26 August 2020
Trump continues assault on democratic norms at Republican convention
By Barry Grey, 26 August 2020
The event marks the evolution of one of the two major parties of American capitalism into an instrument for the development of a personalist and authoritarian movement with increasingly fascistic characteristics.
Pompeo in Middle East to cement Israel-Gulf alliance against Iran
By Jean Shaoul, 26 August 2020
Pompeo made it very clear who was the master in this relationship and that China’s increasing trade and investment ties with Israel were unacceptable.
After receiving $5.8 billion through the CARES Act
American Airlines announces 19,000 to be laid off starting October 1
By Jacob Crosse, 26 August 2020
As temporary layoffs become permanent, airlines executives and their stockholders, with the invaluable assistance of the trade unions, are consigning thousands to destitution.
India emerges as a global epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic
By Wasantha Rupasinghe, 26 August 2020
India is the third country to surpass 3 million registered coronavirus cases, and its official death toll, widely considered to be an underestimation, is approaching 60,000.
EU denounces Russia over alleged poisoning of oppositionist Alexei Navalny
By Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier, 26 August 2020
Doctors at Berlin’s Charité hospital claimed Monday they had found indications that Alexei Navalny, the head of Russia’s pro-NATO liberal opposition, was poisoned.
Rising COVID-19 death toll underscores decades-long crisis in Australian aged care
By Clare Bruderlin, 26 August 2020
The tragic fatalities are the outcome of the corporatisation of sector by successive Labor and Liberal-National federal governments.
Australian Labor Party and unions agree to slash income support and working conditions
By Mike Head, 26 August 2020
The government’s latest measures were again drafted in closed-door talks with the ACTU and then signed off by the Labor Party.
New COVID-19 cases skyrocket at University of Alabama and University of North Carolina
By Matthew MacEgan, 26 August 2020
Since reopening in-person instruction, the University of Alabama has reported 566 new cases of COVID-19 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 646 new cases.
Colorado teacher fired for raising concerns about school reopenings speaks to the WSWS
By Renae Cassimeda, 26 August 2020
A teacher from Fort Collins was recently fired for raising safety concerns as school openings in Colorado unfold in dangerous and piecemeal fashion, while the state now has 55,700 COVID-19 cases and 1,926 deaths.
New York City preparing to lay off 400 EMS workers in advance of looming second wave of pandemic
By Ali Elhassan, 26 August 2020
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, is preparing to place the burden of the pandemic-triggered budgetary crisis on workers, including frontline health care workers.
German schools reopening without safety measures as coronavirus cases increase
By Marianne Arens and Gregor Link, 26 August 2020
The federal and state governments in Germany are setting the stage for a further explosion in the number of cases by reopening schools.
Tokyo considers long-range missiles for use in first strikes
By Ben McGrath, 26 August 2020
The Abe government is continuing its push to rearm by obtaining offensive weaponry, regardless of whether or not it violates the constitution.
Ukrainian government turns against Lukashenko amid ongoing mass protests and strikes in Belarus
By Jason Melanovski, 26 August 2020
As a result of the growing working class protests within Belarus and Lukashenko’s turn to the Kremlin, the government in Kiev has turned against its former ally.
Seven dead and 170,000 displaced as massive wildfires continue to burn in Northern California
By Peter Ross, 26 August 2020
As of Tuesday morning, 937 structures have been destroyed and 251 damaged, and the fires continue to threaten some 30,500 additional structures.
Police riot in Detroit against peaceful protesters
By Eboni Davis and Kathleen Martin, 26 August 2020
On Saturday night, the Detroit Police Department went on a rampage against peaceful protesters, arresting 44 after tear-gassing and beating people in the streets for unlawful assembly.
“These same conditions exist all over the world”
Faurecia Gladstone Rank-and-File Safety Committee defends immigrant workers at Indiana parts plant, opposes back-to-school drive
By Tim Rivers, 26 August 2020
Workers at the plant are refusing leadership positions on the shop floor and others are leaving the factory in response to forced overtime and the disregard of medical work restrictions.
British think tank fronts right-wing “academic freedom” campaign—Part 2
By Thomas Scripps, 26 August 2020
In Britain, this campaign relies wholly on posing as an opposition to the pseudo-left purveyors of identity politics on campus.
British think tank fronts right-wing “academic freedom” campaign—Part 1
Canadian autoworkers demand Unifor release tentative contracts with Detroit Three in full prior to ratification votes
By Carl Bronski, 26 August 2020
The petition, already signed by around 1,300 autoworkers, is a sign of mounting worker opposition to Unifor but its initiators promote the dangerous illusion that the union can be reformed.
25 August 2020
Wisconsin Governor deploys National Guard to Kenosha after protests break out in wake of brutal police shooting
By Jacob Crosse, 25 August 2020
Trump, aides embrace fascist Republican candidates
By Patrick Martin, 25 August 2020
UK: WSWS survey finds support for a general strike against school reopening
By Tom Pearce and Charlotte Salthill, 25 August 2020
Court rules against Florida governor but schools to remain open
By Alex Johnson, 25 August 2020
First week back on campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A US college student’s first-hand account
By an Albion College student, 25 August 2020
Thai protest movement spreads across country’s northeast
By Owen Howell, 25 August 2020
Seven protest leaders in Thailand arrested by police
US stages military buildup to enforce deal to steal Syria’s oil
By Bill Van Auken, 25 August 2020
Victims of herd immunity: further evidence that UK care home residents were denied medical treatment
By Margot Miller, 25 August 2020
Coronavirus reproduction rate rises above 1 in UK, as infection cases surge
By Robert Stevens, 25 August 2020
European countries force children back to school amid resurgence of COVID-19
Despite COVID-19, French billionaires have tripled their wealth since 2010
By Kumaran Ira, 25 August 2020
Lukashenko threatens military crackdown in Belarus as US initiates discussions with opposition leader
By Clara Weiss, 25 August 2020
Lukashenko regime, Belarusian opposition seek to stifle mass strike movement
US health care workers infected with COVID-19 pressured to return to work
By Alex Johnson, 25 August 2020
Signs of emerging crisis in economy and financial system
By Nick Beams, 25 August 2020
Two weeks after powerful windstorm, Iowa faces humanitarian crisis
By Jessica Goldstein, 25 August 2020
Feds propose 10-year oversight of UAW, Detroit News reports
By Jessica Goldstein and Marcus Day, 25 August 2020
“They are killing people to save money”
Fiat Chrysler, UAW conspire to keep workers on the job after exposure to coronavirus
Bath shipyard workers return to work after 63-day strike
By Shannon Jones, 25 August 2020
NTEU appeals for negotiations after Australia’s Macquarie University announces massive job cuts
By a correspondent, 25 August 2020
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Российский оппозиционный лидер Алексей Навальный госпитализирован, кризис в Белоруссии углубляется
Клара Вайс, 22 августа 2020 г.
Госпитализация Навального произошла на фоне обострения кризиса в связи с протестами и массовыми забастовками в Беларуси, которые усилили напряженность в Европе и России.
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Troçki’nin Son Yılı
Birinci Bölüm
David North, 22 Ağustos 2020
Troçki cinayeti; adı bütün tarih boyunca karşıdevrimci hainlik, ihanet ve sınırsız canilik ile eşanlamlı olacak olan Stalin’in önderliğindeki totaliter bürokratik rejim tarafından düzenlenen büyük bir siyasi komplonun sonucuydu.
New in French
Trump qualifie les éducateurs de «travailleurs essentiels» pour forcer les écoles à ouvrir
Evan Blake, 22 août 2020
Cette décision fait suite à l’opposition croissante des éducateurs, des parents et des élèves à la réouverture catastrophique des écoles, qui a déjà contaminé plus de 2.500 élèves et membres du personnel dans tout le pays.
Les démocrates choisissent Biden comme candidat dans une débauche de réaction
Patrick Martin, 22 août 2020
Le mépris pour l’intelligence du public a été résumé dans le discours d’acceptation de Biden, qui a cherché à condenser en 20 minutes toutes les banalités possibles.
L'architecte de la politique suédoise en matière de coronavirus préconise de maintenir les écoles ouvertes pour atteindre plus rapidement l'«immunité collective»
Jordan Shilton, 22 août 2020
Le mépris impitoyable de l'épidémiologiste en chef Anders Tegnell pour la vie humaine n'est pas un phénomène individuel, mais sa correspondance électronique effrayante reflète plutôt la pensée des élites dirigeantes de chaque pays.
Un réfugié soudanais se noie en tentant de traverser la Manche
Robert Stevens, 22 août 2020
Les membres de la famille disent que la victime s’était vue refuser l’asile par la France, et a affronté la traversée dangereuse à la recherche d’une vie meilleure.
Le gouvernement Johnson accélère le démantèlement du service national de santé
Robert Stevens, 22 août 2020
L’élite dirigeante britannique condamne le service national de santé pour être «gonflé» et pas assez ouvert à l’expertise et à la «flexibilité» du secteur privé.
Le syndicat SCFP met fin à la grève de 12 jours au Port de Montréal
Laurent Lafrance, 22 août 2020
L’accord d’hier pour une «trêve» représente la phase finale des efforts du syndicat pour mettre fin à la grève le plus tôt possible et trahir les revendications légitimes des membres de la base.
Bernard Bailyn, historien des périodes coloniales et révolutionnaires américaines, 1922-2020
Tom Mackaman, 22 août 2020
Bailyn laisse derrière lui un important corpus de travaux qui ont permis d'élargir la compréhension des conceptions intellectuelles qui ont trouvé leur expression dans la Révolution américaine.
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Parteitag der Demokraten kürt Joe Biden zum Präsidentschaftskandidaten
Patrick Martin, 22. August 2020
Biden versuchte jede noch so abgedroschene Phrase in seiner grade einmal 20-minütigen Dankesrede unterzubringen und verdeutlichte damit seine tiefe Verachtung gegenüber der Intelligenz der Bevölkerung.
Krise in Belarus: Russischer Oppositionsführer Alexei Nawalny im Krankenhaus
Clara Weiss, 22. August 2020
Nawalnys Krankenhausaufenthalt fällt mit der Krise in Belarus zusammen, wo Proteste und Massenstreiks das Lukaschenko-Regime erschüttern. Auch die Spannungen in Europa und Russland verschärfen sich zusehends.
Architekt der schwedischen Coronavirus-Politik wollte „Herdenimmunität“ durch offene Schulen
Jordan Shilton, 22. August 2020
Die eiskalte Verachtung des Chef-Epidemiologen Anders Tegnell für Menschenleben spiegelt das Denken der herrschenden Klassen in jedem Land wider.
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Colin Powel på Det demokratiske partiets nasjonalkonvensjon: Demokratene forbereder administrasjon for militarisme og krig
Joseph Kishore – SEPs kandidat for president i USA, 20. august 2020
Den andre dagen av partistevnet (DNC) omfattet bemerkninger fra Powell, en ledende arkitekt for Irak-invasjonen i 2003, og en video som belyste Bidens «usannsynlige vennskap» med erkekrigshisseren John McCain.
Katastrofal åpning av amerikanske skoler fører til 3 000 infeksjoner på tvers av 44 delstater
Evan Blake, 20. august 2020
Spredningen av Covid-19-pandemien vil akselerere såfremt den uavhengige mobiliseringen av lærere, foreldre og den bredere arbeiderklassen for å få stoppet gjenåpningen av skoler forhindres.
Merkel og Macron ringte Putin, med eskalerende massestreiker i Hviterussland
Alex Lantier, 20. august 2020
Sjokkert over utbruddet av arbeideres raseri i Hviterussland håper Berlin og Paris at Moskva kan få undertrykt det, ved megling av en avtale mellom regimet og den offisielle opposisjonen.
Trumps antydning om en benådning av Edward Snowden høster rekyler fra det amerikanske etterretningsfellesskapet
Kevin Reed, 20. august 2020
Demokrater og Republikanere med tette bånd til etterretningsagenturene har lansert en opposisjonskampanje etter at presidenten sa han ville se nærmere på saken til den tidligere NSA-kontraktøren som avslørte illegal masseovervåkning.
USA kaprer iransk olje på vei til Venezuela, i klar pirataksjon på åpent hav
Bill Van Auken, 20. august 2020
Oljebeslaget kom da Washington ikke klarte å sikre støtte i FNs sikkerhetsråd for en resolusjon om forlengelse av våpenembargoen mot Teheran.
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A nomeação de Kamala Harris e a lógica direitista da política de identidade
Niles Niemuth, 22 Agosto 2020
Os democratas esperam que a celebração interminável do banal e vazio simbolismo da candidatura de Harris sirva como uma repetição da candidatura de Barack Obama à presidência em 2008.
O apropriação ilegal de poder por Donald Trump e o espectro de um Bonapartismo Americano
Andre Damon, 22 Agosto 2020
A usurpação da prerrogativa do Congresso de taxar e gastar por Trump é o último ato em seu esforço de anos para destruir quaisquer freios constitucionais ao poder da presidência.
Palestra online em 26 de agosto: "Primeiro como tragédia, depois como farsa: Marcos, Duterte, e os partidos comunistas das Filipinas"
Stalinistas filipinos caluniam o pesquisador Joseph Scalice antes de sua palestra em 26 de agosto
22 Agosto 2020
Scalice, que é colaborador do World Socialist Web Site, dará sua palestra online às 15h, horário de Cingapura (4h Brasília).
A pandemia do coronavírus e o capitalismo
A vacina russa intensifica a luta global por lucros e vantagens geopolíticas
Barry Grey, 22 Agosto 2020
O anúncio feito por Vladimir Putin na terça-feira de que a Rússia aprovou oficialmente uma vacina para a COVID-19 intensificou o conflito global entre potências nacionais e as gigantes farmacêuticas para ver quem será a primeira a produzir e comercializar em massa uma vacina contra o vírus mortal.
Ex-Primeiro Ministro australiano: cuidado com os “canhões de agosto” na Ásia
Peter Symonds, 22 Agosto 2020
Kevin Rudd argumenta que o perigo de uma guerra entre os EUA e a China é maior do que em qualquer outro momento desde os anos 1950 e alerta que o risco "será especialmente alto" no período que leva à eleição presidencial nos EUA.
Revista Jacobin sobre a escolha de Kamala Harris: não abandone o Partido Democrata!
Genevieve Leigh, 22 Agosto 2020
There is truly nothing too foul the Democratic Party could do that would lead Jacobin and the DSA to conclude that the party cannot be reformed.Não há nada realmente nefasto que o Partido Democrata possa fazer que levaria a Jacobin e a DSA a concluir que o partido não pode ser reformado.
O cancelamento do discurso do professor Adolph Reed Jr. e a promoção da política racial pelos DSA
Niles Niemuth, 22 Agosto 2020
A proibição efetiva de críticas à política de identidade dentro dos DSA e as denúncias ferozes contra o marxismo como “reducionismo de classe” estão de acordo com os objetivos mais amplos do Partido Democrata de promover divisões racialistas.
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Los demócratas nominan a Biden en un despliegue absurdo de reacción política
Patrick Martin, 22 agosto 2020
El total desprecio hacia la inteligencia de la población y los espectadores se resumió en el discurso de aceptación de Biden, quien intentó embutir todas las frases trilladas posibles en su pronunciamiento de 20 minutos.
El último año en la vida de Trotsky
Segunda parte
David North, 22 agosto 2020
Una valoración, por motivo del ochenta aniversario del asesinato de Trotsky, de la obra del gran teórico y estratega de la Revolución Socialista Mundial durante el último año de su vida.
Conferencia en línea del 26 de agosto: “La primera vez como tragedia, la segunda vez como farsa: Marcos, Duterte y los Partidos Comunistas de Filipinas”
Los estalinistas filipinos calumnian al académico Joseph Scalice antes de su conferencia del 26 de agosto
22 agosto 2020
Scalice, colaborador del World Socialist Web Site, dará su conferencia en línea a las 3 p.m. hora de Singapur (igual que Filipinas), 3 a.m. Nueva York, 9 a.m. Berlín, 12:30 p.m. Colombo, 5 p.m. Sídney.
El acuerdo de $600 millones sobre el agua en Flint—una miseria para encubrir un masivo crimen social
Sheila Bruhm, 22 agosto 2020
La clase gobernante está ansiosa por dejar el envenenamiento del agua en Flint detrás y espera que el pago multimillonario calme a los trabajadores, al menos temporalmente.
Gobierno de Trump califica a los educadores como “trabajadores de infraestructura crítica” para forzar apertura de escuelas
Evan Blake, 22 agosto 2020
La decisión se tomó en respuesta a la oposición cada vez mayor de los educadores, padres y estudiantes a la catastrófica reapertura de escuelas que ya ha infectado a más de 2.500 estudiantes y personal en todo el país.
Las solicitudes semanales de beneficios por desempleo vuelven a superar el millón a medida que se avecinan los desalojos masivos
Shannon Jones, 22 agosto 2020
El número de nuevos reclamos de beneficios por desempleo aumentó inesperadamente la semana pasada, ya que los trabajadores se enfrentan a crecientes presiones económicas debido a la finalización de los beneficios federales suplementarios por desempleo y el fin de las prohibiciones de desalojo.
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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 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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Police violence continues unabated three months after the murder of George Floyd
26 August 2020
The latest incident to produce an eruption of angry protests is the attempted murder of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old African American father of six, shot seven times in the back by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
80 Years Since the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part Three
By David North, 25 August 2020
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part One
By David North, 20 August 2020
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part Two
By David North, 21 August 2020
Socialist Equality Party
SEP (Australia) holds successful fifth national congress
By our correspondent, 26 August 2020
Delegates discussed and unanimously adopted a major resolution outlining the deepening crisis of Australian and world capitalism and the tasks of the party over the next two years, and elected a new national leadership.
The coronavirus pandemic, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 26 August 2020
Published here is the main resolution that was discussed and adopted unanimously at the Fifth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) held on August 14-16, 2020.
Support historian Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders by CPP founder Jose Maria Sison!
By Peter Symonds, 24 August 2020
August 26 online lecture: “First as tragedy, second as farce: Marcos, Duterte, and the Communist Parties of the Philippines.”
Philippine Stalinists slander academic Joseph Scalice ahead of August 26 lecture
After the Sri Lankan election, president moves towards dictatorial rule
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 25 August 2020
The SEP warns workers and youth that they face real dangers as the Rajapakse government prepares an all-out offensive against the social and democratic rights of working people.
As support widens for SEP defence campaign
Sri Lanka army commander says allegations of military harassment of northern election candidates are “false”
Support grows for SEP (Sri Lanka) defence campaign
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Featured
Teachers across the US join call-in meeting hosted by Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee
By Jerry White, 26 August 2020
More than 150 teachers, school employees and other workers from around the US and internationally participated in a call-in meeting to organize opposition to the unsafe opening of schools.
More on the back to school drive »
Commentary
Who are the Republican spymasters and war criminals who have endorsed Biden?
By Isaac Finn, 26 August 2020
Republican former security officials, virtually all of whom were involved in war crimes and domestic spying, have announced that they will be voting for the Democratic presidential nominee.
French NPA’s Révolution permanente site hails pro-imperialist coup in Mali
By Alex Lantier, 25 August 2020
This web site, linked to the Socialist Workers Party (PTS) of Argentina, hailed a putsch led by a junta of colonels that has proclaimed its loyalty to the French occupation of Mali.
Pro-imperialist coup topples Malian President Keïta
New York University moves to implement racial segregation in student dorms
By Karsten Schneider, 24 August 2020
Corbyn was “lectured” by Johnson government on “herd immunity” and said nothing
By Chris Marsden, 24 August 2020
The cancellation of professor Adolph Reed, Jr.’s speech and the DSA’s promotion of race politics
By Niles Niemuth, 18 August 2020
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
SEP (US) Congress resolution
The global pandemic, the class struggle, and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
1 August 2020
Open Letter from WSWS Chairman David North to Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai
31 July 2020
Elon Musk discovers Das Kapital
By Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 29 July 2020
Arts Review
Julian Bream (1933-2020): Pioneer of the classical guitar
By Paul Bond, 26 August 2020
A turning point for Bream was hearing recordings of Andrés Segovia (1893-1987), another great guitarist, whose transcriptions of Baroque compositions helped shape the modern repertoire.
Seberg: The story of actress Jean Seberg racialized and trivialized
By James Brewer, 25 August 2020
Decisions made in the script distorted the film’s narrative before the highly capable cast ever got in front of the camera.
The Truth: Catherine Deneuve as an actress with her feet on the ground
By David Walsh, 22 August 2020
A French actress in her 70s, Fabienne Dangeville, receives a visit at her elegant Paris home from her daughter Lumir, son-in-law Hank and grand-daughter Charlotte, who live in New York.
The 2020 US Elections
The Republican convention: Four nights of fascist filth begin
By Patrick Martin, 25 August 2020
The convention opened Monday with the renomination of President Trump and a series of diatribes against socialism.
The Biden campaign and the attempt to “rescue” American hegemony
By Andre Damon, 22 August 2020
Democrats nominate Biden in inane display of political reaction
By Patrick Martin, 21 August 2020
The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections
By Patrick Martin, 20 August 2020
The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections
Part Two
The nomination of Kamala Harris and the right-wing logic of identity politics
By Niles Niemuth, 20 August 2020
The selection of Kamala Harris and the degradation of American politics
The Biden/Harris campaign and the dead-end of “lesser evil” politics
Who is Democratic Senator Kamala Harris?
Jacobin Magazine on the selection of Kamala Harris: Stick with the Democrats!
The UAW at the Democratic National Convention: Gangsters and warmongers lock arms
By Tom Hall, 20 August 2020
Colin Powell at the Democratic National Convention: Democrats prepare administration of militarism and war
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 19 August 2020
Democratic convention opens with appeal to right-wing Republican support
By Patrick Martin, 18 August 2020
SEP US presidential election campaign
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denies SEP challenge to restrictive ballot access laws in Michigan
By Joseph Kishore—SEP Presidential Candidate, 25 August 2020
Joseph Kishore, Socialist Equality Party (SEP) candidate for US President, issued the following statement in response to the ruling on Monday by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
The socialist answer to the paltry $600 million Flint settlement
By Joseph Kishore—SEP Presidential Candidate, 24 August 2020
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
null- SEP candidates file brief replying to Governor Whitmer in Michigan ballot access appeal
- 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
Free Julian Assange
Fund appeal for Assange’s legal defence wins significant public support
By Oscar Grenfell, 24 August 2020
Online panel examines what would happen if Assange is extradited to the US
By Kevin Reed, 24 August 2020
The show trial of Julian Assange: A cruel and pseudolegal farce
By Thomas Scripps and Kevin Reed, 15 August 2020
Prominent lawyers and legal associations demand Assange’s freedom
By Oscar Grenfell, 17 August 2020
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
This week in history: August 24-30
25 years ago: US and NATO bomb Bosnian Serbs
On August 30, 1995, the United States and NATO launched Operation Deliberate Force against Serb-inhabited regions of Bosnia.
50 years ago: Four killed, including Los Angeles Times reporter, by police at Vietnam protest
On August 29, 1970, about 20,000 people marched in East Los Angeles against the Vietnam War, a demonstration organized by the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War.
75 years ago: US military occupation of Japan begins
On August 28, 1945, 150 US military officials arrived in the city of Atsugi as the advanced guard of the American occupation of Japan.
100 years ago: Workers occupy factories in Milan, Italy
On August 30, 1920, workers in the metallurgical industry in Milan occupied over 300 factories in response to a lockout by employers at the Romeo plant on that Monday morning.
Workers Struggles
Teacher strikes and protests in Haiti and Uruguay
Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 August 2020
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
CUPE union shuts down 12-day strike at Port of Montreal
By Laurent Lafrance, 22 August 2020
Amazon workers describe spread of COVID-19 at warehouse in Romulus, Michigan
By George Kirby, 20 August 2020
MAS, trade unions and coup regime strike deal to quell revolt by Bolivian workers
By Tomas Castanheira, 20 August 2020
Teacher sickout closes Arizona school district as support grows for national strike
By Jerry White, 17 August 2020
Science
The origins and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
By Frank Gaglioti, 24 August 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a once in a century event, a trigger event, that has exposed the deep contradictions and terminal decay in the capitalist organization of world resources.
Obituary
Bernard Bailyn, historian of American colonial and revolutionary periods, 1922–2020
By Tom Mackaman, 13 August 2020
Socialist Equality Party (US)
Now available
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lankan Trotskyists hold final online election meeting
By our correspondents, 6 August 2020
Sri Lanka: TNA election manifesto prepares imperialist-backed deal with President Rajapakse
Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting to conclude its election campaign
Vote for SEP candidates in the Sri Lankan national elections! Fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government and socialist internationalism!
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
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
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
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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