9 February 2019
Strike action in the US hits a 32-year high
By Patrick Martin, 9 February 2019
In 2018, the number of workers involved in large strikes, walkouts involving 1,000 or more workers, was the highest since 1986.
Brazil’s Workers Party praises imperialist officials and Brazilian military involved in Venezuela regime change operation
By Miguel Andrade, 9 February 2019
As it feigns opposition to regime change in Venezuela, the PT has sent representatives to meet EU leaders who have been at the forefront of the siege of the country.
US commander says Pentagon prepared to intervene to defend Venezuela embassy
Hands off Venezuela!
The CGT’s “national strike”: French unions seek to strangle the “yellow vest” protests
By our reporters, 9 February 2019
For the unions, the day of action was an opportunity for its base of officials and bureaucrats to meet with “yellow vest” protesters and seek to gain control of their movement.
French National Assembly passes police state “anti-riot” law targeting protests
“Yellow vest” assemblies meet in Commercy
The pseudo-left parties seek to intervene in France’s “yellow vest” movement
More on the “yellow vests” protests in France »
Corbyn leadership bows before Blairite’s anti-Semitism witch-hunt
By Robert Stevens, 9 February 2019
The Blairites have only been able to proceed with a campaign based on such a pack of lies because of constant capitulations from Corbyn and his inner circle, who have opposed all moves to drive them out in pursuit of “party unity.”
Cascade of plant closings in New York state
Social costs mount
By Steve Filips, 9 February 2019
In recent months there have been a spate of plant closings throughout Upstate New York, including the Rochester and Buffalo areas.
Wright State University administration issues call for scabs in bid to intimidate striking faculty
By Alexander Fangmann, 9 February 2019
As the strike by full-time faculty at Wright State heads toward a fourth week, the university administration is attempting to threaten striking faculty with the specter of being replaced by “long-term” adjuncts.
Oakland, California teachers overwhelmingly vote to strike
US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Muslim inmate without imam in death chamber
By Kate Randall, 9 February 2019
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling openly violated the separation of church and state enshrined in the US Constitution and the high court’s jurisprudence that government may not discriminate among faiths.
Sri Lankan president’s Independence Day speech exposes deep crisis of rule
By Vijith Samarasinghe, 9 February 2019
Sirisena bemoaned the failure of successive governments but offered no solution, amid ongoing infighting in ruling circles and mounting opposition by working people to the worsening social crisis.
“Lawyer X” cover-up starts to unravel
Australian police used multiple lawyers as informants
By Mike Head, 9 February 2019
Two revelations this week point to the systemic police use of defence lawyers as informers to secure the conviction of their own clients.
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Amerikansk kommandør melder Pentagon beredt til intervensjon og forsvar av ambassaden i Venezuela
Bill Van Auken, 9. februar 2019
SOUTHCOM-sjefen admiral Faller koblet i vitnesbyrd for Senatet på torsdag det venezuelanske kuppet til «stor makt»-konflikten med Kina og Russland.
Canada mobiliserer støtte for det amerikanske kuppet i Venezuela
Keith Jones, 9. februar 2019
Canada er fullt og helt involvert i Washingtons pådriv for å få installert et virulent høyreorientert regime, som vil åpne landet for tøylesløs imperialistisk utbytting.
Etter USAs tilbaketrekning fra INF-traktaten med Russland
Frankrike gjennomfører tørrtrening og simulert atomvåpenangrep
Will Morrow, 9. februar 2019
Operasjonen varte i 11 timer og inkluderte «alle faser» av det som ble referert til som et «nukleært avskrekkingsoppdrag», unntatt detoneringen av et faktisk nukleærstridshode.
Frankrike kaller hjem sin ambassadør til Italia
Alex Lantier, 9. februar 2019
Beslutningen om å tilbakekalle den franske ambassadøren til Italia peker på et akselererende sammenbrudd i relasjonene mellom Europas store imperialistmakter.
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Après le retrait des Etats-Unis du traité nucléaire de l'INF avec la Russie
La France effectue une simulation d'une frappe à l'arme nucléaire
Will Morrow, 9 février 2019
L’opération a duré 11 heures et comprenait «toutes les phases» de ce que l’on a appelé une «mission de dissuasion nucléaire», à l’exception de la détonation d’une véritable ogive nucléaire.
Le Canada mobilise des appuis pour le coup d'État américain au Venezuela
Keith Jones, 9 février 2019
Le Canada est à l'avant-plan des efforts déployés par Washington pour mettre en place un régime de droite brutal qui ouvrira le pays à une exploitation impérialiste débridée.
L'opposition monte à la fermeture d'usines GM
notre correspondent, 9 février 2019
Le World Socialist Web Site a reçu de nombreuses déclarations de soutien à la manifestation du 9 février de la part des travailleurs de l’automobile nord américains contre les fermetures prévues de cinq usines GM et la suppression de 14 000 emplois.
Un député de l'AfD dénonce une commémoration de l'Holocauste au parlement allemand
Christoph Vandreier, 9 février 2019
Soixante-quatorze ans après la libération d'Auschwitz, les crimes du régime nazi sont minimisés au Bundestag (parlement) allemand sans déclencher de protestations notables.
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Ein Versuch in Schadensbegrenzung
Hessischer Landtag debattiert über Rechtsextremismus in der Polizei
Marianne Arens, 9. Februar 2019
Alle Fraktionen im hessischen Landtag sind bemüht, das Vertrauen in den Staat wiederherzustellen. Sie lenken von der wirklichen Dimension der rechtsradikalen Netzwerke ab.
Frankreich ruft Botschafter aus Italien zurück
Alex Lantier, 9. Februar 2019
Der Rückruf des französischen Botschafters aus Italien zeigt, wie rapide sich die Beziehungen zwischen den imperialistischen Großmächten Europas verschlechtern.
Wachsender Widerstand gegen Werksschließungen bei GM
unseren Reportern, 9. Februar 2019
Die World Socialist Web Site hat viele Solidaritätsschreiben von Autoarbeitern aus ganz Nordamerika zu ihrer Demonstration am heutigen 9. Februar erhalten. Die Demonstration in Detroit richtet sich gegen die geplante Schließung von fünf GM-Werken und den Abbau von 14.000 Stellen.
Deutsche Arbeiter solidarisieren sich mit Kundgebung gegen Massenentlassungen in Detroit
unseren Reportern, 9. Februar 2019
Arbeiter aus ganz Deutschland haben der World Socialist Web Site Solidaritätsgrüße für die Demonstration der Autoarbeiter geschickt, die an diesem Samstag in Detroit stattfindet.
Daimler: Betriebsratschef Brecht fordert höhere „Effizienz“
Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 9. Februar 2019
Der Betriebsrat und die IG Metall stehen in den kommenden Auseinandersetzungen über Arbeitsplätze, Arbeitsbedingungen und Löhne auf Seiten des Managements und der Aktionäre.
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Боритесь с увольнениями на автозаводах Ford! Создавайте комитеты действий для объединения рабочих автомобильной промышленности по всей Европе!
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei и Socialist Equality Party и Parti de l’égalité socialiste, 7 февраля 2019 г.
Рабочий класс не может признать за корпорациями «права» закрывать заводы, уничтожать целые сообщества и разрушать жизни десятков тысяч рабочих.
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Venezuela’dan elinizi çekin!
Bill Van Auken, 7 Şubat 2019
ABD’deki, Avrupa’daki ve Kanada’daki işçiler, Venezuela’daki bu gerici ve yağmacı emperyalist müdahaleye karşı çıkmalı ve mücadelelerini, ortak düşman olan dünya kapitalist sistemine karşı, Venezuela ve Latin Amerika işçilerinin mücadeleleri ile birleştirmeliler.
Sudan’da hükümet karşıtı protestolar devam ediyor
Jean Shaoul, 7 Şubat 2019
Protestolar, 1989’da bir darbeyle iktidara gelmesinden bu yana, Devlet Başkanı Ömer El Beşir yönetimine yönelik en büyük tehdidi oluşturuyor.
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Francia retira su embajador de Italia
Alex Lantier, 9 febrero 2019
La decisión refleja la aceleración del derrumbe de las relaciones entre las principales potencias europeas.
Halil Celik, un luchador por el socialismo (1961-2018)
Peter Schwarz, 9 febrero 2019
El 31 de diciembre de 2018, Halil Celik, fundador y líder del grupo Sosyalist Eşitlik, simpatizante del Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional en Turquía, murió de cáncer a los 57 años. Su obituario presenta un repaso de su vida.
Cómo el WRP traicionó al trotskismo:1973-1985
27. La Guerra de las Malvinas: cómo Healy actuó como tonto útil del imperialismo/a>
Declaración del Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional, 9 febrero
Este es el texto del análisis realizado en el verano de 1986 por el Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional sobre el colapso de su sección británica, el Workers Revolutionary Party.
Crece la oposición a los cierres de planta de General Motors
nuestros reporteros, 9 febrero 2019
El World Socialist Web Sites ha recibido muchas declaraciones de apoyo de trabajadores automotores de toda América del Norte a la manifestación del 9 de febrero contra los cierres programados de cinco plantas por parte de GM y la eliminación de 14.000 empleos.
Comandante estadounidense dice que el Pentágono está dispuesto a intervenir para defender la embajada en Venezuela
Bill Van Auken, 9 febrero
Testificando antes del Senado el viernes, el comandante de SOUTHCOM, el almirante Craig Faller, vinculó el impulso estadounidense de expulsar al gobierno de Maduro a los conflictos de "gran poder" con China y Rusia.
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EUA deixam o tratado INF: mais um passo em direção à guerra nuclear
Andre Damon, 8 Fevereiro 2019
A saída dos EUA do tratado de Forças Nucleares de Alcance Intermediário (INF, na sigla em inglês) marca uma grande escalada dos esforços dos EUA para assegurar sua hegemonia militarmente.
Partido dos Trabalhadores utiliza onda de violência no Ceará para apoiar medidas de repressão e austeridade do fascista Bolsonaro
Miguel Andrade, 8 Fevereiro 2019
Sob o pretexto de combater o crime organizado, tanto Bolsonaro quanto o PT estão procurando aumentar a repressão sobre a oposição social.
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Perspective
The working class and socialism
9 February 2019
Trump’s denunciation of socialism in his State of the Union speech reflects the ruling class’s fear over the growth of the class struggle within the United States.
Featured Commentary
New York Times admission of Afghanistan fiasco provokes “human rights imperialist” backlash
By Bill Van Auken, 9 February 2019
The Times editorial supporting a US withdrawal from Afghanistan is a self-damning indictment of the entire “war on terror,” which the newspaper supported for the better part of two decades.
February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings
“People are tired of not being able to pay their bills while the rich eat filet mignon”
As global jobs massacre continues, workers around the world voice support for fight against plant closures
By our reporter, 9 February 2019
Workers and students are continuing to write in to the World Socialist Web Site expressing strong support for the demonstration Saturday at General Motors headquarters in Detroit.
German workers support rally against mass layoffs in Detroit
By our reporters, 9 February 2019
The WSWS received these messages of support for the February 9 demonstration from bus drivers, auto workers, and a tram mechanic.
Committee for Public Education (Australia): Support the fight against GM layoffs!
By the Committee for Public Education (CFPE), 9 February 2019
The February 9 demonstration, organised independently of the unions, provides a lead for all workers internationally, including teachers.
“The auto workers will not be forgotten men and women!”: Press conference promotes March to Fight Plant Closures
WSWS Labor Editor Jerry White addressed a press conference Tuesday in front of GM world headquarters in downtown Detroit ahead of this weekend’s march to oppose mass layoffs in the auto industry.
Opposition mounts to GM plant closings
The reality of capitalism: GM makes $11.8 billion in profits while closing plants, eliminating 14,000 jobs
February 9 demonstration against auto plant closures in Detroit
The program and strategy to defend jobs
Lordstown GM plant closing: Another blow to northeastern Ohio
Sri Lankan tea plantation workers committee supports call for February 9 demonstration in Detroit
Reject the anti-Mexican campaign of the UAW and Unifor
Unite US, Canadian and Mexican workers against GM plant closings!
Students and youth must join the fight to oppose GM job cuts!
Defend Julian Assange!
IYSSE calls on students in Australia to join the demonstrations in defence of Julian Assange
By the IYSSE (Australia), 9 February 2019
The defence of Assange is at the cutting edge of the fight against growing authoritarianism and an assault on democratic rights around the world.
Rally to demand the Australian government acts to free Julian Assange!
Sydney Martin Place Amphitheatre, March 3! Melbourne State Library, March 10!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 25 January 2019
Australian workers and youth support March rallies in defence of Julian Assange
John Pilger to speak at March 3 Sydney rally to defend Julian Assange
Julian Assange issues “urgent” legal challenge against US extradition plans
More on the campaign to free Julian Assange »
Arts Review
Woody Allen sues Amazon for failing to distribute his latest film and other breaches of contract
By David Walsh, 9 February 2019
Amazon’s refusal to distribute Allen’s film and honor its contract with him is a brazen act of censorship that is the direct product of the #MeToo witch hunt.
Cold War: Many unstated assumptions about politics and history
Also, Capernaum and Stan and Ollie…
By Joanne Laurier, 8 February 2019
Fire in my mouth: New York Philharmonic premieres oratorio on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
By Fred Mazelis, 6 February 2019
The Land of Steady Habits: Postcrash American disillusionment
Commentary
Murdoch newspaper approves chief Nazi lawyer’s legal defence of dictatorship
By Richard Hoffman, 8 February 2019
AfD deputy denounces a Holocaust commemoration in German parliament
By Christoph Vandreier, 7 February 2019
Right-wing Humboldt University Professor Jorg Baberowski threatens students
Dearborn, Michigan mayor suppresses historical article on Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism
By Tom Mackaman, 7 February 2019
US military conducting urban warfare training exercises in Los Angeles
By Dan Conway, 7 February 2019
The Strategy of International Class Struggle and the Political Fight Against Capitalist Reaction in 2019
By James Cogan, Joseph Kishore and David North, 3 January 2019
One hundred years since the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
By Peter Schwarz, 15 January 2019
Halil Celik, 1961-2018
Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018)
By Peter Schwarz, 1 February 2019
On December 31, 2018, Halil Celik, founder and leader of the group Sosyalist Eşitlik, which supports the International Committee of the Fourth International in Turkey, died of cancer at the age of 57. This obituary presents an overview of his life.
In memory of Halil Celik (1961–2018)
Workers Struggles
Over 200,000 Uttar Pradesh government employees strike; Bangladesh garment workers occupy factory; New Caledonia miners still on strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 February 2019
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Over 7,000 Bangladesh garment workers sacked after wage protests
By Wimal Perera, 8 February 2019
New York City school-bus workers’ union ignores strike vote, accepts sellout deal
By Steve Light, 8 February 2019
Behind Kia’s patronizing Super Bowl ad, auto company makes billions off low wage labor in US South
By Leslie Murtagh, 8 February 2019
Australia: Tigerair pilots locked in dispute over wages and conditions
By John Harris, 8 February 2019
Matamoros Strike
Wave of walkouts in Matamoros, Mexico builds toward general strike
By Alex González, 7 February 2019
As Unifor escalates racist anti-Mexico campaign
Canadian union leader postures as supporter of Matamoros strikers
The US pseudo-left’s conspiracy of silence on the Matamoros workers’ rebellion
70,000 strike at US-Mexico border
Help break the media blackout of the Matamoros strike by sharing this video.
Watch: A Texas Amazon worker's message to Matamoros workers
"Attention striking workers in Matamoros: I want you to know we have heard your here in the United states. We are with you and we support you." Help break the media blackout of the Matamoros strike by sharing this video.
As strike expands in the maquiladoras
Mexican auto parts workers explain how they formed strike committees
By Andrea Lobo, 26 January 2019
More on the Matamoros workers rebellion »
History
One hundred years since the death of Franz Mehring
By Peter Schwarz, 6 February 2019
Obituary
Stanley Hill, who presided over wholesale corruption in NYC unions, dead at 82
By Alan Whyte, 7 February 2019
Socialist Equality Party
Sri Lankan SEP public meetings to launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
7 February 2019
This week in history: February 4-10
25 years ago: Byron De La Beckwith convicted for 1963 assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers
Byron De La Beckwith, member of a white supremacist group, was convicted on February 5, 1994 for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist and head of the Mississippi state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
50 years ago: Millions strike in Italy
On February 5, 1969, millions of Italian workers participated in a one-day general strike called by the major labor federations to demand higher pensions.
75 years ago: Roosevelt moves to control Arabian oil
On February 6, 1944, the US government’s Petroleum Reserve Corporation, set up by President Franklin Roosevelt, unveiled its plans to construct a vast pipeline across Saudi Arabia to transport crude oil from the Arabian wells.
100 years ago: Seattle general strike begins
On February 6, 1919, 25,000 workers in Seattle, Washington walked out to join 35,000 shipyard workers already off the job, as a general strike virtually shut down the city.
IYSSE
Oppose political censorship and fascist threats against the ISO and DSA in Portland!
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at PSU, 31 January 2019
Two political meetings on college campuses in Portland were shut down by campus police after provocations from the far-right group Patriot Prayer.
Successful election result for IYSSE at Humboldt University in Berlin
By the IYSSE chapter at Humboldt University, 26 January 2019
Mehring Books
The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century published in Tamil
1 February 2019
The translation of David North’s book is vital for Tamil-speaking workers, youth and intellectuals on the Indian sub-continent, in Sri Lanka, and exile communities around the world.
ICFI meeting announcement
Indian Trotskyists campaign for Kolkata meeting to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
By Arun Kumar and Ritwik Mitter, 26 January 2019
Indian university students discuss the rising danger of war and the betrayal by the Stalinist parties of the working class.
Indian Trotskyists in Kolkata to celebrate 80 years of the Fourth International
7 January 2019
The Kolkata meeting will review the essential political lessons of the protracted struggle of the Fourth International and their relevance to the fight for socialist internationalism today.
Security and the Fourth International
New book now available
Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement
By Mehring Books, 21 January 2019
The WSWS announces the release of a new book, Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement, by Eric London.
The origins and findings of the Security and the Fourth International investigation
By Eric London, 14 November 2018
Seventy-eight years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
By Eric London and David North, 21 August 2018
Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
Socialist Equality Party takes legal action against surveillance by German secret service
By the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, 10 January 2019
Dr. Peer Stolle, the lawyer for the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, has submitted formal notice in writing to the German Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution. The text of the letter is published here.
International Committee of the Fourth International
The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
Victory of the Trotskyists in the 1985–1986 split in the ICFI
By Saman Gunadasa and K. Ratnayake, 29 December 2018
David North addresses New Zealand meeting celebrating 80 years of the Fourth International
By our reporters, 11 December 2018
80th anniversary of the Fourth International celebrated in Melbourne with public lecture
Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today
By David North, 9 October 2018
On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
Book Review
Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA
By Alex Lantier, 14 December 2018
Rohini Hensman’s book, issued by the International Socialist Organization’s (ISO) Haymarket Books publishing house, is an endorsement of imperialist war.
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