17 June 2020
Dozens die in India-China border clash
By Keith Jones, 17 June 2020
It is the enmeshing of the India-China rivalry with the strategic confrontation between China and US imperialism that makes the border dispute so combustible and incendiary.
North Korea blows up liaison office to send message to Trump
By Peter Symonds, 17 June 2020
While nominally directed at Seoul, Pyongyang’s action expressed its deep frustration with the failure of the Trump administration to conduct any meaningful negotiations.
More than 40 percent of all US deaths from COVID-19 are in nursing homes
By Benjamin Mateus, 17 June 2020
A report published Tuesday says that there were 51,000 COVID-19 deaths among residents of US nursing homes and extended care facilities.
Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Brazil’s meat processing plants and mines
By Tomas Castanheira, 17 June 2020
Clusters of coronavirus at large companies across the country threaten the lives of thousands of workers.
Fed boosts support for stock market by expanding corporate debt purchases
By Nick Beams, 17 June 2020
Fed chairman Jerome Powell said it would take some time before employment and economic activity returned to pre-pandemic levels.
OECD report points to pandemic’s long-term impact
New Mexico protester wounded by far-right shooter
By Jacob Crosse, 17 June 2020
Encouraged by President Trump and working in concert with local police departments, far-right elements have been allowed to attack and intimidate peaceful protesters across the country.
Voices of young protesters: Police violence, COVID-19 and the 2020 elections
By our reporters, 17 June 2019
The young people expressed concern over attacks on democratic rights, the acute economic distress facing youth, and imperialist war among other issues.
Massachusetts educators protest layoffs and sweeping cuts to public education
By Will McCalliss and Evan Blake, 17 June 2020
On Monday, educators from across Massachusetts held a rally to protest the devastating budget cuts and job losses, which are hitting over 50 school districts across the state.
Thousands of educators laid off across California as state Democrats plan austerity budget
Faurecia workers denounce unsafe return to work
By Tim Rivers, 17 June 2020
Workers at the Faurecia plant in Saline, Michigan described how the company and union were concealing the spread of COVID-19 in the plant.
UK: 600,000 workers already kicked off payrolls during COVID-19 lockdown
By Robert Stevens, 17 June 2020
Companies are implementing long-planned restructuring operations with mass layoffs, a halt to hiring, and pay cuts the order of the day.
Macron unleashes riot police against French health care protests
By Will Morrow, 17 June 2020
The Macron administration organized a violent assault on health care workers who just weeks earlier were self-servingly hailed for their sacrifice during the pandemic.
French state hands €15 billion bailout to Airbus and Air France
By Kumaran Ira, 17 June 2020
While aerospace firms are receiving massive financial support from the state, they are preparing restructuring plans to slash jobs, wages and benefits.
UAW, federal prosecutors announce talks over corruption scandal
By Tom Hall, 17 June 2020
Whatever the friction between the US Attorney’s office and the UAW, both share as their central aim the suppression of the rising tide of opposition among autoworkers.
Canada’s grocery chains slash wages as pandemic continues to rage
By Roger Jordan, 17 June 2020
The decision to abolish the pay premium shows the companies’ shocking disregard for the lives of workers.
Australian PM outlines bipartisan austerity offensive
By Oscar Grenfell, 17 June 2020
The government is winding back meagre relief measures introduced during the pandemic and intensifying an assault on working class jobs and conditions.
16 June 2020
Atlanta police killing of Rayshard Brooks ruled a homicide as Democrats posture as reformers
By Matthew MacEgan, 16 June 2020
Brooks’ killing has fueled the mass protests against police violence and racism that have taken place in all 50 states and dozens of cities internationally.
Family demands answers after Missouri cop kills 25-year-old convenience store worker
By Jacob Crosse, 16 June 2020
Hannah Fizer was shot to death by a Pettis County deputy during a traffic stop Saturday night in Sedalia, Missouri.
Canadian oil refinery boss lauds George Floyd protests while employing state violence against locked-out workers
By Carl Bronski, 16 June 2020
Federated Cooperatives Ltd. CEO Scott Banda has mobilized and solidarized with racist, far-right forces in seeking to break the resistance of 750 locked-out Regina oil refinery workers.
Claiming sympathy for protesters, US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
Macron announces mass bankruptcies and layoffs as coronavirus restrictions are ended
By Alex Lantier, 16 June 2020
With Macron’s brief televised address, the ruling class is declaring an international class war against workers.
French daily Le Figaro reports that Macron considering early resignation
Coronavirus pandemic in Poland: Silesian miners sacrificed for profit
By Bartosz Wyspianski and Martin Nowak, 16 June 2020
Nearly every day, almost half of the new infections in Poland can be found in Silesia.
US auto companies pushing for more production as COVID-19 cases rise in factories
By Shannon Jones, 16 June 2020
The protracted slump in sales makes further downsizing and restructuring in the auto industry virtually inevitable once the immediate inventory deficit is made up.
Meatpacking workers oppose forced return to work through protests and mass absenteeism
By Christopher Davion, 16 June 2020
With meatpacking plants the epicenter of the spread of coronavirus, workers are opposing the return to work ordered by the Trump administration through protests and absenteeism.
Nearly 24,000 Ohioans told to return unemployment payments
By Isaac Finn, 16 June 2020
State authorities demanded that thousands of workers give back “overpaid benefits” they have received since the start of the economic crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australian police allegedly threatened Sydney protesters with sound weapon
By Oscar Grenfell, 16 June 2020
Despite police denials, footage clearly indicates that NSW police were in possession of an LRAD device known for its use against demonstrations in the US.
Massive police display of force against Australian protests
With its hospitals overwhelmed, Delhi emerging as India’s coronavirus epicentre
By Wasantha Rupasinghe, 16 June 2020
India’s Supreme Court has described conditions in the capital city’s hospitals as “horrific,” and the situation is expected to deteriorate in coming weeks as infections rise exponentially.
Indian cruise ship crew stage second protest in three days
By Tom Casey, 16 June 2020
Thousands of cruise ship workers—some of them infected with COVID-19—remained trapped on vessels around the world after the industry shut down last March in response to the pandemic
Three months since the cruise industry shutdown
Mauritian government and cruise companies hold stranded crew for ransom
Germany: Schools and child daycare centres open despite the high risk of infection
By Marianne Arens, 16 June 2020
The same politicians who pump hundreds of billions of euros of so-called “Corona aid” into the vaults of the big banks and leading companies see no need to equip schools with the measures needed to combat the coronavirus.
Nurses outraged over US hospital chain bailouts, layoffs and bloated CEO pay
By Gary Joad, 15 June 2020
The largest health care corporations and hospital chains have collected billions in federal grants and laid off tens of thousands of health care workers, while compensating top executives hundreds of millions.
Virginia and Maryland ease COVID-19 restrictions
By Dominic Gustavo, 16 June 2020
The state authorities in Virginia and Maryland are proceeding with the reopening of the economy with complete indifference to the lives and health of working people in the Washington DC area and across the entire region.
UK: Johnson opens the economy and guarantees fresh COVID-19 outbreak
By Thomas Scripps, 16 June 2020
Scientists warn that easing the lockdown under current conditions is likely to lead to a resurgence of coronavirus, endangering lives and throwing away the sacrifices made by workers and their families
UK: Legal action highlights social-Darwinist policies against the disabled during COVID-19 pandemic
By Alice Summers, 16 June 2020
Numerous medical guidance documents published during the pandemic suggest that coronavirus patients can be denied or deprioritised for medical care solely on the basis of their age or existing mental or physical disabilities.
“This government has decided that disabled people are better off dead”
UK disability campaigners speak out on coronavirus pandemic
By Alice Summers, 16 June 2020
The WSWS spoke to disability rights campaigners last weekend about the impact of coronavirus pandemic and the Johnson government’s “herd immunity” policy on the lives of disabled people.
Parents speak out against rushed re-opening of schools in Australia
By Sue Phillips and Kaye Tucker, 16 June 2020
The complicity of the education trade unions has left parents to express their concerns through social media, establishing Facebook pages and petitions.
New Zealand government lifts all COVID-19 restrictions
By Tom Peters, 16 June 2020
New Zealand’s health system is in severe crisis following decades of austerity and is unprepared for future COVID-19 outbreaks.
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华尔街以死亡为宴
大卫.诺斯, 2020年5月3日
昨天,4月14日,全球因COVID-19大流行造成的死亡总数超过126,000。在美国,周二有2400多人死亡,使全国受害者总数达到26000。这些官方数字无疑大大低于因冠状病毒感染而死亡的实际人数。
伦敦工人拼死与冠毒作战 富豪纷纷撤离
Michael Barnes, 2020年5月9日
早在新冠病毒大流行之前,伦敦就已是英国丑恶的不平等的中心。如今它不可避免地成为英国疫情的震中。这座城市是整个英国社会阶级分化的集中范例。
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Правительства по всему миру реагируют на COVID-19, спасая прибыли, а не жизни
Джозеф Кишор — кандидат в президенты США от Партии Социалистического Равенства, 13 июня 2020 г.
Усилия правящей элиты по принуждению людей к возвращению на работу — и навязыванию масштабной перестройки классовых отношений, чтобы компенсировать расходы по спасению Уолл-стрит, — столкнутся с огромным сопротивлением со стороны рабочего класса.
Эта неделя в истории
100 лет назад: Красная
армия отвоевывает Киев
13 июня 2020 г.
13 июня 1920 года войска Красной армии вошли в украинскую столицу Киев и вытеснили оттуда польские и украинские националистические войска.
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Classe social, capitalismo e o assassinato de George Floyd
Niles Niemuth, 13 Junho 2020
Como aconteceu tantas vezes no passado, o establishment político e a imprensa estão promovendo uma narrativa racial para ocultar a base social e econômica da brutalidade policial e desviar a raiva popular do sistema capitalista.
O paradoxo da alta em Wall Street
Nick Beams, 13 Junho 2020
A alta no mercado de ações, ocorrendo em meio à maior crise de saúde em um século, contrasta enormemente com a economia real subjacente.
Pandemia e guerra global contra imigrantes e refugiados
Bill Van Auken, 13 Junho 2020
Assim como com os ataques à toda a classe trabalhadora e o impulso em direção à guerra, as classes dominantes capitalistas em todo o mundo responderam à pandemia intensificando o ataque brutal aos trabalhadores imigrantes.
Defensores das políticas raciais têm reação hostil a protestos multirraciais contra o assassinato policial de George Floyd
Nick Barrickman, 13 Junho 2020
Políticos do Partido Democrata e seus apoiadores defensores do nacionalismo negro denunciaram brancos como "agitadores externos".
New in French
Führer en herbe, Trump intensifie son complot pour un coup d'État
Patrick Martin, 13 juin 2020
Le président cherche à fabriquer un prétexte pour la répression violente et l’établissement d’un régime autoritaire en Amérique.
Selon Le Figaro, Macron envisagerait de démissionner
Alexandre Lantier, 13 juin 2020
La pandémie du COVID-19 et les manifestations internationales contre les meurtres policiers de George Floyd et d’Adama Traoré ont profondément déstabilisé l’exécutif.
Washington intensifie ses vols de bombardiers stratégiques menaçant la Russie et la Chine
Alex Lantier, 13 juin 2020
Alors que la colère sociale monte en réponse à la violence policière et à la pandémie de COVID-19, il y a aussi un plus grand danger que l’élite dirigeante essaye d’étouffer les conflits de classe en lançant des guerres à l’étranger.
Anticapitalistas quitte le gouvernement espagnol du Parti socialiste et de Podemos
Alejandro López et Alex Lantier, 13 juin 2020
Anticapitalistas quitte Podemos pour servir d’agence politique de l'État, intervenant dans les manifestations et les grèves qui éclatent contre Podemos afin de les étrangler.
New in Spanish
La Casa Blanca exige finalizar pago de emergencia por desempleo de $600 por semana
Por Andre Damon, 17 junio 2020
El plan del Gobierno de Trump de recortar la asistencia por desempleo en julio es una confabulación abierta para obligar a que los trabajadores regresen a fábricas que son focos de contagio del COVID-19.
Los estudios sobre la respuesta de anticuerpos COVID-19 socavan la política de "inmunidad colectiva" de los EE. UU.
Por Benjamin Matteus, 17 junio 2020
La respuesta de los anticuerpos al coronavirus no es muy robusta, lo que socava las afirmaciones de que si un número suficiente de personas se infectan, la pandemia se quemará a sí misma.
Informe de la OCDE apunta a un impacto de largo plazo de la pandemia
Por Nick Beams, 17 junio 2020
El informe califica el panorama económico de "excepcionalmente incierto". Advierte que cualquier recuperación será "vacilante" y estará sujeta a la interrupción por otro brote de la pandemia.
Macron anuncia quiebras masivas y despidos al terminar las restricciones del coronavirus
Por Alex Lantier, 17 junio 2020
Con el breve discurso televisado de Macron, la clase dominante está declarando una guerra de clases internacional contra los trabajadores.
New in German
Möchtegern-Führer Trump intensiviert Putschversuche
Patrick Martin, 13. Juni 2020
Der US-Präsident versucht, einen Vorwand für gewaltsame Unterdrückung und die Errichtung eines autoritären Regimes in Amerika zu fabrizieren.
Washington verschärft Drohkulisse gegen Russland und China mit vermehrten Flügen strategischer Bomber
Alex Lantier, 13. Juni 2020
Mit der sozialen Wut über Polizeigewalt und die Corona-Pandemie verschärft sich auch die Gefahr, dass die herrschende Elite versucht, den Klassenkampf durch externe Kriege zu unterdrücken.
Bildungsministerium sabotiert finanziell schwache Studierende
Christopher Lehmann und Noah Windstein, 13. Juni 2020
Karliczeks Paket bietet den Studierenden keine rasche Hilfe, es ist in jeder Hinsicht gegen sie gerichtet.
New in Turkish
Trump, muhalefeti terörizmle damgalama kampanyasını yoğunlaştırıyor
Patrick Martin, 6 Haziran 2020
Polis şiddetine karşı kitlesel protestolarda yer alan milyonlarca işçi ve genç, Trump yönetiminin gangster yöntemlerine karşı siyasi talepler yükseltmeye başlamalı ve Trump’ın, Pence’in ve diğer komplocuların görevden alınmasını istemelidir.
New in Norwegian
Etabler grunnplankomitéer på fabrikker og arbeidsplasser for å forhindre overføring av Covid-19-virus og redde liv!
Uttalelse fra Socialist Equality Party (USA), 22. mai 2020
Regjeringen og selskapene krever gjenopptakelse av arbeid midt under en pandemi, som hver uke krever flere tusen liv. Deres pådriv for profitter prioriterer ikke arbeideres og deres familiers helse og sikkerhet.
Trump-administrasjonen gjør Taiwan til sin seneste front i antiKina-kampanjen
Peter Symonds, 22. mai 2020
USA har provoserende hyllet gjenvalget av den taiwanske presidenten Tsai Ing-wen og presset på for Taiwans sak under det årlige ministermøtet for Verdens helseorganisasjon (WHO).
USA forbereder antiRussland-krigsspill midt under pandemien
Andrea Peters, 22. mai 2020
Om litt mer enn to uker vil 6 000 amerikanske og polske tropper simulere bakke og luftbårne angrep ca. 56 kilometer fra det russiske territoriet Kaliningrad.
Covid-19-pandemien avslører Frankrikes Nytt Antikapitalistisk Parti
Alex Lantier, 22. mai 2020
Pandemien setter arbeidere i alle land opp i en uforsonlig konflikt med de pro-imperialistiske middelklassepartiene som styringsklassen lenge har fremstilt som venstresiden.
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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SEP US presidential election campaign
SEP launches petition to appear on the presidential ballot in Illinois
17 June 2020
Supporters of the SEP are fighting to gather 5,000 electronic signatures to place Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz on the ballot for the general election in November.
Andreja Pejić interviews Joseph Kishore on Instagram
The Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate spoke about the multiracial protests against police violence, identity politics, and the way forward for the international working class.
- The murder of George Floyd and the fight against police violence in the US
- Oppose the Trump administration’s deportation of 1,000 immigrant children!
- No to the anti-China campaign! For international solidarity against the pandemic and capitalism!
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Commentary
The protests against police murder: The way forward
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US), 15 June 2020
An interview with Dr. Mona Masood, founder of the Physician Support Line
By Kate Randall, 17 June 2020
The WSWS spoke to Dr. Mona Masood about her experience setting up a support line of psychiatrists serving the mental health needs of physicians during the coronavirus pandemic.
Washington Post op-ed calls for news media to censor videos of police brutality
By Nick Barrickman, 17 June 2020
ESPN journalist and University of Maryland Professor Kevin Blackistone has called for the removal of videos of police killings on the grounds that they “dehumanize” black men.
Aboriginal professor awarded an “Order of Australia” promotion
By Mike Head, 17 June 2020
How did Marcia Langton, who began her political life in the 1970s as a leader of the Communist League, become the beneficiary of a Queen’s Honour alongside ex-Prime Minister Tony Abbott?
White House demands end to $600 per week emergency unemployment pay
By Andre Damon, 16 June 2020
As pandemic surges, White House presses ahead with back-to-work campaign
By Kate Randall and Andre Damon, 13 June 2020
More on the police murder of George Floyd »
Would-be führer Trump steps up coup plotting
By Patrick Martin, 12 June 2020
New York Times editor James Bennet resigns over fascist op-ed
A call to the working class! Stop Trump’s coup d’état!
Arts Review
The BBC’s Sitting in Limbo: Compelling dramatization of the anti-migrant Windrush scandal
By Margot Miller, 17 June 2020
Vicious measures were introduced in the aftermath of the 2008 banking crash and subsequent bailout to try and divide the working class by scapegoating ethnic minorities and migrants for the austerity that followed.
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich reviews life, crimes and death of financier
By Kevin Reed, 16 June 2020
The Netflix series paints a picture of the life and times of the late billionaire hedge fund manager and convicted sex offender in the style of a true-crime documentary.
Classical musicians face unprecedented challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic
By Fred Mazelis, 15 June 2020
Homecoming, Season 2: The menacing “giant” that is the US military-industrial complex
By David Walsh, 12 June 2020
June 7 Online Meeting
Workers Struggles
Argentine rubber workers; Mexican health workers strike over COVID-19 response
Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 June 2020
Rubber workers at the Bridgestone-Firestone plant in Llavallol, Argentina and Mexican health care workers staged strikes and protests over lack of adequate protection from exposure to coronavirus.
Free Julian Assange
Journalists expose CIA spying on Assange and demand his freedom
By Oscar Grenfell, 15 June 2020
Julian Assange unable to attend court hearing due to illness as legal travesty continues
By Thomas Scripps, 2 June 2020
Assange extradition hearing rescheduled for September
Assange extradition hearing delayed following defence appeal
Application for delay in Assange extradition hearing as COVID-19 sweeps through UK prisons
Declassified Mueller investigation transcripts confirm no evidence WikiLeaks colluded with Russia
By Thomas Scripps, 15 May 2020
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Reject Australian universities-NTEU job and pay cuts!
By the Committee for Public Education and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, 15 June 2020
SEP (Australia) June 16 online lecture
The founding of the Fourth International
11 June 2020
The lecture will outline the immense contemporary relevance of Leon Trotsky’s establishment of the world party of socialist revolution in 1938.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia) to hold online lectures on history of Trotskyism
History
Book Review
Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
By Shannon Jones, 11 June 2020
The History Channel’s Grant
By Tom Mackaman, 1 June 2020
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lankan president establishes military taskforce: Another step toward dictatorship
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 9 June 2020
The coronavirus pandemic
The Malthusian underpinnings of Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy
By Thomas Scripps, 8 June 2020
Build rank-and-file factory and workplace committees to prevent transmission of the COVID-19 virus and save lives!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US), 21 May 2020
Brazilian Trotskyists issue call for working-class action against pandemic
What will be the cost of implementing this program? Who will pay for it?
Statement of the Brazilian Socialist Equality Group (In Solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International), 2 June 2020
Turkish Trotskyists call for independent working-class action against the pandemic
By Sosyalist Eşitlik (in solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International), 5 June 2020
British Trotskyists issue call for working class action against pandemic
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), 27 May 2020
SEP (Sri Lanka) calls for action committees to counter COVID-19 and defend jobs
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 2 June 2020
Oppose the premature lifting of COVID-19 safety restrictions!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 3 June 2020
London bus drivers face COVID-19 disaster: Build rank-and-file safety committees!
By Laura Tiernan, 5 June 2020
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Thirty years of the Hubble Space Telescope
By Bryan Dyne, 2 May 2020
Science vs. Trump: The dangerous promotion of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19
By Benjamin Mateus, 13 April 2020
International May Day Online Rally
Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 12 May 2020
The ruling elite’s efforts to enforce a return to work—and impose a massive restructuring of class relations to pay for the bailout of Wall Street—will encounter enormous opposition from the working class.
Opening report to Online International May Day Rally
The COVID-19 pandemic: A trigger event in world history
By David North, 4 May 2020
We are publishing here the text of the opening report to the 2020 International Online May Day Rally delivered by David North.
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On May 2, the International Committee of the Fourth International held its annual International May Day Online Rally, with speakers and participants from throughout the world. Readers can listen to the entire rally here.
History
Russian court keeps historian of Stalinist massacres jailed amid COVID-19 outbreak
By Clara Weiss, 12 May 2020
The vendetta against Dmitriev is part of the campaign by Russia’s state and ruling oligarchy to suppress all efforts to uncover the truth about the crimes of Stalinism.
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.
Fifty years since the massacre of students at Kent State
By Patrick Martin, 4 May 2020
The New York Times' 1619 Project
The Times’ 1619 Project is damned with faint praise
Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary, not historical writing
By Tom Mackaman and David North, 9 May 2020
The Pulitzer awards took no notice of the New York Times’ pretentious claims that the 1619 Project is an important contribution to the understanding of American history. It granted Hannah-Jones an award for “Commentary.”
- American Historical Review publishes letter on 1619 Project by Tom Mackaman and David North
- New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
- New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker
- A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
Obituary
Former UAW President Owen Bieber dead at 90
By Jerry White, 27 February 2020
From 1983 to 1995, Bieber presided over the final demise of the UAW as an organization that conducted a limited defense of the day-to-day interests of autoworkers and its transformation into what it is today: a direct arm of corporate management.
Hosni Mubarak, US-backed dictator of Egypt for 30 years, dead at 91
By Bill Van Auken, 26 February 2020
Book Review
Part one
Brendan McGeever’s Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution: Distorting history in the service of identity politics
By Clara Weiss, 11 April 2020
Brendan McGeever’s Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution: Distorting history in the service of identity politics
Part two
By Clara Weiss, 13 April 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.
Amazon
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.
As more workers test positive for COVID-19, Amazon ignores demands to close warehouses
By Tom Carter, 25 March 2020
At least three Amazon workers in Shepherdsville, Kentucky tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday, following the discovery of COVID-19 cases in New York, Florida and Michigan warehouses.
Amazon workers in New York City shut down warehouse after worker tests positive for coronavirus
By Shuvu Batta, 21 March 2020
The discovery that an Amazon worker in Queens had tested positive for coronavirus sparked work stoppages which shut the processing facility Thursday night.
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