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• Hurricane flooding exposes mass poverty, class oppression in America
• America: The garrison state
• Germany’s grand coalition promotes far-right secret service chief to state secretary
• Over 5 million children face starvation as US-backed forces attack Yemeni aid port
• Turkish government frames up airport construction workers

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US Politics

• Hurricane flooding exposes mass poverty, class oppression in America
• Conflict over FBI investigation puts Kavanaugh hearing in doubt
• Trump administration announces record low cap on refugees allowed into the US
• The strange case of Julia Salazar, Democratic Socialists of America candidate for New York Senate
• Brett Kavanaugh and the role—once again—of sexual misconduct allegations in American politics

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US Health Issues

• 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
• New CDC estimates: A record 72,000 US drug overdose deaths in 2017
• Hepatitis A outbreak worsens in West Virginia, Kentucky

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United States

• Hurricane flooding exposes mass poverty, class oppression in America
• America: The garrison state
• Conflict over FBI investigation puts Kavanaugh hearing in doubt
• Kokomo Chrysler workers press for strike action
• Thousands of ArcelorMittal steelworkers in US cast unanimous strike vote

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Recent Perspectives

• America: The garrison state (20/09/2018)
• Brett Kavanaugh and the role—once again—of sexual misconduct allegations in American politics (19/09/2018)
• The implications of US-China trade war (18/09/2018)
• Silicon Valley’s corrupt nexus: War, censorship and inequality (17/09/2018)
• Ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers (15/09/2018)

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1. Russia postpones Syrian offensive in Idlib as NATO threatens escalation (15/09/2018)
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4. Worker exposes deadly conditions at Detroit area US Steel mill (12/09/2017)
5. Hurricane Florence exposes disastrous state of US infrastructure (13/09/2018)

The Editor recommends

• Leadership of Argentina’s Partido Obrero maintains silence on ties to right-wing Russian nationalism (29/06/2018)
• Workers Party in Argentina seeks to “refound” Fourth International in alliance with Stalinism (07/06/2018)
• The Demise of Savas Michael’s “New Era” (07/06/2018)
• The “unmaking” of #MeToo’s Asia Argento (22/08/2018)
• German right demands nuclear “weapons of mass extermination” (31/07/2018)
• Politics in bad faith: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigns in Michigan (31/07/2018)
• Oppose right-wing censorship at Frankfurt University (23/07/2018)
• 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)