Alan Gelfand, whose lawsuit against the US government led to the exposure of high-level agents of the FBI and Soviet secret police in the Socialist Workers Party, died Wednesday, October 29, in Los Angeles. He was 76 years old.
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Mass walkouts in North Carolina against immigration raids: Workers must lead the fight against kidnapping operations!
There is mass anger in Charlotte and other cities targeted by Trump’s mass deportation operation, this anger must be transformed into concrete action to end the attacks on the working class.
Verizon posted nearly $5 billion in profit in the third quarter alone and is aggressively restructuring to boost its stock price, slash labor costs and prepare for intensified competition in wireless, home internet and enterprise services.
Jerry White•
With the Ukrainian government of Volodymyr Zelensky facing a deepening corruption scandal and military crisis, the Trump administration submitted to Kiev on Thursday a 28-point plan for a negotiated settlement of the war.
Andre Damon•
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 50 people on Tuesday—45 men and 5 women—that it said were Ukrainian nationals on a flight from Louisiana to the Ukrainian Shehyni checkpoint on the border with Poland.
Kevin Reed•
David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States and chairperson of the WSWS International Editorial Board, is the featured speaker.
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The absurdity of describing the Trump administration’s plan as a peace agreement was underscored in the days following Monday’s UN vote. On Wednesday alone, Israel killed at least 25 people across the enclave in a series of air strikes.
Jordan Shilton•
Royal Mail workers support call for a rank-and-file investigation into the death of USPS workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr.
“The deaths of our two brothers in America should be a wake-up call to workers everywhere”
The call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for a rank-and-file investigation into the on-the-job deaths of USPS workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr. has been endorsed by members and supporters of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at Royal Mail in the UK.
Tony Robson•
Mass opposition to governments that slash social rights to fund war and tax cuts for the rich needs international forms of organization and a European and international revolutionary perspective.
Alex Lantier•
Textile companies have profited for decades from government subsidies and intense worker exploitation. Now, these companies are eliminating jobs and trying to seize accumulated wages and compensation, pushing workers to resist.
Barış Demir•
Lack of maintenance and the push for profits were among the causes for the November 4 crash of a UPS cargo plane that killed 14 people, according to several UPS workers who work at the Louisville, Kentucky hub and who spoke confidentially with the World Socialist Web Site.
Samuel Davidson, Jane Wise•
And with that the Inquiry report—despite its damning conclusions, which point the finger at politicians responsible for social murder on a vast scale—will be placed in the House of Commons Library to collect dust.
Robert Stevens•
Radical journalist and anti-war activist Yves Engler is seeking the leadership of Canada’s NDP based on the claim that this moribund, right-wing social-democratic party can be transformed into an instrument to fight the billionaires, oppose imperialism and its wars, and build “eco-socialism.”
Keith Jones, Roger Jordan•
A well-attended public meeting was held in Indianapolis on Monday to review and discuss the Socialist Equality Party’s program in response to the threat by Donald Trump to establish a fascist dictatorship in the US following the No Kings protest on October 18.
Our reporters•
In the face of mounting climate change-induced natural disasters and evidence of runaway global warming, capitalist governments and corporations have abandoned any pretense to be fighting climate change.
Thomas Scripps•
David Neita, who played a leading role in the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party) during the 1970s, died on October 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.
David North•
Although not formally involved in the Trotskyist movement in the latter part of his life, Dave always followed the political developments and was keenly aware of and excited by the evolution of the organization from his early days in the 1960’s until today.
Karen Frankel•
California’s action exposes Democratic complicity with Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda and deepening attacks on the working class.
Marc Wells•
For a rank-and-file inquiry into the deaths of USPS workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs, Jr.!
An inquiry, organized by workers and not corrupt union bureaucrats, is needed to arm workers with the knowledge they need to defend themselves and go on the offensive against the regime of corporate dictatorship in the workplaces which makes these deaths inevitable.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
New York Times backs regime change war against Venezuela
Titled “The Case for Overthrowing Maduro,” the piece was drafted by Bret Stephens, a man who never met a US war of aggression that he didn’t like.
Bill Van Auken•
Trump welcomes Saudi prince: Billionaire murderers meet at the White House
The visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman culminated in a lavish dinner in his honor with dozens of Wall Street executives and other billionaires.
Patrick Martin•
Defend the social rights of the working class! For an independent, global movement against mass layoffs!
Workers must fight for workers’ power and workers’ control over production, harnessing the surplus created by new technologies to improve, not lower, the standard of living for the masses.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Thomas Scripps•
Patrick Martin•
Bill Van Auken•
Joseph Kishore•
Divisions in US Fed opening up
A December rate cut is starting to look increasingly unlikely as concerns grow over a possible AI bust.
Nick Beams•
Debt now moving to centre of AI boom
Concerns are growing that the ending of the AI “bubble” could bring a financial crisis.
Nick Beams•
Wall Street rises but underlying contradictions intensify
Up to now major companies financing AI projects have been using their own cash but debt is starting to play an increasing role.
Nick Beams•
“Poison pills” extend Trump’s trade war
The Trump administration’s advocate in the Supreme Court revealed the essential role of “reciprocal tariffs.”
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
“They treat us like property”: Postal workers in Detroit, Atlanta outraged over workplace deaths of Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr.
“It’s a shame what they are doing. And they are doing all over the place. They are so damn greedy. The top 1 percent, what do they control? 60 percent of all the wealth? They are getting it all, but we can’t get healthcare, but we can build bombs.”
J. L'Heureau•
GMB union deal at Airedale hospital sells support workers short to maintain outsourcing
The union’s talk of “full alignment” in some indefinite future is political theatre. A bitter struggle for equal treatment has been reduced to a handful of concessions designed to keep the outsourcing racket intact.
Tony Robson•
Resident doctors strike must rally all NHS workers against Starmer government
The following report was given by a senior nurse to an NHS FightBack meeting on Tuesday: “Defeat Starmer-Streeting budget cuts and privatisation! For a united fightback by NHS workers!”
A senior National Health Service nurse•
Resident doctor tells NHS FightBack meeting: “The immense threats we’re facing require an immense counteraction”
Sophie warned that the NHS faces “creeping privatisation and a government that’s determined to wage war on it.”
Tania Kent•
Jerry White•
Kevin Reed•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells, Kimie Saito, Tom Hall•
Ultra-right gains in Chilean election dominated by anti-immigrant, law-and-order campaigns
All the candidates, from Kast and Kaiser to the Stalinist Jara, focused their campaigns on xenophobic anti-immigrant appeals in combination with vows to get “tough on crime.”
Mauricio Saavedra•
New York Times backs regime change war against Venezuela
Titled “The Case for Overthrowing Maduro,” the piece was drafted by Bret Stephens, a man who never met a US war of aggression that he didn’t like.
Bill Van Auken•
Washington praises police massacre in Rio in Trump’s new political intervention in Brazil
The letter, which provocatively clashed with Lula’s federal government, represents a new intervention in Brazil’s internal affairs.
Tomas Castanheira•
After collapse of the MAS, right-wing president takes power in Bolivia
The MAS, long regarded in pseudo-left circles as a flagship of the Pink Tide and “21st century socialism,” suffered a crushing defeat.
Bill Van Auken•
Tomas Castanheira•
Francis Portocarrero•
Fátima Ferrante•
Tomas Castanheira•
Tomas Castanheira•
Frankfurt, Germany: Holocaust researcher Jason Stanley forced to break off his speech commemorating Kristallnacht
On Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, 1938; mobs spurred on by the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues across Germany.
Sybille Fuchs•
New data reveals hidden patterns of deprivation within inner London by factoring in housing affordability
The Thatcherite policies enacted by Conservative governments in the 1980s greatly exacerbated the UK’s historic north-south inequality divide. But they also set in train what is today a vast housing crisis in London that fuels poverty and defies this easy characterisation.
Simon Whelan•
Berlin Christian Democrats misuse millions in public funds for Zionist war propaganda
While the Berlin state government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD), plans to tighten the city’s police and domestic intelligence laws, accusations have emerged of questionable public funding practices in the cultural sector favouring Zionist lobby organisations.
Carola Kleinert•
Labour “left” prostrate as UK Starmer government rolls out fascistic anti-immigration policy
Despite talk of a “revolt” against the Labour leadership over the measures, which include ending the permanent residency status of refugees, less than two dozen of the party’s MPs have bothered to register any form of protest.
Robert Stevens•
Robert Stevens•
Florian Hasek•
Margot Miller•
Jason Melanovski•
Thomas Scripps•
New Zealand Labour Party leader postures as a “democratic socialist”
The phoney populist statements by Labour’s Chris Hipkins are driven by fear that working class anger over inequality, pay cuts and war could erupt outside the control of the capitalist political establishment.
Tom Peters•
Australia: Young worker killed in Port Kembla steel plant
Aged just 24, Jack McGrath died this week at the BlueScope Steel complex, underlining the growing toll of workplace fatalities and injuries.
Stephen Griffiths•
Australia: Cobar mine workers should defy the company gag order
Endeavor workers have not only been instructed not to speak to the media, but even to their own families about the tragic death of their colleagues and the conditions in the mine.
Martin Scott•
Australia: Rising anger over cuts to services at community health clinics in Melbourne
The shutdown of GP and counselling services at three Melbourne community health centres further highlights the deepening crisis in public healthcare funding under the federal and state Labor governments.
Paul Bartizan•
Our reporters•
Martin Scott•
Yuvan Darwin and Kranti Kumara•
Leonard Johns•
Keith Jones•
Congress, CEOs follow Trump in welcome to Saudi butcher
Trump spoke for the entire US ruling class when he welcomed the blood-drenched Saudi crown prince to the White House.
Patrick Martin•
US government begins deportation of longtime US residents to Ukraine war zone
On Monday, the Trump administration began deporting some 83 people to Ukraine, where they face conscription and dictatorship.
Jacob Crosse•
Chicago workers speak out against ICE neighborhood arrests
Our reporters spoke to workers and young people in the Chicago neighborhoods being targeted by ICE, as well as Ford workers at the Chicago Assembly Plant.
Jerry White•
Immigration Gestapo descends on Charlotte, carrying out mass arrests and drawing protests
Over the weekend, masked and heavily armed federal immigration agents, led by Customs and Border Protection commander Gregory Bovino, abducted and assaulted immigrants and citizens.
Jacob Crosse•
Renae Cassimeda, Nancy Hanover, Jerry White•
Marc Wells•
Vivien Ivy•
Joseph Kishore•
Jacob Crosse•
Bugonia: The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos—“All that’s been done to us … We’re setting that right again”
Two cousins, in an act of revenge, kidnap a successful, powerful corporate executive and hold her captive in their basement.
David Walsh•
Palestine 36: Britain’s brutal suppression of the Palestinians during the 1936-39 Arab Revolt
The mass Palestinian uprising, its defeat and the expulsion and imprisonment of its leaders at the hands of the British army is largely unknown outside the Middle East, particularly in Britain itself.
Jean Shaoul•
US museums face cancellation of government grants, attendance downturn and “deep uncertainty”
The Trump administration has declared war on libraries, universities, cultural institutions, historical sites, museums and individual scholars.
David Walsh•
More than 1,000 artists and labels join international campaign to remove their music from Israel
No Music for Genocide and the response of large numbers of performers and musicians speak to the broad leftward shift currently under way.
David Walsh•
Andrea Peters•
Stefan Steinberg, Peter Schwarz•
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Remarks to IWA-RFC meeting
Rank-and-file committees and the fight against layoffs, hunger and the industrial slaughterhouse
This speech was delivered at the online meeting hosted by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) on Sunday, November 16, 2025, “Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger!”
Tom Hall•
Quebec independence movement’s anti-immigrant agitation sparks concern among some of its big business backers
The column penned by former Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume was a blunt warning to the Parti Québécois that its virulent attacks on immigrants and minorities could hurt the Quebec indépendentiste cause by exposing the fiction that it has any democratic, let alone, “progressive” content.
Hugo Maltais•
One week after death of USPS worker Nick Acker in Detroit
Postal worker Russell Scruggs Jr. dies at Palmetto, Georgia distribution center
Russell Scruggs Jr. was 44 years old and had just started work at the USPS distribution center three weeks earlier.
Kathleen Martin•
Framed-up University of Michigan researcher Yunqing Jian sentenced and deported
The University of Michigan has refused to defend its scholars, acting as a compliant arm of the government. It remained shamefully silent as its researchers were vilified and it actively participated in their persecution.
Stephen St. Clair•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
Vivien Ivy•
Kate Randall•
Matthew Brennan•
Brutal Indonesian dictator Suharto declared national hero
The declaration that the mass murderer Suharto is a national hero is a statement of intent by the capitalist class and should be treated by the working class in every country as a serious warning.
Joseph Scalice•
This week in history: November 17-23
Fujimori resigns and flees Peru; Spanish dictator Franco dies; US troops reach Yalu River in Korean War; Tutankhamen mummy is opened
50 Years since the Canberra Coup: A Marxist assessment
In Australia, a purportedly stable capitalist parliamentary democracy, this entire democratic facade was thrust aside in 1975 in response to what was a potentially revolutionary upsurge of working-class struggles amid a period of acute crisis of capitalism internationally.
Mike Head•
This week in history: November 10-16
Austrian rail disaster kills 158; Canberra Coup in Australia; Missouri court limits segregation in St. Louis; First exhibition of surrealist paintings.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Landon Gourov, Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons, Tom Mackaman•
Verena Nees•
Johannes Stern•
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•
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•
The Barnes group and the decline and fall of the Socialist Workers Party
This lecture examines the steady degeneration of the SWP in the aftermath of the ICFI's launching of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Patrick Martin•
2025 Summer School. Lecture 9, Part 2
Hansen builds a world network of agents
This lecture examines the international operations of the US Socialist Workers Party under the direction of Joseph Hansen, exposed as an FBI agent by the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Andrea Lobo•
Hansen’s World Network Exposed
These three articles detail the FBI-CIA network of the late Joseph Hansen, double-agent and long-time leader of the revisionist Socialist Workers Party in the US.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
Tom Mackaman•
Josh Andrews•
Evan Blake•
International Committee of the Fourth International •
Zohran Mamdani’s first acts as mayor-elect: Seek Trump meeting, keep NYPD commissioner Tisch and protect Hakeem Jeffries
The DSA Democrat is repudiating his left-wing posturing as he cements his ties to defending the Democratic Party and capitalism.
Jacob Crosse•
Trump breaks up the Department of Education, accelerating attack on public schools
Declaring “Education Week,” Trump launched a sweeping attack on the Department of Education, with the aim of refashioning schooling in line with corporate and military interests.
Nancy Hanover•
Texas Governor Abbott designates CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a proclamation on Tuesday declaring two long-standing Muslim organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” even though US states do not have the authority to issue such declarations.
Kevin Reed•
The class issues in Katie Wilson’s Seattle mayoral election victory
Katie Wilson's election as mayor of Seattle reflects growing anger at the two-party system. But her career shows a middle-class orientation incapable of fighting the corporate oligarchy.
Michael Connolly•
Patrick Martin•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Daniel de Vries•
Andre Damon•
Public meeting: The death of Vijayakumar at the Maussakelle tea factory—No to Workers’ Lives for Profit!
These are not “industrial accidents” but industrial murders, the direct result of the profit-driven assault on essential safety precautions by the capitalist class.
Socialist Equality Party and Plantation Workers’ Action Committee (Sri Lanka)•
HRW report highlights impact of pro-market policies on public education in Sri Lanka
Extensive tax exemptions handed to big business by successive governments over decades have deepened the country’s social crisis and undermined public education.
W.A. Sunil•
Sri Lanka government’s 2026 budget intensifies IMF austerity
President Dissanayake expressed contempt for the poor and threatened workers who fight for their social rights, as he outlined further pro-business austerity measures.
Saman Gunadasa•
Sri Lankan government begins electricity board restructuring backed by unions
Workers cannot fight against the JVP/NPP government’s IMF austerity under a trade union bureaucracy that completely supports this very program.
Wimal Perera•
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Sakuna Jayawardana•
Wimal Perera•
Saman Gunadasa•
Saman Gunadasa•
Australia: Young worker killed in Port Kembla steel plant
Aged just 24, Jack McGrath died this week at the BlueScope Steel complex, underlining the growing toll of workplace fatalities and injuries.
Stephen Griffiths•
Following death of postal worker Russell Scruggs, Jr.
Workers speak out on dangerous conditions at Palmetto, Georgia mail facility
Russell’s coworkers are coming forward and speaking out about dangerous conditions and a toxic environment inside the plant.
Kathleen Martin•
One week after death of USPS worker Nick Acker in Detroit
Postal worker Russell Scruggs Jr. dies at Palmetto, Georgia distribution center
Russell Scruggs Jr. was 44 years old and had just started work at the USPS distribution center three weeks earlier.
Kathleen Martin•
Wall Street Journal article on Tennessee munitions plant explosion exposes an industry that “polices itself”
The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA), charged with protecting workers from industrial hazards, had inspected AES only once in 20 years.
Jane Wise•
Our reporters•
Martin Scott•
Kathleen Martin•
Kevin Reed•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Drop all charges against students protesting Israeli troops at University of Michigan!
The IYSSE at the University of Michigan denounces the arrest last month of three pro-Palestinian protesters, and the violent suppression of demonstrations against the Gaza genocide.
IYSSE at the University of Michigan•
SOAS student charged with terrorism: “All I ever did was speak about a right that Palestinians have under international law”
Sarah told WSWS, “I think it's a new height in terms of state repression to have young people, international students, with no track record of causing trouble, to be charged under this legislation.”
Laura Tiernan•
Ellison-owned Paramount launches McCarthyite blacklist of actors opposed to Gaza genocide
A civil war is raging in the film, television and music fields between artists opposed to the mass murder in Gaza, as well as Trump’s fascist policies, and the upper echelons of studio executives and owners.
David Walsh•
UK government-backed persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan continues
A Tribunal agreed with the General Medical Council to continue investigations into Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan’s entirely legitimate social media activity.
Robert Stevens•
Martin Scott•
Alejandro López•
Our reporters•
Robert Stevens•
Luke Galvin•
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, dies at 97
This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical advancement and from a collective scientific effort spanning decades and continents.
Bryan Dyne•
Capitalism failing on all 45 indicators of climate progress
The United Nations’ “Emissions Gap Report 2025” shows the planet is on course for 2.8 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial average by the end of this century based on current policies.
Thomas Scripps•
Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay
Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.
Benjamin Mateus•
Jane Goodall, the primatologist who revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzees and ourselves, dies at 91
Goodall demonstrated that the evolutionary origins of many basic human behaviors are shared with our closest biological relatives.
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Simon Whelan•
Philip Guelpa•
Bryan Dyne•
Zelensky government embroiled in massive corruption scandal
The Ukrainian government is directly implicated in a massive embezzlement scandal that threatens the continued existence of a Zelensky presidency.
Jason Melanovski•
Nordic countries support imperialist preparations for war with Russia in the Arctic and Baltic
The drawing once again of even the remotest parts of Europe into the rapidly escalating worldwide struggle between the major powers for markets, raw materials and spheres of influence underlines that the working class in every country must take up the fight to construct a global anti-war movement.
Jordan Shilton•
Ukraine faces financial crisis as winter approaches
Despite billions wasted and hundreds of thousands already killed in the proxy war with Russia, Ukraine and its EU backers remain committed to war.
Jason Melanovski•
Ukraine: From sporadic resistance to war to the first hotbeds of collective struggle
Resistance to forced mobilization in Ukraine is increasingly taking on social and collective forms.
Ukrainian journalists•
Clara Weiss•
Ukrainian journalists•
Johannes Stern•
Ukrainian journalists•
Johannes Stern•
Marburg virus disease confirmed in Ethiopia amid regional instability
Ethiopia is experiencing its first recorded outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, unfolding amid political unrest, displacement, and strained health systems.
Benjamin Mateus•
Proxy war for Sudan by regional powers has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
Refugees have told of mass rape, abductions and streets lined with corpses. Satellite imagery shows streets awash with blood and strewn with bodies and earth markings indicative of mass graves.
Jean Shaoul•
Samia Hassan, the Butcher of Tanzania, sworn in as president amid escalating repression
The inauguration took place with the streets of major cities still stained with blood. As internet services gradually return following a six-day shutdown, reports are surfacing of mass killings.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
The Gen Z protests and the struggle for the United Socialist States of Africa
The experiences unfolding across Africa brings to the fore the central problem of every revolutionary movement: leadership. The courage of the youth must find conscious political direction in the building of a revolutionary Trotskyist movement.
Alejandro López•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Alejandro López •
Alejandro López•
Why the poor die 9 years earlier than the rich: An interview with Dr. Marc Cohen
Dr. Cohen is co-director of LeadingAge LTSS Center at University of Massachusetts Boston and has long studied the crisis of longevity in the US.
Benjamin Mateus•
Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
Benjamin Mateus•
Financialization and the crisis of US healthcare
Harvard study exposes deadly toll of private equity hospitals
A Harvard-led study has provided rigorous evidence that private equity ownership of hospitals increases patient mortality in emergency and intensive care units.
Benjamin Mateus•
As over 1 million Americans are infected with COVID daily, Trump administration plans further cutoff of vaccines
Amid the 11th COVID wave in the US, Kennedy is dismantling federal vaccine policy and scientific institutions and eroding decades of public health progress in the service of a radical, anti-vaccine political agenda.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
David North•
6 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., widow asks: “Why don’t I have answers?”
Stellantis, the United Auto Workers and Michigan safety officials continue to remain silent on the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman, even as full production at the engine plant has resumed.
Jerry White•
Dundee Engine nearly six months after workplace death: “The machines are running at full blast, and not a word is being said about Ronald Adams”
At a meeting for workers returning from layoff, management and United Auto Workers officials maintained a guilty silence about the death of the 63-year-old skilled tradesman.
Jerry White•
5 months after death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr., silence and cover-up continue
Five months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr., his widow Shamenia Steward-Adams said, “... all I know is that my husband is dead, and the workers are back working.”
Jerry White•
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Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War
Their testimonies are first-hand accounts of war crimes perpetrated by the self-proclaimed “the most moral army in the world”, flatly contradicting the IDF’s insistence that it operates in accordance with international law and takes measures to minimise civilian harm in its genocidal assault on Gaza.
Jean Shaoul•
Video leak by IDF’s chief lawyer of gang rape of Palestinian sparks right-wing defence of torturers
Despite calls to shut it down, Israel’s High Court refused to close Sde Teiman in September 2024. Instead, the public uproar centres on the fact that the abuse was made public in the first place and by no less a person than Israel’s Chief Military Advocate.
Jean Shaoul•
Middle East leaders agree to police Gaza on behalf of US and Israel
The ceasefire will be monitored by the signatories to the deal—the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey—with the US guaranteeing to enforce it. Ever since, all four signatories have done nothing to stop Israel continuing its daily attacks on Gaza and withholding aid.
Jean Shaoul•
New report by The Lancet: More than 3 million Palestinian life-years lost in Gaza genocide
On Friday, the authoritative medical journal The Lancet issued a report that calculated 3,082,363 life-years have been lost by Palestinians during the Israeli genocide in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and July 31, 2025.
Kevin Reed•
Mehring Verlag•
Mehring Verlag•
Andre Damon•
Jean Shaoul•
Andre Damon•
Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Clara Weiss•
Expand the campaign to free the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Socialist Laborers Party condemns Turkish state’s intervention against Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’s program
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi has received a letter of solidarity from the Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey. It condemns the intervention by the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office against its program.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Turkish government detains prominent journalists
Political arrests, operations targeting journalists, and growing attacks on press freedom are steps taken by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government to use the judiciary to build an authoritarian regime.
Barış Demir•
Grey Wolves fascists attack leftist students at a university in Ankara, Turkey
In Ankara, the capital of Turkey, a group of fascists armed with knives attacked university students in front of the police.
Can Denizli•
Kurdish PKK withdraws its forces from Turkey
The negotiations between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party have nothing to do with the pursuit of peace and democracy. Turkey’s ruling elites have approached the negotiations from the outset as a security issue.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Hakan Özal•
Hasan Yıldırım•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
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.
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•
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.
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
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Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
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.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
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.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
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.
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•
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.
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•
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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Texas A&M University bans “race and gender ideology”
The fascistic administration of Governor Greg Abbott, at the behest of Trump, is seeking to ensure that the approximately 1.6 million students attending public universities in Texas only come into contact with instructional material acceptable to the far right.
Josh Andrews•
Stop the censorship of anti-fascist meetings at Berlin universities!
While students face ever greater restrictions on their right to freedom of expression, German universities themselves are by no means neutral. They increasingly take sides with German militarism and defend far-right political positions.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
Join the struggle for a socialist future! Mobilise the working class against genocide, dictatorship, and world war!
The contradictions that lead capitalism to these disasters also form the basis for social revolution. Workers and youth everywhere are looking for a way out of war, genocide, the high cost of living, unemployment and anti-democratic attacks.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Turkey)•
A socialist perspective against genocide, world war and fascism
Students are returning to universities this October under extraordinary conditions. The IYSSE is distributing this statement at the beginning of the semester at universities in Germany and calls on students to join us in building a mass movement against war and capitalism among workers and young people.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany)•
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Esther Galen•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Tim Avery•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Neita: January 5, 1948 – October 30, 2025
David Neita, who played a leading role in the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party) during the 1970s, died on October 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.
David North•
A working class fighter for socialism: Joe Parnarauskis, 1954–2025
Parnarauskis is best known to readers of the WSWS for his 2006 campaign for Illinois state senate.
Tom Mackaman•
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
David North•
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
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.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
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.
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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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•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
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.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
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.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
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.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
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.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
“We shouldn’t be pitted against each other”: Canadian and US Stellantis workers call for cross-border unity to defend jobs
Workers from Windsor, Ontario and suburban Detroit spoke out against the destruction of jobs and the UAW and Unifor’s support for trade war.
Jerry White•
GM’s closure of its Ontario CAMI plant exposes the dead end of Unifor’s nationalist partnership with corporate Canada
GM's shuttering of the EV van assembly plant will eliminate more than 1,000 jobs. The fate of GM’s nearby, wholly-owned Ultium battery operation and the 200 workers employed there remains in limbo.
Carl Bronski•
UAW president hails Trump, praises Stellantis move to cut jobs in Canada
On the eve of the mass "No Kings" protests against the aspiring dictator Donald Trump, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain issued another tribute to the fascist in the White House.
Shannon Jones•
Impact of Trump tariffs roils global auto production as workers bear the brunt
The impact of Trump’s tariffs are being felt by autoworkers in the form of relentless undermining of working conditions, layoffs and disruptions.
Shannon Jones•
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International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
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.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
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.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
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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Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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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.
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Trump pardons January 6 coup architects and fake electors
After granting clemency to nearly 1,600 January 6 foot soldiers, Trump has now pardoned his top coup lawyers and fake electors, several of whom still face state charges for their role in the 2020 election conspiracy.
Jacob Crosse•
DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
Max Jones•
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
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.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
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.
John Burton•
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
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.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
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.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against 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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
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.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
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.
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
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.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
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.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
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.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
President Sheinbaum minimizes growing US threats to bomb Mexico
In response to continuing US threats to bomb drug cartels in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued unconvincing and toothless denials that they will ever be carried out.
Don Knowland•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
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.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
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.
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Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
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Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
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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Interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: “In America right now, a low-wage job … is homelessness waiting to happen”
Goldstone’s book documents the lives of five families trapped by low-wage work and homelessness in Atlanta.
James McDonald•
Marxism in the academic’s imagination
Two new books on Marx and Marxism
What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.
Tom Mackaman•
Dmitry Barinov’s “Zinoviev, Trotsky, University”: An important contribution to the history of the Left Opposition
Barinov has produced the most extensive account yet of the work of the Opposition in Leningrad, its structure, leading figures and activities among students and the working class.
Clara Weiss•
100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Sandy English•
James McDonald•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Peters•
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
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.
Mass walkouts in North Carolina against immigration raids: Workers must lead the fight against kidnapping operations!
There is mass anger in Charlotte and other cities targeted by Trump’s mass deportation operation, this anger must be transformed into concrete action to end the attacks on the working class.
Jacob Crosse•
For a rank-and-file inquiry into the deaths of USPS workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs, Jr.!
An inquiry, organized by workers and not corrupt union bureaucrats, is needed to arm workers with the knowledge they need to defend themselves and go on the offensive against the regime of corporate dictatorship in the workplaces which makes these deaths inevitable.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Trump welcomes Saudi prince: Billionaire murderers meet at the White House
The visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman culminated in a lavish dinner in his honor with dozens of Wall Street executives and other billionaires.
Patrick Martin•
Defend the social rights of the working class! For an independent, global movement against mass layoffs!
Workers must fight for workers’ power and workers’ control over production, harnessing the surplus created by new technologies to improve, not lower, the standard of living for the masses.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Thomas Scripps•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Patrick Martin•
Joseph Kishore•
Patrick Martin•
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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Pike River film whitewashes Labour Party and union’s role in New Zealand mine disaster
The film rewrites history to promote the Labour Party and the union bureaucracy, obscuring their role both in the 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and in the ongoing cover-up.
Tom Peters•
Bernie Monk, spokesman for families of Pike River mine disaster writes
New Zealand letter of condolence to the families of those killed in Cobar, Australia mine explosion
Monk, whose son was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River disaster in New Zealand, extends condolences to the families of the two people killed in the Endeavour mine explosion on October 28 and urges them to “stay strong and pursue answers and accountability.”
Bernie Monk•
Letter from Bernie Monk, spokesperson for Pike River families in New Zealand, to the families of the Tennessee explosives plant disaster
Bernie Monk, whose son Michael was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 underground Pike River Coal mine disaster, expresses support for the families of the 16 workers killed in the Tennessee Accurate Energetic Systems weapons factory explosion.
Bernie Monk•
Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Richard Phillips•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•