In the discussion of his recently published books, North stressed the essential role of Marxist theory in the analysis of world events and the development of socialist strategy.
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“What struck me was the emphasis on the urgency to pave a new way forward for the working class because the alternative is catastrophe.”
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Elon Musk promotes the global fascist right
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X, is leveraging his staggering fortune to finance and promote fascist forces throughout the world.
The stripped-down measure will fund the government through March 14, but it does not include a suspension or rise in the debt ceiling.
Jacob Crosse•
Two days before the Georgia Court of Appeals removed prosecutor Fani Willis from the election interference case, Trump-supporting Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk released an “interim report” on the events of January 6, 2021, that recommended criminal prosecution of Liz Cheney.
Jacob Crosse•
More than 5,500 workers at Amazon’s JFK8 facility, alongside thousands of other workers, are fighting for their economic needs and fundamental rights.
Erik Schreiber•
Communication Workers Union bureaucrats will join a new Advisory Committee “composed of representatives of EP Group and the CWU” that will be “contractually anchored within the amended Articles of Association of Royal Mail”, creating what amounts to Bidco-CWU Incorporated.
Tony Robson, Laura Tiernan•
Israel Defense Forces launched multiple air strikes against residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Friday. An UNRWA representative said, “An entire society here is now a graveyard.”
Kevin Reed•
Health workers fear a fifth of the population may be dead, but the French president arrogantly told angry crowds that if France did not rule Mayotte, it would be “10,000 times” worse.
Alex Lantier•
According to media reports, the collective bargaining parties “wrestled” for more than 70 hours over five days to reach an agreement. In fact, the whole thing was a set-up.
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
On December 4, Germany’s Federal Cabinet decided on the National Security and Defense Strategy (SVI Strategy) to upgrade Germany and make it "war-ready" again after two lost world wars.
Johannes Stern•
We are publishing the speech introducing the resolution “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party” at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) given by Tom Scripps, its assistant national secretary. The resolution was passed unanimously. Scripps was re-elected to his position by the Congress.
Thomas Scripps•
The impact of growing inequality can be observed in various aspects of daily life. The number of homeless people is rising, and tent encampments are an increasingly common sight in Canadian cities. Nearly 23 percent of the population reported some type of food insecurity in 2022.
Steven Fields•
Workers are up against a Labor government that is utterly hostile to their demand for a real pay rise and intends to use every mechanism at its disposal to eliminate their democratic rights and shut down their struggle.
Martin Scott•
Turkish police detained the leader and many members of the Socialist Laborers Party, which identifies itself as Trotskyist, on trumped-up charges of being members of a “terrorist organization.” The Socialist Equality Group unequivocally condemns this police state operation.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
The plot included an operation dubbed “Green and Yellow Dagger”, which called for the the assassination of Lula and other top officials.
Guilherme Ferreira•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
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.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
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.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
Opening report to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
We are publishing the opening report delivered to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) by Chris Marsden, its National Secretary. Marsden was re-elected to his position by the Congress, held November 29-December 2, 2024.
Chris Marsden•
Trump-Musk budget intervention: Dress rehearsal for presidential dictatorship
The fascist president-elect is seeking to destroy the US constitutional structure of “checks and balances” and give himself unlimited political authority.
Patrick Martin•
The Platypus Affiliated Society: A pro-imperialist trap for students and young people
The pseudo-left group combines multiple strains of bankrupt middle-class politics, including open support for imperialist war, the promotion of the anti-Marxist Frankfurt School and of the Pabloite Spartacist League.
Owen Howell, Oscar Grenfell•
NATO-Ukrainian murder of Russian General Kirillov and the escalating global imperialist war
The killing is the latest in a series of extremely provocative measures taken by the United States and NATO with the intention of escalating the Ukraine war in the weeks before the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump on January 20.
Andre Damon•
IYSSE Humboldt University•
Roger Jordan•
Nick Beams•
IYSSE Humboldt University•
Patrick Martin•
Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
This emergency resolution was passed unanimously by the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held November 29 – December 2, 2024.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
“We will redouble our efforts to build a mass campaign for Bogdan’s release”
We are publishing the speech delivered by Tom Scripps introducing the resolution “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk” passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).
Thomas Scripps•
Russian Militant group supports campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk
More than six months have passed since Bogdan's arrest. During this time many organizations, parties, intellectuals and scholars have expressed their support for him.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
WSWS readers demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
In the past few weeks, we have received around one hundred letters from 25 different countries from readers defending Bogdan and highlighting the political motives behind his imprisonment.
Our reporters•
Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Six months after his arrest, Bogdan Syrotiuk, the courageous Ukrainian socialist arrested for opposing the war, remains in prison awaiting a drumhead trial in a legal travesty.
Johannes Stern•
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Stein has made this statement calling for the release of socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who has been imprisoned by the Zelensky regime in Ukraine.
"We must fight for Bogdan's freedom!"
Ukrainian youth speaks out in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk
This statement in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by a Ukrainian youth who fled the war and is now working and studying in Germany.
A Ukrainian youth in Germany•
We Were Dangerous, a film about the abuse of girls by the New Zealand state
The film’s jarring tone stems from the misguided decision to turn a story about abuse and forced sterilisation into an “empowering” feminist tale.
Tom Peters•
Canadian writer Alice Munro 1931–2024, an assessment
Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro’s death earlier this year should be the occasion for assessing and reassessing problems with contemporary fiction.
Sandy English•
Artists protest Gaza genocide in Toronto and Miami
Outraged protests by artists against the genocide and institutions with connections to the Zionist regime continue.
David Walsh•
Leonardo and the human potential: An appreciation of Ken Burns’ series Leonardo da Vinci
The life story of Leonardo (1452–1519), one of history’s most extraordinary intellects and artistic geniuses, always stirs the imagination.
Walter Gilberti•
Jane Wise•
Joanne Laurier•
Marc Wells•
Thomas Scripps•
Nick Barrickman•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Chandigarh power workers protest privatisation; Bangladesh: Temporary rail workers demand permanent jobs and outstanding pay; Australia: Qube workers strike at 10 ports for better pay and conditions; Rheem factory workers locked out in New South Wales
Heavy police deployment as US Amazon drivers launch nationwide strike
The strike is the largest ever of Amazon workers in the United States. It is part of a growing movement by workers across Amazon’s global operations, following protests in 20 countries during Black Friday last month.
our reporters•
New Zealand nurses hold more strikes
As the government imposes brutal austerity measures, including more than 2,000 job cuts in the healthcare sector, tens of thousands of nurses and healthcare workers have stopped work across the country.
Tom Peters•
Tens of thousands of civil servants demonstrate across Spain against plans to privatise state health insurance; Iran continues to be shaken by cost-of-living protests; South African police fire rubber bullets at Johannesburg protest
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Around 35,000 civil servants in Spain demonstrate against planned privatisation of government health insurance scheme; workers and retirees continue to rally across Iran to protest unpaid wages, power outages and pension poverty; police in Johannesburg fire rubber bullets at public sector protest for a pay rise, injuring several workers
Niles Niemuth•
Tom Hall•
Jerry White•
Statement of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee•
Eric London•
Australian government strikes deal with Indonesia to release “Bali Nine” survivors
These low-level young drug “mules,” mostly from working-class backgrounds, paid a heavy price after being deliberately handed over by the Australian Federal Police to the Indonesian authorities in 2005.
Mike Head•
Australian budget crisis deepens even before Trump escalates economic war against China
The MYEFO predicts that the federal budget will be in deficit for at least a decade, and that cumulative deficits over the next four years will be almost $22 billion larger than forecast in the Labor government’s budget in May.
Mike Head•
Mass casualties feared from Vanuatu earthquake
Social media videos showed rescue efforts through the night trying to reach some people yelling under the rubble, including in a three-storey structure that collapsed onto its lower floors.
Mike Head•
Australian corporate voices call for “Milei-style” assault on working class
Demands are emerging for a historic, all-out assault on the jobs, social services and living conditions of workers along the lines of that being mounted by Argentine President Milei and planned by US President-elect Trump.
Mike Head•
Ben McGrath•
Mike Head•
Nick Beams•
Oscar Grenfell•
Nick Beams•
Sri Lankan IYSSE public meeting: How to defeat the IMF austerity program?
The meeting will be held on January 3, 2025 at the Department of Political Science, University of Peradeniya.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Sri Lanka: Workers action committee discusses defence of school development officers
The online meeting was part of a campaign to alert workers to the government-initiated police attacks on SDOs and to rally support for their defence.
Our correspondents•
US high official visits Sri Lanka to enhance strategic ties
The JVP, a petty bourgeois organisation based on a mixture of Maoism, Castroism and Sinhala populism, jettisoned its pro-Chinese and anti-US rhetoric long ago.
Rohantha De Silva•
Arrested School Development Officers in Sri Lanka given bail and ordered to return to court next year
The police attack on protesting SDOs is yet another indication that the JVP/NPP regime will ruthlessly suppress all those coming into conflict with its savage International Monetary Fund (IMF)-dictated austerity program.
Our reporters•
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondents•
Statement of the Collective of Workers Action Committees (Sri Lanka)•
Our correspondents•
K. Ratnayake•
Indiana and Oklahoma put mentally ill inmates to death in final executions of 2024
The executions of Joseph Corcoran and Kevin Underwood underscore one of the most barbarous features of the death penalty system in America, which condemns inmates to death despite their documented severe mental illnesses.
Kate Randall•
Florida woman arrested for saying “delay, deny, depose” to Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance representative on phone
Briana Boston, 42, was arrested on charges of “written threat to kill or injure—conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism” and faces up to 15 years in prison.
Alex Findijs•
Canada’s Liberal government implodes
Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership and his Liberal government hang by a thread after his Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from the cabinet Monday morning in a manner calculated to inflict maximum political damage.
Keith Jones•
Yet again, horror in an American school: Two dead, six injured in Madison, Wisconsin shooting
The alleged killer's case paints a chilling portrait of a deeply pessimistic and fascistic worldview.
George Gallanis•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Esther Galen•
Jane Wise•
Laurent Lafrance•
Labour’s John Healey moots sending British military trainers to Ukraine
The UK defence secretary said, “The year may be ending, but the war is not. This is the time to step up further in Ukraine on every front.”
Thomas Scripps•
Australian foreign minister visits Ukraine, backs US war against Russia
Wong’s trip coincided with, and was part of, a further escalation of the war against Russia, including discussions of direct NATO troop deployments.
Oscar Grenfell•
US, UK hail murder of Russian lieutenant-general in charge of nuclear defense
The bombing is the latest in a series of assassinations of high-ranking Russian military and political figures carried out by Ukrainian forces and marks the highest-ranking Russian military figure to have been assassinated.
Andre Damon•
Biden administration pledges “massive surge” of weapons to Ukraine
Since the November 5, 2024 presidential election, the Biden administration has enormously expanded the scale of direct US military intervention into the Ukraine war.
Andre Damon•
Chris Marsden•
Robert Stevens•
Kevin Reed•
Chris Marsden•
Jason Melanovski•
10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media
The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.
Bill Shaw•
California governor declares a state of emergency over bird flu threat
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in California over the explosion of bird flu among dairy cows in the state. Meanwhile the first critical case of a person infected with bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana.
Benjamin Mateus•
House select committee gives bipartisan approval to the Wuhan “Lab leak” lies about the origins of COVID-19
The report of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic embraces the baseless campaign fomented by the fascist right blaming a Chinese lab for starting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
Biden administration places profits over lives, fueling the spread of H5N1 bird flu
The Biden administration’s response to the spread of the bird flu among dairy cattle across the US over the past year amounts to nothing short of criminal negligence.
Bill Shaw•
Benjamin Mateus•
Tom Peters•
Benjamin Mateus•
John Braddock•
Frank Gaglioti•
Labour’s Wes Streeting witch-hunts UK healthcare workers who oppose Gaza genocide
The health secretary declared that regulators have the power, “to set conditions that a healthcare professional must work under, suspend them, or strike them entirely from the medical register."
Thomas Scripps•
Australia: Victorian Labor government unveils sweeping crackdown on anti-genocide protests
The measures, including a ban on face masks at protests and restrictions on where they can be held, are an attempt to criminalise public opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Oscar Grenfell•
New York University bans pro-Palestinian faculty and students
The IYSSE in New York and New Jersey demands that New York University’s bans on pro-Palestinian faculty and students be lifted immediately.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality in New York and New Jersey•
MIT student effectively expelled for opposing Gaza genocide
Prahlad Iyengar, a second-year PhD student student at MIT, has been effectively expelled from the Cambridge, Massachusetts based university for the offense of opposing the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Chase Lawrence•
Dan Conway•
Nick Barrickman•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
Luke Galvin•
Minority state government in Saxony opens door to cooperation with far-right Alternative for Germany
Saxony’s minority state government hides an all-party coalition stretching from the Left Party and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, the Greens, the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats to the far-right Alternative for Germany that is directed against the broad majority of the population.
Martin Nowak, Peter Schwarz•
Thousands feared dead as Indian Ocean cyclone Chido devastates Mayotte
The horrific damage caused by Cyclone Chido is due to decades of official neglect of infrastructure and the overt, fascistic contempt of the French government for its overseas territory.
V. Gnana, Alex Lantier•
Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government honors Italian fascist Prime Minister Meloni
The PSOE and its pseudo-left government allies like Sumar and Podemos are promoting Meloni, the political descendent of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy.
Santiago Guillen •
UK Labour government announces thousands of job losses and public sector pay restraint
The pay cuts and job losses announced are a down payment by the Treasury on far worse to come and the trade unions will impose these attacks in alliance with Starmer.
Robert Stevens•
Thomas Scripps•
Andrei Tudora•
Alex Lantier•
Peter Schwarz•
Katerina Selin•
Trump, Musk intervene to squash funding bill, threatening government shutdown
The collapse of the previously agreed-to funding measure portends massive incoming spending cuts under the new Trump administration.
Patrick Martin, Jacob Crosse•
Trump stokes right-wing hysteria over alleged drone sightings
For the past several weeks, panicky reports and conspiracy theories have proliferated of “mystery” drones along the eastern seaboard of the US. They have been spearheaded by far-right political forces and social media influencers and facilitated by wall-to-wall coverage by the corporate media, including the broadcast networks and the cable news channels.
Barry Grey•
Trump declares intent to privatize US Postal Service
Trump’s plans, published as the Canadian government began moving to ban the Canada Post strike, demonstrates his government is preparing historic attacks on the working class.
Jane Wise•
Trump taps ex-Green Beret, CIA operative as ambassador to Mexico
The nomination of Johnson makes clear that threats of military operations and a reckless tariff war against Mexico are not just bluster, as US imperialism resorts to the most brutal methods to recolonize Latin America.
Andrea Lobo•
John Conrad, Tom Hall•
Jacob Crosse•
Eric London•
Don Knowland•
Renae Cassimeda•
University of Michigan DEI administrator fired over alleged “antisemitic” remarks
Dawson was terminated despite the admission of an investigating law firm hired by U-M that there was no independent verification of alleged “antisemitic” remarks. A member of the Board of Regents, Mark Bernstein, intervened to overturn a lesser disciplinary action by the university and demand that she be terminated.
Matthew Brennan•
Democrats join Republicans in passing fascistic “Crucial Communism Teaching Act”
The passage of the bill reflects immense fear within the US ruling class that large sections of the population will be looking for a revolutionary alternative to the unending war, inequality, austerity and fascism offered by the capitalist system.
Jacob Crosse•
After fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Jacobin promotes Bernie Sanders to peddle illusions in the Democrats and “Medicare for All”
While the gunning down of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has exposed widespread public opposition to the criminal practices of the health insurance corporations and capitalism generally, Jacobin has published an interview with Bernie Sanders aimed at reviving illusions in the Democratic Party and reform of the healthcare system.
Kevin Reed•
Class “justice” in America
Biden commutes sentence of judge jailed in Pennsylvania “kids for cash” scandal
The Pennsylvania judges involved in the scandal, both Democrats, pocketed millions for selling children to for-profit prisons.
Landon Gourov•
Jacob Crosse•
Luke Galvin•
Eric London•
Jacob Crosse•
Benjamin Mateus•
Official death toll in Gaza genocide tops 45,000
Over 45,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its war of extermination in October 2023, Gaza's Health Ministry said Monday.
Andre Damon•
UNRWA suspends humanitarian aid to Gaza after Israel allows armed gangs to rob convoys
Not only do the Israel Defense Forces refuse to intervene against these armed criminals, but they also open fire on local police attempting to stop the looting.
Jean Shaoul•
US threatens to investigate Spain’s partial port denials of ships carrying arms for Gaza genocide
By letting US defense contractors send weapons to Israel through Spanish ports, the PSOE-Sumar government is making itself complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Santiago Guillen•
Amnesty International documents genocidal intent of Israeli leaders
In its exhaustive 296-page report, Amnesty International demonstrated that this mass killing was motivated by genocidal intent, which permeated from the top of the Israeli government to the soldiers doing the killing.
Andre Damon•
Jean Shaoul•
Keith Jones•
Félix Gauthier•
Kevin Reed•
Andre Damon•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Fed cuts interest rate but Wall Street slides
While in the end there was only one dissenting vote, there are divisions in the Fed’s policy-making body.
Nick Beams•
The deep rift in the global economy and its significance
As major economies struggle to maintain even positive growth, money is pouring into US financial markets from the rest of the world.
Nick Beams•
The speculative Bitcoin frenzy
The total size of the crypto market is estimated to be larger than the combined worth of Mastercard, Walmart and JPMorgan Chase.
Nick Beams•
Trump will launch tariff war to defend dollar supremacy
Countries in the BRICS group must make a commitment not to try to create an alternative to the US currency or face the imposition of 100 percent tariffs.
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Turkish government bans metalworkers’ strike as war in Middle East deepens
The metalworkers defending their right to strike and the millions of others demanding a decent minimum wage must be mobilized on the basis of a programme of struggle against war and genocide and in defence of democratic rights.
Barış Demir, Hasan Yıldırım•
US-sponsored war of regime change devastates Syria
The pseudo-left groups backed a war in which nearly 500,000 people lost their lives, nearly half of all the conflict-related deaths worldwide over the same period.
Jean Shaoul•
Blinken visits Ankara with Israel and Turkey on collision course in Syria
After the regime change in Damascus, while Israel was invading Syria and destroying its defense infrastructure, Blinken visited Turkey and Turkish intelligence chief Kalın went to Damascus to meet with HTS leader al-Jolani.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
US, Israel launch mass bombing campaign against Syria after fall of Assad
Israeli statements make clear these bombings aim to shatter Syria’s ability to militarily defend its territory and, thus, to initiate the carve-up of the country by NATO-backed forces.
Alex Lantier•
Barış Demir•
Jordan Shilton•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Alex Lantier•
Ozan Kutlucan•
Argentine President Milei’s first year in office: Self-delusion and a frontal assault on the working class
The delusional trust and praise by the ruling class in the fascist “loco” Milei and the social devastation wrought by his first year in office make clear that capitalism has reached a fatal dead end and offers nothing but disaster.
Andrea Lobo•
Argentine trade union bureaucracy deepens partnership with fascist President Javier Milei
US imperialism has not only encouraged a partnership between the CGT union apparatus and Milei, but sees it as a model for the incoming Trump administration.
Rafael Azul, Andrea Lobo•
Peru’s corporate chiefs rattled by deepening crisis
Peruvian media coverage of the CADE 2024 conference touted as a model President Javier Milei’s fascistic economic program in Argentina, which has left half of the population in poverty.
Cesar Uco•
Argentina’s fascist President Milei hailed as a “beacon” at Buenos Aires CPAC conference
Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican Party, hailed Milei’s measures in Argentina, proclaiming, “We are going to do the same thing in the United States.”
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Andrea Lobo•
Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira•
Félix Gauthier•
Cesar Uco•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Namibia elections see declining support for ruling SWAPO
SWAPO’s decline and that of other anti-colonial national movements have exposed the organic incapacity of Africa’s bourgeois nationalists to realise the aspirations of the African masses for freedom from foreign domination, democracy and social justice.
Alejandro López•
Chad ends longstanding military cooperation with France
Chad, a former African colony of France, has for decades been central to its military operations in Africa, but it is developing closer ties to Russia amid the NATO war with Russia in Ukraine.
Kumaran Ira•
Mozambique bans demonstrations after weeks of protests following general elections
Protests against the ruling FRELIMO party continue as opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who is linked to Trump and Portuguese fascist circles, appeals for support from imperialism.
David Brown•
South Africa’s ANC government employs police blockade to trap illegal gold miners underground
The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has soared to 42 percent and economic desperation is widespread in the world’s most unequal society.
Jean Shaoul•
Alice Summers•
Jean Shaoul•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
This week in history: December 16-21
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
Book Review: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
Contemporary lessons from the slave power’s plot to overturn the 1860 election
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Eric London•
Reflections on the death of Lt. Willam Calley Jr.: Imperialist atrocities, from My Lai to Gaza
Calley spent only three days in prison for his role in directing the mass murder of 504 Vietnamese men, women and children. He is now reported to have died April 28 at the age of 80.
Patrick Martin•
80 years since the liberation of Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp: From Hitler’s war in the East to the Holocaust
The history of the Majdanek camp reveals the links between Nazi Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, and the extermination of the Jewish population, which primarily affected Poland and Eastern Europe.
Verena Nees•
Verena Nees•
David North•
Eric London•
Patrick Martin•
our correspondent•
COP29, climate change and the normalization of mass death
The latest climate summit embraced the same policy that has been adopted since such climate talks began in 1995: the subordination of Earth’s environment and the lives of those impacted to the corporate and economic demands of the United States and the other major capitalist powers.
Bryan Dyne•
COP29 ends with empty deal, as 2024 set to be warmest year on human record
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, “The average temperature anomaly for the rest of 2024 would have to drop to almost zero for 2024 to not be the warmest year.”
Bryan Dyne•
Current emission reduction pledges by governments internationally will result in disastrous global warming
A new United Nations report shows that the world is headed towards up to 3.1℃ of warming by the end of the century, with devastating consequences for billions of people worldwide.
Mark Wilson•
New study warns of the dangers in “overshooting” climate targets
This research reinforces the scientific consensus that the only viable strategy to limit catastrophic climate change requires drastic and immediate emissions cuts.
Mark Wilson•
Philip Guelpa•
Jane Wise•
Benjamin Mateus•
Mark Wilson•
Bryan Dyne•
The weaponization of student absenteeism: Lies to justify school privatization under Trump
The incoming administration intends to use the crisis of "chronic absenteeism," a product of the intense social crisis in the US, to justify vast new attacks on public education.
Phyllis Steele, Nancy Hanover•
Student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University approves IYSSE motion opposing state attacks on freedom of expression and academic freedom
On November 11 the student parliament (StuPa) at the Berlin Humboldt University approved a resolution introduced by the International Youth & Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) entitled "Condemn the attack on academic freedom by the Federal Ministry of Education."
Christopher Lehmann•
Western Sydney University IYSSE Annual General Meeting elaborates socialist perspective against war and genocide
The meeting at the working-class university outlined a socialist perspective, based on the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war.
Our reporters•
Australian IYSSE clubs hold anti-war Annual General Meetings in Melbourne and Newcastle
The meetings included lively political discussion on the IYSSE’s perspective of building a global anti-war movement in the working class against Israel’s assault against the people of Palestine and Lebanon, and broader eruption of imperialist war.
Our reporters•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
Kevin Reed•
Andrea Peters•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Eric Ludlow•
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup
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.
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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
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Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
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.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
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.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
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.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
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.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
Warning strikes at nine VW plants in Germany
The head of Volkswagen’s works council Daniela Cavallo has made it clear that the IG Metall union and the works council do not want to fight but “let off steam”.
Ludwig Weller•
Thai autoworkers face mass layoffs
As the largest producer of vehicles in South East Asia, tens if not hundreds of thousands of jobs in Thailand are potentially on the chopping block.
Robert Campion•
Defeat Unite’s collusion with Stellantis and Labour government! Organise rank-and-file action to defend jobs!
United and effective action by Stellantis workers worldwide can only be achieved by the rank-and-file in direct opposition to the economic nationalism and corporatism of the trade union bureaucracy.
Tony Robson•
UAW president in damage control as rank-and-file anger mounts over Stellantis layoffs
According to the Detroit News, the automaker has laid off nearly 4,000 workers in Detroit and Toledo metro areas since September alone.
Jerry White•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Shannon Jones•
Dakkota Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
George Marlowe•
Jerry White•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
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Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds its Seventh National Congress
The congress unanimously passed two resolutions, “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party” and “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!”, after extensive and engaged discussion. All delegates spoke with the evident benefit of the last two years of intense political activity and theoretical education.
Thomas Scripps•
War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
This resolution was passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held November 29--December 2.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
SEP meeting in Australia calls for building worker rank-and-file committees to fight CFMEU administration
This report includes videos of speeches delivered by SEP members, explaining the administration and outlining a perspective to fight it.
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SEP in Sri Lanka commemorates second anniversary of death of Trotskyist leader Wije Dias
Wije Dias belonged to the group of young people who took up the initiative in 1968 to form the Trotskyist party in Sri Lanka and he played a leading role in the movement for 54 years until his death.
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Statement of the Educators Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Steve James•
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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.
David North•
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.
Johannes Stern•
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.
Dilaxshan Mahalingam•
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.
Tom Peters•
Keith Jones•
Max Boddy•
Deepal Jayasekera•
Tomas Castanheira•
Thomas Scripps•
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.
David North•
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.
David North•
“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.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
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Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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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.
Kevin Reed•
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.
John Burton•
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.
Jacob Crosse•
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.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
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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.
Chris Marsden, Ulaş Ateşçi•
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.
Tom Peters, Thomas Scripps•
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.
Christoph Vandreier•
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.
Eric London•
Evan Blake, Tom Mackaman•
Max Boddy•
David North•
Samuel Tissot, Peter Schwarz•
Keith Jones•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
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.
Andre Damon•
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.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
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.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
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.
John Conrad•
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.”
Thomas Scripps•
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.
David Walsh•
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.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
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.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
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.
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Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
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Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
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Orbital: Samantha Harvey’s award-winning novel about problems of climate and social change
The Booker Prize winner has struck a popular chord in a world poised between the immense potential of scientific advances and the threat of military and ecological catastrophe.
Thomas Scripps•
Aidan Beatty’s hackwork: The Israel-Zionist connection
The academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-state sources.
Andrea Peters•
A comment on David North’s review: Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
The following letter was sent by Steve Long, a former member of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party who writes for the World Socialist Web Site as Stefan Steinberg.
Steve Long•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
Eric London•
Emma Arceneaux•
Fred Mazelis•
Tom Peters•
James McDonald•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
Elon Musk promotes the global fascist right
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X, is leveraging his staggering fortune to finance and promote fascist forces throughout the world.
Joseph Kishore•
Trump-Musk budget intervention: Dress rehearsal for presidential dictatorship
The fascist president-elect is seeking to destroy the US constitutional structure of “checks and balances” and give himself unlimited political authority.
Patrick Martin•
NATO-Ukrainian murder of Russian General Kirillov and the escalating global imperialist war
The killing is the latest in a series of extremely provocative measures taken by the United States and NATO with the intention of escalating the Ukraine war in the weeks before the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump on January 20.
Andre Damon•
Government-imposed strike ban at Canada Post: The way forward in struggle against austerity and war
The state-led crackdown on workers’ rights underscores the ruling elite’s embrace of authoritarianism to enforce its class war agenda of austerity and war, and that to defend their jobs, workplace benefits, right to strike and public services, workers in Canada and around the world confront a political struggle over which class controls society’s resources and to what end.
Roger Jordan•
Patrick Martin•
Joseph Kishore•
Andre Damon•
Patrick Martin•
Alex Lantier•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
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.
Tom Peters•
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.
Tom Peters•
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.
Tom Peters•
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.
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
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