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• UNITE HERE isolates striking Chicago hotel workers, rams through deal with Marriott

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• Beijing cancels trade talks with Washington after US sanctions China for weapons purchases
• New documents on Yeltsin-Clinton conversations further expose US “meddling” in Russian politics
• UNITE HERE isolates striking Chicago hotel workers, rams through deal with Marriott
• Striking Chicago Hyatt workers describe fight against hotel giants
• More than 85,000 Massachusetts residents could be without gas service for months

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Recent Perspectives

• The Kavanaugh hearing: Sexual allegations fuel the Democratic Party’s right-wing politics (22/09/2018)
• New York Times’ fraudulent “election plot” dossier escalates anti-Russia hysteria (21/09/2018)
• 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)

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• 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)