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• The global campaign to reopen schools drives COVID-19 deaths past one million
• Report documents criminality and corruption at heart of global banking system
• Johnson government says UK COVID-19 infections could hit 50,000 per day as pandemic spins “out of control”
• Madrid hospitals collapsing amid Covid-19 resurgence in Europe
• Whistle-blowers speak out as German authorities cover up coronavirus cases at schools and day-care centres

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Germany

• Whistle-blowers speak out as German authorities cover up coronavirus cases at schools and day-care centres
• Lufthansa prepares to double job cuts to nearly 40,000
• Germany: Right-wing extremist network in police pays homage to Hitler and the Nazis
• Neo-Nazis in German police issue new threats
• Union suppresses criticism of job cuts at German steel producer ThyssenKrupp

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European Union

• Revelation of US government conspiracy on COVID-19 exposes EU herd immunity policy
• Brexit crisis intensifies after Johnson government tears up agreement with Brussels
• European governments end furlough schemes amid jobs massacre
• EU denounces Russia over alleged poisoning of oppositionist Alexei Navalny
• EU Summit agrees to €750 billion fund for the banks and corporations

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Europe

• Johnson government says UK COVID-19 infections could hit 50,000 per day as pandemic spins “out of control”
• Whistle-blowers speak out as German authorities cover up coronavirus cases at schools and day-care centres
• EU parliament calls for international investigation into alleged poisoning of Navalny
• COVID-19: French NPA’s Révolution Permanente web site lines up with Macron’s school re-opening
• Assange dragged from embassy “on the orders of the president”

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Recent Perspectives

• The global campaign to reopen schools drives COVID-19 deaths past one million (22/09/2020)
• WHO condemns governments’ failure to prepare for pandemic (21/09/2020)
• White House bans TikTok and WeChat: A major intensification of internet censorship (19/09/2020)
• Trump’s Middle East deal and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism (18/09/2020)
• As US death toll hits 200,000, Trump calls for herd immunity (17/09/2020)

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1. London bus drivers resolve to fight for Assange’s freedom (16/09/2020)
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3. Casualties of “herd immunity”: Three new teacher deaths in one week as US schools reopen (19/09/2020)
4. British actress Diana Rigg (1938-2020) (17/09/2020)
5. Trump incites fascistic violence as US election approaches (16/09/2020)

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)