Mar 17, 2025

1. The US Trump administration is following a clear blueprint for dictatorship, modeled on Hitler’s fascist regime

2. US attacks in Yemen result in the deaths of 53 and the wounding of over a hundred people, mostly children and women

3. Pennsylvania and New York State steelworkers in the US demonstrate their determination to fight by rejecting the latest sellout contract devised by their employer, ATI Incorporated, and its hirelings in the United Steelworkers union bureaucracy

4. The first major legal challenge to Trump’s executive orders on speech and dissent is filed by attorney Eric Lee and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Council in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York

5. As he enters office, Canada’s new prime minister, ex-banker Mark Carney, apes the US President Donald Trump  by promising a “new era of fiscal responsibility” while attacking vital government programs

6. Ranting before his own appointees and aides at the US Department of Justice, President Donald Trump threatens to jail his political opponents in the Democratic Party and declares that criticism of himself on television and in the corporate media should be “illegal”

7. Empowered by the Trump administration and with the complicity of the Democratic Party, US immigration police are detaining and deporting legal tourists, multi-decade residents and visa holders in violation of court orders

8. Jeopardizing the fundamental right of people to lawyers who will represent them without fear of government retaliation: US President Donald Trump targets a second law firm two days after a federal judge holds up his executive order intended to destroy the firm that represented Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election campaign

9. Damaging storms across the United States indicate that its peak tornado season seems to be arriving earlier in the year as a result of climate change

10. The mass movement of young people and workers that broke out two years after the Tempi train collision has government officials, political leaders, and trade union bureaucrats in Greece scrambling to react

11. The US Trump administration announces the destruction of
hundreds of jobs and the effective elimination of seven long-standing US federal offices that have been targeted for political reasons

12. As the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk-yeol draws to an end, South Korea's political crisis remains with its divisions in ruling circles deepening, economic conditions worsening, and geopolitical tensions rising

13. Six years after a terrorist's mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, public officials hypocritically condemn Islamophobia while supporting the Gaza genocide and the fascist administration of Donald Trump in the United States

14. Germany's Greens reveal themselves to be ready to support the gigantic military rearmament program (the largest since Hitler) proposed by the incoming coalition government formed by the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats

15.  Two films that address the current state of healthcare in German and Swiss hospitals fill theater seats at this year's Berlin International Film Festival

16. The exposure of secret files help reveal how the military and political heirs to the terror regimes in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s have once again been brought to the center of political developments

17. Calling the National Health Service “the world’s largest quango”, the UK Labour Health Secretary wants to accelerate its privatization plans by bringing US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE program to Britain

18. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality campaign at a Gaza genocide protest in London, UK to demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil by the Trump administration in the United States

19. Australian pathology workers, facing obstruction by their union bureaucracy, are still eager to fight against pay cuts, chronic staffing shortages, and unsafe working conditions

20. The US Trump administration issues an unhinged global questionnaire aimed at intimidating university researchers who collaborate with any projects deemed inimical to the Maga-fascists' goals

21. Recent studies highlight an alarming trend of sharply rising violence occurring in Australian public schools

22. Titling its meeting "Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the Working Class Against Trump’s Dictatorship! Defend the Right to Public Education!,” the Educators Rank and File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality convene online to address the urgent crisis in public education and attacks on democratic rights under the US Trump administration. As Thomas Jefferson famously argued, an educated populace is the most effective defense against tyranny!

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

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