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2 years ago

May Day 2024: Build a socialist movement of workers and youth to stop World War III, fascism and dictatorship!

1 day ago

Biden's campus crackdown—the Democratic Party bares its fangs, again

7 hours ago

Campus protests against Gaza genocide spread globally despite police repression

12 hours ago

Students at Australian universities form encampments to protest Gaza genocide

7 hours ago

Australian workers protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza

6 hours ago

"Hands off Students' Rights": Student parliament at Humboldt University rejects law targeting critical students

10 hours ago

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten promotes slander of Gaza protests as "antisemitic," covers for brutal government repression

7 hours ago

Interest in rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail: Belfast, London, West Yorkshire

14 hours ago

Survivors and families of the victims of Manchester Arena bombing to sue MI5

14 hours ago

UAW announces 11th hour sellout deal at Daimler Trucks North America blocking strike by 7,300 workers

6 hours ago

UAW does nothing as CNH lays off 220 in Wisconsin, more cuts expected

7 hours ago

18 indicted on felony charges for fake Trump elector scheme in Arizona

7 hours ago

Sri Lankan IYSSE to hold public lecture on "Leon Trotsky and his place in history" at Peradeniya University

7 hours ago

Inequality in India greater today than at the height of the British Raj

10 hours ago

Australian police and media fuel anti-Islamic witch hunt to justify arrests of teenagers on flimsy "terrorism" charges

6 hours ago

Germany's Green Party vice-chancellor appoints himself "defence industry minister"

13 hours ago

The hush money trial of Donald Trump and the crisis of class rule in America

7 days ago

Trump "hush money" trial begins—A political diversion

11 days ago

An election for the billionaires

18 days ago

The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2024 US elections

23 days ago

Cornel West selects Black Lives Matter promoter Melina Abdullah as running mate

14 days ago

Socialist Alternative boosts presidential campaign of Cornel West

22 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Washington's enablers of Israeli genocide in Gaza

25 days ago

The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons? -- This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.

7 days ago

Socialist internationalism and the struggle against Zionism and imperialism

4 days ago

Biden signs bipartisan bill for world war

2 days ago

Labor Notes' 2024 conference stumps for world war, pro-genocide Democrats

2 days ago

The bipartisan politics of imperialism: Democratic liberals and Republican fascists unite in funding Gaza genocide and Ukraine proxy war

5 days ago

"Progressives" and Democratic Socialists of America members vote to fund imperialist war against Russia, China

4 days ago

Oppose the firing of Google workers for protesting tech giant's complicity in Gaza genocide!

8 days ago

Oppose the campaign to silence opponents of the Gaza genocide on campuses!

9 days ago

Tesla axes 14,000 jobs: Workers need a global strategy to fight against mass unemployment

9 days ago

"Something will have to give"—IMF warns of build-up of US debt

10 days ago

PEN America cancels World Voices Festival, literary awards ceremony due to protests over its conduct on Gaza

10 hours ago

Republican House Speaker Johnson stages provocation at Columbia University, demands repression of protests

2 days ago

Mobilize workers against the French police state's ban on opposition to the Gaza genocide!

2 days ago

ACTU statement calls for end to military trade with Israel, but Australian unions are taking no action

2 days ago

Biden launches police state crackdown at US universities

2 days ago

Mobilize the working class in defense of protesters against the Gaza genocide!

4 days ago

Columbia University threatens to deploy National Guard as mass arrests of anti-genocide protesters continue

3 days ago

Defend democratic rights! Support the anti-genocide resolution at Austin Community College!

3 days ago

Protests erupt on campuses across the US in opposition to the Gaza genocide and attack on free speech

4 days ago

Israel's genocide in Gaza

5 months ago

Israel escalates war with Lebanon, plans Rafah invasion, as Nasser hospital atrocity details emerge

1 day ago

Israel constructs tent camps to hold Gazans displaced by imminent Rafah onslaught

2 days ago

Number of bodies found in Palestinian hospital mass graves rises to 310 as Israel prepares assault on Rafah

3 days ago

Nearly 300 bodies discovered in mass graves at Gaza's Nasser hospital

4 days ago

Biden condemns Iran's strike on Israel: A case study in imperialist hypocrisy

12 days ago

Israeli air strikes kill 22 women and children in Rafah

5 days ago

Israeli strike on Iran expands Middle East war

7 days ago

Israel's Arab allies fear repercussions of the escalating war with Iran

7 days ago

Israel strikes Iran as US and EU impose a new round of sanctions

7 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

Ripley: A new series based on the Patricia Highsmith novel

2 days ago

The Dmitriev Affair: A confused and confusing film about the historian of Stalin's Great Terror

3 days ago

New York City's Koch Theater bows to right-wing pressure, cuts performance of Russian dancers at gala

3 days ago

Weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez-Reed receives brutal sentence over 2021 Rust set death

4 days ago

Quebec band critical of Glencore censored as transnational firm continues to pump out toxic emissions

4 days ago

The films of South Korean director Lee Chang-dong in New York City

5 days ago

Yale professor of African American studies attacks Gershwin's Porgy and Bess as "white supremacist" and "misogynist"

7 days ago

Civil War without politics or social context

8 days ago

After 24,000 sign open letter calling for Israel's exclusion from Venice Biennale, artist shuts down exhibition

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

Teamsters Local 952 keeps membership in the dark as Southern California bus drivers contract expires April 30

7 hours ago

Australia: Qenos collapse threatens hundreds of manufacturing jobs

6 hours ago

Near-tragic plant shooting at Dana Fort Wayne puts spotlight on abusive working conditions

7 hours ago

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

9 hours ago

UPS stock price and earnings beat market Q1 expectations as the attack on jobs accelerates

1 day ago

The People App: Big Brother at Royal Mail

1 day ago

Foxtrot, Dom's Kitchen & Market abruptly close all locations: "It feels like we're disposable"

1 day ago

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

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Latin America and the Caribbean

2 years ago

Brazilian federal education strikes expose broad attacks by Lula government

10 hours ago

Over one million march in defense of Argentina's universities as Milei brutally represses protests

2 days ago

As AMLO cracks down on migrants, presidential candidates advocate their super-exploitation in Mexico

4 days ago

Latin America drawn into Middle East conflict amid warnings of "Third World War"

7 days ago

Morena's presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum maintains commanding lead after first Mexican presidential debate

5 days ago

Brazil's chief justice "turns the page" on military's involvement in Bolsonaro coup attempt

9 days ago

DSA backs Morena's re-election in Mexico: A dry run for endorsing Biden

10 days ago

Dengue fever epidemic sweeps through Latin America

12 days ago

Arrest of masterminds in Marielle Franco murder points to rot of bourgeois democracy in Brazil

18 days ago

Higher for longer interest rates hit the global economy

1 day ago

Rising gold price a sign of emerging financial crisis

8 days ago

IMF says US debt creating "significant risks" for the global economy

9 days ago

Inflation numbers push back possible Fed interest rate cut

12 days ago

IMF warning over growing private credit market

17 days ago

US treasury secretary Yellen warns China on military and economic fronts

19 days ago

Slowing global economy intensifying economic war against China

23 days ago

Accelerated US protectionism rooted in preparations for war

29 days ago

The coronavirus pandemic

2 years ago

The WHO updates its terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air

22 hours ago

UK virtually ends free vaccines as COVID-19 continues to spread

5 days ago

Global pandemic agreement undermined by corporate interests

9 days ago

Germany's Coronavirus Commission of Enquiry aims to criminalise protective measures

15 days ago

Hidden Long COVID crisis deepens in New Zealand

17 days ago

H5N1 avian flu virus found in cattle across six US states

18 days ago

Australian government, media silent on last COVID wave that killed one thousand people

18 days ago

COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose major challenge for healthcare system across Canada

23 days ago

Study demonstrates effectiveness of air cleaners at daycare centers

25 days ago

Polish government steps up military indoctrination in schools

1 day ago

Fifty years since Portugal's Carnation Revolution

2 days ago

UK Prime Minister Sunak pledges 2.5 percent GDP military spending to place economy on a "war footing"

2 days ago

Attend UK Postal Workers Rank-and File meeting Sunday: "They want Royal Mail on a par with Evri and Amazon"

3 days ago

Inhumane conditions in Tegel arrival centre, Germany's largest refugee camp

2 days ago

UK Tory government passes fascistic Bill on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda

3 days ago

SGP candidate Ulrich Rippert at Tesla plant in Germany: "Build action committees to prevent layoffs!"

3 days ago

Spain's Morenoite CRT launches EU election campaign, appealing to Pabloite Anticapitalistas

3 days ago

Western-backed protests erupt in the country of Georgia

6 days ago

The US-NATO war with Russia

9 months ago

Ukrainian government cancels consular services for military-age men

2 days ago

German Economy Minister Habeck's war visit to Kiev

5 days ago

Ukrainian parliament expands conscription to dragoon young people to the front

15 days ago

Finland closes border with Russia indefinitely to block asylum seekers, prepare for war

15 days ago

Washington threatens China over aid to Russia in Ukraine war

16 days ago

UK Foreign Secretary Cameron urges Trump/Republican backing for Ukraine war

16 days ago

Moscow terror attack: French Morenoite website covers up role of NATO and Ukraine

17 days ago

US Congress returns from recess to focus on tens of billions in new military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

17 days ago

France rejects Russian offer of Ukraine peace talks

22 days ago

Asia and the Pacific

2 years ago

North and South Korea

2 years ago

US Secretary of State Blinken in China with a bagful of demands and threats

2 days ago

In huge police raids, Australian teenagers arrested on vague "terrorism" charges

2 days ago

Feminists demand terrorism designation of Bondi stabbings by mentally ill man

2 days ago

Australia: Workers and youth in Melbourne explain why they support the SEP's electoral member campaign

3 days ago

Poll shows deepening crisis of Australian Labor government amid social distress

4 days ago

New Zealand strengthens military ties with Philippines against China

4 days ago

US begins largest annual war games with the Philippines

5 days ago

New Zealand survey finds 65 percent agree the economy is "rigged to advantage the rich and powerful"

5 days ago

Australia's National Defence Strategy outlines plans for war with China

7 days ago

Supreme Court hearing on Trump immunity claim debates how far US president can go in committing crimes

1 day ago

New York appeals court overturns producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, orders new trial

1 day ago

US Senate quickly advances $95 billion global war package

3 days ago

Senate passes TikTok ban, putting it on track for Biden's signature

3 days ago

In Supreme Court arguments, Biden administration demands unrestricted power to separate families "without judicial oversight"

3 days ago

Ocasio-Cortez donates over $250,000 to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

3 days ago

Trump "hush money" cover-up trial opens in Manhattan

4 days ago

Biden signs expanded warrantless surveillance law hours after Senate reauthorization of Section 702

5 days ago

Jeopardizing the right to protest, Supreme Court refuses to block lawsuit by police officer against demonstration organizer

7 days ago

The SEP (Sri Lanka) launches party development fund to expand its political work

4 days ago

ILO report reveals severe gender pay gap in Sri Lankan labour force

3 days ago

Sri Lankan government announces unprecedented anti-democratic restrictions on election candidates

8 days ago

Sri Lankan trade unions seek alliance with opposition parties

12 days ago

SEP (Sri Lanka) launches two books on the rightward evolution of the JVP

17 days ago

World Bank report shows drastic increases in Sri Lanka's poverty and inequality

19 days ago

Sri Lanka: Build action committees to fight for salary increase, against IMF austerity

24 days ago

Sudden death of Sri Lankan student at Kelaniya University exposes harsh conditions facing undergraduates

25 days ago

Sri Lankan parties in sordid manoeuvres over presidential and national election dates

30 days ago

Ten years since the lead poisoning of Flint, Michigan water supply

18 hours ago

Right-wing Supreme Court majority seems ready to sanction arrest of homeless people for sleeping in public

2 days ago

Bodycam footage and lawsuits detail police killings of Texas men suffering mental health crises

4 days ago

FBI opens criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse

7 days ago

Boeing whistleblower Sam Salehpour testifies before Congress on safety of the 777 and 787 aircraft

9 days ago

Nearly five million removed from Medicaid have no health insurance

9 days ago

Damage to Glen Canyon Dam pipes threatens Colorado River water supply

10 days ago

Canadian imperialism outlines its plans for global war

11 days ago

Federal officials target end of May for full reopening of Port of Baltimore after bridge collapse

12 days ago

Youth and Students

11 months ago

Upcoming IYSSE (Australia) lecture: The fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left

8 days ago

IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand: The crisis of political perspective of the Gaza protests

28 days ago

IYSSE holds first meeting at Otago University in New Zealand

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

Free Julian Assange!

2 years ago

Biden administration issues "weasel words" assurances to secure Assange's extradition

9 days ago

SEP (Australia) forum in Melbourne demands freedom for Assange

15 days ago

Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat

28 days ago

Young people speak at UK public meetings on fight to free Julian Assange: "It should be a focus for this generation"

29 days ago

UK High Court puts Assange on the brink of extradition to the United States

1 month ago

Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war

1 month ago

Assange lawyers rebuff anti-democratic US government extradition arguments

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Demonstrators outside UK High Court demand Assange's freedom

2 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

3 months ago

History of the Fourth International

2 years ago

The 1917 Russian Revolution

2 years ago

This Week in History

2 years ago

This week in history: April 22-28

5 days ago

Liz French on the 40th Anniversary of the British Miners' Strike: "We were betrayed by the TUC and Labour Party."

1 month ago

India's 1983 Nellie communal massacre in historical perspective

1 month ago

This week in history: April 15-21

12 days ago

This week in history: April 8-14

19 days ago

Forty years since the British miners' strike

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Fire disaster in Istanbul kills 29 workers

22 days ago

Mass protests erupt in Turkey after election of Kurdish mayor annulled

23 days ago

Erdoğan's AKP suffers setback in Turkish local elections as CHP comes first

25 days ago

Turkey: TİP's Hatay candidacy crisis underscores bankruptcy of the pseudo-left's orientation to the bourgeoisie

29 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months 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

7 months ago

Dangerous heatwaves in West Africa exacerbated by climate change

22 days ago

Sudan's "forgotten war" leads to epic suffering and regional instability

29 days ago

EU, IMF and regional powers bail out Egypt in return for services rendered to Israel's genocidal war

1 month ago

Niger's junta cancels military agreement with the United States

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Which Way Africa?

1 month ago

Protests erupt across Senegal as President Sall cancels elections

2 months ago

Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

5 days ago

Scientific—and social—dimensions of the 2024 total solar eclipse

19 days ago

Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts

1 month ago

Genetic makeup of modern Europeans derived through ancient migrations from Asia

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Latest privately-owned Moon mission ends abruptly after botched landing

1 month ago

Climate change disruption of Atlantic currents reaching dangerous tipping point

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

Climate scientists predict devastating weather conditions for the Southern Hemisphere summer

4 months ago

Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line

3 days ago

More Stellantis layoffs at Sterling Heights and Mack Avenue Assembly in Detroit, forced overtime announced in Toledo

3 days ago

UAW President Fain dines with billionaires, warmongers at White House reception for Japanese PM

15 days ago

Financial assets of UAW rose in 2023 as bureaucracy pushed through sellout contracts

25 days ago

UAW-backed Mexican union tries to ram through sell-out contract at General Motors

25 days ago

Mass layoffs hit auto industry as job cuts mount, profits surge

28 days ago

Ford announces mass layoffs at flagship Rouge complex west of Detroit

28 days ago

Deere cuts over 300 jobs at Waterloo, Iowa plant

28 days ago

Stellantis fires 400 white-collar workers during mandatory remote workday

1 month ago

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

4 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

3 months ago

An appreciation of Comrade Helen Halyard

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 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

10 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 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

Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!

1 month ago

Sri Lankan SEP meeting to launch two books on the Sinhala chauvinist JVP

1 month ago

Comrade Halil Çelik: An inspiration for workers and youth internationally

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

World Socialist Web Site launches its Ukrainian-language edition

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

1 year ago

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

7 months ago

Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters

6 months ago

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

11 days ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

6 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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Leon Trotsky's years on Prinkipo

8 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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 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

7 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"

6 months ago

Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election

9 months ago

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

7 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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

Mobilize the rank and file against the UAW sellout!

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

9 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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

For the unity of the Russian and Ukrainian working class!

11 months ago

May Day 2023 and the struggle against war

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

Canadian imperialism bares its fangs

11 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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year 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

6 months ago

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

11 months ago

Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!

1 year 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

2 years 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

1 year ago

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

4 months ago

WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand

11 months ago

Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising

11 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

5 months ago

Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities

7 months ago

An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one

11 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"

11 months ago

Pentagon national strategy document targets China

1 year 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"

8 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

6 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

2 years 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.

2 years ago

Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life

24 days ago

The Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

5 months 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

New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster

1 day ago

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

10 months ago

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

11 months ago

Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China

1 year 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

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