1. Millions protest Trump!

2. Saturday's mass demonstrations were a turning point in the struggle against the Trump administration's efforts to establish a fascistic dictatorship in the United States

In a few of the major cities where rallies were held, such as Washington, Chicago, and Los Angeles, the speakers' platform was dominated by Democratic Party members of Congress and leaders of the public employee unions. They had nothing to offer in terms of a program for fighting Trump. In other cities, including New York and Detroit, there were no speakers at all, an even more open expression of political bankruptcy.

In contrast, there was a powerful response among thousands of protesters of all ages and backgrounds to the political perspective advanced by the Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, wherever we intervened. Our statement denouncing the Democrats and the union bureaucracy resonated broadly, as did our call to unify the working class internationally against war, dictatorship, and the assault on living standards.

3.  BEWARE ALL! Today's immigrant jails will be utilized tomorrow to detain workers who oppose the US Trump administration’s fascistic government

4. In an interview with the World Socialist Web Site, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi reviews her academic research and expertise, recounts the circumstances of her firing by Yale Law School, and explains the political context within which freedom of speech and political opposition to the Trump administration are being attacked within the United States

5. Another unvaccinated child dies of measles in Texas

6. Over 400 Jewish students, faculty and staff at the University of  Michigan in the US sign open letters denouncing the school's “weaponization of antisemitism.”

7. Filmmaker James Longley, responding to the initial silence of the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences about the recent savage beating of No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal in the West Bank, sends the World Socialist Web Site an eloquent statement describing his perspective on the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza and the criminals responsible:

 ...I completely understand the cowardice of the Academy leadership and their beige, formless silence. That is why I have deep empathy for their spineless, obsequious non-apology and for their inability to speak the truth. They are right to be afraid. Their fear is the soul of prudence. I am also afraid, and I understand them. 

8. Sir Keir Starmer's UK Labour government is the only Labour government to increase child poverty

9. Starmer's UK Labour government approves using police to break a sanitation workers' strike in Birmingham, England

9. An estimated 5,000 defiant doctors in New South Wales, Australia plan to strike

10. A forensic analysis of the bodies, along with a smartphone video captured by one of those killed, shows that the official Israeli narrative regarding the deaths and mass burial of 15 Palestinian aid workers near Rafah on March 23 is nothing but a lie

As they have done throughout the 18-month-long genocide in Gaza, in which more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed, the Israeli military concocted the lie that their troops fired on unmarked vehicles at night, suspecting them to be transporting Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.

12. A labor contract proposed by Chicago's Teachers Union and its Mayor is bluntly, not worth the paper it is written on

13. A new low marks the Communication Workers Union leadership and its standing among the UK's Royal Mail post delivery workers

14. Last week's equities selloff was the fourth most significant in the post-war period-- investors worry that Trump’s tariff war against the world is increasingly resembling the Wall Street crash of 2008

15. The topic of war dominates this year's Leipzig, Germany Book Fair

16. Allegations of “terrorism” and “threats to national security” are being exploited by Sri Lanka's government to intimidate and silence peaceful critics of Israel’s mass murder in Gaza

17. Responding to its members’ outrage, the National Nurses United union recently issued an anemic statement opposing President Donald Trump’s executive order abolishing negotiated federal union contracts at 18 government departments deemed vital to “national security”

The union’s main concern is not about workers’ rights but the disruption of its mutually beneficial relations with hospital management and the state

19. This week in history:

• 25 years ago: Nazi revisionist historian David Irving loses libel case in the UK

• 50 years ago: Final major battle of Vietnam War

• 75 years ago: Truman administration issues program for Cold War militarization

• 100 years ago: F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby

 

 The original cover of Fitzgerald's novel

16. In the lead-up to the May 3 federal election, Australia’s unions launch their campaigns for the re-election of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor government, which are increasingly recognized as being responsible for a deepening cost-of-living crisis

20. The Socialist Equality Party announces its candidates for Australia's May 3 federal elections 

The SEP candidates are alone in telling the working class the truth: that the election will resolve nothing, and that the incoming government, whichever party leads it, will deepen the bipartisan agenda of austerity and war. The SEP is not directing its campaign to the political and media establishment, as is every other party, but to the development of an independent movement of the working class, based on a socialist and internationalist perspective.

21. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

22. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help