1. All UN bakeries are closed-- for nearly a month, Israel has prevented all food, fuel, water and electricity from entering the Gaza Strip as part of a deliberate policy of starvation and ethnic cleansing aimed at killing or displacing Palestinians in Gaza and annexing their land

2. Falling in line with the witch-hunting campaign directed by the Trump administration against pro-Palestinian students and academics, the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut fires Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi in violation of her basic democratic rights

3. A perspective by Joseph Kishore: Cornell University Ph.D. student Momodou Taal is forced to leave the United States where dissent is being criminalized and a dictatorship is being constructed

Momodou Taal

4. Trade union bureaucrats fall in line with the Sri Lankan government's imposition of unjust IMF-directed austerity measures

5. NY Representative and DSA member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sheds her previous "left" lip service to advance the interests of US imperialism in an interview with the New York Times

6. On April 10, the Socialist Equality Party in Australia will hold a public online meeting to discuss what is at stake in Australia's upcoming federal elections

7. As falling oil revenues and military-industrial expenditures blow a hole in Russia's budget, the country's oligarchs are torn over their hopes to keep ruling and their desire for immediate economic relief should a negotiated settlement with the United States over the war in Ukraine succeed

8. US railroad workers contact the World Socialist Web Site to speak out about their oppressive working conditions

9. The Australian government’s attitude toward working people at home is in line with its callous indifference to the plight of earthquake victims in Myanmar

10. Through its mass firing of federal workers without cause, the US Trump administration promotes widespread fear as it systematically dispenses with thousands of years of collective knowledge and expertise

11. Massive wildfires, described as the worst in the South Korea’s history, kill 30 people and ruin almost 120,000 acres of land before being extinguished 

12. Lower global growth and the impact of Trump tariffs exacerbates a growing crisis within Indonesia's already-squeezed economy

13. Almost 40,000 young people aged 15–24 in Australia requested homelessness services in 2023–24

14. With an expired contract and grueling working conditions, Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital nurses in Northern California get little relief from their employer, their union, or the government

15. Teachers Union officials, Mayor Johnson and the news media in Chicago, US, conspire to conceal the full impact of Trump's historic cuts on the city's public schools

16. 1970s film comedies shown during the  Retrospective section of this year's Berlin International Film Festival convey a more nuanced and accurate view of the the former German Democratic Republic that dissolved after the fall of the Berlin Wall

17. Emerging evidence suggests that a 2019 Assembly bill, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated California legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, was a bipartisan handout to powerful utility corporations, ensuring their profitability at the expense of public safety, and a significant factor in contributing to this year's devastating wildfires in Los Angeles

18. The growing opposition of UK mail delivery workers to advancing reforms which will transfer control of the Royal Mail to the Czech billionaire, Daniel Kretinsky, provokes panic within their official union's leadership 

19. Kenya’s recently appointed Chief of Defense Forces, publicly threatens youth who have voiced opposition to the government of William Ruto

20. The outcome of a refuse workers' dispute with the city of Birmingham, England will test the UK Labour government's ability to impose greater restrictions on the working class and appease the banks and big business

21. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

22. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. Ordinary Australians are hostile to the program of war and dictatorship embodied by US President Donald Trump, but Australia's establishment parties are in a competition over who can work best with the would-be dictator in the White House

2. Beginning tomorrow, according to a US Trump administration directive, any country that produces or buys Venezuelan oil directly or through third parties will face 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported into the United States, potentially for a year after the last recorded purchase

 The stated aim of the order is to “sever the financial lifelines” to the government of President Nicolás Maduro to provoke its downfall. But the executive order claims in the most unambiguous terms to date that the United States is fighting an armed invasion launched by the Venezuelan government itself.

3. The New York Times publishes an extensive article on US
involvement in the Ukraine war entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.”

 The article is an admission that the United States waged, and is waging, an undeclared, unauthorized and illegal war against Russia. It makes clear that American officers, some deployed inside Ukraine, have been selecting targets for attack and authorizing individual strikes, making them, for all intents and purposes, combatants.

4. The Health Workers Union is asking its more than 200 members at Australian Clinical Laboratories in Victoria, Australia to vote on an agreement that would further slash the real wages of most workers and do nothing to address their concerns 

The HWU is telling ACL workers that the only possible response to the attack on their legal right to strike is to give up and accept whatever crumbs the company offers.

5. The barbarity of the US-backed Israeli genocide reaches a new level with the recovery of the bodies of 15 emergency and aid worker from a grave in the sand south of the Gaza Strip

The Israeli military murdered and then bulldozed the bodies and ambulances of Palestinian and UN aid workers, who attempted to retrieve casualties after Israeli forces launched an offensive in the Tel al-Sultan district of the southern city of Rafah.

6. Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto, a former general in the Suharto regime, is taking a step towards dictatorial rule, amid a massive social crisis and an international political shift to the right by the ruling class 

What is being revived is the total control of every aspect of society by the military apparatus that existed under Suharto, known as dwifungsi (dual function). Military officers held leading positions not only in government, but in the state-owned enterprises, banks, the media, cultural institutions and elsewhere

7. Winston Peters, New Zealand’s deputy prime minister, leader of the right-wing nationalist NZ First Party, and foreign minister, delivers a Trumpian “state of the nation” speech in Christchurch

 The media and political establishment’s promotion of identity politics as “left wing” has enabled the far-right parties to hypocritically posture as the champions of “equal rights”— even as the government accelerates the assault on living standards and public services, embraces the fascist Trump, and seeks to demonize anti-genocide protesters

8. After just one week, an industrial action by workers at two plants in Victoria, Australia operated by Nestlé are shut down by their unions, although none of the workers' demands were met

9. Financial backers of the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States spend nearly $100 million to back rival candidates in today’s special election for a vacancy on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court

The most heavily publicized event of the campaign has been the intervention of President Trump’s top financial backer, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the spearhead of Trump’s effort to slash federal jobs and programs. Musk handed out a one million-dollar check to a supporter of the Republican campaign on Thursday, then two more on Sunday, after the state supreme court turned down a lawsuit by the Democratic state attorney general to block it.

10. In the latest blatant attack on free speech in the United States, the administration of the Rhode Island School of Design shuts down an exhibition by 20 artists expressing support for the Palestinian people and opposition to Israel’s mass murder in Gaza

11. The US Trump administration stops the deliveries of millions of dollars’ worth of food intended to be distributed as charity to hungry people... allowing it to spoil

12. Johannes Stern introduces World Socialist Web Site editorial chairman David North's newly translated book, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War, at the Leipzig International Book Fair

13. In a powerful statement, Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, announces on social media that he is leaving the United States to escape political persecution by the Trump administration 

"This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law"

14. A so-called “antisemitism” resolution passed by the German parliament in the midst of the recent federal election campaign makes clear that the ruling class intends to continue its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza

15. By suspending his state's landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom once again reveals his true allegiances

16. The Chicago Teachers Union backs the shutdown of two Acero charter schools and layoffs of its members

17. In advance of an April 13 runoff election being held under conditions of martial law and amid preparations for the deployment of US troops his country, Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa meets with Donald Trump at the US President’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida

18. Alberta’s far-right United Conservative Party premier, emboldened by US President Donald Trump, issues an ultimatum to the federal government that will take office after Canada’s April 28 national election

19. Workers Struggles: The Americas:

Brazil oil workers carry out a one-day protest strike; Argentina tire workers hold a 24-hour strike; Thousands in Chile protest new pension legislation; a California judge orders Silicon Valley transit workers back to work; University of Southern California janitors prepare to strike for wages and benefits; University of Illinois faculty could strike April 4; Alberta education workers end job-actions as their union imposes a sellout “pattern” deal

20. Last week Skadden Arps, the world’s fifth largest law firm, capitulated to Trump while two smaller firms obtained temporary restraining orders against his fascistic executive decrees

21. Much of Belgium is brought to a standstill as millions of workers strike in opposition to the austerity program of the federal coalition government led by Flemish nationalist Bart De Wever

22. The Socialist Equality Party Assistant National Secretary in the UK, Tom Scripps, visits the foreign office in London to help defend Momodou Taal

23. Turkey: hundreds of thousands protest İmamoğlu’s arrest in Istanbul as CHP and Erdoğan accuse each other of being “pro-imperialist”

24.  French courts convict National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen and two dozen other leading RN members of embezzling European Parliament funds

 While the RN is an utterly reactionary party, descending from the French collaboration with Nazism in World War II, this ruling is bankrupt and deserves no support. Workers cannot stop fascism, militarism and police-state rule by supporting bans imposed by the courts. The far right can only be fought politically through the mobilization of the working class in struggle

25. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

26. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. David North, chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States and the chairman of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board, introduces his latest book, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War, at the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany:

 Humanity is confronting the danger of a descent into the abyss. The only way out of this crisis is through the ending of the capitalist system. The alternative as posed by Rosa Luxemburg, “Socialism or Barbarism,” confronts us all today. The alarm has been sounded. Now we must respond to it.

2.  The administrations of the major universities in the United States are playing an absolutely foul role in facilitating the reign of terror against free speech and democratic rights being implemented by the fascist Trump administration

3. US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance double down on their threats to annex Greenland, which Trump previously threatened to conquer by force

4. The heads of state of 30 European powers meet in Paris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky-- France and Britain pledge to send troops to Ukraine, risking total war with Russia

5.  The US Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds an online meeting against Trump’s threats to privatize the United States Postal Service (USPS)

Postal workers, outraged at the betrayals of the trade unions, discussed what needed to be done now to protect jobs and unify all sections of the working class in a common struggle against oligarchy and dictatorship.

6. The United Auto Workers trade union's endorsement of US President Trump’s auto tariffs amounts  to a declaration of support for a world war to dominate global markets and supply chains

7. In an interview on the CBS program Face the Nation, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain reiterates his support for the tariff and trade war policies of the fascist US President Donald Trump

8.  

Some of the more than 230 films shown at the recent Berlin international film festival are true discoveries, but receive little attention from the mainstream media and fail to find their way into cinemas or streaming services due to a lack of financing and marketing opportunities 

One such film is the gripping Egyptian film The Settlement

9. In the United States, the Los Angeles City Council moves ahead to dismantle its lead homeless agency to shift control of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to private homeless service providers, ensuring corporate profiteers will control the flow of resources

10. A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Myanmar following the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake there

11. Dr. Peter Marks makes clear that the central impetus behind his resignation as the US FDA's top vaccine scientist was Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s criminal response to the deepening measles outbreak in the US

12. Marking a complete capitulation to the fascist Trump administration in the US, the president of the University of Michigan announces the immediate ending of all facets of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) program

13. What is behind Boeing being selected to build latest the US fighter jet, the Next-Generation Air Dominance F-47?

During the announcement from the Oval Office, Trump attempted to assert that the jet was named after him, in honor of being the 47th president of the United States. He claimed, “It’s a beautiful number.” In reality, the jet’s designation had been decided beforehand as a grotesque celebration of the head of the American state and would have applied to Democrat Kamala Harris had she won the 2024 election.

14. As part of a massive attack on the freedoms of association, assembly and expression, and fundamental rights, German public prosecutors have charged the “Last Generation” climate protection group with forming a criminal organization

15. Within a mile of the prime minister's residence in London, England, up to 30 police officers, some armed, smash their way into a meeting of Youth Demand, an environmental and political activist group

16. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka issues a statement denouncing ongoing political repression in the United States and declaring support for Mahmoud Khalil, Momodou Taal, and others in the US, who are in the forefront of defending the democratic rights of students, youth and immigrants, and all workers facing the Trump administration’s savage assault on jobs

17. The corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union in Australia, resumes in earnest

 Labor’s claim to be cleansing the union of rogue elements was always a fraud. The allegations of corruption, which remain untested and unsubstantiated to this day, were nothing more than a front for a massive attack on the wages, conditions and basic rights of building workers.

18. The Australian Electoral Commission rejects a Freedom of Information request from the Socialist Equality Party for evidence to justify the its refusal to grant the party official recognition

19. Effectively banned from officially appearing on Australia's May 3 federal election ballots, the Socialist Equality Party will nevertheless field candidates to speak on issues that the capitalist political parties ignore

20. In the United Kingdom, lecturers strike at Sheffield Hallam University over unpaid wages

21. An eight-part BBC radio series about a cluster of birth defects that were a consequence of a negligent cleanup in the UK town of Corby, is available as a complement to the Netflix series, Toxic Town

22. In Spain:  Hundreds of actors, filmmakers, singers, and other cultural workers— joined by more than 16,000 signatories and over 850 social organizations— have launched the manifesto “We refuse to accept rearmament and war in Europe”

 

Supporters and signatories of the manifesto on the steps of the Spanish parliament

23. This week in history: March 31-April 6:

 Mass jobs protest in Britain; Chiang Kai-shek dies; US longshore leader Harry Bridges witch-hunted; Eisenstein films Battleship Potemkin

24. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

25. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. The United Auto Workers’ endorsement of US President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs amounts to a declaration of support for world war

2. The anemic response by Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the savage treatment of film director Hamdan Ballal after winning an Oscar provokes widespread disgust and reaction around the world

3. US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance double down on their threats to annex Greenland, which Trump previously threatened to conquer by force

4. Speaking of “preparing for war” and “war plans", US Secretary of Defense Hegseth’s press conference in the Philippines is indicative of the naked aggression of US imperialism under Trump

5. In a massive attack on workers’ rights, US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to abolish previously negotiated federal union contracts under the pretext of defending “the national security of the United States”

6. Republicans in the US House of Representatives summon public broadcasting executives from NPR and PBS and subject them to fascist lies and conspiracy theories

7. The United States and Russia agree to halt hostilities between Kiev and Moscow in the Black Sea... now what?

8. The Serbian capital Belgrade witnesses the biggest protest demonstrations since the breakup of Yugoslavia more than 30 years ago

9. Lawyers renew their efforts to halt the Trump administration's detention and potential removal of Cornell PhD student Momodou Taal from the United States

10. Unifor, the largest private-sector union in Canada, embraces Liberals and pushes Canadian nationalism in response to Trump’s auto tariffs

11. A close look at how US President Donald Trump's tariffs are effecting the global auto industry

12. The Department of Health and Human Services and its secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announce a program of job cuts and agency reorganization aimed at dismantling what remains of the public health infrastructure in the US

13. The suffering Tamil masses in Sri Lanka cannot achieve justice through a superficial "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" or win their democratic rights through the JVP/NPP government or any other capitalist regime

14. The call for an election on May 3rd is a conspiracy, involving Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition and all the parliamentary parties, to hide Australia's political and economic crisis from the working class as much as possible

15. Rescue operations get underway in Myanmar, where the death toll from an earthquake centered there could rise into the thousands

16. Rewriting history: New York Times reporters air a special episode of their podcast The Daily titled, “Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?” to which the their answer is “No”

17. Three workers are only the most recent to lose their lives in horrific accidents in Italy where occupational safety is sacrificed at the altar of profit

18. The Verdi union negotiates behind closed doors while BVG public transit workers briefly strike in Berlin, Germany

19.  Teachers in São Paulo, Brazil are fighting not only against the local allies of the fascist ex-president Bolsonaro, but also against the unions that have isolated and betrayed their struggles

20. Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

South Korea: Hyundai Steel workers strike again over wages; Philippines: Jeepney drivers hold three-day national strike; Pakistan: Punjab health workers protest privatization; Australia: Healthscope nurses continue rolling stoppages; New Zealand medical lab workers strike

21. Criticism of a pseudo-leftist, Stalinist political party in Kenya, the CPM-K, by the World Socialist Web Site strikes a nerve

22. As the wave of unlawful arrests and detentions launched by Turkey's government to suppress mass protests continues, videos and testimonies of brutal police violence and torture are emerging

23. Members of the University and College Union at Sheffield Hallam University in Britain hold a two-day strike Monday and Tuesday to demand unpaid wages

24. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

25. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. Democracy in Turkey, which has been extremely fragile since the foundation of the republic in 1923, is staggering under the pressure of the escalating global imperialist war and growing social inequality

2. The World Socialist Web Site hosts a webinar with the Cornell University PhD. student Momodou Taal, a target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students from the United States

 

3. US immigration police kidnap University of Alabama doctoral student, Alireza Doroudi from his home

4. Shawn Fain and other craven UAW bureaucrats line up to cheer US President Trump's implementation of automotive tariffs

5. A letter from an Italian postal worker to the World Socialist Web Site:

I write to you from Rome, Italy, where we postal workers have already lived through the catastrophe that now looms over you in the United States: privatization. I write not only in solidarity but in warning, so that you may learn from our painful experience and resist this assault with the full strength of an organized working class.

6. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issues a report that describes how the governments of 38 nations that form its membership are all falling into debt, especially the US, where government debt is $36 trillion

Here is a link to the OECD report

7.  US President Donald Trump signs a new executive order with an Orwellian title (perhaps the most brazenly illegal and unconstitutional yet) that is ultimately intended to suppress voters and attack immigrants

8. New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government plans to outsource thousands of public health system operations to private hospitals

9.  Three new albums by established artists in electronic music, hip-hop and rock

 The first few months of 2025 have witnessed a remarkable intensification of social and political crises. Tensions and turmoil are reaching new heights. Moves toward war and dictatorship, including the abduction and “disappearance” of immigrant students and others, are nearly daily occurrences. Have these startling developments found expression yet— as they must— in popular music? How prepared are the artists in general for what is unfolding?

10. The emergence of  antimicrobial resistant "superbugs" threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor infection could result in a life-threatening condition

11. In California, thirty-five students, faculty, journalists and community members file a lawsuit against UCLA officials for their role in protecting Zionists and abetting police violence

12.  The sudden death of a teacher in São Paulo, Brazil casts a spotlight on the intense pressure and harassment inflicted by pro-corporate education programs 

13. The opening of the case against former president Jair Bolsonaro and his fascist co-conspirators for having attempted a coup in 2023, is an unprecedented event in Brazilian history

14. A fascist member of parliament in Greece attacks art at an exhibition introduced with masterpieces by Francisco Goya

 The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

15.  A summit called by pseudo-leftists in the UK succeeds better at accepting the measures of Sir Keir Starmer’s austerity and war-directed Labour government than at building real resistance

16. “You are killing my mum to bomb someone’s son!”  World Socialist Web Site reporters listen to Londoners protesting against the massive welfare cuts being imposed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the United Kingdom

17. Stop Trump’s moves to privatize the United States Postal Service!

 The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee is holding an online public meeting this Sunday at 3pm US Eastern Time

 USPS workers must link up with other sections of the federal workforce, with auto workers, logistics workers, and other sections of the working class, and with postal workers internationally facing the same threat of privatization.

18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

19. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. The dismantling of Medicare in the United States

The Trump administration’s dismantling of Medicare is not a distant threat—it is a reality that is unfolding with alarming speed alongside the erosion of Social Security and the privatization of the United States Postal Service. While often framed as a partisan issue, the truth is that Medicare’s privatization is a bipartisan effort spanning decades, pushed by both Democratic and Republican administrations. The difference now is the speed and aggressiveness with which the Trump administration is executing this agenda.

2. More than 250,000 people thrown into poverty at a stroke-- upon announcing a £15 billion cut of social spending and a huge increase of military spending, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives the most pro-war speech made by any British politician since World War Two

3. The reemergence of Greenland as a major point of conflict between American imperialism and its former European allies proves that the same capitalist contradictions that gave rise to two world wars in the 20th century are still in play

4. The trade union-sponsored New Democratic Party in Canada is campaigning for the April 28th federal election on a program of massive rearmament, trumpeting a “Made in Canada” plan to pour tens billions of dollars into new war spending

5. Turkish politicians maneuver to secure their best advantages amid erupting mass protests, a state crackdown, and imperialist plans to control the Middle East  

[US President] Trump... had a phone conversation with [Turkey's President] Erdoğan three days before the detention of [İstanbul's mayor and leader of the oppositional CHP party] İmamoğlu. Afterwards, Elon Musk’s X/Twitter blocked access to dozens, perhaps hundreds, of accounts in Turkey that publicized the protests and police violence

6. McDonald’s “Archways of Opportunity”

7. US Democrats seize on the recent Yemen attack leak to press for imperialist war

The Democratic Party, which has been complicit in the fascist rampage by President Donald Trump against democratic rights, social programs and federal workers, has suddenly found its voice this week in claiming Trump’s top national security aides were insufficiently careful in the preparation of the bombing of Yemen

8. For the second time in six-months, the pseudo-leftist Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) abruptly ends a militant strike of workers at Samsung’s factory in Tamil Nadu, India, without any of the workers’ demands being met

9.  The US Congress confirms Jay Bhattacharya as director of the US National Institutes of Health and Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration: the scientific community reels from the US Trump administration's war on science and public health, what is being put in place is a regime of faith-based medicine, conspiracy-driven policy, and corporate subservience

10. Transport Workers Action Committee: the refusal of the Verdi union leadership to organize a proper strike of public transit workers in Berlin, Germany is directly related to its support for the government and its program of war

11. Speaking at Germany's Bundestag (parliament), the Left Party’s most well-known politician not only expresses his agreement with all the premises and goals of official war policy but also calls on the parliament to close ranks against any opposition to them

12. Massachusetts Democrats collaborate with ICE: while claiming to oppose the US Trump administration's policies, Democrats have aligned themselves with measures that scapegoat migrants and undermine the democratic rights of the working class

13. Recent statements by the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa misrepresents the real relationship between US imperialism and Israel and lay bare the futile political perspective that has dominated New Zealand's anti-genocide protest movement

14. Hollywood's unprincipled Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences fails to defend Hamdan Ballal, co-director of  No Other Land (the award-winning film still denied widespread viewing), who was brutally assaulted by Israeli settlers and soldiers this week

15. Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, beloved by pseudo-leftists, gloats over the Gaza genocide and exchanges gifts with the war criminal prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, during a recent visit to Israel

16. Thousands protest the abduction and incarceration of Tufts PhD student and Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk by a gestapo of masked immigration agents in an apparent violation of a court order

More news from the World Socialist Web Site:

17. US President Trump escalates trade war with 25 percent auto tariff

18. The US Trump administration threatens to cut funding for New York City transit system

19. Against the backdrop of fascist Donald Trump's return to the US White House and the biggest German rearmament since the end of the Second World War, David North presents his latest book at this year's Leipzig Book Fair

20. A USPS mail delivery worker exposes the chaos under the “Delivering for America” restructuring plan

21. A new study finds that the world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate

22. Ukrainian President Zelinsky goes to a Paris where a summit aims to escalate Europe’s military intervention in Ukraine, based on plans for rearmament requiring draconian austerity against the working class

23. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

24. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. The accidental inclusion of the Atlantic Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg in US war plans that launch missiles in Yemen provokes outrage from the Democratic Party and the media— not over the criminal war of aggression or the war crimes being planned, but because the discussion took place outside secure military channels

2. A test case to determine whether the government can... put you in jail for the things you say:  Live updates from Momodou Taal's trial to avoid being seized and deported by the US Trump administration

3. Through its employment of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (now nominated to head the US National Institutes of Health), Stanford University's medical school is playing a key role in legitimizing an anti-science public health policy, which has claimed countless lives

4. Recent reports indicate that various German industrial companies, including Volkswagen, want to produce more military goods to profit from Germany's increasing military spending

In previous times

 

5. German big business "declares war" on the working class

6. The theme of filmmaker Vivian Qu's Girls on Wire may resonate within narrow circles in the upper classes, but it is no basis to artistically enrich our understanding of the lives of anyone

7. Unless stopped, a contract being imposed by a federal arbiter on US mail delivery workers will lead to tens of thousands of job cuts, more facility closures and the end of USPS as a public service

8. As has become par for the course, the approach of April 2, dubbed by Trump as “liberation day” when his regime will take action via “reciprocal tariffs” against all the countries, friend and foe alike, that have been “ripping off” the US for decades, is surrounded by confusion

9. Under pressure from the European Union and NATO, Spain's pseudo-leftist government conforms to increased military spending plans

10. Staff reductions and other cuts at the US Social Security
Administration—driven by Musk and Trump’s DOGE— result in chaos for retirees and the disabled, who depend on monthly benefits checks from the government agency

11. On May 6, the Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party, a section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, will field candidates in districts across Sri Lanka

12. A US federal judge issues a temporary restraining order
preventing ICE from abducting Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old Columbia University student and legal permanent resident in the United States

13. Once Australia's looming election is out of the way, the next government, whether headed by Labor or the Liberal-National Coalition, will soon announce the necessity to cut social programs to boost military spending

14. The decision by a Hong Kong firm, CK Hutchison Holdings, to sell Panama Canal port assets to the American-based multinational investment management corporation BlackRock sparks a furor in China

15. Readers write to the World Socialist Web Site to protest the UK Labour government's austerity cuts which will cause untold misery by taking 1.2 million disabled people off disability benefits in Britain

16. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

17. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. Without precedent:  

No Other Land, which recounts the criminality of Zionist “ethnic cleansing” operations in the West Bank aimed at terrorizing or driving out the local Palestinian population, has won dozens of awards and prizes at dozens of film festivals and other events throughout the world. No one has challenged the truth of its content. But the Israeli regime and its agencies are moving toward murdering the filmmakers.

2. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s call for a “Coalition of the Willing” against Russia in Ukraine, with “boots on the ground and planes in the air” and a massive increase in military spending, confirms the Labour Party is ruling as a militarist cabal, the most right-wing and authoritarian government in post-war British history

3. Israel’s International Conference on Combating Antisemitism will be the first time right-wing and fascistic European politicians will be invited to a national event

4.  Nazis during WWII were treated better under the Alien Enemies Act than Venezuelans being detained and “disappeared” today by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Trump’s lawless and unconstitutional actions against migrants are likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court—packed with his own appointees

5. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, once prominent in the fight for civil rights and one of two major law firms targeted by US President Trump, capitulates with a meaningless agreement rather than fight a blatantly unconstitutional executive order in court

6. According to three international publications, the Israeli military is preparing to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, internally displace the remaining population and provide only the “minimum caloric amount necessary for survival

7. A hearing is scheduled to be held today before a US federal district judge to hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by Cornell University student Momodou Taal challenging President Trump’s executive orders targeting free speech and seeking to deport protesters

8. Public outrage grows over the forcible apprehension of two Honduran workers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Indianapolis recently

9. In two separate overseas trips last week, New Zealand's prime minister and foreign minister move to strengthen bilateral ties with the fascistic administrations of US President Donald Trump and India’s Narendra Modi

10. None of the political parties running in Canada's hasty federal election offers a way forward for workers seeking to fight Trump’s threats, oppose rearmament and imperialist war, defend their jobs and living conditions, and reject the drive towards authoritarian forms of rule

11. A recently published Australian intelligence review calls for “urgent” powers amid intense social and political disaffection fueled by deepening social inequality, the Israeli genocide and an intensifying turn to war

And here is a link to the carefully censored review

12. Is the economic warfare being waged by the Trump administration against the rest of the world the beginning of the end of “US exceptionalism?”

13. The German automaker Audi, a Volkswagen subsidiary, will put more money in shareholders’ pockets by cutting thousands more of its workers' jobs

14. Adolescence, a four-part Netflix mini series, addresses a morbid symptom of contemporary capitalist society in a way which neither moralizes nor simplifies

15. Fear drives Turkish President Erdoğan's government to violently suppress the democratic demands of the masses

16. A midwife and her assistant are charged under Texas’s reactionary anti-abortion law for providing abortion services

17. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders plays an indispensable role for the Democratic Party and the ruling class. After every electoral debacle, he reemerges to posture as a “left” alternative, channeling growing discontent into safe, controlled avenues

18. Greens conform to hawkish elements of the military-intelligence apparatus in Australia, who advocate a military expansion to offset the potential unreliability of the Trump administration

19. Letter carriers rally across the United States to speak out against threats by the Trump administration to privatize the US Postal Service

20. USPS mail delivery workers in Southern California speak to World Socialist Web Site reporters

21. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

22. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

Some of the most prevalent symptoms of Long COVID

1. Five years of the Covid-19 pandemic: the perspective of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board

2. A comprehensive timeline of the pandemic 

 1. David Lynch (1946-2025) gambled with greatness, and lost

World Socialist Web Site Arts Editor David Walsh:

All serious art in the modern age, by definition, must contain an element of protest against the conditions of life, however that is registered. All criticism of social life inevitably gravitates toward Marxism, the current that offers the most comprehensive and unrelenting critique of the existing social order.

2. The Israeli regime creates an office to assist Gaza residents interested in relocating to third countries

3. Palestinian artist Dorgham Quraiqi is killed by an Israeli airstrike

One of the artist's last paintings

4. Deepening military connections in preparation for a US-led war against China, Shigeru Iwasaki, the former head of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, is appointed to advise Taiwan's government

5. The class character of Germany's pseudo-leftist Left Party is clearly exposed by its votes agreeing to a massive military rearmament package

6. The US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will consider a bill to give President Trump sweeping powers to unilaterally terminate or ignore the terms of collective bargaining agreements with federal workers

7. The Transport Workers Action Committee in Germany calls upon Berlin public transit workers to turn their Verdi union's ineffective token strikes into a full-scale unlimited strike

8. A racist bill aimed against immigrants in the Arkansas state house of representatives would mandate English language proficiency for commercial motor vehicle operators

9. In a sharp rebuke to the poisonous nationalism being promoted by the ruling classes in both countries, several hundred protesters held a joint rally of international solidarity on opposite sides of the US/Canada border

One of the protesters

10. To enhance profits, Volkswagen plans to cut one of three shifts at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee

11. The Hamilton, Ontario-based cladding and roofing company John Kenyon Ltd. dodges full responsibility for the deaths of two of its workers

12. Tunneling workers on an underground motorway project in Sydney, Australia are diagnosed with the deadly respiratory disease silicosis, suggesting that well-known measures to prevent inhalation of silica dust were ignored

13. Come April 2, US President Donald Trump’s economic war against the rest of the world will be intensified when he receives a report on the imposition of so-called “reciprocal tariffs”

14. At least seven universities in Australia have already had American funding for research projects paused or cancelled as part of US President Donald Trump’s MAGA-fascistic agenda

15. People who listened to Gary Tyler speak about his experiences in prison facing the death penalty describe what they learned from it to reporters of the World Socialist Web Site

16. The Turkish section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu), demands the release of İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu and all political prisoners of the Erdoğan government in Turkey

17. In a blatant act of intimidation and criminalization of left-wing, anti-war, and anti-fascist opposition and in line with many other government's rightward turns, Spain's government targets participants of protests last year

18. Lawyers representing Cornell graduate student Momodou Taal file a lawsuit challenging the Trump's attempt to deport him

19. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality condemns the craven capitulation by New York's Columbia University to the demands of the Trump administration to impose a regime of censorship on the campus

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

21. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. Joseph Kishore addresses a meeting of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at University of Michigan

 

2. The European Union Commission releases a white paper calling for a staggering increase in EU military spending to prepare Europe for a high-intensity war with nuclear-armed Russia

3. The New York Times revives the thoroughly debunked Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory, which claims that Chinese scientists unleashed the SARS-CoV-2 virus upon the world

4. UK pseudo-leftists surrender to the government's dismantling of social welfare programs

5. By falsifying history, the US Trump administration is attempting to erase any critical thoughts youth may have about American policy in the present, especially the massive growth in economic inequality, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the ever-present threat of war against China, Iran and Russia

6. Responding to a lawsuit filed against it, the US Trump administration seeks to detain and deport Cornell University student Momodou Taal

7. A deep anger and concern over Trump’s bid for dictatorship was a constant at demonstrations Thursday by USPS mail delivery workers across the United States

8. Two more films from this year's Berlin International Film Festival are The Moelln Letters, about neo-Nazi arson attacks in 1992, and The Lie, a digitally restored film that looks at Germany's failure to fully deal with its Nazi past

9. Through massive military spending, the German political establishment seeks to free itself from dependence on the US, to weaken Russia, and to dominate Europe

10. The implementation of military and domestic austerity plans by Germany's incoming coalition government depends on the help of their trade unionist lackeys

11. A rural postal worker writes the World Socialist Web Site to describe how he and his comrades in Canada support German postal workers in their similar struggles

12. California governor Gavin Newsom plays a part in delivering pink slips to 2,300 teachers in California

13. Sanitation workers in Birmingham, UK face a long strike after contract negotiations fail

14. Mass protests against Turkey's turn toward dictatorship will accomplish little unless demonstrators adopt a sound Marxist perspective and program

15. Reports of the ignoramus and world's richest man, Elon Musk, being briefed about Pentagon secrets triggers vociferous denials from the US Trump administration

16. Despite widespread workers’ anger, Sri Lanka's trade union bureaucracies oppose the independent mobilization of the working class against the government’s attack on living and social conditions

17. US federal Judge James Boasberg challenges an increasingly violent and unhinged campaign by President Trump and his coterie of Hitler-loving advisors to assert unlimited executive powers

Trump's Alien Enemies Act

18. Amid a worsening housing crisis, municipal councils in Brisbane, Australia are banning homeless people from their parks

19. Residents from public housing towers across Melbourne, Australia form a neighborhood committee to fight against the state Labor government’s planned demolition of 44 public housing towers

20. Two Sydney, Australia nurses who were baited by an Israeli provocateur online and then subjected to a massive campaign of vilification, get a first day in court

21. The European Court of Human Rights orders the Ukrainian government to compensate the victims of the 2014 Trades Union arson attack by fascist thugs in Odessa

22. After massacring at least 70,000 Palestinians since October 2023, Israel's defense minister issues a statement committing the Zionist regime to annex parts of Gaza if Hamas refuses to release the remaining hostages under its control

23. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

24. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. In the United States of America: hundreds of migrants are being dragged out of their homes, arrested while making routine appointments with US immigration authorities or intercepted in the street at all hours, often by plainclothes officials, and taken to unknown locations

2. Evidence of corporate negligence and government complicity continues to emerge two months after wildfires devastated large areas of Los Angeles, California

3. The arrest, detention and possible deportation of Jeanette Vizguerra (named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential” people in 2017) show how the US Trump administration's racist and dehumanizing attacks on immigrants have nothing to do with “public safety” but are aimed at intimidating and suppressing the democratic rights of everyone

4. Scientists in Tanzania discover that humans had the intellectual and technological capacity, or "open endedness" to manufacture and use bone tools a million years earlier than previously documented

5. The political and constitutional crisis now engulfing Israel is not merely the product of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s desire to remain in power and somehow avoid imprisonment for corruption via war, as his opposition claims

6. The soaring cost of rice in the Philippines is driving more people into deeper poverty

7. President Donald Trump signs an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate the closure of the US Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities. 

The money-mad American oligarchy is wielding a wrecking ball to dismantle public education. If they are not stopped, the outcome will be a vast expansion of the class divide, where the working class receives only a minimal, work-oriented education while the financial elite purchases the finest education available

8.  As the seat of the federal government where almost 20 percent of the nation's federal workforce is situated, Washington D.C. is having its local economy thrown into chaos by the the Trump administration's mass firings

9. By declaring his intent to "annihilate" Yemen, US President Donald Trump invokes the words of his political role model, Adolf Hitler

10. The arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu marks a new stage in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s establishment of a presidential dictatorship in Turkey

11. The decision to eliminate the Institute for Museum and Library Services is not simply an error on the part of the Trump administration, but rather a deliberate component of the oligarchy's plans to eliminate democratic rights and establish a dictatorship in the United States

12. In spite of intimidation by law enforcement, several hundred students protest to show support for Cornell PhD student Momodou Taal and his lawsuit against the US Trump administration

13. A wave of waterborne melioidosis (a non-contagious infection that can cause sepsis and multi-organ failure) in Australia has been exacerbated by poverty and the increasing severity of storms and floods resulting from climate change

14. Once again, nearly 2,200 nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center protest the inhumane conditions that
have become the norm in hospitals across the United States

15. The planned closing of a vital teaching hospital in a New York City community will mean that neighborhood residents will need to travel at least a mile for similar medical services

16. Another week of executions in the United States of America....

17. Solidaire’s new co-leader Ruba Ghazal, whose family immigrated from Palestine, poses no threat to the established capitalist order in Québec because she believes that the "left" must reclaim nationalism

18. The Socialist Equality Party meets to expose the anti-democratic refusal of the Australian Electoral Commission to allow it official party registration and a ballot status in federal elections

 Cheryl Crisp speaks at the Socialist Equality Party meeting from Bankstown, New South Wales

19. Members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) meet in New York City to oppose the illegal detention of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

21. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. Joseph Kishore at the World Socialist Web Site: Two months into the Trump administration, the presidency has become a cockpit and planning center of a dictatorship in the United States

Kishore: 

Neither in the [New York] Times nor in the media as a whole is there any serious analysis of how the United States got to this point. The media and political establishment present Trump’s actions as if they have suddenly erupted out of nowhere, the product of an individual’s delusions or malice. This is false.

2. Israel's launch of a major new military offensive in Gaza has been accompanied by the largest US attacks on Yemen to date and increasing threats by the Trump administration to wage war against Iran

3. The fight to protect the United States Postal Service (USPS) is an important part of the fight against an emerging dictatorship in the United States

4. Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York transfers Mahmoud Khalil’s "Trumped-up" deportation case from Louisiana to New Jersey

5. Will Lehman, the socialist rank-and-file worker who ran for UAW president in 2022, explains why members of the United Auto Workers must oppose the seizure of  Mahmoud Khalid

6. Gary Tyler, who faced death row and served time in Louisiana after being convicted on unconstitutional charges, discusses the Trump administration's kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil with Lawrence Porter of the World Socialist Web Site 

Tyler: 

I feel that as people in this country who say that they believe in freedom and liberty— including the freedom of speech— we must stand up for those beliefs. We should not make any exceptions, no matter what an individual’s political or religious beliefs are.

7.  Mass protests erupt after Turkey's President Erdogan has the police detain his main rival, İstanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, and others

8. The tariff wars and sweeping budget cuts made by the Trump administration have made the likelihood of recession in the US a real possibility

9.  Large sections of the media respond to the German Federal Intelligence Service’s "evidence" that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab... by not questioning it

10. The Trump administration is seeking to intimidate, detain and possibly deport Momodou Taal for daring to file a lawsuit seeking to repeal Trump’s executive orders criminalizing speech and dissent

11. Immigration lawyer Eric Lee appears on The Hill’s “Rising” to defend Iranian-born law scholar Helyeh Doutaghi who has been called "a terrorist" because of her opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza

12. A new report describes how Australian working-class families are finding it increasingly difficult to send their children to school due to the spiraling costs of education

 Here is a link to the Futurity Investment Group's Report

13. How biased statistical testing was used by the Australian government to keep the Socialist Equality Party from appearing on federal election ballots

14. The German Federal Court of Justice rules that the extradition of Ukrainian conscientious objectors to the war in Ukraine is permissible under Germany's constitution

15. On his latest, country-oriented album, Will Oldham shows concern about the world’s ills, but offers misguided ideas about how to cure them

16. Cyclone Alfred's devastation was not merely a “natural disaster,” but rather the result of profit-driven and cost-cutting political decisions, combined with the refusal of Australia's Labor and Liberal-National governments alike to mitigate climate change

17. A 33-year-old man dies when the waste bin where he had apparently been seeking refuge from freezing temperatures is emptied; Berlin, Germany does not have enough accommodation for its 10,000 homeless

18. The decision to withdraw from the UK rolling stock maintenance market by the US-headquartered Wabtec Rail Limited, which supplies components and services to the global rail industry, threatens to leave hundreds jobless

19. A new film from Northern Ireland has a lot going on all at once, much of it funny, exuberant, insightful, and ridiculous

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

21. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares that the latest Israeli massacres in Gaza, where tens of thousands have already been killed, are “only the beginning”

2. Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the United States who was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration for his role in anti-genocide protests at Columbia University, releases a powerful statement from inside an immigration detention facility in Louisiana

Khalil:  I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear

3. Gary Tyler, who entered Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary as its youngest death row inmate in 1975, speaks about the “Art as Resilience” to an audience in Ann Arbor, Michigan

4. Louisiana ends its 15-year pause of executions after a 5-4 ruling by the US Supreme that declines to halt the nitrogen gas execution of an inmate, Jessie Hoffman Jr.

5. The nationalist spectacle of Germany's IG Metall union's “day of action” is a thinly veiled endorsement of Berlin’s drive to rearmament and war

6. A socialist and teacher in Brazil, Tomas Castanheira, describes how the government of Brazil wants to emulate the US Trump administration's plans to privatize public education

7. A significant ruling by the Australian High Court that purports to compensate indigenous clans for seized mining rights may not be as fair in practice as it sounds

8. Argentinian police forces corral and brutally attack thousands of protesting pensioners, workers, and soccer fans in Buenos Aires

9. In the past 25 years the price of gold has increased 10-fold, with its rise passing key marker points in periods of financial turbulence

10. The pseudo-leftist government of Spain plans to raise military spending to a level that exceeds even that of General Francisco Franco’s 1939-1975 fascist dictatorship

11. More details from the recent online discussion organized by the Educators Rank-and-File Committee and International Youth and Students for Social Equality about the US Trump administration's attacks on public education and democratic rights

12. Mickey 17, directed filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, is a science fiction black comedy based on an Edward Ashton novel that loses its way, somewhat

12. In line with International Monetary Fund dictates, the government of Sri Lanka plans to establish a state holding company to accelerate the privatization of state-owned enterprises

13. New information about the cause of the recent deadly Club Pulse nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia points to its operator's criminal neglect of all safety precautions

13. The revelation that US National Institutes of Health officials are instructing scientists to scrub references to mRNA technology from their grant applications is an unmistakable sign of the Trump administration’s war on science

15. Prosecutors refuse to press charges against a Missouri, US police officer who killed a mother and her infant child last year while responding to a domestic violence call. Since the killing of George Floyd in 2020,  the number of killings by police officers has not declined—in fact, it has increased significantly

14.  A protester in Cologne, Germany speaks out against the new Syrian regime's attacks on Alawites: “It’s not over yet. They stole the mobile phones of those killed. And they call every number and say: “We know your name, we know where you live, and you’re next”

15. The Labour government’s work and pensions minister Liz Kendall lays out a savage program of attacks on welfare recipients, aimed at saving the UK more than £5 billion

16. Underhanded methods employed by union officials to impose reforms, which are actually dress rehearsals for funding cuts and mass job destruction, are made plain at Cumbernauld, one of Royal Mail's delivery sites in Scotland

17. The Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Committee calls for the broadest mobilization of the working class to oppose the Trump administration’s plans to destroy public education

18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

19. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help

1. "Ausnahmezustand"

2. The US Trump administration crosses a Rubicon by flagrantly ignoring a federal judge's order to halt deportation flights

3. Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, is voting today on the largest military rearmament program since the fall of the Third Reich-- a sum twice as high as the annual federal budget

4. Unit 29, an unusual collection of writing and artwork by over 30 inmates at the State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, describes the inhumanity of prison life in riveting and challenging ways:

 Just as superfluous working class bodies are warehoused in prisons, so they are warehoused in dilapidated neighborhoods, housing projects and trailer parks. Warehoused in overcrowded and run-down schools, then in the military or low-paying retail or service jobs. Introduce drugs and alcohol, sexual relationships or just the desire for something more into these warehoused lives, and the criminogenic character of poverty becomes obvious. An impulsive act in youth—a result of desperation, rage, bravura or mental illness—and one can find oneself on Parchman Farm.

-- James MacDonald at the World Socialist Web Site

5. Rolls-Royce assembly workers in Indianapolis, Indiana express disappointment with a UAW-negotiated sellout contract

6.  The Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office announces it is filing charges against a University of California Santa Cruz student who participated in anti-genocide protests on the campus... last year

7. The Verdi union won't help German public-sector workers fight exploitation because it supports the government's pro-war, pro-austerity agenda

8. The Indonesian government of President Prabowo Subianto sparks widespread student protests by implementing austerity measures that target education, health, infrastructure,and public services

9. With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles spread throughout the education systems of several of Brazil’s state capitals

10. The Labour government of Manchester, England forcibly removes a homeless encampment, whose majority of occupants were refugees from war-torn Sudan and Eritrea

11. Toxic Town, a miniseries that deals with the history of a tragic cluster of birth defects among newborns in Corby, England in the 1980s and 1990s is the most viewed Netflix offering in the UK, and deserves a wider audience because it reveals capitalism in its true colors

12. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting in Chicago on Saturday to discuss to do about the Trump administration’s efforts to destroy public education

13. In the midst of a cyclone and flooding, the premier of New South Wales in Australia orders the removal of “squatters” from vacant houses

14. With the objective of shutting down a strike by VTA transit workers, public transportation officials in Santa Clara County send a letter to California's Governor Gavin Newsom requesting the appointment of a board to intervene

15. A new report that documents rising numbers of abusive incidents and threats against Muslims in Australia is largely met with indifference from establishment officials and media

Here is a link to that report

16. The Australian Electoral Commission rejects the Socialist Equality Party’s challenge to it's earlier decision to keep the party off of federal election ballots

17. The vicious four-year-old witch-hunt against Sri Lankan plantation workers, aided and abetted by the plantation trade unions, continues

18. Amid international trade war jitters, discussions are underway at the highest levels of the Canadian government to move toward fully privatizing the Crown corporation's control over mail delivery

19. A workers' peaceful sit-in in Chicago, seeking to draw attention to ongoing contract negotiations, draws a ruthless response from the Starbucks Corporation and police

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

21. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help