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• Indian government seizes on Kashmir attack to ratchet up tensions with Pakistan
• Spanish government falls amid Catalan crisis
• Germany: Public transport strike paralyzes Berlin
• Nationwide public sector strike hits Portugal
• Union thugs assault striking Matamoros workers

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The fight against the GM plant closures

• Autoworkers must prepare fight as UAW plans new givebacks in 2019 contracts
• Strike action in the US hits a 32-year high
• Cascade of plant closings in New York state
• As global jobs massacre continues, workers around the world voice support for fight against plant closures
• German workers support rally against mass layoffs in Detroit

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Autoworkers struggles

• GM and union use shutdown threat to slash wages of Brazilian autoworkers
• Autoworkers must prepare fight as UAW plans new givebacks in 2019 contracts
• 205 Feb 9 video
• Maruti Suzuki workers in India send greetings to February 9 protest
• Workers at February 9 protest discuss fight against GM closings

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Interviews and On-the-spot reports

• Video: Attend the December 9 meeting in Detroit to oppose the GM plant closures!
• Photo Essay: The social cost of the Camp Fire
• London demonstrators speak out against racism and fascism
• World Socialist Web Site speaks with California wildfire evacuees
• Striking Chicago Hyatt workers describe fight against hotel giants

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Workers Struggles

• Germany: Public transport strike paralyzes Berlin
• Nationwide public sector strike hits Portugal
• Union thugs assault striking Matamoros workers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• OSHA fines XPO $10,347 for the deaths of two workers

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United States

• Former FBI deputy director confirms FBI, Justice officials discussed removing Trump
• No agreement on US-China trade with talks to continue
• No More Deaths volunteers prosecuted for providing humanitarian aid to migrants
• A step towards presidential dictatorship
• War summit in Warsaw

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North America

• Union thugs assault striking Matamoros workers
• Former FBI deputy director confirms FBI, Justice officials discussed removing Trump
• No agreement on US-China trade with talks to continue
• No More Deaths volunteers prosecuted for providing humanitarian aid to migrants
• A step towards presidential dictatorship

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Recent Perspectives

• A step towards presidential dictatorship (16/02/2019)
• War summit in Warsaw (15/02/2019)
• The show trial of the Catalan nationalists and the far-right danger in Spain (14/02/2019)
• The Iranian Revolution—Forty Years On (13/02/2019)
• The international upsurge of working class struggle in 2019 (12/02/2019)

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1. The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part one (12/02/2019)
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3. Democrats capitulate to Trump, agree to wall funding (12/02/2019)
4. The working class and socialism (09/02/2019)
5. The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part two (13/02/2019)

The Editor recommends

• 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)