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• America’s torturers and their co-conspirators must be prosecuted
• Protest marches called this week as French public sector strike continues
• Hundreds of journalists around the world sign open letter demanding freedom for Assange
• Over 40 workers killed in Indian factory fire
• India: Congress Party brings fascistic Shiv Sena to power in Maharashtra

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Free Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange!

• Hundreds of journalists around the world sign open letter demanding freedom for Assange
• Exiled NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden condemns persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
• UN Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer: “With censorship inevitably comes tyranny“
• WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson speaks at Melbourne forum in defence of Assange
• Meeting of Australian teachers passes resolutions in defence of Julian Assange

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The Anti-Russia Campaign

• Delay in publication of UK security report used to feed anti-Russian campaign
• Who decided the US should fight a “hot war” with Russia?
• US, EU gave over $20 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since 2014
• Former US Secretary of State Kissinger points to danger of “catastrophic” conflict between US and China
• The Trump impeachment and US policy in Ukraine

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US Media Issues

• Seton Hall Law School report exposes new details of CIA torture program
• Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
• Modern-day philistinism and reaction: the New York Times considers “canceling” French painter Paul Gauguin
• Two New York prison guards charged in connection with Epstein death
• Wall Street Journal investigation confirms Google operates censorship blacklist

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United States

• America’s torturers and their co-conspirators must be prosecuted
• Democrats, White House position themselves for impeachment vote
• Fiat Chrysler autoworkers denounce UAW sellout at informational meetings
• Wisconsin Democrats double down on Foxconn con job
• Worker injured in New Orleans hotel collapse deported by ICE

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North America

• Union sellouts endorse the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign
• Video exposes US Custom and Border Protection’s lies in death of teenage immigrant
• GM sends termination notices to 48 TPT workers in Indiana less than two months after UAW signs concessions contract
• Saudi airman kills four at US Naval Base in Florida
• Canadian parliament reconvenes following formation of Liberal minority government

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Recent Perspectives

• America’s torturers and their co-conspirators must be prosecuted (09/12/2019)
• The way forward for the mass strike in France (07/12/2019)
• Trump administration food stamp cuts spell hunger and destitution for millions (06/12/2019)
• NATO summit dominated by growing inter-state conflicts (05/12/2019)
• Fiat Chrysler workers face off against the UAW, an “FCA-controlled enterprise” (04/12/2019)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project (28/11/2019)
2. Opera singer Plácido Domingo defends himself against sexual harassment allegations (05/12/2019)
3. John Deere announces layoffs at plants in Illinois and Iowa (04/10/2019)
4. Obama spearheads campaign against Sanders’ nomination as Democratic presidential candidate (02/12/2019)
5. An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project (14/11/2019)

Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• Doctors demand “urgent” medical intervention to save Julian Assange’s life
• An open letter from doctors: Julian Assange “could die in prison”
• Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson on Julian Assange: “A maximum security prison is no place to treat a torture victim”
• Collapse of Swedish “sexual misconduct” frame-up exposes political conspiracy against Assange

The New York Times’ 1619 Project

• Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
• The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
• Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project

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)