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• Over 5,000 arrests, police violence against transport strikers in India’s Telangana state
• India’s Supreme Court validates Hindu supremacist violence
• Facebook and YouTube remove posts naming CIA impeachment whistleblower
• Chicago Ford workers denounce UAW contract: “They want to monitor you every minute, every second”
• Northern Virginia transit workers vote to strike as walkout by Metrobus contract workers enters third week

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The 2016 SEP US Election Campaign

• The election of Donald Trump: The political issues facing workers and youth
• SEP candidate for West Virginia House of Delegates Naomi Spencer speaks on the social crisis in Appalachia
• SEP’s vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth reviews lessons of the Sanders campaign
• SEP candidate Jerry White on Trump's election victory
• Trump wins US presidential election

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The 2016 US Elections

• Bernie Sanders defends American imperialism at town hall on Iran
• Sanders town hall in DC promotes illusions in the Democrats and trade unions
• Bernie Sanders seeks to derail growing working class opposition to capitalism
• Former Democratic chairman reveals Clinton rigging of 2016 nomination campaign
• One week in the media’s McCarthyite witch-hunt against Russia

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United States

• The Democrats’ campaign for internet censorship: Who is to determine what are “lies”?
• UAW-Ford contract gives green light for video monitoring of workers
• Billionaire ex-NYC Mayor Bloomberg takes steps to run for Democratic nomination
• Leaked video reveals ABC News suppressed Jeffrey Epstein story since 2015
• Massachusetts: Buffalo Wild Wings worker dies after inhaling toxic fumes

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Videos

• Video: 70 years after the Chinese Revolution—How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
• Video: SEP presidential candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena addresses nationally-televised meeting in Sri Lanka
• Video: Striking GM workers in Flint, Michigan discuss key issues in their fight
• Striking GM workers speak from the pickets
• Video: Watch the Sydney Free Assange rally

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Videos and Multimedia

• Striking GM workers speak from the pickets
• Chicago Ford worker discusses issues in 2019 contract fight
• “We need international solidarity to bring about a positive outcome in this struggle for freedom for Julian Assange”
• General Motors worker on job cuts: “This is all about corporate greed”
• Watch: Hurricane Harvey victims applying for federal aid encounter government indifference

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Recent Perspectives

• In Berlin Wall speech, Pompeo advances crusade against Russia and China (11/11/2019)
• The Democrats’ campaign for internet censorship: Who is to determine what are “lies”? (09/11/2019)
• The expanding UAW corruption scandal and the case for rank-and-file committees (08/11/2019)
• German imperialism’s new drive for world power (07/11/2019)
• Socialist Equality Party to stand in UK general election: No to austerity, militarism and war! Free Julian Assange! For class struggle and socialist internationalism! (06/11/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Chelsea Manning imprisoned without charge for six months for refusing to testify against Julian Assange (21/09/2019)
2. Chicago Ford workers reject UAW agreement (07/11/2019)
3. UAW officials try to bully workers for opposing Ford deal at Michigan meeting (08/11/2019)
4. UN rapporteur Nils Melzer warns: Julian Assange may die in a British prison (04/11/2019)
5. Ford autoworkers denounce tentative deal as corruption scandal engulfs UAW leadership (04/11/2019)

The Editor recommends

• For a worldwide campaign to prevent Julian Assange’s rendition to the US! (20/06/2019)
• Roger Waters to perform in London Monday in defense of Julian Assange (31/08/2019)
• IYSSE holds meetings in defence of Assange at Australian universities (31/08/2019)
• Australia: NSW Greens pass motion “defending” Assange, but MPs remain silent (30/08/2019)
• The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International (03/08/2019)
• Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018) (01/02/2019)
• 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)