4 February 2016
As its hometown of Flint remains poisoned, GM makes record 2015 profit
By Jerry White, 4 February 2016
General Motors announced that it made $11 billion in pre-tax profits last year as residents in Flint continue to suffer from the water, which was chiefly poisoned by the giant automaker.
US autoworkers speak on record profits
By our reporter, 4 February 2016
GM skilled trades worker killed at Defiance, Ohio factory
By Shannon Jones, 4 February 2016
US auto companies announce big payout to stockholders
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Political crisis over Flint poisoning intensifies as Congress holds hearing
By Nick Barrickman, 4 February 2016
Scientists and residents of Flint, Michigan who testified in Washington described a systematic cover-up of lead poisoning at the local, state and federal level.
US Environmental Protection Agency administrator appears in Flint, Michigan to “rebuild trust” over water crisis
Report: Flint lead filters provide inadequate protection for residents
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Wall Street donors account for 40 percent of super PAC funds in US election
By Barry Grey, 4 February 2016
Already in the 2016 election, the total amount of super PAC money from banks and financial firms is 70 times the level 12 years ago.
The Sanders vote in Iowa
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UK Prime Minister Cameron signals early referendum on EU membership
By Chris Marsden, 4 February 2016
The proposed agreement between Cameron and European Council President Donald Tusk is a refutation of those who depict the EU as the guardian of a more progressive agenda.
The end of liberal Europe
Two workers killed as government seeks to crush Pakistan airline strike
By Sampath Perera, 4 February 2016
Pakistan’s government is determined to break the strike so as to demonstrate mass opposition will not deter it from pushing through a sweeping IMF privatization program.
Syrian war negotiations collapse after two days
By Thomas Gaist, 4 February 2016
The talks have been postponed for at least three weeks amid an upsurge of fighting between US and Russian-backed forces.
Geneva talks begin as US-backed war in Syria expands
Netherlands to begin bombing Islamic State in Syria
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German government steps up attacks on refugees
By Martin Kreickenbaum, 4 February 2016
Germany’s grand coalition government is adopting ever more drastic measures against refugees and paving the way for far-right forces in the process.
Far-right German nationalist party calls for shooting refugees
Neo-Nazi mob assaults immigrants in Stockholm, Sweden
Australian High Court sanctions indefinite offshore detention of refugees
By Mike Head, 4 February 2016
The decision sets a new global benchmark for the incarceration of men, women and children in conditions that amount to torture.
Austrian municipalities impose ban on refugees using swimming pools
Spain’s King calls on Socialist Party to form a government
By Paul Mitchell, 4 February 2016
The Socialist Party is bitterly divided over whether to try to pursue austerity policies through an alliance with Podemos or the right-wing Popular Party.
German economics minister seeks to smooth relations with Poland
By Clara Weiss, 4 February 2016
The Nord Stream pipeline, which supplies gas from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea, is one of the most important issues of dispute between Berlin and Warsaw.
WHO declares Zika virus a “public health emergency”
By David Brown, 4 February 2016
The WHO held a meeting to assess the “appropriate level of international concern” and to avoid a repeat of the Ebola outbreak, when the WHO was criticized for its slow response.
New Zealand to host signing of Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Tom Peters, 4 February 2016
New Zealand’s opposition parties are leading a nationalist campaign against the TPP, but the entire political establishment backs the country’s integration into US war plans against China.
US: Georgia executes oldest inmate on its death row
By Kate Randall, 4 February 2016
The Supreme Court denied a last-minute request for a stay, clearing the way for Brandon Astor Jones’ lethal injection early Wednesday morning.
Deaths in Bronx fires highlight homeless crisis
By our reporters, 4 February 2016
The search for shelter in the largest city in the US, especially in the cold winter weather, has had tragic consequences.
New in French
Le budget du Pentagone orienté vers une guerre avec la Russie et la Chine
Par Bill Van Auken, 4 février 2016
Le sens général du discours du secrétaire américain à la Défense Ashton Carter mardi devant le Club économique était que l'impérialisme américain se préparait à une nouvelle guerre mondiale.
Le vote en faveur de Sanders dans l’Iowa
Par Patrick Martin, 4 février 2016
Le soutien de masse à Sanders a fait exploser le mythe colporté à l’infini par les médias que le peuple américain accorderait immuablement son soutien au capitalisme.
New in Turkish
Suriye’deki ABD destekli savaş yayılırken Cenevre görüşmeleri başladı
Bill Van Auken, 4 Şubat 2016
Kıyım, yalnızca yeni ve daha kanlı çatışmaların bekleme odası olarak hizmet edecek olan Cenevre’deki müzakereler ya da barış görüşmeleri ile durdurulmayacaktır.
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Pentagon budget: A blueprint for World War III
4 February 2016
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s preview of the Pentagon budget spelled out Washington’s advanced preparations for war against both Russia and China.
The Crisis in Detroit and Flint
Flint pre-screening of the documentary Mislead
Parents fighting lead poisoning denounce government inaction and lies
By Tim Rivers, 4 February 2016
Following a preview screening of the film Mislead, which documents the epidemic spread of lead across America, a panel of parents was joined by the director of the film and a state expert for lead risk assessment.
Michigan lead expert exposes misinformation and delays in Flint crisis
By Tim Rivers, 4 February 2016
Ed Wenz, a lead expert who provides training to abatement contractors, spoke with the WSWS about about the efforts to cover up and delay efforts to address the Flint water crisis.
The World Socialist Web Site and the Flint water crisis
By Shannon Jones, 1 February 2016
More on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan »
Detroit Public Schools emergency manager resigns
By Jerry White, 3 February 2016
What’s behind the Detroit Federation of Teachers’ lawsuit?
Emergency meeting on the crisis in Detroit and Flint draws over one hundred workers and youth
By E.P. Bannon, 29 January 2016
Workers Struggles
Mobilize the working class to defend public education in Chicago!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party
4 February 2016
A real struggle to defend public education must begin with an understanding that teachers face in the Chicago Teachers Union an enemy no less bitter than Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Chicago teachers face mass layoffs after bargaining committee rejects CTU-backed deal
By Kristina Betinis, 3 February 2016
Chicago teachers union leader pledges to enforce austerity
On what program should workers oppose the sellout agreement in Quebec’s public sector?
Commentary
New Zealand’s first Labour Party leader was no socialist: A reply to the pseudo-left ISO
By Tom Peters, 4 February 2016
The claim that NZ Labour was founded as a socialist party in 1916 is a fabrication designed to justify the pseudo-left’s support for this pro-imperialist party.
Pentagon budget directed toward war with Russia and China
By Bill Van Auken, 3 February 2016
Working-class opposition to Socialist Party grows in Portugal
By Paul Mitchell, 3 February 2016
Pressure mounts on Australian government to challenge China in South China Sea
More than 1 million in US face food stamps cutoff
Global manufacturing continues to fall
Socialist Equality Party
The Pentagon’s CSIS report and Australia’s role in the escalating war drive against China
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 3 February 2016
Washington’s entire anti-China strategy has received the unconditional backing of successive governments in Canberra.
Arts Review
“Light lights in air”: Value, price, profit and Louis Zukofsky’s poetry
By Andras Gyorgy, 3 February 2016
Louis Zukofsky (1904–78), largely unknown today except in academic circles, was a remarkable American poet. In the late 1920s and 1930s, a supporter of the Communist Party, he wrote complex, modernist works.
Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
By David Walsh, 30 January 2016
Featured Commentary
To create a genuine artistic “avant garde” means confronting critical historical issues
By David Walsh, 20 January 2016
The essay by David Walsh we are posting today considers whether or not an artistic vanguard exists today—and, if not, what such a vanguard would consist of and what questions it would have to confront.
The 2016 US Elections
On eve of first presidential contest: US two-party system in crisis
By Patrick Martin, 1 February 2016
Sanders and socialism
By Barry Grey, 27 January 2016
Sanders in the Democratic debate: A “political revolution” that stops at the water’s edge
Obama, Trump and the working class
Socialist Alternative forms group to support Sanders campaign
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This week in history: February 1-7
25 years ago: US saturation bombing kills thousands of Iraqi civilians
This week in 1991, Operation Desert Storm brought the saturation bombing of Iraqi cities, towns and villages by US warplanes.
50 years ago: Soviet probe lands on the Moon
On February 3, 1966, the Soviet Union announced the successful soft landing of its unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft on the surface of the moon, in the lunar region called the Ocean of Storms.
75 years ago: Bulgaria drawn into Axis
On February 4, 1941, the Bulgarian government of Tsar Boris III was reported about to accept Berlin’s demand to join the Axis powers’ “Tripartite Pact.”
100 years ago: Mass garment workers strike in New York City
Mass strikes of garment workers continued to grow in New York this week in 1916, taking the total number of striking garment workers in the New York metropolitan area to 25,000.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
IYSSE statement on the student parliament vote at Humboldt University
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany), 22 January 2016
Mehring Books
Twenty-five years since the first Gulf War
Desert Slaughter: The Imperialist War Against Iraq—an enduring contribution to waging war on war
By Eric London, 21 January 2016
In 1991, the Workers League, forerunner of the SEP, published this valuable compendium of articles and statements providing a Marxist analysis of the imperialist war in Iraq and the breakdown of the postwar international order.
75 Years Since the Assassination Of Leon Trotsky
Security and the Fourth International, the Gelfand Case and the deposition of Mark Zborowski
An open letter from David North to Susan Weissman
10 November 2015
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