In this report to the 8th Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the campaign to #FreeBogdan, I sought to explain the inseparable relationship between the fight to defend democratic rights & for the program of Trotskyism & the fight against war 🧵👀 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Don't skip this lecture, the first in an important series! "Security and the Fourth International" is a crucial chapter in the history of the workers' movement. But how much do you know about it? We're only spinning our wheels unless our daily work is grounded in history.

Aug 10-Remarkable German novelist Alfred Döblin (1878) was a doctor, practiced psychiatry in Berlin’s workers’ district of Alexanderplatz. The Three Leaps of Wang-lun, Wallenstein, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Men Without Mercy. Fled Nazis because of Jewish ancestry and socialist views

Aug. 13, 1873—Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian socialist, participant in October Revolution. Leader of Left Opposition, Stalin later had him murdered. “I am not exaggerating when I say that the militant of 1917 would hardly recognize himself in the person of the militant of 1928.”

Academics from Deakin University and Victoria University from pro-Israel lobby group "5A", using their uni emails, wrote to Latrobe uni & Bendigo Writers Festival in July to pressure cancelling me . Demanded "'measures" be taken. And so we have the reason why the Code was sent. Note the ease

The reaction in European capitals to the Alaska Summit has bordered on hysteria, augmented by the fact that Ukraine has suffered a series of military defeats. The reality is that without US backing the prosecution of the war in Ukraine is untenable. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The pseudo-left groups are intensifying their efforts to subordinate opposition to the Gaza genocide to the Labor government, even as its complicity in the war crimes stands more and more exposed. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

#RogerWaters’ remarkable This is Not a Drill: Live from Prague concert film: A warning and call to action wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Nearly a million Israelis demonstrate, calling for hostage deal and end to Gaza war wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Written in 1936 by Leon Sedov, Trotsky’s eldest son and closest political collaborator, The Red Book exposes the first Moscow Trial, “Trial of the Sixteen”, organized by Stalin to attempt to justify the liquidation of the surviving leaders of the October 1917 Revolution. More:

These are the remarks delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group, prior to an interview with David North on Security and the Fourth International #Trotsky wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Taken at face value, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is an argument for the virtues of maintaining “cultural purity” through racial separatism, a perspective not far from what is being promoted by the fascist right. #Sinners #filmtwt #Cinema wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The attempted intimidation will continue because it's not just about Gaza but the censoring antiwar voices in preparation for more horrendous conflicts in the near future. That creative workers are not intimidated, and their response, is powerful. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Samuel Richardson (1689), 18th century English writer, was the son of a carpenter. He received little formal education, in 1707 was apprenticed to a printer in the capital … Clarissa or, the History of a Young Lady, one of the greatest European novels, was published in 1747-8.

Personal data will be continuously stored and monitored with the aim of blocking entry to, or purging from, America anyone whose views conflict with US imperialism. This will involve AI-driven platforms and material supplied by foreign governments.wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Australian government claims that they cannot afford to sustain proper arts funding are patently false. Billions remain readily available for militarism and war, as well as for tax concessions to big business and the wealthy. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Netanyahu’s response to Albanese's pathetic criticisms exposes the fraud being peddled the Australian government and the European powers, that occasional finger wagging and polite appeals to the Israeli government will stop the slaughter of Palestinians. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

I gave a long interview to Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD about my book Lab Leak Fever and the politics surrounding the lab leak controversy. Benjamin did a great job editing for conciseness and prompting some pretty deep questions Some highlights in thread ⬇️ 1/

Mass murder and a starvation blockade of Gaza have turned Israel into a pariah state, despised throughout the world. Nevertheless, the German government stands steadfastly behind Netanyahu-Israel as a matter of German state policy: The Myth of Reparations wsws.org/en/articles/20…

No to US imperialist aggression against Venezuela! For the unity of the working class across the Americas! wsws.org/en/articles/20…