19 September 2017
Protests continue in St. Louis as police kill eight more in US
By Trévon Austin and Patrick Martin, 19 September 2017
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Justice Center in downtown St. Louis Monday night in a show of support for those who remained jailed after police arrested 123 people on Sunday night.
Over forty arrested in St. Louis as demonstrations continue against acquittal of killer cop
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Facebook turns over information on Russia-linked accounts to Special Counsel Mueller
By Patrick Martin, 19 September 2017
The investigation into alleged Russian interference in the US election and Trump campaign collusion is being used to justify a crackdown on the Internet.
CNN claims FBI wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman
By James Cogan, 19 September 2017
Paul Manafort, former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, was allegedly wiretapped by investigators both before and after the election.
Undocumented protesters drive Nancy Pelosi out of her own press conference
By Evan Blake, 19 September 2017
The protesters issued scathing condemnations of the Democrats’ anti-immigrant record, including their recent efforts to push through bipartisan immigration legislation with Trump.
French unions try to strangle workers’ opposition to Macron
By Anthony Torres and Alex Lantier, 19 September 2017
The unions, whose strike calls are carefully prepared beforehand with the government, are terrified of being outflanked on their left by an eruption of workers’ struggles.
German Greens’ pro-war policy on display at think tank forum
By Johannes Stern, 19 September 2017
Ever since the Greens organised the first foreign combat operation by German soldiers since World War II in 1999, they have been a leading party of German militarism.
Survivors and local residents speak out on Grenfell Tower Inquiry opening
By our reporters, 19 September 2017
Inquiry Chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick claimed that he was “impartial” and had therefore rejected submissions to appoint a local resident to act as an assessor.
Lakanal House: Prelude to the Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the case for socialism
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Millions of the UK’s poorest families driven into deeper poverty
By Dennis Moore, 19 September 2017
The government’s overall agenda, dressed up as welfare “reform,” is underpinned by slashing welfare spending and encouraging people to move from benefits into work.
For an international strategy to win the CAMI workers strike
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 19 September 2017
To prevail in the struggle against GM, CAMI workers must fight to mobilize autoworkers across North America in a counter-offensive against all concessions and job cuts.
GM CAMI workers strike in Canada
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Bank for International Settlements voices concern over finance markets
By Nick Beams, 19 July 2017
The BIS has warned that the slow pace in normalising central bank interest rates and ending quantitative easing is setting up financial markets for a shock when interest rates do rise.
Alleged Nashville shooting brings social relations into relief
By Warren Duzak, 19 September 2017
Gerald Melton, was shot August 26 after he allegedly objected to the sound of loud music and exhaust fumes coming from a Porsche driven by Katie Quackenbush, 26.
California: SEIU sabotages San Diego County workers’ strike
By Kevin Martinez, 19 September 2017
A planned two-day strike potentially involving 10,000 workers was called off at the last minute by the Service Employees International Union.
Sri Lankan power workers on strike
By W.A. Sunil, 19 September 2017
The ongoing stoppage is against the government’s austerity measures being imposed at the behest of the International Monetary Fund.
New in Spanish
Nuevos detalles resaltan la negligencia criminal en la muerte de residentes de hogares de ancianos en Florida
Por Niles Niemuth, 19 septiembre 2017
Las muertes en Hollywood, Florida han expuesto la incompetencia y la indiferencia de la clase gobernante estadounidense, que tiene la responsabilidad última de este crimen social.
New in French
L’Espagne menace d’une potentielle prise de contrôle militaire de la Catalogne à l’approche du référendum
Par Alejandro López, 19 septembre 2017
Le langage et les actions provocateurs de Madrid rappellent la brutalité de la dictature franquiste qui a dominé l’Espagne de 1939 à 1978.
Grèce : Syriza racole les investisseurs et honore Macron
Par Katerina Selin, 19 septembre 2017
Les vacances parlementaires sont terminées. Dans les semaines et mois à venir une nouvelle série de coupes budgétaires débutera, ce qui mènera à des luttes de classe féroces.
New in German
SGP-Wahlveranstaltung in Duisburg: Diskussion über die Rolle der IG Metall bei ThyssenKrupp
unserem Korrespondeten, 19. September 2017
Die geplante Fusion von ThyssenKrupp Steel mit Tata-Steel gefährdet in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Niederlanden Tausende Arbeitsplätze.
Nach Bombenanschlag in London:
Britische Regierung unterstützt Trumps Forderung nach Internetzensur
Paul Mitchell und Robert Stevens, 19. September 2017
Unter dem Vorwand des Kampfs gegen „Extremismus“ bereitet die Regierung May drastische Einschränkungen der demokratischen Rechte und bürgerlichen Freiheiten vor.
Zum ersten Mal seit 100 Jahren nimmt der Hunger weltweit zu
Shelley Connor, 19. September 2017
Eine Untersuchung der Vereinten Nationen hat ergeben, dass die Kriege und der Klimawandel im Jahr 2016 eine der Hauptursachen für die Zunahme der Unterernährung weltweit waren.
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Эта неделя в русской революции
4–10 сентября: Мятеж Корнилова
18 сентября 2017 г.
Столкнувшись с угрозой полномасштабной контрреволюционной диктатуры и массовых репрессий в лице генерала Корнилова, Советы вынуждены призвать рабочий класс к защите Петрограда.
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- Pourquoi le capitalisme américain n’a pas pu se préparer à l’ouragan Irma ? (12.09.2017)
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- La campaña electoral federal de Alemania y el peligro de una guerra nuclear mundial (12.09.2017)
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- Secretario general de la ONU advierte sobre guerra mundial (11.09.2017)
- Mélenchon le tiende una trampa nacionalista a la oposición a la austeridad en Francia (11.09.2017)
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- La élite gobernante de Brasil teme al “aislamiento” internacional (11.09.2017)
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UN General Assembly convenes under shadow of war
19 September 2017
On the eve of the opening session of the UN General Assembly, top US officials have reiterated threats of a “military option” on the Korean peninsula that could lead to nuclear war.
Google Censorship
Google intensifies censorship of left-wing websites
By Andre Damon, 19 September 2017
New statistics expose the growing impact of Google’s attack on free speech.
Why is Amazon deleting negative reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book?
By Andre Damon, 15 September 2017
An open letter to Google: Stop the censorship of the Internet! Stop the political blacklisting of the World Socialist Web Site!
25 August 2017
Sign the petition and share it as widely as possible through email, online forums, and social media.
Watch: Stop online censorship!
- World Socialist Web Site readers in Britain oppose Google’s censorship campaign
- Autoworkers in Detroit support campaign against Google Internet censorship
- Forbes writer says Google censored report on manipulation of search traffic
- Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
- Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
Arts
2017 Emmy Awards: Sean Spicer, self-congratulations and identity politics
By David Walsh, 19 September 2017
The media was more or less agreed Monday that the highlight of the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards was the brief appearance by Trump’s former press secretary.
The Last Tycoon: Hollywood in the 1930s
Socialist Equality Party
No to war and social inequality! For world socialism!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Group on the New Zealand election
19 September 2017
Both major parties, Labour and National, support deeper austerity, attacks on immigrants and democratic rights, and preparations for war.
Socialist Equality Group public meeting in Wellington
After the New Zealand election: The way forward in the fight against war
By the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand), 15 September 2017
The meeting will discuss the urgent need for a socialist alternative to war and austerity, in opposition to the entire capitalist political establishment.
Socialist Equality Party holds election meeting in Berlin
By our reporters, 13 September 2017
Plans for major military build-up after Germany’s federal election
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
“You can't depend on our government anymore to help”
Watch: Hurricane Harvey victims applying for federal aid encounter government indifference
By Tom Hall and Charles Abelard reporting from Houston, 18 September 2017
Evacuees, volunteers describe inadequate services, police harassment at Houston convention center
Inhabitants of Irma-ravaged Saint Martin gain nothing from French President Macron’s visit
Why was American capitalism unable to prepare for Hurricane Irma?
More on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma »
Workers Struggles
Protests against passage of anti-working class budget in Haiti
Workers Struggles: the Americas
19 September 2017
Protestors clashed with police in cites across Haiti over government plans to impose new taxes and fees on citizens.
Burlington, Vermont teachers strike continues as officials refuse to budge on concession demands
By Kate Randall, 18 September 2017
IAM ends Chicago area mechanics strike
By Jessica Goldstein, 18 September 2017
Commentary
The 150th anniversary of the publication of Capital
By Nick Beams, 18 September 2017
World hunger increasing for first time since turn of the century
By Shelley Connor, 18 September 2017
UK government officials back Trump demands for Internet censorship following London bombing
By Paul Mitchell and Robert Stevens, 18 September 2017
Spain threatens potential military takeover of Catalonia as referendum looms
By Alejandro López, 18 September 2017
South Korea assassination squad to target Pyongyang leadership
By Ben McGrath, 18 September 2017
CIA vetoes Chelsea Manning’s Harvard fellowship
The “People’s Convergence”: The pseudo-left entreats Bernie Sanders to lead “People’s Party”
Centenary of the Russian Revolution
This week in the Russian Revolution
September 18 – 24: Bolsheviks obtain majorities in Moscow and Petrograd soviets
18 September 2017
Following the Kornilov affair, support for the Bolsheviks surges, and they win control of the Moscow and Petrograd soviets, followed one by one by provincial soviets. The war rages on, and mass hunger and deprivation fuel working-class rebellions around the world.
Leaders of the Russian Revolution: Ivar Tenisovich Smilga (1892-1937)
Part one
By Clara Weiss, 31 August 2017
Leaders of the Russian Revolution: Ivar Tenisovich Smilga (1892-1937)
Part two
Professor Sean McMeekin revives discredited anti-Lenin slanders (Part I)
Chronology of the Russian Revolution »
Mehring Books
New pamphlet: Fifty Years since the Detroit Rebellion
18 September 2017
This new pamphlet from Mehring Books examines the historical background and social roots of the events of the summer of 1967 and the outcome of the biggest and most violent urban uprising in US history.
New from Mehring Books
Why Study the Russian Revolution?
Volume I: The February Revolution and the Development of Bolshevik Strategy
28 August 2017
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the events of 1917, their consequences and their lessons retain a burning contemporary relevance.
Lessons of Hurricane Katrina
31 August 2017
The World Socialist Web Site pamphlet on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago is critical reading in light of the current catastrophe in Texas.
Science
The legacy of the Cassini spacecraft
By Don Barrett, 16 September 2017
Obituary
A remembrance of my sister, Cynthia Brust Moore
By Steven Brust, 12 September 2017
This remembrance of Cynthia Brust Moore was sent to the WSWS by her brother, Steven Brust. Cynthia, a lifelong supporter of the Trotskyist movement, passed away on September 1.
Cynthia Brust Moore (1944-2017): A steadfast supporter of the Trotskyist movement
By Fred Mazelis, 5 September 2017
International Amazon Workers Voice
Price gouging at Amazon and the case for public ownership
By Eric London, 8 September 2017
Single mother in Pittsburgh fired by Amazon for not working forced overtime
Working life at a Pittsburgh Amazon warehouse
Protests against Amazon’s bid to seize land from historic African-American community in Virginia
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IYSSE
Oppose the militarist high school graduation policy of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel!
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, 5 September 2017
Maruti Suzuki
Sri Lankan free trade workers express solidarity with framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers in India
By our reporters, 1 August 2017
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