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• How Royal Bournemouth Hospital management put patient and staff safety in jeopardy: A frontline nurse explains
• Three million in Los Angeles County have been infected with COVID-19 as workplace outbreaks reach all-time high
• New Zealand PM silent on Trump’s culpability for Washington coup
• Tens of thousands of UK National Health Service workers fall ill with COVID-19
• Justice Department proposes internal investigation to cover up state involvement in January 6 coup attempt

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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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War and militarism

• US State Department designates Cuba state sponsor of terrorism
• Are Trump and Netanyahu plotting war against Iran?
• After Trump’s coup attempt: German politicians call for massive military build-up
• Israel strikes Syria as Trump coup attempt stokes war threat in Middle East
• UK government refuses to publish list of airstrikes in Yemen involving civilian casualties

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Yemen

• US brands Yemen’s Houthi rebels “terrorists,” paving way for mass starvation
• UK government refuses to publish list of airstrikes in Yemen involving civilian casualties
• Coronavirus pandemic intensifies humanitarian disaster in Yemen
• Report charges US-Saudi arms sale ignored civilian casualties
• Yemen fragmenting under pressure of war, collapsing economy and COVID-19

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Videos

• The sickness in the White House
• Welcoming the Relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site
• Trump copies Hitler
• World Socialist Web Site interviews historian Dr. Joseph Scalice
• Video: Police on nationwide rampage

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United States

• Three million in Los Angeles County have been infected with COVID-19 as workplace outbreaks reach all-time high
• Justice Department proposes internal investigation to cover up state involvement in January 6 coup attempt
• Inside the COVID-19 outbreak at Lakepointe nursing home in Clinton Township, Michigan
• Biden “recovery” plan will fail to relieve social misery or stop pandemic death
• US government executes intellectually disabled death row prisoner Corey Johnson

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Recent Perspectives

• What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages? (16/01/2021)
• The pandemic and Trump’s coup attempt (15/01/2021)
• Growing threats of fascist violence as Democrats appeal for “unity” and “healing” (13/01/2021)
• Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)
• New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation (11/01/2021)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt (09/01/2021)
2. New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation (11/01/2021)
3. COVID-19 infections out of control at Cricklewood Bus Garage! For a walkout to save lives! (08/01/2021)
4. Biden defends Republican Party coup conspirators (09/01/2021)
5. Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike! (12/01/2021)

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)