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US debt at $40 trillion as financial crisis deepens
The most revealing feature of the debt mountain is not just its size, significant as that is, but the speed with which it has grown.
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The Israeli government is building an execution facility to hang Palestinian prisoners, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Tuesday in a statement from his office. In video released from the site—a prison in central Israel that his office did not name—Ben-Gvir walks through the wing being built for condemned prisoners and says “gallows will be erected” there.
Andre Damon•
North answered questions on the fate of Ernst Thälmann, the Kronstadt uprising, the situation confronting workers in the Middle East and the strength of the Left Opposition inside the Soviet Union.
David North•
The international campaign demanding the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to expand rapidly following his sentencing to 15 years in prison on August 10.
Johannes Stern•
One week after a Ukrainian court sentenced the socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison, the Times published a front-page feature on a Ukrainian held in Russia—while maintaining its total silence on the political prisoners of the Zelensky regime.
Andre Damon•
As is always the case in Western coverage of Russia and the war, the history of both the war and the political tendencies in question is completely ignored.
Clara Weiss•
Arday’s appointment put a target on the back of a clearly quite vulnerable man, out of his depth and in no position to answer his critics and political opponents.
Chris Marsden•
Alexander Vindman became a celebrity among pro-war Democrats for his testimony against Trump during his 2019 impeachment over withholding military aid to Ukraine.
Patrick Martin•
The theft of workers' wages and other entitlements at the mines and enterprises is part of a systematic policy.
Süleyman Sağlam, Barış Demir•
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
Jerry White•
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
David North•
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
Joseph Kishore•
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
“Notes from a Resident Doctor” aims to break the wall of silence erected by the Labour government, hospital management, and health union bureaucrats by exposing conditions inside the NHS.
NHS FightBack•
Silvia’s execution came five days after the first triple execution day in the United States since 2010. Ten more executions are scheduled before the end of the year: two in Florida, five in Texas, two in Tennessee and one in Alabama.
Kate Randall•
The Hollywood merger exposes the union bureaucracy’s collaboration with oligarchs, threatening jobs, democratic rights and artistic freedom on a global scale.
Marc Wells•
In a recent interview, Greens candidate Josh Jacobsen defended the NZ military’s role in the criminal imperialist war.
Tom Peters•
“The cuts will hit clients, support workers, teachers, and healthcare staff alike. It is clear this is an international offensive against the working class.” – Maureen, a former aged-care nurse.
Our reporters•
Fascist Ukrainian court sentences Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of war, to 15 years in prison
The sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk is aimed at terrorizing opposition to the NATO-backed war against Russia.
WSWS Editorial Board•
International support surges for jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The international campaign demanding the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to expand rapidly following his sentencing to 15 years in prison on August 10.
Johannes Stern•
Socialist Equality Party (UK) calls on Britain’s Stop the War Coalition to defend Bogdan Syrotiuk
In a letter to STWC Convenor Lindsey German, the SEP’s Chris Marsden and Tom Scripps explained that 27-year-old Syrotiuk has been convicted of “high treason” for calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war.
Laura Tiernan•
Historians, doctors and workers on five continents demand freedom for jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Opposition to the imprisonment of Bogdan Syrotiuk continued to build over the weekend, six days after a Ukrainian court gave the 27-year-old socialist 15 years in prison for calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the war.
Andre Damon•
Johannes Stern•
Andre Damon•
Our reporters•
Andre Damon•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Horrific conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln: The ruling class’s contempt for the troops it sends to war
Reports that sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have either jumped overboard or attempted to do so have exposed the horrendous conditions facing the largely working class naval crew that has been at sea for 268 days and deployed in the Arabian Sea in the war against Iran for five months.
Kevin Reed•
Bernie Sanders’ AI letter: A bankrupt appeal to the oligarchs
Sanders’ letter is calculated to stoke fear while covering up the decisive fact: that AI is the private property of a financial oligarchy, developed in partnership with imperialism.
Joseph Kishore•
Disease outbreaks multiply, as Trump and Kennedy wage war on science
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
Evan Blake•
Ankara plane incident shows panic and disorientation of Trump White House
The episode that followed the NATO summit in Ankara is now causing a political uproar in Washington.
Patrick Martin•
Thomas Scripps•
Tom Hall•
Patrick Martin•
Jean Shaoul•
Patrick Martin•
Trump turns screws on South Korea to join Iran war
Incensed by South Korea’s refusal to join the US war of aggression against Iran, Trump has unilaterally reduced major joint war games that began Monday and announced plans for talks with North Korea.
Peter Symonds•
Museveni sends Ugandan troops to Gaza as proxies of US imperialism
Uganda will be joining other proxies within the International Stabilisation Force, including Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Sailor jumps overboard in suicide attempt on USS Abraham Lincoln
Reports in the military press and by MSNOW confirmed that a sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln jumped into the Arabian Sea in an attempted suicide on August 3, and that other Navy personnel had been restrained from attempting to go overboard in the ninth month of their deployment from San Diego.
Kevin Reed•
Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza plan, pursues Greater Israel agenda
Far from implementing the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, Israel has continued almost daily attacks across Gaza, killing 1,300 Palestinians, while expanding its territorial control from the 53 percent sanctioned under the agreement to more than 70 percent.
Jean Shaoul•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
Sandy English•
Patrick Martin•
Andre Damon•
Salzburg Festival sacks its acclaimed director for refusing to blacklist Russian artists
As Europe rearms against Russia, Austria’s Salzburg Festival has dismissed its acclaimed director for resisting political pressure to purge Russian artists.
Verena Nees•
The popularity of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Estimates vary, but it appears well over 100 million people worldwide have already seen it in movie theaters.
David Walsh•
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible”
Paul Klee at the Jewish Museum in New York: “Other Possible Worlds”
Klee drew inspiration from, and was claimed by, many artistic movements, but his highly individual, syncretic style is hard to classify.
Erik Schreiber•
Trump administration moves to gut the National Historic Preservation Act
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
Philip Guelpa•
Sandy English•
David Walsh•
Frank Gaglioti•
Barry Grey•
Richard Phillips•
Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a revolution.
Tomas Castanheira, Tom Mackaman•
An interview with historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
Tom Mackaman•
“It was universally understood as a revolution.” An Interview with historian Matthew Stewart on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
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.
Tom Mackaman•
The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings”
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.
David North•
Zac Corrigan•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Joseph Kishore•
Thomas Scripps•
Steven Mintz•
Australia: SEP meeting discusses how to fight Labor government’s attack on National Disability Insurance Scheme
Speakers exposed the disastrous consequences of the evisceration of the NDIS and its impact on the disabled and their families, and the jobs and conditions of health, education and welfare workers.
Our reporters•
Philippine impeachment trial advances Marcos’ consolidation of state power
Behind the constitutional theater in the Philippine Senate, the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte is being staged to eliminate the last significant political obstacle to Washington’s transformation of the archipelago into a forward base for war with China.
John Malvar•
Fiji’s Vatukoula goldminers receive a paltry payout after 35-year battle
The fraudulent settlement enables the Rabuka government to set aside a historic crime against the working class while enlisting the unions to absolve multinational mining companies of culpability.
John Braddock•
Deadly Indonesian earthquake exposes unsafe housing and rescue cuts
The earthquake was unavoidable, but the terrible impact on the island of Flores is a result of government neglect and austerity.
Robert Campion•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Jessicah Green•
Carolyn Kennett•
Postal workers: Organize now to stop the deepest cuts in US Postal Service’s history!
Management plans to spend the next four months preparing the attack. The bureaucracy of the postal unions will use the same period to block opposition from the rank and file. Postal workers need a plan of our own.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Strike by Egyptian textile workers: A turning point for the Middle East
The question posed by the new protest movement of Egypt’s powerful working class is how to overcome the political mechanisms that have repeatedly fragmented and contained workers’ struggles.
Jean Shaoul•
Brazil: Railway workers strike exposes privatization disaster in São Paulo
After just three days of private operation, delays, crowded platforms, and a train fire sent passengers into a panic.
Guilherme Ferreira, Brunna Machado•
Job cuts planned on Wellington, New Zealand rail network
The multinational company Transdev is threatening to eliminate 53 jobs as it transitions to cashless ticketing systems.
our correspondent•
Michael Barnes•
Landon Gourov•
Carolyn Kennett•
ICE turns state and local police into nationwide deportation force
The Trump administration has enlisted more than 2,000 state and local law enforcement agencies in ICE’s 287(g) program, extending its mass deportation operation into traffic stops, truck inspections, schools and county jails.
Harry Smith, Jacob Crosse•
Following murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Trump’s DHS carried out vast spying operation against unions and left-wing groups in Minnesota
Newly disclosed records reveal that Homeland Security Investigators infiltrated meetings, compiled dossiers and seized years of financial records as part of a fascistic campaign against opposition to ICE murders and kidnappings.
Jacob Crosse•
Notes on US political repression and state violence
This column reports on the increasingly dictatorial and repressive actions taken by the Trump administration and its allied state governments.
By a reporter•
Trump administration moves to arm ICE agents with electric-shock torture gloves
The gloves would give masked ICE agents another weapon to torture immigrants, protesters and anyone accused of “non-compliance.”
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
4 days after sentencing of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk:
Ukrainian government reinters another Nazi collaborator
The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets.
James Clayton•
Ex-Left Party leader helps pave the way for far-right rule in eastern Germany
Sahra Wagenknecht’s rapprochement with the AfD has been apparent for years. Now, she is not only moving closer to the far-right party in terms of policy, but is helping it attain power.
Peter Schwarz•
Britain’s Jodrell Bank Observatory faces closure as £2.8 million science funding withdrawn
Publicly funded science is being reorganised around the requirements of British capital, with the open-ended investigation of nature squeezed out wherever there is no immediate commercial or strategic interest.
Joe Mount•
IG Metall union and works council toast brutal cuts at German steel plant
At least 7,000 jobs are being destroyed in the Duisburg steel industry—organised and enforced by IG Metall. The union apparatus and its works council representatives cynically sell these brutal cuts as a measure to secure jobs.
Philipp Frisch, Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Our reporters•
Peter Schwarz•
Andy Niklaus•
Paul Mitchell•
Marianne Arens•
Sri Lankan government rejects returning wartime military-occupied land
More than a decade and a half has passed since the 26-year communal war waged by successive Colombo governments against the LTTE ended, yet thousands of acres of civilian land remains occupied by the military forces and enclosed behind barbed-wire fences.
M. Thevarajah•
Sri Lankan educators protest low pay and impossible working conditions
The teachers’ unions, which have suppressed opposition to the JVP/NPP government’s austerity measures, called a limited protest on August 4.
Dayananda Ratnayake, Kapila Fernando•
One person killed as Sri Lankan military and police suppress prison protest
The violent operation against unarmed inmates at Mahara Prison follows the massacre of prisoners at Negombo Prison last month.
Naveen Dewage•
SEP condemns police intimidation of WSWS reporter in Sri Lanka
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Wasantha Wijesiri, Dehin Wasantha•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
K. Ratnayake•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Federal monitor allows UAW official who issued death threat against Will Lehman to collect his $200,000 salary
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
Jerry White•
Forklift safety expert calls for independent investigation into catastrophic accident at GM Flint Assembly
While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward.
Tom Hall, Sheila Brehm•
Forklift accident leaves worker with “life-altering” injuries at General Motors Flint Truck Assembly; workers told to keep line moving
According to a worker at the plant, the affected worker was 71 years old and had just signed her retirement papers last week.
Sheila Brehm•
Official who threatened rank-and-file candidate Will Lehman suspended from UAW membership, but might remain on union payroll
According to Lehman, his legal team was told by the Monitor that it would be up to the union apparatus to determine whether or not Jensen will still be paid by the UAW.
Jerry White•
Evan Blake•
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
Our reporters•
Our reporters•
Jerry White•
More than two-thirds of UPS’ US package volume now handled in automated facilities
These developments further expose the Teamsters’ so-called “historic” 2023 contract as a historic sellout.
Alex Findijs•
Mamdani silent on NYPD surveillance of New York City public housing tenants
New York City’s DSA mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has remained silent on a lawsuit challenging mass police surveillance of hundreds of thousands of New York City Housing Authority residents.
Sandy English•
New York City workers respond to Mamdani’s firing of Haitian workers
New York City workers denounced Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s firing of Haitian city employees, connected the attack on immigrants to the conditions facing the entire working class and called for rank-and-file organization and strike action.
Our reporters•
LAUSD imposes sweeping screen-time limits months after mass student walkouts
The district will spend $1 million a year on software to track student screen time, six months after 12,500 students walked out against ICE raids.
Marc Wells, Nancy Hanover, Renae Cassimeda•
Kate Randall•
Andrea Lobo•
Andy Thompson•
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Andrea Lobo•
Democratic establishment mobilizes to defeat DSA gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, the Democratic Party establishment mounted a ferocious campaign in the run-up to the vote to prevent a victory in the gubernatorial primary by Francesca Hong, a self-described “socialist” and member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Barry Grey•
Ankara plane incident shows panic and disorientation of Trump White House
The episode that followed the NATO summit in Ankara is now causing a political uproar in Washington.
Patrick Martin•
Mamdani fires Haitian workers after Trump administration revokes their legal status
In announcing the termination of Haitian municipal workers after Homeland Security stripped Temporary Protected Status from some 350,000 Haitians in the US, New York Mayor Mamdani revealed his DSA administration to be an instrument of the capitalist state.
Jesse Thomas, Barry Grey•
Senate confirms Trump’s legal attack dog Todd Blanche as attorney general
The formal elevation of Blanche to head the Department of Justice marks a significant further step in the consolidation of a personalist presidential dictatorship in the United States.
Barry Grey•
David North•
Jacob Crosse•
Joseph Kishore•
Patrick Martin•
Barry Grey•
Mamdani opposes $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides
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.
Jesse Thomas, Barry Grey•
Union bureaucracy, DSA rally behind Troy Jackson after collapse of Graham Platner campaign
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.
Jacob Crosse•
Australian pseudo-left seeking to head off rebellion against union bureaucracy by Victorian teachers
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.
Committee for Public Education•
New York Times publishes friendly interview with Mamdani
There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA is to channel this political radicalization behind the Democrats in order to block the development of an independent movement of the working class.
Daniel de Vries, Barry Grey•
Andrea Lobo•
Joseph Kishore•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Erik Schreiber, Barry Grey•
Tony Robson•
One year since El Teniente disaster:
Chilean miners’ families fight alone as management walks free and unions look the other way
The corporatized union apparatus aligned to the Chilean “left” has done nothing but issue statements, observe moments of silence and light candles.
Our reporter•
Colombian president sanctions US military operations amid earthquake disaster
Following the deadly earthquake, the government’s response has been marked by curfews, militarization and an invitation to foreign troops.
Andrea Lobo•
Nine months after El Teniente disaster, report finds Chile’s state-owned giant ignored seismic warnings, concealed unsafe mining
The Sernageomin report documents, in exhaustive technical detail, what happens when the drive for profit is given priority over human life.
by our reporter•
Pinochet’s Operation Colombo: A fascist crime and its cover-up
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
Mauricio Saavedra•
By our reporter•
Andrea Lobo•
Francis Portocarrero, Andrea Lobo•
Mauricio Saavedra•
César Uco•
Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Socialist Equality Party (US) holds 9th National Congress amid world war, dictatorship and political radicalization
Delegates adopted resolutions on the fight against imperialist war, the breakdown of American democracy, the defense of immigrants, the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the attitude of socialists to AI and the defense of the heritage of the two American Revolutions.
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
From the archives of Marxism: Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
Paul Bond, Chris Marsden•
Geethananda Balasuriya Jayasekara (1955–2026): A fighter for Trotskyism
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Ulrich Rippert•
Marianne Arens•
Bryan Dyne•
David North•
Our reporters•
Turkish parliament passes law on Kurdish PKK disarmament
The Turkish parliament passed a law on the PKK's surrender. The near-unanimity of Turkish and Kurdish parties alike expresses not a turn toward peace but the ruling elite closing ranks, as it is integrated ever more deeply into the US-led war across the Middle East.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Türkiye’s new bill demands the Kurdish PKK’s liquidation, offers nothing in return
Erdoğan’s government has submitted a bill to parliament formalizing the PKK’s dissolution. It offers no amnesty, leaves Öcalan imprisoned and places the fate of those covered entirely in the hands of the Turkish security apparatus.
Barış Demir•
Turkish police attack teachers in Ankara: “No money” for education, billions for war and corporations
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.
Can Denizli, Ulaş Sevinç•
10 years since the Turkish military coup attempt targeting Erdoğan
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.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Süleyman Sağlam•
Kevin Reed•
Can Denizli•
Barış Demir•
Christoph Vandreier, Johannes Stern•
Amazon delivery driver in Florida found dead in van
Jaylene Vargas Gonzalez was found in the back of her van after it had been parked for hours.
Patrick Smith•
One year after fatal Clairton explosion, federal report confirms warnings were ignored for decades
A Chemical Safety Board report on the deadly 2025 explosion at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works documents decades of ignored warnings.
Samuel Davidson•
Veteran autoworker James Brasher killed in industrial accident at Stellantis MOPAR facility in Detroit suburbs
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.
Our reporter•
Australia: Miner killed at Peak Downs in central Queensland
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.
Leonard Johns•
Leon Gutierrez•
Jerry White•
Tom Hall•
Samuel Davidson•
Peter Symonds•
Russia and Ukraine bleed as NATO’s war threatens to engulf Europe
Mounting drone and missile “deep strikes” are a response to the fact that the frontline has been fought to a bloody standstill—in a meatgrinder of trenches, artillery and drones.
Thomas Scripps•
Escalating strikes between Ukraine, Russia threaten global food supplies
The escalating war between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia increasingly targets economic infrastructure in the Black Sea region, a critical area for global food supplies.
Jason Melanovski•
German government uses discovery of drone in Leipzig to escalate war on Russia
The discovery of an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport, along with the provocative and irresponsible reactions to it, show just how close Germany is to a direct war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.
Peter Schwarz•
As NATO and Ukraine’s war against Russia escalates, drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea increase
As NATO’s war against Russia escalates, seafarers in the Black Sea are paying with their lives.
Barış Demir•
Clara Weiss•
Johannes Stern•
Jason Melanovski•
Robert Stevens•
Johannes Stern•
Private credit market under growing stress
Loan defaults are rising and the number of companies financed by private credit being placed on a watch list is growing.
Nick Beams•
New reactionary Trump measures to intensify trade war
A report issued by one of the chief anti-China hawks in the Trump administration has painted a picture of a giant global scam operation directed by China against the US.
Nick Beams•
645 million go hungry as global military spending hits a record $2.9 trillion
Nearly one in three people on earth cannot afford a healthy diet, according to the UN's annual report on food security.
Marc Wells•
Significant loss by major Wall Street trading firm
The loss of $15 billion by Jane Street in a month shows how fast problems for one firm, even a minor player, can be rapidly transmitted.
Nick Beams•
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•
Socialism AI answers the New York Times: Not yes or no to AI, but who controls it
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.
Socialism AI•
Answers from Socialism AI
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
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•
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•
Socialism AI•
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
This week in history: August 17-23
Coal mine explosion kills 55 workers in Ukraine; Ford defeats Reagan for Republican presidential nomination; Britain imposes economic sanctions on Iran ; German Communist Party expels oppositionists on Stalin's orders.
Pinochet’s Operation Colombo: A fascist crime and its cover-up
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Trump administration moves to gut the National Historic Preservation Act
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
Philip Guelpa•
Ninety years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
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.
Alejandro López•
Clara Weiss•
John Harris, Peter Symonds•
Nick Beams•
Clara Weiss, David North•
Peter Schwarz•
Ebola deaths near 2,000 as WHO concedes the outbreak is outrunning the response
The Africa CDC and the World Health Organization called on August 6 for an urgent scale-up of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, conceding that the outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to contain it. Contact tracing has collapsed to the point that nine in ten patients admitted to the treatment center in the epicenter were never on any list.
Benjamin Mateus•
Congo Ebola outbreak becomes second largest ever recorded
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kenya and Tanzania deploy security forces against Gen-Z-led Saba Saba protests
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.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Nearly 25,000 migrants flee South Africa amid xenophobic violence
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.
Alejandro López•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean Shaoul•
T. rex fossil sold for $50.1 million
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
Philip Guelpa•
US measles cases near their worst level since 1991, met with official silence
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Fired drinking water adviser files suit against EPA
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.
James Brewer•
Extreme heat has devastating effects on agriculture and workers
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.
Philip Guelpa•
Paul Bond•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
11 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: “We need an explanation,” says widow
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.
Jerry White •
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•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
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.
Disease outbreaks multiply, as Trump and Kennedy wage war on science
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
Evan Blake•
Trump cuts childhood vaccine schedule and turns the Justice Department on states that require shots
The order writes into national policy the schedule Kennedy’s purged advisory committee produced, and turns federal litigation and funding against the five states that still require immunization for school entry.
Benjamin Mateus•
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Evan Blake•
Evan Blake•
Philip Guelpa•
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.
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•
May Day 2026
Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
The 2026 International May Day Online Rally and the tasks of the international working class
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.
WSWS Editorial Board•
May Day 2026
Canadian imperialism: predator, not prey, in global war
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.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2026
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against imperialism!
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.
Tom Peters•
Cheryl Crisp•
Deepal Jayasekera, Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
Tomas Castanheira•
Alex Lantier•
Chris Marsden•
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.
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•
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.
London meeting marks 40 years since the expulsion of the Workers Revolutionary Party
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.
Our reporters•
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•
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
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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Britain’s healthcare workers must demand Israel release Gaza’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
NHS FightBack•
Five hundred more pro-Palestine protesters arrested in UK despite High Court ruling
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.
Thomas Scripps•
New Zealand protests against war on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
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.
Tom Peters•
Violent arrests follow police rampage at Sydney anti-genocide protest
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
Mike Head•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jacob Crosse•
Antony Walsh•
Jean Shaoul•
Eric Ludlow•
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
Our reporter•
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•
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•
Fifty-four-day strike at São Paulo’s universities: The political lessons
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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Brazil)•
Defend the University of Michigan Eight! Drop all charges! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship and war!
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.
Stephen St. Clair•
3 IYSSE representatives elected to Berlin’s Humboldt University student parliament
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.
our reporters•
No Bundeswehr in schools! Against the cooperation agreement between the state of Berlin and the Armed Forces!
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.
Action Committee Nurseries & Education•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Omar Ali, Roger Jordan•
Mike Ingram•
Our reporters•
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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Now available from Mehring Verlag: “My Life” by Leon Trotsky
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.
Mehring Verlag•
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•
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
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.
Our reporters•
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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.
US sends troops under cover of Venezuelan earthquake, as death toll surges
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.
Andrea Lobo•
Threat of US military action against Cuba mounts with Iran ceasefire
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Andrea Lobo•
US imperialism’s debacle in Iran
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.
Andre Damon•
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society
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•
Keith Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
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.
Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Survive: Petrograd 1919
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.
Clara Weiss•
New book questions official finding that fascist Brenton Tarrant acted alone in Christchurch massacre
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.
Tom Peters•
Gary Stevenson and the dead end of wealth-tax reformism
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.
Ioan Petrescu•
Red Dawn over China: An extended exercise in anti-communist propaganda
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
Peter Symonds•
James McDonald•
Christoph Vandreier•
Nicoletta Montaner•
Paul Bond•
David North, Johannes Stern•
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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Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Stephen Parker•
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.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
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.
US debt at $40 trillion as financial crisis deepens
The most revealing feature of the debt mountain is not just its size, significant as that is, but the speed with which it has grown.
Nick Beams•
Federal monitor allows UAW official who issued death threat against Will Lehman to collect his $200,000 salary
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
Jerry White•
Amid growing support for Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk, the New York Times maintains its guilty silence
One week after a Ukrainian court sentenced the socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk to 15 years in prison, the Times published a front-page feature on a Ukrainian held in Russia—while maintaining its total silence on the political prisoners of the Zelensky regime.
Andre Damon•
Horrific conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln: The ruling class’s contempt for the troops it sends to war
Reports that sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have either jumped overboard or attempted to do so have exposed the horrendous conditions facing the largely working class naval crew that has been at sea for 268 days and deployed in the Arabian Sea in the war against Iran for five months.
Kevin Reed•
Joseph Kishore•
Evan Blake•
Patrick Martin•
WSWS Editorial Board•
WSWS Editorial Board•
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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