The international pickets held in Istanbul, Paris, London, Berlin, Washington D.C., Toronto, Canberra and Sydney marked an important step forward in the building of an international working class campaign demanding Bogdan’s freedom and an end to imperialist war.
On Thursday, June 13, the following letter from the Socialist Equality Party and the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site will be delivered to Oksana Markarova, the ambassador of Ukraine, in Washington, D.C.
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 awarding by Tesla shareholders of a pay package worth more than $45 billion to CEO Elon Musk highlights accelerating social inequality and the deepening economic, social, military and political crisis of world capitalism.
As 640,000 people marched in France to protest the surging far right vote, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Popular Front sought to tie the protest to the pro-war, big business Socialist Party.
The series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
In a newly released letter, UAW Vice President Rich Boyer hit back against his demotion by UAW President Shawn Fain, saying both leaders signed off on job cuts and other concessions demanded by Stellantis.
The biggest Supreme Court bribe dispenser, Harlan Crow, has the distinction of owning and displaying at his Texas mansion Hitler and Nazi artifacts, including a signed copy of Mein Kampf, paintings by the Führer, and linens sporting the Swastika icon.
Speaking at a church in Detroit, Trump blamed immigrants for the poverty and unemployment caused by capitalism.
Dozens of workers, youth and retirees stopped and spoke with SEP campaigners. The stall, with its large placards denouncing Labour’s support for the Gaza genocide and NATO’s proxy-war in Ukraine, attracted interest throughout the day.
Murderous in its own right, the anti-vaccine crusade of the Pentagon is part of a vast online apparatus of lies and propaganda run by the US government.
Pine Gap, in Central Australia, would be a key planning centre in the event of nuclear war as well as a prime target.
“This is a fight for justice for Bogdan—his freedom and his life—and a fight for justice, liberty and life for people everywhere.” – Jack Picone
Workers and youth spoke to members of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste during the international picketing of Ukrainian embassies demanding the liberation of Syrotiuk.
The forthcoming Colombo meeting is part of the global campaign being waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International for the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk from a Ukrainian prison.
Mike Head urged listeners to support the global campaign to free 25-year-old Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, the victim of a political frame-up for his socialist opposition to war.
For the first time since the end of the Second World War, the US and its allies are directly targeting Russian territory.
An international rank-and-file movement must be built in the working class, independent of the union bureaucracies, fighting for socialism against fascism and imperialist war.
The US-led axis of imperialist powers concluded a whirlwind week of summits Friday, including the G7 Summit, a meeting of the NATO defense ministers, and the Ukraine contact group, all of which had the effect of significantly escalating their global war against Russia and China.
It has taken little more than a year for the “reform” pretensions of Fain & Co. to be definitively exposed as nothing more than hypocritical lies, aimed at giving a facelift to the UAW bureaucracy’s corporatist, antiworker policies.
Last Thursday, the Student Parliament of Berlin’s Humboldt University passed a resolution condemning the brutal police action against the student occupation of the Institute of Social Sciences.
The IYSSE calls on all students: Protest against the authoritarian police regime at Humboldt University! Defend freedom of opinion, assembly and study! Come to our next meeting and vote IYSSE for the Student Parliament!
Some 200 people gathered outside San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum on June 6 to protest the genocide being carried out by the Israeli government and military in Gaza.
Video reports show police violently snatching peaceful protesters and deploying “less lethal” rounds. At least 25 anti-genocide demonstrators were arrested.
The record of Gantz and Eisenkot, which the mainstream media continues to describe as a restraining hand on Netanyahu that will be sorely missed, is of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Both were war criminals long before October 7.
Part of Israel’s genocidal strategy against the Palestinian population is the destruction and theft of its cultural heritage and goods.
The Israeli government and military have committed systematic "crimes against humanity," including "extermination," during its eight-month-long assault on Gaza, a key United Nations commission found in a report published Wednesday.
The Washington Post confirmed Sunday that Israeli forces used civilian vehicles in the military operation, and that the operation was staged near the “humanitarian” port built by the US military.
Speaking at a church in Detroit, Trump blamed immigrants for the poverty and unemployment caused by capitalism.
The biggest Supreme Court bribe dispenser, Harlan Crow, has the distinction of owning and displaying at his Texas mansion Hitler and Nazi artifacts, including a signed copy of Mein Kampf, paintings by the Führer, and linens sporting the Swastika icon.
The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone and struck down a federal regulation prohibiting bump stocks on assault rifles, among other rulings, as the current term approached its conclusion before the July 4 holiday.
The fascistic former president accepted fawning tributes from House and Senate Republicans, who recognized him as the all-but-certain presidential nominee and discussed a range of ultra-right policies to be enacted in 2025.
The lawsuit contends Morris was profiled, straitjacketed, racially abused, denied medical treatment and humiliated.
Some 200 people gathered outside San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum on June 6 to protest the genocide being carried out by the Israeli government and military in Gaza.
The Amazon Prime series based on the role-playing game of the same title, depicts—in a puerile and unserious manner—the conditions in the US 200 years after a nuclear war.
On May 31, UArts abruptly announced it would cease operations in a week’s time, shocking and angering students and faculty.
The incident is the latest in a series of safety and quality failures on Boeing planes in the past six months, after a door blew out of a 737 MAX 9 mid-flight in January.
Areas around Miami and Fort Lauderdale saw up to 20 inches of rain and flooding deep enough to strand cars on the road.
The response by President López Obrador and his protégé Sheinbaum has again unmasked their nationalist bluster about defending “national sovereignty” and migrant rights.
Hosier, 69, was put to death Tuesday evening by the state of Missouri despite no physical evidence linking him to the murders of a Jefferson City couple. Hosier long maintained his innocence.
A worker told WSWS reporters, “We’re processing 1,800 head of cattle a day here. In my previous job we did 500 and that was hard enough.” One line worker introduced himself and his fellow strikers as “Cargill’s slaves.”
As soon as yesterday’s NTEU online Zoom meeting commenced, Gabriela Zabala was ejected.
Indonesia: Thousands of workers protest forced wage cut for national housing scheme; India: Female gig workers in Karnataka protest slave-like working conditions; Pakistan: Sindh water and power workers protest privatisation; Australia: TAFE teachers strike for pay rise and reduced workloads.
The tragic and unnecessary death occurred when the cart the young worker was using tipped over and crushed him.
With the snap election due in France, Macron has refused to withdraw the contentious constitutional amendment to expand New Caledonia’s voter rolls that triggered ongoing unrest.
During Li’s visit sections of the New Zealand media, academia and the political establishment ramped up an anti-China campaign, while the National Party-led government aligns more closely with US-led war preparations.
The investigation of University of Sydney sociology professor Sujatha Fernandes is another witch hunt that threatens free speech and other basic democratic rights, including academic freedom.
According to current figures 670 people died in the catastrophic landslide but the final toll remains unclear and will never be fully known.
The bankruptcy of Ankara’s maneuvering policy between these two nuclear powers is becoming increasingly clear.
My party’s aim is to mobilise the working class across the UK and internationally against the genocide in Gaza, the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, the destruction of living standards and democratic rights, and environmental collapse.
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is standing candidates in the general election to build a socialist anti-war movement, based on the working class.
Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and his shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, have insisted over the last four years that Labour will be the most pro-business government in history, which means it will be dedicated to attacking the working class and slashing public spending.
Biden and Macron cynically tried to invoke the US-British-Canadian landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944 to legitimize their escalation against Russia that threatens to plunge Europe into a new world war.
This week, the leaders of the imperialist powers used the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings to pledge a major escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia, threatening to once more plunge humanity into world war.
The imperialist powers are gathering to celebrate their defeat of Nazi Germany even as they have embraced the methods and war aims of the Third Reich.
Both the main parties of the ruling class are involved in a joint enterprise to hide from workers the acute dangers they face.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
The capitulation of Serbia to the US-NATO onslaught brings to an end the last major strategic experience of the twentieth century. Its bloody conclusion endows the century with a certain tragic symmetry. It began with the suppression of the anti-colonial uprising of the Chinese Boxers. The century closes with a war that completes the reduction of the Balkans to the status of a neo-colonial protectorate of the major imperialist powers.
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
The push for the tariff increases has been led by Spain and France with the claim that state subsidies to Chinese manufactures had created unfair competition in the European market, but also has led to opposition from Germany.
After anticipating three rate cuts over the year back in March, most Fed officials now expect one at most.
The decision has far-reaching implications for attempts to regulate the burgeoning private credit market, which the International Monetary Fund has said poses a major potential risk to the financial system.
After five quarters of no growth and only a small rise in the March quarter, the interest rate cut has been described as a move to provide some limited stimulus to the economy.
Scientist and infectious disease experts warn that the ongoing spread and adaptation by the bird flu virus poses as an existential threat to human populations.
A long overdue report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on the state of Long COVID in the US was finally released last week. This exhaustive research and investigation provides a devastating overview of the impact of Long COVID on the population.
The virus that causes COVID-19 continues to evolve into more infectious and immune-resistant variants.
Amid an influx of patients and a surge in staff illness, authorities in some parts of the country have been forced to cancel elective surgeries and temporarily reinstitute masking in health facilities.
The main purpose of the “reform” bill is to open the way for profit-hungry international and local investors to exploit Sri Lanka’s highly lucrative electricity industry.
Union leaders are isolating a strike by 13,000 non-academic workers that began on May 2, and are trying to create the conditions to shut it down altogether.
The desperate situation facing flood survivors is the result of the refusal of Sri Lankan governments to address basic issues of social infrastructure.
The new bill, which concentrates economic policy powers in the hands of Sri Lanka’s executive president, is a further move towards autocratic forms of rule.
The struggle of the Renault workers in Brazil unfolds in the context of the restructuring of the auto industry with a focus on electric and hybrid vehicles, leading to a jobs bloodbath internationally.
The anniversary was overshadowed by a US offensive on multiple fronts— diplomatic, economic and military—against China, Brazil’s leading trade partner.
Mexico’s incoming President can be expected, if anything, to increase subordination to US imperialism and its predatory interests.
These measures will ensure the immiseration of the working class and the widening of the gap between rich and poor.
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.
In a bid to block all challenges to the two preferred parties of the financial oligarchy, the Democrats filed the lawsuit less 24 hours after members of the Green Party submitted over 29,000 signatures, nearly three times the minimum requirement, to appear on the ballot.
West assured cryptocurrency entrepreneur Mario Nawfal’s right-wing audience that he opposed open borders, socialism and Marxism.
Following Trump's conviction on Thursday, virtually every major Republican politician has attacked the trial as a sham while defending the ex-president.
Much will transpire over the five months remaining until the November election. It is possible that neither Trump nor Biden will end up as the candidates of the two corporate-controlled parties. But one thing is certain, the political system as a whole will continue its lurch to the right.
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.
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.
The unions are intent on suppressing massive opposition within the working class to Nigeria’s atrocious living conditions, intensified by the ruling class’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the soaring of prices due to the US-NATO war against Russia in the Ukraine and the government’s disastrous austerity policies.
The coup took place as Washington and its NATO allies wage a bitter struggle for influence in Africa with China and Russia, amid the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.
Kenya and the entire African continent are being drawn into the maelstrom of an expanding global war. The continent’s geostrategic position and vast mineral resources are viewed by Washington as critical in its conflicts with Russia, Iran and China.
This is the text of the speech delivered by Alex Lantier, the national secretary of the Parti de l'Egalité Socialiste (PES) in France, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
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.
Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
The death of President Ebrahim Raisi could trigger a political crisis and lead to sharp infighting in the country’s Islamic bourgeois clerical regime.
The last decade has witnessed a deepening of the ruling elite's disregard for the safety of workers for the sake of profit, let alone the necessary occupational safety measures, in Turkey and around the world.
This fire disaster is an indictment of the entire ruling elite, including business owners and officials.
“In acting to oppose Assange’s persecution, you are stepping into the titanic storm now blowing through world politics; you are coming up against fundamental class interests and imperialist objectives.”
Speakers emphasised that the fight against Israel’s genocide, imperialist war and for the freedom of Assange must be based on the independent mobilisation of the working class against capitalism.
The judgement is a victory, both for blocking what could otherwise have been Assange’s immediate transfer to America and for further exposing the reactionary nature of the US prosecution.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told the assembled media, “It is abundantly clear that the process in the courts in the United Kingdom are corrupt. The case is rigged against Julian.”
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.
In the following, we document the IYSSE Humboldt University election statement, which will be printed in the student election brochure. The elections are on 18 and 19 June.
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
The meeting was a part of the ICFI’s campaign for an international anti-war movement of workers and youth based on socialist policies.
The flurry of eviction notices, “emergency meetings,” and warnings of disciplinary action indicate a nationally coordinated campaign in line with denunciations of the student protests by the federal Labor government.
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
The second total eclipse across North America in seven years has drawn the interest of millions across the continent.
“With a few exceptions, increasing warming leads to greater exposure to drought, fluvial and coastal flooding, and greater declines in biodiversity and crop yields.”
The 46-year-old worker collapsed on the assembly line at the Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17 and reportedly died of a heart attack.
“With our brothers and sisters of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), we are for abolishing, not reforming, the UAW bureaucracy, to put power into the hands of the workers.”
The strike vote at Warren Stamping, a critical components plant, comes as anger is seething among rank-and-file workers over layoffs and a host of issues.
An autoworker died after suffering a medical emergency after waiting a half hour for medical help at the Ford Rouge complex outside Detroit.
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.
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.
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.
Dozens of workers, youth and retirees stopped and spoke with SEP campaigners. The stall, with its large placards denouncing Labour’s support for the Gaza genocide and NATO’s proxy-war in Ukraine, attracted interest throughout the day.
Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
The JVP’s rightward evolution is not an isolated, national phenomenon but an expression of the transformation internationally of similar organisations into pro-imperialist outfits.
This is the tribute given by Peter Symonds to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018. The tribute was read at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of Halil’s death.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
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.
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.
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.
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
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 series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
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 awarding by Tesla shareholders of a pay package worth more than $45 billion to CEO Elon Musk highlights accelerating social inequality and the deepening economic, social, military and political crisis of world capitalism.
An international rank-and-file movement must be built in the working class, independent of the union bureaucracies, fighting for socialism against fascism and imperialist war.
The international pickets held in Istanbul, Paris, London, Berlin, Washington D.C., Toronto, Canberra and Sydney marked an important step forward in the building of an international working class campaign demanding Bogdan’s freedom and an end to imperialist war.
It has taken little more than a year for the “reform” pretensions of Fain & Co. to be definitively exposed as nothing more than hypocritical lies, aimed at giving a facelift to the UAW bureaucracy’s corporatist, antiworker policies.
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.
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.
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
