The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), under orders from the Trump administration, issued a subpoena for faculty members’ private information, including names, emails, phone numbers, job positions and more. This information was surrendered by the University of California in March, after which Department of Justice (DOJ) officials began reaching out to faculty, not to uncover acts of harassment but to fish for ideological “enemies.”
"No to genocide and fascist dictatorship!"
Merz’s threat is incredibly reckless and dangerous. He is planning to be elected chancellor on May 6, exactly 80 years to the day after Hitler’s Wehrmacht signed the unconditional surrender in Reims on the night of May 6-7, 1945. This marked the end of the greatest crimes in human history.
Despite Paul’s limited criticisms, her contention that minor reforms and “alternatives” to the police are possible within the current system is bankrupt. The police, courts and prisons are a fundamental component of class oppression under capitalism. Police brutality is moreover a universal phenomenon. As governments lurch towards authoritarian and fascistic forms of rule, they rely ever more on these arms of the state.
The Greens, far from being “left wing,” are a pro-capitalist party of the political establishment acting on behalf of the more affluent social layers. While Paul presents herself as a “young brown woman” advocating for the poor, the Wellington electorate she represents is one of the wealthiest in the country.
Evan Blake speaks to the historic significance of the Trump administration’s attacks on science, the threat of new pandemics, and the urgent need for socialist public health.
CTU officials, including President Stacy Davis Gates, presented the vote as an “overwhelming” and “historic” endorsement of the deal brought by the union’s bargaining committee. A post on the union’s Facebook page boasted: “Our members approved the most popular contract in the CTU’s modern history.”
In fact, the agreement was pushed through on entirely false pretenses. It not only fails to meet teachers’ demands for substantial pay improvements to keep up with skyrocketing living expenses, increased staffing and smaller class sizes. It also leaves educators and students exposed to devastating cuts due to the budgetary crisis in the school district, the municipal government and Trump’s savage cuts to federal funding.
... the [federated] union bureaucracy and their apologists in the pseudo-left use such protest strikes to let off steam and channel opposition behind the dead end of capitalist politics and talks with Milei through which the bureaucrats only seek to secure their own access to privileges and positions.
19. Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Brazil:
Three thousand city workers in the southern city of Lages, Santa Catarina state, go on strike
- Perú:
Transit workers strike in Lima
- United States:
Bellingham, Washington PeaceHealth workers authorize a strike
Healthcare workers rebel against arbitration at Mayo hospital in Rochester, Minnesota
Teamsters truck drivers strike Ohio plant over wages
- Canada:
Vancouver Island transit workers continue strike
20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
21. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
22. Please Join an International Online May Day Rally!
On Saturday, May 3, the International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site will hold an annual International Online May Day Rally, uniting workers from across the globe in the fight against fascism, dictatorship, and war.
The return of Donald Trump to office marks a turning point in the global crisis of capitalism. His administration has rapidly advanced a fascistic agenda, dismantling democratic rights, escalating attacks on immigrants, launching a trade war, and preparing for military conflicts throughout the world. A chilling crackdown on student activists for opposing the genocide in Gaza has seen hundreds targeted, including Mahmoud Khalil, Momodou Taal, and Rümeysa Öztürk, who have faced arrests, deportation threats, and visa revocations for their courageous protests.
Backed by billionaires like Elon Musk, Trump embodies the oligarchic rule driving staggering inequality and imperialist aggression. Trump’s policies reflect the global shift of capitalist governments toward authoritarianism in the service of oligarchy— from Germany’s AfD to Italy’s Meloni and Argentina’s Milei. The ruling class worldwide is responding to the economic crisis and social opposition with militarism and repression.
These developments underscore
the urgent need for a unified international movement of the working
class, which is increasingly mobilizing against war, inequality, and
repression. This year’s May Day rally will present a socialist program
to unify workers internationally in the struggle against capitalism. It
will outline a revolutionary perspective to end imperialist violence and
build a society based on equality and human need.
