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Biden launches barbaric attack on immigrants
The scenes playing out across the US-Mexico border disqualify the US government from ever lecturing the world on “human rights.”
The scenes playing out across the US-Mexico border disqualify the US government from ever lecturing the world on “human rights.”
The pretense of “left” populism was undermined by the selection of Clinton/Obama economic aide Gene Sperling to oversee the administration of the American Recovery Act.
Multiple arrests have been made that expose the role of fascists, including members of the police and military, in the January 6 coup attempt.
While the Quad is not yet a formal alliance, the Biden administration views it as central to Washington’s plans for military conflict against China.
The wave of killings over the weekend, which claimed at least 72 lives, is further proof that the junta is determined to crush all opposition.
The fact that the union has not placed any demands on Amazon further underscores that its organizing campaign is an establishment operation aimed a containing the demands of workers, not advancing them.
Cuomo is the latest target of another fraudulent sex scandal, which has become the weapon of choice used by the Democratic Party in the execution of its increasingly frequent political hit jobs.
Rather than lessons being learned, the true cause of the disaster is being papered over to protect the capitalist profit system.
Ben Crump, the attorney for Floyd’s family, called the deal the largest known pretrial civil rights settlement in US history.
The police infringed on the rights of citizens to peacefully protest by sweeping up lawful demonstrators and indiscriminately firing “less lethal” weapons at protesters.
Middle-class parties like the ex-Maoist Socialist Party and the union bureaucracy have supported the Rutte government’s murderous “herd immunity” policy on COVID-19.
The disruption to children’s education is the result of the government’s failure to stem the pandemic and fully resource safe remote learning.

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.
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.
The spread of the coronavirus has exposed the disastrous consequences of decades of the massive concentration of wealth and inequality spawned by capitalism.
Governments around the world are making a deliberate decision to minimize their response to the pandemic, threatening the lives of millions of people.
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.
The ongoing reopenings in the United States and around the world are setting the stage for even greater heights of mass death.
The most striking feature of Biden’s speech Wednesday night, filled with the usual banalities and clichés, was not what was said, but what was avoided, left out and distorted.
The elevation of Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates to lead the Democratic Party in Nevada is not a victory for socialism, but an expression of conflicts over positions within the state apparatus.
While the media focuses on blanket coverage of the doings of the “royals” at Buckingham Palace and Montecito California, Britain is in the grip of a social and economic crisis of unprecedented dimensions.
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.
At the orders of Virginia’s Democratic governor, public schools in Norfolk reopened their doors to elementary students on March 15, with middle and high schools set to follow.
Data extracted from university staff self-studies and university dashboards during the fall semester of 2020 show growth in new daily cases after in-person instruction began.
Despite the claims of Democratic Party politicians and teachers unions across California, Oregon and Washington, there is no safe return to in-person instruction during a pandemic.
North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations of the the Security and the Fourth International investigation into Trotsky’s assassination.
IBT Local 2727 cites “serious, chronic sanitary concerns” that put flight crew workers in a deadly work environment. However, these conditions were enforced by the Teamsters union itself over the past year.
Many countries throughout Europe and Asia are suspending their vaccination programs with the AstraZeneca vaccine due to recent reports of blood clots after inoculations.
Although it concedes a “third wave” has begun, Pakistan’s government is refusing to order lockdowns and other urgently needed social and public health measures.
The government continues to oppose the demands by demonstrators and doctors associations for a return to lockdown measures.
Student workers at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio have formed an undergraduate union to fight against unfair employment policies and practices.
The Coles warehouse dispute is a turning point in the class struggle and one whose political lessons must be studied and acted on to defeat the escalating joint union and company assaults.
The fight by WISAG ground staff at Frankfurt Airport against their illegal sacking is increasingly winning support from other workers.
A call for solidarity with the WISAG workers who conducted an eight-day hunger strike against their sacking, and are protesting outside the Hesse state assembly today.
The BJP government’s biggest fear is that a state security crackdown on the protesting farmers would serve to galvanise widespread anger within the working class.
The main factor in Mathias Cormann’s success was support from both the Biden administration and the Johnson government in the UK.
By proclaiming a “hard border” approach to try to isolate the state from the global pandemic, the Labor Party obtained a record electoral swing.
The $25 a week increase will be accompanied by draconian “mutual obligations”
The 2021 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) took the form of online screenings of selected films to an audience of film industry professionals and journalists, with the public excluded.
The four significant political and/or cultural figures met at a segregated Miami hotel following Clay’s winning the heavyweight boxing crown.
The stories in BASS 2020 were selected by novelist Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975), a supporter of Hillary Clinton whose most recent work is Rodham (2020), an alternate history political novel.
Through 1819, Keats produced some of his greatest works, and some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language.
Despite the restoration of water service, city officials have maintained a boil-water advisory weeks after extreme winter weather has dissipated, affecting more than 70 percent of residents.
The Heritage Road Fulfilment Centre is Amazon’s largest warehouse in Canada, employing some 5,000 workers.
Governor Larry Hogan’s order, which went into effect at 5 p.m. on Friday, is the most far-reaching reversal of social distancing measures in the mid-Atlantic region thus far.
The meeting was presented publicly as concerned with COVID-19 and climate change, but its real purpose was unmistakable: to strengthen military ties to confront China throughout the Indo-Pacific and prepare for war.
25 years ago: Canadian police attack striking government workersOn March 18, 1996, riot police mounted a brutal attack on striking Ontario government workers, acting on orders from Ontario’s Tory government. One picketer was knocked unconscious and three more were hospitalized after police clubbed and shoved their way through a picket line outside the Ontario Legislature.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has formed a committee to review the potential removal of five statues of Lincoln, along with monuments to Washington, Franklin, and Grant.
Rosa Luxemburg, who was born on 5 March, 1871, was among the most important revolutionary Marxists of the 20th century, and her work contains vital lessons for today.
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.”
Fascistic President Bolsonaro’s installing of a general as head of Petrobras sent the energy conglomerate’s stocks into a 20 percent plunge.
The social measures taken by Latin American governments were designed to starve workers into accepting the lifting of the limited lockdowns and a reckless return to work
While the various pseudo-lefts distanced themselves from the official honors for the dead former president, they avoided any mention of their own political betrayals that facilitated his attacks upon the working class.
The memoirs of ex-army commander Villas Bôas have thrown Brazilian politics into turmoil and exposed the drive towards dictatorship in the sixth most populated country in the world.
Whatever temporary recalibrations may be made by the government and police in response to Saturday’s events, the direction of travel towards authoritarian rule will continue with dire implications for democratic rights won over centuries.
Recent official statements on an expected earthquake in Istanbul underscore that millions of people living in Turkey’s largest city face an impending disaster.
Macron’s recognition of the French state’s crime in Algeria is a cynical and empty political manoeuvre. In January, Macron refused to apologise for French crimes in Algeria.
It is a first step to secure Puigdemont’s extradition to Madrid where he could face over a decade in jail over peaceful protests and a 2017 referendum on Catalonia’s independence.
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.
David North and Eric London speak on the significance of the latest revelations, in the context of the decades-long Security and the Fourth International investigation by the ICFI into Trotsky’s assassination by Stalin’s GPU.
This essay is based on the transcript of the remarks made by David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), in opening an online discussion held January 17 on the significance of the fascist assault on the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021.
An online meeting with historians James Oakes, Richard Carwardine and Tom Mackaman. Moderated by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North.
The appalling suffering resulting from imperialist warmongering—other than that in the opposition-held Idlib province—has largely been ignored by the world’s media.
Recent official statements on an expected earthquake in Istanbul underscore that millions of people living in Turkey’s largest city face an impending disaster.
French hospital doctors’ protests continue against regrading; farmers, pensioners, workers protest poverty in Iran
Since March 2015, the Saudi-led war against Yemen—waged with the full backing of Washington and London—has killed over 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
Macron’s recognition of the French state’s crime in Algeria is a cynical and empty political manoeuvre. In January, Macron refused to apologise for French crimes in Algeria.
Clashes have broken out between young people and the police in Senegal for the past week and a half, leaving five dead.
French hospital doctors’ protests continue against regrading; farmers, pensioners, workers protest poverty in Iran
The Times is covering up not only the US-NATO devastation of Libya, but also its own role as chief propagandist for the 2011 war of aggression.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a turning point in world history, an event comparable in scale and impact to the Great Depression and the two world wars.
The new CDC guidelines allow for fully vaccinated people to gather privately. This is a politically motivated step, not confirmed by science, and may potentially exacerbate the pandemic.
The CDC director raised concerns that mitigation measures’ rapid relaxation could lead to a spring surge as more virulent strains of the coronavirus are detected.
The man who made a major contribution to the development of the Synthetic Theory of evolution was also a defender of the crimes of Stalinism.
The IYSSE at ASU is working to bring a socialist perspective to the students and youth at the college and in the surrounding area, and, to turn them to the working class in the region.
The developments of the past 12 months have proven that students and youth face a future of misery and dictatorship under capitalism. The only alternative is the fight for revolutionary socialism.
The reopening of schools amid a raging pandemic is a criminal act that will only add to the already horrific toll of death from the coronavirus.
These cuts are just the first expression of what is to come if there is no organized opposition in defense of education and particularly the arts and humanities.
Albanese’s highly conditional comments, made in a closed-room caucus meeting and leaked to the press, were a cynical public relations exercise that committed Labor to nothing.
Assange is still being denied proper access to his lawyers and to crucial legal documents, even after a Magistrates’ Court verdict blocking his extradition to the US last month.
“It has to be a grassroots movement from below to save Assange. A mass movement or mass support for him, rather than trying to appeal to the goodness of Australian politicians’ hearts.”
Judge Baraitser said in her decision Wednesday, “As far as Mr Assange is concerned, this case has not yet been won.”
The SGP began its campaign for the 2021 German federal elections with a strong launch meeting that was followed by hundreds of workers and young people online.
Workers in every country around the world confront the same problems and can only oppose exploitation, militarism and fascism by uniting. This is why the SGP’s election campaign is not restricted to Germany, but addresses itself to workers throughout Europe!
Speakers explained the vital stand taken by the Smeaton Grange warehouse workers and outlined the political perspective needed to defeat the escalating assault on jobs and conditions.
The Socialist Equality Group and IYSSE in Turkey held an international online meeting January 17 titled “Amid the global breakdown of democracy, the way forward for the Boğaziçi University protests.”
“The creation and distribution of news is controlled by a few corporations, ruthless in promoting their class interests.”
On Friday, Facebook removed without explanation a group with 90,000 members who work in the international cruise ship industry.
Following up on the remarks of CEO Mark Zuckerberg two weeks ago, Facebook has issued an official statement spelling out how it will move forward with plans to reduce political content on its social media platform.
The WSWS has been sent letters from Emmy Butlin and Maxine Walker, of the Committee to Defend Julian Assange (JADC) in opposition to the censorship of the World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Parties by Facebook.
Republican lawmakers, taking advantage of the racialist falsifications of the 1619 Project, are seeking to promote their own backward and chauvinistic version of US history.
Attacking the New York Times’ 1619 Project where it is weakest, the Trump Administration’s “1776 Report” responds to the controversy with its own brand of flag-waving “America First” demagoguery.
In an act of political censorship, Canada’s “newspaper of record” has refused to publish a letter from WSWS Chairman David North answering its smear.
The feigned outrage over “revelations” that Hopkins owned slaves serves to obscure the class issues that are the real irrepressible conflict in American society.
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.
One US civilian contractor died from a heart attack during the rocket strike, which inflicted no casualties on US troops and reportedly did little damage.
Veterans of the Obama administration’s wars in the Middle East, drone assassinations and pivot to Asia, the nominees were largely embraced by Senate Republicans.
Yellen’s nomination seems assured, as she enjoys support from both the Republicans and Wall Street.
The 6.5 percent growth in the fourth quarter indicates that the Chinese economy is expanding at a faster rate than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.”
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.
“The honest assessment of history is the bedrock of revolutionary politics. Falsifications and slander, on the other hand, are the primary weapons of Stalinism.”
The bombing marked a critical step toward the imposition of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 and remains one of the most controversial events in the country’s history.
The WSWS has been relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
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.
The WSWS has exhaustively documented and analyzed the political crisis and historical decay of American democracy.
The WSWS was the only publication to warn very early on the dangers the working class faced if the coronavirus became a pandemic.
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.
The scenes playing out across the US-Mexico border disqualify the US government from ever lecturing the world on “human rights.”
The ongoing reopenings in the United States and around the world are setting the stage for even greater heights of mass death.
The most striking feature of Biden’s speech Wednesday night, filled with the usual banalities and clichés, was not what was said, but what was avoided, left out and distorted.
This ongoing crime exposes the rot at the core of the entire capitalist system and all its institutions and political representatives, from right to so-called left.
Modern Monetary Theory is the latest in a long line of attempts by “left” theorists to maintain that capitalism can be made to work for society if only outmoded thinking about the monetary system is abandoned.
The racist massacre in Wilmington was a major turning point in the entrenchment of Jim Crow segregation throughout the South.
Two recent works of fiction interestingly portray the #MeToo campaign in operation, but don’t criticize (or probe deeply) much of what needs to be criticized.
The Kill Chain exposes US imperialism’s advanced war preparations against China, with Silicon Valley playing a critical role.
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.
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
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.
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.