Perspectives
Hands off Gaza!
January 5, 2009
The International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site denounce the Israeli military’s murderous assault on the Palestinian population of Gaza. The combined air and...
Cuba marks 50th anniversary of revolution in shadow of world crisis
January 3, 2009
Cuba marked the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought Castro to power with subdued celebrations. Havana sees the deepening world capitalist crisis not as a harbinger of international revolut...
The crash of 2008 and the prospects for 2009
January 2, 2009
2008 was the year when the supposedly impossible happened: The world capitalist system underwent a financial breakdown which now threatens to repeat, or even eclipse, that which began in 1929.
The New York Times and Gaza: Justifying genocide
December 31, 2008
There is little to distinguish the “newspaper of record’s” version of events from the mendacious account being peddled by the American media in general: the Palestinians are the aggressors and I...
The Gaza crisis and the perspective of permanent revolution
December 30, 2008
The onslaught against Gaza has provoked popular outrage throughout the Middle East and around the world, even as governments in the Arab world and elsewhere have lined up to provide justifications for...
Washington bears guilt for Gaza war crimes
December 29, 2008
The Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza is a war crime for which not only the government of Israel but also that of the United States bears full responsibility.
Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt, artists and opponents of imperialist war
December 27, 2008
British playwright Harold Pinter died Wednesday at the age of 78, and American singer and actress Eartha Kitt died Christmas day, at 81. Both will be remembered as artists and as well for speaking out...
Press reports document criminality of US financial elite
December 24, 2008
Recent press reports make clear that the Madoff affair is not an aberration. It is indicative of pervasive fraud and criminality in the highest echelons of the financial establishment, aided and abett...
Obama, the military and the threat of dictatorship
December 23, 2008
President-elect Obama has named three retired four-star military officers to serve in his cabinet. This unprecedented representation of former commanders within the incoming administration is indicati...
A union in name only
December 22, 2008
What remains of the historical past of the UAW and the rest of the official unions as workers’ organizations is a purely terminological remnant. In the social role they play, they are organizations ...
Capitalism and the auto crisis
December 20, 2008
With the loan package announced Friday, the American government is intervening directly in the auto crisis, demanding massive concessions from workers. To oppose this attack, workers need a new strate...
The political issues posed by the mass protests in Greece
December 19, 2008
The World Socialist Web Site solidarizes itself fully with the tens of thousands of students, young people and workers who have taken to the streets of Greek cities in protests, strikes and pitched ba...
