Feb 20, 2025

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