World Socialist Web Site

New Today

• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• How Royal Bournemouth Hospital management put patient and staff safety in jeopardy: A frontline nurse explains
• Workers at New York City produce market launch first strike since 1986
• Trump coup attempt highlights official promotion of far-right in Australia
• Hawaii nurses demand safe working conditions and PPE

more articles »

US Politics

• Biden pledges to continue Trump’s campaign to open schools and businesses
• Paid aides to Trump campaign played key roles in organizing fascist assault on US Capitol
• Where is America going? Trump’s coup and the rise of fascism
• Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
• 999 Biden and Democrats downplay coup attempt

more articles »

Internet Censorship

• Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
• Google engineers form Communications Workers of America-affiliated union
• Police arrested more than 117 journalists in the US in 2020
• Pandemic exacerbates internet access crisis in Midwestern US
• UN rapporteur Nils Melzer demands Assange’s immediate release after ten years’ arbitrary detention

more articles »

Democratic rights

• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• Tunisian regime deploys army as protests spread 10 years after Arab Spring
• Andre Damon speaks to Rolling Stone on internet censorship and Trump’s coup attempt
• Educators and workers across the US denounce arrest of whistleblower Rebekah Jones
• State of emergency imposed in Malaysia, granting government sweeping powers

more articles »

The Crisis of American Democracy

• Growing threats of fascist violence as Democrats appeal for “unity” and “healing”
• 999 How the working class can intervene to stop Trump's coup plotting
• 999 Execution of female federal prisoner stayed
• Biden defends Republican Party coup conspirators
• For a full, public investigation of Trump’s January 6 coup!

more articles »

United States

• Workers at New York City produce market launch first strike since 1986
• Hawaii nurses demand safe working conditions and PPE
• 999 Tennessee Educators R&F statement
• Navalny arrested in Russia as Biden nominates Victoria Nuland for top State Department position
• Morgues overflow, air quality restrictions on crematoriums suspended as Los Angeles County surpasses 1 million COVID-19 cases

more articles »

North America

• Workers at New York City produce market launch first strike since 1986
• Hawaii nurses demand safe working conditions and PPE
• 999 Tennessee Educators R&F statement
• Morgues overflow, air quality restrictions on crematoriums suspended as Los Angeles County surpasses 1 million COVID-19 cases
• Conductor Riccardo Muti expresses solidarity with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians

more articles »

Recent Perspectives

• Biden pledges to continue Trump’s campaign to open schools and businesses (19/01/2021)
• Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones! (18/01/2021)
• 999 Perspective tbd (18/01/2021)
• What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)
• The pandemic and Trump’s coup attempt (15/01/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)
2. Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)
3. Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt (09/01/2021)
4. Details emerge exposing high-level coordination between fascists, police and Republican politicians in lead-up January 6 coup attempt (14/01/2021)
5. Magia Record, Kakushigoto, Fruits Basket and Sword Art Online: A general review of anime in 2020 (16/01/2021)

The 2020 US Elections

• Trump incites fascistic violence as US election approaches (16/09/2020)
• The Civil War Election (09/09/2020)
• Trump incites vigilante violence against peaceful protests in Wisconsin (08/31/2020)
• The Biden/Harris campaign and the dead-end of “lesser evil” politics (08/17/2020)
• The selection of Kamala Harris and the degradation of American politics (13/08/2020)
• Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate (12/08/2020)

International May Day 2020 Online Rally

• The COVID-19 pandemic: A trigger event in world history

The New York Times’ 1619 Project

• Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary, not historical writing
• American Historical Review publishes letter on 1619 Project by Tom Mackaman and David North
• New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
• New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker
• A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
• The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
• Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project

Lectures and Essays by David North

• Trotsky’s Last Year (20/08/2020)
• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017 (01/03/2017)
• Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856–1918): His Place in the History of Marxism (12/05/2016)
• Philosophy and Politics in an Age of War and Revolution (10/25/2016)
• A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990–2016 (07/11/2016)

Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

• Vindictive court rulings prove British state wants Assange dead
• The show trial of Julian Assange begins
• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• Doctors demand “urgent” medical intervention to save Julian Assange’s life
• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• An open letter from doctors: Julian Assange “could die in prison”
• Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson on Julian Assange: “A maximum security prison is no place to treat a torture victim”
• Collapse of Swedish “sexual misconduct” frame-up exposes political conspiracy against Assange

Russian Revolution Centenary

• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017
• Lecture 1: Why Study the Russian Revolution
• Lecture 2: The Legacy of 1905 and the Strategy of the Russian Revolution
• Lecture 3: World War and Revolution: 1914-1917

Socialism and the Struggle Against War

• No to a Greek-Turkish war in the eastern Mediterranean! (12/09/2020)
• ICFI Resolution: Socialism and the fight against war (18/02/2016)
• SEP (US) Resolution: The fight against war and the political tasks of the SEP (25/08/2014)
• SEP (Australia) Resolution: The Socialist Equality Party and the fight to build an international anti-war movement (27/07/2016)
• SEP (Sri Lanka) Resolution: The political struggle against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (30/04/2016)
• PSG(Germany) Resolution: The struggle against war and the tasks of the PSG (14/11/2014)