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).
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Capitalism prepares to fight wars, not the pandemic
Last year, as more than 3 million people lost their lives amid a raging pandemic, governments around the world spent nearly $2 trillion on weapons and preparations for war.
If such overt threats of a military coup are circulating, it is because preparations for a coup are being discussed, and made, at top layers of the state machine.
Striking St. Vincent Hospital nurses have rejected a proposal put forward by their bargaining committee and hospital management that called for a “committee” to review insufficient staffing levels every quarter and addressed none of the concerns that provoked the strike.
With its health care system in a state of collapse, Peru trails only Brazil in terms of Latin American countries with the highest per-capita death rates.
“There was a decision to let this spread and see how we go with it. The government should be blamed for social murder.”
NYU president Andrew Hamilton, who takes home about $2 million every year, sent an email to the parents of striking graduate students as well as undergraduates on Monday in a blatant attempt to break the strike.
The death from COVID-19 of Mark Bruce came after a record surge in new cases at the plant in March, which coincided with record-breaking numbers of infections throughout the state of Michigan.
Workers and young people in Britain spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about why they are attending the International Online May Day Rally being held by the International Committee of the Fourth International on Saturday May 1.
Reflecting the ongoing threat of fascistic violence from within the state, the announcement comes just days before President Biden’s first speech before a joint session of Congress.
A FISA court ruling from November 2020 approved for a second year warrantless surveillance procedures while admitting that the FBI has repeatedly refused to follow them.

An online rally with speakers from throughout the world, streamed live from wsws.org/mayday.
Watch: IYSSE (Australia) meeting opposes US war drive against China
One young worker commented: “The meeting made me understand more about the need for internationalism, and for workers to cooperate against the drive to war.”
French retired army generals threaten a coup d’état
On the 60th anniversary of the attempted French military putsch in Algiers, 23 retired generals published an open letter to the government in the neofascist website Valeurs Actuelles.
US CEO pay soars during pandemic
The gulf between the incomes of corporate executives and that of workers expanded dramatically over the course of 2020.
Pelosi backs bipartisan commission to cover up Republican complicity in January 6 coup attempt
The proposed commission, editorially endorsed by the New York Times, would have equal representation for the Republican Party, whose congressional representatives largely backed the effort by Trump to overturn the 2020 election and establish a presidential dictatorship.
Nearly a third of UK children in poverty even before pandemic
At least 4.3 million children (31 percent of all UK children) are in poverty—up from 3.6 million in 2010-11.
Trade unions, Podemos and CaixaBank collaborate to cut 8,000 jobs
Spain’s largest domestic retail bank, CaixaBank, is working closely with the trade unions, CCOO and UGT, and the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government to axe 8,291 jobs. This would be the largest ever staff reduction in the Spanish banking sector.
Top IG Metall official takes over as human resources chief at Volkswagen subsidiary
Osterloh is not an isolated case. The transfer into management of leading IG Metall and works council officials, who have earned their merits by attacking the workforce, is integral to the German business model.
Hundreds protest against lack of coronavirus protection measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Under the slogan “Fight for Life,” several hundred people demonstrated Saturday in the capital city of Sarajevo against the Bosnian government’s murderous pandemic policy.
Florida Republicans pushing through bills denouncing socialism, limiting voting by mail and targeting left-wing professors
The far-right agenda being implemented by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican majority in the state legislature exemplifies the continuing support of the vast majority of Republican officials nationwide for Donald Trump and his fascistic policies.
House of Representatives passes Washington D.C. statehood bill
The adoption of the legislation would create the 51st state and create two Democratic Party-leaning seats in the Senate and one in the House of Representatives.
US Supreme Court makes it easier to sentence minors to life in prison
A 6-3 decision by the conservative majority gives judges more power to sentence juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Democratic representative Val Demings justifies police killing of Ma’Khia Bryant
The congresswoman from Florida and former Orlando chief of police said cops have to make tough “split-second decisions” and that Nicholas Reardon “responded as he was trained to do.”
Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee demands immediate end to all in-person learning
The pandemic’s third wave is the direct product of the ruling class’ open economy/open schools policy, which prioritizes profits over working people’s health and lives.
Oppose the firing of Mitchell High School educators in Colorado!
Over 100 educators and staff members were notified in January that school administrators were laying them all off at the end of the school year and forcing any staff who wish to remain to re-apply for their own jobs.
SEIU calls off Sacramento school strike at last minute, allowing all schools to reopen
Over 90 percent of the union’s members had authorized the strike, demanding greater personal protective equipment (PPE) and accommodations for workers with young children at home.
“The unions have actually worked against our interests!”
Educators expose the teachers unions’ role in facilitating the deadly reopening of US schools
The WSWS spoke with teachers across the US on their experiences with the unions pushing teachers and students back into unsafe classrooms over the past year.
Australian government demands return to face-to-face university classes
This demand is part of the drive to fully reopen the economy to satisfy the profit requirements of big business.
Political upheaval in Samoa produces electoral stalemate
Neither the HRPP nor its newly formed rival, FAST, contested the election with a program that would in any way address the deepening social, economic and health emergency.
Another Australian capital city COVID outbreak highlights danger of global pandemic
The Western Australian state government yesterday ended a three-day partial lockdown of Perth, despite a still unknown number of infections from a quarantine hotel leak.
More deaths of people waiting for essential disability services in Australia
The National Disability Insurance Scheme continues to claim victims by not providing basic equipment and adequate services.
Skies of Lebanon, Writing with Fire, Captains of Zaatari and more: Desperate conditions, striking images, weak conclusions
Increasingly, desperate conditions plague masses of people worldwide, dramatically worsened by the COVID-19 disaster. Popular suffering is reaching unbearable levels.
The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony: Racial politics and other problems
The Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night was distinctive because it occurred in the midst of a deadly pandemic and because organizers made every effort to see to it that race and gender dominated the event.
Streetlight Harmonies—The “doo-wop” era in popular music
Through the stories of many of the people who created the music of that era, one can’t help but appreciate the historical roots of American popular music and its embodiment of the innate striving of the population to embrace human commonality.
Sisters with Transistors surveys the women of electronic music
The documentary spotlights composers such as Pauline Oliveros and examines the historical and technological context in which this new art form developed.
British Columbia hospitalizations set new record as COVID-19 variants spread
The rapid rise in infections is the direct product of the NDP government’s reckless open economy/open schools policy, which has created an ideal environment for the spread of new, more infectious COVID-19 variants.
Reinfections of COVID-19 after natural infection or vaccination
Under conditions of a policy of reckless reopening, the danger of the virus mutating to escape vaccines remains a critical concern.
UK government’s pandemic contracts: A looting operation behind the smokescreen of “the national interest”
The blatant efforts by the state to conceal industrial-scale corruption and criminal profiteering exposes the decomposition of democratic rule.
Austrian government approves comprehensive reopening of businesses
The government of the right-wing conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the Greens is paving the way for a massive flare-up of coronavirus infections with catastrophic consequences.
Support grows for striking faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology
Dozens of faculty, staff and students showed their support on picket lines in the first days of the strike at the main OIT campus in Klamath Falls, a small city in the southern part of Oregon near Medford.
UK: Fire and rehire contract deadline nears for striking Go North West bus drivers
Unite the union has isolated the dispute based on pleas directed to the company to lift the fire and rehire contracts and accept its own proposed £1.3 million in cuts.
3,000 Kroger workers in Arkansas still without a contract after a year
The United Food and Commercial Workers have kept grocery workers on the job throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) supports call for International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
The trade unions in Britain have sabotaged the struggles of workers during the past year, resulting in the highest per head of population death toll from COVID-19 (in a country with a population higher than 20 million) in the world.
Sri Lankan IYSSE to commemorate 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth
The IYSSE meeting will discuss Luxemburg’s revolutionary struggle for Marxism in the German and international working class and its lessons for today.
Columbia graduate workers: Organize opposition to the UAW strike “pause”!
The decision of the bargaining committee to accept a “pause” in the strike was in clear and direct opposition to the will of the 3,000 rank and file members.
Columbia graduate worker strike at a crossroads
The bargaining committee is employing many well-known mechanisms to try to browbeat the students into accepting a sellout proposal.
Support grows among workers for striking Columbia University graduate students
Autoworkers and others support the fight of Columbia graduate student-workers as the strike begins its third week.
Canada practicing “Torture by any other name”–Experts denounce continued use of solitary confinement in country’s prisons
The more than 13,000 Canadian prison inmates are living in an unhealthy and dangerous environment in which official abuse, violence, mental health problems, overdoses and suicides are prevalent.
Fatal Tesla Model S crash under investigation by authorities, raises safety concerns
While Tesla vehicles are hitting the roads worldwide, under capitalism there is no systematic oversight of vehicle production to address safety measures before they go to market, with dangerous consequences.
Federal judge orders Los Angeles to remove all homeless people from Skid Row
On the heels of the eviction of the homeless from Echo Park, Los Angeles prepares a greater crackdown on the thousands of people who live on the city’s streets.
Biden climate summit offers empty spectacle
The two-day event that began Thursday underscored the reality that there is no solution to global warming and climate change within the framework of capitalism.
This week in history: April 26-May 2
25 years ago: Indian general elections, held from April 27 to May 2, 1996, replaced the Congress Party as the largest party in parliament with the Hindu-chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party.
Illinois Democrats race bait Abraham Lincoln—again
Chicago mayor targets monuments to Civil War, American Revolution
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has formed a committee to review the potential removal of five statues of Lincoln, along with monuments to Washington, Franklin, and Grant.
150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg, who was born on 5 March, 1871, was among the most important revolutionary Marxists of the 20th century, and her work contains vital lessons for today.
Watch lecture video “Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines”—another devastating exposure of Stalinism
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.”
Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Baghdad kills at least 82 people
After an accident caused an oxygen tank to explode, eyewitness accounts and video clips of the terrible scenes of the fire at the hospital treating COVID-19 patients have provoked shock and anger throughout Iraq.
Turkish government rejects lockdown as pandemic spins out of control
As a result of the “herd immunity” policy implemented by Erdoğan’s government in the interests of the ruling class, the pandemic has spun out of control.
Pandemic produced a “catastrophic year” for Middle East and North Africa
The pandemic has inflicted a horrendous toll, with more than 7.3 million recorded cases and 150,000 fatalities, a pale reflection of the real losses and suffering given the lack of testing and recording systems.
Spanish steelworkers at Tubacex in Alva province continue strike against redundancies; UK bus strikes continue at Go North West in Manchester and London United; Italian students at high school in Naples boycott classes over lack of Covid safety; delivery gig workers’ strike in Nantes, France
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Spanish steelworkers at Tubacex in Alva province continue strike begun February against redundancies; UK bus strikes continue at Go North West in Manchester and London United over fire and rehire and attacks on pay and conditions; Italian students at high school in Naples refuse in person and online lessons over lack of Covid safety; delivery workers at Uber Eats and Deliveroo strike in Nantes, France over low pay
Britain looks to establish digital currency
As with virtually every other economic question, the introduction of a central bank digital currency is being analysed and discussed within the framework of a conflict with China.
Cryptocurrency bubble accelerates as Coinbase goes public
This week’s public launch of Grab Holdings, valued at $40 billion, and that of the cryptocurrency trader Coinbase, valued at around $85 billion, are the latest expressions of the speculative bubble fuelled by cheap money.
Taiwan, semiconductor manufacture and the US conflict with China
While the strategic importance of Taiwan in any conflict between the US and China is evident, not so obvious is the role that the country plays in the manufacture of semiconductor chips.
Surging global food and fuel prices add further hardships for workers
Global food prices increased for the 10th consecutive month in March, reaching levels not seen since 2014, according to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) assessment released Thursday.
Biden extends Trump anti-Chinese TikTok policy
The Biden administration is weighing its options for continuing the anti-Chinese propaganda campaign launched by the Trump White House regarding the purported threat to national security posed by the Beijing-based social media platform TikTok.
Democrats and Republicans use House hearing on social media “disinformation and extremism” to advance internet censorship
Democrats and Republicans used the platform of the hearing to advance their equally reactionary proposals to regulate and control online content in the aftermath of the January 6 fascist attack on the US Capitol and one year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facebook threatens teachers’ groups opposing unsafe school reopenings
Facebook is aggressively removing posts, disabling accounts and shutting down groups that are sharing scientifically accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic and opposing the government’s deadly policy of reopening schools.
Workers and youth speak out against Facebook’s Australian news ban and corporate media cash grab
“The creation and distribution of news is controlled by a few corporations, ruthless in promoting their class interests.”
Julian Assange mural unveiled in Berlin
The Captain Borderline mural is a powerful reminder of the real issues involved in the persecution of Assange, and of the real forces being deployed against him.
Australian Labor Party conference passes mealy-mouthed motion “defending” Assange
Labor’s motion does not even oppose the US attempt to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act for exposing American war crimes, human rights violations and diplomatic conspiracies.
Australian Labor leader criticises Assange’s imprisonment, privately
Albanese’s highly conditional comments, made in a closed-room caucus meeting and leaked to the press, were a cynical public relations exercise that committed Labor to nothing.
Assange’s partner exposes ongoing denial of his legal and democratic rights
Assange is still being denied proper access to his lawyers and to crucial legal documents, even after a Magistrates’ Court verdict blocking his extradition to the US last month.
Brazil’s defense minister issues threat over probe into Bolsonaro’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic
The swearing-in of the new Brazilian Army commander was marked by a threat of military intervention to halt any attempt to hold Bolsonaro accountable for mass COVID deaths.
57 years after the 1964 coup, Brazil again confronts specter of dictatorship
President Bolsonaro’s sudden firing of his defense minister and the entire command of the armed forces has unleashed an unprecedented military and political crisis in Brazil.
36-year-old Salvadoran mother killed by Mexican police officer
The death of Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza is a result of the anti-immigrant measures demanded by Washington of the Mexican government.
Mexico reports 417,002 excess deaths during the pandemic
With an official death toll of 201,623, the acknowledgement of a massive undercount stands as a confession by the ruling class of social murder.
The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History: A significant political and intellectual event
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.
Republican state legislators move to ban the New York Times’ 1619 Project from schools
Republican lawmakers, taking advantage of the racialist falsifications of the 1619 Project, are seeking to promote their own backward and chauvinistic version of US history.
The Trump Administration’s 1776 Report: The far-right attempts to seize opening from the 1619 Project
Attacking the New York Times’ 1619 Project where it is weakest, the Trump Administration’s “1776 Report” responds to the controversy with its own brand of flag-waving “America First” demagoguery.
A politically motivated smear: Canada’s Globe and Mail blames “Marxists” for discredited racialist 1619 Project
In an act of political censorship, Canada’s “newspaper of record” has refused to publish a letter from WSWS Chairman David North answering its smear.
Mars robot helicopter completes first rotor-powered flight on another world
Now that Ingenuity’s basic capabilities have been validated, several more flights will be attempted, the first as early as Thursday.
Major evolution of the human brain correlated with tool-making leap
A comparative study of brain impressions from early and later members of the genus Homo demonstrates a correlation between a major reorganization of the brain and the development of Acheulean tool technology.
Dinosaur fossil found sitting on eggs in a nest reveals well-developed parental care
The fossil, dating to 70 million years ago, consists of the partially preserved remains of an oviraptorosaur, a feathered, theropod dinosaur lineage tangentially related to those that eventually gave rise to modern birds.
One year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A disaster caused by capitalism
The COVID-19 pandemic is a turning point in world history, an event comparable in scale and impact to the Great Depression and the two world wars.
Pandemic produced a “catastrophic year” for Middle East and North Africa
The pandemic has inflicted a horrendous toll, with more than 7.3 million recorded cases and 150,000 fatalities, a pale reflection of the real losses and suffering given the lack of testing and recording systems.
Spanish steelworkers at Tubacex in Alva province continue strike against redundancies; UK bus strikes continue at Go North West in Manchester and London United; Italian students at high school in Naples boycott classes over lack of Covid safety; delivery gig workers’ strike in Nantes, France
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Spanish steelworkers at Tubacex in Alva province continue strike begun February against redundancies; UK bus strikes continue at Go North West in Manchester and London United over fire and rehire and attacks on pay and conditions; Italian students at high school in Naples refuse in person and online lessons over lack of Covid safety; delivery workers at Uber Eats and Deliveroo strike in Nantes, France over low pay
Chad’s French-backed President Idriss Déby dies fighting opposition militia
Déby died fighting a Chadian opposition militia formerly based in southern Libya, and reportedly tied to Libyan Marshal Khalifa Haftar and to Moscow.
UK bus drivers continue strikes in Manchester and at London United over pay and conditions; one-day national stoppage of lorry drivers in Netherlands for pay rise and improved conditions; thousands of doctors strike in Sudan against lack of COVID safety and pay
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
UK bus drivers continue strikes in Manchester and London United against fire and rehire, pay and conditions; one-day national stoppage of lorry drivers in Netherlands over pay and increased workload; thousands of doctors strike in Sudan against lack of PPE and unpaid wages
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.
For a globally coordinated emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic!
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 coronavirus pandemic crisis intensifies
Capitalism is at war with society
The spread of the coronavirus has exposed the disastrous consequences of decades of the massive concentration of wealth and inequality spawned by capitalism.
The response of the ruling elite to the coronavirus pandemic: Malign neglect
Governments around the world are making a deliberate decision to minimize their response to the pandemic, threatening the lives of millions of people.
Message from big business on coronavirus pandemic: Save profits, not lives
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.
A discussion about the first time in history that the working class took power.
The historic and contemporary significance of the 1871 Paris Commune
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.
150 years since the Paris Commune
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.
Lessons of 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.
Paris Workers’ Revolution and Thiers’ Reactionary Massacres
Armed Paris was the only serious obstacle in the way of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Paris was, therefore, to be disarmed.
President Zelensky says Ukraine “ready” for war with Russia as tensions mount
Amid mounting tensions in the Black Sea region, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Tuesday night that Ukraine is “ready” for war with Russia. He warned that the country would “stand to the last man” in the event of a war.
The Washington Post’s phony campaign on Uyghur “genocide”
With astonishing speed, the US media has swung into action churning out a growing deluge of propaganda with lurid horror stories of life in the detention camps in Xinjiang, calls for the US to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and demands for tougher measures against China.
The US war in Afghanistan: A historic crime
Biden’s announcement of the nominal end of the war in Afghanistan provides an occasion for drawing a balance sheet of a savage military operation which has produced incalculable suffering for the people of Afghanistan, squandered vast resources and brutalized American society.
Biden and Suga ramp up confrontation with China over Taiwan
The Biden administration is deliberately raising tensions with China over Taiwan—potentially the most dangerous flashpoint for war in Asia.
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.
US Capitol Police inspector general report confirms police stand-down during January 6 coup attempt
The damning report is the second government document released in the last week to confirm the role of the state in facilitating Trump’s attempted coup.
Internal Pentagon document confirms military standdown during January 6 coup attempt
The report demonstrates that Trump-appointed officials in the Pentagon ignored pleas from lawmakers and the Vice President to deploy security forces as the fascist-led attack was under way.
January 6 fascist thug has been working with FBI since 2018, lawyer claims
Florida Proud Boy Joe Biggs is the latest participant in the January 6 storming of the Capitol to claim a long-term working relationship with the domestic intelligence agency.
House Speaker Pelosi names D.C. National Guard Commander William Walker new Sergeant-at-Arms
The appointment of Walker marks the first time both the House and Senate sergeant-at-arms will be members of military.
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.
150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
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.
WSWS online Q&A with David North and Eric London
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
David North and Eric London speak on the significance of the latest revelations, in the context of the decades-long Security and the Fourth International investigation by the ICFI into Trotsky’s assassination by Stalin’s GPU.
The Trump coup and the rise of fascism: Where is America going?
This essay is based on the transcript of the remarks made by David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), in opening an online discussion held January 17 on the significance of the fascist assault on the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021.
The Crisis Elections: 1860 & 2020
An online meeting with historians James Oakes, Richard Carwardine and Tom Mackaman. Moderated by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North.
Socialist Equality Party launches campaign for 2021 German federal election
The SGP began its campaign for the 2021 German federal elections with a strong launch meeting that was followed by hundreds of workers and young people online.
Life instead of profits! Socialism instead of capitalist barbarism!
Support the SGP’s campaign for the German federal election!
Workers in every country around the world confront the same problems and can only oppose exploitation, militarism and fascism by uniting. This is why the SGP’s election campaign is not restricted to Germany, but addresses itself to workers throughout Europe!
SEP meeting in Australia discusses political issues facing locked-out Coles workers and the need for independent rank-and-file organisations
Speakers explained the vital stand taken by the Smeaton Grange warehouse workers and outlined the political perspective needed to defeat the escalating assault on jobs and conditions.
Turkish Trotskyists hold international online meeting on student protests
The Socialist Equality Group and IYSSE in Turkey held an international online meeting January 17 titled “Amid the global breakdown of democracy, the way forward for the Boğaziçi University protests.”
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.
Watch lecture video “Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines”—another devastating exposure of Stalinism
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.”
Stalinist CPP attacks Dr. Scalice’s upcoming lecture on the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing in the Philippines
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.
“Falsifications and slander are the weapons of Stalinism”
Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist attacks over Diliman Commune article
“The honest assessment of history is the bedrock of revolutionary politics. Falsifications and slander, on the other hand, are the primary weapons of Stalinism.”
Historian Joseph Scalice to deliver public lecture on 50th anniversary of Plaza Miranda bombing
The bombing marked a critical step toward the imposition of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 and remains one of the most controversial events in the country’s history.
The WSWS has been relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
The relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site and the future of socialism
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.
Closing remarks from SEP national secretary Joseph Kishore
The WSWS has exhaustively documented and analyzed the political crisis and historical decay of American democracy.
The approach of the World Socialist Web Site to science
The WSWS was the only publication to warn very early on the dangers the working class faced if the coronavirus became a pandemic.
“The WSWS has not only commented on the struggles of the working class it has been an active participant in them”
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.
Capitalism prepares to fight wars, not the pandemic
Last year, as more than 3 million people lost their lives amid a raging pandemic, governments around the world spent nearly $2 trillion on weapons and preparations for war.
US CEO pay soars during pandemic
The gulf between the incomes of corporate executives and that of workers expanded dramatically over the course of 2020.
COVID-19 deaths surge in Michigan
Michigan, the center of auto production in the United States, is facing the deadliest surge of COVID-19 anywhere in the country.
Forward to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
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).
Modern Monetary Theory and the crisis of capitalism: Part one
Modern Monetary Theory is the latest in a long line of attempts by “left” theorists to maintain that capitalism can be made to work for society if only outmoded thinking about the monetary system is abandoned.
Book Review
Wilmington’s Lie: The 1898 white supremacist coup in North Carolina
The racist massacre in Wilmington was a major turning point in the entrenchment of Jim Crow segregation throughout the South.
Two novellas on the #MeToo issue: Mary Gaitskill’s This is Pleasure and James Lasdun’s Afternoon of a Faun
Two recent works of fiction interestingly portray the #MeToo campaign in operation, but don’t criticize (or probe deeply) much of what needs to be criticized.
The Kill Chain: A new era of world war
The Kill Chain exposes US imperialism’s advanced war preparations against China, with Silicon Valley playing a critical role.
The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International
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.
Drawing the lessons of the ICFI split—International Strategy and National Tactics: The change in the ICFI’s approach to national liberation movements
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
The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
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.
The ICFI and the Crisis of Stalinism
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.
