In this exchange, Trump is declaring, in so many words, a presidential dictatorship. The United States is led by a political criminal who views the Constitution—and with it every democratic right—as given or taken away at his own pleasure.
According to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, 91 percent of the population of Gaza is food insecure, with most of the population facing “emergency” or “catastrophic” levels of hunger.
Since Israel’s new bombardment after the cease-fire collapsed, it has declared more and more evacuation and no-go zones, forcing some 420,000 Gazans to flee yet again and blocking access to around 70 percent of the enclave, according to UN estimates.
To date, over 52,000 Palestinians have been directly killed in the US-Israeli genocide, the vast majority of whom are women, children and elderly people.
There has been no significant Democratic response to the biggest single increase proposed in the Trump budget, some $44 billion more for the Department of Homeland Security to intensify the arrest, detention and deportation of immigrants and to further militarize the US-Mexico border.
The ultra-right Wall Street Journal noted in an editorial that it seemed contradictory for Trump to boast about record low numbers of migrants crossing the border, and at the same time demand billions to strengthen fortifications against those immigrants who aren’t coming.
The Canadian Labour Congress, Unifor, and other unions issued effusive praise for the ex-central banker and multi-millionaire investment fund manager, making clear that they will serve as his police force within the working class as the new Liberal government presses ahead with an agenda of austerity and imperialist war.
In California, long hailed as the heart of the global film industry, despite the state pouring hundreds of millions in public funds each year into film and television tax credits, film and television workers have seen a dramatic 22 percent decline of shoot days in the first quarter this year. In October 2024, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans to more than double the state’s already bloated tax credit program to a staggering $750 million annually.
Newsom’s approach is a more parochial version of Trump’s; under his leadership, the California Film & Television Tax Credit Program has been repeatedly expanded under the pretext of fighting “runaway production” to states like Georgia, New York, New Mexico, and Montana, or to Canadian hubs like Vancouver and Toronto.
Bitter conflicts are erupting within the Romanian ruling elite. These stem from its anxieties over the debacle in Ukraine, in which Romania has been heavily invested as a junior partner of the imperialist powers, and over whether the emerging geopolitical landscape will be favorable to the pursuit of its predatory regional interests.
Meanwhile, the UAW has announced a May 18 strike deadline for 2,500 workers at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut, who design submarines for the US Navy. They have been working under an expired contract since April 4. The strike deadline announcement came one day after the US Navy awarded General Dynamics a $12.4 billion contract for the construction of two Virginia class nuclear-powered attack submarines armed with cruise missiles. According to reports, the Navy’s contract already incorporates the wages and benefits to be granted to workers.
The official campaign for the Australian federal election, which concluded on Saturday, was notable for its almost total silence on the genocidal onslaught against Palestinians being carried out by Israel’s Zionist regime. The major parties, aided by the corporate media, sought to bury any mention of these horrific crimes because the entire Australian political establishment, in line with the US and imperialist governments worldwide, is totally complicit.
Last week’s crisis exposes how decades of understaffing and outdated equipment, exacerbated by the massive federal cuts under the Trump administration, have brought the US airline industry to the brink of disaster.
It follows several incidents, including the fatal collision between a civilian aircraft and military helicopter in Washington D.C. earlier this year.
10. Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Argentina:
Workers strike at the Acindar AceroMittal steel plant in Villa Constitución
Ceramic workers strike over the death of a worker in Salta Province
- Panama:
Protests and strikes continue in Panama against attacks on pensions
- Puerto Rico:
- United States:
- Canada:
11. The fight against German militarism 80 years after World War II
12. Trump’s dictatorship, global war, and the fight for socialism
13. 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.
14. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
