As millions march in Tehran, US steps up military build-up against Iran
By Patrick Martin, 7 January 2020
As millions in Iran mourn the murder of General Qassem Suleimani, President Trump is assembling the forces for much greater crimes.
The murder of Qassem Suleimani and assassination as state policy
US assassinates top Iranian general as 4,000 troops readied for Iraq intervention
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European governments defend US state terrorism following assassination of Iranian General Suleimani
By Peter Schwarz, 7 January 2020
While the European governments have called for de-escalation, they have refused to condemn as a war crime the targeted killing of a high-ranking representative of a sovereign country.
US assassination of Suleimani staggers Turkish government
By Ulas Atesci, 7 January 2020
The Turkish government took 10 hours to react to this illegal act of war carried out by its decades-long NATO ally.
Wider war over Libya looms as France, Egypt denounce Turkish intervention
Iranian-Americans detained at US-Canada border in wake of Suleimani assassination
By Benjamin Mateus, 7 January 2020
More than 60 US citizens were held at a border crossing in Washington state Saturday, subject to illegal detention and interrogation before being allowed to return to their own country.
Trump boasts of Democrats’ backing for his assault on immigrants
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Tens of millions to join all-India one-day strike on Wednesday
By Keith Jones, 7 January 2020
The Modi government faces mass opposition to its socially incendiary big business agenda and promotion of Hindu supremacist reaction.
CBS’ “60 Minutes” program raises questions on death of Jeffrey Epstein
By Kevin Reed, 7 January 2020
A “60 Minutes” segment reveals new evidence about the death of the multi-millionaire sex offender consistent with suspicions that he was murdered and did not commit suicide.
Maduro government ousts Guaidó as speaker of the Venezuelan National Assembly
By Andrea Lobo, 7 January 2020
The move to sideline the opposition is largely based on calculations that it can exploit the war crisis in the Middle East and growing popular opposition to the lawlessness of US foreign policy.
Transatlantic digital tax trade war looms
By Nick Beams, 7 January 2020
France has warned of retaliation if US imposes tariffs on exports.
NHS London crisis deepens due to cuts, understaffing and privatisation
By Thomas Scripps, 7 January 2020
Overall, NHS trusts in the United Kingdom’s capital and largest city are expected to post a combined deficit of over £150 million.
UK refusal to accept Scotland’s supply of haemophilia drugs resulted in thousands of deaths
Collapse of UK National Health Service threatened as Johnson government readies further onslaught
Homeless woman gives birth to twins outside the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College
Settlement reached in lawsuit against Detroit killer cops in Damon Grimes case
By Tyler van Dyke and Tom Hall, 7 January 2020
The family of Damon Grimes, a Detroit teen who died in an ATV crash after police tasered him from a moving vehicle, received a $12 million settlement.
Australia: Surveys reveal majority of former car workers unable to find decent jobs
By Terry Cook, 7 January 2020
Former centres of car production, such as Elizabeth in Adelaide and Broadmeadows in Melbourne, have been left mired in social crisis.
6 January 2020
After another weekend of devastation, Australia faces weeks more of unprecedented fires
By James Cogan, 6 January 2020
Worsening Australian fires pose the need for urgent action on climate change
Australia: Legal report documents “unlawful” police response to Melbourne climate protest
Ruling class bereft of answers while catastrophic fires escalate across Australia
Australia: Climate change and the bushfire crisis
As Australia burns, anger turns on climate change-denying Prime Minister Morrison
Canadian government tacitly endorses US assassination of Iranian general Soleimani
By Roger Jordan, 6 January 2020
Britain backs US war drive against Iran
By Robert Stevens, 6 January 2020
British fascists join Johnson’s Conservative Party
Antiwar posts go viral on social media after US murder of Iranian general
By Kayla Costa and Julio Patron, 6 January 2020
Conservative Austrian People’s Party to form government with Greens
By Markus Salzmann and Peter Schwarz, 6 January 2020
Two workers die in Texas while cleaning chemical tank
By Dan Conway, 6 January 2020
New Zealand union shuts down bus drivers’ strike, scapegoats migrants for low wages
By Tom Peters, 6 January 2019
Samoa lifts measles state of emergency
By John Braddock, 6 January 2020
New in Portuguese
Novas burocracias sindicais ou poder operário
independente?
As lições da rebelião dos trabalhadores de
Matamoros – Parte 3
Andrea Lobo, 27 Dezembro 2019
Quando as greves selvagens começaram a se espalhar, o governo, as empresas e os sindicatos apressaram-se em suprimir cada nova luta e impedir que se unissem e se espalhassem internacionalmente.
New in Russian
Правительство Германии осуждает санкции США в отношении газопровода «Северный поток–2»
Йоганнес Штерн, 27 декабря 2019 г.
Временная остановка строительства газопровода «Северный поток–2» резко усилила напряженность в отношениях между США и европейскими державами.
Трамп хвастается поддержкой демократов в своем нападении на иммигрантов
Билл Вэн Оукен, 27 декабря 2019 г.
Поддержка иммиграционной политики Трампа со стороны обеих ведущих партий американского истеблишмента создала положение, когда условия на южной границе США и в лагерях иммигрантов становятся все более адскими.
New in Turkish
Alman Gizli Servisi'nin eski şefi faşist bir manifesto yayımladı
Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi (Almanya), 27 Aralık 2019
Almanya'nın iç istihbarat kurumun 2012'den 2018'e kadar başında olan Hans-Georg Maassen, sağcı İsviçre dergisi Die Weltwoche'te yalnızca faşist bir manifesto olarak tanımlanabilecek bir yazı yayımladı.
Tetikçilere ceza veren Suudi Arabistan, Kaşıkçı cinayetini düzenleyenleri koruyor
Kevin Reed, 27 Aralık 2019
Hükümlerin asıl amacı, Veliaht Prens’e ve onun danışmanlarına kalkan olmaktır. Resmi anlatıya göre, cinayet önceden planlanmamış; alt kademeden olan bu adamlara Kaşıkçı’yı Suudi Arabistan’a canlı getirme talimatı verilmişti.
Morenoculuk nedir?
27 Aralık 2019
Arjantin’de devlet başkanlığı ve parlamento seçimleri, çöken sosyal güvenlik programı; siyasi, ekonomik ve enflasyonist krizler; artan işsizlik ve temel sağlık ve sosyal yardım kuruluşlarına yönelik beliren bir saldırı ortamında gerçekleşiyor.
New in French
«On passe un message: il n’y a pas de trêve»
Les grévistes demandent à intensifier la lutte de classe contre Macron
Alexandre Lantier, 27 décembre 2019
Les grévistes veulent lutter contre Macron et d’écraser définitivement la capacité du gouvernement d’imposer ce type de mesure régressive contre les travailleurs.
Allemagne: L’ancien dirigeant des services secrets fustige les réfugiés et minimise le terrorisme de droite
Christophe Vandreier, 27 décembre 2019
Un an après sa destitution à la tête des services secrets allemands, Hans-Georg Maassen (Union chrétienne-démocrate, CDU) est devenu l'un des porte-parole de l'extrême droite.
Canada: La campagne d'austérité des conservateurs de l'Alberta va aggraver la crise sociale
Riksen Stewart, 27 décembre 2019
Les menaces d'une «grève générale» de la part de quelques bureaucrates syndicaux sont de la poudre aux yeux qui visent à contenir et à désamorcer l'hostilité croissante de la classe ouvrière à l'égard du gouvernement provincial.
New in Norwegian
Boeings adm. dir. Dennis Muilenburg tvunget til å trekke seg
Bryan Dyne, 27. desember 2019
Fjerning av Muilenburg vil ikke endre Boeings underliggende drivkraft for stadig større profitter på bekostning av menneskeliv.
Franske streikende motsetter seg «julevåpenhvilen» Macron og fagforbundene kaller for
V. Gnana og Alex Lantier, 27. desember 2019
Jernbane- og energiforsyningsstreiken svekkes ikke, og de streikende krever i stadig større grad å få organisere deres egen streik, uavhengig av fagforbundsbossene som forhandler med staten.
Arbeidere i Tyskland støtter franske arbeideres streik mot Macron
våre reportere, 27. desember 2019
Opel-arbeidere nært Frankfurt og Siemens-arbeidere i Berlin uttalte seg til støtte for streikebevegelsen i Frankrike, og forklarte hva de mener må gjøres.
New York Times’ «1619-prosjekt»
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shell Oil og massedrap i Afrika
Trévor Austin og Bill Van Auken, 27. desember 2019
Hannah-Jones, hovedtalsperson for «1619-prosjektet», deltok på et podium sponset av Shell Oil, som er implisert i massive forbrytelser mot ogonifolkets menneskerettigheter i Nigeria.
La revolución y la tierra: Peruansk dokumentar om 1960- og ’70-tallets agrarreform får stor oppmerksomhet
Armando Cruz and Cesar Uco, 27. desember 2019
Dokumentarfilmen levendegjør den århundrer-lange utbyttingen av Perus urbefolkning av småbønder, men mislykkes i å gi en helhetlig og sammenhengende politisk analyse av general Velascos regimes vekst og fall.
New in Spanish
La navidad de 2019: más de medio millón de personas sin hogar en EE. UU.
Niles Niemuth, 27 diciembre 2019
En un momento en que la élite gobernante está celebrando un continuo aumento en el mercado bursátil y se felicita por las cifras históricamente bajas del desempleo, el número de personas siendo lanzadas a la calle está aumentando.
Trump se jacta del respaldo de los demócratas a su asalto contra inmigrantes
Bill Van Auken, 27 diciembre 2019
Con apoyo bipartidista, las condiciones en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México y en los centros de detención para inmigrantes se han vuelto cada vez más infernales.
Los bolcheviques contra el estalinismo 1928–1933: León
Trotsky y la Oposición de Izquierda, de Vadim Rogovin
Un
reporte magnífico sobre los opositores de Stalin en la URSS
Andrea Peters, 27 diciembre 2019
El ascenso de Stalin ni estaba predeterminado ni fue consecuencia natural de la Revolución de Octubre. El gran chauvinista y burócrata ruso consiguió el poder en un conflicto feroz con el proletariado, el campesinado y los cuadros del movimiento socialista revolucionario.
Huelguistas franceses se oponen a “tregua navideña” de Macron y los sindicatos
V. Gnana y Alex Lantier, 27 diciembre 2019
La huelga ferroviaria y energética no se está debilitando y los huelguistas están exigiendo con mayor frecuencia organizar su propia huelga independientemente de los jefes sindicales que negocian con el Estado.
General ultraderechista español exige el derrocamiento del gobierno del Partido Socialista Obrero Español
Alejandro López, 27 diciembre 2019
Según El País, este llamamiento del exjefe del Estado Mayor del ejército español está circulando ampliamente en el cuerpo de oficiales en grupos de WhatsApp.
Trump recorta los fondos de Medicaid para Puerto Rico
Julio Patron, 27 diciembre 2019
El presidente Trump intervino personalmente en las conversaciones de gasto de la semana pasada para reducir la financiación de Puerto Rico, que ha estado plagada de recesión y desigualdad social despiadada.
New in German
Weihnachten 2019: Mehr als eine halbe Million Obdachlose in Amerika
Niles Niemuth, 27. Dezember 2019
Während die herrschende Elite steigende Aktienkurse feiert und sich für niedrige Arbeitslosenzahlen auf die Schulter klopft, steigt die Zahl der Menschen, die auf der Straße leben müssen.
Streiks in Frankreich gehen auch über Feiertage weiter
V. Gnana und Alex Lantier, 27. Dezember 2019
Der Streik bei der Bahn und den Energiekonzernen geht unvermindert weiter. Unter den Streikenden wächst die Forderung, den Streik selbst zu organisieren, unabhängig von den Gewerkschaftsbossen, die mit dem Staat verhandeln.
Armutsbericht 2019:
Armut in Deutschland
bleibt auf hohem Niveau
Elisabeth Zimmermann, 27. Dezember 2019
Laut dem Bericht des Paritätischen Wohlfahrtsverbands betrug die Armut Ende 2018 weiterhin 15,5 Prozent. Besonders das Ruhrgebiet gilt mit einer Armutsquote von 21,1 Prozent als „Problemregion Nr. 1“.
Rechtsextremer spanischer General ruft zum Sturz der PSOE-Regierung auf
Alejandro López, 27. Dezember 2019
Laut der spanischen Zeitung El País stößt der Aufruf des ehemaligen Generalstabschefs der spanischen Armee zum Sturz der Regierung in WhatsApp-Gruppen von Offizieren auf große Resonanz.
Buchmesse Istanbul:
David North stellt
türkische Ausgabe von „Verteidigung Leo Trotzkis“ vor
unserem Korrespondenten, 27. Dezember 2019
Auf der Istanbuler Buchmesse im November präsentierte der Verlag Mehring Yayıncılık fünf Bücher des Internationalen Komitees der Vierten Internationale (IKVI).
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Perspective
The US propaganda machine justifies the assassination of Qassem Suleimani
7 January 2020
To present with any degree of honesty the life of Major General Qassem Suleimani would require acknowledging the criminal role the United States has played in subverting the interests of the people of Iran and the entire Middle East for upwards of 70 years.
Featured Commentary
The decade of socialist revolution begins
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 3 January 2020
The 2010s were years of intensifying capitalist crisis, which set into motion a global resurgence of class conflict. The 2020s will witness the immense growth of the international movement of the working class for socialism.
The New York Times' 1619 Project
The 1619 Project and the falsification of history: An analysis of the New York Times’ reply to five historians
By David North and Eric London, 28 December 2019
New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein, reviving discredited racialist distortions of the American Revolution and Civil War, refuses to correct historical errors in the 1619 Project.
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
“A preposterous and one-dimensional reading of the American past”
Oxford historian Richard Carwardine on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
By Tom Mackaman, 31 December 2019
- 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
- An interview with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
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- 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
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Commentary
The growing fascist influence in German politics: The case of Christian Democratic politician Robert Möritz
By Gregor Link and Johannes Stern, 7 January 2020
At the end of last year, the case of the former Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician highlighted the sharp shift to the right of the ruling class in Germany.
German authorities shut down investigations into far-right and state crimes
The US sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and the danger of World War III
By Peter Schwarz, 31 December 2019
India: Protests against anti-Muslim citizenship law in Kolkata
By Arun Kumar and Palash Roy, 31 December 2019
Desperate to stem protests, dozens of governments shut down internet access in 2019
By Andre Damon, 27 December 2019
Arts Review
An interview with film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum: “I’m trying to do something aesthetic through criticism”
By David Walsh, 6 January 2020
The WSWS recently spoke to Jonathan Rosenbaum, the longtime film critic for the Chicago Reader and author of numerous books on filmmaking.
Just Mercy: The cruelty of Alabama’s death penalty
By Joanne Laurier, 6 January 2020
Black Mirror Season 5: The elephants in the room
By Zac Corrigan, 4 January 2020
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This week in history: January 6-12
25 years ago: Russian bloodbath in Chechnya intensifies
On January 11, 1995, Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev met with reporters for the first time in three weeks to concede that Chechnya could not win a war against Russia for independence.
50 years ago: Biafran forces surrender in Nigerian civil war
On January 12, 1970, the military forces of the breakaway region of Biafra surrendered to Nigeria, ending the three-year Nigerian Civil War that began in 1967. The Nigerian military had launched its final offensive, “Operation Tail-Wind,” on January 7 and captured the Biafran capital of Owerri on January 9.
75 years ago: Fourth International publishes resolution exposing US imperialism’s war aims
This week in January, 1945, the Fourth International, the theoretical journal of the world Trotskyist movement, published a major resolution adopted by the US Socialist Workers Party (SWP) exposing the predatory character of American imperialism’s intervention in World War II.
100 years ago: Red Army routs Whites in Siberia
On January 7, 1920, the Red Fifth Army captured the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. An uprising in the city and Soviet partisans had facilitated the capture.
Free Assange and Manning
Sri Lanka: SEP meeting in Colombo demands release of Assange and Manning
By our correspondents, 7 January 2020
Afterwards, a University of Colombo student, declared: “I agree with the point made in this meeting that the fight for the freedom of Assange is so crucial for the defence of democratic rights internationally.”
Ex-Australian foreign minister calls for release of Julian Assange to halt damage to US alliance
By Mike Head, 4 January 2020
Mexican president calls for Julian Assange’s freedom
By Kevin Reed, 4 January 2020
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Mehring Books Holiday Sale ends Sunday at midnight
David North’s writings 50 percent off through weekend
3 January 2020
This is the last weekend to buy the writings of SEP National Chairman David North at reduced prices from Mehring Books.
Last Week for Mehring Books Holiday Sale
Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement by Eric London – How Leon Trotsky’s Assassination was prepared
By Mehring Books, 30 December 2019
Last Week for Mehring Books Holiday Sale
2018 lecture by Eric London: The origins and findings of Security and the Fourth International
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
Workers Struggles
Montreal Airport refuelers on strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 January 2020
Workers in charge of refueling jets, employees of Swissport, have been on strike since December 31 over pay after overwhelmingly rejecting a management offer.
UAW capitulates to Harvard, shuts down grad student strike
By Kate Randall, 4 January 2020
Quebec’s CAQ government launches fresh assault on public sector workers
By Laurent Lafrance, 31 December 2019
“They treat us like cavemen. They don’t care if we live or die.”
Striking Arizona copper miners determined to continue fight
By Evan Blake and Jerry White, 30 December 2019
As the Transport Workers Union attempts to push through major concessions
New York City transit workers speak out about workplace dangers and attacks on health care
By Daniel de Vries, 30 December 2019
Socialist Equality Party
UK Public Meetings:
The election of Boris Johnson and the failure of Corbynism
28 December 2019
Socialist Equality Party used UK general election to put forward a socialist perspective
Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold public meeting on how to fight the new Rajapakse regime
14 December 2019
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo: Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!
14 December 2019
Autoworkers Struggles
GM workers in Mexico thank US workers for donating to their defense fund
By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 27 December 2019
Defend the Silao Seven!
Fired Mexican GM workers issue open letter to American workers
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 11 December 2019
“We are all working people. We should be fighting together”
Detroit autoworkers voice support for victimized Mexican GM workers
AFL-CIO, Mexican government seek to chain renewed struggles across Matamoros to “independent” trade unions
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International Youth and Students for Social Equality
The Reiss Center at NYU’s Law School: A think tank for the national security establishment and the Democratic Party
Part 2: The Reiss Center’s role in the impeachment crisis and anti-Russia campaign
By the New York University IYSSE, 11 December 2019
The Reiss Center at NYU’s Law School: A think tank for the national security establishment and the Democratic Party
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IYSSE, student unions defend students in Germany against right-wing attacks
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Skin Deep, Journey in the Divisive Science of Race, by Gavin Evans
By Philip Guelpa, 9 December 2019
The overwhelming weight of scientific research demonstrates that “race” does not exist as a valid biological category, but is a social construct.
History
David North introduces Turkish-language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky at Istanbul Book Fair
By our reporter, 11 November 2019
Mehring Yayıncılık announced the publication of five major works by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) at its Istanbul Book Fair stall, including two authored by David North.
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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”
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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
Mehring Books
Mehring Yayıncılık publishes new ICFI books for İstanbul Book Fair
By Ulas Atesci, 29 October 2019
Preface to the Turkish edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
By David North, 2 September 2019
Preview the new publication from Mehring Books
Author’s introduction to Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
By Vadim Z. Rogovin, 30 August 2019
Now available from Mehring Books
Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition by Vadim Z. Rogovin
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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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