19 November 2018

Death toll from California fires likely to soar, with nearly 1,300 people still missing

By David Brown, 18 November 2019

There is growing popular outrage as details emerge pointing to the culpability of the state’s energy giants and government officials in creating the conditions for the deadly inferno.

Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating California wildfires

World Socialist Web Site speaks with California wildfire evacuees

Investigations point to energy corporation’s negligence in California wildfire

US vice president steps up confrontation with China at APEC summit

By Peter Symonds, 19 November 2018

For the first time in APEC’s 29-year history, the summit did not issue a final communique after the United States and China failed to agree on its wording.

US has spent almost $6 trillion on wars since 2001

Trump manoeuvres ahead of US-China trade talks

US threats dominate Indo-Pacific summits
Trump’s envoys issue ultimatums to China and other Asian countries

Congressional Democrats push Russia probe, censorship

By Patrick Martin, 19 November 2018

With virtually all results of the November 6 election determined, the Democratic Party has cemented control over the House of Representatives with a gain of nearly 40 seats.

Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats

Little Rock, Arkansas teachers’ union relinquishes due process rights

By Nancy Hanover, 19 November 2018

The union-endorsed agreement will open the door to streamlining the ability of the Little Rock School district to fire educators.

US teacher unions’ “Remember in November” fizzles

Amidst talk of US auto industry consolidation UAW pushes economic nationalism ahead of 2019 contracts

By Shannon Jones, 19 November 2018

The United Auto Workers has responded to the threat to jobs by aligning itself ever more closely with the Trump administration's America First nationalism and protectionism.

UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers

“It’s honestly scary going to work because you’re not safe any more”
Kentucky Ford worker describes hazardous working conditions

“Someone is getting paid millions to provoke racism and hatred”
US autoworkers oppose anti-immigrant campaign

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Thousands attend anti-fascist protest in London

By Robert Stevens, 19 November 2018

The nationalist and pro-capitalist programme of rally organisers provided no basis for workers and youth to fight fascism and the far right.

“Capitalism is causing the problem with refugees and making them the scapegoat”
London demonstrators speak out against racism and fascism

By our reporters, 19 November 2018

A number of those interviewed spoke of the parallels with the 1930s and the need to oppose the scapegoating of migrants and refugees.

Sri Lankan president’s “all party conference” fails to overcome political crisis

By Rohantha De Silva, 19 November 2018

Sirisena’s meeting followed three consecutive days of bitter and violent fighting in the parliament between the Rajapakse and Wickremesinghe factions.

The political crisis in Sri Lanka: Its lessons for the international working class

SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold meetings on the socialist solution to the political crisis

Anti-stall feature in new Boeing planes may have contributed to Indonesian aviation disaster

By Oscar Grenfell, 19 November 2018

Boeing allegedly did not inform pilots or airlines of an automated mechanism, on its latest 737 model, that can potentially trigger a catastrophic nosedive.

Australian Greens pursue right-wing coalition government with Labor in Victoria

By Patrick O’Connor, 19 November 2018

Resting upon a wealthy, upper-middle class base, the Greens are determined to extend their influence within the political establishment.

New in Turkish

ABD’nin Suriye’deki saldırısı tırmanırken sivil ölü sayısı artıyor

Bill Van Auken, 19 Kasım 2018

Batı medyasındaki neredeyse tam sessizliğin ortasında, ABD ordusu, geçtiğimiz hafta, Suriye’deki bombardıman harekatını aralıksız tırmandırdı ve çok sayıda erkeği, kadını ve çocuğu öldürdü.

New in Spanish

¡Defiendan a Julian Assange contra los cargos presentados por EUA!

James Cogan, 19 noviembre 2018

La persecución intransigente de Assange busca intimidar y silenciar a todos los periodistas y organizaciones mediáticas críticos e independientes, al igual que potenciales denunciantes que filtren información confidencial.

El número de muertos se eleva a 71, más de 1.000 desaparecidos en los devastadores incendios forestales de California

Por Evan Blake, 19 noviembre 2018

La mayoría de los que figuran como desaparecidos son ancianos, un 91 por ciento con más de 50 años, y por lo tanto es más probable que hayan perecido debido a la rapidez con que se propagaron los incendios forestales y la falta de un sistema de alerta en toda la ciudad.

La ayuda de $4,6 mil millones del gobierno a Amazon
Por qué hay que expropiar a Amazon

Tom Carter, 19 noviembre 2018

Los miles de millones en subvenciones concedidas a Amazon para su nueva sede demuestran la postración de todo la élite política ante este conglomerado masivo.

Una red terrorista dentro del ejército alemán

Por Peter Schwarz, 19 noviembre 2018

La conspiración extremista de derecha dentro de la Bundeswehr (Fuerzas Armadas) es tolerada, encubierta y apoyada por las más altas autoridades dentro del Estado y la política.

Hablan las víctimas de los incendios de California

Por Evan Blake y Ben McGrath, 19 noviembre 2018

Hay un gran enojo entre los sobrevivientes contra la indiferencia de los gobiernos, estatal y federal, hacia el desastre.

Estados Unidos ha gastado casi $6 billones en guerras desde 2001

Por Trévon Austin, 19 noviembre 2018

Las guerras de Irak, Afganistán, Pakistán y Siria costaron $5.6 billones por sí solas, sin incluir los pagos de intereses del dinero prestado que sumarán al menos $8 billones.

Trump maniobra antes de las negociaciones comerciales entre Estados Unidos y China

Por Nick Beams, 19 noviembre 2018

La demanda central de la administración Trump es que Beijing elimine su programa "Hecho en China" y adopte una posición económica servil en relación con los Estados Unidos.

Caravana de migrantes alcanza frontera estadounidense mientras Gobiernos latinoamericanos discuten austeridad y represión

Por Andrea Lobo, 19 noviembre 2018

A medida que la caravana de migrantes principalmente hondureños comienza a llegar a la frontera estadounidense, las élites locales se reunieron en la Conferencia Iberoamericana, prometiendo mayor austeridad social y represión militarizada.

Por Will Morrow, 19 noviembre 2018

El caucus “progresista” de los demócratas está llamando por una Gestapo de inmigración americana más “humano” y “eficaz”.

El jefe del Pentágono se dirige a la frontera mientras llegan los primeros refugiados de la caravana

Por Bill Van Auken, 19 noviembre 2018

El general James "Mad Dog" Mattis defendió el despliegue de miles de soldados de servicio activo para enfrentarse con los hombres, mujeres y niños que son refugiados como una "misión moral y ética".

Secuestro, violación y asesinato cometidos por agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de los Estados Unidos

Por Norisa Diaz y Meenakshi Jagadesan, 19 noviembre 2018

Numerosos migrantes, en su mayoría mujeres y niñas, han sido víctimas de asesinato, intento de asesinato, secuestro o violación a manos de agentes de la Agencia de Aduanas y Patrulla Fronteriza (CBP).

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Verteidigt Julian Assange gegen die US-Justiz!

James Cogan, 19. November 2018

Die Verfolgung von Assange soll kritische Journalisten und potenzielle Whisteblower einschüchtern.

Österreichische Metallarbeiter im Streik

Markus Salzmann, 19. November 2018

Die Beschäftigten der österreichischen Metallindustrie streiken für höhere Löhne und gegen die Verschärfung des Arbeitsrechts durch die rechte Regierung.

Waldbrandkatastrophe in Kalifornien: Bisher 76 Tote und mehr als 1.000 Vermisste

Evan Blake, 19. November 2018

Die meisten Vermissten sind ältere Menschen. Da sich das Feuer schnell ausgebreitet hat und es in den Städten keine flächendeckenden Warnsysteme gab, ist zu befürchten, dass viele von ihnen umgekommen sind.

Tamilische Nationalisten unterstützen mit den USA verbündete Fraktionen in der politischen Krise Sri Lankas

K. Nesan, 19. November 2018

Die Tamil National Alliance (TNA) orientiert sich weiterhin an den außenpolitischen Interessen der USA. Sie setzt damit den pro-imperialistischen Kurs fort, aus dem heraus sie 2015 die Regimewechsel-Operation zugunsten von Präsident Sirisena unterstützte.

New in Russian

Трамп призывает к созданию «огромных палаточных городов» и бессрочному аресту иммигрантов

Эрик Лондон, 17 ноября 2018 г.

Правый демагог описал ужасающее будущее концентрационных лагерей для насильственного содержания беззащитных мужчин, женщин и детей, выступив за то, чтобы тысячи размещаемых на южной границе Америки солдат открывали огонь по безоружным толпам.

Члены польского правительства маршируют в одном ряду с крайне правыми

Клара Вайс, 17 ноября 2018 г.

Открытое сотрудничество польского правительства с фашистскими силами является проявлением резкого сдвига европейского правящего класса вправо.

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Les CRS attaquent la manifestation contre les effondrements d’immeubles à Marseille

Anthony Torres, 17 novembre 2018

Les heurts témoignent de l’immense colère sociale face à la perte de huit vies humaines dans l’effondrement des immeubles rue d’Aubagne, produit d’un crime de classe.

La crise politique au Sri Lanka : ses leçons pour la classe ouvrière internationale

Keith Jones et K. Ratnayake, 17 novembre 2018

Seul le Parti de l’égalité socialiste (Sri Lanka) se bat pour que la classe ouvrière revendique ses propres intérêts de classe, de manière indépendante et opposée aux deux camps bourgeois rivaux.

Panel bipartite : les Etats-Unis doivent se préparer à une guerre « horrible » et « dévastatrice » avec la Russie et la Chine

Andre Damon, 17 novembre 2018

Une commission bipartite nommée par le Congrès a fourni le cachet des Démocrates aux plans de l’Administration Trump visant à préparer une guerre entre « les grandes puissances ».

Un accord sur le Brexit menace la survie du gouvernement de Theresa May

Robert Stevens, 17 novembre 2018

La Première ministre Theresa May se heurte aux implications profondes des antagonismes grandissants entre les États-Unis et l’Europe.

La chancelière allemande prône une « véritable armée européenne »

Johannes Stern, 17 novembre 2018

L’appel de Merkel à Strasbourg pour une « véritable armée européenne » souligne les traditions réactionnaires évoquées par les élites dirigeantes en Allemagne et en Europe.

Lock-out d’ABI au Québec: Les pourparlers reprendront sous la menace d'un contrat au rabais imposé par l'État

Laurent Lafrance, 17 novembre 2018

Les dirigeants du Syndicat des Métallos ont déclaré à maintes reprises qu'ils étaient prêts à faire d'importantes concessions et ils signalent maintenant qu'ils collaboreront avec Alcoa à la réduction des emplois.

Il y a 50 ans : L’armée américaine commence une nouvelle campagne de bombardement au Laos

17 novembre 2018

Le 15 novembre 1968, l’armée américaine a commencé l’opération Commando Hunt pour détruire la piste Ho Chi Minh.

New in Norwegian

Kongresspanel sammensatt fra begge partier: USA må forberede seg for «grufull» og «ødeleggende» krig med Russland og Kina

Andre Damon, 16. november 2018

En kommisjon oppnevnt av Kongressen, sammensatt av begge partiene, har levert demokratenes blankofullmakt til Trump-administrasjonens planer om forberedelser til krig mellom «store makter».

Brexit-avtale truer May-regjeringens overlevelse

Robert Stevens, 16. november 2018

Statsminister May blir stilt ansikt til ansikt med de fulle konsekvensene av de voksende antagonistiske motsetningene mellom USA og Europa.

Tysklands kansler krever en «reell europeisk hær»

Johannes Stern, 16. november 2018

Merkels krav i Strasbourg om en «reell europeisk hær» understreker de reaksjonære tradisjonene som påkalles av styringselitene i Tyskland og Europa.

Den politiske krisen på Sri Lanka: Lærdommene for den internasjonale arbeiderklassen

Keith Jones og K. Ratnayake, 16. november 2018

Bare Socialist Equality Party (SEP - Sri Lanka) kjemper for at arbeiderklassen skal hevde sine egne klasseinteresser, uavhengig av og i opposisjon mot begge de rivaliserende borgerlige leirene.

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Perspective

France shaken by mass protests

19 November 2018

There were cries of “Macron resign” from protesters holding signs saying “No to the president of the rich.”

Earlier Perspectives »

Featured Commentary

The only answer to Brexit is the United Socialist States of Europe

By Chris Marsden, 19 November 2018

Every faction of Britain’s ruling elite—whether pro- or anti-EU membership or urging some form of continued relations—is viciously opposed to the interests of the working class.

Brexit deal threatens survival of May government

Defend Julian Assange against US charges!

By James Cogan, 17 November 2018

A terrorist network inside the German Army

By Peter Schwarz, 17 November 2018

At least 200 soldiers in German Army neo-Nazi terror network

DSA-backed “progressive Democrats” drop phony opposition to Trump’s attacks on immigrants

By Will Morrow, 17 November 2018

Ocasio-Cortez holds climate change stunt to boost Pelosi

More on US politics »

The government’s $4.6 billion handout to Amazon
Why Amazon should be expropriated

By Tom Carter, 17 November 2018

History

The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today
Part one of a two-part series

By Benjamin Mateus, 19 November 2018

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest outbreak of disease in human history, killing as many as 100 million people.

25 years ago: Clinton intervenes to halt American Airlines strike

The American Professional Flight Attendants union called off a five-day strike against American Airlines on November 23, 1993, after the Clinton administration brokered a deal to submit the strikers’ demands to binding arbitration.

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50 years ago: West Virginia disaster kills 78 US coal miners

On November 20, 1968, a series of explosions at the Consolidation Coal (Consol) No. 9 mine in Mannington, West Virginia, killed 78 miners.

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75 years ago: Uprising against liquidation of Janowska concentration camp in Poland

On November 19, 1943, Jewish prisoners in the Janowska concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland launched a heroic rebellion against the imminent liquidation of the center and the mass murder of all those incarcerated in it.

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100 years ago: Anti-semitic pogrom begins in Polish-Ukrainian city of Lvov

Rioting from November 21-23, 1918, primarily by ethnic Poles and encouraged by Polish armed forces, left scores of Jews dead in Lvov, the largest city of Galicia, in what is now western Ukraine.

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History of the Fourth International

“Eighty Years of the Fourth International” series continues with meetings in California and Oregon

By our reporters, 17 November 2018

Taking place in the backdrop of the rising death toll from the California fires and the rise of the far-right, the meetings attracted broad audiences of youth, students and workers across the West Coast.

Growing interest in socialism at Chicago meeting on 80th anniversary of Fourth International

By the IYSSE at University of Illinois at Chicago, 14 November 2018

David North lecture tour
Nearly 100 attend meeting in New York City on the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International

David North lecture tour
More than 100 attend meeting at MIT on anniversary of the Fourth International

David North begins US speaking tour in Michigan to mark 80 years of the Fourth International

Friday, November 30, 6pm for 6:30. Admission free, please RSVP to Gleebooks.

Meetings in Australia and New Zealand to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International

19 October 2018

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

On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International

By David North, 3 September 2018

Security and the Fourth International

The origins and findings of the Security and the Fourth International investigation

By Eric London, 14 November 2018

This is the text and audio of a lecture delivered by Eric London in Detroit, Michigan reviewing the monumental investigation conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International titled Security and the Fourth International, which exposed the infiltration of the movement by agents of the FBI and Stalinist GPU.

Arts Review

Web television series Homecoming: Everything about America’s wars, corporate elite is “rotten” …
… And two much weaker series, Maniac and Wanderlust

By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, 17 November 2018

Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old: A devastating depiction of the horrors of war

By Paul Bond, 15 November 2018

Workers Struggles

Indian chrome miners strike over safety; Western Australian mine workers walkout over “wage theft”
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 November 2018

The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.

French “Yellow Vest” protesters prepare road blockades against fuel tax hike

By Anthony Torres, 16 November 2018

Australian teacher unions’ phoney campaign against NAPLAN

By Erika Zimmer, 16 November 2018

After campaign of threats and intimidation, Teamsters announces “yes” vote on sellout UPS Freight contract

By Will Morrow, 12 November 2018

Break the isolation of UPS Freight workers! Form rank-and-file committees to unite workers against the company!

“The Teamsters union is with the company”
UPS workers oppose Teamsters isolation of freight division, call for united struggle

More on the struggle at UPS »

Mehring Books

David North in conversation with Nick Beams
Book launch of The Heritage We Defend in Sydney, Australia

9 November 2018

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.

SEP 2018 Election Campaign

Significant vote for SEP candidate Niles Niemuth in Michigan’s 12th district

By our reporters, 8 November 2018

Final campaign meeting for Niles Niemuth reviews experiences from campaigning

By our reporters, 7 November 2018

Vote Niles Niemuth, Socialist Equality Party, for US House of Representatives in Michigan’s 12th district!

Democratic Party mailer removes SEP candidate Niles Niemuth from sample ballot

Campaign website »

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

The way forward for young people: Not Democratic Party politics, but the fight for socialism!

By Genevieve Leigh, 6 November 2018

Against the right-wing attacks of university administrators and the far-right
Successful solidarity event for the student union of Humboldt University

By our reporters, 2 November 2018

Socialist Equality Party (Australia)

Watch: Two Hundred Years Since the Birth of Karl Marx

By Nick Beams, 31 October 2018

Nick Beams delivers successful lectures on the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx at Australian universities

By our reporters, 31 October 2018

Science

World vertebrate populations have fallen 60 percent since 1970

By Bryan Dyne, 1 November 2018

The latest Living Planet Report demonstrates the far-reaching implications of human activity on both the climate and the degradation of the natural environment.

Book review

DSA covers for unions and Democrats in new book on walkout by West Virginia teachers
55 Strong, Inside the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike

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 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

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


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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.