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.
The death of Rod Paige, former US Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, who played a key role in subordinating public education to profit interests, provides an opportunity to review the bipartisan war on public education.
Prime Minister Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns, along with top police and intelligence officials, are fashioning a narrative that protects the interests of governments and the state apparatus.
Sustained mass protests have forced the resignation of Bulgaria’s government just weeks before the planned introduction of the euro. The upheaval reflects deep popular opposition to austerity, corruption and militarisation driven by the EU and enforced by successive governments.
In recent days many workers have reached out to the WSS to express their anger and frustration with both GM and the UAW.
The biggest concern is the fall in investment which has declined markedly in the past year.
Trofimova’s documentary rejects the bogus narrative peddled by US imperialism and its Canadian and European allies about “Putin’s unprovoked war,” and gives voice to the ordinary Russian soldiers the Western media has systematically dehumanized.
The rise in cases of the highly contagious, potentially deadly disease, 10 years after it was eliminated, is due to attacks on vaccination and public health, in Australia and internationally.
The situation underscores the need for action by the working class to defend the right to a job.
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.
The US president declared Venezuela a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" and claimed the country owes the United States "oil, land, and other assets."
This new feature will highlight selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Boric’s government, like its “Pink Tide” counterparts in Latin America, paved the way for the right by defending capitalist property relations and failing to alter conditions of poverty and extreme social inequality confronting the masses.
Attacks on civilian merchant shipping in the Black Sea expand the scope of the war and threaten to drag NATO members like Türkiye deeper into the maelstrom.
These are the vindictive, lawless actions of a police state. Labour has branded Palestine Action and its supporters “terrorists” to justify swallowing innocent people into the prison system and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment.
The British Medical Association announced the ballot result on Monday: a 65.34 percent turnout with an overwhelming 83.2 percent voting to strike between December 17 and 22.
“I encourage workers to try Socialism AI…because it connects to what is happening in the broader sense—to understand why it is happening, what to do about it, and how to communicate these ideas to fellow workers.”
Those responsible for the continuing carnage in Gaza, above all the Israeli government and its backers, are seeking to exploit the killing spree to insist that all protests and statements of opposition to the genocide must be shut down.
There is a now a “rapacious appetite” for deregulation of the financial system, recalling the period leading up the stock market crash of 1929.
This new feature will highlight selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
The Trump administration is seeking to plunder Venezuela’s oil reserves as part of a campaign to dominate Latin America as a resource base for war with Russia and China.
In furtherance of the mass deportation operation and a sweeping attack on the privacy rights of the entire population, the Transportation Security Administration is providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement with air passenger lists multiple times per week.
Numerous reports have emerged of residents who will be forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars or more for out-of-pocket repairs.
India’s demonstrative display of the “warmth” and “strength” of its decades-long strategic partnership with Russia was meant as a message to Washington that New Delhi will not allow the US to define its relationship with Moscow.
With the votes of the fascistic AfD, the state assembly has adopted sweeping amendments to the police law that massively expand surveillance powers, including covert home break-ins and mass data collection.
The contract expirations for more than 20,000 nurses create the potential for a major, coordinated fight for safe staffing, pay rises above inflation and the best possible healthcare benefits.
In the first popular protest against right-wing President Rodrigo Paz, workers demonstrated against increases in flour and bread prices.
On Wednesday, 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) support workers are demonstrating against poverty and exploitation which the district is seeking to deepen in a new contract.
Last Friday, educators across the Australian state walked off the job for half a day, closing most public schools in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie.
The HMNZS Aotearoa carried out “surveillance and deterrence” activities on China’s doorstep, including a provocative passage through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka’s central hill district speak out against decades of government neglect that left them living in known landslide zones with no protection or aid.
With the witness list exceeding 50 people, the trial is expected to continue well into next year.
The closures expose claims from the Teamsters that they were protecting job security in their 2024 sellout contract.
Jewish people and their children living in Australia bear no responsibility for the ongoing slaughter by the Israeli Zionist regime in Gaza and the occupied West Bank of Palestine.
Construction workers, US citizens and even Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son have been accosted by the immigration Gestapo.
Whatever deal may be reached, it will not be a solution to the structural crisis of Russian capitalism and the imperialist efforts to carve up the entire former Soviet Union to bring its resources under the direct control of the imperialist powers.
US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States would begin ground attacks in the Caribbean on Venezuela “pretty soon,” raising the prospect of a US aerial bombardment of Venezuela.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina exposes the social and political roots of vaccine refusal and the broader assault on public health institutions in the United States.
At the time of writing, neither the postal service nor the postal unions have issued any public statement acknowledging the worker's death or explaining the circumstances surrounding it.
The United Auto Workers bureaucracy has not even made a pretense of opposing the mass layoffs, which will only deepen the social crisis in Detroit, the poorest big city in America.
The SEP sadly announces the death of two working class comrades R. M. Gunathilake (87) and Leela Balasuriya (79). We will publish tributes in the coming days.
It sets out the various sides in an episode where a sexual assault has been alleged with such even-handedness that drawing larger conclusions is challenging.
The ATO’s crackdown on working-class individuals and small businesses is occurring amid a historic cost-of-living crisis.
A “person of interest” has been detained by police following a mass shooting in a classroom at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday.
Stellantis exploits Kragujevac workers through nationality-based wage tiers and forced migration.
Chinese security forces jail strike leader; Algeria expels 350,000 Moroccans; Truman declares national emergency after Korean War defeats; Russian Communist Party adopts “socialism in one country."
Across the globe, severe weather due to climate change is causing thousands of deaths and widespread destruction.
The Left Party has launched a ferocious campaign against its own youth organisation after it explicitly described Israel’s assault on Gaza as genocide. The episode exposes the party’s deep integration into the German state apparatus and underlines why young people need a genuine socialist alternative rooted in internationalism and the working class.
The US trade deal was Starmer’s attempt to secure an advantage over Europe in the UK’s dealings with America. The pharmaceuticals scandal makes clear that any favourable treatment secured by Labour was won by selling the working class down the river.
From Social Democrats to fascist parties, all are pushing towards an agreement by the spring of 2026 that will spell the end of any commitment to the universalist principles proclaimed in the European Convention on Human Rights in the aftermath of the horrific crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II.
Leading House Democrats released two groups of pictures—first, 19 and then later, another 70—on Friday from a reported trove of 95,000 photos that were turned over to the Oversight Committee on Thursday by the Epstein estate.
Many displaced WSU workers are being shunted into lower-paid positions, face higher workloads or are yet to be allocated alternative positions.
Understaffing and the federal designation of nursing as a nonprofessional degree are arousing healthcare workers’ opposition.
Democratic Party leaders voted for the record Pentagon spending bill, as the Trump administration deploys F-35s and electronic warfare jets to the Caribbean in preparation for war against Venezuela.
The Washington meetings raised questions that were not publicly answered, including whether the Australian Labor government gave commitments to increase military spending beyond even the current record levels.
Residents of two historic downtown Detroit building face loss of utilities due to landlord neglect in the midst of cold wave.
The strike reflects rising worker militancy against Meloni’s war budget, as CGIL leaders act to limit, defuse and control the opposition.
The Frontline Socialist Party’s proposals to the JVP/NPP government are to help cover up its responsibility for the disaster and the capitalist system that produced it.
A new Lancet Series presents the most comprehensive scientific assessment to date of ultra-processed foods. Its findings expose a global health crisis driven by industry profit, political inertia, and the transformation of food systems worldwide.
A wave of serious and fatal workplace accidents at Deutsche Bahn has claimed numerous lives in 2025, exposing recurring patterns of danger in shunting yards, track construction sites and overhead line work.
The 11,000-plus job cuts in September 2025 were the largest monthly loss of jobs in the state since the onset of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security arrogantly denied any violations of democratic rights by the ICE and Border Patrol gestapo, and walked out of the hearing before it was half over, thumbing her nose at Democratic Party protests.
The Workers Party government has marked a new stage in its subordination of to imperialist dictates just as Washington prepares open war against a neighboring country.
Nuwara Eliya district, predominantly inhabited by Tamil-speaking tea plantation workers earning low wages, is among the worst affected by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides, and stone slides caused by the cyclone.
India: Construction workers in Tamil Nadu demand minimum wage; Assam 108 Ambulance emergency workers remain on strike; Australia: Bookstore workers to walk out for better pay and conditions; Healthscope theatre nurses strike in Victoria; New Zealand firefighters continue walkout.
The bureaucratic exclusion of Engler is entirely of a piece with the NDP’s broader record.
Tram drivers cannot entrust their dispute to the Unite apparatus, which attempted to sabotage their struggle before it even started.
The strike underlines the ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention--bound up with decades of funding cuts, curriculum reforms and attacks on conditions in UK schools.
Doctors have immense public support. Their fight is not a narrow pay issue but part of a broader political confrontation. It can become a rallying point for all National Health Service workers against the Starmer government’s austerity, privatisation and militarism.
One of the main functions of the conference was to spread the illusion that negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), supported by US and European imperialism, could bring about democratization and peace, and to endorse Öcalan’s role and the anti-Marxist postmodern perspective he has developed.
Portugal’s first general strike in twelve years, jointly called by the Socialist Party (PS) aligned UGT and the Communist Party (PCP) aligned CGTP, shook the country, confirming and extending the escalating class struggle across Europe.
Today the International Committee of the Fourth International inaugurates Socialism AI, a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
The US government has held Vijandre, a Dallas resident, in immigration detention for over nine weeks despite admitting in court filings that he has committed no crimes and that the only “evidence” of his alleged “terrorism” consists of social media posts protected under the First Amendment.
Now almost in their fourth month of strike, 650 workers at Libbey Glass in Toledo are determined to continue their fight despite pressure by the United Steelworkers International leadership to capitulate to management demands.
Reuters reported Thursday that the US has assembled a "target list" of tankers for seizure of oil tankers as the administration openly declares its intention to overthrow Maduro.
Record temperatures, strong winds and a high fuel load built up over several wet years created the conditions for catastrophic fires last week in New South Wales and Tasmania.
The real aim of the ban is to suppress growing opposition among young people to war, austerity and dictatorship and to prevent it finding organized political expression.
Family members and building workers are raising concerns about the reported lack of safety precautions involved.
The move will lead to more frequent derailments, which already take place three times a day on average.
After four years of war, hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed, and millions of refugees, NATO's war against Russia has reached an impasse.
After Teamsters shattered the strike's unity, UTR followed suit, imposing a sellout deal that betrays teachers and protects austerity.
Speaking for privileged sections of the middle class, QS serves the faction of the Quebec ruling class that sees the creation of a third imperialist state in North America as a means of intensifying the exploitation of workers and more effectively advancing its own economic and geostrategic interests.
The WSWS and the SGP propose the establishment of an independent rank-and-file committee to discuss how to fight layoffs and social cuts and why a new organizational structure is necessary.
In this video, Sri Lankan workers and villagers devastated by Cyclone Ditwah speak out about the catastrophic flooding, government negligence, and the urgent need for real change.
The Wagenknecht party is responding to falling poll numbers by continuing its anti-war rhetoric in order to win back voters, while ruthlessly pressing ahead with its right-wing, pro-capitalist programme. This exposes all its bluster against war as empty chatter.
Workers, small shop owners and residents described to reporters the terrifying impact of the disaster, the repeated flooding they endure and the destruction caused this time by the overflowing Kelani River.
The increase in state-sanctioned killings, concentrated in just a few states, is a terrifying measure of the political brutality currently promoted by the Trump administration and gripping the American justice system.
National strike in Greece by construction workers over fatality on building site blamed on unsafe conditions; deepening economic crisis fuels continuing strikes and protests in Iran; staff at African National Congress headquarters picket ANC 5th National General Council over salary delays and unpaid bonuses
The Socialist Equality Party fights to arm the working class with a revolutionary perspective. We not only reject entirely the demoralised argument that reformist consciousness cannot be challenged. We are preparing the most powerful means of doing so.
It is highly likely that there will be further boycotts of next year’s contest, given that Israel is a global pariah.
An infinitesimal 0.001 percent of the world’s population controls society through its vast wealth.
The US military seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a brazen act of piracy that marks a major escalation in President Donald Trump's war preparations against the South American country.
With the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers at assembly plant scheduled for January 5, workers are looking for a way to defend their jobs.
Seeking to replicate Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York City, DSA-backed Janeese Lewis George’s candidacy for mayor is another trap aimed at dragooning workers and youth back into the dead end of the Democratic Party and electoral politics.
Steve “Lil” Crowe died in a collision at a vehicle crossing while performing a “shoving movement,” a common but extremely dangerous maneuver.
The ending of the SAVE program will force millions of people with student loans to use costlier repayment programs, many of which do not have any mechanism for loan forgiveness.
In his remarks following the decision, Fed chair Jerome Powell said inflation risks were tilted to the upside and for the labour market to the downside.
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a visually imaginative work to some extent with a number of urgent and disturbing sequences and an overall gravitas.
Mamdani is turning to New York City’s wealthy elite for fundraising while he invites big business to advise his transition.
Ending temporary band-aids on soaring prices for domestic electricity and gas services will intensify the cost-of-living crisis for working-class households.
