27 February 2020
Julian Assange condemns court for preventing him from speaking to lawyers
By Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan, 27 February 2020
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange issued a defiant protest in court yesterday, opposing the flagrant abuse of his legal rights in extradition proceedings brought against him by the United States government.
Persecuted journalist Assange handcuffed, stripped naked on first day of extradition trial
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
Attacks against Sanders intensify ahead of South Carolina primary
By Patrick Martin, 27 February 2020
Sanders’ opponents are warning that he may take an insurmountable lead in delegates in the 14 states voting next Tuesday.
Sanders on “60 Minutes” spells out willingness to use US military power
Democratic Party deploys Russian meddling smear against Sanders
Federal appeals court backs Trump’s attack on sanctuary cities
By Kevin Reed, 27 February 2020
A federal appeals court overturned previous lower court rulings and upheld the Trump administration’s plan to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities.
US Supreme Court grants border police a license to kill
Germany: Nazi terrorist group planned mass murder of Muslims
By Gregor Link, 27 February 2020
German police arrested 12 right-wing extremists who were actively preparing mass murder against refugees, Muslims and political opponents.
Many unanswered questions following attack on carnival procession in Germany
After the massacre in Hanau
Stop the right-wing terror in Germany!
Germany: Tens of thousands take to the streets against right-wing terror
More on the fight against fascism »
After walkout of 200,000 teachers and support staff
Ontario’s education unions “suspend” most job actions
By Roger Jordan, 27 February 2020
Citing various pretexts, three of Ontario’s four teachers unions have called off planned walkouts this week.
Mass workplace shooting at Milwaukee, Wisconsin brewery leaves six dead including gunman
By Jacob Crosse, 27 February 2020
An as-of-yet unnamed 51-year-old Molson Coors Beverage employee opened fire Wednesday morning, killing five coworkers before committing suicide.
Video shows Florida school police officer boasting after arresting six-year-old
By Shuvu Batta, 27 February 2020
Dennis Turner bragged that he had made more than 6,000 arrests and that Kaia Rolle had “broken the record” for the youngest child he had ever detained.
As support for wildcat strike spreads
Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike
By Jonathan Burleigh, 27 February 2020
The UAW declared in an open letter at Berkeley that it would not defend the UCSC strikers or any UC Berkeley students who took sympathy wildcat action.
UC-Santa Cruz grad students continue wildcat strikes
California governor to collaborate with Trump against the homeless
Water shutoffs continue in Detroit in the face of growing opposition
By James Brewer, 27 February 2020
The Democratic administrations of both the city and the state insist that water shutoffs in Detroit remain as a “collection tool of last resort.”
Four months before 2020 contract fight: Detroit schools superintendent tells teachers “no increases”
Tennessee carries out fifth electric chair execution since 2018
By Warren Duzak, 27 February 2020
Nicholas Todd Sutton, convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the stabbing death of a fellow prisoner, had spent his entire adult life in prison.
British Tory government’s general practitioner contracts intensify assault on healthcare
By Ben Trent, 27 February 2020
Over a 12 month period, 55 million patients had to wait longer than a fortnight to see a GP.
New study reveals growing health crisis in Greece
By George Gallanis, 27 February 2020
The health of Greek workers continues to deteriorate after years of austerity measures imposed by Syriza and previous capitalist governments.
In alliance with Workers’ Party, Bolsonaro sends Brazilian army to contain police strike
By Tomas Castanheira, 27 February 2020
Bolsonaro’s use of the army for domestic repression and his granting troops a license to kill with impunity are in continuity with policies pursued by the PT when it was in power.
Brazilian oil workers’ unions shut down strike to “negotiate” with Labor Court
Sri Lanka: New Tamil alliance declares pro-US agenda
By R. Shreeharan, 27 February 2020
Though this alliance proclaims itself an “alternative” to the discredited TNA, all of its constituent parties and groups have closely associated with the TNA in the past.
Sri Lanka: IMF presses new government to implement austerity
Australian bushfire inquiry: Damage-control, cover-up and a push for military powers
By Mike Head, 27 February 2020
The central purpose of the royal commission is to absolve the federal and state governments of responsibility for the disaster, and to introduce unprecedented national emergency powers.
26 February 2020
Wall Street falls as coronavirus spreads
By Nick Beams, 26 February 2020
Fears grow of pandemic as coronavirus takes hold internationally
China auto sales plummet as coronavirus threatens to trigger global downturn
By Marcus Day, 26 February 2020
China expels three Wall Street Journal journalists
By Ben McGrath, 26 February 2020
As Trump embraces Modi, communal violence convulses India’s capital
By Keith Jones, 25 February 2020
Trump to promote anti-China strategic alliance in visit to India
Germany: Left Party embraces Christian Democrats in Thuringia
By Ulrich Rippert, 26 February 2020
Irish pseudo-left groups back Sinn Féin-led coalition
By Steve James, 26 February 2020
Third election in a year deepens Israel’s political crisis
By Jean Shaoul, 26 February 2020
After acquittal in Gezi Park trial, Turkish state re-launches prosecution
By Barış Demir, 26 February 2020
The fix is in: Kenneth Feinberg to oversee payouts to Boeing crash victims
By Bryan Dyne, 26 February 2020
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Россия стремится ослабить трения с Беларусью, вызванные разногласиями по поводу энергоносителей
Андреа Питерс, 27 февраля 2020 г.
Россия предложила Беларуси 300 миллионов долларов, чтобы компенсировать последствия изменений в экспортные пошлины на нефть и сохранить союзнические отношения с Минском.
New in Turkish
Gezi Parkı davasındaki beraat kararının ardından baskı sürüyor
Barış Demir, 27 Şubat 2020
Gezi Parkı davasında söz konusu olan, bir yandan Türk devletinin emperyalist güçlerle ve onların Ortadoğu’daki savaş politikalarıyla gergin olan ilişkilerini idare ederken diğer yandan ülke içindeki toplumsal muhalefeti sindirip itibarsızlaştırmayı amaçlayan siyasi bir kan davasıydı.
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Gewalt in Indien: Trump preist Modi, während Regierungsanhänger Neu-Delhi in Brand setzen
Keith Jones, 27. Februar 2020
Der indische Premierminister Narendra Modi, Trumps „wahrer Freund“, und seine Regierung sind für die hinduistische Gewalt in Neu-Delhi verantwortlich, wo bisher mindestens 20 Menschen gestorben sind.
Die CDU-Führungsdebatte und die anhaltende politische Rechtsentwicklung
Ulrich Rippert, 27. Februar 2020
Die Auseinandersetzung über den CDU-Vorsitz dreht sich um die Frage, wie die rechte Offensive am besten gegen den Widerstand der Bevölkerung durchgesetzt werden kann.
Erster Tag des Auslieferungsprozesses: Assange in Handschellen gelegt und nackt ausgezogen
Thomas Scripps und Laura Tiernan, 27. Februar 2020
Kurz vor Beginn des Prozesses erklärte ein Gerichtsdiener gegenüber WikiLeaks-Chefredakteur Kristinn Hrafnsson, dass er nicht auf der Zuschauertribüne Platz nehmen dürfe.
Sanders erklärt seine Bereitschaft zum Einsatz des US-Militärs
Patrick Martin, 27. Februar 2020
Der Spitzenkandidat der Demokraten bei den Vorwahlen hat erklärt, er würde zur Unterstützung der Nato und anderer militärischer Verbündeter der USA sowie zur Verteidigung von Taiwan gegen China Krieg führen.
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La crainte d’une pandémie grandit à mesure que le coronavirus s’impose au niveau international
Benjamin Mateus, 26 février 2020
Le virus 2019-nCoV, ou COVID-19, s’est révélé être un pathogène beaucoup plus complexe que ce que les virologistes ont connu dans le passé.
Début du procès-spectacle de Julian Assange
James Cogan, 26 février 2020
Le premier jour des audiences au tribunal britannique pour déterminer si l’éditeur de Wikileaks Julian Assange sera extradé aux Etats-Unis n’a laissé aucun doute quant à la parodie de justice en cours qui menace tant la vie d’Assange que les droits démocratiques fondamentaux.
Sanders sur l’émission «60 Minutes» explique la volonté d’utiliser la puissance militaire américaine
Patrick Martin, 26 février 2020
Le candidat présidentiel démocrate en tête a déclaré qu’il ferait la guerre pour soutenir l’OTAN et d’autres alliés militaires des États-Unis, et pour défendre Taïwan contre la Chine.
Les partis allemands de droite et d’extrême droite subissent une défaite aux élections législatives de Hambourg
Peter Schwarz, 26 février 2020
Quatre jours après l’attaque terroriste de droite à Hanau, les démocrates-chrétiens et les démocrates libres, les partis qui ont formé une alliance avec l’Alternative pour l’Allemagne d’extrême droite pour élire le ministre-président en Thuringe, ont perdu un grand nombre de voix à Hambourg.
Alors que Trump fait l’éloge de Modi, la violence communautaire secoue la capitale indienne
Keith Jones, 26 février 2020
Modi est politiquement responsable de la violence communautaire qui a fait au moins dix morts et qui a été fomentée par des éléments de son parti le BJP qui est directement coupable.
L'OCDE sonne l'alarme sur le surendettement des entreprises
Nick Beams, 26 février 2020
L'OCDE a souligné une «accumulation sans précédent de la dette obligataire des entreprises» depuis la crise financière de 2008, avec une augmentation de 2,1 billions de dollars pour la seule année 2019.
New in Spanish
Inicia la farsa judicial contra Julian Assange
Por James Cogan, 26 febrero 2020
El primer día de la audiencia en las cortes británicas ocurrió ayer para determinar si el editor de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, será extraditado a EE. UU., y no dejó dudas de que está en marcha una farsa legal que atenta contra la vida de Assange y los derechos democráticos fundamentales.
Sanders en el programa de TV "60 minutos" explica la voluntad de usar el poder militar de los EE. UU.
Por Patrick Martin, 26 febrero 2020
El favorito presidencial demócrata dijo que iría a la guerra en apoyo de la OTAN y otros aliados militares estadounidenses, y para defender Taiwán contra China.
Los partidos alemanes de derecha y de extrema derecha sufren la derrota en las elecciones estatales de Hamburgo
Por Peter Schwarz, 26 febrero 2020
Cuatro días después del ataque terrorista de derecha en Hanau, los democristianos y los demócratas libres, los partidos que formaron una alianza con la Alternativa para Alemania de extrema derecha eligiera al ministro presidente en Turingia, perdieron un gran número de votos en Hamburgo.
Dos adolescentes empobrecidos mueren trabajando en una mina peruana ilegal
Por Cesar Uco, 26 febrero 2020
La muerte de los hermanos de intoxicación por gas de 14 y 17 años en la mina es parte de un peaje a nivel nacional por la explotación de trabajadores en minas ilegales e inseguras.
"Las victorias no se ganan a través de la cobardía política, sino en la lucha”
Por Chris Marsden, 26 febrero 2020
Este discurso fue pronunciado por el Secretario Nacional del Partido Socialista de la Igualdad Chris Marsden en una manifestación pública celebrada en Londres el domingo 23 de febrero.
Proceso de extradición de Assange se abre en Londres
Por Thomas Scripps y Laura Tiernan, 26 febrero 2020
En medio de la creciente indignación popular por el tramitar rápidamente a Assange de una prisión estadounidense, los abogados del Departamento de Justicia trataron de replantear los cargos en su contra.
New in French
L'équipe de défense d'Assange: « L'empire appelle ça de l'espionnage. Nous appelons ça du journalisme »
Thomas Scripps, 20 février 2020
Une conférence de presse a été tenue devant une salle comble par le rédacteur en chef de WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, l'avocate Jennifer Robinson et les députés australiens Andrew Wilkie et George Christensen.
Washington soutient la Turquie alors que les affrontements frontaliers s'intensifient avec la Syrie et la Russie
Ulaş Ateşci, 20 février 2020
Washington encourage les opérations de l’armée turque en Syrie, au risque d’un affrontement direct entre l’OTAN et les principaux alliés du gouvernement syrien, la Russie et l’Iran.
Les enseignants de l'Ontario et les travailleurs de la raffinerie de Regina en lock-out doivent mener une lutte politique ouvrière
Roger Jordan et Keith Jones, 20 février 2020
Pour l'emporter dans la lutte pour défendre leurs emplois, leurs salaires et leurs droits sociaux, les travailleurs doivent reconnaître qu'ils sont confrontés non seulement à un employeur particulièrement impitoyable ou à un gouvernement de droite, mais aussi à un assaut de guerre de classe et à une lutte politique.
La montée de Sanders dans les sondages déclenche de nouvelles provocations des médias et de l’establishment démocrate
Barry Grey, 20 février 2020
L’inquiétude grandit dans l’appareil du parti et dans une grande partie de l’élite patronale que des victoires de Sanders au Nevada et en Caroline du Sud pourrait rendre sa nomination irréversible.
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Skuerettssaken mot Julian Assange begynner
James Cogan, 26. februar 2020
Mandagen, som var den første dagen av den britiske rettshøringen for å avgjøre om WikiLeaks-utgiver Julian Assange blir utlevert til USA, etterlot ingen tvil om at det som foregår er en juridisk perversjon som truer både Assanges liv og grunnleggende demokratiske rettigheter.
David North og Joseph Kishore taler til et internasjonalt publikum på et rådhusmøte i anledning 2020-valgkampanjen til Socialist Equality Party
Soocialist Equality Party (US), 26. februar 2020
Se opptaket av det vellykkede rådhusmøtet for valgkampanjen, som ble live-streamet til arbeidere og supportere over hele verden.
Utleveringsrettssaken mot Assange åpnet i London
Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan, 26. februar 2020
Samtidig med et voksende folkelig raseri over styringen av Assange over til et amerikansk fengsel, prøvde advokater for justisdepartementet (DoJ) å omforme anklagene mot ham.
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O espectro dos anos 1930
Soe o alarme! A conspiração política e o ressurgimento do fascismo na Alemanha
David North e Johannes Stern, 17 Fevereiro 2020
A decisão da semana passada da União Democrata Cristã, no estado da Turíngia, de eleger um governador junto com o partido de extrema direita Alternativa para a Alemanha expõe o estado imundo da política alemã.
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The coronavirus pandemic and the need for global socialized medicine
27 February 2020
A planned, rational deployment of worldwide medical and industrial resources is essential to keep the disease from potentially claiming millions of lives.
Featured Commentary
The New York Times gloats over the destruction of “the Monster” Weinstein
By Eric London, 26 February 2020
Weinstein’s conviction has established the “breakthrough” principle that a criminal conviction can be secured without reliable and verifiable evidence. The working class and poor will suffer the consequences.
New York Times posts anti-Semitic caricature of Harvey Weinstein
By David North and Andre Damon, 26 February 2020
The illustration, which has multiple characteristics associated with anti-Semitic depictions of Jewish people by the Nazis, strikingly resembles an image published in October 1936 in the Nazi propaganda magazine Der Stürmer.
FBI and Department of Justice reject Freedom of Information Act document request by SEP National Chairman David North
By WSWS Editorial Board, 20 February 2020
The US government declares that the Socialist Equality Party and World Socialist Web Site chairman’s request for documents obtained through surveillance of his political activities threatens “national security and foreign intelligence.”
Why did Princeton University provide funding for the German right-wing extremist Jörg Baberowski?
By David North, 22 February 2020
SEP 2020 Election Meeting
David North and Joseph Kishore address international online audience in Socialist Equality Party town hall election meeting
By Socialist Equality Party (US), 25 February 2020
Watch the recording of the successful campaign kick-off town hall meeting streamed to workers and supporters around the world.
Free Assange and Manning
“The fight for Assange’s freedom requires the political mobilisation of the working class”
By Oscar Grenfell, 27 February 2020
This speech was delivered by Oscar Grenfell, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) to a public rally in defence of Julian Assange, held in London on Sunday.
Free Assange and Manning! SEP and IYSSE to hold demonstration in Colombo
27 February 2020
Assange and Manning are being persecuted because they dared to expose US war crimes and government corruption.
Montreal: Demonstration outside US consulate demands freedom for Julian Assange
By our reporters, 27 February 2020
Speakers denounced the persecution of Assange as a major threat to democratic rights, exposed the complicity of Canada’s ruling elite and stressed the importance of a global mobilization of the working class to secure his freedom.
SEP US presidential candidate Joseph Kishore: “Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!”
By Joseph Kishore - Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate, 26 February 2020
The Socialist Equality Party opposes Assange’s extradition to the United States. We demand immediate freedom for Assange and for whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
The show trial of Julian Assange begins
By James Cogan, 25 February 2020
Assange extradition trial opens in London
Hundreds protest outside Woolwich Crown Court to demand Assange’s freedom
SEG (New Zealand) rally in Wellington demands freedom for Assange and Manning
By our reporters, 26 February 2020
“Victories are not won through political cowardice, but in struggle”
By Chris Marsden, 25 February 2020
Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds London rally in defence of Assange and Manning
Rally and march in Melbourne, Australia demands freedom for Julian Assange
By Patrick O’Connor, 25 February 2020
“The release of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is up to us”
Australian and New Zealand demonstrations demand freedom for WikiLeaks founder and US whistleblower
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
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
Overthrown in 2011 by a mass revolt of the Egyptian people, he died with his criminal legacy secured by a military regime that is even more repressive than the one he headed.
Commentary
New Zealand: Pseudo-left ISO promotes illusions in right-wing Labour-led government
By Tom Peters, 27 February 2020
Despite two-and-a-half years of worsening social inequality, stronger police-state measures, and deepening ties with US imperialism, the pseudo-left ISO claims that the Labour Party-led government can change course and “help the working class.”
Trump hails Modi as his supporters engulf Delhi in communal violence
By Keith Jones, 26 February 2020
Claire Mercer speaks on the campaign to abolish UK smart motorways—Part 1
By Robert Stevens, 19 February 2020
Claire Mercer speaks on the campaign to abolish UK smart motorways—Part 2
“The more you find out, the more you discover that people have been dying on these things for years and years.”
The decade of socialist revolution begins
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 3 January 2020
#MeToo-style attack on star of West Side Story revival fizzles on Broadway
By Fred Mazelis, 25 February 2020
The producers and the colleagues of Amar Ramasar are standing by the latest target #MeToo hysteria.
Arts Review
National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood—How the US military and CIA go about their propaganda operations
By Charles Bogle, 27 February 2020
The book, by Matthew Alford and Tom Secker, presents extensive evidence that US government departments and agencies use multiple means to manipulate content and even block production of Hollywood films.
Michael Winterbottom’s Greed: A searing indictment of the super-rich
By Thomas Scripps, 26 February 2020
Echo in the Canyon: The “California sound” of the mid-1960s
By Joanne Laurier, 24 February 2020
“One must not forget”: A musical tribute in Berlin to Jewish members of the Deutsche Oper orchestra persecuted by the Nazis
By Verena Nees, 21 February 2020
Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture, directed by Stephen Bennett
By Jean Shaoul, 20 February 2020
Science
2020 began with the hottest January in recorded history
By Philip Guelpa, 26 February 2020
Election 2020
SEP (US) announces speaking tour featuring presidential candidate Joseph Kishore
Socialism and the 2020 elections: the international class struggle and the strategy of world socialist revolution
Mobilize the working class to defend the grad students at University of California-Santa Cruz
By Norissa Santa Cruz—SEP vice presidential candidate, 20 February 2020
Stop all anti-immigrant raids! Abolish ICE and CBP! For a socialist policy of open borders!
By Norissa Santa Cruz – Socialist Equality Party candidate for US vice president, 17 February 2020
Socialist Equality Party to run Joseph Kishore for president, Norissa Santa Cruz for vice president in 2020 US elections
The alternative confronting the working class is clear: capitalist barbarism or international socialism. The Socialist Equality Party, in political solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International, will use this campaign to advance the struggle of the working class against capitalism. Sign up today to get involved!
Workers Struggles
Mexican media workers strike, Montreal stevedores authorize strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 February 2020
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Demonstrations throughout California in support of wildcat strike by UC-Santa Cruz graduate teaching assistants
By Anthony del Olmo, 22 February 2020
UC Santa Cruz graduate students defy administration ultimatum, vote to continue strike
By Our reporters, 22 February 2020
Support for UC Santa Cruz strike spreads to other campuses, faculty
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This week in history: February 24-30
25 years ago: Professor Vadim Rogovin launches US lecture tour, “Was there an alternative to Stalinism in the USSR?”
On February 27, 1995, Professor Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin, a leading Marxist historian in the former Soviet Union, began a US tour with a lecture delivered at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
50 years ago: Rightist leads in 1970 Guatemalan general election
On March 1, 1970 Guatemalans voted in the general elections to select a president and representatives to Congress. No candidate received over 50 percent of the vote.
75 years ago: Soviet Red Army secures a series of victories over the Nazis
This week in February 1945, the Soviet Union’s Red Army won a series of significant victories over German troops occupying Eastern Europe.
100 years ago: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiers in Berlin
On February 26, 1920, the silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premiered in front of a Berlin audience at the Marmorhaus theatre.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
President of Berlin’s Humboldt University defends Professor Jörg Baberowski’s physical assault on left-wing student
By Christoph Vandreier, 15 February 2020
Right-wing extremist Professor Jörg Baberowski physically assaults socialist student
IYSSE spokesperson submits disciplinary complaint against right-wing extremist professor at Humboldt University in Berlin
The New York Times' 1619 Project
Tom Mackaman interviewed on 1619 Project by history podcast
18 February 2020
A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
By David North and Tom Mackaman, 31 January 2020
The disrespect expressed by editor Alex Lichtenstein toward leading historians reveals the extent to which racialist mythology, which has provided the “theoretical” foundation of middle-class identity politics, has been accepted, and even embraced, by a substantial section of the academic community as a legitimate basis for the teaching of American history.
History
YIVO Institute for Jewish research in New York fires all its librarians
By Clara Weiss, 17 February 2020
An interview with Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano
By the editorial board, 27 January 2020
Seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz
Book Review
An examination of the anti-immigrant campaign in early 20th century America
The Guarded Gate, by Daniel Okrent (Scribner, 2019)
By Fred Mazelis, 3 February 2020
A century after the imposition of racist immigration quotas in the US, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and racism are once again on the rise in the US and around the world.
The New York Times' 1619 Project
Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for social equality
By Tom Mackaman and Niles Niemuth, 23 January 2020
The New York Times’ “1619 Project”
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shell Oil and mass killings in Africa
By Trévon Austin and Bill Van Auken, 18 December 2019
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
“The saddest part of this is that the response of the Times is simply to defend their project”
An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Oxford historian Richard Carwardine on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian Dolores Janiewski on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Historian Gordon Wood responds to the New York Times’ defense of the 1619 Project
- A historian’s critique of the 1619 Project
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
- An interview with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- The “Irrepressible Conflict:” Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution
- Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
- An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
1619 Project director speaks at New York University
Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
By Eric London and David North, 26 November 2019
More on the New York Times’ 1619 Project »
Mehring Books
New pamphlet from Mehring Books on the 1619 Project
24 January 2020
The response of David North and Eric London to the New York Times’ rebuff of five eminent historians’ objections to the 1619 Project is now available as an illustrated pamphlet.
Vadim Rogovin’s Bolsheviks against Stalinism 1928–1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
A magnificent account of Stalin’s opponents in the USSR
By Andrea Peters, 21 December 2019
Stalin’s rise was neither foreordained nor a natural outgrowth of the October Revolution. The Great Russian chauvinist and bureaucrat secured power in ferocious conflict with the proletariat, peasantry and cadre of the revolutionary socialist movement.
Socialist Equality Party
Video: 70 years after the Chinese Revolution—How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
31 October 2019
Introduction to the 1955 SWP resolution “The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath”
From the archives
SWP resolution: The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath
Introduction to the 1951 report to the Fourth International by Chinese Trotskyist Peng Shuzhi
From the archives
The Causes of the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party over Chiang Kai-Shek, and the CCP’s Perspectives
History of the ICFI
Drawing the lessons of the ICFI split—International Strategy and National Tactics: The change in the ICFI’s approach to national liberation movements
By Deepal Jayasekera, 30 September 2019
This lecture was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) Summer School on July 25, 2019 by Deepal Jayasekera, Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka
Introduction to the Turkish language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky’s four fateful years in Prinkipo: 1929-1933
By David North, 23 September 2019
The ICFI and the Crisis of Stalinism
The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
The International Committee’s response to the “End of History”: The March 1992 Plenum of the ICFI
The Dissolution of the USSR and the Unipolar Moment of US Imperialism
China: Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International
The 2020 US Elections
Joe Biden: A familiar face, a deeply reactionary record
By Patrick Martin, 23 September 2019
Amy Klobuchar: The favorite Democrat of Senate Republicans
By George Gallanis, 19 August 2019
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: #MeToo, McCarthyism and machine politics
- Beto O’Rourke: The incredible shrinking empty suit
- Kamala Harris: Law-and-order with a dose of identity politics
- Pete Buttigieg: The made-to-order political “outsider”
- Elizabeth Warren espouses economic nationalist policies aligned with Donald Trump
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