10 July 2020
Joblessness soars as COVID-19 pandemic accelerates across US
By Bryan Dyne, 10 July 2020
Another 1.3 million people filed for unemployment for the first time last week as 18.1 million placed continuing claims.
Trump’s back-to-work diktat threatens teachers’ lives
Spain imposes regional lockdowns amid resurgence of COVID-19
By Alice Summers, 10 July 2020
After ending the national lockdown, the Podemos-PSOE government is rejecting a coordinated response, leaving regional authorities with managing outbreaks.
“This is going to kill us—not coronavirus, but how broken the health care system is”
An Illinois nurse speaks out against corporate control of health care systems
By Jessica Goldstein, 10 July 2020
The nurse spoke to the WSWS after being furloughed for speaking out against a hospital’s corporate policies that discriminated against low-income patients during the pandemic.
Bath Iron Works expands strikebreaking operation as Maine shipyard walkout continues
By Shannon Jones, 10 July 2020
Management has put out a call for hundreds of additional scab replacements as the walkout by 4,300 shipbuilders is into its third week.
Supreme Court rules against Trump on releasing tax returns, but allows delay
By John Burton, 10 July 2020
While Trump failed in his effort to assert absolute presidential immunity, the court rulings will push back any release of his financial documents until after the election.
Fiat Chrysler ends third shift at Windsor, Ontario plant eliminating 1,375 jobs
By Carl Bronski, 10 July 2020
Talking like a corporate executive, Unifor Local 444 President Dave Cassidy said the cuts were “strictly a business decision.”
Neyveli Thermal plant explosion in southern India kills 13 workers
By Arun Kumar, 10 July 2020
The explosion at the government-owned mine and power plant is a result of the corporation’s refusal to replace outdated and dangerous facilities and equipment.
Arrested Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell being monitored by federal officials over suicide concerns
By Kevin Reed, 10 July 2020
Anonymous federal officials say they fear Maxwell will take her own life while being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on charges of aiding Jeffrey Epstein in his sex ring and abuse of teenage girls in the 1990s.
“A large-scale struggle and strong opposition is needed”
CUNY students and faculty call for resistance to layoffs and cuts
By Elliott Murtagh, 10 July 2020
The WSWS spoke to students and faculty at the City University of New York about recent austerity measures.
Victoria records highest number of cases since pandemic began, as Australian coronavirus surge intensifies
By Oscar Grenfell, 10 July 2020
Victoria's chief medical officer told the press: “We will see an increase in hospitalised and ICU cases and in deaths in the coming days because of the spike that we have seen.”
“I’ve been made to feel like a criminal, but I haven’t done anything wrong”
Melbourne public housing resident denounces Australian police lockdown
By Eric Ludlow, 9 July 2020
Kat, a working-class mother, spoke with the WSWS about the conditions in the locked-down public housing towers, home to some of the most oppressed sections of the working class.
Chancellor Sunak announces end of UK jobs furlough and rolls out cheap labour scheme
By Robert Stevens, 10 July 2020
Sunak’s declaration that “we can’t protect every job” is the understatement of the century. Companies are announcing thousands of redundancies every day amid warnings of unemployment reaching 5 million by next year.
French-backed security forces in the Sahel guilty of mass extrajudicial executions
By Will Morrow, 10 July 2020
The report exposes the Franco-German-led war as a neo-colonial intervention to subjugate the resource-rich and geo-strategically critical region and its population.
Mexican labor lawyer released under punitive deal after arbitrary imprisonment
By Andrea Lobo, 10 July 2020
The imprisonment of Susana Prieto Terrazas exposed all factions of the ruling elite, from the ostensibly “left” López Obrador administration to the National Action Party (PAN) state governments, and their lurch toward authoritarian forms of rule.
NTEU steps up collaboration with Australian university managements amid job cuts “tsunami”
By Mike Head, 10 July 2020
The union is pushing ahead with deals to impose unprecedented sacrifices on university workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
9 July 2020
Mr. López Obrador goes to Washington
Mexican president kowtows to his “friend” Donald Trump
By Eric London, 9 July 2020
United Airlines threatens to axe 36,000 jobs
By Steve Filips, 9 July 2020
As hundreds of scientists warn WHO of potential airborne spread
Global COVID-19 pandemic takes a new upward leap
By Benjamin Mateus, 9 July 2020
As Trump demands full reopening of schools
US coronavirus case count soars past 3 million
Florida orders schools to reopen as COVID-19 cases surge
Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer pushes unsafe reopening of Michigan schools
Surge in infections gives India third highest COVID-19 cases worldwide
By Wasantha Rupasinghe, 9 July 2020
US Supreme Court decisions attack separation of church and state and workers’ rights
By Ed Hightower, 9 July 2020
“A rank-and-file safety committee is exactly what we need”
Toledo Jeep workers demand action after dozens test positive for COVID-19
By Jerry White, 9 July 2020
“How many of us have to die to build their Jeep Cherokees?”
Detroit FCA workers call on workers at GM, Ford and other companies to set up rank-and-file safety committees
As it charts depths of economic crisis
OECD pushes for cuts in assistance for jobless
By Nick Beams, 9 July 2020
Wall Street, Republicans and militarists back Biden campaign
By Patrick Martin, 9 July 2020
Delta Airlines workers expose unsafe working conditions
By Tim Rivers, 9 July 2020
Students oppose Trump’s threat to deport international students
By our reporters, 9 July 2020
Rutgers University announces hundreds of layoffs, intends to charge students full tuition in the fall
By Shuvu Batta, 9 July 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, police shoot man dead in his car, sparking protests
By Chase Lawrence, 9 July 2020
Germany: Automaker Opel cuts company pensions
By Marianne Arens, 9 July 2020
After police killing of Badreddin Abadlla Adam
More evidence of ill-treatment of asylum seekers in Glasgow hotels
By Steve James, 9 July 2020
Riots in Ethiopia over assassination of Oromi singer/activist Hachalu Hundessa
By Jean Shaoul, 9 July 2020
Melbourne public housing residents condemn Australian police lockdown
By Martin Scott and Oscar Grenfell, 9 July 2020
Australia: Woolworths to slash more than 1,300 warehousing jobs
By Patrick Davies, 9 July 2020
What is behind the New Zealand health minister’s resignation?
By Tom Peters, 9 July 2020
New in Russian
«Нью-Йорк Таймс» фабрикует легенду о российских убийствах
Патрик Мартин, 6 июля 2020 г.
Поток исступленных обвинений Вашингтона против России был спровоцирован лживой пропагандистской кампанией, инициированной газетой «Нью-Йорк Таймс».
Голосование по конституционным поправкам в
России:
Кремль резко усиливает власть президента
Владимир Волков и Клара Вайс, 6 июля 2020 г.
1 июля завершилось семидневное голосование по конституционным поправкам, впервые предложенным президентом России Владимиром Путиным в январе этого года.
Пандемия неравенства: Как американский капитализм ставит прибыли выше жизней
Андре Деймон, 6 июля 2020 г.
Возрождение COVID-19 является результатом политики, проводимой администрацией Трампа, но поддерживаемой всем политическим и медийным истеблишментом. Она состоит в подчинении потребностей общества интересам финансовой олигархии.
New in Spanish
Se acelera la campaña de guerra de EE.UU. contra China
Por Peter Symonds, 9 julio 2020
Enfrentándose a una crisis en casa según crece la oposición de los trabajadores a la temeraria campaña de regreso al trabajo, Trump está buscando desviar estas inmensas tensiones sociales hacia el exterior contra un enemigo externo.
Mientras Trump exige la reapertura total de las escuelas
El número de casos de coronavirus en EE.UU. se eleva a más de 3 millones
Por Bryan Dyne, 9 julio 2020
Las ciudades de los Estados Unidos se ven obligadas a racionar las pruebas de coronavirus y corren el riesgo de verse obligadas a racionar el tratamiento.
El secretario de Trabajo de Estados Unidos dice que la “reapertura” continuará ante una pandemia creciente
Por Kevin Reed, 9 julio 2020
El secretario de Trabajo Eugene Scalia declaró que "Nuestros lugares de trabajo pueden ser muy seguros", incluso cuando las hospitalizaciones batieron récords en los estados de todo el país.
Trabajadores migrantes en Canadá protestan por la falta de protección de COVID-19
Por Matthew Richter y Roger Jordan, 9 julio 2020
Cientos de trabajadores migrantes y sus partidarios se unieron a las protestas del sábado contra las atroces condiciones de trabajo y de vida, condiciones sancionadas desde hace mucho tiempo por el gobierno y que la pandemia ha empeorado aún más.
Airbus recorta 15,000 empleos
La crisis del coronavirus desencadena despidos masivos y recortes salariales en toda Europa
Por Shannon Jones, 9 julio 2020
El segundo discurso inaugural de Lincoln es considerado, junto con el de Gettysburg, uno de los más importantes de la historia de los Estados Unidos.
New in Portuguese
Bolsonaro, o presidente fascistóide do Brasil, testa positivo para coronavírus
Por Tomas Castanheira, 9 Julho 2020
Em meio à catastrófica pandemia, Bolsonaro reafirma sua mensagem criminosa: "A vida continua, o Brasil tem que produzir, tem que botar a economia para rodar".
Peru suspende restrições de quarentena quando infecções por coronavírus passam marca de 300.000
Por Cesar Uco, 9 Julho 2020
"Fase três" alinha o governo e todos partidos políticos com os interesses das grandes empresas e contra os trabalhadores.
New in Turkish
Dünya tarihindeki iki Amerikan Devrimi
David North, 6 Temmuz 2020
4 Temmuz, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ni kuran Bağımsızlık Bildirgesi’nin ilan edilmesinin 244. yıldönümü.
Karl Marx’tan 4 Temmuz’a
James P. Cannon, 6 Temmuz 2020
James P. Cannon’ın 16 Temmuz 1951’de Militant gazetesinde yayımlanan ilk Amerikan Devrimi üzerine yazısını okurlarımızın dikkatine sunuyoruz.
New in French
Le diktat de retour au travail de Trump menace la vie des enseignants
Evan Blake, 10 juillet 2020
Mercredi, le président américain, Donald Trump, a exigé la réouverture des écoles américaines à l’automne, dans un contexte de pandémie qui menace la vie de milliers d’enseignants.
M. López Obrador se rend à Washington
Le président mexicain se prosterne devant son «ami» Donald Trump
Eric London, 10 juillet 2020
La présence d’Obrador aux côtés de Trump mercredi restera dans l’histoire comme l’une des visites les plus humiliantes et les plus serviles de tous les chefs d’État latino-américain à Washington.
Émeutes en Éthiopie suite à l'assassinat du chanteur et activiste oromo Hachalu Hundessa
Jean Shaoul, 10 juillet 2020
À Addis-Abeba, au moins 10 personnes ont été tuées lors d’affrontements avec la police et beaucoup d’autres ont été blessées. D’autres affrontements ont eu lieu partout en Oromia, la plus grande des neuf régions ethniques éthiopiennes.
New in German
Die Stellung der beiden amerikanischen Revolutionen in der Weltgeschichte
David North, 6. Juli 2020
Am 4. Juli 1776 wurden die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika gegründet. Die welthistorische Bedeutung der Unabhängigkeitserklärung ergibt sich nicht nur aus ihren unmittelbaren politischen Folgen, sondern mehr noch aus ihren Grundsätzen.
Trotz drohender weiterer Ausbreitung der
Corona-Pandemie:
Trump setzt Auftritt am Mount Rushmore
durch
Barry Grey, 6. Juli 2020
In seiner faschistischen Tirade nutzte Trump die Angriffe auf Denkmäler der amerikanischen Revolutionsführer, um Jugendliche, die gegen Polizeimorde demonstrieren, als „linksradikale Faschisten“ zu brandmarken. Er lobte Polizisten und rechte Milizen und kündigte ein noch härteres Durchgreifen an.
Tönnies-Mitarbeiterin wegen
kritischem Video gekündigt
Zahl der
Corona-Infektionen in Deutschland steigt wieder an
Marianne Arens, 6. Juli 2020
Der Masseninfektion in der nordrhein-westfälischen Fleischfabrik Tönnies, wo sich über 1500 Arbeiter mit Covid-19 ansteckten, ist zum Symbol für die Rücksichtslosigkeit geworden, mit der Unternehmer und Politiker die Arbeiterklasse der Pandemiegefahr aussetzen.
Frankreich: Macron ernennt neuen Premierminister
Alex Lantier, 6. Juli 2020
Jean Castex soll gemeinsam mit den Gewerkschaften die drakonischen Austeritätsmaßnahmen koordinieren, die Macron und die Banken trotz Corona-Pandemie durchsetzen wollen.
New in Mandarin
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 Norwegian
Etabler grunnplankomitéer på fabrikker og arbeidsplasser for å forhindre overføring av Covid-19-virus og redde liv!
Uttalelse fra Socialist Equality Party (USA), 22. mai 2020
Regjeringen og selskapene krever gjenopptakelse av arbeid midt under en pandemi, som hver uke krever flere tusen liv. Deres pådriv for profitter prioriterer ikke arbeideres og deres familiers helse og sikkerhet.
Trump-administrasjonen gjør Taiwan til sin seneste front i antiKina-kampanjen
Peter Symonds, 22. mai 2020
USA har provoserende hyllet gjenvalget av den taiwanske presidenten Tsai Ing-wen og presset på for Taiwans sak under det årlige ministermøtet for Verdens helseorganisasjon (WHO).
USA forbereder antiRussland-krigsspill midt under pandemien
Andrea Peters, 22. mai 2020
Om litt mer enn to uker vil 6 000 amerikanske og polske tropper simulere bakke og luftbårne angrep ca. 56 kilometer fra det russiske territoriet Kaliningrad.
Covid-19-pandemien avslører Frankrikes Nytt Antikapitalistisk Parti
Alex Lantier, 22. mai 2020
Pandemien setter arbeidere i alle land opp i en uforsonlig konflikt med de pro-imperialistiske middelklassepartiene som styringsklassen lenge har fremstilt som venstresiden.
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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Michigan court rules that SEP must gather signatures despite pandemic
10 July 2020
The district court’s decision is not a serious legal ruling grounded in jurisprudence or reasoned analysis. It is a political decision aimed at barring socialists from the ballot.
Featured commentary
The collapse of the New York Times’ “Russian bounties” campaign
By Patrick Martin, 10 July 2020
Less than two weeks after it kicked off a media frenzy, the Times published an editorial effectively conceding that there was no factual basis for its reporting that Russian military intelligence had paid bounties to Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers.
Massive neo-Nazi penetration of German military and police
By Jordan Shilton, 10 July 2020
There are growing fears in the German government of preparations for a right-wing putsch.
The campaign to smear novelist Charles Dickens as a racist
By David Walsh, 10 July 2020
Dickens was one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century and a world-historical literary and cultural figure. In the English language, he is perhaps second only to William Shakespeare in enduring significance and popularity.
The School That Tried to End Racism: A cruel experiment in furtherance of identity politics
By Margot Miller, 10 July 2020
Behind the experiment carried out at Glenthorne High School are reactionary, right-wing politics based on the conception that identity, especially race, is the main driver in society.
SEP US presidential election campaign
Federal judge backs Democrats, rules against SEP challenge to Michigan ballot access requirements during pandemic
By Kevin Reed, 9 July 2020
- SEP presidential candidates Kishore and Santa Cruz file federal lawsuit challenging ballot access restrictions in California
- Workers, young people denounce undemocratic efforts to keep Socialist Equality Party off the ballot in Michigan
- Michigan Governor Whitmer argues SEP candidates should have petitioned for ballot status during the peak of the pandemic
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.
Hands off international students! Oppose ICE deportation of foreign college students!
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 8 July 2020
Commentary
US war drive against China accelerates
By Peter Symonds, 8 July 2020
Expand autoworkers’ struggle to stop the coronavirus and save lives! Form rank-and-file safety committees!
By the Jefferson North Rank-and-File Safety Committee, 27 June 2020
Hands off Fiat Chrysler workers fighting the COVID-19 disease!
By the Jefferson North and Sterling Heights Rank-and-File Safety Committees, 1 July 2020
For international working class action against the COVID-19 pandemic!
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International, 23 June 2020
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 Legacy of the American Revolution and Civil War
An interview with Ed Achorn, author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
By Shannon Jones, 10 July 2020
In a recent conversation with the WSWS, Achorn discussed his book on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address and weighed in on efforts to slander the president who won the Civil War and destroyed slavery in the United States.
Democrats’ denunciation of America’s revolutionary heritage provides an opening for Trump
By Niles Niemuth, 7 July 2020
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By David Walsh, 6 July 2020
The two American Revolutions in world history
By David North, 4 July 2020
Racial-communalist politics and the second assassination of Abraham Lincoln
By Niles Niemuth and David North, 25 June 2020
New York Times’ Charles Blow demands the removal of monuments to Washington and other “amoral monsters”
By Niles Niemuth, 1 July 2020
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British government’s token arts rescue package: A “back-to-work” agenda amid an ongoing catastrophe
By Paul Bond, 9 July 2020
The limited financial assistance provided is based on the Johnson government’s claim that the pandemic is on the wane and that theatre, dance and music venues will soon be able to get back to relying on revenue from the paying public.
Ennio Morricone, among the greatest composers for the cinema, is dead at 91
By Marc Wells, 8 July 2020
An appreciation of British painter Leon Kossoff (1926-2019)
By Clare Hurley, 7 July 2020
Workers Struggles
Iranian sugar plant strike enters fourth week; Israeli social workers on indefinite strike; indefinite walkout by Nigerian doctors
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
10 July 2020
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
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
Vote SEP in the Sri Lankan general election
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6 July 2020
Sri Lankan Trotskyists hold first online election rally
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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
History
“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
The Soviet literacy campaign remains the largest and most successful in world history.
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
This week in history: July 6-12
25 years ago: Thousands killed at Srebrenica massacre
On July 11, 1995, the Bosnian Serb takeover of the besieged town of Srebrenica began, leading to a mass killing of Bosnian Muslims that lasted the entire week.
50 years ago: Police shoot 46 in Asbury Park riot
On July 7, 1970, police shot at demonstrators protesting against inequality and unemployment in the beach resort city of Asbury Park, New Jersey, wounding as many as 46.
75 years ago: Soviet Union hands West Berlin to Britain and the US
On July 12, 1945, British and US troops took control of West Berlin, after it was formally relinquished by the Soviet Union the day before.
100 years ago: Martial law in Beijing
On July 10, 1920, authorities under Duan Qirui, leader of the Anhui Clique of warlords, declared martial law in Beijing as forces from the Zhili Clique, led by Cao Kun, converged on the city.
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.
Free Julian Assange
US indictment of Assange based on testimony of FBI assets, convicted child molester
By Oscar Grenfell, 25 June 2020
Julian Assange’s fiancé calls on the Australian government to secure his freedom
By Oscar Grenfell, 22 June 2020
Journalists expose CIA spying on Assange and demand his freedom
By Oscar Grenfell, 15 June 2020
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
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
Obituary
Former UAW President Owen Bieber dead at 90
By Jerry White, 27 February 2020
From 1983 to 1995, Bieber presided over the final demise of the UAW as an organization that conducted a limited defense of the day-to-day interests of autoworkers and its transformation into what it is today: a direct arm of corporate management.
Hosni Mubarak, US-backed dictator of Egypt for 30 years, dead at 91
By Bill Van Auken, 26 February 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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