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• Democrats seek agreements with Trump administration
• Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one
• US autoworkers oppose anti-immigrant campaign
• New York teachers union pushes through concessions contract
• Germany’s grand coalition closes ranks and steps up right-wing offensive

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US Politics

• Democrats seek agreements with Trump administration
• Tensions mount over US election contests in Florida, Georgia, Arizona
• Democrats rally to defend fired Attorney General Sessions, Special Counsel Mueller
• US-North Korean talks called off
• At White House press conference, Trump calls reporter an “enemy of the people”

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US Health Issues

• Detroit Medical Center doctors fired after speaking out for patient safety
• Congress readies band-aid measure for opioid crisis
• New Trump coal regulations will kill as many as 1,400 Americans annually by 2030
• Studies: US life expectancy drops as mortality rises among younger adults
• Texas firefighters denied workers compensation for cancer

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United States

• Democrats seek agreements with Trump administration
• New York teachers union pushes through concessions contract
• New York teachers angry as union hides givebacks in new contract
• Nearly 100 attend meeting in New York City on the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
• California wildfire deadliest and most destructive in state history

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Recent Perspectives

• Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one (13/11/2018)
• The armistice of November 11, 1918 and the lessons for today (12/11/2018)
• French President Macron hails fascist dictator Philippe Pétain (10/11/2018)
• One hundred years since the November Revolution in Germany (09/11/2018)
• After midterm elections, Democrats call for bipartisan unity with Trump (08/11/2018)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. UPS Freight, Teamsters to workers: Vote “yes” or face lockout and lose your health care (07/11/2018)
2. Fort Wayne GM worker alleges UAW-management collusion in unjust termination (10/11/2018)
3. The specter of Marx haunts the American ruling class (06/11/2018)
4. US midterm vote: Democrats win control of House of Representatives (07/11/2018)
5. The armistice of November 11, 1918 and the lessons for today (12/11/2018)

The Editor recommends

• Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today (09/10/2018)
• Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity with Labour’s right-wing and the “business world” (29/09/2018)
• After a decade of falling pay, US Federal Reserve acts to stop “wage inflation” (28/09/2018)
• Kavanaugh’s nomination, Cosby’s sentencing: News media pornography and the enraged middle class (27/09/2018)
• There was far more to Leonard Bernstein than mere charisma (25/09/2018)
• 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)
• Politics in bad faith: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigns in Michigan (31/07/2018)
• 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)