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DOE logo and US flag under smashed glass

The mass layoffs by Donald Trump's administration effectively gut the Department of Education, cutting staff by nearly one third, reports Natalia Marques.

Protesting in Guantanamo Cuba

More than 50,000 Cubans took to the streets in the southern city of Guantánamo to reject United States President Donald Trump’s plan to use the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base as a detention centre for deported migrants, reports Ben Radford.

sudents camp out at Columbia University

Chants of “No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!” echoed through downtown Manhattan, as people protested the kidnapping and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, reports Saurav Sarkar.

Donald Trump mural

United States President Donald Trump has implemented a whirlwind of attacks and changes that are shifting politics internationally. Green Left's Isaac Nellist spoke to US socialists Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan about the devastating impacts of Trump’s second presidency and the challenges in building resistance to it.

Isaac Nellist asks US socialists Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan, members of the Democratic Socialists of America Bread and Roses caucus, about Trump’s attacks on immigrants, workers and human rights. 

Protesters carrying a banner

About 2000 people demonstrated in Montreal on February 15 against the closure of Amazon’s seven warehouses and distribution centres in Quebec, reports Marc Bonhomme.

Leonard Peltier released

As former United States President Joe Biden left office, he commuted 80-year-old political prisoner Leonard Peltier’s life sentences to home incarceration, reports Malik Miah. Peltier is a long-time leader of the First Nations movement in the US.

Person looking at US capitol building

In a “slash and burn” rampage, multi-billionaire and Donald Trump appointee Elon Musk is spearheading job cuts and closures across United States government departments, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

Putin and Trump

Donald Trump’s neofascist administration is seeking direct agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the expense of the Ukrainian people, argues Gilbert Achcar.

fire in Los Angeles 2025

United States President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the US from the Paris Climate Agreement, sparking global concerns about the future of climate action, reports Rhea Dev.

Gaza coastline in 2007

When United States President Donald Trump announced that the US would take over the Gaza Strip and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, he was signalling to Israel that it has the US’s backing to intensify its genocide and destruction of Gaza, write Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah.

Graffiti on a wall in Mexico City

From preparing to send Latinx migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labelling Latin American cartels “terrorist organisations”, United States President Donald Trump is criminalising the region in order to subjugate it, writes Tamara Pearson.