15 December 2017
World’s richest one percent capture twice as much income growth as the bottom half
By Niles Niemuth, 15 December 2017
The inaugural World Inequality Report published by economist Thomas Piketty and his colleagues documents the rise in global income and wealth inequality since 1980.
Jeff Bezos’ $100 billion: The case for expropriation
Pentagon claims confrontation with Russian warplanes over Syria
By Bill Van Auken, 15 December 2017
The latest report of a hostile encounter between US and Russian fighters comes as Washington prepares to roll out a post-ISIS plan for continuing the war in Syria.
Washington’s secret wars
More on the war in Iraq and Syria »
PBS cancels “Tavis Smiley” show as sex witch-hunt expands
By Barry Grey, 15 December 2017
As has become typical in the growing campaign over alleged sexual offenses, the public broadcaster did not name the accusers or provide any details of their allegations.
Why has Time magazine endorsed the #MeToo “revolution”?
America’s latest “Scarlet Letter” moment
Autopsy report refutes claims young Ford worker was on drugs at time of factory shooting
By Jerry White, 15 December 2017
UAW officials told police that Jacoby Hennings, who allegedly took his life on October 20 after confronting union officials with a gun, appeared “under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”
“Ford and big companies don’t care if you live or not”
Ford workers speak out on Kentucky Truck worker’s death
Amid escalating corruption scandal, top UAW operatives step down
By Shannon Jones, 15 December 2017
The ongoing federal corruption investigation and growing worker anger and militancy are fueling an apparent crisis in the top echelons of the United Auto Workers union.
More on auto worker struggles »
Investigation reveals employer impunity in Canadian workplace deaths
By Lee Parsons, 15 December 2017
The conditions documented by the CBC are the result of decades of cost-cutting and deregulation.
Construction worker killed in horrific incident at Australian gas project
By John Harris, 15 December 2017
The tragic death at the INPEX gas project was not an aberration but the result of increasing company productivity demands ratified by the unions.
Beijing warns against Australia’s anti-China campaign
By Oscar Grenfell, 15 December 2017
The Chinese regime is fearful that the Australian government’s draconian “foreign interference” legislation could be used as a precedent by the US and its allies.
Militarism and crackdown on refugees dominate EU summit
By Peter Schwarz, 15 December 2017
Divided by social and national contradictions and paralysed by political tensions, the 28 heads of government agree on only one thing: a major escalation of militarism.
Brexit crisis deepens after Tory revolt on eve of EU summit
By Chris Marsden, 15 December 2017
The parliamentary defeat for Prime Minister Theresa May has been hailed as proof of a majority for a “soft Brexit”—preserving at all costs full access to the Single European Market.
Greek unions hold one-day general strike to protest Syriza’s brutal austerity measures
By John Vassilopoulos and Robert Stevens, 15 December 2017
The day prior to the walkout, angry municipal workers booed and jeered Greek Prime Minister and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras.
After ten days, largest of Southern California wildfires continues to rage
By Dan Conway, 15 December 2017
As the massive wildfires that engulf Southern California continue, a fire that consumed portions of Los Angeles’ wealthiest neighborhood is being blamed on the city’s homeless.
UN special rapporteur on poverty visits LA’s Skid Row
By Adam Mclean, 15 December 2017
Alston spent his time in the impoverished LA neighborhood notorious for homelessness, drug abuse and police brutality.
New in Russian
Патрисия Жуковски (1947-2017)
Фред Мазелис, 15 декабря 2017 г.
Пэт Жуковски была активным членом Рабочей Лиге США в первые годы ее существования, а также женой Марти Жуковски, преданного сторонника Партии Социалистического Равенства.
Российские следователи рассматривают антисемитскую теорию заговора в деле об убийстве царской семьи
Клара Вайс, 15 декабря 2017 г.
Начатое в 2015 году расследование по факту убийства царской семьи в 1918 году советским правительством рассматривает вопрос о том, является ли достоверной фашистская и антисемитская теория заговора, согласно которой казнь была «ритуальным убийством».
New in Turkish
ABD nükleer savaşın eşiğinde mi?
Andre Damon, 15 Aralık 2017
ABD, Kuzey Kore’nin, Kuzey Amerika’nın büyük kısmına ulaşabilen kıtalararası bir balistik füze denemesi yapmasından bu yana geçen on üç günde, savaş tehditlerini daha da tırmandırdı.
IŞİD’in Suriye’deki yenilgisinin ardından ABD-Rusya gerilimleri tırmanıyor
Bill Van Auken, 15 Aralık 2017
Washington ile Moskova, Suriye’nin Fırat Nehri vadisi semalarında birbirlerinin savaş uçaklarına yönelik kışkırtıcı eylemlerde bulunma suçlamaları getirdiler.
New in French
Allemagne: Le SPD et les chrétiens-démocrates entament des discussions exploratoires sur un nouveau gouvernement
Peter Schwarz, 15 décembre 2017
Les dirigeants de l’Union chrétienne-démocrate, l’Union chrétienne sociale et les sociaux-démocrates se sont rencontrés mercredi lors des premiers pourparlers pour former un nouveau gouvernement.
Six mois depuis l'incendie de la tour Grenfell
Robert Stevens et Chris Marsden, 15 décembre 2017
Le 14 juin, dans l'arrondissement le plus riche de l'une des capitales les plus riches du monde, des habitants de la classe ouvrière ont été brûlés vifs parce que leur domicile avait été transformé en un piège mortel.
New in Spanish
Las lecciones de la elección en Alabama
Por Patrick Martin, 15 diciembre 2017
Después de la elección en Alabama y la derrota de Roy Moore, los demócratas han intensificado su campaña contra Trump con base en las acusaciones de comportamientos sexuales inapropiados e histeria antirrusa.
Doug Jones, pro empresas del Partido Demócrata derrota al derechista evangélico Roy Moore en Alabama
Por Barry Grey, 15 diciembre 2017
La victoria del Partido Demócrata se debe a que más del cuarenta por ciento acudió a las urnas. Mayor de lo que se anticipaba fue la participación de afroamericanos y de jóvenes.
Locura de Bitcoin: el gráfico de la fiebre de una crisis cada vez más profunda
Por Nick Beams, 15 diciembre 2017
La subida y subida de la criptomoneda bitcoin es la expresión más atroz de la especulación desenfrenada que ha llegado a dominar la economía global.
Lecciones de Octubre: La crisis política del Partido Bolchevique en vísperas de la toma del poder
Por Chris Marsden, 15 diciembre 2017
Publicamos aquí el texto de la conferencia del sábado 28 de octubre de Chris Marsden, el secretario nacional del Partido de la Igualdad Socialista (Reino Unido). El audio de esta conferencia está incluido en el texto.
New in German
Militarismus und Flüchtlingsabwehr im Zentrum des EU-Gipfels
Peter Schwarz, 15. Dezember 2017
Gespalten durch soziale und nationale Gegensätze und gelähmt durch politische Spannungen stimmen die 28 Staats- und Regierungschefs nur in einer Frage überein: der massiven Eskalation des Militarismus.
Die Lehren der Wahl in Alabama
Patrick Martin, 15. Dezember 2017
Nach der Niederlage des ultrarechten republikanischen Kandidaten Roy Moore verstärken die Demokraten ihre Kampagne gegen Trump, die auf anti-russischer Hysterie und auf Anschuldigungen wegen sexueller Belästigung basiert.
Amnesty-Bericht enthüllt Rolle der EU bei Massenfolter von Flüchtlingen in Libyen
Alex Lantier, 15. Dezember 2017
Die EU unterstützt den Aufbau und die Ausstattung eines ganzen Netzwerks von Gefangenenlagern, in denen Flüchtlinge willkürlich festgehalten, misshandelt, gefoltert, als Sklaven verkauft und ermordet werden.
Hannibal: Bewohner des geräumten Dortmunder Hochhauses kommen zu Wort
Anuthinan Ratnamaheson, 15. Dezember 2017
Am 21. September wurde der Hochhauskomplex „Hannibal II“ in Dortmund kurzfristig evakuiert. In diesem Video sprechen die Betroffenen über ihre Erfahrung mit Behörden und Besitzern.
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The end of net neutrality and the fight to defend the free internet
15 December 2017
Thursday’s move by the US government to end net neutrality seeks to usher in an age when corporations and the government decide what people can and cannot access online.
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Book Review
Ron Chernow’s Grant: An able and compelling new biography
By Andre Damon, 15 December 2017
Chernow capably weaves together an account of the life of the Civil War general, president and memoirist.
Mehring Books
WSWS publishes Urdu translation of Trotsky’s Lessons of October
Preface to the Urdu edition of Lessons of October
Arts Review
… and a word on James Franco’s The Disaster Artist
Mudbound and life in post-World War II Mississippi: Dreaming “in brown”
By Joanne Laurier, 15 December 2017
Dee Rees’s Mudbound centers on two families, one black and one white, in rural Mississippi, immediately following World War II.The Disaster Artist is a decidedly slight effort.
Cancellation of exhibition about Jewish art collector in Germany raises issue of Nazi-confiscated art
By Sibylle Fuchs, 13 December 2017
Art historian Linda Nochlin (1931-2017)
By Clare Hurley and David Walsh, 12 December 2017
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017), one of opera’s greatest baritones
The Man Who Invented Christmas: Charles Dickens and the writing of A Christmas Carol
Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
One-day walkout by Italian doctors
15 December 2017
Doctors and veterinarians struck and protested at 50 locations around the country against underfunding of health care and the renewal of their collective agreement.
Commentary
On-the-spot report
Over a million in Puerto Rico living without the necessities of modern life
“The island has been turned upside down since the storm”
By Genevieve Leigh and Zac Corrigan, 14 December 2017
Six months since the Grenfell Tower fire
By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden, 14 December 2017
Film Review
“Grenfell changed everything”—Failed by the State: The Struggle in the Shadow of Grenfell
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Lessons of the Alabama election
By Patrick Martin, 14 December 2017
Alabama Senate result shows collapse of support for Trump
Congressional Republicans reach deal to pass tax cuts before Christmas
By Niles Niemuth, 14 December 2017
Trump administration scotches suggestion of talks with North Korea
By Peter Symonds, 14 December 2017
National Public Radio’s This American Life promotes anti-immigrant propaganda
By Eric London, 13 December 2017
Science
The roots of intelligence: What the study of whales and dolphins can reveal about the basis of human intelligence
By Philip Guelpa, 12 December 2017
Centenary of the Russian Revolution
This week in the Russian Revolution
December 11-17: White forces capture Rostov
11 December 2017
As forces commanded by the counterrevolutionary General Kaledin occupy Rostov, a major industrial center in southern Russia, conflict continues to rage in the Bolshevik leadership over the question of the Constituent Assembly.
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Obituary
Patricia Noonan Jukovsky (1947-2017)
By Fred Mazelis, 11 December 2017
Pat Jukovsky was an active member of the US Workers League in its early years, and the wife of Marty Jukovsky, a devoted supporter of the Socialist Equality Party.
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International Amazon Workers Voice
Amazon workers ask “$100 billion man” Jeff Bezos: where’s my cut?
By our reporters, 9 December 2017
“We’re human beings, not slaves and animals”
UK newspaper exposé details Amazon’s super-exploitation of workforce
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
One day strike hits German and Italian Amazon distribution centres
Temp work past the age of retirement
Amazon’s CamperForce program exploits elderly workers
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Google Censorship
Net neutrality and the drive to censor the internet
By Andre Damon, 25 November 2017
The conspiracy to censor the Internet
By Andre Damon and Joseph Kishore, 18 October 2017
The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges
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Socialist Equality Party
Oppose Trudeau and Trump, the Canada-US alliance, and imperialist war!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), 4 December 2017
Centenary of the Russian Revolution
Australia: Socialist Equality Party holds successful meetings on Russian Revolution
By our correspondents, 7 December 2017
Workers and youth discuss the Russian Revolution at SEP meetings
By our reporters, 7 December 2017
Meeting in Wellington on December 14, Sydney on December 17
100 years on: The significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution for today
Russian television’s Trotsky serial: A degraded spectacle of historical falsification and anti-Semitism
By Fred Williams and David North, 25 November 2017
The eight-part serial is an exhibition of the political, intellectual and cultural depravity of all those involved in its production.
The Place of the October Revolution in World History and Contemporary Politics
By David North, 13 November 2017
- On the Centenary of the October Revolution
- Lessons of October: The political crisis within the Bolshevik Party on the eve of the seizure of power
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IYSSE mounts campaign against university police censorship at University of California, Berkeley
By Evan Blake, 2 December 2017
International Youth and Students for Social Equality launches new website
6 November 2017
The IYSSE’s newly designed website includes an updated Statement of Principles for its US section. We urge all youth and students to join the IYSSE and take up the fight for socialism.
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