The UK High Court is greenlighting a prosecution, in open defiance of the American constitution and international law, of a journalist for exposing monstrous criminal wrongdoing by the US government and military.
At least six Amazon workers died after a warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois received a direct hit. In Kentucky, a tornado struck an occupied candle factory in the city of Mayfield, with 100 workers in it.
Prior to his public declaration to cease complying with the committee investigating the January 6 attack, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows turned over the 36-slide coup presentation to Congress.
With the backing of the Biden administration, the government of Voldymyr Zelensky continues to make a series of hostile decisions leading his country to war with Russia.
The average family faces $4,000 more in annual expenses than one year ago.
The latest surge in cases has already pushed hospitals across the Midwest and Northeast past their capacity.
Even prior to the arrival of Omicron, experts were warning that this winter’s Delta surge could overwhelm the country’s hospitals.
The short, eight-sentence statement is a clear sign of the nervousness within ruling circles that the move by Kellogg’s could trigger a social explosion within the working class.
While the IBEW had until March 2022 to negotiate before the expiration of the contract, they opted instead to call a snap vote on the exact same contract workers rejected last week.
An ardent reactionary, the Republican senator and presidential candidate is now treated as a political paragon.
The catastrophic accident in southern Mexico came as Washington renews its “stay in Mexico” policy and the Mexican government collaborates in the repression of migrants.
The TNA and the GTF are acting as quislings of US imperialism, seeking privileges for the Tamil elite.
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
The entire episode is a particularly foul expression of the consequences of race-based affirmative action, which is irreconcilably at odds with the interests of working people and the fight for social equality.
The prosecution rested on Friday in the trial of Maxwell, the girlfriend and assistant of Jeffrey Epstein, after calling Annie Farmer, the last of four witnesses who say they were sexually abused as underage teenagers by the deceased billionaire and his confidante.
As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 spreads globally, the Biden administration in the US and capitalist governments globally are approaching the pandemic with criminal recklessness.
The function of Biden’s summit is to escalate global pressure on Russia and China while dressing this up as a defense of “democracy” against “autocracy.”
Whether the SEP is registered or not, the party will stand candidates in the looming federal election to take out to the broadest possible audience the fight for socialism and the overturn of capitalism.
The latest bipartisan bill deepens the attack on basic democratic rights made when the two ruling parties joined hands in August to rush through party deregistration laws.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government is defying a legal ruling that the self-titled National Cabinet is not exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
“The Coalition, the ALP and the Greens want to consolidate their own power. It’s being done from a position of weakness, not strength”
The lifting of all serious social distancing measures has led to an explosion of new COVID-19 cases, which is now beginning to overwhelm the medical system.
Delta infections are growing, Omicron is spreading and Australian governments are lifting the few public health safety restrictions that remain.
Last month, the WSWS initiated a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. It is diametrically opposed to the political orientation of the People’s Covid Inquiry.
The Irish government has re-introduced minimal restrictions in the face of around 5,000 new COVID cases daily with 530 patients hospitalised and 115 in intensive care.
At the meeting, nurses, educators, workers and students presented a terrible picture of the consequences of the official coronavirus policies.
Sarah received her threatening letter on December 8, the same day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty held a press conference on the rapid spread of the new Omicron variant.
Despite the spread of Omicron, state governments are keeping the schools open with less than two weeks before the scheduled end of term.
The Teachers-Students-Parents Safety Committee (TSPSC) in Sri Lanka condemns the threatening of Lisa Diaz in Britain with prosecution and the Family Court over her daughter’s school attendance. These actions must be denounced by parents, teachers and students all over the world as they are a major attack on fundamental democratic rights and the basic parental instinct to protect one’s children.
Whatever the case may be with the outcome of the vote, the process itself made a mockery of democratic process.
The shocking tragedy occurred shortly before the start of the evening shift on Monday, leading to cancellation of production on the Jeep Gladiator line.
ACCB workers are fighting against a ruthless cost-cutting campaign to axe pensions and health care benefits, despite risking their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Flight attendants from a number of airlines spoke about the toxic working conditions that they have been subjected to by their employers and the airline unions.
If Unite’s presentation that it is waging a “pushback” on behalf of workers had any element of truth, the Johnson government would by now be confronting an unprecedented strike wave with Graham the subject of a corporate media witch-hunt.
Over its two-year term the deal works out as a year-on-year pay increase of 3.05 percent—barely above the 3 percent deal imposed at Arriva North West after Unite repeatedly blocked strike action.
The axis of German politics has shifted far to the right under the Christian Democratic chancellor.
The coalition of the Social Democrats, Free Democrats and Greens (Red, Yellow and Green in their party colours) will aggressively pursue a right-wing foreign and domestic policy, including enforcing mass infection in the pandemic.
The US Department of Justice, Pentagon and CIA are determined that Assange rots in jail for revealing their crimes.
Stella Moris, the fiancée of Julian Assange, made the following impassioned statement demanding his freedom outside the High Court in London.
As a British court prepares to hand down its ruling on a US appeal seeking Assange’s extradition, the American authorities are stymying a Spanish investigation into their illegal spying and other dirty tricks against the WikiLeaks founder.
The Australian authorities did nothing when they were repeatedly told that Assange’s life was in danger.
The eight-episode series is a devastating indictment of the American pharmaceutical industry. Nearly 1 million people have died in the US since 1999 from drug overdoses and over 70 percent of such deaths have involved an opioid.
The news of the film’s distribution is very welcome, but it in no way diminishes the foul attempt by MGM and the Hollywood establishment generally to “bury” Minamata, along with its star, Johnny Depp.
Gulpilil was “discovered” by British film director Nicolas Roeg, who needed a young Aboriginal dancer for Walkabout, his ground-breaking 1971 dramatic feature.
Racialists and nationalists oppose the progressive views defended by this classic musical.
The governors of New York, Maine and New Hampshire have issued orders mobilizing teams of the National Guard to assist hospitals and other health care facilities with managing the present record surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Parents and teachers called for a return to remote instruction after Jonl Bush, a special education classroom assistant in Chicago, died on November 26, and cases throughout the district increase dramatically.
The 79-year-old Stouffer was executed Thursday morning, making him the oldest inmate in the state’s history to be put to death.
The emergency removal of over half the transit authority’s rail cars in October has exposed the dangers which the region’s political establishment had been willing to expose the public to in order to keep the economy running.
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened the financial gap between rich and poor around the world to levels not seen since the early 20th century.
The BIS managing director pointed to one of the fundamental contradictions of all capitalist markets: what may be rational behaviour for an individual participant can be irrational for the system as a whole.
The unprecedented high level of cost of living and the raging pandemic in Turkey are driving mounting social discontent in the working class.
A restructuring process has begun after the debt-ridden property developer announced it feared it could not meet a $260 million financial obligation.
The publication of pseudo-left and “liberal” commentators advances the fascist lies that have been used to justify the murder of two men, and attempted murder of a third, at a protest against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The murder of nine activists in simultaneous police raids in March followed the orders of President Duterte, who told the military to “Kill them! Don’t mind human rights!”
The security forces’ killing spree began late afternoon Saturday, when an Indian Army Special Forces unit ambushed a pick-up truck that was conveying coal miners to their homes after a day of hard work.
The boycott is one element of the aggressive US strategy of confronting China on all fronts over the past decade, including a military build-up throughout the Indo-Pacific in preparation for war.
The struggles of nonwhite South African artists in the 1950s and 60s are well-documented. A talented collection of musicians and singers began to emerge across the country during this period.
Nearly nine years after France invaded Mali, opposition to the French-led European military presence is reaching explosive levels across the region.
South Africa’s third wave was the result of inadequate safety measures implemented by the governments around the world in the interest of reopening the economy. President Ramaphosa is now declaring that even those limited mitigation measures are unacceptable.
Initial indications are that an unusual constellation of mutations makes the variant far more infectious than the Delta variant and potentially vaccine-resistant.
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.
The assault on Memorial, should it be successful, would have chilling consequences. Anyone doing historical research into the crimes of Stalinism and the history of the socialist movement will have to fear immediate state reprisals.
In the strike-turned-lockout, Deere workers showed enormous determination to defend their jobs and living standards, while the UAW did everything to undermine and sabotage their fight.
An ardent reactionary, the Republican senator and presidential candidate is now treated as a political paragon.
In a letter released Tuesday, Meadows lawyer, George Terwilliger, stated Meadows would “decline the opportunity to appear voluntarily for a deposition.”
The entire episode exposes the real character and political function of the DSA as a faction of the Democratic Party.
Kshama Sawant faces an attack from the right, with sections of the Democratic Party and unions focusing on her involvement in anti-police violence protests last summer, as well as her proposal for a meager tax on Amazon.
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.
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
Though Holton conceded the major historical point, he used the debate to attack Wood over the latter’s criticism of the 1619 Project.
The 1619 Project creator will join writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in founding the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard with $20 million in funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
The 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.
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) passed a resolution Monday condemning the ruling of the Berlin Administrative Court, which on November 18, 2021, upheld the designation of the German security service of the German section of the ICFI as “left wing extremists”.
The court’s ruling against the Socialist Equality Party stands in the tradition of National Socialist ideological jurisprudence and Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws, and opens the door for the surveillance and suppression of all opposition to capitalism and arbitrary state power.
Christoph Vandreier, the deputy chairman of the Socialist Equality Party, defended the right to advocate for the socialist transformation of society in a speech at the Berlin Administrative Court on November 18.
The deputy chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the importance of the lawsuit against the surveillance of the party by the German secret service.
As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak “theory.”
In the most systematic defense of the Wuhan lab libel to date, Matt Ridley proves only the falsehood of his bad-faith attack on science.
The commission advocated by the Washington Post will be aimed at shielding the government and corporate officials responsible for the deaths of more than one million Americans, while scapegoating China for the pandemic.
In a letter to the National Institutes of Health made public Thursday, zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance refuted claims that his organization failed to keep the US government appraised of coronavirus research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Workers have said the company and UAW are indifferent to the ongoing spread of COVID-19, which is surging in the Midwest.
Deere is projecting that it will set yet another record for profits next year, exploding the claim by company and union executives that there was no more money available to meet workers’ demands.
The conflict between rank-and-file workers and the UAW is being swept under the rug and deliberately concealed by organizations which have long functioned as apologists for the pro-corporate union bureaucracies.
As 10,000 John Deere workers have begun to return to plants and warehouses in recent days following the shutdown of their five-week-long strike, anger has remained high at the United Auto Workers union.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
The judges effectively cleared the way for universities to dismiss staff for criticising management or breaching confidentiality rules.
The letter aims to intimidate all those who oppose the strictures of racial and identity politics and their enforcement by institutionalized thought police by branding them as “racist.”
The open letter from UM faculty takes a principled stand in defense of Sheng, demanding that the university reinstate Sheng to his undergraduate course in composition and make a public apology both for the sanctions taken against him and the outrageous charges of racism.
After workers voted to reject the local contract at both the Dana Fort Wayne, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky plants, the United Steelworkers is keeping them in the dark on the status of a possible renegotiation of the agreement.
On top of taxes, the USW and UAW are “entitled” to a 1.45 and 1.7 percent cut, respectively, of the signing bonuses. This means that the two unions made more than $150,000 in instant cash just for getting the contract passed, on top of monthly union dues.
Now is the time for Dana workers to join Deere workers and all auto workers to overturn the fraudulent contracts signed by the UAW in recent months and years.
The revelation sparked outrage among full-time Dana workers at management and the UAW and USW unions, who had bullied them into accepting a contract with wages far below what Dana has been compelled to pay temps to maintain production.
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.
Xiomara Castro’s ditching of her campaign pledge to establish diplomatic ties to Beijing is a signal of the incoming government’s subordination to US imperialism.
International and historical experience demonstrates that once in power, the pseudo-left abandons all pretense of reform, bowing to the international financial and corporate elite.
The victory of Xiomara Castro brings to an end a dozen years of rule by the National Party, which consolidated its grip on power through a US-backed coup in 2009.
The tragedy could have been reduced to a minimum if it were not for the criminal policy of Peru’s central government, which abandons the regions furthest from the capital.
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.
This letter, by Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North, responds to Twitter posts by DSA leaders in support of the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of Stalin’s secret police.
Historian Victoria Bynum issued the following statement demanding the DSA repudiate and apologize for the leadership’s coordinated celebration of the assassination of Trotsky and discipline those responsible.
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
The Socialist Equality Party and WSWS call on Wissler and the Left Party to publicly condemn the DSA leaders’ Twitter posts and other media publications celebrating Trotsky’s assassination.
The US Surgeon General reports that symptoms of depression and anxiety have doubled.
The administration has refused to reveal the contents of the agreement that has ended the protest against unsanitary dorms at the historically black college in Washington D.C.
The letter gives voice to the sentiments of students and young people, especially year 12 students, who are being forced to sit major exams as COVID continues to spread, with students being provided no additional support.
The attempt by administrators to blame student protesters for the layoff of school cafeteria workers is a provocative attack on the rights of workers and students alike and must be actively opposed.
The UK High Court is greenlighting a prosecution, in open defiance of the American constitution and international law, of a journalist for exposing monstrous criminal wrongdoing by the US government and military.
As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 spreads globally, the Biden administration in the US and capitalist governments globally are approaching the pandemic with criminal recklessness.
The WSWS urges workers everywhere to come to the defense of strikers at Kellogg’s in the US, who are being threatened with being permanently replaced by management after they overwhelmingly rejected a sellout contract.
In boycotting the Winter Olympics in Beijing, US President Joe Biden is pointing his finger at China from atop a mountain of corpses.
Washington’s provocations have been accompanied by increasingly bellicose threats and actions by Israel.
Since its founding, the DSA has functioned as a faction of the American foreign policy establishment, promoting “democratic” and “humanitarian” imperialism.
The unprecedented high level of cost of living and the raging pandemic in Turkey are driving mounting social discontent in the working class.
Mohamed Shekha Ahmad’s harrowing account exposes the contempt for human life that prevails at top levels of the French and British state.
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
With the lawsuit filed by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei against the Federal Republic of Germany set to be heard in court in the coming days, more than 5,300 workers and young people have expressed their support for the SGP’s case and its fight to defend democratic rights.
The working class must organise an offensive against the government’s austerity measures, independent of the trade unions, pseudo lefts and so-called opposition parties, and based on socialist policies.
The SEP’s campaign against the state of emergency is receiving significant support from workers in various sectors, including from the education, health services and plantation action committees established under the party’s guidance.
Saturday’s meeting, which was addressed by leading members of the SEPs of Canada, the United States, and Germany, advanced a fighting program for the working class.
The TNA and the GTF are acting as quislings of US imperialism, seeking privileges for the Tamil elite.
With the backing of the Biden administration, the government of Voldymyr Zelensky continues to make a series of hostile decisions leading his country to war with Russia.
As the White House rejects sending free COVID-19 tests to Americans because it would “cost” too much, the US House of Representatives has made it clear there will be no limits on military spending.
Washington’s provocations have been accompanied by increasingly bellicose threats and actions by Israel.
The facile equation of COVID and the flu made by right-wing politicians are lies on both sides of the comparison. The flu is nothing to trifle with, but COVID is infinitely worse, a brutal killer with incalculable consequences even for those who survive its initial ravages.
The world’s major capitalist powers and giant corporations have no solution to the climate emergency they have created.
The past two years have seen a series of escalating climate disasters in all regions of the globe, including massive wildfires from the Australian bush to the American west, devastating flooding in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and deadly heatwaves the world over.
The probe is slated to study eight asteroids in the main asteroid belt and among Jupiter’s trojans as part of a campaign to more closely study the origins of Earth and the other planets in the Solar System.
Prior to his public declaration to cease complying with the committee investigating the January 6 attack, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows turned over the 36-slide coup presentation to Congress.
In a letter released Tuesday, Meadows lawyer, George Terwilliger, stated Meadows would “decline the opportunity to appear voluntarily for a deposition.”
Colonel Earl Matthews, the legal adviser to then D.C. National Guard Commander William Walker, accused senior military leadership of falsifying timelines in order to cover for their deliberate delay in sending reinforcements to the besieged Capitol.
Meadows is the highest-ranking former Trump official to begin handing over documentation and agree to testify before the Committee.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Eric London, a writer for the WSWS and author of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
The discovery sparked anger among some families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims, and supporters, who questioned why the Labour Party-led government had sealed the mine, preventing the recovery of the 29 men who died.
The television documentary sets out to justify the government’s decision to abandon the underground investigation of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and for which no one has been held accountable.
The media has blacked out the widespread opposition to the New Zealand Labour Party government’s decision to seal Pike River mine that prevents a thorough investigation and accountability for the deaths of 29 men in the 2010 disaster.
The Labour Party-led government is close to permanently sealing Pike River mine, ending the underground investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 men, for which no one has been held accountable.
The Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has intensified the bipartisan drive to clamp down on left-wing and socialist political content on social media platforms.
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
We are calling on Reddit members to demand that the moderators of r/coronavirus and r/politics halt the McCarthyite blacklisting of content links from the World Socialist Web Site .
Jones’s suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
In this video, Peter Ross Range speaks with WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North about his new book on Hitler's rise to power and its contemporary relevance.
In the most systematic defense of the Wuhan lab libel to date, Matt Ridley proves only the falsehood of his bad-faith attack on science.
American capitalism has systematically disenfranchised the poorest and most exploited sections of the working class.
The recent book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reconstructs Trump’s efforts to overthrow American democracy, leading up to the attack on the Capitol last January 6.
