1. Five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the anniversary has been met with near-universal silence from the political establishment and corporate media of every country

2. Eric London, a brilliant leader within the Socialist Equality Party, delivers a stinging lecture to students at Wayne State University in Michigan: Responding to Trump’s attack on immigrants and the threat of dictatorship

 

3. A vicious debate and media storm over whether 340 houses were “built” or “acquired” under a $10 billion housing program underscores the total inadequacy of the Australian Labor government’s “social and affordable” housing policy

4. The arrest and extradition of the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the Hague for crimes against humanity expresses the intensity of conflict of within ruling elites over the country’s geopolitical orientation

5. The US Center for Disease Control’s decision to reinvestigate links between vaccines and autism after decades of scientific inquiry that showed no such connection is a bellwether moment in the anti-public health trajectory of Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

6.  Hundreds rally in New York City on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the United States who had been incarcerated in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for protesting the genocide in Gaza

7. The government of fascistic President Javier Milei in Argentina announces a decree to ram through a new IMF loan program, which will demand even greater cuts to social programs

8. With the US's NATO partnership with the Europe in question since the election of Trump, voices within the Australian establishment call for greater self-reliance and greatly increased military spending

9. Authorities in the US state of Georgia muzzle all opposition to a multi-million dollar military-style police training center in Atlanta

10. President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are pressing ahead with attacks on US federal workers, including the elimination of nearly half the workforce at the Department of Education

11. A strike of Hollywood video game performers concerned about AI's impact on their jobs, returns to a demoralized and much-reduced picket line: what they need and what their union wants are not the same things

12. The declaration of IG Metall bureaucrats in support of a huge increase in armaments spending in Germany makes it clear that the struggle against rearmament and war cannot be waged with, but only against the trade union apparatuses and their control in workplaces

13. The repression of students in the United Kingdom who are protesting Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is being co-ordinated between university managements, the police and counter-terrorism units, and the highest levels of the state

14. An agreement, to integrate the armed forces of the Western-backed Sunni Islamist regime of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Syrian Democratic Forces led by the US-backed Kurdish nationalist forces that control the north-east of the Syria, is a key component of US and Israeli efforts to dominate the Middle East

15. Pseudo-leftist Jeremy Corbyn’s sermonizing in the UK's parliament allows him to pose as an advocate for peace 

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

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