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• 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 in Socialist Equality Party town hall election meeting
• Germany: Tens of thousands take to the streets against right-wing terror
• German right-wing and far-right parties suffer defeat in Hamburg state election

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Democratic Rights in the US

• The show trial of Julian Assange begins
• Lawyers file new motion demanding release of Chelsea Manning
• FBI and Department of Justice reject Freedom of Information Act document request by SEP National Chairman David North
• Alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Joshua Schulte on trial in New York
• Chicago high school students hold sit-in in defense of students who refused to stand for national anthem

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The Crisis of American Democracy

• Two thousand former US Justice Department officials call for resignation of William Barr
• Socialism and the 2020 elections: the international class struggle and the strategy of world socialist revolution
• Washington Post war hawk Jackson Diehl lauds Sanders’ foreign policy
• Sanders surge in poll sparks backlash in Democratic establishment
• White House orders militarized border patrol unit to carry out raids in “sanctuary cities”

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Youth and the Social Crisis

• At least 2.5 million children in Germany live in poverty
• Peruvian students protest threatened shutdown of private universities
• Chicago high school students hold sit-in in defense of students who refused to stand for national anthem
• Concordia University in Portland, Oregon set to close by end of the semester
• Letter to members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA)

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America's Brutal Society

• Washington, D.C., transit police engaged in competitions for highest number of arrests in the metro system
• Las Vegas anti-homeless ordinance enforcement begins
• Chicago high school students hold sit-in in defense of students who refused to stand for national anthem
• New York City police in open revolt against Mayor de Blasio
• New York state bail reform prompts backlash from Democrats and Republicans

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United States

• US defense secretary launches simulated nuclear attack against Russia in Pentagon war game
• Hundreds of San Diego teachers slated to receive layoff notices due to $30 million budget deficit
• Trump to promote anti-China strategic alliance in visit to India
• Philippine President Duterte ends US Visiting Forces Agreement
• Washington, D.C., transit police engaged in competitions for highest number of arrests in the metro system

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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. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams covers for the billionaire Bloomberg (20/02/2020)
4. Sanders tells New York Times he would consider a preemptive strike against Iran or North Korea (14/02/2020)
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)