Friday's front-page report in the New York Times is a propaganda piece, built entirely on the unsubstantiated claims of unnamed intelligence officials, whose purpose is to justify an escalation of the war against Russia.
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has stripped SNAP benefits from roughly 5 million people since the law’s enactment. At least 1.2 million children are affected, while schools are seeing enrollment in free school breakfasts and lunches plunge.
The World Socialist Web Site has received the following letter in defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk from Mark D. Steinberg, a leading scholar of Soviet and Russian history, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who previously taught at Harvard University and Yale University.
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The Congress was held from August 2–7, 2026. This report introduced the fifth resolution, “AI and the fight for socialism,” which was unanimously adopted.
Students are returning to campus for the fall semester in the US under conditions of unprecedented crisis. A global war is expanding on three continents, a fascistic government of the oligarchy is dismantling democratic rights, and the capitalist system is driving the planet toward climate catastrophe.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in US history has spread through 48 states without a source being named. A century after the Pure Food and Drug Act, the apparatus built to answer such questions is being dismantled.
The struggle at National Steel Car cuts directly across the national divisions that the corporations, governments and union bureaucracies are trying to impose on workers.
WSWS reporters along with supporters of Will Lehman visited the picket line at the National Steel Car plant in Hamilton, Ontario
Aging power grids were once again overwhelmed as heavy storms tore across Michigan for the second time this summer.
The very same parties now canvassing for votes with the promise of stopping the AfD have paved the way for its rise and are preparing to collaborate with it.
The German government's accusation that Russia carried out a failed terrorist attack at Leipzig Airport on August 4 is a political provocation that was organized on—of all days—the 87th anniversary of the beginning of World War II.
Canada’s largest private-sector union, with over 300,000 members, has been focused with the Detroit Three on finalizing new agreements well ahead of the September 21 expiration to block any rank-and-file opposition amid a crisis driven by the global restructuring of the auto industry and the US-Canada trade war.
Burnham’s choice of Sainsbury’s to promote his “Modern Work Experience Programme” underscores the incestuous relationship between the Labour Party he leads and major corporate and financial interests.
Workers hailed as “essential” throughout the pandemic must not be made disposable now.
US imperialism is building a hemispheric repressive apparatus that is distinctly fascist: fishermen killed or their livelihoods destroyed without trial, prosecutors and journalists murdered and bodies displayed as propaganda.
While confirming the expansion, Labor’s Defence Minister Richard Marles would provide no details at all of what it entailed.
The death prompted an outpouring of angry statements from ordinary people about the country’s worsening social crisis.
Under the phoney pretext of “stopping workers from being scammed,” the state government has launched a major attack on workers’ democratic rights, with the full-throated support of the Victorian Trades Hall Council.
India: 14,000 Haryana sanitation and fire workers continue statewide strike; Bangladesh: Moulvibazar tea workers demand 500-taka daily wage; Sri Lankan development officers protest nationwide over salaries; Australian ferry workers strike in Brisbane and Sydney.
Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz died after LAPD personnel repeatedly beat him in custody while Alejandro Luis Garcia was fatally shot last month.
This speech was given by David North at the fourth annual international commemoration of Leon Trotsky’s exile on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, held August 16 before an audience of more than 100, under the title “My Life, Written on Prinkipo, and Trotsky's Years in Exile.”
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
"The drive to dictatorship and the political radicalization in the United States" is the second of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
The demand by a Ukrainian court that letters protesting the 15-year sentence of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk be written in Ukrainian is an act of cynical chauvinism.
The rise in US bond yields was particularly significant because it came in the face of attempts by Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to suppress them.
The extended international effort to probe the history of the universe of which the Roman telescope is a part conflicts directly with the continued existence of the profit motive and the nation-state system.
The Pentagon has taken an ownership stake in one-fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves in a deal that exposes both the gangsterism of the US ruling class and the terminal bankruptcy of Chavismo and bourgeois nationalism.
But a decline in what? Simply in Hemingway’s skill as a writer? Or something more? It is necessary to briefly consider his history.
An open letter signed by more than 180 actors, writers and others reflects mass opposition to the genocide, corporate consolidation and oligarchic rule.
The loss of country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton is keenly felt by artists and audiences alike throughout the world.
The toll of the takeover is the product of three decades of bipartisan deregulation, consolidation and attacks on workers.
Roman is the most capable deep space survey telescope ever built and will be used to study dark energy, exoplanets, supernovae and much more.
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
The country is on course to lose the elimination status it achieved in 2000, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the federal vaccine infrastructure.
A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.
The US military attacked a house hosting a wedding in Kuhestak, in Sirik County on Iran’s southern coast, with a missile on Tuesday, killing at least four people, including a 4-year-old child, and wounding dozens, Iranian officials said Wednesday.
Kirpichenok’s arrest is an attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class and speaks to the utter lawlessness and criminality with which the Israeli state suppresses its critics, regardless of their faith and nationality.
The Trump administration on Monday launched what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called an “economic D-Day” against Iran—a campaign of secondary sanctions aimed at every country, bank and company that trades with Tehran, above all China, which took roughly nine-tenths of Iran’s oil exports before the US blockade choked them off.
Healthcare workers have demonstrated in central London and outside the prime minister’s office in Downing Street in defence of Abu Safiya.
Mass graves are being filled, while some families are holding symbolic burials for loved ones whose bodies may never be recovered.
A semi-secret faction of hardline Catholic conservatives dubbed the “Reformers” was allegedly engaged in a plot to take over the New South Wales Liberal Party.
Doctors walked off the job in opposition to the state Labor government’s attempts to inflict deeper real wage cuts and further entrench dire conditions in the sector.
National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy results show that the gap between rich and poor school students is growing at an increasing rate.
The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk is aimed at terrorizing opposition to the NATO-backed war against Russia.
Among those denouncing the sentencing is the German scholar Alexander Bahar, co-author of The Reichstag Fire - How History is Created.
“People should not be forced into silence… Freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and the right to participate in public debate are fundamental human rights.” – Yasemin, Victoria
Members of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi in Türkiye brought the “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk” campaign to the forefront at a panel discussion on war and press freedom and at an anti-war march held in Istanbul.
Either we seize control of our struggle, broadening it to unite workers across North America with the fight for workplace safety, better conditions and wage increases to make up for decades of givebacks, or the USW bureaucracy will sell us out, just as they did in 2023.
Greek seasonal firefighters march for permanent jobs as deadly wildfires continue across the country; protests in Baghdad, Iraq demanding public sector jobs; nurses in Kenya continue national strike over pay and conditions
Government employed doctors across Paraguay staged a 5-day strike over wages while grocery workers in the western Canadian province of Alberta are pushing back against major concession demands by Safeway/Sobey’s management.
Behind the closures lie the billionaire Porsche-Piëch owners, who are demanding nothing less than the dismantling of one of the world’s largest carmakers.
A growing strike movement in Italy links wages, privatization and democratic rights to opposition against militarism and Israel’s war in Gaza.
While hospitals and schools are falling into disrepair, 600 million euros are being cut from public transport, rents are skyrocketing, and social infrastructure is collapsing, billions are being poured into rearmament.
A Downing Street readout noted that the two "discussed next steps on establishing local assembly lines in Ukraine for the long-range missile, SCALP, which uses British technology."
That Burnham presides over a government of guns and no butter throws into sharp relief just how politically criminal it is for Britain's pseudo-left groups to portray his premiership as an opportunity to push Labour to the left.
The nationwide protest by low-paid public servants is part of a growing wave of workers’ struggles amid soaring living costs.
Workers have been on strike for more than a week demanding a wage increase, in defiance of the union bureaucracy.
The JVP/NPP government aims to suppress opposition to the deliberate running down of railway services and its privatization agenda.
The attempt to intimidate Socialist Equality Party members is an attack on free speech and the democratic rights of all workers and students.
Academic workers now account for roughly one quarter of UAW membership. In recent years, graduate employees, postdocs, adjuncts and other university workers have carried out major strikes and repeatedly voted by overwhelming margins for strike action over wages, housing, insecure employment, immigration, democratic rights and the Gaza genocide.
The 57-year-old Stellantis worker killed on the job August 1 at the company's Mopar Parts Distribution Center in Center Line.
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward.
Opinion polls show widespread popular anger over dilapidated public services and a severe shortage of affordable housing, as well as great volatility in voting intentions.
We spoke to residents of Gary, Indiana who spent 14 days without power after a storm damaged electrical infrastructure owned by NIPSCO, the local power monopoly.
Over 300,000 people lost power after hurricane-strength winds and multiple tornadoes downed power lines, trees and utility poles across the Calumet region.
After spending 50 years on Florida’s death row and being sentenced to death five times, the 74-year-old told a judge he was too tired to continue fighting his execution.
This is the third time in four years that the Republican-controlled House has voted to condemn socialism.
A whistleblower report by an anonymous United States Postal Service official made public on Tuesday warns that under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, USPS will withhold mail ballots from millions of voters.
Trump will attempt to use the uncertainty surrounding the elections fomented by his baseless charges of election fraud and compounded by his attack on mail-in voting to manipulate the elections and possibly suspend them altogether.
Wayne County judges threatened three striking public defenders with jail and thousands of dollars in fines before dismissing the contempt charges against them.
Raman secured the endorsement as she works to assure the financial elite and police that her campaign represents no threat to their interests ahead of the November 3 election.
The same ruling class that made preemptive war its strategic doctrine is now applying the same logic to its domestic class enemies: strike before the enemy is organized. This is what the Madrid Forum is all about.
One day after the New York Times reported a private meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, New York City Mayor and DSA member Zohran Mamdani reaffirmed his support for Jeffries’ bid to become the next speaker of the House.
The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee’s joint appearances with party leaders were organized to demonstrate his post-primary embrace of the party establishment.
Washington is waging economic warfare aimed at the starvation and subjugation of 10 million people, while the Cuban government has responded by promising to open up the economy to foreign capital.
The lessons of the general strike by the working class half a century ago are now more urgent than ever with the coming to power of Peru’s new far right president, Keiko Fujimori.
Four days after the Pentagon acquired an ownership stake in Venezuelan oil, not a single American politician or major publication has addressed what it means for civilian control of the military.
Four separate investigations have opened in Bolivia against Cerimedo, who served as President Paz’s top adviser, exposing the methods used by Washington to install far-right governments across the hemisphere.
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for socialism of what it means to be a Trotskyist fighter.
Aksu is protesting the unlawful imprisonment of himself and the union’s chairman, Gökay Çakır, and demanding he and Cakir be immediately released. This demand must be taken up by workers in every mine, factory and workplace in Türkiye and internationally. They must be freed at once.
Workers and young people must oppose the use of the judiciary as a weapon to suppress and neutralize political opposition, and must defend democratic rights.
The Turkish parliament passed a law on the PKK's surrender. The near-unanimity of Turkish and Kurdish parties alike expresses not a turn toward peace but the ruling elite closing ranks, as it is integrated ever more deeply into the US-led war across the Middle East.
Erdoğan’s government has submitted a bill to parliament formalizing the PKK’s dissolution. It offers no amnesty, leaves Öcalan imprisoned and places the fate of those covered entirely in the hands of the Turkish security apparatus.
Bradley Clouse, a 33-year-old maintenance worker, was killed on the job early Wednesday morning at the Astemo Americas auto parts plant in Berea, Kentucky.
No cause of the explosion has been determined that ripped through Brent Industries on August 18, killing Heladio Perez, 46, and Mary Allen, 64.
The death of Robayo has exposed the deadly consequences of airport subcontracting and deregulation.
Andrew “Andy” Block was killed at the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan two weeks ago when he was crushed by a powered scrap shoot clam shell that closed on him while he was performing a welding repair.
Having already supplied Ukraine with long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles, the UK has now shared classified blueprints with Kyiv to allow the country to eventually manufacture its own.
In honoring Musk, a committed ideological fascist and the world's leading promoter of the global far-right movement, the Zelensky regime is once again exposing the fraud of those who claim that Ukraine is fighting for "democracy."
The growing confrontations between Ukrainian workers and forced mobilization exposes the lie that Ukrainian society uniformly supports the disastrous imperialist proxy war.
The appointment of the SBU-linked Khmara signals a profound crisis of the Zelensky regime and the entire NATO war against Russia.
The commitments on which the G20 was established—to promote global growth and enhance international cooperation—lie in tatters as conflicts within the global economy intensify.
G7 economies have already taken a hit of $16 billion in additional debt financing costs since the war on Iran began and may face $34 billion in extra costs by early next year.
One commentator described it as a “cleanup” act, as Fed chair Kevin Warsh used his speech to the bankers’ Jackson Hole symposium to insist he was determined to take action on inflation.
In the six years since the US Treasury market “froze,” the role of hedge funds, which sparked the “dash for cash,” has increased markedly.
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Volkswagen workers strike in Puebla, Mexico ends; Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to the United States with MiG-25; S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike founds the Sri Lanka Freedom Party; British gunboats bombard the Chinese city of Wanhsien on the Yangtze River
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons are critical for the class struggle in the 21st century.
Workers, youth and defenders of democratic rights internationally must oppose the persecution of political organisations by the Ugandan state and demand the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and legal status of all those detained.
The WHO has allocated 70,000 doses of a vaccine licensed against a different Ebola species, while the destruction of US aid has stripped the region of the surveillance, food and sanitation that containment depends on.
The Africa CDC and the World Health Organization called on August 6 for an urgent scale-up of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, conceding that the outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to contain it. Contact tracing has collapsed to the point that nine in ten patients admitted to the treatment center in the epicenter were never on any list.
Last week, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC became the second largest, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak that occurred in eastern DRC as well. Health authorities have noted the current outbreak is the fastest, outpacing all other previous outbreaks. There remain no treatment or vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain to date.
Loreto Javar has missed cancer treatments, developed a blood clot and suffered rapid weight loss during more than two months in ICE’s Tacoma concentration camp.
The purchase of the four-legged robots built by Boston Dynamics is only the latest addition to an arsenal the Trump administration has been assembling for ICE with terrifying speed.
More than 100 Haitians in Springfield have been fitted with electronic monitors as the Trump administration accelerates deportation flights and mass immigration raids.
A construction worker deported despite being a US citizen exposes how immigration repression is preparing the machinery for attacks on workers.
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a revolution.
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
Nine months after the preventable death of 63‑year‑old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. , the silence from the company, the United Auto Workers and state remains deafening.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
Two unvaccinated Lancaster County residents died of measles in August, but the CDC is saying that they died “with” the disease rather than “of” it, the same lie used to justify mass COVID-19 deaths.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
The order writes into national policy the schedule Kennedy’s purged advisory committee produced, and turns federal litigation and funding against the five states that still require immunization for school entry.
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office demanding that it change its program. It categorically rejected this political intervention.
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
This speech was delivered by Keith Jones, Socialist Equality Party (Canada) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Tom Peters, a leader of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
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.
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
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.
Flanagan’s speech, which received a prolonged standing ovation from a sold-out audience of 1,000 people, systematically exposed the state-backed pro-Zionist campaign that falsely equates opposition to Israel’s war crimes with antisemitism.
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
Thousands of people joined protests to denounce New Zealand’s alliance with the US and government silence on US and Israeli war crimes. The organisers, however, promoted illusions in Labour and the Greens.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.
This prosecution is a blatant and dangerous political witch-hunt and frame-up. It must not be allowed to stand. It is a major escalation by the Trump administration of the effort to criminalize left-wing opposition to war, dictatorship and social inequality.
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
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.
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
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.
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
Leon Trotsky’s autobiography “My Life” is now available from Mehring Verlag. The work is published in a German translation by Alexandra Ramm, with a new foreword by David North.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
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.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
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.
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the country.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
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.
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
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.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
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.
Friday's front-page report in the New York Times is a propaganda piece, built entirely on the unsubstantiated claims of unnamed intelligence officials, whose purpose is to justify an escalation of the war against Russia.
The demand by a Ukrainian court that letters protesting the 15-year sentence of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk be written in Ukrainian is an act of cynical chauvinism.
The German government's accusation that Russia carried out a failed terrorist attack at Leipzig Airport on August 4 is a political provocation that was organized on—of all days—the 87th anniversary of the beginning of World War II.
The rise in US bond yields was particularly significant because it came in the face of attempts by Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to suppress them.
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.
