20 October 2018
Pompeo meets with Mexican government as its police attack Honduran migrants
By Eric London, 20 October 2018
Hundreds of women and children were injured in the crackdown on a narrow bridge over the river separating Mexico and Guatemala.
Trump threatens to deploy military to close US-Mexico border
US, Mexican and Guatemalan governments harass caravan of Honduran refugees
Amnesty International: Immigrants separated from family members for alleged “fraud”
More on the attack on immigrants »
Saudi regime admits Khashoggi was killed in its Istanbul consulate
By James Cogan, 20 October 2018
The Saudi version of events, a crude cover-up attempt, is a compilation of improbable lies.
Trump scrambles to cover for Saudi regime as crisis over Khashoggi murder mounts
Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime
As Trump administration prepares to withdraw from nuclear missile treaty
US charges new Russian conspiracy to interfere in midterm elections
By Will Morrow, 20 October 2018
The charges have been released without the slightest evidence, but have immediately been accepted as gospel and amplified by the American media.
The “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the internet
Facebook’s purge of left-wing media: A frontal assault on freedom of speech
Record high income in 2017 for top one percent of wage earners in US
By Gabriel Black, 20 October 2018
In 2017, the top one percent of US wage earners received their highest paychecks ever, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Wall Street volatile as global economy becomes “fragile”
Another financial earthquake in the making
Death toll from Hurricane Michael reaches 36 as residents struggle to recover
By Matthew Taylor, 20 October 2018
Thousands are homeless one week after the category four storm made landfall.
Historian seeks release of Israel’s secret papers on Kfar Qasem massacre
By Jean Shaoul, 20 October 2018
Historian Adam Raz believes what has long been rumoured—that behind the horrific massacre in which 51 people were killed was a secret plan developed at the highest level of the Israeli state to transfer Israel’s Palestinians to Jordan.
Trump demands five percent budget cut from each Cabinet department
By Shelley Connor, 20 October 2018
In a move to counter the growing federal deficit, Trump has called upon each Cabinet secretary to cut spending.
European Union and Rome fight over Italian budget
By Marianne Arens, 20 October 2018
In the conflict over the Italian budget, the EU Commission takes the side of the banks, stock exchanges and credit agencies, while the government pursues a course of militarism and attacks on immigrants and workers.
Italian Interior Minister Salvini orders removal of migrants from Riace
UC healthcare and service workers to begin three-day strike
By Evelyn Rios, 20 October 2018
AFSCME and other unions at UC are working overtime to prevent any significant struggle by workers, and sabotage it if it erupts anyway.
“McStrike”: UK unions police anger of young workers
By Alice Summers and Robert Stevens, 20 October 2018
Behind talk of a coordinated struggle, the demand of service workers for better pay and conditions is being misled by the trade unions.
The fraud of Amazon’s $15 wage
Divisions erupt within Sri Lankan government
By K. Ratnayake, 20 October 2018
Allegations that President Maithripala Sirisena told a cabinet meeting that “Indian intelligence” was planning to assassinate him, have brought deep rifts within the government to the surface.
India seizes “shadow bank” to avert potential “catastrophic” impact on financial system
By Kranti Kumara, 20 October 2018
Financial observers have said the collapse of IL&FS could have been India’s “Lehman Brothers moment”—a reference to the September 2008 bankruptcy that triggered the global financial meltdown.
Quebec: Nine-month lockout continues, as talks at Alcoa’s ABI smelter collapse
By Laurent Lafrance, 20 October 2018
Confident that the Steelworkers union will continue to leave the ABI workers to fight alone, the aluminum bosses have repeatedly upped their concession demands.
United Steelworkers announces tentative deal with US Steel
New Zealand opposition in crisis over links to Chinese businessman
By Tom Peters, 20 October 2018
Allegations that the National Party leader failed to disclose a donation have been seized on by the media and NZ First Party to ramp up the nationalist anti-China campaign.
Nauru expels another doctor amid growing protests over Australia’s refugee detention centres
By Oscar Grenfell, 20 October 2018
International rights organisations and thousands of doctors have condemned the persecution of refugees.
Australian government flags forcing new immigrants to live in designated zones
More on Australian immigrants and refugees issues »
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Эта неделя в истории
75 лет назад: Конференция союзников готовится к подавлению рабочего класса
19 октября 2018 г.
18 октября 1943 года британский министр иностранных дел Энтони Иден, Госсекретарь США Корделл Халл и советский министр иностранных дел Вячеслав Молотов встретились в Москве, чтобы обсудить предложения по совместной стратегии в войне против Германии.
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Fransa’daki Libération gazetesine yanıt
WSWS, savaş tehlikesini abartıyor mu?
Alex Lantier, 19 Ekim 2018
Libération’un, WSWS’yi, dünya çapında işçileri savaş tehlikesi konusunda uyarma ve onları emperyalist savaşa karşı mücadelede harekete geçirme mücadelesi verdiği için eleştirmesi, kötü niyetle doludur.
Kaşıkçı cinayeti sansasyonunun ortasında
Yemen’de milyonlarca kişi açlıktan ölümle karşı karşıya
Bill Van Auken, 19 Ekim 2018
BM, Yemen’e karşı Suudilerin önderlik ettiği ve ABD’nin desteklediği savaşın, bu yoksul ülkenin halkından milyonlarca kişiyi daha, dünyada 100 yıldır görülen en kötü kıtlığın içine itmekle tehdit ettiği uyarısında bulundu.
ABD ve Avrupalı güçler, Kaşıkçı cinayetinin ardından Suudi veliaht prensini uyarıyor
Alex Lantier, 19 Ekim 2018
ABD’li ve Avrupalı iş insanları ve politikacılar, hem ABD’nin Ortadoğu’daki savaş stratejisini hem de bir bütün olarak kapitalist mali sistemi sağlama alan vahşi Suudi rejimine derin bir şekilde bağlılar.
Trump, Suudi Arabistan’a arka çıkıyor
Peter Symonds, 19 Ekim 2018
ABD Başkanı Trump, dün, Kaşıkçı’nın “alçak katiller”in kurbanı olmuş olabileceğini ima ederek, Suudi rejimine peşinen arka çıktı.
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Raidet på Ukuelige Frankrike og den globale økningen av statsundertrykking
Alex Lantier, 20. oktober 2018
I kjølvannet av den brutale statsmordet på Jamal Khashoggi peker politiraidet mot LFI på en generell trend for polit-stat-undertrykking mot politisk opposisjon.
Den italienske innenriksministeren Salvini beordrer fjerning av innvandrere fra Riace
Marianne Arens, 20. oktober 2018
Den høyreorienterte koalisjonsregjeringen har beordret fjerningen av alle innvandrere fra «gjestfrihetslandsbyen» i det sørlige Calabria.
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El caso de Harvard sobre preferencias raciales y el carácter antidemocrático de la acción afirmativa
Ed Hightower, 20 octubre 2018
Las políticas de acción afirmativa buscan ocultar las divisiones de clase en la sociedad mientras permiten a políticos derechistas pretender ser defensores de una protección igualitaria.
Trump amenaza con desplegar militares para cerrar la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México
Por Eric London, 20 octubre 2018
Trump, con la complicidad de los demócratas, ha invocado la falsa "amenaza" de la caravana de inmigrantes para azotar la xenofobia antes de las elecciones de mitad de periodo.
Wall Street gana volatilidad conforme la economía global se torna “frágil”
Por Nick Beams, 20 octubre 2018
La inestabilidad del mercado está viéndose impulsada por una percepción económica en caída y tensiones comerciales cada vez mayores entre EUA, China y otros países.
Decenas de desaparecidos en el huracán Michael mientras aumenta el número de muertos
Por Patrick Martin, 20 octubre 2018
La visita del presidente Trump a la zona devastada el lunes fue una exhibición cínica y vacía, bajo condiciones donde habrá poca ayuda federal para reconstruir la región.
La ex primera dama Michelle Obama califica a George W. Bush como “compañero de crimen”
Por Nick Barrickman, 20 octubre 2018
Bush es responsable de crímenes de guerra del máximo orden, pero la élite política en su totalidad apoya estos crímenes y promete continuarlos.
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Razzia bei „La France insoumise“ und weltweite staatliche Repression
Alex Lantier, 20. Oktober 2018
Nach dem brutalen Mord an Jamal Kashoggi ist die französische Razzia gegen die LFI ein weiteres Beispiel für staatliche Repression, um politische Opposition einzuschüchtern.
EU und Rom streiten über italienischen Haushalt
Marianne Arens, 20. Oktober 2018
Im Konflikt über den italienischen Haushalt vertritt keine Seite eine fortschrittliche Position. Die EU-Kommission nimmt den Standpunkt der Banken, Börsen und Kreditagenturen ein, die Regierung verfolgt einen Kurs von Militarismus und Angriffen auf Migranten und die Arbeiterklasse.
Trump droht mit Schließung der Grenze zu Mexiko durch das US-Militär
Eric London, 20. Oktober 2018
Trump hat die angebliche „Bedrohung“ durch die Flüchtlingskarawane benutzt, um vor der Zwischenwahl Fremdenhass zu schüren. Die Demokraten machen sich dabei zu seinen Komplizen.
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Perspective
Who is responsible for the rise of the fascistic Bolsonaro in Brazil?
20 October 2018
An array of pseudo-left groups, many of which were involved in founding the PT, are advancing a vote for this right-wing capitalist party against Bolsonaro.
Live Event
One year since the death of Ford worker Jacoby Hennings: The failure of capitalism and the fight of young workers for a future
On Saturday, October 20, SEP congressional candidate Niles Niemuth and WSWS labor editor Jerry White held a live Q&A; online on the conditions facing young workers. Watch the recording above, and follow Niles on Facebook now to participate in the next live event.
Commentary
Still no investigation into death of young autoworker
One year since the death of Jacoby Hennings
By Jerry White, 20 October 2018
A year after the tragic loss of this young Ford worker, family, friends and co-workers continue to demand the truth about his sudden and untimely death.
More on US autoworkers issues »
The Harvard case on racial preferences and the antidemocratic character of affirmative action
By Ed Hightower, 19 October 2018
One year of the #MeToo movement
By David Walsh, 19 October 2018
More on the sexual misconduct witch-hunt »
The raid on Unsubmissive France and the global rise of state repression
By Alex Lantier, 19 October 2018
After police raids on LFI, French courts and media denounce Mélenchon
Trump administration accelerates war drive against China
By Peter Symonds, 19 October 2018
A reply to French daily Libération
Is the WSWS exaggerating the threat of war?
Pentagon report points to US preparations for total war
A discussion with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of “Grievance Studies” hoax article
By Eric London, 18 October 2018
The “Grievance Studies” hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans
More on postmodernism and the attack on scientific truth »
After 250,000 people march in Berlin
The way forward in the struggle against the far-right danger in Germany
By Ulrich Rippert and Johannes Stern, 18 October 2018
Bavaria state election delivers major blow to Germany’s grand coalition
Leading US House Democrat demands that Ecuador’s president “hand over” Julian Assange
By Mike Head, 18 October 2018
Ecuador to partially restore Julian Assange’s access to communications and visitors
More on the campaign to free Julian Assange »
Former first lady Michelle Obama declares George W. Bush “my partner in crime”
History of the Fourth International
Meetings in Australia and New Zealand to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
19 October 2018
The meetings in December will enable workers, youth and professionals opposed to social inequality, authoritarianism and war to discuss the critical political lessons drawn by the Trotskyist movement during eight decades of struggle.
Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today
By David North, 9 October 2018
Large Colombo audience hears David North’s lecture on the history of the Fourth International
The struggle for socialism and the importance of history: David North interviewed on Radio Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Prime TV News reports on David North’s press conference
Text of David North's remarks to Sri Lankan press conference on Trotskyism
Watch: David North interviewed on Sri Lanka’s English-language Channel Eye TV
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
On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
By David North, 3 September 2018
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.
Arts Review
Paul Greengrass’s 22 July: Neo-fascist mass murder in Norway
By Joanne Laurier, 18 October 2018
Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 6
The Trial and Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz—An early Stalinist frame-up on film and the Nuremberg tribunal against the Nazis
- Errol Morris provides Steven Bannon a platform (American Dharma), Werner Herzog celebrates Mikhail Gorbachev (Meeting Gorbachev) and other appalling developments
- Damien Chazelle’s First Man: Reduced in space—and opera singer Maria Callas, the Afghanistan war, small-town America
- Icebox and Twin Flower: The US government locks up children—and, in Italy, an African refugee finds a kindred spirit
- 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
Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Police attack striking workers in India and Bangladesh
20 October 2018
Police opened fire on garment workers demanding unpaid wages in Bangladesh, while Indian authorities attacked protesting health workers.
New York City teachers union attempts to rush through sellout contract
By Guillaume Garnier and Steve Light, 19 October 2018
Layoffs at Fiat Chrysler's Kokomo transmission operations heighten concerns over outsourcing
By Shannon Jones, 19 October 2018
UAW faces growing opposition from Indiana Lear workers following contract rejection
“We voted to go on strike, then they presented us with a BS contract”
Indiana Lear auto parts workers overwhelmingly reject UAW-backed contract proposal
New Zealand rail union promotes sellout at Wellington meeting
By our reporter, 19 October 2018
Teamsters for a Democratic Union to UPS workers: “Whatever you do, don’t fight!”
By Will Morrow, 18 October 2018
Widespread opposition to Teamsters’ override of UPS workers’ contract rejection
UCU recall conference seeks to silence opposition to sell-out of UK lecturers’ strike
By Robert Stevens, 18 October 2018
SEP 2018 Election Campaign
Genuine socialism vs. the Democratic Party politics of Bernie Sanders
By Niles Niemuth, 19 October 2018
Socialist Equality Party Congressional candidate Niles Niemuth visits Detroit hotel workers’ picket line
By our reporter, 18 October 2018
SEP congressional candidate Niles Niemuth presents socialist solution for health care crisis
Niles spoke Monday night at the candidate forum sponsored by the Washtenaw County Medical Society.
Mehring Books
Why are they back?
New title from Mehring Books explains resurgence of fascism in Germany
By our reporters, 19 October 2018
Author Christoph Vandreier presented the book in a well-attended lecture at the Frankfurt Book fair last Saturday.
Book review
55 Strong, Inside the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike
DSA covers for unions and Democrats in new book on walkout by West Virginia teachers
By Nancy Hanover, 18 October 2018
A new book promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is centered on the lie that the West Virginia teachers’ strike, which set off the series of strikes nationally last spring, was a “victory” in which the unions played a heroic role.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
San Diego State University and the military-university complex
By Anthony del Olmo with the IYSSE at SDSU, 18 October 2018
Students denounce CIA partnership with University of Illinois Chicago
NYU’s Washington DC campus: Academia aligns with the Department of Defense
Open letter by students condemns right-wing offensive at Berlin’s Humboldt University
By International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Germany), 11 October 2018
International Amazon Workers Voice
Amazon whistleblower Shannon Allen: Celebrated $15 base pay represents pay cut for some workers
By Tom Carter, 16 October 2018
Watch: What do Amazon job applicants think about $15/hr?
Obituary
Carl Cooley: 1927-2018
By Fred Mazelis, 12 October 2018
Cooley, a former autoworker and high school and college teacher, had considered himself a socialist for most of his adult life. He was the US SEP’s congressional candidate in Maine in the 2004 election.
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
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
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.
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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