The US mortality crisis: CDC reports extraordinary drop in life expectancy
By Trévon Austin, 30 November 2018
Not since the combined impact of World War I and the Spanish Flu in 1918 has the country experienced such a prolonged period of decline in life expectancy.
Trump cancels G20 meeting with Putin amid rising tensions
By Andre Damon, 30 November 2018
The United States is on a course for conflict not just with Russia, but with China and the European Union.
Around 100,000 Sri Lankan plantation workers walk out again for pay rise
By our correspondents, 30 November 2018
The plantation unions are determined to prevent industrial action by estate workers that could trigger mass action by other sections of the working class.
Colombo court detains Sri Lankan defence chief over civil war crimes
By Rohantha De Silva, 30 November 2018
The court magistrate said the military chief had to be denied bail because he could influence witnesses or disrupt ongoing investigations into the abduction of Tamil youth.
Founder of Kansas City group whose food for homeless was destroyed by health department speaks out
By Josh Varlin, 30 November 2018
Nellie McCool spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about a raid earlier this month by Kansas City, Missouri, police and health officials on a picnic put on by her group Free Hot Soup.
Left Party publications denounce protest movement in France
By Johannes Stern, 30 November 2018
In two separate articles, Neues Deutschland spreads the lies of the French government and the police that violence in Paris stems from the “Yellow Vest” demonstrators.
Rejecting Macron’s speech, fuel tax protesters call new demonstrations in France
Slanders depicting “Yellow Vest” protesters as violent neo-fascists collapse
UK Intelligence and Security Committee admits Manchester bomb attack should have been prevented
By Thomas Scripps, 30 November 2018
The evidence points to Abedi having been viewed as an intelligence asset, allowed free rein to participate in jihadist formations aligned with British imperialism.
Bolton visits Bolsonaro: a US meeting of the minds with Brazil’s fascistic president-elect
By Bill Van Auken, 30 November 2018
The Trump administration sees in the semi-fascist ex-army captain a potential strategic ally in reasserting US imperialist hegemony and countering China’s influence in Latin America.
Faculty protest hits NYU’s coverup for UAE in Matthew Hedges case
By Josh Varlin, 30 November 2018
Faculty and PhD students at New York University have demanded that NYU President Andrew Hamilton condemn the imprisonment of UK academic Matthew Hedges by the United Arab Emirates.
UAE pardons British PhD student Matthew Hedges on spying charges
Taiwan elections reveal widespread hostility to the ruling DPP
By Robert Campion, 30 November 2018
The results reflect discontent over deteriorating living standards and fears about the rising tensions between the US and China.
Thousands forced to flee “catastrophic” fire event in Australia
By Mike Head, 30 November 2018
Residents in central Queensland were shocked and often caught unawares as flames as high as 20 metres suddenly loomed over their homes.
Baby’s death on Australia’s Gold Coast points to worsening social conditions
New in Russian
Провокация Украины в Азовском море
Клара Вайс и Андре Деймон, 30 ноября 2018 г.
Украинские военные при поддержке высокопоставленных фигур американского государства спровоцировали крупнейший международный кризис в преддверии саммита G20 на этой неделе.
New in Norwegian
«Alle – Ford, Chrysler, GM – må gå ut i streik, med en gang»Bilproduksjonsarbeideres raseri vokser over nedleggingen av GM-fabrikkanlegg
Jerry White, 29. november 2018
GM-arbeidere på de truede fabrikkanleggene i Lordstown, Ohio og Detroit-Hamtramck og andre produksjonsarbeidere uttalte seg mot nedleggelsen av fem fabrikker i USA og Canada.
Ukrainas provokasjoner i Azovhavet
Clara Weiss og Andre Damon, 29. november 2018
Det ukrainske militæret, med støtte fra høyt plasserte individer i USA, har bygd opp under en stor internasjonal krise foran denne ukas G20-toppmøte.
USA signaliserer betingelsesløs støtte til det saudiske regimet mens Senatet stemmer over Jemen-krigen
Bill Van Auken, 29. november 2018
Etter vitnesbyrd fra utenriks- og forsvarsministrene stemte Senatet for å fremme en resolusjon som krever en slutt på amerikansk støtte til den saudi-ledede krigen i Jemen.
New York Times: Vår forbrytelse var å fortelle sannheten
Andre Damon, 29. november 2018
Times og Washington Post argumenterer for at ved publiseringen av sann informasjon om politisk korrupsjon begikk den amerikanske pressen det som utgjør forræderi.
Etter Trumps bruk av tåregass mot innvandrerbarn
Sanders erklærer at karavanemedlemmer mangler «troverdig» krav på asyl
Barry Grey, 29. november 2018
Spurt om han mente innvandrerne som flykter fra fattigdom og vold i Mellom-Amerika «alle har et troverdig krav på asyl», sa senatoren: «Nei, det gjør jeg ikke.»
New in Turkish
Macron’un Sarı Yelek protestolarını bastırma manevralarına karşı çıkın!
Alex Lantier, 29 Kasım 2018
Pazar günü Paris’teki protestonun şiddetle bastırılmasına rağmen, Sarı Yelek protestoları devam ediyor ve Avrupa çapında gelişen birçok grev hareketi ile ittifak kuruyor.
Rusya, Ukrayna Donanması’nın gemilerine ateş açıp el koydu
Clara Weiss, 29 Kasım 2018
Ukrayna yönetiminin pervasız provokasyonlarına yönelik emperyalist desteğin arkasında, Karadeniz bölgesi üzerinde denetim sağlama uğruna uzun vadeli stratejik çıkarlar yatmaktadır.
New in French
Tensions entre les États-Unis et la Corée du Sud au sujet de leur attitude envers la Corée du Nord
Peter Symonds, 29 novembre 2018
Les ultimatums américains à Pyongyang pour qu’il dénucléarise menacent les efforts de la Corée du Sud pour réduire les tensions et établir des relations avec la Corée du Nord.
Un appel à l'action pour lutter contre les fermetures d'usines de GM et les licenciements massifs
Jerry White, 29 novembre 2018
Les travailleurs de l’automobile, comme la classe ouvrière dans son ensemble, ne peuvent accepter le «droit» de l’élite économique et financière de fermer ces usines.
Des nazis à l'AfD: la grande entreprise finance l'extrême droite
Peter Schwarz, 29 novembre 2018
La montée du parti d’extrême droite AfD (Alternative pour l'Allemagne) a été rendue possible grâce aux énormes dons du milliardaire August von Finck dont le père avait financé Hitler et fait fortune grâce à l’«aryanisation» des biens juifs.
Le Guardian lance de nouvelles accusations contre Assange et WikiLeaks
James Cogan, 29 novembre 2018
Ce journal a le culot de déclarer qu’il sert à «donner une voix à ceux qui sont moins entendus, à interpeller les puissants et à leur demander des comptes».
Il y a 25 ans : la Belgique secouée par la grève générale
WSWS, 29 novembre 2018
La plus grande grève générale du pays depuis 1936 a paralysée la Belgique le vendredi 27 novembre 1993, dans le contexte d’une vague de luttes ouvrières dans toute l’Europe occidentale.
New in Spanish
La provocación ucraniana en el mar de Azov
Clara Weiss y Andre Damon, 30 noviembre 2018
El ejército ucraniano, con el apoyo de altos funcionarios estadounidenses, ha instigado una importante crisis internacional previo a la cumbre del G-20 de esta semana.
El New York Times: nuestro crimen fue decir la verdad
Andre Damon, 30 noviembre 2018
The Times y el Washington Post argumentan que, al publicar información real sobre la corrupción política, la prensa de los Estados Unidos cometió lo que equivale a traición.
"Todos –Ford, Chrysler, GM– necesitan irse a la huelga ahora mismo"
La indignación de los trabajadores automotores crece con el cierre de plantas de GM
Jerry White, 30 noviembre 2018
Los trabajadores de GM en las amenazadas plantas de Lordstown, Ohio y Detroit-Hamtramck y otros trabajadores automotores manifestaron su oposición al cierre de cinco plantas en los Estados Unidos y Canadá.
Después de que Trump disparara gas lacrimógeno a niños inmigrantes
Sanders declara que miembros de la caravana no tienen un reclamo “creíble” para recibir asilo
Barry Grey, 30 noviembre 2018
El senador respondió “No” cuando le preguntaron si los inmigrantes que escapan de la pobreza y la violencia en Centroamérica “tienen todos un reclamo 'creíble' para recibir asilo”.
Rechazando el discurso de Macron, los manifestantes contra el impuesto sobre la gasolina convocan nuevas protestas en Francia
Alex Lantier, 30 noviembre 2018
La decisión del presidente Macron de dar un discurso dirigido a los manifestantes dejó claro que está decidido a imponer sus políticas derechistas y no tiene nada que ofrecer.
New in German
Die Provokation der Ukraine im Asowschen Meer
Clara Weiss und Andre Damon, 30. November 2018
Das ukrainische Militär hat mit Unterstützung hochrangiger Führungsfiguren im US-Staatsapparat im Vorfeld des G20-Gipfels eine schwere internationale Krise ausgelöst.
Chemiekonzern Bayer baut 12.000 Arbeitsplätze ab
Dietmar Henning, 30. November 2018
Arbeitsplatzabbau zwecks Gewinnsteigerung. Gewerkschaft und Betriebsrat waren frühzeitig informiert und an der Ausarbeitung des Stellenabbaus aktiv beteiligt.
„Bei Ford, bei Chrysler, bei GM – überall muss jetzt gestreikt werden“
Wut unter Autoarbeitern über GMs geplante Werksschließungen wächst
Jerry White, 30. November 2018
GM-Arbeiter in den bedrohten Werken in Lordstown (Ohio) und Detroit-Hamtramck und weitere Autoarbeiter sprachen sich gegen die Schließung von fünf Werken in den USA und Kanada aus.
NRW-Innenminister Reul will nicht gewalttätige Gruppen stärker überwachen lassen
Peter Schwarz, 30. November 2018
Der Verfassungsschutz soll die Entstehung einer bewussten politischen Opposition gegen die diskreditierten etablierten Parteien unterdrücken. Das fordert NRW-Innenminister Herbert Reul (CDU) in der Süddeutschen Zeitung.
Deutschland: Senioren arbeiten immer länger
Marianne Arens, 30. November 2018
Von den Menschen, die das Rentenalter überschritten haben, sind heute 1,4 Millionen Menschen weiterhin berufstätig – mehr als dreimal so viel wie im Jahr 2000.
Bochumer Studierendenzeitung stellt Wahlprogramm der IYSSE vor
International Youth and Students for Social Equality, 30. November 2018
Die IYSSE treten zur Wahl des 52. Studierendenparlaments (StuPa) der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) an. Am Mittwoch stellte die bsz die Positionen und Ziele der IYSSE vor.
New in Dutch
Nederland: 10.000 protesteren tegen pro-zakelijk overheidsbeleid
Harm Zonderland, 17 november 2018
Op zaterdag 10 november protesteerden 10.000 mensen tegen het pro-zakelijke beleid van de liberaal-conservatieve regering van premier Mark Rutte (VVD), die nu één jaar aan de macht is. De regering heeft al de vennootschapsbelasting verlaagd, en is van plan om de belastingen te verhogen op basisbehoeften, zoals voedingsmiddelen en medicijnen.
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- L'aveu d’un fiasco en Afghanistan par le New York Times provoque une vive réaction de l’«impérialisme des droits de l'homme» (11.02.2019)
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- La clase obrera y el socialismo (11.02.2019)
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Perspective
Democrats re-elect a right-wing leadership
30 November 2018
The Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives has reelected the same leadership team that collaborated with the Bush administration’s war in Iraq and the Obama administration’s bailout of Wall Street.
The fight against mass layoffs at GM
Industry publication boasts: GM plant closures aimed at extorting more concessions from autoworkers
By Jerry White, 30 November 2018
In an article posted on the Automotive News web site Thursday, reporter Michael Wayland acknowledges GM is using plant closures to demand “untraditional employment practices” from workers, including more temporary and contracted labor.
“Everybody—Ford, Chrysler, GM—needs to strike right now”
Autoworkers’ outrage grows over GM plant closings
General Motors worker on job cuts: “This is all about corporate greed”
Detroit-Hamtramck autoworkers want to fight against plant closures
A call to action to fight the GM plant closings and mass layoffs
Form rank-and-file committees
Reject the UAW-Lear sellout contract! Unite with GM and other autoworkers in a common fight!
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 28 November 2018
In run-up to contract vote
UAW intensifies campaign of intimidation against Indiana Lear workers
UAW negotiates secret deal with Columbia University to block strike action by graduate students
By Alexander Fangmann, 26 November 2018
David North in Australia and New Zealand
Meetings in Australia and New Zealand to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
The meetings will take place in Sydney on Sunday, December 2, in Melbourne on Thursday, December 6, and in Wellington, New Zealand on Sunday, December 9.
Friday, November 30, 6pm for 6:30. Admission free, please RSVP to Gleebooks.
Commentary
New York Times: Our crime was telling the truth
By Andre Damon, 29 November 2018
After Trump fires tear gas at immigrant children
Sanders declares caravan members lack a “credible” claim to asylum
By Barry Grey, 29 November 2018
Ukraine’s provocation in the Azov Sea
By Clara Weiss and Andre Damon, 29 November 2018
US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan
By Oscar Grenfell, 29 November 2018
US administration signals unconditional backing for Saudi regime as Senate votes on Yemen war
By Bill Van Auken, 29 November 2018
From the Nazis to the AfD: Big business finances the far-right
Plead for charity or die: A blunt message from the American health care system
The Campaign to Free Julian Assange
Guardian newspaper spearheads new accusations against Assange and WikiLeaks
By James Cogan, 28 November 2018
SEP meeting and livestream on December 16: What next in the fight to free Julian Assange?
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 28 November 2018
The meeting will discuss the Socialist Equality Party’s political perspective to mobilise and lead the defence of Julian Assange.
Obituary
Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci dies at 77
By Richard Phillips and David Walsh, 28 November 2018
Workers Struggles
Greyhound axes bus service across Western Canada
By Penny Smith, 29 November 2018
Trudeau government illegalizes Canada Post strike
By Roger Jordan and Keith Jones, 27 November 2018
Canada Post workers need socialist strategy to defy and defeat Liberals’ back-to-work law
Arts Review
Green Book and At Eternity’s Gate: Overcoming racism and painter Vincent van Gogh’s final years
By Joanne Laurier, 29 November 2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: Only a fool “expects better” from humanity
By David Walsh, 26 November 2018
Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide at the University of Michigan
Science
NASA InSight mission successfully lands on Mars
By Bryan Dyne, 28 November 2018
California Wildfires
Rainstorm ends California wildfires, but threatens to cause flash flooding
By Evan Blake, 23 November 2018
Photo Essay: The social cost of the Camp Fire
Refugees from Paradise
The WSWS spoke to some of the thousands who lost everything in the Camp Fire disaster in northern California. Many blame energy monopoly PG&E.
The fire in Paradise, California: From natural disaster to social catastrophe
This week in history: November 25-December 2
25 years ago: Belgium rocked by general strike
The biggest general strike in Belgium since 1936 paralyzed the country on Friday, November 27. as a wave of workers’ struggles continues throughout western Europe.
50 years ago: Romania’s Ceausescu opposes “Brezhnev Doctrine”
The policy had already been put into action with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August.
75 years ago: Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Tehran
The Soviet dictator and the leaders of British and American imperialism were gathering to begin discussions on the geo-strategic relations that would be established in the aftermath of the Second World War.
100 years ago: Admiral Kolchak’s troops begin westward drive against Bolsheviks
On November 29, 1918, the 1st corps of the Siberian Army, the largest military group of the counterrevolutionary Provisional All-Russian Government, began its advance towards Perm in the Urals, a center of arms manufacture and coal production.
Mehring Books
Mehring Books launches holiday sale
Most titles 10 to 50 percent off!
By Mehring Books, 23 November 2018
Our annual holiday sale is a great opportunity to introduce friends to socialism and to expand your Marxist library.
David North in conversation with Nick Beams
Book launch of The Heritage We Defend in Sydney, Australia
Why are they back?
New title from Mehring Books explains resurgence of fascism in Germany
Socialist Equality Party
SEP (Canada) to hold Montreal meeting on “Leon Trotsky, the Lessons of History, and the Struggle for Socialism Today”
24 November 2018
The SEP (Canada) is holding a meeting in Montreal on Wednesday, November 28, as part of events worldwide to mark 80 Years of the Fourth International.
Indian Trotskyists celebrate 80 years of the Fourth International
SEP (Sri Lanka) holds successful public meeting on political crisis
By our correspondents, 22 November 2018
SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold lecture on “Lessons of History and the Fight for Socialism Today”
SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold meetings on the socialist solution to the political crisis
The political crisis in Sri Lanka: Its lessons for the international working class
New In Arabic
Arabic translation of “Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today”
We are publishing here the Arabic translation of a lecture delivered by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman, David North in Colombo to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International and the 50th anniversary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka.
History
The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today
Part two
By Benjamin Mateus, 20 November 2018
This is the second part of a two-part series. The first part was posted on November 19.
The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today
Part one of a two-part series
History of the Fourth International
“Eighty Years of the Fourth International” series continues with meetings in California and Oregon
By our reporters, 17 November 2018
Taking place in the backdrop of the rising death toll from the California fires and the rise of the far-right, the meetings attracted broad audiences of youth, students and workers across the West Coast.
Growing interest in socialism at Chicago meeting on 80th anniversary of Fourth International
By the IYSSE at University of Illinois at Chicago, 14 November 2018
David North lecture tour
Nearly 100 attend meeting in New York City on the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
David North lecture tour
More than 100 attend meeting at MIT on anniversary of the Fourth International
David North begins US speaking tour in Michigan to mark 80 years of the Fourth International
Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today
By David North, 9 October 2018
Large Colombo audience hears David North’s lecture on the history of the Fourth International
On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
By David North, 3 September 2018
Security and the Fourth International
The origins and findings of the Security and the Fourth International investigation
By Eric London, 14 November 2018
This is the text and audio of a lecture delivered by Eric London in Detroit, Michigan reviewing the monumental investigation conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International titled Security and the Fourth International, which exposed the infiltration of the movement by agents of the FBI and Stalinist GPU.
SEP 2018 Election Campaign
Significant vote for SEP candidate Niles Niemuth in Michigan’s 12th district
By our reporters, 8 November 2018
Final campaign meeting for Niles Niemuth reviews experiences from campaigning
By our reporters, 7 November 2018
Vote Niles Niemuth, Socialist Equality Party, for US House of Representatives in Michigan’s 12th district!
Democratic Party mailer removes SEP candidate Niles Niemuth from sample ballot
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Watch: Two Hundred Years Since the Birth of Karl Marx
By Nick Beams, 31 October 2018
Nick Beams delivers successful lectures on the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx at Australian universities
By our reporters, 31 October 2018
Science
World vertebrate populations have fallen 60 percent since 1970
By Bryan Dyne, 1 November 2018
The latest Living Planet Report demonstrates the far-reaching implications of human activity on both the climate and the degradation of the natural environment.
Book review
DSA covers for unions and Democrats in new book on walkout by West Virginia teachers
55 Strong, Inside the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike
By Nancy Hanover, 18 October 2018
A new book promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is centered on the lie that the West Virginia teachers’ strike, which set off the series of strikes nationally last spring, was a “victory” in which the unions played a heroic role.
International Committee of the Fourth International
Resolution of the SEP (US) Fifth National Congress
The Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
8 August 2018
This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Equality Party Congress, held from July 22–27, 2018.
Opening report to the Fifth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
By David North, 4 August 2018
The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
The lessons of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party’s Great Betrayal
By Rohantha De Silva and Vilani Peiris, 24 September 2018
PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE
Support the Socialist Equality group in Turkey!
Statement of the SE group, in sympathy with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), on the snap elections in Turkey
Security and the Fourth International
An “Exemplary Comrade”: The Socialist Workers Party’s 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen: Part one
By Eric London, 14 August 2018
This is the first part in a four-part series examining the cover-up by the Socialist Workers Party beginning in 1947 of information exposing the role of Sylvia Callen, the personal secretary of long-time party leader James P. Cannon, as a Stalinist agent.
Part two | Part three | Part four
Seventy-eight years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
By Eric London and David North, 21 August 2018
On August 21, 1940, Leon Trotsky, the founder of the Fourth International and the co-leader of the Russian Revolution, died from wounds inflicted the day before by an assassin, the Stalinist GPU agent Ramon Mercader.
WSWS 20th Anniversary
Twenty years of the World Socialist Web Site: 1998–2018
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 14 February 2018
As the WSWS marks its 20th anniversary of daily posting, it is taking the lead in exposing the conspiracy by governments and corporations to censor the Internet as the ruling class prepares for war and domestic repression.
Lenin, Trotsky and the Marxism of the October Revolution
By David North, 19 March 2018
David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party (US), delivered this lecture at the University of Leipzig on March 16.
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