3 August 2017
Trump announces plan to cut legal immigration in half
By our reporter, 3 August 2017
Defending the move at a press conference, Trump’s fascistic aide Stephen Miller denounced CNN for having a “cosmopolitan bias” in a thinly-veiled anti-Semitic attack.
Democrats advise concerned immigrant community to prepare for deportation
By Anthony del Olmo, 3 August 2017
Congressman Juan Vargas hosted an Immigration Town Hall in San Diego that amounted to advice on how to ensure a smooth deportation.
Video released of 2013 incident
Border agents urged 16-year-old boy to drink liquid meth, resulting in his death
San Diego teacher detained by Border Patrol at internal immigration checkpoint
American nightmare: Nine immigrants suffocate to death in trailer left in Texas parking lot
More on North American immigration issues »
“I’ve read about revolutions. If you ignore the lower class long enough they’ll rise up”
Amazon Jobs Day applicants speak out
By our reporters, 3 August 2017
Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site and International Amazon Workers Voice spoke to applicants in Illinois, Wisconsin, New Jersey, New York and Ohio.
Amazon Jobs Day: A Tale of Two Americas
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Trump approves new sanctions against Russia
By Bill Van Auken, 3 August 2017
With relations between Washington and Moscow worse than at anytime since the height of the Cold War, predominant sections of the US establishment are pressing for a further escalation of tensions.
The US sanctions drive and the danger of war
US Congress overwhelmingly passes sanctions bill targeting Russia
Grenfell survivors homeless while local mansions remain empty
By Paul Mitchell, 3 August 2017
Across London, 19,845 homes, worth some £9.4 billion ($12 billion), sat idle for over six months in 2016.
Anger grows over failure to prosecute those responsible for Grenfell Tower inferno
More on the Grenfell Tower fire »
Over 1,000 organisations targeted by UK police undercover spying operations
By Steve James, 3 August 2017
In 2015, the Socialist Equality Party published an Open Letter to the Pitchford inquiry for “the immediate release of the names of all undercover police operatives, especially those active in the Workers Revolutionary Party (and its forerunners and successor organisations).”
Video documents torture of teen in Tennessee jail
By Keisha Gibbs, 3 August 2017
Released in late July, surveillance video shows 18-year-old Jordan Norris being restrained and repeatedly tased while in a Cheatham County, Tennessee jail.
San Diego State University professor attacked over Facebook post criticizing Senator John McCain
By Jill Lux, 3 August 2017
Threats have been made against Professor Jonathan Graubart, who denounced the effusions of sympathy for the the long-time war-monger who was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Canada: BC’s new NDP premier pledges to work closely with Trudeau
By Roger Jordan, 3 August 2017
Premier Horgan has hailed Trudeau, whose government is hiking military spending and launching a privatization drive.
Contradictions mount in latest Australian terrorism scare
By Mike Head, 3 August 2017
The release of one of the detained men without charge raises further questions about lurid claims of a supposed “aeroplane plot.”
Terrorist plot allegedly prevented in Australia
Papua New Guinea prime minister re-installed
By John Braddock, 3 August 2017
O’Neill has been returned to office with a reduced majority following an election marked by widespread fraud and attacks on democratic rights.
After the Papua New Guinea election: The way forward for the working class and rural poor
New in Spanish
Los cambios de cartera de la Casa Blanca: pasos hacia el autoritarianismo
Por Patrick Martin, 2 agosto 2017
La colocación del general marine de EE. UU., John Kelly, como jefe de personal de la Casa Blanca es parte de un giro más amplio del presidente Trump hacia el aparato militar y de inteligencia.
¿Escribe el WSWS sobre León Trotsky? No según Google
Por Joseph Kishore, 2 agosto 2017
La búsqueda en Google de “¿Quién es León Trotsky?” en inglés no lleva a artículos del sitio trotskista más leído del mundo.
El jefe de los ingenieros de búsqueda de Google legitima el nuevo algoritmo de censura
Por Andre Damon, 2 agosto 2017
Usando el pretexto fraudulento de bloquear el acceso a las “noticias falsas”, Google ha implementado un programa vastamente expandido de censura en Internet.
New in Russian
Ученые предупреждают о «биологической аннигиляции», поскольку на Земле ускоряется массовое вымирание
Джош Варлин, 2 aвгустa 2017 г.
Научное исследование, опубликованное 10 июля, приходит к выводу, что планета уже переживает шестое массовое вымирание видов — первое с момента появления человека.
New in French
Le nouveau protocole de recherche de Google restreint l'accès à 13 importants sites web socialistes, progressistes et antiguerre
Par Andre Damon et David North, 3 août 2017
Le World Socialist Web Site et d'autres publications de gauche largement suivies sur Internet ont connu une baisse massive du trafic provenant des recherches Google.
La France lance une attaque contre les droits des réfugiés et des travailleurs immigrés
Par Athiyan Silva, 3 août 2017
Macron prépare un assaut sur les droits démocratiques des immigrés en France et des camps de concentration pour empêcher les réfugiés africains d’arriver en Europe.
Des navires de guerre canadiens participent à des exercices de «liberté de navigation» en mer de Chine méridionale
Par Roger Jordan, 3 août 2017
La Marine royale canadienne participe à des exercices organisés par les États-Unis et ses principaux alliés de l’Asie-Pacifique dans le but de menacer une guerre contre la Chine et de s'y préparer.
«Le syndicat, c’est pas compliqué, c’est comme la mafia, tu fermes ta gueule et tu payes!» – un délégué syndical
Entrevue avec un travailleur de la construction du Québec
Par Nos correspondants, 3 août 2017
Dans une entrevue accordée au World Socialist Web Site, un travailleur ayant vécu la grève de mai dernier dans la construction québécoise raconte les véritables conditions de travail, l'étendue de l'assaut patronal et le rôle anti-ouvrier des syndicats.
New in German
Das US-Sanktionsregime und die Kriegsgefahr
Alex Lantier, 2. August 2017
Angesichts der zunehmenden innenpolitischen Krise und des Zusammenbruchs alter Bündnisse verschärfen die USA ihre militärischen Drohungen gegen die Atommächte Russland und China gleichermaßen.
Europa verschärft Abwehr von Mittelmeerflüchtlingen
Marianne Arens, 2. August 2017
Durch Schikanen gegen Hilfsorganisationen, die Errichtung von Konzentrationslagern in Nordafrika und die Entsendung von Truppen nach Libyen und in die Sahelzone wollen die europäischen Regierungen die Zahl der Flüchtlinge reduzieren.
Turbulenzen im Weißen Haus gehen auch unter General Kelly weiter
Patrick Martin, 2. August 2017
Die erste Amtshandlung des pensionierten Generals als Stabschef des Weißen Hauses bestand darin, Anthony Scaramucci zu entlassen, der erst vor weniger als zwei Wochen von Trump zum Kommunikations-Chef ernannt worden war.
Wahlveranstaltungen der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei
Gegen Militarismus und Krieg! Für Sozialismus!
der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei (SGP), 2. August 2017
Die SGP startet die heiße Phase des Bundestagswahlkampfs mit Veranstaltungen in mehreren deutschen Städten.
Nach Nepal abgeschobene Bivsi Rana kann nach Duisburg zurückkehren
Elisabeth Zimmermann, 2. August 2017
Anfang letzter Woche wurde bekannt, dass das 14-jähruge Mädchen, das am 29. Mai von Beamten der Duisburger Ausländerbehörde aus dem Unterricht heraus geholt und nach Nepal abgeschoben worden war, mit ihren Eltern nach Duisburg zurückkehren kann.
Vortrag zum 100. Jahrestag der Russischen Revolution
Lenins Rückkehr nach Russland und die Aprilthesen
James Cogan, 2. August 2017
Wir veröffentlichen hier einen Vortrag von James Cogan, dem nationalen Sekretär der Socialist Equality Party Australiens, vom 6. Mai 2017. Es ist der fünfte in einer Reihe internationaler Online- Vorträge anlässlich des einhundertsten Jahrestags der Russischen Revolution von 1917.
Diese Woche in der Russischen Revolution
31. Juli – 6. August: Albtraum in Flandern
2. August 2017
Die Dritte Ypernschlacht wird auf Generationen hinaus zum Symbol für die Sinnlosigkeit und Barbarei des Kriegs. Während der Widerstand gegen den Krieg nicht verstummt, ist in Russland die Konterrevolution in vollem Gang.
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Perspective
Tens of thousands line up at Amazon job fairs as Dow tops 22,000
3 August 2017
The long lines of job-hungry workers encircling buildings and stretching across parking lots recall scenes from the Great Depression.
Google Censorship
Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
By Andre Damon and David North, 2 August 2017
RT interviews Andre Damon: Google becoming "censorship engine"
1 August 2017
Google’s chief search engineer legitimizes new censorship algorithm
By Andre Damon, 31 July 2017
Does the WSWS write about Leon Trotsky? Not according to Google
By Joseph Kishore, 29 July 2017
Google rigs searches to block access to World Socialist Web Site
New Google algorithm restricts access to left-wing, progressive web sites
Commentary
The anti-socialist politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
By Tom Hall, 3 August 2017
Despite the left-sounding rhetoric that will be on display this week at its national convention, the Democratic Socialists of America is a pro-capitalist organization steeped in a tradition of anti-communism and bitterly opposed to the political independence of the working class.
As worker anger over UAW corruption scandal grows, union president defends sellout contracts
By Jerry White, 3 August 2017
With the corruption scandal threatening to ensnare wider layers of the UAW bureaucracy, union president Dennis Williams is trying to contain the growing anger of autoworkers.
US study shows uninsured twice as likely to suffer from opioid abuse
By Genevieve Leigh, 2 August 2017
The opioid epidemic in the US: A national health emergency
Washington’s sanctions against Venezuela and the dead-end of Chavismo
By Eric London, 2 August 2017
Google’s new advertising program tracks offline shoppers, violates privacy
By Josh Varlin, 2 August 2017
Left Party leader supports Germany’s great power interests
By Johannes Stern, 2 August 2017
White House upheaval continues as General Kelly takes the reins
Embattled Trump plays homophobia card to strengthen his fascistic base
Canada’s pseudo left groups seek to revive right-wing NDP
Mélenchon denies France’s responsibility for the Nazi-era deportation of the Jews
Arts
Ceremony: The journey of a statue of Friedrich Engels from Ukraine to Manchester
By Margot Miller, 3 August 2017
Despite the shortcomings of Ceremony, there is a genuine and positive significance to the placement of a statue of Engels in Manchester, as well as the popular response.
Battlefield 1 and war video games: Old lies for a new generation
By Carlos Delgado, 3 August 2017
The popular video game depicts a highly romanticized version of the First World War.
Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor, dies at 73
By David Walsh, 2 August 2017
DL Menard (1932-2017): The voice of Cajun music
The Handmaid’s Tale: Resistance is not futile
Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit: Mind-numbing violence and racial politics
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City—Documentary on the life and times of urban activist Jane Jacobs
International Amazon Workers Voice
Amazon CEO Bezos makes $1.4 billion Thursday morning, briefly becoming world’s richest person
By Evan Blake, 28 July 2017
Amazon to seize the land of freed slaves’ descendants to lay power lines
Government gives Amazon millions in free money for Romulus, Michigan warehouse
Amazon and the CIA: a match made in hell
Part One: Amazon cashes in on war crimes and mass surveillance
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Centenary of the Russian Revolution
This week in the Russian Revolution
July 31—August 6: The nightmare in Flanders
31 July 2017
Perhaps more than any other battle in world history, the Third Battle of Ypres will endure for generations as a symbol of pointless and fratricidal barbarism. While popular moods continue to turn against the war, counterrevolution is in full swing in Russia.
From the archives of the Russian Revolution
Letter to the Provisional Government
By Leon Trotsky, 31 July 2017
This is a new translation of an open letter Trotsky addressed to the Provisional Government on the arrest of Bolshevik leaders, which took place during the crackdown that followed the July Days.
Chronology of the Russian Revolution »
Professor Sean McMeekin revives discredited anti-Lenin slanders (Part I)
By David North, 30 June 2017
Maruti Suzuki
Sri Lankan free trade workers express solidarity with framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers in India
By our reporters, 1 August 2017
Aisin Automotive workers in India’s Haryana state face a new company-government witchhunt
Five years since company-provoked incident used to frame up Maruti Suzuki workers
The Maruti Suzuki frame-up and the history of international labor defense campaigns
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Socialist Equality Party
Meetings in Australia and New Zealand discuss international significance of Grenfell Tower disaster
By our reporters, 1 August 2017
“You have to be rich to have a voice”
SEP meeting attendees speak on the Grenfell Tower tragedy
By our reporters, 1 August 2017
UK public meetings:
Grenfell Fire—Social Murder: A crime against the working class
21 July 2017
Independent Inquiry Committee holds meeting on Sri Lankan garbage dump collapse
By our correspondent, 26 July 2017
Workers Struggles
Railroad workers at CSX face the dictates of Wall Street
By Jeff Lusanne, 1 August 2017
Sri Lankan government deploys army to break oil workers’ strike
The Australian Education Union’s 2017 campaign of misinformation and censorship
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History
Part one: An uprising of the oppressed
Fifty years since the Detroit rebellion
By Barry Grey, 21 July 2017
The WSWS is posting a three-part series originally published in July of 1987 under the title “Twenty years since the Detroit rebellion.”
Mehring Books
Preface to the Turkish edition of The Heritage We Defend
By David North, 23 June 2017
A Turkish language edition of The Heritage We Defend by David North will be released next month by Mehring Yayıncılık, the publishing house of the Socialist Equality Group (Toplumsal Esitlik), the Trotskyist organization in Turkey working in political solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International. The Heritage We Defend was originally published in 1988. We are posting the preface for the Turkish edition written by David North.
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