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Oppose Texas’ ban on ground transport for undocumented immigrants!
US officials reject further lockdowns despite 100,000 daily new infections
Lollapalooza 2021: A superspreader event, thanks to Illinois Democrats
“This is a virus that we need to eliminate”—Dr. Deepti Gurdasani condemns “herd immunity” policies
Trump wanted Justice Department to declare 2020 election “corrupt”
Andrew Devine, the 97th Hillsborough disaster victim dies 32 years after suffering lifelong injuries
Timeline of the Hillsborough disaster and cover-up as it unfolded (1989-2021)
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visits the US as a lackey of the banks
Russia conducts military drills in Central Asia and China as US completes troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
IYSSE election campaign at Humboldt University finds support among students
Democrats let US eviction moratorium expire, pushing millions of families to the brink
Leaked CDC document exposes Biden administration’s COVID-19 cover-up
Oppose the right-wing campaign against vaccination!
Glenn Greenwald downplays fascist plot to kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
As January 6 hearing details fascist violence of Trump mob, Republicans rally in defense of jailed insurrectionists
Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison
COVID-19 surge explodes Biden’s claim of “independence” from pandemic
The Olympics open in the shadow of mass death
Reopening of German economy provokes deadly fourth wave of pandemic
Australian “National Cabinet” pushes reopening “roadmap” as Delta crisis worsens
New US coronavirus surge is growing faster than the spring and summer waves of 2020
Sydney records highest daily number of COVID infections since pandemic began
Millions of lives in danger as COVID-19 spreads across South Asia
COVID outbreak in Australia intensifies financial stress and class divide
Lawsuit against Pilgrim’s Pride for COVID-19 work-related deaths may be thrown out with new Texas law
Victorian Labor government ends lockdown as Australia’s COVID crisis deepens
Letter from a New York City teacher opposing the union-backed reopening of schools
Australia: Widening teacher-student opposition to Sydney school reopening plan amid COVID crisis
Brazil’s schools set to reopen amid record COVID-19 child deaths
New York City must provide fully remote learning to protect children and the broader population!
At least 157 New York City summer school classrooms closed due to COVID-19 outbreaks
Global school reopenings pose massive threat to children
Spiralling COVID infections in UK schools: A warning to the world
Stop the lifting of pandemic restrictions and the promotion of vaccine nationalism!
UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee holds online forum as Johnson government lifts all safety restrictions
Five-year-old dies of COVID-19 in Georgia as Biden administration pushes to fully open schools
Missouri Aviary Cafe workers strike, charge they are “overworked like slaves”
Workers in Banbury condemn “fire and rehire” sell-out deal at Jacobs Douwe Egberts: “It is a domino effect”
New Zealand nurses reject third union-backed pay deal
Backups at US West Coast ports cause disruptions to trade network, speedups for workers
Union sells out New Zealand bus drivers
Australia: 7,000 Toll transport workers threaten industrial action
Continental/Vitesco workers: Vote against IG Metall and management’s plan to close the plant! Build rank-and-file committees to defend all jobs!
SEIU calls off strike by 1,500 Pennsylvania nursing home workers at last minute
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
Severe smoke continues to blanket North American west
House holds hearing on threat to voting rights in Texas as Democrats abandon fight against it
New Mexico state police note “significant increase” in police shootings
Amid pandemic, Alberta demands 5 percent pay cut from province’s nurses
Allyn Kilsheimer, expert forensic engineer, on the exceptional circumstances surrounding his investigation of the Surfside, Florida condo collapse
Flint, Michigan water poisoning settlement may include liens against Medicaid and Medicare benefits
Two Aurora, Colorado police officers charged after brutally beating 29-year-old Kyle Vinson
Republicans dismiss accounts of fascist violence, Democrats continue appeals for “unity”
Trump-backed candidate loses in Texas special election
This week in history: August 2-8
Eighty-five years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
100 years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party
Eighty years since the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union
Jimmy Allen Ruth, 1961 Freedom Rides bus driver, dead at 83
Cliff Slaughter: 1928–2021
Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad: A Soviet masterpiece about World War II appears in English for the first time
Mass grave with 215 bodies found at Canadian “Indian” residential school
Excavation completed at mass shooting site from Stalin’s Great Terror
French Holocaust survivor condemns far-right anti-vaccine protests
UK public debt: Pandemic profiteering costs workers’ lives and incomes
Belarusian opposition leader Tikhanovskaya appeals to Washington for support
On far-right Vox party’s appeal, Spanish court rules lockdowns unconstitutional
UK teachers’ pay freeze meets no opposition from unions
Taliban advance in Afghanistan, refugee crisis stagger Turkish ruling elite
Fatal explosion at Chempark Leverkusen in Germany
Flood disaster in Germany: massive damage and growing anger
NHS Queen Elizabeth Hospital held up by props as national maintenance bill reaches £9 billion
Lollapalooza 2021: A superspreader event, thanks to Illinois Democrats
Black Widow: The surrounding controversies are more interesting and revealing than the film
What Though the Field Be Lost: Poet Christopher Kempf’s historical view of contemporary America
This Is My Desire (Eyimofe): What everyone in Nigeria “goes through on a daily basis”
Biz Markie, pioneering hip hop entertainer, dies at 57
Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) screened in New York City: A drama about auto workers
Cliff Walkers: Zhang Yimou’s ongoing accommodation to China’s ruling elite
Censorship of Southend UK art installation points to rising suppression of art and critical thought
Take Me Somewhere Nice: Young and reckless energy
Modi government calls exposure of its use of Pegasus to spy on political opponents “fake news”
First-hand account of the devastating flooding in Zhengzhou, China
Over 100 children died from COVID-19 in Indonesia each week in July
Sri Lankan government rejects teachers’ wage demand
La Trobe University in Australia announces hundreds more job cuts
IYSSE (Australia) online meeting: The crisis of capitalism and the resurgence of the working class
Over 100 dead in landslides, flooding in the Indian state of Maharashtra
New Zealand PM aligns with Washington over Indo-Pacific
Significant response to Sri Lankan meeting demanding release of jailed poet Ahnaf Jazeem
“Red tide” bacteria toxin devastates marine life along Florida’s Gulf Coast
UK’s right-wing media launch McCarthyite witch-hunt of scientists
Report finds extreme heatwaves would have been “virtually impossible” without global warming
Teviston, California without running water for several weeks, with no end in sight
UK imaging study reveals loss of brain’s grey matter in patients infected with COVID-19
How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
As COVID-19 variant continues to spread, World Health Organization warns “we expect things to only get worse”
Tensions high in Volvo Trucks plant at end of first week back after strike
UAW president hails “labor-management” partnership following sellout of Volvo strike
Valley Labor Report radio program falsifies record of Volvo strike, denounces rank-and-file committees
Volvo Group announces $1.1 billion second-quarter profits, after telling Virginia workers it could not afford wage and benefit improvements
Volvo Trucks workers remain defiant after UAW sellout of five-week strike
Veteran building trades worker speaks on the Volvo Trucks strike
United Auto Workers moves to rapidly shut down Volvo Trucks strike after dubious passage of new contract
UAW claims revote of Volvo Trucks contract passes by 17 ballots, while workers raise accusations of fraud
Belgian Volvo Cars workers support striking Volvo workers in Virginia
Fed maintains money flow to Wall Street
ECB set to open the financial spigots wider
The gyrations of Wall Street
After space flight, “Moneybags” Bezos acknowledges workers “paid for all this”
US banks post record second-quarter profits as millions face social disaster
Despite inflation, Fed will not pull back on present monetary policies
Record inflation in US leads to double digit increases in basic consumer goods
US Fed minutes reveal divisions but money flow set to continue
Divisions emerge over central bank policies
UK mines rescue expert: Sealing Pike River mine “morally and professionally indefensible”
An urgent warning: NZ Labour government moves to seal Pike River mine
Families picket road to prevent the sealing of New Zealand’s Pike River mine
New Zealand government preparing to seal Pike River mine
Stop the New Zealand government’s plan to seal Pike River mine!
What is the New Zealand government trying to bury in Pike River mine?
“This was a crime”—Readers support families’ fight to fully investigate Pike River mine disaster
Families fight to continue underground investigation of New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster
Sri Lankan workers call for full investigation into New Zealand’s Pike River disaster
Australia: University of Newcastle Student Association guidelines attack democratic rights
Suicide attempts among Canadian children have doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic
University of Liverpool presses ahead with job cuts plan in collaboration with University and College Union
Five-year-old dies of COVID-19 in Georgia as Biden administration pushes to fully open schools
Tennessee educators oppose attacks on teachers’ free speech rights
Spiralling COVID infections in UK schools: A warning to the world
Federal judge rules DACA unconstitutional, blocks new applications
US district court ruling allows electric shock “therapy” of intellectually disabled students
Australia: CFPE/IYSSE meeting calls for rank-and-file committees to fight education cuts
The mass demonstrations against Bolsonaro and the fight for socialism in Brazil
Rise in COVID-19 cases among children surge in major US hotspots
Washington has not ruled out sending troops to Haiti
Haitian government calls for international military intervention after President’s assassination
Military threatens Congress over COVID inquiry as Bolsonaro says Brazil “may not have” elections
Haiti under state of siege after president’s assassination
Third US-trained Honduran officer found guilty in killing of environmentalist Berta Cáceres
Amid political and COVID crises, social inequality rises sharply in Peru
Protests and coup threats as Peru enters fourth week without certification of presidential vote
Scientists demolish “Wuhan lab” conspiracy theory of coronavirus origins
How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
“Wuhan lab” theory proponent Nicholas Wade pushed racist pseudo-science in 2014 book
The “Wuhan lab” lie and the political witch hunt against science
Author of Wall Street Journal “Wuhan lab” story wrote lies about Iraqi “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
Jon Stewart promotes the “Wuhan Lab” lie: An enraged petty bourgeois loses his mind
Madrid embraces “Wuhan lab” conspiracy, ends mask mandate
UK: Former MI6 chief behind faked “evidence” for Iraq war leading anti-China Wuhan lab conspiracy
Australia’s Murdoch media and the Wuhan COVID-19 lab conspiracy theory
An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America
Democratic Socialists of America must issue public apology for celebrating assassination of Leon Trotsky
Joseph Kishore and Eric London explain political significance of DSA’s praise for Trotsky assassination on Progressive News Network with Brook Hines
Joseph Kishore, Eric London discuss DSA’s celebration of Trotsky assassination on “Eclectic Radical with Chris Richards”
Open letter to co-leader of Germany’s Left Party Janine Wissler
Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Leader of 1983-86 Phelps Dodge miners’ strike Jorge O’Leary denounces DSA’s celebration of Trotsky’s assassination
The Long Shadow of History: The Moscow Trials, American Liberalism and the Crisis of Political Thought in the United States
Trotsky’s Last Year
Nikole Hannah-Jones rejects UNC tenure offer to take position at Howard University, backed by millions in foundation funding
1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones granted tenure after weeks of media furor
A letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education on the World Socialist Web Site, Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project
Introduction to The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
The "racial wealth gap" narrative obscures reality of class divide in the US
Juneteenth and the Second American Revolution
It is all just a metaphor: The New York Times attempts yet another desperate defense of its discredited 1619 Project
A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship revoked
UK High Court grants US government right to appeal on Assange extradition
Assange turns 50 in Belmarsh prison, his life still under threat
Corporate media blacks out admission that witness against Assange lied for US indictment
Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity
The American working class must come to Assange’s defence!
UK: Johnson’s mendacious defence of media “freedom”, while Assange remains imprisoned
John and Gabriel Shipton speak at event in defense of Assange in New York City
Ai Weiwei’s artwork in support of Julian Assange rejected by Firstsite UK exhibition
Data breach reveals extensive government spying on journalists and political activists
Why have Ben Crump and Al Sharpton taken up the case of Hunter Brittain?
New York Times hails Eric Adams’ election victory as a “watershed” for black political power
General Milley and America’s “Reichstag moment”
In speech on voting rights, Biden acknowledges American democracy is at death’s door
The CPAC conference and the fascist transformation of Trump’s Republican Party
Biden administration capitulates to Republican attacks on voting rights
Biden administration rolls out red carpet for Saudi prince implicated in Khashoggi murder
Trump Organization chief financial officer indicted on felony charges in tax fraud and conspiracy scheme
Thousands of Turkish electricity workers launch wildcat strike wave
Israel’s “government of change” shows its right-wing credentials
Petrochemical workers in Iran strike over pay and conditions
Palestinians demand end of Abbas presidency after death of activist
Industrial waste, unplanned urbanization blight Turkey’s Sea of Marmara
Lebanon’s social crisis deepens amid internal political turmoil and imperialist scheming
Ebrahim Raisi wins Iran’s rigged election presaging repression to secure regime’s survival
Kurdish HDP member brutally murdered in far-right attack on party offices in Turkey
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale remains steadfast as federal prosecutors demand nine-year sentence
Letter from drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale to Judge Liam O’Grady
Pentagon cancels JEDI contract and plans more advanced cloud-based warfare platform
Ukraine, UK to carry out “Cossack Mace” military exercises
Leaked documents confirm UK discussed possible military response by Russia to Black Sea/Crimea provocation
Germany’s defence ministry protects fascist networks in the armed forces
Humboldt University student parliament commemorates victims of the Nazi war of annihilation
Russian forces fire warning shots at UK destroyer HMS Defender over territorial encroachment in Black Sea
US seeks to ease tensions at Biden-Putin summit, as anti-China drive escalates
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei admitted to Germany’s federal elections
Working-class resistance is developing across the Indian sub-continent and internationally against the ruling elites
Joseph Kishore, Eric London discuss DSA’s celebration of Trotsky assassination on “Eclectic Radical with Chris Richards”
Unify the working class across the Indian subcontinent to fight the COVID-19 pandemic!
The pandemic has starkly revealed that the unions are organically bound to the capitalist class and its state
What capitalism has wrought—India’s tsunami of infections and death, and pandemic of hunger and joblessness
Indian workers need a socialist strategy to combat the Modi government’s herd immunity policy
American workers are the natural allies of workers throughout the world
An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America
Baltimore Amazon workers endorse International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey supports call for IWA-RFC
Forward to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
May Day 2021 and the global class struggle
Workers and youth in Germany respond to the ICFI’s May Day rally: “It’s the same problems all over the world”
Global pandemic heightens danger of another world war
Pennsylvania educators support call to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
Autoworkers, educators and Amazon workers in US speak on International May Day rally
The meaning of the May Day 2021 Online Rally
US seizes PressTV.com and 32 other Iranian media website domains
Why is the World Socialist Web Site still blacklisted on the Reddit r/coronavirus and r/politics forums?
Stop the censorship of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones granted whistleblower status
“Badass Teachers” Facebook group administrators uphold ban on WSWS writer Evan Blake
“Saginaw unions no holds bar” Facebook group censors WSWS articles on Nexteer and Volvo workers
New Zealand and France host “Christchurch Call” summit to expand internet censorship
ANC government roiled by angry protests as South Africans protest worsening social conditions
Ethiopia wracked by internal war and inter-state conflict as famine rages in Tigray
South Africa’s top court sentences former ANC President Jacob Zuma to 15 months
Amid French war, Malian military junta installs new interim government
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
160 killed in massacre at Solhan in northern Burkina Faso
Macron demands Malian junta endorse French occupation of Mali
Macron in Rwanda: French imperialism covers past crimes to prepare new ones
As over 50 refugees drown, UN condemns EU’s Mediterranean migrant policy
For a globally coordinated emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic!
Capitalism is at war with society
The response of the ruling elite to the coronavirus pandemic: Malign neglect
Message from big business on coronavirus pandemic: Save profits, not lives
Trump’s campaign to reopen businesses risks hundreds of thousands of lives
“Back to work” campaign in the US will lead to surge in coronavirus deaths
The murderous pseudoscience of “herd immunity”
What must be done to fight the coronavirus pandemic
Trump wanted Justice Department to declare 2020 election “corrupt”
Republicans dismiss accounts of fascist violence, Democrats continue appeals for “unity”
Glenn Greenwald downplays fascist plot to kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
As January 6 hearing details fascist violence of Trump mob, Republicans rally in defense of jailed insurrectionists
Trump steps up fascistic appeals at Arizona rally
Democrats drop defense of voting rights after Biden’s Philadelphia speech
Republicans double down on defending January 6 coup attempt
Republicans name Trump defenders to House committee on January 6 coup
Fascist Trump foot soldier receives slap on the wrist in sentencing for January 6 coup
The relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site and the future of socialism
Closing remarks from SEP national secretary Joseph Kishore
The approach of the World Socialist Web Site to science
“The WSWS has not only commented on the struggles of the working class it has been an active participant in them”
The role of the World Socialist Web Site in educating a new generation of revolutionaries
The World Socialist Web Site’s exposure of the 1619 Project and the defense of historical truth
The WSWS and the exposure of US imperialism’s crimes
The political impact and growing readership of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS and the fight for revolutionary leadership in Latin America
The historic and contemporary significance of the 1871 Paris Commune
150 years since the Paris Commune
Lessons of the Paris Commune
Paris Workers’ Revolution and Thiers’ Reactionary Massacres
France capitulates and the government of Thiers
Introduction by Friedrich Engels to The Civil War in France
The experience of the Paris Commune of 1871: Marx’s analysis
From the July Days to the Kornilov coup: Lenin’s The State and Revolution
In memory of the Commune
Video: Volvo workers call for rejection of third TA
Detroit autoworkers support striking Volvo workers in Virginia
Global pandemic heightens danger of another world war
May Day 2021 and the global class struggle
150 years since the Paris Commune
Eric London interviewed by comedian Lee Camp
150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Unite with Chicago teachers to save lives and prepare a general strike!
Historian Joseph Scalice exposes the role of Stalinism in the rise of Duterte
Watch lecture video “Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines”—another devastating exposure of Stalinism
Stalinist CPP attacks Dr. Scalice’s upcoming lecture on the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing in the Philippines
Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist attacks over Diliman Commune article
Historian Joseph Scalice to deliver public lecture on 50th anniversary of Plaza Miranda bombing
Philippine Stalinists try to cover their tracks after promoting Navalny
What are the real lessons of the Diliman Commune?
Philippine Stalinists line up behind right-wing Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny
Communist Party of the Philippines resurrects urban hit squads
Oppose Texas’ ban on ground transport for undocumented immigrants!
Democrats let US eviction moratorium expire, pushing millions of families to the brink
Democratic Socialists of America convention meets to promote Democratic Party
Oppose the right-wing campaign against vaccination!
As January 6 hearing details fascist violence of Trump mob, Republicans rally in defense of jailed insurrectionists
Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci and the witch-hunt against science
COVID-19 surge explodes Biden’s claim of “independence” from pandemic
The Olympics open in the shadow of mass death
Global school reopenings pose massive threat to children
What Though the Field Be Lost: Poet Christopher Kempf’s historical view of contemporary America
What Though the Field Be Lost: Poet Christopher Kempf’s historical view of contemporary America
The nationalist diatribe of a Left Party leader—a review of the new book by Sahra Wagenknecht
The nationalist diatribe of a Left Party leader— a review of the new book by Sahra Wagenknecht
Making the case for exploiting Russia’s internal crisis
Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad: A Soviet masterpiece about World War II appears in English for the first time
Berlin Alexanderplatz: A new film version of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel
Writers, biographers protest W.W. Norton’s decision to “permanently” remove Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth from print
“The Danton, Robespierre, and Marat of America, all rolled into one”: A new biography of antislavery leader Thaddeus Stevens
The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International
Drawing the lessons of the ICFI split—International Strategy and National Tactics: The change in the ICFI’s approach to national liberation movements
The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
The ICFI and the Crisis of Stalinism
China: Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
The Dissolution of the USSR and the Unipolar Moment of US Imperialism
The International Committee’s response to the “End of History”: The March 1992 Plenum of the ICFI

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