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• Assange extradition trial opens in London
• Fears grow of pandemic as coronavirus takes hold internationally
• Sanders on “60 Minutes” spells out willingness to use US military power
• David North and Joseph Kishore address international online audience at Michigan town hall election meeting
• Germany: Tens of thousands take to the streets against right-wing terror

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Arts Review

• #MeToo-style attack on star of West Side Story revival fizzles on Broadway
• Echo in the Canyon: The “California sound” of the mid-1960s
• “One must not forget”: A musical tribute in Berlin to Jewish members of the Deutsche Oper orchestra persecuted by the Nazis
• Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture, directed by Stephen Bennett
• German politicians and cultural professionals demand release of Julian Assange

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Interviews with Directors and Artists

• Interview with film historian Joseph McBride: For Kirk Douglas, life was “like a war—you have to fight all the time”
• Interview with international model Andreja Pejic: “I think standing behind Assange and Manning is where we should all be”
• An interview with film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum: “I’m trying to do something aesthetic through criticism”
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• Veteran photojournalist Tim Page discusses his “21” exhibition

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Interviews

• Striking Ontario teachers speak out against Ford’s savage cuts
• Claire Mercer speaks on the campaign to abolish UK smart motorways—Part 1
• Tom Mackaman interviewed on 1619 Project by history podcast
• Interview with international model Andreja Pejic: “I think standing behind Assange and Manning is where we should all be”
• Australia: Bushfire survivors point to lack of funding for firefighters and recovery effort

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Recent Perspectives

• The show trial of Julian Assange begins (25/02/2020)
• Democratic Party deploys Russian meddling smear against Sanders (24/02/2020)
• A “ceasefire” in Washington’s Afghanistan debacle (22/02/2020)
• Stop the right-wing terror in Germany! (21/02/2020)
• Growing support for Julian Assange on eve of extradition hearings (20/02/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. 100 years since Ford’s five dollar day (05/03/2014)
2. US intelligence agencies meddle in Nevada primary to sabotage Sanders (22/02/2020)
3. Sanders tells New York Times he would consider a preemptive strike against Iran or North Korea (14/02/2020)
4. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams covers for the billionaire Bloomberg (20/02/2020)
5. Fighting mounts as Washington backs Turkish attack on Syria, Russia (21/02/2020)

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)