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• Matamoros strike threatens to shut down North American auto industry
• Democrats reject Trump proposal to fund border wall and end US government shutdown
• Los Angeles teachers angered over secret talks between union, school district and mayor
• Chicago police officer sentenced to less than seven years for murder of Laquan McDonald; three officers acquitted in cover-up
• Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement

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US Politics

• Democrats reject Trump proposal to fund border wall and end US government shutdown
• The Congressional Budget Office points US spending priorities towards “great power” conflicts: Part Two
• Trump, announcing new missile defense program, ramps up nuclear arms race
• US shutdown pits unpaid workers vs. political establishment and unions
• “Made in China 2025” at centre of US-China economic war

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US Health Issues

• Opioid overdose deaths triple among US teens and young children
• Federal judge in Texas rules Affordable Care Act unconstitutional
• West Virginia: Task force concludes without a “fix” for public workers’ insurance
• Cases like Hedda Martin’s heart transplant denial “will continue to happen”
• The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today

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United States

• Democrats reject Trump proposal to fund border wall and end US government shutdown
• Los Angeles teachers angered over secret talks between union, school district and mayor
• Chicago police officer sentenced to less than seven years for murder of Laquan McDonald; three officers acquitted in cover-up
• Rockford, Illinois UPS workers outraged by sellout Teamsters contract
• The Congressional Budget Office points US spending priorities towards “great power” conflicts: Part Two

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Recent Perspectives

• Matamoros strike threatens to shut down North American auto industry (21/01/2019)
• Science and social crisis in 2019 (19/01/2019)
• The US political crisis reaches fever pitch (18/01/2019)
• Mexican strikers show working class answer to capitalist reaction at US-Mexico border (17/01/2019)
• The global class struggle in 2019 (16/01/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. 70,000 workers strike at US-Mexico border sweatshops (15/01/2019)
2. Faurecia auto parts workers in Saline, Michigan speak on conditions (10/01/2019)
3. Matamoros, Mexico strike of over 70,000 workers enters sixth day (18/01/2019)
4. Mexican, US workers exchange statements of support as Matamoros strike grows (16/01/2019)
5. One hundred years since the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (15/01/2019)

The Editor recommends

• 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)
• Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity with Labour’s right-wing and the “business world” (29/09/2018)
• 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)
• 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)