International Committee of the Fourth International - ( ICFI - )

1 year ago

Drone attack on Moscow aims to escalate US-NATO war with Russia

11 hours ago

US budget deal will accelerate savage cuts to public education

11 hours ago

Biden-McCarthy austerity debt ceiling bill moves to vote in Congress

14 hours ago

"The necessity of learning from history"—Workers and students respond to new books on Trotsky and COVID-19 at Australian meeting

12 hours ago

"I am fighting for my students and my program": Outspoken educator targeted as Detroit school officials prepare mass layoffs

14 hours ago

Protest erupts against demolition of collapsed building in Iowa while five residents remain unaccounted for

12 hours ago

China growth rate falters as youth unemployment rises

11 hours ago

Clarios workers are taking a stand for all autoworkers. We must stand with them! No handling of scab batteries!

18 hours ago

Closure of Milwaukee Master Lock plant exposes dead end of UAW's nationalist "insourcing" strategy

12 hours ago

The right-wing origins of Australia's indigenous Voice

11 hours ago

At latest Zoom meeting: Parcelforce, mail centre, delivery and international postal workers discuss way forward in Royal Mail dispute

21 hours ago

Strikes at Manchester and Bradford FE Colleges as UCU negotiates below inflation deals

21 hours ago

Unions use Los Angeles rally billed as support for striking writers to promote Democrats in 2024

14 hours ago

Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century -- This essay by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North is the preface to the upcoming book, Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century. The print and epub versions of the book are available now for pre-order from Mehring Books. -- Read

1 month ago

In Sydney, Australia, David North and Evan Blake launch two critical books on Trotsky and the pandemic

2 days ago

Introduction to Lawrence Porter's Marcus Garvey and the Reactionary Logic of Racialist Politics

1 day ago

The yearlong UK Royal Mail dispute and the fight for rank-and-file committees

1 day ago

Henry Kissinger and the crimes of American imperialism

2 days ago

A Modern Metternich: Henry Kissinger, imperialism's intellectual servant

2 days ago

Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal attacks social programs to pay for war

2 days ago

Germany launches police-state crackdown on climate protesters

4 days ago

The next escalation in the war against Russia: US sends largest warship ever constructed to Norway

5 days ago

Manufactured crisis over US debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on Social Security and Medicare

6 days ago

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

30 days ago

For the unity of the Russian and Ukrainian working class!

29 days ago

May Day 2023 and the struggle against war

29 days ago

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

18 days ago

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

19 days ago

Canadian imperialism bares its fangs

19 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

Where is our Zola?

14 hours ago

Ukrainian nationalists refuse to speak at New York literary festival with Russian authors

1 day ago

Tina Turner (1939-2023): A performer of great power and universal appeal

2 days ago

Transatlantic: The plight of artists and intellectuals fleeing the Nazis in 1940

4 days ago

Berlin police open criminal investigation aimed at silencing Roger Waters

4 days ago

Roger Waters in Berlin: A powerful musical and political statement against fascism, militarism and war

6 days ago

Navalny: Imperialism's right-winger in Moscow

6 days ago

Moving exhibition depicting devastation of Hollywood blacklist opens as television and film strike continues

7 days ago

Global class struggle

1 year ago

The struggle of health care workers

1 year ago

Oil and gas workers

1 year ago

"We are exploited all the time": New York City UPS workers speak out as July 31 contract deadline draws closer

12 hours ago

San Diego bus drivers on strike against poor working conditions, unpaid breaks, lack of bathrooms and low wages

11 hours ago

Police escort scab trucks through pickets at Constellium Automotive in Michigan

1 day ago

Form a rank-and-file committee to prevent a sellout and take forward the fight at Sydney's Macquarie University

1 day ago

Australian health union's "Big Wednesday" campaign is a sham! Form rank-and-file committees to fight for wage increases and decent conditions!

1 day ago

Ochsner Health lays off nearly 800 in Louisiana and Mississippi

1 day ago

Workers Struggles: The Americas

1 day ago

Amazon workers plan walkout at Seattle headquarters on May 31

2 days ago

US truckers at ABF vote to strike as contract negotiations with Yellow and UPS continue

2 days ago

16 people killed in mass shootings in the US during Memorial Day weekend

13 hours ago

Mexico cracks down on migrants, performing Washington's dirty work at the border

1 day ago

11-year-old Mississippi boy shot by police after calling emergency services

2 days ago

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton impeached by state House of Representatives on corruption charges

2 days ago

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York assessed token fine for persistent understaffing

2 days ago

With Alberta election, Canada's political elite lurches still further right

2 days ago

Trudeau government orchestrates massive growth in partnerships between Canadian military and universities

4 days ago

Autopsy reveals Detroit kindergartner Jimari Williams' death was from Hib infection: What parents and teachers need to know

5 days ago

Oppose the witch-hunting of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation workers

11 hours ago

Oppose Sri Lankan government's privatisation of state enterprises! Build workers' action committees to fight for jobs and wages!

2 days ago

Sri Lankan government's "let it rip" policy produces COVID-19 surge

5 days ago

Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left academic preaches phony "alternative" to IMF austerity

7 days ago

Hayleys Plantations in Sri Lanka uses competition to drive up workloads

9 days ago

Sri Lankan public health system in crisis as doctors warn of rising dengue fever infections

12 days ago

Sri Lankan ruling party demonises last year's mass uprising

13 days ago

Sri Lankan government launches a massive security operation in Colombo

14 days ago

After unleashing IMF austerity, Sri Lankan president initiates "compensation" welfare program for the poor

19 days ago

Asia and the Pacific

1 year ago

North and South Korea

1 year ago

Sudden departure of Western Australian premier points to political instability

11 hours ago

Australian Rich List shows growing concentration of wealth at the very top

1 day ago

Australian Labor government rolls out red carpet for fascistic Indian PM Modi

2 days ago

Australia: 95-year-old Clare Nowland dies after police tasering

4 days ago

Pacific leaders' meeting ramps up US-led anti-China offensive

6 days ago

Australian Labor's budget cuts real spending on schools, maintains lucrative subsidies for private system

6 days ago

To combat "fake news," India's far-right government creates new body of state censors

7 days ago

G7 summit ultimatum sets stage for war with Russia

5 days ago

Australia: Union faces opposition at Macquarie University staff meeting

7 days ago

What next in the growing dollar crisis?

1 day ago

"60 Minutes" exposé reveals massive Pentagon price-gouging

4 days ago

Interest rate hikes, inflation, rent and financial parasitism

11 days ago

Significant signs of slowdown in Chinese economy

13 days ago

Inflation drives US household debt to record $17 trillion

15 days ago

Tensions over China at G7 finance meeting amid deepening banking crisis

16 days ago

Financial storms building up on several major fronts

21 days ago

US economic policy integrated with war drive

22 days ago

US-NATO Conflict with Russia over Ukraine

6 months ago

US imperialism's relentless escalation in Ukraine

9 days ago

NATO powers move to send long-range missiles to Ukraine

21 days ago

IYSSE concludes US part of international anti-war meeting series

27 days ago

German Defense Minister Pistorius announces further arms deliveries to Kiev and justifies attacks on Russia

1 month ago

Stoltenberg calls for Ukraine to join NATO amid escalation of conflict with Russia

1 month ago

Far-right Ukrainian nationalists force cancellation of Montreal antiwar meeting—this brazen act of censorship must not go unchallenged

1 month ago

NATO to surge troops to Russian border

1 month ago

Leaked Pentagon documents expose US war propaganda

1 month ago

Far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress urges Trudeau government to censor anti-war meetings and activists

6 days ago

After regional election defeat, Spain's PSOE-Podemos government calls snap elections

1 day ago

Floods and landslides in Italy: a man-made disaster

1 day ago

Global crisis in early years childcare highlighted by report

2 days ago

Erdoğan runs phony "anti-imperialist" populist campaign in Turkish elections

4 days ago

Jacobin backs Kiliçdaroğlu's reactionary campaign in Turkish elections

4 days ago

Royal Mail: A hedge fund that delivers parcels

4 days ago

Russian fascist with ties to leading German neo-Nazis led Ukrainian-backed incursion of Russia

4 days ago

Police lies unravel over events leading to deaths of two boys in Cardiff, Wales

5 days ago

Turkish elections: Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu both call to deport refugees, for "law and order"

6 days ago

Indiana Medical Board reprimands OB-GYN physician who spoke about providing medical abortion for 10-year-old rape victim

1 day ago

US Supreme Court guts wetlands protections

1 day ago

South Carolina legislature passes law banning abortions after 6 weeks

6 days ago

Right-winger wins Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary on law and order platform, pseudo-left candidate comes in third

7 days ago

New York's Democratic mayor considers housing asylum seekers at Rikers Island

9 days ago

Howard commencement speech: Biden appeals to identity politics and covers up the White House's promotion of war and reaction

12 days ago

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, backed by DSA, takes office, pledging to "work together" with political establishment

15 days ago

DeSantis, "MAGA" Republicans and WSJ editorial board lionize vigilante killer Daniel Penny

16 days ago

Latin America and the Caribbean

1 year ago

Pentagon sending troops to train Peruvian coup regime's killers

2 days ago

27 gold miners perish in Peru

2 days ago

Argentine pseudo-left coalition FIT-U joins section of Peronist government in a "united front"

4 days ago

Behind Boric's defeat and strengthening of fascists in vote on Chile's constitution

5 days ago

Workers Party imposes austerity in Brazil

6 days ago

Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to halt impeachment

11 days ago

AMLO accuses US of meddling in Mexico

22 days ago

Migrants caught between troop deployments along Chile-Peru border

26 days ago

Thousands of Brazilian teachers stage national strike against low wages, pro-corporate high school reform

1 month ago

Erdoğan wins reelection in Turkish presidential elections

2 days ago

HDP, pseudo-left back anti-refugee, anti-Kurdish candidate Kılıçdaroğlu in Turkish elections

5 days ago

Israel agrees to ceasefire in Gaza amid mounting provocations against Palestinians

16 days ago

Turkey heads to critical elections in shadow of NATO-Russia war

18 days ago

Kılıçdaroğlu denounces Russia as rival candidate withdraws on eve of Turkish elections

19 days ago

Turkish elections: Morenoites rally behind Kılıçdaroğlu, HDP and Stalinist TİP

20 days ago

Israel's military deliberately brings Palestinian conflict to boiling point

25 days ago

Netanyahu's far-right government presses ahead with judicial coup

27 days ago

The coronavirus pandemic

1 year ago

COVID spreading through schools in Australia

4 days ago

Chinese health authorities warn of a new surge in COVID-19 infections with the XBB subvariant

6 days ago

NIH lifts suspension of EcoHealth Alliance and reinstates grant to study bat coronaviruses in China

7 days ago

Australian parliamentary inquiry into Long COVID downplays crisis

7 days ago

NIH lifts suspension of EcoHealth Alliance and reinstates grant to study bat coronaviruses in China

8 days ago

Surge of COVID across Canada as hospitals drop mask mandates

8 days ago

Georgia parent speaks out on H. influenzae infection in school child

13 days ago

Tens of thousands of excess deaths recorded in 2022 in England and Wales

13 days ago

History of the Fourth International

1 year ago

The 1917 Russian Revolution

1 year ago

This Week in History

1 year ago

This week in history: May 29-June 4

2 days ago

Lessons of the 1984-1985 AP Parts strike in Toledo

11 days ago

Zelensky's wartime visit to Berlin and Germany's new "Drive to the East"

15 days ago

May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany

19 days ago

Ninety years since the Nazi book burnings

19 days ago

The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla: The terminal crisis of the British monarchy

25 days ago

Cotton Capital: The Guardian cynically "discovers" its links to the slave trade—Part 2

25 days ago

Cotton Capital: The Guardian cynically "discovers" its links to the slave trade—Part 1

26 days ago

Free Julian Assange!

1 year ago

Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride demands freedom for Julian Assange

4 days ago

Assange's brother and Australian lawyer speak out: "Julian must be brought home"

5 days ago

Stella Assange at Sydney rally: "It's not just Julian who has lost his freedom, but all of us"

6 days ago

Attendees at Sydney protest defending Assange speak out

6 days ago

Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to meet with Assange's wife

8 days ago

Poll shows 79 percent of Australians want Assange freed

15 days ago

Assange and the Australian government's persecution of alleged Afghan war crimes whistleblower

20 days ago

Australian prime minister feigns concern for Assange but defends "national security" secrecy

25 days ago

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

1 month ago

Youth and Students

6 days ago

An emergency meeting of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee discusses death of Jimari Williams and fight against school layoffs

8 days ago

IYSSE member calls on U-M students, faculty, staff to mobilize in support of graduate student instructors' fight for a living wage

13 days ago

Following a wave of protests IYSSE anti-war meeting at Goethe University in Frankfurt will take place

19 days ago

Protest emails oppose censorship of IYSSE meeting at Goethe University in Frankfurt

19 days ago

Parents speak out against reopening of Detroit elementary school amid a cluster of "mystery" illnesses

22 days ago

In midst of lethal disease outbreak, nurses, paraprofessionals, counselors on the chopping block in Detroit Public Schools

21 days ago

Michigan education unions hold Lansing lobby stunt while isolating striking University of Michigan grad student workers

27 days ago

Stop the censorship of the IYSSE anti-war meeting at Goethe University in Frankfurt!

22 days ago

The war in Ukraine and how to stop it: Meeting at Berlin's Humboldt University explains causes of war and socialist perspective

28 days 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

2 months ago

A new interpretation regarding the origin of Homo sapiens

2 days ago

Uncrewed SpaceX rocket Starship explodes after launch

1 month ago

New insight into the possible origin of chipped stone tool technology

1 month ago

Preview release of ChatGPT shows potential of artificial intelligence

1 month ago

Intriguing discovery of ancient tools, butchery, and hominin teeth in Kenya

3 months ago

Intact hominid skull found in China offers insights into human evolution

3 months ago

Ultraviolet light and indoor air disinfection to fight pandemics: A technology long overdue

4 months ago

The XBB.1.5 "Kraken" subvariant of Omicron takes hold in the US

4 months ago

Interview with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly on the COVID pandemic and Long COVID

4 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

2 months ago

Trump's January 6 coup d'état

1 year ago

Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for 2021 attack on US Capitol

5 days ago

Washington D.C. police lieutenant indicted for tipping off, obstructing investigation into convicted Proud Boys leader

11 days ago

Navy reservist and intelligence contractor sentenced to four years in prison for storming Capitol with Proud Boys

22 days ago

January 6 conspiracy trial: Prosecutor alleges Proud Boys saw themselves "as Donald Trump's army"

1 month ago

Chris Hedges' dishonest defense of the January 6 fascist mob

2 months ago

Architect of the Capitol fired after Inspector General report revealed complicity in January 6 coup

3 months ago

Three active-duty Marines arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6

4 months ago

Failed Republican candidate who organized shooting attacks on New Mexico Democratic politicians held without bail

4 months ago

New Mexico Republican arrested for attempting to kill Democratic office-holders

4 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

1 year ago

Socialist Equality Party

1 year ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

World Socialist Web Site launches its Ukrainian-language edition

1 month ago

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

6 months ago

Build the Assange defence campaign in the working class!

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism

6 months ago

The escalating class struggle in Britain and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party

6 months ago

Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds Sixth National Congress

6 months ago

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

3 months ago

Japan dispatches military to evacuate citizens from Sudan

1 month ago

Sudan fighting provokes mass exodus

1 month ago

South Africa roiled by global crisis of capitalism

1 month ago

Sudan fighting erupts between rival military factions backed by external powers

1 month ago

Kenya's civil servants threaten strike over wage delay as economic crisis deepens

1 month ago

African protests met with savage repression

2 months ago

Kenyan government threatens crackdown against cost-of-living demonstration, as protests erupt across Africa

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

South Africa: Electricity outages compound ANC government crisis

4 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

7 months ago

Will Lehman campaign for UAW President

8 months ago

Will Lehman responds to Department of Labor decision denying access to former UAW President Ray Curry's election protest

1 month ago

DSA leaders of U-M grad students' strike promote top UAW sellouts Shawn Fain and Bob King

1 month ago

UAW Monitor conflict of interest exposed: Jenner & Block and Crowell & Moring are longstanding lawyers for General Motors and auto corporations

1 month ago

Fear of rank-and-file rebellion looms on last day of UAW convention

2 months ago

In letter to UAW Bargaining Convention, Will Lehman outlines the demands of the rank and file

2 months ago

Autoworkers speak out after Monitor rejects Will Lehman protest of fraudulent UAW election: "The whole thing smells"

2 months ago

Next UAW president will have to beat back "unreasonable expectations" of autoworkers, leaked document from Shawn Fain transition team says

2 months ago

UAW Monitor denies Will Lehman protest, disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file members

2 months ago

Rank-and-file candidate Will Lehman's statement on the UAW election crisis

2 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 days ago

The SEP (Australia) campaign in the NSW state election

3 months ago

NSW election: Australian workers and youth speak about COVID, war and social crisis

2 months ago

Australia: After media lies about a Labor landslide, NSW election likely to result in minority government

2 months ago

SEP (Australia) election campaign finds intense opposition to war and austerity in northern NSW

2 months ago

Australia: NSW election sees further crisis of Liberals, but no landslide to Labor

2 months ago

Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election

2 months ago

Vote for the Socialist Equality Party in NSW state election! Take up the fight against war, austerity and "let it rip" COVID policies!

2 months ago

Video: SEP (Australia) holds well-attended final NSW election meeting

2 months ago

Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia's social crisis

2 months ago

Anti-AUKUS meeting in Sydney: Fake anti-war movement promotes right-wing militarists

2 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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

Alberta nurse speaks about union indifference to mass illness and death

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

WSWS speaks with New Zealand Long Covid sufferer

6 months 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

5 months ago

The Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory

1 year ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

6 months ago

Washington Post backs Republican-led witch-hunt against scientists

2 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

9 months 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

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

26 days ago

Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!

1 month ago

Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics

2 months ago

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

3 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

Woody Holton retreats from Dunmore Proclamation claims in "historians' debate" with Gordon Wood

1 year ago

The SEP (US) 2022 Seventh National Congress

9 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

The Theory of Permanent Revolution in Turkey and throughout the world

8 months ago

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

9 months ago

The fight against mass COVID infection and militarism in New Zealand

9 months ago

The fight against Canadian imperialism and for socialist internationalism

9 months ago

New revolutionary epoch opens doors for building the ICFI in Brazil

9 months 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.

6 months ago

WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand

18 days ago

Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising

25 days ago

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

5 months ago

Musk continues to ban from Twitter journalists who criticize him

5 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

5 months ago

Mass layoffs in tech spread to Meta, corporate parent of Facebook

6 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.

10 months 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

11 months ago

The defense of academic freedom

1 year ago

An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one

26 days ago

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

4 months ago

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

8 months ago

The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Australian High Court sets precedent for sacking dissenting academics

1 year ago

University of Michigan faculty open letter supports witch-hunt, rejects letter signed by hundreds defending victimized professor Bright Sheng

1 year ago

Over 700 University of Michigan faculty sign open letter protesting administration witch hunt against composer and Professor Bright Sheng

1 year ago

The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site -- The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP's printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North's reply to the National Committee 's discussion of the proposal.

1 year ago

War and militarism

1 year ago

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

15 days ago

Pentagon national strategy document targets China

1 month ago

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

7 months ago

German President Steinmeier delivers war speech to the nation

7 months ago

One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

UN documents civilian deaths in Syrian war, ignoring their cause

10 months ago

US extends economic war on Russia to China

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

The German SGP lawsuit against the Verfassungsschutz

1 year ago

Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

1 year ago

Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional

1 year ago

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"

1 year ago

In speech before the court, Trotskyist leader indicts German state's revival of Nazi-style anti-socialist laws

1 year 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

1 year ago

Syriza's rout in the Greek general election

7 days ago

The rebellion at Clarios and the way forward

8 days 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

1 year ago

The 2010 Pike River mine disaster

1 year ago

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

16 days ago

Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China

1 month ago

New Zealand: Court action over Pike River mine disaster

3 months ago

New Zealand police to drill more boreholes at Pike River mine

7 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Son of New Zealand mine disaster victim denounces lack of accountability

1 year 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.

1 year ago

A Hell Called Ohio: The working class and American fiction

16 days ago

Publisher agrees to an uncensored edition of Roald Dahl's books, but not before PEN America exposes its own hypocrisy

2 months ago

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague—A portrait of a 17th century lockdown

3 months ago

Novelist Russell Banks (1940-2023): "Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is."

3 months ago

The Best American Short Stories 2022

4 months ago

Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers

4 months ago

Sky Glow (Streulicht)–German novel looks at class society with fresh pair of eyes

4 months ago

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, a homage to Charles Dickens

5 months ago

Art and despair: Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch wins National Book Award

6 months 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