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• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• How Royal Bournemouth Hospital management put patient and staff safety in jeopardy: A frontline nurse explains
• Workers at New York City produce market launch first strike since 1986
• Trump coup attempt highlights official promotion of far-right in Australia
• Hawaii nurses demand safe working conditions and PPE

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Sri Lanka

• US prompts new “human rights” resolution to push Sri Lanka to line up against China
• Sri Lankan education safety committee holds well-attended online meeting
• Indian external affairs minister visits Sri Lanka to counteract growing Chinese influence
• Anxiety in South Asia over US president’s attempted coup
• Sri Lankan president orders all state employees to commit to his election manifesto

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Democratic rights

• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• Tunisian regime deploys army as protests spread 10 years after Arab Spring
• Andre Damon speaks to Rolling Stone on internet censorship and Trump’s coup attempt
• Educators and workers across the US denounce arrest of whistleblower Rebekah Jones
• State of emergency imposed in Malaysia, granting government sweeping powers

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Police violence

• Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
• Killeen, Texas police officer shot and killed unarmed man during mental health call
• Lightfoot administration blocked release of video showing Chicago police crushing woman’s leg with SUV
• 999 Chicago mayor lied about suppressing yet another police violence video
• Video shows Modesto, California police officer gunned down unarmed man with hands up

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Indian subcontinent

• Sri Lankan education safety committee holds well-attended online meeting
• Anxiety in South Asia over US president’s attempted coup
• International protests support Indian farmers’ agitation against Modi’s pro-agribusiness laws
• No to forced work amid raging pandemic! All non-essential production must be shutdown with full compensation to workers!
• The Indian farmers’ agitation and the socialist strategy of the working class

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South Asia

• US prompts new “human rights” resolution to push Sri Lanka to line up against China
• Indian external affairs minister visits Sri Lanka to counteract growing Chinese influence
• 999 India's Supreme Court lays groundwork for state assault on farmers' protest
• Bangladesh pandemic cases surpass half a million, with over 7,810 deaths
• Pakistan: Eleven miners killed in sectarian attack buried following week of protests

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Recent Perspectives

• Biden pledges to continue Trump’s campaign to open schools and businesses (19/01/2021)
• Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones! (18/01/2021)
• 999 Perspective tbd (18/01/2021)
• What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)
• The pandemic and Trump’s coup attempt (15/01/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)
2. Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)
3. Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt (09/01/2021)
4. Details emerge exposing high-level coordination between fascists, police and Republican politicians in lead-up January 6 coup attempt (14/01/2021)
5. Magia Record, Kakushigoto, Fruits Basket and Sword Art Online: A general review of anime in 2020 (16/01/2021)

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)