25 September 2009

US heightens threats against Iran

By Peter Symonds, 25 September 2009

The US and its European allies exploited this week’s UN session to threaten tough new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programs.

US Senate Finance Committee deliberates Baucus healthcare proposal

By Kate Randall, 25 September 2009

The healthcare hearings have been characterized by cynical posturing, as committee members jockey to push amendments to the Baucus proposal.

Obama asserts power to detain suspects without trial

By Tom Eley, 25 September 2009

The Obama administration announced this week that it intends to continue the Bush administration policy of holding terrorism suspects indefinitely without charge or trial.

Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka: “Almost living in hell”

By our correspondents, 25 September 2009

WSWS correspondents again visited the military-run camps in Vavuniya where hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians have been detained in appalling conditions for four months.

Britain: Nationalist campaign by Unite union bureaucracy over Vauxhall-Opel takeover

By Robert Stevens and Julie Hyland, 25 September 2009

The sell-off of General Motors’ European operations, Opel and Vauxhall, to the Canadian-Russian consortium Magna has elicited a poisonous “us first” response by the trade unions involved.

UCal demoCalifornia students and faculty denounce education cuts

By Andre Damon, 25 September 2009

Thousands of students, faculty, and workers rallied throughout California Thursday in opposition to budget cuts, tuition hikes, and faculty layoffs.

Utility fairThousands line up for utility bill assistance in Detroit

By Shannon Jones, 25 September 2009

In a sign of the immense social crisis in the United States, thousands of Detroit residents lined up Wednesday seeking assistance with utility bills.

VideoVideo: Detroit residents speak on utility bills, social crisis

25 September 2009

The World Socialist Web Site spoke to several of the thousands of Detroit residents attending "Customer's Assistance Day," hosted by DTE Energy.. Those attending voiced their frustration over the event, and discussed the social crisis facing hundreds of thousands of Detroit workers.

New in German

Die Bedeutung der Bundestagswahl

Von Ulrich Rippert, 25. September 2009

Hinter den Kulissen sind sich alle Parteien - einschließlich der Linkspartei - längst einig, dass eine Regierung gebraucht wird, die der Arbeiterklasse den Krieg erklärt und die Last der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Bevölkerung abwälzt.

Verteidigt alle Arbeitsplätze!

Von Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 25. September 2009

Die Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (PSG) veröffentlicht im Rahmen ihrer Bundestagswahlkampagne in unregelmäßigen Abständen Statements ihrer Kandidaten zu aktuellen politischen Entwicklungen als Video-Podcast. Wir veröffentlichen an dieser Stelle die vierte Episode als Video und geschriebenen Text.

Großmachtkonflikte verdüstern G-20-Gipel in Pittsburgh

Von Barry Grey, 25. September 2009

Politische Führer und Zentralbanker der G-20-Länder versuchen am Gipfel in Pittsburgh, ihre Konflikte zu übertünchen. Sie sind sich uneinig, wie die Weltwirtschaft wiederbelebt und ein neues Finanzdebakel verhindert werden soll.

SEP kandidiert bei den Wahlen zu den Provinzräten im Süden Sri Lankas

Von der Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 25. September 2009

Hinter den Kulissen sind sich alle Parteien - einschließlich der Linkspartei - längst einig, dass eine Regierung gebraucht wird, die der Arbeiterklasse den Krieg erklärt und die Last der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Bevölkerung abwälzt.

New in Spanish

Documento histórico del trotskismo
La Carta Abierta de 1953

A continuación publicamos la “Carta abierta al movimiento trotskista mundial”, escrita el 16 de noviembre, 1953, por James P. Cannon, el principal fundador del movimiento trotskista en Estados Unidos.

New in French

Soixante-dix ans après
La Deuxième Guerre mondiale : les leçons essentielles
Réunion publique conjointe du Parti de l’égalité socialiste, de Grande-Bretagne et d’Allemagne

25 septembre 2009

La Deuxième Guerre mondiale fut l’événement le plus sanglant et le plus tragique de l’histoire mondiale. Près de 70 millions de personnes perdirent la vie durant ce conflit qui dura six ans. Il fut le théâtre d’une barbarie inimaginable, avec surtout le meurtre de six millions de Juifs européens par les nazis.

France : La mission parlementaire contre la burqa encourage les préjugés anti-musulmans

Par Antoine Lerougetel, 25 septembre 2009

La mission parlementaire d'enquête sur la burqa s'est réunie une seconde fois le 9 septembre. Beaucoup pensent que cette mission est en train de préparer une loi interdisant aux femmes de porter en public la burqa, ce vêtement qui recouvre le corps tout entier.

Le Forum économique mondial : de faux espoirs en une reprise sous l'égide de la Chine

Par John Chan, 25 septembre 2009

Le Forum économique mondial est souvent décrit comme le « Davos d'été ». Il s'est tenu les 10 et 12 septembre dans la ville chinoise de Dalian, rassemblant 1400 chefs d'entreprise, représentants de gouvernements et économistes du monde entier.

Perspective

The significance of the German elections

25 September 2009

None of the problems confronting working people can be resolved through the Bundestag (federal parliament) elections this Sunday. The working class needs a new party based on an international socialist programme. This is the significance of the participation of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (PSG—Socialist Equality Party), the German section of the Fourth International.

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Workers Struggles

Antwerp demoOpel workers demonstrate in Antwerp in defence of jobs
Works councils and unions prepare sell-out

By our reporters, 25 September 2009

On Wednesday, 3,500 Opel employees demonstrated in front of the factory gate at the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium, to defend their jobs. Trade union leaders cynically exploited the rally to prepare job cuts.

Stella D'OroAfter 11-month strike
Stella D’Oro workers face shutdown in hedge fund deal

By our reporters, 25 September 2009

Stella D’Oro workers in the Bronx, New York, face the shutdown of their bakery and the loss of their jobs. An 11-month strike blocked the hedge fund that bought the facility from imposing drastic concessions, so it is selling it to another company.

Sri Lanka: An appeal to all workers by the Balmoral Estate Action Committee

22 September 2009

Workers at the Balmoral tea estate near Bogawanthalawa have issued an appeal calling on workers throughout Sri Lanka’s plantations to follow their lead in rejecting the current pay agreement and forming an action committee independent of all the trade unions.

Workers Struggles:
Europe, Middle East and Africa

25 September 2009

The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.

International Students for Social Equality

For a fight against education cuts in California!

Statement of the International Students for Social Equality,
23 September 2009

This statement will be distributed to California university faculty, students and staff participating in a one-day walkout on September 24 to protest layoffs, pay cuts, and tuition increases. The ISSE at San Diego State University has called a rally on the same day. For more information, click here.

ISSE Meetings: Seventy years since World War II
Its causes and its lessons for today

22 September 2009

World War II was the bloodiest and most tragic event in world history. Up to 70 million people lost their lives during the six year conflict. It witnessed unimaginable barbarism, including above all the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis.

Socialist Equality Party

Seventy years on
World War II: The essential lessons
Joint public meeting of the Socialist Equality Party, Britain and Germany

22 September 2009

World War II engulfed the entire European continent, pitting all of the continental powers in the bloodiest slaughter in world history.

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