The victory of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America shows the American population moving to the left, but it cannot transform the Democratic Party from a party of Wall Street and the national-security apparatus into a representative of the working class.
A dangerous heat wave across the Midwest and Eastern United States is exposing workers to serious injury and death in auto plants, warehouses, postal facilities and delivery routes, where millions are being kept on the job without air conditioning or adequate safety measures.
As more than 63,000 people languish in immigrant concentration camps, the Trump administration is expanding street ambushes, worksite raids and mass kidnappings across the country.
Amid the disastrous rescue and aid response, the US media has mounted a damage-control operation around Washington's role. Trump's remarks, however, expose contempt for the lives of Venezuelans.
Roberto Sánchez conceded, allowing Fujimori to proclaim herself president-elect. The fear that protests might spiral into a national insurrection outweighed his presidential ambitions.
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.
Under the seemingly harmless phrase “Germany is becoming crisis-proof,” the Bundeswehr, the state apparatus, the economy and the whole of society are to be rapidly prepared for a direct war against Russia.
Göktaş, a left-wing stand-up comedian whose video of a political comedy show garnered 8.5 million views in a week was taken into custody.
SEP Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps and a group of SEP members aimed to deliver a letter of protest to the Turkish ambassador. Staff at the embassy refused to open the door.
Spanning 2015 to 2026, this volume traces Trump’s rise to power, his coup of January 6 and his second term to their source in the corporate-financial oligarchy, and advances the socialist strategy required to stop the threat of fascism.
An annual income of $2.2 billion, equivalent to the incomes of 37,931 US autoworkers, computes to $251,000 per hour.
The name of each martyred child is listed in small script, both Arabic and Roman, in the chronological order of his or her death.
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting authoritarianism.
Andrew, a construction worker, told SEP campaigners: “The people do not realise how much power they have. The masses have to take the power. There needs to be a redistribution of wealth, and that is why I like socialism.”
What guarantees that Burnham will deepen the offensive against the working class is the deepening crisis of British and world imperialism that led to Starmer’s downfall.
A member of the Democratic Socialists of America defeated an incumbent Democratic congresswoman for renomination in Denver, while Senator Michael Bennet was denied the party’s nomination for governor.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday, Mamdani laid out his conception of “democratic socialism.”
The Supreme Court narrowly struck down Trump’s executive order that would revoke the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
Despite a concerted UAW effort to exploit the severe economic distress that it has foisted upon the plant’s low-paid workforce, Bridgewater workers expressed enormous opposition to the contract.
The newspaper claimed that the Committee for Public Education, established at the initiative of the Socialist Equality Party, was responsible for the historic rejection of a sellout deal by teachers in the state of Victoria.
The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and internationalist party of the working class.
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
Mintz is the author of numerous published works, including Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (2004), winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award.
The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting authoritarianism.
The European powers calculate that strikes deep inside Russia will force Moscow to respond and that any Russian retaliation can then be used to justify a still broader NATO intervention. This is the logic of provocation. It is the logic that leads to a direct war between nuclear armed powers.
This event makes clear the titanic, revolutionary and socialist character of the struggle necessary to move from a rearguard action against the consequences of climate change to an offensive against its source—private production for profit.
The decrepit state of housing stock, the collapse of the healthcare system, and the incapacity of the state to organize any meaningful emergency response are the product of the protracted oppression of Venezuela by US imperialism.
As it prepares to roll out the red carpet for US President Donald Trump and other imperialist war criminals, the Erdoğan regime is seeking to suppress all opposition to war, genocide and militarism.
Under cover of a non-existent cease-fire, Israel’s military attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank surged this week as the regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also moved forward with population transfer and annexation plans and expansion of Zionist settlements in the occupied territories.
US warplanes bombed Iranian coastal radar and air defense sites on Friday and again on Saturday, striking 10 targets near the Strait of Hormuz in the second wave.
One week after President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran, US military representatives confirmed on Friday that multiple strikes were launched against missile and drone storage and coastal radar sites near a southern port in the Strait of Hormuz.
The White House padded its request for $87.6 billion—down from the previously discussed $200 billion—with items aimed at getting the votes needed in both chambers of Congress to pass the military appropriations.
The actor’s death plunged millions into mourning. He was buried in Istanbul on June 28 in a ceremony attended by large crowds.
Internationally acclaimed musician Peter Gabriel is developing a new album in 2026 entitled o/i (output/input) as a year-long series of track-at-a-time releases timed to arrive with each full moon cycle.
The "Fair"'s miserable, unpopular character says more about the state of American capitalism than either Trump, the Democrats or the media would care to admit.
The comical costumes worn by the two conceal the identities of two very accomplished musicians who are masters of their instruments and equipment.
The volume “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk” brings together for the first time the most important statements and articles on the case.
The meeting took place at a time when Bogdan’s trial is at a critical turning point. Two expert reports have now exposed the core of the charge—that Bogdan spreads Russian propaganda—as baseless.
The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.
In the case against 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, a third linguistic expert opinion requested by the court further undermines the case of the prosecution, based on charges of “state treason under martial law”.
Offshore oil workers in Norway walk out over pay; protests by workers and retirees continue across Iran as ceasefire unravels; Sudanese teachers in Khartoum State walk out over non-payment of wages and poor working conditions
UNITE HERE 274 called off the strike just in time for the massive July 4 tourism rush to the city.
The winding down of the monitorship does not mark the end of corruption inside the union or even a separation between the union bureaucracy and the capitalist state. It amounts to official sanction for the corruption and bureaucratic suppression through which the apparatus polices the rank and file.
The union apparatus, in line with its role as an industrial police force, has embraced Labor’s brutal agenda and offered its assistance.
The SEP and the IYSSE in Sri Lanka pay tribute to comrade Geethananda Jayasekera’s struggle for the Trotskyist principles of international socialism and extend our deepest sympathies to his family members.
The visit was not aimed at delivering justice for the relatives of the victims but at defusing mounting anger over decades of state cover-ups of the crimes of the military.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka is holding an online public meeting on Wednesday, July 8, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the Trotskyist strategy to mobilise the working class against imperialist war.
Farmers’ fundamental problems can be resolved only through their independent mobilisation against big business and finance capital, united with the rural poor and under the leadership of the working class.
Despite a concerted UAW effort to exploit the severe economic distress that it has foisted upon the plant’s low-paid workforce, Bridgewater workers expressed enormous opposition to the contract.
The UAW is seeking to strangle opposition to halt a potential strike that could halt production of highly profitable vehicles including the Ford F-150 and Dodge Ram light trucks.
The Monitor’s 16th status report details a “recurring pattern of retaliation” by the UAW apparatus headed by Fain.
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania and socialist candidate for UAW president, issued a statement to workers at Nexteer Automotive following the fraudulent ratification of a fourth tentative agreement (TA4) by UAW Local 699 officials.
Since late May, Albania has seen its biggest wave of protests since the collapse of the Stalinist regime in the early 1990s. The direct cause of the demonstrations is a tourism development project backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Canary’s Steve Topple told WSWS, “Our situation is a damning indictment of the treatment of independent media in this country – whereby you can be potentially ruined without recourse by banking giants like Lloyds.”
The ruthlessness of the crime reflects a society in which explosive social tensions are mounting without finding any progressive outlet, and in which violence is propagated from the highest level.
Without a rank-and-file rebellion by doctors against the RDC, a sellout was inevitable. That is the central lesson from the dispute. Doctors showed their willingness to fight, but their struggle was undermined by the absence of an organised opposition to the BMA’s partnership with the government.
The Supreme Court narrowly struck down Trump’s executive order that would revoke the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
On the final day of its current term, the Supreme Court handed down reactionary opinions attacking the rights of transgender students and lifting restrictions on corporate campaign funding.
On Monday, the Supreme Court overruled more than 90 years of precedent and practice by authorizing Trump to terminate without cause commissioners appointed for fixed terms to regulatory agencies, except for Federal Reserve Board governors.
The commission’s report is an assault on American history and the First Amendment.
The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
The interim report is a warning that Labor intends to ram through the NDIS legislation despite the widespread opposition revealed in hearings and the thousands of submissions to the Senate inquiry.
The Albanese Labor government is clearly seeking to evade a possible High Court ruling that could clarify the constitutional and basic democratic right of citizens to leave the country and return.
Matthew Wale has announced a sharp pivot from the Pacific country’s ties with Beijing amid escalating US-led war preparations against China.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday, Mamdani laid out his conception of “democratic socialism.”
The national party conference of the Left Party (Die Linke), which took place in Potsdam from 19 to 21 June, centred primarily on one question: Will the party succeed in curbing the radicalisation of the youth?
The primary results reflect a profound and growing political radicalization within the working class and among youth and professional layers who are being hammered by the accelerating economic, social and political crisis of American capitalism.
The pseudo-left government provided a “progressive” cover for a xenophobic assault that the right could never have legitimized on its own.
The immediate effect of the falling yen is to increase the price of oil and energy as Japan is dependent on the Middle East for more than 90 percent of its supplies, with the hike going across the board as Japan imports much of its food and raw materials.
Intense competition in AI development has raised “the risk of firms over-committing resources to investment projects with still uncertain returns, leaving all firms vulnerable to disappointments in AI payoffs.”
The use of private ratings for debt held by insurance firms, increasingly with private equity firms, has risen 10-fold since 2018.
Data released yesterday show that retail sales for May fell at the fastest rate since the end of 2022 when COVID restrictions were lifted and the virus swept through the country.
Governor Newsom’s AB 181 strips the elected education superintendent of executive authority, advancing the Democratic Party's assault on democratic rights and public education.
The winding down of the monitorship does not mark the end of corruption inside the union or even a separation between the union bureaucracy and the capitalist state. It amounts to official sanction for the corruption and bureaucratic suppression through which the apparatus polices the rank and file.
A record-setting heat dome is spreading across the central and eastern United States, threatening millions of workers and their families with deadly temperatures, wildfire smoke, power grid strain and unsafe workplaces.
The combined total of people losing food stamps and health insurance approaches 10 million.
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than any before it, precisely as Washington dismantles the global public health infrastructure built to contain such threats.
Workers and youth confront the capitalist state, its police and military apparatus, the courts, the trade union bureaucracy, the bourgeois opposition parties and the financial aristocracy.
Ruto’s threats have been backed by Francis Atwoli, secretary general of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions, nominally representing 1.5 million workers across 36 affiliated unions.
Africa’s four richest billionaires own $57.4 billion—more than the combined wealth of half the continent’s 1.5 billion population
On June 24, SGP Chairman Christoph Vandreier and Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language World Socialist Web Site, read out an open letter to Ambassador Gökhan Turan in front of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin.
Edwin Soto was part of a generation of working class youth who were won to the cause of socialism in the course of the struggles of the 1960s and 70s.
Yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League who was assassinated in 1977. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Comrade Leela’s death is a sad loss for the SEP, but the memory of this courageous fighter lives on today in the party’s struggle.
The Morenoites offer as the solution to the crisis confronting the Bolivian working class in 2026 a reedition of a betrayal that led to the most tragic defeat in its history.
The scale and deadliness of the catastrophe have been shaped not by the seismic waves alone, but by decades of imperialist sanctions, military aggression, corrupt capitalist rule under Chavismo and now the open US recolonization of the country.
The entire affair must be understood within the trajectory of Kast's criminalization of immigrants as entry-point to a broader social counterrevolution.
For the past quarter century, Colombian workers and poor have rejected overwhelmingly the traditional parties of the oligarchy and imperialism only to be served a more right-wing version of the same politics.
Appearing willing to take on a greater role in Europe’s “security” and to assume new NATO obligations, the Turkish political establishment is using this card to strengthen its hand—above all against its regional rivals Israel and Greece—and to secure the interests of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
On Wednesday, June 24, at 2:30 p.m., the following open letter from the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) and the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site in Germany will be delivered to Türkiye’s ambassador in Berlin, Gökhan Turan.
The Erdoğan government is responding to the imperialist war on Türkiye’s borders and to the deepening class struggle at home by consolidating its construction of a presidential dictatorship.
The Erdoğan government is preparing for the Ankara summit by stepping up repressions against anti-NATO and anti-war opposition groups at home.
Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
The expulsion of leading researchers from the American Diabetes Association conference by armed police exposes the capitulation of medical institutions to the Trump administration’s fascistic anti-science agenda.
Global warming is raising the probability that a Super El Niño will develop this year, resulting in widespread mixture of intense heat, drought and flooding around the world. This will have devastating impacts on billions of people.
Christopher Harder, a former criminal lawyer, has called for police to investigate the unlawful deal to drop charges against the company’s chief executive Peter Whittall.
The self-serving reassurances issued by Labour government ministers and rail executives are aimed at preventing accountability. The investigation is assigned to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, whose function is to examine the causes, not assign blame, establish liability or pursue prosecutions.
A former United States Postal Service electronics technician says he was exposed twice to muriatic acid at USPS’ massive Avondale, Arizona processing hub, according to reporting last week by the Arizona Republic.
Marc Salgado's death exposes years of preventable fatalities and unsafe conditions fostered by union-management collaboration on the waterfront.
Whatever the outcome of the dispute between these two nationalist governments, the conflict underscores that their war alliance against Russia is as fragile as it is reactionary.
The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.
As shown by the latest Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia, NATO maneuvers in the Baltic Sea, and German-Ukrainian arms cooperation, NATO is de facto waging war against Russia and risking a nuclear catastrophe.
In reburying and celebrating this Nazi criminal as a hero, the ruling class is attempting to reanimate the political corpse of fascism.
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.
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.
The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
Trimble resigns in Northern Ireland; Israeli commandos raid Entebbe Airport; World Court rules against Iran on oil nationalization; Mexican government restricts Catholic Church.
More than any other single individual, Greenspan worked to create an economic system based on speculation, parasitism, and unprecedented social inequality which characterises US and world capitalism today.
Rabinowitch’s four volumes on the October Revolution and the first two years of the civil war were pathbreaking and constitute an important contribution to the historical record of 1917 and the first two years of the civil war.
The rulings will have immediate—and, in some cases, deadly—consequences for hundreds of thousands of immigrants seeking refuge in the United States from political oppression, violence and starvation in their countries of origin.
The first "Antifa terrorism" prosecution under Trump's domestic counterterrorism framework establishes a precedent for sentencing political opponents to decades in prison on the basis of association and ideology.
The sentences are part of a broader effort to criminalize opposition to mass deportations, war and social inequality under the banner of combating domestic extremism.
The export-control directive against Anthropic reveals the capitalist state asserting direct power over who may build and deploy the most advanced AI, and for what ends.
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 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.
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.
At four weeks, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda is three times larger than any previous epidemic at the same stage, with 894 cases and over 200 dead.
A new AI study from Mass General Brigham finds that roughly one in six Americans who contracted COVID-19 developed long COVID, more than double the rate captured by official surveillance, exposing the human and economic toll hidden by flawed diagnostic systems.
As Ebola deaths surpass 250, the Trump administration has responded not with resources but with border control orders and offshore quarantine camps for American citizens.
The death and suffering of children from a preventable disease is a political indictment of policies that have prioritised profits over universal public health.
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 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 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.
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
The 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.
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.
Thousands of people joined protests to denounce New Zealand’s alliance with the US and government silence on US and Israeli war crimes. The organisers, however, promoted illusions in Labour and the Greens.
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
Ahmad Othman, an activist against the genocide of the Palestinians, has successfully sued against his second dismissal by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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 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.
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.
This prosecution is a blatant and dangerous political witch-hunt and frame-up. It must not be allowed to stand. It is a major escalation by the Trump administration of the effort to criminalize left-wing opposition to war, dictatorship and social inequality.
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are standing in the student parliament elections at Humboldt University in Berlin. We are publishing their election statement here.
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.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
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.
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.
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
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 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.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
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.
The victory of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America shows the American population moving to the left, but it cannot transform the Democratic Party from a party of Wall Street and the national-security apparatus into a representative of the working class.
An annual income of $2.2 billion, equivalent to the incomes of 37,931 US autoworkers, computes to $251,000 per hour.
The European powers calculate that strikes deep inside Russia will force Moscow to respond and that any Russian retaliation can then be used to justify a still broader NATO intervention. This is the logic of provocation. It is the logic that leads to a direct war between nuclear armed powers.
This event makes clear the titanic, revolutionary and socialist character of the struggle necessary to move from a rearguard action against the consequences of climate change to an offensive against its source—private production for profit.
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.
