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• Washington orders US personnel out of Iraq amid war buildup against Iran
• Pentagon threatens Europe over EU army plans
• Trump issues executive order directed at Huawei
• Protesters occupying Venezuela embassy in Washington DC speak out
• ICE conducts armed raid on student pastor’s home in Chicago, adbucts three

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Internet Censorship

• France hosts “Christchurch call” summit to intensify internet censorship
• Co-founder Chris Hughes calls for government break-up of Facebook
• German president calls for clampdown on freedom of speech, internet censorship at Berlin conference
• Free Assange NZ denounces hypocrisy at World Press Freedom Day event
• Facebook escalates social media censorship with shutdown of far-right accounts

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Democratic Rights in the US

• Alabama abortion ban: Back to barbarism
• Trump planning nationwide military round-up of 10,000 immigrants
• Illinois passes bill criminalizing infrastructure-related protests
• US indicts whistleblower who exposed Obama’s drone assassination program
• Trump floats proposal to cancel 2020 elections

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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

• Media lies in service of war for regime change in Venezuela
• The sentencing of Julian Assange: A legal travesty
• Chinese authorities arrest editors involved with workers’ protests
• The media’s role in persecuting Julian Assange
• German media denounce Assange

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US Politics

• Alabama abortion ban: Back to barbarism
• Trump says he reported $1.17 billion in losses over 10 years to evade paying taxes
• The working class and the threat of dictatorship in the US
• Trump rally roars approval for call to “shoot” immigrants
• US tariff hike against China goes ahead

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Videos

• Musicians Emma Gerstein and Max Raimi speak on Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
• “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

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Recent Perspectives

• Alabama abortion ban: Back to barbarism (16/05/2019)
• No to war against Iran! (15/05/2019)
• A new stage in the US-China trade war (14/05/2019)
• The working class and the threat of dictatorship in the US (13/05/2019)
• The Uber IPO: Billions for investors, increased exploitation for workers (11/05/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Neo-Nazi networks exposed across US military (04/05/2019)
2. With B-52s, carrier battle group in place, US war against Iran on a hair trigger (11/05/2019)
3. Trump rally roars approval for call to “shoot” immigrants (10/05/2019)
4. Wild Nights with Emily: American poet Emily Dickinson undone by gender politics (10/05/2019)
5. US indicts whistleblower who exposed Obama’s drone assassination program (11/05/2019)

The Editor recommends

• Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018) (01/02/2019)
• 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)