International Committee of the Fourth International - ( ICFI - )

2 years ago

The way forward after strike vote by 48,000 California academic workers against police crackdowns

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Israel expands Rafah slaughter

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Anti-Zionist Israeli historian Ilan Pappé stopped and interrogated at Detroit airport

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Workers and students demand all-out strike in support of University of California academic workers

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Slovak prime minister Robert Fico shot in assassination attempt

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UK unions and Labour Party agree partnership ahead of general election

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Major Trump trials delayed until after election

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Australian universities moving to shut down student encampments against Gaza genocide

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Call for industrial action to halt Gaza genocide stifled at Australian university union meeting

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Labor government attacks its own senator for condemning Gaza genocide, Australian complicity

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11 days ago

The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth

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The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific

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Accomplices in Genocide: Canadian imperialism and fascist barbarism

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Fight the Australian Labor government's program of war and austerity!

2 days ago

The struggle for international socialism in South Asia

3 days ago

The reshaping of Latin America by the new imperialist war

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The struggle for socialism against British imperialism and the Labour Party

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The emerging global war and the international strategy of the working class

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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.

27 days ago

Demand the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of NATO's proxy war, from a Ukrainian prison

16 days ago

Postal workers in Britain demand: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

3 days ago

Roger Waters calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk

8 days ago

Australian youth and students call for immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk

8 days ago

International support builds for campaign demanding Ukraine release socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk

14 days ago

Australian educators' rank-and-file committee demands that Ukrainian regime release Bogdan Syrotiuk

11 days ago

Ukraine updates its exemptions from the European Convention on Human Rights

13 days ago

A lesson in "lesser-evil" politics: Democrats join forces with Republican Speaker Mike Johnson

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What is behind the turmoil in the New Zealand Green Party?

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Australian whistleblower sent to prison for exposing Afghan war crimes

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Canadian and US imperialism "modernizing" NORAD for global war

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University of California strike vote must be the start of a working class fight against war and assault on democratic rights

2 days ago

SEP (Australia) public meeting: Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!

4 days ago

Democrats and Republicans: US enablers of Israeli onslaught on Rafah

4 days ago

On behalf of Biden administration, UAW bureaucracy and DSA struggle to contain anti-war sentiment

4 days ago

University of California grad students overwhelmingly authorize strike against campus crackdowns

1 day ago

Professors come to the defense of New Orleans students protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza

1 day ago

Australian Zionist who planted bomb outside pro-Palestinian household given lenient sentence

1 day ago

Dutch students and faculty members protest against the genocide in Gaza

1 day ago

As strike vote against police crackdown continues, students and educators oppose UAW stalling

2 days ago

"They say we have freedom of speech but when we utilize it, we're persecuted": Detroit autoworkers support strike vote by University of California academic workers

2 days ago

Hundreds of lecturers condemn the police terror at Berlin universities

2 days ago

Protests continue in UK towns and cities against Israel's genocide in Gaza

3 days ago

"We would have a new iteration of the Stand-up Sellout," former faculty warn of UAW betrayal as University of California strike vote begins

3 days ago

Israel's genocide in Gaza

6 months ago

Biden pledges $1 billion in additional military aid, as new report accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza

1 day ago

Half a million Palestinians forced to flee latest Israeli military attacks

2 days ago

Medical missions in Gaza trapped without access to supplies and basic aid

2 days ago

The onslaught on Rafah: German Chancellor Scholz supports Israel's genocide

2 days ago

US reiterates "ironclad" support for Israel, as hundreds of thousands displaced from Rafah

3 days ago

Israel expands attacks throughout Rafah, intensifying catastrophic humanitarian conditions

7 days ago

Israeli assault on Rafah creates humanitarian catastrophe

8 days ago

Biden endorses Israel's assault on Rafah

9 days ago

US reiterates "ironclad" support to Israel as Netanyahu launches assault on Rafah

10 days ago

Global class struggle

2 years ago

The struggle of health care workers

2 years ago

Oil and gas workers

2 years ago

Is Deutsche Bahn Cargo covering up a potentially fatal on-the-job injury in Mannheim?

4 hours ago

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

9 hours ago

Canada's union-backed Liberal government imposes indefinite ban on national rail workers' strike

1 day ago

Voting continues at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama on UAW unionization

1 day ago

Biden oversees jobs bloodbath in public education

1 day ago

Nationwide construction strike begins in Germany

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UPDATE: UAW calls off strike at University of Washington after less than one day

2 days ago

University of Michigan lecturers' union imposes sellout contract, isolating student anti-genocide protesters

2 days ago

Amazon Labor Union hosts Stalinist Communist Party of Greece

2 days ago

SEP/IYSSE (Sri Lanka) to hold public lecture—"Two years since the 2022 mass uprising in Sri Lanka: The political lessons"

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Oppose imperialist War! SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka

2 days ago

Four-year witch-hunt continues against Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka

2 days ago

Sri Lankan workers enthusiastically support SEP's party development campaign

4 days ago

Sri Lankan president announces wage rise to dissipate estate workers anger

7 days ago

Sri Lankan Tamil parties debate tactics in the presidential election

10 days ago

Sri Lankan workers and youth must demand the repudiation of all foreign debt

13 days ago

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

24 days ago

Sri Lanka: Hands off US university students! Mobilise the working class in defense of all those protesting against genocide!

17 days ago

Free Julian Assange!

2 years ago

Stella Assange: "Julian is just one decision away from being extradited"

1 day ago

Imperialist leaders cover up illegal detention of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day

11 days ago

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

29 days ago

SEP (Australia) forum in Melbourne demands freedom for Assange

1 month ago

Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat

1 month ago

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

1 month 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

The US-NATO war with Russia

10 months ago

US general confirms UK Special Forces operating in Ukraine

2 days ago

Russia launches offensive on Kharkov as NATO threatens escalation in Ukraine

4 days ago

Nordic military operations highlight NATO's preparations to attack Russia from the north

4 days ago

British foreign secretary gives go-ahead for Ukrainian strikes on Russia with UK-supplied missiles

13 days ago

German defence minister signs decree for war against Russia

13 days ago

The new law on mobilization: Is Ukraine turning into a giant prison?

16 days ago

US to send largest weapons shipment yet to Ukraine

18 days ago

Ukrainian government cancels consular services for military-age men

22 days ago

Child homelessness in England reaches a record high

1 day ago

UK Prime Minister Sunak warns of nuclear war

3 days ago

The danger of nuclear escalation: What would be the impact of dropping atom bombs on Germany?

6 days ago

UK Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Starmer's right-wing Labour Party

6 days ago

UK contaminated blood inquiry to publish findings, as more heinous crimes are revealed

7 days ago

Poland's Tusk government intensifies its attacks on refugees

9 days ago

What are the lessons from the brutal attack on SPD politician Matthias Ecke?

10 days ago

Spain's Pabloite Anticapitalistas diverts anger over Gaza genocide in "Vote Uncommitted" campaign

11 days ago

UK's local elections see Conservative rout and opposition to Labour over Gaza, but workers need their own party

11 days ago

Asia and the Pacific

2 years ago

North and South Korea

2 years ago

Former Fijian PM Bainimarama jailed for 12 months

1 day ago

Australia: Sweeping pro-business restructuring and job cuts at Western Sydney University College

1 day ago

Australian federal Labor government budget includes paltry student debt "relief"

1 day ago

Australian Labor government's budget benefits the corporate elite behind token "cost-of-living relief"

2 days ago

Australia: Misleading stats used to conceal social causes of "gender-based violence"

2 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

I.S.S.: War in space without—for a change—anti-Russian xenophobia

1 day ago

Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974): America "is a country with many dark secrets"

3 days ago

Robert Altman's Thieves Likes Us (1974): "What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?"

6 days ago

Hal Ashby's The Last Detail: "Imprisoned" by the US Navy, two sailors escort a young seaman to the brig

8 days ago

50 YEARS SINCE THE SOCIALLY CRITICAL FILMS OF 1974: AN INTRODUCTION

11 days ago

Roman Polanski's Chinatown: Film noir in a time of malaise

11 days ago

Agent of Happiness, Sidonie in Japan, Woodland: "Do I have to say I'm happy?"

13 days ago

The Teacher, from the occupied West Bank, and Empty Nets from Iran: "The system ... is perverted"

15 days ago

"Fishing is no life": Heartless from Brazil, short films from Colombia, South Korea and the US

17 days ago

Study reveals doubling of opioid deaths across Canada during early stages of COVID-19 pandemic

2 days ago

Florida deputy kills airman after entering the wrong apartment

6 days ago

Another Boeing whistleblower dies, the second in two months

14 days ago

Quebec government targets construction workers' jobs and working conditions

15 days ago

FAA issues new rules for air traffic controllers after runway incursion in Washington D.C.

17 days ago

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

20 days ago

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

22 days ago

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

24 days ago

FBI opens criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse

27 days ago

Michael Cohen testifies in Trump "hush money" fraud trial

3 days ago

Social Security and Medicare trustees' reports trigger new calls to cut workers' benefits

9 days ago

US intelligence agencies say Putin "didn't order" murder of Alexei Navalny, Wall Street Journal reports

10 days ago

Florida law banning abortions after 6 weeks takes effect

14 days ago

Far-reaching anti-democratic implications of US Supreme Court hearing on Trump's legal immunity claim

15 days ago

In TIME interview: Trump threatens military repression and post-election violence

15 days ago

Trump hush money trial enters third week with more details about payoffs and right-wing influence

16 days ago

Florida Governor DeSantis signs new law mandating teaching the "evils of communism" to children as young as five

16 days ago

Biden administration intensifies economic war against China

2 days ago

US to quadruple tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

3 days ago

Jobs assault deepens, while report says workers' share of national income has fallen to 55 percent

7 days ago

New bans on Huawei: Another shot in Biden's economic war on China

8 days ago

Australian central bank signals no let-up on interest rates

9 days ago

European Union to step up electric vehicles war

9 days ago

Fed says interest rates to stay higher for longer

15 days ago

A significant speech by a central banker

17 days ago

Higher for longer interest rates hit the global economy

21 days ago

Democrats step up campaign to block third parties

8 days ago

Democratic Party enlists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to cover up Biden's war crimes

10 days ago

The arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is an attack on democratic rights

17 days ago

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

27 days ago

Trump "hush money" trial begins—A political diversion

1 month ago

An election for the billionaires

1 month ago

The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2024 US elections

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Socialist Alternative boosts presidential campaign of Cornel West

1 month ago

Tenth anniversary of the death of 301 miners in the Soma disaster in Turkey

4 days ago

Fire disaster in Istanbul kills 29 workers

1 month ago

Mass protests erupt in Turkey after election of Kurdish mayor annulled

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 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: May 13-19

4 days ago

54 years since the Kent State massacre—and a warning for today

10 days ago

This week in history: May 6–13

11 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

2 months ago

Forty years since the British miners' strike

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Latin America and the Caribbean

2 years ago

Union federations turn May Day in Brazil into platform for Lula government

8 days ago

Colombia cuts ties with Israel over Gaza genocide

13 days ago

GM closes Colombia and Ecuador plants as UAW and other bureaucracies remain silent

15 days ago

Brazilian federal education strikes expose broad attacks by Lula government

20 days ago

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

22 days ago

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

24 days ago

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

27 days ago

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

25 days ago

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

29 days ago

Boeing 737-300 catches fire on runway in Senegal, injures 10

6 days ago

Humanitarian crisis looms in Kenya and East Africa as floods kill over 400 and displace tens of thousands

9 days ago

Dangerous heatwaves in West Africa exacerbated by climate change

1 month ago

Italian court sets out evidence of Egypt's state torture and murder of Giulio Regeni in 2016

13 days ago

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

1 month 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

2 months ago

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

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

The coronavirus pandemic

2 years ago

Scientists call for urgent action on the threat posed by H5N1 bird flu

1 day ago

As bird flu spreads among dairy cattle, CDC scraps COVID reporting for hospitals

11 days ago

FDA reports fragments of avian influenza found in US commercial milk supply

17 days ago

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

20 days ago

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

25 days ago

Global pandemic agreement undermined by corporate interests

29 days ago

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

1 month ago

Hidden Long COVID crisis deepens in New Zealand

1 month ago

H5N1 avian flu virus found in cattle across six US states

1 month ago

Youth and Students

11 months ago

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

20 days ago

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

28 days ago

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

1 month 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!

3 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!

5 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

Auroral display dazzles millions around the globe

4 days ago

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

25 days ago

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

1 month ago

Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts

1 month ago

Genetic makeup of modern Europeans derived through ancient migrations from Asia

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

2 months ago

Latest privately-owned Moon mission ends abruptly after botched landing

2 months 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

4 months ago

Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Ford worker Tywaun Long

9 days ago

Stellantis Warren Stamping workers approve strike over health and safety

9 days ago

Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line

23 days ago

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

23 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Ford announces mass layoffs at flagship Rouge complex west of Detroit

1 month 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

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

5 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"

3 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

5 months ago

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

4 months ago

An appreciation of Comrade Helen Halyard

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 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

4 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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

5 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

2 months ago

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

3 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

8 months ago

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

8 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!

8 months ago

Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters

6 months ago

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

1 month 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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

7 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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 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"

7 months ago

Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election

10 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!

8 months ago

Mobilize the rank and file against the UAW sellout!

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

10 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

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

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 Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory

2 years ago

Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak

14 days 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

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

2 years 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

7 months ago

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

1 year 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

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

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

1 year ago

For the unity of the Russian and Ukrainian working class!

1 year ago

May Day 2023 and the struggle against war

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Canadian imperialism bares its fangs

1 year 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

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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

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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

5 months ago

WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand

1 year ago

Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising

1 year 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

6 months ago

Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities

8 months ago

An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one

1 year 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"

1 year ago

Pentagon national strategy document targets China

1 year ago

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

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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"

9 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

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

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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

1 month ago

The Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward

3 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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

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

5 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

6 months ago

Stop the US-backed Israeli attack on Rafah!

6 days ago

Democrats back ultra-right House Speaker: A bipartisan coalition for war and repression

7 days ago

The working class must take up the fight against the genocide in Gaza and in defense of democratic rights

8 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

New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster

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

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

1 year 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

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

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

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

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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