Google admits collaboration with illegal US drone murder program
By Andre Damon, 8 March 2018
The company’s involvement in the “targeted killing” program shows its pivotal role in US government attacks on democratic rights.
Trade conflict heats up
By Nick Beams, 8 March 2018
The European Union hopes to avert the Trump tariff measures but at a press conference Trump singled out the EU for attack.
Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn resigns over tariff decision
The historic significance of Trump’s trade war measures
Justice department files suit against California “sanctuary” laws
By Patrick Martin, 8 March 2018
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions travelled to Sacramento to deliver a vitriolic attack on immigrants.
As nine-day teachers’ strike concludes
Striking West Virginia Frontier telecom workers speak out
By our reporters, 8 March 2018
Thursday marks the fifth day of a strike by over 1,400 Frontier telecommunication workers in Virginia and West Virginia.
West Virginia telecommunications workers continue strike, support teachers
For a unified socialist movement of lecturers and students!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK), 8 March 2018
A fight to build solidarity between lecturers and students involves a political struggle against the University and College Union, National Union of Students and other false leaderships.
UK lecturers dispute: Lessons from the West Virginia teachers strike
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
“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
By our reporter, 8 March 2018
Around 3,000 contract faculty and support staff are on their fourth day of strike action at Toronto’s York University over poverty wages and job security.
Canada: 3,000 contract teachers and graduate assistants strike York University
US emergency departments report significant increase in opioid overdoses among all age groups, including infants
By Shelley Connor, 8 March 2018
Recent studies demonstrate that emergency department visits for opioid overdose increased by 30 percent across the United States in 2017.
Anti-Russia campaign follows alleged poisoning of former UK/Russian double agent and daughter
By Robert Stevens, 8 March 2018
Sergei Skripal is a former colonel in Russia’s GRU, the military intelligence service. He spent four years in jail in Russia after being found guilty in 2006 of passing secrets to the British MI6.
Germany: Grand coalition expands foreign operations in Afghanistan and Iraq
By Johannes Stern, 8 March 2018
No sooner had the membership of the SPD voted for the continuation of the government alliance with the CDU/CSU, plans for new military operations were announced.
After Burkina Faso bombing, France pledges to step up war in Sahel
By Francis Dubois, 8 March 2018
The capital of Ouagadougou was shaken on March 2 by an attack by two commando squads on the French embassy and Burkinabe army headquarters.
Social media giants work with Indian government to censor Internet
By Pradeep Ramanayake, 8 March 2018
The Modi government’s measures are part of escalating efforts by governments around the world to silence political dissent.
Indian Stalinists routed in Tripura bastion
By Arun Kumar, 8 March 2018
Whenever the Stalinist Left Front has formed government in one of India’s states over the past quarter century, it has pursued right-wing, “pro-investor” policies.
Australia: Anger erupts over privatised bus services in Newcastle
By Max Newman, 8 March 2018
Amid an ongoing state government attack on public transport workers’ jobs and conditions, a packed public meeting voices outrage over poor service and major delays.
New in Italian
I partiti di destra beneficiano della rabbia per l'austerità, la disuguaglianza
Sconfitta storica per i socialdemocratici nelle elezioni italiane
Marianne Arens, 8 marzo 2018
Fra crescente disaffezione popolare con i partiti di centro-sinistra e gli apologeti della pseudo-sinistra, le elezioni parlamentari di domenica hanno provocato una vittoria per i partiti di destra e di estrema destra.
New in Norwegian
Vest-Virginia lærernes streik og opprøret mot fagforeningene
Joseph Kishore, 8 March 2018
Hver større sosialkonflikt avslører – ved massene av menneskers bevegelser – viktige politiske relasjoner, der gyldigheten til politiske forestillinger settes på prøve og evalueres.
Den historiske betydningen av Trumps handelskrig-tiltak
Nick Beams, 8 March 2018
Trumps handelstiltak er et viktig skritt i demonteringen av systemet for økonomiske relasjoner som Washington selv etablerte etter andre verdenskrig.
Etabler grunnplan-komitéer for å utvide streiken!
Veien fremover for lærerne i Vest-Virginia
Socialist Equality Party, 8 March 2018
SEP oppfordrer streikende lærere og skoleansatte til å gå fra improviserte møter og samlinger til valg av grunnplan-streikekomitéer for å mobilisere hele arbeiderklassen.
Som respons på amerikanske trusler proklamerer Russlands presidenten Putin atomvåpenkappløp
Andre Damon, 8 March 2018
I en krigersk nasjonalistisk tale torsdag skrøyt Putin av fremskritt for Russlands nukleære arsenal og viste video som skildret et kjernefysisk anslag mot USA.
New in Spanish
Por qué ganó la ultraderecha en Italia
Por Peter Schwarz, 8 marzo 2018
Las décadas de austeridad y ataques contra los derechos democráticos por parte de la “izquierda” oficial en Italia, respaldado y promovidos por sus apologistas pseudoizquierdistas, han producido una victoria electoral para los partidos ultraderechistas.
La huelga docente en West Virginia y la rebelión contra los sindicatos
Por Joseph Kishore, 8 marzo 2018
Todo conflicto social importante devela relaciones políticas esenciales en el movimiento de las masas, poniendo a prueba y evaluando la validez de las concepciones políticas.
El discurso sobre el estado de la nación de Putin evidencia la crisis de la oligarquía rusa
Por Clara Weiss, 8 marzo 2018
Amenazado por el imperialismo estadounidense y atrapado por la crisis económica, el Estado ruso, bajo el liderazgo de Putin, no ofrece una solución al impasse histórico que enfrenta el país.
420.000 profesores argentinos votaron por hacer una huelga de tiempo limitado por salarios y otras demandas
Luchas de los trabajadores: las Américas
8 marzo 2018
El World Socialist Web Site invita a trabajdores y otros lectores a contribuir a este recurso publicado regularmente.
New in French
Les syndicats d'enseignants de la Virginie-Occidentale imposent un accord pourri pour mettre fin à la grève
Will Morrow, 8 mars 2018
L'accord ne répond pas à la revendication centrale des enseignants - une fin à la flambée des coûts des soins – et impose des coupes sociales qui grignotent les augmentations inadéquates.
Pourquoi l’extrême droite a gagné en Italie
Peter Schwarz, 8 mars 2018
Des décennies d’austérité et d’attaques contre les droits démocratiques par la “gauche” officielle ont abouti à une victoire de l’extrême droite.
L’état d'urgence décrété au Sri Lanka sur fond de violences antimusulmanes
K. Ratnayake, 8 mars 2018
Le gouvernement d'union nationale, en crise aiguë, exploite les provocations racistes pour renforcer sa position en imposant l'état d'urgence.
Le Far-West juridique de la campagne #MeToo
Richard Hoffman, 8 mars 2018
Les appels récents du New York Times à ce qu’on lui envoie des plaintes et des révélations d’expériences de « sexe de zone grise » sont basés sur l’abandon de principes juridiques vieux de plusieurs siècles.
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
Lessons of the West Virginia teachers strike
8 March 2018
The suppression of the strike is the result of the deliberate effort of the trade unions to prevent the struggle of teachers from developing into a movement of the entire working class against the capitalist system.
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.
Commentary
Agents and war commanders
The CIA Democrats: Part two
By Patrick Martin, 8 March 2018
Dozens of former CIA and military operatives are running as Democratic candidates for Congress in 2018.
The CIA Democrats: Part one
Introduction
Australia: “Silent invasion” book advocates war against China
By Mike Head, 8 March 2018
A new book seeks to whip up anti-Chinese chauvinism, brand any dissent as treasonous, and insist on unconditional commitment to US war plans.
West Virginia teachers unions ram through sell-out deal to end strike
By Will Morrow, 7 March 2018
The lawless frontier of the #MeToo campaign
By Richard Hoffman, 7 March 2018
Foreign “meddling” in elections—Yankee imperialist style
By Bill Van Auken, 6 March 2018
A reply to a proponent of “Iranian Islamic socialism”
The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
By Keith Jones, 14 February 2018
Arts Review
Ursula K. Le Guin: Prominent science fiction and fantasy writer (1929-2018)
By Sandy English, 8 March 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the most significant and popular English-language writers of speculative fiction, associated with feminism and utopianism, died January 28 at the age of 88.
At the University of Michigan
Racialist attacks mar landmark performance of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
By Barry Grey, 7 March 2018
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!”
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs—A fatally flawed documentary
By Fred Mazelis, 5 March 2018
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
German Green Party-aligned newspaper defends far-right Professor Baberowski
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), 6 March 2018
Workers Struggles
“West Virginia teachers have shown us team effort and organization”
Oklahoma teachers to discuss strike strategy
By Nancy Hanover, 7 March 2018
Sri Lanka university workers maintain indefinite strike as union backtracks
By Saman Gunadasa, 6 March 2018
Unifor scuttles Windsor auto parts strikes
By Carl Bronski, 6 March 2018
History
The urban riots of the 1960s and the remaking of American racial ideology
Fifty years since the Kerner Commission report
By Tom Mackaman, 5 March 2018
Featured video
Watch: IYSSE member addresses rally in West Virginia
Mehring Books
Book traces history of West Virginia miners’ struggles
Death on the Picket Line, the story of John McCoy
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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