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.
Working class opposition to the COVID-19 pandemic began with a series of wildcat strikes in Italy that spread to other European countries and the Americas within a week.
The continued protests and strikes are testimony to the determination of the working class to resist military rule in the face of increasingly brutal repression.
The ruling class fears the outcome of the trial could ignite another wave of mass demonstrations like those across the US and internationally in the aftermath of Floyd’s death.
The task force report can only be seen as part of a cover-up of a deliberate security stand-down ordered at the highest levels of the state, including the White House and the Pentagon.
The heads of both chambers of the State Legislature have implicitly or explicitly demanded that Cuomo step down after the New York Times spearheaded a sex scandal targeting him.
The Greensill story has all the hallmarks of the continuing shocks delivered to the global financial system: hype on the part of the founder, support from high levels of the political establishment, complex financial practices that seemingly promise large returns and dubious accounting procedures.
The events chronicled in Kevin Macdonald’s film were set immediately into motion by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Salahi, now living in Mauritania, was kind enough to answer a number of questions by email recently.
With the complicity of the unions, the right-wing government is forcing teachers back to in-person teaching, despite a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Prior to the meeting, of federal and state government, repeated outbreaks of more infectious coronavirus variants occurred across Germany due to the continued operation of workplaces and the reopening of schools.
Neither the RCN nor any of the other health union, including UNISON with more than half a million health worker members, intends to organise industrial action.
This is a fight between two factions for which there can be no sympathy, other than to acknowledge that their deeply flawed personalities are the product of an institution and a social milieu that does great damage to all involved.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has formed a committee to review the potential removal of five statues of Lincoln, along with monuments to Washington, Franklin, and Grant.
Testimony this past week revealed that top officials within the military delayed deploying National Guard troops during the January 6 insurrection for one hundred and ninety-nine minutes.
Biden’s unprecedented intervention at Amazon brings to a new stage the corporatist strategy of the ruling class to integrate the unions into the state and corporate management.
If a deadly third wave is to be averted, educators and the working class as a whole must take matters into their own hands and intervene as an independent force.
The meeting outlined an international strategy based on science and a socialist program to deal with the pandemic which has swept the globe due to the homicidal policies of capitalist governments.
Educators in the state’s largest school district are fighting to keep learning remote as school outbreaks rise and new COVID-19 variants take hold.
Governor Kate Brown issued an executive order on March 5 to force students and teachers back into schools by the middle of April despite dangerous new variants threatening a surge of the virus.
Fascistic President Bolsonaro’s installing of a general as head of Petrobras sent the energy conglomerate’s stocks into a 20 percent plunge.
The social measures taken by Latin American governments were designed to starve workers into accepting the lifting of the limited lockdowns and a reckless return to work
While the various pseudo-lefts distanced themselves from the official honors for the dead former president, they avoided any mention of their own political betrayals that facilitated his attacks upon the working class.
The memoirs of ex-army commander Villas Bôas have thrown Brazilian politics into turmoil and exposed the drive towards dictatorship in the sixth most populated country in the world.
The abandonment of the lockdown and all public health measures to contain the pandemic and using the virus as a pretext to attack democratic rights go hand-in-hand.
The hellish situation in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is increasingly driving refugee children and adults to commit suicide.
That COVID-19 is a “poor man's disease” which has hit the working class hardest—driven into unsafe workplaces under the policy of herd immunity—is a verifiable fact.
The criminalization and sadistic persecution experienced by asylum seekers are a product of the government’s long-standing policy to enforce an “hostile atmosphere” for migrants.
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the closure of arts courses throughout universities.
In the near future, the Brazilian government’s reparations for “high-melanin” individuals abruptly turn into forced deportations.
On February 24, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti died, one of the last significant surviving American artists who emerged in the post-World War II period.
The unprecedented ravaging of arts and culture across the US continues unabated.
Skilled trades workers are charging multiple contract violations by the UAW as it colludes with corporate management.
It is the oppressive rates of work at Amazon, together with low pay and unsafe conditions, that account for the torrent of profits now gushing into the bank accounts of the pandemic profiteers.
Electrical workers in Puerto Rico began a one-day strike March 8 over alleged corruption in government contracts while a cover-up by Canada Post of a COVID outbreak that killed at least one worker at its Mississauga, Ontario sorting facility has been exposed.
The recent history of the betrayals of struggles by steel and mine workers under the direction of the United Steelworkers contains vital lessons for ATI workers as they enter a renewed contract struggle against the backdrop of the intense political and economic crisis of the capitalist ruling class.
With states around the US reopening businesses and schools, health experts are warning of a massive surge of COVID-19 cases in the coming months as new variants take hold.
The 15th annual “Wealth Report,” published by the London-based real estate firm Knight Frank, reveals that the number of individuals with $30 million or more in net worth expanded globally in 2020.
Olymel is reopening its Red Deer plant although there are at least 91 COVID-19 cases still active among the workforce, and the current outbreak has resulted in multiple worker deaths.
Hundreds of dockworkers in Southern California are out of work due to rising COVID-19 infections, leading to record-setting cargo backlogs on the West Coast under conditions where dockworkers internationally are being forced to work without adequate protections and testing.
Despite the dramatic intensification of the military’s killings last Wednesday, anti-coup protests and strikes have continued around the country on a daily basis.
Behind the manoeuvring over the forum leadership lie profound geo-strategic rivalries fuelled by the US-led preparations for war with China.
The threat of deportation looms over the asylum seekers’ heads, continuing years of cruel treatment in detention on remote islands, and then in overcrowded hotels.
The Supreme Court verdict indicates that key sections of the ruling elite are hostile to Oli’s actions and fear the growing discontent towards his corrupt and autocratic rule.
In his remarks following the Senate vote, Biden unwittingly shed light on the gap between the massive scale of the crisis and the aid on offer.
The Proud Boys, which played a leading role in the January 6 assault on the Capitol, has close relations with the Republican Party.
At its peak, last month’s blackout left four million households without heat or electricity in freezing weather and 14 million without water for days, leading to hundreds of deaths across Texas.
The charges stem from a brutal attack on inmates that epitomizes the long history of sadism and depravity at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.
David North and Eric London speak on the significance of the latest revelations, in the context of the decades-long Security and the Fourth International investigation by the ICFI into Trotsky’s assassination by Stalin’s GPU.
25 years ago: Tensions escalate between US and China after missile tests near TaiwanOn March 8, 1996, China began missile testing and military exercises for war games off Taiwanese coastal areas in the run-up to presidential elections on the island nation, which Beijing regarded as a renegade province. The Clinton administration responded by sailing two US carrier battle groups, backed by submarines, into the waters surrounding Taiwan.
The deathbed confession of former undercover NYPD officer Raymond Wood points to an official cover-up.
Attacking the New York Times’ 1619 Project where it is weakest, the Trump Administration’s “1776 Report” responds to the controversy with its own brand of flag-waving “America First” demagoguery.
The CDC director raised concerns that mitigation measures’ rapid relaxation could lead to a spring surge as more virulent strains of the coronavirus are detected.
The man who made a major contribution to the development of the Synthetic Theory of evolution was also a defender of the crimes of Stalinism.
An average of 7,000 new cases and 230 new deaths are still being reported each day in Texas, making it the state with the second worst outbreak in the country.
Educators from across Alabama and several other states asked questions at the meeting, which was chaired by an Alabama public school teacher.
The IYSSE at ASU is working to bring a socialist perspective to the students and youth at the college and in the surrounding area, and, to turn them to the working class in the region.
The developments of the past 12 months have proven that students and youth face a future of misery and dictatorship under capitalism. The only alternative is the fight for revolutionary socialism.
The reopening of schools amid a raging pandemic is a criminal act that will only add to the already horrific toll of death from the coronavirus.
These cuts are just the first expression of what is to come if there is no organized opposition in defense of education and particularly the arts and humanities.
Albanese’s highly conditional comments, made in a closed-room caucus meeting and leaked to the press, were a cynical public relations exercise that committed Labor to nothing.
Assange is still being denied proper access to his lawyers and to crucial legal documents, even after a Magistrates’ Court verdict blocking his extradition to the US last month.
“It has to be a grassroots movement from below to save Assange. A mass movement or mass support for him, rather than trying to appeal to the goodness of Australian politicians’ hearts.”
Judge Baraitser said in her decision Wednesday, “As far as Mr Assange is concerned, this case has not yet been won.”
The SGP began its campaign for the 2021 German federal elections with a strong launch meeting that was followed by hundreds of workers and young people online.
Workers in every country around the world confront the same problems and can only oppose exploitation, militarism and fascism by uniting. This is why the SGP’s election campaign is not restricted to Germany, but addresses itself to workers throughout Europe!
Speakers explained the vital stand taken by the Smeaton Grange warehouse workers and outlined the political perspective needed to defeat the escalating assault on jobs and conditions.
The Socialist Equality Group and IYSSE in Turkey held an international online meeting January 17 titled “Amid the global breakdown of democracy, the way forward for the Boğaziçi University protests.”
“The creation and distribution of news is controlled by a few corporations, ruthless in promoting their class interests.”
On Friday, Facebook removed without explanation a group with 90,000 members who work in the international cruise ship industry.
Following up on the remarks of CEO Mark Zuckerberg two weeks ago, Facebook has issued an official statement spelling out how it will move forward with plans to reduce political content on its social media platform.
The WSWS has been sent letters from Emmy Butlin and Maxine Walker, of the Committee to Defend Julian Assange (JADC) in opposition to the censorship of the World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Parties by Facebook.
Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that the Justice Department is investigating “Stop the Steal” organizers and promoters, including Alex Jones, Roger Stone and Ali Alexander.
The Democrats deliberately protected Trump’s co-conspirators, including the Republican House and Senate members who sought to overturn the election and those forces within the state who worked with Trump to orchestrate a stand-down of federal forces.
Not a single Democrat had the courage to point an accusing finger at the Republican senators and bluntly state: “All of you who condoned and legitimized Trump’s lies, who supported his claim that the election was stolen, functioned as his political accomplices in the preparation of the coup d’état.”
While the Senate impeachment trial is providing devastating evidence of Trump’s criminal role in organizing the January 6 political coup, the Democratic Party is seeking to give Trump’s Republican co-conspirators an amnesty.
The economic crisis, intensified by the coronavirus pandemic, has thrown more than half of the country’s six million population into poverty.
One US civilian contractor died from a heart attack during the rocket strike, which inflicted no casualties on US troops and reportedly did little damage.
The act of aggression against Syria and the global escalation of US militarism constitute the foundation of bipartisan unity between Biden and the Republican Party.
The most urgent issue confronting NATO, a May 1 deadline for withdrawing 10,000 troops from the two-decades-old war in Afghanistan, was left undecided.
Republican lawmakers, taking advantage of the racialist falsifications of the 1619 Project, are seeking to promote their own backward and chauvinistic version of US history.
Attacking the New York Times’ 1619 Project where it is weakest, the Trump Administration’s “1776 Report” responds to the controversy with its own brand of flag-waving “America First” demagoguery.
In an act of political censorship, Canada’s “newspaper of record” has refused to publish a letter from WSWS Chairman David North answering its smear.
The feigned outrage over “revelations” that Hopkins owned slaves serves to obscure the class issues that are the real irrepressible conflict in American society.
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 pandemic is a “trigger event” that manifests in a highly concentrated form the contradictions of the global capitalist system and is unleashing long-suppressed forces of social transformation.
Italian workers 24-hour strike for improved pay and conditions; thousands protest against poverty in Lebanon as currency devalues
British gas engineers resume strike action after company refuses to budge over “fire and rehire”; UK London bus drivers strike over pay cut; one-day national action in South Africa over unemployment, poverty and inequality
Portuguese teachers strike against unsafe return to schools order; national strike planned against South Africa’s ANC government over the erosion of workers’ rights, unemployment, corruption, inequality and poverty.
The French army has waged the neo-colonial war under the cynical banner of the fight against terrorism and the defence of the local population.
The fascist insurrection in Washington DC is a turning point in the political history of the United States.
Thousands of Trump supporters have stormed the Capitol and halted the congressional certification of Trump’s defeat in the presidential election.
The Trump administration’s Cyber Unified Coordinating Group (UCG) published a press release on Tuesday stating that the Russian government was responsible for the hacking of the SolarWinds Orion platform.
Democratic state senators, after scattered protests, allowed the anti-democratic farce to proceed.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, the WSWS is presenting some of his most important works, as well as essays and tributes to Engels by other leading Marxists.
One US civilian contractor died from a heart attack during the rocket strike, which inflicted no casualties on US troops and reportedly did little damage.
Veterans of the Obama administration’s wars in the Middle East, drone assassinations and pivot to Asia, the nominees were largely embraced by Senate Republicans.
Yellen’s nomination seems assured, as she enjoys support from both the Republicans and Wall Street.
The 6.5 percent growth in the fourth quarter indicates that the Chinese economy is expanding at a faster rate than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mehring Books imprints are 40 percent off; other publishers 20 percent off. Pre-order The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History for $19.95.
Trump is deliberately inciting fascist forces through his baseless claims of a “stolen election.”
The FBI conducted further raids in Michigan Thursday as more details emerge of a national conspiracy involving fascists and police in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Delaware, Texas and Minnesota.
Renea Turner is a Trump supporter linked to a group of state legislators who have threatened to impeach DeWine or have him “arrested” for his coronavirus lockdown actions.
Three right-wing organizations have filed a lawsuit to overturn Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s order banning open carry of firearms at polling stations.
An online meeting with historians James Oakes, Richard Carwardine and Tom Mackaman. Moderated by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North.
SEP National Secretary Chris Marsden told the meeting, “Jeremy Corbyn describes politics as some sort of cricket match. He encourages us to say, ‘Well, this isn’t fair’. Well, politics isn’t a cricket match, politics is war.”
This was the final election meeting organised by the Socialist Equality Party as part of its campaign in the 2020 US elections.
These remarks were delivered October 28 to an online forum sponsored by the San Diego State University Department of Political Science.
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.”
The bombing marked a critical step toward the imposition of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 and remains one of the most controversial events in the country’s history.
The WSWS has been relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
The relaunch of the 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.
Working class opposition to the COVID-19 pandemic began with a series of wildcat strikes in Italy that spread to other European countries and the Americas within a week.
With states around the US reopening businesses and schools, health experts are warning of a massive surge of COVID-19 cases in the coming months as new variants take hold.
Testimony this past week revealed that top officials within the military delayed deploying National Guard troops during the January 6 insurrection for one hundred and ninety-nine minutes.
Rosa Luxemburg, who was born on 5 March, 1871, was among the most important revolutionary Marxists of the 20th century, and her work contains vital lessons for today.
Modern Monetary Theory is the latest in a long line of attempts by “left” theorists to maintain that capitalism can be made to work for society if only outmoded thinking about the monetary system is abandoned.
The racist massacre in Wilmington was a major turning point in the entrenchment of Jim Crow segregation throughout the South.
Two recent works of fiction interestingly portray the #MeToo campaign in operation, but don’t criticize (or probe deeply) much of what needs to be criticized.
The Kill Chain exposes US imperialism’s advanced war preparations against China, with Silicon Valley playing a critical role.
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.
