Mar 6, 2025

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!

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