1. Trump and the American oligarchy dine with Saudi despot Mohammed Bin Salman
Beyond the business transactions, there can be little doubt that Trump and the other American oligarchs saw in their Saudi hosts kindred spirits. They aspire to establish a dictatorship in the US to rival Bin Salman’s in lawlessness and brutality, as shown by Trump’s actions since his return to the White House.
2. Republicans move forward with plan to cut an estimated $715 billion in Medicaid funding
In a massive attack on the working class, on Sunday, House Republicans confirmed that their main proposal for offsetting some of their planned $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and mega-corporations will come in the form of at least $880 billion in cuts to social programs, centered on Medicaid.
3. DHS agents imprison Guatemalan mother at hospital during labor and birth, provoking public outcry
Erika Mateo, a 24-year-old pregnant Guatemalan woman, was taken into custody and held under armed guard by the Department of Homeland Security and placed under expedited removal. After giving birth, she was transferred to ICE custody and denied access to her attorney, family and friends.
4. Australia’s second-term Labor government will accelerate pro-business, pro-war agenda
The key ministers who prosecuted the previous Labor government’s militarist and socially regressive policies retain their posts but changes to the ministerial line-up signal a further lurch to the right.
5. Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
6. Australian Labor government-driven cuts and restructuring hit Western Sydney University
7. Cleveland-Cliffs announces mill and mine closures, impacting over 2,000 workers across 4 states
Steel manufacturing giant Cleveland-Cliffs has announced it will idle multiple steel plants and iron ore mines, affecting thousands of workers across Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. The company cites weak demand, financial losses and shifting trade policies as reasons for the closures.
The layoffs are the latest in a string of industrial layoffs in auto, manufacturing and logistics, as companies carry out massive job cuts to realign their business as part of Trumps trade war.
9. European foreign ministers threaten sanctions, military build-up against Russia
The foreign ministers of six European powers met Monday in London and issued a joint statement on the war with Russia in Ukraine and transatlantic relations. While hailing the NATO alliance with the United States as the “bedrock” of European “prosperity and security,” ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom threatened Russia with new sanctions and a further European military build-up.
A few crocodile tears from German politicians about the suffering of the Palestinians and cynical references to Germany’s own historical crimes against the Jewish population— Steinmeier recalled the “breach of civilization of the Shoah” at the joint press conference with Herzog— cannot hide the fact that German imperialism is once again playing a key role in the implementation of genocide. It is arming Israel and deliberately backing it at a critical time.
11. Official campaigning underway in South Korean presidential election
The election takes place amid a growing international crisis, with the US President Trump waging a trade war, including 25 percent tariffs on automobiles as well as steel and aluminum. He has threatened an additional 25 percent “reciprocal” tariff on South Korean exports to the US at a time when the country’s economy is already stagnating and real wages are falling. Deepening tensions in the region fuelled by the US also place South Korea on the front lines of a potential war with China.
12. Trump administration welcomes Afrikaner “refugees” from South Africa
A planeload of white South Africans who were given expedited refugee status to enter the US was welcomed at the Washington D.C.-area Dulles Airport on Monday morning by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar. The VIP greetings were an extraordinary display of the openly racist policies of the Trump administration.
The South African Afrikaners are part of the white minority that ruled South Africa in the apartheid era when the black majority of more than 90 percent was denied all political rights. They were admitted to the country under an executive order signed by Donald Trump on February 7. The administration claimed that the Afrikaner farmers are the victims of racial discrimination, and even that the Afrikaners face “genocide”! The 59 “refugees” who have just arrived are only the first of thousands whom Trump is planning on welcoming in the future.
13. For a rank-and-file investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.!
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls for an independent investigation— led by rank-and-file workers— into the tragic and preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr., a 63-year-old machine repairman crushed on April 7, 2025, at Stellantis’ Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan.
14. UAW holds “invest in US” rallies to support Trump’s tariffs and scapegoat Mexican autoworkers
In defiance of mounting rank-and-file anger over job cuts, the United Auto Workers bureaucracy is continuing to promote Trump’s tariffs and foul anti-Mexican sentiment.
Tightly controlled “invest in US” rallies held in Warren and Trenton, Michigan last week were attended by perhaps a few dozen people, mostly UAW officials. Speakers called on Stellantis to shift production to “underutilized” US plants rather than send “jobs to low-wage, high-exploitation countries.”
The National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee in Ontario, Canada explains why workers must build new organizations across national borders.
16. Hasan Piker detained and interrogated at Chicago airport by Trump’s border agents
Piker described being pulled aside during a routine Global Entry screening and subjected to a two-hour interrogation in a detention facility at O’Hare airport. Customs and Border Protection agents questioned him extensively about his political views, his journalism and his criticism of the US government. The interrogation focused on his coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, his interviews with Yemeni civilians and his opposition to the Trump administration’s policies.
Piker has committed no crime and has every right to speak out against the government, express his views and travel freely. Additionally, Piker is a native born US citizen. The government has no legal right to deny or delay his entry to the country, and especially not for exercising his constitutionally protected rights under the first amendment.
17. Kurdish Workers Party dissolves itself amid deepening war in the Middle East
18. Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
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