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Today ---------- 5 July 2008

News & Analysis
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Bush reaffirms "all options on the table" over Iran

A socialist answer to the global rise in gas prices

Spain: Prime Minister Zapatero lashes out at European Central Bank

Spain: Popular Party right-wing rejects "turn to the centre"

Italy: Berlusconi government steps up its attacks on Roma and foreigners

1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
Part 3--How Alain Krivine's JCR covered for the betrayals of Stalinism (1)

Indian delegation visits Sri Lanka: A sign of rising regional rivalries

Australia: Release of secret reports highlights Labor's role in boosting spy agencies

US: Mentally ill woman left to die in hospital waiting room

Australia: Federal and state by-elections reveal growing disaffection with Labor

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Correspondence
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Letters from our readers

New in German
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Die Bundeswehr übernimmt die Leitung der Eingreiftruppe in Afghanistan

Wie die französischen Gewerkschaften eine Offensive der Arbeiterklasse sabotiert haben

New in French
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Obama vire à droite sur les questions de l’Irak et du militarisme

 

 

 

---------- 4 July 2008

News & Analysis
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Obama continues lurch to the right on Iraq war and militarism

Inflation worsens as China lifts petrol prices

Bush administration encouraged oil deal in Kurdistan, undermining Iraqi "national unity"

European Union crisis
Former German foreign minister demands more determination and less democratic scruples

US: The Federal Reserve's dilemma

Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Britain: SEP speaks to voters in Cottingham and Willerby

New York court dismisses case against former stock exchange head

China: Guizhou riots over cover-up of teenager's death

New Zealand economy lurches sharply into reverse

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Correspondence
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Letters on Obama's "patriotism tour"

New in German
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Nordkorea lässt erste Schritte zur atomaren Abrüstung erkennen

New in French
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Des procès-verbaux de la Réserve fédérale américaine montre l’ampleur de la crise de Bear Stearns

 

 

 

---------- 3 July 2008

News & Analysis
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Job losses mount as US economy heads into virtual freefall

South Korean government turns to repression to curb protests

Bush administration settles Hatfill suit, buries anthrax investigation

Global food price rises exacerbate famine in Ethiopia and Somalia

India: government crisis deepens over US nuclear deal

Florida stages first execution since 2006

Conglomerates present Screen Actors Guild with their "final" offer

Solomon Islands: RAMSI forces mobilised against Solomons workers

Britain: SATs school tests criticised by official report

SEP/ISSE Events
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Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Melbourne on July 20
The Australian Education Union, the Labor Party, and the political lessons of the Victorian teachers' struggle

New in German
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Fischer fordert mehr Entschlossenheit und weniger demokratische Skrupel der europäischen Elite

Italien: Regierung Berlusconi verschärft Angriffe auf Roma und Ausländer

Simbabwe: Tsvangirais Rückzug aus der Wahl
Großbritannien und USA wollen Regimewechsel

New in French
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Le président Sarkozy en visite en Israël pour jouer le rôle d’intermédiaire dans un alignement régional

 

 

---------- 2 July 2008

News & Analysis
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Obama's patriotism tour: the last refuge of a Democratic scoundrel

Zimbabwe election: US and UK move to impose sanctions

US appeals court emphatically overturns military tribunal ruling

Haltemprice and Howden by-election Britain: SEP campaigns in Cottingham

The Exxon Valdez ruling: the Supreme Court once again defends big business

Northern Territory intervention
A "third-world" health catastrophe
Part 3

More high-level threats against the Sri Lankan media

New round of job cuts at German-based Siemens

Arts Review
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Not quaint at all
The BBC's Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

New in German
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US-Notenbank in weltweite Turbulenzen verstrickt

Großbritannien: Wahlkampf der SEP bei der Nachwahl im Wahlkreis Haltemprice and Howden
Chris Talbot erklärt warum er kandidiert

US-Wahlkampf
McCain-Berater erwartet bei neuem Terroranschlag verbesserte Wahlchancen der Republikaner

New in French
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Les démocrates appuient les attaques américaines clandestines contre l’Iran

 

 

 

---------- 1 July 2008

News & Analysis
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Bank for International Settlements annual report
World economy may be at "tipping point"

US advisers steered Iraqi oil contracts to Western firms

Iraqi government claims Mahdi Army on verge of collapse

Court verdict against former Pakistan prime minister threatens to split ruling coalition

Malaysian opposition leader threatened with spurious new charges

US: Consumer confidence hits lowest level in 28 years

Britain's Haltemprice and Howden by-election: Guardian divided on response to David Davis

American Axle CEO's reward for slashing wages--$8.5 million bonus

Britain: Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander resigns

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles: The Americas

Arts Review
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Film noir and postwar America

Correspondence
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Letters from our readers

New in German
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Erneut massiver Arbeitsplatzabbau bei Siemens

New in French
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France : Comment les syndicats ont brisé l’offensive de la classe ouvrière

New in Portuguese
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A crise mundial dos alimentos e o mercado capitalista
Parte Três

 

 

 

---------- 30 June 2008

News & Analysis
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As war clouds gather: Democrats back covert US attacks on Iran

Fed minutes show extent of Bear Stearns crisis

Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Britain: Tony Benn defends his decision to back David Davis

Britain: SEP campaign in Cottingham and Beverley

France: How the unions broke an offensive of the working class

The need for socialist politics in the film and television industry
Screen Actors Guild negotiations continue in secret on eve of contract expiration

RAMSI immunity challenged after death of Solomon Islander in car accident

Australia's "Iguanagate": the politics of scandal

New in French
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La crise des Etats-Unis et de l’OTAN en Afghanistan augmente la pression sur le Pakistan

France : Incendie d’un centre de rétention suite à la mort d’un retenu

Young@Heart : ne pas partir passivement…

New in Portuguese
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A crise mundial dos alimentos e o mercado capitalista
Parte dois

 

 

 

 

---------- 28 June 2008

News & Analysis
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The reactionary politics of the Supreme Court's "gun rights" decision

More signs of Israeli-US preparations for attacking Iran

North Korea makes initial nuclear disarmament gestures

Britain: SEP campaign in Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Chris Talbot explains why he is standing

European press leaks US military reports on nuclear weapons safety

German Social Democrats in free-fall
Right-wing seeks to topple party chairman

France: immigrant retention centre burnt down following death of inmate

Iceland's economic turmoil threatens instability throughout Scandinavia

Australia: Once again unions call off Qantas stoppages

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles:
Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Arts Review
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You can't go home again: George Romero's Diary of the Dead

New in German
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Zum Tod von Filmregisseur Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)

New in French
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Populisme et ploutocratie : Obama s’adresse au Wall Street Journal

Grande-Bretagne : Le SEP participe à l’élection législative partielle à
Haltemprice and Howden

 

 

 


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SEP/ISSE Events

Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Melbourne on July 20
The Australian Education Union, the Labor Party, and the political lessons of the Victorian teachers' struggle

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

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

US Financial Crisis

Bank for International Settlements annual report
World economy may be at "tipping point"

Fed minutes show extent of Bear Stearns crisis

Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 1
Part 2 Part 3

More...

Australia

Two letters and a reply on the teachers' dispute in Victoria

Australia: Demand mass meetings to reject Victorian teachers' union sell-out!

Australian Labor government's "2020 summit": more political spin to package right-wing agenda

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

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

ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War

Opening remarks to the conference
The political foundation for a movement against war

Resolution adopted by the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
End the occupation of Iraq! No to war against Iran! For an international socialist movement against war!

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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

Iraqi government claims Mahdi Army on verge of collapse

Army chief sworn in as Lebanon's new president

Israeli press reports US pledge of war on Iran--is Bush preparing an October Surprise?

More...

Political Crisis in the US

Obama's patriotism tour: the last refuge of a Democratic scoundre

As war clouds gather: Democrats back covert US attacks on Iranl

The reactionary politics of the Supreme Court's "gun rights" decision

More...

Sri Lanka

A socialist program for Sri Lankan teachers' wage struggle

Communalism and militarism on display at Sri Lanka's independence day celebrations

Sri Lankan independence: 60 years of communalism, social decay and war

More...

Europe

Britain: SEP campaign in Cottingham and Beverley

Britain: Brown assures Bush more troops for Afghanistan, no Iraq withdrawal

France: Unions collaborate with employers, government to deregulate working hours

More...

Asia-Pacific

North Korea makes initial nuclear disarmament gestures

Australian call for "Asia-Pacific Community": A sign of growing tensions

South Korean government unravels in the face of mass political protests

More...

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

US Hurricane Disaster


This pamphlet brings together 20 articles and statements published by the World Socialist Web Site in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Order online

One year since Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans left to rot

Three months after the Katrina disaster: New Orleans left for dead

50,000 Katrina evacuees without permanent housing FEMA to stop paying hotel bills

Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism

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

     

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