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• Strike by Taiwanese flight attendants points to growing workers’ discontent in global airline industry
• Honduran military invades university and shoots down students
• 300,000 demonstrate in Prague against right-wing Czech government
• US House votes down amendment to block NSA collection of the personal communications of American citizens
• Trump plan will slash Medicaid and food stamps

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United States

• US House votes down amendment to block NSA collection of the personal communications of American citizens
• Trump plan will slash Medicaid and food stamps
• Second of two “Fund Our School” rallies held in Michigan
• No to concentration camps in America!
• Auto execs, UAW have a game plan: What will autoworkers do?

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Interviews and On-the-spot reports

• “Water has been made a commodity for profit”—Chennai residents speak out on city’s water crisis
• Campaign to defend historic, Depression-era “Life of Washington” murals in San Francisco
• As negotiations hit impasse, Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians continue strike and free concerts
• Musicians, youth and workers speak in support of Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
• Detroit autoworkers discuss upcoming meetings on “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight it”

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North America

• Pete Buttigieg’s town hall debacle: A Democratic Party “golden boy” unmasked
• Horror across US-Mexico border with multiple parents, infants dead
• Oregon legislature shut down by right-wing militia threats
• Explosion and fire at Philadelphia refinery as company puts profits over safety
• US schools erecting a massive digital surveillance infrastructure, choking dissent and free speech

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Americas

• Striking Chilean copper miners defy police violence
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: the Americas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

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Videos and Multimedia

• “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
• Watch: Hurricane Harvey victims applying for federal aid encounter government indifference
• 205 Grenfell Tower Video

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New York

• New York taxi drivers driven to penury and suicide
• NYPD disciplinary trial of cop who killed Eric Garner concludes
• As New York City transit contract expires, governor launches vindictive attack on workers
• Students for Justice in Palestine at New York University smeared as anti-Semitic

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Recent Perspectives

• No to concentration camps in America! (26/06/2019)
• The Lübcke murder and the return of the “Nazi problem” in Germany (25/06/2019)
• Minutes to disaster: Lessons to be learned from the confrontation with Iran (24/06/2019)
• Trump’s aborted strikes on Iran: Ten minutes to World War III (22/06/2019)
• Why are reparations for slavery being made an issue in the 2020 US elections? (21/06/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Horror across US-Mexico border with multiple parents, infants dead (25/06/2019)
2. US-backed Saudi regime beheads 37 political prisoners (25/04/2019)
3. Saline, Michigan Faurecia workers outraged after UAW shuts down their strike (22/06/2019)
4. Video shows neo-Nazis attacking woman at Detroit Pride festival while police look on (20/06/2019)
5. The Guardian’s direct collusion with media censorship by secret services exposed (22/06/2019)

The Editor recommends

• Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018) (01/02/2019)
• The Strategy of International Class Struggle and the Political Fight Against Capitalist Reaction in 2019 (03/01/2019)
• The specter of Marx haunts the American ruling class (06/11/2018)
• Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today (09/10/2018)
• The struggle for socialism and the importance of history: David North interviewed on Radio Sri Lanka (12/10/2018)
• Vadim Rogovin and the sociology of Stalinism (25/09/2018)
• Workers Party in Argentina seeks to “refound” Fourth International in alliance with Stalinism (07/06/2018)
• Lenin, Trotsky and the Marxism of the October Revolution (19/03/2018)
• The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party (13/03/2018)
• An interview with David North—Socialism or Barbarism: Reflections on Global Disorder (03/01/2018)
• The bicentenary of Marx’s birth, socialism and the resurgence of the international class struggle (03/01/2018)
• Final reflections on the centennial year of the October Revolution (30/12/2017)

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)