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• Over 700 Joliet, Illinois nurses go on strike for better wages and safe working conditions
• The US COVID-19 toll to hit 3 million cases as Texas health system nears collapse
• Over 300 children catch COVID-19 in Texas daycares
• Trump rails against Marxism and “international socialism”
• US labor secretary says “reopening” will proceed in face of surging pandemic

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Canada

• Why Canada’s media is fawning over the war criminal John Bolton
• US anti-China campaign intensifies factional conflicts within Canada’s ruling elite
• Quebec’s hard-right premier reshuffles cabinet for stepped-up class-war assault
• New report exposes staggering level of social inequality in Canada
• Ontario accelerates “reopening” of the economy as COVID-19 cases rise

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Americas

• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

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United States

• Over 700 Joliet, Illinois nurses go on strike for better wages and safe working conditions
• The US COVID-19 toll to hit 3 million cases as Texas health system nears collapse
• Over 300 children catch COVID-19 in Texas daycares
• Trump rails against Marxism and “international socialism”
• US labor secretary says “reopening” will proceed in face of surging pandemic

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North America

• Over 700 Joliet, Illinois nurses go on strike for better wages and safe working conditions
• The US COVID-19 toll to hit 3 million cases as Texas health system nears collapse
• Over 300 children catch COVID-19 in Texas daycares
• Trump rails against Marxism and “international socialism”
• US labor secretary says “reopening” will proceed in face of surging pandemic

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Socialist Equality Party 2012 US Presidential Election Campaign

• Illinois Democrats concoct pseudo-legal justification for cutting public employee pensions
• The SEP vote in the 2012 elections
• SEP campaigns on US Election Day
• The class issues in the 2012 elections
• SEP candidate Phyllis Scherrer campaigns among Brooklyn College students

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The Quebec Student Strike

• Ten years of Québec Solidaire: The record of a pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist party
• The 2012 and 2015 Quebec student strikes and the bankruptcy of anarchism: Part 2
• The 2012 and 2015 Quebec student strikes and the bankruptcy of anarchism: Part 1
• Quebec government criminalizes student strike
• Quebec student union ASSE promotes trade unions as students vote for anti-austerity strike

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Videos

• Video: Police on nationwide rampage
• Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives
• The COVID-19 pandemic and global imperialist war
• Brazilian workers reject demands to choose between COVID-19 and starvation
• Freedom for Assange is inseparable from the fight against war and for socialism

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Recent Perspectives

• The significance of the July 4 online discussion, “The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future” (06/07/2020)
• The two American Revolutions in world history (04/07/2020)
• The New York Times fabricates Russian murder plot (03/07/2020)
• The inequality pandemic: How American capitalism puts profits over lives (02/07/2020)
• Pandemic profiteering: Gilead Sciences cashes in on COVID-19 (01/07/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. UK government ends lockdown: Feigned official outrage over beaches, raves, and football celebrations (29/06/2020)
2. Another anti-Russian smear from the New York Times (29/06/2020)
3. Citing COVID-19 spread, EU denies US citizens entry to Europe (29/06/2020)
4. Work stoppages against COVID-19 spread to FCA Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (28/06/2020)
5. Trump retweets video of supporter shouting, “White Power” (29/06/2020)

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

• 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)