Over the last week, protests at high schools across France against spending cuts and police repression have grown into a confrontation with the state machine.
The Trump administration is sending the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three amphibious warships carrying about 2,000 Marines to the Middle East.
Russia’s warning that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO blockades Kaliningrad shows that the US-NATO war in Ukraine is escalating into an open confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, a danger being concealed from the population.
Following Tennessee’s gruesome failed attempt to execute her on September 30, Christa Pike remains unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator, with both arms swollen, burned and blistered. It is unclear whether she will regain consciousness.
There are incidents in contemporary American society so barbaric that they shock the sensibilities of anyone who stands for social equality, justice and human decency. The state of Tennessee’s attempted execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night is such an event.
The spontaneous action, organized by truckers themselves over social media, was organized to protest skyrocketing diesel costs and other grievances.
The number of “CIA Democrat” candidates for seats in the House of Representatives has doubled this year, compared to the past four elections.
The role of the subjective factor is crucial in the current objective situation. The task of the SEP is to bring socialist consciousness into the working class.
The September US Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, which was greeted as positive by Wall Street, showed that workers face worsening employment opportunities and wages that continue falling behind inflation.
The richest 0.1 percent of American households more than doubled their wealth between the end of 2019 and June 30, Federal Reserve figures released last month show.
Since its formation 20 years ago, QS has lurched steadily right and fully integrated itself into the political establishment as the “left” flank of the Quebec independence movement, which articulates the interests of a faction of Quebec’s capitalist elite.
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.
At the event in Detroit hosted by the Library Street Collective, Tyler spoke about both his art and the broader issues related to the death penalty and the inhuman conditions inside US prisons including his own frame-up.
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.
The elections in Brazil are taking place amid an explosive reorganization of the political order across Latin America.
Bolivia arrested its attorney general two days after US sanctions, removing the prosecutor whose case against Fernando Cerimedo threatened to expose the criminal connections behind Trump’s “Shield of the Americas.”
This committee firmly believes that we must break out of the isolation imposed on us by the USW and expand our strike to other sections of the working class if we are to emerge vicgtorious. And we have extremely favourable conditions to do just that.
More than a month after the original September 1 expiration date, the United Steelworkers is keeping tens of thousands of workers on the job while negotiating concessions behind closed doors.
The 198-year-old Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which has ceased operations, holds one of the world’s largest collections of scientific specimens and a historic display of dinosaur fossils.
Health workers, patients and campaigners protested across Britain on Thursday, demanding that the National Health Service cut ties with Palantir. More than 40 protests were held at hospitals and Integrated Care Boards across England as well as in city centres.
The rate rise deepens the cost-of-living crisis for working-class households and intensifies the pressure of the financial markets on the Albanese government to further slash social spending.
As the Volkswagen union in Puebla calls off a strike to push a sub-par deal and the Audi union leader is reelected, a former Audi worker describes to the WSWS how the “independent” unions have served the company from the start.
Neither Unite nor the GMB has indicated they will break off negotiations with Glasgow City Council in the face of threatened mass dismissal notices to enforce pays cuts against Unison members.
Strike ballots must be honoured and used as a springboard for a unified campaign across the public sector against austerity, budget cuts and privatisation.
CDC Director Erica Schwartz cited “divisive ideologies” and the unfinished fight over pathogen sharing and drug patents that has stalled the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On the centenary of Debs’ death, the foundation bearing his name honors a union official who embodies everything the socialist leader fought against.
For the second time in as many days, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the execution of Christa Gail Pike, overturning a last-minute stay issued by the 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals less than two hours before she was set to die.
On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from the flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.
While the representatives of the capitalist nation-states gathered at the United Nations this week amid escalating war, trade conflict and threats of repression, another international force was making itself felt in a growing movement of the working class.
The highly regarded Nashville Symphony is suspending the rest of its 2026-27 season due to lack of funding.
The lawsuits against AI companies raise difficult questions about training, reproduction and ownership.
Orchestras and other arts organizations are under sustained attack, as all available resources are being funneled to Wall Street and the US war machine.
The show claims to interrogate the “Fridamania” surrounding Kahlo, yet it operates as one of its engines—manufacturing, circulating and profiting from the phenomenon it pretends to analyse.
The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.
India: Delhi bus workers continue strike as government bans industrial action; Pakistan: 6,000 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa doctors escalate pay strike; Bangladesh: Chattogram port workers oppose terminal concession; Australia: Nurses take strike action across Tasmania.
The school strikes show the continuing opposition among young people to conscription. But the movement can only advance if it bases itself on the international working class and a revolutionary perspective against war.
The guards are being rushed into USPS facilities five weeks before the midterms, as the Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting.
The use of scanning and AI algorithms has made it possible to extract meaning from scrolls dating back to Greco-Roman civilization, which were previously indecipherable.
Successful matings between anatomically modern humans migrating from Africa, Neanderthals, Denisovans and “ghost lineages” all contributed to the contemporary human genome.
The goal of limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average that was agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate accord will be entirely missed, with devastating consequences.
The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct populations for which there are at present no known fossils.
Facing a severe political crisis, the Erdoğan government is seeking to suppress the social powder keg through police state measures.
B’Tselem’s report finds, “The genocide in Gaza and the elimination project in the West Bank are different manifestations of the same regime project, directed against Palestinians’ ability to exist as a people.”
US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire Saturday, after the Wall Street Journal reported he told aides he expected to resume bombing after the November 3 midterm elections.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a genocidal tirade at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, calling the victims of Israel’s rampage throughout the Middle East “barbarians,” “monsters,” “butchers” and “the worst mass murderers on earth.”
The country’s labor unions, regardless of affiliation, are attempting to stifle worker opposition to the growing attacks on their living and economic conditions.
Albanese posed for a grinning selfie with Trump, just hours after the fascistic US president had again threatened to “annihilate” Iran.
The imperialist powers, including Australia and New Zealand, anticipate an upsurge of mass struggles against poverty and inequality across the Pacific.
At least 58 of the territory’s 94 public schools will see their funding fall, with 37 facing cuts greater than 5 percent.
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.
“I hope that the struggle to secure Bogdan Syrotiuk's release will become the foundation for an anti-war movement.”—Prasanna Vithanage
This is the text of an open letter to the leadership of the Left Party. It was sent on September 30 to Ines Schwerdtner and Luigi Pantisano, co-chairs of the Left Party, as well as to Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann, co-chairs of the Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
The meeting hosted by the IYSSE (Sri Lanka) on October 13 will be conducted in Sinhala and translated live into Tamil.
The mayor gave his silent assent to an attack that lumped anti-genocide protesters together with the ultra-right.
The pseudo-left RIO admits the Left Party's record is one of cuts, rearmament and paving the way for the far-right AfD—yet its conclusion is that workers should stay inside the party, not break with it.
The NYPD’s arrest of over 100 anti-genocide protesters at the UN on Thursday marks the culmination of a week of collaboration by the DSA with the fascist Trump administration.
Mamdani’s silence on Iran is a political position expresses the DSA’s acceptance of, and support for, the global aims of American imperialism.
Among survey respondents, 63 percent skip meals to save money, 9 percent used a food bank during the last academic year, and 28 percent hold two or more jobs.
Events over the days since the five arrests saw revelations throwing a question mark over heavy suggestions of Iranian involvement, and even over whether there was any terror incident to be involved in.
For all talk of Burnham being prepared to end Palantir’s National Health Service contract—but only through a break clause, leaving its other contracts intact—the first attempt to force the issue was shot down at this week’s annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
Workers and youth spoke to the WSWS at yesterday’s march in Paris of their growing anger and concern over economic hardship, war, and the fear of far-right dictatorship
The Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka held its Fourth National Congress in Colombo from September 11 to 13 amid intensifying capitalist crisis and class struggle.
Like all capitalist governments around the world, the ruling JVP/NPP, as it imposes austerity measures on working people, is now preparing the repressive apparatus to suppress the inevitable popular opposition.
The economic growth since the 2022 crisis has been achieved by suppressing workers’ real wages and starving public services.
The nationwide protest by low-paid public servants is part of a growing wave of workers’ struggles amid soaring living costs.
Official poverty statistics expose a deepening crisis for which Democrats and Republicans bear joint responsibility.
Meatpacking workers in the Quad Cities area spoke with the WSWS and detailed the harsh exploitation and dangerous workplace conditions that have lead to worker deaths.
According to the Times, “When pressed on whether he took Mr. Trump’s threats to make Canada a 51st state seriously, Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved.”
The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991, and Pennsylvania is the epicenter, adding 129 infections in a single week to a toll that already includes four deaths.
A wave of strikes in the public and private sectors exposes the class character of the Lula government and the need for an independent struggle of the working class against austerity, fascism and imperialism.
The function of the pseudo-left is to subordinate the working class to the PT, the trade union bureaucracy and, ultimately, the bourgeois nation state.
An internal Army message reported by CBS News shows the Pentagon preparing logistics, military police and surgical units for an operation aimed at Cuba, days after Trump told the UN that the Cuban government “will fall.”
Nine months after US forces abducted Nicolás Maduro, his successor went to New York to thank his captor. Her appearance is the logical outcome of the “Bolivarian revolution” and of bourgeois nationalism as a whole.
Jettisoning its election promises, the JVP/NPP government has ruthlessly escalated IMF-dictated austerity, aligned itself with US imperialism, and unleashed state repression against workers and students opposing its right-wing agenda.
The founding congress of the SEP, held in Montreal in August, unanimously adopted the following resolution denouncing the Ukrainian state’s persecution of Bodgan Syrotiuk.
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.
The Sri Lankan SEP’s Fourth National Congress declared the fight to free Bogdan, the Ukrainian Trotskyist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, a central task of the party.
One NATO member is carrying out a military deployment against another member of the same alliance. This escalation is a by-product of the imperialist war that is metastasising from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and tending to merge into a single conflict.
According to its findings, long working days, poverty wages, workplace accidents and exhaustion define the daily lives of these young people in Türkiye.
The collapse of a speculative fund bubble on the Istanbul stock exchange has frozen the savings of more than 500,000 small investors, exposing the financial parasitism fostered by the Erdoğan government's austerity program.
Over three days, police raided LGBTQ+ associations in 15 provinces, hundreds of social media accounts were blocked and 39 leftists were detained, including the SYKP co-chair.
Last month, the automaker reneged on its repeated pledges that the Brampton plant would reopen for production of the next-generation Jeep Compass.
As the strike by 1,200 Braford White workers in western Michigan enters its second week workers must take stock of the fact that UAW President Shawn Fain and the UAW bureaucracy has left their fight isolated while stringing them out on $550 weekly strike pay.
Fain’s declaration of “solidarity” with IG Metall is an alliance of two union apparatuses implementing mass job cuts, backing trade war and preparing the plants for war production, against the emerging international movement of the rank and file.
Ford called its $1 billion investment in a new paint shop a triumph of “American manufacturing.” But the investment is one node in a global restructuring whose costs are being imposed on the working class.
El-Sayed previously said he was “humbled and grateful” for Harris’s support, which he described as “critical” to his electoral prospects.
The US midterm elections of November 3, just five weeks away, are taking place under conditions of extreme economic, social and political crisis.
The Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was “appeasing” China.
Fifty-eight Democrats in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans Wednesday to grant US President Donald Trump additional war and tariff powers, including the authority to put tariffs as high as 100 percent on goods from China and India.
The crushing of ramp worker Oscar Robayo by the nose gear of an Airbus A350-900 while he was performing a routine pushback at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport in August has provoked sympathy and outrage among workers throughout the aviation industry and beyond.
Hundreds of transit workers packed a Brooklyn funeral home to honor MTA conductor Moet McCullum, killed on the tracks while working as a construction flagger.
Workers condemned the participation of Transport Workers Union Local 100 in the investigation alongside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), arguing that the agency cannot be relied upon to hold itself accountable.
In response to Luc Massie’s death, the railway issued a lying statement, claiming safety is “our highest priority.” As every rail worker knows, the “highest priority” for CPKC, which controls a continent-wide railroad network, is maximizing profits.
Barely days after Moscow formally warned NATO that an attempt to blockade or isolate the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad could provoke the use of nuclear weapons, the governments of Europe are responding not with attempts to step back from the brink, but with declarations of increased military support for Ukraine, accelerated rearmament and preparations for a direct confrontation with Russia.
Amid a massive escalation of the US/NATO war on Russia, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada for three days earlier this month to drum up more financial support and military equipment for his dictatorial regime.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his anti-Russia address to the UN General Assembly to announce a National Centre for Information Defence that will be used to suppress political dissent at home.
This year’s United Nations General Assembly has been transformed into a war summit by the US and European imperialist powers, who have turned an institution whose charter prohibits aggressive war into an arms convention.
Yields have risen to their highest levels in a quarter of a century with little sign of coming down.
The yield on the 10-year bond rose 0.15 percentage points on Wednesday and then followed this with a further increase of 0.11 percentage points yesterday, taking it to 5.23 percent, with no indication as to when the sell-off might stop.
Moves to arrest the slide of the yen can cause another problem by undermining the so-called yen carry trade, which plays a major role in US financial markets.
Last week the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury bond went over 5 percent for the first time since 2007 under conditions where the national debt has risen fourfold since then and now stands at over $40 trillion.
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
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.
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.
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.
Jaish-e-Mohammad militants storm Kashmir legislature in Srinagar, killing 38; Callaghan Labour government applies to the IMF for a record $3.9 billion bailout for the UK; last British oil staff evacuated from Abadan, Iran; Cristero rebellion in Mexico turns to armed uprising against the Calles government.
Explosions at Alabama coal mine kill 13 workers; Chilean exile leader Orlando Letelier assassinated by Pinochet's agents in Washington D.C.; Australian voters reject a referendum to outlaw the Communist Party; Chinese students protest in Geneva against British imperialist attacks in China.
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.
Bush administration advances police-state legislation after 9/11; 170,000 Ford workers launch national strike; US, UK and France back West German rearmament and NATO expansion; Lawyers for Sacco and Vanzett petition for a new trial.
The Congolese Ebola epidemic has reached 8,116 confirmed cases and 3,924 deaths, amid attacks that have killed a local politician who urged prevention on the radio and a health worker at a screening post, while world leaders quibble over equity and royalties.
Duduzane Zuma’s boast that his father repeatedly “held back” revolt amounted to a personal political pledge. He was assuring his audience that, should the MKP enter government, he could perform the same function.
The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues unimpeded with little aid provided by the imperialist powers that extract untold riches from the country’s natural resources.
Workers, youth and defenders of democratic rights internationally must oppose the persecution of political organisations by the Ugandan state and demand the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and legal status of all those detained.
Yehonatan Ovadia, a member of the anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic community and outspoken opponent of the Israeli state and Gaza genocide, has been detained since August 28 and is being threatened with deportation in violation of his First Amendment rights.
Eight days after shooting Wilber Garces Perez in the back, the US government has charged him with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with and impeding a federal officer. The government denied him bond during a hearing on Wednesday.
More than a week after the shooting, Garcés Pérez remains imprisoned at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall with a bullet still lodged near his spine.
Just five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, with early voting having already begun, the Supreme Court ruling could enable Republican officials to run multiple checks of voters in Democratic precincts, flagging hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of suspected “illegal” voters and preventing many of them from casting ballots.
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.
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.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
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.
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.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in US history has spread through 48 states without a source being named. A century after the Pure Food and Drug Act, the apparatus built to answer such questions is being dismantled.
Two unvaccinated Lancaster County residents died of measles in August, but the CDC is saying that they died “with” the disease rather than “of” it, the same lie used to justify mass COVID-19 deaths.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
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.
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.
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.
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
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 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.
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.
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
“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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Wang’s death came amid the Trump administration’s prosecution of five Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan.
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.
Imperialist wars abroad are coupled with class war at home. Students will graduate into a society ransacked by the capitalist oligarchy.
A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.
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.
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.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
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.
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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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
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.
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.
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.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
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 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.
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
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.
Over the last week, protests at high schools across France against spending cuts and police repression have grown into a confrontation with the state machine.
There are incidents in contemporary American society so barbaric that they shock the sensibilities of anyone who stands for social equality, justice and human decency. The state of Tennessee’s attempted execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night is such an event.
Russia’s warning that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO blockades Kaliningrad shows that the US-NATO war in Ukraine is escalating into an open confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, a danger being concealed from the population.
For the second time in as many days, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the execution of Christa Gail Pike, overturning a last-minute stay issued by the 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals less than two hours before she was set to die.
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.
