30 March 2017
Top US general calls for military action against Iran
By Peter Symonds, 30 March 2017
General Joseph Votel’s provocative remarks and calls for military action feed into the growing clamour in Washington for tough measures against Iran.
Washington protests proposal for nuclear disarmament
The massacre in Mosul
Trump administration steps up anti-immigrant campaign
ICE raids and push to build border wall
By Genevieve Leigh, 30 March 2017
The White House is directing a nationwide crackdown on immigrants that is laying the basis for police-state attacks on all working people.
Photo Essay: Outrage in upstate new York over detention of immigrant family
Stop the attacks on immigrants! For a socialist policy of open borders and full rights for all workers!
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Conflict over Trump-Russia probe reaches stalemate in Washington
By Patrick Martin, 30 March 2017
The foreign policy dispute behind the divisions was underscored by remarks from Dick Cheney, who called Russian intervention in the US elections an “act of war.”
Democratic Party floats proposal for a palace coup
Ford warns of layoffs to cut inventories as Trump boasts of “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!”
By Shannon Jones, 30 March 2017
Ford’s warning follows a string of layoffs by GM, belying the claims of the Trump administration of a jobs revival in the auto industry.
The UAW’s corporatist alliance with Trump
Chicago teachers to vote on one-day strike
By Kristina Betinis, 30 March 2017
As part of the latest round of cuts, the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel has threatened to end the school year nearly three weeks early.
Market turbulence fuels warnings on health of global economy
By Nick Beams, 30 March 2017
Two major international economic organisations, the IMF and the OECD, have voiced concerns about the impact of the US protectionist trade agenda on the stability of the world economy.
Tensions erupt between the Philippines and China over disputed island
By Joseph Santolan, 30 March 2017
Sharp divisions emerged in the Duterte administration after a Chinese official announced plans for an environmental monitoring station on the Scarborough Shoal.
Bloodletting in Polish army leadership
By Clara Weiss, 30 March 2017
Some 92 percent of the cadre in the general staff and 82 percent of colonels have been replaced over the recent months, according to the Polish defence ministry.
UK teaching assistants march in Durham to oppose pay cuts and attacks on conditions
By Liz Smith, 30 March 2017
Labour Party-led Durham council propose to fire and then rehire teaching assistants on a contract that will result in a 23 percent pay cut.
Protests underway in UK against school education funding cuts
Australian Education Union agrees to sell-out deal with Victorian state Labor government
By Susan Allan, 30 March 2017
Teacher union claims of a “great win for our members” are a fraud.
New in Russian
Тысячи человек приняли участие в протестах по всей России
Владимир Волков, 30 mартa 2017 г.
В то время как участники протестов выражали свое недовольство неравенством, крайне правая прозападная программа Алексея Навального не имеет ничего общего с подлинными интересами трудящихся.
Сочинения Троцкого 1917 года
Война и революция
Лев Троцкий, 30 mартa 2017 г.
В этой статье Троцкий пишет о значении того, какие мотивы двигали решением Соединенных Штатов вступить в Первую мировую войну в разгар революционных потрясений в России.
Сочинения Троцкого 1917 года
Кто изменники?
Лев Троцкий, 30 mартa 2017 г.
В этой статье Троцкий отвечает на обвинения, согласно которым его осуждение военных планов буржуазного Временного правительства делает его «германофилом и изменником».
New in Turkish
Sosyal Medya Videosu: Maruti Suzuki işçilerine özgürlük!
30 Mart 2017
Dünya Sosyalist Web Sitesi (WSWS), komplo kurulan ve ömür boyu hapse mahkum edilen Hindistan’daki 13 Maruti Suzuki işçisinin serbest bırakılması kampanyası için bir sosyal medya videosu yayınladı.
Batı Balkanlar’da savaş tehdidi artıyor
Markus Salzmann, 30 Mart 2017
Balkanlar’daki siyasi ve toplumsal kriz, bölgede başka bir savaş tehdidini yükseltecek şekilde, Yugoslavya’nın ardılı devletler arasındaki çatışmaları şiddetlendiriyor.
Devrim arşivlerinden
Petrograd Sovyeti’nin “1 Nolu Emri”
Petrograd İşçi ve Asker Vekilleri Sovyeti, 30 Mart 2017
Petrograd Sovyeti, askerlerin talebiyle, 14 Mart’ta (E.T. 1 Mart), Troçki’nin “Şubat Devrimi’nin tek dikkate değer belgesi” olarak tanımladığı “1 Nolu Emir”i yayınladı.
New in Spanish
La masacre en Mosul
Por James Cogan, 30 marzo 2017
En febrero, el gobierno de Trump dejó claro que intensificaría la sangría en Mosul sin importar cuántas vidas se puedan perder.
New in French
Washington est contre une proposition de désarmement nucléaire
Par André Damon, 30 mars 2017
Ayant tué des millions de personnes prétendument pour empêcher la prolifération d'« armes de destruction massive », les États-Unis et leurs alliés ont dénoncé une proposition onusienne d’interdiction des armes nucléaires.
Des milliers de manifestants dans toute la Russie
Par Vladimir Volkov, 30 mars 2017
Si de nombreux manifestants s’opposaient à l’inégalité, le programme d’extrême droite pro-occidental de Navalny n’a rien à voir avec les véritables intérêts de la classe ouvrière.
Un quotidien allemand réagit à la décision du tribunal dans l’affaire Baberowski en lançant une campagne contre l’IYSSE
Par le Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, 30 mars 2017
Le Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a réagi à l’arrêt du tribunal de grande instance en dénonçant le Parti de l’Égalité socialiste et son mouvement de jeunesse, l’IYSSE.
New in German
Washington protestiert gegen Vorschlag für nukleare Abrüstung
Von Andre Damon, 30. März 2017
Die USA und ihre Verbündeten haben im Namen der Nichtverbreitung von „Massenvernichtungswaffen“ Millionen Menschen getötet. Jetzt verurteilen sie einen Vorschlag der UN, Atomwaffen zu verbieten.
Große Demonstrationen in ganz Russland
Von Wladimir Wolkow, 30. März 2017
Viele Demonstranten kritisierten die Ungleichheit in Russland. Alexei Nawalny allerdings vertritt ein prowestliches sowie äußerst rechtes Programm und keineswegs die Interessen der arbeitenden Bevölkerung.
Gabriels Europastrategie
Von Johannes Stern, 30. März 2017
Unter dem Titel „Für ein stärkeres Europa kämpfen“ plädiert der sozialdemokratische Außenminister für die Aufrüstung des Kontinents, die Stärkung der „Festung Europa“ und die Fortsetzung der Austeritätspolitik.
Berlin: Protest gegen Flüchtlingsghetto des rot-rot-grünen Senats
Von Verena Nees, 30. März 2017
Die Berliner Regierungskoalition von SPD, Linkspartei und Grünen ist erst seit gut drei Monaten im Amt. Doch in vielen Bereichen wächst die Wut auf ihre rechte Politik.
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- Washington est contre une proposition de désarmement nucléaire (30.03.2017)
- Des milliers de manifestants dans toute la Russie (30.03.2017)
- Un quotidien allemand réagit à la décision du tribunal dans l’affaire Baberowski en lançant une campagne contre l’IYSSE (30.03.2017)
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- Élections régionales en Sarre : un revers pour la coalition rouge-rouge-verte (29.03.2017)
- Des travailleurs de l'auto des États-Unis et du Canada se portent à la défense des travailleurs de Maruti Suzuki victimes d'un coup monté (29.03.2017)
- Divisions croissantes et menaces de guerre planent sur le sommet de l’UE à Rome (28.03.2017)
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Perspective
UK officially begins process of exiting the European Union
30 March 2017
The centrifugal forces tearing apart the EU reveal the failure of any attempt to overcome, within the framework of the capitalist system, the national antagonisms that gave rise to two world wars.
IYSSE
Four hundred attend screening of Tsar to Lenin in Leipzig
By our correspondents, 30 March 2017
Mehring Verlag, the publishing arm of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, sponsored two well-attended meetings on the Russian Revolution and its contemporary significance as part of the Leipzig Book fair.
German daily reacts to Baberowski ruling with campaign of lies against the IYSSE
By the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, 29 March 2017
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reacted to the Cologne District Court ruling with a denunciation of the Socialist Equality Party and its youth organisation, the IYSSE.
Jörg Baberowski: A right-wing extremist professor
By Johannes Stern, 29 March 2017
More on the fight for historical truth »
New York University’s ties to Trump, Wall Street banks and Gulf monarchies
By Sandy English, 29 March 2017
“A university should be a place for free speech”
New York University students denounce decision to deny IYSSE club status
New York University Student Activities Board rejects IYSSE appeal on club status: An act of political censorship
More on the fight for democratic rights at NYU »
Commentary
The New York Times’ hypocrisy over protests in Russia
By Bill Van Auken, 30 March 2017
The “newspaper of record” has seized on last Sunday’s protests to promote escalating confrontation with Moscow and nurture the most right-wing forces in Russia itself.
Caterpillar workers react with anger, suspicion to UAW contract ratification
By Marcus Day, 29 March 2017
While the UAW has claimed that a new six-year contract with Caterpillar was approved by workers at ratification meetings Sunday, it has yet to release company-wide vote totals.
“The way I look at it is, the UAW is Caterpillar”
Caterpillar workers in Peoria, Illinois denounce UAW sellout deal
Thousands protest throughout Russia
Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!
Indian auto workers demand release of Maruti Suzuki workers
By Moses Rajkumar and Yuvan Darwin, 30 March 2017
Indian auto workers voice their support for the ICFI campaign and demand release of the Maruti Suzuki workers.
Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to picket and hold public meeting for release of Maruti Suzuki workers
30 March 2017
The campaign to overturn the frame-up of the Maruti Suzuki workers requires the independent mobilisation of the working class in India, throughout South Asia and internationally.
“This is nothing but class war”
International support grows for petition to free framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
By Jerry White, 29 March 2017
Thirteen sentenced to life imprisonment in India
Free the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers!
International Committee of the Fourth International, 20 March 2017
- UK: Strikers at Fujitsu support release of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Sri Lankan workers support campaign to free framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- South Asian filmmakers Rahul Roy and Prasanna Vithanage back campaign to free Maruti Suzuki workers
- Social Media Video: Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!
- Join the fight to free the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers!
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Centenary of the Russian Revolution
This week in the Russian Revolution
March 27-April 2: Trotsky departs for Petrograd
27 March 2017
Parting for Russia with promises to bring down the Provisional Government and stop the war, Trotsky sets sail via Oslo aboard a Norwegian liner, while Lenin remains stranded in Switzerland, where he is feverishly working to shape Bolshevik policy in Petrograd from afar.
This week in the Russian Revolution
March 20-26: Dual Power in Russia
Writings of Leon Trotsky on The Russian Revolution
Writings of Trotsky from 1917
War and the Revolution
By Leon Trotsky, 27 March 2017
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Arts
Lyrical and left-wing film
Nicholas Ray’s They Live by Night (1948): “They’re thieves, just like us”
By Joanne Laurier, 29 March 2017
Get Out: The horror of racism, and racialist politics
By Hiram Lee, 28 March 2017
The foul attempt to censor and suppress Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till
By David Walsh, 24 March 2017
Science
New discovery sheds light on the deep roots of the Agricultural Revolution
By Philip Guelpa, 27 March 2017
Obituaries
Beryl Hood: 29 November 1938–21 March 2017
By Mike Head, 25 March 2017
A Trotskyist for four decades, Comrade Beryl was a fine and steadfast representative of the most advanced layers of the working class, attracted, above all, to internationalism.
The real legacy of Martin McGuiness: Sectarianism and austerity
24 March 2017
History
Trump turns to American history
The strange political afterlife of Andrew Jackson
By Tom Mackaman, 21 March 2017
The political art of Jackson, which so inspires the Trump administration, consisted of his ability to obscure powerful contradictions behind a veil of nationalism and populist demagogy.
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