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• How Royal Bournemouth Hospital management put patient and staff safety in jeopardy: A frontline nurse explains
• Three million in Los Angeles County have been infected with COVID-19 as workplace outbreaks reach all-time high
• New Zealand PM silent on Trump’s culpability for Washington coup
• Tens of thousands of UK National Health Service workers fall ill with COVID-19
• Justice Department proposes internal investigation to cover up state involvement in January 6 coup attempt

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SEP (US) 2008 Election Campaign Videos

• Video: SEP Candidate Jerry White speaks in Chicago
• SEP presidential candidate speaks with workers in Detroit
• SEP presidential candidate speaks on financial crisis

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Interviews and On-the-spot reports

• MAS factory workers in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, discuss concerns over pandemic
• 070 UofI student interviews
• UK Morrisons distribution worker speaks on Bridgwater COVID-19 outbreak
• Couples and families separated by New Zealand’s border restrictions
• UK protesters speak on George Floyd demonstrations

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SEP (US) 2008 Election Campaign

• Reply to an anti-Trotskyist rant over SEP candidate’s appearance in Scotland
• Class divisions begin to emerge in Obama coalition
• The election of Barack Obama
• Jerry White addresses students at candidates’ forum in Dayton, Ohio
• “Socialism and the Future of Humanity”— SEP (US) meeting on 70th anniversary of the Fourth International

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Capitalism and inequality

• Biden “recovery” plan will fail to relieve social misery or stop pandemic death
• As COVID cases surge: Sharp rise in new US unemployment claims
• Poorest UK schoolchildren sent meagre pandemic food parcels, as contractors reap massive profits
• New data shows that nearly 1400 kids in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have caught COVID-19
• Warning that Wall Street bubble may burst

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Socialist Equality Party (US)

• Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike!
• Stop the wave of death! Repudiate the policies of the pandemic profiteers!
• The Crisis Elections: 1860 & 2020
• The socialist perspective in the 2020 US elections
• Closing remarks from SEP national secretary Joseph Kishore to the WSWS relaunch rally

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United States

• Three million in Los Angeles County have been infected with COVID-19 as workplace outbreaks reach all-time high
• Justice Department proposes internal investigation to cover up state involvement in January 6 coup attempt
• Inside the COVID-19 outbreak at Lakepointe nursing home in Clinton Township, Michigan
• Biden “recovery” plan will fail to relieve social misery or stop pandemic death
• US government executes intellectually disabled death row prisoner Corey Johnson

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Recent Perspectives

• 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)
• Growing threats of fascist violence as Democrats appeal for “unity” and “healing” (13/01/2021)
• 999 How the working class can intervene to stop Trump's coup plotting (13/01/2021)
• Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt (09/01/2021)
2. New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation (11/01/2021)
3. Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)
4. UK government figures hide £800 billion hoarded by super-rich (11/01/2021)
5. Details emerge exposing high-level coordination between fascists, police and Republican politicians in lead-up January 6 coup attempt (14/01/2021)

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)