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Recent Perspectives

• The New York Times steps up its anti-Russia campaign (20/06/2017)
• Social inequality and the Grenfell Tower inferno (19/06/2017)
• Corporate mass murder in London (17/06/2017)
• The political significance of the shooting attack on US congressmen (16/06/2017)
• Washington’s war crimes in Syria (15/06/2017)

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1. My Cousin Rachel: Was she innocent or guilty—and what would it signify? (17/06/2017)
2. London’s Grenfell Tower inferno: A crime against the working class (15/06/2017)
3. Corporate mass murder in London (17/06/2017)
4. The political significance of the shooting attack on US congressmen (16/06/2017)
5. The Guardian’s Owen Jones: A political health warning (17/06/2017)

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• Germany issues stinging rebuke of US sanctions against Russia (17/06/2017)
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• Australian prime minister ridicules Trump as a buffoon and Russian stooge (16/06/2017)
• Officer who fatally shot Philando Castile in Minnesota acquitted on all charges (17/06/2017)
• The Sessions hearing: Another anti-Russian diversion while the social counterrevolution in America deepens (14/06/2017)
• US Special Forces involved in declaration of martial law in the Philippines (12/06/2017)
• Understanding the geopolitics of terrorism (08/06/2017)

• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017
• Lecture 1: Why Study the Russian Revolution
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• Lecture 2: The Legacy of 1905 and the Strategy of the Russian Revolution
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• Lecture 3: World War and Revolution: 1914-1917
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• Lecture 4: Spontaneity and Consciousness in the February Revolution
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• Lecture 5: Lenin’s Return to Russia and the April Theses
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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)