Cleveland Orchestra musicians end 3-day strike as crisis deepens for US cultural institutions

Orchestras and other arts organizations are under sustained attack, as all available resources are being funneled to Wall Street and the US war machine.

Frida: The Making of an Icon: Tate Modern’s erasure of Frida Kahlo’s politics

The show claims to interrogate the “Fridamania” surrounding Kahlo, yet it operates as one of its engines—manufacturing, circulating and profiting from the phenomenon it pretends to analyse.

Union election at Audi and contract vote at Volkswagen in Puebla, Mexico amid mass layoffs

As the Volkswagen union in Puebla calls off a strike to push a sub-par deal and the Audi union leader is reelected, a former Audi worker describes to the WSWS how the “independent” unions have served the company from the start.

Glasgow City Council reinstates fire-and-rehire threat against thousands of council workers

Neither Unite nor the GMB has indicated they will break off negotiations with Glasgow City Council in the face of threatened mass dismissal notices to enforce pays cuts against Unison members.

Modern humans are the evolutionary product of different ancestral populations

Successful matings between anatomically modern humans migrating from Africa, Neanderthals, Denisovans and “ghost lineages” all contributed to the contemporary human genome.

UN reports that the earth will “overshoot” the 1.5 degree warming limit

The goal of limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average that was agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate accord will be entirely missed, with devastating consequences.

B’Tselem’s The Elimination Project: Dismantling Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank is Israeli policy

B’Tselem’s report finds, “The genocide in Gaza and the elimination project in the West Bank are different manifestations of the same regime project, directed against Palestinians’ ability to exist as a people.”

As Trump rejects Iranian cease-fire proposal, Wall Street Journal reports plans to resume bombing after midterms

US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire Saturday, after the Wall Street Journal reported he told aides he expected to resume bombing after the November 3 midterm elections.

Australia signs security pact with Ukraine, backs NATO war against Russia

Albanese posed for a grinning selfie with Trump, just hours after the fascistic US president had again threatened to “annihilate” Iran.

Pacific defence ministers prepare to suppress civil unrest

The imperialist powers, including Australia and New Zealand, anticipate an upsurge of mass struggles against poverty and inequality across the Pacific.

Democrats accuse Trump of “appeasing” China in state visit by Xi

The Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was “appeasing” China.

58 Democrats join House vote to grant Trump additional war and tariff powers

Fifty-eight Democrats in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans Wednesday to grant US President Donald Trump additional war and tariff powers, including the authority to put tariffs as high as 100 percent on goods from China and India.

UK Prime Minister Burnham claims “strong indications” Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, as unanswered questions pile up

Events over the days since the five arrests saw revelations throwing a question mark over heavy suggestions of Iranian involvement, and even over whether there was any terror incident to be involved in.

Thousands to protest Palantir's role in NHS, US deportations and Gaza genocide

For all talk of Burnham being prepared to end Palantir’s National Health Service contract—but only through a break clause, leaving its other contracts intact—the first attempt to force the issue was shot down at this week’s annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

Sri Lankan government boasts of “economic recovery” as austerity deepens

The economic growth since the 2022 crisis has been achieved by suppressing workers’ real wages and starving public services.

Thousands of development officers protest across Sri Lanka

The nationwide protest by low-paid public servants is part of a growing wave of workers’ struggles amid soaring living costs.

Smithfield workers speak out against deadly conditions after death of Patou Mpinda in Illinois meatpacking plant

Meatpacking workers in the Quad Cities area spoke with the WSWS and detailed the harsh exploitation and dangerous workplace conditions that have lead to worker deaths.

Canada’s Prime Minister considered US military attack scenario amid trade war, Trump annexation threats

According to the Times, “When pressed on whether he took Mr. Trump’s threats to make Canada a 51st state seriously, Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved.”

Strikes spread across Brazil on the eve of the elections

A wave of strikes in the public and private sectors exposes the class character of the Lula government and the need for an independent struggle of the working class against austerity, fascism and imperialism.

The pseudo-left and Brazil’s crisis elections

The function of the pseudo-left is to subordinate the working class to the PT, the trade union bureaucracy and, ultimately, the bourgeois nation state.

Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds founding congress—a major advance in the building of the world party of socialist revolution

The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.

SEP Sri Lanka Congress resolution: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

The Sri Lankan SEP’s Fourth National Congress declared the fight to free Bogdan, the Ukrainian Trotskyist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, a central task of the party.

Fund bubble bursts in Türkiye, freezing the savings of half a million people

The collapse of a speculative fund bubble on the Istanbul stock exchange has frozen the savings of more than 500,000 small investors, exposing the financial parasitism fostered by the Erdoğan government's austerity program.

Turkish government escalates crackdown on left-wing parties, LGBTQ+ associations and media outlets

Over three days, police raided LGBTQ+ associations in 15 provinces, hundreds of social media accounts were blocked and 39 leftists were detained, including the SYKP co-chair.

Outpouring of sympathy for Moet McCullum, New York City transit worker killed on subway tracks

Hundreds of transit workers packed a Brooklyn funeral home to honor MTA conductor Moet McCullum, killed on the tracks while working as a construction flagger.

“There has to be accountability... You can’t sweep this under the rug”

Transit workers call for independent investigation into the death of subway conductor Moet McCullum

Workers condemned the participation of Transport Workers Union Local 100 in the investigation alongside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), arguing that the agency cannot be relied upon to hold itself accountable.

The 13th COVID-19 wave and the further dismantling of US public health

The United States has entered its thirteenth COVID-19 wave as federal agencies suppress evidence of vaccine effectiveness, retroactively relabel transmission data, strip pandemic preparedness from research plans and transfer the work to the Pentagon.

Who decides what is safe to eat: The cyclosporiasis outbreak and the failure of American food safety

The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in US history has spread through 48 states without a source being named. A century after the Pure Food and Drug Act, the apparatus built to answer such questions is being dismantled.

Britain’s ruling elite stokes war fever against Russia, demanding conscription and the jailing of opponents

Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his anti-Russia address to the UN General Assembly to announce a National Centre for Information Defence that will be used to suppress political dissent at home.

In warmongering tirade, Zelensky boasts of arms deals negotiated at UN

This year’s United Nations General Assembly has been transformed into a war summit by the US and European imperialist powers, who have turned an institution whose charter prohibits aggressive war into an arms convention.

Bond markets in a “meltdown”

The yield on the 10-year bond rose 0.15 percentage points on Wednesday and then followed this with a further increase of 0.11 percentage points yesterday, taking it to 5.23 percent, with no indication as to when the sell-off might stop.

Pressures building up in yen carry trade

Moves to arrest the slide of the yen can cause another problem by undermining the so-called yen carry trade, which plays a major role in US financial markets.

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.

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.

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.

Trump administration moves to gut the National Historic Preservation Act

Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.

The number of fatalities in the Congo Ebola outbreak reaches 3,226

The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues unimpeded with little aid provided by the imperialist powers that extract untold riches from the country’s natural resources.

Newly established Communist League of Uganda leaders arrested by Museveni regime

Workers, youth and defenders of democratic rights internationally must oppose the persecution of political organisations by the Ugandan state and demand the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and legal status of all those detained.

US government charges ICE victim Garces Perez, refuses medical care

Eight days after shooting Wilber Garces Perez in the back, the US government has charged him with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with and impeding a federal officer. The government denied him bond during a hearing on Wednesday.

“We’re not supposed to be living in terror”: Austin, Texas residents speak out after ICE shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez

More than a week after the shooting, Garcés Pérez remains imprisoned at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall with a bullet still lodged near his spine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout

The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.

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.

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.

Fight war, oligarchy and climate catastrophe! Fight for socialism!

Imperialist wars abroad are coupled with class war at home. Students will graduate into a society ransacked by the capitalist oligarchy.

54-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.

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.

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.

David North answers questions at the international Trotsky commemoration in Prinkipo

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.

International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky

Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo and the journey of My Life in Turkish

The fourth annual International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky was held on August 16, 2026, at the Taş Mektep venue on Büyükada, hosted by the Adalar Municipality with the support of Mehring Yayıncılık and the World Socialist Web Site.

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.

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.

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.

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.