The October 24 online webinar, “How to Stop the Pandemic,” marked a major advance in the development of a broad-based movement, rooted in the working class and informed by science, to fight for the elimination of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Two organizers of the January 6 rally at the White House told Rolling Stone magazine that they had “dozens” of meetings with leading Republicans in Washington.
Shortly after the November 2020 presidential election, the Trump White House set up a group of Republican operatives, lawyers and politicians operating out of the nearby Willard Hotel to organize the overthrow of the election and installation of Trump as president-dictator.
The WSWS spoke with workers who participated in and viewed our webinar this Sunday, “How to end the pandemic,” all of whom stated that it had a powerful impact on them.
Speakers from the SEG in New Zealand, and the Socialist Equality Parties in Australia and the UK, discussed the immense dangers posed by governments allowing COVID-19 to spread.
The White House declared that all restrictions on foreign travel would be lifted on November 8 for all vaccinated international travelers.
As it did with striking Volvo workers, the UAW is planning to pay workers as little as possible to pressure them into accepting a contract that meets the demands of Deere’s shareholders.
Workers were forced to vote amid a campaign of intimidation by union officials, without even being given copies of the full contract.
John Scott will serve as secretary of state through 2022, a period when Governor Greg Abbott and the entire state legislature are up for reelection and more restrictive voting laws are to be enforced for the first time.
The outlawing of human rights groups and persecution of humanitarian activists follows Israel’s decades-long suppression of the Palestinians that has included collective punishment, house demolitions, deportations, detention without trial, torture, targeted assassinations and most recently the denial of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Relations between Turkey and several of its major NATO allies, including the United States, Germany and France, are teetering at the breaking point.
The interest payment averted a situation where Evergrande would be formally in default, which would have opened the way for bond holders to take legal action to recover their debts.
The current frontrunner in early polling is Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of the former dictator who ruled the country in a brutal martial law regime.
An international online meeting with leading scientists and workers engaged in the fight to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Amazon Labor Union’s campaign, which is supported by established trade unions along with Democratic Party politicians, offers no way forward to fight the giant corporation.
The WSWS has received copies of many statements sent to the University of Michigan protesting actions taken against composer Bright Sheng for showing a film version of Shakespeare’s Othello.
The efforts of scientists require mass support, particularly in a period when reactionary forces shamelessly propagate ignorance, confusion and superstition.
The third global school strike to fight against the deadly reopening of schools as the COVID-19 pandemic rages was held on Friday, drawing support from thousands of parents and workers worldwide.
In remarks opening the WSWS’ October 24 webinar, “How to End the Pandemic,” David North called for the implementation of a science-based strategy directed toward the global elimination of COVID-19.
“I want to hear from eminent scientists who do not agree with the current UK rhetoric of living with the virus. It’s not acceptable to allow children to get infected.”
“These meetings have given me hope for the future of the entire human race so I’ll being attending the next meeting with the same enthusiasm.”
A school caretaker wrote, “With this knowledge we can mobilize all education workers to immediately close schools until there are zero reported COVID cases.”
Little or no official effort has been made to publicly track deaths and warn educators and students about the dangers they face in the pandemic.
“Brazil is a leader in deaths of young people from the coronavirus. How can I not defend my child from this?”
Today, parents, teachers and workers in countries around the world are once again supporting the call from UK parent Lisa Diaz for a one day school strike to fight against the deadly reopening of schools as the COVID-19 pandemic rages.
Following the full reopening of schools across the state, educators in Georgia are currently dying at rate of more than one per day.
Eugenia Torrealba, a 70-year-old who lived under the Pinochet dictatorship, stated: “Democracy is not something that gets given to you and stays there, as we in Chile know very well.”
Australian involvement in US-led wars over the past three decades has been accompanied by a constant stream of legislation designed to muzzle anti-war opposition.
“The reason they’re telling us to live with the virus is because the economy is going downhill, and capitalism has to continue generating profits for companies and businesses. But the consequence is more infections, illness and deaths.”
SEP Assistant National Secretary Max Boddy warns, “Children, almost all unvaccinated, are being recklessly sent back to school, risking infection, illness and death to force their parents back to work.”
The Andrews government has dispensed with any pretence of prioritising public health and is openly imposing the dictates of big business and the banks, whatever the consequences in illness and death.
Little or no official effort has been made to publicly track deaths and warn educators and students about the dangers they face in the pandemic.
As a result of the Trudeau government’s scrapping of the Canada Recovery Benefit, the more than 800,000 workers who were receiving the $400 weekly payment are threatened with destitution.
The rejection of even the minimal measures contained in its own “Plan B” policy, mandatory face masks, remote working and vaccine passports, confirms the government will not abandon its policy of letting the virus rip, whatever the cost in human life.
The vote of over 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers to strike comes amid a far broader strike wave among the international working class as the pandemic has laid bare the class fault lines that exist in capitalist society.
Bauxite miners at Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated struck October 21 over wages, while truckers in Peru are set to walk out against rising fuel prices, taxes and tolls.
After union-management “crisis talks” last Thursday workers were offered a deal they have rejected on multiple occasions.
The expansion and integration of Deere’s operations around the world over the last 65 years has linked workers up in an international web of production, which, if successfully leveraged, would be a source of immense strength.
Operation Curveball by German director Johannes Naber valuably turns a knife in a wound that many in the American and German intelligence communities and governments no doubt hoped had long since healed.
Clark was a key figure in the brief, but influential early period of the Byrds, who played a significant role in the expansive and electrified “pop” turn of folk music in the mid-1960s.
Maid is a 10-episode drama series created by Molly Smith Metzler. It premiered on Netflix October 1 and has been one of the streaming platform’s top-rated shows for the past several weeks.
Australian photojournalist David Dare Parker and Thailand-based documentary photographer John Hulme have added their voices to the growing numbers speaking out against MGM’s “burying” of Minamata.
The gigantic storm swept into the Bay Area on Sunday, causing the collapse of utility lines and flattening trees in the urban area. Roadways were flooded and approximately 148,000 households and businesses lost power.
While California suffers many natural disasters, including earthquakes, wildfires and droughts, among the worst natural disasters to hit the West Coast in the last 160 years was the Great Flood of 1862.
Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced her administration is calling for the state legislature to pass an additional $11.4 million to fund the replacement of Benton Harbor’s lead pipes, which officials aim to complete in the next 18 months.
In two recent cases the Supreme Court delivered 9-0 orders upholding so-called qualified immunity to shield police and detention facility officers from excessive-force claims and other constitutional lawsuits.
A massive increase in coronavirus numbers is overshadowing the political power struggles in the Czech Republic.
The total wealth of the 100 richest Germans included in the latest rich list by Manager Magazin increased from 606 billion euros in 2020 to a projected 722 billion in 2021—a more than 19 percent rise.
In the second decade of the 21st century, life expectancy growth has stalled, stagnated and is now falling precipitously among the working class, in the fifth richest country on the planet.
While Britain and Eastern Europe are particularly hard hit, with hundreds of deaths every day, the number of cases is again growing across the entire continent.
The Modi government wants the power to suppress films that have already been approved under India’s pervasive censorship regime.
The sale of Air India is being touted by the far-right BJP government as the opening salvo in an across-the-board push to privatise virtually all state-owned companies.
The events were not aimed at mobilising students, but instead at promoting the dead-end perspective that moral appeals to capitalist politicians can halt the climate crisis.
There is a broad opposition among parents to the hasty and unsafe reopening of schools now underway across India.
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.
Historical truth belies education minister Alan Tudge’s claims that Anzac Day is not a “contested idea” and instead “the most sacred of all days.”
In April 1998, Maurice Papon, then aged 88 years old, was sentenced to prison by a French court for having organised, the deportation of 1,690 Jews from France during the wartime Vichy regime, while he was the general secretary of the police prefecture in the Gironde.
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.
Workers in the US, Brazil and around the world must reject the reactionary alliance between pro-capitalist unions determined to suppress their struggles.
Speaking in Quito as troops patrolled the streets, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that “extraordinary moments” require “exceptional measures.”
As workers in São Caetano were being threatened by GM, the union announced it would do nothing to protect them, and that continuing the strike was a purely individual decision.
Doctors have recounted a routine in which they prescribed the “COVID-19 kits” while having to tell their patients in secret not to take the medications.
The decision establishes a precedent where any professor or lecturer can be blocked from speaking on any subject if they do not accept the dominant narrative, particularly as it relates to racial and gender politics.
The protests by students at the historically black university have revealed that Howard is not exempt from the class divide that permeates the rest of society.
The IYSSE calls on the university administration to retract the slanders against Professor Sheng and immediately invite him to return to the classroom from which the distinguished artist should have never been removed.
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were distraught to learn of the suicide and attempted suicide of two students over the weekend, the second month in a row in which the university has seen a suicide and attempted suicide by students.
The October 24 online webinar, “How to Stop the Pandemic,” marked a major advance in the development of a broad-based movement, rooted in the working class and informed by science, to fight for the elimination of the virus that causes COVID-19.
In remarks opening the WSWS’ October 24 webinar, “How to End the Pandemic,” David North called for the implementation of a science-based strategy directed toward the global elimination of COVID-19.
The tens of thousands of health care workers who gave their lives to save others are among the approximately 15 million people worldwide who have died from COVID-19.
The CPI report stands as an indictment not just of Brazil’s fascistic president, but of heads of state and ruling classes the world over.
Amid a sharp upsurge in the class struggle, 627 subway and tram workers in Izmir are preparing to go on strike on Friday.
The Saudi-led war has caused at least 120,000 deaths, including tens of thousands of civilians, as well as a further 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure.
In an act of raw revenge for the debacle of its 20-year war, the US is denying Afghanistan access to its own financial reserves, threatening an economic and social collapse.
The elections take place amid increasing hostility towards the political setup established after the 2003 US-led invasion, protests over corruption, social and economic conditions and water and power outages. These conditions are exacerbated by low oil prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fallout from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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.
Students from almost all of Sri Lanka’s universities participated in the event, indicating that young people are seeking a serious analysis of crucial international developments.
Commentary on the worsening economic situation reflects the view that the growing problems are not transitory, but an expression of deeper shifts and government and financial authorities are out of their depth when it comes to dealing with them.
JPMorgan Chase has made the equivalent of $131 million per day over the last four quarters.
Surging global energy prices contribute to a maelstrom of problems, pushing workers to the brink and endangering economic growth.
In comments to the Financial Times, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath emphasized the importance of being “very, very vigilant” with regard to wage demands in response to inflation.
The probe is slated to study eight asteroids in the main asteroid belt and among Jupiter’s trojans as part of a campaign to more closely study the origins of Earth and the other planets in the Solar System.
The rate of extinctions is accelerating, threatening the stability of the ecosystem.
The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine awarded the prize in medicine to two scientists from the United States whose work helped elucidate the cellular and genetic mechanisms behind the sense of touch.
This year’s prize highlights the connection between seemingly random events, such as the weather on a given day, showing they arise from law-governed and knowable underlying processes.
The statement reflects widespread opposition to the US attempt to prosecute Assange, which has been exposed as a dirty-tricks operation aimed at silencing him.
Hardly any media outlets have even asked whether the Australian authorities knew about the US plans to murder or kidnap an Australian citizen and journalist.
The anniversary is being marked by Assange’s continuing imprisonment and a media blackout of revelations that the American government plotted to assassinate the WikiLeaks founder.
Plots of imperialist violence and assassination, once organised through accomplices, kept closely under wraps and strenuously denied, are now carried out in ever more open fashion.
In campaigning for the contract’s passage, the strategy of the United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers has never been to convince workers but to threaten and discourage them.
Every Dana worker must vote “no” on the second tentative agreement and campaign actively among our co-workers for the biggest “no” vote possible. We must send a message loud and clear: Dana workers are united and we are ready to strike!
A growing strike wave of historical proportions is taking place against decades of attacks on living standards and working conditions, and we must be a part of it.
Dana auto parts workers in the United States voted down a sellout contract of their own by a similar margin more than a month ago, but the UAW and the United Steelworkers are keeping workers on the job on a day-to-day contract extension.
Underlining its transformation into a fascistic party, all but nine of the Republican lawmakers voted against holding Bannon in contempt for refusing a congressional subpoena.
In the gubernatorial election, Republican hedge fund executive Glenn Youngkin is running a close race against Democratic former Governor Terry McAuliffe.
The majority on a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday to keep the anti-abortion “Texas Heartbeat Act” in effect pending the outcome of the court challenges.
Bannon, a close Trump adviser who played a central role in the mobilization of fascist thugs to attack the Capitol, is defying a subpoena to appear before the committee.
While the fact-finding mission’s report presents a horrific account of conditions in Libya, it is silent about the 2011 war of aggression that gave rise to them.
COSATU and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa are reacting to the extreme social tensions building up and seeking to head off an anti-capitalist movement in the working class.
More than 150,000 steel and metal workers went on strike Tuesday in South Africa, demanding substantial wage increases from the employers and vowing to stay out until they achieve this goal.
Dozens have died in Algeria as forest fires and record temperatures ravage the north of the country and the entire Mediterranean region.
Sudanese workers’ opposition to the al-Burhan’s power grab takes place amid growing militancy throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Operation Curveball by German director Johannes Naber valuably turns a knife in a wound that many in the American and German intelligence communities and governments no doubt hoped had long since healed.
Australian involvement in US-led wars over the past three decades has been accompanied by a constant stream of legislation designed to muzzle anti-war opposition.
Biden’s statement is another provocative step that undermines the basis of US-China diplomatic relations and intensifies the already acute tensions between the two countries.
Two organizers of the January 6 rally at the White House told Rolling Stone magazine that they had “dozens” of meetings with leading Republicans in Washington.
Shortly after the November 2020 presidential election, the Trump White House set up a group of Republican operatives, lawyers and politicians operating out of the nearby Willard Hotel to organize the overthrow of the election and installation of Trump as president-dictator.
Underlining its transformation into a fascistic party, all but nine of the Republican lawmakers voted against holding Bannon in contempt for refusing a congressional subpoena.
The resolution will now move to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, which is expected to vote on it on Thursday.
The call from UK parent Lisa Diaz for a nationwide school strike in the UK has won a significant response from workers and parents throughout the world.
In this video interview, Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz speaks with World Socialist Web Site writer Evan Blake about the October 1 UK school strike and what must be done to eradicate COVID-19.
Lisa Diaz’s call to parents in the UK not to send their children to school on October 1, and to strike against the murderous herd immunity policy, met with widespread support in Germany and around the world.
The words “COVID”, “Long COVID”, “infections”, “hospitalisations” and “deaths” do not feature once in the Parent’s United statement, despite tens of thousands of children catching COVID-19 every week, scores being hospitalised with the virus every day and close to 90 dead.
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.
Yesterday’s German federal election result reflects deep popular alienation from all the parliamentary parties, ushering in a period of political instability and sharp class conflict.
The contradictions of world capitalism, which the German ruling class tried to resolve in the 20th century by means of war and fascism, are violently reemerging.
The run-up to the election this coming Sunday has been characterised by an unprecedented wave of strikes, protests and demonstrations.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) held its closing rally for the federal election on September 19.
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement whose legacy lives on in the work of the US Socialist Equality Party and the entire International Committee of the Fourth International.
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 .
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Jerry White, labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Niles Niemuth, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site.
This report was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Tom Mackaman, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site.
The vote was a blow to the Trump-style campaign waged by the recall supporters and the leading Republican candidate, Larry Elder.
David Moore, SEP candidate for California, held a second Town Hall meeting online to mobilize workers in the fight for socialism
The Socialist Equality Party calls on working people in California to vote “no” in the election to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and then to cast a replacement vote for our candidate, educator David Moore, the only socialist running in this election.
A predictable crisis is unfolding throughout California hospitals, which are facing an influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
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.
The lead candidate of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, spoke with North about the debacle for US imperialism in Afghanistan and its implications for the struggle against militarism.
From the outset, the WSWS exposed the lies of Washington that its illegal invasion of Afghanistan was an act of self-defense in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
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 Labour Party-led government is close to permanently sealing Pike River mine, ending the underground investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 men, for which no one has been held accountable.
Only the intervention of the working class, independently of the unions and every party in parliament, can stop the state cover-up of the Pike River mine disaster.
Andrew Little, Minister for Pike River re-entry, has repeated false statements that it is too dangerous to re-enter the mine workings to discover the precise cause of the 2010 explosion that killed 29 workers.
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.
Workers angered over the concessions imposed by the company and the UAW are refusing to volunteer for work over the scheduled maintenance shutdown that begins next week.
Less than a week after United Auto Workers President Ray Curry conspired with management to shut down the five-week Volvo strike and ram through a contract previously rejected by workers, he wrote a feature column in the Detroit New s titled “UAW works with employers for union members.”
While mouthing certain criticisms of the conduct of the UAW, the Valley Labor Report program completely falsified the record of the strike, writing out the role of the World Socialist Web Site and the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
Volvo’s substantial earnings contradict the dishonest argument advanced by both the company and the UAW over the course of the past three months that there was simply not enough corporate money to meet workers’ demands.
Last Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul publicly accused Anthony Fauci of having helped to genetically engineer the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Wednesday, 21 of the world’s leading experts on the origins of infectious diseases published a preprint paper demolishing the conspiracy theory promoted by the Biden administration and the US media that COVID-19 was a man-made virus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SEP Assistant National Secretary Max Boddy warns, “Children, almost all unvaccinated, are being recklessly sent back to school, risking infection, illness and death to force their parents back to work.”
This sixty-second video explains the program of the SEP and is designed for social media platforms
In this video, WSWS Labor Editor Jerry White explains the issues behind the contract rejection at Deere and why workers are pressing for strike action Wednesday night.
SEP National Secretary Cheryl Crisp said any conception Australia had somehow escaped the worst of COVID-19 had been dispelled by 56,000 people being infected with the virus in the past four months.
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.
This volume, presenting an informal account of the author’s trip to the small Soviet republic in 1961, is in its own slighter fashion as deeply moving as his monumental war novels.
The Night Watchman tells the story of the Turtle Mountain tribe of Chippewa in North Dakota as they fight to survive the US government’s attempt in 1953 and 1954 to “terminate” them.
August 27 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of writer Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. Dreiser was the author of a number of the most important American novels ever written.
The author of the recent collection What Though the Field Be Lost discusses his interest in history and his thoughts about our current cultural and political moment.
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.
