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• UK judge rejects delay in Assange extradition case
• The New York Times, China, and the specter of the “Yellow Peril”
• Canada’s Liberals cling to power, to form minority government with one-third of votes cast
• Australian media companies protest government attacks on press freedom
• Dockworkers, miners initiate national strike as military kills 11 in Chile

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US Politics

• Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez use “left” demagogy to channel opposition to Trump behind Democrats
• Workers and students speak at Sanders rally in New York
• Military brass denounce Trump’s withdrawal of troops from Syria
• The death of Elijah Cummings: Democrats, media glorify a mediocrity
• Hillary Clinton slanders Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Green Party candidate Jill Stein as Russian spies

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US Health Issues

• Continued rise in STDs highlights bipartisan attack on American healthcare system
• As US vaping-related lung illnesses soar, FDA found negligent in enforcing e-cig regulations
• Study predicts significant outbreaks of measles in Texas due to low vaccination rates
• Majority of West Virginia counties rank worst in US for water quality
• Officials cover up lead in water crisis in Newark, New Jersey

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United States

• The New York Times, China, and the specter of the “Yellow Peril”
• Spring Hill, Tennessee workers reject deal, as UAW pushes GM sellout contract
• Lightfoot administration ratchets up pressure on Chicago teachers to end the walkout
• Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez use “left” demagogy to channel opposition to Trump behind Democrats
• Workers and students speak at Sanders rally in New York

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Recent Perspectives

• The New York Times, China, and the specter of the “Yellow Peril” (22/10/2019)
• The GM strike and the global class struggle (21/10/2019)
• US Federal Reserve starts “quantitative easing forever” (19/10/2019)
• No to the sellout contract! Take the GM strike out of the hands of the UAW! (18/10/2019)
• The jailing of Catalan nationalists: Spanish government builds a police state (17/10/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. At Tennessee “informational meeting” UAW calls cops on workers campaigning against GM contract (21/10/2019)
2. American media shuts down the Epstein story (19/08/2019)
3. US Federal Reserve starts “quantitative easing forever” (19/10/2019)
4. What autoworkers need to know about the sellout UAW-GM contract (19/10/2019)
5. Autoworkers denounce UAW deal with GM (18/10/2019)

The Editor recommends

• For a worldwide campaign to prevent Julian Assange’s rendition to the US! (20/06/2019)
• Roger Waters to perform in London Monday in defense of Julian Assange (31/08/2019)
• IYSSE holds meetings in defence of Assange at Australian universities (31/08/2019)
• Australia: NSW Greens pass motion “defending” Assange, but MPs remain silent (30/08/2019)
• The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International (03/08/2019)
• 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)