Brasher is the fourth Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.
The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.
A report titled How ‘stopping the boats’ kills show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".
Two people have died in Michigan in the largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis ever recorded in the United States.
Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.
As the last of the major German carmakers, BMW has now joined the ranks of corporations destroying jobs on a massive scale, agreeing with IG Metall to cut around 8,000 positions—almost one in 10 of its 84,000 jobs in Germany.
For appearances’ sake, the capitalist Norwegian state invokes democracy and equality before the law. In practice, however, this has long been countered by a strike law designed to suppress industrial action.
Lehman advanced a program of rank-and-file power, internationalism and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy in stark contrast to the other candidates, who are seeking to place themselves at the head of the corrupt and bloated union apparatus.
A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democratic Party to fight.
Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties.
The Sandinista government is pushing a constitutional reform excluding US-funded parties from elections, even as it answers imperialist pressure with concessions to Washington and foreign capital.
The raids expose the growing anti-China witch-hunt as a pretext for building the legal framework to criminalize political opposition.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled for the second time in less than a month, July 22, that management at the strikebound Bank of Canada, a key institution of the Canadian capitalist state, were in violation of the recently enacted revisions of the Canada Labour Code in Bill C-58.
Takaichi announced her government would designate the earthquake “a disaster of extreme severity,” but only provided $US127 million in assistance for the devastated prefecture.
Bennett’s vast audience, including new generations who first heard him in the 1990s, demonstrated there was a hunger in the population for music and lyrics of artistry and honesty, in contrast to the “gangster rap,” synthetic show tunes and banal “hits” by celebrity performers pumped out by the entertainment moguls.
This TV program is a full-throated promotion of militarism, seeking to counter the animosity toward war among young people.
Despite two widely supported 24-hour strikes last year, educators in Queensland remain straitjacketed in an arbitration system, facing a more than two-year pay freeze and no relief from intolerable workloads.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed his campaign pledge to support a $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides, some of the city’s most exploited workers.
The Selective Service System is seeking a contractor to build a computer simulation capable of testing the mass mobilization of conscripts for a major war.
This book provides the first comprehensive account of Bogdan’s case and brings together his own writings and analyses the historical and political causes of the war in Ukraine.
This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to public meetings in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow,
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.
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 WSWS is posting highlight clips from the webinar to all of our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X/Twitter.
More than 60,000 workers and their families have been driven from their homes in Spokane, Washington, as wildfires destroy hundreds of structures in the worst climate-related disaster in the region's history.
There is nothing accidental about the dozens of deaths, as over 60,000 people sought to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Europe’s governments have effectively abolished refugee rights and built external borders that Trump would be proud of. Europe’s leaders prefer mass death to allowing immigrants to reach the continent.
Trump’s bill is projected to cut about $1.4 trillion in federal spending over 10 years. The government estimates the work requirements for Medicaid will strip 2.3 million people from the Medicaid rolls in its first year.
A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democratic Party to fight.
Israeli forces killed at least 26 people in Gaza over the weekend, striking apartment blocks, tent camps and the medicine warehouses of a hospital in the territory’s deadliest days in weeks.
What Washington called “precision strikes” were an open extension of the war into Iraq, carried out with the participation of Saudi Arabia.
Trump ordered a pause to 13 nights of US air strikes on Iranian targets Friday under conditions in which US munition stockpiles, especially for its missile defence systems, are running low. However, recent days have underscored that American imperialism and its allies continue to systematically escalate the war.
Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the same global imperialist onslaught that includes the genocide in Gaza and the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Sam Neill never lost his genuine concern for the plight of workers and the oppressed, contempt for racialist politics and distrust of celebrity.
Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd, releases a “reimagined” version of the 1979 iconic track “Comfortably Numb” with Palestinian artist Mona Miari.
Gehry rejected the classical stylistic references adopted by the post-modernists and strove for beauty in the choice of materials and form. His work is more that of a sculptor whose creations are inhabitable by people.
The censorship by ZDF management of a song by Danger Dan and Igor Levit calling for resistance against the AfD provoked no storm of outrage from the programme's hosts.
The volume “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk” brings together for the first time the most important statements and articles on the case.
The meeting took place at a time when Bogdan’s trial is at a critical turning point. Two expert reports have now exposed the core of the charge—that Bogdan spreads Russian propaganda—as baseless.
The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.
In the case against 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, a third linguistic expert opinion requested by the court further undermines the case of the prosecution, based on charges of “state treason under martial law”.
Approximately 68,000 immigrants are languishing in a mostly for-profit concentration camp system marked by medical neglect, deaths in custody, force-feeding and contaminated drinking water.
Masked federal agents are seizing immigrants with work authorization and pending legal claims, frequently without producing warrants, before imprisoning them in an increasingly deadly network of private concentration camps.
The administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as it imposed a new rule allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications to be sent into deportation proceedings without an interview.
Trump’s appearance combined appeals to economic nationalism with red-baiting against all political opposition.
While Porsche and the IG Metall-dominated works council have agreed to further job and pay cuts and worse conditions, union officials are being rewarded with new paid positions on a “future advisory board.”
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.
The trade union is enforcing the sacking of teachers for “under-performance” via the so-called Teacher Improvement Program.
Workers at Great Canadian Entertainment casinos are demanding pay parity, while workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in Pennsylvania have rejected management's inadequate wage offer.
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.
Born into the rubble of post-war Germany, Herma Huber belonged to a generation that demanded answers to the great catastrophe of Nazi fascism. Rejecting both Stalinist lies and capitalist hypocrisy, she found her answer in Trotskyism.
Herma’s willingness to help others was almost boundless, but she was also a fighter for justice and equality and, above all, against war and fascism.”
The reorganization of Tokyo’s intelligence operations is to expand military planning with allies while attacking democratic rights at home in order to clamp down on anti-war opposition.
The officers involved remain on active duty; none has been suspended or stood down.
The vote shows that South Australian nurses and midwives are not only up against a Labor government that wants to slash their pay and conditions, but a union bureaucracy that is complicit in the attack.
NZ First Party leader Winston Peters’ racist tirade against Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan demonises Chinese people in order to divide workers and further align New Zealand with US-led war preparations.
Amid a right-wing backlash following events at Ceuta encompassing all Europe’s capitalist parties, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham travelled to Dover on Sunday to take his place in this xenophobic campaign.
Ever since the beginning of the NATO-provoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, terrorist attacks on Russian soil have formed a critical part of the NATO-Ukraine war strategy.
The government’s disastrous poll ratings reflect growing opposition to policies that enjoy no support whatsoever among the population.
The courts move swiftly to protect fascist speech while criminalizing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
WSWS writer Dinesh Heymaal was threatened with arrest by police after he opposed the nationalism and militarism of politicians and union officials following a fishermen’s protest near Jaffna.
The fake left have chimed in, not to denounce the government and prison authorities for their brutality, but to join the chorus calling for prison reform and how to run the jails more efficiently.
The inferno in the Katuwana Industrial Zone is a case of industrial murder—the direct and inevitable product of a capitalist system that subordinates human life to the relentless drive for profit.
The SEP and the IYSSE call on workers and youth to demand the unconditional release of 12 people sentenced to death on threadbare circumstantial evidence.
The family and coworkers of James Brasher received empty promises of a full investigation from the UAW and management, who are covering up details of the tragedy.
In the latest mining industry fatality, a worker was killed and another seriously injured in a collision between two vehicles at BMA’s open-cut coal mine.
As of publication, neither Teamsters Local 384, the Teamsters national union, nor its Package Division have issued a public statement on the death.
On July 27, 2025, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) presented its initial findings of its independent investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
NHS FightBack, representing rank-and-file doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, e-mailed a letter to the UAW to register outrage and demand immediate action.
Lehman advanced a program of rank-and-file power, internationalism and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy in stark contrast to the other candidates, who are seeking to place themselves at the head of the corrupt and bloated union apparatus.
The IYSSE’s club at Victoria University of Wellington passed a resolution condemning the threat made by United Auto Workers official Raymond Jensen Jr. against Lehman, who is running for president of the UAW on a socialist platform.
Will Lehman, a candidate for the presidency of the United Auto Workers in the ongoing election, was sent a death threat by a top union official and close ally of current President Shawn Fain. Workers across Canada have responded angrily to Jensen’s thuggish behaviour and sent statements of solidarity to the WSWS.
More than 900 fires are currently burning across Canada, with dozens of them out of control. Over 120 of these are raging in British Columbia, where residents of well over 2,000 properties had been evacuated under 32 orders as of Friday.
The opening of the vital Detroit-Windsor crossing exposes both the international integration of production and the efforts of the capitalist parties and union bureaucracies to divide workers through nationalism and trade war.
Four Los Angeles water main collapses expose the systemic decay of American infrastructure under capitalism, sacrificed to war and corporate wealth.
The appointment follows the political removal of Aria Fani for criticizing US and Israeli military aggression, part of a nationwide campaign by university administrations to suppress anti-war and anti-Zionist speech.
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.
Kenya and Tanzania’s youth opposition are part of a single continental and global process, driven by the same underlying conditions. In both countries the youth have shown they can transcend the ethnic divisions long exploited by the ruling class.
The pogromist groups act as the extra-parliamentary spearhead of the African National Congress-led ten party Government of National Unity’s anti-immigrant policies.
The Tanzanian working class and youth confront a corrupt bourgeois state defending itself through terror, an opposition tied to the same capitalist order, and imperialist powers competing against rising capitalist powers like China to loot the country's resources.
Concerns were growing that sales of dollar assets by Japan to prop up its currency could have adversely impacted the US bond market.
The demise of Situational Awareness could have set off a fire sale of assets possibly sending the rout in the market for chipmaking stocks out of control.
Bond markets signal that inflation is set to rise over coming months and maybe even years.
The past week has seen a sharp fall in the share price of major chipmaking firms, especially those based in South Korea, but now extending to Wall Street.
The infighting within the Republican Party and the Trump administration is a sign of the deepening political crisis within the US ruling elite.
The US president was joined by Volodymyr Zelensky, Benjamin Netanyahu and Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the funeral of the warhawk senator.
The lurch to dictatorship is not the work of one individual, but rather the response of a crisis-ridden ruling oligarchy to unprecedented levels of social polarization and growing opposition in the working class.
The fascist president’s remarks were a mixture of rehashed insults and incomprehensible meandering.
The former Maine Senate president is being promoted as a working class insurgent, but his 26-year political record is defined by economic nationalism, attacks on immigrant and Canadian workers and corporate subsidies.
With various manoeuvres and phoney militant posturing, the pseudo-left groups are trying to keep teachers subordinated to a union leadership that is pushing a sellout.
Jacobin’s theoretical case for subordinating the Argentine working class to Peronism rests on a falsification of Leon Trotsky's actual struggle against the Popular Front.
Mamdani’s declaration that he will not arrest Netanyahu is, as a factual matter, a reversal. As a candidate, he pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York, and as recently as July 18 he said in an interview with the New York Times that he was in “active conversation” with the city’s law department about enforcing the ICC warrant.
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.
The VRAEM operation was carried out for maximum political impact, while international delegations were still on Peruvian soil for the inauguration.
The widening humanitarian crisis has not stopped the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales—with estimates as high as 96.5 percent of the revenue.
The seven “objectives” announced by Peru's incoming president express the interests not simply of Fujimorism, but of the Peruvian financial oligarchy and US imperialism, at a moment of acute crisis of bourgeois rule.
Police detained 52 teachers in Ankara on Thursday as they marched between ministries demanding a legal base salary. The government says there is no money — while military spending reaches $US30 billion.
On the tenth anniversary of the 2016 coup attempt, the Erdoğan government marks it as a "victory of democracy," concealing the US-NATO involvement and the drive to dictatorship that followed.
Türkiye’s official statistics cannot hide the fact that the country is experiencing one of the sharpest and most devastating forms of the global youth unemployment crisis.
Representative Ro Khanna and his delegation were detained by a gang of armed Zionist settler vigilantes and a group of four Israeli soldiers for more than an hour on Wednesday during a tour of the West Bank.
Drapatyi is widely seen to be in favor of a military strategy, centered on the use of long-range drones that hit infrastructure and civilian targets deep within Russian territory.
Under the seemingly harmless phrase “Germany is becoming crisis-proof,” the Bundeswehr, the state apparatus, the economy and the whole of society are to be rapidly prepared for a direct war against Russia.
Whatever the outcome of the dispute between these two nationalist governments, the conflict underscores that their war alliance against Russia is as fragile as it is reactionary.
The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.
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.
Bush restricts federal funding for embryonic stem cell research; striking ILWU worker Norman Ray Lewis murdered on a California picket line; US breaks off Korean War armistice talks; first commercial "talkie" film premieres in New York.
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.
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 existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
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.
Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.
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.
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.
Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties.
Countermeasures against the Bundibugyo strain do not exist because US medical funding follows biodefense threat designation rather than the number of dead.
With more than 6,000 cases in Michigan alone and no confirmed product test, the government has extracted no penalty from Taylor Farms, which continues to dictate the scope of its own recall.
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.
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.
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
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.
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.
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.
Brasher is the fourth Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.
More than 60,000 workers and their families have been driven from their homes in Spokane, Washington, as wildfires destroy hundreds of structures in the worst climate-related disaster in the region's history.
There is nothing accidental about the dozens of deaths, as over 60,000 people sought to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Europe’s governments have effectively abolished refugee rights and built external borders that Trump would be proud of. Europe’s leaders prefer mass death to allowing immigrants to reach the continent.
Trump’s bill is projected to cut about $1.4 trillion in federal spending over 10 years. The government estimates the work requirements for Medicaid will strip 2.3 million people from the Medicaid rolls in its first year.
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.
