1. Today's political establishment in Germany is abandoning all restraint and inhibitions about rehabilitating fascism

2. Many are asking: why did a Black Hawk military helicopter collide with American Airlines Flight 5342?

3. US Senators question President Trump's nominees for the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Director of National Intelligence

4. The Trump administration announces an executive order that would equate all criticism of Israel as antisemitic and “terroristic"

5. Knoxville, Tennessee deaths highlight how a lack of accountability for law enforcement officers fosters a culture of impunity, where excessive force becomes routine

6. Federal immigration officials conduct raids on working class neighborhoods in New York City

 Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem

7.  Taking the lead of US President Trump's "stab-in-the-back" accusations, the US Senate launches a bipartisan investigation into whether Panama has violated agreements with the United States about the Panama Canal

8. A "go-ahead" by Britain's Labour government to expand London's Heathrow airport trashes UK climate commitments

9. Danzy Senna’s best-selling novel, Colored Television, is a largely dispirited and dispiriting work, obsessed with race and personal identity

10. “Work or starve”: A Republican US Congressman suggests that instead of getting free meals under the National School Lunch Program, school-aged children should be forced to work to feed themselves

11. A large outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area continues to perplex health authorities, a full year after it began

12. 18,000 Costco workers in the Teamsters union are set to go on strike, the largest of the new year in the United States

13. A tentative agreement between the US Postal Service (USPS) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) appears to be headed for defeat

14.  Students speak up at universities across Sri Lanka against Peradeniya University’s anti-democratic limits on free speech

15.  In opposition to official “Australia Day” celebrations, tens of thousands of Australians hold "Invasion Day" rallies

16. In a public statement, the socialist Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee describes a way forward for beleaguered public psychiatric workers in Australia

17. The German parliament (the Bundestag) commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and then rolls out the red carpet for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has systematically downplayed and trivialized the Holocaust

18. The only party campaigning for a genuine socialist program in Germany, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) holds its first election rally in Stuttgart

19. The percentage of US workers belonging to unions fell one-tenth of 1 percent in 2024, reaching a new all-time low of just 9.9 percent

20.  San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help

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

1. A brief video posted by singer and actress Selena Gomez in defense of immigrants goes viral: while drawing the ire of the fascistic far-right, the mass interest in Gomez’s comments reflects some of the anger and genuine disgust that millions of people feel watching Trump and his cabinet of billionaire parasites

2. In a conflict spiraling into full-scale war, Goma, the largest city in the mineral-rich northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, falls to the M23 militia reinforced by Rwandan special forces

3. Democratic Party leaders crumple in the face of US President Trump's attacks on peoples' democratic and constitutional rights

4. US students, educators, and workers react spontaneously to condemn the US Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants

5. US President Trump declares a political war with Jerome Powell after the Federal Reserve chairman announces a decision to put off reducing federal interest rates: “If the Fed had spent less time on DEI, gender ideology, ‘green energy,’ and fake climate change, inflation would never have been a problem”

6. A report on the degrading spectacle of the first confirmation hearing of US President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

7. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with support from approximately 1,500 active-duty troops, launch a large-scale anti-immigrant operation at the San Diego border crossing between California and Mexico

8. By passing a motion on migration policy through the Bundestag which abrogates fundamental constitutional principles and European law, Christian Democrats in Germany make rubbish of promises to honor a "firewall" between themselves and the far-right AfD political party

9. In an op-ed, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer indicates how Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, and Donald Trump are role models guiding his plans to deregulate business; how did this come about? Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce relates how “Everyone... at Davos is taking a page out of the Donald Trump playbook…."

10. Attempting to shut it down, Oregon's Governor, Tina Kotek, intervenes in the strike of 5,000 Providence nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers

11. The gathering of members of a small neo-Nazi organization on Australia Day in Adelaide and other cities in Australia puts a spotlight on how the establishment has been increasingly moving to the right

12. A challenge to US dominance of artificial intelligence (AI):  the Chinese open source artificial intelligence app, DeepSeek, relies on less resources to outperform expensive Western AI software on most benchmarks 

13. More students are arrested for having participated in anti-genocide protests at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio; meanwhile President Donald Trump signs an executive order directing the cancellation of the visas of pro-Palestinian noncitizen college students

14. Canada’s social democrats and union bureaucracies call for “national unity” while seeking prerogatives in the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and plans to secure unbridled dominance and control over North America

15. The senior minister in New Zealand’s National Party-led coalition government, and head of the far-right ACT political party, David Seymour, warns of the danger of young people being attracted to Marxism while promoting plans to privatize public services and double the military budget to prepare for war

16. Residents facing eviction from boarding houses in a Sydney, Australia suburb describe their plight to reporters of the World Socialist Web Site

17. The increasing repression of journalists and political opponents by the Erdoğan government in Turkey is part of a worldwide trend of the ruling classes to utilize authoritarian regimes under conditions of imperialist war and growing social inequality

18. Nigerian government aerial bombardments on people misidentified as members of armed gangs have killed dozens of civilians in recent weeks

19. Although no charges have been filed yet, the acclaimed British author Neil Gaiman faces serious accusations of sexual assault and abuse by multiple women

20. US President Trump boasts of having facilities to concentrate 30,000 deported immigrants at Guantánamo Bay

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

22. San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help

1. By asserting that it is not bound by laws passed by Congress or powers granted to Congress by the Constitution, the Trump White House proceeds to strip the government of all functions except war and repression: what is unfolding is the violent transformation of political forms in the United States to align with the reality of oligarchic rule

2. Trump's executive order titled “The Iron Dome for America," is part of a massive expansion of US nuclear forces in what US military planners call the “second nuclear age"

3. US President Donald Trump announces that he intends to assert the power to deport any person from the country, including US citizens

4. A week after Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, his administration is now ordering all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff and other public health employees to stop all communications and work with the organization

5. President Trump's freeze on nearly all federal grants and loans jeopardizes billions, if not more, in funding previously appropriated by Congress, and it will accelerate the transformation of the American state along fascistic lines

6. Amazon’s expansion of its delivery network into rural areas is replacing the United States Postal Service as its last mile delivery service and threatening the livelihoods of rural carriers

7. Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are returning to the north to find their homes turned to rubble and holes in the ground

8. A protracted campaign by the Australian establishment to tar all opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza as antisemitism has found an improbable new target: a prominent anti-Zionist Jewish leader, Sarah Schwartz

9.  The resignation of around 181 New South Wales public sector psychiatrists will only help the Australian Labor government accelerate the privatization of already inadequate psychiatric services

10. The legal battle of Sri Lankan plantation estate workers who insist they were framed for assaulting estate managers and damaging property during a protest for higher wages drags on

11. After being jailed for three days and two nights, Palestinian American journalist Ali Abunimah was released by Swiss authorities on Monday and deported to Istanbul, Turkey

12. The inability of Los Angeles to adequately fight its devastating fires is a result of the role of Democrats and Republicans acceding to the demands of private equity firms determined to commodify everything

13. Milwaukee's CBS Television affiliate, Channel 58, fires meteorologist Sam Kuffle for criticizing Elon Musk's unmistakable Nazi salute

 Sam Kuffle

14. Frustrated victims of Los Angeles wildfires turn to internet crowdfunding platforms for recovery relief while waiting for government help

15. Midterm elections to be conducted in May in the Philippines will be a referendum on the nation's relationship with Trump's America

16. "Stay soft and avoid cynicism"-- advice from actress Pamela Anderson, who brings her own life experiences to a film about a cabaret performer approaching the end of her career, The Last Showgirl

17. The Transport Workers Action Committee issues a warning to BVG Berlin passenger rail service workers about the ineffectiveness of Verdi union-commanded warning strikes

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

19. San Francisco webpage that shows local legal help for immigrants

1.  A statement from the Socialist Equality Party about how Donald Trump is attempting to overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship in his second term as president of the United States-- and what we must do

2. Under orders from President Trump who demands quotas, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically increases its daily arrests of immigrants across the US

3.  The small Chinese startup company, DeepSeek's advanced AI system roils US tech companies, Wall Street and the political and military establishment because AI is regarded as an existential issue for the maintenance of US dominance

4. Hundreds of thousands of Europeans demonstrate to demand justice for those who died in the 2023 Tempi train crash that was the deadliest in Greek rail history

5.  Recent political turmoil in Samoa reflects broader political instability across the Pacific which is bound up with sharp shifts in global politics

6. The United Auto Workers (UAW) bureaucracy defies the near unanimous vote to strike by 500 Daimler Trucks Detroit Axle workers and makes plans to ram through a pro-company contract against the resistance of rank and file workers

7.  Saying that the US state of Maryland is "facing the worst fiscal crisis in at least 20 years," the Democratic governor, Wes Moore, proposes a draconian and pro-big business budget for his state

8. A powerful and moving five part docudrama series, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, explores the circumstances and questions around the explosion of Pan Am flight PA103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988

9. Intended to prepare a stepped-up campaign by US imperialism against China, the newly confirmed CIA director John Ratcliffe promotes the fascist-inspired conspiracy theory that China created the SARS-CoV-2 virus and unleashed it on the world

10. Many questions linger about the murders and mayhem committed by Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year old, now sentenced to serve 52 years in prison in Britain-- chief among the questions is how may similar tragedies be avoided in the future?

11. US President Trump issues pardons for Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officersconvicted of charges of conspiracy and second-degree murder

15. Canada Post mail delivery workers' bargaining rights at an impasse as arrogant executives and officials maneuver to squeeze profits from the Crown corporation overseen by the Canadian federal government

16. Australia’s far-right opposition coalition adapts to better accommodate the US Trump administration

17.  The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP, the German chapter of the ICFI) is certified to stand in the federal election in Berlin

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

An imperfect but important Russian documentary film's look at the rise of fascism in Germany and its consequences. What can we learn from it as we now witness the return of Donald Trump to the White House and his promotion of an "America über alles?"

 ORDINARY FASCISM/TRIUMPH OVER VIOLENCE (1968)

1. It has only been eighty years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp

2. President Trump sends a brutal message to Latin American leaders by swiftly retaliating against Colombia after it refused to admit migrants deported from the US

3. An international war crime: US President Trump openly calls for the cleansing of Arabs from Gaza

4. Under the guise of arresting criminals and “potential” threats to public safety and national security, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) begins “targeted operations” against immigrants in Chicago

5.  Taiwan's ruling class is overjoyed by Trump’s return to the White House

6. New York City’s top Democrat who faces corruption charges, Mayor Eric Adams, skips two Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events to attend Trump's US presidential inauguration

7. Royal Post mail delivery workers in the UK express their concerns about exploitative privatization plans moving forward

8. Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site listen to what many people in Newark, New Jersey have to say about the recent raids on immigrants in the area

9. The US Senate confirms fascist Pete Hegseth to be the powerful Secretary of Defense

10. The director of Hard Truths, describes his film as a personal and exploratory film that delves into family dynamics, mental health, and isolation

11. Four weeks before Germany’s federal elections, the establishment parties are only interested in one thing: agitating against refugees and migrants

12. The 2025 World Report of Human Rights Watch describes how Australian state and territory governments violate human rights and mistreat children within their criminal justice systems

Here is a link to the report which reports on many countries

13. Swiss police arrest and detain Ali Abunimah, the Palestinian-American executive director of the Chicago-based Electronic Intifada, who has been regularly and falsely accused of antisemitism

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

1.  US President Trump capitalizes on the Helene Hurricane and Los Angeles fire disasters and displays his administration’s callous indifference to human suffering-- past, present and future

2. Amid escalating extreme wealth and inequality worldwide, oligarchs assemble at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

3.  The Trump presidency instills illusory hopes in a weary Russian population (and even its ruling oligarchy) that there will be a shift on the Ukraine front towards peace rather than a further escalation of war

4. The fate of two lawsuits that allege age discrimination and sexual harassment by automakers, General Motors and Stellantis, is uncertain after Donald Trump replaces the head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a far right winger

5.  "Sowing the seeds for the next pandemic"-- President Trump withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization

6.  The diary and media accounts of the fascist who attacked students, killing one, and then turning his gun on himself at Antioch High School in Nashville, paint a disturbing picture of acute social distress and political backwardness

7.  Biden's last-minute posthumous pardon of the reactionary Black nationalist, Marcus Garvey, a right-wing figure who advocated racial segregation and cooperated with the Ku Klux Klan

Marcus Garvey

8.  Argentine President Javier Milei defends billionaire Elon Musk’s Nazi salute and fascist views, and threatens to hunt down and exterminate left-wingers in the name of “Liberty”

9. German police raid a pro-Palestinian association because it promoted solidarity with Palestinians and protests against the genocide in Gaza

10. People take to the streets and protest in Obuasi, Ghana after soldiers shoot and kill nine “illegal” miners and severely injured 14 more at Ghana's largest, multinationally-owned, goldmine

11.  Workers and youth must demand the release and dropping of charges of all who were arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police during and after last Saturday’s national March for Palestine held in London, England

12.  One of the 77 people arrested as part of the anti-democratic police crackdown on last weekend's national Gaza protest in London, England speaks about their ordeal to reporters at the World Socialist Web Site

13.  The highly anticipated Squid Game 2 now streaming on Netflix is flawed chiefly by its libel against mankind: that men and women, even those financially stressed, would willingly submit to having their fellow creatures massacred

14. Recent arrests over apparent antisemitic attacks in Australia have produced no evidence of any connection to the mass opposition and protests against the Australian government-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza

15.  A mental health care nurse describes the New South Wales, Australia Labor government’s escalating assault on public sector psychiatrists and the entire public health care system, and even how psychiatrists are replaced with a QR code and videos

18.  The strike of 5,000 nurses, physicians and other medical workers enters its third week in the US state of Oregon, while nurses in Wyoming and Louisiana now threaten to strike

16.  Union bureaucrats and the Australian Labor government try to keep Sydney commuter rail workers at their mercy

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

1.  Academy Award nominations: "To what extent do the most pressing questions in American life, the questions confronting tens of millions of people—war, the threat of fascism, attacks on democratic rights and immigrants, poverty—find expression in Hollywood films?"

2. US President Donald Trump creates a new agency called the External Revenue Service and issues a sweeping executive order,  the America First Trade Policy, setting out an agenda for a full-scale economic war against the rest of the world, “friend” and foe alike

3.  The US descent into becoming an authoritarian dictatorship: the US President Trump wants to attach duties if the victims of California fires are to receive federal aid

4.  City crews working to clear homeless encampments opposite the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church crush a man who was in his tent; a woman who knew the man said: “He had dreams, ambitions. He had family; he was a good, good friend of mine, and he’s gone.”

5.  In New Zealand as in every country, the ruling class is carrying out an assault on public health, which is viewed as an unacceptable drain on the obscene wealth of the super-rich: now its prime minister is replacing the country's health minister with a  far-right member of the National Party

6. All is not well in the international bond markets and experts say that the US must reduce its national deficit which can only be accomplished by reducing spending, if no taxes are increased

7.  US President Trump, addressing a virtual panel at the Davos, Switzerland World Economic Forum, promises to slash the US corporate tax rate, gut environmental protections, and slash social spending

8.  "A corridor care crisis"-- Britain's National Health Service fails to provide a sufficient number of beds for its patients

9.  Exploited gig economy workers accuse a payment app company of withholding their earnings unless they pay a "ransom" to receive their wages on time

10.  A contaminated beach near Sydney, Australia's international airport fails to adequately dissuade the public from using it for recreation

11.  Quebec’s capitalist ruling elite and its political representatives greet the new US Trump administration with trepidation and astonishment

12.  Detroit Axle workers at the Daimler Trucks North America manufacturing complex in suburban Detroit are ready to strike when their five-year agreement expires

13.  In Saxony, Germany, the far-right AfD political party fills key government positions critical for expanding a police state

14.  The US Trump administration is reportedly planning to deploy 10,000 active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border to facilitate its fascistic deportation program

15.  By immediately meeting with the Quad, a de facto alliance of the US, Japan, India, and Australia, the new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signals that deepening a confrontation with China would be at the center of the Trump administration's fascistic foreign policy

16.  All-out war on public health and science: President Trump withdraws the US from the World Health Organization, imposes a gag order on all the agencies that comprise the US Department of Health and Human Services and threatens to adjourn Congress to ensure that his anti-public health nominees are installed through recess appointments

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

1.  A clear look back at the January 6, 2021 coup attempt, predicted by the World Socialist Web Site, and a look at the serious implications of US President Trump's pardoning and commuting of sentenced insurrection participants now

2. Israel uses the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza as an opportunity to step up its war on the West Bank; meanwhile the residents of Gaza continue to sift through 50 million tons of rubble to find hundreds more bodies

3. Bowing to pressure from US President Donald Trump's fascist movement, the nonprofit health research organization EcoHealth Alliance fires its president, Dr. Peter Daszak, who pioneered warnings about Covid-19

4. At least 76 people were killed and 51 injured by a fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey which had virtually no fire safety measures in place

5. The Pentagon deploys its first active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border to carry out the “largest deportation operation” in US history and to thwart a fictitious "invasion"

6. Eighty years after the end of World War II, an archive naming Nazi war criminals and collaborators in the Netherlands is opened to the public

7. Overcoming many obstacles against it, a two-day conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany on topics related to Palestine; the World Socialist Web Site reports on its substance

8. Recalling the death of Oury Jalloh who was chained hand and foot and burnt to death in a cell at the Dessau-Rosslau police station in Dessau, Germany twenty years ago

9. Losses from the Los Angeles fires, the costliest disaster in US history, include numerous culturally significant heritage sites, libraries, churches and buildings

10. The spread of the Hughes Fire, near Santa Clarita, California, is particularly concerning, as it threatens important infrastructure and services

 

Map showing the location of the Hughes Fire

 

11. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sets up processing centers at border crossings to process migrants who hoped to enter the US

12. On Donald Trump's inauguration, the leaders of New Zealand’s establishment political parties declare their desire to cooperate with the new fascist president of the United States

13. Now a national issue in Sri Lanka: the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) demonstrate against Peradeniya University's ban against students meeting to discuss IMF austerity impositions

Students protest at the gate of Peradeniya University 

14. Intense winter weather connected with global warming: An unprecedented winter storm moves across parts of the US Gulf Coast bringing record low temperatures and snowfall

15.  Researchers in Australia report on the untenable and appalling working conditions in Victoria’s public schools

16. After a tempestuous meeting of the Dáil (parliament), a right-wing coalition government, interested in expanding corporate and private wealth, is expected to take office in Ireland

17.  The efforts of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to collaborate with the new Trump administration, based on their shared “America First” economic nationalism, are rapidly taking shape in the days since the inauguration

18. Hundreds of thousands of outraged TikTok users migrate to the Chinese-owned Rednote app after TikTok was banned by the US government

19. New South Wales, Australian psychiatrists have been mislead to believe their work demands can be met by threatening to all resign

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

1.  Both capitalist parties and the corporate media will bear full responsibility for the inevitable disaster the Trump presidency makes

2. Trump's executive orders addressing immigrants to the US: Trump has undertaken a substantial transformation of the legal landscape in the United States, eviscerated the basic rights of a significant portion of the population and upended the lives of millions of people

3. Israel has a “biblical right” to the entire West Bank? The Trump administration extends US support to Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine through the expulsion of the population of Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank by Israel

4. National reconciliation? US President Trump pardons and commutes the sentences of all January 6, 2021 insurrectionists

5.  Utilizing falsehoods about the deterrent character of capital punishment and its constitutionality, and to whip up law-and-order and anti-immigrant hysteria in an effort to divide the working class and impose dictatorial rule, the US President Trump issues an executive order to dramatically expand the use of the death penalty

6. Climate change-denier US President Trump makes plans to see Los Angeles' fire devastation for himself and to meet with the state's Democratic Party governor Newsom who pledges his cooperation

7. Autoworkers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee host a joint meeting with autoworkers and other industries in Michigan and Pennsylvania to discuss the fight to defend jobs and the attacks against the working class being planned by the Trump administration

8. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7R calls for a strike vote at the King Soopers grocery chain in Colorado; meanwhile, 18,000 Costco workers on the US West Coast consider striking

9. The Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Australia calls on academics, university workers, students, and others to come to the defense of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah who has been subjected to a witch hunt by the corporate media and Zionist lobby groups

10. In a bid to win big business support, the unpopular Labor government in Australia is pouring billions of dollars into corporate subsidies

11. Germany's ruling class and leadership face a new world after Donald Trump's return to the White House: what are they to do?

12. Review: It Ends with Us is a "largely contrived and simplistic film that provides a scaffolding for current affluent middle class moral sensibilities and tastes in fashion and decor"-- some background about the film's difficult production and why vast sums of money are involved is included

13. At a demonstration held in Colombo, school development officers in Sri Lanka demand to be integrated into the state teachers’ service

14. Australian governments, mostly led by the Labor Party, together with the entire political and media establishment, have seized upon a series of murky graffiti and arson attacks to whip up an atmosphere of national hysteria, demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and crack down on civil liberties

15. The scramble for hegemony over the Arctic has now burst out into the open, with US President Donald Trump’s remarks concerning Greenland and Canada rattling governments and drawing public awareness to the critical strategic and economic significance of this region

16. Assurances agreed to in a "miraculous" contract by Volkswagen and the German automakers' union, IG Metall, are not worth the paper they were written on

17. The Oregon Nurses Association announces that it had reached an "historic" but secretive contract even as thousands of nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers continued to strike

18. World Socialist Web Site reporters listen to British health workers' job concerns as the Labour government proceeds with its attempts to privatize the National Health Service

19. Will Lehman reports on the corrupt UAW President Shawn Fain's groveling overtures to the new US Trump administration: "Fain has gone almost overnight from presenting himself as a so-called “militant,” “democratic unionist” spouting slogans like “eat the rich” and denouncing Trump as a scab, to announcing his willingness to collaborate with the most right-wing government in US history"

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

1. America's fascist president declares war on the world's population

2. Donald Trump begins his second term by signing a raft of executive orders aimed at restricting immigration and democratic rights

3. Why were widely-held protest demonstrations against the incoming US Republican Trump administration so sparsely attended?

4. To assuage widespread fear:  California Democrats approve $50 million in state funding for immigrant services ahead of anticipated mass deportations

5. Biden pardons undercut claims by him and the Democratic Party as a whole that American democracy has been vindicated by the “peaceful transfer of power”

6. The prison system in the US state of Missouri has averaged 10 or more inmate deaths a month over the past four years

7. Israeli prosecutor Moran Gaz admits to finding no evidence of any rapes or sexual assaults committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7, 2023

8. A new Oxfam report: monopolies are escalating extreme wealth and inequality worldwide

9. The German armed forces announces a new homeland security division

 Bundeswehr ad: "Ready for the new service in your home country?  Find your calling"

10. Protesters in the UK have genuine grievances but many protest organizers lack a sound political perspective

11. Evacuation shelters, intended to offer safety to Los Angeles wildfire victims, have instead turned into breeding grounds for viral infections

12. The political lessons of the 1975 Canberra Coup in Australia and what it reveals about the machinations of ruling circles are more important than ever today as the capitalist class turns increasingly to authoritarian and fascistic forms of rule, spearheaded by the Trump White House

13. Like its counterparts internationally, the Australian Labor government is practically falling over itself to align with the new Trump administration and to normalize its fascistic agenda

14. 18,000 struggling Teamsters union members who work for the Costco store chain prepare to strike in February

15. Rules against student gatherings is the latest of the anti-democratic twists and turns at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka

16. A fictional television film Bach—A Christmas Miracle draws a large audience in Germany

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

1. Nothing marks so clearly the irredeemable collapse of American democracy as the return of Donald Trump to the White House

2. A signal that the British state has concluded protests against war can no longer be tolerated:  Metropolitan police arrest 77 anti-genocide protesters in London, England

3. Despite having profound political differences with Kenya's Communist Party Marxist (CPM), the ICFI condemns the recent assassination attempt of its general secretary, Booker Omole

4. Pseudo-leftists of Australia's Socialist Alternative party send a correspondent to Syria

5. The US government forces a temporary shutdown of TikTok, setting the stage for future violations of First Amendment rights under the Trump administration

6. The far-right Austrian Freedom Party and the conservative People’s Party, currently negotiating a coalition government, are planning massive attacks on migrants and the working class in Austria

7. The ruthless reality of capitalist exploitation: nearly a third of the thousands of firefighters battling the Los Angeles fires are inmates from California’s prisons

8. After 14 months of appeals for witnesses and evidence, Israeli prosecutor Moran Gaz has admitted her department has no evidence of any rapes or sexual assault being committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023

9. New Zealand’s National Party-led coalition government is preparing to introduce a new Regulatory Standards Bill which will entrench a set of far-right principles designed to prevent government regulations from negatively impacting private property rights, “productivity” and profit-making

10. Mental healthcare workers and other medical practitioners speak with the World Socialist Web Site to voice their support for protesting public hospital psychiatrists in New South Wales, Australia

11. Claiming that it would fall outside the scope of its mission and purpose, the American Historical Association’s elected council struck down a resolution that condemned genocide and scholasticide in Gaza

12. The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson work furiously to figure out how to impose a contract on teachers and other educators that is acceptable to big business

13. Defying the demands of historians, Holocaust survivors and public opinion, Canada’s Liberal government suppresses a secret report that identifies some 900 Nazi war criminals who have lived in Canada

14. Pilot schemes for mass job destruction, increased workloads and the gutting of the UK Royal mail service, must be opposed by British mail delivery workers

15.  Regardless of the impact it might have on patient care and treatment, the NHS Integrated Care Board in Dorset, UK moves to cut jobs among National Health Service employees

16. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to residents of Altadena, California who describe their losses from wildfires

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

1. Contrary to the lies of capitalist politicians and the corporate media, the Covid-19 pandemic is not over. What does that mean with Trump returning to the US presidency?

2. Upholding a planned ban on TikTok: ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House, the right-wing US Supreme Court has attacked the First Amendment of the Constitution with sweeping implications

3. She sent National Guard troops to Mexico's border, but would not send them to help flood victims in her own state: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem applies for the job of heading the US Department of Homeland Security

4. Eager to embrace the second Trump administration after the Biden administration failed to oust Venezuela's President Maduro, different factions of the US ruling class are approaching a consensus to employ further economic devastation and potential military force to oust Maduro and secure control over the world’s largest oil reserves

5. NATO powers get ever closer to a position of outright war with Russia: using recent damage to undersea cables allegedly caused by a "shadow fleet" of embargo-skirting Russian freighters as a pretext, NATO initiates operation "Baltic Sentry" to strengthen its military presence in the Baltic Sea

6. Not unlike the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Lahaina fire on Maui, the victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires have largely been left to fend for themselves as insurance companies and FEMA have placed bureaucratic barriers between them and financial aid

7. Fierce storms batter large swathes of Australia’s east

8. Germans wonder: where will Germany fit in with incoming US President Trump's "Make America Great Again" agenda?

9. Recommended: The lives of three working-class women at a Mumbai hospital during the monsoon season are explored in a dramatic feature from India, All We Imagine as Light

10. Recently released data from China documenting the country reaching its targeted economic goals engenders widespread skepticism

11. Taxi drivers in cities across Russia struck this week in protest over low earnings

12. Despite the incoming US Trump administration's flagging interest in spending more on Ukraine in its stalemated war with Russia, the UK prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, visits Ukraine to double down on Britain's support

13.  Documented in a new report: decades of neglect and paltry investment in education have left UK school buildings in a desperate state

14. More evidence surfaces of war crimes committed by UK special forces in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria between 2010 and 2013

15. The election statement of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International

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

1. A genuine socialist's perspective on US President Joe Biden’s farewell address

2. Sam Husseini, communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, exposes the complicity of the corporate media in covering up crimes of the Biden administration over the past 15 months

 

3. Despite the announcement Wednesday by US President Joe Biden that Israel had agreed to implement a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli military is continuing its rampage throughout the Palestinian enclave

4. Among many heartbreaking consequences, the Los Angeles, Californian fires have destroyed thousands of homes leaving tens of thousands of residents without permanent shelter

5. Crap wages while the company makes billions: hundreds of workers at Daimler Trucks Detroit Axle plant in Michigan overwhelmingly vote to go on strike

6. The cruel and unnecessary deaths of illegal gold miners at Stilfontein in South Africa is a devastating indictment of bourgeois nationalism and the historical forces behind it

6. One month after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers capitulated to a strikebreaking order from the Liberal government, the ruling class, represented by Bay Street investors and big business, is intensifying its drive to destroy the postal service

7. Not unique:  New South Wales, Australian rail workers are up against a Labor government that has declared any level of industrial action to be “intolerable”

8. The impeached president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, is arrested on charges of insurrection and abuse of power

9. After taking control of a rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk demonstrates that he believes that the EU must prepare for war

10. The World Socialist Web Site reports on a rally and press conference of activists and healthcare workers in Teaneck, New Jersey who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and also interview a nurse who volunteered in Gaza

11. Emilia Pérez, an acclaimed musical, has its moments but also an implausible and meandering story with little substance

12. The union covering 205,000 active city carriers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a two-week extension to voting on a new contract—ironically, due to delivery issues with mail-in ballots

13. The Providence healthcare network in Oregon signals that it is willing to bargain with its striking workers who are vulnerable because they are isolated by union-enforced artificial divisions

14. A nurse in Britain writes to the World Socialist Web Site to rally others to fight against the Labour government's moves to plunder and privatize the National Health Service

15. The foreign minister and the defense minister of the new Syrian government, which is rooted in al-Qaeda, meet with Turkish officials in Ankara

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

1. The White House has sought to claim that a “ceasefire” is Biden’s legacy. No, his legacy is sponsorship of the Gaza genocide, and turning over the White House to a fascist who will only further intensify the imperialist bloodbath throughout the Middle East and around the world

2. The US Congress is likely to confirm Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary: a man who openly advocates the commission of war crimes and the use of the military against political opponents

3. Trump loyalist Pam Bondi follows form but avoids providing straight answers to questions she is asked at her confirmation hearing to become the US attorney general

4. Contract negotiations continue for Colorado grocery workers who are bearing the cost of the Kroger grocery chain's failed merger with Albertson's

5. Workers affected by the Los Angeles fires speak about their experiences with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site

6. Determined to implement austerity measures demanded by the IMF, the Sri Lankan government intensifies its police-state repression of school development officers who have been campaigning for integration into the country’s teacher service

7. Belmont Music Publishers vows to provide digital versions of composer Arnold Schoenberg's works after his complete musical and personal archive are destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire in California

8. Fractionally cooler than 2019: 2024 was Australia’s second hottest year on record since national observations began in 1910

9. Residents of high-rise public housing projects in suburb communities of Melbourne, Australia are being pressured by a glossy ad campaign to allow developers to relocate them

10. The only political party that openly states that social cuts and war cannot be stopped without overcoming capitalism, the Socialist Equality Party (the SGP), surmounts obstacles to be included in Germany's upcoming elections

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

1. Special Counsel's 137-page report: the man set to be inaugurated as US president in five days is manifestly guilty of the gravest assault on the US Constitution and American democracy since the Civil War

2. Biden boasts that America's adversaries and competitors are weaker after his presidency

3. Donald Trump's plans to eliminate birthright citizenship would produce harrowing scenes without historical precedent

4. The scope of the destruction of fires in the Los Angeles, California area has surpassed any natural disaster in recent US history, including Hurricane Katrina

5. Pseudo-left Labor Notes and the Democratic Socialists of America support a betrayal, which will pave the way to huge job losses, of East and Gulf Coast dockworkers by the International Longshoremen’s Association

6. At his Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats avoid labeling Trump's fascist secretary of defense nominee, Pete Hegseth, a “fascist”

6. The World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees call on Daimler Truck Detroit Axle workers to vote for a strike today

7. An unprecedented act of defiance: 220 staff specialist psychiatrists in New South Wales, Australian public hospitals tender their resignations

8. As part of efforts to integrate the Southeast Asian nations into Tokyo’s preparations for a catastrophic US-led war against China, Indonesia and Japan pledge to deepen their defense and economic relations

9. Experts warn that the unfolding destruction of the LA fires could be replicated in Australia

10. “Sorry your loved one died, best we can do is a hot meal” was the holiday greeting Impact Plastics’ management chose to send last month to the families of the workers who perished in the catastrophic flooding at their plant during Hurricane Helene

11. Having already experienced the highest confirmed death rate and excess mortality rate from COVID-19 in the world, Peru and Bolivia are now dealing with a new surge of the disease

12. The outgoing Biden administration announces tiered regulations aimed at trying to control the global development and use of advanced computer chips employed in the development of artificial intelligence (AI)

13. Ahead of German federal elections, political alliance leader Sahra Wagenknecht promotes reaction, national chauvinism, and independence from the United States

14. An excellent British dramatic series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, takes a serious look at the Protestant Reformation and the historical figure, Thomas Cromwell

15. Almost 400 police departments in New Jersey paid more than $1 million to Street Cop Training, a private police-training company that promoted  "dangerous, improper and likely illegal policing tactics”

16. The African National Congress (ANC) government of South Africa is responsible for the deaths of over 100 miners who were deliberately starved to death; more miners remain underground

17. With the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as US President, Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government in Britain is being pressured to spend more on its military and NATO

18. To reduce government borrowing costs, the UK Labour government promise to implement only the most minor tax changes, meaning it must squeeze social services like health and education

19. "Quad-demic":  simultaneous surges in flu, COVID-19, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) strain Britain's already overburdened healthcare service

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

1. The genocide in Gaza and what new data reveals

2. The retiring US Biden administration sparks outrage by rounding up immigrants for deportation with an operation called "Return to Sender" 

3. Blaming California Democrats for its devastating fires, US Republicans threaten to withhold financial aid from it

4. 22 short films by 22 Palestinian directors that "defy the odds against making art under nearly impossible conditions": From Ground Zero, Stories from Gaza

5. US determination to ban TikTok or take control of it is undemocratic, unhinged, and hypocritical

6. University of Peradeniya's "circumscribed culture of critical inquiry and intellectual engagement"

7. BNSF, the freight railroad owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, has unilaterally reduced workers’ ability to use time off

8. Part Three: The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference held among European colonial powers to divide Africa and why recalling it is still relevant

9. Autoworkers can fight the corrupt UAW union's attempt to divide them by expanding their independence by building up their Rank-and-File Committee

10. The first major strike of 2025 in the US: over 5,000 nurses, doctors and midwives protest poor working conditions and benefits at multiple hospitals and clinics across the state of Oregon

11. In advance of federal elections to be held in May (if not sooner), the establishment political parties in Australia find themselves in big trouble

12. The New South Wales, Australia state-owned inter-city rail service is docking the pay of rail workers who participate in industrial action as part of a months-long enterprise bargaining dispute

13. Financial markets and corporate media clamor for Brazil to follow Argentina's fascistic economic model by deregulating business, cutting social programs, and repressing protests

14. Rather than being contained by sound scientific measures, respiratory viruses on a rapidly accelerating trajectory in the US, Europe and China are being met with "let it rip" governmental policies

15. The government in New Zealand erodes protections for workers by announcing new policies making it harder for workers to strike

16. The Canadian government's cowardly response to Donald Trump's tariff threats

17. In Britain, the Reform UK party is not the antidote to the unpopular Labour Party

18. Germans seek answers to the questions they have about war and austerity in advance of the February German election

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

1. American democracy will reach its lowest point yet when Trump returns to the White House next week

2. The death toll of victims of the Los Angeles fires is expected to rise as search and rescue teams continue to sift through burnt out homes and other buildings; meanwhile the official response for those displaced has been extremely limited

3. Incoming US Vice President Vance expands on signals that the Trump administration is planning a massive military escalation throughout the Middle East

4. The American Historical Association passes a resolution which accuses Israel of "scholasticide" in Gaza

5. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) greets incoming US President Trump's tariff threats with alarm because it will disturb its plans to enforce reductions of global debts

6. Banned from meeting at Peradeniya University, members of the Sri Lankan IYSSE meet in Kandy to discuss the grip that the IMF has over Sri Lanka and its capitalist political parties

7.  A new funding model proposed by the Australian Labor government will result in public schools being underfunded for years to come

8. Part of a violent lurch of bourgeois politics to the right around the world, the first Kanak to lead a pro-France political party in New Caledonia is appointed as president

9. Part Two: The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference held among European colonial powers to divide Africa and why recalling it is still relevant

10. Workers continue their strike against a huge food and beverage conglomerate that played "Scrooge" at Christmas: the UK Princes Group

11. Students protest against the administration of Berlin's Alice Salomon University because of its support for Israel's genocide in Gaza

12. The highly acclaimed film No Other Land garners more tributes but still fails to find a distributor in the United States

13. Why a fire in a Bronx apartment building with a history of poor management should be a lesson to the working class

14. An in-network health insurance program in Massachusetts leaves 22,000 patients and their families scrambling after it denies them coverage

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

1. A genuine socialist perspective about California's fires and what needs to be done

2. California Governor Gavin Newsom deploys National Guard troops while fires continue to rage across huge areas

3. A Canadian perspective of climate change and weather-related events of 2024

4. Trump’s threats against Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Panama signify an ending of the capitalist post-war order, with US imperialist aggression emerging in its most naked form

5. The Lula da Silva government in Brazil marks the two year anniversary of a failed coup against it with a reactionary, deceitful, and politically cowardly event: when Lula speaks of “democracy” he is simply referring to the bourgeois electoral system and its rituals that disguise the rule of capitalism over the entire society

6. In the name of “Memory, Truth, and Justice,” hundreds protest in Argentina against President Milei's efforts to erase the record of the torture, disappearances and murder of tens of thousands of militant workers and youth in the 1970s and 80s by shutting down memorial sites

7. Hoping to provide funds for the region’s public transportation system, New York City begins a controversial urban traffic congestion pricing scheme that will impact drivers least able to afford it

8. Part One: The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference held among European colonial powers to divide Africa and why recalling it is still relevant

9. A topical exhibition in Bonn, Germany illuminates how fascism is not the result of morally corrupt individuals but arises from the profit-driven character of capitalism

10. A message to autoworkers in the UK explains how they can refuse to accept eminent cut-backs and plant closures

11. Cooperation between imperialist and regional powers in the Middle East is challenged by their conflicting relationships with ethnic Kurds

12. A strike by resort workers in Utah (that drew national attention after wealthy patrons took to social media to complain of hours-long wait times at their ski lifts) ends

13.  A drastic overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia is already eliminating assistance to thousands of disabled children  

14. An online lovefest between Elon Musk and Germany's far-right AfD political party chairwoman, Alice Weidel, should further remind the international working class of rising global fascism

15. European beneficiaries of Russian oil bicker among themselves with the ending of all Russian gas transit via Ukraine

16. The New Zealand government addresses lurid and unsubstantiated claims about Chinese and Russian “influence” by pushing through draconian legislation against “foreign interference”

17. Angelina Jolie plays the role of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas in a new film

18. A convivial conversation between oligarchs Barack Obama and Donald Trump at a funeral memorial for Jimmy Carter illustrates not only their poor manners, but also their distance from social reality

19. Railroad car-making workers of the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee of Hamilton, Canada call for class unity in a statement at the World Socialist Web Site

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

1. Multiple fires in the Los Angeles, California region of the United States are not "merely" a natural disaster, but reveal a barbarous state of social relations and the total inability of capitalism to confront any social problem: from climate change to urban planning to basic water management

Image source: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/

2. "...my community, it’s destroyed. It’s gutted. It’s like a bomb went off in the middle of it"

3. Doctors, nurses, and health workers hold demonstrations in Australia to protest Israel’s destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in northern Gaza

4. Tens of thousands of grocery store workers in the United States are gearing up for contract battles in 2025

5. In a highly significant vote on Thursday, the majority of Democrats in the US Senate joined with their “Republican colleagues” to advance the “Laken Riley Act” which is a part of Trump’s fascistic plans to launch the “largest deportation operation” in history

6. To prevent an open conflict between dockworkers and the incoming fascist Trump administration, the International Longshoremen’s Association and the US Maritime Association betray the workers by blocking a strike that would resume five days before Trump's inauguration

7. Sri Lankan members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) receive numerous statements from around the world protesting the ban of a lecture they hoped to attend at Peradeniya University

8. Anticipating coming elections, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pitches himself as being best able to collaborate with the incoming US Trump administration

9. As an economic malaise in China deepens and becomes more prolonged, and economic conflict intensifies with the US, financial investors expect low growth and deflationary global conditions in 2025

10. School districts from coast to coast in the US announce drastic budget cuts and mass layoffs which are just a part of a systematic dismantling of public services to be sharply accelerated after Trump’s inauguration

11. Almost 5,000 nurses, certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, clinical staff, physician associates and physicians in Oregon are set to begin a strike

12. 125,000 residents of San Diego, California, insured under Anthem Blue Cross are shocked to learn they lost all access to their insurance coverage

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

1. Climate-fueled fires put millions of lives at risk in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area

2. Like the devastation caused by flooding from Hurricane Helene last year, the devastation caused by fires in the Los Angeles metropolitan area is an indictment of the entire social and economic order in the United States

3. A statement from US IYSSE members: "Students and youth in Sri Lanka have the right to free speech and to hear a socialist perspective"

4. Did Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka ban a public meeting because the SEP and its IYSSE student organization were alone in warning the county of the danger of appeasing the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?

5. Can "good things happen" if New York City elects Zohran Mamdani to be mayor?

6. Realpolitik, not the defense of international law, guides the response of European leaders to Donald Trump's latest threats

7. How operatives from the pseudo-left Socialist Alternative Party helped obstruct a rank-and-file rebellion from the union that would sell out Australian warehouse workers in their strike last year

8. The wave of tributes for the recently deceased 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, conceal his right-wing legacy

9. Germany's Federal Interior Minister doubles down on her threats to deport thousands of Syrians living in Germany

10. Part Two: the World Socialist Web Site interviews a distinguished film historian and retired San Francisco State University professor, Joseph McBride, about his new book, George Cukor’s People-- Acting for a Master Director

11. A human rights organization documents record numbers of migrants dying on their perilous journeys to Europe seeking better lives

12. Claiming that it is pursuing "reform", the UK Labour government will eviscerate the National Health Service by partnering with the profit-seeking private sector

13. Why is the Palestinian Authority banning Al Jazeera from reporting events in the West Bank?

14. The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu is still in shock from its 7.3 earthquake last month

15. Reports are surfacing of many people, including children, being crushed to death, trying to access charity at separate events in Nigeria

16. Job losses and retail store closings mushroom in the United Kingdom

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

1. “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America”: after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump dispenses with traditional altruistic and defensive US foreign policy pretenses to reveal his true objectives

2. A report from underground Ukrainian journalists: because of many frontline desertions, many in Ukraine today have been fascinated by the rapid collapse of the army of Bashar al-Assad in Syria-- while it was officially praised in Ukraine, some believe that Zelensky will meet a similar fate as Syria's leader

3. European diplomats visiting Syria demand that Russia abandon its military bases there

4. A strike by workers at a ski resort in Utah highlights the staggering inequality in America

5. Who is Pierre Poilievre, presumed to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada's Prime Minister?

6. A new book about the Hollywood director George Cukor and his protegees is reviewed at the World Socialist Web Site

7. Part One: the World Socialist Web Site interviews a distinguished film historian and retired San Francisco State University professor, Joseph McBride, about his new book, George Cukor’s People-- Acting for a Master Director

8. Incomplete evidence suggests that the Green Beret who detonated a Tesla Truck in Las Vegas was radicalized and suffered depression as a result of his central role in perpetrating atrocities while deployed in Afghanistan

9. Despite an incoming Trump administration determined to fully dismantle a threadbare public health infrastructure and the corporate media and political establishment ignoring experts' warnings: the first human death in the United States caused by the H5N1 "bird flu" virus is a significant historical event

10. Today, Australia is unable to cope with its rising homelessness

11. A possibility of renewed strike action is raised after talks resume between the US Maritime Association and the International Longshoremen’s Association over the labor agreement covering over 40,000 dockworkers on the US East and Gulf Coasts

12. Incoming US President Trump describes media reports that say he will pare back his nonsensical tariff plans as "fake news"

13. Over 64 million people in the US were placed under various states of emergency due to Winter Storm Blair

14. A disability support worker from South Australia describes why a change in work benefits is a major attack against community and disability support workers and the care they provide their patients

15. Green Party candidate for Chancellor in Germany's upcoming election, Robert Habeck, is positioning himself as the most aggressive warmonger

16. International members of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee report on their online meeting held this past Sunday to discuss events taking place in Britain

17. Turkish physicians and health workers begin their planned five-day strike against hated government requirements

18. Imminent bankruptcy due to a collapse of government funding threatens special-needs education in the United Kingdom

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