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• Over 100,000 in Puerto Rico demand resignation of governor as protests continue
• Drug companies poured 76 billion opioid pills into US neighborhoods in just six years
• US stokes war danger in Middle East following alleged downing of Iranian drone
• After three-month cover-up, investigation into police assault of “yellow vest” Geneviève Legay transferred to Lyon
• French intelligence strategy document warns of “insurrectional violence”

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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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Police Violence in America

• US investigators identify 70 current and former immigration agents in far-right, racist Facebook groups
• US Justice Department will not bring charges in 2014 police murder of Eric Garner
• Seventeen-year-old girl fatally shot by police on California freeway
• UN human rights chief denounces “outrageous conditions” for immigrants in US concentration camps
• Detroit’s facial recognition surveillance system exposed

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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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Videos

• Video: Watch the Sydney Free Assange rally
• Campaign to defend historic, Depression-era “Life of Washington” murals in San Francisco
• Video: Mass layoffs hit Illinois Fiat Chrysler plant
• Musicians Emma Gerstein and Max Raimi speak on Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
• “We need international solidarity to bring about a positive outcome in this struggle for freedom for Julian Assange”

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United States

• Over 100,000 in Puerto Rico demand resignation of governor as protests continue
• Drug companies poured 76 billion opioid pills into US neighborhoods in just six years
• US stokes war danger in Middle East following alleged downing of Iranian drone
• US investigators identify 70 current and former immigration agents in far-right, racist Facebook groups
• Chicago Ford worker discusses issues in 2019 contract fight

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Videos and Multimedia

• 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
• Photo Essay: Outrage in upstate new York over detention of immigrant family

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Recent Perspectives

• Trump appeals to Democratic establishment and attacks the left (19/07/2019)
• The vindictive campaign against Chelsea Manning, America’s political prisoner (18/07/2019)
• Donald Trump’s fascist strategy (17/07/2019)
• The fascists in the White House (16/07/2019)
• Democrats back mass deportations (15/07/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Sexual assault case in Massachusetts against actor Kevin Spacey threatens to fall apart (15/07/2019)
2. Roasting on the line: Autoworkers warn of unsafe conditions at US plants as summer heat hits (12/07/2019)
3. The case of Jeffrey Epstein and the depravity of America’s financial elite (13/07/2019)
4. Trump’s raids and the stench of fascism (12/07/2019)
5. The fascists in the White House (16/07/2019)

The Editor recommends

• 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)