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Backing bourgeois democracy By Ruben Lomas Just as one element of the left (the SWP and its milieu) has committed political suicide by abandoning independent working-class politics in favour of uncritical support for Islamist forces in the Middle East, so another element has made the exact opposite mistake by throwing their support behind bourgeois democracy and capitalism in its war against political Islam. Socialists like Eric Lee and others (many cohered around the Euston Manifesto group) wh...

Was Southwold the location for a meeting between literary heavyweights George Orwell and Arthur Ransome just as the Second World War was about to erupt?

The program addressed the pro-imperialist origins of the DSA and the significance of its present celebration of the crimes of Stalinism.

The NYU strike is an object lesson in pseudo-left politics.

SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias delivered this speech to an online May 30 public meeting organised by the SEP.

On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.

Only an international, scientific health strategy can defeat this highly contagious virus, which ignores borders and passports and infects people of all nationalities.

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India’s purported capitalist “rise”—so celebrated in the media in the west—has produced a malignant society that embodies and exemplifies the dysfunction, brutality and criminality of 21st century capitalism.

For émigrés and exiles, pressure on families back home, social media intimidation, even kidnapping, have become a regular part of life.