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• Australian unions offer to protect employers from “wage theft” penalties
• Washtenaw County issues stay-at-home order at University of Michigan campus in the wake of campus COVID outbreak
• Missouri coronavirus infection rates spike, creating havoc in schools, economy
• Breonna Taylor grand jury was never given option to indict killer cops
• Statements from China and Sri Lanka in defence of Dr. Scalice against the attacks by the Stalinist CPP

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Socialist Equality Party (Germany)

• 30 years of German unity
• German Socialist Equality Party campaign against reopening schools finds significant response
• Verfassungsschutz Report 2019: German secret service downplays threat of Nazi terrorism and attacks socialist politics
• Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei condemns right-wing terror against Left Party parliamentarian
• Coronavirus crisis in Germany: Workers must demand factories and large enterprises be closed

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Germany

• David North presents Thirty Years of War at Frankfurt Book Fair
• IG Metall union demands state involvement at German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp
• German parents’ associations protest against dangerous school openings
• Student council at Leipzig University opposes invitation to German right-wing extremist professor Jörg Baberowski
• 7,000 new infections in 24 hours: Germany’s highest COVID numbers since beginning of pandemic

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Videos

• Trump copies Hitler
• World Socialist Web Site interviews historian Dr. Joseph Scalice
• Video: Police on nationwide rampage
• Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives
• The COVID-19 pandemic and global imperialist war

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Recent Perspectives

• Nigerian government unleashes massacre against police brutality protesters (20/10/2020)
• Democrats call for “patience” as Trump moves forward with coup plot (20/10/2020)
• Trump escalates threats of violence and dictatorship (19/10/2020)
• Mobilize the working class against the European Union’s “herd immunity” policies! (17/10/2020)
• The Great Barrington Declaration: A manifesto of death (16/10/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. US press reports confirm killing of Portland anti-fascist was targeted police assassination (15/10/2020)
2. Factional warfare erupts in New York Times over the 1619 Project (15/10/2020)
3. Outrage builds among autoworkers over 84-hour workweek for skilled trades workers at FCA Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (13/10/2020)
4. The Great Barrington Declaration: A manifesto of death (16/10/2020)
5. Teacher death toll mounts as districts across the US push forward with school reopenings (14/10/2020)

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)