The overwhelming rejection of the UAW’s attempted sellout by a powerful contingent of industrial workers is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of working-class militancy, which is assuming the form of an insurgency against the UAW and other AFL-CIO affiliated unions.
The cutoff of unemployment benefits is aimed at lowering wages in the face of rising inflation and blackmailing the jobless into accepting dangerous work as the pandemic continues to claim hundreds of lives daily.
NATO concluded its summit Monday with a communique targeting China as a “systemic challenge” to the military alliance.
Lapid was tasked with forming a government after Netanyahu, who despite heading the largest party—Likud—in the March 23 elections, the fourth in two years, failed to do so.
This is an open letter from the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee at the New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Virginia, to UAW International President Rory Gamble, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry and UAW Local 2069 President Matt Blondino.
The driver, 35-year-old Nicholas David Kraus from neighboring St. Paul, was arrested and is being held without bail on a charge of vehicular manslaughter.
The April 3 shooting by Douglas County Deputy Christopher Lippolis was declared justified in a finding released by the district attorney’s office earlier this month.
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 .
That a Conservative government so determined to end the “last lockdown” on “Freedom Day” in a week’s time has been forced to make even such a limited gesture points to the serious dangers posed to the working class by the resurgent pandemic.
Anyone who gets the impression that the pandemic is over needs to know: This impression is expressly what the establishment parties want.
Indian authorities are directly responsible for the death of the worker-militant Jiyalal at just 35 years of age, having callously refused to provide him with proper medical care even after his cancer diagnosis.
La Izquierda Diario has provided a left cover for a US imperialist operation aimed at subjecting Mexican workers to Washington’s hegemonic interests.
This is part of an international shift to the far right of the ruling class as it confronts growing resistance to its murderous herd immunity policy, wars and social inequality.
North Alabama AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer wrote: “Imagine thinking that it’d be wise for an organization representing tens of thousands of workers to liquidate all of its assets for a single strike. Clueless.”
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.
Workers at Nexteer in Saginaw, Michigan, who build steering systems for General Motors and other automakers, recently had a sellout contract pushed through by the United Auto Workers without adequate discussion and over massive rank-and-file opposition.
University workers, themselves facing unprecedented attacks on jobs and conditions, facilitated by the trade union covering them, welcome the stand taken by the Volvo workers in Virginia.
To develop a strategy for a successful struggle, striking Volvo Trucks workers in Dublin, Virginia must have the clearest picture of the international corporation and the allies they have across the US and the world to fight it.
The union is refusing to provide striking workers with the resources they need, despite sitting on over a billion dollars in assets and nearly $790 million in a strike fund.
Despite warnings from virologists of a looming increase in COVID-19 infections, governments at the federal and state levels in Germany are largely dismantling all public health restrictions.
Officials in Moscow and Saint Petersburg announced a week’s worth of limited restrictions, as infections in Russia surge well past the peak reached at the onset of the pandemic and vaccinations stall.
Last month, Amazon announced it would no longer require masks in its facilities even as it continues to hide the total reported number of COVID-19 infections.
In Turkey, the country with the fifth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, restrictions are being lifted and schools are reopening.
Striking Olymel workers visited the Exceldor workers’ picket line earlier this month in an act of class solidarity that the unions have belittled.
One labour hire operator wrote: “Women need to see themselves like men, men need to see themselves like beasts, beasts need to see themselves as robots.”
About 12,000 nurses in the Canadian province of Manitoba have voted in favor of strike action while a protest in Buenos Aires by social groups demanding jobs, decent wages and vaccinations was met by tear gas.
Clearly sensing that the union was in danger of losing control over the rank and file, high profile members of the Democratic Party and trade union apparatus were sent out to speak at a rally over the weekend which was organized by the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) trade union.
La Izquierda Diario has provided a left cover for a US imperialist operation aimed at subjecting Mexican workers to Washington’s hegemonic interests.
In a criminal maneuver, the educators’ unions in São Paulo ended the four-month strike against the homicidal reopening of schools as the pandemic approaches a third wave in Brazil.
Even as Pedro Castillo sought to calm markets by guaranteeing private property and foreign debt payments, supporters of his opponent Keiko Fujimori have talked of a military coup.
The policies of AMLO and his government as to the COVID pandemic have been nothing short of criminal, resulting in at least a half a million excess deaths.
The state’s unemployment benefit system currently ranks dead last in the country for speed in resolving appeals for assistance.
The Chemtool production facilities, owned by Lubrizol, are reported to contain some of the largest grease reactors in the world and the plant in Rockton is one of its largest sites.
As part of the drive by the ruling class to blackmail workers back into dangerous and low-paying factories and work locations, four states ended federal unemployment benefits over the weekend, nearly three months before they are set to expire nationally.
Then-White House counsel Don McGahn and his wife were among those apparently targeted in the leak investigation launched under pressure from Trump.
Despite his failure to secure a one-on-one meeting with Biden, Morrison declared the G7 meeting a victory for the US and Australia against Beijing.
The Queensland Labor government gave Anglo American the go ahead to recommence production before even releasing the final report into the gas blast that left five workers seriously injured.
Accidents like the one in Gwangju are rife throughout the country, as companies regularly cut costs by ignoring safety.
The port city project is a component of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, a geo-strategic plan aimed at countering the US-led efforts to encircle China.
The film’s three interconnected segments deal with the drug business, legal and illegal. One of the narrative strands is particularly hard-hitting and compelling, pointing to the profiteering and homicidal operations of the giant pharmaceutical companies.
Globally recognised artist Ai Weiwei has said the decision by British visual arts organisation Firstsite to exclude an artwork invited from him is an attempt to silence his continued support for Julian Assange.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected the careers of thousands of artist in the American Midwest, many of whom have had to drastically curtail their activities and seen their incomes sharply reduced.
The film is competent, sensitive, well-intentioned. Why is it so unsatisfying?
The haste with which the UK establishment has fallen behind Washington recalls the illegal and criminal 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was similarly prepared by lies.
Despite the accelerating spread of the virus, Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government intends to end the mask mandate in public spaces by the end of June.
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.
Ex-president Donald Trump appeared as the keynote speaker of the state Republican Party convention in North Carolina Saturday night, embracing the lies against China that have dominated the American corporate media for the past two weeks.
In addition to the Shiptons, the panel featured journalist Chris Hedges, prominent musician and Assange supporter Roger Waters, comedian Randy Credico as well as Aaron Maté from the Grayzone website.
Globally recognised artist Ai Weiwei has said the decision by British visual arts organisation Firstsite to exclude an artwork invited from him is an attempt to silence his continued support for Julian Assange.
Craig Murray has been refused leave to appeal his conviction for contempt of court to the UK Supreme Court. Murray was found in contempt for his reporting of the trial former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond during a bitter factional feud in the Scottish National Party.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subjected to more than a decade of vicious uninterrupted persecution by the imperialist powers. He is currently in London’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison, fighting extradition to the US.
25 years ago: New Democratic Party selects business ally Howard Hampton as leaderOn June 21-23, 1996, the Ontario wing of Canada’s New Democratic Party met in Hamilton to select a successor to former Premier Bob Rae, who headed a first-ever NDP government in Ontario that was so right-wing and anti-working class that it was overwhelmingly defeated in the 1995 provincial elections. The union-based party nonetheless moved further to the right, selecting pro-business candidate Howard Hampton as its new party leader.
Ruth, a working class white man from rural Tennessee, risked his life to help end Jim Crow segregation.
Cliff Slaughter, que entre 1957 e 1985 desempenhou um papel de liderança no Comitê Internacional da Quarta Internacional e sua seção britânica, morreu na segunda-feira aos 92 anos de idade.
The English translation of Stalingrad will not only finally introduce a broad readership to a masterpiece of world literature, but it will also help new generations, especially young people, to understand the enormous impact of the October Revolution.
The government and the German trade union movement fear that in the face of growing class tensions, social struggles will develop that they can no longer control.
The Macron government is being driven solely by a concern for the resumption of economic and tourist activity, indifferent to the appearance of more deadly variants.
The interior minister in the state of Hesse dissolved the special operations unit after 20 officers shared Nazi symbols in a chat group and engaged in hate speech.
Craig Murray has been refused leave to appeal his conviction for contempt of court to the UK Supreme Court. Murray was found in contempt for his reporting of the trial former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond during a bitter factional feud in the Scottish National Party.
While there is general support for the Fed’s policies within financial and media circles, there is rising criticism that the central bank risks setting off runaway inflation.
According to the World Bank, the pandemic has “deepened the challenges of food insecurity and rising food prices for many millions of people.”
ProPublica has published the first in a series of articles based on leaked Internal Revenue Service documents showing how the richest people on the planet avoid paying US income taxes.
So far, the official view at the Fed and the ECB is that price rises are transitory and the present levels of support for financial markets should be maintained, but there are concerns this could lead to major problems.
The junta and the interim government aim to suppress mounting opposition among working and toiling people across Mali to the French occupation of their country.
Greek workers’ 24-hour strikes against draconian labour laws; stoppages in hospitals across France over pay and staff shortages; trade unions betray Spanish bank workers’ dispute, accept 2,700 job losses; Lesotho garment workers enter third week of pay strike.
The wave of massacres spreading in the Sahel is the product of France’s eight-year war in Mali and similar imperialist interventions across the region.
Macron’s arrogant statement came shortly after a new putsch by Mali’s military junta removed the figurehead civilian president and prime minister it had installed.
SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias delivered this speech to an online May 30 public meeting organised by the SEP.
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
Only an international, scientific health strategy can defeat this highly contagious virus, which ignores borders and passports and infects people of all nationalities.
The following speech was delivered by SEP (Sri Lanka) Political Committee member M. Thevarajah to a May 30 meeting organized by the SEP in Sri Lanka.
A child of immigrants, Harris was entrusted with the dirty and, indeed, homicidal job of coordinating a multinational crackdown on immigration.
The IEA report’s authors note, “climate pledges by governments to date—even if fully achieved—would fall well short of what is required” to curb the harmful effects of global warming.
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.
Ex-president Donald Trump appeared as the keynote speaker of the state Republican Party convention in North Carolina Saturday night, embracing the lies against China that have dominated the American corporate media for the past two weeks.
The fringe right-wing parents’ group, whose members have close ties to charter schools, has established a non-profit to lobby for an even more aggressive opening of schools this fall.
While the Los Angeles school district and teachers union intensify their drive to bring children back into unsafe classrooms, opposition continues to mount among teachers, parents and students throughout the county.
The move to end remote learning throughout the state is part of a national campaign to declare an end to the pandemic and send children and workers back to unsafe schools and workplaces to increase the wealth of the superrich.
The firing of dual language kindergarten teacher Rachell Tucker took place after she had advocated for increased safety measures and the halting of in-person learning at her school amid the pandemic.
The Amazon BWI2 Independent Rank-and-File Safety Committee hereby affiliates itself with the IWA-RFC, and calls for our fellow Amazon workers to do the same.
At its latest online meeting, the Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey adopted two important resolutions.
The International Committee of the Fourth International will mark May Day with an online rally to issue a call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
We are publishing here the text of the opening report to the 2021 International Online May Day Rally delivered by David North.
The revealing talk by Dr. Aruna Khilanani exposes the inevitably reactionary trajectory of identity politics.
University of California lecturers living on poverty wages have voted 96 percent in favor of striking, while the American Federation of Teachers seeks to prevent any strike from taking place.
The NYU strike is an object lesson in pseudo-left politics.
NTEU Fightback’s “Clauses worth fighting for” urges union members to call for limited changes in individual university workplace agreements.
A former miner from Australia wrote: “Greed should never overshadow safety. 29 good men lost their lives at Pike River, justice should be served.”
Twenty-two of the 29 families of those who died in the 2010 Pike River disaster have launched legal action, a social media campaign and a petition opposing the New Zealand government’s decision to seal the mine.
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing statements from workers in Sri Lanka supporting the campaign for a full investigation of New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 men in 2010.
The government is preparing to permanently seal the mine and prevent a thorough investigation of the 2010 disaster which killed 29 men—a crime for which no one has been brought to justice.
Peker, who has boasted of his ties to US officials, is posting videos with detailed allegations of ties between the mafia and the Turkish political establishment.
Over the past week, the United States has massively expanded its conflict with China through a series of military, economic, diplomatic and propaganda initiatives aimed at strangling China’s economic development, demonizing it in the eyes of the world’s population and preparing for military conflict.
The United States and NATO are conducting massive military exercises in the Arctic and along Russia’s European frontier as anxieties grow in Moscow over the economic and political pressures it is facing.
With Conings still on the loose three weeks after threatening to kill virologists, the claim he acted as a lone individual is completely untenable.
Lapid was tasked with forming a government after Netanyahu, who despite heading the largest party—Likud—in the March 23 elections, the fourth in two years, failed to do so.
In Turkey, the country with the fifth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, restrictions are being lifted and schools are reopening.
Peker, who has boasted of his ties to US officials, is posting videos with detailed allegations of ties between the mafia and the Turkish political establishment.
Greek workers’ 24-hour strikes against draconian labour laws; stoppages in hospitals across France over pay and staff shortages; trade unions betray Spanish bank workers’ dispute, accept 2,700 job losses; Lesotho garment workers enter third week of pay strike.
Instead of a life-time appointment for her first academic position, Hannah-Jones was offered, and accepted, a fixed five-year sinecure with the possibility of tenure at the end of her term.
New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, lead author of the Times ’s “1619 Project,” was paid $25,000 for an online Zoom lecture given to the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
For its powerful explication of major themes related to the American Revolution, the Civil War and the emergence of the working class, this book will be of interest to all readers of American history, teachers, students and workers.
King’s call for integration of all the oppressed sections of the population is not welcome in California’s new identity-obsessed curriculum.
Dr. Didier Raoult has threatened legal action against the whistle-blower who challenged his claim that the anti-malarial drug was effective in treating COVID-19.
Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that the world’s leading scientists were engaged in a cover-up of the “Wuhan lab” origins of COVID-19.
The actual impact of the pandemic itself proves that COVID-19 and numerous diseases which threaten children and all of humanity can be eradicated.
The China National Space Administration achieved a new landmark in planetary exploration—having a successful orbiter, lander and rover as part of the agency’s first mission to Mars, an immense scientific and technical achievement.
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.
The WSWS Educators Newsletter continues to demand the readmission of Blake into the national BATs Facebook group and the right of socialists to voice their opinions in the forum, which claims to be left-wing.
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.
More significant than the new information in the 120-page report is what it leaves out. In order to obtain the support of the top Republicans on the two committees, the Democratic chairs agreed to omit any discussion of the role of the coup-plotter-in chief, Donald Trump.
The retired Army lieutenant general was speaking at an ultra-right conference in Dallas, Texas on the eve of Trump’s resumption of campaign-style political rallies.
The June 1, 2020 police attack outside the White House came as Trump threatened to mobilize the military to suppress demonstrations against police violence throughout the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
Senate Democrats failed to obtain the 60 votes needed to overturn a Republican filibuster blocking the formation of a bipartisan commission to investigate Trump’s coup attempt on January 6.
A discussion about the first time in history that the working class took power.
On April 3, the International Committee of the Fourth International held a meeting commemorating 150 years since the Paris Commune, the world’s first workers’ state.
On March 18, 1871, the armed working class districts of Paris rose up and established the first workers state in world history, the Paris Commune.
This essay by Leon Trotsky was first published in French as a preface to the book by C. Talès, La Commune de 1871. It was written in the town of Zlatoust, on February 4, 1921, in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Paris Commune.
Armed Paris was the only serious obstacle in the way of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Paris was, therefore, to be disarmed.
Mehring Books Australia will feature works by the great socialist fighters and theoreticians of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Georgi Plekhanov and Rosa Luxemburg.
The international working class alone is capable of halting the drive to war, as it is the only social force able to overthrow capitalism and its outmoded system of rival nation-states.
We are publishing here the text of the opening report to the 2021 International Online May Day Rally delivered by David North.
On Saturday, April 3, the WSWS hosted an international online meeting to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871.
World Socialist Web Site writer Eric London appeared yesterday on comedian Lee Camp’s livestream program to discuss the WSWS’s coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s defense of Joe Biden and attacks on socialism.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
What was most significant in the panel was the interaction between Scalice and the second speaker, Walden Bello, who has a prominent international reputation as a figure of the left and an opponent of globalization.
Scalice demonstrated that the “overwhelming weight of evidence” suggested that the Communist Party of the Philippines was responsible for the bombing and indicted its claims that fascism and martial law are “good for revolution.”
In a desperate bid to turn people away from this week’s lecture, Marco Valbuena, Chief Information Officer of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has again slandered Scalice as operating on behalf of the CIA.
“The honest assessment of history is the bedrock of revolutionary politics. Falsifications and slander, on the other hand, are the primary weapons of Stalinism.”
To mark the anniversary of the 2011 revolution in Egypt, we present a selection of key statements and analyses produced by the WSWS in the course of the events of that year and their aftermath.
The WSWS has been relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
The 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.
The cutoff of unemployment benefits is aimed at lowering wages in the face of rising inflation and blackmailing the jobless into accepting dangerous work as the pandemic continues to claim hundreds of lives daily.
While spending trillions on their armed forces, the world’s wealthiest countries refused to do anything to seriously combat the pandemic, which is claiming millions of lives.
The monstrous rise of social inequality in the face of mass death, combined with declining wages, is creating the conditions for a massive growth of class struggle in the United States and internationally.
As the United States passes the milestone of 600,000 deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling class is abandoning all efforts to contain the disease.
Political scientist Timothy Frye argues that the crude and facile character of the anti-Russia crusade in the Western media is causing misunderstandings about the Kremlin and Russian society that could result in tactical mistakes and missed opportunities to promote regime change.
The English translation of Stalingrad will not only finally introduce a broad readership to a masterpiece of world literature, but it will also help new generations, especially young people, to understand the enormous impact of the October Revolution.
Burhan Qurbani has directed a new film adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s remarkable novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz, first published in 1929. The German filmmaker has relocated the action from crisis-ridden Weimar Germany to the present day.
Bailey’s book, likely to be the standard work on Roth’s life for some time to come, has been “pulped” and its author turned overnight into a “non-person.” There is no precedent for this in recent times.
This lecture was delivered by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS, at the opening of the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 21, 2019.
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 25, 2019 by Deepal Jayasekera, Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 23, 2019 by Andre Damon, regular writer for the World Socialist Web Site and leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 24, 2019 by Barry Grey, US national editor of the World Socialist Web Site and leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
