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• Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating California wildfires
• Sri Lanka: Second no-confidence motion passed as violent clashes erupt in parliament
• US has spent almost $6 trillion on wars since 2001
• As Canada Post steps up provocations, union silent on back-to-work law threat
• Israel: Netanyahu’s coalition government collapses, forcing early elections

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United States

• Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating California wildfires
• US has spent almost $6 trillion on wars since 2001
• Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats
• Migrant caravan reaches US border as Latin American governments discuss austerity and repression
• UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers

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Workers Issues in the US

• UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers
• The government’s $4.6 billion handout to Amazon
• Amazon worker dies of heart attack at facility in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
• Amazon announces new headquarters in metropolitan New York City and Washington D.C.
• Kentucky Ford worker describes hazardous working conditions

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Recent Perspectives

• 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)
• Facebook deletes WSWS post on Sri Lanka (14/11/2018)
• Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one (13/11/2018)

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. Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old: A devastating depiction of the horrors of war (15/11/2018)
3. The armistice of November 11, 1918 and the lessons for today (12/11/2018)
4. UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers (17/11/2018)
5. Fort Wayne GM worker alleges UAW-management collusion in unjust termination (10/11/2018)

The Editor recommends

• Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today (09/10/2018)
• Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity with Labour’s right-wing and the “business world” (29/09/2018)
• After a decade of falling pay, US Federal Reserve acts to stop “wage inflation” (28/09/2018)
• 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)
• Politics in bad faith: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigns in Michigan (31/07/2018)
• 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)