Alan Gelfand, whose lawsuit against the US government led to the exposure of high-level agents of the FBI and Soviet secret police in the Socialist Workers Party, died Wednesday, October 29, in Los Angeles. He was 76 years old.
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Stop Trump's deportation flight of Ukrainian immigrants into forced conscription!
The Trump administration plans Monday to deport 83 people to Ukraine—the first mass deportation to the country in years—where they face immediate conscription and deployment to the front.
This is the latest in a series of mass layoff announcements throughout the US economy, as companies respond to a deepening economic slowdown and the proliferation of AI technology with job cuts and speed-ups.
Andre Damon•
Many questions remain unanswered in the days since his death, and no official cause has been released.
Kathleen Martin•
This lecture examines the international operations of the US Socialist Workers Party under the direction of Joseph Hansen, exposed as an FBI agent by the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Andrea Lobo•
These three articles detail the FBI-CIA network of the late Joseph Hansen, double-agent and long-time leader of the revisionist Socialist Workers Party in the US.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
Without a trace of a class analysis and employing the most banal tropes of protest politics, Jacobin seeks to channel the growing revolt of workers and youth against dictatorship, war, genocide and inequality and their interest in socialism back behind the Democratic Party.
Barry Grey•
David Neita, who played a leading role in the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party) during the 1970s, died on October 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.
David North•
Although not formally involved in the Trotskyist movement in the latter part of his life, Dave always followed the political developments and was keenly aware of and excited by the evolution of the organization from his early days in the 1960’s until today.
Karen Frankel•
While students face ever greater restrictions on their right to freedom of expression, German universities themselves are by no means neutral. They increasingly take sides with German militarism and defend far-right political positions.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
No Music for Genocide and the response of large numbers of performers and musicians speak to the broad leftward shift currently under way.
David Walsh•
The vote, repudiating even a nominal commitment to address climate change, underscores the long-term rout of a “moderate” faction within the conservative party.
Oscar Grenfell•
“They are doing this to us, pushing us. This is the way they are treating us. How come I have to make a decision in two days when this is where I am going to live my whole life?”
Margaret Rees•
The Human Rights Watch report details systematic torture and abuse of detainees in El Salvador’s CECOT concentration camp, with intimate US involvement.
Vivien Ivy•
Tremane Wood received a last-minute commutation of his death sentence in Oklahoma, Bryan Jennings died by lethal injection in Florida, and Stephen Bryant died by firing squad in South Carolina.
Kate Randall•
Polanski’s recent resort to radical rhetoric does not write off either his party’s or his own history, including their very recent history.
Thomas Scripps•
The country’s low vaccination rate, particularly for young children, is an indictment of successive Labour and National Party governments that have starved the public health system.
Chris Ross, Tom Peters•
The strike will involve Unite union members across five sites—Liverpool, Reading, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling.
Tony Robson•
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Trump, Epstein and the Democrats: A criminal ruling class
The scandals connected to deceased sex trafficker and billionaire financial fixer Jeffrey Epstein have touched off a massive political crisis for the Trump administration.
Patrick Martin•
US hands off Latin America! Halt Trump’s killing spree!
A pair of US missile strikes over the weekend brought the toll from the Trump administration’s criminal military campaign off South America’s coasts to at least 76.
Bill Van Auken•
“Anti-Communism Week”: The White House declares war on socialism
Underlying all the lies and historical falsifications in Trump's declaration are the fears of a ruling class that is terrified by the growing opposition to capitalism.
Joseph Kishore•
Democrats move to end shutdown, bail out Trump
The Democratic Party leadership is responding to the mass repudiation of Trump at the “No Kings” protests, in the streets of Chicago and at the polls November 4 by shutting down their phony display of opposition.
Patrick Martin•
Mike Head•
Johannes Stern•
Andre Damon•
Peter Schwarz•
Online meeting November 16: Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger!
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Shielding the Democrats: Randi Weingarten’s “Why Fascists Fear Teachers” obscures the necessary fight against fascism
The longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers and leading Democratic Party figure is incapable of presenting a historical and scientific analysis of fascism, let alone a proposal for educators to fight it.
Renae Cassimeda, Nancy Hanover, Jerry White•
The State Department’s “public charge” directive: The reemergence of eugenics in American immigration policy
The directive empowers consular officers to deny visas over health conditions, marking a reactionary assault on immigrants, the sick and the working class.
Marc Wells•
ICE raids last week in Eugene, Oregon result in kidnapping of more than a dozen people
The tactics and naked brutality of the kidnappings are a continuation of the Trump administration’s campaign of terror, which seeks to scapegoat immigrant workers around the country.
Vivien Ivy•
Joseph Kishore•
Jacob Crosse•
Mike Ingram•
Kristina Betinis•
Our reporters•
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•
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Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
At least 125 protesting primary school teachers were injured on November 8 when they were attacked by police in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
“Reject the politics of compromise and subordination”: Open letter from California nurse to New Orleans nurses
“The path forward lies in organizing independently—through the creation of rank-and-file committees democratically controlled by nurses themselves—to wage a genuine fight for your demands.”
Liz Cabrera•
Australia: Growing unrest among teachers amid union-government talks in Victoria
Victoria, the country’s second-largest public education system, sits at the centre of a crisis, with some of the lowest school funding and wages after more than 11 years of a state Labor government.
Susan Allan•
Day 2 of strike, New Orleans nurses confront need to expand their struggle
This is the fifth limited strike in two years since the nurses unionized, and nothing has changed. The strategy of appealing to management to come to the table has led nowhere for the rank and file.
Tom Hall, Aaron Murch•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Tania Kent•
Marc Wells•
Aaron Murch, Tom Hall•
The artistry and revolutionary spirit of Soviet Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents
Born in 1897 and executed in 1937, Charents' life spanned the decisive events of the 20th century’s first half. He was a revolutionist, a socialist and a master of the written form.
Andrea Peters•
Yeghishe Charents’ selected poetry and prose
Selected poetry and prose by Soviet Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents.
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: An outstanding film about the Nazi war criminal in exile
The film by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, currently showing in German cinemas, is an outstanding work that nevertheless leaves viewers with a feeling of perplexity.
Stefan Steinberg, Peter Schwarz•
A House of Dynamite: Kathryn Bigelow’s film about the danger of nuclear war
If one is prepared to suspend one’s disbelief to an extent, A House of Dynamite has genuine value in evoking the horrifying threat of nuclear warfare.
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Paul Mitchell•
David Walsh•
Frank Anderson•
Eduardo Parati, Guilherme Ferreira•
Your Party’s factional warfare: The real issue for workers is reformist delusions or revolution
The founding conference of Your Party is scheduled for the weekend of November 29-30, in Liverpool. But it will now take place amid factional infighting that will split it in two and may even prevent it from taking place at all.
Chris Marsden•
Czech Republic: Election winner Babiš forms coalition with far-right parties
The enormous military and war expenditures, paid for through deep social cuts, are fundamentally incompatible with democracy. This is why far-right and fascist forces are being brought into government in the Czech Republic—to crush working-class opposition.
Markus Salzmann•
Right-wing operation forces resignation of BBC head Tim Davie
The reason for Davie falling on his sword, when many in the BBC were arguing for opposition to Prescott’s claims, is suggested by his own appointment to head the BBC in 2020 being central to plans to shift it further right.
Robert Stevens•
IMF calls for radical reform of the European welfare state
IMF says the enormous costs of European rearmament, the consequences of the international trade war and demands made by banks and companies for increased profits are incompatible with the welfare state.
Peter Schwarz•
Peter Schwarz•
Johannes Stern•
Mehring Verlag•
Tony Robson•
Robert Stevens•
New Zealand blocks $30 million in aid to Cook Islands
Millions in vital aid funding remains suspended in an escalating diplomatic row over the Cook Islands’ recent agreement with China.
John Braddock•
Truce between Thailand and Cambodia breaks down
The suspension on Monday of what Trump hailed less than three weeks ago as a “a historic peace declaration” between Thailand and Cambodia only further expose the absurdity of his posturing as a peacemaker.
Peter Symonds•
Meeting discusses the way forward for workers after New Zealand’s “mega-strike”
Speakers from the Socialist Equality Group in NZ and the Socialist Equality Party in Australia explained the need for an international movement against austerity and war, and for workers to build rank-and-file committees, independent and opposed to the union bureaucracy and all the capitalist parties.
Our reporter•
Philippines struck by 2 major typhoons in a week
The intensity of storms is being driven by climate change, a result of capitalism which places corporate profit before the needs of the working class and society as a whole.
Ben McGrath•
Oscar Grenfell•
Jessicah Green•
Ben McGrath•
Martin Scott•
Oscar Grenfell•
This week in history: November 10-16
Austrian rail disaster kills 158; Canberra Coup in Australia; Missouri court limits segregation in St. Louis; First exhibition of surrealist paintings.
10th anniversary of Ankara bombings by ISIS which killed over 100 people
The massacre was part of the spread to Turkey of the war for regime change in Syria launched in 2011 by Washington and its regional allies, including Ankara.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Historic images of slavery removed by national parks after Trump directive
The removal of powerful Civil War era photography from public museums is the latest in a series of attacks on historical truth orchestrated by the White House.
Landon Gourov, Tom Mackaman•
Trump issues threats against Smithsonian exhibitions and art works
President Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the Smithsonian Institute, accusing the museum of promoting “anti-American ideology.”
Douglas Lyons, Tom Mackaman•
Verena Nees•
Johannes Stern•
Shannon Jones•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
3 more Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan jailed
The three researchers are victims of a frame-up. The arrests are part of a campaign by the Justice Department and FBI to witch-hunt and de-humanize the more than 270,000 Chinese students in the US and lay the groundwork for war against China.
Matthew Brennan•
Devastating fire at off-campus University of Massachusetts housing complex displaces 232 residents
The fire was likely caused by multiple explosions from fuel tanks at a nearby construction site, where a new four-story private dorm building was being erected. A construction crane at the site collapsed during the fire, adding an additional element of danger.
T.J. Garrison•
Interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: “In America right now, a low-wage job … is homelessness waiting to happen”
Goldstone’s book documents the lives of five families trapped by low-wage work and homelessness in Atlanta.
James McDonald•
“We shouldn’t be denied our human rights, kids included”
Workers and youth speak out against hunger at Michigan food banks
WSWS reporters visited food banks in Pontiac and Detroit, Michigan, over the weekend and spoke to workers and youth about the fight against hunger.
Coleman Prince, Sam Ayrshire, Lawrence Porter•
Jerry White•
Our reporters•
Mike Ingram•
Jacob Crosse•
Claude Delphian•
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•
2025 Summer School Lecture 9, Part 1
The Carleton Twelve
This lecture addresses the discovery that 12 prominent leaders of the Socialist Workers Party all came from the same small Midwestern college.
Tom Mackaman•
The Carleton Twelve
This pamphlet, a critical publication of the Security and the Fourth International investigation, delves into the history of Carleton College and establishes how it became a training ground for agents.
2025 Summer School Lecture 8 Part 2
The assassination of Comrade Tom Henehan
This lecture examines the life and death of Comrade Tom Henehan in the context of the investigation into Security and the Fourth International.
Josh Andrews•
Evan Blake•
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Tom Hall•
Email dump confirms Epstein’s role as purveyor to Trump and entire US ruling class
Newly released documents reveal Epstein’s ongoing influence with Trump, top officials and major media figures long after his conviction.
Jacob Crosse•
Mamdani reassures Wall Street with deputy mayor appointment
New York’s mayor-elect selected long-time Democratic operative Dean Fuleihan, who “knows where all the bodies are buried,” as his first deputy mayor.
Daniel de Vries•
Trump meets with former al-Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House
US President Donald Trump met at the White House Tuesday with Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda leader who led the overthrow of the Syrian government last year. The meeting was a milestone in the long-term relationship of the United States with al-Qaeda-linked forces in Syria.
Andre Damon•
Democrats rally behind Chuck Schumer after vote to end shutdown on Republicans’ terms
The House is poised to take up the spending package on Wednesday and will likely pass it along party lines.
Jacob Crosse•
Alex Findijs•
Joseph Kishore•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Sandy English•
Sri Lanka government’s 2026 budget intensifies IMF austerity
President Dissanayake expressed contempt for the poor and threatened workers who fight for their social rights, as he outlined further pro-business austerity measures.
Saman Gunadasa•
Sri Lankan government begins electricity board restructuring backed by unions
Workers cannot fight against the JVP/NPP government’s IMF austerity under a trade union bureaucracy that completely supports this very program.
Wimal Perera•
2 Sri Lankan workers die in industrial accidents in 1 week
A coworker said: “Whether we suffer, whether we get hurt, or die like Vijayakumar after getting caught in a machine—that doesn’t matter to them. What they want is for us to die so they can make money.”
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Sri Lankan student leaders lament government refusal to meet demands
The Inter-University Student Federation has halved its previous long-held demands for a 6 percent budget allocation for education and is calling instead for a 3 percent allocation.
Sakuna Jayawardana•
Wimal Perera•
Saman Gunadasa•
Saman Gunadasa•
N. Ranges•
Wasantha Rupasinghe, W.A. Sunil•
Washington praises police massacre in Rio in Trump’s new political intervention in Brazil
The letter, which provocatively clashed with Lula’s federal government, represents a new intervention in Brazil’s internal affairs.
Tomas Castanheira•
After collapse of the MAS, right-wing president takes power in Bolivia
The MAS, long regarded in pseudo-left circles as a flagship of the Pink Tide and “21st century socialism,” suffered a crushing defeat.
Bill Van Auken•
Police massacre in Rio de Janeiro signals generalization of capitalist violence and barbarism
The operation was deliberately conducted as a blood-soaked political spectacle by the same fascist forces that promoted the January 8, 2023 coup attempt.
Tomas Castanheira•
Peru’s political establishment lines up behind unelected far-right government
Amid a wave of mass protests against social inequality, Peru’s nominal opposition parties are doing everything possible to block any actions against recently installed President José Jerí.
Francis Portocarrero•
Fátima Ferrante•
Tomas Castanheira•
Tomas Castanheira•
Armando Cruz•
Cesar Uco•
Drop all charges against students protesting Israeli troops at University of Michigan!
The IYSSE at the University of Michigan denounces the arrest last month of three pro-Palestinian protesters, and the violent suppression of demonstrations against the Gaza genocide.
IYSSE at the University of Michigan•
SOAS student charged with terrorism: “All I ever did was speak about a right that Palestinians have under international law”
Sarah told WSWS, “I think it's a new height in terms of state repression to have young people, international students, with no track record of causing trouble, to be charged under this legislation.”
Laura Tiernan•
Ellison-owned Paramount launches McCarthyite blacklist of actors opposed to Gaza genocide
A civil war is raging in the film, television and music fields between artists opposed to the mass murder in Gaza, as well as Trump’s fascist policies, and the upper echelons of studio executives and owners.
David Walsh•
UK government-backed persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan continues
A Tribunal agreed with the General Medical Council to continue investigations into Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan’s entirely legitimate social media activity.
Robert Stevens•
Martin Scott•
Alejandro López•
Our reporters•
Robert Stevens•
Luke Galvin•
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, dies at 97
This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical advancement and from a collective scientific effort spanning decades and continents.
Bryan Dyne•
Capitalism failing on all 45 indicators of climate progress
The United Nations’ “Emissions Gap Report 2025” shows the planet is on course for 2.8 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial average by the end of this century based on current policies.
Thomas Scripps•
Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay
Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.
Benjamin Mateus•
Jane Goodall, the primatologist who revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzees and ourselves, dies at 91
Goodall demonstrated that the evolutionary origins of many basic human behaviors are shared with our closest biological relatives.
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Simon Whelan•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
Wall Street rises but underlying contradictions intensify
Up to now major companies financing AI projects have been using their own cash but debt is starting to play an increasing role.
Nick Beams•
“Poison pills” extend Trump’s trade war
The Trump administration’s advocate in the Supreme Court revealed the essential role of “reciprocal tariffs.”
Nick Beams•
Warnings of looming systemic financial risk getting louder
The chief executive of the global Swiss-based bank UBS has pointed to the dangers posed by the practices of insurance companies, once regarded as a pillar of stability in the financial system.
Nick Beams•
Supreme Court begins deliberations on Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs”
If the appeal is upheld, the Trump regime will have been granted virtually unlimited legal authority to impose tariffs against any country for virtually any reason it chooses to cite, simply by claiming its actions are in response to a national emergency.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
West Virginia coal miner is found dead after a 5-day search in flooded mine
Veteran coal miner and crew leader Steve Lipscomb, 38, was found dead in the Rolling Thunder mine at 7:30am on Thursday, five days after he became trapped by a sudden inrush of water from an abandoned adjacent mine.
Kevin Reed•
The Tennessee munitions factory explosion and deaths at National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario: Workers must organize to defend workplace safety and their lives!
For those reading this in Canada thinking this explosion happened in the US and thankfully it cannot happen here, they should look soberly at what our current prime minister is doing without any real pushback, and our experience at the National Steel Car plant in Hamilton, Ontario.
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
UPS temporarily grounds aircraft model involved in deadly Louisville crash
The company’s “proactive” decision is an exercise in damage control intended to conceal its prioritization of profit above safety.
Erik Schreiber•
Postal worker killed by mail sorting machine at Detroit area facility
The 36-year-old USPS worker's body was recovered six to eight hours after his death, according to the fire department.
Kathleen Martin•
Dylan Lubao•
Hakan Özal•
Kevin Reed•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Josh Varlin•
Ukraine faces financial crisis as winter approaches
Despite billions wasted and hundreds of thousands already killed in the proxy war with Russia, Ukraine and its EU backers remain committed to war.
Jason Melanovski•
Ukraine: From sporadic resistance to war to the first hotbeds of collective struggle
Resistance to forced mobilization in Ukraine is increasingly taking on social and collective forms.
Ukrainian journalists•
Amid deepening drone war with Ukraine, Kremlin imposes severe internet and cellphone shutdowns
Rolling internet and cell network shutdowns are now a feature of everyday life across the country.
Clara Weiss•
Ukraine’s voiceless army: Ukrainian deserters speak out
In this article by Ukrainian journalists, deserters from the NATO-backed Ukrainian army speak out about their experiences.
Ukrainian journalists•
Johannes Stern•
Ukrainian journalists•
Johannes Stern•
Jason Melanovski•
Peter Symonds•
Proxy war for Sudan by regional powers has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
Refugees have told of mass rape, abductions and streets lined with corpses. Satellite imagery shows streets awash with blood and strewn with bodies and earth markings indicative of mass graves.
Jean Shaoul•
Samia Hassan, the Butcher of Tanzania, sworn in as president amid escalating repression
The inauguration took place with the streets of major cities still stained with blood. As internet services gradually return following a six-day shutdown, reports are surfacing of mass killings.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
The Gen Z protests and the struggle for the United Socialist States of Africa
The experiences unfolding across Africa brings to the fore the central problem of every revolutionary movement: leadership. The courage of the youth must find conscious political direction in the building of a revolutionary Trotskyist movement.
Alejandro López•
The CPM-K’s “Letter to the Kenyan Left”: An attempt to inherit Odinga’s pro-capitalist legacy
Whatever form such regroupments take, the Permanent Revolutionary Congress and Kongomano la Mapinduzi share with the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya a fundamental orientation toward the capitalist state. These projects are designed to steer the Gen-Z revolt and the emerging strike movement against low wages and austerity back into safe parliamentary channels.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Alejandro López •
Alejandro López•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Why the poor die 9 years earlier than the rich: An interview with Dr. Marc Cohen
Dr. Cohen is co-director of LeadingAge LTSS Center at University of Massachusetts Boston and has long studied the crisis of longevity in the US.
Benjamin Mateus•
Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
Benjamin Mateus•
Financialization and the crisis of US healthcare
Harvard study exposes deadly toll of private equity hospitals
A Harvard-led study has provided rigorous evidence that private equity ownership of hospitals increases patient mortality in emergency and intensive care units.
Benjamin Mateus•
As over 1 million Americans are infected with COVID daily, Trump administration plans further cutoff of vaccines
Amid the 11th COVID wave in the US, Kennedy is dismantling federal vaccine policy and scientific institutions and eroding decades of public health progress in the service of a radical, anti-vaccine political agenda.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
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•
6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
Jerry White•
Dundee Engine nearly six months after workplace death: “The machines are running at full blast, and not a word is being said about Ronald Adams”
At a meeting for workers returning from layoff, management and United Auto Workers officials maintained a guilty silence about the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman.
Jerry White•
5 months after death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., silence and cover-up continue
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Jerry White•
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Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War
Their testimonies are first-hand accounts of war crimes perpetrated by the self-proclaimed “the most moral army in the world”, flatly contradicting the IDF’s insistence that it operates in accordance with international law and takes measures to minimise civilian harm in its genocidal assault on Gaza.
Jean Shaoul•
Video leak by IDF’s chief lawyer of gang rape of Palestinian sparks right-wing defence of torturers
Despite calls to shut it down, Israel’s High Court refused to close Sde Teiman in September 2024. Instead, the public uproar centres on the fact that the abuse was made public in the first place and by no less a person than Israel’s Chief Military Advocate.
Jean Shaoul•
Middle East leaders agree to police Gaza on behalf of US and Israel
The ceasefire will be monitored by the signatories to the deal—the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey—with the US guaranteeing to enforce it. Ever since, all four signatories have done nothing to stop Israel continuing its daily attacks on Gaza and withholding aid.
Jean Shaoul•
New report by The Lancet: More than 3 million Palestinian life-years lost in Gaza genocide
On Friday, the authoritative medical journal The Lancet issued a report that calculated 3,082,363 life-years have been lost by Palestinians during the Israeli genocide in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and July 31, 2025.
Kevin Reed•
Mehring Verlag•
Mehring Verlag•
Andre Damon•
Jean Shaoul•
Andre Damon•
Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Clara Weiss•
Expand the campaign to free the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Turkish government detains prominent journalists
Political arrests, operations targeting journalists, and growing attacks on press freedom are steps taken by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government to use the judiciary to build an authoritarian regime.
Barış Demir•
Grey Wolves fascists attack leftist students at a university in Ankara, Turkey
In Ankara, the capital of Turkey, a group of fascists armed with knives attacked university students in front of the police.
Can Denizli•
Kurdish PKK withdraws its forces from Turkey
The negotiations between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party have nothing to do with the pursuit of peace and democracy. Turkey’s ruling elites have approached the negotiations from the outset as a security issue.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Imprisoned CHP presidential candidate İmamoğlu indicted on charges of “espionage” in Turkey
The Erdoğan government’s use of the judiciary to attack democratic rights and build an authoritarian presidential regime reached a new level with the “political espionage investigation” launched on Friday.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Hakan Özal•
Hasan Yıldırım•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
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.
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•
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.
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.”
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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
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Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
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Oscar Grenfell•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
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Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
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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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Join the struggle for a socialist future! Mobilise the working class against genocide, dictatorship, and world war!
The contradictions that lead capitalism to these disasters also form the basis for social revolution. Workers and youth everywhere are looking for a way out of war, genocide, the high cost of living, unemployment and anti-democratic attacks.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Turkey)•
A socialist perspective against genocide, world war and fascism
Students are returning to universities this October under extraordinary conditions. The IYSSE is distributing this statement at the beginning of the semester at universities in Germany and calls on students to join us in building a mass movement against war and capitalism among workers and young people.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
IYSSE club at University of Melbourne holds well-attended meeting on the fight against fascism and war
One student said, “This was a great introduction for anyone who wants to get into socialism. What we’re seeing now around the world is capitalism in decline.”
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Wayne State University president resigns
President Espy and the Board of Governors that pushed her out were both responsible for a brutal police crackdown on pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide protests at the campus in 2023-24.
Esther Galen•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Tim Avery•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at George Mason University•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
David Neita: January 5, 1948 – October 30, 2025
David Neita, who played a leading role in the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party) during the 1970s, died on October 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.
David North•
A working class fighter for socialism: Joe Parnarauskis, 1954–2025
Parnarauskis is best known to readers of the WSWS for his 2006 campaign for Illinois state senate.
Tom Mackaman•
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
David North•
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
David North•
David North•
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Eric London•
David North•
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Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
“We shouldn’t be pitted against each other”: Canadian and US Stellantis workers call for cross-border unity to defend jobs
Workers from Windsor, Ontario and suburban Detroit spoke out against the destruction of jobs and the UAW and Unifor’s support for trade war.
Jerry White•
GM’s closure of its Ontario CAMI plant exposes the dead end of Unifor’s nationalist partnership with corporate Canada
GM's shuttering of the EV van assembly plant will eliminate more than 1,000 jobs. The fate of GM’s nearby, wholly-owned Ultium battery operation and the 200 workers employed there remains in limbo.
Carl Bronski•
UAW president hails Trump, praises Stellantis move to cut jobs in Canada
On the eve of the mass "No Kings" protests against the aspiring dictator Donald Trump, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain issued another tribute to the fascist in the White House.
Shannon Jones•
Impact of Trump tariffs roils global auto production as workers bear the brunt
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
Shannon Jones•
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International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
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Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Trump pardons January 6 coup architects and fake electors
After granting clemency to nearly 1,600 January 6 foot soldiers, Trump has now pardoned his top coup lawyers and fake electors, several of whom still face state charges for their role in the 2020 election conspiracy.
Jacob Crosse•
DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
Max Jones•
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
John Burton•
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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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.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
President Sheinbaum minimizes growing US threats to bomb Mexico
In response to continuing US threats to bomb drug cartels in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued unconvincing and toothless denials that they will ever be carried out.
Don Knowland•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
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Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
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Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
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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Interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: “In America right now, a low-wage job … is homelessness waiting to happen”
Goldstone’s book documents the lives of five families trapped by low-wage work and homelessness in Atlanta.
James McDonald•
Marxism in the academic’s imagination
Two new books on Marx and Marxism
What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.
Tom Mackaman•
Dmitry Barinov’s “Zinoviev, Trotsky, University”: An important contribution to the history of the Left Opposition
Barinov has produced the most extensive account yet of the work of the Opposition in Leningrad, its structure, leading figures and activities among students and the working class.
Clara Weiss•
100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Sandy English•
James McDonald•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Peters•
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
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.
Stop Trump's deportation flight of Ukrainian immigrants into forced conscription!
The Trump administration plans Monday to deport 83 people to Ukraine—the first mass deportation to the country in years—where they face immediate conscription and deployment to the front.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Trump, Epstein and the Democrats: A criminal ruling class
The scandals connected to deceased sex trafficker and billionaire financial fixer Jeffrey Epstein have touched off a massive political crisis for the Trump administration.
Patrick Martin•
“Anti-Communism Week”: The White House declares war on socialism
Underlying all the lies and historical falsifications in Trump's declaration are the fears of a ruling class that is terrified by the growing opposition to capitalism.
Joseph Kishore•
Democrats move to end shutdown, bail out Trump
The Democratic Party leadership is responding to the mass repudiation of Trump at the “No Kings” protests, in the streets of Chicago and at the polls November 4 by shutting down their phony display of opposition.
Patrick Martin•
David North•
Andre Damon•
Tom Hall, Jerry White•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
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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Pike River film whitewashes Labour Party and union’s role in New Zealand mine disaster
The film rewrites history to promote the Labour Party and the union bureaucracy, obscuring their role both in the 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and in the ongoing cover-up.
Tom Peters•
Bernie Monk, spokesman for families of Pike River mine disaster writes
New Zealand letter of condolence to the families of those killed in Cobar, Australia mine explosion
Monk, whose son was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River disaster in New Zealand, extends condolences to the families of the two people killed in the Endeavour mine explosion on October 28 and urges them to “stay strong and pursue answers and accountability.”
Bernie Monk•
Letter from Bernie Monk, spokesperson for Pike River families in New Zealand, to the families of the Tennessee explosives plant disaster
Bernie Monk, whose son Michael was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 underground Pike River Coal mine disaster, expresses support for the families of the 16 workers killed in the Tennessee Accurate Energetic Systems weapons factory explosion.
Bernie Monk•
Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
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