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• Russian court sentences Alexei Navalny to prison
• Australia cancels citizenship of woman labelled ISIS terrorist
• Youth anger erupts over jailing of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél
• French government rejects lockdown as UK variant becomes dominant strain
• Hearings on Texas catastrophe expose irrationality of private energy production

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Autoworkers

• Delays to Big Three auto companies’ vaccination program highlight profit motive driving pandemic response
• Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly workers call for fight to defend the eight-hour day
• Stellantis cuts jobs at Illinois auto plant one month after merger
• With a 12-hour, seven-day schedule at Sterling Heights Assembly, UAW repudiates long battle for eight-hour day
• With thousands facing layoffs, Brazilian unions push temporary work at Ford

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Global class struggle

• 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 for the rest of the school year
• WISAG airport workers on hunger strike in Frankfurt, Germany: “We will not give up”
• Major school districts press to reopen throughout Washington D.C. metro area
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

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Videos

• Unite with Chicago teachers to save lives and prepare a general strike!
• The sickness in the White House
• Welcoming the Relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site
• Trump copies Hitler
• World Socialist Web Site interviews historian Dr. Joseph Scalice

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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 (24/02/2021)
• 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. 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)
2. Facebook shuts down group with 90,000 cruise ship crew members (21/02/2021)
3. CUNY breaks faculty and staff contract, withholding promised pay raises (20/02/2021)
4. Corporate profit, electricity deregulation and the disaster in Texas (18/02/2021)
5. Washington Post’s “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory stands exposed (24/02/2021)

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)

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)