This is part of a broader support by the union bureaucracy for tariffs. Broad sections of the apparatus, including both the ILWU and ILA dockworker unions and the Teamsters, have lined up in support of trade war.
In backing tariffs, the union bureaucracy is supporting a fascistic administration which is using tariffs to prepare supply chains for world war, especially against China. They are promoting a policy which recalls the darkest period of the 20th century under the Nazis, where trade war preceded the outbreak of World War II in September 1939.
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Because The Nation, the DSA, Labor Notes, and others continue to uphold the national arena as the only viable and legitimate one for the working class, they are now compelled to back Trump’s “defense” of the nation against foreign adversaries.
The pseudo-left’s arguments in defense of the UAW mirror fascist rhetoric from figures like top Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who denounce “globalists” while falsely identifying the interests of the working class with nationalism. The Nation is not fascist, but its politics bring it into alignment with extreme-right forces
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The working class must draw its own lessons. Not for nothing did Marx, even 180 years ago, raise the slogan “Workers of the world, Unite!” This meant that the interests of the working class, in contrast to the capitalists, were not tied to the national soil, and that the logic of its struggle against capitalist exploitation would lead to its overthrow, the end of all forms of exploitation, and the establishment of a global socialist commonwealth.
As part of the attack on public education by ruling elites across the globe, intensified by the worsening economic crisis over the last decade, working conditions in São Paulo’s municipal schools have become intolerable. Among educators, there is a growing sense of physical and emotional exhaustion resulting from exhausting working hours and the increasing precariousness of teaching work.
Turkey has experienced two major destructive earthquakes in the last quarter century: The Marmara earthquake on 17 August 1999 and the Maraş earthquake on 6 February 2023. According to official figures, more than 17,000 people died in 1999 and hundreds of thousands were left homeless. New building regulations were issued, a so-called “earthquake mobilization” was declared and taxes were imposed. But in reality, the Maraş earthquakes of 2023 made it painfully clear that the central and local governments had taken no action.
Regardless of the proximate cause of the Jones Road Wildfire, the conditions that promote such massive fires have been increasing for decades due to global warming. The frequency and intensity of wildfires have been growing around the world. Major fires have broken out in South Korea, Japan, California, Australia and Canada, to name but a few.
The NDP’s unstinting support for the Liberals’ wars and austerity measures has driven millions of workers to turn their backs on the social democrats. Beginning with the so-called “Orange wave” in 2011, when the party emerged as the official opposition amid the devastating impact of the 2008 economic crisis, the party’s vote has collapsed, falling from 4.5 million to just 3 million in 2021. It will be much lower this time around, if the polls prove correct.
As the World Socialist Web Site stated in its initial report on the raids, they are part of a broader campaign by both the Democrats and Republicans to criminalize opposition to US imperialist policy in the Middle East and to suppress the growing movement against the genocide in Gaza.
Making clear the fascist political agenda behind the apprehension of Judge Dugan, Attorney General Pam Bondi made an appearance on FOX News to boast about the FBI action and threaten other members of the judiciary, as well as the general public for opposing the Trump administration’s assault on the rights of immigrants.
In justifying this repudiation of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures and requires that warrants be issued by a judge based on probable cause, Department of Homeland Security attorneys argued that immigration police do not need to obtain a warrant before disappearing people if there is a suspicion of “an offense against the United States,” NBC News reported.
Hall, who worked as a sub-editor for RNZ’s website, made legitimate factual corrections to articles about the war in Ukraine and other topics. He was witch-hunted because he incorporated into reports the role of neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s armed forces, and the fact that the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine toppled a pro-Russian government, directly paving the way for Russia’s reactionary invasion.
Far from being “pro-Russian,” the edits inserted rarely-stated and necessary truths into the wall-to-wall barrage of pro-war propaganda which dominates the jingoistic media. A McCarthyite frenzy was whipped up to intimidate any opposition to the US-NATO war and the then Labour-led government’s involvement.
Between the banalities, platitudes and empty condolences, mostly to young men sacrificed on the altar of capitalist profits more than a century ago, there was a chilling indication of what is being prepared.
Speaking at the Australian War Memorial dawn service, alongside Albanese, Rear Admiral Matt Buckley, Deputy Chief of the Navy, said he was confident a new generation of young people would be willing to make such sacrifices, i.e., of their lives, in a new war.
“If dark days should come again, I am confident that their generation and those who follow will do what is required,” Buckley stated.
- China:
BYD electronics manufacturing workers strike
- India:
Tamil Nadu power-generation workers strike indefinitely
Tamil Nadu rural sanitation workers demand higher pay
SJVNL hydro-power project workers in Himachal Pradesh protest
Samsung India household appliance factory workers protest in Tamil Nadu
Rural employment scheme workers in Tamil Nadu protest unpaid wages
- Pakistan:
Pakistani health workers continue to protest privatisation
- Bangladesh:
Bangladeshi garment workers protest factory closure and unpaid wages
- Australia:
Public mental health workers strike in Victoria again for improved conditions
Boral Resources drivers in Queensland hold second strike
Cleanaway garbage collectors in Noosa walk out again for higher pay
Keolis Downer bus drivers in Newcastle strike for higher wages
14. Hundreds pay their respects to Trotskyist leader, Comrade Nanda Wickremesinghe in Sri Lanka
16. 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.
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.
