1. Democracy in Turkey, which has been extremely fragile since the foundation of the republic in 1923, is staggering under the pressure of the escalating global imperialist war and growing social inequality

2. The World Socialist Web Site hosts a webinar with the Cornell University PhD. student Momodou Taal, a target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students from the United States

 

3. US immigration police kidnap University of Alabama doctoral student, Alireza Doroudi from his home

4. Shawn Fain and other craven UAW bureaucrats line up to cheer US President Trump's implementation of automotive tariffs

5. A letter from an Italian postal worker to the World Socialist Web Site:

I write to you from Rome, Italy, where we postal workers have already lived through the catastrophe that now looms over you in the United States: privatization. I write not only in solidarity but in warning, so that you may learn from our painful experience and resist this assault with the full strength of an organized working class.

6. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issues a report that describes how the governments of 38 nations that form its membership are all falling into debt, especially the US, where government debt is $36 trillion

Here is a link to the OECD report

7.  US President Donald Trump signs a new executive order with an Orwellian title (perhaps the most brazenly illegal and unconstitutional yet) that is ultimately intended to suppress voters and attack immigrants

8. New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government plans to outsource thousands of public health system operations to private hospitals

9.  Three new albums by established artists in electronic music, hip-hop and rock

 The first few months of 2025 have witnessed a remarkable intensification of social and political crises. Tensions and turmoil are reaching new heights. Moves toward war and dictatorship, including the abduction and “disappearance” of immigrant students and others, are nearly daily occurrences. Have these startling developments found expression yet— as they must— in popular music? How prepared are the artists in general for what is unfolding?

10. The emergence of  antimicrobial resistant "superbugs" threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor infection could result in a life-threatening condition

11. In California, thirty-five students, faculty, journalists and community members file a lawsuit against UCLA officials for their role in protecting Zionists and abetting police violence

12.  The sudden death of a teacher in São Paulo, Brazil casts a spotlight on the intense pressure and harassment inflicted by pro-corporate education programs 

13. The opening of the case against former president Jair Bolsonaro and his fascist co-conspirators for having attempted a coup in 2023, is an unprecedented event in Brazilian history

14. A fascist member of parliament in Greece attacks art at an exhibition introduced with masterpieces by Francisco Goya

 The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

15.  A summit called by pseudo-leftists in the UK succeeds better at accepting the measures of Sir Keir Starmer’s austerity and war-directed Labour government than at building real resistance

16. “You are killing my mum to bomb someone’s son!”  World Socialist Web Site reporters listen to Londoners protesting against the massive welfare cuts being imposed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the United Kingdom

17. Stop Trump’s moves to privatize the United States Postal Service!

 The USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee is holding an online public meeting this Sunday at 3pm US Eastern Time

 USPS workers must link up with other sections of the federal workforce, with auto workers, logistics workers, and other sections of the working class, and with postal workers internationally facing the same threat of privatization.

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

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