.
Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.
The ruling exposes general manager Peter Gelb’s complicity in propaganda for the proxy war against Russia.
Several older films featured at this year’s Berlinale film provided real insight into the plight of immigrants in the 1970s and 1980s.
The campaign defends Waters’ criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as “part of his long-term advocacy on behalf of human rights across the globe.”
An artistic medium with its share of creativity and insight into daily life has all too often become a stew of ugliness, bombast, money-worship and backwardness.
The Socialist Equality Party is the only party in the NSW election offering workers an alternative to the ongoing slashing of wages and cuts to health, education and other social services.
One worker said: “The average person in China, or in America, or here, doesn’t want a war. I’m glad this party is talking about it. Nobody else is.”
The supposedly anti-war meeting was addressed by the American colonel who wrote Colin Powell’s infamous speech justifying the US invasion of Iraq and by Bob Carr, who as foreign minister played a key role in Australia’s integration into the US-led plans for war with China.
The organisers promoted right-wing militarists, while suppressing discussion from the floor, including questions from the Socialist Equality Party.
The SEP and the IYSSE advance a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program to defeat the threat of dictatorship, and defend social and democratic rights.
To fight for our rights, we must build action committees of fishing workers, independently of all capitalist parties and the fishermen’s associations.
Wickremesinghe says the country will have to repay an average $7 billion in foreign loan debts annually until 2029, making clear that the regime functions as a direct agent of global finance capital.
While workers fight the government’s attacks, the unions are doing everything they can to keep this movement chained to the parliamentary opposition parties that endorse the IMF’s austerity measures.
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.
Since becoming Alberta’s premier last fall, Danielle Smith has criminalized basic public health measures, and solidarized herself with anti-vaxxers, “Freedom” Convoy activists and other far-right elements who openly flouted anti-COVID measures.
The data, uncovered by a French researcher and evolutionary biologist, is a major blow to the “lab leak” conspiracy theory of the origins of COVID-19.
A health care worker in Michigan spoke to the WSWS about his own health and the impact of Long COVID on his ability to work and the way the condition is being dismissed by the health care industry.
Leaving mask policy up to individual health care facilities will only increase deaths and debilitation among patients and health care workers in a system that prioritizes profits over lives.
Washington and Canberra are clearly concerned that New Zealand, a key part of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence network, is not sufficiently aligned with the far-advanced preparations for war against China.
Albanese equated the creation of a civilian auto industry following the last world war with the building of an economy based on the production of weaponry for a third world war that could wipe out humanity.
Keating made the basic point that the US and its allies are preparing for an aggressive war against China to ensure American imperialist hegemony.
With Fiji’s ruling elite sharply divided, Bainimarama’s arrest is part of an ongoing power struggle between two former coup leaders amid an escalating social crisis.
The devastation caused by the Kahramanmaraş earthquake shows the horrific loss of life an earthquake could cause in the Marmara region around Istanbul.
The company is being investigated by the public prosecutor’s office and state criminal office on suspicion of bribery and corruption, breach of trust and fraud.
The motion of censure against the government for imposing Macron’s despised cuts without a vote fell 9 votes short of a majority in the Assembly, allowing them to become law.
The unions and pseudo-left parties are desperately trying to prevent the growth of protests and strikes by promoting illusions that parliament will vote no confidence in the government.
Postal workers have already voted by 86 percent in favour of strike action, and this must now be enforced. But for this to happen it is necessary to break the role of the Verdi leadership as strikebreakers.
The World Socialist Web Site continues to receive correspondence from postal workers over the back-breaking increases in workloads demanded by Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) enforcing the cost cutting exercise.
Workers in the America’s second-largest district, which serves 420,000 students are demanding improvements on short staffing, high workloads and class sizes and poverty wages, made worse by skyrocketing inflation.
The Socialist Equality Party is the only party in the NSW election offering workers an alternative to the ongoing slashing of wages and cuts to health, education and other social services.
While no arraignment date has been set, the Manhattan district attorney appears set to proceed with an indictment in a legally flimsy and politically reactionary case that is a diversion from Trump’s real crimes.
At three recent forums, candidates Vallas and Johnson agreed on opening up the city’s infrastructure and working class youth to exploitation by corporate interests but differ primarily on how to contain growing social discontent.
Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk attempted to keep the hearing from becoming public knowledge out of concern about the eruption of protests over the last attack on abortion rights.
In an attempt to appear “tough on crime” and bolster flagging Republican support for the ongoing war in Ukraine against Russia, President Biden said he would sign the Republican resolution over the objections of the Democratic Party-dominated D.C. City Council.
The US crisis arises from the fact that many middle-sized banks have invested heavily in what are supposed to be the safest assets of all, Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities, which have fallen in value because of the Fed’s interest rate hikes.
In order to avoid being dragged into the abyss by the country's second-largest bank, the government in Bern pledged Switzerland's fate to the country's largest bank come what may.
Announcing the decision, Swiss president Alain Berset warned that an “uncontrollable collapse of Credit Suisse would lead to incalculable consequences for the country and the international financial system.”
The support for the merger is almost certainly part of a deal which exchanged Microsoft’s neutrality in union elections for the union bureaucracy’s backing.
The decision reduces Taiwan’s diplomatic allies to just 13—a measure of Washington’s falling economic and political influence in Latin America in relation to China.
Neruda’s death took place 12 days after Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government was ousted in a bloody US-backed military coup.
Contrary to its promises of equality and justice, the Boric administration has proven to be among the most right-wing governments of Latin America's so-called Pink Tide.
The struggle at Refap raises the possibility of a major strike during the first months of the Workers Party (PT) administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Regimes in four geopolitical and economic nodal points of the continent, with a combined population of 343 million, have launched mass arrests, teargassed protestors, arrested major opposition leaders, and killed at least two protestors.
Across Africa, mass protests are being held in South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Senegal, as well as Kenya.
The deal deepens the treacherous role of the Arab bourgeoisie, which has now formally buried its own “two state” solution and confirms that the nationalist agenda championed by all sections of the Palestinian bourgeoisie provides no way forward for the workers and oppressed masses
Calls are growing for a national shut down in opposition to Eskom’s blackouts and electricity tariff hikes of 18.6 percent in April and another 12.7 percent next year.
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.
A health care worker in Michigan spoke to the WSWS about his own health and the impact of Long COVID on his ability to work and the way the condition is being dismissed by the health care industry.
An Auckland-based teacher told the WSWS how his increasingly severe Long COVID symptoms were misdiagnosed by doctors who said he had mental health issues. He said the government was allowing COVID to spread and ignoring the consequences for people’s health.
In this interview for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, Alberta nurse Kerry speaks on her experience with Long COVID and the unions’ complicity in enforcing the government’s “let it rip” pandemic policy.
This comment is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger in Sydney on 10 March to mark the launch in Australia of Davide Dormino’s sculpture of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, ‘Figures of Courage’.
The material in the German newspaper further substantiates claims that the US government has waged an illegal global campaign against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and their supporters.
The latest revelation demonstrates that while occasionally making vague statements about Assange’s plight, Labor is continuing the more than ten-year record of Australian governments collaborating in his persecution.
While there were important remarks from a number of journalists and whistleblowers, the tribunal was characterized by the bankrupt orientation of the “Progressive International” to the Biden administration and the Democratic Party.
Irvo Otieno was killed while being admitted to a hospital when police and hospital staff restrained him on the floor for 12 minutes.
Residents of the state’s third-largest city widely hate the police, who are notorious for their violence and corruption.
According to a recent County Commission report, violent deputy gangs remain rampant in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
The railcars in question are manufactured by National Steel Car (NSC), a company located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Norfolk Southern’s aim with the press release is to imply that these alleged defects could be the reason for the massive derailment in East Palestine.
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.
Neruda’s death took place 12 days after Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government was ousted in a bloody US-backed military coup.
Seventy years ago, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died at the age of 73. To the extent that the worst defeats of the working class in the 20th century can be attributed to the crimes and betrayals of an individual, that person is Stalin.
In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.
These remarks were delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Turkey, to a meeting of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at New York University on March 11, 2023.
The protest organisers have made no appeal to Israel’s Palestinian citizens, sharing the concern of a government made up of a far-right coalition of fascists, racists and ultra-Orthodox parties to assert their pro-Zionist credentials.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to Iraq on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 2003 US invasion amounted to a return to the scene of a world-historic crime.
These extra-judicial killings in broad daylight by the Middle East’s strongest war machine in a busy downtown area are nothing short of a war crime by the newly installed coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2023 and the controlled release and burn of vinyl chloride on February 6 have contaminated the village and large regions of the area with highly toxic chemicals with the potential for significant impact on the health of the population.
The meeting was the first time in the month since the February 3 derailment that an official representative from Norfolk Southern attended a town hall in East Palestine.
The poisoning of East Palestine, Ohio, is not merely an environmental catastrophe. It is a man-made disaster which raises fundamental questions about the structure of the society which produced it.
More disasters and more cover-ups are inevitable as long as social decision-making is left in the hands of a tiny capitalist oligarchy.
The conclusion of the second round of the UAW national officers’ election has proven definitively that the election was a fraud conducted with contempt for the rights of the rank-and-file membership.
The vote count will resume in Dayton, Ohio this week, with Shawn Fain holding a razor thin lead over incumbent UAW President Ray Curry.
The Caterpillar workers are in a fight that has major significance for the whole working class.
The large abstention in the second round of voting reflects the mass alienation of workers from the UAW apparatus.
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.
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
Fauci’s aim in lending credence to the conspiracy theory, which he knows to be a lie, is to distract attention from the antiscientific policies carried out under the Trump and Biden administrations that led to the deaths of over a million Americans.
The race-obsessed middle class layers which Hannah-Jones epitomizes are fundamentally fearful of and hostile to the growing movement of the working class. The last thing they want is for the party to end when there is yet so much money to be made.
The Times, which wishes readers to take the 1619 Project seriously as a “reframing of American history,” has said more than it intended.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
The discoveries include evidence that Oldowan tools were used to cut and pound animal flesh far earlier than previously known.
The most complete skull of Homo Erectus found in the east Asian region could well shed light on the complex evolutionary history of human beings.
The ability to disinfect indoor spaces remains a critical public health endeavor. Ultraviolet technology is an important tool that has been employed for more than a century. This report reviews the current issues behind air disinfection and the history of ultraviolet disinfection.
The latest and most dangerous subvariant of Omicron is leading to high levels of hospitalization across the Northeast. The winter surge of COVID will likely overtake the rest of the country over the next few weeks.
This five-part series and historical timeline exposes Snyder’s Bloodlands as a work of falsification, aimed at justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far-right.
It would be hard to find a previous election in Germany in which the gulf between the interests of the population and the politics of the established parties was as obvious as in the re-run of the Berlin state election last Sunday.
The following speech was given by Ulrich Rippert, the honorary chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and candidate in the Berlin state elections, at the SGP's rally against the war in Ukraine on February 4 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
Against the war madness and social devastation, a powerful movement of the working class is developing all over the world. The SGP election campaign has given it a voice and a socialist perspective.
We publish here an appeal by Ulaş Ateşçi to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) in the Berlin elections on February 12. Ateşçi is a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey.
Watch and share the powerful video of Will Lehman, a second-tier worker at Mack trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania, explaining the basis of his campaign for UAW president, accompanied by statements of support from workers across the US and Mexico.
These are the concluding remarks by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the December 10 rally, “For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine!” organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
The rally on December 10 set out the background to the Ukraine war and provided an international perspective against the threat of nuclear war.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
Latin American countries, with deep economic and political ties to both the US and China, will necessarily be drawn into the center of the developing global war.
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.
In his March 5 column, the ex-left journalist continued his political adaption to the far right.
A scathing, and as-of-yet still unreleased Inspector General report on the Architect of the Capitol, revealed that James Brett Blanton, Trump-appointed member of the Capitol Police Board refused to respond during the siege.
The arrests indicate the significant level of support Trump’s coup, and fascism, have within the US military.
As evidence continues to accumulate against Solomon Peña, the failed Republican state House candidate turned shooter, Democrats issue calls to “agree to disagree.”
The Australian meetings—in Melbourne and Newcastle—attracted youth, students and workers, both in person and watching live online from around the country.
The cancellation of the event with Medea Benjamin is an attempt to suppress antiwar sentiments among workers and young people and constitutes an attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class.
The struggle must be expanded through the formation of rank-and-file committees representing all sections of the campus workforce and the students.
Canada’s state-owned national broadcaster is trumpeting a foul right-wing smear campaign aimed at silencing any voices critical of the US-NATO instigated war with Russia over Ukraine–a war in which Canadian imperialism is playing an especially provocative role.
The SEP held an online memorial meeting to pay tribute to the life of Regina Lohr, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 66.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution states, “The international working class must take the lead in the fight to free Assange. It is the sole constituency for the defence of democratic rights, and it alone has the power to wrest the WikiLeaks founder from his captors.”
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), is the democratic organ of international working-class struggle in the 21st century.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution explains: "The two alternatives posed before mankind are either unending mass infection, debilitation and death, or the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and implementation of a policy of global elimination, to end all human-to-human transmission of COVID-19."
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.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ruled against every single one of Lake’s claims and noted in his decision that none of Lake’s witnesses could point to any intentional misconduct or evidence of a single vote that was changed.
The US midterms have set the stage for two years of legislative stalemate—except when it comes to funneling billions into the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and passing record Pentagon budgets, or enacting dictatorial laws blocking strikes and imposing corporate-dictated contracts on workers, as with last week’s bipartisan vote banning a strike by rail workers.
The same right-wing forces in Arizona that backed Trump’s failed coup and his stolen election narrative are inciting violence against election officials more than a week after all but one of the major races has been decided.
The indeterminate outcome has already led to back-biting within both capitalist parties.
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.
These remarks were delivered by Tomas Castanheira to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Christoph Vandreier to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
These remarks were delivered by Deepal Jayasekera to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
Eighty-two years ago, 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.
This report was given by Clara Weiss to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution, “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
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.
This is the report delivered by Joseph Kishore to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Kishore is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
This is the report delivered by Tom Peters to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Peters is a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, which is fighting to build a section of the ICFI.
This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Link is a leading member in Germany of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, the youth movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties.
This is the report delivered by Cheryl Crisp to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Crisp is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia.
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.
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
Labor claims to have suddenly discovered that the budget situation is “dire” so “significant savings” must be found and “productivity” driven up with the help of the trade unions.
Labor, before it has even secured a majority government, is on a foreign policy blitz aimed at shoring-up US and Australian hegemony over the Pacific.
The outcome reflects, in distorted electoral terms, a political radicalisation of workers and young people that is already finding expression in a development of working class struggles.
Autoworker and grandmother Catherine Pace died on March 27, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in the paint department at the Warren Truck Plant outside Detroit, then operated by Fiat-Chrysler, now Stellantis.
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
Twitter owner and fascistic billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged late Thursday that he had shut down the accounts of numerous prominent journalists earlier in the day, claiming falsely that they had violated a new policy on the platform against “doxxing."
Media outlets and technology experts are warning that Twitter may collapse or go bankrupt following the mass exodus of another 1,200 employees from the company.
In a rational society, a platform like Twitter would be publicly owned, but under capitalism it has become the plaything of a single billionaire oligarch, and a fascistic buffoon to boot.
Los Angeles County health officials reported last week that a man infected with monkeypox had passed away. An investigation is underway to determine the virus’ contribution to his death.
A severely immunocompromised adult male died in Houston on Sunday. Public health officials said he was infected with monkeypox. Still, they stopped short of connecting the infection as a contributory factor in his death, stating they did not know what role the virus played in his demise.
The UAW has remained silent on the spread of monkeypox in the plants, in line with its efforts to cover up the disastrous toll COVID-19 has had on workers.
The CDC’s cursory guidance posted as answers to Frequently Asked Questions only downplays and minimizes the concerns working families have about the safety of schools for their children.
The June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.
In his introduction to the International May Day Online Rally, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North reviews the historical origins of the US-NATO war drive against Russia and outlines the political strategy of the working class to oppose the danger of World War III.
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the British ruling class has lost its popular head of state on which it has relied to project the myth of national unity and suppress social conflict.
In its adulation of Queen Elizabeth and all the pageantry of the British monarchy, the newspaper responsible for publishing the 1619 Project has entangled itself in many layers of contradictions.
The significance of Elizabeth II’s funeral is well illustrated by reference to a previous British royal funeral, more than a century earlier, that of Edward VII.
What was being celebrated at Westminster Hall is the ability of Britain’s imperialist bourgeoisie to utilise the monarchy as a means of sanctifying and reinforcing its own power.
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.
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.
This shameful campaign reached new heights Tuesday when concerted efforts were made to prevent Comaroff from teaching. Provocations were organized both inside and outside the classroom.
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
John Comaroff, professor of African and African American studies and of anthropology at Harvard University, has become the target of what has all the earmarks of another filthy #MeToo witch-hunt.
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.
The US military published a series of documents Thursday outlining US plans for war with Russia and China, and asserting the central role of nuclear weapons in US warfighting.
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Steinmeier's remarks to invited soldiers, journalists, think tank representatives and leading politicians can only be described as a “war speech to the nation.” The focus was de facto a declaration of war on Russia and the Russian population.
The Afghan withdrawal represented a debacle for US imperialism, which based its policy throughout thirty years of uninterrupted wars, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1990-91, on the conviction that military force could overcome Washington’s precipitous economic decline.
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 Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion on the Soviet Union.
Around 3,000 officers from the special police forces stormed 137 locations in 11 federal states on Wednesday morning and arrested 25 people. Another 27 people are being investigated. The state prosecutor has accused them of being members or supporters of a terrorist organisation.
Regardless of whether the pending investigations can demonstrate that the agents gave the impetus to the planned terrorist attacks, a picture emerges of a right-wing extremist milieu organized and controlled by the state.
While right-wing extremist terrorist networks operate unhindered in Germany’s state apparatus and are covered up by the highest authorities, federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) has called for a fight against alleged “left-wing extremists” and young climate change activists.
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.
The Monitor’s denial of Lehman's protest exemplifies the fraudulent character of the election and reveals the total contempt with which the UAW, the federal courts, and the Monitor view the democratic rights of the working class.
The conquest and occupation of Iraq is one of the greatest crimes of the 21st century.
Macron’s decision to impose pension cuts on the French people without a vote has torn the democratic mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as instrument of class rule.
The transparently political action by the International Criminal Court takes place amidst ever more open statements from US and NATO officials that the aim of the war is regime change in Moscow.
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.
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 .
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.
The fathers of two of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster are campaigning for the release of documents and correspondence relating to a 2013 decision to drop charges against Pike River CEO Peter Whittall.
Police have made no guarantee that there will be any prosecution for the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster, which killed 29 workers.
The Labour Party government’s promises to “be upfront” and “empower” the survivors of catastrophic events are a fraud, as the experience of the Pike River victims’ families makes clear.
In 2013, Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall made an unsolicited and unlawful payment to the 29 families of the 2010 mine disaster, in exchange for the New Zealand government dropping charges against him.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl’s books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.
Drawing on original historical records, Geraldine Brooks has written an absorbing account of how a small village tried to combat the bubonic plague in 17th century England.
The American writer Russell Banks, who wrote about the lives of working-class people and historical figures such as John Brown, died on January 3 at the age of 82.
With a couple of exceptions, the editor has chosen stories that in their form, language and examination of thematic ideas are highly accomplished, even if the collection as a whole bumps its head against certain objective limits.
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.
