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• America’s torturers and their co-conspirators must be prosecuted
• Protest marches called this week as French public sector strike continues
• Hundreds of journalists around the world sign open letter demanding freedom for Assange
• Over 40 workers killed in Indian factory fire
• India: Congress Party brings fascistic Shiv Sena to power in Maharashtra

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United States

• America’s torturers and their co-conspirators must be prosecuted
• Democrats, White House position themselves for impeachment vote
• Fiat Chrysler autoworkers denounce UAW sellout at informational meetings
• Wisconsin Democrats double down on Foxconn con job
• Worker injured in New Orleans hotel collapse deported by ICE

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Interviews and On-the-spot reports

• Protesters at London’s Trafalgar Square speak out to demand freedom for Julian Assange
• UC Berkeley professors discuss the California wildfires and air quality
• Australian students and youth speak out at climate strikes
• Striking GM workers speak from the pickets
• Peak District residents speak on Toddbrook dam collapse in UK

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North America

• Union sellouts endorse the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign
• Video exposes US Custom and Border Protection’s lies in death of teenage immigrant
• GM sends termination notices to 48 TPT workers in Indiana less than two months after UAW signs concessions contract
• Saudi airman kills four at US Naval Base in Florida
• Canadian parliament reconvenes following formation of Liberal minority government

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Americas

• Coup regime in Bolivia announces “final phase of pacification”
• Over 250 students arrested in Michigan by ICE in fake university scam
• In defiance of repression, Colombian workers mount second national strike in the past week
• National strike shakes Colombia’s right-wing government
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

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Videos and Multimedia

• Striking GM workers speak from the pickets
• Chicago Ford worker discusses issues in 2019 contract fight
• “We need international solidarity to bring about a positive outcome in this struggle for freedom for Julian Assange”
• General Motors worker on job cuts: “This is all about corporate greed”
• 053 St. Louis protests video

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New York

• New York transit union offers massive concessions to block strike
• Job actions by New York City transit workers
• Three homeless men die in abandoned house fire in New York City
• Trump threatens “substantial” increase in anti-China tariffs
• New York City bus and subway workers speak out against concession demands

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Recent Perspectives

• America’s torturers and their co-conspirators must be prosecuted (09/12/2019)
• The way forward for the mass strike in France (07/12/2019)
• Trump administration food stamp cuts spell hunger and destitution for millions (06/12/2019)
• NATO summit dominated by growing inter-state conflicts (05/12/2019)
• Fiat Chrysler workers face off against the UAW, an “FCA-controlled enterprise” (04/12/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project (28/11/2019)
2. Opera singer Plácido Domingo defends himself against sexual harassment allegations (05/12/2019)
3. John Deere announces layoffs at plants in Illinois and Iowa (04/10/2019)
4. Obama spearheads campaign against Sanders’ nomination as Democratic presidential candidate (02/12/2019)
5. An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project (14/11/2019)

Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• Doctors demand “urgent” medical intervention to save Julian Assange’s life
• 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

The New York Times’ 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

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

Lectures and Essays by David North

• 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)

Socialism and the Struggle Against War

• ICFI Resolution: Socialism and the fight against war (02/18/2016)
• SEP (US) Resolution: The fight against war and the political tasks of the SEP (08/25/2014)
• SEP (Australia) Resolution: The Socialist Equality Party and the fight to build an international anti-war movement (07/27/2016)
• SEP (Sri Lanka) Resolution: The political struggle against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (04/30/2016)
• PSG(Germany) Resolution: The struggle against war and the tasks of the PSG (11/14/2014)