Since the turn of the century, the India-Pakistan conflict has becoming increasingly enmeshed with that between US imperialism and China, adding a new and highly explosive dimension to both. Washington has showered New Delhi with strategic favors, including advanced weaponry, access to civilian nuclear technology, and real-time military intelligence-sharing, in exchange for India integrating itself ever-more fully into its military-strategic offensive against China. With this backing, India under Modi has moved aggressively to redefine its relationship with Pakistan, so as to assert itself as the regional hegemon. Pakistan, meanwhile, has doubled down on its “all-weather” partnership with Beijing, further antagonizing both New Delhi and Washington.
Since 2019, with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a massive surge in anti-vaccination propaganda. Trump named one of the leading anti-vax charlatans, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services, a clear signal of the intentional destruction of all public health programs.
The Conservative program does distinguish itself from the other parties in its degree of hostility towards the fundamental democratic rights of the working class. On Wednesday, for example, Poilievre declared his intention to allow the police to forcibly clear homeless camps from all public spaces, a move that would impact hundreds of sites across the country that have sprung up under conditions of a huge housing affordability crisis. In almost all of Canada’s major cities, the rent for a single-bedroom apartment is well out of reach for some one working full-time on the minimum wage, let alone those in part-time work or currently unemployed.
Just over three months ago, in one of his first official actions as president, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 fascist thugs and political supporters who engaged in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Many of the ringleaders of this attack were convicted on charges of “obstruction of a federal proceeding” because they conspired to prevent Congress from carrying out the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes showing Trump’s defeat by Democrat Joe Biden.
While the fascist thugs that served as Trump’s foot soldiers in attempting to overturn the election were pardoned, Dugan was treated to a perp walk before television cameras and a possible prison term.
The hot meal kitchens are the last functional food distribution system operated by the United Nations in Gaza. On March 31, all of the World Food Program’s bakeries were forced to shut down. The same week, all remaining food parcels distributed by the WFP, containing two weeks of rations, were exhausted.
Claims that the four-year deal would “Trump-proof” the district and create a “force field” around the schools were cynical lies— and the CTU officials, the mayor’s office and their backers in the Democratic Socialists of America knew it. The overriding concern of CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Mayor Johnson, a former CTU official on leave from the union, was to prevent a strike by 28,000 educators.
US-European relations are suffering a historic collapse as the NATO powers vie for domination of Ukrainian and world resources and threaten each other with trade war tariffs that undermine the agreements that have governed their relations since the end of World War II in 1945. The European powers are launching a historic rearmament drive, including an €800 billion European Union military plan, to prepare to wage war independently of America. This underlies the vitriolic denunciations of the proposed US ceasefire in European media.
The ruling class’s shift to the right, its attack on the social gains and democratic rights of the working class and its turn to militarism and war are international developments taking place in every capitalist country. They are the result of the bankruptcy of the capitalist system, of growing social inequality and the intensification of imperialist conflicts. They can only be stopped through the independent mobilization of the international working class on the basis of a socialist program.
“The reason Kneecap is being targeted is simple— we are telling the truth, and our audience is growing. Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter. They weaponize false accusations of anti-semitism to distract, confuse, and provide cover for genocide.”
“We do not give a f*ck what religion anyone practices. We know there are massive numbers of Jewish people outraged by this genocide just as we are. What we care about is that governments of the countries we perform in are enabling some of the most horrific crimes of our lifetimes— and we will not stay silent... The young people at our gigs see through the lies.”
Head said the Australian Electoral Commission had refused to register the SEP for the election despite the party submitting the names and details of more than 1,500 electoral members as dictated by the legislation. “We oppose this entire anti-democratic process,” he said.
Nevertheless, Head said the SEP was standing candidates in the election in order to take its socialist program out to the widest possible audience among workers and young people. It offered the only alternative to the global capitalist system’s plunge into trade war, war and dictatorship.
The meeting will be in the format of a panel discussion with our candidates from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. They will speak on their experiences throughout the election, during which the SEP has been alone in campaigning in key working-class areas on the real issues that are being concealed by every other party.
19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
20. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
21. 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.
