1. Joseph Kishore addresses a meeting of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at University of Michigan

 

2. The European Union Commission releases a white paper calling for a staggering increase in EU military spending to prepare Europe for a high-intensity war with nuclear-armed Russia

3. The New York Times revives the thoroughly debunked Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory, which claims that Chinese scientists unleashed the SARS-CoV-2 virus upon the world

4. UK pseudo-leftists surrender to the government's dismantling of social welfare programs

5. By falsifying history, the US Trump administration is attempting to erase any critical thoughts youth may have about American policy in the present, especially the massive growth in economic inequality, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the ever-present threat of war against China, Iran and Russia

6. Responding to a lawsuit filed against it, the US Trump administration seeks to detain and deport Cornell University student Momodou Taal

7. A deep anger and concern over Trump’s bid for dictatorship was a constant at demonstrations Thursday by USPS mail delivery workers across the United States

8. Two more films from this year's Berlin International Film Festival are The Moelln Letters, about neo-Nazi arson attacks in 1992, and The Lie, a digitally restored film that looks at Germany's failure to fully deal with its Nazi past

9. Through massive military spending, the German political establishment seeks to free itself from dependence on the US, to weaken Russia, and to dominate Europe

10. The implementation of military and domestic austerity plans by Germany's incoming coalition government depends on the help of their trade unionist lackeys

11. A rural postal worker writes the World Socialist Web Site to describe how he and his comrades in Canada support German postal workers in their similar struggles

12. California governor Gavin Newsom plays a part in delivering pink slips to 2,300 teachers in California

13. Sanitation workers in Birmingham, UK face a long strike after contract negotiations fail

14. Mass protests against Turkey's turn toward dictatorship will accomplish little unless demonstrators adopt a sound Marxist perspective and program

15. Reports of the ignoramus and world's richest man, Elon Musk, being briefed about Pentagon secrets triggers vociferous denials from the US Trump administration

16. Despite widespread workers’ anger, Sri Lanka's trade union bureaucracies oppose the independent mobilization of the working class against the government’s attack on living and social conditions

17. US federal Judge James Boasberg challenges an increasingly violent and unhinged campaign by President Trump and his coterie of Hitler-loving advisors to assert unlimited executive powers

Trump's Alien Enemies Act

18. Amid a worsening housing crisis, municipal councils in Brisbane, Australia are banning homeless people from their parks

19. Residents from public housing towers across Melbourne, Australia form a neighborhood committee to fight against the state Labor government’s planned demolition of 44 public housing towers

20. Two Sydney, Australia nurses who were baited by an Israeli provocateur online and then subjected to a massive campaign of vilification, get a first day in court

21. The European Court of Human Rights orders the Ukrainian government to compensate the victims of the 2014 Trades Union arson attack by fascist thugs in Odessa

22. After massacring at least 70,000 Palestinians since October 2023, Israel's defense minister issues a statement committing the Zionist regime to annex parts of Gaza if Hamas refuses to release the remaining hostages under its control

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

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

1. In the United States of America: hundreds of migrants are being dragged out of their homes, arrested while making routine appointments with US immigration authorities or intercepted in the street at all hours, often by plainclothes officials, and taken to unknown locations

2. Evidence of corporate negligence and government complicity continues to emerge two months after wildfires devastated large areas of Los Angeles, California

3. The arrest, detention and possible deportation of Jeanette Vizguerra (named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential” people in 2017) show how the US Trump administration's racist and dehumanizing attacks on immigrants have nothing to do with “public safety” but are aimed at intimidating and suppressing the democratic rights of everyone

4. Scientists in Tanzania discover that humans had the intellectual and technological capacity, or "open endedness" to manufacture and use bone tools a million years earlier than previously documented

5. The political and constitutional crisis now engulfing Israel is not merely the product of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s desire to remain in power and somehow avoid imprisonment for corruption via war, as his opposition claims

6. The soaring cost of rice in the Philippines is driving more people into deeper poverty

7. President Donald Trump signs an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate the closure of the US Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities. 

The money-mad American oligarchy is wielding a wrecking ball to dismantle public education. If they are not stopped, the outcome will be a vast expansion of the class divide, where the working class receives only a minimal, work-oriented education while the financial elite purchases the finest education available

8.  As the seat of the federal government where almost 20 percent of the nation's federal workforce is situated, Washington D.C. is having its local economy thrown into chaos by the the Trump administration's mass firings

9. By declaring his intent to "annihilate" Yemen, US President Donald Trump invokes the words of his political role model, Adolf Hitler

10. The arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu marks a new stage in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s establishment of a presidential dictatorship in Turkey

11. The decision to eliminate the Institute for Museum and Library Services is not simply an error on the part of the Trump administration, but rather a deliberate component of the oligarchy's plans to eliminate democratic rights and establish a dictatorship in the United States

12. In spite of intimidation by law enforcement, several hundred students protest to show support for Cornell PhD student Momodou Taal and his lawsuit against the US Trump administration

13. A wave of waterborne melioidosis (a non-contagious infection that can cause sepsis and multi-organ failure) in Australia has been exacerbated by poverty and the increasing severity of storms and floods resulting from climate change

14. Once again, nearly 2,200 nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center protest the inhumane conditions that
have become the norm in hospitals across the United States

15. The planned closing of a vital teaching hospital in a New York City community will mean that neighborhood residents will need to travel at least a mile for similar medical services

16. Another week of executions in the United States of America....

17. Solidaire’s new co-leader Ruba Ghazal, whose family immigrated from Palestine, poses no threat to the established capitalist order in Québec because she believes that the "left" must reclaim nationalism

18. The Socialist Equality Party meets to expose the anti-democratic refusal of the Australian Electoral Commission to allow it official party registration and a ballot status in federal elections

 Cheryl Crisp speaks at the Socialist Equality Party meeting from Bankstown, New South Wales

19. Members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) meet in New York City to oppose the illegal detention of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

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

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

1. Joseph Kishore at the World Socialist Web Site: Two months into the Trump administration, the presidency has become a cockpit and planning center of a dictatorship in the United States

Kishore: 

Neither in the [New York] Times nor in the media as a whole is there any serious analysis of how the United States got to this point. The media and political establishment present Trump’s actions as if they have suddenly erupted out of nowhere, the product of an individual’s delusions or malice. This is false.

2. Israel's launch of a major new military offensive in Gaza has been accompanied by the largest US attacks on Yemen to date and increasing threats by the Trump administration to wage war against Iran

3. The fight to protect the United States Postal Service (USPS) is an important part of the fight against an emerging dictatorship in the United States

4. Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York transfers Mahmoud Khalil’s "Trumped-up" deportation case from Louisiana to New Jersey

5. Will Lehman, the socialist rank-and-file worker who ran for UAW president in 2022, explains why members of the United Auto Workers must oppose the seizure of  Mahmoud Khalid

6. Gary Tyler, who faced death row and served time in Louisiana after being convicted on unconstitutional charges, discusses the Trump administration's kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil with Lawrence Porter of the World Socialist Web Site 

Tyler: 

I feel that as people in this country who say that they believe in freedom and liberty— including the freedom of speech— we must stand up for those beliefs. We should not make any exceptions, no matter what an individual’s political or religious beliefs are.

7.  Mass protests erupt after Turkey's President Erdogan has the police detain his main rival, İstanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, and others

8. The tariff wars and sweeping budget cuts made by the Trump administration have made the likelihood of recession in the US a real possibility

9.  Large sections of the media respond to the German Federal Intelligence Service’s "evidence" that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab... by not questioning it

10. The Trump administration is seeking to intimidate, detain and possibly deport Momodou Taal for daring to file a lawsuit seeking to repeal Trump’s executive orders criminalizing speech and dissent

11. Immigration lawyer Eric Lee appears on The Hill’s “Rising” to defend Iranian-born law scholar Helyeh Doutaghi who has been called "a terrorist" because of her opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza

12. A new report describes how Australian working-class families are finding it increasingly difficult to send their children to school due to the spiraling costs of education

 Here is a link to the Futurity Investment Group's Report

13. How biased statistical testing was used by the Australian government to keep the Socialist Equality Party from appearing on federal election ballots

14. The German Federal Court of Justice rules that the extradition of Ukrainian conscientious objectors to the war in Ukraine is permissible under Germany's constitution

15. On his latest, country-oriented album, Will Oldham shows concern about the world’s ills, but offers misguided ideas about how to cure them

16. Cyclone Alfred's devastation was not merely a “natural disaster,” but rather the result of profit-driven and cost-cutting political decisions, combined with the refusal of Australia's Labor and Liberal-National governments alike to mitigate climate change

17. A 33-year-old man dies when the waste bin where he had apparently been seeking refuge from freezing temperatures is emptied; Berlin, Germany does not have enough accommodation for its 10,000 homeless

18. The decision to withdraw from the UK rolling stock maintenance market by the US-headquartered Wabtec Rail Limited, which supplies components and services to the global rail industry, threatens to leave hundreds jobless

19. A new film from Northern Ireland has a lot going on all at once, much of it funny, exuberant, insightful, and ridiculous

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

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

1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares that the latest Israeli massacres in Gaza, where tens of thousands have already been killed, are “only the beginning”

2. Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the United States who was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration for his role in anti-genocide protests at Columbia University, releases a powerful statement from inside an immigration detention facility in Louisiana

Khalil:  I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear

3. Gary Tyler, who entered Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary as its youngest death row inmate in 1975, speaks about the “Art as Resilience” to an audience in Ann Arbor, Michigan

4. Louisiana ends its 15-year pause of executions after a 5-4 ruling by the US Supreme that declines to halt the nitrogen gas execution of an inmate, Jessie Hoffman Jr.

5. The nationalist spectacle of Germany's IG Metall union's “day of action” is a thinly veiled endorsement of Berlin’s drive to rearmament and war

6. A socialist and teacher in Brazil, Tomas Castanheira, describes how the government of Brazil wants to emulate the US Trump administration's plans to privatize public education

7. A significant ruling by the Australian High Court that purports to compensate indigenous clans for seized mining rights may not be as fair in practice as it sounds

8. Argentinian police forces corral and brutally attack thousands of protesting pensioners, workers, and soccer fans in Buenos Aires

9. In the past 25 years the price of gold has increased 10-fold, with its rise passing key marker points in periods of financial turbulence

10. The pseudo-leftist government of Spain plans to raise military spending to a level that exceeds even that of General Francisco Franco’s 1939-1975 fascist dictatorship

11. More details from the recent online discussion organized by the Educators Rank-and-File Committee and International Youth and Students for Social Equality about the US Trump administration's attacks on public education and democratic rights

12. Mickey 17, directed filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, is a science fiction black comedy based on an Edward Ashton novel that loses its way, somewhat

12. In line with International Monetary Fund dictates, the government of Sri Lanka plans to establish a state holding company to accelerate the privatization of state-owned enterprises

13. New information about the cause of the recent deadly Club Pulse nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia points to its operator's criminal neglect of all safety precautions

13. The revelation that US National Institutes of Health officials are instructing scientists to scrub references to mRNA technology from their grant applications is an unmistakable sign of the Trump administration’s war on science

15. Prosecutors refuse to press charges against a Missouri, US police officer who killed a mother and her infant child last year while responding to a domestic violence call. Since the killing of George Floyd in 2020,  the number of killings by police officers has not declined—in fact, it has increased significantly

14.  A protester in Cologne, Germany speaks out against the new Syrian regime's attacks on Alawites: “It’s not over yet. They stole the mobile phones of those killed. And they call every number and say: “We know your name, we know where you live, and you’re next”

15. The Labour government’s work and pensions minister Liz Kendall lays out a savage program of attacks on welfare recipients, aimed at saving the UK more than £5 billion

16. Underhanded methods employed by union officials to impose reforms, which are actually dress rehearsals for funding cuts and mass job destruction, are made plain at Cumbernauld, one of Royal Mail's delivery sites in Scotland

17. The Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Committee calls for the broadest mobilization of the working class to oppose the Trump administration’s plans to destroy public education

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

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

1. "Ausnahmezustand"

2. The US Trump administration crosses a Rubicon by flagrantly ignoring a federal judge's order to halt deportation flights

3. Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, is voting today on the largest military rearmament program since the fall of the Third Reich-- a sum twice as high as the annual federal budget

4. Unit 29, an unusual collection of writing and artwork by over 30 inmates at the State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, describes the inhumanity of prison life in riveting and challenging ways:

 Just as superfluous working class bodies are warehoused in prisons, so they are warehoused in dilapidated neighborhoods, housing projects and trailer parks. Warehoused in overcrowded and run-down schools, then in the military or low-paying retail or service jobs. Introduce drugs and alcohol, sexual relationships or just the desire for something more into these warehoused lives, and the criminogenic character of poverty becomes obvious. An impulsive act in youth—a result of desperation, rage, bravura or mental illness—and one can find oneself on Parchman Farm.

-- James MacDonald at the World Socialist Web Site

5. Rolls-Royce assembly workers in Indianapolis, Indiana express disappointment with a UAW-negotiated sellout contract

6.  The Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office announces it is filing charges against a University of California Santa Cruz student who participated in anti-genocide protests on the campus... last year

7. The Verdi union won't help German public-sector workers fight exploitation because it supports the government's pro-war, pro-austerity agenda

8. The Indonesian government of President Prabowo Subianto sparks widespread student protests by implementing austerity measures that target education, health, infrastructure,and public services

9. With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles spread throughout the education systems of several of Brazil’s state capitals

10. The Labour government of Manchester, England forcibly removes a homeless encampment, whose majority of occupants were refugees from war-torn Sudan and Eritrea

11. Toxic Town, a miniseries that deals with the history of a tragic cluster of birth defects among newborns in Corby, England in the 1980s and 1990s is the most viewed Netflix offering in the UK, and deserves a wider audience because it reveals capitalism in its true colors

12. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting in Chicago on Saturday to discuss to do about the Trump administration’s efforts to destroy public education

13. In the midst of a cyclone and flooding, the premier of New South Wales in Australia orders the removal of “squatters” from vacant houses

14. With the objective of shutting down a strike by VTA transit workers, public transportation officials in Santa Clara County send a letter to California's Governor Gavin Newsom requesting the appointment of a board to intervene

15. A new report that documents rising numbers of abusive incidents and threats against Muslims in Australia is largely met with indifference from establishment officials and media

Here is a link to that report

16. The Australian Electoral Commission rejects the Socialist Equality Party’s challenge to it's earlier decision to keep the party off of federal election ballots

17. The vicious four-year-old witch-hunt against Sri Lankan plantation workers, aided and abetted by the plantation trade unions, continues

18. Amid international trade war jitters, discussions are underway at the highest levels of the Canadian government to move toward fully privatizing the Crown corporation's control over mail delivery

19. A workers' peaceful sit-in in Chicago, seeking to draw attention to ongoing contract negotiations, draws a ruthless response from the Starbucks Corporation and police

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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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!

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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

5.  

 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!

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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