10 August 2017
US health catastrophe: Drug overdose deaths approach 60,000 a year
By E.P. Milligan, 10 August 2017
More Americans have died from drug overdoses since 2000 than in all the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries combined.
Trump makes an appeal to the fascistic right
Thousands attend free health care event in Detroit
By a WSWS reporting team, 10 August 2017
Like other free clinics throughout the US, the Motor City Medical Mission revealed the deep health care crisis in America.
Democrats offer pro-corporate health care “compromise”
FBI raid on home of former Trump campaign chairman
By Patrick Martin, 10 August 2017
The extraordinary pre-dawn raid is a signal that special counsel Robert Mueller is stepping up his pressure on the Trump administration through the Russia investigation.
Polls show plunging popular support for Trump
CSX railroad closes and downgrades major facilities
By Jeff Lusanne, 10 August 2017
Workers at yards across the CSX system have been pushed aggressively to speed up work, risking injury, under the threat of yards being downgraded or closed.
CSX railroad workers denounce Wall Street plundering
British government backs US war drive against North Korea, China
By Simon Whelan and Robert Stevens, 10 August 2017
The UK Conservative government has staked its post-Brexit future on being the most loyal ally of the US in all its military actions.
Trump threatens “fire and fury” against North Korea
US to launch drone bombing campaign in the Philippines
By Joseph Santolan, 10 August 2017
The US military was involved in the initial attack by Philippine forces that led to the declaration of martial law and US surveillance planes have directed the daily bombing.
Danger of India-China border war grows
By K. Ratnayake, 10 August 2017
The standoff between Indian and Chinese troops on the Doklam Plateau is continuing, amid growing warnings of an impending military clash.
After Levallois attack, French government whips up law-and-order hysteria
By Francis Dubois, 10 August 2017
While what took place in Levallois remains highly unclear, the political establishment is stirring up security fears and promoting the state of emergency.
Grenfell Tower: How the warnings of cladding dangers were ignored
By Steve James, 10 August 2017
Decades prior to the Grenfell fire, the dangers of flammable and incorrectly installed cladding were known to governments of all stripes and ignored.
Grenfell fire: “It’s like Victorian days, where we have nothing and they have everything”
More on the Grenfell Tower fire »
German automaker VW collaborated with Brazilian dictatorship
By Ludwig Weller, 10 August 2017
Volkswagen not only offered its services to collaborate with the Brazilian military regime which ruled from 1964 to 1985, but was an independent actor in the repression.
An anti-democratic witch-hunt in Australia over dual citizenship
By Mike Head, 10 August 2017
Question marks are being placed over the basic democratic rights of millions of people who were born overseas or had a parent born overseas.
Australian government threatens police violence to remove Manus Island refugees
Government of crisis installed in Papua New Guinea
By John Braddock, 10 August 2017
Widespread alienation and social unrest has seen the O’Neill government suffer a sharp drop in support in the highly contentious election.
Papua New Guinea prime minister re-installed
New Zealand: Inland Revenue Department to axe nearly 2,000 jobs
By Tom Peters, 10 August 2017
The IRD plans to slash jobs and wages as part of a restructure that is supported by the Public Service Association trade union.
New in French
Après l‘attaque à Levallois, le gouvernement incite l'hystérie sécuritaire
Par Francis Dubois, 10 août 2017
Alors que le caractère de l‘attaque de Levallois n'est pas clairement établi, la classe politique l‘exploite pour justifier le passage de l‘état d‘urgence dans le droit commun.
Trump menace la Corée du Nord de “feu et fureur”
Par Peter Symonds, 10 août 2017
Le monde n’a jamais été si proche d’une guerre nucléaire depuis la Crise des missiles de Cuba en 1962.
Un professeur allemand fait l'éloge de militaires de la Première Guerre mondiale
Par Sven Heymanns, 10 août 2017
Dans une chronique publiée par le Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, le Professeur Ralph Rotte a déclaré que l’armée allemande devrait se tourner vers la Première Guerre mondiale pour trouver ses modèles.
New in German
Trump droht Nordkorea mit „Feuer und Wut“
Peter Symonds, 10. August 2017
Die Welt steht so nah am Rand eines Atomkriegs wie seit der Kubakrise 1962 nicht mehr.
Das Ende von Rot- Grün in Niedersachsen
Ulrich Rippert, 10. August 2017
Der Mehrheitsverlust in Niedersachsen ist ein schwerer Schlag für den neuen SPD-Vorsitzenden und Kanzlerkandidaten Martin Schulz.
Opel-Übernahme durch PSA bedroht Leih- und Zeitarbeiter
Marianne Arens, 10. August 2017
Wie ein Damoklesschwert hängt die PSA-Vorgabe über den Opel/Vauxhall-Standorten: Von 2020 an werden nur die Teile überleben, die Gewinn einfahren.
Syrien wirft Washington Kriegsverbrechen bei Belagerung von Rakka vor
Bill Van Auken, 10. August 2017
Durch US-Luftangriffe sind zahlreiche Zivilisten getötet worden. Laut Damaskus wurde dabei auch Munition mit dem geächteten weißen Phosphor gegen ein Krankenhaus eingesetzt.
New in Spanish
Los cañones de agosto
Por Alex Lantier, 10 agosto 2017
Un poco más de un siglo después de que sonaran los cañones de agosto de 1914 anunciando el comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial en Europa, varios focos de conflicto están desarrollando las condiciones para la erupción de una guerra nuclear entre las principales potencias nucleares.
New in Turkish
İsrail polisi ile protestocular arasındaki çatışmalar sonrasında üç Filistinli öldü
Peter Symonds, 9 Ağustos 2017
İsrail Başbakanı Benjamin Netanyahu’nun ve onun başında olduğu hükümetin Doğu Kudüs ve Mescid-i Aksa camisi konusunda daha kışkırtıcı ve saldırgan bir tutum alması, Trump yönetiminin güçlü İsrail yanlısı duruşu eliyle açıkça teşvik edilmektedir.
Washington’ın Venezuela’ya yönelik yaptırımları ve Chavezciliğin çıkmazı
Eric London, 9 Ağustos 2017
Latin Amerika’ya egemen olan sürekli yoksulluk ve eşitsizlik, buradaki işçi sınıfının küçük-burjuva radikalizminin çeşitli akımları tarafından siyasi olarak silahsızlandırılması ile sıkı sıkıya bağlantılıdır.
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- Les GM&S menacés de liquidation alors que s‘enrichit l‘oligarchie (24.07.2017)
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Cuatro meses desde la incriminación y condena de los obreros de Maruti Suzuki de la India (19.07.2017)
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Perspective
Trump’s nuclear war threat against North Korea
10 August 2017
With the staggeringly reckless statements of Trump and his aides, a fuse has been lit that can lead to the eruption of a nuclear war in Asia with incalculable global consequences.
Google Censorship
Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues to mount
By Andre Damon, 8 August 2017
Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
By Andre Damon, 4 August 2017
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Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Arts
Another reactionary attack on artist Dana Schutz, this time in Boston—and a healthy response
By David Walsh, 10 August 2017
Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black youth murdered in Mississippi in 1955, came under attack in March when it was shown as part of the Whitney Museum’s Biennial in New York City.
Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu dies, aged 46
By Richard Phillips, 9 August 2017
Barbet Schroeder’s Amnesia: The trauma of German history
By Joanne Laurier, 7 August 2017
Commentary
The hacking of HBO and the “Russian meddling” campaign
By Barry Grey, 10 August 2017
The massive hack of HBO is but the latest case demonstrating the proliferation of hacker groups all over the world that employ advanced technology to successfully attack giant corporations.
Irish nationalism versus socialist internationalism: A reply to a reader—Part two
By Steve James, 10 August 2017
Knox proceeds from insisting that the British working class is hopeless to exalting the nationalist revolutionary traditions of the Irish working class.
Irish nationalism versus socialist internationalism: A reply to a reader—Part one
New Zealand: Pseudo-left International Socialist Organisation backs Labour, Greens in election
By John Braddock, 9 August 2017
The guns of August
US sanctions against Russia intensify conflict with Europe
Devastating toll of hunger on US school children
International Amazon Workers Voice
Working life at a Pittsburgh Amazon warehouse
By Samuel Davidson, 10 August 2017
”You are not supposed to talk, just supposed to work in this hive. That is what it looks like in there, a beehive, and we are working in a honeycomb.”
Amazon and Foxconn in Kenosha, Wisconsin: The new American “special economic zone”
By Christopher Davion, 8 August 2017
“It’s like we are going back to the early 1900s before workers had any rights”
Amazon job applicants speak on social crisis in US
By Isaac Finn, 4 August 2017
Amazon Jobs Day: A Tale of Two Americas
Amazon and the CIA: a match made in hell
Part One: Amazon cashes in on war crimes and mass surveillance
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Science
Curiosity rover marks fifth year on Mars
By Bryan Dyne, 9 August 2017
Centenary of the Russian Revolution
This week in the Russian Revolution
August 7-13: Mezhraiontsy unite with the Bolsheviks
7 August 2017
At the Sixth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, convened by the Bolsheviks, the 4,000 strong Interdistrict Group (Mezhraiontsy), led by Trotsky and Lunacharsky, merges with the 240,000-strong Bolshevik Party, led by Lenin.
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.
Professor Sean McMeekin revives discredited anti-Lenin slanders (Part I)
Chronology of the Russian Revolution »
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
More on the frame-up of Maruti Suzuki workers »
Workers Struggles
Spectrum strike in New York-New Jersey enters fifth month
By Mark Witkowski, 9 August 2017
Steelworkers in Sheffield, UK strike after decade without a pay rise
By Danny Richardson, 7 August 2017
A letter from a reader on social conditions and the Fiat workers’ strike in Serbia
5 August 2017
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Equality Party of Germany presents its posters for September federal election
By our reporters, 7 August 2017
Public meeting in Chennai, India: Oppose the US-led imperialist war drive!
7 August 2017
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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