28 July 2020
Trump, Republicans demand $400-a-week cut for the unemployed
By Patrick Martin, 28 July 2020
The savage class war proposal is the start of “negotiations” with the Democrats in which the outcome is already assured: a severe reduction in working class living standards in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump, Congress condemn unemployed to starve
Assange appears in court, as lawyers warn case may be delayed by new US indictment
By Thomas Scripps, 28 July 2020
As it stands, the UK courts are continuing with Assange’s extradition process based on an outdated indictment.
Trump deploys more federal agents in Portland crackdown
By Jacob Crosse, 28 July 2020
One hundred US Marshals and 50 Customs and Border Patrol agents specializing in “riot control” are en route or have already arrived as protests continue.
Illinois Democrats embrace Trump’s law enforcement “surge”
Texas revises its coronavirus death tally upward by 12 percent
By Bryan Dyne, 28 July 2020
If a similar revision were made to the fatality rate across the US, more than 18,000 new deaths would have to be added to the national toll.
Johnson demands two-week UK quarantine for 600,000 Britons holidaying in Spain
By Robert Stevens, 28 July 2020
Spain was taken off the government’s “safe-travel” list with a few hours’ notice, after being put on it just weeks earlier
Working-class opposition emerging amid Australia’s COVID-19 surge
By Oscar Grenfell, 28 July 2020
Meat workers in Melbourne walked off the job this morning over safety concerns, while teachers and principals are demanding school closures after dozens of classroom infections.
Concerns mount over financial stability as US dollar falls and gold price soars
By Nick Beams, 28 July 2020
A report published in the New York Times last week on the March crisis—the trigger for the latest round of Fed intervention—noted that speculative activity of hedge funds had pushed “critical parts of the US financial markets” towards a collapse.
Australian government echoes aggressive US shift on South China Sea
By Mike Head, 28 July 2020
Australia suddenly abandoned its previous policy of formal neutrality on the competing territorial claims, just 10 days after a similar declaration by the US.
US secretary of state sets out case for conflict with China
US demands even greater support from Australia in confrontation with China
Bath shipyard strike in danger as walkout enters sixth week
By Shannon Jones, 28 July 2020
The strike by 4,300 shipbuilders at Bath Iron Works in Maine has been isolated by the International Association of Machinists in the face of management strikebreaking.
DENSO workers describe conditions that led to COVID-19 outbreak at Michigan auto parts plant
By Brent Dylan, 28 July 2020
After an initial report on an outbreak, workers describe the unsafe conditions and corporate double speak.
As the spread of COVID accelerates, Ford workers in Michigan and Kentucky denounce flouting of safety measures
Ghislaine Maxwell attorneys submit motion to block release of documents from 2015 defamation case
By Kevin Reed, 28 July 2020
Lawyers for the former girlfriend and event organizer for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein filed a motion on Monday to keep “highly confidential” documents from the earlier case from being made public.
Toronto tenants protest against looming evictions amid COVID-19 crisis
By Carl Bronski, 28 July 2020
The demonstrators demanded that Toronto’s mayor use his municipal emergency health and safety powers to block evictions, and denounce the Ontario government’s recently passed pro-landlord Bill 184.
Canadian medical experts provide ideological justification for homicidal back-to-work drive
Retail workers strike in France as wage cuts and layoffs spread
By Will Morrow, 28 July 2020
The unions’ central concern is to prevent a movement of the entire working class in France and across Europe against layoffs and European Union austerity measures.
Egypt’s el-Sisi approves troop deployment to Libya against Turkish-backed forces
By Jean Shaoul, 28 July 2020
The eastern Mediterranean, including North Africa, has become the focus of ever widening conflicts, with all the imperialist and regional powers pursuing their own rapacious demands for control over the region’s wealth and resources.
Mass protests continue in Russian Far East
By Clara Weiss, 28 July 2020
Demonstrators expressed anger over social inequality and the federal government’s infringement of regional authorities and laws.
Spain’s Podemos hails €750 billion EU bank bailout for COVID-19 crisis
By Alejandro López, 28 July 2020
The EU bailout Iglesias calls a “breath of fresh air” is the roll-out across Europe of the model of Greek bailouts after the 2008 crash, to repay trillions of euros given to the rich.
Germany’s “voluntary military service”: Government recruits for army deployments at home and abroad
By Johannes Stern, 28 July 2020
The programme has two key goals: a major deployment of the army domestically, and the recruitment of new soldiers for external wars.
WISAG ground services slashes hundreds of jobs at Berlin Tegel Airport
By Gustav Kemper and Wolfgang Weber, 28 July 2020
This attack has long been planned by the company, the Berlin state executive and the Verdi trade union. Now the coronavirus pandemic and impending closure of Tegel are being used as the excuse to implement it.
Germany: Daimler doubles job cuts from 15,000 to 30,000—shareholders rejoice as stock price rises
27 July 2020
$600-per-week jobless benefit expires for 20 million US workers
By Patrick Martin, 27 July 2020
White House brands teachers “essential workers” to force reopening of schools
By Evan Blake, 27 July 2020
With over 200,000 dead from coronavirus
WHO warns that COVID-19 pandemic is resurgent across Europe
By Alex Lantier, 27 July 2020
With over 16 million COVID-19 cases, the pandemic is devastating developing nations
By Benjamin Mateus, 27 July 2020
Over 7,500 children in Tennessee have been diagnosed with COVID-19
By Zac Thorton, 27 July 2020
Mounting US pressure on Europe to line up against China
By Peter Symonds, 27 July 2020
As demonstrations erupt against Trump’s use of federal paramilitary police in Portland
Protester shot and killed in Austin, Texas
By Jacob Crosse, 27 July 2020
Australian state government bans protest against police violence
By Oscar Grenfell, 27 July 2020
South Africa has the world’s fifth highest COVID-19 cases
By Stephan McCoy, 27 July 2020
Facing manpower shortages over COVID-19, UAW president tells workers ‘don’t retire’
By Shannon Jones, 27 July 2020
Mounting COVID-19 deaths expose deep crisis in Australian aged care homes
By Margaret Rees, 27 July 2020
Dozens of Australian schools shut down after coronavirus outbreaks
By Patrick Kelly, 27 July 2020
Wirecard and the criminality of capitalism
By Peter Schwarz, 27 July 2020
Australian Tamil refugee mother denied urgent medical treatment for weeks
By Max Newman, 27 July 2020
Hurricane Hanna hits regions of Texas and Mexico devastated by COVID-19
By Trévon Austin, 27 July 2020
Ohio House Speaker arrested for running a $60 million bribery scheme
By Isaac Finn, 27 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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Perspective
Teachers face battle as Trump pushes school reopenings
28 July 2020
After waging years of strikes and protests against cuts to school funding and wages, educators in the US now face a direct confrontation with the Trump administration over its drive to reopen schools.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
Growing demands that Sri Lankan defence secretary end the military harassment of SEP candidates
By our correspondents, 28 July 2020
Workers, educators and professionals speak out against the attacks on the democratic rights of Socialist Equality Party candidates in Jaffna.
SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka: Workers denounce establishment parties
By our reporters, 25 July 2020
Sri Lankan SEP election meeting discusses working-class response to COVID-19 pandemic
By our correspondents, 22 July 2020
Commentary
Stop Trump’s coup d’état! Mobilize the working class against authoritarianism and dictatorship!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 27 July 2020
What is BORTAC and why is it patrolling the streets of Portland?
By Genevieve Leigh, 27 July 2020
150,000 dead in the US and no end in sight
By Andre Damon, 25 July 2020
Workers Struggles
Belize stevedores face police repression, Montreal dockworkers launch four-day strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 July 2020
A protest by workers at the Port of Belize me police repression last week while hundreds of Montreal dockworkers are striking this week over long stalled contract negotiations.
Brazilian autoworkers strike after Renault fires 747 workers
By Tomas Castanheira, 25 July 2020
Vote “NO” to British Airways pilots’ contract! Form rank and file committees to oppose BALPA sell-out!
By Robert Stevens, 27 July 2020
Arts Review
What is the New York Times up to at the Detroit Institute of Arts?
By David Walsh, 27 July 2020
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
Science
Antarctic ice sheet melting could accelerate rapidly, leading to catastrophic rise in sea level
By Philip Guelpa, 27 July 2020
This week in history: July 27-August 2
25 years ago: Congress ends hearings on Waco siege
On August 1, 1995, the United States Congress completed week-long hearings on the Waco siege of 1993, designed to both placate and legitimize extreme right-wing groups which had made the Waco assault a cause célèbre.
50 years ago: Cesar Chavez ends California strike
On July 29, 1970, the five-year-long Delano grape strike by agricultural workers came to an end.
75 years ago: Massive US bombardment of Japan
On August 2, 1945, the US Air Force carried out its heaviest raids targeting Japanese cities to that point in World War II, with 800 B-29 bombers dropping an estimated 6,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Japanese cities.
100 years ago: Communist Party of Great Britain founded
On July 31, 1920, the Communist Unity Convention, held at the Cannon Street Hotel in London, founded the Communist Party of Great Britain.
SEP US presidential election campaign
SEP files appeal to Federal Sixth Circuit Court in Michigan ballot access case
By Kevin Reed, 25 July 2020
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.
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
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
“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
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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