The fraudulent charge of treason brought against Syrotiuk is aimed at intimidating and suppressing growing opposition among Ukrainian workers and youth to the imperialist-backed Zelensky regime and the escalating war against Russia.
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Stop the US-NATO escalation toward nuclear war! Unite the international working class against imperialist war and genocide!
For the first time since the end of the Second World War, the US and its allies are directly targeting Russian territory.
The ANC’s share of the vote fell from 57 percent in the 2019 elections, itself a record low, to just 40 percent, much lower than the most pessimistic forecasts.
Should the post-election parliamentary arithmetic permit, the Maoists have pledged to do everything in their power to bring to office the big business Congress Party and the various right-wing ethno-nationalist, caste-ist and Stalinist parliamentary parties that are its INDIA alliance partners.
The suspensions of students underscores the close ties between UC and the US and Isreali war machines
Following Trump's conviction on Thursday, virtually every major Republican politician has attacked the trial as a sham while defending the ex-president.
A former miner from South Yorkshire said: “To accuse Bogdan of treason is an absolute outrage. The war against Russia being fought in Ukraine is all about money and power.”
The strident posturing of groups such as the Socialist Workers Party, Counterfire, the Socialist Party and the newly established Revolutionary Communist Party (formerly Socialist Appeal) as opponents of Starmer’s support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and his broader pro-business agenda has been stripped bare in a matter of days.
The campaign against Thaksin represents the breakdown of a power-sharing deal with the military and other sections of the traditional elite, who are asserting their interests more openly against the Pheu Thai coalition government.
The budget, which slashes spending on social programs to fund tax cuts for the rich and free up money for war preparations, was met by large-scale protests.
Trump’s conviction in New York and the 2024 crisis election
Much will transpire over the five months remaining until the November election. It is possible that neither Trump nor Biden will end up as the candidates of the two corporate-controlled parties. But one thing is certain, the political system as a whole will continue its lurch to the right.
Biden gives go-ahead for NATO attacks on Russia: A new stage in the escalating imperialist world war
The American and European imperialist powers are recklessly escalating the war with nuclear-armed Russia towards a global conflagration, which can be halted only through the political mobilisation of the international working class in opposition to imperialist war.
Defending Rafah massacre, White House vows to defy “public opinion”
The Biden administration is advancing the concept that "democracy" is a government that does whatever it wants, in which elections are a formality whose only aim is to provide a fig leaf of legitimacy to policies opposed by the vast majority of the population.
Trump hush money trial goes to the jury
This is a crisis that extends across the entire political establishment, marked by the role of the Democratic Party as the full accomplice in the onslaught on the democratic and social rights of the working class.
May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The political significance of the 2024 May Day Online Rally
This is the text of the speech delivered by Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language edition of the WSWS, as a summation to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Unite Community branch in Greater Manchester, England demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
The resolution’s proposer told the WSWS: “It’s shocking the type of warfare in Ukraine. It is like something from the First World War trenches, workers being slaughtered. Zelensky is driving a tank through hard-won workers’ rights.”
“Rabid attacks on basic democratic rights, such as the imprisonment of Bogdan, leave their mark on workers across the globe”
Canadian workers call for freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Canadian imperialism has maintained a decades-long relationship with far-right Ukrainian nationalists, including the political descendants of Nazi collaborators during World War II. It is these forces that make up the backbone of the Ukrainian regime that is persecuting comrade Bogdan.
SEP (Sri Lanka) public meeting demands immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Sri Lankan workers, students and youth, along with supporters from India, passed a resolution condemning the Ukrainian government’s frame-up of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
The campaign to free Ukrainian Socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to gain support in Australia and New Zealand
“The imprisonment of socialist organiser Bogdan Syrotiuk is an affront of democratic rights and one of several worrying examples of political repression against young people campaigning for a genuine peace across the world.”
The assault on Rafah and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Securing the US-dominated reorganization of the Middle East requires the systematic crushing of organized resistance by the Palestinian people to Israeli domination, which is only possible through extermination and mass displacement.
As Israel bombs ambulances and levels refugee camp, Netanyahu receives bipartisan invitation to address US Congress
US Democratic and Republican leaders invited Netanyahu to “share the Israeli government's vision for defending democracy, combatting terror and establishing peace.”
The “People’s Conference for Palestine”: No perspective to stop the genocide in Gaza
Despite harrowing testimony from workers and doctors, the parochial conference was dominated by middle-class and bourgeois nationalist forces, and welcomed Democratic Party operatives, all hostile to socialism and the political independence of the working class.
Ireland, Norway and Spain recognise Palestine as a state—A cynical gesture to conceal support for genocide
This is gesture politics at its most cynical, with Sanchez, Harris and Støre trying to deceive workers and young people horrified by Israel’s genocidal violence and their own governments’ complicity into thinking they are sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians and “listening” to the masses.
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.
University of California academic workers force expansion of Gaza strike after brutal police attack on UC Santa Cruz protest
The decision to send riot cops to UCSC is meant to send a message to academic workers that neither the campus administration nor the White House and the two pro-war parties will yield in the slightest to popular pressure.
ONLINE PUBLIC MEETING TUESDAY: From Wayne State to University of California—industrial workers must oppose protest crackdowns
Last week’s crackdowns at University of California Santa Cruz and at Wayne State University in Detroit pose more sharply than ever the need for the working class to emerge as the center of the fight against war.
Students, autoworkers denounce police assault on Gaza encampment at Detroit’s Wayne State University
The WSWS urges autoworkers throughout Detroit and the wider region to come to the defense of students, both at Wayne State and around the country. The crackdown will not stop at the students, but also be used to attack autoworkers opposing mass layoffs in the auto industry.
Netherlands: Nijmegen Radboud University students and faculty members walk out against the genocide in Gaza
“If students and workers are united, they are perhaps one of the most powerful forces a society can bring together”—Charlie, student from Nijmegen.
Western Australian teachers—vote “no” to proposed Labor government-union sellout agreement! Build rank-and-file committees!
The deal amounts to a real wage cut and locks in conditions that are forcing teachers out of the profession, including large class sizes and intolerable workloads.
Western Australian teachers describe appalling conditions in public schools
“The situation on class sizes is terrible. In the last agreement the union accepted class sizes of 32. How are teachers meant to cope?”
Oil and gas giants ConocoPhillips and Chevron announce major acquisitions as industry consolidation continues
Major energy companies are merging as 2023 saw the greatest consolidation of the oil and gas industry in over a decade, with $243 billion spent on mergers and acquisitions.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Samsung Electronics workers to hold first ever strike; Sri Lanka: 12,000 village level service officers still on strike; Western Australian public hospital workers and school special needs educators strike for higher wages; New Zealand Blood Service workers strike.
The sellout of the Art Gallery of Ontario strike and the subordination of art to the financial oligarchy
The month-long strike at the AGO provides a case study regarding the extent to which the capitalist class will go to subordinate the livelihood of workers and all aspects of social life, including culture, to the insatiable needs of the profit system.
Art College 1994 from China: The effort “to recreate life out of life”
To its credit, Art College 1994 displays throughout a cosmopolitanism and sophistication, the opposite of nationalism and provincialism.
Seattle museum workers walk out over exhibition equating anti-Zionism and antisemitism
The workers’ action, in response to one of the great lies of the Israeli and Biden administrations and their apologists, is a significant step.
UK Channel 4’s Spacey Unmasked: Smear campaign with more unsubstantiated #MeToo allegations against award-winning actor
The two-part series levels new allegations against actor Kevin Spacey just as he is emerging publicly from the collapse of the witch-hunt against him.
Portuguese Stalinists, pseudo-left ally with big-business PS to protect right-wing government
The BE and PCP aim to subordinate the working class to the PS, to block a movement against the new PSD government, fascism, the Gaza genocide and the NATO war on Russia.
Germany’s housing market crisis intensifies: Exploding rents, evictions, homelessness
The state of Germany’s housing market is becoming increasingly catastrophic, with millions of households struggling with exploding rents.
Seven years after Grenfell Tower Fire, justice for victims is further away than ever
Since the inquiry was announced seven years ago, the Socialist Equality Party has warned it was nothing more than a cover-up orchestrated to deflect blame from those responsible for 72 preventable deaths.
Western powers threaten Georgia over passage of foreign agents law
The political crisis engulfing the country of Georgia continues, with the US and its European allies condemning the ruling party of the tiny South Caucasus nation as pro-Russian.
Australian Labor government blocking Palestinians from refugee status
Labor has denied over 4,600 applications by Palestinians for temporary visas, while excluding those fleeing the genocide from refugee protections altogether.
New Zealand junior doctors hold third strike
2,500 junior doctors held a two-day strike this week as the New Zealand government delivered a brutal austerity budget.
Aid delays in reaching thousands displaced by PNG landslide disaster
The lack of aid, technical experts and heavy machinery reaching the stricken village of Yambali is reflected in widely varying estimates of the number of dead, injured and displaced.
Popular protests mount in Pakistan against government’s IMF-dictated austerity measures
Recent weeks have seen mass protests over price rises in Pakistan-held Kashmir and a countywide agitation by farmers.
Sri Lankan government to entrench IMF austerity in legislation
The new bill, which concentrates economic policy powers in the hands of Sri Lanka’s executive president, is a further move towards autocratic forms of rule.
Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting opposes imperialist war
The meeting was a part of the ICFI’s campaign for an international anti-war movement of workers and youth based on socialist policies.
Sri Lankan court takes case of violent assault on SEP members
The attack on Wasantha is politically calculated to intimidate him and stop discussion on the SEP’s fight for workers’ independent action committees.
Sri Lankan police attack striking university workers in Colombo
Protesters involved in an indefinite strike were violently assaulted by riot police, including with a water cannon spraying polluted water at them at high pressure.
This week in history: June 3-9
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
80 years since the mass murder in Ozarichi, Belarus carried out by the German military
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
The racial quota law that inspired Hitler
100 years since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
This week in history: May 20-May 26
India-Pakistan clash over Kashmir; national rail strike in India; West Germany formally established; 13th Congress of Russian Communist Party opens.
Justice Alito refuses to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases after flag-flying exposures
Justice Samuel Alito rejected calls from Democrats that he recuse himself from pending cases before the Supreme Court following revelations that pro-Trump and fascist insurrection flags have been flown at his two residences.
New York jury convicts former President Donald Trump on all 34 counts
In a major intensification of the US political crisis, for the first time in American history an ex-president was tried and convicted on felony charges.
Trump hush money trial goes to the jury
This is a crisis that extends across the entire political establishment, marked by the role of the Democratic Party as the full accomplice in the onslaught on the democratic and social rights of the working class.
Texas Republicans push secession referendum, law to block Dems from winning state office
The Texas Republican Party adopted a platform at its biannual convention in San Antonio last week that reveals the rapid descent of the party headed by Donald Trump into a fascist political organization based on Christian nationalism.
Alabama executes Jamie Ray Mills despite prosecutorial misconduct and nonunanimous jury vote for death sentence
The execution proceeded despite questions about the reliability of the state’s key witness, the troubled nature of Mills’ childhood, a nonunanimous vote of the jury for a death sentence, and the thoroughly undemocratic character of Alabama’s death penalty system.
Early Canadian wildfire season prompts fears of repeat of 2023 record-breaking year
The fires are a direct result of capitalist-induced climate change, with governments of all political stripes at the federal and provincial levels creating conditions for worsening infernos and withholding the resources necessary to address the crisis.
Norfolk Southern to walk away with $310 million fine for East Palestine, Ohio derailment
The railroad company that poisoned this Eastern Ohio community walks away with a slap on the wrist, while residents in this and surrounding communities face long-term health problems and concerns.
Republican Louisiana governor enacts law restricting access to abortion pills
Louisiana is the first state in the United States to classify two abortion-inducing medications—mifepristone and misoprostol—as Schedule IV drugs, or “controlled substances,” making unprescribed possession of the common medications a crime.
New study highlights significant health impacts three years after COVID-19 infection
A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine confirms that there remain significant health detriments long after the acute phase of a COVID infection, provides new insight into the pathogenesis of human diseases and underscores the necessity of prevention of disease as the main pillar of public health.
Washington Post flippantly acknowledges abdication of public health responsibility in ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
The summer surge of COVID-19 infections has begun earlier and at higher levels than in previous years. As the Washington Post notes, the entire public health apparatus has been dismantled, allowing the virus free rein to spread unhindered.
A second US farmworker infected with the bird flu virus
The dairy worker in Michigan fortunately suffered only a mild eye infection, but experts believe that the number of people potentially infected by the deadly virus is far higher.
Chinese study finds association between viral persistence and Long COVID
The study excluded patients who had serious, life-threatening infections, demonstrating that even mild cases of COVID can have dire lifetime consequences.
The US ruling class lurches to right: Kennedy and Trump appeal for support at fascistic Libertarian Convention
While both candidates sought the endorsement of the rabidly pro-capitalist delegates, neither one garnered more than 2 percent of the vote.
Democrats step up campaign to block third parties
Political action committees linked to the Biden campaign are attacking the campaigns of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein of the Green Party and Cornel West.
Democratic Party enlists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to cover up Biden’s war crimes
A lengthy New York Times essay has acknowledged that DSA representative Ocasio-Cortez is now the lynchpin in the Democratic Party’s strategy to block growing opposition to imperialist war and genocide in Gaza and channel it behind Biden’s reelection campaign.
The arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is an attack on democratic rights
All charges must be dropped against Stein and the hundreds of others who have been arrested while protesting in recent weeks.
NATO prepares direct intervention into Russia-Ukraine war
NATO’s monumentally reckless escalation, if it is not stopped by an international mobilization of the working class against the war, is leading to a general military conflagration.
Members of Congress demand White House authorize Ukrainian strikes inside Russia
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives called on the White House to formally authorize Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russian territory, a move that Russian officials had previously warned would trigger war between Russia and NATO.
As NATO moves to allow Ukraine to bomb Russia with its weapons, Kremlin floats possible Ukraine cease-fire
While Moscow is signaling that it is seeking a settlement of the war, NATO countries are escalating long-range strikes and threatening to directly enter the war.
German Foreign Minister Baerbock’s war visit to Kiev
The plans pursued by German Foreign Minister Baerbock and Defence Minister Pistorius for the expansion of air defences in Ukraine are aimed at preparing for direct NATO intervention in the conflict against Russia.
Southern Brazil faces humanitarian crisis after historic flooding
Entire towns across the state were flooded for over 20 days, with more than 2 million people affected.
Brazil’s Morenoite-led union federation cements ties with UAW based on support for war
The recent tour of the US by officials of the CSP-Conlutas union federation served to integrate it into support for the emerging US war against Russia and China.
Union federations turn May Day in Brazil into platform for Lula government
President Lula is pursuing a corporatist agenda to integrate the unions into the state in order to suppress the class struggle in Brazil.
Colombia cuts ties with Israel over Gaza genocide
The decision was first announced in President Petro's May Day speech, delivered Wednesday to tens of thousands of supporters in Bogota.
Fifty years after Chile’s horrific September 11 coup, its political relevance is becoming ever more urgent as the specter of dictatorship once again haunts the political life of Latin America.
Failed pro-imperialist coup targets Democratic Republic of Congo
The coup took place as Washington and its NATO allies wage a bitter struggle for influence in Africa with China and Russia, amid the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.
President Ruto grovels to Washington to put Kenya on the global war map
Kenya and the entire African continent are being drawn into the maelstrom of an expanding global war. The continent’s geostrategic position and vast mineral resources are viewed by Washington as critical in its conflicts with Russia, Iran and China.
The class struggle in France and the fight against war
This is the text of the speech delivered by Alex Lantier, the national secretary of the Parti de l'Egalité Socialiste (PES) in France, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.
Boeing 737-300 catches fire on runway in Senegal, injures 10
It is only a matter of time before more people are killed on Boeing planes, repeating or exceeding the tragedies of the two 737 MAX 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019.
Political prisoners mount hunger strike as state repression grows in Turkey
Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
Iranian president killed in helicopter crash
The death of President Ebrahim Raisi could trigger a political crisis and lead to sharp infighting in the country’s Islamic bourgeois clerical regime.
Tenth anniversary of the death of 301 miners in the Soma disaster in Turkey
The last decade has witnessed a deepening of the ruling elite's disregard for the safety of workers for the sake of profit, let alone the necessary occupational safety measures, in Turkey and around the world.
Fire disaster in Istanbul kills 29 workers
This fire disaster is an indictment of the entire ruling elite, including business owners and officials.
G7 steps up economic and financial war against Russia and China
Lawyers are going to be hard at work to devise a scheme whereby the outright theft of Russian assets to finance Ukraine can be made to appear to be compatible with EU and international law.
US Treasury secretary seeks European support in economic war against China
In the well established tradition of US imperialism, Janet Yellen in a speech in Germany sought to present US actions as benefiting the world.
Biden’s tariffs, a significant economic turning point
The economic war is being falsely presented as a response to “unfair” Chinese state subsidies which are undercutting “market prices.”
Biden administration intensifies economic war against China
Under national security powers, the US has raised tariffs on electric vehicles to 100 percent, along with tariff hikes on a range of high-tech and industrial products.
“Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!”—Leading SEP (UK) member addresses meeting in Australia
“In acting to oppose Assange’s persecution, you are stepping into the titanic storm now blowing through world politics; you are coming up against fundamental class interests and imperialist objectives.”
VIDEO: SEP (Australia) meeting—“Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!”
Speakers emphasised that the fight against Israel’s genocide, imperialist war and for the freedom of Assange must be based on the independent mobilisation of the working class against capitalism.
Assange granted leave to appeal before UK’s High Court against extradition to the US
The judgement is a victory, both for blocking what could otherwise have been Assange’s immediate transfer to America and for further exposing the reactionary nature of the US prosecution.
Stella Assange: “Julian is just one decision away from being extradited”
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told the assembled media, “It is abundantly clear that the process in the courts in the United Kingdom are corrupt. The case is rigged against Julian.”
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.
Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop police violence against anti-war students!
In the following, we document the IYSSE Humboldt University election statement, which will be printed in the student election brochure. The elections are on 18 and 19 June.
Berlin police brutally assault students occupying Humboldt University to protest against the genocide in Gaza
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting opposes imperialist war
The meeting was a part of the ICFI’s campaign for an international anti-war movement of workers and youth based on socialist policies.
Australian universities moving to shut down student encampments against Gaza genocide
The flurry of eviction notices, “emergency meetings,” and warnings of disciplinary action indicate a nationally coordinated campaign in line with denunciations of the student protests by the federal Labor government.
Auroral display dazzles millions around the globe
Vivid displays of the aurora borealis and aurora australis were visible to millions of people around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
Scientific—and social—dimensions of the 2024 total solar eclipse
The second total eclipse across North America in seven years has drawn the interest of millions across the continent.
Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts
“With a few exceptions, increasing warming leads to greater exposure to drought, fluvial and coastal flooding, and greater declines in biodiversity and crop yields.”
Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Ford worker Tywaun Long
The 46-year-old worker collapsed on the assembly line at the Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17 and reportedly died of a heart attack.
Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee founded in opposition to UAW betrayals and war
“With our brothers and sisters of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), we are for abolishing, not reforming, the UAW bureaucracy, to put power into the hands of the workers.”
Stellantis Warren Stamping workers approve strike over health and safety
The strike vote at Warren Stamping, a critical components plant, comes as anger is seething among rank-and-file workers over layoffs and a host of issues.
In the aftermath of mass layoffs
Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line
An autoworker died after suffering a medical emergency after waiting a half hour for medical help at the Ford Rouge complex outside Detroit.
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.
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
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.
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
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.
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
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.
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
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.
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
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.
Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
Kenneth Chesebro, attorney and close associate of Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony charge in exchange for his agreement to testify against the former-president and 16 other defendants in the fake elector scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
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.
Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!
Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
Sri Lankan SEP meeting to launch two books on the Sinhala chauvinist JVP
The JVP’s rightward evolution is not an isolated, national phenomenon but an expression of the transformation internationally of similar organisations into pro-imperialist outfits.
Comrade Halil Çelik: An inspiration for workers and youth internationally
This is the tribute given by Peter Symonds to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018. The tribute was read at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of Halil’s death.
Comrade Halil Çelik blazed the socialist-internationalist path the workers of Turkey must follow
This is the tribute given by Keith Jones to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018. The tribute was read at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of Halil’s death.
March 20 marks 20 years since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, launched on the basis of lies. At the time of the initial invasion, the WSWS published many statements on the background of the war, its history and its implications. This page features some of the most important statements.
Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters
An open letter, issued by a privileged layer of indigenous figures who led the Voice Yes campaign, further highlights the immense class chasm shown in the referendum’s overwhelming defeat on October 14.
Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum
Socialist Alternative’s analysis of the referendum is an attack on the working class, exposing this organisation as a rightward moving representative of privileged layers of the affluent upper middle-class.
Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.
The Prinkipo commemoration of Trotsky’s exile and the global resurgence of the working class
The event reflects the objective change that has been underway for some time in the relationship between Trotskyism and the international working class.
An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo
This is the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North given on Sunday, August 20, honoring the life and political legacy of Leon Trotsky.
The ICFI’s investigation exposed the GPU conspiracy to murder Trotsky
The penetration of GPU agents into the Fourth International played a fatal role in the assassination of Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo
Trotsky spent the critical years of his exile on Prinkipo writing masterpieces and organizing the Left Opposition in the Communist International all over the world.
In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.
1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
The following lecture was delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of New Zealand, and Thomas Scripps, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
1982: Marxism, the revolutionary party, and the critique of Healy’s Studies in Dialectics
The following lecture was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
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.
Will Lehman issues letter to Mack Trucks coworkers on eve of UAW contract expiration: “We must seriously prepare for a major battle”
It’s clear the UAW hasn’t been negotiating anything at Mack all this time, they’ve just been keeping us in the dark to prevent us from preparing to fight back against the company’s ruthless demands.
Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election
On Monday, July 3, rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman sued the Biden administration’s Department of Labor, demanding that the UAW national officers’ election be rerun with the names of all candidates on the ballot due to massive voter disenfranchisement by the bureaucracy.
Stop the UAW sabotage of the autoworkers struggle! Hold emergency local meetings to demand an all-out strike!
“Let’s be clear on what Fain‘s announcement really means: These strikes will have no impact on production. These are parts warehouses that ship components to the dealerships, not suppliers of the Big Three.”
“It’s almost like we are in a civil war between the rich and the poor”: Autoworkers respond to Will Lehman’s Newsweek op-ed
Autoworkers have responded with enthusiasm to the editorial written by the Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president in 2021.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
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.
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
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.
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against 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.
Republicans revive discredited Wuhan Lab Leak theory and call Anthony Fauci to testify
Republicans have demanded Former Biden chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci testify on the Wuhan lab leak theory.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
This five-part series and historical timeline exposes Snyder’s Bloodlands as a work of falsification, aimed at justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far-right.
May Day 2023: For the international unity of the working class against national chauvinism and war!
The following is the text of the opening report delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to the International May Day Online Rally 2023, held Sunday, April 30.
The ICFI’s May Day 2023 online rally: A milestone in the building of a global, working class movement against war
Together, the speakers set out a political programme capable of uniting the international working class and mobilising its immense social power in a struggle against the world’s major corporations and governments.
The developing struggle to bring down the Macron government in France
This is the report delivered by Alex Lantier, national secretary of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
The struggle for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka
This is the report delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
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.
Report to Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
The historical and political principles of the socialist opposition to imperialist war and the Putin regime
This report was given by Clara Weiss to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution, “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
Report to Seventh Congress of Socialist Equality Party (US)
The historical background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for global elimination
This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
America’s “New World Order”— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
Report to Seventh Congress of Socialist Equality Party (US)
Build rank-and-file committees, the organs of 21st century working class struggle!
This report was given by Eric London to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!”
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.
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.
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.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms
After instituting a ban on sharing links from competitive social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, Elon Musk canceled the policy less than 24 hours later.
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
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.”
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
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.
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
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.
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.
Russia downs British-supplied long-range missile as Zelensky and Sunak declare “jets coalition”
Central to NATO’s plans to defeat Russia and force regime change in Moscow is aerial supremacy over the Ukrainian battlefield. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Zelensky said, “We want to create this jet coalition.”
Pentagon national strategy document targets China
The US military published a series of documents Thursday outlining US plans for war with Russia and China, and asserting the central role of nuclear weapons in US warfighting.
Australia dispatching military “trainers” to aid the US-NATO war against Russia
Australia, already the largest non-NATO funder of the war in Ukraine, is escalating its involvement amid warnings that the conflict could result in a nuclear catastrophe.
German President Steinmeier delivers war speech to the nation
Steinmeier's remarks to invited soldiers, journalists, think tank representatives and leading politicians can only be described as a “war speech to the nation.” The focus was de facto a declaration of war on Russia and the Russian population.
The June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.
Germany’s secret service intensifies persecution of war opponents and warns against “Trotskyism”
The latest “Constitutional Protection Report” published by the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s domestic intelligence service) at the end of June aims to silence anyone who criticises the mass death being organised by the NATO powers, calls social inequality by its name, and rejects the government’s pro-war narrative.
Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine
The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court has sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker for a speech he gave on the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion on the Soviet Union.
Large-scale raid against right-wing terrorist network reveals the extent of the fascist danger in Germany
Around 3,000 officers from the special police forces stormed 137 locations in 11 federal states on Wednesday morning and arrested 25 people. Another 27 people are being investigated. The state prosecutor has accused them of being members or supporters of a terrorist organisation.
German secret service operates hundreds of far-right social media profiles
Regardless of whether the pending investigations can demonstrate that the agents gave the impetus to the planned terrorist attacks, a picture emerges of a right-wing extremist milieu organized and controlled by the state.
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.
Ghassan Zeineddine’s Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
The Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward
Perhaps half the pieces are coming-of-age stories, that lyrical standby now usually written in a gritty but still rhapsodic voice.
Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people
David Marr’s Killing for Country documents many mass killings of indigenous people but falsely blames the entire population, not the ruling class and Australian capitalism.
DOC NYC Film Festival 2023: Part 3
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer: A documentary approaches the American novelist with sympathy, but not enough scrutiny
The documentary follows the writer from his boyhood in the 1930s through his service during World War II and throughout his tumultuous literary, journalistic and personal life.
Stop the US-NATO escalation toward nuclear war! Unite the international working class against imperialist war and genocide!
For the first time since the end of the Second World War, the US and its allies are directly targeting Russian territory.
Trump’s conviction in New York and the 2024 crisis election
Much will transpire over the five months remaining until the November election. It is possible that neither Trump nor Biden will end up as the candidates of the two corporate-controlled parties. But one thing is certain, the political system as a whole will continue its lurch to the right.
Biden gives go-ahead for NATO attacks on Russia: A new stage in the escalating imperialist world war
The American and European imperialist powers are recklessly escalating the war with nuclear-armed Russia towards a global conflagration, which can be halted only through the political mobilisation of the international working class in opposition to imperialist war.
Defending Rafah massacre, White House vows to defy “public opinion”
The Biden administration is advancing the concept that "democracy" is a government that does whatever it wants, in which elections are a formality whose only aim is to provide a fig leaf of legitimacy to policies opposed by the vast majority of the population.
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.
New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
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.
Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River mine
The police investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 mineworkers has been dragged out until at least the end of 2023, with no guarantee that anyone will be charged over the avoidable deaths.
New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
Police are delaying their decision on whether to lay charges over the 2010 Pike River mine disaster that killed 29 people, until after the October election.
Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China
The disaster tragically exposes the brutal working conditions faced by miners in China in the reckless drive for profits ahead of lives and safety.
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.