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.
The result was not so much a popular endorsement of Labor, as a repudiation of the Liberals and their association with Trump’s program of trade war, militarism and an onslaught on social spending.
“With this national election I’ve been in Australia 34 years. We can vote for any candidate, but we never win.”
In the wide-ranging and obsequious interview, Trump repeatedly questioned if immigrants, whom he universally slandered as violent criminals, deserved due process: “I don’t know.”
Anxiety over jobs is increasing among autoworkers as the impact of Trump’s trade war policies spread throughout the global auto industry.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said in a statement: “Armed drones attacked the front of an unarmed civilian vessel twice, causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull.” That there were no deaths or injuries was only down to chance.
Spain's electricity sector is dominated by a handful of major conglomerates that refuse critical security investment and extract tens of billions of euros in profits from the grid.
Experts widely dispute the claims that established childhood vaccines were not adequately tested.
The executive order weaponizes language requirements to target immigrant workers, a further attack on the democratic rights of the working class.
Residents expressed anger over the shuttering of the hospitals by a Texas bankruptcy court.
The Medical Center’s provocative May 1 announcement of even more layoffs came only days after the vote.
A petition in their defence, signed by over 52,000 people, notes that police have used powers under terrorism legislation to deny the accused the rights afforded other suspects and prisoners, despite none of the 18 being charged with a terror offence.
The 18 mainly young people are being held on remand over a protest last August at Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, near Bristol.
The German Trade Union Federation and its affiliates used the May Day rallies over the weekend to pledge their full support to Germany’s new right-wing government.
The Left Party's solidarity with the oligarchic regime in Kiev, which is dominated by far-right forces, goes hand in hand with its support for the reactionary government campaign to exclude representatives of Russia from the commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War on May 8.
The government of William Ruto, now in alliance with the former opposition Orange Democratic Movement, led by billionaire Raila Odinga, is escalating mass repression.
Regardless of which candidate wins the election in June, he will be tasked with suppressing growing working-class opposition amid worsening economic and social conditions.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Several months into the trial, the prosecution has failed to present evidence for its charges of "high treason" that served as the basis for Syrotiuk's arrest.
Three weeks have passed since Steiner posted on permanent-revolution.org a slanderous letter provided by an agent-provocateur. Steiner’s default response to the WSWS's exposure of his deceitful attempt to justify his provocation is to tell more lies.
The dissolution of UAWD is further proof that the anti-working-class actions of the UAW bureaucracy are not the result of merely “bad” policies, but express the social interests of the apparatus itself.
All of the imperialist powers claim their military expenditures are purely for defensive purposes, with budgets designated as “defence spending.” This is a grotesque lie.
Amidst mounting popular opposition to the Trump administration, the Democrats are responding by seeking to prevent any opposition to the corporate-financial oligarchy and its war on the working class.
The world is now rearming at the fastest rate since the Cold War, with a 9.4 percent increase in military spending around the world – the highest rate in figures going back to 1988.
The newly restored 1,000-square-foot mural, unveiled in January 2025, now looks much as it did when it was completed in 1934.
Hundreds of artists have signed an open letter opposing artistic censorship while Kneecap’s music downloads and ticket sales have rocketed.
A succession of outraged British politicians and commentators have called for Kneecap to be charged, their funding to be cut, their gigs to be cancelled and even the band's name to be dropped from public statements for the crime of opposing genocide.
The university’s blacklisting of the artist is its latest attack on the First Amendment rights of all who oppose the genocide of the Palestinians.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
Miller’s threats are an urgent warning that the only social force capable of defending democratic rights is the working class.
US GDP growth has turned negative and Chinese data show contraction in manufacturing activity and a slump in export orders.
The ruling, while significant, will not free imprisoned immigrants, only prevent their deportation under the Alien Enemies Act.
Following Trump’s executive order demanding the closure of the Department of Education, an escalating attack on jobs and education services is taking place across the US.
The candidates addressed questions posed by viewers in the lively text chat, as well as others that have emerged as key issues among workers and young people in the course of the election campaign.
Jordan van den Lamb is a fitting representative of the pseudo-left. His open indifference and hostility to political principle is shared by this entire milieu, which increasingly regards even empty revolutionary socialistic flourishes as an encumbrance.
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to build an independent movement of the working class against Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, the Greens and capitalism itself.
Only the Socialist Equality Party is opposing the deadly lie, peddled by governments, health authorities, trade unions and the corporate media, that the pandemic is a thing of the past.
The collapse takes place amid deep attacks on the post office, with the Trump administration openly declaring privatization its goal.
Des died on April 23 after suffering a catastrophic heart attack aged just 58.
The Teamsters bureaucracy sits upon a treasure chest of nearly $650 million dollars, which it uses almost exclusively to pay itself exorbitant salaries and benefits.
The National Party-led government wants to cut pay for doctors and nurses as part of sweeping attacks on the public health system.
A tiny minority of around 0.6 percent of the population now owns 45 percent of total wealth in Germany. More and more, the situation is reminiscent of the conditions before the French Revolution 270 years ago.
Reform UK has only been able to make a breakthrough due to the abandonment of any defence of the working class by the Labour government and the trade unions.
The SPD’s participation in government under Merz marks a new stage in the decline of the party, whose history began more than 150 years ago under the banner of Marxism.
NHS Fightback is calling workers not to trust trade union leaders who have betrayed struggle after struggle and to build rank and file committees to take control of their own fate.
Schreiber had erected a canvas tent in the morning, allowing passersby to paint messages in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
About 200 protesters gathered in the evening at Wilson Plaza to screen The Encampments, a documentary chronicling the wave of student-led protests against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
“I'm here because there has been a campaign of police and legal persecution against members of the UC Santa Cruz community who have spoken out against the genocide that Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinian people.”
Mahdawi was a leading figure alongside Mahmoud Khalil in the student protests against Israel’s genocide against Gaza at Columbia University in 2023 and 2024.
The New Zealand Herald’s recent article calling for the return of military service is part of a campaign to prepare the country to join US imperialist wars against China and throughout the world.
Union speakers could not openly discuss the election, because to do so would require an explanation of why they continue to back Labor, which has spent the past three years demonstrating its pedigree as a pro-war, big-business government that is totally hostile to the working class.
Socialist Equality Party campaigners, led by Senate candidate in the federal election Taylor Hernan, spoke with workers and young people over the weekend in Footscray, Melbourne, where police shot dead 35-year-old Abdifatah Ahmed on April 17.
China is the main target of the relentless war build-up, with the entire parliamentary establishment and corporate media in full agreement.
Chilling dashcam video of the fatal traffic stop, released June 2024 clearly shows that Sgt. Shane Iversen killed Timothy Michael Randall in cold blood.
More than 1,000 rallies throughout the US to oppose the Trump administration were held on May Day, the day of international worker solidarity, in one of the largest turnouts in recent decades.
The long-delayed jury trial of former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr began on Monday in the Kent County Courthouse with the prosecution presenting evidence and witnesses supporting the charge of second-degree murder in the execution-style killing of 26-year-old Lyoya, a Congolese refugee.
Carney will head a vicious right-wing government committed to advancing Canadian imperialism's interests through war and brutal attacks on workers' social and democratic rights.
At its core, the deal is the pseudo-legal basis for the neocolonial exploitation of the country’s resources.
Behind the attacks on Trump in the European media lie bitter rivalries between Washington and the European imperialist powers over the plunder of Ukraine and trade war policies.
This report on the ongoing military and social crisis in Ukraine was submitted to the WSWS by Ukrainian journalists.
Against the backdrop of the prospect of a US-brokered peace deal between the Zelensky and Putin governments, the Ukrainian military has launched another incursion into Russian territory.
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 SEP urges working people in Kolonnawa and Karainagar to vote for its candidates in the local government elections. In other areas, we do not endorse a vote for any party or candidate.
The SEP and IYSSE are fielding two slates of candidates in the May 6 election for the Karainagar Divisional Council in the northern Jaffna district and the Kolonnawa Urban Council in the suburbs of Colombo.
Like the struggle against International Monetary Fund austerity, the fight against the devastating consequences of tariff war is international.
SEP and IYSSE speakers discussed the deepening global crisis of capitalism, the eruption of fascist tendencies, the danger of world war and the need for a socialist and internationalist program.
Police-state repression is part of the government's drive to crush social and political opposition by establishing a presidential dictatorship.
The ruling class and all its parties are indifferent to the fact that earthquakes and similar natural phenomena threaten millions of people. This shows that there is no other way out than for the working class to mobilise and take matters into its own hands.
The Trump administration launched a series of deadly airstrikes on a major oil port at Ras Isa, Yemen, in which scores of people were killed, including port workers, civilians and aid workers, who were responding to the initial blast and were then hit with a Pentagon directed “double-tap.”
Although the immediate cause of the students’ reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor quality of education, lack of a future, growing social inequality and state repression.
IRA vow to hand over weapons; Soviet talks with Arab leaders break down; Schuman Plan for joint Franco-German steel production; John T. Scopes charged for teaching evolution.
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo’s death, written by Helen Halyard.
A US airstrike killed 68 people Monday in Yemen's Sa'ada province, in one of the greatest massacres of civilians to date in the Trump administration's war on Yemen.
After seven weeks of a full blockade of food, water, medical supplies and electricity, the United Nations World Food Program warned that it had delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meal kitchens in Gaza, raising the prospect of imminent mass starvation for the enclave’s remaining population.
On Tuesday, Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attended a meeting with leading members of Congress at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club where he pledged to bomb food and aid distribution centers, claiming his proposals met with support on the part of the lawmakers.
According to a detailed New York Times report, the US and Israel have been working in close consultation for months on plans to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities in an attack slated for as early as May.
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.
Mounting repression and attacks on democratic rights in Tanzania is part of a broader authoritarian turn across East Africa and globally.
As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance for imperialism.
Ruto’s crackdown on Echoes of War is a stark warning to artists, youth and workers across Kenya and internationally: any expression of opposition, no matter how symbolic or restrained, will be met with brute force.
Speaking at a shop stewards meeting, Francis Atwoli urged the “broad-based” government to crack down on online opposition. “Social media [users], it is time you stopped propaganda. You must love your country. If you are not patriotic, even investors will exit. Otherwise, we will plunge into chaos,” he declared.
The event exposed the Morenoites’ reactionary nationalist pro-militarist policy, giving a platform to military personnel and figures who defend the bloody 1964-85 dictatorship.
The attacks on education in São Paulo and around the world are part of the increasing shift of the world’s ruling elite towards war and fascism.
The strike received overwhelming support from the population, which is increasingly hostile to the political setup in a country deemed by the World Bank as the fourth most unequal in the world.
The re-election of Noboa was achieved on the shoulders of the military-police apparatus and of US imperialism, consolidating the direct dictatorship of the Ecuadorian oligarchy.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass unveiled a proposed budget that slashes 1,647 city jobs.
A 38-year-old out-of-work vehicle mechanic and former Army reservist, Cody Balmer, has been arrested for the crime.
In contrast to the thousands in attendance looking to fight the system, Democratic politicians and trade union bureaucrats, capped by Sanders and AOC, advanced the dead-end perspective of pressuring the Democratic Party.
City officials stated that the troops, numbering approximately 60-70, will undergo a period of training and deploy to the Central Avenue Corridor area by mid-May, an area home to many poor and working class residents.
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 boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and the entire American oligarchy.
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor infection could result in a life-threatening condition.
The rapid melting of glaciers due to climate change will have disastrous consequences for humanity.
The manufacture and use of bone tools dates to a million years earlier than previously documented.
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
Regulators, government officials and investors would like to think the present financial turbulence is a passing phase, that “normalcy” could return, but they fear a fundamental shift has taken place.
Chinese government officials have said claims by the Trump administration that there are “active” discussions between Washington and Beijing are “fake news.”
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said “trade policy uncertainty is literally off the charts.”
The implications of multi-million dollar port fees will be nothing short of disastrous for workers inside the US and abroad.
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.
On Friday, April 18, the Trump White House replaced the COVID.gov site with a web page promoting the lie that the COVID pandemic was the product of nefarious activities conducted by China with the assistance of US scientists.
The capitalist response to the pandemic has exacted a stark toll of mass death and disability, while accelerating social inequality and initiating the destruction of the world’s public health infrastructure.
Dr. Peter Marks made clear that a central impetus behind his resignation was Kennedy’s criminal response to the deepening measles outbreak in the US, which has now infected over 500 people, the vast majority unvaccinated children.
The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
The recent fires in Los Angeles have laid bare the devastating consequences of capitalism, a system that prioritizes profit over safety.
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
The conflict between Harvard and the Trump regime poses fundamental issues of democratic rights, including academic freedom.
The rally drew around 200 people from the university, including students, graduate students, and some academics, as well as workers and a few retirees in the surrounding Bryan County area on Thursday.
Last Friday, the IYSSE held a successful meeting at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas opposing the mass deportations by the Trump administration that was attended by almost 30 people.
Rather than refuting the IYSSE’s exposure of the Democratic Party’s role in enabling Trump’s attacks, the Young Democrats resorted to attempted censorship.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
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.
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on.
Despite Stellantis rescinding its threat to lay off 1,134 workers at the Jeep complex in Toledo, the looming threat of tariffs and trade war presages a renewed attack on auto jobs.
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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.
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
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.
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
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.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
The 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.
All of the imperialist powers claim their military expenditures are purely for defensive purposes, with budgets designated as “defence spending.” This is a grotesque lie.
Amidst mounting popular opposition to the Trump administration, the Democrats are responding by seeking to prevent any opposition to the corporate-financial oligarchy and its war on the working class.
Those workers and youth who voted for Carney and his Liberals in the belief that they represent any type of progressive answer to Trump and all that he represents—oligarchy, dictatorship, fascism and war—have been cruelly deceived. For this the trade unions and the social-democratic NDP are principally responsible.
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.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
