27 March 2018
Russian diplomats expelled over allegations of poisoning of ex-spy in UK
By Bill Van Auken, 27 March 2018
The mass expulsion of Russian diplomats from the US, 14 EU countries, Canada and Ukraine marks a coordinated campaign to pave the way to war.
London, NATO step up war threats against Russia over Skripal poisoning
The Stormy Daniels scandal: Political warfare in Washington hits a new low
By Patrick Martin, 27 March 2018
The campaign of sexual allegations against Trump serves only to pollute popular consciousness and divert attention from the political dangers confronting working people.
Germany and UK collude with Spanish extradition warrants against Catalan leaders Puigdemont and Ponsatí
By Steve James and Paul Mitchell, 27 March 2018
Puigdemont is expected to be detained in Germany for two to three months before a final decision is made on his extradition to Spain.
Spain jails Catalan secessionist leaders, issues international arrest warrants
German Socialist Equality Party demands immediate release of Carles Puigdemont
Russia: At least 64 dead, including many children, in horrific shopping mall fire
By Clara Weiss, 27 March 2018
Like the Grenfell fire last summer in London, the fire at the Kemerovo shopping mall on Sunday is a social crime for which the ruling oligarchy bears full responsibility.
The UK Further Education strike: Lessons of the lecturers’ revolt against the University and College Union
By the Socialist Equality Party (UK), 27 March 2018
The attacks on Further Education staff are central to the Conservative government’s plans to turn education over to the private sector.
The role of the UCU Left in the effort to shut down the UK lecturers strike
For a unified socialist movement of lecturers and students!
More on the UK lecturers strike »
As April 2 strike by Oklahoma educators looms
Arizona teachers prepare for mass statewide demonstrations
By Trévon Austin, 27 March 2018
About 8,000 to 10,000 teachers are expected to participate in Phoenix, with thousands more protesting in other cities.
Teacher unions seek rotten deal as momentum grows for April 2 statewide walkout in Oklahoma
Lessons of the West Virginia teachers strike
“We want to know the details of the agreement”
CWA tries to ram through sellout deal to end Frontier strike
By our reporters, 27 March 2018
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has ordered 1,400 strikers in West Virginia and Virginia to return to work before any vote on the deal.
CWA isolates Frontier Communications strikers
Pulse nightclub shooter’s father was an FBI informant
By Niles Niemuth, 27 March 2018
Critical details about Omar Mateen’s father’s decade-long relationship with the FBI came out this week during the trial of Noor Salman, who has been charged as an accomplice in the 2016 mass shooting.
Opposition to Australian “foreign interference” bills
By Mike Head, 27 March 2018
Under the banner of combating a Chinese “conspiracy” to dominate Australia, the bills contain far-reaching attacks on fundamental democratic rights.
Left Alliance forms government in Nepal amidst growing geopolitical tensions
By W. A. Sunil, 27 March 2018
The new government in Kathmandu is acutely sensitive to the demands of the major powers and their efforts to maintain their influence in the region.
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Le président déchu de la Catalogne Carles Puigdemont arrété en Allemagne
Alejandro López, 27 mars 2018
La décision d’arrêter Puigdemont en Allemagne, dont le propre code pénal punit les tentatives de sécession avec des peines allant jusqu’à la prison à vie, facilite son transfert en Espagne.
Le Parti de l’égalité socialiste allemand exige la libération immédiate de Carles Puigdemont
Parti de l’égalité socialiste allemand, 27 mars 2018
L’arrestation de Puigdemont par les autorités allemandes est un acte judiciaire arbitraire caractéristique d’un régime autoritaire.
Le terroriste de Trèbes et de Carcassonne était connu par le renseignement français
Anthony Torres, 27 mars 2018
L’attentat sanglant soulève des questions sur la responsabilité de l’Etat français, qui a instrumentalisé les réseaux islamises dans leur guerre en Syrie.
L’UE soutient le Royaume-Uni dans ses accusations d’attaque à l’arme neurotoxique contre la Russie
Chris Marsden, 27 mars 2018
Le Royaume-Uni se sert de la tentative d’assassinat alléguée des Skripal pour s’allier à des éléments puissants de l’establishment américain incitant une position plus dure contre la Russie.
La nomination de Bolton : un autre avertissement sur de nouvelles guerres américaines
Peter Symonds, 27 mars 2018
Bolton est connu pour son plaidoyer en faveur des guerres d’agression illégales, son mépris pour les Nations Unies et le droit international, et sa position belliqueuse envers les rivaux des Américains telle que la Chine et la Russie.
New in Norwegian
Skripal-forgiftningskampanjen: En internasjonal krigsprovokasjon
Chris Marsden, 27 March 2018
Kampanjen til imperialistmaktene i Europa og USA over forgiftningen av den tidligere russiske spionen og britiske dobbeltagenten Sergeij Skripal og hans datter stinker til himmels.
Justismord som ikke må få stå!
Ett år siden Indias rettsinstanser dømte fingerte Maruti-Suzuki-arbeidere til fengsel for livstid
Keith Jones, 27 March 2018
De trettens eneste «forbrytelse» er å ha gjort opprør mot ‘sweatshop’-forholdene som råder i Indias nye, globalt forbundne bilindustri.
New York Times refser Trump for utilstrekkelig aggresjon mot Russland
Bill Van Auken, 27 March 2018
Den redaksjonelle lederartikkelen i Times understreker avisens rolle som et propagandaorgan for ledende elementer i det amerikanske militæret og etterretningsapparatet som presser på for krig.
New in Spanish
El significado internacional de la Marcha por nuestras vidas
Por Eric London, 27 marzo 2018
Las manifestaciones de masas en el corazón del imperialismo mundial ponen de manifiesto el recrudecimiento de las tensiones sociales y de la lucha de clases a nivel global.
El depuesto presidente regional catalán Carles Puigdemont es arrestado en Alemania
Por Alejandro López, 27 marzo 2018
La decisión de arrestar a Puigdemont en Alemania, cuyo código penal castiga los intentos de secesión con sentencias que incluyen la cadena perpetua, facilita su envío a España.
El Partido Socialista por la Igualdad alemán exige la liberación inmediata de Carles Puigdemont
Por el Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, 27 marzo 2018
El arresto de Puigdemont por parte de las autoridades alemanas es un acto judicial arbitrario característico de un régimen autoritario.
New in German
Die Festnahme Puigdemonts und der Aufbau eines europäischen Polizeistaats
Peter Schwarz, 27. März 2018
Die europäischen Polizeistrukturen, die unter dem Vorwand der Terrorismusbekämpfung und der Flüchtlingsabwehr entstanden sind, werden nun zur Verfolgung politischer Gegner eingesetzt.
Die internationale Bedeutung der „March for Our Lives“-Demonstrationen
Eric London, 27. März 2018
Die Massendemonstrationen im Herzen des Weltimperialismus zeigen, dass sich die sozialen Spannungen und der Klassenkampf weltweit verschärfen.
Russland nach den Wahlen:
Oligarchie fordert „Reformen“ und Verhandlungen mit imperialistischen Mächten
Clara Weiss, 27. März 2018
Die russische Oligarchie sieht den Wahlsieg von Putin in erster Linie als Stärkung ihrer Verhandlungsposition in ihrem verzweifelten Versuch, eine Übereinkunft mit dem amerikanischen und europäischen Imperialismus zu erreichen.
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The arrest of Catalan President Carles Puigdemont: Another step toward a police state in Europe
27 March 2018
The Europe-wide police-state structures, which emerged under the pretext of combatting terrorism and cracking down on refugees, are now being deployed against political opponents.
Commentary
Germany: Why is the taz newspaper defending the far-right ideologue Baberowski?
By Christoph Vandreier, 27 March 2018
The veteran journalist Edith Kresta has spoken out again “moral sectarianism” in relation to far-right positions and against the stigmatization of xenophobic prejudices.
Geoffrey Rush lawsuit strikes blow against anti-democratic #MeToo campaign
By Richard Phillips and James Cogan, 22 March 2018
More on the sexual misconduct witch-hunt »
Black Lives Matter promotes illusions in African-American police chief after Sacramento police murder
By Alec Andersen, 26 March 2018
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Protest Against School Shootings in the US
Tens of thousands protest mass shootings in New York, Michigan, Boston and the southern United States
By Tom Hall, 27 March 2018
IYSSE members and supporters spoke to demonstrators at a large number of demonstrations throughout the country.
“This can be turned around by people who want to build a new society”
California: Protesters denounce war and social inequality
By our reporters, 27 March 2018
The large turnout in the most populous US state reflects a political shift, as a new generation of young people are being thrust into politics for the first time.
“I am motivated to make that change for our future generations”
Students, youth speak about war, inequality at DC March for Our Lives rally
“No more wars, no more violence!”
Over 80,000 youth and students in Chicago protest against mass violence
The international significance of the March for Our Lives demonstrations
By Eric London, 26 March 2018
The protests against school shootings and the growth of the class struggle
Now available from Mehring Books
New pamphlet: The social and political roots of mass shootings in America
By Shannon Jones, 24 March 2018
There is a growing awareness that something is deeply amiss with the present social order.
Workers Struggles
Strike at York University in Canada begins its fourth week
Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 March 2018
Some 3,000 contract teachers and research and teaching assistants are fighting for a substantial pay increase and enhanced job security under conditions where the unions are isolating their strike.
Quebec: Aluminum giants demand steeper concessions from locked-out ABI workers
By Laurent Lafrance, 22 March 2018
Maruti Suzuki workers hold protest demanding release of 13 framed-up colleagues
By Saman Gunadasa, 21 March 2018
Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship
The truth about Cambridge Analytica-SCL: Psy-ops by UK-US deep state actors
By Julie Hyland, 26 March 2018
Behind the Facebook data scandal: The drive to censor the Internet
Google sets up “news initiative” to censor political opposition and promote mainstream media
"They want you to feel if you speak up you'll be called a traitor or a Russian.”
Detroit autoworkers denounce effort to censor the Internet
By a reporting team, 23 March 2018
Public conference in Detroit April 22
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight against Internet censorship
13 March 2018
WSWS/SEP/IYSSE public meetings
Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship
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23 January 2018
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68th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 5
Central Airport THF: In Berlin, the end of the road for many refugees
By Verena Nees, 26 March 2018
Washington Post fulminates against Black Panther’s white supremacist supporters
By Nick Barrickman, 23 March 2018
Shedding light on the conditions of “millions of women in the shadows of mainstream America”
Hold Me Down: A day in the life of a single mother in the Bronx
By Norisa Diaz, 24 March 2018
An interview with filmmaker Niclas Gillis and Tanisha Lambright of Hold Me Down
Socialist Equality Party
Montreal meeting to discuss the Canada-US strategic alliance and the threat of world war
26 March 2018
Wednesday’s Socialist Equality Party (Canada) meeting will elaborate the socialist internationalist perspective that must animate the struggle against imperialist war and the Trudeau-Trump alliance.
Attend online and call-in forum March 27
The way forward for UK lecturers after the revolt against the University and College Union
24 March 2018
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is hosting an online and call-in forum for lecturers, college staff, other education workers and students on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m.
Sri Lankan workers’ inquiry meeting to announce findings on garbage disaster
By the Independent Workers Inquiry Committee, 17 March 2018
Australia: SEP meeting discusses government-media campaign over “African gangs”
By our reporters, 17 March 2018
This week in history: March 26-April 1
25 years ago: Electoral disaster for Mitterrand and French Socialist Party
Elections held on March 28 and March 21, 1993 for the French National Assembly delivered a shattering blow to the Socialist Party of President François Mitterrand.
50 years ago: Lyndon Johnson announces he will not run for reelection
“I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
75 years ago: Axis troops forced to retreat in Tunisia
On March 26, the British Eighth Army secured victory of the Battle of the Mareth Line, forcing around 75,000 German and Italian troops to retreat deep into northern Tunisia.
100 years ago: German-born director of Boston Symphony Orchestra arrested
On March 26, Karl Muck, director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was imprisoned in East Cambria Jail in Massachusetts as an “enemy alien.”
Mehring Books
Mehring Books publishes The Struggle against Imperialism and For Workers’ Power in Iran
24 March 2018
The pamphlet addresses pivotal issues of socialist strategy in a country that for decades has been a target of US imperialist intrigue and aggression, and where the working class, as heralded by the protests that opened 2018, is now striving to find the road of independent class struggle.
NHS Fightback
NHS FightBack: Reject health trade unions’ sellout NHS pay deal!
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party, 23 March 2018
History
Lenin, Trotsky and the Marxism of the October Revolution
By David North, 19 March 2018
David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party (US), delivered this lecture at the University of Leipzig on March 16.
The CIA and the Democratic Party
The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party
By Patrick Martin, 13 March 2018
The entry of dozens of intelligence and military veterans into this year’s congressional primaries amounts to a takeover of the Democratic Party by the CIA and Pentagon.
The CIA Democrats: Part one
Introduction
By Patrick Martin, 7 March 2018
Science
Some early modern populations in Britain may have had dark skin
By Philip Guelpa, 22 March 2018
Recently published research suggests that Mesolithic Britons may have had dark skin, but the science is unsettled.
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
By Bryan Dyne, 15 March 2018
The Grenfell Tower fire
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference and that’s how those in power view many in our society”
Grenfell fire: An interview with North Kensington resident Joe Delaney
By Robert Stevens, 21 March 2018
In this interview, local resident Joe Delaney speaks about his initial involvement in tenants housing issues in North Kensington and the Grenfell Action Group, his thoughts on the Grenfell fire and the official public inquiry.
“It’s certainly not going to shut me up”
Grenfell fire: Joe Delaney answers right-wing media witch-hunt
Right-wing media launch witch-hunt against Grenfell activist Joe Delaney
Grenfell Fire Forum: Failed by the State co-director discusses smear campaign against his documentary
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International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality! Take up the fight for socialism!
By the IYSSE (Australia), 14 March 2018
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) distributed the following statement at university orientation week events across Australia and in New Zealand.
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.
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
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