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• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• 999 Australian union pushes through sell-out deal at Coles Smeaton Grange
• As schools reopen, UK educators among top groups at risk of catching COVID-19
• 999 Report on Alabama Educators R&F meeting with Dr. Mateus rebutting CDC
• 999 (2/28) Los Angeles R&F committee statement against school reopenings

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Education

• As schools reopen, UK educators among top groups at risk of catching COVID-19
• 999 Report on Alabama Educators R&F meeting with Dr. Mateus rebutting CDC
• 999 (2/28) Los Angeles R&F committee statement against school reopenings
• 999 (2/28) Seattle school reopenings plan
• With a halt in the decline of COVID-19 cases in the US, CDC director warns “the virus is not done with us”

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Chicago

• Thousands of students return for in-person schooling in Chicago
• Chicago and Cook County allocate the bulk of CARES Act funding to police and jail spending
• Chicago elementary teachers begin returning to classrooms under near-total media blackout
• 999 Pseudo-left and Chicago school reopenings
• Opposition to relocation of toxic metal recycling plant to Chicago’s working-class South Side raises political questions

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The 2012 Chicago teachers strike

• Karen Lewis, former president of the Chicago Teachers Union, dies at 67
• Vote “No” on the CTU-CPS plan to reopen Chicago schools! Saving lives is non-negotiable!
• Reopening schools during the pandemic is not negotiable! Lives and health are not negotiable!
• 999 Chicago teachers struggle against reopening
• 999 Effort to force Chicago schools to reopen

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Global class struggle

• 999 Australian union pushes through sell-out deal at Coles Smeaton Grange
• 999 Report on Alabama Educators R&F meeting with Dr. Mateus rebutting CDC
• 999 (2/28) Los Angeles R&F committee statement against school reopenings
• Go North West bus drivers in Manchester, UK begin indefinite strike against “fire and rehire”
• Germany: Support the WISAG workers’ struggle at Rhein-Main Airport against dismissals and wage theft!

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Media Issues

• Golf star Tiger Woods seriously injured in an automobile accident
• What the science really says: Closing schools is vital to containing COVID-19
• 999 Leon Black resigns over Epstein funding
• The Chicago teachers’ rebellion and the fight to contain the pandemic
• Chicago Teachers Union leader partied in Puerto Rico as teachers were herded back into schools

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United States

• 999 Report on Alabama Educators R&F meeting with Dr. Mateus rebutting CDC
• 999 (2/28) Los Angeles R&F committee statement against school reopenings
• 999 Socialist Alternative and Sawant join DSA
• 999 (2/28) Seattle school reopenings plan
• With a halt in the decline of COVID-19 cases in the US, CDC director warns “the virus is not done with us”

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North America

• 999 Report on Alabama Educators R&F meeting with Dr. Mateus rebutting CDC
• 999 (2/28) Los Angeles R&F committee statement against school reopenings
• 999 Socialist Alternative and Sawant join DSA
• 999 (2/28) Seattle school reopenings plan
• With a halt in the decline of COVID-19 cases in the US, CDC director warns “the virus is not done with us”

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Recent Perspectives

• With US missile strike on Syria, Biden escalates US aggression in the Middle East (27/02/2021)
• Facebook censors WSWS article exposing Wuhan lab conspiracy theory (25/02/2021)
• 800,000 COVID-19 deaths in Europe: capitalism, social murder and the case for socialism (24/02/2021)
• Washington Post’s “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory stands exposed (23/02/2021)
• Half a million dead in the US from coronavirus pandemic: Catastrophe, crime and historical turning point (23/02/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Facebook shuts down group with 90,000 cruise ship crew members (21/02/2021)
2. Washington Post’s “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory stands exposed (23/02/2021)
3. New York Times racialist vandals descend on Rome and Greece (25/02/2021)
4. Facebook censors WSWS article exposing Wuhan lab conspiracy theory (25/02/2021)
5. UAW and Stellantis set April 5 start date for 12-hour, seven-day schedule for skilled trades at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (19/02/2021)

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)