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• Half of India’s population could be infected with COVID-19 by next February
• FBI raids neo-Nazi camp in Michigan as national connections of Whitmer plotters emerge
• Labor’s health cut plan a warning on eve of Australian state election
• US Senate hearing on Section 230 law devolves into demands for social media censorship
• Philadelphia educators speak out against the deadly reopening of schools

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Jacobin Magazine and the Democratic Socialists of America

• 999 AOC subordinates herself to Biden on CNN
• Jacobin hails New Zealand Labour government’s re-election
• Why does Jacobin Magazine downplay the danger of fascist violence?
• 999 Jacobin and Michigan plot
• As teachers fight deadly return to school, the DSA runs to the defense of the unions and Democrats

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The Politics of the Pseudo-Left

• David North and Adolph Reed discuss US political crisis at online forum
• The fight of the WSWS against the falsification of Marxism
• 999 AFL-CIO and the general strike
• The MAS victory in Bolivia and bourgeois nationalism’s betrayals in Latin America
• Brazilian Morenoites support pro-military parties in mayoral elections

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United States

• FBI raids neo-Nazi camp in Michigan as national connections of Whitmer plotters emerge
• US Senate hearing on Section 230 law devolves into demands for social media censorship
• Philadelphia educators speak out against the deadly reopening of schools
• David North and Adolph Reed discuss US political crisis at online forum
• As US smashes records for new coronavirus infections, Ford and Fiat Chrysler report blowout profits

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Recent Perspectives

• Jeremy Corbyn suspended by Labour leadership in latest outrage during Blairite anti-Semitism witch-hunt (30/10/2020)
• As COVID-19 surges in Europe, governments protect profits over lives (29/10/2020)
• As election approaches, Trump conspires to repudiate popular vote (28/10/2020)
• 999 Trump admin admits to herd immunity policy (27/10/2020)
• Trump escalates coup plotting with swearing-in of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett (27/10/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Activist with ties to Ohio Republican legislators plotted to kidnap and kill Governor Mike DeWine (24/10/2020)
2. Modern Monetary Theory and the crisis of capitalism: Part one (24/10/2020)
3. It is all just a metaphor: The New York Times attempts yet another desperate defense of its discredited 1619 Project (23/10/2020)
4. Michigan sheriffs and police refuse to enforce state government ban on guns at polling places (20/10/2020)
5. Modern Monetary Theory and the crisis of capitalism: Part two (26/10/2020)

The 2020 US Elections

• Trump incites fascistic violence as US election approaches (16/09/2020)
• The Civil War Election (09/09/2020)
• Trump incites vigilante violence against peaceful protests in Wisconsin (08/31/2020)
• The Biden/Harris campaign and the dead-end of “lesser evil” politics (08/17/2020)
• The selection of Kamala Harris and the degradation of American politics (13/08/2020)
• Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate (12/08/2020)

International May Day 2020 Online Rally

• The COVID-19 pandemic: A trigger event in world history

The New York Times’ 1619 Project

• Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary, not historical writing
• American Historical Review publishes letter on 1619 Project by Tom Mackaman and David North
• New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
• New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker
• A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
• The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
• Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project

Lectures and Essays by David North

• Trotsky’s Last Year (20/08/2020)
• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017 (01/03/2017)
• Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856–1918): His Place in the History of Marxism (12/05/2016)
• Philosophy and Politics in an Age of War and Revolution (10/25/2016)
• A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990–2016 (07/11/2016)

Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

• Vindictive court rulings prove British state wants Assange dead
• The show trial of Julian Assange begins
• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• Doctors demand “urgent” medical intervention to save Julian Assange’s life
• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• An open letter from doctors: Julian Assange “could die in prison”
• Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson on Julian Assange: “A maximum security prison is no place to treat a torture victim”
• Collapse of Swedish “sexual misconduct” frame-up exposes political conspiracy against Assange

Russian Revolution Centenary

• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017
• Lecture 1: Why Study the Russian Revolution
• Lecture 2: The Legacy of 1905 and the Strategy of the Russian Revolution
• Lecture 3: World War and Revolution: 1914-1917

Socialism and the Struggle Against War

• No to a Greek-Turkish war in the eastern Mediterranean! (12/09/2020)
• ICFI Resolution: Socialism and the fight against war (18/02/2016)
• SEP (US) Resolution: The fight against war and the political tasks of the SEP (25/08/2014)
• SEP (Australia) Resolution: The Socialist Equality Party and the fight to build an international anti-war movement (27/07/2016)
• SEP (Sri Lanka) Resolution: The political struggle against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (30/04/2016)
• PSG(Germany) Resolution: The struggle against war and the tasks of the PSG (14/11/2014)