31 August 2020
With thousands of new cases in US, opposition mounts against unsafe school and college reopenings
By Jerry White, 31 August 2020
Over the last three weeks, there have been at least 12,000 infections at public schools, universities and colleges in the US.
COVID-19 outbreaks continue unabated at US schools, putting millions at risk
“They should shut everything down again until they get the virus under control”
Mississippi bus drivers walk out as schools push ahead with unsafe reopenings
Students, teachers, parents and nursery staff in Germany oppose school reopenings
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New York City teachers union holds strike authorization vote amidst mass opposition to school reopening
By Tim Avery, 31 August 2020
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) aims to block rank-and-file educators from taking independent initiative against the policy or reopening schools.
Trump administration halts closure of California meatpacking plant despite eight COVID-19 deaths
By Evan Winters, 31 August 2020
The Trump administration postponed the closure of a plant that local health officials had ordered closed after at least 392 workers tested positive for COVID-19 and eight died.
US military will not be involved in election crisis, top general claims
By Patrick Martin, 31 August 2020
The extraordinary statement by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came in response to a letter from two Democratic congresswomen.
Fear and uncertainty dominate Jackson Hole central bankers’ meeting
By Nick Beams, 31 August 2020
The key initiative announced at the gathering was the decision by the US Fed’s policy-making body to maintain interest rates at ultra-low levels for an indefinite period.
GM workers in Silao, Mexico, report eighth death from COVID-19, as corporation fires vulnerable workers
By Andrea Lobo, 31 August 2020
GM and the corporate-controlled Confederation of Mexican Workers have refused to provide workers with any information about COVID-19 cases in the plant.
Japanese Prime Minister Abe suddenly resigns
By Ben McGrath, 31 August 2020
Whoever replaces Abe will pursue the same militarist agenda and build up to war in the Asia-Pacific region.
Greek government continues evictions of over 11,000 asylum seekers
By John Vassilopoulos, 31 August 2020
The ND government's actions are particularly brutal amid a resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, with hundreds of new infections being announced each day.
Central Michigan University faces COVID-19 outbreak as campus opens
By Luke Galvin, 31 August 2020
Shorty after the opening of the fall semester CMU has seen 117 new COVID-19 cases as a result of the reckless decision to move ahead with in-person classes.
University of Florida graduate residents expose plans to quarantine COVID-19 victims in family housing
By Charles Sutter and Matthew MacEgan, 31 August 2020
The university management plans to quarantine people in family housing complexes in secret while pursuing a “herd immunity” strategy on campus.
California Governor Newsom continues murderous policies as COVID-19 cases in state reach 700,000
By Peter Ross, 31 August 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rapidly spread through California, with over 6,000 new infections per day, including 1,500 in Los Angeles County alone.
Fifty-six-year-old Tennessee resident evicted from her home after contracting COVID-19
By Patrick Smith, 31 August 2020
Leslie Nelson reportedly suffered an epileptic seizure as her belongings were thrown into her yard under the close watch of the police.
Amid cross-Canada protests against back-to-school drive, Trudeau announces $2 billion to fund school reopenings
By Roger Jordan, 31 August 2020
The prime minister stressed that reopening schools is “critical to restarting the economy.”
Mounting social and health disaster in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura
By J. L'Heureau, 31 August 2020
Three days after the most powerful hurricane to hit the state since 1856, the scale of destruction and accompanying social crisis is coming into sharp relief.
EU refuses to accept hundreds of refugees rescued in the Mediterranean
By Martin Kreickenbaum, 31 August 2020
More than 400 refugees are waiting in the central Mediterranean Sea off Sicily to be assigned to a safe haven.
MGM Resorts to lay off 18,000 workers
By Adam Mclean, 31 August 2020
The Culinary Workers Union is not opposing the layoffs, demanding only that the fired workers be given the right to be re-hired at some point in the future.
New York transit agency threatens draconian cuts and fare hikes
By Alan Whyte, 31 August 2020
The MTA is considering reducing New York City bus and subway service by 40 percent as well as cutting commuter railroads service by 50 percent.
Major Australian corporations report windfalls from JobKeeper scheme
By Martin Scott, 31 August 2020
Although the true extent of the corporate welfare grab is unknown, listed companies have received at least $625 million in COVID-19 wage subsidies.
Australian report reveals accelerating social inequality in education
By Erika Zimmer, 31 August 2020
The data exposes the fraud of the Gonski funding model, commissioned by the last federal Labor government, ostensibly to overcome the socioeconomic divide.
29 August 2020
Republicans defend Kenosha gunman as nationwide protests continue
By Jacob Crosse, 29 August 2020
Far-right militia member arrested for fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Police violence continues unabated three months after the murder of George Floyd
Players shut down NBA playoffs in protest over Jacob Blake shooting
EU imposes sanctions on Lukashenko as strikes continue in Belarus
By Alex Lantier, 29 August 2020
Rattled by crisis, US-aligned Polish government steps up intervention in Belarus
German federal and state governments protect profits instead of lives
By Christoph Vandreier, 29 August 2020
China launches missiles into South China Sea in response to US provocations
By Ben McGrath, 29 August 2020
Bipartisan Australian move to ban agreements with China
By Mike Head, 29 August 2020
Labor MP denounces Australian government’s refusal to defend Julian Assange
By Oscar Grenfell, 29 August 2020
Attend the UK online education forum Saturday September 5, 2pm
Form independent rank-and-file safety committees of teachers, educators, parents and students! For a general strike against the reopening of schools!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), 29 August 2020
Government agency minutes reveal at least 40 active COVID-19 outbreaks at UK food processing plants
By Robert Stevens, 29 August 2020
Tate UK strikers: “COVID-19 is being used to inflict a jobs massacre”
By Paul Mitchell, 29 August 2020
Classes resume at University of Iowa amid COVID-19 outbreak
By Brian Brown, 29 August 2020
False “glimmers of hope” as California continues to burn
By Linda Rios, 29 August 2020
US government executes only Native American prisoner on federal death row
By Jessica Goldstein, 29 August 2020
Canada’s Conservatives choose Erin O’Toole as leader in further shift right
By Roger Jordan and Keith Jones, 29 August 2020
Volkswagen to slash 35 percent of Brazilian workforce as jobs bloodbath hits auto industry
By Miguel Andrade, 29 August 2020
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Трамп претендует на роль фюрера
Джейкоб Кросс и Андре Деймон, 29 августа 2020 г.
Трамп произнес фашистскую тираду с лужайки Белого дома, изображая свое переизбрание на новый срок в качестве последнего бастиона против «агитаторов» и «социалистов».
Последний год
Троцкого
Часть первая
Дэвид Норт, 29 августа 2020 г.
Оценка, в связи с восьмидесятилетием убийства Троцкого, работы великого теоретика и стратега мировой социалистической революции в последний год его жизни.
Эта неделя в истории
25 лет назад: США и
НАТО бомбят боснийских сербов
29 августа 2020 г.
30 августа 1995 года Соединенные Штаты и страны, входящие в блок НАТО, начали операцию «Обдуманная сила» против сербских регионов Боснии.
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A convenção do Partido Republicano: Quatro noites de imundície fascista
Patrick Martin, 29 Agosto 2020
A convenção começou na segunda-feira com a nomeação de Trump como candidato a presidente e uma série de tiradas contra o socialismo.
Assista: Palestra denuncia o papel do Partido Comunista das Filipinas no apoio ao regime de Duterte
29 Agosto 2020
A palestra é uma denúncia devastadora do papel traiçoeiro do Partido Comunista das Filipinas, seu fundador e “teórico” Jose Maria Sison e da perspectiva falida do stalinismo e do maoísmo em que se baseiam.
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Macron impose une rentrée mortifère alors que la Covid-19 explose
Anthony Torres et Alexandre Lantier, 28 août 2020
Avec l’aval des syndicats, le gouvernement expose des millions d’enseignants et d’élèves à un risque mortel pour garantir les profits des banques.
La maire écologiste de Marseille refuse un confinement face à la pandémie
Anthony Torres, 28 août 2020
Tout en critiquant démagogiqment Paris, elle suit ainsi la politique d’immunité collective, visant à laisser le virus se répandre, que suit en fait l’État français.
Trump fait campagne pour devenir Führer
Jacob Crosse et Andre Damon, 29 août 2020
Trump a livré une tirade fasciste depuis la pelouse de la Maison-Blanche jeudi soir, dépeignant sa réélection comme le dernier bastion contre les «agitateurs» et les «socialistes».
Le gouvernement Trump sabote le dépistage du COVID-19
Marcus Day, 29 août 2020
La modification des directives du CDC en matière de tests, imposée par la Maison-Blanche, va faciliter la propagation de la pandémie sur les lieux de travail, dans les foyers et les communautés, tuant un nombre incalculable de personnes.
Des unités militaires américaines et russes s'affrontent en Syrie
Bill Van Auken, 29 août 2020
La région du nord-est de la Syrie est devenue une poudrière suite à la décision de Washington de faire venir une société américaine pour exploiter le pétrole syrien.
La colère des travailleurs augmente alors que le gouvernement turc minimise la crise du COVID-19
Barış Demir et Çetin Akın, 29 août 2020
L’opposition, les occupations et les grèves se développent parmi les travailleurs contre la gestion de la pandémie de COVID-19 par le gouvernement turc et les entreprises.
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El Gobierno de Trump sabotea el testeo de COVID-19
Marcus Day, 29 agosto 2020
El cambio en las guías de pruebas de los CDC impulsado por la Casa Blanca alimentará la propagación de la pandemia en los lugares de trabajo, hogares y comunidades, cobrando incalculables vidas.
Trump se postula para el Führer
Jacob Crosse y Andre Damon, 29 agosto 2020
Trump lanzó una diatriba fascista desde el césped de la Casa Blanca el jueves por la noche, pintando su reelección como el último bastión contra los "agitadores" y los "socialistas".
Reserva Federal ajusta marco de política monetaria para cumplir con las demandas de Wall Street
Nick Beams, 29 agosto 2020
El efecto de los cambios es asegurarle a la oligarquía financiera que el régimen de tasas de interés ultrabajas, tan esencial para su acumulación de riqueza, continuará indefinidamente.
Los nuevos reclamos de beneficios por desempleo en EE.UU. una vez más superan el millón
Jerry White, 29 agosto 2020
A pesar de las afirmaciones del Presidente Trump acerca de una recuperación en forma de "súper V", más de 27 millones de trabajadores están cobrando prestaciones por desempleo y millones de ellos se enfrentan a la perspectiva del desalojo y el corte de los servicios públicos.
New in Norwegian
Trump-administrasjonen saboterer Covid-19-testing
Marcus Day, 29. august 2020
Endringen i CDCs retningslinjer for testing, presset gjennom av Det hvite hus, vil underbygge den videre spredningen av pandemien, på tvers av arbeidsplasser, i hjem og lokalsamfunn, og er en dødsdom for utallige personer.
Trump stiller til valg som Führer
Jacob Crosse og Andre Damon, 29. august 2020
Trump leverte en fascistisk tirade fra gressplena foran Det hvite hus på torsdag kveld, der han betegnet sitt gjenvalg som den siste bastionen mot «agitatorer» og «sosialister».
Amerikanske profesjonelle atleters boikott utvides, med dag to av protester mot politivold
Kevin Reed, 29. august 2020
Boikotten iverksatt av profesjonelle idrettsutøvere ble på torsdag utvidet, som respons på det brutale politimordet av 21 år gamle Jacob Blake i Kenosha, Wisconsin.
US Fed re-setter rammeverk for pengepolitiske retningslinjer, for å imøtekomme Wall Streets forlangender
Nick Beams, 29. august 2020
Effekten av endringene er å forsikre finansoligarkiet om at regimet med ultra-lav styringsrente, som er så viktig for formueakkumuleringen, vil videreføres på ubestemt tid.
Julian Assange får sine første besøkende på seks måneder. «Han lider forferdelig»
Oscar Grenfell, 29. august 2020
Besøket har understreket de brutale betingelsene Assange er fengslet under, og har utløst fornyet frykt for at hans helsetilstand fortsetter å forringes.
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Trump-Regierung sabotiert Covid-19-Tests
Marcus Day, 29. August 2020
Nach erheblichem Druck aus dem Weißen Haus wurden die Richtlinien für Corona-Tests in den USA geändert. Es sollen nun deutlich weniger Tests durchgeführt werden, was die Ausbreitung des Virus zusätzlich vorantreiben und weitere unzählige Menschenleben kosten wird.
Trump kandidiert für das Amt des „Führers“
Jacob Crosse und Andre Damon, 29. August 2020
Am Donnerstagabend hielt Trump vor dem Weißen Haus eine faschistische Hetzrede, in der er seine Wiederwahl als letzte Rettung vor „Unruhestiftern“ und „Sozialisten“ darstellte.
Seit Ferienende starke Zunahme der Coronafälle unter Kindern und Jugendlichen
Marianne Arens, 29. August 2020
Einen "deutlichen Anstieg der Inzidenz" stellt das Robert-Koch-Institut in der Altersgruppe der 5-14-Jährigen fest.
Freiheit für Julian Assange! Verteidigt Chelsea Manning und Edward Snowden!
Socialist Equality Party (Australien), 29. August 2020
Der jüngste Nationale Parteitag der SEP (Australien) hat sich verpflichtet, "den Kampf für die bedingungslose Freiheit des WikiLeaks-Verlegers Julian Assange zu intensivieren" und alle verfolgten Journalisten und Informanten zu verteidigen.
Vortrag zur Rolle der Kommunistischen Partei der Philippinen bei der Unterstützung des Duterte-Regimes
29. August 2020
Der Vortrag ist eine vernichtende Enthüllung der doppelzüngigen Rolle der Kommunistischen Partei der Philippinen (CPP), ihres Gründers und „Theoretikers“ Jose Maria Sison und der bankrotten Perspektive des Stalinismus und Maoismus, auf der sie basieren.
OLG München: Politisches Urteil gegen Mitglieder einer linken, türkischen Partei
Justus Leicht, 29. August 2020
Vor dem Oberlandesgericht München ist nach mehr als vier Jahren ein politischer Prozess gegen zehn Mitglieder der maoistischen TKP/ML (Türkische Kommunistische Partei/Marxisten-Leninisten) mit hohen Haftstrafen zu Ende gegangen.
New in Turkish
Lukaşenko Belarus’ta askeri baskı tehdidinde bulunurken ABD muhalefet lideriyle görüşme başlattı
Clara Weiss, 27 Ağustos 2020
Belarus devlet başkanlığı seçimlerini yüzde 80 oyla kazandığını iddia eden Aleksandr Lukaşenko’nun rejimi, devam eden grevlerin ve protestoların ortasında, protestoculara topyekûn askeri baskı tehdidi savuruyor.
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 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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Trump incites vigilante violence against peaceful protests in Wisconsin
31 August 2020
The murders in Kenosha are the first major attempt to use right-wing vigilante groups to carry out violent attacks on domestic opposition within the United States.
80 Years Since the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part Four
By David North, 29 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.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
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Statements of support from Sri Lanka for Joseph Scalice
By our correspondents, 31 August 2020
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Social crisis, class struggle and the 2020 election
By Andre Damon, 29 August 2020
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New York University moves to implement racial segregation in student dorms
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Several recent studies suggest that survivors of the coronavirus can come down with a second case after recovering from a first infection.
The origins and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
By Frank Gaglioti, 24 August 2020
This week in history: August 31-September 6
25 years ago: French test nuclear bomb in Pacific, setting off protests in Tahiti
On September 5, 1995, the French government launched the first in a series of nuclear tests at Moruroa Atoll in the Pacific.
50 years ago: Salvador Allende wins plurality in Chile’s presidential election
Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende won a narrow plurality in Chile’s national elections held on September 4, 1970, defeating right-wing candidate Jorge Alessandri and Radomiro Tomic of the conservative Christian Democratic Party.
75 years ago: Vietnam’s independence declared after “August Revolution”
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Radioactive: The pioneering efforts of physicist and chemist Marie Curie
By Joanne Laurier, 31 August 2020
Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person and only woman to win it twice. Her life and work are the subject matter of Iranian-born French filmmaker Marjane Satrapi’s feature.
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By John Andrews, 29 August 2020
Ghosts of West Virginia: A moving new album by Steve Earle & The Dukes
By Matthew Brennan, 27 August 2020
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Free Julian Assange
Julian Assange receives first visitors in six months: “He is in a lot of pain”
By Oscar Grenfell, 28 August 2020
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By Oscar Grenfell, 24 August 2020
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Trump administration sabotages COVID-19 testing
By Marcus Day, 28 August 2020
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31 July 2020
Elon Musk discovers Das Kapital
By Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 29 July 2020
Book Review
The Kill Chain: A new era of world war
By Shuvu Batta, 29 August 2020
Socialist Equality Party
The coronavirus pandemic, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 26 August 2020
Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 28 August 2020
Free Julian Assange! Defend Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 27 August 2020
SEP (Australia) holds successful fifth national congress
Sri Lankan SEP to hold online lecture on how to fight Rajapakse’s dictatorial moves
27 August 2020
After the Sri Lankan election, president moves towards dictatorial rule
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 25 August 2020
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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The 2020 US Elections
The Republican convention: Four nights of fascist filth begin
By Patrick Martin, 25 August 2020
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
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
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
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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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