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The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution.
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The Socialist Equality Party replies to Trump’s fascist address to Congress
In the United States, where the capitalist two-party system has been in place for 150 years, all those genuinely opposed to the policies and interests of the ruling class are denied the right to address the people. However, if the Socialist Equality Party had been given the opportunity to deliver a televised rebuttal, not only to Trump’s State of the Union Address but also to the Democrats’ reply, this is what we would have said.
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Mamdani embraces Trump: Collaboration with fascism from the DSA mayor
Mamdani stood side-by-side with the would-be dictator who has the blood of thousands on his hands, and may soon have the blood of millions, as his war fleet assembles off the coast of Iran.
Stellantis’ announcement of no profit sharing payout in 2026 provoked immediate outrage among tens of thousands of US workers who rely on the checks to pay essential bills.
Shannon Jones•
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.
Keith Jones•
Trump's blacklisting of Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei's response expose the real character of the dispute: not a conflict between ethics and militarism, but between two factions of the ruling class over the terms of AI's integration into the US war machine.
Evan Blake•
While the DOJ has cited possible corruption, it is likely that Carvalho was targeted for his criticisms of ICE raids targeting immigrant children.
Marc Wells•
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, who was nearly blind and unable to speak English, was left at a donut shop in Buffalo by two Customs and Border Patrol agents five miles from his home and found dead on a downtown city street four days later.
Kevin Reed•
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.
Pierre Lajeunesse•
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.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
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.
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
What accounts for the elevation of this sociopathic individual to the most powerful political office on earth? What are the social, economic, and political processes that have produced this outcome? And what class forces are at work?
David North•
David North delivered lectures online at the invitation of Social Democracy clubs at Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, both located in Ankara, Turkey. The lectures were delivered on February 17 and 19.
David North•
The film is built around the family life of playwright William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1590s and the death of their 11-year-old son.
David Walsh•
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a two-day visit to Israel this week, choosing to further elevate India’s “strategic partnership” with Israel at the very point that Washington and Tel Aviv are poised to launched a criminal, unprovoked war on Iran.
Rohantha De Silva, Keith Jones•
Plans for war against China coincide with plans for the suppression of political opposition and democratic rights within Japan.
Ben McGrath•
Two characteristics of the American petty-bourgeois intelligentsia are highlighted in the Chomsky-Epstein correspondence: an infatuation with celebrity and wealth and a complete lack of genuine intellectual independence from bourgeois society.
Evan Blake•
Your Party leadership elections put Corbyn in charge
Time for a revolutionary opposition
The results were a rout for the Grassroots Left faction led by Zarah Sultana and its declared aim of transforming Your Party into an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist party dedicated to nationalising the economy.
Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps•
Educators and parents voiced their opposition to Mamdani’s decision—and to the leadership of the UFT, which had put up no opposition to it—online as well as in a petition that collected over 170,000 signatures.
Sandy English•
Across the US, teachers and students who join or support anti‑ICE walkouts are being investigated, disciplined and even criminally threatened.
Nancy Hanover•
Cuba repels armed provocation as US tries to starve island into submission
An armed “terrorist infiltration” by a US‑flagged speedboat exposes the increasingly reckless character of Washington’s regime‑change campaign.
Andrea Lobo•
Union bureaucracy sabotages the Kaiser Permanente strike
The shutdown of the strike, without prior notice, a contract or even a tentative agreement, underscores the need for a workers’ rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
Tom Hall•
Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism—Foreword to the German edition
We are publishing below the foreword to the German edition of the new book Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism (edited by David North), which will soon be published by Mehring Verlag.
Johannes Stern•
The real state of Trump’s America: Social misery, dictatorship, war—and an upsurge of class struggle
The fascist president heads a government of, by and for the financial oligarchy.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Andre Damon•
David North•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
John Burton•
Peter Schwarz•
Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
WSWS International Editorial Board•
Answers from Socialism AI
What must be done to prepare a nationwide general strike against the Trump administration?
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.
Socialism AI•
Trump’s January 6 coup: Answers from Socialism AI
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.
Socialism AI•
Technology and the working class: Responding to an opponent of Socialism AI
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
Ty•
Our reporters•
Australian logistics software maker WiseTech announces 2,000 AI-driven job cuts
“The era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over,” according to WiseTech CEO Zubin Appoo.
Martin Scott•
Australian housing crisis: Unaffordability at record levels
The Labor government’s expanded “first home buyer” schemes have not provided relief for workers and young people but rather have inflated prices and further enriched banks, developers, and existing property owners.
Cheryl Crisp•
New Zealand: Union pushes through pay cut for 12,300 health workers
The two-year agreement follows a similar sellout by the secondary teachers’ union, with both deals aimed at imposing the right-wing coalition government’s austerity agenda.
Tom Peters•
Australia: Police confiscate anti-genocide placard at Ramadan festival in Lakemba
The police theft of a placard featuring the face of Israeli war criminal Netanyahu and the caption “wanted” was a provocation that would have been approved at high levels of the NSW government and police command.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Tom Peters•
John Braddock•
Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell•
Sofia Devetzi•
SAG-AFTRA negotiations begin: What are the issues facing actors and other industry workers?
The conditions today are even more tense and fraught than those that led to a 118-day strike in 2023.
Hong Jian•
Actor Robert Duvall (1931-2026): A realist who went beyond his own conceptions
Duvall began acting in the theater in the 1950s, pursued a career in television in the 1960s and achieved his greatest prominence in films in the 1970s and beyond.
David Walsh•
Say Nothing: Everything essential about the Northern Ireland conflict left unsaid
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.
Paul Bond•
Berlinale award winners demand festival and its backers take a clear stand against Gaza genocide
The support for Israel’s genocidal policy by the German government and cultural institutions was the subject of fierce and prolonged protest at this year’s Berlinale.
Stefan Steinberg•
Owen Howell•
Fred Mazelis•
Stefan Steinberg•
Sybille Fuchs•
Paul Mitchell•
CWU leader Martin Walsh uses restricted consultation exercise to claim backing for restructuring at Royal Mail
Comments from postal workers on the CWU’s Facebook questioned whether the rejection of ODM at pilot offices signified support for the union’s proposal, which involves absorbing additional work by reducing existing duties and positions within the “Heavy and Light” model.
Tony Robson•
Imperial College London staff strike over pay: “Our effective pay has been cut by 9 percent since 2018”
Staff have taken three one-day strikes in February. They have now held 13 strike days since a ballot in September last year
Our reporters•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation women workers protest; Private hospital nurses in Kerala strike for higher pay; National action by Sri Lankan non-academic university workers; Queensland public sector trades workers resume industrial action; New Zealand shellfish processing workers strike.
30,000 LA school support workers overwhelmingly vote to strike
With the previous vote by teachers, some 65,000 Los Angeles Unified School District employees are poised to strike.
Marc Wells•
Samuel Davidson•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at George Mason University•
Tom Hall•
Our reporters•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Labour Party suffers Gorton and Denton by-election wipe out by Greens
A leadership challenge to Keir Starmer is ever more likely after May’s local elections, which Labour is also expected to lose heavily.
Robert Stevens•
Corruption scandal hits Greece’s GSEE trade union bureaucracy
At the centre of scandal is an investigation concerning €2.1 million government and European Union funding, out of a €73 million total, provided between 2020 and 2025 for professional education and training programmes.
John Vassilopoulos•
Hanau shooting memorial highlights political shift to the right in Germany’s political establishment
On the sixth anniversary of the racist terror attack, the families of the victims warn of the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the "fascistic escalation" in the US. At the same time, the establishment parties are distancing themselves from such commemorations.
Marianne Arens•
UK Labour government reels following arrest of Peter Mandelson over Epstein connections
Not only did Mandelson epitomise the New Labour agenda of serving every requirement of the banks and corporations, but his close relations with Epstein were seen at the time as an asset that would facilitate efforts to woo the Trump administration.
Robert Stevens•
Anthony Torres•
Jan Ritter•
Jean Shaoul•
Chris Marsden•
Chris Marsden, Robert Stevens•
Argentina’s labor bill vote and tire factory shutdown expose pseudo-left unionism
As Argentina’s Senate approved fascist President Javier Milei’s Labor Modernization bill, pseudo-left unions promoted nationalist appeals to the Peronist bureaucracy, repeating the betrayals that paved the way for the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Andrea Lobo•
Amid deepening crisis of class rule, Peru saddled with eighth president in 10 years
Peru has become a focal point in US imperialism’s drive to roll back China’s economic influence and reassert Washington’s hegemony in Latin America.
Cesar Uco, Bill Van Auken•
Cuban worker describes hellish conditions, appeals to US workers to force an end to embargo
A Cuban worker and single mother in Matanzas describes blackouts of up to 30 hours, children going to bed hungry and an atmosphere of fear under Trump’s genocidal embargo.
Our reporters•
US-backed “execution” of Jalisco Cartel chief threatens greater carnage in Mexico
The US-directed “execution” of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho in Mexico has unleashed nationwide chaos and will be exploited to deepen militarization and imperialist control.
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Andre Damon•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Andrea Lobo•
Cesar Uco•
UCLA, Los Angeles schools chief targeted by Trump administration
Together, they constitute an extraordinary and coordinated intervention by Trump, aimed at intimidating opposition and reasserting state authority amid a rapidly intensifying class struggle.
Marc Wells•
Kaiser Permanente files $95 million insurance lawsuit after record Medicare Advantage fraud settlement
The legal battle exposes the irrationality of a healthcare system subordinated to financial manipulation, fraud settlements and insurance profiteering.
Marc Wells•
Florida continues execution surge with lethal injection of Melvin Trotter
Trotter’s legal team long argued for mercy based on their client's intellectual disabilities and the fact that he was high on crack at the time of the crime and came to the store unarmed, demonstrating he lacked the capacity for premeditation.
Kate Randall•
Measles cases in the US surge past 1,000 in 2026
Measles cases in the United States have already exceeded 1,000 in 2026, increasing at a far faster pace than last year, which marked a three-decade high. The outbreak exposes the deadly consequences of the Trump-Kennedy effort to destroy public health institutions.
Benjamin Mateus•
Graham Beverley•
Bill Van Auken•
Laurent Lafrance•
Rafael Azul•
Marc Wells•
This week in history: February 23-March 1
Supreme Court upholds $45 million fine on pilots union; British government criminalizes Irish Republican activity; 22nd Amendment to US Constitution ratified; American communist tried for blasphemy.
Jesse Jackson: From civil rights to black capitalism
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.
Tom Mackaman•
Historical issues arising from the Stalinist Turkish Communist Party’s mass meeting in Ankara
The TKP’s meeting brought to the fore vital issues that demonstrate the relevance of the historical struggle between Trotskyism and Stalinism.
Ulaş Sevinç•
“Military glory—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood”
Trump falsifies the history of the Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border whose consequences still shape American politics.
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Ron Jorgenson•
James Clayton•
Mikhail Pavlovich•
David Brown•
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for rank-and-file slate as delegate elections begin
Elections are currently taking place at UAW locals for delegates to the Constitutional Convention schedule for June 15-18 in Detroit.
Jerry White•
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for solidarity with Turkish miners’ wildcat strike
The miners have halted production to demand payment of unpaid wages, enforcement of promotion rights, retroactive contract benefits, guaranteed seniority and severance protections, and genuine health and safety measures.
Our reporters•
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman denounces police attack on Quakertown, Pennsylvania student protest against ICE
Five students and one adult were arrested after police attacked a protest against ICE raids and detentions.
Our reporters•
Strong support at Ford Rouge for rank-and-file campaign of Will Lehman for UAW president
Dozens of workers stopped to speak with campaigners, voicing frustration with unbearable workloads, forced overtime, harassment, and indifference from UAW reps who “side with management.”
our reporters•
our reporter•
Our reporters•
Peter Schwarz•
Andrea Lobo•
Our reporters•
Mamdani deepens collaboration with Trump in second White House meeting
Mamdani met with the president in the Oval Office supposedly to propose a housing plan less than two days after Trump’s fascistic State of the Union address.
Daniel de Vries•
Drop Site investigation reveals Israeli surveillance and security system installed at Epstein-controlled Manhattan apartment building
Drop Site News reports that newly disclosed documents show the Israeli government installed a security system at a Manhattan apartment building controlled by Jeffrey Epstein — a property that court filings, sworn depositions and police reports identify as housing underage girls and alleged co-conspirators in his sex trafficking operation.
Jacob Crosse•
From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means
The Senate committee hearing laid bare the anti-science agenda driving the Trump-Kennedy assault on public health, while Democrats offered only performative opposition.
Evan Blake•
Epstein files naming Trump as attacker were withheld by DOJ
Multiple media reports quote Epstein victims whose statements to the FBI were recorded, but not released by the Department of Justice last month.
Patrick Martin•
Evan Blake•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Evan Blake•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Report on impact of AI triggers market turmoil
A hypothetical scenario set out by the research firm Citrini “tapped into a new strain of fears about AI.”
Nick Beams•
After Supreme Court decision, Trump tariff war to intensify
The court ruling does not mean a return to constitutionality by the Trump regime or a restoration of the status quo ante as far as international economic relations are concerned.
Nick Beams•
IMF calls on China to restructure its economy
The IMF said China’s trade surplus, more than $1 trillion last year, was giving rise to “international spillovers and pressures,” an implicit warning of trade war measures.
Nick Beams•
AI turmoil continues on 2 fronts
With the development of new AI tools disrupting established business models, financial markets are “wracked with uncertainty” about what comes next.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Trump backers prepare executive order to seize control of US midterm elections
The fascist president has threatened to issue such an order if Congress fails to pass legislation aimed at suppressing turnout by anti-Trump voters in November.
Patrick Martin•
Palestinian Nerdeen Kiswani files civil rights lawsuit against Zionist Betar USA under Ku Klux Klan Act
Kiswani’s suit alleges that the violent far-right group has been targeting her for over a year, including by supplying her name to the Trump administration for deportation.
Jacob Crosse•
Mass protests in Detroit area against plans for ICE detention and operational centers
Hundreds of people in Romulus and Southfield, Michigan, protested Monday evening against plans to expand ICE operations across the Detroit metro area.
Our reporters•
More time behind bars than Trump
2 Pennsylvania students remain imprisoned 4 days after anti-ICE protest as “Quakertown 5” face felony charges
Five minors held more than 72 hours after being assaulted by police at an anti-ICE rally now face felony charges while the police chief seen choking a student remains uncharged.
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Phyllis Steele•
Kevin Reed•
The measles vaccine: A product of two centuries of science and public health reform
For much of the 20th century, measles was regarded as an unavoidable illness of childhood, even as it killed millions of people worldwide each year. The development of a safe and effective vaccine fundamentally changed that reality.
Benjamin Mateus•
UN report calls for action on “water bankruptcy” affecting billions of people
The report warns that unsustainable water resource practices are causing potentially irreversible damage to water systems that require urgent action to rectify
Alex Findijs•
Bonobo demonstrates the cognitive ability to imagine “make believe” objects
Such capacity forms the evolutionary basis for abstract symbolic thought among humans.
Philip Guelpa•
The US withdrawal from the WHO and the assault on public health
The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization marks a decisive turn toward nationalism and the dismantling of public health.
Benjamin Mateus•
Bryan Dyne•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus •
Gary Alvernia•
IMF chief hails Sri Lanka “success story” as its austerity agenda deepens social crisis
Kristalina Georgieva’s visit was to ensure that Sri Lanka will continue to implement the IMF’s harsh austerity policies that protect the profits of big business while heaping more burdens on workers and the poor.
Saman Gunadasa•
At meeting to defend public health, Sri Lanka’s health workers express solidarity with counterparts in US
The Health Workers’ Action Committee of Sri Lanka held a February 20 online meeting to defend the island nation's free public health system.
Health Workers Action Committee (HWAC) –Sri Lanka•
Sri Lanka: 12 death sentences imposed for killing an MP amid 2022 uprising
On the basis of threadbare evidence and flawed legal reasoning, a court sentenced 12 people to death in what amounts to an act of class vengeance, designed to intimidate rising opposition to the present government’s austerity program.
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Online Public Meeting: Sri Lankan doctors’ protests and the fight to defend free public health
The struggle for better conditions for health employees is inseparably bound up with defending free healthcare, won through the bitter struggles of the working class, and supported by the poor.
The Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)•
Wimal Perera•
Our reporters•
N. Rangesh•
W.A. Sunil•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole faces fraudulent charges as detention continues
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.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
South Africa’s ANC to deploy army to police the working class
Protests in South Africa, and the conditions that gave rise to them, echo the experience of the youth-led uprisings seen elsewhere on the continent. The deployment of the army is a pre-emptive measure by the ruling class.
Jean de Jager•
Landslides kill 227 at Democratic Republic of Congo coltan mines at the centre of Washington’s struggle to control vital mineral resources
The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Sony and BMW--and the armed violence that secures their raw materials.
Jean Shaoul•
Attacking the WSWS, the Communist Party Marxist–Kenya salutes the gravedigger of the revolution, Stalin
The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through terror, and subordinated the international working class to the interests of a privileged bureaucratic caste.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul, Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean de Jager, Alejandro López•
US Department of Labor reports 5,070 US workers killed on the job in 2024
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.
Steve Filips•
53-year-old Flint worker crushed to death in scrap yard
The worker was killed when a crane crushed him between its excavator arm and the bucket of the front-end loader.
Luke Galvin•
California worker killed in US Foods distribution facility
A veteran worker’s death exposes deadly yard conditions, corporate indifference and the Teamsters’ role in enforcing contracts that sacrifice workers’ safety.
Marc Wells•
71-year-old subcontractor killed after falling into industrial vat at New Jersey chemical plant
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.
Robert Milkowski•
John Vassilopoulos•
George Marlowe•
John Vassilopoulos, Robert Stevens•
Martin Scott•
Brian Green, Kristina Betinis•
9 months since death of Michigan autoworker Ronald Adams
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.
Jerry White •
“Our family wants answers that we have not gotten”: 8 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
Jerry White•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
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.
David North•
6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Ukrainian President Zelensky pledges elections, quickly backtracks
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.
Jason Melanovski•
New Ukrainian Defense Minister reveals scale of desertions, draft dodgers
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.
Jason Melanovski•
Europe’s cannon fodder: Introduction and expansion of conscription in numerous EU countries
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.
Katerina Selin•
Starmer’s agreement to send UK troops to Ukraine fuels demands for urgent military expansion
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.
Robert Stevens•
Jason Melanovski•
Clara Weiss•
Barış Demir•
Evgeny Kostrov•
Peter Schwarz•
Great Barrington Declaration author Jay Bhattacharya takes control of CDC as measles cases surge
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
The measles vaccine: A product of two centuries of science and public health reform
For much of the 20th century, measles was regarded as an unavoidable illness of childhood, even as it killed millions of people worldwide each year. The development of a safe and effective vaccine fundamentally changed that reality.
Benjamin Mateus•
UK loses measles elimination status amid sustained assault on public health
Increasing vaccine coverage is the key to eliminating measles, but this goal is being actively undermined by the Starmer government’s continued assault on public spending and the National Health Service.
Henry Lee•
An assessment of the ongoing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic
This article examines the state of public health in the United States in January 2026, detailing mass COVID-19 infection, excess deaths, collapsing vaccination coverage, immune damage and the dismantling of institutions responsible for disease prevention.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi defies Turkish state’s intervention on its program
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.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
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.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
Opening Report to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
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.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Statement of Principles of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi•
David North•
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
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 place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
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.
David North•
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
Eric London•
Lecture to the 2025 SEP Summer School
Joseph Hansen—the FBI’s asset in the SWP
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.
Thomas Scripps•
Lecture to the SEP 2025 Summer School
The Gelfand Case: Depositions and the fight against summary judgement
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.
John Burton•
Tom Carter•
Norisa Diaz•
Patrick Martin•
Andrea Lobo•
International Committee of the Fourth International•
Leela Balasuriya (1946–2025): A veteran Trotskyist fighter in Sri Lanka
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Alan Gelfand: A fighter for socialism and historical truth
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 North•
David Neita: January 5, 1948 – October 30, 2025
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.
David North•
A working class fighter for socialism: Joe Parnarauskis, 1954–2025
Parnarauskis is best known to readers of the WSWS for his 2006 campaign for Illinois state senate.
Tom Mackaman•
David North•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
UN report warns of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, West Bank
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.”
Jean Shaoul•
Mass protest against Israeli war criminal Herzog in Melbourne
Thursday’s large turnout was a response to the brutal police rampage orchestrated by the NSW Labor government in Sydney days earlier.
Eric Ludlow•
Melbourne protesters denounce Israeli war criminal’s visit to Australia, Labor’s police-state measures
“That was police brutality, and I was shocked to see that happening here.”
Our reporters•
Australian protesters against Herzog visit speak about police attacks
“Now if someone tells me about police brutality, I know exactly what they mean. I’ve had first-hand personal experience of it.”
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Marc Wells•
Jean Shaoul•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
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.
With US imperialist war machine in position, Trump menaces Iran in State of the Union speech
The absence of any expression of popular opposition to the war reflects both the backing among the European imperialist powers and broad support among the privileged middle class “left” for a “regime change” operation led by Washington.
Jordan Shilton•
Israeli air strikes kill 12 in Gaza on eve of Trump’s first “Board of Peace” meeting
Four days before the first meeting of President Trump’s misnamed Board of Peace in Washington, DC, the Israeli military continued its murderous assault on Palestinians by carrying out air strikes on tent shelters in the north and south of Gaza that killed 12 people.
Kevin Reed•
Princeton University cancels discussion by Norman Finkelstein on the ongoing Gaza genocide
A scheduled event at Princeton University featuring a discussion with Norman Finkelstein about the ongoing Gaza genocide was abruptly canceled the day before it was to be held due to “new University policy.”
Kevin Reed•
Trump and Netanyahu hold Iran war conclave
US President Donald Trump held a war council at the White House Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finalize plans for a massive military assault on Iran.
Keith Jones•
Jean Shaoul•
Andre Damon•
Kevin Reed•
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul•
Expert report shatters fraudulent case against Bogdan Syrotiuk: Deepen the international campaign for his freedom!
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.
Johannes Stern•
Leading Ukrainian criminologist finds charges of “state treason” against Bogdan Syrotiuk baseless
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.
Clara Weiss•
Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
US begins pulling staff from Beirut embassy amid Iran attack buildup
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.
Andre Damon•
US military buildup in Middle East against Iran largest since 2003
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.
Andre Damon•
Canada’s Liberal government backs imperialist regime change in Iran
As Trump masses US naval and air forces for a devastating assault on Iran, Canada’s Foreign Minster has declared Ottawa’s full-throated support for regime change in Tehran.
Graham Beverley•
Turkish parliamentary committee overwhelmingly approves report on negotiations with Kurdish Workers Party
The parliamentary commission established as part of Turkey’s negotiations with the PKK mainly advances the outlook of the Erdoğan government while receiving the support of the Kurdish DEM Party.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Keith Jones•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
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.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
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.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
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.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
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.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
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Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“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
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40 years since the suspension of the Workers Revolutionary Party from the ICFI
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.
Peter Schwarz•
From the Archives
Documents of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the suspension of the WRP
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.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
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.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
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.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
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.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
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.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
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.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
Royal Oak High School students in Detroit suburb walk out to defend immigrants
Dozens of students staged a spirited protest in defense of immigrants at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit Monday.
Shannon Jones, Noah Prince, Valery Tsekov•
Carson High School students walk out against ICE raids, dictatorship and war
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.”
Jessica Gateu, Marc Wells•
IYSSE meeting: For a socialist perspective against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
RT Interview with Tamino Dreisam on school strike against conscription in Germany
IYSSE in Germany: “We do not want to die for the interests of the rich”
An interview with IYSSE spokesperson Tamino Dreisam exposes the class interests behind Germany’s reintroduction of conscription, placing it within a broader drive toward militarisation, social cuts and imperialist war.
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International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Josh Andrews•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Turkey)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
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David North to speak at two universities in Ankara, Turkey: “The American volcano and the global tsunami”
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.
Our reporters•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
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.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
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.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
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 debacle and the fight against dictatorship
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.
Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
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.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
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.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
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.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
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.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
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.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
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.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
Find out more
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
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.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
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.
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25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
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.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
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.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
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.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
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.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
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.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
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.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
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.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
Trump poised to launch criminal war on Iran behind smokescreen of talks
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.
Keith Jones•
US planes flood UK bases in preparation for attack on Iran
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.”
Robert Stevens•
US draws up plans for “leadership change” and “targeting individuals” in Iran strike
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.
Andre Damon•
US forces in position for illegal attack on Iran
The United States has positioned its naval and air forces for a massive assault on Iran in the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Don Knowland•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Say Nothing: Everything essential about the Northern Ireland conflict left unsaid
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.
Paul Bond•
The Artamonov Business (1925): Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution
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.
Owen Howell•
An important book on fascism and World War II
Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”
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.
Stefan Steinberg, Clara Weiss•
National Book Award winner The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
The novel takes place in Beirut between 1960 and 2023, its story divided non-chronologically into seven sections.
James McDonald•
Eric London •
David Walsh, Sandy English•
Fred Mazelis•
Jean Shaoul•
James McDonald•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
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The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
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.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
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.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
Mamdani embraces Trump: Collaboration with fascism from the DSA mayor
Mamdani stood side-by-side with the would-be dictator who has the blood of thousands on his hands, and may soon have the blood of millions, as his war fleet assembles off the coast of Iran.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Cuba repels armed provocation as US tries to starve island into submission
An armed “terrorist infiltration” by a US‑flagged speedboat exposes the increasingly reckless character of Washington’s regime‑change campaign.
Andrea Lobo•
The Socialist Equality Party replies to Trump’s fascist address to Congress
In the United States, where the capitalist two-party system has been in place for 150 years, all those genuinely opposed to the policies and interests of the ruling class are denied the right to address the people. However, if the Socialist Equality Party had been given the opportunity to deliver a televised rebuttal, not only to Trump’s State of the Union Address but also to the Democrats’ reply, this is what we would have said.
David North•
Union bureaucracy sabotages the Kaiser Permanente strike
The shutdown of the strike, without prior notice, a contract or even a tentative agreement, underscores the need for a workers’ rebellion against the union bureaucracy.
Tom Hall•
WSWS Editorial Board•
John Burton•
Ben McGrath•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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