US issues new threats of war for oil against Venezuela
By Eric London, 4 February 2019
A military intervention in Venezuela—population 30 million—could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people and transform Latin America into an imperialist slaughterhouse.
Spanish Socialist Party government backs US-led coup in Venezuela
By Alejandro López, 4 February 2019
The Venezuelan coup is exposing the PSOE government and its pro-imperialist ally, the pseudo-left Podemos party.
European Parliament backs US-led coup in Venezuela
US escalates threats against Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil and the geopolitics of the US-backed coup
Germany and EU support US-engineered coup in Venezuela
Twelfth “yellow vest” protest marches against police repression in France
By Anthony Torres, 4 February 2019
As unions prepare to call a token one-day strike tomorrow, masses of “yellow vest” protesters oppose the unions’ attempts to take over and strangle their movement.
Over a thousand federal inmates in New York City jail held for more than a week in dark, frigid conditions
By Philip Guelpa, 4 February 2019
Over 1,600 inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn have been without heat and hot water, and with limited electricity and communications since a fire last Sunday.
Private contract workers left without pay following federal government shutdown
By Nick Barrickman, 4 February 2019
The plight of contract workers is a further exposure of the right-wing role of the federal employee unions.
More US drug price hikes in 2019
By Alex Johnson, 4 February 2019
According to Reuters, drug manufacturers raised the prices of more than 250 prescription drugs, including the world’s top-selling medicine, Humira.
Florida schools to allow real-time video monitoring by the police
By our reporter, 4 February 2019
New measures for the militarization of schools are being adopted one year after the Parkland massacre, while funding for public education, mental health and school counselors continue to be cut.
Union shuts down Audi strike in Hungary
By Markus Salzmann, 4 February 2019
The one-week strike by 12,000 workers at the Hungarian Audi plant in Györ had a massive impact on production in several factories in Europe and shook the auto industry.
Britain’s secret propaganda “Integrity Initiative” targets Russia
By Thomas Scripps, 4 February 2019
The Institute for Statecraft and Integrity Initiative’s work is overseen by military intelligence operatives and run in service to the Ministry of Defence on behalf of a network of pro-British and US imperialist outfits.
Brexit, Free Ports and the super-exploitation of the working class
By Steve James, 4 February 2019
Both Tory and Labour politicians support new Free Port deregulation zones.
Facebook’s censor Nick Clegg outlines plans for European elections
Australia: Telstra workers vote on industrial action amid mass sackings
By Oscar Grenfell, 4 February 2019
The unions covering the telecommunications firm have made clear they will seek to enforce its 9,500 job cuts over the next four years.
Sri Lanka: 16 families homeless after fire at Bogawantalawa tea plantation
By A. Suresh and M. Thevarajah, 4 February 2019
The disaster again highlights the difficult and dangerous conditions facing Sri Lankan plantation workers and their families.
New in Spanish
Estados Unidos desecha el tratado INF: otro paso hacia una guerra nuclear
Andre Damon, 4 febrero 2019
El retiro estadounidense del tratado de Fuerzas Nucleares de Rango Intermedio marca una escalada en los esfuerzos de Washington de afianzar su hegemonía a través de medios militares.
La huelga de Matamoros se expande mientras la clase gobernante mexicana advierte sobre una ola huelguística nacional
Eric London and Andrea Lobo, 4 febrero 2019
El principal diario financiero del país escribió: “En un dos por tres se rompió la estabilidad laboral que habíamos mantenido por décadas, con cientos de miles de renegociaciones salariales exitosas. Nova a parar ahí”.
Cómo el WRP traicionó al trotskismo:1973-1985
23. Libia: Cómo funcionaba el bloque
Declaración del Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional, 4 febrero
Este es el texto del análisis realizado en el verano de 1986 por el Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional sobre el colapso de su sección británica, el Workers Revolutionary Party.
GM despedirá a 4.250 trabajadores asalariados en América del Norte a partir del lunes
Shannon Jones, 4 febrero 2019
A medida que aumenta la ira sobre los planes de GM de recortar 15.000 empleos en los EE. UU. y Canadá, los sindicatos United Auto Workers y Unifor están incrementando su campaña antimexicana para dividir a los trabajadores del automóvil por su nacionalidad y bloquear la acción unida internacionalmente para combatir los despidos.
EUA intensifica amenazas contra Venezuela
Bill Van Auken, 4 febrero
Funcionarios estadounidenses no han ocultado que el control del petróleo venezolano y su rechazo de éste a Rusia y China son la fuerza motriz del golpe.
El Parlamento Europeo apoya el golpe de Estado en Venezuela dirigido por los EUA
Alex Lantier y Alejandro Lopez, 4 febrero 2019
El apoyo de las potencias europeas a un golpe descarado por parte de los EUA en América Latina pone en evidencia que ellos no son menos despiadados en su afirmación de sus intereses imperialistas depredadores.
La ola de huelgas en Portugal se intensifica
Paul Mitchell, 4 febrero 2019
A medida que se desarrolla el movimiento de huelga, los sindicatos han tratado de disipar una oposición unida u mantenerlas como huelgas regionales y sectoriales dirigidas a suplicar a varios ministros, al parlamento y al presidente que cambien de rumbo.
New in French
Acte XII: les «gilets jaunes» rendent hommage aux victimes de la répression
Anthony Torres, 4 février 2019
Malgré la mobilisation demain de la CGT, la masse des «gilets jaunes» reste hostile envers les tentatives des appareils syndicaux de récupérer leur lutte.
GM va licencier 4250 salariés en Amérique du Nord à partir de lundi
Shannon Jones, 4 février 2019
Alors que la colère monte contre le plan de GM de supprimer 15.000 emplois aux États-Unis et au Canada, les syndicats UAW et Unifor accentuent leur campagne nationaliste contre les Mexicains pour diviser les travailleurs et bloquer toute action unie visant à combattre les licenciements.
La grève de Matamoros s'intensifie alors que la classe dirigeante mexicaine craint une vague de grève nationale
Eric London et Andrea Lobo, 4 février 2019
Le principal journal financier a écrit: «Tout à coup, la stabilité du travail que nous avons maintenue pendant des décennies, avec des centaines de milliers de négociations contractuelles réussies, est brisée. Et ça ne s'arrêtera pas là.»
Le Parlement européen soutient le coup d’État monté par les Etats-Unis au Venezuela
Alex Lantier et Alejandro Lopez, 4 février 2019
Le soutien des puissances européennes au coup d’état éhonté américain en amérique latine souligne qu’elles n’en sont pas moins impitoyables dans la poursuite de leurs intérêts prédateurs impérialistes.
Point de presse à la veille de la rentrée parlementaire:
Québec Solidaire tend la main au gouvernement caquiste
Richard Dufour, 4 février 2019
Malgré ses prétentions à être «la véritable opposition» à la CAQ, le rôle de QS est d’étouffer le sentiment anti-capitaliste qui se développe parmi les jeunes et les travailleurs.
La chronologie d’une capitulation
Comment l’UTLA a orchestré la trahison des enseignants de Los Angeles
Alan Gilman, 4 février 2019
Bien conscient que l’entente de concession provoquerait une large opposition, le syndicat a pressé le passage de l’accord sans laisser le temps aux enseignants de l’étudier et d’en discuter.
New in Norwegian
Demonstrasjonen den 9. februar i Detroit mot nedleggelser av fabrikkanlegg
Programmet og strategien for å forsvare arbeidsplasser
Joseph Kishore, 2. februar 2019
Demonstrasjonen, kalt av WSWS og Styringskomitéen for Koalisjonen av grunnplankomitéer, er det første organiserte uttrykket for grunnplanopposisjon mot GMs arbeidsplassmassakre.
India: Fagforbundene forråder streiken til Tamil-Nadu-lærerne og offentlig ansatte
Arun Kumar, 2. februar 2019
Fagforeningene hevdet kynisk at opphevingen av alle streikehandlinger bare er «midlertidig».
Klasse, ikke Brexit, er Storbritannias store skille
Chris Marsden, 2. februar 2019
En ny rapport viser at tiår med nedskjæringer av sosialprogrammer har rammet alle arbeidere, uavhengig av om de stemte for å forlate eller forbli i EU.
New in German
9. Februar: Demonstration gegen die Schließung von Autowerken in Detroit
Das Programm und die Strategie zur Verteidigung von Arbeitsplätzen
Joseph Kishore, 2. Februar 2019
Die Demonstration, zu der die WSWS und die Leitung des Bündnisses für Aktionskomitees aufrufen, ist der erste organisierte Widerstand gegen das Arbeitsmassaker von GM.
Audi-Ungarn: Gewerkschaft beendet Streik, um weiteren Produktionsstopp in anderen Werken zu verhindern
Markus Salzmann, 2. Februar 2019
Der einwöchige Streik im ungarischen Audi-Werk in Györ hatte massive Auswirkungen auf andere Werke. Auf dem Höhepunkt seines Einflusses wurde er abgebrochen.
Halil Celik, ein Kämpfer für den Sozialismus (1961–2018)
Peter Schwarz, 2. Februar 2019
Am 31. Dezember 2018 starb Halil Celik, der Gründer und Leiter der Gruppe Sosyalist Eşitlik, die in der Türkei das Internationale Komitee der Vierten Internationale unterstützt, im Alter von 57 Jahren an einem Krebsleiden. Dieser Nachruf gibt einen Überblick über sein Leben.
„Globale Bedrohungsanalyse“ der USA richtet sich gegen China
Andre Damon, 2. Februar 2019
Die Bedrohungsanalyse ist Ausdruck der parteiübergreifenden Bestrebungen der USA, Chinas wirtschaftliche, militärische und technologische Entwicklung zu blockieren.
Amazon sucht ehemalige Bundeswehrangehörige als Führungspersonal
Dietmar Gaisenkersting, 2. Februar 2019
Die brutalen Arbeitsbedingungen und niedrigen Löhne in den Amazon-Lagerzentren sind nur durch ein ebenso brutales Regime durchzusetzen. Der Konzern sucht „Teamleiter mit militärischem Hintergrund“.
USA: Immigranten in Haftzentrum zwangsernährt
Patrick Martin, 2. Februar 2019
Die Trump-Regierung foltert Immigranten und Geflüchtete mit denselben brutalen Methoden, die in Guantanamo Bay und anderen CIA- Gefängnissen praktiziert werden.
New in Russian
Госдума ужесточает цензуру в Интернете на фоне забастовки 12 тысяч дальнобойщиков
Клара Вайс, 1 февраля 2019 г.
Законодательство является частью глобальных нападок на свободу слова в Интернете и кампании по ужесточению цензуры в отношении независимых новостных агентств.
Эта неделя в истории
100 лет назад: На Украине создан Совет Народных Комиссаров
1 февраля 2019 г.
28 января 1919 года в Харькове большевиками был учрежден Совет Народных Комиссаров в качестве правительства Советской Украины.
New in Urdu
جرمنی میں انقلابِ نومبر کے سوسال
اولرچ ریپرٹ اور پیٹر سکورز
جرمنی کے مزدور طبقے کی جنگ اور بادشاہت کے خلاف بغاوت اپنے عروج کو پہنچی اور اُس نے سرمایہ دارانہ نظام کو جنجھوڑ کررکھ دیاتھا۔
New in Turkish
Brezilya’daki maden faciasında 58 ölü ve yüzlerce kayıp
Gabriel Lemos, 30 Ocak 2019
13 milyon metreküp demir cevheri atığının çiftliklere, köylere ve çevreye yayılmasının ardından, 300'den fazla insan kayboldu; doğrulanan rakamlara göre 58 kişi öldü.
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Perspective
The Governor Ralph Northam affair
4 February 2019
The Virginia governor is under mounting pressure to resign after a 35-year-old incident of his wearing blackface was made public.
February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings
“We need to understand we all face the same struggle”
Broad support for February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings
By our reporters, 4 February 2019
In recent days many workers have contacted the World Socialist Web Site to express support for the fight against plant shutdown and layoffs.
“We are being called to action by our brothers and sisters around the world to join this fight”
Autoworkers call for support for February 9 march against GM plant closings
February 9 demonstration against auto plant closures in Detroit
The program and strategy to defend jobs
By Joseph Kishore, 1 February 2019
The demonstration, called by the WSWS and the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees, is the first organized expression of rank-and-file opposition to GM’s jobs massacre.
GM to lay off 4,250 salaried workers in North America starting Monday
By Shannon Jones, 2 February 2019
Students and youth must join the fight to oppose GM job cuts!
By International Youth and Students for Social Equality US, 31 January 2019
No layoffs! No concessions!
Autoworkers call for demonstration February 9 to fight GM plant closings
By Jerry White, 12 January 2019
Detroit autoworkers support striking Mexican workers
"The best thing to do would be to unify with the American workers." Share this video to promote the March to Fight GM Plant Closures on February 9.
Defend the Matamoros workers! For a united fight by US, Canadian and Mexican workers to defend jobs and decent living standards!
March on February 9 to oppose GM job cuts!
the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees, 29 January 2019
Fight the Ford layoffs! Build rank-and-file committees to unite autoworkers across Europe!
Commentary
The US pseudo-left’s conspiracy of silence on the Matamoros workers’ rebellion
By Alex González, 4 February 2019
Through its dishonest silence, the US pseudo-left is demonstrating its hostility to the courageous struggle of one of the most oppressed sections of the international working class.
The US scraps the INF treaty: Another step toward nuclear war
By Andre Damon, 2 February 2019
No deal reached at US-China trade meeting
By Nick Beams, 2 February 2019
The Fed’s interest rate U-turn: Some economic and political conclusions
By Nick Beams, 2 February 2019
Fascists march in Auschwitz
By Clara Weiss, 31 January 2019
The political role of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
By Genevieve Leigh, 31 January 2019
Class, not Brexit, is Britain’s great divide
By Chris Marsden, 1 February 2019
The Strategy of International Class Struggle and the Political Fight Against Capitalist Reaction in 2019
By James Cogan, Joseph Kishore and David North, 3 January 2019
One hundred years since the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
By Peter Schwarz, 15 January 2019
Obituary
Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018)
By Peter Schwarz, 1 February 2019
On December 31, 2018, Halil Celik, founder and leader of the group Sosyalist Eşitlik, which supports the International Committee of the Fourth International in Turkey, died of cancer at the age of 57. This obituary presents an overview of his life.
In memory of Halil Celik (1961–2018)
This week in history: February 4-10
25 years ago: Byron De La Beckwith convicted for 1963 assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers
Byron De La Beckwith, member of a white supremacist group, was convicted on February 5, 1994 for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist and head of the Mississippi state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
50 years ago: Millions strike in Italy
On February 5, 1969, millions of Italian workers participated in a one-day general strike called by the major labor federations to demand higher pensions.
75 years ago: Roosevelt moves to control Arabian oil
On February 6, 1944, the US government’s Petroleum Reserve Corporation, set up by President Franklin Roosevelt, unveiled its plans to construct a vast pipeline across Saudi Arabia to transport crude oil from the Arabian wells.
100 years ago: Seattle general strike begins
On February 6, 1919, 25,000 workers in Seattle, Washington walked out to join 35,000 shipyard workers already off the job, as a general strike virtually shut down the city.
Mehring Books
The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century published in Tamil
1 February 2019
The translation of David North’s book is vital for Tamil-speaking workers, youth and intellectuals on the Indian sub-continent, in Sri Lanka, and exile communities around the world.
Defend Julian Assange!
Rally to demand the Australian government acts to free Julian Assange!
Sydney Martin Place Amphitheatre, 2pm, March 3! Melbourne State Library, 1pm, March 10!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 25 January 2019
John Pilger to speak at March 3 Sydney rally to defend Julian Assange
Julian Assange issues “urgent” legal challenge against US extradition plans
More on the campaign to free Julian Assange »
Matamoros Auto Strike
Matamoros strike grows as Mexican ruling class warns of national strike wave
By Eric London and Andrea Lobo, 2 February 2019
The economics of the North American auto industry
How global auto parts corporations profit by exploiting Mexican workers
Worker in Mexico fired, beaten, censored, and falsely charged for protesting corporate abuses
Matamoros, Mexico maquiladora workers threatened with mass plant closures
70,000 strike at US-Mexico border
Help break the media blackout of the Matamoros strike by sharing this video.
Watch: A Texas Amazon worker's message to Matamoros workers
"Attention striking workers in Matamoros: I want you to know we have heard your here in the United states. We are with you and we support you." Help break the media blackout of the Matamoros strike by sharing this video.
Mexican government prepares “legal” pretext for end of Matamoros strike
By Alex González, 29 January 2019
Strikes by Hungarian Audi workers, Mexican auto parts workers
The global struggle of autoworkers
Matamoros strike at a crossroads as Mexican government orders crackdown
Unifor launches anti-Mexican boycott as diversion from fight over Oshawa closure
As strike expands in the maquiladoras
Mexican auto parts workers explain how they formed strike committees
More on the Matamoros workers rebellion »
Workers Struggles
“We are just another package that can be replaced”
FedEx, UPS workers outraged after Illinois truck driver dies on the job in extreme cold weather
By George Marlowe, 2 February 2019
Lawsuit alleges Amazon caused worker’s death
By Jeff Lusanne, 2 February 2019
Portugal’s strike wave intensifies
By Paul Mitchell, 2 February 2019
United Steelworkers announces concessions contract agreement with Shell Oil
By Jessica Goldstein, 2 February 2019
Florida education commissioner advocates widespread privatization
By Jean Bellevie and Matthew MacEgan, 2 February 2019
The political questions facing US oil workers in the 2019 contract negotiations
West Virginia teachers angered over renewed attack on public education
Sacramento school district threatens bankruptcy to extort concessions from teachers
After sellout of Los Angeles teachers strike, new attacks on public schools coming
India: Unions betray Tamil Nadu teachers’ and government workers’ strike
By Arun Kumar, 1 February 2019
Indian state government fires hundreds of teachers as Tamil Nadu strike faces a crossroads
The political significance of India’s two-day general strike
Berlin teachers and social workers strike for better working conditions
By our reporters, 31 January 2019
Sri Lankan plantation workers protest unions’ sellout wage deal
By M. Thevarajah and W.A. Sunil, 29 January 2019
Oppose the Sri Lankan plantation unions’ sellout agreement!
An appeal from a UK rail worker for a joint fight of rail, bus and tram workers across Europe
Second nationwide strike by New Zealand doctors
Arts Review
Leyla McCalla’s Capitalist Blues: Keeping one’s eyes open
By Matthew Brennan, 2 February 2019
Trained as a classical cellist, McCalla’s eventual decision to pursue folk-based music and song-writing led her to the rich New Orleans music environment where she has been a fixture for much of the past decade.
Vanity Fair: A new television adaptation of the great 19th century novel
By David Walsh, 1 February 2019
Beautiful Boy: Part of the truth about drug addiction
By Joanne Laurier, 30 January 2019
IYSSE
Oppose political censorship and fascist threats against the ISO and DSA in Portland!
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at PSU, 31 January 2019
Two political meetings on college campuses in Portland were shut down by campus police after provocations from the far-right group Patriot Prayer.
Successful election result for IYSSE at Humboldt University in Berlin
By the IYSSE chapter at Humboldt University, 26 January 2019
Final IYSSE election meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin
How can the rise of the far-right be stopped?
Right-wing Humboldt University Professor Jorg Baberowski threatens students
The fight to defend public education
The timeline of a sellout
How the UTLA orchestrated the betrayal of Los Angeles teachers
By Alan Gilman, 25 January 2019
“It was rushed. It was a farce”
Los Angeles teachers livid over union’s betrayal of strike
ICFI meeting announcement
Indian Trotskyists campaign for Kolkata meeting to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
By Arun Kumar and Ritwik Mitter, 26 January 2019
Indian university students discuss the rising danger of war and the betrayal by the Stalinist parties of the working class.
Indian Trotskyists in Kolkata to celebrate 80 years of the Fourth International
7 January 2019
The Kolkata meeting will review the essential political lessons of the protracted struggle of the Fourth International and their relevance to the fight for socialist internationalism today.
Security and the Fourth International
New book now available
Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement
By Mehring Books, 21 January 2019
The WSWS announces the release of a new book, Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement, by Eric London.
The origins and findings of the Security and the Fourth International investigation
By Eric London, 14 November 2018
Seventy-eight years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
By Eric London and David North, 21 August 2018
The Fight Against Postmodernism
Widespread student support for beleaguered professor Peter Boghossian
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Portland State University, 17 January 2019
Portland State University threatens to fire Peter Boghossian for authoring “Grievance Studies” hoax
The “Grievance Studies” hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans
Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
Socialist Equality Party takes legal action against surveillance by German secret service
By the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, 10 January 2019
Dr. Peer Stolle, the lawyer for the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, has submitted formal notice in writing to the German Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution. The text of the letter is published here.
International Committee of the Fourth International
The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
Victory of the Trotskyists in the 1985–1986 split in the ICFI
By Saman Gunadasa and K. Ratnayake, 29 December 2018
David North addresses New Zealand meeting celebrating 80 years of the Fourth International
By our reporters, 11 December 2018
80th anniversary of the Fourth International celebrated in Melbourne with public lecture
Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today
By David North, 9 October 2018
On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
Book Review
Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA
By Alex Lantier, 14 December 2018
Rohini Hensman’s book, issued by the International Socialist Organization’s (ISO) Haymarket Books publishing house, is an endorsement of imperialist war.
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