1. All UN bakeries are closed-- for nearly a month, Israel has prevented all food, fuel, water and electricity from entering the Gaza Strip as part of a deliberate policy of starvation and ethnic cleansing aimed at killing or displacing Palestinians in Gaza and annexing their land

2. Falling in line with the witch-hunting campaign directed by the Trump administration against pro-Palestinian students and academics, the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut fires Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi in violation of her basic democratic rights

3. A perspective by Joseph Kishore: Cornell University Ph.D. student Momodou Taal is forced to leave the United States where dissent is being criminalized and a dictatorship is being constructed

Momodou Taal

4. Trade union bureaucrats fall in line with the Sri Lankan government's imposition of unjust IMF-directed austerity measures

5. NY Representative and DSA member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sheds her previous "left" lip service to advance the interests of US imperialism in an interview with the New York Times

6. On April 10, the Socialist Equality Party in Australia will hold a public online meeting to discuss what is at stake in Australia's upcoming federal elections

7. As falling oil revenues and military-industrial expenditures blow a hole in Russia's budget, the country's oligarchs are torn over their hopes to keep ruling and their desire for immediate economic relief should a negotiated settlement with the United States over the war in Ukraine succeed

8. US railroad workers contact the World Socialist Web Site to speak out about their oppressive working conditions

9. The Australian government’s attitude toward working people at home is in line with its callous indifference to the plight of earthquake victims in Myanmar

10. Through its mass firing of federal workers without cause, the US Trump administration promotes widespread fear as it systematically dispenses with thousands of years of collective knowledge and expertise

11. Massive wildfires, described as the worst in the South Korea’s history, kill 30 people and ruin almost 120,000 acres of land before being extinguished 

12. Lower global growth and the impact of Trump tariffs exacerbates a growing crisis within Indonesia's already-squeezed economy

13. Almost 40,000 young people aged 15–24 in Australia requested homelessness services in 2023–24

14. With an expired contract and grueling working conditions, Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital nurses in Northern California get little relief from their employer, their union, or the government

15. Teachers Union officials, Mayor Johnson and the news media in Chicago, US, conspire to conceal the full impact of Trump's historic cuts on the city's public schools

16. 1970s film comedies shown during the  Retrospective section of this year's Berlin International Film Festival convey a more nuanced and accurate view of the the former German Democratic Republic that dissolved after the fall of the Berlin Wall

17. Emerging evidence suggests that a 2019 Assembly bill, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated California legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, was a bipartisan handout to powerful utility corporations, ensuring their profitability at the expense of public safety, and a significant factor in contributing to this year's devastating wildfires in Los Angeles

18. The growing opposition of UK mail delivery workers to advancing reforms which will transfer control of the Royal Mail to the Czech billionaire, Daniel Kretinsky, provokes panic within their official union's leadership 

19. Kenya’s recently appointed Chief of Defense Forces, publicly threatens youth who have voiced opposition to the government of William Ruto

20. The outcome of a refuse workers' dispute with the city of Birmingham, England will test the UK Labour government's ability to impose greater restrictions on the working class and appease the banks and big business

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

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