20 February 2020
Trump pardons ruling class criminals
By Patrick Martin, 20 February 2020
The criminal in the White House expunged the lawbreaking records of two billionaires and two political hatchetmen for big business.
Trump emerges strengthened after Democrats’ impeachment debacle
Two thousand former US Justice Department officials call for resignation of William Barr
Trump pledges to veto war powers resolution, uses Pentagon funds to build border wall
Wall Street celebrates Milken pardon
By Nick Beams, 20 February 2020
Milken was a pioneer of the financial mechanisms which have led to the greatest accumulation of wealth by the financial oligarchy ever seen, at the expense of the working class.
More on the Trump presidency »
Lawyers file new motion demanding release of Chelsea Manning
By Kevin Reed, 20 February 2020
Lawyers for Manning, the courageous whistleblower who has been in prison for eleven months for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury in the case of Julian Assange, have filed a new motion in federal court demanding her release.
German Education Minister Karliczek supports right-wing extremist professor Jörg Baberowski
By Johannes Stern, 20 February 2020
The German government is defending the right-wing extremist professor after he threatened and physically attacked IYSSE spokesperson Sven Wurm on the campus of Berlin’s Humboldt University.
Erfurt, Germany: 20,000 demonstrate against fascism
Germany: Left Party proposes a Christian Democrat as state premier in Thuringia
By Ulrich Rippert, 20 February 2020
The Left Party is forging an alliance of all establishment parties in order to strengthen the state apparatus and implement a policy of blatant social inequality.
Labor Party leads Australian attack on British government over Huawei
By Mike Head, 20 February 2020
The line-up behind the US confrontation with China sheds further light on the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
US slaps sanctions on Russian oil company trading with Venezuela
By Bill Van Auken, 20 February 2020
The unilateral sanctions are aimed at tightening the US blockade of Venezuela’s crisis-ridden economy.
Tens of thousands of UK university staff begin 14 days of strikes
By Simon Whelan and Robert Stevens, 20 February 2020
A series of rolling actions over the next three weeks will culminate in a week-long strike beginning March 9.
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.”
By our reporter, 20 February 2020
Claire Mercer is leading a fight to end the use of smart motorways in the UK. Claire’s husband, Jason, was tragically killed on a “smart motorway” on a section of the M1, near Sheffield, on June 7, 2019.
Canada’s NDP rushes to Trudeau’s rescue amid “national crisis” over pipeline protests
By Roger Jordan, 20 February 2020
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh strategized with the prime minister behind closed doors on how to bring a quick end to the Native anti-pipeline protests, then led his party in voting with the government to fast-track adoption of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Quebec Premier’s Facebook page flooded with anti-Muslim messages
By Louis Girard, 20 February 2020
The deluge of hate messages demonstrates, yet again, that the chauvinist policies of Premier Legault and the entire ruling elite are encouraging the most reactionary elements.
Quebec: Students protest against CAQ’s chauvinist “secularism” law
“What happened to the eight hour day?”
GM workers in Lansing oppose forced overtime, UAW treachery
By George Kirby and Tim Rivers, 20 February 2020
Workers at the Lansing Delta Township plant are on “emergency status” through August, as the company tries to claw back the cost of last year’s strike on the backs of workers.
14,000 Safeway workers in Northern California prepare for possible strike
By Evan Winters, 20 February 2020
The United Food and Commercial Workers union has worked to isolate Safeway workers and kept them on the job 18 months after their contract expired.
20,000 flee Kazakhstan after inter-ethnic violence claims 11 lives
By David Levine, 20 February 2020
The inter-ethnic violence affected predominantly Dungan villages in the southeast of Kazakhstan.
East Timor’s coalition government collapses
By Patrick O’Connor, 20 February 2020
East Timor’s political and economic crisis is escalating amid the sharpened regional rivalry between China and the US and its ally Australia.
19 February 2020
Assange defence team: “The empire calls it espionage. We call it journalism”
By Thomas Scripps, 19 February 2020
Australian MPs visit Julian Assange at Belmarsh Prison
By Oscar Grenfell, 19 February 2020
German politicians and cultural professionals demand release of Julian Assange
By Peter Schwarz, 19 February 2020
More on the campaign to defend Julian Assange »
US evacuates Americans from quarantined cruise ship in Japan
By Benjamin Mateus, 19 February 2020
Australian universities slash jobs in response to coronavirus travel ban impact
Chinese government defends its response to coronavirus
Washington backs Turkey as border clashes mount with Syria and Russia
By Ulaş Ateşci, 19 February 2020
Behind promises of dialogue, Canadian government prepares state assault on native protests
By Keith Jones, 19 February 2020
Canada: Native protests continue to cripple rail network
China denounces US “lies” at the Munich Security Conference
By Peter Symonds, 19 February 2020
German Defence Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer delivers pro-war speech at Munich Security Conference
US imposes travel ban on Sri Lankan army chief
By K. Ratnayake, 19 February 2020
Russian state frame-up results in draconian prison sentences for left-wing youth
By Clara Weiss, 19 February 2020
Claire Mercer speaks on the campaign to abolish UK smart motorways—Part 1
By Robert Stevens, 19 February 2020
At least 2.5 million children in Germany live in poverty
By Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 19 February 2020
McClatchy newspaper chain files for bankruptcy
By Jessica Goldstein, 19 February 2020
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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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Los mercados se disparan con anuncios de despidos
Por Nick Beams, 20 febrero 2020
El empobrecimiento de la clase obrera no es un resultado accidental de la acumulación de riqueza a manos de una rapaz oligarquía financiera, ambos están directamente vinculados.
El Lancet publica una carta de médicos: "Poner fin a la tortura y la desatención a la salud de Julian Assange"
Por Laura Tiernan, 20 febrero 2020
La destacada revista médica mundial publica una carta de 117 médicos de 18 países que piden acción urgente para salvarle la vida al editor de WikiLeaks.
¡Detengan todas las redadas antiinmigrantes! ¡Abolir ICE y CBP! ¡Por una política socialista de fronteras abiertas!
Por Norissa Santa Cruz, 20 febrero 2020
El despliegue de la policía de Trump de fuerzas policiales militarizadas en ciudades de todo el país tiene como objetivo aterrorizar a los vecindarios inmigrantes y es una advertencia para toda la clase trabajadora. a toda la clase trabajadora.
El peronismo se apoya en el FIT-U para implementar austeridad del FMI en Argentina
Por Andrea Lobo, 20 febrero 2020
Ante un creciente enojo popular, los partidos y sindicatos peronistas están dependiendo del Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores-Unidad (FIT-U) para prevenir que los trabajadores se movilicen independientemente contra la austeridad del FMI.
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Börsenkurse steigen, während Konzerne Massenentlassungen ankündigen
Nick Beams, 20. Februar 2020
Die Verarmung der Arbeiterklasse ist kein zufälliges Ergebnis der Anhäufung von Reichtum durch eine räuberische Finanzoligarchie – beides ist direkt miteinander verbunden.
Assanges Verteidiger: „Das Imperium nennt es Spionage, wir nennen es Journalismus“
Thomas Scripps, 20. Februar 2020
An der gut besuchten Pressekonferenz nahmen WikiLeaks-Chefredakteur Kristinn Hrafnsson, die Anwältin Jennifer Robinson und die australischen Abgeordneten Andrew Wilkie und George Christensen teil.
Bildungsministerin Karliczek unterstützt rechtsradikalen Professor Baberowski
Johannes Stern, 20. Februar 2020
Die Bundesregierung verteidigt den rechtsradikalen Professor Jörg Baberowski, nachdem dieser den Sprecher der IYSSE, Sven Wurm, auf dem Campus der HU bedroht und tätlich angegriffen hat.
Rechtsextreme Terrorgruppe plante Massenmord an Muslimen
Gregor Link, 20. Februar 2020
Die Verhaftung von zwölf Rechtsextremisten wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die mörderischen Machenschaften rechter Terrornetzwerke in Deutschland.
70. Berlinale: Spannende Blicke auf die gesellschaftliche Realität
Verena Nees, 20. Februar 2020
Heute beginnt die 70. Berlinale, das weltgrößte Publikums-Filmfestival. Bis 1. März werden insgesamt 342 Filme aus 71 Produktionsländern gezeigt.
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Представитель ИМССР подает дисциплинарную жалобу против правого экстремистского профессора Университета им. Гумбольдта в Берлине
Свен Вурм, 19 февраля 2020 г.
После физического нападения профессора Йорга Баберовски на Свена Вурма, представителя ИМССР в Гумбольдтском университете, Вурм подал официальную дисциплинарную жалобу в университетскую администрацию.
New in Portuguese
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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Saskatchewan: La raffinerie FCL exige plus de concessions de ses 750 travailleurs en lock-out
Carl Bronski, 17 février 2020
Encouragée par le soutien indéfectible du gouvernement provincial de Moe, de la police et des tribunaux et par les reculs d'Unifor, la FCL intensifie ses demandes de concessions.
Québec: la page Facebook du premier ministre inondée de messages anti-musulmans
Louis Girard, 17 février 2020
Ce déluge de messages haineux souligne à quel point le chauvinisme de Legault et sa CAQ alimente les éléments les plus réactionnaires.
Les leçons d’octobre: la crise politique au sein du parti bolchévique à la veille de la prise du pouvoir
Chris Marsden, 17 février 2020
La crise qui a éclaté dans le parti bolchévique à la veille de l’insurrection d’octobre nous permet d’examiner la question essentielle du rôle irremplaçable du parti révolutionnaire sous le microscope, et de comprendre plus profondément les tâches de notre parti et de ses cadres aujourd’hui.
New in Norwegian
#MeToo kollaborerer med fascistiske krefter for å blokkere visning av Polanskis film J’Accuse (En offiser og en spion)
Alex Lantier, 17. februar 2020
Alliert med den reaksjonære Macron-regjeringen krever #MeToo-kampanjen sensur av Polanskis strålende beretning om den antisemittiske skueprosessen mot kaptein Alfred Dreyfus, som var en særegen begivenhet i moderne fransk historie.
Sanders’ oppsving i meningsmålingene utløser motangrep fra Det demokratiske partiets etablissement
Patrick Martin, 17. februar 2020
Den økende støtten til en selvbenevnt «demokratisk sosialist» har blitt møtt av antikommunist-raljeringer og bakvaskelser i mediene.
Sikkerhetskonferansen i München 2020
Steinmaier krever tysk-europeisk stormaktspolitikk
Johannes Stern, 17. februar 2020
Styringsklassen i Tyskland vil besluttsomt anvende alle midler for å drive frem tilbakevendingen til militarisme. Det ble understreket av den tyske forbundspresidenten Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) i hans åpningstale på årets sikkerhetskonferanse i München.
President for Berlins Humboldt Universitet forsvarer professor Jörg Baberowskis fysiske angrep på venstreorientert student
Christoph Vandreier, 17. februar 2020
Med sin sympatierklæring, og med avvisningen av klart og tydelig å fordømme angrepet, har administrasjonens presiden Sabine Kunst gitt voldelige høyreekstremister en blankosjekk for å intimidere og angripe deres politiske motstandere ved universitetet.
USA utførte Suleimani-attentatet for å kvele Irans samtaler med Persiabukt-monarkiene
Bill Van Auken, 17. februar 2020
Drapet på Irans øverste general ble utført i forsøk på å hamre sammen igjen Washingtons smuldrende allianser i Midtøsten.
India: BJP taper regionvalg i Dehli, der velgerne avviser kommunalisme
Rohantha De Silva, 17. februar 2020
Delhi har vært et fokuspunkt for de landsdekkende protestene mot BJPs antimuslimske statsborgerskapslov CAA.
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Humboldt’taki IYSSE sözcüsü, Profesör Baberowski aleyhine disiplin soruşturması talep etti
Sven Wurm, 12 Şubat 2020
Berlin Humboldt Üniversitesi IYSSE sözcüsü Sven Wurm, kendisine fiziksel olarak saldırmasının ardından Profesör Jörg Baberowski aleyhine üniversite yönetimine şikayet dilekçesi sundu.
Avustralya ile Yeni Zelanda’da Assange’a ve Manning’e özgürlük mitingleri düzenleniyor
SEP (Avustralya) ve SEG (Yeni Zelanda), 12 Şubat 2020
SEP, Assange’ın özgürlüğünü sağlamaya ve tüm demokratik hakları savunmaya gerçekten kararlı olan tüm grupların ve bireylerin mitinglere katılmasını memnuniyetle karşılayacaktır.
WRP Troçkizme Nasıl İhanet Etti?
WRP Geri
Kalmış Ülkelerdeki Proletaryayı Terk Ediyor
12 Şubat 2020
WRP’nin Ortadoğu’daki burjuva rejimlerle kurduğu ilkesiz ilişkiler, proleter olmayan, yabancı sınıfsal güçlere yönelerek partinin siyasi sorunlarının üstesinden gelme girişimiydi.
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Growing support for Julian Assange on eve of extradition hearings
20 February 2020
The fight for Assange’s freedom requires the mobilisation of the working class, not moral appeals to capitalist politicians.
Featured Commentary
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.”
Election 2020
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
The conditions facing the graduate students are the conditions of an entire generation.
UC Santa Cruz graduate students call for expansion of wildcat strike
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
By Socialist Equality Party (US), 18 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!
Commentary
“For once we actually know where the money is coming from”
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams covers for the billionaire Bloomberg
By Niles Niemuth, 20 February 2020
Abrams said Bloomberg’s spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the Democratic nomination is like a candidate “using their dog” to get support.
Markets soar as companies announce mass layoffs
By Nick Beams, 19 February 2020
Sanders fails to get endorsement from Chicago Teachers Union
By Kristina Betinis, 19 February 2020
Sanders’ surge in the polls triggers new provocations by media, Democratic establishment
By Barry Grey, 19 February 2020
New York Times falsifies history to claim Sanders is “transforming” the Democratic Party
By Eric London and Tom Mackaman, 17 February 2020
Peronism leans on the pseudo-left FIT-U to implement IMF austerity in Argentina
By Andrea Lobo, 19 February 2020
US-Europe conflict erupts at Munich
By Andre Damon, 18 February 2020
Spectre of the 1930s
Sound the alarm! Political conspiracy and the resurgence of fascism in Germany
By David North and Johannes Stern, 14 February 2020
The decade of socialist revolution begins
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 3 January 2020
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Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture, directed by Stephen Bennett
By Jean Shaoul, 20 February 2020
“We have a system that punished the whistle blowers like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, not the perpetrators of torture”—Professor Nils Melzer
“What we think changes how we act.”
Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill dead at 64
By Erik Schreiber, 19 February 2020
Free Assange and Manning
Australia: Students and workers demand release of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
By our reporters, 20 February 2020
“Trillions are spent on war, which creates refugees, kills children and workers, but the people who make these wars happen are roaming free whilst Assange is being murdered by the state.”
Courage Foundation holds public meeting in New York City in defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
By Fred Mazelis, 18 February 2020
Support grows for New Zealand rallies to free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
By Tom Peters, 18 February 2020
Rank-and-file teachers in Sydney adopt resolution defending Assange and Manning
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 12 February 2020
The resolution is the outcome of the initiative of the Committee For Public Education, acting independently of the trade union apparatus.
Dr. Lissa Johnson calls for workers and young people to rally in defence of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
11 February 2020
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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.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
Letter to members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA)
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US), 14 February 2020
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
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
Seventy-five years after World War II: The ideological preparations for fascism and war
IYSSE holds second meeting in campaign for student parliament elections at Berlin’s Humboldt University
By our reporters, 28 January 2020
No to war against Iran! For an international movement against capitalism and war!
IYSSE holds first meeting in campaign for student parliament elections at Berlin’s Humboldt University
This week in history: February 17-23
25 years ago: Algerian regime massacres prisoners after uprising
On February 21, 1995, an uprising by Islamic political prisoners at the Serkadji prison in the Kasbah neighborhood of Algeria began, resulting in the death of four guards.
50 years ago: Thousands of workers march to support striking Newark teachers
On February 23, 1970, thousands of workers from various sections of industry gathered at the Military Park Hotel and staged a march through downtown Newark.
75 years ago: US and Japan fight in Battle of Iwo Jima
On February 16, 1945, the US Navy and Marine Corps launched a massive assault on Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 1,300 kilometers due south of mainland Japan.
100 years ago: Imperialist powers claim Turkish territory
On February 17, 1920, representatives of Britain, France and Italy declared that the Dardanelles and the Bosporus in Turkey would become “international” territories.
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Socialist Equality Party Public Meeting in London:
Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning! No US extradition!
Rallies in Australia and NZ to demand freedom for Assange and Manning. No to US extradition!
SEP builds support for Free Assange and Manning rallies in Australia
Autoworkers Struggles
Workers at GM’s Silao, Mexico plant charge union with stuffing ballots during recognition vote
By Andrea Lobo, 14 February 2020
Changes in the car industry threaten Slovakian workers
Ford shakes up management, prepares for more cuts after 99 percent profit decline
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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
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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.
Autoworkers Struggles
GM workers in Mexico thank Australian workers for support
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 10 January 2020
GM workers in Mexico thank US workers for donating to their defense fund
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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
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 Rogovin, 30 August 2019
Now available from Mehring Books
Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition by Vadim Z. Rogovin
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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