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• US Tax Day 2019: Sixty giant corporations pay zero income tax
• An assembly of political bankrupts: Historical Materialism and Jacobin host “Socialism in Our Time” conference
• Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris devastated by fire
• US workers demand the release of Julian Assange
• Ecuador arrests Swedish associate of Assange amid threat of crackdown

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Socialist Equality Party (Germany)

• Powerful start to German Socialist Equality Party campaign in European elections
• 040 SGP candidate interview on German TV
• Two hundred attend meeting on the struggle against fascism at Leipzig Book Fair
• Students and workers speak on the threat of fascism at Leipzig meeting
• Leipzig Book Fair: Mehring Verlag presents new German edition of The Heritage We Defend

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Germany

• Powerful start to German Socialist Equality Party campaign in European elections
• German media denounce Assange
• SGP Chairman Ulrich Rippert addresses free Assange rally in Berlin
• German interior minister tables Intelligence Services “Enabling Act”
• 040 SGP candidate interview on German TV

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European Union

• 040 SGP candidate interview on German TV
• Six-month Brexit extension resolves nothing for UK
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• British MPs again fail to reach agreement on alternative Brexit motions
• Class struggle and socialism are the only answer to the Brexit crisis

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Europe

• Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris devastated by fire
• Supporters to rally in defence of Assange outside Belmarsh Prison, London
• German interior minister tables Intelligence Services “Enabling Act”
• 040 SGP candidate interview on German TV
• Spain seeks rebellion charges against Catalans for complaining of police violence

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Western Europe

• Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris devastated by fire
• Supporters to rally in defence of Assange outside Belmarsh Prison, London
• German interior minister tables Intelligence Services “Enabling Act”
• 040 SGP candidate interview on German TV
• UK: Jury fails to reach verdict against top police officer over Hillsborough football disaster

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Recent Perspectives

• An assembly of political bankrupts: Historical Materialism and Jacobin host “Socialism in Our Time” conference (16/04/2019)
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• Free Julian Assange! (12/04/2019)
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Lectures and Essays by David North

• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017 (01/03/2017)
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• 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)