The sole reason for continued industrial slaughter, year after year, is the capitalist system. It has become an absolute barrier to human progress.
Those lucky enough to escape death directly at the hands of Israel’s genocide face the increasing danger of succumbing to the ravages of disease. According to British charity OXFAM, waterborne diseases have shot up in Gaza over the past three months by 150 percent.
The clashes reflect heightened political and social tensions in both countries, fuelled by slowing economies that will be further hit by the Trump administration’s tariffs.
It is a crisis not only of the Trump administration, but of the entire political system. Prominent Democrats as well as Republicans associated with the sexual predator. The pervasive depravity of the ruling elite reflected in the Epstein affair has been covered up for years.
The timing of the announcement was undoubtedly tied to the deepening Epstein scandal and Trump’s role.
Peymann's importance lay in the fact that he understood and defended the theatre as a politically and socially significant and indispensable institution, without making any artistic concessions
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who constantly accuses the US of harming all sides with its tariffs, threatened China with Trump-style tariffs.
The order promotes forced institutionalization while ordering federal funds to be withheld from programs that promote placing people in housing first.
Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University earlier this month, Trump outlined his program of reorganizing the American economy in preparation for war, primarily with China.
“The Labor government keeps talking about how we need more housing but in fact they are pulling them down.”
Without a single mention in the May 3 election campaign, the Albanese government is extending and broadening ASIO’s forcible questioning powers.
The first ever strike by concessions workers at Fenway Park against poverty wages and automation is being hamstrung by the UNITE HERE bureaucracy, which has limited the workers’ action to three days and refused to call for the shutdown of the ballpark.
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
The genocidal war in Gaza, waged by Israel with the full backing of the United States and its imperialist allies, can only be stopped through the unified and revolutionary action of the international working class.
The massive expansion of immigration police and detention centers will be used against all opponents of the financial oligarchy, not just immigrants.
The scandal over the cover-up of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein recalls explosive affairs like Stavisky in 1930s France and Profumo in 1960s Britain, which triggered major political upheavals.
Fleifel’s fiction film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, Reda and Chatila, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
The WSWS spoke last year to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.
Corporate mergers, political pressure and economic decline are reshaping American media.
The technology and skills involved in Formula 1 racing are extraordinary—the vehicles are traveling at 200 miles per hour and more, and sometimes within inches of each other.
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
According to his family, Brayan had only months prior immigrated to the US from Guatemala, “in hopes of supporting his mother and siblings.”
If confirmed, this would be the third death of a Stellantis worker in less than a year, following Antonio Gaston and Ronald Adams Sr.
The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an article by David North written in 1973 on the death of Rick Hertzig, a steelworker who was horrifically killed on the job at a US Steel mill in Lorain, Ohio.
The Teamsters union recently hired Peter Cytanovic, a known neo-Nazi who took part in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, for an administrative role at its Washington D.C. headquarters. He was reportedly fired after co-workers uncovered his background.
Postal workers should demand a no-confidence vote in Ward, Walsh, and the entire CWU postal executive. The will of the membership must be asserted against the pro-company apparatus.
Hyundai workers in Korea reject union-management pay deal; 30,000 public hospital nurses in India continue indefinite strike over pay and staffing shortages; Australian mining workers strike and rally over wages.
Resident doctors are demanding a 29.2 percent increase to restore their pay to 2008 levels. Working up to 72-hours a week, many are burdened with massive student debt and see no future in the UK.
Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump of this fact in May, but Trump denied it as recently as July 15.
The Epstein case, six years after the perpetrator was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell, officially ruled a “suicide,” is a crisis of the entire political system.
As Israel continues to massacre starving civilians, Ocasio-Cortez justified her refusal to support an amendment stripping $500 million from US arms shipments to Israel, claiming it would “cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities.”
The White House is seeking to block any significant release of information about the sex-trafficking operation by the long-time Trump crony, which implicates a large section of the US ruling elite.
The wrecking operation could be brought to an immediate halt through a sector wide ban on demolition-related work at the towers. But the building union has not, and will not, call any such action.
Inequality and poverty which emerged under the 2017-2023 Labour government is escalating under the National Party-led coalition’s brutal austerity agenda.
The ruling LDP has only been able to remain in office as a minority government as a result of the deep divisions among the opposition parties—between the far-right and the nominally liberal parties.
The Department of Health, Aged Care and Disability said nearly a quarter of doctors’ clinics were unlikely to bulk-bill all their patients, despite the Albanese government’s election vow.
As the carriers plan two significant mergers, the leadership of the rail unions is collaborating with management to withhold information and divide workers.
A more aggressive form of black lung disease is showing up among young miners.
This is the first publicly reported case of a patient being denied prenatal care under Tennessee’s Medical Ethics Defense Act (MEDA), a sweeping piece of legislation passed by the Republican-dominated state government.
California’s workplace safety agency has been crippled by understaffing and weak enforcement due to the Democrats' decades-long dismantling of labor protections.
Press reports make clear these plans for a catastrophic war with Russia are bound up with preparations for military rule against working people in Europe.
The primary aim of the government shakeup is to solidify Kiev’s ties with the Trump administration.
Sanders “cited Finland as an example the UK should consider,” the Telegraph reports, telling the paper, “Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5 million people. It can survive as a government and as a society under direct missile and air attacks from Russia. We don’t have that.”
The rapid changes in Trump’s foreign policy are an expression of his commitment to an imperialist war in defense of American capital.
The low turnout was effectively a vote of no confidence in the union, which has been actively sabotaging the struggle since the beginning.
There is growing anger among Philadelphia city workers as AFSCME District Council 33 fails to deliver promised strike stipends, compounding outrage over a sellout tentative agreement.
Philadelphia’s municipal workers are voicing anger at their unions, AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, charging that union officials continue to isolate rank-and-file struggles and push through deals that fall short of members’ real needs.
The agreement is aimed at blocking a growing rank-and-file rebellion and preventing the resurgence of a powerful citywide strike movement.
The fifteen Palestinians who starved to death yesterday included four children, the youngest a six-week-old baby.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that at least 130 Palestinians were killed Monday and over 1,000 wounded across Gaza, as Israeli troops assaulted the city of Deir al-Balah.
Palestine Action was proscribed on July 5, making membership of or support for the group a criminal offence, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
These events highlight the falsity of claims that the regime change that took place in December 2024 with the support of the US and its allies, including Turkey, would bring democracy and peace to Syria, and point to the risk of a regional war.
Declarations that any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza amounts to “antisemitism" and represents an abuse of Holocaust remembrance are assuming increasingly bizarre forms.
The resolution is a containment exercise, meant to defuse rank-and-file anger while preserving Unite’s cosy ties with arms manufacturers and the Labour government.
The report is yet another back-door attempt to outlaw all expression of opposition to Israel’s criminal war of annihilation against the Palestinians, under the guise of “equality and diversity”.
“It’s horrible. I think it’s a sign of the systematic silencing of students’ voices. Students have always been at the forefront of social movements.”
The shooting of a 19-year-old patient has caused great unrest among the nursing staff: What does it mean for both patients and nursing staff when police officers simply shoot in psychiatric wards?
The ongoing assault against migrants and refugees serves as a lever for capitalist governments to eliminate democratic rights, suspend basic human rights, and establish dictatorship. This applies to both the United States and the European Union.
The business pages of the main media outlets are also full of suggestions on how to save billions at the expense of the needy, pensioners, the sick and wage workers.
The agreement does not grant France’s 172 years-old Pacific colony independence, either immediately or in the future.
The settlement includes broad changes to the university's admissions policies and academic programs, along with a crackdown on student protests.
Under conditions where ICE agents are disappearing immigrants at worksites, courthouses and hospitals, the agency is seeking to shackle 180,000 people with GPS monitors to more easily track and deport them.
"The knowledge that we gain and the importance of international relationships in science is critical. And COVID proved that."
The visit by Marcos was the first official trip by a South East Asian leader to the United States during Trump’s second term.
While Trump has said he has “no plans” to remove Powell—he has received legal advice that an attempt to do so would most likely fail if it went to the Supreme Court—he has maintained a virtual daily barrage against the Fed chair over his refusal to lower interest rates.
In less than three years, the size of the crypto market has increased five-fold, a rise which has accelerated on the back of Trump’s pledge to make the US the crypto capital of the world.
Washington and the EU imperialist powers are tearing apart the economic foundations of the NATO alliance that have underlay relations between them since the end of World War II.
Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in Trump’s incessant demands for a rate reduction is the rising interest bill on US government debt.
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
The acceptance of the case by the court is an important step in the campaign to demand the release of Bogdan.
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
The Dissanayake government’s pro-IMF policies are enriching the corporate elites by driving millions into poverty and economic insecurity.
Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella, was arrested last year after being accused of posting an Instagram photo showing an Israeli flag being trampled.
The Sri Lankan trade union bureaucracies responded to Trump’s tariffs by assuring the government and big business of their willingness to cooperate.
The Sri Lankan meetings were part of the campaign waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International to build a global anti-war movement of the working class against the developing world war.
The GSI calls on the Brazilian working class to respond to the rise of imperialism and war, the threat of fascism and mounting social inequality by fighting alongside its international class brothers and sisters for a global socialist revolution.
What is truly striking about President Gabriel Boric’s fourth and final televised annual address is just how far to the right his pseudo-left coalition government has travelled over three years in office.
The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the stability of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international human rights bodies.
Atwoli’s speech at the International Trade Union Confederation Africa is a signal that COTU fully endorses the Ruto regime’s shoot-to-kill policy that has claimed the lives of over 160 protesters this year alone, and maimed thousands.
This sadistic call for mutilation is a thinly disguised pledge to continue murdering protesters. In total, Ruto’s regime has killed over 140 protestors, left thousands injured and maimed for life, while hundreds have disappeared or been abducted.
The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.
The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pretext for further repression.
Concorde crash near Paris; Portuguese military bids for power; Massacre in Korea by US troops; Britain defines Palestinian citizenship
July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in the Soviet Union.
With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has opened a new chapter in the revival of German militarism.
The UAW, which stoked the anti-Japanese racism that led to Chin’s death, is backing Trump’s tariffs and promoting the lie that Mexican workers are taking American autoworkers' jobs.
New research provides greater insight into the dynamics of the Out of Africa dispersal of modern humans.
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 2002, including serving as the head of NASA’s Astrophysics Division from 1993 to 1995 and as a program director for the National Science Foundation from 1999 to 2002.
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
New research identifies the distinguishing feature of human cultural behavior as its “open-endedness.”
Blame offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.
XFG (Stratus) is the latest subvariant of Omicron that is gaining momentum in the summer surge of the pandemic.
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
The ruling class and the capitalist political establishment will try to exploit any opportunity to suppress the deepening political crisis and divert attention away from the mounting class tensions.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
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.
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
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 AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
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.
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
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.
If these measures are not defeated, universities will become institutions in which freedom of speech and the right to political association and protest are obliterated.
“It’s horrible. I think it’s a sign of the systematic silencing of students’ voices. Students have always been at the forefront of social movements.”
The letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han.
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
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.
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
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.
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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 $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
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.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
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.
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
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 sole reason for continued industrial slaughter, year after year, is the capitalist system. It has become an absolute barrier to human progress.
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
The genocidal war in Gaza, waged by Israel with the full backing of the United States and its imperialist allies, can only be stopped through the unified and revolutionary action of the international working class.
The massive expansion of immigration police and detention centers will be used against all opponents of the financial oligarchy, not just immigrants.
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 film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
