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• US hits five million COVID-19 cases as testing declines and schools reopen
• Georgia teachers and students force temporary closure of North Paulding High School over COVID-19 outbreak
• As statewide cases hit half a million, opposition mounts in Florida to school reopening
• Rising popular anger over Nepali government’s response to COVID-19
• Fiat Chrysler workers speak out on COVID-19 outbreak at Belvidere Assembly Plant

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Chelsea Manning

• Growing demands for Assange’s release as first coronavirus case confirmed in British prisons
• Doctors condemn Australian government’s refusal to defend Julian Assange
• Fund drive to pay Chelsea Manning’s court fines raises $267,000 in two days
• Australia: Melbourne teachers vote to defend Assange and Manning
• Chelsea Manning released from jail after grand jury is dismissed by US federal court

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US Media Issues

• Hundreds of thousands mobilize on social media to oppose US school reopenings
• Plainclothes NYC police grab protester and throw her into unmarked car
• Corporate press promotes Susan Rice as Biden running mate
• US adopts policy of regime-change in Beijing
• What is the New York Times up to at the Detroit Institute of Arts?

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United States

• US hits five million COVID-19 cases as testing declines and schools reopen
• Georgia teachers and students force temporary closure of North Paulding High School over COVID-19 outbreak
• As statewide cases hit half a million, opposition mounts in Florida to school reopening
• Fiat Chrysler workers speak out on COVID-19 outbreak at Belvidere Assembly Plant
• Trump executive orders set stage for tens of millions of evictions

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North America

• US hits five million COVID-19 cases as testing declines and schools reopen
• Georgia teachers and students force temporary closure of North Paulding High School over COVID-19 outbreak
• As statewide cases hit half a million, opposition mounts in Florida to school reopening
• Fiat Chrysler workers speak out on COVID-19 outbreak at Belvidere Assembly Plant
• Trump executive orders set stage for tens of millions of evictions

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The war drive against Russia

• Britain’s Russia Report: Propaganda for authoritarianism and war
• US escalates economic warfare against Russia and China
• US pushes fabricated claims of Russian hacking of virus research
• The India-China border clash and the inflammable state of world geopolitics
• Washington steps up strategic bomber flights threatening Russia, China

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Free Julian Assange!

• Ten years since WikiLeaks published the Afghan war logs
• Assange appears in court, as lawyers warn case may be delayed by new US indictment
• UK MPs submit early day motion on Assange
• Online documentary exposes the psychological torture of Julian Assange
• Online book launch of The Most Dangerous Man in the World defends Assange

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The anti-Russia campaign in the US

• US escalates economic warfare against Russia and China
• Anti-Russia war fever spreads on Capitol Hill
• US withdraws from Open Skies Treaty, heightening danger of war with Russia
• Declassified Mueller investigation transcripts confirm no evidence WikiLeaks colluded with Russia
• At Trump’s urging: US Justice Department quashes Flynn prosecution

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Recent Perspectives

• Trump's illegal power grab and the specter of American Bonapartism (10/08/2020)
• 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)

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)