The theme of social crisis, a crisis of authority, compelling the conscious creation of new ways of living speaks across the centuries, even millennia.

The financial oligarchy can defend the immense mass of fictitious wealth only by continuously driving down the living standards of the working class at home and seizing foreign markets, resources and ...

The victory of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America shows the American population moving to the left, but it cannot transform the Democratic Party from a party of Wall Street and ...

The name of each martyred child is listed in small script, both Arabic and Roman, in the chronological order of his or her death.

An annual income of $2.2 billion, equivalent to the incomes of 37,931 US autoworkers, computes to $251,000 per hour.

Canary’s Steve Topple told WSWS, “Our situation is a damning indictment of the treatment of independent media in this country – whereby you can be potentially ruined without recourse by banking giants...

The European powers calculate that strikes deep inside Russia will force Moscow to respond and that any Russian retaliation can then be used to justify a still broader NATO intervention. This is the l...

Mintz is the author of numerous published works, including Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (2004), winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award.

The WPP exhibition 2026 offers a striking visual record of a world marked by war, displacement, poverty and political repression.

Forty-eight hours after the most powerful earthquakes to strike Venezuela in 125 years, the United States has seized upon the humanitarian catastrophe to accelerate its military control over the count...

The WPP exhibition 2026 offers a striking visual record of a world marked by war, displacement, poverty and political repression.

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There is widespread opposition to the deal and deep anger over the way the UAW bureaucracy has defied the will of the membership.

The publication of the terms of the memorandum of understanding between the Trump administration and Iran has triggered an outpouring of criticism from both the Democratic and Republican parties.

The primary results reflect a profound and growing political radicalization within the working class and among youth and professional layers who are being hammered by the accelerating economic, social...

The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and inter...

Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class.

The White House padded its request for $87.6 billion—down from the previously discussed $200 billion—with items aimed at getting the votes needed in both chambers of Congress to pass the military appr...

The scale and deadliness of the catastrophe have been shaped not by the seismic waves alone, but by decades of imperialist sanctions, military aggression, corrupt capitalist rule under Chavismo and no...

These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-...

On Wednesday, June 24, at 2:30 p.m., the following open letter from the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) and the editorial board of the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> in Germany will be deliv...

At the campaign-style rally Trump praised union leaders in a speech laden with fascistic demagogy targeting “communists,” “globalists,” immigrants and foreigners.

Will Lehman, a rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, Pennsylvania who was nominated at last week's UAW convention to run for union president, condemned the UAW's in-plant vote at Nexteer as a...

The report is titled: “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023.

The sentences are part of a broader effort to criminalize opposition to mass deportations, war and social inequality under the banner of combating domestic extremism.

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As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastr...

Decades of bipartisan deregulation have transformed California into an industrial tinderbox, endangering workers and entire working-class communities.

The debacle is both an apt metaphor for Trump’s role in American politics and an encapsulation of the most degraded aspects of this administration.

The visit comes just days after Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at the plant and a socialist, was nominated for president of the United Auto Workers at the union’s Constitutional Convention in Det...

The Corbynites and the trade union bureaucracy, which suppressed and betrayed the major strikes which erupted against the Tory government, have stymied every attempt to develop a working class, social...

The diplomatic crisis over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s promotion of anti-Polish Nazi-collaborationist forces during World War II is stripping away the political lies in which the NATO imp...

David Hockney’s death at 88 closes one of the most remarkable careers in modern art. His legacy is to remind us that careful looking is the beginning of understanding—but not its end.

Ercan Akpolat, the mayor of Büyükada—where Trotsky spent his years in exile in Turkey—has been taken into custody.

Workers backed his campaign because it expressed their own experiences with the UAW apparatus: sellout contracts, suppression of opposition, the defense of corporate profit and the subordination of wo...

Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, American democracy confronts its gravest crisis since the Civil War.

Ercan Akpolat, the mayor of Büyükada—where Trotsky spent his years in exile in Turkey—has been taken into custody.

The reaction to the Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years is not simply about basketball. It expresses, in distorted form, immense social tensions for which workers and youth have been denied any...

The reaction to the Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years is not simply about basketball. It expresses, in distorted form, immense social tensions for which workers and youth have been denied any...

The G7 summit in Évian, France marks a further step in the collapse of the postwar capitalist order and the slide now towards a Third World War.

Dropping all pretense of “reform” the Fain administration used anti-democratic tactics to block debate while ramming through amendments boosting the income of apparatus, including heft pay raises for ...

As delegates prepared to nominate candidates for international office. Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, charged that the proceedings had laid bare the g...