1. Every major European power is accelerating a frantic program of military rearmament. Every major political party and news outlet is spewing forth lies justifying this explosion of militarism

2. The Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers made this February the worst month for announced job cuts since July 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

3. Melbourne, Australia: in a disturbing escalation of a crackdown on opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, pro-Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh is charged for declaring at a public protest last year that “all Zionists are terrorists”

4. American actor Gene Hackman, one of the finest performers of his generation, (1930-2025)

5. Dryness, poor forest management, difficult terrain, and ignored global warming all contribute to Japan’s largest wildfire in decades

6. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese abandons plans to announce an early federal election after Cyclone Alfred leaves hundreds of thousands without power in Australia

7. A brutal provocation amid heightened military tensions:  the US Trump administration revokes licenses for Chevron and other oil corporations to operate in Venezuela, ending a financial lifeline for the country

8. One among hundreds of thousands experiencing homelessness across Canada, a humanitarian aid worker dies homeless on the streets of its capitol

9. Barnard College administrators at New York City’s Columbia University sic city police on pro-Palestinian students occupying the campus’ library

10. A "sellout" agreement made on behalf of CSX freight rail workers provides modest improvements but provides a two-tier health insurance scheme and anemic wage increases that will be eaten-up by inflation

11. "...like a horror movie."  ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detains a German tourist for over a month in Southern California at a prison run by a for-profit corporation

12. An open letter from the Postal Workers Action Committee in Germany calls for Deutsche Post workers to protect their jobs by rejecting their union's sellout contract 

13. Tens of thousands of angry people around the world insist on having their concerns heard by taking part in “Stand Up for Science” protests

A protester in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday

14. An unvaccinated adult in New Mexico is the second person to die of measles in the United States

15. The Health Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka holds an online meeting to discuss how to oppose wage cuts and growing immiseration exacerbated by IMF-imposed austerity measures

16. “Contra La Jaula de Oro” or “Against the Cage of Gold.” Students at Texas A&M University protest against US President Donald Trump’s fascistic assault on immigrants

17. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality meet at Texas A&M University to discuss how to oppose the mass deportations of immigrants by the Trump administration 

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

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1. The Socialist Equality Party welcomes the "Stand Up for Science" demonstrations taking place internationally!

2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskys' uncertain future

3. After Donald Trump reenters the White House, European leaders present ambitious plans to ratchet up military spending

4. Educators and workers are invited to attend a webinar organized by the socialist Educators Rank-and-File Committee to discuss effective strategies to counter the Trump administration's attacks on public education in the US

NEA photo of protesters at the US Capitol in February 

5. Concerned with retaining a strategic industry as it prepares to play a leading role in a US-led war against China, the Australian government takes over the financially-troubled leading manufacturer of rail and structural steel, Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia

6. Chinese leaders announce plans to meet ambitious economic targets despite the imposition of heavy tariffs on Chinese exports by the United States

7. In a surprising, but mild, rebuke of the Trump administration, the Supreme Court rules that a lower court can compel it to pay bills for services already performed by USAID contractors

8. The de facto head of DOGE, Elon Musk, calls for the privatization of the United States Postal Service and Amtrak

9. The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fires Health Minister Nísia Trindade whose tenure was marked by a deepening of a “herd immunity” policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the largest dengue fever outbreak in the country’s history

10. The cynicism of Republicans is only matched by the spinelessness of Democrats--  ten Democrats join a unanimous Republican caucus to rebuke Texas Representative Al Green for daring to speak out against Trump during the president's address before the US Congress this week

11. Three standout films from the recent Berlin International Film Festival: Yalla Parkour about children in Gaza, Köln 95 about a famous Keith Jarrett concert, and Leibniz–Chronicle of a Lost Painting about the "universal genius" and Enlightenment philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

12. Canada’s ruling class, with the assistance of the trade union bureaucracies, responds to US President Trump's painful trade tariffs by using nationalism to divide workers and make them pay the cost of the tariffs

13. The Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, call for less reliance on a US-led NATO and more European military “independence” and rearmament

14. What young workers and students need to know about the dangerous and reactionary role of Germany's Left Party

15.  To be applauded: Danielle Khalaf, an eighth-grader in Michigan, is fighting to defend her First Amendment rights under conditions in which all constitutional rights are under attack by the president and ruling oligarchy of the United States

16. Fearing that even a token strike could get out of control and sabotage the government’s austerity program, the union representing nurses and healthcare workers in Sri Lanka calls off a symbolic 24-hour strike

17. Last week's explosive confrontation between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky provokes confusion and reaction within the Australian establishment

18. The World Socialist Web Site listens to a mail delivery worker explain why it is necessary to organize against unreasonable service benchmark reforms aimed at making the UK Royal Mail Service more like Amazon

19. Academic staff at Dundee University in Scotland strike even as many UK universities struggle from severe funding problems that grew since the introduction of tuition fees under former Prime Minister Tony Blair

20. Rank-and-file workers, meeting to discuss police sweeps at Ford factories, unanimously condemn such measures, and call for the expansion of rank-and-file committees to resist corporate repression and assert workers’ democratic rights

21. Electoral members of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia continue to denounce the Australian Electoral Commission’s undemocratic denial of allowing it an official status

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

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1. The mandate of US President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, is to dismantle her agency piece by piece until Congress approves its final elimination

2. US Senator Bernie Sanders' political con game

3. High school students in Detroit, Michigan and Monroe, North Carolina protest deportation raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents

4. The global economy, rocked by the US Trump administration's tariff measures, is waking to a realization that the entire framework of economic and trade relations set in place after World War II has disintegrated

5. To prevent a strike and seek favor from the Trump administration, the United Steelworkers union bureaucracy is pushing through another sellout contract for 1,000 Pennsylvania steelworkers

6. Thirty correctional officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, California are indicted for orchestrating “gladiator fights” among incarcerated youth

7.  An open letter from the Transport Workers Action Committee explains why BVG public transit workers in Berlin, Germany must break from the Verdi union to avoid betrayal and conduct a productive strike

8. Contrary to what its government authorities claim, there has been no effective fight against infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and dengue fever in Brazil

9. A film that broke from stereotypes to explore something of the inner fabric of Australia’s society and history:  it has been 50 years since the first showing of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock

10. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain betrays all workers by giving his full support to Trump’s tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China

12. Part Two: Far from building a “genuine mass revolutionary movement,” the recent rebranding of a pseudo-leftist political party in Kenya reaffirms that despite adding “Marxist” to its name, it lacks any orientation to the working class

13. The huge movement sparked by Greece’s Tempi rail crash and subsequent government cover-up are a dramatic confirmation that the objective conditions for socialist revolution are ripening at an extraordinary pace

14. The class character and political bankruptcy of Canada’s social democrats is exposed by the assault of a journalist protesting Israel’s genocide during an election rally in Toronto

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

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1. Vicious, violent and depraved, and plumbing the depths of cultural and political degradation in the United States-- Donald Trump’s address to Congress is the rant of an aspiring Führer

2. US President Donald Trump expands his trade war against the rest of the world

3. Detroit's mayor and political establishment address the city's homeless population with half-measured solutions and lies; what would a socialist solution look like?

4. In a direct attack on democratic rights, US President Donald Trump threatens to unilaterally end all federal funding for “any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests”

5. Part One:  Far from building a “genuine mass revolutionary movement,” the recent rebranding of a pseudo-leftist political party in Kenya reaffirms that despite adding “Marxist” to its name, it lacks any orientation to the working class

6. Concern spreads among autoworkers over the impact of the US Trump administration's tariffs on their jobs

7. Geordie musician Sam Fender's songs summon up social experiences widely ignored in contemporary culture

8. How is one to interpret imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace between Kurdistan rebels and Turkey?

9. Participants attending a meeting of the Macquarie and Western Sydney University rank-and-file committees in Australia call for a campaign to defend the persecuted anti-genocide academic Randa Abdel-Fattah

10. In coalition talks, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats in Germany's government are preparing a huge increase in defense spending and corresponding social cuts

11. The president of Mexico postpones any official response to the imposition of US tariffs with the hope that she can make a "deal" with Trump

12. Further legal challenges to the demolition of vital public housing in the Australian state of Victoria are undermined by a judge's ruling

13. Recent think tank reports describe growing poverty and inequality in Australia

14. Electors speak out against the Australian Electoral Commission’s rejection of the Socialist Equality Party's application for registration as an official political party

15. The Socialist Equality Party in Australia will hold an important public meeting on March 19 entitled “Election ban on the SEP: An attack on democratic rights”

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

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1. Any association with the Democratic Party is politically fatal for a genuine movement in opposition to the US President Trump’s fascist policies

2. The Trump administration's tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products will roil the North American economy, with workers paying for them in the form of mass layoffs and punishing price hikes 

3. Triggered by the deaths of 15 people, including two children, due to the collapse of a railway station canopy in Serbia, mass protests have been taking place every day for months against the far-right government by President Aleksandar Vučić

4. Rank-and-file opposition grows over the last-minute agreement reached by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy and Rolls-Royce to prevent a strike by 800 aircraft engine workers in Indianapolis, Indiana

5. The US Social Security Administration announces the elimination of 7,000 jobs-- more than 12 percent of the agency’s staff-- as part of the Trump administration’s assault on the federal government workforce

6. In a parliamentary address, the Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake cautions his political opponents, the working class and the rural poor to suppress their growing anger over his implementation of brutal IMF-directed austerity measures

7. Australian elites react to US President Trump's tariff threats

8. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality unequivocally condemns New York's Barnard College at Columbia University and demands it reinstate students who were expelled for protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza

9. Academy award wins for No Other Land and I'm Still Here indicate that a process of radicalization is unequivocally germinating in the US and globally

10. Austria's new government moves forward to implement far-right measures to appease far-right political elements

11. Former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, who had resigned after being pressured by the #MeToo movement in 2021, announces that he will run the office of mayor for New York City

12. Artists and other creative workers denounce an Australian government-sponsored organization's rejection of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino from competing in the 2026 Venice Biennale because of their pro-Palestinian political views

13. Far from defending democratic and social rights, the opposition People’s Party in Thailand postures as progressive, while making every effort to divert growing public discontent 

14. Even after a child dies of measles, the US Department of Health and Human Services head, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. provides an opinion piece to Fox News promote his anti-science views

15. World Socialist Web Site reporters listen to participants of protests against Greece's coverup of the Tempi train disaster

16. Workers respond to Stellantis' plan to close its Luton auto-manufacturing plant in the UK

17. Netanyahu’s murdered Bibas children lie unravels after it was championed by Trump and world’s media

18. Turkish workers occupy mine against privatisation as wildcat strikes continue

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

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1. Fearing a US-Russia alliance after talks between US President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky break down, a summit of leaders of all the major European powers gather in England to decide how to continue and even escalate war with Russia as quickly as possible

2.  Aiming to starve the population into submission, Israel blocks all food shipments into Gaza

3. Three prominent US senators, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Murphy, and "independent" Bernie Sanders, appear on Sunday television interview programs to defend Ukraine's President Zelensky and the war in Ukraine

4. Imperialist wars are not fought for “democracy” or “self-determination,” “protection” of small nations, “peace,” etc., but for plunder--  how the acquisition of raw materials crucial to the making of semiconductors, batteries and communications systems became an existential question for the United States

Link to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Report, Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy

5.  

 The chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in Germany, Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the result of the 2025 federal election and explains "how the fight against fascism and war must be waged"

6. Thousands gather at 145 national parks across the United States to protest the Trump administration’s mass firing of National Park Service workers

7. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's job cuts and meddling throw US air transportation safety into turmoil

8. The US Trump administration seeks unprecedented powers for the executive branch of government and puts its overt racism on display by attacking America's class-blind “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) culture

9. US President Donald Trump reveals his criteria for “African American greatness” at a White House event commemorating Black History Month

10. Under the pretext of stopping a non-existent “invasion” of immigrants, and on the same day that he signs an executive order declaring English the “official” language of the United States, President Donald Trump orders the further deployment of thousands of armed, combat-ready military forces along the US-Mexico border

11. Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul of New York state in the US announces a tentative agreement to end a wildcat strike by prison guards; three prison inmates were afterwards found dead

12. Members of the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Australia call for an urgent staff meeting and action to defend the persecuted academic, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

13. The New Zealand political and media establishment, being more concerned with geostrategic objectives than humanitarian ones, ratchets up tensions with the Cook Islands as more details about the small Pacific country’s recent cooperative agreement with China are released

14. With the objective of rolling back workplace safety rules and regulations, the US Trump administration picks veteran UPS and Amazon executive David Keeling to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

15. To demonize and scapegoat transgender people for a variety of social ills, and to lay the groundwork for broader attacks on the working class, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, issues a ban on international transgender athletes entering the United States

16. Director Huo Meng wins an award at the Berlin International Film Festival for Living the Land (生息之地), a moving and vivid film portraying rural life in the rapidly urbanizing China of the 1990s

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

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1.  Thousands of University of California workers are returning to work from their brief strike without having their critical demands resolved

2. US President Donald Trump's "deal" nosedives after he and Vice President JD Vance engage in a publicly televised dress down of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

3. Doug Ford, posturing as a man of the people, wins a third term as premier of Ontario in a campaign dominated by Canadian nationalist tub-thumping

4. The Philippines provides a platform for military exercises aimed at dominating the South China Sea and preparing for war with China

5. The reason for President Trump's proposal to take over the US District of Columbia is of a piece with his administration's attacks on federal workers-- to eliminate anything that stands in the way of building a personalist dictatorship

5. To demand justice for the people who died in the 2023 Tempi train collision and an end to a government cover-up, hundreds of thousands of angry workers and youth stage one of the largest demonstrations in Greek history

6. Walter Salles’ film, I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), which is garnering acclaim as an Academy Award nominee, hits a nerve in Brazil and around the world

7.  To determine if remedial action is warranted, the US Trump administration orders the investigation of  ten major universities where pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the Gaza genocide took place last year

8. The presence of three Chinese warships in international waters off the Australian coast sparks a furor in Australia's media and political establishment

9. In Sri Lanka, trade union bureaucrats attempt to suppress the effectiveness of a strike by thousands of nurses against the IMF austerity measures being imposed by the government

10. Accidental? Or accepted as a cost of business? Adding to record numbers of occupation-related casualties, one of two construction workers in Chicago, electrocuted on the job Tuesday, dies; the other is reported to be recovering in the hospital

11. The Brutalist is a film that deals with weighty subjects in an inadequate and confused way

12. With more than 19,000 people in the US having died this season from flu, why did the US Food and Drug Administration abruptly cancel a preliminary meeting of an expert scientific panel to discuss next year’s flu vaccine?

13. Democratic Party lawmakers in Maryland introduce bills to implement right-wing-motivated restrictions on people wearing masks

14. A senior psychiatrist contacts the World Socialist Web Site to describe how public mental health services have deteriorated in Australia over the past 27 years

15.  Exploited apparel workers making Carnival costumes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil have mere seconds to escape a deadly fire

16. The Socialist Equality Party formally challenges the Australian Electoral Commission for undemocratically rejecting its application to participate in Australian federal elections

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

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