1. Every major European power is accelerating a frantic program of military rearmament. Every major political party and news outlet is spewing forth lies justifying this explosion of militarism

2. The Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers made this February the worst month for announced job cuts since July 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

3. Melbourne, Australia: in a disturbing escalation of a crackdown on opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, pro-Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh is charged for declaring at a public protest last year that “all Zionists are terrorists”

4. American actor Gene Hackman, one of the finest performers of his generation, (1930-2025)

5. Dryness, poor forest management, difficult terrain, and ignored global warming all contribute to Japan’s largest wildfire in decades

6. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese abandons plans to announce an early federal election after Cyclone Alfred leaves hundreds of thousands without power in Australia

7. A brutal provocation amid heightened military tensions:  the US Trump administration revokes licenses for Chevron and other oil corporations to operate in Venezuela, ending a financial lifeline for the country

8. One among hundreds of thousands experiencing homelessness across Canada, a humanitarian aid worker dies homeless on the streets of its capitol

9. Barnard College administrators at New York City’s Columbia University sic city police on pro-Palestinian students occupying the campus’ library

10. A "sellout" agreement made on behalf of CSX freight rail workers provides modest improvements but provides a two-tier health insurance scheme and anemic wage increases that will be eaten-up by inflation

11. "...like a horror movie."  ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detains a German tourist for over a month in Southern California at a prison run by a for-profit corporation

12. An open letter from the Postal Workers Action Committee in Germany calls for Deutsche Post workers to protect their jobs by rejecting their union's sellout contract 

13. Tens of thousands of angry people around the world insist on having their concerns heard by taking part in “Stand Up for Science” protests

A protester in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday

14. An unvaccinated adult in New Mexico is the second person to die of measles in the United States

15. The Health Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka holds an online meeting to discuss how to oppose wage cuts and growing immiseration exacerbated by IMF-imposed austerity measures

16. “Contra La Jaula de Oro” or “Against the Cage of Gold.” Students at Texas A&M University protest against US President Donald Trump’s fascistic assault on immigrants

17. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality meet at Texas A&M University to discuss how to oppose the mass deportations of immigrants by the Trump administration 

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

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

1. The Socialist Equality Party welcomes the "Stand Up for Science" demonstrations taking place internationally!

2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskys' uncertain future

3. After Donald Trump reenters the White House, European leaders present ambitious plans to ratchet up military spending

4. Educators and workers are invited to attend a webinar organized by the socialist Educators Rank-and-File Committee to discuss effective strategies to counter the Trump administration's attacks on public education in the US

NEA photo of protesters at the US Capitol in February 

5. Concerned with retaining a strategic industry as it prepares to play a leading role in a US-led war against China, the Australian government takes over the financially-troubled leading manufacturer of rail and structural steel, Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia

6. Chinese leaders announce plans to meet ambitious economic targets despite the imposition of heavy tariffs on Chinese exports by the United States

7. In a surprising, but mild, rebuke of the Trump administration, the Supreme Court rules that a lower court can compel it to pay bills for services already performed by USAID contractors

8. The de facto head of DOGE, Elon Musk, calls for the privatization of the United States Postal Service and Amtrak

9. The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fires Health Minister Nísia Trindade whose tenure was marked by a deepening of a “herd immunity” policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the largest dengue fever outbreak in the country’s history

10. The cynicism of Republicans is only matched by the spinelessness of Democrats--  ten Democrats join a unanimous Republican caucus to rebuke Texas Representative Al Green for daring to speak out against Trump during the president's address before the US Congress this week

11. Three standout films from the recent Berlin International Film Festival: Yalla Parkour about children in Gaza, Köln 95 about a famous Keith Jarrett concert, and Leibniz–Chronicle of a Lost Painting about the "universal genius" and Enlightenment philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

12. Canada’s ruling class, with the assistance of the trade union bureaucracies, responds to US President Trump's painful trade tariffs by using nationalism to divide workers and make them pay the cost of the tariffs

13. The Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, call for less reliance on a US-led NATO and more European military “independence” and rearmament

14. What young workers and students need to know about the dangerous and reactionary role of Germany's Left Party

15.  To be applauded: Danielle Khalaf, an eighth-grader in Michigan, is fighting to defend her First Amendment rights under conditions in which all constitutional rights are under attack by the president and ruling oligarchy of the United States

16. Fearing that even a token strike could get out of control and sabotage the government’s austerity program, the union representing nurses and healthcare workers in Sri Lanka calls off a symbolic 24-hour strike

17. Last week's explosive confrontation between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky provokes confusion and reaction within the Australian establishment

18. The World Socialist Web Site listens to a mail delivery worker explain why it is necessary to organize against unreasonable service benchmark reforms aimed at making the UK Royal Mail Service more like Amazon

19. Academic staff at Dundee University in Scotland strike even as many UK universities struggle from severe funding problems that grew since the introduction of tuition fees under former Prime Minister Tony Blair

20. Rank-and-file workers, meeting to discuss police sweeps at Ford factories, unanimously condemn such measures, and call for the expansion of rank-and-file committees to resist corporate repression and assert workers’ democratic rights

21. Electoral members of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia continue to denounce the Australian Electoral Commission’s undemocratic denial of allowing it an official status

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

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

1. The mandate of US President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, is to dismantle her agency piece by piece until Congress approves its final elimination

2. US Senator Bernie Sanders' political con game

3. High school students in Detroit, Michigan and Monroe, North Carolina protest deportation raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents

4. The global economy, rocked by the US Trump administration's tariff measures, is waking to a realization that the entire framework of economic and trade relations set in place after World War II has disintegrated

5. To prevent a strike and seek favor from the Trump administration, the United Steelworkers union bureaucracy is pushing through another sellout contract for 1,000 Pennsylvania steelworkers

6. Thirty correctional officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, California are indicted for orchestrating “gladiator fights” among incarcerated youth

7.  An open letter from the Transport Workers Action Committee explains why BVG public transit workers in Berlin, Germany must break from the Verdi union to avoid betrayal and conduct a productive strike

8. Contrary to what its government authorities claim, there has been no effective fight against infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and dengue fever in Brazil

9. A film that broke from stereotypes to explore something of the inner fabric of Australia’s society and history:  it has been 50 years since the first showing of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock

10. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain betrays all workers by giving his full support to Trump’s tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China

12. Part Two: Far from building a “genuine mass revolutionary movement,” the recent rebranding of a pseudo-leftist political party in Kenya reaffirms that despite adding “Marxist” to its name, it lacks any orientation to the working class

13. The huge movement sparked by Greece’s Tempi rail crash and subsequent government cover-up are a dramatic confirmation that the objective conditions for socialist revolution are ripening at an extraordinary pace

14. The class character and political bankruptcy of Canada’s social democrats is exposed by the assault of a journalist protesting Israel’s genocide during an election rally in Toronto

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

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

1. Vicious, violent and depraved, and plumbing the depths of cultural and political degradation in the United States-- Donald Trump’s address to Congress is the rant of an aspiring Führer

2. US President Donald Trump expands his trade war against the rest of the world

3. Detroit's mayor and political establishment address the city's homeless population with half-measured solutions and lies; what would a socialist solution look like?

4. In a direct attack on democratic rights, US President Donald Trump threatens to unilaterally end all federal funding for “any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests”

5. Part One:  Far from building a “genuine mass revolutionary movement,” the recent rebranding of a pseudo-leftist political party in Kenya reaffirms that despite adding “Marxist” to its name, it lacks any orientation to the working class

6. Concern spreads among autoworkers over the impact of the US Trump administration's tariffs on their jobs

7. Geordie musician Sam Fender's songs summon up social experiences widely ignored in contemporary culture

8. How is one to interpret imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace between Kurdistan rebels and Turkey?

9. Participants attending a meeting of the Macquarie and Western Sydney University rank-and-file committees in Australia call for a campaign to defend the persecuted anti-genocide academic Randa Abdel-Fattah

10. In coalition talks, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats in Germany's government are preparing a huge increase in defense spending and corresponding social cuts

11. The president of Mexico postpones any official response to the imposition of US tariffs with the hope that she can make a "deal" with Trump

12. Further legal challenges to the demolition of vital public housing in the Australian state of Victoria are undermined by a judge's ruling

13. Recent think tank reports describe growing poverty and inequality in Australia

14. Electors speak out against the Australian Electoral Commission’s rejection of the Socialist Equality Party's application for registration as an official political party

15. The Socialist Equality Party in Australia will hold an important public meeting on March 19 entitled “Election ban on the SEP: An attack on democratic rights”

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

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

1. Any association with the Democratic Party is politically fatal for a genuine movement in opposition to the US President Trump’s fascist policies

2. The Trump administration's tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products will roil the North American economy, with workers paying for them in the form of mass layoffs and punishing price hikes 

3. Triggered by the deaths of 15 people, including two children, due to the collapse of a railway station canopy in Serbia, mass protests have been taking place every day for months against the far-right government by President Aleksandar Vučić

4. Rank-and-file opposition grows over the last-minute agreement reached by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy and Rolls-Royce to prevent a strike by 800 aircraft engine workers in Indianapolis, Indiana

5. The US Social Security Administration announces the elimination of 7,000 jobs-- more than 12 percent of the agency’s staff-- as part of the Trump administration’s assault on the federal government workforce

6. In a parliamentary address, the Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake cautions his political opponents, the working class and the rural poor to suppress their growing anger over his implementation of brutal IMF-directed austerity measures

7. Australian elites react to US President Trump's tariff threats

8. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality unequivocally condemns New York's Barnard College at Columbia University and demands it reinstate students who were expelled for protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza

9. Academy award wins for No Other Land and I'm Still Here indicate that a process of radicalization is unequivocally germinating in the US and globally

10. Austria's new government moves forward to implement far-right measures to appease far-right political elements

11. Former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, who had resigned after being pressured by the #MeToo movement in 2021, announces that he will run the office of mayor for New York City

12. Artists and other creative workers denounce an Australian government-sponsored organization's rejection of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino from competing in the 2026 Venice Biennale because of their pro-Palestinian political views

13. Far from defending democratic and social rights, the opposition People’s Party in Thailand postures as progressive, while making every effort to divert growing public discontent 

14. Even after a child dies of measles, the US Department of Health and Human Services head, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. provides an opinion piece to Fox News promote his anti-science views

15. World Socialist Web Site reporters listen to participants of protests against Greece's coverup of the Tempi train disaster

16. Workers respond to Stellantis' plan to close its Luton auto-manufacturing plant in the UK

17. Netanyahu’s murdered Bibas children lie unravels after it was championed by Trump and world’s media

18. Turkish workers occupy mine against privatisation as wildcat strikes continue

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

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

1. Fearing a US-Russia alliance after talks between US President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky break down, a summit of leaders of all the major European powers gather in England to decide how to continue and even escalate war with Russia as quickly as possible

2.  Aiming to starve the population into submission, Israel blocks all food shipments into Gaza

3. Three prominent US senators, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Murphy, and "independent" Bernie Sanders, appear on Sunday television interview programs to defend Ukraine's President Zelensky and the war in Ukraine

4. Imperialist wars are not fought for “democracy” or “self-determination,” “protection” of small nations, “peace,” etc., but for plunder--  how the acquisition of raw materials crucial to the making of semiconductors, batteries and communications systems became an existential question for the United States

Link to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Report, Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy

5.  

 The chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in Germany, Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the result of the 2025 federal election and explains "how the fight against fascism and war must be waged"

6. Thousands gather at 145 national parks across the United States to protest the Trump administration’s mass firing of National Park Service workers

7. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's job cuts and meddling throw US air transportation safety into turmoil

8. The US Trump administration seeks unprecedented powers for the executive branch of government and puts its overt racism on display by attacking America's class-blind “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) culture

9. US President Donald Trump reveals his criteria for “African American greatness” at a White House event commemorating Black History Month

10. Under the pretext of stopping a non-existent “invasion” of immigrants, and on the same day that he signs an executive order declaring English the “official” language of the United States, President Donald Trump orders the further deployment of thousands of armed, combat-ready military forces along the US-Mexico border

11. Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul of New York state in the US announces a tentative agreement to end a wildcat strike by prison guards; three prison inmates were afterwards found dead

12. Members of the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Australia call for an urgent staff meeting and action to defend the persecuted academic, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

13. The New Zealand political and media establishment, being more concerned with geostrategic objectives than humanitarian ones, ratchets up tensions with the Cook Islands as more details about the small Pacific country’s recent cooperative agreement with China are released

14. With the objective of rolling back workplace safety rules and regulations, the US Trump administration picks veteran UPS and Amazon executive David Keeling to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

15. To demonize and scapegoat transgender people for a variety of social ills, and to lay the groundwork for broader attacks on the working class, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, issues a ban on international transgender athletes entering the United States

16. Director Huo Meng wins an award at the Berlin International Film Festival for Living the Land (生息之地), a moving and vivid film portraying rural life in the rapidly urbanizing China of the 1990s

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

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

1.  Thousands of University of California workers are returning to work from their brief strike without having their critical demands resolved

2. US President Donald Trump's "deal" nosedives after he and Vice President JD Vance engage in a publicly televised dress down of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

3. Doug Ford, posturing as a man of the people, wins a third term as premier of Ontario in a campaign dominated by Canadian nationalist tub-thumping

4. The Philippines provides a platform for military exercises aimed at dominating the South China Sea and preparing for war with China

5. The reason for President Trump's proposal to take over the US District of Columbia is of a piece with his administration's attacks on federal workers-- to eliminate anything that stands in the way of building a personalist dictatorship

5. To demand justice for the people who died in the 2023 Tempi train collision and an end to a government cover-up, hundreds of thousands of angry workers and youth stage one of the largest demonstrations in Greek history

6. Walter Salles’ film, I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), which is garnering acclaim as an Academy Award nominee, hits a nerve in Brazil and around the world

7.  To determine if remedial action is warranted, the US Trump administration orders the investigation of  ten major universities where pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the Gaza genocide took place last year

8. The presence of three Chinese warships in international waters off the Australian coast sparks a furor in Australia's media and political establishment

9. In Sri Lanka, trade union bureaucrats attempt to suppress the effectiveness of a strike by thousands of nurses against the IMF austerity measures being imposed by the government

10. Accidental? Or accepted as a cost of business? Adding to record numbers of occupation-related casualties, one of two construction workers in Chicago, electrocuted on the job Tuesday, dies; the other is reported to be recovering in the hospital

11. The Brutalist is a film that deals with weighty subjects in an inadequate and confused way

12. With more than 19,000 people in the US having died this season from flu, why did the US Food and Drug Administration abruptly cancel a preliminary meeting of an expert scientific panel to discuss next year’s flu vaccine?

13. Democratic Party lawmakers in Maryland introduce bills to implement right-wing-motivated restrictions on people wearing masks

14. A senior psychiatrist contacts the World Socialist Web Site to describe how public mental health services have deteriorated in Australia over the past 27 years

15.  Exploited apparel workers making Carnival costumes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil have mere seconds to escape a deadly fire

16. The Socialist Equality Party formally challenges the Australian Electoral Commission for undemocratically rejecting its application to participate in Australian federal elections

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

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

1. Jeff Bezos tells the Washington Post "to adapt"

2. According to a report by a major investment firm, US President Donald Trump’s purge of federal workforce could leave up to one million people jobless in the coming weeks

3. The major issues that 57,000 University of California striking workers must face because they are not just fighting for themselves but for the future of public healthcare and education in the US

4. A worker in Arlington, Texas writes to the World Socialist Web Site to answer the Socialist Equality Party's call to establish workplace and neighborhood committees to defend immigrants and democratic rights 

5. After a month's delay, US President Trump has announced that 25 % tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada will begin next week

6.  In an address to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk delivers a stinging rebuke of Israel's military assault on Gaza

Here is a link to the UN Report on which the rebuke was based

7. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer plans to host a summit of European leaders to digest their failure to influence US President Trump's "America first" focus and to discuss what direction to take if they lose America's help

8. While the struggle to speak freely is not yet over, a student support officer for a high school in New South Wales, Australia is reinstated after being dismissed for having made pro-Palestinian statements on social media

9. What are UK special forces officers trying to hide by blocking every single application from former Afghan commandos referred to them for asylum sponsorship under a resettlement scheme put in place after the Taliban came to power?

10. European leaders react to the possibility that NATO, the military alliance which has dominated transatlantic relations since the Second World War, will lose support from the US Trump administration

11. The World Health Organization releases their latest report on the worsening outbreak of an unknown disease in Central Africa

12. A postal worker in Northern Ireland writes to the World Socialist Web Site about brutal pilot programs being implemented to "Amazonify" the UK's Royal Mail

13. The government of President Erdoğan in Turkey continues its wave of arrests and repression against its political and social opponents

 US socialist Will Lehman calls for all workers to stand with striking workers in Turkey and to call for the release from prison of the rank-and-file Turkish labor leader, Mehmet Türkmen

14. Amid rapidly shifting geostrategic alliances and considerations, the Turkish Erdoğan government welcomes a letter from imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan calling on its Kurdish guerrilla fighters to lay down their arms

15. After a horrible year for many Australian retailers, and part of a broader trend of business failures, the Australian clothing and footwear brand, Rivers, is set to close all of its stores

16. Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz signals the militaristic and authoritarian character of Germany's new federal government by illegally inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a state visit

17. France’s Minister of the Overseas arrives in New Caledonia to resume talks regarding the impoverished and strife-riven French Pacific territory’s political future

18. Attendees at two National Tertiary Education Union branch meetings in Australia pass critical resolutions to defend Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah, a Macquarie University research fellow who has been demonized for opposing the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine

19.  Despite making big profits, the automaking conglomerate Stellantis cheats its workers by cutting their profit-sharing checks by 73%

20. Another union betrayal:  the multimillionaire president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), Harold Daggett, announces the ratification of a master contract for 40,000 East and Gulf Coast dockworkers by declaring, “We now have labor peace for the next six years”

21. Nearly 100 students occupy Milbank Hall, at Columbia University's Barnard College in Manhattan to protest the expulsion of two pro-Palestine students

22. One of the highlights at this year's recently held Berlin International Film Festival is the film Das Deutsche Volk (The German People) which explores complex issues surrounding the aftermath of a right-wing terrorist's attack that took place in Hanau, Germany in February, 2020

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

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

1. As the current negotiated ceasefire draws to a conclusion in Gaza, Israeli leaders call for a renewal of its genocide

2. A budget being adopted by the congressional House of Representatives, that includes devastating cuts in social spending, is designed to implement a social counterrevolution in the United States

3. A fascist attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class:  US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announces that her agency would begin compiling a database of immigrants to “track ... and compel them to leave the country"

4. David Walsh of the World Socialist Web Site anticipates the 97th Academy Awards to be held Sunday night in Los Angeles

5. Facing jail for participating in a failed coup, Brazil's ex-President Jair Bolsonaro gets inspiration and seeks salvation from US President Trump and his fascist allies

6. As part of an aggressive austerity drive, supposedly aimed at reducing the Australian state of Victoria's ballooning debt, the Labor Party government plans to eliminate up to 3,000 public service jobs

7. The UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attempts to appease the demands of US President Donald Trump, with whom he will be meeting today in Washington, by announcing “the biggest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the Cold War”

8. South Korea's Constitutional Court concludes its final hearing in the impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol with a decision expected in mid-March

9. Donald Trump's newly confirmed US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., responds to the death of child by measles with callous indifference and lying

10. How Ontario's Premier Doug Ford and his political party is exploiting his Canadian province's unprecedented healthcare crisis to introduce privatization measures

11. Jerry White of the World Socialist Web Site interviews a resident physician about unionization efforts and work demands at the Detroit Medical Center in Michigan

12. In a 5-3 decision, the US Supreme Court orders a retrial of an Oklahoma death row inmate

13. Excessive punishment being faced by a nurse in New South Wales, Australia (goaded into making reactionary comments online by an Israeli provocateur) appears to be intended (by the highest levels of the state and federal legal authorities) to intimidate anyone making any comments on social media criticizing Israel

14. What are the economic austerity measures being demanded by the IMF and being imposed by Sri Lanka's president? Why are the trade union bureaucrats supporting them?

15. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and Ford Workers Rank-and-File Committee are hosting a meeting Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern to demand an end to Ford’s police raids and to defend democratic rights

16. More than 20,000 teachers have been working without a contract for eight months as the Chicago Public Schools administration of Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former Chicago Teachers Union lobbyist, refuses to accept even the most modest wage and staffing demands of educators

17. About 1,000 nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in New York could begin a strike as soon as Saturday, March 1, against chronic understaffing and low salaries

18. 57,000 University of California workers launch a strike across all 10 campuses and five medical centers

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

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

1. Emblematic of the brutal consequences of US foreign policy: a boat carrying South American migrants sinks, claiming the life of an 8-year-old Venezuelan boy

2. 

 Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders

Barry Grey at the World Socialist Web Site describes the pseudo-leftist Bernie Sanders and his opportunistic "fight the oligarchy" road show:

 On February 21, the [New York] Times published an interview with Sanders under the headline “Bernie Sanders Isn’t Giving Up His Fight.” In it, Sanders advised the Democrats to recognize that “the system is broken, period. And you can’t patch it up a little here and a little there.”

Yet in the next breadth he said that “the best thing we could do is to win over at least two Republicans [sufficient to defeat the budget reconciliation bill in the narrowly divided House]… There are about 15 house districts in America where Republicans won with very slim margins. One of them is in the Omaha area. One of them is in the Iowa City area.”

It would be difficult to devise a more apt definition of the politics of “patching up” the system.

Asked if he regretted his decision to back Biden’s reelection bid until the bitter end, Sanders said: “The reason I stood behind President Biden is that he was supporting an extremely progressive agenda, an agenda which, in fact, did speak to the needs of working people in this country… and I think that’s exactly what the Democratic Party has to do right now.”

This “agenda” included institutionalizing Trump’s “forever COVID” policy, record military spending, an imperialist proxy war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and sharp cuts to Medicaid and social programs. It also included an alliance with the union bureaucracy in betraying and blocking strikes, including a government ban on a rail strike. In backing Biden, the supposed anti-oligarchy fighter vouched for a president who oversaw an 88 percent increase in US billionaire wealth to a total of $5.5 trillion.

3.  The mandate for President Trump's nominee to become the US Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, is already clear:  to transfer the billions presently spent on public schools into corporate-run training, private schools or other for-profit businesses and eviscerate the Enlightenment goals of public education—scientific pursuit, world knowledge and critical thinking

4. President Trump tags podcaster Dan Bongino to become the next Deputy Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chiefly for his unflinching loyalty and fascist politics

5. A 46-day-long strike by 5,000 nurses and other medical workers in Oregon comes to an ignominious end after their union announces their ratification of a sellout labor contract

6. A new film that reaches beyond the usual fare Hollywood delivers within the horror genre, The Substance, "is a heavy-handed statement about beauty standards and the pressure placed on female performers to appear conventionally attractive and youthful"

7. A statement by the Socialist Equality Party in Germany regarding the results of Germany's recent federal elections: how the fight against fascism and war must be waged now

8. A socialist message to all University of California workers going on strike this week

9. A ten-year employee of Costco writes the World Socialist Web Site about worsening working conditions and how the Teamsters union contributes to them

10. Amid a continued blockade of fuel and humanitarian aid by the illegal Israeli occupation in Gaza, at least six babies freeze to death

11. Pathology workers at Australian Clinical Laboratories in the state of Victoria overwhelmingly vote to take protected industrial action against their company’s contract offer which would cut their real wages

12. To demand the reinstatement of workers who were arbitrarily suspended, around 500 workers at Samsung India’s Tamil Nadu household-appliance manufacturing plant have been on strike since February 5

13. As part of new and enhanced security initiatives to be used in all its Dearborn-based manufacturing plants, the Ford Motor Company announces it will routinely allow raids by police and K-9 units

14. Flaws begin to appear in America's economic exceptionalism-- which are never reflected in the underlying reality most Americans experience

15. Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer sets up his own political party and parrots the US president, Donald Trump

16. Mercedes-Benz announces a program codenamed “Next Level Performance” aimed at cutting costs and reducing its workforce to inflate its profits

17.  Ontario, Canada's “tariff war” election

18. With potentially grave consequences for New York City's immigrants, Democratic Party leaders protect its corrupt mayor, Eric Adams, as a concession to the US President Trump

19. UK Royal Mail delivery workers' respond to the way their union conceals the true implications behind work reform schemes

20. Britain’s National Health Service faces an unprecedented winter crisis due to years of systematic underfunding

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

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

1.  World Socialist Web Site Perspective: Three years after the start of the Ukraine war, the narrative used by the imperialist powers to justify their provocation and escalation of the war is being exposed as a pack of lies

2.  Mass immigration raids in Los Angeles mark yet another aggressive step in the Trump administration’s all-out war on workers and democratic rights

3. Confusion and anger mount among federal workers in the United States following the midnight expiration of a DOGE deadline to send an email to justify their jobs

4. A recently published study by a leading corporate-backed think tank suggests that by deliberately wrecking the public health system, the Trump administration is counting on the ensuing rise in death rates to reduce the overall expenses of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, thereby freeing up money for military spending and tax cuts for the wealthy

5. By normalizing retirement age beyond age 70, Spain directs funds away from human needs, while ensuring a large pool of cheap labor

6. New York’s Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul mobilizes 3,500 National Guard soldiers to enter state prisons in response to a wildcat strike by corrections officers triggered by the impending indictment of some for the brutal beating death of an inmate last December

7. New Zealand's government and media generate hysteria over legal Chinese naval exercises conducted in the Tasman Sea

8.  70 key Southern Counties Express truck drivers strike in Los Angeles over draconian working conditions

9. Part of a new stage in the global war against car workers’ jobs: Stellantis' full closure of its van manufacturing facility at Vauxhall in Luton, UK brings an end to 120 years of vehicle production there

10. In an effort to portray “black boyhood,” a film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, obscures important historical issues

11. The New York Times reports that the White House is planning to detain men, women and children on military bases across the United States

12. The South Australian state Labor government in Australia rushes new legislation through parliament to bail out Whyalla Steelworks because of its strategic importance

13. For now, the record rising price of gold and its movement to New York from abroad are the clearest indicators of the impact the US Trump administration's tariffs are having on the global economy

14. A reprieve workers should not take lightly: Stellantis rescinds layoffs at its Toledo, Ohio Jeep-making plant

15. With the imminent installation of Trump acolyte and privatization advocate Linda McMahon as the US Secretary of Education, teacher unions initiate a toothless "email Congress" campaign

16. The socialist Committee for Public Education in Australia issues a statement on behalf of building independent rank-and-file worker committees to fight against the government's poor funding of public education

17. A new round of commission hearings in Ottawa, Canada clarifies its own role in conspiring against the approximately 55,000 postal workers who were forced back to work and robbed of their right to strike by the Trudeau Liberal government last December

18. The pseudo-leftist publication Left Voice publishes two new articles on its website to provide a “left” cover for the trade union bureaucracies and the Democratic Party

19. Will Lehman, the socialist rank-and-file worker who ran for UAW president in 2022, condemns the arrest of union leader Mehmet Türkmen in Turkey where inflation is wiping out workers’ wages while the rich get tax breaks

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

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

1.  The political crisis confronting Germany and Europe deepens after Germany's federal elections conclude with voter support for status quo political parties plummeting

2. In an emergency meeting, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls for mass action to stop the Trump administration’s assault on federal workers

Tom Hall's opening address (approximately 11 minutes)

3. More from Sunday's emergency meeting addressing letter carriers' concerns about layoffs and the privatization of the USPS--  “If Trump’s conspiracy is to be defeated... it can be”

4. Recently confirmed US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is the driving force behind President Trump's purge of leaders from the US military Joint Chiefs of Staff; claiming the Biden administration had previously overlooked him, Trump chooses Air Force general, Dan Caine as the advisory body's new head

5. "Not currently available"-- the BBC pulls the documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone , after complaints from Zionist critics who called it a piece of “propaganda” for Hamas

6. The 48th mass shooting this year in the United States-- a man opens fire at the University of Pittsburgh Memorial Center in Pennsylvania

7. Large-scale reductions in the federal workforce by the US Trump administration deal a severe blow to Native American educational institutions

8. Arrested and imprisoned on trumped-up charges: Montreal-based author and activist Yves Engler, a prominent opponent of Canadian militarism and of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

9. Educators, students and workers deliver more messages of support for Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah who is being unfairly threatened with dismissal by Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia

10. At a town hall meeting held at George Mason University in Northern Virginia, the university's president dissembles, distorts and dodges to justify his campus’s crackdown on the student population’s democratic rights

11. Medical tests raise concerns in Australia that its “Blue Mountains residents have likely been drinking [toxic] PFAS-contaminated water day-in-day out probably for decades”

12. Australian politicians make empty promises to repair the country's deteriorating Medicare health insurance scheme where seeing a doctor without paying an expensive upfront fee has become an increasing impossibility

13. US East and Gulf Coast dockworkers must reject a proposed sellout contract and build an independent rank-and-file committee

14.  Leaders of far-right movements in Europe, Santiago Abascal in Spain, Marine Le Pen in France, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage of the UK, and others, look upon US President Donald Trump as a natural ally

15. Claiming "victory", the Oregon Nurses Association announces it had reached a tentative agreement with Providence Health & Services on behalf of 5,000 Oregon nurses currently on strike

16. Having taken part in the Bundestag elections in Germany, a pseudo-left political party, RIO, obscures and falsify the historical questions and the history of the Trotskyist movement

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

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

1. A World Socialist Web Site perspective: Germany's federal elections tomorrow mark a decisive turning point in German and European post-war history

2. What began in 1974 with a keynote speech by then-Governor of California Ronald Reagan has transformed into the most prominent gathering of fascists on an international scale

3. “Nothing is going to be off limits.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump appointees are launching a multi-faceted assault on public health

4. Far from serving to mobilize a broad movement to fight Amazon which will make workers jobless by shutting down its facilities in Quebec, a boycott campaign initiated by the workers' union is a reactionary nationalist diversion

5. The supposed “progressive” alternative in Canadian politics— the New Democratic Party— doubles down on its support for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza by blocking former NDP parliament member Sarah Jama from running under the party’s banner

6. George Mason University, a public research university in Arlington, Virginia, implements gestapo-like measures and collaborates with the US military to limit its students' democratic rights

7. After just three rounds of negotiations, Deutsche Bahn, the German train company, and the German rail union, Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsgewerkschaft, conclude a contract settlement that imposes funding cuts and a massive reduction in real wages for German rail workers

8. A new film, Anora, begins with "compassion for the marginalized and a deliberate, almost self-conscious refusal to moralize", but takes a "tawdry, tasteless turn" that accommodates itself "to what exists"

9. Promoted by media and government representatives, the social acceptance of right-wing extremism in Germany parallels the growth of right-wing extremist crimes

10. The fifth anniversary of the Hanau shootings, when nine people were killed and five others wounded in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist, is remembered by many on the eve of Germany's federal election

11. Thousands of public transport workers stage warning strikes in Germany on the eve of the country's federal elections

12. Former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others face prison for plotting to overthrow Brazil's government in a fascist uprising on January 8, 2023

13. Recent record-breaking floods in Queensland continue to impact thousands of people in the Australian state

14. A divisive report that calls for "culturally safe" staffing ratios in New Zealand hospitals is published amid a deepening assault by the far-right National Party-led government on the public health system

15. The President of Sri Lanka announces an austerity budget which the media falsely hails as a “pro-people” budget

16. While the US Trump administration implements a massive escalation of attacks on the US Postal Service, the union that represents postal workers implements a toothless "letter writing" campaign urging workers to write their congressional representatives in Washington

17. The mass firing of US federal employees intensifies under President Trump and Elon Musk

18. A meeting of some 70 educators, students and workers organized by the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee calls for a widespread campaign to defend Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah and all others being vilified as antisemitic for opposing the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine

19. A live-fire exercise by Chinese warships in the Tasman Strait between Australia and New Zealand triggers an outburst of nationalism and militarism in Australia

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

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

1. Hundreds of people attend the funeral of two homeless children who froze to death in Detroit

2. The US Trump administration paves the way to military actions in Mexico by designating Mexican drug cartels, as “foreign terrorist organizations”

3. Imposition of tariffs is just a small part of US President Trump's overall battle plan to wage economic war on the world

4. Protest demonstrations across the US multiply after the Trump administration fires more than 14,000 federal workers, coerces an estimated 75,000 into resigning or retiring early, and dismantling entire agencies, including USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

5.  Who is the fiddle and who is the fiddler?  Why no one should believe that, in reopening diplomatic relations with Russia, the Trump administration is seeking peace

6. The foreign policy establishment in Germany reacts to US President Trump's rapprochement with Russia over Ukraine by ratcheting up war hysteria and calls for more rearmament

7. Taiwan's leaders are eager to comply with the US Trump administration, intent on denying advanced silicon chip technology to China

8. Why historians are rejecting a decision by the American Historical Association Council to reject a proposal for a resolution condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza

9. “Kash” Patel, the lawyer and fascist who played an integral role in US President Trump’s attempted coup in 2021, is confirmed to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation

10. Australia's Albanese Labor government rams through an electoral reform bill designed to discourage participation of smaller political parties

11. Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia meddles with the International Youth and Students for Social Equality's ability to conduct its normal club affairs

12.  Australia's workplace tribunal, the Fair Work Commission, suspends an industrial action by Sydney commuter rail workers to buy time for their management and labor union leaders to cook up a sellout labor contract

13. Internationally acclaimed actress Tilda Swinton delivers a stinging speech while accepting an honorary award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival

14. Volvo Trucks announces coming layoffs at its largest manufacturing facility in New River Valley, Virginia

15. Head teachers in Stoke-on-Trent, England are taking an unprecedented action by withholding payments to corporations that routinely swindle their schools

16. A “State of the Nation” report released by the Salvation Army charity in New Zealand reveals an appalling social crisis, driven by rising unemployment, low wages and high living costs

17.  US President Trump and Elon Musk take aim at the USPS to dismantle and privatize it

18. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and the US Postal Service Workers Rank-and-File Committee are holding an online public meeting this Sunday, February 23

19. The University and College Union suspends a planned strike by academic and administrative staff at the University of Sheffield International College in England

20. The World Socialist Web Site responds again to the dangerous serial sophistry of Alex Steiner

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

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

1.  What should we do to address homelessness in America? The Socialist Equality Party joins the residents of metro Detroit and beyond to mourn the tragic deaths of two-year-old A’millah Currie and nine-year-old Darnell Currie Jr., two homeless children who froze to death

2. A public statement by the Socialist Equality Party about Donald Trump in his second term as president of the United States after his first month back in power 

3. Why the US President Trump's enthusiasm for President William McKinley should be taken as a warning

4. The US Federal Reserve Bank excepted:  the US president, Donald Trump, signs an executive order to make any congressional restriction on presidential control of the executive branch unconstitutional

5. Surrounded by riot police, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, resists hounding and intimidation to speak in Berlin, Germany

6. Thousands of University of California healthcare, research and technical workers overwhelmingly vote to authorize a strike

7. Under pressure, city councillors in Portland, Oregon seek to compromise a powerful strike by nurses against Providence Health and Services

8. The Pathology Workers Rank-and-File Committee rejects a wage deal offered by Australian Clinical Laboratories, one of the largest private hospital pathology businesses in Australia

9. Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, an 11-year-old sixth grader in Gainesville, Texas takes her own life after being bullied for months at school over her family’s immigration status

9. The Australian political and media establishment seizes on a series of murky incidents in Sydney over December and January to claim that there is a national crisis of rampant antisemitism

10. Australia's Labor government announces striking a deal with the Pacific country of Nauru as a place to house asylum seekers and detain immigrants

11. Norway's coalition government breaks up following sharp energy price spikes

12. Over 100 students protested the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) administration’s decision to suspend two pro-Palestinian clubs from campus

13. In the wake of a deadly knife attack carried out by a Syrian asylum seeker in Austria, coalition government negotiations between the country's far-right Freedom Party and its conservative Austrian People's Party break down

14. A genuine, conflicted humanity is at work in a continuing Netflix comedy series, Mo, about the picaresque adventures of an undocumented Palestinian in America

15. The government of Sri Lanka roils community peace by expanding the size of an illegally-established Buddhist temple

16. Michigan teachers and their supporters vote to endorse a statement issued by the Educators Rank-and File Committee to defend the democratic rights of immigrant children and their parents

17. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union releases a 50-minute video of its leaders trying sell East and Gulf Coast dockworkers a sellout contract proposal

18. The beginning of a new austerity drive:  government officials in British Columbia, Canada scrap a planned $1,000 rebate that had been announced with great fanfare as a means of assisting workers with skyrocketing grocery costs

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

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

1. Perspective by Joseph Kishore:  The goal of the Trump administration's blatantly illegal and unconstitutional access to Americans' private financial information is to create an all-encompassing AI-driven database that can be used to track, monitor and suppress political opposition

2.  US retailers are expected to close 15,000 stores this year, more than double the 7,325 shuttered in 2024 and breaking a record set in 2020 at the height of the pandemic

3. US President Donald Trump demands concessions from the Ukrainians of the kind usually imposed on defeated enemy states

4. Israel's defense minister orders the creation of a directorate to oversee the implementation of the plan announced by US President Donald Trump to ethnically cleanse Gaza

5.  52 people were detained on “terror” charges Tuesday morning in house raids in 10 cities across Turkey

6. The repulsive spectacle of Germany’s federal election

7. Jacobin magazine, associated with the Democratic Socialists of America, publishes a politically backward and reactionary article titled “The Case for Social Drinking”

8. A government and media blackout of critical public health information and declining vaccine rates are hiding rising flu-associated mortality rates in the US

9. A surprising Brookings Institution economic report describes how excessive reliance on Treasury bonds as collateral for short-term loans can spark a major US and global financial crisis

Here is a direct link to the report

10. A premature cancellation by the UFCW of a two-week strike of Kroger-affiliated King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado reeks of betrayal

11. A quid pro quo agreement between US President Trump and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, to get help targeting immigrants for deportation in return for a presidential pardon from crimes, creates a stir in the Democratic Party

12. A small interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia is unlikely to help the country's millions of financially stressed working-class households

13. "Heroes treated like zeroes"  -- overworked and underpaid Pennsylvania nurses go on strike

14. Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site listen to workers in San Jose, California and Brooklyn, New York who demonstrated this week against the US Trump administration's mass firings of federal employees

15. More than 3,500 artists and other creative workers sign a petition calling for the reinstatement of two artists-- who the Australian government-affiliated Creative Australia cancelled from attending next year's prestigious Venice Biennale

16. Infuriating New Zealand's foreign minister, the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands signs a cooperative agreement with China after a state visit

17. Anti-democratic: the Australian Electoral Commission denies official inclusion of the Socialist Equality Party to stand candidates in federal elections

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

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

1. A US and Russian diplomatic meeting in Saudi Arabia will discuss the war in Ukraine and the restoration of bilateral relations but have nothing to do with achieving “peace.” Rather, it is another step in a global conflict that threatens humanity with nuclear annihilation

2. In defiance of all legal and constitutional restraints, the US “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), headed by billionaire Elon Musk, seeks access to the Internal Revenue Service system that contains private financial information on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit organization in the United States

3. For the second time this month, tens of thousands of people across the United States protest against President Donald Trump and fascist billionaire Elon Musk and their ongoing attacks against immigrants, federal workers and the social and democratic rights of the entire working class

4. The major European powers hold a crisis summit in Paris after US officials threatened to cut them out of Trump’s talks with Russia over Ukraine in Saudi Arabia

5. The German chapter of the Socialist Equality Party holds its final election rally in Berlin before the February 23 federal elections

6. Historic flooding in the US state of Kentucky over the weekend required over 1,000 rescue operations, cut power and water to thousands of homes, and killed at least 12 people

7. Hundreds of homes in Detroit’s southwest side are flooded after a nearly century-old water main burst

An aerial view of Monday's flooding in Detroit

8. Britain’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie paints a terrible picture of over 100,000 people in the UK dying in poverty every year

And here is a link to its report

9. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan clamps down on a broadening wave of wildcat strikes

10.  In a chilling example of the bipartisan assault on immigrant rights, a middle school science teacher and a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, was secretly detained and deported to Honduras by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

11. Sections of the media greet a brawl between US and Canadian hockey players as a fight between “America First” and “Canada First”

12. The latest of five general strikes fails in Peru because public transit union leaders represent the interests of private companies more than those of their workers

13. A parliamentary committee inquiry in Australia calls on universities to adopt a far-reaching definition of antisemitism that will effectively prohibit criticism of Israel’s US-backed ethnic cleansing in Palestine

14. The premier of  New South Wales, Australia, Chris Minns, threatens to ask the federal Labor government to shut down an industrial action planned by commuter rail workers

15.  The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association union in Australia abandons two nurses who sparked an hysterical response to backward statements they made which were broadcast widely on social media

16. Rolls-Royce workers in Indianapolis, Indiana unanimously authorize a strike to expand pensions, oppose rising healthcare costs, and end their hated wage and benefit tier system

17.  Documenta, an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany, publishes a Code of Conduct that obligates itself to rules that make any criticism of Israeli government policies antisemitic

18. Many jobs will be eliminated by workforce restructuring plans being made by CSX, the freight train company which serves the Eastern, Southeastern and Midwestern United States

19. Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site listen to mail carriers in Brooklyn, New York, to get their thoughts after they rejected a provocative tentative labor agreement

20. In a public statement, the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists defends the ICFI against a completely discredited smear campaign alleging that it was responsible for the arrest of their comrade

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

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

1. The first month of the Trump administration has seen a full-scale cave-in by the corporate media, in which major newspapers and television and cable networks have bowed to the demands of the fascist president, muzzling or firing journalists viewed as his critics and backing away from any serious defense of freedom of the press

2. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls on the working class in the United States to prepare mass action to stop the Trump administration’s rampage against federal jobs

3. The US and Israel turn their sights to better focus on Iran while proceeding with their agenda to take over and rebuild a destroyed Gaza

4. The principles, courage... and limits of academic Norman Finklestein's exposure of Zionist crimes, defense of democratic rights, and criticism of identity politics from the left

5. Pro-government thugs disrupt a farmer organization's political meeting in Sri Lanka

6. Responding to orders from the Trump administration to annul the criminal investigation into the Democratic Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, seven federal prosecutors resign in protest

7. A major poll in Australia indicates the likelihood of a  reviled far-right coalition government returning to power in Australia's federal election in May because of widespread disenchantment with the Albanese Labor government

8. In spite of its huge profits, the world’s largest auto supplier, a division of Robert Bosch GmbH, announces more “painful decisions” for its workforce

9. The pseudo-left Democratic Socialists of America conspire with the Democratic Party and trade union bureaucrats to disarm the effectiveness of striking nurses in Oregon

10. The expanding and profitable regional healthcare giant, Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts’ largest health system, has announced the biggest layoff in its history

11. Teachers at a Melbourne high school pass a resolution opposing the targeted victimization by Zionist groups and the Albanese Labor government of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah

12. As part of a pro-corporate restructuring of universities across Australia, the University of Newcastle plans to shorten its semesters next year without reducing fees

13. An open-letter appeal to Costco workers from the newly-formed Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee, implores them to oppose being betrayed by the Teamsters union

14. In advance of federal elections, German politicians whip up hysteria against immigrants in the wake of a terrible rampage, in which a driver in Munich steered his car into demonstrating union members, injuring 38 people

15. In response to a union-sanctioned police raid of Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant, the Ford Workers Rank-and-File Committee issues a statement to warn them of an unfolding conspiracy against them and to make demands for better working conditions

16. A letter to the World Socialist Web Site from a Northern California letter carrier describes what he discovered after he was hired by the USPS: "It’s easier to punch down than to punch up.... We need to move past this outmoded thinking"

17. World Socialist Web Site reporters visit Royal Mail postal distribution sites to better understand workers' distress

18. The American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO keep low profiles while the Trump administration ruthlessly fires thousands of federal workers

19. Bankrupt political speeches top off the 24th national mass demonstration held in the United Kingdom against Israel's genocide in Gaza

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

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