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13 November 2018

As lame duck Congress convenes
Democrats seek agreements with Trump administration

By Patrick Martin, 13 November 2018

The likely leader of the new Democratic-controlled House, Nancy Pelosi, has dismissed opposition to Trumps war on immigrants, saying Democrats should not take the bait.

After midterm elections, Democrats call for bipartisan unity with Trump

On the eve of the US midterm elections: The political issues facing the working class

Someone is getting paid millions to provoke racism and hatred
US autoworkers oppose anti-immigrant campaign

By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 13 November 2018

Autoworkers in the Detroit area contacted by the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter spoke forcefully against the attempts by the Trump administration to whip up anti-immigrant hysteria.

Fort Wayne GM worker alleges UAW-management collusion in unjust termination

Prosecutor points to UAW culture of corruption as union officials face sentencing

More on autoworkers issues

New York teachers union pushes through concessions contract

By Steve Light, 13 November 2018

The United Federation of Teachers rammed through a contract that includes below inflation rate wages in order to prevent a strike in the largest school district in America.

The UFT says there is no giveback but there is plenty giveback
New York teachers angry as union hides givebacks in new contract

By Steve Light, 13 November 2018

Following state election defeats
Germanys grand coalition closes ranks and steps up right-wing offensive

By Johannes Stern, 13 November 2018

Germanys grand coalition has responded to growing opposition to its policies by intensifying its programme of militarism, rearmament and welfare cuts.

Bitter US-European tensions mark centenary of World War I armistice in Paris

The case of Hans-Georg Maassen and the struggle against police-state repression in Germany

BlackRock boss Merz applies to head Germanys ruling CDU

Thousands protest Trumps visit to Paris for centenary of World War I armistice

By our reporters, 13 November 2018

During the US presidents visit on November 11, thousands of people came out on Republic Square to protest war and austerity.

Polish government officials march with the far-right

By Clara Weiss, 13 November 2018

The open alignment of the Polish government with fascist forces is symptomatic of the extreme shift to the right of the European ruling class.

Its about safety but the train operating companies want to save money
UK rail worker speaks to the WSWS about dispute over Driver Only Operated trains

By our reporter, 13 November 2018

Rail workers in the UK have been fighting for over two years against the plans by the private rail franchises to introduce Driver Only Operated (DOO) trains.

Australian Socialist Equality Party National Secretary James Cogan addresses Grenfell Fire Forum

By our reporter, 13 November 2018

Cogan explained that a fire engulfing an entire apartment building could happen in hundreds of cities around the world.

Brazils Bolsonaro prepares most right-wing government since end of US-backed dictatorship

By Miguel Andrade, 13 November 2018

While Bolsonaro prepares his extreme right-wing government, the defeated Workers Party is attempting to find common ground with his opponents within Brazils ruling circles.

ISO covers up Workers Party role in Bolsonaros victory in Brazil

Fujimoris new detention sets reconfiguration of Peruvian politics

By Armando Cruz, 13 November 2018

The leader of Fuerza Popular (FP), Keiko Fujimori, was sentenced to 36 months of preventive detention while being investigated in the Odebrecht scandal.

Quebec: Talks to resume in ABI lockout under threat of state-imposed concessions contract

By Laurent Lafrance, 13 November 2018

USW leaders have repeatedly proclaimed their readiness to make major concessions, and are now signaling they will collaborate with Alcoa in slashing jobs.

Sri Lankan political crisis deepens: Prime minister splits from president

By W.A. Sunil, 13 November 2018

None of the factions of the ruling class will defend the basic rights of working people, but will ruthlessly impose the austerity dictates of the IMF and big business.

Ex-Australian Labor Party leader joins far-right anti-immigrant One Nation

By Mike Head, 13 November 2018

The Hanson-Latham union is another stark example of the intense efforts being made to push the entire parliamentary establishment further in a Trump-style direction.

Australia: Welfare cut leaves asylum seekers facing destitution

By Max Newman, 13 November 2018

A new report shows that nearly 80 percent of those cut off benefits are at risk of homelessness.

New in French

Trump lance la guerre conomique dans le discours au sommet Asie-Pacifique

Nick Beams, 13 novembre 2017

Dans sa diatribe, le prsident amricain a mis de ct le cadre multilatral mis en place par les tats-Unis eux-mmes au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Les collges de l'Ontario lancent un ultimatum aux enseignants en grve

Dylan Lubao, 13 novembre 2017

Se servant d'une clause ractionnaire du Code du travail de l'Ontario, les administrateurs des collges forcent 12.000 enseignants voter sur une offre finale qui ne contient aucune des demandes des travailleurs.

Macron radie en masse les chmeurs de listes de Ple Emploi

Francis Dubois, 13 nov embre 2017

Lattaque des chmeurs comme fainants et profiteurs sert justifier de les pousser dans des emplois de misre, hors des statistiques.

Documents of the Russian Revolution
LArt de lInsurrection

Leon Trotsky, 13 novembre 2017

Nous publions ici LArt de lInsurrection , le sixime chapitre du troisime volume de lHistoire de la Rvolution russe de Trotsky dans la traduction de Maurice Parijanine, pseudonyme de Maurice Donzel.

Le gouvernement conservateur de Theresa May risque leffondrement cause du Brexit

Chris Marsden, 13 novembre 2017

Les responsables de lUE ont fait savoir quils prennent des mesures de prcaution fondes sur lventualit que la Premire ministre Theresa May ne reste pas au pouvoir au -del de la fin de cette anne.

RT qualifie d' agent tranger aux tats-Unis : Un acte alarmant contre la libert dexpression

Andr Damon, 13 novembre 2017

La demande du ministre de la Justice que RT sinscrive en tant qu' agent tranger vise la dlgitimer en tant que source dinformation, intimider ses contributeurs et ses invits, et crer un prcdent pour qualifier les mdias de tratres.

New in Turkish

I. Dnya Savaşı ateşkesinin 100. yıldnmnde, ABD ile Avrupa arasında sert gerilimler

Alex Lantier, 13 Kasım 2018

Macron, geride bıraktığı 10 milyon ly, 6 milyon sakatı, 3 milyon dulu, 6 milyon yetimi ve milyonlarca sivil kaybı bir kenara atarak, gya Fransanın sınıfsal blnmelerinin stesinden gelmede yurtseverliğe olanak sağladığı gerekesiyle savaşı vd.

New in German

Der Waffenstillstand vom 11. November 1918 und die Lehren fr heute

Nick Beams, 13. November 2018

Das Schweigen der Waffen vor 100 Jahren war nicht das Ende des Blutvergieens, sondern nur der Abschluss der ersten Phase dessen, was zu einem dreiigjhrigen internationalen Krieg zwischen den kapitalistischen Gromchten werden sollte.

100 Jahre Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs:
Erbitterte amerikanisch-europische Spannungen zur Feier des Waffenstillstands in Paris

Alex Lantier, 13. November 2018

Die Feiern zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs in Paris, an denen Staatsoberhupter aus siebzig Lndern teilnahmen, waren berschattet von den zunehmenden Konflikten zwischen den Gromchten.

Novemberrevolution 1918: Steinmeier verteidigt Bndnis von SPD und Reaktion

Peter Schwarz, 13. November 2018

In einer Rede im Bundestag zum hundertsten Jahrestag der Novemberrevolution rechtfertigte der Bundestagsprsident die Niederschlagung der sozialistischen Revolution.

Die grne Staatspartei

Ulrich Rippert, 13. November 2018

Auf ihrem Europa-Parteitag vollzogen die Grnen am vergangenen Wochenende einen deutlichen Rechtsruck.

Mnster: Prozess gegen SS-Wachmann im KZ Stutthof hat begonnen

Elisabeth Zimmermann, 13. November 2018

Der ehemalige SS-Mann Johann R. ist der Beihilfe zum hundertfachen Mord im Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Stutthof in der Nhe von Danzig angeklagt.

New in Norwegian

Vpenhvilen den 11. november 1918 og lrdommene for idag

Nick Beams, 12. november 2018

Opphret av kanontordenen for 100 r siden var ikke slutten p relatingen og blodbadet, men ganske enkelt slutten av frste fasen av det som skulle bli en trettirig internasjonal krig mellom de vesentlige kapitalistmaktene.

Bitre USA-Europa spenninger preget hundrersmarkeringen av vpenhvilen etter Frste verdenskrig i Paris

Alex Lantier, 12. november 2018

Statsoverhoder fra 70 land samlet seg i Paris for markere hundrersdagen for vpenhvilen etter Frste verdenskrig, i skyggen av stigende konflikter mellom stormaktene.

IBMs oppkjp av Red Hat understreker teknologigigante nes voksende makt

Mike Ingram, 10. november 2018

Med sitt oppkjp av Red Hat, et pen-kildekode-Linux-foretak, hper IBM kunne konkurrere med de rivaliserende teknologigigantene Amazon, Microsoft og Google, spesielt i omrdet militre sky-kontrakter.

New in Spanish

El presidente francs Macron homenajea a dictador fascista Philippe Ptain

Alex Lantier, 12 noviembre 2018

El intento de Macron de rehabilitar a Ptain es una apelacin desvergonzada a la ultraderecha, a la cual busca cultivar como una base de apoyo ante la creciente oposicin de los trabajadores.

Los incendios forestales de California dejan nueve muertos y 150.000 personas evacuadas

Por David Brown, 12 noviembre 2018

La carta efectivamente confirma que, si el fundador de WikiLeaks es obligado a dejar la embajada de Ecuador, sea cual fuere el pretexto, el Gobierno britnico se lo entregar a Estados Unidos.

Rompan el aislamiento de los transportistas de UPS! Formen comits de base para unir a los trabajadores contra la empresa!

el Boletn de Trabajadores de UPS del WSWS, 12 noviembre 2018

De ser aprobado, el contrato creara un nuevo nivel de conductores con menor paga, mantendra los salarios de pobreza para los trabajadores de tiempo parcial en los almacenes y socavaran an ms los puestos de tiempo completo.

Negacin de asilo: Trump elimina el derecho de asilo para los inmigrantes que cruzan sin documentacin

Por Eric London, 12 noviembre 2018

Miles de refugiados estn huyendo de la violencia y pobreza endmicas impuestas por el saqueo econmico e injerencia poltica del imperialismo estadounidense.

New in Russian

Депопуляция Украины

Джейсон Мелановски, 10 ноября 2018 г.

Спустя боле четверти века после упразднения СССР эмиграция из Украины не сокращается, по ;скольку рабочие уезжают за границу, спасаясь от нищеты и войны.

New in Portuguese

A vitria de Bolsonaro e o colapso do Partido dos Trabalhadores

Bill Van Auken, 6 de novembro de 2018

A eleio do fascista ex-capito do exrcito sinaliza uma grande guinada direita da classe dominante brasileira.

Quem responsvel pela ascenso do fascista Bolsonaro no Brasil?

Bill Van Auken, 6 de novembro de 2018

Uma srie de grupos da pseudo-esquerda, muitos dos quais envolvidos na fundao do PT, esto defendendo o voto nesse partido capitalista de direita contra Bolsonaro.

O caminho na luta contra o perigo da extrema-direita na Alemanha

Ulrich Rippert e Johannes Stern, 6 de novembro de 2018

A enorme manifestao do ltimo final de semana em Berlin expressou ampla oposio popular ao retorno do fascismo e do militarismo na Alemanha.

A ameaa da extrema-direita no Brasil e a responsabilidade do Partido dos Trabalhadores

Bill Van Auken, 6 de novembro de 2018

Os impressionantes 46% de votos vlidos obtido pelo fascista ex-capito do exrcito Jair Bolsonaro no primeiro turno da eleio brasileira o resultado de dcadas de traies do Partido dos Trabalhadores e seus cmplices e defensores da pseudo-esquerda.

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Perspective

Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one

13 November 2018

The talk by Merkel and Macron of the tragedy and suicide of World War I could not hide the fact that the imperialist powers are engaged in active preparations for a new and deadly world military conflict.

Earlier Perspectives

Featured Commentary

The armistice of November 11, 1918 and the lessons for today

By Nick Beams, 12 November 2018

The silencing of the guns 100 years ago was not the end of the bloodshed and carnage but was simply the conclusion of the first phase of what was to become a thirty-year international war between the major capitalist powers.

French President Macron hails fascist dictator Philippe Ptain

By Alex Lantier, 10 November 2018

One hundred years since the November Revolution in Germany

By Ulrich Rippert and Peter Schwarz, 9 November 2018

History of the Fourth International

David North lecture tour
Nearly 100 attend meeting in New York City on the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International

By our reporters, 13 November 2018

David North spoke on the need for a scientific understanding of history to an audience at New York University composed of workers, students and professionals from the New York and New Jersey area.

David North lecture tour
More than 100 attend meeting at MIT on anniversary of the Fourth International

By Kate Randall, 9 November 2018

David North, the chairperson of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, will be speaking in the United States this fall to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International.

Friday, November 30, 6pm for 6:30. Admission free, please RSVP to Gleebooks.

Indian Trotskyists to hold meeting on 80 years of the Fourth International

6 November 2018

Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today

By David North, 9 October 2018

Large Colombo audience hears David Norths lecture on the history of the Fourth International

On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International

By David North, 3 September 2018

Meetings in Australia and New Zealand to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International

19 October 2018

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 November 2018

The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature

After campaign of threats and intimidation, Teamsters announces yes vote on sellout UPS Freight contract

By Will Morrow, 12 November 2018

Break the isolation of UPS Freight workers! Form rank-and-file committees to unite workers against the company!

The Teamsters union is with the company
UPS workers oppose Teamsters isolation of freight division, call for united struggle

More on the struggle at UPS

Trudeau threatens to criminalize Canada Post strike

By Roger Jordan, 10 November 2018

Commentary

Sheffield Labour Students cancels anti-war meeting, citing police investigation of anti-Semitism allegations

By Laura Tiernan, 12 November 2018

US multinationals dodge $180 billion in taxes on foreign profits per year

By Barry Grey, 10 November 2018

Tensions mount over US election contests in Florida, Georgia, Arizona

By Fred Mazelis, 10 November 2018

More on US politics

Asylum ban: Trump eliminates right to asylum for immigrants crossing without documentation

By Eric London, 9 November 2018

Child detainees speak out: I just wanted a hug from someone
The view from inside Americas child immigrant detention shelters

More on the attack on immigrants

White House report on socialism
The specter of Marx haunts the American ruling class

By Barry Grey, 6 November 2018

Arts Review

The Hate U Give: Police brutality in America and its consequences

By Nick Barrickman, 12 November 2018

House of Cards Season 6: The King is dead, long live the Queen!

By Joanne Laurier, 10 November 2018

25 years ago: Abacha stages military coup in Nigeria

On November 17, 1993, General Sani Abacha, the minister of defense, removed interim President Ernest Shonekan through a military coup and declared himself president.

More

50 years ago: US military begins new Laos bombing campaign

On November 15, 1968, the US military began Operation Commando Hunt, with the mission of destroying the Ho Chi Minh trail, the main supply route from North Vietnam through parts of Laos and into South Vietnam.

More

75 years ago: Nazi troops capture the Greek island of Leros

On November 16, 1943, Allied forces, including British and Italian troops, surrendered control of the Greek island of Leros to Nazi troops after over a month of fighting.

More

 

100 years ago: First American pro-Bolshevik newspaper is published

On November 16, 1918, members of the left wing of the American Socialist Party began to publish the Revolutionary Age to explain the ideas of Bolshevism to socialist-minded American workers.

More

Mehring Books

David North in conversation with Nick Beams
Book launch of The Heritage We Defend in Sydney, Australia

9 November 2018

Why are they back?
New title from Mehring Books explains resurgence of fascism in Germany

By our reporters, 19 October 2018

Author Christoph Vandreier presented the book in a well-attended lecture at the Frankfurt Book fair last Saturday.

SEP 2018 Election Campaign

Significant vote for SEP candidate Niles Niemuth in Michigans 12th district

By our reporters, 8 November 2018

Final campaign meeting for Niles Niemuth reviews experiences from campaigning

By our reporters, 7 November 2018

Vote Niles Niemuth, Socialist Equality Party, for US House of Representatives in Michigans 12th district!

Democratic Party mailer removes SEP candidate Niles Niemuth from sample ballot

Campaign website

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

The way forward for young people: Not Democratic Party politics, but the fight for socialism!

By Genevieve Leigh, 6 November 2018

Against the right-wing attacks of university administrators and the far-right
Successful solidarity event for the student union of Humboldt University

By our reporters, 2 November 2018

Socialist Equality Party (Australia)

Watch: Two Hundred Years Since the Birth of Karl Marx

By Nick Beams, 31 October 2018

Nick Beams delivers successful lectures on the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx at Australian universities

By our reporters, 31 October 2018

Science

World vertebrate populations have fallen 60 percent since 1970

By Bryan Dyne, 1 November 2018

The latest Living Planet Report demonstrates the far-reaching implications of human activity on both the climate and the degradation of the natural environment.

Book review

DSA covers for unions and Democrats in new book on walkout by West Virginia teachers
55 Strong, Inside the West Virginia Teachers Strike

By Nancy Hanover, 18 October 2018

A new book promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is centered on the lie that the West Virginia teachers strike, which set off the series of strikes nationally last spring, was a victory in which the unions played a heroic role.

History

Vadim Rogovin and the sociology of Stalinism

By Andrea Peters, 25 September 2018

September 18 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Soviet Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin, the author of a seven-volume series on Stalinism and the Marxist opposition to the Soviet bureaucracy.

Twenty years since the death of Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin

By David North, 18 September 2018

International Committee of the Fourth International

Resolution of the SEP (US) Fifth National Congress
The Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party

8 August 2018

This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Equality Party Congress, held from July 2227, 2018.

Opening report to the Fifth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)

By David North, 4 August 2018

The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
The lessons of the Lanka Sama Samaja Partys Great Betrayal

By Rohantha De Silva and Vilani Peiris, 24 September 2018


PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE

Support the Socialist Equality group in Turkey!
Statement of the SE group, in sympathy with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), on the snap elections in Turkey

Security and the Fourth International

An Exemplary Comrade: The Socialist Workers Partys 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen: Part one

By Eric London, 14 August 2018

This is the first part in a four-part series examining the cover-up by the Socialist Workers Party beginning in 1947 of information exposing the role of Sylvia Callen, the personal secretary of long-time party leader James P. Cannon, as a Stalinist agent.

Part two | Part three | Part four

Seventy-eight years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky

By Eric London and David North, 21 August 2018

On August 21, 1940, Leon Trotsky, the founder of the Fourth International and the co-leader of the Russian Revolution, died from wounds inflicted the day before by an assassin, the Stalinist GPU agent Ramon Mercader.

WSWS 20th Anniversary

Twenty years of the World Socialist Web Site: 19982018

By David North and Joseph Kishore, 14 February 2018

As the WSWS marks its 20th anniversary of daily posting, it is taking the lead in exposing the conspiracy by governments and corporations to censor the Internet as the ruling class prepares for war and domestic repression.

Lenin, Trotsky and the Marxism of the October Revolution

By David North, 19 March 2018

David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party (US), delivered this lecture at the University of Leipzig on March 16.

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