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May Day 2024: Build a socialist movement of workers and youth to stop World War III, fascism and dictatorship!1 day ago
Biden's campus crackdown—the Democratic Party bares its fangs, again1 hour ago
Campus protests against Gaza genocide spread globally despite police repression7 hours ago
Students at Australian universities form encampments to protest Gaza genocide1 hour ago
Australian workers protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza1 hour ago
"Hands off Students' Rights": Student parliament at Humboldt University rejects law targeting critical students5 hours ago
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten promotes slander of Gaza protests as "antisemitic," covers for brutal government repression1 hour ago
Interest in rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail: Belfast, London, West Yorkshire9 hours ago
Survivors and families of the victims of Manchester Arena bombing to sue MI59 hours ago
UAW announces 11th hour sellout deal at Daimler Trucks North America blocking strike by 7,300 workers1 hour ago
UAW does nothing as CNH lays off 220 in Wisconsin, more cuts expected1 hour ago
18 indicted on felony charges for fake Trump elector scheme in Arizona2 hours ago
Sri Lankan IYSSE to hold public lecture on "Leon Trotsky and his place in history" at Peradeniya University1 hour ago
Inequality in India greater today than at the height of the British Raj5 hours ago
Australian police and media fuel anti-Islamic witch hunt to justify arrests of teenagers on flimsy "terrorism" charges1 hour ago
Germany's Green Party vice-chancellor appoints himself "defence industry minister"7 hours ago
The hush money trial of Donald Trump and the crisis of class rule in America7 days ago
Trump "hush money" trial begins—A political diversion11 days ago
An election for the billionaires18 days ago
The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2024 US elections23 days ago
Cornel West selects Black Lives Matter promoter Melina Abdullah as running mate14 days ago
Socialist Alternative boosts presidential campaign of Cornel West22 days ago
The SEP launches its campaign for a socialist alternative in 2024 to Biden and Trump, the corporate candidates of war and dictatorship!1 month ago
Socialist Equality Party selects Joseph Kishore and Jerry White as its presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2024 US election1 month ago
Washington's enablers of Israeli genocide in Gaza25 days ago
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons? -- This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.7 days ago
Socialist internationalism and the struggle against Zionism and imperialism4 days ago
Biden signs bipartisan bill for world war2 days ago
Labor Notes' 2024 conference stumps for world war, pro-genocide Democrats1 day ago
The bipartisan politics of imperialism: Democratic liberals and Republican fascists unite in funding Gaza genocide and Ukraine proxy war5 days ago
"Progressives" and Democratic Socialists of America members vote to fund imperialist war against Russia, China4 days ago
Oppose the firing of Google workers for protesting tech giant's complicity in Gaza genocide!8 days ago
Oppose the campaign to silence opponents of the Gaza genocide on campuses!9 days ago
Tesla axes 14,000 jobs: Workers need a global strategy to fight against mass unemployment9 days ago
"Something will have to give"—IMF warns of build-up of US debt10 days ago
PEN America cancels World Voices Festival, literary awards ceremony due to protests over its conduct on Gaza5 hours ago
Republican House Speaker Johnson stages provocation at Columbia University, demands repression of protests2 days ago
Mobilize workers against the French police state's ban on opposition to the Gaza genocide!2 days ago
ACTU statement calls for end to military trade with Israel, but Australian unions are taking no action2 days ago
Biden launches police state crackdown at US universities2 days ago
Mobilize the working class in defense of protesters against the Gaza genocide!4 days ago
Columbia University threatens to deploy National Guard as mass arrests of anti-genocide protesters continue3 days ago
Defend democratic rights! Support the anti-genocide resolution at Austin Community College!3 days ago
Protests erupt on campuses across the US in opposition to the Gaza genocide and attack on free speech4 days ago
Israel's genocide in Gaza5 months ago
Israel escalates war with Lebanon, plans Rafah invasion, as Nasser hospital atrocity details emerge19 hours ago
Israel constructs tent camps to hold Gazans displaced by imminent Rafah onslaught2 days ago
Number of bodies found in Palestinian hospital mass graves rises to 310 as Israel prepares assault on Rafah3 days ago
Nearly 300 bodies discovered in mass graves at Gaza's Nasser hospital4 days ago
Biden condemns Iran's strike on Israel: A case study in imperialist hypocrisy12 days ago
Israeli air strikes kill 22 women and children in Rafah5 days ago
Israeli strike on Iran expands Middle East war7 days ago
Israel's Arab allies fear repercussions of the escalating war with Iran7 days ago
Israel strikes Iran as US and EU impose a new round of sanctions7 days ago
Arts and Culture2 years ago
Television and Miniseries2 years ago
Theater, Opera and Dance2 years ago
Interviews with directors and artists2 years ago
Ripley: A new series based on the Patricia Highsmith novel2 days ago
The Dmitriev Affair: A confused and confusing film about the historian of Stalin's Great Terror3 days ago
New York City's Koch Theater bows to right-wing pressure, cuts performance of Russian dancers at gala3 days ago
Weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez-Reed receives brutal sentence over 2021 Rust set death4 days ago
Quebec band critical of Glencore censored as transnational firm continues to pump out toxic emissions4 days ago
The films of South Korean director Lee Chang-dong in New York City5 days ago
Yale professor of African American studies attacks Gershwin's Porgy and Bess as "white supremacist" and "misogynist"7 days ago
Civil War without politics or social context8 days ago
After 24,000 sign open letter calling for Israel's exclusion from Venice Biennale, artist shuts down exhibition10 days ago
Global class struggle2 years ago
The struggle of health care workers1 year ago
Oil and gas workers2 years ago
Teamsters Local 952 keeps membership in the dark as Southern California bus drivers contract expires April 301 hour ago
Australia: Qenos collapse threatens hundreds of manufacturing jobs1 hour ago
Near-tragic plant shooting at Dana Fort Wayne puts spotlight on abusive working conditions2 hours ago
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific4 hours ago
UPS stock price and earnings beat market Q1 expectations as the attack on jobs accelerates1 day ago
The People App: Big Brother at Royal Mail1 day ago
Foxtrot, Dom's Kitchen & Market abruptly close all locations: "It feels like we're disposable"1 day ago
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa1 day ago
Latin America and the Caribbean2 years ago
Brazilian federal education strikes expose broad attacks by Lula government5 hours ago
Over one million march in defense of Argentina's universities as Milei brutally represses protests2 days ago
As AMLO cracks down on migrants, presidential candidates advocate their super-exploitation in Mexico4 days ago
Latin America drawn into Middle East conflict amid warnings of "Third World War"7 days ago
Morena's presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum maintains commanding lead after first Mexican presidential debate5 days ago
Brazil's chief justice "turns the page" on military's involvement in Bolsonaro coup attempt9 days ago
DSA backs Morena's re-election in Mexico: A dry run for endorsing Biden10 days ago
Dengue fever epidemic sweeps through Latin America12 days ago
Arrest of masterminds in Marielle Franco murder points to rot of bourgeois democracy in Brazil18 days ago
Higher for longer interest rates hit the global economy1 day ago
Rising gold price a sign of emerging financial crisis8 days ago
IMF says US debt creating "significant risks" for the global economy9 days ago
Inflation numbers push back possible Fed interest rate cut12 days ago
IMF warning over growing private credit market17 days ago
US treasury secretary Yellen warns China on military and economic fronts19 days ago
Slowing global economy intensifying economic war against China23 days ago
Accelerated US protectionism rooted in preparations for war29 days ago
The coronavirus pandemic2 years ago
The WHO updates its terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air17 hours ago
UK virtually ends free vaccines as COVID-19 continues to spread5 days ago
Global pandemic agreement undermined by corporate interests9 days ago
Germany's Coronavirus Commission of Enquiry aims to criminalise protective measures15 days ago
Hidden Long COVID crisis deepens in New Zealand17 days ago
H5N1 avian flu virus found in cattle across six US states18 days ago
Australian government, media silent on last COVID wave that killed one thousand people18 days ago
COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose major challenge for healthcare system across Canada23 days ago
Study demonstrates effectiveness of air cleaners at daycare centers25 days ago
Polish government steps up military indoctrination in schools1 day ago
Fifty years since Portugal's Carnation Revolution2 days ago
UK Prime Minister Sunak pledges 2.5 percent GDP military spending to place economy on a "war footing"2 days ago
Attend UK Postal Workers Rank-and File meeting Sunday: "They want Royal Mail on a par with Evri and Amazon"3 days ago
Inhumane conditions in Tegel arrival centre, Germany's largest refugee camp2 days ago
UK Tory government passes fascistic Bill on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda3 days ago
SGP candidate Ulrich Rippert at Tesla plant in Germany: "Build action committees to prevent layoffs!"3 days ago
Spain's Morenoite CRT launches EU election campaign, appealing to Pabloite Anticapitalistas3 days ago
Western-backed protests erupt in the country of Georgia6 days ago
The US-NATO war with Russia9 months ago
Ukrainian government cancels consular services for military-age men2 days ago
German Economy Minister Habeck's war visit to Kiev5 days ago
Ukrainian parliament expands conscription to dragoon young people to the front15 days ago
Finland closes border with Russia indefinitely to block asylum seekers, prepare for war15 days ago
Washington threatens China over aid to Russia in Ukraine war16 days ago
UK Foreign Secretary Cameron urges Trump/Republican backing for Ukraine war16 days ago
Moscow terror attack: French Morenoite website covers up role of NATO and Ukraine17 days ago
US Congress returns from recess to focus on tens of billions in new military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan17 days ago
France rejects Russian offer of Ukraine peace talks22 days ago
Asia and the Pacific2 years ago
North and South Korea2 years ago
US Secretary of State Blinken in China with a bagful of demands and threats2 days ago
In huge police raids, Australian teenagers arrested on vague "terrorism" charges2 days ago
Feminists demand terrorism designation of Bondi stabbings by mentally ill man2 days ago
Australia: Workers and youth in Melbourne explain why they support the SEP's electoral member campaign3 days ago
Poll shows deepening crisis of Australian Labor government amid social distress4 days ago
New Zealand strengthens military ties with Philippines against China4 days ago
US begins largest annual war games with the Philippines5 days ago
New Zealand survey finds 65 percent agree the economy is "rigged to advantage the rich and powerful"5 days ago
Australia's National Defence Strategy outlines plans for war with China7 days ago
Supreme Court hearing on Trump immunity claim debates how far US president can go in committing crimes1 day ago
New York appeals court overturns producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, orders new trial1 day ago
US Senate quickly advances $95 billion global war package3 days ago
Senate passes TikTok ban, putting it on track for Biden's signature3 days ago
In Supreme Court arguments, Biden administration demands unrestricted power to separate families "without judicial oversight"3 days ago
Ocasio-Cortez donates over $250,000 to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee3 days ago
Trump "hush money" cover-up trial opens in Manhattan4 days ago
Biden signs expanded warrantless surveillance law hours after Senate reauthorization of Section 7025 days ago
Jeopardizing the right to protest, Supreme Court refuses to block lawsuit by police officer against demonstration organizer7 days ago
The SEP (Sri Lanka) launches party development fund to expand its political work4 days ago
ILO report reveals severe gender pay gap in Sri Lankan labour force3 days ago
Sri Lankan government announces unprecedented anti-democratic restrictions on election candidates8 days ago
Sri Lankan trade unions seek alliance with opposition parties12 days ago
SEP (Sri Lanka) launches two books on the rightward evolution of the JVP17 days ago
World Bank report shows drastic increases in Sri Lanka's poverty and inequality19 days ago
Sri Lanka: Build action committees to fight for salary increase, against IMF austerity24 days ago
Sudden death of Sri Lankan student at Kelaniya University exposes harsh conditions facing undergraduates25 days ago
Sri Lankan parties in sordid manoeuvres over presidential and national election dates30 days ago
Ten years since the lead poisoning of Flint, Michigan water supply13 hours ago
Right-wing Supreme Court majority seems ready to sanction arrest of homeless people for sleeping in public2 days ago
Bodycam footage and lawsuits detail police killings of Texas men suffering mental health crises4 days ago
FBI opens criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse7 days ago
Boeing whistleblower Sam Salehpour testifies before Congress on safety of the 777 and 787 aircraft9 days ago
Nearly five million removed from Medicaid have no health insurance9 days ago
Damage to Glen Canyon Dam pipes threatens Colorado River water supply10 days ago
Canadian imperialism outlines its plans for global war11 days ago
Federal officials target end of May for full reopening of Port of Baltimore after bridge collapse12 days ago
Youth and Students11 months ago
Upcoming IYSSE (Australia) lecture: The fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left8 days ago
IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand: The crisis of political perspective of the Gaza protests28 days ago
IYSSE holds first meeting at Otago University in New Zealand2 months ago
Australian IYSSE wins support at universities for its opposition to the Gaza genocide2 months ago
Capitalism leads to genocide and war—youth and students must fight for world socialism!2 months ago
Former IDF soldiers attack pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University3 months ago
Columbia University students and faculty protest ongoing genocide and further attacks on academic freedom3 months ago
Oppose the state-organized witch hunt of opponents of genocide on US campuses!4 months ago
In bipartisan vote, US House passes authoritarian resolution calling on Harvard, MIT presidents to resign4 months ago
Free Julian Assange!2 years ago
Biden administration issues "weasel words" assurances to secure Assange's extradition9 days ago
SEP (Australia) forum in Melbourne demands freedom for Assange15 days ago
Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat28 days ago
Young people speak at UK public meetings on fight to free Julian Assange: "It should be a focus for this generation"29 days ago
UK High Court puts Assange on the brink of extradition to the United States1 month ago
Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war1 month ago
Assange lawyers rebuff anti-democratic US government extradition arguments2 months ago
Assange supporters march to Downing Steet as two-day hearing ends in London2 months ago
Demonstrators outside UK High Court demand Assange's freedom2 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 page3 months ago
History of the Fourth International2 years ago
The 1917 Russian Revolution2 years ago
This Week in History2 years ago
This week in history: April 22-285 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 perspective1 month ago
This week in history: April 15-2112 days ago
This week in history: April 8-1419 days ago
Forty years since the British miners' strike1 month ago
Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish edition of Vadim Rogovin's 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror1 month ago
Bryan Palmer's James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-19382 months ago
Nazi Town USA: US public television examines the German-American Bund in the 1930s2 months ago
Fire disaster in Istanbul kills 29 workers22 days ago
Mass protests erupt in Turkey after election of Kurdish mayor annulled23 days ago
Erdoğan's AKP suffers setback in Turkish local elections as CHP comes first25 days ago
Turkey: TİP's Hatay candidacy crisis underscores bankruptcy of the pseudo-left's orientation to the bourgeoisie29 days ago
Erkan Baş's local election campaign shows the TİP's orientation towards the bourgeoisie and trade union bureaucracy1 month ago
United Nations human rights experts oppose UK decision to make Shamima Begum stateless1 month ago
Thousands of textile workers strike at Egypt's largest industrial plant in Mahalla al-Kubra1 month ago
Australian government expands military involvement in US-led attacks on Yemen1 month ago
Amid surging wildcat strike wave in Turkey, union bureaucrats accuse workers of terrorism2 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. -- Read7 months ago
Dangerous heatwaves in West Africa exacerbated by climate change22 days ago
Sudan's "forgotten war" leads to epic suffering and regional instability29 days ago
EU, IMF and regional powers bail out Egypt in return for services rendered to Israel's genocidal war1 month ago
Niger's junta cancels military agreement with the United States1 month ago
170 killed in Burkina Faso massacre as French-Russian rivalry grows in Sahel1 month ago
At Washington's behest, Kenyan President Ruto moves ahead with police deployment to Haiti1 month ago
Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Which Way Africa?1 month ago
Protests erupt across Senegal as President Sall cancels elections2 months ago
Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo5 days ago
Scientific—and social—dimensions of the 2024 total solar eclipse19 days ago
Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts1 month ago
Genetic makeup of modern Europeans derived through ancient migrations from Asia1 month ago
Average global surface temperatures rose to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in 20231 month ago
Latest privately-owned Moon mission ends abruptly after botched landing1 month ago
Climate change disruption of Atlantic currents reaching dangerous tipping point2 months ago
Earliest known example of a human-built wood structure, dating to nearly a half-million years ago, discovered in Africa3 months ago
Climate scientists predict devastating weather conditions for the Southern Hemisphere summer4 months ago
Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line3 days ago
More Stellantis layoffs at Sterling Heights and Mack Avenue Assembly in Detroit, forced overtime announced in Toledo3 days ago
UAW President Fain dines with billionaires, warmongers at White House reception for Japanese PM15 days ago
Financial assets of UAW rose in 2023 as bureaucracy pushed through sellout contracts25 days ago
UAW-backed Mexican union tries to ram through sell-out contract at General Motors25 days ago
Mass layoffs hit auto industry as job cuts mount, profits surge28 days ago
Ford announces mass layoffs at flagship Rouge complex west of Detroit28 days ago
Deere cuts over 300 jobs at Waterloo, Iowa plant28 days ago
Stellantis fires 400 white-collar workers during mandatory remote workday1 month ago
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism4 months ago
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard2 months ago
"Building the world party was Helen's goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution"2 months ago
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California3 months ago
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a life dedicated to the liberation of the working class4 months ago
"Helen Halyard gave to the party, its program, and the international working class, the 'full measure' of her life"3 months ago
An appreciation of Comrade Helen Halyard3 months ago
"To Helen ours was a party of the great principles of internationalism and the central revolutionary role of the working class"3 months ago
"Helen exemplified what it means to be a party cadre"3 months ago
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century -- The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism. -- Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today. -- Read10 months ago
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism4 months ago
Sri Lankan workers condemn pro-government thug attack on SEP members3 months ago
Australian workers and youth condemn violent attack on Sri Lankan SEP members4 months ago
British Trotskyists condemn pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members4 months ago
SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore addresses "Centenary of Trotskyism" public meeting in Colombo4 months ago
SEP (US) National Secretary Joe Kishore addresses "Centenary of Trotskyism" public meeting at Sri Lanka's Peradeniya University4 months ago
Trump's January 6 coup d'état2 years ago
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump's 2020 fake elector scheme1 month ago
Appellate court rejects Trump's claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election2 months ago
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case6 months ago
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case6 months ago
Top Trump coup lawyer Sidney Powell turns state's witness on eve of Georgia trial6 months ago
Trump-backed election denier Jim Jordan fails in second vote for House speaker6 months ago
Former Capitol Police chief blasts Pentagon officials for delaying deployment of National Guard during January 6 coup7 months ago
Retiring Senator Romney confirms Pentagon, Congress knew Trump planned violent coup days before January 67 months ago
Georgia special grand jury recommended charging 39 top Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, lawyer Cleta Mitchell and retired Gen. Michael Flynn7 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 introduction1 year ago
Socialist Equality Party2 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 JVP1 month ago
Comrade Halil Çelik: An inspiration for workers and youth internationally3 months ago
Comrade Halil Çelik blazed the socialist-internationalist path the workers of Turkey must follow3 months ago
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) celebrates 80th birthday of veteran Trotskyist K. Ratnayake5 months ago
Greetings to veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist K. Ratnayake on his 80th birthday5 months ago
Enthusiastic response by Sri Lankan workers and students to upcoming international May Day online rally1 year ago
SEP (Australia) holds well-attended post-election public meeting1 year ago
World Socialist Web Site launches its Ukrainian-language edition1 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. -- Read1 year ago
For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum!7 months ago
Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters6 months ago
Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum11 days ago
Defeat of Australian Labor's Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism6 months ago
Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people6 months ago
Defeat of Australian Labor's Voice referendum highlights massive class divide6 months ago
On referendum day Australian workers and young people support the SEP's active boycott of Labor's Voice to parliament6 months ago
For an active boycott of the Voice referendum! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war and austerity!6 months ago
For an active boycott of Australian Labor's Voice referendum!7 months ago
Australian students denounce attacks on Gaza and hypocrisy of Labor's Voice campaign6 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 now1 year ago
The Prinkipo commemoration of Trotsky's exile and the global resurgence of the working class8 months ago
An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo8 months ago
The ICFI's investigation exposed the GPU conspiracy to murder Trotsky8 months ago
Leon Trotsky's years on Prinkipo8 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 statement1 year ago
1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI6 months ago
The Workers League's defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party6 months ago
1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy's Studies in Dialectics6 months ago
The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International7 months ago
Wohlforth's renegacy, the renewal of the struggle against Pabloism in the Workers League, and the turn to the working class7 months ago
The ICFI's exposure of Ernest Mandel's "neo-capitalism" and the analysis of the global economic crisis: 1967–19717 months ago
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Epoch of Imperialist War and Socialist Revolution8 months ago
The continuing struggle against Pabloism, the centrism of the OCI and the emerging crisis within the ICFI7 months ago
The "Great Betrayal" in Ceylon, the formation of the American Committee for the Fourth International, and the founding of the Workers League7 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. -- Read7 months ago
Will Lehman campaign for UAW President1 year ago
Will Lehman issues letter to Mack Trucks coworkers on eve of UAW contract expiration: "We must seriously prepare for a major battle"6 months ago
Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election9 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-ed7 months ago
The battle against the automakers is more than a strike, it's class warfare7 months ago
Unite the rank and file for an all-out autoworkers strike!7 months ago
Mobilize the rank and file against the UAW sellout!7 months ago
Will Lehman replies to Biden's Department of Labor in ongoing lawsuit to demand rerun of UAW election7 months ago
Will Lehman and attorney discuss lawsuit against Biden admin demanding re-run of UAW election9 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 statement11 months ago
May Day 2023: For the international unity of the working class against national chauvinism and war!11 months ago
For the unity of the Russian and Ukrainian working class!11 months ago
May Day 2023 and the struggle against war11 months ago
The American ruling class confronts its most powerful antagonist at home: The working class11 months ago
New Zealand Labour government imposes austerity, war and endless COVID infections11 months ago
Canadian imperialism bares its fangs11 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 more2 years ago
The Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic2 years ago
Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-211 year ago
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 11 year ago
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 21 year ago
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic1 year ago
Michigan hospital worker with Long COVID speaks about the destruction of health care in the US1 year ago
Teacher describes struggle to get treated for Long COVID in New Zealand1 year ago
Alberta nurse speaks about union indifference to mass illness and death1 year ago
Flight attendant shares his experience being intubated for 19 days with COVID-191 year ago
WSWS speaks with New Zealand Long Covid sufferer1 year ago
The New York Times' 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History2 years ago
The Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory2 years ago
The Wuhan lab lie: "Weapons of mass destruction" redux1 year ago
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China1 year ago
Republicans revive discredited Wuhan Lab Leak theory and call Anthony Fauci to testify1 year ago
Anthony Fauci gives aid and comfort to COVID-19 "lab leak" conspiracy theory1 year ago
Washington Post backs Republican-led witch-hunt against scientists1 year ago
Boston University study on Omicron variant smeared as dangerous gain-of-function research by right-wing reactionaries1 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 virus1 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. -- Read1 year ago
The New York Times' 1619 Project2 years ago
Nikole Hannah-Jones' Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism6 months ago
The 1619 Project and the New York Times' promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism11 months ago
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!1 year ago
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics1 year ago
1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was paid over $1 million to speak about race at colleges in 20221 year ago
The New York Times 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: History as the emanation of race2 years ago
An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland2 years ago
Historian Jack Rakove on American history writing and the falsifications of the 1619 Project and its defenders2 years ago
The New York Times' Jake Silverstein concocts "a new origin story" for the 1619 Project2 years ago
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia -- This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years. -- View the Timeline2 years ago
The SEP (US) 2022 Seventh National Congress1 year ago
The historical and political principles of the socialist opposition to imperialist war and the Putin regime1 year ago
The historical background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for global elimination1 year ago
America's "New World Order"— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China1 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 world1 year ago
New Australian Labor government intensifies assault on working class and war preparations against China1 year ago
The fight against mass COVID infection and militarism in New Zealand1 year ago
The fight against Canadian imperialism and for socialist internationalism1 year ago
New revolutionary epoch opens doors for building the ICFI in Brazil1 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 Network4 months ago
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand11 months ago
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising11 months ago
Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms1 year ago
Musk continues to ban from Twitter journalists who criticize him1 year ago
Musk's attack on Twitter workers brings company to the brink of collapse1 year ago
Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter employees: Submit to "extremely hardcore" culture, or face termination1 year ago
Facebook censors Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace and a Sydney health worker1 year ago
Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace speaks to WSWS about Facebook censorship1 year ago
The defense of academic freedom2 years ago
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone's termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician5 months ago
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities7 months ago
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one11 months ago
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff1 year ago
Defend Harvard professor John Comaroff against the right-wing witch-hunt!1 year ago
The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff2 years ago
The concerted, cowardly #MeToo attack on Harvard professor John Comaroff2 years ago
Campus opposition at University of Michigan mounts to victimization of Bright Sheng2 years ago
Australian High Court sets precedent for sacking dissenting academics2 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 militarism2 years ago
Russia downs British-supplied long-range missile as Zelensky and Sunak declare "jets coalition"11 months ago
Pentagon national strategy document targets China1 year ago
Australia dispatching military "trainers" to aid the US-NATO war against Russia1 year ago
German President Steinmeier delivers war speech to the nation1 year ago
One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan1 year ago
New Zealand media, politicians ramp up war propaganda after soldier killed in Ukraine1 year ago
UN documents civilian deaths in Syrian war, ignoring their cause1 year ago
US extends economic war on Russia to China1 year ago
At NATO summit, New Zealand PM backs war with Russia, military build-up against China1 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 more1 year ago
The German SGP lawsuit against the Verfassungsschutz2 years ago
Germany's secret service intensifies persecution of war opponents and warns against "Trotskyism"8 months ago
Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine1 year ago
Large-scale raid against right-wing terrorist network reveals the extent of the fascist danger in Germany6 months ago
German secret service operates hundreds of far-right social media profiles1 year ago
German Interior Minister Faeser wants to fight climate change activists "with all her might"1 year ago
Berlin Administrative Court affirms secret service observation of left-wing newspaper junge Welt2 years ago
Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional2 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 life24 days ago
The Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward2 months ago
Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people3 months ago
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer: A documentary approaches the American novelist with sympathy, but not enough scrutiny3 months ago
A comment on the life and death of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023)3 months ago
Adolph Reed, Jr.'s The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives4 months ago
Why have right-wing forces attacked Adania Shibli's novel Minor Detail?4 months ago
Award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy denounces "brazen slaughter" and "crimes against humanity" in Gaza2 months ago
The racialist theory of "color blind racism": Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's Racism without Racists5 months ago
WSWS Review -- Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR -- Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. -- Read more2 years ago
The 2010 Pike River mine disaster2 years ago
New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster1 day ago
Police locate more bodies in New Zealand's Pike River mine10 months ago
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 202311 months ago
Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China1 year ago
New Zealand: Court action over Pike River mine disaster1 year ago
New Zealand police to drill more boreholes at Pike River mine1 year ago
NZ government's "Working with Survivors" continues cover-up of Pike River mine disaster1 year ago
Pike River mine disaster families seek answers about unlawful payment to avoid prosecution of CEO1 year ago
Online book launch: Political lessons of the Pike River disaster and cover-up1 year ago
Eighty years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union -- The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International. -- Read more2 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 video2 years ago