The actions of the Trump administration over the past 100 days have profoundly shocked working people and youth across the United States and around the world. But no section of the political establishment or union bureaucracies offers a way forward. The Democratic Party is not a force for resistance to dictatorship, rather it is a facilitator. They, no less than Trump, serve the ruling oligarchy. There is no “future” without a ruthless break with the Democratic Party and the entire framework of bourgeois rule. There is no future outside of the struggle for socialism.
The arrests were made without formal charges or warrants, indicating that the government of President William Ruto, now in alliance with the former opposition Orange Democratic Movement led by billionaire Raila Odinga, is escalating mass repression prior to the one-year anniversary of the Gen-Z uprising.
The documentary film has over 26,000 comments at YouTube where it is available for viewing.
The state is using this draconian legislation, passed by the Blair Labour government, to make an example of protesters against the Gaza genocide. Every ruling and intervention made by the judge across the three-hour hearing Friday went in favor of the prosecution.
Friday’s rally was met by a large and aggressive police presence. Specialist police vans with cameras surveyed the area around the court, while police spotters marched around checking the wording of posters and placards. They threatened protesters if they did not take down Palestinian flags tied to street furniture.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack. Speaking to the AFP news agency the FFC said they “suspect” Israel was behind the attack, but “cannot confirm” it as fact. However, the FFC’s official statement was unequivocal, demanding, “Israeli ambassadors must be summoned and answer to violations of international law, including the ongoing blockade and the bombing of our civilian vessel in international waters.”
There is little doubt that the attack was authorized by the war criminals in Tel Aviv, who are in the process of starving the roughly 2 million Palestinians who have survived the 15-month genocide.
Evidence emerged over the weekend suggesting a highly planned operation of the type which is standard fare for the Israel Defense Forces. Numerous media outlets, including in Israel, repeated a CNN report noting flight-tracking data showing an Israeli Air Force C-139 Hercules leaving Israel early Thursday afternoon and traveling to Malta.
Although society has immense resources to eliminate poverty, the opposite is happening: 13 million people no longer have enough income to properly participate in society.
Many withdraw because they cannot afford to go out to eat with friends and family once a month, go to the cinema or take part in paid leisure activities. They are unable to pay their rent, bills and loan installments on time and cannot afford holidays or a car. The elderly often lack the money for glasses or hearing aids, while younger people have to do without basic necessities such as the internet or a mobile phone. Any unexpected expense throws people completely off track. Faster than they think, they can end up at the food bank or, even worse, homeless on the streets.
Here is a link to the report in German
The newly restored 1,000-square-foot mural, unveiled in January 2025, now looks much as it did when it was completed in 1934. A kaleidoscopic depiction of the struggle against repression throughout history– from the persecution of Jesus in Biblical times, through the Inquisition of the 15th century up to the rise of Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan in the 20th– it abounds with tumbling bodies, instruments of torture and symbols of oppression, including crucifixes, swastikas, nude bound figures and hooded tormentors.
Philip Guston's mural
Schreiber acknowledged that the display did not have prior approval, but noted that a similar installation he erected the previous semester— one that made no mention of “Palestine”— was allowed to remain without incident. This selective enforcement is emblematic of the broader regime of thought control being imposed on college campuses nationwide in response to last year’s protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Speaking to the Austin-American Statesman, Wendy Tippitt said that after repeated inquiries into her son’s killing, “nobody was telling us anything.” After asking to see the dashcam footage she was refused, and Tippitt filed a lawsuit to release it, to which she obtained nearly two years after her son’s death.
Link to dashcam video (with warning)
Experts have pointed to a critical shortage of synchronous generation, particularly hydraulic and gas-fired turbines, which could have stabilized the grid in seconds. Of the 26 gigawatts scheduled for that day, only 5 gigawatts were synchronous. Three of Spain’s five major hydroelectric plants were offline for maintenance, and all nuclear reactors except one were shut down.
These decisions were authorised by Red Eléctrica Española (REE), the utility responsible for operating Spain’s national electricity transmission system. Although the Spanish state owns 20 percent of REE through the public investment agency SEPI, the remaining 80 percent is held by private shareholders and global investment funds, including BlackRock and the holding company of billionaire Amancio Ortega.
In practice, this structure ensures that REE operates according to private profit imperatives, not public need. Despite the state’s minority stake, oversight is negligible. REE functions as a nominally public utility managed in the interests of private capital.
This crisis is part of a broader attack on public health, spearheaded by the Trump administration and anti-science quacks like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Under the guise of “health freedom,” these figures have fronted policies that slash public health funding, dismantle regulations, and push hospitals toward ever more ruthless cost-cutting.
The new HHS policy challenges the ethical framework that has guided vaccine development for decades. Paul Offitt, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, stated that making people acquire a disease because they receive a placebo is not ethical. Experts also express dismay that the change could make studies costlier and potentially limit production and access to vaccines, leaving more Americans at risk of preventable diseases.
Governments in the US and across Europe, which are pumping trillions of dollars into the war against Russia over Ukraine and Israel’s genocide in Gaza, are also actively discussing how to bring back the draft.
As a minor imperialist power, New Zealand is a member of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance and has sent military personnel to Britain to help train Ukrainian conscripts, and to the Middle East to assist in the US bombing of Yemen.
New Zealand is also integrated into the far-advanced US war plans targeting China, which are accelerating alongside the Trump administration’s devastating trade warfare. The government’s recent Defense Capability Plan made clear that the increased military spending is aimed against China.
The University and College Union branch at Sheffield has pointed to the university’s £500 million financial reserves to dissuade management from compulsory redundancies. But the cuts at Sheffield... are integral to a plan to restructure the whole Higher Education sector to remain competitive in the university “market”.
20. Two major US hospitals close their doors to half a million residents in Pennsylvania
It is openly admitted that lives will be lost in emergency room visits, owing to commute times to the nearest hospitals of at least one half-hour—or much longer in metropolitan Philadelphia, currently ranked the fifth-most congested city in the US. The absorption of tens of thousands of patients from the Chester area in other hospitals will stretch these already overburdened and understaffed facilities to the breaking point.
Despite these warnings, neither the state government headed up by Democrat Josh Shapiro, nor the state Republicans, took any action that would have prevented the closures. Meanwhile, at the national level, Republican and Democratic parties spend trillions of dollars on war, corporate bailouts and tax breaks for the super-rich, while the working class is told that it must pay with austerity and the loss of vital resources.
The outcome defied the predictions of most media commentators, as well as the opinion polls, both of which had been forecasting a hung parliament and a minority Labor or Coalition government.
It did, however, follow a similar result to the Canadian election where the Liberal Party retained office despite poor polling, because of opposition to the Conservative Party’s identification with Trump.
They claim, “The CWU have reached a groundbreaking agreement with EP Group that provides the platform of a fresh start and the rebuilding of Royal Mail.”
Nothing could be further from the truth. EP Group has established sole ownership and delisted the company as the groundwork is laid to shelve the mail service. The price of a first-class stamp has been ratcheted up by 25 percent to £1.70 since the takeover bid began last May.
David North
25. This
week in history:
25 years ago:
The Irish Republican Army vows to hand over its weapons
50 years ago:
Soviet talks with Arab leaders break down
75 years ago:
Schuman Plan announced for European coal and steel production
100 years ago:
John T. Scopes, a 25-year old teacher is charged in Tennessee for teaching evolution
26. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
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.
27. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
