8 August 2020
New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
By Evan Blake, 8 August 2020
Cuomo’s mandate provides crucial political support for the Trump administration’s drive to reopen schools irrespective of the cost to human life.
Altered CDC guidelines provide unscientific basis for reopening schools
Resuming college football driven by financial interests
No masks, crowded hallways
Georgia highschoolers use social media to expose disastrous conditions as schools reopen
By Genevieve Leigh, 8 August 2020
Two students from Georgia’s North Paulding High School were suspended after photos of hallways packed with crowds of unmasked students went viral on social media.
Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
By Tony Jackson, 8 August 2020
The attorney general and governor of Texas are endangering the lives of teachers and students with a patently unscientific back-to-school pandemic plan.
“It’s a recipe for disaster”
Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
By Tim Rivers, 8 August 2020
Opposition is growing among autoworkers and other workers to the back-to-school campaign, which is threatening the health of teachers, students and their families.
German schools reopen despite increase in coronavirus infections
By Marianne Arens, 8 August 2020
In order to ensure the capitalists can turn a profit, all established parties, from the Christian Social Union to the Left Party, are pushing for a return to regular in-person teaching.
More on the back to school drive »
As July report shows no let-up in mass joblessness
White House, Congress combine to cut off supplemental unemployment benefits
By Jacob Crosse, 8 August 2020
Driven by social interests irreconcilably opposed to those of the working class, congressional leaders from both parties adjourned Friday without restoring jobless pay.
US coronavirus death toll predicted to reach 295,000 by December
By Bryan Dyne, 8 August 2020
The IHME projection of nearly 300,000 deaths by December exposes the lie that it is safe to reopen the schools.
Columbia University pressures faculty into teaching in-person classes, triggering backlash
By Elliott Murtagh, 8 August 2020
Faculty and graduate instructors have denounced university demands they teach in-person classes during the planned fall campus reopening.
Massive anger erupts following Beirut port explosion
By Jean Shaoul, 8 August 2020
Security forces used tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters near parliament on Thursday.
Beirut port fire: A crime against Lebanese workers
President Trump signs executive orders banning Chinese social media apps TikTok and WeChat
By Kevin Reed, 8 August 2020
On Thursday, the US president signed two executive orders that will ban the operation of TikTok and WeChat in the US unless they are acquired by US-based companies within 45 days.
US moves to delist Chinese companies from stock exchanges
By Nick Beams, 8 August 2020
The move has been couched in terms of protecting “investor safety,” but it is another component of the economic warfare being carried out by Washington.
GM Spring Hill workers speak out against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic
By Zac Thorton, 8 August 2020
The WSWS Autoworker Newsletter has received comments from a number of workers at the Tennessee plant.
“Most people here think the plant should be shut down”
Workers describe unsafe conditions at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant
Ex-UAW regional director forced to resign amid harassment investigation
By Jessica Goldstein, 8 August 2020
Region 2-B Director Richard Rankin presided over major attacks on workers, including the closure of the Lordstown, Ohio GM plant in 2019.
More on autoworkers struggles »
New York University withholds completed dental degree, student facing deportation
By Sam Dalton, 8 August 2020
Despite her completion of coursework, an international student faces deportation because she is unable to pay exorbitant tuition costs and fees.
“This is war, and we have to fight”
USPS workers speak out against privatization drive
By our reporters, 8 August 2020
Opposition is growing among postal workers to the increasingly unbearable work regime and the ongoing efforts to privatize the postal service.
Africa’s one million coronavirus cases “the tip of the iceberg”
By Stephan McCoy, 8 August 2020
Between June and July, the number of cases grew by 500 percent indicating that COVID-19 is more widespread than the official figures suggest.
Reject whitewash report into London bus driver coronavirus deaths! For rank-and-file health and safety committees!
By Laura Tiernan and Miles Driver, 8 August 2019
There is nothing remotely “independent” about University College London’s review into bus driver deaths.
Transport for London coronavirus bailout prepares tube privatisation
Over a third of indigenous Canadians struggling to pay for essentials during pandemic
By Alexandra Greene, 8 August 2020
If anything, the figures presented by Statistics Canada understate the horrific social conditions facing most indigenous people.
Lufthansa, backed by unions, expands job cuts
By Ulrich Rippert, 8 August 2020
In stepping up its attacks on airline workers, Lufthansa collaborates closely with its three unions—UFO, Cockpit and Verdi.
BALPA pilots union enforces sell-out deal at British Airways
Union prepares sellout of Renault strike in Brazil
By Tomas Castanheira, 8 August 2020
The movement that involved thousands of workers and their families is under threat of being shutdown with an agreement that validates the destruction of 747 jobs.
Australia: Woolworths lifts lockout as union pushes through sell-out deal
By Terry Cook, 8 August 2020
The United Workers Union has brokered a sell-out deal that maintains the exploitative conditions and low-pay regime at Woolworths’ Wyong distribution centre.
7 August 2020
As Senate adjourns for weekend
New US unemployment claims top 1 million for 20th straight week
By Jacob Crosse, 7 August 2020
As negotiations stall on federal coronavirus relief bill
Florida governor admits state unemployment system purposefully designed to pay out “least number of claims”
“A nationwide strike is what needs to be done”
Angry educators and parents across the US protest the reckless return to classrooms
By Nancy Hanover, 7 August 2020
Mounting opposition by teachers against drive to reopen schools
Two Florida teenagers die from COVID-19 as schools push to reopen
Chad Wolf testifies before Senate committee
US Homeland Security chief defends police-state crackdown, announces federal paramilitaries to remain in Portland
By Barry Grey, 7 August 2020
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna wins election setting the stage for an eruption of working-class struggles
By K. Ratnayake, 7 August 2020
Health Commissioner forced out as New York City prepares to reopen schools amid national pandemic surge
By Josh Varlin, 7 August 2020
Dangerous conditions in Melbourne quarantine hotels helped cause Australia’s COVID-19 resurgence
By Martin Scott, 7 August 2020
Australia: Victorian hospital admissions soar amid warnings COVID-19 surge will continue for weeks
Canadian court rules Safe Third Country Agreement with US violates refugee rights
By Laurent Lafrance, 7 August 2020
Belarus arrests 33 Russian military contractors ahead of presidential elections
By Jason Melanovski, 7 August 2020
Britain’s National Health Service workers demand pay rise amid COVID-19 crisis
By Rory Woods, 7 August 2020
UK government clears the path for “slums of the future”
By Julia Callaghan, 7 August 2020
West Palm Beach, Florida seniors face eviction from low income housing
By Matthew Taylor, 7 August 2020
Faculty at University of Akron reject sellout contract
By Isaac Finn, 7 August 2020
Violent, secretive fascistic networks operating inside California police stations
By Tom Carter, 7 August 2020
US retail bankruptcies and closures pile up amid pandemic
By Trévon Austin, 7 August 2020
New in Portuguese
Os 75 anos das bombas atômicas de Hiroshima e Nagasaki
Bill Van Auken, 8 Agosto 2020
O significado do aniversário nunca foi tão grande. Por trás das costas do povo dos EUA e do mundo, o imperialismo estadunidense está progressivamente construindo um arsenal nuclear maciço e levando adiante uma doutrina de guerra nuclear agressiva.
Professores brasileiros se opõem ao retorno às aulas
Nossos correspondentes, 8 Agosto 2020
Em meio à intensa oposição dos professores e dos pais, as escolas privadas foram reabertas no mês passado no estado do Amazonas e nesta semana no Rio de Janeiro.
O United Auto Workers: uma conspiração criminosa contra a classe trabalhadora
Shannon Jones, 8 Agosto 2020
Dos altos executivos aos funcionários do baixo escalão, todo o UAW demonstra ser uma conspiração criminosa orientada contra os operários da indústria automotiva.
New in Spanish
El sindicato UAW: una conspiración criminal contra la clase obrera
Shannon Jones, 8 agosto 2020
Desde los altos ejecutivos a los funcionarios de bajo nivel, todo el UAW ha quedado expuesto como una conspiración criminal dirigida contra los trabajadores automotores.
Resolución del Congreso del PSI (EE.UU.)
La
pandemia global, la lucha de clases y las tareas del Partido Socialista
por la Igualdad
8 agosto 2020
Esta resolución fue adoptada por unanimidad por el Sexto Congreso Nacional del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad en los EE.UU., celebrado entre el 19 y el 24 de julio de 2020.
"Una huelga nacional es lo que hay que hacer"
Enojados educadores y padres de todo Estados Unidos protestan por el
imprudente regreso a las aulas
Nancy Hanover, 8 agosto 2020
Desde Florida a California, los maestros y los padres están haciendo caravanas, protestando y haciendo peticiones contra un regreso imprudente a la escuela como lo exige Wall Street y toda la élite política.
Chad Wolf testifica ante un comité del Senado
El jefe de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos defiende la
represión de Estado policial y anuncia que los paramilitares federales
permanecerán en Portland
Barry Grey, 8 agosto 2020
Wolf defendió específicamente la escalofriante práctica llevada a cabo en Portland de secuestrar a los manifestantes a cuadras del palacio de justicia federal, conduciéndolos en vehículos particulares y llevándolos a lugares secretos para ser interrogados.
El precio del oro sube a un nivel récord
Nick Beams, 8 agosto 2020
Un principal fondo de comercio de oro ahora tiene oro igual a un cuarto del que se tiene en Fort Knox en los EE.UU. y tiene más que las reservas de oro del Banco de Japón, el Banco de Inglaterra y el Banco de la Reserva de la India.
New in French
Le SLPP gagne les élections au Sri Lanka, ouvrant la voie à une éruption de luttes ouvrières
K. Ratnayake, 8 août 2020
Alors que le président Rajapakse espère qu’une majorité parlementaire absolue et de nouvelles mesures dictatoriales lui permettront de s’attaquer à la classe ouvrière, l’éclatement de luttes militantes prendra des proportions révolutionnaires.
Les Travailleurs unis de l’automobile: une conspiration criminelle contre la classe ouvrière
Shannon Jones, 8 août 2020
Des cadres supérieurs aux fonctionnaires de bas niveau, le syndicat est démasqué comme une conspiration criminelle dirigée contre les travailleurs de l’automobile.
Des escadrons de la mort fascistes se préparent à commettre des meurtres de masse en Allemagne
Jordan Shilton, 8 août 2020
Des policiers, anciens militaires et militants de l’extrême droite ont participé à une vaste conspiration pour accumuler de grandes quantités d’armes et munitions, créer des lieux sûrs, dresser des listes d’opposants politiques et se procurer les matériaux nécessaires pour se débarrasser de cadavres.
Le mensonge des syndicats aux travailleurs de la santé du Québec: les autorités vont vous protéger
Richard Dufour, 8 août 2020
Dans un article publié dans Le Devoir, le président de la FSSS-CSN demande aux travailleurs de la santé de compter sur le gouvernement Legault – un gouvernement de droite qui a fait preuve de négligence criminelle face au coronavirus – pour assurer leur protection.
Un tribunal canadien juge que l'accord sur les tiers pays sûrs conclu avec les États-Unis viole les droits des réfugiés
Laurent Lafrance, 8 août 2020
Le gouvernement Trudeau a profité de la pandémie de COVID-19 pour éliminer la «faille» qui avait permis à certains réfugiés fuyant la chasse aux sorcières anti-immigrants de Trump d'échapper à l'expulsion immédiate en vertu de la STCA.
New in German
Amerikanische Autogewerkschaft UAW: Eine kriminelle Verschwörung gegen die Arbeiterklasse
Shannon Jones, 8. August 2020
Aus offiziellen Gerichtsdokumenten geht hervor, dass die US-amerikanische Gewerkschaft United Auto Workers von der Spitze bis zum kleinsten Funktionär eine einzige kriminelle Verschwörung gegen die Arbeiterklasse ist.
Schulöffnungen trotz Corona: ein Experiment in Herdenimmunität
Marianne Arens, 8. August 2020
Seit Donnerstag liegen die Zahlen der Corona-Neuinfektionen erstmals seit Mai wieder täglich über tausend. Dennoch setzen alle Landesregierungen die Schulöffnungen nach den Herbstferien rücksichtslos durch und gefährden damit die Gesundheit und das Leben von Hunderttausenden.
Große Koalition rüstet weiter auf und paktiert mit Faschisten
Johannes Stern, 8. August 2020
Auf die gefährliche Wiederausbreitung der Covid-19-Pandemie in Deutschland und Europa, reagiert die herrschende Klasse nicht mit einer Offensive für den Gesundheitsschutz und einer Beseitigung der Mängel im Gesundheitssystem, sondern steckt weitere Milliarden in Aufrüstung und Krieg.
Sri Lanka: Wahlsieg der SLPP wird Kämpfe der Arbeiterklasse auf die Tagesordnung setzen
K. Ratnayake, 8. August 2020
Präsident Rajapakse von der SLPP hofft, dass ihm eine absolute Mehrheit im Parlament und neue diktatorische Maßnahmen erlauben, gegen die Arbeiterklasse vorzugehen. Gleichzeitig wird der Ausbruch von militanten Kämpfen ein revolutionäres Ausmaß annehmen.
New in Mandarin
社会阶级、资本主义与乔治·弗洛伊德的谋杀
Niles Niemuth, 2020年8月3日
就像过去常常发生的那样，政治建制和媒体在鼓吹一种种族叙事，以此来掩盖警察暴力背后的社会和经济基础，来将大众的愤怒从资本主义制度上转移开来。
一个中国学生关于COVID-19疫情的来信
a correspondent, 2020年7月22日
这次疫情激起的危机还将造成怎样的长期的决定性的负面影响。
支持国际工人阶级对抗COVID-19大流行病的行动！
第四国际国际委员会的声明, 2020年6月29日
只有一场来自国际工人阶级的反对资本主义的独立政治干预 才能结束COVID-19大流行带来的大规模死亡
工人阶级、社会主义与抗击大流行病
David North, 2020年6月18日
在第四国际创始文件《过渡纲领》中，列昂·托洛茨基将1936-1937年大萧条期间在美国爆发的静坐罢工描述为 “美国工人为了将自己提升到历史给予他们的那些任务的水准所做的本能努力”。
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。
New in Turkish
Beyrut limanı yangını: Lübnanlı işçilere karşı işlenen bir suç
Jean Shaoul, 7 Ağustos 2020
Salı günü öğleden sonra Beyrut limanı bölgesini tamamen saran feci yangın, Lübnan’ın aşırı zengin egemen sınıfına uzun zamandır duyulan öfkeyi körüklemiş durumda.
New in Russian
Проамериканская либеральная оппозиция продвигает в ходе российских протестов линию на усиление региональных властей
Клара Вайс, 7 августа 2020 г.
Политическая интервенция проамериканской «либеральной» оппозиции направлена прежде всего на то, чтобы повернуть против Путина верхушку среднего класса и олигархии и склонить их к правому «дворцовому перевороту».
New in Norwegian
Trumps planer om å sende ut paramilitært politi på tvers av USA: Styringsklassen forbereder seg for borgerkrig
Patrick Martin, 23. juli 2020
Trump-administrasjonens planer om å utplassere føderale paramilitære styrker i amerikanske storbyer er en vesentlig opptrapping av angrepet mot demokratiske rettigheter og for oppbyggingen av politistat-styreformer.
EU-toppmøte enes om fond på € 750 milliarder for bankene og storforetakene
Will Morrow, 23. juli 2020
Avtalen tilrettelegger en ny inntektsstrøm for europeiske stater til å besørge utdelinger til storselskaper, og en ny nøysomhetsmekanisme for innstramminger på tvers av kontinentet.
Brev fra en student i Kina om Covid-19-pandemien
en korrespondent, 23. juli 2020
«Folk er bekymret for at de på toppen av vanskelighetene de allerede har gjennomlevd skal møte flere ukjente, langsiktige og negative konsekvenser av pandemien.»
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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Former Australian PM: Beware the Guns of August in Asia
By Peter Symonds, 8 August 2020
Kevin Rudd argues that the danger of war between the US and China is greater than at any time since the 1950s and warns the risk “will be especially high” in the lead up to the US presidential election.
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By the Socialist Equality Party (UK), 8 August 2020
The SEP calls for the development of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees to prepare for a general strike against the opening of schools and the murderous policy of the ruling class.
For a nationwide general strike to halt the drive to reopen schools!
By Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 5 August 2020
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New COVID-19 infections take hold in first week of attempted cruise industry restart
By Tom Casey, 4 August 2020
Montreal dockworkers escalate strike action against speed-up, victimization
By Carl Bronski, 4 August 2020
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
“How war and dictatorship are prepared at universities”
Well-attended online meeting concludes IYSSE election campaign at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
By our reporters, 4 August 2020
Germany: Stop right-wing terror! IYSSE student parliament campaign at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
“The Secret Service is the cockpit of right-wing terrorism”
By our reporter, 30 July 2020
Humboldt University student parliament condemns radical right-wing Professor Baberowski
By Helmut van Heiken, 13 July 2020
Socialist Equality Party (US)
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Congress adopts resolution on the coronavirus pandemic and the fight for socialism
The Political Committee of the Socialist Equality Party (US), 1 August 2020
Stop Trump’s coup d’état! Mobilize the working class against authoritarianism and dictatorship!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 27 July 2020
This week in history: August 3-9
25 years ago: Croatia launches ethnic cleansing of Serbs
On August 4, 1995, the Croatian Army launched Operation Storm, one of the last major campaigns of the Bosnian War.
50 years ago: Egypt-Israel “War of Attrition” ends
On August 7, 1970, the governments of Egypt and Israel accepted a ceasefire agreement that brought an end to the War of Attrition stalemate along the Suez Canal.
75 years ago: US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States military detonated nuclear bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, in the first wartime use of atomic weapons.
100 years ago: Soviets reject Allied truce terms with Poland
On August 8, 1920, the Soviet republic refused to grant a 10-day truce to the nationalist Polish government in fighting outside Warsaw, on the conditions proposed by British and French imperialism.
Internet Censorship
An open letter to Google: Stop the censorship of the Internet! Stop the political blacklisting of the World Socialist Web Site!
25 August 2017
Google suppressing World Socialist Web Site content in its search results for the New York Times’ 1619 Project
Free Julian Assange
Ten years since WikiLeaks published the Afghan war logs
By Oscar Grenfell, 31 July 2020
UK MPs submit early day motion on Assange
Online documentary exposes the psychological torture of Julian Assange
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
Science
Three missions to Mars are now under way
By Don Barrett, 31 July 2020
Antarctic ice sheet melting could accelerate rapidly, leading to catastrophic rise in sea level
By Philip Guelpa, 27 July 2020
Autoworkers Struggles
As COVID-19 spreads at Toledo Jeep and other plants
Build rank-and-file safety committees at every workplace to save lives!
By the FCA Jefferson North, Sterling Heights and Toledo Jeep Rank-and-File Safety Committees, 18 July 2020
The number of COVID-19 infections is rising all across the US, and emergency action has to be taken.
Rank-and-file safety committee demands immediate shut down
COVID-19 out of control at Toledo Jeep plant
Toledo Fiat Chrysler workers launch rank-and-file safety committee to save lives amid COVID-19 rampage
History
“Palace letters” point to the plotting behind the 1975 constitutional coup in Australia
By Mike Head, 17 July 2020
“Literacy is a clean window onto the world ...”
100 years since formation of Soviet Extraordinary Commission for the Liquidation of Illiteracy
By Patrick O’Connor, 8 July 2020
Socialist Equality Party
SEP (Australia) holds lecture series on the history of Trotskyism
By Oscar Grenfell, 17 July 2020
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
Tamil National Alliance offers to support Sri Lankan president’s autocratic rule
By Paramu Thirugnanasambanthar—lead SEP candidate for Jaffna district, 17 July 2020
Verfassungsschutz Report 2019: German secret service downplays threat of Nazi terrorism and attacks socialist politics
By Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, 16 July 2020
As support widens for SEP defence campaign
Sri Lanka army commander says allegations of military harassment of northern election candidates are “false”
By our correspondents, 16 July 2020
Letters demand Sri Lankan defence secretary stop military harassment of SEP candidates
By our correspondents, 9 July 2020
Hands off the Sri Lankan Trotskyists
SEP demands military stops harassing its election candidates in Jaffna
July 4th Online Discussion
The World Socialist Web Site celebrated the 244th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by hosting a discussion with five eminent historians: Victoria Bynum, Clayborne Carson, Richard Carwardine, James Oakes and Gordon Wood. The event was moderated by Kings College professor Tom Mackaman and WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North.
The significance of the July 4 online discussion, “The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future”
By David Walsh, 6 July 2020
The Legacy of the American Revolution and Civil War
The two American Revolutions in world history
By David North, 4 July 2020
An interview with Ed Achorn, author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
By Shannon Jones, 10 July 2020
Democrats’ denunciation of America’s revolutionary heritage provides an opening for Trump
By Niles Niemuth, 7 July 2020
Racial-communalist politics and the second assassination of Abraham Lincoln
By Niles Niemuth and David North, 25 June 2020
Socialist Equality Party (US)
Twenty-five years since the death of Ed Winn
By Fred Mazelis, 26 June 2020
Twice the presidential candidate of the Workers League, Ed Winn fought for Marxist principles throughout the American and international working class. He was a New York City transit worker for 22 years.
Book Review
The Room Where it Happened: John Bolton’s account of the “palace coup” opposition to Trump
By Andre Damon, 26 June 2020
The New York Times' 1619 Project
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
- Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary, not historical writing
- 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
Mehring Books
Introduction to The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995
By Joseph Kishore, 19 June 2020
We are publishing here the introduction to the upcoming book The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995. The book consists of lectures on the development of the perspective and program of the International Committee of the Fourth International in the aftermath of the split with the British Workers Revolutionary Party in February 1986.
June 7 Online Meeting
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
More on the coronavirus pandemic »
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.
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
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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