5 March 2020
Coronavirus kills at more than 20 times the rate of seasonal flu
By Bryan Dyne, 5 March 2020
The World Health Organization has warned that the medical supplies necessary to treat the novel coronavirus are “rapidly depleting.”
Capitalism’s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic and the need for global socialized medicine
UK coronavirus plan underscores gutting of health and social care
By Robert Stevens, 5 March 2020
The ruling elite in Britain, as internationally, are responding based on defending the interests of the tiny layer of financial parasites, who dominate society at the expense of the working class.
Coronavirus outbreak takes hold in New York
By Josh Varlin, 5 March 2020
There are now 11 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in New York state, which is likely a significant underestimation given indications of community spread.
First Amazon worker at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters tests positive for coronavirus
By Mike Ingram, 5 March 2020
An Amazon employee, the first at the company’s Seattle headquarters, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Two of the company’s employees in Italy had contracted the virus and are in quarantine.
High cost of health care, lack of paid time off, leave US workers vulnerable to coronavirus outbreak
The Trump administration’s incompetent and criminally negligent response to the coronavirus outbreak
Within days of Afghan “peace” deal, US bombs Taliban
By Bill Van Auken, 5 March 2020
The bombing is one more indication that the deal to end Washington’s nearly two-decade war is already beginning to unravel.
Australian parliamentary parties endorse British show trial of Julian Assange
By Oscar Grenfell, 5 March 2020
As Assange faced a legal travesty, government ministers declared their faith in British “due process,” while the Labor Party maintained its silence.
UK television presenter Caroline Flack’s suicide and the “bread and circuses” culture
By Paul Bond, 5 March 2020
The widespread public revulsion over Flack’s mistreatment and death is symptomatic of a broader culture and a generally healthy response, but it points to a wide and complex cultural crisis that will not be addressed simply by media regulation.
Democratic billionaire governor of Illinois proposes austerity budget
By Brian Walker and Alexander Fangmann, 5 March 2020
Minuscule spending increases in K-12 education and social services would be conditional on passage of a constitutional amendment instituting a graduated income tax in the November election.
President of Wayne State University calls cops on lecturers protesting layoffs
By Laura Villon and Tom Hall, 5 March 2020
Opposition is mounting after 38 percent of lecturers received “notices of non-renewal” last month in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Detroit’s Wayne State University.
Workers to pay the price as Australia joins global slide into recession
By Mike Head, 5 March 2020
The Covid-19 disaster has not yet resulted in large-scale sickness in Australia, but major companies are already unveiling job cuts due to the global impact on production, trade and travel.
Quebec’s phony education “reform” will facilitate further cuts and privatization
By Laurent Lafrance, 5 March 2020
In the name of reducing “bureaucracy,” Bill 40 concentrates power in the hands of the Minister of Education so as to facilitate further cuts to public education.
Toronto: CUPE seeks to impose sellout contract on 5,000 city outside workers
By Jake Silver and Roger Jordan, 5 March 2020
Workers should reject being railroaded into yet another concessionary contract. They should demand that they be given sufficient time to read the contract in full, and debate and discuss its implications.
4 March 2020
Democratic Party leaders engineer Biden victory in most Super Tuesday states
By Patrick Martin, 4 March 2020
The “Russian meddling” fraud
Tulsi Gabbard denounces election interference by US intelligence agencies
On eve of “Super Tuesday” primaries
Democratic Party goes to war against Sanders
Race vs. class in the South Carolina primary
European Union intensifies war against refugees at Turkish-Greek border
By Martin Kreickenbaum, 4 March 2020
Fed cuts interest rate, but market plunge resumes
By Nick Beams, 4 March 2020
Tornado outbreak kills 25 across Tennessee
By Warren Duzak, 4 March 2020
Defender 2020: Largest mobilisation of NATO troops against Russia in 25 years
By Markus Salzmann, 4 March 2020
Victory for Netanyahu leaves him short of a majority
By Jean Shaoul, 4 March 2020
Amid Syrian war, Turkey opens borders for Syrian refugees to travel to Europe
By Baris Demir, 4 March 2020
Struggles break out in Inverness, Bristol ahead of UK Royal Mail national strike ballot
By E.P. Milligan, 4 March 2020
Ex-United Auto Workers official pleads guilty to corruption charges
By Tom Hall, 4 March 2020
Federal appeals court rules Congress cannot enforce White House subpoena
By John Burton, 4 March 2020
Detroit State of the City 2020: Pro-capitalist promises, lies and omissions
By James Brewer, 4 March 2020
Australian government revives plan for internal electronic surveillance
By Mike Head, 4 March 2020
Late New Zealand PM Mike Moore lauded as a “working-class hero”
By John Braddock, 4 March 2020
New in German
Die katastrophale Reaktion des Kapitalismus auf die Coronavirus-Pandemie
Andre Damon und David North, 5. März 2020
Die Coronavirus-Pandemie hat erneut die katastrophalen Folgen des Kapitalismus offenbart, der alle menschlichen Bedürfnisse dem privaten Profit unterordnet.
Thüringen: Die Wahl Ramelows und das All-Parteien-Komplott
Ulrich Rippert, 5. März 2020
Einen Monat, nachdem der FDP-Politiker Thomas Kemmerich mit den Stimmen der rechtsextremen AfD zum thüringischen Ministerpräsidenten gewählt wurde, ist sein Vorgänger, der Linken-Politiker Bodo Ramelow, wieder im Amt.
„Super Tuesday“ der US-Demokraten: Parteiführung organisiert Bidens Sieg in den meisten Bundesstaaten
Patrick Martin, 5. März 2020
Dieses Ergebnis der Vorwahlen widerlegt Sanders’ Behauptung, mit der Demokratischen Partei sei eine politische Revolution in Amerika möglich.
Rechter Unternehmer gewinnt Parlamentswahl in der Slowakei
Markus Salzmann, 5. März 2020
Die Parlamentswahl vom vergangenen Wochenende hat die politische Landschaft der Slowakei stark verändert. Die Partei Olano des Medientycoons Igor Matovič wurde stärkste Kraft.
Dillinger Hütte: IG Metall fordert Strafzölle für Stahlimporte
Marianne Arens, 5. März 2020
Die Antwort der IG Metall auf das Arbeitsplatzmassaker im Saarland besteht in einer nationalistischen Hetzkampagne.
New in Russian
Эта
неделя в истории
25 лет назад: Профессор Вадим Роговин
начинает лекционный тур по США «Была ли альтернатива сталинизму в
СССР?»
29 февраля 2020 г.
27 февраля 1995 года профессор Вадим Захарович Роговин, ведущий историк-марксист в бывшем Советском Союзе, начал турне по США с лекции, прочитанной в Мичиганском государственном университете в Ист-Лансинге.
New in French
La propagation du coronavirus provoque un «bain de sang» à Wall Street
Nick Beams, 29 février 2020
Wall Street est en baisse de plus de 10 pour cent par rapport aux records de la semaine dernière et l'indice S&P 500 a connu sa plus forte baisse par rapport à un record de tous les temps.
Pour une réponse coordonnée d'urgence au niveau mondial à la pandémie de coronavirus!
le Comité international de la Quatrième Internationale, 29 février 2020
De vastes ressources doivent être immédiatement mobilisées pour contenir la propagation de la maladie, traiter et soigner ceux qui sont infectés, et garantir les moyens de subsistance des centaines de millions de personnes qui feront face aux retombées économiques.
La Turquie bombarde la Syrie après avoir perdu des dizaines de soldats lors d’un raid aérien syro-russe
Alex Lantier, 29 février 2020
Le danger se développe qu’une guerre totale puisse éclater entre l’OTAN et les principaux bailleurs de fonds internationaux du gouvernement syrien, l’Iran et la Russie.
Après le débrayage de 200.000 enseignants et employés de soutien
Les syndicats de l'éducation de l'Ontario «suspendent» la plupart des actions de grève
Roger Jordan, 29 février 2020
Invoquant divers prétextes, trois des quatre syndicats d'enseignants de l'Ontario ont annulé les débrayages prévus cette semaine.
New in Norwegian
For en globalt koordinert nødrespons til koronaviruspandemien!
Den internasjonale komitéen av den fjerde internasjonale, 29. februar 2020
Massive ressurser må umiddelbart mobiliseres for å få begrenset og kontrollert spredningen av sykdommen, for å behandle og ivareta de som er smittet og for å sikre levebrødet for de hundrevis av millioner mennesker som vil bli rammet av de økonomiske konsekvensene.
Spredningen av koronaviruset utløser «blodbad» på Wall Street
Nick Beams, 29. februar 2020
Wall Street er mer enn 10 prosent ned fra rekordnivåene den siste uka, og S&P 500-indeksen har opplevd sitt skarpeste fall noensinne fra et all-time high .
Dommer beslutter at Assange ikke får sitte med advokatene under utleveringshøringene
Thomas Scripps og Laura Tiernan, 29. februar 2020
Den første uka av utleveringshøringen i saken USA vs.Julian Assange ble avsluttet torsdag i rettslokalet Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court, der dommer Vanessa Baraitser avviste en innmelding fra Assanges advokater om at han måtte tillates å sitte sammen med dem i retten.
Tyrkia bomber Syria etter å at dusinvis av soldater døde i syrisk-russiske flyangrep
Alex Lantier, 29. februar 2020
Faren vokser for at en krig i fullskala kan bryte ut mellom NATO-alliansen og den syriske regjeringens vesentlige internasjonale støttespillere, Iran og Russland.
New in Spanish
¡Una respuesta de emergencia global y coordinada a la pandemia del coronavirus!
Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional, 29 febrero 2020
Se deben movilizar enormes recursos para contener la propagación de la enfermedad, tratar a los infectados y garantizar el sustento de los cientos de millones que se verán afectados por las repercusiones económicas.
/es/articles/2020/02/29/assa-f29.html
Thomas Scripps y Laura Tiernan, 29 febrero 2020
Ayer terminó la primera semana de la audiencia de extradición en EEUU v Julian Assange en el Tribunal de Magistrados de Belmarsh con la jueza Vanessa Baraitser rechazando una solicitud de los abogados de Assange de que se le permita sentarse con ellos en el tribunal.
El New York Times publica una caricatura antisemita de Harvey Weinstein
David North y Andre Damon, 29 febrero 2020
La ilustración, que tiene múltiples características asociadas con representaciones antisemitas del pueblo judío por los nazis, es notablemente similar a una imagen infame publicada en un número de octubre de 1936 de la revista de propaganda nazi Der Stürmer.
Turquía bombardea a Siria después de perder a docenas de tropas por ataque aéreo sirio-ruso
Alex Lantier, 29 febrero 2020
Crece el peligro de que estalle una guerra total entre la alianza de la OTAN y los principales patrocinadores internacionales del gobierno sirio, Irán y Rusia.
La propagación del coronavirus provoca "baño de sangre" en Wall Street
Nick Beams, 29 febrero 2020
Wall Street ha caído más de un 10 por ciento desde los máximos históricos de la semana pasada y el índice S&P 500 ha experimentado su mayor caída desde un récord histórico.
La Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos otorga a la policía fronteriza licencia para matar
Jacob Crosse, 29 febrero 2020
El último fallo 5-4 del martes sigue a una serie de fallos judiciales antiinmigrantes y provocaciones por el administración Trump.
Tribunal federal de apelaciones respalda el ataque de Trump a las ciudades santuario
Kevin Reed, 29 febrero 2020
Un tribunal federal de apelaciones revocó la decision de un tribunal inferior y dictaminó que el Departamento de Justicia de EE. UU. puede bloquear los fondos federales a los “ciudades santuario”.
New in Turkish
Gezi Parkı davasındaki beraat kararının ardından baskı sürüyor
Barış Demir, 27 Şubat 2020
Gezi Parkı davasında söz konusu olan, bir yandan Türk devletinin emperyalist güçlerle ve onların Ortadoğu’daki savaş politikalarıyla gergin olan ilişkilerini idare ederken diğer yandan ülke içindeki toplumsal muhalefeti sindirip itibarsızlaştırmayı amaçlayan siyasi bir kan davasıydı.
New in French
L'équipe de défense d'Assange: « L'empire appelle ça de l'espionnage. Nous appelons ça du journalisme »
Thomas Scripps, 20 février 2020
Une conférence de presse a été tenue devant une salle comble par le rédacteur en chef de WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, l'avocate Jennifer Robinson et les députés australiens Andrew Wilkie et George Christensen.
Washington soutient la Turquie alors que les affrontements frontaliers s'intensifient avec la Syrie et la Russie
Ulaş Ateşci, 20 février 2020
Washington encourage les opérations de l’armée turque en Syrie, au risque d’un affrontement direct entre l’OTAN et les principaux alliés du gouvernement syrien, la Russie et l’Iran.
Les enseignants de l'Ontario et les travailleurs de la raffinerie de Regina en lock-out doivent mener une lutte politique ouvrière
Roger Jordan et Keith Jones, 20 février 2020
Pour l'emporter dans la lutte pour défendre leurs emplois, leurs salaires et leurs droits sociaux, les travailleurs doivent reconnaître qu'ils sont confrontés non seulement à un employeur particulièrement impitoyable ou à un gouvernement de droite, mais aussi à un assaut de guerre de classe et à une lutte politique.
La montée de Sanders dans les sondages déclenche de nouvelles provocations des médias et de l’establishment démocrate
Barry Grey, 20 février 2020
L’inquiétude grandit dans l’appareil du parti et dans une grande partie de l’élite patronale que des victoires de Sanders au Nevada et en Caroline du Sud pourrait rendre sa nomination irréversible.
New in Portuguese
Por uma resposta de emergência globalmente coordenada à pandemia de coronavírus!
Comitê Internacional da Quarta Internacional, 3 Março 2020
Recursos vastos devem ser mobilizados imediatamente para conter a propagação da doença, tratar e cuidar das pessoas infectadas e garantir a subsistência de centenas de milhões de pessoas que serão afetadas pelas consequências econômicas.
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Perspective
The political lessons of Sanders’ Super Tuesday defeat
5 March 2020
Biden’s victory shows once again it is impossible to transform the capitalist Democratic Party into a vehicle for socialist politics.
Election 2020
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate speaks with University of California strikers
By our reporters, 5 March 2020
Joseph Kishore spoke with striking grad students this week at UC Santa Cruz while SEP campaigners interviewed strikers and supporters at UC campuses in Los Angeles, San Diego and Irvine.
Workers must defeat the strikebreaking by the Democrats!
Stop the firings of University of California grad students!
Striking University of California graduate students defy firings, expand strike
David North and Joseph Kishore address international online audience in Socialist Equality Party town hall election meeting
By Socialist Equality Party (US), 25 February 2020
Watch the recording of the successful campaign kick-off town hall meeting streamed to workers and supporters around the world.
SEP (US) announces speaking tour featuring presidential candidate Joseph Kishore
Socialism and the 2020 elections: the international class struggle and the strategy of world socialist revolution
Socialist Equality Party to run Joseph Kishore for president, Norissa Santa Cruz for vice president in 2020 US elections
The alternative confronting the working class is clear: capitalist barbarism or international socialism. The Socialist Equality Party, in political solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International, will use this campaign to advance the struggle of the working class against capitalism. Sign up today to get involved!
Commentary
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-up—Part 3
By Alice Summers, 5 March 2020
The 900-page report largely ignores or minimises the criminality of cost-cutting companies and a complicit Conservative Party-run local authority.
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-up—Part 2
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-up—Part 1
Jeremy Corbyn’s criminal silence during Julian Assange’s extradition hearing
By Chris Marsden, 2 March 2020
For a globally coordinated emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic!
International Committee of the Fourth International, 28 February 2020
Roman Polanski gets César for best director for J’Accuse, in repudiation of #MeToo
By Alex Lantier, 29 February 2020
The New York Times gloats over the destruction of “the Monster” Weinstein
By Eric London, 26 February 2020
New York Times posts anti-Semitic caricature of Harvey Weinstein
FBI and Department of Justice reject Freedom of Information Act document request by SEP National Chairman David North
By the WSWS Editorial Board, 20 February 2020
The US government declares that the Socialist Equality Party and World Socialist Web Site chairman’s request for documents obtained through surveillance of his political activities threatens “national security and foreign intelligence.”
Why did Princeton University provide funding for the German right-wing extremist Jörg Baberowski?
By David North, 22 February 2020
The decade of socialist revolution begins
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 3 January 2020
Free Assange and Manning
Sri Lankan SEP hold rally in defence of Assange and Manning
By our correspondents, 5 March 2020
About 60 workers, young people and housewives joined the picket, which was held outside Fort Railway station in Colombo.
Sri Lanka: Prominent journalist and cartoonist calls for Julian Assange’s freedom
By our correspondent, 5 March 2020
Well-known Daily Mirror journalist and cartoonist Gihan de Chickera stated: “Assange, and journalists everywhere, must be free to continue their work unhindered.”
Trump ordered Assange’s seizure by British police and wanted him dead
By Thomas Scripps and Chris Marsden, 3 March 2020
Rally in defence of Julian Assange held in Zurich
By our correspondents, 2 March 2020
Brisbane rally calls for freedom for Assange and Manning
By our correspondent, 2 March 2020
Judge rules Assange cannot sit with lawyers during extradition hearing
By Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan, 28 February 2020
Slovenian journalist Blaž Zgaga: If Assange is extradited “the same can happen to any of us”
By Oscar Grenfell, 29 February 2020
Interviews from SEP (UK) public rally
“The working class needs to demand that Assange is released, not that the ruling class do it on their behalf”
By our reporters, 28 February 2020
Australia: Workers and youth call for intensification of Assange and Manning defence campaign
By our reporters, 28 February 2020
Julian Assange’s father demands immediate bail for imprisoned son
By our reporters, 28 February 2020
Free Assange and Manning! SEP and IYSSE to hold demonstration in Colombo
27 February 2020
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
Arts Review
Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell: An important and largely unrecognized film
By Joanne Laurier, 4 March 2020
The film treats the persecution of a security guard for the 1996 Olympics bombing. It condemns the role of the US government and the American media, which, as one character points out, are “two of the most powerful forces in the world today.”
The controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt
By Sandy English, 3 March 2020
Spanish government joins persecution of opera singer Plácido Domingo
By David Walsh, 29 February 2020
History
YIVO Institute for Jewish research in New York fires all its librarians
By Clara Weiss, 17 February 2020
An interview with Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano
By the editorial board, 27 January 2020
Seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz
Workers Struggles
UK university workers face a political struggle against Johnson government
By Robert Stevens, 3 March 2020
As support for wildcat strike spreads
Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike
By Jonathan Burleigh, 27 February 2020
Grad student strike spreads to two more University of California campuses
Demonstrations throughout California in support of wildcat strike by UC-Santa Cruz graduate teaching assistants
UC Santa Cruz graduate students defy administration ultimatum, vote to continue strike
Support for UC Santa Cruz strike spreads to other campuses, faculty
After walkout of 200,000 teachers and support staff
Ontario’s education unions “suspend” most job actions
By Roger Jordan, 27 February 2020
Four months before 2020 contract fight: Detroit schools superintendent tells teachers “no increases”
By Nancy Hanover, 25 February 2020
More on the defense of public education »
Brazilian oil workers’ unions shut down strike to “negotiate” with Labor Court
By Gabriel Lemos, 25 February 2020
This week in history: March 2-8
25 years ago: Nick Leeson arrested for Barings Bank collapse
On March 2, 1995, Nick Leeson was arrested at the Frankfurt airport for his role in the Baring Bank collapse.
50 years ago: White-ruled Rhodesia breaks from UK
On March 2, 1970 leaders of the British colony of Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) dissolved parliament and declared the African country to be a republic.
75 years ago: US military defeats Japan in battle of Manila
On March 3, 1945, the US army and allied local guerrilla fighters secured control of Manila marking a decisive blow to Japan’s occupation of the geo-strategically critical southeast Asian country.
100 years ago: Arab Kingdom of Syria declared
On March 8, 1920 the Syrian Arab Congress proclaimed the establishment of the Arab Kingdom of Syria, a constitutional monarchy with Faisal bin Hussein as its ruler.
Obituary
Former UAW President Owen Bieber dead at 90
By Jerry White, 27 February 2020
Hosni Mubarak, US-backed dictator of Egypt for 30 years, dead at 91
By Bill Van Auken, 26 February 2020
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
President of Berlin’s Humboldt University defends Professor Jörg Baberowski’s physical assault on left-wing student
By Christoph Vandreier, 15 February 2020
Right-wing extremist Professor Jörg Baberowski physically assaults socialist student
IYSSE spokesperson submits disciplinary complaint against right-wing extremist professor at Humboldt University in Berlin
The New York Times' 1619 Project
Tom Mackaman interviewed on 1619 Project by history podcast
18 February 2020
A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
By David North and Tom Mackaman, 31 January 2020
The disrespect expressed by editor Alex Lichtenstein toward leading historians reveals the extent to which racialist mythology, which has provided the “theoretical” foundation of middle-class identity politics, has been accepted, and even embraced, by a substantial section of the academic community as a legitimate basis for the teaching of American history.
Book Review
An examination of the anti-immigrant campaign in early 20th century America
The Guarded Gate, by Daniel Okrent (Scribner, 2019)
By Fred Mazelis, 3 February 2020
A century after the imposition of racist immigration quotas in the US, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and racism are once again on the rise in the US and around the world.
The New York Times' 1619 Project
Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for social equality
By Tom Mackaman and Niles Niemuth, 23 January 2020
The New York Times’ “1619 Project”
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shell Oil and mass killings in Africa
By Trévon Austin and Bill Van Auken, 18 December 2019
The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
By Niles Niemuth, Tom Mackaman and David North, 6 September 2019
“The saddest part of this is that the response of the Times is simply to defend their project”
An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Oxford historian Richard Carwardine on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian Dolores Janiewski on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Historian Gordon Wood responds to the New York Times’ defense of the 1619 Project
- A historian’s critique of the 1619 Project
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
- An interview with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- The “Irrepressible Conflict:” Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution
- Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
- An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
1619 Project director speaks at New York University
Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
By Eric London and David North, 26 November 2019
More on the New York Times’ 1619 Project »
Mehring Books
New pamphlet from Mehring Books on the 1619 Project
24 January 2020
The response of David North and Eric London to the New York Times’ rebuff of five eminent historians’ objections to the 1619 Project is now available as an illustrated pamphlet.
Vadim Rogovin’s Bolsheviks against Stalinism 1928–1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
A magnificent account of Stalin’s opponents in the USSR
By Andrea Peters, 21 December 2019
Stalin’s rise was neither foreordained nor a natural outgrowth of the October Revolution. The Great Russian chauvinist and bureaucrat secured power in ferocious conflict with the proletariat, peasantry and cadre of the revolutionary socialist movement.
Socialist Equality Party
Video: 70 years after the Chinese Revolution—How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
31 October 2019
Introduction to the 1955 SWP resolution “The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath”
From the archives
SWP resolution: The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath
Introduction to the 1951 report to the Fourth International by Chinese Trotskyist Peng Shuzhi
From the archives
The Causes of the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party over Chiang Kai-Shek, and the CCP’s Perspectives
History of the ICFI
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
By David North, 23 September 2019
The ICFI and the Crisis of Stalinism
The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
The International Committee’s response to the “End of History”: The March 1992 Plenum of the ICFI
The Dissolution of the USSR and the Unipolar Moment of US Imperialism
China: Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International
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
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