David North delivered lectures online at the invitation of Social Democracy clubs at Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, both located in Ankara, Turkey. The lectures were delivered on February 17 and 19.
Police arrested Andrew on suspicion of Misconduct in Public Office, believed to relate to emails released by the US Department of Justice showing him sharing information with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Billionaires, CEOs and corporate attorneys have stepped down after newly released Justice Department files exposed their ties to Epstein. Despite mounting evidence, no new indictments have been issued.
The Trump administration claims ad nauseam that ICE’s anti-immigrant dragnet is targeting the “worst of the worst.” Whether by chance or design, the detention of Armando Fernández Larios fits the bill.
ICE activity is escalating sharply across the Detroit metropolitan area, marking a new stage in the Trump administration’s nationwide rampage against democratic rights.
The Mack Trucks worker and candidate for United Auto Workers president has issued a statement supporting the Mexican auto parts workers fighting mass layoffs by US-based corporations.
The United States has positioned its naval and air forces for a massive assault on Iran in the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Having been deprived of Labour’s century-old apparatus for expelling socialists and repressing the party membership, Corbyn and his allies are endeavouring to create a new one.
On Monday evening, Stephen Colbert defied CBS management and told his viewers that an interview he had taped earlier in the day with Texas Democratic Party candidate for US Senate James Talarico had been blocked by the network for political reasons.
The open letter quotes Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who described what was taking place in Germany as “doing what they did in the 1930s.”
The artist was not criticized for her works, but for several pro-Palestinian posts on Instagram criticizing the Israeli government, including a call to boycott Israel.
Outgoing Premier François Legault and his CAQ government have played the leading role—alongside the separatist Parti Québécois—in fomenting an ever-more explicitly far-right, anti-immigrant Quebec nationalism.
What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
Two characteristics of the American petty-bourgeois intelligentsia are highlighted in the Chomsky-Epstein correspondence: an infatuation with celebrity and wealth and a complete lack of genuine intellectual independence from bourgeois society.
The deal was finalized as 31,000 Kaiser workers are on strike across California and Hawaii, underscoring the political significance of their struggle.
More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an “interest group” in the Democratic Party and a tool for the social advancement of a narrow stratum of the black upper middle class.
Across Catalonia, the number of demonstrators exceeded 100,000. The total number of teachers in the region is around 90,000, indicating that substantial numbers of students and other Catalan workers supported the teachers.
Union deals and enterprise agreements are enabling the Albanese Labor government’s pro-corporate and pro-military restructuring of universities.
The Albanese government’s actions, echoing the anti-immigrant poison of One Nation, flout warnings of widespread human rights abuses in Syrian internment camps.
Active across 56 countries, Veolia epitomises the subordination of vital resources and public services to the profit interests of finance capital, imposing the costs onto the working class.
The District’s Potomac sewage emergency stems from long‑neglected infrastructure which will be addressed through prolonged repairs and higher rates on the population and devastated health and livelihoods for River residents.
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The threat of a massive American military onslaught on Iran and a broader region-wide war continues to loom large over the Middle East following the latest round of bilateral talks in Geneva Tuesday.
Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker, is running to organize a rebellion of the rank and file against a parasitic bureaucracy that has transformed the UAW into an instrument of management and the state.
What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
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 is a report drawn up by Socialism AI on the background and course of the January 6, 2021 coup, which took place five years ago.
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.
In its early phase many members genuinely looked to revolutionary change—an orientation that was later crushed by the rise of Stalinism and the Popular Front policies it imposed on the communist parties and their periphery.
The movie has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best International Feature Film.
The film dramatizes the scene in the Red Crescent office, but uses the actual audio recording of Hind’s phone call—hence its title.
Walkout joins escalating struggles by academic and healthcare workers nationwide, underscoring the need for unified action against the profit system.
Royal Mail workers at the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre in central London have been discussing the call by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee for a fightback against CWU collusion with billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group and the Starmer government.
The current strike authorization vote, which goes from February 9 to 20, comes after more than a year of bargaining where NYU administration has rejected key demands, according to the union.
Tens of thousands of Spanish doctors continue strikes over attacks on pay and conditions; Israeli port workers’ stoppage over threatened job losses; transport workers in North West province, South Africa begin walkout over non-payment of wages
For much of the 20th century, measles was regarded as an unavoidable illness of childhood, even as it killed millions of people worldwide each year. The development of a safe and effective vaccine fundamentally changed that reality.
The report warns that unsustainable water resource practices are causing potentially irreversible damage to water systems that require urgent action to rectify
Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.
The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization marks a decisive turn toward nationalism and the dismantling of public health.
With the development of new AI tools disrupting established business models, financial markets are “wracked with uncertainty” about what comes next.
The development of artificial intelligence (or more correctly augmented intelligence) AI and the growing concern that it has the potential to set off a major economic and financial crises shows that contradictions identified by Marx are coming to the surface once again.
Last week’s fall on Wall Street flowing from the release of a new AI tool by Anthropic has been described as a “tech wreck” placing a big question mark over the future of many software firms.
Trump’s decision is the outcome of a balancing act which itself underscores the inherent instability of the US financial system.
Hanson’s comments underscore the reactionary climate that has been cultivated by the political and media establishment, particularly in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack.
While presented as necessary to combat “hate speech” and ensure students feel safe, Labor’s conduct rule changes are a weapon to silence opposition to the ongoing Gaza genocide and imperialist war more broadly.
Australian doctors, nurses, pathology and disability support workers, as well as other hospital services employees, passed a powerful resolution backing the determined strike action by health workers in New York, California and Hawaii.
The 20,000 nurses and midwives across the state want to fight further wage cuts and dire conditions but the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation is working to isolate their struggles to individual hospitals.
Academic student employees at the University of California system voted to authorize a strike by 48,000 UAW members at one of the largest public university systems in the US.
Thirteen months after agreeing to cut 35,000 jobs, the Volkswagen Board of Management is planning the next round of cuts—this time across all group brands.
The shutting down of six First Brands’ auto-parts maquiladoras has led to plant occupations along with efforts by Morena and its allied union bureaucracy to contain the struggle.
Workers are outraged by the betrayals of the UAW bureaucracy and the escalating attack on jobs and the social and democratic rights of the working class.
The Trump administration’s deliberate strangulation of Cuba’s economy has created a humanitarian catastrophe that could lead to mass death.
The US military killed 11 people Monday in strikes on three boats in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, in the deadliest single day of the Trump administration’s killing spree off the Latin American coast since September.
In pursuit of US tariff relief, Lula has effectively legitimized Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro.
The “Labor Modernization” bill—longer hours, gutted severance, and strike criminalization—has sparked mass protests and strikes as workers rebel against IMF-dictated slavery.
The ICE abduction of Amazon Flex drivers Edwin Vladimir Romero Gutierrez and Angel Junior Rincon Perez reveals the exploitative nature of app-based gig work. Predominately composed of immigrant workers, most employees in the gig-economy are faced with no other means of employment.
Juan Nicolás, two months old, was sent back to the Dilley family detention center before being deported despite suffering from a severe illness.
Appearing on MS Now, Lee exposed the brutal conditions facing detained immigrants, many of them children, and warned that the rapid expansion of ICE internment camps is a threat to all workers and their families.
The White House is moving to rig the outcome of the election or cancel altogether.
On the basis of threadbare evidence and flawed legal reasoning, a court sentenced 12 people to death in what amounts to an act of class vengeance, designed to intimidate rising opposition to the present government’s austerity program.
The struggle for better conditions for health employees is inseparably bound up with defending free healthcare, won through the bitter struggles of the working class, and supported by the poor.
Confronted with rising anger among health workers over the government’s attacks, the unions have formed an alliance, not to wage a political fight for workers, but to suppress their opposition.
The SEP has consistently explained the brutal attack near the University of Moratuwa was not an isolated street brawl, but a politically driven attempt to prevent it from organising among university workers and students.
More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an “interest group” in the Democratic Party and a tool for the social advancement of a narrow stratum of the black upper middle class.
Auto factory occupation in Windsor, Ontario; Portuguese Stalinists, social democrats bow to military; US launches counteroffensive in Korea; France sets up puppet advisory group in Annam.
The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.
The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border whose consequences still shape American politics.
As millions of Epstein files remain hidden, the US corporate press, including the New York Times and Washington Post, have published articles dismissing documented crimes and cover-ups as “conspiracies” and “antisemitism.”
Over the past month, as Minneapolis became the epicenter of an explosive confrontation between the working class and the Trump administration’s authoritarian offensive, Left Voice provided a revealing case study in the role of the political pseudo-left.
Declaring he was “not scared of a germ” and that “he snorted cocaine off toilet seats,” RFK Jr used Theo Von’s platform to advance mistrust of science and undermine collective public health protections.
Speaking at a conference sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and BAE Systems, Ocasio-Cortez accused the Trump administration of insufficient commitment to the US-NATO war against Russia, echoed the Trump administration’s accusations that Iran has killed “tens of thousands of protesters” and refused to rule out sending American troops to fight China over Taiwan.
Some 3,200 layoff notices will be sent and at least 657 jobs cut, part of plans to reduce as much as $1.4 billion from the district's budget.
Closures eliminate vaccinations, TB treatment and STI testing, deepening healthcare inequities for low-income communities across the county.
Mamdani announced that unless the New York state legislature increases taxes on the rich and on corporations, he will implement a 9.5 percent increase in property taxes in the city to balance the annual budget.
The intervention involves both big-business parties collaborating in an even more direct assault on social conditions through a federal decree that the city’s budget must be reorganized according to Trump’s tax boondoggle for corporations and the wealthy.
The case of Maja T. exemplifies how neo-Nazis, the right-wing extremist Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán, the compliant Hungarian judiciary, the Trump administration and German authorities, courts, media and politicians are working closely together to persecute anti-fascists and leftists and eliminate democratic rights.
WhatsApp was used by over two thirds of the population. For many, it was the main means of communication with friends and family abroad.
A list of “safe countries of origin” includes Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Bangladesh, Colombia and Kosovo, paving the way for mass migrant deportations.
USIC is owned by Study Group and operates in partnership the University of Sheffield, using its prefix and coat of arms to attract international students to study preparation courses that can cost up to £26,000 per year.
Protests in South Africa, and the conditions that gave rise to them, echo the experience of the youth-led uprisings seen elsewhere on the continent. The deployment of the army is a pre-emptive measure by the ruling class.
The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Sony and BMW--and the armed violence that secures their raw materials.
The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through terror, and subordinated the international working class to the interests of a privileged bureaucratic caste.
The handover of Venezuela’s oil reserves to US imperialism by its Bolivarian regime is relentlessly unmasking anti-Trotskyist forces internationally.
The worker was killed when a crane crushed him between its excavator arm and the bucket of the front-end loader.
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
A 71-year-old subcontracted worker was killed at a New Jersey chemical plant, as official investigations were announced and fundamental questions about workplace safety and accountability remain unanswered.
Five female workers died in a huge blast and fire in the early hours of January 26 at the Violanta biscuit factory near the city of Trikala in the Thessaly region of central Greece.
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.
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.
Fedorov’s comments underscore that beneath the propaganda and government lies, huge numbers of Ukrainian working class youth refuse to sacrifice their lives in the ongoing imperialist proxy war.
The reintroduction and expansion of conscription is a direct result of the military rearmament in the NATO war against Russia and the preparation for a Third World War.
The most hawkish elements demand the UK government immediately start coughing up staggering sums to reach NATO’s new target of 5 percent of GDP spent on the military.
Budanov was trained by the CIA, maintains ties to the Trump administration and is known for his particular close ties to Ukrainian neo-fascists.
For much of the 20th century, measles was regarded as an unavoidable illness of childhood, even as it killed millions of people worldwide each year. The development of a safe and effective vaccine fundamentally changed that reality.
Increasing vaccine coverage is the key to eliminating measles, but this goal is being actively undermined by the Starmer government’s continued assault on public spending and the National Health Service.
This article examines the state of public health in the United States in January 2026, detailing mass COVID-19 infection, excess deaths, collapsing vaccination coverage, immune damage and the dismantling of institutions responsible for disease prevention.
The systematic dismantling of public health services in the United States, including childhood vaccinations that have saved millions of lives, is a historic crime committed by the US ruling elite.
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.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
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.
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.
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.
Parnarauskis is best known to readers of the WSWS for his 2006 campaign for Illinois state senate.
Thursday’s large turnout was a response to the brutal police rampage orchestrated by the NSW Labor government in Sydney days earlier.
“That was police brutality, and I was shocked to see that happening here.”
“Now if someone tells me about police brutality, I know exactly what they mean. I’ve had first-hand personal experience of it.”
Socialist Alternative is trying to suppress the political lessons of Labor's embrace of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog and its police-state repression of opposition to his visit.
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.
Four days before the first meeting of President Trump’s misnamed Board of Peace in Washington, DC, the Israeli military continued its murderous assault on Palestinians by carrying out air strikes on tent shelters in the north and south of Gaza that killed 12 people.
A scheduled event at Princeton University featuring a discussion with Norman Finkelstein about the ongoing Gaza genocide was abruptly canceled the day before it was to be held due to “new University policy.”
US President Donald Trump held a war council at the White House Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finalize plans for a massive military assault on Iran.
Since the start of the war, Palestinian communities in Area C have been systematically displaced from their homes at unprecedented rates. The 100,000 Palestinians living there are banned from building, and demolitions and displacements are a regular occurrence. Israeli settlements have been expanding.
The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a forensic linguistic analysis that shatters the fraudulent case against him.
The linguistic examination by Yuri Irkhin, one of Ukraine’s leading criminologist, marks not only a major setback for the prosecution. It is also a powerful vindication of the principled opposition by the Trotskyist movement to the war in Ukraine.
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
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 US military is poised to attack Iran after a massive, weeks-long redeployment of warships, bombers and personnel to the region.
The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.
Amid ongoing negotiations between the Turkish government and the PKK, which claim to bring peace and democratization, state crackdown on the political opposition is escalating.
The speeches and political profile of the participants revealed the fundamental message: the Turkish ruling class and its imperialist allies could better defend their interests through a government established under the leadership of the CHP.
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.
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 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.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
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.
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
At Friday’s protest, students marched and carried handmade signs that read “No one is illegal on stolen land,” “The revolution is in the hands of the youth” and “It was never about criminals.”
While wars are being stoked and escalated in the Middle East, Latin America and worldwide, thousands of young people in Germany are currently receiving letters to register for military service.
An interview with IYSSE spokesperson Tamino Dreisam exposes the class interests behind Germany’s reintroduction of conscription, placing it within a broader drive toward militarisation, social cuts and imperialist war.
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.
Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.
With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.
The novel takes place in Beirut between 1960 and 2023, its story divided non-chronologically into seven sections.
Grant’s Enforcer is an important reminder that political reaction is not all-powerful.
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.
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.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
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.
Reuters reports that the Pentagon is planning for a far larger attack than last June’s one-off strikes, with officials saying the US “fully expected Iran to retaliate.”
Nine days after launching an assault on Venezuela that killed over 100 people and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is openly threatening strikes against Iran, using as a pretext mass protests that have erupted across the country.
The survivors of the US military's September 2 drone murder in the Caribbean attempted to wave to US military aircraft for rescue, the New York Times reported Friday.
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.
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 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.
More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an “interest group” in the Democratic Party and a tool for the social advancement of a narrow stratum of the black upper middle class.
ICE activity is escalating sharply across the Detroit metropolitan area, marking a new stage in the Trump administration’s nationwide rampage against democratic rights.
Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker, is running to organize a rebellion of the rank and file against a parasitic bureaucracy that has transformed the UAW into an instrument of management and the state.
The era in which the interests of the imperialist powers were concealed by diplomatic manoeuvres and international institutions is over. A new era has begun in which they are decidedly open about military force and war.
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.
