1. A World Socialist Web Site perspective: Germany's federal elections tomorrow mark a decisive turning point in German and European post-war history

2. What began in 1974 with a keynote speech by then-Governor of California Ronald Reagan has transformed into the most prominent gathering of fascists on an international scale

3. “Nothing is going to be off limits.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump appointees are launching a multi-faceted assault on public health

4. Far from serving to mobilize a broad movement to fight Amazon which will make workers jobless by shutting down its facilities in Quebec, a boycott campaign initiated by the workers' union is a reactionary nationalist diversion

5. The supposed “progressive” alternative in Canadian politics— the New Democratic Party— doubles down on its support for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza by blocking former NDP parliament member Sarah Jama from running under the party’s banner

6. George Mason University, a public research university in Arlington, Virginia, implements gestapo-like measures and collaborates with the US military to limit its students' democratic rights

7. After just three rounds of negotiations, Deutsche Bahn, the German train company, and the German rail union, Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsgewerkschaft, conclude a contract settlement that imposes funding cuts and a massive reduction in real wages for German rail workers

8. A new film, Anora, begins with "compassion for the marginalized and a deliberate, almost self-conscious refusal to moralize", but takes a "tawdry, tasteless turn" that accommodates itself "to what exists"

9. Promoted by media and government representatives, the social acceptance of right-wing extremism in Germany parallels the growth of right-wing extremist crimes

10. The fifth anniversary of the Hanau shootings, when nine people were killed and five others wounded in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist, is remembered by many on the eve of Germany's federal election

11. Thousands of public transport workers stage warning strikes in Germany on the eve of the country's federal elections

12. Former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others face prison for plotting to overthrow Brazil's government in a fascist uprising on January 8, 2023

13. Recent record-breaking floods in Queensland continue to impact thousands of people in the Australian state

14. A divisive report that calls for "culturally safe" staffing ratios in New Zealand hospitals is published amid a deepening assault by the far-right National Party-led government on the public health system

15. The President of Sri Lanka announces an austerity budget which the media falsely hails as a “pro-people” budget

16. While the US Trump administration implements a massive escalation of attacks on the US Postal Service, the union that represents postal workers implements a toothless "letter writing" campaign urging workers to write their congressional representatives in Washington

17. The mass firing of US federal employees intensifies under President Trump and Elon Musk

18. A meeting of some 70 educators, students and workers organized by the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee calls for a widespread campaign to defend Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah and all others being vilified as antisemitic for opposing the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine

19. A live-fire exercise by Chinese warships in the Tasman Strait between Australia and New Zealand triggers an outburst of nationalism and militarism in Australia

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

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

1. Hundreds of people attend the funeral of two homeless children who froze to death in Detroit

2. The US Trump administration paves the way to military actions in Mexico by designating Mexican drug cartels, as “foreign terrorist organizations”

3. Imposition of tariffs is just a small part of US President Trump's overall battle plan to wage economic war on the world

4. Protest demonstrations across the US multiply after the Trump administration fires more than 14,000 federal workers, coerces an estimated 75,000 into resigning or retiring early, and dismantling entire agencies, including USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

5.  Who is the fiddle and who is the fiddler?  Why no one should believe that, in reopening diplomatic relations with Russia, the Trump administration is seeking peace

6. The foreign policy establishment in Germany reacts to US President Trump's rapprochement with Russia over Ukraine by ratcheting up war hysteria and calls for more rearmament

7. Taiwan's leaders are eager to comply with the US Trump administration, intent on denying advanced silicon chip technology to China

8. Why historians are rejecting a decision by the American Historical Association Council to reject a proposal for a resolution condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza

9. “Kash” Patel, the lawyer and fascist who played an integral role in US President Trump’s attempted coup in 2021, is confirmed to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation

10. Australia's Albanese Labor government rams through an electoral reform bill designed to discourage participation of smaller political parties

11. Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia meddles with the International Youth and Students for Social Equality's ability to conduct its normal club affairs

12.  Australia's workplace tribunal, the Fair Work Commission, suspends an industrial action by Sydney commuter rail workers to buy time for their management and labor union leaders to cook up a sellout labor contract

13. Internationally acclaimed actress Tilda Swinton delivers a stinging speech while accepting an honorary award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival

14. Volvo Trucks announces coming layoffs at its largest manufacturing facility in New River Valley, Virginia

15. Head teachers in Stoke-on-Trent, England are taking an unprecedented action by withholding payments to corporations that routinely swindle their schools

16. A “State of the Nation” report released by the Salvation Army charity in New Zealand reveals an appalling social crisis, driven by rising unemployment, low wages and high living costs

17.  US President Trump and Elon Musk take aim at the USPS to dismantle and privatize it

18. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and the US Postal Service Workers Rank-and-File Committee are holding an online public meeting this Sunday, February 23

19. The University and College Union suspends a planned strike by academic and administrative staff at the University of Sheffield International College in England

20. The World Socialist Web Site responds again to the dangerous serial sophistry of Alex Steiner

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

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

1.  What should we do to address homelessness in America? The Socialist Equality Party joins the residents of metro Detroit and beyond to mourn the tragic deaths of two-year-old A’millah Currie and nine-year-old Darnell Currie Jr., two homeless children who froze to death

2. A public statement by the Socialist Equality Party about Donald Trump in his second term as president of the United States after his first month back in power 

3. Why the US President Trump's enthusiasm for President William McKinley should be taken as a warning

4. The US Federal Reserve Bank excepted:  the US president, Donald Trump, signs an executive order to make any congressional restriction on presidential control of the executive branch unconstitutional

5. Surrounded by riot police, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, resists hounding and intimidation to speak in Berlin, Germany

6. Thousands of University of California healthcare, research and technical workers overwhelmingly vote to authorize a strike

7. Under pressure, city councillors in Portland, Oregon seek to compromise a powerful strike by nurses against Providence Health and Services

8. The Pathology Workers Rank-and-File Committee rejects a wage deal offered by Australian Clinical Laboratories, one of the largest private hospital pathology businesses in Australia

9. Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, an 11-year-old sixth grader in Gainesville, Texas takes her own life after being bullied for months at school over her family’s immigration status

9. The Australian political and media establishment seizes on a series of murky incidents in Sydney over December and January to claim that there is a national crisis of rampant antisemitism

10. Australia's Labor government announces striking a deal with the Pacific country of Nauru as a place to house asylum seekers and detain immigrants

11. Norway's coalition government breaks up following sharp energy price spikes

12. Over 100 students protested the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) administration’s decision to suspend two pro-Palestinian clubs from campus

13. In the wake of a deadly knife attack carried out by a Syrian asylum seeker in Austria, coalition government negotiations between the country's far-right Freedom Party and its conservative Austrian People's Party break down

14. A genuine, conflicted humanity is at work in a continuing Netflix comedy series, Mo, about the picaresque adventures of an undocumented Palestinian in America

15. The government of Sri Lanka roils community peace by expanding the size of an illegally-established Buddhist temple

16. Michigan teachers and their supporters vote to endorse a statement issued by the Educators Rank-and File Committee to defend the democratic rights of immigrant children and their parents

17. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union releases a 50-minute video of its leaders trying sell East and Gulf Coast dockworkers a sellout contract proposal

18. The beginning of a new austerity drive:  government officials in British Columbia, Canada scrap a planned $1,000 rebate that had been announced with great fanfare as a means of assisting workers with skyrocketing grocery costs

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

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

1. Perspective by Joseph Kishore:  The goal of the Trump administration's blatantly illegal and unconstitutional access to Americans' private financial information is to create an all-encompassing AI-driven database that can be used to track, monitor and suppress political opposition

2.  US retailers are expected to close 15,000 stores this year, more than double the 7,325 shuttered in 2024 and breaking a record set in 2020 at the height of the pandemic

3. US President Donald Trump demands concessions from the Ukrainians of the kind usually imposed on defeated enemy states

4. Israel's defense minister orders the creation of a directorate to oversee the implementation of the plan announced by US President Donald Trump to ethnically cleanse Gaza

5.  52 people were detained on “terror” charges Tuesday morning in house raids in 10 cities across Turkey

6. The repulsive spectacle of Germany’s federal election

7. Jacobin magazine, associated with the Democratic Socialists of America, publishes a politically backward and reactionary article titled “The Case for Social Drinking”

8. A government and media blackout of critical public health information and declining vaccine rates are hiding rising flu-associated mortality rates in the US

9. A surprising Brookings Institution economic report describes how excessive reliance on Treasury bonds as collateral for short-term loans can spark a major US and global financial crisis

Here is a direct link to the report

10. A premature cancellation by the UFCW of a two-week strike of Kroger-affiliated King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado reeks of betrayal

11. A quid pro quo agreement between US President Trump and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, to get help targeting immigrants for deportation in return for a presidential pardon from crimes, creates a stir in the Democratic Party

12. A small interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia is unlikely to help the country's millions of financially stressed working-class households

13. "Heroes treated like zeroes"  -- overworked and underpaid Pennsylvania nurses go on strike

14. Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site listen to workers in San Jose, California and Brooklyn, New York who demonstrated this week against the US Trump administration's mass firings of federal employees

15. More than 3,500 artists and other creative workers sign a petition calling for the reinstatement of two artists-- who the Australian government-affiliated Creative Australia cancelled from attending next year's prestigious Venice Biennale

16. Infuriating New Zealand's foreign minister, the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands signs a cooperative agreement with China after a state visit

17. Anti-democratic: the Australian Electoral Commission denies official inclusion of the Socialist Equality Party to stand candidates in federal elections

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

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

1. A US and Russian diplomatic meeting in Saudi Arabia will discuss the war in Ukraine and the restoration of bilateral relations but have nothing to do with achieving “peace.” Rather, it is another step in a global conflict that threatens humanity with nuclear annihilation

2. In defiance of all legal and constitutional restraints, the US “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), headed by billionaire Elon Musk, seeks access to the Internal Revenue Service system that contains private financial information on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit organization in the United States

3. For the second time this month, tens of thousands of people across the United States protest against President Donald Trump and fascist billionaire Elon Musk and their ongoing attacks against immigrants, federal workers and the social and democratic rights of the entire working class

4. The major European powers hold a crisis summit in Paris after US officials threatened to cut them out of Trump’s talks with Russia over Ukraine in Saudi Arabia

5. The German chapter of the Socialist Equality Party holds its final election rally in Berlin before the February 23 federal elections

6. Historic flooding in the US state of Kentucky over the weekend required over 1,000 rescue operations, cut power and water to thousands of homes, and killed at least 12 people

7. Hundreds of homes in Detroit’s southwest side are flooded after a nearly century-old water main burst

An aerial view of Monday's flooding in Detroit

8. Britain’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie paints a terrible picture of over 100,000 people in the UK dying in poverty every year

And here is a link to its report

9. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan clamps down on a broadening wave of wildcat strikes

10.  In a chilling example of the bipartisan assault on immigrant rights, a middle school science teacher and a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, was secretly detained and deported to Honduras by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

11. Sections of the media greet a brawl between US and Canadian hockey players as a fight between “America First” and “Canada First”

12. The latest of five general strikes fails in Peru because public transit union leaders represent the interests of private companies more than those of their workers

13. A parliamentary committee inquiry in Australia calls on universities to adopt a far-reaching definition of antisemitism that will effectively prohibit criticism of Israel’s US-backed ethnic cleansing in Palestine

14. The premier of  New South Wales, Australia, Chris Minns, threatens to ask the federal Labor government to shut down an industrial action planned by commuter rail workers

15.  The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association union in Australia abandons two nurses who sparked an hysterical response to backward statements they made which were broadcast widely on social media

16. Rolls-Royce workers in Indianapolis, Indiana unanimously authorize a strike to expand pensions, oppose rising healthcare costs, and end their hated wage and benefit tier system

17.  Documenta, an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany, publishes a Code of Conduct that obligates itself to rules that make any criticism of Israeli government policies antisemitic

18. Many jobs will be eliminated by workforce restructuring plans being made by CSX, the freight train company which serves the Eastern, Southeastern and Midwestern United States

19. Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site listen to mail carriers in Brooklyn, New York, to get their thoughts after they rejected a provocative tentative labor agreement

20. In a public statement, the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists defends the ICFI against a completely discredited smear campaign alleging that it was responsible for the arrest of their comrade

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

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

1. The first month of the Trump administration has seen a full-scale cave-in by the corporate media, in which major newspapers and television and cable networks have bowed to the demands of the fascist president, muzzling or firing journalists viewed as his critics and backing away from any serious defense of freedom of the press

2. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls on the working class in the United States to prepare mass action to stop the Trump administration’s rampage against federal jobs

3. The US and Israel turn their sights to better focus on Iran while proceeding with their agenda to take over and rebuild a destroyed Gaza

4. The principles, courage... and limits of academic Norman Finklestein's exposure of Zionist crimes, defense of democratic rights, and criticism of identity politics from the left

5. Pro-government thugs disrupt a farmer organization's political meeting in Sri Lanka

6. Responding to orders from the Trump administration to annul the criminal investigation into the Democratic Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, seven federal prosecutors resign in protest

7. A major poll in Australia indicates the likelihood of a  reviled far-right coalition government returning to power in Australia's federal election in May because of widespread disenchantment with the Albanese Labor government

8. In spite of its huge profits, the world’s largest auto supplier, a division of Robert Bosch GmbH, announces more “painful decisions” for its workforce

9. The pseudo-left Democratic Socialists of America conspire with the Democratic Party and trade union bureaucrats to disarm the effectiveness of striking nurses in Oregon

10. The expanding and profitable regional healthcare giant, Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts’ largest health system, has announced the biggest layoff in its history

11. Teachers at a Melbourne high school pass a resolution opposing the targeted victimization by Zionist groups and the Albanese Labor government of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah

12. As part of a pro-corporate restructuring of universities across Australia, the University of Newcastle plans to shorten its semesters next year without reducing fees

13. An open-letter appeal to Costco workers from the newly-formed Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee, implores them to oppose being betrayed by the Teamsters union

14. In advance of federal elections, German politicians whip up hysteria against immigrants in the wake of a terrible rampage, in which a driver in Munich steered his car into demonstrating union members, injuring 38 people

15. In response to a union-sanctioned police raid of Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant, the Ford Workers Rank-and-File Committee issues a statement to warn them of an unfolding conspiracy against them and to make demands for better working conditions

16. A letter to the World Socialist Web Site from a Northern California letter carrier describes what he discovered after he was hired by the USPS: "It’s easier to punch down than to punch up.... We need to move past this outmoded thinking"

17. World Socialist Web Site reporters visit Royal Mail postal distribution sites to better understand workers' distress

18. The American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO keep low profiles while the Trump administration ruthlessly fires thousands of federal workers

19. Bankrupt political speeches top off the 24th national mass demonstration held in the United Kingdom against Israel's genocide in Gaza

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

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

1. Perspective:  US Vice President JD Vance's harangue at the opening of the Munich Security Conference in Germany was but another step toward the normalization and revival of fascism

2. Strongly-worded comments by a leading member of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee get a warm public reception at a recent Detroit Public Schools Community District board meeting

3. With time running out, over 700 residents of East Palestine, Ohio are taking part in lawsuits challenging the terms of a federally approved settlement over the Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic spill disaster of 2023

4. A dangerous turn for public health:  the US Department of Health and Human Services announces the firing of up to 5,200 employees one day after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is confirmed to head it

5. The US states of Florida and Texas execute two intellectually disabled prisoners with poisoned injections

6. New Zealand’s ruling elite and coalition government demonstrate their amenability to US President Trump's plan to remake Gaza into a "Middle Eastern Riviera"

7. Wall Street's latest concern: the rise and rise of largely unregulated non-banking financial institutions and the risky private credit they extend

8. What is behind the establishment propaganda hyping the Left Party's candidate in the German federal elections, Heidi Reichinnek (whose only asset is moral outrage coupled with a few radical-sounding phrases)?

9. A major newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, targets a restaurant in Newtown, Australia in an attempt to allege some sort of antisemitism existed there, and fails

10. Who runs Haiti today, where nearly half of the population lives on one meal a day or less, where over a million are still homeless, and where six thousand are starving? Short answer: the US

11. With political relations between the US and Canada in crisis, who is most likely to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada's next Prime Minister?

12. The Democratic Party governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey adapts to Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, by helping him

13. Classical music is by its very nature global: the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Windsor Symphony in Ontario team up to demonstrate an alternative to ultra-nationalism

14. The film, Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), is the 5th highest box office draw in Brazil's history

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

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

1. Fundamentally imprisoned for "thought crimes" and still waiting for a trial-- Bogdon Syrotiuk is innocent!

2. Rapper Macklemore: "The world’s on fire, we don’t own the water y’all"

3. Recent court actions challenging the constitutionality of US President Trump's executive actions do not appear to slow his determination to become a dictator

4. UK Prime Minister Starmer bows to the interests of far-right elements by tightening immigration restrictions on war refugees

5. By having rejected a flawed tentative National Letter Carriers Association labor agreement, US mail delivery workers took a stand, not just against poverty wages, but against the conspiracy to privatize the USPS

6. After a surprise Trump-Putin phone negotiations leave Kiev in the cold, the US Trump administration appears to be tossing aside imperialist shibboleths of guaranteeing Ukraine's return to its pre-2014 borders and being approved for NATO membership... to make an audacious grab for Ukraine's mineral wealth

8. An exclusive report from underground journalists in Ukraine to the World Socialist Web Site describes poor morale and mass desertions from Ukraine's Armed Forces

9. European leaders are puzzled, alarmed, and frightened by President Trump's unilateral decision to pursue immediate peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine

10. The Committee for Public Education in Australia issues a statement imploring educators to oppose the Labor government's assault on educators' jobs and democratic rights in its preparations for US-led wars

11. Claiming the union of its striking workers are colluding with “out-of-state special interests," Colorado grocery chain King Soopers, which is owned by Kroger, files two lawsuits 

12. Broad Sri Lankan and international support grows for the campaign by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka against Peradeniya University’s having banned their holding a public meeting

13. Directed by the the fascist ignoramus Elon Musk, hundreds, if not thousands, of US federal employees have been fired across multiple agencies

14. A recent report by independent architects argues that vital Australian public housing need not be demolished

15. By closing a Portland, Oregon distribution hub, UPS will intensify its reduction of employees who were to have benefited from an "historic" Teamsters contract

16. US President Trump's plan to implement "reciprocal tariffs" aims to establish an economic and political bloc subservient to the US as it deepens its drive to maintain global hegemony vis-a-vis China's growing influence

17. US President Trump pressures Australian President Albanese by proceeding with tariff plans that conflict with earlier assurances of allowing exceptions for Australia

18. How the rebellion by nurses, physicians and other workers in Oregon can spark a far broader movement to defend all the democratic and social rights of the working class of all races, nationalities and immigration status

19. Multimillionaire Austin Beutner's unions-endorsed lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District is not the noble effort to save arts education that it appears to be

20. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly conducted a raid at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, last weekend

21. The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Donald Trump’s health secretary marks a critical milestone in the deepening war on public health and the consolidation of a fascist government in the United States

22. Protests continue across Greece to demand justice for the deaths of 57 people in the 2023 Tempi train crash and an end to a government cover-up

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

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

1. A socialist perspective that explores the tragic deaths of a homeless Detroit woman's children and the outrage of many people who can identify with the mother because they know they are one or two paychecks from a similar catastrophe

2. David Walsh of the World Socialist Web Site interviews musician, journalist, and author Elijah Wald who talks about the economics behind folk and pop music, Dave Von Ronk, and Bob Dylan

3. Bus, tram, and subway services in Berlin, Germany come to a standstill after the Verdi union that represents BVG commuter rail service workers calls a limited 24-hour strike

4. The Rail, Tram and Bus Union representing commuter train workers in Sydney, Australia postpones planned rolling work stoppages for 48 hours to extend negotiations with the state Labor government

5. With union leaders embracing US President Trump's contradictory nationalistic tariffs, East and Gulf Coast dockworkers, who will vote on a contract soon, face significant challenges (such as increasing job losses and more inflation) along with the entire working class

6. President Donald Trump orders a halt to the prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams on bribery charges, in return for Adams agreeing to fully cooperate with the Trump administration’s onslaught on migrants and refugees

7. Daybreak photo essay at the World Socialist Web Site:  the physically taxing work of Sri Lanka's Nattami who manually load, unload and transport goods

8. To keep corporate profits growing, Brazil's pseudo-leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, implements austerity measures aimed at the poor and working class 

9. New York University, one of the largest private universities in the United States, has made clear its intentions to fully comply with the fascistic policies of the Trump administration

10. Posturing as Captain Canada, Ontario, Canada's Premier Doug Ford, endorsed by the Unifor union, calls for a snap election to secure a cynically-motivated mandate

11. A continuing cost of living crisis coupled with government austerity measures that reduce workers' real wages is creating enormous feelings of social opposition in Turkey

12. In line with other governments tilting rightward around the world, Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government introduces a Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill in the UK to present itself as clamping down on “illegal” migration

13. A video of an online exchange between an Israeli “social media influencer” and two nurses at in Sydney has triggered an outpouring of hysteria from the Australian political and media establishment because of the nurses' backward, reactionary statements

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

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

1. A new era of colonial barbarism and brutality: "We’re going to have Gaza,” Trump said. “We don’t have to buy. There’s nothing to buy. We will have Gaza. ... We’re going to take it.”

2. Sowing complacency, Jacobin magazine, the main media outlet of the phony-left Democratic Socialists of America, deceives its readers about the threat of fascism and dictatorship posed by the second Trump administration

3. In direct defiance of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, five US states (Indiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas) introduce legislative measures to block undocumented children from attending public schools

4. In Detroit, Michigan early Monday morning, a girl aged two and a boy aged nine froze to death as they slept with their homeless family, who had been denied help, inside a van that lost heat when it ran out of gas

 

Tateona Williams, 29, speaks to WXYZ-TV, Detroit

5. By packing a courtroom for the ostensible purpose of learning how much hospitals were paying scabs to replace striking Oregon Nurses, the union that represents them is really promoting illusions that corporate politicians want to help them

6. A government document leaked to the LA Times describes plans for an eminent large-scale immigration raid on immigrants in Los Angeles by ICE (the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency)

7. Tensions among rivals exacerbated by US political pressure leads to the impeachment of the Philippines' vice-president, Sara Duterte

8. Beset by rising costs of living, 900 medical laboratory workers at private companies across New Zealand go on a token two day strike

9. New Zealand's government and media greet an impending strategic partnership between the Cook Islands and China with alarm

10. The University of Munich in Germany cancels an engagement that would have allowed the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestine to present a lecture to its students

11. Promoted as a "duel," Sunday evening's debate between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz revealed that both establishment candidates, standing in Germany's federal election, tried to outdo each other from the right because they fundamentally agreed on every issue

12. Claims by the establishment and the pseudo-leftist media that the Super Bowl performance by rap musical artist, Kendrick Lamar, represented some sort of rebuke of US President Donald Trump are absurd

13. A Costco worker in Los Angeles speaks to the World Socialist Web Site to describe his disenchantment with the Teamsters union and its betrayal of its members and why he will vote against their sellout deal

14. Lie:  tariffs will save American workers' jobs. Truth:  unity of workers across national lines will save all workers' jobs

15. Turkish President Erdoğan’s government escalates anti-democratic crackdowns on his political rivals

16. Students and faculty at Cornell University host an expert panel to discuss how to address the US Trump administration's attacks on immigrants and democratic rights, and the US government's transformation into a dictatorship

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

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

1. What can we do about the despised “slave catchers” of our time, directed by the would-be dictator Donald Trump?

 A poster from Boston, Massachusetts, 1851

 

 

Park Rangers describe events, including the formation of vigilance committees, in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1854

2. The Trump White House escalates its war on public health by announcing a drastic reduction in research grants to major universities from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

3. Playing one location against another is an age-old trick used by the establishment political parties and trade unions to divide workers, limit resistance to fruitless protests and prevent any effective, united struggle: the case of Volkswagen and the IG Metall union in Germany

4. Coinciding with workplace raids by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, management at Detroit's automakers, with the support of the UAW, implement intimidating surveillance and security at US plants

5. Insulting details begin to emerge from the secretive sellout contract arranged between Costco and the Teamsters union to quash a strike of Costco workers

6. Witch hunt:  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party government in Australia ramps up its persecution of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

7. Less than two weeks after ordering the detention of as many as 30,000 undocumented people at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Trump administration’s broader aim has become clear. It is arrogating to itself the power to jail anyone it pleases in what amounts to an offshore torture center subject to no legal restraints

8. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells an emergency summit that US President Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to annex Canada is a “real thing"

9. The national implications of the results of by-elections held recently in Melbourne, Australia spell trouble for the political establishment and the Labor Party

10. After rejecting another sellout contract, Providence hospital nurses in Oregon speak to the World Socialist Web Site about their struggle and US President Trump

11. Indifference greets a speech by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake telling Sri Lankans to share their country's economic burden in a time of crisis

12. Australian coal miners fear being forced to pay the price of financial speculators' reckless and speculative machinations

13. Once again, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate against racism, the neo-fascist AfD party and the shift to the right by the entire political establishment in Germany; reporters from the World Socialist Web Site speak to some of the protesters

14. Speaking as a king, US President Donald Trump explains that the Palestinian people he is seeking to rid Gaza of will not be allowed to return to their homes... and Israel makes plans to renew its onslaught against Gaza

15.  Diagnostic technicians at the University of Michigan medical system in Ann Arbor are being presented with a tentative contract by union officials that opens the door for an intensification of attacks on their rights by hospital management

16. People in countries around the world, including within the United States of America, scramble to figure out how to cope with President Trump's imperious tariffs 

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

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

1. Democrats and their allies do nothing to stop President Donald Trump's escalating fascist assault on constitutional rights and legal norms

2. Under the cover of the Gaza ceasefire and support from the US Trump administration, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launches genocidal attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank

3. Imperialist and regional powers that backed the war that toppled the Assad regime in Syria are helping the new regime, whose roots are in al-Qaeda, gain international legitimacy

4. The results of two state by-elections recently held in Melbourne, provide further evidence of mounting working-class discontent with Australia's Labor Party

5. The defense ministers of Australia and the United States meet in Washington, DC to further solidify the integration of their militaries in a lead-up to an anticipated offensive against China

6. A “ten-point plan“ of the Green party candidate for chancellor in Germany, Robert Habeck, makes a mockery of  the Green Party's posturing as a defender of refugees and human rights

7. With no help from police, outraged residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, chase away Nazi demonstrators emboldened by the Trump presidency

8. After two years of negotiations, the Association of Flight Attendants union representing Alaska Airlines flight attendants has announced that a virtually unimproved tentative agreement is ready to be voted on 

9. Striking healthcare workers from eight Providence hospitals in the US state of Oregon have overwhelmingly rejected their union's latest insulting contract offer

10. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the Detroit-based Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice file lawsuits on behalf of five anti-genocide protestors who were arrested and banned by the University of Michigan last year

11. The US states of Alabama and Texas ramp up executions of their prisoners after President Trump lifted a moratorium on federal executions put in place by the Biden administration and after he signed an executive order titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety"

12. Delusional and channeling the aesthetic and political demands of Adolf Hitler:  US President Trump targets the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

13. Where profits are privatized, while risks and losses are socialized:  With the help of Democrats in Sacramento, California's insurance industry abandons the state's victims of wildfire disasters

14. The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee in the UK proposes a resolution to help Royal Mail delivery workers oppose brutal restructuring programs under new owners

15.  The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) organization in Australia issues a statement to guide students at a time of historical crisis when the world is lurching toward fascism and nuclear world war

16. A consequence of global warming: the impact of January’s Eowyn cyclone exposes the vulnerability of Western Ireland's rural electricity distribution system

17. Why does an exhibition at Tate Britain, The 80s: Photographing Britain, fail in its understanding of such a critically important decade?

18. The complicity and criminality of various governments, particularly the United States and Italy, is exposed by the recent arrest and subsequent release, due to a "procedural error," of a Libyan warlord

19. Doctors at three hospitals in New York City, the Jacobi Medical Center, the North Central Bronx Hospital, and the Harlem Hospital Center—have rejected a sellout contract proposed by their union

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

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

1. Recent events indicate the likelihood of a deadly variant of bird flu spreading through society. Why aren't we prepared?

2. California governor Newsom's submissive meeting with President Trump in Washington, DC  is more proof there is no genuine opposition to fascism within the US ruling class

3. 65,000 federal workers agree to leave their jobs as part of a massive downsizing operation imposed by the White House and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

4. Fareed Armaly to the Berlin Academy of Arts: "To maintain my voice as an artist and speak meaningfully... I must decline this award"

5. Under the guise of combating antisemitism, Australia's Prime Minister Albanese delivers "anti-hate speech" laws with draconian mandatory punishments for offenses

6. More consequences of global climate change: flooding devastates Northern Queensland, Australia

7. Unions representing rail workers in Sydney and New South Wales, Australia resume toothless work stoppages, as a nine-month enterprise bargaining dispute with the state government continues

8. The "Christmas miracle" contract for German Volkswagen workers that was to be the envy of other workforces in Germany is now revealing itself as a betrayal that will result in huge job losses

9. Canada's foreign minister appears not to have fully heard US President's Trump's criminal call to seize Gaza and empty it of Palestinians. Could it be because Canada (with the US) has been a willing participant in Israel's genocide since October 7, 2023?

10. What is the establishment hiding in its analysis of US President Trump's global tariff war?  How about its influence on currency markets, where as much as $7.5 trillion a day is traded? Or the crypto market bubble?

11. Over 150 students, workers and community members attend a meeting at the University of Michigan to discuss what should be done to address the school's attacks on free speech and democratic rights

12. This week's mass shooting in Sweden, called "an inferno," was the worst in its history. Might this have anything to do with the country's transformation into a "free market paradise" and resulting severe consequences over the past three decades?

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

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

1.  With complete disregard for legality and democratic process, the US President Trump grants an ignoramus and the world's richest man extraordinary authorities

2. Even as the US media pretends to be shocked and outraged by US President Trump's vision of transforming Gaza (and presents it as a half-baked idea), Israel hops to implement it

3. Students in Los Angeles, California continue to demonstrate in defense of immigrants

4. In a public statement, the Educators Rank-and-File Committee calls for a broad mobilization of teachers, school support staff, students, parents and wider sections of the working class to oppose Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign and to defend the rights of all children to a safe and high quality public education

5. Continuing news about protests against The Trump administration's attacks on immigrants is being updated at the World Socialist Web Site

6. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is greeted with delight by US President Trump and his gang following his "big stick" diplomatic tour of Latin America. Among Rubio's achievements: the fascist dictator of El Salvador offers cheap and convenient prison services for deported immigrants and criminals from the US

7. The Green party candidate for chancellor in Germany's federal elections, Robert Habeck, embraces core demands of the fascistic AfD party by calling for an expansion of attacks on refugees

8. With historically huge job and benefit cuts looming, it is becoming clear that Volkswagen autoworkers were deceived by the last contract "won" by the IG Metall union and the Volkswagen Group Works Council

9. The World Socialist Web Site urges nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers at Providence hospitals in Oregon to reject their union's sellout contract to build independent, democratically controlled rank-and-file committees

10. A walkout of 10,000 Kroger-affiliated King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado is an opening act to an intensification of the class struggle under Trump’s rule

11. Director Robert Eggers' Nosferatu-- is a technically accomplished, but spiritually and intellectually impoverished film

12.  The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's refusal to criticize Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of the Middle Eastern Gaza Strip, amounts to an endorsement of one of the most heinous violations of international law

13. In Australia, members of the Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee join with members of the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee to defend Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah who is the victim of a mounting Zionist-led media and government witch hunt

14. Economic "vultures" and opportunistic politicians circle to exploit the wealth of Mozambique following months of mass nationwide protests, and the crooked election of Daniel Chapo as the country's president

15. Many Germans are being hit by huge rent increases after two major property companies, Deutsche Wohnen and Vonovia, merge

16. More than 4,500 workers are expected to lose their jobs after the online retail giant Amazon closes all of its facilities in Quebec, Canada after suffering legal setbacks in its efforts to block workers' unionization efforts

17. After having his home raided, Austrian police arrest the British independent journalist Richard Medhurst

 A video posted yesterday by Richard Medhurst

18. Resisting police barricades and participating in silent marches, thousands of mourning people in Turkey commemorate the second anniversary of the devastating earthquakes which destroyed so many of their homes and killed at least 60,000 people

19. Hypocrisies of the UK Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers union leaders are spotlighted by their refusal to take any action to challenge the Gaza genocide

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

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

1. What do US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu intend to do with surviving Palestinians? Send them to Egypt? Jordan? Indonesia?  Will Arab countries help them complete their ethnic cleansing of Gaza? Also, Trump tries to "buy insurance" against being assassinated by Iran

2. A Los Angeles pseudo-leftist's ploy will channel popular opposition to federal crackdowns on immigrants into the dead-end politics of the Democratic Party, leaving immigrant workers vulnerable

3. US President Trump's megalomaniacal plan to remove and scatter Palestinians from Gaza: a perspective on American imperialism abandoning any pretense that its foreign policy is governed by international law

4. Singer and songwriter Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025)

Marianne Faithfull sings John Lennon's song, Working Class Hero, in 1995 

5. The Ukrainian secret service SBU ramps up arrests of Ukrainian youth and workers opposing the ongoing forced conscription of young men into the "meat-grinding" NATO proxy war against Russia

6. In the US state of Kentucky juvenile justice system, a 350-pound guard breaks the arms of two juvenile inmates whose combined weight was less than half of his, within one day

7.  Major newspapers and television networks in the US ignore tens of thousands of people demonstrating across the country against the government's attacks on democratic rights; the World Socialist Web Site reports on some of them

8. Argentina’s fascist President Javier Milei makes moves to militarize his country's borders with Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil

9. The US Trump administration has begun a multi-pronged plan to gut the US Department of Education and take control of its $80 billion budget

10. Without allowing a parliamentary vote, and fearful of US President Trump's "America First" directives, the French National Assembly approves Prime Minister François Bayrou’s austerity budget to fund the French army and service France’s unsustainable state debt of over €3 trillion

11. As a result of austerity measures imposed by the Labour government, a wave of mass job losses is engulfing UK universities

12.  The Canadian establishment, seeking to protect corporate profits and insure that workers bear any costs, reacts to the US Trump administration's destabilizing tariff threats with vulgar and reactionary nationalist tub-thumping

 13. US President Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs gives the Australian ruling class the jitters

14. An open letter at the World Socialist Web Site warns the American Conference of Irish Studies, gathering in Savannah, Georgia this month, against making the mistake of installing Aidan Beatty as its president

15. The fraudulent defense of New South Wales, Australian health workers by their union leaves them in the lurch

16. A welcome modern biography of the US abolitionist Charles Sumner who went beyond the cautious and insipid platitudes of others by demanding that slavery be completely wiped out of existence 

 

When hope of any conciliation between the North and the South was crushed making Civil War in the US inevitable:  Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner in the US Senate in 1856

17. Making the working class pay more during a recession: New Zealand's right-wing coalition government reduces spending on school lunches from $8 to $3 per meal

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

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

1. US President Trump fully embraces the Israeli genocide by calling for the complete ethnic cleansing of the Gaza strip, the leveling of all its buildings, and the annexation of the territory by the United States

2. The US Democratic Party responds to President Trump's construction of a fascist state with silence and paralysis

3. A billionaire developer and former Democratic mayoral candidate, Rick Caruso, exploits the crisis created by Los Angeles' wildfires by unveiling Steadfast LA, a nonprofit organization ostensibly dedicated to rebuilding the city and speeding up its recovery

4. A comprehensive study reports that already extremely acute social inequality and long-term health consequences in Brazil have been exacerbated by COVID-19

5. European heads of government meet in Brussels to investigate countermeasures to US President's "America First" policies and to agree on an historic rearmament of the continent and a continuation of the NATO war in Ukraine against Russia

6. China retaliates to US tariffs on its exports

7. Turkey in political crisis under President Erdoğan’s heavy-handed leadership: opportunistic pseudo-leftists turn to supporting the right-wing reactionary Republican People’s Party (CHP)

8. Anti-vaccine huckster, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s confirmation as Trump administration’s Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States appears to now be a done deal

9. An expert Australian cricket commentator, Peter Lalor, is fired for mentioning the Gaza protests on his private X (Twitter) account and making Jewish people "feel unsafe" simply with the sound of his voice in his public broadcasts

10. High school students in East Los Angeles in the United States walk out of class to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s policies of arrest, detention and deportation of immigrant workers and their families

11. After the mass resignation of staff specialist psychiatrists over a pay dispute, the New South Wales Ministry of Health in Australia starts moving some of its mental health patients to private hospitals

12. In a popular blog in New Zealand, The Daily Blog, its editor, Martyn Bradbury, slanders genuine socialists by promoting the theory promoted by associates of Trump’s fascist advisor Steve Bannon, that COVID-19 was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China (a theory which has served to blame China for the pandemic and divert attention from the homicidal “let it rip” policies pursued by governments around the world)

13. Trump loyalists within the US Department of Justice and the FBI move to purge senior officials-- not only to re-write the history of January 6, 2021, but to lay the foundations for a presidential dictatorship

14. The latest in a series of actions by US healthcare workers since the beginning of the new year:  nurses at the University Medical Center in New Orleans begin a two-day strike

15. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles was, with the exception of a speech by singer-songwriter Chapell Roan, a commercial for the giant record companies far removed from everyday life as most of the world experiences it

16. Striking nurses in the US state of Oregon have their power split by separate agreements being negotiated on their behalf by their union, the Oregon Nurses Association

17. Many questions go unanswered after an Ohio nurse is blamed for the disappearance and death of an elderly patient from an understaffed rehabilitation facility

18. The administration of Milwaukee Public Schools suspends an elementary school teacher, Alondra Garcia, after a Trump-supporting parent complains about her offering district-approved immigrant rights resources to her students' families

19. What should  people opposed to the rise of the fascistic AfD party in Germany do after going home from protests?

20. Trotskyist renegade Alex Steiner's abominable hatred of genuine Marxism makes him fall prey to an anti-communist agent provocateur

21. In a flurry of executive actions, US President Trump nominates witch-hunting Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to be ambassador to the United Nations, orders the cancellation of student visas and threatens to deport students whom it slanders as “perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence", and launches investigations of universities it accuses of tolerating anti-Semitic behavior

22. Hoping to “reset” UK-EU relations, UK Prime Minister Starmer meets with European ministers in Brussels to declare his support of mutual defense, and to find a way to cooperate with the US Trump administration

23. Among draconian rules that attack welfare beneficiaries in the UK, the Labour government is putting forward proposals that will see long-term sick benefits claimants forced to look for work as a condition for receiving sickness payments

24. In a public statement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) expresses its gratitude to students protesting the US Trump administration's attacks on immigrants and democratic rights but advises them to avoid the dead end of seeking reform from capitalist institutions

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

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

1. A dress rehearsal for more? At the behest of billionaire Elon Musk, the US Trump administration (relying on the impotence of Democrats, and a corrupt Supreme Court) illegally shuts down two government agencies, telling their workers to stay at home

2. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: "we... have already changed the face of the Middle East.... I believe that working closely with President Trump, we can redraw it even further"

3. US President Trump's pause on some tariffs does not mean his global trade war is over, or even “paused”

4. US President Trump's tariff threats send shock waves throughout the world's corporations, governments, central banks, financial investors, and major think tanks

5. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Panama to press demands for US domination of the Panama Canal

6. A major escalation of the attack on democratic rights that provokes growing protests: Texas Governor Greg Abbott's “memorandum of understanding” grants Texas National Guard soldiers the authority to make immigration-related arrests across the state

7. Workers at the Kroger-owned grocery chain King Soopers in Colorado have authorized a strike action for February 6

8. Establishment institutions in Germany coalesce to target mandatory worker sick leave for elimination

9. Holocaust survivor and opponent of the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, Rene Lichtman (1938-2025)

Rene Lichtman speaks to Jerry White of the World Socialist Web Site in 2024

10. Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake outlines pland for a sweeping privatization and downsizing of his country's public sector in line with IMF austerity demands

11. Garrett Epps' book Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America provides insight into why US President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is an effort to repeal the legal foundation underlying the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution

12. Veteran alto saxophonist and jazz composer Charles McPherson speaks with the World Socialist Web Site about music, history, and the human condition

13. In a massive voter turnout United States Postal Service (USPS) city letter carriers overwhelmingly reject a sellout contract proposal

14. New data shows how soaring rents and home mortgage payments in Australia are contributing to its population's exponentially increasing economic stress

15.  To bolster her crisis-ridden regime, Peru’s hated President Dina Boluarte signals her administration's unqualified subservience to Washington, big mining corporations, and global finance capital

16. A general assembly initiated by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Berlin, Germany’s Humboldt University resolves to protect education by fighting government austerity plans

17. How survivors of the devastating Los Angeles fires would be helped if genuine socialists governed

18. What's up with the water industry in England and Wales?

19. In the United Kingdom, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) agrees to reforms intended to set the stage for a major restructuring of Royal Mail to be locked in place for new owners

19.  San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help

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

1. US President Trump tells lies to escalate a global trade war by imposing tariffs on its three largest trading partners

 2. Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, DC to strategize plans to redraw the map of the Middle East

3. The World Socialist Web Site interviews an immigrant and refugee support worker about immigrant raids being conducted in the Chicago, Illinois area by the Trump administration

4. Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate against the return of fascism in Germany, after the AfD political party secures a majority with its votes in the Bundestag

5. Remembered as the quietly offbeat but immensely talented member of the Band, Garth Hudson, the Band's last surviving member dies (1937-2025)

6. Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee members in Australia issue statements in defense of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah who is facing a mounting Zionist-led media and government witch hunt 

7. Defending the rights of everyone regardless of where they were born:  a massive increase of workers and students demonstrate across the United States to defend immigrants targeted by the Trump administration

8.  A return to the Dark Ages: under US President Trump's executive orders, government websites go dark and public health datasets are entirely erased to appease his reactionary war on "Wokeism"

9. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union bureaucracy defies Daimler Truck Detroit Axle plant workers at a Detroit, Michigan suburb to secure a sellout contract

10. Two aviation disasters in three days are painful reminders of how poor air traffic controller staffing impacts public safety in the United States

11. Opal Australian Paper in Victoria, Australia, a subsidiary of a an international conglomerate, has locked out its entire manufacturing workforce for three weeks after its workers began a strike

10. The Santa Ana, California Unified School District school board defies angry protests to move ahead with layoffs of elementary and high school educators, counselors, social workers and support staff

11. The mysterious death of a construction worker in Brisbane, Australia has been the subject of a corporate media blackout and silence by the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU)

12. Samoa’s director general of health denounces Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments in the US Senate last week about the country’s 2019 measles epidemic as “a complete lie”

13. The first execution in the United States this year: the state of South Carolina snuffs out the breath and life of Marion Bowman, Jr.

14. Thousands of USA workers are slated to lose their jobs as part of an effort by transnational automakers to reduce costs and control markets, supply chains and profits, particularly in the emerging electric vehicles (EV) market

15.  Contract bargaining talks begin for approximately 170,000 Deutsche Post mail delivery employees in Germany

16. A recent event in Michigan that presented performances of century-old compositions confirm George Gershwin’s stature as the greatest American composer of the 20th century and one of the century’s greatest the world over

17. The London Times newspaper calls for the UK to spend more on defense and accuses the Labour government of betrayal

18. After seizing the city of Goma and much of the region's mineral wealth, the M23 militia, supported by 4,000 Rwandan troops, continues its brutal advance within the Democratic Republic of the Congo

19.  San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help

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

1. Joseph Kishore: Collision over Washington: The Political issues and unanswered questions behind the DC airline disaster

2. Drawing a blueprint for the evisceration of mail delivery workers' jobs and working conditions: a commission tasked by Canada's Liberal government with recommending how the operations of Canada Post should be restructured begins in Ottawa

3. A report in the prestigious medical journal Lancet makes it clear that the Israeli war in Gaza is not just a war, but a genocide

4. Reports of excessive violence and executions of members of religious minorities are increasing following the seizure of power by the Western-backed Islamist HTS militia in Syria

5. Brazilian immigrants to the United States describe their nightmare deportation flight back to Brazil

6. Writer/director Payal Kapadia, speaks to the World Socialist Web Site about her film, All We Imagine as Light, which earned her the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024

7. "Hi Viz" rules contribute to the brutal working conditions endured by rail workers on freight carriers in the United States

8.  While Wall Street tries to recover losses incurred after the embarrassing debut of the AI app, DeepSeek, illusions that had contributed to an irrational exuberance for US-based tech stock are now gone

9. Retribution against peaceful protests: the first ever suspension of a legacy student organization takes place at the University of Michigan

10. Right-wing media pundits, Zionists and government ministers in New Zealand launch a campaign to demonize the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, which has coordinated dozens of protest actions against the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza

11. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party government in Australia throws its full weight behind the mounting Zionist-led media demonization of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, a pro-Palestinian academic

12. High profile artists and theater companies protest New South Wales high school curriculum reforms that undermine art, drama, and music education in the Australian state

13. Princes Food management have threatened workers at their UK operations that they will respond to further strikes by withdrawing a derisory 3 percent pay offer and potentially transferring production and jobs overseas

14. A campaign statement from the Sozialistische Gleichheitspaertei (SGP) in Germany: The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!

15.  San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help

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