1. The US Trump administration is following a clear blueprint for dictatorship, modeled on Hitler’s fascist regime

2. US attacks in Yemen result in the deaths of 53 and the wounding of over a hundred people, mostly children and women

3. Pennsylvania and New York State steelworkers in the US demonstrate their determination to fight by rejecting the latest sellout contract devised by their employer, ATI Incorporated, and its hirelings in the United Steelworkers union bureaucracy

4. The first major legal challenge to Trump’s executive orders on speech and dissent is filed by attorney Eric Lee and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Council in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York

5. As he enters office, Canada’s new prime minister, ex-banker Mark Carney, apes the US President Donald Trump  by promising a “new era of fiscal responsibility” while attacking vital government programs

6. Ranting before his own appointees and aides at the US Department of Justice, President Donald Trump threatens to jail his political opponents in the Democratic Party and declares that criticism of himself on television and in the corporate media should be “illegal”

7. Empowered by the Trump administration and with the complicity of the Democratic Party, US immigration police are detaining and deporting legal tourists, multi-decade residents and visa holders in violation of court orders

8. Jeopardizing the fundamental right of people to lawyers who will represent them without fear of government retaliation: US President Donald Trump targets a second law firm two days after a federal judge holds up his executive order intended to destroy the firm that represented Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election campaign

9. Damaging storms across the United States indicate that its peak tornado season seems to be arriving earlier in the year as a result of climate change

10. The mass movement of young people and workers that broke out two years after the Tempi train collision has government officials, political leaders, and trade union bureaucrats in Greece scrambling to react

11. The US Trump administration announces the destruction of
hundreds of jobs and the effective elimination of seven long-standing US federal offices that have been targeted for political reasons

12. As the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk-yeol draws to an end, South Korea's political crisis remains with its divisions in ruling circles deepening, economic conditions worsening, and geopolitical tensions rising

13. Six years after a terrorist's mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, public officials hypocritically condemn Islamophobia while supporting the Gaza genocide and the fascist administration of Donald Trump in the United States

14. Germany's Greens reveal themselves to be ready to support the gigantic military rearmament program (the largest since Hitler) proposed by the incoming coalition government formed by the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats

15.  Two films that address the current state of healthcare in German and Swiss hospitals fill theater seats at this year's Berlin International Film Festival

16. The exposure of secret files help reveal how the military and political heirs to the terror regimes in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s have once again been brought to the center of political developments

17. Calling the National Health Service “the world’s largest quango”, the UK Labour Health Secretary wants to accelerate its privatization plans by bringing US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE program to Britain

18. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality campaign at a Gaza genocide protest in London, UK to demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil by the Trump administration in the United States

19. Australian pathology workers, facing obstruction by their union bureaucracy, are still eager to fight against pay cuts, chronic staffing shortages, and unsafe working conditions

20. The US Trump administration issues an unhinged global questionnaire aimed at intimidating university researchers who collaborate with any projects deemed inimical to the Maga-fascists' goals

21. Recent studies highlight an alarming trend of sharply rising violence occurring in Australian public schools

22. Titling its meeting "Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the Working Class Against Trump’s Dictatorship! Defend the Right to Public Education!,” the Educators Rank and File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality convene online to address the urgent crisis in public education and attacks on democratic rights under the US Trump administration. As Thomas Jefferson famously argued, an educated populace is the most effective defense against tyranny!

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

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1. The Democrats' Enabling Act: given the opportunity to cut off funding for the US federal government, the Democrats instead ensured that Trump's administration remained fully operational

2. A genuine fight against the growing integration between Silicon Valley and the far-right cannot be waged through the US Democratic Party or its pseudo-leftist satellites

3. US President Donald Trump's national school voucher program is an unprecedented diversion of public funds into private hands

4. Canadians speak to the World Socialist Web Site about US President Donald Trump's tariffs that target Canada and threaten tens of thousands of jobs across North America 

5. The US Department of Homeland Security arrests a second student at Columbia University for the "crime" of speaking out and protesting against the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza

6. Although a spate of "anti-semitic" attacks in Australia have been exposed as a fraud, knee-jerk "hate speech" laws created to address them are retained

7. The governor of Virginia in the United States commutes the sentence of a police sergeant who disobeyed use of force rules and killed a man in 2023

8. The mayor of Miami Beach proposes to terminate a lease agreement and discontinue thousands of dollars of financial support to an independent film theater that screened the Academy Award-winning, pro-Palestinian documentary No Other Land

9. Some 26,000 rural public health workers in India's state of Kerala, simultaneously exploited and lauded as "front-line warriors," complete their fifth week of strikes

10. Recent reports indicate that the US and Israeli governments have opened up discussions to illegally relocate Palestinians to territories in Africa. Meanwhile, no water or food has entered Gaza for almost two weeks

11. The Socialist Equality Party calls on the working class to fight the IMF-dictated austerity measures being enacted by the Sri Lankan government

12. A union official betrays a promise to block a Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee resolution to defend the academic and author being persecuted in Australia, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

13. Urgent action is required by the working class to halt the the Trump administration's intention to privatize the United States Postal Service (USPS)

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

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1. Gearing up for a presidential run, California Governor Gavin Newsom is throwing the working class under the bus while offering an olive branch to fascists

2. A brave political science professor at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka:  "we are facing a level of influence that we cannot resist individually. There is a force being exerted upon us that even university teachers struggle to withstand"

3. Russian troops are on the verge of recapturing all territory seized by Ukraine in Kursk last summer, imparting an air of crisis to calls by US President Donald Trump for a 30-day ceasefire in the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine

4. Led by Fox News, sections of the Detroit media want the mother who lost two of her children while sheltering in a freezing van in February to be charged and held responsible

5. On the same day as the arrest of nearly 100 members of Jewish Voice for Peace at Trump Tower in New York City, Columbia University moves to expel or suspend nearly two dozen students for participating in protests against the Gaza genocide

6. Workers at the Dana auto parts plant in Warren, Michigan denounced Trump’s efforts to deport the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

7. Markets are sharply down as a result of the increasing chaos in the US economy and fears of a recession due to the Trump administration's enthusiasm for targeting "friend and foe" alike with trade tariffs

8. The Australian Electoral Commission's decision to keep the Socialist Equality Party off federal election ballots underscores the urgent need for workers and young people to fight for an alternative to the status quo, in which the major parties are both telling the same lies to justify shutting down any criticism of their program of war and austerity

9. The Australian Labor government presses ahead with its plans to make way for lucrative privately owned construction by evicting residents from public housing in Sydney

10. Anonymous sources report that the Trump administration is planning to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (used to detain and deport thousands of people without a hearing, including during World War I and II) as part of it’s ongoing criminal deportation operations

11. Despite its blazing colors and general elegance, Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, The Room Next Door, is at heart a misguided, melancholy film

12. Peru's Dina Boluarte ranks as the most unpopular president in the world, and not a day goes by without corruption or political scandals with far-reaching effects on society

13. How New Zealand's colonial oppression contributes to the appalling poverty and under-development in the Cook Islands and throughout the Pacific

14. A former Boeing machinist tells the World Socialist Web Site about the real culture within Boeing, including intimidation by management, the fecklessness of the union, and a callous attitude toward the health and well-being of the workforce

15.  Eleven people, including six students, have now been arrested and charged for participating in a protest against the genocide in Gaza at Case Western Reserve University last November

16. The coalition federal government being formed between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats will be the most right-wing German government since the fall of the Third Reich

17. "Stop the rearmament of Germany! Socialism, not war!" A statement from German members of the Socialist Equality Party 

18. Following a series of wildcat strikes and protests by municipal workers across Turkey in recent months, hundreds of struggling municipal workers in Istanbul stage a mass protest for their unpaid wages despite an attempted ban

19. Just an act: the pseudo-leftist Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to establish “a Chilcot-style inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza”

20. How UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is turning to his bureaucratic partners in the trade unions to suppress the class struggle in the name of “national unity”

21. How Germany, France, England, and the other European governments intend to reduce their military dependence on the US by implementing unprecedented attacks on their own workers

22. An appeal from David North on behalf of the World Socialist Web Site, the voice of the Socialist Equality Party and genuine socialism

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

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1. Teachers and workers across the United States must prepare mass actions to stop Trump’s plans to dismantle the Education Department and all other federal social programs

2. The US Trump administration effectively admits that the pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil had committed no crime and was targeted for detention and deportation solely because of his speech

3. Socialist Equality Party leader Jerry White speaks to educators at a Detroit, Michigan school board meeting about US President Trump's attacks on public education and his administration's detention of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

4. Roberta Flack (1937-2025): her best music from a previous era still rings powerfully true today

5. A distinguished scholar at Yale University in the United States, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, is suspended from her position because of allegations by an artificial intelligence-powered far-right website, Jewish Onliner, that she is "a terrorist"

6. Over 1,000 people in New York City denounce the fascist actions of the US Trump administration and the complicity of the Democratic Party in the Gaza genocide and activist Mahmoud Khalil’s detention

7. Bill 89, inspired by the actions of the federal Trudeau government, is being used to arbitrarily rob workers in Quebec, Canada of the right-to-strike

8. Recent maneuvers by the state of Oklahoma to deny public education to undocumented children epitomize the reactionary trajectory of US capitalism

9. The Works Council and IG Metall union in Germany are just as unwilling to defend auto worker jobs at the Ford subsidiary in Cologne as they were at the one in Saarlouis, which is set to close at the cost of 9,000 jobs

10. Any notion that the UK Labour government and its partners in the trade union bureaucracies can be pressured to
defend education is refuted by the experience of job cuts at Cardiff University in Wales and other universities

11. The ruling elite’s determination to carry on with policies that led to mass death are confirmed by the official response of the Britain's Labour government to the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic

12. A haboob, or massive dust storm, sweeps across the American Southwest causing haze and damage over major cities in Texas

15.  Rally speakers cover up for the Albanese Labor government’s role in the destruction of more than 2,000 university jobs in Australia (especially in the humanities and arts)

16. After the Trump administration declares that it will press ahead with a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum from Australia, ruling circles question the viability of the US-Australia alliance

17. Despite lobbying from US businesses concerned they will spark a recession and threaten thousands of jobs, US President Donald Trump steps up his tariff war

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

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1. Five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the anniversary has been met with near-universal silence from the political establishment and corporate media of every country

2. Eric London, a brilliant leader within the Socialist Equality Party, delivers a stinging lecture to students at Wayne State University in Michigan: Responding to Trump’s attack on immigrants and the threat of dictatorship

 

3. A vicious debate and media storm over whether 340 houses were “built” or “acquired” under a $10 billion housing program underscores the total inadequacy of the Australian Labor government’s “social and affordable” housing policy

4. The arrest and extradition of the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the Hague for crimes against humanity expresses the intensity of conflict of within ruling elites over the country’s geopolitical orientation

5. The US Center for Disease Control’s decision to reinvestigate links between vaccines and autism after decades of scientific inquiry that showed no such connection is a bellwether moment in the anti-public health trajectory of Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

6.  Hundreds rally in New York City on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the United States who had been incarcerated in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for protesting the genocide in Gaza

7. The government of fascistic President Javier Milei in Argentina announces a decree to ram through a new IMF loan program, which will demand even greater cuts to social programs

8. With the US's NATO partnership with the Europe in question since the election of Trump, voices within the Australian establishment call for greater self-reliance and greatly increased military spending

9. Authorities in the US state of Georgia muzzle all opposition to a multi-million dollar military-style police training center in Atlanta

10. President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are pressing ahead with attacks on US federal workers, including the elimination of nearly half the workforce at the Department of Education

11. A strike of Hollywood video game performers concerned about AI's impact on their jobs, returns to a demoralized and much-reduced picket line: what they need and what their union wants are not the same things

12. The declaration of IG Metall bureaucrats in support of a huge increase in armaments spending in Germany makes it clear that the struggle against rearmament and war cannot be waged with, but only against the trade union apparatuses and their control in workplaces

13. The repression of students in the United Kingdom who are protesting Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is being co-ordinated between university managements, the police and counter-terrorism units, and the highest levels of the state

14. An agreement, to integrate the armed forces of the Western-backed Sunni Islamist regime of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Syrian Democratic Forces led by the US-backed Kurdish nationalist forces that control the north-east of the Syria, is a key component of US and Israeli efforts to dominate the Middle East

15. Pseudo-leftist Jeremy Corbyn’s sermonizing in the UK's parliament allows him to pose as an advocate for peace 

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

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1. After blocking all food and humanitarian supplies earlier this month, the Israeli government announces that it will now cut all electricity to Gaza, meaning it will make potable water unavailable

2. The World Socialist Web Site, Socialist Equality Party, and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil!

3. Part of an escalating trend all over the US:  the state of Kentucky has had 234 prison inmates die while in custody between 2020 to 2024 (more than half of whom were in jail without being convicted of the alleged crime for which they were arrested)

4. The death toll among prisoners is mounting while the wildcat strike of New York state prison guards enters its fourth week

5. With NATO fraying because of the US Trump administration's disinterest, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, thought to be the likeliest successor to President Erdoğan, clarifies why his country is making integration into Europe a priority

6. A former governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, Mark Carney, will take over from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a matter of days

7. Royal Mail workers at delivery offices in Scotland tell the World Socialist Web Site about their impossible workloads and why they are against the “Amazon-modeled” pilot scheme being implemented at their workplace

8. Workers in Germany are realizing that their incoming coalition government has already begun to starve public services of much-needed funds to feed the arms industry

9. What is the fine Tesla must pay for the August 1, 2024 death of journeyman electrician Victor Joe Gomez Sr. at its “Gigafactory” in Austin, Texas?

10. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders brings his fraudulent “Fight Oligarchy” tour to Wisconsin and Michigan

11. Parliamentary candidate Melanie Schweizer of the MERA25 political party in Germany is fired and stripped of her civil servant status as a result of a smear campaign against her intended to intimidate and criminalize all those who condemn war and genocide

12. An International Monetary Fund official visiting Sri Lanka exhorts everyone in the impoverished nation to make sacrifices and expect labor unrest to pay for onerous loans

13. Rank-and-file Rolls Royce aircraft engine workers in Indianapolis, Indiana spot nine contemptuous lies that the UAW hoped to hide within a tentative contract agreement to be voted upon this week

14. Without releasing any details on voter turnout or final results, the Teamsters union announces the ratification of a sellout contract for Costco workers in the United States

15. The Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Sydney, Australia calls on the National Tertiary Education Union to hold an urgent campus meeting and rally of staff and students to defend the persecuted academic, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

16.  459 workers at a Nestlé Purina dog and cat food plant in Pennsylvania strike over wages and benefits

17.  UPS, hoping to cut costs while it automates and implements AI technology, has announced a new wave of layoffs that will leave hundreds of workers in multiple states without a job

18. Pseudo-leftists in Spain enthusiastically celebrate the European Union’s €800 billion plan for military rearmament

19. US President Trumps nomination of a a former mining industry executive to head the US Mine Safety and Health Administration presages a major ramping up of attacks on miners

20. An animated film dedicated to nurses, another that focuses on sensations to reveal absurdities of everyday life, a film about surveillance in Iran (but applicable to any modern country), and a fascinating film about "clickworkers"-- are among the more interesting short films shown at this year's Berlin International Film Festival  

21.  New Zealand's foreign minister fires a high-ranking diplomat to the UK for having criticized US President Trump’s negotiations with Russia to reach a ceasefire in Ukraine

22. Anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish graffiti that sparked public hysteria against anti-genocide protesters in Australia are revealed to have been fabricated by criminals with no interest in Middle Eastern affairs

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

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1. In Syria, the Western-backed Haiat Tahrir al-Sham regime’s massacre of religious minorities has escalated, with over 1,000 people killed

2. Congressional Republicans are reportedly pushing for a universal school voucher system as a part of the Trump administration’s plan to shut down the Department of Education and dismantle public education in the US entirely

3. According to a leaked memo, the US Trump administration is directing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to cut 1,000 employees in addition to the 1,300 already let go

4. Protesters-- attending a large rally in Pittsburgh as part of the national Stand Up for Science protests against the US Trump administration’s attack on science-- tell the World Socialist Web Site why they are protesting

5. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality condemns the detention of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because it is a step in the US Trump administration's preparation for dictatorship

6. South Carolina’s execution chamber is the scene of a bloody, gruesome spectacle when death row prisoner Brad Sigmon is killed in the first execution in the United States by firing squad in 15 years

7. Capital respects no borders:  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) will invest $100 billion to make advanced computer chips in the US

8. Mexico's President Sheinbaum enjoys widespread popularity after gaining a month's reprieve from tariffs which the US Trump administration had threatened to impose on her country

9. Electoral members of the Socialist Equality Party continue to speak out against the Australian Electoral Commission’s decision to deny their party official registration

10. Governments in Australia rush to get people back to school and work despite continued flooding and damage following Cyclone Alfred

11. Programs targeting public housing for demolition across Australia are integral to the interests of the ruling elite, among whom, pseudo-leftists seek inclusion

12. Backed by significant mining industry and other business figures, the Labor Party wins the Western Australia state election to retain office for a third consecutive term

13. Award-winning short films at this year's Berlin International Film Festival help illustrate how history and contemporary subjectivism compete to influence creative artists

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

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1. Every major European power is accelerating a frantic program of military rearmament. Every major political party and news outlet is spewing forth lies justifying this explosion of militarism

2. The Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers made this February the worst month for announced job cuts since July 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

3. Melbourne, Australia: in a disturbing escalation of a crackdown on opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, pro-Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh is charged for declaring at a public protest last year that “all Zionists are terrorists”

4. American actor Gene Hackman, one of the finest performers of his generation, (1930-2025)

5. Dryness, poor forest management, difficult terrain, and ignored global warming all contribute to Japan’s largest wildfire in decades

6. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese abandons plans to announce an early federal election after Cyclone Alfred leaves hundreds of thousands without power in Australia

7. A brutal provocation amid heightened military tensions:  the US Trump administration revokes licenses for Chevron and other oil corporations to operate in Venezuela, ending a financial lifeline for the country

8. One among hundreds of thousands experiencing homelessness across Canada, a humanitarian aid worker dies homeless on the streets of its capitol

9. Barnard College administrators at New York City’s Columbia University sic city police on pro-Palestinian students occupying the campus’ library

10. A "sellout" agreement made on behalf of CSX freight rail workers provides modest improvements but provides a two-tier health insurance scheme and anemic wage increases that will be eaten-up by inflation

11. "...like a horror movie."  ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detains a German tourist for over a month in Southern California at a prison run by a for-profit corporation

12. An open letter from the Postal Workers Action Committee in Germany calls for Deutsche Post workers to protect their jobs by rejecting their union's sellout contract 

13. Tens of thousands of angry people around the world insist on having their concerns heard by taking part in “Stand Up for Science” protests

A protester in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday

14. An unvaccinated adult in New Mexico is the second person to die of measles in the United States

15. The Health Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka holds an online meeting to discuss how to oppose wage cuts and growing immiseration exacerbated by IMF-imposed austerity measures

16. “Contra La Jaula de Oro” or “Against the Cage of Gold.” Students at Texas A&M University protest against US President Donald Trump’s fascistic assault on immigrants

17. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality meet at Texas A&M University to discuss how to oppose the mass deportations of immigrants by the Trump administration 

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

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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!

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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!

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1. Vicious, violent and depraved, and plumbing the depths of cultural and political degradation in the United States-- Donald Trump’s address to Congress is the rant of an aspiring Führer

2. US President Donald Trump expands his trade war against the rest of the world

3. Detroit's mayor and political establishment address the city's homeless population with half-measured solutions and lies; what would a socialist solution look like?

4. In a direct attack on democratic rights, US President Donald Trump threatens to unilaterally end all federal funding for “any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests”

5. Part One:  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

6. Concern spreads among autoworkers over the impact of the US Trump administration's tariffs on their jobs

7. Geordie musician Sam Fender's songs summon up social experiences widely ignored in contemporary culture

8. How is one to interpret imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace between Kurdistan rebels and Turkey?

9. Participants attending a meeting of the Macquarie and Western Sydney University rank-and-file committees in Australia call for a campaign to defend the persecuted anti-genocide academic Randa Abdel-Fattah

10. In coalition talks, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats in Germany's government are preparing a huge increase in defense spending and corresponding social cuts

11. The president of Mexico postpones any official response to the imposition of US tariffs with the hope that she can make a "deal" with Trump

12. Further legal challenges to the demolition of vital public housing in the Australian state of Victoria are undermined by a judge's ruling

13. Recent think tank reports describe growing poverty and inequality in Australia

14. Electors speak out against the Australian Electoral Commission’s rejection of the Socialist Equality Party's application for registration as an official political party

15. The Socialist Equality Party in Australia will hold an important public meeting on March 19 entitled “Election ban on the SEP: An attack on democratic rights”

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

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

1. Any association with the Democratic Party is politically fatal for a genuine movement in opposition to the US President Trump’s fascist policies

2. The Trump administration's tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products will roil the North American economy, with workers paying for them in the form of mass layoffs and punishing price hikes 

3. Triggered by the deaths of 15 people, including two children, due to the collapse of a railway station canopy in Serbia, mass protests have been taking place every day for months against the far-right government by President Aleksandar Vučić

4. Rank-and-file opposition grows over the last-minute agreement reached by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy and Rolls-Royce to prevent a strike by 800 aircraft engine workers in Indianapolis, Indiana

5. The US Social Security Administration announces the elimination of 7,000 jobs-- more than 12 percent of the agency’s staff-- as part of the Trump administration’s assault on the federal government workforce

6. In a parliamentary address, the Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake cautions his political opponents, the working class and the rural poor to suppress their growing anger over his implementation of brutal IMF-directed austerity measures

7. Australian elites react to US President Trump's tariff threats

8. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality unequivocally condemns New York's Barnard College at Columbia University and demands it reinstate students who were expelled for protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza

9. Academy award wins for No Other Land and I'm Still Here indicate that a process of radicalization is unequivocally germinating in the US and globally

10. Austria's new government moves forward to implement far-right measures to appease far-right political elements

11. Former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, who had resigned after being pressured by the #MeToo movement in 2021, announces that he will run the office of mayor for New York City

12. Artists and other creative workers denounce an Australian government-sponsored organization's rejection of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino from competing in the 2026 Venice Biennale because of their pro-Palestinian political views

13. Far from defending democratic and social rights, the opposition People’s Party in Thailand postures as progressive, while making every effort to divert growing public discontent 

14. Even after a child dies of measles, the US Department of Health and Human Services head, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. provides an opinion piece to Fox News promote his anti-science views

15. World Socialist Web Site reporters listen to participants of protests against Greece's coverup of the Tempi train disaster

16. Workers respond to Stellantis' plan to close its Luton auto-manufacturing plant in the UK

17. Netanyahu’s murdered Bibas children lie unravels after it was championed by Trump and world’s media

18. Turkish workers occupy mine against privatisation as wildcat strikes continue

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

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

1. Fearing a US-Russia alliance after talks between US President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky break down, a summit of leaders of all the major European powers gather in England to decide how to continue and even escalate war with Russia as quickly as possible

2.  Aiming to starve the population into submission, Israel blocks all food shipments into Gaza

3. Three prominent US senators, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Murphy, and "independent" Bernie Sanders, appear on Sunday television interview programs to defend Ukraine's President Zelensky and the war in Ukraine

4. Imperialist wars are not fought for “democracy” or “self-determination,” “protection” of small nations, “peace,” etc., but for plunder--  how the acquisition of raw materials crucial to the making of semiconductors, batteries and communications systems became an existential question for the United States

Link to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Report, Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy

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 The chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in Germany, Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the result of the 2025 federal election and explains "how the fight against fascism and war must be waged"

6. Thousands gather at 145 national parks across the United States to protest the Trump administration’s mass firing of National Park Service workers

7. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's job cuts and meddling throw US air transportation safety into turmoil

8. The US Trump administration seeks unprecedented powers for the executive branch of government and puts its overt racism on display by attacking America's class-blind “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) culture

9. US President Donald Trump reveals his criteria for “African American greatness” at a White House event commemorating Black History Month

10. Under the pretext of stopping a non-existent “invasion” of immigrants, and on the same day that he signs an executive order declaring English the “official” language of the United States, President Donald Trump orders the further deployment of thousands of armed, combat-ready military forces along the US-Mexico border

11. Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul of New York state in the US announces a tentative agreement to end a wildcat strike by prison guards; three prison inmates were afterwards found dead

12. Members of the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Australia call for an urgent staff meeting and action to defend the persecuted academic, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

13. The New Zealand political and media establishment, being more concerned with geostrategic objectives than humanitarian ones, ratchets up tensions with the Cook Islands as more details about the small Pacific country’s recent cooperative agreement with China are released

14. With the objective of rolling back workplace safety rules and regulations, the US Trump administration picks veteran UPS and Amazon executive David Keeling to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

15. To demonize and scapegoat transgender people for a variety of social ills, and to lay the groundwork for broader attacks on the working class, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, issues a ban on international transgender athletes entering the United States

16. Director Huo Meng wins an award at the Berlin International Film Festival for Living the Land (生息之地), a moving and vivid film portraying rural life in the rapidly urbanizing China of the 1990s

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

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

1.  Thousands of University of California workers are returning to work from their brief strike without having their critical demands resolved

2. US President Donald Trump's "deal" nosedives after he and Vice President JD Vance engage in a publicly televised dress down of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

3. Doug Ford, posturing as a man of the people, wins a third term as premier of Ontario in a campaign dominated by Canadian nationalist tub-thumping

4. The Philippines provides a platform for military exercises aimed at dominating the South China Sea and preparing for war with China

5. The reason for President Trump's proposal to take over the US District of Columbia is of a piece with his administration's attacks on federal workers-- to eliminate anything that stands in the way of building a personalist dictatorship

5. To demand justice for the people who died in the 2023 Tempi train collision and an end to a government cover-up, hundreds of thousands of angry workers and youth stage one of the largest demonstrations in Greek history

6. Walter Salles’ film, I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), which is garnering acclaim as an Academy Award nominee, hits a nerve in Brazil and around the world

7.  To determine if remedial action is warranted, the US Trump administration orders the investigation of  ten major universities where pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the Gaza genocide took place last year

8. The presence of three Chinese warships in international waters off the Australian coast sparks a furor in Australia's media and political establishment

9. In Sri Lanka, trade union bureaucrats attempt to suppress the effectiveness of a strike by thousands of nurses against the IMF austerity measures being imposed by the government

10. Accidental? Or accepted as a cost of business? Adding to record numbers of occupation-related casualties, one of two construction workers in Chicago, electrocuted on the job Tuesday, dies; the other is reported to be recovering in the hospital

11. The Brutalist is a film that deals with weighty subjects in an inadequate and confused way

12. With more than 19,000 people in the US having died this season from flu, why did the US Food and Drug Administration abruptly cancel a preliminary meeting of an expert scientific panel to discuss next year’s flu vaccine?

13. Democratic Party lawmakers in Maryland introduce bills to implement right-wing-motivated restrictions on people wearing masks

14. A senior psychiatrist contacts the World Socialist Web Site to describe how public mental health services have deteriorated in Australia over the past 27 years

15.  Exploited apparel workers making Carnival costumes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil have mere seconds to escape a deadly fire

16. The Socialist Equality Party formally challenges the Australian Electoral Commission for undemocratically rejecting its application to participate in Australian federal elections

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

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

1. Jeff Bezos tells the Washington Post "to adapt"

2. According to a report by a major investment firm, US President Donald Trump’s purge of federal workforce could leave up to one million people jobless in the coming weeks

3. The major issues that 57,000 University of California striking workers must face because they are not just fighting for themselves but for the future of public healthcare and education in the US

4. A worker in Arlington, Texas writes to the World Socialist Web Site to answer the Socialist Equality Party's call to establish workplace and neighborhood committees to defend immigrants and democratic rights 

5. After a month's delay, US President Trump has announced that 25 % tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada will begin next week

6.  In an address to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk delivers a stinging rebuke of Israel's military assault on Gaza

Here is a link to the UN Report on which the rebuke was based

7. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer plans to host a summit of European leaders to digest their failure to influence US President Trump's "America first" focus and to discuss what direction to take if they lose America's help

8. While the struggle to speak freely is not yet over, a student support officer for a high school in New South Wales, Australia is reinstated after being dismissed for having made pro-Palestinian statements on social media

9. What are UK special forces officers trying to hide by blocking every single application from former Afghan commandos referred to them for asylum sponsorship under a resettlement scheme put in place after the Taliban came to power?

10. European leaders react to the possibility that NATO, the military alliance which has dominated transatlantic relations since the Second World War, will lose support from the US Trump administration

11. The World Health Organization releases their latest report on the worsening outbreak of an unknown disease in Central Africa

12. A postal worker in Northern Ireland writes to the World Socialist Web Site about brutal pilot programs being implemented to "Amazonify" the UK's Royal Mail

13. The government of President Erdoğan in Turkey continues its wave of arrests and repression against its political and social opponents

 US socialist Will Lehman calls for all workers to stand with striking workers in Turkey and to call for the release from prison of the rank-and-file Turkish labor leader, Mehmet Türkmen

14. Amid rapidly shifting geostrategic alliances and considerations, the Turkish Erdoğan government welcomes a letter from imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan calling on its Kurdish guerrilla fighters to lay down their arms

15. After a horrible year for many Australian retailers, and part of a broader trend of business failures, the Australian clothing and footwear brand, Rivers, is set to close all of its stores

16. Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz signals the militaristic and authoritarian character of Germany's new federal government by illegally inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a state visit

17. France’s Minister of the Overseas arrives in New Caledonia to resume talks regarding the impoverished and strife-riven French Pacific territory’s political future

18. Attendees at two National Tertiary Education Union branch meetings in Australia pass critical resolutions to defend Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah, a Macquarie University research fellow who has been demonized for opposing the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine

19.  Despite making big profits, the automaking conglomerate Stellantis cheats its workers by cutting their profit-sharing checks by 73%

20. Another union betrayal:  the multimillionaire president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), Harold Daggett, announces the ratification of a master contract for 40,000 East and Gulf Coast dockworkers by declaring, “We now have labor peace for the next six years”

21. Nearly 100 students occupy Milbank Hall, at Columbia University's Barnard College in Manhattan to protest the expulsion of two pro-Palestine students

22. One of the highlights at this year's recently held Berlin International Film Festival is the film Das Deutsche Volk (The German People) which explores complex issues surrounding the aftermath of a right-wing terrorist's attack that took place in Hanau, Germany in February, 2020

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

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

1. As the current negotiated ceasefire draws to a conclusion in Gaza, Israeli leaders call for a renewal of its genocide

2. A budget being adopted by the congressional House of Representatives, that includes devastating cuts in social spending, is designed to implement a social counterrevolution in the United States

3. A fascist attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class:  US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announces that her agency would begin compiling a database of immigrants to “track ... and compel them to leave the country"

4. David Walsh of the World Socialist Web Site anticipates the 97th Academy Awards to be held Sunday night in Los Angeles

5. Facing jail for participating in a failed coup, Brazil's ex-President Jair Bolsonaro gets inspiration and seeks salvation from US President Trump and his fascist allies

6. As part of an aggressive austerity drive, supposedly aimed at reducing the Australian state of Victoria's ballooning debt, the Labor Party government plans to eliminate up to 3,000 public service jobs

7. The UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attempts to appease the demands of US President Donald Trump, with whom he will be meeting today in Washington, by announcing “the biggest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the Cold War”

8. South Korea's Constitutional Court concludes its final hearing in the impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol with a decision expected in mid-March

9. Donald Trump's newly confirmed US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., responds to the death of child by measles with callous indifference and lying

10. How Ontario's Premier Doug Ford and his political party is exploiting his Canadian province's unprecedented healthcare crisis to introduce privatization measures

11. Jerry White of the World Socialist Web Site interviews a resident physician about unionization efforts and work demands at the Detroit Medical Center in Michigan

12. In a 5-3 decision, the US Supreme Court orders a retrial of an Oklahoma death row inmate

13. Excessive punishment being faced by a nurse in New South Wales, Australia (goaded into making reactionary comments online by an Israeli provocateur) appears to be intended (by the highest levels of the state and federal legal authorities) to intimidate anyone making any comments on social media criticizing Israel

14. What are the economic austerity measures being demanded by the IMF and being imposed by Sri Lanka's president? Why are the trade union bureaucrats supporting them?

15. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and Ford Workers Rank-and-File Committee are hosting a meeting Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern to demand an end to Ford’s police raids and to defend democratic rights

16. More than 20,000 teachers have been working without a contract for eight months as the Chicago Public Schools administration of Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former Chicago Teachers Union lobbyist, refuses to accept even the most modest wage and staffing demands of educators

17. About 1,000 nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in New York could begin a strike as soon as Saturday, March 1, against chronic understaffing and low salaries

18. 57,000 University of California workers launch a strike across all 10 campuses and five medical centers

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

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

1. Emblematic of the brutal consequences of US foreign policy: a boat carrying South American migrants sinks, claiming the life of an 8-year-old Venezuelan boy

2. 

 Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders

Barry Grey at the World Socialist Web Site describes the pseudo-leftist Bernie Sanders and his opportunistic "fight the oligarchy" road show:

 On February 21, the [New York] Times published an interview with Sanders under the headline “Bernie Sanders Isn’t Giving Up His Fight.” In it, Sanders advised the Democrats to recognize that “the system is broken, period. And you can’t patch it up a little here and a little there.”

Yet in the next breadth he said that “the best thing we could do is to win over at least two Republicans [sufficient to defeat the budget reconciliation bill in the narrowly divided House]… There are about 15 house districts in America where Republicans won with very slim margins. One of them is in the Omaha area. One of them is in the Iowa City area.”

It would be difficult to devise a more apt definition of the politics of “patching up” the system.

Asked if he regretted his decision to back Biden’s reelection bid until the bitter end, Sanders said: “The reason I stood behind President Biden is that he was supporting an extremely progressive agenda, an agenda which, in fact, did speak to the needs of working people in this country… and I think that’s exactly what the Democratic Party has to do right now.”

This “agenda” included institutionalizing Trump’s “forever COVID” policy, record military spending, an imperialist proxy war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and sharp cuts to Medicaid and social programs. It also included an alliance with the union bureaucracy in betraying and blocking strikes, including a government ban on a rail strike. In backing Biden, the supposed anti-oligarchy fighter vouched for a president who oversaw an 88 percent increase in US billionaire wealth to a total of $5.5 trillion.

3.  The mandate for President Trump's nominee to become the US Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, is already clear:  to transfer the billions presently spent on public schools into corporate-run training, private schools or other for-profit businesses and eviscerate the Enlightenment goals of public education—scientific pursuit, world knowledge and critical thinking

4. President Trump tags podcaster Dan Bongino to become the next Deputy Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chiefly for his unflinching loyalty and fascist politics

5. A 46-day-long strike by 5,000 nurses and other medical workers in Oregon comes to an ignominious end after their union announces their ratification of a sellout labor contract

6. A new film that reaches beyond the usual fare Hollywood delivers within the horror genre, The Substance, "is a heavy-handed statement about beauty standards and the pressure placed on female performers to appear conventionally attractive and youthful"

7. A statement by the Socialist Equality Party in Germany regarding the results of Germany's recent federal elections: how the fight against fascism and war must be waged now

8. A socialist message to all University of California workers going on strike this week

9. A ten-year employee of Costco writes the World Socialist Web Site about worsening working conditions and how the Teamsters union contributes to them

10. Amid a continued blockade of fuel and humanitarian aid by the illegal Israeli occupation in Gaza, at least six babies freeze to death

11. Pathology workers at Australian Clinical Laboratories in the state of Victoria overwhelmingly vote to take protected industrial action against their company’s contract offer which would cut their real wages

12. To demand the reinstatement of workers who were arbitrarily suspended, around 500 workers at Samsung India’s Tamil Nadu household-appliance manufacturing plant have been on strike since February 5

13. As part of new and enhanced security initiatives to be used in all its Dearborn-based manufacturing plants, the Ford Motor Company announces it will routinely allow raids by police and K-9 units

14. Flaws begin to appear in America's economic exceptionalism-- which are never reflected in the underlying reality most Americans experience

15. Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer sets up his own political party and parrots the US president, Donald Trump

16. Mercedes-Benz announces a program codenamed “Next Level Performance” aimed at cutting costs and reducing its workforce to inflate its profits

17.  Ontario, Canada's “tariff war” election

18. With potentially grave consequences for New York City's immigrants, Democratic Party leaders protect its corrupt mayor, Eric Adams, as a concession to the US President Trump

19. UK Royal Mail delivery workers' respond to the way their union conceals the true implications behind work reform schemes

20. Britain’s National Health Service faces an unprecedented winter crisis due to years of systematic underfunding

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

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

1.  World Socialist Web Site Perspective: Three years after the start of the Ukraine war, the narrative used by the imperialist powers to justify their provocation and escalation of the war is being exposed as a pack of lies

2.  Mass immigration raids in Los Angeles mark yet another aggressive step in the Trump administration’s all-out war on workers and democratic rights

3. Confusion and anger mount among federal workers in the United States following the midnight expiration of a DOGE deadline to send an email to justify their jobs

4. A recently published study by a leading corporate-backed think tank suggests that by deliberately wrecking the public health system, the Trump administration is counting on the ensuing rise in death rates to reduce the overall expenses of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, thereby freeing up money for military spending and tax cuts for the wealthy

5. By normalizing retirement age beyond age 70, Spain directs funds away from human needs, while ensuring a large pool of cheap labor

6. New York’s Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul mobilizes 3,500 National Guard soldiers to enter state prisons in response to a wildcat strike by corrections officers triggered by the impending indictment of some for the brutal beating death of an inmate last December

7. New Zealand's government and media generate hysteria over legal Chinese naval exercises conducted in the Tasman Sea

8.  70 key Southern Counties Express truck drivers strike in Los Angeles over draconian working conditions

9. Part of a new stage in the global war against car workers’ jobs: Stellantis' full closure of its van manufacturing facility at Vauxhall in Luton, UK brings an end to 120 years of vehicle production there

10. In an effort to portray “black boyhood,” a film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, obscures important historical issues

11. The New York Times reports that the White House is planning to detain men, women and children on military bases across the United States

12. The South Australian state Labor government in Australia rushes new legislation through parliament to bail out Whyalla Steelworks because of its strategic importance

13. For now, the record rising price of gold and its movement to New York from abroad are the clearest indicators of the impact the US Trump administration's tariffs are having on the global economy

14. A reprieve workers should not take lightly: Stellantis rescinds layoffs at its Toledo, Ohio Jeep-making plant

15. With the imminent installation of Trump acolyte and privatization advocate Linda McMahon as the US Secretary of Education, teacher unions initiate a toothless "email Congress" campaign

16. The socialist Committee for Public Education in Australia issues a statement on behalf of building independent rank-and-file worker committees to fight against the government's poor funding of public education

17. A new round of commission hearings in Ottawa, Canada clarifies its own role in conspiring against the approximately 55,000 postal workers who were forced back to work and robbed of their right to strike by the Trudeau Liberal government last December

18. The pseudo-leftist publication Left Voice publishes two new articles on its website to provide a “left” cover for the trade union bureaucracies and the Democratic Party

19. Will Lehman, the socialist rank-and-file worker who ran for UAW president in 2022, condemns the arrest of union leader Mehmet Türkmen in Turkey where inflation is wiping out workers’ wages while the rich get tax breaks

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

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

1.  The political crisis confronting Germany and Europe deepens after Germany's federal elections conclude with voter support for status quo political parties plummeting

2. In an emergency meeting, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls for mass action to stop the Trump administration’s assault on federal workers

Tom Hall's opening address (approximately 11 minutes)

3. More from Sunday's emergency meeting addressing letter carriers' concerns about layoffs and the privatization of the USPS--  “If Trump’s conspiracy is to be defeated... it can be”

4. Recently confirmed US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is the driving force behind President Trump's purge of leaders from the US military Joint Chiefs of Staff; claiming the Biden administration had previously overlooked him, Trump chooses Air Force general, Dan Caine as the advisory body's new head

5. "Not currently available"-- the BBC pulls the documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone , after complaints from Zionist critics who called it a piece of “propaganda” for Hamas

6. The 48th mass shooting this year in the United States-- a man opens fire at the University of Pittsburgh Memorial Center in Pennsylvania

7. Large-scale reductions in the federal workforce by the US Trump administration deal a severe blow to Native American educational institutions

8. Arrested and imprisoned on trumped-up charges: Montreal-based author and activist Yves Engler, a prominent opponent of Canadian militarism and of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

9. Educators, students and workers deliver more messages of support for Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah who is being unfairly threatened with dismissal by Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia

10. At a town hall meeting held at George Mason University in Northern Virginia, the university's president dissembles, distorts and dodges to justify his campus’s crackdown on the student population’s democratic rights

11. Medical tests raise concerns in Australia that its “Blue Mountains residents have likely been drinking [toxic] PFAS-contaminated water day-in-day out probably for decades”

12. Australian politicians make empty promises to repair the country's deteriorating Medicare health insurance scheme where seeing a doctor without paying an expensive upfront fee has become an increasing impossibility

13. US East and Gulf Coast dockworkers must reject a proposed sellout contract and build an independent rank-and-file committee

14.  Leaders of far-right movements in Europe, Santiago Abascal in Spain, Marine Le Pen in France, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage of the UK, and others, look upon US President Donald Trump as a natural ally

15. Claiming "victory", the Oregon Nurses Association announces it had reached a tentative agreement with Providence Health & Services on behalf of 5,000 Oregon nurses currently on strike

16. Having taken part in the Bundestag elections in Germany, a pseudo-left political party, RIO, obscures and falsify the historical questions and the history of the Trotskyist movement

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

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