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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
• Russia ends COVID-19 restrictions in major cities
• Chicago schools chief threatens to lock out teachers who don’t return to school buildings Monday
• Spain’s rich and powerful secretly monopolised COVID-19 vaccines

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Americas

• DHS nominee Mayorkas testifies before Congress as Biden unveils immigration plan
• Brazilian workers exposed to infections and death as meat-processing industry reaps record profits
• Brazilian state governments push to reopen schools as COVID-19 deaths approach 200,000
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

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North America

• Chicago schools chief threatens to lock out teachers who don’t return to school buildings Monday
• Democratic D.C. mayor slashes funding for homeless services in midst of surging pandemic
• Southern California school districts plan reopenings despite dire spread of COVID-19
• Biden claims “there is nothing we can do” to halt mass death from coronavirus
• For a full, immediate investigation into death threats against Kshama Sawant!

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United States

• Chicago schools chief threatens to lock out teachers who don’t return to school buildings Monday
• Democratic D.C. mayor slashes funding for homeless services in midst of surging pandemic
• Southern California school districts plan reopenings despite dire spread of COVID-19
• Biden claims “there is nothing we can do” to halt mass death from coronavirus
• For a full, immediate investigation into death threats against Kshama Sawant!

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America’s Brutal Society

• Democratic D.C. mayor slashes funding for homeless services in midst of surging pandemic
• Another 900,000 file for unemployment, record jobless claims continue amid mass death from pandemic
• Trump administration executes two more death row prisoners in pre-Inauguration Day killing spree
• Killeen, Texas police officer shot and killed unarmed man during mental health call
• Mentally ill woman executed as Trump continues federal killing spree

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The 2015 police killing of Trayvon Martin

• Obama Justice Department: No federal charges to be filed in Trayvon Martin slaying
• Obama, race and class
• Organizers of Trayvon Martin rallies promote Democratic Party
• Build a united struggle of workers and youth to defend social, democratic rights
• More than a dozen arrests after protests over Zimmerman acquittal

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Videos

• 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
• Video: Police on nationwide rampage

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Recent Perspectives

• Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals (23/01/2021)
• The Biden administration: Illusion and reality (22/01/2021)
• Biden’s inaugural address: Banality and empty abstractions to cover over reality (21/01/2021)
• Inauguration 2021: On the edge of an abyss (20/01/2021)
• Biden pledges to continue Trump’s campaign to open schools and businesses (19/01/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)
2. Louis van Beethoven: A German film biography of the great composer (18/01/2021)
3. Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones! (18/01/2021)
4. Magia Record, Kakushigoto, Fruits Basket and Sword Art Online: A general review of anime in 2020 (16/01/2021)
5. Appearance of military officers during Trump’s inaugural address still unexplained (23/01/2017)

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)