Gen. Mark Milley’s reaction to the January 6 assault on the Capitol has given the lie to all the claims that the significance of the event was being exaggerated and it was wrong to call it a coup.
The new figures have shocked public health experts, including professionals who have been tracking drug overdose trends for decades.
Ultra-loose monetary policies, which have remained unchanged from Trump to Biden, sent bank profits soaring while millions of workers remain unemployed.
On the part of the authorities, there were either no warnings, or they came so late that the residents could not get to safety in time.
The lifting of social distancing measures amidst spread of the Delta variant has led to a rapid acceleration of the pandemic on the continent.
With every aspect of the UAW’s actions throughout the contract negotiations characterized by treachery and deceit, there is no reason to believe that its claims of ratification are legitimate.
The WSWS spoke with workers today at the afternoon shift change at Volvo Cars in Ghent, Belgium about their struggle and the ongoing Volvo Trucks strike in Virginia
The Socialist Equality Party (US) demands the immediate release of Frank García Hernández from house arrest. García Hernández was arrested Sunday during historic protests against the economic crisis and the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Berlin’s defence minister and the country’s most senior military officer launched the Bundeswehr’s new Space Command this week.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived yesterday for talks in Washington amid signs of deepening divisions between the major imperialist powers.
Despite the fact that nurses have been locked out, effectively punishing them for striking with four days of lost wages, the CNA has made clear that it will no longer hold daytime pickets for the duration of the lockout.
The government’s consistent defence of factory owners who openly violate basic workplace safety is common knowledge throughout the country and internationally.
The shifting attitudes reflect the growing hostility of the population towards the existing social order.
Wagenknecht’s latest book is a Volkish-nationalist diatribe that takes up arms against cosmopolitanism and open-minded people, calls for economic protectionism and a strong state, and denounces immigrants and refugees as wage cutters, strikebreakers and foreign cultural elements.
Dr Helen Salisbury, a lecturer at Oxford University and columnist for the BMJ, described the government’s pursuit of herd immunity by infection, rather than vaccination, as “criminal.”
The scale and persistence of the demonstrations express growing discontent among broad layers of the population with the existing capitalist order.
In the aftermath of last Friday’s move by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to encourage vaccinated teachers and students not to wear masks and to fully reopen schools, anger is building among educators, parents and students.
The Tennessee state government summarily halted all adolescent vaccine outreach initiatives, not just for COVID-19 but for all diseases.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 exposes the devastating toll that the response of the world capitalist system to the coronavirus pandemic has had on billions of people throughout the world.
People that are isolated, don’t speak English and are not given clear information in their own language are confused and at risk. These are the people that could get infected and die.
The offer presented by NZ Bus and the Tramways Union last month, and voted down by Wellington bus drivers, would have cut penalty rates and taxi allowances, while increasing working hours.
Strike by Iranian contract oil workers spreads amid rising wave of protests and stoppages by sugar and transport workers; 4,750 nurses on pay strike in Denmark since June 19; Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency workers in Wales continue stoppages over COVID safety, ongoing since April; UK telecoms workers’ union signs up to job-cutting despite workers’ consultative ballot to strike
For their strikes to be successful, PepsiCo and Frito-Lay workers must take the struggle out of the hands of the so-called “unions” and form their own independent rank-and-file committees.
Workers have been locked out of their workplace since May 1 and have not been informed of other ongoing USW strikes.
This video features two striking Volvo workers in Virginia speaking on their struggle and denouncing the UAW's efforts to ram through a pro-company contract already voted down by the rank-and-file.
The struggle against the return to the 40-hour week at Volvo in Ghent is part of a worldwide radicalization of the working class and requires an international strategy.
Car workers at Jaguar Land Rover’s Halewood plant in England expressed solidarity with striking US Volvo workers in Virginia.
Volvo management has announced that it is unilaterally imposing a contract that workers rejected, while the UAW is providing cover for the company in its strikebreaking operation.
Alarm at Everard’s disappearance turned to horror when Metropolitan Police firearms officer Wayne Couzens was arrested.
To recoup the cost of massive government aid for corporations and banks provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, the next German government pushes through drastic cuts in pensions and social spending.
The maintenance of the face coverings mandate is dictated by the need to preserve the corporatist relations cultivated through the Tripartite Agreement between the unions, TfL, and the private operators from the start of the pandemic against the threat from below.
Sarah Saul and Daniella Modus helped found a network supporting parents and teachers in their fight to reveal the truth about school infections during the pandemic.
Extreme heat is triggering wildfires across several US states and Canada, requiring evacuations in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.
The agreement sets a ceiling for the new social spending being proposed by the Democrats at $3.5 trillion over 10 years—a tiny proportion of the trillions being accumulated by the super-rich.
The public sector workers’ struggle is being systematically sabotaged by the unions, which are determined to prevent a working class challenge to the right-wing CAQ provincial government and the austerity agenda of the entire capitalist elite.
A few powerful thunderstorms left hundreds of motorists stranded and created dangerous conditions in the mass transit system.
Developments this week at universities across Australia have underscored the critical importance of the joint online public meeting called by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and the Committee for Public Education (CFPE) this Saturday, July 17 at 4 p.m. (AEST).
Like the petitions at Macquarie and Monash universities, the campaign expresses a striving by students and young people to find ways to fight the onslaught on university jobs, conditions and courses.
A call by a member of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, for the rejection of enterprise bargaining, provoked an anxious response by National Tertiary Education Union representatives.
Having proclaimed “green shoots” and “positive signs” less than a week ago, the NSW Liberal-National government is now raising the spectre of mass illness and death.
French-American filmmaker Sabrina Van Tassel’s documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa, now streaming on Hulu, powerfully recounts the case of Melissa Lucio, who has sat on death row in Texas for 13 years.
One measure of the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on American and global cultural life has been its impact on artists in New York, the major cultural center in the US.
With her inexhaustible verve, determination, and joie de vivre, Esther Bejarano is and will remain an inspiration in the struggles to come.
Nearly four decades after her death, American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) has received the major museum retrospective that she has long deserved.
Fed chairman Powell insisted that, while inflation had “increased notably” and the price rises were higher and more persistent than the Fed had anticipated, the rises were “transitory” and inflation would begin to decline.
Rising food, shelter and car prices, coupled with stagnant wages and the ending of pandemic-related government programs, leaves millions on the brink of destitution, fueling class tensions.
The differences centred on two key questions: the direction of interest rate policy and at what point the Fed should start winding back its program of asset purchases.
Trillions of dollars have been pumped to the financial markets, fuelling rampant speculation but there are concerns over where this is heading.
The government has temporarily shifted to online learning over fears of triggering further opposition among teachers and school staff.
A dangerous precedent has been set by the United Teachers Los Angeles that will be followed by districts throughout the West Coast.
Redbridge Council, which Labour holds with an 81 percent majority, has sided openly with the Johnson government’s Department for Education, endorsing teacher victimisations and sackings during the pandemic.
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.
25 years ago: On July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 passengers and crew on board. It was the third-deadliest airplane accident in the history of the United States.
The world historical significance of the 1921 founding of the Chinese Communist Party stands in stark contrast to the hypocrisy and falsifications that characterise the official centenary celebrations.
Eighty years ago, on June 22, 1941, the German military invaded the Soviet Union. They combined the barbarism of the Middle Ages with the most modern technology of the 20th century.
25 years ago: Yeltsin claims reelection as president of RussiaOn July 3, 1996, Boris Yeltsin won the Russian Federation’s presidential runoff election in a vote widely viewed by the population as fraudulent. The election set the stage for future social upheavals and political crises in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
The scale and persistence of the demonstrations express growing discontent among broad layers of the population with the existing capitalist order.
A US security delegation dispatched to Port-au-Prince brought together the three figures claiming to be head of state following the assassination of de facto president Jovenel Moïse.
In the aftermath of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in the early hours of the morning last Wednesday, the impoverished Caribbean nation’s interim government has appealed for a foreign military intervention to protect key infrastructure.
Fraudulently promoted for decades as guardians of democracy, the Brazilian military now claims the right to overrule the elected government.
The science underlying the origins of SARS-CoV-2 distinctly points to the virus emerging from nature rather than from a laboratory.
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.
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 lead writer of the Wall Street Journal piece that led to the embrace by the entire US media of the “Wuhan lab” theory was the co-author with Judith Miller of the discredited "aluminum tubes" story that helped launch the US invasion of Iraq.
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.
The 1619 Project creator will join writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in founding the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard with $20 million in funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to grant Hannah-Jones’ application for a full tenure professorship after weeks of outrage and accusations of racism over an initial decision to postpone a vote.
This letter from WSWS International Editorial Board Chairperson David North was sent to the Chronicle of Higher Education in response to its article, “‘What the Hell Happened?’ Inside the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case.”
This is the introduction by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to a volume, available for delivery in January 2021, containing the main interviews and essays published by the WSWS exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of American history.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
Stella Moris warned yesterday that the High Court’s decision meant her partner, “is still at risk of extradition where he faces a 175-year prison sentence and where according to the magistrate he is almost certain to lose his life.”
Assange has now spent more than one fifth of his life persecuted by the US state and its allies.
A Google News search indicates that not a single English-language corporate publication has reported the confession of a key US witness against Assange that his allegations were false.
The US indictment against Assange is based on fabrications concocted by American spies and a convicted Icelandic conman and pedophile who functioned as their stool pigeon.
The Democratic Party leadership has largely dropped efforts, either in Congress or the courts, to overturn restrictive new state laws.
The reception for Prince Khalid bin Salman, a key accomplice in the savage assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, lays bare the hypocrisy of Biden’s “human rights” imperialism.
New York prosecutors charged Allen Weisselberg, longtime Trump Organization executive, with 15 counts, including criminal tax fraud and grand larceny, as part of a scheme to “defraud the government.”
President Biden hailed the cooperation of Miami Democrats with far-right Republican Governor DeSantis in concealing the real cause of the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.
All the Bennett government’s leading lights were once aides to Benjamin Netanyahu, occupied senior government posts under his leadership and have no significant political differences with him.
The strike has spread to at least 70 oil and gas installations and refineries and petrochemical plants, with tens of thousands of workers reportedly staying at home or in their dormitories.
The protests highlight the growing anger towards the Palestinian Authority over terrible economic and social conditions amid systemic corruption.
The marine mucilage, or sea snot, in the Sea of Marmara has continued to spread over the past months, exacerbating pollution and threatening sea creatures.
The US Defense Department has canceled the cloud computing solicitation known as JEDI and replaced it with a request for a more advanced IT platform that will enable imperialist warfare to be fought with artificial intelligence and unprecedented information gathering and processing power.
While Ukraine and NATO often declare that their military exercises are “defensive” in nature, “Cossack Mace” differs in that it openly states that its forces are practicing for an offensive.
The documents confirm that the UK was aware of a possible hostile response by Russia and decided to proceed anyway.
Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer expressed her “fundamental confidence” in Germany’s Special Forces Command (KSK), which despite a string of far-right scandals will not be disbanded.
Families have picketed the road to Pike River coal mine, demanding that the Labour government reverse its plan to end the underground investigation into the 2010 disaster, which killed 29 people.
Equipment has been stripped out of the drift tunnel as the Labour Party-led government prepares to seal the mine in order to prevent a proper forensic investigation into the causes of the 2010 disaster that killed 29 people.
The Pike River Recovery Agency is racing to seal the coal mine to prevent the recovery of bodies and evidence that could lead to the prosecution of those responsible for the 2010 disaster that killed 29 workers.
The Labour Party government aims to prevent the thorough examination of underground evidence that could be used to prosecute corporate criminals responsible for the deaths of 29 men in the 2010 Pike River disaster.
The Federal Election Committee upheld the party status of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP), enabling it to participate in September’s federal election. However, in an attack on democratic rights, it withheld party status to almost half the organisations that applied.
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 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.
Developments this week at universities across Australia have underscored the critical importance of the joint online public meeting called by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and the Committee for Public Education (CFPE) this Saturday, July 17 at 4 p.m. (AEST).
The shifting attitudes reflect the growing hostility of the population towards the existing social order.
Like the petitions at Macquarie and Monash universities, the campaign expresses a striving by students and young people to find ways to fight the onslaught on university jobs, conditions and courses.
Rashford, along with two other black England players, missed a penalty in the decisive shootout at the end of the match. All were targeted for online racist abuse.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s rush to scrap any possible restrictions on private profit-making is bringing into sharp focus fundamentally opposed class interests.
Events like the recent Pacific Northwest disaster would have been “at least 150 times rarer without human-induced climate change.”
The community of nearly 1,000 in California’s Central Valley lost water after the pump in the only functioning well broke down.
A recent brain imaging study conducted by the University of Oxford and Imperial College London concluded that individuals with COVID-19 infection sustain a loss of brain grey matter compared to those not infected, which may increase the risk for future neurological diseases, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
We are calling on Reddit members to demand that the moderators of r/coronavirus and r/politics halt the McCarthyite blacklisting of content links from the World Socialist Web Site .
Jones’s suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.
The 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 protests were initially triggered by last week’s jailing of former president Jacob Zuma, ordered by the Constitutional Court for contempt of court for initially defying its order to appear at an inquiry into corruption during his presidency from 2009 to 2018.
Abiy’s loss of Mekelle marks a turning point in a war that has plunged Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country of 112 million people, into chaos amid escalating ethnic conflicts around the country.
While multi-millionaire President Cyril Ramaphosa made pro-forma statements about rooting out corruption, he has mostly targeted his political rivals.
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.
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.
Documents obtained by the New York Times provide further evidence that police and intelligence agencies facilitated the attack on the US Capitol.
Donald Trump is consolidating power over the Republican Party, transforming it from a conservative bourgeois party into a fascist party with a personalist leader and a paramilitary wing.
Last month it was revealed that an emergency response unit of the US Capitol Police, which failed to deploy against the January 6 insurrection, was trained by Northern Red, a private neo-Nazi paramilitary contractor.
A trove of email messages shows that Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf attempted to seize voting machines in Michigan in cooperation with top Trump advisers, who were seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 elections.
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.
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.
This video features two striking Volvo workers in Virginia speaking on their struggle and denouncing the UAW's efforts to ram through a pro-company contract already voted down by the rank-and-file.
The WSWS is breaking the media/UAW blackout of the ongoing strike of nearly 3,000 Volvo Trucks workers in Dublin, Virginia, by bringing the news directly to the factory gates.
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.
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.
Gen. Mark Milley’s reaction to the January 6 assault on the Capitol has given the lie to all the claims that the significance of the event was being exaggerated and it was wrong to call it a coup.
Dr Helen Salisbury, a lecturer at Oxford University and columnist for the BMJ, described the government’s pursuit of herd immunity by infection, rather than vaccination, as “criminal.”
Biden’s dire acknowledgement of the state of American democracy stood in the starkest contrast to the feckless and impotent character of his proposals to defend it.
Donald Trump is consolidating power over the Republican Party, transforming it from a conservative bourgeois party into a fascist party with a personalist leader and a paramilitary wing.
Wagenknecht venomously fulminates against “cosmopolitanism” and cultural openness while promoting protectionism and a strong state, and denouncing migrants and refugees.
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.
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.
