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The Democrats are making clear behind the scenes that their central priority, should they win a majority in one or both houses of Congress, will be the escalation of the war against Russia
Andre Damon•
This statement was issued by Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania who ran for president of the UAW in the recently-concluded elections.
Will Lehman•
Carney demonstrated during the two-day summit what his government really stands for: enhanced profits for the oligarchy, intensified worker exploitation and a full-throttle drive to expand Canadian imperialism’s ability to wage war against its rivals in pursuit of resources, markets, and strategic influence.
Steven Fields, Roger Jordan•
Ahead of the October 17 day of action, which grew out of calls on social media for a revival of the “yellow vest” protest over purchasing power and social inequality, blockades are intensifying.
V. Gnana and Alexandre Lantier•
The high school protests shaking France, which have mounted alongside mass housing protests calling for a general strike in Spain, have turned into a confrontation with the French capitalist regime.
Alex Lantier•
President Trump announced October 16 that the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, set for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, will not be livestreamed, reversing the plan by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to broadcast the killing.
Kate Randall•
Tisch used the occasion of the Al Smith banquet to taunt her nominal boss, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, for rejecting the call of the Democratic Socialists of America that he fire her for assaulting anti-ICE protesters and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
Barry Grey•
Branch members discussed how Bogdan's case punctures the dominant media narrative on Ukraine, with the term ‘meat grinder’ used to describe the grim reality of the conflict
our reporters•
A 19-year-old neo-Nazi has been arrested and charged with making a terrorist threat and weapons offenses after an alleged attempt to massacre worshippers at an Illinois Hindu temple.
Andy Thompson•
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
Patrick Martin•
The hotel workers’ agreements expired August 31, when 85 percent of members at 46 hotel properties authorized a strike. But just six hotels have walked out.
Kristina Betinis•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee UK•
Halk TV, one of Türkiye’s most-watched news channels, has been taken over by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a police raid on the morning of October 14.
Barış Demir•
IMSS workers rejected the SNTSS wage deal after a national march called over the union’s head. The union and the Sheinbaum government are now moving to suppress the struggle.
Nakai Beltran•
The major American AI firm CoreWeave was hit by a “tornado” this week, as its shares plunged at one point by around 28 percent.
Nick Beams•
The latest IMF staff-level agreement means another round of austerity to guarantee debt repayment and protect the interests of international capital.
Saman Gunadasa•
The Labor government’s rising number of wrongful immigration detentions is another warning of the anti-immigrant bidding war underway in the political establishment.
Mike Head•
We are publishing here the second of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
An assessment of the decade of socialist revolution and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
David North•
Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
From the Declaration of Independence to the Third American Revolution
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Tom Mackaman. This report introduced the sixth resolution, “From the first to the third American Revolution,” which was unanimously adopted.
Tom Mackaman•
Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
From the first to the third American Revolution
We are publishing here “From the first to the third American Revolution,” the sixth and final resolution adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
AI, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The Congress was held from August 2–7, 2026. This report introduced the fifth resolution, “AI and the fight for socialism,” which was unanimously adopted.
Evan Blake•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Joseph Kishore•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Eric London•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
The Investigation Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
WSWS Editorial Board •
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds founding congress—a major advance in the building of the world party of socialist revolution
The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) •
Alan Thornett, 1937-2026: A militant won to Trotskyism who later embraced Pabloism
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Thornett was a prominent militant in the car industry who was won from the Stalinist Communist Party of Great Britain to the Socialist Labour League, then the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Chris Marsden•
Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar’s home: A new step in Trump’s drive toward dictatorship
A government that sends federal agents into the home of an opposition legislator, on the strength of smears spread by the president, is preparing to dispense with the constitutional forms that are supposed to hold it to account.
Patrick Martin•
Andre Damon•
Patrick Martin•
Tomas Castanheira•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Andre Damon•
Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress
The national security “caucus” of the House Democrats could double or even triple as a result of the November 3 vote.
Patrick Martin•
War-driven price surge fuels US political and social crisis
Inflation driven by the Iran war is cutting real wages, while higher interest rates make workers pay twice—on their own debts and on a trillion-dollar federal interest bill owed to the rich.
Patrick Martin•
Hegseth kicks off war-recruiting tour at Texas A&M
The secretary of war chose the university to begin his “Send Me” tour appealing for military volunteers on a religious and nationalistic basis.
Josh Andrews•
Michigan’s senatorial candidates debate: El-Sayed lurches further to the right
Michigan’s “progressive” Senate candidate defends capitalism and tariffs, denounces Iran and Venezuela, and backs a “safe and secure” border as he prepares to campaign with Obama.
Stephen St. Clair•
Luke Galvin•
Kevin Reed•
Our reporters•
Jacob Crosse•
John Burton•
Manhunt: A dark tale of violence that provides little illumination
The film focuses on two teenagers without presenting the social context that could explain why they are drawn to the far right.
Erik Schreiber•
Anti-genocide documentary Naza opens in the US, as Netanyahu government continues its attacks on the film
The film features interviews with two dozen members of the Israeli military who detail the AI systems and protocols by which the IDF target and murder civilians.
David Walsh•
Oracle comes to the “rescue” of the Nashville Symphony
The company has come up with $10 million, the equivalent of pocket change for its multibillionaire owner, to ensure that the coming season of the symphony goes ahead.
Fred Mazelis•
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s novel, Discipline, launched in London
Countering the myth of journalistic neutrality, Abdel-Fattah was at her most forceful. “What is the other side of [a child’s body] having more than 300 bullets?” she asked. “How can you talk of balance with children’s dismembered, decapitated bodies in plastic bags?”
Paul Mitchell•
Carlos Delgado•
Andrea Peters, Marc Wells•
Richard Phillips•
Marc Wells•
Philip Guelpa•
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
India: 50,000 Uttar Pradesh health workers protest for permanent jobs; Bangladesh garment workers block Dhaka roads for higher wages; Australia: Qantas engineers hold first strike in 16 years.
Spate of workplace fatalities exposes the disastrous consequences of airline deregulation in the US and Canada
Nearly fifty years after Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act, a series of aviation industry fatalities demonstrates the viciousness of the onslaught by the ruling class on working conditions it unleashed. These include the death of Oscar Robayo in Montreal and five workers after a cargo plane overshot the runway in Miami.
Claude Delphian•
Massive wave of job cuts in the German chemical industry
Neither the SPD nor the IG BCE (IG Mining, Chemical, Energy) union cares about “the people who work here.”
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Hundreds of thousands in Ireland’s largest public sector strike since 2009
The strike was called by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, covering 19 unions. Pickets were held in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford and 100 towns and cities.
Robert Stevens•
John Braddock•
Rory Woods•
Tom Hall•
Tony Robson•
Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for optogenetics, a light switch for the brain
Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth turned a light-sensitive protein from algae into a tool for switching brain cells on and off, giving the study of emotion, memory and behavior a causal, material basis. The prize comes as the Trump administration guts the research and health care this science should serve.
Benjamin Mateus•
Report says that global warming-enhanced El Niño will result in nearly half a million excess deaths by February
Near- and long-term effects of accelerating global warming will devastate the entire planet and cause major population displacements.
Philip Guelpa•
Super El Niño will exacerbate hunger crisis faced by hundreds of millions of children around the world
The convergence of global warming, the exceptionally warm waters in the equatorial Pacific known as El Niño and the war against Iran has created a “perfect storm” of hunger, falling hardest on children and the poorest workers and farmers.
César Uco•
Budget crisis prompts closure of oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere
The 198-year-old Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which has ceased operations, holds one of the world’s largest collections of scientific specimens and a historic display of dinosaur fossils.
Philip Guelpa•
Frank Gaglioti•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Eric Ludlow•
Bryan Dyne•
Trump threatens direct US strikes on Yemen, as the US-backed Saudi war escalates
The Trump administration is threatening direct US airstrikes on Yemen in a major new escalation of the war that US imperialism has been waging alongside its ally Saudi Arabia for more than a decade.
Andre Damon•
Democrats demand escalation against Russia after Trump announces “energy ceasefire”
The proclamation by President Donald Trump of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine and his lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel have been met with scathing denunciations by broad factions of the US political establishment, led by the Democratic Party.
Andre Damon•
White House discussed plans to attack Iran before elections
The Trump administration is preparing a major new bombing campaign against Iran, according to reports published Wednesday and Thursday by The Atlantic, Axios, NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Andre Damon•
8 Alawite workers massacred in armed attack in Syria
Violence against minorities, including the Alawites, has not abated under the regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Hakan Özal•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Andre Damon•
Barış Demir•
Jean Shaoul•
Andre Damon•
Australian PM glorifies Afghan occupation at event attended by accused war criminal
Albanese presented “all” Afghan veterans as exemplars of “Australian values” before an audience that included one accused of murdering civilians and prisoners.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australian workers and youth denounce Israel’s genocide and Labor’s complicity
Thousands of workers and young people joined rallies across Australia last weekend marking three years since the start of the Zionist regime’s imperialist-backed onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza.
Our reporters•
Thousands protest in New Zealand on third anniversary of Gaza genocide
The protest organisers, including pseudo-left groups, sought to turn the rallies into election campaign rallies for the pro-imperialist Labour Party and its allies.
Tom Peters•
Victorian election underscores crisis of Australia’s two-party system
The election campaign is already marked by mass anger over the soaring cost of living, the degradation of social services and enormous social inequality.
Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell•
Nick Beams•
Our reporters•
Kranti Kumara•
Mike Head•
Our reporters•
Video of Frankfurt book presentation: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
Katja Rippert, Johannes Stern•
Workers speak in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk at the 90th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
A rally and march was held in East London on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.
Our reporters•
Gary Tyler, former political prisoner in US, endorses campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk: “This young man should be free”
Gary Tyler, the former political prisoner who spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a murder he did not commit, has endorsed the international campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Jerry White•
Sri Lankan filmmaker supports campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“I hope that the struggle to secure Bogdan Syrotiuk's release will become the foundation for an anti-war movement.”—Prasanna Vithanage
Our reporter•
Johannes Stern•
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Sri Lanka)•
Statement by the party Union of Left Forces - For a New Socialism! •
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
our reporters•
Morenoites act to keep Brazilian workers and youth trapped in Lula’s “Broad Front”
The Morenoites of the PSTU and MRT are calling for a vote for Lula in the October 25 runoff. Their “critical” addenda serve only to reinforce illusions in the Broad Front.
Tomas Castanheira•
Morenoite CRT seeks to subordinate housing protests to Spain’s union bureaucracies
The eruption of mass protests across Spain against the housing crisis, following the eviction and subsequent death of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal, has brought millions of workers and young people into confrontation with the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.
Alejandro Lopez•
How Révolution Permanente blocks an independent mobilization of the working class amid French high school protests
The high school protests shaking France, which have mounted alongside mass housing protests calling for a general strike in Spain, have turned into a confrontation with the French capitalist regime.
Alex Lantier•
Zohran Mamdani’s “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism”: A capitulation to Zionism and the capitalist oligarchy
Mamdani's "Strategy to Combat Antisemitism" embraces the narrative used to slander opponents of the Gaza genocide as antisemites.
John Conrad•
Hugo Maltais, Richard Dufour•
John Conrad, Tim Avery•
Johannes Stern•
Sandy English•
Joseph Kishore•
UK cost-of-living crisis deeper and broader than ever
UK families are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis—including households not previously considered poor
Margot Miller•
Germany’s ruling parties move further to the right after defeats in September state elections
The results were a clear vote against the federal government and its policies of rearmament, war and social cuts. The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats are responding with further steps towards war and dictatorship.
Peter Schwarz•
Burnham hosts Zelensky as Europe rebuffs Trump’s Russia-Ukraine policy
The division between the White House and the European capitals is over two strategies for Ukraine’s domination.
Thomas Scripps•
Sweden’s Social Democrats try to form government after worst election result in modern era
The Social Democrats, who have dominated Swedish politics since World War II, are trying to form a government following their worst electoral performance since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1921.
Jordan Shilton•
Christoph Vandreier•
A resident doctor•
Santiago Guillen•
Johannes Stern•
Alejandro López and Alex Lantier•
Bowing to Washington’s pressure, Sri Lanka and India refuse to provide aid to Iranian ships
Behind its bogus claim of "neutrality," the JVP/NPP has thoroughly tied itself to US imperialism, shedding its pretence of anti-imperialism in the past.
Rohantha De Silva•
SEP (Sri Lanka) public meeting: Two years of JVP/NPP rule—a regime of IMF austerity and big business
The SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka will hold a public meeting entitled “Two Years of JVP/NPP Rule: A Regime of Big Business and IMF Austerity” on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at the Colombo Public Library Auditorium.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka’s new anti-terror law grants sweeping state powers to suppress social dissent
The new bill’s broad definition of terrorism opens the way to criminalizing popular opposition and class struggle against government policies.
W.A.Sunil, Wasantha Rupasinghe•
US strengthens military ties with Sri Lanka against Iran and China
Recent US military and diplomatic visits are bound up with the transformation of Sri Lanka into a strategic outpost in the build-up to war against China.
Rohantha De Silva•
Dehin Vasantha•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Saman Gunadasa•
Alberta’s far-right “independence” referendum: the issues for the working class
The UCP’s Alberta independence referendum is part of its broader assault on the social rights of the working class and its efforts to enhance the power and wealth of Alberta’s energy barons and financial elite within the Canadian federal state.
Keith Jones•
Florida executes James Robertson as executions press ahead after Christa Pike horror
Robertson, whose execution was Florida’s 17th this year, told investigators he killed his cellmate so he would be charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded guilty, waived the jury penalty phase and was sentenced to death.
Kate Randall•
Norfolk Southern train derails in suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Ferguson, Missouri on September 20, knocking out power to some 240 blocks.
Leon Fields•
Carney Liberal government deepens assault on federal public sector workers
The Carney government has already slashed over 22,000 jobs in the federal public sector and aims to cut tens of thousands more.
Graham Beverley•
Keith Jones•
Kate Randall•
Kate Randall•
Kate Randall•
Kate Randall•
Brazil’s presidential runoff: as Lula moves to the right, Flávio Bolsonaro prepares for dictatorship
After finishing second to fascist candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, Lula and the PT have responded by courting the bourgeoisie and the traditional right to broaden the “broad front” responsible for Flávio’s electoral rise in the first place.
Guilherme Ferreira•
Colombia’s president orders crackdown on national protests as US Reaper drones arrive and IMF cuts loom
Hours before the first national protests against his government, Colombia’s far-right president loosened restraints on the police, as US attack drones arrive and IMF-backed cuts are prepared.
Andrea Lobo•
As forest fires spread across Peru, convergence of El Niño and war threatens survival of millions
As wildfires kill six in Peru and a Super El Niño builds in the Pacific, capitalist governments across Latin America are pouring billions into weapons and lining up behind Washington's drive to war against China.
César Uco•
Chile’s “National Reconstruction Plan”: A tax giveaway to the rich, dressed up as disaster relief
The bill's “reconstruction” provisions are a pittance that will leave the overwhelming majority of disaster victims homeless for years to come, while its core content is a sweeping program of tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Andrea Lobo•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Andrea Lobo•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)•
Francis Portocarrero, Andrea Lobo•
Fight against war and for international socialism! Reject all capitalist parties and support the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand’s election!
Leading SEG member Tom Petterson will stand in the November 7 election, in opposition to all the capitalist parties, on a socialist and anti-war platform.
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Resolution for the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
The SEP and the fight against war
We are publishing here the first of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
SEP (Canada) Statement of Principles
Delegates to the Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress held in Montreal from August 22 to 24 unanimously adopted the following Statement of Principles.
Socialist Equality Party (Canada)•
SEP (Australia) holds 8th National Congress
The congress adopted five resolutions that outline a socialist and internationalist perspective on the key issues facing the working class.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Socialist Equality Party (Canada)•
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Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Owen Howell•
Join the IYSSE in the fight for a socialist future against war, dictatorship and social devastation!
Students in Türkiye and around the world are returning to school amid an intensifying wave of war, dictatorship and social devastation. At the same time, social anger and struggles are growing in the working class and among young people.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Türkiye)•
Dozens arrested ahead of the NATO summit in Türkiye remain in prison
The aim of the unlawful “preventive” arrests was to keep anti-war opposition off the streets and intimidate broader masses of workers and youth.
Can Denizli•
Tensions between Türkiye and Greece escalate amid deepening imperialist war
One NATO member is carrying out a military deployment against another member of the same alliance. This escalation is a by-product of the imperialist war that is metastasising from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and tending to merge into a single conflict.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
“Disposable apprentices”
Survey exposes dire conditions facing young and child workers in Türkiye
According to its findings, long working days, poverty wages, workplace accidents and exhaustion define the daily lives of these young people in Türkiye.
Yılmaz Demirkol•
Barış Demir•
Hasan Yıldırım, Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir•
Süleyman Sağlam, Barış Demir•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Saginaw and Detroit autoworkers discuss outcome of UAW election: “Every dictator claims the people are behind them”
Michigan autoworkers discussed the massive boycott of the UAW elections, which reinstalled Shawn Fain with the backing of only 6 percent of eligible voters.
Jerry White •
UAW election debacle: More than 90 percent of members boycott vote, as apparatus reinstalls Fain
More than 90 percent of the United Auto Workers membership boycotted the vote. With the entire apparatus of the union at his disposal, Shawn Fain has been “re-elected” with the votes of 6 percent of the members.
Jerry White•
Corporate press, DSA falsify UAW election, invent “mandate” for “president 6 percent” Shawn Fain
By inventing mass support for UAW President Shawn Fain, the media and the pseudo-left are seeking to delegitimize all opposition to the bureaucracy and providing cover for it to move against opposition in the rank and file.
Tom Hall•
UAW official, who issued death threat against Will Lehman, fired from position after months of rank-and-file demands
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., an organizer in the UAW’s Department of Bargaining Strategy, has been fired from his $202,000 a year position.
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George Kirby•
Jerry White•
George Kirby•
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7 miners dead in 3 weeks: The bloody toll of Chile’s copper crisis
The carnage is the direct product of a profit drive that has intensified to the point of outright criminality, creating a situation that the ruling class, the government and the trade union apparatus all recognize as explosive.
Mauricio Saavedra•
5 miners killed in Soma, site of Türkiye’s 2014 mining disaster
Five miners were killed and two others were rescued injured on 1 October when a roof collapsed in an underground coal mine in Soma, western Türkiye.
Barış Demir•
Cleveland-Cliffs: Worker dies at Pennsylvania coke plant, Ontario plant being idled, while USW keeps steelworkers on the job without new contracts
More than a month after the original September 1 expiration date, the United Steelworkers is keeping tens of thousands of workers on the job while negotiating concessions behind closed doors.
Samuel Davidson•
Former Air Canada pilot and whistleblower speaks out on the death of Oscar Robayo and dangerous conditions in the aviation industry
The crushing of ramp worker Oscar Robayo by the nose gear of an Airbus A350-900 while he was performing a routine pushback at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport in August has provoked sympathy and outrage among workers throughout the aviation industry and beyond.
Felix Gauthier•
Jesse Thomas•
Our reporters•
Penny Smith•
Our reporters•
CJ Porter, Brian Green•
Video: Germany’s intelligence agencies are preparing the public for war against Russia
Germany’s intelligence chiefs are now stating openly what this is about: the population is to be prepared for war with Russia.
Johannes Stern•
Germany’s intelligence agencies drum up support for war against Russia
The public hearing of the heads of Germany’s intelligence agencies in the Bundestag on Monday was an undisguised propaganda event for preparations for a direct war against Russia and a massive expansion of the state apparatus of repression at home.
Johannes Stern•
European powers answer Russian nuclear warnings with further military escalation
Barely days after Moscow formally warned NATO that an attempt to blockade or isolate the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad could provoke the use of nuclear weapons, the governments of Europe are responding not with attempts to step back from the brink, but with declarations of increased military support for Ukraine, accelerated rearmament and preparations for a direct confrontation with Russia.
Johannes Stern•
Why did Ukrainian President Zelensky visit North Bay, Ontario, home to the Waffen SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka?
Amid a massive escalation of the US/NATO war on Russia, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada for three days earlier this month to drum up more financial support and military equipment for his dictatorial regime.
James Clayton•
Robert Stevens•
Andre Damon•
Jason Melanovski•
Robert Stevens•
Johannes Stern•
IMF report details a financial system with rising risks and vulnerabilities
The most striking feature of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report is that the eruption of another financial crisis is taken as a given.
Nick Beams•
IMF meets amid sovereign debt build-up
No longer simply a problem of so-called “emerging markets,” the debt crisis is lodged within all the major economies.
Nick Beams•
64 million fewer people received aid last year due to funding cuts by imperialist powers
A report by the humanitarian organisation ALNAP finds that 64 million fewer people received aid last year as humanitarian funding fell 30 percent between 2022 and 2025, while the imperialist powers pour record sums into rearmament and redirect aid towards border control and security.
Jean Shaoul•
US economy and Wall Street increasingly dependent on AI amid concerns over circularity
It has been estimated that investment in AI will total $10.3 trillion between 2025 and 2032 and that “never before has the US economy been so dependent on the build-out of a single industry.”
Nick Beams•
This week in history: October 12-18
Protests against US invasion of Afghanistan; Canadian workers strike against wage controls; Pakistani prime minister assassinated; United Opposition renounces factional methods in USSR
40 years since the attempted assassination of Pinochet
The pseudo-left cannot defend its track record, so it flees into an idealized past. It cannot offer a program, so it offers assassination of an individual dictator as a substitute for the overthrow of an entire social system.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Pinochet’s Operation Colombo: A fascist crime and its cover-up
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Trump administration moves to gut the National Historic Preservation Act
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
Philip Guelpa•
Alejandro López•
Clara Weiss•
John Harris, Peter Symonds•
Nick Beams•
Clara Weiss, David North•
Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
WSWS International Editorial Board•
Socialism AI answers the New York Times: Not yes or no to AI, but who controls it
The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.
Socialism AI•
Answers from Socialism AI
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
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Answers from Socialism AI
What must be done to prepare a nationwide general strike against the Trump administration?
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Socialism AI•
Socialism AI•
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
Ebola death reported in Kenya as epidemic reaches 9,000 confirmed cases
More than half of Ituri’s new positives on Oct. 9 came from swabs of the dead, while a man who had been ill for a month passed two airport screenings before dying in Nairobi.
Benjamin Mateus•
Fighting in Ethiopia threatens renewed civil war, destabilising Horn of Africa
With the Strait of Hormuz already closed, the US Israeli war of aggression against Iran is spreading from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
Jean Shaoul•
Kenya’s opposition parties audition for imperialist powers ahead of elections
The Gen-Z uprising demonstrated the enormous potential for a mass movement cutting across the ethnic divisions cultivated by the Kenyan bourgeoisie. But it also exposed the political bankruptcy of the established opposition.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Congo Ebola epidemic passes 8,000 cases and nears 4,000 deaths as attacks on health workers mount
The Congolese Ebola epidemic has reached 8,116 confirmed cases and 3,924 deaths, amid attacks that have killed a local politician who urged prevention on the radio and a health worker at a screening post, while world leaders quibble over equity and royalties.
Benjamin Mateus•
Jean de Jager•
Benjamin Mateus•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Trump targets Omar for deportation in escalating drive toward dictatorship
The administration is using unproven allegations about decades-old paperwork to threaten an opposition congresswoman with expulsion and make citizenship contingent on political submission.
Jacob Crosse•
In run-up to midterms, Trump steps up drive to rig the elections
With less than three weeks to go before the midterm elections, inflation is up, Trump’s poll numbers are down and the White House is intensifying its efforts to block or overturn the vote.
Barry Grey•
Texas prosecutor accuses ICE of intentionally running over worker, obstructing investigation
Sean Teare told NBC News it was “pretty obvious” the ICE officer intentionally ran over the worker. He added the agency may have allowed critical vehicle data to be erased.
Jacob Crosse•
As Trump looks on, supporters beat woman protester at rally in Youngstown, Ohio
Racist and anti-communist denunciations accompanied attacks on protesters in scenes recalling the German American Bund’s 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jane Wise•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Anthony Callahan•
11 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: “We need an explanation,” says widow
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
Jerry White •
9 months since death of Michigan autoworker Ronald Adams
Nine months after the preventable death of 63‑year‑old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. , the silence from the company, the United Auto Workers and state remains deafening.
Jerry White •
“Our family wants answers that we have not gotten”: 8 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
Jerry White•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
David North•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
United States blocks UN pandemic preparedness declaration
CDC Director Erica Schwartz cited “divisive ideologies” and the unfinished fight over pathogen sharing and drug patents that has stalled the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
Bill Shaw•
Latest UK COVID-19 Inquiry report documents impact of privatisation, wasted resources and cronyism
Authored by Baroness Heather Hallett, the report documents cost-cutting in pivotal logistics, £10 billion wasted on inadequate or unused PPE, and millions lost to unpursued fraud.
Lucy Connell•
The 13th COVID-19 wave and the further dismantling of US public health
The United States has entered its thirteenth COVID-19 wave as federal agencies suppress evidence of vaccine effectiveness, retroactively relabel transmission data, strip pandemic preparedness from research plans and transfer the work to the Pentagon.
Benjamin Mateus•
Who decides what is safe to eat: The cyclosporiasis outbreak and the failure of American food safety
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in US history has spread through 48 states without a source being named. A century after the Pure Food and Drug Act, the apparatus built to answer such questions is being dismantled.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Evan Blake•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi defies Turkish state’s intervention on its program
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office demanding that it change its program. It categorically rejected this political intervention.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
Opening Report to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Statement of Principles of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi•
David North•
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
May Day 2026
Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
The 2026 International May Day Online Rally and the tasks of the international working class
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
WSWS Editorial Board•
May Day 2026
Canadian imperialism: predator, not prey, in global war
This speech was delivered by Keith Jones, Socialist Equality Party (Canada) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2026
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against imperialism!
This speech was delivered by Tom Peters, a leader of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Tom Peters•
Cheryl Crisp•
Deepal Jayasekera, Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
Tomas Castanheira•
Alex Lantier•
Chris Marsden•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
The place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
David North•
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
Eric London•
Lecture to the 2025 SEP Summer School
Joseph Hansen—the FBI’s asset in the SWP
This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.
Thomas Scripps•
Lecture to the SEP 2025 Summer School
The Gelfand Case: Depositions and the fight against summary judgement
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
John Burton•
Tom Carter•
Norisa Diaz•
Patrick Martin•
Andrea Lobo•
International Committee of the Fourth International•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
The Investigation Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
WSWS Editorial Board •
London meeting marks 40 years since the expulsion of the Workers Revolutionary Party
The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.
Our reporters•
40 years since the suspension of the Workers Revolutionary Party from the ICFI
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
Peter Schwarz•
From the Archives
Documents of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the suspension of the WRP
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
David North•
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Mass arrests of 150 Palestine Action protesters at UK Labour Party conference, as total nears 4,000
The Burnham government is backing the genocide in Gaza and criminalising opposition to it at home every bit as brutally as Starmer, despite his crocodile tears.
Robert Stevens•
Prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan denounces escalating pro-Zionist attacks on democratic rights in Australia
Flanagan’s speech, which received a prolonged standing ovation from a sold-out audience of 1,000 people, systematically exposed the state-backed pro-Zionist campaign that falsely equates opposition to Israel’s war crimes with antisemitism.
Richard Phillips•
Britain’s healthcare workers must demand Israel release Gaza’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
NHS FightBack•
Five hundred more pro-Palestine protesters arrested in UK despite High Court ruling
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
Thomas Scripps•
Tom Peters•
Mike Head•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jacob Crosse•
Antony Walsh•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
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A further exchange with Brazilian historian Mário Maestri on Trotskyism and the American Revolution
Mário Maestri has sent a reply to our article “Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian,” developing his position on the character of the American Revolution and Brazilian independence, to which the WSWS has in turn responded.
Tomas Castanheira•
Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a revolution.
Tomas Castanheira, Tom Mackaman•
An interview with historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
Tom Mackaman•
“It was universally understood as a revolution.” An Interview with historian Matthew Stewart on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.
Tom Mackaman•
David North•
Zac Corrigan•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Joseph Kishore•
Thomas Scripps•
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Our reporter•
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
At town hall, students, workers denounce University of Michigan–Los Alamos nuclear weapons data center
The IYSSE distributed a statement outlining a socialist strategy to oppose the militarization of AI and harness the revolutionary technology to meet social needs.
Stephen St. Clair•
Campus police report sheds new light on suicide of University of Michigan researcher Danhao Wang
Wang’s death came amid the Trump administration’s prosecution of five Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan.
Stephen St. Clair•
International Labour Organisation warns of deepening global youth jobs crisis
The International Labour Organisation warns of a worsening global youth jobs crisis, with youth unemployment rising, 257 million young people classified as NEET, and secure entry-level work becoming harder to obtain.
Jean Shaoul•
Fight war, oligarchy and climate catastrophe! Fight for socialism!
Imperialist wars abroad are coupled with class war at home. Students will graduate into a society ransacked by the capitalist oligarchy.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Brazil)•
Stephen St. Clair•
our reporters•
Action Committee Nurseries & Education•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
Read the introduction
David North to speak at two universities in Ankara, Turkey: “The American volcano and the global tsunami”
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
Our reporters•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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On the 86th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
Andre Damon•
Trotsky’s My Life: An imperishable contribution to Marxism and world literature
This speech was given by David North at the fourth annual international commemoration of Leon Trotsky’s exile on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, held August 16 before an audience of more than 100, under the title “My Life, Written on Prinkipo, and Trotsky's Years in Exile.”
David North•
David North answers questions at the international Trotsky commemoration in Prinkipo
North answered questions on the fate of Ernst Thälmann, the Kronstadt uprising, the situation confronting workers in the Middle East and the strength of the Left Opposition inside the Soviet Union.
David North•
International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo and the journey of My Life in Turkish
The fourth annual International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky was held on August 16, 2026, at the Taş Mektep venue on Büyükada, hosted by the Adalar Municipality with the support of Mehring Yayıncılık and the World Socialist Web Site.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Mehring Verlag•
Clara Weiss•
David North•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
David North•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Find out more
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
Our reporters•
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25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
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.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
Trump administration announces it has placed weapons in orbit, in major step in the militarization of space
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink’s acknowledgment that the United States “now has on-orbit space control weapons” comes as the Trump administration has abandoned or bypassed one arms-control treaty after another, and 10 days before Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the White House.
Andre Damon•
US Southern Command announces sustained operations in Ecuador and Colombia while sinking more fishing boats in the Pacific
US imperialism is building a hemispheric repressive apparatus that is distinctly fascist: fishermen killed or their livelihoods destroyed without trial, prosecutors and journalists murdered and bodies displayed as propaganda.
Andrea Lobo•
US sends troops under cover of Venezuelan earthquake, as death toll surges
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the country.
Andrea Lobo•
Threat of US military action against Cuba mounts with Iran ceasefire
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Andrea Lobo•
Andre Damon•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Keith Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Andre Damon•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Video of Frankfurt book presentation: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
Katja Rippert, Johannes Stern•
From the Front Line, 1941-45
Vasily Grossman’s reporting on the Nazi-Soviet war
Although best-known for his major novels, Vasily Grossman's powerful social realism was rooted in his active involvement in the Red Army’s struggle against Nazism. His war-time writings are now presented in the most complete English edition to date.
Clara Weiss•
My Brilliant Career: Netflix’s caricature of a classic Australian novel
The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.
Kaye Tucker, Richard Phillips•
Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Survive: Petrograd 1919
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
Clara Weiss•
Tom Peters•
Ioan Petrescu•
Peter Symonds•
James McDonald•
Christoph Vandreier•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
View the Timeline
Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Stephen Parker•
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
Oppose the Trump administration’s drive to strip Ilhan Omar of citizenship!
Citizenship is being made vulnerable to a government determined to punish opposition.
Jacob Crosse•
Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election
The Democrats are making clear behind the scenes that their central priority, should they win a majority in one or both houses of Congress, will be the escalation of the war against Russia
Andre Damon•
War-driven price surge fuels US political and social crisis
Inflation driven by the Iran war is cutting real wages, while higher interest rates make workers pay twice—on their own debts and on a trillion-dollar federal interest bill owed to the rich.
Patrick Martin•
Corporate press, DSA falsify UAW election, invent “mandate” for “president 6 percent” Shawn Fain
By inventing mass support for UAW President Shawn Fain, the media and the pseudo-left are seeking to delegitimize all opposition to the bureaucracy and providing cover for it to move against opposition in the rank and file.
Tom Hall•
Patrick Martin•
Jerry White•
Evan Blake•
Tom Hall•
David North•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
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.
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