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• Amid mass protests, France announces return to universal military service
• US vice president beats war drums in Asia
• “Macron is the president of the rich”: “Yellow Vest” protesters speak out
• White House backpedals on stripping CNN reporter of press pass
• USW pushes through US Steel sellout, prepares the same for ArcelorMittal workers

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United States

• White House backpedals on stripping CNN reporter of press pass
• USW pushes through US Steel sellout, prepares the same for ArcelorMittal workers
• US-China trade conflict leads to Wall Street sell-off
• Charges dropped against falsely accused Texas man
• Death toll from California fires likely to soar, with nearly 1,300 people still missing

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Recent Perspectives

• US vice president beats war drums in Asia (20/11/2018)
• France shaken by mass protests (19/11/2018)
• Defend Julian Assange against US charges! (17/11/2018)
• The political crisis in Sri Lanka: Its lessons for the international working class (16/11/2018)
• Trump demands end to Florida recount in new attack on voting rights (15/11/2018)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. Bipartisan panel: US must prepare for “horrendous,” “devastating” war with Russia and China (16/11/2018)
2. UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers (17/11/2018)
3. At least 200 soldiers in German Army neo-Nazi terror network (15/11/2018)
4. Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old: A devastating depiction of the horrors of war (15/11/2018)
5. Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats (17/11/2018)

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)