1 April 2019

Trump threatens to shut US-Mexico border, cuts aid to Central America

By Patrick Martin, 1 April 2019

The Trump administration is cutting off $600 million in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, while threatening to devastate the economy of Mexico by closing the US-Mexico border.

US detaining immigrants under highway overpass in Texas amid renewed crackdown

Outrage grows over leaked government database targeting journalists, activists at US-Mexico border

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Israeli military kills four Palestinians in Gaza protest

By Jean Shaoul, 1 April 2019

Those killed included three 17-year-old boys, bringing the total of children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the Great March of Return began to 52.

Lyft IPO: Wall Street rakes in billions from the growth of casualized labor

By Dan Conway, 1 April 2019

A small layer of investors and company employees have become multimillionaires and billionaires, while hundreds of thousands of drivers struggle to make ends meet on poverty level wages.

Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers strike in Los Angeles

Ford confirms its target of 5,000 layoffs in Germany

By Marianne Arens, 1 April 2019

The axing of 5,000 jobs is part of a global cost-cutting program by Ford intended to save up to $14 billion.

At UK demonstration over factory closing, unions plea to Tory government and Honda

By Paul Mitchell, 1 April 2019

To defeat this immense assault, car workers in Swindon and every factory must break from the trade unions and create new, independent, fighting organisations to take up the struggle that the unions abandoned long ago.

Swindon Honda workers speak out
“The working class needs to be organised against global capitalism”

By our reporters, 1 April 2019

WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending last Saturday’s demonstration in Swindon, England, against the threatened closure of Honda’s car plant.

Build rank-and-file factory committees to fight Honda job losses!

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Teachers at school in Sheffield, England, strike against job losses and threat to eliminate sixth form

By our reporters, 1 April 2019

Parents, teachers and school staff oppose the Bradfield School Board of Governors and the headteacher, who justify the closure of the school's sixth form on the basis that demand is lower than expected.

Ontario education minister touts class-size increases as means to teach “resiliency”

By Jake Silver and Roger Jordan, 1 April 2019

Thompson’s remarks exemplify the ruling elite’s contempt for the millions of working-class families that rely on Ontario’s chronically underfunded public education system.

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Dearborn, Michigan residents protest on four-year anniversary of US-backed Saudi war on Yemen

By Tim Rivers, 1 April 2019

Around a hundred people carried signs and flags, chanted slogans and heard speakers denounce the unrelenting assault on one of the poorest countries in the world.

Saudi attack on hospital kills eight as war in Yemen enters fifth year

Germany: Links found between right-wing network inside army and police officer murdered by far-right terrorists

By Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 1 April 2019

According to research by weekly Die Zeit, the AfD parliamentary group employs at least 27 activists and supporters of right-wing organizations. Die Zeit speaks of a “Nazi network inside the German Bundestag.”

Ruling AKP retains majority, loses large cities in Turkish local elections

By Alex Lantier and Ulas Atesci, 1 April 2019

Workers' anger is growing over the economic crisis and the Justice and Development Party (AKP's) policies, but this opposition can find no expression within Turkey’s bankrupt political system.

Thai military junta holds rigged election

By John Roberts and Peter Symonds, 1 April 2019

After seizing power in 2014, the regime has repeatedly delayed any poll, fearing a voter backlash.

Preparing for “tomorrow’s wars,” India shoots down satellite

By Deepal Jayasekera, 1 April 2019

Modi’s order that India demonstrate its “space war” capabilities was driven by both strategic and immediate electoral considerations.

Australia: NSW voters reject Labor Party’s phoney pitch

By Mike Head, 1 April 2019

Labor’s electoral disaster in Australia’s biggest state is part of a wider crisis of the whole parliamentary setup.

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Políticos e imprensa pedem por militarização das escolas e censura após tiroteio em escola brasileira

Miguel Andrade, 1 Abril 2019

O trágico tiroteio em uma escola expôs a indiferença do establishment brasileiro à aflição social em que estão mergulhadas amplas camadas da população.

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Grevler ve protestolar tırmanırken, Cezayir ordusu Buteflika’nın görevden alınmasını istedi

Bill Van Auken, 1 Nisan 2019

Buteflika’nın görevden alınması Cezayir genelinde kuşkusuz coşkulu bir sevinç ile karşılanacak olsa da, kritik sorun, bağımsız bir devrimci stratejinin geliştirilmesi ve işçi sınıfı içinde yeni bir devrimci önderliğin oluşturulmasıdır.

Cezayir: Hükümet karşıtı protestolar büyürken grevler yayılıyor

Will Morrow, 1 Nisan 2019

Buteflika’nın görevi bırakmasını talep eden milyonlarca işçinin ve gencin protestoları geçtiğimiz hafta da devam edip artarken, toplumsal eşitsizliğe, işten çıkarmalara ve kölece çalışma koşullarına karşı grevler hızla yayılıyor.

Venezuela darbesi üzerinden ABD ile Rusya ve Çin arasındaki gerilimler artıyor

Bill Van Auken, 1 Nisan 2019

Kendini “geçici devlet başkanı” ilan eden Juan Guaidó, aralarında ABD, Almanya, Fransa, Kanada, Brezilya ve başka birkaç ülkenin büyükelçisinin bulunduğu bir Batılı diplomatlar topluluğu eşliğinde Venezuela’ya geri döndü.

İşçilerin Devrimci Partisi’ndeki Bölünmenin Arka Planı – 21 Şubat 1986

David North, 1 Nisan 2019

Morali bozulan ve Britanya ve uluslararası işçi sınıfının devrimci kapasitesi konusunda gittikçe daha fazla şüpheci hale gelen WRP önderliği, 1960’lı yıllarda mücadele ettiği Pabloculuk hastalığına yenik düştü.

100 yıl önce: Macaristan’da Sovyet cumhuriyeti ilan edildi

1 Nisan 2019

21 Mart 1919’da, kısa süre önce Sosyal Demokrat Parti ile birleşmiş olan Macaristan Komünist Partisi, Budapeşte’de, Sovyet cumhuriyetini ilan etti.

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Trump raljerer mot sosialisme, men hans administrasjons krise utdypes

Barry Grey, 1. april 2019

Bak Trumps fascistiske tirader og hans harselering på demokratenes bekostning er det desperasjon og frykt for veksten av sosial opposisjon i arbeiderklassen.

Masseprotester sjette fredag på rad krever regimets fall

Alex Lantier, 1. april 2019

Etter at hærledelsen forsøkte å dempe situasjonen ved å gå for å avsette president Bouteflika, krevde de protesterende å få ned både regimet og hæren.

Den fjerde måneden med protester mot Sudans al-Bashir-regime

Jean Shaoul, 1. april 2019

Protestene finner sted midt under den mest vedvarende utfordringen for al-Bashirs styre siden han grep makten i et kupp i 1989.

«Musikk er verdensspråket»
Streikende musikere ved Chicago Symphony Orchestra holder suksessfulle gratiskonserter

George Marlowe og Michael Walters, 1. april 2019

CSO-musikere i den tredje uka av streiken har vunnet utbredt offentlig støtte, ikke minst for sine trossende gratiskonserter.

«Det er utstrakt interesse for klassisk musikk»
Musikere, ungdom og arbeidere uttaler seg til støtte for streiken ved Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Benjamin Mateus og George Marlowe, 1. april 2019

Streikende CSO-musikere og unge mennesker uttalte seg om kampen og betydningen av å forsvare kunst, musikk og kultur.

Nye fagforeningsbyråkratier eller grunnplanarbeidernes makt?
Lærdommer av Matamoros-arbeidernes opprør: Del to

Andrea Lobo, 1. april 2019

Da arbeidere i Matamoros fikk vite at deres lønnsheving og bonus ble stjålet og dannet grunnplankomitéer for å lansere en bølge av spontanstreiker, jobbet Susana Prieto for å isolere kampen og lenke arbeiderne til fagforeningene og til illusjoner om regjeringspartiet.

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Trump emprende contra el socialismo, pero la crisis de su Gobierno se profundiza

Barry Grey, 1 abril 2019

Detrás de las diatribas fascistizantes y su jactancia a expensas de los demócratas, hay desesperación y temor ante el crecimiento de la oposición social en la clase obrera.

Protestas de los viernes en Argelia exigiendo la caída del régimen llegan a su sexta semana

Alex Lantier, 1 abril 2019

Después de que la cúpula militar trató de calmar la situación moviéndose para destituir al presidente Bouteflika, los manifestantes llamaron a derrocar al régimen y al ejército.

La administración de Trump ordenó a las cárceles retener a miles de ciudadanos estadounidenses para ser deportados

Noriza Díaz, 1 abril 2019

Durante un período de dos años, ICE emitió 420 órdenes de retención a las cárceles del Condado de Miami-Dade para ciudadanos estadounidenses.

Mientras Washington aclama victoria sobre ISIS, los medios ignoran el enorme costo humano

Bill Van Auken, 1 abril 2019

La admisión por parte del Pentágono de 1.250 civiles muertos en cuatro años de bombardeo de Irak y Siria es una gran subestimación de la cifra real.

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Un Brexit «sans accord» se profile après que l’accord de retrait de May avec l'UE est rejeté pour la troisième fois

Robert Stevens, 1 avril 2019

Le dirigeant du Parti travailliste prétendument «de gauche», Jeremy Corbyn, travaille pour s’assurer que la crise la plus grave de l’histoire de l'impérialisme britannique en temps de paix soit résolue par le biais du système parlementaire vermoulu, avec la classe ouvrière réduite à un rôle d spectateur.

Xi Jinping visite l’Europe sur fond de tensions euro-américaines

Alexandre Lantier, 1 avril 2019

La signature de multiples accords entre la Chine et les puissances européennes ont mis en évidence les conflits entre les Etats-Unis et leurs soi-disant alliés européens.

Le sixième vendredi de manifestations massives en Algérie exige la chute du régime

Alex Lantier, 1 avril 2019

Après que les hauts gradés de l’armée aient tenté de désamorcer la situation en mettant en œuvre la destitution le président Bouteflika, les manifestants ont réclamé la chute du régime et de l’armée.

Trump fulmine contre le socialisme, mais la crise de son gouvernement s'aggrave

Barry Grey, 1 avril 2019

Derrière les tirades fascisantes de Trump et sa jubilation aux dépens des démocrates se cachent le désespoir et la peur face à l'opposition sociale croissante de la classe ouvrière.

Un journaliste américain dénonce les conditions de détention de Julian Assange

Oscar Grenfell, 1 avril 2019

Empêché de rencontrer le journaliste, Assange a protesté avec force et condamné les responsables équatoriens pour avoir agi comme des «agents du gouvernement américain».

Le massacre d'Ogossagou révèle le massacre en cours au Mali occupé par les Européens

Alex Lantier et Stéphane Hugues, 1 avril 2019

Sous l’occupation des troupes françaises et allemandes, une violence ethnique sanglante déchire le Mali, l’un des pays les plus pauvres du monde.

Après les tueries aux mosquées de Québec et Christchurch:
Québec dépose un projet de loi chauvin visant surtout les musulmanes

Louis Girard et Richard Dufour, 1 avril 2019

L’élite dirigeante cherche à faire des immigrants des boucs-émissaires pour la catastrophe économique et sociale causée par le capitalisme en faillite.

Canada: La répression par les syndicats du mouvement anti-Harris de 1995-97: leçons politiques pour aujourd'hui
Partie 1: La portée de la «Révolution du bon sens» de Harris

Carl Bronski et Roger Jordan, 1 avril 2019

Les travailleurs qui s'engagent dans la lutte contre la guerre de classe de Doug Ford doivent dresser un bilan politique du dernier mouvement de masse contre un gouvernement conservateur de l'Ontario et son étranglement par les syndicats.

En défense de «To Kill a Mockingbird»: Le film de 1962 sur le racisme en salle cette semaine

Joanne Laurier et David Walsh, 1 avril 2019

Fathom Events, TCM et Universal Pictures projettent «To Kill a Mockingbird» dans certains cinémas cette semaine. Le film de Robert Mulligan est basé sur le roman du même titre, lauréat du Prix Pulitzer de Harper Lee en 1960.

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Trump schwadroniert gegen Sozialismus, kann eigene Krise aber nicht überdecken

Barry Grey, 1. April 2019

Hinter Trumps faschistischen Tiraden und seinem Hohn über die Demokraten liegen Verzweiflung und Furcht vor der zunehmenden Opposition in der Arbeiterklasse.

Nach der dritten Ablehnung von Mays EU-Austrittsabkommen droht ein harter Brexit

Robert Stevens, 1. April 2019

Der nominell „linke“ Labour-Vorsitzende Jeremy Corbyn sorgt dafür, dass die schwerste Krise des britischen Imperialismus in Friedenszeiten durch das wurmstichige parlamentarische System gelöst wird, während die Arbeiterklasse nur untätig zusehen kann.

Erneut BVG-Warnstreik in Berlin

Andy Niklaus, 1. April 2019

Zum dritten Mal in sechs Wochen streiken die Berliner Verkehrsarbeiter. Bereits Mitte Februar hatten die für zehn Stunden die Arbeit niedergelegt und die Hauptstadt blockiert.

Tausende protestieren gegen Seehofers brutale Abschiebepolitik

unseren Reportern, 1. April 2019

Mit Bundesinnenminister Seehofers sogenanntem Geordnete-Rückkehr-Gesetz sollen Abschiebungen beschleunigt, Flüchtlinge inhaftiert und Helfer kriminalisiert werden.

Christchurch-Attentäter spendete an Identitäre Bewegung in Österreich

Markus Salzmann, 1. April 2019

Zwischen Brenton Tarrant und den österreichischen Identitären sowie der Regierungspartei FPÖ gibt es eindeutige politische und ideologische Verbindungen.

Massaker von Ogossagou enthüllt das wachsende Blutvergießen im europäisch besetzten Mali

Stéphane Hugues und Alex Lantier, 1. April 2019

Mali, eines der ärmsten Länder der Welt, wird unter der deutschen und französischen Militärbesatzung von ethnischer Gewalt zerrissen.

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Perspective

Class struggle and socialism are the only answer to the Brexit crisis

1 April 2019

The answer to the Brexit crisis is a united mobilization of the millions of workers coming into struggle against Europe’s governments.

Earlier Perspectives »

The Fight Against Fascism

Detroit autoworkers discuss upcoming meetings on “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight it”

By Jerry White, 29 March 2019

Two hundred attend meeting on the struggle against fascism at Leipzig Book Fair

By our reporters, 26 March 2019

Students and workers speak on the threat of fascism at Leipzig meeting

By our reporters, 26 March 2019

Leipzig Book Fair: Mehring Verlag presents new German edition of The Heritage We Defend

By our correspondents, 23 March 2019

Commentary

Trump rants against socialism, but his administration’s crisis deepens

By Barry Grey, 30 March 2019

The media and the Mueller report

Leadership of the Southern Poverty Law Center pushed out in #MeToo-style operation

By Niles Niemuth, 30 March 2019

Remembrance service held for New Zealand terror attack victims

By Tom Peters, 30 March 2019

After fascist attack, New Zealand government enacts gun control measures

Why was the New Zealand terrorist attack not prevented?

New Zealand government bans fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto

New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part two

By Andrea Lobo, 29 March 2019

New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part one

Xi Jinping tours Europe amid growing divisions between America and EU

Congressional hearing highlights close ties between Boeing and FAA

Democrats abstain from voting on their own “Green New Deal”

This week in history: April 1-7

25 years ago: Assassination of Rwandan president triggers genocide

On April 6, 1994, the airplane carrying both Juvénal Habyarimana, president of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamia, president of Burundi, was shot down as it attempted to land in Kigali.

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50 years ago: First artificial heart transplant

On April 4, 1969 the first artificial heart was implanted into a patient. The operation was performed by Dr. Denton Arthur Cooley, an expert surgeon and specialist in heart research.

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75 years ago: Winston Churchill jails British Trotskyists

On April 5, 1944, Scotland Yard, acting under orders from the government of Winston Churchill, raided the headquarters and meeting places of the Revolutionary Communist Party, the British section of the world Trotskyist movement.

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100 years ago: Soviet republic declared in Bavaria

On April 6, 1919, in Munich, some 150 representatives of workers councils, left-wing political parties, trade unions, and ministers of the former government, assembled and declared the formation of a Bavarian Soviet (Council) Republic.

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Autoworkers struggles

FCA Canada to cut third shift at Windsor Assembly

By Shannon Jones, 30 March 2019

How Norwood Jewell and the UAW pushed through the 2015 contract

By Jerry White, 22 March 2019

UAW corruption scandal expands to Vice President Norwood Jewell, who rammed through 2015 sellout

“Think of how many lives and families were ruined”
Autoworkers react to new UAW corruption charges

More on autoworkers struggles »

Arts Review

Major retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York City
“Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again”: The artist who wasn’t there

By Erik Schreiber, 30 March 2019

A recent retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art provided an occasion to re-examine Warhol’s work and evaluate what it means for American and global art.

In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird: The 1962 film about racism in theaters this week

By Joanne Laurier and David Walsh, 28 March 2019

This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy: Why the lack of seriousness?

Free Assange and Manning!

US journalist exposes Julian Assange’s prison-like conditions

By Oscar Grenfell, 29 March 2019

IYSSE at San Diego State University holds rally to defend Chelsea Manning

Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

By Andre Damon, 28 March 2019

Chelsea Manning held in solitary confinement for more than two weeks

By Kevin Reed, 25 March 2019

Unsealed documents shed light on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning

The guilty silence over the jailing of Chelsea Manning

More on the campaign to free Julian Assange »

Science

Bone marrow transplant removes HIV from a second patient

By Benjamin Mateus, 29 March 2019

The “London patient” will be considered cured if free of the virus for three to four more years.

Workers Struggles

“Music is the language of the world”
Striking Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians hold successful free concerts

By George Marlowe and Michael Walters, 29 March 2019

“There is widespread interest in classical music."
Musicians, youth and workers speak in support of Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike

San Diego teachers and parents left in the dark as school district threatens massive budget cuts

By Evelyn Rios, 29 March 2019

After betrayal of Oakland teacher strike, district lays off hundreds, prepares school closures

Strike by University of Illinois at Chicago grad students in danger

Thousands of young Moroccan teachers assaulted by anti-riot police

More on the defense of public education »

UPS workers confront wall of union-company collusion in local supplement fights

By Kayla Costa and Mark Witkowski, 27 March 2019

Goodyear-Dunlop plans 1,100 job cuts in Germany

By Marianne Arens, 27 March 2019

History

One hundred years since the formation of the Communist International

By Peter Schwarz, 20 March 2019

Socialist Equality Party

Sri Lanka: Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee and SEP hold powerful conference

By our correspondents, 20 March 2019

Support grows for Sri Lankan plantation workers’ conference

Socialist Equality Party of Germany certified to stand in European elections

By our reporter, 19 March 2019

Socialist Equality Party files lawsuit against German secret service

The Socialist Equality Party’s lawsuit against Germany’s secret service

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Millions of American youth attend schools with police but no support staff

By Valery Tsekov, 18 March 2019

Obesity-related cancers rise among US millennials

By Alex Johnson, 18 March 2019

Right-wing campaign targets student critics of Chelsea Clinton

By Josh Varlin, 18 March 2019

The social crisis in America

Dreams for Change: A San Diego shelter for the vehicular homeless

By Marko Leone and Kevin Martinez, 16 March 2019

Free dental clinic draws hundreds in Nashville, Tennessee

By Warren Duzak and Keisha Gibbs, 14 March 2019

International Committee of the Fourth International

Indian Trotskyists hold Kolkata public meeting to celebrate 80th anniversary of the Fourth International

By our correspondents, 13 March 2019

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

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

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.

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)

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

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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