Better late than never
IG correction on Russia v NATO…‘should be more precise and more honest’ “Frankly acknowledging a mistake, ascertaining the reasons for it, analysing the conditions that have led up to it, and thrashing out the...
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Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign: a poison pill
WSWS/SEP’s anti-Trotskyist trade union policy In mid-November the ballots of 900,000 workers and pensioners of the United Autoworkers (UAW) will be tallied to elect a new president. This will be the first time in...
China in Africa
Debunking pseudo-Marxist falsifications re: ‘Chinese Imperialism’ The frequent portrayal of China as a sinister threat to “national security” in the “Free World” popular media is an index of rising anxiety at the growing economic...
NATO v Russia in Ukraine
A litmus test for Trotskyists The Russian incursion into Ukraine has accelerated the decline of US imperialism, severely weakened its European “partners” and NATO as a whole, while shrinking its influence in Latin America...
Defend Abortion Rights Through Mass Action!
Reactionary US Supreme Court strikes down Roe v Wade The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which established a woman’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy has sparked...
IG joins centrist muddleheads on Ukraine
Nordenites, like TF, WSWS neutral on Ukraine’s ‘right’ to join NATO On 23 February, on the eve of the current Russian military campaign to “de-NATO-ize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine, Jan Norden’s Internationalist Group (IG) released...
Russia reacts to imperialist encroachment
Ukraine/NATO/US ignored Kremlin’s red lines The recent Russian military intervention in Ukraine is an example of what can happen when you get “an offer you can’t refuse” and decide to refuse it anyway. The...
Trotskyist Fraction on Ukraine – Centrist Waffling
Unlike most of the self-declared Trotskyist left, the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) has not characterised Russia as imperialist. In its 30 January international statement on the current crisis in Ukraine, the TF distinguishes Russia and...
Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Free—Fascists Celebrate
Wheels of racist U.S. Injustice System grind on The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenage rightist vigilante who killed two people and seriously wounded a third at a 25 August 2020 anti-racist protest in...
From the NEP to forced collectivisation
After four years of civil war following three years of devastating world war, by 1921 the Russian proletariat, never more than a few million strong, had almost ceased to exist. Russia’s cities were depopulated...