As the United States begins the 250th year of its existence, it is in the throes of a political, social, intellectual and cultural counterrevolution.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Top Stories
Perspective
Perspective
Perspective
Trump signs tax and spending bill: A ruling class celebration of dictatorship and austerity
The White House event Friday reflected the avid support for Trump’s bill in the ruling class, which sees it as a down payment for the shredding of all that remains of the social safety net, including Medicare and Social Security.
While workers suffer in deadly temperatures made more frequent and severe by climate change, European governments are sabotaging the required reduction in carbon emissions to guard the interests of big business and doing nothing to protect working people and the most vulnerable from the impact of extreme heat.
Henry Lee•
A historic flood devastated Central Texas early Friday and caused the Guadalupe River to rise by 26 feet in just 45 minutes. It killed as many as 13 people and swept through an all-girls summer camp with as many as 20 girls still missing.
Kevin Reed•
Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian, who has lived in the US since she was eight years old, spoke to the press and World Socialist Web Site following her release from ICE custody.
Jacob Crosse•
The government is turning to authoritarianism because its agenda of enriching the financial oligarchy and waging war cannot be pursued democratically.
Chris Marsden•
The strike has revealed the massive chasm that exists throughout the city of Philadelphia between the working population and the Democratic Party-run political establishment.
Nick Barrickman•
Following Mamdani’s primary win, Jacobin has rushed to reinforce the political domination of the Democratic Party and lower expectations among his supporters.
Elliott Murtagh •
The same political concern animates the reluctance of the Corbyn camp and the Sultana camp’s efforts to bounce him into action: a desire not to let mass social opposition in the working-class and youth burst the banks of Labourite politics.
Thomas Scripps•
Whatever the outcome of the PT’s July 6 internal election, it and the Lula government will continue their protracted turn to the right.
Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira•
The Liberal National Party state budget was falsely depicted by the government and the media as a “no austerity” budget, reflecting anxiety about the danger of social unrest.
Gary Alvernia•
Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital announced the immediate slashing of 20 full-time equivalent roles in the birthing and delivery unit.
Our reporters•
The so-called “deal,” which has the character of the unequal treaties imposed on colonies in the heyday of imperialist rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has implications that go far beyond Vietnam.
Nick Beams•
The government and party leaders have made clear they are determined to squeeze trillions of euros out of the working population in order to finance rearmament and preparations for war.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
The World Socialist Web Site and the fight against war, genocide, fascism and the Big Lie
Armed with a socialist political perspective, rooted in the scientific foundations of Marxism and the assimilation of the historical experiences of the international class struggle, the WSWS is relentless in its exposure of the Big Lies and its defense of the truth.
David North•
Trump-Kennedy attacks on vaccines and public health will kill millions globally
Three simultaneous withdrawals—from the World Health Organization, USAID and the Gavi vaccine alliance—represent a coordinated abandonment of America’s role in global health leadership with devastating consequences for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Evan Blake•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
Clara Weiss•
Philadelphia city workers strike: A sign of rising class struggle in the US
Class battles are emerging which will inevitably raise revolutionary questions. Even a defense of workers’ existing low standard of living is impossible without a frontal assault by the working class against the prerogatives of wealth. It requires expropriations and a massive redistribution of wealth back downward to the working class who created it.
Tom Hall•
Barry Grey•
Nick Beams•
Thomas Scripps•
Joseph Kishore•
Johannes Stern•
Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator reinstated to represent Australia at Venice Biennale
The decision is a significant blow against the efforts of the pro-Zionist Labor government and the Liberal-National opposition to silence creative workers opposing the Gaza genocide.
Richard Phillips•
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
James McDonald•
Entertainment unions campaign for $750 million handout to California corporations
First of all, the well-heeled union officials have explicitly marshaled themselves for measures that will operate at the direct expense of their members in other states (and in Canada in some cases).
Hong Jian•
Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead: A satire about technology billionaires: “Planet Earth’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet”
The storyline involves rivalries and conflicts that inevitably surface at Mountainhead among the four swollen economic interests and egos
David Walsh•
Richard Phillips•
Robert Stevens•
Erik Schreiber•
Jane Wise•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Support the IWA-RFC’s rank-and-file investigation into the death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr.!
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
WSWS Editorial Board•
With 2 postal workers dead from heat-related causes, corporate America and Trump move to gut proposed heat safety rule
The fate of the rule exposes the complete control of the government by the corporate oligarchy.
Nate Rodshaw, Tom Hall•
“The union and the company aren’t saying anything”: Stellantis Dundee Engine worker backs rank-and-file investigation into death of Ronald Adams Sr.
Monday marked 11 weeks since the fatal accident that took the life of the 63-year-old machine repairman.
Jerry White•
Dundee Engine worker describes deadly conditions at Stellantis plant, where Ronald Adams Sr. lost his life
A 15-year veteran reviewed the record of fatal accidents and severe injuries and the company-union efforts to conceal the conditions that led to the death of Adams.
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Shannon Jones•
Andrea Lobo•
Jerry White•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Over 600 Palestinians killed at US-Israeli “aid centers” in Gaza
At least 600 Palestinians have been killed over the past five weeks at food distributions operated by the US and Israeli-backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF), Gaza’s government media office said this week.
Andre Damon•
Nearly 100 Palestinians killed across Gaza, as Netanyahu prepares to meet Trump in Washington D.C.
At least 95 Palestinians were killed on Monday across the Gaza Strip, including more than 30 who were shelled from an Israeli naval vessel in a Gaza City seaside café.
Kevin Reed•
Israel’s “eighth” domestic front in ever-widening genocide and war
Israel regards its Palestinian citizens as the enemy within and a target in its US-funded war against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
Jean Shaoul•
American imperialism’s bombardment of Iran: A day that will live in infamy
In a massive and unprovoked assault, the United States launched a sneak attack on Iran, dropping the most powerful non-nuclear bunker-buster bombs ever used in combat on Iranian nuclear energy facilities.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Kevin Reed•
Gabriel Black•
Kevin Reed•
Job cuts spread and deepen at Australian universities
By cutting international student enrolments, the Labor government is deliberately applying financial pressure to the universities, in order to restructure them to align with “national priorities” set out in last year’s Universities Accord report.
Mike Head•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: National Health Mission workers in Uttarakhand strike; Bangladeshi garment workers protest killing of a co-worker; Australia: Qantas engineers begin industrial action for pay rise; Grill’d fast-food restaurant workers strike over low pay and exploitation.
Cardiff University announces sweeping cuts, just days after High Court injunction banning protest on campus
Over 5,000 job cuts across UK universities have been announced this year, with thousands more in the pipeline. But staff unions led by the UCU are blocking a united fightback.
Henry Lee•
Dana Fort Wayne worker reports on brutal conditions at his workplace
A Dana Ft. Wayne, Indiana worker describes conditions at his workplace after hearing about the investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
George Kirby•
Tom Hall•
Nick Barrickman, Steve Light•
Marc Wells•
Nick Barrickman•
Stateless Palestinian Ward Sakeik released after five months in ICE custody
Ward Sakeik, a 22-year-old stateless Palestinian, was released from ICE custody late Tuesday just two days after the Trump administration failed to illegally deport her to a third country for a second time.
Kevin Reed•
“It’s asinine to think there’s a terrorism motive”
A scientist’s perspective on the “smuggling” charges against University of Michigan postdocs
Two Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan are being framed up by the Trump administration on bogus “terrorism” charges.
Stephen St. Clair•
Amid right-wing drive to criminalize opposition
Trump’s DHS council targets Democratic mayoral primary winner Zohran Mamdani
The day after President Trump called for Mamdani’s arrest and deportation, DHS Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared the agency had “authorities it has never utilized before.”
Jacob Crosse•
Trump halts $7 billion in funds to public schools, triggering mass cuts
As the Trump administration’s illegal funding freeze triggers a nationwide cuts to public schools, the Democrats and union leaders reiterate dead-end appeals to Congress.
Renae Cassimeda•
Jacob Crosse•
Luis Marquez, Marc Wells•
Kevin Reed•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
SOAS student appears at pre-trial hearing on UK terror charge
Sarah, 21, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student, was charged under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act (2000) on March 4, 2025 for allegedly “inviting support for a proscribed organisation” (Hamas) for remarks she made in the first days of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza in October 2023.
Our reporters•
German government expands arms cooperation with Ukraine
While the US government is scaling back its military aid to Ukraine, and even halting previously promised arms shipments, the German government is intensifying its military cooperation with Kiev.
Marianne Arens•
Germany’s Social Democrats reaffirm rearmament and Great Power policy
Anyone who followed the Social Democratic Party (SPD) congress in Berlin last weekend must again answer the question—“Are there any limits to the decline and political bankruptcy of the Social Democrats?”—with a resounding “No.”
Ulrich Rippert•
Starmer thrown a lifeline by collapse of Labour rebellion as his gutted welfare reform bill passes
The figures of yesterday’s parliamentary vote on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill speak to two things: the weakness of Keir Starmer’s Labour government and the unprincipled and spineless character of what passes for the “left” opposition within the Labour Party.
Chris Marsden•
Laura Tiernan•
Peter Schwarz•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Chris Marsden•
Marianne Arens•
Ontario’s York Region fires paramedic for her opposition to the Gaza genocide
The firing of Katherine Grzejszczak is part of a global assault by the ruling elites in all of the major imperialist powers against the mass opposition and disgust voiced by millions of people to Israel’s imperialist-backed slaughter in Gaza.
James Clayton•
Due to speak on the genocide in Gaza, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is censored in Switzerland
Following the publication of a devastating report detailing the involvement of major international concerns in the genocide in Gaza, a meeting to be addressed by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Bern, Switzerland was cancelled at the last moment.
Stefan Steinberg•
British parliament votes to proscribe Palestine Action: a historic assault on democratic rights
Today’s vote pits a Labour government, led by former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer, against millions opposing the Gaza genocide and a groundswell of popular opposition to parliament’s historic assault on the right to protest, freedom of speech and free assembly.
Laura Tiernan•
Protest outside Woolwich Crown Court demands release of Palestine Action’s Filton 18
Among the featured speakers at the rally was Clare Hinchcliffe, mother of Zoë Rogers, one of the Filton 18, and Anne Farooque, mother of Zahra Farooque another of the defendants.
Michael Barnes, Ajanta Silva, Thomas Scripps•
A doctor•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Sri Lanka: SEP/IYSSE campaigns for meeting against war on Iran
“It’s clear that imperialist powers do not care about human lives when it comes to their economic and other goals.” — railway worker.
Our correspondents•
SEP/IYSSE public meetings in Sri Lanka: Oppose US-Israel war on Iran!
We urge all workers, youth, students and concerned individuals to attend the meetings and join the struggle against imperialist war.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lankan government and IMF celebrate “success” of austerity program
The so-called economic recovery promoted at this month’s “Debt and Governance” conference in Colombo is being paid for by Sri Lankan workers and the rural masses.
Saman Gunadasa•
Sri Lankan government fails to condemn US strikes on Iran
The ruling JVP, which decades ago abandoned its anti-imperialist pretensions, starkly revealed its pro-US and pro-Israel foreign policy.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
N. Ranges•
M. Thevarajah, W.A. Sunil•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Our reporters•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Sri Lanka)•
Thai prime minister suspended from office
What is being carried out in Thailand is a judicial coup with the backing of both right-wing and phony “progressive” parties in parliament.
Ben McGrath•
Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties back US-Israel war against Iran
Amid an unfolding global conflict, workers in Sri Lanka—Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim—stand in the same trench as their class brothers in Iran, Gaza, throughout the Middle East, including Israel, and internationally.
W.A. Sunil•
New Zealand PM affirms support for NATO military escalation
Luxon made explicit at the NATO summit that he fully supports the war in the Ukraine against Russia while doubling NZ’s military spending, aimed ultimately at China.
John Braddock•
US Secretary of State hosts anti-China QUAD meeting in Washington
The gathering, clearly directed against China, was held amid a massive escalation of US-led militarism in Europe, the Middle East and globally.
Oscar Grenfell•
Erika Zimmer•
Ben McGrath•
Mike Head•
Max Boddy, Peter Symonds•
Mike Head•
7 missing and feared dead after massive explosions at California fireworks warehouse
In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, authorities said the scene remained too dangerous for firefighters and emergency workers to extinguish ongoing fires and search for the missing workers.
Jerry White•
Philadelphia transit board votes to enact “doomsday budget,” to “dismantle” transit system
The budget, which will force a 45 percent reduction in services, places the working class throughout the region on a collision course with the two-party system’s budget cutting agenda.
Matt Allen, Nick Barrickman•
Amid fractious negotiations with Trump,
Canada’s Liberal government lashes out against the working class
Canada's ruling class is rushing to implement massive military spending hikes and Trump-like socio-economic policies, using his bullying as the cover to push through changes for which it has long agitated.
Keith Jones•
Los Angeles declares fiscal emergency, prepares mass layoffs amid $1 billion deficit
LA’s City Council—including four members of the DSA—voted unanimously to declare a “fiscal emergency” vote by the LA City Council, setting the stage for major cuts in America’s second-largest city.
Marc Wells•
Steve Hill•
Patrick Martin•
Brian Green, Kristina Betinis•
Ashley O'Hara•
Kate Randall•
As the end of the “pause” approaches, where to for Trump’s tariff war?
Trump announced the pause on the imposition of “reciprocal tariffs” on April 9 because of the major reaction in the bond market, which indicated a financial crisis could be in the making.
Nick Beams•
A sharp warning on the state of the global economy
The annual report of the Bank for International Settlements has pointed to the decades-long slowdown in the global economy, exacerbated by Trump’s economic war, and the “vulnerabilities” in the financial system from the escalation of government debt.
Nick Beams•
Cracks opening in long-term bond market
The move out of long-term US bonds is the most significant since the crisis of early 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nick Beams•
China continues to seek move away from US dollar
Chinese premier Li Qiang touted major expansion in domestic market and said the country would “open its doors wider” to trade and industry.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Kevin Reed•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
This week in history: June 30-July 6
Mexico ruling party defeated; composer Shostakovich finishes final work; North Korean troops in first combat with US forces; Fascists attack anti-fascists on Staten Island
Events in Detroit and Los Angeles mark 43rd anniversary of racist murder of Chinese American draftsman Vincent Chin
The UAW, which stoked the anti-Japanese racism that led to Chin’s death, is backing Trump’s tariffs and promoting the lie that Mexican workers are taking American autoworkers' jobs.
Shannon Jones•
250 years since the battles of Lexington and Concord
The shot heard round the world
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
Tom Mackaman•
160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
Tom Mackaman•
Helen Halyard•
Joseph Scalice•
David Walsh•
Landon Gourov•
Eric London•
New study shows immense impact of public health on life expectancy
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kennedy’s hand-picked ACIP elevates anti-vaccine pseudoscience into US public health policy
The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kennedy appoints vaccine skeptics and anti-science zealots after purge of immunization advisory panel
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kennedy’s purge of ACIP vaccine panel signals deepening attack on public health
The abrupt firing of 17 vaccine advisers threatens decades of vaccine progress and opens the door to fringe, anti-vaccine ideologues in federal health policy.
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Under extreme heat, Turkey continues to struggle with wildfires
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
Barış Demir•
The attack on Leman magazine: A dangerous provocation
The ruling class and the capitalist political establishment will try to exploit any opportunity to suppress the deepening political crisis and divert attention away from the mounting class tensions.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Petty-bourgeois nationalism vs. Trotskyism: Brazil’s Workers Cause Party (PCO) defends Erdoğan’s repression in Turkey–Part 2
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Petty-bourgeois nationalism vs. Trotskyism: Brazil’s Workers Cause Party (PCO) defends Erdoğan’s repression in Turkey–Part 1
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Bahadır Çelik•
Hakan Özal•
Jordan Shilton•
Ozan Özgür•
Ulaş Ateşçi, Barış Demir•
House passes Trump bill, which robs working people to give tax cuts for the super-rich
The bill cuts taxes for the wealthy by $3 trillion, slashes more than $1 trillion from social spending on Medicaid and food stamps and pours $300 billion more into military violence abroad and domestic repression, particularly against immigrants.
Patrick Martin•
Mamdani responds to right-wing attacks with accommodations to the Democratic Party and big business
While appealing to the mass social anger that propelled his election victory, Mamdani claims that the issues that drove his support can be resolved through the Democratic Party.
John Conrad•
Republicans incite fascist threats, demand investigation and deportation of Zohran Mamdani after NYC primary win
Outraged by the growing support for socialist politics and what it represents, Trump and the fascists in the Republican Party have escalated their violent rhetoric against Zohran Mamdani—including threats to deport the US citizen.
Jacob Crosse•
AFT President Weingarten exits the DNC amidst deepening crisis of Democratic Party
The exact issues involved behind Weingarten’s resignation is difficult to say with certainty, but what can be said is that there are no issues of political principle involved.
Renae Cassimeda, Tom Hall•
Marc Wells•
Patrick Martin•
Sandy English•
Jacob Crosse•
John Burton•
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
SpaceX Starship explodes during test amid string of other failures and explosions
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
Bryan Dyne•
What makes human culture unique from culture of other animals?
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Philip Guelpa•
Bill Atkinson, visionary engineer behind the Apple Macintosh operating system, dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74.
Kevin Reed•
Kennedy appoints vaccine skeptics and anti-science zealots after purge of immunization advisory panel
Kennedy is packing the Advisory Committee on Immunization practices (ACIP) with advocates tied to anti-vaccine groups and opposing COVID vaccines.
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
Frank Gaglioti•
Philip Guelpa•
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Left Voice calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
Clara Weiss•
A provocation that failed: On Alex Steiner’s attempt to discredit the ICFI’s defense of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
WSWS Editorial Board•
State prosecution fails to present evidence in trial against Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Thomas Scripps•
As the toll of police killings of Gen-Z protesters mounts, Kenyan Interior Minister says “job well done”
The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pretext for further repression.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kenya’s Ruto government bloodbath against Gen Z protests
President Ruto’s government has unleashed a violent crackdown on mass Gen Z-led protests across Kenya, leaving at least 16 dead and hundreds injured.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
One year since the Gen-Z Uprising in Kenya: The need for a socialist and internationalist strategy
Kenya’s 2024 youth-led protests exposed the brutality of the Ruto regime and the complicity of the traditional opposition, trade unions, and pseudo-left groups. Its betrayal underscores the essential need for revolutionary leadership.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Mass protests erupt in Kenya after police murder of blogger and teacher Albert Ojwang
The mass protests sparked by the police murder of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang expose the class nature of police violence, the role of the capitalist state, and the need for the international working class to unite against repression and inequality.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Alejandro López•
2025 New Year Statement
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Panama’s government suspends constitutional rights to suppress worker protests
The right-wing Mulino government has imposed Operation Omega to crack down on working class resistance to austerity measures.
Claude Delphian•
Washington pressures Peru to line up with US war policy against China
Reversing China’s rise as the primary economic partner for Peru and South America would be the equivalent of an economic earthquake, inevitably sparking revolutionary upheavals.
Cesar Uco•
In court testimony, Bolsonaro and military chiefs acknowledge conspiracy to overthrow democracy in Brazil
The defendants acknowledged that the former president conspired with the military commanders to prevent the inauguration of elected President Lula da Silva.
Tomas Castanheira•
Argentina’s Peronist former president sentenced to house arrest and lifetime political ban
The ruling represents a further step in the criminalization of political opposition, which can be fought only on the basis of a sober assessment of the role played by the Peronists and pseudo-left in disarming any viable resistance in the working class.
Rafael Azul, Andrea Lobo•
Tomas Castanheira•
Andrea Lobo•
Cesar Uco•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Fátima Ferrante•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Ukraine war escalates, as Russia warns of nuclear war should peace talks fail
Russia's lead negotiator in peace talks with Ukraine warned on Monday that any deal that did not secure his country's lasting interests would ultimately result in "the end of the planet."
Andrea Peters•
Ukrainian drones strike Russian nuclear bombers in Siberia
The attack was personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and carried out by the fascist-infested Secret Service of Ukraine (SBU).
Clara Weiss•
Ukraine: From social collapse to social explosion. What are the obstacles?
This report on by Ukrainian journalists documents the emergence of a huge shadow economy and the impact of skyrocketing food prices in the war-torn country.
Ukrainian journalists•
Former leading Ukrainian political operative assassinated in Spain
The assassination of Portnov in parking lot in Madrid just days after meeting with Ukrainian officials exposes the lie that Zelensky’s Ukraine is a “democratic state”.
Jason Melanovski•
Marianne Arens•
Johannes Stern•
Evgeny Tkachenko•
Jason Melanovski•
Alex Lantier•
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Our reporter•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
View page
No censorship of anti-war events! Defend freedom of expression at Berlin’s Humboldt University!
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Demand the dropping of charges against Chinese University of Michigan graduate researchers!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on workers, students and youth across the United States and internationally to oppose the warmongering witch-hunting of Chinese researchers Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Australian protests against Trump: The fight against fascism is a fight against capitalism!
While the protests express a growing opposition to Trump’s fascistic agenda, the pseudo-left organisers are seeking to channel those sentiments behind Australian nationalism and a pro-war Labor government.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Defend Logan Rozos! Mobilize workers and students to demand his diploma, oppose the assault on democratic rights!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on students, workers and youth across the US and internationally to demand that Rozos' diploma be released immediately.
Statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
David Walsh•
Our reporter•
Chase Lawrence•
Our reporter•
Matthew Brennan•
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
David North•
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei appeal in the German federal election
Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
Chris Marsden•
Thomas Scripps•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
Read the introduction
Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
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.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
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.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
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.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
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.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
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.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
For a rank-and-file investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.!
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
UAW pressing Stellantis to “finish their retooling” of Dundee plant as cover-up of Ronald Adams’ death continues
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
Jerry White•
Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Stellantis Dundee Engine worker Ronnie Adams
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
Jerry White•
Trump continues Biden’s stonewalling of court-ordered investigation into UAW elections
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
Joseph Kishore•
Jerry White•
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones•
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
Our reporters•
Ludwig Weller•
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.
David North•
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.
David North•
“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.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
Read
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Our reporter•
our reporters•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
Find out more
DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
Max Jones•
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.
Kevin Reed•
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.
John Burton•
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.
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
Read
Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
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.
Andre Damon•
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
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.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
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.
John Conrad•
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.”
Thomas Scripps•
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.
David Walsh•
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.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
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.
Robert Stevens•
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.
Our reporters•
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
Our reporters•
Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
View the Timeline
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
James McDonald•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
Clara Weiss•
A Different Kind of Power whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s right-wing, pro-imperialist government
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Tom Peters•
A conversation with Blake Bailey, Philip Roth biographer and author of Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me: “I said ... I’m not going to take this lying down”
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
Trump signs tax and spending bill: A ruling class celebration of dictatorship and austerity
The White House event Friday reflected the avid support for Trump’s bill in the ruling class, which sees it as a down payment for the shredding of all that remains of the social safety net, including Medicare and Social Security.
Barry Grey•
July 4, 2025: Trump, the oligarchy and the American counter-revolution
As the United States begins the 250th year of its existence, it is in the throes of a political, social, intellectual and cultural counterrevolution.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Philadelphia city workers strike: A sign of rising class struggle in the US
Class battles are emerging which will inevitably raise revolutionary questions. Even a defense of workers’ existing low standard of living is impossible without a frontal assault by the working class against the prerogatives of wealth. It requires expropriations and a massive redistribution of wealth back downward to the working class who created it.
Tom Hall•
Senate passes Trump’s class-war bill to cut taxes for the rich and wreck Medicaid
The dismantling of Medicaid, in the face of growing popular opposition to Trump’s program of dictatorship, war, mass deportations and social cuts, marks a new stage in the social counterrevolution.
Barry Grey•
Nick Beams•
Thomas Scripps•
Joseph Kishore•
Johannes Stern•
Joseph Kishore•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Read more
Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Richard Phillips•
Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
Tom Peters•
14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
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.
Tom Peters•
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.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•