In this interview with Austrian journalist Josef Mühlbauer, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North speaks on the historical foundations of Trotskyism, the program of the International Committee of the Fourth International, and the fundamental problems confronting the working class in the fight for equality and socialism.
85 years since the May 24, 1940 assassination attempt against Leon Trotsky
Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary and co-leader alongside Vladimir Lenin of the October 1917 Russian Revolution.
The World Socialist Web Site and the fight against war, genocide, fascism and the Big Lie
Armed with a socialist political perspective, rooted in the scientific foundations of Marxism and the assimilation of the historical experiences of the international class struggle, the WSWS is relentless in its exposure of the Big Lies and its defense of the truth.
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
Kurdish Workers Party dissolves itself amid deepening war in the Middle East
It is essential to expose the underlying grounds of the process that led the PKK to dissolve itself and the falsity of its claims of “democracy and peace”.