Wednesday’s rally and meeting hosted by the SEP marked a milestone in the development of a socialist anti-war movement in the center of world imperialism.
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The latest wave of COVID-19 and Biden’s destruction of public health
The Biden administration has issued no public statements on the latest surge of the pandemic, and not a single public health official or politician has encouraged Americans to wear high quality N95 masks to protect themselves.
While Macron’s caretaker government organized a massive military-police deployment in Paris, an as-yet unexplained series of arson attacks hit key points of France’s high-speed rail network.
According to the Bank of Israel and the Israeli Ministry of Finance, the cost of the first six months of the war, which Netanyahu has said will continue for months and shows every sign of escalating into an all-out war against Hezbollah in the north and the Houthis in the Red Sea, had reached more than 70 billion shekels ($73 billion) by the end of March.
Wray’s main concern in his testimony seemed to be quelling suspicions—well founded—that Crooks was not simply acting alone, but rather was part of a broader conspiracy, very possibly involving elements in the intelligence and police apparatus.
The stationing of land-based medium-range missiles in Germany, agreed by the German government at the Washington NATO summit, places the lives of millions at risk.
The targeted killing of a notorious fascist in public is a sign of the intense destabilization of Zelensky’s Ukraine and the degree to which neo-Nazis now shape political life in the country.
Corbyn will not lead a movement against the Labour government. He will support it, while making the occasional criticism to supposedly pressure it to the left. But the Labour Party is impervious to such pressure, functioning as the unalloyed representative of the financial oligarchy and of British imperialism.
Albanese’s rearrangement of ministerial posts is an anxious bid to put a fresh face on the Labor government in the face of deepening working-class disaffection.
There are ongoing reports on abduction and torture of students activists by police with many others going into hiding, fearing persecution and police raids.
According to the latest estimates, between 30 and 50 percent of structures in the town, including many homes, were wiped out, as a wall of fire rushed through the Athabasca River valley.
Prosecutors claim there is no basis for charging police officers in the execution of four-year-old Terrell Miller and Anthony George, who reportedly used the boy as a human shield after a knife attack, but have released no body camera footage or other evidence, giving all the appearance of an official cover-up.
More statements demanding freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk from Australia and New Zealand
“We need to stand with Bogdan now, because it’s easy to imagine the alternative: if Ukraine is able to imprison socialists and ban the WSWS without protest, what’s to stop the UK, Germany or the US, from doing the same?”
Toronto workers support campaign for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom and express opposition to imperialist war
Socialist Equality Party members won a warm response in a working class neighbourhood Saturday as they continued their struggle to build support for the campaign to free the Ukrainian socialist and opponent of imperialist war among Canadian workers and young people.
Framed-up Maruti Suzuki India workers demand release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
”Bogdan Syrotiuk did not do or say anything wrong,” declared Amarjeet one of 13 Indian autoworkers sentenced to life in prison on bogus murder charges. “What he did was fight for the sake of the international working class. He fought and is fighting for workers’ power.”
Messages from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release
The World Socialist Web Site is receiving statements from workers across Europe and internationally demanding freedom for imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Congress hails the war criminal Netanyahu
Netanyahu’s appearance, and the rapturous reception he received, recalled nothing more than the appearance of Hitler before the German Reichstag. The German deputies who shouted “Heil Hitler!” and the American congressmen who barked “USA” are cut from the same cloth.
The French government’s crisis and the bankruptcy of the New Popular Front
Macron can maintain his government in office despite losing the July 7 election only because the NFP works relentlessly to demobilize left-wing, anti-fascist sentiment among workers and youth.
The execution of Sonya Massey: Police violence continues unabated in the US
The police operate as roving gangs and death squads whose target is the ruling class’ internal enemy: The working class.
A call to the July 24 demonstration: Take forward the fight against genocide and war!
Netanyahu and the Israeli regime are guilty of war crimes, for which they must be held accountable. But the invitation extended by the Democrats and Republicans in Congress for Netanyahu to speak at a joint session exposes the real relationship between US imperialism and Israel.
After SAG-AFTRA delays 18 months, video game performers strike against major companies
The strike comes 18 months after the last contract expired and 10 months after workers voted for a strike by 98.32 percent.
Amazon workers carry out one-day strike at San Bernardino air hub
The KSBD air hub, which opened in March of 2021, is one of Amazon’s largest facilities on the West Coast.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Jharkhand rural workers begin indefinite strike; Karnataka: 1,700 municipal sanitation workers walk out in Hubli; Australia: 400 journalists at Nine Entertainment begin five-day strike over wages and conditions
Worker killed by falling equipment at Michigan stamping plant slated for closure
A 36-year-old worker was killed when a die fell from a crane and struck him at Dexter Stamping near Jackson, Michigan, on July 15.
Venezuela’s Maduro appeals to Wall Street and warns of “civil war” ahead of Sunday’s elections
The presidential elections scheduled for Sunday will not resolve the explosive and intersecting global and local political crises gripping Venezuela.
Unemployment and lack of access to education devastate youth in Peru
In Peru, more than 1.5 million young people between the ages of 15 and 29 neither study nor work.
Milei and Bolsonaro attend fascistic CPAC conference in Brazil
The politicians behind the Latin American version of CPAC have served as the most direct advocates of US imperialism’s agenda in the region.
President Milei rides tank in Argentine independence day parade
Milei’s agenda echoes the “National Reorganization Process” (el Proceso) initiated by Argentina’s murderous military dictatorship.
Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees, escaped from “prison,” search for the land of milk and honey
The film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, director of To a Land Unknown: “Do we want to actually respect and embrace our humanity?”
The WSWS spoke recently to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.
Only God Was Above Us: US band Vampire Weekend surveys a multifarious, crisis-ridden world
The band’s latest effort is marked by a sharp contradiction between musical verve and lyrical demoralization.
The Allan Holdsworth Solo Album Collection recently released
An appreciation of virtuoso guitarist Allan Holdsworth
The recent release on vinyl of the remastered solo recordings of the internationally acclaimed guitarist is an opportunity to review his creative legacy and significant influence.
Secret Service director resigns amid bipartisan demands that she step down following Trump assassination attempt
Cheatle’s resignation is the latest in a series of events in the space of less than two weeks that reflect the historic scale and depth of the political crisis in the US.
Five cops gun down homeless man in Milwaukee amid massive police presence for RNC
Samual Sharpe, Jr., 43, was brutally shot and killed on Tuesday in Milwaukee in a hail of bullets fired by a five police officers from Columbus, Ohio who had been dispatched to the city for the Republican National Convention.
Democratic Senator Robert Menendez convicted of bribery, acting as a foreign agent
Menendez accepted gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz convertible and more than $480,000 in cash in exchange for efforts to assist the Egyptian dictatorship and quash a federal criminal prosecution.
Judge Cannon dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump
US District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump on Monday, saying Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment by the Justice Department was unconstitutional.
Kamala Harris welcomes “Butcher of Gaza” to Washington: “I told him that I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself”
When it comes to ethnic cleansing in Gaza, there are no policy differences between “Genocide Joe” and “Killer Kamala.”
Harris consolidates control of Democratic presidential nomination
The Democratic National Committee is moving to adopt a rule that will confirm the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris before August 7.
US unions combine call for end to Israeli military aid with continued support for “Genocide Joe” and warmongering Democrats
Beneath an outward show of opposition to the war—which the letter notably does not characterize as a “genocide”—the real aim is to try to extricate Biden and the US from responsibility.
Democrats, corporate media glorify right-wing candidacy of Kamala Harris
There is a new Democratic presidential candidate, but the same right-wing program of war and austerity.
Millions outraged in Britain at savage police assault on family at Manchester Airport
Nothing justifies the horrific violence meted out by the police. Fahir, who was booted in the face and had his head stamped on after being tasered, could have been killed.
On 80th anniversary of Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt on Hitler
German government intensifies campaign for militarism and war
Against the backdrop of the deep political crisis in the USA and the possibility of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, Germany’s ruling class is accelerating its return to militarism.
UK army chief warns NATO must be able to fight a major war in three years
General Walker has spelled out the reality that the imperialist powers are engaged in a multi-front conflict threatening direct war between major powers.
Starmer routs UK Labour “left” over vote on two-child benefit cap
Tuesday’s vote has underscored not only the authoritarian character of the UK’s Labour government. It has confirmed the bankruptcy of all claims made by Jeremy Corbyn and his allies that the party can be pushed to the left.
New survey shows Australian youth prefer socialism
The result is an indication of a broad leftward movement among youth in Australia and internationally against the capitalist system, which presents a future of war, dictatorship, social misery, climate catastrophe and mass illness.
Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt expresses “big respect” for “Genocide Joe” Biden
In his comments on the US political crisis, Bandt gave a blanket endorsement to the pro-war, pro-business Democratic Party, and did not even bother to mention the Gaza genocide.
Chinese leadership focuses on high-tech as problems of slowdown grow
In his comments on the CCP’s economic plan, President Xi Jinping pointed to “intensified global problems.”
Amid mounting social unrest:
Pakistan’s government threatens to illegalize the country’s most popular party
Amid mounting protests—over both the dire economic situation and the military’s “dirty war” tactics against insurgents—there is growing apprehension within the ruling class that Pakistan could soon be convulsed by a mass popular uprising akin to that which chased Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power in Sri Lanka in July 2022.
Sri Lankan university non-academic trade unions betray 75-day strike
The union leadership did not consult with members prior to ending industrial action and then held meetings blocking any discussion on their decision.
Public health crisis deepens as many doctors leave Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s limited free public health system, like public education, has been systematically run down and undermined by consecutive Colombo governments.
Sri Lankan public sector workers take national industrial action over pay
The unions are desperate to prevent a political confrontation with the Wickremesinghe government, which has refused to grant any pay rise and threatens to ban all strike action.
Action committee denounces Sri Lankan president’s threats against teachers
The struggle for a decent salary and to defend public education is part of a broader political fight against the government’s austerity measures.
Israeli tanks massacre Palestinians in Khan Younis as Netanyahu arrives in Washington D.C.
Israeli tanks and airstrikes hammered Khan Younis on Monday, the third time the city has been besieged by the Israeli government over the last nine months. At least 70 were killed in their homes or in the streets before they were able to flee the area.
Reservists issue open letter refusing to fight in Gaza, exposing Israel’s war crimes
Soldiers spoke of being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, and being required to torch residential buildings and kill civilians during bombing raids.
International Court of Justice finds Israel’s occupation of Palestine illegal
In a devastating condemnation of the Israeli government and its imperialist backers, the court ruled that Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal, ordering all countries to cease enabling it.
Washington abandons aid to Gaza via floating pier, as famine intensifies
Announced with great fanfare by President Joseph Biden in March, the pier ended up taking two months to deliver 80 percent of the 500 truckloads of aid that arrived in Gaza each day prior to the launching of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on October 7.
No to the ban on Palestine Solidarity Duisburg! Stop the moves to a police state in Germany!
Palestine Solidarity Duisberg has been banned despite not having committed any criminal action. It is being criminalised because its stance on Israel will not submit to German state policy.
Logistics workers: Support the July 24 demonstration against the Gaza genocide!
The ruling elites in every major country, above all the US, are using their governments and their militaries to try to conquer the world and put down unrest at at home. Those who suffer are the workers in every country, who have no interest in war.
“We support the call to declare war on war”—Australian health workers endorse July 24 rally
The Australian Labor government along with the US Congress and political elites around the world continue to endorse the barbaric genocide in Gaza. We say no support for the genocide and down with its defenders!
University of Sydney cracks down on campus protests amid broader assault on opposition to Gaza genocide
The university’s new policy mandates that members of the public outside the university will only be allowed to engage in demonstrations if they have prior approval from management.
Austerity protests in Uganda violently crushed
The protests have instilled fear within the Museveni regime of unrest similar to that in neighboring Kenya. In a televised address Saturday evening Museveni threatened the protestors, "We are busy producing wealth… and you here want to disturb us.”
Kenyan protesters defy Ruto’s threats
The protests are a rejection of Ruto's announcement last Friday of the first batch of Cabinet Secretaries, replacing those dismissed on July 11 after weeks of mass anti-austerity demonstrations. In a provocative move, Ruto reinstated half of the officials he had fired just two weeks ago.
Kenya’s Ruto bans protests as hundreds of thousands of teachers threaten to strike
Tuesday’s “total shutdown” protest saw three people shot dead and dozens injured. This adds to the 50 dead and 413 injured as they were shot, teargassed and water cannoned since the start of protests on June 18, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
Kenyan anti-Ruto protests continue as Uber drivers walk out and truckers threaten to strike
The continued protests are a rebuke to Kenyan President William Ruto who dissolved his cabinet last Friday to pave the way for the formation of a “broad-based Government” with figures from the opposition.
UK COVID Inquiry publishes first findings, as whitewash of ruling class criminality gets underway
According to the report, it was “Processes, planning and policy . . . within the UK government and devolved administrations and civil services” that “failed their citizens,” not the choices of political criminals.
Alberta arbitrator dismisses UFCW’s 2020 COVID grievance at Cargill’s High River plant
Arbitrator James Casey, a mediator on the Alberta government’s Grievance Arbitration Roster, ruled in favour of the multi-national conglomerate, whose Alberta facility witnessed the largest outbreak in North America during the early stages of the pandemic, with over 900 workers infected and two losing their lives.
Study reaffirms that masks prevent COVID-19 transmission
A new study in The Lancet demonstrates that face coverings dramatically reduce the load of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath from infected persons. The reductions reached as high as 98 percent, with variations according to the type of face covering worn.
Two recent studies on Long COVID underscore the dangers posed by the “forever COVID” policy
Two new studies on Long COVID show that the virus that causes COVID-19 poses significant ongoing threats to the well-being of the world’s population.
The execution of Sonya Massey: Police violence continues unabated in the US
The police operate as roving gangs and death squads whose target is the ruling class’ internal enemy: The working class.
Trudeau pledges tens of billions of dollars more per year to wage global war
To fulfill its pledge to meet the NATO minimum spending target, the Trudeau government will have to double military spending to $60 billion per year.
Bodycam footage shows former Illinois sheriff deputy murdered Sonya Massey
Footage of the brutal murder of Massey, an unarmed woman holding a pot of water in her home, has provoked widespread anger.
Michigan mired in poverty, with 41 percent living paycheck to paycheck
The plight of millions of low-paid workers are routinely concealed in the official claims of low unemployment.
"It’s no longer considered shameful to avoid military service"
Underground journalists speak on war fatigue and the slide to dictatorship in Ukraine
The World Socialist Web Site recently conducted an interview with journalists from the Kharkov-based underground journalist collective assembly.org.ua who oppose the war in Ukraine and support the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Starmer’s UK Labour government hosts European summit on stepping up war with Russia
The escalation of war against Russia was coupled together with the extension of “Fortress Europe” and the war against asylum seekers and refugees.
Political and media accomplices of Gaza genocide condemn Russian missile strike on Ukrainian hospital
While shedding crocodile tears over the deaths of two people and injury of 16 others in Kiev, the cynical hypocrites occupying government offices and media editorial boards in the imperialist centres have said virtually nothing about The Lancet’s estimate that Israel has killed 186,000 people.
Washington summit will announce plans to set up NATO office inside Ukraine
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan signaled a major escalation of the conflict with Russia in Ukraine and plans to significantly increase NATO's capabilities to fight a full-scale war throughout Europe.
Global temperature records again broken on Monday and Tuesday
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, largely as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, are producing record temperatures year after year.
Death toll from global heat wave climbs as 1,000 die from extreme heat in Mecca
Extreme heat events are becoming more common and more extreme as climate change warms the planet
Auroral display dazzles millions around the globe
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
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.
This week in history: July 22-28
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
After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War
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.
80 years since the mass murder in Ozarichi, Belarus carried out by the German military
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 racial quota law that inspired Hitler
100 years since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
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.
Interest rates should remain elevated, says IMF
The latest IMF update called for “fiscal consolidation”—that is, cuts in spending.
Global Wealth Report 2023: An orgy of enrichment for the super-rich
Multimillionaires around the world benefited from the inflation year 2023, while the German super-rich alone increased their wealth by 10 percent to more than €2.1 trillion.
50,000 foreclosures expected to be enforced in Greece this year
The most high-profile eviction case was that of Ioanna Kolovou, a retired journalist. She was evicted from her home along with her 28-year-old disabled son at the end of January this year. According to reports a large crowd gathered outside her home which was attacked with tear gas by the riot police who then arrested Kolovou and her son.
European Central Bank official sounds warning on growth of private credit
Private credit institutions in Europe hold more financial assets than banks and other traditional sources of finance.
UAE imposes life sentences on 43 defendants in second-largest trial in its history
In 2014, a United Nations working group found that their convictions had been “based on charges of acts that would fall under the rights to freedom of expression and of assembly,” and that their detention had been “arbitrary.”
Educators in Turkey protest draft anti-labor law
While the Turkish political establishment and the trade union apparatus have been working to suppress the growing discontent of the working class against the ongoing cost of living crisis, the police attacked a protest by educators in Ankara against the new anti-labor law.
West Nile fever epidemic in Israel
There has as yet been no mention of the implications of the WNV outbreak for the population of Gaza, suffering an Israeli genocide that has included the decimation of health infrastructure.
Anti-refugee attacks in Turkey claim life of Syrian child worker
The entire political establishment is waging a dirty propaganda campaign against the refugees, who are victims of the regime change war launched by the US and its allies, including Turkey, in Syria in 2011.
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.
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.
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.
Julian Assange arrives in Australia free
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.
Julian Assange is free, but the struggle to defend democratic rights continues
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.
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.
UK Socialist Equality Party election rally advances socialist and internationalist opposition to war
The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
Attendees at UK general election rally speak: “The Socialist Equality Party is what I want to dedicate my efforts to building.”
WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.
Billions for education not war! Support the Socialist Equality Party (UK) campaign for a unified struggle against capitalism and war!
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.
Socialist Equality Party candidate Darren Paxton speaks at Inverness Trades Council general election hustings
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.
May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
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.
The political significance of the 2024 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.
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
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.
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
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.
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.
IYSSE secures representation in Humboldt University student parliament for 10th time with record result of 7.7 percent and 5 seats
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.
Moves to change Selective Service rules in the US prompt outpouring of opposition to reintroduction of the draft
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.
Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop police violence against anti-war students!
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.
Berlin police brutally assault students occupying Humboldt University to protest against the genocide in Gaza
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.
UAW Monitor cites continuing “culture of fear or retaliation” in latest status report
The last court filing lends further weight to the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for new UAW elections under the control of the rank and file.
UAW monitor demands court intervention as Fain administration blocks investigation into bureaucracy
The UAW has refused to send the monitor documents that refer to open threats or acts of criminal violence, including “cut throat,” “slit throat,” “punch,” “smack,” “knock out,” and, ominously, “kill.”
Autoworkers support call for new UAW elections: “This time everybody’s vote should count”
Amid new revelations of UAW corruption, Stellantis, Ford and GM workers supported the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for a new union elections.
“These layoffs are like a bomb going off in people’s lives”: Stellantis workers denounce plans to cut second shift at Warren Truck
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.
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.
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
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.
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
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.
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
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.
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
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.
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
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.
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
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.
1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
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 Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
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.
1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy’s Studies in Dialectics
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 role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
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.
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
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.
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms
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 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
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.”
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
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.
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
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.
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
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.
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
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.
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
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.
Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
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.
David North’s The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide addresses the disastrous consequences of nationalist political programs
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.
Nathan Thrall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy–A case study in dehumanization
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
Interview with historian Dan Okrent on the centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
Ghassan Zeineddine’s Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life
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.
The latest wave of COVID-19 and Biden’s destruction of public health
The Biden administration has issued no public statements on the latest surge of the pandemic, and not a single public health official or politician has encouraged Americans to wear high quality N95 masks to protect themselves.
Congress hails the war criminal Netanyahu
Netanyahu’s appearance, and the rapturous reception he received, recalled nothing more than the appearance of Hitler before the German Reichstag. The German deputies who shouted “Heil Hitler!” and the American congressmen who barked “USA” are cut from the same cloth.
The French government’s crisis and the bankruptcy of the New Popular Front
Macron can maintain his government in office despite losing the July 7 election only because the NFP works relentlessly to demobilize left-wing, anti-fascist sentiment among workers and youth.
The execution of Sonya Massey: Police violence continues unabated in the US
The police operate as roving gangs and death squads whose target is the ruling class’ internal enemy: The working class.
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.
New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
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.
Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River 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.
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
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.
Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.