On Thanksgiving Day 2024, the broad mass of the population has precious little to be thankful for. The crushing weight of inflated costs for all necessities—housing, food, healthcare, childcare, transport—continues to weigh on working class families. But there is an entirely different reality in the environs of the rich and the super-rich.
Bhattacharya’s appointment is a clear signal that the ruling class aims to demolish the last remnants of public health still standing after five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The brutal restructuring at Vauxhall in Britain is part of a global jobs massacre by Stellantis and other transnational car producers. Unite officials will be working with the company every step of the way.
There is major disaffection with the CWU bureaucracy among postal workers, but this must take an organised form in the workplace and be united across the Royal Mail network.
Driving the crisis are Washington’s preparations for war with China, far advanced, that have riven the Philippine ruling class.
On Wednesday, the European Parliament approved the new EU Commission, an alliance of conservatives, liberals and social democrats with the far-right ECR group.
The strike by 55,000 Canada Post workers, now in its second week, is part of a global fight by postal workers. In one country after the next, postal workers face job cuts and facility closures. Automation and AI are wielded as weapons by management with the aim of breaking up and privatizing postal services.
Workers reported being homeless, often sleeping at the airport or staying with coworkers.
The IG Metall trade union has made clear it will support the planned attacks—provided, as with the cutbacks of recent decades, plant closures and compulsory redundancies are ruled out.
The scrapping of Best Practice Industry Conditions in Queensland was enabled by the federal Labor government’s action in August, placing the construction division of the CFMEU into administration.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
The baseless accusation of antisemitism promoted by Trudeau and the political establishment is rich coming from a ruling class that is providing massive military and financial support to Ukraine’s government and state, which are rife with the political descendants of the Ukrainian fascist and Nazi accomplice Stepan Bandera.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
During an online discussion, David North challenged Beatty to explain his falsification of history and why Zionist foundations funded his anti-Healy and anti-SEP project.
This supplementary review exposes Beatty’s manipulation of evidence related to Gerry Healy’s youth in Ireland.
The academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-state sources.
Bhattacharya, widely tipped to be chosen by Donald Trump as the next director of the National Institutes of Health, has attacked the WSWS for exposing his anti-public-health views.
Facebook’s censorship of the “WSWS in Portuguese” page represents a dangerous precedent against socialist and independent political thinking throughout the world.
The working class needs to prepare both politically and organizationally to confront the Dissanayake government’s attacks on their social and democratic rights.
Defying mass popular opposition to a military escalation threatening total war with Russia, London and Paris are planning large-scale troop deployments in Ukraine.
Were Trump to make good on these trade war threats, it would roil the North American and world economy, to say nothing of dramatically intensifying US imperialism’s strategic offensive against China, which threatens at any point to explode into all-out war.
The US judicial and political system has proved itself completely incapable of defending the democratic rights of the population.
The Democrats’ overriding concern is not Trump’s authoritarian designs but safeguarding the continuity of the Biden administration’s central imperialist objective: the war against Russia in Ukraine.
A major report last month by the American Immigration Council detailed the human and economic costs of implementing the largest police removal operation in history.
More than six months have passed since Bogdan's arrest. During this time many organizations, parties, intellectuals and scholars have expressed their support for him.
In the past few weeks, we have received around one hundred letters from 25 different countries from readers defending Bogdan and highlighting the political motives behind his imprisonment.
Six months after his arrest, Bogdan Syrotiuk, the courageous Ukrainian socialist arrested for opposing the war, remains in prison awaiting a drumhead trial in a legal travesty.
Stein has made this statement calling for the release of socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who has been imprisoned by the Zelensky regime in Ukraine.
The meeting will discuss the urgent tasks that confronting the working class in the wake of the US and Sri Lankan elections and the socialist and internationalist strategy necessary to fight for the interests of working people.
The working class needs to prepare both politically and organizationally to confront the Dissanayake government’s attacks on their social and democratic rights.
On the very first day the majority-JVP/NPP parliament was convened, the new government jettisoned its election pledge to renegotiate the country’s bailout agreement with the IMF to protect the most vulnerable.
Dissanayake retains the main portfolios, such as finance and defence, in particular, to ensure the government’s foremost task of ruthlessly implementing the IMF austerity measures is directly in his hands.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recently attacked the Bauhaus and its legacy in terms recalling the Nazis’ blood and soil rhetoric.
In Auerbach, we have one of the few artists whose paintings glow with a light that believes in the possibilities of life and humanity.
Goldin’s courageous speech has sent shock waves through the political and cultural establishment in Germany and beyond.
The artist’s $6 million work highlights the tremendous hype and speculation that have come to characterize the art market — and to degrade art itself.
The Woolworths warehouse workers’ strike raises decisive questions for the entire working class, not just in Australia but internationally.
The Teamster bureaucrats assurances of support for the striking Canada Post workers have proven to be worthless. Meanwhile, CUPW maintains a complicit silence, making no appeal to rank-and-file Purolator workers.
While workers are seeking to defend their jobs and conditions, the struggle is being consciously undermined by the rail unions.
More than half of nearly 10,000 nurses working at hospitals operated by Corewell Health in the Detroit area voted on November 15 to be represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
By agreeing to Ukraine firing Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russian territory, Starmer has made a de facto declaration of war without so much as a debate in parliament.
This has all the hallmarks of a black propaganda campaign. Police and state forces are being mobilised with the explanation that there is an ongoing terror threat and that Russia is likely pulling the strings.
The Department of Defense published a report on Thursday with details of changes to US arms strategy in an environment of multiple nuclear peer adversaries, especially Russia and China.
The essential response of the major European powers to Trump’s election has been to plan to step up their own military aggression against Russia and to consider what it will take to make this a European-led war.
Minutes after President Biden announced a ceasefire in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, the Zionist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed several dozen air strikes across southern Beirut and its suburbs, some that targeted residential buildings where displaced people were sheltering.
Israel has responded to last week’s arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by intensifying its rampage throughout the Middle East.
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court formally charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Yoav Gallant with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese has said, “History will judge these people who have not done anything in their power to prevent atrocities… There are responsibilities; there might be complicity.”
Kennedy’s anti-vaccine agitation in Samoa’s deadly 2019 measles epidemic is a warning of the global role he will play as Trump’s head of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
The developing avian influenza panzootic and the growing possibility of a pandemic bring to the fore the existential questions for humanity of climate change and the destruction of public health, both of which must be stopped in order to control the growing threats.
Amidst a lackadaisical public health response, two viruses with pandemic potential continue to spread in the United States.
The WHO said that in 2023 measles surged 20 percent above the previous year, underscoring the need to vaccinate against this dreadfully contagious disease.
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, “The average temperature anomaly for the rest of 2024 would have to drop to almost zero for 2024 to not be the warmest year.”
A new United Nations report shows that the world is headed towards up to 3.1℃ of warming by the end of the century, with devastating consequences for billions of people worldwide.
This research reinforces the scientific consensus that the only viable strategy to limit catastrophic climate change requires drastic and immediate emissions cuts.
New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution.
The most reactionary response to such right-wing populist initiatives is to obscure the class lines.
A bitter debate is now unfolding inside the ruling class over how to recalibrate its policies, that will confront it, sooner rather than later, with explosive working class opposition.
In a nakedly political decision, the Paris prosecutor's office called for a five year prison term and ban on electoral activity for neo-fascist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
The incoming coalition in Thuringia, which includes the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), has agreed on a drastic austerity programme that goes hand in hand with a massive beefing up of the state’s repressive apparatus and the adoption of the refugee policy of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Excluding the pandemic, the turnaround in the budget, from surplus to deficit, is set to be the largest single-year reversal on record.
The sanctions on the student for wearing a Keffiyeh to his graduation ceremony have involved the highest levels of the NSW Labor government.
Through Task Force Ayungin, Washington is overseeing and directing Manila’s escalating confrontations with China in the South China Sea.
Under Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, a former military coup leader, Fiji is aligning with Washington as it militarises the Indo-Pacific region in preparation for war against China.
Financial vulnerabilities have not gone away, as risks remain elevated, and they are being added to by the increasing institutional embrace of crypto currencies.
In a speech this week ECB president Christine Lagarde said the euro bloc risked facing “a future of lower tax revenues and higher debt ratios” which would mean “fewer resources for social spending.”
Despite his absence, the gathering is completely dominated by incoming US President Donald Trump and his trade war agenda.
It was not a bailout for local governments but a debt swap which is not expected to provide a major boost to the economy now experiencing its lowest growth in more than three decades.
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
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Calley spent only three days in prison for his role in directing the mass murder of 504 Vietnamese men, women and children. He is now reported to have died April 28 at the age of 80.
The history of the Majdanek camp reveals the links between Nazi Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, and the extermination of the Jewish population, which primarily affected Poland and Eastern Europe.
Carey Dale Grayson was reportedly conscious for six agonizing minutes, during which he gasped for air, struggled with his restraints and shook violently.
Despite the fact Brandon Durham, 43 provided police an accurate description of the home intruder, Las Vegas cop Alexander Bookman shot Durham six times, including in the head, once he entered Durham’s home.
Police are engaged in a major cover-up after executing a mother suffering from post-partum depression and her baby earlier this month.
Both Roberson and Lucio are innocent of the charges for which they were sentenced to death.
The declaration of US-backed candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as “president-elect” of Venezuela by Secretary of State Antony Blinken paves the way for renewed sanctions and military operations to overthrow the Maduro administration.
Sixty years after the US-backed 1964 military coup, revelations by the Federal Police have shown that Brazil was close to a new coup and the establishment of a dictatorship after Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat.
Haiti’s interim prime minister was ousted last week by the Transitional Council—the government “oversight mechanism” that the US, Canada and various factions of the country’s bourgeois elite put together earlier this year to provide a fig leaf of “popular” legitimacy for the latest imperialist-sponsored military intervention in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.
In the fourth consecutive strike held in less than two months, demonstrations were aimed at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum held in Lima during the week.
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 TİP failed to base its split with the Stalinist Communist Party on a study and assimilation of the great strategic and world-historical issues raised by Leon Trotsky’s struggle against Stalinism. This is a common feature of all the tendencies that emerged from the disintegration of the Stalinist parties after the collapse of the USSR.
Last Tuesday, a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, awarded $42 million in damages against US military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc., for its role in the torture of three Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison during the US imperialist occupation.
Physicians and allied health workers have stopped work at thousands of Family Health Centres across Turkey, protesting in city squares and in front of health directorates.
The appointment of trustees to replace elected mayors is a blatant attack on basic democratic rights. The Socialist Equality Group condemns this anti-democratic police state repression and calls for the reinstatement of elected mayors.
Protests against the ruling FRELIMO party continue as opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who is linked to Trump and Portuguese fascist circles, appeals for support from imperialism.
The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has soared to 42 percent and economic desperation is widespread in the world’s most unequal society.
Despite the release of the protesters, the Nigerian government has made clear there will be no retreat from its relentless offensive against workers being plunged into extreme poverty by soaring inflation, food insecurity and high unemployment.
Fighting between these two corrupt figures erupted in no small part due to longstanding efforts by US imperialism and other regional powers to exert control over Sudan and its resources—gold, minerals, oil and agricultural land—and cut off Khartoum’s relationships with China, Russia and Iran, which all have growing economic interests in the region.
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.
In its campaign material for a “Student Strike for Palestine,” the RCP advances no call for young people to turn to the working class and fight to mobilize it in struggle against genocide and imperialist war. Nor does it indict the trade unions and NDP for their support for the pro-genocide, pro-war Trudeau government.
Five faculty members at CSULB were cited for participating in protests against the genocide in Gaza.
On Tuesday the University of Michigan Central Student Government (CSG) voted overwhelmingly to impeach the student president and vice president, who are both opponents of the university’s connections to the genocide in Gaza. Students connected to the Democratic Party and far-right and Zionist groups led the impeachment campaign.
Police denied that the bombing of a restaurant in Melbourne had anything to do with the pro-Palestinian statements of its owners, even though one of the accused told them the motive was “the conflict overseas between Palestine and Israel.”
United and effective action by Stellantis workers worldwide can only be achieved by the rank-and-file in direct opposition to the economic nationalism and corporatism of the trade union bureaucracy.
According to the Detroit News, the automaker has laid off nearly 4,000 workers in Detroit and Toledo metro areas since September alone.
Rank-and-file committees among autoworkers in both North America and Europe must be expanded to include every key factory, giving workers the power to shut down the global industry.
With anger mounting over the refusal of the UAW to fight layoffs, the Biden administration has thrown its support to Shawn Fain’s fake fight against Stellantis.
Mamdani’s employment of pseudo-radical slogans is a desperate effort to boost the image of both the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party as a whole.
Four days after the US elections, fascist President-Elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party is nearing control of all levers of federal governmental power.
Amid the barrage of federal indictments and corruption investigations faced by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the Democratic politician’s inner circle is quickly falling by the wayside.
The 165-page filing conclusively demonstrates that Trump, and his Republican co-conspirators, knowingly sought to overturn the 2020 election with deceit, falsehoods and violence.
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.
The meeting at the working-class university outlined a socialist perspective, based on the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war.
The meetings included lively political discussion on the IYSSE’s perspective of building a global anti-war movement in the working class against Israel’s assault against the people of Palestine and Lebanon, and broader eruption of imperialist war.
On October 15, following hearings, Ann Arbor police rescinded trespass citations that they had issued to block four SEP/IYSSE members from going on campus.
The campaign to stop Cornell University from forcing the deportation of international PhD student and instructor Momodou Taal for his outspoken opposition to the Gaza genocide has won an important victory with the announcement that the university has rescinded his suspension.
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.
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.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
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.
This report includes videos of speeches delivered by SEP members, explaining the administration and outlining a perspective to fight it.
Wije Dias belonged to the group of young people who took up the initiative in 1968 to form the Trotskyist party in Sri Lanka and he played a leading role in the movement for 54 years until his death.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
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.
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.
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.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
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 academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-state sources.
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
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.
On Thanksgiving Day 2024, the broad mass of the population has precious little to be thankful for. The crushing weight of inflated costs for all necessities—housing, food, healthcare, childcare, transport—continues to weigh on working class families. But there is an entirely different reality in the environs of the rich and the super-rich.
Were Trump to make good on these trade war threats, it would roil the North American and world economy, to say nothing of dramatically intensifying US imperialism’s strategic offensive against China, which threatens at any point to explode into all-out war.
The Democrats’ overriding concern is not Trump’s authoritarian designs but safeguarding the continuity of the Biden administration’s central imperialist objective: the war against Russia in Ukraine.
All the leading personnel of the incoming administration are drawn from a narrow circle of Trump loyalists and servants, as well as a group of allied billionaires.
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.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
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.
