17 August 2020
Teacher sickout closes Arizona school district as support grows for national strike
By Jerry White, 17 August 2020
Phoenix area teachers forced the closure of the first day of school today as protests against the unsafe opening of schools spread across the country.
For a nationwide general strike to halt the drive to reopen schools!
Prominent lawyers and legal associations demand Assange’s freedom
By Oscar Grenfell, 17 August 2020
The 152 legal experts are unambiguous: the campaign against Assange has been based on gross violations of law and he must be immediately released from prison.
South Dakota governor first to reject unemployment aid from Trump executive order
By Jacob Crosse, 17 August 2020
While four states have already been approved by FEMA to begin authorizing payments, Kristie Noem cited cherry-picked statistics to justify her rejection of federal benefits.
With pandemic raging, Florida governor deepens drive to reopen schools
By Alex Johnson, 17 August 2020
School districts and teachers in Florida have been forced to resume in-person learning while COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to surge throughout the state.
US child care in existential crisis as schools and businesses reopen
By Nick Barrickman, 17 August 2020
As plummeting enrollment at day cares during the spring forced many to close, the beginning of grade school classes in the fall will compound the crisis.
Texas A&M faculty decry plans to reopen campuses in midst of pandemic
By Chase Lawrence, 17 August 2020
Faculty, professors and students at multiple Texas A&M University campuses recently penned an open letter that has garnered roughly 900 signatures.
A risky game with health and lives as schools reopen throughout Germany
By Gregor Link, 17 August 2020
With the beginning of mandatory school attendance, the number of COVID-19 infections is increasing.
For a general strike against the reopening of German schools!
Scotland’s schools reopen as COVID-19 infects students
By Steve James, 17 August 2020
The Scottish National Party’s school reopening exposes it as the accomplice of the Johnson government’s herd immunity strategy.
More on the back to school drive »
Half of UK Early Years learning workers paid less than minimum wage for 25-year-olds
By Charlotte Salthill, 17 August 2020
Low pay is one of the main reasons given for leaving the profession, alongside increasing work demands and a lack of training and professional development.
Judge blocks GM’s bid to reopen racketeering case against Fiat Chrysler
By Marcus Day, 17 August 2020
The judge made the ruling despite credible and explosive new allegations about the scale and scope of FCA's bribery of the United Auto Workers union.
Indiana Rank-and-File Safety Committee demands reinstatement of whistleblower at Faurecia Gladstone plant
By Tim Rivers, 17 August 2020
The newly-formed Faurecia Gladstone Rank and File Safety Committee is also demanding an immediate halt on the part of the company and the local union to all forms of intimidation and harassment.
Heat wave, rolling blackouts affect thousands across California
By Peter Ross, 17 August 2020
A major heat wave affecting much of the southwestern US caused rolling blackouts Friday and Saturday throughout California.
Canadian provinces and cities confront huge deficits as economic crisis deepens
By Omar Ali, 17 August 2020
Huge debts, which have been accumulated chiefly through measures to bail out the banks and financial oligarchy, are being seized upon to demand intensified austerity for the working class.
India: Motherson’s “inquiry” rubber stamps sacking of strikers
By Arun Kumar, 17 August 2020
The ongoing persecution of Motherson autoparts strikers was facilitated by the Maoist Left Trade Union Centre’s betrayal of the 140-day walkout.
US-backed opposition in Solomon Islands opposes ties to Beijing
By Patrick O’Connor, 17 August 2020
A provincial administration in Malaita insists that it has the right to maintain its own relations with Taiwan and refuses to recognise Beijing.
15 August 2020
Fauci warns against herd immunity: “the death toll would be enormous”
By Bryan Dyne, 15 August 2020
Hawaii schools to reopen August 17 as opposition grows
By Renae Cassimeda, 15 August 2020
Brazilian teachers report 36 COVID-infected schools after one week of classes in Manaus
By Tomas Castanheira, 15 August 2020
Lebanon’s oligarchs and imperialist backers seek to exploit outrage over Beirut port blast
By Jean Shaoul, 15 August 2020
Amid mounting political crisis, Colombia faces world’s highest COVID-19 death rate
By Julian James, 15 August 2020
Government watchdog concludes acting heads of Homeland Security were illegally appointed by Trump
By Jacob Crosse, 15 August 2020
Workers denounce cover-up and intimidation around COVID-19 infections at Fiat Chrysler Belvidere plant
By Kristina Betinis, 15 August 2020
UAW announces COVID outbreak at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville with 32 new cases
By Steve Filips, 15 August 2020
More on autoworkers struggles »
Powerful windstorm leaves 4 dead, 1.5 million without power across US Midwest
By Jessica Goldstein, 15 August 2020
The Democrats and Republicans: Two wolves hunting the United States Postal Service
By Shuvu Batta, 15 August 2020
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot announces police crackdown
By Michael Walters, 15 August 2020
Infiltration of US protests against police brutality used to delegitimize demonstrations, undermine democratic rights
By Adam Mclean, 15 August 2020
Journalists in Malaysia persecuted for exposing treatment of migrant workers
By Owen Howell, 15 August 2020
Report highlights super-exploited conditions of Australia’s casual university staff
By John Harris, 15 August 2020
New in German
Oligarchie der USA profitiert von Corona-Toten
Andre Damon, 15. August 2020
Am vergangenen Mittwoch verzeichneten die USA einen makabren Doppelrekord: 1.503 Menschen starben an Covid-19, gleichzeitig erreichte der Aktienindex S&P; 500 einen neuen Höchststand. Die Zahl der Todesfälle und die Aktienkurse steigen parallel.
IG Metall bereitet massiven Arbeitsplatzabbau und Lohnkürzungen vor
Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 15. August 2020
Die IG Metall bereitet sich darauf vor, gemeinsam mit den Unternehmen Hunderttausende Arbeitsplätze abzubauen, vor allem in der Autoindustrie.
USA: Massiver Anstieg von Covid-19 nach Beginn der Schulöffnungen
Zac Corrigan, 15. August 2020
In den USA geht die Wiederaufnahme des Präsenzunterrichts weiter. Tausende von Lehrern und Schülern werden dem tödlichen Virus ausgesetzt.
Die Corona-Pandemie und der Kapitalismus
Russischer Impfstoff verschärft globalen Kampf um Profite und
geopolitischen Vorsprung
Barry Grey, 15. August 2020
Wladimir Putin gab am Dienstag bekannt, dass Russland einen Impfstoff gegen Covid-19 offiziell genehmigen wird. Der globale Konflikt zwischen den Nationalstaaten und den Pharmakonzernen darüber, wer im Kampf gegen das Virus als Erstes einen Impfstoff in großen Mengen produziert und vermarktet, verschärft sich.
„Das Ende der DDR“ und „Rückblende“ von Nadeschda Joffe als E-Book erhältlich
dem Mehring Verlag, 15. August 2020
Zwei Bücher aus dem Mehring Verlag, die sich mit dem Ende der DDR und der Verfolgung linker Oppositioneller durch Stalins Regime in der Sowjetunion befassen, sind nun auch in allen Formaten als E-Book erhältlich.
--New in Norwegian
Valget av Kamala Harris og degraderingen av amerikansk politikk
Joseph Kishore – presidentkandidat i USA for Socialist Equality Party, 14. august 2020
Det er noe utrolig nedverdigende og skammelig ved hele prosessen, som vitner om amerikansk politikks intellektuelle og kulturelle kollaps.
Skoler krever at elever undertegner ansvarsfraskrivelse og erkjenner dødsrisiko
Sam Wayne og Usman Khan, 14. august 2020
High schools og K-12-skoler over hele USA har sendt brev til foreldre og elever der de krever fraskrivelse av erstatningsansvar før elevene kommer tilbake til klasseromsundervisning.
Koronaviruspandemien og kapitalismen
Russlands vaksine intensiverer den globale kampen om profitter og geopolitisk fordel
Barry Grey, 14. august 2020
Vladimir Putins kunngjøring på tirsdag at Russland offisielt har godkjent en Covid-19-vaksine har intensivert den globale konflikten mellom nasjonalmakter og farmasøytiske giganter om å bli først til å masseprodusere og markedsføre en vaksine mot det dødelige viruset.
New in Portuguese
O julgamento de fachada de Julian Assange: Uma farsa cruel e pseudolegal
Thomas Scripps e Kevin Reed, 17 Agosto 2020
A audiência de ontem em Londres mostrou claramente, se mais alguma prova era necessária, que a acusação de Julian Assange é um vergonhoso e degradante julgamento de fachada, com o objetivo de condenar um homem inocente à prisão ou à morte.
New in Spanish
El juicio fraudulento contra Julian Assange: una farsa cruel y pseudolegal
Thomas Scripps y Kevin Reed, 17 agosto 2020
La audiencia de ayer en Londres dejó en claro, si hacía falta alguna prueba adicional, que el proceso contra Assange es un espectáculo judicial vergonzoso y degradante cuyo objetivo es enviar forzosamente a un hombre inocente a prisión o a su muerte.
Revista Jacobin sobre la selección de Kamala Harris: ¡Quédate con los demócratas!
Genevieve Leigh, 17 agosto 2020
No hay nada demasiado sucio que el Partido Demócrata pueda hacer que lleve a Jacobin y a la DSA a concluir que el partido no puede ser reformado.
Fauci advierte contra la inmunidad colectiva: "El número de muertos sería enorme"
Bryan Dyne, 17 agosto 2020
El Dr. Anthony Fauci, uno de los principales expertos mundiales en enfermedades infecciosas, advirtió contra la relajación de los esfuerzos para combatir el COVID-19, declarando: "El número de muertos sería enorme y totalmente inaceptable”.
Las primeras dos semanas de reapertura de escuelas en EE. UU. conducen a una propagación masiva de COVID-19
Zac Corrigan, 17 agosto 2020
Las escuelas de los EE.UU. continuaron reabriendo sus puertas para las clases presenciales esta semana, lo que ha llevado a la exposición de miles de profesores y estudiantes al virus mortal.
Los oligarcas de Líbano y auspiciadores imperialistas buscan sacar partido de la ira por la explosión en puerto de Beirut
Jean Shaoul, 17 agosto 2020
En medio de un enojo de masas por la explosión portuaria, una campaña contra Hezbolá está vinculada con las agresiones de EE.UU. contra Irán.
"Nuestras vidas no le importan a Ford": trágica muerte por COVID-19 de un joven contratista es encubierta por la gerencia y el UAW
Shannon Jones, 17 agosto 2020
La muerte de un joven trabajador de la planta de transmisiones de Ford en Van Dyke por COVID-19 es el resultado inevitable del brutal afán de lucro de las compañías de automóviles, ayudadas por el sindicato UAW.
Docentes brasileños reportan 36 escuelas infectadas por COVID después de una semana de clases en Manaus
Tomas Castanheira, 17 agosto 2020
Prácticamente todos los estados y capitales brasileños tienen planes en curso para reproducir el modelo homicida de reaperturas escolares en Manaus.
En medio de creciente crisis política, Colombia enfrenta la tasa de mortalidad por COVID-19 más alta del mundo
Julin James, 17 agosto 2020
En las últimas semanas, el país registró la tasa de mortalidad por COVID-19 per cápita más alta del mundo, 43,1 muertes por millón de personas, en comparación con 32,9 por millón en Brasil y 24,4 en Estados Unidos.
Las compañías de seguros de salud de EE.UU. ganan miles de millones mientras la pandemia COVID-19 inflige muerte y miseria
Alex Johnson, 17 agosto 2020
Las principales cadenas de atención de la salud, entre ellas Anthem, Humana y UnitedHealth Group, han registrado en el segundo trimestre unos ingresos que duplican los del mismo período del año anterior.
Trabajadores inmigrantes de Wisconsin en frigoríficos despedidos como represalia por protestar las condiciones de trabajo inseguras
Rafael Azul, 17 agosto 2020
Después de emplear a los trabajadores durante años, la gerencia informó repentinamente a los trabajadores seleccionados que no estaban autorizados a trabajar en los Estados Unidos.
El Congreso se va de vacaciones un mes sin tomar medidas sobre la crisis del desempleo en EE. UU.
Patrick Martin, 17 agosto 2020
Los políticos capitalistas celebrarán sus convenciones de nominación presidencial mientras que millones de trabajadores han sido excluidos de los beneficios federales.
New in French
Le Royaume-Uni en récession record à l’approche d’une catastrophe sociale
Thomas Scripps, 14 août 2020
La classe ouvrière doit s’opposer à tous ceux qui exigent qu’elle se sacrifie pour sauver l’économie.
La sélection de Kamala Harris et la dégradation de la politique américaine
Joseph Kishore: Candidat du SEP au poste de président des États-Unis, 14 août 2020
Il y a quelque chose d’incroyablement dégradant et honteux dans tout ce processus, qui témoigne de l’effondrement intellectuel et culturel de la politique américaine.
Allemagne: Le SPD nomme le ministre des Finances, Scholz, comme candidat à la chancellerie
Peter Schwarz, 14 août 2020
La nomination de Scholz est un signal pour l’oligarchie financière et les éléments de droite dans l’appareil d’État qu’ils peuvent compter sur le SPD sans réserve.
Ramener l'Afghanistan au pays:
L'armée canadienne lance une opération pour «façonner» l'opinion publique en pleine pandémie
Roger Jordan, 14 août 2020
Enclenchée par la crainte de «désordres publics», l’opération prévoyait que le personnel militaire diffuse de la propagande approuvée par le gouvernement à l’aide de haut-parleurs et de postes de radio temporaires.
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
Türkiye ile gerilimler artarken Fransa Yunanistan ile ortak tatbikat düzenledi
Ulaş Ateşçi ve Alex Lantier, 14 Ağustos 2020
COVID-19 pandemisi önceden var olan siyasi ve stratejik çatışmaları yoğunlaştırırken, NATO güçleri arasında savaş tehlikesi büyüyor.
New in Russian
Выбор Камалы Харрис и деградация американской политики
Джозеф Кишор — кандидат ПСР в президенты США, 14 августа 2020 г.
Есть нечто невероятно унизительное и постыдное во всем этом процессе, свидетельствующее об интеллектуальном и культурном крахе американской политики.
Пандемия коронавируса и капитализм
Российская вакцина усиливает глобальную борьбу за прибыль и
геополитические преимущества
Бэрри Грей, 14 августа 2020 г.
Сделанное Владимиром Путиным 11 августа заявление о том, что Россия официально зарегистрировала вакцину против COVID-19, усилило глобальный конфликт между национальными державами и фармацевтическими гигантами, которые первыми массово производят и продают вакцину против смертельного вируса.
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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17 August 2020
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Commentary
Prepare a nationwide general strike to stop the deadly reopening of schools!
Form independent rank-and-file safety committees of educators, parents and students!
By the Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, 15 August 2020
Jacobin Magazine on the selection of Kamala Harris: Stick with the Democrats!
By Genevieve Leigh, 15 August 2020
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By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 13 August 2020
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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
Elon Musk discovers Das Kapital
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Obituary
Bernard Bailyn, historian of American colonial and revolutionary periods, 1922–2020
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Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen in The Good Liar: The consequences of light-mindedness
By David Walsh, 17 August 2020
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This week in history: August 17-23
25 years ago: Mumia Abu-Jamal escapes death penalty
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther and broadcast journalist who had been on Pennsylvania’s death row for over 13 years, narrowly escaped an execution scheduled for August 17, 1995 when his trial judge granted a stay.
50 years ago: Soviet Union launches probe to Venus
On August 17, 1970 the Soviet Union launched the Venera 7 unmanned space probe to the planet Venus.
75 years ago: Indonesia proclaims independence after Japanese defeat
On August 17, 1945, nationalist leaders in Indonesia issued a proclamation of independence, as Japan, which had occupied the sprawling archipelago for three years during WWII, suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of the Allied powers.
100 years ago: US women’s suffrage amendment ratified
On August 18, 1920, by a vote of 50-46, the state legislature of Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women 21 years or older the right to vote in local, state, and federal elections.
Free Julian Assange
The show trial of Julian Assange: A cruel and pseudolegal farce
By Thomas Scripps and Kevin Reed, 15 August 2020
Ten years since WikiLeaks published the Afghan war logs
By Oscar Grenfell, 31 July 2020
Online documentary exposes the psychological torture of Julian Assange
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The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995
12 August 2020
The paperback edition of this critical book on the history of the Fourth International is now available.
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Indian social health workers hold two-day national strike; South Korean hospital doctors walkout
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 August 2020
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“This is a modern-day sweatshop”
Amazon workers speak out against inadequate safety measures
By our reporters, 13 August 2020
Washington, DC transit system faces massive budget shortfall as it resumes near pre-pandemic service levels
By Harvey Simpkins, 13 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
Peru reopens economy as thousands of miners contract COVID-19
By Mauricio Saavedra, 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
USPS centralizes leadership as step towards privatization and possible election fraud
By Shuvu Batta, 11 August 2020
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By Tom Casey, 11 August 2020
SEP US presidential election campaign
The politics of oligarchy: Federal appeals court blocks SEP challenge to anti-democratic ballot access laws in California
By Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US President, 8 August 2020
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to hear Socialist Equality Party candidates’ appeal in California voting rights case until after ballots are printed
By Shuvu Batta, 6 August 2020
Socialist Equality Party sues California and Michigan for ballot access
SEP candidates file brief replying to Governor Whitmer in Michigan ballot access appeal
By Kevin Reed, 4 August 2020
- Louisiana voters: Put the Socialist Equality Party on the ballot!
- SEP files appeal to Federal Sixth Circuit Court in Michigan ballot access case
- California judge rules that SEP candidates must collect physical signatures during pandemic or be excluded from ballot
- SEP candidates Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz respond to California state officials in ballot access lawsuit
- Democratic California Governor Newsom argues that allowing SEP candidates on the ballot would cause “frustration of the democratic process”
- Michigan court rules that SEP must gather signatures despite pandemic
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lankan Trotskyists hold final online election meeting
By our correspondents, 6 August 2020
Vote for SEP candidates in the Sri Lankan national elections! Fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government and socialist internationalism!
Sri Lanka: TNA election manifesto prepares imperialist-backed deal with President Rajapakse
Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting to conclude its election campaign
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
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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