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1 year ago

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

6 days ago

Israel's murder of Palestinian author Dr. Refaat al-Ar'eer sparks global outrage

1 day ago

Quebec public sector strike wave swells, as 420,000-member Common Front launches seven-day strike

1 day ago

Thousands in Guernica, Spain draw link between 1937 fascist bombings and Gaza genocide

1 day ago

Protesters in the Philippines denounce Israel's genocide in Gaza

1 day ago

UK pupils and students protest during day of action against Israel's onslaught on Gaza

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

US special counsel announces federal indictment of Hunter Biden, alleging 9 tax law violations

1 day ago

New COVID variant JN.1 fuels eighth wave of mass infection in the US

1 day ago

Turkish President Erdoğan's links to ongoing trade with Israel exposed

1 day ago

"Helen was our comrade, friend and fighter. She was an indefatigable fighter for the working class and socialism"

1 day ago

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

9 days ago

A Tribute to Helen Halyard (November 24, 1950–November 28, 2023)

10 days ago

Video: Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the SEP (US), welcomed on arrival in Sri Lanka

3 days ago

Enthusiastic response to campaign for Sri Lankan Centenary of Trotskyism meetings

4 days ago

SEP (Sri Lanka) denounces violent assault by ruling party thugs on its members

5 days ago

SEP (US) national secretary to visit Sri Lanka to speak on the centenary of Trotskyism

13 days ago

A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World — November 16, 1953

24 days ago

"A man of his time, ahead of his time and, now, of our time"

1 month ago

Genocide in Gaza: Imperialism descends into the abyss

20 days ago

Socialist internationalism and the struggle against Zionism and imperialism

1 month ago

The German October: The missed revolution of 1923

1 month ago

Israel's genocide in Gaza

24 days ago

Israel's war on women and children

5 days ago

Teacher, author and activist Dr. Refaat al-Ar'eer murdered in Israeli airstrike

2 days ago

Gaza health system collapses amid nonstop Israeli bombardment

3 days ago

Hostages and families clash with Netanyahu

3 days ago

Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu holds public meeting in Istanbul on Israel's genocide in Gaza

3 days ago

Israel steps up ethnic cleansing of Gaza with expansion of ground and air onslaught to the south

4 days ago

British government to send surveillance planes to facilitate Israel's genocide

4 days ago

US pledges to "continue to support Israel" as over 1,000 more Gazans are massacred over the weekend

6 days ago

Documents expose Israeli conspiracy to facilitate October 7 attack

8 days ago

Trump threatens dictatorship, but "Genocide Joe" is no alternative

2 days ago

How the pseudo-left covers up the UAW's betrayal of autoworkers

2 days ago

US and Israeli mass rape propaganda, without credible evidence, is being used to justify Gaza genocide

3 days ago

Behind the UAW unionization campaign: Containing the class struggle on behalf of Biden and auto bosses

2 days ago

COVID-19 surges across the US despite official cover-up

4 days ago

White House warns of funding crisis in war against Russia in Ukraine

5 days ago

Brazil's pseudo-left PCO defends its support for Erdoğan in an attack on the WSWS

6 days ago

Wilders' election victory in the Netherlands: How can war and fascism be stopped?

9 days ago

UAW's "ceasefire" resolution on Gaza designed to prop up pro-war Democratic Party

8 days ago

Australian school students strike against Gaza genocide, but pseudo-left advance dead end of protest politics

1 day ago

Australian students speak out at school strike against Israel's genocide against Gaza

1 day ago

Wayne State University Board of Governors snubs students protesting Gaza genocide

1 day ago

Australian state Labor governments threaten school teachers over Palestine solidarity actions

1 day ago

Stellantis announces 3,680 layoffs at Detroit and Toledo Jeep plants, as automakers escalate job cuts under new UAW contracts

2 days ago

The struggle of Quebec's 600,000 public sector workers at the crossroads

2 days ago

France: Protesters denounce the escalation of Gazan genocide

2 days ago

No to censorship of opponents of war! Stop the genocide in Gaza! Protest December 12 at Ruhr University Bochum!

3 days ago

Arts and Culture

1 year ago

Television and Miniseries

1 year ago

Theater, Opera and Dance

1 year ago

Interviews with directors and artists

1 year ago

"The measure of my dreams": Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)

2 days ago

SAG-AFTRA contract ratified, with a large abstention

3 days ago

Pushback against Zionist witch-hunt of Sydney Theatre Company performers

4 days ago

Noir City festivals highlight critical US films from 1948 on 75th anniversary

5 days ago

More reasons to oppose the SAG-AFTRA contract and build rank-and-file committees

6 days ago

Over 1,300 British actors, artists sign letter protesting censorship of pro-Palestine views by art institutions

8 days ago

Maestro: A hopelessly one-sided portrait of Leonard Bernstein

8 days ago

Australian media witch hunts Sydney Theatre Company actors over Gaza protest

8 days ago

Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza

9 days ago

Asia and the Pacific

1 year ago

North and South Korea

1 year ago

Australia: A revealing bipartisan parliamentary love fest

1 day ago

Public meeting in Australia: Stop the Gaza genocide! Build a socialist anti-war movement!

3 days ago

Australian government rams through detention and citizenship-stripping laws

2 days ago

Australian Nazis march through regional city as entire establishment vilifies refugees

2 days ago

Former Japanese general reveals plans for war with China over Taiwan

3 days ago

US Justice Department alleges Indian intelligence agent plotted assassinations in North America

4 days ago

Communist Party of the Philippines announces the opening of peace talks with the Marcos government

4 days ago

AUKUS talks underscore accelerating US-led war drive against China

5 days ago

Australian government seeks to rush through new citizenship cancellation laws

5 days ago

Global class struggle

1 year ago

The struggle of health care workers

1 year ago

Oil and gas workers

1 year ago

Workers evacuated from future Toyota electric battery production mega-site in North Carolina after being overcome by fumes

1 day ago

Minnesota Nurses Association fires staffer for pro-Palestinian statements

1 day ago

Washington Post staff wage 24-hour strike to oppose low salaries and corporate restructuring

1 day ago

Facing over $17 million budget shortfall, Michigan school district could lay off up to 100 workers

1 day ago

The divisive role of the GDL rail union leadership

1 day ago

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

1 day ago

1,100 DHL Express workers launch strike at Global Superhub at Cincinnati airport

2 days ago

Postdoctoral workers at Icahn School of Medicine in New York begin strike

2 days ago

Spain: Trade unions support Telefónica's scheme to lay off a third of its workforce

2 days ago

Question mark raised over the world's most important financial market

2 days ago

Giant Chinese property developer Evergrande given stay of execution

3 days ago

Uncertainty over where central banks' monetary policy is headed

4 days ago

Moody's lowers US debt outlook to "negative"

25 days ago

Reserve Bank of Australia: No letup in attack on living standards

27 days ago

Deepening uncertainty and fear in ruling financial circles

1 month ago

Reserve Bank of Australia deepens attack on working class

1 month ago

World economy "defying gravity"

1 month ago

The social implications of the bond market turmoil

1 month ago

The coronavirus pandemic

1 year ago

Johnson unrepentant on second day of UK COVID Inquiry questioning

2 days ago

Boris Johnson appears at UK COVID Inquiry to justify his crimes

3 days ago

Bereaved families denounce Boris Johnson as he testifies at UK COVID Inquiry

3 days ago

Massive new wave of coronavirus infections in Germany

6 days ago

Jacobin once again endorses Sweden's "herd immunity" COVID policies

8 days ago

CDC's provisional US life expectancy and suicide rates for 2022: An indictment of the capitalist system

8 days ago

COVID cases in the US have risen 50 percent in four weeks

11 days ago

Surge of respiratory illness in northern China part of global outbreak of pneumonia among children

12 days ago

Long COVID expert Dr. Amy Proal discusses the ongoing dangers of the pandemic

1 month ago

Multiple people killed at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and in Austin, Texas as 2023 breaks record for mass shootings

3 days ago

Los Angeles area homeless targeted in series of killings last week

4 days ago

Knoxville, Tennessee postal facility the latest impacted by nationwide restructuring program

6 days ago

President AMLO invites US special forces to train troops in Mexico

8 days ago

Suspected shooter arrested on attempted murder charges in shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont

12 days ago

State of emergency declared in Kentucky after chemical train derails

13 days ago

Thanksgiving in America: End of pandemic social programs fuels rising hunger

13 days ago

Southeastern US states see a host of hospital closures, attacks on healthcare programs

16 days ago

Sir Keir Starmer praises Margaret Thatcher: The Labour Party versus the working class

4 days ago

UK homelessness figures rise amid council funding crisis

3 days ago

Spain's pseudo-left parties divert anger over Gaza genocide behind PSOE-Sumar government

4 days ago

German government prepares huge social cuts

4 days ago

Education funding crisis devastating UK teaching profession

5 days ago

UK: Unite enforces sellout pay deal at Go North East bus dispute to end all out strike action

5 days ago

The bankruptcy of the Signa Real estate empire

6 days ago

French unions and pseudo-left parties march alongside Zionist group in government-sponsored feminist march

10 days ago

Green Party conference in Karlsruhe: Militarism and dictatorship, agitation against refugees

10 days ago

Biden's Education Department expands scope of investigations into alleged antisemitism on college campuses

3 days ago

US politicians and university presidents slander anti-genocide protesters, Roger Waters as antisemites

4 days ago

Texas Republican Party leaders reject resolution disavowing support from Nazis, Hitler-lovers

5 days ago

Right-wing Supreme Court majority on brink of gutting federal regulatory powers

6 days ago

Republican George Santos, chronic fabulist and accused conman, expelled from US House of Representatives

8 days ago

Governors Newsom and DeSantis affirm Israel's "right" to genocide against Palestinians in right-wing Fox News debate

8 days ago

Democratic Majority Leader Schumer libels anti-genocide student protesters as "aiders and abettors" of antisemitism

10 days ago

Biden announces raft of measures aimed at securing supply chains for World War III

12 days ago

Veteran State Department official Stuart Seldowitz outed as genocidal bigot after videos of him harassing New York food cart workers go viral

17 days ago

History of the Fourth International

1 year ago

The 1917 Russian Revolution

1 year ago

This Week in History

1 year ago

Ten years since the death of leading British Trotskyist Dave Hyland

2 days ago

This week in history: December 4-10

6 days ago

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy

18 days ago

Israel and the Palestinians: A state founded on dispossession and ethnic cleansing—Part One

1 month ago

October 8, 1923 Letter from Leon Trotsky to the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the Russian Communist Party

2 months ago

On the Founding of the Left Opposition

2 months ago

The Voice and Australia's 1999 Republic referendum: Political lessons and parallels

2 months ago

An attack on Holocaust research: The takeover of the History Chair at the Institute for East European Studies at Berlin's Free University

3 months ago

Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo is widely covered in Turkish media

2 months ago

David North sends a message to Sri Lankan SEP members attacked by pro-government thugs

2 days ago

Growing support for Sri Lankan SEP campaign against pro-government thug attack on its members

2 days ago

A young man dies after torture by the police in northern Sri Lanka

8 days ago

Sri Lankan president unveils plans to intensify exploitation of plantation workers

17 days ago

Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe's 2024 budget deepens attack on workers and the poor

22 days ago

Enthusiastic response to IYSSE lecture on historical materialism at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka

1 month ago

Sri Lanka: Jaffna workers and youth demand a halt to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza

1 month ago

IMF releases second instalment of Sri Lanka's bailout loan

1 month ago

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

10 days ago

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

23 days ago

Fossil discovery in China raises intriguing questions for human evolution

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully returns asteroid sample to Earth

2 months ago

Emerging pandemics and the role of bats

2 months ago

The Huxley family and the history of evolutionary theory

3 months ago

The Canadian forest fires and global climate change: a conversation with forest fire scientist Dr. Ellen Whitman

4 months ago

The past 20 days have been the hottest ever recorded

4 months ago

UAW seeks to ram through fourth sellout contract at Indiana Lear auto parts plant

3 days ago

UAW keeps Allison Transmission workers on job after 96 percent vote to reject union-backed deal

6 days ago

GM execs boast about low costs of UAW contract, hand over billions to shareholders

9 days ago

UAW announces tentative agreement with Allison Transmission, running roughshod over mass sentiment for strike

13 days ago

"Everybody's pissed off": Mack Trucks workers return to work following UAW sellout

17 days ago

Job cuts and speedup planned after UAW pushes through sellout contracts

18 days ago

UAW announces ratification of sellout contracts at the Big Three: The way forward for autoworkers

19 days ago

As challenges to UAW votes continue, media declares "contentious voting" over

19 days ago

UAW delays official announcement of GM ratification as questions are raised over vote

21 days 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

2 months ago

The US-NATO war with Russia

4 months ago

Growing tensions between Ukrainian President and army leadership as staggering death toll comes into view

2 days ago

Protests demanding a limit to front-line deployments continue, as infighting intensifies within Ukrainian ruling class

20 days ago

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky cancels elections as US expands conflict with Russia in Middle East

1 month ago

Protests in Ukraine demand return of soldiers from the front

1 month ago

Russia's war-time budget

1 month ago

Proposed Ukraine funding bill skyrockets to $100 billion

2 months ago

Oppose sending British troops to Ukraine! Mobilise the working class against imperialist war!

2 months ago

Governments prepare to slash benefits for Ukrainian refugees

2 months ago

Latin America and the Caribbean

1 year ago

Venezuela claims oil-rich territory controlled by Guyana as Pentagon carries out flight operations

2 days ago

Boric's police state: 200 Carabineros raid university in Chile

8 days ago

Militarization of the Brazilian state escalates under Lula

17 days ago

Peronist Massa lurches further to right ahead of Argentina's presidential runoff with the fascistic Milei

22 days ago

Israel provokes diplomatic row with Brazil over Gaza, Hezbollah

23 days ago

Unions celebrate suppression of GM strike in Brazil

27 days ago

Killings of striking teachers in Panama fuel mass protests against major copper mine

29 days ago

Americas Summit in Washington discusses plans for global war

1 month ago

Conference in Brazil brings together renegades and charlatans to slander the Fourth International

1 month ago

Socialist Equality Party

1 year ago

"Helen's achievements live on in our fight today under conditions of the emergence of the international working class."

4 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

World Socialist Web Site launches its Ukrainian-language edition

7 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

Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees in Britain! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!

1 year 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

5 months ago

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

2 months ago

Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

3 months ago

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

1 month ago

Free Julian Assange!

1 year ago

Albanese's comments expose charade that Australian government is trying to free Julian Assange

1 month ago

Craig Murray seeks UN protection in Switzerland against British police-state persecution

1 month ago

Official documents show Australian government doing nothing to free Assange

1 month ago

Australian parliamentarians lobby for Assange in Washington

2 months ago

Blinken's denunciation of Assange exposes Australian government's phony posturing

4 months ago

El Pais reports proof that the CIA illegally spied on Julian Assange

2 months ago

Four years since the arrest and imprisonment of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange

2 months ago

The betrayers of Julian Assange

2 months ago

No record of Australian Labor government's diplomacy to US about Assange

2 months ago

Youth and Students

6 months ago

US Department of Education announces probe into alleged antisemitism on college campuses

22 days ago

Harvard University escalating anti-democratic attack on opponents of Israel's genocide in Gaza

26 days ago

Growing opposition to Gaza genocide at Columbia University

1 month ago

University student walk-out at London's SOAS against crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests

1 month ago

Thousands of students at over 100 US and Canadian universities protest against Gaza genocide

1 month ago

Israeli government promotes call by Columbia University professor to "eradicate" pro-Palestinian student organizations

1 month ago

Social inequality, the university "donor revolt" and the McCarthyite campaign against Harvard student activists

1 month ago

More than 50 students attend Wayne State IYSSE meeting to oppose Israeli genocide in Gaza

1 month ago

Oppose repression of UK university students protesting Israeli war on Gaza!

1 month 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

8 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Leon Trotsky's years on Prinkipo

3 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

9 months ago

1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 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

9 months ago

Burkinabè junta arrests top officers over Burkina Faso coup attempt

2 months ago

The social roots of the Moroccan earthquake disaster

2 months ago

Macron announces pull-out of French troops from Niger

2 months ago

After protests in flood-hit Derna, Libyan officials order journalists to leave

2 months ago

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso form alliance against French invasion threat

2 months ago

Gabon coup: Morenoites deny growing opposition to French imperialism

2 months ago

West African states reiterate threat of military action against Niger, but are hampered by divisions

3 months ago

Sudan fighting provokes mass exodus

2 months ago

Sudan's military junta to normalise relations with Israel amid massive crackdown on Palestinians

2 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

2 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"

2 months ago

Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election

5 months ago

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

2 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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Mobilize the rank and file against the UAW sellout!

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 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

Erdoğan calls Israeli state "terrorist," maintains flow of Turkish military supplies to Israel

23 days ago

G7 members threaten Iran with regional war amid ongoing Israeli slaughter in Gaza

1 month ago

Amid Israeli genocide in Gaza, Washington threatens Iran with nuclear war

1 month ago

US attacks Iranian "proxies" in Syria, as Israel intensifies assault on Gaza

1 month ago

Turkey celebrates centenary of the republic in shadow of war

1 month ago

US surges troops to Middle East in threat against Iran

1 month ago

Death toll in Israeli genocide against Gaza more than 4,100

1 month ago

US shoots down Turkish drone as Turkey bombs Kurdish forces in Syria, Iraq

2 months ago

Israel: Netanyahu threatens Eritrean migrants with mass deportations after violent police crackdown

3 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

6 months ago

Trump's January 6 coup d'état

1 year ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

Ex-leader of Proud Boys and "prolific" FBI informant sentenced to 22 years in prison for role in January 6 coup

3 months ago

Judge rules for Georgia election workers in defamation case against Rudy Giuliani

3 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

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

7 months ago

For the unity of the Russian and Ukrainian working class!

7 months ago

May Day 2023 and the struggle against war

7 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

Canadian imperialism bares its fangs

6 months ago

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

1 year ago

The Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic

1 year ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

10 months ago

Alberta nurse speaks about union indifference to mass illness and death

11 months 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

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

11 months ago

The Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory

1 year ago

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

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

9 months 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

8 months 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

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 New York Times' 1619 Project

1 year ago

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

2 months ago

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

7 months ago

Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!

8 months ago

Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

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

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

10 days ago

WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand

6 months ago

Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising

7 months ago

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

11 months ago

Musk continues to ban from Twitter journalists who criticize him

11 months 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

11 months 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

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 defense of academic freedom

1 year ago

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

1 month ago

Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities

2 months ago

An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one

7 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

1 year ago

The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Australian High Court sets precedent for sacking dissenting academics

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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

War and militarism

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

6 months ago

Pentagon national strategy document targets China

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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

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One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan

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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

The German SGP lawsuit against the Verfassungsschutz

1 year ago

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

4 months ago

Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine

10 months ago

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

1 month 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

1 year ago

Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional

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

1 year ago

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

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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

1 year ago

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

11 days ago

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

19 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

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Palestinian author Adania Shibli "shut down" at the Frankfurt Book Fair

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Die Insel (The Island): A harrowing account of the European Union's murderous refugee policy

4 months ago

Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023): Chronicler of American carnage

5 months ago

Author Elizabeth Gilbert suspends novel's publication due to protests by Ukrainian nationalists

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John McWhorter's Woke Racism: An argument about how to secure privilege

5 months ago

Governments flaunt their indifference to runaway global warming at COP28 climate summit

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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

1 year ago

The 2010 Pike River mine disaster

1 year ago

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

5 months ago

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

6 months ago

Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China

8 months ago

New Zealand: Court action over Pike River mine disaster

10 months 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

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

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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.

1 year 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

1 year ago