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• US admiral must “imagine the unimagined:” All-out war with North Korea
• Iraqi forces seize back more Kurdish-held territory
• Jailing of separatist leaders sparks protest demonstrations in Catalonia
• Trump’s pick for drug czar forced to step down after expose
• Florida Governor declares state of emergency ahead of speech by white supremacist

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Google Censorship

• The conspiracy to censor the Internet
• The New York Times and the criminalization of dissent
• Sri Lankan academics oppose Google censorship
• The social and economic roots of the attack on democratic rights
• The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges

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The Internet

• The conspiracy to censor the Internet
• The New York Times and the criminalization of dissent
• British government prepares further draconian legislation to censor Internet
• Germany’s Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
• The New York Times reports World Socialist Web Site charge of Google censorship and blacklisting

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Recent Perspectives

• The conspiracy to censor the Internet (18/10/2017)
• In latest victory for the far right, neo-fascists gain in Austrian election (17/10/2017)
• Trump, Iran and the US drive for world hegemony (16/10/2017)
• Following Trump executive orders, Democrats offer Obamacare “fix” (14/10/2017)
• Washington seethes with rumors of an anti-Trump “palace coup” (13/10/2017)

Google Censorship

• Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues to mount (08/08/2017)
• Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms (04/08/2017)
• RT interviews Andre Damon: Google becoming “censorship engine” (01/08/2017)
• Google’s chief search engineer legitimizes new censorship algorithm (31/07/2017)
• Does the WSWS write about Leon Trotsky? Not according to Google (29/07/2017)

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4. Australia deploys for war with North Korea and confrontation with China (11/10/2017)
5. US railroad union coalition agrees to contract with health givebacks (09/10/2017)

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• German Left Party’s Lafontaine launches AfD-style tirade against refugees (04/10/2017)
• The social pathology of the Las Vegas Massacre (03/10/2017)
• People’s Assembly stage tame protest outside Conservative Party conference (03/10/2017)
• Why is the far-right benefiting from the crisis of capitalism? (02/10/2017)
• The new McCarthyism and the suppression of political dissent (29/09/2017)

• 14 October 2017
  Lenin’s The State and Revolution
  Barry Grey
• 21 October 2017
  On the Eve of Revolution: The Bolshevik Party, Factory Committees, and the Mass Movement of the Working Class
  Tom Carter
• 28 October 2017
  Lessons of October: The Political Crisis within the Bolshevik Party on the Eve of the Seizure of Power
  Chris Marsden
• 4 November 2017
  The Place of the October Revolution in World History and Contemporary Politics
  David North

• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017
• Why Study the Russian Revolution: A lecture by David North
• All lectures in the first series

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)