16 June 2018
Jailing of ex-Trump campaign manager signals new stage in Washington's political wars
By Barry Grey, 16 June 2018
The jailing of Manafort expresses the ferocious character of the struggle that is raging between rival factions in the US capitalist class and its state apparatus.
The US political police and the 2016 elections
The noose tightens around Trump
Washington launches trade war measures against China
By Ben McGrath, 16 June 2018
The decision by the Trump Administration to initiate a trade war between the world’s two largest economies will contribute to the already growing tensions and danger of military conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.
The G7 summit collapses
German government rent by deepening crisis
By Peter Schwarz, 16 June 2018
A fierce conflict over refugee policy between the conservative sister parties CDU and CSU threatens to blow apart the grand coalition.
“They’re getting more money and we’re losing workers”
In wake of UAW convention, Lordstown GM workers speak out on layoffs
By a WSWS reporting team, 16 June 2018
Autoworkers at the GM Lordstown assembly plant expressed their disgust at both the company and the UAW as next Friday’s shutdown of the second shift looms.
“Everything they took from us needs to be returned, plus the money they stole”
Growing outrage from autoworkers over UAW bribery scandal
As corruption scandal engulfs union, top execs get pay raise
UAW named “co-conspirator” in illegal funds-siphoning scheme
Thousands across US rally against Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant families
By Dan Conway, 16 June 2018
Rallies took place across the country on Thursday and Friday as reports spread of the breakup of immigrant families and imprisonment of children.
Administration preparing to hold immigrants in tent camps
Outcry mounts against Trump policy of forced separation of refugee children and parents
Trump administration rescinds right to asylum for victims of gangs and domestic violence
More on North American immigration issues »
Report documents abuse of Chinese workers at Foxconn supplier plant for Amazon
By Alec Andersen, 16 June 2018
China Labor Watch has exposed the barbaric and illegal practices on which Amazon relies to boost its profits.
Thousands gather to mark first anniversary of Grenfell Tower inferno
By Robert Stevens, 16 June 2018
SEP campaigners won a warm response to the WSWS Perspective on the anniversary of the fire, distributed along with a statement calling for attendance at the June 19 vigil to demand the freedom of Julian Assange.
Grenfell Silent Marchers speak
“I have woken up to the fact that class war still exists, it’s alive and kicking”
By our reporters, 16 June 2018
Attendees at the Silent March on June 14 in commemoration of Grenfell fire victims spoke to the WSWS.
London Review of Books publishes scurrilous account of Grenfell Tower fire
One year since the Grenfell inferno
British government extends censorship of online activity
By Simon Whelan, 16 June 2018
The personal information held by MI5 on 20,000 British “suspected” citizens is to be declassified and shared with local authorities, police “and others.”
Despite rising social anger, Macron pledges to step up austerity attacks in France
By Alex Lantier, 16 June 2018
The multimillionaire banker-president denounced the “crazy amounts of money” he claims France spends on the poor.
Political cartoonist fired by right-wing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors over anti-Trump cartoons
By Kayla Costa, 16 June 2018
After rejecting nineteen of his cartoons since March, the newspaper’s editors fired Rob Rogers for not complying with their efforts to shift content to the right.
Omaha Public Schools board cuts $29 million from budget
By Michael Walters, 16 June 2018
The slashing of funding for the largest school district in Nebraska will result in the elimination of positions in the central office as well as bus drivers, student support liaisons, accountants and IT professionals.
New in French
Le siège d’Al Hudaydah, le crime de guerre de Washington au Yémen
Bill Van Auken, 16 juin 2018
La guerre quasi-génocidaire contre le peuple appauvri du Yémen représente l’un des plus grands crimes de guerre depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
L'extrême droite détermine la politique européenne des réfugiés
Peter Schwarz, 16 juin 2018
Après l’entrée des partis d’extrême droite dans les gouvernements autrichien et italien, l’Union européenne et tous les autres gouvernements européens adoptent leur politique brutale anti-réfugiés.
New in Norwegian
Dødlig beleiring av Jemens havneby Hodeida innledes med Washingtons bistand og godkjenning
Bill Van Auken, 14 June 2018
Wall Street Journal rapporterte onsdag at Pentagon jobber direkte med Saudi- og UAE-styrkenes valg av mål i havnebyen ved Rødehavet.
Den australske filmskaperen Curtis Levy støtter Sydney demonstrasjonen den 17. juni til Julian Assanges forsvar
14 June 2018
«Jeg oppfordrer alle, spesielt mine kolleger i media, til å delta på denne viktige begivenheten.»
President Putins «åpen-linje»-diskusjon var dominert av krigsfare og sosial krise
Vladimir Volkov og Clara Weiss, 14 June 2018
Putins positive vurdering av situasjonen i landet står i sterk kontrast til den sosiale krisen som det store flertallet av den russiske befolkningen konfronterer.
Filmregissør Ken Loach: «Forfølgelsen av Julian Assange må opphøre»
våre reportere, 14 June 2018
Ken Loach er en av verdens mest respekterte filmregissører, og hans produksjon viser hans sosialistiske overbevisning og en dypfølt sympati for arbeiderklassen.
Professor Piers Robinson krever frihet for Julian Assange
14 June 2018
Robinson, et ledende medlem av Arbeidsgruppen for Syria, Propaganda og Medier og for Media-on-Trial-organisasjonen, har opponert mot regimeendringskriger på Balkan og i Midtøsten.
New in Italian
Il governo italiano respinge la nave Aquarius con 629 profughi a bordo
Marianne Arens, 15 giugno 2018
Un decreto del nuovo governo italiano di destra ha prevenuto che una nave con a bordo più di 600 profughi approdasse in Italia. Questo e il risultato delle politiche dell’UE sui profughi.
New in German
Die Belagerung von Hodeidah: Washingtons Kriegsverbrechen im Jemen
Bill Van Auken, 16. Juni 2018
Der Krieg gegen die verarmten Menschen im Jemen nimmt das Ausmaß eines Völkermords an und wird zu einem der größten Kriegsverbrechen seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
SEP Australien fordert von der Regierung, sich für die Freilassung von Julian Assange einzusetzen
James Cogan, 16. Juni 2018
Seit WikiLeaks unter dem Codenamen Vault-7 Geheimdaten zur CIA veröffentlicht hat, ist der US-Staatsapparat entschlossener denn je, Assange zum Schweigen zu bringen.
Regierungskrise in Berlin
Peter Schwarz, 16. Juni 2018
Nur drei Monate nach ihrer Amtsübernahme steht die vierte Regierung von Angela Merkel vor dem möglichen Aus. Ein heftiger Konflikt zwischen CDU und CSU über die Flüchtlingspolitik droht die Große Koalition zu sprengen
Nato und Bundesregierung errichten Blitzkrieg-Strukturen in Europa
Gregor Link, 16. Juni 2018
Die Nato, das größte Militärbündnis der Welt, baut die gemeinsamen militärischen Strukturen derzeit so massiv aus, wie seit dem Kalten Krieg nicht mehr.
Studierende in Deutschland verteidigen Julian Assange
unseren Reportern, 16. Juni 2018
Reporter der World Socialist Web Site und Mitglieder der IYSSE sprachen mit Studenten an mehreren Universitäten in Deutschland über die Situation von Julian Assange.
New in Spanish
El asedio en Hodeida, un crimen de guerra de Washington en Yemen
Por Bill Van Auken, 16 junio 2018
La guerra casi genocida contra el empobrecido pueblo yemení es uno de los mayores crímenes de guerra desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
El Gobierno se prepara para detener a inmigrantes en campamentos de carpas
Aumenta enojo hacia política de Trump de separación forzada de padres e hijos refugiados
Por Norisa Diaz y Patrick Martin, 16 junio 2018
Un reporte de McClatchy News de esta semana devela los planes del Gobierno para tratar el desbordamiento de niños detenidos depositándolos en tiendas de campaña en bases militares.
Los conflictos geoestratégicos se intensificarán después de la cumbre entre Corea del Norte y Estados Unidos
Por Ben McGrath, 16 junio 2018
Los desacuerdos en Washington son sobre la mejor manera de proceder con la planificación de la guerra contra China y Rusia.
Mientras el escándalo de corrupción envuelve al sindicato, los altos ejecutivos obtienen un aumento de sueldo
UAW llamado "coconspirador" en un intriga para desviar fondos
Por Jerry White, 16 junio 2018
La convención constitucional de cuatro días, que finaliza hoy en Detroit, fue una exhibición de la corrupción de la UAW y su desprecio por los trabajadores automotores de base.
Por sus amigos los conocerá: la Organización Internacional Socialista y el imperialismo estadounidense
Por Joseph Kishore, 16 junio 2018
Un libro publicado recientemente por Haymarket Books de la ISO contiene una serie de respaldos de partidarios abiertos de la agresiva intervención militar de EUA en Siria.
Estudio señala “ramificaciones devastadoras” de la “ley mordaza global” antiaborto de Trump
Por Benjamin Mateus, 16 junio 2018
La “Política de Ciudad de México” reinstaurada Trump, conocida por sus críticos como la “ley mordaza global”, esencialmente bloquea el financiamiento federal estadounidense a organizaciones internacionales que provean asesoramiento, referencias o servicios para abortos en naciones de bajos ingresos.
La extrema derecha determina la política de refugiados de Europa
Por Peter Schwarz, 16 junio 2018
Tras la entrada de los partidos de extrema derecha en los gobiernos austríaco e italiano, la Unión Europea y todos los demás gobiernos europeos están adoptando su despiadada política de refugiados.
Bloqueos de calle paralizan Nicaragua y Washington envía representante especial
Por Andrea Lobo, 16 junio 2018
Ante la intensificación de la explosión social y la paralización de la economía, Washington ha enviado a un comisionado especial para presionar por una resolución política más pronta.
New in Russian
Книга Дэвида Норта «В защиту Льва Троцкого» вышла на русском языке
Владимир Волков, 9 июня 2018 г.
Немецкое издательство Mehring Verlag опубликовало на русском языке книгу Дэвида Норта «В защиту Льва Троцкого». Это важный шаг в деле построения троцкистского движения в России.
1968: Всеобщая забастовка и восстание студентов во Франции
Часть 4: Как JCR Алена Кривина покрывала предательства сталинизма (2)
Петер Шварц, 9 июня 2018 г.
Пятьдесят лет назад, в мае-июне 1968 года, всеобщая забастовка поставила Францию на грань пролетарской революции. Данная серия статей, состоящая из восьми частей, описывает эти события и рассматривает их политические уроки для сегодняшнего дня.
New in Arabic
استقالة رئيس الوزراء الأردني وسط احتجاجات ضخمة ضد التقشف الذي فرضه صندوق النقد الدولي
٤ حزيران يونيو ٢٠١٨
استقال رئيس الوزراء الأردني هاني الملقي أمس الأحد بعد أيام من الاحتجاجات المناوئة للحكومة في عمان وغيرها من المدن الكبرى. وكانت الاحتجاجات ضد قانون جديد يخفض عتبة ضريبة الدخل ، وارتفاعا في ضريبة المبيعات ، وزيادات في تكلفة الوقود والكهرباء والمياه.
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Perspective
Abolish Washington’s immigration Gestapo! Stop the persecution of immigrants!
16 June 2018
The abolition of the agencies responsible for mass deportations, workplace raids and the separation of families is a life or death question for the working class.
Defend Julian Assange!
Join the June 17 demonstration in Sydney and June 19 rallies to defend WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 16 June 2018
The rallies and vigils will be important contributions to the development of an ongoing campaign to secure Assange’s freedom.
Film critic, cinema professor and journalist Joseph McBride: Julian Assange “should be freed”
16 June 2018
Joseph McBride is one of the most honest and interesting film critics and historians in the US. He has written studies of Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, John Ford, Orson Welles and Ernst Lubitsch, among other works.
Writer Steven Brust on Assange: “I salute his personal courage and integrity”
16 June 2018
Steven Brust is a prominent fantasy and science fiction writer, the author of 31 books, as well as a musician. He is perhaps best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a group of humans living on a world called Dragaera.
Sri Lankan artists speak out in defence of Julian Assange
16 June 2018
Lakshman Mendis, Bertie B. Kudahetti, Ratnasiri Paranawithana and Bartholameuse Wimalaratne endorse the international campaign to free Julian Assange.
UK workers demand release of Julian Assange, support international vigils
By our reporters, 16 June 2018
“Assange has been imprisoned for more than a third of my lifetime. Teenagers of today have grown up in a world of fear, censorship and the presence of a police state.”
Ecuador in talks to remove Julian Assange from London embassy
By Mike Head, 15 June 2018
SEP Australia national secretary demands Australian government act to free Julian Assange
14 June 2018
Free Julian Assange rallies called in Sri Lanka and India
The pseudo-left stabs Assange in the back
By Andre Damon, 11 June 2018
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
More on the campaign to free Julian Assange »
Socialist Equality Party
Fifty years of the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka
Arm the working class with the program of socialist internationalism and with revolutionary leadership!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 16 June 2018
The fulcrum of the 50-year struggle of the RCL/SEP has been the fight for the political independence of the working class and the program of permanent revolution.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) to hold lectures to mark its 50th anniversary
Sri Lanka SEP files fundamental rights case against Colombo Municipal Council
6 June 2018
Socialist Equality Party wins significant vote in California primary elections
By Jonathan Burleigh, 7 June 2018
SEP holds Paris meeting on 50 years since May 1968 general strike
By our reporters, 5 June 2018
Commentary
By their friends you will know them: The International Socialist Organization and American imperialism
By Joseph Kishore, 15 June 2018
The ISO and the imperialist politics of the pseudo-left
The far right determine Europe’s refugee policy
By Peter Schwarz, 15 June 2018
The siege of Hodeidah, Washington’s war crime in Yemen
By Bill Van Auken, 15 June 2018
US war crimes in Syria exposed
The Democratic National Committee lawsuit against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: A major attack on press freedom
By Ed Hightower, 15 June 2018
Pentagon Papers lawyer James Goodale on DNC lawsuit: “The Democrats are establishing possibly a precedent that diminishes First Amendment freedoms”
By Ed Hightower, 15 June 2018
Workers Party in Argentina seeks to “refound” Fourth International in alliance with Stalinism
By Eric London and Bill Van Auken, 7 June 2018
The Demise of Savas Michael’s “New Era”
By David North
Workers Struggles
Chinese truck drivers protest in several provinces, thousands of Sri Lankan postal workers resume national strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 June 2018
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Arts Review
The Rachel Divide: A Netflix documentary on the identity politics uproar over “transracial” Rachel Dolezal
By Nick Barrickman, 15 June 2018
A welcome development:
Actor Geoffrey Rush to return to stage with Melbourne Theatre Company
By Richard Phillips, 14 June 2018
ICFI
Support the Socialist Equality group in Turkey!
Statement of the SE group, in sympathy with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), on the snap elections in Turkey
14 June 2018
Turkish sympathizing group of the ICFI adopts new name
By the Socialist Equality Group (Turkey), 8 June 2018
Toplumsal Esitlik (TE–the Social Equality Group) has changed its name to Sosyalist Esitlik (SE–Socialist Equality Group).
This week in history: June 11-June 17
25 years ago: US military slaughters Somali civilians
On June 11, 1993, six months after US troops landed in Somalia for the supposed purpose of feeding starving people, US warplanes reduced large parts of the capital city, Mogadishu, to rubble, while United Nations troops carried out house-to-house raids and cold-blooded massacres.
50 years ago: De Gaulle orders repression of the left in France
On June 12, 1968, the French government announced sweeping repressive measures against left-wing organizations as the general strike movement ebbed.
75 years ago: Hundreds of thousands of US coal miners strike
Hundreds of thousands of coal miners across the United States began indefinite strike action on June 11, 1943, demanding a wage increase and improvements to their working conditions.
100 years ago: American socialist leader Eugene V. Debs calls on workers to oppose the First World War
On June 16, 1918, 14 months into American participation in the first imperialist war, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs gave his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, calling for the international unity of the working class.
History
The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the end of American liberalism
By Patrick Martin, 6 June 2018
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
Part 8—The centrist line of the OCI (4)
By Peter Schwarz, 6 June 2018
Fifty years ago, in May–June 1968, a general strike brought France to the brink of proletarian revolution. This eight-part series describes the events and draws the political lessons for today.
Featured Report
“Government propaganda and the war on terror from 9/11 to Syria”
Journalists and academics expose UK’s criminal actions in the Middle East
By Julie Hyland, 31 May 2018
War, propaganda and smears: An interview with Professor Piers Robinson
Part three
May Day 2018 International Online Rally
May Day 2018 and the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx
By David North, 6 May 2018
Opening the ICFI’s International Online Rally on Saturday, May 5, David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the WSWS and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), spoke on the historical significance of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism, 200 years after his birth.
- A balance sheet of the betrayals of left nationalism in Latin America
- Anti-migrant measures and the assault on workers’ jobs and living standards: Two sides of the same class policy
- Lessons of the May–June 1968 general strike in France
- For a socialist movement against war throughout the Asia-Pacific region
- The death of reformism: Corbyn and the “broad left”
- The role of the youth in the fight for socialism
- The laws of capitalism and the breakdown of the global economy
- The global significance of the resurgence of class struggle in the United States
- Socialism and the struggle against Internet censorship
- The struggle against militarism and the far right in Europe
- Against imperialism, counterrevolution and war! For a socialist Middle East!
- The Maruti Suzuki workers and the re-emergence of class struggle across South Asia
Arabic translation of “Against imperialism, counterrevolution and war! For a socialist Middle East!”
The following is an Arabic translation of the speech, "Against imperialism, counterrevolution and war! For a socialist Middle East!", delivered to the ICFI’s International Online Rally on May 5 by Johannes Stern, a leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, the German section of the ICFI, and the World Socialist Web Site editorial board in Germany.
Trotskyism is the Marxism of the 21st Century
By Joseph Kishore, 7 May 2018
May Day 2018
By Joseph Kishore and David North, 1 May 2018
Mehring Books
New from Mehring Books: Flint: A Crime of Capitalism
22 May 2018
Now available! This pamphlet exposes the social and political forces behind the lead poisoning of the water supply in Flint, which was rooted in the subordination of all aspects of social life to the profit drive of business.
New in Urdu
Urdu translation of WSWS Perspective on bicentenary of Marx’s birth
We are pleased to publish the Urdu translation of the perspective written by WSWS Chairman David North, “The bicentenary of Marx’s birth, socialism and the resurgence of the international class struggle.”
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Over 100 attend IYSSE meeting at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany
By our correspondents, 14 May 2018
Internet Censorship and Workers' Struggles
Facebook censors Arizona educators’ rank-and-file committee group
By Jerry White, 7 May 2018
Facebook has disabled the Arizona Educators Rank and File Committee group, which provided a forum for teachers to oppose the betrayal of their struggles by the unions.
WSWS 20th Anniversary
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.
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.
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