9 October 2018
UPS workers’ opposition grows to Teamsters’ defiance of contract vote
By our reporters, 9 October 2018
There is widespread and growing distrust and skepticism among workers about the officially reported figures for both the vote and the turnout.
After “no” vote by UPS workers, Teamsters bureaucracy declares contract ratified
UPS workers denounce Teamsters effort to impose sellout contract, despite “no” vote
Watch: UPS workers speak out
What is the Teamsters for a Democratic Union?
Marriott hotel workers strike spreads to Hawaii
By Kevin Martinez, 9 October 2018
Nationwide, 7,700 workers from 23 hotels are now on strike in eight cities, demanding better pay and safer working conditions.
Detroit Westin Book Cadillac workers join hotel walkouts
Workers strike at Marriott hotels in Boston and San Francisco
Key provision of USMCA trade deal aimed at China
By Nick Beams, 9 October 2018
A clause in the US trade deal with Canada and Mexico is aimed at nothing less than a “reset” of global trade relationships.
“We are just new slaves”
1,500 Boston hotel workers walk out as UNITE HERE seeks to end Chicago strike
Brutal conditions at Greek refugee camps condemned
By John Vassilopoulos, 9 October 2018
The appalling conditions in Greece refugee camps are a direct consequence of the filthy deal cut between the European Union, Turkey and the Syriza government in 2016.
Journalist reported tortured and slain in Saudi consulate in Istanbul
By Bill Van Auken, 9 October 2018
The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi a week ago is further confirmation of the barbaric character of Washington’s closest ally in the Arab world.
Chemnitz: German Neo-Nazi terrorist group relied on extremist network
By Christopher Lehmann, 9 October 2018
The authorities’ claims that the anti-immigrant rampage by neo-Nazis in Chemnitz took them by surprise are not credible.
40,000 people protest in Munich, Germany against racism and police state laws
More on the growth of the extreme right in Europe »
German government organises mass deportations of refugees to Kabul
By Marianne Arens, 9 October 2018
The louder the protests of working people, the more deliberate and mercilessly the German government pursues its right-wing policies.
French government on verge of collapse after interior minister resigns
By Alex Lantier, 9 October 2018
Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, ministers are abandoning Macron in an attempt to save their political careers by finding positions in municipal politics.
French government staggered by Interior Minister Collomb’s resignation
Relations deteriorate between Hungary and Ukraine
By Jason Melanovski, 9 October 2018
Two of eastern Europe’s right-wing governments clash in a dispute over passports, language laws and military exercises.
Ford announces plans for more layoffs amid new restructuring efforts
By Marcus Day, 9 October 2018
Under increasing pressure from Wall Street, Ford announced further restructuring efforts last week, including the planned elimination of thousands of salaried positions.
Detroit Medical Center doctors fired after speaking out for patient safety
By Joseph Lorenz, 9 October 2018
In a statement announcing his resignation from the medical staff, Dr. Ted Schreiber said, “Unfortunately, the current focus of some in health care is on profits and stock holder value.”
New Zealand prime minister’s false facade of “hope” and “kindness”
By John Braddock, 9 October 2018
Ardern’s platitudinous speech to the UN general assembly was aimed at covering up her Labour-led government’s agenda of austerity and militarism.
Australian union prepares sellout after ending Alcoa strike
By Terry Cook, 9 October 2018
Alcoa’s “job security” promise, touted by the union to end an indefinite strike at the company’s Western Australian operations, is worthless.
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Кремль терпит ряд поражений на региональных выборах
Андреа Питерс, 9 октября 2018 г.
Результаты региональных выборов, состоявшихся в сентябре, стали свидетельством растущего недовольства в отношении российской правящей партии.
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Endonezya’daki deprem felaketi
Tom Peters, 9 Ekim 2018
Endonezya’nın Sulawesi adasının merkezini yıkıma uğratan 7,5 büyüklüğündeki depremden ve tsunamiden sekiz gün sonra, ölü sayısı artmaya devam ediyor.
İsrail’in Gazzelilere yönelik toplu katliamı çocukları hedef alıyor
Jean Shaoul, 9 Ekim 2018
Cuma günü, İsrail ordusu, Gazze Şeridi’ndeki Filistinli protestoculara ateş açtı ve aralarında 12 yaşında bir erkek çocuğun bulunduğu üç kişiyi öldürdü.
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Le Sénat américain installe le juge de droite Brett Kavanaugh à la Cour suprême
Patrick Martin, 9 octobre 2018
La confirmation de Brett Kavanaugh marque encore un pas majeur à droite de la plus haute cour des États-Unis.
Non aux négociations avec Macron ! Formons des comités d’action pour unifier les luttes !
Alexandre Lantier, 9 octobre 2018
Face au choix entre la contre-révolution macronienne et une lutte pour faire chuter Macron, la seule question qui vaille est comment mobiliser une lutte révolutionnaire.
Après le vote « non » des travailleurs d’UPS, la bureaucratie des Teamsters déclare la convention ratifiée
Jerry White, 9 octobre 2018
La vérité indéniable est que la base a voté non à la convention et le syndicat des Teamsters ignore de façon despotique leur vote et impose cette convention de toute façon.
Le candidat fasciste Jair Bolsonaro en tête de l’élection présidentielle brésilienne
Miguel Andrade, 9 octobre 2018
Avec 46 pour cent des voix, Jair Bolsonaro est en première position, et fera face lors de second tour au candidat du PT, Fernando Haddad, qui s’est placé deuxième, mais avec peu de voix.
New in German
US-Gewerkschaft ratifiziert neuen Tarifvertrag bei UPS gegen den Willen der Arbeiter
Jerry White, 9. Oktober 2018
Die UPS-Arbeiter haben sich mehrheitlich gegen den neuen Tarifvertrag entschieden, doch die Teamster-Gewerkschaft setzt sich despotisch über diese Entscheidung hinweg.
US-Senat bestätigt Brett Kavanaugh als Obersten Richter
Patrick Martin, 9. Oktober 2018
Die Ernennung des strammen Rechtskonservativen für den Supreme Court markiert einen weiteren deutlichen Rechtsruck am höchsten amerikanischen Gericht.
New in Spanish
Después de que trabajadores de UPS votan en contra, la burocracia de sindicato Teamsters declara ratificación de contrato
Por Jerry White, 9 octubre 2018
El hecho innegable es que las bases votaron en contra del contrato y el sindicato está ignorando su voto despóticamente e imponiéndolo de todos modos.
El Senado de Estados Unidos alza al juez de derechas Brett Kavanaugh a la Corte Suprema
Por Patrick Martin, 9 octubre 2018
La confirmación de Brett Kavanaugh un importante paso más hacia la derecha por parte de la Corte Suprema de los EUA.
El candidato fascista Jair Bolsonaro ocupa el primer lugar en las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas
Por Miguel Andrade, 9 octubre 2018
Con 46 por ciento del voto, Jair Bolsonaro quedó en el primer puesto y enfrentará una segunda vuelta con el candidato del PT Fernando Haddad, quién quedó en un distante segundo lugar.
Obama respalda a Ocasio-Cortez de DSA, junto con los demócratas de la CIA
Por Nick Barrickman, 9 octubre 2018
El DSA es un instrumento para promocionar al derechista y militarista Partido Demócrata proporcionándole un barniz “izquierdista”.
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Perspective
The Kavanaugh confirmation and the US midterm elections
9 October 2018
The thoroughly right-wing campaign waged by the Democratic Party over the Kavanaugh nomination, focused solely on allegations of sexual assault, has set the tone for the US congressional elections.
History of the Fourth International
Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today
By David North, 9 October 2018
On October 7, David North, International Editorial Board Chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, delivered the following lecture to a well-attended public meeting in Colombo, organised by the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka).
Large Colombo audience hears David North’s lecture on the history of the Fourth International
By our reporters, 9 October 2018
David North concluded his Sri Lankan tour with a powerful lecture in Colombo, delivered to a large, enthusiastic audience.
Sri Lankan Prime TV News reports on David North’s press conference
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
Commentary
Canada: Workers need a socialist program to fight the right-wing populist danger
By the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), 9 October 2018
It is the official “left” has created the conditions for right-wing populist forces to come to power exploiting popular disaffection with the traditional big business parties.
Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995–97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
Part 2: Unions work to diffuse swelling working-class opposition
Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995–97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
Part 1: The significance of Harris’ “Common Sense Revolution”
US Senate elevates right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
By Patrick Martin, 8 October 2018
The International Socialist Organization mobilizes behind Democrats’ right-wing diversion on Kavanaugh
The Kavanaugh nomination, #MeToo and the politics of petty-bourgeois rage
Obama endorses DSA’s Ocasio-Cortez, along with CIA Democrats
By Nick Barrickman, 8 October 2018
Socialist Alternative on New York primaries: Burrowing further into the Democratic Party
The #MeToo campaign versus the presumption of innocence
By Eric London, 5 October 2018
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
SEP 2018 Election Campaign
Debbie Dingell: A candidate of wealth and privilege
By Tom Hall, 9 October 2018
Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell is both an auto heiress and the latest iteration of a political dynasty that has dominated the Detroit Downriver area for 85 years.
Socialist Equality Party candidate for Congress Niles Niemuth speaks at televised forum
6 October 2018
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
Socialist Equality Party
Build rank-and-file committees to unify struggles against austerity in France!
By the Socialist Equality Party (France), 9 October 2018
Workers face the choice between President Emmanuel Macron’s social counterrevolution and a revolutionary struggle to bring down the Macron government.
SEP (Australia) meeting outlines political issues behind coup against Malcolm Turnbull
By our reporters, 4 October 2018
Socialist Equality Party (UK) Public Meetings:
The fight to drive out the right-wing from the Labour Party and the struggle for socialism
Workers Struggles
Chilean teachers in two-day national strike; BC forestry workers set to walk out
Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 October 2018
Tens of thousands of teachers struck across Chile on October 3 and 4 to press demands, including economic grievances, while 2,000 forestry workers in northern British Columbia in Canada are preparing to go on 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
Arts Review
Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 4
Damien Chazelle’s First Man: Reduced in space—and opera singer Maria Callas, the Afghanistan war, small-town America
By Joanne Laurier, 8 October 2018
- Icebox and Twin Flower: The US government locks up children—and, in Italy, an African refugee finds a kindred spirit
- An interview with director Daniel Sawka and actors from Icebox: “As inequality grows, there’s always scapegoating of immigrants”
- 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”
“I am a poet who has the ability to sing his poems” – Charles Aznavour (1924-2018)
By Paul Bond, 6 October 2018
International Amazon Workers Voice
Bernie Sanders covers for Jeff Bezos as fraud of $15 pay raise at Amazon is exposed
By Tom Hall, 6 October 2018
Watch: What do Amazon job applicants think about $15/hr?
“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.
This week in history: October 8-14
25 years ago: Clinton announces stepped-up intervention in Somalia
US President Bill Clinton, on a nationally televised address October 7, 1993, announced that he was sending 2,350 more American soldiers to Somalia.
50 years ago: Military officers overthrow Panamanian president
Just 11 days after being inaugurated, On October 11, 1968, Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias was overthrown by the military.
75 years ago: Italy declares war against Nazi Germany
On October 13, 1943, the Italian government, led by King Victor Emmanuel and Premier Pietro Badoglio, declared war against its former ally, Nazi Germany, just three months after the fall of Mussolini and Italy’s surrender to the Allies.
100 years ago: British troops capture Beirut
The 7th Division of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) occupied Beirut, the capital city in what is now Lebanon, on October 8, 1918 to secure the roads to Homs in Syria.
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
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.
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
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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