30 July 2020
Plainclothes NYC police grab protester and throw her into unmarked car
By Niles Niemuth, 30 July 2020
The illegal seizure of the protester in broad daylight signaled the readiness of the New York Police Department to use the authoritarian methods made infamous by Trump’s paramilitary forces in Portland.
What is BORTAC and why is it patrolling the streets of Portland?
In congressional testimony
Attorney General Barr aggressively defends violent attacks on protesters in Portland
US Park Police chief defends unconstitutional June 1 assault on protesters outside the White House
As opposition mounts to reopening of schools, US teacher union opposes national strike
By David Brown, 30 July 2020
The American Federation of Teachers resolved to limit safety strikes to locals “on a case-by-case basis as a last resort.”
Teachers face battle as Trump pushes school reopenings
Trump uses quack science to promote back-to school, back-to-work drive
COVID-19 deaths mount at GM plant and maquiladoras across Mexico
By Andrea Lobo, 30 July 2020
The state-owned oil company reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus, highlighting the horrific human cost of the rush to reopen the economy.
Auto parts worker dies at Michigan Faurecia plant of unexplained causes
By Tim Rivers, 30 July 2020
Management at the Saline, Michigan plant has not released the cause of death, but coronavirus is widely suspected.
GM keeps third shift at Missouri plant as anger mounts over unsafe conditions
Fed chair Powell says backstop to markets to remain for a “very long time”
By Nick Beams, 30 July 2020
The massive intervention by the Fed and other central banks into financial markets beginning last March has raised fears, reflected in the soaring price for gold, that currencies are being debased.
Australian government signs up to US offensive against China
By Mike Head, 30 July 2020
The joint AUSMIN statement by top Australian and US officials broadcast all the Trump administration’s incendiary and unproven allegations against China.
India set to surpass two million COVID-19 cases within days
By Wasantha Rupasinghe, 30 July 2020
While the government claims that it is mounting a “successful battle,” the virus is rampaging across the India, with half a million new infections in the past 12 days.
Record Australian COVID-19 deaths and infections
By Oscar Grenfell, 30 July 2020
Today’s toll of 723 infections and 13 deaths in Victoria demonstrates that the authorities have completely lost control of the state’s coronavirus surge.
Indonesia passes 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases
By Owen Howell, 30 July 2020
While case numbers and fatalities surge, the Widodo administration is nevertheless pushing on with an increasingly aggressive economic reopening.
UK coronavirus infections and death rates increase as Johnson blames Europe
By Robert Stevens, 30 July 2020
The Tories’ aim is to divert attention from the resurgence of coronavirus infections in the UK due to their own criminal policies.
Israeli bus drivers’ strike over COVID-19 safety concerns
By Jean Shaoul, 30 July 2020
More than a thousand bus drivers have been infected with the disease and hundreds are in quarantine, as the number of cases among Israel’s 9 million population has soared.
As other mid-Michigan corporations carry out layoffs
Dow Chemical announces plan to cut six percent of its global workforce
By Luke Galvin, 30 July 2020
The latest round of layoffs at Dow further exposes the long-going exploitative and controlling nature of the company’s relationship with the Midland, Michigan region.
“Seeing this much devastation so frequently really permeates your whole being”
A Canadian firefighter speaks out on the opioid crisis
By a British Columbia firefighter, 30 July 2020
“There are two crises happening simultaneously right now,” the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis, explains a British Columbia firefighter in a letter to the WSWS.
Australian SAS planted weapons on murdered civilians in Afghanistan
By Taylor Bennington, 30 July 2020
Several soldiers said that the framing of unarmed civilians as Taliban insurgents, with planted radios or weapons, “happened on numerous occasions.”
Report warns theft of international student wages in Australia set to worsen amid COVID-19
By Eric Ludlow, 30 July 2020
Many international students lost their casual jobs as a result of limited social distancing measures introduced in response to the spread of the coronavirus.
Australia: International students voice anger over wage theft, poor working conditions
By our reporters, 30 July 2020
One student said that he lives “hand to mouth. I cannot save anything. I pay so much for the fees at university and there are no jobs.”
29 July 2020
Congress prepares to scrap $600 weekly unemployment payment
By Kevin Reed, 29 July 2020
Major League Baseball confronted with major COVID-19 outbreak
By Alan Gilman, 29 July 2020
Johnson government scientific adviser claims UK schools should never have closed
By Tania Kent, 29 July 2020
British grandmother dies weighing just 42 pounds after her benefits are withdrawn
By Dennis Moore, 29 July 2020
Canada’s Liberal government shaken by WE Charity scandal
By Roger Jordan, 29 July 2020
Six arrested at banned Australian protest against police violence
By Martin Scott, 29 July 2020
Australian treasurer hails Reagan and Thatcher as “inspiration” for government’s economic agenda
By Nick Beams, 28 July 2020
Woolworths locks out workers at Australian warehouse
By Terry Cook, 29 July 2020
New Zealand’s largest retail chain axes 1,080 jobs
By John Braddock, 29 July 2020
New in Portuguese
A luta enfrentada por professores contra a pressão de Trump pela reabertura de escolas
Por Evan Blake, 29 Julho 2020
Após anos de greves e protestos contra cortes de salários e do orçamento da educação, educadores nos EUA estão diante de um conflito direto com a administração Trump por causa de sua pressão pela reabertura de escolas.
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
Los maestros se enfrentan a una batalla según Trump exige reapertura de escuelas
Por Evan Blake, 29 julio 2020
Después de años de huelgas y protestas contra los recortes al financiamiento escolar y sus salarios, los docentes en EE.UU. ahora se enfrentan directamente al Gobierno de Trump por su impulsar para reabrir las escuelas.
Assange aparece en la corte y abogados advierten que el caso podría prolongarse por nueva imputación de EE.UU.
Por Thomas Scripps, 29 julio 2020
En la actualidad, los tribunales británicos siguen con su proceso para extraditar a Assange utilizando una imputación desactualizada.
Las preocupaciones sobre la estabilidad financiera aumentan a medida que el dólar cae y el precio del oro se dispara
Por Nick Beams, 29 julio 2020
Un informe publicado en el New York Times la semana pasada sobre la crisis de marzo —el detonante de la última ronda de intervención de la Fed— señaló que la actividad especulativa de los fondos de cobertura había empujado a "partes críticas de los mercados financieros de EE.UU." hacia un colapso.
En España Podemos aclama el rescate bancario de €750 mil millones de la UE para la crisis del COVID-19
Por Alejandro López, 29 julio 2020
El rescate de la UE que Iglesias llama “una bocanada de aire fresco” es la implementación en toda Europa del modelo de los rescates griegos después del desplome de 2008, para reembolsar billones de euros entregados a los ricos.
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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Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine racket
30 July 2020
Moderna’s exorbitant price point for its taxpayer subsidized vaccine exemplifies the corporate-financial elite’s exploitation of the coronavirus catastrophe for its selfish private gain.
Featured Commentary
Stop Trump’s coup d’état! Mobilize the working class against authoritarianism and dictatorship!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 27 July 2020
Elon Musk discovers Das Kapital
By Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 29 July 2020
Commentary
Corporate press promotes Susan Rice as Biden running mate
By Patrick Martin, 30 July 2020
The former Obama national security advisor is identified with illegal wars, drone missile assassinations and an aggressive posture towards both Russia and China.
Germany: “Voluntary military service in Homeland Security”—an invitation to neo-Nazis
By Peter Schwarz, 30 July 2020
The term “Homeland Security” (“Heimatschutz”), which appears eleven times in a short advertising text on the Ministry of Defence website, is a battle cry of the extreme right.
US adopts policy of regime-change in Beijing
By Peter Symonds, 29 July 2020
McCarthyite witch-hunt over alleged anti-Semitism explodes in British Labour Party
By Chris Marsden, 29 July 2020
What led Argentina’s Left Workers Front (FIT) to vote for banning criticism of Israel under the guise of combatting anti-Semitism?
By Andrea Lobo, 29 July 2020
French state sues mayor for linking police repression to pro-Nazi Vichy regime
By Alex Lantier, 29 July 2020
Russian pseudo-left provides neo-Stalinist justification for vendetta against historian Yuri Dmitriev
By Clara Weiss, 29 July 2020
SEP US presidential election campaign
Louisiana voters: Put the Socialist Equality Party on the ballot!
By the SEP election campaign, 30 July 2020
The SEP needs eight electors in Louisiana—one from each of the state’s six congressional districts plus two at-large—to gain ballot status.
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
- 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
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Germany: Stop right-wing terror! IYSSE student parliament campaign at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
“The Secret Service is the cockpit of right-wing terrorism”
By our reporter, 30 July 2020
Last Friday, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) held their first online campaign rally as part of the student parliament election at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Humboldt University student parliament condemns radical right-wing Professor Baberowski
By Helmut van Heiken, 13 July 2020
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Australia: Committee for Public Education holds online forum on COVID-19 threat
By our reporters, 30 July 2020
“We are either going to have to roll over and accept what is going on, that workers are going to be sacrificed for capitalism, or we are going to have to rebel and have an uprising of some kind.”
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
Arts Review
Shirley: A fictionalized account of writer Shirley Jackson’s life
By David Walsh, 29 July 2020
Even those belonging to certain generations who do not know Jackson’s name will likely recall her disturbing 1948 short story, “The Lottery,” one of the most anthologized pieces of fiction in American history.
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
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
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
Workers Struggles
Brazilian autoworkers strike after Renault fires 747 workers
By Tomas Castanheira, 25 July 2020
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By Robert Stevens, 27 July 2020
Science
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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.
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
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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