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The removal of Jefferson’s statue is a gift to the political right
The World Socialist Web Site condemns the de Blasio administration’s decision to remove the historic statue from New York City Hall.
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The Biden administration is goading China by continuing Trump’s high-level contact with Taiwanese officials, increased arms sales to Taipei and frequent naval transits of the Taiwan Strait.
Peter Symonds•
His remarks highlight both the extremely aggressive policy pursued by NATO and the explosive tensions emerging between Washington and EU powers, notably France.
Alex Lantier•
Powell headed the US military during the first Iraq war and, as secretary of state, was a leading figure in the second Iraq war.
Patrick Martin•
Dragged before a Florida federal court on charges of money laundering, Alex Saab’s real “crime” is negotiating international deals to evade Washington’s economic blockade against Venezuela.
Bill Van Auken•
“Spread the word far and wide and link up with your class brothers and sisters—if unified, the working class will move mountains.”
Our correspondents•
Zyrin Foot’s mother faced an unfathomable decision: have doctors amputate all four of her ten-year-old son’s limbs, giving him a 25 percent chance to live; or take him off life support.
Zac Corrigan•
Last week’s death was the first pediatric death in New York City since the reopening of K-12 schools this academic year.
Jesse Thomas•
This argument, whatever her aims, places Dr Camilla Kingdon in the same ideological trench as the open advocates of “herd immunity” and the deliberate mass infection of children with COVID.
Chris Marsden•
The administration of the country’s most populous state is seeking to minimize the scale of the far-right networks within the state apparatus.
Elisabeth Zimmermann•
In front of the US Capitol on Saturday, President Joe Biden gave remarks hailing the US Capitol Police as “saviors of democracy,” while memorializing police officers lost “in the line of duty.”
Jacob Crosse•
Stellantis’ attempt to sell the layoffs in Windsor as a mere response to unexpected supplier issues is a cynical fraud. The reality is that well before last January’s merger of FCA with the PSA group, corporate management, in coordination with the unions, were plotting a massive onslaught on autoworkers’ jobs and conditions around the world.
Carl Bronski•
According to multiple sources, the second tentative agreement the United Auto Workers and the United Steelworkers have reached with Dana Inc. is substantially the same as the first sweatshop contract and meets none of workers’ demands.
Eric London•
Preface to the Turkish-language edition of Leon Trotsky and the Development of Marxism
By David North, 7 October 2021
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The class struggle and the fight to eradicate COVID-19
The growth of the class struggle is revealing the social force—the international working class—which can compel the implementation of policies to eradicate the coronavirus globally.
Marcus Day•
Why Taiwan is an explosive flashpoint for a US-China war
To understand the great dangers posed by the Biden administration’s deliberately inflammatory actions it is necessary to examine the historical background.
Peter Symonds•
Sixty years since the massacre of Algerians in Paris on October 17, 1961
Sixty years ago, shortly before the end of the Algerian war and Algeria’s independence from France in 1962, French police perpetrated a horrific racist massacre in Paris.
Alex Lantier•
The John Deere strike and the UAW’s lies
The UAW is working consciously and systematically to isolate and defeat the strike by more than 10,000 John Deere workers after failing to ram through a concessions contract.
George Gallanis•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan•
Oscar Grenfell•
Patrick O’Connor•
John Malvar•
Joseph Kishore, David North•
Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s massive price hikes!
The working class must organise an offensive against the government’s austerity measures, independent of the trade unions, pseudo lefts and so-called opposition parties, and based on socialist policies.
The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lankan plantation workers oppose Rajapakse government’s emergency laws
The SEP’s campaign against the state of emergency is receiving significant support from workers in various sectors, including from the education, health services and plantation action committees established under the party’s guidance.
Our correspondents•
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds meeting to discuss pandemic election and struggle for socialism
Saturday’s meeting, which was addressed by leading members of the SEPs of Canada, the United States, and Germany, advanced a fighting program for the working class.
our reporters•
IYSSE (Sri Lanka) meeting discusses US debacle in Afghanistan
Students from almost all of Sri Lanka’s universities participated in the event, indicating that young people are seeking a serious analysis of crucial international developments.
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Robert Sutherland•
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Two decades since Australia’s SIEV X tragedy
Canberra’s response to the sinking of SIEV X and the death of 353 asylum seekers established a brutal benchmark that governments around the world have emulated.
Linda Tenenbaum•
Why Taiwan is an explosive flashpoint for a US-China war
To understand the great dangers posed by the Biden administration’s deliberately inflammatory actions it is necessary to examine the historical background.
Peter Symonds•
Deadly fire in Taiwan leaves nearly 50 people dead
The blaze in the run-down apartment building highlights the dangerous and precarious conditions in which many working class people are forced to live.
Ben McGrath•
Australian Labor Party’s decay further revealed at anti-corruption hearing
A key senior federal Labor parliamentarian admitted “stacking” local party branches, hiring taxpayer-funded “ghost” electoral staff and participating in rigged party ballots.
Mike Head•
Vijith Samarasinghe•
Peter Symonds•
John Malvar•
Mike Head•
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Minnesota nurses strike at Allina Health facility over pay and benefits
Nurses have been working understaffed, leading to grueling conditions as patients have flooded the hospital during the pandemic.
Jonas Boquist•
Mexican construction workers clash with police in Tabasco; Quebec nurses refuse mandatory overtime
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Construction workers at the site of a PEMEX refinery have clashed with police and strikebreakers while nurses in Quebec say they are burned out after 18 months of the pandemic and are not working overtime.
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Strike by Deere workers challenges decades of union-backed concessions, sparking fears on Wall Street
The strike is part of a broader movement of the working class against the corporations and their servants in the United Auto Workers and other pro-company unions.
George Gallanis•
Huge opposition from television and movie workers as union calls off strike and pushes sellout deal
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) union called off a strike, set to begin at 12:01 am Monday, as part of the efforts of the AFL-CIO and the Biden administration to block the largest strike wave in generations.
Hong Jian•
Jason Melanovski•
Dietmar Gaisenkersting•
Marianne Arens, Ulrich Rippert•
Kevin Martinez•
Tom Carter•
Coronavirus continues to surge in Northwestern US
There were less than 750 new cases per day in the region as a whole at the beginning of July, a number which now stands at more than 5,600, a more than seven-fold increase.
Shelby Michaels•
UK: Corporate-backed groups promote mass infection of children with Covid-19
A massive, well-funded and well-connected campaign of disinformation is being deployed to legitimise the murderous policy of herd immunity.
Julie Hyland•
Australia: Bipartisan push to wind down COVID-19 contact tracing
Contact tracing is being targeted as the corporate elite demands that “finite” public health resources will have to be “rationalised.”
Margaret Rees•
New Zealand government ignores scientists’ calls to increase COVID-19 restrictions
After announcing it is abandoning an elimination strategy for COVID-19, the Labour Party-led government has dismissed calls from scientists for a return to a strict “level 4” lockdown to stop the expanding outbreak in Auckland.
Tom Peters•
John Braddock•
Dylan Lubao•
Oscar Grenfell•
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
Benjamin Mateus•
Oklahoma woman convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to four years in prison for miscarriage
The political context for this reactionary and barbaric case is a full-fledged assault on abortion rights in the United States.
Chase Lawrence•
Questions remain in aftermath of disastrous Southern California oil spill
On the basis of archived GPS data, investigators have narrowed down the list of ships that may have caused the leak and believe that the initial strike occurred on the pipeline in late January 2021.
Dan Conway•
Evidence of money laundering at the collapsed Surfside, Florida condo complex
The USA Today has brought to light details of drug money laundering in the original construction and sale of condo units at the Champlain Tower South complex that collapsed and killed 98 people on June 24.
Kevin Reed•
Alberta’s hard-right UCP government stokes regionalist divisions with anti-“equalization” referendum
Today’s referendum—a reactionary stunt, without legal force—is aimed at diverting mounting social anger and advancing the predatory economic interests of Alberta’s oil barons and financial elite.
Roger Jordan•
Luke Galvin•
Warren Duzak•
Andre Damon•
Jacob Crosse•
Alex Findijs•
Hitler’s “Divinely Gifted” artists and documenta: Politics and Art: Two important exhibitions in Berlin
Two exhibitions in Berlin throw light on a group of artists, academics and curators who rose to prominence under Nazism and were able to continue their careers virtually unhindered in post-war West Germany.
Stefan Steinberg•
Comedian Dave Chappelle’s The Closer: A racist tirade disguised as stand-up comedy
To an extent without precedent by any entertainment figure in recent memory, Chapelle openly advocates anti-Semitism and gloats over racist violence directed against Asians.
Nick Barrickman•
Why has Squid Game resonated with a global audience?
Squid Game, a Korean survival drama series written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, has become an international phenomenon, with 111 million viewers worldwide.
Genevieve Leigh•
As anger over union’s stall tactics builds
IATSE sets Sunday strike deadline for 60,000 movie and television production workers
The film and TV production workers, who form the numerically largest part of a growing strike wave across the United States, are in a powerful position to win their demands.
Hong Jian•
David Walsh•
Joanne Laurier•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan•
The anti-democratic origins of Australia’s party registration laws
The new electoral laws dramatically escalate legislation that was first introduced four decades ago, to try to prop up the parliamentary establishment in the face of intensifying political disaffection.
Mike Head•
SEP electoral members denounce removal of COVID-19 safety measures as “profit-driven”
New electoral laws “are a blatant reaction against the loss of support for the major parties of establishment politics, both domestic and international.”
our reporters•
SEP (Australia) public meeting: A socialist program to eradicate COVID-19. Become an electoral member of the SEP today
The October 31 online meeting will discuss a program to eradicate COVID-19, and the relationship between the homicidal pandemic policies of the ruing elite and the anti-democratic electoral laws.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
The fight to free Julian Assange and to defeat Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws are linked
One function of Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws is to prevent any discussion of Assange’s plight, or the broader assault on civil liberties, at the next federal election.
Oscar Grenfell•
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Mike Head•
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Financial press reflects growing nervousness in ruling circles
Commentary on the worsening economic situation reflects the view that the growing problems are not transitory, but an expression of deeper shifts and government and financial authorities are out of their depth when it comes to dealing with them.
Nick Beams•
Quarterly earnings put major banks on path for record yearly profits
JPMorgan Chase has made the equivalent of $131 million per day over the last four quarters.
Gabriel Black•
Global energy price surge hits workers
Surging global energy prices contribute to a maelstrom of problems, pushing workers to the brink and endangering economic growth.
Gabriel Black•
IMF concerned over inflation and push for higher wages
In comments to the Financial Times, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath emphasized the importance of being “very, very vigilant” with regard to wage demands in response to inflation.
Nick Beams•
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Nick Beams•
Jacob Crosse•
Nick Beams•
Humanitarian disaster in Yemen as fighting for Marib intensifies
The Saudi-led war has caused at least 120,000 deaths, including tens of thousands of civilians, as well as a further 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure.
Jean Shaoul•
Washington strangles Afghanistan’s economy as millions face starvation
In an act of raw revenge for the debacle of its 20-year war, the US is denying Afghanistan access to its own financial reserves, threatening an economic and social collapse.
Bill Van Auken•
Iraq elections held as Washington’s puppet state nears collapse
The elections take place amid increasing hostility towards the political setup established after the 2003 US-led invasion, protests over corruption, social and economic conditions and water and power outages. These conditions are exacerbated by low oil prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fallout from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Jean Shaoul•
Israel responds to jail break with dragnet across the occupied West Bank and Israel
Following an unprecedented dragnet operation across Israel and the occupied West Bank, the Israeli authorities captured four of the six Palestinians on the run after their audacious jail break on Monday from the maximum-security jail in Gilboa, Israel.
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul•
Çetin Akın, Ozan Özgür•
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Hasan Yıldırım, Ulaş Ateşçi•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality demands the immediate reinstatement of Bright Sheng
The IYSSE calls on the university administration to retract the slanders against Professor Sheng and immediately invite him to return to the classroom from which the distinguished artist should have never been removed.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at UM•
UNC Chapel Hill campus mourns suicide and attempted suicide of two students over the weekend
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were distraught to learn of the suicide and attempted suicide of two students over the weekend, the second month in a row in which the university has seen a suicide and attempted suicide by students.
Alex Findijs•
University of Michigan maintains in-person classes despite shooting threat
Despite calls from members of the campus to move classes and activities online for the day, the university maintained an in-person schedule on Monday, reflecting the indifference of the ruling class to the lives and safety of the population.
Sam Wayne•
A comment on the viral TikTok “Devious Licks” trend
“Devious Licks,” a recent viral trend on the social media platform Tik Tok, involves students in the US and Canada recording themselves stealing school property and/or vandalizing school bathrooms.
Renae Cassimeda•
IYSSE at NYU•
John Conrad, Owen Mullan•
Appalachian State International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Gabriel Black•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)•
GM workers in Brazil reject contract, continue strike in defiance of union and courts
The determination of GM workers to continue their struggle for jobs and decent wages expresses growing working class resistance in Brazil and worldwide.
Eduardo Parati•
Lawyer denounces Brazilian company’s barbaric experiments with elderly during pandemic
Doctors have recounted a routine in which they prescribed the “COVID-19 kits” while having to tell their patients in secret not to take the medications.
Eduardo Parati•
Pandora Papers reveal finance minister profited from offshore account as misery ravages Brazil
The revelations stand as a testimony to the rampant social inequality that is the defining trait of Brazilian capitalism, provoking deep nervousness within ruling circles.
Miguel Andrade•
Attorney Steven Donziger sentenced to six months for contempt of court in vindictive case brought by Chevron
Donziger, who exposed the decades-long contamination of the Amazon rainforest by the oil giant and won a billion-dollar settlement against the company, was sentenced on Friday to a maximum of six months in prison.
Kevin Reed•
Miguel Andrade•
Rafael Azul•
Tomas Castanheira•
Eduardo Parati•
Bill Van Auken•
Lucy spacecraft begins 12-year mission to study asteroids and the origins of the Solar System
The probe is slated to study eight asteroids in the main asteroid belt and among Jupiter’s trojans as part of a campaign to more closely study the origins of Earth and the other planets in the Solar System.
Bryan Dyne•
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares 23 species extinct
The rate of extinctions is accelerating, threatening the stability of the ecosystem.
Philip Guelpa•
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to the discovery of the cellular mechanism behind the sense of touch
The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine awarded the prize in medicine to two scientists from the United States whose work helped elucidate the cellular and genetic mechanisms behind the sense of touch.
Benjamin Mateus•
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for pioneering research in climate change and chaos theory
This year’s prize highlights the connection between seemingly random events, such as the weather on a given day, showing they arise from law-governed and knowable underlying processes.
Bryan Dyne•
Philip Guelpa•
Frank Gaglioti•
Bryan Dyne•
Ronan Coddington•
Statement of the WSWS Editorial Board•
German Social Democrats, Greens, Free Democrats’ coalition paper: A declaration of war on the working class
The exploratory paper presented by the three parties far eclipses the Agenda 2010 welfare and labour “reforms” of the last federal SPD-Green government, headed by Gerhard Schröder.
Peter Schwarz•
Murder of Conservative MP David Amess will be used to strengthen state and clampdown on democratic rights
Amess’s death will occasion a further shift to the right and a strengthening of the state in the name of the “war against terror”, as with every terrorist atrocity carried out over the two decades since the Afghan war.
Robert Stevens•
UK-European Union conflict over Northern Ireland Protocol amid spiralling national tensions
Preparations are already being made in Europe for a trade war should Britain reject the EU’s proposals and trigger Article 16.
Thomas Scripps•
Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government approves anti-worker 2022 budget
The draft budget consists of half-measures and empty promises, which primarily benefit wealthy layers while leaving millions of workers in a desperate situation.
Alice Summers•
Alejandro López•
Martin Nowak, Clara Weiss•
Johannes Stern•
Alex Lantier•
Jean Shaoul•
Widespread global participation in second school strike against COVID threat to children
The strike received massive support globally, with the central hashtag for the event, #SchoolStrike2021, tweeted nearly 7,500 times and videos submitted from Britain, the US, Canada, Brazil, Germany, France, Poland, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand.
Robert Stevens•
#October15th #SittingDucks #SchoolStrike2021 #EradicateCOVID
Global Online Picket Line: Oct 15 school strike
Today–October 15, 2021–parents, teachers and workers in countries around the world are once again supporting the call from UK parent Lisa Diaz for a one day school strike to fight against the deadly reopening of schools as the COVID-19 pandemic rages.
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“No one should be allowed into the classrooms until it is safe!”
Connecticut educator endorses October 15 school strike, shares her experiences during the pandemic
Linda Lambert, a retired public school teacher from Connecticut, spoke with the WSWS about her tragic experiences during the pandemic and why she supports the October 15 UK school strike.
Nancy Hanover•
Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania educators support October 15 school strike and the fight to eradicate COVID-19!
Our committee supports the growing strike wave in the US and around the world and fully endorses the October 15 global school strike against the reckless return to in-person learning.
Pennsylvania Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
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Tomas Castanheira•
DJK Freeman•
Maurice Papon and the October 1961 massacre of Paris
In April 1998, Maurice Papon, then aged 88 years old, was sentenced to prison by a French court for having organised, the deportation of 1,690 Jews from France during the wartime Vichy regime, while he was the general secretary of the police prefecture in the Gironde.
Françoise Thull, Marianne Arens•
This week in history: October 18-24
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
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This week in history: October 11-17
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
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50 years since the Banzer coup in Bolivia
The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) warned that failure to draw the lessons of Banzer’s takeover would lead to even bloodier coups across Latin America.
Miguel Andrade•
Andy Thompson, Jerry White•
Alejandro López•
Peter Symonds•
Peter Schwarz•
Warren Duzak, Tom Mackaman•
Australian government, Labor silent over revelations CIA planned to kill or kidnap Assange
Hardly any media outlets have even asked whether the Australian authorities knew about the US plans to murder or kidnap an Australian citizen and journalist.
Oscar Grenfell•
Fifteen years since Assange established WikiLeaks
The anniversary is being marked by Assange’s continuing imprisonment and a media blackout of revelations that the American government plotted to assassinate the WikiLeaks founder.
Oscar Grenfell•
Imperialist gangsterism and the CIA plot to kill Julian Assange
Plots of imperialist violence and assassination, once organised through accomplices, kept closely under wraps and strenuously denied, are now carried out in ever more open fashion.
Thomas Scripps•
UK High Court sides with US against Assange
The decision confirms that the January 4 ruling against extradition was only a tactical pause in an ongoing pseudo-legal manhunt, which is again proceeding apace.
Thomas Scripps•
Thomas Scripps•
Laura Tiernan•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
The John Deere strike and the UAW’s lies
The UAW is working consciously and systematically to isolate and defeat the strike by more than 10,000 John Deere workers after failing to ram through a concessions contract.
George Gallanis•
The 90 percent “no” vote at Deere and the growing rebellion against the corporatist unions
The margin of the contract rejections at Deere, Volvo, Dana and other companies expresses the real relationship between the so-called “unions” and the working class.
Jerry White•
A coronavirus pandemic reality check
In just the last week, there have been more than 700,000 new COVID-19 cases recorded in the US and at least 10,000 official deaths as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bryan Dyne•
“At least half the battle is at home”: The domestic considerations behind the US provocations against China
The systematic efforts by the United States to provoke a confrontation with China cannot be understood outside of the deepening domestic political crisis.
Andre Damon•
Evan Blake•
Tom Hall•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Andre Damon•
Dana workers: We should be on strike!
A growing strike wave of historical proportions is taking place against decades of attacks on living standards and working conditions, and we must be a part of it.
Dana Workers’ Rank-and-File Committee•
On eve of strike deadline at John Deere
Dana workers call for joint action with John Deere workers
Dana auto parts workers in the United States voted down a sellout contract of their own by a similar margin more than a month ago, but the UAW and the United Steelworkers are keeping workers on the job on a day-to-day contract extension.
George Kirby•
COVID-19 “spreads like wildfire” through Dana plants as UAW and USW conspire with auto parts maker against workers
The struggle of Dana workers takes place amid a backdrop of a growing strike wave involving nurses, teachers, service workers, miners and other sections of the working class in the US and internationally. There is also a growing mood for a strike at Dana, which requires the development of rank-and-file strike committees.
Eric London•
US unions ignore workers’ demands during negotiations with auto parts maker Dana
Even after workers voted for strike authorization, unanimously in some cases, the United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers unions have downplayed any talk of industrial action.
George Kirby•
Marcus Day•
Shannon Jones•
Eric London•
Kathleen Martin•
Kathleen Martin•
Republican campaign rally in Virginia draws Trump, Bannon and fascist supporters
In the gubernatorial election, Republican hedge fund executive Glenn Youngkin is running a close race against Democratic former Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Nick Barrickman•
US appeals court keeps Texas anti-abortion law in effect
The majority on a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday to keep the anti-abortion “Texas Heartbeat Act” in effect pending the outcome of the court challenges.
Kevin Reed•
House Select Committee on January 6 seeks criminal contempt charges against Steve Bannon
Bannon, a close Trump adviser who played a central role in the mobilization of fascist thugs to attack the Capitol, is defying a subpoena to appear before the committee.
Jacob Crosse•
Fascist allies of Trump rally at Lansing, Michigan Capitol to demand “forensic audit” of 2020 election
Some 300 far-right Trump supporters attended the event, which featured current and aspiring Republican politicians who promoted the lie of a “stolen election,” the centerpiece of Trump’s ongoing plot to establish a dictatorship.
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Barry Grey•
Shannon Jones•
Patrick Martin•
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UN catalogues Libya war crimes, ignoring their source
While the fact-finding mission’s report presents a horrific account of conditions in Libya, it is silent about the 2011 war of aggression that gave rise to them.
Bill Van Auken•
South Africa: COSATU holds one-day protest strike as steel strike continues
COSATU and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa are reacting to the extreme social tensions building up and seeking to head off an anti-capitalist movement in the working class.
Thomas Scripps•
Massive strike by steelworkers in South Africa
More than 150,000 steel and metal workers went on strike Tuesday in South Africa, demanding substantial wage increases from the employers and vowing to stay out until they achieve this goal.
Patrick Martin•
Sixty nine dead in Algeria as forest fires devastate the Mediterranean region
Dozens have died in Algeria as forest fires and record temperatures ravage the north of the country and the entire Mediterranean region.
Alex Lantier•
Jean Shaoul•
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Jean Shaoul•
Jean Shaoul•
Kumaran Ira•
Biden hails police as dozens revealed to have joined fascist Oath Keeper militia group
In front of the US Capitol on Saturday, President Joe Biden gave remarks hailing the US Capitol Police as “saviors of democracy,” while memorializing police officers lost “in the line of duty.”
Jacob Crosse•
Republican campaign rally in Virginia draws Trump, Bannon and fascist supporters
In the gubernatorial election, Republican hedge fund executive Glenn Youngkin is running a close race against Democratic former Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Nick Barrickman•
Trump putsch was outcome of two-decade attack on constitutional rule and legality
The attempted coup was the culmination of a protracted assault on democratic rights and constitutional rule by successive Republican and Democratic administrations.
Richard Hoffman•
Fascist allies of Trump rally at Lansing, Michigan Capitol to demand “forensic audit” of 2020 election
Some 300 far-right Trump supporters attended the event, which featured current and aspiring Republican politicians who promoted the lie of a “stolen election,” the centerpiece of Trump’s ongoing plot to establish a dictatorship.
Jacob Crosse•
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Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Andre Damon•
Jacob Crosse•
Colin Powell: The US ruling class mourns a faithful servant
Powell headed the US military during the first Iraq war and, as secretary of state, was a leading figure in the second Iraq war.
Patrick Martin•
Another anti-China provocation: US, Canadian warships transit Taiwan Strait
The Biden administration is goading China by continuing Trump’s high-level contact with Taiwanese officials, increased arms sales to Taipei and frequent naval transits of the Taiwan Strait.
Peter Symonds•
Humanitarian disaster in Yemen as fighting for Marib intensifies
The Saudi-led war has caused at least 120,000 deaths, including tens of thousands of civilians, as well as a further 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure.
Jean Shaoul•
Why Taiwan is an explosive flashpoint for a US-China war
To understand the great dangers posed by the Biden administration’s deliberately inflammatory actions it is necessary to examine the historical background.
Peter Symonds•
Bill Van Auken•
Jean Shaoul•
Johannes Stern•
Anthony Torres•
Oscar Grenfell•
The October 1 parents’ strike: An important step forward in the international working-class struggle against the pandemic
The call from UK parent Lisa Diaz for a nationwide school strike in the UK has won a significant response from workers and parents throughout the world.
International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site•
Dr. Gasperowicz on the scientific measures needed to eradicate COVID-19
In this video interview, Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz speaks with World Socialist Web Site writer Evan Blake about the October 1 UK school strike and what must be done to eradicate COVID-19.
Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
“Children need protection, not COVID infections!”
Broad support in Germany for October 1st school strike to protect children from COVID-19
Lisa Diaz’s call to parents in the UK not to send their children to school on October 1, and to strike against the murderous herd immunity policy, met with widespread support in Germany and around the world.
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Parents United group attacks October 1 school strike
The words “COVID”, “Long COVID”, “infections”, “hospitalisations” and “deaths” do not feature once in the Parent’s United statement, despite tens of thousands of children catching COVID-19 every week, scores being hospitalised with the virus every day and close to 90 dead.
Thomas Scripps•
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From the WSWS Archives
Twenty years since the September 11 terror attacks
The horrific massacre of civilians was immediately exploited by the imperialist powers, led by the United States government itself, to justify far-reaching attacks on the democratic rights of their own populations, and the launching of decades-long wars in the Middle East and Africa.
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Social-democrats win narrow plurality in fragmented German elections
Yesterday’s German federal election result reflects deep popular alienation from all the parliamentary parties, ushering in a period of political instability and sharp class conflict.
Johannes Stern•
The international significance of Germany’s federal election and the campaign of the Socialist Equality Party
The contradictions of world capitalism, which the German ruling class tried to resolve in the 20th century by means of war and fascism, are violently reemerging.
Socialist Equality Party (Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, SGP)•
Germany’s federal election and the intensification of class struggle
The run-up to the election this coming Sunday has been characterised by an unprecedented wave of strikes, protests and demonstrations.
Ulrich Rippert•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei final election rally: A socialist perspective against welfare cuts, militarism and herd immunity
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) held its closing rally for the federal election on September 19.
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Christoph Vandreier•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) and IYSSE•
Marianne Arens•
Ulrich Rippert•
Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler, SGP candidate for the Bundestag•
For a global strategy to eradicate the coronavirus and save lives!
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100 years since the birth of Trotskyist Jean Brust
August 31, 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, a leading figure in the Trotskyist movement whose legacy lives on in the work of the US Socialist Equality Party and the entire International Committee of the Fourth International.
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The lessons of the 2021 Volvo strike
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Marcus Day, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
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SEP Summer School 2021 Lecture
From PATCO to Volvo: The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Jerry White, labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site.
Jerry White•
SEP Summer School 2021 Lecture
Race, class and social conflict in the United States
This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Niles Niemuth, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site.
Niles Niemuth•
SEP Summer School 2021 Lecture
The 1619 Project and the attack on the American Revolution
This report was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) 2021 summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Tom Mackaman, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman•
Andre Damon•
Tom Carter•
Johannes Stern•
Jacob Crosse•
Benjamin Mateus•
Right-wing recall campaign defeated in California
The vote was a blow to the Trump-style campaign waged by the recall supporters and the leading Republican candidate, Larry Elder.
Patrick Martin•
Town Hall meeting: SEP candidate David Moore urges workers to mobilize to eradicate COVID-19 and save lives
David Moore, SEP candidate for California, held a second Town Hall meeting online to mobilize workers in the fight for socialism
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Vote for SEP candidate David Moore in California recall
The Socialist Equality Party calls on working people in California to vote “no” in the election to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and then to cast a replacement vote for our candidate, educator David Moore, the only socialist running in this election.
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Stop the inundation of California hospitals! Stop community spread and close schools!
A predictable crisis is unfolding throughout California hospitals, which are facing an influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Statement of David Moore—California gubernatorial candidate of the Socialist Equality Party•
Patrick Martin•
Statement of David Moore—California gubernatorial candidate of the Socialist Equality Party•
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Brian Dixon, Kimie Saito•
Statement of David Moore—California gubernatorial candidate of the Socialist Equality Party•
Cliff Slaughter: A political biography (1928-1963)
By David North
Cliff Slaughter died on May 3, 2021, in Leeds, England, at the age of 92. His enduring contribution in the 1960s to the defense of Trotskyism stands in tragic contrast with his subsequent political opportunism and repudiation of revolutionary Marxism.
An interview with David North
The debacle in Afghanistan and the fight against war
The lead candidate of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, spoke with North about the debacle for US imperialism in Afghanistan and its implications for the struggle against militarism.
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What the WSWS wrote about the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001
From the outset, the WSWS exposed the lies of Washington that its illegal invasion of Afghanistan was an act of self-defense in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
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Public anger over cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
The media has blacked out the widespread opposition to the New Zealand Labour Party government’s decision to seal Pike River mine that prevents a thorough investigation and accountability for the deaths of 29 men in the 2010 disaster.
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New Zealand government installing final seal at Pike River mine
The Labour Party-led government is close to permanently sealing Pike River mine, ending the underground investigation into the 2010 disaster that killed 29 men, for which no one has been held accountable.
Tom Peters•
The way forward against the Labour government’s sealing of Pike River mine
Only the intervention of the working class, independently of the unions and every party in parliament, can stop the state cover-up of the Pike River mine disaster.
Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand)•
New Zealand government lies about Pike River mine re-entry promises
Andrew Little, Minister for Pike River re-entry, has repeated false statements that it is too dangerous to re-enter the mine workings to discover the precise cause of the 2010 explosion that killed 29 workers.
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US seizes PressTV.com and 32 other Iranian media website domains
In a provocative act of censorship and imperialist gangsterism, the Biden administration took control of three dozen internet domains and shut down websites affiliated with Iran-based media organizations on unsubstantiated grounds of “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
Kevin Reed•
Why is the World Socialist Web Site still blacklisted on the Reddit r/coronavirus and r/politics forums?
We are calling on Reddit members to demand that the moderators of r/coronavirus and r/politics halt the McCarthyite blacklisting of content links from the World Socialist Web Site .
Kevin Reed•
Stop the censorship of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
Jones’s suspension from Twitter comes less than 10 days after she was officially designated as a whistleblower by the state of Florida.
Alex Johnson•
Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones granted whistleblower status
The action comes after Jones was fired and witchhunted by Governor Ron DeSantis for opposing his campaign to ignore COVID-19 and reopen schools and workplaces.
Trévon Austin•
WSWS Educators Newsletter•
Jesse Thomas•
Tom Peters•
Tensions high in Volvo Trucks plant at end of first week back after strike
Workers angered over the concessions imposed by the company and the UAW are refusing to volunteer for work over the scheduled maintenance shutdown that begins next week.
Jerry White•
UAW president hails “labor-management” partnership following sellout of Volvo strike
Less than a week after United Auto Workers President Ray Curry conspired with management to shut down the five-week Volvo strike and ram through a contract previously rejected by workers, he wrote a feature column in the Detroit New s titled “UAW works with employers for union members.”
Jerry White•
Valley Labor Report radio program falsifies record of Volvo strike, denounces rank-and-file committees
While mouthing certain criticisms of the conduct of the UAW, the Valley Labor Report program completely falsified the record of the strike, writing out the role of the World Socialist Web Site and the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
Tom Hall•
Volvo Group announces $1.1 billion second-quarter profits, after telling Virginia workers it could not afford wage and benefit improvements
Volvo’s substantial earnings contradict the dishonest argument advanced by both the company and the UAW over the course of the past three months that there was simply not enough corporate money to meet workers’ demands.
Marcus Day•
Jerry White•
Barry Grey•
Tom Hall, Ed Hightower•
Marcus Day•
our reporters•
Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci and the witch-hunt against science
Last Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul publicly accused Anthony Fauci of having helped to genetically engineer the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Andre Damon•
Scientists demolish “Wuhan lab” conspiracy theory of coronavirus origins
On Wednesday, 21 of the world’s leading experts on the origins of infectious diseases published a preprint paper demolishing the conspiracy theory promoted by the Biden administration and the US media that COVID-19 was a man-made virus.
Andre Damon•
How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
The science underlying the origins of SARS-CoV-2 distinctly points to the virus emerging from nature rather than from a laboratory.
Benjamin Mateus•
“Wuhan lab” theory proponent Nicholas Wade pushed racist pseudo-science in 2014 book
The New York Times and Washington Post are citing a serial fabricator whose 2014 book was condemned by the biologists whose research he cited, together with more than 140 other scientists.
Andre Damon•
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Alice Summers•
Julie Hyland•
Eighty years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
The WSWS has published a feature page incorporating a selection of essential essays from its own archives, and other documents produced contemporaneously by the Fourth International.
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An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America
This letter, by Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North, responds to Twitter posts by DSA leaders in support of the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of Stalin’s secret police.
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Democratic Socialists of America must issue public apology for celebrating assassination of Leon Trotsky
Historian Victoria Bynum issued the following statement demanding the DSA repudiate and apologize for the leadership’s coordinated celebration of the assassination of Trotsky and discipline those responsible.
Victoria Bynum•
Joseph Kishore and Eric London explain political significance of DSA’s praise for Trotsky assassination on Progressive News Network with Brook Hines
The program addressed the pro-imperialist origins of the DSA and the significance of its present celebration of the crimes of Stalinism.
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Joseph Kishore, Eric London discuss DSA’s celebration of Trotsky assassination on “Eclectic Radical with Chris Richards”
On Saturday, June 5, Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore and WSWS writer Eric London appeared on the podcast “Eclectic Radical” hosted by Chris Richards.
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Johannes Stern•
Eric London•
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David North•
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Nikole Hannah-Jones rejects UNC tenure offer to take position at Howard University, backed by millions in foundation funding
The 1619 Project creator will join writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in founding the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard with $20 million in funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
Niles Niemuth•
1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones granted tenure after weeks of media furor
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to grant Hannah-Jones’ application for a full tenure professorship after weeks of outrage and accusations of racism over an initial decision to postpone a vote.
Niles Niemuth•
A letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education on the World Socialist Web Site, Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project
This letter from WSWS International Editorial Board Chairperson David North was sent to the Chronicle of Higher Education in response to its article, “‘What the Hell Happened?’ Inside the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case.”
David North•
Introduction to The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
This is the introduction by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to a volume, available for delivery in January 2021, containing the main interviews and essays published by the WSWS exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of American history.
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Andrea Peters•
Trévon Austin, Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman, David North•
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Tom Mackaman•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
Baltimore Amazon workers endorse International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
The Amazon BWI2 Independent Rank-and-File Safety Committee hereby affiliates itself with the IWA-RFC, and calls for our fellow Amazon workers to do the same.
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Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey supports call for IWA-RFC
At its latest online meeting, the Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey adopted two important resolutions.
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Forward to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
The International Committee of the Fourth International will mark May Day with an online rally to issue a call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
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May Day 2021 and the global class struggle
We are publishing here the text of the opening report to the 2021 International Online May Day Rally delivered by David North.
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Peter Symonds•
Pennsylvania Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
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Joseph Kishore•
One year of the coronavirus pandemic
March 11 marks one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. We are republishing below statements and articles from the WSWS analyzing the response to the pandemic and calling for emergency measures to contain it.
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For a globally coordinated emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic!
Vast resources must be immediately mobilized to contain the spread of the disease, treat and care for those who are infected, and secure the livelihoods of the hundreds of millions of people who will be affected by the economic fallout.
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The coronavirus pandemic crisis intensifies
Capitalism is at war with society
The spread of the coronavirus has exposed the disastrous consequences of decades of the massive concentration of wealth and inequality spawned by capitalism.
Joseph Kishore, David North•
The response of the ruling elite to the coronavirus pandemic: Malign neglect
Governments around the world are making a deliberate decision to minimize their response to the pandemic, threatening the lives of millions of people.
Alex Lantier, Andre Damon•
Message from big business on coronavirus pandemic: Save profits, not lives
As the death toll from the coronavirus soars and hospitals fill up, the White House and the US media are insisting that the profits of the corporate-financial elite must take precedence over the lives of millions.
Andre Damon•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party•
Joseph Kishore•
Andre Damon•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (United States)•
The relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site and the future of socialism
The relaunch of the WSWS and the growth of its influence reflect a process of mass political radicalization under conditions of the greatest crisis since the 1930s.
David North•
Closing remarks from SEP national secretary Joseph Kishore
The WSWS has exhaustively documented and analyzed the political crisis and historical decay of American democracy.
Joseph Kishore•
The approach of the World Socialist Web Site to science
The WSWS was the only publication to warn very early on the dangers the working class faced if the coronavirus became a pandemic.
Bryan Dyne•
“The WSWS has not only commented on the struggles of the working class it has been an active participant in them”
In the vast archive of the WSWS, the working class will find the most critical lessons from the history of the global class struggle and an international socialist perspective needed to conduct its fight against world capitalism today.
Jerry White•
Genevieve Leigh•
Niles Niemuth•
Bill Van Auken•
Patrick Martin•
Tomas Castanheira•
WSWS Online Meeting
150 years since the Paris Commune
A discussion about the first time in history that the working class took power.
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The historic and contemporary significance of the 1871 Paris Commune
On April 3, the International Committee of the Fourth International held a meeting commemorating 150 years since the Paris Commune, the world’s first workers’ state.
Joseph Kishore•
150 years since the Paris Commune
On March 18, 1871, the armed working class districts of Paris rose up and established the first workers state in world history, the Paris Commune.
Alex Lantier•
Lessons of the Paris Commune
This essay by Leon Trotsky was first published in French as a preface to the book by C. Talès, La Commune de 1871. It was written in the town of Zlatoust, on February 4, 1921, in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Paris Commune.
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Paris Workers’ Revolution and Thiers’ Reactionary Massacres
Armed Paris was the only serious obstacle in the way of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Paris was, therefore, to be disarmed.
Karl Marx•
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Friedrich Engels•
Vladimir Lenin•
Barry Grey•
Vladimir Lenin•
Socialist publisher Mehring Books launches Australian website
Mehring Books Australia will feature works by the great socialist fighters and theoreticians of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Georgi Plekhanov and Rosa Luxemburg.
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Video: Defeat anti-democratic electoral laws! Join the SEP today!
This sixty-second video explains the program of the SEP and is designed for social media platforms
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Why Deere workers are getting ready to strike Wednesday night
In this video, WSWS Labor Editor Jerry White explains the issues behind the contract rejection at Deere and why workers are pressing for strike action Wednesday night.
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia) health workers’ forum discusses fight for eradication of COVID-19
SEP National Secretary Cheryl Crisp said any conception Australia had somehow escaped the worst of COVID-19 had been dispelled by 56,000 people being infected with the virus in the past four months.
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Video: SEP Electoral Members call on supporters to fight Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
“The Socialist Equality Party is the only political party that is warning workers and young people about the dangers of war.”
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Committee for Public Education•
Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
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Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
With David North and Eric London
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
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150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
The meeting examined Luxemburg’s role as a Marxist theoretician and political leader, and discussed the significance of her legacy to the contemporary struggle to build a Marxist leadership.
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Historian Joseph Scalice exposes the role of Stalinism in the rise of Duterte
What was most significant in the panel was the interaction between Scalice and the second speaker, Walden Bello, who has a prominent international reputation as a figure of the left and an opponent of globalization.
John Malvar•
Watch lecture video “Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines”—another devastating exposure of Stalinism
Scalice demonstrated that the “overwhelming weight of evidence” suggested that the Communist Party of the Philippines was responsible for the bombing and indicted its claims that fascism and martial law are “good for revolution.”
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Stalinist CPP attacks Dr. Scalice’s upcoming lecture on the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing in the Philippines
In a desperate bid to turn people away from this week’s lecture, Marco Valbuena, Chief Information Officer of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has again slandered Scalice as operating on behalf of the CIA.
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“Falsifications and slander are the weapons of Stalinism”
Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist attacks over Diliman Commune article
“The honest assessment of history is the bedrock of revolutionary politics. Falsifications and slander, on the other hand, are the primary weapons of Stalinism.”
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Peter Symonds•
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John Malvar•
Ten years since the Egyptian Revolution
To mark the anniversary of the 2011 revolution in Egypt, we present a selection of key statements and analyses produced by the WSWS in the course of the events of that year and their aftermath.
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A video statement by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North
Welcoming the relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS has been relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
From the Marxist Library
Thirty years since the reunification of Germany
To mark the 30th anniversary of the German reunification, the WSWS is presenting a special exhibit of documents and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International amidst the crisis of Stalinism in the former GDR.
Soviet writer Vasily Grossman’s final work, An Armenian Sketchbook
This volume, presenting an informal account of the author’s trip to the small Soviet republic in 1961, is in its own slighter fashion as deeply moving as his monumental war novels.
Fred Mazelis•
Hero journeys: Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
The Night Watchman tells the story of the Turtle Mountain tribe of Chippewa in North Dakota as they fight to survive the US government’s attempt in 1953 and 1954 to “terminate” them.
James McDonald•
150 years since the birth of Theodore Dreiser, the great American novelist
August 27 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of writer Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. Dreiser was the author of a number of the most important American novels ever written.
David Walsh•
Class interests and cultural divides
An interview with poet Christopher Kempf, author of What Though the Field Be Lost
The author of the recent collection What Though the Field Be Lost discusses his interest in history and his thoughts about our current cultural and political moment.
Erik Schreiber•
Erik Schreiber•
Peter Schwarz•
Peter Schwarz•
Andrea Peters•
Clara Weiss•
The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International
This lecture was delivered by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS, at the opening of the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 21, 2019.
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Drawing the lessons of the ICFI split—International Strategy and National Tactics: The change in the ICFI’s approach to national liberation movements
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
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The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 23, 2019 by Andre Damon, regular writer for the World Socialist Web Site and leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
Andre Damon•
The ICFI and the Crisis of Stalinism
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 24, 2019 by Barry Grey, US national editor of the World Socialist Web Site and leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
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