All over the world, the capitalist ruling class is reviving the vilest forms of political reaction. Eighty years after the end of World War II, the horrors of that historical period—war, fascism and genocide—are once again threatening humanity with a descent into barbarism.
An essential characteristic of all periods of political reaction is the resort by governments and their media accomplices to the method of the Big Lie, which they employ to justify their crimes and disorient the people.
The Big Lie is not the conventional fibbing of one or another politician. It is, rather, a massive falsification of reality, so huge that it defies logical refutation. Its power lies in the monstrous scale of the deceit. The Big Lie does not convince with well-structured arguments. It strives to overwhelm the public with the brazenness of its mendacity.
The last five years have witnessed a new and politically malignant resurgence of the Big Lie, from the "Wuhan Lab Leak" lie, to the myth of the "unprovoked" war in Ukraine, to the biggest lie of all—the claim that opposition to Israel's genocidal war against the population of Gaza is "antisemitic."
In the age of the Big Lie, nothing is more essential than the defense of historical and political truth. That is why the daily publication of the World Socialist Web Site acquires the greatest urgency.
Armed with a socialist political perspective, rooted in the scientific foundations of Marxism and the assimilation of the historical experiences of the international class struggle during an entire century, the WSWS is relentless in its exposure of the Big Lies and its defense of the truth.
Trotsky wrote, in response to the Big Lies of his time: "Revolution explodes the social lie. Revolution speaks the truth. Revolution begins by giving things and social relationships their real name."
These words define the principles that guide the World Socialist Web Site.
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