World Socialist Web Site

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is the online news and information center of the Wikipedia:International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). The site publishes articles and analysis covering a wide range of topics and events all around the world, content published in 14 different languages. The daily 'Perspective' article presents the position of the WSWS on a wide range of political, theoretical, and historical issues. News articles cover significant political and economic developments.

World Socialist Web Site

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Formation	Michigan
Legal status	Wikipedia:political news site
Purpose/focus	Wikipedia:News and Wikipedia:Analysis
Headquarters	Wikipedia:Michigan
Official languages	Czech English (WP) French German Indonesian Italian Polish Portuguese Russian (WP) Serbo-Croatian Sinhalese Spanish Tamil Turkish
Website	http://www.wsws.org

The site also publishes articles and reviews on scientific advancements, films, music and other arts. A major portion of the site has been dedicated to the history of working class movements and the ICFI in particular.

The WSWS also reports on workers' struggles around the world, and facilitates readers to submit their feedback to authors. The WSWS supports and helps campaign for the Socialist Equality Parties in elections. The site has no corporate sponsorship and runs no advertisements. Instead, it sustains itself through the donations of readers and supporters. David North serves as Chairman of the site's editorial board.

Positions and Coverage

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Massey Coal Mine Explosion Reports

World Socialist Web Site published a series of interviews with Massey workers after the Wikipedia:Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, which occurred on April 5, 2010. According one of the reports, Massey workers claimed that the company had refused to allow them time off so that they could attend the funerals of their coworkers. The World Socialist Web Site claimed that the article containing these interviews was "widely circulated and reposted or linked on the Internet."

Bush Administration

The World Socialist Web Site claimed in 2004 that the Bush Administration's electoral victory did not signal any sort of historical shift of the American population to the right, and that a shift of the political mood to the left was highly probable in the near term.

Iraq War

The WSWS claims to have correctly prognosticated that the Iraq War would be a failure.

11. The twentieth century was not lived in vain. Its triumphs and tragedies have bequeathed to the working class invaluable political lessons, among which the most important is the understanding of the significance and implications of imperialist war. It is, above all, the manifestation of national and international contradictions that can find no solution within “normal” channels. Whatever the outcome of the initial stages of the conflict that has begun, American imperialism has a rendezvous with disaster. It cannot conquer the world. It cannot reimpose colonial shackles upon the masses of the Middle East. It will not find through the medium of war a viable solution to its internal maladies. Rather, the unforeseen difficulties and mounting resistance engendered by war will intensify all of the internal contradictions of American society.

War on Terror

In 2004, the site claimed that the Bush Administration deliberately manipulated the nation's "threat level" to suit the White House's political aims. This has since been confirmed.

Economic Crisis

In 2007, the WSWS warned that the present economic crisis would be used to carry out a reduction in the living standards of the working class, and that there would be no limits placed on executive compensation and speculative practices.

Obama Administration

The World Socialist Web Site claims to have opposed Barack Obama (WP) from the beginning. It is one of the few news sites to oppose the Obama Administration from the left. The WSWS argues that the Obama Administration is the direct representative of American finance capital, whose aims are directly contrary to the mass of society. It also criticized the Obama administration's health care proposal as a "corporate-backed measure, which will roll back health care for tens of millions of working and retired people.

History

The site was launched in February 1998. Wikipedia:Archive.org shows its first record of the site on December 12, 1998. At the time the site was published in 6 languages (English(WP), French, German, Indonesian, Spanish, Russian (WP)) The site was redesigned and launched on October 22, 2008 enhancing the visual and technical aspects of the content and web site. The feature 'Perspective' and media galleries including both videos and photographs were part of this redesign. An enhanced search facility is now included. In November 2009, the World Socialist Website launched a new weekly feature entitled "This Week in History" to provide brief synopses of important historical events occurring 25, 50, 75, and 100 years ago. In January 2010, the site launched a new journal, Perspectives.

WSWS International Editorial Board

David North, Chairman Wikipedia:Nick Beams Wikipedia:Wije Dias Wikipedia:Barry Grey David Walsh, Arts Editor

Wikipedia:Julie Hyland Keith Jones Chris Marsden Wikipedia:K. Ratnayake

Wikipedia:Ulrich Rippert Peter Schwarz Peter Symonds Vladimir Volkov

See Also

• Communist Front In which it is shown that the Hoover Institution, Voice of America, Freedom Radio and other anti-communist propaganda organizations not only blackened the name of communist media outlets, but were engaged in exactly the same sort of activities themselves

External links

• World Socialist Web Site
• About the World Socialist Web Site
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