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• Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters condemns Twitter’s suspension of IYSSE account
• State Supreme Court rejects Trump suit in Wisconsin
• ILO survey reveals COVID-19 impact on Bangladeshi women garment workers
• Hundreds evacuated in the face of fast-moving Southern California wildfire
• Australian soldiers drank alcohol from prosthetic leg of dead Afghan

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The fight against the GM plant closures

• 999 GM investments
• General Motors receives 75 percent local tax abatement for Lordstown battery plant
• GM announces exit from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand
• Workers at GM’s Silao, Mexico plant charge union with stuffing ballots during recognition vote
• US jobs report: 11,000 US auto jobs lost in January

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Autoworkers

• New surge of COVID-19 cases at GM Fort Wayne amid reports of expanding outbreaks at other factories
• At Germany’s “Auto Summit,” IG Metall backs major corporations in international trade war
• 999 RF Cmte statement: GM declares autoworkers are "not essential workers"
• UAW keeping workers at Ohio Ventra parts plant on the job without contract during pandemic
• Indian Toyota workers continue month-long strike against speedup

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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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Global class struggle

• ILO survey reveals COVID-19 impact on Bangladeshi women garment workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan agrees to austerity package for Transport for London
• Cleveland Heights Teachers Union calls off strike hours after picket lines are formed
• New surge of COVID-19 cases at GM Fort Wayne amid reports of expanding outbreaks at other factories

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United States

• Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters condemns Twitter’s suspension of IYSSE account
• State Supreme Court rejects Trump suit in Wisconsin
• Hundreds evacuated in the face of fast-moving Southern California wildfire
• Cleveland Heights Teachers Union calls off strike hours after picket lines are formed
• New surge of COVID-19 cases at GM Fort Wayne amid reports of expanding outbreaks at other factories

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North America

• Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters condemns Twitter’s suspension of IYSSE account
• State Supreme Court rejects Trump suit in Wisconsin
• Hundreds evacuated in the face of fast-moving Southern California wildfire
• Trudeau names top military officer to lead Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout
• Cleveland Heights Teachers Union calls off strike hours after picket lines are formed

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Videos

• The sickness in the White House
• Welcoming the Relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site
• Trump copies Hitler
• World Socialist Web Site interviews historian Dr. Joseph Scalice
• Video: Police on nationwide rampage

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Recent Perspectives

• Immediate action is necessary to save hundreds of thousands of lives! (04/12/2020)
• Donald Trump’s Mein Kampf (03/12/2020)
• The coronavirus pandemic and the case for expropriating the financial oligarchy (02/12/2020)
• The conspiracy to reopen schools (01/12/2020)
• New York City schools to reopen amid explosion of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, deaths (30/11/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. New IRS rule will push many US small businesses to the brink (28/11/2020)
2. Leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center expose worldwide conspiracy to suppress workers’ resistance (28/11/2020)
3. 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels (28/11/2020)
4. Massive spread of COVID-19 in Kentucky schools and death of 15-year-old girl prompts statewide school closures (28/11/2020)
5. Top scientist assassinated as Israel and US stage war provocations against Iran (28/11/2020)

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)