2 May 2020
Trump escalates attacks on China over COVID-19
By Peter Symonds, 2 May 2020
US President Trump has stepped up his propaganda war and threats against China, blaming it for the deadly COVID-19 pandemic that has cost the lives of more than 230,000 people internationally.
Australian government places country on frontline of anti-China witch hunt
By Mike Head, 2 May 2020
Australia unilaterally called for an international inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, boosting the Trump administration’s unsubstantiated accusations against China.
Trump tweets support for armed right-wing protesters in Michigan
By Kevin Reed, 2 May 2020
The right-wing demonstration in the Michigan state Capitol is part of a high-level campaign to force a return to work in the midst of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
Euro zone economy contracts at record pace
By Nick Beams, 2 May 2020
The European Central Bank has taken the same road as the US Fed, committing itself to pump still more money across the board into the financial markets.
Stock markets surge as Fed pledges to continue corporate handouts
Record 50.8 million people internally displaced in 2019
By Jean Shaoul, 2 May 2020
The plight of tens of millions of internally displaced people is virtually ignored, attracting little global attention during the escalating global pandemic.
German government accelerates its deadly back-to-work initiative
By Johannes Stern, 2 May 2020
Despite the continuing spread of the COVID-19 internationally, the German government is accelerating its lifting of the limited restrictions imposed to prevent transmission of the virus.
Nearly 300 meat-processing workers infected by coronavirus at German slaughterhouse
By Marianne Arens, 2 May 2020
While almost 300 workers at a Baden-Württemberg slaughterhouse have COVID-19, the plant remains open.
Germany: Daimler trains managers to kick out workers
By Ulrich Rippert, 2 May 2020
Daimler department heads and other managers are being trained to put pressure on individual workers to “implement the job cuts as smoothly as possible.”
Germany’s Lufthansa: Billions in state aid and mass layoffs
By Peter Schwarz, 2 May 2020
The airline unions are appealing to Chancellor Merkel for state intervention.
UK: Delays to medical treatment during pandemic will cost thousands of lives
By Jean Gibney, 2 May 2020
Reports claim that deaths due to the disruption of cancer services alone are likely to outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself over the next five years.
Communication Workers Union folds 48 hours after Royal Mail threatens 20,000 jobs
By Thomas Scripps, 2 May 2020
Having initially warned of strike action against the ending of Saturday deliveries, the CWU organised a shameless retreat.
Russia: Two ministers, one deputy test positive for COVID as workers’ protests grow
By Clara Weiss, 2 May 2020
Just one day after Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin was hospitalized for COVID-19, the minister for construction, housing and communal services and his deputy also tested positive.
Massive opposition by US meatpacking employees to forced return to work
By Anthony Bertolt and Christopher Davion, 2 May 2020
The Trump administration and local officials are trying to enforce a return to work in meatpacking plants while shielding owners from any liability for the deadly consequences.
“They are willing to kill us for their profits”
US autoworkers oppose early return to factories
By Shannon Jones, 2 May 2020
Detroit auto companies are pushing for a May 18 restart but workers are resisting this attempt to force them into the factories during the uncontained COVID-19 pandemic.
Germany: IG Metall and works council force Volkswagen workers back despite coronavirus danger
As southwestern states begin to reopen
Navajo Nation COVID-19 cases rise while emergency federal aid remains delayed
By Evan Cohen, 2 May 2020
Endemic impoverishment and a lack of critical infrastructure imposed on Native Americans by Washington have contributed to some of the worst coronavirus infection rates in the country.
Trump blocks federal funeral aid to families of COVID-19 victims
By Jacob Crosse, 2 May 2020
While $45 billion has been allocated to the Federal Emergency Management Agency through the CARES Act, a memo from Trump bans the agency giving burial funds to thousands of victims.
Canada: Locked-out Saskatchewan refinery workers reject FCL’s concessions contract
By Carl Bronski, 2 May 2020
FCL responded to the contract rejection with a terse and arrogant statement that it will continue with its massive government-backed scabbing operation.
Argentine unions and employers agree to wage cuts pushing millions into poverty
By Rafael Azul, 2 May 2020
More than a million workers will face hunger and poverty while businesses get massive subsidies.
Australian government fast-tracks review of lockdown measures
By Oscar Grenfell, 2 May 2020
New clusters have emerged, including among meat workers in Melbourne, as governments seek to prematurely end social-distancing measures.
1 May 2020
As US unemployment reaches Great Depression levels, millions still unable to obtain assistance
By Shannon Jones, 1 May 2020
Millions of US workers blocked from applying for jobless benefits
At least 31 US states easing restrictions despite rising pandemic death toll
By Kate Randall, 1 May 2020
With over 1 million coronavirus cases and 60,000 fatalities in the US, markets eager to get back to business
Dozens of decaying corpses found piled in unrefrigerated trucks at New York City funeral home
By Philip Guelpa, 1 May 2020
Johnson pledges to “restart the economy” as pandemic rages in UK
By Robert Stevens, 1 May 2020
Russian workers protest animal-like conditions at oil field as prime minister hospitalized with COVID-19
By Andrea Peters, 1 May 2020
Sixty-eight Amazon workers fall ill with COVID-19 at Winsen, Germany warehouse
By Marianne Arens, 1 May 2020
“The central and state governments, as well as the opposition parties, don’t really care for human lives”
Tamil Nadu auto workers denounce Indian government responses to COVID-19
By Sasi Kumar and Moses Rajkumar, 1 May 2020
Coronavirus pandemic surges across South Asia, even as governments push for a return to work
Brazilian nurses fired for striking in Manaus over PPE
By Tomas Castanheira, 1 May 2020
Detroit mayor pushes back-to-work agenda as COVID-19 cases rise across Michigan
By Kevin Reed, 1 May 2020
Florida governor reopening state while suppressing reporting of COVID-19 deaths
By Matthew MacEgan, 1 May 2020
Millions spent by Trump to “salute” health care workers with military flyovers
By Trévon Austin, 1 May 2020
US citizens married to undocumented immigrants denied stimulus checks
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan, 1 May 2020
US appeals court rules literacy is “a fundamental right” in Detroit case
By J. Cooper, 1 May 2020
Quebec workers denounce government’s rush to “reopen” the economy amid raging COVID-19 pandemic
By Laurent Lafrance, 1 May 2020
Quebec government threatens thousands of lives with precipitous return to work
Australian governments rushing to reverse lockdown measures
By Oscar Grenfell, 1 May 2020
New in Portuguese
Ministro da Justiça do Brasil renuncia acusando Bolsonaro de interferir na Polícia Federal
Miguel Andrade, 2 Maio 2020
Sérgio Moro, conhecido internacionalmente por estar à frente a Operação Lava-Jato contra a corrupção, renunciou dizendo que Bolsonaro queria controle sobre as investigações.
New in French
Le remdesivir comme «médicament miracle»: propagande de retour au travail contre science
Bryan Dyne, 2 mai 2020
L’adulation des médias pour cette «percée» a lieu au milieu d’un effort de plus en plus frénétique pour donner l’impression que le virus est «maitrisé» et que la crise est pratiquement terminée.
Le chômage aux États-Unis atteint les niveaux de la Grande Dépression, mais des millions de personnes ne peuvent toujours pas obtenir d’aide
Shannon Jones, 2 mai 2020
Alors que le taux de chômage officiel devrait atteindre 20 pour cent, des millions de personnes se trouvent dans l’impossibilité de toucher les allocations de chômage de l’État en raison de la surcharge des systèmes.
Des travailleurs russes protestent contre les conditions bestiales d'un champ pétrolifère alors que le Premier ministre est hospitalisé avec le COVID-19
Andrea Peters, 2 mai 2020
Des centaines de travailleurs ont manifesté contre Gazprom dans un champ pétrolifère en Sibérie pour exiger des conditions de travail sécuritaires et des soins adéquats pour les malades.
New in Spanish
Remdesivir, la “medicina milagrosa”: propaganda para el regreso al trabajo vs. ciencia
Bryan Dyne, 2 mayo 2020
La adulación de la prensa hacia este “adelanto” se produce en medio de un esfuerzo cada vez más frenético para crear la impresión de que el virus está “bajo control” y la crisis está prácticamente acabada.
A medida que el desempleo en los Estados Unidos alcanza los niveles de la Gran Depresión, millones aún no pueden obtener asistencia
Shannon Jones, 2 mayo 2020
Con la tasa oficial de desempleo que se espera que alcance el 20 por ciento, millones de personas encuentran que no pueden obtener beneficios de desempleo estatales a medida que los sistemas sobrecargados se bloquean.
Enfermeros brasileños despedidas por declararse en huelga en Manaos por falta de equipo de protección
Tomas Castanheira, 2 mayo 2020
Trece enfermeros brasileños fueron despedidos después de hacer huelga el lunes junto a cientos de colegas en el hospital 28 de Agosto, en la capital amazónica de Manaos.
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Das „Wundermittel“ Remdesivir und der Kampf gegen Covid-19
Bryan Dyne, 2. Mai 2020
Die mediale Verherrlichung des angeblichen „wissenschaftlichen Durchbruchs“ im Kampf gegen Covid-19 soll den Eindruck erwecken, das Virus sei unter Kontrolle. Sie geht mit einer aggressiven „Back-to-Work“-Kampagne einher.
Corona-Pandemie: Todesfalle Pflegeheim
Elisabeth Zimmermann, 2. Mai 2020
Annähernd ein Drittel aller Corona-Toten in Deutschland stirbt in Pflegeheimen.
Österreich hebt Corona-Maßnahmen weitgehend auf
Markus Salzmann, 2. Mai 2020
Trotz der weiteren Ausbreitung der Pandemie in ganz Europa übernimmt die Regierung in Wien eine Vorreiterrolle bei der „Lockerungspolitik“, die für hunderttausende Menschen ein tödliches Risiko birgt.
„Wieviel ist ein
Menschenleben wert?“
Bericht einer
Kita-Erzieherin in Schweden
Martin Nowak, 2. Mai 2020
Lange Zeit wurde der schwedische Sonderweg als Modell für einen „liberalen“ Umgang mit dem Coronavirus gepriesen. Wie das Interview zeigt, zahlt die arbeitende Bevölkerung dafür einen hohen Preis.
USA: Arbeitslosigkeit hoch wie in der Großen Depression. Millionen ohne Sozialhilfe
Shannon Jones, 2. Mai 2020
Die offizielle Arbeitslosenquote wird wahrscheinlich auf 20 Prozent steigen. Millionen werden keine Arbeitslosenunterstützung erhalten, da die vollkommen überlasteten Systeme kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch stehen.
Schweden räumt deutlich höhere Covid-19-Todeszahlen ein
Jordan Shilton, 2. Mai 2020
Schweden verhängte keine Sperre und verzögerte sogar die öffentliche Maßgabe zur sozialen Distanzierung. Das hat zu mehr Todesfällen geführt und das Gesundheitssystem an seine Grenzen gebracht.
New in Norwegian
EU stepper opp pådrivet for gjenopptakelse av arbeid, med en pågående pandemi
Alex Lantier, 28. april 2020
Avgjørelsen om å heve restriksjonstiltakene midt under en pandemi – med 23 680 nye Covid-19-tilfeller bekreftet i Europa på søndag – er politisk kriminell.
USAs milliardærers formuer økt med $ 280 milliarder siden mars, samtidig med millioner som ikke får dagpenger
Gabriel Black, 28. april 2020
Siden aksjemarkedstupet i mars har de ultrarikes formuer skutt i været, der Trump-administrasjonens respons på pandemien ytterligere konsentrerer samfunnets rikdom.
Søknad om utsettelse Assanges utleveringshøring, der Covid-19 feier gjennom britiske fengsler
Alice Summers, 28. april 2020
Den hevngjerrige suspenderingen av programmet for Covid-19-løslatelser demonstrerer den britiske styringsklassens kriminelle misaktelse for fangene.
Larry Summers og Biden-kampanjen
Nick Beams, 28. april 2020
Summers har en lang historikk for å ha støttet alle tiltakene som har ført til finansialiseringen av den amerikanske økonomien, og overføringen av formue og inntekter til dens øvre sjikt.
New in Russian
Два медицинских работника Нью-Йорка совершили самоубийство в течение 48 часов
Клара Вайс, 30 апреля 2020 г.
Эти два самоубийства привели к тому, что число медицинских работников, умерших из-за пандемии только в штате Нью-Йорк, достигло, по меньшей мере, 55 человек.
Более трех миллионов индивидуальных читателей посетили Мировой Социалистический Веб Сайт с начала 2020 года
Дэвид Норт и Андре Деймон, 30 апреля 2020 г.
Международная читательская аудитория Мирового Социалистического Веб Сайта значительно выросла с начала 2020 года.
Ходатайство об отсрочке слушания по экстрадиции Ассанжа на фоне распространения COVID-19 по тюрьмам Великобритании
Элис Саммерс, 30 апреля 2020 г.
Мстительная приостановка программы освобождения заключенных из тюрем вследствие COVID-19 свидетельствует о преступном пренебрежении британского правящего класса жизнями заключенных.
Эта неделя в истории
100 лет назад: Польша
вторгается в Советскую Украину
30 апреля 2020 г.
25 апреля 1920 года польская армия вторглась на украинские территории, граничащие с территориями, находившимися под контролем Советской власти, и совершила прорыв в направлении Киева, который был взят 6 мая.
New in Turkish
2020’nin başından beri Dünya Sosyalist Web Sitesi’ne üç milyondan fazla farklı okur erişim sağladı
David North ve Andre Damon, 30 Nisan 2020
Dünya Sosyalist Web Sitesi’nin (WSWS) okur kitlesi, 2020’nin başından beri ABD’de ve uluslararası düzeyde önemli oranda büyüdü.
“İlave ölü sayıları” pandeminin gerçek sonucunu açığa çıkarmaya başlıyor
Bryan Dyne, 30 Nisan 2020
Korkunç sayılara rağmen, hükümetler, şirketler ve sendikalar, işçileri izolasyondan çıkmaya ve virüsün kolayca bulaşıp yayılabileceği kalabalık işyerlerine geri dönmeye zorlayarak kendi ekonomilerini “yeniden açma” baskısı yapmayı sürdürüyorlar.
75 yıl önce: Mussolini idam edilirken Hitler intihar etti
30 Nisan 2020
İki diktatör, egemenlikleri sırasında milyonlarca insanın ölümünden sorumluydu ve ölümleri dünya genelinde milyonlarca işçi tarafından coşkulu bir sevinçle karşılandı.
Doğu Avrupa’da Stalinizm: DDR’nin Yükselişi ve Düşüşü
Peter Schwarz, 30 Nisan 2020
1989’da caddeleri dolduranlar neden nefret ettiklerini ve neyi reddettiklerini gayet iyi biliyorlardı. Ancak çürümekte olan toplumsal düzenin yerini neyin alması gerektiği konusunda hiçbir fikirleri yoktu.
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.
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Amid back-to-work drive and state reopenings
US government prepares for hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths
2 May 2020
Press inquiries have found that the federal government is ordering enough body bags for at least five times the current US death toll.
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Commentary
May 1 “general strike” at Amazon: A failed adventure by the Democratic Party and the unions
By the International Amazon Workers Voice, 2 May 2020
This was not a real struggle led by the workers, but a ploy by the Democratic Party, the unions, and their hangers-on to disrupt and gain control of growing working class opposition to deadly workplace conditions.
Democrats, unions set trap for workers with phony May Day Amazon strike
“How many people have to die for us to be treated like human beings?”
Tracy, California Amazon worker speaks out on coworker’s death
Biden denies sexual assault allegation, but Democrats’ nervousness about his candidacy grows
By David Walsh, 2 May 2020
The deaths of 65,000 people and the collapse of jobs and incomes have not shaken the Democrats, who are as callous as Donald Trump, but a sex scandal is another matter.
Former top officials in Bernie Sanders campaign form super PAC to back Joe Biden
By Genevieve Leigh, 2 May 2020
Despite his long record of opposition to super PACs, Sanders has remained silent on the creation of the “Future to Believe In” political action committee.
More than three million individual readers have accessed the World Socialist Web Site since the beginning of 2020
By David North and Andre Damon, 27 April 2020
The international readership of the World Socialist Web Site has grown considerably since the beginning of 2020.
One Hundred and Fifty Years Since the Birth of Lenin
By David North, 22 April 2020
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in the Russian city of Simbirsk on April 22, 1870. Known in history under the name of Lenin, he was the founder of the Bolshevik Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution and, undoubtedly, a towering figure in the political and intellectual history of the twentieth century.
Bernie Sanders poses as critic of corporate bailouts he voted for
By Jacob Crosse and Barry Grey, 30 April 2020
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 decade of socialist revolution begins
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 3 January 2020
The coronavirus pandemic
Remdesivir as “miracle drug”: Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
By Bryan Dyne, 1 May 2020
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls for letting COVID-19 run rampant
By Andre Damon, 1 May 2020
The coronavirus pandemic fuels the class struggle
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 30 April 2020
The Great Wall Street Heist of 2020
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 28 April 2020
Rasputin in the White House
By Eric London and David North, 25 April 2020
Trump orders meatpacking workers back on the job as opposition mounts to back-to-work campaign
By Niles Niemuth, 29 April 2020
“Back to work” campaign in the US will lead to surge in coronavirus deaths
By Joseph Kishore, 24 April 2020
US propaganda campaign promotes lies blaming China for COVID-19
By Alex Lantier, 24 April 2020
Merchants of death: Multibillion-dollar bailout for arms industry amid rising COVID-19 toll
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
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.
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Arts Review
Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures: An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
By Clare Hurley, 2 May 2020
Lange’s turn to documentary photography was spurred by the Great Depression as she sought to address economic inequality and social injustice through activism and the lens of her camera.
Resistance and The Resistance Banker: Dramas of the struggle against Nazism
By Joanne Laurier, 1 May 2020
German photomontage artist John Heartfield: A new online exhibition
By Sybille Fuchs, 30 April 2020
- One World: Together At Home—A noble gesture married to official cynicism
- Classical musicians, orchestras and opera companies confront COVID-19 lockdown
- COVID-19’s devastating impact on artists
- Tiger King on Netflix: Approach with caution!
- The Innocence Files on Netflix: Freeing frame-up victims from prison
- Sincerely Louis C.K.—Comedian returns with a stand-up special
- The concluding episodes of The Plot Against America: In 1940, an America gone fascist
Science
Thirty years of the Hubble Space Telescope
By Bryan Dyne, 2 May 2020
While it has been a public relations boon for NASA, Hubble’s true importance lies in its continued and vast contributions to astronomy.
Trump executive order asserts US property rights in outer space
Science vs. Trump: The dangerous promotion of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19
By Benjamin Mateus, 13 April 2020
Workers Struggles
Thousands of Assam tea workers demand lockdown wages in India; Protests continue in Bangladesh over wages, factory closures and safety
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
2 May 2020
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
The lessons of the University of California grad student strike
By Jonathan Burleigh and Norissa Santa Cruz, 30 April 2020
“Back to work” campaign extends to 21 US states as working-class opposition grows
By Kevin Reed, 30 April 2020
British Airways announces 12,000 redundancies amid global airline jobs massacre
By Thomas Scripps, 30 April 2020
Despite over 100 transit worker deaths, New York Governor Cuomo and MTA push for unsafe return to work
By Sam Dalton, 30 April 2020
Citing COVID-19 crisis, Ontario teacher unions impose concession-filled contracts
By Penny Smith, 30 April 2020
UK postal worker says: Royal Mail workers need to set up rank-and-file committees
29 April 2020
Hundreds of laid-off San Diego, California teachers begin online teaching
By Evelyn Rios, 23 April 2020
Australia Post announces major restructure threatening thousands of jobs
By Oscar Grenfell, 23 April 2020
Three years since Indian court ordered 13 framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers jailed for life
By Kranti Kumara, 13 April 2020
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
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
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This week in history: April 27-May 3
25 years ago: 100,000 protest against austerity in Mexico
On May 1, 1995, over 100,000 workers marched to the Zócalo, Mexico City’s central plaza, in protest over the economic austerity measures imposed by the government of President Ernesto Zedillo.
50 years ago: Nixon announces US invasion of Cambodia
In the evening of April 30, 1970, US President Richard Nixon announced to the American public that US forces in Vietnam had begun an offensive into Cambodia.
75 years ago: Hitler commits suicide, Mussolini executed
This week in April 1945, the two fascist dictators, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, met their deaths, as Nazi Germany finally collapsed amid Allied military offensives and social upheavals across Europe.
100 years ago: Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic declared
On April 28, 1920, the Provisional Revolutionary Committee, led by Bolshevik leader Nariman Narimanov, declared the establishment of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic after an uprising of workers in the capital of Baku.
The New York Times' 1619 Project
American Historical Review publishes letter on 1619 Project by Tom Mackaman and David North
20 April 2020
The letter was a reply to AHR Editor Alex Lichtenstein, who previously wrote a column defending the 1619 Project.
New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
By Tom Mackaman, 16 March 2020
More on the New York Times’ 1619 Project »
Free Julian Assange
Intensive CIA spying on Assange targeted his infant child
By Oscar Grenfell, 18 April 2020
Julian Assange’s partner Stella Morris speaks out: “His life is on the brink”
By Oscar Grenfell, 13 April 2020
A year since the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
Ten years since WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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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