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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
• The Chicago teachers’ rebellion and the fight to contain the pandemic
• After government intervention to keep it open, hundreds of infections went unreported at Illinois meatpacking plant
• As Biden pleads for unity, Senate Republicans overwhelmingly back Trump in impeachment trial

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North America

• After government intervention to keep it open, hundreds of infections went unreported at Illinois meatpacking plant
• The Biden climate plan, Part One: A drop in the ocean
• St. Paul Oil Refinery workers strike enters sixth day
• Chicago teacher opposing return to school maligned for citing anti-Nazi poem
• Nevada sees record number of COVID-19 deaths

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United States

• After government intervention to keep it open, hundreds of infections went unreported at Illinois meatpacking plant
• New COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 identified at the University of Michigan
• The Biden climate plan, Part One: A drop in the ocean
• An interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan, professor of bioethics at New York University, on the COVID-19 pandemic
• St. Paul Oil Refinery workers strike enters sixth day

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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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Socialist Equality Party 2012 US Presidential Election Campaign

• Illinois Democrats concoct pseudo-legal justification for cutting public employee pensions
• The SEP vote in the 2012 elections
• SEP campaigns on US Election Day
• The class issues in the 2012 elections
• SEP candidate Phyllis Scherrer campaigns among Brooklyn College students

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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

• The Chicago teachers’ rebellion and the fight to contain the pandemic (27/01/2021)
• Facebook restores service to socialist pages, claiming the purge was an “automation error” (26/01/2021)
• Facebook escalates attack on socialist left (25/01/2021)
• Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals (23/01/2021)
• The Biden administration: Illusion and reality (22/01/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals (23/01/2021)
2. Biden claims “there is nothing we can do” to halt mass death from coronavirus (23/01/2021)
3. Facebook escalates attack on socialist left (25/01/2021)
4. Biden’s inaugural address: Banality and empty abstractions to cover over reality (21/01/2021)
5. Inauguration 2021: On the edge of an abyss (20/01/2021)

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)