Political tensions mount in final week of US election campaign
By Patrick Martin, 2 November 2016
Both the Democratic and Republican campaigns are preparing for a contested outcome of the November 8 vote.
The 2016 US election and the crisis of the two-party system
Democrats step up campaign against FBI director
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Leaked emails reveal Clinton campaign deception over Flint
By James Brewer, 2 November 2016
The latest round of emails released by WikiLeaks reveals that Clinton was tipped off a day in advance of the Flint debate about a resident’s question.
Death toll rises to 25, as India-Pakistan border clashes heighten war danger
By Alex Lantier, 2 November 2016
As US officials pledge greater support to India against Pakistan and China, both Indian and Pakistani officials are vowing to escalate their conflict over Kashmir.
India-Pakistan cross-border barrages heighten South Asia’s war crisis
Indonesia and Australia discuss joint naval patrols in the South China Sea
By Peter Symonds, 2 November 2016
The naval operations would be anything but routine, given that the Indonesian navy has already clashed with Chinese fishing trawlers in the South China Sea.
South Korea’s president in crisis over corruption scandals
By Ben McGrath, 2 November 2016
Intense conflicts in ruling circles are behind accusations that President Park Gen-hye and her confidantes were involved in illegal activity.
Popular support grows for anti-oil pipeline protesters in North Dakota
By Kevin Martinez, 2 November 2016
The mainly Native American protesters have received over $1 million in crowdsource funding, but only silence from Hillary Clinton and attacks from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
Violent police attack on anti-oil pipeline protest in North Dakota
Officials threaten court action against Philadelphia transit strikers
By Alan Whyte, 2 November 2016
Transit workers are in a battle against the attack on health benefits, which is being spearheaded by the Obama administration.
Philadelphia transit workers go on strike
German Left Party pushes for red-red-green coalition before federal election
By Verena Nees, 2 November 2016
The Left Party parliamentary group leader called on the SPD leadership to end the grand coalition early and proposed an agreement on welfare cuts and foreign military interventions.
German welfare recipients threatened with fines of up to €5,000
Germany: UFO union calls off strikes and begs for hearing with Lufthansa bosses
By Dietmar Henning, 2 November 2016
The Independent Flight Attendants Organisation has cancelled strikes planned for this week at Eurowings, declaring it is “speechless” at the company's tough stance.
Flight attendants union calls off strikes at Eurowings airline in Germany
The pseudo-left and Brazil’s municipal elections: A trial run for mass betrayal
By Miguel Andrade, 2 November 2016
The crushing defeat for the Workers Party, amid record abstention rates, has exposed the crisis of the entire political establishment, particularly Brazil’s pseudo-left.
Australia: Police break up Sydney College of the Arts occupation
By Oscar Grenfell, 2 November 2016
The growing use of police against campus protests is bound up with the transformation of universities into for-profit entities reliant on corporate funds and with close ties to the state.
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Социальное неравенство и борьба против капитализма
Ник Бимс, 2 ноября 2016 г.
Факты и данные, собраные французским политэкономистом Томом Пикетти, свидетельствуют, что нет никакой возможности побороть все растущее социальное неравенство, кроме как средствами социалистической революции.
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Troisième semaine d’offensive à Mossoul : les tensions sectaires montent en Irak
Par Jordan Shilton, 2 novembre 2016
Des troupes gouvernementales irakiennes sont entrées lundi dans la banlieue est de la ville irakienne du nord, au milieu des avertissements d’une catastrophe humanitaire pour ses habitants.
L’élection américaine de 2016 et la crise du système bipartite
Par Barry Grey, 2 novembre 2016
Le conflit acharné au sein de l’establishment politique en réponse à l’intervention dans l’élection du directeur du FBI, James Comey, a exposé la crise profonde de la domination bourgeoise aux États-Unis.
New in German
Die US-Wahlen und die Krise des Zweiparteiensystems
Von Barry Grey, 2. November 2016
Die Intervention von FBI-Chef James Comey in den Wahlkampf hat den Konflikt im politischen Establishment weiter vertieft.
Offensive gegen Mossul verschärft religiöse Spannungen im Irak
Von Jordan Shilton, 2. November 2016
Irakische Regierungstruppen sind trotz Warnungen vor einer humanitären Katastrophe für die Bewohner am Montag in die östlichen Vororte von Mossul vorgedrungen.
Angebliche Einigung im Geschacher um Kaiser’s Tengelmann
Von Dietmar Henning, 2. November 2016
Am Montag einigte sich der Besitzer von Kaiser’s Tengelmann angeblich mit dem Edeka- und dem Rewe-Konzern über die Aufteilung der Lebensmittelkette. Ob am Ende nicht doch die Zerschlagung steht, ist ungewiss.
Präsidentenwahl in der Republik Moldau: Prorussischer Kandidat liegt vorn
Von Markus Salzmann, 2. November 2016
Die Wahl gilt als richtungsweisend dafür, ob Moldawien die Annäherung an die Europäische Union fortsetzt oder seine Beziehungen zu Russland stärkt.
Grenzgefechte zwischen Indien und Pakistan verschärfen Krise in Südasien
Von Keith Jones, 2. November 2016
Die indische Regierungspartei BJP nutzt die Krise, um sich gegenüber Pakistan in Stellung zu bringen und die rechten Kräfte im eigenen Land zu stärken.
New in Arabic
مؤتمر الخامس من شهر تشرين الثاني، تحت شعار رؤية الاشتراكية في مواجهة الرأسمالية والحرب ، والسعي لبناء حركة جديدة مناهضة للحرب الإمبريالية.
Eric London و Joseph Kishore, 12 أكتوبر 2016
ستستضيف جامعة واين ،في مدينة دترويت في ولاية مشيغان، مؤتمر مناهض للحرب، ينظمه حزب المساواة الاشتراكي، والحركة الدولية للشباب والطلبة المناضلين في سبيل االمساواة الاجتماعية تحت شعار " رؤية الاشتراكية في مواجهة الإمبريالية والحرب".
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Perspective
New York Times promotes war hysteria over Estonia
2 November 2016
The Times piece amounts to war propaganda, echoing the hysterical claims of the Baltic states that a Russian invasion is imminent and glorifying the legacy of Nazism.
November 5 Antiwar Conference
Socialism vs. Capitalism and War
The SEP and IYSSE schedule November 5 antiwar conference in Detroit
The November 5 conference, “Socialism vs. Capitalism and War,” and the building of a new movement against imperialist war
Commentary
Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson endorses Hillary Clinton
By Gabriel Black, 2 November 2016
For any who retain illusions that this advocate of racialist politics and Black Lives Matter are anti-establishment, the Washington Post piece should serve as a useful antidote.
Britain’s pseudo-left and the party of war
By Robert Stevens, 2 November 2016
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader one year ago has not changed Labour’s pro-war agenda one iota.
Sixty killed in new US-Saudi war crime in Yemen
US-Russian war tensions mount over Eastern Europe and Syria
Another apologia for Obamacare from the New York Times’ Paul Krugman
By Kate Randall, 31 October 2016
Obamacare: The reality hits home
Two weeks before the US election
Government announces huge Obamacare premium rises for 2017
Sectarian tensions rise in Iraq as Mosul offensive enters third week
By Jordan Shilton, 1 November 2016
US-backed Islamist rebels launch offensive in Syria
Aleppo, Mosul and “war crimes”
More on the war in Iraq and Syria »
Sri Lanka: New anti-terror measures lay foundations for police state
By Nanda Wickremasinghe, 31 October 2016
Obituary
Albert Dragstedt (1933-2016)
By Fred Williams, 2 November 2016
A long-time member of the Workers League, which he joined in the early 1970s, and a supporter of the Socialist Equality Party, Albert combined immense erudition with an unwavering dedication to Marxism.
Socialist Equality Party
SEP public meeting in Jaffna: Imperialist war, Tamil nationalism and the fight for socialism
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 2 November 2016
The Tamil nationalist parties support Washington’s war drive in Asia and have pleaded for US backing to secure privileges for the Tamil elite in Sri Lanka.
Arts Review
Volhynia (Hatred) by Wojciech Smarzowski—a gripping account of the 1943 massacre
By Dorota Niemitz, 2 November 2016
Volhynia (Hatred) is an honest attempt to recreate the background to the murder of thousands of Poles by right-wing Ukrainian nationalists during World War II.
American Pastoral: A film version of Philip Roth’s novel
Certain Women: A certain anger at America’s coldness, loneliness …
… And Christopher Guest’s Mascots
Book Review
Part two
The political anatomy of pseudo-left war propaganda
By Eric London, 2 November 2016
A Road Unforeseen employs postmodernist political categories and identity politics in an explicit call for US war in the Middle East.
The political anatomy of pseudo-left war propaganda
Part one
Making the case for war in Eastern Europe
Robert D. Kaplan’s In Europe’s Shadow
Science
Vertebrate species populations in dramatic decline
By Philip Guelpa, 1 November 2016
A study by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London projects that by 2020 vertebrate species populations will have dropped by two thirds since 1970.
Mehring Books
A lecture delivered at the Goethe University in Frankfurt
Philosophy and Politics in an Age of War and Revolution
By David North, 25 October 2016
Hundreds attend lecture by David North in Frankfurt, Germany
Workers Struggles
Unifor announces sell-out agreement with Ford Canada
By Carl Bronski, 1 November 2016
Unifor rams through another sellout deal at Fiat-Chrysler
Unifor prepares pattern sellout for Ford Canada workers
Vote by Chicago teachers on concessions contract begins today, after postponement
By Kristina Betinis, 31 October 2016
SEP 2016 US Election Campaign
US SEP presidential candidate addresses Sri Lankan audience
By our correspondents, 31 October 2016
Sri Lankan students and workers discuss US SEP’s election intervention
SEP candidates hold successful meetings in run-up to November 5 anti-war conference
By our correspondents, 29 October 2016
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate denounces US escalation of Iraq War
By Jerry White, 19 October 2016
War and the 2016 US elections: SEP candidates launch final election tour
20 October 2016
Socialist Equality Party (US) 2016 Congress Resolutions
Perspectives and Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
New in Arabic
WSWS publishes Arabic translation of call to conference against war
Posted here is a translation into Arabic of “The November 5 conference, ‘Socialism vs. Capitalism and War,’ and the building of a new movement against imperialist war,” the October 12 Perspective on the WSWS.
History
Berlin exhibition—“Mass Shootings: The Holocaust from the Baltic to the Black Sea 1941-1944”
By Verena Nees, 28 October 2016
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