12 November 2019
Bolivia’s Evo Morales forced out by coup
By Andrea Lobo, 12 November 2019
After three weeks of protests following the October 20 presidential elections, the imperialist powers and their Bolivian client elite have overthrown the three-time elected government of Morales.
Mass protests spread to Bolivia after a disruption in electoral broadcasts
Ford Kentucky Truck workers speak out against contract: “The people on the floor don’t trust the UAW”
By Marcus Day and Tim Rivers, 12 November 2019
The UAW has scheduled the contract vote at the biggest Ford local at the very end, fearful that a large “no” vote would catalyze opposition.
Chicago Ford workers reject UAW agreement
Amidst growing opposition
UAW-Ford contract gives green light for video monitoring of workers
The expanding UAW corruption scandal and the case for rank-and-file committees
UAW officials try to bully workers for opposing Ford deal at Michigan meeting
Lessons of the GM autoworkers strike
More on autoworkers struggles »
Far-right Vox declares itself main opposition party as Spanish government talks begin
By Alejandro López, 12 November 2019
Sunday’s elections resulted once again in a hung parliament, the fourth in as many elections in Spain since 2015.
Fascistic Vox party surges in Spanish election as hung parliament emerges
Spanish election candidates denounce socialism, back repression in TV debate
Spain’s November 10 elections and the fight against authoritarian rule
Amazon-led corporate purge of Seattle City Council fails
By Kayla Costa and Julio Patron, 12 November 2019
Five of six city council members targeted for supporting higher taxes on Amazon won reelection, including Kshama Sawant, a member of the pseudo-left Socialist Alternative group.
Another leading House Republican decides to retire
By Philip Guelpa, 12 November 2019
Representative Peter King’s decision not to run for re-election exemplifies the growing crisis of the Republican Party.
Corbyn refuses to fight ramped-up bogus “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt
By Robert Stevens, 12 November 2019
The frenzied media campaign branding Corbyn, the Labour Party and its left-wing members above all as anti-Semitic is the “push back” demanded by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention
“Give me a call”: NDP MP offers to join Canada’s pro-austerity, pro-war Liberal government
By Roger Jordan, 12 November 2019
The Alberta MP’s offer to join Trudeau’s cabinet was in keeping with the entire NDP election campaign, which was directed towards forming a governmental alliance with the big-business Liberals.
Tens of thousands in Russia face medicine shortages as a result of Western sanctions
By David Levine, 12 November 2019
Between April and August 2019, two women from Moscow and one from Yekaterinburg were temporarily arrested and charged for illegally obtaining unregistered medicine.
Australian bushfire emergency worsens but government denounces climate change warnings
By Mike Head, 12 November 2019
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack caused outrage by attacking “raving inner city lunatics” for linking global warming to the bushfires.
11 November 2019
Over 5,000 arrests, police violence against transport strikers in India’s Telangana state
By Kranti Kumara, 11 November 2019
With ruling on razed mosque
India’s Supreme Court validates Hindu supremacist violence
By Keith Jones, 11 November 2019
Facebook and YouTube remove posts naming CIA impeachment whistleblower
By Kevin Reed, 11 November 2019
Impeachment crisis: Democrats, Trump maneuver ahead of televised hearings
By Patrick Martin, 11 November 2019
Trump rules out rollback of China tariffs
By Nick Beams, 11 November 2019
China-led trade bloc inches forward at Asian summit
By Mike Head, 11 November 2019
Ultra-right Lieberman holds balance of power in Israeli coalition talks
By Jean Shaoul, 11 November 2019
German defence minister calls for expansion of foreign military interventions
By Peter Schwarz, 11 November 2019
In a keynote address, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer declared, “there is broad agreement that, given the strategic challenges, Germany must ... “do more to defend our values and interests.”
Chicago Ford workers denounce UAW contract: “They want to monitor you every minute, every second”
By Marcus Day, 11 November 2019
UK workers see 2 pence an hour average wage increase, while pay of richest skyrockets
By Margot Miller, 11 November 2019
Eleven thousand scientists warn of climate emergency
By Daniel de Vries, 11 November 2019
Northern Virginia transit workers vote to strike as walkout by Metrobus contract workers enters third week
By Nick Barrickman, 11 November 2019
Steel layoffs in US mount due to falling production and trade war
By Samuel Davidson, 11 November 2019
California police arrest woman for delivering stillborn baby with drugs in its system
By Dan Conway, 11 November 2019
US-backed Colombian military kills eight children in bombing, attempts cover-up
By Andrea Lobo, 11 November 2019
Australian Labor Party review covers up causes of federal election debacle
By Oscar Grenfell, 11 November 2019
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David North, Lev Troçki’yi Savunurken’in Türkçe basımını İstanbul Kitap Fuarı’nda sundu
Muhabirlerimizden, 12 Kasım 2019
Dünya Sosyalist Web Sitesi’nin Uluslararası Yayın Kurulu Başkanı ve ABD’deki Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’nin Ulusal Başkanı David North, Pazar günü, Tüyap Uluslararası İstanbul Kitap Fuarı’ndaki dinleyicilerine video konferans yoluyla seslendi.
Berlin Duvarı’nın yıkılmasının otuzuncu yıldönümü
Peter Schwarz, 12 Kasım 2019
1989’da yaşananlara ilişkin bir kavrayış, DAC’nin karakteri ve Stalinizmin rolü, günümüzdeki kapitalist gericiliğe karşı mücadele yürütmek için önemli önkoşullardır.
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Pompeo til orde for korstog mot Russland og Kina i Berlinmur-tale
Bill Van Auken, 12. november 2019
Pompeo eskalerte amerikanske trusler om global krig, i en hyklersk tale som påkalte et verdensomspennende korstog for «frihet».
Over 5 000 arrestert, og politivold mot streikende transportarbeidere i delstaten Telangana i India
Kranti Kumara, 12. november 2019
Streiken er i stor fare, til tross for transportarbeidernes mot og utholdenhet, på grunn av det forræderske fagforeningslederskapets appell til den høyreekstreme, hindu-sjåvinistiske BJP-nasjonalregjeringen om å gripe inn.
Nytt spansk valg uten avklaring, der det fascistiske partiet Vox vokser
Alex Lantier, 12. november 2019
Fremveksten av det fascistiske høyre kommer etter en reaksjonær valgkamp som var orientert rundt alle de vesentlige partienes støtte til polititilslaget mot masseprotestene i Catalonia.
Ultra-høyre Lieberman balanserer makten i Israels koalisjonsforhandlinger
Jean Shaoul, 12. november 2019
Lederen for partiet Yisrael Beiteinu krever en ny regjering som ekskluderer de konservative religiøse partiene.
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يتنافس خمسة مرشحين على الانتخابات الجزائرية في 12 كانون الأول / ديسمبر وسط معارضة جماهيرية
قمران آيرة, ٦ تشرين الثاني نوفمبر ٢٠١٩
وسط احتجاجات جماهيرية مستمرة ضد المؤسسة الحاكمة الجزائرية والانتخابات الرئاسية في 12 كانون الأول / ديسمبر ، أعلنت الهيئة الانتخابية الجزائرية أن خمسة مرشحين يخوضون الانتخابات.
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ভারতে মাদারসন মোটরগাড়ি শ্রমিকদের ধর্মঘটকে মাওবাদী ইউনিয়ন নেতৃত্ব ক্রমাগত বিচ্ছিন্ন করে রাখছে
মোসেস রাজকুমার ও শশী কুমার, ২৫ অক্টোবর ২০১৯
মাসারসন অটোমোটিভ টেকনোলজিস অ্যান্ড ইঞ্জিনিয়ারিং (এম-এ-টি-ই বা মেট)-এর শ্রমিকদের দ্বারা সংগঠিত অনির্দিষ্টকালের ধর্মঘট এখন তৃতীয় মাসে পড়ল।
মার্কিন ফ্যাসিবাদকে এক বলিষ্ট না! ট্রাম্পকে গদিচ্যূত করতে গণআন্দোলন গড়ে তুলুন!
সোশ্যালিস্ট ইকুয়ালিটি পার্টি-র রাজনৈতিক কমিটি, ১৪ অক্টোবর ২০১৯
সন্দেহের ওপর ভিত্তি করে যে তদন্ত কংগ্রেস শুরু করেছিল তার পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে রাষ্ট্রপতি ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্পের প্রতিক্রিয়া প্রকাশ্যেই সম্পূর্ণ ফ্যাসিবাদী চরিত্রের। গত সপ্তাহে মিনিয়াপোলিস, মিনেসোটা ও লেক চার্লসে ট্রাম্প প্রকাশ্যে বিদেশীদের প্রতি আতঙ্ক, জাতিগত বিদ্বেষ এবং ইহুদি-বিদ্বষের স্বপক্ষে কথা বলেছে।
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En discurso sobre Muro de Berlín, Pompeo avanza cruzada contra Rusia y China
Bill Van Auken, 12 noviembre 2019
En una declaración hipócrita invocando una cruzada mundial por la “libertad”, escaló las amenazas estadounidenses de una guerra global.
El "conflicto irrefrenable": la esclavitud, la guerra civil y la segunda revolución de Estados Unidos
Eric London, 12 noviembre 2019
La siguiente es la segunda de una serie de tres conferencias impartidas en respuesta al "Proyecto 1619" del New York Times, que presenta una interpretación racializada y falsa de la historia estadounidense.
La esclavitud y la revolución Norteamericana: una respuesta al proyecto 1619 del New York Times
Tom Mackaman, 12 noviembre 2019
Este es el texto de la conferencia pronunciada por Tom Mackaman en la Universidad de Michigan el 22 de octubre de 2019 como parte de una serie sobre el “Proyecto 1619” del New York Times .
El partido fascista Vox se dispara en las elecciones españolas mientras surge un parlamento sin mayoría absoluta
Alex Lantier, 12 noviembre 2019
El ascenso de la extrema derecha viene tras una campaña electoral reaccionaria orientada alrededor del apoyo de todos los partidos principales a la represión policial a las protestas de masas en Cataluña.
Ministra de defensa alemana pide expansión de intervenciones militares extranjeras
Peter Schwarz, 12 noviembre 2019
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer declaró, "existe un amplio acuerdo de que, dados los desafíos estratégicos, Alemania debe hacer más para defender nuestros valores e intereses".
El mayor conglomerado de medios brasileño implica a Bolsonaro en el asesinato de Marielle Franco
Miguel Andrade, 12 noviembre 2019
Cada facción del sistema político brasileño —del ejército a la pseudoizquierda— teme que las medidas de austeridad de Bolsonaro y su retórica fascista desaten una explosión social.
Ejército colombiano respaldado por EE. UU. asesina a ocho niños en bombardeo e intenta encubrirlo
Andrea Lobo, 12 noviembre 2019
El descaro de la represión militar para defender los altos niveles de desigualdad en el mundo es el resultado de más de un siglo de opresión imperialista.
Once mil científicos advierten de emergencia climática
Daniel de Vries, 12 noviembre 2019
Cada facción del sistema político brasileño —del ejército a la pseudoizquierda— teme que las medidas de austeridad de Bolsonaro y su retórica fascista desaten una explosión social.
Bloque comercial liderado por China avanza de a poco en cumbre asiática
Mike Head, 12 noviembre 2019
La formación de la RCEP sería un duro golpe para Washington y su impulso para aislar, rodear militarmente y subyugar a China.
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US-Demokraten fordern Internetzensur
Wer soll entscheiden, was im Netz „Lüge“ ist?
Andre Damon, 11. November 2019
Die Kampagne der US-Demokraten für Internetzensur zielt darauf ab, politische Opposition und Dissens zum Schweigen zu bringen. Das Ganze wird in demagogische Vorwürfe gegen Facebook verpackt, mit „Desinformation“ Profit zu machen.
Macron warnt im Economist vor Weltkrieg und dem Zusammenbruch der Nato
Alex Lantier, 11. November 2019
Macron schilderte die Konflikte innerhalb der Nato und gab zu, dass sie für ihre Angriffe während der letzten Jahrzehnte keinen Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung hatte.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
Erfolgreiche Veranstaltung zum Jahrestag des Mauerfalls
unseren Korrespondenten, 11. November 2019
Zum Jahrestag des Mauerfalls führte die Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) in Berlin eine Versammlung durch. Die Sprecher gingen auf den Zusammenbruch des stalinistischen Regimes vor 30 Jahren und auf die tiefe Krise des Kapitalismus ein, die sich seither entwickelt hat.
„Die Ungewollten“ – 80 Jahre seit der Irrfahrt der St Louis
Verena Nees, 11. November 2019
80 Jahre nach der Irrfahrt der St Louis mit über neunhundert jüdischen Flüchtlingen, die von Kuba, den USA und Kanada abgewiesen wurden, hat die ARD einen neuen Fernsehfilm von Ben von Grafenstein ausgestrahlt.
Niederländische Lehrer treten gegen den Widerstand der Gewerkschaften in eintägigen Streik
Harm Zonderland und Parwini Zora, 11. November 2019
Der Streik der Lehrer war die jüngste Aktion im „Herbst der Unzufriedenheit“.
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Партия Социалистического Равенства примет участие во всеобщих выборах в Великобритании: Нет мерам жесткой экономии, милитаризму и войне! Свободу Джулиану Ассанжу! За классовую борьбу и социалистический интернационализм!
Партия Социалистического Равенства (Великобритания), 9 ноября 2019 г.
Партия Социалистического Равенства выставит кандидатов на всеобщих выборах в Великобритании 12 декабря, чтобы вести политическую борьбу против политики жесткой экономии, авторитарного правления, милитаризма и войны.
Эта неделя в истории
75 лет назад: Отчет о
конференции троцкистов в оккупированной нацистами Европе
9 ноября 2019 г.
4 ноября 1944 года газета Militant, орган американской Социалистической рабочей партии, в то время троцкистской партии США, опубликовала сообщение о конференции, которая была проведена пятью европейскими троцкистскими партиями в феврале того года во Франции. На первой странице был опубликован отчет о конференции под заголовком «Только что получены воодушевляющие новости о февральской встрече во Франции, находящейся в условиях нацистского террора».
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Les candidats aux élections espagnoles dénoncent le socialisme et soutiennent la répression dans un débat télévisé
Alex Lantier, 9 novembre 2019
Alors que Podemos et les sociaux-démocrates soutiennent l'austérité, le nationalisme et le militarisme, la classe dirigeante crée les conditions pour que le parti fascisant Vox se développe rapidement.
Le scandale montant de la corruption du syndicat UAW et la nécessité de comités de la base
Tom Hall, 9 novembre 2019
Le syndicat UAW essaye actuellement de faire passer en force un accord de reculs sociaux chez Ford suite à la fin de la grève chez GM, alors même que son président est sur le point d’être inculpé de vol des cotisations des travailleurs.
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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.
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- US-Demokraten fordern Internetzensur
Wer soll entscheiden, was im Netz „Lüge“ ist? (11.11.2019) - Macron warnt im Economist vor Weltkrieg und dem Zusammenbruch der Nato (11.11.2019)
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
Erfolgreiche Veranstaltung zum Jahrestag des Mauerfalls (11.11.2019) - „Die Ungewollten“ – 80 Jahre seit der Irrfahrt der St Louis (11.11.2019)
- Niederländische Lehrer treten gegen den Widerstand der Gewerkschaften in eintägigen Streik (11.11.2019)
- Die Korruption der US-Autogewerkschaft: ein guter Grund für Aktionskomitees (09.11.2019)
- Lufthansa: Ufo-Streik der Flugbegleiter (09.11.2019)
- TV-Debatte vor spanischer Wahl: Kandidaten verurteilen Sozialismus und befürworten Unterdrückung (09.11.2019)
- 30 Jahre seit dem Fall der Mauer (09.11.2019)
- Dow Jones bricht neue Rekorde – trotz globalem Abschwung (08.11.2019)
- US-Demokraten fordern Internetzensur
- Français
- Macron avertit le magazine Economist du danger de guerre mondiale et l'effondrement de l'alliance de l'OTAN (11.11.2019)
- Les quinze ans du World Socialist Web Site : 1998-2013 (..NaN)
- Trente ans depuis la chute du mur de Berlin (11.11.2019)
- Les candidats aux élections espagnoles dénoncent le socialisme et soutiennent la répression dans un débat télévisé (09.11.2019)
- L'incertitude plane sur l'accord commercial entre les États-Unis et la Chine (08.11.2019)
- Cinq candidats se disputent les élections algériennes du 12 décembre dans un contexte d’opposition de masse (08.11.2019)
- Trump appelle les troupes américaines à faire la «guerre» aux cartels de la drogue au Mexique (07.11.2019)
- Le gouvernement de l’État de Telangana en Inde lance un ultimatum à 48.000 grévistes licenciés (06.11.2019)
- Irak : le bilan des morts s'alourdit alors que les manifestants défient la répression (06.11.2019)
- Alors que les protestations contre la guerre menée par les Français s'intensifient
Quarante-neuf soldats maliens tués lors d'une attaque de l'État islamique (06.11.2019)
- Español
- La campaña demócrata de censurar el internet: ¿quién determina qué son “mentiras”? (11.11.2019)
- Las elecciones del 10 de noviembre en España y la lucha contra el autoritarismo (11.11.2019)
- Macron advierte a la revista Economist sobre la guerra mundial, el colapso de la alianza de la OTAN (11.11.2019)
- Ante mayor oposición
Contrato del UAW y Ford da luz verde a control de trabajadores por video (11.11.2019) - El “Comité Internacional” de los Socialistas Democráticos de América denuncia la retirada “imprudente” de las tropas estadounidenses en Siria (11.11.2019)
- Treinta años desde la caída del muro de Berlín (11.11.2019)
- La expansión del escándalo de corrupción del UAW y el caso a favor de comités de base (09.11.2019)
- Los candidatos a las elecciones en España denuncian el socialismo y respaldan la represión en el debate televisado (09.11.2019)
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Bernie Sanders revela su plan de inmigración (09.11.2019) - Los pablistas preparan una nueva traición contra la clase obrera chilena (09.11.2019)
- Русский
- Партия Социалистического Равенства примет участие во всеобщих выборах в Великобритании: Нет мерам жесткой экономии, милитаризму и войне! Свободу Джулиану Ассанжу! За классовую борьбу и социалистический интернационализм! (09.11.2019)
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- Президент Украины Зеленский принимает «формулу Штайнмайера» на фоне массовых протестов крайне правых (18.10.2019)
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- Peronismo retorna ao poder na Argentina em meio a enorme revolta social (02.11.2019)
- As lições da greve dos trabalhadores da GM (29.10.2019)
- Elites brasileiras recriminam fracasso na indicação à OCDE (28.10.2019)
- Depois das eleições turcas: Como a pseudo-esquerda se alinhou ao CHP
Parte III: O papel do Partido Revolucionário dos Trabalhadores (DİP) (28.10.2019) - O futuro está no socialismo (28.10.2019)
- A prisão dos nacionalistas catalães: Governo espanhol constrói estado policial (25.10.2019)
- Depois das eleições turcas: Como a pseudo-esquerda se alinhou ao CHP
Parte II: O beco sem saída da orientação da pequena-burguesia ao CHP (25.10.2019) - A defesa da Venezuela e a luta pelo socialismo na América Latina (25.10.2019)
- Não ao fascismo nos EUA! Construir um movimento de massas para tirar Trump do poder! (21.10.2019)
- Depois das eleições turcas: Como a pseudo-esquerda se alinhou ao CHP
Parte I: Uma liquidação política dentro do establishment capitalista (21.10.2019)
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Perspective
The Spanish elections and the rise of the fascistic Vox party
12 November 2019
Vox is part of a broad trend in European capitalist politics toward the promotion of neo-fascist parties, nationalism and the furious public legitimization of fascist dictators.
The Socialist Equality Pary Election Campaign in Sri Lanka
Vote for Pani Wijesiriwardena in the Sri Lankan presidential election! Rally to fight for international socialism!
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 12 November 2019
Pani Wijesiriwardena is standing on behalf of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka on a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program, against imperialist war, social inequality and authoritarian rule.
Sri Lankan daily interviews SEP presidential candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena
12 November 2019
Below is the text of Pani Wijesiriwardena's interview by Sri Lanka's leading newspaper, the Daily Mirror, which published it last week under the title “Capitalism offers no solutions to the dangers facing workers: Pani Wijesiriwardena”
Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left NSSP promotes UNP presidential candidate
By Vilani Peiris and K. Ratnayake, 11 November 2019
The NSSP and its presidential candidate are trying to tie the working class to the United National Party and capitalist rule.
More on the 2019 Sri Lankan SEP election campaign »
History
David North introduces Turkish-language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky at Istanbul Book Fair
By our reporter, 11 November 2019
Socialist Equality Party (Germany) holds meeting on anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
By our correspondents, 12 November 2019
On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei held a meeting in Berlin-Schöneberg City Hall attended by dozens of workers and young people.
Thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
The New York Times' 1619 Project
SEP and IYSSE meeting series in the United States
Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America
This meeting series will refute the historical falsifications advanced in the New York Times “1619 Project,” explain their underlying political motivations and present the strategy for socialist revolution in America today.
The “Irrepressible Conflict:” Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution
By Eric London, 9 November 2019
The following is the second in a series of three lectures delivered in response to the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which presents a falsified, racialist interpretation of American 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
“1619” and the myth of white unity under slavery
Book review: Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South by Keri Leigh Merritt
The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
Free Assange and Manning
Public meetings in Australia and New Zealand
Stop the US extradition of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange! Free Assange and Manning!
28 October 2019
Concert for Assange outside UK Home Office demands “No extradition!”
By Laura Tiernan, 6 November 2019
More on the campaign to Free Assange and Manning »
Commentary
As contract vote approaches, DSA defends sellout by Chicago Teachers Union
By Kristina Betinis and Jerry White, 12 November 2019
DSA is seeking to block political discussion and opposition to the Chicago Teachers Union contract that meets none of the teachers’ central demands.
The Democrats’ campaign for internet censorship: Who is to determine what are “lies”?
By Andre Damon, 9 November 2019
Comparing two impeachments
By Barry Grey and Andre Damon, 2 November 2019
In Berlin Wall speech, Pompeo advances crusade against Russia and China
By Bill Van Auken, 11 November 2019
One year since the Northern California Camp Fire
An accounting of a crime
By Toby Reese, 11 November 2019
The New York Times’ obsession with race expands to its food commentary
By Trévon Austin, 9 November 2019
Democratic Socialists of America “International Committee” denounces “reckless” withdrawal of US troops from Syria
By Genevieve Leigh, 9 November 2019
Washington Post and New York Times incite racist campaign against Chinese-Americans
By Andre Damon, 5 November 2019
Autoworkers Struggles
From the archive of the WSWS
What is the UAW?
By Shannon Jones, 12 November 2019
The article, first published in 2015, details the corporatist degeneration of the UAW and its transformation into a bribed tool of management.
Former UAW-GM VP Joe Ashton charged in corruption scheme
How Ford and the UAW plan to cut autoworkers’ health care
Science
Social inequality in Early Bronze Age Europe
By Philip Guelpa, 12 November 2019
Genetic and archaeological data indicate that social stratification in Europe during the third and second millennium BC was more complex than previously thought, and may indicate the origins of later, slave-based ancient societies.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)
Socialist Equality Party to stand in UK general election: No to austerity, militarism and war! Free Julian Assange! For class struggle and socialist internationalism!
Socialist Equality Party (UK), 6 November 2019
The Socialist Equality Party will stand candidates in the December 12 UK general election to wage a political struggle against austerity, authoritarian rule, militarism and war.
Workers Struggles
Dominican health workers strike, Chilean copper miners protest subcontracting
Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 November 2019
Healthcare workers in the Domincan Republic held a one day strike November 7 to press wage demands while Chilean copper miners are set to strike against the abuse of subcontract workers.
Flight attendants to take further strike action at Lufthansa
Vote “no” on the tentative teachers' contract! Form rank-and-file committees to defend public education in Chicago!
By Alexander Fangmann, 7 November 2019
With voting set to begin on the tentative agreement, teachers and other educators in Chicago are approaching a critical juncture in the fight to defend public education.
Chicago teachers denounce union’s sellout agreement as Bernie Sanders, Democrats claim “victory”
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s budget: Increased policing and austerity on behalf of the financial aristocracy
The way forward in the Chicago teachers strike
The defense of public education and the fight for socialism
India: 48,000 striking Telangana transport workers defy back to work order
By Kranti Kumara, 7 November 2019
“Teachers, autoworkers, everybody in this country, should go on strike”
New York City bus and subway workers speak out against concession demands
By a WSWS reporting team, 6 November 2019
Feds may have secretly recorded UAW President Gary Jones ordering cover-up of embezzlement of union funds
Australia: Mobilise students, staff and academics against the closure of Macquarie University’s human sciences faculty
By the Committee for Public Education, 7 November 2019
UK: Tens of thousands of university and college staff vote to strike
Ballot follows strike votes by postal workers, railway conductors, airline pilots, NHS staff
Little Rock teachers set to strike against privatization and segregation threats
Wildcat strike by sanitation workers against CHP administration in Maltepe, Turkey
Unifor’s attempt to impose concessions contracts on Saskatchewan workers meeting widespread opposition
This week in history: November 4-10
25 years ago: Memoirs of Soviet Left Oppositionist Nadezhda Joffe published in English
On November 15, 1994, the US Trotskyist publishing house Labor Publications released Back In Time: My Life, My Fate, My Epoch, the memoirs of Soviet Left Oppositionist Nadezhda Joffe. The daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, a leading figure in the October Revolution and close friend of Leon Trotsky, Nadezhda herself was a partisan of the Left Opposition and an active participant in the struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy.
50 years ago: Massive demonstrations against the Vietnam War
On November 15, 1969 over 500,000 people gathered in Washington DC to march against the Vietnam War. Demonstrations were held in other cities. Collectively the “Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam” protests constituted the largest political rallies in US history up to that point, with a total of about two million joining. They followed by one month a demonstration in Washington DC that drew 250,000.
75 years ago: German troops ousted from Greece
On November 11, 1944, the last German troops in Greece were evacuated, marking the end of the Nazi occupation of the country that had claimed roughly 400,000 lives and provoked mass resistance.
100 years ago: IWW member Wesley Everest lynched in Centralia, Washington
On November 11, 1919, Wesley Everest, a worker and a member of the revolutionary syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies), was lynched by members of the American Legion in Centralia, Washington.
Arts Review
Filmmaker Errol Morris provides the extreme-right’s Stephen Bannon a platform in American Dharma
By David Walsh, 11 November 2019
Jojo Rabbit: A misguided comedy about Nazis
Edward Norton’s neo-film noir, Motherless Brooklyn
By Joanne Laurier, 8 November 2019
Pain and Glory from Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar
Judy: Singer-actress Judy Garland’s sad fate brought to the screen
And Harriet: A film biography of abolitionist Harriet Tubman
Socialist Equality Party
Video: 70 years after the Chinese Revolution—How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
31 October 2019
Introduction to the 1955 SWP resolution “The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath”
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
From the archives
The Causes of the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party over Chiang Kai-Shek, and the CCP’s Perspectives
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
IYSSE meetings in Germany: Stop the shift to the right at the universities!
By our correspondents, 6 November 2019
Stop the censorship of socialist views by the University of Leipzig student council
Germany: Humboldt University student parliament supports lawsuit against far-right Professor Baberowski
Mehring Books
Mehring Yayıncılık publishes new ICFI books for İstanbul Book Fair
By Ulas Atesci, 29 October 2019
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
Now available from Mehring Books
Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition by Vadim Z. Rogovin
Obituary
Detroit Democrat John Conyers, long-standing fixture in Congress, dies at 90
By Patrick Martin, 30 October 2019
Featured Commentary
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
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
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