12 August 2020
Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate
By Patrick Martin, 12 August 2020
Harris satisfies the advocates of identity politics while reassuring big business with her law-and-order record and close ties to the moneyed elite.
Analysis shows 54,000 “excess deaths” in US, pointing to coronavirus death toll of 200,700
By Kate Randall, 12 August 2020
A new analysis shows that the number of deaths from the coronavirus has likely been undercounted by 37 percent.
After White House, Congress cut aid to unemployed, evictions and food lines spread across the US
By Jacob Crosse, 12 August 2020
As eviction filings increase to pre-pandemic levels, workers and their families are left to fend for themselves.
Schools make students sign liability waivers acknowledging risk of death
By Sam Wayne and Usman Khan, 12 August 2020
Colleges and K-12 schools across the US have sent letters to parents and students, requiring liability waivers be signed before students can return for in-person classes.
“We need to be the ones making the decision about when and how to reopen”
Oklahoma schools reopen amid growing opposition from teachers
By Mitch Marcus and Phyllis Steele, 12 August 2020
Teachers across the state have reacted with disgust and anger at this week’s re-opening, which threatens to produce an explosion of new infections and deaths.
Ford Chicago Assembly workers launch Rank-and-File Safety Committee to save lives
By the Ford Chicago Assembly Rank-and-File Safety Committee, 12 August 2020
Our coworkers are falling ill and even dying, but management and the union refuse to tell us the truth about how many have been exposed to or become infected with COVID-19.
Protests, crackdown follow Belarus elections
By Jason Melanovski and Andrea Peters, 12 August 2020
Western imperialism is seeking to exploit the Lukashenko government’s violent suppression of protests to fuel its war drive against Russia.
French government ends social distancing requirements in schools as classes set to resume
By Will Morrow, 12 August 2020
An analysis of the back-to-school plans makes clear the fraudulent and essentially homicidal character of the Macron administration’s policy.
Australia: Rising number of COVID-19 infections in Sydney schools
By Oscar Grenfell, 12 August 2020
Experts have warned that the school clusters are likely the “tip of the iceberg,” signalling broader community transmission in New South Wales.
Reject Johnson’s lies that UK schools are safe! For a general strike to block the reopening of schools
By Tania Kent, 12 August 2020
Johnson made clear that the reopening of schools was “integral to kick starting the economy.”
Johnson government deploys armed forces against refugees making Channel crossings
By Tony Robson, 12 August 2020
These inhumane, illegal, and xenophobic measures must be opposed. What is being legitimised is state repression and a further evisceration of the right to asylum.
Bringing Afghanistan home:
Canada’s military launched operation to “shape” opinion amid pandemic
By Roger Jordan, 12 August 2020
Sparked by fears of “civil unrest,” the operation included plans for military personnel to broadcast government-approved propaganda over loudspeakers and temporary radio stations.
Hospital fire in southern India kills 10 COVID-19 patients
By Arun Kumar, 12 August 2020
With the pandemic spreading rapidly in the country, the circumstances of the fire point to criminal negligence on the part of governments and hotel and hospital authorities.
Germany deports Roma family to Moldova despite life-threatening conditions
By Carola Kleinert, 12 August 2020
The deportations were planned and carried out by the Social Democratic/Left Party/Green government in the state of Berlin.
Over a million jobs lost in Spain amid coronavirus pandemic
By Alice Summers, 12 August 2020
Another 1 million workers are still furloughed in Spain, and will likely be cast onto unemployment rolls when this scheme comes to an end in the autumn.
Armed forces and fascist gangs mobilized against blockades in Bolivia
By Tomas Castanheira, 12 August 2020
The demand for the immediate fall of the Áñez regime, brought to power in last November’s US-backed coup, is gaining increasing popular support.
College football season in doubt after Big Ten and Pac-12 postpone fall sports
By Andy Thompson, 12 August 2020
The sudden reversal by the two conferences came after growing opposition by players, which may have been a decisive factor in their decision to postpone the season.
11 August 2020
Lebanese government resigns amid mounting anger over port blast
By Jean Shaoul, 11 August 2020
Massive anger erupts following Beirut port explosion
US Attorney General Barr gives fascistic tirade against Antifa, Black Lives Matter
By Patrick Martin, 11 August 2020
Chicago mayor locks down business district after police shooting sparks looting
By Kristina Betinis, 11 August 2020
Sri Lankan election exposes historic crisis of capitalist rule
By K. Ratnayake, 11 August 2020
New York educators and students denounce Governor Cuomo’s push to reopen schools
By the World Socialist Web Site Educators Newsletter, 11 August 2020
New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
Germany reopens its schools: An experiment in herd immunity
By Marianne Arens, 11 August 2020
German schools reopen despite increase in coronavirus infections
More on the back to school drive »
Germany: Did AfD-related public prosecutors cover up right-wing extremist attacks in Berlin?
By Katerina Selin, 11 August 2020
Top US health official makes provocative trip to Taiwan
By Peter Symonds, 11 August 2020
Philippines not to join wargames in the South China Sea
By Joseph Santolan, 11 August 2020
King Juan Carlos flees Spain to avoid corruption probe
By Alejandro López, 11 August 2020
“They are treating us all like pawns—we are the ones who suffer”
Health care workers rally across UK against unsafe conditions
By our reporters, 11 August 2020
Peru reopens economy as thousands of miners contract COVID-19
By Mauricio Saavedra, 11 August 2020
The brutality of capitalist justice
Louisiana Supreme Court denies review of Fair Wayne Bryant’s life sentence for allegedly stealing a pair of hedge clippers
By Helen Halyard, 11 August 2020
Deadly explosion in northwest Baltimore neighborhood injures dozens
By Nick Barrickman, 11 August 2020
“They spout in the news ‘thank you to health care heroes’ but what thanks do we get?”
US nurses’ poll shows appalling working conditions in the pandemic
By Julian James, 11 August 2020
“They have a multi-billion dollar corporation, and they work us to death”
Indiana Faurecia workers denounce unsafe conditions, forced overtime
By Tim Rivers, 11 August 2020
GM Spring Hill workers speak out against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Ex-UAW regional director forced to resign amid harassment investigation
More on autoworkers struggles »
USPS centralizes leadership as step towards privatization and possible election fraud
By Shuvu Batta, 11 August 2020
“This is war, and we have to fight”
USPS workers speak out against privatization drive
As US cruise industry delays operations until November, thousands of seafarers remain stranded
By Tom Casey, 11 August 2020
Indonesian economy contracts for first time in over two decades
By Owen Howell, 11 August 2020
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USA: Weniger Tests und Öffnung der Schulen trotz fünf Millionen Covid-19-Fällen
Benjamin Mateus, 11. August 2020
In den letzten Wochen ist die Zahl der täglichen Corona-Tests deutlich zurückgegangen. Gleichzeitig wird die Wiedereröffnung der Schulen fieberhaft vorangetrieben.
Trumps illegale Machtaneignung und das Gespenst des amerikanischen Bonapartismus
Andre Damon, 11. August 2020
Trumps Aneignung der Hoheit des Kongresses über Steuern und Ausgaben ist der jüngste Akt in seinen jahrelangen Bemühungen, alle verfassungsmäßigen Beschränkungen der Macht des Präsidenten zu beseitigen.
New in Norwegian
Oligarkiets politikk: Føderal ankedomstol blokkerer SEPs utfordring av antidemokratiske lover for valgdeltakelse i California
Joseph Kishore – Socialist Equality Partys presidentkandidat i USA, 10. august 2020
Responsen fra styringsklassen og dens stat på SEPs juridiske utfordring er bestemt av ett politisk motiv: Hold sosialister av stemmeseddelen!
Massivt raseri bryter ut etter eksplosjonen i Beirut-havn
Jean Shaoul, 10. august 2020
Sikkerhetsstyrker brukte på torsdag tåregass for å spre demonstrasjon mot regjeringen i nærheten av parlamentet.
Domstolen avviser å høre SEP-kandidatenes anke i søksmålet om stemmerettigheter i California før valgsedlene går i trykken
Shuvu Batta, 10. august 2020
Et panel av tre dommere ved den føderale ankedomstolen Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals har avvist en anmodning fra Socialist Equality Partys kandidater Joseph Kishore og Norissa Santa Cruz om at deres anke må bli hørt før stemmesedler trykkes i California.
Tidligere australsk statsminister: Se opp for kanonene i august i Asia
Peter Symonds, 10. august 2020
Kevin Rudd argumenterer for at faren for krig mellom USA og Kina er større enn på noe tidspunkt siden 1950-tallet, og advarer for at risikoen «vil være spesielt høy» under oppløpet til det amerikanske presidentvalget.
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.
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¿Por qué EE.UU. hace cada vez menos pruebas de COVID-19?
Por Bryan Dyne, 12 agosto 2020
Sin una explicación seria por parte del Gobierno, el número de pruebas siendo administradas a diario en EE.UU. ha caído significativamente en las últimas dos semanas.
El Gobierno libanés renuncia según crece la ira por explosión en puerto
Por Jean Shaoul, 12 agosto 2020
Mientras la causa inmediata de la explosión no ha sido confirmada, el desastre fue el resultado de la negligencia criminal y la indiferencia indolente de varios Gobiernos sucesivos y la élite gobernante libanesa.
El fiscal general de los Estados Unidos Barr da una diatriba fascista contra Antifa, Black Lives Matter
Por Patrick Martin, 12 agosto 2020
Barr hizo una amalgama política que conectaba al Partido Demócrata, Black Lives Matter, Antifa y terrorismo.
Perú reabre su economía con la contratación de miles de mineros de COVID-19
Por Mauricio Saavedra, 12 agosto 2020
Con 478.024 casos de coronavirus, el Perú es el tercer país más infectado de América Latina, y con más de 21.000 muertes, tiene el mayor número de muertes per cápita de la región.
El rey Juan Carlos huye de España para evitar ser investigado por corrupción
Por Alejandro López, 12 agosto 2020
El anterior rey Juan Carlos I de Borbón, que reinó desde 1975 hasta abdicar en 2014, ha huido de España en medio de investigaciones por supuestos sobornos y fraude.
El plan de Biden para una presidencia de derecha: Segunda parte
Por Patrick Martin, 12 agosto 2020
En China, la plataforma demócrata ataca a Trump desde la derecha, alegando que sus políticas de guerra comercial no han restaurado los puestos de trabajo en los Estados Unidos y prometiendo "hacer frente" a Beijing.
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 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 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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The ruling-class conspiracy to reopen schools: Profit versus science
12 August 2020
The science is clear: the reopening of schools under the current conditions will lead to countless deaths among students, parents, teachers, and more broadly in the working class.
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Who is Democratic Senator Kamala Harris?
By Dan Conway, 12 August 2020
In this political profile of Harris, published in July 2019, the World Socialist Web Site summed up her career as a representative of the US criminal justice system and a reliable defender of corporate and intelligence state interests.
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The global pandemic, the class struggle, and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
1 August 2020
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31 July 2020
75 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Bill Van Auken, 6 August 2020
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7 August 2020
The founder of American Trotskyism warned in August 1945 that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan placed before humanity the alternative of “socialism or annihilation.”
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By Patrick Martin, 11 August 2020
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By Andre Damon, 10 August 2020
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By Peter Symonds, 8 August 2020
UK: For a general strike against the reopening of schools
By the Socialist Equality Party (UK), 8 August 2020
For a nationwide general strike to halt the drive to reopen schools!
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The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995
12 August 2020
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This week in history: August 10-16
25 years ago: Indictments in Oklahoma City bombing
On August 10, 1995, a federal grand jury handed down indictments against the two main suspects in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in which 168 people died.
50 years ago: New York prisoners riot against conditions
On August 10, 1970, prisoners held in the Manhattan House of Detention, or “The Tombs,” rioted against inhospitable conditions and attacks on their democratic rights in the vastly overcrowded jail.
75 years ago: Japan surrenders after nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 15, 1945 the Japanese imperial regime officially declared that it would surrender to the United States, days after the American military dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
100 years ago: Polish troops break through Red Army lines outside of Warsaw
On August 16, 1920, Polish troops counterattacked against the Red Army outside Warsaw, the Polish capital, and threatened to encircle it.
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By Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US President, 8 August 2020
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By Shuvu Batta, 6 August 2020
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Growing demands that Sri Lankan defence secretary end the military harassment of SEP candidates
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
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.
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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