World Socialist Web Site

The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938.

 http://www.wsws.org/en/  
Started: 22 January 1998
Founder: Mehring Books

Owner: International Committee of the Fourth International
In its own words:
"The WSWS aims to meet the need, felt widely today, for an intelligent appraisal of the problems of contemporary society. It addresses itself to the masses of people who are dissatisfied with the present state of social life, as well as its cynical and reactionary treatment by the establishment media."

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is published by the Trotskyite (Communist) International Committee of the Fourth International. While decidedly having its own angle on things, where the working class as a cliche is always ready to rise up and unite under its leadership, it also covers deep politics and the subversion of "the left" by intelligence agencies and the establishment.

The WSWS became a vocal supporter of supranational deep state policies during Covid deep event, including lockdowns, medical passports and forced vaccinations through economic pressure.

#MeToo

The WSWS has concluded that the #MeToo movement as a McCarthyite witch-hunt with ulterior motives. David Walsh from the WSWS wrote:

The ostensible aim of this ongoing movement is to combat sexual harassment and assault, i.e., to bring about some measure of social progress. However, the repressive, regressive means resorted to—including unsubstantiated and often anonymous denunciations and sustained attacks on the presumption of innocence and [due process]] — give the lie to the campaign’s “progressive” claims. Such methods are the hallmark of an anti-democratic, authoritarian movement, and one, moreover, that deliberately seeks to divert attention from social inequality, attacks on the working class, the threat of war and the other great social and political issues of the day. Instead of bringing about an improvement in conditions, in fact, the #MeToo movement has helped undermine democratic rights, created an atmosphere of intimidation and fear and destroyed the reputations and careers of a significant number of artists and others.

Identity politics

The WSWS also criticizes identity politics:

In reality, politics based on race, gender and sexuality has become a fundamental part of the Democratic Party’s efforts to divide workers and enrich a thin layer of the middle class who falsely present themselves as "representational" of the broad masses. But the truth is that workers, regardless of their gender or background, have no representation whatsoever in any branch of government. As the Democratic Party moves ever more sharply to the right, identity politics is used to give the party a left veneer, however thin it may be.

COVID-19

The idea that all opposition to lockdowns and forced vaccination is far right. "Mandatory vaccinations are not an attack on democratic rights but a necessary tool in a range of scientific measures that must be fought for by the international working class to eliminate COVID-19."

 

A Document by World Socialist Web Site

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:NATO goes to war against Russia	Statement	1 March 2022	NATO Russia Ukraine 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine No-fly zone Azov Battalion NATO Response Force	There must be a new mass anti-war movement, based on the international working class. This opposition, however, must be developed as a conscious political movement for socialism. This means the building of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties in every country.

 

Documents sourced from World Socialist Web Site

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:All UK Labour leadership candidates sign up to stepped up pro-Zionist witch-hunt	blog post	Board of Deputies of British Jews Labour Against The Witchhunt Rebecca Long-Bailey 2020 Labour Party leadership contest	15 January 2020	Robert Stevens	A day after posting the 10 points, the BoD tweeted that pro-Corbyn deputy leadership candidates Richard Burgon and Dawn Butler were “absent from the list of those who have signed the #TenPledges to tackle antisemitism in Labour.”
Document:Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear war	Article	Nuclear war Capitalism COVID-19/Pandemic 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine		Andre Damon	The total devaluation of human life, the indifference to mass death in the pandemic and the recklessness with which American capitalism is rushing into conflict with Russia, reflect the views and social character of the American ruling class. This parasitic oligarchy feasts upon the impoverishment and exploitation of the working population.
Document:Chelsea Manning released, faces new imprisonment for refusing to testify against Assange	Article	Wikileaks Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Espionage Act of 1917	10 May 2019	Niles Niemuth	“The idea I hold the keys to my own cell is an absurd one, as I face the prospect of suffering either way due to this unnecessary and punitive subpoena: I can either go to jail or betray my principles,” Manning explained. “The latter exists as a much worse prison than the government can construct.”
Document:Child Soldier Coerced Into Plea-Bargain	article	"Extraordinary rendition" Torture Omar Khadr	7 October 2010	Keith Jones
Document:Credit Suisse and the power of money	Article	UBS Switzerland/National Bank Credit Suisse	20 March 2023	Peter Schwarz	The merger creates a monster bank with a balance sheet total of CHF (Swiss francs) 1.5 trillion ($1.6 trillion), almost twice the gross domestic product of Switzerland, which amounted to CHF 771 billion in 2022. If it enters a tailspin, it will trigger a tsunami that will drag the Swiss state budget and parts of the world economy into the abyss.
Document:Elon Musk’s wealth approaches half a trillion dollars: Capitalism and oligarchy	Article	Mark Zuckerberg Donald Trump Sergey Brin Jeff Bezos Linda McMahon Bernard Arnault Sam Altman SEP (US) Elon Musk Scott Bessent Larry Ellison Tim Cook Vivek Ramaswamy Department of Government Efficiency	16 December 2024	Joseph Kishore	The task laid out by Marx, the “expropriation of the expropriators,” acquires a direct and urgent necessity. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) calls for the seizure of the wealth of the capitalist oligarchy and the transformation of the gigantic corporations they control into public utilities. These enterprises must be taken out of private hands and democratically reorganised on the basis of social need, not profit.
Document:Former MI6 chief behind faked “evidence” for Iraq war leading anti-China Wuhan lab conspiracy	Article	Richard Dearlove Joe Biden Boris Johnson 2003 Iraq War Ron Unz Judith Miller "Iraq/WMD" Dominic Cummings COVID-19 Wuhan Institute of Virology Michael Gordon	10 June 2021	Julie Hyland	President Biden's intelligence service order relating to the Wuhan lab leak theory was issued the same day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, gave evidence before a parliamentary committee in which he confirmed a government policy to allow tens of thousands to die from Covid-19.
Document:Government conspiracy against 1972 UK builders’ strike exposed	Article	Information Research Department Shrewsbury 24 Ricky Tomlinson Des Warren Communist Party of Great Britain	15 December 2015	Barry Mason	On 3 February 2021, the surviving Shrewsbury 24 pickets fought to clear their name in a two-day hearing at the Court of Appeal after they were criminalised for going out on strike in 1972.
Document:Inquiry findings continue cover-up of 1999 Rosemary Nelson assassination	article	Rosemary Nelson	2 June 2011	Steve James
Document:Julian Assange denied access to lawyers, visitors in Britain’s Belmarsh prison	Article	Wikileaks Chelsea Manning Michael Snow Belmarsh Prison Joshua Schulte Christine Assange Julian Assange/Imprisonment	24 April 2019	Oscar Grenfell	Chelsea Manning’s punitive detention is a warning of the treatment that will be meted out to Julian Assange if he is extradited to the US
Document:Leaked phone call on Ukraine lays bare Washington’s gangsterism	article	Victoria Nuland Geoffrey Pyatt Ukraine Riots 2013-14	10 February 2014	Bill Van Auken	A short, readable resume of US foreign affairs diplomatic gangsterism, illustrated by the "Ukraine-Gate" intercepted telephone conversation between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US ambassador to the Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.
Document:Libya Imperialism and the prostration of Left Intellectuals	article	2011 Attacks on Libya Imperialism	1 April 2011	David North
Document:Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi's posthumous appeal rejected by Scottish judges	Article	Pan Am Flight 103/The Trial Abdelbaset al-Megrahi Ray Manly	19 January 2021	Steve James	No explanation or significance has been attached to a break in at Heathrow airport, where security was poor, the night before, adjacent to the luggage loading area for PA103.
Document:Mau Mau Seek Compensation from UK	article	Mau Mau Uprising	26 May 2009	Jean Shaoul
Document:May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany	Article	Russia Germany Ukraine Nazism Western world Wehrmacht	12 May 2023	Peter Schwarz	One day after the start of the war in Ukraine, Germany launched the largest rearmament offensive since 1945. Like the US, it is steadily escalating its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and is not even shying away from nuclear annihilation.
Document:NATO goes to war against Russia	Statement	NATO Russia Ukraine 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine No-fly zone Azov Battalion NATO Response Force	1 March 2022	World Socialist Web Site	There must be a new mass anti-war movement, based on the international working class. This opposition, however, must be developed as a conscious political movement for socialism. This means the building of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties in every country.
Document:Rebecca Long-Bailey Labour leadership campaign marks end of 'project Corbyn'	blog post	Jeremy Corbyn Rebecca Long-Bailey 2020 Labour Party leadership contest	20 January 2020	Robert Stevens	Not only does Labour continue to be politically dominated by the Blairites, but should Long-Bailey succeed her mentor then she would do their bidding all down the line. Unity with the Blairite right was the leitmotif of Long-Bailey’s campaign rally.
Document:The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights	Article	Craig Murray Julian Assange Gaza Glenn Greenwald Genocide Yvette Cooper Scott Ritter Yanis Varoufakis Keir Starmer Ilan Pappe Kit Klarenberg Freedom of the press Richard Medhurst Sarah Wilkinson Ernest Moret David Miranda Ghassan Abu Sittah	27 August 2024	Robert Stevens	Now, in a move that would have been agreed to by PM Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Labour has pioneered the use of an amendment to the Terrorism Act passed by the Tories to once again attempt to silence and criminalise a journalist and political activist. The same course is being pursued by governments throughout the world.
Document:Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention	Article	Nigel Farage Boris Johnson Jeremy Corbyn Donald Trump Mike Pompeo UK/General election/2019	2 November 2019	Laura Tiernan	Donald Trump’s interview shows that Mike Pompeo’s threatened “push back” is far advanced. If Trump is willing to make such anti-democratic public pronouncements against the leader of Her Majesty’s opposition, what are they discussing—and preparing—behind the scenes?
Document:US charged with war crimes in Syria prison siege	Article	The Pentagon Yemen Turkey Syria Saudi Arabia Islamic State US/Military Syrian Democratic Forces	27 January 2022	Bill Van Auken	Syria’s state media agency Sana quoted the country’s Foreign Ministry as denouncing the actions of the US and its puppet Kurdish-led militia as tantamount to “war crimes”. It demanded the immediate withdrawal of both US troops from northeastern Syria and the Turkish military from the northwest of the country.
Document:US media, politicians mobilize against Sochi Olympics	article	Corporate media Russia 2014 Winter Olympics US/Sponsored Regime-change efforts since 1945	10 February 2014	Andrea Peters	A useful analysis of the orchestrated campaign of vilification against Russia and its president coincident with the run-up to the Sochi winter Olympics.
Document:Who is the new UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer?	Article	Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer Leader of the Labour Party (UK)	7 April 2020	Thomas Scripps	Jeremy Corbyn spent the best part of five years straddling a popular movement against austerity and war. The fruit of his labour is the election of a backroom state functionary to the Labour leadership. Sir Keir Starmer will make a fitting figurehead for the party’s final descent into political oblivion.

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