2 November 2019
UAW sanctions plant closing, expansion of temps in deal with Ford
By Shannon Jones, 2 November 2019
The tentative agreement announced with Ford will further advance the restructuring of the auto industry into a low wage sector employing large numbers of contingent workers.
Ford workers must reject deal patterned on UAW-GM sellout
Ford Canada announces more job cuts as GM prepares final shutdown in Oshawa
Corruption scandal moves in on UAW President Gary Jones
By Joseph Kishore, 2 November 2019
The latest allegations, involving the embezzlement of $1.5 million in dues money, follow the shutdown of the GM strike as the UAW attempts to ram through a pro-company agreement with Ford.
More on autoworkers struggles »
Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention
By Laura Tiernan, 2 November 2019
Trump’s intervention comes less than four months after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the US government would not allow a Corbyn government to take office and would “push back” to prevent this.
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s budget: Increased policing and austerity on behalf of the financial aristocracy
By Alexander Fangmann, 2 November 2019
Lightfoot’s first budget, containing large increases to the police department and higher fees affecting workers, is a continuation of the Democratic Party’s right-wing assault on the working class.
Oppose the betrayal of the Chicago teachers strike!
CTU moves to shut down strike without giving teachers right to vote on sellout contract
By the WSWS Teacher Newsletter, 1 November 2019
Chicago Teachers Union attempting to ram through tentative agreement over widespread opposition
Democrats, union leaders intensify pressure on striking Chicago teachers to accept austerity contract
Prime Minister Hariri’s resignation intensifies Lebanon’s political crisis
By Jean Shaoul, 2 November 2019
The political vacuum in Lebanon poses the risk of an intervention by the regional powers or their local proxies.
India: Growing support for 48,000 Telangana workers fired for striking
By Arun Kumar and Kranti Kumara, 2 November 2019
The Telangana transport workers courageously defied the state Chief Minister’s ultimatum that they immediately end their strike or be deemed “self-dismissed.”
CIA death squads responsible for spike in Afghan civilian casualties
By Bill Van Auken, 2 November 2019
A Human Rights Watch report documents extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and attacks on medical facilities by militias trained, funded and directed by the CIA.
Bangladesh: Sixteen sentenced to death over brutal murder of student
By Rohantha De Silva, 2 November 2019
The Bangladeshi government is exploiting outrage over the brutal murder of a young woman to step up its law-and-order attacks on democratic rights.
Exhumation of Franco: Spain’s ruling class pays homage to a fascist dictator
By Alejandro López and Alex Lantier, 2 November 2019
Last week, the Spanish Socialist Party government exhumed the remains of fascist dictator General Francisco Franco from his vast “Valley of the Fallen” mausoleum.
Germany’s grand coalition extends military operations in Syria and Iraq
By Johannes Stern, 2 November 2019
Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, leading politicians from all parties openly advocate policies of war and military violence.
Washington threatens to fight Syria and Russia for oil
Australia: Official unemployment figures downplay growing jobs crisis
By Terry Cook, 2 November 2019
The mass destruction of full-time jobs and a rapid growth in casualisation across every sector has been overseen by Liberal and Labor governments alike.
Australian Labor Party leader puts big business “first and foremost”
Australia: Further cuts to jobs and working conditions loom in NSW power industry
New Zealand: Anti-China propagandist Anne-Marie Brady speaks at Victoria University of Wellington
By Tom Peters, 2 November 2019
Brady is demanding a full-scale witch hunt against Chinese “interference” in order to align New Zealand even more closely with US war preparations.
Australian state Labor government spearheads anti-protest laws
1 November 2019
US House of Representatives votes to back impeachment inquiry
By Patrick Martin, 1 November 2019
Merger between PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler presages new assault on autoworkers
By Shannon Jones, 1 November 2019
More fires ignite as wildfire season deepens in California
By Kevin Martinez, 1 November 2019
Inquiry issues cover-up report on Grenfell Tower fire disaster
Trump blames mass uprising in Chile on “foreign efforts”
By Bill Van Auken, 1 November 2019
Peronism returns to power in Argentina amid simmering social anger
US: Murray Energy files for bankruptcy, miners’ pensions in peril
By Samuel Davidson, 1 November 2019
PG&E; "can tell you what to do and you have to pay them money"
Growing outrage over PG&E; role in California fire disaster
Hundreds of thousands evacuated, more than two million without power as fires continue in California
England-Bulgaria match highlights growing fascist activity around European soccer
By Paul Bond and Robert Stevens, 1 November 2019
Pentagon awards $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft
By Kevin Reed, 1 November 2019
New in Portuguese
Peronismo retorna ao poder na Argentina em meio a enorme revolta social
Andrea Lobo, 2 Novembro 2019 2019
Apesar de sua demagogia populista vazia, Fernández já deixou claro que imporá brutalmente as exigências do capital financeiro.
New in French
La fusion entre le Groupe PSA et Fiat Chrysler laisse présager une nouvelle attaque contre les travailleurs de l'automobile
Shannon Jones, 2 novembre 2019
La création du quatrième plus grand constructeur automobile du monde va intensifier la lutte pour les parts de marchés mondiaux et les profits sur fond de signes croissants de guerre commerciale et de récession.
L'interdiction de la publicité politique sur Twitter: Une nouvelle mesure pour censurer l'Internet
Andre Damon, 2 novembre 2019
La décision de Twitter est une capitulation face aux demandes des démocrates du Congrès et des médias qui demandent aux entreprises technologiques de censurer plus agressivement les déclarations politiques, sous prétexte de «vérification des faits».
New in German
Twitter stoppt politische Werbung: Ein neuer Schritt zur Zensur des Internets
Andre Damon, 2. November 2019
Der Schritt von Twitter ist eine Kapitulation vor den Forderungen der Demokratischen Partei und der Medien, dass Technologieunternehmen politische Aussagen unter dem Deckmantel des „Faktenchecks“ aggressiver zensieren müssen.
US-Repräsentantenhaus stellt sich hinter Untersuchung zur Amtsenthebung
Patrick Martin, 2. November 2019
Die Untersuchung dürfte innerhalb eines Monats in ein „Impeachment“ münden – die Anklage, die ein Amtsenthebungsverfahren nach sich zieht.
Stoppt den Rechtsruck an den Universitäten
Lebhafte Diskussionen auf IYSSE-Veranstaltungen in Berlin und Bochum
unseren Korrespondenten, 2. November 2019
Rund 70 Studierende und Arbeiter kamen am Dienstag und Mittwoch zu den Vorträgen an der Berliner Humboldt-Universität (HU) und der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB).
New in Spanish
Twitter prohíbe anuncios políticos: otro paso en la censura del internet
Andre Damon, 2 noviembre 2019
El paso de Twitter es una capitulación a las demandas de los legisladores demócratas y la prensa de que las empresas tecnológicas censuren más agresivamente las declaraciones políticas, detrás del disfraz de “verificar su veracidad”.
Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU. vota a favor de investigación de juicio político contra Trump
Patrick Martin, 2 noviembre 2019
La resolución prepara el escenario para la celebración del público de audiencias televisadas y la probable redacción de artículos formales de juicio político en el transcurso del próximo mes.
¡Opónganse a la traición de la huelga de maestros en Chicago!
Líderes sindicales de la CTU se preparan a poner fin a la huelga sin dar a los maestros el derecho de votar sobre el contrato entreguista
el Boletín de los Maestros del WSWS, 2 noviembre 2019
La Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) anunció el jueves que pondrá fin a la huelga de 11 días, la más larga en treinta años, y ordenará a los maestros a trabajar hoy antes de darles el derecho a votar sobre un nuevo contrato.
Trump culpa "influencias extranjeras" por levantamiento masivo en Chile
Bill Van Auken, 2 noviembre 2019
El presidente de Estados Unidos expresó su apoyo al intento del gobierno chileno de "restablecer el orden" después de que se vio obligado a suspender la cumbre de APEC programada en Santiago.
Política de derecha en una envoltura de “izquierda”: el plan de educación de Elizabeth Warren
Nancy Hanover, 2 noviembre 2019
Rondando el tope de las encuestas, la candidata presidencial demócrata Elizabeth Warren sigue su contienda populista de “izquierda” con su nuevo plan de la educación.
New in Arabic
أبو بكر البغدادي وتاريخ العراق المنسي
٢٨ تشرين الأول أكتوبر ٢٠١٩
أعلن الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب مقتل أبو بكر البغدادي صباح يوم الأحد بدماء ووحشية لم يسمع بها من قبل رئيس أمريكي.
New in Norwegian
Den globale ungdomsradikaliseringen og kampen for sosialisme
Eric London, 31. oktober 2019
Den politiske oppvåkningen av historiens mest utdannede, urbaniserte og teknologisk sammenkoblede generasjon er av kritisk strategisk betydning for hele arbeiderklassen.
Storbritannia holder generalvalg den 12. desember
Robert Stevens, 31. oktober 2019
Parlamentsrepresentantene stemte for å avholde det som trolig vil bli det mest uforutsigbare valget i britisk etterkrigshistorie.
Tyskland: Studentparlamentet ved Humboldt Universitet støtter rettssak mot ytrehøyre-professoren Baberowski
Christoph Vandreier, 31. oktober 2019
Den juridiske klagen er et viktig skritt for forsvaret av studentenes ytringsfrihet i møtet med en offensiv fra radikale høyreorienterte krefter innen det akademiske miljø.
Stopp studentrådets sensur av sosialistiske synspunkter ved Universitetet i Leipzig
IYSSE Leipzig, 31. oktober 2019
Studentrådet nektet IYSSE offisiell klubbstatus og påla effektivt sett sensur for venstreorienterte og sosialistiske synspunkter på universitetsområdet.
Ukrainas statsminister opptrer på nynazistisk rock-konsert
Jason Melanovski og Clara Weiss, 31. oktober 2019
Den offentlige fremvisningen av statsministerens bånd til nynazister er en kalkulert trussel mot arbeiderklassen, samtidig med forberedelsene til privatiseringer og de pågående internkampene innen styringselitene over utenrikspolitikken.
New in Turkish
GM grevi ve küresel sınıf mücadelesi
Marcus Day, 23 Ekim 2019
WSWS Otomotiv İşçileri Bülteni, GM işçilerini, anlaşmaya “hayır” oyu vermeye, tabandan fabrika komiteleri kurmaya ve grevin kontrolünü sendikanın elinden kendi ellerine almaya çağırıyor.
Katalan milliyetçilerine hapis cezası: İspanyol hükümeti bir polis devleti inşa ediyor
Alex Lantier, 23 Ekim 2019
Katalan milliyetçisi partiler seçimlerde, 135 sandalyeli Katalan meclisinde, kıl payı bir çoğunlukla, 70 sandalye kazandılar.
ABD askerleri Suriye’den Irak’a çekildi
Patrick Martin, 23 Ekim 2019
Pazartesi günü yüzlerce ABD askeri, Suriye sınırından Irak’a geçti. Bu, Başkan Donald Trump’ın Washington’da bir siyasi fırtına koparan çekilme emrinin ilk büyük ölçekli yerine getirilmesiydi.
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Hamburg senate deploys police against student anti-Nazi protest
By Christoph Vandreier and Johannes Stern, 2 November 2019
Hundreds of Hamburg students have protested against the return of Bernd Lucke, founder of the far-right Alternative for Germany, to their university in the past two weeks.
Stop the censorship of socialist views by the University of Leipzig student council
By the IYSSE Leipzig, 30 October 2019
Germany: Humboldt University student parliament supports lawsuit against far-right Professor Baberowski
By Christoph Vandreier, 25 October 2019
Free Assange and Manning
Roger Waters on RT: “The US and UK are trying to kill Julian Assange”
By Kevin Reed, 2 November 2019
Roger Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and creative force behind the rock band Pink Floyd, is playing a prominent and welcome role in the fight to free the WikiLeaks publisher.
UK art exhibition for Julian Assange: “If courage was not contagious, I wouldn’t be here today”
By Paul Bond, 1 November 2019
Australian parliamentarians form cross-party group in defence of Julian Assange
By Oscar Grenfell, 30 October 2019
Public meetings in Australia and New Zealand
Stop the US extradition of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange! Free Assange and Manning!
28 October 2019
Julian Assange’s court hearing in London: Britain stages a lawless show-trial
By Oscar Grenfell, 24 October 2019
Hundreds protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court to demand freedom for Julian Assange
By Richard Tyler, 23 October 2019
UK judge rejects delay in Assange extradition case
More on the campaign to Free Assange and Manning »
Arts Review
100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus art school and movement: “A New Era”
By Sybille Fuchs, 2 November 2019
The question arises: what was so special about this school, which existed for just 14 years (1919-1933) and was forced to change its location three times in Germany due to the hostile reaction of conservative and nationalist forces?
Netflix’ Living with Yourself with Paul Rudd: The divided self … from A to B
By David Walsh, 30 October 2019
The Current War: Director’s Cut—About Thomas Edison, electricity and the 1880s
By Joanne Laurier, 28 October 2019
George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in triumphant return to New York’s Metropolitan Opera
By Fred Mazelis, 26 October 2019
History
Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
By Tom Mackaman, 1 November 2019
This is the text of the lecture delivered by Tom Mackaman at the University of Michigan on October 22, 2019 as part of a series on the New York Times' "Project 1619."
An interview with the author of The Free State of Jones
Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
By Eric London, 30 October 2019
Bynum is an expert on the attitude of Southern white yeomen farmers and the poor toward slavery.
Alexander Reznik’s Trotsky and Comrades: A false account of the emergence and politics of the Left Opposition
By Clara Weiss, 29 October 2019
Commentary
Twitter’s ban on political advertisement: A new move to censor the internet
By Andre Damon, 1 November 2019
The Boeing crashes and the criminalization of American capitalism
By Bryan Dyne, 31 October 2019
One year since the first Boeing 737 Max 8 crash
Trump’s booing at the World Series makes Democrats and the media nervous
By David Walsh, 31 October 2019
Independent pathologist says evidence shows Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a homicide
By Kevin Reed, 31 October 2019
Fed guarantees more money for Wall Street as attacks on workers intensify
By Nick Beams, 31 October 2019
The global youth radicalization and the fight for socialism
By Eric London, 30 October 2019
Seventy percent of US Millennials say they are likely to vote socialist
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the forgotten history of Iraq
By Andre Damon, 29 October 2019
Democrats to hold House vote to authorize impeachment inquiry
By Barry Grey, 30 October 2019
Right-wing politics in a “left” wrapper: Elizabeth Warren’s plan for education
By Nancy Hanover, 29 October 2019
No to American fascism! Build a mass movement to force Trump out!
By the Political Committee of the Socialist Equality Party, 14 October 2019
Socialist Equality Party
Video: 70 years after the Chinese Revolution—How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
31 October 2019
Australian and New Zealand students speak after lecture on 70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution
By our reporters, 31 October 2019
Sri Lanka: SEP presidential candidate addresses meetings in war-ravaged north
By our reporters, 30 October 2019
Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE hold successful meeting on India’s Kashmir lockdown
Vote for SEP candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena in the Sri Lankan presidential election
Build a socialist movement against imperialist war, austerity and dictatorship
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 25 October 2019
Socialist Equality Party holds series of public meetings on “The Socialist Answer to Brexit: For the United Socialist States of Europe”
By the Socialist Equality Party (UK), 25 October 2019
SEP and IYSSE meeting series in the United States
Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America
11 October 2019
Eightieth birthday tribute to Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremasinghe
By David North, 26 October 2019
Nanda Wickremasinghe, who turned 80 on October 15, is a founding member of the Sri Lankan section of the ICFI.
Mehring Books
Mehring Yayıncılık publishes new ICFI books for İstanbul Book Fair
By Ulas Atesci, 29 October 2019
Obituary
Detroit Democrat John Conyers, long-standing fixture in Congress, dies at 90
By Patrick Martin, 30 October 2019
Workers Struggles
Thousands of doctors strike in Tamil Nadu, India
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2 November 2019
While 16,000 Tamil Nadu doctors walked-out to demand salary increases and promotions, thousands of the state’s railway workers struck against privatisation measures.
New wildcat strike paralyzes French rail network
By Alex Lantier, 31 October 2019
GM execs gloat over new UAW contract in call with Wall Street investors
By Jerry White, 30 October 2019
GM fires Flint workers over social media posts during strike
Lessons of the GM autoworkers strike
By Marcus Day, 28 October 2019
GM refuses to rehire victimized Mexican workers who supported US strike
“Temporary workers are human too”
Arlington GM temp worker with cancer speaks out on his firing four days before strike
Vote no! Reject UAW misinformation! Elect rank-and-file committees to expand the strike!
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 20 October 2019
The GM strike and the global class struggle
New York City transit workers and the fight for social equality
By Allen Whyte and Daniel de Vries, 30 October 2019
Striking Chicago teachers and staff determined to defend public education
By a WSWS reporting team, 29 October 2019
Washington DC: Private metro contract workers launch first transit strike in over 40 years
By Nick Barrickman, 28 October 2019
Book Review
Edward Snowden: The man who exposed the electronic surveillance of everyone by US intelligence
By Kevin Reed, 12 October 2019
History
Introduction to the 1955 SWP resolution “The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath”
By Peter Symonds, 9 October 2019
From the archives
SWP resolution: The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath
Introduction to the 1951 report to the Fourth International by Chinese Trotskyist Peng Shuzhi
By Peter Symonds, 3 October 2019
From the archives
The Causes of the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party over Chiang Kai-Shek, and the CCP’s Perspectives
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Drawing the lessons of the ICFI split—International Strategy and National Tactics: The change in the ICFI’s approach to national liberation movements
By Deepal Jayasekera, 30 September 2019
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 25, 2019 by Deepal Jayasekera, Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka
Introduction to the Turkish language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky’s four fateful years in Prinkipo: 1929-1933
By David North, 23 September 2019
The ICFI and the Crisis of Stalinism
The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
The International Committee’s response to the “End of History”: The March 1992 Plenum of the ICFI
The Dissolution of the USSR and the Unipolar Moment of US Imperialism
China: Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International
Mehring Books
Preface to the Turkish edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
By David North, 2 September 2019
Preview the new publication from Mehring Books
Author’s introduction to Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
By Vadim Z. Rogovin, 30 August 2019
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Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition by Vadim Z. Rogovin
The 2020 US Elections
Joe Biden: A familiar face, a deeply reactionary record
By Patrick Martin, 23 September 2019
Amy Klobuchar: The favorite Democrat of Senate Republicans
By George Gallanis, 19 August 2019
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: #MeToo, McCarthyism and machine politics
- Beto O’Rourke: The incredible shrinking empty suit
- Kamala Harris: Law-and-order with a dose of identity politics
- Pete Buttigieg: The made-to-order political “outsider”
- Elizabeth Warren espouses economic nationalist policies aligned with Donald Trump
International Online May Day Rally 2019
Opening report to Online International May Day Rally
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism
By David North, 6 May 2019
The future lies in socialism
By Joseph Kishore, 13 May 2019
- The class struggle in the United States and the fight against war
- The ICFI’s program intersects with a new wave of working-class struggle
- Imperialist war, the working-class upsurge in the Mideast and North Africa, and the strategy of Permanent Revolution
- The defense of Venezuela and the struggle for socialism in Latin America
- France’s “yellow vest” protests and the global resurgence of the class struggle
- The defence of Assange and Manning is the spearhead of the struggle against imperialism
- The Christchurch terror attack and the promotion of fascism by the ruling elite
- The persecution of Assange and Manning is an attack on the working class
- Greetings to Chinese workers and youth on the centenary of the May 4 movement
- May Day 2019: The resurgence of the class struggle and the fight for socialism
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On May 4, the International Committee of the Fourth International held its annual International May Day Online Rally, with speakers and participants from throughout the world. Readers can listen to the entire rally here.
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