Robert B. Livingston

1. The breakdown of the capitalist system is not a prospect for the future, it is already underway and there is no solution within its framework

2. Although determined to rule as a dictator, the US president, Donald Trump, remains a slave of financial markets and billionaires

3. The US Trump administration’s gutting of the US Agency for International Development and axing foreign aid sends the anti-government opposition in the south Caucasus country of Georgia into crisis

4. Borderland: The Line Within is a documentary film that explores the “border industrial complex,” or the profitable systems, worth billions of dollars annually, built around capturing, incarcerating, and deporting immigrants

“The meaning of the title Borderland: The Line Within is at the heart of the film.” asserts director Yates. “The border is not geographical line, but rather a vast border industrial complex entrenched in every corner of the U.S. It is inside each and every undocumented person because wherever they may be, the fear of being discovered and deported is looming, yet in the shadow of the border industrial complex, they are quietly creating networks and building power.”

5. Sri Lanka president Dissanayake’s call for a unified national response to Washington’s new tariffs means trouble for Sri Lanka's working class and rural masses

6. A Socialist Equality Party candidate in Australia's federal election takes a stand with public housing residents in the state of Victoria against drives to privatize public housing

7. Socialist Equality Party candidate Taylor Hernan's address at the Neighborhood Action Committee meeting

8. Rank-and-file teachers and school support staff in Chicago hold their noses to vote on a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract signed by the Chicago Teachers Union and the Democratic Party-controlled school district and city government

9. A third-year international student at the University of Florida, is handed over to ICE officials and disappeared to a Miami-Dade detention facility before electing to return home

10. More than a month after Mahmoud Khalil was abducted by government agents outside his apartment, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits that the Colombia University graduate student was targeted solely because of his opposition to genocide

Link to the Department of Homeland Security documents submitted in the immigration court case of Mahmoud Khalil

11. The catastrophic collapse of a nightclub's roof in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, shocks people around the world

12. The coalition government of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats in Germany will be the most right-wing German government since the Nazis held power

13. On the heels of the unprecedented mass layoffs of over 10,000 federal public health workers in the US, the anti-vaccine zealot Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "sells snake oil" on a tour of the measles-ravaged Southwest

14. The president of George Mason University in Northern Virginia welcomes the US Trump administration's attack on the democratic rights of students as part of its crackdown on anti-genocide protests

15. Police serve a warrant to snatch an anti-Trump administration protester from a protest rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan