In his concluding remarks in Ann Arbor, North explained why the US election anticipates an eruption of class struggle and posed the task of building a revolutionary movement in the working class.
Zac Corrigan•
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Speaking to nearly 100 students and workers, North stated that the midterm vote anticipates an enormous eruption of class struggle and urged young people to study Marxism, turn to the working class and join the fight for world socialism.
Evan Blake•
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Brooklyn building disaster: Capitalist criminality in the heart of world finance
The details of the disaster have been widely publicized, although the corporate media has been largely silent about the underlying social conditions and the political relationships that have been laid bare in this event.
After a string of UAW academic strikes that were isolated and ended, from Harvard in 2019 to Columbia this year, Harvard strikers must not let it happen again.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Thousands of teachers struck and marched in San José on Wednesday against cuts to public education. President Laura Fernández called them “vagabonds” and is moving to have the strike declared illegal under a law passed by her supposed opponents.
Andrea Lobo•
As COP31 opened in Antalya with its president admitting the 1.5°C target will be breached, Turkey’s coal and oil conglomerates are being showcased as “climate partners”, while the imperialist powers escalate war and refuse funding to poorer countries.
Emine Balkan•
DEM Party deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu raised the 15 years verdict for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk at a press conference in Türkiye’s parliament, responding to an appeal by the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi.
Our reporters•
In an open letter, the Socialist Equality Party (Türkiye) calls on the Revolutionary Workers Party of Türkiye and the Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece to defend Bogdan Syrotiuk, a Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison for his anti-war articles.
Ulaş Sevinç•
International Committee of the Fourth International•
David North•
Anonymously sourced intelligence leaks to the New York Times have brought down Trump’s closest corporate ally and the most prominent advocate of engagement with Beijing.
Evan Blake•
The disaster is the latest and most visceral expression of a housing crisis that is reaching a breaking point.
Daniel de Vries•
While promoting the Democratic Party as a vehicle for advancing the interests of the working class, the unofficial press organ of the DSA has written nothing about the Democrats’ role in blocking Hegseth’s impeachment.
Jacob Crosse•
One week after an election that repudiated the war against Iran, the Democrats allowed the impeachment of War Secretary Pete Hegseth to die, revealing the terms of the bipartisan arrangement they are seeking with Trump.
Joseph Kishore•
If we want to prevent our movement from running into the sand or being strangled, we must work through what perspective is needed to stop the militarisation of society and the social catastrophe.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
On Wednesday, November 11, millions of workers in Spain are holding a 24-hour nationwide strike against soaring housing costs, falling living standards and the social crisis.
European Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site•
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Capitalist Crisis, Imperialist War and the World Socialist Revolution
Delivered the night before the midterm elections, this lecture explains why the war against Iran, the AI bubble and the eruption of mass struggle across Europe pose the necessity of socialist revolution.
David North•
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Two syndicalists gut the 1926 General Strike of its political lessons—Part Three
Callum Cant and Matthew Lee’s The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026
Airy optimism about “the next surge” is cover for an anti-Marxist perspective, in this case syndicalism, foreclosing a principled and scientific answer to the strategic questions confronting the working class.
Thomas Scripps•
Globally, one in 10 people live on less than $3.00 a day, while 3.7 billion people, almost half the world's population, are highly insecure, living on less than $8.30 per day.
Jean Shaoul•
The deals marks a further step in the integration of the far right into official Australian politics, raising the prospect of One Nation playing a role in government.
Oscar Grenfell•
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The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada): Part 4
Delegates to the Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress held in Montreal from August 22 to 24 unanimously adopted a comprehensive document outlining the party’s Historical and International Foundations.
Socialist Equality Party (Canada)•
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Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Eleven
This is the eleventh and concluding part of a series reviewing British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa. It examines how the book erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
The Investigation Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
WSWS Editorial Board •
The return of measles in the US and the bipartisan dismantling of public health
Eight measles-associated deaths in the United States in 2026, after nine years in which no one died of the disease, are the product of the deliberate dismantling of public health by the capitalist class.
Benjamin Mateus•
No to the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement and imperialist war in the Middle East!
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement is being put to a vote in the Turkish Parliament. The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi–Dördüncü Enternasyonal opposes this pact unconditionally.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Build committees of action! After the November 5 French strike, prepare a European general strike against war and dictatorship!
The one-day national strike in France on November 5 comes after six weeks of escalating strikes and youth struggles across Europe.
Parti de l'égalité socialiste (France)•
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) •
Chris Marsden•
Gabriel Black•
Patrick Martin•
Patrick Martin•
After midterm debacle, Trump moves to cut 6.3 million people off food stamps
A new USDA rule aims to strip food assistance from 6.3 million people in 3.2 million households—nearly one in five recipients of SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. The new rule comes on top of Trump’s legislation that slashed $187 billion from SNAP and more than $1 trillion from federal health programs.
Kate Randall•
Chicago Democrats vie for mayoralty, pledging historic cuts
The austerity agenda laid out in the election campaigns demands the most serious political assessment and plans for action from the working class.
Kristina Betinis•
House votes to set aside Hegseth impeachment
The vote was in the lame duck session, where Republicans still hold a narrow majority, but absent Democrats accounted for the margin of defeat.
Patrick Martin•
Seattle’s “socialist” mayor Katie Wilson’s 2027 budget proposes to cut $65 million from housing programs and boost funding to police by $68 million
The proposed $9.2 billion budget closes a projected $175 million deficit entirely through cuts to social spending, setting the trend for municipalities run by the pseudo-left and the Democratic Party.
Michael Connolly, Bryan Dyne•
Matthew Taylor•
Patrick Martin•
Joseph Kishore•
Tom Hall•
Patrick Martin•
SAG-AFTRA bureaucracy purges the rank-and-file
Amid a shrinking industry, mass layoffs and the hollowing out of the health plan, SAG-AFTRA's bureaucracy purges hundreds of members over unpaid dues.
Marc Wells•
Patrick Stewart (1940-2026): A classical actor animated by his socialist convictions
Stewart’s identification of himself as an "absolute fundamental, emotional socialist" made him appealing to a younger audience being radicalised by their own experience.
Paul Bond•
KRANK Berlin (Berlin ER): A realistic hospital drama about profit and staff shortages
Hit television productions in several countries are portraying health systems wrecked by cuts and commercialisation.
Markus Salzmann, Jan Ritter•
Obsession: Love turns deadly
The unexpectedly popular film taps into the crisis afflicting young people.
Carlos Delgado•
David Walsh•
Paul Bond•
Stefan Steinberg•
Fred Mazelis•
David Walsh•
The “socialist” and the former CIA officer: Sanders and Slotkin team up to bolster the Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders’s joint appearance with former CIA officer Elissa Slotkin on Tuesday exposes the political alliance between the Democratic Party’s nominal left and its military-intelligence representatives.
Jacob Crosse•
Democratic Socialists of America member Janeese Lewis George elected mayor of Washington, DC
Lewis George’s election shows mass hostility to Trump, war and inequality, but also the bankruptcy of attempting to fight it through the Democratic Party.
Nick Barrickman•
“Women Side by Side Discuss the Future” conference in Türkiye: The bankruptcy of identity politics
An Ankara women’s conference built around the Erdoğan government’s deal with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party revealed the reactionary class role of middle-class feminism.
Emine Balkan, Ulaş Sevinç•
DSA’s Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoralty amid shift to the left
Raman’s victory gives DSA-affiliated mayors control of the two largest US cities and Washington D.C., reflecting a broader radicalization among workers and youth.
Jacob Crosse•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Sandy English, Barry Grey•
Erik Schreiber•
Christoph Vandreier•
Alejando Lopez•
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Meat industry workers in Spain in five-day stoppage joining workers’ struggles and mass youth protests sweeping Europe; protests over social conditions continue across Iran by retirees and bus drivers in Yazd; judicial workers in Ghana continue national strike over pay
Announcement of permanent layoffs and a new tier of low-paid workers show real face of UAW sellout contract at Nexteer
Months after the UAW forced through a sellout agreement, workers at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan are facing layoffs and the imposition of a new tier of part-time workers who receive no vacation or benefits.
Sheila Brehm•
Columbia University postdocs narrowly ratify contract with cuts in real wages
The UAW dropped key housing, immigration and job-security demands in its final contract for Columbia’s postdocs.
Elliott Murtagh•
Irish union leaders shut down public sector strike with below-inflation deal
Struck hours before around 50 European leaders arrived in Dublin, the deal ties pay rises of barely 4 percent a year to productivity, AI and “changed work practices.”
Steve James, Robert Stevens•
Mike Ingram, Tom Hall•
Andrea Lobo•
our reporters•
By our correspondent•
K. Nesan•
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka discusses socialist strategy against JVP/NPP government
The Socialist Equality Party explained how the JVP/NPP has deepened the attacks on working people since coming to power in 2024, backed by the union bureaucracy and the pseudo-left Frontline Socialist Party.
our reporters•
Sri Lanka: More than 2,000 jobs threatened in Norwood Fashion liquidation
A Socialist Equality Party member addressed a workers’ protest, calling for the creation of action committees to fight against the destruction of jobs.
M. Thevarajah, K. Kandeepan•
As Washington-Colombo ties strengthen, China exits Sri Lankan port project
China Merchants Port Holdings’ withdrawal from its Colombo Port investment follows US pressure on Sri Lanka to align with its military-strategic encirclement of China.
Wilani Peiris and Rohantha De Silva•
Sri Lanka: Workers and youth speak out about worsening conditions under JVP/NPP government
“Our lives have collapsed compared to the situation ten years ago. Although the people took to the streets in 2022, none of those problems have been solved.”
Our reporters•
W.A.Sunil•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Our Reporters•
Saman Gunadasa•
Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
An assessment of the decade of socialist revolution and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
David North•
Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
From the Declaration of Independence to the Third American Revolution
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Tom Mackaman. This report introduced the sixth resolution, “From the first to the third American Revolution,” which was unanimously adopted.
Tom Mackaman•
Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
From the first to the third American Revolution
We are publishing here “From the first to the third American Revolution,” the sixth and final resolution adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
AI, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The Congress was held from August 2–7, 2026. This report introduced the fifth resolution, “AI and the fight for socialism,” which was unanimously adopted.
Evan Blake•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Joseph Kishore•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Eric London•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
“You could call it a territory”: Democrats remain complicit in Trump’s recolonization of Venezuela after the midterms
Days after the Republican defeat in the midterms, Trump boasted of having “won Venezuela.” The Democrats, who will control Congress in January, have no intention of stopping the plunder.
Andrea Lobo•
After Brazil’s election, Lula’s national address pledges austerity and police repression
In his first national address since his reelection, Lula sought to speak at once to two irreconcilable audiences.
Tomas Castanheira•
“We are fed up with 70 years of plunder”
Paraguay: The Ueno Bank collapse and the deepening crisis of bourgeois rule
The crisis has exposed the rottenness of the entire edifice of bourgeois rule, setting in motion a movement of the working class, pensioners, and youth that the ruling class is desperately trying to contain.
Juan Martinez•
Strikes continue in Brazil after Lula’s reelection
Bus workers, street cleaners, app and delivery workers and public employees have remained in struggle in Brazil against the companies, governments and trade union bureaucracies.
Guilherme Ferreira•
Juan Martinez, Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Andrea Lobo•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Netherlands: Over 200,000 join fourth Red Line demonstration in Amsterdam against Gaza genocide and rearmament
While the official platform confined itself to appeals to the Jetten government to end its military and economic ties with Israel, many of the demonstrators now see the genocide as the outcome of deliberate government policy.
Johan de Rijp, Daniel Woreck•
At least 5 killed, including children, as floods swamp Gaza’s tent camps
The deaths are a direct result of US-Israeli policies aimed at killing and driving Palestinians from Gaza through bombardment, starvation and the denial of shelter and medical care.
Jacob Crosse•
Israel starts tortured process to form the next war and genocide government
Whether Eisenkot or some other politician succeeds in forming a government to replace Netanyahu, or Netanyahu retains power, it will not make an iota of difference to workers in Israel, the region and the wider world.
Jean Shaoul•
Turkish parliament approves Mecca defense pact amid Middle East war
Türkiye’s parliament has ratified the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a step tied to the Yemen war and the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Jean Shaoul•
Kevin Reed•
Chris Marsden•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
South Korea to expand naval mission in the Middle East
Seoul intends to approximately double the area of operations of its Cheonghae Unit, based in Djibouti, by deploying additional troops, a P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, an explosive ordnance disposal team, and mine-clearing equipment.
Ben McGrath•
Australia: Melbourne council workers speak out against real wage cuts, Labor and war
“It’s due to capitalism, a small percentage of people wanting to make a lot of money at the expense of the rest of us.”
Our reporters•
Australia: Union pressures council workers to lower wage demand
In the lead-up to the Victorian state election, the dispute poses political questions extending well beyond negotiations with individual councils.
John Wilson, Martin Scott•
Australian Labor pledges continued collaboration with Trump after midterm debacle
Labor leaders declared that whatever happened in the US, the alliance remained their main preoccupation in the context of preparations for war against China.
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Mitya Moor•
Wasantha Rupasinghe, Keith Jones•
Wimal Perera•
Oscar Grenfell•
Romania’s new government takes office amid war escalation, austerity and political crisis
The nomination will do nothing to solve the political and institutional crisis that has gripped the Eastern European country in recent years. Fundamentally, the country’s ruling elite is committed to NATO’s war against Russia and a massive rearmament campaign, while imposing sweeping austerity measures on the working class amid a deepening fiscal and economic crisis.
Andrei Tudora•
Berlin names extreme warmonger as head of armed forces: The return of German militarism
Christian Freuding, the new head of the armed forces, stands for a generation of officers who no longer regard war as a state of exception, but as the defining purpose of the whole of society.
Johannes Stern•
Death toll in HABAŞ steel plant blast in Türkiye rises to 19, one still missing
Relatives of the HABAŞ victims describe workers trapped in deadly jobs by debt and low wages. Meanwhile, the government has imposed a publication ban, and the Türk Metal union has done nothing.
Ulaş Sevinç•
French youth, yellow vests march as unions coordinate strikes with Macron
On November 7, for the fourth consecutive Saturday, high school students, university students, workers and Yellow Vests demonstrated across France against the rising cost of living.
WSWS reporters •
Jordan Shilton•
Florian Hasek•
Robert Stevens•
Marianne Arens•
Martin Nowak•
WSWS editor Johannes Stern discusses imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk on Spain’s Canal Red
WSWS editor Johannes Stern talks to Spain’s Canal Red about Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison for opposing the war.
Our reporter•
Resolution for the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk!
We are publishing here the fourth of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Support in Greece for freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian socialist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, has drawn support in Greece from media outlets, left-wing websites and social media users.
John Vassilopoulos•
IYSSE meeting at Berlin’s Humboldt University against the Ukraine war and the persecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
On October 21, the IYSSE student group at Humboldt University presented the book “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk.”
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Johannes Stern•
our reporters•
Katja Rippert, Johannes Stern•
Our reporters•
Jerry White•
NYU tribunal hears testimony on police violence, university reprisals against Gaza genocide protesters
Students and faculty described arrests, surveillance and disciplinary punishment, but the hearing evaded the political conclusions posed by the bipartisan crackdown.
Tim Avery•
Rail and airline bosses demand Carney government arrogate power to pre-emptively ban strikes under its Bill C-39
With the Liberal government set to codify federal strikebreaking powers, the airline and railway bosses are demanding it go even further in eviscerating the legal right to strike, by arrogating the power to outlaw worker job action pre-emptively.
Carl Bronski, Pierre Lajeunesse•
Carney’s second budget offers huge tax breaks for big business, tens of billions more for war and austerity for workers
The Liberal government’s partners in the trade union bureaucracy gave tacit approval to the massive increase in military spending by remaining silent on it in their budget responses.
Roger Jordan•
US Attorney expands frame-up of University of Michigan anti-genocide protesters
Federal prosecutors added four defendants to the retaliatory prosecution of students who opposed the Gaza genocide, targeting lead plaintiffs suing the university over their firings.
Stephen St. Clair•
Daniel de Vries•
Isabel Roy •
Dylan Lubao•
Nakai Beltran•
Frédéric Charlebois•
Discovery of security vulnerabilities in PHP programming language triggers global internet shutdowns
Serious security flaws in PHP—the open source programming language that runs on more than two thirds of world’s websites—were discovered on Wednesday leading to major outages across the globe as administrators took down their systems, ran updates and installed patches.
Kevin Reed•
Ozone worsens other deadly health effects of globally generated wildfires
Recent studies highlight the massive amounts of ozone generated by global warming-driven wildfires that will result in more than 2,000 annual excess deaths in the US alone.
Philip Guelpa•
Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for optogenetics, a light switch for the brain
Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth turned a light-sensitive protein from algae into a tool for switching brain cells on and off, giving the study of emotion, memory and behavior a causal, material basis. The prize comes as the Trump administration guts the research and health care this science should serve.
Benjamin Mateus•
Report says that global warming-enhanced El Niño will result in nearly half a million excess deaths by February
Near- and long-term effects of accelerating global warming will devastate the entire planet and cause major population displacements.
Philip Guelpa•
César Uco•
Philip Guelpa•
Frank Gaglioti•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Vote for the Socialist Equality Group in the New Zealand election!
We call on workers to vote for the SEG’s Tom Petterson in Hutt South and to join the fight to build a section of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds founding congress—a major advance in the building of the world party of socialist revolution
The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) •
SEP (Canada) Statement of Principles
Delegates to the Socialist Equality Party’s founding congress held in Montreal from August 22 to 24 unanimously adopted the following Statement of Principles.
Socialist Equality Party (Canada)•
Video: Attend the Socialist Equality Party launch for the Victorian election!
The SEP launch in Melbourne this Sunday will outline a socialist and international perspective against war, austerity and authoritarianism.
Our reporter•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Explosion at Turkish steel plant kills at least 18 workers
The deaths of at least 18 workers in an explosion at the HABAŞ steel plant in Aliağa, İzmir are the result of the drive for profit, state complicity and the silence of the Türk Metal union.
Barış Demir•
Israel starts tortured process to form the next war and genocide government
Whether Eisenkot or some other politician succeeds in forming a government to replace Netanyahu, or Netanyahu retains power, it will not make an iota of difference to workers in Israel, the region and the wider world.
Jean Shaoul•
No to the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement and imperialist war in the Middle East!
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement is being put to a vote in the Turkish Parliament. The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi–Dördüncü Enternasyonal opposes this pact unconditionally.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Israel plunged into deeper turmoil following inconclusive election
The real historic character of this election lies not in any prospect that it could rescue Israel from its mounting crisis. It is in its confirmation of the reactionary essence of the Zionist project.
Chris Marsden•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Can Denizli•
Andre Damon•
Paul Mitchell•
Ozan Özgür, Barış Demir•
“Our union is for the company not the members”: UAW rams through Bradford White contract, ending 47-day strike in Michigan
The United Auto Workers shut down the 47-day strike by nearly 1,300 Bradford White workers in Middleville, Michigan, after claiming that workers ratified the company’s “last, best and final” offer by 58.6 percent to 40.1 percent on Sunday.
George Kirby, Jerry White•
After election debacle, the UAW apparatus moves to break the Bradford White strike
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is telling 1,200 striking workers at the Bradford White water heater manufacturing plant in Middleville, Michigan that they must vote this weekend on what management calls its “last, best and final” offer.
Jerry White•
Dakkota workers denounce Detroit plant closure: “They don’t care about us”
Workers rejected the company’s official explanation and said Dakkota owner Andra Rush wanted to replace the current workforce with cheaper non-union labor.
Jerry White•
Payoff for the capitalists, layoff for the workers
General Motors announces $20 billion share buyback for Wall Street, while closing Brownstown battery plant
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain responded to the buyback with a florid denunciation of “legalized mass looting,” designed to conceal the UAW bureaucracy's concessions that have made this looting possible.
Tom Hall•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
George Kirby•
Tom Hall•
Will Lehman•
Jerry White •
“There was no lockout/tagout system”: Worker from the floor details conditions behind Bradley Clouse’s death at Astemo Berea plant in Kentucky
It has been more than two months since the death of 33-year-old maintenance worker Bradley Clouse at the Astemo Berea plant
Milo Stevens•
Rail workers to strike as train crash in Spain’s Toledo province kills at least 68
The accident is bound up with systemic underfunding of infrastructure and security by the entire political establishment, including the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.
Santiago Guillen, Alex Lantier•
Worker crushed to death at New Jersey foundry which was previously awarded OSHA’s highest safety recognition
Henry Antonio Marmol Martinez, a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic and father of six, was crushed to death at the McWane Ductile Foundry in Phillipsburg, New Jersey—a plant OSHA had certified under its highest "Star" safety designation.
Robert Milkowski•
2 serious accidents at postal processing facility in Pontiac, Michigan
Several recent incidents involving the activation of machinery during maintenance highlight unsafe conditions at the Michigan Metroplex mail processing center in Pontiac, Michigan.
Shannon Jones•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Barış Demir•
Samuel Davidson•
Felix Gauthier•
Jesse Thomas•
NATO deploys additional forces to the Black Sea as war against Russia escalates
NATO’s deployment of additional forces to the Black Sea amid growing attacks on commercial shipping marks a dangerous escalation of the war against Russia.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Massive Ukrainian drone attack on St. Petersburg escalates US-NATO war against Russia
Ukraine attacked Russia with more than 1,000 drones overnight Saturday, in the largest bombardment of St. Petersburg since the Second World War.
Andre Damon•
EU summit in Brussels: European powers intensify war drive against Russia
While the Trump administration, amid its conflict with the European powers, is seeking at least for the moment a certain accommodation with Russia, the EU governments, led by Berlin, are pressing for the continuation and expansion of the Ukraine war.
Johannes Stern•
Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election
The Democrats are making clear behind the scenes that their central priority, should they win a majority in one or both houses of Congress, will be the escalation of the war against Russia
Andre Damon•
Johannes Stern•
David North•
Johannes Stern•
Johannes Stern•
James Clayton•
China trade surplus on track for new record as tensions with EU grow
The Chinese trade surplus for the year has already passed the $1 trillion mark, amid a continued slowing of the domestic economy.
Nick Beams•
AI plunge delivers global shock
Friday’s fall in the Tokyo stock market was described by investors as “complete carnage.”
Nick Beams•
Wall Street plunge wipes off $3.2 trillion in market value
Fears of Democrat restrictions on the AI buildout were more the catalyst than the fundamental cause of the selloff.
Nick Beams•
Tightening credit hitting AI boom amid a “bloodbath” for junk bonds
Major companies in AI are looking to raise hundreds of billions of dollars of debt in very different conditions from the era of virtually free money which prevailed for almost a decade and a half after the 2008 crash.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
How the German government manipulated the trial of Adolf Eichmann
The fact that the AfD and its supporters can once again spread far-right ideologies and ethno-nationalist ideas unhindered today shows that there has never been a “zero hour” in Germany—nor a thorough eradication of National Socialism and an exposure of its roots in the capitalist system.
Sybille Fuchs•
This week in history: November 9-15
US-backed Northern Alliance captures Kabul as Taliban forces collapse; Indian parliament writes Indira Gandhi's emergency dictatorship into law with Stalinist support; the US Army spreads inflated atrocity claims in Korean War; the Communist Party of Indonesia leads uprisings against Dutch colonial rule.
40 years since the attempted assassination of Pinochet
The pseudo-left cannot defend its track record, so it flees into an idealized past. It cannot offer a program, so it offers assassination of an individual dictator as a substitute for the overthrow of an entire social system.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Pinochet’s Operation Colombo: A fascist crime and its cover-up
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Philip Guelpa•
Alejandro López•
Clara Weiss•
John Harris, Peter Symonds•
Nick Beams•
Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
WSWS International Editorial Board•
Socialism AI answers the New York Times: Not yes or no to AI, but who controls it
The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.
Socialism AI•
Answers from Socialism AI
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Socialism AI•
Answers from Socialism AI
What must be done to prepare a nationwide general strike against the Trump administration?
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Socialism AI•
Socialism AI•
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
Ebola cases exceed 10,000 with case fatality approaching 50 percent
The Congolese Ebola epidemic has reached 10,274 confirmed cases and 4,992 deaths. Of confirmed patients whose illness has ended, two of three have died, no better than in West Africa 12 years ago, while the 31 cases outside the Congo have produced four deaths.
Benjamin Mateus•
Communist Party Marxist–Kenya leader Booker Omole acquitted after eight-month prosecution
The persecution of Omole took place amid the broader repression carried out by President William Ruto’s government.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Ebola spreads to Nigeria and Kenya as epidemic expands beyond Congo (DRC)
Nigeria has confirmed an imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola and Kenya has nine, while the Congolese epidemic has reached 9,552 cases and 4,602 deaths in eight provinces, with children dying at the highest rates.
Benjamin Mateus•
Ebola death reported in Kenya as epidemic reaches 9,000 confirmed cases
More than half of Ituri’s new positives on Oct. 9 came from swabs of the dead, while a man who had been ill for a month passed two airport screenings before dying in Nairobi.
Benjamin Mateus•
Jean Shaoul•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
Jean de Jager•
Benjamin Mateus•
3 executions in a single day—in Indiana, Alabama and Florida—as Democrats remain silent
The three state killings came just two days after the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the November 3 midterm elections, yet a wide internet search turns up not a single comment from any Democrat on Thursday’s three executions.
Kate Randall•
Audi CEO Döllner assists Trump’s election campaign
Döllner’s appearance is neither a slip-up nor “pragmatism”, but an expression of the fact that the German bourgeoisie is preparing to collaborate with fascism—in the US as in Germany.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
“At every turn they have ignored us, misled us and shielded Alex’s killers”
Parents denounce federal cover-up in Border Patrol murder of Alex Pretti
Michael and Susan Pretti condemned the Justice Department’s stonewalling and demanded accountability for the federal agents who killed their son in Minneapolis.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump administration grants visa to fascist Flávio Bolsonaro
By granting a visa to an aspiring dictator under criminal investigation, the US government has exploded whatever “legal” pretense it has used to justify its repressive immigration policies.
Eric London•
Patrick Martin•
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Trévon Austin•
Patrick Martin•
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.
11 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: “We need an explanation,” says widow
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
Jerry White •
9 months since death of Michigan autoworker Ronald Adams
Nine months after the preventable death of 63‑year‑old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. , the silence from the company, the United Auto Workers and state remains deafening.
Jerry White •
“Our family wants answers that we have not gotten”: 8 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
Jerry White•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
David North•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
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.
The latest COVID surge, the bird flu death and the fabrication of vaccine injury
As a pre-winter COVID-19 surge passes one million daily infections, and a bird flu death is recorded in Washington state, the Trump administration conceals the diseases killing Americans while building a federal apparatus to manufacture the appearance of vaccine injury.
Benjamin Mateus•
US measles cases double last year’s total as Pennsylvania records a sixth death
The United States recorded no measles death at all between 2016 and 2024. Three were reported last year. Pennsylvania by itself has now recorded six in 2026, the latest a 39-year-old unvaccinated woman in Franklin County.
Benjamin Mateus•
Australia: Labor government ends universal free COVID vaccination
Having invoked mass vaccination to justify allowing COVID to spread unchecked, Labor is withdrawing universal free access to vaccination itself.
Gary Alvernia•
United States blocks UN pandemic preparedness declaration
CDC Director Erica Schwartz cited “divisive ideologies” and the unfinished fight over pathogen sharing and drug patents that has stalled the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
Bill Shaw•
Lucy Connell•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Evan Blake•
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.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi defies Turkish state’s intervention on its program
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office demanding that it change its program. It categorically rejected this political intervention.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
Opening Report to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Statement of Principles of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi•
David North•
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
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.
May Day 2026
Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
The 2026 International May Day Online Rally and the tasks of the international working class
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
WSWS Editorial Board•
May Day 2026
Canadian imperialism: predator, not prey, in global war
This speech was delivered by Keith Jones, Socialist Equality Party (Canada) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2026
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against imperialism!
This speech was delivered by Tom Peters, a leader of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
Tom Peters•
Cheryl Crisp•
Deepal Jayasekera, Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
Tomas Castanheira•
Alex Lantier•
Chris Marsden•
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.
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The place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
David North•
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
Eric London•
Lecture to the 2025 SEP Summer School
Joseph Hansen—the FBI’s asset in the SWP
This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.
Thomas Scripps•
Lecture to the SEP 2025 Summer School
The Gelfand Case: Depositions and the fight against summary judgement
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
John Burton•
Tom Carter•
Norisa Diaz•
Patrick Martin•
Andrea Lobo•
International Committee of the Fourth International•
The Investigation Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
WSWS Editorial Board •
London meeting marks 40 years since the expulsion of the Workers Revolutionary Party
The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.
Our reporters•
40 years since the suspension of the Workers Revolutionary Party from the ICFI
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
Peter Schwarz•
From the Archives
Documents of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the suspension of the WRP
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
David North•
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Mass arrests at UK Labour Party conference as police pursue more than 160 Palestine Action protesters
The Burnham government is backing the genocide in Gaza and criminalising opposition to it at home every bit as brutally as Starmer, despite his crocodile tears.
Robert Stevens•
Prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan denounces escalating pro-Zionist attacks on democratic rights in Australia
Flanagan’s speech, which received a prolonged standing ovation from a sold-out audience of 1,000 people, systematically exposed the state-backed pro-Zionist campaign that falsely equates opposition to Israel’s war crimes with antisemitism.
Richard Phillips•
Britain’s healthcare workers must demand Israel release Gaza’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
NHS FightBack•
Five hundred more pro-Palestine protesters arrested in UK despite High Court ruling
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
Thomas Scripps•
Tom Peters•
Mike Head•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jacob Crosse•
Antony Walsh•
A further exchange with Brazilian historian Mário Maestri on Trotskyism and the American Revolution
Mário Maestri has sent a reply to our article “Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian,” developing his position on the character of the American Revolution and Brazilian independence, to which the WSWS has in turn responded.
Tomas Castanheira•
Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a revolution.
Tomas Castanheira, Tom Mackaman•
An interview with historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
Tom Mackaman•
“It was universally understood as a revolution.” An Interview with historian Matthew Stewart on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.
Tom Mackaman•
David North•
Zac Corrigan•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Joseph Kishore•
Thomas Scripps•
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.
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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•
From the youth protests to the international class struggle
Germany: IYSSE meeting discusses the perspective of the European movement
Speakers from Germany, France and the United States analysed the character of the protests and placed the question of the political independence of the working class at the centre.
Our reporters•
David North brings fall lecture series to George Mason University
In the well-attended meeting, North stressed the importance of historical knowledge for anyone who seeks to fight for socialism.
Our reporter•
David North opens fall lecture series with meetings at Wayne State and Michigan State universities
Dozens of students and workers in Detroit and East Lansing attended each meeting and took part in serious discussions on war, the Democratic Party, and the fight for socialism.
Our reporters•
German youth protests: Education, not war! Mobilize the working class against social cuts, conscription and the police state!
We are publishing here the statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) on the nationwide youth protests on October 31, 2026.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Stephen St. Clair•
Stephen St. Clair•
Jean Shaoul•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Brazil)•
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.
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Joseph Kishore discusses fight to free Bogdan Syrotiuk on the Punch Up Pod
Kishore discussed the Ukrainian socialist’s imprisonment for opposing the war and the growing international demand for his freedom.
Our reporter•
SGP and WSWS call for the release of Ercan Akpolat and all political prisoners in Türkiye
On June 24, SGP Chairman Christoph Vandreier and Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language World Socialist Web Site, read out an open letter to Ambassador Gökhan Turan in front of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin.
Christoph Vandreier, Johannes Stern•
Watch: Stop the imperialist war against Iran! Oppose the Albanese government’s complicity!
“The Socialist Equality Party in Australia unequivocally condemns the imperialist war of aggression being waged against Iran.”
Max Boddy•
“The goal is for workers to take power”: Will Lehman explains campaign for UAW president
Will Lehman is a rank-and-file autoworker at Mack Trucks who is running for president of the United Auto Workers union in 2026.
Andre Damon•
David North to speak at two universities in Ankara, Turkey: “The American volcano and the global tsunami”
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
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.
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On the 86th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
Andre Damon•
Trotsky’s My Life: An imperishable contribution to Marxism and world literature
This speech was given by David North at the fourth annual international commemoration of Leon Trotsky’s exile on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, held August 16 before an audience of more than 100, under the title “My Life, Written on Prinkipo, and Trotsky's Years in Exile.”
David North•
David North answers questions at the international Trotsky commemoration in Prinkipo
North answered questions on the fate of Ernst Thälmann, the Kronstadt uprising, the situation confronting workers in the Middle East and the strength of the Left Opposition inside the Soviet Union.
David North•
International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo and the journey of My Life in Turkish
The fourth annual International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky was held on August 16, 2026, at the Taş Mektep venue on Büyükada, hosted by the Adalar Municipality with the support of Mehring Yayıncılık and the World Socialist Web Site.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Mehring Verlag•
Clara Weiss•
David North•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
David North•
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.
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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.
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.
Brooklyn building disaster: Capitalist criminality in the heart of world finance
The details of the disaster have been widely publicized, although the corporate media has been largely silent about the underlying social conditions and the political relationships that have been laid bare in this event.
Patrick Martin•
Democrats rescue War Secretary Hegseth a week after election repudiates war
One week after an election that repudiated the war against Iran, the Democrats allowed the impeachment of War Secretary Pete Hegseth to die, revealing the terms of the bipartisan arrangement they are seeking with Trump.
Joseph Kishore•
Democratic Party turns a popular repudiation of Trump into a call for “moderation” and austerity
The Times editorial portrays the election rout as a demand by voters for “moderation,” when it actually expresses a sharp shift to the left among working people.
Patrick Martin•
The return of measles in the US and the bipartisan dismantling of public health
Eight measles-associated deaths in the United States in 2026, after nine years in which no one died of the disease, are the product of the deliberate dismantling of public health by the capitalist class.
Benjamin Mateus•
Joseph Kishore•
Andre Damon, Joseph Kishore•
Joseph Kishore, David North•
Patrick Martin•
David North•
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.
US strikes Iran on eve of midterms
The US military attacked Qeshm Island on the eve of the midterm elections, while the Journal, MS NOW and the AP reported plans and deployments for a larger attack on Iran immediately after the vote and Trump pointed to even greater attacks to come.
Andre Damon•
Trump administration announces it has placed weapons in orbit, in major step in the militarization of space
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink’s acknowledgment that the United States “now has on-orbit space control weapons” comes as the Trump administration has abandoned or bypassed one arms-control treaty after another, and 10 days before Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the White House.
Andre Damon•
US Southern Command announces sustained operations in Ecuador and Colombia while sinking more fishing boats in the Pacific
US imperialism is building a hemispheric repressive apparatus that is distinctly fascist: fishermen killed or their livelihoods destroyed without trial, prosecutors and journalists murdered and bodies displayed as propaganda.
Andrea Lobo•
US sends troops under cover of Venezuelan earthquake, as death toll surges
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the country.
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Andre Damon•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Keith Jones•
Robert Stevens•
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.
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Eleven
This is the eleventh and concluding part of a series reviewing British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa. It examines how the book erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Ten
This is the tenth part of an 11-part series reviewing British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa. It examines how the book erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Hakim Adi’s “Pan-Africanism and Communism”: A pro-Stalinist attempt to erase the Trotskyist alternative — Part Nine
Part nine of a 11-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Two syndicalists gut the 1926 General Strike of its political lessons—Part Three
Airy optimism about “the next surge” is cover for an anti-Marxist perspective, in this case syndicalism, foreclosing a principled and scientific answer to the strategic questions confronting the working class.
Thomas Scripps•
Thomas Scripps•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Thomas Scripps•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
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.
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Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Stephen Parker•
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.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
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.
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