The purpose of the July 24 demonstration is to set into motion a new and powerful mass movement of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the global escalation of imperialist militarism by the US ruling class and its NATO collaborators.
This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees.
While the Democratic president was visibly doddering, the Republican ex-president engaged in non-stop lying and fascistic demonizing of immigrants.
The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has launched a “cost-cutting" race in the EV transition.
Executions this week in Texas expose the arbitrary character of the death penalty and the abusive life experiences of those who find themselves on death row, while Missouri sets an execution date for an innocent man.
Feinstein wants workers in Britain to repeat, under a rerun of Corbyn’s disastrous leadership of the Labour Party, the bitter experience of creating “broad left” formations such as Syriza in Greece that sabotaged the struggle against International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union dictated austerity.
The US State Department hailed “President Ruto’s commitment to Kenyans’ constitutionally-endowed rights,” while European Union Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hailed a “reduction of the tensions… conducive to dialogue.” This is a seal of approval for the massacre Ruto committed the day before.
The abortive coup marks a new stage in the turmoil gripping Bolivia ahead of the 2025 elections, where the major drivers are the escalating third world war and deepening crisis of global capitalism.
Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.
Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee recently held its founding meeting. Organized independently of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) bureaucracy, the PWRFC aims to mobilize postal workers in a political struggle against the corporatist alliance between management, the union apparatus and the government.
“The clarity of analysis from Bogdan is a direct threat to fascistic regimes and hence he has been fraudulently charged and put in prison”– Albert from Victoria
The main obstacle to mobilizing workers against war and neo-fascism independently of the New Popular Front’s pro-imperialist program are organizations like the IMT, which are petty-bourgeois descendants of renegades from Trotskyism.
The international pickets held in Istanbul, Paris, London, Berlin, Washington D.C., Toronto, Canberra and Sydney marked an important step forward in the building of an international working class campaign demanding Bogdan’s freedom and an end to imperialist war.
On Thursday, June 13, the following letter from the Socialist Equality Party and the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site will be delivered to Oksana Markarova, the ambassador of Ukraine, in Washington, D.C.
The campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk, the anti-war socialist imprisoned by the Zelenskiy regime, has seen many workers and youth from Turkey post messages calling for his immediate release.
"The Zelensky regime put Bogdan behind bars to suppress the idea of the unity of the workers and a socialist perspective."
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
For the first time since the end of the Second World War, the US and its allies are directly targeting Russian territory.
The latest report by the Verfassungsschutz (Germany's secret service) lays the basis to criminalise every voice critical of the government’s pro-war policy and support for the genocide in Gaza.
The opposition is led by millionaire Raila Odinga and has no fundamental differences with the Ruto government’s economic programme. Odinga’s concern is that the current government is incapable of implementing the required austerity measures in the face of rising opposition.
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
The arrangement represents a massive victory for Assange, whose liberation will be welcomed by defenders of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war around the world.
At this critical juncture, it is urgently necessary to unite the fight against war with the struggle to free Julian Assange.
Doled out over just nine months, this figure is nearly double the US’s typical annual Israel military aid budget of $3.4 billion and will be further supplemented by $14 billion in weapons funding allocated by Congress this year.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s trip to the Middle East once again highlighted the devastating role played by German imperialism in the genocide in Gaza and the escalation of war throughout the region.
Israel intensified its displacement, ethnic cleansing and mass murder in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, on Friday, killing 25 people in a strike on a refugee camp north of the city.
The official United Nations inquiry into violations of international law by Israel in Palestine submitted its findings yesterday, accusing Israeli leaders of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the "extermination" of Palestinians in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
While thousands of people rallied outside parliament, Labour MP Phil Twyford falsely claimed that his party had been calling for a ceasefire for the last eight months.
These are important, socially committed artists, determined to take a stand against the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
The furore has served to further bury the reality of what is occurring in Gaza, while the Labor government that is complicit in the mass murder has presented itself as a wounded party.
David Banks, the Chancellor of Schools in New York City removed Tajh Sutton, a well-known education advocate and parent leader in New York City from her elected role as president of Community Education Council 14 in Brooklyn for her opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Since the strike began, there have been over 100 new clients requiring food support—almost triple the monthly average. Poverty levels in the area, according to the last census, showed that 11 per cent of people living in Guelph were low-income families.
South Korea: Hyundai Motor workers vote to strike over failed wage talks; India: Punjab Roadways bus drivers and conductors strike over unpaid wages; Thousands of Sri Lankan public sector workers continue strike action; Australia: Quantem bulk fuel supply strike for pay rise.
The union and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson hope to avoid the possibility of over 25,000 Chicago teachers on strike during the convention.
In Italy, agricultural workers in Latina province walk out after workplace death, while metal workers strike in South Tyrol after explosion leaves one fatality, others injured; 20,000 oil contract workers in national walkout over pay and conditions in Iran join mass protests of retirees over falling living standards; health workers in Oyo State to hold seven-day warning strike July 1 over pay and collapsing healthcare system
The fight against job cuts must be combined with the fight against war. This is only possible against IG Metall, not with it.
While making empty pledges of minor social reforms, the New Popular Front endorses military escalation against Russia and calls to strengthen the military police and intelligence services.
Teams on Camden Town High Street, in Kentish Town, and at workplaces including Royal Mail offices and hospitals, have distributed thousands of copies of the SEP’s manifesto and sold literature.
Mélenchon could not make it clearer that he sees his task as promoting the completely discredited politicians of the Socialist Party.
According to IATSE, talks were stalled mainly due to disagreements over wages and artificial Intelligence. Workers have every right to be intensely suspicious of this process and its results.
This new version of McCarthyite blacklisting has come about because official Hollywood has done whatever it can in recent years to erase Polanski’s films and his very artistic existence.
Tish Murtha wrote of the unemployed youth she photographed: “The sense of aimlessness and pent-up frustrations are reaching critical levels where they will be transformed into an explosive anger, directed against the establishment that has been so careless of their hopes and needs.”
Unlike Jane Fonda, who has done everything in her power to make the public forget her onetime radical days and views, Sutherland retained a general hostility to capitalism until his death.
The latest Consumer Price Index figures make a mockery of the Albanese government’s pretence that real wages are finally rising after years of falling, let alone Labor’s 2022 election pledge of “a better future.”
In a country with a history of industrial disasters, the tragedy raises further questions about unsafe and exploitative conditions in the facilities feeding corporate global supply chains.
The deportations, in an operation clearly planned at the top levels of the French state, further exposes Macron’s shift towards dictatorial rule.
Li’s visit, one leg of a regional tour, was aimed at cultivating the Malaysian government’s support as a counterweight to US diplomatic and military encirclement as part of preparations for war against China.
Wednesday’s police assault makes clear that Sri Lankan workers need to prepare for a political general strike, based on a revolutionary socialist program, against the government’s International Monetary Fund austerity measures.
While the Wickremesinghe government has made clear that there will be no salary increase, the University Trade Union Joint Committee (UTUJC) leadership is backing away from its original demands.
The main purpose of the “reform” bill is to open the way for profit-hungry international and local investors to exploit Sri Lanka’s highly lucrative electricity industry.
Union leaders are isolating a strike by 13,000 non-academic workers that began on May 2, and are trying to create the conditions to shut it down altogether.
Everything indicates that the imperialist powers were involved in the attack which serves their war aims and strategy in several respects.
In order to maintain a valid Ukrainian passport—a precondition for their maintaining their “temporary resident” status under Canadian immigration law—Ukrainians who fled to Canada must now return to Ukraine and risk being seized and forcibly enlisted in the military.
Four people were killed and 144 were injured Sunday, when a US-made long-range missile fired from Ukraine released cluster bomblets over a busy beach in Sevastopol.
Under conditions in which the imperialist powers are once again plunging the world into the abyss, organising genocide in the Middle East and escalating the NATO war against Russia, the Left Party stands “united on the side of imperialism."
The city is reneging on its earlier pledge not to arrest peaceful protesters as it links up the fascist-ridden Chicago police with federal law enforcement agencies.
Campaign finance reports for May filed June 20 with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) document the domination of the US presidential election, both candidates, their parties and the entire political system by rival factions of billionaire oligarchs.
Speaking at a church in Detroit, Trump blamed immigrants for the poverty and unemployment caused by capitalism.
In a bid to block all challenges to the two preferred parties of the financial oligarchy, the Democrats filed the lawsuit less 24 hours after members of the Green Party submitted over 29,000 signatures, nearly three times the minimum requirement, to appear on the ballot.
Bowman exposed himself in the eyes and minds of the working class with his inconsistent opposition to Zionism while at the same time supporting the re-election of “Genocide Joe” Biden.
Although assaults continued around the synagogue and the nearby neighborhood for several hours, the only arrest reported was a pro-Israeli counter demonstrator for carrying a sharp pole.
The Supreme Court posted and then removed a draft order that would reinstate emergency medical abortions in Idaho.
The driving force behind the new law is the demand by Christian fundamentalist groups that separation of church and state should be overthrown, and religion made the basis of all public policy.
A petition demanding the halt of Williams’ impending execution is approaching nearly half a million signatures.
Workers must be warned. As the Canadian government backs the Israeli genocide in Gaza with millions in aid and diplomatic cover, fuels the escalation of the NATO-led war against Russia in Ukraine and sabre rattles against China in the Indo-Pacific, it is establishing the powers needed to crack down on opposition at home.
Recent reports reveal that workers in construction and mining are committing suicide at rates that are more than double the average for all occupations.
Workers and young people must reject Quebec nationalism and anti-immigrant prejudice—both in the unabashedly chauvinist forms advocated by the Parti Québécois and the CAQ government, and the hypocritically “polite,” ostensibly “inclusive” variant promoted by the pseudo-left Québec Solidaire.
The unions subordinated the strike to futile negotiations with the Lula government, isolating this powerful movement from the struggles of state teachers and other federal workers.
The SPD and the German government are working to strengthen the far right in Germany and internationally, as shown by the meeting between Scholz and Argentina’s Milei in Berlin on Sunday.
Pablo Moyano, a co-leader of the CGT and Trucker’s Union, withdrew from the June 12 demonstration after security forces warned him that a police onslaught was about to begin.
The government of President Javier Milei is resorting increasingly to open repression to impose the diktats of the IMF and big business.
Questions are being raised in media and financial circles about who is going to buy the Treasury bonds being issued to finance the growing government debt.
The public debt of less developed countries has reached $29 trillion and is rising rapidly exacerbated by “inequality in the international financial architecture.”
The push for the tariff increases has been led by Spain and France with the claim that state subsidies to Chinese manufactures had created unfair competition in the European market, but also has led to opposition from Germany.
After anticipating three rate cuts over the year back in March, most Fed officials now expect one at most.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
The capitulation of Serbia to the US-NATO onslaught brings to an end the last major strategic experience of the twentieth century. Its bloody conclusion endows the century with a certain tragic symmetry. It began with the suppression of the anti-colonial uprising of the Chinese Boxers. The century closes with a war that completes the reduction of the Balkans to the status of a neo-colonial protectorate of the major imperialist powers.
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
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.
Protestors stormed the Parliament and set parts of it ablaze, while lawmakers fled using underground tunnels or hid in ambulances. Police used live ammunition, teargas and truncheons, resulting in the deaths of several protestors and hundreds of injuries.
Cutting across the tribal divides that the Kenyan ruling class systematically cultivates, tens of thousands demonstrated across the whole country.
Ramaphosa’s embrace of the Democratic Alliance—until now the official opposition party—and other right-wing parties, at the risk of splintering his faction-ridden ANC, is the logical expression of its pro-capitalist agenda.
The unions are intent on suppressing massive opposition within the working class to Nigeria’s atrocious living conditions, intensified by the ruling class’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the soaring of prices due to the US-NATO war against Russia in the Ukraine and the government’s disastrous austerity policies.
There has been a global surge of infectious diseases attributable to the anti-public health policies that have placed profits over lives.
Murderous in its own right, the anti-vaccine crusade of the Pentagon is part of a vast online apparatus of lies and propaganda run by the US government.
Scientist and infectious disease experts warn that the ongoing spread and adaptation by the bird flu virus poses as an existential threat to human populations.
A long overdue report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on the state of Long COVID in the US was finally released last week. This exhaustive research and investigation provides a devastating overview of the impact of Long COVID on the population.
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
“We have to fight the capitalist ruling class which is waging the war against the Palestinians, and now they’re trying to attack Iran and Russia.”
US Presidential candidate Joseph Kishore and leading European Trotskyists Alex Lantier and Christoph Vandreier will join SEP candidates Tom Scripps and Darren Paxton to discuss the international struggle against capitalism, genocide and war and for socialism.
To sustained applause and cheering, Scripps concluded, “The SEP is fighting to mobilise a mass socialist anti-war movement and to build a socialist alternative to the Labour Party.”
“We’re standing to fight for a different, socialist strategy—one that is based on mobilising the international working class in a struggle against war and the imperialist powers.”
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.
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
The death of President Ebrahim Raisi could trigger a political crisis and lead to sharp infighting in the country’s Islamic bourgeois clerical regime.
The last decade has witnessed a deepening of the ruling elite's disregard for the safety of workers for the sake of profit, let alone the necessary occupational safety measures, in Turkey and around the world.
This fire disaster is an indictment of the entire ruling elite, including business owners and officials.
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.
The political significance of the IYSSE’s strong election result extends far beyond the campus of Humboldt University. At HU, the extremely acute situation in Germany and internationally finds concentrated expression.
Last week, the House of Representatives voted to make enrollment in the US Selective Service database automatic, prompting a flood of worried statements by young people and parents on social media about the reimposition of the draft.
In the following, we document the IYSSE Humboldt University election statement, which will be printed in the student election brochure. The elections are on 18 and 19 June.
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
Extreme heat events are becoming more common and more extreme as climate change warms the planet
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
The second total eclipse across North America in seven years has drawn the interest of millions across the continent.
The court decision characterizes the Biden administration’s pseudo-legal efforts to sidestep claims of voter suppression as “pedantic” and “inherently illogical and textually unsupported.”
In comments to an investors meeting in Milan, Italy, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares pledged to shift the company’s supplier base “from the Western world to the best-cost countries.”
As in the last year, IG Metall and its works council representative are preparing a few hollow protests. At the same time, behind the backs of the workforce, they are conspiring with management to implement a jobs massacre.
The 46-year-old worker collapsed on the assembly line at the Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17 and reportedly died of a heart attack.
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.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
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.
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
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.
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.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
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.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
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 series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
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.
This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees.
The purpose of the July 24 demonstration is to set into motion a new and powerful mass movement of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the global escalation of imperialist militarism by the US ruling class and its NATO collaborators.
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
Far from being held accountable for his barbaric crimes, Gallant was welcomed in the cockpit of world imperialism with open arms by fellow war criminals drenched in the blood of Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Ukrainians and Russians.
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.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
