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On this day of international working class solidarity, we, the members of the Ukrainian branch of the Young Bolshevik-Leninist Guard and the entire YGBL, call for the unification of the Ukrainian and Russian proletariat with the proletariat of the imperialist countries to end this war!
We call for the creation of branches of the International Committee of the Fourth International in all former Soviet republics.
We call on the proletariat of the whole world to unite under the banner of its leader, the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Let the words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ring out louder and stronger: “Workers of all countries, unite!”
The Indo-Pakistani conflict is a reactionary conflict between rival capitalist states, rooted in the 1947 communal partition of South Asia into an avowedly Muslim Pakistan and a Hindu India. Out of fear of the growing anti-imperialist movement and, above all, the emergence of a combative working class, the bourgeois-led Indian National Congress abandoned its own program for a united, democratic, and secular India and made a sordid deal with London for a quick transfer of power, in which it assumed control over the colonial capitalist state erected by British Imperialism. This included working with its right-wing rival, the Muslim League, to communally partition the subcontinent, triggering mass communal violence in which as many as two million people died and the forced migration of some 20 million people, as Muslims fled India and Hindus and Sikhs, Pakistan.
A reign of terror at US universities is being unleashed. The ruling class’s drive for censorship goes way beyond that of the dark period of McCarthyism in the 1950s.
Souleymane’s Story about two days in the life of an immigrant food delivery worker in Paris, France
Xoftex, about a refugee camp in Greece where residents keep their spirits up by imagining the countries they would prefer to end up in
Where the Wind Comes From about two ingenious young people of modest means trying to make a better life for themselves,
and Fragmented, about a former Palestinian political prisoner of the Israelis and a retired journalist
Governments throughout the world have declared war on immigrants and refugees. The Trump administration’s agenda may be one of the most brazen, sadistic and transparently illegal, but the pursuit and persecution of the most defenseless members of the human community is the policy, stated or unstated, of every capitalist regime and leading party, far-right or nominally “left.”
Everywhere governments promote their racist and chauvinist anti-immigrant programs as the defense of native-born workers, but nothing could be further from the truth. The policies are merely meant to divide the oppressed and pit one section of workers against another in a scramble for the crumbs that the billionaires let fall.
Sánchez plans to impose this increase by decree, bypassing the normal budgetary process out of fear that he lacks the parliamentary support to pass it through a full vote. This authoritarian maneuver underscores how militarism and war are inseparable from a drive to dictatorship at home.
The autoworkers around the world, including in China, are coming into struggle, underscoring the need to reject economic nationalism and unite workers across borders. According to the China Labor Bulletin, thousands of workers at electric vehicle giant BYD walked off the job at factories in Wuxi and Chengdu in late March and early April 2025, protesting steep pay cuts and deteriorating working conditions.
The impact of the tariffs will be felt at all levels of the automotive supply chain. Workers at part supplier plants, who already labor under some of the worst conditions, stand to be hit the hardest.
A letter sent to Trump and signed by a broad coalition of auto industry groups, including both domestic and foreign manufacturers warned, “Most auto suppliers are not capitalized for an abrupt tariff-induced disruption. Many are already in distress and will face production stoppages, layoffs and bankruptcy,” the letter added, noting “it only takes the failure of one supplier to lead to a shutdown of an automaker’s production line.”
The strike received overwhelming support from the population, which is increasingly hostile to the political setup in a country deemed by the World Bank as the fourth most unequal in the world, with seven out of ten inhabitants living in poverty or “at risk of falling into poverty.”
A constant throughout the seven transport strikes has been the disparity between the demands of the transport organizations’ leaders, centered on the call for increased police enforcement against the extortionist mafias, and the broader public, which is calling for the resignation of Peru’s unelected President Dina Boluarte and the corrupt Congress under the slogan “Throw them all out.”
To fight back, workers need to build new organizations, rank-and-file committees, completely independent of the union bureaucracy and Labor, and controlled by workers themselves. Through such committees, workers can link up their struggles across workplaces and industries, across Australia and globally, and prepare an industrial and political fight against the offensive on jobs, wages and working conditions.
13. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Internationally, major artistic figures such as Roger Waters and Ai Wei Wei as well as historians such as Mario Kessler and Christian Gerlach have supported the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk. Many political tendencies have also condemned his imprisonment and called for his release, despite their political differences with the Trotskyist movement. These include Jill Stein from the Greens in the United States, and several groups and websites in Russia and Turkey. Most recently, the website of the Socialist Laborer Party in Turkey, and that of the Partisan Defense Committee, which is affiliated with the Spartacist tendency, have issued statements in support of Bogdan.
14. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
15. Please Join this year's 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.
