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• New US unemployment claims top 1 million for 20th straight week
• US Homeland Security chief defends police-state crackdown, announces federal paramilitaries to remain in Portland
• Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna wins election setting the stage for an eruption of working-class struggles
• Angry educators and parents across the US protest the reckless return to classrooms
• Health Commissioner forced out as New York City prepares to reopen schools amid national pandemic surge

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India

• Indian PM Modi to lay cornerstone for Hindu temple at site of razed Ayodhya mosque
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• India set to surpass two million COVID-19 cases within days
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

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Autoworkers struggles

• Fiat Chrysler bribed UAW with tens of millions, new GM court filing alleges
• GM Fairfax worker speaks out on spread of COVID-19
• Workers describe unsafe conditions at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant
• Honda orders office workers at Marysville, Ohio plant to man assembly lines as COVID-19 spreads
• 140 Interview with parts worker

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Workers Struggles Around the World

• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

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Economy

• Gold price surges to record high
• US imposes new sanctions on China over alleged Uyghur abuses
• Mass unemployment to worsen in Australia following Victorian lockdown
• European economy collapses as EU bails out the super-rich
• US credit outlook rated “negative” as concerns mount over dollar’s global role

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Recent Perspectives

• The United Auto Workers: A criminal conspiracy against the working class (07/08/2020)
• 75 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (06/08/2020)
• For a nationwide general strike to halt the drive to reopen schools! (05/08/2020)
• One month of the coronavirus pandemic: 7.2 million infected, 165,000 dead (04/08/2020)
• Congress of millionaires robs the unemployed (03/08/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union will end in job losses (31/07/2020)
2. Auto parts worker dies at Michigan Faurecia plant of unexplained causes (30/07/2020)
3. Australia: International students voice anger over wage theft, poor working conditions (30/07/2020)
4. Congress of millionaires robs the unemployed (03/08/2020)
5. Open Letter from WSWS Chairman David North to Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai (31/07/2020)

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)