2 October 2020
The pandemic Depression: Bailed-out US airlines slash tens of thousands of jobs
By Genevieve Leigh, 2 October 2020
Millions of workers are being forced to choose between putting themselves at risk of catching the deadly virus and putting food on the table for their families.
Trump presses threats of violence, voter suppression
By Patrick Martin, 2 October 2020
The Republican Party is emboldened in its attacks on working people by the cowardice of the Democrats and the Biden campaign.
UK schools told “anti-capitalist” teaching prohibited
By Julie Hyland, 2 October 2020
The guidance builds on the Prevent strategy, first implemented by the Blair Labour government, which targeted Muslims as potential extremists and required schools to report anyone they deemed “vulnerable to radicalisation.”
Turkish government lied on COVID-19 infection and death statistics
By Ulaş Ateşçi, 2 October 2020
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca acknowledged that the Turkish government deliberately downplayed the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, endangering public health.
“The unions were like ghosts throughout the pandemic”
Istanbul municipal workers speak out against trade unions, herd immunity policy
By our correspondents, 2 October 2020
Nineteen-year-old North Carolina university student in “tremendous shape” dies from COVID-19
By Harvey Simpkins, 2 October 2020
Chad Dorrill contracted the virus after his return to Appalachian State University for fall classes.
After teacher dies of COVID-19 in rural Michigan, Detroit educators call for unified fight against unsafe school openings
By The Detroit Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, 2 October 2020
“We pledge to step up our fight to unify educators across the state around demands that put the well-being of our children, co-workers and communities first.”
Coronavirus in the UK: A poor schools’ pandemic
By Margot Miller, 2 October 2020
Private schools have no worries about supply cover or getting their pupils and staff tested for the virus.
Report exposes huge scale of COVID-19 infections in UK food processing industry
By Barry Mason, 2 October 2020
The government and its agencies have done everything to play down the scale of the spread of the virus, particularly in workplaces, to keep the profits rolling in.
As pandemic resurges, Canada’s governments press forward with reckless back-to-work drive
By Roger Jordan, 2 October 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is surging across Canada, with total new daily infections rapidly approaching 2,000—or more than four times the average just six weeks ago.
In another judicial travesty, Indian court exonerates BJP leaders in razing of Babri Masjid
By Deepal Jayasekera, 2 October 2020
Wednesday’s verdict will embolden the Hindu right, Narendra Modi and the BJP in their communal provocations and assault on the social and democratic rights of India’s toilers.
“It was a slice of heaven... That was my sanctuary.”
Evacuees describe devastation as California fires rage
By Linda Rios, 2 October 2020
So far this year over 8,100 fires have erupted throughout California, scorching close to 4 million acres. Five of the six largest fires in state history have occurred this year alone.
Sudden forced eviction of Tennessee encampment leaves 50 homeless inhabitants struggling to find shelter
By Zac Thorton, 2 October 2020
Despite having lived at the site for years, the Chattanooga camp’s inhabitants received no notice of the impending evictions, leaving them desperate and scrambling to find shelter this week.
Former UAW President Dennis Williams pleads guilty to embezzlement, facing slap-on-the-wrist sentence
By Shannon Jones, 2 October 2020
The charges Dennis Williams pled guilty to are mild considering the pervasive nature of the corruption and swindling that he oversaw during his long tenure as UAW secretary treasurer and later president.
Cleveland-Cliffs announces takeover of ArcelorMittal’s US operations
By Jessica Goldstein, 2 October 2020
The announced deal will position Cleveland-Cliffs as the top producer of flat-rolled steel and iron ore pellet in North America and intensify the restructuring of the global steel industry.
Australia Post workers denounce union-enforced restructure, call for independent rank-and-file committees
By Jim Franklin and Oscar Grenfell, 2 October 2020
“On the eve of the biggest battle of our lives, the union has gone around in the middle of the night and emptied our guns of bullets. Just as the war begins they take away our right to withdraw our labour.”
Australian Labor Party leader demands budget “discipline” and “back to work”
By Mike Head, 2 October 2020
Anthony Albanese’s main pitch is for big business to again rely on a trade union-supported Labor government in a period of economic and political crisis.
Australian waterfront union shuts down industrial action at Patrick Terminals
By Patrick Davies, 2 October 2020
The Maritime Union of Australia is determined to contain and isolate the dispute while signalling its willingness to negotiate and impose company demands.
1 October 2020
Russia, France denounce Turkey as Armenian-Azeri war escalates
By Alex Lantier, 1 October 2020
Armenian-Azeri war threatens to trigger Russia-Turkey clash
By Ulaş Ateşçi, 30 September 2020
Bailed-out US airlines escalate attack on jobs
By Jacob Crosse, 1 October 2020
With one million dead, governments abandon efforts to contain COVID-19 pandemic
Trump administration prepares anti-immigrant raids in Democratic Party-led “sanctuary cities” ahead of November election
By Trévon Austin, 1 October 2020
Evasions, anti-Russian demagogy at Comey hearing before US Senate
By Patrick Martin, 1 October 2020
JPMorgan pays $920 million settlement over illegal trades
By Nick Beams, 1 October 2020
French Medical Association denounces official inaction on pandemic
By Alex Lantier, 1 October 2020
Bridgestone, Total shut plants as COVID-19 layoffs sweep Europe
By Anthony Torres, 1 October 2020
Explosive outbreak of COVID-19 at British universities
By Simon Whelan, 1 October 2020
Safety committee denounces reopening of New York City schools
Stop the spread of COVID-19! Build rank-and-file safety committees to save lives! Prepare a nationwide strike to close unsafe schools!
By the New York City Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, 1 October 2020
The deadly outcome of school reopenings:
Four US school employees and two college students killed by COVID-19 this week
By Renae Cassimeda, 1 October 2020
Major wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate in Northern California
By Peter Ross, 1 October 2020
A wave of teacher protests spark staffing shortages and school closures across the US
By Emma Arceneaux, 30 September 2020
UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee hears report on Greek school occupations
By our reporter, 1 October 2020
For a London-wide strike to oppose the threat to life from COVID-19!
By the London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Safety Committee, 1 October 2020
Protest strikes in German public sector and local transport
By Marianne Arens and Andy Niklaus, 1 October 2020
Ukrainian miners strike for better pay and conditions in defiance of the unions
By Jason Melanovski, 1 October 2020
United Steelworkers isolate steelworker strike near Pittsburgh
By Samuel Davidson, 1 October 2020
Massive fire at Ohio auto parts plant threatens jobs and livelihoods of workers
By Katy Kinner, 1 October 2020
Detroit City Council defies public opposition and renews facial recognition contract
By Kevin Reed, 1 October 2020
Australian unions plead for continued secretive talks with government and employers
By Mike Head, 1 October 2020
Australia Post workers speak out against union-enforced COVID-19 dangers and cuts to conditions
By Jim Franklin and Oscar Grenfell, 1 October 2020
New in Chinese
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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Эта
неделя в истории
75 лет назад: Вьетнамские сталинисты начали
кровавую кампанию против троцкистского движения
26 сентября 2020 г.
На этой неделе в сентябре 1945 года вьетнамские сталинисты во главе с Хо Ши Мином развернули жестокую кампанию, направленную на ликвидацию вьетнамского троцкистского движения.
New in Turkish
Hükümet HDP’ye ve muhalefete yönelik baskıyı arttırıyor
Ulaş Ateşçi, 26 Eylül 2020
Dışarıdaki savaş ile içerideki polis devleti uygulamaları arasındaki doğrudan bağlantı, emperyalist savaşa karşı çıkmadan demokratik hakların savunulamayacağını göstermektedir.
New in Portuguese
Professores pernambucanos entram em greve contra reabertura homicida das escolas
Tomas Castanheira, 26 Setembro 2020
Os esforços da elite dominante brasileira em reabrir as escolas em meio à situação catastrófica da pandemia de COVID-19 estão se deparando com uma onda crescente de resistência.
New in Spanish
Tras exoneración de asesinos de Breonna Taylor: el camino a seguir en la lucha contra la violencia policial
Niles Niemuth, 28 septiembre 2020
La presencia ubicua de la violencia policial en EE.UU., con aproximadamente mil personas asesinadas cada año, está vinculada al aumento extremo de la desigualdad social y las tensiones de clases.
Mientras Trump nomina jurista de ultraderecha
Biden minimiza el peligro de un golpe electoral
Patrick Martin, 28 septiembre 2020
En una entrevista con MSNBC, el candidato presidencial demócrata trató de difundir la complacencia sobre la amenaza de dictadura de Trump.
Asesinato del ejército colombiano intensifica protestas contra violencia estatal
Andrea Lobo, 28 septiembre 2020
La ola de malestar está convergiendo con la oposición a la devastación causada por la guerra contrainsurgente del Estado, que ha cobrado más de 200.000 vidas de civiles.
El gobierno español del PSOE-Podemos reprime las protestas contra la política de inmunidad colectiva
Alejandro López, 28 septiembre 2020
Conforme el gobierno español amenaza con desplegar 7.500 soldados en Madrid en medio de un repunte del COVID-19 en toda Europa, esta represión supone una amenaza para toda la clase trabajadora.
Lecciones de la huelga de estudiantes de posgrado de la Universidad de Michigan
Jóvenes y Estudiantes Internacionales por la Igualdad Social (EE. UU.), 28 septiembre 2020
A lo largo del curso de la huelga, muchos estudiantes afirmaron admirablemente que su lucha no era sólo por la salud y la seguridad de ellos mismos, sino de la comunidad en su conjunto.
Decisión sobre la extradición de Assange programada para el próximo año
Thomas Scripps y Laura Tiernan, 28 septiembre 2020
Aceptando el argumento de la defensa de que cualquier cambio dramático en los hechos que rodean el caso antes del 13 de noviembre tendría que ser tenido en cuenta, Baraitser preguntó: "¿Qué impacto en su caso, digamos, tendrán las elecciones americanas?"
New in French
Pour une grève générale afin de stopper la résurgence de COVID-19 en Europe!
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Allemagne) et Socialist Equality Party (Royaume Uni) et Parti de l’égalité socialiste (France) et Sosyalist Eşitlik (Turquie), 26 septembre 2020
La campagne des gouvernements européens pour une réouverture complète des écoles, des lieux de travail et des lieux de rassemblement public a ouvert la voie à une résurgence dévastatrice du virus.
Pourquoi les démocrates ne luttent pas contre Trump?
Andre Damon, 26 septembre 2020
Les démocrates sont déterminés à empêcher l’intervention de la grande masse de la population en opposition à Trump, qui remettrait en cause les intérêts de l’oligarchie financière et les intérêts géopolitiques de l’impérialisme américain.
Les leçons de l'histoire: les élections 2000 et le nouveau « conflit irrépressible »
David North, 26 septembre 2020
Cette conférence a été prononcée par David North, rédacteur en chef du World Socialist Web Site et secrétaire national du Parti de l'égalité socialiste américain, le SEP (Socialist Equality Party), lors d'une réunion publique du SEP australien tenue le 3 décembre dernier à Sydney.
La contestation étudiante face à la politique d’immunité collective s’étend à toute la Grèce
Alex Lantier, 26 septembre 2020
Des lycéens ont défilé jeudi à Athènes et à Thessalonique alors que les occupations de lycées et les grèves des médecins, des travailleurs portuaires et des compagnies aériennes se répandent.
Pourquoi Unifor cache-t-il les détails de l’entente de principe conclue avec Ford Canada?
Les travailleurs de l'automobile doivent exiger une divulgation complète du contrat avant tout vote de ratification!
Carl Bronski, 26 septembre 2020
Si Unifor obtient gain de cause, les 6300 travailleurs de Ford Canada ne seront même pas autorisés à poser les yeux sur une copie de l’entente de principe avant d'être conduits sur la page de vote électronique lors de la réunion de ratification en ligne de ce dimanche.
New in German
Eine Million Corona-Tote: Regierungen geben die Pandemiebekämpfung auf
Andre Damon, 1. Oktober 2020
Die Herbst- und Wintermonate in Amerika und Europa werden voraussichtlich einen starken Anstieg der Corona-Fälle bringen.
Trump nutzt Wahldebatte für Aufruf zu faschistischer Gewalt
Joseph Kishore – Präsidentschaftskandidat der Socialist Equality Party (USA), 1. Oktober 2020
Trump wiederholte den Aufruf an seine Unterstützer in rechten Bürgerwehren, die Wahllokale zu überwachen und das Wahlergebnis nicht zu akzeptieren.
Etablierte Parteien wählen AfD-Mann in Gera zum Stadtratsvorsitzenden
Martin Nowak, 1. Oktober 2020
In Gera wurde Reinhard Etzrodt von der AfD parteiübergreifend zum deutschlandweit ersten Stadtratsvorsitzenden der rechtsextremen Partei gewählt
700 Schulen in Griechenland besetzt: „Schulen sind Zeitbomben für die öffentliche Gesundheit!“
Robert Stevens und John Vassilopoulos, 1. Oktober 2020
Mittlerweile sind mehr als ein Fünftel der 3.168 Oberschulen Griechenlands von Schülern besetzt.
Assange wird in den USA wie ein „Terrorist“ behandelt, sagt Ex-Gefängnisdirektorin
„Krieg gegen den Terror“ jetzt auch im Inland
Thomas Scripps und Laura Tiernan, 1. Oktober 2020
Bairds Aussage macht deutlich, dass Assange nun denselben CIA-Überstellungen und Foltermethoden zum Opfer fällt, die er als WikiLeaks-Verleger und Journalist mutig entlarvt hat.
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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Trump’s Operation Dictatorship: What the debate exposed
1 October 2020
The White House is the center of a fascistic conspiracy to overturn the Constitution and establish a presidential dictatorship.
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Announcing the Relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site on October 2, 2020
A statement by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board
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.
Featured Commentary
The ultra-right background of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
By Alan Gilman, 1 October 2020
Trump uses debate to incite fascist violence
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US president, 30 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
The Times has abandoned, without any public announcement or explanation, the central thesis that 1619, not 1776, was the “true founding” of the United States.
Why won’t the Democrats fight Trump?
By Andre Damon, 25 September 2020
Trump’s coup d’état election
By Joseph Kishore and David North, 24 September 2020
Lessons from history: The 2000 elections and the new “irrepressible conflict”
By David North, 25 September 2020
SEP US presidential election campaign
The Persecution of Julian Assange
Assange’s extradition hearing concludes at London’s Old Bailey, with decision due January 4
By Thomas Scripps, 2 October 2020
In a final affront to due process, Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused to admit into evidence a statement by veteran human rights campaigner and Assange’s instructing solicitor Gareth Peirce.
Watch: Stella Moris, partner of Julian Assange, delivers a statement outside the Old Bailey
2 October 2020
“This case is already chilling press freedom. It is a frontal attack on journalism, on the public’s right to know, and our ability to hold governments, both domestic and foreign, to account.”
Evidence of war crimes, torture, surveillance and assassination plots: Assange hearing nears final day
By Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan, 1 October 2020
A tale of two leaks
NYT hailed for publishing Trump’s tax returns, Assange pilloried for exposing DNC-Clinton corruption in 2016
By Oscar Grenfell, 30 September 2020
Former US prison warden testifies Assange will be treated like a “terrorist”: The “war on terror” comes home
By Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan, 30 September 2020
- Assange faces a fate “worse than death” in US prisons, witnesses tell court
- Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis: Assange is a “highly principled individual with enormous courage”
- Free Julian Assange! The political issues confronting educators in the fight for freedom of information
- Decision on Assange’s extradition set for next year
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Defend Dr. Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders
SEP and IYSSE meetings in Australia resolve to defend Dr. Scalice from Philippine Stalinist attacks
By Our reporters, 2 October 2020
“Scalice has helped clarify one of the big issues facing our generation: Stalinism. Through his scholarship, he has shown that Stalinism is the antithesis of Marxism and communism.”
Letters from the Philippines and Australia defend Dr. Joseph Scalice’s “meticulous and painstaking research”
By Our reporters, 1 October 2020
Historian Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist Sison’s foul imagery
By Joseph Scalice, 30 September 2020
“The fight here is not just to defend Dr. Scalice’s works but to oppose continuing historical revisionism”
More letters from the Philippines defending Dr. Joseph Scalice against libellous allegations by Communist Party founder Sison
By Our reporters, 29 September 2020
- Statements from the Philippines, Australia, Japan and South Korea defend Dr. Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders
- Educators must defend historian Joseph Scalice from Stalinist attacks
- IYSSE at UC Berkeley condemns Philippine Stalinist “slanders and falsehoods” against Dr. Joseph Scalice
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- Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist Sison’s lies that he is a “CIA agent”
Arts Review
Challenger: The Final Flight: A four-part docuseries on the 1986 disaster
By Joanne Laurier, 2 October 2020
Challenger: The Final Flight, a docuseries on Netflix, deals with the tragic explosion of NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986, which killed seven crew members.
A muse of postwar France: Singer and actress Juliette Gréco (1927-2020)
By Paul Bond, 1 October 2020
Toronto International Film Festival 2020: Part 3
Limbo, Gaza mon amour, The Disciple: Art is both richer and duller than life
By David Walsh, 30 September 2020
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
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)
Tenor Placido Domingo, defending his character and reputation, retracts “apologies” for alleged sexual harassment
By Fred Mazelis, 29 September 2020
Metropolitan Opera announces cancellation of entire 2020–2021 season
By Fred Mazelis, 26 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 one
By Frank Gaglioti, 15 September 2020
The precedents for disease eradication through international cooperation
Part two
Workers Struggles
British Gas strike vote; Nigerian unions sabotage struggle against price hikes; South African textile workers vote for national strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2 October 2020
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
History
Seventy-five years since the Stalinist murder of Vietnamese Trotskyist leader Ta Thu Thau
By Patrick Martin, 28 September 2020
The lessons of the 1953 mass uprising (hartal) in Sri Lanka
By Saman Gunadasa, 2 September 2020
80 Years Since the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part six
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
Socialist Equality Party
Public meeting: New Zealand’s COVID election, the breakdown of capitalism and the fight for socialism
By Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand), 28 September 2020
Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds online health workers’ forum
By our reporter, 29 September 2020
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
Commentary
Jacobin magazine pleads with Biden and the Democrats to fight Trump
By Genevieve Leigh, 29 September 2020
Trump’s tax returns and the parasitism of the financial oligarchy
By Patrick Martin, 29 September 2020
Is Trump preparing an “October Surprise”?
By Bill Van Auken, 28 September 2020
Washington D.C. proposes to remove the names of Jefferson, Franklin and others from public places
By Dominic Gustavo, 28 September 2020
After the exoneration of Breonna Taylor’s killers: The way forward in the fight against police violence
By Niles Niemuth, 26 September 2020
Lessons of the University of Michigan graduate student strike
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US), 26 September 2020
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
Trump on coronavirus pandemic: “Virtually nobody” affected
By Joseph Kishore—SEP candidate for US President, 23 September 2020
Jacobin magazine embraces Trump administration’s murderous “herd immunity” policy
By Andre Damon, 21 September 2020
Forty-eight years since Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines
By John Malvar, 23 September 2020
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
By Tom Carter, 21 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
This week in history: September 28-October 4
25 years ago: O.J. Simpson acquitted in murder trial
On October 3, 1995, retired American football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.
50 years ago: Egyptian President Nasser dies
On September 28, 1970, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt since 1956, died unexpectedly of a heart attack.
75 years ago: US General Patton demoted after opposing “denazification” in Germany
On September 28, 1945, US General George S. Patton was removed from his position as military governor of Bavaria in Allied-occupied Germany.
100 years ago: Chicago “Black Sox” baseball scandal begins
On September 28, 1920, seven players and one former player from the Chicago White Sox baseball team were indicted for entering into a conspiracy with organized crime figures to deliberately lose games in the 1919 World Series in return for money.
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
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
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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