Socialist and political refugee Maxim Goldarb
I understand, it is human nature to want to be rich, even more so to become so without doing anything. Well, all the profits will be made by the organizers of the stock markets, while the “investors,” in the vast majority, will become losers and ruined.
Yet the most worrying thing is that such “inflated,” essentially fictitious, values are fake. They are not real hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars, but the organizers of the stock market will try to exchange them for real assets. These real assets are what gives people life, work, meaning, what makes up peoples and countries: minerals, water, land, other real national wealth. They are already trying to seize them, changing their “empty” trillions with the help of corrupt local governments into real value, which is priceless for people and states riches. In the process, they are plunging the majority of the population into poverty.
Ukraine is a vivid example of this.
6. The World Socialist Web Site replies to letter from an autoworker
The incessant promotion of economic nationalism by the United Auto Workers union has left some workers vulnerable to the nationalist demagogy of Trump
The bill’s primary objective was to stoke racial divisions as a means of diverting social anger in the working class over the government’s escalating attacks on living standards and public services. It also served to distract attention from its support for the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and the huge increase in military spending in preparation for joining a US-led war against China.
A projected message during Kneecap's performance at the
The Garment Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka appeals to apparel workers across the country and internationally to urgently prepare to fight to defend their jobs, wages, working conditions and basic rights.
Trump’s global tariff war once again shows that this is an international struggle. We call on all our class brothers and sisters in the apparel producing industries across South and East Asian countries, and who now face the same attack, to organize unified action to defend their rights. Such action must be extended to workers in the giant US and European retailers which purchase apparel from client countries.
By once again backing Labor, as they have for decades, the union bureaucrats are covering up Labor’s long record of cutting public education funding in real terms at all levels, as well as the Albanese government’s agenda of suppressing anti-genocide dissent and further transforming the public universities along pro-business and pro-military lines.
14. Who are Australia's Victorian Socialists?
The Australian federal election is marked by popular hostility to the major parties and their bipartisan program of austerity and war.
There is also growing opposition to capitalism and an attraction to socialism among significant layers of workers and youth. In that context and amid a breakdown of the capitalist system globally, key questions are posed. What is a socialist perspective? How is it fought for? And most importantly, which political party advances that fight?
25 years ago:
Florida raid reunites Elian Gonzalez, 6, with Cuban father
Both Republicans and Democrats condemned the INS raid. In typical fashion, the Republicans assailed the Bill Clinton administration for allowing the raid to happen while the Democrats responded meekly to the harshest accusations and supported the thrust of the attacks on INS. Republican politicians equated the raid to “storm trooper tactics,” called it “un-American” and compared it to “Fidel Castro’s Cuba.” Presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore, the presumptive presidential nominees for the Republican and Democratic parties in the upcoming 2000 election, both sought to win support from anticommunist Cuban elements in Florida by criticizing the raid.
The hysterical media and political denunciations made for a spectacle of galling hypocrisy. When real cases of INS atrocities were committed on workers and immigrants from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the Democrats and Republicans uttered not a single sentence nor a word of disapproval. In fact, Clinton and Congress provided unlimited funds to construct immigrant prisons, upgrade the size of the Border Patrol and INS and erect fortifications along the US-Mexico border.
50 years ago:
Workers run Democrats, union bureaucrats off stage at DC rally
The eruption began when Senator Hubert Humphrey, a prominent Democrat tied to pro-corporate policies and the Vietnam War, attempted to address the crowd. His mere introduction triggered widespread booing. Workers stormed the field with union banners, drowning out his speech. Despite appeals from union officials and liberal Democratic Congresswoman Bella Abzug—who urged the crowd to “show unity”—the workers refused to relent. “Hey, Bella, this is the people talking!” one shouted. Union leaders fled the rally, with several prominent union presidents abandoning their own speeches. Instead, rank-and-file workers seized the microphone for nearly an hour.
75 years ago:
Kingdom of Jordan formally annexes the West Bank
The annexation, legally formalized on April 24, 1950, was part of the Jordanian expansionist policy of “Greater Syria” under Abdullah, aimed at extending the rule of the Hashemite royal family over historic Palestine and other parts of the former Ottoman Empire. The Jordanian regime itself had been established after World War I as a client state of the British Empire to advance British imperialist interests in the oil-rich region. Although Jordan was granted formal independence from Britain in 1946, it remained heavily dependent on British, and later American, military and financial support.
100 years ago:
Franz Kafka’s The Trial is published
On April 26, 1925, Czech author Franz Kafka’s German-language novel, Der Prozess, later translated into English as The Trial, was published by Verlag Die Schmiede in Berlin. Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor, edited the text for publication after Kafka died in 1924, defying Kafka's wishes to have his unfinished works destroyed.
16. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
17. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
18. 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.
