13 April 2020
As COVID-19 death toll mounts, US ruling class demands a more rapid return to work
By Bryan Dyne, 13 April 2020
After a week in which more than 10,000 Americans died from the coronavirus, the US media and political establishment has launched a concerted effort to get workers back to work.
Biden joins the “back-to-work” bandwagon
By Patrick Martin, 13 April 2020
Biden's main concern is “how we get our economy back on track,” in other words, how the American capitalist class can resume the process of extracting profit from the labor of workers.
The end of Sanders’ campaign deepens crisis in Democratic Socialists of America
As social struggles mount over coronavirus pandemic
Bernie Sanders ends campaign, calls on supporters to back Biden
COVID-19 deaths surpass 76,000 in Europe as Spanish government sends millions back to work
By Robert Stevens, 13 April 2020
More than 30 National Health Service workers are reported to have died as the UK’s death toll rises above 10,000.
Spanish unions support back-to-work order amid raging pandemic
By Alejandro López, 13 April 2020
The order threatens to lead to hundreds of thousands of more infections and tens of thousands of deaths, while big business reaps massive profits.
“If we stop working, nothing will move here anymore!”
German nurses, carers, transport and delivery workers raise their voices
By Ulrich Rippert, 13 April 2020
It is the workers, not the capitalists, who are essential to social life.
“I have lost faith in the system itself”
Fired researcher Mauro Ferrari denounces EU inaction on COVID-19
By Alex Lantier, 13 April 2020
Distinguished scientist Mauro Ferrari was forced to resign as European Research Council president after calling for a coordinated struggle against the pandemic.
European Union to spend half a trillion euros on imperialist interests in coronavirus bailout
By Peter Schwarz, 13 April 2020
After two days of bitter disputes, the EU finance ministers agreed on a coronavirus bailout worth €500 billion.
“This is what will bring the people into the streets … this didn’t have to happen”
Interview with a retired Detroit school bus driver about the impact of COVID-19
By Kevin Reed, 13 April 2020
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Mary Coleman, a retired Detroit school bus driver, who spoke about the unfolding crisis and the deaths of five of her former coworkers.
Workers walk out at Ontario care home due to unsafe conditions amid coronavirus outbreak
By Carl Bronski, 13 April 2020
Nearly the entire staff walked off over concerns about the lack of personal protective equipment.
Union seeks to block strike as Polish Amazon workers contract COVID-19
By Clara Weiss, 13 April 2020
The union seeks to prevent a strike under conditions where the coronavirus pandemic is starkly exposing the devastating consequences of the restoration of capitalism.
Last-minute deal on oil production cuts
By Nick Beams, 13 April 2020
The fear was that had an agreement not been reached the oil price would have crashed when trading opened today, after already dropping by 40 percent since the beginning of March.
Navajo Nation institutes lockdown as COVID-19 cases climb
By Evan Cohen, 13 April 2020
On Friday, the Navajo Nation instituted a three-day total lockdown as COVID-19 cases neared 600 and deaths climbed to 22.
Puerto Rico braces for COVID-19 peak with lowest per capita testing
By Julio Patron and Genevieve Leigh, 13 April 2020
It took 15 days for the territory to register 100 confirmed cases, but it only took three days to register 100 more, indicating that the virus has already begun to spread rapidly through the population.
Coronavirus hitting hard in Missouri cities
By Jacob Crosse, 13 April 2020
While the media has primarily focused on New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, the virus is now raging through the center of the country.
COVID-19 infecting nursing homes across New England
By Mike Ingram, 13 April 2020
As COVID-19 spreads through nursing homes across New England, inspections reveal that two out of three Massachusetts facilities broke rules for preventing outbreaks.
Wholesale move to online education across the US: A nightmare for students and educators
By Alexander Fangmann, 13 April 2020
The jolting transition to online education has revealed the inadequacy of preparation by schools at all levels, while the ruling class views a profit opportunity.
South Korea to hold general election
By Ben McGrath, 13 April 2020
This week’s election is seen as a barometer of the public’s feelings towards the government’s COVID-19 response and the declining economy.
11 April 2020
European governments plot return to work in midst of pandemic
By Thomas Scripps, 11 April 2020
Thousands line up at US food pantries as hunger surges due to coronavirus crisis
By Julian James and Kate Randall, 11 April 2020
New York City digging mass graves for coronavirus victims
By Josh Varlin, 11 April 2020
The COVID-19 crisis in New York City
Interview with Bronx emergency room nurse: “Some critical patients are not getting the medication and IV pumps they need"
By Clara Weiss, 11 April 2020
Detroit nurse fired by Sinai-Grace Hospital for demanding action to improve desperate conditions
By Stephen Fuller, 11 April 2020
Spanish government to force workers in non-essential industries back to work
By Alejandro López, 11 April 2020
German hospitals become COVID-19 hotspots for health care workers
By Markus Salzmann, 11 April 2020
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Turkish government steps up attacks on workers
By Ulas Atesci, 11 April 2020
Japanese PM imposes coronavirus state of emergency
By Peter Symonds, 11 April 2020
US blocks IMF loan for Iran’s fight against COVID-19
By Bill Van Auken, 11 April 2020
“This is forced labor”: Six GM workers stricken with COVID-19 at parts warehouse
By Sheila Brehm, 11 April 2020
“Show up and do your job,” Vice President Pence tells workers
Rapid spread of COVID-19 in US meat processing facilities
By Shannon Jones, 11 April 2020
Testimony from US and Canadian inmates exposes deadly conditions inside prisons
By Sam Dalton, 11 April 2020
Cruise ship workers expose deadly conditions, financial ruin in light of coronavirus pandemic
By Tom Casey, 11 April 2020
Trump administration using pandemic to deport 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers to Mexico
By Joe Williams, 11 April 2020
Thousands of Florida residents claim unemployment benefits as state governor says schools must reopen despite increasing COVID-19 infections
By Matthew MacEgan and Alex Johnson, 11 April 2020
UK: Heathrow Airport demands workers to take pay cut or face dismissal
By Alice Summers, 11 April 2020
New Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledges stepped-up “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt
By Thomas Scripps, 11 April 2020
Quebec government, big business push for return to work as COVID-19 deaths soar
By Keith Jones, 11 April 2020
African economies in free fall as coronavirus pandemic worsens
By Stephan McCoy, 11 April 2020
Australian hospitals lack ventilators and staff to deal with pandemic
By Clare Bruderlin, 11 April 2020
Against rising social opposition, Sri Lankan prime minister calls for “unity” against COVID-19
By K. Ratnayake, 11 April 2020
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Несмотря на распространение коронавируса, российских рабочих отправляют обратно на заводы
Андреа Питерс, 11 апреля 2020 г.
В России вновь открываются промышленные и производственные предприятия, хотя ежедневно поступают сообщения о тысячах новых случаев заражения.
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Savaşa, toplumsal yıkıma ve diktatörlüğe karşı
uluslararası bir sosyalist program uğruna mücadele edin
Sri
Lanka genel seçimlerinde Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’ne oy verin
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (Sri Lanka) Bildirgesi, 11 Nisan 2020
SEP’in kampanyası, Sinhala, Tamil ve Müslüman işçileri devrimci bir uluslararası sosyalist program temelinde birleştirme mücadelesini yoğunlaştıracak.
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Le nombre de cas de coronavirus dans le monde dépasse 1,6 million
Bryan Dyne, 11 avril 2020
Les Centres américains pour le contrôle et la prévention des maladies ont publié de nouvelles directives qui justifient le retour forcé au travail de dizaines de millions de travailleurs. En même temps le bilan mondial de COVID-19 s’approche des 100.000 décès.
La catastrophe sociale et économique s’intensifie alors que 6,6 millions d’Américains se retrouvent au chômage
Jerry White, 11 avril 2020
Des mesures d’urgence sont nécessaires, car la crise sanitaire provoquée par la pandémie de coronavirus se transforme en plus grande crise économique des États-Unis depuis les années 1930.
L'Organisation internationale du Travail avertit d‘une perte massive d'emplois due au COVID-19
Nick Beams, 11 avril 2020
Selon l’Organisation internationale du travail, la crise du COVID-19 devrait supprimer 6,7 pour cent du nombre total d’heures de travail dans le monde au second trimestre de cette année, l’équivalent de 195 millions d‘emplois à temps plein
Alors que le COVID-19 continue ses ravages, la Maison-Blanche exige un retour au travail
Patrick Martin et Andre Damon, 11 avril 2020
Alors même que le nombre de décès dus à la pandémie augmente, l’Administration Trump exige que les travailleurs, y compris ceux exposés au COVID-19, retournent au travail.
Le gouvernement du Québec et la grande entreprise argumentent pour un retour au travail au moment où le nombre de morts lié au coronavirus grimpe en flèche
Keith Jones, 11 avril 2020
Le gouvernement de droite de la Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), avec l'appui inconditionnel de la principale fédération patronale de la province, réclame la fin précipitée et prématurée de la fermeture des services essentiels et des entreprises, qui dure maintenant depuis deux semaines et demie.
New in German
Soziale und wirtschaftliche Katastrophe verschärft sich: 6,6 Millionen Amerikaner beantragen Arbeitslosengeld
Jerry White, 11. April 2020
Die Coronavirus-Pandemie überzieht die USA mit der größten wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Krise seit der Großen Depression der 1930er Jahre. Es müssen umgehend Sofortmaßnahmen eingeleitet werden.
Coronakrise: „Wenn
wir die Arbeit einstellen, geht hier gar nichts mehr!“
Krankenschwestern, Pfleger, Verkehrsarbeiter und
Lieferdienst-Arbeiter erheben ihre Stimme
Ulrich Rippert, 11. April 2020
Die Corona-Krise macht gegenwärtig sehr deutlich, wer für das gesellschaftliche Leben wirklich „systemrelevant“ ist: Nicht die Milliardäre und Superreichen, sondern die Arbeiterklasse.
Zahl der Corona-Fälle steigt weltweit auf über 1,6 Millionen
Bryan Dyne, 11. April 2020
Die amerikanische Seuchenschutzbehörde hat neue Richtlinien veröffentlicht, um die Wiedereröffnung von Betrieben zu rechtfertigen. Millionen könnten zur Wiederaufnahme ihrer Arbeit gezwungen werden, obwohl weltweit mehr als 100.000 Menschen an Covid-19 gestorben sind.
Trump attackiert Weltgesundheitsorganisation
Benjamin Mateus, 11. April 2020
Präsident Trump droht der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) mit einem Beitragsstopp, weil sie seine Bestrebungen kritisiert hat, die Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Pandemie zurückzufahren.
Loveparade-Katastrophe in Duisburg: Gericht empfiehlt Einstellung des Verfahrens
Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 11. April 2020
In Erwartung hoher Gewinne hatten sich die Verantwortlichen skrupellos über Vorschriften und Regeln zum Schutz des Lebens und der Gesundheit der Festivalbesucher hinweggesetzt.
Zehn Jahre WikiLeaks-Publikation von „Collateral Murder“
Oscar Grenfell, 11. April 2020
Das Video, das die Kriminalität des Irak-Kriegs entlarvt, hat im Bewusstsein von Millionen Arbeitern und jungen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt einen unauslöschlichen Eindruck hinterlassen.
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L’OMS met en garde contre une fin prématurée des mesures de distanciation sociale
Bryan Dyne, 9 avril 2020
L’avertissement de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé intervient au moment où le nombre des décès dans le monde approche les 82.000 et celui des cas officiellement confirmés le million et demi.
Des décisions de justice vindicatives qui prouvent que l’État britannique veut la mort d’Assange
Thomas Scripps, 9 avril 2020
La juge Vanessa Baraitser a décrété qu’Assange resterait derrière les barreaux et que son procès d’extradition aurait lieu en mai, alors même que la pandémie de coronavirus se propage rapidement dans les prisons britanniques.
La révolte des travailleurs se propage et exige des protections contre le coronavirus
Marcus Day, 9 avril 2020
De plus en plus de travailleurs dans le monde sont entraînés dans la lutte pour obtenir les ressources nécessaires pour protéger des vies.
Les rachats d'actions sont la «seule source nette d'argent entrant sur le marché boursier» depuis 2008
Nick Beams, 9 avril 2020
Un reportage publié dans le Wall Street Journal révèle que l'une des principales raisons de la pénurie de liquidités des grandes entreprises, qui font maintenant la queue pour un renflouement, est les billions de dollars qu'elles ont dépensés en rachats d'actions pour augmenter la fortune des ultra-riches.
La ministre de la Santé du Canada fait la promotion de «l'immunité collective» après avoir reconnu l'échec du gouvernement face au coronavirus
Laurent Lafrance, 9 avril 2020
La ministre de la Santé fédérale Hajdu a reconnu que si les hôpitaux canadiens manquent d’équipement vital c’est parce que le gouvernement «sous-finance» les soins de santé depuis des décennies.
New in Italian
La classe lavoratrice, il socialismo e la lotta contro la pandemia
David North, 1 aprile 2020
Gli scioperi e le proteste dei lavoratori di Instacart, Amazon e Whole Foods sono in risposta alla criminale subordinazione della sicurezza dei lavoratori ai profitti aziendali.
New in Portuguese
Em meio ao aumento do número de mortes por COVID-19, classes dominantes agitam retorno precoce ao trabalho
Por Andre Damon e David North, 9 Abril 2020
Após o diretor do Serviço de Saúde Pública dos EUA ter alertado que a próxima semana será “o nosso momento 11 de setembro”, o presidente Trump exigiu que o governo pare de “pagar as pessoas para ficarem em casa”.
New in Norwegian
Amerikansk imperialisme utnytter koronaviruskrisen som et krigsvåpen
Bill Van Auken, 21. mars 2020
Opprettholdelsen og tilstrammingen av straffende økonomiske sanksjoner mot Iran, som konfronterer et av verdens verste utbrudd av koronaviruset, utgjør en amerikansk krigsforbrytelse.
Italias hær innkalt for liktransport, der dødsfall av koronaviruset tiltar i Europa
Alex Lantier, 21. mars 2020
Helsevesenet i Italia, det europeiske episentret for COVID-19 sykdommen, er så overveldet at det ikke får besørget de avdødes legemer, enn si ivaretatt de syke.
Medie-blackout av spontanstreiker i amerikansk bilindustri
Tom Hall, 21. mars 2020
Innen timer etter at spontanstreiker ved Fiat Chrysler-fabrikker i Michigan og Ohio fremtvang en midlertidig stans av store deler av den nordamerikanske bilindustrien under koronaviruspandemien gikk foretaksmediene over i full tilsløringsmodus.
Voksende raseri blant brasilianske arbeidere over regjeringens og fagforeningenes respons på koronaviruskrisen
Tomas Castanheira, 21. mars 2020
På de brasilianske bilproduksjonsanleggene blir arbeidernes liv daglig utsatt for fare, for å sikre selskapenes fortsatte uthenting av profitt.
New in Spanish
Fallos vengativos comprueban que el Estado británico quiere a Assange muerto
Por Thomas Scripps, 9 abril 2020
La jueza Vanessa Baraitser decretó que Assange permanecerá tras las rejas y que la farsa judicial para extraditarlo procederá en mayo, aun cuando se propaga el coronavirus en las prisiones británicas.
La Organización Mundial de la Salud advierte contra el final prematuro de las medidas de distanciamiento social
Por Bryan Dyne, 9 abril 2020
Las advertencias se producen mientras el número de fallecimientos en todo el mundo se acerca a los 82.000 y el número de casos confirmados oficialmente sobrepasa 1,4 millones.
Se extiende la revuelta de los trabajadores, exigiendo protecciones contra el coronavirus
Por Marcus Day, 9 abril 2020
La expansión de las capas de la clase trabajadora en todo el mundo se ve inmersa en la lucha por las necesidades que salvan vidas.
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Reality of American capitalism exposed: Millions line up for food aid as pandemic spreads
13 April 2020
The desperate social reality for tens of millions in the US, typically hidden in “normal times,” has been exposed by the coronavirus outbreak for the world to see.
The coronavirus pandemic
What is behind the high percentage of COVID-19 deaths among African Americans?
By Eric London, 13 April 2020
The data shows the deadly impact of the virus on the entire working class, especially the most vulnerable workers of all races.
Trump’s campaign to reopen businesses risks hundreds of thousands of lives
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 11 April 2020
Fiction, reality and the global crisis of capitalism
By Joseph Kishore and David North, 7 April 2020
The working class, socialism and the fight against the pandemic
By David North, 1 April 2020
On Sunday, March 29, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time, the Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site held an online forum on the global coronavirus pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic and the perspective of socialism
the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, 30 March 2020
For emergency action against the destruction of jobs! Full financial and social support for all working people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic!
Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 3 April 2020
How to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: A program of action for the working class
the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party (US), 17 March 2020
More on the coronavirus pandemic »
Science
Science vs. Trump: The dangerous promotion of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19
By Benjamin Mateus, 13 April 2020
Neither chloroquine nor hydroxychloroquine has been proven to deliver any benefit against the impact of the coronavirus.
Trump executive order asserts US property rights in outer space
By Don Barrett, 10 April 2020
Free Julian Assange
Julian Assange’s partner Stella Morris speaks out: “His life is on the brink”
By Oscar Grenfell, 13 April 2020
Morris’s comments are a moving refutation of the media smears directed against Assange and underscore the urgency of the fight for his immediate freedom.
A year since the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
By Oscar Grenfell, 11 April 2020
Ten years since WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder
By Oscar Grenfell, 6 April 2020
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
Workers Struggles
Three years since Indian court ordered 13 framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers jailed for life
By Kranti Kumara, 13 April 2020
The World Socialist Web Site urges workers around the world to redouble their efforts to free these class war prisoners, whose only “crime” was to challenge a brutal work-regimen, cheap-labour and precarious contract jobs.
IYSSE (Australia)
IYSSE (Australia) lecture this Tuesday: Socialism versus identity politics and post-modernism
13 April 2020
Beams will explain that the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that the fundamental division in society is class, not gender, race or sexual orientation.
At IYSSE (Australia) online lecture, Nick Beams exposes Socialist Alternative and the pseudo-left
By Oscar Grenfell, 9 April 2020
The event was attended by an appreciative audience of more than 190 workers, students and young people.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lankan SEP holds online meeting on COVID-19 pandemic
By our reporters, 13 April 2020
SEP General Secretary Wije Dias exposed the Rajapakse government’s reactionary response to the disaster and outlined a revolutionary socialist program for the working class.
Coronavirus crisis in Sri Lanka: A program for the working class
the Socialist Equality Party, 28 March 2020
The Rajapakse government is exploiting the pandemic to prepare a presidential dictatorship and impose even deeper attacks on the working class and the poor.
Fight for an international socialist program against war, social devastation and dictatorship
Vote Socialist Equality Party in the Sri Lankan general election
Manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 21 March 2020
Arts Review
Country singer-songwriter John Prine dies in pandemic
By Hiram Lee and Matthew Brennan, 13 April 2020
In his art and his very personality, Prine pursued an existence entirely opposed to the sort led by those whose criminal negligence made possible his death from COVID-19.
A conversation with Mark Harris, director of Black & Privileged
By Nick Barrickman, 11 April 2020
Black & Privileged: Poor African Americans “intrude” on an affluent Chicago neighborhood
New York Philharmonic forced to reinstate two musicians victimized by #MeToo campaign
By David Walsh, 11 April 2020
With publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing memoir, venomous #MeToo attacks continue
This week in history: April 13-19
25 years ago: Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people
On April 19, 1995, two right-wing terrorists, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring a further 680.
50 years ago: Apollo 13 space shuttle avoids disaster
The week of April 13, 1970 millions of people around the world learned that the Apollo 13 space shuttle had suffered a significant mechanical failure that put the lives of the crew members, James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise in danger.
75 years ago: Soviet armies liberate Vienna
On April 13, 1945, the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts of the Soviet Union’s Red Army liberated Vienna from the Nazis at the conclusion of a successful offensive that had begun on April 2.
100 years ago: San Remo conference divides Middle East among imperialist powers
On April 19, 1920, the San Remo conference opened in Italy, the last of the major “peace” conferences sponsored by the League of Nations to establish the imperialist division of the world after World War I.
Book Review
Brendan McGeever’s Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution: Distorting history in the service of identity politics
Part two
By Clara Weiss, 13 April 2020
This is the second part of a two-part review.
Brendan McGeever’s Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution: Distorting history in the service of identity politics
Part one
Commentary
Wolves guard the hen house: Who is overseeing the $2 trillion stimulus package?
By Genevieve Leigh, 11 April 2020
The mechanisms established to manage stimulus money primarily exist to bail out the major corporations, further enrich the banks, and to secure Wall Street.
A modest proposal from Thomas Friedman
New York Times columnist urges Biden “national unity” cabinet
By Patrick Martin, 10 April 2020
Bernie Sanders’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic: A lifeline for the ruling class
FBI and Department of Justice reject Freedom of Information Act document request by SEP National Chairman David North
the WSWS Editorial Board, 20 February 2020
The US government declares that the Socialist Equality Party and World Socialist Web Site chairman’s request for documents obtained through surveillance of his political activities threatens “national security and foreign intelligence.”
The decade of socialist revolution begins
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 3 January 2020
Featured Report
Australian Committee for Public Education holds successful online meeting on pandemic crisis
By our reporters, 6 April 2020
Attend the Committee for Public Education online meeting
The COVID-19 pandemic: The political issues confronting educators
History
Grand jury records in notorious 1946 US lynching case to remain sealed
By Fred Mazelis, 10 April 2020
One hundred years since Germany’s Kapp Putsch
How the Social Democratic Party supported the far-right
By Peter Schwarz, 2 April 2020
YIVO Institute for Jewish research in New York fires all its librarians
By Clara Weiss, 17 February 2020
An interview with Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano
the editorial board, 27 January 2020
Seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Strong response to Nick Beams’ IYSSE (Australia) online lecture on coronavirus pandemic
By Oscar Grenfell, 28 March 2020
Turkish IYSSE’s intervention at Istanbul student conference wins warm response
By our reporter, 21 March 2020
The IYSSE presented the perspective of the world Trotskyist movement to a congress of economics students in Istanbul earlier this month.
German student newspaper “Unauf” defends far-right violence against students
the IYSSE at Humboldt University, 16 March 2020
No to right-wing “anti-Semitism” lawsuit against New York University!
the IYSSE at New York University, 12 March 2020
Mehring Books
Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish-language edition of The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
By Ulaş Ateşçi, 30 March 2020
First published by the WSWS in February 2018, The Struggle against Imperialism and for Workers’ Power in Iran—A Reply to a Proponent of “Iranian Islamic Socialism” advances a socialist strategy for the working class in a country that has been the target of US imperialist aggression for decades.
Preface to the Turkish edition of The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
By Keith Jones, 30 March 2020
A viable strategy to defeat imperialism can only be founded on the working class, and requires its independent political mobilization against all factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie.
Socialism 2020
Bernie Sanders draws his campaign to an end: The political lessons
Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 19 March 2020
Sweetwater teachers and students protest impending mass firing of teachers
Norissa Santa Cruz – Socialist Equality Party candidate for vice president of the United States, 11 March 2020
David North and Joseph Kishore address international online audience in Socialist Equality Party town hall election meeting
By Socialist Equality Party (US), 25 February 2020
Watch the recording of the successful campaign kick-off town hall meeting streamed to workers and supporters around the world.
Socialist Equality Party to run Joseph Kishore for president, Norissa Santa Cruz for vice president in 2020 US elections
The alternative confronting the working class is clear: capitalist barbarism or international socialism. The Socialist Equality Party, in political solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International, will use this campaign to advance the struggle of the working class against capitalism. Sign up today to get involved!
Amazon
As more workers test positive for COVID-19, Amazon ignores demands to close warehouses
By Tom Carter, 25 March 2020
South Carolina Amazon worker speaks on loss of his health, benefits and job
By Ed Hightower and Michael Walters, 21 March 2020
Donald Thrift Jr was left jobless with $27,000 in medical debt after contracting double pneumonia while working in an Amazon fulfillment center in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Amazon workers in New York City shut down warehouse after worker tests positive for coronavirus
By Shuvu Batta, 21 March 2020
Defend public education!
No Layoffs! No Cuts!
A fighting strategy to defend public education in San Diego’s Sweetwater Union High School district
By Evelyn Rios, 9 March 2020
The Socialist Equality Party calls on teachers, students and parents to form independent rank-and-file and neighborhood committees throughout the city to organize opposition to austerity and social inequality.
San Ysidro, California high school students walk out to oppose attacks on public education
Joseph Kishore – Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 7 March 2020
On Friday, March 6, hundreds of students at San Ysidro High School in San Diego, California walked out to oppose budget cuts and attacks on public education.
As support for wildcat strike spreads
Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike
By Jonathan Burleigh, 27 February 2020
More on the defense of public education »
The New York Times' 1619 Project
New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
By Tom Mackaman, 16 March 2020
Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein is attempting to palm off a minor semantic change as a cure for a totally false presentation of the American Revolution.
New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker
By Eric London, 9 March 2020
A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
By David North and Tom Mackaman, 31 January 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for social equality
By Tom Mackaman and Niles Niemuth, 23 January 2020
The New York Times’ “1619 Project”
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shell Oil and mass killings in Africa
By Trévon Austin and Bill Van Auken, 18 December 2019
The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
By Niles Niemuth, Tom Mackaman and David North, 6 September 2019
“The saddest part of this is that the response of the Times is simply to defend their project”
An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Oxford historian Richard Carwardine on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian Dolores Janiewski on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Historian Gordon Wood responds to the New York Times’ defense of the 1619 Project
- A historian’s critique of the 1619 Project
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
- An interview with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- The “Irrepressible Conflict:” Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution
- Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
- An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
1619 Project director speaks at New York University
Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
By Eric London and David North, 26 November 2019
More on the New York Times’ 1619 Project »
Obituary
Former UAW President Owen Bieber dead at 90
By Jerry White, 27 February 2020
Hosni Mubarak, US-backed dictator of Egypt for 30 years, dead at 91
By Bill Van Auken, 26 February 2020
Mehring Books
New pamphlet from Mehring Books on the 1619 Project
24 January 2020
The response of David North and Eric London to the New York Times’ rebuff of five eminent historians’ objections to the 1619 Project is now available as an illustrated pamphlet.
Vadim Rogovin’s Bolsheviks against Stalinism 1928–1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
A magnificent account of Stalin’s opponents in the USSR
By Andrea Peters, 21 December 2019
Stalin’s rise was neither foreordained nor a natural outgrowth of the October Revolution. The Great Russian chauvinist and bureaucrat secured power in ferocious conflict with the proletariat, peasantry and cadre of the revolutionary socialist movement.
Trotskyism and China
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
History of the ICFI
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
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