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• Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
• How Royal Bournemouth Hospital management put patient and staff safety in jeopardy: A frontline nurse explains
• Where is America going? Trump’s coup and the rise of fascism
• Silent on coup attempt, Mexico’s AMLO defends Trump against “censorship”
• State of emergency imposed in Malaysia, granting government sweeping powers

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Film Festivals

• 499 and Summertime at the 10th annual GuadaLAjara Film Festival
• Contemporary politics, but semi-hysterical politics: New Order, Shorta and others
• Limbo, Gaza mon amour, The Disciple: Art is both richer and duller than life
• Frances McDormand in Nomadland—the danger of making a virtue out of necessity—and David Byrne’s American Utopia (directed by Spike Lee)
• 76 Days: The drama of the Wuhan lockdown

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Arts and Culture

• Louis van Beethoven: A German film biography of the great composer
• British government rejected visa-free EU touring for musicians to bolster hostile immigration policy
• Magia Record, Kakushigoto, Fruits Basket and Sword Art Online: A general review of anime in 2020
• 499 and Summertime at the 10th annual GuadaLAjara Film Festival
• August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on Netflix: The blues is “life’s way of talking”

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Recent Perspectives

• Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones! (18/01/2021)
• What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)
• The pandemic and Trump’s coup attempt (15/01/2021)
• Growing threats of fascist violence as Democrats appeal for “unity” and “healing” (13/01/2021)
• Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt (09/01/2021)
2. New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation (11/01/2021)
3. UK government figures hide £800 billion hoarded by super-rich (11/01/2021)
4. Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)
5. What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)

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)

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

International May Day 2020 Online Rally

• The COVID-19 pandemic: A trigger event in world history

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

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)