On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from the flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.
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.
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.
The public sector strike in France is part of an international resurgence of social struggles against the backdrop of war and the rise of the far right.
A coalition of 28 unions staged a protest in Asunción to demand pay parity for healthcare administrative workers while up to 7,000 Chicago hotel workers are prepared to launch strike action over poverty wages.
More than a week after the shooting, Garcés Pérez remains imprisoned at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall with a bullet still lodged near his spine.
Just five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, with early voting having already begun, the Supreme Court ruling could enable Republican officials to run multiple checks of voters in Democratic precincts, flagging hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of suspected “illegal” voters and preventing many of them from casting ballots.
The campaign against the Berlin Left Party is not about antisemitism. Its aim is to criminalise the widespread opposition to the Gaza genocide and war among voters.
El-Sayed previously said he was “humbled and grateful” for Harris’s support, which he described as “critical” to his electoral prospects.
The “socialism” of Mamdani and the DSA is being exposed for the fraud that it is.
The show claims to interrogate the “Fridamania” surrounding Kahlo, yet it operates as one of its engines—manufacturing, circulating and profiting from the phenomenon it pretends to analyse.
B’Tselem’s report finds, “The genocide in Gaza and the elimination project in the West Bank are different manifestations of the same regime project, directed against Palestinians’ ability to exist as a people.”
The official campaign was accompanied by threats from far-right groups, calling for violence against the directors and their families and the demolition of their homes, chanting “Death penalty for traitors.”
The US midterm elections of November 3, just five weeks away, are taking place under conditions of extreme economic, social and political crisis.
Last month, the automaker reneged on its repeated pledges that the Brampton plant would reopen for production of the next-generation Jeep Compass.
Hundreds of transit workers packed a Brooklyn funeral home to honor MTA conductor Moet McCullum, killed on the tracks while working as a construction flagger.
An internal Army message reported by CBS News shows the Pentagon preparing logistics, military police and surgical units for an operation aimed at Cuba, days after Trump told the UN that the Cuban government “will fall.”
Jaish-e-Mohammad militants storm Kashmir legislature in Srinagar, killing 38; Callaghan Labour government applies to the IMF for a record $3.9 billion bailout for the UK; last British oil staff evacuated from Abadan, Iran; Cristero rebellion in Mexico turns to armed uprising against the Calles government.
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.
US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday that he is deciding whether to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” of Iran and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival.”
Mamdani’s third meeting with Trump and his silence as the president held forth on “fake news” and the war on Iran expose the DSA’s political alliance with the fascist in the White House.
Ukraine's attack on Moscow with 450 drones, carried out with weapons paid for, jointly developed and often directly supplied by the NATO powers, marks a new stage in the de facto war between NATO and Russia.
The ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico took effect Saturday morning, in a brazen violation of the First Amendment.
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.
The official campaign was accompanied by threats from far-right groups, calling for violence against the directors and their families and the demolition of their homes, chanting “Death penalty for traitors.”
The German photographer’s series emphasizes pixels, computer technology and the manipulation of images while suppressing social, historical and even human considerations.
In 1949, Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter, the actress, author, and cabaret artist Erika (Sandra Hüller), set out on a journey from Frankfurt am Main in the American occupation zone to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
The use of scanning and AI algorithms has made it possible to extract meaning from scrolls dating back to Greco-Roman civilization, which were previously indecipherable.
Successful matings between anatomically modern humans migrating from Africa, Neanderthals, Denisovans and “ghost lineages” all contributed to the contemporary human genome.
The goal of limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average that was agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate accord will be entirely missed, with devastating consequences.
The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct populations for which there are at present no known fossils.
US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire Saturday, after the Wall Street Journal reported he told aides he expected to resume bombing after the November 3 midterm elections.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a genocidal tirade at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, calling the victims of Israel’s rampage throughout the Middle East “barbarians,” “monsters,” “butchers” and “the worst mass murderers on earth.”
On Sunday, Trump said the only options on the table were “wiping Iran out,” or letting its economy “rot,” unless Iran reaches a deal with Washington.
At least 22 US troops have died in the US war against Iran, the Washington Post reported Friday, four more than the official death toll of 18.
Labour’s call for a more “peaceful” orientation, with greater “independence” from the US and Israel, is a calculated fraud.
The Marcos faction is wielding the impeachment to eliminate its rivals, subordinate every branch of the state and clear the 2028 presidential field for a candidate acceptable to Washington.
The fires are occurring during a super El Niño year, increased surface temperatures due to global warming and are exacerbated by government funding cuts.
A New South Wales educator has been barred from teaching over social media posts condemning Israel and expressing solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.
This statement calling for the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, who has himself been persecuted by the Ukrainian state under Volodymyr Zelensky.
As Berlin escalates its confrontation with Russia, school students across the country are striking for the fourth time against the reintroduction of conscription.
The Unite community branch noted with horror that, after 2 years of pre-trial incarceration, Bogdan has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
“We have a responsibility to support the release of Bogdan. What he has done cannot constitute a crime.”
The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991, and Pennsylvania is the epicenter, adding 129 infections in a single week to a toll that already includes four deaths.
Attorney Jasjit Singh discussed the attack, the racist DHS “Mr. Singh” post and the growing dangers confronting immigrant truck drivers.
A proposed rule would strip out some 1,400 Head Start standards, hand class ratios to the states and mandate English-only instruction, deepening the administration’s assault on poor and immigrant families.
Inadequate control measures result in about 5,000 to 8,500 cases of Legionnaires’ disease currently diagnosed in the US each year.
Bus drivers stop work in India’s capital, medical officers strike in Pakistan and garment workers demand unpaid wages in Bangladesh, while airline workers strike in Australia.
After twice rejecting union-Labor government agreements and taking statewide strike action, a majority of Victorian public school educators voted to accept a fundamentally unchanged deal that entrenches four more years of untenable workloads, low wages and a worsening staffing crisis.
Maintenance technicians at United Airlines vote by 53 percent to turn down a contract that failed to meet their wage demands and sought concessions allowing outsourcing to non-union labor.
By linking wage rises to individual firms' profit margins, IG Metall is setting up deeper cuts in real wages for workers in the crisis-hit auto and machine-building sectors, while dangling bonuses for arms firms.
The NYPD’s arrest of over 100 anti-genocide protesters at the UN on Thursday marks the culmination of a week of collaboration by the DSA with the fascist Trump administration.
Mamdani’s silence on Iran is a political position expresses the DSA’s acceptance of, and support for, the global aims of American imperialism.
Gloria Steinem began her career directing a CIA operation against a Soviet-sponsored youth festival and ended it as an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America and a campaigner for Hillary Clinton.
Podemos Secretary General Ione Belarra accused the government of acting out of “fear” of Morocco and of letting Morocco use migration to pressure Spain.
The action appeared to be in direct defiance of a restraining order issued by a federal judge, requiring the Trump administration to restore access to the White House for the three media outlets.
Four days after an ICE thug shot him in the back, Garces Perez remains imprisoned with a bleeding wound and a bullet near his spine, despite a specialist’s recommendation that it be surgically removed.
The wounded husband, father and DoorDash delivery driver remains isolated in ICE custody with a fractured collarbone and a bullet near his spine, while the agent who shot him remains unidentified and uncharged.
“To me, it looked like a modern-day concentration camp in there,” a former Pearsall detainee told the WSWS.
The elections expressed, in a highly distorted way, the immense anxiety and concern within the working class and broader population about what is correctly perceived as an escalating attack by the imperialist powers.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the four sites will play “a vital role supporting the Government’s modern Industrial Strategy”, as the Department of Business highlighted Speciality Steels UK’s production for aerospace and defence and its “proud history” of producing “missiles, munitions and artillery casings.”
Germany posted its worst PISA scores since testing began in 2000, as the government funds the largest rearmament drive since the Nazi era.
Neither a victory for Burnham’s Labour Party nor the Greens will advance the interests of the working class a single inch. What is necessary now is to carefully examine the bitter lessons of the political failure of Corbynism and the criminal role of those tendencies that boosted him and now promote the Greens.
The Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka held its Fourth National Congress in Colombo from September 11 to 13 amid intensifying capitalist crisis and class struggle.
Like all capitalist governments around the world, the ruling JVP/NPP, as it imposes austerity measures on working people, is now preparing the repressive apparatus to suppress the inevitable popular opposition.
The economic growth since the 2022 crisis has been achieved by suppressing workers’ real wages and starving public services.
The nationwide protest by low-paid public servants is part of a growing wave of workers’ struggles amid soaring living costs.
The rape of a 16-year-old student by classmates at the Almirante Guise Naval Lyceum, a school run by the Peruvian Navy, is no isolated incident, but an expression of the brutality of the capitalist state’s military apparatus.
The acting president arrived on Monday to address the UN General Assembly and meet Donald Trump on Tuesday, just a few miles from the federal jail where abducted president Nicolás Maduro is held.
Cuba’s national grid collapsed for the sixth time this year, one day after Washington announced new sanctions. More than 7,000 containers of food and medicine are stranded near its coasts.
Far from being an aberration, the $LIBRA crypto scandal was the first crack through which the criminal mode of operation of Milei’s entire government became visible.
The Sri Lankan SEP’s Fourth National Congress declared the fight to free Bogdan, the Ukrainian Trotskyist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, a central task of the party.
SGP speakers traced the rise of the AfD to three decades of social decline and militarism driven from above by the entire political establishment, and called for the independent mobilisation of the working class to defeat it.
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.
On numerous occasions, Steve said he regretted not meeting the party earlier in his life. But once he did join, he dedicated his last ten years to fighting in the working class for socialism, from which he never wavered in his commitment.
One NATO member is carrying out a military deployment against another member of the same alliance. This escalation is a by-product of the imperialist war that is metastasising from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and tending to merge into a single conflict.
According to its findings, long working days, poverty wages, workplace accidents and exhaustion define the daily lives of these young people in Türkiye.
The collapse of a speculative fund bubble on the Istanbul stock exchange has frozen the savings of more than 500,000 small investors, exposing the financial parasitism fostered by the Erdoğan government's austerity program.
Over three days, police raided LGBTQ+ associations in 15 provinces, hundreds of social media accounts were blocked and 39 leftists were detained, including the SYKP co-chair.
As the strike by 1,200 Braford White workers in western Michigan enters its second week workers must take stock of the fact that UAW President Shawn Fain and the UAW bureaucracy has left their fight isolated while stringing them out on $550 weekly strike pay.
Ford called its $1 billion investment in a new paint shop a triumph of “American manufacturing.” But the investment is one node in a global restructuring whose costs are being imposed on the working class.
Fain’s declaration of “solidarity” with IG Metall is an alliance of two union apparatuses implementing mass job cuts, backing trade war and preparing the plants for war production, against the emerging international movement of the rank and file.
The IG Metall union staged its “day of action” on 21 September, with nationwide, plant-level protests in the auto and supplier industries. The VW Action Committee has issued a fighting programme for auto and supplier workers, starting from the fact that IG Metall representatives voted through a further 50,000 job cuts at Volkswagen on 3 September.
The Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was “appeasing” China.
Fifty-eight Democrats in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans Wednesday to grant US President Donald Trump additional war and tariff powers, including the authority to put tariffs as high as 100 percent on goods from China and India.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week on Trump’s executive order for the US Postal Service to take control of mail-in voting.
Recalling the economic pledge made by fascist presidential candidate Buzz Windrip in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Trump promised every American adult a $5,000 payment if Republicans retained control of Congress.
Workers condemned the participation of Transport Workers Union Local 100 in the investigation alongside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), arguing that the agency cannot be relied upon to hold itself accountable.
In response to Luc Massie’s death, the railway issued a lying statement, claiming safety is “our highest priority.” As every rail worker knows, the “highest priority” for CPKC, which controls a continent-wide railroad network, is maximizing profits.
McCullum’s death comes as more than 40,000 MTA workers in TWU Local 100 have been working under an expired contract since May 15.
Roberts is the latest in a series of UPS workers to die on the job, as the company carries out a massive restructuring effort which has axed tens of thousands of jobs.
Amid a massive escalation of the US/NATO war on Russia, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada for three days earlier this month to drum up more financial support and military equipment for his dictatorial regime.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his anti-Russia address to the UN General Assembly to announce a National Centre for Information Defence that will be used to suppress political dissent at home.
This year’s United Nations General Assembly has been transformed into a war summit by the US and European imperialist powers, who have turned an institution whose charter prohibits aggressive war into an arms convention.
The dismissal of former Prosecutor General Kravchenko has publicly exposed the ongoing political war between the Zelensky government and Western-backed anti-corruption agencies .
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.
The yield on the 10-year bond rose 0.15 percentage points on Wednesday and then followed this with a further increase of 0.11 percentage points yesterday, taking it to 5.23 percent, with no indication as to when the sell-off might stop.
Moves to arrest the slide of the yen can cause another problem by undermining the so-called yen carry trade, which plays a major role in US financial markets.
Last week the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury bond went over 5 percent for the first time since 2007 under conditions where the national debt has risen fourfold since then and now stands at over $40 trillion.
The decision was largely forced on the Fed by the financial markets, which had priced in a 90 percent probability of an increase.
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.
Explosions at Alabama coal mine kill 13 workers; Chilean exile leader Orlando Letelier assassinated by Pinochet's agents in Washington D.C.; Australian voters reject a referendum to outlaw the Communist Party; Chinese students protest in Geneva against British imperialist attacks in China.
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.
Bush administration advances police-state legislation after 9/11; 170,000 Ford workers launch national strike; US, UK and France back West German rearmament and NATO expansion; Lawyers for Sacco and Vanzett petition for a new trial.
Al-Qaeda attack on World Trade Center, Pentagon; Death of Mao Zedong; Japan signs two treaties with US, allies; Germany joins the League of Nations.
Duduzane Zuma’s boast that his father repeatedly “held back” revolt amounted to a personal political pledge. He was assuring his audience that, should the MKP enter government, he could perform the same function.
The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues unimpeded with little aid provided by the imperialist powers that extract untold riches from the country’s natural resources.
Workers, youth and defenders of democratic rights internationally must oppose the persecution of political organisations by the Ugandan state and demand the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and legal status of all those detained.
The WHO has allocated 70,000 doses of a vaccine licensed against a different Ebola species, while the destruction of US aid has stripped the region of the surveillance, food and sanitation that containment depends on.
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.
The United States has entered its thirteenth COVID-19 wave as federal agencies suppress evidence of vaccine effectiveness, retroactively relabel transmission data, strip pandemic preparedness from research plans and transfer the work to the Pentagon.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in US history has spread through 48 states without a source being named. A century after the Pure Food and Drug Act, the apparatus built to answer such questions is being dismantled.
Two unvaccinated Lancaster County residents died of measles in August, but the CDC is saying that they died “with” the disease rather than “of” it, the same lie used to justify mass COVID-19 deaths.
The largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history, a returning measles epidemic and the worst Ebola epidemic in Congolese history are expressions of a single crisis.
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 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.
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.
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
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.
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.
Thousands of people joined protests to denounce New Zealand’s alliance with the US and government silence on US and Israeli war crimes. The organisers, however, promoted illusions in Labour and the Greens.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
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.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.
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.
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.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
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.
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.
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.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
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.
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.
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 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.
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
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 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.
On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from the flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.
The US midterm elections of November 3, just five weeks away, are taking place under conditions of extreme economic, social and political crisis.
While the representatives of the capitalist nation-states gathered at the United Nations this week amid escalating war, trade conflict and threats of repression, another international force was making itself felt in a growing movement of the working class.
Nine months after US forces abducted Nicolás Maduro, his successor went to New York to thank his captor. Her appearance is the logical outcome of the “Bolivarian revolution” and of bourgeois nationalism as a whole.
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.
