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• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• San Francisco Bay Area school districts push to reopen schools
• Australia cancels citizenship of woman labelled ISIS terrorist
• Injured Coles Australia worker speaks out: “They’ve tried to destroy me physically, mentally and financially”
• Rapper's arrest triggers mass protests over social conditions in Spain

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Global class struggle

• San Francisco Bay Area school districts push to reopen schools
• Injured Coles Australia worker speaks out: “They’ve tried to destroy me physically, mentally and financially”
• 999 Deepening social crisis driving ongoing protests in Myanmar
• Michigan boy, 10, loses both hands, both legs to COVID-related MIS-C syndrome
• Michigan governor pushes for school reopenings as Ann Arbor school board reverses decision to remain virtual

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Legal Issues

• Australia cancels citizenship of woman labelled ISIS terrorist
• Grand jury declines to charge Rochester, New York officers who killed Daniel Prude
• West Virginia Senate outlaws public employee strikes as state demands schools reopen
• Republicans acquit coup plotter Trump after Democrats refuse to call witnesses
• No charges for officers who violently shoved 75-year-old protester in Buffalo, New York

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India

• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
• An explosion at an Indian fireworks factory kills 20 workers
• As farmers expand their agitation, Indian government intensifies repression
• Management presses to impose “discipline” as strike by Indian Toyota workers enters fourth month

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South Asia

• 999 Deepening social crisis driving ongoing protests in Myanmar
• Sri Lankan government mobilises army to break health workers’ strike
• Sri Lankan government proposes tiny wage rise to deflect plantation workers’ unrest
• How to fight for democracy in Myanmar
• An explosion at an Indian fireworks factory kills 20 workers

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Recent Perspectives

• With US missile strike on Syria, Biden escalates US aggression in the Middle East (27/02/2021)
• Facebook censors WSWS article exposing Wuhan lab conspiracy theory (25/02/2021)
• 800,000 COVID-19 deaths in Europe: capitalism, social murder and the case for socialism (24/02/2021)
• Washington Post’s “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory stands exposed (23/02/2021)
• Half a million dead in the US from coronavirus pandemic: Catastrophe, crime and historical turning point (23/02/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Facebook shuts down group with 90,000 cruise ship crew members (21/02/2021)
2. Washington Post’s “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory stands exposed (23/02/2021)
3. UAW and Stellantis set April 5 start date for 12-hour, seven-day schedule for skilled trades at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (19/02/2021)
4. New York Times racialist vandals descend on Rome and Greece (25/02/2021)
5. Facebook censors WSWS article exposing Wuhan lab conspiracy theory (25/02/2021)

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)