This lecture by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North examines the historical background of the war against Iran in relation to the strategy of American imperialism.
The war against Iran is being waged as a criminal conspiracy against the population of the United States and the entire world.
While UFCW Local 7 has indicated picketing will end on Friday, workers on the picket line told the WSWS they are eager to extend and expand the struggle.
Labour’s position is that a shooting war can be started with Russia without so much as a press conference.
We are publishing here the remarks by Johannes Stern introducing the book presentation Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism with David North at Humboldt University in Berlin. David North’s lecture at Humboldt University, titled “American Imperialism and the Subjugation of Iran,” is published here. In the coming days, the WSWS will also publish a video of the event.
The marches reflected both a living identification with the tens of thousands murdered between 1976 and 1983 and a mounting anger over the Milei administration’s authoritarian measures.
Notwithstanding the faux outrage by Labour MPs, every aspect of Kretinsky’s wrecking operation was rubber-stamped by the Starmer government and by CWU officials Dave Ward and Martin Walsh.
The council released a statement supporting its censorship of the “Anatomy of Solidarity” exhibition, declaring its “obligation to ensure we balance freedom of speech and a duty to prevent harm to people and property.”
The 47-year-old contractor died after falling while doing maintenance work at the South32-owned facility near Collie, south of Perth.
“We’ve got mould in our ceiling. We’ve got leaking roofs. The place is nearly falling around us in some instances, but we’re not being given the funding to be able to have that fixed.”
The public meeting was addressed by a panel of speakers, including David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States. As the leader of the US Workers League, forerunner of the US SEP, North played the leading role in the struggle against the political degeneration of the WRP leadership.
Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco, a former Oath Keeper and outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, seized ballots cast in the recent special election that gerrymandered California congressional districts to favor Democrats.
The city of 300,000 is projected to run out of water this year without intervention, with the state and corporations attempting to get the working class to foot the bill
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka are campaigning ahead of a public meeting against the US-Israeli war on Iran, to he held on April 7.
Far from advancing the struggle against war, the SWP’s opportunist perspective misled youth and workers who opposed the Vietnam War and blocked the development of socialist consciousness.
At the center of the Morenoite conference was a reactionary theoretical revision aimed at eviscerating Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution.
New peer-reviewed studies continue to build an overwhelming case for the natural origin of COVID-19, vindicating the life’s work of Dr. Peter Daszak—the scientist who predicted this pandemic and was then witch-hunted for it.
As the Trump administration surged thousands of ground troops toward the Persian Gulf, the White House threatened Tuesday to massively escalate its war of aggression against Iran unless it accepted US demands.
On Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump declared that the United States had “won” its undeclared and illegal war against Iran and claimed negotiations are ongoing, US media reports made clear that the military buildup targeting the country is only expanding.
Media reports show a direct connection between the timing of lucrative investment bets and the pronouncements of President Trump on military decisions about the war against Iran.
The G7 statement marks the European imperialist powers’ final departure from international law in favour of the principle that "might makes right.”
In the month since the US-Israeli war against Iran began, the United States has been shaken by an accelerating eruption of class struggle.
This lecture by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North examines the historical background of the war against Iran in relation to the strategy of American imperialism.
O’Brien’s personal appearance at Mullin’s hearing is a warning to workers that the union bureaucracy is aligning itself ever more openly with dictatorship, war and the repression of the working class.
The imperialist offensive to erase 20th‑century social gains can be stopped only through the independent mobilization of the working class across the Americas.
Banksy’s anonymity has allowed him to indict the crimes of the powerful in a mass popular medium without facing immediate legal sanction, corporate blacklisting, far-right threats and state surveillance.
In the face of official prejudice and indifference, filmmakers fight for solidarity and compassion in a series of short films at the Berlin film festival.
The closure, which Trump said is to coincide with the nation’s celebrations of its 250th anniversary of independence, comes as artists and performers cancel events at the national cultural institution of the United States capital.
It is another indication of the broad-based opposition to the Trump administration and its drive toward dictatorship, including its vicious anti-immigrant witch-hunt.
To defend the Iranian people and defeat the US-Israeli war criminals, it is necessary to politically mobilize the international working class against global capitalism on the basis of a socialist perspective.
The Frontline Socialist Party is not calling for an international anti-war movement based on the working class, but an international coalition of opportunist groups dressed up as “Global People’s Power.”
The SEP’s well attended Colombo public meeting, which was live-streamed on Zoom and the party’s Facebook page, discussed the urgent need to build an international working-class movement against the imperialist onslaught on Iran which threatens to escalate into a broader global conflict.
“If this war escalates, the danger of a third world war will increase. A major power is waging war against another smaller country. It must be stopped,” a University of Jaffna student said.
Far from advancing the struggle against war, the SWP’s opportunist perspective misled youth and workers who opposed the Vietnam War and blocked the development of socialist consciousness.
Sawant seeks to channel mass popular opposition to war, social inequality and attacks on democratic rights into the dead end of bourgeois electoral politics, while promoting the illusion that pressure from below can force a section of the trade union bureaucracy to lead general strikes and wring major concessions from the ruling class.
Your Party Scotland’s founding conference voted to create an “autonomous nation” Your Party Scotland and to campaign for Scottish separatism in upcoming elections.
The Frontline Socialist Party is not calling for an international anti-war movement based on the working class, but an international coalition of opportunist groups dressed up as “Global People’s Power.”
The stoppage expressed explosive anger over pay and conditions which the union is trying to dissipate.
The few details of the tentative agreement that have been released indicate an attempt to sell out the strike.
Teachers in Catalonia, Spain, on week-long strike in defiance of agreement between management and unions; civil servants, teachers and nurses walk out across Portugal over deteriorating pay and conditions; nurses in Kilifi County, Kenya and largest hospital in Zimbabwe strike over falling living standards and crumbling healthcare system
Under the escalating drive of American militarism, the same workers that the ruling class demands build its warships at breakneck speed are denied wages that keep pace with inflation, affordable healthcare or any meaningful retirement security.
Bond prices have been falling, lifting their yields or interest rate, reflecting a growing fear of stagflation: the combination of higher prices and a slowing economy, even recession.
The overriding impression from Fed chair Jerome Powell is that the central bank is like an animal trapped in the headlights of a massive truck hurtling towards it, not knowing which way to turn.
The wild swings in the oil price at the start of this week have directed attention to one of the most significant potential consequences of US-led war on Iran—a major financial crisis induced by losses flowing from the oil market.
When the trading day began in the US the price of oil had surged from around $90 a barrel to as high as $119 and was set to go even higher as stocks were falling following significant further selloffs in Asia.
The richest 1 percent in Canada holds nearly $1.25 trillion in wealth, or almost as much as the bottom 80 percent combined.
New details from the NTSB point to overworked controllers, inadequate tracking technology and a chain of preventable failures behind the deadly LaGuardia runway collision.
This is the second major incident at a US refinery in the past five months, following an explosion at the El Segundo Chevron refinery which rocked much of the Los Angeles area last October.
The collision, which could have killed dozens of passengers on the plane, seems linked to overwork for the air traffic controller, who was handling two jobs at the time.
The WSWS continues to receive statements of support from workers across Canada for Will Lehman’s campaign for the presidency of the UAW in the United States. Lehman is running as a socialist on a program to abolish the union bureaucracy and place power back in the hands of workers on the shop floor.
Workers describe widespread support for a March 25 strike at GM’s Silao Complex in Mexico as they demand a 20 percent increase in wages.
The statement calls the UAW apparatus “complicit” in political repression at the campus and urges that rank-and-file workers take control of their own struggle.
Elections are currently taking place at UAW locals for delegates to the Constitutional Convention schedule for June 15-18 in Detroit.
The result expresses the rejection of reactionary policies of war, genocide and authoritarianism, reflecting intensifying global working class opposition.
Neither the traditional “red block” of parties on the left or “blue block” of right-wing parties reached the 90 seats needed for a governmental majority in the 179-seat parliament. The result produced a highly fragmented parliament, with 12 parties represented.
Saturday’s Together Alliance march in London against the far right shields Labour and blocks any effective struggle by the working class against a capitalist system hurtling to World War III.
The presentation of 'Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism', featuring David North at the Leipzig Book Fair, met with strong interest and underscored the growing interest in a socialist perspective against fascism and war.
The South Australian election shows how the far right is exploiting a social crisis inflicted by Labor and the union bureaucracy amid a breakdown of the two-party system.
As a result of the illegal US-Israeli war on the people of Iran, working-class households are already facing soaring petrol and diesel prices, as well as growing shortages.
The two imperialist powers are moving to establish a combined “Anzac force” that will support US-led wars and dominate impoverished Pacific countries.
“If all of these parties support the war, then the election has no meaning. What are we voting for? No one is even raising the question of war, so people don’t get a chance to have their voice heard.”
A critical assessment of Soviet dissident historian Roy Medvedev (1925–2026), examining both his courageous exposure of Stalinist crimes in Let History Judge and the political limitations that led him from reform-minded dissent to support for the Putin regime.
School fire kills 67 in Kenya; Argentine military overthrows Isabel Perón; MacArthur ultimatum to China in Korean War; Fascist killers of Matteotti given light sentence.
The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy.
More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an “interest group” in the Democratic Party and a tool for the social advancement of a narrow stratum of the black upper middle class.
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
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.
This is a report drawn up by Socialism AI on the background and course of the January 6, 2021 coup, which took place five years ago.
The campaign was kicked off by Larry Fink, head of the $14 trillion investment fund BlackRock, and Jeff Bezos, the longtime boss of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post.
The federal government is demanding some $1.7 billion for war, while exacting more than a pound of flesh from cash-strapped student loan borrowers.
Trump made clear that the ICE airport occupation is not about shortening lines but about leveraging a manufactured crisis to expand repression and attack democratic and voting rights.
The armed thugs, who murdered two protesters in Minneapolis earlier this year, will now be backing up TSA agents, who have not been paid since February.
Omole’s KES 500,000 bond (about $3,850) represents more than six months’ pay for the average formal sector worker and nearly two years’ income for many Kenyans.
The ANC is incapable of even characterising a criminal war carried out by Washington and Tel Aviv. Indeed, its statement, expressing “deep concern at the escalating tensions in the Middle East” does not mention the United States or Israel once.
Omole has been transferred to Kitengela Remand Prison with a broken arm. He faces trumped-up charges of connections to drug cartels, assaulting a police officer and possession of a firearm.
CPM-K Secretary General Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted on Monday in Isiolo town by the Kenya Police Service. The ICFI demands that the Ruto regime release him immediately.
The Chavista regime’s sweeping overhaul under Acting President Delcy Rodríguez marks the consolidation of the US‑orchestrated regime change operation.
Cuba’s government is courting large-scale investments from US corporations and the exile bourgeoisie in Miami, a decisive step toward turning Cuba into a semi‑protectorate of US imperialism.
Díaz‑Canel’s talk of “dialogue” in reality signals negotiations over the terms of Havana’s capitulation to US imperialism.
The disaster has exposed once again how a corrupt ruling oligarchy and its political representatives are unable and unwilling to protect the lives and welfare of the masses of Peruvian working people.
Multiple recently published scientific studies all point to the increasing pace of global warming, driven by the mounting contradictions and irrationality of the capitalist system.
Trump’s NIH move to decertify the research fellows’ union exposes a broader drive to smash federal worker protections, weaponize the bureaucracy politically and deepen the assault on science.
Trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs from every domain of life, the Evo 2 model can predict disease-causing mutations, identify genomic features and generate entirely new genetic sequences.
Through mass firings, rigged appointments, and unilateral decrees, HHS Secretary Kennedy is dismantling the federal machinery behind childhood vaccination in the United States, provoking lawsuits from pediatricians and 15 state governments as preventable disease protections are stripped away.
The expansion of immigration detention facilities is a multibillion-dollar industry dominated by a handful of private corporations.
Daphy Michel, 31, was released alone into freezing temperatures, 40 miles from home, with no family notification. Days later she was dead—still wearing the ankle monitor ICE had put on her.
The Trump administration’s expansion of mandatory immigration detention has resulted in illegal confinement and has turned detention facilities like North Lake in Baldwin, Michigan, into sites of mass medical neglect.
An ICE raid in South Burlington, Vermont resulted in a chaotic nine-hour standoff, the discharge of a federal agent’s weapon and the detention of three individuals who were not the primary targets of the investigation.
The US Department of Labor’s annual report on worker deaths for 2024 reveals 5,070 preventable workplace fatalities, a figure that will surely rise as safety protections are eviscerated.
The worker was killed when a crane crushed him between its excavator arm and the bucket of the front-end loader.
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
A 71-year-old subcontracted worker was killed at a New Jersey chemical plant, as official investigations were announced and fundamental questions about workplace safety and accountability remain unanswered.
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.
The fight for democracy and to end the war in Ukraine is inseparable from the struggle to mobilize the working class in Ukraine and internationally against capitalism.
Fedorov’s comments underscore that beneath the propaganda and government lies, huge numbers of Ukrainian working class youth refuse to sacrifice their lives in the ongoing imperialist proxy war.
The reintroduction and expansion of conscription is a direct result of the military rearmament in the NATO war against Russia and the preparation for a Third World War.
The most hawkish elements demand the UK government immediately start coughing up staggering sums to reach NATO’s new target of 5 percent of GDP spent on the military.
As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastrophe sustained by bipartisan political decisions.
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in infectious diseases, explained: “This is… one of the greatest clusters of cases outside of Africa that I can recall.”
The impoverished Pacific island nation has one of the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemics.
The Trump administration has placed a Stanford economist who championed mass infection policies during COVID-19 as the single official in charge of both the NIH and CDC.
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.
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.
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 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.
Yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League who was assassinated in 1977. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Comrade Leela’s death is a sad loss for the SEP, but the memory of this courageous fighter lives on today in the party’s struggle.
Alan Gelfand, whose lawsuit against the US government led to the exposure of high-level agents of the FBI and Soviet secret police in the Socialist Workers Party, died Wednesday, October 29, in Los Angeles. He was 76 years old.
David Neita, who played a leading role in the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party) during the 1970s, died on October 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.
Police in Queensland last week arrested two participants in a Students for Palestine rally for saying or displaying the anti-genocide slogan “from the river to the sea.”
The UN human rights office said the cumulative impact of Israel’s military conduct during its war against the Palestinians, along with its blockade of the territory, had inflicted living conditions “increasingly incompatible with Palestinians’ continued existence as a group in Gaza.”
Thursday’s large turnout was a response to the brutal police rampage orchestrated by the NSW Labor government in Sydney days earlier.
“That was police brutality, and I was shocked to see that happening here.”
With the case of the prosecution against Bogdan Syrotiuk shattered, the Ukrainian state is deliberately withholding urgently necessary medical care.
The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a forensic linguistic analysis that shatters the fraudulent case against him.
The linguistic examination by Yuri Irkhin, one of Ukraine’s leading criminologist, marks not only a major setback for the prosecution. It is also a powerful vindication of the principled opposition by the Trotskyist movement to the war in Ukraine.
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
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 corruption trial involving 402 defendants, including arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is seen as President Erdoğan's main political rival, began this week.
The “coalition of political forces of Iranian Kurdistan” represents yet another episode in the protracted and disastrous alignment of Kurdish bourgeois nationalist organizations with American imperialism.
The State Department ordered the evacuation of non-essential personnel and family members from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Monday, amid a major buildup of forces in the Middle East and intensifying preparations for war against Iran.
The Trump administration is assembling the largest concentration of American military force in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, placing the United States on the brink of a massive illegal war against Iran that could last weeks or months and engulf the entire region.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
“The timeline of it, how things have gone this year, and how there are all these Western countries supporting the bombing of Iran and other wars—this is a lead-up to world war.”
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
At Friday’s protest, students marched and carried handmade signs that read “No one is illegal on stolen land,” “The revolution is in the hands of the youth” and “It was never about criminals.”
While wars are being stoked and escalated in the Middle East, Latin America and worldwide, thousands of young people in Germany are currently receiving letters to register for military service.
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.
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 event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
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.
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.
Having amassed vast military power in the Middle East spearheaded by two aircraft carrier strike groups and scores of warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours.
According to an assessment by The i Paper published Saturday, since last Tuesday, “at least 28 US military flights have used airbases in the UK and Cyprus to carry out one of the largest build-ups of US military strength in the Middle East for decades.”
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest warship ever built, transited the Strait of Gibraltar on Friday and entered the Mediterranean, placing the United States within days of having the military force in position for a massive illegal assault on Iran.
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 presentation of 'Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism', featuring David North at the Leipzig Book Fair, met with strong interest and underscored the growing interest in a socialist perspective against fascism and war.
A serious artistic appraisal of the Troubles, and serious attempts to understand their effect at a personal level, would have to begin from a historical and political understanding both of British imperialism and the limitations of bourgeois nationalism.
Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.
With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.
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.
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.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement 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.
The war against Iran is being waged as a criminal conspiracy against the population of the United States and the entire world.
In the month since the US-Israeli war against Iran began, the United States has been shaken by an accelerating eruption of class struggle.
This lecture by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North examines the historical background of the war against Iran in relation to the strategy of American imperialism.
In light of Trump’s record of launching military attacks under the cover of negotiations, his claim about “conversations” about a “total resolution of our hostilities” with Iran is not simply unbelievable. It is sinister.
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.
