1. David Lynch (1946-2025) gambled with greatness, and lost
World Socialist Web Site Arts Editor David Walsh:
All serious art in the modern age, by definition, must contain
an element of protest against the conditions of life, however that is
registered. All criticism of social life inevitably gravitates toward
Marxism, the current that offers the most comprehensive and unrelenting
critique of the existing social order.
2. The Israeli regime creates an office to assist Gaza residents interested in relocating to third countries
3. Palestinian artist Dorgham Quraiqi is killed by an Israeli airstrike
One of the artist's last paintings
4. Deepening military connections in preparation for a US-led war against China, Shigeru Iwasaki, the former head of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, is appointed to advise Taiwan's government
5. The class character of Germany's pseudo-leftist Left Party is clearly exposed by its votes agreeing to a massive military rearmament package
6. The US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will consider a bill to give President Trump sweeping powers to unilaterally terminate or ignore the terms of collective bargaining agreements with federal workers
7. The Transport Workers Action Committee in Germany calls upon Berlin public transit workers to turn their Verdi union's ineffective token
strikes into a full-scale unlimited strike
8. A racist bill aimed against immigrants in the Arkansas state house of representatives would mandate English language proficiency for commercial motor vehicle operators
9. In a sharp rebuke to the poisonous nationalism being promoted by the ruling classes in both countries, several hundred protesters held a joint rally of international solidarity on opposite sides of the US/Canada border
One of the protesters
10. To enhance profits, Volkswagen plans to cut one of three shifts at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee
11. The Hamilton, Ontario-based cladding and roofing company John Kenyon Ltd. dodges full responsibility for the deaths of two of its workers
12. Tunneling workers on an underground motorway project in Sydney, Australia are diagnosed with the deadly respiratory disease silicosis, suggesting that well-known measures to prevent inhalation of silica dust were ignored
13. Come April 2, US President Donald Trump’s economic war against the rest of the world
will be intensified when he receives a report on the imposition of
so-called “reciprocal tariffs”
14. At least seven universities in Australia have already had American funding for research projects paused or cancelled as part of US President Donald Trump’s MAGA-fascistic agenda
15. People who listened to Gary Tyler speak about his experiences in prison facing the death penalty describe what they learned from it to reporters of the World Socialist Web Site
16. The Turkish section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu), demands the release of İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu and all political prisoners of the Erdoğan government in Turkey
17. In a blatant act of intimidation and criminalization of left-wing, anti-war, and anti-fascist opposition and in line with many other government's rightward turns, Spain's government targets participants of protests last year
18. Lawyers representing Cornell graduate student Momodou Taal file a lawsuit challenging the Trump's attempt to deport him
19. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality condemns the
craven capitulation by New York's Columbia University to the demands of the Trump
administration to impose a regime of censorship on the campus
20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
21. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
