23 April 2019

US court orders Chelsea Manning to remain in prison

By Niles Niemuth, 23 April 2019

The courageous whistleblower has been held in jail since March 8 in an effort to force her to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Washington tightens sanctions to cut Iran oil exports to “zero”

By Bill Van Auken, 23 April 2019

The lifting of waivers granted to five countries that imported substantial quantities of Iranian oil represents a dangerous escalation of US economic warfare against Tehran.

In wake of Mueller report: Democrats, media push anti-Russian hysteria

By Patrick Martin, 23 April 2019

In the wake of the release of the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Democratic Party and the bulk of the corporate media have decided to intensify their campaign of anti-Russian slander and provocation.

Responding to public outrage, FBI arrests leader of border militia which detained hundreds of migrants

By Norisa Diaz, 23 April 2019

The arrest of border vigilante leader Larry Hopkins on Saturday is an effort by federal agents and CBP to publicly distance themselves from the right-wing militia groups with whom they routinely collaborate.

Armed militia detaining asylum seekers at gunpoint along US-Mexico border

UFCW orders New England Stop & Shop strikers back to work without seeing contract

By Kate Randall, 23 April 2019

The order to return to work signals the union’s agreement to impose deep takebacks by Stop & Shop in its efforts to transform the supermarket chain into a low-wage sweatshop.

31,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers strike at over 240 supermarkets in New England

Judge rules former Michigan Governor Snyder, EPA can be sued by Flint residents

By James Brookfield, 23 April 2019

Recent federal court rulings allow Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and the US Environmental Protection Agency to be sued in class action lawsuits filed on behalf of Flint residents.

Norwood Jewell, the UAW and the Flint water crisis

Flint, a play at the University of Michigan: Stuck, unfortunately, in the quagmire of racial politics

New police crackdown in France as Macron to announce further austerity cuts

By Will Morrow, 23 April 2019

At last Saturday’s “yellow vest” protest, police were once again given free rein to violently assault and arrest protesters.

Police arrest over 1,000 climate change protesters in London

By Robert Stevens, 23 April 2019

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has issued no statement condemning the mass arrest of peaceful protesters.

Privatisation of UK’s National Health Service escalates

By Ben Trent, 23 April 2019

An investigation found that over 1 million patients were forced to seek alternative treatment in the preceding five years due to the closure of nearly 450 GP surgeries.

UK education system breaking apart after decade of cuts

Prosecution of German artists’ group dropped following mass protests

By Sybille Fuchs, 23 April 2019

Following a 17-month investigation, the prosecutor’s office in Gera has ceased its investigation into the activities of the group of performance artists known as the Centre for Political Beauty.

Germany’s IT Security Act 2.0: Another step towards a police state

Bayer cuts 4,500 jobs in Germany

By Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 23 April 2019

Chemical giant Bayer AG is cutting 4,500 jobs in Germany, almost one in seven of its 32,000 positions in the country.

OECD report: Growth of social inequality fuels global political and economic crisis

By Jessica Goldstein, 23 April 2019

The findings of the report showed that among OECD countries, a growing number of middle-income earners perceive “that the current socioeconomic system is unfair.”

Major Indian airline grounded, threatening 23,000 jobs

By Deepal Jayasekera, 23 April 2019

The crisis facing Jet Airways, and which has caused it to ground all its aircraft, is part of a global crisis of the aviation industry.

New in Russian

Внушительная победа Зеленского над Порошенко на президентских выборах в Украине

Джейсон Мелановски, 23 апреля 2019 г.

Результаты выборов отражают огромную враждебность украинского рабочего класса по отношению к правой националистической политике режима Порошенко.

New in Turkish

Sri Lanka’daki bombalı terör saldırılarında en az 290 kişi öldürüldü

K. Ratnayake, 23 Nisan 2019

Bu iğrenç saldırı, sorumlusu kim ve dürtüleri ne olursa olsun, siyaset kurumu tarafından, polis devleti aygıtını güçlendirmek ve temel demokratik haklara yönelik saldırıyı ileriye taşımak için kullanılacaktır.

Ukrayna devlet başkanlığı seçiminde Zelenskiy ezici bir zafer elde etti

Jason Melanovski, 23 Nisan 2019

Seçim sonuçları, her şeyden önce, 2014’te emperyalist güçlerin Rusya’ya karşı savaş hazırlıklarının mızrak başı bir kukla rejim olarak kurmuş olduğu Poroşenko yönetiminin sağcı milliyetçi ve militarist politikalarına yönelik devasa halk muhalefetini yansıtmaktadır.

New in Spanish

El socialismo y la defensa de la cultura

Kristina Betinis, 23 abril 2019

Los músicos de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chicago, quienes se encuentran en su séptima semana de huelga, requieren del apoyo activo de toda la clase obrera, tanto en Estados Unidos como internacionalmente.

Expertos legales: Assange enfrenta probables cargos de espionaje si es extraditado a EUA

Oscar Grenfell, 23 abril 2019

Si es extraditado a Estados Unidos, Assange no obtendrá un proceso debido y probablemente enfrentará cargos que conllevan una cadena perpetua.

España: el manifiesto de Podemos defiende la Constitución e insta a una coalición con el PSOE

Alejandro López y Paul Mitchell, 23 abril 2019

Las concesiones aclamadas por Podemos estaban incluidas en la Constitución de 1978 para legitimar el sucio compromiso entre el PSOE y el Partido Comunista (PCE) con los franquistas, para “perdonar y olvidar” los crímenes del fascismo.

Victoria aplastante de Zelensky contra Poroshenko en las elecciones presidenciales de Ucrania

Jason Melanovski, 23 abril 2019

Los resultados de las elecciones reflejan la enorme hostilidad de la clase obrera ucraniana hacia las políticas nacionalistas de derecha del régimen de Poroshenko.

New in Norwegian

Chicago Symphony Orchestra i streik
Sosialisme og forsvaret for kultur

Kristina Betinis, 23. april 2019

Musikerne ved Chicago Symphony Orchestra, nå i den syvende uka av sin streik, trenger hele arbeiderklassens aktive støtte, i USA og internasjonalt.

Minst 290 drept i terroristbombeangrep på Sri Lanka

K. Ratnayake, 23. april 2019

Til tross for en etterretningsalarm 10 dager tidligere unnlot både regjeringen og politiet å advare offentligheten, og iverksatte få eller ingen tiltak for å forhindre de forferdelige bombeangrepene.

Juridiske eksperter: Assange møter sannsynligvis spionasjeanklager skulle han bli utlevert til USA

Oscar Grenfell, 23. april 2019

Dersom han blir utlevert til USA vil Assange bli nektet en genuin juridisk prosess, og vil sannsynligvis bli konfrontert med anklager med en maksimal strafferamme på livstidsfengsel.

Video: IYSSE-medlemmer (Australia) ved University of Melbourne krever frihet for Julian Assange

våre reportere, 23. april 2019

«Vi krever at den australske regjeringen opphører sin kollaborering med den amerikanske vendettaen mot Assange.»

Spania: Podemos-manifest forsvarer konstitusjonen, oppfordrer til koalisjon med sosialdemokratene

Alejandro López og Paul Mitchell, 23. april 2019

Innrømmelsene hyllet av Podemos ble inkludert i Konstitusjonen av 1978 for å legitimere det skitne kompromisset sosialdemokratene (PSOE) og Det spanske kommunistpartiet (PCE) inngikk med Francoistene, om å «tilgi og glemme» fascismens forbrytelser.

New in French

Au moins 290 tuées dans des attentats terroristes à la bombe au Sri Lanka

K. Ratnayake, 23 avril 2019

Malgré une alerte des services de renseignements dix jours auparavant, le gouvernement et la police n’ont pas averti le public et n’ont pris que peu ou pas de mesures pour empêcher ces terribles attentats.

Des milices armées détiennent des demandeurs d'asile le long de la frontière américano-mexicaine

Meenakshi Jagadeesan et Niles Niemuth, 23 avril 2019

Une milice armée se faisant appeler les United Constitutional Patriots a affiché des vidéos de ses membres détenant des centaines de migrants à la frontière du Nouveau-Mexique, dans des actions apparemment coordonnées avec la patrouille frontalière.

Manifestations au Maroc contre l’emprisonnement des contestataires du Rif

Anthony Torres, 23 avril 2019

Condamnant à des peines de 20 ans 42 opposants du mouvement de contestation du Rif, le régime marocain cherche à intimider tout mouvement d’opposition.

Espagne: Le manifeste de Podemos défend la constitution et appelle à une coalition avec le Parti socialiste

Alejandro López et Paul Mitchell, 23 avril 2019

Les concessions saluées par Podemos furent incluses dans la Constitution de 1978 pour légitimer le compromis pourri entre le PSOE et le Parti communiste (PCE) avec les franquistes, pour «pardonner et oublier» les crimes du fascisme.

«Pourquoi Boeing l'a conçu comme ça? De la pure négligence et de la cupidité. Il n'y a tout simplement pas d'autre réponse.»
Entrevue du WSWS avec le journaliste de l’aviation Rytis Beresnevičius sur les écrasements de Boeing 737

Bryan Dyne, 23 avril 2019

Rytis Beresnevičius a suivi de près les deux récents écrasements de Boeing 737 Max 8 et les décisions au niveau de la conception, de la direction et de la réglementation qui ont mené à ces catastrophes.

New in German

Streik des Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
Sozialismus und die Verteidigung der Kultur

Kristina Betinis, 23. April 2019

Die Musiker des Chicago Symphony Orchestra, die nun in der siebten Woche streiken, benötigen die aktive Unterstützung der gesamten Arbeiterklasse, in den Vereinigten Staaten und international.

Mindestens 290 Todesopfer bei Bombenanschlägen in Sri Lanka

K. Ratnayake, 23. April 2019

Obwohl Regierung und Polizei zehn Tage vor dem Anschlag eine geheimdienstliche Warnung erhalten hatten, informierten sie die Bevölkerung nicht und unternahmen so gut wie nichts, um die schrecklichen Anschläge zu verhindern.

Präsidentschaftswahl in der Ukraine: Selensky erzielt Erdrutschsieg gegen Poroschenko

Jason Melanovski, 23. April 2019

Das Wahlergebnis zeigt, dass die ukrainische Arbeiterklasse den rechten nationalistischen Kurs des Poroschenko-Regimes zutiefst ablehnt.

„Wenn ihr mit unserer Analyse übereinstimmt, müsst ihr entscheiden, was ihr tut.“
David North spricht über die Gefahr des Faschismus

23. April 2019

North, der Chefredakteur der World Socialist Web Site, rief eine Versammlung von Studenten und Arbeitern an der Wayne State University zum Aufbau der Socialist Equality Party auf, um gegen Faschismus und Kriegsgefahr zu kämpfen.

Europawahlkampf der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei
Stuttgart: Kampagne für Julian Assange gewinnt Unterstützung

unseren Korrespondenten, 23. April 2019

Am Ostersamstag diskutierten Teams der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei (SGP) in Stuttgart mit Arbeitern und Jugendlichen, um sie zur Wahlversammlung am 27. April einzuladen, und verteilten WSWS-Material für die Befreiung von Julian Assange.

Streiks bei Amazon und im Einzelhandel

Dietmar Gaisenkersting (Europawahlkandidat der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei), 23. April 2019

Die punktuellen Streiks, die Verdi seit 2013 immer wieder führt, stören den Betriebsablauf des weltgrößten Internet-Versandhändlers kaum. Um für bessere Löhne und Arbeitsbedingungen zu kämpfen, ist eine andere, eine internationale sozialistische Strategie notwendig.

University of Cambridge: Akademiker und Studenten protestieren gegen Vergabe eines Forschungsstipendiums an Eugeniker Noah Carl – Teil 2

Thomas Scripps, 23. April 2019

Dies ist der zweite Teil einer zweiteiligen Serie über die politische Bedeutung der Ernennung des Eugenikers Noah Carl für ein Forschungsstudium an der Cambridge University.

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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Perspective

After terrorist bombings, Sri Lankan government imposes draconian national emergency

23 April 2019

The World Socialist Web Site condemns the horrendous bombings, which indiscriminately killed innocent men, women and children, and have already provided the pretext for sweeping anti-democratic measures.

Earlier Perspectives »

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.

The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It
North and Vandreier conclude US tour at New York University

By our reporters, 20 April 2019

Princeton University provides $300,000 in funding for right-wing historian and propagandist Jörg Baberowski

By David North, 10 April 2019

More on the fight against fascism »

Socialist Equality Party

SEP (Australia) election candidates win strong support for the immediate release of Assange and Manning

By our correspondents, 23 April 2019

The SEP is the only political party in the election defending Julian Assange and US whistleblower Chelsea Manning and fighting to mobilise workers and youth to demand their immediate release from prison.

European election: SGP holds its second campaign meeting in Frankfurt-Main

By our correspondents, 20 April 2019

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

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

Free Assange and Manning

Legal experts: Assange likely faces espionage charges if extradited to US

By Oscar Grenfell, 22 April 2019

SEP (Australia) to hold election rally and meetings in defence of Assange

22 April 2019

Video: IYSSE (Australia) members at University of Melbourne demand freedom for Julian Assange

By our correspondents, 22 April 2019

“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

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

More on the campaign to Free Assange and Manning »

Commentary

Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
Socialism and the defense of culture

By Kristina Betinis, 22 April 2019

At least 290 killed in terrorist bomb attacks in Sri Lanka

By K. Ratnayake, 22 April 2019

The Mueller report and the campaign against Russia

By Joseph Kishore, 20 April 2019

US education secretary to gut regulations, seek a “major shift” in higher education
Part 2: Plundering the education “market”

By Rebecca DeCarlo and Nancy Hanover, 22 April 2019

US education secretary to gut regulations, seek a “major shift” in higher education—Part 1

More on the defense of public education »

“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

Why aren’t Boeing executives being prosecuted for the 737 Max 8 crashes?

More on airline workers issues »

Twenty years since the Columbine High School massacre

By David Walsh, 19 April 2019

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

Book Review

Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: A compendium of pseudo-left and anti-Marxist politics

By Emanuele Saccarelli, 22 April 2019

Assembly is saturated with reactionary postmodern conceptions, recycles worn-out anarchist recipes as innovative and progressive experiments and endorses virtually every political dead end of the recent and not-so-recent past.

Yabu Bilyana

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

Singer-songwriter Scott Walker (1943-2019): A gifted and intriguing artist

By Matthew Brennan, 22 April 2019

The stagnation of American poetry: The Best American Poetry 2018

By James McDonald, 20 April 2019

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

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: The Americas
Argentine newspaper and casino workers strike

23 April 2019

Workers at Clarín and sports daily Olé walked off the job April 17 over the firing of 56 of their colleagues while workers struck all Buenos Aires-area casinos for 48 hours over threatened closures.

USW forces rotten deal on Harley-Davidson workers in Wisconsin

By Jacob Crosse, 19 April 2019

This week in history: April 22-28

25 years ago: Raboteau massacre ignites renewed threats of US military action in Haiti

On April 22, 1994, soldiers and paramilitary forces raided the Raboteau neighborhood of Gonaïves, Haiti, executing residents thought to be in support of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was ousted in a 1991 military coup.

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50 years ago: De Gaulle resigns after losing French referendum vote

On April 28, 1969, the 78-year-old former general Charles de Gaulle ended his ten-year rule as president of France.

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75 years ago: Churchill crushes uprising in Greek Middle East Army

On April 23, 1944, an uprising of the Greek Middle East Army and Navy in Egypt against the return of the Greek king to power ended in violence.

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100 years ago: Paris conference supports League of Nations

On April 28, 1919, a plenary session of the Paris Peace Conference, the conference staged by the victorious imperialist powers after the First World War to restabilize the world capitalist order, unanimously approved a Covenant as the basis of a League of Nations, to be formally established the following year.

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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