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• 005 Social crisis in America
• 010 US COVID 3 million cases
• 015 ICE threatens int'l students with deportation
• 020 Canadian farmworkers and COVID
• Dozens of immigrants drown in eastern Turkey’s Lake Van

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Race and Class in America

• The significance of the July 4 online discussion, “The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future”
• The two American Revolutions in world history
• Workers, young people denounce undemocratic efforts to keep Socialist Equality Party off the ballot in Michigan
• 210 Announcement of July 4 event
• New York Times’ Charles Blow demands the removal of monuments to Washington and other “amoral monsters”

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The Trump Presidency

• Trump rails against Marxism and “international socialism”
• Trump gives fascistic rant at Mount Rushmore event held in defiance of health experts
• Millions in the US face catastrophe as federal unemployment relief set to expire amid surging pandemic
• Trump administration gives private equity firms access to 401(k) retirement funds
• Why Canada’s media is fawning over the war criminal John Bolton

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US Politics

• 999 Las Vegas mayor to leave casino safety to the free market
• 999 Haymarket Books event on "Remaking Schools"
• 999 Jacobin/DSA
• 999 Race and COVID-19
• 210 Race and COVID-19

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United States

• 005 Social crisis in America
• 010 US COVID 3 million cases
• 015 ICE threatens int'l students with deportation
• 060 Supreme Court ruling on electors
• 065 Illinois Covid

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Editorials

• Macron announces mass bankruptcies and layoffs as coronavirus restrictions are ended
• Wall Street celebrates Milken pardon
• A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
• My Response to Alex Lichtenstein Regarding the 1619 Project
• Terry Jones (1942-2020): From Monty Python to Geoffrey Chaucer

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Recent Perspectives

• 200 Political implications of attacks on American revolutionary history (07/07/2020)
• The significance of the July 4 online discussion, “The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future” (06/07/2020)
• The two American Revolutions in world history (04/07/2020)
• The New York Times fabricates Russian murder plot (03/07/2020)
• The inequality pandemic: How American capitalism puts profits over lives (02/07/2020)

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2. City University of New York lays off 2,800 adjuncts in wave of austerity (04/07/2020)
3. New York City transit worker suffers miscarriage on the job (01/07/2020)
4. The Last Dance: Basketball star Michael Jordan and professional sports in the 1990s (03/07/2020)
5. The Kominsky Method: The mostly comic challenges of aging (30/06/2020)

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

• 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

• 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)