1 October 2018
More than eight hundred dead after earthquakes and tsunami strike Indonesia
By John Braddock, 1 October 2018
Fourteen years after the 2004 tsunami killed up to 230,000 people, governments throughout the region and internationally have done nothing to prevent a similar mass tragedy.
Democrats, media press Kavanaugh sexual assault campaign
By Patrick Martin, 1 October 2018
The frenzy over Kavanaugh’s alleged actions as a 17-year-old is a diversion from any examination of his 30-year record as a reactionary opponent of democratic rights and the working class.
The political issues in the Senate hearing on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
The Kavanaugh hearing: A spectacle of political filth and reaction
Kavanaugh’s nomination, Cosby’s sentencing: News media pornography and the enraged middle class
Dozens injured as Catalan separatists and regional police clash in Barcelona
By Alejandro López, 1 October 2018
A year after the Catalan independence referendum, none of the issues that led to the referendum crisis and the violent repression by Madrid have been resolved.
Julian Assange appoints new WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief
By Patrick O’Connor, 1 October 2018
Kristinn Hrafnsson’s appointment is testament to WikiLeaks’ invaluable contribution to genuine journalism.
Protests hit mass detention of immigrant children in Texas tent camp
By Bill Van Auken, 1 October 2018
The barren tent camp in the desert on the Mexican border is built to house up to 3,800 children.
US announces new barrier to citizenship for low-income immigrants
More on the attacks on immigrants »
World Bank warns Gaza faces economic collapse
By Jean Shaoul, 1 October 2018
The organization warned that half of Gaza residents live in poverty and youth unemployment is over 70 percent.
López Obrador promises Truth Commission in disappearance of Ayotzinapa students
By Don Knowland, 1 October 2018
Any new investigation will inevitably face limits, including the role of the army in the events and its coverup.
Brazil’s Workers Party leader covers up far-right threats to next government
By Miguel Andrade, 1 October 2018
The Workers Party is courting the Brazilian military, presenting itself as the force best suited to its interests.
Beijing university threatens Marxist student society
By Peter Symonds, 1 October 2018
The university has reacted to fears that not only politically radicalised students, but also China’s exploited working class, could threaten the CCP’s police-state regime.
Senior management implodes after exposure of government interference at Australia’s state-funded media
By Richard Phillips, 1 October 2018
Australian Broadcasting Corporation chairman Justin Milne demanded senior journalists be sacked in order to curry favour with the federal government.
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Den russiske Duma banker igjennom pensjonsreform mot masseopposisjon
Clara Weiss, 01. October 2018
Vedtaket av reformen, den russiske regjeringens mest upopulære tiltak på tiår, setter scenen for en sterk opptrapping av sosiale og politiske konflikter i Russland.
Trump truer «strategiske allierte» med tariffer på biler
Nick Beams, 01. October 2018
Etter først å ha blitt brukt mot EU, ble sist uke trusselen om tariffer på biler begrunnet med «nasjonal sikkerhet» anvendt mot Japan og Canada.
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Ortadoğu’da ABD-Avrupa çatışması artarken Erdoğan Berlin’i ziyaret etti
Alex Lantier, 1 Ekim 2018
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Ortadoğu'da Washington ile Avrupa Birliği (AB) arasındaki patlayıcı çatışmaların ortasında, üç günlük bir ziyaret için Perşembe günü Berlin'e geldi.
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Les vrais enjeux des élections au Québec pour la classe ouvrière
Richard Dufour, 1 octobre 2018
Avertissement à ceux qui se tournent vers Québec solidaire: QS est hostile à la mobilisation des travailleurs en tant que force politique indépendante, seule façon de combattre l’austérité capitaliste.
Selon les sondages, les élections au Québec risquent de porter au pouvoir un gouvernement minoritaire
nos journalistes, 1 octobre 2018
La montée de Québec Solidaire dans les sondages est l'expression déformée d'un sentiment croissant anti-austérité et anticapitaliste, en particulier chez les jeunes.
Jeremy Corbyn appelle à l’unité avec la droite travailliste et le « monde des affaires »
Robert Stevens, 1 octobre 2018
S’adressant à ceux qui ont passé des années à le diffamer lui et ses partisans, Corbyn a plaidé qu’il était nécessaire de « se concentrer sur ce qui nous unit. Nous sommes embarqués dans un voyage ensemble et ne pouvons arriver à destination qu’en restant unis. »
L'audience Kavanaugh: Un spectacle politique réactionnaire et dépravé
Patrick Martin, 1 octobre 2018
Le Parti démocrate a décidé de s'opposer au candidat réactionnaire de la Cour suprême sur la base la plus rétrograde et la plus à droite possible.
Un maire du Parti de gauche allemand ordonne la déportation de réfugiés
Markus Salzmann, 1 octobre 2018
Le maire de Francfort sur l’ Oder, René Wilke du Parti de la gauche, a lancé un ordre d’expulsion contre sept réfugiés en provenance de Syrie, du Pakistan et des territoires palestiniens.
50e anniversaire de la fondation du SEP (Sri Lanka)
La lutte politique de la RCL et du SEP contre le radicalisme petit-bourgeois
Kapila Fernando, 1 octobre 2018
Les cinq dernières décennies ont confirmé la clairvoyance de l’analyse politique de la RCL et du SEP et la mise en évidence du radicalisme petit-bourgeois du JVP.
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Die politischen Fragen in der Senatsanhörung von Brett Kavanaugh
Eric London, 1. Oktober 2018
Die inhaltliche Ausrichtung der Anhörungen ist Ausdruck der politischen Prioritäten der Demokratischen Partei und der Interessen der wohlhabenden Gesellschaftsschichten, an die sie damit appelliert.
Trump droht „strategischen Verbündeten“ mit Autozöllen
Nick Beams, 1. Oktober 2018
Nach der Europäischen Union drohte die Trump-Regierung letzte Woche auch Japan und Kanada aus Gründen der „nationalen Sicherheit“ mit Autozöllen.
David North wird bei seiner Ankunft in Sri Lanka herzlich begrüßt
1. Oktober 2018
North betonte die wichtige Rolle, die der Trotzkismus in der politischen Entwicklung der Arbeiterklasse Sri Lankas gespielt hat.
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Las cuestiones políticas de la audiencia en el Senado sobre la nominación de Brett Kavanaugh a la Corte Suprema
Por Eric London, 1 octubre 2018
El foco del procedimiento refleja las prioridades políticas del Partido Demócrata y los intereses de capas sociales adineradas a las que busca atraer.
Estados Unidos anuncia nuevo impedimento a ciudadanía de inmigrantes de bajos ingresos
Por Meenakshi Jagadeesan, 1 octubre 2018
El Gobierno de Trump ha anunciado una nueva regla que exige a los inmigrantes que soliciten un estatus legal permanente o ciudadanía reportar sus calificaciones e historiales crediticios.
Los pilotos y la tripulación de cabina de aerolínea Ryanair se declaran en huelga en seis países europeos
Por nuestros reporteros, 1 octubre 2018
La huelga más grande en la historia de aerolínea Ryanair muestra el potencial de la clase trabajadora en una disputa laboral coordinada internacionalmente.
Trump amenaza a "aliados estratégicos" con aranceles automáticos
Por Nick Beams, 1 octubre 2018
Después de ser utilizada contra la Unión Europea la amenaza de las tarifas sobre automóviles por motivos de "seguridad nacional" esta semana Trump quiere aplicarla contra Japón y Canadá.
Trabajadores de Ryanair inician la huelga más grande en su historia
Por Gustav Kemper, 1 octubre 2018
La decisión de los sindicatos alemanes de convocar una huelga en la noche del jueves 27 de septiembre hace que las huelgas de hoy en cinco países europeos sean las más grandes en la historia de la aerolínea de tarifas económicas.
Los trabajadores de plantaciones de Sri Lanka se manifiestan por salarios más altos
Por M. Thevarajah, 1 octubre 2018
La protesta controlada por los sindicatos se organizó para promocionar ilusiones en que las compañías y el gobierno concedan un aumento salarial “razonable” a los trabajadores de las haciendas.
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«История никогда и никого ничему не учит»
Российский неосталинист защищает аргентинскую Рабочей партии в деле «восстановления» Четвертого Интернационала
Билл Вэн Оукен, 29 сентября 2018 г.
Саид Гафуров, бывший советник Владимира Путина, защищает политику аргентинской Рабочей партии на основе того, что борьбы троцкизма против сталинизма утратила всякое политическое значение.
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خمسة وعشرون عام بعد أوسلو، كارثة عميقة بالنسبة للفلسطينيين
١٣ أيلول سبتمبر ٢٠١٨
صادف يوم الخميس الذكرى الخامسة والعشرين لتبني كل من زعيم منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية ياسر عرفات ورئيس الحكومة الإسرائيلية إسحق رابين اتفاقيات أوسلو خلال لقاء في واشنطن في ضيافة رئيس الولايات المتحة بيل كلنتون.
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Perspective
Hundreds of thousands demand strike action in the US
1 October 2018
With social anger at plunging living standards boiling over, the unions are desperately seeking to divert opposition behind the election of Democratic Party candidates in November.
History of the Fourth International
SEP and IYSSE win broad support for Peradeniya university meeting on the struggle for Trotskyism
By our correspondents, 29 September 2018
David North warmly welcomed on his arrival in Sri Lanka
28 September 2018
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
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 series of articles published by the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka marks the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation in June 1968.
PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE
David North, the chairperson of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, will be speaking in the United States this fall to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International.
On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
By David North, 3 September 2018
Historic discovery of Left Opposition manuscripts from the early 1930s
SEP 2018 Election Campaign
“Genuine socialists are fighting to put the working class in control”
Socialist Equality Party congressional candidate Niles Niemuth answered questions from commenters at this live online event on September 29. Follow Niles on Facebook now to participate in upcoming live events.
Campaign meeting with Niles Niemuth brings socialism to Wyandotte, Michigan
Oppose Michigan National Guard deployment against operating engineers!
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!
Niles Niemuth, the Socialist Equality Party's candidate for US congress, is fighting for genuine revolutionary socialism for workers and youth in Michigan's 12th district and all around the world. Find out more at Niles2018.com
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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.
Commentary
Macron whitewashes French state murder of Maurice Audin
By Francis Dubois and Alex Lantier, 1 October 2018
Audin’s murder in Algeria constitutes a warning of the nature of imperialist war, which still echoes 60 years on, as NATO intervenes across the Middle East.
Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity with Labour’s right-wing and the “business world”
By Robert Stevens, 29 September 2018
“History never teaches anyone anything”
Russian neo-Stalinist defends Partido Obrero’s “refounding” of Fourth International
By Bill Van Auken, 24 September 2018
After a decade of falling pay, US Federal Reserve acts to stop “wage inflation”
WSWS demands Turkey release Max Zirngast, Hatice Göz and Mithatcan Türetken
Release the framed-up Istanbul airport workers!
No to pressure and intimidation against the working class!
The New York Times promotes the Democratic Socialists of America
Arts Review
Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 2
Capernaum, Screwdriver, Rosie, The Public and Black 47: Socially critical films from the Middle East, Ireland and the US
By Joanne Laurier, 1 October 2018
Film writers and directors live in this world too. There must be those who reject upper-middle class triviality and self-involvement.
Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 1
An intriguing film festival—above all, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo
Toronto International Film Festival 2018
An interview with Mike Leigh, director of Peterloo: “You don’t run out of steam if what you do … is to literally hold the mirror up to nature”
Why is HBO’s Game of Thrones so popular?
There was far more to Leonard Bernstein than mere charisma
Public meetings in Australia
Nick Beams to lecture at Australian universities on the contemporary significance of Karl Marx
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.
IYSSE
After Parkland: The militarization of high schools in the US
By Alex Johnson, 29 September 2018
US spy agencies come to Northern Virginia Community College
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at NOVA, 25 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
Growing support for socialism among students across the US
Workers Struggles
“The union is not for all of us”
Indianapolis Allison Transmission workers face stonewalling by UAW over contract terms, pensions
By George Kirby and Shannon Jones, 29 September 2018
UAW corruption scandal widens as US workers press for wage increases
“Collectively we are powerful beyond measure”
Kokomo Chrysler workers press for strike action
More on autoworkers struggles »
Joint strike by Ryanair pilots and cabin crew hits six European countries
By our correspondents, 30 September 2018
Argentina’s Macri responds to fourth general strike with yet another IMF package
By Andrea Lobo, 28 September 2018
Vote “yes” on resolution to force out Royal College of Nursing leadership! Build rank-and-file committees!
By NHS FightBack, 28 September 2018
Victors Care brings class-based medical care to University of Michigan hospital
By Matthew Brennan, 28 September 2018
- Operating engineers’ union bows to strikebreaking threats by Michigan governor, contractors
- United Steelworkers union claims it is preparing to strike ArcelorMittal
- BJP government pushes Air India into financial morass to hasten privatization
- Australian unions enforce low pay for pathology workers
- UNITE HERE isolates striking Chicago hotel workers, rams through deal with Marriott
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?
The Growth of the Far-Right in Europe
The neo-Nazi offensive in Germany and the role of historians
By Christoph Vandreier, 27 September 2018
German grand coalition backs secret service head who defended neo-Nazis
The fight against fascism in Germany requires a socialist perspective
More on the growth of the extreme right in Europe »
History
Vadim Rogovin and the sociology of Stalinism
By Andrea Peters, 25 September 2018
September 18 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Soviet Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin, the author of a seven-volume series on Stalinism and the Marxist opposition to the Soviet bureaucracy.
Twenty years since the death of Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin
By David North, 18 September 2018
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Equality Party (UK) Public Meetings:
The fight to drive out the right-wing from the Labour Party and the struggle for socialism
27 September 2018
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are holding a series of meetings explaining the political issues posed by the campaign against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn by the Blairite right in alliance with the Tory government and intelligence agencies. The meetings will discuss the call by the SEP for Labour members and supporters to drive out the right-wing and why Corbyn is opposed to this elementary task.
Science
Japanese space agency lands two rovers on surface of asteroid
By Bryan Dyne, 26 September 2018
Although an asteroid was first landed on in 2001, the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission is the first to successfully deploy rovers on the surface of one.
Book review
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Dopesick by Beth Macy
By Gary Joad, 25 September 2018
Author Beth Macy paints a searing and heartbreaking portrait of the Appalachian victims of the current opioid epidemic in the United States.
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.
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
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.
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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