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