10 March 2018
Movement for teacher walkouts in Oklahoma, Kentucky, New Jersey and Arizona
Spreading wave of working class unrest in the US follows West Virginia teachers strike
By Will Morrow, 10 March 2018
The ruling class and the trade unions are desperately seeking to control social opposition and prevent demands for walkouts from developing in the direction of a general strike.
As teacher struggles spread, unions redouble effort to suppress class struggle
Lessons of the West Virginia teachers strike
Fiat-Chrysler minivan plant impacted
Windsor auto parts workers defy Unifor and strike
By Carl Bronski and Shannon Jones, 10 March 2018
Workers at ZF-TRW are taking a stand against decades of concessions imposed with the support of the unions that have eroded living standards and working conditions.
Nearly 30,000 Los Angeles School District support staff to vote for strike authorization
By Dan Conway, 10 March 2018
Jersey City teachers poised to strike
Reject the sellout on tuition waivers—for free higher education for all
Striking Illinois grad students speak out against attacks on higher education
“If we all band together, there’s no fight we can’t win.” Striking West Virginia telecom workers call for unified struggle
As teacher walkouts spread across the country, Frontier telecommunication workers in West Virginia continue to strike for job security and health care.
US-North Korean talks still a tentative prospect
By Peter Symonds, 10 March 2018
Even if the summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un proceeds, it could rapidly break down, creating an even more explosive situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Trump accepts North Korean offer of talks, on US terms
US “allies” scramble for tariff exemptions
By Nick Beams, 10 March 2018
The European Union is “counting” on being exempted from the Trump tariff measures but may get short shrift.
Australian government obtains “national security” exemption from Trump’s trade war measures
By Mike Head, 10 March 2018
The government argued that retaining steel production in Australia was vital for its $200 billion military spending program.
Trump, risking trade war, signs off on steel and aluminium tariffs
Aircraft carrier visit cements Vietnam’s alignment with Washington
By James Cogan, 10 March 2018
Vietnam’s strategic importance to US imperialism stems primarily from how it can be used against China.
Germany: The new Social Democratic ministers
By Peter Schwarz, 10 March 2018
The SPD will play a key role in the new cabinet, after rank-and- file members approved the right-wing coalition agreement by a clear two-thirds majority.
Still no facts in UK/Russia double agent poisoning case
By Robert Stevens, 10 March 2018
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are in a critical condition after allegedly being exposed to what has been described only as a “nerve agent.”
Russian economy stagnates as presidential election approaches
By Andrea Peters, 10 March 2018
Russians will head to the polls on March 18, as the Kremlin touts an economic recovery that leaves millions behind.
Four dead following hostage situation at Northern California veterans home
By Alec Andersen, 10 March 2018
The hostages were employees of the nonprofit organization Pathway House, which provides services to veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
“On top of taking my family, they are branded as criminals”
Video of Border Patrol agents dragging mother away from children sparks outrage
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan and Clodomiro Puentes, 10 March 2018
Perla Morales Luna had stepped out with her three daughters to pay their rent last weekend when she was suddenly grabbed and dragged away by federal agents.
US Border Patrol uses pretext of “human trafficking” to separate immigrant children from parents
Hospital workers protest layoffs in Michigan
By Carlos Delgado and Esther Galen, 10 March 2018
Two giant hospital chains, Ascension and Tenet, have announced layoffs and unit closures
YouTube threatens to shut down right-wing Infowars channel
By Trévon Austin, 10 March 2018
The move sets a dangerous precedent that will be turned against left-wing news outlets.
French neo-fascist Marine Le Pen indicted for tweeting pictures of IS killings
Transnational beer corporation creates water crisis in northern Mexico
By Alex González, 10 March 2018
Constellation Brands set up beer manufacturing plants in drought-prone cities and is threatening the region with a water crisis.
Britain: 15,000 jobs in retail and leisure under threat, as jobs go throughout economy
By Richard Tyler, 10 March 2018
The high street retail and leisure sectors have been impacted by uncertainty over the consequences of Brexit and online shopping.
New in Portuguese
Trump e Jerusalém: o fim da farsa no processo de paz do Oriente Médio
Bill Van Auken, 10 de março de 2018
A declaração de Trump de que ele iria mudar a embaixada dos EUA em Israel para Jerusalém, um ato de agressão política contra os palestinos, está ligada aos movimentos em direção à guerra por todo o Oriente Médio.
Conflitos dentro da classe dominante dos EUA se intensificam após Flynn declarar-se culpado
Andre Damon, 10 de março de 2018
Ao mesmo tempo que não fazem quaisquer esforços para se opor à ofensiva da administração Trump sobre a classe trabalhadora, os Democratas estão procurando criar uma base para a remoção de Trump por conta das discordâncias sobre a política externa.
A extrema-direita e a virada em direção ao militarismo na Alemanha
Johannes Stern, 10 de março de 2018
O congresso da semana passada da Alternativa para a Alemanha, o partido anti-imigrante da extrema-direita, marcou uma nova etapa na legitimação da política fascista na Alemanha.
O governo Trump intensifica as ameaças de “destruição total” da Coréia do Norte
Joseph Kishore, 10 de março de 2018
Os Estados Unidos estão em um estado avançado de preparação para alguma forma de operação militar contra a Coreia do Norte, a qual, se realizada, colocaria em perigo milhões de vidas.
New in Italian
Perché l’estrema destra ha vinto in Italia
Peter Schwarz, 9 marzo 2018
Decadi di austerità e attacchi ai diritti democratici da parte della “sinistra” ufficiale, coadiuvata e favorita dai suoi apologeti di pseudo-sinistra, hanno prodotto una vittoria elettorale dell’estrema destra.
New in Turkish
Batı Virginia öğretmenler grevinin dersleri
Jerry White ve Joseph Kishore, 9 Mart 2018
Öğretmenler, eyalet meclisinden geçen sendika destekli anlaşmanın şartlarına yönelik artan öfkenin ortasında, tüm eyalette işe döndüler.
İtalya’da neden aşırı sağ kazandı
Peter Schwarz, 9 Mart 2018
İtalya, Avrupa ve uluslararası işçi sınıfının devrimci potansiyelini harekete geçirmek için, artık her şey Marksist bir partinin inşa edilmesine bağlıdır.
Grevi yaymak için taban komiteleri kurun!
Batı Virginia öğretmenleri için ileriye giden yol
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (ABD), 9 Mart 2018
Grev, şu en temel siyasi soruyu gündeme getirmektedir: Toplumsal ve ekonomik politikayı kimin çıkarları belirleyecek?
Batı Virginia öğretmen sendikaları greve son vermek için satış anlaşmasını dayattı
Will Morrow, 9 Mart 2018
Sendikaların onayladığı ve bir zafer olduğunu iddia ettiği anlaşma, 33.000 okul çalışanının cesur mücadelesine bir ihanettir.
Britanya’daki öğretim üyeleri Batı Virginia’daki öğretmenleri destekliyor
Muhabirlerimizden, 9 Mart 2018
WSWS muhabirleri, bu haftaki dört günlük grevin ilk iki gününde, Britanya’da grevde olan öğretim üyeleri ve diğer üniversite çalışanlarıyla konuştular.
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La condición de las mujeres de la clase obrera en el Día Internacional de la Mujer
Por Kate Randall, 10 marzo de 2018
El movimiento #MeToo, con su demanda de una mayor diversidad en los salones de junta y estudios cinematográficos, ha ignorado las condiciones sociales que encara la gran mayoría de las mujeres del mundo.
A medida que las luchas de los docentes se extienden, los sindicatos redoblan sus esfuerzos para reprimir la lucha de clases
Por Jerry White, 10 marzo 2018
Después de la huelga de nueve días de los maestros de West Virginia, el presidente de la Federación Estadounidense de Maestros, Randi Weingarten, dijo que los sindicatos son necesarios para contener la oposición.
Los demócratas de la CIA
Por Patrick Martin, 10 marzo 2018
Docenas de exoficiales militares y de la CIA están compitiendo como candidatos demócratas para el Congreso en el 2018.
El Gobierno australiano revela proyectos de ley draconianos de "interferencia extranjera"
Por Michael Head, 10 marzo 2018
La legislación, que apunta a la supuesta "influencia indebida" de China y otros "Estados extranjeros", tendrá consecuencias de gran alcance para la libertad de expresión y la disidencia política.
New in French
Les luttes des enseignants se propagent, les syndicats redoublent d’efforts pour réprimer la lutte de classe
Jerry White, 10 mars 2018
Après neuf jours de grève des enseignants de Virginie occidentale, la présidente de la Fédération américaine des Enseignants, Randi Weingarten, a dit que les syndicats sont necéssaires pour contenir l’opposition.
Journée internationale de la femme : la condition des femmes de la classe ouvrière
Kate Randall, 10 mars 2018
Le mouvement #MeToo, avec sa demande d’une plus grande diversité dans les conseils d’administration et les studios de cinéma, ignore les conditions sociales désastreuses auxquelles est confrontée la grande majorité des femmes du monde.
Grève générale à Tahiti et à Mayotte contre la réforme des retraites
Anthony Torres, 10 mars 2018
Alors que Macron impose une casse généralisée du Code du Travail et des services publics, un silence de mort sur ces luttes règne dans les appareils syndicaux français.
SNCF: Besancenot propose une coalition avec le PS, LO et Mélenchon
Alexandre Lantier, 10 mars 2018
Le NPA prépare un piège pour les travailleurs, en proposant de développer les luttes sous le contrôle de forces issues du PS, un parti bourgeois militariste et austéritaire.
L'élite dirigeante canadienne réagit aux tarifs sur l’acier et l'aluminium de Trump
Roger Jordan, 10 mars 2018
L'annonce de tarifs par le gouvernement Trump représente un virage par les États-Unis vers un type de mesures protectionnistes qui ont caractérisé les années 1930 et la Grande Dépression.
Pour un mouvement socialiste unifié des maîtres de conférence et des étudiants!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK), 10 mars 2018
Une lutte pour construire la solidarité entre les maîtres de conférence et les étudiants implique une lutte politique contre le Syndicat des Collèges et des Universités (UCU), le Syndicat national des étudiants (NUS) et d’autres directions traîtres.
New in German
Die Lage der arbeitenden Frauen am Weltfrauentag
Kate Randall, 10. März 2018
Die #MeToo-Bewegung mit ihren Forderungen nach größerer Diversität in den Vorstandsetagen und Filmstudios ignoriert die katastrophalen sozialen Bedingungen, unter denen die große Mehrheit der Frauen auf der Welt leben.
Die neuen Minister der SPD
Peter Schwarz, 10. März 2018
Der SPD fällt im neuen Kabinett eine Schlüsselrolle zu, nachdem die Mitglieder dem rechten Koalitionsvertrag mit einer deutlichen Zweidrittelmehrheit zugestimmt haben.
Trump riskiert Handelskrieg: Einfuhrzölle auf Stahl und Aluminium
Nick Beams, 10. März 2018
Trumps Strafzölle zeigen, dass sich die USA den protektionistischen Maßnahmen zuwenden, die charakteristisch für die Zeit der Großen Depression der 1930er Jahre waren.
Stimmen an der Basis widersprechen rechter Kampagne um Essener Tafel
Philipp Frisch, 10. März 2018
Die flüchtlingsfeindliche Kampagne um die Entscheidung der Essener Tafel, nur noch Deutsche für die Essensausgabe zu registrieren, basiert auf Auslassungen und Lügen. Das zeigt sich, wenn man mit den Betroffenen und den Helfern vor Ort spricht.
Der SPD- Mitgliederentscheid und der rechte Charakter der Sozialdemokratie
Ulrich Ripper, 10. März 2018
Die hohe Zustimmung der SPD-Mitgliedschaft für den Koalitionsvertrag hat einmal mehr den rechten, bürgerlichen Charakter der Sozialdemokratie enthüllt.
Ein Gespräch mit Raoul Peck, dem Regisseur von „Der junge Karl Marx“
Fred Mazelis, 10. März 2018
Der Regisseur Raoul Peck diskutiert über sein filmisches Porträt von Marx und Engels.
Arbeitsplatzabbau trotz Rekordprofit bei Airbus
Gustav Kemper, 10. März 2018
Mitte Februar hatte der Airbus-Konzern noch einen Rekordprofit von 2,9 Milliarden Euro vermeldet. Jetzt kündigt Konzernchef Tom Enders die Streichung von 3720 Arbeitsplätzen in den europäischen Werken an.
Einmischung in Wahlen anderer Länder nach Art des Yankee-Imperialismus
Bill Van Auken, 10. März 2018
Unablässig ereifern sich die Demokratische Partei und die Medien über die angebliche Einmischung Russlands in die US-Wahlen 2016. Kaum erwähnt wird dagegen die offene Einmischung des US- Imperialismus in Wahlen südlich des Rio Grandes.
New in Farsi
برای یک ائتلاف بین المللی جهت مبارزه با سانسور اینترنت
۳ بهمن ۱۳۹۶
نامه سرگشاده از طرف هیئت مدیره بین الملللی تار نمای جهانی سوسیالیست به تارنما های سوسیالیست، ضد جنگ، چپ و پیشرو، سازمان ها و فعالان
New in Arabic
الذكرى المئوية الثانية لمولد كارل ماركس
٢ كانون الثاني يناير ٢٠١٨
يصادف هذا العام الذكرى المئوية الثانية لمولد كارل ماركس ، منشئ المفهوم المادي للتاريخ ومؤلف رأس المال، ومؤسس الحركة الاشتراكية الثورية الحديثة بالتعاون مع فريدريك انجلز.
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Perspective
Google’s alliance with the military: The ruling class responds to social unrest in America
10 March 2018
Google’s admission that it is aiding and abetting the US military’s illegal assassination program exemplifies the sinister alliance of the technology monopolies with the repressive apparatus of the state.
Featured Interview
Watch: WSWS Labor Editor Jerry White speaks on lessons of the West Virginia teachers strike
White discussed the strike on The Robust Opposition with Lauren Steiner.
Mehring Books
Now available on Mehring Books Why Study the Russian Revolution? Volume II: Toward Workers’ Power and World Socialist Revolution
The second volume includes the final four lectures in the ICFI lecture series, tracing the course of the revolution from the July Days through the conquest of power by the working class under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party in October.
Socialist Equality Party
Oppose Sinhala racist violence against Muslim community in Sri Lanka
By the Socialist Equality Party, 10 March 2018
The government and the ruling elite are using anti-Muslim communalism to divert and divide the working people.
Arts Review
Berlin film festival: SPD cabinet minister promotes #MeToo campaign
By Katerina Selin, 10 March 2018
The media circus at this year’s Berlinale was all centred on one topic: #MeToo. Virtually every interview, meeting and media report mentioned the sexual misconduct campaign in one way or another.
90th Academy Awards: Banal, conformist and 10,000 miles from reality
By David Walsh, 6 March 2018
The Oscar speech we’d like to hear Sunday night: “Members of the Academy, what hypocrites and conformists so many of you are!”
By David Walsh, 3 March 2018
The lawless frontier of the #MeToo campaign
The New York Times procures salacious details of “gray-zone sex”
More on the sexual misconduct witch-hunt »
Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin: A fatally ill-conceived “black comedy”
By David Walsh, 9 March 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin: Prominent science fiction and fantasy writer (1929-2018)
By Sandy English, 8 March 2018
Commentary
The condition of working-class women on International Women’s Day
By Kate Randall, 9 March 2018
Anger mounts over video of police beating unarmed man in North Carolina
By Alec Andersen, 9 March 2018
The CIA Democrats: Part three
By Patrick Martin, 9 March 2018
Jacobin, International Socialist Organization claim “victory” in West Virginia teachers sellout
By Eric London, 9 March 2018
Mental health crisis descends on Puerto Rico’s working class
By Ali Abu Elhassan, 9 March 2018
Australia: “Silent invasion” book advocates war against China
Foreign “meddling” in elections—Yankee imperialist style
A reply to a proponent of “Iranian Islamic socialism”
The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 March 2018
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
As nine-day teachers’ strike concludes
Striking West Virginia Frontier telecom workers speak out
By our reporters, 8 March 2018
West Virginia telecommunications workers continue strike, support teachers
“The issues we are facing are not just related to university teachers, but affect the entire working class”
An interview with a striking York University contract faculty member
Sri Lanka university workers maintain indefinite strike as union backtracks
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
For a unified socialist movement of lecturers and students!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK), 8 March 2018
UK lecturers dispute: Lessons from the West Virginia teachers strike
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
German Green Party-aligned newspaper defends far-right Professor Baberowski
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), 6 March 2018
History
Fifty years since the Kerner Commission report
The urban riots of the 1960s and the remaking of American racial ideology
By Tom Mackaman, 5 March 2018
Featured video
Watch: IYSSE member addresses rally in West Virginia
This week in history: March 5-11
25 years ago: Yeltsin survives impeachment vote
On March 10, 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin survived an impeachment vote in the Congress of People’s Deputies.
50 years ago: Anti-Stalinist protests begin in Poland
This week in 1968 a growing wave of protests by students and working class youth rocked the Stalinist regime of the Polish People’s Republic.
75 years ago: US government censors Trotskyist newspaper
On March 7, 1943, the Postmaster General of the United States revoked the second class mailing rights of The Militant, then the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, the American section of the world Trotskyist movement.
100 years ago: British force begins imperialist occupation of Soviet Russia
On March 6, British Royal Marines landed in Murmansk, in the far north of Soviet Russia, marking the beginning of the imperialist intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Mehring Books
Death on the Picket Line, the story of John McCoy
Book traces history of West Virginia miners’ struggles
2 March 2018
West Virginia teachers and their supporters will find in this work an important resource for gaining insight into the broader issues they face.
The Heritage We Defend and other important books by David North and the ICFI published in Turkish
By Halil Celik, 20 January 2018
In a country where the working class and socialist movement in general has been dominated by Stalinism, Maoism and petty-bourgeois nationalist tendencies for decades, these books are of prime importance in developing socialist consciousness among workers and youth.
New publication by Mehring Books (UK)
The falsification of David King’s work
12 January 2018
Mehring Books has produced a new pamphlet to memorialise David King, who devoted his extraordinary artistic gifts to salvaging the historical truth of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath.
Twenty years of the WSWS
Twenty years of the World Socialist Web Site: 1998–2018
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 14 February 2018
As the WSWS marks its 20th anniversary of daily posting, it is taking the lead in exposing the conspiracy by governments and corporations to censor the Internet as the ruling class prepares for war and domestic repression.
WSWS/SEP/IYSSE public meetings
Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship
Opposition grows among students and youth to Internet censorship
For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
An open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site to socialist, anti-war, left-wing and progressive websites, organizations and activists
23 January 2018
The Russian meddling fraud: Weapons of mass destruction revisited
WSWS Chairperson David North interviewed on Chris Hedges’ “On Contact”
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New in Arabic
WSWS publishes Arabic translation of “The bicentenary of Marx’s birth, socialism and the resurgence of the international class struggle.”
We are publishing here the Arabic translation of the WSWS perspective article, “The bicentenary of Marx’s birth, socialism and the resurgence of the international class struggle”. This article by WSWS International Editorial Board chairperson, David North, was first published on January 3, 2018.
Autoworkers Struggles
Four months since the death of a young Ford worker
Still no serious investigation into death of Jacoby Hennings
By Jerry White, 22 February 2018
The Grenfell Tower fire
Right-wing media launch witch-hunt against Grenfell activist Joe Delaney
By Barry Mason and Robert Stevens, 28 February 2018
Grenfell Tower combustible cladding was never tested
Grenfell Fire Forum: Failed by the State co-director discusses smear campaign against his documentary
By our reporter, 19 February 2018
Failed by the State co-writer and presenter Ish: “I wasn’t trying to push agendas, I was just trying to tell the truth about Grenfell.”
By Robert Stevens, 16 February 2018
More on the Grenfell Tower fire »
Featured Interview
An interview with David North
Socialism or Barbarism: Reflections on Global Disorder
6 February 2018
In October 2017, David North delivered a lecture on the centenary of the October Revolution at St. Andrews College in Scotland. Prior to the lecture, he was interviewed by Adam Stromme, the editor in chief of the St Andrews Economist, the official publication of the St Andrews Economics Society.
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