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• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• Fed chair Powell’s remarks spark Wall Street sell-off
• Robert Bea, co-founder of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, on the Texas power grid disaster
• State University of New York system surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 cases one month into semester
• New Zealand government negligence led to Auckland’s COVID-19 cluster

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Trump’s January 6 coup d’état

• D.C. National Guard commander says Pentagon delayed deployment of troops to protect US Capitol on January 6
• FBI Director Wray confirms coordinated planning by pro-Trump far-right terrorists in January 6 attack
• Bail denied for retired New York City cop charged with assault in January 6 attempted coup
• US Capitol police chief says far-right militias planning to bomb Capitol
• Republicans use hearing on domestic terrorism to defend Trump and promote far-right forces

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Trump and the danger of fascism in America

• US House of Representatives adjourns under threat of fascist violence
• FBI Director Wray confirms coordinated planning by pro-Trump far-right terrorists in January 6 attack
• Trump intensifies fascistic agitation at CPAC conference
• Trump rails against “socialism” and doubles down on stolen election lie at Conservative Political Action Conference
• Bail denied for retired New York City cop charged with assault in January 6 attempted coup

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US Politics

• US House of Representatives adjourns under threat of fascist violence
• Another 745,000 jobless claims filed as Senate takes up Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill
• Biden doubles down on “great power” conflict with China
• Amanda Gorman’s Dutch translator forced to quit because of race—a call for cultural segregation
• US Supreme Court poised to finish off Voting Rights Act

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Politics

• 999 Burma political update
• Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists seek alliance with India’s Hindu-chauvinist BJP
• US Supreme Court poised to finish off Voting Rights Act
• Vernon Jordan, African American pillar of the establishment, dead at 85
• Biden and Trudeau revamp Canada-US alliance for trade war and military conflict

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United States

• Fed chair Powell’s remarks spark Wall Street sell-off
• Robert Bea, co-founder of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, on the Texas power grid disaster
• State University of New York system surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 cases one month into semester
• 999 (3/3) MI school reopenings
• Dozens of COVID-19 infections shut down Detroit Whole Foods

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North America

• Fed chair Powell’s remarks spark Wall Street sell-off
• Robert Bea, co-founder of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, on the Texas power grid disaster
• State University of New York system surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 cases one month into semester
• 999 (3/3) MI school reopenings
• Dozens of COVID-19 infections shut down Detroit Whole Foods

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Recent Perspectives

• 150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg (05/03/2021)
• US ruling class moves to remove remaining restrictions as pandemic continues to spread (04/03/2021)
• Why Biden supports the unionization of the Amazon workforce (02/03/2021)
• Trump intensifies fascistic agitation at CPAC conference (02/03/2021)
• Democrats torpedo $15 minimum wage hike (28/02/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Amazon worker at Las Vegas warehouse dies in possible suicide (02/03/2021)
2. Postal worker in Chicago dies in apparent suicide in mail truck (04/03/2021)
3. Trump’s acting secretary of defense disarmed D.C. National Guard 48 hours before the fascist assault (31/01/2021)
4. HBO’s docuseries Allen v. Farrow: A shameful, vindictive, McCarthyite attack on filmmaker Woody Allen (04/03/2021)
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)