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2 years ago

The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?

4 days ago

The suspicious "suicide" of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett

22 hours ago

Netanyahu doubles down on planned assault on Rafah

23 hours ago

Trudeau government backs Israel as it prepares to launch next stage of Gaza genocide

1 day ago

Trump hails January 6 "hostages," says migrants are not people, threatens "bloodbath" if he is not returned to the White House

23 hours ago

Bernie Sanders' Senate hearing on 32-hour workweek aimed at promoting Biden, union apparatus

1 day ago

Former US ambassador Ryan Crocker: Nearly every Arab state has long viewed the Palestinians with "fear and loathing"

1 day ago

Stop the reintroduction of military conscription in Germany!

21 hours ago

German train drivers' union GDL discusses accepting arbitration

23 hours ago

UK Conservative government in meltdown as plotting intensifies to remove Sunak

4 hours ago

Australian pseudo-left group Solidarity defends maritime union's promotion of pro-genocide Prime Minister Albanese

21 hours ago

Australia: Staggering Labor losses in Queensland elections underscore wider political breakdown

22 hours ago

Artists protest at London's Barbican Centre over suppression of opposition to Israeli genocide

22 hours ago

Socialist Equality Party selects Joseph Kishore and Jerry White as its presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2024 US election

20 days ago

The SEP launches its campaign for a socialist alternative in 2024 to Biden and Trump, the corporate candidates of war and dictatorship!

20 days ago

Socialist Equality Party vice presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns at Detroit area auto factories

2 days ago

Socialist Equality Party (US) candidates Joseph Kishore and Jerry White discuss campaign for international socialism on the Punch Up Pod

3 days ago

Socialist Equality Party (US) 2024 presidential campaign initiates ballot access drive in Michigan

16 days ago

Trump consolidates power within party on way to securing Republican nomination for president

5 days ago

Biden, Trump consolidate presidential nominations in "Super Tuesday" vote characterized by low turnout

11 days ago

Liberal cowards join in the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in favor of Trump

12 days ago

Trump's Republican Party primary victory: A new stage in the crisis of American democracy

11 days ago

Democrats set up unit to attack third-party candidates

3 days ago

YouTube censors David North's lecture on the death of Aaron Bushnell

3 days ago

US anti-TikTok bill: Escalating online censorship and preparing for war with China

3 days ago

The corporate plundering of America: Major companies spend more on executive pay than on federal taxes

3 days ago

Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei submits over 4,000 signatures for its candidacy in the 2024 European elections

4 days ago

US and Canada oust the prime minister they imposed on the Haitian people—A case study in imperialist gangsterism

5 days ago

NATO plans for troop deployments in Ukraine threaten nuclear war

7 days ago

Oppenheimer's victory at the Academy Awards

6 days ago

The global significance of Germany's train drivers' strike

5 days ago

Leading Spanish Stalinist calls for more Gaza protests—against his own government!

17 hours ago

Columbia University latest target in state-led McCarthyite campaign against anti-genocide protests

3 days ago

Australian protests against Gaza genocide: "I don't think we can trust Labor ever again"

3 days ago

Growing condemnations: Australian health workers speak out against victimisation of medical practitioners for opposing Gaza genocide

3 days ago

UK Tory and Labour parties plan joint push for "extremism" legislation

6 days ago

British government intensifies school and campus clampdown under guise of combating "antisemitism"

6 days ago

Council on American-Islamic Relations files lawsuit on behalf of teachers suspended for pro-Palestinian views

6 days ago

School authorities, police and media step up harassment of pro-Palestinian educators in New York City

6 days ago

"How to end the genocide in Gaza"—strong responses to SEP public meetings in key Australian cities

6 days ago

Israel's genocide in Gaza

4 months ago

Charles Schumer's Senate speech and the US-Israeli "Final Solution" in Gaza

2 days ago

Israel kills more than 60 Gazans in latest breadline massacre

3 days ago

Spain's Podemos politically complicit in the genocide of Palestinians

3 days ago

Australian Labor government helping to starve Gaza

4 days ago

Netanyahu and Gallant declare Israeli ground invasion of Rafah imminent

5 days ago

White House reaffirms it has no "red lines" for Israeli war crimes

6 days ago

Israel forced UNRWA employees to falsely admit agency links to Hamas and staff participation in October 7 incursion

8 days ago

US will deploy 1,000 troops off Gaza shore in plan to build floating dock

9 days ago

Netanyahu reaffirms support for Rafah ground onslaught amid growth of starvation across Gaza

10 days ago

Arts and Culture

2 years ago

Television and Miniseries

2 years ago

Theater, Opera and Dance

2 years ago

Interviews with directors and artists

2 years ago

More than 100 bands, musicians boycott SXSW festival to protest US Army and military contractor sponsorships

3 days ago

Welsh singer-songwriter Charlotte Church receives death threats for defending Palestinians in Gaza

3 days ago

In defense of Jonathan Glazer: The Zone of Interest director comes under venomous attack for Academy Awards statement

4 days ago

UK Whitworth Art Gallery exhibits Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, but is silent on Gaza genocide

4 days ago

IATSE workers prepare to fight as union signals another contract betrayal is in the works

5 days ago

Short films in Berlin: Surreal and realistic depictions of "the absurdity of our capitalist times"

8 days ago

Musicians withdraw from SXSW Festival over Gaza, inclusion of military and "war profiteers"

10 days ago

Armorer found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in tragic death on the set of Rust

10 days ago

Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Which Way Africa?

10 days ago

Global class struggle

2 years ago

The struggle of health care workers

1 year ago

Oil and gas workers

2 years ago

Mount Sinai Health System fined $2 million for persistent understaffing

23 hours ago

Amid mass layoffs across the US, Dollar Tree announces nearly 1,000 Family Dollar store closures

3 days ago

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

3 days ago

"I'd like to live in a world where I work one job": Flint, Michigan teachers vote to strike after sickout over pay and conditions

3 days ago

Fired Stellantis worker in Atessa, Italy: "The unity of the exploited masses scares the bosses!"

4 days ago

SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York threatened with closure

4 days ago

Flint, Michigan teachers organize sickout over district's decision to overturn pay raises

4 days ago

Workers at Daimler Truck North America vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike

4 days ago

Veteran of 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike Malcolm Bray speaks on its lessons and the fight to build a socialist leadership in the working class

5 days ago

Florida launches crackdown on Haitians fleeing violence

23 hours ago

James Crumbley found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for Oxford High School shooting

21 hours ago

Boeing whistleblower, found dead last week, told family friend, "If anything happens to me, it's not suicide."

2 days ago

Profits over toes and fingers: Kansas City football fans suffer amputations after attending sub-zero game NFL would not postpone

5 days ago

Measles outbreak continues to expand in Chicago due to overcrowding in migrant shelter

6 days ago

East Palestine, Ohio train disaster: Safety experts told railroad "controlled burn" which released toxic chemicals was unnecessary, NTSB says

5 days ago

No charges or investigation one week after fatal industrial explosion in Detroit suburb

5 days ago

Epic storms batter California as global climate crisis worsens

7 days ago

US Justice Dept opens criminal probe of Boeing "door plug" failure on 737 MAX-9 flight

7 days ago

The US-NATO war with Russia

8 months ago

Macron reiterates call to send French ground troops to Ukraine for war on Russia

1 day ago

Pentagon sends $300 million in additional weapons to Ukraine

4 days ago

German Green and Christian Democratic politicians dismiss danger of nuclear war

5 days ago

Amid ongoing recruitment crisis, Zelensky government prepares to mobilize Ukrainian convicts

7 days ago

Sweden joins NATO amid escalation of US-led war on Russia

7 days ago

Amid Ukraine war, EU Commission adopts plan for European war economy

11 days ago

In Prague, French President Macron repeats call to send European troops to Ukraine

12 days ago

Top German military commanders plan direct attacks on Russia

14 days ago

10 years since the far-right coup in Kiev

18 days ago

Sri Lankan police arrest two journalists in a direct attack on freedom of speech

22 hours ago

Electricity disconnected to over one million Sri Lankans amid soaring tariffs

11 days ago

High-profile US officials visit Sri Lanka as Washington steps up preparations for war against China

14 days ago

Strong response to IYSSE lecture on the Communist Manifesto at Sri Lanka's Peradeniya University

16 days ago

Sri Lankan university student union prepares another reactionary alliance with opposition parties

18 days ago

Sri Lankan SEP gains support for campaign against pro-government thuggery

19 days ago

New York Democratic Socialists of America endorses Ocasio-Cortez, Jacobin calls for "left" support for Jamaal Bowman

3 days ago

Teamsters bureaucrats meet with President Biden while continuing to court Republican extreme right

4 days ago

US House passes bipartisan bill to ban TikTok or force its sale

4 days ago

Biden budget promotes war in Ukraine, Middle East, China and at US-Mexico border

6 days ago

Biden says he will sign law banning TikTok if Congress passes it

6 days ago

Bernie Sanders reaffirms support for "Genocide Joe" after Biden declares "no red lines" in Israeli assault on Gaza

7 days ago

Asia and the Pacific

2 years ago

North and South Korea

2 years ago

Five years since the Christchurch terror attack, many unanswered questions remain

2 days ago

Political instability continues as Pakistan cobbles together a pro-austerity minority government

3 days ago

Australian students strike again to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza

2 days ago

A year since the AUKUS submarine announcement: Australia's transformation into a hub of militarism and war

2 days ago

Hundreds of jobs to be axed in New Zealand media restructure

4 days ago

India's 1983 Nellie communal massacre in historical perspective

5 days ago

Video: SEP (Australia) launches electoral registration campaign

5 days ago

US, South Korea conduct huge war games on Korean Peninsula

5 days ago

Boeing 787 jet nosedives, injuring 50 people on a flight from Australia to New Zealand

5 days ago

"Stakeknife" murders report a cover-up of Britain's dirty war in Northern Ireland

1 day ago

Germany, France and Poland pledge to escalate war with Russia at Berlin summit

2 days ago

What is German Chancellor Scholz hiding in the debate about sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine?

3 days ago

Germany's 2023 armed forces report: A call for war and the militarization of society

4 days ago

Poland on a war course: government and opposition close ranks

3 days ago

UK's new "extremism" definition is a major assault on democratic rights

4 days ago

German health minister wants to make health care system fit for war

6 days ago

The coronavirus pandemic

2 years ago

On the eve of Long COVID protest: An interview with Julie Lam, photographer and founder of MaskTogetherAmerica

5 days ago

Brazil's anti-COVID activists denounce Lula government's "forever COVID" policy

5 days ago

US ends free rapid antigen tests as CDC sabotages the fight against COVID

6 days ago

Disability rights of Long COVID patients are routinely trampled upon

9 days ago

Massive study confirms safety profile of COVID-19 vaccines

12 days ago

Interview with Dr. David Brenner of Columbia University on far-UVC 222-nm and the COVID pandemic

16 days ago

Preeminent COVID-19 scientists urge action to confront Long COVID

25 days ago

Winter COVID wave of mass infection continues across the US

26 days ago

Data analyst Greg Travis speaks on COVID pandemic-related excess deaths in the US

27 days ago

History of the Fourth International

2 years ago

The 1917 Russian Revolution

2 years ago

This Week in History

2 years ago

Forty years since the British miners' strike

13 days ago

This week in history: March 18-24

23 hours ago

Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish edition of Vadim Rogovin's 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror

3 days ago

Bryan Palmer's James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938

1 month ago

Nazi Town USA: US public television examines the German-American Bund in the 1930s

1 month ago

This week in history: March 11-17

7 days ago

Historian Robert Sutton speaks on commercial real estate threat to Civil War battlefield at Manassas

1 month ago

Adolph Reed, Jr.'s The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives

2 months ago

Virginia county greenlights massive data center, imperiling Civil War battlefield

3 months ago

US financial regulators concerned about another crisis

4 days ago

Surge in gold and bitcoin prices points to concerns over stability of US dollar

12 days ago

Growth of US debt threatens dollar dominance

19 days ago

Mass layoffs sweep Canada as interest rate hikes push economy toward recession

24 days ago

Nvidia and AI fuel market frenzy

23 days ago

Recessionary trends in the world economy strengthening

27 days ago

In a sign of growing instability, loans to US shadow banks pass $1 trillion

1 month ago

Central Banks face interest rate dilemma

1 month ago

Banks starting to take a hit from commercial property downturn

1 month ago

Average global surface temperatures rose to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in 2023

6 days ago

Latest privately-owned Moon mission ends abruptly after botched landing

19 days ago

Climate change disruption of Atlantic currents reaching dangerous tipping point

21 days ago

Earliest known example of a human-built wood structure, dating to nearly a half-million years ago, discovered in Africa

2 months ago

Climate scientists predict devastating weather conditions for the Southern Hemisphere summer

2 months ago

Contrasting inter-group behavior of our two closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, provides possible insights to human evolution

3 months ago

Useless hand wringing and empty platitudes in the latest US climate report

4 months ago

Fossil discovery in China raises intriguing questions for human evolution

4 months ago

Nobel Prize awarded to pioneering mRNA scientists who helped develop COVID vaccines

5 months ago

Latin America and the Caribbean

2 years ago

Mexican police kill Ayotzinapa student hours after AMLO likened protest to "dirty war"

3 days ago

Brazil's anti-COVID activists denounce Lula government's "forever COVID" policy

4 days ago

US military strengthens presence at Haitian embassy as gang violence in Port-au-Prince escalates

7 days ago

Former US-backed president of Honduras found guilty of drug trafficking

7 days ago

At Washington's behest, Kenyan President Ruto moves ahead with police deployment to Haiti

10 days ago

Cuba slashes fuel subsidies and appeals for UN aid as economic and political crises deepens

10 days ago

US kidnaps prime minister it imposed on Haitian people, as Western hemisphere's poorest country descends into chaos

8 days ago

Latin American leaders line up behind Biden and Trump in 2024 US election

12 days ago

After 50 percent hike in his wealth, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim hails the president as "good for business"

13 days ago

170 killed in Burkina Faso massacre as French-Russian rivalry grows in Sahel

9 days ago

Protests erupt across Senegal as President Sall cancels elections

1 month ago

An interview with Giacomo Abbruzzese, director of anti-war Disco Boy: "The stranger's gaze sees things we no longer see or perhaps have never seen"

1 month ago

Study finds that half of confirmed COVID patients in Africa now suffer from Long COVID

1 month ago

The "election victory" of al-Sisi in Egypt

1 month ago

Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo back Israel's genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza

1 month ago

Burkinabè junta arrests top officers over Burkina Faso coup attempt

5 months ago

Macron announces pull-out of French troops from Niger

5 months ago

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. -- View page

1 month ago

Anger explodes as Stellantis terminates hundreds more temp workers at Toledo and Detroit Jeep factories

12 days ago

UAW reaches deal with Ford, calls off bogus strike threat at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant

26 days ago

Automakers announce billions in Brazil investments after jobs bloodbath imposed by unions

27 days ago

Fired Stellantis temps issue open letter: "Unite all workers to stop the job cuts!"

1 month ago

Ford reports $10.4 billion in 2023 profits, outlines plan to cut jobs

1 month ago

Stellantis spearheading global wave of job cuts in the auto industry

1 month ago

Last days of work for thousands of Stellantis autoworkers facing job cuts at Toledo and Detroit plants

1 month ago

GM profits exceed Wall Street's expectations

1 month ago

International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees holds emergency online meeting to organize fight against mass job cuts

1 month ago

Free Julian Assange!

2 years ago

Public meetings called by the SEP/IYSSE in Britain: The fight to free Julian Assange is the fight against war!

14 days ago

Assange lawyers rebuff anti-democratic US government extradition arguments

26 days ago

Assange supporters march to Downing Steet as two-day hearing ends in London

26 days ago

Demonstrators outside UK High Court demand Assange's freedom

27 days ago

UK postal workers demand freedom for Julian Assange

27 days ago

On eve of British hearings, Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton speaks out: "This is Julian's last chance in the UK courts"

1 month ago

London press briefing warns of dangers of Assange extradition

1 month ago

Australian parliament passes a vague motion on Julian Assange

1 month ago

Alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower hit with 40-year sentence: A warning of what's in store for Assange if extradition is not defeated

1 month ago

On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup -- Fifty years after Chile's horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America. -- Read

5 months ago

Erkan Baş's local election campaign shows the TİP's orientation towards the bourgeoisie and trade union bureaucracy

11 days ago

United Nations human rights experts oppose UK decision to make Shamima Begum stateless

11 days ago

Thousands of textile workers strike at Egypt's largest industrial plant in Mahalla al-Kubra

19 days ago

Australian government expands military involvement in US-led attacks on Yemen

18 days ago

Amid surging wildcat strike wave in Turkey, union bureaucrats accuse workers of terrorism

1 month ago

Gold mine disaster in Turkey poses international public health risk

1 month ago

One year since the Turkey-Syria earthquake—Part 3

1 month ago

One year since the Turkey-Syria earthquake—Part 2

1 month ago

One year since the Turkey-Syria earthquake—Part I

1 month ago

Youth and Students

9 months ago

IYSSE holds first meeting at Otago University in New Zealand

21 days ago

Australian IYSSE wins support at universities for its opposition to the Gaza genocide

27 days ago

Capitalism leads to genocide and war—youth and students must fight for world socialism!

1 month ago

Former IDF soldiers attack pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University

1 month ago

Columbia University students and faculty protest ongoing genocide and further attacks on academic freedom

1 month ago

Oppose the state-organized witch hunt of opponents of genocide on US campuses!

3 months ago

In bipartisan vote, US House passes authoritarian resolution calling on Harvard, MIT presidents to resign

3 months ago

Forty-one Brown University students arrested for protesting Gaza genocide

3 months ago

University of Michigan permanently bans student resolution against genocide in Gaza

3 months ago

Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism

3 months ago

Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard

27 days ago

"Building the world party was Helen's goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution"

1 month ago

Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California

2 months ago

Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a life dedicated to the liberation of the working class

3 months ago

"Helen Halyard gave to the party, its program, and the international working class, the 'full measure' of her life"

2 months ago

An appreciation of Comrade Helen Halyard

2 months ago

"To Helen ours was a party of the great principles of internationalism and the central revolutionary role of the working class"

2 months ago

"Helen exemplified what it means to be a party cadre"

2 months ago

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. -- Read

8 months ago

Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism

3 months ago

Sri Lankan workers condemn pro-government thug attack on SEP members

2 months ago

Australian workers and youth condemn violent attack on Sri Lankan SEP members

2 months ago

British Trotskyists condemn pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members

3 months ago

SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore addresses "Centenary of Trotskyism" public meeting in Colombo

3 months ago

SEP (US) National Secretary Joe Kishore addresses "Centenary of Trotskyism" public meeting at Sri Lanka's Peradeniya University

3 months ago

Trump's January 6 coup d'état

2 years ago

Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump's 2020 fake elector scheme

11 days ago

Appellate court rejects Trump's claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election

1 month ago

Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case

4 months ago

Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case

4 months ago

Top Trump coup lawyer Sidney Powell turns state's witness on eve of Georgia trial

4 months ago

Trump-backed election denier Jim Jordan fails in second vote for House speaker

4 months ago

Former Capitol Police chief blasts Pentagon officials for delaying deployment of National Guard during January 6 coup

5 months ago

Retiring Senator Romney confirms Pentagon, Congress knew Trump planned violent coup days before January 6

6 months ago

Georgia special grand jury recommended charging 39 top Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, lawyer Cleta Mitchell and retired Gen. Michael Flynn

6 months ago

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. -- Read the introduction

1 year ago

Socialist Equality Party

2 years ago

Comrade Halil Çelik: An inspiration for workers and youth internationally

1 month ago

Comrade Halil Çelik blazed the socialist-internationalist path the workers of Turkey must follow

1 month ago

Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) celebrates 80th birthday of veteran Trotskyist K. Ratnayake

3 months ago

Greetings to veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist K. Ratnayake on his 80th birthday

3 months ago

Enthusiastic response by Sri Lankan workers and students to upcoming international May Day online rally

10 months ago

SEP (Australia) holds well-attended post-election public meeting

10 months ago

World Socialist Web Site launches its Ukrainian-language edition

11 months ago

Watch SEP online memorial meeting: A Tribute to Regina Lohr – Australian Trotskyist

1 year ago

Build the Assange defence campaign in the working class!

1 year ago

20 years since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq -- March 20 marks 20 years since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, launched on the basis of lies. At the time of the initial invasion, the WSWS published many statements on the background of the war, its history and its implications. This page features some of the most important statements. -- Read

11 months ago

For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum!

6 months ago

Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters

4 months ago

Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum

4 months ago

Defeat of Australian Labor's Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism

5 months ago

Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people

5 months ago

Defeat of Australian Labor's Voice referendum highlights massive class divide

5 months ago

On referendum day Australian workers and young people support the SEP's active boycott of Labor's Voice to parliament

5 months ago

For an active boycott of the Voice referendum! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war and austerity!

5 months ago

For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum!

6 months ago

Australian students denounce attacks on Gaza and hypocrisy of Labor's Voice campaign

5 months ago

On the 25th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site -- Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership. -- Watch now

1 year ago

The Prinkipo commemoration of Trotsky's exile and the global resurgence of the working class

6 months ago

An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo

6 months ago

The ICFI's investigation exposed the GPU conspiracy to murder Trotsky

6 months ago

Leon Trotsky's years on Prinkipo

6 months ago

2023: The global capitalist crisis and the growing offensive of the international working class -- In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm. -- Read statement

1 year ago

1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI

5 months ago

The Workers League's defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party

5 months ago

1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy's Studies in Dialectics

5 months ago

The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International

5 months ago

Wohlforth's renegacy, the renewal of the struggle against Pabloism in the Workers League, and the turn to the working class

6 months ago

The ICFI's exposure of Ernest Mandel's "neo-capitalism" and the analysis of the global economic crisis: 1967–1971

6 months ago

Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Epoch of Imperialist War and Socialist Revolution

7 months ago

The continuing struggle against Pabloism, the centrism of the OCI and the emerging crisis within the ICFI

6 months ago

The "Great Betrayal" in Ceylon, the formation of the American Committee for the Fourth International, and the founding of the Workers League

6 months ago

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. -- Read

5 months ago

Will Lehman campaign for UAW President

1 year ago

Will Lehman issues letter to Mack Trucks coworkers on eve of UAW contract expiration: "We must seriously prepare for a major battle"

5 months ago

Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election

8 months ago

Stop the UAW sabotage of the autoworkers struggle! Hold emergency local meetings to demand an all-out strike!

5 months ago

"It's almost like we are in a civil war between the rich and the poor": Autoworkers respond to Will Lehman's Newsweek op-ed

5 months ago

The battle against the automakers is more than a strike, it's class warfare

6 months ago

Unite the rank and file for an all-out autoworkers strike!

6 months ago

Mobilize the rank and file against the UAW sellout!

6 months ago

Will Lehman replies to Biden's Department of Labor in ongoing lawsuit to demand rerun of UAW election

6 months ago

Will Lehman and attorney discuss lawsuit against Biden admin demanding re-run of UAW election

8 months ago

A call to youth throughout the world: Build a mass movement to stop the Ukraine war! -- The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III. -- Read statement

9 months ago

May Day 2023: For the international unity of the working class against national chauvinism and war!

10 months ago

For the unity of the Russian and Ukrainian working class!

10 months ago

May Day 2023 and the struggle against war

10 months ago

The American ruling class confronts its most powerful antagonist at home: The working class

10 months ago

New Zealand Labour government imposes austerity, war and endless COVID infections

10 months ago

Canadian imperialism bares its fangs

10 months ago

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. -- Find out more

2 years ago

The Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic

2 years ago

Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21

11 months ago

The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1

11 months ago

The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2

11 months ago

Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic

1 year ago

Michigan hospital worker with Long COVID speaks about the destruction of health care in the US

1 year ago

Teacher describes struggle to get treated for Long COVID in New Zealand

1 year ago

Alberta nurse speaks about union indifference to mass illness and death

1 year ago

Flight attendant shares his experience being intubated for 19 days with COVID-19

1 year ago

WSWS speaks with New Zealand Long Covid sufferer

1 year ago

The New York Times' 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History

2 years ago

The Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory

2 years ago

The Wuhan lab lie: "Weapons of mass destruction" redux

1 year ago

The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China

1 year ago

Republicans revive discredited Wuhan Lab Leak theory and call Anthony Fauci to testify

1 year ago

Anthony Fauci gives aid and comfort to COVID-19 "lab leak" conspiracy theory

1 year ago

Washington Post backs Republican-led witch-hunt against scientists

1 year ago

Boston University study on Omicron variant smeared as dangerous gain-of-function research by right-wing reactionaries

1 year ago

Twitter labelled scientific reporting of COVID-19 as "misinformation"

1 year ago

Two recent papers further confirm natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus

1 year ago

Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship -- This five-part series and historical timeline exposes Snyder's Bloodlands as a work of falsification, aimed at justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far-right. -- Read

1 year ago

The New York Times' 1619 Project

2 years ago

Nikole Hannah-Jones' Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism

5 months ago

The 1619 Project and the New York Times' promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism

10 months ago

Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!

11 months ago

Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics

1 year ago

1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was paid over $1 million to speak about race at colleges in 2022

1 year ago

The New York Times 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: History as the emanation of race

2 years ago

An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland

2 years ago

Historian Jack Rakove on American history writing and the falsifications of the 1619 Project and its defenders

2 years ago

The New York Times' Jake Silverstein concocts "a new origin story" for the 1619 Project

2 years ago

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. -- View the Timeline

1 year ago

The SEP (US) 2022 Seventh National Congress

1 year ago

The historical and political principles of the socialist opposition to imperialist war and the Putin regime

1 year ago

The historical background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for global elimination

1 year ago

America's "New World Order"— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China

1 year ago

Build rank-and-file committees, the organs of 21st century working class struggle!

1 year ago

The Theory of Permanent Revolution in Turkey and throughout the world

1 year ago

New Australian Labor government intensifies assault on working class and war preparations against China

1 year ago

The fight against mass COVID infection and militarism in New Zealand

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The fight against Canadian imperialism and for socialist internationalism

1 year ago

New revolutionary epoch opens doors for building the ICFI in Brazil

1 year ago

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.

1 year ago

Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network

3 months ago

WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand

10 months ago

Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising

10 months ago

Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms

1 year ago

Musk continues to ban from Twitter journalists who criticize him

1 year ago

Musk's attack on Twitter workers brings company to the brink of collapse

1 year ago

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter employees: Submit to "extremely hardcore" culture, or face termination

1 year ago

Facebook censors Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace and a Sydney health worker

1 year ago

Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace speaks to WSWS about Facebook censorship

1 year ago

The defense of academic freedom

2 years ago

Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone's termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician

4 months ago

Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities

6 months ago

An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one

10 months ago

Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff

1 year ago

Defend Harvard professor John Comaroff against the right-wing witch-hunt!

1 year ago

The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff

2 years ago

The concerted, cowardly #MeToo attack on Harvard professor John Comaroff

2 years ago

Campus opposition at University of Michigan mounts to victimization of Bright Sheng

2 years ago

Australian High Court sets precedent for sacking dissenting academics

2 years ago

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.

1 year ago

War and militarism

2 years ago

Russia downs British-supplied long-range missile as Zelensky and Sunak declare "jets coalition"

10 months ago

Pentagon national strategy document targets China

10 months ago

Australia dispatching military "trainers" to aid the US-NATO war against Russia

1 year ago

German President Steinmeier delivers war speech to the nation

1 year ago

One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan

1 year ago

New Zealand media, politicians ramp up war propaganda after soldier killed in Ukraine

1 year ago

UN documents civilian deaths in Syrian war, ignoring their cause

1 year ago

US extends economic war on Russia to China

1 year ago

At NATO summit, New Zealand PM backs war with Russia, military build-up against China

1 year ago

A historic advance in the fight for Trotskyism -- The International Committee of the Fourth International accepts application of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu to become its section in Turkey -- The June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions. -- Read more

1 year ago

The German SGP lawsuit against the Verfassungsschutz

2 years ago

Germany's secret service intensifies persecution of war opponents and warns against "Trotskyism"

7 months ago

Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine

1 year ago

Large-scale raid against right-wing terrorist network reveals the extent of the fascist danger in Germany

4 months ago

German secret service operates hundreds of far-right social media profiles

1 year ago

German Interior Minister Faeser wants to fight climate change activists "with all her might"

1 year ago

Berlin Administrative Court affirms secret service observation of left-wing newspaper junge Welt

1 year ago

Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional

2 years ago

UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee denounces court ruling upholding designation of Germany's Socialist Equality Party as "left wing extremists"

2 years ago

Berlin Administrative Court rules socialist ideas are "anti-constitutional"

2 years ago

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.

1 year ago

The Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward

1 month ago

Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people

1 month ago

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer: A documentary approaches the American novelist with sympathy, but not enough scrutiny

2 months ago

A comment on the life and death of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023)

2 months ago

Why have right-wing forces attacked Adania Shibli's novel Minor Detail?

3 months ago

Award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy denounces "brazen slaughter" and "crimes against humanity" in Gaza

25 days ago

The racialist theory of "color blind racism": Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's Racism without Racists

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We Want Them Infected: The integration of pseudoscience into the US pandemic response

4 months ago

Biden's State of the Union message: Get ready for World War III!

9 days ago

Democrats spearhead military-police crackdown in New York City

10 days ago

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. -- Read more

2 years ago

The 2010 Pike River mine disaster

2 years ago

Police locate more bodies in New Zealand's Pike River mine

8 months ago

New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023

10 months ago

Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China

11 months ago

New Zealand: Court action over Pike River mine disaster

1 year ago

New Zealand police to drill more boreholes at Pike River mine

1 year ago

NZ government's "Working with Survivors" continues cover-up of Pike River mine disaster

1 year ago

Pike River mine disaster families seek answers about unlawful payment to avoid prosecution of CEO

1 year ago

Online book launch: Political lessons of the Pike River disaster and cover-up

1 year ago

Introduction to new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up

1 year ago

Eighty years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union -- The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International. -- Read more

2 years ago

Cliff Slaughter: A political biography (1928-1963) -- By David North -- Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.

2 years ago

Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky -- With David North and Eric London -- North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky's assassination. -- Watch the video

2 years ago