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• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• <em>Unequal Britain</em>: An academic defence of social inequality
• 999 Plight of Bangladeshi guest workers
• 999 Suicide attempt on Lesbos: Greek judiciary investigates pregnant refugee who set herself on fire
• 999 Congressional visit Alabama Amazon

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War and militarism

• Airbus works council and IG-Metall demand German leadership in European rearmament
• Biden doubles down on “great power” conflict with China
• Biden renews US “state of emergency” against Venezuela
• Kunduz massacre goes unpunished
• Biden and Trudeau revamp Canada-US alliance for trade war and military conflict

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War Crimes

• Kunduz massacre goes unpunished
• International Criminal Court ruling paves way for legal proceedings against Israel for war crimes
• US prompts new “human rights” resolution to push Sri Lanka to line up against China
• UK government refuses to publish list of airstrikes in Yemen involving civilian casualties
• UK judge rules against US extradition: Release Julian Assange now!

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Britain

• Unequal Britain: An academic defence of social inequality
• UK: National Health Service workers offered insulting 1 percent pay rise
  Working class must fight in defence of health workers!
• No to school reopenings! Build rank-and-file committees to save lives!
• British government intensifies assault on asylum seekers and migrants
• UK: Go North West launches strike busting operation to enforce fire and rehire contracts against bus drivers

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Europe

• Unequal Britain: An academic defence of social inequality
• 999 Suicide attempt on Lesbos: Greek judiciary investigates pregnant refugee who set herself on fire
• UK: National Health Service workers offered insulting 1 percent pay rise
  Working class must fight in defence of health workers!
• German secret service officially characterises the Alternative for Germany as a “suspected right-wing extremist case”
• Germany’s Left Party drums up support for coalitions with the Social Democrats and Greens

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Recent Perspectives

• As US states reopen businesses and schools, experts warn of “hurricane” surge of COVID-19 (07/03/2021)
• One hundred and ninety-nine minutes in January (05/03/2021)
• 150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg (05/03/2021)
• US ruling class moves to remove remaining restrictions as pandemic continues to spread (04/03/2021)
• Why Biden supports the unionization of the Amazon workforce (02/03/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Postal worker in Chicago dies in apparent suicide in mail truck (04/03/2021)
2. Amazon worker at Las Vegas warehouse dies in possible suicide (02/03/2021)
3. Trump’s acting secretary of defense disarmed D.C. National Guard 48 hours before the fascist assault (31/01/2021)
4. Amazon workers speak about stressful working conditions after suicide at Las Vegas warehouse (05/03/2021)
5. HBO’s docuseries Allen v. Farrow: A shameful, vindictive, McCarthyite attack on filmmaker Woody Allen (04/03/2021)

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)