24 September 2018
Hundreds of neo-Nazis chant anti-Semitic slogans in Dortmund, Germany
By Ulrich Rippert, 24 September 2018
The far-right, xenophobic policies of the grand coalition government are encouraging right-wing extremists and neo-fascists.
“A whiff of 1933”
Sharp rise in far-right attacks in Germany
The fight against fascism in Germany requires a socialist perspective
More on the growth of the extreme right in Europe »
Senate Committee to take testimony on sex assault allegations against Judge Kavanaugh
By Barry Grey, 24 September 2018
The Democrats will utilise Christine Blasey Ford’s assault allegations to oppose Kavanaugh's confirmation and to advance their campaign for the November congressional elections.
The Kavanaugh hearing: Sexual allegations fuel the Democratic Party’s right-wing politics
Brett Kavanaugh and the role—once again—of sexual misconduct allegations in American politics
Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Socialists of America candidate, covers for CIA Democrats
By Isaac Finn, 24 September 2018
When asked whether she would support CIA Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez avoided a direct answer, saying that she would have to look at their “life experience.”
The strange case of Julia Salazar, Democratic Socialists of America candidate for New York Senate
Twenty-nine killed in attack on military parade in southwestern Iran
By Keith Jones, 24 September 2018
Tehran has accused Washington and its Gulf client states of facilitating Saturday’s attack.
ICE conducts anti-immigrant raids throughout Wisconsin
By Jacob Crosse, 24 September 2018
The families of the workers seized by federal agents have been given little information as to why they were detained or where they are being held.
Trump administration takes aim at immigrants who receive federal benefits
By Harvey Simpkins, 24 September 2018
Even current green card holders could be subject to the new rule and lose their status as lawful permanent residents if, in certain circumstances, they leave the country and try to return.
Notes on Trump’s war against immigrants
Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children
More on the attack on immigrants »
Michigan governor prepares to deploy National Guard to replace locked-out roadway workers
By Tim Rivers, 24 September 2018
While preparing to deploy troops, Snyder brought in union leaders, who agreed to a "cooling-off" period after meeting with administration officials.
Brazil election campaign preparing rise of right-wing government
By Miguel Andrade, 24 September 2018
With the military expressing its readiness to intervene, the PT is pitching its appeal to the Brazilian ruling class and international finance capital.
Refugees fleeing crisis in Venezuela confront poverty in Peru
By our reporters, 24 September 2018
It is estimated that since 2014 nearly 2.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country to escape a collapsing economy.
India cancels talks with Pakistan, threatens military action
By Keith Jones, 24 September 2018
India’s army chief said “pain” should be inflicted on Pakistan, while applauding New Delhi’s scuttling of foreign ministerial talks with Pakistan.
Financial Times expresses concerns over Sri Lanka taking Chinese loans
By Naveen Dewage, 24 September 2018
The US, with the backing of India and Japan, is increasingly putting pressure on Sri Lanka not to deviate from its efforts to undermine and encircle China.
Australian university students face unprecedented financial pressures
By Martin Scott, 24 September 2018
Students confront a housing affordability crisis, low-paid work and a mountain of tuition debt.
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Beijing annule les négociations commerciales avec Washington après que les États-Unis aient sanctionné la Chine pour leurs achats d’armes
Nick Beams, 24 septembre 2018
Ces mesures marquent une nouvelle escalade des tensions commerciales et militaires entre les États-Unis et la Chine.
Le sommet de l’UE entaché de menaces et d’ultimatums sur le Brexit
Chris Marsden, 24 septembre 2018
L’allocution de Theresa May a été accueillie dans le silence et ses menaces implicites rejetées, alors que les figures principales de l’UE se sont réunis le lendemain pour déclarer sa proposition « inapplicable ».
« Des relents de 1933 »
Forte augmentation des attaques d’extrême droite en Allemagne
Marianne Arens et Ulrich Rippert, 24 septembre 2018
Les attaques racistes et antisémites se multiplient à un rythme alarmant en Allemagne, des actes de violence se produisant presque quotidiennement.
La Cour d’appel de l’Ontario appuie le gouvernement provincial contre le conseil de la ville de Toronto
Roger Jordan, 24 septembre 2018
La décision de mercredi a été soigneusement rédigée pour atténuer la crise politique, soulignant le rôle du pouvoir judiciaire en tant que défenseur implacable et hautement conscient de l’ordre capitaliste.
Cinquante ans depuis la sortie du film de Stanley Kubrick 2001, l’odyssée de l’espace
Joanne Laurier, 24 septembre 2018
«2001, l’odyssée de l’espace» tente d’englober 4 millions d’années d’évolution humaine, des hommes-singes d’Afrique jusqu’aux navigateurs de l’espace du 21e siècle.
Rapport d'ouverture du cinquième Congrès national du Socialist Equality Party (Etats-Unis)
David North, 24 septembre 2018
Ce rapport a été présenté par David North, président national du SEP (Parti de l’égalité socialiste aux États-Unis) pour l'ouverture du cinquième congrès national du parti, qui s'est tenu du 22 au 27 juillet 2018.
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La audiencia de Kavanaugh: acusaciones sexuales atizan política derechista del Partido Demócrata
Por Eric London, 24 septiembre 2018
La promoción de la acusación de Ford contra Kavanaugh consiste en una operación política para empujar a toda la élite política hacia la derecha.
Nuevos documentos sobre las conversaciones de Yeltsin-Clinton revelan aún más la “intromisión” de los Estados Unidos en la política rusa
Por Clara Weiss, 24 septiembre 2018
La Fundación Clinton ha publicado cientos de páginas de documentos sobre conversaciones entre el presidente estadounidense Bill Clinton y el presidente ruso Boris Yeltsin.
UNITE HERE aisla la huelga de los trabajadores de hotel de Chicago e hinca a través de un acuerdo con Marriott
Por Marcus Day, 24 septiembre 2018
La tarde del jueves, el sindicato de hotel y hospitalidad UNITE HERE Local 1 anunció abruptamente que un acuerdo había sido alcanzado con siete hoteles de Chicago, mientras se quedan en huelga trabajadores de 19 otros hoteles.
Notas sobre la guerra de Trump contra los inmigrantes
El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos perdió cuenta de otros 1.500 niños inmigrantes
Por nuestros reporteros, 24 septiembre 2018
Además de los niños "perdidos", fondos están siendo desviados de la investigación sobre el SIDA y el cáncer para encarcelar a los niños inmigrantes y el ICE detenía cerca de 1.500 ciudadanos estadounidenses como "alienígenas".
Crashed de Adam Tooze: las limitaciones de un historiador liberal de izquierda
Por Nick Beams, 24 septiembre 2018
El historiador Adam Tooze ha publicado una descripción detallada de los orígenes y el desarrollo de la crisis financiera mundial de 2008 y sus secuelas.
New in German
Die Kavanaugh-Anhörung: Missbrauchsvorwürfe stärken rechte Politik der Demokraten
Eric London, 24. September 2018
Gegen den US-Richter Brett Kavanaugh, den Trump zum Richter am Obersten Gericht machen möchte, führen die Demokraten Missbrauchsvorwürfe von vor 36 Jahren ins Feld. Sie bedienen sich Methoden, die das gesamte Establishment weiter nach rechts rücken.
Faschistische Horden marodieren durch Dortmund
Die rechte Politik der Großen Koalition stärkt Neofaschisten und Antisemiten
Ulrich Rippert, 24. September 2018
Es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass die rechte, ausländerfeindliche Politik der Großen Koalition und die Weiterbeschäftigung des AfD-Anhängers Hans-Georg Maaßen im Innenministerium Rechtsradikale und Neofaschisten ermutigt.
EU-Gipfel: Drohungen und Ultimaten wegen Brexit
Chris Marsden, 24. September 2018
Auf dem Gipfeltreffen in Salzburg nahmen die wichtigsten EU-Regierungen Theresa Mays Vorhaltungen mit Schweigen auf. Anderntags bezeichneten sie in ihrem Kommuniqué die britischen Vorschläge als „undurchführbar“.
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Двадцать лет уходу из жизни марксистского историка и социолога Вадима Роговина
Дэвид Норт, 21 сентября 2018 г.
По случаю двадцатой годовщины смерти Вадима Роговина мы заново публикуем одно из выступлений, посвященных памяти крупнейшего советского и русского марксистского социолога и историка второй половины двадцатого столетия.
Эта неделя в истории
25 лет назад: Ельцин присваивает себе диктаторские полномочия
21 сентября 2018 г.
21 сентября 1993 года российский президент Борис Ельцин распустил парламент, приостановил действие конституции и присвоил себе диктаторские полномочия, разбив вдребезги претензии на то, что его режим представляет собой развитие «демократии» в России после упразднения СССР.
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Amerika: Garnisonstaten
Andre Damon, 20. september 2018
Mens ofrene for orkanen Florence blir fortalt at det ikke finnes tilgjengelige statsmidler for å hjelpe dem med å gjenoppbygge sine hjem skyflet Senatet i det stille $ 675 milliarder over til det amerikanske militæret.
Den tyske GroKo-regjeringen forfremmer den høyreekstreme sjefen for det hemmelige sikkerhetspolitiet til statssekretær
Ulrich Rippert, 20. september 2018
Storkoalisjonen har svart på masseprotester mot AfD og partiets nyfascistiske provokasjoner med å integrere den foraktede presidenten for den hemmelige etterretningstjenesten og hans pro-AfD-politikk mer direkte inn i regjeringen.
Den militaristiske komponenten i Trumps handelskrig
Nick Beams, 20. september 2018
Mens Kina for øyeblikket er hovedmålet er USA for Trump-administrasjonen involvert i en økonomisk krig mot resten av verden.
Russland impliserer det ukrainske pro-NATO regimet i nedskytingen av MH17
Kumaran Ira, 20. september 2018
Ved hjelp av serienumre fra de europeiske etterforskerne leverte Moskva bevis for at missilen som skjøt ned MH17 ikke var i russisk men i ukrainske styrkers besittelse.
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Perspective
The CIA Democrats and the US midterm elections
24 September 2018
While working people are looking for an alternative to the reactionary policies of the Trump administration, they will not find it in the Democratic Party.
Featured Commentary
“History never teaches anyone anything”
Russian neo-Stalinist defends Partido Obrero’s “refounding” of Fourth International
By Bill Van Auken, 24 September 2018
Said Gafurov, a former advisor to Vladimir Putin, defends the PO's policy on the basis that the struggle of Trotskyism against Stalinism has lost all political significance.
History of the Fourth International
The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
The lessons of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party’s Great Betrayal
By Rohantha De Silva and Vilani Peiris, 24 September 2018
This is the first in a series of articles published by the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation in June 1968.
On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
By David North, 3 September 2018
The founding of the Fourth International on September 3, 1938, was an event of great historical significance and contemporary relevance.
Historic discovery of Left Opposition manuscripts from the early 1930s
Socialist Equality Party
80th anniversary of the Fourth International and 50th anniversary of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
David North to address meetings in Sri Lanka on the lessons of the history and contemporary struggle for socialism
19 September 2018
Understanding the historic fight waged by the Fourth International and the SEP for the revolutionary leadership of the international working class is vital for the emerging class struggles.
History
Twenty years since the death of Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin
By David North, 18 September 2018
On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Vadim Rogovin, we republish two tributes to the greatest Soviet and Russian Marxist sociologist and historian of the second half of the twentieth century.
Commentary
The ouster of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma: The #MeToo movement assaults free speech
By David Walsh, 22 September 2018
In an extraordinary act of political censorship, Buruma was forced out this week after he published an article by Jian Ghomeshi, the former Canadian radio broadcaster accused of sexual misconduct in 2014.
Beijing cancels trade talks with Washington after US sanctions China for weapons purchases
By Nick Beams, 22 September 2018
Manchester “anti-Semitism” protest
Blairites and Tories share platform calling for Corbyn’s removal
By Robert Stevens, 22 September 2018
New York Times claims Deputy Attorney General discussed removing Trump
By Patrick Martin, 22 September 2018
New York Times’ fraudulent “election plot” dossier escalates anti-Russia hysteria
By Bill Van Auken, 21 September 2018
The CIA Democrats: A balance sheet of the primaries
By Patrick Martin, 21 September 2018
Republican war criminals endorse CIA Democrat Slotkin
America: The garrison state
As Trump stages photo-ops in the Carolinas
Hurricane flooding exposes mass poverty, class oppression in America
By Ed Hightower and Barry Grey, 20 September 2018
SEP 2018 Election Campaign
Socialist Equality Party congressional candidate Niles Niemuth speaks to students and youth at Wayne State University
By Tom Hall, 22 September 2018
Campaign events for Socialist Equality Party candidate Niles Niemuth
Socialism: What it is and how to fight for it
18 September 2018
Vote for Niles! Fight for Socialism!
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Socialist Equality Party campaign for Michigan’s 12th congressional district website
16 August 2018
Visit our website to find out how you can get involved in Niles Niemuth’s campaign against war, inequality and dictatorship, and for the socialist transformation of society.
Workers Struggles
UNITE HERE isolates striking Chicago hotel workers, rams through deal with Marriott
By Marcus Day, 22 September 2018
UAW corruption scandal widens as US workers press for wage increases
By Jerry White, 21 September 2018
“Collectively we are powerful beyond measure”
Kokomo Chrysler workers press for strike action
Growing anger over injury of autoworker in Kokomo, Indiana
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As Teamsters pushes for “yes” vote on concessions contract
UPS unveils $1 billion cost-cutting “transformation plan”
By Will Morrow, 15 September 2018
What is the Teamsters for a Democratic Union?
International Amazon Workers Voice
“I’ve been wanting to speak up for a long time. I have nothing to lose”
Another homeless grandmother details nightmarish aftermath of Amazon workplace injury
By Eric London, 21 September 2018
“Amazon thinks I’m a piece of trash on the ground and they’ll walk all over me”
Amazon Nightmare: Grandmother injured on the job goes homeless, suffers pneumonia
By Eric London and Zac Corrigan, 3 September 2018
Injured Amazon worker Angela: “If workers controlled Bezos’ billions, nobody would be homeless”
The International Amazon Workers Voice (IAWV) spoke to Angela Shelton, an injured worker at the DFW7 Amazon fulfillment center in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where a number of injured workers have recently been made homeless.
Life under capitalism for an American youth
Injured Texas Wal-Mart worker describes how and why she switched to socialism
By Eric London, 5 September 2018
Book review
Adam Tooze’s Crashed: The limitations of a Left-liberal historian
By Nick Beams, 22 September 2018
The historian Adam Tooze has published a detailed account of the origins and development of the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath.
Arts Review
Fahrenheit 11/9—Filmmaker Michael Moore clings to the Democratic Party
By David Walsh, 21 September 2018
IYSSE
US schools hiring private companies to spy on students’ social media
By Trévon Austin, 17 September 2018
Growing support for socialism among students across the US
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US), 12 September 2018
Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and take up the fight for socialism!
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US), 31 August 2018
Mehring Books
Mehring Books UK publishes The Heritage We Defend 30th anniversary edition
15 September 2018
The new edition of the foundational 1988 work by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available for order in the UK and Ireland.
Preface to the thirtieth anniversary edition of The Heritage We Defend
By David North, 21 June 2018
We are posting the new preface written by David North for the soon to be released thirtieth anniversary edition of The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International.
Public meetings in Australia
Nick Beams to lecture at Australian universities on the contemporary significance of Karl Marx
6 September 2018
The lectures will make clear that Marx’s theoretical breakthroughs were inextricably linked to his political work as a revolutionary determined to arm the emerging working class with a program that advanced its independent interests.
SEP Australia public meeting in Sydney: The key political issues behind the coup against Turnbull
6 September 2018
As international relations and parliamentary forms of rule break down, the ruling elite is terrified of the growing left-wing sentiment among workers and young people.
International Committee of the Fourth International
Resolution of the SEP (US) Fifth National Congress
The Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
8 August 2018
This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Equality Party Congress, held from July 22–27, 2018.
Opening report to the Fifth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
By David North, 4 August 2018
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
Security and the Fourth International
An “Exemplary Comrade”: The Socialist Workers Party’s 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen: Part one
By Eric London, 14 August 2018
This is the first part in a four-part series examining the cover-up by the Socialist Workers Party beginning in 1947 of information exposing the role of Sylvia Callen, the personal secretary of long-time party leader James P. Cannon, as a Stalinist agent.
Part two | Part three | Part four
Seventy-eight years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
By Eric London and David North, 21 August 2018
On August 21, 1940, Leon Trotsky, the founder of the Fourth International and the co-leader of the Russian Revolution, died from wounds inflicted the day before by an assassin, the Stalinist GPU agent Ramon Mercader.
Defend Julian Assange!
London: Ecuador embassy vigil marks six years since Julian Assange granted asylum
By Paul Mitchell, 18 August 2018
Christine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks editor: “I’ve not been able to speak to my son for four months”
By Richard Phillips, 24 July 2018
Mueller investigation seeks to implicate WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in “Russian interference”
Protest in London against Ecuadorian President Moreno’s persecution of Julian Assange
The Turnbull government must act to repatriate Australian citizen Julian Assange to Australia
Bringing Julian Assange Home
More on the campaign to free Julian Assange »
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.
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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