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• Death of a Los Angeles dockworker
• Biden makes right-wing plea for “unity” with Republicans
• The Australian Labor Party’s election debacle and the fight against the far-right
• Trump manoeuvres in economic war against China
• Missouri becomes the latest state to pass punitive anti-abortion legislation

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United States

• Death of a Los Angeles dockworker
• Biden makes right-wing plea for “unity” with Republicans
• Missouri becomes the latest state to pass punitive anti-abortion legislation
• Toledo hospital strikers call for broader mobilization
• Teachers rally in Nashville, Tennessee to demand pay raises

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Workers Issues in the US

• Death of a Los Angeles dockworker
• Toledo hospital strikers call for broader mobilization
• Teachers rally in Nashville, Tennessee to demand pay raises
• Police escort workers out of closed plant in Central Pennsylvania
• Amid declining real wages, strikes in US escalate

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Recent Perspectives

• The Australian Labor Party’s election debacle and the fight against the far-right (20/05/2019)
• The assault on the Venezuelan embassy (18/05/2019)
• The US war drive against Iran and the conflict with Europe (17/05/2019)
• Alabama abortion ban: Back to barbarism (16/05/2019)
• No to war against Iran! (15/05/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. "Precision Scheduled Railroading” brings layoffs and cuts to US railroads (19/02/2019)
2. Trump planning nationwide military round-up of 10,000 immigrants (15/05/2019)
3. After shouting “I’m pregnant,” woman fatally shot by Texas police officer (15/05/2019)
4. US security forces storm Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. (17/05/2019)
5. Washington pushes to brink of war against Iran (14/05/2019)

The Editor recommends

• Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018) (01/02/2019)
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• 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)