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Bond yields surge as governments borrow for war and rearmament
The rise in US bond yields was particularly significant because it came in the face of attempts by Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to suppress them.
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A whistleblower report by an anonymous United States Postal Service official made public on Tuesday warns that under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, USPS will withhold mail ballots from millions of voters.
Barry Grey•
More than 100 Haitians in Springfield have been fitted with electronic monitors as the Trump administration accelerates deportation flights and mass immigration raids.
Jacob Crosse•
The death of Robayo has exposed the deadly consequences of airport subcontracting and deregulation.
our reporter•
Andrew “Andy” Block was killed at the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan two weeks ago when he was crushed by a powered scrap shoot clam shell that closed on him while he was performing a welding repair.
George Kirby•
The lockout of 120 Marathon refinery workers, the contract struggle involving 23,000 steelworkers and the National Steel Car strike in Canada point to the conditions for a united struggle across North America.
Tom Hall, David Benson•
Under conditions of the deepest attacks on USPS in history, and ongoing conspiracies from the White House, the postal unions are attempting to divide up workers and prevent a counter-offensive in defense of jobs and democratic rights.
Tom Hall•
The message is that Burnham and Healey must fund war preparations and impose the savage austerity required, or stand aside and make way for forces prepared to carry it through.
Robert Stevens•
The real offence, it turns out, was criticising a genocide the Left Party itself has supported—in parliament, in coalition budgets, and now on the campaign trail.
Tamino Wilck•
The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk is aimed at terrorizing opposition to the NATO-backed war against Russia.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Kirpichenok’s arrest is an attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class and speaks to the utter lawlessness and criminality with which the Israeli state suppresses its critics, regardless of their faith and nationality.
Clara Weiss•
Flash floods in Nepal have left over 22,000 children vulnerable, with families struggling to access clean water.
Rohantha De Silva•
Workers have been on strike for more than a week demanding a wage increase, in defiance of the union bureaucracy.
Aruna Malalagama•
But a decline in what? Simply in Hemingway’s skill as a writer? Or something more? It is necessary to briefly consider his history.
David Walsh•
We are publishing here the report delivered by Eric London to the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 2–7, 2026, introducing the third resolution, “For the defense of immigrants and the abolition of the immigration Gestapo.”
Eric London•
This is the third of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
We spoke to residents of Gary, Indiana who spent 14 days without power after a storm damaged electrical infrastructure owned by NIPSCO, the local power monopoly.
Kathleen Martin, Usmak Khan•
Kathleen Martin, Usman Khan •
Educators are furious at the Queensland Teachers Union’s claim that they had a “significant win” last week when the state’s industrial relations judges granted a supposed 3 percent wage rise.
Mike Head•
Ron Mark, who wants to be the defence minister again, said New Zealand must be “mentally prepared to start arming ourselves” for war against China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Tom Peters•
Five prime ministers have withdrawn from the Pacific summit amid escalating tensions caused by far-advanced war preparations by the US against China.
John Braddock•
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•
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•
Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions 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
Oligarchy, dictatorship and the political radicalization of the American working class
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
Joseph Kishore•
Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
The drive to dictatorship and the political radicalization in the United States
"The drive to dictatorship and the political radicalization in the United States" is the second of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Eric London•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Tom Hall•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Photographer, filmmaker and translator Eugene Ulman calls for the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Ukraine’s government cannot credibly invoke democracy as the justification for its struggle against Russia while imposing such a sentence on a young journalist for doing his job.”
Our reporters•
“Official cult of Holocaust perpetrators and ethnic cleansers”
John-Paul Himka, leading historian of Ukraine, condemns prosecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Dr. John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alberta and one of the world’s foremost historians of modern Ukraine.
SEP (UK) Zoom Meeting: The Ukraine War and the Fight to Free Bogdan Syrotiuk
Our speakers will include Chris Marsden and Tom Scripps, the national and assistant national secretaries of the SEP (UK), and Johannes Stern, the German language editor of the WSWS and leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei.
Our reporters•
California academics and socialist groups in Russia, France and Turkey demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
A letter from a group of some 200 California scholars, a statement from a socialist organization inside Russia and a wave of articles in the Turkish and European left-wing press have joined the international campaign for the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist.
Andre Damon•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Our reporters•
Johannes Stern•
Our reporters•
Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)•
The Roman Space Telescope: The power of science and the bankruptcy of capitalism
The extended international effort to probe the history of the universe of which the Roman telescope is a part conflicts directly with the continued existence of the profit motive and the nation-state system.
Bryan Dyne•
The Pentagon takes control of Venezuela’s oil: Imperialist thievery and the bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism
The Pentagon has taken an ownership stake in one-fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves in a deal that exposes both the gangsterism of the US ruling class and the terminal bankruptcy of Chavismo and bourgeois nationalism.
Andrea Lobo•
Behind CIA Director Ratcliffe’s secret trip to Russia: The Ukraine war spirals out of control
The first visit by a CIA director to Moscow since the eve of the Ukraine war comes as the NATO powers pour weapons, money and intelligence into an escalation that brings a direct clash with nuclear-armed Russia ever closer.
Andre Damon•
The Nepal-China flood, climate change and the fight for socialism
The social catastrophe that has resulted is the latest consequence of the inability of the world’s capitalist governments to halt climate change or prepare their populations for the inevitable deadly consequences.
Bryan Dyne•
Roger Jordan •
Johannes Stern•
Patrick Martin•
Andre Damon•
Kevin Reed•
Millions mourn singer Dolly Parton
The loss of country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton is keenly felt by artists and audiences alike throughout the world.
James Brewer•
The human cost of the Paramount-Warner merger
The toll of the takeover is the product of three decades of bipartisan deregulation, consolidation and attacks on workers.
Marc Wells•
Entertainment unions intensify campaign for corporate tax handouts as film subsidy race to the bottom accelerates
As public funds bankroll corporate relocation, entertainment unions enforce the competitive framework and suppress a unified struggle against job destruction.
Marc Wells•
Paramount launches witch-hunt against actor Mark Ruffalo for opposing Gaza genocide
Actor Mark Ruffalo issued a powerful statement in response to the efforts of Paramount Skydance to slander him as an antisemite for publicly denouncing the Ellisons’ support for Israeli genocide and the media monopoly’s merger with Warner Brothers Discovery as a threat to freedom of expression and the jobs of entertainment workers.
Kevin Reed•
Sandy English•
Nargis from Kubrat•
Paul Mitchell•
Thomas Scripps•
Barry Grey•
Interest rate rises adding to surging US debt
G7 economies have already taken a hit of $16 billion in additional debt financing costs since the war on Iran began and may face $34 billion in extra costs by early next year.
Nick Beams•
Fed chief sets the stage for interest rate increase
One commentator described it as a “cleanup” act, as Fed chair Kevin Warsh used his speech to the bankers’ Jackson Hole symposium to insist he was determined to take action on inflation.
Nick Beams•
The crisis of March 2020 is haunting the US financial system
In the six years since the US Treasury market “froze,” the role of hedge funds, which sparked the “dash for cash,” has increased markedly.
Nick Beams•
US and Canada “at war” over trade
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney ended tariff talks after saying the US had introduced last-minute changes to a proposed deal which compromised the country’s sovereignty.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Marc Wells•
NASA launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to survey dark energy, dark matter
Roman is the most capable deep space survey telescope ever built and will be used to study dark energy, exoplanets, supernovae and much more.
Bryan Dyne•
T. rex fossil sold for $50.1 million
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
Philip Guelpa•
US measles cases near their worst level since 1991, met with official silence
The country is on course to lose the elimination status it achieved in 2000, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the federal vaccine infrastructure.
Benjamin Mateus•
Fired drinking water adviser files suit against EPA
A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.
James Brewer•
Philip Guelpa•
Paul Bond•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus•
This week in history: August 31-September 6
Volkswagen workers strike in Puebla, Mexico ends; Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to the United States with MiG-25; S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike founds the Sri Lanka Freedom Party; British gunboats bombard the Chinese city of Wanhsien on the Yangtze River
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•
Ninety years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons are critical for the class struggle in the 21st century.
Alejandro López•
Clara Weiss•
John Harris, Peter Symonds•
Nick Beams•
Clara Weiss, David North•
Peter Schwarz•
The deportation of Brian Morales García: The war on immigrants is a war on the entire working class
A construction worker deported despite being a US citizen exposes how immigration repression is preparing the machinery for attacks on workers.
Marc Wells•
ICE Gestapo expands deportation flights to third countries in Africa
Deportees sent to Liberia described being shackled for hours, denied access to restrooms and assaulted after protesting their forced removal to countries where they have no ties.
Jacob Crosse•
US government officially designates Palestine Action as a terrorist organization
The unprecedented action is aimed at criminalizing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the wider US-Israeli aggression throughout the Middle East.
Patrick Martin•
Trump sends second deportation flight to Haiti as ICE kidnaps nearly 50,000 in July
The flight carried 57 people, including US-born children, as the administration prepares to increase deportation flights to Haiti from monthly to weekly.
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Nick Barrickman•
Jacob Crosse•
Harry Smith•
Jacob Crosse•
FAA moves to fire 2 LaGuardia controllers before fatal runway-collision investigation is complete
The threatened firings are a naked effort to scapegoat workers for chronic understaffing and unsafe conditions throughout the National Airspace System.
Claude Delphian•
Contract deadline looms this week for 23,000 steelworkers in the US
The USW bureaucracy is blocking preparations for a unified struggle with Canadian USW members on strike at National steel Car, instead subordinating steelworkers to nationalism, protectionism and trade war.
Samuel Davidson, Tom Hall•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Bank unions plan nationwide strike action; Punjab National Health Mission workers continue strike; Bangladesh: Outsourced public-sector workers demand permanent jobs; Australia: Newcastle Coal terminal workers take industrial action; FedEx workers hold two-hour strikes around Australia.
Turn the National Steel Car strike into a counter-offensive by workers across North America: For class struggle, not trade war
The decisive question two weeks into the strike is whether we organize ourselves to win or allow the United Steelworkers bureaucracy to fritter away our strength until we are starved into accepting another sellout.
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
our reporters•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Dante Pastrana•
John Conrad•
At least 2 dead, more than 20 unaccounted for after Grand Canyon flash flood
The flooding was intensified by the burn scar left by last year’s 150,000-acre Dragon Bravo Fire, exemplifying the compound disasters made increasingly destructive by climate change.
Jacob Crosse•
Canada’s opposition parties and trade unions join hands with Carney government in trade war with US
The leaders of Canada’s main opposition parties, including the social-democratic NDP, met with Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney last Tuesday to demonstrate their full-throated support for Canadian imperialism in the escalating trade war with the US.
Roger Jordan•
The vindictive prosecution of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy
Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse from Massachusetts, is accused of criminal responsibility for the deaths of her three children in January 2023.
Norisa Diaz•
Two unvaccinated Pennsylvanians dead as measles epidemic accelerates
Pennsylvania has confirmed 393 cases across 28 counties, nearly two-thirds of them in adults, as national kindergarten vaccination falls to its lowest level on record.
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Jacob Crosse•
Kristina Betinis•
Jacob Crosse•
Kristina Betinis•
Detroit judiciary attacks public defenders’ right to strike
Wayne County judges threatened three striking public defenders with jail and thousands of dollars in fines before dismissing the contempt charges against them.
Anthony Callahan•
Democratic Party think tank Third Way launches campaign against socialism
A leaked internal email reveals plans to hire a “Director of Anti-Extremism,” days after the Democratic-Party aligned think tank cited the 1947 purge of the unions as its model.
Isaac de Vries•
The US bond market crisis and the coming eruption of class struggle
The financial oligarchy can defend the immense mass of fictitious wealth only by continuously driving down the living standards of the working class at home and seizing foreign markets, resources and supply chains abroad.
Tom Hall•
Fauci adviser David Morens pleads guilty, as Trump escalates war on science
Not one of the officials and executives who enforced the policy of mass COVID infection has been charged with any crime, and several now run the federal health agencies.
Benjamin Mateus, Evan Blake•
Patrick Martin•
Barry Grey•
Patrick Martin•
Jesse Thomas, Barry Grey•
Barry Grey•
UK Prime Minister Burnham U-turns over Thames Water nationalisation
Burnham’s retreat confirms the real character of his government: a continuation of the profit‑driven order that has looted public infrastructure for decades.
Paul Mitchell•
German auto industry moves into arms production—just as under the Nazis
To ramp up booming arms production, the arms industry needs new capacity. Under the slogan “Auto2Defence,” it is seeking available labour, factories and technical expertise from the crisis-hit auto industry.
Ludwig Weller•
Pro-government Turkish journalist calls for extermination of Syria’s Arab Alawites
A Turkish journalist with deep ties to the Erdoğan government made remarks on a major national television channel that sought to normalize the massacre of Arab Alawites in Syria.
Hakan Özal•
How to combat the far-right AfD
For the first time since the collapse of Hitler’s Nazi regime 81 years ago, a politician from the far-right could become premier of a German federal state, Saxony-Anhalt.
Peter Schwarz•
Robert Stevens•
Fabian Winter•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Hundreds of workers trapped in flooded tunnels, as Nepal deaths near 1,000
Rescue teams from Nepal, India and China are drilling and blasting toward hundreds of workers still trapped underground at hydropower plants, five days after the flood that has killed at least 939 people.
Kevin Reed•
The goon attack at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University—The BJP’s war on student dissent
A mob of Hindu supremacist thugs allied with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party violently attacked students at Jadavpur University, in Kolkata, West Bengal, on the night of August 19–20.
R.A. Vasikh •
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•
One Nation victory in Western Australia underscores working-class discontent
This by-election is the first time that the far-right formation has won a seat in an Australian parliament at the direct expense of the Labor Party.
Mike Head•
John Braddock•
Oscar Grenfell•
Tom Peters•
Our reporters•
Kevin Reed•
Case of pro-Trump operative Cerimedo opens Pandora’s box of corruption, election interference and drug ties across Latin America
Four separate investigations have opened in Bolivia against Cerimedo, who served as President Paz’s top adviser, exposing the methods used by Washington to install far-right governments across the hemisphere.
Andrea Lobo•
US strikes on border and resignation of Sinaloa governor expose logic of Sheinbaum’s endless concessions to Trump
The US military used a high energy laser to down alleged Mexican cartel drones in the same week that the governor of Sinaloa was driven from office as a product of a campaign launched by Washington.
Andrea Lobo•
Rodent infestations in Chile’s collapsed schools: A powder keg in the making
The conditions in Chile’s schools are not the result of one government’s negligence, but the cumulative impact of a system imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship and preserved by every administration since.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Amid earthquake disaster in Venezuela, US stages talks between puppet government and right-wing opposition
The abject subservience of both sides of the table was summed up by the Financial Times, which reported that the government made no mention whatsoever of freeing former president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from their US prison cells.
Andrea Lobo•
Our reporter•
Andrea Lobo•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Andrea Lobo•
By our reporter•
Following report of meeting between Jeffries and Trump adviser Kushner
Mamdani reaffirms support for Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries
One day after the New York Times reported a private meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, New York City Mayor and DSA member Zohran Mamdani reaffirmed his support for Jeffries’ bid to become the next speaker of the House.
Erik Schreiber, Barry Grey•
El-Sayed drops his left rhetoric at Michigan rallies
The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee’s joint appearances with party leaders were organized to demonstrate his post-primary embrace of the party establishment.
Stephen St. Clair•
What lessons must be drawn from Mélenchon’s warnings of a French neofascist presidency?
As the French presidential election campaign begins, France and the world face a capitalist crisis that no election will resolve, against which the working class must be mobilized in revolutionary struggle in France and internationally.
Alex Lantier•
Mamdani goes to court to block $10,000 bonus for NYC paraprofessional school aides
Mamdani’s lawsuit foreshadows a massive conflict between his supposedly “democratic socialist” administration and the powerful New York City working class, which includes hundreds of thousands of public school educators.
Jesse Thomas, Barry Grey•
Sandy English•
Our reporters•
Jesse Thomas, Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Committee for Public Education•
With “economic D-Day” against Iran, Washington escalates conflict with China
The Trump administration on Monday launched what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called an “economic D-Day” against Iran—a campaign of secondary sanctions aimed at every country, bank and company that trades with Tehran, above all China, which took roughly nine-tenths of Iran’s oil exports before the US blockade choked them off.
Andre Damon•
UK resident doctor explains why NHS workers must demand Israel release Gaza’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Healthcare workers have demonstrated in central London and outside the prime minister’s office in Downing Street in defence of Abu Safiya.
NHS FightBack•
Online exhibition: The Living Record: Gaza’s journalists remember their martyred colleagues
The exhibition documents the lives, courage and determination of Palestinian journalists murdered by the Israeli regime in Gaza.
Sandy English•
Australian government’s phony posturing over Israeli murder of aid worker
While bemoaning the IDF’s exoneration of itself, Labor leaders repeated the fraudulent Israeli narrative that the bombardment of a clearly marked aid convoy was an error.
Oscar Grenfell•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Andre Damon•
Peter Symonds•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kevin Reed•
Sri Lankan government bans railway workers from using social media
The JVP/NPP government aims to suppress opposition to the deliberate running down of railway services and its privatization agenda.
Sujeewa Amaranath•
Sri Lankan police harass SEP members campaigning at Jaffna University for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
The attempt to intimidate Socialist Equality Party members is an attack on free speech and the democratic rights of all workers and students.
Our correspondents•
Jaffna fishermen protest against bottom trawling, Tamil nationalists divert anger along communal lines
Fishermen in northern Sri Lanka must unite with workers and poor fishers across the country and in India, who face the same struggle against big fishing corporations.
Navin Dewage, M. Muruganandan•
Sri Lankan government rejects returning wartime military-occupied land
More than a decade and a half has passed since the 26-year communal war waged by successive Colombo governments against the LTTE ended, yet thousands of acres of civilian land remains occupied by the military forces and enclosed behind barbed-wire fences.
M. Thevarajah•
Dayananda Ratnayake, Kapila Fernando•
Naveen Dewage•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Wasantha Wijesiri, Dehin Wasantha•
Family and coworkers to hold memorial service for James Brasher, third Stellantis worker killed under UAW 2023 sellout contract
The 57-year-old Stellantis worker killed on the job August 1 at the company's Mopar Parts Distribution Center in Center Line.
Jerry White•
Federal monitor allows UAW official who issued death threat against Will Lehman to collect his $200,000 salary
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
Jerry White•
Forklift safety expert calls for independent investigation into catastrophic accident at GM Flint Assembly
While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward.
Tom Hall, Sheila Brehm•
Forklift accident leaves worker with “life-altering” injuries at General Motors Flint Truck Assembly; workers told to keep line moving
According to a worker at the plant, the affected worker was 71 years old and had just signed her retirement papers last week.
Sheila Brehm•
Jerry White•
Evan Blake•
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Socialist Equality Party (US) holds 9th National Congress amid world war, dictatorship and political radicalization
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
From the archives of Marxism: Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
Paul Bond, Chris Marsden•
Geethananda Balasuriya Jayasekara (1955–2026): A fighter for Trotskyism
Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for socialism of what it means to be a Trotskyist fighter.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Ulrich Rippert•
Marianne Arens•
Bryan Dyne•
David North•
Our reporters•
Prison sentences for mayors in politically motivated trial in Türkiye
Workers and young people must oppose the use of the judiciary as a weapon to suppress and neutralize political opposition, and must defend democratic rights.
Barış Demir•
Turkish parliament passes law on Kurdish PKK disarmament
The Turkish parliament passed a law on the PKK's surrender. The near-unanimity of Turkish and Kurdish parties alike expresses not a turn toward peace but the ruling elite closing ranks, as it is integrated ever more deeply into the US-led war across the Middle East.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Türkiye’s new bill demands the Kurdish PKK’s liquidation, offers nothing in return
Erdoğan’s government has submitted a bill to parliament formalizing the PKK’s dissolution. It offers no amnesty, leaves Öcalan imprisoned and places the fate of those covered entirely in the hands of the Turkish security apparatus.
Barış Demir•
Turkish police attack teachers in Ankara: “No money” for education, billions for war and corporations
Police detained 52 teachers in Ankara on Thursday as they marched between ministries demanding a legal base salary. The government says there is no money — while military spending reaches $US30 billion.
Can Denizli, Ulaş Sevinç•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Süleyman Sağlam•
Kevin Reed•
Can Denizli•
Barış Demir•
“Workers have to stand up and do something about this”
Postal worker Russell Scruggs Jr.’s ex-wife speaks out, backs call for rank-and-file inquiry into postal deaths
Barbara spoke with the World Socialist Web Site to encourage Palmetto workers to come forward with what they know about Russell’s death and conditions inside the USPS Palmetto facility in Georgia.
Kathleen Martin•
“It was a pleasure working with you Oscar, we love you forever buddy”
Moving tribute to Oscar Robayo, Montreal airport worker crushed to death amid safety violations by subcontractor
“We were always together, the four of us, and we would always talk about how dangerous and stupid the procedures at Samsic were.”
Our reporter•
Ramp worker Oscar Robayo crushed to death in workplace accident involving passenger jet at Montréal Trudeau Airport
A worker who spoke with the World Socialist Web Site described a disastrous combination of cutting corners, broken equipment and a general high-pressure working environment overseen by the subcontractor Samsic that led to Robayo’s death.
A WSWS reporting team•
“He was a great lead and a great friend”: Montreal airport worker denounces systematic safety violations following Oscar Robayo’s death
A Montreal Airport worker, who worked alongside Robayo, contacted the World Socialist Web Site to speak out about the fatal incident. He was especially incensed by the attempts of Samsic Assistance, Robayo’s employer and a globally operating provider of “business services,” to place the blame on the victim.
A WSWS reporting team•
Samuel Davidson•
Vicki Mylonas•
Samuel Davidson•
Patrick Smith•
Samuel Davidson•
UK-Russia conflict escalates after Burnham’s provocations in Ukraine
Having already supplied Ukraine with long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles, the UK has now shared classified blueprints with Kyiv to allow the country to eventually manufacture its own.
Thomas Scripps•
Elon Musk becomes the latest Nazi decorated by the Zelensky regime
In honoring Musk, a committed ideological fascist and the world's leading promoter of the global far-right movement, the Zelensky regime is once again exposing the fraud of those who claim that Ukraine is fighting for "democracy."
Andre Damon•
Ukrainian workers destroy army recruitment vehicle in expanding protests against “busification”
The growing confrontations between Ukrainian workers and forced mobilization exposes the lie that Ukrainian society uniformly supports the disastrous imperialist proxy war.
Jason Melanovski•
Ukrainian parliament approves new SBU-linked defense minister
The appointment of the SBU-linked Khmara signals a profound crisis of the Zelensky regime and the entire NATO war against Russia.
Jason Melanovski, Clara Weiss•
Thomas Scripps•
Jason Melanovski•
Peter Schwarz•
Barış Demir•
Clara Weiss•
Newly established Communist League of Uganda leaders arrested by Museveni regime
Workers, youth and defenders of democratic rights internationally must oppose the persecution of political organisations by the Ugandan state and demand the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and legal status of all those detained.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Second deadliest Ebola outbreak on record spreads across the eastern Congo
The WHO has allocated 70,000 doses of a vaccine licensed against a different Ebola species, while the destruction of US aid has stripped the region of the surveillance, food and sanitation that containment depends on.
Benjamin Mateus•
Ebola deaths near 2,000 as WHO concedes the outbreak is outrunning the response
The Africa CDC and the World Health Organization called on August 6 for an urgent scale-up of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, conceding that the outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to contain it. Contact tracing has collapsed to the point that nine in ten patients admitted to the treatment center in the epicenter were never on any list.
Benjamin Mateus•
Congo Ebola outbreak becomes second largest ever recorded
Last week, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC became the second largest, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak that occurred in eastern DRC as well. Health authorities have noted the current outbreak is the fastest, outpacing all other previous outbreaks. There remain no treatment or vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain to date.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Alejandro López•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
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.
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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.
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Socialism AI•
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
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•
The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings”
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
David North•
Zac Corrigan•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Joseph Kishore•
Thomas Scripps•
Steven Mintz•
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•
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.
Disease outbreaks multiply, as Trump and Kennedy wage war on science
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
Evan Blake•
Trump cuts childhood vaccine schedule and turns the Justice Department on states that require shots
The order writes into national policy the schedule Kennedy’s purged advisory committee produced, and turns federal litigation and funding against the five states that still require immunization for school entry.
Benjamin Mateus•
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
Benjamin Mateus•
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Evan Blake•
Evan Blake•
Philip Guelpa•
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.
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•
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•
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 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•
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.
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.
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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•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
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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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•
New Zealand protests against war on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
Thousands of people joined protests to denounce New Zealand’s alliance with the US and government silence on US and Israeli war crimes. The organisers, however, promoted illusions in Labour and the Greens.
Tom Peters•
Mike Head•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jacob Crosse•
Antony Walsh•
Jean Shaoul•
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
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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•
Fifty-four-day strike at São Paulo’s universities: The political lessons
A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Brazil)•
Defend the University of Michigan Eight! Drop all charges! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship and war!
This prosecution is a blatant and dangerous political witch-hunt and frame-up. It must not be allowed to stand. It is a major escalation by the Trump administration of the effort to criminalize left-wing opposition to war, dictatorship and social inequality.
Stephen St. Clair•
3 IYSSE representatives elected to Berlin’s Humboldt University student parliament
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
our reporters•
No Bundeswehr in schools! Against the cooperation agreement between the state of Berlin and the Armed Forces!
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
Action Committee Nurseries & Education•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Omar Ali, Roger Jordan•
Mike Ingram•
Our reporters•
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.
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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•
Now available from Mehring Verlag: “My Life” by Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky’s autobiography “My Life” is now available from Mehring Verlag. The work is published in a German translation by Alexandra Ramm, with a new foreword by David North.
Mehring Verlag•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
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.
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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.
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•
US imperialism’s debacle in Iran
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
Andre Damon•
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Keith Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
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.
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•
New book questions official finding that fascist Brenton Tarrant acted alone in Christchurch massacre
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
Tom Peters•
Gary Stevenson and the dead end of wealth-tax reformism
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
Ioan Petrescu•
Red Dawn over China: An extended exercise in anti-communist propaganda
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
Peter Symonds•
James McDonald•
Christoph Vandreier•
Nicoletta Montaner•
Paul Bond•
David North, Johannes Stern•
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.
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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.
Bond yields surge as governments borrow for war and rearmament
The rise in US bond yields was particularly significant because it came in the face of attempts by Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to suppress them.
Nick Beams•
The Roman Space Telescope: The power of science and the bankruptcy of capitalism
The extended international effort to probe the history of the universe of which the Roman telescope is a part conflicts directly with the continued existence of the profit motive and the nation-state system.
Bryan Dyne•
The Pentagon takes control of Venezuela’s oil: Imperialist thievery and the bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism
The Pentagon has taken an ownership stake in one-fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves in a deal that exposes both the gangsterism of the US ruling class and the terminal bankruptcy of Chavismo and bourgeois nationalism.
Andrea Lobo•
Behind CIA Director Ratcliffe’s secret trip to Russia: The Ukraine war spirals out of control
The first visit by a CIA director to Moscow since the eve of the Ukraine war comes as the NATO powers pour weapons, money and intelligence into an escalation that brings a direct clash with nuclear-armed Russia ever closer.
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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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