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• Macron to deploy French army against “yellow vest” protests
• Unanswered questions on French police role in Saturday “yellow vest” clashes
• Far right attacks on UK Muslims following New Zealand massacre
• Ukrainian far right mobilized in inter-oligarchic infighting
• Amid deepening economic and political crisis, Turkey holds local elections

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Internet Censorship

• Mark Zuckerberg’s “Privacy Manifesto”: A brief for intensifying Internet and social media censorship
• Uganda’s social media tax leads to sharp drop in internet users
• Greetings from the Sri Lankan Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee to the Assange defence rallies in Australia
• UK parliament committee demands sweeping social media censorship
• Alleging “Russian influence,” Facebook bans left-wing pages

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Democratic Rights in the US

• IYSSE holds rally at University of Michigan to defend Chelsea Manning
• Students and youth across the US demand freedom for Chelsea Manning
• New York University student paper joins in “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt against critics of Israel
• US court upholds subpoena of whistleblower Chelsea Manning
• Democratic leaders step up witchhunt against Congresswoman Omar on phony anti-Semitism charges

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Centenary of the Russian Revolution

• Russian television’s Trotsky serial: A degraded spectacle of historical falsification and anti-Semitism
• What the Russian Revolution meant for modern art and culture
• Final reflections on the centennial year of the October Revolution
• Remarkable collection of early Soviet films on DVD: The New Man—Awakening and Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia
• Australian and New Zealand Trotskyists hold powerful Russian Revolution centenary meetings

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Media Issues

• New York Times lines up with anti-China hawks
• Australian media union complicit in the persecution of Julian Assange
• US media passes over in silence Trump’s fascistic diatribe in Miami
• Murdoch newspaper approves chief Nazi lawyer’s legal defence of dictatorship
• The Australian newspaper targets Chinese university students

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US Politics

• US Supreme Court rules government can indefinitely detain immigrants years after release from criminal custody
• Trump, Bolsonaro and the danger of fascism
• Trump administration expands leasing for oil, gas, coal extraction
• California governor announces moratorium on death penalty
• In vetoing bill to overturn national emergency, Trump makes fascist appeal

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Videos

• “We need international solidarity to bring about a positive outcome in this struggle for freedom for Julian Assange”
• Video: Christoph Vandreier on “One hundred years since the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht”
• No to GM plant closings! Mobilize the working class to stop layoffs and concessions!
• Amazon worker Shannon Allen opposes censorship of her video statement by Teamsters-linked Facebook page
• Watch: Workers at SEP rally in Sydney demand freedom for Julian Assange

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Recent Perspectives

• The Boeing disasters: 346 more victims of capitalism (21/03/2019)
• Trump, Bolsonaro and the danger of fascism (20/03/2019)
• UAW corruption scandal expands to Vice President Norwood Jewell, who rammed through 2015 sellout (19/03/2019)
• The New Zealand terrorist attack and the international danger of fascism (18/03/2019)
• In vetoing bill to overturn national emergency, Trump makes fascist appeal (16/03/2019)

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4. The Youth Climate Strike and the fight against global warming (14/03/2019)
5. UAW corruption scandal expands to Vice President Norwood Jewell, who rammed through 2015 sellout (19/03/2019)

The Editor recommends

• 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)