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The global rebellion of youth and workers and the war frenzy of the ruling class
The crisis that drives the bourgeoisie to war is drawing ever broader sections of the working class into struggle on a world scale.
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Netanyahu sealed off the West Bank and announced a military operation of a kind not carried out since 1967, as the US and Israel prepare new strikes on Iran after the elections.
Andre Damon•
Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation represents a rare break with the silence and evasions that have characterised the British media’s coverage of Gaza
Paul Mitchell•
The New York Times reports specific US-Israeli plans for strikes on Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, while the Democrats demand escalation against Russia and complain that Trump is losing the war.
Andre Damon•
The dispute over maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of a struggle between the imperialist and regional powers over control of energy resources, pipelines, electricity and data cables, and strategic sea lanes.
Ozan Özgür, Barış Demir•
Major strikes and national days of protest are planned for November in several of the countries affected, in which millions of workers will take part. A fundamental class conflict is developing, one that directly raises the question of power.
Peter Schwarz•
The strike by 160 Unite union members was sparked by a bitter pay dispute over an ultimatum to accept a “final offer” of just 4 percent.
Tony Robson•
The Sheinbaum government’s labor authorities have publicly praised Volkswagen and the SITIAVW for overriding two “no” votes.
Andrea Lobo•
Brazilians return to the polls on October 25 for the presidential runoff amid an eruption of the class struggle on a world scale.
Tomas Castanheira•
Over the month since high school blockades and shutdowns began in France, an outpouring of anti-austerity, anti-repression, anti-war and anti-fascist sentiment has staggered the French government and spread across Europe.
Alex Lantier•
Attorney Randy Spivey’s sworn declaration documents repeated attempts to find a vein, burning pain during the injection and prolonged gasping and choking before Pike was taken to a hospital.
Kate Randall•
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•
The entire purpose of the pension system imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship in 1981 has been to convert the compulsory savings of the working class into a reservoir of capital for the Chilean oligarchy and the global financial markets.
Mauricio Saavedra•
The IYSSE event on Zoom was live-streamed simultaneously on the Socialist Equality Party’s (SEP) Facebook page in Sinhala and Tamil, attracting significant interest.
Our Reporters•
BC NDP Premier David Eby called the early vote with the aim of strengthening his government’s hand to impose austerity and push through big business and war-related development projects.
Penny Smith•
The results of Monday’s referendum on the independence of Alberta—Canada’s oil-rich, fourth most-populous province—are a rebuke to the far right and to the Trump administration.
Keith Jones•
Workers in Lower Hutt spoke with the SEG’s election campaign team about their experiences with the housing crisis, unemployment, and the expanding global war.
Our reporters•
Leading SEG member Tom Petterson will stand in the November 7 election, in opposition to all the capitalist parties, on a socialist and anti-war platform.
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
The betrayal of doctors is a graphic demonstration of the treacherous role of the trade unions, which are presiding over the further evisceration of a public health system already in an advanced state of crisis.
Morgan Peach, SEP candidate for Northern Metropolitan•
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the November 28 Victorian election to provide workers with a socialist and internationalist perspective against every other party.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
We are publishing here the third 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)•
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 •
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) •
Alan Thornett, 1937-2026: A militant won to Trotskyism who later embraced Pabloism
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Thornett was a prominent militant in the car industry who was won from the Stalinist Communist Party of Great Britain to the Socialist Labour League, then the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Chris Marsden•
The bond markets, rearmament and the global assault on social spending
The immediate ruling class agenda is budget cuts amounting to €54 billion which will make major inroads into social spending. But this is only the start.
Nick Beams•
Jacob Crosse•
Andre Damon•
Patrick Martin•
Tomas Castanheira•
WSWS Editorial Board•
“Fighting Oligarchy” by electing Democrats: Bernie Sanders campaigns for Angie Nixon in Florida
Nixon and Sanders promoted the illusion that the November elections can proceed as an ordinary contest and that oligarchy and fascism can be defeated at the ballot box.
Matthew Taylor, Jacob Crosse•
Sparsely attended “No Kings” rallies promote Democratic Party amid Trump’s drive toward dictatorship
After earlier demonstrations drew millions, organizers narrowed Saturday’s events to electoral appeals, as Trump escalated his attacks on democratic rights.
Our reporters, Jacob Crosse•
Democratic Party runs more than 60 military-intelligence candidates for Congress
The national security “caucus” of the House Democrats could double or even triple as a result of the November 3 vote.
Patrick Martin•
Failed mass shooting at Illinois Hindu temple latest in growing wave of fascist political violence
A 19-year-old neo-Nazi has been arrested and charged with making a terrorist threat and weapons offenses after an alleged attempt to massacre worshippers at an Illinois Hindu temple.
Andy Thompson•
Patrick Martin•
Josh Andrews•
Stephen St. Clair•
Luke Galvin•
Kevin Reed•
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)•
The 2 Elizabeth Gurley Flynns: A new biography of the “Rebel Girl”
Mary Anne Trasciatti’s valuable biography documents Flynn’s passage from IWW militancy to Stalinism but leaves the roots of that transformation unexplained.
Tom Mackaman•
UK release of Naza: “A marriage between investigative journalism and cinema” exposing Israel’s crimes in Gaza
During a panel discussion at the film’s London launch, Paul Lewis exposed the incoherence of the Netanyahu regime’s response to Naza. On the one hand, the government claims the film is “false”, “misrepresentative”, and full of lies. On the other hand, Netanyahu argues that those appearing in it should be prosecuted for revealing state secrets.
Paul Mitchell•
American soprano Martina Arroyo has died at the age of 90
The singer came from a Puerto Rican working-class background and was known not only for her beautiful voice but also for the warmth of her personality.
Fred Mazelis•
Manhunt: A dark tale of violence that provides little illumination
The film focuses on two teenagers without presenting the social context that could explain why they are drawn to the far right.
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Fred Mazelis•
Paul Mitchell•
Carlos Delgado•
Andrea Peters, Marc Wells•
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
India: Thousands of Punjab state bus workers launch indefinite strike; Bangladesh garment workers defy police attacks to demand living wage; Australia: Victorian allied health workers escalate bans after rejecting Labor’s offer; University of Sydney staff strike for 24 hours.
California state workers strike against Newsom: “We will strike for as long as it takes”
The fight against Newsom’s attacks confronts workers with the need to break the SEIU bureaucracy’s grip and unite with workers internationally.
Kimie Saito, Norisa Diaz, Our reporters, Jacob Crosse•
USPS workers say: No private armed guards in our postal facilities!
Nearly 1,000 armed private security guards are being rushed into USPS plants in the final weeks before the midterm elections—into the very facilities that will process millions of mail-in ballots, and months before the deepest cuts in USPS history.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Phillips 66 locks out 385 Linden, New Jersey, refinery workers after rejection of concessions contract
The lockout at the largest refinery on the East Coast follows lockouts at BP's Whiting, Indiana, and Marathon's Martinez, California, refineries.
Robert Milkowski•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Nakai Beltran•
Samuel Davidson, Tom Hall•
Tom Petterson•
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•
UK deploys RAF jets to support Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen
The US-led war on Iran has set the entire region ablaze, destabilising the Persian Gulf states and opening a new scramble by the European imperialist and regional powers for control of territory, resources and geo-strategic influence.
Laura Tiernan•
Hegseth secretly meets Netanyahu as US prepares to resume attacks on Iran
The secret meeting at Ovda air base took place eight days before Israel's election and amid US press reports that the Pentagon has been ordered to prepare for major combat operations against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections.
Andre Damon•
Israel’s general election: All the Zionist parties committed to war
Israel’s October 27 election offers no alternative: every Zionist party, including the opposition led by former military chiefs, is committed to the genocide in Gaza and war against Iran.
Jean Shaoul•
Israeli settlers carry out wave of attacks in West Bank, as UN cuts Gaza food aid
Israeli settlers carried out a wave of attacks across the occupied West Bank over the weekend, protected by soldiers who fired tear gas at their victims and encouraged by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Hakan Özal•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
IIT Bombay unleashes police on grieving parents and student protesters
One month to the day after the tragic suicide of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, the elite institute's administration used police to violently disperse his grieving parents and student protesters.
Kranti Kumara•
Australian university union funding report covers up Labor government’s restructuring agenda
The NTEU report is silent on Labor’s underlying agenda—the funnelling of more than $50 billion a year, and rising, into military spending in preparation for war, while gutting social spending.
Mike Head•
Philippine impeachment prosecutors withdraw some charges against Vice President Duterte
Prosecutors dropped all but one of the charges against Duterte before the defense could answer, in a bid to accelerate her removal amid an escalating struggle over state power and relations with China.
John Malvar•
Australian establishment exploits violent attack on MP to demonise political opposition
The political and media establishment has preempted any investigation of the motivations of Monday’s horrific incident.
Oscar Grenfell•
Ben McGrath•
Our reporter•
Kranti Kumara•
Mark Wilson•
Chris Egan•
University and College Union members at Manchester Metropolitan University back campaign for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Branch members discussed how Bogdan's case punctures the dominant media narrative on Ukraine, with the term ‘meat grinder’ used to describe the grim reality of the conflict
our reporters•
Video of Frankfurt book presentation: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
Katja Rippert, Johannes Stern•
Workers speak in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk at the 90th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
A rally and march was held in East London on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.
Our reporters•
Gary Tyler, former political prisoner in US, endorses campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk: “This young man should be free”
Gary Tyler, the former political prisoner who spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a murder he did not commit, has endorsed the international campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Johannes Stern•
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Sri Lanka)•
Statement by the party Union of Left Forces - For a New Socialism! •
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Mamdani hits the campaign trail for Hochul, governor of strikebreaking and police repression
Mamdani’s campaign video for Hochul refutes the Democratic Socialists of America’s claim to be turning the Democratic Party into an organization that defends workers.
Erik Schreiber•
Left Party, Greens and the SPD agree to austerity measures, military build-up in talks for Berlin’s new Senate
The Left Party itself is a proven pillar of the existing order and of the policies of war and austerity and is even actively participating in the campaign against its own members of parliament.
Christoph Vandreier•
Spain’s pseudo-left launches Broad Front as electoral trap for workers and youth
The launch of the Broad Front takes place amid an eruption of mass protests and strikes across Spain and Europe, from France to Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Albania.
Alejando Lopez•
Self-described socialist N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas wins Oklahoma Democratic Senate primary
Thomas’s Oklahoma primary victory reflects growing interest in socialism, while her program channels that opposition back into the Democratic Party.
Harry Smith•
Barry Grey•
Tomas Castanheira•
Alejandro Lopez•
Alex Lantier•
John Conrad•
Protests sweep Greece as teachers, public sector workers and youth join Europe-wide upsurge
Students, teachers and other public sector workers marched in more than 50 Greek towns and cities Wednesday, met by 3,000 police in Athens, as the Mitsotakis government vowed Greece would not “become like the streets of Paris.”
Robert Stevens•
French unions negotiate with Macron as mass protests explode across Europe
The French union leaderships’ meeting with the Macron government produced a political debacle for all those who argue that workers and youth can leave the leadership of strikes to these bureaucracies.
Alex Lantier•
After mass October 17 protest, French government prepares dictatorship
The crisis of rule revealed by the mass protests against Macron on October 17 will not be resolved by social concessions granted to workers from above.
Alex Lantier•
Over 100,000 join protests and strikes in Italy
Youth protests, lorry blockades and strikes are spreading across Italy, while the Meloni government responds with police-state measures, and the trade unions seek to contain the movement.
Marianne Arens•
WSWS reporting team•
Anthony Torres, Kumaran Ira•
Robert Stevens•
Peter Schwarz•
Markus Salzmann•
Sri Lankan government assures IMF it will present 2027 austerity budget
The latest IMF staff-level agreement means another round of austerity to guarantee debt repayment and protect the interests of international capital.
Saman Gunadasa•
Bowing to Washington’s pressure, Sri Lanka and India refuse to provide aid to Iranian ships
Behind its bogus claim of "neutrality," the JVP/NPP has thoroughly tied itself to US imperialism, shedding its pretence of anti-imperialism in the past.
Rohantha De Silva•
SEP (Sri Lanka) public meeting: Two years of JVP/NPP rule—a regime of IMF austerity and big business
The SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka will hold a public meeting entitled “Two Years of JVP/NPP Rule: A Regime of Big Business and IMF Austerity” on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at the Colombo Public Library Auditorium.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka’s new anti-terror law grants sweeping state powers to suppress social dissent
The new bill’s broad definition of terrorism opens the way to criminalizing popular opposition and class struggle against government policies.
W.A.Sunil, Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Rohantha De Silva•
Dehin Vasantha•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
The Alberta independence referendum and the fight against Trump and the far right
The results of Monday’s referendum on the independence of Alberta—Canada’s oil-rich, fourth most-populous province—are a rebuke to the far right and to the Trump administration.
Keith Jones•
Chemical tank leak forces evacuation in Toledo, closure of schools and workplaces
Dozens were sent to the hospital suffering from burning eyes and throats following the release of toxic glycidyl methacrylate following an incident at MC Tank Transport in North Toledo on Tuesday evening.
Shannon Jones•
“A severely catastrophic situation”: BNSF uses scheduling tricks to prevent rail crews from using vacation time
BNSF Railway has begun using its proprietary scheduling software to quietly black out entire weeks of vacation for train crews.
Omri Wolfe•
Florida executes William Reaves Jr., 77, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD
Reaves execution encapsulates the barbarism of capital punishment in America: the execution of an elderly man, a combat veteran whose psychological injuries were never put before the jury, sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury.
Kate Randall•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Steven Fields, Roger Jordan•
Renae Cassimeda•
Keith Jones•
Kate Randall•
Rattled by French protests, Latin American governments adopt “Bukele model” to quell social unrest
Bukele’s call on France to adopt his methods, the criminal complaint against Ariel Robles in Costa Rica and Milei’s “shield against socialism” show that the repressive apparatus built across Latin America in the name of fighting crime is aimed at social upheavals from below.
Andrea Lobo•
Mexican health workers gather in second general assembly: Which way forward?
IMSS workers have united their movement in a national front and called a megamarch for a 10 percent raise. The union and the Sheinbaum government are playing for time as they seek to regain control.
Nakai Beltran•
The Andes-Atlantic Corridor and the US neocolonial offensive in Argentina
In the anodyne language of diplomacy, the Andes-Atlantic Corridor agreement describes the subjugation of Argentina’s mineral resources to US imperialism.
Pedro Dias•
Class struggle erupts across Latin America: How did such unpopular right-wing governments come to power?
Strikes and mass protests are spreading from Mexico to Chile against austerity, war and governments installed with Washington's backing.
Andrea Lobo•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Andrea Lobo•
César Uco•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Andrea Lobo•
New Zealand SEG candidate presents socialist and anti-war perspective at election forum
Tom Petterson addressed a candidates’ meeting in Epuni, Lower Hutt, outlining the SEG’s socialist demands and its opposition to all the parties of war and austerity.
Our reporter•
Resolution for the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
The intensification of the class struggle in Australia and the building of the IWA-RFC
We are publishing here the third 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)•
Resolution for the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
The crisis of capitalist rule in Australia and the political fight for socialism
We are publishing here the second 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)•
Fight against war and for international socialism! Reject all capitalist parties and support the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand’s election!
Leading SEG member Tom Petterson will stand in the November 7 election, in opposition to all the capitalist parties, on a socialist and anti-war platform.
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Socialist Equality Party (Canada)•
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Socialist Equality Party (Canada)•
Trump doubles down on fascist provocations in final stretch of midterm campaign
The US president has encouraged violent attacks on hecklers at campaign rallies and appeals to racism and other forms of bigotry.
Patrick Martin•
Trump calls French protests a “full-on revolution,” demands mass deportations
Behind the fascist president’s demands for deportations lies the fear that workers will recognize their common struggle against inequality, war and dictatorship.
Jacob Crosse•
Lawful permanent resident dies in ICE concentration camp
Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias is the seventh person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year and the second in Laredo.
Trévon Austin•
2 weeks out, Trump steps up threats over mid-term election
In pursuit of its “big lie” about mass illegal voting, the Trump administration has inflated a handful of cases into a national emergency.
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Kate Randall•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Flood disaster in Istanbul, at least 9 people dead
While the well-to-do waited it out in secure luxury residences or left the city altogether, working people—those living in basement flats and along the streams, and those forced to go to work—bore the real cost of the disaster.
Ozan Özgür•
Turkish government takes over pro-opposition Halk TV
Halk TV, one of Türkiye’s most-watched news channels, has been taken over by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a police raid on the morning of October 14.
Barış Demir•
Join the IYSSE in the fight for a socialist future against war, dictatorship and social devastation!
Students in Türkiye and around the world are returning to school amid an intensifying wave of war, dictatorship and social devastation. At the same time, social anger and struggles are growing in the working class and among young people.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Türkiye)•
Dozens arrested ahead of the NATO summit in Türkiye remain in prison
The aim of the unlawful “preventive” arrests was to keep anti-war opposition off the streets and intimidate broader masses of workers and youth.
Can Denizli•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Yılmaz Demirkol•
Barış Demir•
Hasan Yıldırım, Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir•
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•
Volkswagen plans worldwide pay freeze until 2030
With immediate effect, the salaries of roughly 650,000 VW employees worldwide are to be frozen. For the 275,000 employees in Germany, a multi-year pay freeze would mean a loss in real income of far more than ten percent. The works council and the IG Metall union are downplaying the move.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Workers must mobilize to defeat sellout
UAW announces sellout deal, calls Friday contract ratification vote at Bradford White
The UAW has called for a vote on short notice on a concessionary tentative agreement for 1,200 Bradford White workers that meets none of their demands.
George Kirby•
Corporate press, DSA falsify UAW election, invent “mandate” for “president 6 percent” Shawn Fain
By inventing mass support for UAW President Shawn Fain, the media and the pseudo-left are seeking to delegitimize all opposition to the bureaucracy and providing cover for it to move against opposition in the rank and file.
Tom Hall•
Will Lehman•
Jerry White •
Jerry White•
Our reporters•
Our reporter•
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•
7 miners dead in 3 weeks: The bloody toll of Chile’s copper crisis
The carnage is the direct product of a profit drive that has intensified to the point of outright criminality, creating a situation that the ruling class, the government and the trade union apparatus all recognize as explosive.
Mauricio Saavedra•
5 miners killed in Soma, site of Türkiye’s 2014 mining disaster
Five miners were killed and two others were rescued injured on 1 October when a roof collapsed in an underground coal mine in Soma, western Türkiye.
Barış Demir•
Samuel Davidson•
Felix Gauthier•
Jesse Thomas•
Our reporters•
Penny Smith•
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•
A major episode of AI market turmoil
Growing debt and financial problems of AI-related firms may well be a harbinger of what is to come.
Nick Beams•
Interest rise starts to hit AI boom
The major American AI firm CoreWeave was hit by a “tornado” this week, as its shares plunged at one point by around 28 percent.
Nick Beams•
IMF report details a financial system with rising risks and vulnerabilities
The most striking feature of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report is that the eruption of another financial crisis is taken as a given.
Nick Beams•
IMF meets amid sovereign debt build-up
No longer simply a problem of so-called “emerging markets,” the debt crisis is lodged within all the major economies.
Nick Beams•
Jean Shaoul•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Kevin Reed•
Nick Beams•
This week in history: October 19-25
Two postal workers die from anthrax inhaled at a Washington facility; Arab League summit sanctions Syria’s military occupation of Lebanon; Egypt declares a state of emergency in confrontation with Britain over the Suez Canal Zone; Trotsky and Kamenev removed from the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party
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•
Trump administration moves to gut the National Historic Preservation Act
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
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 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•
Fighting in Ethiopia threatens renewed civil war, destabilising Horn of Africa
With the Strait of Hormuz already closed, the US Israeli war of aggression against Iran is spreading from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
Jean Shaoul•
Kenya’s opposition parties audition for imperialist powers ahead of elections
The Gen-Z uprising demonstrated the enormous potential for a mass movement cutting across the ethnic divisions cultivated by the Kenyan bourgeoisie. But it also exposed the political bankruptcy of the established opposition.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
Jean de Jager•
Benjamin Mateus•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
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•
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•
Latest UK COVID-19 Inquiry report documents impact of privatisation, wasted resources and cronyism
Authored by Baroness Heather Hallett, the report documents cost-cutting in pivotal logistics, £10 billion wasted on inadequate or unused PPE, and millions lost to unpursued fraud.
Lucy Connell•
The 13th COVID-19 wave and the further dismantling of US public health
The United States has entered its thirteenth COVID-19 wave as federal agencies suppress evidence of vaccine effectiveness, retroactively relabel transmission data, strip pandemic preparedness from research plans and transfer the work to the Pentagon.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Evan Blake•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
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.
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•
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.
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•
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.
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•
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.
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•
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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Mass arrests of 150 Palestine Action protesters at UK Labour Party conference, as total nears 4,000
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•
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•
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
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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At town hall, students, workers denounce University of Michigan–Los Alamos nuclear weapons data center
The IYSSE distributed a statement outlining a socialist strategy to oppose the militarization of AI and harness the revolutionary technology to meet social needs.
Stephen St. Clair•
Campus police report sheds new light on suicide of University of Michigan researcher Danhao Wang
Wang’s death came amid the Trump administration’s prosecution of five Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan.
Stephen St. Clair•
International Labour Organisation warns of deepening global youth jobs crisis
The International Labour Organisation warns of a worsening global youth jobs crisis, with youth unemployment rising, 257 million young people classified as NEET, and secure entry-level work becoming harder to obtain.
Jean Shaoul•
Fight war, oligarchy and climate catastrophe! Fight for socialism!
Imperialist wars abroad are coupled with class war at home. Students will graduate into a society ransacked by the capitalist oligarchy.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Brazil)•
Stephen St. Clair•
our reporters•
Action Committee Nurseries & Education•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
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•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
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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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•
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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Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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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.
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•
Threat of US military action against Cuba mounts with Iran ceasefire
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Andrea Lobo•
Andre Damon•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Keith Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Andre Damon•
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.
The 2 Elizabeth Gurley Flynns: A new biography of the “Rebel Girl”
Mary Anne Trasciatti’s valuable biography documents Flynn’s passage from IWW militancy to Stalinism but leaves the roots of that transformation unexplained.
Tom Mackaman•
Video of Frankfurt book presentation: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
Katja Rippert, Johannes Stern•
From the Front Line, 1941-45
Vasily Grossman’s reporting on the Nazi-Soviet war
Although best-known for his major novels, Vasily Grossman's powerful social realism was rooted in his active involvement in the Red Army’s struggle against Nazism. His war-time writings are now presented in the most complete English edition to date.
Clara Weiss•
My Brilliant Career: Netflix’s caricature of a classic Australian novel
The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.
Kaye Tucker, Richard Phillips•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Peters•
Ioan Petrescu•
Peter Symonds•
James McDonald•
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•
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.
The global rebellion of youth and workers and the war frenzy of the ruling class
The crisis that drives the bourgeoisie to war is drawing ever broader sections of the working class into struggle on a world scale.
WSWS Editorial Board•
The mass protests in France are reverberating throughout Europe
Over the month since high school blockades and shutdowns began in France, an outpouring of anti-austerity, anti-repression, anti-war and anti-fascist sentiment has staggered the French government and spread across Europe.
Alex Lantier•
The Alberta independence referendum and the fight against Trump and the far right
The results of Monday’s referendum on the independence of Alberta—Canada’s oil-rich, fourth most-populous province—are a rebuke to the far right and to the Trump administration.
Keith Jones•
The bond markets, rearmament and the global assault on social spending
The immediate ruling class agenda is budget cuts amounting to €54 billion which will make major inroads into social spending. But this is only the start.
Nick Beams•
Alex Lantier•
Andre Damon•
Jacob Crosse•
Andre Damon•
Patrick Martin•
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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