25 September 2020
Protests across the US against whitewash of Breonna Taylor murder met with police repression
By Jacob Crosse, 25 September 2020
Four months of largely peaceful protests against police violence have been answered with violent repression and judicial cover-ups.
Protests erupt over whitewash of police murder of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky
Video footage exposes police shooting of 13-year-old autistic boy in Salt Lake City
Student protests against herd immunity policy spread across Greece
By Alex Lantier, 25 September 2020
High school students marched in Athens and Thessaloniki Thursday as occupations of high schools and strikes by doctors, port workers and airline workers spread.
Students occupy schools across Greece to protest unsafe return to classrooms
Social distress mounts in the US as new weekly jobless claims rise to 870,000
By Shannon Jones, 25 September 2020
The number of active unemployment claims, 24.1 million in total, far surpasses anything seen during the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
Study finds 90 percent of Americans would make 67 percent more without last four decades of increasing income inequality
By Gabriel Black, 25 September 2020
Fed officials push for new corporate stimulus package
By Nick Beams, 25 September 2020
Fed chair Jerome Powell said that while there had been some recovery, employment and overall activity remained well below pre-pandemic levels, and the future was “highly uncertain.”
Brown University study used to downplay spread of coronavirus in US schools
By Bryan Dyne, 25 September 2020
While seeking to minimize the impact of school reopenings on the spread of the virus, the study implies that some 18,600 teachers and 115,000 students have already been infected with COVID-19.
Four Texas universities report over 1,000 COVID-19 cases each
By Chase Lawrence, 25 September 2020
Hundreds of Kenosha, Wisconsin teachers call in sick to force schools to close
SEIU and Illinois Nurses Association announce tentative agreements with University of Illinois at Chicago
By James Martin and Marcus Day, 25 September 2020
Simultaneously with the announcement of the deal, SEIU 73 shut down the 10-day strike by 4,000 university workers without releasing the full details of the agreement.
Report demolishes government claims that reopening UK schools reflects concern for disadvantaged children
By Margot Miller, 25 September 2020
The education of poorer children is of as little concern for the Johnson government as the health of the working class.
UK Educators Rank-and-File Committee holds second meeting
Johnson’s bogus agenda for combating the escalating pandemic will cost tens of thousands of lives in UK
Spanish pseudo-left covers for union complicity in back-to-school drive
By Alice Summers, 25 September 2020
The Morenoite Workers Revolutionary Current, and its daily publication Izquierda Diario, is refusing to oppose the return to classrooms, aiming instead to divert opposition to it into impotent channels.
Tory legislation legalising war crimes by UK troops goes forward thanks to Labour Party
By Robert Stevens, 25 September 2020
Only 18 Labour MPs defied the party whip and voted against the bill.
Italian regional elections: Political elite shifts further right
By Peter Schwarz, 25 September 2020
Elections for the presidents and parliaments in six of Italy’s 18 regions were held on Sunday and Monday. The first election since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic was seen as a test for the government in Rome.
Germany’s IG Metall trade union establishes fund to eliminate “overcapacity” in auto parts industry
By Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 25 September 2020
IG Metall established its own private equity fund earlier this summer to finance the restructuring of Germany’s auto industry.
Autoworkers must demand full disclosure prior to any ratification vote!
Why is Unifor hiding details of the Ford Canada “pattern” contract?
By Carl Bronski, 25 September 2020
If Unifor get its way, the 6,300 Ford Canada workers will not be allowed to even lay eyes on a copy of the proposed contract before being herded onto the electronic voting page at this Sunday’s online ratification meeting.
After ordering Ford Canada workers to ignore strike deadline, Unifor announces job-cutting agreement
California wildfires expose the wealth divide
By Rafael Azul, 25 September 2020
While hundreds of homes burn to the ground and essential services are cut for the working class, California’s oligarchs save their homes and preserve their lifestyles with the aid of private firefighting services.
Hollywood unions ratify return to work agreement dictated by giant corporations
By Marc Wells, 25 September 2020
After months of negotiations behind closed doors, the Hollywood unions reached a return-to-work agreement that will expose entertainment industry workers to the COVID-19 contagion as television and film production resumes.
Sri Lankan plantation workers strike against wage cuts
By M. Thevarajah, 25 September 2020
The plantation companies, with the direct support of the unions, have begun imposing wage and allowance cuts and higher productivity targets.
Australian government seeks to ban phones in immigration detention
By Martin Scott, 25 September 2020
The proposed new laws will allow warrantless searches and the use of sniffer dogs.
Australian health workers still being denied adequate PPE
By Clare Bruderlin, 25 September 2020
Nothing has been done to boost protection for health workers, meaning that further mass outbreaks of COVID-19 are all but inevitable.
24 September 2020
Police repression continues during national strike in Colombia
By Andrea Lobo, 24 September 2020
Teachers across the US engage in sickout strikes to close schools
By Emma Arceneaux, 24 September 2020
“We are just numbers on a spreadsheet”
Detroit students organize protest over school reopening plans
By Genevieve Leigh, 24 September 2020
A twenty-year-old student dies from COVID-19 at California University of Pennsylvania
By Samuel Davidson, 24 September 2020
Iran: Reopening of schools fuels resurgence of coronavirus
By Jean Shaoul, 24 September 2020
Germany’s school openings throw fuel onto the pandemic’s fire
By Marianne Arens, 24 September 2020
India’s health minister downplays raging pandemic to conceal ruling elite’s criminal “herd immunity” policy
By Saman Gunadasa, 24 September 2020
The Senate holds a COVID-19 hearing as US tops 200,000 COVID-19 deaths
By Benjamin Mateus, 24 September 2020
Las Vegas health reports detail spread of COVID-19 in casinos
By Adam Mclean, 24 September 2020
Senate confirmation hearing for Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf reveals bipartisan support
By Jacob Crosse, 24 September 2020
Homelessness to soar as UK eviction ban ends
By Julia Callaghan, 24 September 2020
“Lear is hell”: Workers speak out as COVID-19 outbreak at Indiana auto parts plant worsens
By Marcus Day, 24 September 2020
UK: Labour schools spokesperson confirms bi-partisan “malign neglect” policy on COVID-19
By Julie Hyland, 24 September 2020
Canada’s military forced to admit growing number of far-right extremists in armed forces
By Matthew Richter, 24 September 2020
As Creek Fire become the largest in California history, farmworkers continue to labor without protection from smoke
By Aditya Veeraiah and Evan Winters, 24 September 2020
Further revelations about sterilizations and medical malpractice at ICE detention facility in Georgia
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan, 24 September 2020
Japan’s Democrats merge to launch new, right-wing opposition party
By Ben McGrath, 24 September 2020
Huge tax cuts for the wealthy trigger nervousness in Australian ruling elite
By Mike Head, 24 September 2020
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菲共(CPP)创立者西松重新吐出针对托洛茨基主义的斯大林主义谎言
作者: Peter Symonds, 2020年9月24日
西松在第二次采访中为他在政治上破产的“半殖民地,半封建”的论点辩解。这是孤注一掷的一着棋,目的是阻止对CPP的支持的大量流失,并打压来自其队伍中的一切质疑。
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Trabalhadores brasileiros deflagram greves contra volta às aulas
Tomas Castanheira, 19 setembro 2020
O fascistoide Bolsonaro declarou: "somos o país com o maior número de dias em lockdown nas escolas. Isso é um absurdo".
Anunciamos o relançamento do World Socialist Web Site
em 2 de outubro de 2020
Uma declaração de David North,
presidente do Conselho Editorial Internacional
David North, 19 setembro 2020
Na sexta-feira, 2 de outubro de 2020, o World Socialist Web Site será relançado com um design totalmente novo e sua funcionalidade fortmente aprimorada.
New in French
L'élection coup d'État de Trump
Joseph Kishore et David North, 25 septembre 2020
Trump a déclaré publiquement qu'il ne transférerait pas le pouvoir de manière pacifique s'il perdait les élections du 3 novembre.
États-Unis: Des protestations éclatent à propos du meurtre policier impuni de Breonna Taylor
Niles Niemuth, 25 septembre 2020
Le grand jury, convoqué par les autorités de l’État, n’a inculpé aucun des deux policiers qui ont tiré 22 balles et causé la mort de Breonna Taylor, 26 ans, dans sa maison de Louisville au Kentucky.
Des rapports médicaux montrent l’impact dévastateur de la longue vendetta d’État contre Assange
Thomas Scripps et Laura Tiernan, 25 septembre 2020
Ce que le rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur la torture, Nils Melzer, a décrit en mai 2019 comme la «persécution collective» et la «torture psychologique» d’Assange a eu l’effet escompté.
La répression policière se poursuit pendant la grève nationale en Colombie
Andrea Lobo, 25 septembre 2020
La police a violemment dispersé une manifestation de masse à Bogotá, confirmant la marche du gouvernement d’Ivan Duque et l’ensemble de la classe dirigeante vers la dictature.
New in Spanish
Las elecciones golpistas de Trump
Joseph Kishore y David North, 25 septiembre 2020
Trump ha declarado públicamente que no entregará pacíficamente el poder si pierde en los comicios del 3 de noviembre.
La evidencia médica muestra el impacto devastador de la venganza estatal de una década contra Assange
Thomas Scripps y Laura Tiernan, 25 septiembre 2020
Lo que el relator especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Tortura, Nils Melzer, describió en mayo de 2019 como "acoso público" y "tortura psicológica" de Assange ha tenido el efecto deseado.
Assange enfrenta "muy alto riesgo de suicidio", dice un experto médico a la corte
Thomas Scripps y Laura Tiernan, 25 septiembre 2020
Las pruebas de Kopelman confirman las advertencias hechas desde noviembre de 2019 por Doctors for Assange de que Assange está sufriendo "tortura psicológica" y "podría morir en prisión".
Incendios forestales catastróficos, contaminación corporativa del aire y el COVID-19: una colisión de crisis
Henry Hakamaki, 25 septiembre 2020
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) relajó los límites de contaminación del aire en el mismo momento en que el coronavirus se estaba convirtiendo en una pandemia en los Estados Unidos.
La represión policial en Colombia sigue durante paro nacional
Andrea Lobo, 25 septiembre 2020
La policía dispersó violentamente una manifestación masiva en Bogotá, confirmando la continua marcha del Gobierno de Iván Duque y toda la clase gobernante colombiana hacia la dictadura.
Mientras el incendio Creek se convierte en el más grande en la historia de California, los trabajadores agrícolas continúan trabajando sin protección contra el humo
Aditya Veeraiah y Evan Winters, 25 septiembre 2020
Aunque hace más de un mes se anunciaron planes para distribuir cientos de miles de mascarillas N95 a los trabajadores agrícolas de la zona de Fresno, pocos han recibido estas mascarillas, que proporcionan un alto nivel de protección tanto contra la contaminación del aire como contra COVID-19.
New in German
Trumps Nahost-Deal und die Sackgasse des bürgerlichen Nationalismus
Bill Van Auken, 19. September 2020
Das sogenannte „Friedensabkommen“ zwischen Israel und zwei arabischen Monarchien, das am 15. September auf dem Rasen des Weißen Hauses unterzeichnet wurde, reiht sich ein in unzählige Verrätereien am palästinensischen Volk.
Assange hat „sehr
ernstes Muster wirklicher Kriegsverbrechen“ aufgedeckt
Daniel Ellsbergs Aussage im
Auslieferungsprozess
Thomas Scripps, 19. September 2020
Ellsberg widersprach jedem Versuch, ihn selbst als positives Gegenbeispiel gegen Manning und Assange zu benutzen.
Weltgesundheitsorganisation warnt vor „alarmierendem“ Anstieg der Corona-Fälle in Europa
Alex Lantier, 19. September 2020
Die europäischen Behörden bestätigen mittlerweile mehr als 300.000 Neuinfektionen pro Woche und damit mehr als vor dem Lockdown im Frühjahr.
Lufthansa erwägt Verdoppelung des Stellenabbaus
Gustav Kemper, 19. September 2020
Nach weitgehenden Zugeständnissen der Gewerkschaften hat Lufthansa-Chef Carsten Spohr den Abbau von Tausenden weiteren Arbeitsplätzen angekündigt.
Ehemaliger Spiegel-Journalist widerspricht Behauptung, Assange habe Informanten gefährdet
Laura Tiernan, 19. September 2020
Die Lüge der Trump-Regierung, Assange habe das Leben von US-Informanten aufs Spiel gesetzt, wurde in John Goetz' Zeugenaussage klar widerlegt. Tatsächlich haben allein die von Assange und WikiLeaks aufgedeckten Kriegsverbrechen Menschen in Gefahr gebracht.
Joseph Scalices Vortrag über die CPP (Redigierte
Abschrift)
Das erste Mal als Tragödie, das zweite Mal als
Farce: Marcos, Duterte und die Kommunistischen Parteien der
Philippinen
Joseph Scalice, 19. September 2020
Diesen Vortrag zur Rolle der Kommunistischen Partei der Philippinen (CPP) hielt Dr. Joseph Scalice am 26. August an der Nanyang Technological University in Singapur. Er befasst sich mit der Unterstützung der CPP und politisch verwandter Organisationen für den philippinischen Präsidenten Rodrigo Duterte im Jahr 2016.
New in Russian
Трамп о пандемии коронавируса: «Практически никто» не пострадал
Джозеф Кишор — кандидат в президенты США от ПСР, 24 сентября 2020 г.
Проявленное Трампом безразличие к смерти в массовом масштабе выражает не только его личное мировоззрение, но и социальную политику правящего класса.
COVID-19: Веб-сайт французской Новой антикапиталистической партии Révolution Permanente присоединяется к политике Макрона по повторному открытию школ
Энтони Торрес, 24 сентября 2020 г.
Фракции Новой антикапиталистической партии Франции, связанные с аргентинской Социалистической рабочей партией, молчаливо поддерживают политику возвращения в школы, подвергая опасности миллионы людей.
New in Norwegian
Trumps coup d’état-valg
Joseph Kishore og David North, 25. september 2020
Trump har offentlig erklært at han ikke vil overføre makten fredelig dersom han taper valget den 3. november.
Utbrudd av protester over hvitvasking av politidrap på Breonna Taylor i Kentucky
Niles Niemuth, 25. september 2020
Ingen av de to betjentene som skjøt skura av 22 kuler som drepte 26-år-gamle Breonna Taylor i hennes hjem i Louisville i Kentucky, ble siktet av storjuryen oppnevnt av delstatens myndigheter.
Politirepresjon fortsettes under nasjonalstreik i Colombi
Andrea Lobo, 25. september 2020
Politiet brøt opp massedemonstrasjonen i Bogotá med vold, og bekreftet videreføringen av Ivan Duque-administrasjonens og hele den kolombianske styringsklassens dreining i retning av diktatur.
USA og Colombia iscenesatte krigsspill, samtidig som Pompeo truet Venezuela
Bill Van Auken, 25. september 2020
Pompeos turné i Latin-Amerika forleden uke var rettet mot eskalert aggresjon mot Venezuela, så vel som mot Kinas innflytelse i regionen.
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Featured Commentary
Lessons from history: The 2000 elections and the new “irrepressible conflict”
By David North, 25 September 2020
This lecture was given by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, at a public meeting of the Socialist Equality Party of Australia on December 3, 2000 in Sydney.
Trump’s coup d’état election
By Joseph Kishore and David North, 24 September 2020
Trump on coronavirus pandemic: “Virtually nobody” affected
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US President, 23 September 2020
The New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones abandon key claims of the 1619 Project
By Tom Mackaman and David North, 22 September 2020
Jacobin magazine embraces Trump administration’s murderous “herd immunity” policy
By Andre Damon, 21 September 2020
Announcements
A statement by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board
Announcing the Relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site on October 2, 2020
David North, 18 September 2020
On Friday, October 2, 2020, the World Socialist Web Site will be relaunched with an entirely new design and with vastly enhanced functionality.
SEP US presidential election campaign
Socialist Equality Party
For a general strike to halt the resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe!
By Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), Socialist Equality Party (UK), Parti de l’égalité socialiste (France) and Sosyalist Eşitlik (Turkey), 25 September 2020
The insistence of European governments on fully reopening schools, workplaces and public gathering places has paved the way for a devastating resurgence of the virus.
Sri Lankan SEP holds online lecture on how to fight Rajapakse’s dictatorial moves
By our correspondents, 23 September 2020
Form independent rank-and-file safety committees to oppose the deadly reopening of schools!
By the Sosyalist Eşitlik, 23 September 2020
Australian ruling elite moves to junk coronavirus safety measures—the working class must intervene to answer the pandemic threat!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 17 September 2020
The Persecution of Julian Assange
Assange lawyers expose politically biased medical evidence
By Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan, 25 September 2020
Edward Fitzgerald QC told the court that Dr Blackwood had described the Truesdale correctional centre in “glowing” terms. Yet he had failed to acknowledge Chelsea Manning’s suicide attempt there.
Medical evidence shows devastating impact of decade-long state vendetta against Assange
By Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan, 24 September 2020
Assange’s partner Stella Moris calls for Australian government to intervene in his defence
By Oscar Grenfell, 24 September 2020
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
Arts Review
Toronto International Film Festival 2020: Part 2
Frances McDormand in Nomadland—the danger of making a virtue out of necessity—and David Byrne’s American Utopia (directed by Spike Lee)
By David Walsh, 25 September 2020
It is a serious mistake, a terrible irresponsibility, to treat life in this manner, to turn the social into the “natural” and inevitable.
Toronto International Film Festival 2020: Part one
76 Days: The drama of the Wuhan lockdown
Under the Open Sky from Japan, The Best Is Yet to Come from China
Controversy over Mulan film used to further Washington’s anti-China agenda
By Ben McGrath, 23 September 2020
Defend Dr. Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders
IYSSE at UC Berkeley condemns Philippine Stalinist “slanders and falsehoods” against Dr. Joseph Scalice
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at UC Berkeley, 25 September 2020
Communist Party of the Philippines founder Sison has accused Dr. Scalice of being a “CIA agent.” This pathetic lie is aimed at distracting workers and youth from Dr. Scalice’s exposure of the Stalinists’ support for president Rodrigo Duterte and other bourgeois politicians.
Stalinist leader Sison “is desperate to prevent Filipino workers from learning their own history”
More letters from the US, Philippines, Australia, India supporting Dr. Joseph Scalice
By our reporters, 25 September 2020
“Scalice’s work is the best sort of history. Its objectivity is derived precisely in its dedication to its subject, the Filipino working class.”
Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist Sison’s lies that he is a “CIA agent”
By Joseph Scalice, 24 September 2020
Philippine students and academics defend Dr. Joseph Scalice against Communist Party founder Sison’s “lies and obfuscation”
By our reporters, 24 September 2020
Philippine Maoist leader Sison seeks alliance with military against Duterte
By Tom Peters, 22 September 2020
Australian and Sri Lankan academics defend Dr Joseph Scalice from Philippine Stalinist attacks
By our reporters, 21 September 2020
Video exposing Philippine Stalinist leader Sison’s Big Lie that the CPP never supported Duterte
By our reporters, 19 September 2020
Commentary
Forty-eight years since Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines
By John Malvar, 23 September 2020
The global campaign to reopen schools drives COVID-19 deaths past one million
By Genevieve Leigh, 22 September 2020
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
By Tom Carter, 21 September 2020
Trump’s Middle East deal and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism
By Bill Van Auken, 18 September 2020
No to a Greek-Turkish war in the eastern Mediterranean!
International Committee of the Fourth International, 12 September 2020
SEP (US) Congress resolution
The global pandemic, the class struggle, and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
1 August 2020
Workers Struggles
Strikes by Greek doctors and ferry workers, UK’s London underground rail drivers’ strike vote, South African health workers continue protests over pay and COVID-19 safety measures
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
25 September 2020
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
80 Years Since the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Part six
Trotsky’s Last Year
By David North, 8 September 2020
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
University of Melbourne student union enforces club affiliation requirement amid pandemic
By Eric Ludlow, 21 September 2020
Military research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
By Gregor Link, 18 September 2020
Science
Catastrophic wildfires, corporate air pollution, and COVID-19: A collision of crises
By Henry Hakamaki, 21 September 2020
Trump administration continues assault on endangered species
By Adria French, 19 September 2020
The precedents for disease eradication through international cooperation
Part two
By Frank Gaglioti, 16 September 2020
The precedents for disease eradication through international cooperation
Part one
Book Review
Book Review
Wilmington’s Lie: The 1898 white supremacist coup in North Carolina
David Zucchino, Atlantic Monthly Press, 336 pages
By Fred Mazelis, 17 September 2020
The US Election
The Civil War Election
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US) Political Committee, 9 September 2020
University of Michigan graduate students take a stand for life against profit
By Joseph Kishore - Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 11 September 2020
Supreme Court refuses to hear SEP challenge to Michigan ballot access denial
By Kevin Reed, 9 September 2020
The politics of oligarchy: Federal appeals court blocks SEP challenge to anti-democratic ballot access laws in California
By Joseph Kishore—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US President, 8 August 2020
Oppose Trump’s mass arrest of 2,000 immigrants!
By Norissa Santa Cruz—SEP candidate for US vice president, 4 September 2020
The socialist answer to the paltry $600 million Flint settlement
By Joseph Kishore—SEP Presidential Candidate, 24 August 2020
History
The lessons of the 1953 mass uprising (hartal) in Sri Lanka
By Saman Gunadasa, 2 September 2020
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
The coronavirus pandemic, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 26 August 2020
Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
Free Julian Assange! Defend Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden!
SEP (Australia) holds successful fifth national congress
Socialist Equality Party (US)
Now available
The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995
12 August 2020
The paperback edition of this critical book on the history of the Fourth International is now available.
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