7 March 2019
Teachers strike wave spreads across five continents
By Eric London, 7 March 2019
From Bamako to Buenos Aires and Sacramento to São Paulo, the teachers’ strike movement shows the international character of the class struggle.
Union describes walkout as “disruptive”
Kentucky teachers’ sickout closes state’s largest district
By Naomi Spencer, 7 March 2019
The mass action, organized by a new group calling itself “JCPS Leads,” forced Jefferson County Public Schools to cancel school for the second time in the space of a week.
Denver schools ax jobs in wake of contract pushed through by union
“The unions are trying to divide the students and teachers”
Oakland students oppose sellout of teachers strike, plan to continue fight to defend public education
By Genevieve Leigh and Kayla Costa, 7 March 2019
There is growing anger among students and teachers in Oakland, California over the shutdown of the seven-day Oakland teachers strike by the Oakland Education Association.
Students and teachers outraged as
Oakland, California school board passes devastating budget cut following union sellout
Oakland strike, mass “sickout” in Kentucky
Teacher anger exploding across the United States
More on the defense of public education »
Demand the unconditional reinstatement of Sri Lankan plantation worker S. Balasubramaniyam!
By M. Thevarajah and W.A. Sunil, 7 March 2019
Balasubramaniyam’s sacking is part of a broader attack on estate workers by the plantation companies and the government.
Record US deficit in traded goods
By Nick Beams, 7 March 2019
The increased deficit is an expression of the inherent contradictions of Trump’s “America First” trade agenda, within the framework of a globalised economy.
Trump Homeland Security chief defends family separation and caging children
By Patrick Martin, 7 March 2019
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House Homeland Security Committee, one of four congressional hearings Wednesday on aspects of US immigration policy.
US detains 77,000 immigrants at border in February, a 10 year high
Amid national strike wave
Mexican ruling class responds to Matamoros: Militarization and alignment with Trump’s attacks on immigrants
More on North American immigrants »
Report reveals that armed troops were mobilized to force through US aid provocation on Venezuelan border
By Bill Van Auken, 7 March 2019
The threats of armed provocations and direct US military intervention continue to mount as Trump renews an Obama-era “national emergency” decree targeting Venezuela.
Guaidó returns to Venezuela for next stage of US regime-change operation
UK Labour Party members rebel against suspension of Chris Williamson MP for bogus claims of anti-Semitism
By Robert Stevens, 7 March 2019
Thousands of Corbyn supporters are demanding a full-scale confrontation with the Blairites and for them to be deselected and booted out, not Williamson.
The assault on Jeremy Corbyn is a warning that must be heeded
No to the witch-hunt of Chris Williamson!
Oppose the Blairites’ bogus claims of “left anti-Semitism”!
De Blasio accepts federal monitor to oversee New York City Housing Authority
By Josh Varlin, 7 March 2019
The Trump administration’s appointment of a monitor for the largest public housing system in the country presages further attacks on poorer sections of the working class in New York City.
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El ataque contra Jeremy Corbyn es una advertencia seria
Por Chris Marsden, 7 marzo 2019
El ataque del 3 de marzo contra el líder del Partido Laborista es la más reciente provocación ultraderechista en Reino Unido que refleja el claro y actual peligro que representa el crecimiento de los partidos ultraderechistas y fascistas por toda Europa.
Macron publica plataforma para elecciones europeas llamando a formar un Estado policial de la UE
Por Alex Lantier, 7 marzo 2019
Abandonando la gastada pretensión de que está promoviendo una política de desarrollo liberal, Macron aclamó a la UE como una posible potencia militar-policial global.
Alemania: El Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei –el Partido Socialista por la Igualdad– presenta candidatos para las elecciones europeas
Por nuestros reporteros, 7 marzo 2019
El lunes, el Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Partido Socialista por la Igualdad, SGP) presentó las firmas finales para su participación en las elecciones europeas.
“Julian Assange es un ciudadano internacional importante que ha luchado por la verdad”
Discurso del profesor emérito, Stuart Rees, al mitin Free Assange en Sídney
Por profesor Stuart Rees, 7 marzo 2019
Cuando la controversia sobre Julian apareció, un senador republicano de Nueva York, King, dijo: “¿Por qué nadie toma un arma y le dispara a ese hijo de puta? Sé que es ilegal, pero sería grandioso para la libertad de los estadounidenses si sucediera”.
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En Allemagne, le Parti de l'égalité socialiste présente ses candidats aux élections européennes
Nos journalistes, 7 mars 2019
Le Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Parti de l'égalité socialiste, SGP) a remis lundi les dernières signatures requises pour sa participation aux élections européennes.
L'agression contre Jeremy Corbyn: un avertissement à prendre au sérieux
Chris Marsden, 7 mars 2019
L’attaque du 3 mars contre le dirigeant du Labour est la dernière d’une série de provocations de l’extrême droite en Grande-Bretagne, pointant le danger évident que pose la montée des partis fascistes et d’extrême droite à travers l’Europe
Les faussetés et les esquives du «Green New Deal»
Bryan Dyne et Barry Grey, 7 mars 2019
Les administrations démocrates, tout autant que les républicaines, ont imposé des politiques d’austérité et mené la contre-révolution sociale qui perdure depuis des décennies jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Réunion publique du PES à Montréal:
La menace fasciste et comment la combattre
7 mars 2019
Le parti de l’égalité socialiste (Canada) organise une réunion publique à Montréal pour alerter les travailleurs et les jeunes sur la menace du fascisme et élaborer une stratégie politique pour la combattre. Un élément central sera la présentation du livre nouvellement paru, «Falsification de l’histoire, conspiration politique et retour du fascisme en Allemagne», écrit par Christoph Vandreier, membre dirigeant du Parti de l’égalité socialiste allemand.
Le gouvernement libéral canadien en difficulté après une troisième démission importante
Roger Jordan, 7 mars 2019
Avec la démission de deux ministres de premier plan au milieu d’allégations selon lesquelles le cabinet du premier ministre serait intervenu indûment pour empêcher que SNC-Lavalin ne fasse l’objet de poursuites criminelles, la survie de Trudeau et de son gouvernement est mise en doute.
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Der Angriff auf Jeremy Corbyn ist eine ernste Warnung
Chris Marsden, 7. März 2019
Der Angriff auf den Führer der Labour Party am 3. März ist der jüngste in einer Reihe von rechtsextremen Provokationen in Großbritannien und zeigt die reale Gefahr, die das Wachstum rechtsextremer und faschistischer Parteien in ganz Europa mit sich bringt.
Macrons Programm für die Europawahl: Plädoyer für einen EU-Polizeistaat
Alex Lantier, 7. März 2019
Macron hat auch den letzten Anschein aufgegeben, für eine liberale Entwicklungspolitik zu stehen, und feiert stattdessen die EU als künftige globale Militär- und Polizeimacht.
Mailand: 200.000 gegen Rassismus auf der Straße
Marianne Arens, 7. März 2019
In Italien wächst der Widerstand gegen die rechte Regierung von Lega und Fünf Sternen, aber die Arbeiterklasse braucht eine neue politische Führung.
Österreich: Regierung will Sicherungshaft für Flüchtlinge einführen
Markus Salzmann, 7. März 2019
Innenminister Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) plant eine Verfassungsänderung, die es erlaubt, Asylbewerber ohne Vorliegen einer Straftat einzusperren.
Politische Instabilität nach der Wahl in Moldau
Andrei Tudora und Tina Zamfir, 7. März 2019
Die Wahl war der Höhepunkt eines langwierigen Zerfallsprozesses der Kräfte, die das politische Establishment von Moldau in den letzten 20 Jahren geprägt haben.
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Mexicos styringsklasse responderer på Matamoros: Militarisering og innordning med Trumps angrep på immigranter
Alex González, 7. mars 2019
AMLO-administrasjonen har forhindret innvandrere fra å nå frem til grensa, holder dem voldelig innesperret og skaper rammeverket for eskalerende angrep på hele arbeiderklassen.
Amerikansk domstol opprettholder vitnebegjæring for varsleren Chelsea Manning
James Cogan, 7. mars 2019
Vitnebegjæringen er en eskalering av den amerikanske regjeringens innsats for å få utlevert Julian Assange, og en ny og hevngjerrig forfølgelse av Manning.
Angrepet på Jeremy Corbyn er en advarsel som må aktes
Chris Marsden, 7. mars 2019
Angrepet på Labour-Party-lederen den 3. mars er det siste i en rekke høyreorienterte provokasjoner i Storbritannia, og peker på den klare og akutte faren reist av veksten av ytrehøyre og fascistpartier over hele Europa.
Tyskland: Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei melder kandidater for Europa-valgene
våre reportere, 7. mars 2019
På mandag sendte Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) inn de endelige signaturene for sin deltakelse til valgene for Europa-parlamentet.
«Julian Assange er en betydelig internasjonale borger som har tatt stilling for bekjentgjøringen av sannhet»
Professor emeritus Stuart Rees’ tale til Sydney ‘Free Assange’ samlingen
Stuart Rees, 7. mars 2019
Da kontroversen rundt Julian først startet, sa en republikansk senator fra New York, King: «Hvorfor tar ikke noen en pistol og skyter den jævla fyren? Jeg vet det er ulovlig, men det ville vært fantastisk for amerikaneres frihet, om det skjedde.»
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3 Mart’taki Assange’a Özgürlük Mitingi’nin siyasi dersleri
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (Avustralya) Siyasi Komitesi, 6 Mart 2019
3 Mart’ta Sidney’de Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi tarafından düzenlenen miting, Julian Assange’ın özgürlüğünü sağlama mücadelesinde ileriye doğru önemli bir adımı temsil etmektedir.
SEP’in Sidney mitinginde Julian Assange’a özgürlük talebi yükseltildi
Muhabirlerimizden, 6 Mart 2019
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’nin (SEP) Pazar günü Sidney’de düzenlediği gösteri, Avustralya hükümetinin, Julian Assange’a yönelik zulme suç ortaklığı yapmaya son vermesi talebini güçlü bir şekilde dile getirdi.
Cezayir’de Buteflika’nın beşinci dönem adaylığına karşı kitlesel protestolar
Alex Lantier, 6 Mart 2019
Cuma günü, Cezayir genelinde, Devlet Başkanı Abdulaziz Buteflika’nın 18 Nisan’daki seçimlerde beşinci dönem için adaylığını açıklamasına karşı yüz binlerce kişi gösteri yaptı.
100 yıl önce: Komünist Enternasyonal’in kuruluş kongresi Moskova’da toplandı
6 Mart 2019
2 Mart 1919’da, Avrupa’nın, Amerika’nın ve Asya’nın 22 ülkesinden 35 komünist ve sol partiyi temsil eden 51 delege, Kremlin’de, Komintern’in kuruluşu için toplandı.
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Perspective
The shutdown of GM’s Lordstown plant
7 March 2019
The closing of the iconic factory, the site of a series of wildcat strikes and other militant struggles in the early 1970s, is the tragic outcome of a half century of betrayals by the United Auto Workers union.
WSWS Archives
From Lordstown to Vietnam and Back
By David North, 7 March 2019
In the wake of the iconic plant’s final day of production Tuesday the WSWS is posting an interview with a GM Lordstown worker published February 12, 1973 in the Bulletin, the weekly organ of the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
The betrayal of the Oakland teacher strike and the way forward for students
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, 7 March 2019
The OEA has declared the strike over, but students, teachers and parents are determined to continue and expand the fight to defend public education.
For a unified struggle of Oakland students and teachers to defend public education!
Oppose Eastern Michigan University’s privatization schemes!
By IYSSE at Eastern Michigan University, 5 March 2019
Arts Review
André Previn, versatile composer, conductor and pianist, dies at 89
By Fred Mazelis, 7 March 2019
Previn was often compared to Leonard Bernstein, for the breadth of his achievements and his insistence on appealing to a broad public.
69th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 4
Brecht: A new film about the famed left-wing German dramatist
By Stefan Steinberg, 5 March 2019
69th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 3
Israeli films, Mr. Jones and Marighella
69th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 2
Midnight Traveler—“Sometimes life takes you through hell”
69th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 1
Between identity politics and opposition against the far right
On the Basis of Sex and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The manufacturing of a “living legend”
By Ed Hightower, 2 March 2019
Featured Commentary
Why is there so little media skepticism about Leaving Neverland and its allegations against Michael Jackson?
By David Walsh, 6 March 2019
Leaving Neverland consists principally of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, detailing their claims that singer Michael Jackson sexually abused them over the course of many years, in the 1980s and 1990s.
Socialist Equality Party
Germany: Socialist Equality Party submits candidates for the European elections
By our reporters, 6 March 2019
SEP meetings launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
By our correspondents, 6 March 2019
The Fight Against Fascism
Socialist Equality Party April meeting series: “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight it”
Christoph Vandreier, German Trotskyist and prominent opponent of fascism, to speak in US
By our reporters, 5 March 2019
Attend March 17 of London Book Launch of Why Are They Back?
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
Free Julian Assange!
The political lessons of the March 3 Free Assange rally
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) Political Committee, 5 March 2019
More voices from the Sydney Free Assange rally and Brisbane Livestream meeting
By our reporters, 6 March 2019
“We need to demand of the government, ‘what are you going to do to assist Julian now?’ We should not be beating around the bush because his life is in danger.”
- Address by Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees to the Sydney Free Assange rally
- IYSSE (Australia) convenor Oscar Grenfell’s speech to the Sydney Free Assange rally
- Hundreds defy slanders, lies and media censorship to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Media Serve the Governors, Not the Governed
- Freedom for Julian Assange depends upon the intervention of the working class
- “Julian Assange will never obey Big Brother”
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 »
Commentary
US court upholds subpoena of whistleblower Chelsea Manning
By James Cogan, 6 March 2019
Days after coming to the brink of all-out war
India and Pakistan stoke chauvinism, exchange threats
By Deepal Jayasekera, 6 March 2019
India and Pakistan tobogganing toward a catastrophic war
India-Pakistan war tensions escalate
Bernie Sanders adapts to racial politics at Chicago campaign rally
By George Gallanis, 5 March 2019
“Socialism appeals to me”
Sanders rally attendees speak on socialism, Democratic Party
The fallacies and evasions of the Green New Deal
By Bryan Dyne and Barry Grey, 5 March 2019
One year since the Skripal poisoning
By Robert Stevens, 5 March 2018
German Left Party congress backs imperialist campaign against Venezuela
By Johannes Stern, 5 March 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
This week in history: March 4-10
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.
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.
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).
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.
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)
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.
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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