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!

1. Perspective:  US Vice President JD Vance's harangue at the opening of the Munich Security Conference in Germany was but another step toward the normalization and revival of fascism

2. Strongly-worded comments by a leading member of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee get a warm public reception at a recent Detroit Public Schools Community District board meeting

3. With time running out, over 700 residents of East Palestine, Ohio are taking part in lawsuits challenging the terms of a federally approved settlement over the Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic spill disaster of 2023

4. A dangerous turn for public health:  the US Department of Health and Human Services announces the firing of up to 5,200 employees one day after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is confirmed to head it

5. The US states of Florida and Texas execute two intellectually disabled prisoners with poisoned injections

6. New Zealand’s ruling elite and coalition government demonstrate their amenability to US President Trump's plan to remake Gaza into a "Middle Eastern Riviera"

7. Wall Street's latest concern: the rise and rise of largely unregulated non-banking financial institutions and the risky private credit they extend

8. What is behind the establishment propaganda hyping the Left Party's candidate in the German federal elections, Heidi Reichinnek (whose only asset is moral outrage coupled with a few radical-sounding phrases)?

9. A major newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, targets a restaurant in Newtown, Australia in an attempt to allege some sort of antisemitism existed there, and fails

10. Who runs Haiti today, where nearly half of the population lives on one meal a day or less, where over a million are still homeless, and where six thousand are starving? Short answer: the US

11. With political relations between the US and Canada in crisis, who is most likely to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada's next Prime Minister?

12. The Democratic Party governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey adapts to Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, by helping him

13. Classical music is by its very nature global: the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Windsor Symphony in Ontario team up to demonstrate an alternative to ultra-nationalism

14. The film, Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), is the 5th highest box office draw in Brazil's history

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

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

1. Fundamentally imprisoned for "thought crimes" and still waiting for a trial-- Bogdon Syrotiuk is innocent!

2. Rapper Macklemore: "The world’s on fire, we don’t own the water y’all"

3. Recent court actions challenging the constitutionality of US President Trump's executive actions do not appear to slow his determination to become a dictator

4. UK Prime Minister Starmer bows to the interests of far-right elements by tightening immigration restrictions on war refugees

5. By having rejected a flawed tentative National Letter Carriers Association labor agreement, US mail delivery workers took a stand, not just against poverty wages, but against the conspiracy to privatize the USPS

6. After a surprise Trump-Putin phone negotiations leave Kiev in the cold, the US Trump administration appears to be tossing aside imperialist shibboleths of guaranteeing Ukraine's return to its pre-2014 borders and being approved for NATO membership... to make an audacious grab for Ukraine's mineral wealth

8. An exclusive report from underground journalists in Ukraine to the World Socialist Web Site describes poor morale and mass desertions from Ukraine's Armed Forces

9. European leaders are puzzled, alarmed, and frightened by President Trump's unilateral decision to pursue immediate peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine

10. The Committee for Public Education in Australia issues a statement imploring educators to oppose the Labor government's assault on educators' jobs and democratic rights in its preparations for US-led wars

11. Claiming the union of its striking workers are colluding with “out-of-state special interests," Colorado grocery chain King Soopers, which is owned by Kroger, files two lawsuits 

12. Broad Sri Lankan and international support grows for the campaign by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka against Peradeniya University’s having banned their holding a public meeting

13. Directed by the the fascist ignoramus Elon Musk, hundreds, if not thousands, of US federal employees have been fired across multiple agencies

14. A recent report by independent architects argues that vital Australian public housing need not be demolished

15. By closing a Portland, Oregon distribution hub, UPS will intensify its reduction of employees who were to have benefited from an "historic" Teamsters contract

16. US President Trump's plan to implement "reciprocal tariffs" aims to establish an economic and political bloc subservient to the US as it deepens its drive to maintain global hegemony vis-a-vis China's growing influence

17. US President Trump pressures Australian President Albanese by proceeding with tariff plans that conflict with earlier assurances of allowing exceptions for Australia

18. How the rebellion by nurses, physicians and other workers in Oregon can spark a far broader movement to defend all the democratic and social rights of the working class of all races, nationalities and immigration status

19. Multimillionaire Austin Beutner's unions-endorsed lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District is not the noble effort to save arts education that it appears to be

20. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly conducted a raid at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, last weekend

21. The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Donald Trump’s health secretary marks a critical milestone in the deepening war on public health and the consolidation of a fascist government in the United States

22. Protests continue across Greece to demand justice for the deaths of 57 people in the 2023 Tempi train crash and an end to a government cover-up

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

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

1. A socialist perspective that explores the tragic deaths of a homeless Detroit woman's children and the outrage of many people who can identify with the mother because they know they are one or two paychecks from a similar catastrophe

2. David Walsh of the World Socialist Web Site interviews musician, journalist, and author Elijah Wald who talks about the economics behind folk and pop music, Dave Von Ronk, and Bob Dylan

3. Bus, tram, and subway services in Berlin, Germany come to a standstill after the Verdi union that represents BVG commuter rail service workers calls a limited 24-hour strike

4. The Rail, Tram and Bus Union representing commuter train workers in Sydney, Australia postpones planned rolling work stoppages for 48 hours to extend negotiations with the state Labor government

5. With union leaders embracing US President Trump's contradictory nationalistic tariffs, East and Gulf Coast dockworkers, who will vote on a contract soon, face significant challenges (such as increasing job losses and more inflation) along with the entire working class

6. President Donald Trump orders a halt to the prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams on bribery charges, in return for Adams agreeing to fully cooperate with the Trump administration’s onslaught on migrants and refugees

7. Daybreak photo essay at the World Socialist Web Site:  the physically taxing work of Sri Lanka's Nattami who manually load, unload and transport goods

8. To keep corporate profits growing, Brazil's pseudo-leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, implements austerity measures aimed at the poor and working class 

9. New York University, one of the largest private universities in the United States, has made clear its intentions to fully comply with the fascistic policies of the Trump administration

10. Posturing as Captain Canada, Ontario, Canada's Premier Doug Ford, endorsed by the Unifor union, calls for a snap election to secure a cynically-motivated mandate

11. A continuing cost of living crisis coupled with government austerity measures that reduce workers' real wages is creating enormous feelings of social opposition in Turkey

12. In line with other governments tilting rightward around the world, Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government introduces a Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill in the UK to present itself as clamping down on “illegal” migration

13. A video of an online exchange between an Israeli “social media influencer” and two nurses at in Sydney has triggered an outpouring of hysteria from the Australian political and media establishment because of the nurses' backward, reactionary statements

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

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

1. A new era of colonial barbarism and brutality: "We’re going to have Gaza,” Trump said. “We don’t have to buy. There’s nothing to buy. We will have Gaza. ... We’re going to take it.”

2. Sowing complacency, Jacobin magazine, the main media outlet of the phony-left Democratic Socialists of America, deceives its readers about the threat of fascism and dictatorship posed by the second Trump administration

3. In direct defiance of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, five US states (Indiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas) introduce legislative measures to block undocumented children from attending public schools

4. In Detroit, Michigan early Monday morning, a girl aged two and a boy aged nine froze to death as they slept with their homeless family, who had been denied help, inside a van that lost heat when it ran out of gas

 

Tateona Williams, 29, speaks to WXYZ-TV, Detroit

5. By packing a courtroom for the ostensible purpose of learning how much hospitals were paying scabs to replace striking Oregon Nurses, the union that represents them is really promoting illusions that corporate politicians want to help them

6. A government document leaked to the LA Times describes plans for an eminent large-scale immigration raid on immigrants in Los Angeles by ICE (the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency)

7. Tensions among rivals exacerbated by US political pressure leads to the impeachment of the Philippines' vice-president, Sara Duterte

8. Beset by rising costs of living, 900 medical laboratory workers at private companies across New Zealand go on a token two day strike

9. New Zealand's government and media greet an impending strategic partnership between the Cook Islands and China with alarm

10. The University of Munich in Germany cancels an engagement that would have allowed the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestine to present a lecture to its students

11. Promoted as a "duel," Sunday evening's debate between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz revealed that both establishment candidates, standing in Germany's federal election, tried to outdo each other from the right because they fundamentally agreed on every issue

12. Claims by the establishment and the pseudo-leftist media that the Super Bowl performance by rap musical artist, Kendrick Lamar, represented some sort of rebuke of US President Donald Trump are absurd

13. A Costco worker in Los Angeles speaks to the World Socialist Web Site to describe his disenchantment with the Teamsters union and its betrayal of its members and why he will vote against their sellout deal

14. Lie:  tariffs will save American workers' jobs. Truth:  unity of workers across national lines will save all workers' jobs

15. Turkish President Erdoğan’s government escalates anti-democratic crackdowns on his political rivals

16. Students and faculty at Cornell University host an expert panel to discuss how to address the US Trump administration's attacks on immigrants and democratic rights, and the US government's transformation into a dictatorship

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

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

1. What can we do about the despised “slave catchers” of our time, directed by the would-be dictator Donald Trump?

 A poster from Boston, Massachusetts, 1851

 

 

Park Rangers describe events, including the formation of vigilance committees, in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1854

2. The Trump White House escalates its war on public health by announcing a drastic reduction in research grants to major universities from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

3. Playing one location against another is an age-old trick used by the establishment political parties and trade unions to divide workers, limit resistance to fruitless protests and prevent any effective, united struggle: the case of Volkswagen and the IG Metall union in Germany

4. Coinciding with workplace raids by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, management at Detroit's automakers, with the support of the UAW, implement intimidating surveillance and security at US plants

5. Insulting details begin to emerge from the secretive sellout contract arranged between Costco and the Teamsters union to quash a strike of Costco workers

6. Witch hunt:  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party government in Australia ramps up its persecution of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

7. Less than two weeks after ordering the detention of as many as 30,000 undocumented people at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Trump administration’s broader aim has become clear. It is arrogating to itself the power to jail anyone it pleases in what amounts to an offshore torture center subject to no legal restraints

8. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells an emergency summit that US President Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to annex Canada is a “real thing"

9. The national implications of the results of by-elections held recently in Melbourne, Australia spell trouble for the political establishment and the Labor Party

10. After rejecting another sellout contract, Providence hospital nurses in Oregon speak to the World Socialist Web Site about their struggle and US President Trump

11. Indifference greets a speech by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake telling Sri Lankans to share their country's economic burden in a time of crisis

12. Australian coal miners fear being forced to pay the price of financial speculators' reckless and speculative machinations

13. Once again, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate against racism, the neo-fascist AfD party and the shift to the right by the entire political establishment in Germany; reporters from the World Socialist Web Site speak to some of the protesters

14. Speaking as a king, US President Donald Trump explains that the Palestinian people he is seeking to rid Gaza of will not be allowed to return to their homes... and Israel makes plans to renew its onslaught against Gaza

15.  Diagnostic technicians at the University of Michigan medical system in Ann Arbor are being presented with a tentative contract by union officials that opens the door for an intensification of attacks on their rights by hospital management

16. People in countries around the world, including within the United States of America, scramble to figure out how to cope with President Trump's imperious tariffs 

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

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

1. Democrats and their allies do nothing to stop President Donald Trump's escalating fascist assault on constitutional rights and legal norms

2. Under the cover of the Gaza ceasefire and support from the US Trump administration, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launches genocidal attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank

3. Imperialist and regional powers that backed the war that toppled the Assad regime in Syria are helping the new regime, whose roots are in al-Qaeda, gain international legitimacy

4. The results of two state by-elections recently held in Melbourne, provide further evidence of mounting working-class discontent with Australia's Labor Party

5. The defense ministers of Australia and the United States meet in Washington, DC to further solidify the integration of their militaries in a lead-up to an anticipated offensive against China

6. A “ten-point plan“ of the Green party candidate for chancellor in Germany, Robert Habeck, makes a mockery of  the Green Party's posturing as a defender of refugees and human rights

7. With no help from police, outraged residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, chase away Nazi demonstrators emboldened by the Trump presidency

8. After two years of negotiations, the Association of Flight Attendants union representing Alaska Airlines flight attendants has announced that a virtually unimproved tentative agreement is ready to be voted on 

9. Striking healthcare workers from eight Providence hospitals in the US state of Oregon have overwhelmingly rejected their union's latest insulting contract offer

10. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the Detroit-based Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice file lawsuits on behalf of five anti-genocide protestors who were arrested and banned by the University of Michigan last year

11. The US states of Alabama and Texas ramp up executions of their prisoners after President Trump lifted a moratorium on federal executions put in place by the Biden administration and after he signed an executive order titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety"

12. Delusional and channeling the aesthetic and political demands of Adolf Hitler:  US President Trump targets the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

13. Where profits are privatized, while risks and losses are socialized:  With the help of Democrats in Sacramento, California's insurance industry abandons the state's victims of wildfire disasters

14. The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee in the UK proposes a resolution to help Royal Mail delivery workers oppose brutal restructuring programs under new owners

15.  The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) organization in Australia issues a statement to guide students at a time of historical crisis when the world is lurching toward fascism and nuclear world war

16. A consequence of global warming: the impact of January’s Eowyn cyclone exposes the vulnerability of Western Ireland's rural electricity distribution system

17. Why does an exhibition at Tate Britain, The 80s: Photographing Britain, fail in its understanding of such a critically important decade?

18. The complicity and criminality of various governments, particularly the United States and Italy, is exposed by the recent arrest and subsequent release, due to a "procedural error," of a Libyan warlord

19. Doctors at three hospitals in New York City, the Jacobi Medical Center, the North Central Bronx Hospital, and the Harlem Hospital Center—have rejected a sellout contract proposed by their union

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

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

1. Recent events indicate the likelihood of a deadly variant of bird flu spreading through society. Why aren't we prepared?

2. California governor Newsom's submissive meeting with President Trump in Washington, DC  is more proof there is no genuine opposition to fascism within the US ruling class

3. 65,000 federal workers agree to leave their jobs as part of a massive downsizing operation imposed by the White House and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

4. Fareed Armaly to the Berlin Academy of Arts: "To maintain my voice as an artist and speak meaningfully... I must decline this award"

5. Under the guise of combating antisemitism, Australia's Prime Minister Albanese delivers "anti-hate speech" laws with draconian mandatory punishments for offenses

6. More consequences of global climate change: flooding devastates Northern Queensland, Australia

7. Unions representing rail workers in Sydney and New South Wales, Australia resume toothless work stoppages, as a nine-month enterprise bargaining dispute with the state government continues

8. The "Christmas miracle" contract for German Volkswagen workers that was to be the envy of other workforces in Germany is now revealing itself as a betrayal that will result in huge job losses

9. Canada's foreign minister appears not to have fully heard US President's Trump's criminal call to seize Gaza and empty it of Palestinians. Could it be because Canada (with the US) has been a willing participant in Israel's genocide since October 7, 2023?

10. What is the establishment hiding in its analysis of US President Trump's global tariff war?  How about its influence on currency markets, where as much as $7.5 trillion a day is traded? Or the crypto market bubble?

11. Over 150 students, workers and community members attend a meeting at the University of Michigan to discuss what should be done to address the school's attacks on free speech and democratic rights

12. This week's mass shooting in Sweden, called "an inferno," was the worst in its history. Might this have anything to do with the country's transformation into a "free market paradise" and resulting severe consequences over the past three decades?

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

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

1.  With complete disregard for legality and democratic process, the US President Trump grants an ignoramus and the world's richest man extraordinary authorities

2. Even as the US media pretends to be shocked and outraged by US President Trump's vision of transforming Gaza (and presents it as a half-baked idea), Israel hops to implement it

3. Students in Los Angeles, California continue to demonstrate in defense of immigrants

4. In a public statement, the Educators Rank-and-File Committee calls for a broad mobilization of teachers, school support staff, students, parents and wider sections of the working class to oppose Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign and to defend the rights of all children to a safe and high quality public education

5. Continuing news about protests against The Trump administration's attacks on immigrants is being updated at the World Socialist Web Site

6. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is greeted with delight by US President Trump and his gang following his "big stick" diplomatic tour of Latin America. Among Rubio's achievements: the fascist dictator of El Salvador offers cheap and convenient prison services for deported immigrants and criminals from the US

7. The Green party candidate for chancellor in Germany's federal elections, Robert Habeck, embraces core demands of the fascistic AfD party by calling for an expansion of attacks on refugees

8. With historically huge job and benefit cuts looming, it is becoming clear that Volkswagen autoworkers were deceived by the last contract "won" by the IG Metall union and the Volkswagen Group Works Council

9. The World Socialist Web Site urges nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers at Providence hospitals in Oregon to reject their union's sellout contract to build independent, democratically controlled rank-and-file committees

10. A walkout of 10,000 Kroger-affiliated King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado is an opening act to an intensification of the class struggle under Trump’s rule

11. Director Robert Eggers' Nosferatu-- is a technically accomplished, but spiritually and intellectually impoverished film

12.  The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's refusal to criticize Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of the Middle Eastern Gaza Strip, amounts to an endorsement of one of the most heinous violations of international law

13. In Australia, members of the Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee join with members of the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee to defend Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah who is the victim of a mounting Zionist-led media and government witch hunt

14. Economic "vultures" and opportunistic politicians circle to exploit the wealth of Mozambique following months of mass nationwide protests, and the crooked election of Daniel Chapo as the country's president

15. Many Germans are being hit by huge rent increases after two major property companies, Deutsche Wohnen and Vonovia, merge

16. More than 4,500 workers are expected to lose their jobs after the online retail giant Amazon closes all of its facilities in Quebec, Canada after suffering legal setbacks in its efforts to block workers' unionization efforts

17. After having his home raided, Austrian police arrest the British independent journalist Richard Medhurst

 A video posted yesterday by Richard Medhurst

18. Resisting police barricades and participating in silent marches, thousands of mourning people in Turkey commemorate the second anniversary of the devastating earthquakes which destroyed so many of their homes and killed at least 60,000 people

19. Hypocrisies of the UK Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers union leaders are spotlighted by their refusal to take any action to challenge the Gaza genocide

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

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