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• New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
• Georgia highschoolers use social media to expose disastrous conditions as schools reopen
• Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
• Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
• German schools reopen despite increase in coronavirus infections

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The fight against the GM plant closures

• General Motors receives 75 percent local tax abatement for Lordstown battery plant
• GM announces exit from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand
• Workers at GM’s Silao, Mexico plant charge union with stuffing ballots during recognition vote
• US jobs report: 11,000 US auto jobs lost in January
• GM workers denounce forced overtime imposed with UAW collusion

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Autoworkers struggles

• Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
• GM Spring Hill workers speak out against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic
• Ex-UAW regional director forced to resign amid harassment investigation
• Union prepares sellout of Renault strike in Brazil
• The United Auto Workers: A criminal conspiracy against the working class

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Interviews and On-the-spot reports

• Couples and families separated by New Zealand’s border restrictions
• UK protesters speak on George Floyd demonstrations
• Mounting opposition among autoworkers on eve of industry restart
• NHS staff condemn UK health worker deaths and government herd immunity strategy
• Indian migrant workers in Chennai speak to WSWS about coronavirus pandemic

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Workers Struggles

• New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
• Georgia highschoolers use social media to expose disastrous conditions as schools reopen
• Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
• Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
• German schools reopen despite increase in coronavirus infections

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United States

• New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
• Georgia highschoolers use social media to expose disastrous conditions as schools reopen
• Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
• Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
• White House, Congress combine to cut off supplemental unemployment benefits

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North America

• New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
• Georgia highschoolers use social media to expose disastrous conditions as schools reopen
• Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
• Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
• White House, Congress combine to cut off supplemental unemployment benefits

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Videos

• Video: Police on nationwide rampage
• Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives
• The COVID-19 pandemic and global imperialist war
• Brazilian workers reject demands to choose between COVID-19 and starvation
• Freedom for Assange is inseparable from the fight against war and for socialism

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Recent Perspectives

• The politics of oligarchy: Federal appeals court blocks SEP challenge to anti-democratic ballot access laws in California (08/08/2020)
• The United Auto Workers: A criminal conspiracy against the working class (07/08/2020)
• 75 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (06/08/2020)
• For a nationwide general strike to halt the drive to reopen schools! (05/08/2020)
• One month of the coronavirus pandemic: 7.2 million infected, 165,000 dead (04/08/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Congress of millionaires robs the unemployed (03/08/2020)
2. Columbia University pressures faculty into teaching in-person classes, triggering backlash (08/08/2020)
3. Massachusetts school district gets rid of art, music and PE teachers for coming school year (30/05/2020)
4. For a nationwide general strike to halt the drive to reopen schools! (05/08/2020)
5. Talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union will end in job losses (31/07/2020)

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

• 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

• ICFI Resolution: Socialism and the fight against war (02/18/2016)
• SEP (US) Resolution: The fight against war and the political tasks of the SEP (08/25/2014)
• SEP (Australia) Resolution: The Socialist Equality Party and the fight to build an international anti-war movement (07/27/2016)
• SEP (Sri Lanka) Resolution: The political struggle against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (04/30/2016)
• PSG(Germany) Resolution: The struggle against war and the tasks of the PSG (11/14/2014)