The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is telling 1,200 striking workers at the Bradford White water heater manufacturing plant in Middleville, Michigan that they must vote this weekend on what management calls its “last, best and final” offer.
The accident is bound up with systemic underfunding of infrastructure and security by the entire political establishment, including the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.
Hours after fleeing Brazil, the defeated fascistic candidate proclaimed himself “the true president-elect” and announced he will lead the opposition from the United States. The move follows more than a year of US economic warfare against Latin America's largest country.
Lula’s reelection opens a period of intensified class struggle, in which the aspirations of the workers and young people who voted for him will collide head-on with his government’s capitalist program.
Michael and Susan Pretti condemned the Justice Department’s stonewalling and demanded accountability for the federal agents who killed their son in Minneapolis.
The real historic character of this election lies not in any prospect that it could rescue Israel from its mounting crisis. It is in its confirmation of the reactionary essence of the Zionist project.
Dozens of students and workers in Detroit and East Lansing attended each meeting and took part in serious discussions on war, the Democratic Party, and the fight for socialism.
Chancellor John Healey’s budget offers a paltry one-off £100 for households against soaring energy bills, while another £10 billion is found to fund war in Ukraine.
Against the backdrop of Europe-wide mass protests, a major demonstration also took place in the Austrian capital, Vienna, last week on October 22.
Erdoğan’s threat that Türkiye “will not be surrendered to the street” expresses the ruling class’s fear that the rebellion of youth and workers sweeping Europe will spread to Türkiye.
Less than a month before Carney’s announcement, ramp agent Oscar Robayo was crushed to death by the landing gear of a passenger jet at Montreal Trudeau International Airport. Airport privatization will be a massive windfall for international finance capital and increase the likelihood of further workplace fatalities.
The inability of households to pay their water bills underscores that the provision of basic social rights cannot be left to big business, local councils and the government.
The State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon's Southern Command have publicly solicited informants inside Cuba, three months after accusing Havana of running a spy network in the United States.
Actors have gone public about a situation that was once considered embarrassing to acknowledge: not being able to meet the union threshold.
The SEP launch in Melbourne this Sunday will outline a socialist and international perspective against war, austerity and authoritarianism.
The VS program of pressure, protest and parliamentary reform is directed against the fight to build a genuine socialist movement of the working class amid a historic breakdown of capitalism in Australia and globally.
Metalworkers in Murcia region of Spain face police rubber bullets and tear gas in strike over pay and conditions; protests continue across Iran over living conditions as US and Israel prepare further military strikes; workers continuing stoppage at electricity company in Benin, Nigeria are assaulted and arrested by police
After a one-day strike in June, the Australian Education Union has cancelled further fortnightly stopworks and is pleading for a deal with the ACT Labor government.
The US and its allies like South Korea have ramped up their military build-up in Asia, creating an increasingly unstable situation throughout the region.
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Thornett was a prominent militant in the car industry who was won from the Stalinist Communist Party of Great Britain to the Socialist Labour League, then the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
The open bigotry of the remarks in Michigan by the US president and a top cabinet secretary are a signal of the plans for mass repression and military aggression after the elections.
The dubious charges are part of the Justice Department’s campaign of political revenge, aimed at intimidating and imprisoning opponents of the fascist president.
The unprecedented lawsuit, defying the US Constitution, is the first overt action by the Trump administration to challenge the results of the midterm election.
The US president has encouraged violent attacks on hecklers at campaign rallies and appeals to racism and other forms of bigotry.
Nixon and Sanders promoted the illusion that the November elections can proceed as an ordinary contest and that oligarchy and fascism can be defeated at the ballot box.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to August 7, 2026.
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Tom Mackaman. This report introduced the sixth resolution, “From the first to the third American Revolution,” which was unanimously adopted.
We are publishing here “From the first to the third American Revolution,” the sixth and final resolution adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026.
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The Congress was held from August 2–7, 2026. This report introduced the fifth resolution, “AI and the fight for socialism,” which was unanimously adopted.
Sanchez-Ortega, an emerging artist in his first year of the McPhee Artist Development Program, was replaced in the role of Angelotti, the escaped political prisoner in Giacomo Puccini's popular opera.
The 51-minute documentary Filmed in Gaza is a modest contribution to the world’s knowledge about the murderous assault.
Mary Anne Trasciatti’s valuable biography documents Flynn’s passage from IWW militancy to Stalinism but leaves the roots of that transformation unexplained.
During a panel discussion at the film’s London launch, Paul Lewis exposed the incoherence of the Netanyahu regime’s response to Naza. On the one hand, the government claims the film is “false”, “misrepresentative”, and full of lies. On the other hand, Netanyahu argues that those appearing in it should be prosecuted for revealing state secrets.
Sarah Kaine, who represents the state Labor government, delivered the final speech at a rally of around 400 university staff, students and supporters.
This was a vote of no confidence in the conduct of the strike by the UAW, which has worked with management to impose concessions through open threats.
Some 1,300 workers at Teck Highland Valley Copper have walked out over contract issues, while oil workers in Venezuela began protest strikes last week in a number of cities.
Twice this year the COB bureaucracy called off general strikes only to be answered by new government attacks.
Yesterday, during a visit to Marseille, Emmanuel Macron raised the threat of imposing a state of emergency against the mass mobilization of youth and workers against his government.
Chancellor John Healey’s budget offers a paltry one-off £100 for households against soaring energy bills, while another £10 billion is found to fund war in Ukraine.
Alongside war, the housing crisis and the education crisis, the protests are being driven by supply shortages and rising food prices.
The cuts planned by the government were not cancelled but transferred, to return through the back door of the “polder” – the class-collaborationist Dutch tradition of settlements negotiated between government, employers and unions.
By granting a visa to an aspiring dictator under criminal investigation, the US government has exploded whatever “legal” pretense it has used to justify its repressive immigration policies.
While Trump openly appealed to anti-Muslim bigotry, branding Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a terrorist, Obama offered only jokes and complacency.
The US president has encouraged violent attacks on hecklers at campaign rallies and appeals to racism and other forms of bigotry.
Behind the fascist president’s demands for deportations lies the fear that workers will recognize their common struggle against inequality, war and dictatorship.
The Socialist Equality Party will launch its Victorian election campaign at a public meeting on November 1, advancing a socialist alternative to war, austerity and the rise of the far right.
Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins’ statement that “we don’t align” with the US against China is a lie.
Growing evidence points to the attack on Helen Haines being the result of a psychotic episode, but the Labor government is using it to denounce popular political opposition.
Amid the national election, about 2,000 firefighters and support staff across New Zealand held their 71st one-hour strike last Friday.
Emergency talks in Tehran, reports of strikes on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and the increase in US forces in the region point to the renewal of a US-Israeli assault on Iran in the near future.
The Trump and Netanyahu administrations are in the final stages of preparing a massive new assault against Iran, in advance of elections in which both leaders are expected to face major electoral setbacks.
Netanyahu sealed off the West Bank and announced a military operation of a kind not carried out since 1967, as the US and Israel prepare new strikes on Iran after the elections.
The US-led war on Iran has set the entire region ablaze, destabilising the Persian Gulf states and opening a new scramble by the European imperialist and regional powers for control of territory, resources and geo-strategic influence.
We are publishing here the fourth of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian socialist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, has drawn support in Greece from media outlets, left-wing websites and social media users.
On October 21, the IYSSE student group at Humboldt University presented the book “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk.”
This silence is no accident. It is an expression of the political role of the Left Party and a warning to all those who regard it as an opposition to war, social cuts and fascism.
Twenty-three percent of workers say they spend their entire paycheck the moment it arrives, to pay off debts; another 23 percent say it lasts less than a week. Only six workers in a hundred manage to make their wage stretch to the end of the month.
Governments of both the right and the pseudo-left have introduced a battery of laws directed specifically against minors, while systematically integrating the Carabineros into the school system.
The far-right opposition leader returned to Venezuela, with Washington’s approval, amid a wave of strikes and protests over blackouts and starvation wages.
The repressive architecture now being wielded by the far right was designed under Sebastián Piñera, enacted into law under Gabriel Boric, and handed to Kast as a fully operational instrument of state coercion.
In opposing the school paraprofessionals’ bonus, Mamdani has stepped forward as a champion of the Taylor Law, presenting it as a progressive measure that protects “collective bargaining.” In fact, it is a vicious anti-strike statute that has been used repeatedly to break strikes and impose fines on striking workers.
Mamdani’s campaign video for Hochul refutes the Democratic Socialists of America’s claim to be turning the Democratic Party into an organization that defends workers.
The Left Party itself is a proven pillar of the existing order and of the policies of war and austerity and is even actively participating in the campaign against its own members of parliament.
The launch of the Broad Front takes place amid an eruption of mass protests and strikes across Spain and Europe, from France to Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Albania.
Workers cannot rely on the trade union bureaucracies, the parliamentary opposition or pseudo-left organisations in their struggles to defend SOEs and their working conditions.
The IYSSE event on Zoom was live-streamed simultaneously on the Socialist Equality Party’s (SEP) Facebook page in Sinhala and Tamil, attracting significant interest.
The latest IMF staff-level agreement means another round of austerity to guarantee debt repayment and protect the interests of international capital.
Behind its bogus claim of "neutrality," the JVP/NPP has thoroughly tied itself to US imperialism, shedding its pretence of anti-imperialism in the past.
Tom Petterson addressed a candidates’ meeting in Epuni, Lower Hutt, outlining the SEG’s socialist demands and its opposition to all the parties of war and austerity.
We are publishing here the third of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
We are publishing here the second of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
Leading SEG member Tom Petterson will stand in the November 7 election, in opposition to all the capitalist parties, on a socialist and anti-war platform.
The Congressional Budget Office projected that the OBBBA would remove about 2.4 million people from the program once fully implemented. More than twice that number have been cut in a single year.
The death of a homeless woman in a fire earlier this month was a social murder committed by a financial oligarchy that enriches itself through real estate speculation, with the complicity of all the establishment parties.
According to ICE, Luis Sandoval, 48, was found with a ligature around his neck at the Folkston Detention Center on October 23.
The Sheinbaum government’s labor authorities have publicly praised Volkswagen and the SITIAVW for overriding two “no” votes.
The persecution of Omole took place amid the broader repression carried out by President William Ruto’s government.
Nigeria has confirmed an imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola and Kenya has nine, while the Congolese epidemic has reached 9,552 cases and 4,602 deaths in eight provinces, with children dying at the highest rates.
More than half of Ituri’s new positives on Oct. 9 came from swabs of the dead, while a man who had been ill for a month passed two airport screenings before dying in Nairobi.
With the Strait of Hormuz already closed, the US Israeli war of aggression against Iran is spreading from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
On Saturday, hundreds of journalists and thousands of others protested in at least ten cities across Türkiye, against the escalating attacks on the press by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Netanyahu sealed off the West Bank and announced a military operation of a kind not carried out since 1967, as the US and Israel prepare new strikes on Iran after the elections.
Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation represents a rare break with the silence and evasions that have characterised the British media’s coverage of Gaza
The dispute over maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of a struggle between the imperialist and regional powers over control of energy resources, pipelines, electricity and data cables, and strategic sea lanes.
Japan authorizes overseas military deployment for the first time since WWII; South Africa’s apartheid regime declares the Bantustan of Transkei “independent”; US Navy aircraft kill more than 500 in a bombing raid in North Korea; Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini survives an assassination attempt in Bologna.
The pseudo-left cannot defend its track record, so it flees into an idealized past. It cannot offer a program, so it offers assassination of an individual dictator as a substitute for the overthrow of an entire social system.
Fifty-one years after the Pinochet dictatorship’s most elaborate disinformation operation, the families of the 119 disappeared gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas to demand justice.
Historic properties and archaeological sites would lose protection from development projects.
Serious security flaws in PHP—the open source programming language that runs on more than two thirds of world’s websites—were discovered on Wednesday leading to major outages across the globe as administrators took down their systems, ran updates and installed patches.
Recent studies highlight the massive amounts of ozone generated by global warming-driven wildfires that will result in more than 2,000 annual excess deaths in the US alone.
Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth turned a light-sensitive protein from algae into a tool for switching brain cells on and off, giving the study of emotion, memory and behavior a causal, material basis. The prize comes as the Trump administration guts the research and health care this science should serve.
Near- and long-term effects of accelerating global warming will devastate the entire planet and cause major population displacements.
Workers rejected the company’s official explanation and said Dakkota owner Andra Rush wanted to replace the current workforce with cheaper non-union labor.
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain responded to the buyback with a florid denunciation of “legalized mass looting,” designed to conceal the UAW bureaucracy's concessions that have made this looting possible.
With immediate effect, the salaries of roughly 650,000 VW employees worldwide are to be frozen. For the 275,000 employees in Germany, a multi-year pay freeze would mean a loss in real income of far more than ten percent. The works council and the IG Metall union are downplaying the move.
The UAW has called for a vote on short notice on a concessionary tentative agreement for 1,200 Bradford White workers that meets none of their demands.
Henry Antonio Marmol Martinez, a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic and father of six, was crushed to death at the McWane Ductile Foundry in Phillipsburg, New Jersey—a plant OSHA had certified under its highest "Star" safety designation.
Several recent incidents involving the activation of machinery during maintenance highlight unsafe conditions at the Michigan Metroplex mail processing center in Pontiac, Michigan.
The carnage is the direct product of a profit drive that has intensified to the point of outright criminality, creating a situation that the ruling class, the government and the trade union apparatus all recognize as explosive.
Five miners were killed and two others were rescued injured on 1 October when a roof collapsed in an underground coal mine in Soma, western Türkiye.
NATO’s deployment of additional forces to the Black Sea amid growing attacks on commercial shipping marks a dangerous escalation of the war against Russia.
Ukraine attacked Russia with more than 1,000 drones overnight Saturday, in the largest bombardment of St. Petersburg since the Second World War.
While the Trump administration, amid its conflict with the European powers, is seeking at least for the moment a certain accommodation with Russia, the EU governments, led by Berlin, are pressing for the continuation and expansion of the Ukraine war.
The Democrats are making clear behind the scenes that their central priority, should they win a majority in one or both houses of Congress, will be the escalation of the war against Russia
The threat to reduce Indonesia to “standalone” status in the MSCI index resulted in the biggest fall in the Indonesian stock market since the crisis of 1998 as it plunged by 12 percent, triggering a 30-minute trading halt.
Growing debt and financial problems of AI-related firms may well be a harbinger of what is to come.
The major American AI firm CoreWeave was hit by a “tornado” this week, as its shares plunged at one point by around 28 percent.
The most striking feature of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report is that the eruption of another financial crisis is taken as a given.
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) have issued no findings. The United Auto Workers (UAW) has said nothing. The engine plant is back in full production.
Nine months after the preventable death of 63‑year‑old machine repairman Ronald Adams Sr. , the silence from the company, the United Auto Workers and state remains deafening.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
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.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
The United States recorded no measles death at all between 2016 and 2024. Three were reported last year. Pennsylvania by itself has now recorded six in 2026, the latest a 39-year-old unvaccinated woman in Franklin County.
Having invoked mass vaccination to justify allowing COVID to spread unchecked, Labor is withdrawing universal free access to vaccination itself.
CDC Director Erica Schwartz cited “divisive ideologies” and the unfinished fight over pathogen sharing and drug patents that has stalled the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
Authored by Baroness Heather Hallett, the report documents cost-cutting in pivotal logistics, £10 billion wasted on inadequate or unused PPE, and millions lost to unpursued fraud.
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.
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.
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.
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
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.
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
Speakers at the May Day rally analyzed the war against Iran as the culmination of a 35-year capitalist crisis and advanced a revolutionary program for the international working class entering a new period of global struggle.
This speech was delivered by Keith Jones, Socialist Equality Party (Canada) national secretary, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This speech was delivered by Tom Peters, a leader of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
The 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.
In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.
This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.
This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews the successful brief against the SWP’s motion for summary judgment.
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.
A new book by intelligence historians H. Keith Melton and Nigel West confirms the central findings of the ICFI's investigation into the GPU's penetration of the Trotskyist movement, while concealing the investigation itself and everything it exposed after 1940.
The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.
The suspension of the WRP by International Committee in December 1985 marked a decisive victory for Trotskyism over Pabloite opportunism and opened a new stage in the building of the Fourth International.
We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
The Burnham government is backing the genocide in Gaza and criminalising opposition to it at home every bit as brutally as Starmer, despite his crocodile tears.
Flanagan’s speech, which received a prolonged standing ovation from a sold-out audience of 1,000 people, systematically exposed the state-backed pro-Zionist campaign that falsely equates opposition to Israel’s war crimes with antisemitism.
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
Over 3,300 people have now been arrested on these charges since Palestine Action was outlawed by the Labour government in June-July last year.
Mário Maestri has sent a reply to our article “Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian,” developing his position on the character of the American Revolution and Brazilian independence, to which the WSWS has in turn responded.
The WSWS replies to Brazilian historian Mário Maestri, who argues that the American Revolution, like Brazilian independence, failed to bring about a “class-based transformation” and therefore does not merit the designation of a revolution.
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
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.
The IYSSE distributed a statement outlining a socialist strategy to oppose the militarization of AI and harness the revolutionary technology to meet social needs.
Wang’s death came amid the Trump administration’s prosecution of five Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan.
The International Labour Organisation warns of a worsening global youth jobs crisis, with youth unemployment rising, 257 million young people classified as NEET, and secure entry-level work becoming harder to obtain.
Imperialist wars abroad are coupled with class war at home. Students will graduate into a society ransacked by the capitalist oligarchy.
Kishore discussed the Ukrainian socialist’s imprisonment for opposing the war and the growing international demand for his freedom.
On June 24, SGP Chairman Christoph Vandreier and Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language World Socialist Web Site, read out an open letter to Ambassador Gökhan Turan in front of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin.
“The Socialist Equality Party in Australia unequivocally condemns the imperialist war of aggression being waged against Iran.”
Will Lehman is a rank-and-file autoworker at Mack Trucks who is running for president of the United Auto Workers union in 2026.
David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.
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.
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is telling 1,200 striking workers at the Bradford White water heater manufacturing plant in Middleville, Michigan that they must vote this weekend on what management calls its “last, best and final” offer.
The open bigotry of the remarks in Michigan by the US president and a top cabinet secretary are a signal of the plans for mass repression and military aggression after the elections.
Lula’s reelection opens a period of intensified class struggle, in which the aspirations of the workers and young people who voted for him will collide head-on with his government’s capitalist program.
The Trump and Netanyahu administrations are in the final stages of preparing a massive new assault against Iran, in advance of elections in which both leaders are expected to face major electoral setbacks.
Eighty-six years after Trotsky's assassination and 90 years after the Moscow Trials, the ideals of the October Revolution Trotsky fought to preserve and expand are finding a growing audience around the world.
This speech was given by David North at the fourth annual international commemoration of Leon Trotsky’s exile on the island of Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, held August 16 before an audience of more than 100, under the title “My Life, Written on Prinkipo, and Trotsky's Years in Exile.”
North answered questions on the fate of Ernst Thälmann, the Kronstadt uprising, the situation confronting workers in the Middle East and the strength of the Left Opposition inside the Soviet Union.
The fourth annual International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky was held on August 16, 2026, at the Taş Mektep venue on Büyükada, hosted by the Adalar Municipality with the support of Mehring Yayıncılık and the World Socialist Web Site.
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.
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.
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.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink’s acknowledgment that the United States “now has on-orbit space control weapons” comes as the Trump administration has abandoned or bypassed one arms-control treaty after another, and 10 days before Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the White House.
US imperialism is building a hemispheric repressive apparatus that is distinctly fascist: fishermen killed or their livelihoods destroyed without trial, prosecutors and journalists murdered and bodies displayed as propaganda.
Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the country.
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
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.
Mary Anne Trasciatti’s valuable biography documents Flynn’s passage from IWW militancy to Stalinism but leaves the roots of that transformation unexplained.
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
Although best-known for his major novels, Vasily Grossman's powerful social realism was rooted in his active involvement in the Red Army’s struggle against Nazism. His war-time writings are now presented in the most complete English edition to date.
The new series bears only a limited resemblance to Miles Franklin’s portrait of the harsh realities facing small farmers and their families in the late nineteenth century.
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.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
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.
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.
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.
