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
