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Today ---------- 6 September 2008

News & Analysis
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McCain launches fall campaign as Obama embraces Iraq "surge"

US jobless rate soars as foreclosures break new record

Amid mass arrests and suppression of media
RNC in Twin Cities: Eight protesters charged with terrorism under Patriot Act

Iraq: Handover in devastated Anbar hailed as a victory

Pakistan's parliament says future US raids should be repelled "with full force"

Britain: Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government

Germany: Left Party issues blank cheque to SPD in Hesse

Detroit Democratic mayor resigns, faces jail

Canada: Steelworkers and CAW officials tussle over dues base at Magna

History
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1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
Part 7: The centrist line of the OCI (3)

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles:
Asia, Australia and the Pacific

New in German
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Fusion von Dresdner- und Commerzbank kostet 9.000 Arbeitsplätze

US-Wahlkampf: Vizepräsidentschaftskandidatin der Republikaner nominiert
Kein Wort der Demokraten zur Bedrohung durch religiöse Rechte

Premierminister verhängt Notstand über Bangkok
Politische Krise in Thailand ungelöst

New in French
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Canada : Les conservateurs veulent des élections avant que la crise économique ne s’aggrave

Canada : Les banques alimentaires ne peuvent répondre à la demande

 

 

---------- 5 September 2008

News & Analysis
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US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new war

The Sarah Palin speech:
Democrats and media cower in face of Republicans' right-wing demagogy

Cheney in Georgia: Gunboat diplomacy in pursuit of oil

Productivity rises as US workers see real income cut

Protests in West Bengal threaten to derail CPI (M)-sponsored Nano car project

Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt

Malaysia proposes limited changes to ban on political activity at universities

Australia: Labor uses Howard's construction industry watchdog to attack building workers

Australian media union refuses to challenge job cuts at Fairfax

History
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1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
Part 6: The centrist line of the OCI (2)

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

New in German
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Der Streit in der SPD verschärft sich

Neue Enthüllungen über Vizepräsidentschaftskandidatin verschärfen Krise für McCain

Die Bundeswehr führt in Afghanistan Krieg

Frankreich: Stalinistische Zeitung l’Humanité dem Bankrott nahe

New in French
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Le sommet de l’Union européenne se range du côté de la Géorgie

 

 

 

---------- 4 September 2008

News & Analysis
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As Republicans unveil VP candidate
Democrats silent on threat from religious right

Thai prime minister imposes state of emergency but political crisis continues

Mass arrests of protesters at Republican National Convention

Canada's Conservatives to call national election before economic downturn worsens

New York Times' Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception

Millions affected by flooding in India and Nepal

Angola becomes Africa's largest oil producer

High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers

New York City taxi drivers speak on gas prices

Australia: Labor to strip welfare from parents of truant children

British government moots passport and ID controls between UK and Ireland

History
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1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
Part 5: The centrist line of the OCI (1)

New in German
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Vor der Eröffnung des Republikaner-Parteitags
Mit Palins Ernennung beugt sich McCain der extremen Rechten

Bundesregierung verscherbelt IKB-Mittelstandsbank an US-Finanzinvestor

US-Luftwaffe begeht Massaker an Zivilisten in Westafghanistan

Ein Briefwechsel zu Bertold Brecht

1968 - Generalstreik und Studentenrevolte in Frankreich
Teil 8: Der zentristische Kurs der OCI (4)

New in French
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France : Les syndicats mettent en garde le gouvernement contre le risque d’explosion sociale

 

 

 

---------- 3 September 2008

News & Analysis
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New revelations on VP choice heighten crisis of McCain campaign

Obama's abbreviated Labor Day in Detroit: A sop to the bureaucracy

Japan's prime minister quits amid signs of economic downturn

US Gulf Coast deals with aftermath of Hurricane Gustav

Belgium: Undocumented workers' hunger strikes reach critical point

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation cautiously endorses Russia over Georgia

US: Abuse charged in New Jersey prison

Global downturn begins to puncture Australian mining boom

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles: The Americas

Correspondence
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Letters from our readers

New in German
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Studie der Hand-Böckler-Stiftung beweist:
Aufschwung nur für Reiche

1968 - Generalstreik und Studentenrevolte in Frankreich
Teil 7: Der zentristische Kurs der OCI (3)

New in French
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Canada : Des viandes contaminées par une bactérie causent la mort de douze personnes

New in Portuguese
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Entrevista com um estudante-ativista iraniano

Lutas dos trabalhadores nas Américas

 

 

 

 

---------- 2 September 2008

News & Analysis
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European Union summit sides with Georgia

A bloody month in Afghanistan

Police raid protest headquarters as Republican National Convention opens

Alaska Republican senator renominated despite indictment

World Bank: Two and a half billion people live on less than $2 a day

France: trade unions warn government against social explosion

Indian government mounts brutal campaign of repression in Kashmir

New Maoist-led government installed in Nepal

East Timor: Leaked autopsy report shows alleged "coup" leader Reinado shot at point-blank range

New in German
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EU-Sondergipfel ergreift Partei für Georgien

Linksparteitag in Hessen stellt Rot-Grün Blankoscheck aus

Obamas Rede in Denver: Populistische Demagogie im Dienst des Militarismus

New in French
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L'origine du marché des prêts hypothécaires à risques

New in Spanish
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Los orígenes de los préstamos hipotecarios preferenciales a tasas de interés más bajas de la oficial

New in Portuguese
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EUA: taxa de desemprego é maior em quatro anos

Dez anos após a cisão no Comitê Internacional

 

 

 

---------- 1 September 2008

News & Analysis
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Danger grows of NATO-Russian clash in Black Sea

As Republican convention opens
McCain bows to ultra-right with Palin selection

Obama's Denver speech: Populist demagogy in the service of militarism

Hurricane Gustav threatens New Orleans, Gulf Coast

Standoff intensifies between Thai government and protesters

Pentagon denies responsibility for US massacre of Afghan villagers

Australia: NSW government unveils "Plan B" to sell electricity assets

New in French
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Les Etats-Unis et l’Europe dénoncent la Russie pour son soutien à l’indépendance des provinces géorgiennes


 

 

---------- 30 August 2008

News & Analysis
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Obama's Denver speech: Populist demagogy in the service of militarism

McCain's VP pick: A sign of deepening crisis in the Republican Party

Three years since Hurricane Katrina

Unemployment and poverty on the rise in Berlin

Britain: Labour government proposes huge increase in state surveillance

Australia: Labor government accelerates right-wing offensive against public education

Workers Struggles
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Correspondence
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Letters on the Democratic National Convention

New in German
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Unterdrückung in Denver beleuchtet Angriff auf demokratische Rechte in USA

1968 - Generalstreik und Studentenrevolte in Frankreich
Teil 6: Der zentristische Kurs der OCI (2)

New in French
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Le Nation et la campagne Obama

 


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Twenty years since the death of Keerthi Balasuriya
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US Financial Crisis

The origins of the subprime market

US Congress approves government bailout of mortgage giants

Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
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Political Crisis in the US

As Republicans unveil VP candidate
Democrats silent on threat from religious right

As Republican convention opens
McCain bows to ultra-right with Palin selection

Democratic convention meets with Obama campaign in crisis

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ICFI/ISSE Summer School in Australia

The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
By Nick Beams

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

SEP (US) National Aggregate

Notes on the political and economic crisis of the world capitalist system and the perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
By David North

Georgia

European Union summit sides with Georgia

US, Europe denounce Russian support for Georgian provinces' independence

Bush administration steps up war of words with Russia

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Europe

Germany: Stunned silence following the war in Georgia

Madrid plane crash: Pilot's union warned months before that cut-backs placing passengers at risk

France: Constitutional reform strengthens presidency

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Middle East

Stop the US war drive against Iran!
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For an international mobilization of workers and youth against the war in Iraq
Statement of the WSWS and the ICFI

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Also in Farsi

Provincial election delay in Iraq heightens ethnic tensions in Kirkuk

US calls for tougher sanctions on Iran

Military censorship of the war in Iraq

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Australia

Australia: Labor government accelerates right-wing offensive against public education

Sydney's World Youth Day: a spectacle of state-sponsored obscurantism

Two letters and a reply on the teachers' dispute in Victoria

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Trotskyists mark 40 years of struggle for socialist internationalism

Sri Lanka: A socialist program to fight for wages and conditions

A socialist program for Sri Lankan teachers' wage struggle

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Asia-Pacific

Thai prime minister imposes state of emergency but political crisis continues

Japan's prime minister quits amid signs of economic downturn

Pakistan's ruling coalition splits amid continuing political uncertainty

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Bolsheviks in Power - Professor Alexander Rabinowitch's important study of the first year of soviet power

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Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
by David North
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This pamphlet brings together 20 articles and statements published by the World Socialist Web Site in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Historical Review

Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher

Part 1: Seventy years since Stalin's year of terror

Part 2: The study of Trotsky after the fall of the USSR

Part 3: The Method of Ian Thatcher

Part 4: The relevance of Trotsky

A letter from Professor Geoffrey Swain and a reply by David North

WSWS International Editorial Board Meeting

David North: Opening report to meeting of WSWS International Editorial Board

Nick Beams: Report on the world economy in 2006
Part 1
Part 2 Part 3

The consequences of the US-led war against Iraq

Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism
Part 1
Part 2

The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
Part 1
Part 2

The implications of China for world socialism
Part 1
Part 2 Part 3

The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
Part 1
Part 2 Part 3

New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
Part 1
Part 2

Report on Latin American perspectives
Part 1
Part 2

Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation
Part 1
Part 2

Democratic rights and the attack on constitutionalism

South Asia and the political bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism and Stalinism

Africa and the perspective of international socialism
Part 1
Part 2

The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
Part 1
Part 2

SEP/WSWS Summer School

Lecture one:
The Russian Revolution and the unresolved historical problems of the 20th century
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Lecture two: Marxism versus revisionism on the eve of the twentieth century
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Lecture three: The origins of Bolshevism and What Is To Be Done?
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Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
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Lecture five
World War I: The breakdown of capitalism
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Lecture six: Socialism in one country or permanent revolution Download as a PDF

Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over "proletarian culture"
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Lecture eight: The 1920s--the road to depression and fascism
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Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International Download as a PDF

A PDF file containing all nine lectures that were delivered at the SEP/WSWS Summer School is available:
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WSWS & ICFI

Fifty years since the founding of the International Committee of the Fourth International

Nick Beams: "The program of the ICFI has stood the test of time"

Chris Marsden: The split with the WRP and the ascendancy of Trotskyism

Peter Schwarz: "The founding principles have been confirmed"

David North addresses Sri Lankan Trotskyists on the 50th anniversaryof the ICFI

WSWS republishes extracts from The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International
By David North, Chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board

The Split in the Fourth International

James P. Cannon's "Open Letter"

History and the socialist movement

26 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)

A tribute to Vadim Rogovin: "A passion for historical truth"

A Tribute to Vadim Rogovin

     

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