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Trump preparing forces for “massive attack” on Iran
The Trump administration is driven to escalation by the logic of the war, which is now in its fifth month.
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The brutal police killing, carried out in broad daylight and caught on camera, quickly spread online, prompting hurried calls from local officials and police for an “independent” investigation that will no doubt end in the exoneration of the officers.
Jacob Crosse•
A House committee has issued subpoenas for financial records in a McCarthy-style anticommunist campaign against alleged Chinese influence.
Patrick Martin•
Drapatyi is widely seen to be in favor of a military strategy, centered on the use of long-range drones that hit infrastructure and civilian targets deep within Russian territory.
Clara Weiss•
Pledges to spend hundreds of billions of pounds more on the military in the next few years demolish Burnham’s claims to be running a “cost-of-living government”.
Thomas Scripps•
Tokyo’s nuclear ambitions have nothing to do with defense, but are part of its efforts to remilitarize and assert its imperialist interests militarily throughout the region.
Ben McGrath•
Workers at Stellantis plants in the Detroit area, along with other workers in the US and Canada, have voiced support for Lehman's campaign to abolish the UAW bureaucracy and transfer power to workers on the shop floor.
Our reporters•
The protest movement took on heightened significance this week, when tens of thousands defied a government ban on their marching on the parliament buildings. True to its violent and authoritarian instincts, the Modi regime responded with ferocious police repression.
Yuan Darwin, Saman Gunadasa, Keith Jones•
As it has done from the outset, the Australian Education Union will do everything possible to prevent any further industrial action by wearing down opposition to its sell-out deal with the government.
Sue Phillips•
The UAW rammed through the contract at Dana after extending the negotiations and refusing to call a strike using tactics similar to those employed to impose sellouts at American Axle, Nexteer and Bridgewater Interiors.
Shannon Jones•
The death of Umeshkumar Thakkar is the latest in a series of fatal incidents exposing the refusal of the US Postal Service to protect workers from extreme heat.
Tom Hall•
Cleveland library and hospital workers are moving toward strike action as more than 100 Lorain County social service workers continue one of the longest public-sector strikes in Ohio history.
Alexander Baird•
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified alongside Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday to demand $67 billion in emergency funding for the Iran war.
Andre Damon•
US forces have struck the country for nine consecutive nights, extending their targets from military sites to bridges, railways, ports and the power grid, while enforcing a naval blockade with missile fire.
Andre Damon•
Özgür Özel's announcement of a new party formalises the split produced by the politically motivated judicial removal of the CHP's elected leadership.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Sevinç•
Over the course of four years, the Boric administration implemented policies that paved the way for the far right.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Mauricio Saavedra•
The censorship by ZDF management of a song by Danger Dan and Igor Levit calling for resistance against the AfD provoked no storm of outrage from the programme's hosts.
Peter Schwarz•
Spanning 2015 to 2026, this volume traces Trump’s rise to power, his coup of January 6 and his second term to their source in the corporate-financial oligarchy, and advances the socialist strategy required to stop the threat of fascism.
David North•
In 2025, Trump made at least 44 stock purchases of 21 different companies within a week of posting a complimentary Truth Social message about the firms, their executives or their products.
Barry Grey•
Ahead of the New Zealand election, the right-wing NZ First party has called for recent migrants to be disenfranchised and for unemployed youth to be drafted into the military.
Tom Peters•
The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and internationalist party of the working class.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to public meetings in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow,
Chris Marsden•
The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings”
These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy.
David North•
WSWS begins posting highlight clips from webinar on the American Revolution
The WSWS is posting highlight clips from the webinar to all of our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X/Twitter.
Zac Corrigan•
250 years since the Declaration of Independence
The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.
WSWS Editorial Board•
WSWS webinar on the American Revolution: The historical significance and contemporary relevance of 1776
The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting authoritarianism.
Joseph Kishore•
Thomas Scripps•
Steven Mintz•
David North, Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman, David North•
David North•
The specter of “AI communism”: Chinese open-weight models and the crisis of the American AI bubble
The release of two Chinese open-weight AI models matching the most advanced American systems has provoked panic in Washington and Silicon Valley, exposing the fragility of the speculative bubble on which the entire US stock market rests.
Evan Blake•
Oppose the death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman!
The IWA-RFC calls on workers and all defenders of democratic rights to denounce this incitement to violence against Will Lehman and demand its unequivocal public repudiation by the UAW.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Democrats to Trump on Iran: “Win the war!”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified alongside Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday to demand $67 billion in emergency funding for the Iran war.
Andre Damon•
Trump administration threatens to imprison state officials who resist federal takeover of elections
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared that states that refused to hand over voter data and use a federal immigration database would be targeted for investigation, fines and criminal prosecution.
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Andrea Lobo•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Benjamin Mateus•
Jacob Crosse•
Former Trump envoy calls for ground invasion of Iran as US losses mount
The United States bombed Iran for the 10th consecutive day on Monday, with Iranian media reporting explosions around the northwestern city of Tabriz, near Bushehr, home of the country's only operating nuclear power plant, and in the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Chabahar and Konarak.
Andre Damon•
As American deaths mount, Trump escalates war against Iran
US forces have struck the country for nine consecutive nights, extending their targets from military sites to bridges, railways, ports and the power grid, while enforcing a naval blockade with missile fire.
Andre Damon•
US broadens bombardment of Iran to civilian infrastructure
The United States military bombed bridges, a railway station, an airport and the control tower of Iran's only deep-water ocean port on Friday, the seventh consecutive day of strikes, extending its assault from military targets to the infrastructure of civilian life.
Andre Damon•
White House actively discussing sending ground troops to Iran
This dangerous escalation would be a desperate response to the failure of the US war to overturn the Iranian regime.
Andre Damon•
Oscar Grenfell•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
“The Fall of the American Orchestra” documented
The performance of some of the greatest music of the past and present is vital to the general cultural, intellectual and moral life of a country.
David Walsh•
Australia: Musicals cancelled as inflation and austerity impact ticket sales
Hundreds of cast members, musicians and technical crew are being thrown out of work with little notice and no recourse.
Kaye Tucker•
The brainchild of Barack Obama: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America
Comedian-writer Larry David has even less insight into the past than the present.
Ed Hightower•
Guggenheim museum workers, public defenders in New York City vote to authorize strike action
In two separate votes, staff at the Guggenheim Museum and hundreds of public defense attorneys in New York City, all members of the UAW, overwhelmingly authorized strike action, demanding higher wages, improved healthcare and a reversal of declining living and working conditions.
John Conrad•
David Walsh•
Penny Smith•
David Walsh•
Erik Schreiber•
Andrea Lobo•
Despite severe overcrowding and rising death totals, ICE continues to pack immigrants in holding cells, concentration camps
Recent reports from the Washington Post and Human Rights Watch detail the deliberately inhumane and deadly conditions in detention centers that have produced a skyrocketing death toll among detained immigrants since Trump’s return to the White House.
Jacob Crosse•
Mexican father killed by tractor-trailer while fleeing ICE operation in Florida
Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was the third immigrant father to die within eight days during violent operations conducted by the Trump administration’s immigration Gestapo.
Jacob Crosse•
Hundreds protest ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado as Trump escalates conspiracy against democratic rights
Hundreds of workers, young people and immigrant families rallied Sunday in Houston to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as witnesses to his killing remain imprisoned and the Trump administration escalates its assault on democratic rights.
Tom Hall•
As grieving widow speaks out, details emerge of ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford, Maine
Joan Durán Guerrero’s death came less than a week after ICE agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston under nearly identical circumstances, gunning him down as he drove to a construction job with coworkers.
Kate Randall•
Alex Findijs•
Tom Hall•
Kate Randall, Tom Hall•
Patrick Martin•
Tom Hall•
Preface to the book: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The volume “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk” brings together for the first time the most important statements and articles on the case.
Johannes Stern•
Successful meeting at Berlin’s Humboldt University calls for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk
The meeting took place at a time when Bogdan’s trial is at a critical turning point. Two expert reports have now exposed the core of the charge—that Bogdan spreads Russian propaganda—as baseless.
Our reporters•
Students and workers in Germany demand the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.
Our reporters•
New expert opinion deepens debacle for prosecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
In the case against 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, a third linguistic expert opinion requested by the court further undermines the case of the prosecution, based on charges of “state treason under martial law”.
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
Johannes Stern•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
Clara Weiss•
Australia: Second strike by Victorian teachers deepens crisis for Labor government and unions
As it has done from the outset, the Australian Education Union will do everything possible to prevent any further industrial action by wearing down opposition to its sell-out deal with the government.
Sue Phillips•
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Romanian health workers in national walkout over cuts; West Bank protest over school demolition; Mozambique health workers extend nationwide strike as health disputes continue in Kenya and DRC
The way forward in the struggle of Istanbul’s Çapa Medical Faculty refectory workers
The resistance at Çapa is part of a rising wave of class struggle in Türkiye. In recent months, many sections of the working class, above all the miners, have entered into battle for their unpaid wages and rights.
Barış Demir•
Staff and students oppose sellout union deals at Western Sydney University
The resolution passed at yesterday’s lunchtime meeting was part of the campaign for a No Vote by all WSU staff members on the regressive enterprise agreements that management and the two campus trade unions are trying to rush through.
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Committee for Public Education•
Our reporters•
Marc Wells•
Committee for Public Education•
Trump cuts end food aid for 1.5 million children
Children are the youngest victims of the war launched by Trump and the Republicans, with the complicity of the Democrats, against the working class.
Patrick Martin•
James Talarico: The Democrats’ preacher
The Democratic Party is seeking ways to contain popular anger. The man it has found for the job is James Talarico—a Christ-loving “progressive” who promises to bring about universal improvement, condemns wars in the Middle East and cuts down the far-right with Jesus’ words.
Andrea Peters•
How Trump uses Truth Social to manipulate markets and pocket millions
In 2025, Trump made at least 44 stock purchases of 21 different companies within a week of posting a complimentary Truth Social message about the firms, their executives or their products.
Barry Grey•
Trump loudly booed at World Cup final in New Jersey
The fascistic US president is hated both at home and in all the countries which took part in the World Cup.
Patrick Martin•
Shannon Jones•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Barry Grey•
Kevin Reed•
Berlin state election: Christian Democratic Union nominates right-wing hardliner as new lead candidate
As Finance Senator since April 2023, Evers has been the principal architect and enforcer of the Christian Democratic Union/Social Democratic Party Senate’s rigorous austerity course.
Markus Salzmann•
Burnham plunges UK deeper into war against Russia and Iran
As he took office, Burnham’s bellicose rhetoric against Moscow provoked an incident with a Russian warship in the Channel. Within 24 hours he then agreed to deepen collaboration with the Trump administration in its strikes against Iran.
Robert Stevens•
15 years since fascist Anders Behring Breivik massacred 77 people in Norway
Fifteen years later, it is no longer a matter of pointing merely to aspects of Breivik’s demented world outlook that correspond with mainstream political discourse. A fascist now sits in the White House.
Jordan Shilton•
Andy Burnham’s cabinet of austerity and war
Incoming UK Prime Minister Burnham’s declaration that his was a “cost-of-living government” amounted to a pledge to scrap VAT sales tax on domestic electricity, saving a typical household just £45 annually, or 86 pence a week. Even this provoked a right-wing media backlash.
Robert Stevens•
Johannes Stern•
Jason Melanovski•
Katerina Selin•
Chris Marsden•
Ulrich Rippert•
Kast’s National Reconstruction Plan for Chile: Chicago Boys 2.0
The Kast government's National Reconstruction and Economic and Social Development plan constitutes the most ambitious restructuring of the Chilean state's relationship to capital since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Deadly storms strike central Chile: A political and social indictment of capitalism
The irrationality of the market system is laid bare by the fact that many of the areas now submerged under floodwaters have been suffering from a protracted megadrought for over 15 years.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Peru’s president-elect Keiko Fujimori calls for mega-prisons modeled on Bukele's CECOT
The prison plan has won establishment-wide approval spanning the entire spectrum of bourgeois parties.
César Uco•
Petro and De la Espriella use Colombia's Independence Day to promote military
Beneath their apparently opposed postures—Petro's invocation of a “people's army” and de la Espriella's promise of restored “authority”—both pointed to the same institution as the ultimate guarantor of the existing social order.
Andrea Lobo•
Alexander Fangmann•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Juan Martínez•
Andrea Lobo•
Oppose Labor’s NDIS cuts: Defend disabled people, fight austerity and war!
The working class must come to the defence of one of the most vulnerable layers of the population. If the ruling class can strip essential support from the disabled in order to finance war and corporate profit, it will stop at nothing in imposing its austerity agenda.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Mass protests roil Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir and the Islamabad-based political and military establishment
The immediate trigger for the current mass agitation was the state’s banning of the AJK Joint Awami (Common People’s) Action Committee under a draconian anti-terrorism law, and the arrest of more than a hundred of its leaders and activists.
Dr. Zayar•
Refugees expelled from Australia face hunger and violence in Nauru
The Albanese Labor government is enforcing one of the most barbaric refugee detention regimes in the world.
Mike Head•
Australia: Labor’s royal commission intensifies slanders against Gaza genocide protests
Last week’s proceedings at the inquiry were another attempt to conflate anti-genocide protests with antisemitism and blame them for the Bondi Beach atrocity.
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Raimund Thomas, Eric Ludlow•
Wasantha Rupasingha•
Robert Campion•
Oscar Grenfell•
Comrade K.S. Ganeshadev (1939–2026): A fighter for Trotskyism
The memory of Ganeshadev and his lifelong dedication to the fight for Trotskyism will live on among workers and party comrades in Sri Lanka and internationally.
K. Ratnayake•
SEP/IYSSE online public lecture: Lessons of the 2022 mass uprising in Sri Lanka for workers and youth
This public lecture, hosted by the SEP and IYSSE, will discuss the lessons of Sri Lanka’s 2022 mass uprising for working people entering into struggles against the JVP/NPP government’s implementation of IMF austerity, authoritarian measures and the unfolding world war.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Dengue epidemic infects tens of thousands, exposing collapse of Sri Lanka’s public health system
The epidemic, which has killed nearly 50 people, is a social crime produced by the systematic destruction of Sri Lanka’s public health system by successive governments.
Pani Wijesiriwardena •
Inmates face torture after prison riots in Sri Lanka
Following the massacre at Negombo Prison, in which 28 people were killed, two more prisoners have died in unexplained circumstances after being transferred to other facilities.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
K. Kandeepan, M. Thevarajah•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
M. Ranges•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Sri Lanka)•
Autoworkers denounce threat by UAW official against rank-and-file presidential candidate Will Lehman
One young worker responded to the threats by saying, “They’re trying to shut you up. And they usually only do that when somebody’s telling the truth.”
Our reporters•
How Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA) law was manipulated to rob Nexteer workers of 32 vacation hours
When 1,700 workers at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan opened their first paychecks after the UAW narrowly rammed through a fourth contract, they found that 32 hours of vacation time had disappeared.
Anthony Callahan, Sheila Brehm•
United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers announce new deal at Dana, rush contract votes
Voting is set to begin Friday on the deal, which increases top pay to $30 an hour by 2030 for current workers but expands the tier system and offers no job protections as parts suppliers slash costs through AI and automation.
Shannon Jones•
Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president calls for abolition of union bureaucracy as criminal probe of Shawn Fain continues
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, Pennsylvania, who was nominated for UAW president at last month's Constitutional Convention on a program of abolishing the union bureaucracy, issued a statement this week on the federal criminal investigation into UAW President Shawn Fain.
Jerry White•
Jerry White •
Peter Schwarz•
Tom Hall•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Jerry White, Tom Hall•
Questions raised over continuation of AI boom
In an expression of the volatile nature of the high-tech market and concerns over how long the boom can continue, Samsung’s share price fell 10 percent after it announced a record profit earlier this month.
Nick Beams•
A revealing comment from former IMF chief economist
Tariffs, militarization, and wars are not “isolated disruptions” but “interconnected symptoms of a deeper fragmentation reshaping the global economy.”
Nick Beams•
Japanese yen hits 40-year low
The immediate effect of the falling yen is to increase the price of oil and energy as Japan is dependent on the Middle East for more than 90 percent of its supplies, with the hike going across the board as Japan imports much of its food and raw materials.
Nick Beams•
Bank for International Settlements warns of AI “investment bust”
Intense competition in AI development has raised “the risk of firms over-committing resources to investment projects with still uncertain returns, leaving all firms vulnerable to disappointments in AI payoffs.”
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Patrick Martin•
Nick Beams•
Federal judge bars strike action, orders SMART-TD union to police CSX railway workers “upon pain of fine, suspension or other sanction”
A federal judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order barring thousands of CSX railway workers represented by SMART-TD from striking over a punitive new attendance policy—and ordering the union to discipline any member who defied the ban.
Jesse Thomas, Justin Smith•
LAUSD facing bankruptcy: Nearly 6,000 layoffs, healthcare cuts, furlough days
The impending insolvency of the nation’s second-largest school district, combined with Trump’s dismantling of public education and union sabotage, shows that the right to education cannot be defended within capitalism.
Kimie Saito, Renae Cassimeda, Marc Wells•
“Workers health issues are being ignored for the sake of production”
As wildfire smoke engulfs factories and workplaces, workers demand lives before profit
As hazardous wildfire smoke filled the air and workers collapsed from the heat and contaminated air, production continued full tilt at factories and worksites across the affected regions with the full support of the all the various trade union bureaucracies.
Shannon Jones•
PEN America president resigns over organization’s pro-Zionist statement
The president of PEN America has resigned over an article published by the organization that blames discrimination against Israeli and Jewish writers on cultural boycotts by anti-genocide activists.
Sandy English•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Kate Randall•
Shannon Jones•
Benjamin Mateus•
Jacob Crosse, Tom Hall, Trévon Austin•
After NYC elections, Jacobin offers services of DSA to Democratic establishment, union bureaucracy
Jacobin cites recent DSA election victories to argue, in the form of friendly advice, that the Democratic Party establishment and trade union bureaucracy should not be distracted by the supposed “socialism” of the DSA. For their own good, they must instead embrace the DSA and accept the organization’s offer to lend them a “left” cover.
Erik Schreiber, Barry Grey•
Pseudo-left ditch Gaza and anti-war posturing to back Sharon Graham as Unite General Secretary
For all those groups playing a leading role in the Stop the War Coalition and the Gaza protests, this is either made a secondary issue or ignored entirely as they tout Graham’s supposed role in reviving trade union militancy presented in entirely uncritical fashion.
Tony Robson•
SWP Marxism Festival 2026: a demoralised gathering of political bankrupts
Despite Corbyn expelling three SWP national committee members from Your Party last November, the SWP welcomed him onto the main stage on Saturday. Nielsen (one of those expelled) sat next to Corbyn, chatting amicably, never mentioning Your Party, let alone denouncing its betrayals.
Laura Tiernan•
Graham Platner and the fraud of “working-class” Democratic Party politics
Platner’s campaign was a manufactured attempt to rebrand the Democratic Party with a militarized, right-wing “working-class” persona.
Jacob Crosse•
Joseph Kishore•
Peter Schwarz•
Barry Grey•
Mauricio Saavedra•
Evan Blake•
The Malvinas War and the British Workers Revolutionary Party
A chapter in How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism, “The Malvinas War: How Healy Worked as an Imperialist Stooge”, is republished here as a means of taking forwards the political education of the younger cadres of the ICFI and the readers of the WSWS.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
From the archives of Marxism: Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
The WSWS is republishing below an analysis of the Malvinas (Falklands) war written on its 25th anniversary, first published on June 21, 2007.
Paul Bond, Chris Marsden•
Geethananda Balasuriya Jayasekara (1955–2026): A fighter for Trotskyism
Geetha’s life stands as a fine example to all comrades and to all those in the future who will take up the struggle for socialism of what it means to be a Trotskyist fighter.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
In memory of Herma Huber, founding member of the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Born into the rubble of post-war Germany, Herma Huber belonged to a generation that demanded answers to the great catastrophe of Nazi fascism. Rejecting both Stalinist lies and capitalist hypocrisy, she found her answer in Trotskyism.
Ulrich Rippert•
Bryan Dyne•
Our reporters•
Christoph Vandreier, Johannes Stern•
Fred Mazelis•
David North•
Turkish police attack teachers in Ankara: “No money” for education, billions for war and corporations
Police detained 52 teachers in Ankara on Thursday as they marched between ministries demanding a legal base salary. The government says there is no money — while military spending reaches $US30 billion.
Can Denizli, Ulaş Sevinç•
10 years since the Turkish military coup attempt targeting Erdoğan
On the tenth anniversary of the 2016 coup attempt, the Erdoğan government marks it as a "victory of democracy," concealing the US-NATO involvement and the drive to dictatorship that followed.
Ulaş Sevinç•
6.5 million young people in Türkiye not in employment, education or training
Türkiye’s official statistics cannot hide the fact that the country is experiencing one of the sharpest and most devastating forms of the global youth unemployment crisis.
Süleyman Sağlam•
California Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Zionist settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
Representative Ro Khanna and his delegation were detained by a gang of armed Zionist settler vigilantes and a group of four Israeli soldiers for more than an hour on Wednesday during a tour of the West Bank.
Kevin Reed•
Can Denizli•
Barış Demir•
Christoph Vandreier, Johannes Stern•
Barış Demir•
Ulaş Sevinç•
US Steel electrician Mitcheal Nelson electrocuted at Granite City Works
Nelson and two other employees were working on a transformer that malfunctioned during a storm. He was attempting to shut it off when he was electrocuted.
Samuel Davidson•
28 killed in shoe factory fire in China
Huiteng Footwear, which operated the factory, is just one of more than 5,000 shoe manufacturers employing over half a million workers in the coastal city of Jinjiang, often described as China’s “shoe capital.”
Peter Symonds•
Australia: Worker injured at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks as pattern of dangerous incidents continues
The series of incidents involving falling objects highlights the ongoing risk to BlueScope workers after the tragic death of 24-year-old worker Jack McGrath last year.
Martin Scott•
Heat wave exposes workers to injury and death in auto plants, warehouses and delivery routes
A dangerous heat wave across the Midwest and Eastern United States is exposing workers to serious injury and death in auto plants, warehouses, postal facilities and delivery routes, where millions are being kept on the job without air conditioning or adequate safety measures.
Tom Hall•
Tom Peters•
Tony Robson, Robert Stevens•
Max Jones•
Marc Wells•
Jane Wise•
With NATO chief Rutte present: Merz government adopts war laws
Under the seemingly harmless phrase “Germany is becoming crisis-proof,” the Bundeswehr, the state apparatus, the economy and the whole of society are to be rapidly prepared for a direct war against Russia.
Johannes Stern•
Zelensky skips “Ukraine Recovery Conference” after Poland strips him of state honors
Whatever the outcome of the dispute between these two nationalist governments, the conflict underscores that their war alliance against Russia is as fragile as it is reactionary.
Jason Melanovski•
European powers pledge arms to Ukraine while issuing ultimatums to Russia at London summit
The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.
Robert Stevens•
NATO and Ukraine escalate war against Russia
As shown by the latest Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia, NATO maneuvers in the Baltic Sea, and German-Ukrainian arms cooperation, NATO is de facto waging war against Russia and risking a nuclear catastrophe.
Johannes Stern•
James Clayton •
Jordan Shilton•
Jordan Shilton•
Patrick Martin•
Johannes Stern•
Welcome Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class
Socialism AI is a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
WSWS International Editorial Board•
Socialism AI answers the New York Times: Not yes or no to AI, but who controls it
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.
Socialism AI•
Answers from Socialism AI
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
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.
Socialism AI•
Answers from Socialism AI
What must be done to prepare a nationwide general strike against the Trump administration?
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.
Socialism AI•
Socialism AI•
Evan Blake, David North•
David North•
David North•
Will Lehman•
Ninety years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons are critical for the class struggle in the 21st century.
Alejandro López•
This week in history: July 20-26
African Union brokers Burundi peace summit; Viking 1 returns first photos from the surface of Mars; Jordan's King Abdullah assassinated; French government collapses in devaluation crisis
Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Survive: Petrograd 1919
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.
Clara Weiss•
The 1929–1930 miners’ lockout—a key strategic experience of the Australian working class
The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
John Harris, Peter Symonds•
Nick Beams•
Clara Weiss, David North•
Peter Schwarz•
Katja Rippert•
Kenya and Tanzania deploy security forces against Gen-Z-led Saba Saba protests
Kenya and Tanzania’s youth opposition are part of a single continental and global process, driven by the same underlying conditions. In both countries the youth have shown they can transcend the ethnic divisions long exploited by the ruling class.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Nearly 25,000 migrants flee South Africa amid xenophobic violence
The pogromist groups act as the extra-parliamentary spearhead of the African National Congress-led ten party Government of National Unity’s anti-immigrant policies.
Alejandro López•
Tanzanian regime bans Gen-Z Saba Saba protests, deploys army and police
The Tanzanian working class and youth confront a corrupt bourgeois state defending itself through terror, an opposition tied to the same capitalist order, and imperialist powers competing against rising capitalist powers like China to loot the country's resources.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Ebola deaths pass 400 in the DRC as US guts surveillance systems to stop it
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than any before it, precisely as Washington dismantles the global public health infrastructure built to contain such threats.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Jean Shaoul•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Benjamin Mateus•
US measles cases near their worst level since 1991, met with official silence
The country is on course to lose the elimination status it achieved in 2000, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the federal vaccine infrastructure.
Benjamin Mateus•
Fired drinking water adviser files suit against EPA
A Flint water crisis whistleblower, Elin Warn Betanzo, was removed from a federal advisory council after joining hundreds of EPA employees in signing a “declaration of dissent” against the Trump administration’s assault on the agency.
James Brewer•
Extreme heat has devastating effects on agriculture and workers
Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.
Philip Guelpa•
David Attenborough at 100, an appreciation
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
Paul Bond•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Frank Gaglioti•
11 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: “We need an explanation,” says widow
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.
Jerry White •
9 months since death of Michigan autoworker Ronald Adams
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.
Jerry White •
“Our family wants answers that we have not gotten”: 8 months since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
Adams’ killing on the shop floor—crushed while performing maintenance on a gantry hoist that suddenly activated—continues to be shrouded in silence.
Jerry White•
Remarks to IWA-RFC hearing
The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of workers.
David North•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Jerry White•
Our reporter•
Our reporters•
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
US cyclosporiasis lettuce recall expands to 27 states as Taylor Farms dictates response
With more than 6,000 cases in Michigan alone and no confirmed product test, the government has extracted no penalty from Taylor Farms, which continues to dictate the scope of its own recall.
Evan Blake•
Trump administration shields Taylor Farms and Taco Bell, as thousands are poisoned in cyclosporiasis outbreak
Federal health officials identified the agribusiness giant behind the worst parasite outbreak in American history, then left it to the company to decide when to tell the public and what to withdraw.
Evan Blake•
Two disease outbreaks in New York City highlight a prioritization of profit over health
The spread of two diseases in New York City, Legionnaires’ disease and Cyclosporiasis, highlights the failure of the capitalist system to mount effective measures to control known threats to human health and life.
Philip Guelpa•
Cyclosporiasis outbreak sickens thousands in Michigan and across the US
Nearly 7,000 people have been sickened and 141 hospitalized, while the federal apparatus that would trace the outbreak to its source has been dismantled by the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Evan Blake•
Fátima Ferrante•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Wimal Perera•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi defies Turkish state’s intervention on its program
The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office demanding that it change its program. It categorically rejected this political intervention.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal•
Opening Report to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.
Ulaş Sevinç•
Statement of Principles of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)
At its founding congress held on June 13–15, 2025, the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi unanimously adopted this Statement of Principles.
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi•
David North•
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International•
May Day 2026
Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle
This speech was delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to open the 2026 International May Day Online Rally.
David North•
The 2026 International May Day Online Rally and the tasks of the international working class
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.
WSWS Editorial Board•
May Day 2026
Canadian imperialism: predator, not prey, in global war
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.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2026
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against imperialism!
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.
Tom Peters•
Cheryl Crisp•
Deepal Jayasekera, Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
Tomas Castanheira•
Alex Lantier•
Chris Marsden•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
The place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week.
David North•
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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.
Eric London•
Lecture to the 2025 SEP Summer School
Joseph Hansen—the FBI’s asset in the SWP
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.
Thomas Scripps•
Lecture to the SEP 2025 Summer School
The Gelfand Case: Depositions and the fight against summary judgement
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.
John Burton•
Tom Carter•
Norisa Diaz•
Patrick Martin•
Andrea Lobo•
International Committee of the Fourth International•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
London meeting marks 40 years since the expulsion of the Workers Revolutionary Party
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.
Our reporters•
40 years since the suspension of the Workers Revolutionary Party from the ICFI
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.
Peter Schwarz•
From the Archives
Documents of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the suspension of the WRP
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.
International Committee of the Fourth International•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
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Britain’s healthcare workers must demand Israel release Gaza’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
NHS FightBack•
Five hundred more pro-Palestine protesters arrested in UK despite High Court ruling
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.
Thomas Scripps•
New Zealand protests against war on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
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.
Tom Peters•
Violent arrests follow police rampage at Sydney anti-genocide protest
A police video shows eight heavily-armed police commandos storming a home at 5 a.m.
Mike Head•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Jacob Crosse•
Antony Walsh•
Jean Shaoul•
Eric Ludlow•
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Our reporter•
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
Defend the University of Michigan Eight! Drop all charges! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship and war!
This prosecution is a blatant and dangerous political witch-hunt and frame-up. It must not be allowed to stand. It is a major escalation by the Trump administration of the effort to criminalize left-wing opposition to war, dictatorship and social inequality.
Stephen St. Clair•
3 IYSSE representatives elected to Berlin’s Humboldt University student parliament
The IYSSE was the only university group at Berlin's Humboldt University to stand on a socialist programme against the genocide in Gaza, the development of war and the militarisation of the universities.
our reporters•
No Bundeswehr in schools! Against the cooperation agreement between the state of Berlin and the Armed Forces!
On 8 June, Berlin's Education Senator (state minister) Günther-Wünsch (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) signed an agreement with the Bundeswehr granting youth officers exclusive access to our classrooms.
Action Committee Nurseries & Education•
Stop militarisation and cuts at Germany’s universities! No to genocide and world war!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are standing in the student parliament elections at Humboldt University in Berlin. We are publishing their election statement here.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
Omar Ali, Roger Jordan•
Mike Ingram•
Our reporters•
Shannon Jones, Noah Prince, Valery Tsekov•
NOW AVAILABLE
COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
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David North to speak at two universities in Ankara, Turkey: “The American volcano and the global tsunami”
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.
Our reporters•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
Find out more
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
Our reporters•
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25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
US sends troops under cover of Venezuelan earthquake, as death toll surges
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.
Andrea Lobo•
Threat of US military action against Cuba mounts with Iran ceasefire
President Donald Trump has stated repeatedly that “Cuba will be next,” as the Pentagon prepares for military action.
Andrea Lobo•
US imperialism’s debacle in Iran
Despite killing more than 3,000 Iranians and triggering a global food and energy crisis, the United States has failed to achieve the objectives for which it went to war.
Andre Damon•
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the militarization of Canadian society
Ottawa plans to more than double the defence workforce, pour hundreds of billions into war production and reorganize industry around militarism, with workers to pay through austerity and repression.
Pierre Lajeunesse•
Keith Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Survive: Petrograd 1919
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.
Clara Weiss•
New book questions official finding that fascist Brenton Tarrant acted alone in Christchurch massacre
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.
Tom Peters•
Gary Stevenson and the dead end of wealth-tax reformism
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.
Ioan Petrescu•
Red Dawn over China: An extended exercise in anti-communist propaganda
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
Peter Symonds•
James McDonald•
Christoph Vandreier•
Nicoletta Montaner•
Paul Bond•
David North, Johannes Stern•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
View the Timeline
Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Stephen Parker•
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
Trump preparing forces for “massive attack” on Iran
The Trump administration is driven to escalation by the logic of the war, which is now in its fifth month.
Andre Damon•
The specter of “AI communism”: Chinese open-weight models and the crisis of the American AI bubble
The release of two Chinese open-weight AI models matching the most advanced American systems has provoked panic in Washington and Silicon Valley, exposing the fragility of the speculative bubble on which the entire US stock market rests.
Evan Blake•
Democrats to Trump on Iran: “Win the war!”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified alongside Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday to demand $67 billion in emergency funding for the Iran war.
Andre Damon•
Oppose the death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman!
The IWA-RFC calls on workers and all defenders of democratic rights to denounce this incitement to violence against Will Lehman and demand its unequivocal public repudiation by the UAW.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Andre Damon•
Jacob Crosse•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Andre Damon•
Jacob Crosse•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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