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!

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