4 March 2019

Amid widespread opposition, union declares end to Oakland teachers strike

By Joseph Santolan, 4 March 2019

Hours after angry teachers denounced the sellout agreement during a mass meeting, the Oakland Education Association claimed the deal had been ratified.

“This is a sellout, a scheme by the OEA executives!”
Oakland teachers denounce agreement to end strike

By our reporters, 4 March 2019

Determined teachers, sick of deteriorating conditions across the city, expressed outrage at the tentative agreement and the role of the Oakland Education Association.

Vote “no” on sell-out agreement
Union pushes contract in effort to shut down Oakland teachers’ strike

Oakland strike, mass “sickout” in Kentucky
Teacher anger exploding across the United States

More on the defense of public education »

India-Pakistan war tensions escalate

By Deepal Jayasekera, 4 March 2019

At least six civilians and two Pakistani soldiers have been killed as a result of cross-border shelling from both sides along the Line of Control.

India and Pakistan tobogganing toward a catastrophic war

Sixteenth week of protests: French “yellow vests” support strikes in North Africa

By Anthony Torres and Kumaran Ira, 4 March 2019

The “yellow vests” again took to the streets to demonstrate against French President Emmanuel Macron as protests mount against Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Mass protests erupt in Algeria against Bouteflika’s bid for fifth term

Secret Service barred from making probe of far-right Alternative for Germany public

By Peter Schwarz, 4 March 2019

The Cologne Administrative Court has banned the Secret Service from publicly designating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a “test case,” its lowest level of scrutiny.

Spain holds political show trial of Catalan nationalist defendants

By Alejandro López and Alex Lantier, 4 March 2019

The Catalan nationalists’ prosecution on charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for organising the 2017 independence referendum has no substance.

UK: The human cost of the right-to-buy housing crisis

By Charles Hixson, 4 March 2019

Local authorities now pay private landlords to house homeless families.

Mass demonstration by public-sector workers in Berlin

By our reporters, 4 March 2019

Thousands of teachers and social workers in Berlin held a two-day warning strike last week.

No charges for Sacramento police officers who murdered Stephon Clark

By Kayla Costa, 4 March 2019

Over the weekend, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced that the officers who shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark nearly one year ago will not face charges.

Southwest Airlines sues airline mechanics over alleged slowdown

By Tom Hall, 4 March 2019

Southwest mechanics have been working for six years without a raise under a management regime that disregards safety.

New York City transit agency raises fare, threatens budget cuts

By Alan Whyte, 4 March 2019

The latest increases in fares and tolls presage further cuts to service and are expected to roll lead to more hikes.

Latest collision on Long Island Rail Road shows fatal consequences of system-wide neglect

Warnings of further housing plunge and job losses in Australia

By Mike Head, 4 March 2019

With a federal election due in May, the corporate elite is insisting that austerity measures must be imposed.

New in Turkish

Hindistan ile Pakistan yıkıcı bir savaşa doğru kayıyor

Keith Jones, 4 Mart 2019

Güney Asya’daki işçiler ve sosyalist gençler, burjuvazinin savaş, kemer sıkma ve topluluksal gericilik programına karşı, savaş karşıtı küresel bir hareketin parçası olarak, işçi sınıfı önderliğinde savaşa ve emperyalizme karşı bir hareketin inşası uğruna mücadele etmeliler.

Trump ile Kim arasındaki ikinci zirve anlaşma olmadan çöktü

Ben McGrath, 4 Mart 2019

ABD Başkanı Donald Trump ile Kuzey Kore Devlet Başkanı Kim Jong-un, Çarşamba ve Perşembe günü, Vietnam’ın başkenti Hanoi’de ikinci zirvelerini düzenlediler.

Küba’nın yeni anayasası özel mülkiyeti tanıyor

Alexander Fangmann, 4 Mart 2019

Yeni anayasa, Küba işçi sınıfına ve onun yaşam standartlarını diğer Latin Amerika ve Karayip uluslarından ayırt eden sosyal refah önlemlerine yönelik topyekün bir saldırı için hazırlığın işaretini veriyor.

New in French

Les affirmations de Cohen ne sont pas des preuves de «collusion» de WikiLeaks avec Trump ou la Russie

James Cogan, 2 mars 2019

Si Roger Stone a dit à Trump qu'il avait parlé à Julian Assange, alors Stone mentait.

New in Spanish

India y Pakistán se deslizan hacia una catastrófica guerra

Keith Jones, 4 marzo 2019

India y Pakistán se tambalean al borde de la que sería la primera guerra entre Estados con armas nucleares.

Detrás de los ataques contra Green Book

Andre Damon, 4 marzo

La decision de la Academia de Películas de darle el premio Oscar a Green Book por la mejor película provocó el repudio iracundo de numerosos sectores de los grupos de poder políticos, universitarios y de reconocidos salones culturales.

Protestas masivas estallan en Argelia contra postulación de Bouteflika para quinto mandato

Alex Lantier, 4 marzo

En medio de una ola de huelgas en el norte de África, los trabajadores y los jóvenes están protestando en toda Argelia

“Nuestro sindicato nos abandonó y permitió que nos boletinaran”
Obreros de EUA, Canadá y México denuncian despidos masivos en Matamoros

nuestros reporteros, 4 marzo

Las empresas maquiladoras de autopartes y otros productos en México están despidiendo a trabajadores como represalia por lanzar una ola de huelgas espontáneas que frenó la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros.

El Nuevo Partido Anticapitalista de Francia sabotea la lucha contra el cierre de la planta Ford Blanquefort

Will Morrow, 4 marzo

Phillippe Poutou, miembro destacado del NPA, empleado de Ford y funcionario del sindicato en Blanquefort, está tratando de evitar cualquier lucha por los trabajadores contra el cierre.

Huelga de maestros y trabajadores del sector público en São Paulo contra ataques a las pensiones

nuestros reporteros, 4 marzo

Los maestros han estado en huelga desde el 4 de febrero en oposición a una reforma de pensiones que aumentaría significativamente las contribuciones personales requeridas.

La Casa Blanca de Trump realiza ataque fascistizante contra el socialismo en la Conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora

Niles Niemuth, 4 marzo

El evento comenzó el jueves con un video-collage de cinco minutos y medio que presenta al Partido Demócrata como una amenaza socialista inminente de la que solo Trump y sus seguidores pueden salvar a Estados Unidos.

En medio de provocación de EUA en la frontera con Venezuela
La prensa brasileña promueve a los generales en contra de Bolsonaro

Miguel Andrade, 4 marzo

La prensa está promoviendo su supuesta “independencia” de las políticas alineadas con Estados Unidos de Bolsonaro.

Directamente de la fuente
Bernie Sanders en Town Hall de CNN: mi propósito es promover el Partido Demócrata

Genevieve Leigh, 4 marzo

El objetivo de Sanders, al utilizar su reputación de "independiente", es convencer a los trabajadores desilusionados y a los jóvenes de que no busquen una alternativa al derechista Partido Demócrata.

New in Norwegian

«Fagforeningen snudde oss ryggen og tillot ledelsen å svarteliste oss»
Amerikanske, kanadiske og meksikanske arbeidere fordømmer masseoppsigelser av Matamoros-streikende

våre reportere, 4. mars 2019

[description]Meksikanske bildel- og andre «maquiladora»-foretak sparker arbeidere som hevn for å ha startet en bølge av spontanstreiker som lammet den meksikanske grensebyen Matamoros.[/keywords]

Trump-presidentskapet: Fra Manhattans underverden til Det hvite hus

Niles Niemuth, 4. mars 2019

Arrangementet åpnet torsdag med en videomontasje på fem-og-et-halvt-minutt som presenterte Det demokratiske partiet som en truende sosialistisk trussel, som bare Trump og hans tilhengere kan redde Amerika fra.

Masseprotester bryter ut i Algerie mot Bouteflikas bud for en femte presidentperiode

Alex Lantier, 4. mars 2019

[description]Midt i en streikebølge over hele Nord-Afrika protesterer arbeidere og ungdom på tvers av Algerie.[/keywords]

New in German

Verdi unterschreibt Knebelvertrag für Länderbeschäftigte: Streikverzicht bis Herbst 2021

Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 4. März 2019

Die Länder und die Gewerkschaft Verdi haben sich auf einen Tarifvertrag für die rund 800.000 Tarifbeschäftigten geeinigt. Mit der langen Laufzeit von 33 Monaten reagieren sie auf die Militanz der Beschäftigten, die sich massiv an Warnstreiks beteiligt haben.

Algerien: Massenproteste gegen Bouteflikas Kandidatur für eine fünfte Amtszeit

Alex Lantier, 4. März 2019

Die Proteste von Arbeitern und Jugendlichen in Algerien sind Teil einer Streikwelle in ganz Nordafrika.

Indien und Pakistan treiben auf katastrophalen Krieg zu

Keith Jones, 4. März 2019

Zwischen Indien und Pakistan droht ein Krieg, der erstmals von beiden Seiten mit Atomwaffen geführt werden könnte.

Ford-Blanquefort (Frankreich): NPA sabotiert Kampf gegen Werkschließung

Will Morrow, 4. März 2019

Philippe Poutou vom Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA), Gewerkschaftsführer bei Ford Aquitaine in Blanquefort, hindert die Arbeiter daran, einen ernsthaften Kampf gegen die Schließung aufzunehmen.

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Perspective

Sanders launches his campaign with a blast of demagogy

4 March 2019

Bernie Sanders’ speech in Brooklyn was an exercise in demagogy, because there exists no relationship between the reforms he envisages and any realistic strategy for their implementation.

Earlier Perspectives »

Free Julian Assange!

Sydney rally issues strong demand for the freedom of Julian Assange

By our reporters, 4 March 2019

James Cogan declared: “We are sending a clear message to Julian Assange today and he will hear it—you are not alone, you have not been abandoned, you have not been forgotten. You will be freed.”

Freedom for Julian Assange depends upon the intervention of the working class

By James Cogan, 4 March 2019

The following speech was delivered by Socialist Equality Party National Secretary, James Cogan, to the SEP’s March 3 rally at Sydney’s Martin Place to free Julian Assange.

“Julian Assange will never obey Big Brother”
Speech by John Pilger, March 3, 2019

By John Pilger, 4 March 2019

John Pilger gave this speech at a rally organised by the Socialist Equality Party for Julian Assange in Sydney on 3 March.

Rally to demand the Australian government acts to free Julian Assange!
Sydney Martin Place Amphitheatre, 2pm, March 3! Melbourne State Library, 1pm, March 10!

By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 25 January 2019

Attend March 10 Solidarity Vigil in London for Julian Assange

By Robert Stevens, 25 February 2019

The SEP (UK) calls on all defenders of civil liberties and democratic rights, all opponents of imperialist wars for regime change, to attend the March 10 vigil and make it known in your workplaces, campuses and schools.

More on the campaign to free Julian Assange »

The Fight Against Fascism

Workers, youth denounce police decision to close investigation of desecration of Marx’s grave

By our reporters, 4 March 2018

“Marx’s ideas are important for showing us how to understand the current world and society… and how to build a new one.”

Police announce “investigation closed” into desecration of Marx’s grave

The desecration of Marx’s grave: A warning

Updated: Letters oppose barring of SEP panel on the fight against fascism from Historical Materialism conference

ISO and DSA bar Socialist Equality Party panel on the fight against fascism from upcoming Historical Materialism conference

By Joseph Kishore, 15 February 2019

The social crisis in America

“I was treated like a caged animal”
Single mother and healthcare worker jailed for three days in Indiana over unpaid ambulance bill

By George Marlowe, 1 March 2019

Flint water crisis claims its youngest Legionnaires’ victim to date
“Her failing health was due to the government failing her”

By Sheila Brehm, 27 February 2019

Three children dead, four others injured in Imlay City, Michigan mobile home fire

By Niles Niemuth and Zac Corrigan, 27 February 2019

Commentary

“The union abandoned us and allowed for management to blacklist us”
US, Canadian and Mexican workers denounce mass firings of Matamoros strikers

By our reporters, 2 March 2019

Oppose the attacks by company thugs against Mexican worker Luis Daniel Prieto!

Ford production crippled by Mexican workers’ strike

More on the Matamoros workers rebellion »

Trump White House leads fascistic attack on socialism at Conservative Political Action Conference

By Niles Niemuth, 2 March 2019

Trump declares global war on socialism

The Trump presidency: From the Manhattan underworld to the White House

From the horse’s mouth
Bernie Sanders at CNN Town Hall: My purpose is to promote the Democratic Party

By Genevieve Leigh, 2 March 2019

No to the witch-hunt of Chris Williamson!
Oppose the Blairites’ bogus claims of “left anti-Semitism”!

By Chris Marsden, 2 March 2019

France’s New Anti-capitalist Party sabotages fight against Ford Blanquefort plant closure

By Will Morrow, 2 March 2019

Behind the racist backlash against Green Book

By Hiram Lee and Andre Damon, 26 February 2019

Netanyahu to face charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust

By Jean Shaoul, 1 March 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

Socialism and the case for expropriation

A reply to a commenter
Jussie Smollett, #MeToo and the presumption of innocence

25 years ago: Clinton on the defensive over Whitewater

On March 7, 1994, US President Bill Clinton was forced to open a press conference with the declaration that his wife, Hillary Clinton, was “not a criminal,” following a widening investigation, begun in January, into allegations about the Whitewater real estate investment in which the Clintons had lost money.

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50 years ago: Scientists organize antiwar protest at MIT

On March 4, 1969, faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were working on military projects began a work stoppage to protest the misuse of science and technology.

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75 years ago: Greek Stalinists form anti-fascist government

On March 10, 1944, the National Liberation Front (EAM), dominated politically by the Stalinist Communist Party of Greece, formed a Political Committee of National Liberation (PEAA).

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100 years ago: Arrest of nationalist leader sparks revolution in Egypt

On March 8, 1919, the British colonial regime in Egypt, which had occupied the country since 1882, arrested Saad Zaghloul and two other leaders of the Wafd (Delegation) Party, which was soon to become the leading bourgeois-nationalist organization in the country, for continuing to demand that Egyptians be allowed to send a delegation to the imperialist Paris Peace Conference.

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Arts Review

On the Basis of Sex and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The manufacturing of a “living legend”

By Ed Hightower, 2 March 2019

69th Berlin Film Festival, part 3: Israeli films, Mr. Jones and Marighella

By Stefan Steinberg, 28 February 2019

Berlin Film Festival Part 2: Midnight Traveler—“Sometimes life takes you through hell”

Berlin Film Festival: Between identity politics and opposition against the far right

Workers Struggles

India: Pricol autoparts workers continue strike in Tamil Nadu; Chinese food delivery workers protest pay cuts; 3,000 New Zealand doctors hold two-day strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

2 March 2019

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

Hundreds laid off at Activision Blizzard and other video game companies

By Zachary Thorton, 1 March 2019

Locomotive builders strike Wabtec in Erie, Pennsylvania

By Shannon Jones, 28 February 2019

Mehring Books

London Book Launch: Why Are They Back?   The return of fascism in Germany and the lessons of history

12 February 2019

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

For a unified struggle of Oakland students and teachers to defend public education!

By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality - Berkeley, 23 February 2019

New York University students angry over police “cleanup” of homeless on campus

By Owen Mullan and Sandy English, 23 February 2019

Students speak out against closure of Oregon College of Art and Craft

MIT refuses to cut ties to Saudi regime

CIA out of Northern Virginia Community College!

History of the ICFI

From the arsenal of Trotskyism
The Political Report by David North to the International Committee of the Fourth International—February 11, 1984

12 February 2019

Thirty-five years ago this week, David North, then the national secretary of the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party), presented at a meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International a critique of the British Workers Revolutionary Party’s abandonment of key theoretical conceptions and programmatic principles of Trotskyism.

History

How the ruling elite sought to suppress revolution
Renewal: Life after the First World War in Photographs

By Paul Mitchell, 22 February 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)

New in Arabic

Arabic translation of “Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018)”

Published here is the Arabic translation of the obituary of Halil Celik by Peter Schwarz. 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.

February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings

Watch: March to Fight GM Plant Closures

Autoworkers and supporters from across the Midwest marched on February 9 in Detroit to oppose General Motors’ plans for plant closings and layoffs in the US and Canada.

Autoworkers must prepare fight as UAW plans new givebacks in 2019 contracts

By Shannon Jones, 14 February 2019

Striking workers in Matamoros, Mexico support Detroit demonstration against auto layoffs

In this video, striking auto parts workers at Fisher Dynamics in Matamoros, Mexico send their support to last weekend’s demonstration against mass layoffs in the US auto industry called by the Socialist Equality Party.

“It is necessary to base our struggle not on one company or on one nation, but by mobilizing the workers of the world”
Maruti Suzuki workers in India send greetings to February 9 protest

Autoworkers, supporters demonstrate in Detroit to oppose GM closures and layoffs

February 9 demonstration against auto plant closures in Detroit
The program and strategy to defend jobs

Book Review

The State, Business and Education: How rapacious corporations are dismantling public education globally

By Erika Zimmer, 16 February 2019

Billionaires, global tech companies and national governments are imposing a profit-driven, user-pays system.

Socialist Equality Party

The way forward to win wages and social rights
Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka calls plantation workers’ conference

By the Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee, 12 February 2019

The conference will discuss the lessons of the recent plantation workers’ struggle and the political strategy needed to win their demands.

Sri Lankan SEP public meetings to launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century

7 February 2019

New in Arabic

استراتيجية النضال الطبقي الدولي والنضال السياسي ضد الرجعية الرأسمالية في عام 2019

٢ شباط فبراير ٢٠١٩

في مطلع العام الأخير صرحت اللجنة الدولية للأممية الرابعة :" إن عام 2018 الجديد- وهو عام الذكرى المئوية الثانية لمولد كارل ماركس- سيتسم في المقام الأول بتركيز هائل للتوترات الاجتماعية وبتصاعد النضال الطبقي في أرجاء العالم".

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

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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