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Today ---------- 25 October 2008 News & Analysis ----------------------------------------------------- Warnings of recession send global share markets plunging Biggest impact in Asia The New York Times' endorsement of Obama European auto industry in crisis US federal appeals court stays Troy Davis execution More setbacks for Guantánamo show trials Britain: Labour, the Conservatives and the oligarchs Workers Struggles ----------------------------------------------------- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific Arts Review ----------------------------------------------------- Socialist Equality Party UK public meetings Art and Socialism--a talk by David Walsh, WSWS arts editor And a conversation with Trevor Griffiths: The Writer and Revolution SEP/ISSE Events ----------------------------------------------------- SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity SEP candidates to speak in Canada SEP Election Campaign ----------------------------------------------------- SEP election meetings The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis Upcoming Meetings: Saturday, October 25 Santa Monica, California Monday, October 27 Chicago, Illinois & Portsmouth, Ohio New in German -------------------------------------------- Wirtschaftskrise und Krieg Hiobsbotschaften aus der europäischen Autoindustrie OECD: Wachsende soziale Ungleichheit und Armut in Deutschland New in Portuguese -------------------------------------------- Ernest Mandel, 1923-1995: Uma avaliação crítica de seu papel na história da Quarta Internacional Quarta Parte: O racha na Quarta Internacional New in Russian -------------------------------------------- "Socialism" vtorgaetsya v vybory 2008 goda   ---------- 24 October 2008 News & Analysis ----------------------------------------------------- US layoffs mount, home foreclosures rise More recriminations over US/NATO quagmire in Afghanistan The economic crisis and war Britain in recession: Mervyn King's moment of clarity Highland Park, Michigan residents speak on deadly fire Fearing default, Argentina moves to nationalize private pension funds French Airbus worker: "Boeing and Airbus workers have the same enemy-we should fight them together" Britain: Millions threatened with negative home equity and repossession Mass strike in Italy against Berlusconi government German Social Democrats meet in the shadow of the financial crisis Indian politicians threaten to resign over Sri Lankan war Polemics -------------------------------------------- The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism: The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner--Part 3 Workers Struggles ----------------------------------------------------- Canada: Toronto transit system avoids essential service designation Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa Book Review ---------------------------------------------------- Little Audrey by Ruth White: a family in postwar Virginia SEP/ISSE Events ----------------------------------------------------- SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity SEP Election Campaign ----------------------------------------------------- SEP election meetings The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis New in German -------------------------------------------- 70 Jahre Vierte Internationale Der Zusammenbruch des Kapitalismus und die revolutionäre Perspektive der Vierten Internationale Deutschland vor 85 Jahren 1923: Die verpasste Revolution New in French -------------------------------------------- La honte du Canada : l’incarcération, la torture et l’expulsion d’Abousfian Abdelrazik France : Entretien avec un travailleur d’Airbus « Les travailleurs de Boeing et d’Airbus ont le même ennemi. Il faut lutter ensemble contre cet ennemi. » New in Portuguese -------------------------------------------- Ernest Mandel, 1923-1995: Uma avaliação crítica de seu papel na história da Quarta Internacional Terceira Parte: A ascensão do Pablismo     ---------- 23 October 2008 News & Analysis ----------------------------------------------------- Job cuts mount as global recession takes hold "Socialism" intrudes on the 2008 elections Can China fund the US and European bailouts? Eastern European economies face bankruptcy Germany: Parliament authorises €500 billion bank bailout Detroit area house fire kills four General strike in Greece amid deepening financial crisis Australian by-elections record massive anti-Labor swings Canada's shame: the incarceration, torture, and exile of Abousfian Abdelrazik Under cover of "voter fraud" allegations, Republicans suppress the vote--Part 2 Polemics -------------------------------------------- The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism: The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner--Part 2 Art Review ---------------------------------------------------- Vancouver International Film Festival 2008--Part 4 Repentance, betrayal and the less dramatic SEP/ISSE Events ----------------------------------------------------- SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity SEP Election Campaign ----------------------------------------------------- SEP election meetings The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis Correspondence ----------------------------------------------------- Letters on "In defense of Bill Ayers," and a reply by David Walsh New in German -------------------------------------------- Die World Socialist Web Site in neuer Gestalt 70 Jahre Vierte Internationale Der Zusammenbruch des Kapitalismus und die revolutionäre Perspektive der Vierten Internationale Deutschland vor 85 Jahren 1923: Die verpasste Revolution New in French -------------------------------------------- L’appel de l’UE pour une réglementation financière mondiale masque des tensions inter-européennes et internationales 1968 : Grève générale et révolte étudiante en France Sixième partie : la ligne centriste de l'OCI (2) New in Portuguese -------------------------------------------- Ernest Mandel, 1923-1995: Uma avaliação crítica de seu papel na história da Quarta Internacional       ---------- 22 October 2008 News & Analysis ----------------------------------------------------- Biden's chilling remarks at fundraiser What "incredibly tough" foreign policy actions is Obama preparing? The Democrats' "economic recovery" fraud OECD report ranks US third worst in inequality and poverty More signs of recession in Japan Under cover of "voter fraud" allegations, Republicans suppress the vote--Part 1 Irish government imposes harsh budget cuts Fiji: High Court rejects former prime minister's legal challenge to military junta Stella D'oro strikers rally in the Bronx, New York Polemics -------------------------------------------- The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism: The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner--Part 1 SEP/ISSE Events ----------------------------------------------------- SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity SEP Election Campaign ----------------------------------------------------- SEP election meetings The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis Art Review ---------------------------------------------------- W: A crude approach is not good for grasping much of anything New in German -------------------------------------------- "Konvention der Linken": Rechtsruck der britischen kleinbürgerlich-radikalen Gruppen Deutschland vor 85 Jahren 1923: Die verpasste Revolution Rumänische Lehrer streiken für höhere Gehälter SPD-Parteitag im Schatten der Finanzkrise "Konvention der Linken": Rechtsruck der britischen kleinbürgerlich-radikalen Gruppen New in French -------------------------------------------- Près de 30 pour cent des familles américaines survivent avec un salaire de misère 1968 : Grève générale et révolte étudiante en France Cinquième partie : La ligne centriste de l'OCI (1) Réunion publique du PES à Montréal pour les élections américaines Les origines et les implications de la crise financière : Une analyse marxiste New in Portuguese -------------------------------------------- Ernest Mandel, 1923-1995: Uma avaliação crítica de seu papel na história da Quarta Internacional Primeira Parte   ---------- 21 October 2008 News & Analysis ----------------------------------------------------- Iraqis protest against proposed security agreement with US India: Police accused of summarily executing "terrorist suspects" Housing crisis accelerates blight in Detroit neighborhoods Britain: Labour scapegoats immigrants for the financial crash US: Screen Actors leadership calls for federal mediator East Timor: Political crisis deepens as divisions in police force re-emerge SEP/ISSE Events ----------------------------------------------------- SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity SEP Election Campaign ----------------------------------------------------- SEP election meetings The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis Workers Struggles ----------------------------------------------------- Workers Struggles: The Americas Art Review ---------------------------------------------------- Sex, consolation for misery: Chuck Palahniuk's Choke comes to the big screen Correspondence ----------------------------------------------------- Letters from our readers New in German -------------------------------------------- SEP-Präsidentschaftskandidat Jerry White in Frankfurt "Europäische und amerikanische Arbeiter müssen gemeinsam auf die Finanzkrise reagieren" 500-Milliarden-Euro-Rettungspaket für Banken verabschiedet Selbstentmachtung des Parlaments 70 Jahre Vierte Internationale Der Zusammenbruch des Kapitalismus und die revolutionäre Perspektive der Vierten Internationale New in French -------------------------------------------- Les pertes des banques américaines effacent les profits de la spéculation La LCR sert de couverture aux partisans de gauche de l’impérialisme français en Afghanistan New in Portuguese -------------------------------------------- Fechamento de fábricas e demissões nos EUA e Europa 1968: A greve geral e a revolta estudantil na França Parte 8 - A linha centrista da OCI (4)     ---------- 20 October 2008 News & Analysis ----------------------------------------------------- Colin Powell endorses Obama Growing ruling class consensus behind Democratic candidate Pakistan facing bankruptcy as world financial crisis deepens US Supreme Court denies Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for new trial France: €360 billion to bail out the banks IMF: Spain to be hit hard by recession Detroit residents speak on economic crisis and US elections Malaysia's prime minister to step down next year SEP/ISSE Events ----------------------------------------------------- SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity SEP Election Campaign ----------------------------------------------------- SEP election meetings The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis Art Review ---------------------------------------------------- Vancouver International Film Festival 2008--Part 3 The oppressed and excluded An interview with Li Yifan, director of The Longwang Chronicles New in French -------------------------------------------- France : 360 milliards d’euros pour renflouer les banques Le projet d’Israël d’attaquer l’Iran se confirme		SEP Congress Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress SEP Statement of Principles Part 1 Part 2 Download PDF The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party Download PDF The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism Part 1 Part 2 Download PDF SEP Election Campaign Support the SEP campaign fund! Socialist Equality Party launches new election web site SEP election meetings The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis Meeting Saturday, October 25 in Santa Monica, California Reject Obama and McCain! Support the socialist alternative in 2008! Build the Socialist Equality Party! Download PDF No return to the 1930s! For the public ownership of the banks! Statement of SEP presidential candidate Jerome White Appeal to Readers Donate to the World Socialist Web Site! Join the International Students for Social Equality! World Financial Crisis Pakistan facing bankruptcy as world financial crisis deepens EU call for global financial regulation masks intra-European and international tensions Plant closures, layoffs mount in US and Europe More... Keerthi Balasuriya On the 20th anniversary of his death SEP general secretary pays tribute to Keerthi Balasuriya Twenty years since the death of Keerthi Balasuriya Part 1 Part 2 Political Crisis in the US Colin Powell endorses Obama Growing ruling class consensus behind Democratic candidate The Washington Post endorses Obama Obama floats economic plan: tax breaks and austerity More... ICFI/ISSE Summer School in Australia The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism By Nick Beams Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 SEP (US) National Aggregate Notes on the political and economic crisis of the world capitalist system and the perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party By David North Georgia Cheney in Georgia: Gunboat diplomacy in pursuit of oil European Union summit sides with Georgia US, Europe denounce Russian support for Georgian provinces' independence More... Europe France: €360 billion to bail out the banks IMF: Spain to be hit hard by recession The G7 and the Euro Group agree to pour billions into banks More... Middle East Stop the US war drive against Iran! Available to download as a PDF brochure US Letter format : A4 format Also in Farsi For an international mobilization of workers and youth against the war in Iraq Statement of the WSWS and the ICFI Available to download as a PDF brochure US Letter format : A4 format Also in Farsi British diplomat paints bleak view of Afghan war Israel's plan to attack Iran confirmed Iraq: Handover in devastated Anbar hailed as a victory More... Australia Australian government props up banks as signs of a deep global recession emerge Australian central bank interest rate cut reveals fears of global slowdown Australia: Climate change, the Garnaut report, and the profit system More... Sri Lanka Sri Lankan officials offer empty reassurances over the global financial crisis Sri Lankan police release arrested SEP member Sri Lankan Trotskyists mark 40 years of struggle for socialist internationalism More... Asia-Pacific China's land reform will deepen the gulf between rich and poor Asian stocks tumble after rejection of US bailout package China's milk crisis: another disaster unleashed by the capitalist market More... Book Review Bolsheviks in Power - Professor Alexander Rabinowitch's important study of the first year of soviet power New titles from Mehring Books New pamphlet from Mehring Books in Australia Order online Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness by David North Order online Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification by David North Order online This pamphlet brings together 20 articles and statements published by the World Socialist Web Site in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Order online Historical Review Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher Part 1: Seventy years since Stalin's year of terror Part 2: The study of Trotsky after the fall of the USSR Part 3: The Method of Ian Thatcher Part 4: The relevance of Trotsky A letter from Professor Geoffrey Swain and a reply by David North WSWS International Editorial Board Meeting David North: Opening report to meeting of WSWS International Editorial Board Nick Beams: Report on the world economy in 2006 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The consequences of the US-led war against Iraq Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism Part 1 Part 2 The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign Part 1 Part 2 The implications of China for world socialism Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain Part 1 Part 2 Report on Latin American perspectives Part 1 Part 2 Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation Part 1 Part 2 Democratic rights and the attack on constitutionalism South Asia and the political bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism and Stalinism Africa and the perspective of international socialism Part 1 Part 2 The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project Part 1 Part 2 SEP/WSWS Summer School Lecture one: The Russian Revolution and the unresolved historical problems of the 20th century Download as a PDF Lecture two: Marxism versus revisionism on the eve of the twentieth century Download as a PDF Lecture three: The origins of Bolshevism and What Is To Be Done? Download as a PDF Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective Download as a PDF Lecture five World War I: The breakdown of capitalism Download as a PDF Lecture six: Socialism in one country or permanent revolution Download as a PDF Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over "proletarian culture" Download as a PDF Lecture eight: The 1920s--the road to depression and fascism Download as a PDF Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International Download as a PDF A PDF file containing all nine lectures that were delivered at the SEP/WSWS Summer School is available: In US Letter format In A4 format WSWS & ICFI Fifty years since the founding of the International Committee of the Fourth International Nick Beams: "The program of the ICFI has stood the test of time" Chris Marsden: The split with the WRP and the ascendancy of Trotskyism Peter Schwarz: "The founding principles have been confirmed" David North addresses Sri Lankan Trotskyists on the 50th anniversaryof the ICFI WSWS republishes extracts from The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International By David North, Chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board The Split in the Fourth International James P. Cannon's "Open Letter" History and the socialist movement 26 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977) A tribute to Vadim Rogovin: "A passion for historical truth" A Tribute to Vadim Rogovin