The American government, Internet companies and capitalist states around the world are engaged in an aggressive campaign to censor the Internet, under the guise of combating “fake news” and “Russian meddling.” The real aim is to suppress and criminalize the growth of opposition in the working class to austerity, war and social inequality.
On Sunday, April 22, the World Socialist Web Site, Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are holding a public conference in Detroit, Michigan to mobilize the working class against Internet censorship. Read more » |
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Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship: Public Meetings
More meetings are being scheduled. Contact us to help organize one in your area
PUBLIC CONFERENCE
Detroit, Michigan
Sunday, April 22, 11:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Wayne State University
Student Center Ballroom
5221 Gullen Mall
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University of California - Berkeley
Wednesday, March 14, 7:00 p.m.
Barrows Room 20
Berkeley, California
University of California San Diego
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 p.m.
Social Sciences Building Room 101
San Diego, California
Eastern Michigan University
Monday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.
EMU Student Center Room 330
Ypsilanti, Michigan
University of Florida
Wednesday, March 21, 7:00 p.m.
Reitz Student Union Room G320
Gainesville, Florida
Wayne State University
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.
Student Center Room 384
Detroit, Michigan
New York University
Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Kimmel Center Room 905/907
New York City, New York
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Western Michigan University
Thursday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Bernhard Center Room 212
Kalamazoo, Michigan
University of Michigan
Tuesday, April 3, 7:00 p.m.
Michigan League Hussey Room
Ann Arbor, Michigan
SUNY Geneseo
Tuesday, April 3, 6:00 p.m.
Newton 209
Geneseo, New York
Northern Virginia Community College
Wednesday, April 4, 3:00 p.m.
CC Room 237
Annandale, Virginia
Portland State University
Wednesday, April 11, 7:00 p.m.
Urban Building, Parson's Room
Portland, Oregon
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 The Skripal poisoning: What lies behind UK-US ultimatums against Russia?
By Alex Lantier
In little over a week since the mysterious poisoning of former Russian intelligence agent and British spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Britain, on March 4, a campaign has emerged in ruling circles of the NATO alliance to pin blame for the poisoning on Moscow. Backed by top officials in Washington and in Europe, the British government is using this poisoning to concoct accusations against Russia with the most far-reaching implications.
These are issues over which states go to war, and top NATO officials are clearly putting together a case for war with Russia, a major nuclear-armed power. Yesterday, as May prepared to return to Parliament today with proposals for action, reports emerged in international media that ruling circles in London are discussing also invoking Article 5 of the NATO treaty. This article compels all NATO countries to “assist” any NATO member state that says it has been attacked to take “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” Read more » |
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 Trump’s firing of Tillerson signals further shift toward global war
By Bill Van Auken
President Donald Trump’s sudden firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday and the announcement of CIA Director Mike Pompeo as his replacement is bound up with the accelerating shift by the US administration toward a policy of global war as the solution to the deep-seated crisis of American capitalism.
Fired by a morning tweet from Trump, Tillerson was reported by his aides to have had no advance warning that he was to be removed from his post. The tweet came just hours after Tillerson had returned from a week-long trip to Africa, basically an apology tour over Trump’s reference to the continent as “shithole countries.”
Trump also announced that Pompeo will be replaced by Gina Haspel, an individual who is directly implicated in crimes of torture and forced disappearances. Read more » |
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 Trump taps torturer to head CIA
By Bill Van Auken
In replacing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo Tuesday, US President Donald Trump tapped a more than 30-year CIA veteran, Gina Haspel, to head the premier US spy agency. In doing so, he is attempting to place the CIA back under the leadership of an individual who is directly implicated in the crimes of torture and forced disappearance, as well as the destruction of evidence of these crimes.
Trump declared Haspel’s nomination an “historic milestone” because she would be the first woman to head an agency that long ago earned the epithet of “Murder Inc.” Read more » |
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 UK university lecturers revolt against union sell-out agreement
By Robert Stevens
An attempt by the University and College Union (UCU) to end the four-week strike by UK lecturers and other university staff, who are fighting savage attacks on their pensions, was thwarted by a rank-and-file rebellion Tuesday.
Thousands protested nationally and hundreds of lecturers demonstrated outside the union’s headquarters in London to reject the sell-out deal reached the previous evening. The union was forced to retract the agreement later that day.
The revolt is the latest expression of a resurgence of the class struggle internationally, portending a break with trade unions which function as arms of management. The lecturers’ rebellion follows the recent revolt against the unions by 30,000 striking teachers in the US state of West Virginia, who voted to carry on a strike to demand wage increases and an end to soaring health care costs. Read more » |
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