11 February 2017
Trump’s lavish welcome for Japan’s prime minister
By Peter Symonds, 11 February 2017
Despite Trump’s gushing praise for Abe, a question mark remains over the US-Japan alliance and the threat of punitive US trade measures continues.
Chinese foreign minister warns against war with the US
China protests US sanctions on Iran
Air strike in Afghanistan kills more than 20 as top US commander calls for more troops
By Bill Van Auken, 11 February 2017
General John Nicholson, told a Senate panel that “a few thousand” more US troops were needed to sustain what is now by far Washington’s longest war.
Opponent of Medicaid, Medicare sworn in as Health and Human Services secretary
By Kate Randall, 11 February 2017
Tom Price once wrote, “Nothing has had a greater negative effect on the delivery of health care than the federal government’s intrusion into medicine through Medicare.”
Trump nominee defends administration’s assault on health care
Trump nominee reaffirms support for assault on Medicare and Medicaid
Trump orders could affect up to 8 million immigrants as deportations begin
By E.P. Milligan, 11 February 2017
Trump’s executive orders may result in the mass internment of millions of undocumented immigrants and the imposition of effective martial law in major US cities.
Hundreds protest as long-time US resident and mother of two is deported
US Appeals Court bars enforcement of Trump travel ban
More on the Trump presidency »
Forty-three percent of US children live in low-income families
By Shelley Connor, 11 February 2017
The number of children living in families with incomes below twice the federal poverty level has increased one percentage point since 2009, the official start of the “economic recovery.”
New York City schools overwhelmed by student homelessness
Students have the right to eat!
More on youth and the social crisis »
German Left Party leader demands tougher deportation policy
By Johannes Stern, 11 February 2017
In an interview with the conservative daily Die Welt, Left Party founder Oscar Lafontaine spoke out in favour of a stricter deportation policy.
Report co-authored by murdered British MP Jo Cox advocates for war
By Richard Tyler, 11 February 2017
Cox’s brutal murder shocked millions, but her death has been used in the most cynical fashion by the most right-wing forces within the Labour Party.
EU and IMF demand more austerity measures from Greece
By Robert Stevens, 11 February 2017
Under conditions in which US President Donald Trump has declared his desire for the breakup of the EU, Greece is once again in the eye of the storm.
Australian government reintroduces sweeping welfare cuts
By Mike Head, 11 February 2017
By resuscitating previously blocked budget cuts, Turnbull’s government is intensifying the assault on welfare entitlements.
Sri Lankan foreign minister raises concerns over Trump’s economic policies
By Minusha Fernando, 11 February 2017
Harsha de Silva told a Colombo meeting of business chiefs that the US president’s trade policies would drastically impact on the Sri Lankan economy.
Human rights group documents Honduran ruling class’ ties to murders of activists
By Andrea Lobo, 11 February 2017
While exposing horrific crimes, Global Witness directs its appeal to Honduran and foreign capital on the basis that these acts will entail “adverse business impacts.”
New in Spanish
“Populismo de izquierda”: un ataque de la seudoizquierda argentina contra el socialismo
Por Andrea Lobo, 11 febrero 2017
El grupo de seudoizquierda, Fracción Trotskista, está promoviendo el “populismo de izquierda” para subordinar los intereses de la clase obrera latinoamericana a los de las secciones más pudientes de la clase media.
La tercera semana de Trump: Crisis de gobierno burgués y dictadura
Por Joseph Kishore, 11 febrero 2017
Los más recientes eventos en Estados Unidos reflejan la profunda crisis política y el colapso de las formas democráticas de gobierno.
Chile arrasado por fuegos incontrolables
Por Alexandra del Piano, 11 febrero 2017
Chile enfrenta los peores fuegos forestales de su historia debido a la plantacion artifical de pinos y eucaliptos para el lucro que son altamente inflamables.
Veterana de programa de tortura es nombrada directora adjunta de la CIA
Por Fred Mazelis, 11 febrero 2017
Gina Haspel dirigió la cárcel clandestina en Tailandia donde se llevaron a cabo la práctica el submarino y otras prácticas de tortura horribles.
New in French
L’élection de Trump et la crise de l’Union européenne
Par Peter Schwarz, 11 février 2017
Toutes les tensions, les conflits et les contradictions que le Traité de Rome, en jetant les bases de l’Union européenne, devait surmonter il y a 60 ans resurgissent de nouveau.
L’ex-président Sarkozy mis en examen dans l’affaire du financement de sa campagne électorale de 2012
Par Stéphane Hughes, 11 février 2017
La mise en examen de Sarkozy fait partie de la vague croissante de scandales et règlements de comptes juridiques qui entourent son parti.
New in German
Woche Drei von Trumps Präsidentschaft: Die Krise der bürgerlichen Herrschaft und die Gefahr einer Diktatur
Von Joseph Kishore, 10. Februar 2017
Die Ereignisse der letzten Tage haben die akute politische Krise in den USA und den Zusammenbruch demokratischer Formen der Herrschaft enthüllt.
Chinesischer Außenminister warnt vor Krieg mit den USA
Von Peter Symonds, 10. Februar 2017
Trumps Chefberater Stephen Bannon erklärte im März 2016, es gäbe „keinen Zweifel“ daran, dass die USA wegen des Südchinesischen Meers in „fünf bis zehn Jahren“ einen Krieg gegen China beginnen würden.
Berliner Studierendenvertretungen solidarisieren sich mit Bremer Asta gegen Professor Baberowski
Von unseren Korrespondenten, 10. Februar 2017
Das Studierendenparlament der Freien Universität und die Fachschaftskoordination der Humboldt-Universität haben das juristische Vorgehen Baberowskis gegen den Bremer Asta scharf verurteilt.
NRW: Flüchtlinge beim Karneval unerwünscht
Von Dietmar Henning, 10. Februar 2017
Das Rundschreiben einer nordrhein-westfälischen Polizeibehörde erklärt Flüchtlinge auf den kommenden Karnevalsveranstaltungen „aus polizeilicher Sicht“ für unerwünscht.
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Stop the attacks on immigrants! For a socialist policy of open borders and full rights for all workers!
11 February 2017
The brutalization of immigrants is one of the most damning expressions of the bankruptcy of capitalism and the nation-state system to which it is tied.
The ICFI is initiating its commemoration of the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 with a series of online lectures. David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS, will give the first lecture, “Why Study the Russian Revolution?” The lecture will be streamed on YouTube on Saturday, March 11 at 5:00 pm Eastern (US). Four biweekly lectures will follow.
IYSSE
Berlin students defend University of Bremen student parliament against right-wing Professor Jörg Baberowski
By our correspondents, 11 February 2017
Representatives of the student bodies at two leading universities in Germany have issued statements denouncing the attempt by Baberowski to use the courts to muzzle students at the University of Bremen.
Jörg Baberowski sues the student body of the University of Bremen
Germany: Growing support for defense of Bremen University students against right-wing professor Jörg Baberowski
Open Letter to the International Socialist Organization
Reverse ISO position supporting political censorship at NYU
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, 10 February 2017
IYSSE resubmits application at NYU, draws large turnout for rally and meeting
Commentary
Spain’s Podemos party on verge of split before Vistalegre II congress
By Alex Lantier and Alejandro López, 11 February 2017
The conflicts inside Podemos reflect the bankruptcy of that party’s populist, nationalist and pro-capitalist politics and its rapid turn to the right.
What is behind Podemos’ international “anti-fascist conference” in Spain?
By Alejandro López, 11 February 2017
Podemos has itself legitimized the deepening integration of far-right forces into mainstream European bourgeois politics, by hailing nationalism as progressive.
Sanders ditches “political revolution” in Obamacare debate with Ted Cruz
By Kate Randall, 10 February 2017
Socialism and defence of the free movement of labour: Part one
By Julie Hyland, 9 February 2017
Socialism and defence of the free movement of labour: Part two
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings
Trump and Brexit: For a socialist opposition to economic nationalism
11 February 2017
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is holding a series of meetings on the significance of Trump’s election and the necessity to oppose all forms of economic nationalism on the basis of the fight for socialism.
SEP meeting in Detroit Saturday to oppose GM layoffs
10 February 2017
The SEP and the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter have called this meeting to organize and mobilize opposition to the layoffs throughout the region.
“It’s like we’re working for a temporary agency”
As deadline nears, autoworkers speak on General Motors layoffs in Detroit
SEP (Australia) public meetings
The political significance of Trump and the accelerated drive to war
10 February 2016
Arts
Budapest Festival Orchestra in New York
Classical music performers take a stand against Trump’s travel ban
By Fred Mazelis, 11 February 2017
Symphony orchestras in major US cities (and many smaller cities as well) have large and growing numbers of immigrants in their ranks, and the music they perform is international in scope and history.
Alberto Cavalcanti and postwar British cinema
By Joanne Laurier, 10 February 2017
John Berger, radical art critic, 1926-2017
By Sandy English and David Walsh, 7 February 2017
The Trump Presidency
The election of Trump and the crisis of the European Union
By Peter Schwarz, 10 February 2017
How the Democrats paved the way for Betsy DeVos
By Jerry White, 10 February 2017
Sessions sworn in as attorney general as Trump signs orders to increase police powers
By Tom Eley, 10 February 2017
Week three of the Trump presidency: A crisis of bourgeois rule and turn toward dictatorship
By Joseph Kishore, 9 February 2017
The New York Times indicts Trump for questioning the CIA’s moral superiority
By Bill Van Auken, 9 February 2017
In speech at Florida Air Force base
Trump appeals to the military against the press and the courts
The Democratic Party and the anti-Russia hysteria
Veteran of torture program appointed new deputy CIA director
More on the Trump presidency »
Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 February 2017
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Caterpillar workers in US overwhelmingly authorize strike
By Marcus Day, 9 February 2017
British Airways cabin crew strike at Heathrow Airport
By Ross Mitchell, 9 February 2017
Book Review
Eliot Cohen’s blueprint for World War Three
By Eric London, 8 February 2017
The former State Department official’s book calling for preemptive nuclear war was warmly received by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
Centenary of the Russian Revolution
Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 3 January 2017
A specter is haunting world capitalism: the specter of the Russian Revolution. This year marks the centenary of the world-historical events of 1917, which began with the February Revolution in Russia and culminated in October with the conquest of political power by the Bolshevik Party, under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky.
The End of the USSR
By David North, 30 December 2016
On January 4, 1992, David North, national secretary of the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party), delivered a report which explained the historical background and significance of the end of the USSR. To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of this critical event, the World Socialist Web Site is posting North's report.
New in Arabic
Arabic translation of “Build the Socialist Equality Party (France)!”
We are publishing here the Arabic translation of the November 16, 2016 statement: Build the Socialist Equality Party (France)!. This was adopted as the historical and political basis for the founding of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste, the French section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Arabic translation of the preface to A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990–2016
Mehring Books
The Election of Donald Trump: The Insurrection of the Oligarchy
New pamphlet from Mehring Books
25 January 2017
The demonstrations against Trump foreshadow the eruption of class struggle in the US on a massive scale.
100 Years since the Russian Revolution
Mehring Books announces centenary edition of landmark documentary, Tsar to Lenin
History
Seventy-five years since the Wannsee Conference
By Clara Weiss, 25 January 2017
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856–1918): His Place in the History of Marxism
By David North and Vladimir Volkov, 5 December 2016
Security and the Fourth Internaional
Security and the Fourth International
The Smith Act trial and government infiltration of the Trotskyist movement—Part one
By Eric London, 8 December 2016
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