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