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Federal Judge Halts Trump’s ‘Arbitrary and Capricious’ Immigration Court Arrests
US District Judge for the Northern District of California Casey Pitts granted a stay in Sequen v. Albarran blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) from carrying out courthouse arrests within ICE’s San Francisco Area of Responsibility, pending the outcome of a broader legal challenge.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-courthouse-arrests-blocked

Pediatrics group sues HHS for cutting funds for children’s health programs
The funding supported numerous public health programs, including efforts to prevent sudden unexpected infant death, strengthen pediatric care in rural communities and support teens facing substance use and mental health challenges.
https://apnews.com/article/aap-pediatrics-hhs-d458208e40d0e2ea1e03a59c94e8a194

Montgomery UPS distribution facility to layoff employees
The Associated Press released the list of companies that have had the largest job cuts dating back to Nov. 26, and UPS was among them, along with other notable companies such as Verizon and Amazon. UPS disclosed that 48,000 job cuts had occurred this year as part of its turnaround efforts, with the addition of increased work shifts. 93 leased and owned buildings that operated daily were closed during the first nine months of this year.
https://www.wsfa.com/2025/12/26/montgomery-ups-distribution-facility-layoff-employees/

California drops lawsuit seeking to reinstate federal funding for the state’s bullet train
The authority said this week it would focus on other funding sources to complete the project estimated to cost more than $100 billion. “This action reflects the State’s assessment that the federal government is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in California,” an authority spokesperson said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/california-highspeed-rail-funds-lawsuit-trump-administration-c784bfd941fd8bda80e3a8e45c21ed0e

The fall of the USSR was a tragedy for humanity, but not the end of history
On 26 December 1991, when the red flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, the world did not merely witness the dissolution of a state. It witnessed the victory of counterrevolution—the temporary triumph of capitalism over the most advanced historical attempt to abolish exploitation and class rule. The fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not the end of an experiment that had “failed,” as bourgeois ideology insists. It was one of the greatest tragedies in human history precisely because it interrupted a process that had transformed the lives of hundreds of millions and reshaped the global balance of class forces. For most of the twentieth century, the USSR stood as living proof that capitalism was neither eternal nor inevitable. It abolished unemployment, guaranteed universal education and healthcare, eliminated illiteracy, industrialized vast regions in record time, defeated fascism at a staggering human cost, and inspired revolutionary movements across every continent. Its existence alone constrained imperialism, strengthened workers’ struggles worldwide, and gave material meaning to the idea that another social system was possible. The counterrevolution of 1991 therefore marked far more than a geopolitical realignment. It signaled the restoration of capitalist power, the privatization of social wealth created by generations of workers, and the descent of millions into poverty, insecurity, and social degradation. Life expectancy collapsed, inequality exploded, and the promise of socialist modernity was replaced by oligarchic plunder. The tragedy was real, measurable, and lived. Yet to understand 1991, one must resist the convenient fiction that everything unraveled suddenly in the late 1980s. The counterrevolution was not an accident, nor merely the result of external pressure from imperialism. It was the outcome of a long process of ideological retreat and structural erosion within socialism itself.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/12/the-fall-of-ussr-was-tragedy-for-humanity-but-not-the-end-of-history.html

America’s Higher Education Promise Is Dead
Education was sold as a guarantee for decades. A college degree represented stability and a future for those who followed the rules of a country that claims to reward preparation. That promise has collapsed under the weight of debt and a labor market where software can eliminate entire careers instantly. The system encouraged people to invest in themselves. Borrowers took on debt they could never reasonably repay while working through school and completing unpaid internships to stack credentials. They eventually entered an economy that treats them as surplus inventory. Higher education has become a trap that locks people into debt before they earn a stable income. Many twenty-two-year-olds begin adult life underwater because they followed the only roadmap provided by established institutions. The failure of the system is evident in the results that degrees deliver. Graduates enter jobs that pay less than rent and compete for positions without benefits or growth. Wage ceilings have remained stagnant for decades while loan interest grows faster than paychecks. Financial mobility is impossible when the math fails to work.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/25/americas-higher-education-promise-is-dead/

Is Britain’s working class too weak to carry out a revolution?
Over the past century, British capitalism has undergone an inglorious decline. What was once the world’s largest empire and most dominant power has been reduced to a third-rate power. The reason for Britain’s success was its powerful industrial base. The British capitalist class invested their profits into revolutionising industry, making it the most competitive economy on the world market. As a result, Britain produced the most powerful working class in the world. It’s not for nothing that Karl Marx considered Britain the most likely place for a socialist revolution. With this power, the working class developed rich traditions. The first trade unions were formed in Britain, alongside the first political party of the working class – the Chartists. In the late 19th century, the Labour Party was formed as the political wing of the trade union movement. In the 1970s, the world economy entered into a deep slump, intensifying international competition. British industry had fallen behind its competitors. To maintain profitability, the British capitalist class needed to attack workers’ wages and conditions. The ruling class found their champion in Margaret Thatcher, entrusted to lead a decisive showdown against the working class. The miners were the vanguard of the British working class. Thatcher, therefore, on behalf of the capitalists, deliberately provoked the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike in order to decisively crush it, and to thereby demoralise and atomise the rest of the organised working class.
https://communist.red/is-britains-working-class-too-weak-to-carry-out-a-revolution/

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