The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 7

Healthcare on the brink: Palliative Care Unit and Late Shift

Late Shift in particular is a stirring tribute to an important layer of the working class that takes its work seriously despite adverse circumstances.

Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions

With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles have already spread to the education systems of several of Brazil’s capitals.

Canada’s new banker prime minister proclaims “new era” of austerity

Whether Carney, campaigning under the slogan “Canada Strong,” or Poilievre, the champion of “Canada First,” emerges as prime minister after the coming election, the working class will rapidly be plunged into convulsive social struggles.

Study exposes Brazilian dictatorship's spying across Latin America

Throughout Latin America, the military and political heirs to the terror regimes of the 1960s and 1970s have once again been brought to the center of political developments.

This week in history: March 17-23

Uganda cult massacre; trial of Baader-Meinhof group; Belgium government collapses; British fascists seize Communist Party leader

UK Labour government launches DOGE-style attack on the National Health Service

The Murdoch press’s Sun newspaper understood what was afoot, declaring. “We couldn’t be happier” and that Starmer was” living the Tories’ dream.”

Socialist Equality Party mobilises support for Mahmoud Khalil’s freedom at UK anti-war demonstration

March participants came to the SEP’s stall to express their support for Khalil’s freedom and hear a genuine socialist perspective against war.

Federal lawsuit seeks injunction against Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders targeting free speech

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York on Saturday, is the first major legal challenge to Trump’s executive orders on speech and dissent.

Australia: Labor governments refuse to repeal hate speech laws

It is increasingly clear that Labor leaders were aware the “antisemitic attacks” were a hoax, even as they declared them a major threat to national security in order to ram through the laws.

The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship

Given the opportunity to cut off funding for the government, the Democrats instead ensured that Trump's administration remained fully operational.

Trump’s school voucher plan: A billion-dollar tax shelter for the ruling elites

This scheme is a backdoor maneuver to privatize education while allowing corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid taxation.

Union blocks motion to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah at Sydney’s Macquarie University

The resolution called for an urgent campus rally of staff and students to fight moves to sack Abdel-Fattah, a widely respected academic who is being targeted because of her opposition to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine.

Mobilise the working class against the Sri Lankan government’s austerity agenda

The SEP stresses the urgency for workers to build action committees, independent of the trade unions, to fight to defend their social and democratic rights.

Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” US and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa

The US and Israeli governments have opened up discussions with officials from Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland over the mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza and their forcible relocation to those countries.

Unions prepared to collaborate as USPS announces agreement with DOGE to slash spending

Urgent action is required by the working class to halt the attacks on postal workers, up to and including strike action.

In flagrant attack on free speech, Miami Beach mayor threatens cinema that showed award-winning documentary No Other Land

The US political and entertainment establishment have made it their business to suppress No Other Land, for fear of its impact on public opinion. 

Second anti-genocide student protester at Columbia arrested by Trump’s immigration police

On Friday, Trump’s deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, threatened to pursue terrorism charges against universities and students for previously protesting war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

“Workers in North America and the whole world are so incredibly integrated and productive, we are our own natural allies”

Workers in Canada speak out against Trump’s trade war and the Canadian elite’s nationalist response

Trump’s tariffs threaten tens of thousands of jobs across North America. They are aimed at economically weakening Washington’s northern neighbour to prepare the way for Canada’s annexation as the 51st state of the US.

Jacobin on Silicon Valley alliance with Trump: A diversion from socialist politics

Written with the characteristic pessimism of the upper-middle-class “left,” the piece obfuscates the growing integration of Silicon Valley with the fascist Republican wing of the American political establishment.