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• Tlaib agrees to Israeli terms, then reverses herself on West Bank visit
• Outrage as Colorado police returned to duty after shooting 19-year-old in the back
• Lawyers raise questions after medical examiner declares Epstein committed suicide
• "That was our money!" Autoworkers livid over UAW corruption scandal
• Questions continue over Russian nuclear accident

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The fight against the GM plant closures

• GM continues tax avoidance schemes while it slashes thousands of jobs
• Autoworkers must prepare fight as UAW plans new givebacks in 2019 contracts
• Strike action in the US hits a 32-year high
• Cascade of plant closings in New York state
• As global jobs massacre continues, workers around the world voice support for fight against plant closures

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Autoworkers struggles

• "That was our money!" Autoworkers livid over UAW corruption scandal
• UAW official indicted for taking millions in bribes as scandal spreads to GM
• Trade war, falling sales take center stage at Michigan auto industry conference
• US autoworkers on collision course with the companies
• Autoworkers react to slap-on-the wrist sentencing of former UAW VP

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Interviews and On-the-spot reports

• Peak District residents speak on Toddbrook dam collapse in UK
• Australian workers and youth speak out in defence of Assange at SEP rally
• “Water has been made a commodity for profit”—Chennai residents speak out on city’s water crisis
• Campaign to defend historic, Depression-era “Life of Washington” murals in San Francisco
• As negotiations hit impasse, Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians continue strike and free concerts

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Workers Struggles

• "That was our money!" Autoworkers livid over UAW corruption scandal
• Australian health workers protest assaults on staff
• US Kaiser Permanente workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of strike
• Blackjewel miners in Kentucky vow to continue fight against coal operator
• UK: Asda supermarket workers protest inferior contract

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United States

• Tlaib agrees to Israeli terms, then reverses herself on West Bank visit
• Outrage as Colorado police returned to duty after shooting 19-year-old in the back
• Lawyers raise questions after medical examiner declares Epstein committed suicide
• "That was our money!" Autoworkers livid over UAW corruption scandal
• Blackwater mercenary Nicholas Slatten sentenced to life in prison for initiating 2007 Nisour Square Massacre

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North America

• Tlaib agrees to Israeli terms, then reverses herself on West Bank visit
• Outrage as Colorado police returned to duty after shooting 19-year-old in the back
• Lawyers raise questions after medical examiner declares Epstein committed suicide
• "That was our money!" Autoworkers livid over UAW corruption scandal
• Report reveals damning evidence of Canadian government bid to block criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin

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Recent Perspectives

• State of siege in Kashmir: A warning to the international working class (17/08/2019)
• A dictatorial move: Trump blocks travel to Israel by two congresswomen (16/08/2019)
• US autoworkers on collision course with the companies (15/08/2019)
• “Voyage of the Damned:” Hundreds of refugees stranded in the Mediterranean (14/08/2019)
• Why is the media dismissing questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death as “conspiracy theories”? (13/08/2019)

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The Editor recommends

• The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International (03/08/2019)
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• The Strategy of International Class Struggle and the Political Fight Against Capitalist Reaction in 2019 (03/01/2019)
• The specter of Marx haunts the American ruling class (06/11/2018)
• Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today (09/10/2018)
• The struggle for socialism and the importance of history: David North interviewed on Radio Sri Lanka (12/10/2018)
• Vadim Rogovin and the sociology of Stalinism (25/09/2018)
• Workers Party in Argentina seeks to “refound” Fourth International in alliance with Stalinism (07/06/2018)
• Lenin, Trotsky and the Marxism of the October Revolution (19/03/2018)
• The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party (13/03/2018)
• An interview with David North—Socialism or Barbarism: Reflections on Global Disorder (03/01/2018)
• The bicentenary of Marx’s birth, socialism and the resurgence of the international class struggle (03/01/2018)
• Final reflections on the centennial year of the October Revolution (30/12/2017)

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)

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)