From the torture cages in Florida to the killings in Minneapolis, the state is turning methods used against “enemies abroad” on those it treats as “the enemy within.”
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.
The narrow waterway linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean carries 12 percent of maritime world trade. With the Strait of Hormuz closed, this portends the opening of another front in the wider regional war between the US-Israeli bloc and Iran.
Anthropologist and retired Harvard professor John Comaroff has submitted a letter in “outraged protest” against the conviction and sentencing of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk by a Ukrainian court on charges of high treason.
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.
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.
All the musicians on the tour—except headliner Ed Sheeran—have withdrawn in solidarity with the outspoken artist, who has steadfastly opposed the genocide.
The film features interviews with two dozen Israeli military officers outlining the systems and protocols used by the IDF to target and kill civilians in Gaza.
The DSA, Labor Notes and UAWD installed Shawn Fain in 2023 promising an era of “class struggle unionism.” Three years later, they are writing his excuses.
With three weeks remaining before the October 5 deadline for mail ballots to be returned and counted, the election of top United Auto Workers officers—including UAW president—is taking place amid a mounting economic assault on the working class.
Over three days, police raided LGBTQ+ associations in 15 provinces, hundreds of social media accounts were blocked and 39 leftists were detained, including the SYKP co-chair.
Israel does not want to abandon the effort to forge an alliance with the Kurdish movement, both in the war against Iran and in its rivalry with Türkiye.
This campaign aims to misdirect legitimate concerns about the deployment of increasingly powerful AI models by profit-seeking corporations into an effort to more directly align the development of technology with the geopolitical interests of American imperialism.
The parties now promising to stop the AfD are the ones that cleared its path to power. Only an independent movement of the working class against war and capitalism can halt it.
The disconnect between Mamdani's promises and the reality of advancing war, dictatorship and austerity is preparing a crisis for the DSA mayor as he is driven to more openly confront the working class.
Roberts is the latest in a series of UPS workers to die on the job, as the company carries out a massive restructuring effort which has axed tens of thousands of jobs.
The goal of limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average that was agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate accord will be entirely missed, with devastating consequences.
While Canary has been driven to the brink of bankruptcy and Galloway cannot access UK banking facilities, far-right leader Nigel Farage has secured donations this past week from two British crypto-billionaires worth £72 million.
Oscar Robayo, a 39-year-old ramp agent at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport, was crushed to death during a routine pushback maneuver on an Airbus A350 late last month.
The BRICS declaration called for peace and cooperation and criticised the use of unilateral tariffs and economic sanctions but failed to name US imperialism as the chief author of escalating international economic and military conflict.
The PQ’s Blue Book advocates for Quebec’s secession on the basis of national exclusivism, anti-immigrant chauvinism, massive social cuts, and an even more pronounced strategic alignment with US imperialism under the leadership of the would-be dictator Donald Trump.
Labor government-appointed administrator KordaMentha announced Monday that efforts to repair and restart the plant’s 60-year-old blast furnace would be permanently abandoned.
On numerous occasions, Steve said he regretted not meeting the party earlier in his life. But once he did join, he dedicated his last ten years to fighting in the working class for socialism, from which he never wavered in his commitment.
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.
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.
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
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.
The trade unions, the SPD and the Left Party bear the main responsibility for the growth of the AfD. They are preventing the widespread opposition to war and social inequality from finding left-wing expression.
The New York Times marked the 25th anniversary of September 11 with a cover-up of its own role in justifying and concealing the criminal war of aggression against Iraq, torture and illegal mass surveillance.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were seized upon as the pretext for a vast escalation of war abroad and the construction of a police state at home, which is now being turned against the working class.
A government whose austerity program is feeding the economic crisis and mass discontent is reaching simultaneously for the rehabilitation of the military dictatorships and for nationalist chauvinism.
The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk is aimed at terrorizing opposition to the NATO-backed war against Russia.
A drone struck the Mykolaiv pre-trial detention center where Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk is imprisoned. Bogdan and the other prisoners were not injured. The incident underscores the urgency of the campaign for his immediate release.
Socialist Equality Party campaigners in Manchester have won support among postal workers, students and anti-war demonstrators for the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, sentenced to 15 years for opposing the NATO-war.
“I think that Bogdan has definitely been wronged. He has just written his own truth, and the truth is not being accepted by Zelensky. After the Russian invasion, democracy has basically collapsed in Ukraine.”
The film features interviews with two dozen Israeli military officers outlining the systems and protocols used by the IDF to target and kill civilians in Gaza.
The renowned Russian soprano’s career has continued to flourish in Europe.
The National Archives and Records Administration will close branches in San Francisco and Chicago. It is the latest move in the Trump administration’s attack on history and public education.
The scheme turns public money into corporate subsidies without restoring stable employment, leaving workers to absorb its economic and social costs.
The methods developed in the US military and intelligence prisons abroad are being reproduced against immigrant workers inside the United States.
Armed ICE agents abducted a San Diego City College student last Tuesday morning, then detained two parents outside an elementary school moments after morning drop-off the following day.
A court order authorized force-feeding of a Cuban immigrant through a nonconsensual surgical procedure in which an incision is made in the abdomen and a tube is left in place indefinitely to pump liquid nutrition directly into the stomach.
Trump’s speech concluded a poorly attended and overtly fascistic event centered on attacks on immigrants, Muslims, transgender persons and socialism.
One Nation’s plan is an extension of anti-immigrant policies implemented by the federal Labor government, which has scapegoated international students for the social crisis and persecuted refugees.
While fending off, for now, a challenge to his leadership, Prime Minister Wale has signed up to a series of anti-China strategic agreements.
With tight restrictions on their visas, often tying them to a specific employer, the hundreds of thousands of overseas workers in the Australian food picking and processing industry are especially vulnerable to exploitation.
What is now crystal clear is that the Albanese government fully backs the plan by its Victorian state counterpart to carry through a wholesale privatisation of public housing.
We refuse to carry out any order to withhold, delay or “verify” mail-in ballots. We will not be the instrument of the disenfranchisement of the American people.
Several hundred workers at Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia’s largest performing arts complex, held a 24-hour strike on Friday against a below-inflation pay offer and deteriorating conditions.
University educators and support staff in Argentina carried out a national strike September 8, while community service workers are still on strike across Ontario, Canada.
Aligned with Carney’s nationalist “Team Canada” campaign, the NDP and union bureaucracy are helping enforce a mounting assault on workers’ right to strike.
The US launched strikes on five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday, bringing the conflict to a new level of aggression that amounts to a declaration that Washington will use military force to assert its control over maritime trade, regardless of the consequences for the world economy.
The pseudo-left’s “revolution” rhetoric served to provide a cover for Washington's regime-change operation—as the Kurds’ capitulation, and their own inability to explain it, confirms.
The US military attacked a house hosting a wedding in Kuhestak, in Sirik County on Iran’s southern coast, with a missile on Tuesday, killing at least four people, including a 4-year-old child, and wounding dozens, Iranian officials said Wednesday.
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.
All the main parties agree on readying Sweden for war, scapegoating immigrants for the social crisis, and curbing public spending to fund rearmament and subsidies to wealthy investors.
The ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is only the logical extension of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. And both are officially sanctioned government operations.
The budget pairs the largest military spending increase since Hitler with the deepest cuts to pensions, healthcare and social services ever seen.
The obscene pushback of the lifeboats took place as Britain’s main far-right party, Reform UK, was holding its conference. The occasion saw party leader Nigel Farage and National Rally President Jordan Bardella pledge to end small-boat arrivals from France "forever."
The Yahodyn attack, which could have killed a former UK prime minister, a former CIA director and leading advisers to Britain, Germany and Italy, expresses the logic of a war whose escalation can draw the major powers into direct military conflict within hours.
An interview that Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) gave to the Bild newspaper on September 8 underscores the aggressiveness with which the German government is pushing forward its war course against Russia.
Friday's front-page report in the New York Times is a propaganda piece, built entirely on the unsubstantiated claims of unnamed intelligence officials, whose purpose is to justify an escalation of the war against Russia.
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.
East Palestine resident Jami Wallace says she has compiled reports of 84 people diagnosed with cancer, including 15 with brain cancer, as families confront illness, loss and mounting medical costs.
As Trump posts a map of North America draped in the US flag and threatens military action against the cartels, the Sheinbaum government answers with patriotic declarations while offering to serve Washington as a war base.
At the centre of Carney’s “pivot” away from the Trump-led US is the push to intensify worker exploitation and forge closer ties with the European imperialist powers, as they rapidly rearm to pursue war on Russia.
American imperialism’s aggression cannot be opposed by lining up with any one or a coalition of its imperialist rivals. The trade war between the US and Canada is a reactionary conflict between two imperialist powers desperately seeking to secure their interests.
Behind the invocations of “anti-imperialism” and “socialism” stood the pro-war foreign policy of the Democratic Party.
Raman secured the endorsement as she works to assure the financial elite and police that her campaign represents no threat to their interests ahead of the November 3 election.
The same ruling class that made preemptive war its strategic doctrine is now applying the same logic to its domestic class enemies: strike before the enemy is organized. This is what the Madrid Forum is all about.
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.
President Laura Fernández’s declaration that US ground operations would be “very good for national security” marks the collapse of the demilitarized facade behind which the Costa Rican bourgeoisie has ruled since 1948.
In Lima, Rubio concluded a three-day tour aimed at consolidating agreements to repress the working class throughout South America, as part of the “Shield of the Americas.”
What was covert in 1973 is now proclaimed from the stage of a fascist summit in Santiago. The Trump administration does not hide its operations in Latin America, but on the contrary advertises them.
Rubio’s stops in Colombia and Ecuador secured minerals, nuclear and military agreements that set up a permanent apparatus of repression across South America’s Pacific coast.
Workers at the plant, which makes parts for Ford and Stellantis, are members of the United Auto Workers making wages best described as starvation level.
The United Steelworkers apparatus has abandoned the demand for abolition, proposing instead to administer the incentive program.
Academic workers now account for roughly one quarter of UAW membership. In recent years, graduate employees, postdocs, adjuncts and other university workers have carried out major strikes and repeatedly voted by overwhelming margins for strike action over wages, housing, insecure employment, immigration, democratic rights and the Gaza genocide.
The 57-year-old Stellantis worker killed on the job August 1 at the company's Mopar Parts Distribution Center in Center Line.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week on Trump’s executive order for the US Postal Service to take control of mail-in voting.
Recalling the economic pledge made by fascist presidential candidate Buzz Windrip in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Trump promised every American adult a $5,000 payment if Republicans retained control of Congress.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were seized upon as the pretext for a vast escalation of war abroad and the construction of a police state at home, which is now being turned against the working class.
Far from denouncing the police and demanding that the officers be prosecuted, Democratic/DSA Mayor Mamdani defended the police and held an event in the Bronx, where he praised the police department and attacked Trump for withholding funds from it.
Two workers were killed on construction sites in Texas within a week, while a worker in Utah suffered severe injuries after being crushed between two trailers.
“We work in a rail car factory in Hamilton. You work in an airport in Montreal. These seem like two completely separate industries that have little to nothing to do with each other. But, clearly, regardless of industry, or language, we face the same day-to-day issues with just coming home at the end of the day with our limbs still intact.”
When Senior Crown counsel David McCaskill announced the $250,000 in fines imposed on Algoma Steel for Bryant's death, he conceded the penalty could have been higher, but said the US tariffs on Canadian steel had to be taken into account.
The death of a subway conductor last week—leaving three children motherless—is the product of the transit agency’s refusal to protect workers and the complicity of the TWU bureaucracy, which has kept workers on the job without a contract for four months.
The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct populations for which there are at present no known fossils.
Roman is the most capable deep space survey telescope ever built and will be used to study dark energy, exoplanets, supernovae and much more.
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
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.
The economic growth since the 2022 crisis has been achieved by suppressing workers’ real wages and starving public services.
The nationwide protest by low-paid public servants is part of a growing wave of workers’ struggles amid soaring living costs.
Workers have been on strike for more than a week demanding a wage increase, in defiance of the union bureaucracy.
The JVP/NPP government aims to suppress opposition to the deliberate running down of railway services and its privatization agenda.
On numerous occasions, Steve said he regretted not meeting the party earlier in his life. But once he did join, he dedicated his last ten years to fighting in the working class for socialism, from which he never wavered in his commitment.
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
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.
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
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.
Bush administration advances police-state legislation after 9/11; 170,000 Ford workers launch national strike; US, UK and France back West German rearmament and NATO expansion; Lawyers for Sacco and Vanzett petition for a new trial.
Al-Qaeda attack on World Trade Center, Pentagon; Death of Mao Zedong; Japan signs two treaties with US, allies; Germany joins the League of Nations.
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.
The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond hit 5 percent yesterday, a full percentage point increase since the start of the war on Iran in February, with expectations it will go higher.
Besides widespread market scepticism about the Bessent plan, the selloff was fuelled by the jump in oil prices to $109 a barrel from around $100 the day before.
A rise in Japanese interest rates may halt the yen’s slide but set off a disorderly unwinding of the so-called “carry trade.”
The Dutch National Bank said its decision was motivated by the need to have greater “crisis preparedness.”
While minimum wage and public-sector pay increases in Türkiye remain tied to artificially low inflation targets, interest payments and military spending are soaring.
Aksu is protesting the unlawful imprisonment of himself and the union’s chairman, Gökay Çakır, and demanding he and Cakir be immediately released. This demand must be taken up by workers in every mine, factory and workplace in Türkiye and internationally. They must be freed at once.
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.
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.
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
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.
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.
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.
Duduzane Zuma’s boast that his father repeatedly “held back” revolt amounted to a personal political pledge. He was assuring his audience that, should the MKP enter government, he could perform the same function.
The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues unimpeded with little aid provided by the imperialist powers that extract untold riches from the country’s natural resources.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
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.
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.
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.
Two unvaccinated Lancaster County residents died of measles in August, but the CDC is saying that they died “with” the disease rather than “of” it, the same lie used to justify mass COVID-19 deaths.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
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.
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
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.
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.
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
“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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
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.
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.
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.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
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.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
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.”
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.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
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.
From the torture cages in Florida to the killings in Minneapolis, the state is turning methods used against “enemies abroad” on those it treats as “the enemy within.”
This campaign aims to misdirect legitimate concerns about the deployment of increasingly powerful AI models by profit-seeking corporations into an effort to more directly align the development of technology with the geopolitical interests of American imperialism.
The appeal against Bogdan Syrotiuk’s 15-year sentence demonstrates that political views, journalism and socialist opposition to war were transformed into alleged acts of high treason without evidence of assistance to Russia or any other subversive activity.
The New York Times marked the 25th anniversary of September 11 with a cover-up of its own role in justifying and concealing the criminal war of aggression against Iraq, torture and illegal mass surveillance.
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.
