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 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.
Public Health England analysis shows that the Delta variant is twice as likely to hospitalise people as the Alpha variant.
Boris Johnson’s government of Thatcherites have never abandoned their goal of ending universally available public health-free at the point of delivery.
The first week of the second strike by nearly 3,000 autoworkers against the transnational Volvo corporation has come to an end, and it is time for workers to unroll the battle maps on the table, survey their position, and strategize their next moves.
The report, which was hailed by Trump, claims that the US Park Police decided to clear Lafayette Park in order to install security fencing around the White House without the knowledge of Trump or direction from him.
Records seized included those of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Representative Eric Swalwell, their congressional aides, and at least one family member.
Not a single trade union has explained the gravity of President Rajapakse’s reactionary decrees to its members or demanded the immediate withdrawal of the measures.
The Australian prime minister aligned himself lockstep behind US President Joe Biden’s demand at the G7 and NATO summits for an alliance of the supposed “free world”—the major imperialist powers—against Beijing.
On Thursday, a Valence court jailed Damien Tarel for 18 months, 14 of them suspended, for having slapped President Emmanuel Macron in the face.
The menacing far-right video follows on the heels of threats by army officers to intervene in France against the civilian population.
The Indian government's pledge was largely a public relations stunt that will do little to change the fact that hundreds of millions will continue to be exposed to the deadly pandemic for many months to come.
The games are going forward with persistently high levels of infections and ICUs overflowing with patients, as Brazil approaches half a million deaths.
This week has seen yet another revolting example of the Democratic Party's support for Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian population of the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While UAW Local 2069 is enabling the company’s scabbing operation, the national media, as well as the UAW and the AFL-CIO as a whole, are carrying out a blackout of the strike, fearful it will spark a broader rebellion.
Ford Cologne worker: “I think it’s particularly good that the Volvo workers stood up to the UAW.”
The courageous stand taken by Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia, who went on strike Monday after decisively voting down a second sellout agreement pushed by the United Auto Workers (UAW), has inspired workers throughout the US and internationally.
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.
The program addressed the pro-imperialist origins of the DSA and the significance of its present celebration of the crimes of Stalinism.
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
The 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.
While the striking workers have shown tremendous determination to fight in the face of company provocations, the United Steelworkers union is doing all it can to isolate the miners’ struggle and run it into the ground.
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 UAW has suppressed opposition to cuts and concession to the workforce while company profits have been boosted at the expense of jobs, wages, and benefits.
The legislation would continue classifying these workers as independent contractors, prohibiting strikes and other work actions.
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.
Striking workers at General Mills’ factory in western Sydney must be politically armed with information about their opponents—the company and the union.
The Australian prime minister aligned himself lockstep behind US President Joe Biden’s demand at the G7 and NATO summits for an alliance of the supposed “free world”—the major imperialist powers—against Beijing.
Shepparton, where the Victorian Labor government is forcing students into an amalgamated “super-school,” is recording alarming levels of acute psychological distress, bullying and disadvantage.
At a media conference announcing the massive police round-up, Morrison demanded the immediate passage of three bills to expand even further the surveillance and other powers of the police and intelligence agencies.
In Turkey, the country with the fifth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, restrictions are being lifted and schools are reopening.
The Morenoites organized around the Izquierda Diario website are demanding that the Peronist government engage in the same kind of vaccine nationalism pursued by Washington and the other imperialist powers.
This media’s witch-hunt against scientists, on behalf of the government and big business is wildly out of step with the feeling in the majority of the working class, the primary victims of Covid-19, who are aware of the current dangers.
The new guidance issued Friday caused such opposition and confusion that by Sunday night the Cuomo administration was forced to issue a semi-retraction, pending approval from the CDC.
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.
The film is competent, sensitive, well-intentioned. Why is it so unsatisfying?
Contrary to the complaints of the official critics, the greatest strength of Four Good Days is its nuanced and compassionate attitude towards its characters.
The birth on June 4 in Santa Barbara, California, of Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle, sent the American media into a predictable frenzy.
A poet-turned-singer mourns friends lost to urban violence on his folk-inflected debut.
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.
Real wages for US workers have declined every month in the last year, eroded by significant month-over-month increases in overall consumer prices.
The military used its deployment to long-term care homes overwhelmed by the pandemic to spy on and test out methods of repression against the Canadian population.
The law firm Napoli-Shkolnik has made clear its disdain for medical professionals and Flint residents who have raised legitimate questions of safety, reliability and other related ethical questions.
The injunction is a reactionary ruling handed down by a George W. Bush appointee, who seems to otherwise be quite comfortable with the dismantling of democratic, constitutionally guaranteed rights.
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.
The merger of the real estate concerns Vonovia and Deutsche Wohnen, announced in May, will create the largest real estate group in Europe, giving the new company immense power to jack up rental prices.
Through their decades-long support for social cuts and deindustrialisation, the Left Party and SPD have driven desperate elements into the arms of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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.
Over the past year, bus workers have carried out 238 strikes, protests and demonstrations, disrupting 88 transportation systems across Brazil.
SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias delivered this speech to an online May 30 public meeting organised by the SEP.
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
Only an international, scientific health strategy can defeat this highly contagious virus, which ignores borders and passports and infects people of all nationalities.
The following speech was delivered by SEP (Sri Lanka) Political Committee member M. Thevarajah to a May 30 meeting organized by the SEP in Sri Lanka.
The 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 White House has repeatedly appealed to the GOP to negotiate while simultaneously offering to scale back and cut the plan in response to every objection from congressional Republicans.
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.
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.
25 years ago: Northern Ireland peace talks open in Belfast On June 10, 1996, all-party talks on a political settlement in Northern Ireland opened in Belfast, with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, initially excluded and with Protestant delegates objecting to the proposed chairman of the session, former US senator and close advisor to the Clinton administration, George Mitchell.
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.
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.
UC researchers desperately need fighting organizations, but the United Auto Workers will give them nothing but dashed hopes.
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.
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.
Bennett will head a deeply unstable, unprincipled coalition with a majority of one in the 120-seat Knesset.
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.
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.
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.
The prominent defender of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been found guilty of contempt of court for his reporting on the 2020 trial of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.
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 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.
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.
A child of immigrants, Harris was entrusted with the dirty and, indeed, homicidal job of coordinating a multinational crackdown on immigration.
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.
