The draft order was a charter for presidential dictatorship. It would have declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and placed the country under military rule.
Calls for massive NATO troop deployments and hysterical threats and accusations by top US and NATO officials against Russia point to the imminent danger of war.
New infections continue at a high pace, and death follows. Despite these dangerous conditions, the corporate parties and their media apologists portray a return to “normal.”
As infections rise to all-time highs, politicians and the media are openly preparing to end all protective measures.
Although the threat of imminent extradition has been stayed, Assange stands on thin ice. His freedom depends on a political movement of the working class.
On Friday, a Saudi airstrike on a detention center in Saada, northern Yemen, housing African migrant workers transiting through Yemen to Saudi Arabia, killed at least 82 people and wounded 266 more.
Trump supporter Chad Clark is facing up to five years in prison after his arrest for posting an online ad the day before the attack on the US Capitol calling for “patriots” to kill election officials and politicians.
“I think the situation in Brazil in the next two to three weeks will break all records of infections and may cause a health care collapse as great as in the second wave.”
“Health workers are being asked to make sacrifices, but the reason we’re being put under so much stress is because of the criminal actions of governments” –Queensland public hospital doctor .
The flagrantly undemocratic methods through which the UFCW is carrying out the ratification vote can only mean that the contract is a sellout.
The US and its European allies are on the precipice of plunging the world into a war with Russia of catastrophic proportions.
Honouring war criminals and Nazi collaborators, promoting fascist militias, mafia-like fights between oligarchs, corruption and massive social inequality are the most prominent features of Ukrainian “democracy.”
As we approach the end of the year, workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The shift in the world situation finds sharp expression in countries that previously suppressed transmission with public health measures, but have since adopted the “live with the virus” program, with disastrous results.
In this video interview, Randall explains the unsafe conditions in Michigan’s auto parts plants. Randall's brother died from Covid, their grandmother has Long Covid, and officials are threatening to charge Randall and his fiancee for trying to keep their daughter out of school.
“I fully support the Global Workers’ Inquest and it is my hope that it will shine a light on the most selfish and uncaring of our ‘leaders’ for their direct action or intentional inaction, so they may be judged for profiteering from the people’s pain.”
“Health workers held protests demanding a lockdown, as well as more tests and health facilities. The government only declared a second lockdown because this opposition was developing.” – Sri Lanka doctor
Sri Lankan migrant workers explain difficulties they faced due to the criminal response of the ruling elite to the pandemic in both the Middle East and Sri Lanka.
The union is attempting to disperse teacher and student opposition to unsafe schools with safety demands that will leave students and teachers infected.
Almost 80 percent of faculty who were polled supported delaying the resumption of in-person learning. As of Saturday afternoon, an online petition organized by students had at least 1,800 signatures calling for continued remote instruction.
Throughout the world, students and educators are deepening their struggles to close schools in order to stop the spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant.
Rank-and-file safety committees need to be formed in every school, independent of the unions, to organise the widest discussion on the necessary steps going forward to take up the fight for remote learning, as part of a global fight for the elimination of the virus.
The start of 2022 has brought young people around Australia face to face with the cruel reality of the ruling elite’s criminal policies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the spring semester, Harvard students who test positive for COVID-19 will not be required to move into university-provided isolation housing but are being advised to “self-isolate” in their dorms or off-campus housing instead.
An estimated 500 students and teachers across Oakland participated in an online Zoom meeting organized by students to discuss their strike and COVID-19 safety concerns in the district.
Graduate workers at the University of Oregon staged a walkout to protest inadequate measures to protect them against the Omicron surge.
Bus drivers in Bucharest are struggling over safety conditions and pay and face a concerted effort by the city administration and trade unions to end their strike.
Over 1,100 workers in Portland, Oregon, rejected the city’s “last, best and final offer” and voted to strike to improve pay and working conditions.
The teachers union filed a strike notice after keeping its members working without a contract since the start of the school year.
The strike was shut down by the union bureaucracy precisely at the point when support for 8,000 grocery store workers was strongest.
To divert attention from its catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic—which last week bumped Quebec’s seven-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths to more than seventy— the Legault government is seeking to shift the blame onto the unvaccinated.
The endorsement by the unions of the reckless return to face-to-face learning has been met with anger from teachers.
The number of community-transmitted Omicron infections is currently low; government modelling predicts daily case numbers could quickly hit 30,000.
The Labour Party-led government is predicting thousands of daily cases in a matter of weeks. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed that its policy is to let the deadly virus spread.
Wall Street’s tech-heavy NASDAQ index has now fallen by more than 10 percent since it reached its record high last November and is now designated as in “correction” territory.
Signs of nervousness in ruling circles are evident in the People’s Bank of China’s decision to cut a key lending rate for the first time since April 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
The concerted push by the Western media for the Chinese government to drop its COVID-zero policy takes on another dimension as global corporations grapple with mounting supply chain breakdowns.
Richard Clarida, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, announced on Monday that he would be resigning early after details emerged about stock trades he made at the beginning of the pandemic.
TNA parliamentarian Sumanthiran’s denunciations of the Chinese ambassador’s visit to Sri Lanka’s North and East are in line with Washington’s political campaign against Beijing.
For all the unsubstantiated allegations of Russian and Chinese “threats” and “aggression,” Australian and British imperialism have been two of the closest partners in crime of the US over the past three decades.
The studies highlight that living conditions and financial security for young people in Australia were declining even before the pandemic, which has further exacerbated this trend.
Such is the crisis that urgent cancer and heart surgery is being deferred in Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state.
The latest charges signal an acceleration of the US imperialist intervention in Haiti.
Argentina is experiencing its largest outbreak of COVID-19 infections so far, with a new record of 139,853 infections in a single day.
A record number of new COVID-19 cases were reported this week by Mexican health authorities.
The military chiefs are talking about a replay of the January 6 events in Washington led by “radical supporters” of Brazil’s fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro.
Last week’s tragic fire highlighted the dangerous housing conditions and poverty in the city, which has been left destitute by General Motors.
As elsewhere in Canada, the authorities in Nunavut are insisting the territory’s highly vulnerable, largely indigenous, population must learn to “live with COVID-19.”
Kentucky, with a population of 4.5 million, recently reached the grim milestone of over one million total cases, and 12,687 have died. On Friday, 15,864 new cases and 28 deaths were recorded in the state.
Dr. Chen had been one of the most high-profile scientists in the US charged under the China Initiative program, an anti-China witch-hunting operation that was launched by the Justice Department in 2018.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
Kruger’s book is a rebuke to the most basic lie of American history: that there has been no class struggle or socialism in the United States.
Kevin Sampson’s four-part television series is an admirable tribute to Anne Williams, who lost her 15-year-old son Kevin in Britain’s worst sporting disaster, the 1989 crush at Hillsborough football stadium.
Prolific Spanish writer-director Almodóvar has turned his attention, largely for the first time, to historical questions.
Joel Coen’s new version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth presents us with a social tragedy filled with deadly conspiracies and civil strife.
Maggie Gyllenhaal shows talent as a director and storyteller, but the ideas behind the film are confused.
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
Though Holton conceded the major historical point, he used the debate to attack Wood over the latter’s criticism of the 1619 Project.
The 1619 Project creator will join writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in founding the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard with $20 million in funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
The 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.
Zahawi’s intervention is the latest in a series of vicious threats levelled against schools and parents for resisting the government’s policy of mass infection.
The move to make the elderly shoulder the cost of often vital life-preserving medication is part of the Conservative government’s plans to raise the pension age to 68 for those born after April 1977.
Honouring war criminals and Nazi collaborators, promoting fascist militias, mafia-like fights between oligarchs, corruption and massive social inequality are the most prominent features of Ukrainian “democracy.”
Against the backdrop of Friday’s meeting in Geneva between the US and Russia, Washington and NATO are dispatching more forces and equipment to areas along and near Russia’s borders.
The world is in the grip of preventable mass death, and the mainstream media find cause of outrage in the culling of infected hamsters, which it has called the “latest sacrifice in China’s attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero.”
The Biden administration and the Democratic congressional leadership have used the voting rights legislation in a cynical effort to mobilize black and other minority voters to go the polls in 2022.
The “off-the-books” meetings were only known to a select few staff and conducted in secret in order to conceal conversations, according to Stephanie Grisham.
The event in Florence, outside Phoenix, was the first of dozens of election year appearances planned for the Republican ex-president and coup plotter.
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
Soaring inflation, including a massive rise in the cost of food, fuel and medicine, has completely devastated workers’ living standards.
2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since the assault on Gaza in 2021
School students in Italy in COVID safety strike demand return to remote learning and free tests and masks; protests in major cities in Lebanon and teachers strike as currency continues to fall; hundreds of striking South African Clover Foods dairy workers out for eight weeks protest wage cuts, retrenchments and restructuring
A number of recent Iranian short films stand out not simply for their aesthetic quality, but also for their realistic approach and the seriousness with which they treat the problems of wide layers of the population.
“The Workers Inquest is critical. It’s become clear that the governments and health organisations don’t want to provide the evidence about how it spreads, and what we need to do to keep safe.”
The deep hostility among university staff and students is part of the rising political discontent that drove the Liberal-National and Labor parties to rush through new electoral laws in August.
“The ICFI and the SEP is the only organisation that is offering workers a way out of the pandemic.”
The meteoric rise in housing and rental prices across Australia is fueling mounting social discontent, which the party deregistration laws seek to stifle.
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Assange is imprisoned without charge to facilitate an extradition request from the American government, which plotted his illegal kidnapping or assassination.
The Socialist Equality Party is today publishing further comments from WSWS readers and supporters of the fight to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Doctors for Assange delivered an open letter to Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, imploring him to seek the WikiLeaks founder’s release on medical grounds.
“Assange’s salvation has never been the British judiciary. His freedom and defence have always depended on a mass movement of the international working class.”
Romanian transport workers in wildcat strike against pay cuts joined by striking teachers and public sector workers over same issue; workers at Fiat Plastic in Kragujevac, Serbia, form own union and continue year-long indefinite strike against pay cuts; teachers protest across Iran over pay and conditions in 50 cities including Tehran; 5,000 South African dairy workers continue nine-week strike over attacks on pay and conditions, other workers threaten to join action
School students in Italy in COVID safety strike demand return to remote learning and free tests and masks; protests in major cities in Lebanon and teachers strike as currency continues to fall; hundreds of striking South African Clover Foods dairy workers out for eight weeks protest wage cuts, retrenchments and restructuring
The political crisis takes place as the economy faces collapse under the impact of the pandemic, with growing unemployment, 360 percent inflation and soaring food prices.
French secondary school teachers begin a week of strikes over COVID-19 danger, unions demand mitigation only; 3,000 workers begin five-week strike at Finnish forestry company UPM over collective bargaining agreement; further protests by Iranian workers and pensioners in defence of livelihoods as food inflation hits 80 percent; strike by 5,000 workers at South African dairy group Clover Foods continues, with factory closures imminent and 1,000 job losses
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) passed a resolution Monday condemning the ruling of the Berlin Administrative Court, which on November 18, 2021, upheld the designation of the German security service of the German section of the ICFI as “left wing extremists”.
The court’s ruling against the Socialist Equality Party stands in the tradition of National Socialist ideological jurisprudence and Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws, and opens the door for the surveillance and suppression of all opposition to capitalism and arbitrary state power.
Christoph Vandreier, the deputy chairman of the Socialist Equality Party, defended the right to advocate for the socialist transformation of society in a speech at the Berlin Administrative Court on November 18.
The deputy chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the importance of the lawsuit against the surveillance of the party by the German secret service.
As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak “theory.”
In the most systematic defense of the Wuhan lab libel to date, Matt Ridley proves only the falsehood of his bad-faith attack on science.
The commission advocated by the Washington Post will be aimed at shielding the government and corporate officials responsible for the deaths of more than one million Americans, while scapegoating China for the pandemic.
In a letter to the National Institutes of Health made public Thursday, zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance refuted claims that his organization failed to keep the US government appraised of coronavirus research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
The judges effectively cleared the way for universities to dismiss staff for criticising management or breaching confidentiality rules.
The letter aims to intimidate all those who oppose the strictures of racial and identity politics and their enforcement by institutionalized thought police by branding them as “racist.”
The open letter from UM faculty takes a principled stand in defense of Sheng, demanding that the university reinstate Sheng to his undergraduate course in composition and make a public apology both for the sanctions taken against him and the outrageous charges of racism.
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement. Comrade Jean, who died November 24, 1997 at the age of 76, joined the Trotskyist-led Young Peoples Socialist League as a teenager in 1937.
This letter, by Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North, responds to Twitter posts by DSA leaders in support of the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of Stalin’s secret police.
Historian Victoria Bynum issued the following statement demanding the DSA repudiate and apologize for the leadership’s coordinated celebration of the assassination of Trotsky and discipline those responsible.
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
The Socialist Equality Party and WSWS call on Wissler and the Left Party to publicly condemn the DSA leaders’ Twitter posts and other media publications celebrating Trotsky’s assassination.
The horrific massacre of civilians was immediately exploited by the imperialist powers, led by the United States government itself, to justify far-reaching attacks on the democratic rights of their own populations, and the launching of decades-long wars in the Middle East and Africa.
The draft order was a charter for presidential dictatorship. It would have declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and placed the country under military rule.
The shift in the world situation finds sharp expression in countries that previously suppressed transmission with public health measures, but have since adopted the “live with the virus” program, with disastrous results.
The fight against school reopenings is once again the spearhead of the global class struggle as masses of youth and educators are unwilling to accept further infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.
Addressing a news conference on the eve of his first anniversary in office, the US president had no answers for the escalating pandemic, the danger of fascism or the threat of world war.
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
With the lawsuit filed by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei against the Federal Republic of Germany set to be heard in court in the coming days, more than 5,300 workers and young people have expressed their support for the SGP’s case and its fight to defend democratic rights.
The working class must organise an offensive against the government’s austerity measures, independent of the trade unions, pseudo lefts and so-called opposition parties, and based on socialist policies.
The SEP’s campaign against the state of emergency is receiving significant support from workers in various sectors, including from the education, health services and plantation action committees established under the party’s guidance.
Saturday’s meeting, which was addressed by leading members of the SEPs of Canada, the United States, and Germany, advanced a fighting program for the working class.
Calls for massive NATO troop deployments and hysterical threats and accusations by top US and NATO officials against Russia point to the imminent danger of war.
On Friday, a Saudi airstrike on a detention center in Saada, northern Yemen, housing African migrant workers transiting through Yemen to Saudi Arabia, killed at least 82 people and wounded 266 more.
For all the unsubstantiated allegations of Russian and Chinese “threats” and “aggression,” Australian and British imperialism have been two of the closest partners in crime of the US over the past three decades.
Against the backdrop of Friday’s meeting in Geneva between the US and Russia, Washington and NATO are dispatching more forces and equipment to areas along and near Russia’s borders.
The spacecraft, when fully operational, will peer deeper into the Universe than any previous astronomical instrument.
The facile equation of COVID and the flu made by right-wing politicians are lies on both sides of the comparison. The flu is nothing to trifle with, but COVID is infinitely worse, a brutal killer with incalculable consequences even for those who survive its initial ravages.
The world’s major capitalist powers and giant corporations have no solution to the climate emergency they have created.
The past two years have seen a series of escalating climate disasters in all regions of the globe, including massive wildfires from the Australian bush to the American west, devastating flooding in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and deadly heatwaves the world over.
The draft order was a charter for presidential dictatorship. It would have declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and placed the country under military rule.
The unsigned executive order was part of a trove of documents Trump sought to conceal, which were turned over to the January 6 Committee following Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision.
The “off-the-books” meetings were only known to a select few staff and conducted in secret in order to conceal conversations, according to Stephanie Grisham.
Following Trump’s November 2020 defeat, the far-right lawyers propagated his bogus claims of election fraud while helping orchestrate his legal and extra-legal efforts to remain in power.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Eric London, a writer for the WSWS and author of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
The announcement underlines the criminality of the Labour Party government’s decision to permanently seal the mine, preventing the 29 bodies being recovered and the 2010 disaster properly investigated.
The discovery sparked anger among some families of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster victims, and supporters, who questioned why the Labour Party-led government had sealed the mine, preventing the recovery of the 29 men who died.
The television documentary sets out to justify the government’s decision to abandon the underground investigation of the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and for which no one has been held accountable.
The media has blacked out the widespread opposition to the New Zealand Labour Party government’s decision to seal Pike River mine that prevents a thorough investigation and accountability for the deaths of 29 men in the 2010 disaster.
The Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has intensified the bipartisan drive to clamp down on left-wing and socialist political content on social media platforms.
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
We are calling on Reddit members to demand that the moderators of r/coronavirus and r/politics halt the McCarthyite blacklisting of content links from the World Socialist Web Site .
Jones’s suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
In this work, Soviet historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin (1937–1998) explodes the myth, shared by both anti-communists and Stalinists alike, that Stalinism evolved naturally and seamlessly out of Bolshevism.
Kruger’s book is a rebuke to the most basic lie of American history: that there has been no class struggle or socialism in the United States.
The DSA promotes a fairy-tale version of the Democratic Party because it is a part of the Democratic Party and its raison d’être is to prevent an independent movement of the working class.
The filmmaker’s life spanned nearly the entire 1900s and was inevitably “roughed up” and shaped by the critical events of that turbulent and traumatic century.
