With the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, the focus of the political crisis within the state has shifted from Trump’s January 6 attempt to overthrow the election and establish a presidential dictatorship to his disruption of the global interests of the US national security state.
Mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente began an indefinite strike Monday in opposition to chronic understaffing and desperate patient need.
China announced a new round of “combat readiness patrol and combat drills” on Monday as a US aircraft carrier battle group continues to patrol waters near Taiwan.
The events commemorating the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942 were used by Washington and its allies to escalate preparations for a major new war against China in the Pacific.
Assange’s rights to a fair trial “have now been tainted if not destroyed,” US civil rights attorney Robert Boyle told today’s press conference.
The investigation led by Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis has targeted dozens of Trump’s accomplices, including Rudy Giuliani.
The pseudo-left across the continent has transitioned from backing the candidacy of Gustavo Petro in Colombia into fomenting the deadly illusion that he can be pressured to defend the workers and oppressed.
Our committee aims to unite all education workers on a program of political class struggle against years of funding cuts enforced by Liberal and Conservative governments alike, wage cuts, and the abandonment of any effort to stop the spread of the deadly pandemic.
The July 31 WSWS article struck a nerve. It was widely read, by students and faculty at SFAI, as well as alumni of the school and many others.
The months since the election of Marcos Jr have been marked by the incremental expansion of authoritarian rule.
This is an environmental disaster of enormous proportions, the cause of which has not yet been clarified and the full extent of which cannot yet be foreseen.
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.
This once-in-every-500-year drought shows that internationally coordinated action is urgently needed to halt climate change and protect critical food and energy supplies.
A new report published by Radish Research includes data of union finances that sheds light on both the anti-working class character of the trade unions today and the parasitic role played by the tens of thousands of executives who staff them.
The Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, author of the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, was stabbed by an assailant at a literary event in western New York.
This is an editorial published by the Bulletin, the newspaper of the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US) on February 24, 1989.
The WSWS has endorsed Lehman’s campaign. We are publishing here a selection of letters and responses from Lehman. The letters have been edited to ensure the anonymity of the workers.
The apparent spread of the disease at the largest plant in Detroit raises serious concerns of a looming outbreak throughout the Detroit area.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Lehman called for emergency measures following a reported case of monkeypox at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Michigan.
On Friday, Lehman issued a statement directed to all workers in the UAW, calling for support for his campaign.
The reopening of schools without any mitigation measures is setting the stage for yet another massive winter surge.
The WSWS continues to receive statements in defence of Dr Berger, an Australian physician and zero-COVID advocate.
In Turkey, whose government has declared that “the pandemic is over,” official numbers of cases and deaths, which are underestimates, are rapidly rising.
The revival of polio, declared eradicated in the US more than three decades ago, is emblematic of the decay of the public health system.
Pointing to already massive cargo pile-ups on the West Coast docks and the mass exodus of rail workers in the last six years, labor bureaucrats warned that the inability of the rail companies to maintain acceptable service levels threatened the ability of the US government to wage war.
Coming just eight days after the tragic death of stonemason Alistair Bidmead at Fort Street High School, the accident again raises the dangerous conditions confronted by workers every day.
BC government workers began a series of limited strikes over contract issues while Argentine teachers held a two-day strike last week in defense of jailed union leader.
At Ashford station in Kent, a driver said, “As far as we’re concerned, a pay rise is deserved by our members. What that pay rise looks like we’re yet to see, but what we’re not going to accept is a reduction in our real term wage.”
The new measure excludes the vast majority of health care workers who work in the public sector, including facilities run by Los Angeles County and the University of California.
This case foreshadows further efforts by states to spy on women who have miscarriages.
The brutal killing of the 14-year-old black youth helped spark the mass civil rights movement in the US.
The company has sought to evade responsibility for the death, claiming it was the result of a “medical episode.” However, reports continue to emerge of the lack of safety in the plant and in the area where Garcia was working.
The July 31 WSWS article struck a nerve. It was widely read, by students and faculty at SFAI, as well as alumni of the school and many others.
The Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, author of the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, was stabbed by an assailant at a literary event in western New York.
This is an editorial published by the Bulletin, the newspaper of the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US) on February 24, 1989.
Dozier was a key artistic contributor to the flourishing of the “Motown Sound” during the 1960s, which had an enormous impact on global popular culture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Navy and Army National Guard veteran Ricky Shiffer, 42, was fatally shot by police last Thursday after he tried to break into an FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio.
While Trump and his allies have continued to incite fascistic violence in the days following Monday’s FBI raid, President Joe Biden has remained silent.
An FBI informant who infiltrated the Wolverine Watchmen gave a first-hand account of the activities of the men who were planning to take the governor of Michigan hostage.
President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland have refused to explain the reasons behind the FBI raid, in an attempt to disguise Trump and the Republicans' ongoing coup plotting and to downplay the threat of dictatorship.
The effort to present this pro-corporate bill as a major piece of social reform legislation is a desperate attempt to reverse Biden’s collapsing popular support in the run-up to the midterm elections.
Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke for only two minutes and did not deal with the central issue: what ongoing threat to democracy made a raid on the estate of the ex-president necessary.
The Republcan Party continues to evolve in a distinctly fascist direction.
Democrats succeeded in removing geographer Rebekah Jones from Florida’s congressional nominations and are seeking to deny Green Party candidates in North Carolina ballot access.
The US-led war against Russia is unfolding as a monumental conspiracy against the populations of the United States and Europe.
While the Kremlin has deliberately sought to downplay the significance of the incident, more and more information has emerged indicating that it was far more serious than Russian officials have been willing to admit.
The latest US weapons delivery announcement comes after Amnesty International and the United Nations have confirmed that the Ukrainian military is using tactics that serve to drive up civilian casualties.
This letter, written by David North to a Trotskyist in Russia, reviews the historical and political foundation of the ICFI's opposition to the US-NATO war against Russia.
The Labor government’s climate policies have been endorsed by leading corporate lobby groups. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese boasted of being backed by “an alphabet soup” of business organisations.
The NTEU branch president at Western Sydney University, David Burchell, joined hands with the university’s vice chancellor last week to hail the deal as a precedent-setting sacrifice of wages in return for alleged job opportunities for casual academics.
Sri Lanka is caught in the middle of a geopolitical maelstrom over the planned visit of Yuan Wang 5 to Hambantota, with Washington and New Delhi determined to break Colombo’s relations with Beijing.
The crackdown on protests by bank depositors prevented from withdrawing their funds sparked a tsunami of public criticism and comment on the Chinese internet.
Surging inflation, poor working conditions and deepening poverty are pushing workers in Turkey into struggle amid a rising wave of strikes internationally.
As working families struggle to survive amid record inflation, the German government lavishes the super-rich with more cash gifts.
Seven weeks before the election, Giorgia Meloni, the 45-year-old chairwoman of the neo-fascist Fratelli d’Italia, is regarded as the most likely candidate to head the next Italian government.
Since Tuesday, thousands of additional hectares of vegetation have burned in Gironde, just three weeks after wildfires devastated the region in late July.
The IYSSE and numerous other clubs have been disaffiliated by university management.
The third IYSSE club in Melbourne was built after months of campaigning among students for a socialist, anti-war perspective and in defence of democratic rights.
All three candidates of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at Humboldt University are set to enter student parliament.
The IYSSE’s strong result is also an expression of the growing support for a socialist and internationalist perspective among students and young people.
His voters hardly thought that Petro’s “love politics” would in fact be directed to the old right-wing politicians and the murderous military.
The devastating fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base dealt a serious blow to Cuba’s electric power generating system, fueling the social and political crisis on the island.
Three months after a wildcat strike at one of Latin America’s largest steel mills, the elections reaffirm a deep rejection by the workers of the union bureaucracy.
A week before the official launching of Bolsonaro’s reelection bid, Defense Minister Gen. Paulo Sergio de Oliveira announced the military would do a parallel counting of ballots, siding with the president against the Electoral Court.
The apparent spread of the disease at the largest plant in Detroit raises serious concerns of a looming outbreak throughout the Detroit area.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Lehman called for emergency measures following a reported case of monkeypox at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Michigan.
Monkeypox is spreading worldwide, and Germany is becoming an international hotspot. Despite this, the government is downplaying the danger of the virus and doing next to nothing to curb its spread.
The Arkansas Department of Health reported last Thursday that the state has recorded 12 cases of monkeypox, while COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the state.
The SEP in Sri Lanka calls on workers and rural toilers to build their own independent action committees to fight for their rights in opposition to President Wickremesinghe’s effort to consolidate the entire Colombo political establishment behind the ruling class agenda of austerity and repression.
The working class must establish its own centre of political power in opposition to the anti-democratic conspiracies of the political establishment and the capitalist state. That is the significance of the SEP’s call for the Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses.
World Socialist Web Sitereporters spoke with Colombo health workers during recent protests who explained the dangerous and disastrous situations in their workplaces.
Wickremesinghe’s denunciations of anti-government protesters as “fascists” and “terrorists,” and the ongoing arrests, are not isolated actions but preparation for far broader attacks on democratic rights.
The Labor government is more and more open in its hostility to the courageous Australian journalist, who is being persecuted for exposing US-led war crimes.
"Remember the pursuit of Julian is a measure of his achievements. He informed millions about the deceptions of governments too many trusted; he respected their right to know."
"The attack on Assange is being used as a warning against any journalist, including future journalists to be careful as to what they bring to the attention of the general public."
The Labor government documents accept Assange’s extradition to the US and his prosecution in a kangaroo court, as a fait accompli.
While the White House and sections of the corporate media seized on the latest inflation data to claim that price increases are easing up, anger continues to build among workers over the soaring cost of living.
The two largest US oil monopolies, Exxon and Chevron, reported record quarterly profits on Friday as they cashed in on a strategy of cutting refining capacity while the price of oil shot up from the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
According to Commerce Department data released yesterday, US gross domestic product contracted at an annualised rate of 0.9 percent in the three months to June, following a 1.6 percent contraction in the first quarter.
During his press conference, Fed chair Jerome Powell made clear the key determinant of the central bank’s decision was the drive to clamp down on workers’ wage demands in response to inflation now running at more than 9 percent.
The initial images and accompanying data released by the JWST are a first glimpse of the full capabilities of the new astronomical observatory and mark a major step forward in humanity’s ability to understand the Universe and our place within it.
The high-energy particle collider first confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson almost exactly 10 years ago, completing the Standard Model of Particle Physics and opening a new era of scientific inquiry.
Accelerating melting of glaciers and continental ice caps are but one of the catastrophic consequences of global warming.
Any proposed attempt to define rigid racial distinctions among India’s 1.4 billion people, even if honestly undertaken, would quickly run counter to well-established scientific research that has demonstrated the immense diversity of India’s population, as well as the world’s population as a whole, with respect to genetics, language, and culture.
The three-day bloodbath is an indictment of Zionism, imperialism and the venal and corrupt Arab bourgeoisie.
Israel’s air strikes have killed at least 43 Palestinians since Friday, including 15 children and four women.
The Kafr Qasem massacre was one of scores of killings of defenceless Palestinians by Israeli military forces, aimed at establishing the State of Israel.
The turmoil underscores the worsening political crisis in Washington’s puppet state that has become a proxy battle ground for regional and international political conflicts.
I had no intention of bowing down to such outrageous demands for secrecy, so I went on Snapchat to publicise that there was a case of COVID within the store.
“We now know how to eliminate this virus. Why not give ourselves the best chance so that our children can live a normal life, so that we can go to work without stress, go shopping without the fear of catching a deadly disease?”
Amanda became active in the Committee for Public Education (CFPE) at the beginning of the pandemic and after being victimised at her school for speaking in defence of educator and student health and safety.
Mina recently spoke about her experiences as an educator during the pandemic, her view of her union’s and the government’s pandemic policy, and what she thinks is in store for the province when classes resume in fall 2022.
The June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.
Autoworker and grandmother Catherine Pace died on March 27, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in the paint department at the Warren Truck Plant outside Detroit, then operated by Fiat-Chrysler, now Stellantis.
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.
Labor claims to have suddenly discovered that the budget situation is “dire” so “significant savings” must be found and “productivity” driven up with the help of the trade unions.
Labor, before it has even secured a majority government, is on a foreign policy blitz aimed at shoring-up US and Australian hegemony over the Pacific.
The outcome reflects, in distorted electoral terms, a political radicalisation of workers and young people that is already finding expression in a development of working class struggles.
In his introduction to the International May Day Online Rally, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North reviews the historical origins of the US-NATO war drive against Russia and outlines the political strategy of the working class to oppose the danger of World War III.
This is the report delivered by Joseph Kishore to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Kishore is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
This is the report delivered by Tom Peters to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Peters is a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, which is fighting to build a section of the ICFI.
This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Link is a leading member in Germany of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, the youth movement of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties.
This is the report delivered by Cheryl Crisp to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Crisp is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia.
The deadliest violence since near weekly mass protests began last October over the military’s ouster of the interim government of Dr Abdulla Hamdok brings the total number killed since the coup to 114, including 18 children.
The cold-blooded killing of at least 37 migrants underscores that as the US-NATO war with Russia escalates into a global conflagration, and workers across the continent move into struggle against the unbearable cost of living, the major European powers are resurrecting forms of state-organised violence and political reaction not seen since the 1930s.
Workers across Tunisia walked out in protest of President Kaïs Saïed’s plan to rewrite the constitution and slash vital subsidies that keep wheat and bread affordable.
Despite the gravity of the crisis, the US, other major powers and financial institutions have ignored the UN’s humanitarian appeal as they turn their attention and resources to the war in Ukraine.
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.
“This censorship is not only directed against us, but against the mass opposition to a world war,” says Vandreier. The socialist anti-war perspective of the SGP “is to be banned and censored in the midst of deafening war propaganda for a third world war.”
Workers including bus drivers, healthcare staff and teachers active in rank-and-file committees in the UK were invited by the SEP to discuss a fight against war based on the working class and socialism.
The speakers emphasized that the opposition of the working class to the war is needed to be developed as a conscious political movement for socialism.
“The destruction created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the drive towards a third world war clearly shows that capitalism neither wants nor is able to resolve the basic questions faced by mankind”
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 Times, which wishes readers to take the 1619 Project seriously as a “reframing of American history,” has said more than it intended.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Mark Kruger about his new book, the 1619 Project, and the current state of American politics.
Professor Jack Rakove is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution.
Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”
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.
On Saturday, Facebook deleted a video posted by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany opposing the German government’s participation in the US-led NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
YouTube deleted the archive of Chris Hedges’ On Contact television program from its platform with no explanation.
The Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has intensified the bipartisan drive to clamp down on left-wing and socialist political content on social media platforms.
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
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.
The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
John Comaroff, professor of African and African American studies and of anthropology at Harvard University, has become the target of what has all the earmarks of another filthy #MeToo witch-hunt.
Professors and students continue to speak out against the anti-democratic victimization of University of Michigan professor and composer Bright Sheng.
The judges effectively cleared the way for universities to dismiss staff for criticising management or breaching confidentiality rules.
At no point does the UN even hint at the role the US and its allies played in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, or in the transformation of Syria from a middle-income country into the hell hole it is today.
Increasingly openly the US is treating the military war against Russia and the mounting confrontation with China as part of a far broader conflict to weaken and subjugate potential rivals.
With staggering hypocrisy, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern presented NATO as a bastion of peace and democracy, even as the military alliance openly prepares for nuclear war against Russia and China.
Albanese directly linked the US-NATO proxy war against Russia, triggered by goading Moscow into a reactionary invasion of Ukraine, to the mounting campaign by the US and its allies to ignite a similar war against China over Taiwan.
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement. Comrade Jean, who died November 24, 1997 at the age of 76, joined the Trotskyist-led Young Peoples Socialist League as a teenager in 1937.
On 18 March, the Berlin Administrative Court rejected an emergency application by junge Welt that it no longer be described as “left-wing extremist” in the secret service annual report.
The German court judgement and its written grounds represent a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The aim is to ban socialist ideas and any criticism of capitalism.
The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) passed a resolution Monday condemning the ruling of the Berlin Administrative Court, which on November 18, 2021, upheld the designation of the German security service of the German section of the ICFI as “left wing extremists”.
The court’s ruling against the Socialist Equality Party stands in the tradition of National Socialist ideological jurisprudence and Bismarck’s anti-socialist laws, and opens the door for the surveillance and suppression of all opposition to capitalism and arbitrary state power.
The horrific massacre of civilians was immediately exploited by the imperialist powers, led by the United States government itself, to justify far-reaching attacks on the democratic rights of their own populations, and the launching of decades-long wars in the Middle East and Africa.
The same day that the House Select January 6 Committee documented how Trump used his “big lie” about the 2020 election to justify an attempted fascist coup, the Washington Post published an editorial promoting Trump’s other big lie: The claim that COVID-19 is a man-made virus created by China.
Three just-released studies provide substantive evidence for the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2, with the Huanan market in Wuhan, China the location of the first zoonotic (animal to human) transfer.
As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak “theory.”
In the most systematic defense of the Wuhan lab libel to date, Matt Ridley proves only the falsehood of his bad-faith attack on science.
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
With the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, the focus of the political crisis within the state has shifted from Trump’s January 6 attempt to overthrow the election and establish a presidential dictatorship to his disruption of the global interests of the US national security state.
This once-in-every-500-year drought shows that internationally coordinated action is urgently needed to halt climate change and protect critical food and energy supplies.
The CDC stands totally discredited as a political instrument of the ruling class, aligned with the Democratic Party and the Biden administration.
A new report published by Radish Research includes data of union finances that sheds light on both the anti-working class character of the trade unions today and the parasitic role played by the tens of thousands of executives who staff them.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school by Eric London, a writer for the WSWS and author of Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
In 2013, Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall made an unsolicited and unlawful payment to the 29 families of the 2010 mine disaster, in exchange for the New Zealand government dropping charges against him.
The SEG and the WSWS are holding an online meeting on June 4 to discuss the new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up by Tom Peters, about the 2010 mine disaster in New Zealand.
Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up, published by Mehring Books, examines the causes of the 2010 New Zealand mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and the decade-long cover-up by successive governments and the judicial system, which have shielded the company leadership from prosecution.
Ben Joynson was 10-years-old when his father William died, with 28 other workers, in the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster. He said the trauma suffered by the victims’ families has been made worse by the lack of accountability.
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
The central thesis of Braml’s book is that Germany must once again pursue its economic and geostrategic interests on its own—not only against Russia and China, but also and above all against the US.
Deirdre O’Connell’s detailed and well-researched 400-page book examines the political forces behind the frame-up and deportation from Australia of Sonny Clay’s Colored Idea, a black American jazz troupe, in 1928.
Tabak crafts a commendable and thorough charting of the reckless Foxconn debacle in Racine, Wisconsin but political conclusions must be drawn.
In this new collection, the stated theme of illusion is not always probed deeply—nor is it the only theme.
