The direct precedent for the Trump administration’s positions is the concept of Willensstrafrecht (“punishment of the will”), developed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
In the 1930s, when the world market collapsed, there arose rival trade and currency blocs and deep economic conflicts that played a role in creating the conditions for war. There are now signs that such developments are getting underway.
Amid the Gaza genocide and Trump’s escalating trade war, not only a US war but also a US deal with Iran would ultimately threaten war with China and Russia, who signed alliances with Iran.
Friday’s meeting in Brussels of the Ukraine Contact Group saw the European imperialist powers pledge over €20 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine and issue bellicose statements against Russia.
The position of the US government is that under the Alien Enemies Act the president can disappear people to a foreign gulag and then claim they are outside any judicial review.
At the University of Michigan (U-M) the federal government has revoked the visas of 22 current and former international students or otherwise terminated their right to remain in the country legally
Starmer’s Labour government has branded opposition to Israel’s war and expressions of support for the Palestinians as antisemitic, with police making mass arrests and mounting a clampdown on student protests at university campuses.
Peaceful protestors holding pillows to represent murdered Palestinian children were arrested last week in Dublin.
The capitalist response to the pandemic has exacted a stark toll of mass death and disability, while accelerating social inequality and initiating the destruction of the world’s public health infrastructure.
How did the DPP rise as “the opposition” in the late 1980s? What role did the KMT and US imperialism play in this development? What do social democrats and Stalinists mean when they say “peace”?
Trump first broached the issue of a patriotic sculpture garden in July 2020, using the attacks on various monuments by participants in demonstrations against police violence as his pretext.
While denying plans to directly cut Social Security checks, the Trump administration is imposing job cuts, office closures and “identity-proofing” requirements designed to wreck the Social Security Administration and block seniors from applying for and receiving benefits.
The meeting exposed the fraudulent character of claims by all the parliamentary parties and the corporate media that Australia is an “exception” to the crisis unfolding worldwide.
All of the major parties and the media are complicit in the criminal US-led war against Russia in Ukraine and knowingly propagate the lies used the justify it.
Fain attempted damage control over the UAW’s embrace of Trump under conditions of mounting rank-and-file anger over layoffs and attacks on democratic rights.
The unions’ main concern is retaining the traditional state-regulated collective bargaining system, which underpins the privileges of the caste of union functionaries, and through which they suppress the class struggle in tri-partite collaboration with the bosses and government.
The US president seeks to exercise dictatorial powers against the working class, but he remains the servant of the financial markets and the billionaires.
The “pause” came as it was becoming apparent the entire financial system was on the verge of another crisis rivalling those of 2008 and March 2020 or possibly even greater.
A gang of five unelected fascists on the Supreme Court rubber-stamped a presidential dictatorship.
Speaking at Hamilton College in upstate New York, the ex-president sought to block students from drawing revolutionary conclusions from the deepening political crisis in America.
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.
We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo’s death, written by Helen Halyard.
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
When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to open colonial rule and the conquest and annexation of territories.
In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman and expelled him from the city.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
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.
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.
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.
Three weeks have passed since Steiner posted on permanent-revolution.org a slanderous letter provided by an agent-provocateur. Steiner’s default response to the WSWS's exposure of his deceitful attempt to justify his provocation is to tell more lies.
The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists condemns with contempt the smear campaign based on the claim that the International Committee's “negligence” in security matters was to blame for the arrest of our comrade, Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Bogdan is charged not for any action committed or planned but for his Trotskyist ideas, a “thoughtcrime."
Sri Lankan President Dissanayake guaranteed full cooperation with New Delhi, Washington’s key strategic partner in South Asia as the US ramps up its confrontation with China.
The ASMOF union never wanted the strike to take place, and then as soon as it was over, promised the Labor government that it would prevent any further stoppages.
As striking doctors turn out to fight the Minns Labor government, ASMOF officials are determined to keep them separated from tens of thousands of other public sector health workers while appealing for “compromise” negotiations.
“There’s no way to pretend there isn’t enough money. Everyone seems to have money for a war but not for health.”
The film is an exploration of the “border industrial complex,” a term used to describe the profitable systems, worth billions of dollars annually, built around capturing, incarcerating, and deporting immigrants.
Shostakovich’s symphony, composed in 1937, is one of the greatest works of the 20th century.
This is how an authoritarian regime or a military dictatorship operates.
In a sign of the enormous popular opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the moves toward dictatorship, The Encampments has been met with significant support and enthusiasm.
Teachers in Nepal fight for better pay and conditions; Sri Lankan garment workers protest unpaid New Year bonus; Shipyard workers continue rolling stoppages in South Australia; Mental health workers in Victoria impose bans for higher pay.
Despite assurances by the Chicago Teachers Union that the deal will “Trump-proof” the district, teachers worry about severe budget cuts planned by city officials and the White House.
Labour’s repressive measures against the Birmingham bin strike are aimed against the entire working class.
24-hour general strike across all sectors in Greece to protest austerity; strikes in the West Bank and Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza; police use tear gas against nationwide demonstrations in Nigeria against poverty and attacks on democratic rights
More than a month after Khalil was abducted by government agents outside his apartment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted Khalil’s deportation is based solely on his opposition to genocide.
George Mason University president Gregory Washington openly welcomed the Trump administration attack on democratic rights as part of its crackdown on anti-genocide protests.
Felipe Zapata Velázquez, a third-year international student at the University of Florida, was pulled over by Gainesville police on March 28 for traffic violations and, without a hearing, handed over to ICE officials and disappeared to a Miami-Dade detention facility. From there, he elected to return back to Colombia.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality calls on students, youth and the working class to mobilize in opposition to the Trump administration’s escalating campaign of terror on college campuses.
The demolition of public housing in Melbourne and nationally can be defeated, but that requires mobilising the power of the working class.
“The decision by the Victorian Labor state government to demolish the public housing towers is socially and politically criminal. It is directly placing profit above the interest of thousands of people.”
The bipartisan promise to “fully fund” public education is as much of a fraud as the entire official election campaign. Whichever party assumes office will deepen the decades-long assault on public schools.
The SEP candidates are alone in fighting to build an independent, socialist movement of the working class against the program of war, austerity and increasing authoritarianism, supported by every other party..
Health Secretary Kennedy, America’s top anti-vaccine zealot, tours measles-ravaged regions while cynically consoling families of children whose deaths his own propaganda helped cause.
Trump is a menace to the workers of Canada and the world. But workers can’t fight him by lining up with the Canadian bourgeoisie.
Threats of drone strikes are part of an increasingly aggressive exercise of gunboat diplomacy to subordinate Mexico and the wider region to colonial status.
The group Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty said in a statement on Tanzi’s execution, “It is not justice to take a physically and mentally broken man, strap him to a gurney, and commit premeditated murder. This is revenge, plain and simple.”
The agreement establishing a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) underscores that this will be the most right-wing German government since the Nazis held power.
Building a movement to defeat these attacks on democratic rights means understanding the class and imperialist interests behind them.
American funding has long played a central role in sustaining the large network of non-profit and civil society organizations seeking to drive out the current ruling authorities for failing to adopt a decisively anti-Russian line.
The consequences of an escalating trade war between the US and the European Union would be devastating.
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.
Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, the Israeli military launched air strikes on Palestinians that killed as many as 35 people and maintained its program of extermination through starvation in Gaza.
Trump has nominated a close business crony, billionaire Thomas Barrack, as US ambassador to Turkey.
Washington is planning to create an anti-Iran axis between Ankara, Damascus and Tel Aviv, but these plans are being hindered by the growing rivalry between the Turkish and Israeli bourgeoisies.
A forensic analysis of the bodies, along with a smartphone video captured by one of those killed, shows that the official Israeli narrative regarding the deaths and mass burial of 15 Palestinian aid workers near Rafah on March 23 is nothing but lies.
Although they have not been convicted of any crime by a court, the three EU citizens and one US citizen have been ordered to leave Germany by April 21. Otherwise, they are to be forcibly deported.
Instead of the international unity of the working class, expressed in the age-old slogan, “Workers of the World, Unite!” UAW President Shawn Fain embraces Trump’s “America First” policies and pits workers of different countries against each other.
In an interview with the WSWS, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi reviewed her academic research and expertise, recounted the circumstances of her firing by Yale Law School, and explained the political context within which freedom of speech and political opposition are being attacked.
Over 400 Jewish students, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan have signed open letters denouncing the administration’s “weaponization of antisemitism.” The letters demand that the university end its collaboration with the Trump administration in the crackdown on political speech.
Dissanayake’s call for a unified national response to Washington’s new tariffs means vicious attacks on the Sri Lankan working class and the rural masses.
“If this government continues like this, the President will have to go by such a mass uprising again,” a resident warned.
The JVP/NPP is attempting to win support in the local government elections in order to claim a renewed mandate even as it intensifies the imposition of the IMF’s austerity demands.
In line with IMF demands, the government’s attack on workers’ allowances and its minimal pay increase are aimed at drastically slashing state expenditure.
Speaking at a shop stewards meeting, Francis Atwoli urged the “broad-based” government to crack down on online opposition. “Social media [users], it is time you stopped propaganda. You must love your country. If you are not patriotic, even investors will exit. Otherwise, we will plunge into chaos,” he declared.
Before a gathered crowd of senior officers, Kahariri said, “We cannot have anarchy as a country. Even as people exercise their freedom, they must do so within certain limits.”
Booker Omole’s outburst reveals critical questioning among CPM-K members, particularly youth, who are asking questions about perspective, programme and leadership.
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
With a shocking death toll of at least 221, the Dominican ruling class is already seeking to divert attention from the the crime by promoting nationalist chauvinism and anti-Haitian xenophobia.
To avoid friction with the Armed Forces, infested with fascist apologists for the dictatorship, the official policy of the Lula government was to ignore the date.
The Noboa-Trump meeting should sound the alarm over a conspiracy to use the state of exception and the threat of a US military intervention to overturn an election and establish an openly fascistic dictatorship.
The new measures would represent the most aggressive US siege against Venezuela’s economy thus far, posing the threat of mass death and a renewed exodus.
In currency markets an index of the US dollar against a basket of a dozen of its peers fell 1.9 percent amid growing questions about what the economic war means for its status as the global reserve currency.
The two-day selloff last week was the fourth most significant in the post-war period.
The blanket tariff on all US goods was previously considered a worst-case option, but such is the level of the attack that Beijing decided to go ahead with it.
The US auto giants are the most affected but every auto company in the world is impacted with major adverse consequences for American workers whom Trump, with the support of the trade union bureaucracy, falsely claims to be defending.
After the federal election and the approval of the largest war credits since the Nazis, Germany’s ruling class is systematically pursuing its war offensive. This centres on military expansion to the east and war preparations against the nuclear power Russia.
The Russian ruling class is hoping that a negotiated settlement with the United States over the war in Ukraine will give it some relief as falling oil revenues and military-industrial expenditures blow a hole in the federal budget.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an extensive article on US involvement in the Ukraine war entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.”
France and Britain pledged to send troops to Ukraine, risking total war with Russia, amid rising US-European tensions as Washington and the EU both try to seize Ukrainian mineral resources.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
The recent fires in Los Angeles have laid bare the devastating consequences of capitalism, a system that prioritizes profit over safety.
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.
As huge protests gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to demand İmamoglu’s release, President Erdoğan, the commander-in-chief of NATO’s second largest army, accused the CHP of serving imperialism.
As the wave of unlawful arrests and detentions launched by the government to suppress mass protests continues, videos and testimonies of brutal police violence and torture are emerging.
As Erdoğan responds to the mass protests with a growing state crackdown, the CHP is seeking to end the movement and is appealing to its NATO allies.
The blatant attack on democratic rights sparked mass protests across the country.
Dr. Peter Marks made clear that a central impetus behind his resignation was Kennedy’s criminal response to the deepening measles outbreak in the US, which has now infected over 500 people, the vast majority unvaccinated children.
The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.
As part of their commemoration of the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, the Times aired a special episode of their podcast The Daily titled, “Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?” to which they answer definitively “No.”
A publication on the discovery of a novel coronavirus by Chinese scientists has been the occasion for the Times to drum up the lab leak conspiracy once more.
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 emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor infection could result in a life-threatening condition.
The rapid melting of glaciers due to climate change will have disastrous consequences for humanity.
The manufacture and use of bone tools dates to a million years earlier than previously documented.
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
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.
Speaking at Hamilton College in upstate New York, the ex-president sought to block students from drawing revolutionary conclusions from the deepening political crisis in America.
Adams’ move, while widely expected, further scrambles this year’s contest for mayor of the largest US city.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, the DSA Democrat shed her previous “left” lip service and pined for a Democratic Party that used the rhetoric of “economic populism” to advance the interests of US imperialism.
The hearing summoned executives from both NPR and PBS to be subjected to fascist lies and conspiracy theories.
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.
Last Friday, the IYSSE held a successful meeting at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas opposing the mass deportations by the Trump administration that was attended by almost 30 people.
Rather than refuting the IYSSE’s exposure of the Democratic Party’s role in enabling Trump’s attacks, the Young Democrats resorted to attempted censorship.
In the course of his remarks, Finkelstein said of the repression of anti-genocide protesters at U-M and on campuses across the country, “What took place this past spring involved the biggest attack on academic freedom in US history.”
The university administration’s willingness to collaborate in attacks on immigrants, transgender people and anti-genocide students has clearly emerged.
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.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
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.
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.
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.
Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on.
Despite Stellantis rescinding its threat to lay off 1,134 workers at the Jeep complex in Toledo, the looming threat of tariffs and trade war presages a renewed attack on auto jobs.
Events of the last week show that the recent police sweep at Ford Michigan Assembly was the launch of what can only be described as a police state crackdown against autoworkers.
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 Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
The direct precedent for the Trump administration’s positions is the concept of Willensstrafrecht (“punishment of the will”), developed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
The US president seeks to exercise dictatorial powers against the working class, but he remains the servant of the financial markets and the billionaires.
The “pause” came as it was becoming apparent the entire financial system was on the verge of another crisis rivalling those of 2008 and March 2020 or possibly even greater.
A gang of five unelected fascists on the Supreme Court rubber-stamped a presidential dictatorship.
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.
