26 April 2019
New study documents over 1,600 killed in US siege of Raqqa, Syria
By Bill Van Auken, 26 April 2019
The killings in Raqqa, like those in Mosul, Iraq, constituted massive war crimes committed in the so-called war against ISIS.
Former Vice President Biden officially enters Democratic presidential race
By Tom Hall, 26 April 2019
Biden’s announcement video focuses on the danger of Trump while concealing the role of the Obama-Biden administration in paving the way for Trump’s authoritarian politics.
UN official visits Julian Assange, investigating Ecuador’s illegal surveillance
By Mike Head, 26 April 2019
Confronted by worldwide protests and petitions, the British government felt compelled to grant the UN access to the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder.
Macron moves to prosecute journalists who revealed French arms sales in Yemen war
By Will Morrow, 26 April 2019
French security services have summoned Disclose journalists for questioning over their April 15 report documenting French arms supplies to Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
Leaked documents implicate French government in war crimes in Yemen
By Kumaran Ira, 26 April 2019
Mayor Emanuel intervenes to shut down Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
By George Marlowe, 26 April 2019
As part of his final act on behalf of the city’s financial elite, outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel has offered to intervene to end the nearly two-month strike by Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) musicians
Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
Socialism and the defense of culture
Fed “pivot” promotes stock market surge
By Nick Beams, 26 April 2019
While share prices soar, the global economic outlook has worsened, with growing signs of a downturn.
Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants during mass raid
By Alex González, 26 April 2019
The arrest of over 370 migrants, the largest in recent years, shows that the Mexican ruling class is subserviently implementing the Trump administration’s fascistic attacks on immigrants.
UK: May unable to stem Tory crisis over Brexit, but still propped up by Corbyn
By Robert Stevens, 26 April 2019
For Corbyn’s faction, the political function of these talks over Brexit is to side-line a discussion on the political crisis facing the government that could precipitate a general election.
International finance backs Socialist Party in Spain’s April 28 elections
By Alejandro López, 26 April 2019
European Union sources are warning of prolonged political instability and looking to the PSOE and Podemos for an answer.
GM continues tax avoidance schemes while it slashes thousands of jobs
By George Kirby, 26 April 2019
General Motors has received billions of dollars in government tax benefits over the past decade even as it continues to cut jobs and extract concessions from workers.
University of Illinois at Chicago faculty announces deal on eve of strike
By George Gallanis, 26 April 2019
More than 1,100 professors, lecturers, instructors and assistant professors are voting on a concessionary contract being pushed by the UIC United Faculty union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.
Rutgers University faculty union blocks strike by professors and teaching assistants
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After contract rejection, Dow Chemical locks out 230 workers in Texas
By Jerry White, 25 April 2019
Workers in the Houston suburb of Deer Park twice rejected the company’s “last, best and final” offers.
Forty hospitalized after toxic chemical leak in Chicago suburb
By Jessica Goldstein, 26 April 2019
Residents of Beach Park, Illinois were ordered to stay inside and 40 people were hospitalized after toxic anhydrous ammonia leaked into the air during a chemical spill.
Federal prosecutors indict Rochester Drug Co-Operative on drug trafficking charges
By Genevieve Leigh, 26 April 2019
The case provides a glimpse into the pervasive corruption and political machinations behind the pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors who made millions of dollars at the cost of thousands of lives.
Ontario Tory government intensifies assault on workers’ rights
By Penny Smith, 26 April 2019
Ford’s thinly veiled threat to criminalize teachers’ strikes must be taken as a serious warning: emboldened by the unions’ complicity, the Tories are escalating their class-war assault.
Australian construction workers facing massive fines for striking
By Terry Cook, 26 April 2019
The Australian Building and Construction Commission has launched legal action against workers involved in a short work-stoppage last year.
New in Norwegian
Valget av Zelenskyj i Ukraina og veien fremover for arbeiderklassen
Clara Weiss, 26. april 2019
Komikeren Volodymyr Zelenskyj vant det ukrainske presidentvalget p?? s??ndag i en massiv avvisning av den sittende presidenten og det imperialistorkestrerte kuppet som brakte ham til makten.
Det USA-st??ttede saudi-regimet halshugger 37 politiske fanger
Bill Van Auken, 26. april 2019
Det barbariske blodbadet avsl??rer kriminaliteten til ikke bare kongehuset Saud, men ogs?? den amerikanske imperialismen, som regner regimet som sin viktigste s??yle i den arabiske verden.
Sri Lankas president sammenkaller ??tverrpartikonferanse?? for ?? banke igjennom unntakstilstandsfullmakter
Wasantha Rupasinghe, 26. april 2019
Etter s??ndagens terroristbombinger har konferansen blitt sammenkalt for ?? st??tte opp det kapitalistiske styret midt under en akutt politisk krise.
Mens fagforbundet fors??ker ?? avslutte arbeidsnedleggelsen
Polske l??rere snakker ut om hvorfor de streiker
Will Morrow, 26. april 2019
Hovedfagforbundet for l??rere har oppfordret til suspendering av den mektige streiken for ?? tillate avgangselevene ?? gjennomf??re sine eksamener.
Protest p?? Parliament Square i London med krav om l??slatelse av Julian Assange
v??re reportere, 26. april 2019
Den livlige demonstrasjonen organisert av Julian Assange Defense Campaign var st??ttet av Socialist Equality Party og World Socialist Web Site.
New in Spanish
La elección de Zelenski en Ucrania y el camino a seguir para la clase obrera
Clara Weiss, 26 abril 2019
El comediante, Volodímir Zelenski ganó las elecciones presidenciales el domingo con más del 73 por ciento de los votos en un repudio masivo contra el presidente en funciones, Petro Poroshenko, y el golpe de Estado orquestado por los imperialistas que lo llevaron al poder.
Régimen saudí respaldado por Estados Unidos decapita a 37 presos políticos
Bill Van Auken, 26 abril 2019
La sangría barbárica no solo expone la criminalidad de la Casa de Saud, sino también del imperialismo estadounidense, que lo considera como su principal bastión en el mundo árabe.
Presidente de Sri Lanka convoca "conferencia de todos los partidos" para aplicar poderes de emergencia
Wasantha Rupasinghe, 26 abril 2019
Tras los atentados terroristas del domingo, la conferencia fue convocada para apuntalar el gobierno capitalista en medio de una aguda crisis política.
New in French
Le régime saoudien décapite 37 prisonniers politiques
Bill Van Auken, 26 avril 2019
Le bain de sang barbare expose la criminalité non seulement de la Maison Saoud, mais aussi de l’impérialisme américain, qui la considère comme son principal pilier dans le monde arabe.
L'élection de Zelenskiy en Ukraine et la voie à suivre pour la classe ouvrière
Clara Weiss, 26 avril 2019
Le comique Volodymyr Zelenskiy a remporté les élections présidentielles ukrainiennes dimanche dans une répudiation massive du président sortant et du coup d'État orchestré par les impérialistes qui l'ont porté au pouvoir.
Pour réduire à "zéro" les exportations de pétrole iranien Washington durcit ses sanctions
Bill Van Auken, 26 avril 2019
La levée des dérogations accordées à cinq pays qui importaient des quantités substantielles de pétrole iranien représente une escalade dangereuse de la guerre économique de Washington contre Téhéran.
Alors que le syndicat tente de mettre fin à la grève
Les enseignants polonais expliquent pourquoi ils sont en grève
Will Morrow, 26 avril 2019
Le principal syndicat des enseignants a appelé à la suspension de la puissante grève pour permettre aux élèves de passer leurs examens.
New in German
Der Wahlsieg Selenskijs in der Ukraine und der Weg vorwärts für die Arbeiterklasse
Clara Weiss, 26. April 2019
Der Sieg des Komikers Wolodimir Selenskij bei den ukrainischen Präsidentschaftswahlen ist auf die überwältigende Ablehnung zurückzuführen, die Amtsinhaber Poroschenko aus der Bevölkerung entgegenschlägt. Sie gilt auch dem Putsch, der Poroschenko 2014 mit imperialistischer Unterstützung zur Macht verhalf.
Die Europawahl und die Wiederkehr des Klassenkampfs
Ulrich Rippert, 26. April 2019
Auf die wachsende Radikalisierung reagieren die herrschende Klasse und ihre Parteien, indem sie die Reihen schließen, enger zusammen- und gemeinsam nach rechts rücken.
Der Wahlspot der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei (SGP) zu den Europawahlen
der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei, 26. April 2019
Die Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) tritt zusammen mit ihren europäischen Schwesterparteien zur Europawahl an, um dem Aufstieg der extremen Rechten, dem wachsenden Militarismus und der schreienden sozialen Ungleichheit entgegenzutreten.
Saudisches Regime lässt 37 politische Gefangene enthaupten
Bill Van Auken, 26. April 2019
Das barbarische Blutbad wirft nicht nur ein Schlaglicht auf den kriminellen Charakter des saudischen Königshauses, sondern auch des US-Imperialismus, der Saudi-Arabien als seinen wichtigsten Verbündeten in der arabischen Welt ansieht.
Erneut Sammelabschiebung nach Afghanistan
Marianne Arens, 26. April 2019
Am Mittwoch wurden erneut 30 Afghanen von Düsseldorf nach Kabul abgeschoben. Die Große Koalition aus CDU/CSU und SPD will die Zahl der Abschiebungen in das Kriegsland Afghanistan bis auf 18.000 erhöhen.
Polnische Lehrer erklären, warum sie streiken
Will Morrow, 26. April 2019
Während die Kampfbereitschaft unter polnischen Lehrern enorm ist, fordert die größte Lehrergewerkschaft auf, den machtvollen Streik zu unterbrechen, damit die Schüler ihre Prüfungen ablegen können
New in Portuguese
Após ataques terroristas, governo do Sri Lanka impõe estado de emergência nacional draconiano
Por K. Ratnayake e Peter Symonds, 25 Abril 2019
O WSWS condena os horríveis ataques, que mataram indiscriminadamente homens, mulheres e crianças inocentes, e já ofereceu o pretexto para amplas medidas antidemocráticas.
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 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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- Libyen versinkt im Bürgerkrieg: Das bittere Resultat der Unterstützung der Pseudolinken für den Imperialismus (11.04.2019)
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- Christoph Vandreier startet Vortragsreihe in den USA
Gut besuchte Veranstaltung an der University of California (11.04.2019) - SGP-Kandidat Ratnamaheson beantwortet Fragen des SWR (11.04.2019)
- Neue Gewerkschaftsbürokratie oder Arbeitermacht?
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- Neue Gewerkschaftsbürokratie oder Arbeitermacht?
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- Spendet für den Wahlkampf der Sozialistischen Gleichheitspartei! (10.04.2019)
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- Français
- La descente de la Libye dans la guerre civile, fruit amer de la politique pro-impérialiste de la pseudo-gauche (11.04.2019)
- La grève des enseignants polonais se confronte à la catastrophe sociale due à la restauration capitaliste (11.04.2019)
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- «Nous croyons en notre art et nous ne pouvons les laisser nous l’enlever»
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- Assange dénonce sa détention illégale dans une fuite de document du tribunal (10.04.2019)
- Plus de 10.000 personnes se rassemblent à Toronto contre les compressions des conservateurs en éducation (10.04.2019)
- Le socialisme hante la classe dirigeante américaine (09.04.2019)
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- El descenso de Libia hacia la guerra civil: el amargo fruto del proimperialismo de la pseudoizquierda (11.04.2019)
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Perspective
Hillary Clinton’s McCarthyite rant
26 April 2019
In a column published Wednesday in the Washington Post, the former Democratic Party presidential candidate resurrects the conspiracy theories that were the staple of Cold War anticommunism.
International Online May Day Rally 2019
On May 4, the International Committee of the Fourth International is holding its annual International May Day Online Rally, with speakers and participants from throughout the world. Register today!
Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka to hold May Day meeting in Colombo
The new wave of international class struggle and the fight for socialism
26 April 2019
The SEP meeting is being called amid growing indications that Colombo may use the recent terrorist bombings as a pretext to ban all May Day events.
SEP (Australia) Election Campaign
The Australian government must act to free Julian Assange
By Oscar Grenfell: SEP candidate for Parramatta, 25 April 2019
Assange’s brutal arrest and the attempts to extradite him to the US are an attack on the working class.
Video: IYSSE (Australia) members at University of Melbourne demand freedom for Julian Assange
By our correspondents, 22 April 2019
Australian mining magnate renews his fraudulent populist pitch
By Mike Head: SEP candidate for Oxley, 26 April 2019
While feigning sympathy for working people, billionaire Clive Palmer is bankrolling an election blitz by his so-called United Australia Party.
SEP (Australia) to hold election rally and meetings in defence of Assange
22 April 2019
SEP (Australia) election candidates win strong support for the immediate release of Assange and Manning
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
Commentary
The fraud of “progressive capitalism”
By Nick Beams, 26 April 2019
Calls for “reform” of the capitalist economy advanced by billionaire CEOs in the US and supported by “left” economists are motivated by deep fears of the implications of the shift to the left in broad sections of the American population.
The election of Zelensky in Ukraine and the way forward for the working class
By Clara Weiss, 25 April 2019
US-backed Saudi regime beheads 37 political prisoners
By Bill Van Auken, 25 April 2019
Sri Lankan president calls “all-party conference” to rubberstamp emergency powers
By Wasantha Rupasinghe, 25 April 2019
US imperialism resurrects the Monroe Doctrine
By Bill Van Auken, 24 April 2019
George Galloway declares for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party
What the Supreme Court is repudiating
The Enlightenment, the American Revolution and the ban on cruel and unusual punishment
India: BJP makes indicted Hindu supremacist terrorist a “star” election candidate
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 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 »
Arts Review
Some films from the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 1
Paper Flags, Tehran: City of Love and Belmonte—Alienation, loneliness and other problems
By David Walsh, 26 April 2019
Paper Flags, Tehran: City of Love and Belmonte—three films from France, Iran and Uruguay, respectively—were screened at the recent San Francisco film festival.
How Did Lubitsch Do It?: Joseph McBride’s engaging study of filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch
By David Walsh, 24 April 2019
An interview with film historian and biographer Joseph McBride, author of How Did Lubitsch Do It?
By David Walsh, 24 April 2019
Singer-songwriter Scott Walker (1943-2019): A gifted and intriguing artist
The stagnation of American poetry: The Best American Poetry 2018
Free Assange and Manning
Germany: SGP European election campaign wins support for Julian Assange in Stuttgart
By our reporters, 26 April 2019
Teams from the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) recently spoke with workers and youth in Stuttgart, inviting them to its April 27 election meeting and distributed WSWS material calling for freedom for Julian Assange.
Protest in London’s Parliament Square demands release of Julian Assange
By our reporters, 25 April 2019
Julian Assange was denied access to lawyers, visitors in Britain’s Belmarsh prison
US court orders Chelsea Manning to remain in prison
Legal experts: Assange likely faces espionage charges if extradited to US
“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 »
Workers Struggles
Miners’ union sells out five-month long strike at Sibanye Stillwater in South Africa
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 April 2019
The South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union agreed to a deal ending the five-month strike by gold miners on the same terms as the “slave labour” agreement signed with three other unions.
As union seeks to end walkout
Polish teachers speak out on why they are striking
By Will Morrow, 25 April 2019
The main teachers’ union has called for the suspension of the powerful strike to allow students to complete their exams.
Unions scramble to contain Polish teachers’ strike as 40,000 social workers prepare to stop work
UFCW orders New England Stop & Shop strikers back to work without seeing contract
By Kate Randall, 23 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
The ongoing strike wave on the US-Mexico border provides critical lessons for the incipient movement of the working class on an international scale.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”
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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