But it also underscored a fundamental political lesson. If such sentiments remain trapped within the framework of capitalist parliamentary politics, a population that repudiates Trump-style policies through the ballot box will nevertheless be confronted with a big-business government, no less committed to an agenda of war and austerity.
This proposal for the destruction of Gaza, its military occupation and the ethnic cleansing of its population has, in fact, been the operative plan of Israel’s “war” in Gaza, which was launched using the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and hostage taking as a pretext.
In order to provide political cover for the planned genocide, US President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party and the media claimed that Israel was waging a war against Hamas, aimed at returning the hostages, even while providing Israel with thousands of 2,000-pound bombs whose only use was to destroy entire city blocks.
In February, US President Donald Trump publicly announced the actual policy, which is the total demolition of the Gaza Strip. Israel and the US would “level the site,” displace its people and annex the territory.
The airstrikes have deliberately inflamed one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints for war. The two nuclear-armed countries have already fought three wars over Kashmir which both claim. Now the conflict is intertwined with the US-led preparations for war with China, which has strong ties to Pakistan. As it has escalated its confrontation with Beijing, Washington has strengthened its military ties with New Delhi as its major strategic partner in South Asia.
These Trump measures ultimately aim to bring an end to the era where college attendance has been possible for most young people. The federal student loan program was first established in 1958 and expanded significantly in 1965 alongside the “War on Poverty” Great Society programs. The number of college students in 1958 was 23,000; by 2025, over 19 million attended college. Trump and the oligarchy now intend to reverse such opportunities.
Characteristically, the Democrats have barely mustered a response to the attack on NPR and PBS. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durban of Illinois issued a statement that warns freedom of the press will “backslide” with Trump’s order, that it is “dangerous,” and implores “my Republican colleagues to act to reverse the President’s course— our democracy depends on it.”
Alice: “I think when working people around the world realize that the interests of the billionaires are against them, there will definitely be a revolution.”
7. The all-out strike by Birmingham, UK garbage collectors enters its eighth week
The workers are fighting Labour-led Birmingham City Council and its unelected commissioners, backed by a Labour government in Downing Street determined to impose a crushing defeat, paving the way for a renewed austerity offensive on local authorities across the UK
In order for the second round of voting to take place on the same day, Merz had to rely on the support of the Left Party and the Greens. Both were determined to help him into office as quickly as possible so that he could stabilize the situation and implement the right-wing coalition program.
9. Friedrich Merz is elected and subsequently appointed as Germany's new Chancellor
The role of the Left Party and the Greens as essentially right-wing parties of the state could not be clearer: in the face of a looming political crisis in Berlin, they played a key role in installing Merz and paving the way for his extreme right-wing government.
The Merz government heralds a new stage in the rightward evolution of the ruling class. It is undoubtedly the most reactionary and anti-working class government since the fall of the Nazi regime 80 years ago. Its central aim is to remove the last restraints imposed on German militarism as a result of its unprecedented crimes in the Second World War. With the adoption of war credits amounting to €1 trillion on March 18, the Bundestag has already paved the way for a massive military build-up.
These events followed London’s devastating July 7 suicide bombings, which left 52 people dead and more than 700 injured across the public transport network.
The best Small Boat can offer is the small change of individual good deeds, the idea that “the human race survives” through “everyone saving each other all the time.” But Delecroix is clearly skeptical: “What a nice thought! After all, it might even be true.” And anyway, “Even if you saved all of them, there would always be one left... And the one that you save will perish tomorrow.”
The novel ends up voicing the apologia made increasingly often for so discredited a social system as capitalism: not that life can be made better, but that it can’t because “we” selfish humans can’t. Delecroix simply replaces the happy myth of bourgeois public opinion he skewers—“You will be saved”— with the misanthropy of bourgeois intellectuals—the closing words of the book, “you will not be saved”—to the same hand-washing effect.
Morbidity and mortality for immigrants attempting to reach the United States, Europe and other regions continues to skyrocket. According to the Missing Migrant Project, an international organization that records migration incidents and deaths, 74,421 migrants have died worldwide since 2014, and among them the majority 42,599 who died by drowning. The agency also notes that “the most deadly route is the Central Mediterranean route, where at least 24,810 people have died since 2014.”
Under the proposed agreements, the US government would offer cash payments or political concessions to governments in exchange for accepting deported immigrants. These individuals would be expelled to distant countries with which they or their families have no prior connection and to which they never intended to immigrate.
According to the water company, on average there are around 500 burst water pipes in Berlin every year. The number is expected to rise in the coming years as more and more pipes reach a critical age and remain inadequately repaired. According to the water companies, the main and supply pipes in the approximately 19,000-kilometer network are on average nearly 60 years old.
NYU students in multiple news reports have pointed to past protest actions that met with no repressive response from university administrators, in particular a Black Lives Matter “die-in” protest and a climate-focused sit-in protest staged inside Bobst library in 2015.
When it comes to dealing with opposition to the war machinations of American imperialism, however, the response of NYU has been particularly repressive. Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide and eruption of mass protests against the slaughter, the university—run by administrators closely tied to the military-intelligence apparatus, Wall Street and the Democratic and Republican parties—has overseen the harassment, suspension, expulsion and arrest of numerous students and faculty.
The closure of the refinery will have wide reaching impacts across the Imperial Valley.
Directly, the closure will destroy 400 jobs in the most impoverished county in California that also has the highest unemployment rate. Seventeen percent of families fall below the federal poverty line and unemployment averaged 18 percent in 2024, with previous rates breaching 30 percent.
One of the factors behind Trump’s announcement of the pause on the reciprocal tariffs was the selloff in the US debt market and the decline in the US dollar in marked contrast to what usually takes place when there is a move into US assets in times of turbulence.
Since the end of the 26-year brutal racist war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009, successive Colombo governments have falsely promised to abolish the Prevention of Terrorism Act, release Tamil political prisoners, and establish a truth commission in response to criticisms from human rights organizations and the UN.
22. "Revolutionary struggle and the unity of the international working class"
23. "The Soviet victory over Nazism and the fight against imperialism today"
24. 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.
25. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
