15 June 2017
London’s Grenfell Tower inferno: A crime against the working class
By Laura Tiernan, 15 June 2017
The catastrophic fire broke out shortly after midnight Tuesday, on the second floor of 24-storey council flats in Kensington, West London, that were home to an estimated 500 people.
Grenfell Tower residents warn: “People have had enough”
By our reporters, 15 June 2017
Gunman shot to death after opening fire on Republican congressmen, aides
By Patrick Martin, 15 June 2017
The 66-year-old man, identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, was reportedly opposed to President Trump and the Trump administration.
In Paris talks with British prime minister May
French President Macron holds out prospect of canceling Brexit
By Alex Lantier, 15 June 2017
A bitter struggle over influence and alliances is unfolding between the imperialist powers, amid growing hostility to Washington on the part of Paris and Berlin.
French legislative elections expose Mélenchon’s political bankruptcy
Australian government demands “patriotic” citizenship tests
By Mike Head, 15 June 2017
The government has seized upon the latest alleged terrorist attacks to justify measures to deny citizenship on a range of discriminatory grounds.
Mass shooting at San Francisco UPS facility leaves four people dead, including gunman
By Evan Blake, 15 June 2017
The shooting was the 154th mass shooting in the US so far this year, and is yet another reflection of the profound social crisis gripping the country.
Democratic Party establishment prevails in Virginia, New Jersey primaries
By Matthew MacEgan, 15 June 2017
Lt. Governor Ralph Northam won the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia, while a Goldman Sachs banker won the party’s nomination for governor of New Jersey
Michigan health director named in latest round of charges over Flint water crisis
By Shannon Jones, 15 June 2017
The director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the highest ranking state official yet to be named in the ongoing official investigation, is facing manslaughter charges.
Three years after the lead poisoning of Flint, residents face water shutoffs, home foreclosures
More on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan »
Despite low inflation, US Fed lifts interest rates
By Nick Beams, 15 June 2017
The overriding message was that low economic growth, falling consumption spending and the spread of part-time and casual work represent the new normal.
Second appellate court rules against Trump anti-Muslim travel ban
By John Burton, 15 June 2017
The panel ruled that Trump violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by not making the findings required under the INA and by using nationality as a criterion.
Los Angeles and San Diego teachers’ contracts set to expire at the end of the month
By Jake Dean, 15 June 2017
While the contracts are set to expire at the same time there is no attempt by the teachers unions to wage a unified struggle against the wholesale assault on public education.
US ex-basketballer heads to North Korea to “open door”
By Peter Symonds, 15 June 2017
Given the accelerating US confrontation with North Korea, the chances that Rodman’s visit can open meaningful talks between the two countries appear remote.
Protests spread across Morocco after general strike called in Rif region
By Anthony Torres, 15 June 2017
Protestors are demanding the freeing of members of Hirak Rif, the movement protesting the killing of fisherman Mouhcine Fikri by the security forces last year.
New Zealand government to raise retirement age
By Tom Peters and Daniel Bradley, 15 June 2017
Commentary on last month’s budget did not mention government plans to raise the superannuation entitlement age from 65 to 67.
New in Russian
Сочинения Троцкого 1917 года
Центральная задача
Лев Троцкий, 15 июня 2017 г.
Эта статья была написана Троцким в мае или начале июня 1917 года и предназначалась для газеты «межрайонцев», однако осталась в тот момент неопубликованной. В ней Троцкий объясняет неустойчивость режима двоевластия и выступает за переход власти в руки Советов.
Эта неделя в русской революции
5-11 июня: Ужасы на Западном фронте
15 июня 2017 г.
Продолжает бушевать породившая революцию в России великая мировая война. На Западном фронте в Европе около десяти тысяч мужчин и юношей погибают в один момент, когда британские саперы взрывают гигантские мины под немецкими траншеями в Месене.
New in Spanish
Plebiscito sobre estatus de Puerto Rico marcado por abstención masiva
Por Rafael Azul, 15 junio 2017
La gran mayoría de los puertorriqueños no acudieron a las urnas en el referéndum del domingo sobre si integrarse o no a EE.UU.
La abstención masiva opaca la victoria de Macron en las elecciones legislativas francesas
Por Alex Lantier, 15 junio 2017
Un total del 51,2 por ciento de los votantes se abstuvieron en las elecciones legislativas francesas ─la primera vez desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial que participa solo la minoría de los votantes censados.
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L'audience de Sessions: Une autre diversion anti-russe alors que s'intensifie la contre-révolution sociale en Amérique
Par Patrick Martin, 15 juin 2017
Aucun sénateur démocrate ne cherchait à interroger Sessions sur les politiques réelles de l'administration Trump envers les immigrants ou les victimes de violences policières.
Les Russes arrivent! Les Russes arrivent!
Par Patrick Martin, 15 juin 2017
La comparution jeudi dernier du directeur du FBI limogé, James Comey, devant le Comité du renseignement du Sénat a élevé à un nouveau degré l'hystérie anti-russe dans les médias américains.
Conflits virulents au FN après le premier tour des législatives
Par Francis Dubois, 15 juin 2017
Derrière les accusations mutuelles de responsabilité dans le faible score aux législatives il y a le conflit sur la ligne des néo-fascistes concernant l’Europe.
New in German
Die Gefahr eines Flächenbrands im Nahen Osten
Von Bill Van Auken, 15. Juni 2017
Hinter der Kulisse des erbitterten politischen Kriegs in Washington und den endlosen Vorwürfen, Russland habe die Wahl beeinflusst, droht die Gefahr, dass sich die sehr realen Kriege im Nahen Osten zu einem regionalen oder sogar globalen Flächenbrand ausweiten.
Innenministerkonferenz: Deutschland wird zum Polizeistaat
Von Sven Heymanns, 15. Juni 2017
Die Innenministerkonferenz (IMK) der Länder hat bei ihrem Frühjahrstreffen in Dresden eine massive Verschärfung der Sicherheitsgesetze beschlossen.
Air Berlin droht die Pleite: 7500 Arbeitsplätze in Gefahr
Von Marianne Arens, 15. Juni 2017
Air Berlin steht vor der Insolvenz oder einer Übernahme durch Lufthansa. Piloten, Flugbegleiter und Bodenpersonal müssen mit drastischen Einschnitten rechnen.
Die Anhörung von Sessions: Noch ein anti-russisches Ablenkungsmanöver
Von Patrick Martin, 15. Juni 2017
Bei der Anhörung des US-Justizministers Sessions stellte nicht ein einziger Demokrat eine Frage nach der Trump-Politik gegen Einwanderer oder gegen Opfer von Polizeigewalt.
„People’s Summit“ in Chicago – ein politischer Betrug
Bernie Sanders verbreitet Kriegshetze gegen Russland
Von Jerry White und Tom Hall, 15. Juni 2017
Sanders und die Gewerkschaften versuchen, den Demokraten ein neues Image als „Volkspartei“ zu verpassen. Damit wollen sie eine Massenbewegung der Arbeiterklasse gegen den amerikanischen Kapitalismus verhindern.
New in Urdu
دہشت گردی کی جیو پولیٹکس کا ادراک
8 June 2017
جبکہ مغربی ذرائع ابلاغ معمول کے مطابق دہشتگردی کی توضیع ’’شیطان‘‘ یا پھر کسی پاگل انسانوں کی کارروائی کے طور پر پیش کرتے ہیں جبکہ دہشتگردی اور جیوپولیٹکس کے درمیان بنیادی رشتے ہیں جنکے خاص سیاسی مقاصد ہیں
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Washington’s war crimes in Syria
15 June 2017
UN war crimes investigators found that the US military has inflicted a “staggering loss of civilian life” with its relentless airstrikes in and around the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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Palace coup or class struggle: The political crisis in Washington and the strategy of the working class
By Joseph Kishore and David North on behalf of the Socialist Equality Party Political Committee, 13 June 2017
The working class cannot remain a bystander in the fight between Trump and the Democrats. Rather, it must develop its struggle against Trump under its own banner and with its own program.
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German law professor accuses Baberowski of right-wing extremism and historical revisionism
By Peter Schwarz, 15 June 2017
Despite right-wing historian Jörg Baberowski’s defeat in court, the Presidium of Humboldt University continues to defend him. Bremen-based law Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano has therefore accused the university Presidium of being “an accomplice of right-wing scholarship.”
IYSSE demands Humboldt University retract its defense of right-wing radical Jorg Baberowski
Professor Jörg Baberowski loses on all counts in suit against University of Bremen students
Marching toward a wider war in the Middle East
By Bill Van Auken, 14 June 2017
Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin: When the White House fixed a Russian election
By Alan Gilman, 14 June 2017
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!
Australian media widens campaign against Chinese “influence”
By James Cogan, 14 June 2017
Hey Bernie! Welcome to the millionaire’s club!
At “People’s Summit,” Sanders backs Democrats’ anti-Russian warmongering
Arts
Theater professionals address the Flint water disaster
Public Enemy: Flint, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play: A remarkable artistic event
By Joanne Laurier, 15 June 2017
A version of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882) was performed last week in the devastated city of Flint, Michigan, as a commentary on the city’s water crisis.
Interviews with actors in Public Enemy: Flint
By Joanne Laurier, 15 June 2017
Attempt at censorship in reaction to New York’s Public Theater production of Julius Caesar
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Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!
Indian authorities seek to imprison more Maruti Suzuki workers on frame-up charges
By Shannon Jones, 13 June 2017
Sri Lankan students demand release of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
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Centenary of the Russian Revolution
From the archives of the Revolution
From the Kronstadt Sailors, Soldiers, and Workers—To the Revolutionary People of Petrograd and All Russia
By Leon Trotsky, 13 June 2017
This declaration by the Kronstadt Soviet was written by Trotsky after he met with the Kronstadt sailors in June to discuss how to respond to the many attacks by the Provisional Government and the bourgeois press against the naval base.
This week in the Russian Revolution
June 12-18: Petrograd Congress of Factory Committees endorses Bolshevik resolutions
12 June 2017
Arriving straight from their factory benches, worker-deputies vote overwhelmingly for Bolshevik resolutions. Workers declare that they are ready to rule without the “help” of the capitalists and landlords.
From the archives of the Revolution
Speech at an Emergency Session of the Petrograd Soviet on the Question of Kronstadt
By Leon Trotsky, 10 June 2017
This speech was delivered by Trotsky at an emergency session of the Petrograd Soviet dealing with attacks by the Provisional Government against the increasingly restive sailors at the Kronstadt naval base.
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Socialist Equality Party stands candidates in German election: Against militarism and war! For socialism!
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