20 April 2019
Armed militia detaining asylum seekers at gunpoint along US-Mexico border
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan and Niles Niemuth, 20 April 2019
An armed militia calling itself the United Constitutional Patriots posted videos of its members detaining hundreds of migrants at the New Mexico border, in actions seemingly coordinated with the Border Patrol.
US attorney general orders denial of bond, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
More on North American immigrant issues »
UK home secretary demands climate change protesters face “full force of the law”
By Laura Tiernan, 20 April 2019
More than 682 climate change protesters have been arrested since Monday.
No to calls for “national unity” after the burning of Notre Dame in Paris
By Alex Lantier, 20 April 2019
The cathedral’s fate is an object lesson in the urgent need for workers to expropriate the irresponsible and parasitic financial aristocracy that dominates official public life.
The burning of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris
CIA director called out for complicity in torture
By Trévon Austin, 20 April 2019
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gina Haspel was delivering a recruiting pitch to students at Auburn University on Thursday where she was called out by an audience member for her participation in torture and other crimes.
“Capitalism is a terrible scheme that robs people of their labor”
As negotiations hit impasse, Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians continue strike and free concerts
By Michael Walters and George Marlowe, 20 April 2019
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra management reiterated its demand that musicians give up their traditional pensions and also canceled concerts through the end of April.
“Why did Boeing make it like that? Pure negligence and greed. There is simply no other answer.”
Aviation reporter Rytis Beresnevičius speaks to WSWS on Boeing 737 crashes
By Bryan Dyne, 20 April 2019
Rytis Beresnevičius has closely followed the two recent Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes and the engineering, executive and regulatory decisions that led to these disasters.
Why aren’t Boeing executives being prosecuted for the 737 Max 8 crashes?
Injured flight attendants speak to the WSWS
The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part one
More on airline workers issues »
Rising death toll in San Diego jails
By Norisa Diaz, 20 April 2019
Within the short span of six weeks, four people have died while in custody in San Diego, California jails.
US education secretary to gut regulations, seek a “major shift” in higher education—Part 1
By Nancy Hanover, 20 April 2019
A crude assault on educational standards, which hardens the class divide in educational access and spurs the plundering of the “education market,” is being enacted under the cover of “rule-making” by the US Department of Education.
Polish government vows to fight wage rises as teachers’ strike enters second week
The resurgence of the class struggle in Poland
The political lessons of the University of Illinois graduate student strike
More on the defense of public education »
US Gulf Coast still devastated six months after Hurricane Michael
By Matthew Taylor, 20 April 2019
Those left homeless in the aftermath of one of the strongest storms in US history have been forgotten by the media.
Right-wing populist United Conservatives win Alberta election as NDP vote plummets
By Roger Jordan, 20 April 2019
The election’s outcome represents a further shift to the right within establishment politics, and will exacerbate regional tensions within Canada’s ruling elite and its federal state.
Trump administration escalates threats against Cuba
By Alexander Fangmann, 20 April 2019
The Trump administration is imposing unilateral sanctions aimed at punishing foreign corporations, particularly European and Canadian, with investments in Cuba.
Pentagon ordered to draft military plans to counter Russia and China in Venezuela
Protests force American Museum of Natural History to cancel event with Brazil’s Bolsonaro
By Miguel Andrade, 20 April 2019
In face of fierce popular reaction, the ruling elites in New York have been forced to disassociate themselves from the fascistic Brazilian president.
Conflict continues over Peruvian copper mine as peasant blockade is lifted
By Cesar Uco and Armando Cruz, 20 April 2019
The Peruvian government gave in to demands of 1,200 peasants of Fuerabamba who suspended the road blockade that for 66 days paralyzed export of copper concentrate to China
Western Australia Labor government dismisses water contamination risks in indigenous communities
By Margaret Rees, 20 April 2019
Labor has dismissed evidence of a potential correlation between poor water quality and elevated levels of kidney disease and type-2 diabetes.
New in Portuguese
Uma reunião de falidos políticos: Materialismo Histórico e Jacobin organizam conferência “O Socialismo em Nosso Tempo”
Joseph Kishore, 20 Abril 2019
Um nome melhor para o evento teria sido “A Política do Partido Democrata em Nosso Tempo”, ou talvez “Socialismo: nem agora, nem nunca”
New in Russian
Пожар в парижском соборе Нотр-Дам
Алекс Лантье, 20 апреля 2019 г.
Ужасный пожар стал результатом грубейших нарушений правил пожарной безопасности в ходе реставрационных работ; ответственность за это несет французское правительство и правящая элита.
Эта неделя в истории
25 лет назад: Фашисты впервые вошли в правительство Италии со времен Муссолини
20 апреля 2019 г.
16 апреля 1994 года члены итальянской правой коалиции «Полюс свобод» были избраны главами обеих палат парламента.
New in Spanish
Veinte años desde la masacre de Columbine
David Walsh, 20 abril 2019
El acontecimiento en Colorado, en el que dos estudiantes de último año mataron a 12 compañeros y un profesor a tiros antes de suicidarse, representó algo cualitativamente nuevo e inquietante en la vida social estadounidense.
El informe de Mueller reaviva guerra política en Washington
Patrick Martin, 20 abril 2019
Los congresistas demócratas y sus partidarios en los medios están buscando explotar los hallazgos de la investigación para avanzar su campaña derechista contra Rusia.
New in Turkish
Ekvador polisi Julian Assange’a özgürlük yürüyüşüne saldırdı
Bill Van Auken, 20 Nisan 2019
Çarşamba günü Ekvador’da binlerce işçi ve genç, Devlet Başkanı Lenin Moreno’nun istifa etmesi ve WikiLeaks’in kurucusu Julian Assange’ın serbest bırakılması talebiyle başkent Quito’nun tarihi merkezinde yürüyüş düzenledi.
Yabu Bilyana’nın DEUK’un Dünya Konferansı’ndaki konuşması: “Yerli halklara yönelik soykırım Avustralya genelinde hala sürüyor”
Yabu Bilyana, 20 Nisan 2019
Aşağıdaki konuşma, 17 Kasım 1991’de, Yabu Bilyana tarafından, “Emperyalist Savaşa ve Sömürgeciliğe Karşı Dünya Konferansı”nda yapıldı.
David North’tan başsağlığı mesaj
“Hayatını adalet, eşitlik ve insani dayanışma ideallerine dayandırmıştı”
20 Nisan 2019
Yabu, istisnai bir yoldaş, işçi ve insandı. Hayatını tutkuyla inandığı adalet, eşitlik ve insani dayanışma ideallerine dayandırmış, ender türde bir insandı.
New in Norwegian
Tyve år siden massakren ved Columbine High School
David Walsh, 20. april 2019
Colorado-begivenheten, der to avgangselever skjøt og drepte 12 av sine medelever og en lærer før de begikk selvmord, representerte noe kvalitativt nytt og foruroligende i det amerikanske samfunnslivet.
USAs justisminister beordrer nekting av overenskomst og ubegrenset frihetsberøvelse av asylsøkere
Patrick Martin, 20. april 2019
William Barrs tiltak snur opp ned på mer enn et tiår med juridisk presedens og setter scenen for kriminaliseringen av flyktninger som søker asyl.
USA forbereder ytterligere anklager mot Julian Assange
Kristina Betinis, 20. april 2019
En CNN-rapport bekrefter advarslene fra WSWS om at journalisten vil stå overfor ytterligere anklager, som kan innebære dødsstraff, dersom han blir utlevert til USA.
Parti de l'égalité socialiste intervenerte på Paris-protest til forsvar for Assange
Anthony Torres, 20. april 2019
Medlemmer og supportere av Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES) intervenerte under protestsamlingen på lørdag til forsvar for Assange, på invitasjon fra den alternative nyhetskilden Le Grand Soir.
«Uten sannhet og en fri presse er vi dømt til videre undertrykking»
Lærere krever frihet for Assange og Manning
WSWS Teacher Newsletter, 20. april 2019
Lærere har vært i forkanten av ei bølge av globale streiker og kamper over det siste året, som skremmer styringsklassen og motiverer dens angrep på ytringsfriheten og demokratiske rettigheter.
Julian Assanges ekstraordinære historikk for gravende journalistikk
Oscar Grenfell, 20. april 2019
En gjennomgang av WikiLeaks’ publiseringsaktiviteter viser at Assange har spilt en enestående rolle i eksponeringen av kriger, diplomatiske intriger og ulovlig overvåkning.
Algeries regime eskalerer politivolden mot voksende protester
Will Morrow, 20. april 2019
Fire dager etter at politiet angrep demonstranter med tåregass og gummikuler holdt general Gaed Salah en nasjonalt kringkastet fjernsynstale der han truet de protesterende.
Egypt iscenesetter referendum for å institusjonalisere general Sisis diktatur
Bill Van Auken, 20. april 2019
Konsolideringen av det blodige politistat-diktaturet har støtte fra både Washington og de europeiske stormaktene.
New in German
Zwanzig Jahre seit dem Massaker an der Columbine High School
David Walsh, 20. April 2019
Vor 20 Jahren erschossen zwei Jugendliche in Colorado zwölf Mitschüler und einen Lehrer. Anschließend begingen sie Selbstmord. In dem grauenhaften Massaker kam zum Ausdruck, dass die amerikanische Gesellschaft in ein neues Stadium des Zerfalls eingetreten war.
Mueller-Bericht facht politische Kämpfe in Washington wieder an
Patrick Martin, 20. April 2019
Die Demokraten im US-Kongress und ihre Unterstützer in den Medien versuchen, die Ergebnisse des Sonderermittlers für ihre rechte anti-russische Kampagne auszunutzen.
Nach heftigen Protesten: Verfahren gegen Zentrum für politische Schönheit eingestellt
Sybille Fuchs, 20. April 2019
Die Einstellung erfolgte, nachdem der skandalöse Angriff auf die Kunst und Meinungsfreiheit massive Proteste in der Öffentlichkeit ausgelöst hatte
Julian Assange: Die außerordentliche Bilanz eines investigativen Journalisten
Oscar Grenfell, 20. April 2019
Ein Überblick über die WikiLeaks-Publikationen zeigt, dass Assange bei der Aufdeckung von Kriegen, diplomatischen Intrigen und illegalen Überwachungsaktionen eine herausragende Rolle gespielt hat.
University of Cambridge: Akademiker und Studenten protestieren gegen Vergabe eines Forschungsstipendiums an Eugeniker Noah Carl – Teil 1
Thomas Scripps, 20. April 2019
Dies ist der erste Teil einer zweiteiligen Serie über die politische Bedeutung der Berufung des Eugenikers Noah Carl an die University of Cambridge für ein Forschungsstudium.
New in Serbo-Croatian
Sloboda Džulijanu Asanžu!
Izjava uredničkog odbora Svjetskog Socijalističkog Vebsajta, 19. April 2019
Svjetski Socijalistički Vebsajt najstrožije osuđuje nasilnu grabež i hapšenje osnivača Vikiliksa Džulijana Asanža.
New in Bengali
মারুতি সুজুকি ১৩-শ্রমিকদের মুক্ত করো!
এক ভয়াবহ ষড়যন্ত্রে গাড়ি কারখানার শ্রমিকদের ভারতীয় আদালত যাবজ্জীবন কারাদন্ড দেবার দু-বছর
কিথ জোন্স্, ১৮ মার্চ ২০১৯
ভারত ও পাকিস্তান, দক্ষিণ এশিয়ার দুই পারমাণবিক অস্ত্রধারী রাষ্ট্র, এই মুহূর্তে এক পূর্ণ মাত্রার সামরিক সংঘর্ষের কিনারায় দোদুল্যমান।
ভারত ও পাকিস্তান এক বিধ্বংসী যদ্ধের মুখে দোদুল্যমান
কিথ জোনস্, ২ মার্চ ২০১৯
ঠিক দুই বছর আগে আজকের দিনে, এক ভারতীয় আদালত ষড়যন্ত্র করে করা মিথ্যা খুনের মামলায় উত্তর ভারতের হরিয়ানার মানেসারে মারুতি সুজুকির গাড়ি তৈরীর কারখানার ১৩ জন সংগ্রামী শ্রমিকদের যাবজ্জীবন কারাদন্ডে দন্ডিত করে।
New in Arabic
ترامب يعترف بضم إسرائيل لمرتفعات الجولان : ضوء أخضر لحرب شاملة
٢٥ آذار مارس ٢٠١٩
خلال الاختتام المتعجل لاحتفال البيت الأبيض الذي وقع فيه دونالد ترامب مرسوم اعتراف الولايات المتحدة الرسمي بضم إسرائيل غير القانوني لمرتفعات الجولان السورية هو فعل ، يبدو سطحياً أنه يغير القليل من الوقائع على الأرض في الشرق الأوسط لكن لا يجب على شخص ما بخس تقدير تداعياته بعيدة المدى الشاملة.
New in Urdu
نیوزی لینڈ پر دہشتگردی کا حملہ اور فاشزم کا بین الاقوامی خطرہ
ٹوم پیٹر
مسلح شخص نے جو دہشتگردی کی کارروائی کی اْسے تیار کیاگیا تھا جسے فاشسٹوں کے بین الاقوامی نیٹ ورک اور سفید نسل پرستوں کی جانب سے عمل میں لایاگیا ۔
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- Neue Gewerkschaftsbürokratie oder Arbeitermacht?
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- Français
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Perspective
The Mueller report and the campaign against Russia
20 April 2019
An editorial in the New York Times makes clear that the central purpose of the Democrats’ campaign against Trump has been to demand more aggressive action against Russia.
The Fight Against Fascism
“If you agree with our analysis, you’ve got to decide what you’re going to do.”
David North speaks on the threat of fascism
By David North, 20 April 2019
North, the Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, urged a meeting of students and workers at Wayne State University to build the Socialist Equality Party in order to fight against the threat of fascism and war.
Over 140 attend “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It” meeting in New York
By our reporters, 20 April 2019
Christoph Vandreier, deputy national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, and WSWS chairman David North concluded their lecture tour with a well-attended meeting at New York University.
Christoph Vandreier kicks off US speaking tour with well-attended meeting at UC Berkeley
Princeton University provides $300,000 in funding for right-wing historian and propagandist Jörg Baberowski
By David North, 10 April 2019
David North to address public meetings with Christoph Vandreier: “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It”
2 April 2019
Free Assange and Manning
“We’re all in this together. That is how I see it.”
Detroit Fiat Chrysler autoworkers defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
By a WSWS reporting team, 20 April 2019
A WSWS Autoworker Newsletter campaign team spoke to workers Thursday at the Warren Stamping plant outside of Detroit about the importance of the defense of whistleblowers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning.
Why the defense of Julian Assange is necessary for all workers
By the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees
“Without truth and a free press we are doomed to further oppression”
Teachers demand freedom for Assange and Manning
By the WSWS Teacher Newsletter
Formerly-jailed Australian journalist fronts corporate media attack on Julian Assange
By Mike Head, 20 April 2019
Peter Greste, once incarcerated by the US-backed Egyptian junta, is using his reputation as a victim of attacks on press freedom to support the Washington-led efforts to suppress WikiLeaks.
Australia: University of Melbourne IYSSE holds successful meeting in defence of Julian Assange
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia), 20 April 2019
Students at the meeting voted unanimously for a resolution to fight for the freedom of the WikiLeaks publisher.
US preparing more charges against Julian Assange
By Kristina Betinis, 19 April 2019
Unsealed affidavit demonstrates US seeking to prosecute Assange for his journalism
The media’s role in persecuting Julian Assange
Julian Assange’s extraordinary record of investigative journalism
By Oscar Grenfell, 18 April 2019
Growing popular support for Julian Assange in Australia
By Oscar Grenfell, 19 April 2019
Australian filmmaker James Ricketson demands release of Julian Assange
Human rights advocate Professor Stuart Rees denounces attacks on WikiLeaks publisher
- Socialist Equality Party intervenes at Paris rally in defence of Assange
- Ecuadorian police repress mass march demanding Julian Assange’s freedom
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party renews “rape allegations” witch-hunt of Julian Assange
- SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka rally to defend Assange and Manning
- Falsifying history and repudiating democratic rights: Floyd Abrams’ attack on WikiLeaks
- Stop the extraordinary rendition of Julian Assange!
More on the campaign to Free Assange and Manning »
Socialist Equality Party
European election: SGP holds its second campaign meeting in Frankfurt-Main
By our correspondents, 20 April 2019
In Frankfurt, SGP Chairman Ulrich Rippert highlighted the importance of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its perspective of a United Socialist States of Europe.
Socialist Equality Party candidate in European elections appears on German TV
Powerful start to German Socialist Equality Party campaign in European elections
Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2019 Australian Federal Election
No to Militarism and War! For Socialism and Internationalism!
By the SEP (Australia), 16 April 2019
The Socialist Equality Party candidates in the 2019 Australian election
By the SEP (Australia), 16 April 2019
Twenty years since the death of Australian Trotskyist and Aboriginal worker, Comrade Yabu Bilyana
Message of condolence from David North
“He based his life on the ideals of justice, equality and human solidarity”
Yabu Bilyana addresses ICFI World Conference: “Genocide of indigenous peoples is still practiced throughout Australia”
Arts Review
The stagnation of American poetry: The Best American Poetry 2018
By James McDonald, 20 April 2019
For the most part, these are eminently safe poems, carefully dressed, peer reviewed and scrupulously attentive to contemporary cultural regulations of taste.
Freep Film Festival 2019 in Detroit—Part 2
Midnight Family from Mexico, The Last Truck and American Factory—about a former GM plant, murderous Detroit police and I Am Richard Pryor: A mixed lot
By Joanne Laurier, 19 April 2019
Freep Film Festival 2019 in Detroit—Part 1
Glimpses of social life: The Feeling of Being Watched, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool and Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, among others
Commentary
Twenty years since the Columbine High School massacre
By David Walsh, 19 April 2019
Mueller report re-ignites political warfare in Washington
By Patrick Martin, 19 April 2019
The media and the Mueller report
Netanyahu prepares to form far-right government in Israel
By Jean Shaoul, 19 April 2019
New round of US-China trade talks
By Nick Beams, 19 April 2019
Behind Trump’s clash with the Fed: Looming economic crisis and class conflict
Trump, the Fed and the New York Times
German government adopts new law to expand immigrant deportations
By Peter Schwarz, 19 April 2019
Germany: SPD and Greens act as stooges for the far-right in Hamburg
An assembly of political bankrupts: Historical Materialism and Jacobin host “Socialism in Our Time” conference
By Joseph Kishore, 16 April 2019
Who funded the ISO? An analysis of the financial basis of pseudo-left politics
By Eric London, 15 April 2019
Factional provocation, middle-class hysteria, and the collapse of the International Socialist Organization
The reactionary role of national opportunist politics in Latin America
WSWS rejects invitation to conference of political bankrupts in Buenos Aires
By Bill Van Auken, 13 April 2019
Lessons of the Matamoros workers' rebellion
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part one
By Andrea Lobo, 25 March 2019
Workers Struggles
Jet Airways employees demonstrate in India; Pakistan doctors protest privatisation; Queensland bulk haulage train and maintenance workers to strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 April 2019
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
USW forces rotten deal on Harley-Davidson workers in Wisconsin
By Jacob Crosse, 19 April 2019
Strike of 31,000 New England Stop & Shop workers in sixth day
By our reporters, 17 April 2019
31,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers strike at over 240 supermarkets in New England
This week in history: April 15-21
25 years ago: Fascists enter Italian government for the first time since Mussolini
On April 16, 1994, members of Italy’s right-wing Freedom Alliance coalition were elected to head both houses of parliament.
50 years ago: Gustáv Husák replaces Alexander Dubcek as head of Czechoslovak government
On April 17, 1969, the Central Committee of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) voted to remove Alexander Dubcek as First Secretary.
75 years ago: Amid series of offensives, Soviet troops capture Tarnopol
On April 15, 1944, Soviet troops expelled Nazi forces from Tarnopol, in German-occupied Poland.
100 years ago: French sailors mutiny in the Black Sea
On April 19, 1919, sailors on the French battleship France, anchored near the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, revolted over orders to shovel 700 tons of coal during the Easter weekend.
Science
First imagery of black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope
By Bryan Dyne, 11 April 2019
The results from the planet-wide array of radio telescopes are the first direct measurements of the structure of a black hole and its surrounding environment.
History
One hundred years since the formation of the Communist International
By Peter Schwarz, 20 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
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