6 October 2018
Teamsters union defies “no” vote, declares UPS contract ratified
By Will Morrow, 6 October 2018
Workers voted by 54.7 percent to reject the sellout contract backed by UPS management and the Teamsters union, as other UPS workers also rejected sellout contracts.
UPS workers denounce Teamsters effort to impose sellout contract despite “no” vote
By our reporters, 6 October 2018
The Teamsters has declared that it considers its sellout contract ratified despite the fact that more than 54 percent of workers voted “no.”
Teamsters head threatens to impose UPS contract even if workers reject it
What is the Teamsters for a Democratic Union?
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh clears crucial hurdle to confirmation
By Eric London, 6 October 2018
Friday’s 51–49 cloture vote all but secures the confirmation of the arch-reactionary to what will be the most right-wing court in over a century.
The International Socialist Organization mobilizes behind Democrats’ right-wing diversion on Kavanaugh
The Kavanaugh nomination, #MeToo and the politics of petty-bourgeois rage
Kavanaugh’s nomination, Cosby’s sentencing: News media pornography and the enraged middle class
Bernie Sanders covers for Jeff Bezos as fraud of $15 pay raise at Amazon is exposed
By Tom Hall, 6 October 2018
Sanders immediately abandoned his criticism of Jeff Bezos after the company’s cynical publicity stunt, and embraced him as a great reformer.
Watch: What do Amazon job applicants think about $15/hr?
The fraud of Amazon’s $15 wage
Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder in 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald
By Jessica Goldstein, 6 October 2018
The trial and guilty verdict followed an attempted cover-up of the murder by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Police Department.
Los Angeles teachers union continues to delay strike action as negotiations proceed
By Dan Conway, 6 October 2018
The union for Los Angeles teachers is fighting to block strike action, despite teachers working without a contract and authorizing a strike.
Federal judge issues injunction against Trump administration refugee order
By Matthew Taylor, 6 October 2018
The four countries cited in the lawsuit represent nearly 300,000 of the 437,000 refugees who are currently receiving TPS in the United States.
Kremlin suffers defeats in regional elections
By Andrea Peters, 6 October 2018
The electoral upsets that took place in September come as evidence mounts of growing discontent with Russia’s ruling party.
40,000 people protest in Munich, Germany against racism and police state laws
By Markus Salzmann, 6 October 2018
On October 3, the day marking the reunification of Germany, 40,000 people demonstrated in the Bavarian capital against racism and the new Police Task Law (PAG)
German parliament president Schäuble advocates militarism and stepped-up state repression in “Unity Day” speech
German government celebrates “unity day” under the shadow of renewed neo-fascist movement
German neo-Nazi group arrested after far-right riot in Chemnitz
The neo-Nazi offensive in Germany and the role of historians
More on the growth of the extreme right in Europe »
The destruction of Germany’s Thyssenkrupp and the role of the IG Metall union
By Dietmar Henning, 6 October 2018
The decision to break up the Thyssenkrupp multinational conglomerate, in which the IG Metall union has played a key role, has been secretly prepared for months.
UK: No to Driver Only Trains in any form, mobilise against rail union sellout
By Michael Barnes, 6 October 2018
The struggle by rail workers in defense of jobs is in danger, due to the systematic sabotage of their fight by the unions.
Mexico: Fifty years since the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre
By Don Knowland, 6 October 2018
For five decades the Mexican state has engaged in violence in order to crush political and social opposition, regardless of the political party in power.
Australian government hands private schools another $4.6 billion
By David Cohen, 6 October 2018
The latest windfall will accelerate the gulf between well-resourced private schools and cash-starved public schools in one of the world’s most unequal education systems.
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Die totalitäre Vision des US-Militärs
Andre Damon, 6. Oktober 2018
Der Atlantic Council, eine Denkfabrik, die die Streitkräfte bei der Zensur des Internets unterstützt, hat in einer neuen Broschüre den Plan zur systematischen Aushöhlung der Meinungsfreiheit enthüllt.
US-Vizepräsident hält kriegerische Hetzrede gegen China
Bill Van Auken, 6. Oktober 2018
Das Pentagon bereitet sich offenbar auf umfangreiche und provokante Militärübungen als „globale Machtdemonstration“ gegen China vor.
Sammelabschiebung nach Kabul am Tag der Deutschen Einheit
Marianne Arens, 6. Oktober 2018
Während immer neue Massenabschiebungen gegen Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit stattfinden, beschleunigt die Große Koalition das Tempo ihrer Abschiebemaschinerie.
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David Norths forelesning ved Peradeniya University i Kandy ble veldig godt mottatt av studenter og arbeidere
våre reportere, 5. oktober 2018
De 200 tilhørerne responderte entusiastisk på forelesningen som markerte 80-årsdagen for grunnleggingen av Den fjerde internasjonale.
David North skisserte trotskismens dagsaktuelle relevans på en pressekonferanse i Colombo
våre reportere, 3. oktober 2018
Norths uttalelser foranlediget gjennomtenkte spørsmål fra journalister fra Capital Radio og Independent Television Network.
David Norths uttalelser om trotskismen presentert på pressekonferansen i Colombo
David North, 2. oktober 2018
Dette er teksten for David Norths uttalelser – styrelederen for WSWS’ internasjonale redaksjonsråd – presentert på pressekonferansen i Colombo den 1. oktober.
New in French
La possibilité de Brexit sans accord fait vaciller les entreprises et l’économie européenne
Alex Lantier, 6 octobre 2018
Avec les licenciements massifs dans les entreprises de l’automobile, les cercles dirigeants ont bien avancé dans leurs plans pour faire peser le coût de toute crise sur le Brexit sur le dos des travailleurs internationalement.
La censure d’État selon l’armée des États-Unis
Andre Damon, 6 octobre 2018
L’Atlantic Council, un partenaire clé dans la campagne de censure d’Internet menée par les entreprises des médias sociaux, a publié un résumé d’une conférence des forces spéciales américaines décrivant un plan pour la répression systématique de la liberté d’expression.
Un programme socialiste est nécessaire pour combattre le danger populiste de droite
le Parti de l’égalité socialiste (Canada), 6 octobre 2018
Il faut lier l’opposition au racisme et au chauvinisme anti-immigrants à la lutte des travailleurs pour la défense des emplois, des salaires et des programmes sociaux.
Le président du parlement allemand Schäuble prône le militarisme et la répression étatique dans le discours du « Jour de l’unité »
Ulrich Rippert, 6 octobre 2018
Depuis la réunification de l’Allemagne, il y a 28 ans, le 3 octobre est devenu une fête nationale et a servi de plate-forme aux principaux représentants de l’État pour prononcer des discours définissant la perspective de l’avenir.
Il y a 25 ans: Eltsine ordonne le bombardement du parlement russe
WSWS, 6 octobre 2018
Il y a 100 ans : le nouveau gouvernement allemand propose un armistice à Woodrow Wilson
WSWS, 6 octobre 2018
New in Spanish
La visión del ejército estadounidense a favor de la censura estatal
Por Andre Damon, 6 octubre 2018
El Atlantic Council, un actor clave en la campaña de censura en línea realizada por las empresas de redes sociales, ha publicado un resumen de una conferencia de las fuerzas especiales de EUA con un plan para eviscerar sistemáticamente la libre expresión.
El vicepresidente de Estados Unidos emite diatriba peligrosa contra China
Por Bill Van Auken, 6 octubre 2018
El discurso de Pence viene en medio de noticias de que el Pentágono está preparando ejercicios militares masivos y provocativos como una exhibición de fuerza contra China.
La Corte Internacional de Justicia falla contra sanciones de EUA a Irán
Por Alex Lantier, 6 octubre 2018
La Corte Internacional de Justicia no cuenta con el poder para hacer valer su decisión, y los oficiales estadounidenses dejaron claro inmediatamente que desafiarán la sentencia.
Horrores en prisión para inmigrantes en California: hallan sábanas atadas en nudos en mayoría de celdas
Por Norisa Díaz, 6 octubre 2018
En una visita inesperada, inspectores del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional encontraron telas en nudos colgando de las tuberías en un centro de detención para inmigrantes.
Gran coalición alemana apoya al jefe del servicio secreto que defendió a los neonazis
Por Peter Schwarz, 6 octubre 2018
La decisión de mantener a Hans-Georg Maassen en el ministerio del interior envía un mensaje claro a la extrema derecha de que goza del respaldo total de la gran coalición.
El jefe de Teamsters amenaza con imponer un contrato de UPS aunque los trabajadores lo rechacen
Por Will Morrow, 6 octubre 2018
En lo que concierne al sindicato, los trabajadores tienen derecho a votar, pero siempre que voten bien.
New in Portuguese
Israel comemora seus 70 anos em meio a crimes de guerra e crescente desigualdade social
Bill Van Auken, 4 de outubro de 2018
A retirada dos EUA do acordo nuclear com o Irã e a mudança de sua embaixada para Jerusalém dão para o Estado de Israel luz verde para uma guerra contra o Irã e uma violenta repressão contra os palestinos.
O significado histórico das medidas de guerra comercial de Trump
Nick Beams, 4 de outubro de 2018
As medidas comerciais de Trump são um passo importante no desmantelamento do sistema de relações econômicas estabelecido por Washington depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Por uma coalizão internacional para lutar contra a censura na Internet
4 de outubro de 2018
Carta aberta do Conselho Editorial Internacional do World Socialist Web Site às páginas eletrônicas, organizações e ativistas socialistas, de esquerda, anti-guerra e progressistas.
A crise de Israel e as contradições históricas do Sionismo
Bill Van Auken, 4 de outubro de 2018
O World Socialist Web Site está republicando um artigo de 29 de Maio de 1998, publicado depois do aniversário de 50 anos do Estado de Israel.
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Indonesia’s earthquake catastrophe
6 October 2018
The disaster has been made immeasurably worse by poverty, social inequality and the refusal of the Indonesian and international ruling elites to ensure the protection of the population.
History of the Fourth International
David North’s lecture at Peradeniya University in Kandy attracts significant support from students and workers
By our reporters, 5 October 2018
Sri Lankan Prime TV News reports on David North’s press conference
David North outlines contemporary relevance of Trotskyism at Colombo media briefing
Text of David North's remarks to Sri Lankan press conference on Trotskyism
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
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
SEP 2018 Election Campaign
Socialist Equality Party candidate for Congress Niles Niemuth speaks at televised forum
6 October 2018
The SEP’s candidate for Michigan’s 12th congressional district, along with his opponents from the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as the pseudo-left Working Class Party, answered questions on immigration, inequality, education and more.
Socialist Equality Party candidate Niles Niemuth speaks in Ann Arbor on the right to universal health care
Mobilize the working class to defend nurses and secure the right to health care!
“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 events for Socialist Equality Party candidate Niles Niemuth
Socialism: What it is and how to fight for it
18 September 2018
Commentary
NY Times exposé on Trump fortune: An empire built on tax evasion and fraud
“Behind every great fortune there is a great crime” – Honoré de Balzac
By Barry Grey, 6 October 2018
The picture of criminality and corruption that emerges from the Times report is one that characterizes not just the Trump clan, but the corporate-financial oligarchy as a whole.
Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995–97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
Part 1: The significance of Harris’ “Common Sense Revolution”
By Carl Bronski and Roger Jordan, 6 October 2018
Workers entering struggle against Doug Ford’s class-war assault must draw a political balance sheet of the last mass movement against an Ontario Conservative government and its strangling by the unions.
The #MeToo campaign versus the presumption of innocence
By Eric London, 5 October 2018
The US military’s vision for state censorship
By Andre Damon, 5 October 2018
US vice president issues bellicose diatribe against China
“History never teaches anyone anything”
Russian neo-Stalinist defends Partido Obrero’s “refounding” of Fourth International
US, UK and NATO allies ramp up anti-Russia offensive over “cyber spying” and Skripals
Washington threatens preemptive strike against Russian missiles
CIA Democrats call for aggression against Russia, run pro-war campaigns in 2018 congressional races
International Court of Justice strikes down US sanctions against Iran
Iran fires missiles at Islamist “rebels” as US vows to remain in Syria
Ten years since the 2008 bank bailout
Arts Review
“I am a poet who has the ability to sing his poems” – Charles Aznavour (1924-2018)
By Paul Bond, 6 October 2018
Aznavour grew up with a love of music and theatre and leaves a legacy of some 1,200 songs, innumerable recordings, and some notable film appearances.
Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 3
Icebox and Twin Flower: The US government locks up children—and, in Italy, an African refugee finds a kindred spirit
By David Walsh, 4 October 2018
Toronto International Film Festival 2018
An interview with director Daniel Sawka and actors from Icebox: “As inequality grows, there’s always scapegoating of immigrants”
By David Walsh, 4 October 2018
- Capernaum, Screwdriver, Rosie, The Public and Black 47: Socially critical films from the Middle East, Ireland and the US
- An intriguing film festival—above all, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo
- 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”
Workers Struggles
Indian police arrest 600 striking Yamaha workers; Pakistan teachers, municipal employees and other workers demonstrate for unpaid wages
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
6 October 2018
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Workers strike at Marriott hotels in Boston and San Francisco
By John Marion, 5 October 2018
“We are just new slaves”
1,500 Boston hotel workers walk out as UNITE HERE seeks to end Chicago strike
3,000 Dutch public service workers protest in The Hague
By our reporters, 5 October 2018
Protest march on October 2 in the Netherlands
The fight against public sector cutbacks requires a socialist perspective
Fiat Chrysler Kokomo workers angered by UAW obstruction to fight over health and safety
By Shannon Jones, 5 October 2018
UK nurses vote to remove Royal College of Nursing leadership after pay deal sellout
By Ajanta Silva, 3 October 2018
Vote “yes” on resolution to force out Royal College of Nursing leadership! Build rank-and-file committees!
United Steelworkers union pushes concessions at US iron ore producer Cleveland Cliffs
By Samuel Davidson, 3 October 2018
Hundreds of thousands demand strike action in the US
By Jerry White, 1 October 2018
Socialist Equality Party
SEP (Australia) meeting outlines political issues behind coup against Malcolm Turnbull
By our reporters, 4 October 2018
The speakers explained that the instability of official politics was an expression of the deepening social, economic and geo-political crises of Australian and world capitalism.
Socialist Equality Party (UK) Public Meetings:
The fight to drive out the right-wing from the Labour Party and the struggle for socialism
This week in history: October 1-7
25 years ago: Yeltsin orders bombardment of Russian parliament
On October 4, 1993, Moscow was a scene “of carnage, squalor and hideous destruction,” according to press reports, after Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the military storming of the Russian White House.
50 years: Mexican police and soldiers open fire on student protesters
On October 2, 1968, more than 10,000 students and other supporters gathered in Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City.
75 years ago: Soviet armies conclude successful Smolensk offensive
On October 2, 1943, the Soviet Union concluded its successful Smolensk offensive, having, over the previous months, liberated numerous strategically important cities from the invading forces of Nazi Germany.
100 years ago: New German government proposes an armistice to Woodrow Wilson
On October 4, 1918, the newly formed German government headed by Prince Max von Baden telegraphed to American President Woodrow Wilson appeals for an armistice.
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
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
Book review
Dopesick by Beth Macy
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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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