Feb 6, 2025

1. What do US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu intend to do with surviving Palestinians? Send them to Egypt? Jordan? Indonesia?  Will Arab countries help them complete their ethnic cleansing of Gaza? Also, Trump tries to "buy insurance" against being assassinated by Iran

2. A Los Angeles pseudo-leftist's ploy will channel popular opposition to federal crackdowns on immigrants into the dead-end politics of the Democratic Party, leaving immigrant workers vulnerable

3. US President Trump's megalomaniacal plan to remove and scatter Palestinians from Gaza: a perspective on American imperialism abandoning any pretense that its foreign policy is governed by international law

4. Singer and songwriter Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025)

Marianne Faithfull sings John Lennon's song, Working Class Hero, in 1995 

5. The Ukrainian secret service SBU ramps up arrests of Ukrainian youth and workers opposing the ongoing forced conscription of young men into the "meat-grinding" NATO proxy war against Russia

6. In the US state of Kentucky juvenile justice system, a 350-pound guard breaks the arms of two juvenile inmates whose combined weight was less than half of his, within one day

7.  Major newspapers and television networks in the US ignore tens of thousands of people demonstrating across the country against the government's attacks on democratic rights; the World Socialist Web Site reports on some of them

8. Argentina’s fascist President Javier Milei makes moves to militarize his country's borders with Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil

9. The US Trump administration has begun a multi-pronged plan to gut the US Department of Education and take control of its $80 billion budget

10. Without allowing a parliamentary vote, and fearful of US President Trump's "America First" directives, the French National Assembly approves Prime Minister François Bayrou’s austerity budget to fund the French army and service France’s unsustainable state debt of over €3 trillion

11. As a result of austerity measures imposed by the Labour government, a wave of mass job losses is engulfing UK universities

12.  The Canadian establishment, seeking to protect corporate profits and insure that workers bear any costs, reacts to the US Trump administration's destabilizing tariff threats with vulgar and reactionary nationalist tub-thumping

 13. US President Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs gives the Australian ruling class the jitters

14. An open letter at the World Socialist Web Site warns the American Conference of Irish Studies, gathering in Savannah, Georgia this month, against making the mistake of installing Aidan Beatty as its president

15. The fraudulent defense of New South Wales, Australian health workers by their union leaves them in the lurch

16. A welcome modern biography of the US abolitionist Charles Sumner who went beyond the cautious and insipid platitudes of others by demanding that slavery be completely wiped out of existence 

 
When hope of any conciliation between the North and the South was crushed making Civil War in the US inevitable:  Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner in the US Senate in 1856

17. Making the working class pay more during a recession: New Zealand's right-wing coalition government reduces spending on school lunches from $8 to $3 per meal

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

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