Trump makes fascistic appeal to police and military at Minneapolis rally
By Patrick Martin, 11 October 2019
The president spoke at his first rally since the start of the impeachment inquiry with dozens of red-shirted police as a backdrop, and any protesters physically removed.
Trump admits US killed millions in war based on lies
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Right-wing extremist network behind fascist synagogue attack in Germany
By Ulrich Rippert, 11 October 2019
The reality is that the “ideological inciters” of the right-wing terrorist attack in Halle hold top positions within the state and security apparatus, the intelligence agencies, the military and the federal government.
German Nazi murders two in Yom Kippur Synagogue attack
Crisis mounts over Turkish offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria
By Bill Van Auken, 11 October 2019
Trump’s green light for the Turkish invasion has prompted heated condemnations from his Republican allies as well as within the US military.
Turkey launches US-backed offensive targeting Kurdish forces in Syria
Washington green lights Turkish attack on Kurdish forces in Syria
After secret meeting with CEO Mary Barra, UAW moving to shut down GM strike
By Jerry White, 11 October 2019
The meeting with Barra takes place as the UAW continues to isolate the strike by 48,000 GM workers and tries to wear down opposition to another pro-company deal.
Who is UAW Vice President Terry Dittes?
By Shannon Jones, 11 October 2019
There is nothing in the biography of Dittes that suggests that this longtime UAW bureaucrat is anything but a loyal hand raiser for the corrupt Solidarity House bureaucracy.
UAW promoting anti-Mexican nationalism to isolate and defeat GM strike
Expand the strike to Ford and FCA!
The GM strike is a fight against the entire ruling class
“We should all be out”
Growing call for industrywide strike to back GM workers
India: Motherson autoworkers strike at cross roads
GM tightens screws on UAW with threat to close joint training center
WikiLeaks source Jeremy Hammond held in contempt by grand jury
By Kevin Reed, 11 October 2019
Information activist Jeremy Hammond has been found in contempt of court for refusing to answer questions before the same judge and grand jury that imprisoned Chelsea Manning.
CIA spied on Assange’s lawyers, visitors in Ecuadorian embassy
By Oscar Grenfell, 11 October 2019
The El País report indicates that the US pursuit of Assange has included the illegal surveillance of American lawyers and journalists, in violation of the US Constitution.
Australian cyber conference “disinvites” US whistleblower and Assange supporter
Immigrants shut down Matamoros-Brownsville border crossing in protest over US-Mexico asylum ban
By Eric London, 11 October 2019
The protest is a powerful indication of growing opposition among the estimated 40,000 immigrants being held in inhumane conditions in Northern Mexico.
Prosecutors in Illinois charge nine-year-old with murder after mobile home fire claims the lives of five family members
By Jacob Crosse, 11 October 2019
The fire took place on April 6 at the Timberline Mobile Home Park located in Eureka, Illinois, a small community outside of Peoria.
New York City transit authority adds 500 police officers
By Philip Guelpa, 11 October 2019
Amidst crumbling infrastructure, deteriorating service, and repeated fare increases, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is hiring 500 new police officers to patrol the New York City transit system.
As UAW keeps Mack-Volvo workers on job past contract deadline, Daimler’s Freightliner Trucks cuts 900 jobs
By Steve Filips, 11 October 2019
A mass layoff of workers at Freightliner is part of a cascade of job losses aimed at bolstering profits across the transportation industry.
Spanish Supreme Court approves exhumation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco
By Alejandro López, 11 October 2019
Despite the legitimate hatred that millions of workers feel for Franco, the fascist dictator and mass murderer, the exhumation ruling is a dangerous political fraud.
Australian government ministers call for protesters to be cut off welfare
By Mike Head, 11 October 2019
While the remarks referred to “Extinction Rebellion” demonstrators who temporarily blocked some traffic in major cities, they have a wider anti-democratic logic.
10 October 2019
PG&E imposes blackout for over two million residents in Northern California
By Evan Blake, 10 October 2019
FISA court documents expose illegal FBI mass surveillance
By Kevin Reed, 10 October 2019
Richest 400 Americans paid lower taxes than everyone else in 2018
By Trévon Austin, 10 October 2019
After mid-September financial market turbulence
US Fed announces return to asset purchases
By Nick Beams, 10 October 2019
UK ruling class considers whether to entrust Corbyn with overcoming Brexit crisis
By Chris Marsden, 10 October 2019
UK: Bootle Royal Mail workers’ strike sold out by Communication Workers Union
By Robert Stevens, 10 October 2019
US-North Korean nuclear talks stall again
By Peter Symonds, 10 October 2019
Detentions without charge, night-raids, torture:
India’s state of siege in Kashmir continues
By Wasantha Rupasinghe, 10 October 2019
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Julian Assange’ın hayatı tehlikede!
James Cogan, 9 Ekim 2019
Assange’a ve Manning’e özgürlük kampanyası, işçi sınıfını kapitalizme bağlı tutmaya uğraşan siyaset ve sendika aygıtlarına karşı bir başkaldırı uğruna mücadeleden ayrılamaz. Onları savunma kampanyası, işyerlerine, üniversitelere, okullara ve işçi sınıfı mahallelerine taşınmalıdır.
ABD-Yunanistan askeri anlaşmasını imzalayan Pompeo İran’ı, Rusya’yı ve Çin’i tehdit etti
Alex Lantier ve V. Gnana, 9 Ekim 2019
Pompeo’nun Balkan turu, Washington’da ve onun NATO üyesi Avrupalı ve Türk sözde “müttefikler” ile ilişkilerinde patlayıcı bir krizin ortasında gerçekleşti.
Washington Türkiye’nin Suriye’de YPG’ye saldırısına yeşil ışık yaktı
Alex Lantier ve Ulaş Ateşçi, 9 Ekim 2019
Washington, 2015’ten beri Suriye’deki NATO savaşında başlıca vekil gücü olarak savaşan ve Türk hükümetinin teröristler olarak suçladığı Kürt milliyetçisi milisleri kaderlerine terk etti.
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La Turquie lance une offensive soutenue par les États-Unis contre les forces kurdes en Syrie
Alex Lantier, 11 octobre 2019
Les raids aériens et les bombardements d'artillerie turcs ont touché des villes et des cibles militaires et civiles le long d'environ 100 kilomètres de la frontière entre la Turquie et la Syrie.
Après l’attentat à la préfecture de Paris, Macron lance une campagne islamophobe
Anthony Torres, 11 octobre 2019
Faisant le silence sur les causes de l’attentat au couteau ayant fait quatre morts, Macron a préféré lancer un appel violent à «éradiquer» l’islamisme.
La classe dirigeante britannique envisage de confier à Corbyn le soin de surmonter la crise du Brexit
Chris Marsden, 11 octobre 2019
Il semblerait que de puissantes couches de l’élite dirigeante ont conclu qu’il est maintenant nécessaire de faire appel aux services du chef travailliste Jeremy Corbyn, qui a démontré à maintes reprises qu’il était un instrument politique malléable, pour mener un gouvernement «d’unité nationale».
New in Norwegian
Utvid streiken til Ford og FCA!
GM-streiken er en kamp mot styringsklassen i sin helhet
Eric London, 9. oktober 2019
Streikens resultat vil avgjøre livsvilkårene for millioner av arbeidere ikke bare i bilindustrien, men for alle arbeidsplasser for år fremover.
Tyrkia får grønt lys fra Washington for angrep på kurdiske styrker i Syria
Alex Lantier og Ulaş Atesci, 9. oktober 2019
Trump overlater de nasjonalistiske kurdiske militsene som siden 2015 har slåss som Washingtons viktigste stedfortrederstyrke i NATO-krigen for regimeskifte i Syria, til deres egen skjebne.
«Defender 2020»: NATO-makter truer Russland med krig
Gregor Link, 9. oktober 2019
Det kommende året skal væpnede styrker fra 17 NATO-stater, inkludert USA og Tyskland, gjennomføre manøvrene «Defender 2020».
Den europeiske union innstilt på å avvise Johnson’s Brexit-forslag
Robert Stevens, 9. oktober 2019
Regjeringen er innstilt på en massiv opptrapping av den konstitusjonelle krisen som ble åpnet av Brexit.
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Weitet die Streiks aus!
Der Streik bei General Motors richtet sich gegen die gesamte herrschende Klasse
Eric London, 9. Oktober 2019
Das Ergebnis des Streiks wirkt sich auf die Lebensbedingungen von Millionen von Arbeitern aus – nicht nur in der Automobilindustrie, sondern in allen Branchen.
Die Wahl der SPD-Spitze und der Niedergang der Sozialdemokratie
Ulrich Rippert, 9. Oktober 2019
Ein Blick auf die Kandidatenliste für den SPD-Parteivorsitz macht deutlich, welche soziale Schicht in dieser Partei den Ton angibt und welch reaktionäres Programm sie vertritt.
Washington gibt grünes Licht für türkischen Angriff auf kurdische Kräfte in Syrien
Alex Lantier und Ulaş Atesci, 9. Oktober 2019
Trump hat die kurdisch-nationalistischen Milizen, die seit 2015 Washingtons wichtigste Stellvertretertruppe im Nato-Krieg für einen Regimewechsel in Syrien waren, ihrem Schicksal überlassen.
„Und der Zukunft zugewandt“ – ein Film über die stalinistischen Wurzeln der DDR
Bernd Reinhardt und Verena Nees, 9. Oktober 2019
Regisseur Bernd Böhlich wirft in seinem Film die Frage des „Geburtsfehlers“ der DDR auf, ihr Schweigen über die stalinistischen Verbrechen, denen die alten Bolschewiki wie Leo Trotzki und ebenso zahllose deutsche Kommunisten zum Opfer fielen.
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Casa Blanca de Trump declara que no cooperará con investigación de juicio político
Por Joseph Kishore, 10 octubre 2019
Los demócratas decidieron deliberadamente basar su oposición a Trump en los argumentos más antidemocráticos posibles: el apoyo a las agencias de inteligencia y al imperialismo estadounidense.
Presidente ecuatoriano escapa de la capital ante mayores protestas de masas
Por Andrea Lobo, 10 octubre 2019
Ante otra huelga y una movilización indígena masiva, Moreno tomó el paso inédito de trasladar su Gobierno de Quito a Guayaquil.
UAW mantiene en secreto la propuesta de contrato de GM de los trabajadores a solicitud de la empresa
Por Eric London, 10 octubre 2019
El UAW mantiene a los trabajadores en la oscuridad, ya que la huelga ha forzado despidos temporales o despidos de al menos 150.000 trabajadores en toda la industria automotriz.
¿Por qué los asesinos de la CIA y los golpistas aman a este "denunciante"?
Por Patrick Martin, 10 octubre 2019
El funcionario de la CIA que presentó una denuncia formal contra Trump está siendo defendido por aquellos que pasaron ocho años bajo la administración Obama persiguiendo a los denunciantes.
Washington da luz verde a Turquía para que ataque a fuerzas kurdas en Siria
Por Alex Lantier y Ulaş Atesci, 10 octubre 2019
Trump ha dejado a su suerte a las milicias nacionalistas kurdas que han operado desde 2015 como la principal fuerza patrocinada por Washington en la guerra de cambio de régimen de la OTAN en Siria.
De los archivos del World Socialist Web Site
Ochenta y dos años de la huelga de brazos caídos en Flint
Por Jerry White, 10 octubre 2019
Con 48.000 trabajadores de la GM implicados en la huelga nacional más larga de la industria automotriz en casi medio siglo, es valioso estudiar la lucha heroica de los trabajadores de la GM durante la huelga de brazos caídos de 1936-37 en Flint, Michigan.
New in Portuguese
Setenta anos desde a Revolução Chinesa
As lições políticas da falência do maoísmo
Por Peter Symonds, 9 Outubro 2019
Os herdeiros políticos de Mao Zedong não conseguem explicar como e por que as aspirações dos trabalhadores por um futuro socialista, pelo qual tantos se sacrificaram há 70 anos, resultaram hoje no beco sem saída do capitalismo.
New in Russian
Правительство Украины объявляет о масштабной приватизации, угрожающей массовыми увольнениями
Джейсон Мелановски, 5 октября 2019 г.
Правый мозговой центр «Атлантический совет» приветствовал инициируемую Зеленским экономическую политику как «крупнейшую постсоветскую распродажу на протяжении жизни целого поколения».
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- La campaña demócrata de censurar el internet: ¿quién determina qué son “mentiras”? (11.11.2019)
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Perspective
The irrationality of capitalism: Millions cut off from electricity, lives endangered by California utility PG&E
11 October 2019
The forced blackouts affecting over two million people and businesses across 34 counties in Northern California serve as a stark example of the irrationality of the capitalist system.
Socialist Equality Party
SEP and IYSSE meeting series in the United States
Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America
11 October 2019
This meeting series will refute the historical falsifications advanced in the New York Times “1619 Project,” explain their underlying political motivations and present the strategy for socialist revolution in America today.
Video: SEP presidential candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena addresses nationally-televised meeting in Sri Lanka
By our reporters, 11 October 2019
Wijesiriwardena’s speech was heard by about 4,000 people at the event and watched by tens of thousands across Sri Lanka on two television networks.
Sri Lankan SEP announces presidential election campaign public meetings
9 October 2019
Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka to contest the November presidential election
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 5 October 2019
Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE public meeting: The political issues at stake in the Indian government’s savage Kashmir lockdown
By the Socialist Equality Party and IYSSE (Sri Lanka), 25 September 2019
Science
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for research in cosmology and exoplanets
By Bryan Dyne, 11 October 2019
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics focuses on the deeper understanding of humanity’s place in the cosmos that has been developed over the past six decades.
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for research in cellular responses to oxygen
Commentary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's “Just Society”: Palliatives that will never be implemented
By Genevieve Leigh, 11 October 2019
Most of the proposals involve tweaks and adjustments to existing laws, with little new funding to address social needs.
Ecuador’s president retreats from capital in face of growing mass protests
By Andrea Lobo, 9 October 2019
Iraq in flames
By Bill Van Auken, 5 October 2019
After the Turkish elections: How the pseudo-left rallied behind the CHP
Part III: The role of the Revolutionary Workers Party (DİP)
By Ulas Atesci and Alex Lantier, 4 October 2019
After the Turkish elections: How the pseudo-left rallied behind the CHP
Part II: The dead end of the petty-bourgeoisie’s orientation to the CHP
After the Turkish elections: How the pseudo-left rallied behind the CHP
Part I: A political liquidation into the capitalist establishment
Arts Review
Roger Waters “Us + Them” concert film takes on global issues
By Kevin Reed, 11 October 2019
Filmed at a live performance in Amsterdam in June 2018, the concert features Waters’ reinterpretation of the catalog of Pink Floyd and his solo career in light of present social and political crises around the world.
Joker: An unenlightening approach to serious problems
By Carlos Delgado, 9 October 2019
New Met production of Porgy and Bess prompts racialist criticisms of America’s greatest opera
By Barry Grey, 26 September 2019
Placido Domingo resigns from LA Opera, as #MeToo campaign continues
By Fred Mazelis, 4 October 2019
Singer Placido Domingo’s forced departure from New York’s Metropolitan Opera
Workers Struggles
Iranian Haft Tappeh sugar workers’ strike resumes; Zimbabwe’s doctors’ five-week strike continues
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 October 2019
Workers at the Haft Tappeh sugar cane operation are continuing a struggle over job losses and pay while doctors in Zimbabwe are fighting over pay and overall conditions in the health system.
Brazilian unions push “green and yellow” chauvinism in education strike against austerity, political interference
By Miguel Andrade, 9 October 2019
Mexico: 100,000 university workers strike as López Obrador’s vows deeper austerity
By Andrea Lobo, 10 October 2019
Amazon workers in California win job back for fired co-workers
By Kayla Costa, 9 October 2019
Canada: Five thousand public sector workers strike in Saskatchewan
By Carl Bronski, 7 October 2019
Ontario education workers set to strike Monday against Ford’s savage cuts
By Penny Smith and Roger Jordan, 5 October 2019
History
Introduction to the 1955 SWP resolution “The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath”
By Peter Symonds, 9 October 2019
From the archives
SWP resolution: The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath
9 October 2019
Introduction to the 1951 report to the Fourth International by Chinese Trotskyist Peng Shuzhi
By Peter Symonds, 3 October 2019
From the archives
The Causes of the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party over Chiang Kai-Shek, and the CCP’s Perspectives
By Peng Shuzhi
Australia: Important response to first IYSSE lectures on the 1949 Chinese Revolution
By our reporters, 7 October 2019
IYSSE lecture series in Australia
Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution: How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
9 September 2019
Free Assange and Manning
Julian Assange’s life is in danger!
By James Cogan, 7 October 2019
“Julian has reached a point where he may die”—Assange’s father John Shipton speaks with the WSWS
By Johannes Stern, 5 October 2019
Assange judge blocks extradition to Azerbaijan of ‘McMafia’ wife
By Laura Tiernan, 2 October 2019
Indian Trotskyists hold public meetings in defence of Assange and Manning
By our correspondents, 2 October 2019
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This week in history: October 7-13
25 years ago: Iraq disarmament crisis
On October 8, 1994, the United Nations ordered Iraq to withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors, amid media propaganda about Iraqi development of weapons of mass destruction.
50 years ago: “Chicago Eight” trial and “Days of Rage”
From October 8 through October 11, 1969, the trial of the “Chicago Eight” was under way: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was charged with conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
75 years ago: Revolt at Auschwitz concentration camp brutally repressed
On October 7, 1944, prisoners at the notorious German-operated death camp in Auschwitz, Poland, staged a courageous revolt, in a desperate struggle for their freedom and their lives.
100 years ago: Land reform in Estonia
On October 10, 1919, the bourgeois government in the new Estonian republic nationalized 58 percent of the farmland in Estonia. Over 1,000 estates were seized. Owners could keep only 50 hectares (123 acres) and were eventually compensated 3 percent of the value of their land. The land was redistributed to Estonian peasants and veterans.
Autoworkers struggles
UAW prepares to sell out GM strike, as new corruption revelations emerge
By Marcus Day, 3 October 2019
From the archive of the World Socialist Web Site
Eighty-two years since the victory of the Flint sit-down strike
By Jerry White, 1 October 2019
From the archive of the World Socialist Web Site
Why are trade unions hostile to socialism?
By David North, 28 September 2019
“The CEOs and Wall Street are trying to take your wages and benefits… Don’t Give in. Stand your ground!”
Detroit college students support striking GM workers
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Walter Reuther and the rise and fall of the UAW
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Drawing the lessons of the ICFI split—International Strategy and National Tactics: The change in the ICFI’s approach to national liberation movements
By Deepal Jayasekera, 30 September 2019
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 25, 2019 by Deepal Jayasekera, Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka
Introduction to the Turkish language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky’s four fateful years in Prinkipo: 1929-1933
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The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
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International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Mandarin announcement of Australian lecture series on 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution
27 September 2019
The lectures, which are being held on university campuses across the country, have been organised by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
Lectures in Australia and New Zealand on the 1949 Chinese Revolution
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Preface to the Turkish edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
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Author’s introduction to Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
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The 2020 US Elections
Joe Biden: A familiar face, a deeply reactionary record
By Patrick Martin, 23 September 2019
Amy Klobuchar: The favorite Democrat of Senate Republicans
By George Gallanis, 19 August 2019
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: #MeToo, McCarthyism and machine politics
- Beto O’Rourke: The incredible shrinking empty suit
- Kamala Harris: Law-and-order with a dose of identity politics
- Pete Buttigieg: The made-to-order political “outsider”
- Elizabeth Warren espouses economic nationalist policies aligned with Donald Trump
International Online May Day Rally 2019
Opening report to Online International May Day Rally
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism
By David North, 6 May 2019
The future lies in socialism
By Joseph Kishore, 13 May 2019
- The class struggle in the United States and the fight against war
- The ICFI’s program intersects with a new wave of working-class struggle
- Imperialist war, the working-class upsurge in the Mideast and North Africa, and the strategy of Permanent Revolution
- The defense of Venezuela and the struggle for socialism in Latin America
- France’s “yellow vest” protests and the global resurgence of the class struggle
- The defence of Assange and Manning is the spearhead of the struggle against imperialism
- The Christchurch terror attack and the promotion of fascism by the ruling elite
- The persecution of Assange and Manning is an attack on the working class
- Greetings to Chinese workers and youth on the centenary of the May 4 movement
- May Day 2019: The resurgence of the class struggle and the fight for socialism
On May 4, 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.
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