US secretary of state sets out case for conflict with China
By Peter Symonds, 25 July 2020
By ruling out a return to the policy of “containment,” Pompeo’s speech marks a strategy aimed at regime change in Beijing.
US demands even greater support from Australia in confrontation with China
By Mike Head, 25 July 2020
Despite the intensifying COVID-19 danger in the US, Australia’s foreign and defence ministers will personally attend the annual AUSMIN talks in Washington next week.
Illinois Democrats embrace Trump’s law enforcement “surge”
By Kristina Betinis, 25 July 2020
Illinois Democratic lawmakers have made public statements aimed at assuaging public fears that the federal forces will crack down on anti-police violence protesters in Chicago, just as they have in Portland.
Canadian medical experts provide ideological justification for homicidal back-to-work drive
By Laurent Lafrance, 25 July 2020
Exploiting their professional qualifications to give their arguments credibility, the experts have fully endorsed the corporate elite’s reactionary dictum: “The cure cannot be worse than the disease.”
Brazilian autoworkers strike after Renault fires 747 workers
By Tomas Castanheira, 25 July 2020
Workers were outraged over the targeting for layoffs of those who were out because of work-related injuries and even coronavirus infections.
As the spread of COVID accelerates, Ford workers in Michigan and Kentucky denounce flouting of safety measures
By Tim Rivers, 25 July 2020
Ford workers in Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky describe the disregard of basic COVID-19 safety protections by management while the UAW works to suppress any opposition.
New York City transit officials prepare to slash jobs and wages
By Daniel de Vries, 25 July 2020
Faced with a financial crisis that threatens its survival, the MTA is planning devastating cuts to jobs and service.
Iowa Department of Health underreported confirmed cases at meatpacking plant by more than half
By Cordell Gascoigne, 25 July 2020
The Iowa Department of Health cover-up occurred at the height of the “back to work campaign” and ongoing meat industry production.
Trump signs executive order on 2020 Census declaring undocumented immigrants are not persons
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan, 25 July 2020
The order would affect the distribution of federal funding as well as the apportionment of congressional seats.
Germany: Daimler doubles job cuts from 15,000 to 30,000—shareholders rejoice as stock price rises
By K. Nesan, 25 July 2020
Daimler workers and millions of employees in companies associated with the automotive industry should regard these dismissals as the beginning of a broad campaign of unprecedented attacks.
Judge orders former Trump enforcer Michael Cohen to be released from prison
By Jacob Crosse, 25 July 2020
In a slap at President Trump and Attorney General Barr, Federal District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered the release of former Trump confidant and disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen.
“People will not know what they lost until it is gone”
Workers voice opposition to privatization of US Postal Service
By Kayla Costa and Shuvu Batta, 25 July 2020
Postal workers have responded with outrage to leaked memos from USPS management which reveal plans for the accelerated privatization of the Postal Service.
John Deere announces layoffs, salary buyouts for US workers
By George Gallanis, 25 July 2020
The layoffs and dangers posed by the raging coronavirus pandemic require workers to form rank-and-file committees to fight for their lives and safety.
Phoenix, Arizona police release incomplete footage of July 4 shooting
By Chase Lawrence, 25 July 2020
James Garcia, 28, was sitting alone in his car and under no suspicion of any crime when he was killed by police.
Remains of one of Mexico’s missing Ayotzinapa 43 students identified
By Rafael Azul and Don Knowland, 25 July 2020
Mexico’s attorney general has announced that human remains found in Cocula, Guerrero state had been identified as Christian Adolfo Rodriguez Telumbre.
British universities plan tens of thousands of job cuts
By Simon Whelan, 25 July 2020
According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, 33 percent of academic staff in the UK were on fixed-term contracts in 2017–18.
London bus drivers launch crowdfund appeal for family of murdered French bus driver: “Help the family of Philippe Monguillot!”
By Laura Tiernan, 25 July 2020
London drivers launched the crowdfund for Monguillot’s family two weeks ago and are appealing for support.
Australia’s COVID-19 death toll rising rapidly
By Oscar Grenfell, 25 July 2020
Through the “national cabinet,” Labor and Liberal-National governments yesterday “recommitted” to the pro-business policies that have resulted in record deaths and infections.
Zimbabwe: Social unrest grows amid economic collapse
By Stephan McCoy, 25 July 2020
Security forces have used COVID-19 lockdown laws to arrest nurses striking over poverty wages, appalling work conditions and lack of personal protective equipment.
24 July 2020
As paramilitary police tear gas Portland mayor and protesters
Trump orders federal police to more cities
By Barry Grey, 24 July 2020
Trump orders hundreds of federal agents into Chicago
President Trump sending federal police agents into major American cities
US coronavirus hospitalizations surge back to April highs
By Bryan Dyne, 24 July 2020
New coronavirus cases globally rocket past a quarter million
“They have put the needs of the 1 percent over the importance of human life”
NASSCO shipyard worker dies from COVID-19 in San Diego
Growing wave of educators’ protests forces Trump to throw a financial sop to schools
By Nancy Hanover, 24 July 2020
Parents oppose dangerous UK nursery and pre-school reopening
By Charlotte Salthill and Joyce Smith, 24 July 2020
Greek, Turkish warships nearly clash in Aegean over Mediterranean gas fields
By Alex Lantier, 24 July 2020
Catalan politicians’ phones hacked by government-grade spyware
By Alice Summers, 24 July 2020
Reports on Twitter hack confirm existence of admin tool used for social media censorship
By Kevin Reed, 24 July 2020
Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in “coordinated social engineering attack”
Fourth steelworker in three years dies at ArcelorMittal in East Chicago, Indiana
By Jessica Goldstein, 24 July 2020
Huge Australian budget deficits mean intensified assault on workers
By Mike Head, 24 July 2020
UK manufacturers warn of “jobs bloodbath”
By Paul Bond, 24 July 2020
Trial of Halle synagogue shooter begins in Germany
By Peter Schwarz, 24 July 2020
Germany: The “riots” in Frankfurt and the right-wing network in the police
German chicken processing plant remains open despite coronavirus outbreak
By Marianne Arens, 24 July 2020
Couples and families separated by New Zealand’s border restrictions
By Tom Peters, 24 July 2020
South Asian floods kill hundreds and displace millions
By Arun Kumar, 24 July 2020
New in Portuguese
Trabalhadores da Renault fazem greve contra 747 demissões no Brasil
Tomas Castanheira, 25 Julho 2020
Os trabalhadores se indignaram pelas demissões serem dirigidas contra funcionários afastados por acidentes de trabalho, ou por estarem infectados com coronavírus.
New in Turkish
Yunan ve Türk savaş gemileri Ege Denizi’nde çatışmanın eşiğine geldi
Alex Lantier, 25 Temmuz 2020
Yunan ve Türk savaş gemilerinin bu hafta güney Ege’de doğrudan bir çatışmanın eşiğine gelmesi ciddi bir uyarıdır.
New in French
Trump et le Congrès condamnent les chômeurs à la famine
Patrick Martin, 25 juillet 2020
Les démocrates et les républicains laissent expirer le supplément fédéral d’indemnisation du chômage de 600 dollars par semaine, coupant ainsi une bouée de sauvetage pour des millions de travailleurs sans emploi.
New in German
US-Regierung verurteilt Arbeitslose zum Hungern
Patrick Martin, 25. Juli 2020
Der Bundeszuschuss für Arbeitslose in Höhe von 600 Dollar pro Woche wird eingestellt. Millionen Familien sind von dieser drastischen Kürzung betroffen.
Wirecard und die Kriminalität des Kapitalismus
Peter Schwarz, 25. Juli 2020
Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt wegen gewerbstätigen Bandenbetrugs, Bilanzfälschung, Marktmanipulation, Veruntreuung von Vermögen und Geldwäsche gegen die Führungskräfte des bankrotten Dax-Konzerns.
„Freiwilliger Wehrdienst“: Große Koalition rekrutiert für Einsatz des Militärs im Inneren
Johannes Stern, 25. Juli 2020
Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Entwicklung in den USA und der deutschen Geschichte ist der Einsatz des Militärs im Inneren eine ernste Gefahr.
Mittelmeer: Beinahe-Zusammenstoß zwischen griechischen und türkischen Kriegsschiffen wegen Bohrfeldern
Alex Lantier, 25. Juli 2020
Die imperialistischen Kriege der letzten Jahrzehnte im Nahen Osten und dem Mittelmeerraum haben Konflikte entfesselt, die die NATO jetzt zerstören könnten.
Das Schweigen von Medien und Politikern zum Antisemitismus im polnischen Wahlkampf
Clara Weiss, 25. Juli 2020
In Polen spielte der Antisemitismus im jüngsten Wahlkampf der regierenden PiS eine so große Rolle wie niemals seit der Nazi-Besatzung im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
--New in Russian
Трамп использует меры полицейского насилия в Портленде, штат Орегон
Патрик Мартин, 22 июля 2020 г.
Подавление демонстрантов фашистскими агентами силовых структур Трампа — это последний шаг в многолетних атаках его администрации на демократические права в Соединенных Штатах.
Нарастающие признаки глубокой и продолжительной глобальной рецессии
Ник Бимс, 22 июля 2020 г.
Многие крупные американские компании пришли к выводу, что принятые ими меры оказались недостаточными, и что увеличение числа случаев COVID-19 и связанные с этим карантинные меры разрушили надежды на быстрое восстановление.
New in Mandarin
一个中国学生关于COVID-19疫情的来信
a correspondent, 2020年7月22日
这次疫情激起的危机还将造成怎样的长期的决定性的负面影响。
支持国际工人阶级对抗COVID-19大流行病的行动！
第四国际国际委员会的声明, 2020年6月29日
只有一场来自国际工人阶级的反对资本主义的独立政治干预 才能结束COVID-19大流行带来的大规模死亡
工人阶级、社会主义与抗击大流行病
David North, 2020年6月18日
在第四国际创始文件《过渡纲领》中，列昂·托洛茨基将1936-1937年大萧条期间在美国爆发的静坐罢工描述为 “美国工人为了将自己提升到历史给予他们的那些任务的水准所做的本能努力”。
华尔街以死亡为宴
大卫.诺斯, 2020年5月3日
昨天，4月14日，全球因COVID-19大流行造成的死亡总数超过126,000。在美国，周二有2400多人死亡，使全国受害者总数达到26000。这些官方数字无疑大大低于因冠状病毒感染而死亡的实际人数。
伦敦工人拼死与冠毒作战 富豪纷纷撤离
Michael Barnes, 2020年5月9日
早在新冠病毒大流行之前，伦敦就已是英国丑恶的不平等的中心。如今它不可避免地成为英国疫情的震中。这座城市是整个英国社会阶级分化的集中范例。
New in Spanish
El plan de Trump para desplegar la policía paramilitar en EE.UU.: la clase gobernante se prepara para una guerra civil
Por Patrick Martin, 23 julio 2020
La represión contra los manifestantes por parte de los agentes fronterizos fascistizantes de Trump es el último paso en el ataque de años del Gobierno contra los derechos democráticos en Estados Unidos.
Los casos de COVID-19 alcanzan 15 millones en todo el mundo con 4 millones solo en los EE. UU.
Por Benjamin Mateus, 23 julio 2020
Estados Unidos está en la posición única de ser la única nación desarrollada que se enfrenta a un brote tan desastroso y en expansión.
La pantomima de protesta “Huelga por las vidas negras”
Por Tom Hall, 23 julio 2020
La “huelga” fue una trama apoyada por las empresas, la prensa corporativa y el Partido Demócrata para desviar el enojo por la violencia policial y las condiciones de trabajo inseguras a lo largo de líneas raciales.
New in Norwegian
Trumps planer om å sende ut paramilitært politi på tvers av USA: Styringsklassen forbereder seg for borgerkrig
Patrick Martin, 23. juli 2020
Trump-administrasjonens planer om å utplassere føderale paramilitære styrker i amerikanske storbyer er en vesentlig opptrapping av angrepet mot demokratiske rettigheter og for oppbyggingen av politistat-styreformer.
EU-toppmøte enes om fond på € 750 milliarder for bankene og storforetakene
Will Morrow, 23. juli 2020
Avtalen tilrettelegger en ny inntektsstrøm for europeiske stater til å besørge utdelinger til storselskaper, og en ny nøysomhetsmekanisme for innstramminger på tvers av kontinentet.
Brev fra en student i Kina om Covid-19-pandemien
en korrespondent, 23. juli 2020
«Folk er bekymret for at de på toppen av vanskelighetene de allerede har gjennomlevd skal møte flere ukjente, langsiktige og negative konsekvenser av pandemien.»
New in Italian
La classe lavoratrice, il socialismo e la lotta contro la pandemia
David North, 1 aprile 2020
Gli scioperi e le proteste dei lavoratori di Instacart, Amazon e Whole Foods sono in risposta alla criminale subordinazione della sicurezza dei lavoratori ai profitti aziendali.
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150,000 dead in the US and no end in sight
25 July 2020
The resurgence of COVID-19 is a result of the campaign by the Trump administration—with the assistance of the Democrats and the media—to force workers back on the job as the pandemic continues to rage.
SEP US presidential election campaign
SEP files appeal to Federal Sixth Circuit Court in Michigan ballot access case
By Kevin Reed, 25 July 2020
The Socialist Equality Party candidates Joseph Kishore for US President and Norissa Santa Cruz for US Vice President have appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for review of the July 8 ruling of Judge Sean Cox rejecting their lawsuit against Michigan ballot access requirements during the pandemic.
California judge rules that SEP candidates must collect physical signatures during pandemic or be excluded from ballot
By Kevin Reed, 22 July 2020
SEP candidates Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz respond to California state officials in ballot access lawsuit
Democratic California Governor Newsom argues that allowing SEP candidates on the ballot would cause “frustration of the democratic process”
Michigan court rules that SEP must gather signatures despite pandemic
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 10 July 2020
act.tv’s Julianna Forlano interviews Joseph Kishore
With Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 9 July 2020
An important discussion of the pandemic, the crisis of capitalism, class forces in politics, police violence, and the need for a unified international socialist movement.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka: Workers denounce establishment parties
By our reporters, 25 July 2020
Over the past weeks, SEP campaigners have discussed with workers and youth the need to politically fight on the basis of a socialist program.
Sri Lankan SEP election meeting discusses working-class response to COVID-19 pandemic
By our correspondents, 22 July 2020
Commentary
Trump, Congress condemn unemployed to starve
By Patrick Martin, 24 July 2020
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos adds record $13 billion to net worth in a single day
By Jacob Crosse, 24 July 2020
The nationalist hijacking of the race for a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus
By Benjamin Mateus, 24 July 2020
International media and politicians silent on anti-Semitism in Polish elections
By Clara Weiss, 24 July 2020
Sosyalist Eşitlik condemns threats against Şiar Rişvanoğlu
By Sosyalist Eşitlik, 24 July 2020
US orders closure of China’s Houston consulate, raising the danger of war
By Mike Head, 23 July 2020
Trump’s plan to send paramilitary police throughout the US: The ruling class prepares for civil war
By Patrick Martin, 22 July 2020
The “Strike for Black Lives” protest stunt
By Tom Hall, 22 July 2020
From Selma to the CIA
John Lewis, civil rights militant turned big-business politician, dies at 80
20 July 2020
Arts Review
Hamilton: An American Musical finally available for broader viewing
By Ed Hightower, 24 July 2020
Italian composer Francesco Lotoro rescues music composed in the concentration camps
By Fred Mazelis, 21 July 2020
#Anne Frank Parallel Stories: The young victim of the Nazis
By Joanne Laurier, 18 July 2020
Sinclair Lewis’s novel Main Street at 100
By James McDonald, 16 July 2020
Workers Struggles
Indian health workers protest over COVID-19 treatment discrimination and wages; Western Australian caterers and cleaners strike on offshore gas platforms
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
25 July 2020
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
California: 700 health care workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital on five-day strike
By Brian Dixon, 23 July 2020
Widespread opposition as union sells out Joliet, Illinois nurses strike
By Alex Johnson, 23 July 2020
Featured Statement
As COVID-19 spreads at Toledo Jeep and other plants
Build rank-and-file safety committees at every workplace to save lives!
By the FCA Jefferson North, Sterling Heights and Toledo Jeep Rank-and-File Safety Committees, 18 July 2020
The number of COVID-19 infections is rising all across the US, and emergency action has to be taken.
Rank-and-file safety committee demands immediate shut down
COVID-19 out of control at Toledo Jeep plant
Toledo Fiat Chrysler workers launch rank-and-file safety committee to save lives amid COVID-19 rampage
This week in history: July 20-26
25 years ago: “Taiwan Strait Crisis” between US and China
On July 21, 1995, the People’s Republic of China conducted the first in a series of missile tests in the Taiwan Strait setting into motion what would later be known as the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.
50 years ago: Aswan High Dam completed in Egypt
After a decade of construction, the Aswan High Dam was completed on July 21, 1970. The dam was an immense feat of engineering that would give Egypt both new electric power and the ability to regulate flooding in the Nile Valley.
75 years ago: Trial of Marshal Pétain, leader of the Vichy regime, begins in France
On July 23, 1945, the trial of Marshal Philippe Pétain, who had headed the extreme right-wing Vichy regime through most of World War II, began in France.
100 years ago: Britain annexes East African Protectorate
On July 23, 1920, the British Empire annexed the East African Protectorate, which it had administered since 1895, giving the British Crown more control over the area and conferring more legal rights to British settlers.
Free Julian Assange
UK MPs submit early day motion on Assange
By Thomas Scripps, 18 July 2020
The signatories have all either hitherto kept a criminal silence over Assange’s persecution, or, in the case of Corbyn, McDonnell, Abbott and Long-Bailey, found their voice only after losing leading positions in the Labour Party.
Online documentary exposes the psychological torture of Julian Assange
By Oscar Grenfell, 15 July 2020
Online book launch of The Most Dangerous Man in the World defends Assange
By Oscar Grenfell, 11 July 2020
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
History
“Palace letters” point to the plotting behind the 1975 constitutional coup in Australia
By Mike Head, 17 July 2020
Together with the military coup in Chile in 1973, the Labor government’s dismissal was one of the first acts in what became an international counter-offensive against the working class.
“Literacy is a clean window onto the world ...”
100 years since formation of Soviet Extraordinary Commission for the Liquidation of Illiteracy
By Patrick O’Connor, 8 July 2020
Socialist Equality Party
SEP (Australia) holds lecture series on the history of Trotskyism
By Oscar Grenfell, 17 July 2020
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
Tamil National Alliance offers to support Sri Lankan president’s autocratic rule
By Paramu Thirugnanasambanthar—lead SEP candidate for Jaffna district, 17 July 2020
Verfassungsschutz Report 2019: German secret service downplays threat of Nazi terrorism and attacks socialist politics
By Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, 16 July 2020
As support widens for SEP defence campaign
Sri Lanka army commander says allegations of military harassment of northern election candidates are “false”
By our correspondents, 16 July 2020
Letters demand Sri Lankan defence secretary stop military harassment of SEP candidates
By our correspondents, 9 July 2020
Hands off the Sri Lankan Trotskyists
SEP demands military stops harassing its election candidates in Jaffna
July 4th Online Discussion
The World Socialist Web Site celebrated the 244th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by hosting a discussion with five eminent historians: Victoria Bynum, Clayborne Carson, Richard Carwardine, James Oakes and Gordon Wood. The event was moderated by Kings College professor Tom Mackaman and WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North.
The significance of the July 4 online discussion, “The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future”
By David Walsh, 6 July 2020
The Legacy of the American Revolution and Civil War
The two American Revolutions in world history
By David North, 4 July 2020
An interview with Ed Achorn, author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
By Shannon Jones, 10 July 2020
Democrats’ denunciation of America’s revolutionary heritage provides an opening for Trump
By Niles Niemuth, 7 July 2020
Racial-communalist politics and the second assassination of Abraham Lincoln
By Niles Niemuth and David North, 25 June 2020
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Humboldt University student parliament condemns radical right-wing Professor Baberowski
By Helmut van Heiken, 13 July 2020
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Oppose the Melbourne public housing towers lock-in! For a health and welfare response, not a police mobilisation!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 9 July 2020
The SEP calls for the formation of local safety committees, both within the tower blocks and more broadly, to organise measures to protect the residents and the working class as a whole.
Organise teachers, parents and school staff committees to oppose reckless school reopening in Melbourne!
By the Committee for Public Education (Australia), 7 July 2020
“Deep cleaning” in Australian schools: Image and reality
Science
The COVID-19 vaccine and the drive for profit
By Frank Gaglioti, 8 July 2020
As the pandemic rages across the planet, the struggle to develop a vaccine has become an urgent task. But the vaccines will be weaponized for geopolitical purposes, not to provide the treatments equitably on a global scale.
Contact tracing and capitalism’s response to the pandemic
By Benjamin Mateus, 27 June 2020
Socialist Equality Party (US)
Twenty-five years since the death of Ed Winn
By Fred Mazelis, 26 June 2020
Twice the presidential candidate of the Workers League, Ed Winn fought for Marxist principles throughout the American and international working class. He was a New York City transit worker for 22 years.
Book Review
The Room Where it Happened: John Bolton’s account of the “palace coup” opposition to Trump
By Andre Damon, 26 June 2020
The New York Times' 1619 Project
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
- Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary, not historical writing
- American Historical Review publishes letter on 1619 Project by Tom Mackaman and David North
- New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
- New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker
- A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
Mehring Books
Introduction to The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995
By Joseph Kishore, 19 June 2020
We are publishing here the introduction to the upcoming book The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995. The book consists of lectures on the development of the perspective and program of the International Committee of the Fourth International in the aftermath of the split with the British Workers Revolutionary Party in February 1986.
June 7 Online Meeting
The coronavirus pandemic
The Malthusian underpinnings of Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy
By Thomas Scripps, 8 June 2020
Build rank-and-file factory and workplace committees to prevent transmission of the COVID-19 virus and save lives!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US), 21 May 2020
Brazilian Trotskyists issue call for working-class action against pandemic
What will be the cost of implementing this program? Who will pay for it?
Statement of the Brazilian Socialist Equality Group (In Solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International), 2 June 2020
Turkish Trotskyists call for independent working-class action against the pandemic
By Sosyalist Eşitlik (in solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International), 5 June 2020
British Trotskyists issue call for working class action against pandemic
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), 27 May 2020
SEP (Sri Lanka) calls for action committees to counter COVID-19 and defend jobs
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 2 June 2020
Oppose the premature lifting of COVID-19 safety restrictions!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 3 June 2020
London bus drivers face COVID-19 disaster: Build rank-and-file safety committees!
By Laura Tiernan, 5 June 2020
More on the coronavirus pandemic »
International May Day Online Rally
Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 12 May 2020
The ruling elite’s efforts to enforce a return to work—and impose a massive restructuring of class relations to pay for the bailout of Wall Street—will encounter enormous opposition from the working class.
Opening report to Online International May Day Rally
The COVID-19 pandemic: A trigger event in world history
By David North, 4 May 2020
We are publishing here the text of the opening report to the 2020 International Online May Day Rally delivered by David North.
On May 2, the International Committee of the Fourth International held its annual International May Day Online Rally, with speakers and participants from throughout the world. Readers can listen to the entire rally here.
History
Russian court keeps historian of Stalinist massacres jailed amid COVID-19 outbreak
By Clara Weiss, 12 May 2020
The vendetta against Dmitriev is part of the campaign by Russia’s state and ruling oligarchy to suppress all efforts to uncover the truth about the crimes of Stalinism.
One Hundred and Fifty Years Since the Birth of Lenin
By David North, 22 April 2020
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in the Russian city of Simbirsk on April 22, 1870. Known in history under the name of Lenin, he was the founder of the Bolshevik Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution and, undoubtedly, a towering figure in the political and intellectual history of the twentieth century.
Fifty years since the massacre of students at Kent State
By Patrick Martin, 4 May 2020
Mehring Books
Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish-language edition of The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
By Ulaş Ateşçi, 30 March 2020
First published by the WSWS in February 2018, The Struggle against Imperialism and for Workers’ Power in Iran—A Reply to a Proponent of “Iranian Islamic Socialism” advances a socialist strategy for the working class in a country that has been the target of US imperialist aggression for decades.
Preface to the Turkish edition of The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
By Keith Jones, 30 March 2020
A viable strategy to defeat imperialism can only be founded on the working class, and requires its independent political mobilization against all factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie.
Amazon
South Carolina Amazon worker speaks on loss of his health, benefits and job
By Ed Hightower and Michael Walters, 21 March 2020
Donald Thrift Jr was left jobless with $27,000 in medical debt after contracting double pneumonia while working in an Amazon fulfillment center in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
As more workers test positive for COVID-19, Amazon ignores demands to close warehouses
By Tom Carter, 25 March 2020
At least three Amazon workers in Shepherdsville, Kentucky tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday, following the discovery of COVID-19 cases in New York, Florida and Michigan warehouses.
Amazon workers in New York City shut down warehouse after worker tests positive for coronavirus
By Shuvu Batta, 21 March 2020
The discovery that an Amazon worker in Queens had tested positive for coronavirus sparked work stoppages which shut the processing facility Thursday night.
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