1. US President Trump fully embraces the Israeli genocide by calling for the complete ethnic cleansing of the Gaza strip, the leveling of all its buildings, and the annexation of the territory by the United States

2. The US Democratic Party responds to President Trump's construction of a fascist state with silence and paralysis

3. A billionaire developer and former Democratic mayoral candidate, Rick Caruso, exploits the crisis created by Los Angeles' wildfires by unveiling Steadfast LA, a nonprofit organization ostensibly dedicated to rebuilding the city and speeding up its recovery

4. A comprehensive study reports that already extremely acute social inequality and long-term health consequences in Brazil have been exacerbated by COVID-19

5. European heads of government meet in Brussels to investigate countermeasures to US President's "America First" policies and to agree on an historic rearmament of the continent and a continuation of the NATO war in Ukraine against Russia

6. China retaliates to US tariffs on its exports

7. Turkey in political crisis under President Erdoğan’s heavy-handed leadership: opportunistic pseudo-leftists turn to supporting the right-wing reactionary Republican People’s Party (CHP)

8. Anti-vaccine huckster, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s confirmation as Trump administration’s Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States appears to now be a done deal

9. An expert Australian cricket commentator, Peter Lalor, is fired for mentioning the Gaza protests on his private X (Twitter) account and making Jewish people "feel unsafe" simply with the sound of his voice in his public broadcasts

10. High school students in East Los Angeles in the United States walk out of class to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s policies of arrest, detention and deportation of immigrant workers and their families

11. After the mass resignation of staff specialist psychiatrists over a pay dispute, the New South Wales Ministry of Health in Australia starts moving some of its mental health patients to private hospitals

12. In a popular blog in New Zealand, The Daily Blog, its editor, Martyn Bradbury, slanders genuine socialists by promoting the theory promoted by associates of Trump’s fascist advisor Steve Bannon, that COVID-19 was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China (a theory which has served to blame China for the pandemic and divert attention from the homicidal “let it rip” policies pursued by governments around the world)

13. Trump loyalists within the US Department of Justice and the FBI move to purge senior officials-- not only to re-write the history of January 6, 2021, but to lay the foundations for a presidential dictatorship

14. The latest in a series of actions by US healthcare workers since the beginning of the new year:  nurses at the University Medical Center in New Orleans begin a two-day strike

15. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles was, with the exception of a speech by singer-songwriter Chapell Roan, a commercial for the giant record companies far removed from everyday life as most of the world experiences it

16. Striking nurses in the US state of Oregon have their power split by separate agreements being negotiated on their behalf by their union, the Oregon Nurses Association

17. Many questions go unanswered after an Ohio nurse is blamed for the disappearance and death of an elderly patient from an understaffed rehabilitation facility

18. The administration of Milwaukee Public Schools suspends an elementary school teacher, Alondra Garcia, after a Trump-supporting parent complains about her offering district-approved immigrant rights resources to her students' families

19. What should  people opposed to the rise of the fascistic AfD party in Germany do after going home from protests?

20. Trotskyist renegade Alex Steiner's abominable hatred of genuine Marxism makes him fall prey to an anti-communist agent provocateur

21. In a flurry of executive actions, US President Trump nominates witch-hunting Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to be ambassador to the United Nations, orders the cancellation of student visas and threatens to deport students whom it slanders as “perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence", and launches investigations of universities it accuses of tolerating anti-Semitic behavior

22. Hoping to “reset” UK-EU relations, UK Prime Minister Starmer meets with European ministers in Brussels to declare his support of mutual defense, and to find a way to cooperate with the US Trump administration

23. Among draconian rules that attack welfare beneficiaries in the UK, the Labour government is putting forward proposals that will see long-term sick benefits claimants forced to look for work as a condition for receiving sickness payments

24. In a public statement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) expresses its gratitude to students protesting the US Trump administration's attacks on immigrants and democratic rights but advises them to avoid the dead end of seeking reform from capitalist institutions

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

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