This episode highlights two critically important political facts. First is the role of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez. Sanders’ response to the censorship and arrest of anti-genocide protesters reveals a politician who is not in any genuine sense oppositional to the “oligarchy,” genocide or the Democratic Party.
He and Ocasio-Cortez, along with other so-called “progressive” elements, play a vital role in American politics. Their job is to corral and suffocate growing anti-capitalist and anti-war sentiment within the Democratic Party. Ocasio-Cortez declared last year that Vice President Kamala Harris was working “tirelessly” for a ceasefire in Gaza, as part of an effort to convince young voters to back the party which made the genocide possible, while Sanders claims the fight against “oligarchy” and war can be waged by voting for Democrats.
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The letter is a symptom of growing divisions and crisis in Israel, which have been heightened by the immense costs of the military assault on Gaza, economically, socially and politically— including, though this finds no conscious expression in the open letter, the discrediting of the entire Zionist project amidst a campaign of genocidal violence without precedent since the Nazi’s war of extermination against European Jewry.
The yearning of the youth for a decent future based on democracy and social equality requires the struggle for socialism against the bankrupt capitalist system. We call on young people to stand by this struggle and to join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in the fight for this program.
Observers for the Organization of American States, politically dominated by Washington, and the European Union, dismissed fraud charges despite reporting on major irregularities, including Noboa’s failure to take a “leave of absence” from the presidency to run in the elections, as required by the constitution, and his direct pressure on the activities of the electoral bodies.
Whatever the validity of the claims of direct fraud, Noboa ran as a dictator candidate, and the election was conducted in an atmosphere of intimidation, with martial law imposed in much of the country, apparently including the states where González had the most support. The OAS report notes that troops were seen taking pictures of the ballots as a threat to voters.
This move is part of a far-reaching campaign by the Trump administration to gut the federal workforce and dismantle essential public institutions. Agencies not directly tied to the military-intelligence apparatus, domestic and border policing, or the increasing of corporate profits are being targeted for destruction. Over 70,000 federal employees have already accepted voluntary buyouts, and tens of thousands more are expected to be laid off in the coming months.
Trump’s witch hunt against immigrants and mass deportations have always been aimed at the working class as a whole. The aim is to divide workers and silence opposition in the same way as the administration’s campaign to deport international students opposing the US-backed Israeli genocide has been used to destroy free speech and academic freedom.
All the parties of the political establishment, including the Greens, are doing everything they can, with the assistance of the complicit corporate media, to bury all mention of the historic crimes being committed by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
19. Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- France:
La Poste postal workers in Orléans strike over increased workloads
Archaeologists strike over government funding shortfall
- United Kingdom:
Phlebotomists at Gloucestershire, England hospitals stop work over pay
Academic staff at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland walk out over job cuts
- Bulgaria:
Public transport workers in Sofia strike for pay increase
- Belgium:
Workers at Ryanair strike against flying over war zone
- Iran:
Workers and retirees continue protests against economic and social conditions
- Iraq:
Workers in Basra protest plans to sell off a fertilizer plant to private investors
- Nigeria:
Teachers and local government workers in the Federal Capital Territory continue stoppage over pay
- South Africa:
Workers at state-owned ports and the Transnet freight rail company are poised to walk out, following the collapse of pay talks
Workers protest the firing of super-exploited immigrant workers at a Boksburg recycling company
- South Sudan:
University of Bahr el Ghazal staff end a 6-month strike
- Egypt:
Workers at a confectionery factory in Alexandria strike over non-payment of overtime
25. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
26. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
